"Akina I'm so excited we're gonna be put into our teams today, BELIEVE IT!", Naruto yelled rather loudly next to me. I had to wiggle my ear just to make sure I could still hear properly, "Yeah I'm excited to." We were only down the street from the academy, dragging our tired butts, as we were talking.

Last night after Naruto had received his headband, and nearly suffocated me, we went to his favorite ramen stand. All the while Mizuki was being arrested and punished for his crimes. Luckily Iruka-sensei only ended up with minor injuries so I didn't have to wrap a lot of bandages on him and neither Naruto nor I had any bruises, so we were fine.

As we continued walking Naruto kept talking about how happy he was that he was given a chance to become a genin and how he was going to make Iruka-sensei proud. I was glad he was so happy and I continued to listen to him rant on. Eventually we made it the classroom door and Naruto opened the door to let me go in front of him, which I gave him a 'thank you' for the gesture. Some people looked up and had shock written over their faces as they noticed Naruto had a headband.

"Hey Naruto what are you doing here? This isn't a place for the dropouts it's for people who actually graduated.", said a boy who had a hairstyle that made his head look like a pineapple.

'People here really do have different hair styles; they either mimic birds or fruit.'

"Well if you would open your eyes for once you would see that I happen to be wearing a headband which means that I graduated, so how about that.", Naruto said with a grin and attitude in his voice. The boy just yawned and replied with a, "Whatever", and laid his head down and went straight to sleep. Naruto and I walked farther into the room and sat in a random row.

"The guy I just talked to was Shikamaru Nara, he is the laziest person in this entire universe and all he does is sleep.", Naruto explained to me as we were sitting waiting for someone to tell us what to do. Suddenly what sounded like a stampede of hippos was coming from down the hallway and getting closer by the second. The door bursted open as Sakura and Ino came through the door panting hard and glaring daggers at each other.

"I won!", they both screamed at the same time.

"Looks like I won again billboard brow.", said a smirking Ino.

Sakura replied with, "In your dreams Ino-pig I was way ahead of you." After that they continued to bicker all the while Naruto was staring Sakura and I think he started to drool a little bit. I waved my hand in front of his face and snapped my fingers but nothing changed his expression.

'Why does he always have to do this?'

Sakura then turned to look in our direction making Naruto blush even more then he already was. When she quickly walked towards us Naruto got up to say 'Hi' but she pushed him out of the way and went passed my chair.

"Good morning Sasuke-kun.", she said shyly with a slight blush on her face. Of course Sasuke stayed silent and continued to ignore her as she spoke, "May I sit next to you Sasuke-kun?" Ino then comes up and grabs Sakura's arm saying, "No way I'm sitting next to Sasuke-kun."

"What are you talking about I was here first so I should sit next to him.", argued Sakura. Another girl who I didn't know came up to them and said, "Actually I was here before either of you so I should sit next to Sasuke-kun." Suddenly another comes up to them and said they were here first. Soon almost all of the girls were arguing with each about who was first and that I should sit to Sasuke-kun, it was giving me a headache.

'I just have to breathe. Today is the day I get teammates which means hopefully I won't have Sasuke and one of his fan girls on my team. I just hope Iruka-sensei will come soon because my patience is wearing thin.'

Hokage's office

Nearly a dozen Jounin stood in the Hokage's office surrounding him and a large crystal ball that allowed them all to see the new genin. One of them looked to be in his early 20's with silver gravity-defying hair and had his headband covering his left eye. He said, "So this is the promising Sasuke Uchiha.", in a curious voice looking at the young Uchiha.

The Hokage answered, "Yes he is the only one that survived the Uchiha Massacre."

Kurenai stood there as well watching the young Yukito girl, "I'm very interested in Akina Yukito, the only one left of her clan." Her eyes continued to look at the young raven haired girl in the crystal ball she had met not too long ago.

"Yes she just came to us from The Village Hidden in the Mist not too long ago. They told me she wanted to start over in a different place and that she chose us.", The Hokage answered. The silver haired man's eyes stopped on the kid wearing an orange jumpsuit lying on the ground and said, "I see so this is Naruto Uzumaki."

Classroom

Naruto rubbed his head from where it had hit a desk when Sakura pushed him over. Frustrated he looked at all of the girls surrounding Sasuke as he just sat there with that stupid nonchalant expression on his face. Naruto got this pissed off expression on his face as he got up and jumped on the desk in front of Sasuke. All the while he was glaring at him. Sasuke just sat there glaring as well and I could tell that they were having a mental battle against each other.

'This is not going to end well.', I thought as I watched what these two were going to do. Soon all of the girls noticed Naruto glaring at Sasuke so they started threatening him to get away from Sasuke. Then they started cheering for Sasuke to teach Naruto a lesson. In the desk in front of the two knuckleheads some guy was laughing so hard he brought his arm up which made Naruto go forward.

"Hey sorry about that I didn't mean to…."

Utter silence filled the room as people were trying to process what they were seeing. No one dared to breathe or move an inch wondering if what they were seeing was really happening.

Until that silence was then broken by me laughing my ass off, which made me fall out of my chair, as the two 'lovers' were kissing each other with death glares in their eyes. Both boys quickly pulled apart from each other and started to gag as if they were poisoned. The other girls though were not laughing one bit as one thought entered their synchronized fan-girl minds: How dare you Naruto, I was supposed to be Sasuke's first kiss! I think Naruto felt the change of emotion in the atmosphere as he slowly looked over his shoulder to look at the fan-girls. I could see his face pale when he saw their death glares and how they were cracking their knuckles.

"Wait it wasn't my fault! It was an accident! Please don't hurt me! NO!", he screamed as the group of girls started to beat the crap out of him like there was no tomorrow. When they were done with him he looked like a mess with cuts, bruises, and a black eye. Fortunately for Naruto Iruka-sensei came in at the right time to break up the group of girls and get things started.

"First I would like to congratulate you all on making this far. You are now starting your journey to become real shinobi of the Leaf Village. Though many of you will face different challenges and complete those in a different way just remember you and every other shinobi in this village are aiming for one goal: protect the ones that are important to your heart. Now I am going to announce the teams of your three-man squad but due to the uneven number of people one squad will have four people. Each squad will be lead by a Jounin, a high-ranked ninja."

As Iruka-sensei announced this there was an air of excitement and anxiety in the room as kids were eager to hear who is on their team. I looked around and caught Kiba's eyes, he winked at me and gave me the thumbs up. I nodded to him and then saw Hinata staring at Naruto blushing a little bit. 'I swear if Naruto ever gets a girlfriend let it be Hinata and not Sakura.' I looked next to me at Naruto and he gave me thumbs up, both of us hoping to be on the same team. During my look around Iruka-sensei had already started to call team names and numbers, "Okay first up is squad 8; Hinata Hyuuga, Shino Aburame, and Kiba Inuzuka." I looked at Kiba and he gave me a sorry look with his eyes and I mouthed to him 'It's okay.' "Next is squad 10; Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, and Chouji Akimichi." In the back to my right I saw Ino slamming her head on her desk while Shikamaru had an amused smirk on his face. Chouji just continued to sit there eating his chips looking like he didn't really care. For about 10 more minutes Iruka-sensei announced squads but I spaced out a little by looking out of a window until I heard the last squad being called. 'Uh-oh I hope I didn't miss my name being called because that would really suck.' "Squad 7 is Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, Sasuke Uchiha, and Akina Yukito." Naruto was excited that Sakura and I were called while he got depressed when Sasuke's name was called. All the while Sakura was very happy to be with Sasuke, I think I saw her stick her tongue at Ino, but then got depressed when she heard Naruto's name. Sasuke was being emotionless as usual while I was wondering just how the hell I got Sasuke and one of his fan girls in my squad.

'At least I'll have Naruto with me so I won't go totally insane, that is until he tries to ask Sakura out which if that happens I am just going to give up on life.'

"Now that everyone knows what squad they're on you can now go to lunch and get to know your teammates. Then after lunch you will meet in an assigned room so that you can meet your new sensei and get acquainted, so go and have a good day.", he said with a proud smile. Everyone quickly filed out of their seats and ran out of the doorway, eager to meet their new sensei's and teammates. I was just getting out of my seat when I was blindsided by a blur of white. Whatever hit me made me stumble back a couple of steps and almost made me trip over my chair but I was able to keep my balance. Something wet and slimy continuously licked my face as I tried to compose myself. I opened my eyes and saw Akamaru panting and shaking his tail as if he did nothing wrong at all.

"Looks like Akamaru can't keep his paws off of you.", said Kiba as he walked over to me petting Akamaru.

"What can I say I'm a canine magnet", I replied with a smirk.

"It's too bad that you're not on my team though we would have been good teammates.", he said a little down with his hood somewhat covering his eyes. Today he had on a parka that had fur around the edges which only managed to add more to his already canine appearance.

"Yeah I feel the same but we will still see each other and our teams can hang out with each other sometimes.", I said hoping to cheer him up.

"Well that's true, so I gotta go hang out with my team so we'll see you later Akina.", he said getting a stubborn Akamaru out of my arms.

"Bye Kiba see you soon, bye Akamaru.", I said leaving the class room as well in search of Naruto so that we could eat lunch together. The classroom was clear by the time I left so not many people were still around. 'How am I supposed to find Naruto?'

I exited the building not seeing Naruto anywhere insight. So I decided to wander around on some of the winding paths next to the school that lead throughout the park. 'Maybe I can find him better if I look from a tree.' With that thought I looked for a tree that had a tall branch. As I was climbing up one I thought, 'Naruto most probably went to ask Sakura to have lunch with him since we're in the same team, but she probably turned him down as usual. Then she probably went to go look for her beloved Sasuke while Naruto sulks in a corner, talk about a cliché love triangle.' Once I reached the top branch I could see much of the park so finding Naruto couldn't be too bad. As I looked around I saw something pink, 'That has to be Sakura, maybe Naruto is still trying to eat with her.'

I proceeded to get closer until I saw that Naruto wasn't with her, instead I saw Sasuke with her and he had this weird look in his eye. I got closer so that I could hear but still far enough that they couldn't see or hear me.

"Sakura your forehead is so huge and charming it makes me want to kiss it.", Sasuke said. 'Wait did Sasuke just say what I think he said, huge and charming? Now I know someone is definitely messing with Sakura because never in a million years would Sasuke ever say something like that.', I thought with a shocked look on my face. Of course Sakura thought that Sasuke truly meant it since she was blushing a lot and she had sock written on her face.

"Just kidding only Naruto would say something as stupid as that.", 'Sasuke' said as he sat down next to Sakura as she pouted and sighed. "But I do have a question for you. What do you think about Naruto?", he asked curiously. Sakura's face got very serious and upset as she spoke, "Naruto knows how I feel and he intentionally tries to ruin everything or interrupt it somehow. This only makes me feel bad and he acts like he knows everything about when he doesn't. Naruto is simply just annoying. The only thing I want though is for you to accept me Sasuke that's it."

"Is that all you want, for me to accept you?", 'Sasuke' asked with shock.

"Yes, it's how I really feel. I would do anything you wanted so that you would see me as an equal.", Sakura said getting quieter and leaning in to kiss 'Sasuke'. As Sakura's lips got closer to 'Sasuke' he got this weird painful look on his face and he grabbed his stomach. He quickly got up and started running towards the academy while Sakura sat there saying 'Sasuke' was shy. 'Shy my ass he's an Uchiha for Kami's sake as if he would ever be shy. Now that I know that Naruto pretended to be Sasuke, where is the real Sasuke?' As I began pondering the devil himself came walking the down the path towards Sakura. By his irritated expression this was definitely the real Sasuke, except Sakura was still excited about the almost-kiss that she didn't even notice.

"Oh Sasuke you're back! Are you ready this time because I sure am? Wait where are you going?", Sakura asked as Sasuke kept looking around looking for a certain someone.

"Where is Naruto?", he asked.

"Why do you care, I mean all he does is pick fights with you and he is soannoying. You know why he's so annoying, it's because he wasn't raised right. He doesn't have any parents so no one taught him right from wrong; he only does what pops in his head. If I ever did half the stuff Naruto did I would be punished for life and my parents would be so angry with me. If you don't have any parents how do you know what's right and wrong. Just look at him he's bratty, snotty, selfish, and all alone.", Sakura said as if she could even begin to understand why Naruto is the way he is.

"He is alone and isolated.", Sasuke answered in an ice cold tone, "It isn't about how your parents punished you. You can't even begin to understand what being alone is."

"Sasuke what do you mean? Why are you saying this?", Sakura asked confused about Sasuke's change in emotion. By this time I was ready to pull her hair out so I jumped out the trees and explained it to her plain and simple.

"What he means is that you're annoying and you can't even begin to understand what it's like to be alone. To have no parents to teach you anything or to watch you grow up is not his problem. Naruto is the way he is because he is searching for that attention that all of those other kids with parents have, so don't go walking around thinking Naruto is just selfish and a brat because he isn't." Both of them were silent when I finished, Sakura out of shock and Sasuke out of understanding, but I didn't care I was still pissed. So I just walked around them and went back into the building to go to the assigned room we were given to meet our new sensei. On my way back I passed a room and I was still peeved about what Sakura said that I almost didn't hear the whisper of my name. I walked back a few steps and saw Hinata and her team there waiting for their sensei.

"Hey Hinata what's up?", I said walking into the room. On a desk were Kiba and a sleeping Akamaru and the other guy, Shino, was just leaning against a wall minding his own business.

"H-hello Ak-kina. Are y-you okay I m-mean you look upset-t.", Hinata stuttered out with her quiet voice.

"Yeah I'm okay no need to worry about it. So do you guys know who your sensei is yet?", I asked.

"N-no th-they aren't h-here yet.", she responded.

"I don't think mine is here yet but I haven't gone to my room yet."

"Oh well I-I don't w-want to ke-ep you w-waiting.", Hinata said in her tiny alarmed voice.

"Don't worry about it. Well bye-bye Hinata.", I said as I was turning around but when I tried to take a step forward someone grabbed my foot before it touched the ground and said, "Wait." I look down and see Shino holding my foot and getting a spider off of the area where I was gonna step.

"Sorry but you almost crushed her.", he said in a calm voice. He held the spider in his hand and inspected it to see if it was okay.

"Sorry I guess I wasn't watching where I stepped.", I said not sure about how to handle this.

"It's okay just watch where you step next time.", he said and he walked to the nearby window and let the spider go free.

"Will do.", I said giving him a salute and walking out if the room and down the hallway. In a few minutes I made it to our assigned room and everyone was here. Sasuke was sitting at a desk being emotionless and whatever, Sakura was sitting there next to him trying to get him to talk, and Naruto was talking to Sakura about what kinds of ramen he liked.

"Hey Akina what's up.", Naruto said as he waved me over.

"Nothing much.", I responded. Sakura looked at me and sent me a look of regret and sorry which I only shook my head slightly and sent looks at Naruto. She realized what I wanted her to do and actually began to talk to Naruto. Naruto had shock written in his eyes but was excited nonetheless that she was even listening to him.

2 (very slow) hours later….

"Where is he, he's late! Everyone else already got to meet their Sensei's and we're the only ones left! Even Iruka-sensei left already.", Naruto yelled frustrated as he looked in the hallway trying to find our sensei.

"Naruto we're all irritated and bored.", Sakura said irritated at Naruto and at the fact that our sensei was indeed late.

"Wait what are you doing Naruto get down!", she screamed as we all watch Naruto set an eraser in-between the door and the wall.

"This will show him.", Naruto said grinning like a fox and even though Sakura said she was against it I could see that she wanted our sensei to get hit too for being late.

"You are hopeless, our Sensei is a Jounin they aren't gonna fall for this stupid trip.", Sasuke muttered from his desk.

"No offense I'm leaning towards Sasuke's side.", I whispered. A few minutes later the door opened and the eraser landed right on his silver gravity-defying hair and landed on the floor. He was silent as he picked the eraser off the floor and held it in his hand all the while Naruto was laughing his butt off and Sakura was trying to feign innocence. Sasuke still had his emotionless face off but I was chuckling at the fact that the guy fell for it. Our sensei just looked at us with his right eye, since his left eye was covered by his shinobi headband, and said, "Sorry to say this but so far my first impression of all of you is that you're all idiots."

'Well my first impression is you remind me of a pirate, except you're not wearing an eye-patch .'