This story came about after I realised that even though jutsu is supposedly the heart of ninja combat no one really makes much use of it. Even Kakashi of the thousand jutsu almost never uses anything but his signature move. So why not give team seven a teacher that actually does make heavy use of jutsu? And who better than an AU Orochimaru. Then I had to come up with a short-ish explanation for him staying loyal and things kind of developed from there.
Hopefully you will find this at least somewhat amusing.
Prologue: Introduction
Konoha ninja academy
Team assignment day
The newly formed teams were settling back into the classroom following lunch. Some were sitting together, adapting to their new circumstances. Other teams… were not so unified. Shortly Iruka entered, gave one last speech to his former students, than began ushering in the new senseis. Each had a unique style, as befits the highly independent elite jonin, but the person who entered for team seven stood out.
Her skin was albino white while her long, straight hair was red. She wore a loose long sleeve cream-coloured shirt along with basic ninja legging and sandals in dark grey. Her eyes were yellow and slitted like those of a cat or snake. The most important thing about her however, was that she looked no older than twelve.
Predictably Naruto protested, "But she's just a little girl. I want a better sensei!"
Faster than most present could follow the girls hand shot out, snakes lunging from her sleeve. Naruto yelped as the snakes wrapped around him.
"Brat, I am Orochimaru no Sannin, sage and tamer of the snake and one of the strongest ninja you will ever meet. My current form is the result of mostly successful attempt to prevent aging. Disrespect me again and I shall test how well your vaunted regeneration deals with poison. Now, you and the rest of team 7 meet me on the roof."
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Once they were all on the roof Orochimaru began, "Now I know almost nothing about any of you so you're going to tell me who you are, what you like doing and what you hope to achieve. As loud mouth seems so eager we'll have the Uchiha go first."
Ignoring Naruto's cry of protest Sasuke grunted before answering. "Sasuke Uchiha, I like training and my ambition is to rebuild my clan and kill a certain person."
Nodding slightly as if she had confirmed something Orochimaru turned to Sakura, "Ok, you next girl."
"My name is Sakura Haruno, I like…" she glanced at Sasuke "…my ambition is…" she glanced at Sasuke again and squealed.
"How informative. Your turn brat."
Untroubled by his sensei's sarcastic tone the irrepressible Naruto announced, "I'm Naruto Uzumaki! I like Raman and I'm gonna be Hokage!"
The Sannin thought about this for a few moments, totally ignoring Sakura's timidly raised hand. Finally she spoke. "Well. Sasuke you're a fool. If you plan on rebuilding your clan you should make a start before confronting your brother. If you face him without years, maybe decades, more training he will kill you. Even I would struggle against him as the two of us are now.
Sakura you're a fangirl and the only reason I'm not throwing you off my team right now is that your academic scores show that you do actually have a brain. Naruto, there are a lot of reasons for wanting to be Hokage and I highly doubt you have the right one. Even if you do it will be a long time before Konoha needs another leader. Now …."
"Wait! You haven't told us about you yet! Its only fair."
"Brat if you don't know who I am then you're a bigger idiot than I thought, which is saying something."
"…Um sensei, could you tell us how you ended up… looking like that? All they ever told us was that it was an experiment gone wrong."
Glancing at Sakura who had spoken Orochimaru considered, "Normally it would be none of you business but, it may help you two put some thought into what you are doing. It started with…
End prologue.
Next time: the story of how Orochi-chan came to be!
I don't intend for this to be a long fic, just a backstory then the genin test but we shall see if my muse comes up with anything after that.
