"Are you sure this is compensation you want?" Kakashi asked and looked at Sasuke with concern.
"Yes." Sasuke replied, not ashamed to demand Icha Icha paradise first edition as his compensation for the hellish training Kakashi gave him and his teammates, just after doing their B rank mission!
'I guess Haku was not wrong...' Kakashi thought, where the usually composed Haku, was cursing Sasuke's name half the time for grabbing his left chest.
Other half of the time, he was cursing Kakashi when Kakashi who did not know some talismans was still attached to his left chest, so thanks to shape it formed, he assumed Haku was a girl and looked away out of decency, again pissing off Haku for thinking he was a girl.
Though Haku was extremely angry due to a side-effect of a pill Sasuke gave to them, which increases anger of a person by three folds, where even Zabuza began to sweat after seeing Haku's murderous aura.
'Hope sh- he is okay now.' Kakashi thought, still shocked, that Haku was a boy.
"Anyway, could you care to explain why you did it today?" Sasuke questioned, who was semi-engrossed in reading and used his '2 tomoe Sharigan' to speed up his reading game.
"Just happened to encounter them when buying anmitsu."
"So after some discussion we decided to train our discipline to foster bonds between themselves"
"Tell that to someone else." Sasuke replied, rolling his eyes while listening to Kakashi's absurd excuses.
Kakashi, who was adjusting his headband, asked: "Anywhere, what did you guys learn today from them?"
"Naruto and I learned Fire Release: Ash Pile Burning while Sakura learned Demonic Illusion: Tree Binding Death." Sasuke replied, having a sense of gratitude from Asuma after learning it.
Learning how to perform smokescreen was good in times of escaping from danger or catching enemies off guard with additional benefit of enhancing fire jutsu which could be potent if enemies was off guard during that time.
But the genjutsu Kurenai taught to Sakura was horrendous.
'Who the fuck won't realise it's a genjutsu after seeing a weird tree hugging you.' Sasuke thought, seeing a couple of problems with the jutsu.
Maybe if a wood release user was there like the 1st Hokage, then usage was understandable to use to scare off enemies.
But now he thinks about it, what if she was paired with Yamato hence she knew that jutsu ?
'She could have been part of Anbu, or at least similar to it under 3rd Hokage command, and Kakashi does not know about it.'
Sasuke knew very well 3rd Hokage only revealed details if it was needed.
For example, Kakashi was completely loyal to the 3rd Hokage, yet Kakashi was never informed about the truth of the Uchiha massacre until 'Madara' revealed the truth.
'What if Kurenai was an Anbu member, whose identity is only known by the 3rd Hokage?'
Sasuke realised there was too much coincidence he noticed about Kurenai.
She was loved by Asuma, 3rd Hokage younger son.
She was a friend of Anko, the former student of Orochimaru, who had a curse mark on her who might be a prodigy since Orochimaru was a guy who doesn't seem to had patience for someone mediocre .
She regularly tried to talk and had a friendly relationship with Kakashi and Guy as well, the strongest Jōnins in the village.
Her team consists of Genins who excel at reconnaissance, despite her being a genjutsu specialist.
And she was sensei of the 2 clan heir and tried to be surrogate sister of Hinata, former clan heir who was rejected by her father, patriarch of the most prestigious clan in Konoha, who may still have resentment due to the event 9 years ago.
'Fuck, I almost forgot she was Jōnin thanks to Hokage approval!'
Sasuke now found her very suspicious person, whose connection seemed too intention to be a coincidence, feeling glad team 7 was extremely exhausted during training or they may had revealed their usual performance.
Sasuke trusted Kakashi after knowing that Kakashi always falsely reports about team 7 to protect Sakura from 'evil eye', but could the same be said about Kurenai?
"Do you want them to train you guys again tomorrow?" Kakashi asked, while being confused as to what scene in erotic novel caused Sasuke to have a grave expression.
Because Sasuke refused, he remembered an ominous warning from that god.
~have to interact with Rookie 9 and other Sensei, face some interesting events I plan or else.~
'Shit, I almost forgot about it.' Sasuke contemplated, experiencing a serious headache right now.
Kakashi looked at Sasuke with concern and asked: "Hey are you fine?"
"Just feeling overstressed." Sasuke said, after realising the face he made when thinking about her.
"Anyway, we don't mind training with them." Sasuke said, who could not refuse out of fear.
***
After having a small discussion about sealing jutsus, they both part away, going back home.
Sasuke, who was extremely tired thanks to Kakashi, can't help but fall straight in bed.
Well, this was what he thought until he found Hinata, following him in the street.
'Shouldn't she follow Naruto?' Sasuke thought, wondering whether she needed his help to get close to Naruto.
It was an awkward situation for Sasuke, not expecting Hinata to follow him of all people.
If it was his fangirls, especially Ino, then he would quickly dashed away.
But if it was Hinata, then he had no clue what to do.
"Hey, do you need something?" Sasuke asked, finally confronting Hinata.
Sasuke hid his worried face, after seeing veins popping from her eyes.
For a while, no words were exchanged, as if there were a staring competition between, where Sasuke was unaware about it.
Hinata suddenly pleaded while bowing to Sasuke, where the next sentence caught Sasuke off guard: "Could you train me?"
'Why is she asking to me? What about your surrogate sister or satan in your training regiment?'
As far as Sasuke remembers, she was least motivated to fight and train among the Konoha 12 until after Shippuden and basically had no interaction with OG Sasuke.
Thanks to this, Sasuke had no idea how to react.
"Fine, meet me at 5am tomorrow, and don't be late." Sasuke said, mentally too tired of the consequences of the agreement after having mental gymnastics about Kurenai.
Hinata quickly thanked him and left, allowing Sasuke to return to his place without any hassle.
'Why did I look downwards again?' Hinata contemplated with a blush on her face.
But regardless, she got the opportunity to observe him.
Why did she suddenly want to observe him over Naruto?
Mostly because of the butterfly effect Sasuke caused that day.