"Are you sure, Lord Hokage?" The man said, afixing his armor. It felt like he'd just removed this armor, and here he was, putting it on once more.
"Yes, I was going to let you be stay as an instructor, but this mission requires my best men, and you are the best for the job. Also, I have this...from your father." The aged man removed a scroll from his robes, it held the symbol o fthe White fang, to this, the silver haired man's eye widened. "Hokage-sama, this is..." his tone exhasperated, as he looked to unravel it, but was stopped by the hand of the Elderly leader. He placed it within a pouch on his back and bowed deeply with respect. As he was allowed to raise his head, a question came to mind.
"Who shall train them? If not me?" This was when the Hokage's face went slightly down, and this gain an eyebrow raised from the soon to be once more ANBU captain. "Well...as no one else was more qualified...." His head turned as he propped open the window, just in time for a tumbling body to crash in and upright itself directly in front of Kakashi, who, as renowed as the copy-ninja who predicted all his enemies moves, was left with a baffled look in his visible eye as purple irises and matching hair looked back at him. "...you must be joking."
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It was the day after the graduation exams. New ninja were headed toward the academy and along with them was the last one anyone expected to be adorned with a hatai-ate. His yellow, spikey hair and blue eyes offset his face, which held three whisker marks on both cheeks. His orange jumpsuit was bright, and caused him to stand out in a crowd. This wasn't a good thing, as he was suppose to be a ninja, but he didn't let it bother him as a big, fox-like smile stayed plastered on his face.
"I did it, I did it! I'm finally a ninja!" Naruto shouted happily in his head, and then ran downthe street, yelling it aloud this time. "NINJA! NINJA! I'M FINALLY A NINJA!" Several village members looked at the kid in disgust, with mutterings of how could they let such a thing become a shinobi. He didn't hear them, or didn't mind, as he reached the academy, with the confidence that this was the last time he had to walk through these doors as it's student. "Now'sthe time, I finally become a ninja, and I won't stop there. I'll become a top ninja, greater than any of the Hokages before me, and they'll all recognize me and respect me, believe it!"
"Outta the way, Dead Last!" Naruto didn' have time to react as he was knocked in the air by two Konoichi running him down, one with blonde hair in a ponytail with a bang hanging over the side, eyes similar to his, the other with bright pink hair and teal green eyes, the hair going down her back. They were shoulder to shoulder leaving a dust trail as they ran into the academy and toward their classroom, pushing eachother to get their first. After a struggle with the door, they slipped through what appeared to be the same time.
"I WAS HERE FIRST! NO YOU WEREN'T! YES I WAS!" their words simultanious from eachother. Sakura Haruno and Ino Yamanaka, both argued and bickered as a battered Naruto Uzamaki held his head as he shrugged in. After a small talk with Shikamaru explaning why he was hear, he looked at his long time crush and waved to say hi, only to be pushed again as she moved past him toward a dark-haired, cold gazed boy.
"Hey Sasuke, can I sit next to you." She was immediately pulled into another fight with Ino, but they both stopped when they saw a pissed off Naruto land on the table in front of Sasuke, glaring at him in the eye. Both ignoring the angry group of fangirls to the side, Sasuke and Naruto held a glaring match for all of ten seconds. "Sasuke, Sasuke. Why is it always Sasuke!" Naruto yelled in his head before a ninja behind them stood up suddenly and pushed Naruto forward. Naruto's eyes widened and he leaned forward, but something in the back of his mind told him to hold his hand up. It came up and grabbed Sasuke's shoulder as they both went back. They would've fallen too, had the desk above them hadn't been so close. Naruto and Sasuke sat frozen, as the room of fangirls gasped. Naruto and Sasuke's faces were almost touching.
"Naruto! What the hell do you think you're doing!" Sakura's fist came forward, and hit Naruto on the back fo the head. Naruto and Sasuke yelped as the gap was filled and their lips hit, mouths open. The room was full of gasp as the two boys were semi-frenching in front of them all. The two jolted back and gagged as if they'd eaten spoiled food, but Naruto paused as he felt a rise of killing intent behind him.
"NA-RU-TO!" The orange clad shinobi could only yell as he was beaten to a pulp by the rabid fangirls. Sakura hmphed in a pleased manner before she felt eyes on her. She looked around as the girls now had their eyes on her.
"What?"
"It was your fault dead last took Sasuke's fist kiss!" Even though she tried to defead herself, all the guys int eh room cringed as something intelligable was done to Sakura. When the smoke cleared, Sakura and Naruto in turn were sitting on the same row as Sasuke, but Naruto was battered and bruised, and Sakura, while physically, relatively, unharmed, had her handband have hanging down and hair frizzled, with a half-dead look on her face. The teacher walked in and looked around, after seeing Naruto and Sakura in a disheveled state, simply sighed.
"Alright, well you've all passed the graduation exam for this class. We will now assign you to three man cells and you'll be assigned to a jounin instructor." He picked up a list and scrolled through the names.
"First, Hyuuga Hinata, Inuzumi Kiba, and Aburame Shino." Hinata looked a bit dejected as her glance went to a certain blond, though Kiba grinned and Shino was indifferent behind his glasses.
"Nara Shikamaru,Yamanaka Ino." Ino suddenly looked very stunned, as Shikamaru said something in an impassive, but victorious tone. "and Akamichi Chouji" Ino's hands went up in the air in exhaperastion, then her head fell in defeat.
"Next, Uzumaki Naruto..." The blond that owned the name looked up "Haruno Sakura..." their was a cheer and a sigh of defeat "And..." before Iruka coudl get to the last student, a shinobi appeared next to him and whispered something in his ear "..Is that right? Well if it's the Hokage's orders....Sakura, it seems like you are to be joining Kiba and Shino's team and trading with Hinata. Is that alright?" Blond hair went down in a sigh, as the pink-haired Konoichi only blinked and shrugged.
"No, that's no problem sensei..." "YEAH! Now I won't be on the same team as that loser Naruto!" Inner Sakura scream at the topof her voice, though Sakura showed none of the excitement. Hinata blinked before a shade of red covered her features, she was gonna be on the same team as Naruto! She felt that she could float in the air.
"Well now that that's settled, your last teammate will be...Sasuke Uchiha!" Both Naruto and Sakura made a face. Naruto's was a defeated one, his mind tell him "I'm doomed..." Sakura's, though, was in shock, as her mind went a hundred miles a minute.
"What!? How!? Sasuke was gonna be on our team and I just left it like that!? This is a disaster!
"You baka! We gotta get back on that team! SHANNARO!" "Sensei..." Sakura raised her hand before speaking. "May I ask why I was changed suddenly?" All the girl's except Hinata glared at her, but she didn't pay them mind. She was trying to get to her Sasuke.
"It was the request of the jounin Instructor for their team. If you want, you can ask Naruto or the others why it was done after you're meeting with your instructors." He placed the remaining students in teams and afterwords informed them of when the instructors would be there, and class was dismissed.
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Two hours later, during which Sasuke and Naruto had an outs with eachother. Their they sat in their classroom. All the others had gotten picked up by their jounin Instructor, Sakura, when leaving, gave one last look back to Sasuke and Naruto, and felt like she was about to miss out on some amazing life changing adventure. All three genin sat at different levels, they each had different trails of thoughts, but after an hour, their thoughts were the same.
"Where is our Sensei!?"
Naruto finally decided to do something. Standing up, he ran over to the board and grabbed a chalk eraser. Hinata looked up as if to say something, but held her peace. Sasuke, on the other hand, took the role of the voice of reason.
"Get back here, Dobe, you're gonna get in trouble. Besides, no jounin would fall for that trick."
Naruto only grunted as he affixed the eraser on the door in a way where it'd fall when opened more. "They deserve it for coming to get us late. This is full pro-" just before he finished speaking, he felt something cool and metallic press against the side of his neck. He looked down nervously to see a kunai pressed against him, and sadistic smile that made him shiver as he was backed into the classroom. the eraser landing between the two.
"Nice trick, but unlike Kakashi, who'd probably just let it hit him, I'm not so nice." A purple haired woman wearinga trench coat was at the other end of the kunai, grinning like a mad woman toward the two still in their seats. "My name is Anko Mitarashi...welcome to hell..."