Story Summary: What do you get when you combine the prodigies of the Nara, Yamanaka, and Aburame clans? The best infiltration team across the Five Great Shinobi Countries. Now if only they could stop arguing for 5 minutes.

Author's Note: First and foremost; I don't own anything. All characters belong to the guy that created them. Now, this story is AU, and some of the personality traits of the characters are going to be different. I also want to thank Varmint for agreeing to be my Beta for this story!

"…" Talking

'…' Thought

Mind reading/transfer

Location

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Academy Grounds (The day before graduation):

"Alright class this is our last taijutsu tournament before graduation. You will be graded on this," Iruka said as the class stood before him.

In just two days, they would all be sorted into teams and sent off to their Jōnin instructors. He was surprised at this years' class, quite a few of them were considered prodigies in their respected clans. He'd be lying if he said he wasn't a touch worried about all of the students, but he knew without a doubt some of them would become legends someday.

"Alright now that everyone's stretched, first match of the day: Hyuga vs Haruno."

And thus the tournament began.

*Few hours later*

"Last match of the day: Aburame vs. Yamanaka"- He looked at both fighters and began motioning to them- "Fighters to the ring."

Ino stepped into the ring first, flipping her long blonde hair over her shoulder while wearing a smirk that screamed of confidence in her abilities to win. Shino followed behind her towards the ring with a smirk of his own. He knew his training with Toroune was going to pay off with this fight.

"Begin!"

Ino rushed first, feinting to the left then aimed a right hook to his ribs. Shino blocked as he tried to sweep her legs out but she back flipped away from him. He pressed forward and tried to jab at her, but she caught his arm then used his thigh as a step up and jumped onto his shoulders. She twisted her hips as she swung her body weight down towards the ground. And once she caused both of them to fall to the ground, she caught his left arm and locked it in an arm bar move while she used her thighs to press against the carotid artery in his neck.

Knowing he only had a few seconds before he blacked out; he reached out with his right hand and hit the pressure point on right side of her ribs. Gritting her teeth through the pain, she pressed harder against the artery in his neck in retaliation and twisted his left arm up to a point that a little more pressure would surely break it. As his vision began to blacken, he used his weight and height against the smaller girl. Picking her up slightly, he slammed her down on the mat as hard as he could.

Her legs loosened around his neck and this created the opening he needed to win. Quickly he flipped over the girl, pulled her up, wrapped his arm around her neck and put her into a headlock.

As she started to struggle to breathe, she tried to flip him over her head; but he held her a few inches above the ground so she couldn't touch the floor. She choked out, "I yield," right as she lost consciousness.

Immediately he loosened his grip and set her down on the mat; keeping her upright. He waited until her breathing had steadied out and, when she nodded at him, he took it as the signal it was. Ino was fine.

Grabbing her hand, he easily pulled her to her feet. "One of these days, I will win against you;" she told the bug nin.

"Winner is Shino Aburame" Iruka announced, not in the least surprised since the boy was easily one of the best taijutsu users in this class.

Both students exited the ring together as the class began to clap for them. Shikamaru caught Ino's attention and nodded at the girl, knowing she had tried her hardest against Shino. As she made her way over towards him, she saw Kiba handing over some money to the shadow nin while looking disgruntled by it.

"You bet against me," she accused her best friend as she poked him in the chest.

"I was rooting for you in the beginning;" he told her easily, as they fell into step with each other and headed back inside to the classroom. She snorted at his answer and gave him a scathing look that told him she didn't believe a word of it.

"Alright class line up, alphabetical order. We're going to start the last test of the day now. I'll call you in one at a time," Iruka asked of the class. Stepping into the classroom, he sealed the room to keep it soundproof so the students wouldn't know what the test was.

"Aburame!" the teacher called out, once he opened the door. Shino walked in past him and towards the chair that stood in the middle of the classroom. Shutting the door, Iruka took his place at the podium in front of the chair. Once he was settled, the man told Shino to take a seat.

"This test will be a genjutsu test. The first portion of it, I'm going to place you in a genjutsu and you have to break it in under a minute. The second portion, you have to place a genjutsu on me, and try to keep it up for a minute. The test will start when you say ready."

Nodding his head, the Aburame heir began his final test of the day.

Hokage's Office:

Never in his life had Genma Shiranui felt as though he was being punished like he was now. "But sir, with all due respect, I'm not even a Jōnin!" He tried to reason with the third Hokage.

"Congratulations you've just been promoted, Shiranui;" the third replied back dryly.

"Why me though? Surely there are others who are better equipped to dealing with a bunch of prepubescent monsters?" He asked, truly wondering how he had been unfortunate enough to get wrangled into babysitting a bunch of wannabe shinobi brats.

"I'll give you three reasons. One: I said so. Two: You're the best at infiltration other than Anko and she's away right now. Three: If you don't, I'll let Ibiki play with your head." Hiruzen told the complaining brunette, not exactly intent on following through with the last one. He liked having his bodyguards of sound mind; not that they really needed to know that.

The idea of having the Head of T&I in his head sent shudders through Genma, and he respectfully bowed to the Hokage. "Do you have a file on the team?" He asked, only for the file to hit him squarely in the chest.

"Memorize it."

Was the only order given before he was shooed out of the room.

Raising his hand, he did a quick a seal and teleported back to his apartment. Once back in his humble abode, Genma set the file down on his table, then moved around his kitchen to make some lunch. He grabbed the left over pumpkin curry in his fridge, then set about heating it up.

Once he made a bowl of food, the recently promoted Jōnin went back over to the table. Settling comfortably on the chair, he flipped the file open, then began to read as he ate.

Academy Grounds

Iruka poked his head outside of the classroom and motioned for the last student to follow him in. As Ino took her spot in the chair, Iruka explained the test to her.

Once it had been explained, the girl nodded her head to show she was ready for the test and the teacher began the genjutsu. It was the Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique. It showed the victim their darkest nightmares.

Ino watched patiently as leaves swirled in front of her face. Once her head dropped, the illusion began.

When she opened her eyes again, the girl was still in the classroom. It was loud as the students sitting behind her began to talk, and she turned around to and get the attention of her classmate. Only to have them ignore her. They weren't acknowledging her as they began to insult the blonde.

"Why does she dress like that? She looks horrible."

"She is such a showoff. No one likes her."

"She'll just slow down whatever team she's on."

"She ruined our friendship because she liked Sasuke-kun. He'll never like her anyway."

"The blonde princess can't do anything without everyone having to know about it."

"She'll never be good enough. Not for a shinobi and certainly not for a clan leader."

As the insults kept repeating, Ino felt herself becoming angered at what her classmates were saying. Then she felt the slight push of someone else's chakra against her and remembered she was in a genjutsu.

"Kai!" the girl all but screamed, breaking the illusion in a matter of seconds.

"Alright Ino now it's your turn to cast one on me. Remember: try to keep me under for a minute." Iruka told the girl, not surprised in the slightest that she had broken the jutsu cast in record time.

Ino concentrated her Yin chakra, and then made eye contact with her sensei and took over his chakra channels. She began in his appendages, making them feel heavier than usual. Then the feeling slowly worked its way throughout his entire body. Once she had spread the heaviness throughout his body, she began layering it with the urge to sleep.

Iruka felt his eyes growing heavier, and honestly felt as though it was a great time for a nap. Folding his arms on the podium, he laid his head down to fall asleep.

Ino quickly retreated her chakra once he had laid his head down. And it was that jolt of no longer feeling heavy that made Iruka wake up.

"You've passed Ino. Alright class, that's it for today. Remember tomorrow will be your written tests as well as your ninjutsu test. Make sure you can perform a transformation and a clone technique. I will have the final grades posted in the hall by tomorrow afternoon, once all the testing has been completed." He dismissed the class.

Genma's Apartment:

As Genma read through the information given for the second time, he began to formulate a plan for how to train these kids. Because if he had to do it, then, dammit, he was going to do it right!

He decided to test their skills at infiltration by having them infiltrate a building in Konoha. The records room was the ideal spot for them. Chuckling darkly, he exited his home and set out to put his plans in motion. But first he would need to find two competent members of Anbu that wouldn't mind hurting some kids.

Yamanaka Compound:

Ino walked through the front door of her house, happy to finally return to her home. The genjutsu had taken a toll on the young blonde.

Slipping her shoes off, she padded into the living room of her house.

"How did you do?" Inoichi asked his daughter when he saw her, all the while taking note of the bruise around her neck and the few on her arms.

"I was second in the taijutsu tournament and pretty sure I beat everyone's time for breaking the genjutsu." Ino beamed at her father, pride leaking through her voice.

"That's great princess. We'll celebrate tomorrow after graduation." The blonde man promised, then asked, "What would you like to continue studying first, poisons or clan arts?"

Looking thoughtfully at her father, she answered with a curt "poisons first please."

Making their way out of their house, both blondes stepped inside their greenhouse, the pride of their household. Pointing to the first flower, Inoichi raised his eyebrow at Ino, silently urging her to give him a full run down of its uses and effects.

"Actaea pachypoda, also called Doll's Eye. Poison is in the berries. It is a cardiogenic type of poison, this means that it will have a sedative effect on a person's cardiac muscle tissue."

He pointed to another flower. "Brugmansia, also called Angel's trumpet. Its poison is used as a hallucinogenic. People have been ingesting it in tea, and it's easy to overdose on." Taking over for her father, she began walking around the greenhouse, pointing to the different trees, flowers, and plants all the while explaining what they were.

"That's the Strychnos nux-vomica. Otherwise known as the strychnine tree. All parts of the tree are poisonous, however the seed's inside the fruit contain the most poison. The poison can be absorbed through skin. 30 mg is enough to kill a person, with violent convulsions because of stimulation of the sensory ganglia in the spine. Usually starts about 20 minutes after exposure."

And so they went, methodically going through every plant in the room. What the names were, the poisons that were produced, what the symptoms were. They also worked together on coating several kunai, senbon, and shuriken with the harvested poisons. Leaving the greenhouse a few hours later, Inoichi couldn't help but be extremely proud of his daughter. She was going to be a great kunoichi one day. He was sure of it.

Breaking the placid silence that had formed around them, she asked her dad, "So daddy, have you asked out the nice lady yet?"

"W-What?" He spluttered, looking at his daughter with eyes widened in shock.

She laughed at his expression as they made their way back into the house to begin the lesson of clan arts. She really hoped he asked the nice lady out soon. Ino believed that it was high time her father moved on from her mother's death, and he deserved to be happy.

ANBU Headquarters:

Genma walked into the break room to see if anyone would be willing to help him out the night after tomorrow. As soon as the senbon enthusiast had walked through the door, he found himself walking in on a conversation between Yamato and Kakashi.

"Fellas, I have a favor to ask." Genma started, interrupting the two old friends. "I need two ANBU members to guard to the Records Room the night after tomorrow; either of you interested?" He finished, looking at the two expectantly.

"Why? What's going on?" Kakashi asked, eyes narrowing as he looked at the senbon user.

"Well long story short, I am now the leader of a new genin team. Apparently they want this team to be the infiltration team and I need two ANBU to guard the record room while they try to break in." Genma told them casually, "I need people who can make this hard but not to the point of impossible," was added as an afterthought.

"We can help with that." Kakashi immediately answered for Yamato and himself. It would be a good workout, besides he was slightly curious about this years' graduates. Apparently quite a few of them are prodigies in their own right.

"Awesome, I'll leave the planning and execution up to you." Genma said, grateful he didn't have to go find anyone else.

"Just buy the next round at the bar and we'll consider it even." Kakashi answered back with a smirk.

Academy Grounds (Graduation Day)

"Alright kids, we have a lot to do today. First thing is you taking the written test, to make sure you actually remember something from all of the classes you've been taking. The second test you will be completing is a ninjutsu test, remember it will be a transformation and a clone technique today." Iruka told the class once everyone was settled into their seats. Once the tests had been handed out, he spoke again, "The written test will begin now. You have two hours to complete the test. Good luck."

Academy Grounds (Later that night)

Iruka was still trying to figure out how to place the teams. He was happy he let Naruto graduate with the rest of the class, but it was seriously throwing everything off. Not to mention he had orders from the Hokage to put the top three students onto a team together.

Deciding it would be easier to start with the mandatory team first, he began to write down the teams.

"Now that everyone is a genin, I'll be announcing the teams you will be on until you reach chunin. I just wanted you to know how proud I am of each of you. You have shown remarkable talent and Will of Fire throughout our small journey together. It was honor to have you as my students." Iruka told his students with a genuine smile, then continued, "Team 3: Aburame, Shino. Nara, Shikamaru. Yamanaka, Ino.

Team 8: Akimichi, Chouji. Hyuga, Hinata. Uchiha, Sasuke.

Team 10: Haruno, Sakura. Inuzuka, Kiba. Uzumaki, Naruto.

Team 3 you will meet your sensei here after lunch. Team 8, you'll meet yours out on the training field. Team 10, you'll meet yours in the classroom at the end of the hall."

Next Chapter: Meeting the Sensei. Enter Shiranui, Genma.

Excerpt: "So you want us to break into the Records Room underneath Hokage tower..." Ino breathed out, unsure if she was asking or just repeating the task, while she looked at their new sensei incredulously.

"Yeah, you're the new infiltration team. So you need to know how to infiltrate buildings and shit." Genma answered offhandedly with a wave of his hand.

Author's Note: Please read and review! Have a great day everyone.