Meeting Sensei
Naruto sat down in the back of the room to wait for the meeting of the new genin to come to order. He propped his legs on the table and started to read a book he had brought with him because he knew he would be waiting for someone to get everything together. Naruto glanced around at the other kids in the room thinking about how there was no way that all of them had the skill to become real shinobi. Soon enough Iruka-sensei came into the room and started to explain what they were doing.
"Starting today, all of you are real shinobi. But you are still genin. The hard journey that lies ahead has just started. Now you will soon get missions to help the village. So today we will create the three man teams and each team will have a jounin sensei. You will follow your sensei's instructions in order to successfully complete your missions." Iruka explained to his ex-students.
Naruto had expected them to do this. Four man teams made a lot of sense and having one with superior rank made the chain of command a lot simpler. 'I wonder who my new comrades will be.' He thought to himself. He knew he hadn't done well on the test. He did that on purpose it didn't really matter to him he had passed. Plus Mizuki was now probably giving up all his secrets up to the interrogators. Much better than being the best in the class at some test.
Naruto waited for his name to be called quietly his book open glancing at it every once in a while. He fidgeted in his seat he really didn't like to sit still long. Even when he normally read he would go out walking at the same time just to have something to do.
"Ok next is Team 7, Haruno Sakura, Uzamaki Naruto, and Uchiha Sasuke." Iruka announced.
The girl Naruto assumed was Haruno Sakura jumped up and yelled "Oh, yeah." At the top of her lungs. Naruto sighed at this and vaguely wondered who Uchiha was he hadn't had to interact with either at the academy.
After Iruka finished up his list he announced that they would get to meet their new sensei after a lunch break. Naruto stood up and left the room reading his book. He took an onigiri and started to eat it as he walked away from the classroom. He hopped up onto the roof when he got outside and pulled out another onigiri as he read his book. Soon he was back in the classroom with Haruno Sakura and Uchiha Sasuke alone because their new sensei was late.
'Well I suppose I should introduce myself.' Naruto thought after a while of just sitting there reading his book. "Hey you guys you probably don't know me so my name's Uzamaki Naruto. It's nice to meet you both." He said in a regular tone looking at them both from the desk he sat at.
Sakura spoke up first. "Hi I'm Haruno Sakura."
Naruto gave her a smile and a nod.
"Uchiha Sasuke." Sasuke said staring intently at his desk hands folded in front of his face.
Naruto gave him a nod as well. Then went back to his book. A half hour later the jounin finally showed up.
Sakura yelled, "Your late!" at him just as Naruto said it in a normal voice.
"Hmm… How can I say this? My first impression is… I don't like you guys." He said calmly.
They moved to the roof and the jounin said, "Well lets start with introducing ourselves."
"What do you want to know?" Asked Sakura.
The jounin shrugged. "How about your likes, dislikes, and dreams for the future, things like that."
"It's not very polite to not introduce yourself first." Naruto said from his place sitting cross legged on the ground.
"Yeah," admitted Sakura, "You look kinda suspicious."
"Oh… Me?" He asked. Lazily he answered, "Well, my name is Hatake Kakashi… I have no desire to tell you my likes and dislikes. Dreams for the future… Hmm and I have lots of hobbies…"
Sakura glanced over at Sasuke and Naruto and said more than asked, "So he told us his name?"
"Ok now it's your turn, let's start on the right."
Naruto nodded. "My name's Uzamaki Naruto. I guess if I had to pick something I would say I like ramen. I don't really dislike that much… Dreams? I don't have many and when I do mostly I forget them the next morning. Hobbies well I like um training and playing games." Naruto said smiling.
"Next," Kakashi said nodding to Sasuke.
"My name is Uchiha Sasuke. There are lot's of things I dislike and I don't really like anything and… I can't really call it a dream… But I have an ambition. The resurrection of my clan and… to kill a certain man."
Naruto glanced over at him. He didn't meet his eyes but Naruto could tell he was thinking of 'a certain man' now. Kakashi frowned a little and Sakura had her mouth open a little.
"And lastly the girl."
"My name is Haruno Sakura. The thing I like is…" She trailed off as she looked at Sasuke. "Well the person I like is… and uhm my dream for the future…" She glanced over to Sasuke. "Uhm..? Oh yeah!" She squealed. "What I dislike is creeps. My hobby is."
Naruto glanced over at her for a second and thought 'Great just great.'
"Ok that's good for the introductions. Tomorrow we'll start our duties as shinobi. First we are going to do something with just the four of us." Kakashi explained. "Survival training."
Sakura looked confused. "Why is our first duty training? Didn't we learn enough at the academy?"
"This isn't normal training," Kakashi responded. "Your opponent will be me." He started to giggle a little.
"Sensei what's so funny?" Sakura asked.
"Uhm… hehe Well… hehehe It's just that when I tell you this you guys are totally going to freak out." He said through his laughter.
Naruto raised an eyebrow, "Why?"
Kakashi's face became dead serious as he said, "Of the twenty seven graduates, only nine will be chosen to become genin. The rest will be sent back to the academy. This training is a very difficult exam with a failure rate of over sixty six percent."
Naruto felt relief at this statement. He knew that most of the graduates of the ninja academy were not ready to become ninja. Though Sasuke's face darkened and Sakura looked like she was about to throw up.
"Hahahaha!" Kakashi laughed at them but stopped abruptly at the look on Naruto's face. "Wait Naruto why aren't you more upset?"
Naruto sighed before deciding to respond. "Most of the academy graduates aren't ready to be real ninja. I'm happy that they won't die because of their and their sensei's incompetence."
Kakashi cocked his head. "You think that coming out of the academy doesn't really qualify you to be a full fledged ninja?"
Naruto glanced at the other two kids before saying, "This really isn't the time to get into what I think about the academy. Besides I'm far from an expert on education."
Kakashi nodded and decided to leave it alone before launching into what he wanted from them the next day. "Tomorrow you have to show your real skills on the training ground. Bring all the shinobi tools you have. Oh, and skip breakfast you'll throw up. The details are on this paper and don't be late tomorrow."
"Might throw up? It's going to be that tough?" Sakura squawked.
They all took a handout from Kakashi and started to read.
A/N- Woot two chapters in one day! Though I already had this one written… Any case I'm looking for a beta for this story so if anyone reading is interested in taking that job send me a PM. I would appreciate it a lot!