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Chapter 3

The Sun shone. Birds chirped. Kira cracked one eye open irritably.

'Too briiiiiight…Why are my curtains open? Oh yeah, orientation day!'

With a good reason to get up, Kira crawled out of bed, yawning, to get ready for the meeting at the academy.

Naruto sat at his desk grinning happily as a half asleep Kira stumbled into the room.

"Good mooooorning, Kira!"

"Waz so good 'bout it?" was the slurred response as she collapsed into the seat behind him and buried her face in her arms.

Naruto grinned and opened his mouth. Thankfully, for her, Kira was spared the speech that would tell her each and every point about how great and glorious the day was by the arrival of Shikamaru.

"Huh? What are you doing here, Naruto? Only graduates are supposed to come to today's meeting."

Naruto turned his attention from the now dozing girl behind him to the lazy genius. "Can't you see the hitae-ate?" Naruto grinned, pointing at his forehead. "Starting today, I'm a ninja too!"

As Naruto continued to brag to Shikamaru, a dark haired girl with pale eyes smiled in delight as she saw Naruto had indeed passed the test, a faint blush on her face. 'Naruto-kun was able to graduate.'

Kira's right ear twitched, before she raised her head a little to try and find the source of loud noise disturbing her sleep. Let's see, the room was pretty full, but they were being decently quiet…Her gaze slid to the back of the room, to the closed classroom door where what sounded like a growing stampede originated from. The door slammed open as the two most-obsessed-over-Uchiha fangirls were pushing against each other to try and enter the classroom first. Kira rolled her eyes in annoyance and put all her effort into ignoring them and going back to sleep.

In doing so, she completely missed Naruto's reaction to the pink haired girl. 'It's Sakura-chan!'

He watched with a blush as Sakura looked around the room before her gaze settled in his direction and she gasped.

Naruto brightened. 'Sakura-chan's looking at me!'

Sakura smiled and made her way over to Naruto, who rose to greet her. Kira stirred and decided sleep was a lost cause as Naruto's voice, a little nearer than before, woke her.

"Good morining, Sakura-chan!"

Blue eyes blinked away the sleep. 'Sakura? Oh, Haruno the Uchiha-obsessed-that-Naruto-has-a-huge-crush-on, Sakura!'

A frown made its way onto her face as Sakura ignored Naruto and shoved him to the floor.

"Get out of my way!"

"Naruto, you okay?"

"G-good morning, Sasuke-kun!"

The brooding Uchiha merely glanced at her as Ino appeared behind her.

"May I sit next to you?"

"Wait a minute, I'm going to sit next to him!"

"First come, first serve!"

Kira stared blankly are the loudly bickering girls in front of her. 'Are these two really serious about becoming shinobi?' She sighed softly and got to her feet, walking behind the girls.

Ino turned on her. "Don't you even think about sitting next to Sasuke-kun, Maya-"

"You okay, Naruto?"

Ino blinked and turned back to Sakura. "In any case I entered the classroom first!"

This was apparently a bad move on Ino's part as the rest of the girl's in the class, minus Hinata and Kira, started to gather round the two to add their own arguments.

In the Hokage's office, a gathering of jounin instructors watched the scene though his crystal ball.

"So that's him? This year's number one rookie, Uchiha Sasuke." One commented, as the globe zoomed in on the brooding boy.

"That's right." the Hokage confirmed.

The view on the ball moved over to the crowd of fangirls.

"Isn't that-"

"Mayashi Kira and Uzumaki Naruto, huh?" commented Kakashi.

Kira ignored the girls, pulling Naruto to his feet. She watched half in exasperation, half in amusement as his eyes went blank white and angry and he disappeared from her side and appeared crouching on the desk in front of the Uchiha, glaring at him. Sasuke opening his eyes at the thump on the desk in front of him only to be greeted by a sight of Naruto mere centimetres from his face. A glaring contest ensued.

Glaaaaaare.

Obviously, the fangirls were outraged. Kira moved back to her seat for a better view as they started protesting.

"Naruto! Stop staring at Sasuke-kun!"

Naruto turned to the mob briefly from the reprimand. 'Sakura-chan…' Her returned to glaring at Sasuke with renewed vigour. 'Why is everyone so obsessed with Sasuke? What's so good about him anyway?'

Electricity danced between their eyes.

"Sasuke-kun, just beat him up!"

"Yeah!"

"That's right!"

The guy sitting in front of Sasuke took this moment to lean back in his seat, unintentionally giving Naruto a light shove. He turned to apologise, but stopped dead, staring.

The fangirls stared.

Kira stared.

The watching jounin stared.

The Hokage stared.

All in all, there was a lot of staring.

Naruto and Sasuke looked both shocked and disgusted as they found themselves in a liplock with the other. They hurriedly broke apart.

Sakura screamed and fell over in horror, eyes white and round, jaw dropped, as Inner Sakura ranted. 'Dammit! I was supposed to get Sasuke-kun's first kiss!'

Kira blinked, as she absorbed what had just happened.

Naruto and Sasuke turned away from each other choking and spluttering holding their throats.

"Naruto, I'm going to kill you…" was all Sasuke managed to get out.

"My mouth's gonna rot!" was Naruto's response.

The guy who accidentally shoved Naruto was on his feet sweatdropping lightly, "Is this my fault?"

Getting over the shock Kira snickered to herself quietly, but evidently not quietly enough as she became the new target of Naruto and Uchiha glares.

"Heh, I didn't know you guys swung that way…" was her only comment.

The boys stared at her in horror, before Naruto tensed.

"I sense danger…" Naruto looked back to find himself the target of several evil looks from Sasuke's loyal fan club.

"Naruto…you…"

Naruto raised his hands trying to defend himself. "It was an accident…an accident!"

Sakura cracked her knuckes. "You're annoying!"

Kira rolled her eyes. 'I guess I'd better help out…'

The fangirls got ready to pounce on Naruto when a puff of smoke made them back off slightly.

"What are you girls up to?" Iruka-sensei asked. Seeing the direction of their gaze, he turned to Naruto and Sasuke. "Naruto back to your seat." He turned to the girls. "You too."

Reluctantly, the fangirls returned to their seats as Iruka-senei walked down the steps to his desk.

"Now then-"

He was interrupted by the door to his left sliding open.

"Sorry I'm a little lat-" Iruka stared.

Iruka standing behind the desk stared.

Iruka in the doorway scanned the classroom briefly before returning his gaze to his duplicate at the desk.

"Kira! Back to your seat!"

Poof! "Haaaaai." Kira drawled lazily, as she strolled back to her seat behind Naruto, the glares of every fangirl following her.

When Kira was back in her seat, Iruka began the meeting.

"Staring today, all of you are official shinobi, but you are all still new genin. It's only going to get harder from here on out. You will all be put in groups of three under a jounin instructor for missions."

"I wonder who will be one Sasuke-kun's team." Mused Ino, her gaze directed towards the pink haired girl in front of her.

Sakura glared. "Who knows." 'I'm going to be the one that teams up with him, of course!'

Sasuke snorted lightly. 'A group of three? They're only going to slow me down.'

Naruto grinned, eyes closed happily. 'The first will be Kira and the second…Sakura-chan of course!'

'Group of three…jounin…mission…got it. Zzzzzzzz.'

Iruka continued. "We've arranged the groups so that overall abilities are balanced. There is, however, one group of four due to a late participant in the exam. I will now announce the teams…"

A little later

"Now then, Team Seven: Uzumaki Naruto,-"

Naruto looked up.

"-Haruno Sakura,-"

Naruto cheered, Sakura's head thumped on the desk, waking Kira.

"Huh?" She raised an eyebrow. 'Why is Haruno banging her head on the table?'

"-Uchiha Sasuke-"

No reaction from Sasuke.

Naruto slumped. 'I'm with Sasuke?!'

Sakura cheered.

Kira frowned. 'I think I'm missing something here…'

"-and Mayashi Kira."

Naruto cheered. 'At least Sakura-chan and Kira are on my team.'

Sakura slumped in her seat. 'Kira as well?!'

No reaction from the human ice cube.

Kira blinked. 'I guess they're…my team?'

After lunch

Naruto stood at the door, looking back and forth between the two ends of the corridor.

"He's late."

Sakura sighed and leaned back against a desk at the front of the room.

"Naruto, why don't you sit still?"

"But, but, why is it only our sensei that's late? All the other teams left already! And Iruka-sensei went home too!"

"That's not important right now." Sakura lectured, opening her eyes to glance at Naruto when she heard a scraping noise. "Wait a minute, Naruto, what are you doing?!"

Sasuke glanced over.

Naruto, balanced on a stool, was wedging a blackboard eraser between the door and the frame with a large grin on his face.

"It his fault for being late." Naruto said, when faced with Sakura's angry look.

"Fine, it's your fault if you get in trouble." Sakura turned to the other girl in the room who was sitting at the desk by the door. "You could at least try to stop him, Kira!"

No response. Sakura glared at the only part of Kira's head visible; the black high-ponytail. "Hey, Kira! Are you even listening to me?!"

Naruto leaned closer to Kira, a suspicious look on his face.

"Zzzzzzzzzzz."

Naruto laughed. "See Sakura-chan! Kira agrees that he deserves this! She got so bored waiting that she fell asleep again!"

"A jounin isn't going to fall for a lame trap like that, dobe."

Sakura immediately agreed loudly. "That's right! You're so stupid Naruto!"

Kira stirred and lifted her head from her arms. "Is he here yet, Naruto?"

Before Naruto could reply, a gloved hand appeared on the door. All four turned their full attention to the door. A head of messy silver hair poked through as the door slid open, only to have a chalky blackboard eraser drop on his head with a small cloud of dust.

Silence.

Naruto exploded into laughter pointing at their jounin instructor. "He fell for it! He fell for it!"

"I'm so sorry, sensei! I tried to stop him but he wouldn't listen!"

Sasuke just stared, blinking. 'He got caught by that? Is he really a jounin?'

Kira was in a similar state of shock. 'A jounin fell for that sort of trap? And this guy's our teacher?!'

The silver haired man picked up the eraser and placed it on a nearby desk, before returning his attention to the four twelve-year olds in front of him.

"Hmm. How should I say this…"he mused, placing a hand on his chin and closing his eyes thoughtfully. "My first impressions of you guys is…"

"I hate you."

A few minutes later on the roof of the academy, the four of them sat on a small set of stairs facing their new jounin instructor, who leaned against the railing.

"Let's see, why don't you tell me a little about yourselves."

"About ourselves? What should we say?" asked Sakura.

Kakashi shugged lightly. "Things you like, things you hate, dreams for the future, hobbies, those sorts of things."

"Ano sa, ano sa, why don't you introduce yourself first sensei?" asked Naruto.

"Me?" Kakashi asked, pointing at himself. "I'm Hatake Kakashi. I have no intention of telling you my like and dislikes." He continued with a bored face, three quarters of which was covered by his ever present mask and slanted hitae-ate.

Naruto, Sakura and Kira all had slightly stupefied expressions on their faces.

"As for my dream…" he trailed off.

He looked upwards slightly as if thinking. "Well, I have a few hobbies…"

Sakura glanced across Sasuke, flat-eyed, to Naruto and Kira. "So all we got way his name…"

Naruto nodded in agreement. A slightly thoughtful look crossed Kira's face before she replied.

"Actually, we know he has a few hobbies…and that he apparently doesn't like giving straight answers."

They watched as their teacher's visible eye curved up into a happy arch.

All three sighed in unison.

"Now, it's your turn." Four sets of eyes landed on their jounin sensei. "You first, Orange-boy."

Naruto grinned and fiddled with his hitae-ate. "Ano sa, ano sa, I'm Uzumaki Naruto! I like cup ramen, but what I like even more than cup ramen is the ramen Iruka-sensei buys me from Ichiraku and hanging out with Kira! I hate the three minutes I have to wait after I add the hot water! My hobbies are comparing cup ramen and playing pranks! My dream is surpass the Hokage and be acknowledged by all the villagers!"

Kakashi visible eye widened a bit at the last part. 'I see. He's grown up in an interesting way.'

"Okay, next." His gaze slid over to Sakura.

"Hai!" she chirped cheerfully. "I'm Haruno Sakura! I like…well, the person I like is…" she glanced at Sasuke, blushing. "My hobby is…" she glanced at Sasuke again. "…well, my dream is to…" Sakura squealed at whatever it was she was imagining.

Sasuke ignored all this of course. Naruto looked a little annoyed and Kira had a disturbed look on her face and looked like she wanted to edge away from the fangirl a little more.

"Any dislikes?" Kakashi probed, boredom evident.

Sakura's fangirl look disappeared momentarily. "Naruto and Kira."

Kira raised an eyebrow. "What did I ever do to you?"

Sakura just glared before returning to glancing at Sasuke.

Kakashi simply appeared even more bored as he rested his chin in a hand. 'Girls at her age must be more interested in love than jutsu.' "Next."

"My name is Uchiha Sasuke." He sounded just as bored as Kakashi. "I hate a lot of things and I don't really like anything."

Sakura lost the dreamy look in favour of a slightly disappointed look.

"I don't have a dream," Sasuke continued, "but I do have an ambition; the revival of my clan and to…kill a certain man."

Silence.

Blue lines ran down the side of Naruto's face. 'He'd better not mean me.'

Sakura stared admiringly with a slight blush. 'Sasuke-kun's so cool!'

Kira rolled her eyes. 'Dramatic much? Time to lighten the atmosphere…'

Kakashi stared. 'Just as I thought.'

"Ne, Uchiha," All eyes turned to Kira, who had an 'innocent' look on her face. "How do you plan to revive your clan when you so clearly expressed your interest in Naruto? Wouldn't that be cheating on him?"

Kira suddenly found herself on the receiving end of three glares.

"Kira!"

"How dare you-!"

"…!"

"Okay, last one. Introduce yourself please."

Kira turned her attention back to Kakashi.

"I'm Mayashi Kira. I like training, learning new jutsu and hanging out with Naruto. Not necessarily in that order. Dislikes…hmm…crowds, I guess. My hobbies are hanging out with Naruto and training. My dream is to become a great shinobi like nii-san and learn all the jutsu in the world!"

Naruto blinked. 'She never told me that!'

Sakura stared, disbelieving. 'A lazy person like her who hangs out with a loser like Naruto?'

'…' Who knows was goes through this guy's head.

Kakashi kept a carefully neutral expression on his face. 'That sounded a little familiar…and it sounds like she doesn't know about that either.'

"Okay, you're all pretty interesting. We'll be doing a mission tomorrow."

That got an immediate reaction.

"A mission?! What kind of mission sensei?" was Naruto's enthusiastic response.

"We're going to do something with just the five of us." Kakashi drawled.

"Nani, nani, nani, nani?"

Kakashi had their full attention.

"Survival training."