Hatake Kakashi, was normally not easily intimidated. Years spent as the Anbu captain had given him a great number of immunities to almost any form of intimidation.
However, seeing as how he had the heir of the Hyuuga clan, the last remaining Uchiha and most importantly Konoha's most dangerous Anbu, the 'Demon' waiting for him he decided that he should arrive on time…
Which is why he currently found himself here…
In Ibiki's interrogation cell…
"Now for the last time, what have you done with Hatake Kakashi?" Ibiki asked in a dangerous tone.
"Ohh for fucks sake, I AM KAKASHI!" He yelled for what seemed like the hundredth time in twenty minutes.
"He's not cracking sir." A chuunin whispered in Ibiki's ear.
"I know." Ibiki whispered back. "But we have to keep at it."
Kakashi sighed it was going to be a long day.
Uchiha Sasuke scowled as he glared at the mysterious new arrival that had been placed on his gennin team. Iruka, was slightly taller than the boy, but even so, his ominous presence towered over the Chuunin teacher.
His other teammate was at least familiar.
Hyuuga Hinata was a member of the Hyuuga main house, and had all of her insecurities and shy feelings of hesitation furiously stomped out of her by years of living under the iron fist of her father. She was cold and calculative and had nearly taken the title of rookie of the year from him during one time they had sparred at practice. She was practically the only girl their age that did not fawn over him.
All in all, he counted himself lucky that he had gotten someone that was useful on his team.
The same however could not be said about their sensei. The man was approximately 20 minutes late and it was starting to grate on his nerves.
Hinata calmly sat at her desk, her eyes studying the strange new student that had arrived. She would never admit it never in a million years, but when she had seen him fight during the Taijutsu portion of the exam she had activated her Byakugan...
The sight had shocked her.
His body was literally a web of inner chakra coils, he had nearly double the normal number of tenketsu and his chakra had hints of red in it, all things that were almost entirely unheard of. It was not entirely unknown for someone with a great deal of chakra to have a few more Tenketsu than normal, the Yondaime himself was said to have possessed roughly thirty extra tenketsu.
But still to have so many at such a young age was staggering. His coils were also thicker than normal. She had no urges to face him. Even if it was just a friendly spar.
She had let none of her shock, or unease show on her features and remained as apathetic as possible.
Naruto meanwhile stood, staring out the window, still as a statue, he could feel and smell the unease radiating off of his two teammates from his presence. It was nothing new, infact, he was kind of impressed they were holding up so well. Anbu on missions with him had been radiating fear through their eye sockets. Then again, these children knew nothing of his reputation.
He watched the leaves fall in the wind, waiting for Kakashi to arrive, he knew the jounin would not show up for quite a while but his clients were here so he would remain here.
Five and a half hours later however, Naruto was seriously considering marching out of the classroom and personally dragging the one eyed, smut reading jounin back here personally.
All his thoughts of possibly disabling the copycat ended as he heard the door slide open revealing a very angry looking Kakashi with a vicious twitch of his eyebrow. "Meet. On. The. Roof." He ground out before vanishing in a puff of smoke.
Sasuke and Hinata sent glares filled with barely contained rage as they each thought of various ways they could harm their new sensei.
Naruto said nothing as he slowly turned from the window and walked out the door to walk up to the roof in order to meet his old captain.
Kakashi's eye continued to twitch terribly and his face was set in a stone cold glare, directed just above his students heads as two of them sat there. There fury had been a cold breeze in comparison to his. It hadn't taken them long to realize that, so now they shifted a little nervously while the other just stared on impassively.
His mind continued to replay the events of his morning, that is officially the last time he was going to show up even remotely early. They had checked his eyes, his ears, took his blood, his fingerprints, his dental records, an X-ray and a sample of his bodily fluids.
But the worst of all had been the cavity search.
A thrice damned cavity search for crying out loud!
He didn't even know what could be used in a cavity search to identify someone!
He took a deep breath to calm himself down and was about to speak when the Uchiha spoke first. "Why were you late?"
Kakashi's eyes lit up with the most unholy fire from the very depths of hell and glared at Sasuke with such intensity even Naruto took a slight step back.
"Introduce yourselves." He practically snarled, "Start with your likes dislikes and dreams for the future." Naruto could have sworn that his normally black eye had flashed red in the form of the mangekyo for a brief moment.
Hinata was the first to recover from the intimidation and managed to speak up. "My name is Hyuuga Hinata, I enjoy training, I dislike weak main house Hyuuga's that abuse branch members." She said, thinking of certain old rotting bastards that were on the Hyuuga council that could barely lift themselves even as they flaunted the feeling of power they held over the branch house slavery.
If it was one thing her father had not been able to beat out of her it was her utter hatred for the cage bird seal. Her dream was to defeat her father, gain the title of clan head and immediately remove the caged bird seal from all branch members, repercussions be damned
Kakashi nodded,
"My name is Uchiha Sasuke. I don't like many things and I hate a lot of things. My dream, is more of an ambition. To kill a certain man."
Kakashi's single eye narrowed. 'Should've expected that.' He thought, not saying anything.
Naruto however had different thoughts to his mission as the old mans words passed through his mind again. 'You are to go undercover as a Gennin in order to guard Uchiha Sasuke and Hyuuga Hinata. The council and I have decreed that you are the best one to protect them.'
Sarutobi's orders were to protect them, if Sasuke went after Itachi, it would prove to be quite counter productive to that goal. Therefore he had to eliminate such delusions here and now.
"You do not have the experience, the power, or the skill to even have a hope of matching Itachi. You would be destroyed in an instant."
Sasuke snapped his head around and glared at Naruto standing up from his seat on the steps and staring up at the taller blond. "What did you say?" He hissed with such venom most would have cringed in fear.
Naruto however was unfazed, sounding quite bored as he stated simple facts.
"You do not have the power to stand against someone such as he. Your ambition such as it is, is merely a delusion, born from your hate and fueled by foolish pride."
Kakashi winced, Naruto was about as subtle as a hammer to the face.
Sasuke's eyes flashed and his rage was almost a palpable thing as he was about to move forward Kakashi appeared between the two. "That's enough." He said looking at both of them.
Sasuke silently seethed while Naruto remained apathetic. Hinata looked at the exchange with a critical eye before silently shrugging. If Sasuke wanted to fight him she sure as hell wasn't about to say anything.
Kakashi while still remaining between the two turned to Naruto. "Your introduction please." He said.
'My name is Uzumaki Naruto, that is all you need to know.' He said simply.
Kakashi's eye twitched again. 'I got the two of the biggest ego's in Konoha, and Konoha's living weapon as my gennin squad. I hate my life.' He let none of his displeasure show in his face and merely sighed. "Tomorrow, you are all going to have the real gennin test. There is a 66 percent chance of failure, if you fail you'll be going straight back into the academy."
Hinata and Sasuke looked shocked, yet Naruto still looked apathetic. Before the other two could speak Kakashi hurriedly spoke, not wanting to deal with the normally amusing faces the gennin made when he said that, today. "Remember its training area seven. Don't eat breakfast tomorrow ore you'll puke." He said before vanishing in a puff of smoke.
The three youths' stood for a few moments before Sasuke 'hmphed' and left, his two teammates. Hinata, watched the raven haired boy's retreat before turning her pale lavender eyes onto the last, masked member of the team.
He was already walking away, she eyed him for a moment or two before he vanished in a puff of smoke.
Sarutobi calmly puffed his pipe and sat in his chair as the roars of the outraged council members washed over his ears. Specifically the older generation of council members that had yet to retire...or die.
"What were you thinking Sarutobi, placing that monstrosity with both heirs of the greatest clans of Konoha? Why would you even place him in a gennin cell to begin with, that monster needs to do what it was meant to do, complete suicide missions until it dies." One female member spoke up her opinion.
Sarutobi took a deep puff of his pipe in order to calm his raging emotions. Sometimes he just wanted to take a kunai and pull an Itachi. God knows he could do it. Naruto on his own was just as strong, if not stronger than him was and two Kage level nins were more than enough to kill off a few crippled and decrepit council members.
He showed nothing of this however and spoke in a calm simple way. "Lady Arito, I suggest you hold your tongue. I may be old, but I am still the Hokage of this village. I have placed Uzumaki Naruto in the gennin team consisting of Uchiha Sasuke, Hyuuga Hinata and Hatake Kakashi because recent information has come to me indicating that attempts may be made on the lives of Uchiha Sasuke and/or Hyuuga Hinata. Naruto is the best one to guard them, since he is one of our top Anbu and it is very likely that the attempts will be made outside of the village when they are on missions.
The council were reduced to simply muttering to themselves since they were willing to do anything to protect the clan heirs of the two most important bloodlines in Konoha. Finally, one Homura stood. "Very well Sarutobi, however once Uchiha Sasuke, and Hyuuga Hinata reach the rank of chuunin Uzumaki Naruto should be returned directly to the front lines."
Sarutobi's features tightened and he nodded. Standing up and walking out of the room. 'That is what you think Homura. I let this injustice pass once, I swear it will not happen again.'