Dark phoenix of konoha

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"So we have four victories for my team from Sasuke and Naruto. Each of them has two. Then Kurenai has three victories, two from Shino and one from Hinata. Asuma has two one from Shikamaru and one from Ino." Kakashi summarized.

"Yes. And next month we wanted to have them do team matches. Or would you rather have them do a task?" Asuma said.

"I think a team obstacle course would be a good exercise. You did teach them tree walking, right?" Kakashi asked.

"Yes, they all can do it by now. So we could include that in the course. If you want, I will design a course and show my ideas to you in three days." Kurenai offered.

"Sounds good to me." Asuma said.

"No complaints from me either." Kakashi answered.

At nine in the morning on Monday morning Team seven stood in front of the Hokage and the chunin on duty in the mission office.

"Team seven present for a C-rank mission, Hokage Sama." Kakashi announced.

Sasuke and Naruto perked up. They would finally get a better mission than those D-ranks. Sakura just hoped she would get by. The last month of training had been hell. She hadn't thought that ninja life was so taxing. In her mother's plans it always sounded so easy and glorious. You went to the academy, got placed on a team under a jonin sensei, got taught a few things over one or one and a half years, in the best case you had one or two cute and rich boys from an important clan on the team, seduced one and in the end you retired and raised your children. During missions the boys did all the hard work, while you were a proper lady and only needed your female guile to do the job.

That was complete rubbish.

While she was on the same team as Sasuke, the richest and cutest of all the boys in her class, she simply didn't have any time to even ask him out on a date. She couldn't take care of her body like she did in the academy and instead of letting her hair open so Sasuke could admire its length and silkiness, Kakashi had ordered her to either tie it up or cut it as it would only get in her way. She would never just cut it and so she now wore her hair in a ponytail. She hated that she looked more like Ino this way. And while she had tried to follow the low fat diet her mother had come up with, it just didn't work. If she kept to vegetables, fruit and low fat meat, she didn't have the energy to last through training and Kakashi sensei didn't care at all. He just told her she knew what she should eat and if she didn't follow her sensei's instructions she had to deal with the consequences.

So she had told her mother that she needed normal rice balls and sushi for lunch to get through training and not look weak in Sasuke's eyes. While her mother hadn't liked her decision, she had complied. The change in food helped, but as it only came up to the amount of food a normal civilian who did physical work for half a day, she still felt powerless at the end of the day while she could see that Sasuke adjusted to their level of training after two weeks. He was even occasionally discussing strategies with Naruto. With Naruto of all people. Why did he accept Naruto and not her? The only explanation she had was that he saw her as too weak for him. So she had started to make her own lunchboxes. It was more or less the same food Kakashi had given them over the first week of training.

It helped her get through the days. If she ate properly for breakfast, for which her mother still slept, and lunch, she had no problems to eat low fat and mostly salad and fruit in the evenings. She just hoped she wouldn't become ugly from all the muscle she was building up.

"So you think your team is ready for an easy C-rank. Let's see what I have here. Ah yes, this one should only take you two days and considering the training you put them through, it should be easy to do. This is a protection and transport of important supplies for our village. We get a new delivery of medical herbs, rare poisons, special earth and water every month for our hospital. The new delivery has arrived just yesterday evening at the port in Tea Country. You are to take your team to Tea Country, take over the shipment and seal the boxes with the goods in sealing scrolls. After that you are to bring the scrolls back to Konoha." The Hokage said.

"Mission accepted, Hokage Sama. Team, get your equipment for a C-rank mission, we are meeting in thirty minutes at the main gate." Kakashi said.

"Understood." All three answered and left through the door.

At the announced time the three genin stood at the main gate, waiting for Kakashi. He appeared in a body flicker.

"Okay, show me your equipment." Kakashi said.

As this was the first C-rank mission, he wanted to make sure his genin had the proper equipment. Sasuke was first.

"Thirty shuriken in my thigh pouch, twenty kunai in my back pouch, three spools of ninja wire, five explosive tags and one first aid kid sealed in a scroll also in the back pouch. In my backpack I have four sealing scrolls. One for clothes, one for camping equipment, consisting of a sleeping bag, a pot for cooking, metal plate, cup, fork, knife and spoon and a two person tent. The third one is for various boxes and the fourth one for extra weapons. I have three days' worth of Jakonato's best ration bars and some basic toiletries." Sasuke listed.

"Good work. Next, Sakura." Kakashi said.

Sakura gulped hopefully she wouldn't be scolded. Her equipment was nowhere near as complete as Sasuke's.

"I have twenty shuriken in my thigh pouch, twenty kunai, one spool of ninja wire, two explosive tags, a flash bomb and a first aid kit in my hip pouch. I have a change of clothes, a sleeping bag and a one person tent in a sealing scroll, some toiletries and a set of extra shuriken in my backpack." Sakura listed.

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