Kick out Sasuke from Team Seven

After confirming what Akatsuki intended to do with their hunt of the Bijuu, Gaara, the Kazekage issued a proposal for the leaders from all villages to gather in a summit and discussed the threat of Akatsuki, and how they should handle the protection of all the remaining Bijuu. Tsunade, the Hokage supported the summit, although the other three Kages were reluctant, they still agreed to meet.

The world was busy, the previous mysterious Akatsuki was now brought into the light, their description was distributed into all of the Shinobi's guide book, it could be said there were eyes everywhere watching the road for their whereabout.

Meanwhile, I and the others went back to Konoha, the reward I received was indeed big but I was also put into question why I could have known about the mission since Tsunade just sent Naruto's team and Tenten's team. Right now, I was in the Hokage's office, in front of me was the presence of Konoha's leader, a beautiful and bosomy middle-aged woman.

And when I meant bosomy, I mean, for the love of God, this woman didn't even try to hide them, she was wearing some kind of grey kimono with a very low cut chest part, and that cleavage was deep.

Then I sent my eyes upward, she was having a serious expression at the moment, but it didn't lessen her beauty at all, although I wanted to compare her with the rest of the women, I felt it was a little unfair since she was older many years, but if I had to, she's easily above Ino.

I wasn't really surprised about seeing a 50 old years woman looking like their 30s, in one of my previous worlds, as long as a person could achieve XIantian cultivation, they could maintain their youth for 100 years, that's why cultivation was the best skincare method in the world.

"I have checked your background, it is said that you are an orphan, but it never clear who's your parent, as for your teammate and Jonin who responsible, it is said they were all dead because of a mission, and you are the lone survivor, is it correct?" Tsunade said, or more like dictated the paper she was reading at the moment.

Was that my background in this world? Geez, talked about a lonesome figure, no parents, no teammate, this was pretty much a life of a wizard, a lonely old crook with a heavy beard and dying voice.

"Yes," I simply said, what's the point of denying?

"I am sorry, it must be hard for you..." Tsunade put down her paper, I could feel her sympathy in the eyes, hey, this edgy background didn't seem too bad at all, a man with painful past was interesting after all, adding up to their repertoire of charm.

There were two paths I could have taken, the first one was responded with a cold attitude, this could hint to Tsunade I didn't want to talk about it and not open to any further consolation, this kind of response usually good to chase away people, only a handful of them would have insisted on comforting me, and usually those who were taken the interest of me, hopefully in a romantic way.

I didn't believe Tsunade had taken the interest of me in that kind of way, at least not yet, the difference between our age would probably the strongest reason she would have not thought of any possibility of romance with me, the lack of contact was also the same, and I didn't think any method of picking up girls would have worked on her.

Therefore, the acting cold would just push her further away; if I wanted to pull her toward me instead, I had to resort to the second response.

Pretended to be strong!

I glanced to the side, avoiding her eyes to indicate I could not bear the sympathy, I twitched my body a little, then when I looked back at her, there was a forced smile on my lips, said, "Thank you, Godaime."

"..." Tsunade stared at me for a while, the previous seriousness on her visage reduced a lot, she stroked on the desk, said, "now can you tell me, how can you know about the mission? I heard the report from Guy's team, they said you have a powerful space and time Jutsu, it's the reason why they can arrive earlier from Kakashi's team and interrupt Akatsuki's plan."

"Godaime, do you believe in premonition?" the corner of my lips curled slightly.

Tsunade didn't answer, her brown eyes were staring at me, but she seemed to look far away, it seemed my words reminded her of something, perhaps she had ever received a premonition before?

"I am close with one of Guy's students, Tenten, we were sparring before she left for the mission, the whole time we fought, I had this bad feeling, and time to time, Tenten seemed to have a close call, so I was worried, and I left a mark on her that allowed me to know her location in case she was in the danger..." I said while having a tender smile.

"I see... she is that important to you?" the tenderness seemed also infected Tsunade's red lips, couldn't help slightly twitched upward.

I nodded, then said, "I'll protect everyone I care about, including you, Godaime."

"Me?" Tsunade widened her eyes.

"Yeah!" I widely grinned, posing cool and pointed my thumb toward myself, "a man's gotta protect the people he loved, this back of mine is yours to depend, Godaime."

"..." Tsunade seemed speechless at my proclaim, then she closed her eyes and chuckled, "well, I'll be counting on you then."

Wow, no flustered, no shyness, really a matured woman, difficult to hit.

Then she continued to say, "Still, to run off like that without the authority of the village is prohibited, every life of people in this village is valuable, and Tenten is not alone, she got the team to cover her back, I believe they can have a way to solve the situation, but you, Abe, you are alone, rushing out like that will jeopardize your life easily, please be cautious next time."

"I understand, Godaime, but you know very well I will not remain idle when someone precious to me in peril, right?"

"Don't say I didn't warn you," Tsunade leaned her back on the seat, then she said, "the important thing is, we need someone to take a responsible for you, even an early Jonin will still require the monitoring of their teachers, such as Guy to Neji, or Azuma to Shikamaru, you still a Chunin, your action is less likely unrestricted."

"I agree, Godaime."

"So, do you have a preference to which Jonin you want me to assign?"

I smiled, of course, I already had someone in mind.

1 hour later...

"So, this is Abe Stu, he is going to be our 3rd member..."

In some street of Konoha, I was meeting up with my new teammates, I could see the shocked face on the two youngsters at the same age as me, and the lack of care of the older man beside me.

Naruto and Sakura immediately stayed, it's not they didn't recognize me, in fact, I was getting along quite well with both of them before, it just, I believed they already had in mind the 3rd person of their team, it was none other than Sasuke Uchiha himself, the renegade Shinobi.

I had heard their story from Tsunade and Kakashi, despite what happened now, Sasuke was once getting along fine with Naruto and Sakura, Sasuke was like a brother to Naruto, and Sakura loved Sasuke so deeply, but this guy, he was a person who his clan got slaughtered by his own brother, Itachi Uchiha, this caused him to set off in the path of revenge and thirst for power because of it. In the end, he decided to leave Konoha and joined Orochimaru for pursuing his goal.

But in their heart, they never considered Sasuke an outsider after his departure, the 3rd seat of their team would always reserve for that guy, thus I understood the shock in their face, probably quite confused and a little upset.

"But... why?" Naruto said slowly.

"Well, Tsunade needs someone to take a charge of him," Kakashi rubbed the back of his head while reading some kind of book, I guessed, then he said, "and he chose me along with our team."

"Kakashi, you know damn well there is no way we will agree to this, right?!" Naruto immediately shouted, his voice was loud like an alarm just triggered, heez, chill out, will you?

"Naruto!" Sakura, on the other hand, behaved quite sensible, she quickly bowed her head and said, "I am sorry for his behavior, welcome to our team, let's cooperate well in the future."

"Yeah!" I nodded.

"Tch! What the hell that Granny just thinking..." Naruto snorted and started walking away, despite Sakura's scold for him to return, he started to disappear from the sight.

"I am really sorry about Naruto, if you decide to join us, then I believe you have known our situation, right? Or at least, Kakashi has told you?" Sakura looked toward Kakashi on the side, the grey-haired masker dude with droopy eyes nodded.

"Then please understand Naruto's behavior, he's always been easy to get sway by his emotion, but he doesn't mean anything to be rude at you, just give him some time," Sakura said with a smile.

"I understand, besides my time with you just temporary until I get my Jonin's status, or Sasuke return to Konoha," I said.

"Eh? Does Master Tsunade allow you to take Jonin's test early?" she widened her eyes in surprise.

"His performance in defeating two Akatsuki is exceptional, although there is still a lot of detail needed to be taken care of, Godaime will try to get him a special recommendation to take Jonin's test," Kakashi said.

"It's hard to believe, did you really defeat two Akatsuki by yourself?" Sakura faced me again.

"Deidara already a mess and Sasori is wrecked by Tenten's team before, I only pick up what's left off," I said with neither arrogant nor humble tone. Although honestly, if the fight started with my fighting the two of them without anyone around, I could have still defeated them, but I needed to put up a show for Tenten, so I restrained myself a lot.

"Oh yeah, about Tenten, is it true that you guys are dating?" Sakura scooted closer and whispered, seemingly very excited to talk about it.

"True, she's my woman," I didn't have intention to hide it from her, I wondered how this news was spread in Konoha, how many had known about it? Had Ino also heard about it?

I checked up my phone and noticed Ino's affection didn't decrease, and I checked up on her thought, it turned out she was yet to hear about it.

Hmm... it's about the time for me to take her to our second drawing session, it's better I tell her now than she heard it from other people, hearing such news from not yourself sometimes hurt more after all. The fact that our relationship hadn't been established anything was actually worst, therefore, I needed to move fast and bound Ino to me, otherwise, once she heard the news, there was a chance she would reject me before I could form the plan for the harem,

With that in mind, I bid goodbye with Sakura and Kakashi, and then traveled to Ino's house.