Chapter 3: First day, welcome to hell
Talking
Thinking.
Demon/Boss summon talking
Demon/Boss summon thinking.
*Jutsu*
The week following the graduation of both Naruto and Natsumi was something to remember, it seemed their parents were more then happy to go overboard in making sure they were prepared for their new lives as village Shinobi, they bought the two of them all new equipment, Shinobi garb in their respected style each, and any other odds and ends they wanted.
"You sure you two got everything you're going to need." Kushina said fussing over them both, grown children they were, but that didn't stop from making a big deal over this.
"Mom, relax will you. Today is just the team assigning and not the actual Genin test." Naruto assured his step-mother, even though Kushina raised him his mother locked up inside Natsumi still got that title in his mind.
"Oh I know, I'm just worried about the two of you is all." She admits taking a deep breath to calm herself down and not make such big deal of this.
"Don't worry sweetie, we spent all these years getting them ready for today. If they weren't ready I would eat my hat." Minato said hugging his wife, he like her was nervous but, he understood his children were growing up and instead of cuddling them it would be better to let them go out on their own.
"Dad's right mom, you two spent so long training us that we probably could qualify as Chunin if we really were pushing it." Natsumi said, it wasn't cockiness in her voice, she just knew thanks to all the years training they would be ready.
"You right, I'm just worrying over nothing." Kushina said calming down, they would be fine after all, it was just team assignments today and they would have a long way to go before they actually got to go on any kind of real mission.
"All right, you two get going." Minato said grabbing his own things so he could head to his office and deal with the paperwork.
"We'll see you both after the team selections." Natsumi said as she and Naruto ran out and blurred away in a burst of speed.
"You really think those two are ready for all this, Natsumi already has enough stress as it stands with the kyubbi sealed in her and Kami forbid the village finds out what Naruto really is." Kushina said worried.
"Hey, none of that now." Minato said gently giving her a hug and a kiss.
"Natsumi and Kyubbi have an agreement in place, we know that the fox won't try anything on her since the semi get along. And the fact that Naruto knows who his real mother is, accepts it, and still treats us as family shows that they are more then ready for any kind of stress life and the village can throw at them." Minato assured her making her take another deep breath.
"You right, I'm just being paranoid." Kushina said smiling at him, another kiss was given and she watched as her husband streaked away.
'Still, I can't help but feel something is going to happen. Guess i'll just have to wait and see if it is for better or for worse.' Kushina thought before heading inside.
Naruto and Natsumi laughed a bit as they streaked across the rooftops towards the academy, long since having mastered running with chakra and now used it daily as a control exercise of their own.
"So, who do you think will be on your team." Naruto called out.
"Not sure, I doubt it will be Shika or Choji since everyone expects they will form the new InoShikaCho Team like their parents did. I pray neither Pinky or Duck Butt are with me otherwise ill probably end up killing them. Maybe Kiba and Shino, with how good my nose is we could make an effective tracking team. What about you? Hoping you end up with Kenji and Kiana?" Natsumi asked glancing over.
"Yeah hopefully, dad knows we make an effective team already with all the trouble we cause around the village. Not to mention he has seen us fight, why split up a team that is already built." Naruto pointed out, it was sound logic seeing how they already were in the mindset of an active cell just without the instructor.
"You make a good point." Natsumi hummed as she thought it over, soon enough the familiar sight of the academy came into view. Being one to always make an entrance, when Natsumi saw an open window to their class she hopped towards it, leapt of the frame, and landed in an action pose on Iruka's death. Unfortunately the only one in the room to see it was Shikamaru who was asleep and Shino who didn't care, this caused her to sweat drop awkwardly.
"Smooth oh sister of mine, make a massive ass of yourself to no one." Naruto said walking in through the door to his seat like a normal person.
Natsumi bristled and closed her eyes."Shut up Jerk, you've made flashier entrances then that for lesson reason." She said hopping down.
"She's got you there Naruto, remember you did once detonate a paint bomb instead of a smoke bomb to make an entrance and covered the whole first row and Iruka-Sensei in orange paint." Shikamaru said sleepily before going back to well sleep.
"Yeah but the difference between those was that, mine was funny and Natsumi's just made her look like a dork standing on a teacher's desk." Naruto replied, this in turn earned a smack by his passing sister.
The room quieted from there as new Genin began to wander in and find a seat, friends sat with friends to hope they would be placed on the same team, enemies sat far away from each other for the opposite reason. Soon Naruto peaked his head up from where it was laying down when he caught the familiar scent of dog and cat close by.
For the new day Kenji and Kiana had decided to change their looks. Kiana now wore a blue and silver battle skirt with Two kunai holsters on each hip and a shuriken pouch added to it, Thigh high blue socks and blue shinobi sandals completed the look with her headband around her neck and her usual blue face mask keeping her the same.
Kenji had gone simpler keeping his black shirt but now had a light grey coat loaded with pockets and the hood down showing his black hair, metal arm guards with claw gloves rested on his hands each with a Kunai launcher mechanism on each. Black Shinobi pants and sandals completed the look.
"Ha, see you two decided to change things around now that we are Genin. Never pegged you as someone to wear a battle skirt Kiana." Naruto said smiling at his two friends.
"Yeah, thought it was about time for me to be taken serious and when your shirt is little more then a bra with some extra covers, well its time to add more armor to your body and these are the best I could find for that." Kiana said.
"See you decided to add a bit more color to yourself as well." Kenji said as he and Kiana took their seats next to him. It was true, Naruto had switched his black shirt for read and his Kunai holsters for the same. He also added red tail designs going down the arms of his coat, more or less the whole design was to add more of his own subtle mockery to the village of who his real mom was.
"Can we stop talking about clothes now, were Shinobi not gossiping girls?" Kiana said really wanting this silly conversation to end.
"Yeah, yeah sure, so you think your dad will end up putting us on a team together. I hope he does, I doubt I could leave this little pack of mine behind." Kenji said trying to take this serious, but the bouncing in his chair and the excited tail wags from Takamaru did not help that image.
"I'm a firm believer he will, we're effective together so why split us up and try to force us on teams we won't be able to properly work with." Naruto said to reassure them.
Their conversation died when the door opened again and loud shouting was heard, Sakura and Ino were once again trying to be first in class so they could sit next to their precious Sasuke.
"You ever wonder if those two have a brain cell between them." Kiana asked with a glare at them, The cat girl absolutely despised fan girls with a burning passion. To her they were weak examples of Kunoichi and sullied their good name.
"Considering in all the time they have been here, neither one of them has figured out sasuke sits in the middle of his desk unless someone else claims the seat next to him, so they could both sit with him, i'm gonna take an educated guess and say no." Kenji said.
"I would pity the poor duck butt, if he wasn't so much of an emo child." Naruto said smirking, his sister making the connection between Sasuke's hair and a ducks rear end was the best thing that ever happened to him.
"All right all of you quite down."Iruka said as he walked into the classroom.
"Hey sensei, what the hell is Natsumi doing here, this is the graduation class not the flunky room." Kiba said with a sly smirk making the other's laugh and Natsumi to gloom a bit. However that stopped a second later when a kunai flew across the room and impaled the chair a bare millimeter in front of Kiba's family jewels.
"Dog boy, unless you want to find out what it feels like to be Neutered then keep your damn mouth shut." Naruto growled glaring at him and making Kiba shiver.
"That's enough, Kiba that is no way to talk to your fellow ninja. Natsumi may not have passed the exam but, she did earn her way here through other means. And Naruto, even if they threaten your sister please don't antagonize others." Iruka said with a harsh tone, Naruto nodded and retrieved his knife before sitting down.
Now, as of today you are all Leaf Shinobi of the village, I wish from here I could tell you thing's get easier but, they don't. However, you have worked hard and trained hard and I am confident you will be able to make yourselves into legends if you keep on this path." Iruka said, making it clear he was proud of all of them.
"Now, for what you all want to hear. The Team Selections." Iruka said grabbing a clipboard and began to ready.
"Kami my cousin is an idiot, I feel like I owe you an apology for that Naruto." Kenji said as they tuned out to talk until they heard their names.
"Na, you weren't the one who made the comment Kenji. If you had I would have gone after you balls." Naruto said dismissing that.
"By the way please don't bring up neutering again, that's like one of the worst fears a dog and an Inuzuka has." Kenji said.
Naruto chuckled and nodded."All right I won't bring it up again unless I need to make my point clear to you or someone else from your clan." Naruto said, not that he very much would unless they piss him off. He had nothing against Kenji's aunt Tsume since the women often was nice to him.
"Team Seven will be Natsumi Uzumaki-Namikaze, Sakura Haruno, and Sasuke Uchiha led by Kakashi Hatake." Naruto heard Iruka say and perked up, glancing over he looked and chuckled at his sister's look of horror as she face planted on the desk with a groan. The cheer that Sakura gave was enough to hurt his ears however so he did no appreciate that.
"Team Eight with consist of Kiba Inuzuka, Shino Aburame, and Hinata Hyuga led by Kurenai Yuki." Iruka said, less reaction from that group outside of Kiba's cheer. Naruto swore however he saw Hinata look slightly gloomy and mumble she wouldn't be with Natsumi.
"Team nine is still in rotation, Team Ten will be Shikamaru Nara, Choji Akimichi, and Ino Yamanaka led by Asuma Saratobi." Iruka said, Ino groaned and complained about being teamed with the two slacker's.
"Finally Team Eleven will be Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze, Kenji Inuzuka, and Kiana Yukinomiko led by Anko Mitarashi." Iruka said, for some reason Naruto noticed he shivered when he read that name.
"All of you are excused for lunch, return in one hour to meet with your Jonin commander." Iruka said letting them go for a quick break so they could be ready in the near future for their sensei.
"Was I the only one who noticed that Iruka-sensei seemed to shiver when he said are Sensei's name?" Kenji asked as he pulled out some food from his bag. The other two did the same from two storage scrolls.
"No, I noticed it to actually. It almost seemed like he was nervous about are Sensei." Naruto said thinking it over, he couldn't quite place it but he could have sworn he heard the name Anko somewhere before, maybe his dad mentioning it in passing or something.
"Well, whoever this Anko is, I hope she is at least a good teacher. From what I heard about some of the other jonin, Kakashi is a preverbal smut fanatic who is always late for anything baring an A-Rank mission or higher, Asuma is a lazy man who spends way to much time playing Shogi and smoking, Kurenai is decent although she does favor Kunoichi a bit." Kiana said, those three were the worst seeing how she had never heard of the other instructors.
"So with luck, we got a decent Sensei." Naruto said hopefully, he wanted someone who could teach them all kinds of things outside the normal for Shinobi. They were Team Outcast as well as Team Eleven, they liked not fitting the mold of the world.
"With luck, we got an interesting Sensei." Kiana said, they way she said that spoke differently, she hoped they got a sensei who would accept them.
"Well, I certainly can fit that role." A sly voice said behind them making them freeze, a hand with a kunai suddenly shot out and wrapped around Kiana's neck as a women with purple hair tied up to look spikey and her eyes were a dark brown that danced with mischief and slight sadistic glee.
"Who are you?" Kiana asked trying to keep the fear out of her voice, eyes on the kunai warily.
"Why, I am the fabulous person you were just speaking about. I believe you called me an interesting Sensei." Anko said smirking at them.
"You, you're are new Sensei?" Naruto asked, now he knew where he had heard of her. She was the happy-go-lucky sadist in T&I his dad dealt with a lot, she was gonna be teaching them?
"That's right kiddies, your stuck with me until I either say your ready, or I end up killing you with my methods." She said with a smirk still plastered on her face, something told them they would soon come to hate that look.
"So what are you doing here now? We were supposed to meet are sensei's in an hour." Kenji asked.
"Oh, I thought hey, why don't I have lunch with my new cute little student's." She told them, though it sounded nice they weren't so sure.
"So enough sitting around here all day, roof in five minutes otherwise I'm sending a snake after you." She said before vanishing in a poof.
"What do you think she meant by sending a snake after us?" Kenji said after a minute of silence.
"Kenji, let me ask you an honest question. Do you really want to find out?" Kiana asked.
"No, I do not, lets go." Kenji said, and just like that the trio hurriedly grabbed their things and headed for the roof so they did not incur the wrath of their Sensei this early on.
When they got there, they found Anko sitting on the railing near some benches munching on a plate of Dango.
"Come on kiddies, come have a seat." She called waving them over.
"So allow me to be the first to welcome you all to Team Eleven, or as I really hope we keep calling it, Team Outcast." Anko said once they came over and sat.
"Oh you heard about that didn't you Sensei?" Kenji asked, he half expected her to start scolding them for that kind of reckless behavior. However to his, and the other's, extreme surprise Anko leaned back and gave a deep laugh nearly falling off the railing.
"Heard about it? Kid if I didn't have my job on the line as a Jonin and didn't want to deal with all the paperwork that would have come with it, I probably would have been out there helping you three." She admits to them.
"Seriously, most people would have probably scolded us for that kind of behavior, not be here singing are praises for the kind of stunts we pull." Kiana said raising an eyebrow.
"Well, kitty cat, I hate to break the news to you, I am not like most people. I'm more like you guys, the kind of person who takes normal and punts it out the living room window. Seriously I had to beg hands and knees to be able to get you guys as my team." She freely admitted.
"You wanted us as a team." Naruto said surprised again anyone would want them together under them.
"Hell yeah, you three are the kind of kids I could actually stand teaching. The kind who break the normal rules of society and bring a little fun into the world, most people don't even have the nerve to do that." Anko told them.
They took a moment to let those words sink in, at first they had been wary of Anko because of how she acted towards them in the classroom. But, here seeing her like this made them realize she was the perfect person to fit into the little social crazy group they had put together and would probably make them even more crazy than they already were.
"Well, now that we have that all cleared up how about some info to share around. Here, ill be nice and go first. My name is Anko Mitarashi, I enjoy training, scaring Idiots, torturing people with Ibiki, and Dango. I hate a certain white snake, perverts and idiots, and anyone who touches my Dango. My current dream is to make my old sensei pay for his crimes and maybe if I have time make you three into legends." She said all with a smirk and a Dango stick between her teeth.
"Guess ill go next, my name is Kenji Inuzuka. I like my partner, hunting, night time, training, my friends and most of my family. I dislike my cousin when he is an idiot, cats except for Kiana, and baths. My dream is to become the greatest Inuzuka since the founding of are clan." Kenji said with a bark from Takamaru to have him agree.
"I'll go now, my name is Kiana Yukinomiko, I enjoy training, being with my friends, warm days and relaxing in the sun, Catnip, sweets of any kind, and music. I hate dogs except Takamaru and Kenji, baths as well, perverts, and those who can't deal with the fact I'm part cat. My dream is to one day avenge my clan and bring it peace by starting fresh here." Kiana said crossing her arms and closing her eyes.
"Me last I guess, Names Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze. I like training, my sister, my family, my friends, ramen, and sleep. I hate bullies, the time it takes to cook ramen, and those who would hurt my sister because of her burden. My dream is to one day become a master of Fuinjutsu and help someone special to me." Naruto said with a firm nod and smile.
"Im gonna assume, the person you want to save is your mother currently locked up tight in your sister." Anko said smirking at the dumbfounded look at Naruto's face.
"How did you—" Naruto started trying to make sense of what she just said, how did she know his secret?
"Your dad filled me in one that key bit of info, said if I was going to be training you, better to have the full facts then going in half cocked. Honestly Fuzzy, I couldn't care less if you are related to the Kyubbi. You have never attacked the village and you sure as hell don't act like some kind of vicious creature who needs to be locked up so your secret is safe with me." Anko said, Naruto took a bated breath, that had been to nerve racking.
"Now onto the more unpleasant bit of news I have for you three." Anko said, although she didn't look like it pained her all that much to actually have to deliver the news.
"The real Genin test right?" Naruto said confusing his two friends.
"Dead on the money Fuzzy, of the students who graduated only about four teams will be able to fully be accepted into Genin. The academy test was just a way to take a peak at the hopefuls, now its time to see if you have any actual skill or if that is all just hot air." Anko said
The three nodded and payed attention, they didn't intend to whine or complain. They were going to take this seriously and actually do well on this test to make sure they got accepted as full shinobi.
'Good, they intend to take this seriously and act like grown ups. At least I won't have to deal with any whiney kids.' Anko thought.
"I expect all of you to meet me at Training Grounds 44 tomorrow, seven A.M. sharp, you fail to show up and you can kiss your spot on this team goodbye." Anko said before standing, her meal finished she turned to leave, however a thought graced her mind and she turned back to them.
"Oh and a word of advice, don't bring any food with you, the tigers tend to be able to smell those kind of things." She said before jumping away with a laugh.
The trio looked at each other before a collective thought ran through all three of their minds.
'What have we gotten are selves into?'
Hello ladies and gentlemen, I am back yet again.
So what did you all think of this, did many of you come to expect me to place Anko on the team as their sensei or were you expecting something else to come to pass.
A note today, Sunday is now the official update day for this story, work has just been crazy lately and this is the best time.
Until next time, like, review and all that. PEACE.
