Sorry for the late update, but as I said, I had my last exam and I wanted to celebrate a bit. Sorry about that. Please enjoy.

Chapter 5: Your Jonin sensei will be …

(Hokage's Tower)

Every Jonin and Tokubetsu Jonin of Konoha was gathered in the conference hall of the Hokage Tower. Every occupant was closely listening to the Hokage who stood at the podium in front of them. The Hokage had just been discussing the new Genin and who would be teaching them. The announcement had caused quite an uproar with the Jonin.

"Hokage-sama, you can not be serious with this. You are basically breaking every single tradition of Konoha with this new system you're proposing." stated a man wearing the slandered Jonin attire, his Hitai-ate worn as a bandana and van dyke beard.

"I am completely serious Mimura-san. To be correct though, I never proposed anything, I ordered these changes, and I believe this system will produce the best Shinobi this village has seen since the Sannin." stated Hiruzen, "Does anybody else have an opinion on the matter?" he asked.

"…"

"Good, meeting adjourned, all of the Jonin sensei for this year's graduation are to collect their new students at 12:00 tomorrow. Don't be late!" Hiruzen looked toward a silver haired man with his Hitai-ate covering his left eye.

(The next morning, Training ground 68)

Like every other day, Naruto could be found in the hidden room in the cave of training ground 68. A week had passed since the Mizuki incident. Naruto had gone straight to the Hokage to inform him of Mizuki's treachery. He told the Hokage when he arrived at his office that he had information on a traitor but in return for the information the Hokage would allow him one favour. Hiruzen had agreed to the favour not knowing what it was. Naruto told him all about Mizuki's "offer" to which they formed a plan. Naruto would wait for Mizuki to arrive while Iruka and Hiruzen hid until the perfect time to strike. It took a bit of arguing from Naruto to be allowed to be alone with the scroll but in the end it all worked out.

A week since he learnt what is possibly the best learning tool he could have; the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu. It had been a big gamble to try to learn the technique without knowing the full capacity of chakra needed for the Jutsu. Luckily for Naruto, he has enormous chakra reserves which the Kage Bunshin barely made a dent in. This allowed Naruto to use the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu and its larger version Tajuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Multiple Shadow clone Jutsu) in a way that couldn't be done before. Naruto could use the memory feedback characteristic of the techniques to learn multiple ninjutsu, genjutsu, fuinjutsu, improve chakra control, also learn Taijutsu and Bukijutsu styles due to muscle memory actually being a mental memory and not physical. While the clones work on those, the original Naruto worked physical conditioning which was something the clones didn't transfer.

But it had also a week since he found out about the Kyuubi no Kitsune was sealed in his guts. Hiruzen had told him before going to the forest because he feared Mizuki would try to use it to help defeat Naruto, which turned out to be correct. At first Naruto actually started to think that he was the demon itself, but Iruka was able to convince him with only a few simple words, "A demon did kill my parents which left me wanting revenge, but you didn't … you're Uzumaki Naruto.

Thanks to the help of his Kage Bunshin training, Naruto was able to learn all 20 jutsus he copied from the 'Scroll of Seals' which he was very excited about. He learnt how to make a resistance seal which he now wears on his own body to increase his physical conditioning and would only turn it off on occasions to get used to the extra speed or in a serious life threatening incident. Naruto had also started to combine his main chakra affinity and his Bukijutsu together to try to create his own style.

Today however Naruto wasn't training; today Naruto was preparing his weapons pouch, his uniform and his henge. Today was the day that the Genin teams were assigned, he had dabbled with the idea of not going with his henge, but he wanted to make sure he could trust his sensei like Iruka first. After making sure he had everything he might need like kunai, shuriken, ninja wire, containment seals with a torrent of water inside and many more objects, he headed out towards the academy.

(30 minutes later, Shinobi academy)

As Naruto walked into the classroom of Umino Iruka, he could see several familiar faces already there, Akimichi Choji and Nara Shikamaru were lazing in the top row, Uchiha Sasuke was sitting next a window; brooding as usual. In the middle row of the classroom, a weird enough combination was conversing. A slightly mellower yet still loud mouthed Inuzuka Kiba was chatting away with drastically more confident Hinata, even though she still had a slight shy exterior. He decided that these were the ones that he would talk to.

"Hey guys!" Naruto announced, making the pair aware of his arrival.

"Hello Naruto-k-kun." replied Hinata with only a slight stutter.

"Hey Naruto, good to see you. Anything happened since the graduation?" asked a curious Inuzuka.

"Not much to speak of no. How about you guys? Oh and your stutter is getting a lot better Hinata-chan, you seem a lot more confident" asked/stated Naruto.

"Thank you Naruto-kun. My father seemed slightly pleased that I graduated in a higher position than my estimated position was, but he's also slightly 'sour' that I wasn't 'Rookie of the Year' and also baffled about your sudden change, as is everybody else." said Hinata.

"Ouch Hinata-chan, are you saying that you didn't think I was a totally awesome ninja before?" Naruto jokingly asked while grabbing at the area where his heart is.

"N-no, t-that's not w-what I meant at-t all!" Hinata tried to reply.

"Relax Hinata-chan, I know what you meant. Anyway I never even tried before so what did I expect." said Naruto.

"By the way man, my mum wants to talk to you about our Taijutsu spar. You better go see her tonight if you can, please for my sake." Kiba jokingly begged while crying fake anime tears.

"I'll try, but who knows what the Jonin sensei will want us to do." said Naruto.

At that very moment a very loud pair walked into the room. One was a blond haired girl with fringe/bang that seemed to defy gravity. The other was a pink haired girl with an abnormally big forehead. Both were arguing about who could sit next to Sasuke.

"Oh great the banshees are here." Naruto said to himself. "Oi! I know how you can settle this. Ino sit next to Sasuke, Sakura sit next to her," Naruto said as he got the attention of both girls, "after both of you sit down, Ino use a Kawarimi with Sasuke the both of you sit next to Sasuke and you don't have to fight." stated Naruto.

A tick mark appeared on the Uchiha's forehead. Sasuke quickly appeared in front of Naruto on his desk. "What the hell dobe! Why did you do that, it would've been bad enough to sit next to one of them, but now bo-" Sasuke wasn't able to finish as he was accidentally hit in the back by a sitting Aburame Shino.

Sasuke's fall forward seemed as if it was in slow motion, much to the horror of Ino, Sakura and Hinata since the fall would seemingly end up with both boys taking the other's first kiss. Naruto though had other plans; he quickly used Kawarimi with both Ina and Sakura so Sasuke would end up kissing both of them instead.

15 seconds after the fall and kiss, a blushing Sasuke quickly got up and went back to his spot next to the window. Ino and Sakura were both on the floor, unconscious, smiles on their faces and small nosebleeds.

After another 10 seconds of silence a roar of laughter was heard from both Kiba and Naruto, quickly followed by a giggling Hinata, Choji and Shikamaru… and finally a newly arrived Iruka who witnessed the entire situation. "Wow that is the first time I've ever seen the Kawarimi used in that sort of situation before. Anyway everybody quiet down … and somebody wake up Ino and Sakura." ordered the scarred academy teacher.

After Ino and Sakura regained consciousness and everybody quieted down, Iruka gave his speech about congratulating everyone on become Genin and what that title ensued. For Naruto one thing it meant was access to Konoha's Shinobi library, Genin section and collect jutsus or exercises he hadn't already scavenged. "Alright, Now that that's over with, let's get to the team announcements. The first team is Team 10 which will consist of Nara Shikamaru, Akimichi Choji and Yamanaka Ino, your Jonin sensei will be Sarutobi Asuma." Iruka told his now former students.

"WHAT! How come I'm stuck with the lazy bum and his 'chubby' friend!" exclaimed a furious Ino.

"Ha, take that Ino-pig, now I'll be the one on the same team as Sasuke-kun." stated Sakura.

"Actually Sakura, you're on Team 8 along with Inuzuka Kiba and Aburame Shino, your Jonin sensei is Yuhi Kurenai." explained Iruka.

"Dog and Bug boy!" screeched Sakura, making every occupant in the room wince.

"Anyway, the last team is Team 7, Hyuuga Hinata, Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto, your Jonin sensei is Hatake Kakashi." concluded Iruka. As he finished the students started to talk amongst themselves about the teams.

"Hey Kiba, sorry about you not being on our team. Are you going to be ok?" asked Naruto.

"Are you kidding me man, have you ever heard of Yuhi Kurenai? She's a total babe! I'm going to have the time of my life." answered Kiba in a very excited and slightly perverted manner.

"Ok then. Well good luck anyway. God knows your ears are going to need it with that banshee on your team." replied Naruto.

Within ten minutes Team 8 and 10's sensei had arrived and left with their teams, which left Team 7 all alone. Naruto suddenly got up and walked over to Sasuke who was still sitting on his own.

"Hey Sasuke, do you want to come with Hinata and me to go get some food?" asked a polite Naruto.

"Are you really that much of an idiot dobe. We're meant to wait for our sensei here." replied a very smug Uchiha.

"You obviously haven't heard of Hatake Kakashi the have you Sasuke. Let me inform you that Kakashi is probably one of the strongest shinobi in the village, but if his assignment is anything less than A-rank, he'll be at least 3 hours late. So… food?" Naruto told the last Uchiha.

"Hn" was the only reply Naruto got.

"Fine then, come on Hinata-chan, we'll go to this great ramen stand I know…"

(2 and a half hour later)

The door to Iruka's classroom swung open to reveal Naruto and Hinata returning. Sasuke had been waiting for his sensei all alone after he refused to go with Naruto and Hinata. As Naruto walked passed Sasuke table he took out a paper bag and carefully placed it on Sasuke's desk. When Sasuke opened the bag, he found a two bowls of ramen in the bag; he turned to look at Naruto with confusion.

"What?" asked Naruto, "I thought you might be hungry since you waited here for over two hours. I brought Miso and Beef in case you didn't like one. Enjoy." explained Sasuke.

Sasuke was in slight shock. Never in his and Naruto's relationship, despite having had a similar past, neither had done anything nice towards the other. "Thanks." Sasuke muttered.

"Welcome." replied Naruto.

"I'm impressed Naruto." came a voice from one of the classroom windows. "That was a very nice gesture you made towards Sasuke even though you have a very rocky relationship." stated the mystery voice.

Without even a flinch or turning around to look at the new occupant Naruto replied, "Thanks Kakashi".

"Shouldn't you call me Kakashi-sensei as a sine of respect?" asked the now identified Kakashi as he came to view on the other side of the window.

Naruto just walked over to the window and opened it to let his new sensei in. "Respect is earned no given Kakashi. Once you gain my respect I'll gladly give it to you." replied Naruto.

"Very true Naruto. Now for my first impression of you guys … I surprisingly like you. Meet me at the roof in five minutes." And with that Kakashi disappeared in poof of smoke.

"Hinata-chan, come over here." Naruto said as he put his hand on Sasuke's shoulder.

"What the hell are you doing dobe?" asked Sasuke.

"Just shut up and be prepared to be disorientated." stated Naruto, as Hinata came close enough to put a hand on her shoulder.

(Academy roof)

Kakashi arrived at the roof through the use Shunshin no Jutsu (Body Flicker Jutsu) and sat down waiting for his new students to come up the stairs. Much to Kakashi's surprise they didn't arrive with the use of stairs but appeared in the form of an orange lightning bolt.

'Very impressive, not only does he know the Shunshin no Jutsu but also has his own variant for it. Very impressive.' thought Kakashi. "Now that you're here, why don't you introduce yourselves? Tell me your name, likes, dislikes hobbies and dreams for the future." said Kakashi.

The three Genin in front of him just stayed silent as if waiting for him to go first. "Fine I'll go first then, I'm Hatake Kakashi, I have no desire to tell you my likes and dislikes, dreams for the future… hmm… and I have lots of hobbies." explained Kakashi. All three Genin sweat dropped, 'he only told us his name' they thought simultaneously. "All right, duck hair, you go first." said Kakashi referring to Sasuke.

"My name is Uchiha Sasuke, I don't like anything, I dislike a lot, manly traitors and people who call me duck hair, I don't have hobbies, as for dreams, it isn't exactly a dream, more of a goal, to restore my clan and … to kill a certain man." said Sasuke in his brooding manner.

"Bit of a downer but ok, girly, you're next"

"My name is Hyuuga Hinata, I like my friends, gardening and a special someone … my dislikes are bullies, people who judge others and a tradition of the Hyuuga clan, my hobby is gardening, my dream for the future is to become head of the Hyuuga clan and unite both main and branch families." said Hinata.

"A very bold goal indeed. Lastly, go on blondie." stated Kakashi.

"My name is Uzumaki Naruto, I like my friends, training and all shinobi arts, my dislikes are people who judge others for something that's out of their control and people who won't take help when it's given to them which makes life hard for everybody else, my hobby used to be playing pranks, but its also training, my dream for the future … everybody probably knows already but what the hell, to become Hokage and surpass all of the other Hokages, but also to find out who my parents were." Kakashi flinched slightly at the mention of Naruto's parents which only Naruto picked up, 'interesting'.

"Now that that's over with, meet me at training ground three tomorrow for your real Genin test." said Kakashi.

"Um Kakashi-sensei, what do you mean our 'real Genin test'?" asked Hinata.

"I mean the test I must give you to decide if I feel you're capable enough to become Genin. The test has a 66% failure rate. So meet me there at 8 a.m … oh, and don't eat breakfast, you'll only throw it back up." warned Kakashi who then used Shunshin to get away.

Naruto stood up and turned to face his team-mates. "All right, meet me at training ground 3 at 9:30, I've got an idea… and ignore the no breakfast thing, it's better to throw something up and have energy than not to throw anything up but feel weak. Bye." With that Naruto also used Shunshin to get away.

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