Sorry for the long update, been busy. And apparently you all like the MJ/Naruto hook up so I'll try to get it in.
deadw8, I've got some ideas with what you're going for, but not exactly. It'll just take me a while to assemble all the right pieces into place.
Mr. Nobody, I thank you for your praise and advice and I shall take them under consideration.
cmcwiki, I may not take things that extreme but you'll see as you read, and the teams are going to be a bit different.
I don't own anything and please don't slam my grammar, just enjoy the story
The SpiderFox
Team Selections
In the time that Naruto had discovered his heritage and powers, he had made a lot of changes in his life. Many of which Mary Jane had had something to do with. The first was his wardrobe. Under MJ's orders, er suggestions, Natuto had changed switched out his orange jumpsuit with a black over coat with orange lining, a red hoody, blue shinobi pants and some rather thin shoes that would help him stick to walls. The wall crawling part of his training had been easy to figure out he had also found that nothing short of knocking him unconscious would get him to fall from whatever he was sticking to. The web slinging, that had been another story. Naruto had to practice like crazy to learn how to web sling without running into something and turning himself into a ninja pancake. His spider sense had also been a big help with his day to day life and his web slinging.
A week later, Naruto found himself in the class room earlier than anyone else. It was the day of team selections and he had had a hard time falling back to sleep that morning so he just decided to head into class early and hang around. Which was exactly what he was doing, hanging upside-down from a web line. A little while later, some of his classmates started to walk in. The first two were Hinata Hyuga and Kiba Inuzuka. Naruto gave a small smile when he saw that Hinata was smiling and Akamaru, Kiba's dog and partner was running around her feet. Kiba had always looked out for Hinata during their academy days. Shino Abruma was the next to walk in; he was the strong silent type, emphasis on the silent. Shikamaru Nara walked in next, his eyes half closed and hands behind his head with Choji Akamichi, the gentle giant right behind him. For a second, Naruto though he saw Shikamaru look at him, but then the shadow user just shrugged it off and kept walking. Sasuke Uchiha, the brooding Uchiha Clan Massacre Survivor walked into the room, sat down and did nothing else. Finally, the pink and blond blurs of Sakura Haruno and Ino Yamanaka pushed each other through the door, fighting over who would sit next to Sasuke. Naruto rolled his eyes and wondered why in the name of the gods these two girls wanted to become ninja.
As far as Yamanaka, I think it's the family tradition. MJ whispered in Naruto's mind. As for the Haruno, I have no idea. Naruto smiled at the thoughts of his partner. Iruka walked in, looking amongst the crowds for Naruto but finally spotting him hanging from the ceiling, with a smile and a shake of his head, Iruka walked over to his desk and gave them a graduation speech.
"Now onto the team placements," Iruka said tapping some papers on his desk. "Team 7 will consist of Kiba Inuzuka, Hinata Hyuga, and Sasuke Uchiha."
"NO!" Sakura and Ino screamed cracking several windows in the classroom.
"Yes, right then." Iruka said digging a finger in his ear. "Team 8 will consist of you Shino Abrumari, Sakura Haruno, and Naruto Uzumaki."
"Iruka-sensei, I thought you failed Naruto." Sakura said. "Besides he's not even here." Iruka chuckled and looked up at his favorite student.
"Naruto, would you please come down and join the class?" Iruka asked. Everyone followed his line of sight and just about every jaw hit the floor at the sight of Naruto hanging upsidown from the web line.
"Do I have to Iruka-Sensei; it's so comfortable up here." Naruto said with a smile.
"Now Naruto," Iruka snapped. Naruto sighed and let himself drop, displaying some impressive aerial acrobatics before landing flawlessly on table next to Shino.
"Looks like we're going to be teammates Shino," Naruto said glancing at the overcoat wearing boy. Sakura mean while was just staring at Naruto with wide eyes, stunned that he had been hanging up there from the sealing for who knows how long.
"The final team, Team 10 will consist of Shikamaru Nara, Ino Yamanaka, and Choji Akamichi." Iruka finished. "Your new teachers will be here after lunch to pick you up." After he left, everybody in the room swarmed towards Naruto and started asking questions.
"How did you do that? Was that some kind of jutsu? How'd you pass? What's with the new outfit?" The questions bombarded Naruto so much that he shot another web line up at the ceiling and pulled himself up before flipping and stood on the ceiling. Everyone's jaws dropped at the sight.
"Dobe, how do you have this power?" Sasuke demanded glaring up at him.
"It's a kekkei genkai that I get from my mother if you must know." Naruto said crossing his arms.
"But you're an orphan." Kiba pointed out. "How do you know it's from you mom?"
"Found out a few things about my folks." Naruto said with a shrug. "Turns out my dad was a historian who was looking into the history of bloodlines. Apparently my mom had an old one that just so happened to awaken in me." The rest of the time was spent dealing with question after question about how he graduated and what he could do with his new powers. After what seemed like forever, he managed to slip away to get some lunch. Afterwards, he sat in the class room next to Shino and Sakura. Shino was his usual stoic self but Sakura was looking at Naruto as if trying to figure out the new him. Not long after most of the students returned a woman walked in with dark hair and bright red eyes.
"Team 8 I am Kurenai Yuhi and I will be your sensei. Please follow me." She called out. Naruto, Shino, and a reluctant Sakura got up and followed their new sensei out of the room. Kurenai led her team to a small clearing before turning to them.
"All right, let's get to know each other a bit." Kurenai said. "We'll start with the basics, who you are, likes and dislikes, hopes and dreams."
"Would you mind going first and showing us how it's done?" Sakura asked looking at the woman.
"All right, my name Kurenai Yuhi. My likes are my friends Anko and Hanah. My dislikes are perverts and a certain oranges book." Her eyes seemed to flash slightly at the mention of the book. "My hobbies are working to create new genjutsus and spending time with those I care about. My dream is to make sure you and any genin team I get that comes after you become great ninja that will have been trained so well they die of old age." She turned to Shino and pointed at him. "How about you start us off?"
"My name is Shino Abrumari. My likes are my family and my bugs. My dislikes and anyone who would try and hurt a person and have no just cause behind it." Shino said. "My hobbies include bug collecting and training. My dream is to succeed my father as clan head and to hopefully make some friends outside my clan." Kurenai nodded and turn to Sakura.
"You're turn pinky." She said.
"My name is Sakura Haruno. My likes are, well, there's a certain boy, my dislikes are Ino-Pig and Naruto." Sakura said causing Naruto and Kurenai to roll their eyes. They couldn't tell if Shino had because his face was like stone. "My hobbies are learning about things. My dream is to marry into a good clan so I can take care of my family." Kurenai didn't think she could really make much of a ninja, but could probably make a decent spy if necessary.
"And last but not least, blonde over here." Kurenai said pointing at Naruto, who disappeared. They all looked up to see Naruto sticking to a tree branch by his feet.
"Oh sorry, name's Naruto Uzumaki. My likes are training, web slinging, wall crawling and raman. My dislikes are anyone who blames people for stuff that's not their fault and the time it takes to make raman." Naruto explained dropping from his branch and landing on his feet. "My hobbies are pretty much the same as my likes except I also like to learn more about the past. My dream is to become a great hero, even if that doesn't mean I'm the Hokage."
"Very interesting," Kurenai said. "So the whole sticking to walls thing is a bloodline?"
"Something like that." Naruto confirmed with a smile.
"Well now, onto the final test." Kurenai said, looking at her students.
"Final test?" Naruto asked with a raised eyebrow. "What are you talking about Kurenai-sensei?"
"You see, only about a third of your actual graduating class will become ninja, the final test is something to see how well you all work in the field as oppose to the class room." Naruto glanced around at Shino and Sakura taking in the information. Shino appeared to be calculating scenarios that they might be in while Sakura was looking scared.
"And this is going to happen now?" She asked while Kurenai nodded.
"So what's the test?" Shino asked stone faced and monotone. Kurenai pulled out a file and placed it on the ground in front of them. Naruto picked it up and opened it. "Your target is Kakashi Hatake, or to be more precise, his book "Ichi Ichi Paradise." Kurenai explained. "You will have until noon tomorrow to get a hold of the book and bring to me by noon, and then you pass." Naruto took the folder and glanced over at his teammates, Shino nodded but Sakura seemed hesitant.
"It says here Sasuke's on Kakashi's team?" Naruto mentioned in an offhand manner. Sakura's eye brightened at this.
That was low Naruto. Mary Jane scolded the young boy.
Yeah, but necessary, Naruto countered. "So where do we meet?" He asked Kurenai.
"Right here," She said. "So that means you're taking the mission."
"Of course we are." Shino said for his teammates.
"Then good luck, I think you'll need it." Kurenai said before disappearing in a puff of smoke.
"Come on, we need to put a plan together to get this book from Kakashi." Naruto said. "I know a place we can go." Naruto led them inside the Forth's head and walked into his father's library.
"What is all this?" Sakura asked.
"Files my dad was able to get together about a history on bloodlines." Naruto said, moving over to a table and stacked up some other files on Captain America and Iron man and set them off to the side.
"How do you read this?" Shino asked, glancing at a few of the files.
"A friend taught me how to read it." Naruto said, placing Kakashi's file on the table. "Pull up a seat so we can figure out how we're going to do this." Sakura and Shino took the seat as Naruto placed Kakashi's picture on the table. "Kakashi Hatake, according to Kuranai-Sensei's file, he served in the Third Great Ninja War and goes by the nickname 'The Copy Ninja' because he seems to have the ability to copy enemy jutsus."
"Sounds like he might have a Sharingan," Sakura said. "It would explain his copying ability."
"Possible but doubtful," Naruto said, pulling out a scroll. "The Sharingan is an Uchiha exclusive bloodline. A transplant would be possible but he would have had to have an Uchiha's permission or else the family would have wanted his head on the plate."
"It would be possible; he does keep his eye hidden." Shino said. "Of course that could just be because he wouldn't have an eye at all."
"We'll work on this little theory some other time." Naruto said. "Right now we've got to figure out how we're going to get this book from him. According to the file, it says that Kakashi has never passed a genin team and he always carries that book around with him."
"Does it say when his team is going to be taking their test like we are?" Sakura asked. Naruto glanced at the file before turning back to his pink haired teammate.
"It says that they're doing it tomorrow around 8 or so." Naruto said. "But the file says he's just about always 2 hours late for any appointment."
"What are you thinking Sakura?" Shino asked joining the pair.
"If we use their exam as a distraction to try and keep him off balance, we can probably get him." Sakura said.
"Of course that fact that you'll be seeing Sasuke doesn't hurt either does it?" Naruto said. Sakura blushed slightly while Naruto sniggered. "All in all it is a good plan though."
SF
After Kakashi had explained his exam to Sasuke, Kiba, and Hinata and started it, Naruto slowly lowered himself down on a web line from a tree.
"Coast is clear guys." He said. Sakura and Shino slowly dropped down from their own trees. "You bug him Shino?"
"Female sitting on his forehead protector," said Shino, "where ever he goes, my bugs can find him."
"All right, I know we had a set plan to use the exam as a distraction, but I've got another idea." Said Naruto. "We work with his team and let them worry about who gets the bells."
"It would certainly make our mission easier." Shino said.
"All right, I'll go and get Sasuke." Sakura said preparing to go but Naruto pulled her back with a web line.
"I don't think so Sakura," said Naruto. "You're going after Hinata. Shino, you go find Kiba, I'll go find Sasuke." After nodding, Team 8 scattered to go find Team 7.
SF
Naruto landed behind Sasuke. The boy jumped and was about to shout but Naruto covered his mouth.
"Take it easy Sasuke, I'm here to talk." Said Naruto,
"Talk about what Dobe?" asked Sasuke.
"My team is working with yours to try to get those bells from your sensei." Explained Naruto, "Coincidently, we need to get something off of him for our test was well."
"I don't need your help," said Sasuke, "I can get that bell on my own with no trouble at all."
"Riiiiight," said Naruto, "well if you need the help, you can find us." He said before disappearing.
SF
Naruto landed in the group of Sakura, Hinata, Kiba, and Shino.
"All right, so we're all here." Naruto said.
"What about Sasuke?" asked Sakura, disappointed.
"Oh you know, the usual egotistical moron saying he could do everything on his own." Naruto said in an offhand manor.
"Don't talk about Sasuke like that." Sakura snapped lunging at Naruto who dodged her attack so he hit Kiba.
"All right, let's get down to business." Naruto said.
"Kurinai-sensei's file said that Kakashi tends to be vain and will try and read his book when testing students." Shino said. "Naruto, I think he'll underestimate you and Kiba the most."
"I feel slightly insulted." Kiba said.
"Well get over it." Naruto said glancing at Kiba. "What about you guys?"
"While you're distracting Kakashi, I'll use my bugs to try and weaken his chakra reserves." Shino explained. "Sakura, Hinata, when you two see an opening for either the book or the bells you take it, once we've acquired everything, we randevu at our meeting place for Kurinai-sensei."
"Wow, pretty well thought out plan." Hinata commented.
"That's Shino for you." Naruto said. "Now let's get going."
SF
Kakashi stood in a clearing rubbing the back of his neck. There were a couple of things there were bugging him. First: he thought his students, or at least Kiba would have attacked him by now, the other thing was that there were 3 new chakra signals that he hadn't expected. Before he could continue his contemplation, Kiba and, to his surprise, Naruto jumped out of the trees.
"And just what is Kurina's student doing here?" Kakashi asked.
"I'm after the book One Eye." Naruto said. "So just hand it and the bells over and you don't get hurt."
"Cute kid," Kakashi said, pulling out the book in question and flicking it open. "But you've got practically no chance of getting either one."
"Practically no chance huh?" asked Naruto glancing at Kiba. "Then that means that there's still a chance." And without another word the two Genins charged forward and attacked Kakashi. As he fought, Kakashi began judging the two of them, they worked well with each other, Kiba and Akamaru moved like they had one mind, a fast, sloppy, and slightly predictable mind, but nothing a little work couldn't straiten out. Naruto on the other hand was a complete other story, it was like he know when Kakashi was going to attack him and was able to properly defend himself. On top of that, his strength and agility were amazing as were those strange white ropes he managed to shoot from his wrists. Overall Kakashi was impressed, he could just barely read his book while fighting these two, and from the reports they were said to be near the bottom of the class. But then, Kakashi reminded himself, a ninja was supposed to be able to look underneath the underneath. They may not have book-smarts, but they clearly had street smarts and skills.
As the fight progressed, Kakashi felt himself feeling weaker. Glancing down he saw a small swarm of bugs were slowly crawling up his leg.
"Eyes on the fight Kakashi," Naruto said. Kakashi's eyes snapped up in time to see Naruto flying at him using the webs as a sling-shot, and slammed into Kakashi sending him skidding back. Kiba followed Naruto with his Tunneling Fang and drilled into Kakashi. Sakura and Hinata jumped out of the bushes and attacked. Hinata with her gentle fist style while Sakura hung back looking for an opening.
Still not sure what Kurinai's students are doing here, but they're working pretty well with my own team. Kakashi thought. As far as Hinata goes, she's not too bad but it seems like she's forcing her style, I'll have to help her out with that. Now where's Sasuke,
As if the universe wanted to answer his question the shout of "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" Everyone looked back behind them to see the giant fireball come flying at them, with no regard to the other ninja.
"Everyone scatter!" Naruto shouted. The ninjas didn't need telling twice as they all jumped away to avoid the fireball. But as it drew closer, Sakura tripped and fell down right in the fireball's path. "Sakura!" yelled Naruto shooting a web line at the top of a tree and swung towards the pink haired girl, grabbing her around the middle and swinging them to safety. Sakura looked up at her blond savior, maybe it was the way the light was hitting him, maybe it was the expression of determination on his face, but Sakura saw something in the blond that she'd never see in him before, never seen in almost anyone, not ever Sasuke.
"Sakura, are you ok?" Naruto asked when they landed.
"Yeah, I'm fine, thank you." Sakura said.
"Go find the other and regroup, tell Shino he's in charge." Naruto said.
"What about you?" asked Sakura.
"I'm going to have a talk with Sasuke." Naruto growled. "A nice, long, physical, talk,"
SF
Sasuke jumped through the trees, cursing to himself for giving himself away and for that idiot Naruto warning Kakashi about the fireball. Sure he and the others would have been hit by the jutsu, but it was a necessary sacrifice. While he was busy cursing everyone, he found he slammed into what appeared to be a giant spider web.
"Well, well, well, it looks like the fly fell into the web." a sultry voice said. A red haired woman who looked like she was part fox strutted into Sasuke's line of sight.
"Who are you?" demanded Sasuke.
"I'm not someone you want to piss off." The woman said sliding her clawed finger across his cheek. "But keep this in mind Uchiha, I'll be watching you, and if you ever do something like attacking your own teammates again, then the restoration of the Uchiha clan will have nothing to do with you." this time she slid her claw near her manhood, causing the boy to shutter.
"What do you care if I get rid of those weaklings?" Sasuke demanded.
"I care." She purred before turning more fox-like. "I'll be watching." She roared before poofing out of existence.
A few trees away, Naruto had a smile on his face.
"And the award for best monster in a horror movie goes to Mary Jane Watson-Parker for her role as the Nine-Tailed Fox demon in Sasuke Uchiha Shits His Pants." Naruto said applauding slightly with a smirk. In his mind's eye, he saw MJ smiling and holding a small golden statue.
I'd like to thank everyone who made this possible. Mary Jane said pretending to cry. I'd like to thank my vessel Naruto for being so supportive and Sasuke Uchiha for being a grade A prick.
Naruto smiled before he jumped away to regroup with the rest of the ninja.
"Where's Sasuke?" Sakura asked.
"Let's just say he's stuck with something right now." Naruto said with a smirk.
"All right, there's still about 30 minutes left in the test, what's the plan?" Kiba asked.
"I've got a plan," Naruto said, "Hinata, do you know where Kakashi's at." Hinata activated her Byakugan and pointed in a direction. "All right, I'm going to swarm him and try and distract him, if any of you see an opening, for bells or book, go for it." Everyone nodded.
SF
Not much time left for the test, almost a shame, I think I actually wanted to teach those kids, Kakashi thought. Maybe if Kurinai passes her team I can joint teach. His thoughts were interrupted as Naruto jumped out of a tree, correction; a couple hundred Naruto's jumped out of a tree and started firing web lines. Kakashi tried dodging and using substitution jutsus, but he couldn't escape the rain of spider-webs. Before he knew it though, Hinata leapt out grabbing Kakashi's bells with one hand and his book with the other.
"The others?" asked Naruto.
"Al-already on th-their way to where y-you're su-suppose," Hinata reported.
"Then let's get going, grab onto my back." Naruto said Hinata looked at him blushing for a minute before grabbing onto Naruto's back. Naruto meanwhile fired two web lines at the top of trees and slingshot towards the meeting place.
SF
Kurinai stood in the clearing with her arms crossed. She was disappointed, her first genin team and she was going to have to fail them. It was a shame too; they all had so much potential, especially that Naruto kid.
She was brought out of her musings as Shino, Sakura, and another she recognized as Kiba Inuzuka and his dog Akamaru.
"What are you guys doing back without the book and with one of Kakashi's students?" Kurina asked. Naruto dropped down with Hinata on his back. Setting the shaking Hinata on the ground, Naruto turned to Kuranai with Kakashi's book.
"Here you go boss lady." Naruto said handing it to her.
"Not bad you guys." Kurinai said. "But again, what are you going with Kakashi's students?"
"We made a deal with them," Shino explained, "they help us with our test, we help them with theirs."
"Speaking of witch," Naruto said as the alarm Kakashi set up started to go off. A second later the man himself appeared in puff of smoke.
"Most impressive Naruto and it seems that by working with my students, you've both passed the tests, but where is Sasuke."
"Oh yeah, him," Naruto said, "Hang on a sec." Naruto called up a Shadow Clone and sent it the trees and came back a moment later with Sasuke wrapped up in webs.
"Why is Sasuke wrapped up webbing?" Sakura screamed.
"Safety precaution," Naruto said flatly. "After all, this is the guy who almost turned us all into crispy critters."
"What evidence do you have?" Sasuke demanded.
"I believe you said, and I quote, 'What do you care if I get rid of those weaklings?'" Naruto said glaring at him.
"But, but you," Sasuke stuttered.
"Weren't there?" Naruto asked. "Did the creature you were talking to look like this?" Naruto transformed into Mary Jane and then back again making Sasuke go wide eyed. "And I meant what I said Sasuke, if you ever go after my teammates like that, or Kami forbid your own team, then I swear to you, you will have nothing to do with the restoration of the Uchiha clan." With that he turned around and rejoined his team. Sakura and Shino were both looking at Naruto as if in a new light, Sakura because he was standing up for her and Shino for his dedication to his teammates.
"Well it sure looks like my team's passed." Kurinai said holding Kakashi's book.
'Um…what are you going to do with that?" Kakashi asked nervously. Kurinai smirked and opened the book. She placed the note in the book and tossed it in the air.
"NO!" Kakashi shouted as the book exploded, raining down flaming pages.
"Time to head out team 8," Kurinai said. "Meet back here tomorrow for training and missions." Kurinai disappeared in a swirl of leaves. Sakura glanced at Sasuke.
"Are you going to let him out?" She asked.
"Nah," Naruto said. "The webs will dissolve in about an hour or so, he'll be fine." He and Kiba both shared a laugh. "Hey Sakura I swing by your place on my way home, you want a lift." Sakura was about to scream at Naruto that there wasn't a chance in hell but she shook her head.
"No thanks." Sakura said waving him away.
"All right, maybe another time." Naruto said. Nodding to Shino, he jumped off, firing a web line and swung away while Sakura walked away. Shino however glanced at Kiba and Hinata.
"Watch out for each other." He said. "If you need help look for either me or Naruto, Leaf Ninja look out for each other, even if it's against our own." And with that he left.
And with that, I shall end it. Sorry for the long update, writer's block and school stuff getting in the way. Hope you all still like what I'm dishing out.