Just a Note:
This story is also posted on fanfiction under the same title, but my username there is xAmaterasux... enjoy!
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Teamwork, the Answer is Teamwork!
Chapter 1 – Team 7
“Team 7,” Iruka’s loud voice echoed throughout the classroom. “Uzumaki Naruto!” Naruto looked up from his seat between Sasuke and Sakura. I hope that I am with Sakura-chan! Naruto thought happily to himself, while playing with the forehead protector that he was wearing. “Hyuuga Hinata!” Hinata looked up at their sensei with a smile on her face. Yay! I’m with Naruto-kun! She thought. “And, Uchiha Sasuke!” Sasuke looked at his teammates. Che, I’m with the dobe. This is stupid. But at least the Hyuuga isn’t a fangirl.
“NOOO!” both Sakura and Ino wailed when they noticed that they weren't on the same team with their beloved Sasuke-kun. "Ha!" Sakura screamed suddenly, turning around and standing up to point at her rival, making the whole class turn around and look at her, well, except for Sasuke and Naruto, who was moping over the fact that he and Sakura weren't on the same team. The rest of the class was confused, why did Sakura seem happy?
"At least you're not on the same team as Sasuke-kun!" Sakura exclaimed while Iruka demanded that Sakura sit down, so he could continuing with announcing the team arrangements. Sakura obeyed with a slight smirk on her face.
"So," started Iruka, "With that over, Team 8! Haruno Sakura!" Sakura hoped she wasn't with someone bad. "Inuzuka Kiba! Aburame Shino!" Sakura groaned. She got the dog boy and the silent freak on her team. Oh great.
"Ha!" Ino taunted Sakura from the seat behind her. "You got dog boy on your team, Forehead-girl! You have the worse teammates!" Ino ignored Sakura's glare and laughed quietly to herself, but stopped when she heard her name being called.
"Team 10, Yamanaka Ino! Nara Shikamaru! Akimichi Choji!" Ino sighed; okay maybe her team was worse than Sakura's. Ino sighed and prepared herself for what Sakura was going to torment her about.
"Oh," started Sakura with an innocent look on her face, "What was that Ino-pig? What was that about my teammates being bad?" Sakura smiled deviously. Iruka finished calling out all the teams and dismissed everyone for lunch.
“Don’t forget to wait in the classroom after lunch for your Jounin senseis to pick you up!” Iruka called out to the Genin as they all left the classroom. Hinata walked out of the classroom quickly, in search of Naruto. She had two bentos in her hands; today she was determined to get Naruto to eat the lunch that she made for him. But as she walked towards the doorway, not looking where she was going, she bumped into somebody’s back. Hinata looked up and say a red and white fan on navy blue before looking down.
“G-Gomen,” she apologized. “I-I wasn’t l-looking where I-I was going U-Uchiha-san, s-sorry.” Sasuke turned around and glared at the shorter girl before he recognized who she was and replied, “If you and I are going to be on the same team, please get out of the habit of stuttering so much and apologizing so much. Sooner or later, it is going to get annoying. Talk up, you aren’t going to be notice by Naruto if you are so quiet.” With that, Sasuke left a blushing Hinata behind. How did he know about my crush? She asked to herself as she started to look for Naruto again.
Hinata found Naruto sitting under a tree with his eyes closed. She set the bentos next to her on the ground. “N-Naruto-kun,” Hinata said as she shook Naruto softly, trying to wake him up. “N-Naruto-kun,” she said as her hand moved to shake his shoulder again. Naruto batted her hand away and mumbled something in his sleep.
Hinata tried again but this time Naruto responded, “Sakura-chan, do you want to go out sometime?” Hinata backed away slowly. Shock and rejection were splattered all over her face. She turned around and ran away, tears lining her eyes. She ran all the way to the training grounds, the bentos from before clearly forgotten. She wiped the tears from her eyes and settled into her Jyuuken stance. She looked at the training log in front of her and envisioned that it was Haruno Sakura.
Then with a yell, she gathered chakra into her leg and hit the post, blasting it to pieces. She knew that this was the improper technique, but she didn’t care. She had all this anger welled up in her and she needed to get rid of it some how.
Hinata saw a bird fly overhead, signaling that lunch was over. She headed back to the Academy to meet-and-greet her new sensei.
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Sasuke looked around the empty classroom, only Naruto, Hinata, and himself were left in the classroom. Many senseis had come to get their teams earlier and everyone else had gone, except Team 7. Naruto and Sasuke were sitting in the front of the room. Sasuke was observing everyone while Naruto was grumbling and complaining about how their sensei was one hour late. Sasuke turned his head around and saw Hinata sitting in the back corner of the room, looking out of the window with a blank expression on her face.
Sasuke was confused. How come the Hyuuga wasn’t fawning over Naruto right now? Suddenly, Naruto stood up and walked over to the chalkboard in the front of the room. His picked up an eraser and walked over to the door. He opened the door slightly and placed the eraser at the top of the door. “What are you doing?” Sasuke asked Naruto with a cold tone to his voice.
“When Sensei opens the door, the eraser will fall down on his head! He deserves it for being late!” Naruto exclaimed, with a triumphant look on his face.
“Naruto,” Hinata said harshly, “That wouldn’t be a very good idea.” Sasuke was shocked while Naruto ignored her. Last time, I remembered her talking to Naruto very nicely and calling him “Naruto-kun”? What had happened between the two of them? Suddenly, the door opened and in looked a man with silver hair and a mask covering his face with his forehead protector covering his left eye.
He then turned around to look at the group. “My first impression of you guys is, I hate you.” Everyone face-faulted at his statement. “Come’on let’s get going.” Everyone stood up and followed him out of the Academy.
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“Okay, let’s begin with some introductions”, the Jounin told his student. The Jounin was sitting on the railing and the student where on the steps.
“What should we say?” Naruto asked.
“How about… your likes, dislike, dreams for the future, hobbies, ect.”
“Hey, hey, why don’t you introduce yourself to us first?” Naruto said right back.
The Jounin point to himself and said, “Well, my name is Hatake Kakashi. I don’t want to tell you guys about my likes and dislikes. Dreams for the future? Well, I have lots of hobbies…”
Naruto looked at Hinata and Sasuke and said, “So we only learned his name?” Both Sasuke and Hinata ignored him.
Kakashi said, “Now it’s your turn.”
Naruto got excited and grabbed his forehead protector and start to play with while it was still on his forehead, like he had done earlier that day, “Me, me, I’m Naruto Uzumaki. I like cup ramen! What I like even more is the ramen from the Ichiraku that Iruka-sensei buys me. What I dislike is waiting the three minutes for the cup ramen to cook. My hobby is eating tons of cup ramen! My dream for the future is… To surpass the Hokage! And then have all the people of this village to acknowledge my existence
Kakashi moved his hand and pointed to Hinata and said, “Next.”
Hinata started talking with a somewhat confident voice, but there was still a stutter, “I-I’m Hyuuga Hinata a-and I like to make m-medicine and to l-look at the scenery. M-my h-hobbies are m-making medicine and gardening. I dislike.” She mumbles were the rest of the team could not hear her. During that time Naruto tried to get closer to her to hear. She than looked up and said in a strong confident voice without stuttering, “My dream is to get my Clan to notice me.”
Kakashi said mostly to himself, “Hmmmm.” Than he said, “And the last one.”
“My name is Uchiha Sasuke. I dislike a lot of things, but I don’t really like anything.” Sasuke face change to a more serious face and said, “And… I don’t want to use the word “dream,” but I have an ambition is to the resurrection of my clan, and… to kill a certain man.”
Kakashi than said to everyone else, “Okay, you guys are all interesting. Tomorrow, we will begin training. I advise you to not eat breakfast, or you’ll regret it. Go to Training Grounds early in the morning. Dismissed.”
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Hinata arrived bright and early to the Training Grounds. When she got there, Sasuke was already there, standing and looking around. Neither Naruto nor Kakashi had arrived yet. Hinata waved to Sasuke while he gave a curt nod in response.
Hinata walked over the one of the three trees stumps to the side of the Training Grounds and leaned on the tree stump. Hinata then noticed a blue stone structure to the other side of the tree stumps. She looked at it sadly and bowed her head down, tears streaming down her face. Sasuke looked at her, curious over why the girl was crying.
Sasuke walked over to Hinata and asked her, “Are you okay?” Sasuke was amazed at himself, why was he being so kind to a girl? Hinata just turned away from Sasuke and ignored his question. Sasuke was somewhat hurt, but just walked back to where he was originally standing and continued to wait for Naruto and Kakashi.
-One hour Later-
Hinata was still looking at the stone while Sasuke continued to stand. “Hey guys!” said a loud voice as Naruto walked up to them. “Where’s Kakashi-sensei?” Both Sasuke and Hinata ignored him. Naruto shrugged and joined them in waiting.
-Another Hour Later-
“Yo!” said Kakashi, suddenly appearing on one of the three tree stumps. “Sorry I’m late, I got lost on the road of life.” All three of the genin looked at Kakashi like he was crazy, but didn’t say anything. “Okay.” Kakashi brought out 2 bells than said; “Your task for today is to take these 2 bells from me before noon.” He emphasized it by making the bells ring. “Those who cannot get a bell by noon get no lunch!” They now understood why Kakashi told them not to eat breakfast.
“Wait a minute! Why are there only 2 bells?” Naruto asked.
Kakashi smile or at least they thought because his eye made a crescent shape and said, “Because there are 2, so at least one of you will be sent back to the Academy. It might be just one, but it could be all 3. You can use anything you have against me. But, you won’t be able to get these bells unless you come at me with a killing intent.”
“But you’ll be in d-danger, Sensei!” Hinata said alarmed, she didn’t want to hurt their sensei on their first day of training.
“Yeah, you couldn’t even dodge a blackboard eraser!” Naruto exclaimed, grinning.
“In the real world, those with the least talent often bark the loudest. Well, Mr. Baka.” Kakashi said as everyone noticed that Naruto was getting angry. Kakashi continued, “And start when I say…” Naruto by this time was fuming and grabbed a kunai from his pouch. He went after Kakashi with it in his hand, surprising both Hinata and Sasuke by his actions.
Suddenly, Kakashi appeared behind Naruto with Naruto hand’s that held the kunai twisted behind his head. Kakashi moved Naruto free arm behind his other arm, making it that when Naruto struggled, the kunai would hurt him. “Hold your horses, I haven’t said “start” yet.”
Hinata and Sasuke jumped back at seeing Kakashi there. They just stared at the situation that was unfolding in front of them. Kakashi smiled and said, “Finally seems like I’ll be able to like you guys, seeing how you can come at me with the intent to kill. Okay, ready… start!” They all jumped in different directions, hiding themselves in the trees.
And so Team 7’s “training” with their new sensei began.
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