I do not own naruto in any way; the manga is a creation of Masashi Kishimoto.
Also be nice, I accept criticism and I would like a beta reader very much if any of you are interested please let me know…and well just enjoy the fic.
Chapter 1: new beginnings
On the top of the Hokage monument a lone cloaked figure watched as the village seemed to celebrate, the sky already dark and full of clouds signaled that rain was coming soon, despite that throughout the village there could be hear only the sound of music, laughs and conversation. All of the villages were celebrating in their own way their victory over the masked Akatsuki and it's evil plan.
As a single raindrop fell on the figure's shoulder it suddenly smirked saying out loud to apparently no one with a clearly male voice "You're late as always." with that said another figure seemed to pop out into existence by his side while scratching the back of it's cloaked head.
"Yeah, my bad was checking up on the other villages." said the second mysterious figure, which by the voice could be identified as a girl, even though she didn't seem to be sorry at all by the tone of her voice.
"Yeah the masked man known as Tobi was defeated, Naruto Uzumaki did everything right, our goal would be tricky to accomplish would that man be able to accomplish his own. Naruto was even able to bring Sasuke Uchiha back to his side…when the time comes we will grant him a quick death; the Uchiha will hopefully have some of his clan rebuild by the time we act so we will be able to collect more than just a pair of sharingans." the man said with a voice that spoke casually almost as one would talk about the weather.
"Yeah, but it will take at least a couple more years to finish preparations, by the time anyone realize what is going to happen they will already have a kunai in half way through their throats" said the woman with a little smile that made the man chuckle at her childish behavior.
As the man looked toward the city he smiled a little" Sleep well for now Konoha, your destiny has been settled in fire and steel a long time ago."
As the light of a falling thunder illuminated the skies, just as it fade away the cloaked figures were gone, leaving no trace of their existence.
19 Years later- Konoha streets.
Two boys were running through the street,one of the boys had pale skin, spiky blond hair but his eyes were what called the most attention in his face since they were white just like his pupils and in contrast to his friend, he had a carefree smile on his face. he wore a black t-shirt, black pants with 3 orange stripes running through each leg and also wore ninja sandals and a forehead protector with the symbol of the leaf. His friend had brown hair, tan skin, gray eyes and a massive scowl on his face. He wore a red sleeveless t-shirt, blue short, black boots and his forehead protector was on his forehead as well.
"Let it be remembered that this day you, Hideo Daisuke overslept and that is why we are late." The boy said, a hint of satisfaction in his voice.
"Damn you Namikaze Uzumaki Minato shut up, this is our last day in the academy and we are late!" said the other boy with a scowl on his face.
"Relax Hideo, we will reach class only a little late it ain't like they are going to appoint our team without us there." Minato said with a smile as he tried to make Daisuke calm down, but it only seemed to intensify his scowl, so he tried one last thing "Relax Daisuke maybe my sister will come see me after our meeting with our sensei, you wouldn't want to have that scowl with her around, would you?" he asked with a bigger smile as he saw the other boy blush despite the scowl never leaving his face.
"Screw you Minato." He said as both resumed running.
10 minutes later- ninja academy.
"Through the last years of your life you've been training to become shinobis of the village hidden in the leaf, now even as you are graduating from the academy you are not full-fledged shinobis…"
Iruka gave a short pause before continuing with his speech, taking some time to watch and study his students face, all eager to be appointed to their sensei and begin serving the village of Konoha, to begin their life as ninjas, almost all of them were there…as he thought about this he frowned, the key word there was ALMOST all of them. But as soon as he concluded that line of thought he heard the loud sound of a door being slammed open marking HIS entrance.
"UZUMAKI!" Iruka yelled to Minato who was panting hard trying to catch his breath, behind him and entering the room with far more composure was Hideo Daisuke, he sighed at them both and before Minato opened his mouth in his defense he said "Go sit the both of you, today Minato you are officially not my problem anymore."
Both kids proceeded to sit in their respective places as Iruka cleared his throat and continued his speech "As I was saying, now you will be assigned to a sensei who will lead your three man squad and his or her first act…".
Minato had zoned out before Iruka went any further, despite the fact that he was friends with his sensei he always had a hard time staying focused during Iruka's lectures, but this time to his credit he was sure it wasn't just himself who was having this problem, he could see all around the class other students dozing off, whispering about with who they wanted to be paired with in their teams or generally just to anxious to pay any attention. Minato turned to the side finding his other friend Uchiha Mikoto, she had fair skin, dark blue hair that could be easily mistaken by black which reached until her upper back, dark eyes and her face demonstrated as always a hundred percent concentration on whatever Iruka was talking about. Her clothes were a black mini-short with a white mini-skirt over it, a black sleeveless t-shirt with a symbol red and white on her back, bandages wrapped around her hands until her elbow black fingerless gloves, normal ninja sandals and to complete it she had on her forehead the forehead protector with the symbol of Konoha, which marked her as a shinobi of the leaf Minato only snapped back to reality when he realized that Iruka was already talking about their team formation.
"Team 9 will be Namikaze Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Mikoto and Hideo Daisuke." He finaly said and then stopped talking, since 27 students were able to graduate that year, and with that he exited the classroom and Jounins begun entering one by one calling their teams.
"Team 9 my name is Sai and I will be your sensei, to the roof in 5 minutes." As they turned toward the voice, they saw a man with pale skin, black eyes and hair and a smile that for some reason seemed a little off. He wore a short black jacket, high-collared midriff shirt, black pants, shinobi sandals; gloves with his index and thumb fingers exposed and carried with him a small backpack.
Minato looked at him in confusion as this man's face was familiar for some reason; Daisuke smiled at their sensei despite his unsettling smile; Mikoto on the other hand seemed to be studying the strange smile that the teacher had.
Daisuke and Mikoto were brought back from their own thoughs as they heard Minato say loudly "Okay sensei come on guys!" with that they were both pulled out of the classroom leaving Iruka and Sai behind.
Sai turned to Iruka and said with a small smile that seemed much more authentic "Always the energetic one, isn't he?"
This opened a smile in Iruka's face "With who his father is it could be much worse." and with that statement both men smiled to each other and Sai left to meet his team.
The 3 man squad was now sitting on the top of the building while their sensei Sai looked at them with what could be only described once again as an unsettling smile.
The silence was interrupted as Mikoto asked "So what now sensei?"
Sai looked at them "Well let's begin with a simple thing, so you will tell me your names, hobbies, likes, dislikes and dreams, you first." He said pointing to Minato who smiled.
"Huh right my name is Namikaze Uzumaki Minato, my hobby is training, I like hanging out with my friends, I dislike when people try to compare me to my father and my dream is to become the most powerful shinobi of all the villages."
Next went Daisuke "My name is Hideo Daisuke, I don't have any kind of hobby that I can think right now, I do like hanging out with my friends, dislike felling helpless and my dream is to become an ANBU captain."
Mikoto was next speaking with calm and confidence "My name is Uchiha Mikoto, I don't realy have a hobby, my likes aren't realy that important, I do say I dislike when certain friends act like little kids and my dream…" she paused at this taking some time to think "I dunno just bring honor to my clan's name." she said, now that she though about this she didn't have much of an idea of what she would do after becoming a ninja.
Sai smiled at the three genin "Okay my name as I told you already is Sai, my hobby is to paint, I like to paint, my dislikes I tell you maybe someday and my dream for now is to get the three of you not to die a stupid death." he said even though he was smiling they were pretty sure there was an insult in the middle of that sentence.
"Sensei, when are we going to do our first mission?" asked Minato anxiously, despite their best efforts to look not as anxious as Minato was, his teammates couldn't hide they were eager to begin their missions.
Sai smiled at them "Only after I approve of you as a team, so tomorrow we will meet in front of training ground 6 and have a little test…"but he was interrupted by a confused and loud Minato.
"WHAT! Didn't we already do a test in the academy?" he asked and with that Sai knew he would need to teach the boy the meaning of the word silence and stealth, because he was pretty sure everyone in the academy had heard them.
With a little fake cough Sai continued as if no one had interrupted him "As I was saying, tomorrow I will put the three of you to test, one that I will choose and if you guys fail it will mean you guys are going back to the academy."
Mikoto looked at the teacher with wide eyes "But sensei what was the point of our academy exam if you will give us another test?"
"Your exam during the academy was to determine if you had the basic skills to be a shinobi, in my test though has the objective to determine if you are fit to be a shinobi." He explained simply and was about to continue when Minato interrupted once again.
"But aren't this the same?" his voice though a little lower was still not enough, in Sai's opinion at least.
Fortunately he didn't need to explain since Daisuke who was quiet until now said "When you think about it, Minato it does, you see he will probably evaluate our survival skills,how we adapt to different situations and see if we work well together,; It is that isn't it sensei?" he asked with an uncertain smile.
Sai smiled at him "Good we have one out of three intelligent kids, maybe you won't completely fail as I expected…maybe… maybe at least one of you will pass…oh and for the test tomorrow you shouldn't eat breakfast, unless you want to throw up in the middle of your test." And with that said he disappeared from their sight and as he watched from a hidden spot his students interact, he gave a small smile in anticipation of what he had awaiting for them.