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Ren and Itachi were walking through the streets of Konoha. Normally, Itachi is a person who prefers sweets more than meat, but as it was dinner time it was out of the option.
'Next time I will take him to Ringo's, they make some good dangos.' thought Itachi as he glanced at his student who for some reason had a serene look on his face.
'I also need to find two more students' Itachi had yet to find someone good enough for his team.
He had directly come to find Ren as soon as Minato asked him to form a team, he has not even told his family yet.
Thus, he could not take him to his clan for dinner yet, he didn't want to trouble his mother with uninformed guests.
Which was why they were now outside of Yakiniku Q for their dinner. Itachi led Ren into the Restaurant.
The fumes of cooking meat were visible to the naked eye and Ren's nose twitched as a delicious scent hit his nose. Itachi searched for an empty room.
"...Itachi! Here" called out a smooth voice from one of the stalls causing Ren to look at the man who had called them.
He had spiky black hair, and was bearded, and in his mouth was a cigarette which he was smoking.
He also had a bowl with sake in it and another bottle of sake next to it.
"Sarutobi-san?" asked Itachi as he and ren went into the stall and took their seats as Asuma gestured them to sit.
"Bah.. How many times have I told you to call me Asuma, Sarutobi is my Dad" said Asuma as he shook his head, he looked a bit intoxicated.
"Who is this kid?" asked Asuma as he pointed at Ren, having not seen him before. To which Ren introduced himself.
" I am Kiyoshi Ren, and am Itachi-sensei's student," said Ren as he formally bowed to Asuma.
To which Asuma looked at Ren weirdly, then sighed and took a sip out of his sake bowl.
"I didn't know you were going to take on a team, Itachi," said Asuma as he asked the waiter to bring some meat for Itachi and Ren.
"It was decided today by Hokage-sama, so even I didn't know till today."
They didn't have to wait for their meat to arrive and then Asuma started grilling it, as he was the most experienced at it.
"How are you doing, Asuma-san? I heard that you are the sensei of the new Ino-Shika-Cho trio."
Though Itachi isn't one to listen to gossip, he too gets information about these things because of his mother.
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"I .. they are good kids, though they are rough around the edges a bit, they will grow into fine Shinobi," Said Asuma in a slightly proud tone thinking about his team.
"Hm, where are your other team members?" asked Asuma noting the lack of Ren's teammates,
" I still have to find them. It's going to be a bit difficult because either have to wait for the next batch or try to find ones without any Jonin."
Which mostly meant that Itachi would have to choose from the Shinobi corps.
"Hmm, seems like you're running a bit late and now you have to pick from the corps. Well, you know what they say, the early bird gets the worm, HAHA" Asuma slurred his words in a drunken stupor not realizing that Ren himself was from the shinobi corps.
' Says the loner who is drinking alone at a restaurant '
Ren just smiled as Itachi glanced at Ren to look at his reaction. Thinking that it was fine, Itachi just ignored Asuma's words and started eating the grilled meat.
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' Breath in...out....in... '
The mid-day sun gleamed as sweat glistened on Ren's body. He was on a very important D-rank mission which was called potato-picking.
His hands moved with frightening accuracy as he made perfectly sure not to damage the roots of the potato plant as he dug the farm ground for potatoes.
But there was one special thing he was doing, he had a number of leaves stuck all over his body by the use of chakra. But because of sweat, it was getting progressively difficult to maintain the leaves.
He was itching all over his body, but he ignored all distractions as he picked the delicious potatoes.
'This one isn't mature' thought Ren as he only picked the potatoes which were ripe for picking.
'Four more, three, two... one' Ren picked the last potato as he finally finished the mission.
"Ahh, are you done with the potatoes, Ren-chan?" Asked an elderly woman as she brought some water for Ren.
"...Thank you, Takegawaki-san" thanked Ren gratefully, as he drank the water and quelled his thirst.
"Here.... take some potatoes for your hard work" The woman handed Ren a bag of cleaned potatoes.
Of course, like any person Ren tried to deny it but the old woman did not relent. Thus, Ren was now holding a bag of many potatoes, which Ren didn't even know how to finish.
"You can drop the leaves now" Once Itachi had counted that all the leaves were in the correct position as before, he made Ren drop the leaves.
Ren took back the chakra that was making them stick to his body, and all the leaves fell down.
The old woman handed them a form which denoted the completion of their mission to Itachi after signing them.
The old woman waved goodbye to Ren, as both he and Itachi went their way.
"Sensei, when can start to go on C-rank missions?" Frankly, Ren was tired of D ranks both mentally and chakra-wise.
Itachi had made Ren take 2 d rank missions per day and after that, they would train the rest of the day.
But Itachi has always found ways to work Ren to the bones, even during missions so he wasn't much bored but after taking the Port City mission, Ren ached to go out of the village again.
"When you are ready for it." And there it was Itachi's, cryptic answer which was his only response to things such as this.
Which had Ren confused as he knew that Itachi had seen him defeat Suigetsu but still he refused to take Ren on a C-rank mission.
'I want a teammate quickly' Thought Ren as it had just been the two of them for almost a week.
Not that he hated it or something but, picking a whole field of potatoes, painting houses and taking care of snot-nosed brats became unnecessarily tedious and long when done alone.
Itachi would only step in when Ren was doing something wrong, correct him, and then watch him do the task again.
In short, Ren wanted someone to suffer with him, misery loves company after all.
But it seemed that Itachi had yet to find good candidates, so it was still just the two of them, working in silence and talking only when it was necessary.
Soon, they were now in front of training ground 21 their usual training spot.
Ren dropped the bag of potatoes under the shade of a tree and then walked near Itachi who was standing in the middle of a clearing.
"You asked when we were going to take on a C-rank mission, right?" Itachi asked all of a sudden as he threw something at Ren.
'A wooden sword..' Thought Ren as he looked at the thing in his hand finally excited to learn something new.
"It is the day you land one hit on me with that sword." Itachi also held a similar wooden sword in his hand.
'For.. Real?' Thought Ren with surprise, but slowly a grin crept its way across his face.
'Eris, remove most restrictive seals'
Ren was confident that he would make Itachi regret his words because he had now removed all the training seals, which increased the strain on his body.
He had these seals activated for most of the time to train and only released them when he needed a boost.
Itachi had once asked him about it but was surprised when Ren told him that he knew little Fuinjutsu.
Itachi couldn't do anything about Fuinjutsu as he knew only little of it and had opted to teach Ren other things. The same was the case for chakra sensing, as most of Itachi's sensing skills came from the Sharingan.
Though Itachi had a little suspicion about Ren's chakra-sensing technique, he decided to ask about it at a later date.
Now back to the main topic, Ren crouched as he pumped all his chakra into his legs.
'HIT!' Ren lunged at Itachi with surprising speed, his blade already in the middle of a slashing motion.
His arms bulged with a sudden increase in strength, he gritted his teeth and then slashed at Itachi's sides with full force.
*Crash*
And promptly kissed the dirt as Itachi simply moved out of the way. It was going to be a long day today.
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