- Ai's POV -

I teleported myself back to the classroom with a bitter mood, even though my face didn't show it. Strudding to a desk at the far back, I sat on the hard wooden chair as I bury my face between my arms.

'Calm down...Calm down, Ai...' I mentally said to myself while taking a deep intake of air and exhaled.

I stayed like that for a moment until I decided to take a small nap since the others are not yet here and was also to calm my slightly sour mood.

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I slowly raised my head when I heard noises in the room. Noisy....

My eyes already saw a mop of silver hair who had a lazy body posture with a chalk eraser padded on his gravity defying hair.

"My first impression to you all is that you're all....stupid." he spoke with an uninterested look. I glanced at my slightly gaping teammates as I rub my sleepy eyes, unaffected at his words.

"Meet me at the rooftop." with that he dissapeared in a puff of smoke. My teammates quickly walked their way to the roof as I let out a small yawn.

I also transported myself to the rooftop because I'm too sleepy to walk there and this is much more convinient.

I felt myself in a different area as I opened my half lidded eyes and stared at our new teacher. He seems familiar...

Racking my head to who he is, my deep thoughts were snapped back when I heard the door open. I was about to turn my head to the direction but I later found myself being tackled in a death hug.

"Ai-chan!!"

Air!

I felt my face turn blue because of the lack of air my body is taking.

"Naruto! Your suffocating her!" I heard Pinky said as she seperate Naru-kun in my dying figure. After feeling the iron grip around me gone, I immediately took a deep intake of air and face Sakura.

"Thank you for the help, Haruno-san." I curtsied as I gaze at the pink haired girl.

Even though she had said mean things about me and Naru-kun earlier, it's still a polite way to thank the person who saved me from almost dying because of suffocation.

"Huh? What are you talking about? I only did that because I don't want to look at your corpse while Sasuke-kun is here."

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Forget I said anything--no scratch that, forget that I was being nice to her.

"...cagna[1]..." I mumbled to myself as I give her a smile on the outside and a scowl in the inside.

"Ahem...Let's get started shall we." our new teacher let out a fake cough as he told/order us to take a seat.

I sat on the railing as the others sit on the floor while looking at our new teacher.

"Introduce yourselves." he simply said making two of my teammates look at him questionably.

"Like what?" I stared at the pink haired girl like she was an endagered species that doesn't know a simple introduction.

"Like your name, likes or dislike, hobby, dream, etc." our teacher took a generous time to answer my dumb teammate.

"How about you go first since your the most suspicious here, Sensei." Naru-kun said as he narrowed his eyes at our teacher.

Really? Is Sakura's idiocy taking effect on my bestfriend, this is bad.

"Me?" our teacher asked in shock as he point at himself. I let out a silent chuckle at his laid back personality that was quite similar to Shikamaru.

"I'm Hatake Kakashi. I have no intentions in telling my likes and dislikes." Oh~ Interesting.

"My dream is...." he trailed off making me raise an eyebrow.

"I have a lot of hobbies. " my teammates basically looked at him like he was an unidentified creature that took form of a man.

I glanced at my teammates that had quite an interesting reactions--Sakura looked annoyed, Ducky couldn't care less and Naru-kun was just as annoyed as Sakura.

"And all we found out was his name." Sakura grumbled as Naru-kun nod in agreement.

Mada mada dane. They still have many things to learn. It's common sense that ninjas are not to give away too much information about them since the enemy might find or use it against their advantage.

"You with blonde hair." Shi-san pointed at my bestfriend whom adjusted his headband before standing up.

"My name Uzumaki Naruto! I like eating ramen with Ai-chan and Iruka-sensei. I dislike waiting 3 minutes for my ramen to cook. My hobbies are pranking and hanging out with Ai-chan. My dream is to become the future Hokage to make the people know my existance" my lips curved on a small smile as I look at my bestfriend.

Truth to be told, I was really doubting him in becoming a Hokage because of his obsession on Ramen that made me think that he will own a Ramen shop instead.

"You." the next one to introduce is Sakura. Knowing that this will take awhile, I took out a red pocket book out of my pouch and started to read at the page I last read.

"My name is Haruno Sakura. The things I like--no the person I like..." she stared at Ducky with oogly eyes as he tried to ignore her.

"My hobbies are..." stalking him and taking pictures of him, naked.

"My dream is...Kya~!" I cringed so hard at her fanatic squealing in the end.

"What do you dislike?" Shi-san asked as Sakura immediately whipped her head to Naru-kun and me.

"Naruto and Ai!" she exclaimed out loud making Naru-kun sob at rejection while I continue to read my book ignoring the proclamation Sakura just made.

I glanced at Shi-san and immediately have known what his thoughts are. The girls in my class--except for Hina-chan, are more interested in boys than their ninja life.

"Next." Ducky was the third one to introduce himself as he stood still on his position with his permanent stoic face in place.

"My name is Sasuke Uchiha. I don't have many likes or dislikes. Also, I have ambition that I have no intention to leave as just a dream. The revival of my clan and to...kill a certain man." the atmosphere around us tensed at Ducky's serious introduction--Naruto gulped in fright thinking that he was the said person who is gonna be killed, Sakura whom I'm guessing is fangirling inside thinking on how cool Ducky is, while Shi-san narrowed his eyes at him and me? I just paused momentarily when I heard him say the word kill.

"...And lastly." Shi-kun decided that it was time to cut the tension building in the area so he pointed at my direction.

Closing my book not before marking the page with a bookmark, I moved my gaze at my team whom are staring at me intently.

"To put everything simply, My name is Akashi Ai, my likes and dislikes are too many to list while my hobbies are really non-special. And lastly, my dream is ▪▪ ▪▪▪▪ ▪ ▪▪▪▪▪ ▪▪ ▪▪▪▪▪." a sudden strong wind came making my hair sway together with it as it carries my last sentence which made it unaudible for the others.

"Eh?" I gave a closed eye smile at Naru-kun who continued to look at me curiously.

"Nothing." I simply said, making the others grew more curious at my dream.

"Alright, you four have unique personalities. I like that," Shi-san said making the others to snap their attention to our silver haired teacher.

"First, we're going to do something that we five can do." Shi-san spoke in a hidden amusement in his tone of voice. I had a huge gut feeling that it will be really interesting and fun.

"What? What? What is it?!" Naru-kun shouted at Shi-san, visible that our teacher is dragging the tension more.

"Survival training." Shi-san told us simply.

"Why are we going to train when it's a mission?" Sakura asked our teacher.

"We had plenty of training at the Academy." Sakura added.

Shi-san just stood there impassive at my pink teammate's words.

"This is no ordinary training," he stated.

"Then, what kind of training is it?" Naru-kun asked, waving his hand a little.

Shi-san started to chuckle evilly, making my three teammates anxious.

"Hey, what's so funny, sensei?" Sakura asked.

"Oh nothing, it will only freak you all out." Shi-san said making the others more curious.

"Just tell us!" Naru-kun said making Shi-san sigh at his continuos curious antics.

"Out of the 28 graduates, only a mazimum of 10 are going to become genins. The other 18 or 19 will be sent back to the Academy. In other words, this training is going to be a very hard test with a droupout rate of 66%" he explained.

I glanced at my now frozen teammates who had their jaws slightly down as they stare at our teacher in disbelief.

"I warned you that all of you will freak out." Shi-san said using his same bored tone. My face was still stoic and unfazed at the information he just said as I continued to listen to him.

"No way! I went through so much trouble...Then what was the final exam for?!" Naruto yelled.

"That? It picks out more better qualified genins" he said with a 'I-do-not-care' tone of voice.

"What?!" Naru-kun and Sakura yelled in a more baffled expression.

"Anyway," Shi-san dismissed their responses,"I'm going to determine whether you pass or fail tomorrow at the training grounds. Bring you ninja equipment at 5 a.m!"

Shi-san turned around from us and waved his hands dissmissively. "Now then, meeting is over." I let out a small sigh right before he looked at us over his shoulder.

"Oh yeah, don't eat any breakfast. You're going to throw up if you do." he left after he said those words making my teammates more anxious at the upcoming test tomorrow.

'Now on what to do.' I silently left my teammates as I went to a specific place in mind.

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Eclipse-chan: I am deeply sorry on the lack of chapters I have not published this past weeks or maybe a month. Since March is around the corner, things at school are getting more complicated since the end of the school year is near.

Ai: I am also currently apologizing in behalf of the whole Naruto characters as on why we have not yet made any progress last few weeks.

Eclipse-chan: Stress is also hitting me hard, add it together that our 4th quarter exam is just next week....Too much work...I will also do some editing to this chspter since I made this in a rush...so yeah~

Ai: This is were our today's chapter ends. Hope to see you next time.

Eclipse-chan: Ja ne~

[1] Cagna: Bitch in Italian