Naruto and Sakumo struggled to keep up with the boy, who was leaving a dust trail behind him while he ran with them in his iron grip.
The two couldn't even breathe to get enough mind to pump chakra to their legs and ran solely on the strength of their muscles with their new overcharged teammate.
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Training Ground 42
Squad Seven was seemingly the first to arrive and the two Sarutobi's couldn't help but raise an eyebrow to the trio.
Duy was not even winded and smiling to himself at reaching the location in under eight minutes, while the boys behind him were puffing out a little heavy breaths.
Nothing too much but Sasuke knew they had ran solely on their muscles and smirked.
"Squad Seven…" his commanding voice called them making them stiffen and stand at attention to their new jounin sensei.
"My name is Sasuke Sarutobi and I will be your jounin sensei for the coming future, are there any questions someone would like to ask before we move on to introductions?" he asked them in his seriously lazy voice getting a raised hand from the boy with seemingly large eyebrows.
He nodded and motioned for him to go on.
"Sensei, I didn't graduate from the Academy except for the taijutsu portion. Well…" his voice trailed off in embarrassment leaving two surprised teammates and a smiling Sarutobi.
"You were personally promoted and assigned to me by the Nidaime himself. So no need to worry about that. Now as for introductions I'll start with myself to set an example."
He spoke with puff of his cigar and hopped onto a wooden stump and crossed his leg over his knee, taking out his cigar in his fingers to speak up.
"As you already know my name is Sasuke Sarutobi from the Sarutobi clan. I'm an elite jounin of this village and current clan head of the Sarutobi clan.
My hobbies are seeing new places or interesting people, or smoking different kinds of cigars…" he said, dropping some ash to make his point and resumed.
"…I do not like traitors, seafood or people that would rather waste their time than do something useful.
As for my dreams, well let's just say I want you all to become fine shinobi for now." he said and all the three nodded in unison getting a small smirk on his lips at seeing his new subordinates who were now sitting cross legged.
Sakumo raised his hand and Sasuke motioned for him to go on.
"Are you two related by any chance?" he asked and got a nod from Hiruzen this time who smiled seeing his sharp eyes.
"Yes, this here is my father young man." he spoke warmly making Sakumo nod and Sasuke pointed at Duy.
"Let's start with you, go on…" he spoke calmly getting a nod from the boy.
"Yosh, my name is Might Duy and I belong to a simple civilian family. I have already failed twice at the Academy…" he spoke honestly in his booming voice once more surprising his two teammates at his blunt honest answer.
"…I like training and fanning the fires of my youth…" he boomed making Naruto and Sakumo sweat drop.
"…I dislike wasting my time sitting around and unyouthful people…" cue another and larger sweat drop.
"…and my dream is to be the greatest taijutsu master in the elemental nations and make everyone respect and know me for it." this time he made the two boys by his side smile and look at him in admiration. It was a fine goal in their eyes.
"Very nicely put Duy…" Sasuke said making the boy a little sheepish and moved his eyes to Naruto and nodded his affirmative for him to go on.
"My name is Naruto Uchiha and I'm from the Uchiha clan. I like training, spending time with my friends or exploring new places, especially nature heavy ones…" he spoke making the two Sarutobis smile at his innocent likes.
"…I dislike traitors too and anyone who wishes to harm the village or my friends and family. My dream is to have my face engraved up there…"
He pointed to the Hokage mountain and got a nod from Sasuke who already knew of this but Hiruzen was surprised at an Uchiha aiming for that and not for respect amongst his clan mates but stood silently.
Sasuke nodded and rose an eyebrow at seeing Hiruzen's team coming in five minutes late and were puffing as if they had run around the village to get here.
"Gomen sensei, we had to take a re-route when Jiraiya baka got into some trouble with a lady." Tsunade puffed making Hiruzen sweat drop at her blunt answer and sighed but nodded.
"Alright then go and run five rounds around the training grounds as punishment." he spoke calmly making them look up surprised before glaring at the sheepishly smiling Jiraiya and started running again. Sasuke motioned for his final genin to introduce himself.
'My name is Sakumo Hatake and I'm from the Hatake clan. I like training, especially in kenjutsu and spending time with my friends and family too.
I dislike those who would try and harm my friends or the village I guess. My dream is to make my clan proud and to make a good right hand when Naruto becomes Hokage." he spoke surprising the Sarutobis to their cores.
The way he had said it, it was almost as if he completely believed it would come true and the two friends bumped the side of their fists with a grin.
"Alright then let's head over to the latter part of the training ground so I can test your capabilities as a genin and see if you are worthy enough or not." he spoke, hopping down and motioning for them to follow him.
The three boys followed their new senseis while Hiruzen started with the team introductions and his own test as well.
Sasuke turned around and looked at the three with a critical eye and the genin took this time to get a closer look at their new sensei. The man wore on a simple yet intimidating brown shirt with black pants and black shinobi sandals.
The man had a face plate like that of Tobirama with the Leaf insignia engraved on it and had brown hair as well as narrow onyx eyes with skin that showed little of his true age. He crossed his arms and let out a puff of smoke from his mouth.
"Usually a jounin sensei is supposed to test his new team to see if they will truly become genin or be sen back to the Academy." he spoke, shocking the three who had wide eyes hearing this.
"That's why we don't have headbands yet…" Naruto spoke in realization and got a nod from Sasuke when he continued on.
"It is usually a team to test a team's teamwork and spirit of union to work together in a hidden meaning sort of test…" he spoke and took out three headbands and threw them to each of them who caught them with a surprised look on their faces.
"But I believe teamwork is built by working together in tandem, so be ready to be taught the true spirit that has made this village's foundations stand strong…" he spoke seriously getting small nods from his genin and nodded back.
"For now you three are genin, but if at any point I deem you to be unworthy be ready to be sent back to the Academy for another year."
He spoke as if reading the weather and the three gave him nervous nods. The man was quite intimidating without even trying.
"Alright now listen to the first task I am assigning you seriously, I won't repeat so don't ask me if you miss something. Your first mission from me is to cover yourself in stealth and go to the part we just left, where Hiruzen's new genin team is no doubt taking their test to graduate."
He spoke and got small nods of affirmative from the three who fastened their headbands, Sakumo and Naruto on their forehead while Duy tied it on his waist for comfort and each gave them a squeezing nod with a smile, feeling pride in themselves at being called true shinobis now.
"Your primary objective is to hide yourself under stealth and stay hidden from Hiruzen's three genin and observe them until they complete their task, which is to get two bells tied on Hiruzen's waist.
If they do manage to obtain them, then retrieve them from the two who do have them and bring them to me yet if they do not record the observations you make during the testing they go through and write it all down in as detailed a manner as possible along with what you learnt from them in every which way.
There is only one intel I wish to read, which is of utmost importance that you'll learn from them and failure to do so will result in me stripping you three of your headbands…"
He said and their eyes widened though the three said nothing and just gulped nervously seeing him leaving no room for arguments and nodded hesitantly.
"Dismissed." he spoke commandingly and the three jumped into the trees while Sasuke smirked and lit up a new cigar.
"Now let's see their worth in a real simulation test…" he thought and decided to let it play out for a while.
The three scattered by disappearing into the trees and rushed in closer to the clearing where Hiruzen had just finished explaining the bell test to his team.
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