A/N: Hello hello, and welcome to my first Naruto story. I hope you enjoy it!

Some things to note: I purposefully dont tell you what Satella looks like in this chapter as I dont think describing her makes sense in the story. After all, it is written from her point of view, and she already knows what she looks like. Instead I decided to describe her here. Satella has knee length blonde hair, vibrant red eyes and wears the usual Jonin outfit minus the green vest.

There is also no pairing at the start of the story, but there will be one as the story progresses. In my story, Satella is 16 years old. Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura are 13.

Now with that out of the way, let's get on with the story!

Before the Storm

Chapter 1: Beginnings

Standing in front of a busy classroom of newly graduated Genin stood Satella Senju. Satella, the Jounin assigned to this class, took a seat on top of the teachers desk as she patiently awaited his arrival. Today they would be announcing the 3 man Genin squads everyone would be perfoming their missions with. It took the third Hokage quite a while to determine the ideal setups this year. Satella sighed as she read through the file in her hands. She didnt recognise most of the names in front of her, except for a few of them. The first being Sasuke Uchiha. The raven haired boy was one of the first to arrive that day. Satella had known him and his family for over a decade. The two of them grew up together. They even started living together after.. No. Now was not the time to be dwelling on the past. Satella turned her gaze back to the group of Genin in front of her. Not everyone had arrived yet. The ones the had were making quite the ruckus. Some of the girls were screaming at Naruto Uzumaki because of some silly jokes he made about them earlier. Naruto seemed to have a knack for pranking the other students. He also seemed to be intrested in Sasuke as for some reason he jumped up onto the table in front of him. Satella leaned her head to the side, trying to get a better view of the situation, but burst out into laughter at the sight in front of her. It seemed that one of the other students bumped into Naruto's back, causing him to fall forward into Sasuke's face. At this the girls in the classroom went ballistic and started pummeling poor Naruto for "stealing" Sasuke's first kiss. This was going to be an intresting day.

"Good day everyone. My name is Satella Senju. I will be announcing the Genin squads this year. These squads consist of 3 Genin each, with whom you shall be perfoming your missions. The difficulty of these missions wil be determined by your performance in the exams you have priorly completed. Each squad will be lead by a Juonin, and starting this year a medical ninja as well." This statement seemed to surprise the class. Satella couldnt blame them. Normally the squads would only be lead by a single Jonin, but because of the increase in Genin deaths over the years the Third Hokage installed the new policy.

"I will now announce the squads." The class's reactions to their team compositions ranged from excitement to extreme disapointment. Surely they didnt think they would be teamed up with their friends, did they? Satella absentmindedly continued reading off the names on her list until she reached Team 7. This was going to be her squad. Satella smirked. The third had certainly given her an intresting line up this year.

"Team 7: First up we have Naruto Uzumaki. Secondly Sakura Haruno." At this Naruto stood up from his seat and cheered. Satella chuckled at his enthuisiasm. "Behave yourself, Naruto." She said, causing Naruto to sit back down quickly.

"Last, but certainly not least, Sasuke Uchiha." This time it was Sakura jumping up in joy. "Next up, Team 8. Which will consist out of: Hinata Hyuuga, Kiba Inuzuka, and Shino Aburame." Neither Team 8 nor 9 gave any real reaction to their team compositions. "Lastly we have Team 10: Ino Yamaka, Shikamaru Nara and Choji Akimichi." The infamous team Inoshikacho seemed to have a second itteration.

"Satella sensei, why have they teamed me up with a slug like Sasuke?!" Naruto yelled out as soon as Satella stopped talking. Satella raised an eyebrow at him and crossed her arms.

"Sasuke had the best scores out of all the graduated Genin this year. You on the other hand, had the lowest ones. For the sake of balancing the teams, the Third decided to group you up together. Now if u have a problem with that, you are welcome to complain about it as much as you like. Not that it changes anything." Satella chuckled at the defeated look on Naruto's face. For some reason he thought of himself as a top tier ninja. Maybe in time, he could be. But for now.. "After your lunch break you will be meeting up with your new Juonin teachers. Your team number will be displayed on the door of the classroom they wait you in. Until then, class dismissed."

During their lunch break both Satella and Kakashi Hatake, the other Juonin leader Team 7, where summoned by the Third Hokage. The three of them met up at Naruto's apartment where there third told them of Naruto's extrodinary background. It appears that during the attack on the village 13 years ago, the Nine Tailed Fox spirit was sealed inside Naruto. Not only that, Naruto also seemed to be the son of the Fourth Hokage. No wonder they kept it a secret.

"Good luck to the both of you. You'll need it." The Third said with a smirk on his face. Satella smiled nervously at this. Kakashi on the other hand seemed to be preoccupied with a carton of milk on top of the table. He examined it closely as he spoke.

"I certainly hope Naruto hasnt drunk any of this milk. Its way past its expiration date. One sip of this and you'd be running to the bathroom all day. It seems like this kid is just one big problem." Satella face palmed. Milk? That's what he was concerned with? This was the guy she was supossed to leading a squad with?

After their lunch break was over, Satella and Kakashi made their way over to the classroom. Because of their visit to Naruto's place, they were running a little late. As soon as they reached the classroom though, Kakashi was greeted with a chalkboard eraser on his head. Satella had to hold back her laughter as she entered the classroom after him. Surely this was Naruto's idea.

"Hahaha! I got him! He totally fell for it." Naruto yelled out. Sakura on the other hand seemed to be panicking.

"I'm so sorry, Sensei! I told him not to do it." Satella rolled her eyes at this. Way to stick up for your team mates. Sasuke, as per usual, remained silent. Satella walked up to him and sat down on top of the desk next to him. Kakashi sighed and finally spoke.

"How shall I put this.. My first impression of this group is: You're a bunch of idiots." Satella nearly fell off the desk. What was with this guy? That's no way for a Jonin to act.

"What Kakashi meant to say was, this group needs a lot of work." Satella stated quickly. Kakashi raised an eyebrow at her.

"Isn't that what I just said?"

"All right. Why dont you introduce yourselves?" Satella said as soon as the group relocated outside. The three Genin sat on a bench in front of her and Kakashi, while the Juonin themselves leaned against a nearby railing. Kakashi didn't seem to be very intrested in getting to know the group, but Satella decided that for the sake of team building they had to start off somewhere.

"Introduce ourselves? What are we supposed to say?" Sakura asked.

"Things you like, things you hate." Kakashi stated. "Dream for the future, hobbies etc."

"Why dont you tell us about yourself first? So we can see how its supposed to work." Naruto suggested. Satella smiled at this.

"Thats actually a good suggestion. Why dont you go first, Kakashi?" Kakashi raised a finger to his face as he spoke.

"Me? I'm Kakashi Hatake. Things I like and things I hate.. Hmm.. I dont really feel like telling you that." Satella face palmed. This guy.. "My dreams for the future.. Well, I've never really thought about that." Atleast he was being honest about that. "My hobbies.. I have lots of hobbies." Satella squinted her eyes at him after he finished talking.

"Right.. That was very informative. Thank you." Satella said sarcastically.

"What about you, Satella Sensei?" Naruto asked her enthusiastically. Satella turned her gaze back to the group in front of her and smiled.

"Okay, sure. My name is Satella Senju. I like to train with Shuriken and I dislike paperwork. My dream for the future is to find out what happened to a missing friend of mine. My hobby is reading." This seemed to satisfy the group alot more then Kakashi's half hearted response.

"How old are you?" Naruto asked her, causing Sakura to smack him on the back of his head.

"You idiot! You're not supposed to ask a woman about her age! That's rude."

"I only wanted to know because she seems a little young to be a Jonin!" Naruto said in an attempt to redeem himself. Satella chuckled at the display in front of her. These guys were going to be a handfull.

"That's quite all right. I am 16 years old and I became a Jonin at age 11. Which is certainly nothing to write home about compared to some of the others out there." Naruto and Sakura seemed to be impressed by her statements. Sasuke on the other hand remained quiet. He already knew much more about Satella then he was letting on to the rest of the group.

"Okay. Now its your turn. You on the right, your up first." Kakashi said as he pointed towards Naruto.

"I am Naruto Uzumaki! Believe it!" Naruto said happilly as he started playing with the headband on his forehead. "I like instant ramen in a cup, and I especially like the ramen at the Ichiruka ramen shop. But I do hate the 3 minutes you have to wait after you pour hot water in the ramen cup. My hobby is eating diffrent kinds of ramen and comparing them. And my dream is to become the greatest Hokage to have ever lived! Then the villagers will stop disrespecting me and start treating me like I'm someone important." Satella and Kakashi looked at eachother and sighed. Problem child indeed. Satella leaned back against the railing and pinched her nose.

"Right then. Next." At that Sakura stood up from her seat and happilly introduced herself.

"I'm Sakura Haruno! What I like.. Uhm I mean, the person i like.." Sakura turned her head slightly to look at Sasuka and quickly turned back with a squeel. "My hobby is.. Uhm.. and my dream for the future.." Sakura squeeled again and sat back down. Satella face palmed. This girl did even worse than Kakashi.

"And what do you hate?" Satella dared to ask.

"Naruto!" Kakashi sighed and leaned towards Satella's ear.

"Are girls this age really more interested in boys than in ninja training?" Satella shrugged.

"Seems like it."

"Okay.. How about you?" Kakashi asked Sasuke, who sat a bit further away then the other two. He leaned his elbows on his knees and held his chin up with his fists. Something Satella knew to be his default stance.

"My name is Sasuke Uchiha. I hate alot of things and alot of people. And I dont particulary like anything. What I have is not a dream because I will make it a reality. Im going to restore my clan and destroy a certain someone." Just as closed off as ever. Sasuke didnt want to let his team in on anything specific either. Satella cleared her throat and spoke.

"Good. Now that the introductions are out of the way, let me tell you about your first mission. Which is tommorrow at sunrise." Naruto jumped up in excitement.

"What kind of mission are we going to have?" He asked happily. Kakashi crossed his arms and spoke up.

"Its a task that the five of us will be doing together. A survival excersize." Both Sakura and Naruto seemed to be disapointed at this. Sakura stood up and held out her fist.

"A survival excersize? I thought we were supposed to go on a real mission. Not more practice. We already did that kind of stuff at the academy." Kakashi smirked.

"This is not like your previous training." Naruto raised an eyebrow at him and spoke.

"Sooo.. What kind of training is it then?" Kakashi and Satella looked at eachother and chuckled.

"Well, if we tell you the answer, you're not going to like it." Kakashi told them. Satella jumped down from her seat on the railing and spoke up.

"Out of the 27 graduates from the academy, only 9 will be accepted as Genin. The other 18 will be weeded out and send back to the academy."

"In other words.." Kakashi interjected. "..this is a make it or break it test. And the chance that you'll fail is atleast 66%." The three genin in front of Satella seemed to be surprised to say the least.

"See? I told you you wouldn't like it." Naruto stood up in anger and yelled out.

"That's crazy! We worked hard to get here! What was that graduation test good for anyway?!"

"Oh, that? That was just to select candidates who might become fully fledged Genin. That's how it is. Satella and I decide weither you pass or fail. Be at the designated training spot at 5 am. And bring your ninja gear."

"That's it. Class dismissed." Satella said as she turned to leave.

"Oh, one more thing." She said. "Skip breakfast."

"Why?!" Naruto asked her in bewilderment. Kakashi smirked at him and spoke. "If you don't, you'll puke."