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"Narutooooo!"
"But- But Sakura-chan! It's an iconic moment! I have to!"
"Hn."
These were the first things he heard from his (not) future students as he entered the room they were waiting in. Kakashi wished they could fast forward to the moment he would fail all three of them and everyone would be on their merry way. Of course, the council would push him to pass the team but it's been a long time since Kakashi stopped listening to every single order and suggestions made by figures of authority. It would probably get him killed one day but eh, a problem for future Kakashi. Right now his problem were three twelve-year-old baby genin.
"Ah, my first impression of you, I hate you guys," he said as he entered the classroom. All three of them looked at him in surprise, even the supposed stoic Uchiha.
"OH MY GOD! I DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO SET UP THE DUSTER!" the blonde one yelled, and how Kakashi wished he could stop looking at him and remembering his sensei, it almost hurt, almost.
"Hn. You're too slow dobe." the Uchiha said and all three of them snickered as if sharing a joke. Kakashi was getting a headache already. Better get this over with.
"Meet me on the roof in five minutes," he said before shushin'd to the said place. He waited. Waited some more. After about fifteen minutes he decided he had enough and went to check on where they were.
They were all sitting in the room just like they had before he had announced himself.
Just sitting there.
For a moment he thought that he didn't tell them about going to the roof but no, he was pretty sure he did.
"What are you guys doing here?" he asked them with a lazy stare, looking at all of them one by one. Surprisingly, it was the civilian kunoichi who spoke up first, not Naruto. "Sensei, you didn't tell us which roof we should meet you on. So we were waiting for proper instructions." the other two nodded as if it made sense.
Okay, were academy graduates this dumb these days? What roof would he be talking about if not the one in this building? Are they playing with him? As far as he knew the three weren't close at all so unless they formed magical friendships in the few minutes (okay, hours) they waited for him to arrive they had to reason to agree and leave a bad impression on their (hopeful) future jonin-sensei. Maybe they really were that dumb.
"Ma, never mind that. Well introduce yourselves, your likes, dislikes, hobbies, dreams, those sort of things" he said with false cheer, leaning against a wall.
"Why don't you go first?" the Uchiha asked and the kunoichi and blondie looked at him in surprise, to which the boy just gave a superior look.
"Mm, my name is Hatake Kakashi, my likes and dislikes....... my hobbies ....... I don't feel like telling you my dreams," he said in the most annoying way possible but instead of outraged yelling, he got three amused looks. Despite himself, he blushed a little in embarrassment. What business do they have looking at him like that? " You first, blue shirt"
"My name is Uchiha Sasuke. I like tomatoes and dislike Dango. My hobbies are training and travelling. My dream... is to... be tall."
Right. What the fuck.
He ignored his own thoughts and the laughter of the other two and forced himself not to question him, "...Right. Good, next, blondie."
"My name is Uzumaki Naruto! I like ramen and Sasuke hime," the mentioned boy moved to tackle him which the blonde smoothly defected. "I dislike vegetables. My hobbies are eating ramen and gardening. My dream is to become the Hokage 'ttebayo!" he said still trying to fend off the Uchiha boy who was, admittedly, throwing very sharp weapons his way.
"Again?" the kunoichi asked and he shrugged.
What did that mean?
"Sasuke-kun, you don't want to injure your teammate, do you? Please save this for training," he said and the other boy scoffed but stopped his attempts at causing bodily harm. "Next, pink hair"
"My name is Haruno Sakura, not pink hair, Kakashi sensei," she started with a very sweet smile directed at him. In the background both boys gulped. Kakashi was impressed with the amount of anger the girl could show in a smile as sweet as that. Maybe there was hope for one of his students at least. "I like my friends and the colour pink. I dislike stupid sexist people. My hobbies are.. keeping these two in line I guess. Since it doesn't leave time for anything else" both of them ignored the half-hearted protests from the two boys. "And my dream is to keep my teammates from getting killed. Or kidnapped. Or leaving the village. Or fighting an angry chakra goddess." she said thoughtfully.
Well, that was..... weirdly specific.
"Great, all three of you have admirable dreams, uh I think? Tomorrow we'll be doing our first mission, survival training."
"Hm? What kind of training?" Naruto asked, though he looked as if he didn't really want an answer.
"Well, you see, out of all academy graduates, only 33% actually make it to genin, the rest are sent back to the academy for another year. So tomorrow we'll do a test to see if you're ready to become shinobi of Konoha or not," he said and once again waited for the cries of protest, but what he got was three bored looks. He raised an eyebrow in question.
"Itachi-nii told me about the genin-exam, I told the others," Sasuke spoke finally. And what? From what he knew the other reacted violently every time his brother was mentioned, but he looked perfectly calm using his name right now, and Itachi -nii? Since when did this happen?
"Ah, makes sense I suppose," he said awkwardly, not really knowing how to address the casual mention of a homicidal S-rank missing in as if he was a common topic of discussion.
"Um. Meet me at training ground thirty tomorrow morning at six sharp, don't be late. And I suggest you don't eat breakfast, you'll just end up vomiting it." he said and the three nodded. He shushin'd away from there. Awkward.