Chapter 8: NEW TEAM 9!!!!
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It was the next day after Yuusha (Artorias) had found out that his soul was split into fragments. Getting up, Yuusha took a bath, ate breakfast, and headed towards the academy.
Arriving at the academy Yuusha went in only to see Naruto arguing with Shikamaru about how Naruto shouldn't be here. "Huh? Naruto, what the hell are you doing here? Only those who passed the exam are supposed to be here!"
"Oh yeah, can't you see this forehead protector!" Naruto responded in his usual loud voice. Just as Shikamaru was about to argue Yuusha walked in causing the room to go silent, as he walked to the back where his seat was, he heard whispers and giggling.
'God, why do they go silent when I enter the classroom? It's making me uncomfortable.' He wasn't really used to this especially since he hasn't been to school in forever. Not once has he stepped into a school, being homeschooled at the request of his parents.
As he sat down he closed his eyes and sighed. However when he opened them he saw Naruto squatting on his desk with his face being uncomfortably close to his "Naruto…what are you doing?"
Naruto didn't answer before he looked behind where Sakura was, seeing her glare at him with her fist raised he sweatdropped before looking towards Yuusha getting even closer. He got so close that he lost his balance and fell forward.
Yuusha's eyes widened as he saw Naruto's face approaching him in slow motion. Quickly holding up a half ram seal, Yuusha's body flickered away, causing Naruto to fall flat on his face.
'Phew, that was close. I almost just kissed Naruto Uzumaki.' Yuusha thought as he shivered, he did NOT want his first kiss in his second life to be with another guy.
Naruto got up quickly searching the room for Yuusha, after finding him in the corner of the room near the door entrance, Naruto pointed at him and yelled "Hey Yuusha, How'd you just disappear so fast!?"
Sighing and walking back to his set Yuusha 'Man, that was pure instinctive. Wait, are the Hokage and the Jonin sensei's watching? I can't remember if they watched during this time or not, I didn't wanna show my talents and put me on Danzo's Radar.' As he sat down his thoughts were interrupted by Naruto, who was once again in his face, only this time however he was squatting on his desk.
Naruto looked eager waiting for his response with stars in his eyes already imagining the cool things he can do with a technique like body flicker. Yuusha sighed and just explained the technique to him 'Not like he can utilize it to its fullest potential without the sharingan.'
"It's called Shunshin, it's a D-Rank Genin technique that pretty much any halfway competent ninja and kunoichi can perform." He spoke boredly, looking straight into Naruto's eyes.
Naruto stops listening at 'D-rank Genin technique' entering his fantasy land on how he would beat both Yuusha and Sasuke with them beneath his feet and the 3rd Hokage handing him the hat, telling him how he was more worthy of the hat than him.
He was broken out of his imagination when he heard the voice of his crush Sakura Haruno speak "By using Shunshin Technique, a ninja can move short to long distances at an almost untraceable speed. To an observer, it appears as if the user has teleported. It is accomplished by using chakra to temporarily vitalise the body and move at extreme speeds. The amount of chakra required depends on the overall distance and elevation between the user and the intended destination."
Yuusha looked at Sakura and smiled a bit "Yes Sakura, you would be correct." Sakura froze up, not just Sakura but everyone in class, especially his fangirls. This was the first time since the massacre that Yuusha smiled even if it was a small one.
Sakura started to sway before she collapsed, her crush smiled at her. She was the one to make him smile after all these years her last thought before she passed out was 'CHA! Take that you harlots!' Seeing Sakura pass out, Naruto ran to her side before glaring at Yuusha "Sakura! See what you did Yuusha!?"
Yuusha sweatdropped at the scene, Naruto was frantically shaking Sakura likely doing more harm than good. 'I didn't even do anything though.'
*THUD*
Hearing a thud beside him he saw Hinata Hyuga head slumped on the desk with her face glowing red with spiral eyes, seeing that Yuusha's sweatdrop got even bigger.
At that moment a bandaged Iruka came into the classroom "Alright you guy's settle dow- huh? What happened here?" Iruka interrupted himself when for the second time the classroom was quiet, looking up he saw that multiple girls passed out including Sakura and Hinata the latter he wasn't surprised by.
Sighing while shaking his head, Iruka knew it was something dealing with Yuusha "Alright can you all wake up the one that's unconscious?"
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"Starting today, all of you are real shinobi. But you are still Genin, the hard journey that lies ahead has just started…. Now you will receive missions to help the village so today we will create 3 man teams, and each time will Jounin Sensei. You will follow your sensei's instructions in order to successfully complete your missions."
'I just hope Whoever is on my team isn't a civilian fangirl… I hope they aren't civilians at all.' Yuusha thought and prayed to R.O.B that he didn't get a civilian child as a teammate.
"We tried Balance Each team's strength." Iruka said, causing the class to let out a collective "WHAT?!!" Iruka however ignored this and continued to list the teams.
"Team 7 Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke, Uchiha Yuusha!" Everyone was surprised at that line up as due to Yuusha Uchiha Naruto wasn't deadlast or at least wasn't deadlast in physical parts of the test but was still deadlast when it comes to academics.
Yuusha was also surprised 'I can get Naruto being on either me or Sasuke's team since he is deadlast when it comes to academics but me and Sasuke being in the same team? Is it because we both have the Sharingan? Either way I'm not complaining.'
As Yuusha was relishing in who his teammates were, Anbu flickered into the room and whispered something into Iruka's ear, before flickering away. Iruka's face showed surprise then he nodded and cleared his throat "Ahem, there were switches in Team 7, the new team is now Haruno Sakura, Uzumaki Naruto, and Uchiha Sasuke."
Naruto cheered loudly since he was now on a team with his crush while Sakura slumped her head on her desk, she wouldn't be on the same team as Yuusha.
"Team 8: Aburame Shino, Hyuuga Hinata, Inuzuka Kiba.
Team 9: Sai, Uchiha Yuusha, Kurama Yukumo
Team 10: Akimichi Choji, Nara Shikamaru, Yamanaka Ino
Team 11…
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Alright, this afternoon we'll introduce your Jounin Sensei's. Until then, take a break."
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Yuusha was sitting on the roof of the academy eating his lunch while looking at the screen of the 'Group Chat' he had asked earlier why the phone didn't appear when he wanted it to, the Group Chat's answer? Phones didn't yet exist in the Naruto world so to avoid any questioning about him being in possession of an unknown object, it turned into a holographic screen that only he could see.
Yuusha closed the Group Chat screen and sighed "What do you think you're doing, Naruto?" He spoke without even turning around, and there Naruto was quietly sneaking up to Yuusha with a rope in his, in an attempt to either prank him or tie him up Yuusha didn't know.
Naruto froze knowing that he was caught but that didn't stop him, he rushed towards Yuusha with a glint in his eyes. Yuusha rolled his eyes before rolling back, pushing himself up in the air successfully dodging Naruto.
For Naruto time slowed down as he looked up to see Yuusha's face right above his own, before it passed him.
Naruto, not one to give up willingly, rushed towards Yuusha as he landed. Raising the rope above his Naruto tried multiple times to grab Yuusha with a rope but Yuusha dodged everytime with an easy smirk on his face.
Yuusha, while dodging, got a sudden idea. With a mischievous smirk he took the rope out of Naruto's hand and without giving him time to think he swiftly tied Naruto up in an untieable knot.
It happened so fast that Naruto didn't know what happened and just blinked as one moment he was trying to grab Yuusha, the next he was laid down flat on his back looking up at the sky "Huh?"
Feeling a weight on his stomach he looked down to see Yuusha now sitting in him while eating his lunch like nothing happened. "Hey Yuusha…what happened? How am I tied up?"
"Hmm? Oh, I stole the rope from you and tied you up?" He stopped eating for a moment to answer Naruto before returning to eating again. "But how? It happened so fast…"
"Who knows? Anyway it's time to go back to class, let's go." Yuusha said, grabbing the end of the rope and started dragging Naruto back to class not caring about Naruto's complaining about being dragged around.
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Everyone was back in class with Naruto still tied up squirming about trying to free himself "C'mon Yuusha let me out so I can kick your ass!" Everyone stared at Yuusha who just looked out the window pretending he didn't hear anything.
Before anyone could ask what Naruto meant and why he said his name, Jounin senseis started walking in getting their teams and one of the first Jounin to show up was…
'Why is he here? Isn't he supposed to be Konohamaru's teacher or something?' Yes, the first Jounin to show up was Ebisu the supposed sensei of Konohamaru and his friends.
Ebisu stared at the whole class, his eyes lingering on Yuusha, Yakumo, and Sai longer than the other before he spoke quite loudly in fact "Team 9, With me." He didn't say more as he walked out the classroom with the newly Team 9 following.
Yuusha followed along with his teammates however he couldn't help but sweatdrop, knowing that it was gonna be kinda hard taking Ebisu serious since he was a closeted pervert, and seeing his more unserious moments in the anime.