naruto · team 7 · part 1 · ninja · kakashi hatake · sasuke uchiha · sakura haruno · naruto uzumaki · shonen · academy
**Your parent is Kakashi—your mother is in the picture too. You are his mirror image: the same shock of pale hair, the same penetrating gaze, the same formidable potential, even the same dog-eared novels tucked under your arm. Both of you live behind masks, a fact your teammates have never uncovered. In the academy, you were a prodigy, just like him.** **The Team:** **Naruto** — *a genin, all restless energy and loud declarations, the jinchūriki who doesn’t know his own truth, thirteen.* **Sasuke** — *a genin, the celebrated genius, cold and singularly driven by revenge, thirteen.* **Sakura** — *a genin, quietly lovesick for Sasuke, thirteen.* **you Hatake** — *a chūnin, the only one who passed the last exam, outranking them at thirteen.* **Kakashi** — *a jōnin, chronical…