Fan Fiction Name: Legends of the Past

Chapter Name: Assignments

Info: Many people have said that he is a prodigy, that he has the making of legend in his earliest days. But as the trials and tribulations of shinobi life have begun, will he become what everyone expects or can he be something he has only dreamed of: his own person.

Disclaimers: Narutoand the rest of the known characters are not my creations. The rest, OC's all, are mine, all mine! Hahahahahahahahacoughsputterwheeze Give me a second…

Chapter Two: Assignments

Okay, now I really have to think. The team setups were as follows from my fathers' generation: Lee, my aunt Ten Ten, and my uncle Neji, all as heavy combat specialists from the year just before my mothers and fathers. With Lees taijutsu, Nejis skill with the Jyuuken, and Ten tens weapons skills made them ideal in situations where combat would be imminent. Should I be on a team like that, there is a chance that I would be paired with Mai-chan. There is also a team like my fathers, with high chakra skill and availability, but with enough flexibility to fit nearly every role. I think a team like that is classified as "Generalist" or "Multi-role". Another team would be my mothers, with Inuzuka Kiba and Aburame Shino, a scout team. In the case of the third team that passed that year, it was with a group of genin who came from families whose abilities complemented each other very well, so that one is effectively cancelled as a possibility for me. Plus, there was an effective scout team of genins that graduated last year.

If placed on the first type of team, I would be with Mai-chan. If placed on the second team, I could still be paired with Mai-chan. But then there is also a chance I could be paired with another group, without a kunoichi I know, or a kunoichi altogether. However, most successful teams I have seen had a kunoichi on it. Team Nidaime. The Legendary Sannin. Team Yondaime. Team Kakashi. Team Naruto. Team Sasuke. They always had a kunoichi on them, and they were so successful. Maybe having a kunoichi is like a good luck charm for teams.

Regardless of what team I am on, I know one thing: I want to be on a team with Mai-chan.

Now, I just need to find out just how hard the initiation would be. I know that out of all the graduates, only nine are allowed in as genin. I need the advice of someone who survived not only the Genin Exam, but the chunin exam himself. I need to talk to Umino Kakashi. He knows what its like to get passed the thing that the teachers do.

That's why I'm at the Umino residence now, with my cousin. I know that he normally is on a mission at this time, but my luck held and I was able to catch him just before he was about to leave.

"So, your worried about the team your gonna be on?" Kakashi said as he stretched out his body. He was a good combination of his parents, and when he wore his hair in a ponytail (which he did often) the resemblance would be uncanny to both of them, although a bit more wiry then both. He normally wears the standard chunin attire, but with a dark trench coat over it and the chunin vest open over that. I sometimes wonder if he was so skinny because he sweated profusely. After his stretching, I nodded and waited for him to respond.

And he kept stretching. I cleared my throat, which drew his attention.

"Oh, oh! Right! Sorry about that, Satoshi. Anywho, Sasuke-sensei gave us a test in which we had to take some bells from him. It was a real pain in the ass, but I know that the only reason why my team and I made it was that we were a team. I know that's what you'll be tested on," Kakashi said, his face becoming thoughtful. I could only nod, while internally I was a bit frightened: what if it was with one of my fan girls, or worse, Shizuka? How the hell would I be able to work with them? If it wasn't Mai-chan, Shigeru, Saika, or Jirou, there were gonna be a lot of problems.

"Oi, Kakashi-kun, we gotta get going," came a soft voice from behind me. I instantly spun, knowing that just a few seconds before there was no one behind me. I saw a young woman who looked to be roughly Kakashis age. She was rather muscular, with silver hair and dark eyes. But what drew me to her was beauty: the woman in front of me was, without a shadow of a doubt, a knockout.

Not as much as Mai-chan, but damn near close.

"Sorry about that, Chiyaki-chan. Didn't mean to keep you and Kazushige waiting. Just gotta give my cousin here some words of advise," Kakashi said, as I searched my mind for that name. After a second, it struck me: she was Chiyaki, the daughter of Shizune-sama, one of the most respected medic nin in Konoha. She was assigned as a team member to Kakashi and one Nomura Kazushige under my uncle Sasuke. They had become a rather highly thought of team, and one of the youngest teams to try for jounin (granted none of them made it, but the fact that they tried for it was amazing in and of itself), with Chiyaki being a medic-nin of almost as much skill as her mother. Plus, the fact she had silver hair and had similar personality traits often had her marked as the love child of a tryst between Shizune and the Rokudaime Hokage, Hatake Kakashi.

"Well, Kazushige is getting a bit restless. To quote, 'If he is not out here within three minutes, I'm personally going to give him a rectal exam with Mugen'."

Kakashi let out a laugh, before turning back to me.

"Sorry about this, but I don't feel like getting my ass poked at by a sword. I'm gonna get going now," After a shift of weight, Kakashi got up and slowly walked out the door, with Chiyaki right on his heels. I was soon left with no one around. I know Iruka was most likely with the Council, while Anko was probably at the jounin tower. But, with all my questions about the genin assignments and the test afterwards, I still have one question to ask, and I have to wait until tomorrow to find out the answer.

Who is going to be on my team?

- - - - -

As the day came for the assignments, I became more and more concerned. I don't really know who would be in what group. I was really worried. What if I was stuck with some googily-eyed fan girl who didn't have a clue how to act? What if I was stuck with a team with someone who I wasn't able to find any sort of synergy (okay, now that I think about it, that's not likely. With my mixed skills, I would be able to find something that would work)? What if I had to work with Shizuka?

My thoughts consume me so much, I don't even notice when I run into the wall. I cuss under my breath, and then I feel tugs at two of my sides. I open my eyes to see two of my fan girls pulling me in opposite directions, all the while glaring at me. I'm shocked that these two would have come in early enough to do this.

"Satoshi-kun will be on MY team, Satoko-teme!" screamed Rabid Fan Girl #1, a blond girl who I barely recognize from my class.

"Let go of him, you stupid pig! He'll do much better on MY team!" Rabid Fan Girl # 2 (I'm guessing this is "Satoko-teme", as fan girl one called her) screamed back. The two then began using my arms as a tug-of-war rope. I stutter and stammer, trying to say something beyond the inane babble coming out of my own mouth.

Suddenly, there is a rush of green and I'm pulled hard into the classroom, much to the indignant squeals of the two girls. I can only blush as the blur slows and shows the normally smiling form of Rock Mai glaring indignantly at the two girls, one of whom I recognize as the redhead hanging off of me yesterday.

"Why did you do that to Satoshi-kun?" Mai-chan demanded angrily.

Am I hearing that right? She wouldn't do anything like that…

"You keep that up and you will dislocate his shoulders. He will be of no use to his team members then!" Mai-chan finished. She flashed a massive smile and jerked her thumb skyward. "It would have a negative effect on his taijutsu as well."

Damn. Well, I guess I can't expect anything otherwise. My foolish fan girls are a bunch of idiots, and the one girl who I looked up to, the one girl who I thought of as more then a friend doesn't see me as such. It seems to be my fate. Well, its time for the assignments. Normally, I'd be paying full attention, but today I really don't care about it. I just want to know who of my friends is teamed with whom.

As soon as Udon-sensei walked in, the atmosphere grew thick. I knew it was really stressful to some people (Namely, me. Damnable "prodigy" label!) and I knew it was going to be rough. Now that I think about it, what will happen to the kunoichi added to my team? The fan girls would tear her apart!

"Team One will consist of…"

Everyone is hanging off of Udon-senseis words…

"Akamichi Saika, Nara Shigeru, and Sonozaki Jirou."

Okay, the first two I saw coming. Come on, The Akamichi, Nara, and Yamanaka combo (also known as "Ino-Shika-Cho" by my father). And now that I think about it, seeing the Sonozaki families penchant for using chain weapons, I can easily see the last addition. Shigeru and Jirou hold the enemy down, and Saika Meat Tanks them. Great combo.

"Alright, Team Two will consist of…"

- - - - -

Damn it! This is nerve wracking! All the teams are listed up until five, then why the hell am I still waiting! I'm gonna have a heart attack with all this waiting.

"Team Five will consist of…"

Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap! Who's it gonna be?

"Aburame Shizuka, Rock Mai…"

God damn it! Why the hell is that annoying little bastard assigned with Mai-chan!

"…and Uzumaki Satoshi."

What the hell? I…really don't how to act. I am happy that I'm with Mai-chan (and thank all things that are holy I'm not paired up with any fan girls!), but then I am wholly confused (not to mention repulsed) that I am paired with Shizuka. Tactically, I can see one or another, but why both? If my team is a combat specialist team, why do we have Shizuka? If this was a scout team, then why is Mai-chan here? I am hopelessly confused.

Uh-oh. In my mental wanderings, I missed most of the genins assigned to Team Six. I see the red head begin to pout. I guess that's Satoko. She gives me the most pathetically sad face, watery eyes and all, as she mouths "Why not with you, Satoshi-kun" at me. Why, out of all the girls who are in my fan club, why do the weird ones have to be the most physical ones?

I wonder how my uncle Sasuke was able to deal with that amount of absurdity.

Mai smiles a little smile and flashes me a thumbs up as Udon-sensei begins calling Team Seven. My mind blanks as I see Shizuka, in the seat just ahead of me, make a VERY rude gesture at me behind my back. As soon as I see that, the part of my personality dominated by my father wants to reach out and smack the bastard in the head. But, like I had said before, I take more after my mother. So I ignore the indignation and, once the final team is called and we are excused for lunch, Mai gave me the Rock family patented "shiny smile". All I could do is blush like an idiot, all the while trying to keep from stammering.

"It looks like you and I are on the same team, Satoshi-kun!" She said exuberantly, earning a glare from many of the members of my fan club. I raised my hand to the back of my head in my normal embarrassed gesture, but my arm is immediately pulled down, and two surprisingly strong arms gripped it. I was pulled off balance, and nearly toppled into the red head right next to me.

"Why did fate have to be so cruel to pair my Satoshi-kun with the brute-strength baka?" Satoko waxed eloquently, as she glared at Mai-chan. I could only stammer at the statement. Mai looked ready for blood. She was getting extremely mad at the redhead who was now being pulled off of my arm by two boys who looked exactly alike. I could only guess they were her teammates. Of course, before she was pulled out of earshot she screamed "brute strength baka" again. I tried to calm Mai-chan down, but before I could even say anything she took off like a shot after the red head, most likely to leave the redhead feel a world of pain.

Jeez, sometimes Mai-chan can have on hell of a temper. I was about to grab something for lunch when loud, obnoxious laughing came from behind me. Cursing myself for staying here too long, I could only turn to see Shizuka.

The bastard wore the normal clothes of an Aburame, with the whole jacket and glasses, but Shizuka wears his jacket open and wears his glasses low. He has that stupid ass smirk of his, and I know he's gonna say something annoying or stupid. Possibly both.

"Looks like your little harem is tearing itself apart!" Shizuka said to me, giving me a look that I just couldn't decipher.

I want to strangle this guy! But what did he mean by "my little harem"?

"To think, some cute girl like Mai-chan has to be on the same team as you!" Shizuka said, before beginning that shrieking high pitched laughter of his. He then shot off on his own, his laughter echoing through the halls. I could only shake my head, wishing I had just smashed his face in, breaking those stupid little glasses of his apart And, in a move befitting the son of the prank master of Konoha, I was already scheming…

Why, why am I in a team with that bastard!

Wait. Wait a second. Did…did he just call Mai-chan a cute girl? Did he just call Mai-chan "Mai-chan"?

This day can't be any worse, can it?

- - - - -

My lunch was slow, uncomfortable, and all-together uneventful, which made me think time and again about what Shizuka had said. He had said that Mai-chan was cute. Well, I didn't disagree with him, but the fact it came from him made the statement all the more disturbing. I could look "underneath the underneath" like my dad said to do. But if I did that, I really don't like what I'm seeing. It meant, on some sort of wavelength it meant Shizuka had some sort of attraction to Mai-chan. That meant that I wasn't the only one who cared about her, but that an annoying bastard who I had to share the team with someone after her affections as well.

Knowing my luck, he'll do something stupid that will catch her attention, and then that is that. The only reason why the fan girls are after me was more the fact I was from a famous family then the fact I was good looking. Once again, I have to curse the "prodigy" label. I get a lot of unwanted attention from the people I honestly don't give a damn about, while the one girl I do like doesn't see me as anything more then a friend.

My situation sucks more then most people realize.

Well, after I finish the lunch and make my way back to the room, I see several older people, some of whom looked to be the senseis. As I saw them walk off one at a time, I see that after about ten minutes there are only two teams were left: Team One, with Shigeru, Saike, and Jirou, and my team. Thank god the crazy redhead…uh…Satoko was gone already, taken off by an older Kunoichi.

Suddenly, there was a crash and a loud bang outside, accompanied with colorful cursing from a familiar sounding voice. As soon as that happened, two major things happened that pulled me away from trying to figure out who it was and why he (the deepness of the words tell me it's a man, not a woman) was there:

One: Shizuka began laughing like a madman, most likely because whoever was outside had fallen for another of his pranks. Great. Whoever it was out there was most likely going to go on a tirade on how "true shinobi don't play pranks". Now, normally I would agree, but look at my father and Inuzuka Kiba-san! They were prank pullers themselves!

What am I saying? My dad and Kiba-san are exceptions to the rule, not the rule itself! Shizuka is a perfect example of a prankster who was also a dimwit.

Two: Udon-senseis ears perked a little bit, and then he smiled. I could only look in curiosity. Why was he smiling? Then, at the moment I'm still trying said something that made the laughter stop and my blood run cold.

"It looks like Team Fives jounin has shown up."

Immediately, I began to glare at Shizuka, and I was happy to see that Mai-chan was glaring, too. The rice-paper door slid open, and who walked in I didn't need an introduction to. The big man that stood in front of me I knew right away.

"Team Five, allow me to introduce you to your jounin-sensei: Sarutobi Konohamaru."

END

A/N: Oh holy crap. I can't believe that I had as much response to Legends as I have already. Its so happying to me (Yay, I made up a new word!) to see that sort of response!

Anywho, thanks to all for being readers, and especially to Silver Warrior and Alchemy202 for the offers!