Chapter 3

I'm back! Welcome everybody to chapter 3 of 'Proving Myself'. In this one, we are going to see the Team that Naruto got, his teammates and his sensei. And if I have enough creativity, some D-Ranks. I want to say this before we start: Naruto and Itachi are 7. His teammate will be 12. Sasuke and Itsuka and the rest of that generation is 2. And now, we can start.

Legend:

"Talking."

'Thinking...'

Jutsu Name

Chapter 3: Starting as a Shinobi

"You improved my eyesight, Sensei?" Naruto asked as he was getting off the bed were Orochimaru made the modifications to his body. The snake sannin nodded.

"That's right. With that, we already have 10 modified parts in your body." He said smirking at his apprentice that nodded. Naruto still has his spikey red hair, his blue snake like eyes, and was wearing a light blue kimono top, a fishnet shirt under it, and grey baggy pants.

"I should go if I want to get to the graduation." Naruto said and Orochimaru raised an amused eyebrow.

"Oh. So, you are indeed going to graduate. What a nice surprise."

Naruto nodded "Me and Itachi think that we are ready for the shinobi life. We had been trained better than most of our generation. We need to move further."

Orochimaru smirked at the motivation of his student. "And your parents? What does they think about this?"

Naruto shrugged "I haven't asked them or told them." He bowed to Orochimaru "Goodbye sensei."

Orochimaru nodded "Good luck Naruto. You will need it."

*Academy*

"Are you nervous?" Itachi asked his friend as they walked to the class of this year graduates.

Naruto smiled at his friend that was still getting used to his now more snake like features. "Not at all. I prepared myself for this. Are you nervous, Itachi?"

Itachi shook his head "Not at all. As you said, we prepared for this." He said as they arrived to the class.

The teacher introduced them and informed the students that they will be taking the exam with them this year. Some were annoyed and others didn't care thinking that they would fail.

They sat down next to each other as they received curious glances from the students. Next to them, they had a girl with brown hair made in a pony tail and red marks on her face and was looking at them curiously. "Aren't you two too young to be here?"

Naruto smiled at the girl "Age no matters when you have skill."

Behind them, a girl with purple hair made in a pineapple like hairstyle "I doubt you have any skill at all. You two might as well be babies!"

"Anko! Don't treat them like that!" The brown-haired girl scolded at Anko while Naruto chuckled.

"Don't worry. We knew we weren't welcomed in the first place. So, we just need to show you all." Itachi nodded but remained in silence. Not so long after, the exams began.

*After the Exams*

"That was... unexpected." Anko said as she watched the two brats that went today to take the exam and come out doing ones, if not, the bests performances in the entire exams.

They knocked out two out of the three instructors making the test, hit bullseye at the kunai and shuriken throwing and both did one more jutsu besides the academy standards.

Now both of them where chatting happily about how well they done. She has some questions to ask.

"Hey! Broody! Snaky!" Anko called to catch their attention. Both kids turned around to see the older girl run to them.

Naruto smiled at her "Anko... right?" She nodded with a grin "May we help you in something?"

"I was wondering how you two are so good. Can you tell me?" She asked and Itachi closed his eyes.

"I thought we were babies with no skill at all."

Anko laughed sheepishly and scratched the back of her head. "Okay, I'm sorry. I judged you two without knowing how good you were. Can you please tell me your secret?"

Itachi and Naruto shared a look before looking at Anko "Well, we can. But... with one condition." Naruto said with a smirk while placing his hand in his chin.

Anko nodded and Naruto chuckled "If you pay our tab at Ichiraku's, we will tell you."

"Deal!" Anko screamed not knowing in what she just got into.

*Hokage Office*

"Hiruzen, why did you allowed both, Naruto and Itachi to graduate earlier?" Minato asked the old and retired kage that smiled at him.

"Well, I had seen the progress that both of them had done this last time, and I thought that it was time for them to graduate. Besides, I already made their team."

Minato sighed as he rubbed his templates. Ever since Naruto got his modifications, he had seen him less and less. Even when he offered to train him, he politely refused.

"Fine. They will graduate." Minato said and Hiruzen nodded with a smile.

"Thanks for understanding Minato."

*Next Week, Academy*

Naruto and Itachi were sat next to each other again, this time waiting for team placements. Only that this time, Anko was next to Naruto asking them both questions.

"Anko, we already told you our secret." Itachi said and Anko rolled her eyes.

"You just told me to train harder! I already do that!"

Naruto chuckled while Itachi sighed. How can this girl be older than them and behave like a spoiled kid?

The sensei enter the class and was ready to explain the team placements. He said the firsts ones and both Naruto and Itachi were waiting for their turn.

"Team 7: Naruto Namikaze, Itachi Uchiha and Anko Mitarashi. Your sensei is Shikaku Nara."

Naruto and Itachi smiled happy to be in the same team while Anko grinned. 'Now they will tell me!'

They waited for their sensei to arrive. And waited. And waited. And once the class was empty, their sensei came in. "Team 7?" He asked and Anko frowned.

"Do you see someone else?" She asked and Shikaku shrugged.

"Just making sure. Go to training ground 10." with that, he shunshined away.

Itachi and Naruto stood up ready to go and Anko followed the two prodigies to make sure she doesn't get lost.

They arrived to the training ground to find Shikaku taking a nap at the shadow of a tree.

"Should we wake him up?" Anko asked.

"Probably. We need him to train us." Itachi said and Naruto pinched Shikaku's nose making him wake up.

Once Naruto got off him and Shikaku sat back up they started. "Okay, now that we are all here, let's introduce ourselves. Tell us your name, likes, dislikes, hobbies and dreams." No one answered. He released a sigh "Fine, I'll go first. My name is Shikaku Nara, I like watching clouds and shogi, I dislike troublesome things, my hobbies are... well, drinking if it counts, and my dream for the future is to have a good, quiet team that doesn't mess around." He said and pointed Anko to go next that grinned.

"My name is Anko Mitarashi!"

"And there goes my dream..." Shikaku muttered but Anko ignored him.

"I like dango and dislike people that dislike dango! My hobby is to eat dango and train and my dream is to become a great kunoichi!"

"How inspiring..." Shikaku said dryly and pointed to Naruto that smiled at him.

"My name is Naruto Namikaze. I enjoy learning and dislike morons that take everything for granted. My hobby is to train and my dream... is to help this world to evolve."

"Nice..." He pointed to Itachi next.

"My name is Itachi Uchiha, I like spending time with my family and friends and dislike anyone that would be against their own home or blood. My hobbies are to train and read and my dream is to protect this village."

Shikaku nodded "Okay. Now, for the test-"

"Wait, test!?" Anko interrupted him and Shikaku sighed.

"Yes. A test. To be precise, this is the real test to determine if you become genin. If you fail, I will send you back to the academy."

Itachi narrowed his eyes, Anko widen hers and Naruto lost his smile getting serious. Shikaku stood up "To pass, you just need to find me and catch me." And with that, he Shunshin away.

"H-He can't do that right!?" Anko asked and Naruto shook his head.

"He can. I knew the test was too easy. There was no possible way for that to be real."

"So, what now?" Itachi asked and Naruto smiled at him as he bit his thumb.

"Find him."

*Later*

In his head, it was a great plan.

Tell the brats to find him, he will hide, put traps and sleep a nap and in the end, he will not have a team.

All happy.

But he wasn't expected for Minato's kid to have the snake contract and send snakes after him, neither that Fugaku kid could create such big fireballs or have the sharingan for that matter and the girl to kick and punch so strongly.

He almost went all out with them but managed to control himself. In the end he had a new team.

'I bet that Yoshino will be happy...'

*R&D Department*

"So, you passed." Orochimaru said pleased of the achivement of his student that smiled at him.

"It wasn't hard. We just had one tracker snake after Shikaku and that was it. Once he had him in our sights, he went all out." Naruto explained and Orochimaru chuckled.

"KuKuKu... Just as I expected from my star student."

"I am your only student."

"That's why you are my star student." Naruto smiled at the comment and was about to leave. Anko invited him and Itachi to, according to her, eat 'The Food of the Gods', when Orochimaru stopped him.

"Naruto, I want to give you this." Orochimaru said and in his hand, he had a scroll. Naruto eyed the scroll waiting for an explanation "We aren't going to be seeing each other so frequently anymore. So I want you to have this scroll that contain the best ways to use your modifications."

Naruto smiled at his sensei as he grabbed the scroll and opened to see what it contain with eyes shining in awe.

Orochimaru smirked... so much potential in one body...

One body soon to be his.

And done! That was chapter 3 of 'Proving Myself'. Hope you enjoyed. Now, I wanted to update this story some time ago, but I didn't found motivation to do it. Now that I got it back, I'll try to update more frequently. No promises thought. And that's all! Remember to leave a Review that it helps my motivation, PM me for any doubts or suggestions, Follow and Favorite me and the story.

Till Next Time.

Roy D. Harper.

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