The Training of a Shinobi Part 1 - Meeting the students

Disclaimer: Naruto and his friends belong to their creator. Tetsuro is my creation.

Tetsuro looked at the 3 children standing in front of him, Uzamaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura & Hyugga Hinata, and sighed. "Hello, children, I am Saotome Tetsuro. From this day forward, I'm your Jonin Commander and instructor."

Sakura tentatively raised her hand and asked, "Sensei, how is that possible, we haven't even graduated the academy."

"True, but the Hokage has expressed a concern about the quality of the recent graduates and has decided to implement a test program to see if a higher quality of shinobi can be trained." Tetsuro replied.

"Yes," shouted Naruto as he jumped into the air. "Jii-san knew I was too good for the academy, Hokage here I come."

"Baka," growled Sakura as she punched Naruto in the head. "Be more respectful to Hokage-sama."

"Please, don't fight," whispered Hinata as she pushed her forefingers together.

"Quiet, all of you." snapped Tetsuro as he rubbed the bridge of his nose. Tetsuro then pulled three hiate out of one his pouches and handed them out. "Here are you orders. By the order of Sandaime Hokage, the following personnel are advanced to the probationary rank of Genin and placed under the command of Jounin Saotome Tetsuro. You are hereby designated Team 9. Do you have questions?"

"Sensei, why us? Why not have Sasuke-kun in this kind of training?" Sakura asked. "Uchiha-san is actually too skilled to be considered for this stage of the project. Each of you has at least one fatal weakness. I am going to help your correct these deficiencies. Uzamaki, you have no theoretical knowledge, your taijutsu is ranked almost at the bottom of your class, and you still have problems with your basic jutsu." Tetsuro started to explain.

"Oh yeah, watch this. Oiroke no Jutsu." Naruto shouted as he changed into a naked blonde girl who appeared to be about 16 with whisps of smoke covering her breats and wrapping around her waist. "Very nice, Naruto." Tetsuro said as he walked around Naruto occasionally poking a body part with a senbon. "You've managed an improved version of the Henge. Henge is usually disrupted by touch. Now, change back or put some clothes on. You going to have to tell me later, how a kid your age managed to figure out how a girl looks without her clothes."

"How come it didn't work? Iruka-sensei passes out when I do this." Naruto whined as he shifted back to normal.

"Iruka has always been a bit a shy around the girls. Now, where was I? Oh, yes. Sakura, in way your the opposite of Naruto here. You know the basic kata and can perform the basic jutsu. While you have aced any written exam that you have been given, it has been noted you have practically no endurance and your strength levels are subpar for both your age and training."

"But if I do the exercises, I won't look cute for Sasuke-kun." Sakura whined. Tetsuro glared at Sakura, and she visibly quailed.

"We'll discuss that later. Hinata, your grades on taijutsu, ninjutsu, and basic academics indicate that you should be at the top of your class. But, whenever you have to perform in front of your class or during sparring, you hesitate and it gets worse from there."

"Sorry, sensei." Hinata said as she shrank into her coat.

"Don't apologize, girl. You've done nothing wrong yet. Now, that I've given my basic evaluation of you three based on the reports of your instructors, I'm to tell you what we are going to do. In two months, the acadamy is holding the graduation exams. You are going to all pass this exam. In between various missions. We will be training. Here are your first assignments. Naruto, teach Sakura and Hinata how to do your Oiroke no Jutsu. Sakura, go over all the basic theory with Naruto and make sure he knows it."

"Why do I have know that boring stuff? Why can't you just teach the cool jutsus?" interrupted Naruto.

"If you don't know how the basics work, how do you expect to learn the advanced techniques or properly develop new techniques. There are several areas of jutsus, where if you don't have the proper base knowledge, you'll not be able to learn how to use them, and Hinata work with Naruto on mastering the basic jutsus. Now to see where you actually are, I have a mission for you. The favorite cat of the Fire Lord's Wife has made its way back to Konoha again. You have until lunch to find it. It was last seen heading towards Nidaime's training ground. Hinata, your in command. Now go." Tetsuro said before he disappeared in a swirl of leaves.