Title:The Youthful Impact
Rating:T for violence
Disclaimer:Naruto belong to its creator: Masashi Kishimoto.
Warning:AU (alternate universe) characters.
Summary: Maito Gai felt heart-inspired by a blond kid's 'declaration' and decided to train him in power of youth.
"Talking"
"Talking"
"Thinking"
"Thinking"
Ch 1
Next day…11:31 AM…Training Ground…
A group of three recently made genin, consisted of two boys and one girl, could be seen waiting in same training ground from yesterday where they passed their official genin test. The black duck butt hair boy, Uchiha Sasuke, is currently sitting on one of three training logs with his head resting on his joined hands with elbows on knees. On his face is a bored expression, an expression that he must have thought that he'll look cool with it. As usual, he is wearing a navy blue collar shirt, white short, white armbands, blue shinobi sandals, and an official Konoha shinobi headband located on his forehead.
"-and I thought we should have our date-just two of us-at this amazing restaurant..." an annoying girl with long pink hair, standing next to a log that Sasuke sitting on, blabbered while making random arm motions. Sasuke mentally shuddered when a pink haired chatterbox known as Haruno Sakura let out a fangirl squeal and presumably goes into fantasy for hundredth time. Sakura has red dress, black short, blue sandals, and a headband on top of her head like a hair
"Grr...What's taking him so damn long?" Sasuke thought irritably as he scanned the training ground for a silver hair jounin who is Team Seven's sensei who was supposed to be here at 8:00 AM. To his irritation, no sign of said sensei. Sasuke resumed his bored look and his attempt to ignore Sakura, who just popped out of her fangirl fantasy and continued to blabbered some random topics that he doesn't care enough to listen. His ears picked up a voice that belong to his other team mate. He turned his head slightly to see a blond hair boy counting while doing push ups.
"Ninety-four...Ninety-five...Ninety-six..." a blond kid grunting the number as he pushed his upper body up and down with sweat being visible on his forehead that's not occupied by his headband. Instead, his navy blue cloth headband is wrapped around his waist. He has just done hundred sit-ups, hundred chin ups (by using a tree), and taijutsu practice (against imaginary enemies).
"...At least, Naruto is more useful than this banshee and is doing something productive..." Sasuke thought as he stared at Naruto, who's wearing short-sleeves green spandex suit, orange wristbands and legwarmers, and navy blue sandals. Despite slightly scrawny looking arms that Naruto have, he could still pack a punch. Sasuke felt an imaginary pain in his jaw and abdomen. He remembered all those painful beating he took in every taijutsu sparring against Naruto. He's pretty sure that other guys such as loudmouth Inubuka Kaiba something remembered painful beating too. As much as he hate to admit, but ever since Naruto has greatly improved his taijutsu skill, he became the beast in taijutsu.
"...One hundred...Now to..." Naruto finally reached 100 and stood up on the ground. Seeing Sasuke looking at him, Naruto quickly wiped his sweat off his forehead and flashed his wide, shiny teeth and thumb up at Sasuke, who merely grunted, not bothered by Naruto's shiny teeth as he's used to it since Naruto grin throughout the academy years. Sasuke has long ago gave up on figuring out how to
"Oi Sasuke! I have an idea!" Naruto hollered out in cheerful tone, snapping Sakura out of her fantasy that she fell into and look at Naruto. Looking at spandex suit Naruto's wearing, she barely held back shudder.
"...What." Sasuke said in bored tone.
"Let spar!"
Sasuke has no desire to spar and to his relief, a certain silver gravity-defying hair man appeared out of nowhere and merely said "Yo."
Sakura, upon seeing Kakashi-sensei, jumped and screeched, "WHY YOU'RE THREE HOURS LATE!" in loud volume that hurt Kakashi's and Sasuke's ears while pointing her finger at him. Before Kakashi-sensei could answer, Naruto zoomed right next to Sakura and Sasuke, who just hopped off a log, and shouted, "SENSEI! WE ARE READY!" in equally loud volume.
"Oh?" Kakashi said in amused tone, "Ready for cho-missions?" He was about to say chores, but quickly said missions since the newly Team Seven has yet to experience the missions that most genin and above hate doing them. The word "missions" caused Sasuke to raise his eyebrow as he wasn't expecting to start off with doing the missions. He was expecting the team sensei to train him and his two team mates. To get stronger, to gain power. The power to achieve his ambition. To-
"Missions?" Naruto said, "HAI! WE'RE PREPARED TO DO THE MISSIONS, SENSEI!" still in loud volume. Kakashi chuckled as out of three genins, Naruto looks eager and enthusiastic while Sasuke looks disinterest and Sakura staring at her crush. "Well, while he seems to be loud and...still wearing green spandex...he doesn't seems to bad as him." Kakashi thought, looking at his genin charges. He cleared his throat and began, "Alright, team. Let's head to the Hokage Tower to pick up some missions."
"This is going to be amusing once they see what kind of missions." Kakashi mentally thought as he leads his genin team.
Later...At the Hokage Tower...
"Well, Team Seven..." Sui, a random unimportant chuunin who's in charge of handling the low ranking missions whenever the Hokage is too busy, spoke in dull tone with Team Seven standing front of him, "Here are your missions. They're all D-rank, since you are new." Sui handed several folders that contain the details about the missions to Team Seven sensei who nodded and was about to open the first folder when Naruto hollered out.
"YEAH! We shall do our best to complete the mission with every fiber of our being!" Naruto, to Kakashi's horror after turning around to face him, raise his right hand and gave thumb up while grinning with his shiny healthy looking teeth showing before Kakashi and Sui.
"Damn...He know how to pose like him..." Kakashi mentally groaned, "Though...I have to say...That's healthiest looking teeth I've ever seen."
"Naruto! Use inside volume!" Sakura shrieked louder than Naruto. She would hit Naruto in head, but she's standing other side of Sasuke, who merely grunted.
"Stupid banshee. You're louder than him." Sasuke thought.
"Yeah whatever, kid...They're only D-rank. Now...Could you leave? The missions aren't going to complete themselves..." Sui said in monotone with blank face. Looking at Naruto's flashing white teeth, Sui wondered what kind of toothpaste does Naruto use and how often does he brush his teeth to get them that shiny and healthy appearance.
"Only D-rank?" Sasuke thought as he doesn't like the way a chuunin said. "Does it means D-rank missions are waste of time...?"
"Ha ha...He's right" Kakashi said, addressing his three genins, "Alright, Team Seven...We stay long enough. Let's head out to our first mission."
As soon as Team Seven left, Sui sighed and resume organizing the mission folders into appropriate categories.
Eleven minutes later...In location where Team Seven would start their first mission...
Team Seven, after walking out of the Hokage Tower, passing dozen blocks, and walking into the apartment building, found themselves standing front of plain looking wooden door with the number "217" next to it. Kakashi put his favorite orange book that he has been reading (somehow led his team to right location without bumping into anyone or anything with bandaged fingers) away into his pocket and began to address his genins.
"Remember, team. Be respectful to our clients as they are paying us."
All three genins nodded with Naurto nodding furiously. Seeing this, Kakashi turned around and knocked against the door few times. A grumpy male voice called out, "Who is it and what you want?"
"We're Team Seven. You have requested for us to help you with something." Kakashi answered. He know what the first mission is about, but he purposely made his answer vague so he can see his genins' reaction. Just as his sensei had done to him when he was young.
"Bout time you shinobi get here." a grumpy voice said and the sound of door being unlocked could be heard. The door opened and an average looking black hair middle age man, wearing plain brown shirt and tan short, with grumpy expression. "Alright, let's get you bunch started. Hold on, lemme grab my stick and hat." Couple seconds later, a grumpy man walked out, with gardener's hat on and walking cane, and locked his door before beckon Team Seven to follow man.
Kakashi glance at Sakura, Sasuke, and Naruto. He could see Sakura and Sasuke look puzzled while Naruto still look excited and eager. Silently chuckling, he and his team follow. Team Seven and a grumpy man walked on street that run along one of small rivers in Konoha and crossed a bridge. Later, they finally arrived to their destination, a large garden.
Sasuke, seeing this, scoffed and mentally groaned, "Don't tell me...THIS is our first mission?" He stared at the garden that has weed sticking out everywhere.
Sakura shared Sasuke's thought, "What is this? This can't be our first mission! I'll get my hair and dress dirty!"
Naruto has different mind and shouted, "YEAH! We're going to pull weeds out!", causing Sasuke and Sakura to stare at him as he's crazy.
"That's right, you brats!" a grumpy man said, "You bunch will make this garden weed-free." With his walking cane, he walked to where couple buckets sitting next to small shack. "Here, use these buckets for weeds! Once the bucket get full, dump it into this hole here. " He pointed his finger at man hole next to the buckets and resumed, "This shouldn't take you more than an hour! Now, start pulling them!"
Sasuke began, "You got to be f-"
Naruto interrupted by shouting, "Don't worry, my youthful man! We shall get this done in less than ten minutes!" Kakashi stared at him in horror, because he's channeling HIM by giving good guy pose and that he used the Y word.
"What? Ten minutes?" Sakura screamed, "Are you blind? Look at the garden! It's massive!"
"Shut up, brats! You're here to pull weeds, not to whine! Now start PULLING! I better not see a single weed in this garden by the time I return." a grumpy man spoke. Without saying anything, he walked away to do his business, leaving Team Seven alone with the garden.
Kakashi quickly gather his cool and cheerfully said, "Well, you heard our client. Grab a bucket and start pulling weeds." He walked to a bench and pulled out an orange book.
"You're not going to help us, sensei?" Sakura asked.
Kakashi merely eye-smiled and flipped a page before giggling like stereotypical schoolgirl. Sakura growled and Sasuke, while schooling his typical Uchiha scowl, mentally groaned while Naruto simply ran to grab a bucket and start pulling the weeds out. The weeds popped out of the ground with his strength.
"I don't believe this crap...I'm an Uchiha. This is below me." Sasuke grumbled in his mind as he slowly moved toward the buckets.
Later...After completing the first chor-mission...
"That wasn't so bad. Right, comrades?" Naruto happily asked Sakura and Sasuke, who are dirtier than him, after dumping the weeds into the hole. He received glares from them as unlike them, his spandex suit remained clean with his hands and wristbands covered with dirt which he doesn't mind. After all, pulling weeds could count as workout for his arm muscles and back. Out of all, he pulled the most weeds. Not to mention that it was done to help Konoha to stay the most youthful shinobi village as his father said.
"Shut up, brute..." Sakura growled, calling her blond hair team mate "brute" since he's only good at taijutsu but scored average in other subjects during academy. Sakura groaned as she made another attempt to brush dirt off her now dirty red dress that she has purchased years ago along with other eleven same styled red dresses in futile hope of gaining her crush's attention. Futile hope is futile.
Naruto frowned at being called "brute" as to him, it signified him as "all strength, but no brain". Sakura and other Sasuke's fangirls in academy have started referring him as brute after they witnessed Naruto's first victory over Sasuke in taijutsu spar. In their perspective, it was the biggest sin. A no-no in their book. To Naruto, it was one of the happiest moments and it was all thanks to his adopted father, who has trained him in taijutsu and the power of Youth.
"That's right...Father said it's un-youthful to think about that." Naruto thought, remembering what his father told him when he found him alone in home dojo, taking his anger on poor training dummy on the day of his first victory over Sasuke. His father, despite his reputation among the shinobi and some civilians as one of most "bizarre freak with poor fashion sense", knows what to say. To make him happy, to encourage him to keep going and stay strong, and to motivate him in training, his favorite thing to do.
With that in mind, he quickly changed his frown into grin and said, "Don't worry, comrade! I'm sure you will get better and will obtain the Youth!"
Sakura, now tending to her hair, growled while Sasuke merely made "Uhn..." sound, causing her to instantly fell into fangirl mode and began to admire him. Naruto's grin faltered slightly when seeing this. It seems Sakura will continue to be un-youthful. Naruto thought she would become youthful since yesterday as being shinobi is long, harsh career, requiring him and his team mates to train harder, to improve themselves under Kakashi-sensei-s guidance.
"Now I thought about it. I wonder if Kakashi-sensei can train us in taijutsu? Didn't father said Kakashi-sensei sometime beat him in few taijutsu with some forbidden taijutsu moves?" Naruto thought, sporting thoughtful look on face, "I'm glad I wore that Anti-1000 Un-youthful Years something Protection yesterday." He remembered his father has described how un-youthful that jutsu was and to counter it, he made homemade small opal-shaped rear protection with butt curves as to make protection blend in and not stick out when wearing youthful spandex suit. Father has made Naruto one which he still wearing under his spandex suit as no preteen should get rear "un-youthified" by 1000 Un-youthful Years jutsu, which is basically a kancho.
"Okay, Team Seven," Kakashi-sensei said, eye-smiling as he walked to them after chatting with a grumpy gardener, "No time to waste. We have more missions."
"Yeah! More missions!" Naruto cheered as it would means more workout. This made gray-hair sensei amused as Naruto has positive attitude. An attitude that is similar to Him. Yup, this is going to be interesting time with Naruto on his team, though he still think he's slightly creepy with him using the Y word while wearing that green spandex suit. While he doesn't pay attention to fashion much, he thought blond hair and green spandex suit do not mix together. His eyes changed to Sakura the fangirl before Sasuke the gloomy one.
"Yeah...red dress is shinobi-like..." Kakashi-sensei mentally snorted.
Team Seven began to walk away from now weed-free garden to do the other D-rank missions, ranging from babysitting to catching daimyo's wife's cat named Tora. More "fun" for his genins and more time for him to read Icha Icha. Maybe he'll give them a lunch break after doing the second mission and perhaps have them do few team exercises afterward.
Author: Voila, that's how first day of Team Seven as genins went. What do you think about Naruto's short sleeve green spandex and orange wrist bands?
I know I didn't do much on Naruto's personality but I will make it more clearer in next chapter. Personality-wise, he won't be like Gai or Rock Lee, though his attitude will still be youthful.