Naruto no Basuke Chapter 1

Konoha high school one of the best of the five major schools in the land in basketball which consists of Konoha themselves, Suna the most recent champion, Iwa, Kumo, and Kiri. Konoha produced some of the best basketball players in history with the best being named Hokage of their generation. That is the dream of Naruto Uzumaki.

This is Naruto's first year in his high school and he's already good at basketball so he and friends made the team easily. He and all of his friends now want to win the championship for their upperclassman Neji and Lee. The basketball team at Konoha has gone down in recent years with only Lee and Neji being the only remaining upperclassmen so they couldn't even participate last year having to team up with freshman luckily Naruto's friends make up more than enough for a full team

Naruto's best friend Sakura became their trainer with the rest of their female friends becoming cheerleaders, however, he didn't know that an arrogant ace will be transferring to their school in the future

Since basketball doesn't start until the winter Naruto had to struggle through 3 months of school to be able to play basketball, albeit soccer was good in the fall but it only lasted a month, after a few weeks of conditioning from Gai they were ready to start practice with a scrimmage

"Alright, my youthful players we will start our official first practice with a half-court scrimmage, Neji! Lee! pick your team" said Gai

"Choji" Neji started off

"Kiba" Lee picked

"Shikamaru"

"Naruto"

"Alright let's start!" said Gai until he felt someone tap on the shoulder

"Um excuse me," asked Shino while adjusting his glasses "Which side do I play on?"

'I didn't see him' "You will play whichever side needs a substitution um…"

"Shino"

"Shino"

Neji, Shikamaru, and Choji kept their shirts on while as Lee, Naruto and Kiba went shirtless to differ the teams making it shirts vs skins

"Rules are that 1.) this is not streetball 2.) we are playing 21 meaning if the other team misses and your team gets it you have to take it back outside the three-point line 3.)Losers will have the ball after that 4.) have fun" said Kakashi as he momentarily looked up from his inappropriate book "Lee's team will have the first ball"

Naruto started off with the ball with Shikamaru marking him, Neji marked Lee out wide and Choji marked Kiba under the basketball. Shikamaru already knowing what Naruto can do being his friend since middle school was being wary.

Lee started to shake off Neji, Naruto saw Lee and through his a good pass where he was outside the three-point line, Lee knew he wasn't that good at three's was about to drive the ball but he saw Naruto open in the middle calling for the ball with his hands, Lee passed him the ball leading Naruto to go up for the layup, Choji saw this as Shikamaru was still trying to find Naruto went to stop Naruto but as Naruto was laying the ball up he passed the ball to Kiba who made the dunk.

on the sidelines Shino, Kakashi, Gai, and Sakura their trainer was watching the game Shino and Sakura knew what had happened but Kakashi and Gai didn't but Kakashi had a guess

"Kakashi did you see what happened," asked Gai as went really fast for him

"Kinda but yeah it went really fast it seems as if Naruto already knew what would happen so he moved to the next play before even Lee himself knew what to do with it," said Kakashi

"Naruto is an excellent passer plus in addition to that he played for so long he already knows where he needs to go for the next play" answered Sakura knowing him the longest

Since its losers ball Neji started off with the ball with Lee marking him, he used his special skill to pass the ball to Choji who later dunked the ball in

"Neji has this unique he calls byakugan where he can see the whole court so he makes the best passes," said Gai seeing Sakura's confused stare since Neji shouldn't have been able to see Choji with Lee on him

After a while Sakura Shino and eventually everyone else realized what everyone was good at, Kiba was very aggressive making it hard for people to stop him, Shikamaru was good at pinning his opponent down, Choji was excellent at defense and Lee was very fast. Shino still hasn't played yet

"Kiba switch with Shino!" said Gai as Shino made his way on the court. The score was Lee's team with 16 and Neji's with 17 as it was going back and forth until Kiba got blocked by Choji and Neji scored a 2 pointer

Naruto smirked as he saw Shino get on the court getting marked by Choji, Naruto already knew what Shino could do, Naruto and Shino nodded to each other already knowing what to do

Naruto started the ball off again with Shikamaru on him, unknown to most of the people there Shino shook off Choji easily and was making his way outside the 3pt line with Naruto already making the pass to him. Shino shot it and made it making Lee's team go from 16 to 18 since 3 pointers are worth 2 points in 21

Meanwhile Kakashi and Gai were trying to figure out how Shino got past Choji's good defense but Sakura knew "Shino has very little presence (yes he is basically kuroko) so its hard to keep an eye on him but it gets easier the more you play with him that's why Naruto found him before someone else did since Naruto played with him in middle school." said Sakura clearing up the confusion

"But didn't Choji play with them too?" asked Gai

"Yes but since Shino hasn't played until now his presence is at a minimum so after awhile Choji will be able to guard him just fine"

"I see that could be a valuable secret weapon" commented Kakashi

"It is since Shino would be our sixth man to throw off the other team," said Sakura

"Our?"

"In middle school, I played on the boys' team since there wasn't a girls team"

"Interesting"

The score then went to 20-20 and in 21 you have to win by two points meaning one team needs to shoot a 3 pointer or score, stop the other team from scoring and score once again. Naruto had the ball and this time Neji marked him for the absolute best chance he can steal whatever pass he threw causing Naruto to smirk

"Inform Neji that unlike himself Naruto doesn't only make good passes," Sakura said knowing what Naruto was going to do

Naruto started dribbling with insane speed and ball handling skills causing even Neji to get thrown off and trip by Naruto's ankle breaker, Choji and Shikamaru already knowing Naruto would break past Neji started to double team him

'Now he has to pass' thought Kakashi

Naruto broke past Shikamaru and then rolled behind the 3 point line and shot it with a fadeaway with Choji still marking him and made the shot

"Naruto has good speed, agility, passing, and is a clutch shooter along with his unpredictable dribbling" commented Sakura

After the game Gai told the team when their first game was and said jerseys will be given in a week, while Kakashi told them the current starting lineup being:

C: Choji

PF: Kiba

SF: Lee

SG: Neji

PG: Naruto

"Naruto and Neji you will be a combo guards meaning on offense Naruto is Point guard and Neji's shooting guard while on defense Neji's will guard the point guard and Naruto will guard the shooting guard," said Kakashi

Elsewhere

"Alright Mr. Uchiha we have your paperwork worked out so you are now a student here at Konoha High and you can play any sport you would like," said the Shizune the secretary

"Thank you," he said

"Tell your brother Itachi I said hi"

"Hn" he responded