Naruto opened his eyes only to see nothing but a misty white. Beginning to panic, he moved his hands only to find that a kunai was already in one hand and that his left hand was bandaged. These details had not made anything easier to get accustomed to, but Naruto finally calmed himself to realize that he was a misty area. Straining his eyes to the best of their ability to see what was going on, he gasped when he saw a battered and bruised Sasuke standing over him riddled with needles. Sasuke had a dazed expression as he could barely stand up on his own two feet. Naruto saw Sasuke's mouth moved but he heard no words come from the Uchiha's mouth as the raven haired boy collapsed to the floor. Suddenly feeling uncontrollable rage burst from within him, he turned his head to the other shadowed figure and lunged at him, his fist nearing his face when-

Naruto woke up from his sleep and took a deep breath. He held a hand over his chest, feeling his heart beat through the confines of his chest as he tried to control his erratic breathing. Looking over at his clock, he saw that he woke up a couple minutes right before he needed to. Getting out of bed and stretching his limbs, he went to his bathroom to perform his daily rituals.

Coming out of the bathroom, he rushed to put on his beloved orange and black jacket and rushed out the door and into the Academy. Today was the day he was to be sorted into a genin team with his own sensei. Not being able to control his excitement, he sprinted to the academy not caring of the indignant shouts being tossed his way.

As he sprinted his way to the academy, he saw a large dust trail forming up ahead. 'That must be Sakura and Ino. Huh, figures they would have a 'race' on their way to the academy.' He thought. Without another moment of thought, he increased his speed to his max and sprinted passed the two bickering girls. Said girls pausing in the middle of the road seeing an orange and black blur shoot past them and in the direction of the academy. Shrugging their shoulders, they glared at each other before continuing the race to see who would sit next to their precious Sasuke-kun.

Not looking back as he passed the two kunoichi in training, he arrived at the academy doors. Jumping on the nearest ledge, he walked to his classroom's window and tried opening it, however finding that it wouldn't budge. "Tsk, now they decide to lock the windows? Great…" Naruto muttered. Reaching into his weapons pouch, he pulled a small scroll out. Placing the scroll on the ground, he opened it and channeled some chakra to retrieve from the scroll, his newly bought lock picking kit! Using the appropriate tool, he unlocked the window and sealed the kit away.

Naruto jumped inside and shut the window behind him before he heard a slight snort come from behind him. Turning around, he saw Natsuki looking at him with an amused expression. Blushing slightly before rubbing the back of his neck, he walked over to his friend and sat at the seat adjacent to her.

Natsuki giggled. "When I got here this morning, I expected you to come through the window so I locked it and waited to see your expression. What I didn't expect was you to pick the lock and jump inside without a care in the world."

Naruto narrowed his eyes and raised a finger in her face. "You traitor, how could you do such a thing?!" Crossing his arms and huffing, "I thought we were friends."

Natsuki sighed and shook her head. "Tell me why we're friends again?"

Naruto grinned cheekily. "Because you love me." Dodging the swipe to his head by a red faced Natsuki, he said, "Don't deny the truth, it's not good for your health." This time, she actually hit him.

Sulking in the corner of his seat with his eyes watering and lips quivering, Natsuki just rolled her eyes and turned her attention to the door where you could hear the ground trembling.

"First!" Ino and Sakura said simultaneously only to glare at each other for making the remark. Ignoring the other, Ino walked up to the bench where Sasuke sat and said, "Hey, Sasuke-kun, can I sit next to you?" To the trained eye, you could see Sasuke sweat slightly as his sister, Satsumi snickered at his misfortune. Luckily or unluckily, Sakura came to Sasuke's "defense". "Hey back off Ino-pig, he doesn't like porkers like you!"

Eye twitching, Ino replied, "Well, I'll bet that he wouldn't like to sit next to a girl with a large forehead either, wouldn't you Sasuke-kun." Literally seeing the sparks flow between the two girls, Naruto bravely stood up ignoring the wide eyed looks he was getting from the majority of the graduates and cleared his throat. Both girls turned their attention to the blonde haired boy and glared at him. Feeling as if he lost a couple years of life he nervously said "I-If you both want to sit with Sasuke, then why don't you sit next to him on each side. He has two open spots on each si-"

Before he could finish his sentence, both girls had already caught the meaning of his explanation and rushed themselves to either side of Sasuke. Seeing Sasuke glare at him while subtly closing himself in from the adoring look on both of his fangirls' expression and receiving a thumbs up from Satsumi, Naruto went back to his seat feeling oddly proud of himself.

At that time, Iruka chose to enter the classroom. He walked to his desk and was about to sit down when he suddenly stopped. Raising his head so fast that Naruto thought that Iruka cracked his neck he looked at where Sasuke was sitting with both Ino and Sakura sitting peacefully beside him. He shakily pointed a finger, "They're not fighting…? They're actually sharing?!"

Everyone looked away as Iruka went through a quiet mental breakdown before clearing his throat and pulling a list out of… nowhere. "Alright, before we get this show on the road, I just want so say to all of you that I am proud to have taught you all and will miss you dearly as you become shinobi of Konoha. Be warned that if you don't take your next step into adulthood seriously, you will die a gruesome death. But hey, if you get good enough, you might even be promoted to Chuunin like me, and then we would be equals."

Everyone smiled at their once teacher as they looked on anticipating the next piece of news. Wiping a tear from his eye and disguising it as scratching his nose, Iruka cleared his throat again. "Ok, what I have here in my hand is the list for team placements, where you all will be put onto three-man squads and assigned a Jounin instructor. My last piece of advice to you all before I announce who will be on which team is that no jutsu, illusion, or amount of out of this world strength is stronger than the bonds you all will have by working together and being a team." As Iruka unfolded the paper and started to name off the teams, Naruto sat back and thought about his sensei's words. 'no jutsu, illusion, or amount of out of this world strength is stronger than the bonds you all will have by working together and being a team… that sounds like something Iruka-sensei would say. So it doesn't matter how many jutsu you know or how good at being a shinobi you can be, it all comes down to trusting each other? I don't get but it sounds important.'

"-Will consist of Team Six, your instructor will be Uzuki Yugao. Now onto Team Seven. Team Seven will consist of Uzumaki Naruto," Naruto rose his head, eyes shining with excitement and curiousity, "Uchiha Sasuke," he let out a small wince. 'Great, I have a stuck-up bastard to deal with… Who next, dog-boy?'

"-and Haruno Sakura-"

"Yes! Haha Ino-pig, true love conquers all!" Sakura flashed the peace sign to her rival who seethed and complained as Naruto slammed his head on his desk, denting it. Beside him Natsuki hissed in sympathy. 'Why her, why her, why her?! Anything but her, she's as bad as dog-boy!'

"Oh, oops. It seems like I've made a mistake." Iruka said scratching the side of his head.

Sakura stopped cheering and looked at Iruka questioningly. "What do you mean, 'made a mistake' sensei? Am I on Sasuke-kun's team or not?"

Iruka rubbed the back of his neck and started searching through his desk. "Actually, this is the rough draft of the list. Hokage-sama and a couple of the elite Jounin made the proper corrections and I have seemed to have misplaced the proper list."

Sakura's eyes narrowed as she set her lips into a thin line. "That doesn't answer my question sensei. Am. I. On. Sasuke-kun's Team or Not?!"

Iruka snapped his fingers and retrieved the list from his vest pocket. After peering down the list and making sure everything was in order, he said, "Alright, every team from Teams one to six are still the same. Team Seven will now consist of Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto, and Uzumaki Natsuki." Hearing his name called without Sakura's was music to his ears, well until he heard said pink haired girl screech and her fellow fangirl laugh in amusement. The next fact to register in his brain was the he was on the same team as Natsuki. He jumped up out of his seat and unto the desk and screamed, "Fuck yeah!"

About to do a victory dance, he then noticed everyone's eyes on him as he froze halfway into the starting pose of his victory dance. He looked down and saw Natsuki with her arms crossed as she smirked at his reaction and winked. Blushing redder than her hair, he quickly jumped down from the desk and tried to hide his blush by imitating a turtle.

Iruka sweatdropped. "Okay, now that, that show is over," that comment earned some snickers, " Team Seven's instructor will be Hatake Kakashi. Team Eight will consist of Aburame Shino, Inuzuka Kiba, and Uchiha Satsumi. Your instructor will be Yuuhi Kurenai. Team Nine is still in circulation since last year so Team Ten will consist of Akimichi Choji, Nara Shikamaru, and Yamanaka Ino. Your instructor will be Sarutobi Asuma." He ignored the complaints of Ino and moved on to the last team to be announced. "The final team, Team Eleven will consist of Haruno Sakura, Hyuuga Hinata, and an apprentice of a respected elder; Sai. Your instructor will be Ten- I mean Yamato. That is all of the teams. Your instructors will be here in one hour, so I suggest you all get lunch before the hour is over."

With that last sentence, Iruka poofed out of the classroom. Quickly jumping out the window and onto the roof, Naruto sat back and caught his breath.

"Well I didn't expect your reaction to be so… enthusiastic."

Freezing up, he turned his head to meet the blue eyes of his friend. He fought to restrain his blush at his actions in the classroom. "W-well, I was just excited to not have Sakura on my team, you know?"

She smirked and hugged him from behind getting him to tense up in nervousness. "Oh, I know. I just found it hilarious." She finished talking by rubbing her cheek against his. Squeaking in nervousness, he jumped out of her reach and backed up a couple steps. As for Natsuki, she just started laughing.

"Oh Kami, you should've seen your face! It was so red! And that squeak was so adorable! You're so easy to tease Naruto." She said while catching her breath.

Naruto narrowed his eyes. "That wasn't funny Natsuki."

She nodded wholeheartedly, trying to stifle her giggles. "Of course. It was hilarious!"

Naruto just scowled and crossed his arms. Natsuki stopped laughing and stared at Naruto's face, making him drop the scowl from his features. She then rose a hand to poke his face but her hand was batted away. "Whoa for a second, your expression was just like Sasuke's."

Naruto's confused expression then turned into a horrified one. "No! Anything but that!"

Natsuki just shrugged her shoulders. "Well, let's forget about that and get our last teammate so we can get some lunch. I'm in the mood for some ramen, want to get some?"

Hearing Sasuke and ramen in the same sentence left a sour taste in his mouth, but hearing his stomach growl in hunger quickly erased any thought from his mind. "Sure where is the teme."

Natsuki rolled her eyes and turned around. "C'mon, I saw him go this way with his sister."

After following his friend to Sasuke's location and seeing him berate Sakura and Ino before leaving, Naruto said that Sasuke might not be in the best of moods at the moment. After getting a deadpan expression from Nastuki, they left towards Ichiraku's ramen and ate until it was time to get back to the Academy.

Reaching the Academy, the duo saw that most teams had already left with their instructors and that only team's seven, eight, ten, and eleven remained. Nodding towards Choji and Shikamaru while giving Kiba the bird while receiving one in return, he went to his desk and put his head down falling asleep.

Naruto opened his eyes just to find himself in a training field. He tried to move his arms to scratch his head only to find out that he couldn't move a muscle. He could only watch on as his body moved on its own. He tried to move his toes but he couldn't even move those. His body suddenly stood up and began walking back and forth as if he was pacing himself. After a couple rounds, he was interrupted by a pink haired girl.

"Naruto! Just sit down." Said pink haired girl said. Without a moment to spare, Naruto's seemingly possessed body shot toward the general direction of Sakura. "I don't want to. How come our sensei is the only one five hours late? I'm ready to roll! Believe it!" As Naruto said that, his mind could only blank at what the hell he had just said. 'Believe it?! Why the hell would I say such a stupid thing. Kill me now.'

Thankfully or unthankfully, Sakura broke Naruto out of his thoughts. "We were told to go to the training field so that's what we're doing... But- hey what are you doing?!"

Naruto gave up trying to regain control of his body and went with the flow as he made an easily seen trap against the forest floor. "Heh heh heh!" His body moved back to where it was in the beginning. "That's what he gets for coming late! Surprise!"

The next thing he knew, his head was caved in by a seemingly enraged female fist. "You're asking for trouble! You know you shouldn't do that!" Is what was said on the outside, but on the inside, 'CHA! I LOVE STUFF LIKE THIS!"

After rubbing his head, something even his possessed body felt like doing, he heard a familiar male voice. "Our sensei is a jounin... An elite ninja. You think he's going to fall for that?"

Just as he said that, the trio could hear footsteps coming in from the only entrance of the training ground. All three moved thief heads to see a tall, silver haired man with a facemask and his forehead protector covering his left eye. He wore the standard attire of Konoha forces, consisting of an elite Konoha-nin flak jacket, dark blue pants and a long-sleeve shirt with the addition of wearing shorter fingerless gloves with metal plates on the backhand. "Hello..." Was all he said before he was caught by the horribly made trap.

"Ha ha ha! I got him! He totally fell for it!" Was heard coming from his mouth as he held his gut. Next Sakura began apologizing for the prank. "I'm sorry, sensei. I told him not to do it but he wouldn't listen. I'd never do anything like that." On the inside, it was a whole different story.

'He actually fell for that cheap trick? Is this guy really a jounin?' Thought Sasuke.

The man stood up and brushed off the dirt off his pants. He turned his head towards the little group of genin. "Mm, how can I put this? My first impression of this group... You are a bunch of idiots."

Ignoring the glares sent his direction, their jounin instructor picked at his ear with his thumb before saying, "Alright why don't you introduce yourselves. One at a time."

Raising her hand, Sakura asked, "Introduce ourselves? Well, what are we supposed to say?"

Rolling his only visible eye, the jounin said, "things you like, things you hate, dreams for the future, hobbies... Things like that."

Just as he said that, Naruto moved foward and said, "Why don't you tell us stuff first. I mean before we talk tell us about you so we can see how it's supposed to work."

Sakura nodded her head. "Yeah..."

The jounin nodded. "Me? I'm Hatake Kakashi. I'm the jounin in charge of Team Seven. Things I like and things I hate... Mm, don't feel like telling you that. My dreams for the future... Never really thought about it. As for my hobbies: I have a lot of hobbies."

The three genin only had sweatdrops after hearing Kakashi's introduction. 'That was totally useless. All he really told it was his name.'

Kakashi brought his hand out of his ear and flicked whatever was on his finger away. "Okay, your turn. You on the right you first."

Naruto fist-pumped. "Alright! I'm Uzumaki Naruto. I like instant ramen in a cup and I really like the ramen at Ichiraku. Especially when Iruka sensei treats. You should try it also, Kakashi sensei, you'll like it too!"

Kakashi only lazily waved his hand. "Yeah, maybe some other time."

Naruto nodded in consent before saying, "I... I hate... The three minutes you have to wait after you pour the water in the ramen cup. My hobby is eating different kind of ramen and comparing them. And my future dream is to become the greatest Hokage! Then the whole village will stop disrespecting me and start treating me like I'm somebody! Somebody important!"

Kakashi nodded his head. 'Well he's grown up in a very interesting way.' "Ok next."

Sasuke took this as his cue. "My name is... Uchiha Sasuke. I hate a lot of things and I don't really like anything. What I have is not a dream because I will make it a reality. I'm going to restore my clan... And destroy a certain someone!"

Kakashi sighed. 'Just as I thought. "Last one."

Sakura straightened her battle dress. "I'm Haruno Sakura. What I like uh... I mean the person I like is..." She turns he head toward Sasuke, "Umm... My hobby is, uh... Or my dream for the future is..." She couldn't finish her sentence for the random giggle and blush threatening to overtake her. "And what I hate is Naruto!"

Naruto mentally rolled his eyes. 'Whatever, it's not like I particularly care. Natsuki is cooler anyways.'

Kakashi only sighed. 'Girls her age are more interested in boys than in shining training. Looks like I have my work cut out for me.' Shaking his head, he cleared his throat.

"Good! You're each unique and you have your own ideas. We'll have our first mission now." Kakashi said.

Naruto jumped in the air, which was totally unexpected that he nearly but his tongue and said, "Oooh! What kind of mission are we gonna have?!"

Kakashi grinned under his mask. "It's a task but the four of us will do together. A survival exercise."

Sakura looked confused. "I thought we were supposed to have a real mission, not more practice. We already did the stuff in the Academy, that's how we got here."

"This is not like your previous training." Kakashi said.

Sasuke grew a little irritated and said, "Then what is it supposed to be?"

Kakashi couldn't help himself. "Heh heh heh..."

Sakura, seeing her crush being laughed upon, stood up. "Hold on, that was a totally normal question. What's so funny?"

"Well, if I told you the answer, you're not going to like it."

Naruto narrowed his eyes slightly. "Huh?"

Kakashi then spoke again, "Of the twenty-seven graduates who just came here, only nine will actually be accepted as genin. The other eighteen will be weeded out and sent back to the academy. In other words, this is a make-it-or-break-it, pass-or-fail test. And the chance that you'll fail is at least sixty-six percent!"

Silence.

"See, didn't I tell you, you wouldn't like the answer?"

Then he was woken up with a smack to the head.

Naruto shot straight into the air; one hand grasping where he was hit, while the other threw a pencil to the offender. Said offender easily dodged the pencil by moving his head to the left.

"Well, my first impression of you is that you need to be more aware of your surroundings." Said the silver haired man in a Jounin's garb.

Naruto rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and glared at their sensei, who just ignored it and continued speaking. "Okay then, meet me and the rest of your teammates at the roof." With that said, he disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"Stupid Kakashi. I'll get you eventually. Just you wait." Naruto grumbled as he made his way to the roof. When he got to the roof, he saw Sasuke, Natsuki, and Kakashi waiting for him. Sasuke and Natsuki were sitting on the academy roof benches while Kakashi was leaning against the railing.

Kakashi clapped his hands. "Ok, time for introductions. First off is the angry blond."

When Naruto was about to begin, Natsuki interrupted him. "But sensei, what should we say? Why don't you go first to give us an example, considering the fact that we don't know anything about you."

Kakashi shrugged. "Ok then. Follow this format; Your name, things you like, dislike, hobbies, and dreams for the future. I'm Hatake Kakashi, the jounin instructor for Team Seven. Things I like and things I hate... Mm, don't feel like telling you that. My dreams for the future... Never really thought about it. As for my hobbies: I have a lot of hobbies."

While Sasuke and Natsuki glared at Kakashi, Naruto just stared at Kakashi looking as if he has seen a ghost. 'Holy crap, that introduction was basically the same as my dream.'

Kakashi picked his ear and said, "Ok, now that you get the general idea, it's time for the brooding Uchiha to introduce himself."

Sasuke scowled. "My name is Uchiha Sasuke. I like some of my family. I hate a lot of things. I have no hobbies other than to train to become stronger. My dream is to revive the Uchiha clan and to kill a certain someone."

Naruto nodded. That wasn't that similar to his dream but still pretty similar. 'I wonder who he wants to kill so badly.'

Kakashi nodded. "Ok now that the brooding prince is done," that earned a glare from said brooding prince, "We can move onto the tomato."

Silence.

Naruto stared fearfully at Natsuki as her hair covered her face with a shadow giving her a menacing look. He scooted away from the girl and he saw Sasuke do the same, his scowl gone and a look of genuine fear etched on his face. Seems having a sister does that to you.

"Kakashi sensei…" Natsuki said with an eerily calm look on her face. "Tell me, what color flowers would you like on your gravestone."

Kakashi took his finger out of his ear and flicked whatever was on there in a different direction, seemingly bored at current events. "I don't know, maybe a daisy. Ooh, maybe a chrysanthemum. Why do you ask?"

Naruto and Sasuke began scoot even further when the killing intent and the anger seemingly disappeared. "No reason sensei. I was just wondering is all. Anyways, my name is Uzumaki Natsuki and I like ramen and sharp things. I dislike people who make fun of my hair and fangirls. My hobbies are to train and my dream is to become Hokage to ease the work load off of the old man."

Kakashi nodded. "Ok then. That was insightful. Now it's time for the emotionally confused blonde to introduce himself."

Naruto growled and said, "My name is Uzumaki Naruto. I like ramen and training. I particularly dislike anything, but that soon may change." He said staring at Kakashi, who was still picking his ear. "My hobbies are gardening and trying to learn new ninjutsu. My dream-" Naruto froze and tried to think of something to say. He didn't want to become Hokage like his dream self had loudly proclaimed. All he wanted to do was be the best shinobi he could be, but the best were Natsuki, Sasuke and his sister.

"Well, come on now, we don't have all day here. We still need to go on a mission." Kakashi said.

Naruto nodded scowling a bit for being interrupted. "My dream is… to surpass my teammates and to be the best shinobi I can be. This way I can be promoted before them." He said the last part playfully to Natsuki as she stuck her tongue out at him.

Kakashi nodded as he got off the railing. "Ok then, we'll have our first mission tomorrow. I'll let you guys rest today and then we'll go on it tomorrow."

Naruto was suspicious. This was different than his dream. "What's the mission about sensei?"

Kakashi eye smiled. "It's going to be a survival mission I reserved just for the four of us."

Naruto's eyes narrowed. "Ok, then what's the success rate?" He said fearing the answer.

As predicted, Kakashi started laughing causing both of his teammates to look at their sensei with confused looks. "Ah, that was a good one kid. The success rate, ha!"

Natsuki narrowed her eyes. "Yeah what is the success rate sensei? It was a valid question."

Kakashi just shook his head. "If I told you, none of you would like the answer and probably quit like the others."

Sasuke snorted. "Naruto might, but I won't and Natsuki won't either. Just tell us the success rate so I can go home to prepare already."

Naruto scowled in Sasuke's direction. Kakashi just shook his head again. "Ok I'll tell you but you guys won't like the answer. This mission will have a fail rate of 66%. You guys only have a 33% chance of actually passing this mission."

Naruto jumped off the bench. "What! That's some Grade-A bull right there. Where are you going to be while we do this impossible mission?"

Kakashi pointed at himself. "Who, me? I'm going to be there tomorrow, you can count on it. I'll be participating as well. Just show up tomorrow." Kakashi nodded as he turned to leave the building leaving three stunned Genin by themselves but suddenly stopped. "Oh yeah, I almost forgot to tell you guys this," Kakashi looked at them with a serious look on his face. "Don't eat breakfast or you'll throw it back up tomorrow." Then he disappeared in a poof of smoke.

Naruto could only say one thing. "Well Shit…"

Sorry for not updating but my old computer died so I had to build a new one and I'm pleased to see that so far it's performing pretty well. I'll have the next chapter out before the 27th of this month so stay on the lookout for it. Next Chapter is going to be the Bell Test and maybe the Wave Mission. Thanks and make sure to review by clicking that Review button down there. Yeah that one.