"You guys seem excited," Kiba exclaimed, coming to standing next to Naruto and lean against the desk elevated behind the jinchuriki, who looked up to see the Inuzuka grinning down at him. The boy with the white pup nestled comfortably in his jacket looked between the pair chatting away across from one another. "Wondering what teams you're gonna be put on?"
"Not really," Shikamaru replied.
"Sort of," Naruto said with a smile, propping his arm on the table. "I'm not fussed as long as we get to go on missions real soon."
"Same," Kiba chuckled before pointing to himself. "Just so you know Naruto, if we're put on the same team together, I'm the Alpha! The pack leader. Got it?"
"Ha! Isn't the pack leader supposed to be the strongest in the group?" Naruto asked with a shit-eating grin. "I bet I can kick your ass no problem, dog boy."
The feral looking teen leaned in with a grin. "We'll see about that, slacker."
"Would you guys keep it down? You're making a racket," came another voice from the side. When Kiba and Naruto looked, they saw Sasuke sitting down the row with his fingers laced together and his glare fixed on both of them. He seemed pretty irked, but that wasn't saying much since his expression always looked like that. "Take your pissing contest outside if you can't do it quietly."
The two teens smirked at the dark-haired one two seats away, deciding to reel him into their conversation as well since he seemed so willing to jab at them. "I know you're just as eager to decide who the strongest in the group is too, Sasuke," Kiba exclaimed.
"Not just in taijutsu, but all around ninjutsu as well," Naruto added.
The Uchiha grunted and closed his eyes. "That debate seems kind of pointless, don't you think? We already know who the best in the class is, and you're both looking at him." It was hard to hide the cocky smirk he sprouted upon saying this, the sight of which instantly brought out the competitive natures of the two delinquents gunning it out with each other nearby.
"Oh yeah? Want to test that title out, Mister Prodigy?" Kiba asked while holding a fist up, a bark emanating from Akamaru in support of his partner.
"I knocked your arrogant ass around the past several times in class, teme. I can do it again," Naruto also exclaimed challengingly.
While the three had their intense stand-off in the corner, Shikamaru shook his head at the absurdity of the scene before going back to napping.
"What a troublesome bunch," the boy thought before giving a yawn. He chose to block out the little show going on beside him, getting comfortable in his seat at around the same time Sakura and Ino suddenly decided to come charging through the door, out of breath and looking ragged from an apparent race to get to the academy first.
Naruto glanced up when he heard the scramble at the top entrance. When he spotted the two girls, he saw Sakura look down towards his level, smile sweetly and start fast-walking towards them. The blonde responded with a grin and a wave towards the approaching kunoichi. "Hey, Sakura-chan! How's it going?"
"Yeah, hi Naruto," Sakura replied carelessly before suddenly bolting right toward their row and bowling over both Kiba and Naruto, with the latter having his face shoved into the table when the girl jumped on top of him, "Good morning Sasuke-kun! Can I sit next to you?" She leapfrogged the stunned blonde and took a seat right beside the genius even before receiving any form of consent.
Kiba, knocked on his ass, glared up at the pink haired girl while Naruto remained pasted to his desk. "Damn it, Sakura! We were having a man-to-man confrontation!"
The girl stuck her tongue out at the Inuzuka. "Well, tough. You guys can hang out later." Her mood then did a complete 180 and she gazed affectionately towards the Uchiha next to her.
Sasuke meanwhile, grunted indignantly. "Whatever."
Brimming with fake tears at having his face slammed into his desk from the ever exuberant Sakura Haruno, Naruto managed to lift himself up and rub his chin painfully. "Ow… what the hell?" He saw Kiba sit up next to him and, while the pair looked across to see Sakura fawning over the Uchiha along with several other girls out to steal the seat from her, the pair leaned in to each other to whisper, "I thought that if you were at least nice to girls they'd be nice back and start liking you. What's up with that?"
Kiba shrugged, "I don't know dude. I don't get girls either." Take that as wisdom from a man who had a tough-as-nails older sister and an equally terrifying mother in the same household.
The pair just watched oddly as Sakura started her own feud in the middle row with the other girls, which slowly turned into quite an entertaining performance when Naruto and Kiba saw the various tick marks forming on Sasuke's head as he sat in the center of the proverbial super storm. The two classmates then settled on the obvious karma of their reality that if something bad happened to them, then something good was bound to happen in kind.
Sasuke's suffering would be their compensation for being knocked on their butts seconds earlier.
OOO
Unbeknownst to all of the kids in the recently graduated academy group, their classroom was currently being monitored by the all-seeing-eye of one Hiruzen Sarutobi, who, along with the handful of Jonin captains that would be taking on teams this year, were currently in conference over some of the more prospective Genin of the batch. With everyone gathered including the notoriously late Hatake Kakashi, the would-be squad leaders looked on in amusement at the sight of Uchiha Sasuke being flocked by his fan club.
"He seems rather popular," Hayama, a man with brown hair in a ponytail and a scar on the side of his mouth exclaimed, earning chuckles all around.
"No doubt about that," Asuma Sarutobi also commented, nodding towards the crystal ball in the center of the Hokage's desk. "So that's the most promising student, Sasuke Uchiha? Correct?"
"That's right," Hiruzen replied, looking up at the collection of instructors gathered in front of him. "Out of all the students in the class he's got the highest marks in all areas; an excellent prodigy. On top of that he's incredibly perceptive and exceptionally talented for his age. Even his teachers said that his combat skills alone measure up to that of a Chunin's."
"Now that indeed is a promising student," Kurenai commented with a smile.
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