Kakashi shrugs and stands.

"We'll be meeting at the training grounds at 0600. Failure to appear will exempt you from ever becoming a shinobi. Don't be late."

-- and he disappears in a puff of smoke, leaving behind three pieces of paper.

"Let's ambush him and beat him up. I'm not fighting my friends."

"...We're not friends." Though he's also not capable of beating Raizume's puppy on his own.

"Friends. Who're gonna beat up a jounin."

I could eat him

"He's either playing a very weird mind-game, or he really doesn't want us to pass. Or both. There's no way I'm fighting you. Either of you."

This is so frustrating. Her memories keep getting more and more inaccurate.

"We're not eating him, Zuma. Can't send him back to the Academy gnawed on. But yeah. Let's plan! You knew his name, Rai, do you know more? We need to information gather, see who knows what about him..."

"He's Hatake Kakashi, the 'Copy Ninja'. He's really infamous. Graduated the Academy when he was five years old. Dubbed a prodigy and the best of his generation."

"Well his generation's gonna get a schooling from ours! Bet your mom has info on him."

"Hana too, actually. We could go talk to them, if you're both free?"

Sasuke nods.

(Apparently they're doing this. Whatever. Probably more likely to work, anyways.)

"Yup. Let's get going. No time to waste!"

She scoops up the three papers Kakashi left and shoves them into her pack.

"Hana's still at work, but mama is probably at the training grounds beating up genin."

"Let's go get beating-up-jounin advice from her then!"

"She'll be so pleased."

She takes a running jump off the building, heading in the direction of the training grounds.

Her team follows!

Her mom is indeed beating up genin, trying to knock a hodge-podge team consisting of one of her originals and two of last year's into something vaguely resembling a fighting force.

She half-turns when Raizume and her team arrive, pulling one genin into a headlock. "Need something, pup?" she asks, cheerily.

"Our jounin-sensei is a jerk! We were hoping we could ask you to give us some insider info."

"Which one?" She dodges to the side of a genin trying to free his teammate, twitches her foot, and the earth jerks under him. To his credit he doesn't trip this time.

"Hatake Kakashi. Weird guy with white-hair and a mask."

"Yup, know him. Likes dogs. Definitely a bit of an ass, though."

"He told us we have to fight each other and only one of us can pass and the other two go back to the Academy, so we're gonna beat him up instead then ask the Hokage to send him to the Academy and make Rai our sensei."

"Wow, he is an asshole," one of the genin - the girl, and the one neither headlocked nor tripped - says.

"Focus!" Tsume shouts, and the girl has to jump away from some moving dirt.

"He can't do that, right, failed teams just get chuunin teachers," the headlocked boy says, wriggling around so he can kick at Tsume at the same time both his teammates come for another rescue attempt.

Tsume lets that one slide because teamwork drill, says, "Technically the jounin can recommend a return to the academy. Almost never gets granted." She flips the girl genin over onto her back, spins to kick at the older boy. "You guys want to know how he fights, then?"

"Yes, please. Have you fought with him before? Know any secret weaknesses?"

"In a serious fight his chakra capacity ain't worth shit compared to what he likes to throw around. You guys are unlikely to get him going seriously. Your best bet is to impress him, or to take him by surprise. Or better yet both." Though the second will be hard, given that he's watching them do this. And probably watching them plan. "Figure his intel's better than yours. But he's arrogant. Doesn't figure you three have anything approaching a chance, so he won't be putting in much effort at all."