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The door slammed open to reveal Ino and Sakura shoving each other through and shouting, "I'm first," in sync.

They both pushed and shoved until Sakura moved past Ino and towards a flushed Naruto, who had begun standing to wave at her.

"Hi, Sakura! What's u-"
"Move it!"
She pulled him from his seat and he went stumbling to catch his balance.

"Good morning, Sasuke-kun~"
He barely glanced at her before returning to stare at his clasped hands.

"Mind if I did with you?"
"Back off, Forehead. I'm sitting next to Sasuke."

You slumped in your chair, already tired of the bickering between the two girls. It didn't help when every other girl in the class began to argue for the same thing.

"No, I'm sitting next to him!"
"I was here first."
"Dream on!"

Their annoyingly obsessive voices cause your head to ring and you let it hit the desk table. You didn't get the point of arguing over a seat when there're plenty to go around.

Why want to sit next to the top student? It's not like he's going to talk to you, you thought to yourself with a groan.

You gave your hair a slight tug and forced yourself to watch the scene unfold at the table in front of yours.

Naruto shot up from the floor and right into Sasuke's face, crouching down to look him in the eye. He gave Sasuke a jealous growl, receiving an annoyed glare back.

He looked to be assessing every feature of Sasuke, eyes squinted and lips pulled into a frown. Sasuke did the same, leaning closer to "intimidate' Naruto.

Suddenly, the boy to Naruto's back leaned in his seat, bumping against him. Your eyes widened and you shot to cover your mouth with a hand when Naruto and Sasuke clashed lips.

They were quick to pull away and wipe at their lips, gagging at the sudden kiss. You were having the time of your life chuckling behind your hand and watching the girls lose their shit.

They each had the same glare, eye narrow with anger and jaw clenched so tight veins popped in their foreheads.

"Naruto, you're so dead."

Luckily, Iruka-Sensei walked into class just in time to stop an attempted murder and start the class. He took his spot at the front of the room, a paper in his hand.

"As of today, you are all ninjas," he began to speak. "To get here, you faced difficult trials and hardships. But that's nothing. What comes next with be far more difficult. Now you're only genin, first level ninjas..."

You pulled yourself away from the speech to glance down at the paper in his hands. To anyone's normal eyes, it would be a too far distance to even make out a word, but with your eyes, you zoomed in, only to realize the paper was turned away from your view.

With a huff you focused back on the speech. "-all the genin will be group into three man squads, with an exception of a four man squad. Each squad will be lead by a jounin, an elite ninja."

Everyone's head perked up and no doubt the girls were already thinking about being paired up with Sasuke.

"Well, someone's going to be grouped with Sasuke," Ino spoke from beside you, glaring down at Sakura. "I wonder who."
Without turning her head, Sakura sent back a harsh, "I don't know."

"We want each squad to balance strength and abilities, so that's how we set them up," Iruka-Sensei lifted the paper to his face and begin the read out the squads.

A four person squad? I wonder who's going to be in that one. You looked around the room to see if there was anyone in particular that you wanted to be grouped with. Please, no one annoying.

"-Squad seven: Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura, Uchiha Sasuke, and Nakamoto Y/n."

Your shoulders slumped at the mention of Sakura. Great, someone annoying. But a group with Sasuke and Naruto was bound to be interesting.

Ino was practically vibrating with anger from besides you, obviously worked up about not being in the same group as Sasuke.

"I don't get it," Shikamaru spoke up from the other side of Ino. "What do you see in a guy like that," he asked. "He's not so special."

"You are so beyond clueless, Shikamaru," Ino scoffed. "Don't you get it?"

"No I don't get it," he replied, sending you a glance. "I'm not Y/n and I'm not a girl."
Ino rolled her eyes at you. "Y/n just doesn't know what love is, she's weird."

"I'm right here," you said, throwing your hands up slightly to show you're annoyance. Thank the hokage I'm not in her group.

"Those are the squads," Iruka-Sensei finished reading the list of names.

"Iruka-sensei!"
Naruto was the first one to jump from his seat, a pointed finger flying straight for Sasuke.
"Why does a great ninja like me have to be in the same group with a slug like Sasuke?"

You felt your hope for this group dwindle and you sighed. This group is going to be the death of me, I swear.

Iruka-sensei hummed. "Sasuke had the best scores of all the graduating students. Naruto, you had the worst.

The entire class laughed.
"To create a balanced group, we put the best student with the worst student."

"Just make sure you don't get in my way, loser," Sasuke said, not turning his head to look at Naruto. He's so full of himself.

Naruto grits his teeth together. "Ugh. Hey, what did you say?"

"Hard of hearing?"
You snort softly at Sasuke's reply.
Though, he can he funny.

Naruto yelled something else that was drowned out by Sakura's shout for him to sit down.

"Ahem," Iruka cleared his throat and silenced the class. "Y/n, are you happy with your squad?"

You took a moment to collect yourself, at first not realizing he had called on you. "What?"
"I asked, are you satisfied with your group?"

"Um..." you took a moment to actually think it over.
Naruto: a guy obsessed with Sakura.
Sakura: a girl obsessed with Sasuke.
Sasuke: a guy obsessed with himself.
"Sure?"

Iruka sighed.
"After lunch you'll meet your new Jonin teachers. Until then, class dismissed."