Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto or your characters (I hate repeating.)

 Notes: This is a lot longer than I expected, I'm dividing the first mission section into three parts, this one will have Team Neji, Team Sasuke, and Team Naruto. (I decided to make the couples Neji/Sakura, and Hinata/Naruto, and a little bit Hinata/Sasuke, in case anyone's wondering.) and everyone will get a little one on one time with their senseis throughout the story (not that way…) sorry for the messed up first chap, I was in a hurry. The only reason Kakashi's hokage is because I thought it would be interesting, he's not that old! =)

3. Missions, Part 1.

 To make a long story short, they all got their students and agreed to start training the day after.

            Neji woke up unusually early the following day, eager to start training with his new team. But then, it was only five thirty, and he had told Aquarius, Hotaru, and Ainami to meet him at the edge of the woods at seven, so he still had lots of time to kill. He kissed Sakura lightly, who was still sleeping the mat beside him and slipped out quietly.

 "Sensei." He heard someone call and turned around to see Aquarius Rai jogging up to him.

"You train early," Neji commented quietly, "Aquarius is your name, isn't it?" 

"Yeah, I guess." The golden-eyed boy was dressed in a black sweatshirt and baggy black shorts, his hair stuck up ever which way, for he did not take time to comb it.

 Neji continued walking, and Aquarius tagged along behind him, Hey, um…"

"What?"

"Nothing." Aquarius did not know why talking was hard for him, he had been told by his mother that it was no use being a lone wolf, and that he should get out more, but him being antisocial was just natural.

 Neji, personally, did not mind that Aquarius was quiet, after all, he had thinking to do, which was why he woke early, and he couldn't very well think if a chatterbox was stalking him. "Did you eat?" he asked his student.

 "No, not yet." Aquarius shook his head, supposing his sensei wasn't much of a talker either.

 Neji led the genin into the café, 'What do you want?'

 "Dunno, porridge, I guess." Aquarius shrugged and after he got his bowl, he started spooning the porridge into his mouth as an excuse to avoid further conversation.

            For the first time, Sasuke came to the horror that he overslept, thankfully, his speed increased greatly over the last few months, so he skipped breakfast and made the record time in thirty seconds to the Ninja Academy.

 Sephiroth Sekimb, the kid with the 5 ft. long katana and Aburame Kinji, Shino's little brother were the only ones there; Uchiha Maki was nowhere to be seen.

 "Good morning, Sasuke-sensei. Oops!" Sekimb greeted him courteously, narrowly missing Sasuke's head as his giant sword flew out of control.

 "Morning," Sasuke yawned, catching the flying weapon in midair and handing it back to him,

" Don't try that, you are going to get hurt; where's Maki?"

 "He went off to buy something." Kinji spoke up timidly, playing with a couple of ladybugs.

"There he is."

 Maki ran up to them, his usually pale face red from running, "Sorry," he panted breathlessly,

"I had to run an errand for my mother."

 "Just don't be late next time, kid." Sasuke dismissed the apology with a wave of his hand,

"You're all here now, so we might as well start."

            Naruto woke to find Sajito shaking him roughly, "What the hell?" he demanded.

 "Dad, its seven, and Brad and Jin are already in the living room waiting for you." Sajito answered nervously.

 "I told them eight." Naruto murmured sleepily into his pillow, "Wake me in an hour or something."

 "You said eight, Dad, I heard you." Sajito grinned slightly, "Come on."

 "Oh, fine, don't wake your Mum, though." Naruto groaned as he sat up, "Go tell them I'll be out in a few minutes."

 Jin was apparently engrossed in an orange paperback book when Naruto walked in, the buff redhead boy looked up, "Hi, Naruto-sensei."

 Sao Brad stopped pacing and flopped down on an armchair, "hey, sensei, took you long enough. May we begin now?" he brushed a few strands of his blonde hair out of his eyes.

 "Sure," Naruto nodded, "Sajito, grab that sack of baseballs lying over there and follow me."

 Sajito dragged the bag out from under the couch, it was much heavier than he thought.

"Dad, what do you have in here?"

 "Baseballs." Naruto gave his young son a penetrating look, "Is it too heavy for you?"

 "Don't worry, Sajito-kun, I'll help you." Brad slung the bag easily over his shoulder, "This is pretty light, actually."

  Sajito followed his friend, staring down at his shoes, Jin had not seen any of this, he was still reading…(Come Come Paradise cough)

            Hyuga Hotaru, the daughter of Neji stared in utter disgust at her teammate, Hatake Ainami.

 Ainami was prancing around at talking nonsense, mostly stupid quotes from her uncle's favorite book, "…….."  (fill in the blanks.)

 Hotaru sighed in annoyance and fingered her new bandages, "Hey, shut up."

 Ainami stopped in mid prance, her chocolate brown eyes wide, "What?"

 " I said, shut up." Hotaru repeated calmly, clenching her fist, "I'm not afraid to hurt you."

 Ainami stuck out her tongue, she looked very much like Kakashi, save the Sharingan and the mask, "Make me," she taunted, "Uncle Kakashi won't let you. Psycho."

 "Uncle Kakashi won't see his darling niece get hurt." Hotaru promised, grabbing Ainami's neck in a deathgrip. "he's not here."

 "Hotaru." Neji suddenly appeared behind his daughter, along with Aquarius, "I'm getting very tired of telling you to keep your hands to yourself." He scolded sternly.

 "Sorry, Dad." Hotaru looked down at her shoes, "She was bugging me."

  "Well, well, and you must be Kakashi's niece." Neji turned and looked at Ainami, who immediately shrank, "I'll overlook your fault just this once." He checked his watch and pointed at a statue stationed at the entrance of the forest, "You see that Statue over there?"

 "Yeah, so?" Ainami heaved a sigh of relief, "What are we s'pose to do, climb it?"

 "Exactly." Neji smirked, "Whoever doesn't reach the top in two hours will be punished." He added, after a moments thought, "Quite severely too, not to mention."

            Sasuke led his team to the edge of a sheer cliff overlooking Konoha, "Ninjas must learn how to protect themselves before protecting others, so you must learn how to fall correctly from high places."

 "So you want us to jump off the cliff for practice?" Maki was getting a very bad feeling about all this, he'd never like bungee jumping very much either.

 "You crazy, Sasuke-sensei?" Sekimb put in, "We're gonna die like that."

 Sasuke's eyes flashed momentarily, but then sank back to their regular stoic seriousness,

"I'll just pretend I didn't hear that, Sekimb." He answered calmly, "Watch, I'm only going to do this once." And with that he jumped over.

 "Hey, sensei?" Kinji called over the ledge, "Are you all right?"

 "I'm alive." Sasuke smirked, "What else? More importantly, I'm in one piece." He looked up,

"Come on, you cowards."

  "I'll go first then." The veins of Kinji's temples popped slightly.

 "Are you sure its safe?" Maki asked anxiously.

 "I have sources…" Kinji sauntered over the edge, a swarm of bees came to his rescue and so he was safely landed. "See, that wasn't so hard."

 "If that stupid jerk can do it, so can I." Sekimb tried to seem more confident than he felt, because jumping off a cliff for practice was not his idea of fun. Pulling his half torn cape over his head in hopes of using it as a parachute, but it failed miserably. He still managed to land flat on his ass. "Ow," he groaned, "My ass…"

 "Not bad." Sasuke approved, "At least you landed whole."

 Maki gulped, he couldn't use his Sharingan well yet, but he had seen how Sasuke fell… "Here goes." He swallowed again.

 There was a sickening crack as Maki landed, "Oh, god…"

 "Its just sprained," Sasuke pronounced after a brief examination, "Put some ice on it, it'll

be fine after a few hours." Turning to Kinji and Sekimb, he said, "You two, will continue to practicing, and Kinji, no bugs this time."

 Kinji grinned slightly, "Don't worry, sensei, I won't…"

 "And Sekimb, the parachute trick won't work again."

 "Yes, sensei." Sekimb nodded.

            "Now," said Naruto, after stopping them on the plain beside Akagahara. "You three are all remotely intelligent, so if I pelt baseballs at you, it is only normal that you guys would dodge, right?"

 "Right." Brad looked at him strangely, "So you're going to throw baseballs at us? But there's only one of you and three of us…"

 "I—" Naruto broke off when he spotted Jin reading quietly, perhaps a little too quietly in a corner, "Jin, why the hell aren't you listening?"

 "Oh, uh," the redhead looked up, "I was…studying."

 "That's what I thought." Naruto snatched the book away, "Hey, isn't this Kakashi's?" after leafing through the first chapter with undisguised interest, he stuffed it into his backpack,

"Kage bunshin No Jutsu!" Seven more Narutos appeared behind the original one, "Now, let's get down to business."

 Then it started, baseballs started flying everywhere, Sajito had thought he had time to perform the Byukagan and have some chance of deflecting the baseballs, but it now seemed that his father had no mercy, even for him. Sajito had already been injured in several places, and those pitches weren't regular pitches either, he now knew Naruto wasn't kidding when he said that a Shinobi's life was a hard one.

 Brad, on the other hand, was doing rather well, using one of his two swords as a baseball bat to reflect the balls, his dad had given him his swords, his family would be very proud if they knew the interesting ways he was inventing to use the swords…

 Whap! A baseball pelted him in the head, serves him right for not paying attention.

 Jin, was fighting the barrage of baseballs in the old-fashioned way, punching and kicking as if nothing happened cause he was mad as hell about Naruto taking away his book, he was just getting to the good part too…

            Neji sat on a nearby rock, watching his three students attempting to scale the statue. They had a little less than 15 minutes left. Aquarius must have possessed great chakra in his arms, for the golden-eyed boy had managed to pierce the hard marble of the statue and was using that as leverage, it was not easy to pierce a stone that hard, but the kid made it seem as easy as slicing bread. Aquarius had just reached the right ear.

 His daughter, Hotaru, was doing less well, even though her method of getting around was just as effective, she had made dents for fingerholds in the marble from chakra. "Dad, how much time do we have left?" she called down to him.

 "15 minutes." He replied calmly. "Take your time, Hotaru-chan, don't worry." But if he knew his own daughter, taking her time would not suit her, for she was like Sakura, letting nothing get ahead of her…

 As for Ainami, Kakashi's niece or not, was a complete failure, she had only reached the kneecap of the giant figure, using her leather belt, "Hey, you!"

 "Me, Neji-sensei?" the silver-haired girl looked down at him blankly, "What is it?"

 "Come down here." Neji sighed, "Screw climbing for you, its obvious that either you aren't trying, or you're just hopelessly weak."

 Ainami landed neatly on her feet, "Uncle Kakashi won't let you hurt me!"

 "No, whoever said I was going to hurt you, hm?"

 Aquarius halted, watching the conversation with interest, Hotaru did the same.

 "Then what are you going to do to me?" Ainami asked, staring at Neji with the frightened

eyes of a child for the for the first time.

 "Nothing," Neji grinned slyly, "Run 30 laps before sundown and I might consider letting you go home."

  "30?" Aquarius repeated in shock, "That's a bit much…"

 "Just like Dad to be crazy." Hotaru smirked to herself, "Ainami won't walk for weeks after this…"

            "Hey, Kinji, I said no bugs!" bellowed Sasuke as Kinji was rescued by butterflies once again.

 "Sensei, butterflies aren't bugs." Kinji struggled to his feet, "They're insects."

 "Sekimb stretched out on the grass, "Its painful."

 "You kids," Sasuke shook his head, "You call yourself ninjas?"

 Maki winced, "But—"

 "Oy!" someone called, "Sasuke!"

 He turned and saw Naruto, "Aren't you suppose to be training?"

 "Its their break now." Naruto plunked himself under a tree beside Maki, "I might've hit them a bit too hard with those baseballs, Sajito cracked a rib."

 "Did you send him to the medical center?" Sasuke narrowed his eyes, he never approved the way Naruto handled his son, not that it was any of his business…

 "No, he fell asleep." Naruto surveyed the training grounds, "What have you been doing all morning, huh?"

 "Nothing, absolutely nothing." Sasuke glared at his three students each in turn, "Geez you three…Naruto, I'll fight you?"

 "Say what?" Naruto whirled around, "You want a fight? Seriously?"

 "Yeah, if you die its not my fault." Sasuke nodded, "It would be a lesson for our students, after all."

 "BAKA!" Naruto exploded

 "Well, Naruto, we'll see who's baka after this." His friend and rival twirled a shuriken absent-mindedly in his hands and hurled it at Naruto's head, pinning the back of the blonde jounin's shirt to a tree, "You'll just stay that way until Sekimb comes back with yours."

 "Hey!" screamed Naruto, "Let me go!"

 "Kinji," Sasuke beckoned to the junior version of Shino, save the sunglasses, "You can play with your bugs now."

 "Gladly."

            Brad, seeing both of his comrades were occupied, was now officially bored, he had finished his rice balls ages ago. And he was too wired up to rest. Sajito was passed out from the pain of his cracked rib, and Jin was once again happy, wolfing down pepperoni pizza and reading the book that he had jacked from Naruto-sensei's backpack.

 "Hey, you!" Brad turned to see a guy holding a huge sword running full speed at him. "My name is Sekimb, is your sensei Uzumaki Naruto?"

 "Uh, yeah." Brad swerved out of the way of the weapon, "Don't run me through with that thing, okay? What do you want?"

 "Naruto and Sasuke-sensei are going to fight." Sekimb ran a hand nervously through his dark hair, "I thought you guys would like to watch."

 "Watch what?" Jin looked up from  his book and pizza, "Wha- I mean, who are you?"

 "Sephiroth Sekimb." The boy bowed politely.

 "What do you want then, Sephers?" Jin looked at him coolly.

 "Naruto-sensei and Sasuke-sama are gonna fight." Brad told him excitely, lets go watch!"

 "Gotta wake the other kid up first though."  Jin turned and shook Sajito awake, "Hey, kid, wake up!"

 Sajito sat up, groaning, "What, where's my dad?" he clutched his ribs and winced.

 "We're going to see him now." Jin slung Sajito over his shoulder, "geez, you're light."

 Sekimb put his sword away and stood up, "Let's go then.

 "Yo, Sekimb!" Kinji sauntered up to them, "Forget the fight, its already over, Sasuke-sensei knocked Naruto out in 15 seconds flat."

Notes: That's it, well, I don't update that much, about once a week or two weeks because these chapters take a long time to write. Coming up next is Team Shino and Shikamaru. I can't really think of a storyline for the girls yet. Advice welcomed!