Chapter Four- Team Placements

Natsumi wasn't looking forward to going to the academy, since she was going to be on the Teme's team and the pink haired harpy. The only good thing was the fact, she was with Kushina and Naruto.

The only thing she could hope for was for her grandfather to see that large numbers didn't work. Splitting them up into two different teams. Leaving her with Kushina and Naruto, Sakura could have Sasuke.

Besides, both had told her that they had no problem with leaving. She was the only link they had to the village. Naruto had told her that life as a 'Missing Nin' was almost the same as how they grew up, just without any backup.

Natsumi was glad that Kushina got gotten rid of her jumpsuits, they were for boys anyway and made her stand out. That's why she used to like them, but now, she didn't need to try and get attention by acting like an idiot, now, she had family.

"Naruto, Natsumi. Breakfast!" Kushina shouted from the kitchen. Natsumi only smiled as she heard her sister's voice. Naruto wasn't joking that she was protective of the space, since she was pushed what when she told the raven, that she only knew how to cook ramen.

"Coming Kushina," Naruto and Natsumi yelled at the same time, walking to the kitchen. After they had gotten out of the meeting, they had to stop her from killing a man, since he thought he could get away with hitting Natsumi over the head with a broom.

He's still alive, but Kushina did make him live his fears for the next three hours.

Natsumi had to show the two were the academy was. The two were new to the village and Natsumi hadn't been able to show them where everything was, yet.

"Iruka-sensei," Natsumi said as she entered the room. He just looked at his 'little sister' and then the two behind her. So that's why they were on the role, well they did stop a traditor.

Kushina was watching the others, she knew they weren't going to live long, not if they didn't learn to pay more attention to their surroundings.

"Hello Natsumi, Naruto, Kushina," Iruka said a smile on his face. "I'm glad that the Hokage let you two stay. Still can't believe I fall for Mizuki's trap."

"It's okay Iruka," Natsumi told him a smile on her face, as her blonde ponytails bounced with her. "After all I'm a Genin and that's all that matters. And you're not hurt."

"Class," he said. He knew that they were going to ignore him, they did for the last four years, so would they stop now? Taking a deep breathe as he used his 'big head no jutsu' to shout 'shut up brats'.

"Who are the new kid? And why is dead last here?" a blonde girl asked. She was wearing a purple top and skirt. She had bandages around her torso and legs. Her pale blue eyes narrowed at them, or eye, since her fringe was covering one of them.

"Natsumi's test were tempered with, so we have her another one," Iruka told them, she was still the dead last, so no could argued him. Turning to face the two ravens, he asked. "Do you want to, or should I?"

"Full names?" Kushina asked. He had her respect, since not many saw Natsumi as Natsumi, not many believed her either, but he did and for that he had some of her respect.

"Yes," Iruka told her.

Naruto only nodded his head while walking to the middle of the stage, in front of Iruka's desk. "I'm Naruto Suna Akumu Uchiha Uzumaki."

This made the class pause. Uchiha? Sasuke thought looking at the boy in the front of the class. He was the last Uchiha.

"I'm Kushina Luna Akumu Uchiha Uzumaki," Kushina said keeping an eye on their two 'teammates', both of them looking at them with shock. Almost everyone jumped in their seats, since she was next to her brother, when a second ago she was next to the dead last.

"I'm the only Uchiha here," a boy with black hair and eyes said. Most of the girls nodded, glaring at them. "Explain yourself."

"Naruto, brother, I think we've meet the great 'Sasuke'," Kushina chuckled darkly, her eyes going red with her Sharingan. Looking at him with smile, she said. "More like the mighty duck butt. Oh, dear my, did I hurt the villager's baby's feelings."

"Don't say that to Sasuke-Kun," a pink haired girl shouted, while Sasuke just looked at her with shock, he didn't have his Sharingan and this girl already had hers?

"Sakura, right?" she said when the pink haired girl nodded, she continued. "I'll tell you the same thing I told your slut of a mother. I won't bow down to the 'last Uchiha' and you know why? Because the title never existed."

Both Sasuke and Sakura just looked at her, Kushina only smiled as she let her Sharingan fade back into her dark grey eyes.

Iruka on the other hand, was just glad someone out that brat in place. Seriously, everything was just handed to him and he never had to work for it. While his poor sister was holding back the nine tails and got treated like trash, because of it.

"Kushina. I don't think Sakura's parents will like you mentally scaring their daughter."

"Then why is she here?"

"Why don't you take a seat?" he asked. He knew why Kushina did what she did, he couldn't be happy if someone was questioning his family either.

Natsumi was happy, well happier that she knew her older siblings didn't like Sasuke, but because of his own mouth, they hated him. Clan or not, it didn't matter so much these days, not as much as it did when Kushina and Naruto were growing up.

That and someone else thought his hair looked like a duck butt. Sitting in the back row, they just ignored the fact that Sasuke was glaring at them, along with most of the females in the class.

"That was one risky move you pulled there," a boy in front of them said, leaning on the back of his chair. "Names Kiba and this Akumaru."

Naruto only rolled his eyes at the boy. He had last was smarter than most of the kids in this room, grey jacket and black pants, not like the bright pink Sakura was wearing.

"Hinata," the girl next to his said. Kushina looked at her and spotted the girl's lavender eyes, she was part of the Hyuga clan, then why was she acting shy? She remembered running into a branch member when she was ten years old.

She killed him, because he wouldn't shut up. Telling about her 'fate' and 'destiny', until she snapped and told him who her Dad was and killed him. They never did find his body, not that they cared, after all he was around fourteen.

"Shino."

Naruto turned his head to look at the head next to Hinata. His face was mostly covered, but that was his clan for you. Both ravens just nodded before looking at the teacher, who was reading out the teams, they didn't need to listen, since they already knew who they were with.

"Team Seven Naruto, Kushina, Natsumi, Sakura and Sasuke," Iruka said. Sakura didn't know if she was happy about being Sasuke, or annoyed for being with the other three. "Team Eight Hinata, Shino and Kiba. Team Nine is still active, so Team Ten is Shikamaru, Ino and Choji."

"Why do Sasuke and I have to be with Dead-last and the Wanna-be Uchiha's?" Sakura shouted pointing at them. Natsumi just looked at her, while Kushina got up from her chair and walked over to the girl.

"So you want to see my Sharingan again?" she asked looking her in the eye. Sakura couldn't say anything, since the raven was using KI (Killing Intent) to make her shut up. "Want me to show you a Genjutsu? But then again, I don't feel like wasting my time on the real dead last. You think you're so smart, don't ya. I knew six year old who could kill you without breaking a sweat. So don't talk like your 'all that', not until you have the skills to back it up."

"I'm not d-"

"Really. Then why do you look like you're ready to wet yourself?"

"Everyone go out for lunch," Iruka told them. No one needed to be told twice, running out of the room like hell hounds were nipping out their feet. Naruto just pulled Natsumi out of them room, telling her that Kushina just needed some time to cool down. She had handed him the scroll that had their lunches, as soon as the harpy opened her mouth.

"Sorry about that Kushina," Iruka told her. He was going through papers, that and eating. Even though he lived by himself for twelve years, he wasn't good at cooking, besides the basics.

"What are you eating?" Kushina asked looking at his bento of rice and nothing else. If he wanted to have energy to deal with any class, he needed to eat more then that.

"Rice."

"And that's it?"

"I can't cook."

"Don't you check on orphans? Or teach them, anything?"

"No," Iruka told her. He would try to check on the ones in his class, since he knew what they felt, since he was in their position. He wasn't able to check up on a lot of them, since too many children were left orphaned from the Kyuubi attack. "Most come into the academy. Most of them do live until old age, but some become famous, like Jiraiya and the fourth."

"Here," Kushina said while handing him one of her left over bento's. She loved cooking, since to her it was a stress reliever. A way to deal with the killing. "I make too much and if you seal it, it can last forever."

"Thanks."

"No problem."

It's been three hours, since the end of lunch and Team Seven were the only ones left in the class room.

"I swear to Kami, if Kakashi doesn't get his butt here soon. I'm going make him stay in the hospital for the next month," Kushina muttered to herself as she looked out the window. Naruto was showing Natsumi one of his books, since the girl was almost stunned in her education and couldn't read.

Sakura stopped asking Sasuke out on a date, to glare at the girl. But then went back to asking him a second later.

"For Kami's sake, slut, he said no," Naruto yelled at her. Kushina only smiled at him, he was must be sick of it, since Naruto rarely lost his temper, while for her it was as common for to lose it as an Uzumaki was to loss theirs. "So you either shut up now, or I'll let Kushina show you why the Akumu clan are better than the Uchiha, when it comes to Genjutsu."

"That does it," Natsumi said both she and Kushina (she was bored) started to set up a trap, Naruto just looked at them and went to help. He hated people who were late, so he had a feeling that he and his sensei weren't going to get along.

When the door opened and a man with grey hair walked in, everything (Natsumi could get her hands on) was thrown at him such as books, old ramen (both Kushina and Naruto didn't want to know where she got that) and paint balls. He was able to dodge most of it, but then bats were flying from the roof, but they weren't normal bats.

Naruto had found the summoning contract for bats when he was nine. So they were about three to six times the normal size of bats. That and they were more deadly, since some of them looked like fruit bats, but didn't like fruit, but blood.

Soon wires surrounded him and dragged him off the ground, where more paint was thrown at him, while Sakura and Sasuke just looked at him with shock. Natsumi, Naruto and Kushina smiled at how well their trap worked, in fact Naruto wrote it in, just in case they had to use it later, just replacing items and it would be deadly.

"I hate you," he told them. He didn't know who did it, since three of them were Uchiha and Sasuke's mother was the only known Uchiha who had pulled pranks, how Kushina was able to do it, he didn't know.

"I hate you too," Kushina and Naruto told him. Naruto might be two years older, but that didn't mean he didn't it when someone did something. Or that he couldn't act as childish as his sister.

"Why's that?"

"You're three hours late," Naruto told him, Kushina was already planning to make his favourite for dinner, since he rarely lost his temper. "Anything can happen in a few seconds, but everything can happen in three hours."

"Meet me on the roof," he said before disappearing in a cloud of smoke. He didn't know how he feel for a Genin's trap, but they might not have been the ones who set it up.

"Let's go to the roof," Natsumi said while smiling at her brother and sister. Naruto just nodded and took both her and Kushina's arms and disappeared. Sasuke just sighed while quickly jumping out the window, his sensei might have been caught by Genin, but they were Uchiha.

Kakashi was reading his book, when the last two arrived. The first three were reading something as well. He still wondered why he had three students from the same clan, since it was rare to have two from the same clan, but know the board they might just want them to teach Sasuke, while trying to make Kushina and Sasuke like each other, so that the Uchiha bloodline would continue.

The five 'Genin' sat in front of their new sensei, from the left it went Natsumi, Kushina, Sasuke, Naruto and then Sakura. Sasuke tried to put as much distance between himself and Sakura, along with Natsumi, one person between each.

"Why don't we introduce ourselves?" Kakashi asked. Usually they asked him to do it first, since he was usually the unknown element, but it looked like this time they had at least two other unknown elements, even to him. Since their files didn't say much about them and they didn't so to the academy.

"What do you want to know?" Sakura asked putting up her hand. She was loved by teachers, so she didn't see how he would be any different.

"Sakura, why the hell are you putting your hand up?" Kushina snapped at the girl. In a battle field situation, she would've been killed. Not even when they were training did they put their hands up, they were told to shut up and learn.

"That's what your meant to do in class," Sakura yelled at her. When you wanted to ask a question you put your hand up, when you wanted to leave the classroom, you put your hand up and asked. She was a good girl, unlike Natsumi who would just leave in the middle of a lecture.

"We're not in a classroom," Kushina told her. She hated this girl, hated, hated, hated. "Last time I checked, you can't put your hand up and ask the enemy a question. Start acting like a shinobi or die."

"I want to know your dislikes, likes, hobbies and goals," Kakashi told her. He still couldn't believe that a twelve year didn't know how to introduce herself. His other students would say their name and he would ask them questions afterwards. She hadn't done that much, or ask him to do it first.

"You're the unknown element," Natsumi said. She wasn't going to given more information than he was. That's what Naruto told her, information for information. "To me anyway, so why don't you go first."

"Sure. My names Kakashi Hatake. I have many likes and dislikes, most of my hobbies are too mature for you and I had a dream last night," Kakashi told them, putting his book back into his weapon pouch, that was on the back of his standard Jonin uniform.

"All we learned was his name," Sakura muttered, Natsumi nodded. Kushina and Naruto were getting sick of her, fast. She thought she was cute, but they thought she was acting like a child. Sasuke didn't listen to her, since he didn't like fan girls and Sakura was on of his biggest fan girls.

"We'll start from the left and go to the right. So blondie first," Kakashi said pointing at Natsumi. Said girl glared at him. He could see both his sensei and his girlfriend, so she was going to be scary when she was older.

"My name is Natsumi Uzumaki. I have more likes than dislikes, I have many hobbies and I was sleeping in class about fifty minutes go," Natsumi told him and he glared at her, and she returned it, along with Kushina and Naruto.

"Next."

"I'm Kushina Luna Akumu Uchiha Uzumaki. I'm not telling you my likes or dislikes. My hobbies are private and I haven't been here long enough to have a dream," Kushina said a smug smile on her face, as Sakura muttered about only learning her name. Both she and Naruto lived in a era where telling someone your last name was asking for it, let alone anything else.

"I'm Sasuke Uchiha. There a lot of things I dislike and not many that I like. I don't have a dream, but I have an ambition, the resurrection of my clan and to kill a certain man," Sasuke said covering his face with his hands.

His more messed up then my father, Kushina and Naruto thought looking at the others. They didn't want to know what Sakura was thinking, but she was likely thought he was cool. If Sasuke thought that either Kushina or Natsumi was helping (not being fan girls) then he was going to fear them, in the end.

"I'm Naruto Suna Akumu Uchiha Uzumaki. I'm pretty natural on things, my hobbies I like to keep to myself and I like Kushina, I haven't been here long enough to have a dream," Naruto said as he yawned. Now that he was clan head, he had a look after Sasuke along with doing any paperwork that boy had to do.

"Now the last one," Kakashi said while covering his ears. If she was anything like her mother, even that wasn't going to be enough. It looked like he wasn't the only with that idea, since Natsumi, Kushina, Naruto and Sasuke had their hands over their ears.

"My name is Sakura Haruno the thing I like it, well the person I life is..." Sakura said as she looked at Sasuke and went pink. "And my dream for the future is..." the pink haired looked at youngest Uchiha, who was now trying to hide between Kushina and Natsumi, while going red thinking about her marrying her 'true love'. "Oh yeah! I dislike Ino-pig, Natsumi and Kushina and my hobby is..." she looked at Sasuke again, making everyone else on Team Seven pity him.

"Sasuke I pity you," Kushina told him as she patted the boys back. Both she had Natsumi were moving to block the boy from Sakura's view. Not that Sakura knew what they were doing.

"What's that meant to mean?" Sakura yelled at them. She wasn't that bad, she just wanted her 'true love' to see that she was his perfect wife.

"Tomorrow we're going to start our duties," Kakashi told them, he was hoping not to break up a fight. He was sure that if it come to one, Sakura would loss. It was two against one, even three or four against the pink haired girl.

"What is it?" Sakura asked forgetting her fight with Kushina, paying attention to her teacher, like a good little girl.

"Natsumi, don't be like her," Kushina whispered to the blonde. She could tell that being on the same team with Sakura was going to get on her last nerve.

"Survival training."

"Why is our first duty training, didn't we do enough at the Academy?" Sakura asked causing Kakashi to look at her. Kushina and Naruto didn't know what the Academy 'training' was like, but they knew that one could never stop training their body and mind.

Kakashi just laughed, Natsumi, Sakura and Sasuke looked at him like he was crazy, while Naruto and Kushina had their hands on their swords, something they had on their lower back. "Out of the twenty seven graduates, only nine will be chosen as Genin. The rest will be sent back to the Academy. This test has a failure rate of 66.66%"

Sasuke and Sakura looked at him with big eyes. Natsumi was looking at Naruto and Kushina, while said two were wondering what was wrong with the sentence that had left his mouth. Only nine? Then did the Leaf have so many shinobi?

"Come tomorrow to Training Ground Seven, and skip breakfast," Kakashi told them, handing them a piece of paper. "You'll only throw up."

When he left. Sakura was looking at her piece of paper with fire in her heart. She wasn't going to be sent back, she had to stay with Sasuke. She had to.

Sasuke only wanted to kill that man. No one was going to hold him down. Naruto wondered what was wrong with his teammates. His platoon was better then this, along with Kushina's. Kushina was just planning dinner, along with lunch.

Natsumi thought she had seen him before. After all, his hair reminded her of someone, but she couldn't put her finger on who.