From ANBU to Sensei

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any other form of Media.

Things to know before reading.

1.) How to read this fic. (No I'm not insulting your intelligence level. I'm just giving a template for easier reading.)

Normal writing.

"Character speaking."

Flashback -Start / Flashback -End

"Dramatic speaking" (used for strong emotion, or a Bijuu/Summon talking.)

POV (point of view change notice, followed by the character's name.)

"Sasuke-chan wake up."

I groaned in protest as I slowly rose out of my futon. I rubbed my eyes quickly so I could adjust my vision to the light. I looked up and saw the irritated face of my mother Uchiha Mikoto. I sighed thinking back on what made me so exhausted last night that I couldn't wake up myself. I was trying to perfect an old jutsu 'He' used to practice. If you must know, I refuse to use my older brother's name, even in my own head. 'He' doesn't deserve to exist after what he did to our clan, so I won't give him the luxury of having a name. People who cease to have a name, cease to exist. I intend to make that happen.

That's when Mother smacked me over the back of my head. "Sasuke you can brood later, shower up and get your 'Rookie of the year' ass out that door."

Despite the fact that she was ordering me around. I knew Mother was only trying to break the usual silence that hovers over our house. While life hasn't been easy for any of the 'Uchiha Survivors', Mother was doing a good job as the Head of our clan. She started by reinstating the Konoha Millitary Police, which is now comprised of the remainder of our clan, and a few 'side branch' members of the Hyuuga clan. Criminals cower in fear when your police force contains two of the most renown doujutsu looking for them. Now it was my turn to contribute to the clan. So I 'showered up', and threw on a new set of clothes I ordered at our clans retailer. The ensemble consisted of a blue high collar shirt with the Uchiha-clan symbol on the back, a pair of white shorts with various hidden pockets, a pair of white and blue arm warmers, and finally a pair of the highest quality shinobi sandals Konoha could produce. Today I become a ninja. Tomorrow I take the first step towards my goal, 'Revenge.'

"Don't forget your lunch Sasuke-chan." Ka-san called out from the kitchen.

My left eyebrow suddenly started twitching. It's official, mother has a 'Brooding Radar'. Yet I find myself smiling as I'm walking towards the kitchen to pick up my lunch. "See you later Mother." I said quietly before walking out the door of our house with my lunch in hand, and heading towards the ninja academy.

POV - (Hinata)

I started pressing my fingers together. It's an old habit I've had since my mother passed away. She was my source of strength. Without her around, Father has been trying in anyway he can to get me past my failures. In my clan failure is not tolerated. Failure is seen as a weakness the Hyuuga cannot afford. That's why I try hard to be the best I can, but it still isn't enough. I look in the mirror of the girls restroom at the Academy in a vain effort to see if I can find any trace of failure. All I see in-front of me is a twelve year old girl with raven colored hair down to her chin, and lavender eyes. She's wearing a grayish white coat, a bluish purple shirt and pants, and blue sandals. Her name is Hinata-chan. She's not concerned about failure, because she's trapped behind the glass.

Some days I wish I could be Hinata-chan, instead of Hyuuga Hinata. But that would be too much like giving up. I won't give up, because Naruto-kun wouldn't give up. Naruto-kun never allows anyone to see how sad he is, and he refuses to allow defeat to keep him from getting back up. Today I will be like Naruto-kun. I will be Hyuuga Hinata, and today Hyuuga Hinata becomes a ninja. That's when I see Hinata-chan nodding at me in the mirror, she agrees with me. I wave goodbye to Hinata-chan for now and leave the restroom.

I enter my classroom and make my way to one of the higher seats that's somewhat out of sight, but close enough to the door.

"Morning Hinata." Said one of my classmates, a boy wearing plain civilian clothes, and a Hitate on his forehead. I don't remember his name. I try to keep quiet so I don't stutter as I speak.

"G..Good m..morning." I stutter out a reply hoping he won't notice that I didn't remember his name, or my failure to speak correctly. I sat in silence waiting for Naruto-kun to come in. Even though we never talk, he's the only one who knows the pain of being looked down upon.

POV - (Naruto)

"CRAP I'm going to be late." I quickly threw on my favorite Orange suit, and sandals. Then I scarfed a pre-heated ramen pack, which I washed down with funny tasting milk. I didn't bother fixing my hair, It's always a spiky mess. Lastly, I proudly secured my Hitate to my forehead. Today I'm a ninja, maybe tomorrow I'll be Hokage. I grinned at that thought as I left my messy apartment and jumped up on top of the rooftops, bounding from building to building. I looked down a few times at the height of a leap to see if anyone noticed me. A few people were scowling, a few people were chuckling for some reason. That's when I noticed a chunin patrol gaining on me.

"Naruto cease what your doing immediately." Shouted the chunin at the front of the three man formation.

"But I haven't done anything yet." I yelled back to them, seriously this time I'm innocent. So I continued my leap picking up my pace hoping to lose my chunin tail.

"Only licensed shinobi are allowed to use the rooftops as transportation." The lead chunin shouted.

This time I twisted around to face them mid leap and pointed at my Hitate. "I am a shinobi." I yelled loudly. Then I saw the looks on their faces, they were wincing. I turned around to see what would make them wince at me like that. (Thud) I had leaped right into a telephone pole. I fell to the ground and stars crossed my vision, then I began twitching in short spasms of pain.

"Should we take him to the hospital?" I heard the lead chunin say in between my spastic twitches. 'HOSPITAL' oh HELL NO. I immediately righted myself and leaped to the rooftops again surprising the chunin. I resumed my earlier pace and headed for the Academy.

POV - (Iruka)

I sighed as I sat behind my desk. All of the other students were here, where's Naruto? Probably in some kind of trouble no doubt. No sooner than I thought it an orange blur crashed into the door. Some of the students were trying, and failing to suppress various giggle, chuckles, laughs and what-not. I sighed as Naruto walked in the door rubbing his head.

"Sorry Iruka-sensei I forgot that the janitor cleans the floors in the morning."

I looked over to Naruto and raised my right eyebrow. I'm pretty sure the janitor left a sign somewhere. If anything Naruto tried skidding through the hallways 'again'. "Just take your seat, Naruto."

I waited until Naruto took a seat in the row directly infront of me and pouted. I chuckled and picked up a clipboard. "Now that everyone is here. I'm going to read off the names of the teams in squad order followed by genin, and the name of your sensei's. Squad One: Yasutora Sado, Inoue Orihime, Uryu Ishida. Your sensei is Shiranui Genma."

POV - (Naruto)

When is Iruka-sensei going to say my team. I want to be on Sakura-chan's team. She's so smart, and pretty. I just don't want to on Sasuke-teme's team. He thinks he's so cool, the jerk. I turn my head so I can glare at the pompous jerk. The teme scoffs at me as though I'm a piece of dust. I'll show him who's a piece of dust, by grinding him 'into' dust.

"Squad Seven: Uzumaki Naruto."

I look up at Iruka-sensei waiting for the next name. I hope it's Sakura-chan.

"Hyuuga Hinata."

Hinata huh. I look around seeing if I can see her. That's when I heard the last name.

"Uchiha Sasuke. Your sensei will be Gekkou Ryuuji."

"WHAT." I didn't bother acknowledging the name of my sensei. The only name I heard had me really angry. So I stood up and slammed my palms on my desk. "Why is a talented ninja like 'me' on a team with 'him'." I turned around and pointed at Sasuke-teme.

Iruka groaned, clearly annoyed at me. "Because it is common practice that the Best student be placed with the worst one to balance out the teams 'Naruto'."

I sulked as I sat back down.

"Just don't get in my way, Dobe."

I seethed at the teme's words.

POV - (Hinata)

I'm going to be on Naruto-kun's team. I'm going to be on Naruto-kun's team. I was so shocked that I barely heard the names of the next teams.

"Now that the teams Have been announced, you will wait for your sensei's to pick you up." Iruka-sensei said before leaving the room.

I looked around and saw some of the other genin gather in groups based on their teams. So I headed to where Naruto-kun was sitting. That's when I saw him crouched in front of Sasuke, sitting on the desk. Out of the corner of my eye I saw the person in the row directly in front of Sasuke leaning back. Without thinking I ran forward and grabbed Naruto-kun's arm and pulled him to me, the momentum from the pull caused him to fall on top of me. "N..Naruto-kun, y..your hand." I tried to finish the sentence before all the blood rushed from my face and I fainted.

POV - (Naruto)

I look around me trying to figure out why Hinata pulled me down. That's when I felt some form of soft object under my right hand. I looked down and saw my hand on Hinata's chest...OH CRAP. That's when I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. I quickly jumped up to a standing position, that's when I was clobbered from all sides by angry females. I barely remember hearing Sakura-chan yelling "How dare you try and take advantage of Hinata?" before I was knocked unconscious.

When I regained conciousness I noticed all of the other genin except for Hinata (who was still unconscious), and the Teme were gone.

"Seriously Dobe, could you try to act like you have a little class." Sasuke said before turning away.

I was about to yell at him when I saw the man who saved me and Iruka-sensei from Mizuki. He was wearing the same clothes he did that night, except his sword was missing.

"Do I even want to know what happened here?" The man said as he surveyed the damage the angry kunoichi inflicted to the area aroud me.

Sasuke scowled. "The Dobe..(He points at me)..Felt up our teammate."

"I did NOT FEEL HINATA UP, SASUKE-TEME!"

"Fine,Whatever." The man said although I could see he was trying not to laugh at me. He kneeled over Hinata and took a jar out of one of his pockets and opened it under Hinata's nose. She woke up with a dazed expression before she started blushing at me.

"Now that everyone is awake, follow me up to the roof. If you haven't guessed already...I'm your guy's sensei." The man said before dissapearing in a cloud of smoke.

Five long flights of stairs later and we were all sitting on the roof of the academy. 'Sensei' was leaning with his back to the railing snacking from a glass container of peanuts.

"Since we are going to be working together for quite some time, I believe introductions are in order. I'll go first to show you guys how it's done." The man cleared his throat before continuing. "My name is Gekkou Ryuuji. I like eating un-salted peanuts, the Icha Icha novels written by Jiraiya-sama, studying chakra, my friends and family, and drinking on days off. I dislike politics, hospitals, vegetarian foods, and hypocracy. My goals for the future include living to see old age, and maybe starting my own ninja program at the academy."

This guy is weird, who's goal in life is to see old age. I'll tell him what a 'real' ninja's goals are. "My name is Uzumaki Naruto. I like Instant ramen, the ramen Iruka-sensei buys me at Ichiraku's, and gardening. I dislike the three minutes it takes for the water to boil, and Sasuke-teme's gloating. My goal for the future is to become the GREATEST HOKAGE WHO EVER LIVED. Then everyone will have to respect me."

"Interesting goal you have kid." Ryuuji said with a smile. Hinata blushed at me, while Sasuke-teme didn't have any reaction at all. At least I got some people to acknowledge me.

"Hinata why don't you go next?" Ryuuji offered with a gesture of his hand.

"My name is Hyuuga Hinata. I..I like flowers, m..my family, f..flowers, a..and a certain someone. I d..dislike being too weak. M..my goal is to become a b..better kunoichi."

"I don't think your're weak at all. You wouldn't be here if you were."

I nodded at Ryuuji-sensei's words. He had a point.

"Your turn Sasuke."

Sasuke-teme shifted his position and rested his chin on his fingers. "My name is Uchiha Sasuke. I like very few things. I dislike many things. My 'ambition' is to become useful to my clan, and to kill a certain 'Someone.' "

I shivered at his words. I hope he didn't mean me. Hinata fidgeted with her fingers, while Ryuuji-sensei sighed and somehow flicked a peanut so fast it hit Sasuke in the forehead and left a red mark. I fell over laughing.

"First thing I want you guys to know. There will be no withholding of information, unless it is of an extremely sensitive nature. So Sasuke tell us 'more' about some of your likes and dislikes please." Ryuuji-sensei said with a forced smile.

Sasuke groaned. "I like training, Taking walks, and sour foods like okaka and omusubi. I dislike fangirls, anything sweet tasting, and many other things."

Ryuuji smirked. "Now that we know each other, I'm going to cut to the chase. Normally a jounin will test their genin on teamwork and decide whether or not to send them back to academy."

"WHAT." (flick) "Ouch." I rubbed my head and saw the remains of the peanut that struck me on my forehead.

"If you plan on becoming Hokage you better get used to listening, and waiting for others to finish speaking before objecting to what they have to say. If you interrupt and annoy the one speaking, you could miss out on valuable information. Now will you let me finish speaking?"

I growled before nodding. Seriously that peanut flicker jutsu hurts.

"As I was saying. I won't be testing your teamwork because that's the kind of thing that either develops over time or doesn't happen at all. While teamwork is the backbone of our village, it means nothing if nobody understands 'why'. So I will be testing you three on something else entirely. I expect you three to be awake and at training ground sixty four at eight o'clock tomorrow morning. You're dismissed."

I couldn't wait to tell Iruka-sensei about Ryuuji-sensei's test. Maybe he might have Idea about it. So I headed straight for Ichiraku's.

POV - (Ryuuji)

I waited for my genin to leave before I shunshine'd away. I reappeared in front of my brother's apartment, and knocked on the door. Hayate opened the door and smirked he was dressed in typical jounin attire. Which means he was either on a mission or something else equally as administrative.

"For once you 'don't' appear at the (cough) worst possible time. I should commend you (cough) for it."

"It's not my I fault I don't keep track of when your having sex with yugao." On that note a change of subject is in order. "Any word on who's going to proctor the chunin exams this year?"

Hayate smirked."Morino Ibiki is proctoring the first exam. Anko (cough) is proctoring the second exam. (cough) I'm proctoring the third exam. It should be interesting this year."

I scoffed. "I don't know what's scarier? Ibiki's mental assault, or Anko's Idea of 'fun time in the forest of death'."

"Ryuuji do I even want to know how you already know what their planning?"

I sighed. "I've worked with Ibiki before. To my knowledge he's rarely ever used physical torture. As for Anko, the forest of death is her favorite training ground. There's noway she wouldn't subject genin to unspeakably horrible things in there."

"Speaking of genin how are you going to (cough) test yours?"

"I told them I won't be testing them on teamwork. I'm going to use another test as a distraction to evalute their other skills. I'll pass them when they come to the conclusion that without teamwork they wouln't have passed."

Hayate groaned. "What you have planned will no doubt drive anyone insane (cough)."

I chuckled. "Wouldn't be fun if I didn't. See you later." I said before walking out the door. What...! Ninja's don't always have to use windows and jutsu for flashy exits.

It's seven fifty eight in the morning and I'm waiting for my genin to arrive. I take a quick cursory glance at my surroundings to kill time. Training ground sixty four is one of the newer training grounds on the outskirts of the village. It's heavily forested and has a few small creeks running through it. Despite the fact that it's early morning, there are noticable patches of darkness at the base of the larger trees. The foliage itself is a blend of light browns and greens of all colors, which makes this place perfect for various predators to lurk around unseen. I'm standing at the less dense section of the forested area at the end of a manmade trail.

"Good morning Sasuke." I said looking into a tree directly above me. While I was able to sense him, I still have to wonder how he got up there so quickly.

"Hn." He responded monosyllabically.

Naturally I withdrew a jar of peanuts from one of my vest pockets.

"Good morning Sesnsei." Sasuke said while gritting his teeth. He learns quickly.

" morning sensei." I heard Hinata say as she approached our training area.

I smiled back at her. "Good morning to you too Hinata." Then I looked back up at Sasuke. "See Sasuke. It won't kill you to be polite."

Sasuke was saved from having to respond by an orange blur descending from the sky and landing directly in-front of me. "WHEN CAN THE TEST START?" (flick) "Ryuuji -sensei what was that for?"

I raised an eyebrow. "That was for trying to raise the dead with the sound of your voice. Your the only ninja I've ever met who purposefully objects to the concept of 'volume control.' "

I could practically 'feel' Sasuke smirking from up in his tree. I was tempted to flick a peanut at him too. "Sasuke get down. Now that were all here we can begin the test."

Now that Sasuke had descended from his leafy perch, I decided now was as good a time as any to reveal the instruments of my test. "In this test each of you will have one of your senses cut off from you. On the plus side, there is no time limit. However, should anyone of you fail to pass this test. Not only will you be booted back to the Academy, I will force you to wear a donkey suit and allow the village children to play 'pin the tail on the Jackass who failed.' "

I allowed them to ponder the implications. Then I opened the other two pockets on the left side of my vest. In one hand was a blindfold, ear plugs, and a roll of tape. In the other were three bells. "Sasuke since you are this years rookie, you get the honor of being blinded." I approached Sasuke and wrapped the blindfold over his eyes. Then I placed the other items at my feet, so I could string together a set of handseals. I tapped the blindfold and a string of kanji ran across it. "Just so you guys know, each of these Items will have an anti removal seal on them. Unless you know Fuuinjutsu, good luck taking them off. Naruto your next."

"Sense you haven't even told us how to pass this test. Yet you're already making it so we will fail right away."

I smirked. "You're right. However you should keep in mind that a ninja test was never meant to be easy. Oh and you get these." I placed the ear plugs in each of his ears then I repeated the same sealing jutsu. "And for you Hinata. You will be the one who can't speak. Believe me when I say I was tempted to cover Naruto's mouth with tape instead of yours."

Naruto looked around obliviously wondering what I said to make Sasuke snicker, and Hinata giggle. I formed a half ram seal so that the jutsu on Naruto's ear would deactivate. Then I picked up the bells I took out earlier. "It shouldn't take a genius to figure out what the bells are for, or why there's three of them. I will reactivate the sensory deprivation seals once you guys have gotten a good ways into the forest. Oh and don't forget the golden rule of being a ninja, it would be embarassing if you guys forgot. That being said the test starts NOW."

The genin suddenly vanished, except for Naruto. "I figured you out Ryuuji-sensei. If I stay out here you can't activate the seal. You'll have to fight me one on one."

I sighed. The tricky little jerk had a point. Unfortunately for him I can be tricky too. "Then if you want to pass you'll have to chase me into the forest." I immediately leaped into the nearest tree and bounded from tree top to tree an irritated Naruto in my wake.

POV - (Sasuke)

I leaped through the trees on the lowest branches that could support my weight. There's no telling exactly when my eyesight will be sealed away and I miss a jump. I began trying to think of Ideas on how I would get a bell. It wasn't until I spotted a small clearing that I began to formulate an Idea. I quickly landed and began scouting out the surrounding area. Then I pulled out a roll of ninja wire and got to work.

POV - (Naruto)

Crap I though I had Sensei figured out. Now I have no idea where I am in this forest. I must have been chasing him for at least an hour. I see a bunch of trees, more trees, bushes, and more trees. How am I supposed to find Sensei in all of this? It's not like I can be in... That's it. I grinned as I formed the cross shaped seal. "Kage Bunshin no jutsu." Ten copies of me appeared out of a cloud of smoke.

"Listen up other me's spread out and..." Those jerks weren't even listening. They clearly saw me talking and...OH Crap Sensei must have activated the seal. I guess whatever seal he put on me is on them too. I ran over to each clone and tapped them on the shoulder. Once I had their attention I pointed to my eyes then around me, they must have gotten the idea because they went in different directions.

POV - (Hinata)

I looked for a secluded spot so I could be safely hidden from view. I found a wall of roots from a partially uprooted tree big enough to hide me, but small enough to keep others out. Then I formed the Handseals for my clan's kekkei genkei. My vision changed from color to black and white, but spread out in different directions. I could see Naruto-kun forming a strange seal then ten more of him suddenly appeared. I didn't know he had such an amazing jutsu.

I turned my head to left and saw Sasuke sitting in a crouched position in a clearing. He tensed as though he were ready to react to the slightest movement. There were lines all around him, probably ninja wire.

Ryuuji-sensei looked like he was searching for a specific location. I began to wonder why he chose me to be the one who couldn't speak. I could understand him taking away Sasuke's eyes so he can't fight, and the blindfold wouldn't work on my Byakugan. Naruto-kun's loss of hearing prevent's him from communicating with his clones. But Ryuuji would have to...Then I understood why Ryuuji-sensei took away my speech when I saw him make the same seal as Naruto-kun. Three more Ryuuji-sensei's appeared and took off in different directions. He must have known about our abilities before the test. He knew I would figure out what he was doing. Even though I wanted to go after Naruto-kun, Sasuke wouldn't see Ryuuji-sensei coming. So I channelled chakra to my feet and leaped up into the trees.

POV - (Ryuuji)

This should be fun. I thought to myself as I headed to where Sasuke was. Sometimes it's good to be a sensor.

Author's Note:

1.) Sorry about the cliffy in the middle of the test, but the anime did the same thing to us.

2.) Next chapter will wrap up the test.

3.) There will of course be some unique surprises.

4.) I hope you enjoyed the insight into the minds of the genin.