AN: There is going to be plenty of building up to events but I felt like a peek into the future because some of you gave me great ideas. Tamashino Suzume inspired this one. And yes I am content to write future events as long as I manage to not give away anything too important and they do not need to be in chronological order. These things I think are just fine. Now how they happen you get to wonder.

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"Suoh Ami, Uchiha Tobirama, and Namikaze Minato." The instructor was saying and Minato blinked but shrugged. Okay he had an uchiha and a civilian on his team. He could work with that. The real pressure started now. Who would they be trusted to? Some of the names he had heard weren't that exciting others would assuredly be astounding to learn from. How did they pick which jounin were available anyways?

"Team seven you will be under Jiraiya."

Not the Jiraiya!

"Jiraiya!? One of the Three Sannin!?" His civilian teammate shrieked and this time Minato could entirely forgive her. "She's ours!? Kyaaa!"

"That's..suitable." The Uchiha mumbled and yet his dark eyes were wide. Minato just nodded dumbfounded. He'd heard of the Sannin who hadn't? They had revolutionized life of shinobi everywhere on and off the battlefield.

The rest of the teams somehow went right through Minato's ears. Because while Senju Tsunade was known as being unbelievable as a medic and known as the Slug Princess or the Green Goddess by Jiraiya's dubbing her miraculous abilities in healing, Orochimaru was the Sannin of the Unknown for his delving into research and jutsu's that were ranging from tiny things to great. It was rumored there was no mystery he couldn't figure out if given the time. Of them all though Minato had always been interested in seals and it was well known if you wanted to know seals..you went to Uzumaki's. If the Uzumaki's couldn't figure out a seal..they went to Jiraiya. The Chaos Seals Master.

"Namikaze!" came a voice and Minato turned with a blush to see Kushina glaring at him with her arms crossed. "I expect you to introduce me to your sensei. Over Ramen of course." Not giving him a chance to respond the beautiful red head flounced off to meet her own teammates and sensei.

He had a reason to meet up with Kushina later? Could this get any better?

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The classroom door slammed open but someone jumped in through the window instead, enjoying making them all jump as she landed on the teacher's desk turning their former sensei bright red from the view as he was eye level with her posterior. Their old teacher swiftly sat down and looked away. It was a lot safer to never be caught appreciating the form of the infamous Jiraiya. Her old sensei and teammate's tended to be...protective. Of course Jiraiya had no shame and did that sort of thing on purpose just because it was funny. She never grew a figure like Tsunade's but her own was nothing to sneer at either and she loved watching people get stupid over something as common as flesh. Especially when she had clothing on.

"Hello brats! I'm Jiraiya, trouble and chaos personified hence why I am known as the Chaos Seals Master- master not mistress because I'm the best of BOTH genders and don't forget it- and you're now under my potentially unsafe often involving mayhem and explosions, guidance." Jiraiya was cheerful as she greeted them, before she actually smirked "Team Seven?" Three hands went up and before they could blink she scooped them all up and right in front of the class, body flickered out to a training ground they'd never seen and dropped them. "Don't worry the nausea goes away soon. Hope you didn't eat lunch or else too bad, puke where I won't see it!"

Jiraiya hopped up on one of the posts nearby before sitting with her legs crossed and was grinning at them with her eyes closed. Slowly the three genin got to their feet and took careful look at their instructor. She was known to have wild white hair that spiked out everywhere but it only seemed to do that in pieces at the top of her head and around her face, the rest carefully combined into a thick braid. She wore a black haori with a giant white stylized pattern over her shoulders going down her back and over a black mesh shirt with white bandages visible underneath covering her bust and tight black boots that went up over her knees leaving a small bit of skin visible below black shorts. She had bandages down her visible forearms as she waved at them and the standard gear pouches on each hip. Her Haori was held closed at her waist by a large red obi style sash so it ended just below her hips and her forehead protector was more a metal faceplate curving about her cheeks. Oddly it had the character for 'Nobody' on it. Her actual konoha guard was dangling around her neck and he noticed she had red stripes going under her eyes, down her face and it seemed even down her neck.

Minato blinked, feeling his face turning red. She was...very cute in a different way. Like she was wild and untamed.

"So introduce yourselves to me, tell me what I've gotten handed over to work with. Go on. I don't bite. That's Oro's thing but he's not around right now." Jiraiya smiled at them and waved her hand. "Start with the girl, always ladies first you know? Only it's more Kunoichi's first because otherwise they'll hit you when you least expect it."

"I'm Suoh Ami! I like dango and I don't like anything spicy! I want to be a medic nin like Tsunade!"

"Huh. Fearless?" Ami nodded. "Got a thing for getting your way?" another nod. "Got a mouth on you that doesn't stop if you get worked up?"

That time Minato and the Uchiha piped up. "Yes."

Jiraiya grinned. "Well that I can work with. Okay boys, Ro-sham-bo to see who goes next." When they actually took out their hands to do the rock paper scissors Jiraiya started to crack up. "Oh you two are all right! Go ahead Uchiha as a reward for having a sense of humor."

"Ah, Uchiha Tobirama I like collecting bonsai, I do not enjoy watching my baby brother as he cries endlessly. My goal in life is to live up to my namesake."

"Tobirama. Whoo boy. Yeah I'll have some funny stories for you later. Still, we can completely work with that and once we get doing enough missions you can always pay someone else to watch your brother and I can teach you a few ways to make that more bearable. Trust me I had to watch more brats over the years than anyone should and it clearly whacked out my sanity..Okay Blondie your turn."

"You forgot to mention you like learning how to kill off your bonsai." Ami muttered and for some reason this just made Jiraiya laugh as she waved on to Minato to go ahead.

"Namikaze Minato! I like learning and I want to learn all about seals, I don't like being thought of as incapable just because I'm young and I'm going to be Hokage!"

Jiraiya tilted her head one way, then the other. "Okay Uchiha, Suoh, is Namikaze here a little genius who can't get his nose out of books?"

Another deadpanned 'Yes' emerged from the other team members and Minato felt himself blushing.

"Well that I can deal with too. Seals huh?..hmm.." She nodded once than clapped her hands. "Okay you little suckers are so lucky I'm not in the mood to troll you. Much. Here's how this test works. I have two bells.." She dangled them one from each hand and smiled. "The two who get the bells get to stay my students. The other gets kicked back to the academy for failing."

"But..there's..that's..not fair.."

Jiraiya's face went from teasing to serious. "Life isn't fair cuties. It's not just force that you need to get these bells but your brains, your skills. Everything that got you to graduate. Come at me without holding anything back."

Minato frowned because all the stories he heard mentioned that Jiraiya was every bit as brilliant as her teammate's just usually not where you saw it. She was clearly up to something. "So..what's the real point then? I've never heard of a two man squad.."

Jiraiya's lips quirked but she was never going to do this exactly like her sensei anyways. For all he'd made a bet with her and her teammate's if she did. "You tell me. What may be the reasoning? You have to get the bells or figure out something worth more than the bells before the sun sets. Consider yourselves lucky I'm feeling lazy today and don't have anywhere to go. Starting...Now!" Jiraiya suddenly flipped up from her spot with a little handstand and grinned, pulling down one eyelid and sticking out her tongue as her hand went to attach the bells to her sash.

They rushed her.

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"Apple?" Orochimaru asked as he held out an apple slice he had just cut to her, leaning back casually in the tree beside Jiraiya.

"Thanks Oro. What do you think?"

"Of the genin hopefuls or your clone's atrocious behavior?" Orochimaru drawled as he used the refined chakra scalpel technique Tsunade had taught them, a method that took tremendous chakra control.. to cut another slice of apple. This one he ate before slivering off another piece for his best friend.

"The brats of course. I know what you think of me." Jiraiya grinned teasingly and Orochimaru just raised an eyebrow before shaking his head amused.

"You are right. They have potential. It seems almost familiar. A clan brat, two nobodies.." He tapped her forehead after deactivating the scalpel where Tobirama's nickname for her sat and she grinned up at him.

"Yeah but this time it's two boys."

"You liked pretending to be one and Tsunade could practically be one half the time.." He started but dodged Jiraiya's slow punch and shrugged. "If the girl was white haired instead of brown it would be a little more..similar. I'm glad it is not."

"You just never want to be copied hm?"

"Of course."

The two leaned back, slowly eating the apple and then Jiraiya tilted her head. "Still can't believe he's makin me take a team. I betcha Tsunade is watching somewhere too.."

"Likely figuring that if they survive you he'll inflict the horror on Tsunade and I next. Hiruzen-sama does have that crystal ball technique. It wouldn't surprise me if she went to him to observe. Though you were not supposed to change the method of the test you know."

"Hey he wasn't supposed to pass two girls with us. Happens. I do think it's funny though that with all that happened since we proved a two kunoichi team can kick ass just as much that it's more common to mix them up. Still, I ended up with the classic setting. Smart kid, smart kunoichi..wait.." She blinked then and looked over at Orochimaru who was smirking at her.

"The Kunoichi's the dolt isn't she?"

"Got it in one. I think Sensei is teasing you."

"Gimme another apple."

"We've finished the apple."

"Your other apple, like you only brought one Oro. I'm crazy not stupid."