Someone Worth Fighting For

By: Ernilriel

Disclaimers: I do not own Naruto, that's all now for the story.

'Kyuubi' 'thoughts' "speech"

Chapter 7: Naruto a Teacher?

Naruto woke up to a baby crying. Sakura stirred next to him. It had been three weeks sense Sakura came back from the hospital, Naruto had rented a larger apartment to make room for his new family, and Sasuke had been evicted from his old apartment and he was staying with Naruto until he could find a place of his own.

"Don't worry I'll take care of it," whispered Naruto getting out of bed; he put a bath robe on and walked over to the crib where little Tomoko lay crying. Naruto gently picked her up and left the bedroom and went into the kitchen.

"Shhh, it's alright, Daddy's got ya," comforted Naruto while he got a bottle out of the fridge and warmed it up in the microwave. With the bottle Naruto went into the living room and sat down on the rocking chair and fed Tomoko. Naruto dozed while Tomoko drank hungrily from her bottle. Naruto snapped awake when he heard someone walk in the room.

"It's just me," Sasuke said sitting down on the couch.

"Oh, sorry if Tomoko woke you up," Naruto said closing his eyes.

"Don't worry about it," Sasuke said, there was silence except for Tomoko who was still eating.

"What's it like?" Sasuke said breaking the silence.

"Pardon?" Naruto asked raising his eyebrows.

"What's it like to be a father?" Sasuke asked looking out the window; a full moon was setting.

"It's awesome, I don't know how to explain it but it's a great feeling," Naruto said with a smile. Then Tomoko stopped eating and dozed back to sleep in Naruto's arms.

"Well I'll see you tomorrow morning," yawned Sasuke and got up and left down the hall.

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The next morning Naruto was summoned to some strangers house, the summon was from the Hokage; she said to meet one of her assistants there.

"You should probably go," Sakura said sitting down at the table with a cup of coffee, "It's probably important."

"Are you sure you'll be alright?" asked Naruto refilling one of his Kunai holsters.

"I'll be fine, and if I need help there are a ton of people I can ask," assured Sakura.

"Alright, but only 'cause you said so," Naruto said and he got up kissed Sakura on the cheek and left.

Naruto met the assistant at the address he was supposed to.

"You asked for me?" asked Naruto as he approached the assistant.

"Yes, you are Uzumaki Naruto?" the assistant asked.

"Yes I am," answered Naruto.

"Good, we have a mission for you," the assistant said handing Naruto a scroll.

"What is it?" asked Naruto opening the scroll.

"Your mission is to teach a graduated three man cell," explained the assistant, "they're vital info is in that scroll. So will you accept?"

Naruto thought for a moment, he didn't exactly have a reliable flow of income, and it would be interesting to be a teacher, but why him? Naruto got the lowest grades in the class.

"I'll accept," Naruto answered finally.

"Good, you'll be introduced to your team a week from now at 1 O'clock pm," the assistant said and disappeared.

'Oh, this'll be fun,' chuckled Kyuubi.

'Not you again, what do you want,' thought Naruto.

'I just was eavesdropping and I heard that they asked you to be a teacher, that has to be a joke!' scoffed Kyuubi in a maniacal tone.

'No it's not, I have the scroll with my students info in my hands right now,' thought Naruto.

'Oh, those poor, poor souls, I feel sorry for them already,' sighed Kyuubi, 'well I'm off.'

That was one of Naruto and Kyuubi's shortest conversations, which Naruto was glad; he hated it when they were dragged out. Naruto walked home questioning whether he was really teacher material or not.

Naruto walked in his front door, he took off his shoes and stepped in the entrance hall.

"Sakura I'm home," Naruto called. Naruto walked in the living room and found Sakura with Tomoko in her arms rocking on the rocking chair.

"Sakura," Naruto started but Sakura silenced him.

"The baby's asleep," Sakura whispered.

"Oh, sorry," Naruto apologized and kissed Sakura on the cheek.

"That didn't take you long," Sakura whispered.

"Yeah, they asked me to teach one of the graduating cells," explained Naruto.

"I think you'll do fine," Sakura said with a smile.

"I hope I do," whispered Naruto.

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A week went by, and Naruto got up and ready for the day. He had to meet the new cell he was teaching. Naruto looked through the scroll and found out the names, birthdates, and test scores of each student.

The first student was Yahagi Ikemoto, he was 12 years old, born on Aug. 23, and he was in the lowest 5 of the class. Next was Kazisa Takahashi, he was also 12; born on June 5 and had extremely high scores on his tests. The last student was Hoashi Yumi, she was 13; born on Dec. 8; she had good scores but she excelled at combat skills.

'This'll be interesting,' thought Naruto. Naruto was planning to use the standard bell game to test his students' abilities.

Naruto helped Sakura with Tomoko in the morning but around noon he left to meet his cell.

It was around 1:00 when Naruto entered the classroom. And in the room he saw the usual team of two boys and one girl.

"You must be team 3," said Naruto looking at the kids.

"What's it to ya?" said a boy with black spiky hair similar to Naruto's, he wore green cargo shorts with a black muscle tank top under a long sleeve fishnet shirt.

"Are you our new teacher?" asked a boy with shoulder length brown hair tied back into a ponytail, he wore a simple white shirt and baggy blue jeans.

"You've got to be kidding me!" exclaimed the black haired boy.

"Will you two shut it!" yelled a girl with blonde hair, she loose black pants and a navy blue T-shirt.

"Well so much for a good first impression," sighed Naruto, "I couldn't have been this bad when I was their age!"

"So really who's our teacher?" asked the black haired boy.

"I am, and I want you to follow me," answered Naruto. The black haired boy looked over at his teammates, they shrugged their shoulders. They followed Naruto out onto one of the roof tops; it was the same rooftop that team 7 introduced each other to Kakashi.

"So why are we up here?" asked the brown haired boy asked.

"I thought we would introduce ourselves, the usual like your name and a little something about you," Naruto answered taking a seat on a step, "How about you with the black hair start."

"Me? Well I'm Yahagi Ikemoto, I always like a good fight," Ikemoto started but the blonde girl inturupted.

"If you could!" scoffed the girl, Ikemoto shot her a deadly glare.

"Any way, I hate teachers and I like to sleep," replied Ikemoto.

'I feel so sorry for you Kakashi!' Naruto thought.

"Good, next you with the ponytail," Naruto said.

"I am Kazisa Takahashi, I like to be alone so I can think, I hate it when people bother me," Takahashi said folding his arms.

"And now the young lady," Naruto rounded to the girl.

"My name is Hoashi Yumi, and I don't like it when people pry into my personal life," Yumi said with a glare, "What about you?"

"Me? I am Uzumaki Naruto, and this is my first year teaching, but I have a feeling this cell will be, er… interesting," Naruto said rubbing the back of his head.

"So what are our duties gonna be?" asked Takahashi.

"Ah, tomorrow morning meet me by the training grounds and we'll begin on our survival test," answered Naruto standing up.

"A TEST?" yelled Ikemoto his jaw dropping, "WHAT WAS THAT GRADUATION EXAM ALL ABOUT THEN?"

"Well you see; we want to make sure you really are shinobi material, just warning you if you fail you go back to the academy. And this test has a 66 rate of failure."

Ikemoto's jaw dropped to the floor. Yumi just had bored expression, and Takahashi started to fidget.

"We tomorrow bring all your weapons and supplies. Oh, and don't bother eating 'cause you'll just hurl it back up," said Naruto and he walked away.

"How hard is this exercise gonna be?" asked Takahashi.

"I dunno, I'm going home," Yumi said as she started walking away.

"I am so screwed!" Ikemoto groaned in the back.

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Author's notes: Yes cheesy chapter, but every story has to have them! Well I hoped you liked it! If you have any questions or comments please feel free to say so.

Question about Kyuubi: Someone asked if Sakura knew about Kyuubi. And the answer is: No. She doesn't know about him, but she will learn in the future, but if I were to go into any more detail it would ruin a great part!

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