So far I'm sticking to my schedule of every Friday!...Of course it has only been two weeks...

Thanks to BlueDragonGirl1 for proofing the story.

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Prelude and Character Placement, Part 2

And now we move onto the other fan girl, the fa-ehm- and the slacker. The fan girl, Ino, was pacing back and forth and grumbling things to herself that ranged from 'Where the hell is our teacher?' to 'I should have been the one on Sasuke-kun's team, not big forehead girl!', the fa-ehm-, Choji, was eating a granola bar (still to early for chips) and sitting next to the slacker, Shikamaru, who was laying on the grass hoping that some clouds might actually appear in the sky today. But since he's a genius he can tell patterns and knows that no clouds will appear until a) a character more important them him would like clouds in the sky, or b) a character more important them him is heading for some pain and heart break.

Shikamura sighed. How troublesome it was living in a ninja village. Outside the village nature followed its natural course. After training today he'd go sit outside the village gates and see all the clouds he wanted. He almost wished Asuma would show up soon just so he could get training over with, but in the end it was easier to settle for watching tree branches sway.

"Where is he?" Ino suddenly screeched, "He's never been this late before!"

"Maybe something happened?" Choji offered, trying to calm his female teammate down.

"Hey," Asuma said around his cigarette as he walked up to his slightly irked team.

"What happened!" Ino shouted

"Pardon?" Asuma asked, blinking in surprise.

"You're late!" Ino responded to her teachers', what she considered, idiotic reply.

"Oh, yes," he said, laughing nervously as he scratched the back of his head. Why couldn't he have gotten Hinita on his team? She seemed like a nice quite well behaved girl.

"Well," Ino prompted her teacher, arms crossed and foot taping.

"Well, I saw someone I hadn't seen in a long time and went over to say 'hi'," in truth he had seen Kurenai and proceeded to stalk her, but then she suddenly disappeared (presumably to meet her team) and he realized he still needed to meet his team.

Ino smiled at her teacher, "Alright then. Let's get started then, huh?"

Choji and Shikamaru looked at Ino oddly for the out of character response. But Ino knew what Asuma was really doing and that he had a thing for the red-eyed teacher. They had occasionally shared stalking techniques together. inexplicably, both Kurenai and Sasuke get shivers at the same time

"Come on!" Ino said to her two male teammates, "Let's finish training so I can find that big fore headed girl and wring out everything that Sasuke-kun did today from her!"

Shikamaru gave a big sigh, but got up. The sooner training ended, the sooner he could go watch some clouds. Choji contently followed his team.

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And now we move onto the last, but not least, Konoha Genin team (though shouldn't there really be two more teams in the year up? Oh, well). This team consists of the quiet boy, the shy girl and the loud mouth. And for no particular reason the author will let them introduce themselves. author shifts nervously and hopes the bugs come no closer

"Hello," the shy girl began, "I'm Hinata. I apparently have no point other then having a crush on Naruto, and providing a starting point for Neji angst."

"Yo!" said the loud mouth in what sounded like a shout but was really his normal voice volume, "I'm Kiba! I'm loud and have a dog! I acted disgusted of the way Naruto acts, when in the end I'm frankly no better, and sometimes worse, then him! And this here,"

"Bark!" said the dog, who was slightly peeved at being forgotten in the team opening. The author had forgotten that the cute little puppy was indeed not a stuffed animal.

"That's Akamaru!" Kiba continued, "He's my battle partner and best friend!"

"...," stated the quite boy, "... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... . ... ... ... ... ..."

"Shino-kun said that you can call him Shino-sama," Hinita kindly filled the readers in, "and that he's the leader of our team."

"Hey! I'm the leader!" Kiba shouted at Shino and promptly started a fight with the shade-wearing boy, and was just as promptly defeated by Shino's bugs.

"He also said that if you've ever stepped on a bug, you'd better watch out," Hinita continued to translate 'Shino talk'.

Suddenly the teams' teacher appeared out of nowhere, and on time unlike other teachers in this village.

"Good day," the red-eyed women said, "My name is Kurenai. Kurenai-san to you. I am the teacher of this team, and possibly the only teacher who recognizes that I do have three students. I'm also one of the few women Juunin. I believe the total is 5 women to 136 men... And no, I am NOT going out with Asuma-san. I don't know what country you come from, but here standing beside someone doesn't mean you are going out with them."

Kurenai then looked thoughtful for a moment as her students silently waited for whatever observation she made this time that would open their eyes more to the world around them. "Notice how the team lead by the only women is the team that has the least attention paid to it?"

The team was silent for a few minutes as this very accurate point was digested.

"Hey, ya! That's not fair, damnit!" Kiba nearly screamed.

"……………………………………..," said Shino.

"You're right Shino-san, it does show the sad state the world is in," Hinita translated once again, her own mind churning, "Maybe because not matter how hard a women tries to become a great ninja, her accomplishments are always over looked compared to male ninja's is why more females don't see the point of bothering to become good Kunoichi?"

"….." said the entire team.

"Well, we'll show them now won't we Akamaru? We'll beat all their sorry asses down!"

"………… ………………………………… ….………… …………………… ……………………….. ……………….," said you know who.

"Yeah, Shino, we should start training to show them all what we can do!" Kiba exclaimed happily, "We'll show 'em that a teacher who doesn't just solely concentrate on one member can train a stronger and more rounded team! A team that can beat all their asses down!"

Hinita nodded in agreement. Little did they know that that is not how things work in this world. Poor, poor misguided fools.

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We will now cut to the Sand Village and to the only Genin team that we are aware of from there. This team consists of the bully, the bitch and the demon-possessed possibly cured psycho.

"We will now travel and stay in Konoha despite the fact that we just finished a war against them, causing the deaths of many they hold dear," Baki was explaining to his students their latest assignment.

Kankuro was, understandably, confused about the situation, "And why are we going there?"

"We are going under the flimsy context of 'fostering good will between the villages'. " Baki began, sounding like he thought the idea was altogether dumb, "Even though we were suppose to be the ace to take down the village, or more specifically the demon inside Gaara was. Don't worry, I'm sure they'll forgive us for our wrong doings, after all it was just orders, and accept us into their society... Even though they have continued to hate Naruto throughout his entire life time because someone else sealed a demon in him, thus saving all their sorry asses," he finished.

"So, Konoha makes deals with people who try to harm them, and hate and isolate those that save them?" Kankuro asked, learning something new for the day.

"Basically, yes," was Baki's only response.

Temari decided that she had better say something before people forgot that she existed, "And people say Sands got issues..."

"…" said Gaara.

"We are leaving today," Baki continued on, "We'll be leaving in an hour."

"That soon?" Temari asked, "Shouldn't you have told us this yesterday?"

"It was a last minute decision," he said simply.

"By whom?" Gaara actually spoke.

"…" said Baki, "Now go pack and meet me at the front gate in an hour," and with that he disappeared.

"Uh," was Kankuro's only response.

Temari just sighed, "Well, you heard Baki-sensei. Let's go pack."

"…………..…..?" said Gaara.

Temari smiled indulgently at her little brother, "I'm sorry Gaara, we don't have time to stop and play in the sand box, but I promise to take you to a park when we get to Konoha."

Kankuro watched the odd scene and sweat dropped. Was it just him, or did his family actually manage to become more screwed up after coming back from Konoha the last time?

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