Disclaimer: I OWN NONE OF NARUTO though I wish I did.
Before anything I would like to thank every one who has read this story so far. I know that it isn't really the best but I will do as much as I can to keep the story going and I want it to be known that I will update at least once a week so with out further ado
Chapter three
The separation of Teams and meeting of the team
The sun rose over Konoha as if it was any other day but to many it was not just a usual day. To many people this is the day that they have been waiting for. It is the day of graduation for the academy students and today is the day that they will become genin. Many of the students have awoken with hope and energy in them hearts (many of the girls hope of having Sasuke Uchiha on there team). Now there is a girl who awoke with different feelings and that is where our story starts.
My eyes snapped open as I stared at the ceiling as I did most of the night. I quickly get up and grab my clothes and my towel and head for the bathroom. The as I walk down the hall of the hyuga complex I look out one of the few windows that are installed of the house. The sun was just peaking over the top of the houses and just as quickly I started back to the showers. Once I walked into the bathroom I quickly stripped my sleeping kimono and turned on the water making sure not to have it to hot or cold. I stepped in the shower and started to think. Today I am to become a kunoichi. I may have to kill someone for a solid second I couldn't stop the shudder that passes through my body. I quickly get those thoughts out of my head, and turn off the shower I quickly get dressed and then throw on my hoodie. I finished getting dressed and ready for the rest of the day when I stop and think of the graduation ceremony. I wonder who will be on my team, straight away I think of a blond haired boy with eyes of the sea. I feel my face heat up as my signature blush appears. I wish that Naruto-kun would be on my team but he failed is it selfish to wish that we could be on the same team? Oh it is selfish I would just hold him back but then again I will be doing that no matter what team I am on. I drop my head and can't stop thinking about how I am going to hold everyone back. I had made it back to my room so I quickly threw my clothes in the dirty hamper and then I look at my clock and see that it is already 8:30 and I should be going to breakfast so I walk to the dinning room.
The table is already set and the servants are already getting the food ready. As usual I go and start to brew the tea for my father, sister and I. Even though we have plenty of servants my father insist that I brew the tea every morning and every other meal. Many say it is because that is what a proper woman should do but I don't think so. I think it is because I make the tea just like my mother use to. My mother was one of the most beautiful women that I have ever met and also the kindest. She loved me even though I was a weakling; I feel the usual depression when I start to think of my mother. She passed away from giving birth to Hanabi but I know that it was just time for her to go. "Nee-Chan" my sister walks in as always with a straight face and blank eyes. Hanabi is what every Hyuga should strive to be. She does everything effortless and with out showing emotion. She is so young yet so good at everything that she tries. I can't help but be a bit envious of my sister but at the same time I am so proud of her. My sister moves to the table and sits down on in the chair to the left of the head of the table while I sit on the right as I usually do. I set the tea in front of my sister and set one where my father will sit as I pour one in my own does my father come in. He walks at a leisurely pace and sits in the head chair and reaches for his cup. As the servants start to dish out the meals, my father sips at his tea. Breakfast are normally the quiet meals of the day no one speaks and it is normally just my father, my sister and I. Dinner is usual the meal with a most of the family and at the same time it is the meal that the elders usual are at. Those are the meals I hate the most because those are the meals where everything that I do is scrutinized and looked down at. I feel like I am pathetic during those meals because no matter what I try, I am always just a failure. "You graduate today correct?" I was so lost in thought that I am startled by my father's words and that is what causes me to accidently knock over my teacup. My father doesn't even blink as he stares at me but his eyes have darkened and yet again I am seen as a failure. I start to clean the table with my napkin. "Y-Y-Yes, F-F-F-Father." I quickly advert my eyes from my father as I start to dwindle my fingers. "Good, Don't bring shame to the family." He then starts to eat his break feast. I start to nibble at my break feast until I have finally finished most of it. I then turn and bow to my father as I go to leave, the academy would be starting soon and I needed to finish my morning route. As I slide open the door leading to the garden. "Hinata remember what every you do reflects on our clan do not be the one to shame our clan." With out a word I just step out of the house and close the door behind me.
As I walk through the garden and through a path that I always go. I keep thinking that today is the day, I am going to be on a team and it was my future right here. Finally I make it to a shrine that is in the middle of the garden. It is made of marble and shapes into an angle. This statue/ shrine was dedicated to my mother. Every morning that I can, I come to this shrine and pray to my mother. "Mom, I am leaving for the day. Please give me strength for today is the day that I will truly become a kunoichi." I box to the stone and then I dart out of the garden and head to the academy.
I slowly start to get lost in my anxiety as I walk to the academy. What will happen when I become apart of this new team? I hope that they understand that I am not that strong. A high pitch squeal breaks me out of my thought and I also know that Sasuke is around because that is the sound of fan girls. I suddenly feel a huge weight on top of me. I quickly spin myself so that I can see who is on top of me and sure enough it is Sasuke. He jumped back up and quickly looked around as the sound of squeal grew louder, he seemed to be more panicked he grabbed me and dragged me to an alley. We were pushed up against a shadow as a massive throng of fan girls ran right past the entrance of the alleyway. Once we stayed there for a few more moments as we waited for they're only to be silence. In this moment I took my opportunity to observe Sasuke. Dark hair, Dark eyes, nice physical form, and with out even thinking I quickly took a sniff of Sasuke. I couldn't stop myself from being confused because Sasuke seemed to smell of … Tomatoes of all things. Since we have been in this position for a few minutes I felt that now would be the time to say something.
"Um U-U-Uchiha-san would you p-p-p-please let m-m-m-me go?" Sasuke looked down at me and quickly jumped away from me as if I was scalding. I quickly fled the alley not wanting to be in the same area with Sasuke for to long. I didn't stop until I was sure that I had made it to the Academy and was at my desk. I sit down and start to watch my classmates slowly fill in the spots around me. I observe everyone around me and realize that I won't see most of these students again. They will all go onto other teams and all be ninjas.
"Akamaru, stop wiggling so much!" Kiba says this as he walks into to classroom and keeps pushing the white puppy down into his hoodie. I quickly face down in my desk and try not to look up. It's not like I don't like Kiba he just scares me a little bit. I am sure he is a nice guy; he just seems a bit savage. Oh how rude I am being thinking such a horrible thought. As usual though Kiba quickly waves at the other students and starts to talk to the other boys. He is super popular everyone seems to like Kiba. I see a glance of orange and sure there is only one ninja that I know of who wears orange, I turn and sure enough there is Naruto Uzumaki but instead of the goggles that normally wear on his head is now a Ninja Head band (forgot what it was actually called so if you know would you please tell me thank you). So Naruto-kun passed the exam after all.
The heat slowly started to make its way up my body as usual. I couldn't stop my blush from taking over yet again. "Naruto This is only for people who graduated so why are you here?" Shikamaru Nara was a nice person though very lazy. He was smart even though he slept through class so why did he slack off. I quickly shake my head yet again a horrible thought. Why am I being so rude today, I am so glad that my thoughts are my own or else I would be ridiculed for my thoughts? I miss Naruto-kun's response, as the last of class seemed to fill in.
"I AM GOING TO SIT NEXT TO SASUKE-KUN!" "NO I AM GOING TO SIT NEXT TO SASUKE!" "DON'T ARGUE WITH ME INO PIG!" "NO DON'T YOU ARGUE WITH ME BILL BOARD BROW!" The usual argument between those two was broken up when Naruto started to have a staring contest with Sasuke. The person in front of Naruto stood up abruptly which caused Naruto to fall forward on Sasuke and their lips locked. For the first time in our many years of being in this classroom all was silent. Naruto and Sasuke burst apart and coughing up and trying to get the saliva out of one another's mouth. While this was happening I try to think of other things because the heat has finally taken over my entire face.
That is the reason that I missed out on the beating. I look at the class and see that everyone has slowly started to fall back to its usual stead. It seems that Sakura has won the battle for the seat next to Sasuke and Naruto was the poor soul to get next to her. Even though to him this might not be a torture but more so a wonderful sign from god, Then in walks Iruka-sensei and the room falls silent and for the first time the class seems to realize just what is actually happening.
"Today is the day that you go into becoming real Ninjas. This is the last time you may see some of your comrades in this room but you will also grow to be great students. Finally I want to say just how proud I am of you and that I know that you will all be great ninja and that I am proud to have been your teacher and none of you will ever understand just how much I care about all of you. With out further a due let's talk about team cells." The entire room seems to lean forward and listen more than we ever had. Iruka started to count through teams each time a team was finished being assigned I felt myself get a bit more nervous.
I was waiting for certain names, mainly the names of the clan heirs in this room. "Team 7 is Naruto-Uzumaki, Kiba-Inuzuka, and Ino-Yamanaka your sensei is Kurenai Yuhi." Ino stood up and slammed her hands on the desk. "Are you kidding me? I have to be in a group with dog breath and the outcast! And more so how am I not on the same team as my Sasuke-kun?" "Ino sit down and you need to realize that these two are your teammates and they were chosen by the hokage himself! So he knows what he was doing just trust in your Hokage."
A beautiful woman with long black hair and red eyes came into the room many people were hushed into silence as her beauty awed many. "I am Kurenai and I am here to pick up team 7." Kiba and Naruto Jumped up and let out a sound of pure delight. "Hear that Akamaru our sensei is a total babe!" "HELL YEA SHE IS!" Kurenai just turns around and starts to walk away with the two boys fallowing her and an Ino who still seemed in shell shock. The room returned back to its tense silent nature the second that the boys were both gone.
"Okay so team 8 is composed of Sasuke Uchiha" just like that you could see every single girl in the class beside myself turn and give their full attention. "Shikamaru Nara" we all heard a thump and when I look over and I see Shikamaru's head had hit the table and I don't know if this was out of despair or out of his usual tiredness. The room seemed to grow even tenser while everyone waited for the kunoichi for team 8. "Hinata Hyuga" The room was silent for quite awhile until finally a girl in the second row spoke up "Who is Hinata Hyuga?" At that I can't help but lean further down in my seat and hope to disappear.
"Isn't she the quite girl in the back?" At that moment every person's eyes turn to look in my direction. I do what anyone else in my situation would do lean even further down and try not to be seen. "Any ways you're three's sensei will be Kakashi Hatake and he will be late like always." The room seemed to shudder as the dark entities that were fan girls all turned to glare at me. Because I was in the middle of trying to slide down the chair I missed the assigning of team 9 but was able to snap out of it to listen to the assigning of team 10. "Sakura Haruno, Choji Akimichi, Shino Aburame and your sensei will be Asuma Sarutobi."
I quickly plugged my ears knowing what was going to happen. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! HINATA GETS THE SLOTH AND MY SASUKE BUT I AM STUCK WITH THE BUG FREAK AND FATSO!" "DID YOU JUST CALL ME FAT? I AM JUST BIG BONED!" right as Sakura and Choji seemed to be ready for a brawl, an older man with a cigarette in his mouth walked in. He took in the scene and his first words were "Fuck, all right team 10 fallow me." He turns and starts to walk away with Choji, Sakura and Shino fallowing him. All I can think is poor Shino stuck with those two. We sat there, as all of the students slowly left with their senseis, until an hour has gone by and our sensei still has not arrived.
The room has been silent this entire time because each of us were natural quiet people but you could tell that Sasuke was agitated by how quickly his eyes seemed to dart around the room trying to find something to glare at. Shikamaru seemed not to care but something was off it seemed like he was thinking about something important. I could tell this because of the way his body was tense and more so about how even though he had his eyes closed he seemed to have a certain thoughtful look upon his face. Then there was me who just sat there twiddling my hands and would only raise my eyes to glance at my two teammates. The door slid open and in stepped a holder man with pure white hair his was wearing a vest along with the usual ninja pants that everyone wore. The oddest thing though was that his headband was covering up one of his eyes. "My first opinion on all of you are all anti social and this team will never work." Suddenly the room felt a bit more chilling and the three of us seemed to stare down Kakashi-sensei. "Meet me on the roof." He made a hand sign and just like that he was gone.
The three of us get our feet and start to walk towards the roof in a leisurely pace. None of us ran up the stairs we all just walked until we stopped right before the roof. Shikamaru turns and looks at us both and for the first time his eyes have a different look to them instead of the bored look that is normally on his face his eyes have turned sharper and seemed to sparkle with knowledge. "From his moment we are a team and that means we have to have each others back and we understand one another." As Shikamaru says this he mainly stares at Sasuke. Sasuke seemed to look Shikamaru up and down; he then looks away from Shikamaru. "I don't care what happens just don't get in my way." Sasuke then walks past Shikamaru and opens the door. The sigh from Shikamaru seemed to echo around the stair well. He goes to grab the door handle when suddenly I grab the back of his jacket. He turns and looks at me with the same calculating eyes as before. "I a-a-a-agree with you N-N-N-Nara-chan." He looks at me and with him looking at me I can't help my blush from taking over my entire face.
"Good because it will take both of us to convince Sasuke." He then walks through the door leaving me with my though. I take a deep breath and walk through the door. Will I be able to convince Sasuke? Can I be good enough to actually help Shikamaru? I will just try my best to not get in the way. I push open the door and sure enough I see the backs of Sasuke and Shikamaru as they look at Kakashi. I quickly sit in between the two; Kakashi seems to be busy reading his book so we just sit there for a few minutes. After a few minutes Shikamaru lays back so that he is looking up. I just stay attentive and then Sasuke finally looks up. "Are you just going to stand there and not ask us anything?" At that Kakashi finally closed his book away and looks at the three of us. "I am your sensei and I want you to tell me your name, likes, dislikes, your dreams, and finally say something about a team."
"Why don't you go first Sensei" Shikamaru says this as he starts to sit up from laying back. "My name is Kakashi Hatake, I don't care to tell you my likes or dislikes, my dreams aren't of importance to you and finally I hope to flunk this team. Your turn pineapple head." Shikamaru's eyes seemed to have grown in size at this particular insult but that seemed to be his only reaction. "My name is Shikamaru, my likes are sleeping and cloud watching, my dislikes are anything that uses lots of energy and crazy girls that make me do work. I originally thought that I was going to be on a team with Ino and Choji because of our parents but that didn't happen so I hope this team can get me to chunin and then I can keep my plan to have a simple life." Kakashi nods at this, then he points to Sasuke. "You next mister depression." Sasuke doesn't show any emotion to this and he just moves his hands away from his mouth. "My name is Sasuke Uchiha, I have few dislikes and I have even fewer likes. I don't have a dream but I do have a future that will happen. I will kill a man no matter what and nothing will stop me from doing that. As for this team the only thing I want from this team is to make sure that they aren't in my way." The group had gone silent for a few seconds and I couldn't stop from looking at Sasuke. To have such hatred in his voice, along with the way his eyes went cold. I knew that Shikamaru was looking at Sasuke. It must be what happened to his family. To lose your entire clan, I can't imagine what it is like to lose everyone who loved you.
I then realize that everyone had turned and started to look at me. I realize that it must be my turn. "M-m-m-my name is Hi-Hinata Hyuga, I l-l-l-like pressing f-f-f-flowers, and I a-a-also like t-t-t-training, I d-d-dislike people who t-t-t-think that k-k-k-kindness is w-weakness along with t-t-those who misuse t-t-t-their strength. My d-dream is to b-become a strong n-ninja and to make my family proud. A-as for my teammates, I o-only have o-o-one goal with my teammates and that is to protect them and help them reach their goals." Slowly through out my speech I felt the little heat of confidence start to come up but now that there is no conversation I can't help but feel embarrassed. I glance up and see Kakashi seeming to be smiling through his eye. "Wait what do you mean fail this team?" Sasuke is right. Why did Kakashi say I want to fail this team? This question even got Shikamaru's attention, as he seemed to straighten also.
"Well that's simple out of all the students who just got put on teams only 9 of them will actually become genin. And it is decided by a test given by the sensei. So tomorrow at nine AM go to training ground 8 and I will give you this test by the way make sure you don't eat or you will throw up, have a good night." With that he disappeared yet again. Sasuke just gets up and leaves with out a word but it is something I can't stop thinking. I haven't become a genin yet, I was barley able to pass the first test there was no way that I am going to pass this one. I am going to fail and bring my entire family shame.
"Hey remember we are teammates you have my back and I have yours. We will pass this test because of that." I look up and see Shikamaru standing above me. He pats my head and then leaves the rooftop. He is right I haven't failed yet and now I have a more important reason not to fail. I have to help my teammates. I get up and start to walk to the door that leads to the stairwell if I am going to help my teammates, I have to be strong and that is what I will do. I need to rest to be ready for this test. Tomorrow is a new day.
End of chapter 3
WOO I GOT A FALLOWER NO MAKE THAT TWO THIS IS GREAT! I want to thank those who have left comments and really think well of this. I originally put this out because my friend said I have to get out of my shell more so I made this story. I gave my self a 24 hour window if someone hadn't commented on it or if they had said something bad I would delete it but I am so happy that you like it I want to thank every one and I will try to keep it up with writing.
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