I don't own any rights to Naruto
"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Demon head whispering"
Just seconds after waking up Naruto remembered today was the day of the Genin Team Announcement and he did not want to late to this. While getting dressed he debated on where to put his headband. The first thought was his forehead but he didn't want to hide it under his hood. The only other place that was exposed was his legs and he did want it that low on his body. He thought about it for a little bit until he realized he had not told anyone about his bloodline limit. If his headband was not on his forehead then someone could see the clan makings and then figure it out for them selves. He didn't want it to be known just yet because he was too inexperienced with it and wasn't sure how people would react to it. Walking over to a mirror to see how it looked on him. As he looked into the mirror a thought crept into his mind. The others from the class wouldn't recognize him from his bigger body and new clothes. Hell he was has trouble still believing it was him too. He really doubted that some people would think it was him or that it was a henge of some kind. The only people who knew it was him was him was the Hokage and Iruka. If he waited for Iruka to announce the teams to revel himself then Iruka would back up his new look. The only thing was he would have to get there early so no one saw his face or they would question him because his face still looked like his old self but with less baby fat.
While Naruto was heading to the academy, the Kyuubi decided to it was time he would do something. "Hey Kit, How about if I give you some training you drop the mask of the idiot that you wear?" 'I don't know it sounds a little risky I mean if I change too much they will think I am some sort of imposter if my personality changes, too.' "While that is a valid point I think that you need to think about how thing would go if you don't have them see you as some one who will be of any help on a mission." 'It still sounds risky; I mean if they turn on me they will know how to get to me.' "On the same note, how can they trust you if you don't trust them enough to show the real you. If you are in a life or death situation how can you be of use if they don't know what you can do?" 'I guess your right, but you will understand if I keep some things from them until I think they are ready like you for example. I don't know who I will get just yet so I don't know if they have lost some one due to the night you where sealed.' "Now that I wouldn't hold against you in anyway, so now how about that training I promised you." 'Okay what is it, is it jutsu or maybe fighting style?' "Neither, it is new chakra control exercise. Now before I tell you what it is I would like to tell you how this will help you. As I am sure you know how to do the leaping ability all ninja use. The exercise will with the pinpoint control you use in the muscles in your legs to generate the needed force to get to the spot you want. This exercise will help with the enlarging chakra pathways through out your body. Now on a personal level this will help with your bone manipulations. If you are more able to use the chakra in your body in a pinpoint manner you will have the shaping ability improved greatly." 'Okay I see where this headed but I have to ask why is that you didn't tell me about this earlier. I mean sure we have only been talking like this for a week, but this sounds like it would really help.' "The only reason I have not talked about it is because I had to think it up. For use Biju we have next to no way to improve our chakra control. Now this exercise is ball rolling. You take a simple rubber ball and using your chakra to hold it to your skin while slowly pulling it across it. The reason it is a rubber ball is that if you use some thing like a rock the edges will catch on your cloths. For a normal person this exercise would enable them to draw kunai to your hands without moving your body." 'Wow I can see where this can be a big help to people.' Looking around Naruto sees a coin vending machine with rubber ball the size of cherries. Naruto pulled the needed coin for the machine. This was one thing that Naruto liked about these machines was they couldn't tell who people where, so the prices were the same for every one. A new idea came to mind if he was going to be on a team he may as well learn this with them. Unknown to him this was one thing that the Kyuubi wanted.
Entering the academy an hour early Naruto found it surprising vacant. He always thought that the teachers were there this early. Naruto then realized that except for the team announcement the school would be out for break. Once he found the room the announcement would be he promptly found a seat, folds his arm and put his head down. For the remainder of the hour Naruto just talked to the Kyuubi or waited.
The first person to enter the room after Naruto was Iruka. Once Iruka saw Naruto already there he had to wonder why he decided to get here this early. He could only speculate why but soon lost the train of thought as some of the students entered the room. He knew many of them didn't have the stuff to be good ninjas this year but there were a few hopefuls. The first hopeful was Nara Shikamaru which surprised Iruka because he was so lazy. The only reason he could think of for him being here this early was because of his mother telling him not to be late. The next was Aburame Shino who arrived exactly fifteen minutes early. It was scary how their logic came like clockwork never missing or underestimating. After him came Uchiha Sasuke, in many ways a student every teacher would be proud of, but some ways the one you never want. Iruka had hoped that Sasuke would lead the class not just be the head. Hyuga Hinata was soon to after him with a look of depression. She was one of only two non-Sasuke fan-girls in the class. That's not to say she wasn't a fan-girl she had a huge crush on Naruto. Every time he thought about the crush the betting pool came to mind. It was a joke a year ago but once the jounin got involved it grew into a monster with the outlandish ideas and a chuunin's yearly pay at stake. With a loud boastful entrance can Inuzaka Kiba. This student worried Iruka because he may have the guts of ninja but he lacked the ability to back down. Of the hopefuls next came Akimichi Chouji. Like all Akimichi he was munching on some kind of food, for him it was potato chips. The last two Haruno Sakura and Yamanaka Ino came in at the same time and fought over who was the one who got in first. With Sakura he was worried that for her being a ninja was just a way to get to Sasuke. Now for Ino it was different she was the most all around powerful kunoichi but he was worried it went to her head. After a few minutes Iruka thought it best to yell at them to take a seat.
Both of them then looked for Sasuke, when they saw him they noticed a new guy at the same row as Sasuke, but since he wasn't next to him they didn't care. Sakura was the winner in the race for the seat next to Sasuke. Once she sat down she started to wonder who the person on her other side was. The only thing that made any sense was that it was a ninja who was on the reserve list and was be put on a team. Sakura was all too happy that Naruto was not able to graduate because she found his attitude to annoying and the way he acted to Sasuke was something she could never understand. Inside Naruto's head the Kyuubi had to ask, "Why is it that you pretended to like her?" 'I thought that if I could get one person to like me then thing would lighten up. The reason it was her and not some one else was that I thought I had a better chance because of how some people use to tease her about her forehead. Even if she didn't love me that was one more person who wouldn't hate me and that is something I can always use.'
Once Iruka got his fresh genin speech over with he started down the teams' roster. By the time he reached team seven he decided to have a little fun. "Team seven: Uchiha Sasuke," at that all the fan-girls got quite, "Haruno Sakura," at this Sakura lets out a screech about true love, "and Uzumaki Naruto."
"What that can't be because the baka didn't even graduate and isn't here so how can he be on the same team as me and Sasuke-kun," yelled Sakura.
At this Naruto decided it was time to make his presence know. Sitting up, push his hood back, and looking straight at Sakura. "What are you talking about I have been here the whole time if you had just taken the time to notice instead of just looking at Sasuke. If you can't tell by the headband I have that I passed then I would have to wonder if you really are cutout to be a ninja in the first place," said Naruto. To say the class was shocked was an understatement, not only had Naruto changed out of the eyesore that was an orange jumpsuit but had also verbally slammed Sakura.
At this point Iruka thought it best to talk to the class. "After exam Naruto was able to complete an optional extra credit assignment that was able to give him enough points to pass this term and because a ninja," said Iruka. The reactions varied: from Kiba, Shino, Shikamaru, and Chouji didn't care, Ino and Sakura were both a little angry but let it slide, Sasuke only wondered what was the extra credit was, and Hinata was happy but a little disappointed that they were not on the same team. (AN I just didn't think that I extras reaction was needed)
Once the teams were announced they braked for lunch, then after they would meet their jounin sensei. Instantly Sakura asked Sasuke to eat lunch with her, and gave his normal answer of no. When she turned around she expected Naruto to ask her out for lunch but to her surprise he wasn't there. The facts that both of her teammates were not even sticking around her made her feel lonely and unwanted.
Once they had returned from lunch the jounin sensei started to show up. One hour later Team seven's sensei still had not even bothered to send some sort of notice was getting their nerves. It was about this time Naruto got an evil idea. "Oh nice not only does it make a good prank but also serves a purpose. I think you would make a fine fox trickster," said Kyuubi. On that note Naruto to put the eraser in the door frame.
Sakura looked up when she heard Naruto move to the chalk board and take an eraser. "Baka why are you doing that you know that a jounin would easily be able to that it is there," said Sakura.
"It is because he will know that it is there that I am putting it here," replied Naruto. "This will tell us what kind of person sensei is. If sensei lets it hit him on his head then he wants to be seen as weak so to be underestimated. Should sensei remove it then enter the classroom then we have learned that sensei is a careful person. Sensei could choose to enter the room by other means and avoid it all together; this says they would want to avoid conflict when ever possible. And lastly, the one I don't want, sensei could open the door to wide and let the eraser fall on the ground; this would mean that he is flashy and wants to show every one his power." Sasuke was looked like Naruto had just made a masterpiece of art in just three seconds. Sakura was beyond words shocked that the person she had just called an idiot had just made a simple prank sound like a mathematic formula.
"Now since he still hasn't shown up what do you say we do a little light training?" asked Naruto.
Sakura remained quite but listened to see what Sasuke said. Sasuke thought with all the dope had done today that maybe he would be some what useful for training. "Okay what did you have in mind?"
At this Naruto reached into his pocket for the rubber balls he bought earlier. Keeping one for himself he put the other two on the table. "Now in the academy we were taught how to use chakra to hold leaves to our foreheads but that is the only chakra control we know. What I suggest we do is take it one step further; we use the chakra here to hold the rubber balls to us. Then we slowly start to roll them across the surface of our bodies. I know what your thinking how will this help me do anything, the answer is this will help with your pinpoint control. This is meant to help with chakra infusing like your muscles for better strength and speed. But it not only helps with that if you run it all over your body then you would increase the size of the pathways and reserves so there are plenty reason to do it."
Sasuke thought about what he said. All the things he said did make sense on the grounds that if you start working the chakra as something independent then your body would have to adapt to produce more chakra. The pathways would also have to increase to ensure that more chakra could go to those areas that the ball would roll over. All in all the dope sounded like he knew what he was talking about. Sasuke walks over to the table with the other ball and take one.
Sakura was a little sketchy about the idea. She thought that it was just Naruto being an idiot and that it was not worth doing until Sasuke grabbed a ball. Part of her did think that it did sound possible but she really didn't care if helped her or not. She didn't rely like the idea that Sasuke would do some thing that Naruto came up with. Sakura then thought that if Sasuke was going to do then the she would do it as well. She can't have Sasuke thinking that she won't do some things that he would do. She gets up and takes the last ball on the table.
"Okay form a hand sign," began Naruto," then put the ball in your hand. Slowly put some chakra into it. Make sure to have the needed amount to stick the ball to your skin even when it is upside down. Next shift the chakra to one side at an even pace. Make sure not to over do it and move the ball to fast or you may loss it." Naruto then proceeded to do as he had said. The ball rolled over his hand once but he lost control when he tried to get it to go to his wrist. The other two started the exercise once Naruto tried for his second time. Sasuke had a good handle on the ball but couldn't keep from going too fast and losing control. Sakura was able to do the exercise well but found that she couldn't move it over some spots without losing control. She went over the speech Naruto said about the exercise and found that her pathways where too thin and she would have to focus harder to make it go over the dead areas.
Two hours later when Kakashi arrived he had an eraser fall on his head and didn't care much about it. What next garnered he attention was the fact that they all had a rubber ball on them. "Team Seven?" asked Kakashi. They all nodded. "My first impression is I don't like you;" stated Kakashi, "meet me on the roof in five minutes."
As the three genin made their way to the roof the same line of the thoughts where in their mind. 'So if Naruto/I am right then that means that sensei is the kind of person who want to be underestimated in a fight, now the question is how strong he really is.' Then their reactions started to differ because of their individual expectations. For Sasuke, 'If I am right then the council most likely forced this guy to be my sensei they want the Uchiha clan to back as soon a possible. I just hope they realize that I can never start a family as long as he is still out there.' While Sakura's mind was on, 'I hope this guy isn't always this late but if he is then that means I got a lot of time with Sasuke-kun. Now if only Naruto wasn't here I would be perfect'. 'On the subject of the baka, what is his angle he hasn't tried anything today, maybe he has given up and isn't going to bug me anymore.' For Naruto, 'I have to wonder what kind of person they put me with. On the one hand they may have put me on a team with a demon hater but I don't see Ojij-san letting that get done. The person may have some way to teach only Sasuke and have very little to teach Sakura and me. I could see it but I don't think it would fly with Ojiji-san. He may have more things to teach Sasuke and I but not Sakura. That would make sense because she seems to have little to no drive to be a ninja and is more suited to being a medic or genjutsu specialist. I can understand it if the reason that she was put with Sasuke and I to motivate herself to do more. I just hope that her crush on Sasuke doesn't slow that down.
Once all three of them where on the roof and seated near Kakashi, he said, "Okay now let's get to know each other a little."
"Um sensei… what is that you want us to say?" asked Sakura.
"Well how about your likes, dislikes, hobbies and dreams for the future," replied Kakashi.
"Then how about you go first to show us how it is done," requested Sakura.
"Okay my name is Hatake Kakashi, my like and dislikes are unimportant, my hobbies you don't need to know, and my dream for the future well I don't have one at the moment. You next pinky," stated Kakashi.
'Great all we learned was his name,' thought Sakura. "My name is Haruno Sakura, my likes are …" looks a Sasuke" my hobbies are …"still looking at Sasuke" and my dreams for the future are…" blushes looking at Sasuke. "I dislike Naruto." All Kakashi could think about that was that girl was more interested in love then ninjutsu.
"Moving right along… the raven hair one," said Kakashi.
"Uchiha Sasuke, I like few things and dislike many things. My hobby is training. My dream for the future no it is more of an ambition is to kill someone and revive my clan," stated Sasuke. To Kakashi this only confirmed his thoughts on Sasuke. For Sakura this made think he was cool. Now for Naruto this made him question whither or not he wanted to be on the same team as Sasuke.
"And lastly Blondie," said Kakashi.
"My name is Uzumaki Naruto. My likes are training, ramen, orange, and blades. My dislikes are people who take things at face value, people who are too self-important, and people who won't adjust to change. My hobbies are training, pranks, and taking care of my blades. My dream for the future is to be a respected ninja of this village and if that means being Hokage then so be it," answered Naruto. Kakashi was a little taken back by what he had heard, the profile on Naruto said that he was loud boastful and some what of an idiot. Now that he has heard him talk Kakashi was forced to wonder just how much of his profile was forge just to screw the kid over. Sasuke showed no surprise but for once thought that maybe he could tolerate one of his teammates. Sakura was a little unsure how to react to that was he talking about her when he said his dislikes. She couldn't help but feel a little unwelcome when he said some things.
"Oh, before I forget, what were you doing in the classroom before I showed up?" inquired Kakashi.
Naruto looked a Kakashi for a minute before telling him. "I came up with a chakra control exercise and thought it would be a good way to start as a team. The technique is called ball rolling." Naruto continued to tell him about the exercise. Kakashi was impressed not many people were able to come up with chakra control exercises but this one was also one that they could use right now. Some of the ones they had came from ninja who had much better control but created it to help train someone.
"Tomorrow we start our duties as a team. Before you ask we will be doing some survival training." Sakura ask why they were doing train. "Because Sakura of the 27 graduates only 9 are allowed to become genin." They ask why they needed the genin exam then. "That was to filter out those who could become genin for the class. Oh and don't eat before the test or you will lose it."
