Genin; An upturning event!
- Hmmm. – Alex looked at the window, to see, yet another beautiful day at Konoha, and here he was waiting to know how he'd turn out in the Genin graduation exam.
And as if on cue, at last Iruka- sensei appeared in the midst of the room, covered with the usual leaves.
- I have good news everyone – He said with a big smile – Everyone passes, in other words – from today on, you're all Genin of Konoha. You will now be separated in groups of 3 and those will be your Genin groups until the Chunin exams.
- Alright! – Most of the students yelled and gave each other high-five.
- What a bunch of idiots – Alex mumbled under his breath. – You don't realize what this means do you? You don't even realize how much harder this will be for us, do you? – Sarcasm could be heard on his voice.
- Hmff, What do we care, you probably had the worse scores of the class! – One replied. – Besides you're not even from Konoha, But from Kiri.
At this Iruka smirked, and looked at his students – You know, Alex is right; from here on out your lives will be several times harder, and unlike at school, if you make a mistake, you can't go back and repeat it until it comes out right, as for Alex's score … He had the best! Now pipe down and listen, these will be your Genin groups; Alex Momichi; Light Hakurei, and Naruto Uzumaki; …. – And he kept on going.
However instead of listening, Alex turned to see his two teammates; Light was a pretty girl, her light-brown hair, she was about his height, and when her gray eyes met his, she smiled; however, when he looked at Naruto, the blond boy was really distracted, he seemed to be thinking about something, rather uncomfortable, to say the least, so Alex got up and went to talk to him, Light quickly followed and looked at Naruto – Hey. – She said, her voice was really sweet – Is everything alright?
Alex placed his hands on Naruto's shoulder and the latter looked at him –Are you alright Naruto? You know you can tell us! – He said, and to much dismay of some other of their colleagues, namely the girls, who thought so high of him, and that he was the cutest and coolest guy they'd ever seen, he gave him a smile. – You're on our team, so that means you're almost like family!
Naruto looked at him, and shy as he was he gave a small smile and said – It's just that, today's my birthday, and I never … well …
Alex could tell – he never had a party – Say what … after this we'll all go to Ichiraku's and have something to eat and then we can talk about how we're going to be Chunin and all other stuff like that.
Light smiled – he's got a nice heart, it's good to know that my teammates are like this! – And after that we can all go to my mum's Bakery and get a Cake, and we'll do a small party, to commemorate not only your birthday, but the beginning of our team!
At this Naruto felt tears run down his cheeks – Thanks guys but that won't really be necessary, I don't want to be a burden to …
- Nonsense – Both Alex and Light said – Think of it as our birthday gift!
- … - Thank you!
And all the while, Iruka-sensei was watching and smiled – Good luck Naruto! – Now go to the assigned rooms and wait for your Jounin-Sensei there.
- 3 hours later, in their assigned room. –
- I have a feeling that we'll have to work as a team … - Alex said.
- What are you talking about? – Light asked – I mean sure we are a team, but sheesh, aren't you way too ahead of yourself?
Naruto just looked at the two of them, and smiled.
- Haven't you heard? – Alex replied – All Genin teams have to go through a test, usually a survival test, but there's one instructor, who, is always late, and uses bells, and the three members of the squad have to get the bells, it is also said that there's only two bells, so one will always fail…
Alex didn't have the chance to finish, because in that moment the door opened, to reveal a rather odd guy, his hair was Silver-white, and only one of his eyes was shown, the other being covered by his Hitae-ite.
- Good morning everyone! – I will be your sensei from now on – I am Kakashi Hatake.