Naruto woke up early the next morning to find that there was a meal ready for him already for the day. He walked in and sat down and ate it. He knew this trick cause well his gramps had told him the story about it long before, when he did this to his students and when the first hokage and second hokage did it to his team as well when he was a genin. He wondered if it might be something even the Senju Clan did to its young people as well, it did seem possible, but who knew actually. Naruto ate and then headed down as he saw the note from his gramps telling him that he had to head to the office early that day and wishing him luck. The young Naruto smiled as he felt confident, and good for this day, he would show his skill, the things that his gramps had taught him during the years he had been living here. He grabbed his things and headed out towards the meeting place curious also who the heck Aoba happened to be having not meet him before.
He found Hinata and Sai already at the meeting place having gotten there on time actually early as he got there just on time, he smiled as he looked at the two. He wondered if all the teachers did things like this to their gennin and knew most likely this was a universal thing to challenge them and their abilities. "Well, guys best we rest for a bit, and wait for this Aoba guy to show up don't you think," Naruto commented to Sai and Hinata.
"Yeah, well I suggest two of us wait and one of us keeps an eye out on things to make sure that our new sensei isn't coming the one awake can then wake up the two sleeping or just resting," Sai commented as he nodded his head looking over at Hinata.
Hinata took a deep breath as she knew that being on a team would require talking, and that would mean having to get over her nervousness around Naruto. She had to, she had to be able to talk and stand up for herself around him, if she was going to help him. There was a fear that this would cost her and him in a moment that she needed it the most. She nodded her head, "I agree," she stammered out as she looked at the two. It would take time was all she could think now, but she had a new goal, something to work towards with her time from that point onwards.
"Alright, I will take the first watch, you two can rest, so don't worry, I went to bed early last night to be ready for today, gramps demanded I get to bed early last night when I got home," Naruto commented as he looked at the other two at the moment, who blinked.
"I was going to offer to do that, I had plenty of sleep too, and am ready for this," Sai commented as he looked at the other two looking at Hinata. Sai looked at her as she shook her head, and nodded his head, as there was a collective chuckle from the group of them, "Well then, I think we are fine, well hopefully we don't have to wait to long at least."
Aoba had been there already, honestly how the heck was he named to teach the basically adopted son of the hokage, and the son of another hokage. Aoba sighed as he had slipped up and quietly watched the group of three fixing his sunglasses as he watched all three of them for a long moment. Interesting group, he could tell his group was a group of smart students, that was good, he smiled as he looked at the girl, her feelings towards the hokage's kid was obvious even after seeing her for a moment or two. Till the day before he had been a special jounin, now he was a normal jounin, and a sensei, he could handle this. Aoba decided to head out, he wasn't Kakashi he wouldn't make them wait that long. Yeah, he was going to be a great sensei with such interesting and talented students, a thought which made him smile.
"Well, good to see you this morning, good to see you all up and ready this morning ready for your test this morning," Aoba commented as he looked as he walked up towards them. "See you are all here on time, awesome, now, any questions, this test is rather important, it is the real test."
"Yeah, I know, gramps told me about this before now," Naruto said as he looked over at Aoba commented as he looked at the others who nodded there head, "we had a talk about this while we were waiting," he commented taking charge of the situation himself.
"Good, glad you know, now your test, each teacher has their own style, Kakashi uses bells, Kurenai to break a genjutsu, Asuma whatever he does," Aoba commented as he looked at them. " Okay, the forest we are in, I put a marker in the woods, this marker is guarded by traps and if needed will be guarded by me, you three will have to work together to find the marker, if you get there and find the marker then you win, if not you lose. Good Luck, and here is to your possible success."
Naruto looked at his teammates as he went away and then focused on Hinata, "Can you track him and look for any other signs please," he asked as he knew with her Byakugan she would be able to track where he went and then they were sure that he would not move to far away from the target.
Hinata did so using her Byakugan as she looked around finding him with ease as she pointed in the direction he was in, "there he is headed toward a small clearing in the woods, I think," she said with a determined tone, as she was determined to get over her nervousness.
"He could be leading us away, you two, he might be going the opposite direction, do you mind if I do some scouting, Naruto, you want to help me with this, say sent out clones in all directions, and see which ones run into targets," Sai reasoned having seen the clone jutsu used by Naruto once during practice time at the academy a couple of times.
Naruto nodded his head as he created a half dozen clone which went in different directions and Sai's ink animals went in different directions. "Well, we do have time we don't have to rush, so um keep an eye on him Hinata please, but if you get tired don't worry about resting."
"Okay, I can do this, I can keep up with him," she said confidently, she had to push herself she had to get stronger so that she would be able to help out Naruto, and support him and maybe someday even be noticed by him.
Aoba was reading the minds of the three as he stood in the woods, he was standing near the marker, but seeing them not just rush in was good. Sai was a good tactician, Naruto had good leadership qualities, Hinata would help make the group a team and had great potential as well. Damn, this team could make him look great as long as he didn't mess it up.
Naruto's clones came back having not found anything after a short period of time, and unless Aoba put the marker a far bit away then he was by it. He looked at the others. "Well lets go, right," he said looking at them, prepared to head out towards Aoba."
"Wait let us get by him, hope on," Sai said drawing out two ink birds as the ink birds came alive. Naruto and Hinata somehow ended up on the same one, with Hinata turning a great deal read but was dealing as well with her nerves as possible.
"Sai how about this, Hinata and I will delay Aoba sensei and you can well find the target and find it, we don't all have to get to the marker so if you do we pass," he commented as he looked at Hinata, "tell me when we move," he asked her politely.
Naruto jumped down from the bird low above the trees using the multi clone jutsu against his would be sensei with Hinata backing him up. Aoba saw Naruto attacking and countered. Naruto's taijutsu skills were soon tested as he could see that Naruto needed serious work on this element of his fighting but there were so many clones it made up somewhat for the lack of skill on his part. Still quickly the clones were popped one by one fast, as Hinata moved in to help. Aoba watched Hinata, and knew her taijutsu was dangerous, he was able to dodge her blows easily, she needed work too, on this, which would need to be a focus as he knew when she got her taijutsu down she would be able to be a far better ninja.
He saw Sai was not there, but Aoba didn't want to use his fire dragon bullet jutsu as it could cause harm to his student. He knew that this was a diversionary attack, which was to buy him time, smart move, they were already working together, good, very good.
"Naruto not bad, you need work, but not bad, your chakra control should be goal number one. Hinata, your taijutsu need work, but we have time to work on that," Aoba commented before jetting away from them before they could react. He used the thousand crow technique to hide the marker from Sai who was in the air the crows flying around the bird as Sai couldn't see, he watched Sai move down as he dove with the bird under his crows, and attacked, as he knocked him down from the bird with a jump kick.
"Good thinking, but sometimes a foe can be so strong you need a back up plan, something you will need to work on too, stuff you three can improve on," he said to Sai who started to roll out his scroll to paint something. "You pass, all three of you pass, you have done well, the marker isn't real, it was just more a thing to give me a chance to watch you plan. "
A/N- Hope you liked the chapter, well will thing up the first mission it won't be the same as in the series, that will remain Team Kakashi's mission.