I know that the teams are assigned by Hokage, but for the sake of story it is Iruka who is assigning the members to the team.
Awww. Thanks for all the positive feedback, that's probably why it was updated so soon. Don't expect such fast update in future. Exams are just on border.
Meanwhile I have other stories you can go and check out. Kindly give them a look too and leave a response.
Disclaimer: You know it, I know it, the whole world know it that I don't own Naruto. Do I really need to spell it out for everyone
Summery: This time Naruto just wanted to save the bastard. Sakura just wanted to let out her anger Sasuke just wanted to rest and not do anything, and maybe be a little crazy. They had saved the world from Kaguya so why were they back to their eight years old selves? Life had wanted to screw them over a second time. Poor Kakashi has no idea what he is in for. Time-Travel Team 7. Strong Team 7. Major changes in character's characters.
Warning: Sasuke is lazy genius as a Nara and voice of reason, Sakura is more violent healer has a punch first and ask question later policy and Naruto is a master seal maker and trouble maker. They still have all their capabilities they had when they defeated Kaguya. If you don't like it don't read but don't tell, but if you are reading then review.
Academy was hell. For Naruto nothing had changed, well almost nothing. He should have been able to easily pass, he knew all the topics being covered. He was not dumb.
But. But.
But it was all so boring. Pranks took all his time. He even got Sasuke to plan some, and though he was loathed to admit those were ingenious. He had even roped Sakura into participating.
But the point was that they took all his time and thus his academy record was once again the same old. How will he be Hokage if this continues.
At least Sakura-Chan was doing well, um type of. She was according to the instructors too violent and a threat to others. So while it was safe for her to take written tests, she was forbidden to participate in fight training, but she still was an exceptional student none the less.
Sasuke? Well he was a complete turn over from before. He was like a second Shikamaru. That teme actually slept through classes but still remain at the top of the class. He had even point out refused to participate into any physical exercise. He smelled a conspiracy there. That or it was pure Sasuke.
Maybe he had casted a genjutsu so that no one would notice. Won't put it past him. But then again with how he had been as of lately, he would find it too much trouble. Maybe he was thinking too much.
As for his fan girls, lets just say Sakura was a formidable weapon to terrorise females. And males. And well everyone. Even the teachers were afraid of her. She had apparently beaten up a chunnin, but no one liked to talk about it. The reason she was not expelled? The chunnin never tattled.
Where was he, ah Sasuke's behaviour though was so weird that he even had Iruka-sensei worried. Doctors had said that it was most likely PTSD. Naruto believed it was not so.
Naruto knew that the bastard had to be faking. And, and, was this an alien in his friend's disguise? Nah, it felt like Sasuke. But then it meant he had to save that teme from himself. He will save him dattebayo. But first, he had to get ramen. A lot of ramen. Ramen was power and he would need it. Even Kyuubi agreed with him, or humoured him.
Kyuubi...
He had not heard the fox since he came here. Was something wrong.
Nah, maybe he was still asleep. Even demon foxes needs sleep right? Damn all this thinking made his brain hurt.
Maybe ramen would help. Ramen was magical food of gods. It could cure anything. Maybe he should take Sasuke-teme with him. Ramen would cure him too. No one could resist ramen after all.
Maybe he would go to Ichiraku's later after all.
Unfortunately, in all his musing he was once again missing the whole lecture by Iruka who just sighed. Same old Naruto. Would he even be able to pass the academy? Iruka was not sure.
...
Naruto had noticed it and apparently Sakura had too.
There were days Sasuke went crazy, and not those brooding crazy either. He went hones- to-god-I'm-mad crazy. Those were the only days Sasuke was motivated enough to do something, but not in a good way. Those were also the days on which Sasuke was scarier than Sakura-Chan. Even Sakura-Chan avoided him on those days.
He didn't want to fight Sakura-Chan on her bad bad. He would only break some bones if he was lucky. That girl needed anger management, not that it did much for her. At worst, he would have to be rushed to a hospital. But he would take her any day than Sasuke on those days.
The first time it happened Naruto thought he would have a heart attack. Sasuke had cast a glamour himself. When Sakura had seen him she had flipped and proceeded to punch him thinking of him to be Madara Uchiha. In her defence the guy acted that part too with long hair and world domination speech.
That, that teme had actually activated his Rinnegan. For a minute Naruto had thought that Sasuke had gone back to how he was before all this, obsessed with revenge and leaving of village but then he had blinked and dropped the glamour and acted as if nothing was wrong.
He had gone back to normal and did not even remember it. Those attack came sometime over the years. Sakura thought that was Sasuke's way of dealing with stress. Those were the worst day for the whole village. People tended to avoid him. He was even nicknamed the red and purple eyed demon.
Sakura-Chan thought it was his way of dealing with stress.
Naruto just thought he was PMSing on those days. That guy was moodier than any girl Naruto have ever known, and he knew Sakura-Chan. Thank god they could break him out half the time, the other half when they couldn't, they just avoided him.
Hey, he neither stupid nor suicidal. Wait he was failing his tests even after knowing all the text. Ok, he was kind of stupid, but he had superb self-preservation skills.
...
Graduation had been different, and so were the class rankings. It also raised questions as which team would have which sensei.
Iruka had been their instructor, and as an instructor he had to do what was best for his children. And maybe himself.
Ino, Shikamaru and Chouji would make one team. They were a good trio just like their parents. Kiba, Hinata and Shino would also make a good team. But those were not the ones he had to worry about.
No. His problem came in the name of Sasuke Uchiha, Haruno Sakura and Uzumaki Naruto. That was a band of misfits if he ever saw one.
The blond pulled prank on every opportunity given, and hard even gotten Jonins to join in. He had even pranked the ANBU for kami sake. And gotten away somehow, through he bet it was Sasuke who had planned it. The point was that the pranks increased in frequency the more he was kept away from the other two. If he was ever kept for too long away from the others it would result in the biggest prank war in history.
Sakura was too violent, specially when separated. It was rumoured that she had even beaten up a chunnin, but of course it was never confirmed. Who wanted to advertise their loss by a child after all. So for the sake of the safety of her new team mates and himself he would put the three of them in the same team.
Sasuke was alright, but lazy as a Nara. Was he a part Nara? He was not suicidal enough to ask, least he catch him on those days. Those days were now a legend in the village and everyone knew to avoid a certain someone or it could be the last time you were seen. One person even deemed that Madara came back and was impersonating Sasuke, but then he returns to normal.
So he would not separate them. And just because Sasuke had not done anything till now did nit mean he would not do anything if he separated them. He would not want to encounter any of them on a dark night thank you very much.
God help their next sensei because no one in this world could. He really pitted the poor soul who would become their sensei.
But on the brighter side he was rid of them.
Right?
...
Sasuke did not have much an opinion of anything these days. To have an opinion he would have to think it through and quite frankly it required effort he was not ready to put.
He just wanted to sleep and pass his days in peace, but it was impossible with teammates like Naruto and Sakura.
Sakura, well he knew he had left her behind she had been hurt but never in the thousand years he had guessed that she would become so much violent. That and her monstrous strength. Sasuke really did not like to be her punching bag on her good days, least her bad.
Good thing there were days she left him alone, because the girl could punch and break bones.
Then there was Naruto. It was like his energy had doubled. Either that or he had a permanent sugar rush. But there were days he would go all quite and a strange light would enter his eyes. Sasuke knew that was the time something big was gonna happen. More than not Naruto would be the reason behind that.
When Naruto got like that, it meant a big prank would take place. Sasuke loathed those days with passion. He had to actually work at those time.
Him and work. No way. He preferred to sleep his day away thank you very much.
But he also knew that it was best to indulge Naruto in those days or be ready to be nagged at all times. And by that he meant even showering.
The only time he had refused to participate, Naruto had not only destroyed half the district but also somehow gotten paperwork for Sasuke to fill.
Oh the horror. It had been even more work. So in shirt just indulge Naruto.
Academy was not so much different. It was good, maybe because he spend all his time sleeping. In his defence, if Shikamaru could get away with that so could he.
Graduation meant no more class naps. Damn, he loved those naps. Now that he had graduated he could no longer do that. At least it was good that his teacher was Kakashi. That man was never on time and it meant more time to nap. Maybe he should take one right now.
Naruto and Sakura were not looking happy because of Kakashi's lateness. And was those new seals in Naruto's hands.
He realised he did not want to know. So he asked Naruto to wake him up on Kakashi's arrival.
He wanted to sleep. Why did he have to be a ninja of all things?
...
Kakashi didn't knew why the Hokage bothered with this. Every year he was given a team and every year he failed them.
He hated children. Children and him never agreed with each other. Period. He didn't knew why the old man even bothered anymore.
Apparently This year the old man had a special team for him or so he said. He had of course heard the rumours of the terrific trio. 'The three demons' as they had been dubbed. He personally thought they had to be exaggerating.
Not academy pass student could be that bad even if they were Uchiha. He had seen their files. The last Uchiha, Minato-sensei's son and a civilian born. The trio who had made even ANBU cry with their pranks.
He decided he would welcome them Hatake Kakashi style. By being late. So he took a detour of the leaf village, visited the stone memorial and what not. He needed to kill time people, or he would go mad with boredom.
After sufficient time had passed he decided to go greet the team he was about to fail.
So bad for him that Naruto had decided to take a new course of action for his plan, installing seals all over the entrance instead of his duster trick from last time. Hey that guy used to be an ANBU, he could avoid it. His opening of door caused a series of reaction, but in Kakashi's defence he had not expected that. He was caught off guard.
First all the fire seals exploded and he just barely made it out of there safely when a fist connected with one side of his nose. Hard. So had in fact that he even felt something break. Ouch.
In front of him was a pink haired girl in front of him looking like she would like to do nothing more than to murder him. Behind her the blond was also glaring daggers at him holding a seal in his hand. And the last one, was he sleeping? Through all that noise. Was that kid a Nara? Hadn't the info said he was Itachi's younger brother?
Suddenly the blond threw the seal at the black haired boy who rolled out of the way, still asleep. The seal exploded on contact behind the boy and a splash of water erupted at him.
Drenched the boy shot Naruto a glare, then took in the scene. Finally looking at him he grinned. No doubt amused at his misery. Kids.
Kakashi looked at two angry teens and one amused one. His impression of them?
"I really don't like you, Meet me at the roof in five minutes" with that he disappeared. After telling them the details of the second test he would get a look at his nose.
He didn't like children, but these? He felt they were the worst. God help them if they managed to pass. He shuddered just thinking about it.
They should not pass. No matter what. He could not allow it, or his reputation would go down the drain. But at this point he was more worried about his life than his pride. So they will not pass.
Or he was doomed.
I feel sorry for Kakashi. Oh wait I don't. More review=faster update.