Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. Sadly

Summary : New team, New teacher, New story. Strong Tsunade with a slightly different past. Pairings: Tsunade/Jiraiya, Shizune/Kakashi, Naruto/?, Hinata/?, Sasuke/?,While the main story will be about Tsunade and the slightly older generation the rookie 9 and team Guy will be major players in this story. Also I am rating this story M because there will be many adult themes. I don't know yet if there will be any lemons.

Hime-sensei

"From This day Forward, you are no longer academe students, but full fledged Shinobi.(Not that all of you are ready for this, I really wish I could keep some of you just a little longer, some of you will do fine like the Uchiha, but some of you need to go over the basics and mature some more Nara, Yamanaka, Naruto, Kiba. I hope the Jonin can whip you into shape ) However among the ranks of the shinobi, you are mere novices,lowest of the low ( If the Uchiha's glare was anything to go by he did not like that little fact)your greatest challenges all lie ahead. The next step is the assignment of official duties to you on behalf of our village. We will begin by dividing you into three-man teams. Each of which will be Lead by a Jonin a high ranking senior Shinobi, who will guide and teach you as you grow into the fine shinobi I know you will all become.( If only I knew which Jonin was assigned to which team, I'd feel better. It was odd that they were not included with the team assignments, the Hokage was even thinking of postponing the team announcements for some reason. I know that this year has a lot of clan heirs and then there is Naruto, but this level of involvement form the the Hokage himself is unheard of, maybe its because of the last Uchiha, But I thought it was decided that Kakashi Hatake was taking him. They probably don't want him to fail the Uchiha.) Team 1 ….. team 7 Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke , Hyuga Hinata...

"Thats not fair" the pink haired banshee started to preach at me "I'm this years top kunoichi I should be with my Sasuke-kun. I know Hinata is only average." with no regard about saying this in front of the whole class, "My Susuke-kun is entitled to the best and thats me.."

" No way forehead girl I'm the best Iruka I should be with.. " Not to be out done by Ino. I swear where do these girls get off yelling at me.

"Enough.. The team you are assigned will not and cannot be changed."(I send them a glare to help keep them from yelling any more at me. I feel sorry for which ever Jonin gets them, because they will be stuck with them for a long time to come. )

"These teams were assigned by the hokage-samma himself. They are not for new genin to question! (Not for me to question either, even though I want to. Sakura might be a great student, but man is she ever a bitch. I'm glad to get rid of her. Thank Kami that shut her up , for now.)

"Team 8 Inuzuka Kiba, Aburame Shino, and Haruno Sakura. ( Sakura looks like she wants to complain some more now)Team 9 is still active, team 10 Akimichi Choji, Nara Shikamaru, and Ino Yamanaka( Ino looked like she wanted to protest , but a look shut her up, and now all the girls are glaring at poor little Hinata, who was turning red and trying desperately to meld into her chair) … Now sit with your assigned teams your Jonin Instructors should be arriving soon."

**(hours later)**

"Naruto just go to the bathroom if you have too" After what felt like the five hundredth time he had asked even I was getting annoyed with it.

"ah.. No not that …hehe.. I think thats done..hehehe... How much longer are we going to have to wait all the other have already gone off with their Jonin … and Its past lunch I'm starving here Iruka-sensi ?" Sasuke even looked up at that and Hinata was looking down at her bag then at me then then the bag again. I looked at the clock it was 12:43 the poor kids had been here since 8.

"Well iff.."

"I've done my teaching stunt, 2 apprentices and all those classes at the hospital you had me teach, besides Snowball is a way better teacher." While she was still out side the door she was loud enough to clearly be heard. The Hokage on the other hand was soft and calm, but with shinobi training could still be heard.
" This was the choice you have chosen, is it not?"

"Hey old man we've been waiting here forever.. whats the deal?"Loud and demanding Naruto just saying what ever came to mind, even yelling right through the door at the Hokage.

"One moment please Naruto... You could always chose differently the medical shinobi core could surly use your leadership or even .."

"Never.. and they are not Shinobi, they are doctor that use chakra … Don't even bring up that other one, I want to go back to my previous task."

"No, you've had years to complete that task and have yet to, besides your needed here...Now make your choice, hime before I choose for you" while the volume of his voice didn't go up at all the intensity of it did ..after a few seconds the Hokage himself walked in followed by the very loud blond woman in what looked like ANBU gear. (And even in all that armor you could still see how well endowed she was.) The Hokage looked at her and smiled, like an amused grandfather while she rolled her eyes AT THE HOKAGE.

"Fine old man.. I'll take the little devils … It the lesser of the three evils, not by much...but some how I think you've manipulated me into this." She looked over at the three, Sasuke was glaring right at her, Hinata was staring at the floor pushing her fingers together and Naruto had stood up looking like he was going to start yelling at her.

" Come on you three let go find some where to do the meet and greet" She turned to look back at the Hokage . "You have a wicked since of humor, Saru-Sensi." She left the room. After they left the Hokage smiled a little at her, "Pay-backs are a bitch , little hime are they not...I believe You have the rest of the day off don't you Iruka" And he walked out the door. ( well I guess Kakashi Hatake wasn't going to get the last Uchiha, but was that who I think it was?)

"So where are we going, lady?" Naruto asked even before the door had closed.

"Don't call me that brat, just follow me." I don't have a clue where were going, but if there is one thing I've learned about being a leader it how to fake it. The little ones get scared when the know you don't have a clue then they start making mistakes and getting everyone killed, more than half the time in a battle you have only a vague plan because something will go wrong and mess up any elaborate planing you've done. If I remember right then there should be a park somewhere this way.

The three followed her in a straight line Sasuke right behind her glaring a whole into her shoulder-blades, hands in his pockets trying to think out just who this woman was and if she was worthy of teaching him. Naruto was next one hand on the back of his head the other in the air, still talking up a storm about who knows what, because no one in their merry little band was listening to his constant chatter. Last was Hinata a few feet behind Naruto staring at his feet, and occasional moving her eyes up, but never getting farther than his butt, before turning red and moving her eyes down just before she could faint.

" Hey is it just me are is everyone in town acting wired?" Naruto said it louder than he had anything in a while. Even though Sasuke didn't acknowledge what he said in words he started to look around. Indeed they were being given a wide path, people were simply parting like water for them, no not for them for her. Not in fear, at lest not totally in fear but it seemed like respect, some were even bowing slightly to her. While she had nodded her head to a few the vast majority of them she would just ignored. The were talking though, very low and they were moving quickly so he could only hear a few words. "Hime... since the nine tailed-fox... granddaughter...the Shodai Hokage...Sannin"

"Alright little devils take a seat."She told them pointing to a park bench. She turned around and started a few hand signs that none of them could see, but they could all feel it snap into place. All shinobi have a unique chakar signature and produce a small aura all the time, the stronger the aura the more chakra they had. It was hard to learn to read this very well but the snap of the jutsu they could feel the potency of it.

"There now we won't have too worry about being watched" She said has she turned around. Sasuke was on the far right sitting with his hands clasped together watching her like she was a interesting science experiment that he was waiting for it to do something. Naruto was on the far left sending glares at Sasuke like he had said something, and the poor little Hyuga was trying to make herself small enough not to be seen by anyone.

Dear Kami how did I end up with these three.

***************(flash back 3 ½ days ago)***************

She was about a day into River country, Snowball had gotten some info on the Akatsuki, that they were seen around here, nothing more. Not that they really cared about them that much, but that many S- class missing- nin getting together was never good. For the time being though only Itchy and Roach were what she was looking into. It was rumored that Roach had left them, but Itchy was still with them. For the past dozen years or so she and Snowball had been acting as hunter nin for the leaf. Well she had been doing most of the hunting with Snowball maintain and using his spy network to help her find them. This job was perfect for her she was out of the village rarely even having to communicate with the leaf, and when she did it was all though letters, or if she had to she would send Snowball. That was rear though normally she would seal in the missing nins head and send it off to the leaf either using massager nin or her personal falcon and Saru-sensei would put the bounty money into the right account. They had done well, too well, has of right now there were only only two missing nin from the leaf that were still alive Roach and Itchy.

Well if they were here they're long gone now, dame another dead end. A very loud very familiar hawk was over head. She wasn't happy to see it. Saru-sensei's personal massager was over head, with a reluctant sigh she held out her arm for the bird to land on. She always did like him, thats why Saru-sensei always sent Raimunda too her. Even though she called him Wise guy and not Wise defender like his name means, though the poor thing was really to old to still be doing this. He gently nipped her fingers and lowered his head to have her pet him, which she did. If anyone else was here she wouldn't have, but with just her, she let herself remember how she used to look forward to seeing this bird. After a moment the bird turned around on her arm and showed her the little pouch with her message. Reluctantly she released it and reached into her weapon pouch to get out part of the rabbit she had for lunch and give it to the bird.

"Look I know you don't really like it cooked but its all I have Wise Guy." The bird reluctantly took it and flew over to a tree to eat, so she would have time to read and reply. Unsealing and decoding took less then half a minute, picking the wooden splinters out of her hair from the tree that went boom after she hit it took a little longer. She was being recalled, and there was no way to get out of it, unless she became a missing nin. Add to that he wanted her there in two days, even with her speed she was 3 and a half days out she was going to have too move it and still she would be late. She glared at the only other living thing in the area, Wise Guy. Who screech at her, She coded and sealed her own message back to the stupid old man. She then held out her arm for the bird, who gave her a look like it didn't trust her, but eventually landed and turned for her. Has soon as the bird was off so was she. Moving though the forest at top speed, as only a top shinobi could.

*********************(20 hours later)*********************

She stopped on a tree branch she was making good time, but would still be late. Even though she would be late she knew that she was winded and needed to rest. There was something she had to do first. A few hand signs and a little blood later, a small slug was sitting on the branch next to her.

"Good day my lady, how may I serve you?" after taking a long drink of water she answers her summons.

" I need you to go over to the toads and tell them to let Snowball know that I have been recalled to the leaf, and I'll try to be home soon. If he wants he can send me a message, I should be in the leaf within the next three days maybe sooner" The slug bowed her antenna and spoke "It shall be done." with that she put her water away and got as comfortable has she could up on a tree and slept knowing she would need to wake in a few short hours and star running again.

*******************(2 days 14 hours later )*************

*******(present day about 1 hour before she goes into the class room)******

"You made good time hime... I wasn't expecting you for another 3 hours or so." The Hokage didn't even look up from his paper work, when she appeared in the center of the office in a swirl of leafs on one knee in a prefect ANBU reporting stance, head bowed and everything.

"Hime reporting in after recall." Her voice was only slightly modified by her mask. Well more like a helmet, she found that if a person could see her hair then they would guess who she was which would defeat the purpose of a mask. While it was unusual for an ANBU to have a code name that was not an animal, the sannin were a special case. Her mask was a rather plain looking money, that he thought was in refinance to her being one of his students, it had only minimal coloring with dark purple lines down the eyes, that reminded him of Jiraiya's face paint, and also a small snake running across the bottom of the mask.

He could tell that she was pissed. If he didn't know her as well as he did he would not be able too tell. Her posturer was ANBU prefect, her voices devoid of all emotion her head slightly inclined in the form of a bow. The last time she was so formal with him had been when she had requested her assignment as a hunter nin. He had not wanted to give it to her. He knew why she wanted it was to kill Roach, one of her best friends. She believed that it was her responsibility to take care of him, because he was their teammate and friend. Not only that but she thought it was her fault that he became so obsessed with immortality. That because she was unable to save his lover Dan from death, he started down the path that lead to his betrayal of the leaf.

" Remove your mask Hime... you will no longer be a hunter nin." He kept his voice low and calm, but watched her closely. Yes has a shinobi she had greatly mastered the ability to hide her emotions, but he had known her since she was born and trained her for years even trained her excessively on controlling her emotions.

She hesitated on removing her mask, he knew why. She was recasting her jutsu. Most thought it was just to make her appear younger, that she was just that vain, but he knew better. It made him wonder just how long it had been since anyone had seen her actual face. The first thing he saw was her golden hair still long, but in pig tails and not the one high ponytail she had worn before. Has the mask came down and away from her face he could see that she had chosen to appear near 20 something, but while she did change her face she did not bother to hide the world of knowledge that no one so young should have in their eyes, at lest not yet.

"I've not completed my task, yet Hokage-sama." Still so formal and still on one knee, but looking him straight in the eye.

"You have caught almost every missing-nin from the leaf and several from other hidden villages, very few shinobi would even dare to betray the leaf with all of the missing ones coming back dead." She still stared at him. "Hime..." He moved his hand a signal for her to stand. "You cannot chase him forever...His goal is to destroy the leaf, if you wait here he will come to you."

"Not all are afraid to deflect, not if they plan to deflect to him. If we wait for him to come here too many will be caught in the battle. Even one is to many, he will not come here unless he is confident in succeeding. If we wait to many will die even if he is one of them, the Village should not have to pay for our mistakes!" She was still so very angry, but not at him. Even though he could have ended it, if only he were strong enough.

"Its wasn't .."

"Don't even start with that, regardless has to whose fault it is. Roach is one of us. Has such he is our responsibility. No one lesses" There was a hard look in her eyes, one he knew all to well.

"That may be, but the Village needs you to come back. Not spend any more of your time on a personal vendetta. Has such here are your three choices of assignments." he pushed three folders right in front of the guessed chair. This was standard operating proceeder, that after a prolonged assignment a shinobi would be given three choices of next long term assignment. She was hoping for an assignment of a regular jonin, to take on a few missions and well if she happened to look into finding Roach while she was out. Well that would just be all well and good. The first was very thin a single sheet of paper, the next over three inches thick, the final only a quart of an inch. She flopped into the chair an opened the first one, and started to laugh.

"Are you serious, thats the worst assignment I have ever seen, it has a 75% fatality rate you know."closing the folder and moving to the next. "I was wrong this ones just has bad. You can fix this yourself, I already gave my recommendations to you years ago. You were the one that choice not to follow them" The final one she opened and closed, then looked right at him"You hate me don't you Saru-sensei" Well at lest she had stopped being so formal.

" I think all of these assignments are well suited to you, Tsunade-chan, and they would each befit the village greatly. I really think you would do very well if you take this first one here. It would also be of the greatest befit to the Village itself."

"No" she folded her arms and leaned back. "How about a bet old man... I'll give this genin team the test. If they pass you give them to me for a year to train, if they fail you give me another year to get Roach." The Hokage leaned back also, rubbing his chin.

"I can't give you the year to train them, six months is the best I can do,after that you the team and your apprentice all return to stay in the village . You will give them a fair test that they stand a good chance of passing. You will go over the details of the test with me first. If you win you come back in a year and take one of the other two opinions." It would be the best she would get.

"Deal"

"Good, now I'll walk with you to the academe, you can do the meet and greet, then come back here to discuss the test." Although on her way there she got cold feet. Yeah she had taught Shizune and Rin, pulse all of those classes at the hospital, but she had never taken on a group straight out of the academe. If the passed they would be hers forever. She wouldn't be able to push them off on anyone they would be part of her legacy whether she wanted them or not.

"You know..Really I've done my teaching stunt, 2 apprentices...

******************(present time at the park)***************

"Well now, let's do this meet and greet." She said has she sat down on the ground a few feet from them. "Tell me your name, likes, dislikes, hobbies, and life goal. Sunny you first." She said as she pointed at Naruto.

" ahh.. why don't you go first, show us how it done?" They all looked at her expectantly. While she frowned at them.

"No, if you can't figurer out how to introduce yourself then forget going back to the academe you need to go back to kindergarten"

Naruto glared at her, Sasuke smirked and Hinata looked down again has if it were all her fault.

"Fine then..My name is Uzumaki Naruto! What I like is instant cup ramen!What I like even more is when Iruka treats me to Ramen. What I hate is the three minute wait after I pour in the water. My hobbies are pranks and Practical jokes. My dream is to be Hokage, an even better one than all the others. Then all the villager will have to acknowledge my existence at last!"

"Sit down and stop yelling, were all right here brat...All right next … Shy speak up."

"My name is Hyuga Hinata. I like to press flowers and umm I dislike people who judges others without knowing them first... my dream ….is to unite the Hyuga family and make my father proud of me." She stuttered though out and had gotten progressively softer has she went on. The last of it Tsunade was sure only she heard.

"Alright and last we have Emo."

" My name is Uchiha Sasuke. There are a lot of things I hate, but I don't see that it matters much considering there is almost nothing I do like. It seems point less to talk about 'dreams' that's just a word. What I have is determination I plan to restore my clan. And there's someone I have sworn to kill."

"Well thats quite a coincidence, I have someone I have sworn to see dead too. OK you can call me Hime-sensei, for now. Tomorrow morning at umm 8 we'll meet here and I'll take you to a training ground where the three of you will be taking a little test. If you pass I will be your sensei, if you fail but show promise you will be sent back to the academe for another year, if you fail badly you will be kicked out of the shinobi program all together. Any questions?"

"What we've all ready passed the academe test, we are genin.. GENIN see." He yelled at her pointing to his hitai-ate.

Throwing a rock at his hitai-ate just hard enough to knock him back onto the bench.

"I told you to stop yelling, we are all right here." She spoke low and clear, but it was more dangerous then her yelling. After the three were silent for a few moments and Naruto had calmed down again she began.

"To put it simply you are genin, but there are to few jonin for us to teach everyone from your class, and still keep enough jonin free to lead chunin teams and do all of the solo high ranking missions. There for, each jonin that is assigned a team will be giving some kind of test. To see if the three man team is worth the time it will take to train them. This class, with all the clan heirs might make three teams, if your lucky, that means 2/3 of your class will fail. Also once a team is accepted by the jonin they will forever be tied together. What each member of the team does will effect the others for the rest of their careers if not their lives, which might be the same thing...Now its already 2:30 why don't the three of you go have something to eat, take the rest of the day to prepare for tomorrow and I'll see you here at 8" With that she released the jutsu keeping them hidden and left in a swirl of leaves.

Naruto was jumping up and down with a smile on his face.

"Yeah were going to ace what ever test you give us lady! Right guys.. um guys." He looked around to see that Sasuke was walking away from him, and Hinata was no where to be seen. He started walking to the raman stand thinking about all the training he would do after lunch.

Sasuke's thoughts on his way home were only that this person had power of that he was sure. The way everyone of the adults showed her respect, the Hokage himself appointed her and walked her here. They were very familiar with each other, and the potency of just that the one jutsu. She might be worthy to teach him.

Hinata, having hidden once Hime-sensei had gone, watched Naruto leave. Wishing that she could have gone with him and hopeful that she would do nothing to shame her clan tomorrow.

Unbeknown to them three shadow clones followed them home. While their could be teacher made her way back to the Hokage in order to make a new variation on an old test.