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Author's note

It is now only 2 days away from Christmas I'm excited are you guys, anyway here's chapter five think of it as an early Christmas present from me to you the readers. And as always Constructive Criticism is appreciated along with reviews, haters can go write their own story or just stay away from this one, so here we go on to chapter 5

Chapter 5: Meeting Sensei and D-rank joys

The classroom had just one thought on their mind and that this was their beginning. Mito was chatting between her two closest friends and teammates Hinata Hyuga and Kiba Inuzuka.

"How awesome is it that we're on the same team Mito, Hinata!" Kiba said to the heiresses with joy. The two in question nodded since one was still very shy and the other still amazed that she was on a team with both of her friends.

"I wonder what our sensei will be like." Mito said with both nodding thinking about it, before Mito spoke again, "Didn't this Kurenai used to babysit you Hinata?" Mito asked and Hinata nodded an affirmative. "From what I remember she is a kind woman but that was years ago." Hinata added on.

"Oh well I'll bet she's really awesome and strong!" Kiba said with enthusiasm. The trio continued with their small talk till the classroom door was opened by a man with a jounin vest and a cigarette in his mouth, "Team Ten your with me, I'm Asuma Sarutobi." He said. After Asuma a woman with long black hair reaching her shoulders and red eyes reminiscent of the sharingan walked in and spoke, "Team eight your with me, I am Kurenai Yuhi." Kurenai said before continuing, "Meet me on the roof." And with that she left the room. Mito, Kiba, and Hinata got up and made their way to the roof with their soon to be sensei sitting on one of the benches, She motioned for the three to sit down.

"So as we are to be a team I would like to know a little about each of you that wasn't on your file for example, I'm Kurenai Yuhi, I'm a genjutsu specialist, one of my favorite foods is dango, my dream is train a team and one of the members become Hokage, my favorite phrase would have to be reality can be anything." She then motioned for Mito to go next.

"My name is Mito Uzumaki, my abilities lie in an all round average but my Kenjutsu, Fuinjutsu, and Ninjutsu being a tiny bit higher, my favorite food is ramen, my dream is to one day become Hokage to protect those close to me and raise a family, and my favorite phrase is "The spiral stays strong even under the harshest of storms" Kurenai nodded her head at Mito's explanation and then motioned for Kiba to go next.

"My name's Kiba Inuzuka, me and Akamaru are strong in Taijutsu and my clan's Ninjutsu, my and Akamaru's favorite food is meat of any kind, my dream is to become a great ninja, and I don't really have a favorite phrase but I really like the word Akamaru." Kiba said while petting Akamaru, who barked in acceptance. Kurenai once again nodded the motioned for Hinata to speak.

"My name is Hinata Hyuga, I'm alright in my clan's Taijutsu, my favorite food is dango, my dream is to unite the two branches of my clan, and my favorite phrase is Confidence." The shy girl said without stuttering.

"Alright then, now normally there is a second test after graduating the academy-" Kurenai began before being interrupted, "What! What do you mean there's a second test I though we were genin now!." Kiba shouted, and stood up. Mito pulled him back down into a seat before speaking, "Kiba think about it, did you really believe that a paper test, a sparring match against another student and three simple jutsu was enough to become a ninja?" The Uzumaki heiress explained.

"Right. As I was saying there is normally a second test to see if you three could work together, but I observed you three for awhile and could already tell that you all work together relatively well so I'll be skipping that part, instead I'm going to test your skills tomorrow. Meet at training ground 8 at seven A.M. The three genin nodded and headed home to prepare.

Next day training ground 8

All three genin were on time as per their sensei's orders but their sensei was no where to be found. The three stood by a tree waiting till their sensei appeared on top of a tree branch at exactly at seven.

"Very good you're all on time, I must express the importance of being on time, being to early could be just as bad as being too late. Time could mean the difference between life and death of a comrade or yourself." Kurenai said seriously, the trio nodded solemnly.

"Anyway as I said yesterday I'm going to test your skills in battle today, we'll start with Hinata today." The new sensei said and took Hinata to another part of the field.

"Alright Hinata I want you to come at me with everything you have." Kurenai said getting into a ready stance. Hinata nodded before performing several hand seals and shouting, "Byakugan!" Several veins beside her pale white eyes bulged while Hinata got into her clan's Taijutsu stance. The two stayed still for a moment while a single leaf fell slowly to the ground between them. As soon as the leaf hit the ground Hinata charged attempting to cut off Kurenai's tenketsu. Kurenai dodged the attacks knowing that she couldn't block them without taking unnecessary damage due to the Hyuga's unique Taijutsu style. Hinata charged strike after strike trying hard to get just one hit in but try as she might she couldn't land a single strike on the red eyed jounin. After around twenty minutes of sparring Kurenai told her to stop. "Very good Hinata, you just need more stamina and refinement for your Taijutsu, some Ninjutsu wouldn't hurt either despite what your clan says." Kurenai told the young bluenette, who was bent over panting from going full force for twenty minutes straight. Kurenai allowed the girl to catch her breath before taking them back over to where her teammates where. Said teammates were just chatting about small things.

"Kiba you're next." Kurenai said getting the feral like boy's attention.

"Alright guess my turn!" Kiba shouted with excitement and jumped off his seat and ran over to his sensei. The two went back over to the area where Hinata fought Kurenai. Mito just looked on to where her crush had gone not noticing the smile that Hinata seeing the interaction, Mito snapped back to reality when Hinata started speaking to her, "He certainly has a lot of charisma doesn't he?" Hinata said with a knowing look.

"Yeah, yeah he does but it also makes him a little annoying at times." Mito said with a blush plainly on her face despite her attempts to put it down.

Back with Kurenai and Kiba

"Alright Kiba I want you and Akamaru to come at me with everything you have."Kurenai said once again getting ready to test her student.

Kiba sat Akamaru down and the two got into their clan's unique feral like Taijutsu stance.

The two charged attempting to slash and claw Kurenai, Akamaru as Kurenai noticed turned from an innocent puppy in a feral fighting machine much like any other ninken from the Inuzuka clan. Kurenai dodged and blocked not allowing her student to get a single hit in. after fifteen minutes Kiba jumped back and Akamaru followed him. Kiba pulled out a single red pill and tossed it to Akamaru who jumped and ate it. The normally white puppy became rust red before Kiba called out a ninjutsu, "Alright Akamaru now Man-Beast clone." The red puppy jumped onto his partner's back while smoke appeared around them, once the smoke cleared it revealed two Kibas both looking feral."Now Gatsuga!" One of the two called out and they both began to spin very rapidly looking much like a drill. The now spiraling drills shot forward trying to hit Kurenai who jumped and dodged the strong attack. The drills tore through tree after tree until stopping. Akamaru reverted back to his normal white puppy form and was laying on the ground dizzied by the attack, Kiba was no better. Kurenai called the match before heading over to the two downed members.

"That was good Kiba but I imagine with an attack like that you can't see your opponent correct?" Kurenai asked. Kiba nodded still trying to steady himself.

"Next time try using your nose to track your opponent when using that move instead of blindly using it." She advised the feral boy. She allowed Kiba several minutes to recover before heading back to the clearing.

"Alright Mito your up." Kurenai said to the Uzumaki heiress. Mito got up and followed her new sensei back to where her other two teammates had been fighting.

"Alright like I told Hinata and Kiba I want you to come at me with everything you have." Kurenai said.

Mito nodded and unsheathed her chakra saber revealing it to be be a pure white blade being two foot long and had a hilt that was pitch black with a spiral design engraved into it. The hand guard was similar as it was a transitional color between the hilt and blade along with the traditional Uzumaki spiral. Mito parted her feet creating a distance equal to her shoulders and held the saber one handed in an upward diagonal position her other hand was free as to make seals or block her opponent. The two fighters watched each other in anticipation of who would make the first move. After waiting a few moments Mito moved first going for a downward slash that Kurenai avoided. Mito pivoted on her foot slashing as she turned, before jumping back landing in a crouched stance holding her blade in a diagonal position ready to intercept any attack. Kurenai went on the offensive holding a kunai and tried to slash the younger kunoichi. Mito blocked each attempt before going back on the offensive putting her free hand into the bird seal and focusing around her. Nine balls of yellow electricity appeared beside her rotating much like a solar system, her saber also took on a yellow hue surrounding it. Kurenai was shocked by this level of elemental manipulation by a genin no less but prepared for what ever Mito was going to throw at her. Mito positioned her blade in a horizontal position before charging with her nine orbs following her, she stabbed but missed and a single orb behind extended much like a spear continuing the stab Kurenai dodged just barely due to her jounin level instincts. Mito then performed several one handed seals before pulling her hand up to her mouth and shouting, "Raiton: Thunder Trumpet." She released a loud screeching cone of energy trying to hit the jounin,"come on I just need to land one hit." Mito thought to herself while attacking. Three of the nine orbs moved on their own positioning themselves around the experienced jounin before extending upward in a diagonal position. Kurenai jumped and dodged before seeing Mito's smirk along with how the genin's eyes changed the pupil extending into several swirls reminiscent of a whirlpool. Kurenai looked around and noticed several seals that had not been there previously while Mito mouthed the word boom. The seals lit up a fiery orange before exploding, Kurenai with all of knowledge substituted with a log before she could be hit only for Mito to rush right beside her and land a single shallow cut along her arm. Kurenai smirked and called the match to an end with Mito panting with her nine energy orbs behind her. The young teen dispelled the orbs and sat back trying to catch her breath.

"That was amazing hime!" a voice shouted from behind them and rushed into their sight revealing an excited Kiba and Hinata behind him, "I had no idea you could do that!" The boy shouted.

Hinata nodded along in amazement of what her best friend was capable of. Kurenai blinked in realization that while the three may be close friends but they didn't know how the other fought.

"You didn't know? Don't the three of you train together?" Kurenai asked.

"Well we trained together in the academy but we trained separately afterward." Kiba said and his teammates nodded in agreement.

"well looks like I'm going to need each of them to show the others everything they can do" Kurenai thought to herself, before noticing that Mito had already recovered back to full stamina after only a few moments, "looks like the fox gives her some benefits." Kurenai added in her thoughts.

"Anyway let's head back to the clearing." Kurenai told her new team. The three genin obeyed and followed her.

"Alright team one final challenge all you need to do is find me." Kurenai said with a smile before shimmering out of existence revealing what the genin thought was their teacher to be a genjutsu.

"She must have changed herself with a genjutsu when we were coming back to the clearing." Mito thought out loud and her teammates agreed.

"So whats the plan Mito?" Kiba asked.

"Why should I have a plan Kiba?" Mito asked

"It's because your usually the one to make the plans." Kiba said with a grin.

"He's right you know you're usually the one who knows what to do Mito-chan" Hinata added.

Mito contemplated her thoughts for a few moments before speaking, "Alright then here's what we'll do I'll send out a number of shadow clones to find the general area from there Kiba and Akamaru will need to track her down to a more specialized area and Hinata, you'll use your Byakugan to find her." Mito said to her teammates who agreed with her.

Mito then put her fingers in a cross sign and fifty clones shimmered into existence before running off in different directions, after a short while one dispelled giving Mito and her team the direction they needed. The trio ran in the direction of the dispelled shadow clone where Kiba was able to pick up the scent and lead them closer to Kurenai and after a short while Hinata activated her byakugan giving them the exact location of Kurenai.

"Very impressive only twenty minutes to find me." Kurenai said in pride of her team.

"This team will most likely be the next tracking team of Konoha so that will be one of the things we work on. Anyway meet back at the training ground tomorrow at six as that will be the time we'll usually meet unless I specify otherwise. The three genin nodded before going to go eat something.

The next day

The three genin were right on time as they were yesterday and as their sensei told them to be.

"Alright since everybody is here let me ask this how many laps did they usually have you do in the academy?"Kurenai said.

The first to speak was Hinata, "They usually had us do sixty laps Kurenai-sensei." the shy girl said while her two teammates nodded.

"Then Kiba and Hinata I want you to do six hundred laps and Mito since you already have a higher stamina I want you to do eight hundred laps." Kurenai said before explaining, "Kiba and Hinata both of you have high genin stamina already but I want to make it higher since the higher your stamina the longer you'll be able to last, Mito you have mid-chunin level and I want to make it high-chunin to low-jounin level." The three genin nodded and Kiba put Akamaru down before starting. All three finished about half an hour later panting while Akamaru looked happy as he could be.

Kurenai allowed the genin a ten minute rest before having them come over to three training dummies.

"Now I want you three to do fifty kicks with each leg then fifty punches, slashes or palm strikes with each arm depending on your style." Kurenai told the three teens who immediately went to work on the training posts. After they were finished Kurenai spoke up to get their attention,"Now we'll be doing this everyday before we do a mission." Kurenai told her charges. The trio nodded, Mito though had different thought going through her head than her teammates, "Good I get to make some money now since I'm no longer getting an allowance from jiji and he won't let me touch my families vault till I'm sixteen."

Team eight then headed towards the Hokage tower to receive their first mission. Once inside they went to the Hokage's office, inside the Sandaime, Iruka and another chunin were seated with piles of scrolls.

"Team eight reporting for a mission Hokage-sama." Kurenai said with a bow.

"aah Yuhi-san good to see you I'm sure we have a mission ready for you and your team since your the first team to arrive." The village leader said with a smile.

One of the chunin then handed him a scroll with the letter D on it.

"here we go, Ms. Yuka of the village bakery needs assistance for the day." The Sandaime said to the new team eight.

"We accept Sandaime-sama." Kurenai said getting up and taking the mission scroll.

Outside the tower

"aw why is our first mission helping out a bakery I thought we were going to go on some cool mission to save a daimyo or something." Kiba whined to his team.

"Kiba we're just newly graduated genin there was no way they were going to let us do anything too big yet." Mito chastised the feral boy.

Team eight made their way through the village along the main street. All the villagers smiled towards Hinata as the Hyuga clan was famous to the village and treated much like royalty. Kiba had quite a few villagers nod even smile to him as he was a part of the Inuzuka clan, the Inuzukas helped keep the village's name clean well cleaner than it would have been if the Inuzukas weren't there. Mito though only received glares from every single villager they passed, she only glared back through her ice princess persona.

"why do they glare at Mito so much?" This was the thoughts of her two teammates as the team made their way to the bakery.

Once they arrived at the bakery the elderly woman glared at Kiba," Keep that mutt out the dog is not allowed in my bakery." Kiba obeyed not to happily and set Akamaru down, "What is that girl doing here?" The elderly woman asked with hate laced in her voice pointing to Mito.

"I'm here to help you with the mission you sent to Sandaime-sama but if you don't need a full team I'm sure that Sandaime-sama will be happy to no longer need to have a mission for this." Mito said back to the old woman who quickly shut up and ushered the team minus Akamaru inside.

"I don't like this woman." Kiba said quietly to his team.

"if it helps I don't like her either." Mito added back just as quiet.

The team quickly went to work though Kiba was banned from the kitchen after managing to make the dough explode, multiple times.

Mito had just finished kneading one of the baked goods before becoming frustrated that they had only made an eighth of the goods they needed to. She made her fingers into a familiar cross symbol while several clones phased into existence around her. Kurenai being familiar with shadow clones spoke up,"Mito how do those clones know what to do?"

"Kurenai-sensei Uzumaki shadow clones are different than the version that we gave Konoha, the clones develop some semblance of individuality don't ask how though it's a clan secret."Mito explained.

After finishing making the pastries, Yuka the elderly woman had Kiba and Mito go make the deliveries and kept Hinata at the bakery to try and help raise publicity or as she said that she needed Hinata to do something else. Each of the two genin took half and set off one being treated more civilly than the other.

Mito had just arrived at the first house and knocked on the door, the door opened revealing an elderly man, "Hello sit, here is your order from Yuka's bakery." She said with professionalism handing the man a basket of baked goods.

"How don't I know that you didn't poison them brat?" The man said his voice laced with malice.

Mito sighed before speaking, "Take them and if you don't find them satisfactory then you can complain to Yuka who can send the complaint to the Hokage." The man then slammed the door in her face after taking the baked goods. Mito continued the rest of the deliveries with the same treatment from place to place no, "thank yous" or,"have a nice day."

She returned to the bakery at the same time as Kiba.

"You three did a satisfactory job, it was much quicker than if I had to do it by myself." The elderly woman said to the genin.

The team then headed back towards the Hokage tower,"It is still relatively early they might have another mission, do you three feel up to it."Kurenai asked as they were walking.

The three nodded an affirmative and Akamaru barked.

"Now I can't promise this to be an everyday occurrence got it? So don't get used to it." Kurenai told her team as they were in front of the tower.

The team had come at the unluckiest time as they received the daily catch Tora mission though it was much easier and harder for them as they were a tracking team but had a young dog who wanted to bite the cat. The cat however proved to be very resourceful managing to lose them several times. On the eighth time Mito grew tired of its running and launched four sets of chakra chains from her palm to ensnare the hell cat. Her team looked at her blinking at the sight before Kurenai decided to ask what they were," Mito um what are those?" she asked.

"These are a bloodline inherited from my mother's side of the family, if you need a name then they're called Adamantine Sealing chains." Mito explained to her team before reeling in the chained cat and handing it to Hinata who was the only one who could hold it without it attacking them. They then headed back to the tower to receive their second payment for the day.

One week later

It had been one week since the team started their daily routine. They usually were able to complete two missions a day more often than not and were just finishing their morning workout when Kurenai called them over.

"I think it's time I explain to you three why I've had you hitting the posts for the past week, you see when a body is faced with the same challenge over and over it adapts to make the challenge easier for the person." the red eyed jounin explained.

"What do you mean sensei?" Kiba asked.

"What I mean Kiba is that for example you, have been clawing at the posts for a week haven't you noticed your fingernails becoming harder to crack or break." Kurenai said but the boy was still confused.

Mito decided to step in and explain, "Kiba what sensei means is that by hitting the posts your nails become harder the longer you use them to hit the posts."

"Oh. So if I was to hit the posts for a few more weeks than my nails would be a lot stronger than they are now?" Kiba asked with a look of enlightenment on his face.

Kurenai nodded an affirmative.

"That's so cool. But why does my body do that?" Kiba asked genuinely wanting to know.

"It's simple Kiba, everyone that is alive is constantly changing to make their lives easier, its just humanity's natural ability to change." Mito explained.

"exactly Mito, now I would like to see yours and Hinata's hands." Kurenai said praising her student.

Kurenai examined Hinata's hands first noting the decent amount of scar tissue build up before moving onto to Mito's. As she felt the genin's hands she didn't see any scar tissue and raised an eyebrow at the Uzumaki heiress, Mito seeing the eyebrow raise decided to explain, "It's another thing I inherited from my mother." Mito said quietly so only Kurenai heard it.

Kurenai nodded knowing that she meant the Kyubi and it being one of it's abilities.

"Today we will not be going on a mission, instead we'll be starting on chakra control since all of your stamina's have gotten to the level I want them at." Kurenai said to her students.

The three genin smiled at that but also knew that their sensei would be making them do more laps than ever before.

Kurenai motioned the genin over to the trees she was standing in front of."what you three will be doing is a chakra control exercise. It is tree climbing." Kurenai started before Kiba spoke up, "Tree Climbing! But we can already climb trees!" The feral like boy yelled out.

"yes but can you climb them without your hands." Kurenai said before walking leisurely up the side of a tree with no hands.

Kurenai stopped before jumping back down to the ground where her genin were.

"To accomplish this you must channel chakra to the soles of your feet, a little warning though too much and you'll be blasted off, and too little you won't be able to stay on the tree." She cautioned the genin before getting them to work.

Hinata started first and made it half way up the tree before slipping. Mito went next making it up a fourth before her chakra was too much and was blasted off the tree. Then Kiba went making it three steps before he overloaded the chakra and got blasted off. By the end of the day only Hinata and Mito were able to reach the top of the tree though Kiba was able to make it up halfway before falling.

The genin were exhausted from using their chakra for hours on end before Kurenai called the training to an end.

"Very good you three, a few more days like this and you'll be able to walk up and down the tree at any pace you want, tomorrow I want Hinata and Mito to walk up the tree and Kiba you'll continue where you left off today." She told the genin before letting them return home.

One week later

The pace continued on for a week although the team was able to take one mission a day before working on their chakra control, by the end of the week all three were able to walk up and down any surface at any pace they wanted to.

"alright since you all were able to finish the exercise in a week I'll be teaching you a very useful jutsu that all of you will use in the future. It's called Suiton: water precipitation. It is a supportive jutsu as it is used to gather water around you and condense it into a drinkable form." Kurenai told team eight as the three genin nodded one more excited than the other two.

"The hand seals go in this order." Kurenai said before showing the three seals in slow motion. She then pulled out a canteen before performing the jutsu. Water condensed into a ball before falling much like a waterfall into the canteen. She then had Hinata perform it, the ball was very small and dripped water into the canteen, "Good, but it needs more chakra next time Hinata."

She then had Kiba go next, his ball was large and it dropped all the water inside it much like a flood only a little bit going into the canteen.

"That was too much chakra Kiba use less next time." Kurenai said to her student.

It was now Mito's turn she performed the seals and pulled out a canteen before focusing on the ball with an intense gaze, the ball turned an ocean blue color and filled to the size of a tennis ball before dripping down cascading into a small waterfall much like Kurenai's.

"Impressive Mito you just need to have the jutsu perform faster." Kurenai praised her student.

The team continued the jutsu till everyone was able to do it with relative ease. They then went to the hokage tower where they were able to complete two mission's one after another before Kurenai dismissed the team to head back home.

Later that day

All the jounin team leaders were gathered in the Hokage's office since it was time for the team evaluations whether they passed or failed, Sandaime had allowed the jounin a few weeks to dicide if a team passed or failed.

Teams one through six had failed, all of the audience in the room was now waiting for Kakashi to look up from his book and speak.

"Team seven passes." The cyclops jounin said lazily. Then all eyes on the room went to Kurenai to know whether or not the village jinchuriki passed or failed.

"Team eight passes with flying colors." Kurenai said with pride evident in her voice. All of the ignorant shinobi in the room did a double take not believing that any team with the demon brat could pass with flying colors. Then it was Asuma's turn, "Team ten passes, they all take after their fathers in the teamwork category.

The hokage nodded before letting all the jounin out of the room and holding Kurenai back for a minute.

"Yuhi-san from what I've seen your team has the most mission's completed out of all the new teams, I believe a C-rank is in order soon." The village leader said.

"Possibly but if they are going to go on a C-rank it will the lowest C-rank I can get for them, its not that I don't trust them its just, it'll be the first time that each of them will be out of the village and I want as little as risk for my students as possible." Kurenai explained.

The Sandaime nodded knowing what Kurenai meant and how she was worried for her student's safety.

"One of tomorrow's mission will be border patrol between the land of fire and the land of earth, it should be relatively safe and will be a very low C-rank." Hiruzen said the red eyed jounin.

Kurenai nodded before speaking, "I will think it over tonight Sandaime-sama." Kurenai said respectfully before leaving.

Chapter 5 end

Author's note

Merry Christmas everyone today is the 24th where I live and this will be the last chapter I put out till after Christmas, so I wish everyone a happy holidays. Till next time!