I open my eyes and look at the clock sitting to my right and gasp…I'm late. "I'm late!!! " I speed through my normally lax morning rituals. I grab a bowl of ramen and I'm off. In a few minutes I'm running through the halls of Konoha academy. I reach my class and I quickly compose myself and walk in. I prepare myself for the onslaught of words from Iruka.
"Morning Naruto," says the very…happy teacher and adopted father?
"Are you okay?" I give him a fixed stare to be sure that he wasn't losing it.
He sighed," Take your seat please, class is starting soon. "
I walk to my seat. I guess I'm on time. I sit there waiting for class to start. Then Sakura walks up to me. "What?"
She stagers back a bit surprised by the unconcealed malice. I would have been nice to her if she wasn't pink and two faced. Even with all that I would still be nice to her but not today, I don't feel like it.
"Naruto move it I'm trying to get around you!"
"Then take the long way." I stare at her straight in the eyes. Then I begin to wonder why she wanted to sit in the middle of the bench. I look to my left and see Uchiha Sasuke sitting there in his almighty way. I know I am his protector, guardian angel if you will, but he is pretty arrogant. Hot as he is he acts like a shit but I don't blame him completely but he could act like he cares every once in a while.
He turns towards me and says, "You want something?!"
I smile a knowing smile, "No, you've got nothing I want and plenty that I wouldn't care for."
"Good morning Sasuke. Is this seat taken," screeches Sakura as she pulls me out of the way.
I jump up on the desk and squat down in front of the Uchiha. I glare my hardest at him.
"Naruto you jerk leave Sasuke alone!!" Almost all of the girls in the class begin screaming.
"Uchiha."
"Uzumaki."
"I respect you."
He just stares as if expecting me to retract my statement. "And I you for respecting me."
That was the stupidest reply I have ever heard before. I just roll around laughing.
"Naruto, would you like to share with the rest of the class?' That was Iruka's voice.
"The Uchiha said he respects me because I respect him." I fall off of the desk still laughing.
"Take your seat Naruto; we'll talk about your out burst after class."
"Okay Iru-I mean sensei." I say still trying to subdue my fits of laughter. I finally take my seat and class begins.
"Today you all are full fledged shinobi. Today you begin at the bottom of the ranks, you are Genin. You will be put in a group of three and together you will work on missions on behalf of the village. Your groups will be mentored by a more senior ninja called a Jônin." He rambles on and on then he begins calling out names to different cells. I wait to hear my name. "Cell seven, Haruno Sakura, Uzumaki Naruto," at this I slump," and Uchiha Sasuke." I knew Sasuke would be on my team but I was hoping that Sakura wouldn't.
"Sensei why did you put me on the same team as Sakura and Sasuke?"
"Well..."He was trying not to laugh; he knows how much I can't stand to be close by when Sakura catches sight of Sasuke. It always goes something like this, 'Sasukeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.'
"Forget it." I sigh\ and slump onto the desk.
"This afternoon I'll post up a sheet of paper telling you where to meet your new nin-jutsu instructors. Until then you're dismissed." Iruka smiles a cheeky smile when I walk up to him as the class is leaving. Then as soon as it had appeared it vanished. "You know that you are supposed to respect him right?"
"I know it was just a little funny that he said what he did."
I walk outside and jump to a high area. I make some hand seals as I sit down on the roof of some random building. My lunch appears and it's…Ramen. When I had swallowed the bowl of Ramen I catch sight of Sasuke sitting on a window ledge eating. I jump from roof to roof until I stand on the roof of the building where Sasuke sits. I jump down, steal his lunch, tie him up and then vanish with a catlike smile on my face.
I reappear on a tree near Sakura and I quickly use the henge jutsu and make myself look like Sasuke. I stand there and stare as if I actually like her. She catches sight of me and goes all dreamy with a small blush. She looks down as if contemplating something. I quickly and soundlessly walk in front of her.
"You have such a noble brow. So charming I could kiss it." After that little phrase I fall down laughing. I can't stand not to laugh when something is this funny. "Hi Sakura," I say using my Naruto voice and then poof, back to mission identity.
"Naruto!!!"
At that I jump up and run, felling that Sasuke was near by. I perch in a tree to watch the exchange.
"Hey Sasuke is that really you?"
"Hn, where's Naruto?"
"Can't we just talk about us? Naruto is just coming between us, it's because he was badly brought up!! Kids without families always grow up selfish."
"That and lonely." Wow now Sakura's gone and made him emotional. "Being scolded by your folks doesn't even compare!"
"Wha-what's gotten into you all of a sudden," asks Sakura nervously.
"You…make me sick!" I didn't know that he even cared about not having parents. I thought he didn't feel any of the loss. Now I know and I can truly respect him. Sasuke starts to leave and he seems to be going back to where I had stolen his lunch. So I, with ninja magic (lol), appear in the hallway that he would soon be walking through.
"Hey Sasuke, you still want your lunch?"
He sighs, "No Dobe."
"Okay here take it I know you're hungry. Oh and some advice, never let your guard down while you're eating." We walk in silence as we make our way into the school.
We are sitting in room 408 and our new teacher hadn't come yet while everyone else's teachers had been and gone. I sigh already having learnt about our teacher, Kakashi. He would always be late unless the world was ending or the village was under attack. I get up already sensing Kakashi's presence.
He sighs when he walks into the room and says, "I hope you all are better ninja then you appear to be."
"Wow, he's funny; I guess we can keep him." I say quietly enough so Kakashi doesn't hear but my teammates do.
Now we're on top of a roof and there are trees everywhere. Are we even in Japan anymore?
"Now I'd like you all to tell us a little about yourselves." Kakashi looks at all of us as he says this.
"Like what," says Sakura.
"…You know. The usual. Your favorite thing, what you hate most...Dreams, ambitions, hobbies. Things like that."
"You go first since we don't even know you. Show us how we're supposed to do this." Sakura says this with a sugary sweet voice.
"My name is Hatake Kakashi. You don't need to know what I like therefore you don't need to know my dislikes! My dreams are for when I'm asleep and I have lots of hobbies. Now it's your turn."
"I am Haruno Sakura. My favorite thing is…well it's not a thing, it's a person. A boy-
"Let's just says she's hung up on Sasuke and she dislikes me in particular. It's your turn Sasuke." I say before I think to stop myself. Well who can blame me, she only kept glancing at Sasuke and well I don't need to hear her talk.
"My name is Uchiha Sasuke. There are plenty of things I hate, but that doesn't matter." I sit there watching him speak so calmly, knowing that he was burning deep inside. "There is almost nothing I like. I don't have a dream I have a desire, a determination. I will restore my clan and I will kill him, the one who caused all this."
Kakashi clears his throat and says, "Now it's your turn Naruto."
"My likes are Ramen and training, my dislikes mushrooms. I have no dream for the future, why have a dream for a future that may never come. I have one mission in life and that is to protect a certain person. Not because I desire to." I say this all quickly and in a voice that could rival any emo kid having a bad hair day.
"Okay, now that that's over with, our formal training will begin tomorrow. Our first project involves only the members of this cell. It is a survival exercise."
Sakura asks." But why would that be a mission."
"You'll be going against me. This test we are going to perform has a 66 rate of failure. We'll meet tomorrow morning on the practice field so we can evaluate each of your skills and weaknesses. Oh, a small piece of advice; don't have breakfast before hand…well not unless you want to throw up."
I sigh as I leave the roof top. I walk towards home in a slow manner. When I get home I grab a bowl of ramen and then stuff my face. If I fail this test I'm done for. I hop into bed without getting into my 'Jam-Jams. In mere seconds I'm in the dream world.
I reach the training field about two minutes before Kakashi appears, out of thin air I might add.
"Both of you are late," screams Sakura.
"That doesn't make this test any easier Sakura." I say in an overly exasperated voice.
"I've set this alarm to go off at noon," he says, ignoring Sakura's outburst. "I have two small bells, and all you have to do is get one from me before the timer sounds and you don't go back to the academy. Anyone who fails gets tied to this stomp and gets no lunch."
I smile to myself; I had taken it upon myself to eat breakfast. I don't fight on an empty stomach so if I were to throw up I would just make sure to aim for Sakura. -XD- I crouch down into battle position. I throw a couple of subtle kunai quickly aimed at Kakashi's neck and then I disappear before he even says to begin. I reappear in a tree not too far away and I make my chakra signature disappear as well. I quickly make three clones. I send one to watch out for Sasuke, I made sure the clone looked like a small green bird. The other one I send out to look like Naruto. I make the clone attack Kakashi and while my clone battles Kakashi I spirit myself away with my third clone watching my still body. I grab two small rocks from the ground and with my touch it seems to disappear. Without a sound or anything to document my movement I swiftly move to the still reading Kakashi. With my clone already beaten he's waiting for someone else to come try to take the bells. With careful precision I grab two of the bells without the little piece of string that it had been suspended from. Then, just as quickly I tie the small rocks to the strings. I quickly retreat to my body. When I am once again in control of my body I take a quick in draw of breath.
I hide my bell inside of my weapons pouch and I make some quick hand signs. Soon I am near Sasuke. I release my other clones. Sasuke quickly turns around to find out who's lurking near by.
"Hey, Sasuke think we should team up." He just stares at me as if I was crazy and then he just turns back around. I smile to myself. I make some hand signs and make myself invisible in both appearance and the ability of others to sense or pick up my presence. I walk up behind him and softly put my hand on him. Before he can turn around I make him Invisible as well. He looks from side to side before he disappears. Though he can't sense my presence I can sense his, only because I caused his invisibility. I put bell in his invisible hand then I quickly go to the lunch area with the three stomps. I take a seat on the middle one and soon I fall asleep.
I wake to the sound of the alarm going off. At first I think that I was in my apartment and I was just waking up to start my day. Then I actually opened my eyes and find that it was noon and it was time for lunch. Then I remember that I was still invisible so I look around and let down the jutsu. Soon I was joined by Sasuke, Kakashi and Sakura.
"Are you trying to make fun of the shinobi way with your behavior? Well are you? Did you ever stop and wonder why you were put into teams. Why do you need teammates if you're just going to work on your own? None of you got bells and even worse you didn't even try to work together."
I look up at him when he seems to mention that none of us had gotten bells. I look through my weapons pouch and find the bell at the very bottom of it. I pull it out along with a cheeky grin.
I jingle it a bit and then I say, "What was that you said about none of us got a bell? It also appears that your other bell is missing as well" Soon Sasuke jingle's his own bell and Kakashi stares at him as well.
"Well, I don't know how you did it Naruto and Sasuke but you do have bells. Since Naruto and Sasuke are the only ones with bells they get the lunches. Naruto, Sasuke under no circumstance are you to share with Sakura. I'll be back in a few minutes." With that he disappears.
I stare at the lunch boxes. Kakashi couldn't really mean that I am going to have to eat all this and not share with my teammates. I may not like Sakura but she works better with food than without.
"Here," Sasuke and I say simultaneously and we give Sakura our lunches.
"But now you don't have anything to eat," says Sakura.
"It's fine, I brought a lunch so what do you say?"
"Well okay I'll take Naruto's lunch you eat your Sasuke."
"Good," I say as I make a few hand seals and in my hand was a bowl of steaming ramen. I eat slightly slower than usual because I am in company but still I appear to be a hungry food processor.
Then out of no where comes Kakashi with a giant grin on his face. "You pass!!!!!"
