Title: Team Twelve
Author: PrincessTucker
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, nor will I be making any money off of this story.
Summary: Instead of being placed on Team 7 with Kakashi Naruto gets placed on Team 12 with a new teammate and Mitarashi Anko. How much of a difference will Naruto undergo and change around him and in himself
Sakura Haruna's life descended into hell the second she stepped into the ANBU T&I building that morning. She was then showed to her room, which she was sharing with Naru-Baka and to change into the uniform issued to her. After that she and Xuân-Bitch was passed over to this really scary looking woman with a X-shaped scar across her face, Sakura was given the choice between cutting her hair or keeping it pulled back into a tight braid. Sakura defended her hair and kept it long, Xuân only nodded and allowed Fujiko to cut her hair shorter then Naruto's! What a waste, although that meant that she wasn't interested in Sasuke-kun, which was a good thing as Sakura was going to be the future Uchiha Lord's wife.
They were all given weighted leg and arm braces, and Chakra restraints in the shape of a collar. Then they were put through the most various, tiring, exhausting Taijutsu practice Sakura had ever been on or tried to do to keep her figure. Bitch, as Sakura was calling Xuân, was hardly even out of breath! Naruto even recovered faster then her, but Sasuke took nearly as long as Sakura did, which made her feel better. Then they were forced to re-learn all the Jutsu taught at the Academy with next to none chakra, Naruto flew through them all and made the perfect Clone!
By the time they stopped for lunch only Sasuke-kun had re-mastered one of the Jutsu's and Bitch was near completely one. Naru-Baki's Chakra Restraint was bumped up a couple of levels, but he was still further then her! It just wasn't fair! After lunch they were each given different scenario's and they had to overcome different obstacles before being declared the winner by Anko-Sensei.
They were each given a point when they were right; Anko-Sensei said that at the end of the week they could be used for several things. After dinner they were given free time and full access to a library, which Bitch took full advantage of. Naru-Baki spent his time sleeping and Sakura spent her time trying to stalk Sasuke-kun through the halls.
She didn't even notice the snickers following her from the other members at Torture and Interrogation. Sasuke on the other hand was actually enjoying his roommates company; Xuân was very twitchy, reminding him a bit about some of his great-uncle's that served during Shinobi wars. When he went to wake Xuân up after listening to her whimper for several hours due to a nightmare, Sasuke narrowly avoided a kunai to his stomach.
Sasuke learned to shake Xuân awake with a clone, they didn't mind being killed by his dangerous roommate. He learned to avoid Xuân when it was time for the daily showers, he did his first and went for breakfast while she did hers, and otherwise she wouldn't budge from her bed. Sasuke had no clue what Xuân's problem was nor did he care, he was learning so much and being too tired to do anything but avoid Sakura.
Naruto was having the time of his life, granted he had to do nothing but chakra-control exercises when he was having privet lessons with Ibiki-Sensei, but it was all right. They were treating him like a proper shinobi now, teaching him really cool things during practice. He didn't mind he only had a few points and that Sakura-chan and Sasuke-Teme had the most, whom was he going to send a letter to by using his points? Iruka-Sensei maybe, but he was much too busy training during the week, and weekends besides, and practicing on his own time to really sit down and write a letter.
He was having too much fun.
Fei was slowly relaxing around Uchiha-san, he didn't seem like her uncle and he hadn't made a move. It also helped that he showed absolutely no interest when the Geisha-Nin walked around the barracks dressed skimpily or even naked, she was also relaxing slightly around Uzumaki-san, as he too showed no reaction other then blushing and looking away as they walked past.
Haruna on the other hand was driving her up the fucking wall.
Fei was about ready to stab the little pest in the back, if anything she had a feeling that everyone wouldn't mind it. Fujiko-Sensei was teaching her the basic's of field medical aid, which made Fei suspect that she was being trained as the support for her two team-members, Haruna was going to get the boot sooner or later or get herself killed during a mission. Fujiko-Sensei also left books down about the risks of being a kunoichi such as molestation and rape during their line of work.
Fei was well acquainted with both thank-you-very-much.
Which made Fei suspicious that they knew about all of that and also how she murdered her uncle a few years ago, even though Sora-Oba had covered it up rather well but nothing escaped ANBU eyes. She just hoped she wasn't in trouble for that, but maybe prison would be better for her then living with her aunt and all of her lovers. Fei also hoped she wouldn't be analyzed by their shrink's; she already knew she was screwed up in the head and in body.
Fujiko Shitaku was a little concerned about her student/patient, all the signs of prolonged molestation and rape were there, but it didn't seem recent some how. It took a little digging to find out that Fei-san's uncle died three years ago peacefully in his sleep, Fujiko had a feeling that Fei-san fought back and killed her rapist and her aunt covered it up. Which made the time-line possible as that following month she was enrolled at the Academy, it seemed like her aunt at least suspected what her niece had done and got rid of her in the only was possible.
That didn't stop the arrange marriages of course, but she and T&I could fix that easily enough at a latter point in time.
If Fei-san hadn't killed herself or someone else, although she did come close that first night rooming with Sasuke-san, then she would recover, which was rare with such a severe case of sexual assault, but it the abuse may have been a trial-by-fire like most of the Chunin during the Great Shinobi Wars, they came out slightly bitter and scarred but alive and stronger most importantly in both mind, body and soul.
Fujiko had hoped that Fei-san would become strong; she just had to get over her fear of touch by men and her dislike of women. Maybe move Naruto-san into the room that she and Sasuke-san's shared….
They were nearing the middle of their grace period of HBT, Hellish Basic Training, when something unusual happened. Anko was staying up late like normal, she had nightmares enough that she could tell when she wasn't going to sleep well during the night, and was watching over her most troublesome student, Xuân Fei. Her Taijutsu was the strongest and she was keeping up with the program, although her other two main subjects, Ninjutsu and Genjutsu were no-where near as strong as Naruto or Sasuke, but she wasn't a slouch either.
Fei seemed uncomfortable with the two boys although she stopped knifing the Sasuke-clone when he would wake her up from nightmares; Anko took that as a good sign. Anko planned on moving the three of them into a three-man Squad's room's and make them share the bedroom, when she saw Naruto sneaking out of his and Haruna's room and headed down to Sasuke's and Fei's with a clone carrying his stuff.
She watched with some interest as Naruto made a bed out of his blankets and the spare ones in the closet in the room. Sasuke only grunted and turned over back to sleep when Naruto stole a pillow, it seemed like the Uchiha was mellowing out, or he was too damn tired to give a damn.
Probably the later one knowing him.
Fei on the other hand held the most surprise, she did tense the second the door opened, an ingrained habit of hers or so Fujiko's reports were to believed, but didn't attack once Naruto was in the room. Anko rewind the tape, watching Fei's every move until she fell back asleep in a light dose, maybe, just maybe of course, Fei wasn't as fucked up as Anko thought.
Just in case though…she buzzed Fujiko to her room where the cameras were set up.
"Yes, Anko-Sempai?" Fujiko said as she yawned behind her hand politely to the senor ranked kunoichi. "Is something the matter?"
"No, not exactly. Here," Anko said as she hit play. "This was just recorded, tell me what you think."
"Well," Fujiko said leaning back in a chair Anko pulled up for the tired woman as she watched the tape several times. "It relieves my mind that she isn't as bad off as I predicted when I was given a possible history of prolonged sexual assault. She is much better off then most in her position."
"Explain." Anko demanded as she got ready to take notes, she personally had never been raped or molested but it came close a few times.
"I think the experience made her stronger then she could ever had been, a trial-by-fire if you would, I'm not saying what she went through as a child until she reached the Academy is nothing short of total trauma but I don't think she'll ever be in the position to be assaulted again." Fujiko said as she gathered her thoughts. "She had one of the highest ranking's in Yuki-Sensei's class, much like Sasuke-san is the number one ranked Rookie of the year, she also doesn't complain about the amount of studying or training I'm putting her under. I've had Jonin, veteran Jonin mind you, bitch about it and some twelve-year old girl isn't saying a word?"
"Neither has Naruto or Sasuke from the reports, the Kyubbi and the Slaughter were their trial-by-fire's right?" Anko said as she scribbled out some notes. "It would make sense if what Ruka-chan has told me during our sake-dates."
"Ah, yes. How is our Dolphin? I hope he is recovering well from Mizuki?"
"Yes, but I think he wants to do more then just be a Academy Sensei since the attack." Anko said as she leaned back and snagged a tray of dango off the top of the mini-fridge. "Iruka says that war is coming if from what he's overheard in the Mission-Room when no-one thinks he's listening. He's getting tired of his undercover mission and wants to formally move up in ranks, not yet, but I can tell."
"How long is he suppose to be last undercover?"
"Only until after Sasuke and Naruto graduated, they have but he has to finish out the rest of the year at least. I think he should just come in and turn in his report about his S-ranked mission, he would automatically go up to Tokubetsu Jonin at the very least."
Fujiko said nothing, letting Anko rant about her stupid team-mate and reckless behavior, it was also better to let Anko go on like this before interrupting her otherwise she would rant about that for hours.
"Maybe he just wants time to get back into shape. I mean, he has been doing nothing more then portraying a Chunin, a weak one at that, for the past five years. He's bound to not be as strong as he was before without raising suspicion, Iruka-san most likely wants to be strong enough to pass and get back into the life of mission life."
Anko pouted but didn't say anything, which sounded too much like her teammate to protest that. Anko mentally did the math and realized that Iruka was training the first years at the Academy, so that meant in about a year he would most likely come in for his report. Anko rubbed her hands together in glee, she better get her ass in training as it had been years since she last fought Iruka and he always managed to kick her ass, this time she was going to kick his!
"Line up Gaki's, I'm changing things around a little." Anko said the next morning. They were all progressing nicely, not as fast as Anko would have liked but she had to reminded her self that they were just Genin, not rookie Jonin that were forced to train under her. "Haruna and Xuân are on one team and Uzumaki and Uchiha are on another. You have one hour to 'kill' the other team, which is considered normally a mortal wound. You can knock out, give mortal wounds - we will have medic's on stand-by just incase - or suffer the least amount of injuries and a point system that only I, and Ibiki, know."
Haruna looked like she was going to pitch a fit and Uzumaki didn't look much better, but he swallowed his anger and pride. Anko gave them ten minutes before the test started before heading into the control room that monitored one-hundred-square miles of underground terrain of varying types; they had dessert, swamp, mountains, and a small lake with mist, foggy bamboo groves. Everything and anything they had it.
"Ten-thousand on Uzumaki and Uchiha winning, five-thousand on Xuân for giving in and either killing Haruna or letting her die." Ibiki said smugly as he watched Haruna struggle to keep up with Xuân to find some cover and get a game plan. "You?"
"Ten-thousand on Uzumaki and Uchiha, five-thousand on Xuân not giving in, but giving the girl a very nice, dark verbal tongue lashing." Anko said pouting. "You already took my bet."
"Hmmm," Ibiki muttered as he drank a cup of coffee, a beverage that Naruto has been dying to try, if he did well he just might let the ball of sunshine have a cup. "What does Fujiko say about our Gaki's?"
"Short or long?"
"Short, I'm skipping on paperwork to see how well you've been training our number-one team. Spill, quickly."
"Meanie," Anko said sticking her tongue out at her friend. "Alright, Uzumaki first. He's surprising well adjusted and has piss-poor control over his emotions, but with time we can fix that before it gets him killed. Fujiko recommends that he and his teammates share an off-sight home like they will stay here in the Squad barracks; it should improve on his people skills and teach him tack. She says to watch his moods and if he has any sudden mood swings then it's the Kyubbi's fault and someone should look at the Seal, but not Jiraiya."
"Why?"
"She says that the Kyubbi's chakra is slowly merging with Uzumaki's, she isn't sure if that's what is suppose to happen but it is concerning to say the least. I can give you a list at the end of the day on who we need to contact, do you care if they are on the illegal side of things?"
"No, if they could fix it I won't even care if it's a fucking Missing-Nin from Water. Next."
"Uchiha. Not the most well adjusted or the normalish one, but with watching we can prevent an Orochimaru, which will happen unless he forms strong, very strong bonds with people here in the village or nothing will stop it. The first sign of fresh blood-lust and withdrawing into himself more then he has already be prepared to jack him into Iso until he calms down and a full twenty-hour/seven shrink watch for the rest of his life."
"Hm." Ibiki grunted. That wasn't surprising at all. Hell, he already had the room prepared the first day, just because he wasn't one of the psychologist's here didn't mean he didn't see things. "Xuân?"
"She is surprisingly unaffected from her history of sexual assault, but Fujiko suspects that she is just bottling it up and shoving it away from her mind, burying it if you will so she wont have to deal with it. Xuân can handle being around strange people, but refuse's to get touched or she'll stick a kunai in them. But I do have hope that sooner or later she'll at least allow Uchiha or Uzumaki to touch her."
"Why?"
"Two nights ago Uzumaki moved in with Uchiha and Xuân, other then tensing as he came in and when he wakes up, she is slowly warming up to him. I wont be surprised if she learns not to tense when they wake her from nightmares anymore, nor go straight to a kunai when they walk behind her."
"Good. Very few kunoichi are good at Taijutsu as her, I don't want to lose her because of some fucked up Uncle. He is dead correct?"
"Yes, supposedly he died in his sleep peacefully a few years ago, but I think that Xuân's Shoton kicked in and killed him, the aunt most likely covering it up. I don't think that she'll ever tell her team-mates what happened to her or that she'll ever have a sexual interest in anybody after that gala of trauma."
Ibiki nodded as he watched Haruna get 'killed' and a masked ANBU took her away to be healed before she bled out. It seemed like neither he nor Anko won that bet, but Xuân did get points for fucking up the Uchiha's nervous system with a well-aimed jab to the nerve-bundle in his upper-right shoulder, which would take hours to fix and an automatic kill. She was also able to draw with Naruto, both getting off on mutual kill shots on each other, which earned her some amount of points.
After a good amount of bickering Ibiki handed over the ten thousand as Xuân won point-wise, but lost because of a lack of teammate. Anko was mentally crackling at the yen, she could buy the good stuff for her Friday dinners with Iruka, maybe even up-date him on his students progress. But first she had a freak to yell at; hopefully making her quit or is asked to be moved to a different team.
"That was pathetic," Anko snarled at Haruna. "I thought I taught you better then that during our sessions! You are to listen to your team-leader, which you elected Xuân when you didn't protest her course of action! Then you had the gall of going against orders during a crucial part and getting yourself 'killed' by the enemy leaving your partner all alone to finish the mission! She could have died, being taken hostage or used as a trade off during a War!"
"But-!" Sakura started to say, which was a mistake, as you did not question Anko when she was reaming your ass.
"Shut the fuck up you sorry excuse of kunoichi! If your other two teammates were enemy Nins, male nins, she could have been raped for hours, days, hell, even weeks if she was in the bingo book and their fraction used her a hostage! Get back to your dorm, I'll finish with you later!"
Sakura didn't even react, just glared at the bitchy woman and stormed away, she was just trying to see Sasuke, besides, what gave Bitch the right to give her orders! Only Sasuke-kun could do that! Anko pinched the bridge of her nose while she counted back from ten, then fifty, she counted back from fifty three more times as the urge to kill the pinkette was strong.
Fei decided to treat some of the lesser wounds on her teammates; it wasn't their fault that Haruna was a waste of space. Fei had to physically control her hands so they wouldn't shake from touching someone, a /male/ someone, she also had to chant in her head that so far they hadn't done anything to her and if they did she would kill them extremely slowly and painfully.
Anko watched out of the corner of her eye as Fei touched, willingly touched, boys, as she healed up some of the minor wounds. It seemed like Fujiko's assessment was correct, that in time Fei would be all right. Well, sooner or later at any rate. Fei felt like puking after she was done healing them up, but it wasn't as bad as she thought it was going to be.
"Listen, Xuân." Anko said once it felt like the girl calmed down from touching the boys. "She is your team-mate, she abandoned you to the enemy with that foolish stunt, so I would like to know what you opinion on what should be her punishment."
"My opinion, Anko-Sensei?" Fei seemed somewhat shocked before she nodded. "I…think that her luxury's should be taken away. Revoke her rights from the library, give her evening lesson's and take away her points that she has earned so far."
"That's it?" Anko said raising a brow at the quiet girl.
"Well," Fei said remembering Fujiko-Sensei's words about being her own person and not the dutiful wife she was trained to be by her aunt. "I would personally like to see all of her hair cut off and her eyes gorged out, Anko-Sensei."
Anko raised the other brow as she smirked at the cheerfully smiling girl, but in the back of her aqua-green eyes Anko could see a kunoichi very similar to her own personality spoiling to come out and fight. Well, well, well. It seemed the kitten had a set of hidden claws.
"I can shave her head bald, but not the eyes I am afraid. Are you sure there isn't anything else I can do?" Anko was eager to get started on Haruna.
"Yes, Anko-Sensei, there is only one more thing." Fei said smiling brightly. "Have Fujiko-Sensei shear her hair and tell her to make it permanent. I don't care how short or long her hair is, but I want the style to be ugly as possible."
Anko nodded pleased and dismissed her students for the day. Anko almost skipping as she headed to Haruna's room, she was so going to enjoy this! She wondered if she couldn't get any more ideas from Xuân, she knew where exactly where to hit to make it hurt.
"Ne, Fei?" Naruto asked from his large bed of next. He finally found out where to spend his points by buying out the blanket's and several pillows. He was laying the closest to the door while Fei had the farthest bed and Sasuke had the middle bed, it was a mutual thing between Sasuke and Naruto that they would be near the door because doors made their teammate twitchy. "Why did you suggest Sakura-san get her hair cut?"
"Well, Haruna-san likes her looks because they attract boys, I know of a rumor that Sasuke likes girls with long hair-"
"Che." Sasuke said looking up from sharpening his weapons, he had an almost compulsive need to make sure that they were nice and sharp, much easier to kill the 'targets' when they were role-playing with clones. "As if."
"I know, but she didn't know that. So, to punish her for that I decided to take her looks away, and since Anko-Sensei can't main her face, her hair was the best bet." Fei said quietly, her melodious voice echoing slightly in the room. Both boys had gotten used to it and found it – secretly Sasuke, obviously Naruto - fascinating and were enthralled with it. "I know exactly where to hit to make it hurt, that was one of Fujiko-Sensei's lesson's."
"Fujiko-Sensei? Who's that?' Naruto asked cocking his head as Fei placed a bookmark to save her spot in the medical texts.
"She's my tutor, like Ibiki-Sensei is for you or Hatake-Sensei is for Sasuke-san. She's teaching me to become a Medical-Nin and your support if needed. As I am sure that you, Naruto-san, are being taught Hunter-Nin tactics and control so when you learn Ninjutsu you won't blow us up. Sasuke-san is most likely being taught as a Shadow-Nin and Genjutsu because of the Sharingan he has. We are a basic ANBU Squad, or we will be in a few years once we make Chunin."
"Shadow-Nin?"
"Dobi. I will assassinate enemy and sneak behind enemy lines for information or even become a spy at some point in my life. I don't mind it actually, I want to kill my elder brother because he wiped out our clan and get revenge on him for that. This is very good training as I doubt I would be able to go up to Uchiha Itachi and kill him, I would have to work behind the scene's and use poison most likely."
"Oh, that sucks, you know, about your parents." Naruto said rubbing the back of his head embarrassed.
"Hn."
"So, Fei-chan, what do you dream of? I mean, Teme wants to kill his only family and I want to become the strongest shinobi in the village and become Hokage one-day, so what's yours?"
Fei didn't know what to say, she didn't really have any dreams other then nightmares. She shivered as she remembered cold-sweaty palms touching her and a sickly-sweet voice telling her awful things, but pushed it into the box labeled 'DO NOT OPEN' and snapping out of the flashback before finding her voice.
"Oh, I don't know. I want to be strong, the strongest Kunoichi, stronger then even Tsuanda-Himi, but that's a goal and until I find mine, I guess I'll just make sure both of your dreams come true, okay?"
Naruto opened his mouth to probe further, but shut it when they heard Haruna's screeching about her hair. It seemed like she got her hair done and was finding out about the style and punishment for her lack of good following skills. Sasuke eyed the smirk that danced across his teammate's lips before going back to cleaning, he vowed to never, ever piss her off and face that wrath. Naruto saw that smirk and decided he found a fellow prankster amongst his teammate, he had loads of idea's that always needed two people, but no one was really interested in it.
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"All right kiddies," Anko said as she eyed the vibrating Genin. It was the last week before HBT was up and they could leave the underground training grounds and see the outside world again. "This week is going to be the hardest yet and by the time I'm done with you all your going to be begging for me to kill you if I have anything to say about it."
Sakura gulped nervously fingering a piece of long hair, she was still pissed about the style but consoled herself with the thought that the miss-matched bowl-cut and shag-style would grow out sooner or later and she could fix it up. Wouldn't she be surprised in a few weeks when it wouldn't nor when Ino laughed her ass off at the sight and later when it become known that it was permanent.
Naruto grinned brightly at the thought of a mock mission; Sasuke grunted as he pouted on the inside, he wanted to polish his weapons damn-it! Fei rolled her eyes and stuck her tongue out at the purple haired female, it seemed like she was blossoming under the good intentions of her male team-mates because Fei allowed Naruto and Sasuke close, never letting them touch, but she was also talking about the molestation and rapes to Fujiko.
Which in her eyes made Naruto and Sasuke rather special, as she feared that she would never get Fei to open up about them.
"You each have a back-pack filled with supplies," Anko pointed at the thick, dense and dark forest to their right. "You will have to live in that for one week while trying to avoid attacks by me and Kakashi, and raids by Ibiki and Fujiko at random times. Depending on how well you perform depends on whether or not we'll allow you to leave and go on missions or keeps you down here for another six months. Understand."
All four nodded as they shouldered the heavy bags.
"Now, you all have a choice. Only two of you can be freed of the weights while the other two will be freed of the restraints. Make your pick which ones should have which." Anko smirked as she said this, she couldn't wait to see what the choices would be.
Naruto and Sasuke knew what they wanted off and Fei stepped forward to give the answers, how she knew she didn't know, but their body language was screaming it at her. It seemed the lessons with Fujiko-Sensei was paying off if she could read her teammates that easily. "Weights for Uzumaki-san and Haruna-san while I and Uchiha-san want the restraints off."
"Very well then," Anko clicked her fingers and the restrictors came off, by this point in time they were all maxed out and she had the orders for the next size up waiting for them. "Now, to also increase the difficulty level somewhat, all four of us, Ibiki, Fujiko, Kakashi and I will all have bells on. You each must have at least one bell to move on, the more bells you get for yourself, and for your team, will increase the point standing. I will give you a four-hour head start, after that it's game time. Shoo!"
All four took to the tree's, three of the Genin were already mentally planning how they would split their supplies amongst one another, they already knew that Haruna was going to get herself killed, not even Naruto wanted her on his team any more. He once heard Iruka-Sensei say that under pressure and stress a person's true colors came out, and boy, did he hate those colors.
"Alright, we stay on the move, no camp-fires, no resting unless it's four hour shifts in tree's. We don't want one of the Sensei's crawling up our asses while we sleep, remember the ANBU catnap trick, it just might save our lives." Sasuke said and Naruto and Fei nodded. Sakura was making cow-eyes at the raven-haired boy to be of much use. "Then lets move out, stay in a basic traveling formation, better offense and defense this way. Naruto you led and making sure to use those tracking skills! Fei you be his right while I'm his left and Haruna takes up the rear."
Please Kami-Sama, let one of the Sensei's kill her, all three thought as Sakura giggled softly as she tried to lean closer to Sasuke.
Who was having his skin crawl and stood up abruptly from where they were huddled behind a fallen tree trunk. Naruto took off like bullet, he felt so incurable free of the weights and he was going so fast he might as well be flying. A quick whistle from Fei made him slow down for them as two of the team-member still had weights on and the other was too damn slow even without the weights to keep up.
They traveled about in the forest, avoided the desert as none of them had any clue how to survive in that before resting in the misty swamps for an afternoon break. Sakura collapsed near the water's edge and was sucking down the murky water, which was most likely poisoned or illness filled, none of the three were willing to tell the stupid girl that.
Which proved true that two hours into her shift Sakura started foaming at the mouth, quick work from Fei saved her from a possible death. Which put everyone on edge and none got any sleep that night, Naruto because he was pulling two shifts and Sasuke because he didn't feel like leaving one of two girls in the whole village that treated him normally.
"Well?" Sasuke demanded at sunrise as the prepared to leave, he could feel Kakashi-Sensei's eyes following them. Soon there would be an attack and he did not want dead weight slowing them down, he meant Haruna not Naru-Dobi, who really wasn't that much of a Dobi actually. "Is she good to go?"
"Someone will have to carry her. Luckily it was only a paralyzing agent, the worst it would have done was paralyzed her from the neck down and only for a couple of months before it wore off, but very easy to get rid of. Although it does have rather graphic side-effects as we've seen." Fei said quickly as Naruto took the unconscious girl and carried her over his left shoulder. "I would suggest that we leave her as it will take a few days for the antidote to get rid of all of the poison she will be next to useless for us."
"We'll take her, but first time we get into battle do something humane if it looks like she's giving us trouble." Sasuke commanded softly and Naruto and Fei nodded and they took off. Not even an hour later, and at the edge of a lake of all things, did Kakashi-Sensei first attack the Genin.
Naruto had two clones guarding Haruna's body fifty-yards away as the other three, Sasuke, Naruto, the real one, and Fei defended themselves and tried to get a bell. Which was proving a lot harder then they thought it would. Sasuke pulled back and lended a hand when needed but he was making sure that there wasn't a second Sensei lurking about. Fei ducked the kick and swept her foot against the standing leg, almost knocking Kakashi-Sensei to the ground, but when he threw several shuriken at her she was forced to Kawarimi out of there or risk being hit.
Naruto jumped into the fray with several clones, pushing it with his chakra, he was extremely surprised when Kyubbi told him that it was the normal amount of chakra used by Genin's. It was rather weak compared to his normally. En-mass all eight of the Naruto's tackled Kakashi and was wrestling with him for one of the six bells he had on him, before he Shunshied out of there.
"God-fucking damn-it!" Fei shouted as she pounded a fist into the ground, making a small crater where it hit. "We were this close!"
"Hm." Sasuke too was pissed. "What are you smiling about Naru-Dobi?"
"Well, I have a bell!' Naruto said holding up a golden bell. The rest of the clones popped out. "We just need two, three, more and then it's smooth sailing."
"Alright! Good job, Naruto!" Fei said happily as she picked herself up from where she transported herself. "Come on, we need to check on Haruna and get moving, Anko-Sensei might just do a surprise attack herself."
They jogged to where they were and saw two of Naruto's clones suddenly 'pop' out and a trench coat wearing form grab Sakura and Shunshied away herself. All four stood there and debated about whether or not it would be good sportsmanship to cheer or they should act all pissed off and try and get her back.
"Che. Weakling." Sasuke said as he turned on his heal to leave the area. "Come one, time to go."
"Coming, Sasu-Teme." Naruto said as he jogged to keep up.
While their backs were turned Fei gave a pleased smirked and crackled briefly before running to catch up with her team-mates, it seemed like she wouldn't see the pink-pest again. At least, Fei hoped so, it better be so or she was killing the girl. That night they were visited by Ibiki, which took much work to hold him off, sadly they didn't get a bell but Fei fucked up his nervous system with a chakra-filled jab at the middle of his abdominal muscle's, which he managed to get away before collapsing.
Well, Xuân was Fujiko's student, she knew how to make a man scream when she wanted to.
"What happened to you?" Kakashi said as he looked up from his book as Ibiki wiggled around on the ground.
"Had a run in with Xuân, she could really be the next Tsunade if she wanted. She figured out the poison extremely fast and had an antidote ready by the next morning, not to mention screwing up my muscle systems for at least twelve hours or so." Ibiki grunted as he flipped over onto his back. "Uzumaki is a little terror, reminds me a bit of Anko-Chan's team-mate, Umino Iruka. Boy could he run the ANBU ragged until he was good and ready to stop, only Anko could stop him, but half the time she was helping him out."
"Umino Iruka…" Kakashi said under his breath as he made a mental note to look up the man later, he could have sworn he had heard that name from somewhere before. "Up next is Fujiko, hope she has better luck then you or I. I can't believe that I lost a bell."
"Believe it," Anko said as she took a seat, she had to run Haruna to the Medical-Nin's in the infirmary at the main part of the base. "I'm willing to bet that Xuân takes her on and gets at least three bells. Ten-thousand yen is the starting bid."
"Ten-thousand says Fujiko wipes the floor with Xuân." Ibiki said as he thumbed his head on the ground, it would be hours before he had full control over his body. "Kakashi?"
"Ten-thousand. Xuân gets one bell and draws with Fujiko." With that statement he turned back to his Icha Icha porn, which Anko snorted at. Jiraiya had real talent for writing and he spends it on writing porn for middle-age men? What a disgrace.
It seemed like all three Genin were on edge, they had seen all of their sensei's - Anko briefly - so far but Fujiko-Sensei. Which if Fei is to believed was a right terror and knew how to kill them painfully. Sasuke remembered his aunt Sachiko, whom was the family medic and remembered she told him that Medic's should be feared because they knew how to fix the human body from any type of injury, which meant that they knew how to cause it the damage they were healing.
Sasuke shuddered.
Naruto didn't know he needed to fear this Fujiko-Sensei, but he decided to not piss of the woman that made Sasuke seem scared of her, even if she was Fei-Chan's Sensei. Which was a bit of a good thing as a scarred woman dropped out of the trees in front of him and gave a swipe, Naruto barley managed to get back, but his simple black tunic was ripped across his belly.
"Fujiko-Sensei," Fei snarled at her Sensei. That could have been an instant kill shot. "That wasn't very nice!"
Sasuke and Fei jumped into the fight, Fei striking at the brow-haired woman while Sasuke tried to line up a Genjutsu to snare the woman in. Fei kept up the assault on her Sensei, ducking and twisting out of the way of the near impossible-to-see punches and lightning fast kicks, trying to land a hit, but not actually landing a single one. Sasuke was growing frustrated that Genjutsu's didn't seem to have an effect or that he would accidentally snag his teammate in it. With a huff of breath Sasuke decided to fuck it and went in brawling, he was getting a goddamn bell then he was going to kill the tough Sensei.
Naruto made a couple clones and joined the fray going on, which was causing large amounts of damage to the surrounding rocky area. Fei gave up on killing or even wounding her Sensei to just get as many bells as possible. Which was a lot harder then she thought, between Fujiko-Sensei's supreme offense and Sasuke and Naruto being underfoot.
Fujiko was proud of her student, she was doing good, keeping up with blocking and slowly her speed of attack was increasing, although she wasn't landing a hit but it was coming closer to landing. Her teammates were also working together, but it would take much more then just three rather good trained Genin to get her or take a bell. She decided after a rather close hit with a thrown kunai by Sasuke-san that it was time for her to go, she knocked her student flying with a elbow jab to her stomach, cracking the tree as she hit it, the Naruto's popped out as Fujiko sent a wave of shuriken at him and Sasuke cursed vividly as he was forced to retreat before getting hit like.
"Son-of-a-bitch!" Sasuke hissed as he paced back and forth over the destroyed battlefield. "This is not helping my growth into being a stronger shinobi."
"Teme, calm down." Naruto said as he clapped Sasuke on the back as he held out his hand. Two bells were dangling from between his fingers. "I mean, we have three bells now, we've passed now."
"True, but I want to get all of the those fucking bells," Fei said as she climbed to her feet, wincing as she healed her broken and cracked ribs. "I grabbed two bells, Naruto has three, that's five all together."
"So?" Sasuke said impatient.
"So," Fei said glaring at Sasuke who shut up at the look, he may have been elected the tactically-leader while Naruto was the leader, she kept them both in line from going too far. "That means we've passed and going about this the wrong way. Our only goal was to stay alive and get as many bells as possible, but four bells was considered passing. What have we been doing wrong?"
"We've…been trying to win the fights instead of taking the bells." Naruto said slowly frowning as all three started to huddle together. "We need to trap them and get many as bells as possible, if each Sensei has six bells there is a total possibility of twenty-four bells. We have five bells so that leaves nineteen bells for us to get. Ibiki has six, Kakashi five, Anko six and Fujiko has three."
"Go for Fujiko and Kakashi as they have the lesser amount of bells, don't stop unless we each all get a bell or at least grab two and get out of there and shake them off. That would be hard as hell to escape as they most likely knew this place better then the back of their hand."
"Stay on the move, don't stay too long in a fight, get as many bells as possible, live." Naruto said ticking off the points on his fingers. "That's all?"
"Yes, now lets get moving you two." Fei snapped as she eyed the mountains around them. "Lets go, I don't want to get ambushed again."
Both boys nodded and they left the area, leaving a wake of destruction behind them.
End
