Naruto was headed to find out his team, he was so excited that he couldn't hardly keep from spazing out as he walked to his classroom, when he sat down he could hardly sit still as he looked over at Sasuke who glared at him. It was possible that he could be on the same team as Sasuke, which would seriously suck. Naruto had told his grandpa so many times that he didn't want to be on the team with the Uchiha, that he hoped that he would be able to get through to him and convince him. He knew after all that gramps carried some weight with the village and could seriously affect who he ended up on the same team as. Naruto could feel a nervous energy through the room as he looked around and smiled at the others, none of them knew the teams were at that moment, and would have to wait.
"Naruto, do you know did the hokage give you any idea of who the teams were," Sai asked quietly Which caught him off guard, Sai knew if anyone knew who the teams were in advance then it would be Naruto, he would be a good source of information in this situation after all, given his connection to the hokage.
"No, sorry, not a clue, just hope I am not on the team with Sasuke, is all I can say," he said to loudly getting the angry looks from the Sasuke fangirl club at that moment.
"Agreed, he is to arrogant to be a good teammate," Sai whispered keeping his words out of range of the fangirls as he then sat back.
"Hinata, who do you want on your team?" Naruto asked Hinata as he smiled, he blinked as Hinata seemed to pause going quiet as he asked her.
"Um, well...i.t. doe..s reall..y matter," she said lying through her teeth as she then smiled her face a bit read from the attention that she was getting from her own little crush.
SaI remembered reading that turning red and looking like she did was the fact she liked the person who was giving her this attention, did that mean that she was lying. He blinked going over the relationship, it was apparent that she had a thing for Naruto, so obviously she was lying, but still he remained quiet. One of the reasons he sat there was he could get a better understand on how people interacted with each other by observing the two as well as the other exchanges by Naruto.
"Alright, let us get started today, we have a few teams that need to be named it seems," Iruka said with a smile a he held the list given to him by the Hokage. "Team 7, led by Kakashi Hatake, will be named first," he announced.
Hiruzen picked Kakashi cause he needed this, he had to be a teacher, and he had to use this as a chance to get over his problems that he had. He would be able to find his way again, and work with these promising kids. He smiled at the thought of that. Now for the team, the hokage had to think this out. It was easy to put his teacher's son, but choose not to for the simple reason of keeping him away from Sasuke. Sasuke had the sharingan, and needed to be someone else with it. Kakashi was the only one who also had it who wasn't a criminal from justice. No, Sasuke would be perfect for this team.
In the room when Sasuke name was called out, there was a nervousness, Ino, Kin, and Sakura praying to get on that team and Naruto wanting to keep off that team.
Hiruzen had looked at the other two members and first picked Fu to be on his team, a powerful young girl who had great potential who could push Sasuke without being his rival like Naruto. Then Sakura, who would be pushed by Fu, who would fear being ran past by Sasuke and Fu and who would make her focus on her work as a kunoichi as well her goals towards her teammate.
When the team was announced, Fu smiled happy, honestly Naruto was sure she didn't care, he was so happy not to be on that team and having to deal with Sasuke so much. Then Sakura was in heaven, being on the team with Sasuke, it was amazing and she was so happy to be able to have her chance around her, but she was suddenly nervous as well as she knew she couldn't blow her chance.
Hiruzen had put team 8 together from the leftovers actually, the ones who didn't make team 9 or 10. Not that they were bad, he looked at the list, Shino and Kiba would be good. Then the teacher Kurenai Yuhi would be able to keep a good eye over them. The trick was the third member of that team, she had thought about Hinata as Kurenai would be a good role model for her and teach her to be a strong woman, but given her clan situation was that possible. No, she needed more inspiration, no Kin would work. She had great potential with genjutsu and Kurenai would set her straight and make her a good ninja.
As this team was announced, there wasn't much said other then Kin who was annoyed that she had to put up with the bug guy and the dog guy with her team.. It didn't cause that much waves, expect for Hinata who grew more and more nervous by the moment that passed.
This left Hiruzen with a issue who would teach team Nine, he had Yamato or Tenzu, but he needed him as a anbu then more then ever no, he wouldn't work. He needed a man who was good with ninjutsu with tactics with taijutsu and was good enough to work with his team and deal with them. The ideal would be Kakashi for Naruto in some ways, but Naruto needed a person who wasn't going to be high strung and kind of laid back. It hit him as he remembered one of the special jounin. He wrote a promotion and sent it over to him. Naruto's teacher would be none other than Aoba Yamashiro. To go with Naruto and this team, Sai would be good, he would work well with Naruto, and would keep Naruto focused as well. Then he was hopefully doing a favor to the village by putting the Hyuga heir to the team. He was sure that being around Naruto would inspire her to work harder, and help her get over her nervousness with him, which would help both. She had seen how the girl acted around the boy, he figured his son oblivious but they would be able to help each other out. Then the last team would be trained by his son and would be Shika-Ino-Cho as normal.
Inside the room when this was known, Hinata almost passed out, she was on Naruto's team, she would be working with him, she was shocked by this. Sai showed no emotion on his part as he figured this could be interesting, and he liked his team, he could stand both Naruto and Hinata. Naruto also didn't mind, he wasn't on a team with a fangirl of Sasuke, he wasn't on a team with Sasuke, he couldn't ask for more then that. He didn't know his teacher, but he figured they would meet him the following day. Naruto worried about Hinata and hoped that she would be able to hold up and wouldn't be sick all the time while they were on missions.
A/N- I hope you liked the teams, they are set now, not to different from the norm, just slight changes, heck even Sai was on Naruto's team when in the show so that isn't that big of change, the biggest change of course is Naruto being on a team with Hinata and Sai versus Sakura and Sasuke, and yes this fact will have a large impact on the story.