Meeting the team and training
After Naruto left the Hokage's office, a little frustrated and very upset at the village (not that any of this showed on his face) he left straight for his apartment, considering before he had to go to the academy, he had to train in the most relaxing yet frustrating kind of Jutsu he knew, Iryojutsu. Better known as medical jutsu, this branch of the Shinobi arts was far more frustrating than any other because of Naruto's chakra. He had been training his chakra for nearly six years, and if he stopped for a week his control was shot all to hell. The reason being was the amount of his chakra.
Even before he started training everything, his chakra was growing, fast. Small increments, sure, but still growing, and every time your chakra grows your body needs time to adapt. That's why most Shinobi only have to master the chakra exercises once, because their chakra grew slow enough for their body to adapt to it, and if it did expand rapidly, then they would be usually be using chakra to make it do so, keeping their control up to par. That was one of the reasons the fabled "Hero's Water" of Takigakure was lethal to the drinker, along with opening the eight gates of chakra.
Both of them forced the chakra coils of the human body to expand, forcing chakra production, and the body didn't have enough time to adapt to it, not only shooting your control all to hell, but rushing chakra to every point of your body, including the brain and heart, both finicky places required certain amounts of chakra to function properly. Too much or too little, and whoever it was would be doomed to death, unless the balance was restored. That was why opening the 8th gate was lethal; it shoved too much chakra to both the brain and the heart, causing them to eventually shut down.
While Naruto's problem was nowhere near that serious, it was enough that it caused him continuous trouble, especially with something as precise as medical jutsus were. It had originally caused some trouble with genjutsu as well, but he learned to adapt with that at least, unlike Iryo jutsu, which had to be precise.
A few hours of training that, he looked into the scroll he had obtained that morning. While Iruka and Mizuki were fighting, he had copied every jutsu on the scroll that was not a suicide jutsu, which left him with all of six. Out of fifty something jutsu in the damn scroll, six were not suicide. Naruto set down to learning the ones that caught his eyes; the kage senbon and kage bunshin no jutsus, and bunshin daibakuha, the exploding clone jutsu. It took two hours to learn them, with his chakra and control level it was easy.
By that point it was nearly time to head to the academy to learn of his team, which wound up with him on Uchiha Sasuke and Haruno Sakura's team. He had no idea why he was placed there, until he heard who the sensei was.
Hatake Kakashi, Sharingan no Kakashi, the copycat Nin, one of the many currently in the village who could take him down, but the one with the best chances to take him down once he grew stronger. Maito Guy would be a close second, but the Kyuubi's chakra was too poisonous for him to handle, so Kakashi's Ninjutsu and Sharingan was the best bet. It was also possible that he was ordered to train the villages "last Uchiha", while keeping the "demon" stunted. The man was also notorious for being three hours late to everything short of an A-rank or higher mission. Blending into the shadows of the room, he settled in to read the next level of fuinjutsu, considering he was an intermediate, the only thing holding him back was lack of experience making seals.
Earlier that day
The day had been quite long for the Saindame, after he dismissed Iruka; he realized that, for now, he could not afford to allow Naruto to grow too strong, as the boys loyalty to the village was not one hundred percent. If he left things as they were, Kakashi, student of the fourth, would undoubtedly teach Naruto everything he knew, and then some, most likely calling in favors from the other Jonin, to ensure the boy was as strong as he could possibly be. After all, he held the Fourth in high regard, and as the Fourths legacy, the man would neglect his other students in favor of the belief he would make his sensei proud by training his son till he dropped. That wouldn't do at all.
"ANBU, call Kakashi here, immediately. Inform him it is for an incredibly important mission." Two sunshins later and Kakashi was in his office. "So, what is this mission about? It must be important if you drew me away from my training plans." Yes, shocking as it was, Kakashi was working, and working hard. He was going to drive his sensei's son into the ground, again and again until the boy had surpassed him. At the least, so that both of them could make his sensei and adoptive father proud. Of course, he wouldn't neglect his other little Genin either; just focus on Naruto the most. "I'm afraid you're not going to like it, as it focuses on your Genin team."
Kakashi's eye narrowed, because if the Hokage said you weren't going to like something, you usually wound up cursing him for making you do it in the first place. He put away his Icha Icha, showing how serious he was, and gave the Hokage his full attention. "You can't train Naruto. His loyalty to the village is not absolute. We do not need another Orochimaru." Kakashi just stared at him. "Please tell me that the years of warfare have finally caught up to me. Please tell me that you aren't telling me that I should neglect the son of the fourth Hokage, therefore driving him even further from the village than you have already, the boy who I have looked forward to training for years, all because you believe he might go rouge. This is something he is well within his rights to do by this point, because of the fact that you forbid me from saving him, from being the older brother to him I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE!"
The Third was now privy to someone no one who lives has ever been. A furious Kakashi, this was the man with the massive bounty from three nations. "You forbid me from any contact to him, and like a fool I listened to you." Kakashi's head lowered, and he continued. "I could have lived with him, took care of him, prevented any of this from ever happening, and you wouldn't have to be laboring under the delusion that Sensei's son would betray the village." The third's eyes hardened. "I could not risk that. You would have killed everyone who looked at him the wrong way." Kakashi's glare intensified, by he didn't deny it. He had fought his hardest for custody of Naruto, at least four times a year since the boy's birth, but if the council didn't deny it, the Saindame did.
"And I'm not telling you not to teach him, I am ordering you not to improve his fighting capabilities, just train him in something that won't help him in battle. You cannot teach him. Instead, I order you to focus on the Uchiha, train him well, because his Sharingan may be the only thing that can stop Naruto if he goes rouge." "You disgust me." The Saindame merely shrugged. "I must do what is best for the village, and until I have irrefutable proof that Naruto is loyal to the village, I cannot let him get stronger. This most recent discovery of the fact that the Kyuubi's sealed in him may send him over the edge." The Jonin gave him a pitying look. "Without anyone there to comfort him, hell not even a friendly restaurant owner to head to for a warming meal and a word of comfort, it may very well. If you had just let me adopt him, then we wouldn't be in this mess."
"Be that as it may, I am ordering you to focus on Uchiha-kun, and don't teach Naruto anything deadly. Nor can you get another shinobi to do it for you." Kakashi seemed to almost break, then thought of something and cheered up. "So I cannot help him directly, cannot get someone else to do it for me, and when I do teach him, I can only teach things that won't help him in combat, like tracking and stealth, stuff like that?" The Saindame felt worried for some reason, but merely nodded. Kakashi shunshinned away without a word, off to write training lessons and some jutsus from each element that he knew, to give to him at the end of "tracking training sessions". Leaving the Saindame worried about whether Kakashi would actually follow his orders or not.
And so it was, three hours after our young protagonist settled down to read, finishing the book once and getting halfway through it a second time, Kakashi came in, in quite a good mood compared to how he usually was, though a little regretful, and took stock of his Genin.
There was his Kawai little should be brother, blonde hair, three whisker marks on each cheek, wearing a grey shirt, black pants, and a black Haori, with what he already knew to be a lifelike picture of the Kyuubi on the back. It had caused quite a stir in Konoha the day he sewed that into it. His next Genin, the fan girl Sakura Haruno, pink hair, pink dress, obviously dieting, and her records stated she was supposed to be incredibly talented. And the boy he was ordered to focus on, Sasuke Uchiha, supposed prodigy, black hair that looked like a duck's ass at the back, last loyal Uchiha, and he could already tell the boy would be arrogant as hell. He'd have to do his best work on that. Well, for now he'd start off with his usual.
"My first impression of you is…I don't like you." The pink haired fan girl looked heartbroken; the Uchiha hid his emotions nowhere near as well as he thought he did, and Naruto…had merely put his book away. "Meet me on the roof in five minutes." and away Kakashi shunshinned.
Naruto was pondering his new sensei. He and his Genin team had been sitting on the roof for five minutes now, after the time he set. "So, let's start off with introductions. Tell me about yourself, you, pinky, you go…"
"Sensei, could you tell us what you want?" If Naruto hadn't of had years of practice at hiding his emotions on the streets, he would of looked aghast at the girl. "Just give me your name, likes, dislikes, hobbies, and goal for the future, that sort of thing." Sakura just nodded, and started off, or was about too. "Can you start off sensei, so we know what to do?" Cue sweat drop from Kakashi. "Well, I suppose, my name is Kakashi Hatake, I have likes and dislikes, I have a hobby or two, and my dream for the future? Meh never thought about it." 'All we learned was his name' was the combined thought of two Genin, "Now you pinkie." "My name is Sakura Haruno; my likes are…dislikes are INO-PIG! My hobbies" she looked as Sasuke just like when she said likes.
"My dream for the future…" She shifted her legs around, and looked at Sasuke with a flushed look on her face. 'Is she…aroused?' was the thought of Naruto and Kakashi. Holding off shivers, Kakashi nodded to the next member "you next emo." Said emo glared at him "I am Uchiha Sasuke; I like very little and despise everything else. My only hobby is training, and my dream is more of an ambition, I am going to kill a certain man, and then revive my clan." "And now the blonde." Said blonde merely cocked his head, and began his introduction "My name is Naruto Uzumaki; I am currently unaware if I have any likes, dislikes, hobbies, or dreams." He gained two weird looks and one of approval. 'Well, maybe there is hope that he will pick up the lessons I'm going to teach him, without letting anyone else pick up on it.'
"OK, I want all of you to meet me at Training Ground 7 in ten minutes where we'll begin your survival training," Kakashi said. The two genin other than Naruto looked up in surprise.
"WHAT? But we already took did that in the Academy!" screamed Sakura, causing the three males to wince while a window nearby cracked. 'What the hell? Is she trying to make us deaf?'thought everyone in the vicinity.
"Yes, but not my kind of survival training. Think of this as a test that will prove to me that you can be shinobi of Konoha. To tell you the truth, it is exactly that. This training will decide whether you will become ninja or just sent back to the Academy. The test you took in the Academy was designed to see if you have what it takes to become genin. But now, we will test to see if you are worthy to become shinobi of Konoha. I'll explain it in greater detail when you get to the Training Ground," Kakashi said and vanished via Shunshin.
Naruto left, moving far faster than his two teammates, as Sakura called for him to wait, and the Uchiha tried to match his pace. Futilely, but Naruto supposed it was the attempt that counted.
Arriving at the training ground, they clustered near Kakashi, waiting for the man to explain what exactly the test would be. "Alright, for the first part of the test, you are to meet me here at training ground seven tomorrow at 6 am. Oh, and don't eat breakfast, or else you'll wind up puking." He shunshinned away, leaving Sakura furiously shaking. Naruto started running, knowing that the explosion that was coming would leave him deaf, what with his sensitive hearing.
"DID THAT BAKA JUST TELL US TO COME HERE ONLY TO LEAVE THE TEST UNTIL TOMORROW! THAT STUPID, STUPID BAKA!" She would have continued on a lot longer, but she had nearly screamed her throat out from just that. The three Genin went their separate ways for the night, Naruto to train his dodging, new jutsu, and most especially his Kenjutsu-senbon style of fighting. Sakura left to primp in front of a mirror for several hours, then eat two bites of her dieted meal, then sleep. Sasuke left to train his jutsus, practice his sneers, and train his taijutsu a small bit.