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Chapter 3

Can you believe it? What was the Hokage thinking. Having him teaching our children. He can't even defend himself. How is he suppose to teach our children to defend themselves?

Iruka was walking down the hallway to his classroom, when he heard the other teachers talking in the teacher lounge. Hiding his chakra, he stood just out of sight, but still able to hear the conversation, sighing and dropping his head when he realized they were talking about him. "What do I have to do prove to these people that I can take care of myself." Iruka started thinking to himself. "I know their all thinking about the one mission that went completely wrong, that turned S-ranked, instead of B-ranked. The two jounin and other chunnin on the mission blamed him for everything that went wrong. He knew he shouldn't have frozen, but he was surrounded by 4 S-ranked ninjas and he was doing the best that he could. Who did they think he was "THE COPY-NIN." There was only so much I could do." Sighing and deciding to just move on, he finished walking down the hall to his classroom opening the door and stopped. He had kids running everywhere, everything was a mess. Rubbing a hand down his face, he moved into the classroom and screamed "Everyone get in your sets NOW, before I hang you from the ceiling by your toes." All the children looked up at him with shocked expressions on their faces, some even looked like they might cry.

Feeling a little guilty, Iruka calmly said, "I will be your new teacher from now on. As long as you listen to what I say, there will be no problems, is that understood?" Everyone to afraid to say anything, just nodded there heads in agreement. "Alright, then shall we begin?"

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Walking down the street to the mission office, Iruka started thinking about how his first day of teaching went, "Wow, I never thought it would be so hard to teach children and to keep their attention throughout the entire class period. I'm going to have to come up with some ways to keep them interested. This isn't going to be easy. I'm not so sure if I'm as qualified as the Hokage thinks I am. I'll have to worry about the later, right now I have something else to worry about." Looking up Iruka realized that he was at the doorway to the mission room. Sighing, he mumbled to himself "here goes nothing" as he opens the door. As he started walking in, he could hear a couple shinobi in the back asking "What's he doing here?" but not paying to much attention as he headed for the desks. When he got up there, he realized Sandaime was there. Making him feel a little more at ease.

"I'm here Hokage-sama. Where would you like me to begin? asked Iruka

"Ah, Iruka-kun. How are you today?" replied Sandaime.

"I am doing well. Thank you" replied Iruka

"I want you to sit with me today and receive mission reports from our shinobi. I will only be here for a couple hours and then you and Genma will be on your own. Alright?" asked the Hokage. Genma, looking over to see why his name was said. Realizing that their was a new person behind the desk, Genma got up and walked up to Iruka and extended his hand and introduced himself, "Hello, my name is Shiranui Genma. Please to meet you."

Iruka not to sure about it, slowly extended his hand and said "Umino Iruka, please to meet you."

"So you are going to be my new help at the mission desk, huh. He's kind of cute, Sandaime. You chose well." said Genma. Iruka not knowing for sure what to make of the comment started blushing. "Aw, that's even cuter." Genma started to laugh. Making Iruka duck his head and blush even more.

"Genma, that's enough. I don't need you embarrassing Iruka with your perverted comments on his first day. Keep your hands to yourself. Understand!" shouted Sandaime.

"Yes, Hokage-sama. And I apologize Umino Iruka" replied Genma

"Apology excepted, Genma-san." replied Iruka

"Alright, let's get things started then, shall we?" asked Sandaime

"Yes, Hokage-sama" replied Iruka

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"I'm so glad to be home." groaned Iruka as he entered his home and taking his shoes and vest off. "That was a long day. All I want to do is go to sleep." walking down the hall to his bedroom. Not even bothering to take his clothes off, Iruka just collapsed on his bed.