Naruto: Revised
Disclaimer: I don't own naruto, but if I did, it'd go something like this.
A/N: This is naruto with a twist, instead of being stupid, naruto is actually smart. Not super-smart mind you, but smart enough that it makes the series more interesting/believable in my opinion. Not naruto doesn't learn chakra control until wave, and naruto comes back from training THREE YEARS with a SANNIN, but sakura still seems to be stronger than him + he still only seems to know two jutsus and some variants of them. Also, because I don't like the jump suit naruto will be wearing his post time skip outfit.
-break-
Naruto walked out of the academy with his head held high, today he had just been assigned to his gennin team.
Flashback begin.
Naruto yawned and leaned back in his chair, falling into a light sleep. What did he care what teams everyone else was on, all he needed to know was his own team, though it would be interesting to see what teams his friends made.
"Team seven: Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha," a smacking sound was heard through the classroom, and those who looked over saw naruto with his hand over his face, "and Sakura Haruno" now a thumping sound rang out, and naruto could be seen banging his head on the desk.
"Is something wrong naruto?" iruka asked, growing impatient with naruto's interruptions.
"Dang right something is wrong, how the hell did I get stuck with the broody emo and his useless fan girl?"
"You were the dead last in the academy, and barely passed because of the scroll incident, so you got put with the rookie of the year. Sakura is in the middle of the class standing, so that makes the team evenly matched."
Naruto didn't reply to this, and only grumbled something about stupid teachers and stupid pink cockroaches.
"Now if I may continue, Team eight consists of hyuuga hinata, inuzuka kiba, and aburame shino. Team nine is already a functioning team so team ten is nara shikamaru, akamichi chouji, and yaminaka ino. You're all dismissed for lunch, when you come back you'll meet your sensei."
So his friends kiba and hinata were on the same team, and shikamaru got stuck in the ino-shika-cho formation. He'd have to go congratulate them on their team placement later.
Flashback End
Ok, so sure he didn't like his team, but he was finally a gennin. Why was this his third time taking the test, you ask? Well, he may have been pretty smart, but he hated class. How was he going to use a history lesson on the battlefield? But now he, kazama uzumaki naruto, was a ninja, and that was all that mattered. When did he find out his real heritage? Well the hokage told him after he mastered kage bunshin, but that was a different story. For now he had to find his friends.
"Yo, dog breath, congrats on getting placed on a team that's actually worth shit" naruto yelled as he walked up to kiba.
"Yeah, I wish I could say the same for you whisker boy, the uchiha and the haruno, what a streak of luck you have"
"Yeah, bad luck. Oh, hey hinata!"
"Hi naruto," hinata greeted.
"So have you learned anything new yet? Or has your father been trying to shove that superiority complex down you throat again?"
"He says that I should only learn the gentle fist style, because I'm a hyuuga and the other ninjutsu attacks are for commoners." hinata had to roll her eyes at this. Like hyuugas were any better than anyone else; years of hanging out with naruto had helped her see that her father wasn't all powerful and that if she listened to everything he said she'd still be that shy stuttering little girl that she had been when she entered the academy. Of course she couldn't let her family know that she hung out with naruto. "I think I've found a way of modifying the gentle fist style so it isn't so slow and awkward. Instead I'll make it flow together like water flows. It'll be great if I can manage to do it, but that's still a long ways away."
"Great idea hinata, I hope you can figure it out. I'm gonna go find shikamaru now." naruto waved bye as he turned around and walked away.
"Bye whisker boy" kiba called out, "good luck with your new team."
Naruto walked across the lunch area to the spot shikamaru always laid down to watch clouds at. Like every day he walked up beside him and laid down. "Hey shikamaru, so what do you think of your new team?"
"Being on a team with that ino girl is too troublesome. She is just too loud and obsessed with sasuke. Tch, troublesome woman."
"Heh, tell me about it, I've got him and his number one fan girl on my team." naruto said as he stared up at the clouds, watching them fly past. They laid there for a few more moments before iruka called them back inside.
-break-
Team eight's sensei, kurenai, was the first to arrive. She quickly told her team where to meet her and disappeared in a puff of smoke. Naruto waved bye to them as they walked out to go find their new teacher, and one by one all the other teams were called out, leaving team seven to wait for their sensei.
Two hours later... They were still waiting. Fed up with waiting, naruto ran out of the room and came back moments later with a bucket of water. He heard sakura ask him something about why he had a pale of water, but he ignored her as he carefully positioned the water on top of the door.
"You dobe, our sensei is a jounin, there's no way he'll fall for that" sasuke scolded, but naruto only shrugged and watched the door.
Fifteen minutes later, kakashi poked his head through the door, causing the bucket of water to fall on his head. Taking the bucket of water off his head, he did his best to glare at them, but his being soaked kind of dampened it's effect, so he settled for the next best thing. "My first impression of you guys is - I hate you."
Naruto only laughed at this, so kakashi told them to meet him on the roof and disappeared. Sasuke and sakura immediately walked out of the room, but naruto decided to take his time in getting up to the roof, after all, his teacher did just make him wait two hours before he showed up.
-break-
When naruto arrived up on the roof, everyone glared at naruto. Naruto only shrugged at this and sat down on the edge of the roof.
"Now that we're all here" kakashi said while staring pointedly at naruto, "let's introduce ourselves."
"Why don't you go first, sensei" sakura suggested, clearly unsure of what he meant.
"Ok then, I'm hatake kakashi, I have likes and dislikes. Hobbies? I don't have any dreams at the moment."
Sakura sweat dropped at this, all I learned was his name.
"Ok, you first pinky." kakashi started.
"My name's haruno sakura. My likes (looks over at sasuke and giggles), hobbies (looks at sasuke again and giggles some more), my dreams for the future (looks at sasuke and squeals), and I dislike naruto and ino-pig."
Just great, a fangirl who only became a ninja so she could stalk her crush, kakashi thought while putting his hand over his face. "You next blondie."
"I'm uzumaki naruto; I like ramen, my friends, and pulling pranks. I dislike arrogant people, people who hate me before they get to know me, and the three minutes it takes for ramen to cook. My dream was to become hokage, but I don't want to waste the rest of my life doing paperwork so I want to become stronger than the legendary sannin."
Sasuke sighed before beginning his introduction. "I'm sasuke uchiha, I have many dislikes and not too many likes, I don't have any hobbies, and my dream - no, my ambition is to kill a certain man."
Why do I get stuck with the dead last, the avenger, and his fangirl? kakashi sighed, "Meet me tomorrow at six on training ground nine, and don't eat unless you like puking."
After kakashi finished talking a popping sound was heard, and all that remained where naruto was was a dissipating cloud of smoke.
"Hmm... a kage bunshin", kakashi muttered as he too disappeared.
-break-
Since most of the day was over and he wanted to get up early tomorrow to set some traps in the field to give him the advantage. He didn't go home to his apartment like some would think he would, after a particularly nasty beating naruto learned that wasn't a wise place to go; instead, he went into the deepest part of the forest of death, where he had a permanent temporary shelter set up.
The shelter wasn't much, a makeshift bed under a tree whose roots were sticking out of the ground enough to shelter him from the rain, surrounded by dirt to shelter him from the wind. He had gotten help from his friend tenten to set up traps around the area to further deter any would-be attackers. It wasn't much, but it was home.
Yawning and laying down, he went over the day's events as he fell asleep.
-break-
A/N: This is naruto:revised, so if you have any feedback it would be greatly appreciated. What I am trying to do is to write a revision of naruto based on complaints of the series I've heard.
Also, I'm half done with the next chapter of the desert fox, so if you were waiting for that just be patient.
The Wandering Scribe
