Yeah sorry about the wait but I just couldn't sit down and write this story. I kept on sitting down to write it and saying "oh wait let me check if there are any new stories up first" or something like that so, yeah, sorry about that. On with the story!!!!
Tsunade has survived much through her many years as a ninja, threats, torture, and those damnably persistent debt collectors, yet at this moment she was starting to crack from the relentless barrage of worried questions from the number one knuckle head of Konoha.
"Yes, yes, Naruto, she's going to be just fine." The mednin was starting to lose patience with the young boy.
"Are you sure baa-"
"YES I'M SURE AND IF YOU FINISH THAT SENTENCE, SO HELP ME, I'LL PUNCH YOU THROUGH THAT WALL!" She yelled, cutting him off.
After a few seconds of uncomfortable silence a some stares from the people who had heard the commotion, she sighed, "Anyway weren't you supposed to go and meet your new teammates?"
As the realization visibly dawned on him, his face went through many different expressions; first confusion (of course), next understanding, and finally panic. At panic he leapt up to his feet and started running to the nearest door. "Thanks baa-chan, I completely forgot, tell me when she wakes up!" he opened the door and ran outside, leaving her alone with the unconscious kunoichi.
Tsunade smirked when she heard a crash outside, "if it wasn't for that baa-chan comment I would have reminded him that we're on the third floor."
Naruto was not having a good day, first he heared that the Akatsuki was still after him, and then he found out that he was still a genin, then he almost killed one of his friends, after that he got yelled at by the Hokage, realized that he was late for his first meeting with his new team (way to make a good first impression), and then he fell off a third floor balcony. Yep, that pretty much qualifies as a bad day. The only bright side was he couldn't see how this day could get much worse (no you fool, you'll doom us all).
"UZAMAKI!!! What did you do to my cousin!?!" Naruto stopped dead in his tracks and turned pale, then thought better of standing still and took off in the opposite direction of the voice.
Run, run, run, that was all he could do, the sound of his pursuers footsteps still behind him. Usually running was only half of his escape plan, the other half was hiding. The hiding wasn't working out so well (stupid byakugan). So he just kept running around the village. Until two strangers refused to get out of his way.
"Hey, are you the idiot?" said the one on the left, a teenage boy with half closed eyes. He was about as tall as Naruto, wearing black and red, His blond-brown hair falling sloppily over most of his face.
"What did you call me?" Naruto was furious with the boy's blatant disrespect, "do you know who I am?! I'm going to be the next Hokage!! Believe it!!"
"Yep that's him," the girl spoke up now, she was fairly small, around the same age as her friend, with short brown hair and dark green eyes, she had on classic ninja garb, a loose green shirt, shorts and a blue headband tied around her arm. "Wearing bright orange, talking about becoming Hokage, shouting out 'believe it', that description was pretty good, we didn't find him at the ramen shop though."
"Uzamaki! I knew you couldn't run forever!" Neji had caught up to him by now and was getting closer every second.
"Listen, could we discuss this somewhere else? I'm kind of running from this psycho right now." The boy to his left just smirked and stepped around Naruto to face the charging Hyuga.
He just stood there between Naruto and Neji with his hands by his side, letting the genius of the cadet branch close the distance. He stopped when it became obvious that the boy wouldn't move.
"Get out of the way boy, you have nothing to do with this." Neji said with a glare.
The smirk on the boy's half hidden face grew. "So, you don't want to fight me? Well thank you for the respect, but it's not needed." Neji raised an eyebrow in question. "I'm honored that you would rather fight someone you've already lost to than me." Neji's glare became more intense as he heard this and Naruto almost burst out laughing.
"Listen here, you don't know what you're starting so I suggest you stop now before I get angry." Neji said through gritted teeth.
"I thought a ninja never lost his cool no matter the situation." Neji's anger clearly showed on his face while Naruto was still trying to contain his laughter. "I mean I can understand your position, two people from this village that you thought you could beat, that would be hard to explain to everyone else who thought you were unbeatable. I get it now you're afraid of losing." Neji was seething in anger. He clenched his fists visibly trying to calm down. "If that's the case then I'm going back to the training grounds to find someone who's not a coward" He put his hands in his pockets and turned to walk away.
"THAT'S IT" Neji yelled in a very un-Neji-like manner and rushed at the black clad boy. He didn't even turn around, but when Neji extended his arm to attack with a deadly wave of chakra it was over in a flash. The young boy stepped to the side and Neji's hand hit open air, the brown haired ninja, still not facing his opponent, then grabbed Neji's wrist and pulled him forward, throwing him off balance and into the ground. (NOT, I repeat NOT a super powered OC, just keep reading and you will find out next chapter!)
"Come on, lets go before he wakes up." The strange boy said in a calm voice and began walking to the training grounds, his eyes still half shut.
Who the heck is this guy Naruto thought before he followed, wanting to find out more about this stranger, and any new techniques he could learn.
Once they reached the training field, both of the strangers stopped and turned to look at Naruto, evidently giving him the first chance to talk.
"Ok since seem you know so much about me why don't you tell me who you are?" Naruto suddenly burst out, pointing a finger accusingly at the two.
The yet to be identified boy slapped his face and glared at Naruto through his fingers. Naruto wondered why until…
"Wellyouseewecomefromthevillageandwejustgraduatedfromtheacadamyayearagoandwetookthechuninexams-boyweretheytough-thenkinhesouroldteammategraduatedbutwedidntsowecouldnttaketheexamswithhimthistimesowehadto-" the young girl started talking non-stop until her fellow shinobi covered her mouth with his hand from behind. "Sorry about that, she can get really-uck! -stop licking my hand, that's disgusting!!!" the boy snatched his hand away.
"Well don't put your hand over my mouth anymore!" the girl said in a mock serious tone. Naruto just stared at them with a scared look and waited for them to finish…
But after about five minutes of bickering back and forth he couldn't take anymore, "Uh, hi, remember me? I still have no idea who either of you are." He said making them both turn and stare at him like he just appeared out of nowhere.
"Oh yeaaaah." The girl said with a dumb grin on her face. "Well, as I was trying to say before I was so rudely interrupted-"
"We're your knew teammates," he cut her off. "Hey! I was going to say that!" she said angrily "The loudmouth over there," "Hey!!" "Is Kaida Ishi, but we just call her Stoner(1), and I'm Yasuo Mokushi, I don't care what you call me." This was all said with a sigh as if he felt that all this was unnecessary.
"Well, as you already seem to know, I'm Naruto Uzamaki! And I'm going to be-"
"Save it!" Yasuo cut in. "We've already heard your Hokage rant." He said in a somewhat harsh but still calm tone.
Naruto glared at his new teammate who just stood there waiting for something to happen, when Stoner suddenly yelled, "Can't you see you're tearing us apart?!" after a few seconds of strange looks from Naruto and a stare from Yasuo she burst out laughing, "Oh, you should have seen your faces! Hahahaha!"
This is going to be an interesting couple of months Naruto thought, still staring at Stoner.
(1) ishi means stone (or so i'm told, if i'm wrong tell me and i'll change it) so people started calling her stoner, at least thats how it happened to my friend, it doesn't mean she's on drugs.
And that's the end of chapter four. Again I'm sorry for the late update but I keep having to do other less important things (like schoolwork) but I will try to update as soon as possible in the future. Reviews really help speed up this process but I don't really care any more, so review if you want or don't and crush my spirit.
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