(A/N) Right, so, I'm not going to be including most of those Jonin talks present in Half Clans and Rejects (HCR, for short). Akiko's there, so it's not necessary to put it twice. I'm assuming you people (or lack thereof) don't need the same conversation twice. As I'm trying to sync up with HCR, this jumps all the way to them receiving their team assignments. Other stuff happened the same, but Naruto told Sasuke and Sakura about his promotion as soon as he got it. Standard Naruto stuff. Oh, one note on Sakura's appearance, she keeps her pretty hair both shorter and tied into a braid so it's out of the way. She's had her hair singed a few too many times to care. Everyone else looks about the same though. As for Sakura's personality, she's a lot more willing to stand up to Sasuke, mostly out of necessity. She still has her silly crush, but it's buried underneath the irritation of him blowing stuff up. The other fangirls are still fangirls, but they're more subdued in favor of not incurring Naruto's wrath cause they hurt Sakura. He has her crush on her still, but again, annoyance with not being able to blow stuff up trumps that. Basically, romance is kinda there, but varying degrees of annoyance cover it up.

Naruto walked into the classroom, feeling quite proud of himself. He'd passed! Even if it wasn't exactly... Conventional.

"Naruto!" Sakura said loudly. "You passed!"

Naruto blushed slightly, nodding. "Yep!"

"Did you blow anything up?" Sasuke asked, as a way of greeting.

Naruto shook his head sadly. "No, just paralyzing seals."

"Aww, darn," Sasuke said, drooping slightly.

"Aww, good!" Sakura corrected, hands on her hips as she scolded Sasuke. She wasn't going to hit him, she was a bit too in love with him to do that, but she could scold him like he was a disobedient child.

"Alright, settle down." Iruka walked into the room, causing all the students to rush to their seats and close their mouths. "The teams are as follows."

"You think we'll be on a team together?" Naruto asked Sasuke and Sakura.

"No offense meant to you Naruto, but yeah. You passed in a weird way, making you the dead last. Sasuke-kun and I are the top students."

Naruto nodded wisely at Sakura's words. She was probably correct.

"Team 7 is Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, and Sasuke Uchiha," Iruka said, paling slightly as he realized the explosive trio was on a team together. "I send my condolences to your Sensei," he muttered under his breath.

"Why does he send condolences to our sensei?" Naruto whispered to Sakura.

"It means he's sorry our sensei got us," Sakura whispered back.

"And finally, Team 13, Rumi Aburame, Shinta Nara-Yamanaka, and Katana," Iruka finished, placing the scroll on his desk. "You are released for lunch, your sensei will pick you up after lunch."

Sakura pulled out her lunch, then pulled out a second one, setting it in front of Naruto. "Come on, let's go find somewhere to eat lunch."

Naruto grinned, grabbing the lunch and following Sasuke and Sakura out of the classroom.

They found a spot on a bench, the same one they'd eaten on yesterday, and sat down. Naruto, of course, inhaled his lunch in thirty seconds flat, then, while Sasuke and Sakura ate their lunches like normal people, he pulled out a scroll, and started drawing explosives. Y'know, like a normal kid would do when they're bored.

"Don't draw explosives," Sakura said immediately. "We don't want to blow up the school."

"Aww, c'mon," Naruto whined.

Sakura sighed, finishing her lunch. "Come on, let's go back inside."

Sasuke finished up his lunch too, throwing away the inedible bits. With Sakura in the lead, the three walked back into the academy.

They walked in the door and noted the Jonin that were already there. One of them, a woman with long dark hair pulled into a high ponytail with bangs covering her forehead, waved at them cheerfully, then went back to talking to one of the other female jonin.

"You think she's our Jonin sensei?" Sasuke asked Sakura and Naruto as they sat down.

"Nah, to happy to see us," Sakura decided. "Huh, there is one less jonin then there are teams. Someone seems to have not shown up yet. Wonder who's sensei it is."

"Probably ours," Naruto said, frowning. "They probably just didn't want to show up."

Sakura hit Naruto.

"OW! What was that for?" Naruto complained.

"The jonin is probably just late and was probably held up," Sakura said firmly. "And I'm sure it would be an honor to teach us."

"I'm not so sure about that," Naruto muttered darkly. For that, he got another hard bop on the head.

"Bad Naruto. No more self-deprecating stuff." Sakura continued to scold him, not noticing the rest of the kids had filed in.

"Alright. Team 10, you're with me," A male jonin said, a cigarette sticking out of his mouth.

The explosive trio watched as all but one of the other jonin led their teams out of the room.

The female Jonin was looking around, an irate look on her face. "If Kakashi isn't here in the next four seconds, I'm taking his genin and making a team of 7." She said it loud enough that Kakashi, who was in the hall, heard her. He frantically appeared in the doorway. "Ah, there you are, you closet pervert."

"I hate you," Kakashi grumbled.

The six genin still seated stared at the two jonin.

"So, which one of you is our teacher?" Naruto asked bluntly.

"The silver-haired idiot is your teacher, I'm afraid," the female jonin said, whacking Kakashi on the back of the head. "My name's Akiko, nice to meet you."

Sakura smiled politely, while Sasuke looked out a window and grunted, and Naruto waved enthusiastically.

"Don't kill Kakashi, would'cha? That's my job." Akiko smirked, grinning at Kakashi. "Now, Kakashi, be a good dog summoner, take the children off somewhere, and get to know them. Oh, and you will come to dinner with Asuma and Kurenai if I have to threaten you with a windmill shuriken."

Kakashi laughed nervously. "Alright, my cute little genin, meet me on the roof!" He disappeared in a swirl of leaves, probably out the open window of the classroom.

Akiko smirked. "Alright, Rumi, Shinta, Katana, if you don't mind, I'm gonna play with my ex for a moment. Explosive trio, come over here and hold on. We're gonna shunshin to the roof. It's what Kakashi did, by the way."

The explosive trio exchanged glances but obeyed the crazy woman. She took hold of them, and the four shunshined to the roof. She disappeared right afterward, probably to get her own Genin.

"Of course she did," Kakashi muttered, despondent. "I have no peace and quiet with her around."

(A/N) Well, Kakashi was almost late. Almost. Akiko was gonna have none of it. Akiko probably would've taken Kakashi's genin as her own in addition to her own team if Kakashi hadn't shown his face.