Disclaimer- I don't own Naruto or its characters, but Tatami Izuma, Tojo Mura, and Kaza Togusa are my ideas.

Team 9, Team Genma

A/N- I decided to try writing a Naruto story, and decided it would be fun to make it a bit different. I also admit my grammar is not the best. If you like it please review, if I don't get any review, I will know it is not worth updating, and just leave if here, more then likely. Please read and review.

Chapter 1- Genma gets a team

Shiranui Genma sat quietly in the office of the 3rd Hokage. Apparently the Hokage had a new mission for him, and had sent for him earlier that morning, but he had heard nothing as of later, as to what type of mission he was going to be taking part of. As he sat outside the office of the leader of Honoha, Genma's mind went over the possible missions he could be about to undertake. It was likely that it would be some type of mission dealing with the new and almost unknown sound village. It also very likely could be an order for him to rejoin the ANBU. Has walked to the office, he did notice, both Hayate Kakashi, and Sarutobi Asuma. They were both former members of the ANBU, and if they were in need of some more ANBU members for the short term, they would be ones to tell to rejoin for a bit. So his mind was sure, he was to be back in the ANBU, which he resigned from around 3 years before. As he noticed Raidou open the door to the office he was confident in his thinking.

Sarutobi gave off a little smile when noticed Genma enter into the room. He was almost 100 sure, that Genma had no clue of the mission he was about to get, and seeing is reaction to this mission was going to be fun. He did have this much fun with Kakashi, Asuma, or Kurenai. They all already knew their new missions as squad leaders, and they had already picked out their squads. Kakashi demanded to teach the Uchiha survivor, as well as the boy, his teacher had sealed up the fox in. He picked Sakura to fill out the team, after spying on one of the classes. Asuma just decided to take the Ino-Shika-Cho combo, which was predestined to be a team from birth. Kurenai had even picked the Aburame, Hyuga, and Inuzuka heirs. Each of the ninja had their own unique family skills. Sarutobi had decided that he was going to allow Genma to pick his team as well, but he was just going to give him the basic information, and list of graduates. He at least owed Genma that much for the trouble he was about to find himself in.

Genma sat down slowly in the chair across from the Hokage, who was sitting calmly behind his desk. Genma knew well, that this was not a good sign. He sat up a little and shifted his snob to the left side of his mouth has he waited for the Hokage, to give him his new mission.

"Well, Genma, I am curious, why do you think I asked you here?" Sarutobi said with sitting with his hand in front of his chin.

"Well, I am sure from what I have seen, that you are going to demand, that I rejoining the ANBU unit?" Genma said with a straight face, hoping that the Hokage would get to the point quickly.

"Well, this mission I have for you is not an ANBU mission, in May ways, it is much more challenging, I think this could be the biggest challenge you have had yet," Sarutobi said with a coy smile, wanting to get the most out of this conversation.

"Sure, what is it you want me to do?" Genma said in an almost annoyed tone, "I am sure you know I will do my best with this new mission."

"Good, because as of tomorrow, you will be leading you own 3 man squad. You will be their teacher, Genma," Sarutobi said as he had to keep himself from laughing at the look on Genma face. He knew at once he had not been expecting this.

Genma could just stare at the Hokage for a second, his mouth opened a bit, and his senbon hanging out of his mouth a bit. Lead, and teach kid genins, what the heck the Hokage thinking was. Genma wonder how he even though of the idea of him leading a Genin team. Then it hit him, Kakashi, and Asuma, must have convinced him on this mission, and gotten him to assign them. "Um, Lord Hokage, I have a question, are Hayate Kakashi, and Sarutobi Asuma also leading Genin teams?"

"Yes, they are, in fact, they were the ones that told me, that you would be good at this mission as well."

Genma took a long breath as he let out another slow breath, now at least the reasoning of everything made a bit more sense, though he still wanted to hit both Asuma and Kakashi at the moment. "Lord Hokage, when will I find out who my team is?"

Sarutobi gave Genma a small smile; he was impressed how quickly the jonin had gotten over the shock of his new mission. "Well Genma, since, I told you about this late, and everything, I think I will let you pick out your own team," Sarutobi said putting a stack of papers out in front of him, each one a profile of a soon to be genin, "These are the list of your choices."

Genma grabbed up the list, and started though it reading the names of the students, as well as the grade point average they had in school, and their teacher's impressions of them. Some of the card's had marks which meant they were picked by another jonin, and as he looked, he could tell which student was picked by which jonin. He slowly found 3 students who seemed be the most interesting. They were not the best, there were others still in the lists that were better, but something just drew him to the 3 names. Genma put the profiles on the Hokage's desk, and the others back as well. "I would like to have a copy of each of these profiles. These three are my students."

Sarutobi looked at the three profiles, and gave the jonin a smile He knew a bit about each of the kids that he picked, and well, his team was going to be interesting, to say the least.

The next day, in the Konoha's academy, the students were all sitting down listening to the ramblings from there teachers, about how it was such a great honor to graduate form the academy, and how being a real ninjas. Their on the far right on the second row, sat a kid with strange messy brown hair. Then again the fact that he always messed it up at some point during the day didn't help. His light blue eyes were looking around aimlessly. He really was bored from this meeting, while, it was great that he was graduating he was tired of having to listen to the words of advice from his former teacher. He could tell just by looking around that the others were getting tired of it as well. He also noticed, that Nara Shikamaru was already asleep, which was nothing new, and Uzumaki Naruto looked like he was going to go off in some explosion of energy. He just decided to kick the front of his desk, and listen somewhat to what the speakers were saying, knowing he might actually need to know what they were saying at some point in the future.

"Ok, everyone, I will give you all a short break before we announce the teams, and who each team's jonin teacher will be," Iruka said, and as he finished it have the kids were out walking around with more energy then he thought possible.

He decided to just wait; he did feel like going out, just to have to walk all the way back in and sit down. He did notice an argument that Naruto was having with Uchiha Sasuke, and every other girl in the class was around the table watching Sasuke closely. It was really stupid, the way they acted, and for the most part pointless. His eyes went over several more of the students wondering who he was going to have to work with. He was soon enough going to find out, and he would just have to deal with it, even if it was Sasuke, Naruto, or any of the others in the room.

"Ok, now we will announce your teams," Iruka said front the front of the room, "These are the people you will be working with from now on. When I call your names, I want you to rise, and then sit down once I call out the name of your teacher. Now first team one…"

Iruka kept going on and on with the names, and has he did, the blue eyed student was able to eliminate a name from the possible list of teammates he was going to have.

"…Team 7, Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura, and Uchiha Sasuke, and your teacher will be Hayate Kakashi…"

The young soon to be grad had to laugh at the idea of the annoying naruto, the stuck up Sakura, and the arrogant Sasuke having to work as a team. It was more then a little laughable.

"… Team 8, Hyuga Hinata, Inuzuka Kiba, and Aburame Shino, your teacher will be Yuhi Kurenai…"

He again was happy not to have to deal with them as teammates, but he figured that they were not a bad much match of characters, especially compared to the team 7.

" … Team 9, Kaza Togusa…"

This is just great, Togusa thought to himself as he stood up to his feet. He was about average size for a graduating student, maybe an inch or two taller then the average, but nothing more then that.

" Tatami Izuma, Tojo Mura, and your teacher will be will Shiranui Genma…"

Togusa looked over at his new teammates, though he already knew both pretty well, and did really neat to look at them. Togusa first looked over to Izuma, who was sitting in the front row. He was a promising student, though he didn't quiet have the same grades has Sakura, or show great skills like Sasuke, He still was considered a promising ninja, like his older brother Tatami Iwashi, who was currently a Chunin. He looked the part of the promising student too, his cloths looked perfect, and his hair correct as normal. In fact he looked a lot like his older brother. He was overall, a nice guy too, a bit too focused on proving himself to his brother and his the rest of his clan, but still not a bad guy to work at. Togusa then looked over to Mura as he heard team 10 called out, and to no one shock except the members it is was going to be the Ino-Shika-Cho combo. He looked at Mura closely, he was a great student, his skills were arguably better then Izuma in some areas, and on paper if one to read about him, they would find few flaws. Then they would see Mura, and noticed the thing he had been made fun of for his whole life. He was short, and when I mean short, I mean he was a foot shorter then the next shortest graduate. He was also a bit odd, in that he had the roar roar spirit about being a ninja for the village, and doing anything it would take to the village. He would always talk about how everyone had to do their best for Honoha. Togusa had never head of Genma before but he was sure he knew what he was doing. Togusa took a deep breath and though about the future. Things looked a lot better then what he was worried, but he also knew things would be interesting.