"When do we start training?" he asks, disentangling himself and patting Naruto's head.

"Tomorrow. I'll be honest, I was expecting this to take a little longer. Here are your registration forms. We'll say your assignment today is to turn them in and get your ID cards."

"Most teams don't bother working together, do they?" He takes his form.

"Not when the stakes are perceived to be high enough."

Honestly he doesn't know a single non-disaster preteen, he's not surprised.

He nods.

Kakashi claps once. "Well! You children have fun with your paperwork. That's the second most important part of being a shinobi, after teamwork." He begins ambling off, pulling his book out.

He sighs. He just knows he's going to be stuck helping Naruto. The blond's already squinting suspiciously at his papers.

He glances at Chihiro. "I'm going to help Naruto with his registration. Do you want to hang out with us?"

"Hang... out?"

"Spend time together. Get to know each other."

"Like friends!" Naruto declares.

"Would we not be better served by individual training?"

" - Nobody can cover everything. It's important to have specialties within the team, and to have team that works well together. We'll be stronger, that way. Also humans need downtime that isn't training." Especially children, the fuck is wrong with this culture.

"Very well."

"We should go get ramen! To celebrate!"

"After we get our I.D. cards."

And off?

Off they go.

The registration form is fairly simple: name, date of birth, date of graduation, home address, jounin instructor's name, team number, next of kin (if applicable).

Naruto puts down 'Uchiha Sasuke' and 'Umino Iruka' under 'next of kin' because close enough.

His apartment, by now, is shared with Sasuke, too, because Sasuke is a complete mother hen.

Fortunately, Sugira has by now figured out his body's date of birth.

He just puts 'Uzumaki Naruto' under 'next of kin.'

Chihiro lives in an apartment on the other side of town, apparently. She lives the next-of-kin field blank.

...Is he going to have to adopt his entire team.

Once they're done: "Let's go get ramen to celebrate!"

"Why is ramen celebratory?"

"Because graduating for real is great and if we say it's a celebration, it's a celebration. Also ramen is delicious."

"...I see."

"I'll convince you of the value of fun someday."