A/N: You continued! How… Surprising. We follow Kodachi, Kaname and Yaken as they search for scrolls. No doubt you saw the similarities between Kakashi's test and this. Yah, I know, I have no originality.
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SasuNaru… 2. From my beta and my friend. xD
Oh, chapter one was beta-d by my friend Sunshine-buddy Anngelaa
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Kodachi was lost. She had been wandering the streets for over two hours now and the civilians were starting to make themselves known. She had visited five different apartment complexes so far and according to the landlords, no Uzumaki Naruto lived there. Well, one got really mad and started screaming of how he'd never let that destructive brat anywhere near his building ever again.
"- Thank you! See you later, Amor-san." Kodachi's head shot up at the familiar voice.
"I-Iruka-sensei!" She called, waving him over as his head turned in recognition.
"Hello, Kodachi-chan." He greeted her, shifting the brown paper bad in his hands, "how's Naruto as a teacher?"
"O-oh, well, he seems awfully nice, we haven't gotten to know him yet or anything. He's really to-the-point." Iruka nodded.
"Yeah, I think he's just nervous." He said with an easy smile. "Did you need anything?" He asked, noticing her questioning expression.
"Yes, could you please tell me where Naruto-sensei lives? He told me to drop something off, but he didn't tell me where his apartment was exactly."
Iruka smiled, "Of course." He waved her off as he finished giving the directions, his smile turning into a smirk as she walked away, and the kage bunshin disappeared in a swirl of smoke.
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Yaken smirked, heading for the outer forest. Judging by the direction of Kodachi and Kaname, they were headed for Naruto's house. They'd have to search the whole of Konoha. The forest was relatively smaller. Besides, he had the best tracker dog in the entire Inuzuka household.
"Did you get a good whiff of him, Guri?" He asked, smiling down at his dog as they stood on the edge of the forest. The black dog barked happily in confirmation and easily jumped onto his master's head. "Good, let's do this." And with that, Yaken was off, using the generic method of jumping through trees to get to his destination. Guri was constantly yapping at his partner, effectively telling him which way to go.
He stopped an hour later, panting. "What's up, Guri, I feel like we've been going in circles." Guri ignored him, growling up ahead. He huffed, pushing off the tree he was leaning on and going through a last bunch of trees into a clearing.
"Hello." Standing in the middle of the clearing twirling a kunai on his finger was Naruto, a wide smile placed on his face. "Took you a while to find me. Though, you're so far away from where you're supposed to be."
Yaken cursed, turning on his heel, planning to ignore the taunting of the older man. "I don't think so." Yaken yelped and fell out of the tree as Naruto appeared in front of him, still lazily spinning the kunai on his finger. "What's your rush? You still have fourteen hours."
"Ugh, then get out of my way!" The Inuzuka snapped, pulling out a kunai himself.
"Make me."
"I will!" Yaken rushed Naruto, kunai poised to strike. "Oof!" Naruto had disappeared, leaving Yaken to trip over his two feet as he was unable to stop and go barreling to a tree.
"I'm waiting." Yaken stood up, whipping dirt and mud off his face.
"You'll pay for that, Uzumaki."
Naruto just smirked.
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If it had fit Kaname's character, he would've danced. He found the correct landlord, and even managed to swipe a skeleton key off of him.
"Kaname-kun?" A feminine voice asked him from behind as he put the key into Naruto's door.
"Kodachi-chan!" He yelled, surprised, mad at himself for not noticing her. "How'd you find this place?"
"I asked Iruka-sensei." She blinked owlishly, and the Hyuuga sweat dropped. "How'd you find this place?"
"I-I went from place to place." He answered, mad he hadn't thought to gather information from people they knew their new sensei was close with. In his eyes, not everyone could tackle someone who taught him everything and live to tell the tale. "And this scroll is mine!" He snapped, flinging open the door and running inside, and promptly getting caught in a trap.
"Haha!" Kodachi smiled, in a rare outburst of her feelings. "I thought you could see everything, Mr. Byakug- eek!" A sword had shown up at the base of her neck.
"Didn't anyone ever tell you that breaking and entering is illegal?"
"Naruto-sensei!" Kodachi squeaked; once again back to her somewhat-shy self.
"Just relax; he said they were clones, so they're not real." Kaname said, expertly pulling out a kunai and snapping the rope holding up his foot.
"N-no! It's real!" She spluttered, tears in her eyes and she quaked in fear. She sagged to the ground as the sword disappeared, clattering the ground. "What the-?" She asked, turning.
"Dammit, he knows kage bunshins." Kaname snapped, Byakugan activated. "They're real enough, but one hit should knock them out."
Kaname sneered at her as she remained shaking on the ground and headed off the room he had noticed the scroll in.
Kodachi skidded out of the way as Kaname hit the wall she had been next to, effectively dodging his flying body. Kaname groaned, pushing himself up and getting back into the apartment, as he had been knocked back into the hallway.
"I'm surprised you managed to hit me." Naruto stood in the door to the room Kaname had been about to walk into. His serious face broke out into a smile. "Sorry for hitting you so hard. Now I have to pay the damn landlord for that hole in the wall. That's probably worth one whole A-rank paycheck."
Kaname growled at the fact that Naruto was more concerned about the amount of the repairs than the possible injuries he could have. He didn't sign up for sympathy when he joined the academy, though.
"However, you're not good enough." Kaname's eyes widened as he was suddenly pushed against the floor, rope around his hands and feet. Another Naruto had done the same to Kodachi.
All four of them disappeared with a swirl of leaves.
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Inuzuka Yaken cursed, Naruto was sitting on him and he was back in training ground seven.
"You get caught too?" A sarcastic voice sounded, and he turned in his bonds to see a just-as-bound Kodachi and Kaname being carried by two more Narutos.
Yaken sighed, "yeah. Dammit." He swore some more, cutting off as another Naruto popped into view, and the other three Narutos disappeared in a puff of smoke, leaving the three Genin tied up on the ground.
"Ugh. I was planning on breaking the record of most ramen ordered by one person in one day." The new Naruto said to them, pinching the bridge of his nose. "Granted, the old record is held by me." He said more to himself with a smile.
"Hey, whisker-boy!" Yaken growled, "we're supposed to get those scrolls, what's the point in stopping us?!"
"Because, whisker-boy!" Naruto snapped back, pushing down his head, and indicating to the four red marks on the Inuzuka's face that could also be pulled off as whiskers. "The mission was failed. If I were a missing-nin, or any enemy, you could be dead by now." He stepped off the boys head, shaking his head.
Yaken looked at Kaname, who was giving Kodachi instructions with his eyes, and he twitched, were they going to leave him out?
"That's stupid! You're not a missing-nin!" Kaname snapped, effectively distracting Naruto as Kaname turned to him and gave him the exact same instructions.
He nodded when he understood, and he flipped over, landing on top Kodachi's back, who flinched under him, but he quickly cut her ropes with his overly-long fingernails. She jumped up and cut the Inuzuka's ropes, both now back in action.
"Don't count us out yet, sensei!" Kodachi yelled with renewed hope. Naruto turned around with a smirk on his face.
"Eh. Where's doggy?" he asked, leaping out of the way, Inuzuka in his place, fist planted in the ground, behind him, Kaname stood up, now free of his own bonds. "Found him! But, I don't want to fight you." He said with a smile.
"That's too bad!" Yaken barked, eerily similar sounding to the black dog that had shown up again sometime between them being free and now.
"Haha, no. You pass the test. I was really worried. I thought you weren't the way the Hyuuga kid just left the girl."
"We have names, you know!" Yaken said stupidly.
"Yeah, I just can't remember them." He said with a grin.
"You can't remember- wait! Did you just say we passed?!" Kaname said, grinning widely as Naruto nodded.
"The whole point of this stupid thing is teamwork. I'm glad how well you guys picked up on it. It's a lot easier than it looked. My team almost failed, 'course, it was really weird. One kid hated everybody, the other one also hated me, and I hated one of them. We weren't very dynamic for a while." He said.
"B-but, you said there were only two scrolls!" Kodachi said incredulously.
"That's the point. It's supposed to cause you to fight amongst yourself. Luckily you guys forgot about the scroll and focused on getting passed me. I was really hoping you would pass, too."
"Then why'd you get in our way?" Kaname asked, starting to understand the situation.
"Because, it's too easy if you can just go get it. Besides, I think if you three worked together you could've gotten at least one scroll."
Yaken sighed. "What an unnecessarily hard test."
"Eh." Naruto replied. "Mine was harder. You guys got it down. Besides, it's something you needed to learn on your own. I was hoping it would last longer. It's only two in the afternoon. I guess mine didn't last this long. There was a lot more fighting, though. I also wanted to see your skills." They looked a little shell-shocked, but none of them were fighting his logic.
"Kodaki!" He snapped, pointing at the girl.
"Kodachi…?" She said calmly, looking confused.
"Whatever! I have to say you did a good job with Iruka. You knew he wouldn't tell you where I lived if it was part of a test, that's just how he is. You used what you knew to get what you wanted."
"W-what?" She looked surprised. "How did you know about that?"
He smiled. "I know how to use henge, you know." He replied, implying it was him she had asked, not her old sensei.
"If it was you, why did you tell me?"
"It was your reward for gathering information. I'm not that mean."
She blushed, smiling slightly at her teacher, "thank you, Naruto-sensei."
"You're quite welcome. Now, ramen on me as congratulations." He said, walking off back towards Ichiraku's with his three new students, all of which were rolling their eyes. All three could see a lot of ramen in their future.
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A/N: What did you think? Please review. They mean so much to me.
Did they pass the test too easily? I'm still new to fight scenes, so I'm trying to avoid them. I'm trying to make my writing better, too.