Ch 5 : SS Grade Haruno Sakura

After leaving the ninja academy, Sanada brought the members of team six into one of the rooftops in Konoha to begin their first session as a team.

Sanada glanced over the team six trios and then said: "Well then, for the first session, we will introduce ourselves to the team. Let me introduce myself first."

"My name is Kaedehara Sanada, what I like… keep it secret for now!"

"My dream… doesn't seem to be anything. As for interest? It's a lot… well, it's your turn now."

For this time, Sanada decided to copy the infamous Kakashi introduction. He himself didn't really know what to say, so rather than saying things wrong and making it awkward, he thought that playing cool and acting all mysterious was way better.

Immediately after Sanada, Sakura and the two mobs also introduced themselves one after another to have a certain understanding of each other.

" My name is Haruno Sakura! I like.. well.. the person I like is..."

Sakura tilted her head to the side, but she immediately felt a bit lost as Sasuke was not here with her.

" And my hobby is... As well, my dream is..."

While Sakura introduced herself, Sanada was actually not really paying that much attention. He had watched this introduction scene before in the manga, anime, and fanfics, and if he wanted to, Sanada could perfectly replicate this Sakura's introduction scene in his head.

What Sanada currently focusing on was on the information panel on his mind:

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[ Name: Sakura Haruno]

[ Age: twelve years old]

[ Quality: SS grade]

[ Power potential: 10]

[ Agile potential: 7]

[ Ninjutsu Potential: 8]

[ Appearance potential: 9]

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[ Name: Hibachi]

[ Age: twelve years old]

[ Quality: C+ grade]

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[ Name: Ami]

[ Age: twelve years old]

[ Quality: C- grade]

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Yup, the panel on Sanada's mind was displaying the assessment of his current disciple. The other two were pretty much expected, but Sanada was actually a bit surprised when he saw Sakura's information panel.

SS Grade!??? It seemed Sanada, who initially estimated Sakura's potential as S Grade, still underestimated her quite a bit.

The introduction soon came to an end as the two mobs also finished introducing themself.

" Well then, this signifies the end of our first session. Tomorrow early in the morning arrives at the training ground. Don't be late." Said Sanada to the three as he immediately used Sunshin-no-jutsu to leave the rooftop in a cool manner.

. . . . .

Hokage Office,

" Hokage-sama, all the Jonin instructor had picked up their students, and it seems tomorrow will be the beginning of the new students' ninja life." Said an anbu as he handed a document to Sarutobi.

Usually, Sarutobi would not put that much care about the new batch of graduates, but this batch was different.

The son of the fourth Hokage, the last orphan of Uchiha, and the future successor of many big clans of Konoha. Sarutobi would surely have said that the draft class was pretty stacked if this was the NBA.

" Hmm.. that's good. I couldn't wait for their performance for Konoha in the future." Sarutobi gave a satisfied smile as he looked at the document the anbu had given him before. But then, he noticed something wrong in the expression of the anbu.

The anbu was wearing a mask, but for someone that mastered the manipulation of a human's heart like Sarutobi, it was easy to identify the mood of the anbu.

" What's wrong?" Asked Sarutobi to the anbu in front of him.

" Lord Hokage, I don't want to be impolite, but I don't think that Kaedehara Sanada is worthy to be a Jonin instructor. His performance was on the borderline of a Jonin, and recently he had shown some strange behavior and even was late toward your calling. Furthermore... He had tried to take the student of Kakashi-senpai." The anbu told his thoughts to Sarutobi.

" Sanada, huh?" Sarutobi's thought went toward the past where the original Sanada's parents sacrificed themself for Konoha. " Just let him be. It could be said that this is a form of my apology toward him," Sarutobi said those words and raised his hand, signifying that he didn't want to hear anything else regarding this matter, and his decision had been final.

Similar scenes also happened at the root's place as Danzo also received a similar report from his subordinate. But different from Sarutobi, Danzo didn't give any care about Sanada and just focused on the orphan of the fourth Hokage and the last Uchiha.

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The next day, early in the morning.

After getting up and taking a bath to freshen himself, Sanada proceeded to cook a few dishes first before coming to the training ground.

His goal today was to earn respect and yearning from his student, and for this, he intended to start from their stomach.

Women might be a lot pickier about food as they also think about their diet. But fortunately. Sanada got the skill of the famous legumes magician, Shinomiya Kojiro, and it wasn't hard for him to make a meal with a balanced diet and good taste.

Sanada finished preparing the meal and proceeded to leave toward the training ground.

Ten minutes later, Sanada arrived at the training ground where his three students were already waiting for him there.

" Good Morning!" Said Sanada with a fresh smile toward his three students.

Sanada's charm was so high that both Sakura and Ami blushed a bit when they saw this smile.

" Good Morning, Sanada-sensei!" Said the three students politely.

Sanada then placed the meal he had prepared next to a big tree to make sure it wouldn't be on the way of their training and proceeded to walk toward the direction of the three.

" I have read about your reports from the academy, and I must say that the three of you have been doing pretty well." Sanada praised, which made the three become a bit embarrassed.

" However, the reports in the academy wouldn't mean anything if you guys didn't have the capabilities to survive in the ninja world. Today will be your first battle training, and if you guys couldn't satisfy me, I will send the three of you back to the academy!"