Chapter 1
The new genin who graduated the week before, have all showed up to the academy, so that they can be assigned to their genin teams. Umino Iruka looks at all his old students.
"From this day on you are all Shinobi of the Hidden Leaf village"
Iruka lets those words sink in a bit while he observes the class, he can see some of the new genin straigen in their seat while others looks excited to begin their carers,
"Now it is your turn to carry the Will of Fire and again congratulation everyone" Iruka smiles to everyone than he continues
"Now it is time for team assignments Team 1… Team 7 Akimichi Choji, Haruno Sakura and Uchiha Sasuke"
Sakura can be heard cheering the moment, the Uchiha's name gets called out.
In the classroom sits three individuals, Inuzuka Kiba sits in the middle row by the wall with his ninken Akamaru sleeping on his head. Hyuga Hinata is in front row looking down shyly at the desk, the more the name listing continues the more she tries to disappear into her seat. Aburame Shino is in the back row waiting passively waiting on getting his team assignment.
"Now on with the team assignments Team 8 Aburame Shino, Hyuga Hinata and Inuzuka Kiba. Team 9… Team 10 Nara Shikamaru, Uzumaki Naruto and Yamanaka Ino. Your sensei will pick you up after lunch"
Shino gets up from his seat and walks over to Kiba and Akamaru
"We should eat lunch together. Why? Because we are teammates now and should get to know each other "
Kiba looks at shino and than to Hinata Before replaying
"Yeah! We should also get Hinata! HEY! Hinata! Come get lunch with us!"
Hinata Looks up at them startled with her hands up to her mouth before quickly nodding her head. The newly formed Team 8 leaves for lunch while most of the genin are either talking or eating.
Hinata, Kiba and Shino have gone outside and has placed themselves in the shadow of a tree on the academy grounds. Akamaru has gotten comfortable in Hinata's lab while the the young shinobi sits quietly beneath the tree.
A week earlier Yuhi Kurenai a newly promoted jonin stands before the Hokage in the Hokage tower together with 9 other jonin
"You ten have been chosen to pass on the will of fire to the next generation, you know what that means?"
The Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen asks the room of jonin.
"It means that some of will be stuck with some brats for some years"
Was the answer that came from Sarutobi Asuma the second son of the Third Hokage.
"I will hand out the files on the genin that you will have the responsibility for till they make chunin"
The Hokage stands from his desk and passes the files to the assembled jounin.
Kurenai opens her files and scims through them carefully before she focuses her attention back to the Hokage. The Hokage had apparently not been speaking, since he handed out the files is the first thing she notices when she makes eye contact briefly with him
"Good I can you have all read your files. You are all dismissed and those of you who's team passes I hope you make fine shinobi out of them" and with that every jounin takes their leave.
Kurenai walks out of the Hokage tower.
"Hey Kurenai wait up" Kurenai turns around at the voice and spots Asuma, then she waits for him to catch up, when Asuma has come up beside her they agree to go to a Dango shop.
At the Dango shop they make their orders and go to a available table and sit down
"who have you got to babysit?" Asks Asuma as their order arrives at their table.
"I have got a Aburame, a Hyuga and an Inuzuka on my team to test. Who have you got?" Asume leans back and his seat sighing.
"I have got a civilian, an Akimichi and the Uchiha prodigy. I don't have the highest expectation in their teamwork going by their academy files"...
Kurenai stands outside the academy a week later when she spots out of the corner of her eye three kids that matches the description she has in her files of her team, she stands back and observe them. She can see that it is Kiba who talks the most and loudest, Shino seems to be the quiet type, while Hinata looks like a timed girl, She notes that it is something they will have work on too before continuing into the academy.
Later inside the academy Hinata, Kiba and Shino have taken the seats by the window in the front row, and are now waiting for their Sensei to show along with all the other teams. A woman with black shoulder length hair walks through the door
"Team 8 meet me at training ground 11 I expect you to be their in an hour"
And then she leaves again with team 8 quickly asking "Iruka-Sensei can you tell us where training ground 11 is?"
Iruka looks at them from behind his desk.
"It's on the other side of the village, it is the one with a pond and lots of trees"
Team eight hurries out the door after hearing the description.
The newly formed team 8 arrives at training ground 11 with 10 minutes to spare. Their sensei Kurenai is standing by one of the training post with her arms crossed looking right at them with steel in her eyes. Hinata freezes in her walk over to the training posts when she senses kurenai's eyes on them, Kiba and Shino looks back at Hinata while they are all frozen in their tracks.
"Good to see you made with ten minutes to spare"
Kurenai greets them and soften her gaze upon them, it is almost funny how they all unfreeze at the same exact time she thinks.
"You are not genin yet, I will be the one to decide that"
"Then why have taken all those test at the academy!" Says Kiba with a raised voice, Akamaru yips his agreement.
"It is so those who are really not ready can be either completely dropped from the program or those who might just need another year can see what it takes to become a genin. Does that answer your question?"
"Yes it does"
"Good now on to the test you will be taking with me is quite simple you have till 8 tonight to track me down I will be somewhere on this training ground all you need to do is find me"
Hinata, Kiba and Shino readies themselves and then their sensei is gone, the test has begone.
Team 8 look at each other, they know that they have to have a plan or else they will never find their sensei
"I could send my bugs to search while Kiba and Akamaru tries to get a scent, Hinata you can be on the lookout with your Byakugan to see if you can spot her somewhere"
Shino comes up with a plan quickly and they get to work since neither Hinata or Kiba has a better suggestion. Hinata stands with her hands in a one handed tiger seal, she is determined to not be a burden to her teammates, she will do her best to find their sensei. Kiba along with Akamaru goes to the spot their sensei was in moments ago trying to find her scent. Shino sends out his bugs to start searching.
"Shino a 100 meters to your left!"
Says Hinata after searching for 30 minutes. Shino sends some bugs in the direction Hinata just gave him while Kiba and Akamaru finally has gotten a scent
"We have got a scent! Shino while your bugs search over there why don't we all move to follow the scent?"
Kiba starts moving with akamaru giving him instructions from his position on his head, Hinata and Shino follow right behind him.
After a hour of following the scent, they up in the same clearing where Hinata had first spotted something.
"The scent ends here guys" Kiba tells his teammates,
Shino informs them. "My bugs is reporting that there no one here"
Hinata watches carefully her surrounding when she starts seeing the first signs of a genjutsu.
"Kiba, Shino be alert this era shows signs of a genjutsu" Hinata informs them carefully. They all move so they are standing back to back, their senses on high alert.
Kurenai decides that she has seen enough and appear before them. All three startles and draw a kunai into their hands protect themselves.
"Congratulations you pass. While you did not find me I think your plan was sound and you three worked well together and that is the most important things about this test, so you three pass"
Hinata and Kiba looks at each other excited while Shino stars passively at their sensei.
"Well I think it is high time I introduce myself, my name is Yuhi Kurenai and I specalice in genjutsu. Now you three introduce yourselves"
"I'm Aburame Shino and I use my clan technique I don't have specaliation yet"
"I'm Inuzuka Kiba and this is my partner Akamaru and I also use my clan techniques"
"My name is Hyuga Hinata and I use my clans technique"
"Good now that we all know each other let's talk training schedule" Kurenai starts to lead them out of the training ground her team following right behind her.
They arrive at a cafe where they order some Nikuman buns to eat while they talk.
"I want you tree to think about what you want out of your cares for the first month we work together I will teach you some basic skills you will need to learn-"
"Didn't they teach us the basics in the academy?" Kiba interrupts kurenai with the same question that was also on his teammates minds, the question that they would not voice but were thinking.
"These are some other basic skills not taught in the academy because they are not for academy students. The academy students won't need those skills especially if they won't even pass the test or dropout throughout the year. So these skills are for the jounin-sensei to teach. Do you all understand?"
"Hai" All three of them answer simultaneously.
"Good. Now on to what I will be teaching you this month, first we have chakra control and then some basic jutsu that can be of use out in the field, and let's not forget teamwork exercises the month will go by with this for training and each day when we are done training we will take a D-rank mission" Kurenai's students nod their heads in understanding
"We will meet every morning at 06:00 o'clock at training ground 11. I will see you tree tomorrow morning so continue having a good day"
Kurenai leaves the cafe and Hinata, Kiba and Shino says their farewells to each other.