December 16th, 2011

edit on May 30th, 2015

Disclaimer: I do not own NARUTO; it belongs it Kishimoto Masashi. No money was made by writing this.

Warnings: Do not read if you do not like homoerotica. Will be eventual SasuNaru and KakaIru yaoi. Kind of AU-ish. Academy graduates are older than manga/anime, around age 15-16 yrs rather than 12-13 yrs. Strong, ANBU!Naruto... Not super!Naruto, though. Rated M to be safe.

Summary: Sasuke often fought with Naruto and called him moron based on how he acted on classroom - goofing off and playing pranks. Yet Sasuke was totally smitten with him. Then came the day of Academy Graduation Test. Naruto shocked everyone by revealing his true self. On team assembly day Sasuke and Naruto were placed onto same team, however Sasuke pretended not to care, like he always did. He had always hidden his true feelings he felt for the blond and so he continued to do so even now. But his problem was that Naruto wasn't as stupid as he had pretended to be. So, it was now only matter of time before his crush for his blond teammate would be discovered...

Keys for reading: "Normal Speech", 'Thoughts'
"Jutsu name [english translation]!", "Transmitter/mic/headset"

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Stillnight Presents

Surprises

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― Chapter Two: New Teammates And Sensei ―

Two days after Academy Graduation Test Naruto was sitting back in familiar classroom in familiar seat with his familiar seatmate. Naruto and 26 other graduated students were there waiting their sensei come to tell their future teams and new senseis. Most of them were excitedly chatting with each others about their possible teammates and senseis - well nearly all.

Naruto and Sasuke were only ones that were silently sitting next to each others and had yet to speak a one word to each other. Blond-haired teen silently mused that he would want to be teammates with anyone other but with Uchiha fangirls. Bastard himself, though, was quite okay. After all, he didn't bother him and mostly kept to himself. Well, if one ignored those strange looks he usually tended to give him.

Naruto was quietly napping against his desk, he was tired about what had occured two days earlier. His mission to capture traitor and return important scroll and along the mission an outsider had gotten seriously hurt. Naruto had to write a long report of what had occurred and then he had spend a long time in hospital with Iruka after returning damn scroll that was the root of all trouble to Sandaime and gave him stern warning to keep it locked better and more safer place.

His current peace was, however, to be short-lived. When classroom's sliding door suddenly crashed open, sudden loud noise startled Naruto out of his half-sleeping state back to reality of the waking world. Into classroom barged two of Sasuke's most fanatic fangirls, sweating and huffing loudly. They immediately started to fight who get to sit next to Sasuke. Then suddenly Haruno Sakura, pink-haired banshee, spotted Sasuke and ran to him screeching with high-pitched voice the boy's name.

Naruto grimaced. He knew that he was going to get involved to it, even if he didn't want to. Additionally, those stupid girls hadn't learned yet even to that day that Sasuke didn't want anything to do with them and that he would rather sit with Naruto more than any of girls.

"Move it Naruto-baka!" Sakura screeched and pulled blond teen out of his seat and Naruto stumbled to floor clumsily.

Naruto annoyedly growled from floor as he got up, dusted his cloths and then jumped to desk in front of Sasuke, crouching. Two teens stared each others in eyes and tension rose into new heights, and it seemed like there was some sparks flying between them.

Naruto frowned as he stared the raven-haired teenaged boy before him. 'What the hell is so good about this teme? I mean, certainly he is talented and good looking to some extent, but that's all...'

Suddenly Naruto felt an ultimate sense of dread creeping up his spine. Someone accidentally bumped their elbow on Naruto's back and he lost his balance, falling forward, straight heads on to Sasuke. Their heads collided painfully, but somehow their lips were locked to each others into accidental, oh so innocent kiss.

Classroom was suddenly ruled with deathly silence and both boys stared each others into eyes for mere fraction of a second, before they were startled away from each other and started to gag and mumble muffled curses and death threats.

Sasuke's fan girls were shocked to beyond their beliefs, but then Sakura seemed to come back from shock. She menacingly crackled her knuckles, but she was stopped when Sasuke shot her his fame 'Uchiha Deathglare' to girls and they hurriedly backed away and sat into other available seats, leaving Naruto into his original seat. And so Naruto was once again sitting beside to Sasuke.

While Sasuke glared death at everyone around him with a faint pink dusting his cheeks, inwardly he was practically whooping with happiness and dancing jig. He had kissed Naruto, no matter how accidental it had been!

Naruto scowled something terrible at everyone, glaring murder at Sakura whenever she glanced at his and Sasuke's direction. She would make her pay for this somehow. Deciding to use his time productively, he started to plot how to make Sakura pay for making him and Uchiha accidentally kiss each other.

Iruka soon arrived into classroom carrying single sheet of paper in his hand, and bandages peeking under his uniform and moving a bit stiffly. Naruto felt a sting of guilt in his chest seeing his favourite sensei in that condition.

"Good morning, kids, and congratulations for your graduation. You are no longer academy students but Genin, a lowest rank of shinobi..." Iruka explained, and Naruto slowly drifted back into dream world until he got his name being called.

"Team 7, Uzumaki Naruto", Iruka called, and Naruto snapped his eyes open. "... Haruno Sakura..." Naruto slumped against his desk again, depressed. 'Of course, I have to end up with most annoying person into same team, and she's a fangirl to a boot, too...' he thought sourly. "And Uchiha Sasuke."

Sakura screeched victoriously and Naruto rumbled under his breath. "Great, I got useless fangirl... I already hate my team, although bastard is okay... I s'pose" and then he fell back into sleep again.

Soon team assembly was over and Iruka told them to get back in classroom after the noon to meet their new senseis. Naruto was abruptly awoken when Uchiha poked him awake.

"Hey, Uzumaki, how about some luch together now that we are in same team?" Sasuke asked, waiting curiously his answer. He crossed his fingers in his pockets and hoped that he would say yes, because he wanted to spend some time alone with him without Sakura disturbing them.

Naruto loudly yawned and nodded as his answer. Well, why not? he thought, and they left class and went outside eat. Sakura ran after them, but the two had already disappeared from her sight, and she returned alone, disappointed, into class room.

Sasuke and Naruto sat outside, under the tree in Academy's yard, eating their own lunches in comfortable silence, either of them saying even one word to each other. Soon after Naruto finished his own lunch, he fell asleep again.

Sasuke sat next to Naruto, wondering why dobe was so tired today, and most of time sleeping when he a change. He inspected closely blond's face, and saw some shadows under his eyes. Now he had a good change to get more clearer and closer look of his blond crush's face, and boy wouldn't know it at all.

Sasuke noted that blond was in his sleep rather calm and peaceful. He took long look of Naruto's golden tan skin that perfectly unscarred, if not counting those whisker marks on his cheeks, but he got the feeling that they were more of birth marks than scars. Naruto's sun-kissed, golden yellow hair was rather spiky and unruly, no matter what Naruto did to it, Sasuke had noticed it long time ago. He saw that Naruto's face was still a bit roundish though he was losing his babyfat already, but he knew that blond would before long lose that baby-faced look and became more mature as he grew older. And just by instinct he knew that Naruto would be insanely handsome when he grew older, in mere few years, for he was already starting gain his more mature look. Whiskers in blonds' cheeks gave him rather unique and untamed look, making him look exotic. Sasuke had noted that Naruto was for some reason unusually short for his age, but he doubted that would last much longer when Naruto's puberty would truly kick in - Naruto was a bit late bloomer, as it seemed to be.

Later on back in class room, after lunch boys were sitting again together and Naruto asleep once again. Sakura tried to persuade Sasuke onto dates with her and molest him with all her might; said Uchiha was avoiding her just as passionately.

Their sensei was late by three hours in total, and when he finally arrived into class to pick his team, his first comment about his team was after short inspection: "My first impression of you... How to say this? I don't like you."

Naruto, hearing their sensei's voice, cracked his azure eyes open and got slowly streching up from his seat and yawning he gave their new sensei icy glare. " The feeling is mutual from my part, Hatake-san."

Their sensei, Hatake Kakashi, stared rather surprised his new blond-haired and azure eyed student. He noticed that his students eyes showed nothing except blatand dislike and utter boredom, and it all was directed straight to him. That got him actually surprisingly enough shocked, as he had said only jokingly that he disliked his team, but boy really did dislike him and not just pretended to.

"Meet me on roof in five minutes", Kakashi said and disappeared via Shunshin [Body Flicker].

Sasuke looked worriedly at Naruto and asked then. "Is it okay to show your dislike to our new sensei so blatantly, dobe?"

Naruto just looked Sasuke with cocked up eyebrow and answered. "At least it prevents all misunderstandings in future", he simply stated and merged into the floor disappearing from sight leaving gaping Sasuke and Sakura behind.

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Naruto emerged from roof, startling Kakashi greatly. Blond really didn't care much about that his sensei was startled by the fact that Naruto could use that form of transportation jutsu.

Soon all of them were in roof and they entered in introductions, and Kakashi was first one to go and introduce himself to them, as per Sakura's request.

"Well... My name is Hatake Kakashi. Things I like, I prefer to keep that information for myself and I dislike a few things. My dreams for future... Hmm... Well, I have a lot of hobbies", Kakashi said merrily.

Naruto gave him long, wordless look before he finally remarked rather dryly. "That didn't really reveal to us much about you but your name, Hatake-san."

"Well, you go next then, blondy", Kakashi said, frowning ever so slightly Naruto's behaviour.

Naruto stared him blandly for a moment before he opened his mouth. "Name's Uzumaki Naruto. I like ramen, Icha Icha and my ero-kyōfu; I dislike idiots, fangirls and a bunch of other things. Dream is to succeed my ero-kyōfu and become Spymaster and Gama Sennin like he is. Goal of life is to defeat and kill Akatsuki. Hobbies are proof-reading Icha Icha books before they are officially published, and ... hmm..." Naruto gave short smirk to Kakashi who was now slightly sweating under Naruto's clear, azure gaze.

'He has grown in interesting way to say at least, yet he is rather normal if compared to others. And if it was any indications the information I got about him from his Academy sensei and Sandaime-sama, he is the strongest of whole bunch...' Kakashi thought and looked the golden-haired teen. He had been following him from distance whenever he wasn't out on missions. And yet, he barely knew anything about him.

"Alright, you raven-haired one, you go next then", Kakashi said out loud. 'I wonder what kind of person he has grown to be, being only survivor of Uchiha Massacre...'

Sasuke gave annoyed sigh. "My name is Uchiha Sasuke. There is only one thing - a person - I like", he said and subconsciously glanced towards Naruto inpercetibly before continuing his introduction. "I dislike most girls I know and especially a fangirls", he continued and looked straight at Sakura with his Uchiha Deathglare. "As for my hobbies, I train a lot and grow tomatoes in my garden. My dream... hmm..." his gaze turned a dreamy and was ever so slightly turned to Naruto's direction.

Naruto was totally weirded out by Sasuke's behaviour, and Sakura was positively depressed as it was, Sasuke had shown his dislike for her rather directly but she was also curious about that person Sasuke liked enough mention it in his introduction.

Kakashi hadn't missed Sasuke's unknowingly given hints for his 'person he liked'. 'I think I might get a love triangle in my hands before long. This is getting rather interesting now...' he smirked behind his mask.

"And the lady lastly now", Kakashi said with hidden smile to Sakura.

Naruto snorted, rather sarcastically. "Pfft, there is nothing lady like in her. She is more like banshee", he sneered and Sasuke agreed with him. "Yeah, a fitting description, dobe."

Sakura shot angry glare to Naruto with tic mark on her forehead. "Watch it, Naruto-baka!" she screeched. "I'm Haruno Sakura. The things I like... Or more of the person I like... " glance shyly, blushing to raven haired boy. "I hate Naruto-baka and Ino-pig!" she screeched loudly glaring Naruto. "My dream for future... " she glances towards Sasuke blushing and this time with a loud squeal. "And my hobbies are..."

All males sweat-dropped rather strongly and Sasuke face-palmed. 'I think that Sakura is more interested in boys than being shinobi currently. Then again... She is a teenaged girl...' silver-haired man thought rubbing his chin.

Naruto felt like banging his head in a wall - until he fells unconscious. But instead he just settles to smack himself with his palm to forehead. "Why in the seven hells we have to team with a delusional fangirl?!" he snarled irately, pointing at pink-haired girl. "Best kunoichi of the year!? Hah, I'd like to see her beat Hinata in fight, which is IMPOSSIBLE for Sakura! Just what the hell was old man thinking when he put me into this doomed team?!" he snarled so irately his KI started accidentally leak out. His eyes flashed dangerously with ice and made Sasuke's 'Uchiha Deathglare' look like smile.

Kakashi felt sudden urge to back away into safer distance. Sakura was shaking with fear and tears leaking from her eyes. Sasuke felt a terror he hadn't felt ever since his brother had massacred their clan few years ago, and he felt his breathing getting laboured and he slightly started to sweat. He quickly noticed that he wasn't only one feeling rather unpleasant currently.

"Hatake-san, tell me where our real Genin test is kept and when, and be quick about it", Naruto said, his voice now completely devoid any emotions, and it gave a real scare to Kakashi. "I don't have all afternoon to linger here listening your idiocies. I have duties to attend unlike rest of this useless, deadweight of a team", he glared Kakashi, and silver-haired man felt like blood was chilling in his vein. "Time is ticking..."

Kakashi swallowed thickly. "Be - before that... Naruto-kun, tell me why you seem to dislike me so much."

Naruto gave him a look that seemed to say. 'Are you idiot or what?' "My reasons are my own, and it won't do any good even if I reveal them. And I'm not obligated to reveal them to anyone, the least to you or this useless team", he said, his voice still completely void of emotion, except something that lightly resembled to annoyance.

Kakashi felt depressed and hurt. This boy in front of him was most important person to him, had been ever since he had born, and he hated him. His left, covered Sharingan [Copy Wheel Eye] eye shed tears behind hitai-ate, but his own natural right, stormy silverish gray eye stayed dry. He had a feeling that this team was going to pass, despite all the odds, but what he was going to do when one of the team members hated and despised so much them?

Depressed he sighed and opened his weapon pouch and took three papers from it and holding them in his hand, he shortly explained the test. "Take your all ninja tools with you. This test will be the most hardest test you have done this far. It has 66% failure rate and out of 27 graduated Genin canditates only 9 will pass and become really a Genin. Rest 18 will either quit altogether or return back to academy for another year", he explained and gave papers he hold in his hand to his Genins. "You will find other information from this flyer. "Any questions?"

Naruto shortly scanned the paper with his gaze, memorising everything just by looking it, and folded it then and stuffed into his pocket. "You dare be late tomorrow and it will be the last thing you ever do", he said icily and disappeared by emerging into ground, leaving no trace behind or any proof that he had ever been there.

Remaining members of team 7 were, without saying more than shocked and surprised once again. Who in the world their blond team member was and there was there was several questions lingering in their minds.

Kakashi looked the spot where Naruto had emerged and let out small, humorless chuckle. "Who would have thought...? "

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Naruto irately went back in his home to cool down, he ate and changed clean clothes on before heading out again. To Hokage's office this time. As usually he entered in his office from open window and sat down to windowsill.

"Yo, jiisan!", Naruto greeted old man wearing rope and hat, puffing his pipe. "I have question for you."

Sandaime looked up from his papers hearing Naruto's voice, not surprised to see boy sitting in his window sill. "Hello, Naruto-kun. I assume that you have met your team and new sensei already?"

Tic mark appeared in Naruto's forehead and started to look irritated. "Yeah, I have", he said his eyebrow twitching. "Why in the world you put me into team with Haruno Sakura, the most useless kunoichi of my whole class? And don't give me that crap about team balance or that she is the best kunoichi. Or with Uchiha Sasuke? And why our teamleader has to be HIM?"

Sandaime looked baffled. "Naruto-kun, you don't like your team?" he asked.

"No, I don't. Sasuke can be tolerated and he doesn't bother me - much - but that... That DELUSIONAL fangirl - I hate her with my very being! She fawns over Uchiha, doesn't train and isn't even interested to be a shinobi! Not to mention that she screeches like a freaking banshee and every time she opens her mouth there comes out something incredible stupid and her voice FREAKING grates my ears", Naruto cursed loudly.

"And what about Kakashi-kun?" Sandaime asked looking Naruto carefully.

Naruto's anger seemed to deflate almost immediately. "Jiisan, you know our past and what and who I am. I can't let him near me without hurting him. When I die, which is most like way before him, he would be very hurt and I don't want that to happen, jiisan", he said sadly. "This is going to be very hard, if I stay on this team. It would be better if I went with ero-kyōfu or stayed alone. At least that way I wouldn't hurt him", he sighed.

Sandaime stood up from his seat and walked over to wide windows, next to Naruto. "Naruto-kun, Kakashi made his own choice and he asked to be your sensei. He loves you very much. He has been denied the right to see you past 15 years, and I can't really blame him wanting to see you. He is your brother after all, even if you want to deny it for his own safety", he said and looked down to village sadly.

Naruto sighed sounding depressed. "I know that, old man. It just that... I don't want him get hurt because of me and that will happen sooner or later", he said with muffled voice and looked to Yondaime Hokage's picture in wall. "I truly wish He was still alive, and mom too. Situation would be so different now", he said solemnly.

"True. I have wished that so many times before as well", Sandaime said and turned to look his late successor's picture. "Also I miss him much", he sighed.

Then Sandaime suddenly changed their topic back to work related. "So, Naruto-kun are you going to take evening or night shift tonight?" he asked and went back to his desk and took some list from his drawer.

Naruto stared Yondaime Hokage's picture for awhile without saying anything and finally answered. "Evening. If I'm going to stay in this doomed team then I have to take part of Kakashi's Genin test tomorrow morning."

Sandaime scribbled something into his list. "Alright then. You shift will start in... 45 minutes. And good luck..."

"Thanks... I suppose."

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Kakashi had been secretly following Naruto after their first team meeting had ended. He had been rather surprised to see go meet Sandaime so casually, like it was everyday thing to do. And entering by using window like he did. He concealed his presence and used to chakra to enchance his hearing to listen what blond was talking with Sandaime.

"... I don't want him get hurt because of me and that will happen sooner or later..." he heard Naruto speak with muffled voice, sounding depressed to boot. Then he heard Naruto and Sandaime speak something about someone, and ... wait, did Naruto mention his mom? So then they had been speaking about Naruto's father?

Kakashi swallowed thickly, just thinking about his sensei and his wife, they had been kind enough to adopt him when he had been just a lonely child after his real father had committed seppuku, and left young Kakashi orphaned and alone to bear the brunt of anger and hatred of villagers who saw Hatake Sakumo as traitor to village.

But his hearing perked up again now when Sandaime mentioned something about 'shifts'. Soon they had finished their conversation and Naruto moved out from Hokage's office to his next destination. But before Naruto got too far, azure eyed boy halted suddenly for brief moment and said seemingly empty surroundings.

"If you're going to follow someone and eavesdrop their conversations, then make sure that your target can't sense you by concealing your presence better, and try be more... Subtle. Your stealth skills sucks, Hatake-san."

And then Naruto just disappeared in empty air without any traces.

After that Kakashi just didn't have any courage to follow Naruto any further. How the hell Naruto had known that he was there? God damn, his stealth skills were very good and from best end. He was a former ANBU Captain for the God's sake!

'Naruto-kun is definitely hiding more things than we all know and I want find out what he is hiding from me, and why!'

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The 'shift' Naruto and Sandaime had spoken earlier was patrol duty he did regular occasion with ANBU trainers and trainees, and also with a real ANBU members, and all that was by Naruto's ero-kyōfu's request. ANBU trainer had at first had been very hesitant to let a child so young join into their training and patrol sessions, but Naruto had soon proved that trainer's fears and hesitating to unnecassary.

Now that group always waited with anticipation Naruto's arrival. With them Naruto was most natural, true self, and his skills and abilities had gained great respect from his group. And now, somehow, this group of ANBU had just 'adopted' Naruto in their team permanently.

Subtly Naruto slipped into HQ locker room to change his cloths to normal ANBU uniform. He stuffed his obnoxious orange black jumpsuit into locker and put his black and gray uniform on, strapped sword in his back and weapon pouches into his belt. Lastly he slipped his white, porcelain mask on and left to his duty.

"Yo, you're late today. This is rare from you, Ōkami-kun", tora mask wearing man said humorously. "Did something happen? I nearly thought that you wouldn't be joining us today."

"Aa-aah", Naruto sighed. "Hi, sorry about being late", he said waiving his team members. "Today did happen something. More or less something unpleasant. Today I was placed into Genin team from Academy. It just happened to be my luck that I got damn delusional fangirl and the last Uchiha", he grumbled under his breath. "And my team leader is...", he said thickly and swallowed. "My adoptive brother. Sharingan Kakashi."

Silence ruled the room and ANBU members looked nervously each others. "How did that happen? Aren't there rules against family members being in same teams?"

Naruto nodded silently and said. "There is, but in our case it doesn't keep its end, because no-one except me, Kakashi, Sandaime, baachan and Jiraiya knows about it. And Kakashi doesn't even know that I know. Old man told me that it was Kakashi who asked me for his team."

Nezumi came around the table and patted Naruto's shoulder. "Don't worry about it, brat. It will be okay. Kakashi won't let you die and he won't die too. He has now too much to lose, because he has you", he said and Naruto nodded.

Naruto snorted softly and laughed a bit. "Well, in any case. He still need to pick up more his training, because he tried to follow me concealing his presence and I still could feel him and knew where he was. His stealth skills sucks", he said, shaking his head in exasperation.

That caused muffled laughter from his team members and Tori said humorously. "No, it's not that his skills sucks. It's you, Ōkami-chan, who is too good. Your senses are too sharp. Nothing goes without you noticing it."

"That may be true, but still", Naruto admitted sheepishly. "But enough with this. So, today's routes and partners?" he said entering into his working mode.

Team's trainer walked to table and spread Konoha's map open into it and pointed several routes in it. "Nezumi and Ōkami, you follow this route, Tori and Ryuu this one..."

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Sakura was somewhat depressed after her first team meeting as she walked aimlessly around Konoha. Her crush seemed so pointless now after Sasuke had so clearly shown his dislike towards her. And then there was this another teammate of their, Uzumaki Naruto. They somehow ended up in same team with idiot, and she really hated the idea.

Something was seriously off about their third teammate, Sakura admitted. She had never seen him before so serious and angry as today end of their meeting.

Suddenly Sakura saw something from corner of her eyes and she looked up to rooftops. In rooftop of near house stood two masked ANBU members in their black and gray uniforms and wearing their scary looking, emotionless porcelain masks. Another of man was tall, light brown haired man wearing rat mask and next to him stood notably smaller character with blinding golden yellow hair and wearing wolf mask. They were motioning to each others and pointing different directions shaking and nodding their heads as if they were talking with each others. And soon after that they resumed running and leaped from roof to another and then in blink of eye... they both disappeared, like they had never even been there in first place.

Sakura was awed, this had been first time when she saw ANBU in live. ANBU's were rarely seen, and also they disappeared really fast as they appeared without trace. She continued to stare on the directions where those ANBU had disappeared for awhile, but then sighing she continued her aimless wandering on streets.

― TBC ―

Jutsu List:

Shunshin [Body Flicker]

Sharingan [Copy Wheel Eye]

Yay... Another chapter. You can expect few more chapters. This isn't complete nor anywhere near, but it's slowly being written when I can.