"Congratulations! You graduate." Naruto Uzumaki couldn't believe his ears, or the weight that was now on his forehead. True enough, after being able to perform the shadow clone jutsu, and kicked Mizuki's ass for 2 hours straight, he'd done it. He had finally graduated. The young boy was in tears as he tackled his sensei, Iruka, with hugs. "There, there Naruto! Take it easy, it's not pleasant having a giant shuriken lodged in your back." Ignoring his sensei's cries of pain, Naruto hugged tighter.
The next day, Naruto sat in the classroom that he had been going to for a 3 years, yet today would be his last day there. "NARUTO! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE?" The object of Naruto's affection, the pink haired beast of killing, Sakura, finally noticed the blonde haired boy sitting in the spot next to her object of affection, Sasuke Uchiha, who, as usual, was emotionless as ever. Naruto smirked at her and pointed to his forehead protector which caused a gasp from the girl. "You mean… you actually graduated?" Naruto nodded proudly. "I just learned the most awesome jutsu of all time and Iruka sensei was sooooo impressed he just HAD to let me graduate." Sakura's eye twitched in disbelief. After all, she did think that she would never have to see his blonde, annoying face ever again. "Well… Whatever! Just Move out of my seat!" The blonde looked to his side seeing the apathetic Sasuke, and then he stood on top of the desk and stared him straight in the eye. This caused another growl from the girl. "Naruto! Don't you dare look at Sasuke like that! He is thousands times better than you at everything!" Unfortunately for both of the young boys, some idiot in front of them wasn't paying attention, and bumped into Naruto, which caused him to come crashing forward his lips meeting Sasuke's. This earned an outrage from the pink haired girl, and a wave of disappointment from a shy girl in the back of the room. "NARUTO YOU IDIOT! I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SASUKE'S FIRST KISS!" With that Sakura raised her fist and uppercut Naruto's face, sending him flying to the back of the room, leaving an imprint on the wall, and Naruto in a daze. Hinata looked at the unconscious boy and blushed heavily. This was the first time in a long time that they had been this close.
The blonde pried himself from the wall, and landed next to the shy Raven haired girl, earning even more of a blush from her. "Ummmm…. Naruto-kun?...Ummm…..are you ok?" Naruto scratched the back of his head and looked at the girl who was asking him. "Yea. I've had worse. You're…. Hinata right? Hinata Hyuuga" The blush on her face turned even darker as she put her head down and nodded. Naruto grinned in victory. "Well since I have been thoroughly… ummmm Upercutted from my seat, do you mind if I sit here?" The Hyuuga successor shook her head, her face putting tomatoes everywhere to shame. Naruto pulled up a chair and sat next to her feeling confident. Soon the rest of their classmates arrived. All of which were drastically surprised to see the blonde there, all of them disgusted by his presence besides 4. Kiba Inuzuki, who actually was friendly towards the blonde, giving him a pat on the back and a bark of approval from Akamaru, Choji Akamichi, whom was too busy stuffing his face to care too much, Shino Aburame, who had less emotion than even Sasuke, and Shikimaru Nara, who thought it was just a drag to be worrying about these things, were the 4. Soon the whole class was there and shortly after Iruka entered the room, a little bandaged from the previous night but otherwise unchanged. He stood in front of a podium and cleared his throat to get everyone's attention.
Once everyone was silent he thanked them and started speaking. "All of you in here, have shown great potential to become excellent ninja, that is why each of you passed the Gennin exam, and were presented with the villages headband. You have all made me very proud, and I am very glad I am able to call you all my students. I see many of you growing into fine shinobi; some of you even may become Jonin. But until then, you will be working in 3 man cells, These squads will become like your family as you get to know them better, and train with them more so try not to kill each other on the first day. I have a list here with all the teams on it. Please wait until I finish the list to ask questions." He looked at Naruto intently while saying the last bit.
Iruka called a few teams of people that aren't important enough to have a name until he got to team 7. "Team 7 will be Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto Uzumaki, and Hinata Hyuuga. Team 8 will be Kiba Inuzuki, Shino Aburame, and Sakura Haruno." Sakura hung her head in disappointment as did Naruto, for similar reasons. The young Hyuuga girl's heart nearly skipped a beat. Her face got even redder and she tried to hold her nose to prevent it from bleeding. Naruto suddenly spoke up. "Iruka-sensei! Why does a great ninja like me have to be paired up with Sasuke?" Iruka looked at him sternly. "It has been shinobi tradition to pair the highest ranking scores with the lowest ranking scores. Naruto, yours was the worst." With that being said nearly the whole class burst out in laughter, leaving Naruto folding his arms and putting his head down in shame. "Now then, everyone wait for your new teacher to arrive, and then follow their instructions." With that Iruka left the room and everyone returned to chatting, the topic, what squads they were placed in. Naruto turned towards Hinata, "So I guess you and I are going to be in the same squad huh? I'm just sorry that that jerk Sasuke has to be here too." Hinata could only nod her head, thanking whatever gods there were in the universe for this chance.