Alright. I so since the last chaper, I have come up with multiple new things to put in here, concerning things like the Exam, and the funny bits to be put into the Wave arc. Have a thing for you guys at the end, so see it then please. Now, the results of the pairing:

Mini-Harem: 9

Hinata: 8

Tenten: 6

Fe. Haku: 3

Tayuya: 1

Holy S*%^! That caught up fast! Looks like Mini-Harem got on some steroids and pushed that vote bar WAAY up! Since this is posted today, I pretty much expect Mini-Harem to win, unless more surprises some my way :P :D Now, without further a due, the next chapter! YAAAAAY!

The following two anime/ games do not belong to me in any way, shape or form. Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto, and all characters and items and mentions of TF2 belong to Valve.

Dialogue:

"Normal Speech"

'Thought Speech'

"Demon Speech"

'Demon Thought'

'Flashback Thought'

"Flashback Speech'

MEET THE ORANGINEER: Chapter 8

The sun rose steadily over the Hidden Leaf Village, its rays shining over everything. Birds chirped lightly as a very soft, warm breeze flew through the air. Everyone slept nicely, their beds keeping them in blissful sleep. This was especially for the BLU family, with Naruto, who was in his bed, a small smile on his face. Everything was peaceful…

…at least it was until a trumpet moved next to his ear.

PPPPPHHFTTFFT!

The blaring of the trumpet made Naruto jump up suddenly, fumbling over the sheets as he rolled onto the floor off his bed.

"AAAAAH!" Naruto screamed, clutching over his heart with a scared expression. HE quickly looked over to where the noise was, and was pissed to see the Soldier with a grin on his face. The Soldier was wearing a plain white military tee for a shirt, with green camo pajama pants. He wasn't wearing his helmet, and he had a trumpet in hand.

"DUDE!" Naruto yelled, quite angry about his interrupted sleep. "What was that? What time is it anyway?" The Soldier simply laughed loudly as he looked at Naruto.

"It is now 0600 hours Private! Today is the day of your induction into the shinobi ranks of this village! Now get your scraggly butt off the floor and hit the shower ASAP!" the Soldier barked in a military fashion. He brought the trumpet to his lips again, making another loud trumpet blare. Naruto clutched his ears, jumping up and running out of his bedroom. The Soldier stopped blowing the trumpet, giving a chuckle before he stepped out of the room.

After his heart attack and ten minute shower, Naruto walked into the still amazing kitchen wearing his usual gear except his helmet and goggles. He saw the table, and smiled at the buffet upon it. There was fruit, sausages, bacon, eggs, hash browns, pork, fried chicken, cereal, bratwursts, pancakes, and waffles, with numerous juices and syrups lying around.

He looked around and smiled at what was happening. *Pyro was standing at the stove, mixing ingredients while cooking what appeared to be eggs and hash browns. Demoman was sitting, drinking what appeared to be coffee with Scrumpy in it. The Soldier was next to the Demoman, eating a plate of sausages with a grin liking nothing had happened ten minutes ago. Scout and Heavy were glaring at each other as they fought over a huge pile of pancakes that was between them. Medic was eating a plate of bratwursts while looking over a medical manual with the leaf sign. The Spy and Sniper were calmly sitting at an end of the table, drinking coffee as they watched the chaos.*

Naruto spotted his father simply sitting next to Medic, reading a newspaper with a cup of coffee on the table near his plate. He looked over the paper, and smiled at Naruto, lowering his paper. "Well would you look at that?" he said in a happy tone. Everyone stopped what they were doing, and turned their heads to the direction of Engie's view. Every smiled as well, seeing their adopted son/brother/nephew.

"Hey hey! If it isn't little shortie!" Scout said with a smile, managing to steal the pancakes from Heavy. Heavy, who wasn't paying attention, laughed heartily as he waved hello.

"Good morning little Naruto! Sit and eat! Food make you strong, epescially pan..cakes…" the Heavy said, cutting off as he finally noticed the pancakes were gone. He turned to Scout, and growled when he saw that already half of them were gone. "Little Scout has stolen from me! You are dead!" the Heavy yelled. Scout simply laughed as he shoveled down another.

"Haha! Too late now lardy! Whatcha gonna go?" the Scout said, laughing as he swallowed. The Heavy cracked his knuckles, getting ready to take back his flapjacks. He would have too, if it were not for Pyro stopping him.

"Stop fighting at the table. You two are acting like five year olds! Now Heavy, he got them first, so he gets them…" she said. Scout laughed as he finished his pancakes. Pyro smiled evilly as she reached for something behind her. "Besides…there's always more where that came from." She said, putting a plate of pancakes twice the size of Scouts in front of Heavy. Heavy blinked before he laughed loudly, picking up a fork and cutting into his mountain of food. The Scout went wide-eyed, his jaw now falling into his syrup filled plate.

"Ah crap!" he said, noticing the syrup. He quickly took his fingers as he wiped the sryup off and liked his fingers clean. A few simply rolled their eyes while a few chuckled, one being Naruto. He sat down at the table in between Scout and Sniper. A few seconds after sitting down, received a ruffling of his hair by Sniper.

"G'mornin' to ya bud. How'd ya sleep?" Sniper asked, taking a drink of his coffee.

"I slept pretty good…until SOMEONE woke up." Naruto said, putting emphasis on someone as he looked at the Soldier. Soldier simply laughed as he ignored the glare, reaching for more sausages. Naruto huffed before he got a kiss on the head. He looked up to see a smiling Pyro, who put a bowl of ramen in front of him.

"Good morning Naruto. This is the only time I let you have ramen for breakfast, so eat as much as you want." She said, giving a smile. Everyone expected his reaction, as he cheered and grabbed chopsticks to dig in. Everyone chuckled before they continued to eat.

About an hour of food fighting, eating and talking later, breakfast was done. Everyone was cleaning up, with Pyro, Medic, and Spy doing dishes, Sniper and Engineer putting away the ingredients, Demoman and Soldier washing the table over, and Heavy, Scout and Naruto cleaning up the leftover food (by this meaning they ate it all). Soon after that, all were now sitting in the living room, out of their pajamas. The only change was with Pyro, who instead of wearing her fire suit, was in normal clothes. She had on a blue bettine halter top, with blue jeans, and white gladiator sandals**.

Each of them were working on a weapon. Scout was looking over his scattergun, Heavy his minigun, Sniper his rifle, Spy his revolver, Soldier his shotgun, Medic his syringe gun, Pyro her fire axe, Demoman his sticky launcher, Engineer his Frontier Justice, and Naruto his Diamondback. After breakfast, they had seen it was only around 0630, so they decided to kick back some time before the Exam started again at 11:00. They were about done checking their weapons, when the front door burst open. Each of them, quickly getting over their shock, readied their weapons. However, they lowered their weapons and started to hold in laughter when they saw who it was.

It was Kakashi, and he looked worse for wear. His gravity defying hair had multiple sticks and leaves in it, and what appeared to be a small rip in his mask. His clothes had numerous cuts in them, and what looked like hoof marks. His entire body was covered in dirt, and he had an extremely tired and pissed expression on his face. Directed at Naruto.

"Hey Kakashi-nii-san***…so…how was the run here?" Naruto asked, trying to keep in his laughter. The others failed too however, and they burst out laughing, Scout and Demoman rolling on the floor.

"How was my run?" Kakashi asked in a low voice, stepping toward the group. "How…was…my run?" He got closer, now in front of Naruto. Everyone had stopped laughing now, looking at Kakashi. There was silence, then…

"I WAS RUNNING ALL THE WAY HERE FROM THE BLU BASE WITH THREE HUNDRED POUND WEIGHTS ON MY LEGS, AN ANGRY MOB OF OXES CHASING ME, AND CHAKRA SUPPRESION SEALS ALL OVER ME! SO MY RUN SUCKED!" Kakashi yelled, making everyone lean back from the intensity of the yell. Naruto simply rubbed his ears as he replied.

"Well Kakashi-nii-san***, it's not my fault you were reading your book in front of kaa-san. But anyway, the rest of the exams are today, so you should go speak with Jiji." This stopped Kakashi for a moment.

"The rest? Weren't they yesterday?" Kakashi asked.

"I'll explain it later. Now go see Jiji. I'm pretty sure you have to get your team assigned." Naruto said. Kakashi nodded as he walked back towards the door sluggishly. He turned back and gave a somewhat apologetic eye smile.

"Sorry about the door. I'll fix it later." He said, before he painfully walked away from the door. After her left, the BLUs heard a cracking sound. They turned to see Pyro cracking her knuckles.

"He better fix it, or else he'll be missing some special parts of his." She said with a wicked smile, pulling out a lighter and flicking the flame alive. She gave an evil grin and she watched the flame, making everyone shiver. They all had one thought, 'How is she so bipolar like this?'

Soon, four hours passed, and it was half an hour before the Exams started. They all grabbed their things, before heading out the door towards the academy. As they walked, they noticed the looks of the people. Since they didn't recognize Naruto, they weren't evil glares. They were glares of awe, lust, and jealousy. And every single one of them were being aimed at Pyro.

"Well Pyro, it would zeem zat you are popular with ze people." The Spy said, chuckling as he lit a cigarette. Pyro simply scoffed as they continued to walk. She groaned when she noticed a male civilian walk over to them, his eyes on her.

"Oh god. Now I remember why I wear the suit." She said the others as the man finally got to her.

"Hey there baby, how 'bout you ditch these losers, and I'll show you a real good time." The man said with a smile that clearly read 'She's-all-mine' to the BLUs. Pyro, who wanted to get to the academy, said politely, "No thank you. I have to get going for my son's exam." They started to walk off again, but they were stopped by the man once more.

"Hey, I was talking to you! Don't walk away from me!" he said, grabbing onto her arm. The BLUs, who saw this, paled as they saw her stiffen.

"He's dead." Engineer said, getting nods from the rest of the BLUs. This was close to true, as Pyro slowly turned around, giving a small smile with her eyes closed to the man…right before she kicked him in a place that made his eyes bulge. There were numerous hisses and 'oohs' from the people as the man slumped the ground. Pyro then grabbed his collar and looked him in the eye, giving him a sweet smile that made him shiver in fear.

"I would appreciate if you didn't do that." She said, tightening her grip as she continued to smile "and I promise if you do that again, I will burn your balls off. Sound good?" The man nodded so quickly that they thought his head would snap off. She dropped him, then turned around and rejoined the BLUs. "Let's go, we don't want to be late." She said, moving ahead of them. The BLUs could only follow behind, slightly scared, awed and amazed by their teammate/ kaa-san****.

About fifteen minutes later, they arrived at the Academy, with ten minutes to spare. They waved to Naruto as he walked inside, giving them a goodbye wave before he stepped inside. Knowing where to go, he walked up the stairs until he arrived at the classroom. He opened the door and walked in to be suddenly greeted by a white blur. He looked up to see Akamaru on him, barking before licking his face. Naruto could only laugh as he scratched Akamaru's ears.

"Hey Naruto, you're here!" Naruto looked past Akamaru to see Kiba above him with a smile on his face. He extended a hand, helping Naruto up. After he got up, he picked up Akamaru, placing him on top of his head. "You excited?" Kiba asked. Naruto chuckled as they walked over to their seats.

"Oh yeah. Once we pass, we can start as shinobi" Naruto said, smiling as he looked around the room. Looking at the top of the classroom, he noticed the shy looking girl from the day before sitting alone at the top row. He nudged Kiba, getting his attention. "Hey Kiba, she seems kinda lonely, don't you think?"

"Yeah. That's Hinata Hyuuga, shes a pretty shy person, so she doesn't really talk to anybody." Kiba said, looking at Hinata. Naruto seemed to think for a moment, before he stood up.

"Looks like she's about too." Naruto said. Kiba looked at him, about to ask what he was doing, but stopped when Naruto left his seat and headed up the stairs in the class to where Hinata was sitting. He got to her seat, and stood for a moment before he said in a cheery voice, "Hello!"

Hinata physically jumped about half an inch, surprised at the voice. She looked up, and saw the mystery boy from yesterday standing next to her, smiling. She seemed shocked for a moment before she said, "H-hello?"

Naruto noticed that she spoke in a small hesitant voice. His smile grew bigger at the thought of that. 'Well I'll just have to change that!' he thought. "I noticed that you were sitting up here by yourself. You seemed kind of lonely. I was wondering…do you wanna sit with us?" he asked. Hinata went wide-eyed at this. She seemed to hesitate for a moment before she nodded and stood up. Naruto smiled as he led her over to his row, sitting down with her on his left and Kiba on his right. "I'm Naruto by the way! This is Kiba and his companion Akamaru." he said with a cheerful tone.

Hinata seemed to hesitate again, before she spoke again. "I'm H-Hinata. H-Hinata H-Hyuuga." She stuttered, poking her pointer fingers together. Naruto smiled as he stuck his hand out to her.

"It's nice to meet you Hinata!" He said. Hinata looked at the hand for a moment, before she took out a shaky hand and grabbed it, shaking it weakly. "You look like a nice person Hinata. I hope we get to be good friends!" Naruto said, giving her hand a very small, unintentional squeeze as he shook it…

…which she felt. When he did, Hinata felt herself get an incredibly large blush. 'W-what? Why d-do I feel l-like this?' she thought as she looked at Naruto. It when she looked at him that she saw multiple things. His hands were incredibly warm, filling her with a strange feeling. He had a large smile on his face that made her feel safe for some reason. She couldn't see his eyes, but she could feel how they looked at her, giving her a feeling that made her heart melt. In this situation, as her blush grew, she could think of only one thing to do.

She fainted. Naruto stopped smiling as he saw her faint back, her face as red as a tomato and her lavender eyes swirling. "Oh crap! What did I do?" he said, making Kiba look at her. He got a grin on his face, getting an idea of why she fainted. No way was he going to tell Naruto though.

"Don't worry Naruto! Maybe she's just tired or is not used to all this conversation." Kiba said, patting Naruto on the back. Naruto seemed to think this over, before he got a small smile on his face.

"Yeah, you're probably right. We'll wake her up when the exam starts." Naruto said, looking at her one more time. Seeing as how she was in a weird position, he lightly lifted her head and placed in on the desk. Kiba could only snicker inwardly as he watched it. He knew this was going to get interesting if they were on the same team, with Hinata fainting everywhere and Naruto completely unaware. He definitely knew, but no way was he telling Naruto she already has a crush on him. The show had to go on after all.

A few minutes later, people started coming into the classroom. Most were people that Naruto didn't know the names of, but he did recognize Shino, Shikimaru and Choji when they walked in, who he gave waves too. They recognized it, waving back as they sat in the row behind him. About a minute after they walked in, the king of pissing off people walked in, making Naruto and his friends glare intensely at him.

"That jerk shouldn't have been able to come here in the first place." Kiba growled out, making Akamaru growl at the Uchiha as well, who sat on the other side of the room.

"He should have been kicked out all together…especially with what happened after the exam." Naruto said, getting some looks of confusion.

"What happened yesterday?" Choji asked, opening a bag of ostrich barbeque chips out of nowhere.

"He was all pissed about the exam, so he hired a bunch of thugs to try and beat me up, along with my family." Naruto said quietly to them, so only they could hear. This got a reaction out of them. Kiba and Akamaru started to growl even more, while Shino narrowed his eyes from behind his glasses, a small buzzing coming from him. Shikimaru narrowed his eyes at the Uchiha, while Choji, who had a killer look in his eye, actually crushed the chips in his hand.

"That sonnova'-" Kiba whispered, gripping his fist intensely. "Next time I see him, I am kicking his ass!" This got nods from the group as they all glared at the Uchiha. About two minutes later, most of the class had arrived. The last two who needed to show were Ino and Sakura. Sakura ran through the door, cheering as she got in.

"YES! I GOT HERE FIRST! TAKE THAT YOU INO-PIG!" Sakura yelled, making most of the class grip their ears in pain, especially Kiba and Akamaru. The intensity of the voice even made Hinata snap up in ear pain. Ino walked in a few moments after her, gripping her ears as well.

"Why would I care forehead?" Ino said, sitting down in the row behind Shino, Shikmaru and Choji. This slightly shocked Sakura, before she shrugged it off and sat next to Sasuke, who simply shivered a bit when she sat. Ino's attention was quickly gained by Shikimaru, who had poked her in the arm from below.

"Hey Ino, why over the Uchiha? Thought you worshipped him." Shikimaru said. Ino simply narrowed her eyes slightly as she looked at Sasuke.

"He was so angry because of his 'pride' that he willingly tried to kill a fellow comrade. If he would do that simply because someone pissed him off, then I'm pretty ashamed to have chased him around for so long." Ino said to them, receiving a nod from Shikimaru and Choji. A few minutes later, it hit 11:00, and Iruka and his assistant Mizuki walked into the classroom. Iruka stood put some papers on the desk before he looked up to the class.

"Good morning class" Iruka said, giving a small smile. "Now because of certain things that happened yesterday," he gave Sasuke a look as he said this, "the test got temporarily cut off. Today we finish it. The last test you will all perform will be a simple test of the three academy techniques: Henge, Kawarimi, and Bunshin. When I call your name, please come up and do them." So one by one, he called them up. Soon it was Hinata's turn, who seemed incredibly nervous. Naruto noticed this and put a hand on her shoulder.

"Hey, don't worry, you'll do great!" Naruto said, taking his hand off her shoulder. Hinata sat shocked for a moment, before she nodded and went to the front of the class. Iruka instructed her to do the three jutsu, and she did them perfectly. She received her headband, and when she came back, got a large smile from Naruto. "Nice job Hinata! Knew you could do it!" he said. Hinata blushed heavily when she saw the smile, but was still able to smile a little. Kiba could only snicker silently behind Naruto.

Soon all of Naruto's friends had gone, all of them passing. Sadly, the Haruno had passed, letting out a loud cheer that almost deafened everyone. Even the Uchiha did, who received many glares from the group. After that, Naruto was called up. Naruto stood and walked to the front of the class, in front of Iruka.

"Alright Naruto," he said, "All you have to do is a Kawarimi, a Henge of me, and a Bunshin to pass." He motioned for Naruto to go, and he simply grinned. He put his hands up in a cross sign and spoke words that shocked everyone.

"Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Two loud puffs of smoke appeared next to Naruto, revealing the teacher's desk and perfect copy of Iruka. Iruka gasped as he looked behind him, seeing a clone of Naruto wave where his desk used to be. Everyone simply gapped at the scene before them. All except two*****, with one glaring at Naruto and the other grinding their teeth in rage. "So, do I pass Iruka-sensei?" Naruto asked, a smile still on his face. Iruka stood still, before he slowly nodded.

"Yes Naruto. You pass. Please take a headband from the table, and then move the table back. I don't want anyone tripping over that." Iruka said. Naruto nodded before he motioned to the two clones and headed back to his row. The clones moved the table back, and then disappeared in a thing of smoke. After marking his clipboard, Iruka looked at the class again. "Alright then. Now that everyone has gone, you can all have an hour lunch break before you come back for team assignments. Be back at 12:30." As soon as he said lunch, everyone was out the door. All except Naruto, his friends, the banshee, and the Uchiha. Naruto and his friends walked out while talking, while Sasuke gripped the desk with an enraged expression.

'Damn it! How the hell did he do that? I'm an elite, I should know that, not a low life like him!' he thought angrily, standing up and marching out the door with his love sick stalk—I mean—puppy following him.

A few minutes later, Naruto, Shino, Hinata, Shikimaru, Kiba, Choji and Ino walked out, chatting with each other. As they walked forward, they heard a large number of footsteps. Naruto turned his head, and smiled when he saw his family walk up to him. The others were slightly shocked at the number of people, but relaxed when they saw Naruto recognize them.

"Hey guys!" Naruto said to his family, waving to them. His family replied heartily before Engineer walked up.

"So son…how'd you do?" Engineer asked with a slight expression of anticipation on his face. His family leaned in slightly, wondering as well. Naruto stood still for a moment, before he reached into his belt pouch and pulled out his Hitai-ate. The results surprised his friends, as the BLUs cheered loudly with Heavy picking Naruto up in a bear hug.

"AHAHA! Little Naruto is ninja now! Me proud!" Heavy said, squeezing Naruto in a huge hug.

"C-can't…b-breathe…" Naruto coughed out, making Heavy release the hug and put Naruto on the ground. Naruto breathed in deeply before he said, "Thank you." He then received multiple pats on the back, courtesy of Scout, Demoman and Sniper. Medic, Engineer and Spy ruffled his hair, with Soldier saluting him and Pyro giving him a lighter hug.

"Now, I think this calls for a celebration before you have to come back in an hour. How does ramen sound?" Pyro asked, making Naruto cheer.

"That sounds awesome!" Naruto cheered, jumping in the air happily. It was then he looked over and saw his friends. He then got an idea to introduce his family to them. "Is it alright if my friends come along?" Naruto asked. This resulted in all the BLUs looking over at the small group behind Naruto. They seemed to observe them as if judging them, then they looked at each other. The Spy gave a small smile as he looked at Naruto.

"But of course. Zey may come along with us. It ees on us after all." Spy said. Naruto smiled before he looked at his friends.

"You guys want to come along with us?" Naruto asked, making the BLUs sweatdrop.

"You didn' even ask 'em first shorty? Classy." Scout said, giving Naruto a small head flick.

"We'll I thought it would be a good idea. That's all." Naruto said, rubbing the flick spot on his forehead. He then looked at his friends again. "So you guys wanna come along? It's on us!" he said cheerfully.

"Are you kidding? Heck yeah!" Kiba said excitedly, Akamaru barking happily.

"Sure! It'll be fun, and there's food!" Choji said, closing a bag of onion ring chips he had pulled out of nowhere.

"Can't you think of anything beside your stomach Choji? But yeah, I'll come. Troublesome." Shikimaru said while scratching his head.

"I'll come too!" Ino said, with Shino nodding behind her, verifying his answer.

Hinata hesitated, not quite sure how to answer. She had never really had friends, so had no idea if she should or not. She looked up, and froze slightly when she saw Naruto smile lightly at her. That smile sent a feeling of warmth through her, and she knew her answered. "I t-think it would b-be nice to g-go." Naruto's smile grew bigger, and he cheered as he now walked with his family and friends, talking about the test and ramen. His family sighed, thinking how he was addicted to ramen too much.

They soon arrived at Ichiraku's, sitting down at the booth as Naruto spoke to the shop owner.

"Hey Teuchi-san! We're here!" Naruto said, making Teuchi turn around and smile brightly at them.

"Hello Naruto! It's good to see you and your family again! Are these your friends?" Teuchi said, motioning to the others.

"Yep! There here with us to celebrate us officially becoming ninja!" Naruto said, showing his headband. Teuchi laughed as he turned and started a couple of more ramen stoves (?).

"Well then, eat as much as you want! You earned it!" Teuchi said with a smile. As he started the ramen, the BLUs turned to Naruto's friends.

"So, you're our little Naruto's mates? Nice to meet ya. Names' Sniper." He said, tipping his hat at them. He then motioned to his teammates. "The bloke with glasses is Medic, the drunk one is Demo, the mask one is Spy, the short one is Scout, the beauty is Pyro, the one with the helmet is Soldier, the big one is Heavy, an' goggles over there is Engineer."

"Hey! I ain't that short!" Scout proclaimed, pointing at Naruto. "Compare me to the shrimp!"

"Not fair man! You're older than me!" Naruto said, throwing a crumpled napkin at Scout, which hit him right in the face.

"Well anyway, ignore their fighting," Sniper said as he looked at the group. "So what're your names?"

"I'm Kiba Inuzaka! And this is my pal Akamaru!"

"Choji Akamichi! Nice to meet you!

"Shikimaru Nara. *yawn*"

"Shino Aburame. Pleasure to make your acquaintance."

"I'm Ino Yamanaka. Nice to meet you!"

"H-Hinata H-Hyuuga. T-thank you for l-letting us c-come here with you."

Sniper seemed still for a moment before he smiled. "It's no problem at all Ms. Hyuuga. Naruto was pretty excited to have you all here. He never really had any friends." The last part made him frown slightly. This got their attention. Especially Hinata's.

"Why not? Naruto seems like an awesome guy to hang with!" Kiba said, confused at this. The Sniper shook his head, looking at them with a straight face.

"Well that mate, is somethin' you'll have to ask Naruto in the future. He don't really like to talk about it much." Sniper said, turning his attention to the bowl of ramen that now was in front of him. They all started to eat; Choji eating like it's the end of the world.

"Hey Mr. Heavy." Choji said, getting the attention of Heavy, who was slurping his ramen at an incredible rate. "We both are appetite-hungry people. I challenge you to an eat-off! Whoever can eat the most wins!" There was a pause in the eating. Everyone looked at the Heavy, who had a strange look on his face, which changed to one of humor. He then laughed loudly, done with his ramen.

"HAHAHA! That funny one! Little man cannot defeat me! Last night I eat over 80 bowls! I unstoppable!" Heavy said, grabbing two more bowls. Choji was slightly shocked. Someone could out eat him? He shook his head, then looked at Heavy with a grin.

"I'm always up for a challenge! I'll hold you up to it!" Choji said, grabbing two more bowls as well. Heavy simply laughed lightly as he continued to eat.

Over forty minutes later, they were done eating and were heading back to the Academy. The BLUs were heading home, waving goodbye as Naruto and company walked back to the Academy. Naruto's friends had been surprised at the amount of food that the BLUs were able to eat. They were even more surprised when they saw the high bill and were able to pay it easily with a high tip. They walked with some talking as they finally reached the academy. They walked inside, and took their seats in the class, waiting for it to begin.

Ten minutes later, the rest walked into the class, with Iruka appearing at the front of the class with a list.

"Alright, the teams have been ultimately decided. When I call the team name, you'll hear your name and your instructor name. You will wait for you sensei here. Now Team 1…" He continued on, calling out the names of each team. As each one was called, jonin would come into the class and take away said team. It then came to Team 7's name.

"Team 7 will consist of Naruto Uzumaki Conagher…Kiba Inuzaka…and Hinata Hyuuga. Your sensei will be Kakashi Hatake." Naruto and Kiba cheered at this, with Hinata smiling lightly.

"Team 8 will consist of Sasuke Uchiha…Sakura Haruno, and Shino Aburame. Your sensei will be Kurenai Yuuhi." Sasuke groaned when he heard the second name, Sakura cheered making everyone cringe, and Shino simply seemed to stiffen. His friends looked at him with pity evident on their faces.

"Team 10 will consist of Shikimaru Nara…Ino Yamanaka…and Choji Akimichi. Your sensei will be Asuma Sarutobi." The three looked at each other and smiled. It was just like their parent's team.

"That is all. The rest of you, good luck next year." Iruka said before he rolled up the scroll and put it away. Minutes later, numerous jonin showed up to pick up the teams. A woman with long black hair and red eyes picked up Team 8, while a smoking man with a small beard picked up Team 10. After ten minutes, all were gone except for Team 7. Hinata sat with a bored, timid expression, Naruto sat with a patient look on his face, and Kiba had a frown on his face.

"Seriously! Where's our sensei! He should be here by now!" Kiba yelled, with Akamaru simply ignoring it.

"From what I know from Kakashi-nii-san, he is always at least two hours late. So I would just sit back and relax." Naruto said, putting his feet up on the desk.

"T-two hours? Isn't t-that a lot?" Hinata asked hesitantly. Naruto nodded, adjusting the hat on his head.

"Yes it is. I'm sure that by the time he gets here, I'll think of something to get him back." Naaruto said, putting his hands behind his head.

"Well crap! This sucks! I'm taking a nap." Kiba said before putting his head down, trying to take a nap. A few hours passed, them sitting there in the classroom. It seemed silent, with Kiba asleep, Hinata quiet and Naruto laying there. Hinata found it akward, so she decided to talk.

"Umm…N-naruto?" Hinata asked hesitantly. Naruto turned his head slightly, showing she had his attention.

"Yes Hinata?" Naruto asked with a patient tone. Hinata thought over her question, before she looked down and poked her fingers, asking the question.

"Well…umm… its j-just… it's about earlier. W-why did you t-talk to me? P-people usually ignore me or d-don't talk to me b-because I'm a failure." Hinata said with numerous stutters. Naruto, who actually listened unlike some guys (Uchiha), put his feet down and looked at her.

"Well Hinata," Naruto said, "When I first saw you, I saw how you looked like a nice person, and how shy you were. So I went to help you. But…when I looked further, I did see how you were really stuttering and averting eye contact. You had, and still have some self doubt about yourself, about what others will think…" he cut off, trying to find the words.

Hinata shut her eyes, knowing what he was going to say. He was going to say how weak she was, how she would never be a great person because she didn't want to hurt anyone, how she- but she was cut off. Her eyes opened wide when she heard Naruto's next words.

"…you were like how I used to be." Naruto said. This got him a confused and shocked look form Hinata.

"Y-you? Y-you were like me?" she said, slightly worried about the answer she would get.

"Yeah. I was always looked down on, thought of as a failure, and a bunch of other stuff like that that I just gave up. Because no matter how hard I tried, everyone just hated me. But then I found something to work for" Naruto said, a small smile appearing on his face. Hinata was now curious more than anything else.

"W-what was it?" she asked, now engrossed in what he was saying. He smiled.

"I found two things. The first was and is to become the strongest Hokage that there ever was. The second was to fight to protect my precious people. With those two in mind, I worked my butt off to achieve my dream, my determination refilled. This time I knew that no matter what, no matter how many times I was knocked down, I would get back up and fight twice as hard. This time I knew that even if you're a failure, you can make the change to not be." He looked at her, and gave a small smile as he asked her a question. "Do you have something to fight for Hinata?"

Hinata heard the question, and began to wonder. All the years of being second to her father had killed her hope. But Naruto, who was similar to her, was able to change because he had a dream to fight for. Then she realized she did have one. She looked at him, and said, "I do. My t-thing to f-fight for is to stop the use of t-the Caged B-bird Seal i-in the Hyuuga clan, and t-to be able to join t-them into one u-unit-ted clan."

Naruto pondered this. Then said, "That's a big thing to fight for. And I'd be happy to help you achieve it…it you want my help."

Hinata thought this over, then gave a small smile. This one was different from the others. Most were nervous smiles of just forced. This one was real. "I would a-appreciate it. T-thank you Naruto."

Naruto simply smiled, sending more of that warmth into her. "Not a problem at all."

"Aaaah. That's pretty sweet." A voice said. The two turned their heads to the door, and Naruto twitched at the sight of Kakashi. "It's nice to see that your getting along already. My first impression…this might work. Meet me on the roof in five minutes." And with that he poofed away in a thing of smoke. Naruto simply sighed before he kicked Kiba out of his chair. This immediately woke him up, and he sent an irritated look at Naruto.

"You just missed Kakashi Kiba. He told us to meet him on the roof." Naruto said, standing up and heading to the door.

"Damn!" Kiba said, standing up and heading to the door too.

Hinata, who was sitting there, smiled a little bigger as she stood and followered her new teammates and friends onto a new adventure.

They met Kakashi on the roof, who was waiting for them. "Alright, why don't we introduce ourselves."

"H-how will we do that sensei?" Hinata asked, a little bit of her stutter gone.

"How about this. I'll go first and you can go off of that. My name is Kakashi Hatake. I have a lot of hobbies. My dislikes…I dislike a lot of things. My likes…I don't feel like telling you. My dream…don't really have one. Alright, now it's your turn." Kakashi said to them. Two genin simply thought ,'All we learned was his name', while another simply smiled. "Blondie, go." Kakashi said.

"My name is Naruto Uzumaki Conagher. I like my family, Engie-tou-san, learning how to build stuff, ramen, physics, and hanging out with people. I dislike traitors, banshees, arrogant jerks, and the waiting time on ramen. My hobbies are building stuff, reading, doing physics, and having fun. My dream is to become Hokage so I can protect everyone!" Naruto said. Kakashi nodded, before turning to Kiba.

"Dog breath, go." Kakashi said. Kiba growled before he spoke.

"My name is Kiba Inuzaka. I like Akamaru, my friends, my family, food, and loyal people. I dislike traitors, people who break their word, total jerks, and cats. My hobbies are training, fighting, kicking the crap out of bad guys, and learning family techniques. My dream is to train so hard, that I'll be the greatest Alpha my clan has ever seen!" Kiba shouted, with an agreeing bark from Akamaru.

'Hmm…Looks like he has a lot of hard work for the future' Kakashi thought as he turned to Hinata. "Bluebird, go." Kakashi said. Hinata blinked before she started.

"My name is H-Hinata Hyuuga. I l-like gardening, reading, working hard, and…" she made a quick look at Naruto, who was oblivious to it. "I dislike those who t-think their fate is already decided, and people who look down on you because you're w-weak. My h-hobbies are training, gardening, making healing ointments, and learning new things. M-my dream is to ban the use of the Caged Bird Seal in the Hyuuga Clan, and to join the M-Main and Branch Houses together." She said, most of her stutter gon from her voice.

'Hmm. Well, it's obvious she likes Naruto from the look she gave him, but she knows how to work, so she isn't a fan girl. I might just like this team.' Kakashi thought, giving his team an eye smile.

"Alright. Now that the introductions are over, we can talk about your true Genin Test." Kakashi said, confusing Kiba and Hinata.

"True Genin Test? Didn't we already pass?" Kiba asked, slightly confused. Kakakshi looked at him, grinning inwardly at what he was about to say. He loved saying this.

"Yes, but that was just to see if you could qualify as a shinobi. This test will truly test if you can be a Genin or not. And the failure rate is over 66 percent." He eye smiled when Kiba and Hinata went wide-eyed.

"WHAT! 66 PERCENT?" Kiba yelled, completely shocked. Hinata was wide- eyed, her jaw slightly dropping. Naruto had an expression of mock shock on his face, which the other two didn't notice.

"Yep. So be ready. It will be tomorrow at Training Ground Three at 10 o' clock. Also, I recommend not eating, or else your throw up. Later!" Kakashi told them, before he disappeared in a puff of smoke. There was silence as they simply sat there, dumbfounded except for one. Kiba's and Hinata's shock was broken when they saw Naruto stand up.

"Well then," he said as he stretched his arms back. "Looks like we have some stuff to go over." This got some confusion.

"What do you mean N-Naruto?" Hinata asked. Naruto looked at the both of them before speaking.

"Well, we have to go over what each of us can do, and what we can expect for tomorrow. So, we should go somewhere to discuss our plans, and so we can know each other better as friends and teammates." He said, giving a small smile. They nodded in agreement before Kiba spoke up.

"Where do you guys wanna hang out then? We got a couple hours before we gotta head home." Kiba said, rubbing Akamaru's ears. Naruto smiled as he said, "How about my house? We can talk there, and you guys can meet my family…properly." He said the last part with some humor. The two thought about it before they said, "Alright/ O-Okay." Together, as a new team for the future, set off to Naruto's house, not realizing this would make events that would change their futures.

Wow! Got that done in under two days, while the last chapter took about a week. NEW RECORD! Now, I do apologize sincerely if you thought that the crush beginning sucked. I'm pretty sure I don't have a romantic bone in my body. Next is some of the points that were mentioned earlier:

*They're in their Pajamas.

** They exist. Look em up on google.

*** Hope I got that right.

**** Guess who?

*****Guess who? Part 2! Hint: a loud girl and a total jerk.

So, as previously said above, the poll is pretty much over, but will continue on until midnight tonight. Since it will most likely win, I ask you please pick one or two more girls to be put into it. Which brings me to a topic here: Should some of the BLUs have pairing or no? Mainly Pyro, Engineer and Spy.

Will try to get the next chapter soon, as long as family, school work and job don't kick me off if it. See ya around next time on Meet the Orangineer!

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