"I want him Hokage-sama".

"I know but we have already chosen teams for them to go on and their mentors as well" replied the Hokage.

"Then cancel it".

The two of them have been talking about this subject for a short amount of time but have been talking most of the afternoon. They were inside the Hokage's office. The Hokage was sat at his desk and the other man in front of him. It was night time outside the village was quite. The Hokage had few lamps on in his office the other ninja was in the shadows still talking to him.

"If I were to take him out the teams would be uneven". The Hokage said. "There would be two team members left over".

"Fine give me two others". Sounding desperate to get his demand.

"Any two others?" The Hokage says with mischief in his voice.

Sigh "Yes any two others are fine just as long as they aren't geniuses, I hate geniuses."

"No they won't be geniuses they will be two of the lowest in the class." "Why do you want him so much anyway he isn't even important to you after you left?"

"I wish to keep my students last wish you should know that Sarutobi". The man said with a smile on his face. "And of course there is no better way to treat him like a hero than if he was under the training of the great toad hermit Jiraiya."

'Yeah, great'. Sarutobi said sarcastically. "Good you will meet your students tomorrow at the school don't be late, don't look at women and don't teach them anything perverted you know." "That boy's mind is fragile (oiroke no jutsu) enough as it is."

Next Morning

"I'm late, Iruka-sensei is going to kill me" Naruto jumped out of his bed, and to his door.

On his way out of his bedroom he grabbed his clothes and his goggles putting his clothes on as he ran. Just as he put his goggles on he ran back into his room threw them on the bed and grabbed his brand new hitaiate. Well it wasn't new it belonged to Iruka before he had it. He had fought Mizuki the night before and Iruka had come to his aid. Together with about one-hundred other Naruto's they beat Mizuki easily however, Iruka was going to have one big scar today and probably a bandage across his chest.

He thought about this as he wrapt it round his head and ran out of his small apartment. As soon as he left the building he jumped to the roof and jumped along all the others to get to the school.

He got to school and jumped off the building to the ground level; he entered the school and moved to go to his class, when he got in there Iruka looked perfect except a little mad at Naruto. He looked around and saw all the seats were taken except the one next to Sasuke, and the one next to Shino. He moved up the stairs and took a seat next to one of the most well known boys in the school. However he was not known for good things. Shino looked at Naruto with eyebrows raised.

"Hey you don't mind if I sit here do you"?

Shino just shook his head. He knew he was known around the school as the bug boy. This led him to be not appreciated by many people in the school, and because of his bugs he also appeared to be shunned. At that moment two girls burst through the door.

"Ha I win Ino-pig I get to sit next to Sasuke".

"Your forehead doesn't count as getting in first, it has to be your foot and, seeing as I am faster I win".

Before this could get out of hand, Iruka stepped in. "Take your seats immediately and stop shouting". They both ran up the stairs and Sakura managed to sit next to Sasuke with Ino next to her.

"You all passed the Exam and you have been put into teams with jonin-sensei".

Team seven are Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura and…"

"Yeah Ino-pig I beat you." Sakura said jumping up.

"Sakura sit down and stop shouting" Iruka shouted.

"Ok team seven are Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura and Aburame Shino." Shino looked down depressed he was put with the fan girl, and the Uchiha.

"Team eight are Inuzuka Kiba, Akimichi Chouji and Yamanaka Ino. 'No complaints, good' Iruka thought. "And the last team, Team ten are, Hyuga Hinata, Nara Shikamaru and Uzumaki Naruto."

"Umm Iruka-sensei I thought the teams were meant to be even and, well those are the worst three in the school." Sakura said.

"Yeah that lot are just team loser." Kiba shouted. Everyone laughed at this.

"Hey we are not losers; I could kick your ass if I really want to." Naruto shouted at Kiba.

"Sit down and be quiet all of you." "Your senseis will be here soon enough."

Iruka left the students alone and left the class room ten minutes after he left Sarutobi Asuma entered and took team eight. The last two teams decided to move together except Shino who stayed with Naruto's team.

"So what are your abilities Shino? I heard it had something to do with bugs."

"They are called kikai bugs Naruto" and as if on cue one of them came out of his sleeve and onto his first finger. He moved it up for all of them to see.

"That is so cool Shino" Naruto smiled and Shino looked even more shocked then when he sat next to him. "What do they do bow up or something" (destruction bugs).

"No they sap enemy of their chakra" Shikamaru said.

"S-so where do they st-stay, in your pockets or s-something?" Hinata asked.

"No they live inside me" Shino replied.

"So that means I can't have them then?" Naruto asked.

"No". Shino said.

After an hour of talking Kakashi Hatake came and picked team seven up "Whoa I'm not last to collect their students". Team seven sighed at this obviously knowing he would be late from now on. "I expect your sensei will be at the hot baths you should go check round there. He should be with a toad and if not he has a red top." Kakashi said as he and his new team left. With that Naruto went to leave the classroom with Shikamaru close behind him.

"W-where are you g-going?" Hinata asked.

"Well from what that jonin said to the hot baths" Shikamaru replied.

Hinata walked down the stairs to catch up with the rest of her team. They got to the baths pretty quick. They saw that there was an old man on a toad with a smile on his face like he had just done something he shouldn't.

"Hey Naruto think that's our guy?" Shikamaru asked.

"Yeah he has a toad and a red top" Naruto noticed.

"Is he looking into the woman's bath area" Hinata said temporarily getting over her stutter.

"Hey pervert!" Naruto shouted at the old man.

The old man looked at the boy and proudly said "I am not a pervert I am a super pervert."

"Sure are you our sensei or not pervert" Naruto said.

"Depends who you are."

"I am Uzumaki Naruto hater of perverts." he shouted.

"Great gaki" he said un-amused. "Then yeah I am your sensei, the great toad hermit and one of the legendary Sannin".

"You're still a pervert an ero-sennin" Naruto declared making the two team mates laugh.

"Right, right so, how about you tell us something about yourselves?" he said looking at Shikamaru.

"Why don't you start us off ero-sennin?" Shikamaru said.

"Don't say that" he coughed "I'm Jiraiya I am one of the legendary Sannin, the toad Sannin. I Wrote the Icha Icha series. My hobbies are writing the series and research." He said this with a grin my dreams for the future to see the perfect body". At this a little drool dribbled from his mouth. "Alright Gaki you go".

Naruto shot up "I am Naruto Uzumaki, I like ramen and instant ramen but I hate the three minutes it takes to get hot. My dream is to become Hokage." He sat back down.

It was then Hinata's turn but she took too long so Shikamaru took over for her and he sat up from lying down. "I am Shikamaru, I like watching the clouds all day and I hate working. My dream is to have an average paying job, and have a wife that isn't beautiful but isn't ugly." And he went back to lying down.

Jiraiya had his eyebrows raised "Right kid" 'doesn't want a beautiful woman my ass'.

They all looked to the Hyuga girl "I am Hinata I-I like" her eyes went to rest on Naruto for a second. "Training and my dream is" she looks at Naruto again. "To be a strong and good head for the Hyuga household. And I don't like people who look down on others. My hobbies are flower pressing"

God now you guy aren't gonna like this and neither do I but you aren't officially genin yet. You have to…"

"What do you mean we aren't officially genin yet? We did the test." Naruto bellowed.

"Well you have to pass one test which you can take now or tomorrow."

"Now" they all said in unison.

You have land one solid hit on me and you have to come at me as though you are trying to kill me?" he looked around the place "but not here we'll head to a training ground"

When they get to a training ground the three of them are opposite there sensei. He puts an alarm clock down on the ground and moves away from it.

"You have one hour, Begin."

Naruto ran at Jiraiya only to be grabbed by the back of his collar by Shikamaru.

"Troublesome baka". And he dragged him into the woods along with Hinata. Jiraiya just sweat dropped.

"Hey let me go you lazy coward lets go kick his ass". Naruto yelled.

"You will get your pop at him in a mo". Shikamaru said.

'Well maybe they will bore me to death'. Jiraiya thought.

Out jumps Naruto from the bushes. He charges at Jiraiya and goes to punch him with his right fist, Jiraiya steps to the side he rings his left leg round to follow up after his punch and Jiraiya blocks it. Naruto tries to sweep Jiraiya with his right foot but Jiraiya jumps over. Naruto then uppercuts and Jiraiya once again block it.

"Hey ero-sennin too old to fight back" Jiraiya puts his guard down and is just about to yell at the boy when, a fist comes towards his face he blocks it but he makes Naruto continue towards him punches Naruto in his chest.

"Call me old will ya." But Naruto disappears in a puff of smoke.

'Kage bunshin eh?'

Ten minutes later out pops about ten or fifteen Naruto's they all stream towards Jiraiya. He blocks all the attacks and takes two of the clones down. He just continues playing with the clones. And all of a sudden kunai come out of the forest from multiple directions most of them hit Jiraiya but nothing is left except a block of wood.

They turn around to see Jiraiya smiling like there is no tomorrow so they charge again he blocks all of the attacks and disperses all but two Naruto's Naruto charges t him and Jiraiya goes to block but his arms wont move so he rolls towards the forest. At that moment a puff of smoke surrounds one of the Naruto's and what is left is Hinata. They charge at him and he goes to move but he cant he looks to the ground to see a shadow coming out of the forest. Hinata is the closest she pulls her hand back and… the alarm goes off. She stops and looks to the floor. Shikamaru comes out of the forest looking as depressed as ever. And Naruto comes up from behind Hinata.

"Hey we tried our hardest I'm sure another year and we will be good enough" Shikamaru said.

"Why try next year when you can do it this year" Jiraiya said

They all looked up and Jiraiya had a smile on his face "congratulations you pass."

"I knew we could do it hey why do we pass we didn't get a hit on you"

"Well a friend of my senseis once told me, those in the ninja world who break the rules and regulations are called filth, but those who don't care about their companions... are even lower than filth."

"W-who told you that sensei" Hinata asked.

"Just a friend, now you passed because you worked as a team."

"Yeah lets go celebrate Hinata, Shikamaru." Naruto ran past them grabbing their arms and dragging them along.

"Oi Naruto." Naruto stopped as did Hinata but Shikamaru went straight ahead, and fell out of Naruto's grip, which sent him face first into a tree. "My treat" Jiraiya said as he ran to catch up. They ran along and Naruto pick up Shikamaru, who had clouds floating around his head.

"Hey Old man"

'Naruto' Teuchi and Ayame thought

"Hey Naruto, what will it be today. Oh." Teuchi looked at Naruto's team "ah have friends with you eh Naruto?" Teuchi and Ayame smiled 'so, he has friends now that's good.' "What can I get you all?"

"Miso ramen old man" Naruto said.

"Pork for me, thank you." Shikamaru asked

"Ano… Miso ramen f-for me please." (You can guess who that was).

"Pork for me please" Jiraiya asked.

The food was made quickly and served near to straight away. "Tomorrow we will be starting missions we will be doing training on the morning and missions in the afternoon" Jiraiya said to the team. Everyone nodded except Naruto who was on his fifth bowl while everyone else was on their first.

"Oi gaki you got that." The toad hermit shouted.

"Yeah, yeah ero-sennin." "Good you can meet me outside the baths again." As he went to get his food, his arm just flopped down into the hot ramen.

"Ow hot, hot, hot."

He went to reach it with his other one but that wasn't moving either "somebody help me. This ramen is boiling" a few seconds later he was able to move his arm slightly. And he pulled it out of his ramen bowl. "

Nice one Hinata that will teach ero-sennin." Naruto laughed out. Hinata blushed at the compliment.

"Yeah he deserves it for peeking" Shikamaru said.

Jiraiya started crying as he saw the bowls Naruto ate and the bill. They went outside and Jiraiya disappeared. Leaving Naruto Shikamaru and Hinata alone.

"I think I should be heading back home my mum will be mad if she finds out I ate something, she is cooking my favourite today, so see you guys later." And Shikamaru walked away hands in his pockets.

"Ano I-I should be going to N-Naruto-kun". 'bloody stutter' Hinata thought.

"I'll walk you back" Naruto offered.

"No it is ok m-my house is in the opposite d-direction to yours" she did turn a nice shade of red as she said this.

"I can't let a girl walk home by herself, it just isn't right."

"Umm ok N-Naruto-kun."

As they got to Hinata's house Naruto's eyes grew "whoa so this is your house Hinata?"

"H-hai."

"Ok well I'll see you tomorrow yeah Hinata"

"Bye Naruto-kun" with that she ran past the gate giving Naruto a wave goodbye and walked into the house.

When Naruto got back he got into his pyjamas (the ones with the hat that has eyes on it) and started training himself with push ups sit up (you say it he does it). For about an hour he does this then just goes to bed.

"It's taking down all my bunshins I cant stop it." Naruto shouts.

"Naruto I'll be there in a moment keep with the plan" Shikamaru comes in over the earpiece.

"N-Naruto-kun I'm here." Hinata says.

"Ok good, kage bunshin no jutsu. Grab it." Naruto screams. "Nani It is taking them down again." Alright I'm here Kagemane no jutsu. Got it, Hinata grab it quick."

They walk back to the Hokages office and enter the door. "oh you found him thank you so much."

"No problem" Shikamaru said unenthusiastically.

She took her cat from Hinata and left. They walked to the desk and Iruka was in the room too.

"Mission success lord Hokage" Jiraiya smiled. "They did a good job too; they've sped up catching the thing this time only took half an hour."

"Man can that thing scratch and yet, when Hinata holds it she doesn't get one." Naruto shouted.

"I guess I am j-just good with animals N-Naruto-kun."

"That cat is evil, evil I tells you." Naruto replied eyebrow twitching.

"Well seeing as you completed that so early, you can either do a D-rank mission or, have the day off, it's the last D-rank today." The Hokage said.

"Um Sarutobi, don't you perhaps have a higher rank mission." I mean they have been doing d-rank missions for a long time now, they can do more."

"Getting bored are we Jiraiya."

"Well that and they keep complaining and I just can't take it anymore."

"Ok well we do have a c- rank mission."

"We'll take it." Naruto shouted.

"Or we could continue with D-ranks" Shikamaru suggested.

"I-I would like t-to do a higher rank m-mission as well Shikamaru-san."

"Well it isn't until tomorrow so you can still, either take this D-mission or, have the day off."

"I vote we have the day off." Shikamaru said straight away.

"Yeah me too we will probably prepare for tomorrow." Naruto agreed

"Hai s-same here."

"Here is the money for the job and here is your mission for tomorrow" the mission was handed over to Jiraiya. And the money was handed over to everyone in the team.

"Thank you H-Hokage-sama" Hinata whispered.

They left the Hokage building to be stopped by Jiraiya. "Let's go to training ground 32 no-one should be using that today. Last one there does 100 push ups." Jiraiya shouted as he ran in front. Of course hearing this, the usually stoic Shikamaru bursts ahead of the other two genin. Hinata and Naruto look at each other and chase after him. Shikamaru is the first to arrive even before Jiraiya leaving a cloud of dust in his wake. Then Jiraiya arrives surprised Shikamaru over took him.

'Lazy git that kid' Jiraiya thought

Hinata and Naruto both come into view seeming to be neck and neck.

'This is gonna be good' Jiraiya thought.

Naruto summons a kage bunshin who grabs him by the hand and propels him forward. To overtake Hinata. But as he runs past her hand towards his leg and sends a little chakra in there making it numb and he nearly trips over. Causing Hinata to take the lead. Shikamaru and Jiraiya are shocked at this and start laughing. Hinata runs through the gate as Naruto tumbles on the ground. She goes bright red in the face and then goes back to help him. She helps him into the gates just where she was.

"Did I make it or was that just the ground."

Jiraiya shakes his head. "Alright gaki one hundred push u…"

"Well, well, well if it isn't team loser" Kiba says.

"Yeah you wanna go Dog breath" Naruto shouts back

"Bring it shrimp." Akamaru comes out of his jacket and barks at Naruto.

Asuma walks up to Jiraiya. "How about a little bet Jiraiya. A spar between your group and my group. The sensei of the team that wins gets the money so how about it."

"Yeah sure I know they have been waiting to show that team they aren't losers since the day they met me."

"Good, Ok team eight and team ten will have a friendly spar how about that?"

Kiba smiles at Naruto and Naruto just smiles back.

"Good so I do get to pummel you wimp."

Hinata and Shikamaru appear beside Naruto, just as Choji and Ino appear beside Kiba.

"You ready for us Losers." Ino says. "I'll take on the girl and prove I am the number one kunoichi, and then I'll beat the stupid blonde kid up with Kiba."

"His name is N-Naruto Uzumaki, and I am Hyuga H-Hinata." She said stuttering "and don't forget them

"I guess it is you and me then Shikamaru?" Choji asked.

"As troublesome as it is I guess so." Shikamaru replied.

"Are you ready for me wimp?" Kiba asked. Naruto replied

"Let's go crazy."