Disclaimer: sadly I don't own naruto cause if I did there would be some major changes like a dead Madarra and Saskue and Naruto and Sakura would be together already but sadly I'll have to wait for kishimoto to do those things for me

Genin days

It had been seven years since the kyubi was sealed inside of the newborn Naruto and the village looked the same but many things had changed. The once powerful Uchiha had been plotting rebellion against the village so the council went behind the Yondaime Minato's back. They ordered ANBU captain Uchiha Itachi to kill the clan. But Itachi couldn't do it so instead he killed only those like his father who were leading those plotting rebellion. For this the elders fearing he would tell someone what they had planned and caused him to do so they banished him form Konoha. They said it was Itachi who in the search of power killed the leaders of the Uchiha clan. These words instilled in one Saskue Uchiha the desire for revenge and the strength to get his revenge.

Five years later at the namikaze estate a loud voice was heard "Naruto get out of bed this instant or you'll be late for the academy and unable to become a shinobi like your dad". Naruto quickly jumped out of bed dressed in his orange jumpsuit(same one he wore when the series started). Kushina looked at her son smiling as he hurriedly at his breakfast when "mom why are you shouting I was sleeping" said eight year old Aiko, kushina went over and ruffled Ayame's hair as she said "your big brother was being lazy and wouldn't get out of bed and is going to be late now" all the while glarrign at Naruto who gulped and ran out the door. Luckily for Naruto he had learned to jump up onto the roofs of buildings to get to the academy faster.

Once at the academy naruto slid into the classroom and looked at the clock before saying "whew just on time" right before getting hit in the back of the head by Iruka who was sighing saying "you'd think Naruto that with you being the son of the hokage who is known for his speed that you would be able to get to class early instead of at the last minute". Naruto just shrugged grinning his fox like grin "at least I maid it on time and I am fast I made it hear in five minutes Iruka sensei". "just shut up and take you're your seat dope" at this naruto glared at the person who said it Saskue Uchiha "shut up teme"naruto then took his seat.

Iruka then had everyone come up one by oe to perform a simple bunshin if they made an acceptable bunshin they passed if not they failed. When naruto's name was called he made a cross with his finger and shouted "kage bunshin no jutsu" producing two solid shadow clones causing the class to gape in shock, at the person they thought was the worst in the class. Iruka stared at naruto before asking "how did you learn a forbidden B rank techinique". Naruto just laughed while rubbing he back of his head saying "my dad said I had to much chakra to perform a normal bunshin so he showed me the shadow clone technique since it uses more chakra". Iruka smiled he had always known naruto wasn't the dead last people saw him as and that he would be great ninja then holding out a blue headband that had the leaf symbol engraved on it he said "congratulations naruto you pass". When Naruto took the headband he was literally shaking with excitement.

Iruka then turned and adressed the class saying everyone report back here tomorrow to be assigned to your respective teams. Naruto began to walk out of the classroom when he heard sakura say"saskue-kun would you like to go get something to eat with me to celebrate graduating", Saskue's response was "hmph why would I want to go anywhere with someone like you".

At this Naruto turned around angrily shouting at saskue "don't talk to sakura-chan like that teme!" sakura just stood quiet but visibly shaken saskue seemed to ignore naruto so naruto continued "if your gonna turn a girl down be nice and polite about it don't talk like their trash". At that saskue just scoffed and walked away while naruto turned to sakura "why do you let him talk to you like that your not weak sakura- chan your one of the smartest people i know and have amazing chakra control, if anyone else talked to you like that you'd get angry and hit them". Sakura just looked down so naruto continued "I don't get what people see in saskue he's an ass to everyone even those that try to befriend him". At this sakura looked at naruto and said its because he's an Uchiha there a great and powerful clan".

Naruto turned to sakura saying "so? I'm the son of the hokage and you don't see me acting like I'm better than anyone else my dad always tells me "if you want respect you've got to earn it not expect it just because of who you are or what someone else has done you earn it" that's something saskue needs to learn". As sakura thought about all that naruto had said she began to unconsciously follow him out the academy, when he turned and asked her if she had any plans when she said no he got a large smile on his face and asked "then you can come celebrate with me and my family we'll turn it into a double celebration since we bot passed" sakura smiled "alright naruto but we should ask your mom if it's ok"

With that they went to naruto's home. Once inside naruto shouted "MOM! I'm home". Sakura then hit naruto in the back of the head "baka you shouldn't yell inside especially to your mom". Kushina and Aiko came in to the kitchen where naruto and sakura were and as soon as Aiko saw sakura she ran up and hugged saying "sakura-san congratulations on becoming a ninja I knew you could do it unlike my brother who just got lucky". At this naruto let out and indignant :hey I became a ninja on skill not luck right sakura-chan?" sakura laughed and hugged Aiko back saying "aiko-chan you shouldn't tease naruto to much it's why he's so short it matches his confidence". At this not even kushina or Minato who had just got home could hold in their laughter.

Minato then asked sakura "would you like to come with us to celebrate Naruto and yourself becoming shinobi". Sakura looked up while letting go of Ayako to bow to Minato saying "hokage-sama I would like to go with you if its not to much trouble". At this naruto spoke up "neh neh sakura-chan you don't need to be so formal here". Minato laughed saying "naruto's right you're his friend which makes you my friend and friends don't need to be so formal with me just minato or minato-san is fine".

They then went to Naruto's favorite place in all of konha Ichiraku Ramen Bar. Minato and everyone was having a good time when he got an idea "naruto sakura how would you like to know whose team you'll be on tomorrow". Kushina then scowled at minato saying "they will find out tomorrow like everyone else will then they'll meet their jounin sensei". This caused everyone else to pout at kushina and naruto to whimper "but mom this is one of the perks of being related to the hokage and I'm shore your just as curious as to who my teammates and sensei will be". This caused minato and Ayako to laugh at naruto's attempt to get his mom to let minato tell him who's team he'd be on. Kushina sighed in defeat saying "fine but just the name of his sensei" she never could refuse naruto when he had his heart set on something since he had inherited her stubbornness.

This caused Ayako and Naruto to stand up and cheer. Minato then looked at naruto and old him "your sensei's name is hatake Kakashi he used to be an ANBU captain but that's all im telling you". Naruto then looked at his dad asking "whose sakura-chan's sensei gonna be?". Minato then laughed while looking towards sakura "im sorry but im not telling it would ruin the surprise lets just say you'll be plesantly surprised with both you teammates and your sensei."

After that they left Ichiraku's with naruto walking sakura home. When they got to sakura's house naruto turned to leave as he said bye to sakura. That night sakura thought about all that had happened that day especially what naruto had said about Saskue. She went through all the times she had been around him and the way he had acted and treated others. She then realized that "naruto was right and sakue is a selfish jerk". With that realized she decided to find a boy who would like her and be kind to her.

The next day Iruka announced the teams, when he got to team 7 he said "Naruto Namikaze, Saskue Uchiha, and Sakura Haruno" this caused outrage among saskue and naruto's fangirls since they wanted to be with either saskue or naruto. Sakura turned around to face the outraged voice of ino yamanaka who was yelling "why do you get to be on saskue-kun's team instead of me forehead". Sakura smiled at Ino and told her "you can have saskue I got over my crush on him yesterday so he all yours inopig I'll even help you if you want."

Once the final team was announced Iruka told all the students to get into their teams and wait for their jounin instructor to show up he then left the room. An hour later kakashi walked in and as soon s naruto saw him he stood up and shouted "I've seen you before you were taught by my dad when you were a genin he has a picture of his genin team on his desk". Kakashi ignored Naruto and introduced himself "I am Hatake Kakashi your new sensei now tell me about your selfs". He pointed at saskue to go first Saskue stood up and said "I am Saskue Uchiha I dislike weaklins and what I like isnt your business my desire is to avenge the death of my father and all those killed by a certain man". Kakashi then thought to himself "this one is going to be a handful if he lets his desire for revenge consum him". Then kakashi pointed to sakura who stood up and said "I'm Sakura Haruno I like my friend and dislike perverts and those who are mean to my friends what I desire is to be as capable a kunoichi as I can be" kakashi thought thought to himself "it looks like at least one of them isnt going to give me a headache". Kakashi turned to naruto "your turn now". Naruto stood up "im Naruto Namikaze I like ramen and sakura-chan I dislike saskue and waiting for ramen my desire is to become hokage and be better than my dad". Kakashi thoughts on Naruto were "he's grown in an interesting way but he thinks about ramen way to much". Kakashi then spoke " meet me at training ground 7 tomorrow morning and don't eat breakfast unless you want to throw it up".

When Naruto got home he saw his parents sitting in the living room with serious expressions on their face. Naruto walked in and asked "is something wrong you both seem upset". His dad stood up and walked over to naruto saying "Naruto now that you've become a ninja theres a secret we need to tell you". At this Naruto got excited until his mm spoke up "this isnt a good secret you will want to sit down since this will be very shocking fo ryou". Minato spoke saying "naruto what do you know about the Nine tailed fox Kyubi?". Naruto jst looked at his parents wondering what the kyubi had to do with anything so he spoke "not much other than you defeated it before I was born". Kushina looked at naruto sadly as she spoke "naruto the kyubi was defeated but not like you think it happened when you were born a masked man attacked the village using the kyubi which until then had been contained inside me I was what is known as a jinchuriki a person who holds the spirit of a biju inside of themselves. The night you were born the masked man removed the kyubi form me nearly killing me he then used kyubi to attack the village with it. So your father had no choice but to seal it in you since being the son of me and him we knew you could handle it and would need its power one day to protect those important to you. Knowing this didn't make it any easier to choose to seal kyubi in our own son though." Naruto sat there stunned when Minato spoke "that's why ever since you learned to access chakra we've been teaching you to be a shinobi so that you would be strong enough to use the kyubi's power without being controlled by it"

Naruto continued to sit silently while he thought about everything he had been tolled. Then he asked "who knows about me and the kyubi?". Kushina answered "Jiriaya, tsunade, sarutobi-sama who was the third hokage, and Kakashi once he became your jounin instructor, along with random villagers and ninja who saw or heard about your father sealing kyubi in you. Naruto I now is touh believe me I know since I was once the one kyubi was sealed in that's why I taught you how to make chakra chains so you could use them to restrain kyubi like I used to." Mimato then said "we're sorry you have to bear this burden but we know you can do it, also now that you know about kyubi you are free to tell whomever you want but be warned though we intended the village to see you as a hero some people will see you as a demon if they find out about the Kyubi."

Naruto then smiled and said "im the son of the 4th hokage and the former host of the most powerful biju this is nothing I cant handle, but could you teach me more powerful techniques like dad's rasengan or his flying thunder god technique." At this both of his parents laughed telling him they had someone in mind to help teach him. When he asked who they simply told himit was his godfather.

The next morning the naruto, saskue, and sakura arrived at the training field. The field was just a large plain of grass surrounded by trees. The unique thing about the field was the three wooden post at one end. After they had been waiting for a half hour kakashi finally showed up. Naruto glared at him and asked "are you always going to be late sensei?". Kakashi simply ignored naruto and held up two small bells and said "you have until noon to get these bells from me if you don't have them by noon you all fail and will be sent back to the academy for another year. He then jumped back and said "the test begins now!"

Naruto quickly ran to where sakura was hiding and said "we need a plan to get the bells kakashi is to strong for anyone of us". Sakura thought about this and realized naruto was right, at the same time Saskue attacked head on which gave sakura an idea. Sakura turned to naruto and asked "how many shadow clones can you make". At this naruto smirked and said proudly "as many as you need Sakura-chan" sakura smiled at this the she made 2 normal bunshins as naruto made 50 shadow clones and henged them into sakura when she told him to.

Kakashi was caught by surprise (since he had been distracted by saskue) when 52 sakuras started charging at him. As he fought through them disappearing many he noticed some were just normal bunshins that when he saw two narutos coming at him almost grad the bells. He quickly stabbed them only to realize that they weren't even shadow clones they were just regular clones. Right when he turned his attention fully back to the shadow clones he noticed they were all naruto. At this same moment sakura snuck up and took the bells off of kakashi.

Sakura and Naruto quickly found Saskue, but when they went to share the bells with him he scoffed saying he didn't want their charity. That's when they noticed it was noon. So all three of them confronted kakashi who smiled. He congratulated sakura and naruto for using teamwork to get the bells saying "well done by mixing naruto's shadow clones and sakura's normal clones together and then discussing them as sakura using a transformation jutsu you kept me off guard while sakura used her chakra control to lower her chakra to a point I couldn't sense it due to all the shadow clones and the real naruto she then stole the bells and share them with naruto which means you both pass the test.". this is when sakura had a question "if there are only two bells then how is the third person supposed to pass sensei". At this Kakashi turned to Saskue and said "this test wasn't truly about the bells it was about teamwork for none of you could ever beat me by yourselves, but you saskue fail because even when naruto and sakura tried to share the bells with you which is exactly what they were supposed to do you refused to cooperate so you fail however you have one more chance after lunch for the three of you to try again this time though if one fails then all three of you fail."

Kakashi then said "Saskue since you failed to get will not get lunch ad will be tied to the middle pole and if either naruto or sakura try and help you then all three of you fail". With that kakashi left so naruto turned to the tied up saskue and held his food out to him saying "eat if you don't eat you wont have any strength". But saskue just ignored the food as he used a kunai he had hidden up his sleeve to cut the ropes binding him and he began to walk away. Until a chain made entirely of chakra surrounded him and brought him to the ground. Naruto at this point was very grateful that he had learned his mom's technique. Saskue turned around surprised to see the chain coming out of naruto's hand. Naruto glared at saskue and said "like it or not your our teammate which means we look out for one another so none of us do something stupid so let us help you"

Sakura then shared what was left of her lunch with saskue saying "teammates help each other not out of pity but because we're comrades and depend on eachother so eat". Saskue just said "fine" and ate the remaining food and grudgingly saying thanks to Naruto and Sakura. Kakashi then appeared glaring at the three of them and said with a smile " I saw and heard everything you are absolutely right so all three of you pass we are now officially team 7 so rest up we begin missions tomorrow".

thanks for reading now please review and tell me what you think. also i'm sorry if i misspelled a japanese word i tried my best to spell hem right also sorry about how i didn't capatalize a persons name all the time. REVIEW please