Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot of this story. Don't sue me.
Sorry for this lateness of this update but I had the hardest time thinking up who to put into what team and then I had writers block, and then the library got in a bunch of manga that I had to read.
Now on with the story.
Naruto woke up in a slight daze. He was an official genin, could read something no one else could even hope to understand like he was born to, and he new techniques that no one had even seen in at least a hundred years. He began to wonder if it was all just some great dream until he saw the slightly worn and scratched up forehead protector on his dresser.
He smiled at his reflection and bounced out of bed with even more energy then usual. This would normally have thrown a foot or so into the air before he came down on the floor for his morning routine of a shower, washing his face, having a breakfast of ramen, and then brushing his teeth. But he had forgotten that after his reading of the scroll and separation of his chakra, he was far from normal when it came to physical energy output. He flung himself into the ceiling and bounced right down onto the floor so hard that his forehead protector was knocked into the air to land on the back of his head. Reminding himself to take it a little easier with the over exuberance today he got up and moved to the bathroom.
'I'm having my shower now' he thought to Kyubi, putting up a mental barrier.
'Hey! I'm not going to look!' said Kyubi, in her now well known part of the morning routine. Once at the age of five she had paid a little bit too much attention to Naruto in the shower and asked a few…intimate…questions. Ever since then Naruto had been sure to put up as foggy a mental maze as he could during his showers.
'Sure you wont' came Naruto's expected reply. 'But I think I'll leave you to yourself and it will work better'
Kyubi always lost the argument but was sure to play her part every day. At first out of concern that Naruto thought she did it intentionally, and then later, trying to get a peek. She never told Naruto but over the years she had been with him she had realized that she liked him as more then a good friend and after Naruto had heard some girls talking about their boyfriends she had realized that that was the kind of relationship she wanted with Naruto.
After his shower, Naruto got dressed and washed his face before letting the mental maze drop. He didn't have the focus to use the maze in his head while doing something overly complicated like a jutsu –much to his dismay, Kyubi raged on him so much for the sexy no jutsu- but it worked fine for bathing and getting dressed –much to Kyubi's dismay-.
After his standard meal and brushing his teeth, Naruto picked up hi goggles and started toward the door, when Kyubi stopped him.
'Don't you think your forgetting something?'
Feeling rather foolish, Naruto put his goggles back on his dresser and picked up his forehead protector. With a slight bounce in his step and a chuckle, he tied it in place and walked out the door toward the ninja academy.
When he arrived, the class was nearly packed. He looked and looked but couldn't seem to find a seat accept the two near Sasuke, and he was not going to sit next to that jerk, but if there was really nowhere else to sit, he'd have to. He'd just have to move down the bench as far as he could.
'Grrrr. Stupid jerk. I'll bet he planed this so he could gloat about me not passing but I'll show him'
'Hey calm down,' replied Kyubi in a calming voice. 'Just think about it, your about to become a ninja. You cause trouble now and they might hold you back. Just wait, and I bet you'll never have to deal with Sasuke again.'
'Your right, I know,' replied Naruto. 'But I'd just really rather not sit by him.'
Just as Naruto was about to give up and sit by Sasuke, the only classmate that was nice to him noticed him. Consequently, this classmate was the one Kyubi had the biggest problem with.
Hinata sat in class looking for Naruto. She had looked up to him for a long time and had a bit of a crush on him, so she was the first to notice when he walked in. 'He wont notice me, he's looking for a place to sit. He'll probably sit next to that Sasuke boy. He doesn't seem to like the idea, maybe if I offered him a seat,' she thought. Suddenly, in a burst of uncharacteristic courage, she moved over on her bench enough for him to sit and turned to catch his eye.
Naruto gave a final sweep of the class and found that Hinata had moved over enough for him to sit. Sure she was dark and a little strange, but she had always been nice to him. She wasn't exactly a friend because whenever he tried to ask her about herself or about generally anything, she blushed, stammered, and ran off. This weirded Naruto out a bit but she never made fun of him and always seemed to look on him as he saw other people look at Sasuke, instead of the cold stares he got from everyone else. Glad that he might not have to sit next to Sasuke, he moved over and placed his coat on the edge of the bench and turned to Hinata.
"Is this seat taken?" asked Naruto silently praying that it wasn't while in the back of his head, Kyubi was secretly praying it was. It was obvious to Kyubi that the girl had a crush on Naruto, but he was hers damn it!
"No," said Hinata in a voice barely above a whisper and shakier then an old rope bridge. She bowed her head in an attempt to hide a blush, but Naruto being as clueless as he was took it as something else.
"If you don't want me to sit here it's ok." Said Naruto, scared that he'd somehow offended her. "I can always find someplace else to sit if you don't want me to sit here."
"No no. Pleas, sit." Said Hinata in a strangely high pitched worried voice. In truth she was terrified that Naruto didn't want to sit near her and was only doing it because he was to nice to tell her that he didn't want to sit with her, but her fears where eradicated along with most of her mental process as he flashed her that large fox grin of his and sat down.
"Thanks Hinata-chan! I was worried that I'd have to sit next to Sasuke." he smiled as he sat.
"It's alright. I'm glad you graduated." She replied without looking up. She couldn't bring herself to look at that fox grin without the whole room going into the background and her face turning even redder then it was now. She could hardly pay attention when Iruka walked in. Naruto on the other hand was 100 focused on his teacher at the head of the class.
"Congratulations graduates," spoke Iruka. "From this day forward, you are shinobi of Konoha. Wear your forehead protectors with pride. You are now of the ninja rank genin, and for further training and mission taking, you will be split into three person teams, and assigned a jonin instructor."
'Three man teams?' thought Naruto. 'I'm ok with anyone as long as I'm not with Sasuke!'
'Just don't let him be with Hinata, Just don't let him be with Hinata, Just don't let him be with Hinata!' thought Kyubi.
'I hope I'm with Naruto' thought Hinata.
"Team 10" announced Iruka. "Uzumaki Naruto, Nara Shikamaru, and Hinata Hyuga." He went on to announce the other teams but they went mostly unnoticed by the members of squad 10.
Naruto was rejoicing inwardly and dancing outwardly at not being pt in the same squad as Sasuke. Hinata was silently celebrating being put on the same squad as Naruto. Kyubi was pouting and whining in a corner and plotting ways to keep Naruto and Hinata from going out. Shikamaru was just to lazy to listen after his squad had been called.
"You kids stay here for the rest of the afternoon and your jonin instructors will pick you up sometime after lunch so don't come back late!" dismissed Iruka.
"All right!" cried Naruto, leaping out of his seat and consequently leaping all the way to the ceiling and across the entire classroom into the wall above the blackboard.
"Oh, Ow! That hurt!" Naruto said in a slight daze from the impact.
'Hey hey hey! Keep the astounding physical abilities to a minimum will you?' scolded Kyubi. 'The Hokage told you to keep your new powers a secret or else too many people will ask hard questions!'
Naruto scratched his head in embarrassment. "Heh heh…" 'Guess I just don't know my own strength'
Sasuke was absolutely shocked to see that Naruto had shown up and even more so that he'd graduated, but this was just insane. Ninja's jumping from tree to tree could pretty easily make a twenty-foot leap and land quite well and pull it off many times in a row. But Naruto had just made a thirty-foot long, eighteen-foot high, leap from a sitting position and slammed into the wall. He would have gone at least twice that far had the wall not been there. And then he'd just sat up from the impact as if it was nothing. How had the drop out dead last loudmouth weakling Naruto pull off a leap like that and shrug off an impact like that without a scratch?
'That's impossible! How did that brat get that strong in one night? It must have been some kind of fluke.' Thought Sasuke in disbelief. Though he showed no real outward interest in Naruto, after that he spent the rest of the morning watching him to see if it really was a fluke.
After nearly and hour the kids were released to go out for lunch, and Naruto was quick to head to his favorite rammen stand. Unbeknownst to Naruto he was being covertly followed. Until he extended his thoughts to the rocks around him with the "Rock speaker no jutsu". He felt a pair of small feet following him rather closely and sloppily but what caught his attention was another pair of feet following at a bit more distance and doing a very good job of keeping a steady distance from his without really revealing their whereabouts. He was about to cancel the jutsu when he felt a few tiny weights fall from a completely different location. Leaves. Someone else was following from the trees. Why where so many people following him all of the sudden. From the sloppy stile and tiny feet he could guess that the close one was a small child, the one following him from a stepped lightly and had small feet as well but the level of experience that suggested at least a ninja so it was likely a girl his age. The one in the tree was a total mystery though.
'Guess all I can do is prepare and then face them at a point where I can get them all to stop following me or come out into the open' he thought to himself with a little grin 'Hey Kyubi-chan? Would you like to take a walk through the park?'
'Why Naruto I'm flattered you'd ask and yes I think it's a marvelous idea.' Replied Kyubi. ' Perhaps your stalkers would join us for a little game of tag?'
Sporting identical feral fox like grins, Naruto walked toward the park while he and Kyubi ploted the best way to lose his extra shadows.
A.N. so how was that? Can anyone pleas pleas tell me the name of Hinata's jonin instructor? I know it's the girl, and that she has red eye's but I need a name. So anyway what do you think of Sasuke's jealousy and Kyubi's insecurity? I got a lot of requests for the Hinata, Shikamaru, Naruto team and it seems like a good set up for me where Hinata is the scout and close range, Naruto is the long range and the power and Shikamaru is of coarse the brains.
Next time we find out who's all following Naruto and his plans to deal with them.
Ja Ne!