CHAPTER 4
I DO NOT OWN NARUTO
TEAM ASSIGNMENTS
The next day when Naruto woke up saying only thing as he looked at his alarm clock. "Shit!" Realizing that he over slept he rushed out of bed, but not before getting his feet tangled in the sheets resulting in a giant thud sound in the apartment. After righting himself and telling the fur ball to stop laughing at him he jumped straight in the shower. When he was done with his shower he threw on some clothes made a quick sandwich and rushed out of his apartment. He ended up running at top speed to class hoping he wasn't going to be too late. The young blonde kept thinking one thing as he raced across the roof tops. "I'm so fucked" Meanwhile at the classroom some of the students were wondering where he was. "Figures he wouldn't show up guess he just realized that he couldn't cut it." Kiba said
"Told you pig, know ones greater than Sasuke-kun. Naruto's just some little scared baka." Sakura said reinforcing what Kiba said. "Wait a minute did I just agree with dog boy?" She thought. "Hey even someone like him can realize the obvious." Inner Sakura shot back.
"Naruto-kun probably just over slept because he got to sleep late." Ino said defending her fellow blonde.
Shortly after that Iruka limped into the class room which got everyone's attention.
"Iruka-sensei are you alright? what happened to you?" Sakura asked.
"Nothing that a few days rest won't take care of." "Thank Kami that it's the end of the school year." He thought to himself looking forward to few days of sleeping in. "Now is everyone here?" he asked looking around the class.
"Everyone but that baka Naruto. Can you believe he would actually be late?" The pink haired girl said.
"Well Sakura he had a long night with the Hokage so he probably just over slept."
"Ha told you forehead. Naruto-kun wouldn't be late without a good reason." Ino added.
Right on cue Naruto came running into the class with sweat dripping down his face. "Sorry I'm late Iruka sensei…." Before he could say anything else he was cut off.
"That's okay I didn't expect you to be on time today that's why I came in a little later myself. So just go take your seat." With that he went to his seat and sat down. "Alright class pay attention while I call out your names so that everyone hears what team you're on. (Skip one through six) Team 7 Haruno Sakura, Uchiha Sasuke …"
"YES TAKE THAT PIG. True love wins again." The pink haired girl yelled out.
"As I was saying the final member of team seven is Uzumaki Naruto, Jonin Sensei Kakashi Hatake."
"Not that baka." Sakura said.
"NOOOO NOT THE EMO TEME AND THE PINK HAIRED BANSHEE! Kami what did I ever do to deserve this punishment?" the blonde said slamming his head onto his desk causing the entire class to start laughing.
Shikamaru and Choji looked at Naruto and the pineapple haired boy replied with the only answer he could. "Troublesome."
"Yeah sorry about that man." Choji added. "I wouldn't wish that on anybody."
Suppressing a chuckle Iruka continued on. "Ok team 8 Aburame Shino,
Hyuuga Hinata, and Inuzuka Kiba, Jonin Sensei Yuhi Kurenai. Team 9 is still in circulation so team 10 is Akamichi Choji, Nara Shikamaru, and Yamanaka Ino, Jonin Sensei Asuma Sarutobi."
With that everyone broke off into their teams to get to know each other better while Naruto just went to sleep. Upon seeing this Sakura immediately yelled at Naruto. "Naruto you baka what the hell are you doing going to sleep, what if our sensei comes in the door right now."
"Sakura first there's no need to yell. Second didn't you here the name of our sensei Hatake Kakashi that guy would be late to his own funeral."
She was about to yell something back when a bearded jonin with a cigarette in his mouth spoke up. "He's right you know you might as well save your energy if you're waiting on Kakashi. How's it going Naruto staying out trouble I hope?"
"I'm doing fine and I stay out of enough trouble cigs. Now if you excuse me I have a nap to get back too."
"Alright you do that Team 10 you're with me." The red eyed woman next to him spoke up after that. "And team 8 your with me."
With that the six genin got up to leave with their teams with Ino turning around to say by to Naruto before she left. "Bye Naruto-kun."
"Bye Ino-hime have fun with cigs."
As time passed everyone else in the room left and soon it was just team seven waiting on their sensei. Sakura was complaining the entire time they were waiting and was starting to get on both boys nerves. Just when they thought they couldn't take any more of her complaining they were saved by the door opening and Sakura yelling at the top of her lungs. "YOU'RE LATE SENSEI!"
"Okay so my first impression is I hate you guys. Meet me on the roof." Kakashi said.
He then closed the door and the three genin left the room headed for the roof. It took the three genin about three minutes to get there. Kakashi was busy trying to figure out how he was going to use his new team. He was a little frustrated since he knew that he had to pass this group of genin for three reasons. The first two reasons were the most important ones to him because of Naruto and Obito. After everything that happened to him in his life he had refused to let down his sensei and deceased teammate by not training Naruto and Sasuke to the fullest of his capabilities. The third reason he could really care less about and that was that the council wanted him to train the last Uchiha. He couldn't stand the fact that they encouraged him to leave the demon child as useless as possible in hopes that he would die in the field.
The other thing that was bothering him was how he could make this team work. He had there files so he had an idea. Since he had spent four months a year and the last year before Naruto came back he knew that his file didn't match his skill level. Thanks to the time spent with him he also knew his personality and felt good since the boy had embraced his feelings of teamwork. But what he wasn't sure about was Sasuke and Sakura, the Uchiha did have great potential but the brooding he always did was a problem along with the "I'm better than everybody" attitude made it hard for others to work with him. Then there was Sakura the girl was smart top of her class, but less than average reserves, no real taijutsu skills, and even though she was listed as a genjutsu type she knew pretty much nothing. The only real thing that she had was her near perfect chakra control. Kakashi sighed. "Why couldn't I get the Yamanaka girl, but who am I to break up the Ino-Shika-Cho trio." After that his three new charges made it to the roof and sat down in front of him.
"Alright you three so I can get a better idea of you why don't you each stand up and tell me something about you. You know your likes, dislikes, and dreams. Pinky, why don't you go first."
Sakura gave an annoyed look at being called pinky then did as she was ask. "Kakashi Sensei shouldn't you tell us something about yourself first. So we have a better idea of you too."
"Okay well my name is Hatake Kakashi my likes are none of your business, my dislikes well that doesn't really matter right now, and my goals I don't really feel like telling you. Is that good enough for you?"
Shooting her sensei another annoyed look she reluctantly started. "Well my name is Haruno Sakura my likes are (looks at Sasuke and squeals), my dislikes are Ino pig and Naruto baka, and my dreams are (looks at Sasuke and squeals)." The pink haired girl said.
"And you call hime a pig." Naruto mumbled under his breath.
Kakashi heard that and gave an eye smile to the blonde. "Alright you. Why don't you go next?" The silver haired jonin said pointing towards Sasuke.
"Hmpf….my names Uchiha Sasuke my likes and my dislikes don't really matter and my dreams. I don't have any dreams it's more of an ambition and that is to kill a certain someone and restore my clan." The last Uchiha said.
"You have to talk to girls to be able to do that last part teme." The blonde mumble again under his breath again.
Once more Kakashi eye smiled at Naruto before speaking. "Okay blondy since you have so much to say, why don't you finish this off so we can go home."
"Finally the names Uzumaki Naruto my likes are ramen, training, Ino-hime, Jiji, pervy sage, baa-chan and Shizune nee-chan. My dislikes are people who don't like others because of things out of there control, those that become a ninja for the wrong reasons, and the three minutes you have to wait for instant ramen. And my dream is to one day become the greatest Hokage ever BELIEVE IT!"
"I see, now that that's over meet me at training ground seven tomorrow at six in the morning for your genin test." Kakashi said getting ready to leave before he was interrupted.
"But sensei we already took our test to become genin." Sakura pointed out in an obvious tone of voice.
"Actually that test was just to see if you had the basic skills to become genin we, your sensei's have the final say if we believe that you can survive in the field by a test and that is up to us to determine the test and what we're looking for." The man whose silver hair defied gravity said. "So like I said six in the morning be there sharp. Oh and don't eat breakfast you'll just throw it up, Ja-ne."
Sakura paled at the thought of what could he have them doing for him to say don't eat breakfast. Sasuke had a whole new resolve he wasn't going to let some loud mouth dobe, and some over obsessed fan girl stop him from doing what he must do. Then there was everyone's favorite blonde who gradually just got up flipped off the roof and left to go the flower shop.
When he arrived at the flower shop Ino was at the counter looking at a magazine when she heard the bell ring. "Welcome to the Yamanaka flow…oh Naruto-kun what are you doing here?"
"Just thought I stop by and see how the prettiest girl in Konoha was doing and I also wanted to know what you thought about cigs."
"Hmpf I do see why you call him cigs the only time he doesn't smoke is probably when he sleeps. But anyway he seems like a nice enough guy and he said he requested to have us so I don't mind it that much. And to answer your first question I'm doing just fine now that you're here. So how do you think it's going to be having forehead and the teme on your team?"
"The first couple of weeks is gonna be hard because we have Kakashi nii-san and his main focus is on teamwork and I know it's gonna take a long time before those two realize that. Hell I'm just hoping I can get it through their heads before he fails us tomorrow."
"Nii-san."
"Yeah while I was out training with pervy sage he came out to train me in nin-jutsu for four months a year since I was five and all of last year. And since he was a very good friend of my dad and he said he was the closest thing he had to a father figure and looks at me as his otouto."
"Oh….so why would he fail you then."
"For one he has never passed a genin team EVER! That's why he could afford to help my training so much. And second like I said teamwork, the teme's too into himself to realize it and pinky thinks he can do no wrong and that's all I ever do so we might just fail even though he doesn't want us to."
"Sure does makes me happy that Shika, Choji and I have been friends since we were little. Wait a minute I thought you didn't know who your dad was so how do you know that he was your sensei's friend?"
"I just said that my dad's not important because he made so many enemies during the third war that they banned me from telling people he was my dad until I make chunin or they think I'm old enough to defend myself."
"So Naruto-kun can you tell me who your dad was?" The platinum blonde asked in her sweetest voice.
"Who knows you might be able to find out before everyone else if you act right."
"WHAT DO MEAN IF I ACT RIGHT? I AM YAMANAKA INO THE BEST DAMN WOMAN IN THIS VILLAGE!" she finished yelling by crossing her arms under her breast.
Naruto was now on the floor clenching his sides laughing hard with tears coming down his face. Needless to say Ino didn't take kindly to being the butt of his joke. When he was almost done laughing and started to stand up she promptly punched him on the top of his head sending him right back to the floor seeing stars. "That will teach you to crack jokes at my expense."
"Ok hime I'm sorry, but that was just too good to pass up. Anyway just meet me at the top of the Hokage Monument at six thirty and I'll explain everything." He said still trying to suppress his chuckle standing back up.
"Why should I meet you there baka?"
"It's called a date hime I thought you might wanna brag about your first date with the future Hokage was the place where they'll immortalize my face forever."
Upon hearing the word date everything else he said went unheard as Ino slipped off into her mind. "Finally Naruto-kun decided to ask me out I was starting to think he was never going to ask." She was brought out her mind by Naruto waving his hand in her face trying to get her attention.
"Ino, Ino, INO-HIME!"
"Huh what was that Naruto-kun?"
"I said do we have a date or not because I'm pretty sure Hinata might wanna….."
He never got to finish that sentence as his head got the second knot of the day. "Of course we have date. But don't ever joke around like that again. You and Hinata don't make me laugh."
"Okay hime I'll see you later and wear something nice okay."
As the whiskered faced blonde left the flower shop Ino was left daydreaming that is, until her mother brought her out of her thoughts. "So is my Ino-chan finally going to get started on bringing me plenty of grandbabies?"
"MOTHER!"
"I'm just saying it's never too early to hope. Besides, you and Naruto-kun would make such beautiful babies."
"Either way that will have to wait till I at least make ANBU, before something like that will ever happen. Now if you excuse me I've gotta date to get ready for." As she left she couldn't help but think about what her mother had said. "Naruto-kun and I would make the best looking babies this village has ever seen though."
LATER THAT NITE
As Naruto stood on top of the monument waiting for Ino to show up he was talking to the Kurama about his decision on what to tell her. "Are you really gonna tell her everything kit you know what could happen if you do?"
"I know. But she deserves to know the truth. And I can't let her go through the things that she will have too without her knowing why."
"I understand about telling her about your father, but I'm a completely different story."
"Come on, you didn't think that I thought about a way around that already? That's gonna be a lot easier than I thought at first."
"Why do I have a bad feeling about this kit? So tell me what's gonna make this so much easier?"
Naruto was about to answer when he heard Ino's voice calling out to him. "You'll find out soon enough."
"Naruto-kun I see why you wanted me to meet you here this is beautiful." The platinum blonde said as she wrapped her hands around his waist.
"Yeah but not as much as you hime." He said as he turned his head to kiss Ino who felt like she was in heaven at the highest place in the village with the boy she cared for the most for. Ino was wearing white summer dress with lilies print along with white healed sandal's; she also had her hair down and hung down to her waist. "I come here whenever I just need to think and clear my head. Plus it makes me feel like I'm closer to my dad when I'm here."
"Is that because were so high up?"
"That and one other thing but we can get to that later. I didn't spend the last week at Choji's house learning how to cook all your favorite foods just for them to get cold so let's eat."
As the two blondes sat and ate they talked about their friends and what they wanted to do throughout there shinobi careers and along that nature. As the sun began to set he got up and sat behind Ino to watch the sun set he took a deep breathe to calm his nerves and spoke. "Hime you know that other reason that I said this place brings me closer to my dad." She nodded. "Well that reason is that we're sitting on top of his head."
Ino laughed at that for a second. What he said not registering in her head right away. "That's funny Naruto-kun but if we were sitting on your dads head that would mea….." As she turned around to look at him with wide eyes the gears in her head started to turn. "That would mean your Yondaime's son? But how could that be? None of the history books ever said anything about him having a son. They all said that he was the last of the Namikaze clan."
"That's the same reason why I'm not mentioned Ino. After the Kyuubi attacked the village was in a weakened state. Think about it we had just finished the Third Great War and then that happened we were vulnerable and the last thing that our enemies especially Iwa needed to know was that Yondaime had an orphaned son walking around the village. My dad had a lot of enemies in the village also so when he married my mom it was in secret with the only people that knew being Jiji, pervy sage, baa-chan, Uchiha Itachi, Kakashi nii-san, and the Ino-Shika-Cho trio."
"Wait my dad knew who you were the whole time and didn't tell me? Oh he's so dead when I get home."
"Hime don't get mad at him he did it as a favor to my dad. When he died to make sure that no one found out about me they were sworn in under penalty of death unless I tell someone. The rule is once I'm deemed strong enough to protect myself I can take my father's last name."
"Well I guess that makes since. But Naruto-kun there's something else that I wanted to ask you. You don't have to answer if you don't want to butt."
"You want to know why the villagers treat me so bad."
"Yeah I mean sure you've pulled some pretty great pranks that could make people pretty annoyed with you. But that doesn't mean that they should treat you the way they do."
"There's a reason for that to but I think it would be a lot easier to show you then to tell you."
"I knew I had a bad feeling about this. Bastard ass kid can't let me sleep in fucking peace."
"Ino I want you to use your mind transfer jutsu on me. Don't worry about me I'll be fine."
Ino looked at Naruto like he was crazy and was about to say something when she was cut off. "Don't worry this is something important that I want to share with you and you're the only person in our age group that I trust enough to do this. So can you please just trust me and do this for me?" He kissed her and looked her in her eyes and all she could do was nod. She then put her hands together and said real softly. "Mind transfer jutsu."
When she opened her eyes she found herself in a sewer like place and was starting to get a little scared until she heard Naruto's voice. "Follow me." Was all he said as they started to walk.
"Naruto-kun where are we? I've invaded minds before and no one's has ever looked like this."
"Well that's because mines is a little different. You see hime there was another reason why I was taken away from the village and that was my dad didn't kill the Kyuubi like everyone was taught to believe. The truth is no human can kill an immortal being of that much power. So the only thing that can be done is seal them away, so that there power can be harnessed to protect the country. It's something that has been done for years."
"I don't get it why does everyone hate you though."
"That's because the kits father was the first to ever seal me in such a public way."
When Ino heard that voice she turned around with the biggest look of fear as she saw a head with blood red slitted eyes and the scariest set of teeth she had ever saw. "Naruto-kun what is that?"
"Ino I'm what you call a jinchuriki or power of human sacrifice. I'd like you to meet Kurama the Kyuubi, don't worry he can't get past that seal and he's not that bad once you get to know him."
Seeing the look of fear in her eyes the Kyuubi turned to look at Naruto. "I knew this was going to be a bad idea kit."
After hearing what he told her and seeing how the two communicate so calmly Ino started to calm down a little bit and Naruto decided to continue. "Hime most of the villager's know that I'm the container of the Kyuubi, and they don't see me as a person all they see is the demon and that's why some of them call me demon child. I brought you here because I wanted you to know what you would be getting yourself into if you wanted to be more than friends with me. Some of the villager's might look at you the way they do me or others might stop coming to your family store just because you are a demon lover. I care about you Ino and it would be selfish of me to hamper your life without you knowing the truth about why."
Ino was quiet for a few minutes and when she was about to speak the Kyuubi did first. "Girl I would like to let you know that since the kit has been around you it has been a lot more pleasant being in this village. And I can assure you of one thing if you are the right one for the kit I can assure you that your kits would usher in a whole new breed of shinobi as you might call it a kekkai genkai."
Hearing this made both blondes blush new shades of red. It also offered a new comfort to Ino as she thought. "Naruto-kun has shared his deepest secret to me all because he wants me to choose how I live my life. This is what every girl dreams of a guy who would put my own pleasure before his." Once thatthought went through her head she knew that her decision was easy. "Naruto-kun I don't care what the dumb villagers think about me. I care about you too and any guy that's willing to lose me just to make sure that I'm happy is defiantly worth all of my attention." She said as she walked over to him and wrapped her arms around his neck. "But you do know I am pretty bossy are you sure you want the job."
"They say that guys fall for girls like their moms and from what everyone's told me she was just as bossy. I'm sure she would have loved you hime."
With that they exited his mind and Ino pulled him into a passionate kiss that only broke when she needed air. "See I always get what I want." Naruto brought her in for another passionate kiss breaking apart when he needed air.
"So do I."
After that both blondes sat back looked at the night view of the Konoha sky line during the warm summer night. After sitting underneath the stars for about another hour they finally decided to pack up and head on home which is when Ino voiced her opinion. "Naruto-kun I really don't feel like walking home though it is a long walk." Said blonde only smirked at the idea he had at hearing this.
"Don't worry hime I have something that can remedy that." He then flashed through a few hand signs and yelled. "Summoning Jutsu." With that a giant plume of smoke appeared and when it cleared there stood a toad about seven feet tall with a necklace that had the kanji for friendship on it. "Ino this is Gamaken he's pretty much pervy sage's favorite summon he doesn't talk much though. I would have called mine but he's too small to carry anyone. You'll meet him sooner or later."
"Let me guess if I act right." She said sarcastically
"If you feel that way I was just gonna say if we ever have any free time during the day." The look of embarrassment on Ino's face at insulting herself was priceless Naruto thought as he suppressed a chuckle and helped Ino on to the back of the toad. "Now just hold on tight this is the really fun part. You ready." She nodded. "Alright Gamaken to that house right there." Naruto pointed and when the toad realized where they were going he nodded and took a giant leap off of Hokage Monument. Ino let out an ear piercing scream that could be heard throughout the village. For the next couple of weeks villagers could only imagine what the demon child did as all they heard was. "Naruto-kun I'm going to kill you."
When they finally arrived at her house they dismounted the toad and Naruto told him he could go home. As they stood in front of her house they leaned on the wall embracing each other not wanting the night to end. "I had a wonderful time tonight Naruto-kun."
"Me too hime. I'll set something else up as soon as I find out when I have the time ok." He leaned in for a soft kiss on the lips and pulled away. "Night hime sleep well."
"I will Naruto-kun you do the same." Was what she said as she entered her house and started to walk to her room still in a dream state that she really didn't even completely come out of when her parents stared talking.
"How was your date princess?" Inoichi asked with a slight tone of pain in his voice even thinking that someone got to take his daughter out before he even got the chance to scare the shit out of him.
"It was perfect daddy."
"Great then that means that I won't have to wait long for my grandbabies." Ino's mother chirped in.
"Honey please don't joke like that I still got to get over the fact that she's dating first. So princess what made the date so perfect?" Inoichi asked his daughter as she was going up the stairs.
"We had a picnic at the top of Hokage monument. Do you know that he spent time at Choza's last week to find out how to make my favorite foods? Then we sat back and watched the sunset." It was when she was at her door that she got a great idea to get back at her dad. "Oh yeah he also told me he was Yondaime's son and let me meet the Kyuubi. Night daddy." She trailed off as she closed her door and waited for his reaction.
"Oh that seems like a pretty normal da….. HE DID WHAT!" Was all she heard as she giggled while getting ready for bed.