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Years later...
Naruto proudly walked inside the classroom in the Ninja Academy, wearing his new headband with the Konoha symbol with pride. He surveyed the room, looking for his pink haired best friend, but she wasn't anywhere to be seen. He was so proud of himself! He had finally passed and had been accepted into the Ninja Academy,
which was one step to his ambitious goal. All those years of studying with passionate dedication, courage and help from Sakura had resulted to this day. You should've seen him when he received the headband, he was practiclly crying of happiness. How could he ever thank Sakura for wasting her time helping him? She was a god send and he swore to protect her from this day and onwards. He had grown fond of Sakura, and was rather thankful she didn't end up like most girls who ogled that Uchiha brat,
necause Sakura had stayed the same, calm and cool. Their bond had grown stronger, they were like siblings, tight as twins and could communicate with just one single face expression. Just when Naruto was about to sit in the fourth row and to save a seat for Sakura, Shikamaru stepped in front of him, a surprised expression in his face.
"So you finally passed, that's a miracle Naruto" he said lazily, yawning. Naruto twitched and narrowed his eyes, he couldn't believe Iruka-sensei had made Shikamaru pass!
He was the laziest person he ever met in his life.
"Better believe it, Shikamaru!" Naruto cried. The young boy raised a brow before sitting next to Chouji, who happily ate his bag of chips he always had with him. Naruto saw that Kiba and Akamaru were there too, and when Kiba saw him he laughed.
"Naruto passed!" he said. Naruto flushed a deep scarlet, filled with emmbarrasment and anger but his attention drifted to the Uchiha brat, who was surronded by fan girls including the loud and obnoxious Ino herself. He pushed past the girls and eyed his rival, who glared at him. Ino sighed with annoyance and glared at Naruto, her hands in her hips.
"Go away Naruto!" she said. Naruto ignored her and countinued to stare at Sasuke, who glared back with his dark eyes. Why do people say his amazing? Naruto thought,
his nothing special. Shikamaru, who was sitting a row below the blood fued between Naruto and Sasuke, yawned and stretched his arms and accidently bumped his arm in Naruto's back which sent him flying forwards. The world was silent when the fan girls turned purple as they stared at Sasuke and Naruto doing the unthinkable.
"...oh my god" Ino said, speechless in the first time in her life. Soon the silence ended when Kiba laughed loudly and Naruto stepped back, spitting and wiping his mouth with disgust. Sasuke turned purple with rage and disgust, wiping his mouth furiosly. Naruto whined and screamed with terror as he rubbed his lips furiosly.
"I just got kissed by chicken butt!" he said, screaming like a little girl as he ran around the room. He suddenly stopped when he noticed the dark, threatening look the girls gave him. Naruto gulped and turned around slowly to meet Ino and the rest of the fan girls, cracking their knuckles. Ino was surronded by a deadly auro, Naruto whimpered and stepped back, scared to death.
"Naruto..." Ino said, cracking her knuckles. Naruto shuddered and sheltered himself with his arms.
CRASH! BANG! SCREAM! CRASH! BANG! SCREAM!
Naruto was left, lying in the floor in a pool of blood. The girls and Ino backed away to the destruction they made and resumed their seats when the door opened slowly. Iruka sweat dropped when he saw Naruto's body and sighed, rubbing his temples and stared at the rows of innocent faced students-trying to find the culprit. As Iruka stared at Naruto who slowly made his way to the fourth row, his left brow twitched with annoyance. Iruka decided to ignore the half dead body of Naruto, deciding that it would be useless staring at those blue eyes who would beg him to take the day off
No.
He had to be strong. Period. Naruto was not going to let him down. As he was about to speak, he was rudely interrupted when the door opened again and in came none other than Sakura Haruno, dressed in a red top, blue pants with a kunai pouch and choppy, messy pink hair. Naruto-somehow-came back to life and cheerfully smiled at the prescene of his friend, he was becoming really scared of the looks Ino sent. Sakura sat in the empty seat next to Naruto and Iruka cleared his throat and began to speak.
"Today is the day when I assign you to your teams, so please listen!" Iruka said. As he started to say teams, occasionally stopping to roll his eyes at the whining of his students. Seeing her name hadn't been mentioned yet, Sakura absent mindedly stared out of the window, bored beyond belief. Naruto, however, was sweating as he prayed that he would be assigned to Sakura's team, and if he didn't...well he would just have to blackmail the Hokage, wouldn't he?
"Team 7...Sakura Haruno" Iruka began. Naruto perked up and Sakura shown small interest of who was in her team, though she could care less at the moment.
"Naruto Uzumaki" the teacher countinued. Naruto stood up and wildly punched the air, screaming of happiness and joy. When he realized everybody was giving him strange look, he sat down looking sheepish and emmbarassed. Sakura shook her head-well, she was kind of expecting it anyways.
"And Sasuke Uchiha" Iruka ended. Oh no, he thought as he backed away watching the entire population of girls ride from their seats, screaming with pain, sadness and agony. Soon he managed to calm the girls down eventually, but he couldn't ignore the looks they gave him. For god's sake, why was he so scared of genin! He was a man! But Iruka shrunk at the looks the girls gave him.
He silently thanked Hinata and Sakura, who were the only ones acting decent and proper.
"Today your meeting your new sensei's, so stay in this classroom until they come to collect you" he said finally, and sat down, letting his class chatter excitedly. Naruto whined and complained,
sending threats to Sasuke who in return, remained silent and unmoving, but sending death glares to Naruto anyways. Sakura, who absent mindedly placed her feet in the desk, yawned and tugged on Naruto's arm, who turned around.
"Stop it Naruto. Were going to be stuck with him, might as well get along" Sakura said. Naruto couldn't picture the day him and Sasuke could be friends, especially when they kissed, but he agreed with Sakura deep down inside, though he was too stubborn to show. He admired Sakura for her maturity and calm personality, and obediantly say down, chatting to Sakura and ignoring the Uchiha's existance. Sasuke was angry, deep down inside he was boiling with rage. Why, of all the people in this room, was he stuck with that dumb blonde? He eyed him carefully, as he talked to that pink haired girl.
Well, he thought, at least I'm stuck with that girl, it could've been worse-I mean, imagine if I was stuck with Ino. Sasuke shuddered, and felt sympathy for Shikamaru who was annoyed by Ino's constant nagging. Morning turned into afternoon, and as the newly formed Team 7 watched the other students being collected by their new senseis, they were the last ones in he classroom, and an awkward silence hung in the air. Suddenly, Naruto chuckled evilly and Sakura and Sasuke gave him suspicious glances as he stood up and took the board eraser. Sakura, who anticipated Naruto's actions, sighed.
"Naruto, stop it" she said. Naruto laughed and ignored Sakura, who rolled her eyes and stared out of the window. Sasuke was rather unimpressed by his childish actions and tilted his brow upwards.
"Stupid, the guy's a jounin, he won't fall for it...dobe" Sasuke said, smirking at the new nickname he made up for the blonde. Naruto's left eye twitched and Sakura smiled, rather amused. "YOU TEME-
Naruto stopped when he heard soft footsteps and he sat next to Sakura, trying to contain his laughter. Sakura waited, wanting to know the outcome and even Sasuke became interested. Suddenly, a man with a mask covering half of his face with tousled silver hair poked his head inside, and the board eraser fell on his head.
Silence.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA! He fell for it!" Naruto said, laughing on the floor. Sasuke raised a brow and Sakura merely chuckled. The man was silent, staring at his new team before giving them a deep frown.
"My first impression for you all...well, I hate you" he said bluntly. Sakura and Sasuke sweatdropped and they exited the classroom, with a laughing Naruto trailing behond them as they went to the roof. They sat down in front of their new sensei, who surveyed them. The kyuubi container, the last Uchiha and a girl that appeared randomly long ago, what an interesting team, he thought, but not easy. He cleared his throat and began.
"So tell me about yourself, what your likes, dislikes and your goal" he said. The three genin stared at him intently and the man sweatdropped.
"Well, I'm Kakashi. I guess I have some likes, I have many dislikes and I don't really have a goal" he said simply. The three genin raised a brow, but didn't pester any further. Kakashi looked silently at Naruto, urging him to begin first.
"I'm Naruto Uzumaki! I love ramen and my best friend Sakura-chan! I hate Sasuke-teme and I'm going to be the future Hokage! Believe it!" he cried, energeticlly. Kakashi raised a brow and a memory of Minato came to his mind, he smiled underneath his mask at their uncanny resemblance. Kakashi then stared at the Uchiha kid, interested on what he was going to say.
"My name is Uchiha Sasuke. I don't have any likes and I have many dislikes. My goal is to kill a certain somebody" he said. A deadly auro surronded the Uchiha boy and Naruto backed away in fear, rather scared. Kakashi smirked underneath his mask-cocky and superior, he thought and then his gaze diverted to the female.
"My name is Sakura Haruno. I guess I like stuff, and I don't have that much dislikes. Not sure about my goal, but that's my problem I guess" she said boredly. Kakashi raised a brow, not expecting the rather empty introduction.
He hardly knew the other two genin in his team, but he did know a lot about that Naruto boy who had made it clear who he was. "Well, meet me in the training field at 3 in the morning and by the way" he said, pausing. Naruto listened intently, exaggerating his movements. Kakashi sweat dropped and cleared his throat.
"Don't eat any breakfast, you might be sick" he said, smirking before dissapearing in smoke. Sakura sighed and stood up, stretching her tense muscles. She ran her finger through her messy hair and dragged Naruto down the stairs, before he could have another war with Sasuke. To her surprise, he let go of her grip and stood in the stairs, arms crossed with an angry look.
"When I said my likes, I mentioned your name! But you didn't mention mine" he whined. Sakura laughed at his childlike antics and sighed, shaking her head back and forth. Naruto blushed for a second as he stared at Sakura laugh so freely and he felt adoration to his best friend.
"Oh god Naruto, you weird person. Come on, let's go get ramen" she said, smiling. Naruto cheered and they both ran to the ramen shop. A lonely Sasuke watched them run, laugh and joking around as they pushed eachother playfully. He dug his hands inside his pocket and walked towards his empty apartment, where he would prepare necessart weapons for tomorrow's test. "