Leaving the relative safety of his home was always something that he found difficult, now however, he couldn’t wait to leave and meet his partner. Since the Kyuubi’s attack 12 years ago things in the village had changed greatly. Mostly in how his generations team setup went. The males of the village had found that in exchange for shrinking to such a small size, their bodies had become much more durable and resilient. Which in truth, was a good thing as many boys would have been killed by the time they reached the age of ten otherwise. Naruto was one such boy as he had been bullied for most of his short life. The things done to him had included; being stepped on, smeared into the ground under someone’s foot, being stomped on, crushed, beaten, burned, dropped from great heights (at least in his eyes), and he had even been threatened to be eaten alive by one of the more cruel kunoichi in-training. As said, he would have been dead if not for the strengthened body all males seemed to have now, thankfully, Naruto normally was able to walk away from most of his ‘incidents’ with only some broken bones and bruises.
Naruto was thankful that his partner didn’t seem to wish to hurt him or not willingly. She had sat on top of him more than once during his academy days but, she never seemed to be trying to hurt him. Everything that had happened to him at her hands had been a complete accident, or that’s what she said. Shaking the thoughts from his mind, Naruto was able to reach the meeting spot for his team in a record breaking 10 minutes. Pretty good considering how far he lived from here as well as his height difference.
He saw that the kunoichi of his team had already arrived. Due to the change in how things in leaf were done. Girls were encouraged to enter the ninja academy as a team now consisted of three kunoichi and their male partners. Some girls would find themselves with more than one male partner. It was chosen thru a series of chakra test. Why? Well no one real knew, or at least they never gave him a real answer. Looking towards the three girls he made a run towards his. They were Ino Yamanaka, Sakura Haruno and Hinata Hyuga. Naruto allowed himself a moment to look them over.
Ino was a fair-skinned girl of average height with green/blue eyes. Her most noticeable trait in her appearance is her long, platinum blonde hair, which is always seen in a high-ponytail that reaches down to her waist with bangs covering the right side of her face. She was often found wearing a pair of small silver hoop-earrings and purple, fairly revealing clothing. She wore a short purple vest like blouse with a raised collar, a skirt that was cut off on the sides and bandage on her stomach and legs. Purple and white elbow warmers could be seen around her arms, and her forehead protector was wrapped around her waist as a belt. Personality wise, she was constantly thinking about boys and her appearance, hence why she was always on some diet or another. She was very confident, kind in her own manner, and rather outspoken. She was certainly not afraid to speak her mind. Naruto had found that though she was relatively cheerful she tended to be rather bossy at times.
Sakura however was quite different in her appearance. First off she had bright pink hair, then there was the large green eyes, and fair skin. Sakura was often bullied due to her rather large forehead hence her nickname of "Billboard Brow", due to this she wore her bangs over her forehead in an attempt to cover it, though Ino encouraged her to wear her hair back. A red qipao dress or a body-hugging one-piece Chinese dress for women, with white circular designs, with or without short sleeves, with a zipper, tight dark green shorts, and a forehead protector which she used to accentuate her face, completed the look.
Unlike Ino, who could be loud and bossy, Sakura was naturally hot-headed and irritable, and because of that, she tended to hit people out of anger but, most of the time, she is relatively kind, cheerful, and rational, if a bit fan-girly at times.
Finally his eyes rested on the timid form of one Hinata Hyuga. Naruto would be hard pressed to not admit that Hinata was quite cute. Her dark blue hair, brushed back to a small tuff much like a swan’s tail and two long bangs framing her face, made him think of a clear night sky, and the white eyes of her clan held just a tinge of lavender making them seem gentle and kind rather than the cold impassive look most of her clan had. They made him think of the full moon, gently bathing the world in its pale light. These traits, plus the creamy white skin and shy look always upon her face, made her look like a porcelain china doll but, he knew that she was stronger than most thought. She was dressed in a baggy tan jacket with white fur tuffs at the ends and a yellow circle on the outside of her jackets arms with a red tear-like flame design. Her Konoha forehead protector hung around her neck. Her pants a dark blue and standard blue ninja sandals as well as white bandages on her right thigh with a kunai case and ninja pouch over her the left side of her bum, completed her look.
Hinata was shy, serene, and very polite girl. Hinata was referred to as the kindest and most soft spoken girl you would ever find in Konoha. Naruto knew that she disliked competing and fighting others, mostly out of the fact that she didn’t want to hurt someone. Sadly Hinata’s lack of self-confidence was her only big problem but, she made up for it by being a very hard worker. Over the years he had seen that Hinata was incredibly empathetic and was rather easy to gain the trust of, if you were sincere with her. He had noticed her desire to be acknowledged and how she generally, opts to think carefully before acting. For all of these traits Hinata had his respect.
Finally reaching the girls he is happy to see that his partner noticed him and was already in the process of picking him up. After being lifted closer to head level Naruto gave his partner a happy greeting. “Good morning, … “
Who is his partner?
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