5 First Impressions

[you can skip to chap 12 to avoid re-reading the parts of summoner of the league, it deviates starting from there.]

As Naruto was on his way back to the academy to meet up with Sasuke and Sakura, he thought back to the Shadow clone Jutsu that he had yet to use, and the training he could get done with it. Quickly sidetracking towards his apartment he walked inside and started doing the hand seals for the jutsus. Though his first four tries were in failure, he finally managed to do it on the fifth try, getting 50+ versions of himself in the room. He didn't need to but he told them anyway "I need you guys to start practicing different stances for taijutsu and spar as well as practice chakra control." With this said he began his run to the classroom.

Naruto made it back just in time to see that Sasuke and Sakura were still here waiting for Kakashi, which won't be here for another hour or so. "Naruto! Where were you, we were waiting for hours!" Naruto saw it fit to go sit in the corner and just read his book on tactics he brought this time and think about why he was so unaffected by the fact he had basically killed Mizuki. "Don't ignore me, Naru-baka!" Sakura screamed but alas, she was ignored.

After a few seconds Sakura just huffed and took her seat next to Sasuke. Time slowly past by, Sasuke took a nap, Naruto read his book and Sakura....She was fuming. After the Two hour mark she finally snapped and screamed in her shrill voice "WHERE IS OUR SENSEI!" Sasuke learched in his seat from being scared awake and hit his knee and could be seen rubbing it and Naruto dropped his book losing his place. "OI, teme!" the two genin yelled at once at the annoying strawberry that is Sakura.

A sound of the door sliding open brought the three out of their spewing of insults. Kakashi came through the door. He looked at the three and Naruto took the time to observe him. He had a lazy look in his eye that wasn't hidden by his headband. His mouthpiece covered his, well, mouth, but the part that Naruto could most easily recognize was the man's gray hair that stood up in the air. All in all, Naruto could feel something radiating from the man. He wasn't someone to be trifled with. "Team Seven?" He asked. Sakura adamantly nodded while Sasuke and Naruto reminded silent. Their sensei gave a short sigh. "First impressions? You all suck and I hate you," Kakashi remarked. Sakura felt the comment smack her over the head while Sasuke's eyebrow twitched. Naruto rose an eyebrow before the man hiked a thumb over his shoulder. "Top of the school. Follow me before I fail you guys," he said before leaving.

Sakura remained stupefied at what just happened. "The nerve of that guy! Being late and then threatening us! What kind of jonin-sensei did we get?!" Sakura asked, however she found that she was the only one who cared about the event as Naruto had already left and Sasuke was at the door. Sakura quickly paced to hurry up and not get left behind.

On top of the Academy's roof, Kakashi leaned against the railing as Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke sat on the ground. Well, perhaps it was more Sasuke and Sakura sat on the ground while Naruto leaned against a pillar to the side. The man looked over the three before giving a smile. "Well, now that we're all here. How about we all give some introductions. Ya know, get to know each other better," he said. Sakura quickly raised her hand. "What do you mean, Sensei? What do you want us to say?" she asked. The grey-haired man sighed before clearing his throat.

"Well how about your name, your likes, your dislikes, dreams for the future. Things like that," he said. Sakura placed a finger to her chin while Sasuke frowned. "Can you give us an example sensei?" Sakura asked. The man almost gave in to the urge to smack his face with his hand, but he had a cool demeanor going for him right now. He really wanted to keep that going for as long as possible.

"Well alright. My name is Hatake Kakashi. I have many likes. I have many dislikes. My dreams for the future? I haven't really thought about it. Okay, you first pinkie."Kakashi said with a smile while Sakura dropped her mouth to the floor. Sasuke's eyebrow twitched irritably. Kakashi's tactic was plain. Reveal a little to get others to reveal a lot. Simplistic in nature, but Naruto could appreciate simplicity especially when it looked like it was working on his teammates.

"My name is Haruno Sakura. I…I guess I like…S-S-S….," she stuttered as she sent a couple of glances to the Uchiha. "My dreams for the future…well I would really like to….," a blush appeared on her face as she glanced to Sasuke again. Kakashi and Naruto saw it, Sasuke was about one to two inches further from Sakura then from where he was. It amused Kakashi. Naruto didn't have an opinion on the matter.

"I…I…I hate Naruto and Ino-pig!" Sakura said with laid down authority in her tone. Now Naruto's eyebrow twitched at that one. What had he done to earn this girl's apparent childish hatred? Was it because his bodies previous host was so infatuated with her or because recently he ignored her in the class? If that was the only reason then he felt like he could have dropped it all together which he felt inclined to do even if this apparent 'hatred' of hers was valid.

"Alright good. You next Broody McBroodBrood" Kakashi said pointing to Sasuke. The Uchiha frowned at the name, but continued anyway. "I am Uchiha Sasuke. I don't like many things and I dislike a lot of things," Sasuke said sending a small look to Sakura that Kakashi didn't miss. From the shift of Sasuke's head, Naruto hadn't missed it either. Soon Sasuke continued on.

"What I have is not a dream, but an ambition. One that I will fulfill. I will restore my clan and I will destroy…a certain someone," Sasuke said his eyes the picture-perfect face of hatred making Kakashi narrow his eyes. Naruto knew who Sasuke was talking about of course. 'Uchiha Itachi, the infamous prodigy of Konoha that managed to kill off his entire clan in a single night. I can see why Sasuke would want him dead. But seriously I wonder why no one would just tell him the truth, I'm sure Sarutobi knew what happened and why. But I guess I could tell him' Naruto thought to himself.

"Alright blondie, your turn," Kakashi called. The air was silent. The only thing that could be heard was the breeze of the wind. Sasuke and Sakura turned to see Naruto with his arms folded and his arms closed. Kakashi gave a small smile. "So are you mute too?" Kakashi asked. Naruto didn't rise to the obvious taunt tactic.

"Naruto would you stop being complicated and just tell him your name!" Sakura hissed underneath her breath though it didn't seem to do much good since everyone heard it. "….," Naruto continued to remain quiet as he kept his arms folded. Sasuke snorted before going back to whatever he was thinking about while Sakura tried to glare daggers into Naruto's skull.

"…Uzumaki Naruto," Naruto said and then finished. Kakashi waited for something else, but he didn't get anything else. "Anything else you want to tell us?" Kakashi asked the smile came up even tighter. Now Naruto opened his eyes and turned to his sensei. "I gave you all that you needed to know. You don't need to know anything else." Naruto remarked a glare of his own to match the small one on Kakashi's face. "He's acting in a way different way than how I thought he would," Kakashi thought to himself before sighing as he figured he wouldn't get anything else out of Naruto.

"Well alright my cute little students, it's time for your test to prove you're genin!" Kakashi said. He didn't get much further before Sakura interrupted him. "Prove we're genin? But we're already genin. We took the test at the academy! Why do we need another test?" Sakura asked. Kakashi grinned. Oh man, he always loved this part of dropping the bomb on students.

"Well Sakura, that test was just a test for seeing who had the potential to become genin. This test is going to truly weed out the rest of you. This test has a 66 percent failure as an average. Out of all of you students, only nine will actually pass this course. Let's hope you three are in that number," Kakashi said with an eye smile. Sasuke glared hard at the jonin while Sakura shuddered. "We will begin tomorrow. Meet me at training ground 7 at 8 a.m. on the dot," He said before he hopped onto the railing. He glanced back at them.

"Oh, and word of advice. Don't eat, you'll surely puke," Kakashi said before he vanished away leaving the three alone. "What a weird guy, right Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked. Sasuke just stuffed his hands into his pockets and got to his feet. Sakura sighed. How did Sasuke make even walking look cool?

"You heard him Naruto. You'd better not be late this time." She said.

Naruto didn't respond to that as he looked to the other two as he said: "We need to talk, I think he's trying to trick us." Sasuke raised an eyebrow and was clearly interested, Sakura, on the other hand, was annoyed "Why should we listen to you Naru-baka, come on Sasuke, let's go get some food somewhere." She started walking off but stopped as she heard Sasuke say "Go get food yourself, I want to know what the 'dead last' has figured out, he said sarcastically. Naruto ignored the sarcasm and waited till Sakura was standing next to Sasuke to start talking.

"I don't believe what he said about not eating, if we would just throw it up as he said, that would mean we're going to be doing strenuous physical activities, but if he's late like he was today for 2-3 hours, and we don't eat breakfast. Then we will be without food for more than 10 hours assuming you all eat dinner at 7 pm. I think he wants us to be at our lowest to test our teamwork when we are irritable. Also if I'm right about this he will probably try to trick us again tomorrow during the test."

Sasuke was surprised at Naruto's analysis, while Sakura was shocked as they both thought at the same time 'Is this the same Naruto?' they both thought. Sasuke was the first to respond as he said, "Alright Naruto, I'll trust you since it does make sense, but if you're wrong, don't ever expect me to trust you again." He said as he turned to walk off. Sakura echoed him as she ran after him. With this, they all went their separate ways to prepare for tomorrow.