Sorry that this chapter took so long, but I had work and stuff to catch up on, hope you'll forgiv me (.

Anyway polls for pairings are still going on.

On with the story!

Chapter 8

Naruto sat with his classmates, eagerly waiting for the teams to be called out, hoping that he would be teamed with Sasuke and Hinata

Naruto sat with his classmates, eagerly waiting for the teams to be called out, hoping that he would be teamed with Sasuke and Hinata. Naruto was wearing a Black jacket with a red spiral on the back. The jacket was bordered with an orange and yellow flame design. Underneath the jacket he was wearing a plain navy blue shirt. He was also wearing a pair of loose knee-length shorts, tied around his waste by a red sash, and light weight metal leg greaves, which covered the weights on his legs. His Leaf headband was worn proudly on his forehead, giving a slight order to his unruly blonde spikes. All in all his new look was making the girls in his class drool, but as usual Naruto was oblivious to this.

"Settle down you lot! This may be your last day at the academy, but that doesn't mean I won't discipline you for misbehaviour!" Iruka shouted as he made his entrance into the classroom. The class took a moment to quieten down before Iruka spoke to them, "Today is the day you officially become shinobi. I want all of you to know that it has been a true pleasure to be your sensei, and I am proud of you all. As genin you will be exposed to many things the large portion of people your age would not be able to handle, and as such you will be viewed as an adult and will be treated as such from now on! There will be more responsibility and hard work than ever before, but I am sure that all of you can cope and will flourish as shinobi of Konoha!" For once every was paying rapt attention during Iruka's lecture, knowing this was likely to be the last one they would ever receive from him.

Iruka then began to read out the teams:

Team 1: Kisuke Youro, Momo Raiki, Usuke Ferey ...

Team 7: Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke and Hyuuga Hinata, under Jounin sensei Hatake Kakashi. Would all three of you come to me after this so that I can talk privately to you.

Team 8: Inuzuka Kiba, Haruno Sakura and Aburame Shino, under jounin sensei Yuuhi Kurenai.

Team 10: Nara Shikamaru, Akimichi Chouji and Ino Yamanaka, under jounin sensei, Asuma Sarutobi.

Their reactions to the teams were mixed throughout the class, but all members of Team 7 were overjoyed.

"Hey Iruka-sensei! How come the top three in the class get put together, surely that will make them overly powerful, and like an alpha team or something!" Kiba queried.

"I know Kiba, and that was our main concern about Team 7, but the Sandaime has chosen the teams, they cannot be challenged or changed." After a few moments Iruka dismissed the class, and they left, leaving Team 7 behind to talk to Iruka.

"When you three were put together by the Sandaime there was a concern that this would affect the power balance between the genin cells, but the Sandaime has taken into account your relationship with one another and said the potential of such a squad is too much to be ignored," Iruka paused for breathe before continuing. "That's not the reason I wanted to talk to you though. Your team has a slight difference, in that one of you will have two senseis. Naruto it seems that Jiraiya-sama of the Legendary Sannin, and your father's teacher, has returned to Konoha for the first time since your father's funeral and has demanded the right to teach you the Yondaime's techniques. Although it is unorthodox Kakashi has agreed to allow you to be trained by the Toad-Sannin two out of seven days a week, until you have finished your apprenticeship with Jiraiya-sama. Is that agreeable?"

Naruto nodded slightly, his thoughts turning from the conversation. Jiraiya was back! Naruto had heard many things about Jiraiya from Kakashi nii-chan, who was a fan because the Sannin wrote his favourite books. He had researched into his father's sensei and found out that he was extremely powerful. He was the only other known wielder of the Rasengan and had the ability to summon toads in his vast library of jutsus. Over the years Naruto wondered why Jiraiya had never visited him; perhaps he thought Naruto was a monster like some of the villagers did. Now he felt a tinge of excitement in finally being able to meet the man who had made his father so powerful.

Naruto was royally pissed off! He, Sasuke and Hinata had been waiting for almost four hours for their Kakashi to arrive. Naruto knew Kakashi had a tendency to arrive late, but to take so long to come to their first ever team meeting was just plain absurd. Finally Kakashi arrived, walking in with an Icha Icha Paradise book in his hands, Naruto suddenly used Shunshin and appeared in front of the pervert, holding a wrist knife under his neck. Kakashi blinked and began to sweat.

"Kakashi nii-chan I will tie you to a post and shred those books of yours before your eyes before revealing your true face to the world if you ever come late to a team meeting again," Naruto roared at the man.

Kakashi paled slightly but still drawled, "I'd like to see you try Naruto. You might be rookie of the year, but I don't think you're good enough to take me down yet."

"You'd be surprised pervert!"

"Naruto, while I'm your sensei I won't allow you to call me that, got it? It undermines my authority," Kakashi said, his eye twitching at the comment.

"It's not like it will make a difference sensei. You might actually have some standing in our eyes if you came on time, but since you didn't we see no reason to give you authority or any control over us," Sasuke said, and Hinata gave the slightest nod in agreement.

"Well, I guess that wasn't the best way to start out, but now come and meet me on the roof, we'll talk more there." With that he disappeared in a swirl of leaves. Sasuke did the same, and Naruto grabbed on to Hinata before teleporting them both to the roof.

"You really h-have to teach me how to do that Naruto-kun," Hinata said quietly to him, and he gave her a nod and a toothy smile.

"Okay, we'll introduce ourselves first. Tell me your, likes, dislikes, hobbies, dreams and ambitions. I'll start. My name is Hatake Kakashi, I have many likes and dislikes, and one dream," My one dream is to see you grow to be great Naruto, and do your father, my sensei proud. Prove yourself to be his legacy.

"B-but sensei! All we learnt about you is your name and the fact that you have one dream," Hinata said.

"Yeah Kakashi-pervert!" Naruto said.

"And that's all you'll get out of me. You next Hinata."

"M-my name is Hyuuga Hinata. My likes are my little sister, Naruto-kun and Sasuke-kun. My only d-dislike is the way my clan is run. My hobbies are training and m-making medical cream. My dream is to change the Hyuuga clan for the better." I hope you triumph in your endeavours Hinata, and perhaps you really are the one that can divert the Hyuuga clan from the accursed path they follow.

"You next Sasuke."

"My name is Uchiha Sasuke. My likes... hmmm, I suppose the dobe and Hinata, I also like training. My dislikes... I have many dislikes, but the things I hate are fangirls. Hobbies, training and reading jutsu scrolls. My dream is to rebuild my clan, my ambition to grow strong enough to kill a certain someone, and to help my friends recognise their dreams." Interesting, not as bad as I thought it would be, Naruto must have had an extremely positive effect on him.

"You're up next loudmouth," Kakashi said, this was the bit he would find most interesting.

"I'm Kazama Naruto. My likes are my friends, training, beating up Sasuke-teme and RAMEN! All flavours and types with all toppings, ramen is the best! My dislikes are the 181 seconds I have to wait before I can eat my ramen, three seconds to cook and one second to get to my lips. I also hate people who belittle and undermine others and bullies. My dream is to become the greatest Hokage, better than my father, so that I can protect my precious people and so that everyone will acknowledge me!"

"Okay, that'll be all for today, but I want you all back here 7am tomorrow. Your real Genin test is tomorrow, and before you start yelling Naruto let me explain. The test you took at the academy was to differentiate between the talent less and the hopefuls; the next test has a 66.6 fail rate. If you don't pass you go back to the academy. By the way don't eat anything... you'll puke," saying this Kakashi turned around, pulling out his book and vanished into the foliage.

"That pervert! We spent the last six hours here for that?!" Naruto ranted incredulously. "Anyway, you guys want to go to that BBQ place Chouji's always on about?"

His team mates looked at him in amazement. Sasuke had is mouth open, and Hinata was staring at him.

"Did... you just say... BBQ?" Sasuke said

Naruto was confused at their reaction, "Hai."

"Who are you and what have you done with the real Naruto? The Naruto I knew would never ask to go somewhere other than Ichiraku Ramen! We would always have to force you to somewhere else." Sasuke said.

"I a-agree with Sasuke-kun, Naruto-kun," Hinata said, still staring at him in amazement.

Naruto scratched the back of his head a slight grin on his face, "Well, I just thought we should have a change, besides, noodles are great, but I need something else in diet, ne?"

Sasuke and Hinata just continued to stare at him for about five minutes before they left for the restaurant.

"Asuma-sensei are you gonna teach us any cool jutsus now that we've passed?" Ino asked excitedly. Asuma smirked as he dragged on his cigarette, he took it out of his mouth and ground it against an ash tray in front of him and took a swig of sake before talking.

"Ino, I might teach you some mid-level taijutsu and basic ninjutsu, nothing above low B-rank, but I think I'll let you guys stick with family jutsus, they seem to fit you guys pretty well. I'll also teach you basic genjutsu, and basic weapon handling. That should be enough to get you to high genin r very low chunin level depending on how well you use the skills."

Shikamaru had his head down on the table, and was asleep, while Chouji sat wolfing down the BBQ for everyone, before his sensei and Ino could notice. Just then the genins of Team 7 walked through the door, chatting casually. Ino spotted Naruto's blonde mane of hair, and saw Hinata and Sasuke behind him.

She jumped to her feet and waved her arms at them, "Yo! Guys! Over here." Naruto turned and saw Ino frantically waving to get their attention. He flashed her a grin before walking towards her.

"Hey Ino," Naruto said, as Sasuke stuck up a hand in greeting and Hinata murmured a few words. "What's your sensei like, I mean he must be pretty good is he's Ojii-san's son."

"So you're Naruto. My dad's always on about you, and how you're a genius or prodigy or something like that. I guess I'll have to see you in action at some point," Asuma said.

Naruto blushed at the compliment, "I don't think I'm a genius or a prodigy, I've just worked hard to gain the skills I have now." Asuma nodded in acknowledgement.

"Hey, why don't you guys join us? I could use some company, Shika's just a lazy bum and Chouji's mouth is always too full to talk to him," Ino pleaded.

Naruto looked at his team mates before turning around and agreeing. They ordered more food, and spent a few more hours chatting. Asuma talked to Naruto about the sword across his back and what techniques he had. When he heard Naruto found wind jutsus the easiest, but could also do all other elemental jutsus quite easily too he was shocked, but when Naruto asked him about it he said it was nothing, and carried on talking.

Hope that was a good chapter, may have lots of grammatical errors, I did it real quick

I'll try and update quicker next time )

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