Disclaimer: I do not own naruto or any other character from other sources used in this fan fiction, the only thing I own is the plot

"Normal speech"

"Toughs and flashbacks"

"Kyuubi"

"Inner Sakura"

"Kyuubi's thoughts"

(AN): authors note.

AN: sorry for the delay, also for the fact that this is a filler.

SCHOOL LIFE

After the chase ended without Naruto getting caugth (something that amused his senseis greatly) and the chaos was relatively back in control Iruka started his class on one of the most important subjects for the shinobi, the rules and regulations one has to follow, making the class groan, groan that Iruka ignored.

As the day continued to pass and Iruka continued to lecture the class, the new additions to the classroom deceded one again, to completely ignore the lecture after all, what good being a book worm will do to you when a foe is trying to gut you like a fish? they learned that little fact of the ninja life the hard way.

And like yesterday Sasuke was brooding while staring out the window. But that's were the similarities ended, because Sakura was doing something of utmost importance that she couldn't in all the years trainning under Tsunade, gossip.

"aright Sakura spill!" demanded Ino with a whisper.

"spill what?" whispered Sakura.

"about you and Sasuke-kun"

"what? Are you crazy? there's nothing between me and Sasuke"

"don't lie to me Sakura"

"really! He's like a brother to me, nothing more" sakura said with a tone of finality.

Ino stayed silent for a moment before letting out a grin that treathened to split her face in half, this was a golden chance to get some info in the ever so good looking bishonen.

For some reason he didn't quite understood Uchiha Sasuke was afraid, very afraid.

Naruto was in that moment talking (or trying to talk) to Shino, who was listening intently while nodding from time to time, all while Sasame listend the conversation while adding her own two cents from time to time.

Unknown to both of them there was a pair of eyes wachting them, eyes that for the blond held nothing but love, appretiacion and admiration and for Sasame nothing but spite, contempt and hate.

To Hinata it was unbelieveable that some like Naruto was with that nobody from the Fuuma clan, after Naruto was supposed to be hers. He was supposed to notice her the second he opened that door, she remebered that moment when yesterday he saw in her direction and opened his mouth to shout her heart fluttered as she could see him calling her name, instead she heard him call the name of that Sasame girl and see the hug she received, the sadness and anger in her was almost unbearable.

Hinata was brougth out of her memories when she saw Naruto turn towards her nemesis and said something that make the tangerine girl blush. Making her narrow her eyes in anger and silently vow that she will make Naruto see the light and the fact that he was meant to be with her.

Unknown to her she had embraced part of her Hyuuga heritage, the part that didn't allow her to give up.

The lecture was so boring that it wasn't a surprise to anyone but the chunin that when he announced that it was going to be sparring practice everyone cheered and bolted toward the fields.

Iruka decided that he needed to know where the new students stood in the shinobi arts starting with taijutsu, and for that purpouse he paired them with the strongest members of the class: Naruto vs. Kiba, Shino vs. Sasuke, Sakura vs. Ino.

(AN: he doesn't know who trained them)

"first round: Uzumaki Naruto vs. Inuzuka Kiba! Ready? Hajime!" as soon as Iruka said those words he jumped back to allow them the complete use of the field.

Kiba rushed towards his opponent thinking this was going to be an esay win. When he was within striking distance the Inuzuka threw a kick towards Naruto's midsection with his right leg, the blond swated the kick to his left using the right hand while moving a step foward and spinning counterclock wise and delivering a powerful backhand strike in his unprotected right kidney using his free hand, the attack had such force that sent Kiba flying a couple of meters and to the floor and left him there for a couple of minutes grabbing his wounded side.

As soon as Kiba was on his feet Naruto blurred into action and delivered a strong punch to his solar plexus using his left fist depriving Kiba's lungs of air and making bend foward straigh into Naruto's now raised right knee, the move forced the Inuzuka to close his mouth and bend backwards Naruto changed the knee strike into a snap kick sending Kiba flying back until he hit the training stump several meters after the edge of the training arean tehy used.

The Inuzuka did not get back up.

Umino Iruka stood there speechless along with most of his class, the only exceptions being Sasuke who just smirked, Sakura who had a knowing smile on her face, and to some extent Sasame who was torn between astonishment at seeing Kiba defeated so easily and gleeful that her crush was so strong.

After everyone regained their senses Sasuke and Shino took their respective positions in the middle of the arena, as soon as Iruka gave the signal and cleared the way Sasuke slid into the traditional stance of the Uchiha taijutsu: the sekken (intercepting fist) while Shino took a basic taijutsu stance straight from the academy teachings.

(AN: the stance sasuke use is exactly like the one he uses when he fights Orochimaru)

Shino eyed his oppponent before he rushed Sasuke, in regular conditions would've used his Kikaichu to asses Sasuke's strenghs and weaknesses, but that option was not posible at the moment so he had to test the Uchiha himself, when he was near his opponent Shino threw punch with a decent amount of speed and power behind it.

As the punch grew close to his extended hand Sasuke got hold of the fist while using his other hand and body as leverage to throw the Aburame to the other side of the arena by using his own attack against him.

Shino stood up while eyeing his opponent who once again had slid into the same stance. He understood his opponent now, the style was made for counterattacking, a rational thing considering that the style was made to be used in concoction with the sharingan.

The tall boy engaged Sasuke again, this time the attacks were methodical, without the overextention that the first strike had. while Sasuke was barely pressed by the boy's attacks. It was a bit obvious considering the fact that his usual sparring partner was someone at Naruto's level at the very least.

Seeing his chance Sasuke slid trough his opponent's defenses and delivered several punches to Shino's midsection before launching a haymayker to his face putting Shino in the ground and ending the match.

The next match was the shortest by comparison, since Sakura's taijutsu was sloppy (specially compared to her teamates and teacher) Ino had a somewhat easy time dodging since Sakura's followups were rough and somewhat slow and sloppy, that was all fine until Sakura managed to hit the floor and leave a clear indentaion of her fist in it, after that Ino gave up immediately not wanting to be in the receiving end of it, if only the Yamanaka knew how much the pinkette was holding back.

After everyone else had passed Iruka moved to the ninjutsu part. Taking them into a different field. To Iruka's expactaions everyone was basically the same, uses of henge and kawarimi with different grades of success.

"Haruno Sakura, you're next"

as Sakura took her position on the field everyone was seeing expecting some sort of spectacule "whenever you're ready" said the chunin.

Sakura ran trough several hand-seals before slapping both hands on the earth while saying

"doton: Doro Gaeshi (earth release: mud overtun)" as a result a large wall of earth will rise into place as defense.

After several more students passed Sasuke's turn came, he did one of his favorite jutsus, after running trough the necessary seals that ended in tiger he brought his had to his mouth while forming an 'o' shape and mentally calling "katon: goukakyu no jutsu(fire release: grand fireball technique)" and as the name indicated a sphere shaped giant ball of fire got expelled from his mout and burned the trainning post five meters in front of him.

Then came Naruto's turn he turned towards sakura's mud wall did some seals clapped his hands and called the name of the jutsu "fuuton: reppusho! (wind release: gale palm)"

As soon as the words left his lips he extended his arms foward with his palms facing the target, instantly the chakra around his hands began to spin at a high rate before blasting forward in two dual slipstreams of wind. The slammed into the stone wall before punching trough destroying it completely and kept going foward for a couple of meters before loosing power and becoming a particulary strong breeze.

In the genjutsu test the results were different to say the least, Naruto managed to disrupt his and everyone's genjutsu with a chakra pulse, Sasuke casted a couple using his sharingan, and Sakura casted a particulary nasty multilayered one on girl that was bullying other girls.

At the end of the day Iruka couldn't help but ask himself just who trained this kids, making the sannin sneeze (and coincidentally getting Jiraiya caught for peeping on Tsunade and Shizune)

Soon the school year ended with the three claiming the top spots in the class, for the reason that no one was capable of defeating them, either in one on one combat or in team exercises, their teamwork was unsurpased among the ninja hopefuls.

"finally the exams!" shouted the clearly excited Naruto earning him a grunt from Sasuke, a bop in the head from Sakura and a small smile and giggle from Sasame.

"damn it Naruto! It's too early for your shouting!" said Sakura after boping his friend on the head.

"she's right dobe, it's too early for your idiocies" said Sasuke in his usual tone.

Naruto glared at Sasuke before answering his female friend "but Sakura-chan, it's the end of the year! After the exams we won't have to go back to the academy anymore, we'll be free!"

As much as she wanted to deny his reasoning he was right, the whole was not only boring but somewhat degrading, she was the apprentice of Tsunade the slug senin, she had seen field action already, she should by all accounts be a genin at the very least. Of course there were good points for all of them: Sakura remade her friendship with Ino, Naruto was able to reencounter Sasame and Sasuke opened up a bit to them, not much really but it was an improvement.

Soon the four of them were inside the clasroom waitng along the excited children who were either looking confident or trying to get as much information the could inside their heads while they still could.

Soon Iruka and Mizuki entered the classroom and began explaining the rules and the order of the exam: it started with a written exam, followed by the target practice, taijutsu then ninjutsu.

The three of them obviously aced the first three parts of the exam, though Naruto passed the writen one by copying the answers he didn't know or wasn't certain about (mentally thanking his sensei for teaching him methods of information gathering, not that he will ever tell him that to his face). Soon the last part was at close, the whole classroom was chattering excited about how it went for them, what they think they passed and whatnot.

"ahem" Iraku coughed to bring the classroom into order without success, "AHEM!" he tried again with the same results, finally having enough he unleashed his akuma kashira no jutsu (demon head technique) finally silencing the hyperactive kids.

"the ninjutsu part of the exam requires you to show the use of henge, kawarimi and bunshin, the first is.."

Soon it was Naruto's turn to take the test, as soon as he enterd the classroom he noticed that both senseis were seated in front of a desk that had gleaming, brand new headbands on it, he was brought out of his musings by Mizuki.

"okay Naruto start by transforming into Iruka"

The blond did as told efortlessly.

"very good, now use kawarimi to avoid the attack" Iruka said before launching the eraser to Naruto's head, he was hit in the forehead sending him to the floor before a cloud of smoke enveloped him and showed a bewildered looking Mizuki.

"o-okay Naruto now I want you to make three bunshins"

"ne sensei, can it be any type of bunshin?"

A bead of sweat run from Iruka's forehead to his left cheek, how could a mere genin have this much ability? Mizuki however thought nothing of it and answered "of course Naruto do your best"

Naruto grinned broadly and put his fingers in cross like hand seal "kage bunshin no jutsu!"

As soon as those words left his lips three solid bunshins poofed into existance leaving both teachers flabbergastted.

"so do I pass sensei?" asked one of the clones, the teachers just nodded and gave him his rightfully earned headband that he tied on his forehead.

"just like the other two kids that entered the class that day" thought Iruka, his nerviousnes was understandable considering the fact that both Sasuke and Sakura used solid clones in their respective turns, the Uchiha used hebi bunshins (snake clones)and Haruno used doro bunshins (mud clones).

"I passed Sasame-chan! I'm a ninja now!" he said before hugging tightly the tangerine haired girl making her blush and and smile while hugging him back.

"congratulations Naruto-kun" she said, sincerely happy for him, knowing how important becoming a konoha shinobi was for him.

As they separated Naruto noticed that Sasame's balaclava was missing from the top of her head and that she had a konoha headband around her neck.

"so you've passed as well! Congratulations Sasame-chan!"

"arigatou Naruto-kun"

she was about to go back to the Fuuma compund when Naruto's voice stopped her.

"ne Sasame-chan?"

"hai?"

"you know, if you're not busy, well.." his face was cherry red, a tone that she was sure her face matched perfectly "yes?"

"wouldyouwannahavedinnerwithmesometime" he said as fast as he could before blushing even further, as imposible as it may sound.

Sasame blushed as well before averting her eyes of him and answering in a really meek voice "hai".

Neither one of them noticed the crying girl behind the wall that took of running.

Sarutobi Hiruzen was known for a lot of things, like his mastery of ninjutsu to an amzing degree, of his belief in the will of fire, his amazing strategies and tactics, his love for the tobacco. And among very few, his love for Icha Icha paradise, but what not many knew is that he had a unbelievable hate for burocracy, specially parperwork.

Why is this important or relevant you might ask, simple because thanks to the performance of three particular students dubly named 'team sannin' the teams he tough were terribly unbalanced, as such there was one easy solution that not only allowed them, to grow on their weak areas but it blance the teams, the problem? Telling his own stundents.

As he was contemplating how to break teh news to them the fabled legendary three ninjas arrived.

"sensei why did you call us?" asked Tsunade.

"I'll cut to the chase, I'm disbanding the new team sannin for the new team roster"

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AN: a tad short and just a filler but it's the bridge to more things as well as what could be the beginings the naru/sasame pairing and the intense rivalry between Hinata and Sasame (the Hyuuga girl might get a bit nasty) as for why the Mizuki incident didn't happen just follow the fic (that doesn't mean it won't happen in the future) as for the teams I'm not sure who is getting whre besides Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura (they're under Kurenai, Kakashi and Asuma respectively) si fell free to pich in with some suggestions. Also I have a poll in my profile that will dictate what I'm updating in the next two months and Finally I'm entering the missing hokage challenge by perfect lionheart, so if you want to read it look for it in the future.

The polls:

Sakura/Lee: 4

Sakura/Neji: 2

Sasuke/Tayuya: 3

Sasuke/Kin: 4

I will repeat this: NO ONE AND I MEAN NO ONE WILL BE PAIRED WITH MORE THAN ONE PEOPLE IN THIS FIC.

That's all and please review criticism is greatly appreciated, flames find some one that cares for them.

JA NE.