Chapter 1
Daisuke groaned as he stared at his Shadow Clone. It was an embarrassment. His whole class could perform Shadow Clone jutsus except him. He had heard that Naruto could also produce Shadow Clones now. About over a thousand! If a dead-last like Naruto could do it, why not Daisuke? He had spent his entire academy life getting tortured and made fun of by his class due to his poor skills in taijutsu, ninjutsu and genjutsu. He had to concentrate. He formed another hand sign.
"Shad-
"Hey, Daisuke, Iruka-sensei is calling out the teams!" a voice barked.
It was none other than Kiba. He wore a grey, fur-lined parka jacket and had painted fang-like marks on both cheeks. He then spotted the lifeless form on the ground and sneered. Daisuke scratched his head and laughed uneasily.
"Team 7 will be Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke," Iruka-sensei announced.
Naruto groaned. He glared across the desk at Sasuke. Clearly the prospect of having Sasuke on his team bemused him. Daisuke swallowed. Iruka-sensei hadn't called his name out. As everyone prepared to leave the classroom, Iruka-sensei called his name. Daisuke strode to the desk at the front, a feeling of dread forming in the pit of his stomach.
"Daisuke-you won't be on a team," Iruka said.
Daisuke gulped. He had guessed something like this might happen. The reason he had the privilege to wear a forehead protector and hold himself up as a genin was because he had fluked the graduation exams. He couldn't perform a single jutsu-not even a Transformation jutsu. And now he wasn't even on a team.
"You will work beside Team 7, but not as an official team member," Iruka continued, "You might as well prepare yourself for the Chunin Exams."
Daisuke looked up. The Chunin Exams?
