an:/ Hiya! Slow update? Just kidding, this is fast for most stories..so no complaining! hahaha anyways, some responses to reviews...Sakura, Sasuke, Konohamaru (even him) and Naruto are all 12. Kakashi doesn't need a team because he already taught Rei, Reno, and Naruto...Besides, I need Naruto to be with Sakura...It will be hard with their teacher-student relationship but i like a challenge. As they say, "No pain, no gain!" On to the story!

oh wait...important info: The Uchiha Massacre didn't happen...Minato is in charge i guess, so no dead people. BUT Itachi Uchiha did deflect from Konoha (no I'm not gonna antagonize him so just chill and sit tight until I bring him back into the picture)

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"Alrighty, then! Introduce yourself. Name, Likes/Dislikes, Dreams and Goals, Strengths?"

The three genin looked at the masked jounin strangely. He was incredibly short for one, bright yellow hair for second, and the mask was just plain creepy for third. The mask looked like ANBU, so why would an ANBU be teaching them? And blonde hair? The only person they could think of with blond hair was the Hokage but he wasn't this short. Sakura asked.

"How about you, sensei. Can you introduce yourself to give us an example of how it's done?"

"Okay. My name? Well, I can't give you my real one, so call me Ruto-Sensei. Likes and Dislikes? I have plenty, but not worth mentioning. Dreams and Goals? Not really your business. Strengths? Oh, you'll find out."

The whole team sweatdropped. He only told us his name, a nickname at that... The blond jounin tilted his head. You could practically see the smirk that was behind the boy's mask.

"Okay, I'm done with introductions. You, first, Pinkie"

"Haruno Sakura. I like..."

She tilted her head up to the left towards the sky and giggled.

"My dislikes...Assholes, jerks, losers, "

She sent a glare toward Konohamaru who shrunk away

"My goals and dream? I guess it could be being a Medic nin like my mom. Strengths? Booksmart"

Naruto was a bit confused with this girl. Was she a fangirl? It's hard to tell what she was giggling at since she didn't really look at anyone in particular. Regardless, it was about somebody. Anyone could notice she hated Konohamaru to an extent. Medic nin? Another Rei. Booksmart? Couldn't she say she was good with strategy?

Meanwhile, Sakura was also analyzing Naruto... in a different way. OMG! He reminds me of the kid in strategy class four years back!

Apparently, back in that first strategy class, Naruto had struck a pretty deep impression on Sakura. Every single class, the blond would be able to give a strategy that would rival the teacher's. Her strategies would be shadowed by the ingenuity in the strategies of the blond. He was really nice to her during group work (since they sat next to each other). She could practically say he was her friend. He looked like he was the same age as her on top of it! Someone with the same intellect, if not greater! He was a prodigy. A pretty cute on at that. But, after the blond graduated, she never saw him again, not even on the streets of Konohagakure. To think the son of the Hokage wouldn't be seen on the streets. She started to fantasize about meeting him again, seeing him all grown up and even cooler. She figured that if she became genin, she could see him. Maybe was he chuunin already!

Sakura's thoughts were cut short when the jounin spoke again.

"Alright, you next, Blackie"

"Tch- Name is Uchiha Sasuke. Likes, not many, Dislikes, too many to list. Goals and Dreams? To be the real prodigy of Uchiha and regain the honor of our family. Strengths? Heh, what a joke."

Naruto was unfazed, if not, a bit pissed. Was this kid arrogant or what? Real prodigy? Regain honor? Was he talking about Itachi's defection? Hate to break it to ya, kid. But Itachi was the one and only prodigy. Graduating academy before people like you. He was one of the few Uchiha who put aside their arrogance to become stronger. Mixed with superior intelligence and the rare humbleness, Itachi was a real prodigy. Not to mention Naruto was same age as Sasuke, so no competition there on who was a real prodigy. Even with the defection, Naruto harbored respect for Itachi and knew that no other Uchiha could attempt the same success as he did. Sasuke was just no match. Naruto sighed and turned to Konohamaru.

"You, the one with the stupid grin, you're next"

"Hey-not stupid! I'm Sarutobi Konohamaru! I love pranks! I hate Sasuke, and all the other pretentious jerks out there! Goals and Dreams! To be the Hokage, a better one than my Grandfather! Strengths? EVERYTHING!"

"Says the deadlast..."

"SHUT UP, SASUKE!"

Naruto sweatdropped again. It was just like him and Reno. Hokage? Really? Was his dream so cliche that everyone wanted to be Hokage now? Ha, not before him!

"Yeah, not happening anytime soon. Hokage is such hard dream that people die before they even make it to jounin. You gotta become one of the elite jounin first before Hokage, and even then, you have to be suggested to council by another jounin. Just saying you wanna be Hokage ain't gonna get you there."

Naruto scoffed but Konohamaru shot up.

"Is that how a sensei is suppose to respond to his student? Shooting down his dreams?"

"I'm not shooting you down. I'm telling you to train harder. Get stronger to be able to achieve such dreams. At the level you are now, it's not happening. Besides, if you want to become Hokage, you'll have to get through me first."

"Huh? Whadda mean?"

"You can take this both ways, both are correct by the way. First way is, tomorrow there is a second test to the genin test. And I'm the one that decides if you pass or fail to be a ninja. The second way is, I'm gonna be hokage too. I'm practically your rival. Not much of a rival though, considering I'm already jounin and you're barely a genin. So in order to be Hokage, you gotta beat me in both."

"Ha! That's-"

"Yo!"

Konohamaru was interrupted by a new voice. Naruto looked up and saw Kakashi perched on the railing.

"Hey Kakashi-sensei. By the way, you can't mention my name around these guys, it's confidential."

The genin were a bit shocked. Their sensei's sensei was the great copy ninja!? Amazing!

"I see. This is your team, then...?"

"Ruto, I'm Ruto now"

"Well, introduce me to your team then, Ruto"

"Well, here's Bookworm, Emo, and Loser"

Sakura let out a "eep!" and Sasuke and Konohamaru frowned. Konohamaru started yelling.

"Nu-uh! I'm not a loser! I'm gonna be Hokage! I'll make you eat your words!"

"I see why you think that way, Ruto. He reminds me a bit like Reno"

"Shut up, deadlast!"

The two jounin looked at Sasuke at his sudden outburst.

"He reminds me of you in your genin days, Ruto"

"Don't even talk, at least I wasn't emo."

"Cold as always, Ruto. Well, I gotta go. Reno's house at 8?"

"I'll be there"

With that, the silver haired jounin shunshined away. The two boys were ticked off at their sensei's conversation. Sakura walked up and whacked the two boys on the head. Naruto sweatdropped.

"Okay team. The real test is tomorrow. Be there at 7, and uh, I advise you not to eat breakfast. I don't want you all to start throwing up. Don't be late! Disperse!"

The three genin got up. Sasuke jumped off the roof onto the others. Sakura walked over to the door to go down stairs. Konohamaru just tripped over his scarf, then proceeded to jump off the roof, only to lose flight and fall ungracefully to the ground below with a loud crash. Naruto peered over the railing to see a hole in the ground. He shunshined away, hoping the civilians wouldn't get angry with the clumsy genin.

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"You're one of the late ones, Sensei!"

Naruto walked over to the two genin with Konohamaru balling his fist at Naruto.

"Didn't you say we shouldn't be late? And here you are late as ever! 30 minutes late to be exact! Why should be listen to you? You're practically shorter than us? Care to explain?"

Sasuke turned to the two ninjas with interest. Naruto only responded indifferently.

"I'm the same age as you, that's why I'm practically as short as you. But since I'm jounin, you have to listen to me. If you don't, you can count yourself as dead."

Sasuke frowned. How was he his sensei?

"How did you become jounin at your age?"

"Ha, well let's just say, I'm the reason you can't claim yourself as a 'prodigy'"

Sasuke frowned again. His jounin instructor was a 'prodigy'? His thoughts were interrupted with a pink girl ran towards them.

"Sorry I'm late guys! My mom wouldn't stop fussing over everything! Then she proceeded to cook me breakfast. I could barely get out of the house!"

"Weren't we not suppose to eat breakfast?"

"Yeah! Now you're gonna barf!"

Naruto looked at the genin and chuckled.

"Actually, I think Sakura is smarter than all of you."

"What?"

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean is, Sakura was able to see underneath the underneath. I only advised you. It was really up to you to determine if you would follow my advice. Now you will pay the consequences~!"

Sakura was confused. She only ate because her mom forced her too. The two other genin were least to say ticked off as their stomach started growling.

"What consequences, Ruto-sensei"

"Let me explain. The rules of this test. You are to get two bells from me before 12:00."

Naruto pulled out two bells from his pouch and held them out, letting them jingle in the wind.

"If you don't get at least one of these bells by noon, you will be tied to a stump and watch as I eat your lunch in front of you. Not to mention, you will be sent back to Academy. So better come and get them with the intent to kill, or ya not gonna get it!"

The two genin's stomach growled again. Konohamaru, now agitated, asked Naruto.

"But I thought we were already graduated! If the graduation test didn't determine whether I was genin or not, then what was it for?"

"To weed out the hopeless cases. I'm a bit skeptical on its difficulty now, considering you passed."

"Hey!"

"But, sensei!"

Naruto turned to Sakura.

"Yes?"

"If we come at you with the intent to kill, won't we hurt you?"

Naruto chuckled a bit.

"If you can hurt me, then I should turn in my rank as jounin and change my profession. You can't be jounin if you're beaten by a buncha genin. Anyways, let's get this started. GO!"

All the genin shot away, except Konohamaru. Not this shit, again...

"You're clearly not the sharpest tool in the shed, are you"

"Hey, Shut up! I'm gonna beat you one on one, then I'll be Hokage!"

"Have fun with that. Meanwhile, I'm gonna just go and find my other genin and test them."

"Were ya listening? I said I'm gonna fight you! Come at me, coward!"

Konohamaru started running towards Naruto.

"Come at you? Why would I when you're already coming to me?"

Konohamaru growled in frustration before unleashing a series of punches and kicks, all evaded by Naruto. Naruto then placed his hand in his pouch and pulled out...a rubiks cube? Naruto stood there in the middle of the field solving a rubiks cube. Konohamaru got really angry and charged at Naruto, who was once again dodging without even looking. Naruto quickly tied up Konohamaru and stood next to him, playing with the cube. When Naruto finally solved the cube, he left it next to Konohamaru and flashed away. Confused, Konohamaru looked at the cube. Suddenly, the cube exploded, leaving orange paint everywhere, and all over Konohamaru who was now completely orange. Konohamaru heard a giggle in the trees and yelled in frustration.

Sakura was in the trees, watching the fight. She tried to gauge the skill level of her mystery sensei. But the fight didn't display much other than he's fast and a bit of a jokester. She then tried to think of a strategy. She couldn't possibly beat Ruto on her own. She wasn't strong enough. She would have to work with the other two, but Sasuke wouldn't want to work with her and Konohamaru doesn't have much skill. Maybe all three? No, no one will want to work together since only two pass. She was stumped on this one. If only Namikaze was here, she thought. Maybe he could think of an awesome strategy for this.

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Naruto found Sasuke who was now in front of him.

"Tell me, Ruto-sensei. If I beat you here, would that make me the real prodigy?"

"Ha, I highly doubt it. I don't even call myself a prodigy considering there were others that were better, for example, Itachi"

Apparently, the taunt worked. Sasuke's face turned to pure anger.

"Don't say such disdainful name in front of me ever!"

"Come on, weren't we here to see who was better? All we are doing is talking."

Sasuke growled then charged at Naruto with a kunai.

"Certainly, you aren't like Konohamaru. Frontal attacks are useless."

Sasuke jumped back and paused before he threw the kunai at a rope next to Naruto which unleashed a trap. 50 shuriken were launched at Naruto. Naruto kawarimi and appeared behind Sasuke, delivering a harsh side kick to Sasuke's back. Sasuke backflipped and faced Naruto. Naruto quickly formed hand seals.

Katon- Goukakyuu no Jutsu!

Naruto was unfazed once again. He's seen it all before, even used the same jutsu against his sensei.

Fuuton- Daitoppa!

Naruto's wind blew out Sasuke's little ball of fire. Sasuke backed away and got into stance. He then charged at the Jounin.

Douton- Iwa Togoku

Rock slabs rose from the ground and encased Sasuke. Naruto walked away from the box, hearing muffled sounds from Sasuke trying to escape. Now all that was left was to find Sakura.

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Sakura found Konohamaru and untied him. She told him about a strategy and then proceeded to look for Sasuke. When she found the rock prison, she put an exploding tag on one of the walls and blew a hole, letting Sasuke get out. The three genin were now discussing Sakura's plan.

"I say, Konohamaru goes in for distraction. Use some of your taijutsu to keep his attention away from us. I'll go in with a camouflage technique. Sasuke can go in with a jutsu if all else fails."

Sakura was proud at her strategy. When she was stumped. She thought, what would Namikaze do? Her plan was so foolproof that even the blond would be impressed.

"What about the bells. There are only two."

"I'm not physically ready for this job, another year won't do harm. I'll go back"

"Okay, then. What are we waiting for."

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Naruto looked around the training ground for the last genin, only to sense that all three were together. Were they finally working together? His thoughts were cut short as Konohamaru started sprinting towards the jounin.

"Haha, I'm back Ruto-yaro!"

Naruto frowned at the name. Naru-shit now Ruto-yaro? These people are always screwing up his name.

"Frontal attacks won't freaking work! I keep telling this to you little freaks, but you won't listen!"

"Who you callin' little? We're the same size aren't we, Ruto-yaro!"

Konohamaru charged and Naruto dodged and countered all his hits. Naruto sensed a presence behind him and kicked the two genin away. Sakura and Konohamaru shouted.

"Now, Sasuke!"

Naruto chuckled at the deja-vu. As he expected, Sasuke jumped out from the forest and yelled a jutsu out.

Katon-Kasai karasu no hiko!

Sasuke blew flames out which formed a bird. The bird flew towards Naruto who formed a quick seal.

Suiton-Mizu no Dangan

Naruto shot a single bullet out of his mouth and put out the bird. Sasuke frowned. But when Naruto charged at him. Sasuke got into a defensive stance but Naruto was already behind him.

"Shit!"

Naruto knocked all the genin out in a flash.

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The three genin started to wake up, groggily. They tried to move, only to find they couldn't. Their focus started to dart around and noticed they were all tied to stumps with Naruto in front with three bentos.

"Oh! You're all awake!"

"Hey! Untie us!"

"Sorry~! No can do! You didn't get a bell! So I'm gonna eat your food!"

Konohamaru started to struggle but Sasuke and Sakura suddenly got interested. Their sensei couldn't possibly eat with the mask on. This was their chance to see their sensei's face! They looked in eager as Naruto slowly reached for his mask. Just as he was about to lift it, his actions were interrupted by a voice.

"Hey Ruto-yaro!"

"How the hell did you know my name, and not you too!"

Naruto turned to see Reno smirking at him from a wheelchair. Konohamaru laughed because he wasn't the only one who gave the nickname to his sensei.

"I heard it from the little genin over there during your fight. I gotta say, it was like Deja-vu!"

Sakura frowned. What did he mean?

"Um, what do you mean Deja-vu?"

"Oh. Our team did the same exact plan as your team did. It also failed."

"What? I thought I planned that strategy out through and through! Who thought of the plan?"

"Your sensei did"

Sakura turned to her sensei in shock. Naruto was chuckling awkwardly and scratching the back of his head.

"Yeah, since I planned the same thing, I knew what you guys were gonna do. Partially why you guys lost"

"So now what, Ruto-sensei. We failed didn't we?"

"Nope!"

"What?"

"What do you mean sensei?"

"He means, you all passed! Congrats!"

"Dammit, Reno! I was suppose to say that!"

"Ha sucks for you, N-Ruto-shit!"

"Says the Loser!"

"At least I'm not stuck teaching little twerps!"

"Hahaha, at least they're not as annoying as you!"

"You-"

The genin were, least to say, shocked at the conversation their sensei was having with the civilian. But were snapped out of their reactions when they heard they passed.

"W-we passed!"

"WE PASSED!"

"Tch-"

Naruto looked at them and smiled behind his masked.

"Congratulations. However, I just want you to know, the only reason you passed was because you worked as a team in the end. As my sensei once told me, those who break the rules are trash-"

"But those who abandon their comrades are worse than trash..."

"Okay, SHUT UP, RENO! I'M THE TEACHER HERE!"

"Ha ha! Suck on it, Ruto-shit!"

Reno wheeled away leaving Naruto raising his fist at Reno's back.

"I'll get that asshole later. For now, he was right. Don't forget your teamwork. Remember that whatever you can do, if you do it with your teammates, you can do better. Meet me tomorrow same place, same time, for our first mission. Now anyone in for a celebratory ramen?"

"You mean, let's get to see sensei's face while he eats? Sure why not"

Naruto sweatdropped when all the genin agreed with Sasuke's statement. He didn't think about that...Naruto then started to walk away.

"Meet you there!"

The genin tried following but remembered that they were still tied to the stumps.

"HEY RUTO-SENSEI! UNTIE US WILL YA~!"

But Naruto only waved from the distance.

"HEY~"

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an:/ Tis a wrap. Y'all were probably like "TOO MUCH DEJA VU! NO CREATIVITY!" Actually I wanted it to be a deja vu so shut it! I'm not technologically savvy so there weren't any accents on the "e" for deja vu. Anyways. Kakashi and Reno make a guest appearance! Will the genin ever find out who their sensei is? Now we learn that Sakura has actually been crushing on Naruto ALL THIS TIME! DUN DUN DUN just kidding but yeah. Uh where was I? Oh right, Jutsu Translations! Starting by order of Appearance!
Katon- Goukakyuu no Jutsu! - Fire style- Great Fireball (If you don't know this by now, thats bad!)
Fuuton- Daitoppa!- Wind style- Great Breakthrough
Douton- Iwa Togoku- Earth style- Rock imprisonment
Katon-Kasai karasu no hiko!- Fire style- Fire Raven's flight
Suiton-Mizu no Dangan- Water style- Water bullet

Mata-ne!
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READER'S INPUT!

What should Naruto's Alias be for the Bingo book? Please leave your idea in the Reviews! And the one that appeals to me the most will show up. And if you don't then I guess I'll have to resort to my stupid creativity...in other words, it will be lame.

thanks!