I don't really have anything to say. I'll update a little more now that school is out. Hope you enjoy the chapter!

When we went to go get ramen, Iruka explained everything to me. A bunch of stuff I already knew, like me having the nine-tailed fox inside me, but he also gave me a lot of useful advice. One thing that he told me was that the hard part of being a shinobi was just beginning. He talked about killing people, which I'm fine with. The way Truth changed me, I don't care about killing people anymore. He probably did the same with the twins. Though I still don't know what to call them now that they are him. That sounds weird. I'll need to find out a better way to phrase that. After all that, he sent me home.

The next day I walked into class. I sat down next to Raiu. "Didn't you not graduate?" He asked.

"Please, I did the forest thing. I'm a genin now."
"The forest thing… You know the shadow clone jutsu now?" His face lit up.

"No."
"What?"

"Well…" I began but was cut off by our teacher.

"Beginning today, all of you are real ninjas… but you are still only genin. The hard part has just started. You will soon be assigned duties by the village, so you will be put into teams of three, each team led by a jounin teacher. You will follow your teacher's instructions as you complete your assigned duties." Iruka called out teams, and only two stuck with me. "Team Four, Yau Watanabe, Tsubasa Ikedo, and Sakura Haruno." Wasn't that the person from Beyblade. Wait, I forgot who Cinder was, but I remember that Tsubasa was a character from Beyblade. Because why not? I looked and saw the three people coming together. He even looks like Tsubasa. These are the important things to know.

But what's interesting is Sakura isn't on my team. I wonder who else is on my team. Wait no, this is obvious.

"Team Seven, Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and Raiu Raiden." Yeah, not surprising.

"This afternoon we'll introduce your Jounin teachers. Go take a break until then."

"Come on, let's go. I'll fill you in." I waved to Raiu. I led him to the roof of my house.

"So what did you do?" He asked.

"I got this." I made the unique hand sign. "Kuroi Tenshi No Shoji Jutsu!"

"That is pretty cool." He smiled. "But the Shadow Clone Jutsu kicks butt!"
"Well yeah, but I'm a special little snowflake!" I laughed.

"Did you really just do it to be different?" He asked.

"Maybe." I grabbed the back of his trenchcoat. "I'm in the mood for some ramen." I then jumped off of the roof.

When we got back to the classroom, Sasuke was waiting for us, along with most of the other people in our class. "You're late." He said.

"Well, our teacher hasn't come yet. So we should be good."

Jounin came and went, taking their teams with them. Kakashi took a very long time. "Wake me up when they get here." I put my head down and drifted off. With all that happened, I didn't get a good night's sleep last night.

I was shaken awake. I opened my eyes and looked around the room. "He's coming down the hall." Raiu said.

When he walked in I waved. "Hello, Sensei." I yawned really loudly after this. "Sorry sir, I just woke up."
"Idiot." Raiu snickered.

"Oh, shut up."

"How can I say this?" Kakashi asked, drawing our attention to him. "My first impression of this group is… you're a bunch of idiots." Ouch. "Let's go somewhere else, follow me." We followed him to a rooftop that had these arches... and trees. I'm not really how that's supposed to work, but whatever. We sat on some steps while the senior ninja sat on a railing on the other end of the roof. "Alright, why don't you introduce yourselves, one at a time."

"Introduce ourselves?" Raiu asked.

"Yeah, like tell us the things you like, dislikes, future goals, hobbies, stuff like that."

"Okay. I'm Naruto Uzumaki" I said. "I like hanging out with my friend and fire, I don't like idiots, my goal is to become a strong ninja, one able to protect the people close to me, and my hobbies would be…" I paused at this, thinking for a moment. "Oh, right, completely destroying Raiu when we spar."

"Hey!"

"Well, how about you?" He pointed at Raiu.

"My name is Raiu Raiden. I like my parents, they're pretty cool, I don't like working really hard, I want to have fun with my life, and my hobbies would be beating Naruto to a bloody pulp."

"Please, I can destroy you, peasant."

"What about you?" Our new teacher quickly changed the subject.

"My name is Sasuke Uchiha. There are a lot of things I dislike, and I don't really like anything in particular. And… I don't want to use the word "Dream" but… I have ambition. The resurrection of my clan and… to kill a certain man."

"That's… interesting?" Raiu asked, trying to break the awkward silence that followed.

"Good, you're each unique and have your own ideas. We'll have our first mission tomorrow."

"Wait." Sasuke interrupted him. "You never told us your name."

"Kakashi Hatake."

"What kind of mission are we going to have?" Raiu asked.

"It's a task that the four of us will do together. It will be a survival exercise. This will also not be like your previous training."

"What kind of training will it be then?" I asked

Kakashi laughed. "If I tell you the answer, you're not going to like it." He said this, almost in a singsong. "Of the twenty-seven graduates, only nine will be recognized as a genin. The other eighteen will be sent back to the academy. This will be a make it or break it pass/fail test. The chance that you'll fail is sixty-six percent or higher"

"Oh, that sucks." I grimaced.

"See, I told you, you wouldn't like it." He jumps up onto the railing. "Oh, and don't eat breakfast, you'll throw up."

"What?" I exclaimed. I forgot what it was we're going to do.

"Bye." He waved and disappeared.

The next day we all arrived on time at the right place. Except for Kakashi, of course. I assume Sasuke didn't eat breakfast, but Raiu remembered what we were going to do. So we both cheated and ate breakfast. When Kakashi finally got here, we all just stared at him. "You're late." Riau said.

He set up a timer. "This is set for noon. I have two bells. Those who don't get any bells by noon, won't get any lunch. Not only will I tie you to one of these stumps, but I will eat in front of you. There are only two bells, so one of you will be tied to a stump. That person will also fail and be sent back to the Academy." He stared at us seriously. "You can even use shuriken. You won't succeed unless you come at me with killing intent." He looked at us for a second. "Ready? Begin!" I nodded at Raiu and we jumped off in the same direction.

"Okay, so we know this is about teamwork, right?" I asked. He nodded. "Sasuke won't go on with any plan we come up with, so what I thought we could do is wait until he attacks, and use him as a distraction."

"That's smart. So just stalk Kakashi?"

"Yep. I'll tell you the plan while we wait."