Excited chatter meant their ears as they entered the room where the team will be announced. Naruto took his seat beside Shikamaru while Gaara took his on the other side of Shino. "I'm so excited. I can't wait to become an official genin and go one real missions." his excitement was shared by the other three while Shikamaru just muttered a 'troublesome' beneath his breath, closing his eyes.

The blond blinked and watched as Sasuke entered the room and grinned. The night before Naruto found out that Sasuke was actually quite amusing away from their fellow peers. "Yo Sasuke, come over here!" he called out.

Glancing towards the blond his older brother had formally introduce him to, he hid a smile and walked towards the blue eyed male, "Hey." he greeted sitting next to Naruto while greeting the other three. He might have gone to school with the other two since he was a child, but last night had been the first time he had actually spoken to the two, and he was shocked by how cool they were along with the Hyuga genius. He didn't even know the three had known each other until Naruto had told him how they were close friends since they were practically babies. "You know there is an uneven amount of people who graduated, you think one team will have a team of four or that person will join another team who is short one member?"

Naruto nodded his head, "Probably a team of four, no way are they going to stick a recently graduated genin with a team who has at least half a year of training and experience." the blond crossed his arms, "I wonder who will have the four members though?" The other three shrugged their shoulder. Iruka entered, silencing the class immediately and told them all to get to their seats. "Let's hope we get a good team."

"...Team 7 led by Hatake Kakashi will consist of Namikaze Naruto, Namikaze Gaara, Uchiha Sasuke..." Naruto, Gaara and Sasuke grinned at each other. "And Haruno Sakura." the academy teacher ended gaining three groans and a shout from the mentioned female. The blond and redhead had been made acquainted with the girl and let's just say they didn't have a good impression of her. "Team 8: Aburame Shino, Inuzuka Kiba and Hyuga Hinata, your jounin sensei is Yuhi Kurenai. And the last team will be team 10: Nara Shikamaru, Akimichi Chouji and Yamanaka Ino, your jounin mentor is Sarutobi Asuma. Now any questions?" The blonds hand shot into the air, "Yes, What is it Naruto?"

Placing his hands on the table, blue eyes darting to the person giggling and teasing the blonde kunoichi about how she's not only on a team with 'Sasuke-kun' but the Namikaze heir and his brother while she had a 'lazy ass' and a 'fat boy' he scowled at that. He was best friends with said lazy male and he knew Chouji was a friend of Shikamaru, they even played together as kids, but he wasn't close to the Akimichi heir but he liked him well enough, and he hated bullies. "Why is that thing on our team exactly?" he called out. "I mean, she's practically clueless." Naruto crossed his arms, "Someone should've told her that the lazy look is the default look for all Nara males, but their intelligence makes up for it. Or that the Akimichi's large body mass is required to utilize their clan techniques."

Ino snickered and the sight of Sakura's red face. "Heh serves you right for making fun of Shikamaru and Chouji, forehead girl, though I'm surprised he could hear you from across the room." the blonde hummed.

Iruka shook his head "I'm sorry Naruto." he should have guessed from last night disaster that Naruto, and most likely Gaara, would be holding a grudge and he already knew the Uchiha found the bubblegum haired kunoichi wannabe, annoying but they needed the teams to be balanced, "The three of you were ranked pretty high during the exams and usually we'd put the kunoichi with the highest marks, which is Ino, but if we added her the team would've been over balanced so to balance it, the kunoichi with the lease physical ability was placed with you three."

Ino burst into laughter, "So the only reason forehead is put with those three is 'cause she's a low ranking kunoichi?" the blonde leaned back in her chair, "Ha! Ha! take that Sakura, I would have been on the team had the choice been different." Sakura teeth gritted as she glared at the blond male across the room. Her humiliation was his entire fault, and now that stupid kid was even stealing 'her Sasuke-kun' attention, that just wouldn't due, at all.

"So basically you saddled us with the class loser." Naruto stated with a nod he turned his attention towards Gaara and Sasuke, "Now we know why we were the team with the extra baggage." the two aforementioned snickered at the statement, "At least we have Kakashi as our teacher." he glanced at Sasuke, "You know Kakashi-sensei is the one who trained your brother and cousin, my sister is their other teammate. One of the best teams in their generation, but we can do better."

Sasuke nodded his head, "I heard about Kakashi-sensei from aniki, I can't wait to learn what he teaches us." the Uchiha second born stated, "I'm excited to go out on missions, from what I heard from aniki and the other shinobi from the clan, every thing sounds so fun." Naruto and Gaara smiled with nods, having heard allot of interesting stories from Han, Roshi and Yashamaru throughout the years.

Naruto turned and went to asked Shikamaru and Shino something and blinked when he didn't see them in their seats. Turning his head, he saw that both of them were sitting with their team in a different part of the class and blinked, wondering when they left. "Uh, when did Shika and Shino leave. I didn't even see them?" Sasuke and Gaara blinked and shrugged in surprise.

The doors opened showcasing 8 jounin, the teachers for teams 1-6, team 8 and team 10. Naruto shook his head, "Kakashi is always late by like 3 hours, so we're going to be here for a while, you wanna do something while we wait?" Sasuke and Gaara shared a look before nodding their heads, glancing towards the lone female in the class, he was about to ask her if she wanted to play as well but decided against it, he didn't feel like dealing with the pink haired girl, "Let's play a game!"

Kagome leaned against the couch as she stared at her former teacher with a raised brow, "Are you gonna go anytime soon, you already made your new team wait for you for 3 hours and thirty minutes." the female Namikaze shook her head, "I wonder how there taking it." Having no idea that Kakashi's new team consisted of both of her brothers. "I wonder who Naruto, Gaara, Shika, Shino and Sasuke are teamed with and who their teachers are. Hopefully there with someone good." She smiled, "I feel bad for Neji when I heard Gai was his teacher."

Kakashi snickered and glance at his former student, "You should feel bad for your brothers and Sasuke as well." the copy cat shinobi stood up, and grinned at the confused look Kagome gave him, "They're on the four man team, the last member I can tell won't work well with them, well, I guess she'll try to help Sasuke as much as she can, but Sasuke won't accept her kind of help."

"Fan girl!"

Kakashi nodded his head, "I better get going." he stated with a wave before bringing his hand together to disappear from the room in a flurry of leaves, much to Kagome's annoyance, as she eyed the leaves before shrugging, she'd get Kakashi to clean it when he gets back. She didn't feel like doing anything right now. Blue eyes closed, thoughts of her two mates floated through her head. She couldn't wait until the day they were reunited once more. Them and her children.

Glancing at the clock, Naruto's eyebrow twitched, "He surpassed his own lateness by thirty minutes." the blond stated, placing his head against the table. The three had played several games ranging from 'I spy' to the innocent version of 'I've never' before they ran out of ideas and began doing their own things. Sasuke was flipping through a book, Gaara was asking Shukaku about new sand techniques, so to the outside world he appeared to be day dreaming while the blond sat hunched over his desk drawing new ideas for seals that he'll test out later. Sakura remained where she was, staring intently at Sasuke, who tried to ignore the stare.

The door slid open, "Yo team, sorry for my lateness, well now that I'm here let's meet on the roof for introduction and I'll tell you what we'll be doing." with that said, Kakashi vanished leaving four annoyed looking newly graduated academy students, rolling his eyes Naruto stood up and told the others that they better go.

Tsuzuku

(To be continued)

I'm been really busy with work the past week, but I have the next two days off, so I'm trying to update as much as I can. It's short but it's something at least.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING MINNA-SAN!

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