The Tenten thing is funny, see, because in the 'Gai meets his team' flashback, we learn that her driving ambition is to be like Tsunade when she grows up.
So, sure, we know that the Slug Lady can kick ass, take names, and save lives with the best of them, but... can she handle -starry eyed fangirls-? *ominous sting*
Sasuke: Hn.
Tenten: Oh, grow the hell up, the both of you! *slams their heads together and storms off*
Sasuke: .oO(...I'm in love.)
Seriously, though, I think that if you throw him into close contact with a girl who's both competent and -not- drooling over him, I think he'd latch on and fall -hard-. Not that he'd ever admit it, or for that matter even have a real clue what he was doing, but... And this is just somebody with their head on right, let alone a kunoichi as dangerous as the reigning queen of All Things Sharp And Pointy.
So here he is, the all-conquering Badass Avenger of the Uchiha (and so -what- if he's all of eleven! That's almost twelve! Old enough!), and he's fetching and carrying for this, this... -girl-, and dammit, why the hell do his ears keep -burning- like that?!
Genin cells have three members. -Always-. -Every- time we've seen a standing field team, in fact, it's been three troopers and a commander. No matter -what- village they were from.
And I don't think that she and Ino would end up on the same team, anyway. With her book-skills, and the fact that, overshadowing aside, she's no slouch in practice, I can't see her having a class rank below the top five... Ino, IIRC, was specifically noted as being her class's number 1 kunoichi, so given the way they -tied- later, I'd suspect that she actually only edged Sakura out by a point or two. And a balanced team wouldn't have two high-scoring graduates on it, so...
Sorry. It's just that I think of adding an 'extra' member to a favorite team as such a ff.net, mary-suish, first fanfic trick... Grr.
Anyway, I strongly doubt that -every- graduating class has a number of students which divides evenly into three, so there's got to be a procedure set up to handle them - and I think that handing them off for to a specific Jounin who doesn't have anything better to do would be one of the better options. Granted, they wouldn't be going on missions, and they could only train when their Shishou didn't have a mission of their own, but I think that the one-on-one nature of the instruction would make up for that.
Ja, -n
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Think about how Sakura would react to being told that, put -down- like that. Ever, actually, but even more so because it's -in front of Sasuke-. Personally, I think that once she gets up a full head of steam, she's quite capable of grabbing Kakashi by the collar and dragging him off to -force- some real training out of him, just to prove THAT DAMNED JERK wrong.
Oh, sure, she'll come out of it eventually, and probably just about -faint- when she realizes what she's done, but by that point she'll have actually penetrated Hatake-baka's thick skull, and he's not irresponsible enough to let things slide once he realizes what's happening.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
So, sure, we know that the Slug Lady can kick ass, take names, and save lives with the best of them, but... can she handle -starry eyed fangirls-? *ominous sting*
Quote:Neji: *sneer*
Sasuke would also probably graduate early, since there's NO WAY he'd let the dobe show him up like that, conveiniently adding a second guy to tam up with Neji and TenTen, but since he would have otherwise graduated normally he'd probably only scrape through after skipping a year, justifying them as a balanced team, and letting him take Lee's place as the guy looking to surpass Neji - not that Lee would STOP, just that without being stuck on the same team it wouldn't be quite so bad. Kakashi would still be talked into taking the team with Sasuke on it, as the only other person who posses a sharingan besides Weaselpants. Sasuke training with Tenten in thrwn weapons has the potentiual to be truly frightening, I think, even more so since she's not one of his fangirls and would take it seriously.
Sasuke: Hn.
Tenten: Oh, grow the hell up, the both of you! *slams their heads together and storms off*
Sasuke: .oO(...I'm in love.)
Seriously, though, I think that if you throw him into close contact with a girl who's both competent and -not- drooling over him, I think he'd latch on and fall -hard-. Not that he'd ever admit it, or for that matter even have a real clue what he was doing, but... And this is just somebody with their head on right, let alone a kunoichi as dangerous as the reigning queen of All Things Sharp And Pointy.
So here he is, the all-conquering Badass Avenger of the Uchiha (and so -what- if he's all of eleven! That's almost twelve! Old enough!), and he's fetching and carrying for this, this... -girl-, and dammit, why the hell do his ears keep -burning- like that?!
Quote:*twitchtwitch*
Sakura, being the odd one out in a gradutaing class the next year with the wrong number of students to be evenly divided into three member teams, would probably either get added to Ino's team on the strength of their former freindship, with Sasuke away on missions to keep from coming between them, or under Kurenai to train her strength in genjutsu. Either way, she's still better off than being ignored by Kakashi. My inclination would be to add her to the Ino-Shika-Cho, since they're a bit underpowered compared to the rest of that class and an extra team mate could make up the difference.
Genin cells have three members. -Always-. -Every- time we've seen a standing field team, in fact, it's been three troopers and a commander. No matter -what- village they were from.
And I don't think that she and Ino would end up on the same team, anyway. With her book-skills, and the fact that, overshadowing aside, she's no slouch in practice, I can't see her having a class rank below the top five... Ino, IIRC, was specifically noted as being her class's number 1 kunoichi, so given the way they -tied- later, I'd suspect that she actually only edged Sakura out by a point or two. And a balanced team wouldn't have two high-scoring graduates on it, so...
Sorry. It's just that I think of adding an 'extra' member to a favorite team as such a ff.net, mary-suish, first fanfic trick... Grr.
Anyway, I strongly doubt that -every- graduating class has a number of students which divides evenly into three, so there's got to be a procedure set up to handle them - and I think that handing them off for to a specific Jounin who doesn't have anything better to do would be one of the better options. Granted, they wouldn't be going on missions, and they could only train when their Shishou didn't have a mission of their own, but I think that the one-on-one nature of the instruction would make up for that.
Ja, -n
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Quote:...Not neccessarily. Picture this: our new member for Team 7 (I don't have a name for him, yet), is a guy. Stocky, tall for his age, loud, agressive... like Kiba, only less endearing. Probably he has some redeeming traits, although you'll have to suggest which. And he's a -macho- boy. The kind that thinks 'You hit like a girl,' is just cause for a beating, and 'Go home and play with your dolls' a killing offense.
Hm... I guess that means a couple more OCs to round out Neji/Tenten and Sasuke/Sakura - and the latter has to be someone pretty tough, who'd have gotten a bad turn in not passing the sensei's test in cannon, or the Wave Country mission would have ended quite badly.
Think about how Sakura would react to being told that, put -down- like that. Ever, actually, but even more so because it's -in front of Sasuke-. Personally, I think that once she gets up a full head of steam, she's quite capable of grabbing Kakashi by the collar and dragging him off to -force- some real training out of him, just to prove THAT DAMNED JERK wrong.
Oh, sure, she'll come out of it eventually, and probably just about -faint- when she realizes what she's done, but by that point she'll have actually penetrated Hatake-baka's thick skull, and he's not irresponsible enough to let things slide once he realizes what's happening.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."