AN: I actually have 3 chapters already done, but I'll be posting them 1 by 1 and also this is a 1st person story. The chapters may seem long, but please read and survive.
Chapter 1: Team 7
School was about to start at the academy. I was sitting on top of my desk closing one eye. It didn’t seem really interesting since I had no rival. Sasuke, the idol of the academy, wasn’t even close to par with my skills, but he has been the closest than anyone else.
‘The worst part of being a ninja must be the waiting.” I mentally noted, ‘this is going to get boring, might as well close the other eye.’ My other eye immediately closed at the end of my thought.
“I WAS HERE FIRST!” Two annoying voices shouted breaking my train of thought. ‘Ugh what is that annoying voice? It is breaking me of my train of thought!’ I thought angrily. I opened one eye scanning my surrounding and a certain scene caught my eye.
“Give it up Sakura! I got this one!” The blonde girl shouted.
“No way in your life, Ino pig!” The pink haired girl retorted, “I was way ahead of you. I had to look back to see where you were! My toe was at least a tenth of an inch in front of yours!”
‘Ugh so annoying!” I thought.
“No I want to sit next to Sasuke! I was here first!” The blond girl shouted, “You must have been delusional Sakura!”
“No way, I was!” Sakura, the pink hair girl retorted, “Like I’m going to give up this seat for a pig like you!”
A whole bunch of girls joined the fight between who was going to sit next to Sasuke, while he just sat there ignoring the bunch. A boy with blonde hair than sat next to Sasuke’s left. This started a staring contest between them which led to a bad situation.
“Oops sorry are you all right?” A voice called out. Too late, by bumping into the blonde haired boy Sasuke and him was now dead locked in a kiss, which was really amusing. The girls were now glaring at the blonde boy.
“NARUTO YOU ARE SO DEAD!” The girls all shouted at once while he was choking.
--
The incident was amusing seeing Naruto being beat up by a bunch of mindless angry girls. Sasuke, as emotionless as ever just sat there next to a happy Saukra and a beat up Naruto. The door slid open and a sensei came in. It was Iruka with his natural look, pineapple like hair style, a scar that stretched across from one side of his face to the other, and he wore his chunin jacket.
“Welcome to you all!” Iruka opened up with a grin. “Now as of today, you are all ninjas… and to get here, each of you has faced difficult trials and hardships!” He scanned the class once, hands behind his back, and an illustrious position held before the eyes of all the students present.
“But that’s nothing! What comes next will be far more difficult! At this point, you are only Genin: first level ninja. All the Genin will be grouped into three-man-squads. Each squad will be lead by a Jonin, an elite ninja.”
This announcement caught the attention of the whole class. Murmuring erupted between students and groups, eyes looking about in confusion and surprise. Naruto, who was still recovering from the damages inflicted upon him by the mass of girl students, perked up at the news, blinking in surprise.
“Groups of three,” Naruto muttered to himself.
Sakura, who was sitting beside Sasuke, smirked and glanced up at Ino, who was sitting behind her next to Shikamaru. The boy ninja beside Ino left himself out of their conversation, but listened into it none the less with the deepest disregard or care.
“Groups of three, aye?” Sakura exclaimed. “Well, one of us will have to be teamed up with Sasuke!” Ino grinned back, holding up a fist in powerful statement.
“I bet it’s going to be me!” she exclaimed. “You just watch!” Sakura laughed lightly at that.
“Don’t count on it!” the pink haired ninja replied.
Sasuke raised an eyebrow, interlocking his fingers and propping his elbows on the desk. He considered the announcement in his head by circulating it a couple of times over, before eventually coming up with a very disappointing answer.
“An arranged squad?” he whispered, closing his eyes and letting out a sigh. His spirits seemed to lower with his positive thoughts about further training. ‘This’ll only slow me down…’
Naruto let a sigh escape his lips. He gazed into the backs of his eyelids in thought, his mind pondering the chances of his present position and to whom he was going to be teamed up with. Of course, he had definite, high hopes for this one!
As time passed the bickering started to stop. Iruka was still waiting tapping his fingers on his desk. I was just scanning the room for the hundredth time. Iruka was coughing really loudly holding a clipboard in one of his hands, which caught the attention off all the students in the classroom.
“Due to uneven amount of students in this class, one of the teams will have to have four members in it, but that doesn’t change the fact that you’re not going to be pared up toward an unfair advantage. We want each squad to have a balance of strength and abilities. It’s…basically the way we set them up!” Shrugging off the moment, Iruka turned back to the sheet of paper he was holding and smiled, eyes locking onto the first few names. “Okay…I will now be announcing the squads!”
From here, it was just the simple task of calling out the names, arranging all the students into their squads of threes. I decided to close my other eye knowing I was going to be called out eventually. What was the point of keeping one eye open for a long period of time knowing that I would be called sooner or later. Letting out a sigh, I went straight into a brief, meditative state, lingering just outside of that total sincerity of nothingness. For the next few minutes, starting with squad one, Iruka Umino began familiarizing each student with one another, those three who were arranged would come to know each other in whatever squad they were assigned too. It didn’t take long till the teacher eventually reached Squad 7.
Double checking the list to make sure he got it right; Iruka nodded and looked up towards the stands in front of him. “Okay…for the seventh squad we have:
Naruto Uzumaki…!”
The young, yellow haired ninja’s head lifted at this, eyes widening and a state of anticipation immediately falling into place.
“Sakura Haruno…”
The pink haired girl beside Sasuke reacted as expected to this announcement: glum with a slight mix of despair. Naruto however, was quite pleased by this, and let out an enthusiastic cheer. However, just as things seemed to darken around Sakura and brighten up for Naruto, the next name would make a complete switch on the pair’s feelings of the moment.
“Sasuke Uchiha…”
This time, it was Naruto who turned glum and Sakura to brighten up. Her friend Ino, of course, was in a state of dismay as well. The pink haired girl sitting in front of her turned around and gave her the ‘V’ sign, while sticking her tongue out as a further taunting action. In response, Ino fumed, gritting her teeth and fisting her hands. She looked like she wanted to bring Sakura down right then and there!
“Why you…!”
The girl that was sitting across from me in the top row, and had been gazing absentmindedly at Naruto, was a little disappointed to hear this announcement as well. Knowing that it was only a group of three for this one, she knew she missed out in joining up with the boy she was admiring. Hinata sighed and looked away, a little bit upset.
'I won’t be with Naruto then…'
Naruto, in protest to this announcement, stood up and pointed over at Sasuke. His sudden action surprised a couple of the students sitting around him, who immediately had their eyes fixated on him.
“Iruka sensei! Why do I, a great ninja like me, have to be teamed up with a slug like Sasuke? Could you explain that for me please?” the naïve ninja shouted more then asked. Sakura glared at Naruto with white eyes, with fangs seemingly growing in place of a couple of her original teeth.
Iruka took the young ninja’s statements blankly. Letting out a sigh, he fixated his sights on the yellow haired Genin, flapping the piece of paper so that it could enhance his next words. He wanted to make sure that Naruto heard this.
“Naruto…you should know that Sasuke is one of the only students to get the highest scores of all the graduates…” Iruka looked up at Naruto with a harsher stare then was expected, the paper scrunching up in his hand and almost ripping. “You on the other hand got the lowest score. So to balance out the skill levels, we had to team you up with a higher scoring student then you. Let’s just say it works in dominoes…”
The whole class laughed, with Naruto sitting back down with a flushed face. Well, that thoroughly bruised his ego. On top of that, Sasuke used this perfect opportunity to taunt his supposed group rival. He glanced at the yellow haired Genin with a smirk.
“Just don’t get in my way, you dropout…”
Naruto growled at the remark and started to glare at Sasuke and Sakura started to twitch.
Before anymore conflicts could arise amongst the pair, Sakura raised her hand, eyes firmly settled on Iruka. The instructor glanced up at the row and nodded towards the girl, acknowledging her raised hand.
“Iruka sensei! Just who exactly got the highest score out of all of us?” she asked.
Finding promise from this question, the teacher rubbed the tip of his nose before looking down at his sheet. After a brief scan of the names, he found the one Sakura was asking about and looked back up at the class.
“Well, it just so happens that that student is joining Team 7…your team I mean!”
Sakura blinked in surprise, with this announcement also catching the attentions of both Naruto and Sasuke.
“Really?” Naruto queried, his eyelashes batting with a very puzzled expression in play. This was only matched by his eager curiosity.
“Who is it, Iruka sensei?”
Iruka Umino smiled and glanced up at the row, right to the very corner, where he sought out the student hiding in the shadows.
“Yuki Shiro!”
All of the students trailed there eyes to the back of the room, soon finding me cross legged on top of the desk closing my eyes. I ignored all eyes that were staring at me and continued to sit there. Naruto and Sakura had surprised looks on their faces while Sasuke put on an amused one. Almost all his life he believed that he was on the top, and now he found out that someone actually surpassed him shocked him as well, but he was more amused than shocked.
“Her name doesn’t sound familiar…hmm…maybe another orphan or something…”
Once the attention had been torn away from me, including the silence of excited chatter from several of the girl students, every Genin present refocused their attention on their instructor. The remaining list of Teams was read out. Team 8 played host to Kiba Inuzuka, Shino Aburame and Hinata Hyuga. Lastly, Team 10 held Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara and Choji Akimichi. Now that all the teams were decided, Iruka could finally relax, and expect no complaints whatsoever. The students would either get used to their team, or get lost. It was their choice.
“Well then, it seems we have arranged all the students into their squads! Excellent!” Iruka exclaimed, nodding to each of the rows with a proud smile. “Now after lunch, you will all meet your assigned Jonin teachers. So until then, class dismissed…”
With that, the entire class filed out of the room, many of them wanting to get away as quickly as possible so not to attract any more attention then they already had. Sasuke was one of the first to leave, closely followed by said others, who filed out in their groups. Ecstatic at the prospect of meeting their new teachers, all the students left in a loud chorus of chatter. Naruto, Sakura, and Ino were the last to leave, followed later on by me.
P_A
Chapter 1: Team 7
School was about to start at the academy. I was sitting on top of my desk closing one eye. It didn’t seem really interesting since I had no rival. Sasuke, the idol of the academy, wasn’t even close to par with my skills, but he has been the closest than anyone else.
‘The worst part of being a ninja must be the waiting.” I mentally noted, ‘this is going to get boring, might as well close the other eye.’ My other eye immediately closed at the end of my thought.
“I WAS HERE FIRST!” Two annoying voices shouted breaking my train of thought. ‘Ugh what is that annoying voice? It is breaking me of my train of thought!’ I thought angrily. I opened one eye scanning my surrounding and a certain scene caught my eye.
“Give it up Sakura! I got this one!” The blonde girl shouted.
“No way in your life, Ino pig!” The pink haired girl retorted, “I was way ahead of you. I had to look back to see where you were! My toe was at least a tenth of an inch in front of yours!”
‘Ugh so annoying!” I thought.
“No I want to sit next to Sasuke! I was here first!” The blond girl shouted, “You must have been delusional Sakura!”
“No way, I was!” Sakura, the pink hair girl retorted, “Like I’m going to give up this seat for a pig like you!”
A whole bunch of girls joined the fight between who was going to sit next to Sasuke, while he just sat there ignoring the bunch. A boy with blonde hair than sat next to Sasuke’s left. This started a staring contest between them which led to a bad situation.
“Oops sorry are you all right?” A voice called out. Too late, by bumping into the blonde haired boy Sasuke and him was now dead locked in a kiss, which was really amusing. The girls were now glaring at the blonde boy.
“NARUTO YOU ARE SO DEAD!” The girls all shouted at once while he was choking.
--
The incident was amusing seeing Naruto being beat up by a bunch of mindless angry girls. Sasuke, as emotionless as ever just sat there next to a happy Saukra and a beat up Naruto. The door slid open and a sensei came in. It was Iruka with his natural look, pineapple like hair style, a scar that stretched across from one side of his face to the other, and he wore his chunin jacket.
“Welcome to you all!” Iruka opened up with a grin. “Now as of today, you are all ninjas… and to get here, each of you has faced difficult trials and hardships!” He scanned the class once, hands behind his back, and an illustrious position held before the eyes of all the students present.
“But that’s nothing! What comes next will be far more difficult! At this point, you are only Genin: first level ninja. All the Genin will be grouped into three-man-squads. Each squad will be lead by a Jonin, an elite ninja.”
This announcement caught the attention of the whole class. Murmuring erupted between students and groups, eyes looking about in confusion and surprise. Naruto, who was still recovering from the damages inflicted upon him by the mass of girl students, perked up at the news, blinking in surprise.
“Groups of three,” Naruto muttered to himself.
Sakura, who was sitting beside Sasuke, smirked and glanced up at Ino, who was sitting behind her next to Shikamaru. The boy ninja beside Ino left himself out of their conversation, but listened into it none the less with the deepest disregard or care.
“Groups of three, aye?” Sakura exclaimed. “Well, one of us will have to be teamed up with Sasuke!” Ino grinned back, holding up a fist in powerful statement.
“I bet it’s going to be me!” she exclaimed. “You just watch!” Sakura laughed lightly at that.
“Don’t count on it!” the pink haired ninja replied.
Sasuke raised an eyebrow, interlocking his fingers and propping his elbows on the desk. He considered the announcement in his head by circulating it a couple of times over, before eventually coming up with a very disappointing answer.
“An arranged squad?” he whispered, closing his eyes and letting out a sigh. His spirits seemed to lower with his positive thoughts about further training. ‘This’ll only slow me down…’
Naruto let a sigh escape his lips. He gazed into the backs of his eyelids in thought, his mind pondering the chances of his present position and to whom he was going to be teamed up with. Of course, he had definite, high hopes for this one!
As time passed the bickering started to stop. Iruka was still waiting tapping his fingers on his desk. I was just scanning the room for the hundredth time. Iruka was coughing really loudly holding a clipboard in one of his hands, which caught the attention off all the students in the classroom.
“Due to uneven amount of students in this class, one of the teams will have to have four members in it, but that doesn’t change the fact that you’re not going to be pared up toward an unfair advantage. We want each squad to have a balance of strength and abilities. It’s…basically the way we set them up!” Shrugging off the moment, Iruka turned back to the sheet of paper he was holding and smiled, eyes locking onto the first few names. “Okay…I will now be announcing the squads!”
From here, it was just the simple task of calling out the names, arranging all the students into their squads of threes. I decided to close my other eye knowing I was going to be called out eventually. What was the point of keeping one eye open for a long period of time knowing that I would be called sooner or later. Letting out a sigh, I went straight into a brief, meditative state, lingering just outside of that total sincerity of nothingness. For the next few minutes, starting with squad one, Iruka Umino began familiarizing each student with one another, those three who were arranged would come to know each other in whatever squad they were assigned too. It didn’t take long till the teacher eventually reached Squad 7.
Double checking the list to make sure he got it right; Iruka nodded and looked up towards the stands in front of him. “Okay…for the seventh squad we have:
Naruto Uzumaki…!”
The young, yellow haired ninja’s head lifted at this, eyes widening and a state of anticipation immediately falling into place.
“Sakura Haruno…”
The pink haired girl beside Sasuke reacted as expected to this announcement: glum with a slight mix of despair. Naruto however, was quite pleased by this, and let out an enthusiastic cheer. However, just as things seemed to darken around Sakura and brighten up for Naruto, the next name would make a complete switch on the pair’s feelings of the moment.
“Sasuke Uchiha…”
This time, it was Naruto who turned glum and Sakura to brighten up. Her friend Ino, of course, was in a state of dismay as well. The pink haired girl sitting in front of her turned around and gave her the ‘V’ sign, while sticking her tongue out as a further taunting action. In response, Ino fumed, gritting her teeth and fisting her hands. She looked like she wanted to bring Sakura down right then and there!
“Why you…!”
The girl that was sitting across from me in the top row, and had been gazing absentmindedly at Naruto, was a little disappointed to hear this announcement as well. Knowing that it was only a group of three for this one, she knew she missed out in joining up with the boy she was admiring. Hinata sighed and looked away, a little bit upset.
'I won’t be with Naruto then…'
Naruto, in protest to this announcement, stood up and pointed over at Sasuke. His sudden action surprised a couple of the students sitting around him, who immediately had their eyes fixated on him.
“Iruka sensei! Why do I, a great ninja like me, have to be teamed up with a slug like Sasuke? Could you explain that for me please?” the naïve ninja shouted more then asked. Sakura glared at Naruto with white eyes, with fangs seemingly growing in place of a couple of her original teeth.
Iruka took the young ninja’s statements blankly. Letting out a sigh, he fixated his sights on the yellow haired Genin, flapping the piece of paper so that it could enhance his next words. He wanted to make sure that Naruto heard this.
“Naruto…you should know that Sasuke is one of the only students to get the highest scores of all the graduates…” Iruka looked up at Naruto with a harsher stare then was expected, the paper scrunching up in his hand and almost ripping. “You on the other hand got the lowest score. So to balance out the skill levels, we had to team you up with a higher scoring student then you. Let’s just say it works in dominoes…”
The whole class laughed, with Naruto sitting back down with a flushed face. Well, that thoroughly bruised his ego. On top of that, Sasuke used this perfect opportunity to taunt his supposed group rival. He glanced at the yellow haired Genin with a smirk.
“Just don’t get in my way, you dropout…”
Naruto growled at the remark and started to glare at Sasuke and Sakura started to twitch.
Before anymore conflicts could arise amongst the pair, Sakura raised her hand, eyes firmly settled on Iruka. The instructor glanced up at the row and nodded towards the girl, acknowledging her raised hand.
“Iruka sensei! Just who exactly got the highest score out of all of us?” she asked.
Finding promise from this question, the teacher rubbed the tip of his nose before looking down at his sheet. After a brief scan of the names, he found the one Sakura was asking about and looked back up at the class.
“Well, it just so happens that that student is joining Team 7…your team I mean!”
Sakura blinked in surprise, with this announcement also catching the attentions of both Naruto and Sasuke.
“Really?” Naruto queried, his eyelashes batting with a very puzzled expression in play. This was only matched by his eager curiosity.
“Who is it, Iruka sensei?”
Iruka Umino smiled and glanced up at the row, right to the very corner, where he sought out the student hiding in the shadows.
“Yuki Shiro!”
All of the students trailed there eyes to the back of the room, soon finding me cross legged on top of the desk closing my eyes. I ignored all eyes that were staring at me and continued to sit there. Naruto and Sakura had surprised looks on their faces while Sasuke put on an amused one. Almost all his life he believed that he was on the top, and now he found out that someone actually surpassed him shocked him as well, but he was more amused than shocked.
“Her name doesn’t sound familiar…hmm…maybe another orphan or something…”
Once the attention had been torn away from me, including the silence of excited chatter from several of the girl students, every Genin present refocused their attention on their instructor. The remaining list of Teams was read out. Team 8 played host to Kiba Inuzuka, Shino Aburame and Hinata Hyuga. Lastly, Team 10 held Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara and Choji Akimichi. Now that all the teams were decided, Iruka could finally relax, and expect no complaints whatsoever. The students would either get used to their team, or get lost. It was their choice.
“Well then, it seems we have arranged all the students into their squads! Excellent!” Iruka exclaimed, nodding to each of the rows with a proud smile. “Now after lunch, you will all meet your assigned Jonin teachers. So until then, class dismissed…”
With that, the entire class filed out of the room, many of them wanting to get away as quickly as possible so not to attract any more attention then they already had. Sasuke was one of the first to leave, closely followed by said others, who filed out in their groups. Ecstatic at the prospect of meeting their new teachers, all the students left in a loud chorus of chatter. Naruto, Sakura, and Ino were the last to leave, followed later on by me.
~ End of Chapter ~
P_A
