Title:The Youthful Impact
Rating:T for violence
Disclaimer:Naruto belong to its creator: Masashi Kishimoto.
Warning:AU (alternate universe) characters.
Summary: Maito Gai felt heart-inspired by a blond kid's 'declaration' and decided to train him in power of youth.
"Talking"
"Talking"
"Thinking"
"Thinking"
Prologue
In the Hokage's office…Night time...
An old man in red and white garbs could be seen reading his favorite novel of all time, which is Icha Icha Paradise instead of doing paperwork that is stacked on his desk. He giggled perversely as his eyes moved from paragraph to paragraph, taking in detail.
"Oh ho ho ho. Yukihime, you naughty girl." Sandaime Hokage spoke, giggling before he flipped the next page with his wrinkled hand. Suddenly, his sharp hearing picked up the sound of his door about to be open. Using his ninja reflex, he quickly hid his favorite orange book inside one of his desk drawer, grab random paper and pretend to be reading with serious expression on his face. For further dramatic effect, he has shadow, created by light and Hokage hat, covered upper portion of his face. A second later, the door opened and to his inner relief, it's not his secretary.
"Hokage-sama. I'm here to give the official result of Team Seven's genin test." Hatake Kakashi said coolly as he stood front of his superior's desk. The Sandaime put a paper down on the surface.
"Good, " the Sandaime Hokage's eyes briefly lie on Kakashi's bandaged first two right hand fingers before he continued, "I see you got your fingers fixed after the... genin test."
"...Hai, Hokage-sama." Kakashi answered. It took two medic-nins and few hours to heal the broken fingers and few minutes to fill the paperwork to get out of hospital. It will take week or two for his fingers to be fully fixed. Because of this, he has missed the meeting where all other jounin sensei reported their team success or failure.
"The result, Kakashi."
"Hai. Team Seven has...passed the test, Hokage-sama." Receiving nod from the Sandaime, Kakashi spoke, "At first, they seem to be like all the previous genin hopefuls as they did not bother to work together, due to their conflicting personality. Two of them decided to take me on in one vs one in ninjutsu and taijutsu. Although they each shown skill and have promising potential with first one in ninjutsu and second one in...taijutsu, both of them lost with the second one broke my fingers..."
Kakashi paused briefly before correcting himself, "Well, it's more as I broke my fingers from using that jutsu on him." Kakashi placed an emphasis on the word 'that'. It was embarrassing and depressing moment. His reputation could be ruined if the news of a high A-rank ninja like him broke his fingers in a mere genin test, even when he was holding back, get out. Thankfully, the hospital has policy regarding the patient information and serious consequence for breaking the policy.
"But still…I should've known better than using that jutsu on him who dressed like…him." Kakashi thought and mentally shuddered, "Ugh…felt like the brick wall…"
"I see...That explained the state of your fingers. Continue." the third Hokage said, understanding what Kakashi mean 'that jutsu'. After all, he too used that jutsu though less often since he became the Hokage.
Kakashi nodded and obliged, "After putting first two temporarily out of fight, I searched for the third one and used one of the weakest genjutsu on her, thinking that she'll detect it and dispel it...She failed to and immediately fainted on spot." He shook his head in disappointment. How she passed the academy tests, Kakashi wondered. He resumed.
"Few minutes after she fainted, I was assaulted by other two who have recovered. Unlike the previous 'match', it was 2 on 1 with both of them using teamwork. I was on defensive, dodging their attacks until the timer ringed, signaling the time's up."
"I assumed you tied her up to a log, gave the lunch bento to other two, and told them not to feed her while you 'have to leave for something'?" Sandaime Hokage asked as he held his hands together on his desk. He raised his left eyebrow up when he saw Kakashi sported sheepish look.
"Err…Almost." Seeing the look from his superior, Kakashi elaborated, "Yes, all but last one happened. When I told them not to feed her, one of them jumped into long informative explanation of why we should not miss lunch and how lunch is the most important meal of the day before proclaiming how teamwork is important and quoted, 'If one lose, a whole team will share defeat!'. He gave the lunch bento back to me and sat right next to her, smiling and giving her thumb up."
Kakashi paused briefly to sigh and resumed, "As soon as he sat down, the other boy followed the suit and mentioned that despite seeing them as burdens, they're still of Konoha." He admitted that he felt surprised when he heard him said that as he had read the academy reports, which are now useless, before the bell test.
"And you passed them."
"Hai, Hokage-sama…They were willing to starve along with her, despite her being…loud." Kakashi answered calmly.
The old Hokage nodded in knowing manner as there is a mother, who's louder than daughter and has poor attitude that made him wish that he could order someone to stitch her mouth shut. Unfortunately, she has backing of the civilian council members who shared equal level of stupidity. Especially it comes to sensitive topic such as the one who has been assigned on Team Seven.
"I see…" the Sandaime Hokage spoke as he got off his chair and walked to one of the cabinets to grab a light brown folder, containing Team Seven information. Sitting back down on his chair, he lifted his approval stamp and opened the folder to the first page. He stared at the boxes on the paper before stamping.
Thuk
The box under the word 'Passed' has been marked, signaling that Team Seven is now part of the shinobi force. Looking at Kakashi, he declared, "Team Seven is now official. Train them well, Kakashi."
"Hai, Hokage-sama…Going to be interesting years with them." Kakashi commented. This made the Hokage chuckled and told him that he may leave. Kakashi nodded and turned to leave but stopped before the door.
"Kakashi." Hokage called.
"Hai?" A now official sensei of Team Seven looks back at the Hokage.
"I'm sure that you know this now after the bell test, but you are now forbidden from using Thousand Years of Death jutsu on fellow Leaf nin. It has proven to be too lethal." The Hokage told him with straight face. At this, Kakashi showed sheepish expression and rubbed back of his head while the Hokage broke his serious look and grinned.
As soon as a silver hair man left, the Hokage stared at the Team Seven folder with his eyes on the list of team members, particularly on the name 'Maito Naruto'. He briefly chuckled before shuddering when he heard an echoing sound that sound like Maito Gai from somewhere.
"With no doubt, he is proud of Naruto's youthful success." The Sandaime thought as he smiled and closed the folder before placing it along with other team folders. "Naruto has taken the first step into the shinobi world."
An old man sighed when he noticed that the amount of paperwork, sitting on his desk, has somehow gotten taller.
"Cursed paperwork." he grumbled as he grab the top paper and began to read. Icha Icha novel will have to wait.
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