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Chapter 7 – A Familiar Jounin

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Iruka shouted, "Alright! I'm now going to sort you guys out into your three man teams and assign you your team number. Once I'm done you will sit down with your new teammates and wait for your jounin instructor to pick you up. Now then... Team one!-"

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Iruka carried on like this for a few minutes. Naruto didn't care much for finding out the rest of the teams, so he just zoned out and tried to ignore all his new fan-girls looking at him. When Iruka finally called out his name and he snapped back to reality, "-Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura and Uchiha Sasuke. You will make up Team 7."

At the moment of hearing this Naruto contemplated committing seppuku right then and there with a kunai, 'Can't hurt that much can it?' Dreading the thought of having to be in the same team as the squealer and the stuck up. Sakura was inwardly jumping for joy because she was on the same team as Sasuke, 'Alright I'm with Sasuke! He's bound to ask me out now!' Sasuke was thinking why they had to be put in a team to begin with, 'If they get in my way I'll kill them myself.' Every girl in the room, including Hinata, thought the same thing about Sakura at that moment, 'Lucky forehead girl! I should be with Naruto/Sasuke!'

The three then sat down together so everyone else could be put in their own teams. After Iruka was done he told them all they had to wait until after lunchtime for their new instructors to pick them up. At that everyone got up and walked with their teams to get lunch together. Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke did walk out the building together but as soon as Sakura asked Sasuke if he wanted to eat lunch with her he disappeared. Naruto spoke up, "I would ask you if you want to join me for lunch seeing as we're teammates now but something tells me you're gonna say no."

Sakura turned on him and started shouting, "Naruto! Shut up! You're so..." At this point she had finally turned around and taken notice of his new clothes. She obviously also noticed how his new clothes showed off the body he would usually cover up with the jumpsuit. She just stood there open mouthed and gawking at his body.

Naruto waited a couple of seconds expecting her to answer him. He then waved his hand in front of her eyes, "Sakura-san? Hello?" When she didn't answer he just shrugged and walked off for Ichiraku's. When he turned the corner Sakura managed to snap out of her shock and sighed when she saw that Naruto had ditched her in her shocked state she then went to find a bench where she could enjoy her lunch.

Naruto just walked back the same way he had come from that morning to get back to Ichiraku's. It had gotten a lot more busy since the morning. He could see that a lot of the villagers still glaring at him but he also felt another sort of stare on him. He just couldn't shake it or understand what it was about, until he remembered what it felt like when those fan-girls were staring at him. When he figured that out he instantly took to the rooftops, incase he might get swarmed again. Thanks to his little detour to the rooftops he managed to make it over to Ichiraku's in record time. He managed to sneak under the curtain and onto the stool without being noticed by the young female villagers thankfully.

He ate a few bowls and then decided to leave before he was found. He decided to find Sasuke to have a talk with him about being in the same team. He took to the rooftops again hoping to see Sasuke somewhere on the way back to the academy. 'Hmm. Where would the Teme go to eat lunch?' He was thinking while going from one roof to another, 'I'm gonna have to up the weight again when I get to the compound tonight. I feel too light.' He kept up his pace while also taking a few detours checking out likely places for Sasuke to be.

Eventually he did find Sasuke moping around and eating some gohan in what looked like his apartment. Naruto jumped down to be outside the window and got Sasuke's attention, "Hey Sasuke-teme." Sasuke being surprised choked on the bite he had just taken.

"What do you think you're doing Dobe!? Wait, scratch that why are you here?" Asked the Uchiha with a glare after he managed to cough up the rice.

"I wanted to talk with you. Since we're gonna be teammates could we at least forget we hate each other during training and missions so we don't get each other killed?" Answered Naruto, looking the Uchiha in the eye.

"What's the matter Dobe? Afraid I won't protect you?" Said the Uchiha with a smirk.

"Yeah right!" Said Naruto under his breath. "I'm more afraid of you being too arrogant to ask for my help and getting yourself killed!" Replied Naruto with a bit of venom lacing his words.

Sasuke narrowed his eyes at Naruto now and said, "Fine, but don't get in my way or I'll kill you myself, that goes for that pink haired fan-girl that's always following me around as well!"

Naruto sighed and started back for the academy. 'Guess that was the best I could've hoped for with his arrogance. Not to mention his obsession with killing his brother.'

'Something tells me he'll be more trouble than he's worth Kit.' Kyuubi offered.

'Something tells me your right Kyu-sensei. I'm still gonna try though. As you know I never give up.' Naruto told Kyuubi as he grinned.

Team 7 had been waiting three hours now for their new jounin instructor. Every one else had already been picked up by their instructors. Naruto was sitting at the back were he went to try and escape the fan-girls, while Sasuke was sitting in the usual spot. Sakura on the other hand was torn, she had no idea who she should sit next to. She was now infatuated with Naruto because she had seen his well sculpted body but she was also infatuated with Sasuke because he had that mysterious air around him. She did the only thing she could think of doing at that moment and that was sit down in front while looking at the two.

'What do you think's up with Sakura, Kyu-sensei?' Asked Naruto to Kyuubi.

'If I didn't know better Kit, I would say she's wondering which of you looks better and depending on her decision she's now going to be that person's fan-girl.' Answered Kyuubi matter of factly.

'Well the Teme can have her. She's too prissy for my liking.' Naruto thought, not liking the way she was looking at him like a piece of meat.

'I wouldn't worry about it Kit. From the look on her face she's going to take her time deciding.' Kyuubi comforted Naruto.

Naruto relaxed a little more on hearing that. He started wondering why the instructor was so late when Kyuubi spoke up again. 'Think about it Kit. You've read all those ninja statistics that your father left you. Try and figure out who it is from that, it'll help with your problem solving skills.'

Naruto liked the idea, it would at least keep his mind busy. 'Alright so we know it's not Sarutobi Asuma or Yuhi Kurenai. They would have been top of my list of wanted instructors from what I read about them. The other jounin that came here weren't anything special. Our jounin is late though, now which jounin have I read about can be late some... Aww, hell.'

'What is it Kit?' Asked Kyuubi slightly alarmed.

'I think I just figured out who our instructor is gonna be. The only hint I'm gonna give you is that he knows who my father was.' Replied Naruto.

'Aww, shit. I was hoping you wouldn't get his lazy ass. Knowing the village council they probably set it up like this so he could train their precious Uchiha on how to activate and use his sharingan.' Figured Kyuubi.

'Doesn't matter, I got you to train me. He'll be good enough to help protect us during missions won't he? Plus I'll finally get to thank him for saving me that night six years ago.' Reasoned Naruto.

'You still remember that Kit!!' Exclaimed Kyuubi. 'I guess you're right though he is good enough to protect you guys while on a mission.'

At that moment Naruto felt the door behind him open. He instantly grabbed a kunai from one of the holsters under his jacket and threw it over his shoulder. It imbedded itself in the door frame right in front of the jounin's face. Both Sasuke and Sakura looked at him strangely. "You're late sensei." Naruto said as he turned around to see the jounin walk in with his one eye not giving any emotion away. He grabbed the kunai and tossed it back to Naruto, who caught it with ease and placed it back in the holster under his jacket.

"Now that wasn't a very nice greeting. I wasn't that late." He said in a sort of monotone. "Either way I want to meet you all on the roof, now." At that he disappeared in a puff of smoke but not before a thought passed through his head, 'That was an interesting greeting.'

Naruto looked at Sasuke and Sakura and contemplated the use of the same jutsu to get to the roof and give them a surprise but decided against it. "We better get going." Was all Naruto said as he got up to leave.

When the three got to the roof the jounin was already there sitting at the far end. He gestured for the three to sit down. "Alright how about we get to know each other? Intoduce yourselves." He said in the same monotone voice.

Sakura raised her hand almost instantly. "Um. Sensei what should we say?"

"Well you should obviously say your names. Maybe then you could say your likes and dislikes, your hobbies and maybe your dreams." Replied the jounin.

"Why don't you go first? We can't keep calling you just sensei, sensei." Suggested Naruto.

"Okay. My names Hatake Kakashi. I have no intention of telling you my likes and dislikes. As for my dreams... I have few hobbies."

'Secretive guy! All we learned was his name.' Thought Naruto. 'But I already know some other stuff about you Kakashi.'

Sasuke and Sakura both thought the same thing, 'All we learned was his name!?'

"Okay what about you with the pink." Kakashi said pointing toward Sakura who was sitting in between the other two.

"I'm Haruno Sakura! I like... well the person I like is... And my hobbies are... well, my dream is to...!" She hid her face with her hands at this point, in embarrassment and confusion. All the time she had been saying this she had been looking between Naruto and Sasuke not sure which one to settle on.

"Anything you hate?" Asked Kakashi still not giving away emotion.

"INO-PIG!" She shouted instantly.

'Oh! That's perfect! A fan-girl that likes both her teammates and can't choose which is better. That's gonna be annoying.' Kakashi thought. "Okay what about you blondie?" He said while pointing at Naruto, to the left of Sakura.

"The name's Uzumaki Naruto!" Shouted Naruto with confidence. 'Like you didn't know that already Kakashi.' He thought briefly. "I like ramen and training. I dislike the 3 minute wait after adding water to the ramen cup, when making instant ramen. I got some hobbies but I ain't saying what they are. My dream... is to be HOKAGE!" He yelled the last part for emphasis. Sakura was looking at him with hearts in her eyes, Sasuke just narrowed his eyes at him and Kakashi just looked bored with his only revealing nothing.

'He's grown up strangely. I was expecting to be more bitter.' Thought Kakashi before turning to Sasuke. "Alright, emo-kid you're up last."

"I'M NOT EMO!" Sasuke yelled, his eyebrow twitching. This elicited a chuckle from Naruto.

"Fine, just get on with the introduction..." Everyone thought that Kakashi had finished at that but Naruto managed to hear the quiet, "Emo-kid.", that Kakashi had said under his breath. This caused Naruto to stifle another chuckle.

"My name is Uchiha Sasuke. There are many things I hate, there aren't a lot of things that I like. Also, I have an ambition that I have no intention to leave as just a dream." Both Sakura and Naruto were now listening intently to what Sasuke was saying, Kakashi just looked on as usual. "The revival of my clan and to... kill a certain man."

'Sasuke is SO cool!' Thought Sakura. 'Aww, Kami! Please tell me he isn't gonna do something stupid to kill this guy!' Naruto thought at the same time, Kakashi though, simply thought, 'Just as I thought...'

"Alright you three have unique personalities. So far, I like that." Kakashi said while looking over the three of them. "We're going on a mission tomorrow. It's something the four of us can do together, some survival training."

Sakura raised her hand instantly and asked, "Why are we going to train when it's a mission? Didn't we get enough training at the academy?"

Naruto resisted the urge to smirk at this. He had already read all about the second set of tests in his fathers scrolls but Sasuke and Sakura had no idea what was coming next. "This is no ordinary training. If I say this, I'm sure the three of you are going to be surprised. Out of the 27 graduates, only nine will become genins. The other 18 will be sent back to the academy. In other words, this training is going to be a very hard test with a dropout rate of sixty-six percent."

Sakura looked shocked at this new information. Sasuke narrowed his eyes at the jounin. Naruto... just smirked. 'Not exactly the reaction I was hoping for but two out of three isn't bad.' Thought Kakashi looking at Naruto's expression.

Naruto got up slowly the smirk still evident on his face. "Bring it on Kakashi-sensei! The three of us will take on whatever you're gonna throw at us." Naruto said while gesturing at the other two. This elicited an excited "Yeah!" and punch in the air from Sakura. Sasuke just did his usual "Hn." of agreement.

Kakashi looked over the three again and said, "Alright, the test is going to be at training grounds 7 tomorrow morning at 7am. Oh! Before I go, I suggest you don't eat any breakfast."

He started going through some hand signs quickly until Sakura asked another question. "Why's that sensei?"

He looked up and simply said, "Because you'll puke." He then vanished in a puff of smoke.

Sasuke and Sakura got up and started walking away when Naruto addressed them. "Don't listen to his advice about breakfast, have what you usually have for breakfast. Don't worry about the time of the test, he'll be late again tomorrow. We might as well wait until tomorrow to make a plan. Oh! And Sasuke I'm only going to say this once, we have to work as a team, so don't even think of going against him on your own. See you guys tomorrow morning!" Naruto started jumping from rooftop to rooftop at that point wanting to get to the compound.

"Hmph. Dobe!" Said Sasuke as he walked away again.

Naruto was walking through the compound on his way to the ninjutsu training area. Kyuubi told him since they didn't get a chance to check for the Namikaze Kekkei Genkai the other night they would do it tonight. He walked into the cavern and saw Kyuubi as he had been the night before, except the Uzumaki clan scroll had been put back in the vault since he had already established he had the Kekkei Genkai.

"Alright Kit. Lets get this over with. You've already read the clan scroll, you know what the Kekkei Genkai will allow you to do. I gathered these three scrolls from your fathers seal library, they're useful seals but they're also very simple so it should be easy for you to use them if you have the Kekkei Genkai. First, I have this one," Kyuubi took the first scroll and opened it up. "It is a basic paralysis seal. You can use it to capture enemies or targets depending on the situation. It can be broken if the target has a strong enough will though. Second, is this one," he took the second scroll and opened it up. "It is a simple chakra draining seal. Using it on yourself probably wouldn't do much to your chakra levels since you have so much of it. It should be useful against other genin and maybe some chunin though. Finally, is this one," he took the third scroll and opened it up. "It is a seal made for sealing items within scrolls or anything you put the seal on really. You simply place the item in the centre of the seal and use a half ram hand-seal, insert some chakra and it will be sealed until you simply use your chakra and think or say Kai (Release). There, that should be enough to copy for now. Give it a try, you remember how the scroll instructed don't you?" Naruto nodded, stepped up to the three scrolls and sat down in front of them.

Naruto remembered what he read in the scroll very clearly. There weren't any special seals like the Uzumaki Kekkei Genkai, all he had to do was concentrate on the seals in front of him and feed chakra into his eyes. While doing this the Namikaze Kekkei Genkai should activate if he had it. The first ability was being able to copy the seals, his pupils would turn red then back to black when he had copied it.

Kyuubi suddenly spoke up, "There it is Kit! Your pupil just turned red for a second! Guess you have both Kekkei Genkai! Now which seal were you concentrating on?"

"Uh... Th-The paralysis." Naruto said dumbly. It hadn't felt like he'd copied it. In fact it felt like nothing had happened.

"Alright try the other two now just in case I was seeing things. Although I highly doubt it." Naruto did as Kyuubi said. When looking over the other two his pupils flashed red again and he thought he felt something. "No doubt about it Kit. You have the Kekkei Genkai!"

"Yeah I felt something in my eyes this time. I guess I'll get better at telling when I've copied them with time though right, Kyu-sensei?" Asked Naruto with a big grin.

"Most probably Kit. Now for the second use, give it a try!" Replied Kyuubi.

The second ability depended on the use of the first ability. Once Naruto copied a seal he should be able to print the seal with chakra for a temporary period. Once this is done he could leave the seal to dissipate or use seal equipment to make the seal permanent. To print a seal all he had to do was think of the seal he wanted to print, gather chakra in his hand and eventually the chakra would become visible and may change colour and the symbols for the seal would appear on his hand and move all over it. Once this happened he wouldn't have to concentrate on the chakra anymore, his hand would stay like this until it touched something or he consciously stopped it. The chakra in his hand would form the seal and activate it when he used it.

Naruto thought of the paralysis seal and gathered chakra in his hand. After about five seconds of doing this his hand suddenly glowed a purple colour and some symbols were moving all over it. "Alright it worked!" He yelled in victory.

"Good Kit. Now dispel it and you can try the third ability." Kyuubi said with a smile.

Naruto tried to dispel the seal. It didn't go away, he tried concentrating harder on stopping it. It still didn't go away. "Um-uh. Kyu-sensei? We may have a problem here. The seal won't go away!" Naruto announced in a panic.

"Hm? Let me see your hand Kit." Naruto walked over and presented the glowing hand. "That's interesting! Your other Kekkei Genkai, causing your chakra to be condensed, has made it so you can't dispel the seal. At least that's what it looks like to me. Guess you'll just have to use the seal on something. I know summon one of those kage bunshin and use it on one of them. Doing this will also tell us how long the seal will last and thanks to your chakra being condensed something tells me it will last long." Naruto did as Kyuubi said and summoned a kage bunshin. He wasn't afraid of using the seal on himself because it had said in the scroll that you couldn't print a seal on yourself using the Kekkei Genkai. He placed his hand on the kage bunshin and the symbols rushed on to it. They started forming the paralysis seal and shined the bright blue colour of regular chakra. The kage bunshin instantly froze once the seal was complete and collapsed onto floor not moving a muscle so he looked like a statue. Naruto chuckled at the sight.

"I have another idea Kit! Bring out another kage bunshin and use the paralysis seal on that one too." Kyuubi said slightly smug with the idea he just had. Naruto did as Kyuubi said and soon they had two kage bunshin collapsed on the floor looking like fallen statues. "Now we'll leave one clone to follow the course of the seal to see how long it lasts. You can use the other clone now to try out the third ability. I want you to disrupt and destroy the seal using the third ability."

Naruto recalled the third ability from the scroll. Using the third ability he could analyze any seal and find a way to either; make it more effective or destroy it and make it useless. It activated in a similar fashion to the first ability but he had to say or think "Analyze" while concentrating on the seal in order to activate the third ability. His eyes are supposed to change with the third ability apparently. Parts of his iris are supposed to extend into the pupil and create a cross hair shape, blood vessels are supposed to be drawn to his iris at strange angles making them seem robotic and when analyzing a seal the iris is known to turn randomly making the eyes seem even more robotic. The iris colour is supposed to stay the same though.

Naruto sat down next to the clone, concentrating on the seal. He gathered chakra to his eyes and thought 'ANALYZE!' with all his might. The next second he felt his eyes begin to itch and he new they were changing. Once the itching stopped the symbols of the seal in front of him suddenly raised off of the clone and he could see what each symbol and marking did for the over all seal. He looked over each symbol and marking, he finally stopped at a symbol and decided, 'Looks like if I destroy this symbol the whole seal will be destroyed but I'm not sure. What the hell! Let's try!' He came out of his thought and used some chakra to destroy the symbol. To Kyuubi, it looked like Naruto was touching empty air. At first he thought Naruto was playing around until he saw the seal on the kage bunshins chest just disappear.

"Alright! It worked!" Naruto shouted punching both fists in the air.

"Good work Kit! Looks like you understand exactly how to use the third ability. Although it looked like you were doing something in front of you in mid-air. What were you doing exactly?" Asked Kyuubi with obvious interest.

Naruto looked at Kyuubi not understanding what he was talking about until it hit him. Only he could see the symbols when they were raised, thanks to the Kekkei Genkai. "Oh! Well, I was destroying the seal. When my eyes activated the seal's symbols raised from the clone and spread out. Then I looked over the symbols and found the one I had to destroy to get rid of the whole seal. Guess I must have looked crazy just prodding at empty air like that, huh?" Naruto dispelled the clone at this point.

"A little bit Kit but that doesn't matter, you managed to use all three abilities. All we need to find out now-," Kyuubi turned to look at the remaining clone, "-is see how long the seal lasts once you've printed it. Anyway you might as well go home, I'll tell you when the seal dissipates. I don't want to tire you out with training tonight. You're going to need to be on top form for tomorrows test "

"Alright Kyu-sensei. See you tomorrow after the test?" Asked Naruto.

"You better Kit! We'll be going right back to the usual training and once you've passed the test and become a fully fledged genin, I'll let you learn some of the offensive jutsu from the vault." Replied Kyuubi.

"Alright Kyu-sensei. See ya!" Naruto ran for the scroll with the transport seal as soon as the last word left his mouth.

Kyuubi chuckled as he watched the blonde leave. "Maybe I should have given him some training tonight he has way too much chakra to spare. Oh, well! Guess I might as well make myself comfortable until that seal dissipates."

Five hours later;

"Damn how long is this thing going to last I might not get any sleep if it doesn't dissipate soon!" A good few minutes later the seal finally dissipated. "Finally! Guess I'll wait till morning to tell the Kit though, he's probably asleep by now." Kyuubi lay down on the ground as he said this and nodded off to sleep.

At that moment Naruto sneezed. He was currently running through the village. He couldn't sleep so tried tiring himself out with a run around the village and adding a few levels to the weight seal of course. He just carried on running after the sneeze and hoped he was tired enough to sleep now and hoped he wouldn't end up being later that Kakashi that would just be embarrassing.