Hey! I'm back again.
The poll is still on and i've planned to introduce the winner in the next chapter.
Enjoy chapter 3
The next day
Naruto walked into the designated classroom with a bored look on his face. Sarutobi had stood on the roof of the Hokages tower and told the people of Konoha that Naruto was the son of Namikaze Minato and Uzumaki Kushina. The people felt bad seeing that they had treated the Yondaimes son the way they did.
'Ah, man. I thought that after becoming a ninja, you would just go to the old man and get a mission. Not a fucking team.' he thought as he tried to find a seat.
"Hey! Only graduates are allowed to be in here!" yelled the Inuzuka boy when he saw Naruto who just pointed at his new Hitai-ate.
"Look at my forehead numbnuts. I failed on purpose to catch a traitor. It was a B-rank mission." he said and sat down next to the brooding Uchiha making all the fangirls in the room swoon over the both of them. Naruto leaned in towards the Uchiha.
"Hey, what do you do about the fangirls dude?" he whispered and the Uchiha shrugged.
"I don't know... I've tried everything. They just don't wanna go away." he said looking to be on the verge of tears.
"Hmm... Seems that we're in the same mess doesn't it?" Naruto asked and at the Uchihas nod he held out his hand. "I'm Uzumaki Namikaze Naruto."
The Uchiha took his hand and shook it. "Uchiha Sasuke." and as soon as he said that they heard on hell of a fight breaking out next to them. When they looked, they saw their fangirls fighting over who would sit in the empty seat in between them. Even Hinata had joined in.
"I wanna sit next to Sasuke-kun!"
"No! I wanna sit next to Naruto-kun!"
"Naru-kun is mine!" at that comment Naruto buried his face in his hands.
"Naru-kun?" he asked himself with tears streaming down his face. 'Dad!' he yelled in his mind.
'What is... Holy shit! That's alot of fangirls!' Mephisto yelled in shock.
'D-Dad... They... They called me Naru-kun!' at this Mephisto mentally put a comforting hand on Narutos shoulder.
'I feel for you son. They don't even know you yet and they still give you a nickname like that.'
'No it's not that they don't know me. I'm the ghost rider! I can't have a wimpy name like that!' any answer was interupted by Naruto standing up.
"Okay! This has gotta stop!" he shouted, silencing the fighting fangirls. "We're gonna do like this. Sasuke, who do you want to sit here?" he asked pointing at the seat in between them.
"I'll choose the Hyuuga. At least she knows how to fight properly." Sasuke said and sat back down to continue brooding with Naruto nodding.
"Good! I choose her to." he said and moved out of his seat so she could get in between them. "Hyuuga-san. Would you like to sit?" he asked and she nodded shyly and sat down.
"I'm Uzumaki Namikaze Naruto. What's your name?" he asked when he sat back down with all the other fangirls taking whatever seat they could find.
"I-I'm H-Hyuuga Hinata." she said trying to bury her head in her jacket. "P-Pleased to meet you." she said quietly with nearly her whole head swallowed by the jacket.
'What is she, a turtle?' he asked himself in his mind.
'No son. I believe she's shy.' Mephisto said and Naruto mentally groaned.
'Well no shit Sherlock. Have you ever heard of sarcasm?' he asked and Mephisto raised a mental eyebrow.
'Who's Sherlock?'
'I have no idea. I just sounded like the right thing to say.'
'Oh, okay.' and with that, they closed their mental connection when Iruka came in.
"Alright. Sit down everybody." he said and stood behind his desk.
"Iruka-sensei! Is it true that the new kid failed on purpose?" asked a random kid and Iruka nodded.
"Yes. He was on a mission given to him personally by Hokage-sama." Iruka said making the kids look at Naruto in awe. "Now it's time to announce the teams." he said and took out a list from his desk.
"Team 1... (Teams 1-6 are unimportant so i'm not gonna write them.) Team 7 is Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura and Yamanaka Ino." at this there were two loud squels coming from a pink haired girl and the Yamanaka. "Team 8 Namikaze Naruto, Inuzuka Kiba and Nara Shikamaru. Team 9 (UNIMPORTANT!) Team 10 Aburame Shino, Hyuuga Hinata and Akimichi Chouji. Your jounin senseis will arrive shortly. Make Konoha proud." and with that he left the room.
Naruto got up and sat down next to the Inuzuka. "Yo! I take it from those marks on your cheeks that you're one of my teammates." he said and held out his hand. "I'm Naruto."
The Inuzuka took his hand and shook it. "I'm Kiba." he said with a smile. "You're not like all other people with fangirls." he stated making Naruto raise an eyebrow.
"Really? What do you mean?"
"You know. Everyone who has fangirls are always stuck up little brooders who like to act cool all the time." Kiba said and Naruto let out a laugh.
"Haha! Yeah i can see that Sasuke fits in just fine in that category." he said with a chuckle. "But i'm not like that. The fangirls only thought i was like that because of how i dressed." he said and leaned back. "So who's your companion?" he asked and pointed at the dog on Kibas head. Kiba was stunned. No one except Inuzukas has ever called nin-dogs companions.
"This is Akamaru." Kiba said and Naruto leaned forward to look at the dog.
"Yo! I'm Namikaze Naruto." he said and waved to the dog who barked happily. Now Kiba was beyond stunned. Naruto saw this and smiled. "I know nin-dogs can understand human language so it's just natural that you talk to them as equals." Kiba could just nod dumbly. They spent the rest of the lunch talking about pranks and other various evil things.
After lunch every team was sitting in the classroom when a woman came in. She had raven black hair, c-cup and a beautiful pair of blood red eyes.
"Team 8?" she said and Naruto, Kiba and Shikamaru stood up. "Meet me on the roof." and with that she poofed away and Naruto grabbed Shikamaru and Kiba and did the same.
The jounin was quite surprised to see her team poof in right next to her just a couple of seconds after she poofed into existence.
"Okay." she said as she leaned against the railing while her team sat down on the ground. "Let's introduce ourselves. I'll go first. My name is Yuuhi Kurenai. My likes are Dango and karaoke. My dislikes are people who betray their comrades, in battle or otherwise. My hobbies are inventing new genjutsu and my dream is to make this the best team ever made." she said with a smile and pointed at Kiba. "Now you."
"I'm Inuzuka Kiba. My likes are Akamaru, pranking and training. My dislikes are those who mistreat dogs. My hobbies are pranking and training and my dream is to become a powerful clan head." Kiba exclaimed while pumping his fist into the air at the mention of his dream.
"Good. Now you." Kurenai said and pointed at Shikamaru.
"I'm Nara Shikamaru. I like staring at the clouds and playing shougi if you're a good player. I dislike troublesome things. I don't think I have a dream."
"Oookay." Kurenai said and pointed at Naruto. "You."
"I'm Uzumaki Namikaze Naruto. I like Ramen, training, fire and my adoptive father." Kurenai raised an eyebrow at this.
'I didn't know he was adopted.' she thought as Naruto continued with his itroduction.
"My dislikes are... sinners. My hobbies are training and riding my fox at night and my dream is to become Hokage." he said and Kurenai once again raised an eyebrow.
'Riding his fox?'
"Okay, good. Now we're going to have the real genin test tomorrow and-" this was as far as she got before she was interupted by Kiba.
"Oi! What do you mean real genin test?! We already had a genin test!" he shouted and Kurenai nodded.
"Yes. But that test was only there to see who had the potential of becoming genin. Now this test starts tomorrow at 6 am at training ground 8. See ya!" and with that, Kurenai disappeared in a poof of smoke with Naruto following shortly after.
The next morning Naruto came to the training grounds looking dead tired.
'Tou-san. Why did you force me to transform tonight?' he asked Mephisto who chuckled.
'Because i could.' came the answer making Naruto sweatdrop. He walked over to a tree where Kiba and Shikamaru were sleeping with Akamaru yipping happily when Naruto came into view.
"Yo, Akamaru." Naruto said and waved.
"Oh, Naruto. You're here." Kiba said with a yawn and sat up.
"Yup. But Kurenai-sensei is nowhere to be seen." Naruto said and looked around.
"Yes, i'm right here." said Kurenai as she walked into the training grounds. "Let's get started, shall we?" she said getting the three genins' attention. "You have exactly five hours to find me and put me in a situation where you can keep me still for ten seconds. We start... NOW!" she said and disappeared in a poof of smoke. The three genins all acted differently.
Kiba just rushed into the forest, intent on scoping her out, never once thinking about using his nose.
Naruto was smarter though. Thanks to the fox he had gained heightened senses so he just took his sweet time trying to find her scent. 'Lilacs. Can't be that hard to find.' he thought as he sniffed around.
Shikamaru though, just layed down and stared at the clouds in deep thought. 'Hmm... She's a jounin... And we're genin... That means that we have no chance of- HEY! That cloud looks like a monkey... Anyway. We're genin... That means that we have no chance of taking her down in a one on one battle... Ah. The key is teamwork. Tch. Troublesome test. I'll just lay here for an hour or two before i tell the others.' he thought as he drifted off into sleep.
Meanwhile, Kiba was jumping around in the forest trying to find Kurenai when he remembered his nose. 'Ha! Boy am i lucky no one was here to see an Inuzuka forget about his nose.' he thought with a chuckle and proceeded to sniff her out. He never got her scent and neither did Naruto. They searched the forest for two hours without any results. She had masked her scent perfectly, as expected from a jounin. Finally they just gave up and headed to where Shikamaru was the last time they saw him to see if he could figure out where she was.
They got to where they met when they arrived to find Shikamaru laying under a tree sound asleep.
"OI! Wake up you lazy bum!" Naruto shouted and kicked Shikamaru in the side, giving him a rude awakening.
"What do you want?" he asked while rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.
"We need some help." Naruto said. "She's masked her scent perfectly making us unable to find her." he said and Shikamaru shrugged.
"Well, then it's good you came to find me." Shikamaru said and sat up earning him a raised eyebrow from the two others. Shikamaru sighed. "Troublesome... The test is about teamwork. A normal genin shouldn't be able to take on a jounin." he said and Naruto raised his nodded in realization.
"Okay. So how do we find her?" he asked and Shikamaru shrugged.
"We sit here." he said with a yawn. "If we don't show up, she'll probably think that we've given up and come look for us. And when she does, we'll catch her." and with that they started conjouring a plan.
Another two hours later Kurenai got bored. She hadn't even heard her students. So naturally, she went back to the meeting spot. When she got there she saw all three of her students laying under the tree fast asleep.
"Umm, guys?" she asked scratching her head. "What are you doing?"
"We're laying here waiting for you." Naruto said and stood up. "We got tired of trying to sniff you out, so we let you come to us." he said with a smile making Kurenai sweatdrop.
"But you still have to hold me still for ten seconds." she said with a smirk which Naruto mimicked.
"Oh, that's no problem at all. Maybe you've forgotten that Shikamaru is a Nara?" Naruto asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Yes, but i will be gone before he even has the time to do any seals." she said and tried to walk away, but found herself unable to move. She managed to pry her head down to see that a shadow was connected to her feet. Though it didn't lead forward to Shikamaru laying under the tree. It led backwards, into the bushes. Suddenly, Naruto and Kiba had rushed forward and grabbed one of her arms each, with Akamaru in the Juujin Bunshin (Man beast clone) form standing ifront of her with a kunai held to her neck. The Shikamaru, Kiba and Akamaru laying under the trees suddenly poofed out of excistance.
"Kage Bunshin. A mans best friend... except for dogs." Naruto said and added that last part at a growl from Akamaru.
"It's been ten seconds, haven't it sensei?" Kiba asked with a smirk and Kurenai smiled.
"Yes, it has. You all did good. You pass. Meet me infront of the Hokage tower tomorrow at 9 am for our first mission." Kurenai said and Shikamaru released his Kage Mane no jutsu (Shadow Imitation Technique) "Dissmissed." and with that she disappeared in a poof of smoke.
Done!
This is alot like the original story, it's just that no one except for the Hokage is supposed to know about him being the ghost rider.
R&R
