AG732: Yeah, I too felt that the summoning was a bit rushed and I had also planned for a test of sorts, but I don't think that any summon clan would deny a sure shot sage to become their summoner, so I decided to scrap the test. Thanks for the reviews, really appreciate it!

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The Hokage was tensed. It was no more than 5 minutes ago that the guard detail of the village Jinchuriki had reported the Jinchuriki missing. The village gates were closed, but no distress signal was passed. Causing havoc in the village would do him no favors. Apparently, the boy had attempted to use the summoning jutsu. Who taught him the hand signs was anyone's guess. The ANBU were interrogated but, till now, nothing was known.

Hiruzen, himself, was guilty of neglecting the boy. He had promised his mother that he would take care of him, but he could not. He had not even approached him till now. He had certainly tried. Tried and failed miserably, but tried none the less. Whenever he saw the boy, he was reminded of the cold body of his wife, Biwako. He tried to console himself, thinking that he had a lot on his plate already, but the dam of guilt broke whenever he saw his own grandson, Konohamaru, bathe in riches. He could have certainly done much more, but he too was a human and humans resented, humans mourned and humans did not forgive.

He knew he was a hypocrite. He could not bring himself to forgive Naruto, but he expected the boy to forgive the village, to forgive him and to forgive everyone who ever caused him harm and still protect the village with everything he had. But now was not the time to regret, he had a jinchuriki to find.

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Kakashi wanted to sleep. Or read his smut. Or maybe, read his smut and then sleep. But he could not do any of that. Why? Because all the summoners in Konoha were called for a meeting. They had to make sure that a brat was not on their summon's plain. But he just wanted to read and sleep, why was all this important anyways?

"The jinchuriki."

Ah, so the jinchuriki had attempted the summoning jutsu. Now it made sense. He was only listening to bits and pieces of the Hokage's speech and building sentences based on them. After all, Jiraiya- sama had worked really hard on this particular book.

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The search had bore no fruits. Regardless, the boy was found. He had reverse summoned himself and, judging from the tattoo on his hand, he was now a summoner.

Hiruzen exhaled a sigh of relief. If the jinchuriki was reported as missing officially, his leadership would have been questioned, and that old goat Danzo would have left no table unturned to get him off of the seat of the Hokage. Well, all was good now. He could let Naruto go with a slap on the wrist this time, he supposed. He could rest for a bit then, after that he had to attend to the accursed paper too. How he wish Tsunade were here to take his hat away from him. She would have been the perfect Hokage, but things were not perfect. He had this burden and he would do his best to serve the village.

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Naruto was bored. Whenever he was here, he felt bored. He had forgotten how being in this classroom felt. But, hopefully, this would be the last time he would have to be here. He was here for the team distribution. He did not wish to be part of any team, but things were hardly as he wanted them to be. So, he had to suck it up and be a good little genin, at least, till the time he became a chunin, who could take solo missions. But, coming full circle yet again, Naruto was very bored right now. Why was Iruka not getting this over with already? Should he punch him in the face and force him to announce the teams?

"Team one..." Iruka spoke, coincidentally right when Naruto was considering standing up. So, Naruto relaxed and waited for his team to be announced.

"Team ten will be Nara Shikamaru, Yamanaka Ino and Uzumaki Naruto under the jonin Sarutobi Asuma."

He did not know who Nara was. He did not know who Yamanaka was. He did not know who Sarutobi was and, honestly, he did not care. He just wanted to get this over with.

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Apparently, their Sensei's name was "Asuma" and not "Sarutobi", just like his teammate's names were "Shikamaru" and "Ino" and not "Nara" and "Yamanaka." Well, he honestly could not care less. But, what he cared about was the chef that was glaring at him. Yeah, Asuma had called them to gather in a restraunt for their first team meeting and the owner, apparently, did not like him. True to the stature of Asuma as a jonin, no one confronted him, but their glares irritated him anyways. At least he got the seat near the window, so he always had a bird on his shoulder. Yeah, that comforted him a lot.

"Ahem." Asuma cleared his throat before he could think any further.

"So, I am Asuma Sarutobi, who may or may not become your sensei. Well, we will discuss that later. First, I want you all to introduce yourself. Your likes, dislikes, goals and the common stuff." He said.

Acknowledging the silence, he continued, "I suppose I should go first." he said as he released a puff of smoke from his cigar.

"As I already told you, my name is Asuma Sarutobi. I like smoking, I dislike traitors and I have achieved everything I wanted in my life." he said.

Catching his look towards her, Ino started. " I am Yamanaka Ino. I like flowers, I hate Sakura and want to make my clan proud." she finished with enthusiasm.

Following the queue, Shikamaru sighed and started; " My name is Nara Shikamaru, I like to sleep, I dislike people who do not let me sleep and my goal is to retire." adding a quick "troublesome" to his sentence, he laid his head on the table in front of him.

Realizing he was the last one left and everyone was looking at him expectantly, he started. " My name is Uzumaki Naruto. I like birds, to this the bird on his shoulder chirped happily, I dislike people who bore me and I wish to have a proper sleep someday."

On the declaration of his goal, all six eyes shot towards him.

"What?" He asked them.

"what do you mean you wish to have a proper sleep?" The Nara boy asked.

"Ah, the Kyuubi won't let me sleep. So yeah, I really want to have a comfortable sleep atleast once." he said, looking towards them.

"Th-the Kyuubi?" Ino stuttered out, visibly scared.

He looked towards Asuma. "They do not know?" he questioned.

Asuma just groaned and sighed, he was not prepared for this on his first day as a sensei.

"No, Naruto. None of the kids your age know of that." Asuma said. "But I suppose your teammates must know about this anyways." He finished.

Following this, he stood up, got behind the three of them and shunshined to the training ground ten. Looking towards Naruto he said, "Do you want to tell them your self?"

Naruto just shrugged and started. "You are aware of the Kyuubi attack, yes?" he asked them.

"Yes." they both answered in chorus.

"Well, that night, to defeat the Kyuubi, the fourth Hokage sealed the Kyuubi inside of me, and that makes me the jinchuriki of the kyuubi." He said.

"So, you are the Kyuubi?" Ino asked, moving away from him.

"well, no. Not exactly. He is sealed inside of me. Like, he is still a separate entity." he said.

"I see" Ino said.

"Well, that's that for today, I suppose. I do not believe we will be able to do the planned test today. So, we will meet here tomorrow at 6 in the morning. Come prepared for a survival training." with that he disappeared in a flicker.

Noticing that Ino and Shikamaru were maintaining their distance from him, he decided to give them their space and left in a flicker too.

Well, they supposed they had a few things to think about.

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AN: thats for chapter four. Yeah, I decided to go with team ten. Lets see how it goes from here.

And yeah, Kakashi does not know that Naruto is Minato's son.