Disclaimer: I do not own naruto
Do you really think that if I owned Naruto he would this weak? And while we are at it, the only thing I own is the plot, no more no less.
"Normal speech"
"Thoughts and flashbacks"
"Kyuubi"
"Inner Sakura "
"Kyuubi's thoughts"
(AN): authors note.
AN: Gekko Hayate is not sick until I say so, okay? Good.
A NEW SET OF PROBLEMS
"I can't believe this! What is that old man thinking?! You know what. screw that how can he do this to me?! The unfairness of it all!" those were the shouts that filled the bar Kai frequented.
"Come on Kai it's been a week already don't you think you should let it go," said his drinking buddy and friend Shiranui Genma, annoyed that the blond was still ranting about it.
"He has a point Kai, it doesn't matter how much you complain about it, it's not going to change anything," added his other friend Hayate Gekko.
Kai shot them a look that said that for the sake of their physical health it would be best if they shut up, "it's still not fair, I should be in the field taking high ranked missions. Not baby-sitting a bunch of ninja-wannabes."
They were seated in the same bar and the same seats when they met; to this day Kai still wonders just exactly how the two became his friends. But to him it really didn't matter that much. Because to him it was better than to hang out with Kakashi. He didn't have much against him but he preferred not being accused of being a pervert by association with the silver haired jounin. That and the fact that he was still a bit sore that in his old life he chose Sasuke over him.
"It's not that bad Kai"
The blond turned and glared at the toothpick-chewing jounin "then why don't you take my place"
The mentioned answered with his usual bored tone "no."
"That's it? No reason, no argument, you're just going to say no and leave at that?"
"Yes, because I don't have to. It's your assignment."
The Kazama grumbled under his breath and swore than he will get back at the old man. Making the hokage shiver in his office.
The stayed quiet for a while before Gekko decided to touch another sensitive, if entertaining theme; well entertaining for Genma and him that is, Kai could've passed the night without touching it, hell, the Kazama could go the rest of the year without touching it.
"So Kai how is reviving clan going? Have you made any advances?"
The reaction of the Kazama was predictable but amusing nevertheless, his face became red, and he spat most of the drink he had in his mouth while choking with the rest and trying to clear his airway by hitting his chest. Making his friends chuckle.
"You think this is funny don't you? Let's see you deal with all those maniacs" the blond snapped and glared at the duo.
It was a sad truth, since the masses found that he was the new clan head of the Kazama his fan-women club grew in size and viciousness. Making Kai struggle to stay ahead of them, simple because the shinobi that were part of his fan club were starting to find a way to counter his attempts of escaping.
The males though about it for a moment and shook their heads in unison, while many would think the situation as the ultimate male fantasy, in reality it was not that great. And if you ask Kai it was hell on earth. Not to mention that Gekko's girlfriend, Yuugao, would kill Gekko for even thinking about that.
In that moment Genma in all his wisdom decided to ask what was really in his and Hayate's minds.
"So, have you made any advances with one of the three?"
While Kai was fully aware to whom they were referring to he decided to play the ignorance card "what are you talking about?"
"Don't play dumb, I'm talking about Anko, Kurenai and Shizune"
"I don't wanna talk about it okay"
This statement had a reason. Since the three women; especially Kurenai, started showing interest in him, the hostility that was barely existent was starting to surface. Especially from Asuma, who had his sights in the red-eyed kunoichi, and until Kai appeared no one had tried his hand at dating her.
"So it's just a rumor that you and Kurenai were dinning together at the golden leaf?"
And against any good and rational judgment the blond man answered, "well yeah, but what does that have to do with anything?"
Now that got their undivided attention. And from the look on their eyes they were not going to let the issue go.
Kai just sighed in resignation. It was going to be a long night.
The next morning after leaving little Naruto at the academy and after his morning training Kai was walking towards the hokage tower with a headache the size of said building. It took almost all night to make those two leave the issue alone. In his opinion Genma needed a girlfriend.
In the hokage's office every jounin ordered to that location was gathered awaiting the sandaime's orders; well almost everyone, seeing that Kai has yet to arrive, he was not late per se but since everyone was already there it was a bit awkward to wait for someone to start the meeting.
And as if reading his or her collective thoughts the door of the office opened and Kai stepped in with a sheepish on his face "so everyone's here, I'm not late am I?"
"No Kai, you're just in time"
The Kazama shrugged and got closer to the crystal ball. Mentally vowing to take revenge against the one who wronged him.
In the classroom:
"Hey sensei, what are those three doing here?" sneered a brown haired boy.
"How you three graduated anyway? I'm sure you cheated somehow," said a girl at the bottom seat row of the classroom.
"Yeah, you tree shouldn't be allowed to leave the academy"
The three people they were talking about where tree girls sitting in the same row, the first had straight smooth orange hair that reached her pass her shoulder blades and framed her face, and pair of big, expressive gray eyes, the next girl had silver-purple hair that reached her shoulders with two bangs that framed her face and reached her chest, blue eyes that were expressing annoyance while she was restraining herself of reaching the katana next to her. And the last girl had short, black spiky hair and brown eyes. It she that decided to put a stop to the situation, so she stood up, put her left foot on the desk in front of her and shouted back while shaking her fist "OH YEAH! WHY DON'T YOU COME HERE AND TELL US THAT TO OUR FACES!"
Before the kid could retort Iruka opened the door, cutting the conversation short lest they wanted to get a taste of one of Iruka's infamous strikes to the noggin' or his 'demonic head technique'.
"Aright settle down. First of all I want to be the first to congratulate in graduating" a round of cheers swept the classroom in response at this statement "now I want you to remember that you're konoha shinobi now, you have the responsibility to upheld the ideals of konoha as well as bring glory to the village" he paused for a moment before continuing "now for the teams..."
(AN: I just want to state in advance that I don't own the characters that will form Kai's team and probably never will)
"Team one, Inoue Orihime" the girl with orange hair perked up "Natsume Maya," the silver haired girl smirked happily before turning to Orihime and smiling for real, as it seemed that their hopes were about to be fulfilled "and Arisawa Tatsuki," now each girl was high-five each other.
"Your jounin-sensei is Kazama Kai"
Now that statement got everyone's attention, it was not a mystery that Kai was strong, add that to the fact that he is Arashi's little brother. And as many woman of konoha put it 'the hottest bachelor of the village'. You got one heck of a jounin.
And of course the moron that was bothering them a couple of minutes ago couldn't let the issue go "come Iruka-sensei be serious, there is now way that a jounin as good as Kazama Kai would train those three"
"Actually he is training them, and unless you think that you are better to judge who trains who than the hokage I suggest you shut up"
Soon all the team assignments were done the school bell rang signaling the beginning of lunch.
(AN: I repeat, I don't own Natsume Maya, Inoue Orihime or Arisawa Tatsuki)
In another part of the same academy Naruto was watching Shino as he eyed the mass of insects that were flying in front of him for a moment before it shifted and after a minute or so became something that had his sillouete, Shino shook his head slightly.
"that was awesome!" exclaimed the blond kid.
"it should have been faster, not only to move but to take the form" answered the Aburame.
"don't be like that, we just started the academy and we are only seven, it's not like something would depend on how fast you can make those things" he said repeating the same thing Kai told him when he asked why he didn't teach him anything beyond the kawarimi no jutsu, and even that was shakey at best.
"hey guys! mind if I sit here?" said a voice to their left.
Both boys turned to see a kid with short brown hair with red fang marks on his face approaching them them.
Naruto being eager to make friends answered with a nod and the kid plopped down on the ground "what are you doing?"
"I'm wachting Shino practice with his bugs"
"wait, he can control those bugs?"
the blond nodded enthusiastically.
Shino was ready for the usual freak comment or the customary 'ewww' but he didn't expect the kid to say loudly "that's so cool!" or Naruto answering back "I know!"
"man, you're so lucky! I have to wait until I'm 11 to get my partner"
(AN: if you don't know who this is you need help)
And this little incident started the friendship between the three kids.
Back in the other classroom:
After the break everyone was in their respective seats anxiously waiting for the jounins. The door opened and entered a bunch of adults, all of them were pretty non descriptic with the exception of a blond guy who called, "team one!"
The three girls perked after hearing the call, Kai noticed this and said "meet me on the rooftop in two minutes," before he dissapeared in a swirl of wind.
The girls stood up and walked to the door just quickly enough to not look in a hurry.
On the rooftop was their sensei dressed in the standard jounin uniform with the exception of the black battle cloak he had over his shoulders. The jounin motioned them to sit in front of him, After a moment he spoke up again "Good your early, I like that in people. Well lets get started shall we? Each one of you sit down it front of me and tell me a little bit about yourselves"
Maya decided to ask "exactly what do you want to know about us sensei?"
"likes, dislikes, dreams for the future, that sort of things. so ladies first," he said signaling Maya to start talking.
The Natsume girl smiled before replying "and I thought that chilvary was death in the shinobi world, okay, my name is Natsume Maya, my likes are my sister, my friends and putting bullies in their place, I dislike the foolish people who think they have the rigth to decide on someone else's lives, showoffs and morons, my goal is to restore my clan to it's former glory, recover the scrolls my clan lost and find out what drove my brother crazy," when she said this her eyes hardened and the grip on the katana she carried with her increased until her knuckles were starting to turn white.
It was no secret that Maya's brother, Natsume Shin went mad and killed his parents, the only two living adults of the clan at that time. And left Maya to take care of their sister.
Kai hid the sadness he felt for the girl and mentally vowed to help her, she was not looking for revenge, she was looking for answers after all. Then he signaled the black haired girl to Maya's left who started talking "arigth My name is Arisawa Tatsuki, I like to train, hang out with my friends and Dango, I dislike assholes, hate perverts, and LOATHE idiots who think a women could never be good taijutsu users as men, my dream is to become the first taijutsu mistress of konoha and prove everyone that a woman can be as good as a man in taijutsu"
Kai nodded in approval when he heard this "that's a nice goal."
"you think so?" Tatsuki asked surpirsed, very few male shinobi in the village agreed with her, and if Kai was sincere, then they will get along great.
The blond grinned broadly "yes it is, because in the field it doesn't matter your gender, what matters is the skill you have" he paused for a moment before turning to the last girl telling her to start talking.
Said girl smiled brightly "my name is Inoue Orihime I like red bean paste, cooking." the other two girls grimmaced at this comment "being with my friends, and gardening, I dislike mean people and people that hurt my friends. My dream well..." she trailed off and blushed making both Maya and Tatsuki grin at the image.
Kai gave a short laugh before he started talking "well, since you introduced ourselves it's only fair that I do the same, my name is Kazama Kai, I like my nephew, Ramen, training and my friends when they're not being a bunch of smartasses. I dislike fools who refuse to see the truth even when the facts are in front of them, idiots who think that a clan gave them the rigth to anything they want, and fan-women," he paused a moment and let out an invisible shudder before continuing "my goals, making sure my nephew is a good man when he grows up and having a family, aside from that I haven't thought about it"
"okay, now I'm supposed to put you in a test that has a 66.6 chance of failure and will decide wether you become ninja or not." at this the girls tensed "but I'm not going to."
"why not?!"
He shrugged before answering "because it's supposed to test teamwork, something you three excel at, but that doesn't mean I won't test you."
"huh?" was Tatsuki's smart reply.
"I'm fully aware that you can work together and your styles complement each other, but I need to know first hand what can you do, so I want you tree to go to trainning ground 55 tomorrow at 5 o'clock sharp, suited up for combat.we'll find out what can you do, and how well can you apply what you know into the shinobi life," with that he dismissed his team, as he watched them walk away he pondered on this twist of events, back in his previous life he wanted nothing more than a genin team of his own, the council in all it's wisdom denied his request and wishes everytime he brought it up, it didn't matter what he tried, there was always a excuse for it. And while he was annoyed that Sarutobi saddled him with the team with his consent or even asking, another part of him was glad that he was given this chance.
But he will get back at the hokage for this stunt, make no mistake about that.
He shunshin'ed to the front of the academy in order to pick his nephew, as every kid was walking out trough the front door he was wasking himself if this plan was such a good idea, if it actually was worth it, if he will make a difference; but when he looked at Naruto talking to an enthuciastic Inuzuka Kiba and a passive Aburame Shino he got his answer, as he already made a difference.
And it was only the beginning.
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AN: done! Rigth now I'm not really in a good mood, a virus attacked my computer and I lost the chapters of five different stories (a fox with stripes, fox samsher, the lightning heir, kumogakure shinku arashi and surrounded by cloud and lightning) and two new projects I was working on, the good news is that I didn't loose any school related stuff (well, good news for me anyway) now for the fic, Kai's team was chosen to give him the biggest amount of trouble possible (hence an all female team) without resorting to useless people or fan-girls (granted I've could've done worse but oh well) that and I plan for one of them to be paired with Itachi, now for the winners of the poll:
For Kai: shizune
For Naruto: Sasame
(AN: AND I'M NOT CHANGING THEM)
Now this bring to a new problem, you see some people ( and my incesant need to complicate things) are calling for another woman and girl to be added to kai's and Naruto's pairing so the choices are:
No one ( leave with just one person)
Someone extra: please the name of who with the person you are voting for ( example: Kai/Tsunami and Naruto/Sakura)
for Kai:
Kurenai
Anko
Tsunami
for Naruto:
Hinata
Ino
Sakura
Natsume Aya ( Maya's little sister(who I don't own either))
(AN: Hinata will require a MAJOR support to be chosen, I wanna try something different)
That's all, please review. constructive criticism is more than welcome, as for flames if you don't have anything good or important to say just keep quiet.
JA NE.