Chapter 7

I apologize for the late update; high school is driving me crazy. I am also sorry for any grammar mistakes. Enjoy the story.

"Naruto, quick question"

Both Naruto and Sakura are currently having dinner at the dining table.

"Hm?" Naruto responded with a lot ramen in his mouth.

"What was the final test you had to take in order to become genin?"

Naruto paled, "Umm… well, um."

Sakura narrowed her eyes and put her elbows on the table with her hands intertwined covering her lips, "Well? What was it?"

"Um, it was to make a shad…" he slowly said while muttering the last part.

"Naruto, speak up." Sakura said with a stern voice.

Naruto flinched and stared at Sakura for a moment before he sighed, "It was to make a shadow clone of myself."

Sakura's eye twitched and subconsciously activated her eclipsed eyes, "That was it!? That is the easiest test I have ever heard. How did you even fail? I taught you how to make a perfect shadow clone a while ago." She yelled.

Naruto stared at her in fear, "I-I know y-you did, I j-just didn't prac-practice." He stuttered, "I-I'm sorry."

"Why didn't you practice? It is really easy to learn and I'm sure that you could have gotten it down in a few tries. You could have easily passed the test without all that trouble!"

Naruto then looked down at his hands and curled them up into a fist, "Wouldn't that mean I would have never found out that I am the Nine-Tails jinchuriki."

Sakura sadly stared at him, deactivating the eclipsed eyes, "You are still young Naruto, and I didn't think you were ready to know yet. You actually took it better than I thought you would." She said with a small smile.

Naruto looked up to Sakura, "When were you actually going to tell me?"

"When you were around sixteen and now that we are talking about you being the Nine-Tails jinchuriki. There is one more thing that I want you to know about me."

"What don't I know about? You tell me everything."

"Weeeell, not everything." She said sheepishly.

"Well what is it!?" Naruto yelled.

Sakura slightly winced at Naruto's loudness, "Don't scream Naruto, I don't want the neighbors to complain again."

"I don't care, what is it?" he quickly said.

"Just promise me you won't freak out and you won't tell anybody."

"Yes! I promise, now tell me!" Naruto yelled exasperated.

"You are the Nine-Tails jinchuriki."

"Well yeah, I know, I just found out today!"

"I am the Ten-Tails jinchuriki."

Naruto gaped at her in shock, "WHAT!"

There was suddenly another loud voice coming from the outside, "Hey! Keep it down, I'm trying to sleep!"

"Sorry!" Sakura yelled, "Goddamn it Naruto, what did I tell you about yelling?"

Naruto, who was still in shock, simply said with a quieter voice, "You are the Ten-Tails jinchuriki?"

"Yeah, I just said that." She answered in a singsong voice while starting to clean up the kitchen.

Naruto gasped dramatically, "Is that why you have black blood and no heartbeat?"

"No, I had that since I was born. It runs only in my clan, but it is still rare for one to be born like that. That is one of the reasons why I was chosen to become the Ten-Tails jinchuriki." Sakura said while washing the dishes.

"Then what about when you regenerate?"

"At first I thought that it was the Ten-Tails healing me, but as I did some experiments to find out how my blood functioned without a functioning heart, I noticed that my blood is able to multiply much faster than with regular blood and is able to move throughout my body on its own. Also, when the black blood mixes with the red blood, the black blood completely destroys the red blood. I can practically use my own blood as poison." Sakura explained turning around to face Naruto while drying a plate. "You should probably go to bed now. Tomorrow you will be put in a three man cell team."

"But I'm not tired."

"Quit whining and go to bed Naruto." Sakura said with a glare.

Naruto returned the glare with one of his own. They were both stuck in a glaring contest for about a minute before Naruto gave up.

"*sigh* Fine." Naruto said while climbing up the stairs.

The next day Naruto was sitting in between Sasuke and a really pale boy that he did not recognize.

'Now that I think about it, I don't remember ever seeing him in class before.'

His thoughts were cut short when one Sasuke's fangirls shouted at him, "Hey loser, go sit somewhere else so I can sit next to my Sasuke-kun."

"Your Sasuke-kun?! He is mine!" another fangirl shouted.

"No he's not, he's mine!"

"You are all is obviously with me since I'm the prettiest."

'God they are so annoying. What makes Sasuke so special anyways?" Naruto thought as he was suddenly in front of Sasuke. This did not go unnoticed by the fangirls.

"Hey stupid, quit staring a Sasuke-kun like that!"

"Yeah get away from him!" the fangirls shouted.

As the two are glaring at each other, a student on the front row stretched his arms and accidentally pushed Naruto forward into kissing Sasuke.

Everybody in the room stopped and stared in shock. After a couple seconds, Naruto and Sasuke pushed each other off and started to spit and wipe their lips with their hands.

Naruto then froze, 'I sense danger.' He turned to where he felt the murderous auras. He saw the fangirls glaring at him with some cracking their knuckles.

'I'm so screwed.'

After a couple more minutes, Iruka walked in the class.

"All right class today you will be assigned into your genin teams. First off we have team 1…"

Naruto, who was had a lot of bruises from the fangirls, started to doze off as Iruka started to call out names until he heard his name being called out.

"Naruto Uzumaki, Sai…"

'Sai?' Naruto looked to where the pale boy is sitting from the corner of his eyes. 'It must be the new guy since I've never heard of a 'Sai' in this class before. He doesn't look so bad, but why is he always smiling?'

"… and Sasuke Uchiha will be Team 7."

Naruto's eyes widened and abruptly stood up "Of all the people that are here, why did you choose him?!" he shouted while pointing at Sasuke who is glaring at him. Sasuke's fangirls also started complaining that they should have been the one to be in the same team with him.

"It's not like I want to be in the same team as you too dobe."

"I decided to put you three together to balance out your talents. Naruto, you being the worst student in this class would benefit from Sai's intelligence and Sasuke's proficiency with ninjutsu. Sai will benefit from more battle- capable team-mates and Sauke will benefit in learning to work with others." Iruka explained before continuing naming out the rest while Naruto sat down grumbling.

Naruto looked down to his lap and smirked, 'Well it looks like they don't know me at all.'

After Iruka finished assigning the rest to teams, the new assigned genin teams went on their way with their sensei while team 7 still waited.

Naruto sighed dramatically, "When is our sensei going to be here? He is so late."

Sai just smiled at him and said, "You must be patient Naruto, I'm sure it won't take much longer for him to get here."

Naruto dramatically sighed again and stared up at the ceiling. He then stood up quickly and went up to the front of the room. He grabbed a chalk eraser, a chair and aligned it so he can put the eraser on top of the door.

"This guy is a jonin dobe, he's not going to fall for it."

"Just you wait and see teme, this prank is going to work."

After about thirty minutes, they heard footsteps coming closer to the room. The door opened to reveal a man with gray hair and a mask covering most of his face. As soon as the door opened, the chalk eraser fell on the jonin's head.

"Yes! It worked! You fell for it!" Naruto yelled.

Sai just smiled while Sasuke stared at the jonin with wide eyes in disbelief.

'How did he possibly fall for that?'

The jonin sighed, "I already hate you guys. Let's go up to the roof for introductions."

"Alright, let's begin with introducing yourselves. I want to know about your likes, dislikes, hopes and dreams for the future. Things like that."

"Hey, why don't you introduce yourself to us first." Naruto suggested.

"Oh, me? Well, my name is Kakashi Hatake. I have no intentions to tell you my likes and dislikes. I don't really have dreams for the future and I have many hobbies."

Sai stared at him with a blank face, "So all you told us, is your name."

"Let's start off with the blonde."

"My name is Naruto Uzumaki. What I like is to eat a lot of ramen. What I like the most is when my aneki pays for the ramen. What I dislike is waiting a long time for the ramen to cook and my dream is to be hokage and surpass my aneki to have the people of this village to acknowledge my existence. I guess my hobbies are to prank others."

Sasuke gave Naruto a questionly look, 'Since when did he have an older sister? Hmph, he's probably lying anyways.'

"Alright…" Kakashi looked to Sasuke, "How about you?"

"My name is Sasuke Uchiha. There are many things I dislike and I don't really like anything and I really can't call it a dream, but I have a goal to restore my clan and kill a certain man."

"Ooook… and lastly?"

"My name is Sai and I am not in full understanding in what I like and dislike. I don't have a dream and my hobby is to paint."

Everybody stared at Sai, who was smiling, for a minute before Kakashi broke the silence, "Ok! Tommorow we'll start our duties as shinobi."

"Yeah! What kinds of duties!?"

"First we are going to do something with just the four of us."

"What is it? What is it?"

"Survival training and this isn't like what the academy has thought you. This time I'm your opponent, but there's a catch."

"What is it?" Naruto said impatiently.

"If I tell you this, you guys are totally going to freak out."

"Just tell us already!"

"Of the twenty-seven graduates, only nine will be chosen to become genin. The rest will be sent back to the academy. This training is a very difficult exam with a failure rate of over sixty-six percent."

"What! That's a load of bulllll."

'Hm, I see Sakura is rubbing off on him.' Kakashi noted.

"Anyway, tomorrow you have to show your real skills on the training grounds. Bring all of your ninja tools you have. Oh… and skip breakfast, you might throw up."

"M-might throw up?" Naruto said nervously.

"Yup, see you guys tomorrow."

Naruto burst into his house yelling, "Aneki aneki aneki!"

Sakura rushed towards the front door, "What is it Naruto? What's wrong?" she said worriedly.

"I need you to train me right now. It's an emergency."

"Um… alright. Why do you want me to train you?"

"So I can pass Kakashi's exam tomorrow or else I get sent back to the academy and I don't want to go back!"

"So your sensei is Kakashi uh? You're right Naruto, this is an emergency. Let's go." She said as they began to walk towards the training grounds.

"Can you let me barrow a pistol?"

"Definitely not."

"How about a grenade?"

"No Naruto. If you want to be a ninja, you have to train like a ninja and using military weapons is cheating and will not help you learn."

Knowing she was right, Naruto replied, "Fine"

'Maybe I can take one from her room when she's sleeping.'

Naruto looked up to his sister who had her mask and cloak on making her look like an ANBU.

'Who am I kidding? She'll kill me before I can enter her room.'

Thank you for your patience. I hope you enjoyed it.