June: hey, I've struggled big time writing this chapter, I've had some really bad inspiration at the moment, does anyone else hate really badly written Angst?
Kit: everyone in the world hates that sweetie!
June: I would like to say a big thankyou to 4 particular reviewers, Storm1rain, Ai Megami Murasaki, Emeralde and BlueBragon. They've been really helpful, and sorry I know it was a stupid cliffy! Also there is an AUTHORS NOTE AT THE END! PLEASE READ! BECAUSE IT WILL TELL YOU WHERE I AM TAKING THIS STORY!
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ANBU Elements
Chapter 6: A New Team And Consequences
Written By June x
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"In Team 7 will be, Uchiha Sasuke, Shikamaru Nara and Hinata Hyuuga," Kiba patted Shikamaru on the back who just said troublesome. "in Team 8 will be, Shino Aburame, Sakura Haruno and Chouji Akimichi," Sakura who had been crying over not being with Sasuke just began to cry harder at her 'misfortune' " and in Team 10 will be Naruto Uzumaki," Naruto tensed who would be his team mates? "Kiba Inuzuka," SCORE! he got his friend! Naruto and Kiba jumped up with a cheer "and Ino Yamanaka." no, no NO!!!!!!!! Naruto faintly heard Ino cheering through his horror, something about 'True Love', Kami hated Naruto - FACT! Naruto resorted to whacking his head against the table repeatedly, all the boys even Sasuke pitied the guy, he was stuck with his ultimate fan girl, it was a horror they were glad they would never suffer, but Naruto would, the poor, poor guy.
"When your all finished, you are dismissed for lunch and afterwards you will be meeting your new Jounin senseis. I am proud of you for making it to Genin, your life as a Konoha ninja starts now! Class dismissed!"
And with that Naruto stood up, thoughts wondering about who their sensei would be, Maybe Kakashi? nah, he's been my sensei for too long, and also he has a bad habit of favouritism, wouldn't be fair to my teammates. Asuma? I'm not sure, I know he has a wind-affinity, but that's about it. What do you think Kyuu?
There's always that Genjutsu mistress Raven was always going on about, but I think she's still a Chunin.
Damn, she could have helped me with my worst area, what was her name again?
Kurodai? no, Kirinai? no, that's not it either.
Kurenai!
Thats the one!
Kurenai, hmn, I think I heard something about her from Anko the other day. What was she being all sadistic about again?
Erm, Chunin exams?
No, they're not for another couple of months, but I think it might have been the Jounin exam!
In that case, your in luck kid, you might have a decent sensei! Screw that, you might actually be able to learn something after this year of NOTHING!
Yatta!
Alright! I hope I get her as my sensei. Oh Kami no! Ino's coming over what's the betting she wants to have lunch with me, she'll come out with some corny line like, 'Ano, Naruto-kun, since we're team mates and all, I thought we should eat together, to get to know each other more'
Good imitation, though I'm not sure I was fond of the girly voice, so never use it again.
Ino came over and as Naruto predicted asked him to eat lunch with her. "Ano, Naruto-kun, since we're team mates..." At times like these Naruto hated being right. Forcing a smile Naruto replied to Inos offer.
"Sure Ino-san..." Inos face lit up "So lets go invite Kiba, he IS on our team as well." Inos face fell, she didn't think through her plan clearly enough.
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So Ino, Kiba and Naruto walked up to the Academy roof to eat their lunch, surprisingly enough as a team they communicated a lot. Key word COMMUNICATED. This included shouting, Kiba and Ino had some very interesting opinions about the other, some of their insults were quite impressive, the only time he had seen this kind of humorous argument was in his old team. Though that involved a lot more glaring.
Flashback
It was lunch break for the ANBU Element team, Naruto and Raven were sat in the tree, discussing the ultimate jutsu, Kawaii and Llida were busy making flower statues and Sai? Sai was behind Naruto putting Operation: Naru-Chan into progress. Catching the poor blond off guard, Sai pounced on him knocking Naruto out of the tree, Naruto dazed by the fall was completely vulnerable to Sais plan, Sai begin unzipping Narutos pants, only to be thrown into the air, kicked into the tree and having a blade pressed against his neck, all within one moment and done by one very angry Kunoichi.
"What were you doing to my sunshine? Sai-baka" Raven hissed at him, her voice was laced with venom, Sai shuddered but decided to play it cool.
"Finding out if he really was a boy or a girl!" Sai chirped. The statement was received by a hysterical blond blowing a fuse and screaming at his perverted friend that he was a goddamn guy! So Sai and Naruto fell into a pattern.
"Guy!" Naruto screamed
"Girl!" Sai replied
"Guy!" Naruto screamed
"Girl!" Sai replied
"Guy!" Naruto screamed
"Guy" Sai tricked
"Girl!" Naruto screamed
Sai smirked, Naruto screamed in frustration that he had fallen for such an obvious trick.
Realising this was going nowhere Raven interrupted "Sai-baka, take this as your official warning, touch MY Naruto in that way again and you die a very, very painful death, K?" and Raven said all this in a sickingly sweet tone. So Sai just glared, so Raven returned the glare, and Naruto just continued to glare at the raven haired boy, and then Kawaii got bored and decided to join the public display of glaring at Sai. Llida though didn't understand glaring, she didn't understand much of angry nature, and so innocently asked why everyone was so desperate to burn a hole in Sais head, and if they were THAT desperate, she would get them a magnifying glass (A/n if you direct sunlight by a magnifying glass it can burn holes, I learnt that in toystory! also its meant to be great fun on ants, how sadistic). Everyone just sweatdropped at the nymphs innocence, before shaking their heads and going back to whatever they were doing previously, with the exception of Sai who was rolling on the floor laughing at Llidas comment, which really wasn't that funny. No, really it wasn't, but according to Sai's books when someone makes a joke your meant to laugh hysterically, even when the joke isn't funny, it's called being polite.(sweatdrop).
End Flashback
Naruto silently laughed at the memory, in his own opinion, a team wouldn't be a team, without rivalry and bickering, a team was meant to be your family, and it was small things like that which showed how much you truly cared. After all arguments are caused because you value the other persons opinion and thoughts, you wouldn't retaliate otherwise.
As Naruto snapped back to reality, he tried to concentrate on what his team mates were arguing about, something about noodles? Oh, now he got it, Kiba said Inos hair looked like noodles, so she was calling him dog breath. Mm noodles, damn, now he wanted ramen, maybe he could go to Ichirakus (sp?) ...
"...Right, Naruto-kun?" Ino asked, Naruto just stared into space "Er.. Naruto-kun?"
"Oi, Naruto!" Kiba yelled, Naruto looked up.
"Huh?" Kiba sweatdropped.
"Naruto-baka, Ino tried to..." Kiba was unable to finish his sentence because Ino whacked him round the head "Itai! Nani?"
"Don't call Naruto-kun a baka, your not worthy of talking to him, your a nothing..." Ino stopped mid-sentence, because someone had a very tight grip on her still raised hand.
Naruto was glaring at her and killer intent was radiating off him, he tightened his grip and Ino winced, Naruto was scaring her, she was only protecting his pride, why was he acting like this? Ino gulped. Naruto then loosened his grip, but still keeping a firm hold on her, jerked her forward and put a arm round her waist. Ino took a few minutes to comprehend their position and then blushed, she was in Narutos arms, her face and hands against his chest, she then felt Naruto lean forward slightly, he then whispered in her ear.
"Ino-san, don't get me wrong, I am prepared to work with you, you are a good kunoichi, and I am flattered you are so willing to protect my pride..." He began, his voice then became a dangerous tone, laced with warnings of pain. "But if you ever, and I mean ever, insult my precious people again, you WILL pay the price. Do not make the same mistake again, I would like for us to have good teamwork on this team. Understood?" Ino just meekly nodded, Naruto then pulled away leaving a very flushed Ino in his wake. Walking off leaving his team mates stunned, he yelled back to them "Are you guys coming or not? Don't you want to find out who our sensei is?" Shaking themselves out of their reverie, Ino and Kiba hurried after their team mate.
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Ino, Kiba and Naruto had somehow begun to chat normally by the time they reached the classroom, they were currently discussing their ideal sensei, taking seats at the back next to each other, they began to list the ideal qualities.
Ino started "Hmmn, first of all a female, good fashion sense, brains, determination, courage and beauty" Ino nodded "Yep, definately beauty, a kunoichis beauty is the best weapon against male shinobi. How about you Kiba?"
"Gender doesn't matter, I want a sensei with a sense of humour, who's skilled, brave and fun." Kiba answered, though secretly he would have liked a beautiful kunoichi as their sensei "Ne, Naruto, what about you?"
"I already know who I would like as a sensei, she fits a majority of the qualities you listed, and she's probably one of the few here in Konoha who I have a lot to learn from. But my sensei has these qualities, understanding, calm demeanour, skills, determination, bravery, loyalty, brains, cunning and the ability to love." Naruto replied.
"Ano, Naruto-kun, you sounded like you already have a sensei with those qualities." Naruto turned to Ino with a glint in his eye.
"Hai, Ino, well done on noticing, I have had five senseis, two fitting those qualities, one who was too sadistic, one who was lazy and always late, and another who was corrupted by the three sins of man; drink, money and women." Ino and Kiba both listened intently, after all if they were going to be working together they had to know about each others training, abilities and such. They looked up from their conversation and had to stifle laughter at the sight of the faces of the three people walking in.
Sakura looked completely and utterly depressed, anyone would think she was an emo, rather than one of many rabid Sasuke fangirls. Shino had his brow furrowed in annoyance and was blatantly glaring at the pink-haired kunoichi. Chouji though looked petrified at the aura his two team mates were emitting, he was so scared, he was not even eating.
Sakura then decided she was going to be a little 'Miss Prissy' and lead the group stalking off to a load of desks far from Naruto and co. she loudly announced "My team will sit here." Naruto raised an eyebrow and Kiba and Ino had to restrain themselves from yelling at the stuck up kunoichi. Shino who was obviously fed up with the pink haired miss perfect stormed away from his team and sat down next to Narutos team, much to Sakuras anger, just as she opened her mouth to shriek at him, Chouji interrupted.
"Sakura, shut up! We've had to put up with you whining about Sasuke and this team, you don't like us and we don't like you! So we'll be damned if we have to spend more time with you than necessary." Everyone in the room blinked in shock, except for Shino, if he did it will remain unknown. Chouji, kind hearted, generous, not a nasty bone in his body, Chouji, had just told Sakura where to stuff it, everyone just sat there gaping, except for Shino once again. In a huff, Sakura sat down, whilst Chouji ignored every-ones shock and sat down right behind Shino and began to eat.
The next team to enter was Team 7, and there was just silence, complete utter silence, later on in their lives, Team 10 would swear they saw tumbleweed pass through the classroom. Sasuke was glaring at everyone and everything, he glared at his team mates, he glared at a piece of chalk, he glared at a desk, which spontaneously combusted, but that's beside the point, He. Just. Glared. Uchiha Death Glare©. Hinata looked she was going to have a heart attack she was so scared of Sasuke, and Shikamaru appeared to be sleepwalking... go figure. But it was just silent, eerily silent, but that's why Team 10 is around, well more specifically Ino the fan girl was around.
"Naruto-kuunnn!" Naruto and Kiba grimaced though inwardly they were glad the silence was broken, they didn't particularly enjoy Ino shrieking.
"Mah, urusai Ino-banshee!" Kiba yelled
"What was that dog breath!?!"
"You heard me noodle hair!!!"
"My hair does not look like noodles! You stupid mongrel, go back to where you came from you ugly mutt!!! No-one wants you here, right Naruto-kun?"... "Ne Naruto-kun?" Naruto though was day-dreaming and if he didn't have his mask on you would probably be able to see him drooling too, his thoughts had wondered off his feeling of deja vu to the glorious food that was ramen, how he loved the noodles and broth that was the delicious meal... and this point in time Iruka entered ending the argument and also bringing the other students with him. When everyone was seated Iruka gave a cough and began his announcement.
"Well done to everyone for making it to this level, I'm very proud of you all, but my teaching with you has come to an end and so I will now pass you on to your jounin senseis. Team 1s sensei is..." Naruto was on the edge of his seat tense, he HAD to get stronger, he had been really slacking off after leaving ANBU, sure he'd trained but that was nothing like being out on the field. How he missed missions, Naruto had loved going on missions with ANBU Elements, they had done everything from infiltrations to assassinations, hell they had even once worked in a strip joint to gather information, now that was a pleasant memory, Naruto snickered as he remembered the humiliation and new experiences they had all undergone on that mission.. "And Team 7s sensei will be Hatake Kakashi." Naruto let out a loud burst of laughter before yelling over to Shikamaru.
"Oi, Shika, you can go back to sleep, Kakashis always late if you remember my party" Shikamaru just gave a lazy nod and a mutter of troublesome before yawning and putting his head back down on the desk.
"Team 8s sensei is Sarutobi Asuma..." Naruto began to daydream again " And last but not least Team 10s sensei will be..." Naruto was instantly on alert is hearing keen and clinging on to Irukas every word "Yuuhi Kurenai." Naruto inwardly cheered, his team had gotten the perfect sensei for them, he mentally thanked the Sandaime, he guessed he really was trying to do what was best for Konoha. A woman stepped forward and beckoned for the team to follow her, Naruto, Kiba and Ino all gawped and the woman... she was in one word... beautiful, she had wavy black hair, crimson eyes, and lips the colour of blood, her outfit was slightly strange but still rather flattering on the womans shapely figure. Naruto shook his head... this was Yuuhi Kurenai, His new sensei and Genjutsu Mistress of Konoha. Why did Naruto think he was life was just about to get real interesting with his new team?
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Team 10 were currently sat in the Academys gardens. Kurenai was leaning against a tree silently observing the 3 shinobi that sat on the grass before her. These three don't look like much, the Inuzuka and Yamanaka heir don't seem very serious and seem to argue more than anything, and the third though being the Top Rookie, his grades were average throughout the academy so at a guess I would say he got lucky, he has no bloodline limit and until 2 years was a complete unknown, most definately a fluke, it's beyond me why Sandaime wanted me to waste my time with these lot. Ah well, I best begin my introductions.
"Alright, Team 10 I'm your sensei Yuuhi Kurenai. Tell me about yourselves likes, dislikes, hobbies and future dreams."
"Ano, Kurenai-sensei, why don't you go first and show us how it's done?" Ino asked
"My name is Yuuhi Kurenai, I like flowers, dango and a certain someone" the three genin raised an eyebrow at the someone "I dislike nosy people, tardiness and slackers" basically Kakashi "My hobbies are gardening and working on my genjutsu. My Dream I have already achieved and that was to acheive the rank of jounin and the title of Genjutsu Mistress of Konoha. Next Inuzuka!"
"My name is Kiba Inuzuka, I like dogs especially Akamaru! I also like my mates, Shika, Cho, Shino and Naru! I dislike people who don't like dogs and people who hurt Akamaru, my friends or my family. And I really dislike Uchiha Sasuke and Inoodle," Ino glared at him for that nickname "My hobbies are training, hanging with mates and helping out my family with the clan dogs. My dream is to take over my clan and become the best hunter-nin for Konoha with Akamaru at my side!" he has potential, but he won't reach it if he can't work with all the members on the team.
"Next Yamanaka!"
"My name is Ino Yamanaka! I like flowers, clothes and Naruto-kun! I dislike Dog-Breath, Uchiha-teme and Forehead girl, because they are all mean to me. My hobbies are helping out at my families flower shop and training! My Dream for the future is to take over my families flower shop and get the guy of my dreams!" Great another one with potential but lacks team work. Worse she's a fangirl.
"Next Hatake wannabe." Seriously what is it with the masks?
"My name is Naruto Uzumaki, I like training, ramen, pulling pranks, and a certain load of people, I also like most of the people I've interacted with in the academy. I dislike people who are judgemental and blind, people who interfere, and certain nin who hurt my best friends. My hobby is training. My dream is to be reunited with four people and achieve our revenge or acknowledgement so we can finally live our lives." Can we say mind of an adult. This kid sure is mature, I take back the fluke thing.
"Well you are all individuals, with potential. I want you to meet me at training grounds 22 tomorrow at midday, you will be taking part in a survival test, bring your ninja gear, come prepared or risk being failed and sent back to the academy." And with that Kurenai disappeared in a whirl of leaves. Naruto quickly followed suit leaving a gaping Kiba and Ino who were still in shock at what their new sensei had said.
Akamaru and I are going to ace this test, we won't be sent back to the Academy, tough luck for Ino though, she's as hopeless as they come.
This is a test of true love! This is my chance to show Naruto that I'm more worthy of his attention and affections than Kiba! Naruto is so cool, chasing after three missing-nin, we'll make a great pair, The Deadly Uzumaki Couple ::Sigh::
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June: yay I did it! OK please read!!!
I have decided a few things: This story will be the first of a trilogy. ANBU Elements are the main characters, so Raven plays a big part, because of this I will at some point write a chapter on the adventures they are having during their training trips, also when Naruto comes into contact with someone from the teams past there will be flashbacks which are very important to the story! I have decided on a few pairings, yet to be decided if they are permenant. NaruIno, ItachiRaven (I know what I said about this, but this is a more of a past love, which became one-sided, and gets explored in the sequels) NaruRae - the main pairing which develops, HakuKawaii, and some others which I will shctum (sp?) about. I plan for the trilogies to be about 18 chapters each, so they shouldn't be too much of an epic. Thankyou for reading this!
June
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