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"I don't know about this Naruto" Nana muttered as they walked down the street towards the Hokage building. They still had a few days before they became official ninjas and met their jonin teachers.
"It's art." Naruto countered with both his hands behind his neck, walking carefree up the stairs to the rooftop of the building now.
"You'll have to retake it." She said with a sigh and opened the door to the rooftop.
"Ahhh the Uzumaki's, right?" A small round guy with glasses asked stepping away from his camera.
"Ah, Yes." Muttered Nana as they stepped towards him.
"Who'll be first?" He asked clapping his hands together.
"Nana-chan, you go first." Naruto said and pushed her in front of the camera.
Nana stood there awkwardly, feeling under a light pressure. It was an important picture, right? Everyone will see that identification picture of hers, so she has to look decent.
Naruto was covered in paint, his arms and head were covered in white paint decorated with red swirls and lines. The only thing Nana bothered to change for the picture was straightening her hair. Because of that her hair appeared a bit longer than it usually was. She pulled one side of her hair behind her ear securing it there with her orange headband.
"Okay. Say cheese." The man behind the camera said.
Nana tried to pose with a straight face but she couldn't hold in her laughter as Naruto made funny faces behind the photographer.
I took 5 tries for Nana to be satisfied with her picture. It was a simple picture with her slightly smiling and showing her victory sign. She moved behind the photographer now watching Naruto pose, laughing she sat down on the ground to wait for him to be done.
"Hey are you really going to have your picture taken with that face?" The photographer asked irritated.
"Don't worry about it. Just take it!"
"Geez, just don't regret it later." He responded to Naruto and started taking his picture, or rather, pictures.
She couldn't believe it….. It took Naruto 3 hours to finally get a, for him, satisfactory picture. Not soon after the picture was taken they went to the academy where they were supposed to give their ninja application form to Sarutobi-sama. As Nana finished with her and came out of the classroom, she announced to Naruto that she'll come home late, since she wanted to go study in to the library.
All of the day left until the explanatory meeting were spend in the library and in the training grounds, where she tried and tried to master the flying thunder god technique. It was her twentieth seal she tried out, and as expected even this one failed. Her frustration was growing day to day, almost giving up, and she would, if she wouldn't be so stubborn about the technique.
Every day she came home tired and exhausted, her chakra was tingling the same as before, thankfully the technique didn't require a lot of chakra to activate. Naruto was telling her about a kid following him around named Konohamaru. He even told her he's teaching him his temptation technique, which made Nana disagree with what he was doing. Soon she stopped nagging him about him teaching the kid the temptation technique, after all who was she to meddle in if the kid wanted to learn, especially a kid that reminded her of her brother by the description given to her.
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Days passed quietly and fast as both Naruto and Nana were occupied doing their own things. After a few days the explanatory meeting day finally arrived. Nana made her way out of the apartment before Naruto to buy herself some new chi chi dango.
"I'll meet you at the academy, nii-san" She said as she ran out the door towards the shop, not eating anything before she left.
She was almost running late, she couldn't just buy the dango and be on her merry way, noooo….. She had to sit down and eat some with some green tea. All this caused her to sprint to the academy with 10 minutes left until the explanatory meeting started. She slowed down at the academy entrance and walked to the class they were supposed to meet in. Before she could enter she was knocked to the side by a flash of pink and yellow, yelling at each other.
"I'm walking here…." She muttered but the two girls were already pass her in the class.
Sighing to herself she ignored the accident and stepped in to the classroom in time to feel a strong tension filled with hatred. Looking around her eyes grew wide as watched her brother locking his lips with Sasuke.
"Nana-chan. Help me~" He begged her across the classroom looking her in the eyes like a lost puppy.
Sweat dropping she ignored him not wanting to be beat to death by Sasuke fan group that had a malicious aura surrounding them. She muttered an apology to him as she sat down in the front row next to Choji. The commotion soon stopped as Iruka-sensei entered the classroom.
"Starting today, you are all official ninjas, but you all are still new Genin. It's going to be harder from here. You all will be in a group of three, where you will accomplish missions under a Jonin teacher" As Iruka-sensei said that Nana looked up at Naruto and hoped they will be placed in the same group.
"We've arranged the groups such that overall abilities are equivalent. I will now announce them." He said looking down at his papers.
Nana fixed her sitting posture now more alert as to when her name will be called.
"…Next, Team 7. Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura 'At the mention of Sakura, Naruto stood up cheering, while Sakura's head dropped in depression' And Uchiha Sasuke" Iruka finished, while Nana still observed them as now Sakura was the one cheering and Naruto dropping his head all depressed.
"Next, Team 8. Hyuuga Hinata, Inuzuka Kiba, Aburame Shino."
"Next, Team 9. Uzumaki Nana 'At the mention of her name she got excited hoping to get good teammates' Nakamura Hibachi, Ando Nobuo." Her head made a full force connection with her palms as she couldn't believe she was paired with her brother's bullies, from back in the day. Oh well, if she wanted to be a successful ninja she will have to learn to work together with other people and learn to forgive meaningless things, like that.
"Next, Team 10. Yamanaka Ino, Nara Shikamaru, and Akimichi Choji. That's it!" Iruka finished calling the groups.
"Iruka-sensei! Why is a top-student like me in a group with this guy?!" She heard her brother yell as she turned around too look at the scene.
Naruto was standing up pointing annoyed at Sasuke.
"Sasuke graduated with the highest scores. And you, Naruto, had the worst scores! This happens because we want to evenly divide abilities between the groups."
"Don't pull my leg, blockhead" Sasuke countered Naruto.
"What did you say?!" Naruto asked him pissed off.
"You want to fight, blockhead?" Sasuke said again, still not moving from his spot, staying cool.
"Stop it, Naruto." Sakura intervened.
"I'm sorry…" Naruto murmured to her.
"I'm going to introduce the Jonin teachers in the afternoon. Meeting adjourned until then!"
It seemed to Nana that her brother will have no problem in his team, after all he was in the same team as the girl he had a crush on. On second thought….there was Sasuke… Naruto-nii-chan's rival. She sweat dropped leaving the situation unresolved in her head as someone called her name.
"Oi Uzumaki!" Hibachi called her before he and her other class mate Nobuo stopped before her.
"Let's have lunch together since we're in the same group now." Nobuo asked her stepping from behind Hibachi.
Hibachi's hair was still a short crop of light brown hair, with his forehead protector worn as a bandana. He wore a simple outfit, a red T-shirt over a yellow long sleeved shirt. His pants were a dark grey colour with baggy side pockets, and he wore standard blue shinobi sandals.
As for Nobuo, his hair was still dark brown coloured and longer than Nana's, sitting in a low ponytail. His forehead protector was tied around his forehead. He wore a Blue jacket over a fishnet top, and ¾ length black pants. Nana noticed he changed his glasses since they were little but not by much, the only difference was that the frame had a blue swirl design on the sides.
"Sure." Nana replied as she took her bento box, which was actually the box with dangos she bought before coming to class, and followed them out under a tree in the academy compound.
Nana noticed that Hibachi and Nobuo weren't so bad after all. She expected them to make fun out of her or her brother, but nothing of that sort happened. At the end she even share some of her mochi and dango with them.
"We should head back soon, the Jonin teachers will soon come." Nobuo said as he stood up dusting of his pants.
Nana grabbed her box and cleaned up, but before she could stand up she was grabbed by her hand.
"C'mon Red, we shouldn't be late for our first meeting." Hibachi said as he pulled her up gently.
The three of them walked in to the classroom and sat down together in a free row. The jonin teachers came with Iruka-sensei and introduced themselves to the students. Waiting patiently for their turn to be called by their new sensei.
"Team 9. Isoda Seitaro." Iruka announced and the Jonin stepped forward. Looking at their new teacher he was nothing special. He wore the standard jonin outfit, his forehead protector wrapped around his neck. His hair was sandy brown coloured, short and messy. He looked half asleep to them.
"Follow me." He said while yawning.
All three of them stood up and followed him obediently behind the academy where they sat down on some benches that were positioned in a circle under the trees.
Aaaand they meet their jonin sempai now :D. He looks quite tired tho lol. Thank you for all the lovely reviews :) i will try to make my future chapters a bit more detailed as you suggested ^^ It is a bit hard for me though since my mother language is not english and i'm trying the best I can :)
Stay awesome and I'll see you in the next update ^^