Naruto, the 4th member of Team 7

Team 7 bonding time

After I untied Naruto, we ran to catch up with the others.

"Hey guys, let's go have lunch together." I suggested to them, hoping they would agree.

"Hey, that sounds like a great idea!" Naruto immediately agreed and was smiling.

"Hm, well............" Sakura looked over at Sasuke who said "Okay." before she agreed to it herself.

"Kakashi sensei should join us too! You must be hungry too right?" I turned to face Kakashi sensei, he had his hand on his chin, thinking over it before he smiled "Sure, but I would have to leave soon after."

We then started to walk back to town while suggesting on where to eat. Naruto of course suggested Ichiraku.

"Come on, its cheap! And Ichiraku has the best ramen!" he started to drool at the thought.

"You can be their ambassador seeing as how you frequent you eat there." Sakura commented. 

"Why not barbecue, to celebrate the 4 of you being official ninjas, my treat." 

"OKAY!" Sasuke, Naruto and I immediately shouted which surprised Sakura seeing the 3 of us agreeing to something so quickly.

Its because we're orphans, we only get our pocket money from Sandaime Hokage each month, it's not too little but we definitely can't afford to eat something pricey like barbecue all the time. So of course we were excited about eating barbecue, even better since its free.

"In that case, thank you Kakashi sensei!" Sakura thanked him politely.

By this time we had already reached a barbecue restaurant and so we entered it and sat down once the waitress led us to our table.

After bickering over which meat to order and all, our orders were placed and everyone was quiet, thinking of what to talk about.

I decided to break the silence first, "So sensei, how old are you?"

"Woah, Akiko sure is bold." Naruto said aloud.

"Hmmmm, well I would say that Im definitely older than you. I'm not that old, but I'm not exactly young either." 

All 4 of us poker faced, cause what the heck kind of answer was that?

"Never mind then, when are you birthdays?" I looked at Naruto hinting that he should answer first.

"It's really far away from now! October 10! What about you Sakura chan?"

Sakura pouted, clearly disappointed that Sasuke wasn't the one to ask her. "March 28."

"Oh that wasn't too long ago!" Naruto's eyes widened.

"Hmm yeah, it wasn't." she kept looking at Sasuke hoping he would say something but obviously he wouldn't, not until I gave him a look.

He sighed "Mine's on the 23rd of July." Sakura's eyes were shining, clearly content with knowing this information, I bet she's going to hold this over all the other fangirls' heads.

Naruto nudged me "What about you Akiko? You asked ours but didn't tell us yours."

"Hehe, guess that im the 2nd youngest in this group. Mine's September 26." I stuck my tongue out at Naruto in a playful manner as he is the youngest.

Naruto was a goodsport so he just grinned "Hey, I guess I am!"

Our food arrived just then, and everyone quickly placed the meat on the grill to cook it. Thankfully though, the conversation didn't stop as there were bickering between Sakura and Naruto while I chatted with Sasuke and Kakashi sensei.

"The 2 of you seem to be pretty close." Kakashi sensei noted as he glanced at me and Sasuke.

"We've known each other since we were kids." Sasuke stated plainly, but Sakura overheard him and turned to give me a glare which I ignored, Im pretty used to getting glares from Sasuke's fangirls.

"We train together and usually hang out together if we have nothing to do." I added on as i placed a slice of meat into my mouth.

Sakura wanted to say something but she stopped with her jaw open and eyes widened, Naruto had the same expression too. I was curious too and turned to see what made them react that way when my jaw dropped too.

Kakashi sensei had lowered his mask to eat, and my god, he looks so handsome. Even Sasuke stopped chewing to stare.

I have never seen such a handsome man in my entire life, that mask has certainly done its job in masking how good looking he is. Kakashi sensei probably noticed us staring but instead of pointing it out he said, "This meat is good, do you guys want some more?"

Still shocked from what we saw, all of us merely nodded instead of answering him verbally.

I think I might even be blushing, stop it Akiko, you can't have a crush on your sensei!

We somehow managed to stop staring and continue our meal, once we were done Kakashi sensei paid for our meal like he said he would and we exited the restaurant.

"Well, that was a great lunch. I'll be taking my leave first, so I'll see all of you tomorrow at the Hokage's office for our first mission then. Jya ne." (See you.) He then flickered away.

"My house is over that way, so I'll see you guys tomorrow, bye guys. Bye Sasuke kun!" Sakura waved at us before walking the other direction from us.

The 3 of us continued to chat idly until we reached Naruto's apartment. "Hey Naruto, I'm down to train with you anytime if you want." I smiled at him to which he smiled back gratefully "Awesome, I'll take you up on that offer then Akiko chan! Bye!" he then ran up the stairs leading to his apartment.

And it was me and Sasuke again, "I'll walk you back." he told me.

I nodded.

We didn't talk on the way back to my house, figuring I probably had forced Sasuke to talk enough today. "You really want to train with Naruto? He's so weak."

"Well someone has to train with him so that he would get stronger. Besides I'm not exactly strong Sasuke."

"You and I both know that you're way stronger than that Naruto and Sakura." he gave me a look to which I rolled my eyes at.

"I don't only train with you Sasuke. I train with other people too, like that Neji from the Hyuga Clan. His taijutsu is really good, you should meet him one day."

"Hm."

We had already entered my clan's area in the village and stopped right in front of my house. "Well, see you tomorrow then, partner." I smiled at him.

He smirked back. "Jya mata ashita." (See you tomorrow).

Hey guys, so again I just finished off a test and managed to write these 2 chapters for y'all before I become inactive for another month again. This is just a filler chapter cause I wanted to show you guys scenes of Akiko bonding with the other ninjas too. But I don't really have that much ideas so if you guys made it till here and have some ideas then feel free to comment!