Slowly Turning into a Ghost

Chapter SEVEN

Naruto was late.

He spent his Saturday learning about chakra and his Sunday trying to climb up a tree without his hands. He stayed out as long as Ghost would let him but he had wanted to stay out longer. Even so, he still managed to sleep though his alarm. With no time for breakfast, he was out the door with his headband in his pocket and his shirt on backwards; once he noticed, he was thankful that his jacket hid it.

Iruka glanced around the classroom once again, he couldn't believe that Naruto was late on his first day as a genin. He had started class like nothing was wrong and none of the passing students noticed that someone was missing. However, it was time for Naruto's team to be announced and he was still not here...

"Next, Team Seven consists of Haruno Sakura,"

The said girl jumped to attention at the sound of her name; who would be on her team? She glanced at her crush. She was allowed to dream right?

"Uchiha Sasuke,"

Sakura jumped out of her seat with joy. Shannaro! She poked her tongue out at Ino. Dreams really can come true.

Sasuke's reaction was the opposite, he didn't move a muscle and ignored the fangirl. Most of the other boys left wouldn't be too bad to have as a teammate. He was ecstatic that Naruto hadn't passed and so he definitely couldn't be stuck on a team with that loser.

"and U-"

Bang!

"Ouch!"

Everyone's attention was on the doorway as a few snickers echos around the room. Rolling his eyes, Iruka made his way to the door. There was only one person that could be.

Naruto winced as he rubbed the bruise forming on his forehead; for some reason he thought the door would be open. By the time he looked up it was swung open and an angry Iruka was upon him.

"You're late! You almost missed out on finding out who is in your team. Go sit down."

Murmurs spread between the students as Naruto guiltily took a spare seat.

"What are you doing here Naruto?" Shikamaru loudly whispered from behind him but the blond just grinned.

"I'm not repeating this again; Team Seven, Haruno Sakura, Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto."

The blond grinned from ear to ear as he finally had time to put on Iruka's old headband. "I passed!"

..

Hours later, Team 7 were the last ones left in the classroom waiting for their new sensei. Sasuke was doing his best to cloud watch but had an obvious twitching eye. Sakura was doing her best to start a conversation with her crush but was failing. Naruto was watching the door for any moment.

He briefly wondered if Ghost was meant to be their sensei and they just couldn't see him. The door should have moved if he entered. He still didn't know much about Ghost; Naruto didn't even know if Ghost was a man or woman, he was pretty sure Ghost was an adult though. Was Ghost a ninja? Was he from Konoha? What if he wasn't!? Naruto would have to ask later.

A little while later, Sasuke got bored and decided it was finally time to speak with her other teammate who she had been ignoring since Team 7 was announced. "How on earth did you manage to pass the test?"

The blond grinned, "I learnt an amazing new jutsu, Sakura-chan! Do you want me to show you?"

"Whatever it is, I bet it isn't worth seeing." Sasuke spoke his longest sentence since the day started. He flashed Naruto a smirk before going back to watching the clouds, ignoring the now starstruck girl.

The boy pouted as he lost Sakura's attention. His eyes made their way back to the door as a prank came into mind.

..

Hatake Kakashi just said the least informative introduction ever hear and his new genin were giving him the least impressed expressions they could muster. Kakashi just smiled, time to time out about the other three. He pointed at the girl sitting in the middle. "Your turn."

Sakura quickly said her name and started going on about her likes and dreams for the future with the dark haired boy to her right. Finally with a nudge she said, rather harshly, that she hated Naruto.

Kakashi sweatdropped and ushed the Uchiha to go. He got a rather short depressing story about how the boy wanted to kill someone. I guess that's not the worse way he could have grown up, the man thought. It's not like he wants to leave the village and destroy the world, so I will accept what I've got to work with.

Finally it was Naruto's go. "My name is Uzumaki Naruto! I like ramen, Iruka-sensei and my friend. I don't like the three minutes it takes for instant ramen to cook or the fact that I can't see or hear my friend. My dream for the future is to become the Hokage! Believe it!"

Naruto grew up interestingly… Kakashi raised his hidden eyebrows at the mention of a friend the boy couldn't see or hear. Did he have an imaginary friend? He noticed that the other two kids were intrigued by the sound of this 'person' too but he didn't give them time to comment before explaining about the second genin test. When he finally escaped, Kakashi had left images of puking in the children's minds and was pretty proud of himself for doing so. He left finding out about Naruto's imaginary friend to another day.

Sorry for such a slow update, I got a new job working at a rental shop at a ski field so I've spend all my free time skiing or learning how to snowboard instead of writing.

I almost wanted to skip this part of the story completely because I'm not changing much yet (I don't want to rewrite the original story) but I feel like I need to show such an important part in Naruto's life.

Thank you everyone for such a response of this story! Its getting so much more attention than I thought it would! I hope it eventually reaches your expectations. What do you think? Do you have any ideas? Can you see and obvious plot/story holes that I'm missing? Tell me in a review.

Thanks for reading! :)

~Chezzy