Chapter 2: Team Selection Failures
Disclaimer: Naruto is the work of Kishimoto
A week passed by and Naruto experienced a couple of things.
First was the grandson of Hokage-jiji named Konohamaru who pestered him to the point that he taught him the Sexy Jutsu. The closest pervert teacher of his was knocked out by his new Harem Jutsu by the end of the day.
Naruto sniggered thinking of what would Hokage-jiji do when Konohamaru used the Sexy Jutsu on him. That would be a laugh since Hokage-jiji would be 'defeated.'
The rest of the week went by with Naruto alternating with training and pranking; mostly pranking.
As a ninja now, he would not need to prank anyone else for a long time to acknowledge him. Scenes of saving a princess from a burning castle played in his mind as he thought of this. Plus it gave the ANBU one last work out as well.
Now it was time for team selection where according to Iruka, they would be sorted into teams of three with a Jonin as the leader. He hoped that he would be placed in the same team as Sakura and not with Sasuke. That was all he asked.
However there was the deal with these time loops. He had no idea what was going on here with them and whether or not they would continue. But right now, Naruto could only grin as he entered the classroom with his headband on his forehead.
The first person to notice him was Shikamaru who asked, "Naruto why are you here? Only those who graduate are supposed to be here."
Naruto simply pointed at his forehead and said, "This is proof enough. I got through the make-up test."
It wasn't entirely true but he learnt a B-rank Kinjutsu in a matter of hours and used it to be defeat a Traitor was enough for the Hokage to promote him into a Genin. With that done, he sat down next to the teme since there was nowhere else to sit while he and the rest of the class waited for Iruka.
BANG!
The door was slammed open to show that Sakura and Ino were rushing into the room. With a look, both set their gaze onto the place Naruto was.
With some hope Naruto waved and said, "Hey Sakura-ch-"
"Get out of the way Naruto-baka!" Sakura shrieked while pushing him aside while Ino caught up a split second later fuming that she was too late to sit next to her Sasuke-kun.
After a minute of fighting between the two with Naruto in between and Sasuke not paying attention, Sakura was in the middle of the table with Naruto and Sasuke to each side while Ino was seated on the table above.
With everyone in class here, the chatter started once again as Naruto thought of how the teme gets all the girls. Every last girl in the class was a fan-girl of the teme (forgetting Hinata) which wasn't fair at all. What did the teme do to deserve all of that?
With a frown, Naruto squatted in front of Sasuke on the table staring at him. The teme dismissed him saying, "What the hell do you want dobe?"
"TEME!" Naruto shouted back in anger.
It was then that someone in front of the table where Naruto was squatting said, "Oh, a fight is going to break out?" while turning and inadvertedly knocking Naruto forward…into Sasuke.
Kiss~
Horror and disgust went through Naruto as his lips went on Sasuke's.
Choking, Naruto spat out whatever disease went in through his mouth and gagged…only not to notice the killing intent coming from the rest of the girls in the class looking to kill him.
It was only too late when the surrounded him as Sakura said while cracking her knuckles, "Naruto…die."
Beaten up beyond anything else he had felt, Naruto lifelessly lumped his head onto his desk as Iruka called out to the class.
"Okay, now that you have all graduated, you are now all Genin of Konoha. Be proud of this and may the Will of Fire burn brightly in all of you" he concluded after an hour speech on what was expected from them all as Shinobi of this village.
It was then that he called out, "Team 7, Uzumaki Naruto-"
Naruto perked up.
"Haruna Sakura."
Naruto cheered while Sakura groaned.
"And Uchiha Sasuke."
Now Sakura cheered with Naruto groaning while Sasuke had no reaction at all to this. Naruto thought of what just happened. Sure he had Sakura in his team but there was also the teme which Sakura liked! Now he couldn't get her affections at all with her on his team!
"Iruka-sensei!" Naruto shouted interrupting what he was going to say next, "Why does an awesome ninja like me have to team up with that teme?!" he pointed at the teme while saying this.
Surely Iruka knew how awesome he was.
"Naruto" Iruka sighed for some reason and said, "Sasuke had the highest score in his year like Sakura. You on the other hand are dead last."
The words 'dead last' echoed in his head.
"It's only right for the teams to be balanced" he concluded as he sorted the rest of the class into teams. The next team, team 8 had Kiba known as Dog Breath, Shino known as Insect Guy and Hinata, Weird Girl while team 10 had Shikimaru otherwise known as Lazy Bastard, Choji known as Big Boned and Ino, Sasuke Fangirl #2.
He would have liked to have any of those guys with the exception of Ino instead of the Teme.
3 hours later, Naruto shouted, "He's late!"
After the team selection, Naruto felt the reason why you don't drink spoiled milk. He had to be on the toilet for an hour before he finished. He made a mental note to NOT drink that milk if he ever had to repeat again.
"Shut up Naruto-baka" Sakura shouted.
However Naruto pointed at the clock which showed that it was pass the noon now and everyone else was gone. Today the Academy was only used for team selection today.
"But Sakura-chan" he whined, "Everyone else is gone already. Even Iruka-sensei left!"
Sakura had no comment to that as Naruto's mind played forward quickly. Even though he swore that he wouldn't prank anyone anymore, this was cause for breaking that rule once. Looking at the board he found an eraser and smirked.
"Naruto, what are you doing?" asked Sakura as he was on a seat opening a small space on the sliding door while placing the eraser at the gap which tightly fitted it.
"If he's going to be late, he's going to be pranked" he said as a matter of what.
"Naruto-baka! You shouldn't do that!" Sakura shrieked again.
"Hn. Our teacher is a Jonin, Elite of the Village. A trap like that will never work" Sasuke stated to which Sakura immediately swooned to his side immediately.
A few seconds later, this theory was tested as the sliding door was opened and a man with strange silver hair spiked up like a scarecrow appeared pocking his head into the class.
And the eraser dropped with all three of them watching to see what would this Jonin, this Elite of the village would do. This mere eraser which-
Whack!
Hit him squarely on the head without a reaction from the Jonin. Looking at the men more closely, he was wearing a mask that covered most of his face and further was wearing his headband over his left eye which covered even more of his face.
The sensei spoke at that moment saying, "My first impression of you all…I hate you."
Pointing upwards, "Meet me on the roof in 5 minutes."
And with that, the man disappeared.
"This test has a pass rate of 33% meaning of the 27 of you new Genin, only 9 of you will pass and the rest will be sent back to the Academy!" Kakashi stated.
"WHHHHHAAAAATTTT?!" Naruto and Sakura shouted while Sasuke for once was wide eyed.
"By the way, don't eat for tomorrow, you'll juts vomit it all out in the end."
And so, Kakashi-sensei disappeared with that.
Naruto was tied to the log with Sakura and Sasuke to the side of him. Kakashi looking down on them.
"Naruto you are incomponent as a Ninja. While you have one powerful jutsu which mind you is the ONLY jutsu you used, you are lacking in all other areas as a Ninja. Whether in Taijutsu which you have no skill in or tactical awareness, you are barely better than a civilian as a brawler. You ignored everyone else and charged in head on without regard to anything" he said in a cold tone to him.
Turning to Sakura he next stated, "Sakura, you are no better than Naruto, hell you are worse than him. Your best skill seemed to originate with Genjutsu yet you have fainted with the most basic ones. While you saw Naruto, you completely ignored him to find Sasuke. You have no Ninjutsu besides the basic three and your Taijutsu is worse than Naruto's."
Finally he turned to Sasuke and stated, "Sasuke you are far the worse among you three. Yes, you are stronger than the two but like Sakura, you ignored Naruto and Sakura statement that they are below you. You have no concept of anything but power and are a danger to everyone at this rate."
Kakashi looked at everyone with his cold lone eye and said, "The purpose of this test is teamwork. Even without getting a bell, if all of you managed to work together no matter how small it was, I would've passed you."
Naruto along with Sakura and Sasuke looked away in shame. It was a basic concept and yet none of them did anything to achieve that.
"Because of this, you all….FAIL!"
And then, everything went black for Naruto again.
Naruto woke up and checked the date.
It was a week till the team selection but now he knew that he was going to be in a team with Sakura and Sasuke.
On one hand he was thankful for having Sakura on his team but on the other hand, he had to endure the Teme. Plus they had to pass that extra test Kakashi had.
'Naruto you are imcomponent as a Ninja. While you have one powerful jutsu which mind you is the ONLY jutsu you used, you are lacking in all other areas as a Ninja. Whether in Taijutsu which you have no skill in or tactical awareness, you are barely better than a civilian as a brawler. You ignored everyone else and charged in head on without regard to anything'
Kakashi's words stung truer than anything else. He had ONE powerful jutsu and he acted as if he had everything in game.
A thousand nothing is still nothing.
In all three areas, Taijutsu which Naruto now knew he sucked at, Genjutsu which he never got right or even Ninjutsu where he still couldn't pull off a Clone Jutsu, Naruto needed help. And he had an infinite week in a loop to achieve enough strength to be a true Genin.
And who else could help him besides Iruka.
Naruto was pretty sure Iruka was at the Academy right now with nothing to do. Surely he could help him with his problem.
He didn't want to go back to the Academy after failing though somewhere inside Naruto thought that this loop thing prevented him from either way.
Checkpoint 2: Loop 1 End (Total Loops: 4)
A/N:
Well this chapter pretty much follows Canon expect in the end where Team 7 doesn't pass. I really call BS in how they pass in Canon since none of them were actually ready to be a Ninja and look what happened.
Sasuke left Konoha branded as a traitor due to his power inferiority complex, Naruto almost died trying to retrieve him still being naive that he could be saved and failing and it was only then that Sakura actually got serious in being a Ninja, MONTHS after she was actually one.
I'll post the next chapter in a few hours and that's when things finally start to pick up.
