Author's note: Well let's get this show on the road. I will warn readers that it might start off slow since a lot of this is just going to be what's already canonically happened in Naruto with additional snippets of Hinata instead of Sakura. As the story progresses though expect it to diverge more and more from the cannon storyline of the series.
The whole of Team 7 was no on the roof of the academy building to begin introducing themselves to their new teacher and vice versa. The team frowned a bit as they looked at their teacher.
"Well, let's begin with introducing yourselves," said the silver haired jounin as he looked over the team with his single revealed eye.
The two males on the team remained silent for the time being as Hinata spoke up, "W-what do you want to know?" She seemed as nervous as usual if not more so given her proximity to Naruto.
"How bout your likes and dislikes, dreams for the future, and any hobbies you might have," was the man's quick response.
No one on the team wanted to go first at the moment. However the silence stretched on for longer then Naruto was comfortable with so he spoke first. Pointing at their new instructor he said rather loudly, "How bout you go first?"
At that the teacher merely shrugged being speaking again, "Well my name's Hatake Kakashi. I'd rather not tell you about my likes or dislikes. As for my future dream I don't really have one. My hobbies? Well I have many."
This lack of information left the team in a short stunned silence before Kakashi spooke once more, "Well its your guys' turn."
Naruto grabbed a hold of his headband with his left hand as he began to respond, "My name is Uzumaki Naruto. I like is instant ramen but what I like even more is Icharaku ramen that Iruka treats me too. What I dislike is waiting three minutes for the ramen to cook…"
Is the only thing this kid thinks about ramen? Was the thought going through the teacher's head at the moment.
"… as for my dream its to surpass the hokages," at this Naruto grabbed a hold of his headband with both hands and started jiggling it up and down, "and to have the people of this village acknowledge my existence." With that said the blond haired brat lowered his hands before finishing up. "As for my hobbies well pranks I guess."
"Alright next," As Kakashi said this he looked at Sasuke rather pointedly signaling that the Uchiha was next to speak.
Behind steepled fingers the brooding youth spoke, "My name is Uchiha Sasuke. I have many dislikes but no likes and I wouldn't really call it a dream but I do have an ambition. To restore my clan and to kill a certain man."
Naruto looked at Sasuke rather strangely hoping that his teammate didn't mean him.
Hinata looked at Sasuke slightly disturbed by the darkness of his ambition. If she was being honest with herself the broody ninja actually scared her a little bit.
Kakashi took that in stride as he looked at Hinata and spoke once more, "And now the girl."
Hinata blushed suddenly as she imagined that everyone was now staring at her. Looking towards the ground and pushing her fingers together the dark haired heiress of the Hyuga clan began to speak, "M-my name is Hyuga Hinata. M-my l-likes are…" the girl glances at Naruto before blushing brightly and refusing to speak any further.
"Good. The three of you are very distinctive and interesting!" Kakashi smiled though the mask he wore hid it. Instead one could tell of the change in expression by his exposed eye. "Tomorrow we'll be having a mission."
At this Naruto grinned widely as he saluted and shouted out, "Yes, sir! What kind of mission?"
"First, we'll do what we can with just four people."
"What what what what what?!" was the blond ninja's rapid-fire response as his curiosity perked up.
"A survival exercise," was the teacher's short response.
"Survival exercise?" much of Naruto's enthusiasm seemed to have vanish at that.
Kakashi nodded before speaking again, "This is no ordinary exercise though."
"It isn't? Then what is it?" Naruto's curiosity seems to have returned for the moment as he probed their new teacher for answers.
Kakashi suddenly started laughing at that question which creeped out Hinata and Naruto a bit. However Sasuke was as stoic as ever as per his normal behavior.
"W-what's so funny teacher?" Hinata spoke up once more hoping that the answer would relax the mood a bit.
"If I tell you, you'll freak out." Kakashi put his face in one hand before continuing, "Of the 27 graduates only 9 will move on to become genins. The remaining 18 graduates will be sent back to the academy. In other words this exercise is a very difficult test with a failure rate of over 66%."
At this news Naruto's jaw dropped as his eyes shot wide open. Hinata's eyes widened considerably and she seemed close to fainting. As for Sasuke his eye merely twitched a little. Not that he was any less surprised then the other two he was just better at hiding it.
Naruto recovered from the shock quickly enough to begin shouting at Kakashi, "What! NO WAY!! But we worked so hard. What was the point of even graduating?'
Kakashi waved that question off like it was no big deal, "Oh that? That was merely to see if you had the chance to become a genin. Anyways tomorrow you'll have to show your real skill on the training ground. Bring all the shinobi tools you own. Oh, and skip breakfast unless you want to throw up." Kakashi pulled out three sheets of paper which he then handed to the three ninjas. "The details are on this paper and don't be late tomorrow."
With that the silver haired jounin left the trio to their own thoughts. Each one of them wondered just how bad tomorrow was going to be as the skimmed over the papers they had been given. That night each went home to begin their own preparations for the events that would come tomorrow morning.
Author's Note: Alright next chapter will be the bell test but I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do with it yet. Chances are it'll probably be the first major divergence from cannon. Hopefully I'll get it done in a few days.