Brilliant idea for team work training. I don't understand why Naruto is the only one who has to correct the katas, the original never ever mentioned that he was bad in taijutsu, in fact it was one of his strong points.

Great to idea to turn a bitchy council into a way to make Kakashi a competent sensei.

Indeed, this is awesome, do not stop.

Frank discussion of reality really is the best thing.

I freaking love this

This is great! I love the way you write Kakashi.

Hi,

I just wanted to let you know that, so far, I really like what you're doing with this story.
Admittedly I almost always like fanfics where Kakashi really trains Team 7, but this one seems to be on the way to be one of the better ones.

So, please keep up the good work!

ciao

I love evil Kakashi! xD I hope you update soon! _

... and my finger slipped on the post button on that first review. Go find and read that first. Here's the bits that are missing. (Ch 6, 30min before this one)

Considering the political nature of the beginning, it seems sensible to allow the council to be a recurring, nebulous, villain. For one, once they return from wave, there is a period of about a month or two where no activity more interesting than d-ranks take place. With this team, this does not have to be the case. It would probably be better, even, politics wise to take more c-rank missions, but that can probably be glossed over. One thing that could be written about, might be work taken by team 7 to oppose some machination of the council that the hokage does not approve of, but does not want to slam down the tyranny bat on. Enter team 7, willing and able to take a mission on the sly. Maybe a council member has ordered a shinobi to guard them on their vacation? Maybe one of them ordering preferential treatment for a specific trade caravan or goods?

Second case, which I imagine you might have thought up already, is the chunin exams. The council might oppose team 7's entrance, for a number of reasons (and they can also support it for a number of reasons as well). More interestingly, they might try to order the ending of the exam after Orochimaru's attack, or only Sasuke's removal from the exam.

Third case, involves strengthening Tsunades reign.

Fourth case, the most long term one, (if you want to go that far) is Naruto's desire to become Hokage. If he wants to do that, one of the main blocs in his path is going to be the council. He and his team are going to have to work that game like crazy to get anywhere. Chunin, Jonin, special missions, alliances, ect. He can prove his worth like he did in cannon, but if he doesn't give more than just on-the-spot heroics, and if he doesn't play the political game, he's still going to be a genin at the end of the day.
(Also, if you want to turn this into a Naruto/Hinata story, there is a great explanation of interclan politics and how it might affect such a pairing in Lighting up the Dark ch 13. If you haven't, you should read the whole thing anyway, good story).

Hope the inspiration fairy strikes, and have fun writing.

Man, I am really enjoying this story so far. It's got great characters, really easy to sympathize with(well done on the Sasuke front, you've been handling it very well), a good skill progression, and just a little more of the Naruto world shown to the readers.

Because I like this story, I feel the need to give you some ideas to inspire you to write more (assuming you haven't already thought of all these things, of course).

Finally, a request. Could you write in a scene where the team fights a group of regular bandits, where the fight is not simply a shinobi style curbstomp? No matter how many times it is said that 'anyone can die to anything, even a Kage to a genin' I have rarely seen a story where normal people are anything but awesome-fodder (moodks to prove a persons badassery). If this story could present regular bandits as capable of straightforward combat at least on par with regular genin, that would be awesome, and give a very real example of a credible measure of power levels. The Naruto world becomes so boring when only chakra users register as threats (example; how many people write Gatou's army as completely impotent against any shinobi, completely removing the drama and potential of the situation).

Your story is amazing and refreshing. I love the way team 7 still has team 7 vibes. Absolutely awesome! It really is an amazing read, keep up the good work!

I'm really enjoying this story, and the more realistic ninja world (when Kakashi killed the missing-nin, there was no flashy power, with a lot of noise and bright colours, and he didn't shout its name; terrible, terrible habit of fanfic authors, in a manga or anime, OK, it's made for teens, but in writing? really?).

ok, loved this so far! it's like they've all got their asses kicked into gear:)

This is probably one of my favorite naruto fics. You portray team seven being friendly and a TEAM so well! It's all I could ever hope for in a team seven fic :D

I love your story i hope you update soon