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Hey Guys and Gals! Listen, this story was published on my other account JinxWasHere. However I forgot the email that I used for the account sooooo...I just decided to repost it here. Please enjoy (if it's your first time reading this + a new chapter)
Chapter 1: A new set up means complaints
"…And it is the reason that I'm changing the teaming system" an old man in white and red robes, with a matching hat, finished his decree.
This old man was the Third Hokage, or Hiruzen Sarutobi. He was the man that was tasked with leading and being the figure head of Konoha, the Village hidden in the Leaves.
He had done his duties for many years and was ready to retire, but it is unfortunate that nobody has what it takes to be the Hokage…or as Hiruzen would say has the will of Fire. That is the motto he lived by.
He was quite content with his decree and it showed on his peaceful looking face.
The people standing in front of him, however, weren't okay with it.
"Why?!" majority shouted in surprise and shock. The old man opened his closed eyes and adopted a look that looked very unimpressed at the question.
"I thought I just explained it" he said with a frown on his face. The others didn't back down from their questions and need for more answers, and they were being very vocal about it. It was starting to get on the old man's nerves.
"Silence!" he shouted amongst the other shouting, it was enough to make them all quiet down "As I said before, the reason I'm not following the same old placement system we have been using for years is because of a recent traitorous act that could have put the whole village in danger had it not been stopped"
"But Lord Third" a woman dressed in a dress that was made of bandages stepped forward "that doesn't explain why you are changing the system Konoha has set up since the time the academy was created"
"It's simple Kurenai" Hiruzen laced his fingers in front of his face well resting his elbows on the table in front of him "Mizuki was a teacher here at the academy and he knew many things about the students that had just recently passed. And as a teacher he was required to know the inner workings of the academy.
"That would mean that he knows how we decide which Genin is to be paired up on a team. It doesn't help that he saw who was going to be which teacher for each team as well.
"Normally we have a tracker team, an interrogation and recon team as well as a front line team, but Mizuki could have leaked this information to whoever he was trying to deliver the Forbidden scroll to and they could be putting together counter measures to win against this new group of Genin.
"It doesn't help that clan heirs are a part of this new graduating group. I want to prevent any of them to get captured and taken to other villages, not only because it will give them secrets about our clans but because I want to do everything in my power to not allow children to suffer that kind of torture" the Third closed his eyes as if he was trying to forget something horrible "Kurenai, no, all of you know what can happen to a female Kunoichi that is captured by the enemy. Especially those that have a bloodline"
That statement made every unanswered question vanish. However there was one question that needed to be asked.
"So what are the new teams then?" asked a bearded man that was standing next to Kurenai.
The Third smiled at the man "They are-"
"Hehehehe" a whiskered blond boy was snickering to himself as he sat in his class room. He wore an orange jumpsuit that had blue on the shoulders with a big white collar. On the arm was a spiral with a tassel attached to it.
"Naruto?" the blond boy looked up to see a fellow classmate of his standing by his desk looking at the boy as if he was seeing him for the first time in a long time "what are you doing here? This is for those of us that passed"
The boy wore a grey jacket over a fishnet top and had on brown pants. He had his hair pulled up into a short spikey ponytail that fanned out.
Naruto Uzumaki smirked at the boy and pointed to the head band that he wore proudly on his forehead.
"Are you blind Shikamaru? I did pass!" his smirk turned into grin when he expected Shikamaru to ask him how did he pass? He would if he was in the boy's position.
"Yeah…sure" the other boy yawned then made his way up the stairs. Naruto blinked in surprise and turned in his seat to look at the back of Shikamaru with disbelief.
"Aren't you gonna ask how I passed?" the Nara stopped in his trek up the stairs.
"Honestly? I could care less, Naruto" he sighed then continued up the stairs again, but not before he uttered the word "troublesome"
Naruto's confusion turned into anger and he flipped the retreating boy the bird "I wasn't gonna tell you anyway! Dattebayo!" he turned back in his seat with a huff.
'Geez, you'd think that people would ask about the number one student making a surprise appearance' he thought with a frown on his face. The frown turned into a face splitting grin that made his eyes squint 'Aw well! Who needs 'em! I got here without any of them knowing about my special mission, and how many of them can say they beat up a Chunin? None! That's how many! Ha!'
Naruto was brought out of his mussing by someone shoving his back and forcing his stomach to make contact with the table in front of him. The Uzumaki groaned, why was his stomach so sensitive that morning?
He pushed that thought out of his head to see who would dare do that to him. When Naruto laid eyes on the culprit he had to restrain himself from shouting very harsh profanities at them.
"Is that how you were taught to ask someone to move Bastard?" he growled at a black haired boy, who took the seat next to him.
The boy had his hair pointing to the back. His pants were white shorts and he wore a blue top that had a high collar which covered his neck. On his arms were white arm warmers.
The boy just stared at the black board as if it had just murdered his whole family. He laced his fingers in front of his mouth and rested his elbows on the table in front of him.
"I did tell you to move, but you weren't listening so I just walked past" Sasuke Uchiha said, not breaking eye contact with the board.
Both the way he spoke to Naruto and the way we didn't even look him in the eye when he did, just infuriated the blond even more.
"Bastard" Naruto growled but Sasuke had stopped paying attention to the blond boy beside him.
'He's such a stuck up bastard' the Uzumaki turned away from glaring at the boy, hoping he would burst into flames 'I hope I don't end up on his team' he looked up at the ceiling with a goofy grin on his face.
'There's only one person I want to be on a team with-' he was broken from his musings by the door of the classroom opening with a loud BANG.
Naruto's attention shifted over to the open door and a deep blush overtook his cheeks at the person in the doorway. In fact there were two people there that were trying to enter the classroom at the same time.
"Move your giant forehead, you're in the way!" the blond of the duo shouted.
"It's you that's in the way Piggy!" the pink haired one shouted at the blond one.
The two were so focused on trying to be the first in class that lost their footing and tumbled inside.
By now almost the whole class were staring at the two, some of them just ignored them, because this was a common occurrence. None of them had the same kind of goofy grin that Naruto had when staring at the two. He was actually staring at one of them only.
The pink haired one got up first and started scanning the room. She was like a carnivorous animal that was looking for its next meal. He sight landed in Naruto's general direction and her face light up.
It made Naruto's face light up just as much when the girl smiled at him. He ran a hand through his hair to check if it was a mess, he realised that it was always spikey no matter what he did. He quickly put his hand to his mouth to check if his breath stunk and was happy that it smelled minty fresh.
Sakura Haruno stopped by the desk Naruto was sitting at and the blond boy looked up at her with a huge grin on his face and a blush on his cheeks.
"Hey Sakura-chan, do you wa-" he was cut off by the girl he was trying to talk to, by said girl.
"Move idiot!" she shoved the blond boy out of his seat and into the passageway between the desks. Sakura blushed as she stared at Sasuke, looking like a kid asking their parents for sweets.
Sakura was a pink haired girl that wore a red qipao that had slits on both sides and dark green biker shorts.
"Hey Sasuke-kun" she greeted well flipping her hair over her shoulder and batted her eyelashes at him. She went from childish to flirtatious in an instant "is this seat taken? Do you mind if I sit next to you?"
The Uchiha didn't even acknowledge her appearance and kept staring at the board in the front of the class.
"But that's my-" Naruto was once again interrupted when more girls crowded around the desk. One actually stepped on Naruto's hand making the blond boy yelp in pain and cradle the now injured hand.
"That seat belongs to me Forehead girl!" Ino Yamanaka pushed her way to the front of the group and glared at Sakura, who glared right back "besides, why would Sasuke-kun want to sit next to a huge forehead when he can sit next to a beauty like me?" she looked very smugly at the pink haired girl.
Ino was a blond girl with her hair in a ponytail. She had a purple top on that was sleeveless and stopped before her waist with a matching apron skirt. She had on bandages to cover up any skin that would have been shown. She also wore arm warmers.
"I don't think you would be able to fit in the desk Ino-Pig" Sakura shot back, making the smug look on Ino's face turned into a frown.
"Like Sasuke-kun would wanna sit next to either of you" another girl scoffed "it's obvious he wants to sit next to me"
"No. He wants to sit next to me!"
"No! Me!"
And just like that a huge argument broke out among the girls who were all fighting over a seat next to a quiet boy. All the other boys in the class had looks of annoyance that they were sending the group of girls and Sasuke.
Naruto, however, was super pissed. He wasn't pissed at the way the girls were treating him. No, he was pissed at Sasuke Uchiha.
'Why is everything about Sasuke, Sasuke, Sasuke?!' he raged in his head glaring past the girls and straight at Sasuke, who had closed his eyes in annoyance 'he doesn't even care that he's getting all this attention!'
The group of girls were broken from their arguing when they heard someone jump onto a table. They looked over to see Naruto was crouched on the table and glaring at Sasuke, who was glaring right back.
"What do you think you're doing Naruto-baka!" Sakura shouted at the boy "get off of Sasuke-kun's table!"
"Yeah!" Ino agreed with the girl "and stop glaring at him like that!" the rest of the girls were also shouting at the boy telling him to 'get off' or 'get lost'.
Naruto ignored them and glared harder at Sasuke. The blond boy grabbed the front of Sasuke's shirt and lifted him slightly out of his chair.
"You think you're so great don't ya?" he growled strengthening his glare, which Sasuke copied "you've had your whole life served to you on a silver platter and you still push everyone away"
"Get out of my face dobe" was all that Sasuke said in retort.
A boy in the seat in front of Sasuke's had been asleep and had woken up when the girls started screaming at Naruto. He looked around with blurry eyes to figure out what was going on. When he found out what was making the sound that woke him up he sighed and stretched his arms.
When he stretched he hit something and after that there was loud noise with two painful shouts accompanying it. The boy turned around to see what had happened and saw Naruto lying on a desk cradling forehead and Sasuke holding his forehead as well.
What had happened was, when the boy in front had woken up Sasuke had forced Naruto to let go of his shirt and sat back in his seat but the two continued to glare at one another.
When the boy had stretched he knocked Naruto forward, and since he was crouched on the table he lost his balance and fell forward. The two crashed into each other with their forehead protectors, but that was enough to rattle their brains.
"That fucking hurt!" Naruto shouted glaring at Sasuke well he slipped his hand under his forehead protector "It's your fault!"
Sasuke did the same and glared right back at Naruto "My fault?! You're the one that slammed your forehead into mine you idiot!"
"But you're the one that-" Naruto stopped talking when he felt a strong and angry aura being directed at him.
The blond boy turned his head towards the group of girls from before and his eyes widened in fear at the looks he was receiving from them.
"S-Sakura-ch-chan?" he tried to plead with the girl but it fell on deaf ears.
"He hurt Sasuke-kun! Get him!" one of the girls shouted and the others shouted their agreement and descended onto the terrified boy, who started pleading for his life.
Naruto was laying with his head on the table in front of him bruises marred his face. He had to keep the girls from getting his forehead protector, some of them tried to rip it away and further inflict pain on his forehead, but Naruto had protected that with his life. That meant that his face suffered the beating.
Sakura sat next to him, because she had taken the opportunity when the other girls were beating Naruto to slip in the seat that the boy was sitting in (not before stomping on his stomach).
Since there was no other seat available Naruto sat next to Sakura and was listening to her keep asking Sasuke if he was okay. The boy was fine and was once again glaring at the blackboard.
Naruto sighed and nursed his bruised cheek 'Why can't she worry over me instead of the Bastard' he thought bitterly.
The door to the classroom was opened again, but this time it was Iruka Umino, the teacher of the class that entered. He walked to the front of the class well his attention was focused on the clipboard in his hands.
Iruka was a brown haired man with a scar over his nose and his hair in a similar style to Shikamaru. He wore a flak jacket over a dark blue long sleeve top and a matching coloured pants.
"Good morning class" he said once he made it to the front and put his clipboard on the table that was there. He turned around and smiled at the new Genin. His smile faltered when he saw Naruto with his bruises, but a look at Iruka and Naruto was grinning again, as if nothing happened. The teacher smiled then looked at the rest of the class.
"I'm so proud that all of you were able to pass and are now one more step to achieving your goals" he waited for the kids to calm down before he continued "I want to be one of the first people to wish you luck in your future and I hope all of you achieve whatever you set your mind too"
Most of the class gave Iruka grateful smiles. None of them smiled more than Naruto, whose smile turned into a full blown grin. He felt like the scarred teacher was talking directly to him.
"Now" he picked up the clipboard that he walked in with "I won't keep you all waiting any longer. Let's get to the teams, shall we?" the class cheered.
"Alright" Iruka looked down at the clipboard "Team 1 is…"
"That covers teams 1 to 6" the teams that were made either nodded to each other or glared at one another. Obviously some enjoyed being with the people they were paired with well others weren't too happy (especially some of the girls, who couldn't be on Sasuke's team) "now let's get onto the rest of the teams" he looked down at the clipboard.
"Team 7 will be Naruto Uzumaki…" the blond boy perked up and could feel his heart beating fast waiting to hear who would be his team-mates.
'Please let it be Sakura-chan and don't let it be Sasuke' he thought crossing his fingers and squeezing his eyes shut.
"Kiba Inuzuka…" said boy looked up, he blinked in surprise.
Kiba was a brown haired boy that had red tattoo fangs on his cheeks. He wore a grey hoodie that had fur on the hood and on the ends of his sleeves. He also wore brown pants to match the outfit.
A white puppy sat on his desk looking at Iruka in equal amount of surprise as his master.
"And Ino Yamanaka" Iruka finished naming the members of Team Seven.
"What?!" Ino shouted jumping to her feet and looking like her world had just been doused in radioactive waste "why am I on a team with the Dobe and Dog boy?!"
"Yeah Iruka-sensei!" Kiba also stood up slamming his hands on the table in front of him "why must I be on a team with this Hussy-" Ino turned to glare at the boy.
"What you call me dog boy?!" she shouted but Kiba paid her no heed.
"And the Dobe?!" Kiba growled loudly "he'll only drag me down!"
"Why don't you try saying that to my face, Dog boy!" Naruto jumped to his feet and waved a fist at Kiba with a tick mark on his forehead.
"I'll do more than say it to you face, Dobe!" Kiba shouted stepping from behind his desk to put the blond boy in his place. He was stopped by a new shout, though.
"ALL THREE OF YOU SIT DOWN AND SHUT-UP!" Iruka used his Big Head Jutsu to make the three sit in the seats with sweat accumulating on their foreheads.
"I'm not the one who picked them, the Third Hokage did. So if you have a problem go talk to him" he said glaring at the three "I better not hear another complaint about the teams" he looked at the rest of the class "that goes for the rest of you as well" the others nodded fearfully.
"Good. Now where was I?" Iruka looked down at the clipboard again "Ah yes…Team 8 is Sakura Haruno…" the pink haired girl did what Naruto did earlier and prayed that she would be on Sasuke's team.
"Shikamaru Nara…" the boy raised his head enough to look at Iruka and mumble something before going back to sleep.
'That's not so bad' Sakura thought in relief 'at least Shikamaru will sleep majority of the time. Which means that it will basically just be me and Sasuke-kun' Sakura went off into dream land, where she and Sasuke were married and had a baby 'her name has gotta be Sarada…yeah, Sarada Uchiha'
"And Shino Aburame"
That's when all of Sakura's daydreaming came to a screeching halt and all her future plans broke like glass.
The pink haired girl was about to jump up and complain, but a look from Iruka made her sit down again and keep her complaints to herself.
Shino just adjusted his glasses but didn't say anything. Shino wore a pale green jacket that was buttoned all the way to the top with the collar covering his lower face. He wore brown pants to match the jacket. He also wore black glasses and his hair stood up like a bush.
The scarred Chunin nodded then returned to his list, but by now everybody knew who were on the last team together and it didn't sit well with Sasuke's fangirls.
"And finally Team 10 will be Choji Akimichi…" the big boned boy was saddened at the fact that he wasn't on a team with his long time best friend Shikamaru but he wasn't going to complain, they could always hangout when they're not on missions.
Choji was a large boy that wore a peach coloured top that had a symbol on the front that represented his clan. He also wore a green coloured jacket and a scarf around his neck. He wore brown pants and bandages around his hands. To top off his outfit he had on a bandanna that had two holes in it to allow some of his hair to stick out and red swirls on either cheek.
"Sasuke Uchiha…" the Uchiha just grunted to show that he had heard Iruka.
"And Hinata Hyuga" the Hyuga girl was trying to make herself seem as small as she could. She couldn't handle all the hate that was being directed at her from the rest of the females in the class.
Hinata was a fairly small girl that had indigo hair that was short with a point to the back. She wore a pale peach coloured jacket that had a hoodie and had fur on the bottom. She also had on blue pants to match the jacket.
She kept her pale white eyes shut to keep from angering the other girls even more.
"Those are the teams" Iruka put the clipboard on the table behind him "you all get a break now and then your senseis will come to pick you up afterwards. I advise using this time to get to know your team-mates and start building some trust" Iruka bowed his head "once again. It was nice being able to teach all of you and I hope to see you in the future, not as students but as comrades"
With that the scarred Chunin left the class.
The newly formed Team 7 sat on the roof of a building that was located outside the academy, that building was mainly used as storage for training equipment, but let's not get into that right now.
The members of Team 7 refused to talk to one another, let alone look at one another with anything but a glare or a sneer.
The only reason that they were in the same vicinity with one another was because Iruka had ordered them too. The scarred Chunin had returned to the class room after a few minutes to fetch something that he had forgotten in his desk.
When he had entered Iruka noticed that Team 7 was still there and weren't talking. So the man ordered them to go out and get to know one another. The three wanted to complain that getting to know one another was far from their minds, however Iruka wasn't taking no for an answer.
So here the three were sitting on opposite ends of the roof glaring at one another.
Kiba was eating Yakisoba bread (A/N: I think they have that. If not…meh) well his puppy Akamaru was enjoying a bone that his master gave him.
Ino was nibbling on a salary stick. The minute she pulled that out she was on the receiving end of questioning looks from her team-mates. However one glare from the girl and they dropped any questions they had.
Naruto was the only one that wasn't eating anything at the moment and sat with a pout on his lips.
"Why'd I have to get stuck with them?" Naruto grumbled to himself but Kiba heard him.
"What was that Dobe?" the Inuzuka narrowed his eyes at the bond male.
"I said, why I had to be stuck with you two?!" Naruto said unnecessarily loud.
"It's not like I wanted to be on your team anyway, loser!" Kiba shot back after he finished off his Yakisoba bread.
"Like anyone would want to be on your team" Naruto scoffed "who would want to constantly have to smell dog everyday"
"Yip" Akamaru barked at Naruto in a very unfriendly manner. Kiba petted the puppy on top of his head.
"Akamaru's right" Kiba smirked "Who would want to be on your team either, you're loud and obnoxious" his smirk turned into a frown "and I wash Akamaru everyday just so you know"
"I wasn't talking about Akamaru" Now it was Naruto's turn to smirk. That infuriated Kiba to no end.
"Will you two shut-up!" Ino shouted tick marks all over her forehead. She was trying to ignore the two but their constant bickering was getting on her nerves "No girl would ever want to be on either of your teams!"
The Yamanaka turned around so she wouldn't have to look at the two anymore and looked towards the academy building, which was also the Hokage tower.
Now Kiba and Naruto's irritation was directed at their female team-mate.
*Tsk* Kiba made a clicking sound with his tongue "Like any guy wants to be on your team. You'd probably annoy the hell out of them with your Sasuke this and Sasuke that talk"
"Yeah!" Naruto said in agreement "Why couldn't it have been Sakura-chan instead of you. At least then I'd actually enjoy this team, even if dog breath was here"
The two waited to her Ino's response but the girl was oddly silent. The two boys raised their brows in confusion this wasn't like the Yamanaka, who always had something to say.
They heard the girl sigh dreamily and it momentarily threw them for a loop before they realized who they heard that kind of sigh come from.
'Sasuke/Bastard' the two thought at the same time and walked over to where Ino was standing. They looked over the railing to see that their assumption was correct. They could see the last Uchiha leaning with his back against a window eating a tomato.
"Of course" Kiba sighed in annoyance and turned his back so he didn't have to look at the black haired boy anymore "I shouldn't be surprised that the only way to shut Ino up was to dangle Sasuke in her face" he scoffed "at least we can agree that he's a bona fide asshole" he looked over to where Naruto was previously standing but the boy was gone.
"What the hell is he doing?" Kiba heard Ino say and looked over to see what she was witnessing. The Inuzuka saw Naruto on the roof outside the window where Sasuke was.
Naruto looked left then right before he tackled Sasuke through the open window. When Naruto tackled Sasuke the shutter that was open fell down and obstructed the two others view.
"Naruto! If you hurt Sasuke-kun again I'm gonna beat you so bad they'll have to stitch you back together!" Ino shouted to the closed shutter, the sound of a scuffle was coming from.
After that shout the sounds stopped and the shutter opened. Kiba and Ino weren't really surprised to see Sasuke jump out with his hands in his pockets. The Uchiha looked at the two and smirked at them before he jumped away.
"I knew Naruto wouldn't be able to stand up to Sasuke-kun!" Ino cheered "that loser got what he deserved!"
Kiba squinted at the open window. He could see something that was wriggling inside and the smell that the person had wasn't that of Naruto.
"Ino" he said breaking the girl from her monolog about how cool Sasuke was.
"What is it?" she asked with a frown looking at her team-mate.
"Take a closer look at who is inside that room" Kiba said making Ino look at him like he was crazy.
"Why? It's obviously Naruto" the boy just sighed in annoyance as he walked to the other side of the building to see where the Sasuke had gone to.
"Just look" was all he said before he spotted the Sasuke talking to Sakura.
Ino gave Kiba one more look before she looked closer into the room, she gasped at what she saw. There was the real Sasuke Uchiha tied up and gagged.
'How did…' the Yamanaka ran over to where Kiba was standing to see what Naruto was doing disguised as Sasuke. She wanted to shout when she saw the disguised boy about to kiss Sakura, however Kiba put a hand over her mouth and made a shushing sound.
The two watched as the two were about to lock lips. Then all of a sudden Naruto/Sasuke clutched his stomach and ran away.
Once again I would like to say that I'm sorry for the confusion :'(. I hope the extra chapter will make up for that!
