smoop poops dedoop.
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Naruto was uncharacteristically quiet while waiting for Iruka-sensei to arrive and announce the teams. He couldn't help but think back to his discussion with the Old Man the previous day. He was the container of the Kyuubi. He didn't know what that meant for him exactly, but at least it explained all the terrible stuff that happened to him. Each Kyuubi container, because there had been others before himself, inherited the massive negative karma of the Kyuubi itself. Karma didn't effect most people that much because there was almost no way they could possibly do so much good or bad in their lives that the universe would seek to punish or reward them, but the Kyuubi containers inherited hundreds of years of negative karma as soon as the Kyuubi was sealed in them. Meaning that from the moment they became a container, life started shitting on them. It was almost a relief to know that he personally hadn't done anything to deserve his terrible life, but he also felt something else. He didn't know what it was. He had never felt it before. He didn't like it though…
Iruka-sensei arrived in class a few minutes late, looking faintly troubled. Well, he looked faintly troubled for any ninja savvy enough to actually tell. To the new graduates he didn't look any different from normal.
Everyone quieted down upon his arrival, well used to the routine that they were just about to be free from.
"My sensei, when I was a student used this moment to give a long winded monologue of a speech. I couldn't stay awake through that, and from what my fellow graduates said, neither could anybody else. So I won't take up too much of your time here. I'll make this short and sweet: This is it. You all went through a lot to get here, and you worked really hard. Your struggles aren't over however, things are only going to get more difficult from here on out. You may falter, but you may never stop moving forward. You may stumble, but you may never stay down. You may crack, but you may never break. Ask for help if you need it, offer help to those who need it. Make the Hokage and the village proud." Iruka-sensei intoned. Falling silent for a minute after he was done.
The gathered Graduates paid rapt attention, Then started shifting uncomfortably when his speech ended and silence fell.
"The teams are as followed" Iruka-sensei continued, reading down the list.
Naruto stopped paying him so much attention, he just daydreamed while waiting for his name to be called.
"Team seven will be composed of Uzumaki Naruto" Naruto perked up when his name was called, "Yamanaka Ino" Eh… That was ok, Naruto supposed. He would rather have been on a team with Sakura-chan, but he had nothing personally against Ino; except that she was an Uchiha fangirl. "Uchiha Sasuke".
"Dammit" Naruto muttered, even as Ino squealed in joy. Naruto didn't particularly like Sasuke, for both personal and not so personal reasons. On a personal level he disliked Sasuke because Sasuke was Sakura-chans crush. On a not so personal level Naruto disliked Sasuke because Sasuke was just generally a jerk. Ok yeah his family was massacred four years previous, and Naruto felt sympathetic to him for that, But that didn't excuse his terrible attitude and unfriendly demeanor. He wasn't the only one to suffer in the world.
"WHAT?!" Sakura screamed, "Sensei that's not fair! I worked really hard to be on Sasuke-kuns team!"
"HA! Suck it forehead girl! True Love triumphs!" Ino laughed.
"SHUT UP!" Iruka-sensei barked, continuing after they quieted down. "As I was saying, your sensei is Hatake Kakashi."
"Team eight will be composed of Nara Shikamaru, Haruno Sakura," Iruka paused to glare at Sakura who was started grumbling upon hearing who was on her team. " and Aburame Shino. Your sensei will be Yūhi Kurenai."
Team nine is still in circulation. So team ten will be composed of Akimichi Chouji, Hyuuga Hinata, and Inuzuka Kiba. Your sensei will be Sarutobi Asuma." Iruka stopped to take a breath, "Your sensei will be coming to pick you up after lunch, so for now just take the time to familiarize yourself with your team mates.
Everybody got up and rearranged themselves around the room, in order to sit next to their team mates. except Sasuke who just sat quietly and glared out the window as people moved around him.
Naruto at first tried to actually talk to his team mates, but that proved futile. Sasuke refused to acknowledge anything anyone said to him, and Ino mostly ignored Naruto in favor of fruitlessly attempting to start a conversation with Sasuke. In the end, Naruto decided that he might as well do something in the mean time, so he took his coded note book out and started reviewing and writing notes on things he wanted to try in the future. Eventually Ino got Bored of attempting to talk to Sasuke, which usually didn't happen; she usually got into a fight with Sakura or something before she even had a chance to get bored, so she turned her attention to Naruto. Looking over his shoulder at his note book, she couldn't make heads or tails of it. Her dad worked in the T&I division so she thought that it might be code, but that didn't help her decipher it. Naruto let her look, he would have been worried about her solving his writing but he had long since graduated from simply using the sand cipher. He now used both the sand cipher and his own created cipher. He alternated between the ciphers on every other line.
Time past quickly in this fashion and lunch arrived before they knew it. Ino turned to ask Sasuke if he wanted to go get lunch with her, only to find that he had already disappeared. She turned back to Naruto who closed his note book, got up, and started ambling to the door.
"Hey, you wanna get lunch or something? You know, since we're supposed to get to know each other and stuff…" Naruto sighed, looking back over his shoulder at her and waiting for her answer.
"Might as well." She said, getting up with a sigh and following after Naruto.
When lunch ended everyone gathered back in the classroom and teachers started coming to pick up the various teams immediately. Eventually all the other teams had been picked up and team seven was the only team left in the classroom.
Ino supposed that their sensei was probably just running a little late, so she turned and started chatting with Naruto. He wasn't as bad she previously thought, of course he wasn't as good as Sasuke-kun, but he was certainly more fun to talk to. That was the good thing about her team though, She got to be around Sasuke for hours of uninterrupted time every day and her other team mate was actually fun to hang out with as well.
you can only talk for so long in at one time before you run out of things to talk to and patients can only be stretched so far before it breaks, so it's understandable that both Naruto and Ino were absolutely fuming by the time Kakashi actually arrived several hours late.
"WHAT THE FUCK! BAKA-SENSEI! WE'VE BEEN WAITING HERE FOR HOURS! WHAT COULD POSSIBLY HAVE MADE YOU THIS LATE!" Ino screeched in anger, breathing heavily.
Kakashi paused, having just slid the door open, to stare at her for a moment. "I got lost on the road of life." he lamely replied.
"I'm going to stab you." Naruto promised.
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that was chapter eleven. ok notes:
1. the reason that Sasuke and Naruto are on the same team even though Sasuke is the rookie of the year and Naruto is not the dead last, is because Kakashi specially requested Naruto and Sasuke was always going to be on his team. Kakashi is the only other loyal konoha ninja that has a fully functioning sharingan. Sakura could not possibly be on their team though. The only reason she's on their team in cannon is because of their specific class ranking. Sasuke was rookie of the year, Naruto was dead last, and Sakura was perfect middle of the road; placed there in order to provide a balance of strength to the team. since Naruto isn't dead last in this story, Sakura could not be on team seven. so i had to choose between Ino and Hinata. I chose Ino because i like her better and also i wanted everyone to be on a team where they would grow as people. There's no way Kakashi would know what to do with a cripplingly shy girl like Hinata.
2. i Broke up the new generation of InoShikaChou Specifically because it's a well known combination. what kind of ninja village would put a weaker version of a well known team on the field. there's no way the other villages don't have plans for what to do when they run into the older squad. the only reason the older generation is still able to function as a team so well is because they already have the experience and individual strength needed to overcome whatever weaknesses the enemy may try to exploit. a new generation of the same team would have all the same weaknesses without the same ability to compensate… that's stupid.
3. I placed Sakura, Shikamaru, and Shino on the same team and placed them under Kurenai because they are the three characters with the least chakra capacity. they would benefit the most from having a chakra control focused teacher.
4. Hinata needs to get out of her shell. so i placed her on a team with Kiba, a loud and brash kid who's likely to be high energy and try to draw hinata out of her shell. Chouji, who's a calming presence that she can retreat to if she's ever being overwhelmed by Kiba's energy. Asuma, someone who will be gentle but stern with her, and thus a good father figure to replace her actual father.
5. That other cipher i mentioned in case you were curious is a cipher called the… well i forget what it's called… i'll probably remember by the end of the next chapter. anyway it's another simple cipher, you just switch the letters for their mirror letter. "A" becomes "Z" "hello" becomes "svool"