REWRITTEN
(Konoha Forest)
Darkness enveloped most of the forest, for it was near midnight. A man had stolen the Forbidden scroll from the Hokage, and a squad of ANBU was sent out to capture him. The forest would scare many at night, considering it always seemed like something was looking at you.
Suddenly, three figures jumped down from the trees, and seemingly flew to their positions, behind trees. They were surrounding the man that had stolen the scroll.
"This is Fox. I'm in position."
"Raven, in position."
"Emerald, in position."
They all spoke into their headset, which then responded back to them, "Ok, go for it. Make sure to take him out."
The three stepped out of their positions, all wore a long black robe so they'd fit into the shadows they were crawling through, none wore mask though, like the traditional ANBU were suppose to.
The smallest of the trio walked forth, "Mizuki, this is a major offense, and is punishable by death. Give us the scroll now and come peacefully or we'll be forced to kill you."
"No!" Mizuki shouted, "I will never do that! I will take this and become strong, so I can take over the Hidden Leaf village!" He ironically still wore the Konoha Chunin vest, and had several very large Shuriken on his back. His eyes narrowed, and his almost white hair blew in the breeze that came by.
The small ninja in front of him began to laugh, "Ok. Let me be the one to teach you the first technique in there then." He put his hands together to form his signature move, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"
"W- who are you?" Mizuki asked, his white hair seem to cover his eyes so he wouldn't have to look at all his opponents in front of him.
"I am," One of the many clones walked forth and said, "Uzumaki Naruto." The clone quickly punched Mizuki in the face, sending him across the clearing, his red eyes blazing with hatred.
Mizuki looked up, and when he noticed the red eyes he began to scream, "NO! Kyuubi! Don't kill me, please!" He began to beg and fell on the floor, allowing the scroll rolling off to the side.
The other two ANBU walked forth. Emerald retrieved the scroll while Raven walked forth towards Mizuki. "Mizuki-sensei," the ANBU laughed, "Ah, I remember calling you that in the academy."
"Uchiha Sasuke?" Mizuki muttered as he looked up into the boys Sharingan eyes, "Do something about the demon he will-" He was suddenly punched in the gut.
"For taking the scroll and admitting you were going to use it against us, I present to you, death." Sasuke grabbed his neck and twisted it with all his might, easily breaking it.
Emerald walked towards the corpse and sighed, "You know, Sasuke, you don't always have to kill them so soon. You could at least let me introduce myself to him first. It would have made it more climatic."
"Heh. What did I tell you about being a ninja, Sakura?" Sasuke smirked.
Sakura rolled her eyes and said, "It's not a game. Yeah, yeah, I heard it before."
Naruto turned to them and deactivated the red eyes he had on. They weren't very useful; it only made him see things with a red hue and made him look much more intimating. He also made all his clones disappear as well. "Good job you two!"
"Right," Sakura sighed and put the scroll she was holding on her back. "Let me get a blood sample from him before you drag him back so I can confirm it was actually him." She muttered as she pulled out a needle that would get the blood out of the dead body.
Once she finished she got up, "Ok, done, do what you want to the corpse…"
Naruto picked up the corpse and began to drag it away, "The least we can do for his body is bury it."
Sasuke sighed; it was pointless to argue with Naruto about these things. He only nodded.
Now that they were all in visible moonlight, it was clear to see what they all looked like. It was three long years ago when they began training to become ANBU, and now they were doing multiple missions weekly for the Hokage, and advised him on many subjects as well.
Naruto had the same spiky hair he was known for and same sky blue eyes. He had grown relatively little in the three years while it seemed both his teammates outgrew him very quickly. He was not annoyed that he was so small however, for he knew he'd eventually outgrow Sakura and be as tall as Sasuke. He was very good at Ninjutsu now, and relearned all of his techniques from the previous timeline, and had requested that Jiraiya be his sensei to Sarutobi.
Sakura wasn't much different either. Besides the fact that in this timeline she had decided to keep her hair long, it went down to her mid-back, and unlike her old timeline she didn't spend nearly as much time fussing over how she looked. She was a very powerful medic ninja, and now that she had control of all her chakra from before, maybe even more, she could very well be the best one in the world, besides Tsunade maybe.
Sasuke perhaps, changed the most. He was no longer the quiet type, and he was actually very social and spoke often with people. He kept his hair the same, and had managed to get his Sharingan to the stage he had it when he was working for Orochimaru, the last stage he never really wanted to achieve anyway, because it would require killing the one he loved or liked most. He, like Naruto, and Sakura, had relearned all the things from before, and managed to become very powerful.
The three nodded at each other and began to run to Kakashi, who was speaking to them on the headset. He stayed at the Hokage tower, so if the need arise, he could send help, but of course he knew Mizuki stood no chance against his students.
"Ok kids; come back here as soon as possible." He said into the set, "I'm turning it off now, seeing that your objective is complete now, correct?"
"Correct Kakashi-sensei." Sasuke said into his headpiece.
With that said, the three ran towards the village which was now within their view.
(Hokage Tower)
"Hokage-sama, my team has caught Mizuki and are heading back as we speak." Kakashi said, almost in a bored tone.
"Very good Kakashi," Sarutobi said, "I know this task was way below their skill, but I wanted to catch him as soon as possible. It would be dangerous if he did manage to escape with the scroll."
Kakashi nodded, "I understand Hokage-sama."
The door suddenly flew open and a body was tossed in before three other figures walked in. The body that was thrown was the corpse of Mizuki, while the three figures were Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura. Before they entered the tower they had changed into their Chunin gear, for they didn't want anyone to know their true skill level. All of them, even Sakura, wore the Chunin vest over a black ninja outfit, which over the three years, had to be refitted and designed for their growing bodies.
"Hey old man! Next time, don't send us on such a low ranked mission. I'm pretty sure Iruka could have easily taken him out with no help at all." Naruto pouted.
Sarutobi laughed a little before saying, "Yes, Naruto, I'll be sure to keep that in mind." His face suddenly turned serious as he said, "Now, I am going to get you three off active ANBU duty, for within a month the Chunin exams are going to occur, and we need you three in the village to supervise it."
Sasuke looked up, "The Chunin exams? This will be fun."
"Well, we can't engage in direct combat with the Sand or Sound, or it'd make us look like the betrayers here. What we need to do is make them hate each other instead so the Sand won't break their alliance with Konoha." Sakura explained, "That way, we don't have to stretch our forces so thin to fight."
Sarutobi nodded, "Good, how do you suggest we go about this then?"
"Well," Sakura looked deep in thought, "Orochimaru is going to disguise himself as the Kazekage, and attempt to kill you. So, if we can show the Sand that he killed their leader, they'd definitely side with us."
Sasuke spoke up, "How do we show them that? Orochimaru does it within the month before the third exam, we'd need to time this exactly, or else it will cost us."
"When we capture him we're going to have to interrogate him to learn where his base is," Naruto growled, "Then I'll kill him." His eyes turned red and a little bit of Kyuubi was coming out, but he quickly shook his head, and coughed, allowing it all to go away.
Sasuke nodded, "Yes, then you can kill him, with my help of course."
"Right," Kakashi sighed, "Now, why don't you children all go to bed now?"
Naruto nodded, "Yeah, it IS pass midnight now; I need my energy to protect Konoha tomorrow!"
The three exited the room, leaving the corpse of Mizuki in the room for Kakashi and Sarutobi to handle. The three exited the building and began to walk down the main road of the village that, at this time of night, was almost empty besides some ninja.
Sakura turned to the right, "Ok guys, I'll see you both tomorrow!" Naruto grabbed her and gave her a kiss before leaving.
"Don't be gone too long," He said with a grin on his face. Sasuke visibly rolled his eyes.
"I'll try not to be." She smiled seductively before turning around and going towards her house.
Sasuke waited several moments on the walk to his house, or better to say his and Naruto's house, before saying, "So, why did she move out a year ago?"
"She says it's because of hormones. I mean I am technically, what? Twenty two now? I can resist the urge of it all! Of course, she doesn't think so." Naruto sighed, a dejected look on his face.
Sasuke grinned, "Naruto, I don't really think you could resist it either."
"I hate you." Naruto said half-heartedly.
"I love you too." Sasuke countered and walked towards the Uchiha district that was within their view. "Ok, here we are."
They both entered the house and walked separate ways. Sasuke had since long gotten over sleeping in his room, and gave Naruto Itachi's room. Naruto had to double-check it for anything that could be considered bad before accepting the room.
In the hallway before they went to different paths they shook hands, "Good job today." Sasuke said to Naruto.
Naruto nodded, "You too."
With that said, both of them went to sleep in their separate rooms.
(Uchiha district, the next day)
Naruto and Sasuke both woke up and prepared to leave almost straight away, of course, Sasuke now had a million Ramen cups in his cabinets. It was really useful actually, Sasuke had to admit, it allowed him to put it in the microwave, quickly go into his room and change, and both their breakfast would be done when they came out in their clothes.
Today they had ANBU duty off luckily, but unfortunately, their alternate lifestyle was being a Chunin, and since Mizuki happened to be a Chunin, one new Chunin would have to go in his place. Of course, Sarutobi figured that they'd all want to reject his position at the academy, so he appointed one position to all three of them.
"I can't wait to see the look on Iruka's face." Naruto laughed before taking a bunch of noodles and shoving them in his mouth. Sasuke nodded, snickering slightly as well as he took a bunch of noodles into his mouth. They both left the house, with their ramen in hand.
Sasuke turned towards Naruto, "Ok, lets get Sakura quickly, the Genin exams are going to occur within the hour, and don't hold it up this time!" Sasuke said, sending an annoyed glare at his friends.
"Hey! It only happened once!" Naruto yelled with a blush visible on his face.
"This time, how about you wait in the hall with me? That way, there will be no repeat of last time." Sasuke muttered, looking away with an annoyed expression.
"Whatever," Naruto sighed, "I'm just glad her mom didn't see us." He then lowered his voice to a whisper, "Do you know how pissed she would be?"
Sasuke held in his laugh and choose to instead eat another bit of the noodles, "You know," He said going off the subject, "I hope I don't turn into a ramen junkie like you."
"Ramen is good! Why wouldn't you want to be?" Naruto asked; glad to be off the subject.
Sasuke shook his head, "Let's just get to Sakura's place so we can get this mission over with."
(Haruno Residence)
Sasuke and Naruto both stood outside of the house and rang the doorbell. The one to answer was Sakura who was wearing her chunin vest and outfit, she shot them a pleading look, and snuck out, "Do not let her know you guys are-" She began to say, but the door was opened once more, and Mrs. Haruno came out.
"Naruto! Sasuke! It's so good to see both of you!" She grabbed both of them and tangled them in her arms, giving them a huge bear hug. Both of the children were gasping for breath, while Sakura sighed in embarrassment.
"Mom, we don't have time for this! We have to go work!" Sakura said, obviously annoyed with her mother at the moment.
"Yes, eh, Mrs. Haruno," Naruto said, "We really need to hurry!"
The woman dropped both Naruto and Sasuke and grinned, "You know Naruto you can call me, 'mother in law' if you want."
Naruto looked up at her in terror, "N- No! I'll wait until that day comes when I have to do so! Until then, you're Mrs. Haruno!"
She then invited them in, not wanting to be rude, or make her angry with him, Naruto quickly agreed to head in with her. Sasuke sighed and followed Naruto, simply because he didn't want to be outside for god knows how long, and Sakura looked down dejectedly before going in herself.
The woman led them to the kitchen table where some tea was set out for the three children. "Drink up! If you need anymore simply ask me, I have a full pot still!" She sat at one end of the table, while Sasuke at the other. Sakura and Naruto both sat side by side.
"So, how has your work been going?" Mrs. Haruno asked.
Sasuke decided to answer this with, "Well you see. We got a mission today where we need to evaluate the performance of the academy students and see if they're good enough to pass on to take the real Genin exams. Thing is," Sasuke said, "We have to be there within twenty minutes, and I, I don't know about the rest of you, like to be there a little early out of habit."
"OH!" Mrs. Haruno exclaimed, "You're going to see if your other friends are good enough to pass? You think that Ino girl will? She seems like a nice girl. I see that she has taken a liking to you Sasuke."
"Then you must have also noticed that every other girl in the academy has as well," Sasuke sighed, "I'm not a fan of fan girls…"
Naruto took a sip of his tea and then asked, "So, Sakura-chan, how are you this morning?" He sent a glance at her mother, making sure she was okay with the conversation, when she nodded at him he gave a sigh of relief.
"I'm fine. I could be better." She sent him a small glare so her mother couldn't see it, "What did you do before you came here?"
"Well, um, Sasuke," He pointed to Sasuke, as if they didn't already know who he was, "and I ate ramen when we woke up, and sort of came here afterwards. Of course we showered too, and normal ninja stuff I guess."
"We're fine." Sasuke muttered, "If you were even wondering."
Sakura glanced at her mom, "We need to go now, we're going to be late at this rate." She pleaded, with the woman.
"Fine," She sighed, "Go ahead, and be safe." She walked over and gave her daughter a hug who quickly returned it.
The three children raced out the door and were long gone by the time she looked out the window. To be truthful, she didn't like Naruto and Sasuke very much. She only supported them because her daughter, for one reason or another trusted them and wanted to be with them all the time, even when they had no missions. Though the amount of times Sasuke didn't go with them began to increase little over time.
It's not that she hated Naruto being with Sakura, she got over that some time ago, it was the fact that the villagers seem to dislike Sakura now, and it was beginning to affect their family life. When she went shopping for instance, she had to avoid some shops because her daughter was friends with Naruto.
She of course beat them to a bloody pulp, but had to avoid their places ever since. It seem that only the Uchiha was the reason that Sakura and Naruto weren't being completely harassed, and with him not being with them as often, she was afraid for her daughter and Naruto.
Days like today, she would be especially kind to the two of them and try to start conversations. What she really wanted to do was bring up her concern with them, but every time she brought them in, they looked so young and probably couldn't handle the truth.
"I have to say something eventually." She sighed as she began to clean off the table.
(Outside the academy)
When they were a fair distance from the household Sasuke sighed, "I don't know if I liked her when she was a bitch, or now that she's like that!"
"I am wondering the same thing," Naruto agreed, after a little bit he exclaimed, "Ok! Now that we're all together, lets go to the academy! I can't wait to see them all!" A huge smile was spread across his face.
"Same here, I can't wait to see their expressions when we're the ones that will decide that they'll either pass or fail," Sakura said, then looked deep in thought, "You know, they may blame us if they fail saying we're being bias."
Sasuke glanced up, "Who cares? If they complain to us I'll just kick their ass, and if they complain to the Hokage, he'll call me in so I can kick their ass. It's a win-win situation." He shrugged.
The three entered the academy grounds and saw that they were completely empty, only several children their age ran pass them to hurry and enter the academy before it was too late to begin the exams. Many passed Naruto, and his two friends, but one stopped when they realized who they were.
"Naruto?" A boy asked from behind them. They turned around to see Kiba with Akamaru hanging out on his head, "What are you doing here?" He glanced at his vest and glared, "Holy crap! You're already a chunin? The dead last?"
"Not the dead last anymore dog breath." Naruto said, smirking at the boy, "You're below me now, so what do you plan on doing?"
Kiba looked lost and then looked at Sasuke and Sakura, "Ah man, you two too?" Akamaru barked in what seemed like disappointment as well.
Sasuke smirked similar to Naruto, and Sakura gave him a sympathetic smile, "Yep." She confirmed.
"So what are you guys doing here?" Kiba said crossing his arms, "Here to boast that you're a huge step ahead of us already?"
Naruto nodded, "I might do that," he shook his head and said, "Nah, we're here to replace Mizuki. He had an accident last night and we're here to see who is passing and who isn't."
"Oh," Shino walked up standing next to Kiba, "Really." Everyone looked at him, expecting him to continue his train of thoughts, but silence was all that occurred.
"Anyway," Naruto said after a few moments, "I won't be bias, if I fail you guys it's because you're not good enough to go out and risk your lives. If you pass I expect you to not go and get yourself killed."
Kiba sent him a glare; "You're not going to fail me, right?"
"Don't worry Kiba." Sakura spoke up, "Sasuke and I agreed that Naruto will only count as ten percent of our group's vote, so you don't need to worry about him screwing it up."
Naruto looked as though his body had just been pierced by a chidori again. "What!" He cried out, "Why? I won't be bias! I know who to pass and what to do! I'm not an idiot like you all think I am!" He crossed his arms and got down on the ground crossing his legs and pouting, "Come on, let me have at least thirty percent."
"You're not proving your point." Sasuke sighed.
Sakura kneeled down towards Naruto, "Naruto, we know you're not an idiot. We just felt that it would be for the best just in case you wanted to take advantage of some students."
Naruto sighed, knowing he wasn't going anywhere with this, "Fine." He sighed, his pouting not getting him anywhere. Inside of his mind he felt a distant rage, but knew it would be of no use and shut it all up, if he let Kyuubi out for something as small as this, what would his friends think of him?
Sakura leaned in and gave him a kiss on the cheek, "Thanks." She said, I was expecting him to make a bigger deal out of it, She thought to herself, but didn't think more of it.
Hm. I guess he did mature after all. Sasuke thought, and grinned slightly, it was good that Naruto was moving away from his childish behavior, it sometimes annoyed the hell out of him.
"We should head in, I'm sure Iruka is expecting us." Sakura spoke up.
Before they could finally enter the academy they heard a small voice call out to them, "N- Naruto-kun…" It spoke, Naruto turned around to see Hinata. Shikamaru and Choji were both close behind the girl.
"Hello Hinata! Long time no see!" He waved at her and gave her a short hug, thinking nothing of it as the girl squirmed lightly in his grasp, and a nearby Sakura giving him a glare. Sasuke just snickered as he watched the whole thing begin to unfold.
Hinata stepped away from Naruto and tried to stop her rapid heartbeat, and breathed in and out heavily. Finally she seem to be back to normal, "It's g- good to see y- you too." She smiled at him.
"So, why are you with Hinata, Shikamaru?" Sasuke called out, he couldn't ever remember him hanging out or even speaking to her in the old timeline.
Shikamaru sighed and said, "I'd explain it, but it would take too much time, and then Iruka would be too troublesome."
Oh yeah, I'm beginning to remember him now. How troublesome. Sasuke thought to himself. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Naruto and Sakura giving Shikamaru a distant look.
"Naruto," Shikamaru called out.
Naruto instant turned to him and said quite forcibly, "Sir!" Naruto realized his mistake and put on a grin and said, "Oops! Must have been playing too many arcade games lately, you know, the ones where you go kill people and stuff."
"Right," Shikamaru said, giving the boy a weird look, "What was with the strange look?"
Naruto eased himself and said, "It's just good to see you again. It's been a long time since we've hung out."
Sakura smiled at the double meaning behind Naruto's words. When they were kids Naruto, Shikamaru, Kiba, and Choji would always run away from school with each other and had actually gotten pretty close before their parents told them to stay away from him. Sakura reminded herself, in the previous timeline Shikamaru was a leader to us all, and advised Naruto on many things. He was a great leader. She shook her head; she didn't need to think about that right now.
"You too Naruto." Shikamaru said, and began to walk to the academy.
Naruto stopped him and said, "Wait! For old time's sake, why don't you, Kiba, Choji and I pull one last prank on Iruka-sensei?"
"Too troublesome." Shikamaru said, but was instant pulled by Kiba and Choji over to Naruto.
Choji nodded, "Sounds like fun."
"Yeah, it's been ages since we've done this!" Kiba agreed.
Shikamaru looked at the three of them and sighed, "You all are so troublesome." It was obvious that he wanted to join them however, with the grin forming on his face.
"So, what're we going to do?" Choji asked, as the four of them formed a circle.
Outside, Sasuke, Sakura, Shino and Hinata watched with little interest.
"I hope t-they don't hurt themselves." Hinata said with an almost fearful look in her eyes.
"Don't worry; with Shikamaru with them, I doubt they'll get into too much danger. Then again, Naruto and Kiba do like to do suicidal things. I'm pretty sure Choji will stick with whatever Shikamaru does as well." Shino explained, "I hope they don't ruin the exams, however, or else my bugs will have a large feast tonight." Everyone moved slowly away from the person.
Sasuke sighed, "Sakura, shall we head in and give him a heads up?"
"Yeah, why not." Sakura said and began to walk in with Sasuke, Shino and Hinata both followed after watching the four boys plan things for a little over two minutes.
(Inside the Academy)
Hinata and Shino walked down the hall to the waiting room for the Genin exams. Of course they didn't know that this was just a small test before the real Genin exams, but Sasuke and Sakura did. The two of them entered the room, and noted that it was the same classroom that Iruka had always taught in.
Suddenly, when Sasuke entered, the chatting that was going on in the room stopped immediately, and many eyes turned and looked at the ones who entered, or more precisely, Sasuke.
The squeal of 'Sasuke-kun' was deafening to anyone within a fifty meter radius.
"Sasuke," Sakura moaned as her eardrums continued to bang, "I think your fan club has noticed you."
Sasuke glanced over and sarcastically replied, "You think so?"
"Don't you dare speak to me like that right now!" Sakura yelled at him as she used medical jutsu on her ear to get the ringing to go away, that pretty much everyone in the room was suffering from.
She healed Sasuke's though anyways, "Thanks, Sakura." Sasuke said rubbing the side of his head. He looked up and noticed large amount of women in front of him, he couldn't help but gasp at the large number of them. "Girls, back away now, and I might consider letting you all pass the exam." He said, praying it would work.
"Is Sakura your girlfriend now." One came up to ask, tears threatening to fall from her eyes.
Sasuke looked at her, he wanted to laugh in her face and say 'hell no', but if it would get him out of this, then… "If I said yes?" He asked.
"We'll have to convince you that we're better than that flat-chest large forehead man-girl!" She yelled, pointing at Sakura, who felt a presence within her come back.
KILL THEM! Her inner self screamed at her. Over the years, Sakura had to admit that she needed her inner self to relieve stress for things. She never took its advice most of the time, but there are some rare occasions that she did.
With pleasure! She yelled mentally and went forth to pound the girl right through the ground.
"Sakura!" Sasuke yelled as he quickly held her arms up and tried to pull her back, but unfortunately Sakura decided to use her chakra to increase her strength ten-fold, and was easily overcoming Sasuke's own. She must be really pissed if she's doing this! He thought frantically.
Right before Sakura was about to pound the girls standing in front of her a blue mist fell from the ceiling with a loud cry of, "Oops! Sorry! I'm sure Iruka-sensei won't mind sharing though!" It was obviously Naruto, with whatever prank he was pulling.
Sasuke noticed Sakura eased her pulled and looked up to the ceiling and thanked Naruto, Thank you, you just saved several innocent lives today. He released Sakura and tried to find Naruto, Where is he?
When the mist went away from the girls, they were all multi-colored, and whatever was on their minds about Sakura and Sasuke had completely vanished as they shrieked as the color didn't rub or wash off their skin in any fashion.
Naruto watched from the corner of the ceiling, Shikamaru was by his side. "Ok, they deserved that." Naruto said, giving them a glare, "Shall we proceed to rig the ceiling above where Iruka-sensei will be?"
"Wait for Kiba and Choji to tell us when he's coming so we can time it." Shikamaru muttered, he wanted to add troublesome to the end of it, but felt that even that was too troublesome. How troublesome… He mentally sighed.
Suddenly Kiba and Choji burst into the room and Kiba held up his hand with four fingers up. Choji gave thumbs up to no one in particular and went to sit down with Kiba.
"Four minutes," Naruto said, "Plenty of time. Be sure to put as much of this stuff as you want in it." Naruto said, pulling out the bluish colored water, "I can't believe I forgot about this stuff and left it outside of this place for so long." Naruto held in his laugh.
Shikamaru nodded and held a small mist machine, "Pour the liquid into this thing so I can sit down and not look suspicious."
Naruto poured almost the whole thing into the machine and snickered, "Ok, you can go down, I'll set it up."
"Ok, good luck Naruto." He said as he climbed down a corner so no one would notice. He walked by Sasuke and Sakura who gave him a strange look.
"Where have you been?" Sasuke asked, trying to start a conversation.
"No where in particular." Shikamaru said as he continued on to sit with his best friend, and the Hyuuga that seemed as though she couldn't leave his side.
Naruto rigged the trap and jumped down in the middle of the room. Several people screamed when they saw him and then he realized his second mistake that day, God damn it! He cursed himself, "Hi," He said, "I was just in the neighborhood and wanted to drop in and say hi! I already did, so I need to see Iruka-sensei now! Have fun everyone!" He waved and casually walked over to Sasuke and Sakura.
The multi-colored girls all glared at him, but kept their distance, not wanting to get too close to him.
"When's Iruka coming?" Sasuke asked Naruto when he was close enough.
"Any minute now!" Naruto grinned.
Iruka suddenly walked in the room, holding multiple papers calling out, "Ok students, sit down. We'll wait a little bit for my assistant to get here." He walked to the front of the room and noticed three students not sitting down. "Why aren't you-" He began to say, but took a closer looked and said, "Naruto?"
"Sasuke and Sakura too if you're wondering." Sasuke said, waving at the man.
Naruto smiled and yelled out, "Good to see you Iruka-sensei!"
Suddenly a load of blue mist fell from the ceiling, completely covering Iruka and the front row of the room. Sasuke and Sakura both sighed as they realized that this was Naruto's and his friend's prank.
"Does this do the same thing as it did to the girls earlier?" Sasuke asked Naruto right next to him.
"Yeah pretty much. We couldn't figure something out that wouldn't take several hours, so we had to settle on this." He took time to admire Iruka's confused expression, "It was some gunk I created and was going to use if we," He whispered the last part, "didn't get transported back at this period of time."
Sakura nodded, "Makes sense."
"NARUTO!" Iruka yelled, seeing as he was now multi-colored, "How do I get this crap off of me!" The students in the front row were just as unhappy about the event.
Naruto thought for a moment before saying, "Maybe a week or two. Don't worry; it's not permanent at least." He gave Iruka a huge grin.
"Is that the only reason you're here?" Iruka asked, getting quite annoyed, "To do a prank on this very important day?"
"Nope! We're here to substitute for Mizuki!" Naruto said, grinning until the whole classroom burst into laughter. Naruto laughed with them, I can't wait to see their faces when they realize I am not lying!
Iruka shushed the class up and said, "Are you joking Naruto? I know you children are chunin already, but are you really old enough to not be bias?"
"We're plenty old enough!" Sasuke said, offended that Iruka would say such a thing.
"Yeah." Sakura said, "We're here by the Hokage's order. Here are our papers." She handed him a small stack of papers that were written in Iruka's handwriting.
Iruka smiled, "its kind of Ironic that the Hokage would give you guys this mission I wrote out." He looked at them, "But if he trusts you to do this then I'll trust you guys." As if forgetting that he was now multi-colored Iruka called out, "Ok, we're going to begin the exams now! When I call your name be sure to follow one of us that will come into the exam room. First up is…" Iruka looked through the mess of papers in his hands, "Aburame Shino."
Shino got up and followed the four people who were to give him the test.
They entered a small square shaped room with a table with many Konoha headbands, and two chairs behind it. Iruka looked apologetic at the three students, but Naruto simply grinned and stood to the side of the table nearest to the door, while Sasuke stood on the other side. Sakura and Iruka took this as their cue to sit down.
"Ok Shino, if you would please stand in front of us all." The multi-colored teacher said, Shino nodded and walked forth. "Ok, for your exam we'll need you to do one basic jutsu and we'll rate you on your performance." Iruka thought for a moment before saying, "Ok, you'll need to form two perfect clones of yourself to pass."
Shino nodded and put his hands together to form the correct seals. Suddenly, without him saying anything, two clones of him popped to life next to him. "I believe I pass."
"Congratulations." Iruka said, Sasuke, Sakura, and Naruto looked skeptical.
Was the test really that easy when I took it? Naruto thought to himself, I must have really sucked back then. No wonder I was considered a loser.
Sasuke seeing Naruto face change emotions so quickly asked, "Hey, Naruto, you holding up well?"
Naruto nodded, "Yeah, yeah! Anyways Shino, good job, you pass." He handed Shino a headband and watched him leave the room.
"Naruto, could you please go get Akimichi Choji please?" Iruka asked looking up at the boy. Naruto nodded and walked out of the room shortly after Shino to get the boy.
From feeling all of these children's chakra signatures I can tell over half of them are not ready to become real ninja yet. He entered the waiting room and called out, "Akimichi Choji, come with me." Choji got up and followed Naruto.
"Is the exam easy?" Choji asked his friend.
"Probably too easy for you." Naruto sighed, "It's hardly even an exam."
Choji nodded and gave Naruto a weird look, "Are you okay? You look kinda sick."
Naruto shook his head and smiled, "Nah, I was just thinking of ways to improve this exam. If I were leading it I'd test soon-to-become Genin all forms of Jutsu, throwing, and defenses. Not just one random technique, that's like killing your own students!"
"Naruto," Choji said, "Are you sure you're ok? I haven't seen you act like this before."
Ah, can't let myself get carried away by this, Naruto quickly thought and smiled, "No worries Choji, I'm going to change this so your children will become much better ninja than you and I at this age."
After a few more seconds Naruto led the boy into the testing room. As expected by all of them, he easily passed with flying colors. The exams moved along like this for almost an hour. Every five minutes or so a student would either pass or fail.
It of course got interesting when Sasuke's first fan girl appeared. Like most of his fans, they were multi-colored similar to Iruka when they walked in.
"Ami," Iruka said, "Can you please form two clones of yourself?"
She nodded confidentially and said to Sasuke, "If I pass want to go on a date?"
"No." Sasuke said, glaring at her.
"Please?"
"No." He responded again.
"Pretty please?"
"NO!" he shouted, "Do the damn test to see if you're capable of becoming a ninja so we can move this boring task on!" A vein was visible in his head.
Ami shook herself and sighed, it was just another failed attempt of many. She formed the correct hand seals and shouted, "Bunshin no Jutsu!" Smoke filled the room and a complete clone looked at the near dead body of the other clone.
"As I expected," Iruka sighed, "You fail Ami."
"I agree with Iruka." Sakura sighed, "You lack the proper chakra control to do a basic jutsu."
She walked out dejectedly while Sasuke was practically dancing on the inside.
Naruto was listening for the next person who he was going to be asked to bring in. "Naruto, bring in Yamanaka Ino." Naruto again nodded and walked out to bring in Ino.
When she walked in Ino gave Sasuke a thumb up and claimed, "Sasuke! If I pass want to go on a date with me?" Again Sasuke mentally cursed his popularity among the girls of the school and rejected her once more.
"Let's do something interesting here." Sakura spoke up before Iruka, "Successfully mind-control one of us and, I don't know, do some basic movements I guess."
Ino nodded and formed the correct seal towards Sasuke, "Here goes!" She used her jutsu and Sasuke narrowly managed to replace himself with Iruka in time.
"Not in your life Ino." Sasuke sighed, "You're Ino now right?"
Iruka looked down at him and cursed, "Damn! I missed!"
"You pass Ino." Sakura smiled, "Now go back to your body and let's get this mission over with."
Ino pouted for a short bit and left to her body, taking a headband and leaving.
It took about an hour and a half later for the exams to be completed, and the three children cheered and left the building. Not before Iruka gave Naruto a hug and offered him some ramen. Naruto would have accepted, but decided to go with Sakura and Sasuke, telling him "some other time!"
(Streets of Konoha)
"That," Naruto sighed, "Was boring as hell."
"You think being Hokage will be any different?" Sasuke asked, looking over at him, "It'll probably be worse actually. You have to grade people on their performance, decided what ranks missions are, paper work, and so much other crap. Really, when you become Hokage, I'll try not to be jealous."
Naruto sent him a glare while Sakura giggled slightly.
"You know," Naruto said after a few moments of silence, "I didn't like how the exams were held. They only had to do one jutsu to pass. What is that? That's too easy for them, and a Genin could possess so much more skill than that!"
Sakura nodded, "I was actually thinking the same thing. I was wondering what we were doing there as well. I'm pretty sure Iruka could have handled that himself and the same amount of people would have passed."
"That's what the real Genin test is for." Sasuke spoke up, "You don't really think that Iruka is that stupid do you?"
Naruto felt slightly ashamed for even making Sasuke get that conclusion, "No, I know Iruka-sensei is doing what he believe is best for his students."
"Besides, if any Jounin passes half of what I saw, I will seriously have to go slaughter them." Sasuke said, and a grin appeared on his face. "So, today is our day off, and that's the only assignment the Hokage gave us, what do you guys want to do?"
Sakura thought for a bit before saying, "Not my house." Naruto and Sasuke both paled at the mere mention of her home, with her mother being there.
Naruto glanced at Sakura and asked, "Sakura-chan, want to go on a date tonight?"
"I was wondering when you were finally going to ask that in this timeline!" Sakura exclaimed, "Sure thing!" She hugged Naruto tightly and gave him a light kiss.
Sasuke looked on and said, "You know, I am going to leave you guys alone tonight and do some planning at my house."
"No!" Sakura said and grabbed his wrist, Naruto and Sasuke looked at her questioningly. "Why don't you go find some girl you like and we can do a double date?"
Sasuke's eye twitched at the mention of finding a girl and said, "No. No thank you, I like my idea."
"Ah come on!" Naruto said, "Don't you want to eventually revive your clan? Now is the best time to find a girl!"
"So is any other time." Sasuke said.
"Sasuke," Sakura gave him a glare, "If you don't find someone, I will be sure to crush all that is precious to you." She cracked her knuckles and advanced slowly at him.
Sasuke thought of his options, and finding the safer one he said, "Fine! I'll go find a girl to date for one night!"
He walked off without saying any other word. Naruto watched him go on and fell to the ground laughing, "Oh my god! He's actually going to try to find a girl? I can't imagine what his pick-up line will be!" He got up and faced Sakura, "I bet you five hundred ryou that he won't find a girl."
"Sure." Sakura said and grinned, "I'm sure he will. He's 'the last Uchiha' after all."
"Of course," Naruto sighed. Silence reigned for a few moments, allowing Sakura to look down as though she was wondering if she should ask Naruto something while Naruto began to think of the Uchiha getting any women at all.
Hm, Sakura-chan has a point. He is an Uchiha, I wonder who he'll pick. Naruto was too deep in thought to hear Sakura's question.
"Naruto!" Sakura shouted, breaking him out of his chain of thought.
"Eh?" he said unintelligently. He saw her struggle to say what she was going to say again and focused his attention on her. I wonder what this is-
"Do you think I have a flat chest?" She asked with a blush visible on her face.
"Ah! Well, I, eh…" He turned around, "it's kind of hot out here, isn't it?"
Her eye twitched, "I asked you a personal question Naruto!"
"Well, you're only twelve! Why would you care how, eh, big you are?"
"Fine." Sakura sighed, "When I was eighteen, did you think so?"
"Please don't ask me this!"
"Tell me what you think!"
"I don't know! Do you take me for some pervert like Ero-sensei? I never really paid attention to-" He stopped, and remembered back to the future, "Well…" Oh man, I know I am going to say something stupid! "You looked fine! Beautiful even! There was more to you than your chest!"
"Wait. So you're saying I was flat-chested?"
Oh boy. Naruto thought to himself as Sakura continued to look at hi questionably, "Well, compared to say, Ino-"
"Ino? You're saying she had a bigger chest than me?" She yelled out.
"Yes." Naruto nodded.
She suddenly started to strangle him, "I can't believe you'd say that!"
Naruto was starting to get whiplash from being swung back and forth so hard, "Sakura!" He called out, "You look good! I would never want to date Ino anyway!"
"That's what I wanted to hear!" She yelled, crushing her head into his chest in a hug.
"No Problem Sakura-chan…" Naruto said and glanced down at the girl, I won't look at her chest! I am not a pervert! I will not!
She got up and said, "Well, it's just about noon, so we have all day to do something until tonight. I wonder if Sasuke will have a date by then."
Her chest isn't THAT flat. It's sort of- "DAMN IT!" Naruto shot up and began to hit his head, "I will not think of those things! I am not a pervert!"
"You know," Sakura said, a smile playing on her lips, "It's not really uncommon for a boy to think those things." She leaned against him, "At all." She said into his ear.
"Sakura," Naruto said, "remember that thing you told me the other night about hormone and things?" She nodded, "Yeah well, if you don't stop I will probably suffocate you by kissing you too much." Among other things!
Sakura laughed and walked away, Naruto sighed and followed her.
"You're cute when you do that." She smiled at his blush.
The two continued to walk deeper into town, while a certain Uchiha was busy trying to find a girl he wouldn't have to commit suicide to date with.
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Documented changes:
-Grammar mistakes fixed.
-A little bit of the dialogue has been changed, with a new conversation between Naruto and Sakura at the end instead of the one in place in the un-revised chapter.