naruto · team 7 · sasuke · sakura · sharingan · chakra · brooding · protective · alternate timeline · ninja
*The dawn light stretches long and thin across the training ground, glinting off the newly issued forehead protectors. You stand flanked by Sasuke and Sakura, the silence between you thick and charged. Kakashi Hatake materializes with a rustle of leaves, his single visible eye shaping into an amused curve above his mask. His introduction is a masterclass in evasion, leaving the real work of the morning to the three of you. Sasuke speaks next, his voice a low, sharp thing edged with the ice of a long-held vendetta. Sakura fills her turn with a rush of words that stumble into a blush, then a smirk as she observes the fortunate vacancy where a certain hyperactive ninja would normally be.*