Disclaimer: Azumi is based off a younger me.
-Two years later-
"Naruto Sama, I have come to make a special request involving team placements." stated Hiashi calmly, though in his mind, it was already a done deal.
"I have already sorted out the teams and I believe that they are for the best... Though I believe this is about your nephew or your daughter... So I'll allow you to preach your case." stated Naruto
"Thank you Naruto sama. I would like for hanabi to be your third student. I know how adamant you are about teaching Shushi and Azumi, this will add the third member and you will have a very powerful team." requested Haishi
Over the last two years, the village had changed quite a bit, and mostly for the better. With Tsunade running the hospitals, Hiruzen taking over the academy with Iruka as the headmaster and teaching the advanced class, the Six Branches of Konoha (Itachi, Zabuza, Kakashi, Shizune, Gai and Asuma) taking mostly high A and S class missions, bringing in a huge amount of money, boosting Konoha economy, and the new crop of jonin and special jonin boosting Konoha's already impressive military, it was the most prosperous times that Konoha's had since the first hokage made the village.
"I'm sorry Haishi, but i've already set my team. Hanabi will be with Neji and an Inuzuka and An Aburame, making the tracking team. Sasuke has requested Konohamaru, Moegi and Udon for personal reasons, making the 'teamwork' team and I'm taking Shushi, Azumi and Remi, making an assault team. There is nothing I can do, unless you would wish to apprentice her yourself." stated Naruto, backing the Hyuuga head into a corner.
"No... This is an important lesson for a clan head to have, especially if she's going to be the next in line for head of the main house along with Hinata. I will take my leave now Naruto sama, see you at the next council meeting." said Haishi as he walked to the door. Naruto was weary of that statement, as the next council meeting was after the pass fail of the teams.
"Which reminded me... Mai?"
"Yes Naruto kun?" asked the old jonin turned secretary.
"When's my next appointment? And with whom?" asked Naruto politely. The old woman may be sixty four years old, but she could still beat the shit out of anyone under jonin in rank, and she knew Narutos one weakness.
"That would be right now, with the Uchiha brothers." stated Mai with a sweatdrop
"Hehe, send them in please?"
"Hello Naruto kun."
"Hey Dobe, what's the word?"
"Itachi, Teme, have a seat."
"How is Shizune coming along? I've heard that she got out of the hospital yesterday but she wasn't at practice today." stated Itachi as he and Sasuke sat down.
"Fine. Baa chan let her go early because she kept getting out of bed and healing other people. She should be back in about a week, until then, Sakura will fill in." stated Naruto.
Itachi just nodded. After the war in Kiri was over, Shizune had started to show signs of illness. Turns out it was minor chakra poisoning from using too much medical Jutsu. Up until a week ago, everything was fine until she collapsed after a training session and needed medical attention.
"Sasuke, you'll be glad to know you got the Konohamaru corps as your team, though you're going to have to work hard with them, as Konohamaru is as stubborn as I am and Moegi has a crush on you." smirked Naruto, Sasuke scowled, he was one of the most sought after men in the village, even though he was already engaged to Haku. Only Naruto, Itachi and surprisingly Genma, who was a single father, were bigger targets of the female population than him, and it was some form of a three way tie for fifth place, Involving Kakashi, Zabuza and Gai, even though Shizune and Kakashi were known to have a thing going, Zabuza and Anko were practically married, and Gai probably had more sex than anyone in the village, seeing as he had a body only rivaled by Naruto and had the second most stamina.
"Ha! Feel the wrath of the fangirl" stated Itachi, getting a laugh out of Naruto.
"So, Who gets to be named team 7?" questioned Sasuke.
"Duh, my team." stated Naruto
"Oh come on! You know damn well I'll be a better sensei than you Dobe!" stated Sasuke jokingly.
"Too bad, you can pick any number you want other than 7" stated Naruto
Sasuke turned to his brother "What team were you on?"
Itachi was taken back a bit, but answered anyway "I was on team four. In case you're wondering, Sakumo Hatake, Might Guy, Genma and our father were all on team Four."
"Well then I choose team four." stated Sasuke
-Next day, team pairings-
"Alright, settle down." stated Iruka, only to be ignored. "I SAID SETTLED DOWN BRATS!"
In an instant, the room was deathly quiet, afraid of enacting the wrath of the Big Head Jutsu again.
"Thank you, now usually I give a big speech when I graduate a class, but I think I've given enough of those, and you already got that speech from Sandaime sama, so I assume you're ready. Team one is..."
"Team Four, consisting of Konohamaru Sarutobi, Moegi Utatane and Udon Mitokado. Your sensei will be Sasuke Uchiha."
Many girls in the class scowled, as not only would they not be on Sasuke's team, but Konohamaru, who had started to dress like a normal shinobi, had become one of the class heartthrobs.
"Team Five, consisting of Rai Inuzuka, Taru Aburame and Hanabi Hyuuga. Your sensei will be Neji Hyuuga."
"Team six is still in circulation, so Team Seven will be Azumi Namikaze, Shushi Uzumaki and Remi Shiranui. Your Sensei will be... Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze-Senju."
-45 minutes later-
"... And I told you Teme, nothing is better than ramen!" shouted Naruto was he, Neji, Sasuke and shikamaru walked through the door, Neji got the eraser to the head from opening the door, shikamaru made a statement about troublesomeness.
"Wrong! The best is onigiri!" shouted back Sasuke, rice balls were to him as Pocky was to Itachi.
"Umm guys? We're here..." stated Neji calmly and with a sweatdrop.
"Stay out of this Hyuuga!" shouted Naruto and Sasuke at the same time to the branch house head.
"Hey Halfwits!" yelled the uncharacteristic loud shikamaru. Not many could call the Bijuu killer, the Counter Ninja and the Immovable Hyuuga Halfwits, but Shikamaru was an exception, considering he and his father were Narutos brains when it came to certain situations.
The bickering Shinobi stopped immediately, knowing that Shikamaru was pissed about being dragged along.
"Oh, team Seven, on the roof! Five minutes!" commanded Naruto
"Team Four! Training ground Six! 30 minutes!" commanded Sasuke
"Team five, training ground five, 25 minutes." stated Neji calmly, before Naruto put a hand on both Sasukes and Nejis shoulders and they flashed from the room.
-Roof-
"Alright... Welcome to team seven! Let's get to know each other, let me know your names, likes, dislikes, goals, dreams for the future and your idols." stated Naruto while leaning against the railing. Ever since the 'Slaughter in Kiri' he had once again changed his outfit. He now wore his grandfathers blue body armor (Tobiramas), a blue body suit, like his father and Kakashi wore, black shinobi sandals, and a blue overcoat with white lightning running across the bottom of it, the Uzushio, Konoha and the toad symbol on back.
"Hokage Sama... Can you go first? So we know what to do?" asked Remi, the short brunette was wearing a baggy green sweat shirt, black shinobi pants and black shinobi sandals. All things considered, she looked a lot like like her father.
"Yea, I guess I could. My name is Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze-Senju. My likes are... Well, a lot really, I dislike traitors, rapist and anyone who would even think about hurting my village or my precious people. My current goal is to make you the best genin team in the world. My dream is to find someone to finally settle down with and to finish my training. My idols are my late father, both my perverted Senseis and A the Raikage" stated Naruto, though most people would find a sixteen year old saying he wanted to settle down odd, Naruto had been the Hokage for almost two and a half years now, and he had only had flings and one or two real girlfriends. "Your up Shisui."
"I'm Shisui Uzumaki-Uchiha, but I'm suppose to keep the Uchiha part secret. I like Naruto Nii, Azumi Nii, the rest of my family, other than Asuma, because he's smelly, I also like training and... A girl. I dislike the same things Naruto does, my goal is to become a chunin after my first try and my dream is to become an ANBU Commander like Naruto was! My idols are Itachi and Sasuke Uchiha, Zabuza and Gai, though I don't like the way he dresses." listed off Shushi. He was now wearing a white turtleneck, blue shinobi pants and blue shinobi sandals. Somewhere in the village a bowl cut called out ' Youth!'
"Oh? Shisui has a girlfriend does he?" questioned Naruto, somewhere on the other side of the village, Jiraiya was doing a victory dance and shouting 'one more to the collection!' before Tsunade punched him through a wall in there home.
"Shut up! At least I'm not like Azumi!" stated Shisui, getting a grumble from Azumi and a questioning look from Remi.
"What you do now?" questioned Naruto, in a defeated tone of voice.
"I... May have... Askedoutateacheryesterday..." mumbled out Azumi
Naruto busted out laughing, he already knew the answer as to who he asked out, as she had come to him last night and told him, but it was always so funny to see Azumi embarrassed. "Shut up ya Teme! I'm not like you, you can get any girl to like you!"
Remi was scared, she heard from her dad and uncle Raido that the hokage got very angry at people who didn't show him respect, and her teammate to be just insulted him!
"Its alright Azumi... What did she say?" asked Naruto
"She said once I was a chunin, but she did say how cute I was!" cheered Azumi
"Alright lady killer, just introduce yourself."
"I'm Azumi Namikaze, I like The same things Shisui and Naruto Nii, I dislike the same things as them as well, as well as a guy who spit a senbon at me last week, my goal is to control my tailed beast like Killer Bee can and to become a member of the six branches of Konoha. My dream is to beat konohamaru and become the sixth hokage. My idols are Kakashi, Mei, Gaara and killer bee." stated Azumi, he was wearing basically the opposite of Shisui, a blue turtleneck, white pants and white shinobi sandals.
"Ok Azumi, I can help you with the tailed beast thing, as I'm getting pretty close to controlling mine. Remi, your last to go."
"Umm, I'm Remi Shiranui. I like my dad Genma and training. I dislike Hanabi, And fangirls. My goal is to make Jonin and join my father as the Hokages bodyguards. My dream is to become the next number one Kunoichi in the world, Just like Tsunade Senju, Kushina Uzumaki and Mei terumi. My idols are Sakura Haruno, Haku Momochi and Mei Terumi" stated Remi, her piercing brown eyes showing just how serious she was.
"Have you met Mei or Tsunade yet? Or even Sakura or Haku?" Questioned Naruto
"No, but my dad said that Kushina sama was really nice and extremely strong. He told me that she was uncle Raido's sensei." stated Remi.
Naruto just nodded and turned around, facing towards the hospital "Hey Baa Chan! Is that a wrinkle!?"
Suddenly a cloud of smoke and dust shot towards the academy. In about 3 seconds, Tsunade Senju stood before them in all her pissed off, Not so feminine beauty. "Wanna repeat that Gaki? Sounded like you said I had a wrinkle."
"Yea Baa chan, I was just trying to get you here to meet one of your biggest fans. Baa chan, Remi Shiranui. Remi, meet the old hag."
"I-uh-eh... Lady Tsunade! I'm so sorry for our sensei!" cried out Remi.
Meanwhile, both Shisui and Azumi had gotten there hugs from the blond sannin, something they had been doing since they all moved in to the Namikaze mansion. "Hey Gakis, how ya been? Still causing trouble?"
"Yea, Azumi asked out Kenna sensei yesterday!" announced Shisui
"Oh? And just how did that go?" asked Tsunade, she knew her fellow blond rather well, as Kenna had tried out to be a medic, but for whatever reason, couldn't use medical chakra to its fullest.
"He asked her to a bowl of ramen and night on the town, she turned him down." stated Shisui, making the huge chested Sannin laugh.
"Hey! She didn't turn me down, she said when I was a chunin!" retorted Azumi
"Kid, you have about as much tact as Jiraiya." deadpanned Tsunade, though she had a smile an her face, she hated his perverted ways, but she loved his stamina and commitment.
"Got you didn't he?" smirked Naruto
Tsunade turned around, murder clear in her eyes. "Oh shit! Meet at training ground 7 tomorrow at eight on the morning, have all your gear!" shouted Naruto as he dodged punch after punch from the angered sannin.
"Get back here brat!"
"Back, you angry she demon! Back I say!"
-Next day, training ground-
Remi walked on to the training ground at 7 o'clock, intending to get some training done before the test. She arrived to see her two soon to be teammates going full out in a no holds barred fight.
Azumi sent a spinning back fist towards Shisui, only for Shisui to shift in his stance and redirect the strike over his head, sending Azumi off balance. Shisui capitalized, creating some distance and started weaving through handsigns at a speed comparable to a jonin. "Lightning style! Tri spark Jutsu!"
Three bolts of lightning shot towards Azumi, only for the young Jinchuuruki to pull out two very famous swords and redirect the lightning back at Shisui.
"Hey! We said no Kenjutsu!" shouted Shisui
"Damn! My bad Shisui, I just acted on instinct" stated Azumi as he returned the swords to his sheathe. He then walked towards his brother "Besides, it's not like that was your strongest Jutsu, it's not even your strongest lightning Jutsu."
"Yea, but I didn't want to use too much chakra, we have to fight Nii San in an hour, and I'm not a walking chakra generator like you and Nii San are." stated Shisui as he deactivated his sharingan.
"Yea, He's an Uzumaki AND a Jinchuuruki, he probably has more chakra than all of the village put together." stated Azumi as he noticed Remi and starting walking towards her
"He doesn't have THAT much, I mean yea, he has like four times as much as Pervy sage, but that doesn't mean he has more than all of the village." stated Shisui "Hi Remi! Ready to fight Nii San?"
"What are you talking about?" questioned Remi
"It's the test he's going to give us, we have to beat him to become a genin team, that's how its always been for team 7, and I hear that Sasuke is giving team 4 the same test." answered Azumi
"What! But Hokage Sama is the strongest ninja in the world! And Sasuke sama is really strong too! He's Hokage Samas partner! How is anyone, let alone a genin, suppose to beat either of them?" questioned Remi, her dad had said that Naruto sama was even stronger than his dad ever was when he was 13 years old, and he had only gotten stronger.
"Easy, teamwork."
-5 hours later-
"I'm impressed you 3, your teamwork is outstanding. You pass with flying colors, and Konohamaru, please refrain from using the Dobes sexy technique." stated Sasuke, who still had some blood under his nose from the damnable technique.
"Sasuke sensei, how come you keep calling hokage sama Dobe?" asked Udon
"I've always called him that, just like he always calls me Teme, there like nicknames." stated Sasuke "Now If there are no more questions, lets go see how Dobes brats are doing."
-training ground seven-
"How are we suppose to win? He's not using ninjutsu, kenjutsu, Genjutsu or taijutsu and we still can't touch him!" cried out Remi as she lay on the ground, exhausted.
"Well, he isn't the strongest in the world for no reason, besides, me and Azumi still have a trick up our sleeves." stated Shisui, he and Azumi guarding their downed comrade while she catches her breath.
"What? More tricks? What are you two? Magicians?" questioned Remi as she regained her bearings and stood up.
"No, but we are talented"
"And handsome"
"And intelligent"
"And good cooks"
"And-"
"Enough! I get it! Just do the thing and beat sensei!" cried out Remi.
"Ok. Azumi, start it off." stated Shisui as he unsheathed his own sword. The legendary sewing needle. Azumi once again pulled out his own swords the twin thunder swords.
"How did you two get the swords of the seven swordsmen of the mist?" questioned Remi
"Tell you another time, Shisui, give me three seconds." Azumi shot forward towards Naruto. "Lightning style! Twin bolts Jutsu!"
Naruto smiled as he dodged the twin bolts. He knew this strategy. Though only because Zabuza had told him about it. The S class swordsman had been taken by surprise by this tandem attack when he was teaching the kids to use the new swords.
As naruto dodge the lightning, Shisui came flying in from his side with a wicked combo, using his impressive speed and Sharingan to peg Narutos movements and trap him in a web of stitches. "Azumi! Now!"
"Kinjutsu style! Double shock Jutsu!" Azumi started to convulse with electricity flowing through him "Central disruption!" suddenly, all the electricity that was flowing in Azumi spread out in a sphere of power that shocked everything it came in contact with, shocking Both Naruto and Shisui.
As Shisui shook violently on the ground, Naruto got up, seemingly unharmed, other than his right arm spasming wildly.
"Sakura! I think we could use some help!" called out Naruto as he pinned down his arm so that it would stop flailing.
Sakura appeared in a swirl of leafs "Naruto? What the hell did you do? There just genin!"
"One, this is Azumis Jutsu, not mine. Two, those two could kick any CHUNINS ass in this village, and three, I'm Hokage and I can do what I want!" stated Naruto as he pointed at the pink haired medic, unfortunately, it was with the hand that was still spasming, and he ended up smacking himself in the face.
"Fine! Let me see that arm."
"Fix my brats first, Azumis out cold and I'm pretty sure Shisui is about to piss himself." stated Naruto as his arm started flailing less and less. "Oh, and Remi could use some help as well, and she's a big fan of yours."
After the team was patched up and Sakura left, Naruto had the group gather around him in front of the post. "I'm very disappointed in you three. Not one of you tried to bribe me with ramen!"
The three genin sweat dropped "Would that really have worked? I mean, your Hokage!" questioned Remi
"Yes, it would have. Now, let's see how you guys did. Come on out!" called out Naruto, the three genin looked around when in a swirl of leafs, three rather well known ninja appeared. Might Guy, Kakashi Hatake and Genma Shiranui. "You go first, Guy."
"To start off, it's most unyouthful to state they could have bribed there way to passing the test." stated Guy, Naruto just shrugged "Well then. Shisui and Azumi, your Taijutsu is solid, but nothing to be proud of. Your low chunin level, but only because you, Shisui, have mastered the sharingan to the 3 Tomoe point, and you Azumi, have great speed and power. Remi, from what I saw, your also very solid in taijutsu, though I believe a different style is in order, as of now, your not fast or strong enough for the one you use and you don't have the battle experience needed for any of the styles Naruto sama knows. All in all, your solid, but you can be much more youthful."
"Thank you guy, you may go now, I believe Sasuke is also done testing his team and will be looking for a good taijutsu match." stated Naruto, though guy was gone before the word Taijutsu was fully out of his mouth. "Your up Kakashi."
"Alright, I'll start with Remi. Your Ninjutsu was rather impressive. Your control is great and while you don't have an element yet, you show great command of all the Jutsu I saw you use. Azumi, while you show good use of water and earth Jutsu, using the swords you're able to use lightning, though not so effectively, I would suggest choosing one element to master, then move on to the next. Seeing as your tenant gives you already good control of water, I would suggest you get that to at least jonin level before you try to master earth, and I'd save lightning for last. Shisui, your fire and lightning manipulation show great control, but you often times use a bad ratio of chakra, I'd work on that as much as possible." stated Kakashi, the kids all nodded.
"Alright. Thank you Kakashi. You're free to go." stated Naruto, Kakashi poofed away, showing that it was just a shadow clone. "Lazy pervert... Alright, what do you think Genma?"
"Good teamwork, but that's to be expected with this group. All used their heads, even Azumi." stated Genma, getting a 'Hey' from Azumi. "Solid strategy, good use of resources. Only problem I can see is that they were fighting the strongest man on the elemental nations."
"A is stronger. But thanks for the kiss up Genma. You're dismissed." Genma nodded and disappeared in a swirl of leaves.
"Alright. No one got a bell... Sooooo... You all pass!" smiled Naruto
"But we didn't get a bell? How did we pass?" asked Shisui
"You worked together, and that's the most important thing. The ino-shika-cho team isn't that amazing individually, but as a group, there amazing. You worked as a team, even though you thought that only two of you would pass. Follow me." Naruto moved towards a giant granite stone not far from the training grounds. "This is the KIA monument. Some of the greatest men and women of Konoha are on this stone. My mother and father, Shisuis father, Remis mother. All great ninja, all on this stone. Truth is, as a ninja, you have a 75 percent chance of dying in combat. The reason you're placed in teams is to cover your weaknesses and combine your strengths. Teamwork will help you avoid this stone just as much as luck and individual skill would... Meet at this stone tomorrow at 9 o'clock. Your first mission starts then."
-In Suna-
Gaara had changed over the few years he had become Kazekage. First, Temari had developed an obvious crush on 'someone' though wouldn't say who. Gaara and Hinata had become a true item, as naruto would bring Hinata anytime he went to see Gaara, and when Gaara would come to Konoha, he would stay in the Hyuuga mansion.
"Gaara? Can we talk about something... Alone?" asked Temari shyly, putting the stoic redhead on alert as he motioned his hidden guards out of the room as he activated the silencing seals.
"What's wrong Temari?" questioned Gaara in his emotionless tone. Though she knew that he cared.
"Umm... What's your opinion of Naruto?" asked Temari
"Temari... What's this about? You know my opinion of him. If you like him just tell him." stated Gaara with his same neutral tone.
"It's not that easy Gaara, I'm an elite jonin from another hidden village, and he's a Kage, let alone the strongest in the world! Plus he could have any girl he wants! Why would he want me?" questioned Temari quietly.
Gaara got up and looked out the window. "Never would have thought the great Wind Mistress of Suna would be so shy, unconfident, and self defeating. Maybe I should tell him? I am going to Konoha next week..."
"You wouldn't... Gaara, I really like him... How did you and Hinata start?" asked Temari
"She makes great cookies..."
-Cavern in river country-
"Are we finally going to start the hunt?" asked the Tall, blue, fish man known as Kisame
"Yes. Though because of the four village Alliance, we must coordinate the attacks. We'll be hunting the one and two tails first. Deidara and Sasori will hunt the One tail. Hidan and Kakuzu will take the Two tails. But we have to find the right time where they're both out in the open. " stated The ringed eyed man
"How about at the chunin exams? There being held in Kumo, plus as allies of Kumo, both the hokage and Kazekage will be there. Plus as we found out, the three tails Jinchuuruki just graduated from the academy in Konoha, meaning there's a good chance that he will be competing in the exams." stated Kakazu
"Are you really implying that we attack an event where the Hokage, Kazekage, Raikage, Eight tails, two tails and more than likely the three tails will all be? Even we don't have that kind of firepower." stated Konan, the only female in the group.
"To fight the Two fastest men in the elemental nations, one who can manipulate sand, a man with the full power of a bijuu, and other Jinchuuricki that could possibly have partial control of his bijuu. It's suicide." stated Sasori
"Not to mention Hokage Sama beat a Bijuu, almost killed Orochimaru, and killed a lot of people in that Kiri war... Tobi wants to fight him!" shouted the childish Tobi
"No. When the time comes I will fight him. He may be the strongest man in the world, but be cannot win against a god. For now, we plan the attack for after the exam, when they're on their way back to their villages... Perhaps we can persuade Iwa to help with the Kyuubi Jinchuuricki..."
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