Disclaimer: I don't own the Naruto series, I'm just borrowing the characters and concepts, I make no profit from this story, its just for practice and fun.
Team seven was bored. Everybody else have already left the classroom with their Jounin-Senseis, but Naruto, Sasuke and Piripiri were stuck in the classroom for over an hour since the last team had left. And a bored Naruto plus a bored Piripiri without a teacher equals disaster.
"Man, I'm bored," Said Naruto for the thousandth time, and it was getting on his teammate's nerves." How about we play a game?" The suggestion was directed at Sasuke, but it was Piripiri who answered.
"Yeah, how about charades?" She replied, pausing in her flirting with Sasuke, "You can start, hybrid, that way you'll finally SHUT UP!" She shouted the last bit, her tail held above her head instead of draping over her shoulder.
Naruto began to get up, but Sasuke, who was sitting in between the two, decided to speak up. "Break it up you two. Whilst Naruto is complaining a bit too often, a game is a good idea." He said looking at his teammates threateningly, before adding. "This is getting very boring, and it looks like our teacher won't show up at all."
Just as the words left his mouth, the door to the classroom opened, revealing an adult none of them were familiar with. The male stood on his hind legs, both of his clawed front paws on the door frames, a short tail, stiff with long of fur on the downside, was trailing behind him. His head had a canine muzzle lined with sharp teeth and a wet black nose. Small triangular ears sat at the top of his head, and he was covered from head to toe in fine, silver fur. His right eye was black on white with slit pupils, standing out against his fur, but his head band sat diagonally on his face, hiding his left eye. He wore standard Jounin clothes; a dark blue shirt with a dark green vest over it and dark blue pants (with a hole cut for the tail).
"Yo" He said, sounding rather lazy," Sorry I'm late, you see, a black cat crossed my path, so I had to take the long way..."
"Liar!" Naruto yelled, pointing an accusatory finger at the demon.
"How do you know?" Sasuke asked him, raising an eye feather at his friend's outburst.
"I don't know, I just do." The young hybrid shrugged.
"What's a cat?" Asked Piripiri, confused by the unfamiliar term.
"Some sort of creature." Answered the silver-furred adult. "Apparently, in ancient times, if a black one crossed your path, you had to take a different one or you'll be cursed with bad luck." He shrugged." Apparently, some great and powerful ninja from those times used that superstition as an excuse for his constant tardiness."
"What ninja?" Asked Naruto, ears perking up at the thought of a tale of a being so powerful they are considered a myth.
"You said a black cat; does that mean that they came in different colours?" Sasuke questioned.
Piripiri snorted." You don't actually believe in those bogus old stories, do you Sasuke-kun?"
"Those stories are interesting, even if they aren't real." Said the Jounin," And I don't know what colours cat came in. Ancient records show that there were grey, brown, orange, white, azure and black. But they may have come in other colours as well." He paused, and began again," I believe that they resembled Bakeneko in appearance, but had no special powers. And the ninja's name was lost in time. We know very little about the powerful warriors of the time after all.
"Now, onto business; my name is Kakashi Hatake, but you will address me as Kakashi-sensei, for I am your Jounin instructor. Tomorrow we will meet on training ground seven at 0 seven hundred hours. I suggest you skip breakfast."
"Why?" Asked Piripiri, baffled by the strange suggestion.
"So you don't throw up." He smiled, showing rows of sharp white teeth.
And with that, he was gone.
As he headed home, Kakashi let his mind wonder. He had been sitting just outside the classroom and watching the students arrive and leave since morning, observing the students and teachers and amusing himself by which of the Genin will pass the test. Naturally, he had paid the most attention to three particular youngsters, and their chakra.
Natural chakra, human chakra and Jutsu chakra were all a silvery-blue colour, but demon's chakra varied between species and individuals in feel and colour. Very few could tell the difference, and even fewer paid attention to it.
Uchiha Sasuke's chakra was a soft, light purple, which was to be expected of an Uchiha. They were usually rougher in feel, but some were soft.
Sasori Piripiri's chakra was a violent, murky brown, as normal for her kind.
Naruto's chakra was a joyous orange, infectious and happy, just like his sensei's was...
Namikaze Minato was an anomaly when it came to the invisible subtleties. His Chakra colour didn't fit with his species (which was rare, although not unique) and neither did his fighting style. Naruto's chakra was similar to both his sensei's and his sensei's girlfriend, like a child's chakra is similar to their parents...
Kakashi shook his head free of the thought. His sensei and his girlfriend died before they could get married and have kids, and the female didn't seem pregnant when they last met. He was just torturing himself that maybe, just maybe he can fulfil the promise he'd made to himself, that maybe he will have the chance to look after his sensei's offspring like the man had looked after him...
Tearing his mind away from that trail of thought, Kakashi dwelled on his analysis of his students. So far, Sasuke was the clear leader, he and Naruto were friends, Piripiri liked him, and his two teammates didn't get along. Naruto and Piripiri's enmity could be problematic further on, but he was hoping to fix that. They all looked quite strong (physically), at least for Genin, and the information he was given seemed to support that.
Jounin were always given several files on the Genin they were going to teach. The papers basically all contained the same information, but each page was written by a different instructor, allowing the Jounin to more accurately gauge the students' abilities before ever meeting them.
The files contained the Genin's personality, abilities, strengths, weaknesses and other similar things, each one as judged by the instructor.
All three of his students were given top marks for Taijutsu; Close range fighting with tooth, nail, and whatever other natural weapons one has.
Genjutsu, the art of illusions, isn't taught much in the academy, so most students do terrible at it (like Naruto), some do reasonably well (like Piripiri), whilst the occasional genius, like Sasuke, manages to excel.
Ninjutsu wise, Naruto and Piripiri were average with Sasuke excelling. All three of them were perfectly capable of using chakra based attacks.
Kakashi didn't need the papers to tell him the young demons' personalities; he managed to figure them out himself quite easily following the encounter. Naruto was clearly a hyperactive idiot. He made boastful claims and had little skills to back them up. While he wasn't the worst student, he was far from the best. But Kakashi knew Kitsune, and he knew that they tended to grow in leaps and bounds, and never give up. He figured that he will need to teach Naruto how to wait patiently, and to think before he acted.
Piripiri clearly had a short fuse, and was incredibly violent. It will take very little taunting to get her to make a reckless charge. She will need to learn to hold herself back, and to not rely on her stinger and venom so much, because the records say that that is how she tends to win. He will also need to teach her and Naruto how to get along.
Sasuke was a genius, and he reminded Kakashi of his younger self. He was rather arrogant, despite his rivalry/friendship with Naruto, he was still a bit too sure of himself. Even though he seems to differ slightly from most Uchiha, he will probably have trouble working together with others. They'll have to work on that.
If the three of them pass his little test, of course. Just because nobody else has ever managed it before doesn't mean that they won't.
With a slight smile, the silver wolf returned to his book.
Sorry it took so long, but my family just moved to England (again) and I've only recently got internet, and before that my computer died so I lost a hefty chunk of the chapter, so it took a while. Hopefully the next chapter will take less time; as long as I don't get distracted by something like the two knew stories that I have ideas for.
I have way too many ideas.
Anyway, please review, otherwise I might take it as a hint that nobody likes this story and I'll just have to abandon it and start a new one. It wouldn't be a first.
See ya'!