Team 6
A/N: I changed all of the base ages of Naruto's generation to 15. This is for two reasons 1) 12 years old is pretty young, even for what is effectively child soldiers and 2) Any 'romantic' involvement that develops throughout the story makes a lot more sense if they are in their mid to late teens (it's also a lot less weird). Yes this will focus partially on a team of OC's, but it will also focus on the canon Naruto characters.
Also, I do not own any of the non-OC characters or any part of the actual 'Naruto-verse' or anything derived from it.
Please read, review, and enjoy!
"I did it!" Naruto yelled at the top of his lungs as he leapt from rooftop to rooftop towards his favorite ramen stand. As he ran to the edge of the next rooftop, he caught sight of a girl in a red dress with long pink hair walking on the road below him.
"Sakura-chan!" Naruto yelled loudly, causing the girl to jump and turn around as he landed in front of her, "Can you believe that we passed that crazy test Kakashi-sensei put us through." He said loudly, causing Sakura to jump at the volume of his voice.
"That's great Naruto," Sakura said flatly as she rolled her eyes in annoyance, "Do you have any idea where Sasuke-kun is?" She asked hopefully.
"No idea," Naruto said cheerfully, "Wanna go get some ramen?" He asked, despite already knowing the answer.
"No thanks Naruto," She said coldly, causing his shoulders to slump, "I need to go find Sasuke." She said, walking away from the blonde as quickly as possible.
"What does she see in that guy anyways?" Naruto grumbled to himself as he shuffled towards the Ichiraku ramen stand, "I'm way cooler than he is." Naruto said, as though trying to convince himself of it. But deep down it just depressed him even more.
He walked the last few blocks to the stand in silence. The other villagers parted around his path as though he were diseased. Fortunately for Naruto, he was used to this sort of thing. He completely ignored the angry hisses and concerned whispers he got when he passed people.
As he approached the stand he heard an angry male voice he didn't recognize.
"You would do well not to complain about this Kuroda," The voice growled, "The Hokage is putting a lot of trust in you by doing this. Prove that you deserve the honor."
"I couldn't care less about a group of misfits; I just want to train in peace." Another cold voice said, "Why am I saddled with them?"
"Because that's what you deserve you little jerk." The man said angrily and stormed out of the stand, revealing himself to be none other than Kakashi Hatake.
Naruto watched as his silver haired one-eyed sensei walked away angrily, book in hand. Naruto scratched his head, not quite sure what he had just heard, when he felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned to see Iruka smiling down at him.
"Hey Naruto," Iruka said with a proud smile, "How're you doing?" When Naruto just shrugged Iruka frowned, "How about I buy you some ramen as a reward for becoming a genin?" He asked with a smile, and Naruto's eyes lit up.
As they entered, Ayame and Teuchi, the owners of the ramen stand smiled and greeted Naruto warmly. As he placed his order, Naruto noticed that there was one other person sitting in the stand. The boy looked about Naruto's own age, maybe a bit older, and was about 5'1. He had unnatural white hair, gold eyes, and was wearing a black t-shirt and khaki cargo shorts. He also seemed to be finishing his third bowl, which did sort of impress Naruto, but there was something about the boy that set Naruto on edge.
As Naruto stared, the boy turned, and caught his eye. With a look of disgust, the boy turned away, paid Ayame, and left without another word, causing Naruto to become angry.
"Iruka-sensei," Naruto said angrily, "Who was that jerk?"
"Who?" Iruka asked as he raised an eyebrow, and then took a bite of his ramen.
"The white-haired jerk!" Naruto said angrily, and Iruka continued to give him a blank stare.
"Do you mean Kuroda-kun?" Ayame said helpfully, earning a nod from Naruto, "He's one of our best customers; he's been eating here since he was ten." Ayame said, noting the blank look on Naruto's face, "I thought you knew him?" She asked in confusion.
"I've never even heard of him." Naruto said as he scratched his head sheepishly.
"I have." Iruka said as he swallowed some ramen, "I've heard that he's a foreign ninja who defected from a wealthy family, and that all he does is train all day." Iruka said casually, thinking really hard, "I think I heard the Hokage pegging him at about chunin level."
"Well, that guy is an ass." Naruto grumbled as he dug into his ramen.
"That's not very nice Naruto-kun," Ayame said sternly, causing Naruto to stop mid-slurp and look at her in surprise, "Kuroda-kun has been very kind to my father and I, and he doesn't have any friends here in the village because everyone ignores him." Ayame said finally, shaking a finger at Naruto.
"Well maybe he shouldn't look at me like I'm covered in crap," Naruto grumbled as he went back to eating, "He'd probably have friends then."
"Well, I've heard that he's going to be getting a team of people who barely passed at the academy." Iruka said after finishing his bowl, "Maybe that'll teach him how to interact with people a little better."
"Yeah right," Naruto mumbled, hoping Ayame wouldn't hear him and give him another lecture, "I bet he's going to have the worst team ever."
A mile or so from Ichiraku, Sasuke walked to his complex alone, stewing angrily over Kakashi's use of him as a human bargaining chip during the bell test.
As he considered what he was going to train next, Sasuke heard a noise from behind him. He spun around, quickly drawing a kunai and readying himself for combat with yet another fan girl. His preparation was for naught. Standing there was a boy. He was a bit shorter than Sasuke with expressive brown eyes and short brown hair. He was built fairly well. He was obviously well off, based on his well-tailored clothing. And, most obviously, he was a ninja based on the Konoha headband dangling from his neck.
"Hey Sasuke-kun," The boy said with a smile, "How've you been?" He stepped within arm's length of the Uchiha.
Sasuke sighed in annoyance, "Look, I don't know you." Sasuke said as he sheathed his kunai and continued walking, "So go away." He said over his shoulder to the boy.
"Sasuke-kun, wait!" The boy said loudly. He jogged up next to the Uchiha and gave him a confused sideways look, "You don't remember me from the academy?"
"No." Sasuke said, barely holding back his annoyance.
"Tyler Okibi?" He prompted, "I was the only person interested in becoming a medic?" Tyler added hopefully.
"Still don't have any idea who you are." Sasuke said as he fixed Tyler with an annoyed glare, "So get lost."
"But," Tyler mumbled as he halted and Sasuke walked alone through the gates of the Uchiha compound, "I just wanted to talk." He said sadly as he watched Sasuke walk away.
"Ah, that was good Iruka-sensei!" Naruto said happily outside of the ramen stand.
"I'm glad you enjoyed the meal Naruto." Iruka said with a chuckle, "I have to get back to the office, but I'll be seeing you around. Keep it up." He said finally giving the blonde a thumbs-up.
"You too Iruka-sensei!" Naruto said. He mimicked the gesture back to his former teacher, and walked away.
Naruto whistled quietly to himself as he walked home, thinking about many things; how his day had gone, how he was going to try to win over Sakura next time he saw her. He daydreamed about going to the land of Oni and defeating an Oni in order to save a sacred temple when all ambient noise suddenly disappeared.
"What the hell?" Naruto said in confusion. He halted in his tracks as the scenery around him began to bleed into something resembling a hellish black and white oil painting.
"What in kami's name is happening?" Naruto screamed as strange images began to blur into existence. As they became more vivid, they advanced menacingly towards him. Naruto felt the temperature around him rise, and he heard a scream as the world began to rapidly reset itself.
As it did, Naruto smelled something burning. He heard someone muttering to themselves while someone else was yelling angrily.
"What the hell man!" The angry voice cursed. "Why do you do that to people?"
Naruto instantly recognized the voice. He turned to see two other boys arguing behind him. The angry one was his neighbor in the apartment complex, Sentai Sryuu. Sryuu was a red-haired ninjutsu user with unnatural red-eyes and stealth capabilities.
"I didn't mean to," The other boy said. He was obviously poor. The boy was shifty looking, with dark beady eyes and black hair. He grumbled, "He should've just been disoriented for a moment while I came up behind him and killed him."
"You were gonna kill him?" Sentai asked in shock.
"No," The other boy replied with a chuckle, "It was just practice."
"It worked," Naruto said, glaring at the boy as he spoke, "Whatever that was it was freaky as hell."
"Oh, fantastic." The boy said this with a disturbing smile, causing Naruto and Sentai to shudder.
"You're creepy." Sentai said loudly as he turned to Naruto. After a moment his eyes grew wide, "And you're back is on fire Naruto-kun."
"What?" Naruto asked. Then he realized the burning smell was his own jumpsuit, "Oh crap!" He exclaimed as he ripped his jacket off and threw it to the ground. After several seconds of stomping Naruto and Sentai managed to put it out, but the damage had been done. Naruto's jacket was well beyond repair.
"Ah!" Naruto yelled angrily, "What just happened?" He yelled to the sky in complete confusion.
"Uh, I had to set you on fire." Sentai said as he rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. Naruto glared at him.
"No really!" The fire user said defensively, "You were in a genjutsu and I didn't know how to break it. I did what I had to do."
"You mean you did the only thing you knew how to do." Naruto growled, "That was my favorite jacket Sentai-kun."
"Well you can blame this guy!" Sentai yelled angrily, "He-" He turned to gesture at the other boy, but there was no one there, "Where'd he go?"
"I don't know!" Naruto yelled as he collected the remains of is precious jacket. "I'm going home." He stomped off in the direction of his apartment complex, grumbling tiredly as he went.
"I'm sorry Naruto-kun!" Sentai yelled after him, and then sighed as he examined the blast mark where his fire jutsu had hit Naruto. "Sorry that it obviously wasn't burning hot enough if it took that long to break him out it." He muttered disappointedly, shaking his head.
A moment or two passed, and then the boy jumped, suddenly remembering something, "Oh crap, I have to meet the new sensei in two minutes!" He yelled as he leapt up to a rooftop and began running and jumping across the city.
Tyler sat in the shade on the roof of the Ninja Academy, patiently waiting for his sensei to show up. He'd begun thinking about how best to approach Sasuke again when someone else sat down next to him, startling him somewhat. When the beady eyed boy didn't say or do anything but stare Tyler decided to break the silence.
"So, I'm Tyler Okibi, I guess we're going to be teammates." Tyler said with a warm smile. He offered the other boy his hand.
"Your eyes are brown." The boy said flatly. Then he slowly turned his gaze forward away from Tyler.
Tyler, completely freaked out by the boys demeanor, took a deep breath and scooted away from the boy until they were two meters apart. They sat in silence for several minutes as Tyler did his best to not look anywhere near the other boy while the other boy stared off into space.
Suddenly a tall boy with white hair, golden eyes, and very handsome features appeared in a puff of smoke, and leaned against the guard railing facing them.
Tyler stood, smiled, and was about to offer the newcomer his hand when the boy glared at him, "Sit down." The boy said sternly, causing Tyler to immediately drop back to his sitting position. Just then Sentai showed up, still huffing and puffing from the run.
"Okay," Sentai said between breaths, "What did I miss?"
"Just sit down." Tyler whispered. Sentai took a seat next to him, as the white-haired boy waited for them to settle a bit. Then he spoke.
"I'm Kuroda Kurogasa," He said with barely hidden disdain, "And you three are supposed to be my genin team. So let's start with names, specializations, hobbies, likes, and dislikes." He said as though just going through the motions, "You first freak." He said, pointing at Sentai.
"Freak?" Sentai exclaimed, but Kuroda just glared at him, so he began, "I'm Sentai Syruu, I specialize as a stealth nin with emphasis on fire jutsu. My hobbies are playing with fire and pranking people, I like fire and hiding and I dislike people who hurt my friends." He said, shooting a glare at the boy who had attacked Naruto earlier.
"I get it, you like fire." Kuroda said in annoyance, and then gestured at Tyler, "You're turn, please be a bit more interesting."
"Okay, I'm Tyler Okibi, and I'm a medic nin. My hobbies include karaoke, healing people, and making medicine. I like," He stopped, blushing slightly before continuing, "Sasuke," He said with a chuckle. Kuroda arched his brow at this, while Sentai gagged and the other boy smiled creepily, "Hanging out with my friends and making new ones. I dislike blood and gore."
"Okay flamer, I guess that was interesting," Kuroda grumbled, then pointed to the last boy, "Your turn creepy."
"I'm not creepy," He hissed, then began, "My name is Kirisho, I'm an info nin. My hobbies are practicing genjutsu and karaoke. I like genjutsu and disguising myself as stereotypes, I dislike prejudice and people calling me crazy." He said with a slight twitch as he finished.
"Well, that concludes the introductions," Kuroda said with a sigh, "Now we discuss the next test."
"But Kuroda-sensei," Tyler said, raising his hand and earning a glare from Kuroda, "What about you?"
"What about me?" Kuroda asked, narrowing his eyes.
"You didn't answer all those questions sensei." Sentai said with a shiver as Kuroda fixed him with a glare.
"I think it's fair for you to answer as well." Kirisho said coolly, in spite of their new sensei's obvious annoyance.
"Fine," Kuroda sneered, "I'm Kuroda Kurogasa, I'm an assault nin that specializes in lightning jutsu. I don't have any hobbies. I like training, and I dislike people who ask too many questions." He said in annoyance. "Moving on, you all need to meet at training ground six tomorrow by seven o'clock. Don't eat breakfast, the test is going to be pretty intense and I don't want you people puking everywhere." He said with obvious disdain. "Don't be late."
And with that he was gone.
The genin blinked a couple times, and then Sentai spoke up.
"There's another freaking test." The fire-user grumbled angrily, "That is such a load; I passed the genin exams fair and square."
"Actually," Kirishio interrupted, "You only passed the ninjutsu and stealth test, and failed the taijutsu, genjutsu, and weapons test." He said informatively, causing Sentai to glare at him. Kirisho continued anyway, "That leads me to believe that you either have friends in high places, or you very much impressed the chunin during the two tests you did pass." He said finally.
Tyler nodded in respect, "Wow Kirisho that was really," Tyler stopped, searching for the right word, "Informative, I guess."
"So what about you smart ass?" Sentai asked Kirisho snidely.
"I passed the genjutsu test and weapons test, but failed the rest." Kirisho responded with a hint of regret.
"And you?" Sentai asked Tyler.
"Well, I took a medical test instead of a ninjutsu test, so I passed that." Tyler said, scratching his head sheepishly, "But honestly, the only other one I didn't totally bomb was the genjutsu test, and I still failed that." He said, sighing in disappointment.
"Wow, you must really suck." Sentai said with a laugh, causing Tyler to glare at him.
"Or it means that he is an incredible medic." Kirisho said plainly, earning a smile from Tyler.
"Thanks," Tyler said, stopping and doing his best to remember the unmemorable boy's name. "Kirisho?" He half-asked. The genjutsu user nodded, and Tyler continued. "I am a pretty good medic."
"Well that's great." Sentai said, rolling his eyes. "I'm gonna go now. I'll see you two tomorrow." Without another word he jumped from the roof down to the street below.
"I don't like that guy." Tyler said, then turned to Kirisho and smiled, "Wanna go get some lunch?"
"Sure." Kirisho said with a strange smile.
"Why do I have to have a genin team?" Kuroda grumbled to himself as he threw windmill shuriken at a target. Each shuriken hit the mark, until the target was completely annihilated. Then he began to run through taijutsu katas.
"Why does that old man trust me with anything?" Kuroda said loudly, "Especially after that stupid bell test with team 8 landed me in so much trouble." He began to speed up his attack patterns in anger, pretending not to notice the other person on the field. "You can't hurt a few clan heirs my ass." Kuroda mocked, "They didn't get out of my way; they earned it." He spun out of his kata suddenly, and dashed forward into a combat ready stance in front of the person who had been watching him.
Kurenai shook her head in annoyance, "Like you could hurt me." She scoffed, "The Hokage wants to see you about the damage you did to the Hyuuga and Inuzuka heirs. Let's get going."
"You are a moron." Kuroda said with an edge of barely restrained disgust, "Kurenai-sensei has red eyes, not brown, and I didn't harm the Hyuuga girl." Kuroda smirked and drew a strange looking battle kunai, "Drop the henge." He demanded.
There was a puff of smoke and an angry Naruto appeared where 'Kurenai' had been standing.
"It doesn't matter that you saw through that trick, I'm still gonna beat you up!" Naruto yelled, making a grand gesture of pointing at Kuroda.
"What are you twelve?" Kuroda countered with a laugh, "You're going to 'beat me up'? Are you going to tell mommy and daddy first, fool?"
"I don't have a mom," Naruto growled, "And you just crossed the line." He took up his own pitiful taijutsu stance, preparing for battle.
"Wait," Kuroda said coolly, holding up one hand and sheathing his kunai with the other. "I apologize, I wasn't aware you were orphaned."
"Hmph," Naruto said, crossing his arms victoriously, "That's what I thought."
"You misunderstand," Kuroda said, narrowing his eyes at the blonde, "I don't like you, but I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father is a monster." Kuroda said this with brutal honesty, causing Naruto's eyes to widen.
"Oh," Naruto said, the wind somewhat taken out of his sails, "Well I guess thanks for taking it back."
Kuroda scoffed, "You're still a moron," and turned back to one of the training posts. He started to gauge where a kunai should land, "And I still think you're worthless."
"I'm not worthless!" Naruto shouted, "I'm gonna be the Hokage someday!"
"Really?" Kuroda said with absolutely zero interest as he began to throw one kunai at a time into the post, "Why don't you do me a favor and go away."
"No! I'm going to do what I came here to do!" Naruto said with resolve, "I'm gonna beat you up!" He yelled, creating three shadow clones and rushing the white-haired boy.
Kuroda grabbed a shadow windmill shuriken and threw it, dissipating two of the clones. The two remaining Naruto's leapt at Kuroda, who tucked into a forward roll. This caused the real Naruto to land on top of his own clone.
As the clone dissipated, Naruto began to pull himself up. Then he felt cold steel touch the bottom of his chin. Naruto's blood ran cold as he turned to look up at Kuroda's ninjato.
"Save it." Kuroda sneered as he took the blade away from Naruto's throat, "You can't beat me by throwing shadow clones at me until you win. You'll just tire yourself out." Kuroda said analytically, "You have to use tactics, which you seem to have zero talent for." Kuroda began doing katas with the blade, "Once you have a grasp of how to fight a serious enemy, please do come to me for a bit of sparring."
"You'll see! I'll learn tactics or whatever and come back and kick your butt!" Naruto shouted. Completely unfazed by his defeat, he ran back in the direction of the village.
"Fool." Kuroda muttered. Then he noticed something was slightly amiss. Someone was trying to sneak away through the brush after the blonde boy.
"Come out or die." Kuroda said loudly. The movement stopped, but the person did not reveal himself. "So be it." Kuroda said with a devious smile. Then he suddenly drew a windmill shuriken and hurled it in the direction of the intruder.
The intruder dodged it nimbly and ran off into the forest, "Oh hell no," Kuroda mumbled as he flashed through some hand seals. "Lightning Style: Thunder Wave!" He shouted as a blast of sound and a pulse of lightning shot off after the intruder. Kuroda dashed into the forest, closing rapidly on his prey. Only then did he realize he might be running into an ambush.
He skidded to a halt just as he felt an attack coming from his left, but smirked as he realized it was a single weak strike. Easily deflecting it, Kuroda dashed forward, slamming one fist into the attackers gut. He grabbed him by the throat with the other hand and slamming him into the nearest tree.
Kuroda's eyes widened as he realized who he was holding, and he let up on his grip. However, he didn't let go completely.
"Hinata-san," Kuroda said carefully, not sure if she was a threat or not, "What are you doing out here?"
"I-I," She gasped, trying to regain her breath as she fought back tears from the pain his assault had inflicted. As she began to regain control of her breathing, she gasped "I was just walking around."
Kuroda narrowed his eyes at her, "You're lying." He said, his grip tightening somewhat, "What were you doing out here?"
"Y-you won't hurt me," Hinata stuttered out of fear while praying to Kami she was right. "You hurt Kiba-kun and Shino-kun during the test, but you didn't hurt me."
"Wrong," Kuroda said coldly, tightening his grip and causing her to gasp for air again. "My moral about not hurting women goes out the window if they're trying to kill me."
"I'm not going to hurt you Kuroda-san," Hinata gasped as she realized that he might actually hurt her, "Please, I was just following Naruto-kun."
"Oh," Kuroda said. He released her instantly, and she dropped to the ground, "You should've just told me that." Kuroda shook his head in disappointment.
"I-I'm sorry Kuroda-san," Hinata muttered fearfully. She finally regained her composure and began to back away. "I-I'll just go now."
"Wait," Kuroda said, causing her to jump as he fixed her with an intense glare. "How did you dodge my windmill shuriken earlier?"
"I-I," Hinata stuttered, not really understanding the question, "I just did I guess."
"Hmm," Kuroda replied, narrowing his eyes at her for a moment. Hinata froze in fear. The two stood there in silence for a moment, when Kuroda suddenly drew a shuriken.
"Dodge." Kuroda said as he threw it at her.
Hinata squeaked as she deftly sidestepped the missile. Kuroda rushed in with a basic straight right hook. She dodged around his attack and backed away as he spun nimbly to face her. Then he dropped his stance.
"You have quite a bit of potential Hinata-san, but you are incredibly weak." Kuroda said analytically. "And being a Hyuuga you have access to one of the best taijutsu styles in the five nations."
"Umm, thank you?" Hinata said, not quite sure if she should thank him or be angry.
"I'm not trying to bloat your obviously pitiful self-esteem," Kuroda said with a smirk, "But if you want to get better, I could train you."
"U-um," Hinata said, as she tried to think of a way to say no, "I-I don't think my father would be okay with that."
"He doesn't have to know." Kuroda said with a shrug, "Besides, if you get stronger as a ninja chances are you'll become a stronger person as well." Kuroda smiled to himself as she perked up slightly at the thought. "Maybe you'll even be able to talk to the fool once you've gained enough courage." He said with a look of disgust.
"That's not nice, he's a good person." Hinata said, giving Kuroda the closest thing she had to a glare. But that only made him smirk.
"See, I've only been training you for a few minutes and your stutter is already gone." Kuroda chuckled haughtily, and Hinata gasped in realization.
"W-wow!" She exclaimed, only to realize she had stuttered again. Her shoulders drooped.
"Oh Kami," Kuroda grumbled, "Look, for this to work you need a more realistic attitude, because there is no way I'm dealing with this self-defeating crap for hours on end."
"Y-you're being mean Kuroda-san." Hinata said quietly.
"Well, if it helps, I don't mean to be," Kuroda sighed, "Now meet me at training ground six tomorrow at four pm." He wandered back towards his training ground, then turned back and spoke. "Don't be late." He left without another word. Hinata went back to the village, not really sure if her new teacher was going to be a blessing or a curse.
"So," Tyler said as he sat down in a stall in the barbeque restaurant, "What's your story Kirisho?"
"My story?" Kirisho asked, blinking a couple times in confusion.
"Yeah." Tyler said. "Like-" Tyler was suddenly cut off by a yell from across the room.
"You!" Naruto yelled from across the restaurant. He charged over to face Kirisho, "What the hell are you doing here?"
"Naruto," Sasuke said in annoyance as he walked up next to the blond, "Leave these people alone, your idiocy might be contagious."
"Yeah Naruto!" Sakura added, hoping to gain Sasuke's attention. However, her support only caused him to roll his eyes in annoyance.
"Hey Sasuke-kun," Tyler said quietly, hiding a slight blush, "Did you just get here or are you leaving?"
"We just got here," Sasuke said dismissively, "But if Naruto keeps this up it won't matter that he's paying."
"I'll pay," Tyler said, smiling at team 7, "But you'll have to sit with us."
"Fine," Sasuke said with a shrug as he sat next to Tyler, "There's no way you two are as annoying as these two."
"You two?" Sakura asked, only then spotting Kirisho. "Oh." She said awkwardly, as Kirisho stared off into space.
"There is no way I'm eating with this guy!" Naruto yelled, pointing at Kirisho accusingly. "He used a really messed up genjutsu on me!"
"My bad." Kirisho said honestly. "I thought everyone knew how to break genjutsu."
"Well I don't," Naruto countered with a huff as he sat down next to the boy. "Just don't do it again, okay?"
"Friends?" Kirisho asked thoughtfully. Then yet another disturbing smile spread across his face, "Yes, we can be friends."
"So Sasuke," Sakura said with a toss of her hair as she sat beside him. "What do you think Kakashi-sensei is gonna teach us first?"
"Nothing," Sasuke replied as he studied the menu. "He's going to be worthless."
"But isn't he a legendary ninja?" Tyler asked, causing team 7 to stare at him blankly. He sighed, "Kakashi of a thousand jutsu? Kakashi of the Sharingan?" Tyler clarified, hoping it would ring a bell. When he realized he was still getting blank looks from Sakura and Naruto, while Sasuke's expression had become stony, he sighed, "Obviously not."
"Well you know Sasuke, now that I think about it, Kakashi-sensei was the first person to have a successful bloodline transplant." Sakura said, hoping that this piece of information would somehow gain favor with her crush.
"That's wrong actually." Tyler said with a haughty chuckle. He turned to Sasuke, "Actually, Kakashi was the first person to successfully receive an eye transfer in the field, which is entirely different than a bloodline transfer as it does not give them the actual kekkei genkai so they cannot stand up to others born with the kekkei genkai."
"Well," Sakura said as her ears heated up, obviously upset at being shown up in front of Sasuke. "I bet you don't know that it was Tsunade of the Sanin's first operation!"
"Wrong again," Tyler said with a grin, "It was Rin who did it, and she was a very different person than Tsunade. Unfortunately Rin…"
"Stop." Sasuke said harshly, cutting Tyler off. "I don't give a flying crap, so just shut up, both of you."
"I'm sorry Sasuke." Tyler and Sakura said in unison, causing Sakura to study Tyler intently.
"Hey, I think I remember you," Sakura said thoughtfully. "We went to the academy together right?"
"Yes, we did," Tyler said, trying to remember the other girl as best he could. Then their eyes met and they both smiled broadly.
"Oh kami Tyler, I had no idea!" Sakura said, reaching around Sasuke and taking Tyler's hand. "It's been so long!"
"It has! We should hug!" Tyler said excitedly.
"Yes!" Sakura shrilled, and they grabbed each other's hands around Sasuke and pulled tight, gaining an unamused grunt from Sasuke.
Sakura giggled as they released each other, "Do you remember when we did that to him when we were nine and he got all mad?" Sakura said with a chuckle.
"Oh, and then Ino did that thing!" Tyler exclaimed making a motion with his hand.
"Oh my kami, right?" Sakura exclaimed, causing Sasuke and Naruto to wince at the high pitch of it.
"So, Tyler right?" Sasuke asked hoping to side track them. After getting a shy nod from Tyler, he continued, "Who is your new sensei?"
"His name is Kuroda, he's tall, a bit older than us, has white hair, and he's very handsome." Tyler said with a chuckle, "But he's kind of a jerk."
"Oh!" Naruto said suddenly, "I know that guy, he is a total jerk!"
"I've heard of him." Sasuke said coolly. "He went to the academy with us for a couple years."
"I think I remember a white-haired person from the academy, but that was a while ago." Sakura said thoughtfully as their food arrived.
"Well, I think he's going to be a good teacher as long as we can ignore his attitude." Tyler said. "But we'll worry about that tomorrow. Let's eat!" He grinned happily, raising his glass with rest of the genin as they gave a cheer.
"So, Tyler," Kirisho said as they walked away from the restaurant, "What do you think tomorrows test will be?"
"I'm not sure, but it will probably involve combat." Tyler said apprehensively, "Kirisho, we should make a deal right now."
"What deal would that be?" Kirisho asked suspiciously, moving slightly farther away from the other boy.
"That tomorrow if one of us is in trouble we look out for each other," Tyler said as a powerful resolve filled his eyes, "I want to be a genin, and I don't want Sentai to ruin our chances because he's an ass."
"Agreed." Kirisho said quickly, "If we are going to survive as Genin we need to look out for our teammates."
"Well," Tyler said as they came to a cross street, "I'm this way, I'll see you tomorrow."
"Later." Kirisho said quickly, and quickly disappeared down the street.
Tyler whistled quietly as he walked back to his house, wondering what tomorrow held for him.