"You're late," Sakura yelled out, pointing at the purple haired kunoichi known as Anko, at least when being reasonably polite.
"Am not," Anko retorted. "I was told to pick up my new students at three."
Naruto pouted, "Why would you be told to come so long after the other senseis?"
"No clue, just get your butts up and follow me. And next time we meet, wear something more appropriate," Anko said, turning and starting off down the hall.
Naruto quickly started after his new sensei, Sakura following a little farthr behind to be closer to Sasuke, and Sasuke picking up the rear with an air of annoyance surrounding him.
After a short walk, they arrived at a room that only Naruto had been in before. The room was a beautifully decorated with all the equipment for a style of tea ceremony popular in the East.
"Alright, let's see what you three can do," Anko said, taking one of the side seats meant for guests.
"Uh, sensei, what are we suppose to do?" Sakura asked, nervously.
"I would think it would be rather obvious. If you can't figure it out, I guess I should just fail you right now."
"Fail? But we already passed the genin test," Sasuke said with a scowl.
"Yeah. How could a pineapple grape haired daughter of the bastard son of a slug and a monkey like you fail us?"
... Sakura dropped a spoon, the sound of it falling audible till it hit the ground, breaking the stunned silence at the interesting choice of insult Naruto decided to use.
"Kid, I do not know where you came up with that, but you just earned a few points in my book," Anko said, still a bit stunned. "If you pass my little test here, you may redeem those points for several different boons. Should you fail, then you will simply not be on my shit list till you do something to get onto it."
Sasuke coughed lightly into his hand as he tried to remember some mostly forgotten ettique lessons before realizing that the tea ceremony setup was unlike any he had seen before. He was not going to fail this stupid test. Failing would only slow him down. Noticing that Sakura seemed to have some idea of what to do, he nudged Naruto on the shoulder and subtly indicated they should follow Sakura's lead. Seeing Naruto did not get it, he rolled his eyes and spoke up, "Sakura, you are the host for this little test," Sasuke said before adding with grit teeth, "Me and Naruto will act as your servants. Just tell us what to do."
Sakura temporarilly got into a daze of happiness at Sasuke giving her leadership. Oh, the wonderful things she could do. Especially with ordering her boytoy around.
Sasuke coughing lightly to get her attention drew her out of her daydreams, getting her to focus in on the eagerly waiting Naruto and the impatient, but handsome to her, Sasuke.
Sakura nodded and began to direct the pair of them into getting different things ready as she checked the teas and using her memory and the afternoon she had spent reading up on different types of teas, tea ceremonies, and how to be a guest or a host thinking it would be on a test.
As the ceremony occured, Anko quitly wrote several notes down and a letter to the hokage thanking him for the subtle way he gave her a genin team.
Walking down a hallway, Kakashi read his pornographic book, giggling lightly to himself as he thought of what he would do with his time off for the testing of the genin team he was assigned. Opening up the sliding door to the classroom he was informed to meet his team about three hours ago, he frowned at seeing the classroom empty. Shrugging, he figured this just made it all the easier to fail the three of them for not being at the assigned meeting place when he arrived. When he turned around, he was surprised to see three young ladies wearing formal attire come up to him and bow.
"Sorry we are late sensei," The three said at once.
"There was this cute little black kitty that started to cross our path when a dog barked and scared it up a tree," The shortest of the three said.
"I couldn't just let it stay up there, so I went to help it out of the tree," the oldest looking one said, a meow coming from her kimono as the head of the cat pushed itself out of the folds and seemed to smile up at Kakashi.
Kakashi, for all of his experience, blinked once in a slow manner. "My first impression of you is that I like you," He said before gesturing the three of them to follow him.
After the tea party finished up with Naruto somehow ending up wearing an oversived top hat, Anko changed into a blue dress with a white apron, Sasuke passed out with a nose bleed, and Sakura grinning mischiviously at the passed out Sasuke, Anko gave a simple nod.
"Alright you three, you pass," She said, standing up and slipping a note into Sasuke's hand. "Meet up out front of the bathhouse on the corner of First and Hiruzen at eight tomorrow and we'll begin your training. And remember to dress appropriately. Oh, and leave mister dark and bloody alone. I left him special instructions for when he wakes up."
With that, Anko disappeared in a whirl of leaves.
Naruto, surprisingly subdue at the moment, shrugged and began to walk home. He was in the mood to try reading that book he got from someone who signed the note with it as "J:SP". The old man told him that the book was safe and from someone that should have been around for him more often, but was too busy with official business. Naruto ended up forgetting about that and used the book to prop up the broken leg of his comfy chair. He was so lucky to find such a comfy chair sitting by the road, all because one of it's short little legs broke and it wobbled a bit.
As he walked home, Naurto passed team eight who were disbanding for the day after their introductions. Waving to them as he walked over, he called out, "Hey guys. How was your first day as a team?"
"G-good," Hinata answered shyly, smiling at Naruto with a blush.
"Sucks, we have to take another test tomorrow to see if we are worthy of being a genin team," Kiba answered with a growl of aggreement from Akamaru.
"Don't worry about that, my team just passed it and it was easy," Naruto boasted.
"Oh, and what did you have to do?" Kiba asked, giving Naruto's new hat an odd look.
"A tea party," Naruto answered with a smile, adjusting his hat a little.
"And the hat?" Shino asked, correcting his sunglasses.
"Things got a little weird part way through. If you see a white rabbit running around with a watch, tell him I want my hundred ryo. I won that game fair and square," Naruto answered, looking around for the rabbit in question.
"So, the test is a tea party and there is a game during it?" Kiba asked.
"I doubt it. Why do I think it is illogical? Because each jonin will probably make their own test up in order to look for different things," Shino said, causing Kiba to be relieved at not having to deal with something so stuffy.
"Um, N-Naruto?"
"Yeah Hinata?" Naruto asked, unintentionally interupting her.
"Um, oh, n-evermind. You probably already have s-something planned for tonight," She said, dismissing her thought.
"Well, I was thinking of trying to read a book I got a couble of years ago," Naruto answered, not realizing Hinata wanted to spend time with him.
Now, in many fanfics Kiba would have suggested Naruto was illiterate. However, this Kiba was not going to do something so silly when he could barely read any better than Naruto. And they both knew it. Kiba knew how to read more words, but Naruto was better at figuring out context with what words he could read. They once fought over who was better at reading and ended up agreeing to call it a tie so long as neither of them brought up how poorly the other could read.
Shino and Hinata both knew how hard reading was for the pair of them, but were to stoic and kind, respectively, to point out that fault. That, and both were silently pleased at what Naruto was doing to better himself.
"Yeah, well, so am I," Kiba said, not wanting to be outdone by his reading rival. "In fact, I better go so that there is still plenty of daylight to read by." Kiba ran off to try to find something to read so he would not be outdone by Naruto.
Naruto nodded and said his goodbyes to Shino and Hinata and walked off at a surprisingly calm pace.
Shino fixed his glasses again before saying in Hinata's general direction, "Set up a tea party. Why? Naruto might be able to behave himself in front of your family during one." He then calmly walked off while Hinata sputtered and blushed at what Shino suggested.