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A/N: So things are going to be deviating from the original chapters that went along with this story. I switched the original team pairings, because I have a different direction that I want this story to have this time around! So I hope everyone still enjoys reading nevertheless, thanks enjoy!


Hiruzen took one last puff from his precious wooden pipe before placing it delicately into his desk drawer. Releasing the smoke from his lungs watching the smoke swirl around in front of him as he pondered another prominent decision that would decide the fate of the next generation of ninjas who would carry on the legacy of Konoha, the will of fire. Stretching out his old bones, Hiruzen stood up and clasped his hands behind his back as the clock struck three it was time for him to make his decision. Choosing the next patch of genin teams.

As several high classed Jonin soon began to file into his office, Hiruzen was surprised to see that Kakashi was one of them. Kakashi was notorious within Konoha's walls for being egregiously late to any possible mission briefing, unless it was of the uptmost importance.

Once he was sure that every Jonin he had summoned was in attendance Hiruzen cleared his throat and began. "Now that we are all here I would like to first thank everyone for their prompt attendance" he said throwing a knowing smile in Kakashi's direction.

" Now I brought you all here to discuss the next generation of Konoha's finest. This new patch of genin need the creme of the crop to guide them into their full potentional and seeing as each and everyone of you in this room are Konoha's best jonin, its only simply that I ask. Who wants to have the pleasure of passing on the will of fire to the next generation?"

Pausing to give those uninterested a chance to leave. It pleased him to see that many of his top jonins didn't move a muscle. Faced with the best of the best of the jonin he had left. He gracefully placed several files onto his desk "Well these are all of the graduating genin please choose correctly because all submitted genin teams are permaneatly unless stated otherwise." Hiruzen took a step back as the civilized jonin went into a feeding frenzy trying to get a chance to train the best of the best from the latest generation.

Walking up to the files Kakashi already knew two of the three of the students he wanted to pick, but what he needed was a kunoichi. Flipping through the files his one eye caught a flash of pink, stopping at this particular file. "This girl is perfect, someone with a shy personaity mixed in with a short temper would be a great addition to the team he wanted." Kakashi thought. Clearing his throat, Kakashi grabbed the attention of the whole room, "Hokage-sama I want to be the Jonin-sensei of Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, and Naruto Yamanaka. Its only natural that I get first pick at this years batch due to seniority"

"Oui! Wait one second" A gruff voice spoke up from behind the scarecrow ninja. Asuma exhaled some smoke as he glared at Kakashi."Inoichi's brat is mine, besides its tradition for someone from the Sarutobi clan to train the next generation of Ino-Shika-Cho! Even though his name doesn't start with the traditional Ino prefix doesn't make him any less of a Yamanaka"

Raising an eyebrow at the two full-fledged jonin, Hiruzen tried to pacify the situation "Now, Now...no need to throw a tantrum over one of the Yamanaka Brats because fortunately for us this year we have both the clan heir, Ino Yamanaka, and her brother Naruto Yamanaka. If you both think your team could benefit from a Yamanaka theres enough for both of you."

"Now if I may interject Hokage-sama" said a soft spoken voice that belonged to black haired women with scarlet red eyes. "I intended on requesting Ino Yamanaka for my team, since I believed she would make a positive addition to the type of team I had in mind, but Sasuke Uchiha could also serve a similar purpose as well." Stepping into the light, Kurenai shifted her weight onto her left hand as she placed her hand on her hip. Not one to be overshadowed by the men in her workfield, she decided it was time to throw her own hat in the ring for this years batch of genin.

What followed soon after this outburst was the exact situation the Third Hokage was trying to avoid. Kurenai's outburst was the straw that broke the camel's back so to speak, as soon after the room erupted into chaos. Each jonin in the room started to voice their own team recommendations and opinions on why certain genin were crucial to their team dynamic.

Hiruzen closed his eyes and rubbed his temples as he felt the beginning signs of a headache threatening to form at the edges of his brain. As the noise level increased in his office, the Hokage had finally had enough letting a generous amount of killing intent seep into the room, he spoke with a booming voice. "ENOUGH!"

The room's energy quickly changed as the veteran ninja snapped into formation and silence. Each ninja seemed to be frozen in place anxiously awaiting the next words that would leave his mouth. Smirking to himself Hiruzen was happy to know that he hadn't lost his authority even in his old age. "Now that we've seemed to have compose ourselves, I realized that I shouldn't have given everyone here the liberty to create their own team as there would inevitably be conflict."

As everyone began mulling over his words, Hiruzen pressed on "So due to this revelation, I have decided that I'm going to hand pick the genin teams as I see fit."

" Team 7 lead by Kakashi Hatake will consist of Sasuke Uchiha, Ino Yamanaka, and Kiba Inuzaka."

"Tean 8 lead by Kurenai Yuhi will consist of Hinata Hyuuga, Sakura Haruno, and Shino Aburame."

"Team 10, since team 9 is still considered active, will be lead by Asuma Sarutobi consisting of Naruto Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, and Choji Akimichi."

"Everyone is dismissed!" and with the wave of his hand, Hiruzen laid down his decision effectively ending the meeting and choosing the destiny of Konoha's future. He just hoped that he had chosen correctly..."


Iruka watched as his last student Naruto walked in giving his best impression of the dead among the living. He really couldn't blame the kid though after finding out that the soon to be genin single-handledly took down one of Konoha's traitors last night The scar-faced ninja still couldn't get over the initial shook that a not even a full-fledged genin beat a chunin, but since it was one of the Yamanaka kids he wasn't too surprised.

Once the young Yamanaka took his seat. Iruka began his last speech to his class "Now I'm glad that you could all make it on time, I guess the last day is better than never. The day you've been waiting for is finally here! It's time to find out whose on your genin teams and what sensei you've been assigned too! This year's batch is extremely special since they've all been specially hand picked by the Hokage-sama himself."

Murmurs begin to spread across the classroom like wildfire, courtesy of Ino Yamanaka herself, as everyone began whispering to each other to find out exactly why the Hokage decided to hand pick their year's teams.

Clearing his throat Iruka raised his voice and continued, "Settle down everyone, Now Team 7 will consist of..."


Once the final team assignments had been announced, the room quickly dwindled down to three people as Jonin came by to collect their new charges. That had been about three hours ago. Thus leaving Sasuke, Ino, and Kiba in their current predicament. Trying to keep themselves from going stir crazy waiting for this ridiculously late teacher of theirs to arrive.

Thats it. I can't handle this anymore. Surging out of her seat as her chair loudly scratched the floor, Ino slammed her hands down on the table. "If our sensei hasn't showed up in three hours, why should we have to be stuck here!? Even Iruka-sensei has gone home at this point!"

"Yeah exactly! I say if we have to wait for them to show up for this long we should atleast prank them for wasting our time! Kiba proposed as he headed straight towards the blackboard, picking up one of the chalkboard erasers. His white puppy yapping in support from his resting spot ontop of Kiba's head.

Making a point to ignore Ino's and Kiba's outbursts and the cold hard realization that he was stuck on team with two, not one, but two of the loudest people in his graduating class, Sasuke let out a scoff and focused his attentions outside the window.

Ino rolled her eyes, plopping back down into her seat with a huff. "A prank? Really you sound just like my idiot of a brother."

Ignoring the blonde girl, Kiba went right to work setting up his elementary prank by placing the eraser delicately on top of the classroom's door. Balancing it carefully so it wouldn't fall until the door was opened. Ino couldn't help but be interested in the prank as she pretended not to be interested in it at all. Now she wasn't invested in the art of pranking like Naruto, and definitely would'nt consider herself a prankster, but... she did have a lil bit of a mischevious and vindictive streak. Setting aside her pride she got out of her seat and joined the Inuzuka in his scheming. "Wait I have something that can bring our prank to the next level." Putting her hand inside of her weapons pouch, she pulled out a purple orb and replaced the eraser with the object.

As they both sat down admiring their own handiwork, the two daredevils eagerly waited for their Sensei to show up, so they could relish in his surprise and defeat at the hand of their prank. Even Sasuke begrudgingly was excited to see if their stupid prank would work or not.

All the while unbeknownst to them a figure had been observing them from his perch in a tree the whole time. Deciding that this was a good of time as any, he jumped down from the tree and entered the academy. The slight rustling of the leaves in the tree he was perched on was the only indicator that he had been there at all.


Soon after they finished setting up their prank, they heard the familiar pitter patter of footsteps falling outside in the hallway. On the edge of their seats, the three genin watched the door for any signs of movement. Seeing the doorknob turn, they saw a flash of silver, or was it gray, hair appear in the doorframe. Simultaneously as the door was open, the orb soon dropped from his place landing firmly on the Individuals head exploding into purple smoke.

Coughing slightly the one-eyed Jonin felt his whole body begin to prickle as if it was on fire. What was in that orb? Turning towards his genin he glared at the brown hair boy rolling on the floor laughing, the girl sitting down with a smug, chesire grin on her face, and the last Uchiha who had an overall smug aura surrounding him. Maybe he should've fought harder to get some other brats. "Well, sorry I'm late, I ran into an old lady crossing the street and had to help her carry her groceries into her house. Did I mention she lived on the other end of Konoha from the academy?"

Coughing into his hand, Kakashi continued "Now imagine my surprise as I rushed over here to meet my new genin team, and my first impression of you all? You're all a bunch of brats. Meet me at the top of the Academy in five minutes or be prepared to end back up in the Academy." Giving them his signature one-eyed smile and two finger salute he disappeared in a swirl of leaves, leaving three confused genin in his wake.

Appearing on the roof of Konoha, Kakashi decided to run a quick medical scan on himself to see what exactly the side effects of that orb was. He found that he had the beginning signs of a rash forming on his body, but nothing lethal. He took note that the Yamanaka brat might have a talent for posions in the future. Hearing footsteps approaching he waited as the three brats walked over to him and sat down across from him.

"Now that we're all accounted for. Let's get to know each other shall we?

Seeing as none of them seemed incline tostart he decided he would.

I'll be nice and go first" smiling at the trio "Well im Kakashi and my likes ar-sadly the rest of his speech was purposely muffled out by his mask. My dislikes, well you don't need to know those and my dream thats not really something you guys need to know about me. Now that you know a little about me why don't you go next blondie?"

Rolling her eyes at the blondie comment "My name is Ino Yamanaka, not blondie!" She huffed "I like working at my family's flower shop, my friends, and being kept up on the latest fashion trends." "My dislikes are people who are unnecessarily cruel" She paused to give a quick glance at Sasuke and continued "and my dream is to be the first female clan head of the Yamanaka Clan!"

Sweat-dropping at her introduction "How about you Inuzuka?"

Standing to his full height of 5'1 he spoke with confidence "I'm Kiba Inuzuka and my likes are dogs, training, and my family. My dislikes are people who talk down to my friends or myself and think they're better than everyone else. As a lecherous grin spreaded across his face, Kiba said confidently "and my goal is to be the first male ninja stripper!" This comment got him a deserved whack on the side of the head curtesy of Ino. "Oww I was just joking Ino" "My dream is to become Hokage one day!"

"Well Uchiha you're the last one."

"I don't have many likes, but I have a lot of dislikes. My one and only goal, no my destiny is to kill a certain man and avenge my clan." Sasuke flippantly said, as he crossed his arms and started brooding again.

Well he certainly had an interesting group on his hands. Three overconfident brats who all showcase Alpha type personalitys. It looks like training these three wouldn't be an easy task. Standing up Kakashi dusted off his pants and sighed "I want you three meet me at training ground 3 at 7 am for a survival simulation that will decide if you're capable of being my genin. Oh before I forget, make sure not to eat any breakfast unless you want to end up throwing it all up."

Ignoring Ino's yells of protest and questions of what he meant by his last statement, Kakashi gave them the peace sign and vanished from their sight.


Sitting down at the dinner table Inoichi watched his two children with rapt attention "Well did you find out who your genin teams and Sensei's are?"

"Well dad I got Asuma Sarutobi as my jonin sensei. I'm so excited he's supposably the son of the sandaime and he was one of the fire daimyo's body gaurds so he has to be crazy strong! you have to be an elite to be one of those! Oh and I almost forgot Shikamaru and Choji are my teammates! Naruto spoke intensly his excitement visibly showing as he was practically jumping up and down in his seat.

"Dad I got the weirdest sensei ever this guy named Kakashi and he wears this weird face mask. Then to make it worst it took him three whole hours to show up and when he did show up all he did was insult us!" Ino huffed angrily "and to make it worst I'm stuck with dog-breathe and Sasuke as teammates!"

Chuckling at his kids, Inoichi could sympathize with Ino because when he was her age and got assigned to be on a team with Shikaku and Choza he had hated it too. He had faith that everything would work out in the end for both his children, but what he didn't know was how things would turn out for them