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The birth Of Team 7 (Part I )

'phew' Blowing the smoke off, the Third settled down his brush. It was the painting he has been working on for a few weeks now and it was finally conplete. Of course being the hokage left him with very less amount of free time, but he was used to it now after all he has been the Hokage for far too long.

Putting the painting aside he lifted the academy's report from his table. It was that time of the year, putting these newly graduated genins in a squad of three was one of the most difficult decision he had to make and he never liked it.

Although it wasn't that hard this time, he already had the pictures of the squads in his head. There was a saying in the ninja world, 'The successor will always surpass his predecessors' and he has seen it with his own eyes.

It was his job as the Hokage to make sure these new seeds get enough resources to develop into big trees, after all they carried 'The will of fire' in them. The Hokage was in deep thought when a knock on the door pulled his attention.

"Come in" putting the reports aside he looked at the blonde head peeping from the half opened door. "Hokage-ojisan, you called me?"

Smilling to the kid he nodded "Come in little Naruto, have you been well?" Stepping inside Naruto closed the door "I've been good jiji, just a bit excited about the graduation ceremony"he grinned.

Hiruzen chuckled, of course it was natural to be excited, he himself couldn't sleep whole night before his graduation. "So, you must be wondering why I called you right?" the Hokage recieved a nod from the blonde and got up.

"Well there were a few things I wanted to give you" opening his cupboard he took out a small box "First your monthly pocket money and second some of your father's belongings" he said and gave the box to Naruto.

Hearing the second reason alone Naruto's excitement went to a whole different level. Quickly taking the box he opened it. On the top was a Kunai, a very unusual kunai that he hasn't seen before. Below it was a book, not that Naruto was too into reading but if the book belonged to his father he'll definately read it. And lastly below the book was a photo.

A photo of Minato and pregnant Kushina, their hands were on her baby bump and both had big smiles on their face. Naruto smiled, it was the second photo of his mother that Hiruzen has given him. He didn't needed someone to tell him how happy his parents were at that time, their smiles revealed it all.

Wiping the tears from the side of his eyes he chuckled lowly. Putting the things back in the box Naruto hugged the old man "Thank you so much jiji". The Hokage patted his head "I'm sure they'll be proud of you Naruto".

Letting go of him Naruto smiled back "I better be going jiji or Izumi-neechan's gonna be mad at me for being late" the Hokage nodded and patted his head for the last time "And yeah about the money, you can give it to Izumi-neechan as always" with those last words he was out.

"Well that went better than we expected" the Hokage said while coming back to his seat. The last time he'd given Naruto a photo, the blonde had cried for hours before calming down with the help of Izumi.

"Yes, better than the last time" came a rather familiar voice came from the window. Turning to his left the hokage frowned on the sight of his young ANBU.

"And how many times did I tell you to come from the gate?" Hiruzen glared at the shinobi "You're picking up his hobbies Itachi, and that too the bad ones. It's only a matter of time before he corrupts you with his so called research."

Itachi jumped inside while rubbing the back of his head sheeplessly "Sorry Hokage-sama, I'll try to come from the gate next time. And if Izumi ever found out about the second part she'll definitely kill me." Hiruzen sighed It was no use he wasn't going to change, It'll be the window next time as well.

"Alright Itachi report" the said shinobi pulled a scroll and put it on the desk "Jiraya-sama said he has found some lead on his hideouts, he'll following them" Picking up the scroll Hiruzen read it, his eyes twitched and he shook his head on the part 'I don't need reinforcements'. 'sometimes it feels like I'm his student' he sighed. "That'll be all Itachi you're dismissed" Nodding to his kage Itachi bowed and left.

Putting the scroll down he picked his cigar, looking at the photos of the fellow Hokages he blew the smoke "I wish you were here to see how much he has grown, Minato".

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Sakura sat in the classroom for what she thought to be the final time, the exams were finally over, of course being a bookworm as her friends called her, she had topped in her class when it came to theory and tactics but her skills weren't that great when it came to the physical part.

She looked around the room gazing at all the familiar faces not really knowing whose face will she be seeing fr the last time and the mere thought horrified her. She wanted to be on the team with Naruto, no matter what. It wasn't that easy though and she knew it. Naruto's Ninjutsu skills were way above any other students of the class and the only one who could match up to him was Sasuke.

She looked at the Duo one with his head down on the desk probably sleeping, while other staring out of the window at nothing. 'What a pair of carefree people' she thought to herself. It was like they were from a different world or something well considering their skills as well.

At this moment of time, Sakura felt her life was a total cliffhanger. She sighed 'There's no point in worrying about it right now' she said to herself and nodded.

"Team 10" Iruka called out "Shikamaru Nara, Choji Akimichi and Ino Yamanaka". Sakura nodded, Ino had already told her about this 'The Legendary Ino-Shika-Cho'.

"Team 8:Hinata Hyuga, Kiba Inuzuka and Shino Aburame" Those three were always a mystery to her. Hinata was always fainting over places, Shino was completely anti-social and lastly Kiba well he was too loud.

"Team 7: Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, and Namikaze Naruto"... Ok Sakura wasn't one of the types to jump, shout and celebrate. And even if she was, the environment of the class would've definitely stopped her from doing so.

Each and every head was turned in Naruto and sasuke's direction with clear signs of surprise at their faces. She turned and looked at the duo who were still in the same position as before 'yep not a care of the world' She thought to herself.

Announcing the members of other squad Iruka said "All of you will be meeting your jonin instructor after the lunch break" and with that he left. There was a sudden moment of silence before the class erupted in chaos once again, students calling out to others, some of them walking out for lunch, some just sitting and talking.

There wasn't anything else to do, so Sakura decided to go to her teammates, but before she could a voice next to her scared the hell outta her "Hn, well It's not that bad to team up with you" Sakura jumped in surprise as she saw the Uchiha sitting next to her. Putting a hand over her heart she sighed and glanced to where Sasuke had been sitting before.

"When did you get here? I didn't even notice" she said in a rather surprised tone as she sat back down.The Uchiha grunted "As soon as Iruka sensei left. you're kinda slow, I hope you won't hold us back" he said with a scowl.

A scowl appeared on Sakura's face as well, she didn't liked it when someone called her weak. Mimicing Sasuke, she grunted as well while muttering "What a dick" under her breath loud enough for Sasuke to hear.

Sasuke eyebrows twicthed, he glared at the pinkette and got an equal glare in response. But before It'd go any further a palm connected to Sasuke's face pushing him away. Naruto chuckled as he sat in between the two "Now now Sasuke don't fight with Sakura, after all we just got teamed up" he finished smiling at her.

Sakura smiled back at him "It's good to be on a team with you Naruto-kun". Naruto nodded "We feel the same Sakura" he said gaining a groan from Sasuke telling him he was totally wrong.

Naruto just chuckled and turned to Sakura " I know it's weird but I smell Mebuki-san's special pancakes and just the thought of it makes me hungry. So do you mind sharing some because I'm really hungry?" It was one of the more things she like about him, speaking frankly from all his heart.

Over the years they've became really good friends, It was one of Naruto's speciality actually-To make new friends without any problems. It was not only Naruto though Ino, Shikamari, Choji, Itachi, Izumi she had bond with all of them now, It was formed before she could even knew and now she was so grateful that it did.

To Naruto, Sakura was just as special friend as others. It was his nature to be true and completely open to the ones he could trust knowing that they won't judge him just by his words.

He'd met Sakura's parents many times after the first encounter and it was pretty easy to get along with those folks. Even though her dad was a civilian, he sure had pretty heroic tales that perked the blondie's interest.

Sakura quickly shook her head and pulled out her lunch box "I was about to ask if you guys were hungry, but you beat me to it" she said smiling. Naruto just chuckled and rubbed the back of his head before they digged in.

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Sakura was happy? of course she was. She was on a team with Naruto as she had always wanted and just had a great lunch with her team.

Sakura was mad? Of course she was. Their so called sensei (elite ninja of the konoha) was 3 hours late!!!!

"Where is our sensei?" Moaned Sakura "He's late. I thought shinobi were supposed to be punctual of time"

"He must be testing our patience, Sakura" Sasuke said calmly. Looking at the Uchiha she sighed " I guess..." she wanted to say something more, but decided to let it slide.

A few minutes later the door of the class slid opened. The genins turned to face the door as a head of silver hair poked in, a single eye looking over them while the other was covered with his headband and a mask covering the lower half of his face.

"Hmmm..." murmured the cycloptean jounin. He looked at his new genins in front of him, it was difficult to get a reasonable first impression out of them. A sleeping blonde, a brooding emo and a glaring pinkette "Sorry I'm late; I..." he weakly chuckled "Well nevermind that, meet me on the roof" with that, he disappeared in a puff of smoke.

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The only thing that was stopping Sakura from exploding right now was Naruto's hand holding hers and of course that cheesy smile. Somehow even in the darkest moments it had the power to bring a smile on others face.

Reaching on the roof they settled down in front of the jounin who was sitting on the railing. Looking at the genins settled he spoke "Alright then since we're meeting for the first time, how about we do some introductions?" seeing the three genins nod he started.

"Well my name is Kakashi Hatake, I'm a jounin of Village hidden in the leaves, the things I like hmmm... I like a lot of things, the things I dislike...I don't really dislike anything and the dreams for the future hmmm... I've never thought of it"

The genins looked at him with complete annoyance 'Is that what you call an introduction?' 'Is this guy for real?' 'All he did tell us was him name'.

"Alright pinky, you go first" Kakashi called out. Startled for a second there Sakura nodded "My name is Sakura Haruno, I like reading, gardening and spending time with my parents and all my friends, I dislike perverts and people who think others are beneath them and my dream of future..." her cheeks flushed "It's something personal"

Kakashi nodded "Good. Alright next, blondie." "My name's Naruto Namikaze, I like to train, learn new moves, my friends and Ramen, I really don't dislike anything and as for the dreams of future I want to become the greatest hokage and surpass my old man" he grinned.

Kakashi's visible eye widen in surprise, but his surprise soon melted in a broad smile "Well that's some dream you got there kid. Alright, the last one"

"The name's Sasuke Uchiha, I particularily don't like anything other than my family and friends, I hate almost everything and dreams of the future...surpass my elder brother."

Glancing at the uchiha one more time a small smile crept on Kakashi's face 'well you've raised him better than I expected Itachi' he thought. Nodding to himself he leapt on his feet "All three of you are unique and possess different traits, so tomorrow we'll have a survival exercise. All you've done at the academy has got you selected for becoming genin but this test tomorrow will be the final one" Seeing the genins nod once again Kakashi nodded as well "Okay then, meet me at training ground 7 sharp at 6 in the morning.Oh yeah, and don't eat breakfast or else you'll throw up" giving a last eye smile he vanished.

There was a moment of silence before Sakura spoke up"I don't understand" She looked at her teammates "I mean how will be able to pull out our true strength with empty stomachs?"

"Hn, you're right. A survival exercise on empty stomach doesn't makes sense. What do you think Naruto?"

The two turned to see their third teammate deep in his thoughts. His elbows rested on his knees and the fingers interwined in front of his face, he kept looking where Kakashi was sitting before. "Oi Naruto". No response. "Oi Naruto". No response.

"Dammit Naruto snap out of it" 'whack'

Sakura visibly cringed at the sight, feeling sorry for the blonde. 'that must've hurt' she thought to herself. While her inner self just wanted to get out and punch the heck out of Sasuke.

"Ow, Geez Sasuke calm down, will ya?"He said rubbing the spot he was whacked on. Looking at the still glaring Uchiha he sighed "Well he seemed familiar to me as if I've seen him before or something. And yeah, you guys are right, It'd be a good idea to have a little breakfast just in case."

Sasuke and Sakura nodded, a small bite won't hurt now would it? and even if it did It'd still be rather better than fighting on empty stomach.

The genins of team 7 sat silently as they saw the sun going down the horizon. They could worry about other stuff later, but right now this was more important. The sun emitting the orange rays, the silent chirping of birds, it was the best way to end their such a long day.

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AN: And there you have it, the latest chapter.

I'll try to get the next chapter in asap which will be the part 2 of this, basically a continuation.

And yeah, reviews will be appreciated. They kind of boosts my morale to write more for you guys.

Untill then, burninghell;)