Naruto sat upright against his seat, eagerly awaiting for Iruka Sensei to show up. He had been excited all night, so much that he couldn't sleep, out of anticipation Of today. Today he would meet his Sensei, be put in a team, and begin his Ninja life. It would begin by learning which team he would be in.

Naruto had reflected on his fight with Mizuke, and now knew what it would mean to be in a real fight. It excited Naruto. To know what it would be to fight. It was weird, but the fighting was... Exciting. Wih every attack and hit he dodged, he knew he was still alive. It was a rush. Knowing you were that close to death, then realising you were still alive. It was the ultimate risk. He wondered who his first enemy would be? It was an odd feeling, wondering about your enemy, but Naruto shoved it to the back of his mind. That would come when it came.

Everyone in the room was growing rowdy. Everyone was as anxious as Naruto was, and the room gradually grew louder.

Finally, Iruka arrived, 10 minutes later than he should have done.

"Right, right, settle down everyone."

The class fell silent in almost an instant.

"My apologises for my lateness. An... Incident required my presence." Iruka said, forcing the memories of what the Hokage said to the back of his mind. He glanced at Naruto, who clearly had no idea he had killed someone a few hours ago. He picked up the lists and began to look down them " Now I know your all anxious as too your teams, so I'll cut to the chase, and begin." Iruka began.

Iruka began going down the list of teams. Some people cheered, and others shouted out in anger. Naruto just stayed calm, waiting , praying, not to be on a bad team.

Hinata looked at him, with a nervous smile. Clearly she was as nervous as he was. Naruto grabbed hold of her hand, and smiled at her. Hinata blushed.

"Naruto Uzumaki..."

Naruto grabbed Hinata's hand tighter. For the love of god, please...

"Hinata Hyuga..."

"Yes!" Naruto jumped onto his feet in triumph. He was with Hinata! Nothing could go wrong now!

"Sasuke Uchiha."

Naruto crashed back into his desk " damn it." He had spoke too soon. "God damnit."

"NOOOOOO!" Sakura Haruno, who was sat just below Naruto, broke down and began sobbing into her arms. Naruto sweatdropped. Wow.

Iruka went down the remainder of the list, and , though after plenty of protests by the Girls wanting to be in Sasuke's team, they did finally finish. Naruto was happy and crushed at the same time.

"Damn it..." Naruto sighed. "Why Sasuke?" He then Looked at Hinata. " still, I got you."

Hinata blushed and nodded "y-Yes!"

"Just don't get in my way." Sasuke , who was sitting above Naruto , spoke up

"Shut up." Naruto snapped back.

"Hmp." Sasuke grunted.

Hinata sighed. Not even a team for 10 seconds, and tensions were already high.

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Naruto , Hinata and Sasuke were all sat in the classroom, alone, waiting for their Sensei. They had been waiting over an hour longer than any other team. Even Iruka Sensei had finished up work and headed off home.

Hinata was sat in the corner, fiddling with her fingers. Sasuke was sat at his desk, eyes void of emotion. And Naruto was leaning against the wall, next to the door.

"How come..." Naruto muttered " we're the only team that's Sensei hasn't shown up?"

"Hrmp." Sasuke puffed

"Every other team left ages ago. Even Iruka Sensei has gone home!" Naruto sighed "this Sensei of ours better be Amazing."

"He's a Jonin, idiot." Sasuke snapped "no one gets to that rank by being the the average Shinobi."

"Yeah, like my dad." Naruto retorted.

"Hrph" Sasuke turned away. He couldn't really think of a response to that that would offend Naruto. Naruto grinned. That's what he was aiming for.

At that Moment, the door began to slide open " finally." Naruto sighed, pushing himself upright from against the wall.

A goofy looking, white haired man with a mask covering his face aside from his right eye , walked in. He looked like he had just slept in for 2 hours, and was still tired. Sasuke grunted when he saw him 'This is our senior Sensei?'

The masked man stood upright and scratched the back of his head " Ah, so your my Genin team?"

'He looks completely worthless.' Sasuke thought.

"Yeah!" Naruto shouted, enthusiastically. He wasn't bothered he was late anymore. Just glad he was here!

"Y-Yes!" Hinata said

'So my team consists of a dope, and some one who can't even pronounce sentences correctly.' Sasuke scoffed . Perfect. Just perfect.

The three Genin proceed to follow their masked Sensei, who was walking out of the school and toward the Hokage's palace. Once there, they made their way to the top of the building, and onto the roof. There, their Sensei leaned against the railing, and opened a book. Naruto recognised the book- he had seen lots of people read it in and about the town, though he had no idea what it was about.

The team stood there for a good half minute before their Sensei seemed to remember they were there and looked up. "Sit down."

The Genin team sat and waited for their Sensei to put down the book. Eventually, he put the book down and addressed them "right, Now we're all in a team, I want you to go around and tell us something about yourself."

"Well, what do you want to know?" Naruto asked, puzzled.

"Oh you know, your name, hobbies, favourite thing, what you hate most, Exetera exetera "the masked ninja said

"Show us how it's done, Sensei." Naruto said " we don't know anything about you."

"Hrmm. That makes sense I suppose. Right, my name is Kakashi Hatake. I'm the kind of person who doesn't like talking about his likes and dislikes. I have a lot of hobbies, but enough about that, I want to hear about you three." Their Sensei said.

All three Genin sweatdropped. "Talk about a chatterbox. He said so much, but all we learnt was his name." Naruto sighed

"Ok, starting with you, in orange at the end. " Kakashi said, gesturing at Naruto.

"My Name is Naruto Uzumaki. My favourite thing is..." Naruto paused for a brief moment. This was an elite Ninja, not a school friend, so he probably wouldn't be interested in Ramen, Naruto's favourite thing. Though he did enjoy something just as much...

"My favourite things are training with the Hyuga and friends." He smiled at Hinata while he said this. "My dream for the future is to become the Next Hokage, just like my dad was!"

Kakashi smiled under his mask, as he remembered the training he had received under the fourth Hokage. "Like father like son."

"Huh?"

"I was trained under your father when I was a Genin. Quite the honour."

"My dad taught you?!" Naruto gasped. He hadn't expected his dad to have trained anyone, let alone his Sensei! It just never occurred to him.

"Indeed. You should be proud. I was proud to be taught by your father." Kakashi said

Naruto gave his new Sensei his trademark grin and a salute. Kakashi chuckled 'well, hasn't he turned out interesting, Minato Sensei?'

Kakashi looked at Sasuke, who had remained silent during the whole conversation "Ok, you next."

"My name is Sasuke Uchiha. There are plenty of things I hate, but I don't see that it matters, considering there is almost nothing I like."

'What a downer.' Naruto frowned. Would it kill him to be happy for once in his f*cking life? Granted, everyone knew the tragedy of the Uchiha clan, but surely he should be happy he's still breathing, RIGHT?!

"It seems pointless to talk about dreams. That's just a word. " Sasuke continued " But what I DO have is determination. I plan to restore my clan, and there's a certain someone I has sworn... To Kill"

Naruto and Hinata were initially shocked, but to Naruto, it was hardly surprising. He planned to kill the person who massacred his clan.

'I figured as much' Kakashi thought. It wasnt surprising. Anyone else who had gone through something like that would have said the same thing. Kakashi, however, didn't plan to push the question onto Sasuke, so he Moved on to Hinata.

"And finally, the girl." Kakashi said.

"M-My name I-Is H-Hinata Hyuga. M-My F-Favourite thing I-Is..."

'Naruto' Hinata instantly thought

'Shut up!' Hinata mentally told herself, feeling the blush on her face.

"... F-Friends." Hinata quickly spouted out. It wasn't even a lie. Naruto was her only friend, and he was her favourite thing.

Kakashi took note. It looked like Naruto and Hinata previously knew on another before this. That made things... Helpful, to say the least. Interesting.

"M-my dream I-Is to M-Make my father P-Proud of me..." Hinata said

Naruto looked down slightly. He knew what had happened with Hinata and her father.

Kakashi knew as well. It was no secret that the Hyuga head had given up on the Hyuga heir and given the opportunity to her sister.

"Enough." Kakashi said, raising one arm " I believe we all understand one another."

Kakashi rooted around his bag for the sheets he had prepared. "Starting tomorrow, you will have your first Ninja mission."

"Yes sir!" Naruto grinned, and fired another Salute. Finally, an actual ninja mission!

"This won't be your average mission." Kakashi said.

"W-What is it?" Hinata asked

Kakashi lean in closer, as if he was about to whisper a secret to the three Genin "Survival exercises." Kakashi said, with a sinister tone to it.

The three Genin were puzzled. "How would that count as a mission?" Naruto asked

"Our academy days w-were full of s-survival training." Hinata added

Kakashi looked down slightly. He then chuckled lightly. It was quite sinister to the young Genin. No one dared speak until Naruto broke the silence " what's so funny?"

Kakashi chuckled "oh it's nothing. It just that.. If I told you, you'd chicken out."

Naruto and Hinata widened their eyes slightly. Sasuke remained silent. "What do you mean?"

Kakashi shrugged. He may as well tell them "Of the 26 students that passed the graduation exam, only 9 will move on to become junior ninja. This test has a 66% chance of failure."

Naruto's jaw dropped .

Hinata's eyes widened.

Sasuke looked sickened.

"Ha Ha!" Kakashi laughed " you see? Your already chickening out!"

"We've been Through it all!" Naruto protested desperately " why did we have to sit through the graduation exam if you were going to fail 66% of us anyway?!"

"Oh, we wanted to eliminate the ones that were doomed to fail. The ones that were showing true potential were the only ones allowed to attempt to pass." Kakashi said

Naruto shuddered. All those times he had failed, he had failed because he had absolutely no chance of passing. That was for three years running. Was he really that bad? Yikes...

Kakashi walked towards the teammates and handed them all a sheet of paper " memorise the time and place."

Naruto looked over the paper, memorising the time and date. It was early. Very early. Oh boy.

Hinata read through the paper.

Sasuke barely glanced at it before crumpling up the paper with a grunt ' easy.'

Kakashi got ready to leave, before he remembered something " oh,by the way, be sure not to eat any breakfast beforehand. Unless you want to throw up." With that, Kakashi left.

"Throw up?! How HARD does he intend to work us?!" Naruto asked. Did this guy really train under his dad? He seemed more like a sadist then anything else!

"He intends to train us like he would any other Ninja you dope." Sasuke said calmly, before picking himself up and walking away.

"Piece of... I'm gunna beat him down!" Naruto vowed.

Hinata looked through her paper, remembering what Kakashi had said " the test has a 66% chance of failure?" Hinata said. This was bad. She didn't want to be separated from Naruto, nor did she want to let him down.

"Don't worry Hinata. We'll pass this test!" Naruto said, with a grin.

Hinata blushed, and nodded " Y-Yes!"

"Hey, let's go grab some ramen. He said don't eat breakfast. He never said anything about supper!" Naruto suggested

Hinata nodded and got up "Y-Yes!

The two friends walked down to Ichiraku ramen. What tomorrow held for them, would be revealed only by time.

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