Title: Loss
A/N: As much as I love the substitution jutsu, its pretty broken haha. Don't be surprised if you don't see it too often. Also; fuck Sony for making ps plus 80$ now like wtf. Just had to get that outta my system. Thanks for reading btw. You guys are awesome.
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Chapter 3: Genin Exams Arc - Team 7
It was 8am in the village hidden in the leaves. Slowly but surely, the sun's warming rays started to dawn on the village.
The curfew had lifted around 6am when the sensory squad declared no signs of any sorts of enemy nin within or around the village. All the hokage found was an illusory clone of a rogue nine named Orochimaru and a letter on the ground amongst 4 dead shinobi. 1 Jonin and 3 chunin.
In a random hospital room Naruto looked out the window as the sun rose above the mountains surrounding the village. There the great stone faces were, taunting him. One day, he'd be hokage so everyone would acknowledge him. But how was he supposed to be hokage if he couldn't even protect the people he cared about? The image of Iruka standing over him - bleeding profusely from all the injuries he sustained protecting him - appeared in Naruto's mind.
Naruto shook his head wryly. He felt rather tired. Was it because he hadn't slept for a while now or because he was impaled in the guts last night? The fact he didn't even know why scared him. The fact he wasn't normal scared him. In his hospital bed, he looked down into his shirt. Where there was supposed to be a deep stab wound, or at least a scar, was nothing. It was almost as if it never happened. Like he'd never almost been killed.
It's true. It's really true that the nine tailed fox is inside of me.
"So it's gone huh?" A voice said from Naruto's left.
Naruto looked toward the hospital bed on his left, then back down to his stomach. "Yeah." He said, way too quiet when compared to the loud mouth kid he usually was. "Iruka-sensei, is this for real? It's not just a bad dream? The nine tailed fox that killed so many people 12 years ago… it's really inside me?"
Iruka closed his eyes in his hospital bed. "Yes. I'm sorry you had to find out that way, Naruto. The hokage made everyone in the village promise to never tell you. We don't know why but that's just the way it is. It's why… everyones scared of you and keeps their distance. I'm sorry again." When Iruka turned to look at Naruto, he just saw the blond haired kid looking out of the window.
Naruto didn't respond, he just kept looking out of the window.
He thought about Tama. Did Tama know and not tell him? "Does everyone at the Academy know?"
"No. Or at least they shouldn't. If they do know then their parents broke the decree."
"Oh, I see." Accepted Naruto, his voice quiet.
My whole life… the reason I was all alone… all because of some stupid fox. I'll change the answer, believe it…
Iruka closed his eyes to go to sleep, his body hurting all over, but as he started going to sleep he heard Naruto say two things
"Thanks, sensei."
Thanks, sensei. Thanks, sensei. Thanks, sensei. Those two words reverberated in Iruka's head multiple times. He opened his eyes back open and stared at the ceiling. Why's this brat saying something like that when I'm the one who should be saying those things? Naruto was the one who beat Mizuki when Iruka - who was a chunin - didn't even stand a chance.
"Harghh…"
When Naruto started hearing groaning sounds he panicked and sat up in his bed. "Iruka-sensei?! What are you doing? Why are you out of bed?! Your hurt!"
Despite the pain, Iruka walked over to Naruto and started ruffling the kid's hair.
Confused, Naruto started blushing and spouting out, "Stop treating me like a kid, sensei. You're really annoying me, y'know!" He yelped, but secretly he was smiling.
Suddenly, Iruka stepped back and said, "Your last day of school starts at 10, Naruto. They're going to choose your ninja team so you better not miss it."
"But I'm not a-" Ninja, Naruto almost said, but he felt something tight on his forehead. He felt his forehead to see what was there and what he felt started bringing tears to his eyes.
It was a hidden leaf shinobi forehead protector.
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Later that morning - The Ninja Academy, Konohagakure.
The last day of class started today at 10am, and all of the students who passed started to pour in one by one. This year, around 20-30ish kids were graduating from the Academy. Today they were gonna announce the teams, so everyone made an effort to get here on time for once, even Sasuke (who usually showed up late cause the school didn't teach him anything useful anyway).
Thanks to the village wide curfew last night, even Tama was able to get to class on time too, and he was only a little tired as well. He took his seat near the back like always and stared out the window at the great stone faces. All of the hokage stared back at him. A stray thought of a blond kid saying he wanted his face to be up there one day appeared in his mind
Where is he…? He thought, looking to the empty space between Sasuke and Sakura, holding hope in his heart that he'd show up, but as time passed the boy never came. Maybe Iruka said no. But I don't think Iruka's that uptight, although there is a chance that-
Tama's focus was cut into thin pieces when a certain two people showed up to class. Ino and Sakura. When they entered the room Tama closed his eyes and buried his head in his hands. What'll it be this time? He thought.
"I got here first!" Sakura shouted at the top of her lungs, making Tama jump in his seat even though he was prepared for it.
"No, me!" Ino yelled back.
Then they started growling at each other like wild animals fighting over the last can of food or something. Tama didn't know the context of the argument this time but he knew it must've been something pretty dumb.
The sound of a bag of potato chips being opened up and chewed on swam in the air and Shikamaru just groaned yomendoksai. Hinata sighed and Kiba laughed. All of the other students in the room had somewhat similar reactions as well to the two biggest female trouble makers of the class.
Suddenly, Ino stomped over to Sasuke who was just minding his own business and propping up his head with his arms. "Sasuke, be on my team!" She ordered like she was his mom or something and was an obstinate little boy. "You can distract the enemy ninja while I use my mind transfer ju-"
"Shut up, Ino! He's gonna be on my team!" Sakura cut in, bumping Ino away and making Sasuke's eyes widen in both surprise and annoyance.
The heck's wrong with these chicks? He thought, getting bugged out by the two.
Kiba laid back and put his feet on the table in front of him as he watched the two continue fighting over Sasuke, "I'd be so annoyed if so many girls were annoying me so much like that. I'm just way too good for those two. I'm way outta there league."
"I seriously doubt it…" Shino whispered, making Kiba and Akamaru's ears perk up.
"We heard that dude!" Yelled Kiba to Shino.
Shino simply shrugged and Hinata giggled.
It was around this time that Naruto barged into the classroom, shouting, "Am I late?!"
All 30ish students in class looked at him in unison.
Hinata stood up and said under her breath, blushing, "That headband… he did it…"
Shino and Kiba both heard that and said, "But how he'd get that though?" and "Why?"
Naruto looked around, realized he wasn't late cause there weren't any teachers, and then started laughing at everyone all of the sudden. "You mean to tell me they never gave you guys your headbands yet?! HAHAHAHA looks like I'm the only real shinobi here!"
Tama couldn't help but smile but he didn't congratulate Naruto or anything. All he did was smile and look out the window at all the hokage. So we will be in the same year then. Looks like I had nothing to worry about.
Sakura and Ino froze when they noticed what Naruto was wearing on his forehead.
"Wait, you're a Ninja now, Naruto?" Sakura wondered, bewildered, "But how'd you become one before any of us? You can't even do the easiest jutsu ever."
"I'm just that good, y'know. And I can do the transformation Jutsu Sakura! Check this out. Sexy Jutsu!" When a beautiful, naked woman appeared where Naruto was in one of the sexiest poses ever, every single guy in class started blushing like crazy. Some even got nose bleeds "I stayed up all night practicing Sakura! I'm even prettier then you now, belieeeeeeeve it! ARGGHHHH!" Unfortunately for Naruto, he was punched so hard he was launched and slammed into the teacher's desk, being knocked out of his transformation jutsu upon impact.
"Chaaaaa! Serves you right, pervert!" Yelled Sakura.
Ino just crossed her arms and walked to her seat, utterly disappointed in all of the male (other then Sasuke of course).
Sakura was wondering why Ino went to her seat but then it hit her. Naruto managed to recover and he walked up back to the middle of class, rubbing his head. "Hey, why's everything all quiet all of the sudden." Standing right behind Naruto was a grown man smoking a cigarette. As Naruto yapped about how 'lame' everyone was because they weren't Ninja yet and that's why they were all quiet, the man behind him took a deep puff of his cigarette, one of his free hands moving out for the unsuspecting Naruto's head-
-only to start ruffling the kids hair. Spinning in place, Naruto pivoted on his left foot and instinctively threw a roundhouse kick for the person who snuck up on him.
With ease, the guy in green leaf shinobi body armor and black hair blocked the kick with his left arm, taking the cigarette out of his mouth and then blowing smoke into Naruto's face.
"Ack- kak! Ackack." Naruto started coughing like crazy and holding his chest because the smoke was so thick.
"I heard about what happened last night, Naruto." The man said, "I'm proud of you for protecting your sensei like you did. That was very brave of you." While Naruto was still coughing, the man reached out and swiped his forehead protector from him.
"Hey, GIVE THAT BACK!" Naruto shouted, angry.
Uncaring, the man who seemed to be a chain smoker simply threw the forehead protector towards an empty seat in the room. "Sit down, bud. You're not a ninja yet. At least not until you've passed your final exam."
Desperate, Naruto grabbed at the forehead protector when it landed like it was his lifeline and then put it back on. Annoyed, Naruto refused to sit down and he shouted, "You're gonna pay for that, Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
In a flash, 11 Naruto appeared in the air and all around the room, making 12 in total. They all rushed in towards the strange man, throwing kunai and shuriken which were deflected easily.
The stranger simply took in another puff from his cig and reached for his tool pouch to put away the kunai he used to deflect all the projectiles, then pulled out a dozen shuriken. One for each Naruto.
"You're gonna pay old man!" One Naruto shouted.
Another declared, "Iruka-sensei gave me this headband! How dare you disrespect him like that!"
"I'm a way better ninja then you and I'll make you see that, stranger!"
"Believe it!"
The stranger gave a deep chuckle, "Oh yeah," He said doing a backflip as one Naruto went in for a sliding kick which hit nothing. In midair, the stranger threw all of his shuriken out!
The one Naruto that performed the sliding kick got nailed in the chest and poofed into a puff of air, but all the other Naruto's had seen him reach for his ninja pouch earlier so they were prepared. In all of the Naruto's mind's, they had a flashback to all of their fights with Tama.
Bruised and dirty, Naruto was laying on his back after just being thrown down on his back by Tama. "Thought you were gonna punch me for sure, that's why I tried to tank it haha. But you just grabbed me instead!"
Wiping the sweat off his forehead, Tama replied, "Tricked ya, huh? You seriously have crazy stamina though Naruto." Tama let out his hand for Naruto to take, "Even though we both know you can take a punch or two and brush it off, that doesn't mean you should just let yourself get hit. I won't always throw a punch either, sometimes I'll go for a grab too. Actively try to avoid putting yourself in a bad situation bro."
Back to the present, all of the Naruto's smiled menacingly. Effortlessly, all eleven remaining Naruto evaded the shuriken, each throwing shuriken of their own in response.
The strangers eyes widened. I didn't throw those shuriken slow at all. This kid's pretty good. Maybe I should at least get a little serious then. "Trying to attack me in the air just cause I'm immobile, huh?" The man wondered, weaving a few handsigns, "Wind Release: Gale Storm." He said those words calmly, but the resulting jutsu was not calm at all.
In a 360 degree radius, an angry burst of wind exploded outward!
All of the ninjas in training were forced to hold on to something or they'd fly away. All 11 Naruto who were closest to the epicenter of the attack were not as lucky. All of them slammed into desks, walls, or other objects in the room!
POOF!
All 11 shadow clones vanished in unison-
Wait… 11?
-there was no Naruto to be found!
No way. Thought the man, smiling as he landed on the ground from his backflip. Pulled a fast one, huh?
"I've got you now!" Yelled Naruto from up above, swinging a kunai!
The man heard Naruto though and pulled out a kunai of his own, blocking Naruto's easily. "Damn kid, you pulled a fast one, huh? If only you didn't announce where you were just now."
After getting his attack blocked so easily, Naruto fell to the ground unceremoniously. Unfortunately for him he landed right on his head.
"OW!" yelped the blond. He sat on his butt and started rubbing his head. "OW OW OW! I thought for sure you'd fall for that, bastard!"
"How'd do you do that anyway?"
"Oh?" Wondered Naruto, confused, but he lost his aggression when he saw the older man holding out his hand for him to take. He then answered. "When you did that awesome backflip earlier there was a split second where you couldn't see me. I made another shadow clone and had him throw me while I was transformed into a kunai."
"But when you're transformed you can't see anything." The man wondered. This kid… he's infamous for being one hell of a brat around the village and annoying the hell out of dad, but he's brighter then he leads on. "How'd you know when to release it?" Naruto pulled himself up using the hand being offered to him.
"I just waited for you to beat all my shadow clones, that's when I knew to release it. But it didn't work out anyway, haha…" Naruto said sadly.
"Just don't tell your opponent where you are next time." Replied the man before chuckling deeply. He took another puff of his cigarette which just let Naruto know that the man didn't even take him seriously for a second. "Alright, little man. Iruka's not here so it falls on me. And since I'm the first to arrive I'll explain how this works. Since I won our little bout you gotta listen, so go sit down."
Naruto was about to grumble, What makes me have to listen to you! But he decided not to out of respect and just grumbled instead, "Fine…"
As Naruto walked back to his seat to sit down, all of his classmates watched in sheer shock.
That's Naruto… Thought Sakura, her eyes wide as the walked to sit next her and Sasuke. He got beat up by that guy so quick but… Sakura imagined herself in that strange man's place. If 12 Naruto were rushing at her there was no way she'd stand a chance and she knew it. One Naruto she could handle maybe, and that was a BIG maybe. But 12?! How'd he get so good overnight?!
Hinata was blushing slightly, Naruto's looking a lot happier now. She thought, smiling because yesterday he seemed sadder than usual.
Sasuke had no outward indication of any change in emotion. He just laid back and thought, What a loser. Didn't even stand a chance against that Jonin.
Ino's hair was ruined though and she was rapidly trying to fix it from all the wind, yelling in her head, That idiot ruined my hair.
Shikamaru said to Choji, "You haven't had a potato chip in a while."
His mouth wide open, Choji stuttered with his jaw hanging, "I-I'm just saving a few for later, dude. Now that it's later I'm gonna go ahead and eat some now."
Kiba and Shino shrugged. Akamaru barked though. Kiba laughed in return and replied to his best friend and partner, "You're right. We can do waaaaayy better against that guy."
"Come again?" Remarked Shino.
"Shut your mouth!" Was all Shino got instead.
"Alright kids! Shut your mouths!" Announced the strange man. "I'm Asuma Sarutobi. Now I know you kiddos expected Iruka but he wasn't able to make it cause he was busy." Ino looked like she was about to ask something about Iruka-sensei but Asuma just cut her off and said, "Don't ask why. It's none of your damn business. Now as I was saying, what he was supposed to do this morning was tell you how the day was gonna go down, but since he's not here and I'm the first to arrive, I guess it falls on me to explain things to you."
Asuma Sarutobi sighed in annoyance, he turned and walked to the big table in the room next to the chalkboard to sit on it, thinking, Fuck. I came early to get this out the way but it worked against me. This sure sucks but I guess someones gotta do it. That bastard Mizuki pulled one over all of our heads.
"All right, newbies, here's how this'll go down." Asuma took his time to squash his dead cigarrette and light a new one. "You've still gotta take your final genin exams, that's why you don't have your headbands yet. The testing you fledglings passed yesterday were merely Iruka and Mizuki giving us Jonin the green light, not you chumps. The real exams for you to pass take place today. And you'll be taking those exams with your Jonin sensei individually along the team you guys will be with for your shinobi careers, considering you pass, of course. These teams are chosen carefully so that everything is balanced. So don't go around thinking that your team is weaker or stronger than anyone elses. If that is the case, it's because you just didn't work hard enough. Now. Any questions before I take my team and head out?"
"Where are…all the other Jonin, sensei…?" Hinata wondered shyly.
"Beats me." Was all she got in response. "Anything else?"
"How'd you get so strong?" Asked Naruto, standing up in his seat, "And can you be my sensei, so you can teach me that cool wind Jutsu?!"
Asuma started laughing, "Sorry, kiddo, but the Hokage himself chose the Jonin and teams for each of us. Everythings been decided already, but maybe one of these days if you find me bored I might consider it." If he has a wind chakra nature, of course. Which is the rarest chakra nature… Asuma thought in his head, not feeling like explaining how chakra natures work right now.
Happily, Naruto shouted, "Oh yeah! That'll be awesome, believe it!"
"Well, any other questions? Anyone?" When there was no response, Asuma stood up and said, "Ino Yamanaka. Shikamaru Nara. Choji Akimichi. You guys are with me. Let's get going."
The three kids who had their name called stood up. Well… everyone except Shikamaru.
"Hell yeah bro." Said Choji happily, "Looks like we're on the same team man."
Shikamaru stood up lazily, but secretly he was happy, "I guess we are."
Ino wasn't happy though, "I wanted to be with Sasuke, but at least I don't have that weirdo Naruto on my team. And Asuma-sensei seems super strong too."
"Hey!" Yelped Naruto, offended. "Hmph! I'll show you, stupid Ino! My team will be way stronger than yours!"
Shrugging, Ino let out a meh. She started heading for the door but before she did she looked back at all her former classmates. Her eyes lingered on one boy in particular for just a few moments longer than all the others though. Even now he still ignored her. Tch. Whatever. She thought angrily, stomping out. Shikamaru and Choji headed out with Asuma-sensei as well. Before Asuma-sensei left though he told everyone to 'sit tight' and wished them all good luck.
Sakura smiled. One of her biggest opponents were gone now.
Slowly but surely all of the other students started getting picked up by their Jonin senseis. As more and more students left, some seats cleared up, so a few people shuffled around to sit closer to their friends.
Naruto and Tama both looked each other in the eyes eventually and smiled at each other. Tama walked down to where Naruto was and didn't do anything other then hold his fist out,
The two bumped fists and grinned like idiot goofballs. "Knew Iruka-sensei would understand if you showed him what was up. And what the hell was that jutsu you did earlier. Almost made me bite my tongue off and start choking on it when a full egg carton of knucklehead ninja appeared outta nowhere."
Embarrassed, Naruto put his hands up behind his head and stood up, pacing around the center of the room, "Oh y'know, just a cool jutsu I learned. It's called the Shadow Clone Jutsu. Look." Naruto wove the handsigns and said, "Shadow Clone Jutsu." And then suddenly there was another Naruto standing next to him.
They're perfectly alike. Thought Tama. He tried to sense any differences between the two using his Chaka sensing abilities but couldn't distinguish which one was which. They really are the SAME. he thought more sincerely, impressed.
"I'm Naruto." The second Naruto said to Tama, saluting, "Belieeeeeeeve it!"
"We're both Naruto." Said the original. "And we're both just as strong as each other."
"Stop lying, I'm just a little better and you know it, y'know?"
"Hey!" Yelled the original, "Cut that out man! At least I can take a hit before disappearing. The only thing you're good for is being my sacrificial pawn! You're basically my lackey, y'know!"
"Oh shut your mouth buster! I can make sacrificial pawns of my own! Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Like it was nothing, the Shadow Clone of Naruto summoned two more Naruto's to help him take the original Naruto out.
The original Naruto did the same. "If you wanna throw hands then lets! Shadow Clone Jutsu!" And then suddenly there were 6 Narutos in total now.
Tama started sweating bullets when a 3 on 3 fist fight broke out between 6 copies of the same damn person. Uhmmm okay… what the hell am I watching right now? Why are all the Naruto's fighting? Or would the plural form of Naruto be just 'Naruto' without the 'S'? They must each have their own personality or something.
Out of the corner of his eye, Sasuke watched as Tama scratched his head, shook it, and then went to go sit back down. As the 6 Naruto fought each other, he thought, At least he's not bothering me like usual. Now he can bother himself all he wants. What a loser.
Almost as if it was planned, one of the Naruto's stopped fighting and said using his thinking cap, "Wait, we're all on the same team guys. We should all be practicing to beat that smug bastard Sasuke instead!"
"Yeah!" All the Narutos said in unison, and then they all started doing push up simultaneously. One of the Narutos started circling the 5 Narutos doing push ups with his arms crossed as if he were a drill sergeant.
"Lift your butt up!" Drill sergeant Naruto said, "Activate your core more!"
"Sir yes sir!" The Naruto who was doing it wrong said.
Tama started chuckling under his breath. Well that's one way to do it, I guess. Hahahaha.
Sasuke sighed. Seriously… He thought. Just a few moments later a woman with bright red eyes walked into the room, surprising Sasuke who stood up in his seat sharply. The Sharingan!? He thought, but then calmed down when he didn't see any Tomoe. Damn. I got worked up for nothing. 's not the sharingan. All of the Uchiha are…gone… Sasuke sat back down just as quick as he stood up, making all eyes in the room go toward him. He didn't give an inch of explanation though.
Is he okay? Thought Sakura, but she quickly forgot about her thoughts when her name was called. "Sakura Haruno. Hinata Hyuga. Kiba Inuzuka. Shino Aburame. You four will be on my team. I'm Kurenai, by the way. I'm the Jonin who will be your sensei if you pass my exam. Let's go."
It only took a few moments for the four to get going.
On Hinata's way out she saw the 5 Narutos doing push ups with the 6th Naruto getting mad whenever they messed up their form. She tried to say, 'Good Luck' but when she opened her mouth no words came out. Shyly, she just walked past all of them with her head down, unable to say a single word.
Kiba yelled out to Tama before he left. "Muahaha! Catch you later, ya pipsqueak!"
A tick mark appeared on Tama's forehead as he held up a fist, "You're done for next time." He said, but then added softly, "But hey. It all starts here. You better get stronger so it's not too easy for me."
"Hah! You bet! But next time you'll be going up against me and Akamaru too. SO you better watch yourself."
"Ruff ruff!" Added Akamaru.
And like that Kiba and Akamaru left, leaving Tama with a small smile.
"Bye Sasuke." Said Sakura,"I hope Naruto doesn't annoy you too much in your team! Good luck!"
"HEYY!" Yelled all the Narutos at the same time. "Release." All of the Shadow Clones disappeared and the original Naruto was revealed to be one of the clones doing push ups on the ground. "What do you mean, Sakura?! I ain't gonna be on no team with that jerk! What are you talkin' about!?" But then Naruto did the math and realized there were only 7 people left a second ago, minus the 4 who were about to leave with Kurenai.
That equaled 3. Naruto Uzumaki. Sasuke Uchiha. And Tama Jinsei.
Naruto was silent as that sinked in.
Kurenai's team left, and then it was just the three of them left in the room all alone. Naruto turned to Sasuke, walked up to the guy, and said nothing. Absolutely nothing. Not a single word. All the kid did was stare at him from point blank range. These antics unnerved both Sasuke and Tama, the former of which who just said when he got fed up with it, "I don't care one way or the another, Just don't get in my way, loser."
"What was that?! If you wanna go at it let's go at it then!"
"You seriously want a repeat of last time?"
"I'm way stronger then I was before, so put a sock in it!"
"You learned a new Jutsu? So what? Doesn't change a thing."
"Grrrrrr!"
"Woah woah woah!" Tama strategically put himself in between the two. Sasuke wasn't looking to start a fight or anything and he could tell. But it was obvious that Naruto had something to prove, and if the blonde threw a punch, a fight would break out for sure. "Calm down, Naruto, what are you tryna prove right now?"
"This guy thinks he's better than everyone else here but the fact of the matter is that he's not. He's a normal person just like the rest of us. Just cause he's talented doesn't mean a thing cause our hard work matters too!" Gruffed Naruto, turning away as if Sasuke wasn't even worth it, "Wished we had Sakura instead. At least that way I'd have something pretty to look at."
Tama sweatdropped, "Woah man don't you think that's a pretty rough thing to say to someone?" Looking behind himself, Tama wordlessly mouthed to Sasuke 'gimme a sec'. Sasuke just sighed. Tama walked up to Naruto and put a hand on his shoulder, continuing with, "Not that I'm on Sasuke's side or anything but actions speak louder than words. If there's something you wanna prove to him, prove it with your actions. The best revenge is success if you catch my drift. And you've already been doing that. That fight you had earlier with Asuma was impressive. No genin in here would have the balls to do that. Plus your already stronger then me."
Only because of a forbidden Jutsu. Naruto thought to himself but didn't say. He seemed to cool off a bit thanks to Tama though. But he still managed to let out,"You're kind of acting like you're my mom or dad or something…"
Tama chuckled, "Sorry 'bout that, haha." Not that I'd know what it's like to have a mom or dad… unless… he counts…
Naruto gave a small chuckle and then walked away from the two toward the desk in the middle of the classroom, thinking back to something Iruka sensei said.
"You're not a brat anymore, now you're a full fledged shinobi. So remember to act like one okay? No more goofing around the village and being obnoxious, ok? When you wear this headband, you're not just representing yourself, you're representing the ENTIRE village and me too chaise I gave it to you. Make sure not to misrepresent us OK? More then anyone else, you embody what it means to be a ninja, Naruto. I know you'll do great today."
Naruto rubbed his forehead protector. I guess I sorta am kinda acting like a brat. He thought, a stroke of maturity gliding across his psyche. He looked back at Tama and Sasuke. He sorta looked up to the both of them, and something they had in common was that they were both… quiet. They just did their own thing. And they were very chill too. They didn't get angry that easy, and-
-Naruto slapped his own cheeks!
Why am I comparing myself to them?! People acknowledge them and remember their names! But not me! My goal is way bigger then both of theirs combined! That's why I take things more seriously! "I'm gonna be hokage so you better watch out Sasuke! You won't be calling me a loser when I'm the boss around here. Believe it!"
Tama and Sasuke both sweat dropped.
"O-ok…" they both said in unison…
XxxxxX
10 Minutes Later - The Ninja Academy, Konohagakure
10 minutes passed, then twenty, and then almost thirty. It was at this point Tama rolled up his sleeves, walked up next to the window, and said, absolutely annoyed, "if this damn Jonin sensei of ours doesn't show up I swear I'm gonna do something crazy."
"Now your speaking my language!" Said Naruto, "What are we gonna do? A prank? Another sexy Jutsu? Cool drawings on the blackboard?"
Sasuke's gaze perked up a bit, interested as to what was going on.
Tama turned around with determination in his eyes, "I'm going to-" he started to say, only to lay down on the ground using his arms as a pillow, "-go to sleep. Let me know when sensei gets here."
Sasuke's head drooped at the broken thought of Tama actually doing something interesting. Naruto straight up shouted, "What the hell Tama?! If you were just gonna go to sleep, why'd you make a big deal out of it!?"
"Well I wanted to do something fun but then I realize I was tired."
Naruto groaned, "Your so lame, I'll do something fun without you, then, like a prank."
Intrigued, Sasuke watched as Naruto walked up to the chalkboard, grabbed a piece of chalk, and then started making scribbles, he then erased it with a eraser so that the eraser got all chalky and dirty.
Giggling like a madman, Naruto went up to the door, opened it so it was just ajar, and then jumped, placing the eraser at the top of the door when he was at the Apex of his jump.
"Let's see if that works." Said Naruto, giggling.
As soon as Naruto walked away, though, the door opened.
"Sorry I was late, kiddos, a lost child needed my help finding her mom but then a stampede of cows-" A white haired man with a mask on his face opened the door and launched into an excuse as to why he was late only for a dirty piece of chalk eraser to fall on his head. Slowly but surely, Naruto and the white haired man both watched in silence as the eraser slowly fell to the ground.
Naruto and Tama both burst out laughing!
"Hahahaha! You totally fell for it!" Yelled Naruto, wheezing.
"Well that sure woke me up," remarked Tama, chucking as he stood back up. "Yo why do you have the expression of an abused housewife?"
Even Sasuke closed his eyes and suppressed a chuckle. No way a jonin just fell for that. Who is this guy anyway? He thought, amused and disappointed at the same time.
"My first impression of Team 7…" the white haired man said, disappointed, "You're a bunch of idiots."
The word 'idiot' stabbed into the hearts of all three ninja in training present.
S-seriously…?
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End Chapter.
A/N: Thanks for reading guys. I'll see you all again when I see you. And sorry Sakura fans out there. I'll still include her in the story of course it's not like she'll disappear or anything. Alrighty. Peace.
-Kerith