Great Greedy Guts
Ceterum censeo Vigilam esse delendam.
[x] - "Investigate" Kakashi with Sasuke and Naruto
Wait what?
There was a battle involving the fuckmothering Hokage just outside the main walls, and all they heard was there was an incident?
Man a lot of genin are terminally dumb.
Pretty sure the whole incident is way above their clearance level - heck the canon Mizuki incident went as unnoticed as this one too and that one involved quite a sizeable no of chuunin, jounin and AnBu despite the Hokage not lifting a finger.
[X] - "Investigate" Kakashi with Sasuke and Naruto
You know, I'd like to see Sarutobi's thoughts on the fact that in the eyes of the trenchcoat ninja Hisana was an aberration, an it, while Naruto was the more human brat.
Poor Kiba got shunted off Team 8.
Didn't expect politics would let that happen, especially as he happens to be excellent at taijutsu in his own right, something Team 8 is weak at.
They(the hokage and the jounin) could be assuming that as a Hyuga, Hinata is good enough at Taijutsu for team 8 along with plans to use team 8 to support harder hitting teams like team Guy or team 7 so they dont need to put Kiba on there to make up for a lack of taijutsu.
Little problem: Hinata is also a target.They(the hokage and the jounin) could be assuming that as a Hyuga, Hinata is good enough at Taijutsu for team 8 along with plans to use team 8 to support harder hitting teams like team Guy or team 7 so they dont need to put Kiba on there to make up for a lack of taijutsu.
Little problem: Hinata is also a target.
Multiple other villages have demonstrated their hankering for Byakugan eyes; Kumo tried to grab her at 4, and Mist actually succeeded at taking some unnamed Hyuuga's eye and implanting it into a senior jounin.
Honestly, if I was making a team overstrength, it would be any team with an unsealed Hyuga.
That was why I thought she got put on a team with the Inuzuka, because their partner animals increase the number of combatants on their team.
Honestly, I think Sakura will do just fine on Team 8. I get the impression Kurenai is a more hands-on teacher than Kakashi, and Sakura has the chakra control to be absolutely vicious with genjutsu.
but there's no sign of Sakura reciprocating Naruto's supposed crush, and she still seems to like Sasuke as in canon.
The clone swapped itself with Sakura, poofing in the process, but leaving her safe in Naruto's arms.
So far, no, but this part:
Raised a parallel or two to Minato rescuing Kushina from kidnappers for me. Hopefully it doesn't go that way, though - as you mentioned, it'd be an extra source of tension on that team.
Not especially.That is true but out of this graduating class the only named character that isn't a target is really Sakura (right now), everyone else has a high value due to either being a clan heir making a high value hostage, a Uchiha or is naruto who has kurama.
That's my head canon.I do agree with you on which teams to be overstrength, but I am not sure that is why they put Kiba and Hinata together. In fact do you if the whole team 8 being a recon team is fanon or was made canon by the databooks?
Ha, indeterministic world confirmed? At least for background details.
Not especially.
Besides Sasuke and Naruto, the rest can be replaced; Kiba isn't even a clan heir, he's the junior son.
Internal politics plays out somewhat differently though.
Hinata's real problem is that she's unsealed; it's not like the Hyuuga clan is short of members.
That's my head canon.
As for the recon team thing, as far as I know that's fanon; they could just as easily be a non-lethal capture team, or a hunter-killer team, or a guard/security team. Their skills lend to all of those categories.