Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any associated characters.

A/N: This Fanfic is rated M for Violence, Blood and the occasional adult joke (This is a world where several key characters read adult novels, where a character invented a jutsu that shows a harem of naked girls, meaning these things will pop up occasionally, along with the fact that teasing about something between Naruto and Hinata, amuse me to no end)

This is also my first fanfiction, I do not have any beta readers so spelling, characterization and such are all on me, feel free to point out any and all glaring errors. Especially since English isn't my first language. I will try to avoid all the regular pitfalls, but it will be unavoidable that things slip through, feedback will allow me to fix mistakes and prevent future ones. So tear my grammar and spelling a new one if you find errors.

Chapter 1: First Day

Sasuke at the Third Training Ground

A black haired youth stood leaning against a post in the middle of a clearing in the forest that is the Third Training Ground.

Sasuke looking at the area with a scowl on his face. Not only had his new Jōnin-sensei still not arrived, now 20 minutes after they were supposed to meet. His new team members hadn't shown up either.

Why had it to be those two on his team anyways. They were nothing special, why did he, the last Uchiha, have to be dragged down by two useless pieces of trash. If the rumors was to be believed, they were busy doing other stuff with each other and would be useless on a team. If what he saw yesterday was any indication, the rumors was probably true.

Suddenly a loud snap was heard from the forest, Sasuke looked in the direction of the sound. The loud snap was followed by a muffled "Eep". Two young adolescents emerged from a bush, looking incredibly disheveled.

The young girl with the dark blue hair and silver eyes, looked a little worse for wear, her hair littered with small leaves and the occasional twig, she had dirt on her knees and was looking a little flushed, trying to straighten the over-sized jacket she was wearing. While behind her was a Blond boy looking equally affected, dirt was visible several places on that strange orange jumpsuit he was wearing. His hair was filled with leaves, making it look like he was trying to wear an entire bush on his head.

'So that's why they were late, they were doing something in the bushes' Sasuke narrowed his eyes at the two, he wouldn't have believed that the Heiress to the strongest clan in Konohagakure, would demean herself with an outcast like that, but it was none of his business. In fact having those two together, would only serve to make it easier for the Uchiha clan to reclaim their right as the strongest, when he would eventually revive it.

The boy with the yellow hair eventually noticed Sasuke, straightening up and put his hands up behind his head while walking closer. Sasuke sighed to himself, this really was happening, he'd rather avoid that dobe.

The boy with the yellow hair yelled out to him as he got closer. "Oi Sasuke-teme where is our sensei?"

Letting out a low "hn" Sasuke shrugged slightly. Might as well not antagonize his new teammates yet, after all there were worse people to be grouped with. A slight shiver ran out his spine, when he imagined being placed on the same team as the blond gossip and the pink-haired banshee. At least they wouldn't be dogging him all of the time now they had graduated the academy.

A low thump broke Sasuke's line of thought, he looked up and saw their Jōnin-sensei Kakashi standing on the log he was leaning against. Eyes widening slightly in surprise, he quickly composed himself as was seemly for someone of his status. Silently swearing that he hadn't even noticed their new sensei, before he was standing over him.

He looked at his teammates, neither had jumped in surprise, but he noted they had both assumed two stances he hadn't seen before. He couldn't make what to think of the odd stance the blond had assumed, but considering he was below average in their class in Taijutsu he didn't really find it odd.

The Hyūga heir was standing in something that he recognized as a Jūken stance, but there was something wrong with it. It didn't look like the katas he had read about in his clan's vast secret library. The Uchiha had prided themselves in collecting as much information about all the techniques that was used around the Shinobi world and had a gigantic hidden library with all information collected. He had made it a point to study up on the Hyūga clan since it was revealed yesterday that the heir to the clan was to be a teammate.

As far as reactions to a surprise goes, being ready for battle was one of the better ones. Perhaps this might not be as bad as he might have feared. He quickly pushed the thought to the back of his mind, reminding himself that they hadn't actually done anything to show that they wouldn't be a dragging him down yet.

His teammates quickly relaxed as they recognized their new Sensei.

A slightly jovial "Yo" was heard for the man standing behind him. Following him with his eyes as the Jōnin jumped to the ground between him and his new teammates. Rattling off some lame excuse about a cat, a bus, a cloth line and a baby carriage before going into details about the Bell test they were about to do.

The three were standing next to each other when the Jōnin said "Start". He jumped backwards drawing a kunai. What happened next took him by surprise as both the Hyūga and the dobe jumped forward towards their Sensei in incredible burst of speed. They had gone from a standstill to exploding forward towards their target.

The Hyūga reached Kakashi first, ducking low preparing to strike with a Jūken strike to his left side. Kakashi holding a book in his left hand did a cross jab down towards the heiress. In the same second the blond was on him, blocking the punch meant for the girl, while she with a dexterity that he wouldn't have thought possible, dodged further down to the right past the fist still held by Naruto, hitting the side of their sensei's knee. Faltering for less than half a second, the young Uchiha saw his chance and whipped two Shuriken towards their sensei, curving around his sides. The wire attached to them glinting slightly in the sun as they flew around him, ensnaring their sensei. As the shuriken continued their decaying orbit over his ducking teammates into their target, when they finally hit, he simply vanished in a puff of smoke.

"Kage Bunshin" he whispered with a bit of respect and awe in his voice, eyes narrowed as he scanned the area around him, trying to figure out when Kakashi had replaced himself with a clone and where he was hiding.

"Impressive, I must say I wasn't expecting you guys to work together like that, without a word said between you even." The voice startled Sasuke, he was standing right behind him. 'Shit when did he get behind me' he managed to think, just as he was cuffed so hard to the side of his head that he was send spinning across the ground.

"But you're going to have to work harder than that to get the bells" the Jōnin continued, as he disappeared from sight and appeared behind his two teammates that was still standing next to each other after the attack on the clone. Ducking into a low sweep Kakashi kicked out the legs of both of them sending them tumbling painfully to the ground.

The three of them, leaped up and charged their sensei with renewed vigor.

Kakashi sitting in the forest of the Third Training Ground later that day.

He had been impressed, and after several years he had finally found a team he deemed worthy of his tutelage.

When they had announced the team composition the previous day, he had been confused as to why he had been assigned the Hyūga heir. In his initial opinion he would rather have had someone with some book smarts to balance the hothead and the ninjutsu specialist out. But as the day had progressed he could see why she was put on the team with Naruto. The two of them worked together like cogs in a machine. He had been watching the training from a few angles through clones. They hadn't once seen or heard them communicate with each other in any way. Yet their attacks had been in complete synchronization and covering for openings on each other.

He had knew ahead of time that his team would consist of Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto.

The Uchiha was a given, he was the only one that could help him with his bloodline, when it eventually presented itself.

Naruto had been on his own request, The council had forced him to leave his Sensei's son alone while still a civilian. It had broken his heart to see how badly his Sensei's legacy had been treated over the years. He intended to make up for it, and to make up for the shortcomings that had some from the obvious sub-par treatment he had suffered from the teachers at the Academy. He was surprised at the level he had turned out to be at, his taijutsu skills were much better than what he had heard, but it also wasn't the standard taijutsu that had been taught at the Academy, so apparently he had someone teach him something outside of it. Kakashi vowed to himself to thank the person if he ever figured out who had been teaching him. He narrowed his eye slightly as a thought struck him, his style had been reminiscent of Jūken, but instead of using fingers to drive chakra into tenketsu, he was using palm strikes, with a frightening strength for a 12 year old. Wincing slightly as he recalled the memory from one of his clones as it had taken a straight hit to the shoulder.

Someone must have been pushing for Naruto and Hinata to be on the same team, someone that knew something about the two. Most likely the person that had taught them taijutsu, he hoped he could pressure Hiruzen-sama to disclose who. It was the only logical conclusion. He also hoped that Kurenai would forgive him for poaching her surrogate daughter.

All in all, he was happy with the team he had been given to work with. Both Naruto and Hinata had proven to be much better, faster and stronger with taijutsu than what his rapports from Iruka indicated. Of course this wasn't that surprising to be the case since they both displayed combat styles not taught at the Academy. He would have to take it up with Hiruzen-sama about the Academy forcing people to use a taijutsu style no matter how generic, if they already had familiarity with a technique that suited them better.

With Sasuke he had seen resourcefulness in using weapons and tools in combination with an impressive array of ninjutsu, while he didn't have the same amount of team coordination as the two others had displayed, he hope that he would grow into it after seeing how impressive the two were when they coordinated their attacks.

Kakashi sighed and cracked his neck, feeling a little worn out. They had pushed him much farther than he had assumed from kids straight out of the Academy, even with his self imposed handicaps, he hadn't expected to be pushed at all.

After he had repelled their first attack after the death of his clone, he stopped holding back quite as much as he had been. Cracking his back while stretching, he thought back to how Naruto had suddenly switched tactics and started the clone war. He had suddenly been rushed by a huge amount of 3 man clone groups, slowly driving him back, every once in a while, one of his new genin had mixed themselves into the groups to take advantage of the confusion caused. Hinata had almost caught him out with a Jūken strike towards his right shoulder. Sasuke had forced him to Kawarimi with a log to avoid getting singed by a gigantic fireball. While Naruto managed to land a hit, but not before he switched with a shadow clone.

They had managed to drive him into the forest and that when it started to go downhill for him. What the hell was with that forest, it was like the place itself had been out to kill him, could barely take two steps, before some sort of trap had been sprung or having to tread carefully, to avoid triggering some of the more dangerous looking ones. A rather ingenious triple layered trap had actually managed to swipe him in the lower back with a thick branch.

It had been the one that had finally ended the first part of the test. Getting hit by the trap had him take a step forward, instantly he had Naruto take a high kick towards his head while yelling out. Taking his hand up to block, he noticed too late the silent and lithe Hyūga jumping towards the bells, twisting in a feat of agility that would leave many contortionists jealous, past the kick he had snapped out to deter the young girl. Snagging both bells, immediately throwing one up in the air for Naruto to catch.

Sasuke had been the one to be tied to the center log while Hinata and Naruto had been given the bento's he had brought. They had done his test with flying colors technically, but he still wanted to see if they could get past Naruto's dislike for Sasuke. So he had tied Sasuke to the log explaining that after they had eaten they would do a small sparing session to determine the team leader. After he had forbidden them to share the food with Sasuke he had retreated into the wood. The two taijutsu specialists had shared a quick look and without ceremony immediately cut the rope holding Sasuke and allowed him some of the food off their portions. That had cinched it, they were the first group to pass the test to become his students.

"Triple layered" he breathed, remembering the previous day and the trouble he had with the forest click into place. He had been around looking at some of the traps and found himself admiring some of the simple ones, which had proven surprisingly efficient. A slight shiver went down his spine, at the thought of when he eventually taught them how to make their own explosive tags.

A future expert trapmaker, two bloodlines, overall high level of taijutsu through the Hyūga and his sensei's son, together with a strong ninjutsu offence through the Uchiha heir. This is going to be a frightening team, once they get out of D-rank hell and got some actual combat experience, along with life threatening situations to accelerate their growth.

He knew just how much progress stuff like that forced into a person, still he was glad that his team got to have an actual childhood and adolescence. The Third Shinobi World War had robbed him of his, forcing him into the battle field at the young age of 6.

Before they got into all that however, he was going to have to address several glaring issues with the team, besides the teamwork, which he was sure was a question of time not training.

Uchiha Sasuke's taijutsu was suffering from the same issues as his deceased teammate, probably something ingrained in the Uchiha as a whole. His taijutsu had been textbook, it was good, but far from the level of the two others. Anyone with a tiny amount of experience would have picked his defense apart in seconds. He was going to have to help him, so he didn't end up as his old teammate before his bloodline kicked in. Overall he thought the clan relied on the Sharingan too much, they had neglected certain areas of expertise, simply because they relied on their eyes to compensate for it.

His two taijutsu experts were in the opposite end of the spectrum of each other when it came to Chakra.

Uzumaki Naruto had as much control as trying to fill a glass of water under a large waterfall. He had noticed it when the clone war had started, it practically radiated off him while using the technique, pumping at least 3 times the amount needed to create the basic version of the clone and he had still produced close to a 100 clones during the test. While still remaining in peak combat condition. Once he got better control he was going to have to teach him more about the technique he was currently using for brute-force Kakashi knew he already knew about one aspect, one of the clones had spotted him and popped itself, and a few seconds later his genin had been on top of him again.

Hyūga Hinata had a incredible amount of control for her age, he knew that it control was probably beaten into the clan as a whole as soon as they could mould Chakra. Her reserves were very low however. It had been proven when she had hit the knee of his clone, the hit had been spot on, but the amount of Chakra hadn't been enough to actually pop the clone, only the sharp edges of the shuriken had been enough to get it to pop. It wasn't that she couldn't get it to pop, he was certain that if unimpeded, she could easily produce strikes capable of killing a shinobi. The Jūken was an incredibly Chakra intensive fighting style, with all swings expending Chakra. Hits as well as misses. He estimated that the young heir could probably deliver a couple of dozen hits that would be lethal, but she was rationing herself to keep fighting. Noticing how she in combat had been using her Byakugan only rarely, most likely due to the same problem.

He shook his head slightly, with some help to cover their shortcomings and some combat experience, they would soon be ready to become Chunin. Normally new Genins weren't ready for that for years. Hell if they managed to make up for it, and worked to just master the abilities they had now, the three of them would probably be Jōnin in under a handful of years.

Letting out a slight chuckle, he thought about Maito Gai's reaction if his new team would manage to make Chunin, before the team Gai had been training for a year.

Yes, he was going to have to make that happen. Just to watch the punishment Gai would put on himself.

He got up stretched his arms, then turned around to jump away and maybe go visit a certain stone. As he took a single step, a snap sounded in front of him, cursing to himself he ducked under a swinging branch. Half a second later he found himself on his back, landing painfully on a small rock. Right after the high branch had swung at him, a long and very flexible branch had swept out in the other direction hitting the back of his knees causing him to lose balance having ducked backwards to avoid the branch.

Looking up at the sky, he pulled out the little book he carried around.

'I'm just going to lie here until the pain of the embarrassment goes away' noting how he had literally been sitting in the trap the whole time without noticing. It was one of those times he wished, he could use both eyes without exhausting himself.

Same evening, at the Uchiha Main Compund

The black haired prodigy was sitting in the hidden basement that contained the clans secret library. He was pouring over a few scrolls spread out on the table, trying to compare what he had seen today with the information the clan had collected on the Hyūga styles of fighting. It just wasn't making sense, she was the heir to the clan, why were her style different. The scrolls had descripted the style as rigid, hard but brutally efficient, with no wasted actions and using any opening created to strike devastating blows.

What he had seen today while outwardly looking like the Jūken described here, how she had actually used it had been very different. She had been moving with grace, and instead of blocking many of the blows, she had floated around them, snaking out counter strikes. Strikes that weaved through the defense instead of exploiting openings. Against a target that much stronger than them it was the right way to go about. Their Jōnin-sensei wasn't one to leave openings like that, the few openings he had tried to exploit had been to lure him to overextend with a disastrous outcome for him as the result.

His shoulder were still sore from getting thrown down into that trap on the forest floor. Which had triggered it, hitting him in the gut with a branch, causing him to get slammed into the tree behind him.

All those traps were definitely that dobe's work. He had been wondering, when he had set them up. Recalling the staggering amount of clones that had been running around. There probably were several clones running around in the forest, while they had been fighting in the clearing.

"Stupid clones" he grumbled with a hint of jealousy in his voice. After they had been done, he had swallowed his pride and asked the dobe if he would teach him the technique. Kakashi-sensei had intervened stating that the Kage Bunshin was a B-rank jutsu explicitly forbidden to teach to anyone below Jōnin. Explaining that creating even one clone at his current level would most likely kill him with Chakra exhaustion.

He slammed his hands into the table, yelling with rage "ONE CLONE, ONE, HE MADE A HUNDRED" was this really the difference between them, was he doomed to stand in the shadow of that orange moron. He vowed to search the library for information on these Uzumakis, obviously it had to be a bloodline, no random orphan would be strong enough to rival the Uchiha.

Still seething with rage, he recalled how the dobe had declared him a rival in school. He hadn't really take it seriously, the idiot was terrible in all classes and hadn't even graduated right together with them, only being able to get his Hitai-ate under what had been called extraordinary circumstances. He had been holding back, probably laughing behinds his back. It was infuriating.

He calmed himself down, it was usable. The guy that had proclaimed himself his rival, turned out to be an actual rival. He could use this, use it to become stronger. He'd do anything necessary to become stronger, even tolerate the dobe. That man was still far, far ahead of him, he would need a rival and people to train with to become that strong, he was pushing the limit of growth he could attain on his own. So he would welcome them, and use them to attain his goal.

Their abilities had stunned him, how had they gotten so strong when they were using so much time on stuff, he didn't have time for stuff, not until he had killed That man. Once that was done, then he would have time for reviving his clan.

He had gone off a tangent, bending back down towards the table pulling out a scroll he had been working on for a two years now. He had new entries for it today. He had started it following a certain day, and had slowly been growing with new techniques. While he wasn't fond of relying on the genius of someone that wasn't himself. He would take whatever that could help him get stronger. It had been the only thing he had respected about the dobe before today. The traps.

There was one other in his class that also recognized the skill and had directly asked the dobe to teach him. It was something he had never expected out of the lazy pineapple. Asking for work. It had piqued his interest, the lazy bastard never did anything without reason. If he had taken an interest, it would definitely be useful.

Unlike the pineapple, his dislike for the loudmouthed dobe had kept him from seeking him directly to become stronger, but had instead opted to write down all variations and trigger mechanisms (Many used against himself, to his chagrin). Some of the work he had seen since that day had been genius, bordering on insane in its intricacy. He couldn't believe some of the stuff he had done, but he supposed the dobe was an idiot savant and this was his area of expertise.

After today, he couldn't really call him that anymore, he clearly had several areas of expertise. It happened to be areas where he could use improvement, which pleased him to no end. More opportunities to grow stronger.

Naruto in his small apartment in the slums

Naruto was lying in his bed, staring up the slightly buzzing fluorescent light in this ceiling. It had been a long day and he was completely worn out. Over the last two days since that night, he had been feeling dead tired, when he finally got to lie down. Something that hadn't happened before, ever. There were benefits to being this tired, it kept some of his terrible nightmares at bay. Sure they had tapered off over the last 3 years. He had expected them to come back, now that he finally understood the reason, to why he was having them.

He was a bit sad, he hadn't gotten to do his regular training today due to how exhausting it had been to actually get those bells. It had been worth it though, seeing the teme's face when he and Hinata-chan had dashed towards their new sensei. Their Jōnin-sensei had been holding back any idiot could see that, but he was still pleased with the progress they had shown. The result of their training.

The fact that he had managed to force their sensei into a few of his traps, and one of them had even hit him brought a smile to his face.

He got up and turned off the light, collapsing back onto his bed and was promptly out snoring away.

Academy Antics: The beginnings of a trap master.

Naruto (Age 10) was walking down the hall towards the classroom with his hands behind his head and a huge shit eating grin on his face.

Today he would get revenge over Teme for hitting him in the back, causing him to face plant during practice earlier this week. Yesterday they had started on a new class, one that had piqued his interest. Advanced Trap making.

He had instantly seen the prank potential in this class and had for once, actually followed the class as the teacher had gone through the material covering the first lessons.

He had looked around during the class, and most had been looking incredibly bored. Except for the pineapple, the one guy, that was usually paying as little attention as himself. Had been following the class as well. He was going to have to show him what he had done, sure his fellow comrade in arms would appreciate his work.

Walking into the class, he wandered past the table where the pinkette and the blond gossip was trading barbs, leaning a bit towards then while saying in a low voice "Sasuke-teme said that he wanted to speak to you out near the tool shed." Instantly the two fan girls perked up looking at him. Both got up, shouting that he was obviously taking to her and not the other one as they raced out the room shoulder to shoulder, pushing each other.

Naruto walked over to the window with a clear view of the training ground where the tool shed holding the equipment for their taijutsu classes were kept.

He wave to the pineapple, motioning him to come to the window. A low "troublesome" was heard as he got out of his chair. Seeing the laziest guy in the class getting out of his chair, most of the class joined him at the window. Hinata-chan had found her usual spot right next to Naruto, looking out the window.

Down in the courtyard, Sasuke had just exited the tool shed, he had been on equipment duty today and was just finished putting everything away. Walking back towards the building he noticed a wire glinting in the sunlight, shaking his head he mumbled "Not going to get me that easily, dobe" and walked up to the wire, it was strung high. To get over it he would have to jump, not feeling up to it, he instead brought out a wire cutter from his tool pouch and cut it.

The taunt wire snapped up making a small cut on his hand, cursing as it drew a little blood, only too late realizing that the wire had been much too tight to be a normal tripwire he managed to get out a small "shit" before getting drenched in a large amount of water in the suspended tin trough that had been hidden in the leaves of the tree, the wire had been going to.

Kiba watching the whole thing barked out a small laugh at the sight.

It was a late autumn day and kinda cold, Sasuke quickly pulled off his jacket and shirt walking over to the sink that was placed near the tool shed. Attempting to wring out most of the water. As soon as he had reached the sink, the side door of the building slammed open.

Sakura and Ino had been sprinting all the way down here, both promptly letting out a squeal as they saw the shirtless Uchiha standing near the shed, dashing over towards him.

The squeal had drawn his attention. Eyes widening in a fear he hadn't felt the like since that night, he turned away from the two bearing down on him and ran away from the as fast as he could.

Back up in the class room Kiba had collapsed of the floor winded from laughing so hard, even Shino had quirked an eyebrow which was as much of a reaction as you would ever get out of the stoic boy.

Shikamaru turned towards the mischievous blond. "Oi Naruto, you know that is going to be troublesome later, right?" Never being a stickler for formality, the young Nara hated honorifics. They were much too troublesome.

He had just turned towards him with a big grin plastered all over his face, to which he could only shake his head before returning to his seat sinking down into it making himself as comfortable as possible, content to watch the eventual fallout once the Uchiha had managed to double back towards the class. He had to admit, it had been a stroke of genius to use an obvious wire to hide the true purpose of the trap, and then letting the two fan girls lose on him.

Traps could probably save him a lot of work in the future, especially as he got more into his clan techniques, he could understand his father's insistence that he should pay attention to this particular class.

A/N: Alright, that was the first chapter. It ended up containing a lot more deconstruction of what happened during the day the chapter was supposed to be about. I felt it necessary to point out a few key differences between this and the cannon. Besides the changes to Naruto and Hinata who will be differentiating from the cannon by quite a bit, moving further and further away as the story progresses.

Mainly I've changed Kakashi and Sasuke to be closer to how they are described and not how they are depicted in the cannon.

Kakashi is supposedly a genius who is smarter than Shikamaru only beaten by his father Shikaku. This is never shown right in the cannon. So compared to the cannon I've taken the liberty to give him a level in intelligence. While I'm not quite that clever myself, I hope I get him closer to how someone that smart is supposed to be.

Sasuke has likewise been given a level in intelligence compared to the cannon, he will be acting less on his feelings in this one, which in itself will create a lot of ripples across how everything plays out. In the cannon he is shown to be the one that has the best grades of the whole class (while Shikamaru could beat him, he doesn't due to being lazy), this makes it reasonable to assume that he is pretty damn clever and book smart. So I've shown him as such. His physical and ninjutsu abilities are compareable to the cannon but his intelligence will make him stronger than he would be at the current point in the cannon.

This makes him fairly balanced compared to the level in badass both Naruto and Hinata has been given due to events not yet shown (Expect some of them in Chapter 3 or 4)

In whole I was disappointed in how training in the cannon before the first C-rank missions were handled so that has been rectified as well. This means for everyone not just the 3 genin teams, every Shinobi will generally be stronger than the cannon counterpart so a certain degree.

You don't send out kids against life threatening situations before they have at least completed basic training.

That was what I wanted to address about this first chapter. The next one will step 2 days back in time and be about the final exam day and graduation.

It will be more about the two stars of this fanfic, Naruto and Hinata, and much less thinky thinky.

Academy Antics will be a recurring thing with small things that happened during their school days.

Feedback and reviews appreciated, but keep it constructive please, "This sucks" doesn't help me improve my writing.