I don't own Naruto or any of its characters, I'm just a fan I enjoyed the anime but I love the fanfics, even more, they made me fall for the whole franchise. Whether I will have Oc's in the fic or not depends entirely on how the story goes.

Chapter 13

Itachi Uchiha sat at the railing of the rooftop, and facing him was his new genin team. When the Hokage told him he would be reassigned he did not expect this, he had thought he would become like his senpai Kakashi and start taking less difficult missions because they were at a time of peace.

His shock was palpable when he was told he would be the genin sensei of not only his little brother Sasuke but also of the Kyubi jinchuriki and the blind Hyuga whose talents are said to be as broad as her cousin Neji who also happened to be rookie of the year for his graduation year.

Itachi was a little nervous he didn't know how to handle kids and worse he didn't know how to train them. That's why he always made excuses when Sasuke asked, it was a scary thought for him Itachi Uchiha the loner teaching others.

He had gone to his senpai Kakashi for some tips and Itachi couldn't help but think the man was useless. The man told him to take them to the rooftops make them introduce themselves and then dismiss them. Only for him to spy on them to see if they were team material by how they interacted without him around. Itachi could respect that, it was a sound plan.

Then when asked about how he should go about testing them he suggested the bell test and Itachi smiled thinking that was a great idea. They were all already very talented individuals, put together they would make a formidable team but for that to work, they will need to work together.

Then Itachi asked Kakashi how he should go around training them, the man said 'teamwork' and Itachi said yes he would train them to work together but what about their 'training' the man shrugged saying 'teamwork exercises' and Itachi growled asking how he should go about elemental training and chakra control exercises like tree and water walking, etc.

Kakashi blinked and admitted he had completely forgotten, he was just gonna let them do their things while he read his book and supervised whenever he was feeling motivated. Itachi had walked out of the room without so much as a thank you, but he did hear the man call out to him that he was 'welcome'.

Itachi decided to take the first few pieces of advice and wing the rest.

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Sasuke was giddy, if there was a higher being controlling his life then Sasuke would tell him now he had no complaints and he should keep doing the good work. He had his Sharingan with one tomoe each, not mature yet but that would change soon.

He had Itachi as a sensei which meant his older brother couldn't make excuses anymore on training him and if he did make excuses, Sasuke would report him to the Hokage and their mother. Sasuke grinned.

He had been dreading he might end up in the same team as Naruto and Sakura which would be a nightmare, though one of them was in his team the fact Hinata was in the same team canceled out his fears and overtook them.

"Good morning team 7." Sasuke heard Itachi greet them and they all greeted back.

"Morning Nii-san." Sasuke greeted eagerly but was confused when Itachi raised an eyebrow at him.

"Sup." Sasuke heard Naruto greet back at his brother.

"Good morning Itachi sensei." Hinata greeted and Sasuke nodded at the respect the girl showed his older brother unlike the 'dobe'.

"Sasuke-Kun during team meetings and missions you will address me as Itachi sensei or simply Sensei." Sasuke looked at his brother closely wanting to argue but one look at him and he nodded his head the man looked serious.

"Good, now I would like you guys to introduce yourselves by telling me your names, likes, dislikes, and goals for the future." Itachi instructed and the kids looked at him confused.

"Can you give us an example by introducing yourself sensei?" Sasuke looked to his left at Hinata who had asked the question and accepted it was a good idea. Itachi just shrugged and did as asked.

"My name is Itachi Uchiha I am a jonin of Konoha and a new sensei, I like cabbage and Dango as well as the village as a whole. I dislike unnecessary fighting and steak and my goal for the future is to be Hokage." Itachi finished and nobody looked more shocked at the revelation than Sasuke did, he never knew his brother wished to wear the hat.

"How about you go next Hinata-Chan," Itachi suggested to the girl and Sasuke put Itachi's revelation on the back burner as he paid full attention to Hinata.

"Well okay. My name is Hinata Hyuga and we'll I'm blind." She started and everybody there got somber. "My likes are Cinnamon rolls, Naruto-kun's kindness, and our friendship. My dislikes are people who look down on others and those who give up without trying, and my goal for the future is to be able to protect my precious person." Hinata finished turning to Naruto and giving him a big smile which he returned with a grin and Sasuke put his head down in sadness.

But he wouldn't give up, just like Hinata said she didn't like those who gave up without trying. Sasuke decided he would try harder starting now.

"That is very noble of you Hinata-Chan," Sasuke heard Itachi say, and by the tone of his voice, he liked what she said.

"Sasuke-Kun your next." Itachi instructed and Sasuke began feeling anxious about the kind of goal he strived for. He always just dreamt of getting stronger, could he just say that? He shook his head and spoke.

"My name is Sasuke Uchiha, I like tomatoes and strong-willed people." He quickly glanced Hinata's way, Itachi caught it but said nothing. "I dislike a lot of things that annoy me and a certain blonde." He said glancing at Naruto who flipped him the birdie and he sneered." My goal is to be the strongest Uchiha to ever walk the elemental nations." He finished and Itachi nodded it was a good goal a little bland but a worthwhile one.

"Naruto-Kun the stage is yours." Itachi informed the blonde and Naruto grinned standing up. Sasuke had the urge to roll his eyes but he was too cool for that.

"I'm Naruto Uzumaki!" He exclaimed loud and clear, Sasuke did not know anybody who liked the sound of their name more than the dobe.

"My likes are my best friend Hinata-Hime, my girlfriend Ino-Chan, and Ramen!!" Itachi smiled at the boy's enthusiasm. "My dislikes are Vegans." Naruto gave Itachi a look and Itachi could not help but smirk. "I also dislike people with duck hairstyles." He turned to Sasuke who flipped him the birdie and Naruto grinned.

"My goal for the future is on a need-to-know basis." He gave a bow and dropped back on his ass raising his hand at Hinata for a high five but instead got his cheeks pulled hard by said girl who shook her head in exasperation.

"Ouch Hime, what was that for?" He asked rubbing his sore cheek and Sasuke smirked, stupid dobe deserved that for being so stupid.

"Sometimes your more trouble than your worth Naruto-Kun." Hinata replied.

"Since the introductions are done let's all take a walk to a training ground and do something more hands-on." Itachi said cracking a smirk and Sasuke snorted as he thought that was Itachi trying to crack a joke.

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Naruto found himself in training ground 3 with the rest of his teammates they were all ordered to stand together and 'talk' they might be kids but they were not toddlers Naruto growled at the older Uchiha and kept his mouth shut.

'As if I wasn't suffering enough having one of these fools in my class, now I have one as my superior too.' Naruto looked at the two Uchiha siblings Sasuke looked like he just won the lottery and Itachi couldn't be read even if you had him under the knife and a magnifying glass.

'Fuck' Naruto summed up his thoughts in one word. He couldn't believe he had to listen to this badass prick. Naruto wasn't gonna lie to himself Itachi was a badass and he could respect that as a fellow badass himself.

'Maybe I should get a mask and a cloak.' Naruto wondered, he could see Itachi was gonna become a threat to his awesomeness so maybe he should dress the part so people will assume his the bigger badass before Itachi started flinging fireballs around and disappearing into a flock of crows. Naruto wished he could do that but if he copied it now people would know it was Itachi's thing.

"We will be having a little teamwork exercise. I have two bells here and you guys are supposed to get a bell each, whoever doesn't get a bell gets sent back to the academy." Itachi said and Naruto snorted.

"Something you want to say Naruto-Kun?" Itachi asked him not bothered by the interruption, Sasuke though looked like he was gonna strangle him. 'oh great a teacher's pet' Naruto thought with a groan.

"I don't think you were supposed to tell us that it's a teamwork exercise sensei." Naruto informed and Itachi blinked before realization came to his eyes. Naruto couldn't stop himself from rolling his eyes when Itachi nodded.

"You are right Naruto-Kun, but it changes nothing. Since you are all aware I expect you to work together I will just evaluate you on how well you work together as a team and strategize." Itachi replied smoothly, Naruto could respect a man who can cover his mistakes with undeniable logic he nodded.

"Any questions?" He got no complaints from Naruto and the rest of the team remained quiet. "Good, you have an hour." Itachi informed before disappearing in a swirl of leaves.

"Great," Naruto said rubbing his temple, this was like forced labor. Naruto felt a tug on his sleeve and looked to who was trying to gain his attention and found Hinata close to his face like so close their noses might have touched. Hinata was shorter than him so she was on her tip-toe. He blinked and she blinked, then she poked his nose and he wrinkled his nose on reflex.

"Don't be so hard on our sensei Naruto-Kun his trying his best and we should help him by trying too." She reprimanded him softly with a smile and Naruto sighed.

"Sorry Hime, I'll do my best I promise." Naruto reluctantly promised and Hinata put a kiss on her hand and patted his cheek with said hand.

"Good boy, now how are we doing this?" She asked as she looked to Naruto and then Sasuke in the distance looking anywhere but at them, Hinata suddenly remembered the Uchiha's feelings for her and grimaced.

'This is gonna get some getting used to.' Hinata thought with an embarrassed blush.

"Sasuke-Kun would you come closer please." Naruto's eyes widened and he felt something deep within himself stir at Hinata adding the Kun suffix after Sasuke's name. He felt fear but for what he didn't know.

Sasuke basically teleported next to the Hyuga and Naruto glared at said boy who returned his look with a smug smirk. Naruto took his arm and wrapped it around Hinata, bringing her closer in a possessive manner making Sasuke glare at him and Naruto smirked.

Hinata just rolled her eyes at the two boys but didn't bother removing Naruto's hand from her.

"You know more about our sensei than the rest of us Sasuke-Kun, do you think you can give us some information on him." Hinata asked Sasuke who eagerly nodded to the girl, she called him 'Sasuke-kun' if that didn't mean something he didn't know what anything meant anymore.

"Itachi is an all-round shinobi, he is proficient in every aspect of the shinobi art. Ninjutsu, taijutsu, genjutsu, shuriken Jutsu, and Kenjutsu." Sasuke said, there was a mixture of pride and jealousy in his voice and Naruto didn't comment on it because one it wasn't the time and second he could understand where Mac duckass was coming from.

"Then I suggest we overwhelm him, he is an Uchiha so his proficient in Fire jutsus, Sasuke can be our deterrent in canceling it out with his own," Naruto said taking charge he wasn't gonna play follower it wasn't his style.

"Hinata you can fight him head-on due to your condition he won't be able to place you in any Sharingan genjutsu, I'll have my clones keep him on his toes then I'll try to catch him off guard with some fuinjutsu." Hinata and Sasuke nodded, the idea sounded fine and it had them all participating.

"Okay let's move." Naruto took Hinata bridal style and dashed off to where she could sense Itachi's chakra and Sasuke took a detour so he can catch their sensei from the flank.

They found Itachi not a minute later just standing around looking at nothing In particular in an open area of the training field. Naruto and Hinata were hidden behind some bushes under a seal of Naruto's design that made the area affected inconspicuous.

Nobody would look at it twice even if there was a branch snapping, but any loud noises could be heard and the effects become meaningless when suspicion is placed on the area affected which is why they still hid even with its effects activated.

He called it 'The now you see me, now you can't.' Hinata laughed, he asked her what was so funny and she said the name was 'cute' he had narrowed his eyes in suspicion but decided to concentrate on Itachi. Their sensei did not have his dojutsu active so Naruto figured he wasn't taking them seriously or he wanted them to work for the privilege of having him use his eyes.

"Hinata let's try to do this as fast as possible so he doesn't get a chance to activate his cheat code," Naruto told the girl who was confused at first but quickly put two and two together and nodded in understanding.

"Ready Naruto-Kun?" Hinata asked and Naruto grinned.

"Ready Hime." The moment the words left his mouth Hinata dashed out of cover and ran to Itachi with her palms open ready to attack. Behind her still, in the bushes, Naruto made the cross seal, and in 9 puffs of smoke, 8 blondes dashed out behind the bush supporting the girl.

Itachi wondered where the girl's katana was, he remembered her having it earlier. The 8 Naruto clones drew two kunais each and threw them at Itachi with Hinata jumping high as the projectiles passed under her heading to their target without too much trouble.

Itachi was a little surprised Naruto could make shadow clones but even more shocked by the amount he made. He drew his kunai and began deflecting them away from him easily but just when the last kunai was gonna get deflected it turned into a Naruto clone who tried to body tackle Itachi to the ground.

Itachi stabbed the clone in the jugular with the kunai in his hand. It went off into a cloud of smoke obscuring his vision before the smoke could even clear Hinata burst out of the smoke leaping with a right palm strike aimed for his face Itachi leaned his head to the left and felt the power behind the trust blow his ponytail back.

Itachi's hand whipped out with the speed of a cobra and grabbed Hinata's hand that tried to cave his face in. He was about to bring her down when her left knee came up aimed for his diaphragm he blocked it with his free hand and that was when the clones reached them each carrying ninja wires.

Itachi kicked the closest clone in the chest dispelling it, and jumped back dragging Hinata with him, but had to let her go when she thrust her index and middle finger at his offending hand with her free one trying to block his tenkentsu, she landed on her feet.

Hinata stood there as 8 Naruto clones dashed around her and engaged Itachi in a taijutsu brawl. Swerving away from one clone's double-legged jump kick Itachi grabbed the clone's leg and spun with it before throwing it at another clone dispelling both.

A clone came in with a slide tackle and Itachi hopped over the clone only to cross his hands above his head to block an axe kick. Itachi used the momentum of getting kicked downwards to drop on the clone under him with his knees before trusting a chakra-enhanced hand into the clone above him dispelling it as well.

Another clone came from behind the smoke of the previous dispelled and Itachi was ready for the clone to attack only for it to grin and dispel itself. Itachi was then hit by something invisible and the 4 remaining Naruto clones grinned only for 'Itachi' to burst into a cloud of smoke and get replaced by a log.

In a matter of seconds, the 4 last clones got brutally and efficiently 'killed'.

Itachi then turned to Hinata and ran through some hand seals before roaring.

"Fire style: Fireball Jutsu." Itachi sent out a torrent of flames at Hinata but Itachi's eyes widened not a second later when he heard the same jutsu get called out behind him by Sasuke.

"Fire style: Fireball Jutsu!" Itachi smiled and quickly dropped his jutsu as he jumped out of the way. When he looked to where Sasuke had been the boy was nowhere to be found, he was hiding again bidding his time to strike Itachi when his guard was at its lowest during a Jutsu performance.

Itachi couldn't help but smile at the perfect strategy to use against someone like him, a frontal approach mixed with gorilla tactics and a lot of faints but most troubling a lot of secrets. He couldn't tell how Sasuke or Naruto remained hidden from him and there was the invisible force that attacked him earlier he suspected the Hyuga for that one.

Hinata rolled up her left jacket sleeve and Itachi saw a tattoo there, no, not a tattoo but sealing arrays traveling from her forearm twisting and turning around it until it reached her wrist where it made a sharp point just where her palm began.

'Guess I should activate my Sharingan otherwise whatever that sealing array does will come out as too much of a surprise.' Itachi thought as he activated his Sharingan eyes and immediately noticed something he didn't notice before small shadows on the ground that grew bigger and bigger. Looking up Itachi saw it raining blonds in black and burnt orange.

Itachi began weaving through the blonde hailstorm as they rained from the sky and collided with the ground, dispelled and left In their place a cloud of smoke and after about 50 of these clones there was so much smoke Itachi was blinded then he felt heat coming from his left and soon small fireballs came rushing at him Itachi new the jutsu as the 'Fire style: Flame Phenix Jutsu.' That was Sasuke's work, Itachi jumped as far back as he could and broke out of the smoke cloud only to knock into something behind him looking back he saw a blue barrier and before he could even question the thing Hinata broke out of the smoke rushing at him and Itachi saw she was heading for bells.

Itachi twisted to the left since he couldn't move back, just then another fireball came his way this one coming alongside the barrier and rushing him. When his eyes registered the threat of the fireball it at the same time registered the threat of a katana appearing in Hinata's left hand like a mirage the girl took it in both hands and swung with all her might.

"Ahhhhhhh!" Hinata shouted and it was then Itachi decided to bail he performed a replacement Jutsu just as Hinata's sword swipe cut the barrier clean in half as well as the fireball as she twisted and ended her attack with one leg in a 90-degree bend and the other with a knee on the ground, around its tip were the two bells hanging there.

Itachi reappeared out of the bushes and saw Hinata in the middle of the two boys, she jumped in happiness and gave them both a high five. Sasuke was smirking so much like their father did when he accomplished something big and Naruto was grinning like a lunatic.

All in all, Itachi thought he had lucked out with this team, they had talent and knew when to work and when to play. Itachi walked up to the team and smiled a little at them.

"Good job all of you, you passed." Itachi said and Hinata immediately jumped on Naruto hugging him. Sasuke looked a little down at the act but didn't let the act bring him down Itachi thought he would have to speak to his brother about his feelings soon.

AN: I hope I did Everybody in the fight scene well, I try to make the fights detailed but at the same time not too overbearing. Itachi is good and if they were fighting to the death in a serious fight they would lose. Or maybe not a good plan can always kill even the strongest of enemies.

Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata are not your typical genin they are very talented in what they know and do.

Individually they are formidable but together they are unstoppable. Giving them a chance to corner you is asking them to get you beat. But do notice that Itachi did not once get harmed that's the difference in the ranks and experience in other words team 7 accomplished their assignment.

Peace next Chap in a day or two

If you guys have not realized it yet Itachi does not have the mangekyou Sharingan because Shisui is alive and well and Itachi wouldn't change that for the world.