Chapter 3: Teamwork is the Key
(Konoha: Third Training Ground)
Naruto appeared behind his three Genin he had been assign to. He thought it would be a good impression to startle them by sneaking up from behind. To him what was supposed to be a cool way of introducing himself was exactly what he had hoped.
The three Genin turned around with the look of confusion and awe. Their eyes were wide with innocence. All three of them were in shock to know that their new Jonin Sensei was none other than Naruto Uzumaki, one of the two heroes of the war.
It was one thing for a Jonin Sensei to be late and make his new students wait it out, but this was shocking news to hear that their Sensei was the legendary man himself.
"Se...Sensei? Naruto Uzumaki is my new Sensei?!" said one of the boys.
He was a laid-back looking kid with brown eyes andpurple hair that stood up like Kakashi's. With a regular black-clothed forehead protector that had long ends hanging down the back that was similar to the length of Naruto's.
He had a katana strapped to his back of his black shirt which was layered over a long sleeve steel mesh shirt. He had on regular black ninja pants, with a shuriken pouch on his right thigh and regular black ninja sandals. He simply had a plain black attire.
"My name is Uzuki Kioshi It's an honor to meet the great Uzumaki Naruto, in the flesh although you aren't as old I thought you'd be" said the purple haired Genin as he introduced himself politely.
Naruto gave him the nod with his trademark grin.
"Yosh nice to meet you Kioshi." said Naruto as he quickly examined the boy's appearance.
"He appears to dress in a simple attire but yet he has a calm and respectable tone of voice when talking to others." Naruto thought to himself before taking notice of the katana strapped to his back.
Naruto's first impression of this Genin was good. Someone he can work with seeing that he wasn't loud mouthed like he was back when he was 12 years old. He didn't seem to give Naruto the arrogant vibe that Sasuke had when he was little either.
"Good thing I don't have to deal with that." Naruto thought to himself.
"Okay next up we have here is umm…hmmm how about you" Naruto pointed out to the only girl in the group.
Quickly after pointing a finger at the young Kunoichi, her face slightly became light-red from all of the attention quickly shifting over to her.
"Uhh…Domo Sensei my name is Tanaka Mai, It's a plea- pleasure to meet you" the young Kunoichi stammered.
She really didn't stutter that bad it's just being up front and personal with a living legend and not only that but that living legend being her new sensei was a little bit overwhelming for the young girl.
Naruto took the time to examine the girl's appearance. She hademerald green eyes that would attract the attention of any young boy who was going through puberty at that age. Her dark-brown hair was tied up into a pony-tail with her forehead protector worn regularly on her forehead.
She had on a maroon sleeveless shirt that exposed the bottom half of her stomach revealing her belly button. Although however the collar of the shirt cupped around her neck resembling Sasuke's old attire when he was away training with Orochimaru.
Her arms were protected with arm guards that matched the color of her shirt. She sported black ninja pants as well as her first introduced teammate. Her shuriken pouch was on her left thigh because she was left-handed. She wore ninja heels that resembled the ones that Sakura was accustomed to wearing.
Naruto smiled at his young Kunoichi and gave her his nod of approval. The young girl then started to blush a little bit knowing that one of the great heroes of the ninja world was making direct eye contact with her.
"I need to break her out of her shyness." thought Naruto.
"Yosh okay nex-"
Before Naruto could finish his sentence the last Genin caught his attention. He stared at the boy and gave him a nice big smile.
"You there what's your name?" said Naruto while crossing his arms and giving him the look of encouragement.
The last Genin still looked shell shocked from the news of Naruto being his new sensei. He was lost in his little dream world. He was so excited for a moment of time he wasn't in the same world everyone else was in. The boy was simply dazed and confused. Then he finally snapped out of it.
While standing straight up straightening his body posture with his hands to his side military style he gave out a loud bark.
"HAI, SENSEI! MY NAME IS SARUTOBI RENJI SIR!"
Naruto stood there with a dead-pan look on his face with sweat dropping down the side of his head. He was trying his best not to laugh at his new student's awkwardness.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA." Kurama laughed.
"This kid is going to be fun to watch."
"You think so? He's part of the Sarutobi Clan he must be Konohamaru's cousin." replied Naruto in his mindscape.
With that said Naruto then examined the boy's appearance. He saw that he had black eyes with black hair. He had on a forehead protector that was similar to Captain Yamato's.
"Nice." thought Naruto.
Renji was wearing a dark-blue ninja vest with pockets in the front, although it looked like he was wearing a standard chunnin vest. It wasn't it didn't have to thick padding on the shoulders and collar that was issued to all Chunin rank shinobi.
Under his vest he was wearing a skin tight black shirt that extended down to his elbows. He has one fingerless gloves that had a blue stitching on it. He was wearing standard blue ninja pants and standard blue ninja sandals. His shuriken pouch was set up on his right thigh.
"Hmm...So you three seem to dress pretty simple, I don't see anything wrong with any of your clothing becoming a problem with mobility." explained the Jonin of the group.
Naruto started walking to the three log post that were planted onto the ground. He took out an alarm clock and set the timer for about 2 hours.
With that he then turned to his Genin.
"You three have 2 hours to show me if you are capable of becoming qualified shinobi. If you three can't show me that you have what it takes to become a shinobi all three of you will go back to the academy"
All three of the Genin looked at their new Sensei and all said in unison
"WHAT? I thought we were already Genin!?"
"Sensei? What do you mean by showing you we are capable of becoming Genin? And what exactly do we have to do within two hours to meet those expectations?" asked Mai.
"Yeah what do you mean by that Naruto-Sensei? Im a full-fledged Genin now see I got my Konoha forehead protector!" Renji explained while pointing his thumb towards his forehead.
"Something seems odd, I don't like this whatever Sensei is planning doesn't seem right." thought Kioshi.
Waiting for their Sensei's reply all three of the Genin had a worried look on their faces. Naruto on the other hand, had his eyes closed. The tension on the training ground was heavy, then as the wind blew a breeze pushed Naruto's hair to the left.
Naruto reached in his shuriken pouch and pulled out two bells and dangled them in front his Gennin.
"It's easy you three have to take these two bells from me within the time limit. Failure to do so will justify my reasoning to send you back to the academy." Naruto calmly stated.
"But Sensei we already graduated, we are full-fledged-"
Renji responded before he was interrupted by Naruto.
"Shinobi?"
The wind began to blow harder as the atmosphere taking place became more gloom for the three Genin.
"Let me ask you this? How are you full-ledged shinobi if you haven't even completed a mission assigned to you yet, let alone a D-rank?" asked the blonde Jonin.
"Well….Uhh… I meant to say is." Renji was confused and didn't want to say anymore in fear of becoming Naruto's least favorite apprentice.
"In the Shinobi world your life is at a risk in any situation you are placed in outside of the village. Whether it be in a simple D-rank or an S-rank not matter what, you must always be aware of what's happening around you and be one step ahead of any danger you may face."
Naruto pulled out a kunai from shuriken pouch and started twirling it on its loop-end around his index finger.
"Do you have what it takes to end the life of somebody who is opposing you? It's kill or be killed in a battle."
After seeing the looks he was getting from his Genin Naruto changed the tone on his voice and threw his kunai to a tree trunk that was about 25 yards away deeply embedding it to the trunk.
"However, I seek a different way of handling things. I kill only when need be. I work with my team to get things done efficiently.If my life is in danger or my comrades lives are in danger I will do anything and everything in my power to prevent any harm towardsthem or my village"
Putting extra emphasis in the words team, work and comrades Naruto hoped that his newly appointed students were getting the hint of what he was trying to tell them.
"I will never give up and I will never go back on my word." said Naruto as the wind stopped blowing.
"Because that is my ninja way."
After hearing Naruto's speech all three of his Genin were staring at him in awe and were inspired to pass his test. Kioshi and Mai were inspired but kept their mouths shut.
Renji on the other hand stood up straight in his military fashion and yelled out.
"HAI! NARUTO-SENSEI!"
After expressing his passion and excitement to his team and new sensei he sensed a change take over him. Feeling stronger with words of encouragement he made a bold statement before realizing it he blurted out.
"IM GOING TO SURPASS YOU BUT BEFORE I DO THAT IM GOING TO TAKE THOSE BELLS!"
Upon hearing such a bold statement Kioshi and Mai both had a bead sweat drop on the back of their heads.
A smile appeared on Naruto's face after seeing such passion from his student and thought to himself.
"You remind me of a young version of myself Renji"
Kioshi's eye twitched a little and thought.
"BAKA, as if you'll surpass Sensei"
Mai thought it was a nice bold statement but also very stupid of her new teammate.
"How are you going to take those bells-" then she cut herself off
"Sensei? If im correct you said that we were to take those bells from you right? Worst case scenario if we fail we have to go back to the academy right?" asked a concerned Mai
"Yes that's right." replied Naruto
"Then how come there are only two bells and three of us? Let's say two of us end up snatching a bell from you what would happen to the third person?" Mai asked.
Now she was really worried to what her Sensei's answer would be.
"Ahhh so you've noticed. Very good observation Mai. If two of you manage to snatch a bell each, that would leave one of you without one and that one unlucky person out of the three of you…..will fail and go back to the academy." replied Naruto in a stern command.
The look on his three Genin's faces were now even more horrified. Almost as if Naruto had snatched away their souls with his words.
"So if you wish to not be sent back to the academy I suggest you guys come and get a bell from me. Your time starts.."
Naruto's eyes were shifting to each of his Genin to see how they were absorbing his words.
"Now…."
And with that the three Genin scattered in different directions to hide.
With the three Genin scattered throughout the forest Naruto started to shift his eyes in three directions. First he looked towards 12:00 and thought.
"Seems that Kioshi is well hidden."
Then he shifted his eyes towards 4:00.
"Not bad Mai… now where is Renji?" the Jonin thought to himself.
Just when he was about to turn around he sensed a shuriken flying towards him from his left.
"Straightforward with an attack I see..." Naruto thought before simply dodging the shuriken by tilting his head backwards.
After the shuriken sliced by a mere foot away from his bodies range he caught it through the hole in the middle of the weapon with his index finger to stop it while it was still spinning in his finger he looked to his left at 8:00 and smiled.
"I guess I'll start with Renji."
"Damn Sensei has good sense and awareness….well then again this is The Legendary Uzumaki Naruto himself…"
Before Renji could recollect his thoughts after what transpired before his eyes he saw a shuriken flying right back at him but this time at a much faster speed than the time he threw his.
Quickly thinking Renji flipped backwards behind the tree branch he was standing on just in time for the shuriken to hit the branch right in front of him.
"I BEILIVE THAT BELONGS TO YOU RENJI!" shouted Naruto.
"Come on out Renji let me teach you a little something about Taijustu..."
Naruto gestured Renji to come charging at him while he smirked with all the confidence in the world. Renji gladly accepted his invitation to go duel it out in hand-to-hand combat to test his ability with his new sensei.
As Renji dashed closer to his instructor he let a feint head bob to his left while speedily charging to the right side of the blonde Jonin aiming to punch him square in the jaw with his right fist. Naruto who easily detected the misdirection in the feint simply sidestepped to his left and caught Renji's fist with his palm and grabbed the Genin's arm.
He attempted to throw him up into the air but the Genin was expecting this to happen, so he twisted his body to the right and tried to kick his sensei's stomach but was blocked by the Jonin's knee.
As Renji's foot made contact with Naruto's knee he used his left arm to attempt a swipe at the bells but was quickly rejected with a parry from Naruto's free arm.
"Im not done yet!" yelled Renji.
He tried to leg sweep Naruto with his right leg but the Jonin jumped up letting go of Renjis arm. With Renji's arms now free he started to springboard backflip away from his Sensei.
"You're not going to get these bells with moves like that Renji, it'll take a lot more to even touch them." said an unfazed Naruto.
In that moment Naruto dashed towards him with blinding speed and kneed him in the stomach. Renji was hunched over in excruciating pain but not life threatening. He dropped to his knees crutching the sides of his stomach.
"This is the gap between me and Sensei..." thought Renji before he fell face first into the grass.
"Hm... maybe I shouldn't have hit him so hard, ohh well ill just toughen his up through physical training later." said Naruto as he then disappeared in a yellow flash.
(Konoha: Third Training Ground w/Mai)
Mai was lurking behind some bushes trying to come up with a strategy before Renji got knocked out.
Mai had originally thought of a plan to work with both Renji and Kioshi to attain the bells, but instead all three split up into three different directions. Her next step was to discreetly find Renji and tell him what she had in mind but instead she stopped in her tracks when she saw that he had confronted their Sensei head on like an idiot.
She quietly watched the two engage in hand-to-hand combat and figured she would watch to see any weakness that their sensei would show but with the confrontation ending so quickly and Renji being knocked out.
"Great now we have one less set of arms to help grab those bells." the young Kunoichi whispered to particularly nobody.
"I have to find Kioshi so we could figure something out but. Where is he...?" she thought.
Mai was about to move out but her gut feeling was telling her not to move just yet.
As soon as Naruto had disappeared into a yellow flash she felt a sudden breeze behind her.
"Shit…." Mai murmured.
She turned around only to see Naruto behind her sitting down Indian-style with his eyes closed.
"Mai, you know it isn't very lady like for a young girl like you to curse" said Naruto.
He opened his eyes and smiled towards her which in turn freaked her out. She dashed backwards and landed right next to Renji.
"Get up!" she said as she slammed her palm onto his back.
"Huh…?! What happened….where am I?" responded Renji in a trancelike tone.
He looked around only to realize his last memory of what happened before he was knocked out.
"SENSEI?!" he shot out.
"Where'd he go what's going on Mai?"
"Are you done sleeping? You were knocked out for a good minute before I woke you up" replied Mai.
"Huh….one…..minute?" asked Renji who was completely dumbfounded.
"Fuck….I'm nowhere near as good as sensei in terms of Taijustu…im a failure-" before Renji could finish his sentence he was cut off.
"Don't worry about it, it's okay he's one of the two legendary Heroes of the 4th Great Ninja war. There is nothing to be ashamed of. We just have to get through this task as Genin first than we could start to make names for ourselves." explained Mai.
"Thanks…Mai but I can't help but wonder where Sensei is do you have any idea?" asked Renji.
Before Mai could respond Naruto dashed out of the bushes and charged straight at Mai
"You know? A ninja never lets their guard down just for a second." said Naruto as he pulled out his kunai.
Both Renji and Mai pulled out their kunai as well getting ready for a clash of metal but before Naruto made it to them a shuriken came flying towards Naruto with speed that a Genin couldn't have thrown.
"Ahhh so I finally fished you out Kioshi" said the blonde Jonin.
He deflected the shuriken with ease and right when he did that the purple-haired Genin came out from hiding as he dashed straight towards them. He wasn't done yet he had thrown another set of shuriken at Naruto and started making handsigns.
"Hmmm…so this one knows how to make..." Naruto thought to himself.
"Shuriken Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" said Kioshi.
Now multiple shadow clones appeared out of nowhere heading straight for Naruto. Both Mai and Renji looked shocked with awe as their mouths hung wide open. Kioshi took this chance to unsheathe his katana from his back ready for whatever was going to happen.
Naruto however just smiled. He made a sign with both hands in the form of a cross.
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu"
Suddenly the same amount of Shurikens were met head on by Naruto clones. But here's the thing he didn't dodge them instead he let them hit him.
"What the hell?" both Renji and Mai thought…
"Kioshi made clones of his shuriken and Sensei made the same amount of clones of himself. And he didn't even dodge them….."
"Shit….." thought Kioshi.
Their field of vision was gone with the amount of smoke that covered the field from the dispatched Naruto clones.
"He got us…. No wonder why he made so many clones..." said Kioshi, but yet the young Genin had a smirk on his face.
"You may have surprised both Mai and Renji with your Shuriken Kage Bunshin's but not me..." replied Naruto calmly.
He decided to take them out one by one to test out their senses. So he snuck around the left side to get one but before he could make contact.
"Renji to your left throw you kunai!" yelled Kioshi.
Without even thinking Renji's body reacted and did as he said.
"Aww crap that almost hit me, what the hell! How did that that brat know…" thought Naruto
"Lucky guess, fine I'll go after Mai." he thought again.
He shifted his movements towards Mai who was clutching her kunai in her hands.
She was nervously awaiting for either Kioshi to instruct her to move a certain way like he did with Renji or to meet her Sensei head on. Lucky for her, Kioshi had instructed her to jump.
Just as Kioshi said, Mai did. She jumped only to avoid being tripped to the ground from a leg sweep Naruto had attempted.
"Again….DAMNIT what is this kid a sensor?!" thought Naruto.
Sure enough Naruto got fed up with him being easily predicted by his new student so he just decided to jump out of the dome of smoke created by his shadow clones. He landed on a tree branch and squatted down to go over what had happened so far.
"That Kioshi he seems to be a sensor type... other than that Mai and Renji seem to follow his instructions without hesitation. Maybe I should've paid more attention to their files before meeting up with them I almost got my head cleaved off by a kunai from a kid"
"HAHAHAHAH look at that you the mighty Uzumaki Naruto almost killed by a mere kunai from a damn gaki." laughed Kurama.
"OI SHUT UP KURAMA, YOU STUPID FURBALL AFTER IM DONE WITH THESE KIDS IM COMING TO WHOOP YOUR ASS!" responded Naruto.
"BRING IT ON GAKI!" replied Kurama.
"Tch... ill kick your ass later" joked Naruto
"Whatever I'll be waiting" snickered the Nine-tailed fox.
Back in the real life world Naruto laughed it off as if was it was no big deal. But still he had to be wary of Kioshi he wasn't just any average Genin.
(Konoha: Third Training Ground, Back with the three Genin)
"Hey you guys it's okay I don't sense him in this protective cloud of smoke but anymore." said Kioshi.
"Are you sure?! Wait how did you know where he was going to be anyways?" responded Renji.
"Yeah, you sure as hell didn't seem to be phased by being basically blind waiting for an attack at any given moment." said Mai.
"Well, let's just say I can sense things. Im a sensor..." smirked Kioshi.
Mai quickly replied. "Ohh well that makes things a whole lot easier for us…but we don't have much time before this smoke clears out I have a plan I've been needing to tell you both this when we started so listen up…"
The two boys listened to Mai's plan.
As soon as all three genin devised their master plan they all dispersed but this time Mai and Kioshi went together towards one direction and Renji went the opposite.
Now with the smoke clearly dissipated all that was left on the ground were 4 shuriken.
*poof*
Suddenly one shuriken puffed into smoke and revealed Naruto smiling.
"Hmm... seems like they came up with a good plan…they pass my standards for a three-man cell, gotta go report this to boss" said the clone.
The Naruto that disappeared revealed himself to be a shadow clone who henge'd into a shuriken the moment of impact earlier.
(Konoha, Third Training Ground, w/the original Naruto)
"Ahhh so they've come up with a good plan…to bad it won't get them anywhere near these bells." said the blonde Jonin.
He pulled out a little notepad and pen and quickly wrote down something and covered his mouth with one hand as he giggled with a blush face.
Obviously he had thought of something perverted that he could add on to his new story for the Icha Icha franchise. He had taken over for Jiraiya since he had died and his perverted legacy was passed on to him with his novels.
"Kakashi Sensei and Shikamaru are going to love this one." said Naruto as he put the pen and notepad back into his pouch.
Now with that done. He got a little serious he stood up from the branch he was squatting on and said to no one in particular.
"Let's go mess their plan up before I pass them."
He jumped off the branch and made his way toward the direction Renji went.
(Konoha: Third Training Ground, w/Renji)
Thirty minutes later Renji who was all by himself was getting anxious. He was worried he'd mess up the plan that Mai had instructed.
"Alright this time I won't make a fool out of myself." thought the Genin.
As soon as he spotted his Sensei he threw a set of shuriken and mixture of kunai towards Naruto who dodged them with ease. They all landed on the little hill of dirt that was behind Naruto.
"You know Renji if you're going to throw some ninja weapons towards me make sure they hi-"
*Hisssss…*
"Crap" thought Naruto before an explosion went off behind him.
*BOOM!*
The loud explosion went off and black smoke and dirt flew all over the field where Naruto was standing and the sheer amount of dirt made it extremely hard for him to see.
"Ohh no, what am I to do now I can't see." thought Naruto sarcastically.
He knew that this was the part where Mai would come in and throw multiple shuriken from the direction behind him. Sure enough there were 10 shuriken making their way towards Naruto.
"Yes, he has nowhere to go but up now..." thought Mai who was standing behind a tree 20 yards out.
"Alright I'll be your main actor for this role then, up I must go" Naruto thought.
As he jumped he was smiling anticipating the arrival of Kioshi who was to appear out of nowhere to meet him head on with his katana.
Naruto pulled out his kunai and blocked a very precise slash from behind him. He turned his body in mid-air to see Kioshi smiling as well.
Naruto winked at him and kicked him with a left kick. Kioshi blocked with his right shin. Still gripping his katana Kioshi quickly sheathed it and grabbed onto Naruto's shoulders and flipped over his head while still holding on his sensei's shoulders.
With all his might he threw Naruto down towards the ground where Renji was standing.
Renji who was waiting for Naruto to come crashing down had already began phase two of the plan and stomped the ground with his foot and yelled out to Mai.
"OKAY here we go pull the wire!"
As soon as she got the signal Mai pulled the ninja wire that was attached to a trap door that covered a 10 foot pit in the ground that Renji had dug out prior to Naruto's arrival. Inside the pit was nothing sharp Kunai planted on the ground facing up and on the walls like a mummy trap.
"Since sensei has no choice but to make a shadow clone to grab himself before falling into his pit of death this is where we attack" thought Mai as if her plan was going to work out.
Naruto was falling but in his mind things were playing out really slow.
"So if I decide to make a shadow clone Kioshi is going to dash in and slice the bells off of my waist but if I decided to fall to my untimely death it would for sure catch them off guard" Naruto smiled and made a Kage Bunshin.
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu"
Naruto's clone caught the original with both hands and swung him up out of danger.
"Got him" both Renji and Mai said.
Sure enough right when the shadow clone appeared Kioshi attempted the fastest slash of his life.
Aiming towards his sensei's waist he had to cut the two strings precisely. He swung as quickly and compact as he could and noticed the bells were cut free slowly floating in front of his eyes he reached out to them. But before he could catch them Naruto's clone dispersed into a cloud of smoke and covered Kioshi's vision.
"DAMNIT!" yelled Kioshi.
He felt Naruto grab his arm and throw him towards the direction of Mai. He was traveling at such a fast speed that Mai came out from hiding and put both palms in front of her to try to catch Kioshi's back at least to stop the fast pace as he was heading towards the tree.
She caught his back and tried to hold her ground but fell backwards as the two young shinobi fell and rolled out onto the tree trunk.
"Ouch that hurt" said Mai.
She was on her back she slowly looked up then she looked to her left to feel Kioshi laying on his stomach. She looked down onto her chest and her face started to blush heavily red as she realized that Kioshi's hand was on her right breast.
"AYAAAA! KIOSHI ERO-BAKA!" she screamed.
Mai grabbed Kioshi by his shirt collar and slapped him senseless Left, Right, Left, Right… in between the slaps Kioshi was trying to explain what had happened.
"I…..*slap*…..didn't…..*slap*….mean…..*slap*…to…..*slap*".
Over by where Naruto was standing he had the same Perverted look Jiraiya had whenever new material presently itself. He quickly pulled out his pad and pen and started writing. He was so distracted at what had happened just then. That he didn't realize that Renji had picked up both bells.
He dangled them in front of Naruto and said.
"YOSH! SENSEI! Looks like we got the bells!"
Naruto, Mai and Kioshi all looked towards Renji and realized what had just happened.
"So it seems you have, HAHA well I've been meaning to tell you this but after hearing your guys little plan you formulated when you were inside of the dome of smoke that I created with my clones I was going to pass you guys." explained Naruto
"But there's only two bells and three of us." replied Renji.
"And what do you mean after hearing our plan" asked Mai who was still holding a senseless Kioshi by the collar.
"Ohh that well, see I transformed one of my clones into a shuriken that Kioshi had thrown to get some intel on you guys since you were all inside the smoke. After you three left I relayed the information I learned to the original me and went along with your guys little plan." said Naruto.
He was looking at a very confused Mai and Renji and a very senseless Kioshi.
"So we didn't…pass because our plan….?" said Mai.
"If so then why did you pass us Sensei?" still she was still holding Kioshi by the collar.
Renji also chimed in "If you were aware of the plan than why do we have the bells?"
"Well my cute little Genin the real objective of this test was to test out your teamwork. These bells were simply a disguise to pit you three against each other….In the Ninja World it takes teamwork to run missions and be on a three-man cell and you guys we being tested on how well you worked as a team. I saw just that the moment Kioshi came out and helped you both when you were blinded in the smoke."
"So that explains why our plan was going so well." I didn't exactly think we would be able to execute our plan to that extent against you Sensei..." said Mai.
"Yup. With that said you three are now officially Genin… Congratulations." Naruto said to his new students with a thumbs up pose.
"YOSH! Im finally a Genin!" an excited Renji said.
"AYA! Yes! We did it" Mai said before hugging Kioshi tightly.
"…..Mai…..you're….choking…me…" murmured Kioshi while giving a thumbs up to both Renji and Naruto in his lifeless form.
Again Mai's face became red realizing her chest was smothering Kioshi's face
"ERO-BAKA!"
She screamed before she punched Kioshi out of her field of vision.
Naruto's eye twitched…."I have a feeling I should keep this girl away from Sakura-chan as well as Tsunade-baachan."
"Ahhh…..this group is going to be fun…Okay Team 11 is now assembled!" said Naruto.
