Disclaimer: No Naruto, but tonight we had chili dogs with cheese! YUM!
"speak"
Thought
Kyuubi
Ch 5 – Team 7
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"Naruto, wake up!"
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"Naruto!"
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"NARUTO!"
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Shun had had enough of Naruto's alarm, and swore as God as his witness he would never hear it for 10 minutes again. He hated that alarm with a passion, because it woke him up instantly, but Naruto slept through it like a rock, having developed immunity to it like all other bad things he encountered. Shun had decided that today – being Naruto's first day with his team – he would wake Naruto up a little more…creatively than usual. He spent about 15 minutes setting it up, and thanked God that Naruto was such a heavy sleeper. To finally put his plan into action, he carefully tiptoed over to Naruto's bed and yelled the magic words: "NARUTO! RAMEN FOR BREAKFAST!" Naruto was up in a heartbeat and sat up immediately, hitting his head on a bucket placed precariously over his head. He tried to move, but to his horror found himself strapped to the bed from the waist down and hands tied behind his back.
The bucket spilled ice water all over him, and all he could do was sit there and take it. Shun by now was on the floor laughing, tears streaming down his face, and decided to let Naruto out. With a quick slash of a kunai, Naruto was out of bed and stepped onto the floor…
The one that was covered in oil. As soon as he stepped on it, his water soaked feet slipped and he slid out the door, into the hallway, and hit the opposite wall, where a SECOND bucket of ice water was waiting. It tipped over, and splashed Naruto a second time. Now Shun was having such a hard time breathing through his laughs that he could have been declared legally dead. Naruto, after having been thoroughly soaked and woken up, stood up and gave his father such a glare that if looks could kill, Shun would have been a smoldering pile of ashes on the floor in seconds.
This only furthered his amusement and laughed even harder, his face turning blue from lack of oxygen. He finally stopped after ten minutes, composed himself, and dried off the second floor of their house with a simple drying jutsu. Having had his laughs, Shun apologized to Naruto and made him ramen for breakfast (after eating Naruto acted like nothing had happened). They both said goodbye to each other, activated the locking seals on the house, and went their separate ways, Naruto to Training Area 21, and Shun to his job, working on inventing and modifying new seals, something the Uzumaki clan specialized in (however, Naruto never quite got the affinity for sealing, but seeing as how Jiraiya was his teacher, he was going to learn).
Naruto arrived at TA21 (TA training area) to find a large bullfrog waiting there, along with Sasuke and a thoroughly ticked Sakura.
"Where is he! The note said to be here at 9, but no Jiraiya! Where is he?" Sakura asked no one in particular, Sasuke just standing next to a tree, and Naruto having just arrived.
"He's already here! Or at least, a messenger of his!" Naruto proclaimed, pointing next to the tree.
Sakura followed his finger, but didn't see anyone. "What are you talking about, baka?"
"You're looking too high. Look lower," Naruto said, confident in his deduction abilities.
She followed his advice, but only saw a large bullfrog. "The frog? That's stupid. It can't be a messenger. Frogs can't even talk."
"Oh yeah they can! Watch the frog and you'll learn," Naruto retaliated, remembering his dad talk about Shuhan and his frogs all the time, and their boss, the legendary Gamabunta. Naruto had never seen Gamabunta, but knew what a nin-frog looked like, and the large bullfrog fit the description. "Hey, Gama-san! Tell Jiraiya-sensei we're here!" Naruto yelled at the frog, who's only response was a curt nod, then it POOFED! into smoke as his job was finished. In his place appeared a large man with spiky white hair and a large container on his back that was used to hold scrolls.
"Aha! I see my messenger was discovered! Who was it!" the Gama-sennin asked the three young genin. Sakura pointed at Naruto, and Sasuke only responded with "The dobe," making Naruto respond with a "Hey!" Jiraiya just watched all this with amusement. So these are the legends. He looked at Sasuke. Uchiha Sasuke, the only known survivor of the Uchiha Clan massacre, and heir to the almighty Sharingan. He also appears to prefer Ninjutsu. He turned to Naruto. Uzumaki Naruto, son of the Yondaime's twin brother (they look so much alike) and from what I hear an excellent Taijutsu user. Finally he turned to Sakura. Ah, the Haruno. She appears to have some Genjutsu affinity, but I see a little Slug in her.
"Alright team, you've all talked a bit, but let me talk a bit." Jiraiya tried to introduce himself, but the genins kept talking. (Well, two of the three.) "Guys, let me talk." He tried again, to the same result. A vein began pulsing in his forehead. "Alright, that's it!" e formed the Rabbit seal and snapped his fingers. "Sairensa no Jutsu! (Silencer Jutsu!)"
The genins kept talking, but found no voices came out of their mouth. They all looked at Jiraiya with mixed expressions of confusion, horror, and relief. "Finally, I can talk. Hello Team, my name is Jiraiya, the Gama-Sennin, though you may call me Jiraiya-sensei, Jiraiya-san, Gama-sennin (though that's more of a nickname), or just Jiraiya is fine. Now, I would like each of you to tell us your name, and one thing about you. You first, pinky." He pointed at Sakura, then made a half-Tiger and said "Kai!" Sakura found she could talk, but knew he'd put it back on when she finished, so she decided to make as much of this time as possible.
"Hello. My name is Haruno Sakura, and a live in Northern Konoha. I like to use Genjutsu, but Iruka-sen-, I mean, Iruka-san said that I lacked in the Taijutsu area." She finished her little monologue, and braced herself for the jutsu that was to come, but never felt it. She looked at Jiraiya, who only looked back and said "You're done. Just listen to the others. You next bushy." Heh, I guess I have a habit of calling people by their hair. Better not do that again on the blon—I mean short one. He undid the jutsu on Sasuke, who took a short breath and stated 'Uchiha Sasuke. I live in Apt. 32-B. I don't like talking." He finished with a look at Jiraiya that just screamed "I'm strong enough, why do I need a stupid teacher like you. The pulsing vein was back on the Gama-sennin's head, but he surpressed the urge to kill the Uchiha –It would look bad on my record – and decided to let Naruto talk. He once again pointed at Naruto, undid the Jutsu, and said "Your turn shorty." He undid Naruto, who immediately proclaimed "I'm Uzumaki Naruto, the future Hokage! I like miso ramen and new jutsus, and my dad taught me everything I know!" He stopped shouting to see Jiraiya smiling, who then clapped his hands together.
"Right! Now that we all know each other, it's time for a little test," he said, and pulled off the large container from his back. "Or at least, the rest of it," he added, and chuckled seeing the confused look on their faces. "Oh yeah, finding the frog was part 1. Good job Naruto," he explained, and that calmed down the two of them (Sasuke just stood there the whole time). "Next is a written test."
Hearing this made Naruto cringe, Sakura smile, Sasuke…well, not much different. Jiraiya saw these, laughed and said "Oh don't worry, it's just to see if you're ninja material. See, only three teams are actually allowed in. If you get a combined team score of 60 you pass, but just to make sure that you don't just use each other, you must also get an individual score of 50 or more. No sweat! This just decided whether or not you get to be ninja or go back tot eh academy!" He finished off with a smile, set down the needed equipment, and walked over to a tree, sat down and started to nap. The newly instated/momentary genins looked at the test, gulped, and then began the test.
A/N: Wow, such an unoriginal little bastard aren't I? Kakashi isn't the only one to use a test to determine the genin. Will Team 7 make it? Will Naruto pass? Will I get some cheese? Find out next time, on "The P/P/F Hokage!"
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