AN: I'm going to go ahead and tell you all who the final person on the team with Naruto and Kimmimaro is so that I can get people's opinions on pairings (I have an option in mind for Kimmimaro and an option in mind for the third member but nothing concrete). I'm going to have Naruto and Kimmimaro's last teammate be Yakumo Kurama due to her overpowered genjutsu kekei genkai. I've already chosen the fighting styles for the three as well as ways to further increase their power later on so it's not one or two being god slayers and the last is just there for moral support. So yeah, those three are a team, please send suggestions for who you want paired with who and why, please no multi pairings. Current idea for options are Kimmimaro with Hinata (both prefer not to fight and like flowers, plus the idea of bone pulse and byakugan in one kid would be terrifying), Yakumo's option is Shino. I'm willing to take any suggestions from any village, just no OC's.
An Overheard Conversation
Chapter 3
-Naruto-
"Widen your stance more." Kimmimaro instructed, the duo going through some katas as they trained in the yard of their new sensei's' house "Yes, like that."
"Thanks Kimmimaro." Naruto beamed happily, enjoying what had to be the best day ever. He had two senseis who were awesome Shinobi and now he had a friend. They were even teaching him!
"Of course, we are teammates." His soft-spoken friend nodded, "Itachi-Sama impressed upon to me that your team are to be your family."
"I'll help you with your stealth next." Naruto grinned, "Even the Anbu can't find me when I hide!"
"An excellent skill for surprise attacks or assassinations." Kimmimaro nodded, "I prefer to use a ranged attack as an opening and then move in to end the fight with Taijutsu and my bone techniques."
"Bone?" Naruto asked confused. That confusion was washed away as Kimmimaro flexed as bone spikes grew from different parts of the Albino's body. "That's awesome dattebayo!" Naruto gushed enthralled, "Can anyone learn that?"
"It…no, it is a kekei genkai." Kimmimaro shook his head, "Unique to my clan. You are not disgusted?"
"Why would I be? That's amazing!" Naruto praised his new friend, "Now I'll need to find something awesome too!"
"What are you dobes doing here?!" an enraged voice demanded before Kimmimaro could comment, the two shinobi in training turning to see an enraged Sasuke Uchiha glaring at them, "This is the Uchiha compound, you two aren't welcome here!"
"Our senseis lives here." Kimmimaro spoke calmly, unphased by Sasuke's usual bullshit even as Naruto grew angry "And Itachi-Sama is the current Uchiha clan head, not you. Your opinion means nothing to me."
Sasuke's eyes bulged out angrily, almost looking like he was trying to use the Byakugan, before the duck-haired started going through hand seals "Fire release: Great fireball-"
"Hey now, that's not nice." A new voice interjected, picking Sasuke up by the scruff of his shirt and interrupting the jutsu.
"Shark man!" Naruto grinned, having picked up quickly that Kisame apparently didn't like his name not being recognized so calling anything else but that would get some amusing reactions.
"Hey Pipsqueak!" Kisame grinned, looking smug as Naruto's eye twitched at the totally uncalled for use of a name that wasn't his. "You alright runt? Kimmi?"
"We are alright, Kisame-Sama." Kimmimaro gave a small respectful bow while Naruto just gave him a lazy nod and grin.
"Yeah, Ducky-Teme didn't get the Jutsu off in time." Naruto nodded, "Although he did interrupt our training. Kimmimaro was helping me with my Taijustu and I was going to help him with sneaking. I also need to find something as badass as his bone thingy."
"I wish you luck but hope you resign yourself to disappointment." Kimmimaro spoke as softly and respectfully as ever and if Naruto hadn't actually been paying attention to the words or seen the barest hint of a lip twitching upward, he might have missed the teasing.
"Let me go you big blue freak!" Sasuke snarled, writhing in Kisame's grip, "I am an Uchiha! I will not be treated like this!"
"Given I regularly steal your brother's candy stash I don' think a mouthy duckling will scare me with his last name." Kisame snorted, munching on a pocky stick and tossing some to Naruto and Kimmimaro. Catching the stick of candy, Naruto looked over at his shark-like sensei as well as the older version of Sasuke who was approaching.
"Itachi-Sama." Kimmimaro bowed respectfully to the now named Uchiha slaying Uchiha.
"Get out of my home!" Sasuke growled, thrashing like a wild animal in Kisame's grip.
"Hey Itachi, this thing has had all his shots right? He's not rabid?" the giant shark man asked, holding Sasuke away as if wary of being bitten.
"Must you antagonize him Kisame?" Itachi sighed as he approached.
"Yes, yes I must."
"Hnnn." Itachi grunted in the language of Uchihas that Naruto heard Sasuke use at the academy a lot. The elder Uchiha did a single hand sign and flared his Chakra before Sasuke went limp and started snoring. "I will take him back to the house he has been using in the district. Please do refrain from deliberately antagonizing him in the future."
"No promises!" Kisame laughed as the elder Uchiha walked off, carrying the younger one over his shoulder. "Now brats, time to see what all you can do. I'm going to test your affinities, test your skills, then I'm going to start kicking your asses into shape. Hoorah!"
"Hoorah!" Naruto mimicked excitedly before both he and Kisame pouted at Kimmimaro not doing the same, "Come on Kimmimaro, you gotta do it too!" Naruto whined.
The pale bone user was silent for a few tense moments before dropping his head and sighing, delivering the single most unenthusiastic "Hoorah." That Naruto had ever heard or imagined, and he had classes with Shikamaru.
"Alright kiddies, gather around so Uncle Kisame can tell you about Chakra paper and affinities. Then I'll see if you have the Uzumaki talent with pointy objects." Kisame said that last point while looking straight at Naruto. "Your clans are both army slayers and I'll be damned if I don't make you the same!"
Kisame didn't seem surprised by this but Naruto had no idea what the man was talking about "Um…heh?"
"The Uzumaki talent for swords, seals, and Ninjutsu." Kisame frowned at Naruto's confusion, "The fact that the people of Uzushiogakure were considered so dangerous even as a minor village that it took the three major hidden villages of Mist, Stone, and Cloud to defeat them and even then it was a hard-won victory?"
"I have a clan?!" Naruto yelled out stunned, "They did what?!"
"Kid, I think I'm going to go kill your teachers."
-Itachi-
"Thank you for keeping Kisame from slaughtering the instructors at the Academy." The third Hokage sat back in his chair with a groan, the two shinobi sharing a pot of tea, "Do I want to know how you did it though?"
"I pointed out to him that if he killed them all it would likely delay us being able to get a team and it would be more fun to turn young Naruto into a proper Shinobi and rub it in their faces. The chance to show he was better than someone else at something is a powerful motivator for Kisame." Itachi responded calmly, only the hard sheen of his eyes betrayed his true anger at what had happened, "Granted though I was highly tempted to simply join him."
"I'll be having words with the academy instructors." Hiruzen promised, "I've been focused on other areas in the village and hadn't been aware just how much was being cut from the shinobi courses. Anyway, I wished to ask you, did you select your third student?"
"In fact I did, although she isn't at the academy itself." Itachi placed a file onto the desk, "Yakumo Kurama. One Kurenai Yuhi was a failure of a teacher to abandon her so easily, to not even bother looking for alternate routes. I will take her on and make her the third member of my genin team."
"What about her frail body?" Sarutobi didn't even seem phased by the callout to one of his Jonin's skills as an instructor.
"I plan to teach Naruto what I can of Seals and have him make some to help reinforce her body as well as helping the young girl learn Iryojutsu so she can use that to further supplement and strengthen her frame. Combined with that I will have her primarily stick with Genjutsu and perhaps Archery." Itachi mused his plans as he sipped at his cup of tea. "Currently, Kisame is helping the pair with their Chakra control and is going to give them the basics for the elemental control exercises to go with their affinities."
"Do warn me if they're already Jonin level by the time they graduate, it will save me headaches if I'm prepared for the paperwork." Sarutobi just snorted and sipped his tea, the man far too used to absurdity to be phased anymore.