Hey Grim here, second chap of this story is out. If you felt that the wait was too long long...well...to bad assholes. Anyways we already know about Kakashi's bell test and all, you know teamwork, support, if you fail you'll be sent back to the academy...blah blah blah. Yeah I'm going to make Kakashi's bell test a little more actiony then I had actually intended, a slight turn of events if ya know what I mean.
This chapter will deal with Naruto's actually fighting ability when it is put up against someone of Kakashi's caliber, and maybe a little talk with the Kyuubi. He might even learn some new skills, tree climbing, chakra control maybe even a new/old jutsu or two. You have to read to find out though.
Enjoy mutha fuckas, or I'll find you.
Sacred Mark of the Rising Kekkei Genkai
It continues, It's tested, It's charges.
Naruto hopped through the tree tops at break neck speed. Elegantly steeping from branch to branch as he pursued his target. He hoped that he would make it in time, to stop his target. With one goal in mind he charged forward.
"Damn him, acting all nice to us then betraying us without a moment's notice. How could he do that, and he stole the forbidden scroll of sealing too, damn that Mizuki, I should have known he was a good for nothing traitor.
Naruto had recently found out that Mizuki, Iruka's former assistant had stolen the forbidden scroll of seal from the Konoha Jutsu archive. Naruto really wasn't supposed to find out about this but he had been there when some random jounin had come crashing through the doors of the Sandaime's office, announcing that Mizuki had just stolen the scroll of sealing.
It was a possible chance for Naruto to further test his ability, so he jumped into action. That's how he ended up where he is now, hopping the trees at approximately eleven o' clock at night while searching for that son of a bitch named Mizuki...Mizuki...Come to think of it Naruto never really knew Mizuki's last name and now he didn't care.
As Naruto searched through the forest with enraged speed he could hear something, but it wasn't outside it was inside, he knew who it was. Naruto stopped on a large stable branch and rested for a while.
"What do you want Kyuubi, can't you see that I'm trying to find Mizuki?"
"Oh, then I guess you don't want my help then you twit." Naruto scoffed at the idea of getting help from a fox, even if it was a gigantic demon lord.
"...What help are you going to give me?" Kyuubi chuckled that chuckle that always rattled the inside of Naruto's head.
"There we go, now what I want to show is a basic technique. It is used by many hunter nin. All it is the minor application of chakra to enhance the body's senses. Go try it, pump a little chakra to your ears."
Naruto did as he was told and sent a surge of chakra to his ears. He reeled back in an instant, the sudden enhancement of his hearing overwhelmed him, he nearly fell of of the branch he was on. Everything just went from normal to like, triple surround sound.
"I told you only little chakra was needed, lessen up your flow." With that Kyuubi's voice died out in Naruto's head. He lessened his chakra flow to his ears and suddenly the triple surround sound just became, slightly amplified. With his new found ability Naruto concentrated and listened to the sounds around him.
He heard, the birds, the bugs, the wind blowing past his face, random animals that scurried on the ground below, but what caught his attention were the small explosive burst that seemed to occur every five seconds.
"W-What is that, metal hitting against metal. Kunai maybe, sounds like a battle is going on." Naruto stood up on the branch and set a course for the location of the battle.
Naruto once again started traveling with the pace he was going at once before. After five minutes of fast paced tree hopping the sounds grew louder. He was definitely sure that there was a fight going on and by what he could hear there were only two people fighting. One of them had to be Mizuki, the other he wasn't too sure of.
"Damn where, the hell is that bastard...wait what the hell?" Naruto saw two men, one of them was on a tree branch with a scroll in his hand, Mizuki. The other one was on the forest floor and he was bloody. Naruto's eyes widened when he realized who is was...his former teacher and surrogate father Iruka Umino.
"Give it up Iruka, you can't beat me, I'm stronger than you. I'm going to take this scroll!." Mizuki gave a sinister chuckle, that sent a chill through Iruka's heavily damaged spine, Which currently had a fuma shuriken sticking out of it.
"Why, why Mizuki why are you doing this, betraying Konoha will only come back to hurt you in the end!"
"Hah! Iruka how stupid can you be, do you really think that I give a rat's ass about this village? There's only one thing that I want in this world and that is power, and there's know here right who can stop me from attaining it!"
You mind saying that again?" Mizuki's neck hair stood on end, that voice just came out of nowhere and scared the crap out of him. He was confused as to who the hell it was.
"Who said that?-..." Mizuki continued to look around for any signs of the unknown voice but who's ever it was, they sounded like a kid. "Show yourself!" Mizuki commanded.
"Fine!" Mizuki could only duck as he sensed two Kunai being thrown from behind. He narrowly escaped the attack as he could feel the cold metal of a kunai brush his head, cutting a little hair in the process.
"If you want me you got me Mizuki sensei." Mizuki turned and was face to face with a familiar blond, but what he wasn't familiar with was his fist hitting his face.
Naruto delivered a full power punch to Mizuki's face, sending him flying but before he could finish his diagonal descent Naruto grabbed the last of Mizuki's fuma shuriken from his back and with a vertical thrust, threw the giant weapon at Mizuki, pinning him to a tree trunk below.
"Naruto-kun what are you doing here?" Said a badly damaged Iruka. Naruto jumped down from the branch and landed in front of Iruka. He was currently holding the scroll Mizuki was holding before he decked him.
"Isn't it obvious I'm here to stop Mizuki and to help you."
"But how did.. you."
"Element of surprise Iruka sensei, that's how I beat him so easily." Iruka sensei looked at Naruto with pride, he was proud of how much the boy had grown, he was even able to take on a chunin with no problem at all.
Naruto looked in the direction that Mizuki was. He walked over to the currently immobilized chuunin and looked him dead in the eye.
His head swayed limply and Naruto saw no movement in him, he presume that he was dead. Naruto turned to walk back over to Iruka but was stopped when he felt a hand grab the back of his jacket.
"You son of a bitch, I'll kill you!" Naruto turned his head to find Mizuki's arm clinging on to his jacket.
"Hmph, you still alive? I thought you were dead." Mizuki growled and coughed up some blood mid growl. His grip loosened allowing Naruto to smack his hand away from his new clothes. "Don't touch, these are new."
Mizuki snarled through clenched teeth. "Curse you demon!" That was the breaking point Naruto instantly grew angry at the word demon, he had heard it so many times in his life and he was tired of that shit. Naruto decided that he was going to toy with the traitor for a while, play dumb.
"Demon...did you just call me a demon?"
"Mizuki spit up another round of blood. "That's right you little brat, you're a demon!" Naruto could hear Iruka's breathing grow heavy in the background, what he had anticipated.
"Mizuki no, he's too young for that!" Iruka yelled.
"Shut up you fool, I don't care! Naruto, do you know the reason you were always looked upon with hate?" Naruto kept his innocent boy charade and slowly shook his head no
"Do you remember the nine tailed fox that attacked Konoha twelve years ago?" Naruto shook his head yes.
"Well Naruto, the reason everybody hates you is because-..."
"No Mizuki, don't do it!"
"The Kyuubi no Kitsune was sealed inside of you!"
Naruto faked a shocked expression and began to shrink back.
"How's it feel Naruto, to know that the most hated natural being is inside of you?" Mizuki wore a psychotic smile of satisfaction, but it soon faded away when he saw Naruto smile. He heard the young Genin start to snicker.
"What the hell is so funny, you're a demon and you think that's funny?"
Naruto hung his head down, his eyes covered by his unruly bush he called hair. "How stupid do think I am, Mizuki sensei? I'm not the same oblivious boy that I was before, I never was!"
Naruto raised his head and looked Mizuki straight in the eye. "That's old news Mizuki! Guess what, I've known about the fox since I was six years old! Actually I don't really mind him residing within me, as long as he doesn't try anything that is!
"Not a chance Naruto."
Shut up Kyuubi.
Naruto saw the expression on Mizuki's face, simply priceless. He saw Iruka's expression, it was almost as rich as Mizuki's.
"Naruto-kun how did you know? Iruka asked in a shocked tone.
"Well let's just say that the minds of the innocent wonder way too much." Naruto said with a smile. His smile faded as he turned back to Mizuki.
"Now is there anything else you want to say Mizuki?" Mizuki just growled in defeat.
"Damn you, you demon br..at...ugh." Mizuki passed out when Naruto gave him a solid jab to the gut, being careful not to stab his hand on the fuma shuriken protruding from his stomach.
"Hm, you're the real demon here Mizuki, an oni only betrays his kind." Naruto walked away from Mizuki and went to Iruka's aid.
"Naruto-kun how did you get so strong?"
"Training I guess." An obvious lie on his part, but not so much a lie that it wasn't true.
"Iruka sensei, can I ask a favor of you?" Iruka gave him a weak nod. "Good, Iruka can you not tell anyone of this little episode we had here. If they asked what happened just tell them that you beat Mizuki, but if they ask for the scroll tell them that you gave it to a Jounin to return back to the archives and he said he would send for help."
Iruka raised his eyebrow in confusion. "Why would they ask about the scroll, wouldn't I have it with-..? Iruka stopped when he saw Naruto pick up the scroll of sealing. "Wait what are you doing with that scroll Naruto-kun?"
"I knew I could trust you Iruka sensei." Naruto said as he jumped onto a high branch. "Remember I was never here!" With that Naruto jumped away heading towards who knows where.
As he jumped through the tree tops he began to think to himself.
I know what I'm doing is wrong, but if I'm going to get any stronger I will need this for a couple hours. Besides I don't even have any good jutsu sleeve. Naruto unraveled the scroll in front of him whil tree hopping and began to search for any useful jutsu he could find.
Hmm, what's this...Kage bunshin no jutsu, this could be a long night.
Sarutobi stared with pride at his crystal ball. The young Genin who he had just seen take down Mizuki made him smile contently. It made him so proud that he didn't even seem to care that the young boy was looking at a scroll filled up with techniques that were chuunin level at the least.
"Naruto you have done well, very well indeed."
Sarutobi waved his hand over the crystal ball twice and the sight of Naruto jumping through the trees while reading the scroll faded away.
The old hokage then walked away.
Naruto woke up with a reluctant groan. He rubbed his eyes and yawned. He looked at his surroundings, what he expected to see was his bedroom ceiling, what he did see were the trees and the sky. Birds flew above and bugs all over the place. He leaned over to his left but his eyes widened when he felt nothing underneath his left shoulder holding him up.
He slipped and careened down to the floor. He hit the soft forest soil with a dull thump.
"Owww! OH Kami, damnit!" Naruto got up, now in a bad mood from falling off a branch thiry feet in the air. He stood up while rubbing his sore left shoulder. "Damn this is going to hurt for a while."
Naruto looked up for at the canopy for a few seconds and took in a deep breath, he closed his eyes. They snapped back open immediately.
"Oh crap that's right, the training grounds I was supposed to be there at daybreak!" Naruto looked up at the sky, he presumed that it was around eight fifty judging by the sun's position. "I'm going to be late, damn!" Naruto hopped back on the same branch he fell off of. Put his foot on the tree trunk and began to walk up the tree.
I bet you didn't know that Naruto could do that. What did you think he was doing in the woods with that scroll? Naruto spent most of the night learning new jutsu from the scroll of sealing, tree climbing was just another skill that came with it. Come to think of it were was the damned scroll, Naruto really didn't care.
"Naruto walked to the top of the tree, which just so happened to be taller than all the others, and looked around. After a few seconds of searching he found the big green patch of land that was the training grounds.
"Wow, that scroll really helped without it I wouldn't even know how to do this handy tree climbing crap." Naruto jumped of the treetop and onto a lower branch, he then began hopping from branch to branch in the direction of the Training grounds.
'Hey Kyuubi why didn't you wake me up?"
"Well you were up all night learning jutsu from t hat stupid scroll, what the hell do you think I'm here for?"
'An alarm clock, which you obviously can't be.'
"Shut up, your lucky I can't come out there and kill you."
Naruto's body seemed to go on auto pilot he was still tree hopping but his attention was brought fully on Kyuubi. 'Kyuubi, I have question to ask. How is it that I'm able to learn all this stuff so easily, I mean I learned those techniques in the scroll overnight like it was nothing.'
Naruto paused and waited for Kyuubi to respond.
"Naruto, I told you that when you were an infant I sealed away your part of your chakra, the unnaturally large amount of chakra you were born with. As you put your body through extreme training to increase your strength the seal I gave you took some of that power away. That's why you didn't see any results, while you grew the restrictions of your seal grew as well.
"Plus, the fact of the seal putting so many restrictions on your body was so great that your body naturally adjusted to the hindrances of the seal. Your chakra did the same as well, as it grew with your body it was being stressed to a point that your chakra control didn't show up pass what you originally had. With both your body and chakra adjusting to the restrictions of the seal you yourself gained a way to chakra control. Since your body was way too used to constantly adjusting to the seal, things such as controlling your chakra after I took the seal off became virtually effortless to you."
"So something like learning how to tree climb would only take an hour or two. If you keep training the seal will eventually fully go away."
'Damn so basically what you said is that I was born awesome and when you put the seal on me my awesome body worked around it, making my body and chakra even more awesome then they already were?'
Naruto mentally chuckled when he didn't hear Kyuubi's response.
Naruto took his body off of auto-pilot and resumed control. He noticed that he had just come out of the forest and onto the training grounds. He sighed from the relief of not having to jumped through all those branches.
He looked over to a large tree in the middle of the grounds and noticed that his team was under it. He thought that it would be funny to trick them. With his crazy speed he made a break for the tree and without so much as a sound he jumped into the tree and landed in a branch a little bit above Sasuke's head.
"Am I too late?" Sasuke jumped up and away from the tree he was under, he looked completely freaked out like he had just seen a ghost.
"What the hell was that, who's in that tree?" Naruto fell backwards and hung upside down from the branch he was on.
"Don't you recognize my voice Sasuke, Na...ru...to?" Sakura who was behind Sasuke and looked equally as freaked out frowned at Naruto.
"Naruto, don't you go scaring people like that! You almost scared Sasuke to death!"
"Naruto? I thought I was Naruto-kun yesterday." Sakura's facial expression went from angry to ashamed in seconds, she remembered how she tried to sweet talk Naruto into telling her about his changes the day before.
"Never mind." Sakura said in a low tone. Naruto turned his attention once again to Sasuke, who had walked right up to his face and was currently a few inches apart from. Sasuke's eyes narrowed in anger.
"What the hell is your problem Naruto, you're becoming really annoying you know." Naruto stared Sasuke right back in the face.
"What's my problem, what the hell is your problem?" Then Naruto remembered something. "Oh I see you're still mad about losing to me." Naruto said arrogantly causing Sasuke to growl and grab Naruto by his jacket collar out of anger.
"That was luck Naruto, next time we fight I'm going to kick your ass!"
"Oh and is that a promise Sasuke, 'cause I can show you right here and right now who's ass is going to get kicked or do prefer to fight in private now, you know I don't want you to look bad in front of your fan girl over there." Naruto said while throwing a quick glance at Sakura, making her flinch.
"Naruto!" Sasuke's voice had now elevated to the point of yelling. "If you want to fight me again then let's go right here, right now dobe!"
"Hah, don't act like you can win, teme." Naruto responded with an ever stoic tone that made Sasuke's blood boil. "Now let go of jacket, it's new." Naruto smacked Sasuke's hand away from his collar.
"That'll be enough from the both of you." Sasuke and Sakura jumped at the familiar voice, Naruto just stayed as he was. They all turned to face the man who spoke.
"Get down from that tree Naruto it's time to begin."
"What, Kakashi sensei, when did you get here? And you're four hours late by the way!" Sakura's tone was nothing but happy. If there was one thing she hated more than Naruto it was waiting and now she couldn't stand Naruto.
"Oh sorry I'm late, a black cat crossed my path so I took the long way here."
"That's a terrible excuse Kakashi."
"Anyway today I told you to meet me here and be fully prepared for a battle. The reason I told you this is because I want to test you all."
"Kakashi sensei we already took the test to become Genin so what else is there to take?" Sakura asked.
"Right you are Sakura, but this is the real test on whether or not you guys become actual Genin, If you fail this you will be sent back to the academy will have to do a whole year of the same thing just to get back to where you are now. Sakura's mouth gaped and Sasuke's eye twitched, Naruto dropped down from his tree and landed on his feet.
"So you're saying this test is a pass or fail."
"Exactly Naruto, you get it, now let me explain the gist of this test." Kakashi pulled out two bells. "These bells are your goals, you are to get these bells away from me in the time allotted. You have until noon to get them." He then took out a book and, that seemed a little mature for someone of Naruto's age and began to read, He reach into his pocket once more and pulled out a buzz timer, winded it and set it to ring at noon, then brought his attention back to his porn. He looked up from his trusty porn and said.
"Oh and one more thing, after I say begin you better come at me with the intent to kill or you'll never pass this test, which only has a thirty percent chance off success." Kakashi then placed the timer in the ground.
"Begin!" With that Sasuke and Sakura jumped into the tree for cover. Naruto on the other hand stayed in his original position.
"Hm, taking a Jounin on alone, do you really think that you can get these bells from me?"
"No." Naruto stood for a second and a second later Naruto took out a kunai and flung it at Kakashi, which he caught with ease. "-..but it doesn't hurt to try!" Naruto sped off to the left and came in at Kakashi.
"He fast!" Even though Kakashi didn't have any trouble keeping up with Naruto's sudden movement he had to admit the kid did catch him off guard.
Naruto ran in and threw a punch Kakashi's way. He blocked it with one hand and used his other to defend his ichha ichha paradise novel. Kakashi grabbed onto to the blond Genin's fist and flung him up in the air. Naruto retorted with several spins into an axe kick from the sky. Kakashi grabbed his foot and flung him several feet away from him.
"Naruto is that the best you can do?" Kakashi teased.
Naruto flipped and landed on his feet. "I guess it's time to pull this one out." Naruto took out a another kunai and tossed it at Kakashi, who caught it once again. This time Kakashi's eyes widened when he realized that the kunai had and explosive note on it.
"Damn I let my guard down!" The kunai exploded taking Kakashi in as well.
"Got him he's not so-...!" Naruto froze when he felt a presence behind him. He turned his head slightly and saw Kakashi's crouched figure going through a series of hand signs.
"What the hell?"
Sasuke was pissed off now, he couldn't take much more of Naruto's crap. If he let that little punk show him up anymore, people might actually start to think Naruto was stronger than him.
"Damn that Naruto what the hell is thinking, going one on one with a Jounin."
"Uh, Sasuke-kun are you ok? You seemed worried about Naruto." Sakura who had followed him from the beginning of the bell test was right next to him. They were both in a prone position watching Naruto's fight with Kakashi.
"Tch, I'm not worried about him one bit, that fool." Sakura thought it was a good time to woo Sasuke by agreeing with him, she wanted to get on his good side, no matter what it took.
"Yeah, you're right Sasuke-kun, Naruto's such an idiot, who does he think his is going up against Kakashi sensei?" Sasuke took his attention from the fight and brought it toward Sakura, he gave her a death glare making her stare into his eyes. That would have been good for Sakura if Sasuke's eyes hadn't been so cold.
"You don't know anything do you Sakura?" Sakura let out the a gasp that one might compare to that of a scared puppy.
"But...you just said...that he was...a fool...right Sasuke-kun?" Sasuke took his glare back to the fight, relieving her heart a bit, but she could still feel Sasuke's eyes on her.
"Of course I said he was a fool, but you're even more of a fool. Let me ask you, what do you think this whole test is really about?"
"Kakashi said that it was-..." Sakura was cut off by Sasuke putting his hand over her mouth, she was at least decent enough to blush at that. Her words died out as muffles under Sasuke's hand.
"Stop talking. Sure that's what Kakashi said, but don't you know what he meant?" Sakura shook her head an forced out a muffled "no".
"It's obvious that this stupid test is to utilize our teamwork, were put in groups of three as Genin, not one, we are to work as a team...that's what Kakashi wanted to test us on." Sakura shook her head up and down this time, indicating that she understood.
"I think Naruto already knows this though, I think that he is trying to send us a message, more like he's the one testing us, that dobe. Hmph that fool wants to send us silent messages then I say fuck him, he should learn to talk...that asshole." Sasuke got up from his prone position and crouched, just enough that he could remain upright but still be hidden in the underbrush. As he watched Sasuke's eyes widened at what Kakashi was doing.
"What the hell, those hand seals...t-tiger, that hand seal is only used for jutsu that can kill a person." Sakura pulled Sasuke's hand away from her mouth.
"Wait, Kakashi's going to...kill Naruto, I don't like him either but killing him's taking it to far!" Sakura looked in Sasuke's direction.
"Sasuke-kun, where are you going?"
"Stupid, I'm going out there to help that fool." Sasuke reered up and jumped up into a tree.
"What the hell?" Naruto said as he looked his sensei, finish going through hand seals.
"Naruto, you shouldn't be so cocky you know." Naruto smirked.
"Bite me Kakashi sensei."
"I'd rather do this! Ultimate technique, Ninja art: One thousand years of death!" Kakashi kept his both hands in the tiger seal formation and thrusted them both foward, aimed at...Naruto's ass!
"Shit!" Naruto said.
"You're finished...Kakashi sensei!" Kakashi looked up as he heard a certain baritone voice from above. He saw a flash of blue, that was all he could see before he had to jump back to avoid a hard heel drop aimed at his head. Kakashi eye smiled when he saw who it was.
"Sasuke-kun, you're here too? Are you just as reckless as Naruto, or do actually have something up you're sleeve?"
Sasuke who had just jumped out of the tree to block Naruto, from a very very un-masculine 'death'.
"Naruto turned and faced both Kakashi and Sasuke. "Hm, seems like you understood what I was trying to say, maybe we can work together."
Sasuke turned and faced Naruto. "Not a chance dobe."
"Hmph, like I needed it, Its not like I was in trouble or anything."
"That's not what it looked like to me, dobe." Naruto's eyes got serious all of a sudden, he took his eyes of off Sasuke and put them back on Kakashi.
"Enough talk, if you want to help me then help." With that Naruto ran past ran past Sasuke, passing the Uchiha without him ever knowing. Sasuke felt a sudden gust of wind and before he knew it Naruto had already ran past him and was headed for Kakashi.
Kakashi waited as Naruto came in, he was fast, but to Kakashi he seemed to be moving at the normal speed a Genin would possess. Naruto took out a kunai and flung it a Kakashi's head, which Kakashi dodged by moving his head to the side. In a second Naruto was on him, the blond boy attempted a right hook to Kakashi's face but failed when Kakashi jumped back to avoid it.
Naruto followed by a low spinning sweep kick, when Kakashi jumped over that Naruto rose a little, making it a reverse roundhouse to Kakashi's face. Kakashi blocked and grabbed Naruto's leg and flung him into the air like he did before, right above his head.
"That won't cut it this time Kakashi sensei!" Naruto reached into his pouch and pulled out several shuriken which he flung at Kakashi below. Kakashi pulled out a kunai and blocked them all as soon as they came.
"Amazing Kakashi sensei, but you shouldn't worry about my shuriken!"
"What?" Kakashi said as he looked down from Naruto and turned his vision on in front of him. All he saw was Sasuke's foot coming at his face. He blocked his kick but was surprised when Sasuke spun around and made a grab for his bells.
"Not today!" Kakashi said as he punched Sasuke in his stomach, properly knocking the wind out of him for a second.
Kakashi fully spun around and was now behind Sasuke, he was about to strike but stopped when he saw something flashing in front of Naruto, it looked like metal coming his way.
"More kunai, how academy student-like." Kakashi's eyes widened though when he saw who threw it, he was expecting it to be Sakura, he got a big surprise he saw Naruto standing upside down on a tree branch, smiling.
" A clone?" Kakashi said.
" A shadow clone, to be exact!" Yelled the Naruto who was in the air. Kakashi's eyes widened, he was stupefied at the fact that a mere Genin could use a Jounin level technique.
"But how can you use such a jutsu?"
"Don't forget about me!" Kakashi snapped back to reality, when saw Sasuke, who in some point in time caught the kunai thrown by Naruto, turn around and slash him with the kunai, he even managed to draw a little bit of blood. Kakashi jumped back to avoid any further damage.
"Go to hell Kakashi!" Kakashi looked up again and saw the real Naruto's black clothing coming down at him. Kakashi did another back jump to escape a deadly elbow from the sky. He was know far behind both Naruto and Sasuke.
'These kids are really keeping me on my toes, it seems like they get the point of this test...well except for Sakura it so sad what love can do to a girl.' At that moment when Kakashi was in mid-jump he heard a voice, that sounded particularly feminine.
"I got you!" Kakashi turned around only to be greeted by Sakura's leg in his gut.
'I spoke to soon...damn this girl is strong.' Kakashi was sent flying back in the direction of Naruto and Sasuke, Sasuke decided to take action.
"Naruto move out the way!" he said as he began to make hand seals. Naruto jumped away to the side making the same hand seal as Sasuke.
"I wasn't expecting you Sakura-chan but thanks." Sakura just smiled and waved, but she looked slightly scared for some reason.
"Naruto how do you-..."
"Don't ask!" Naruto said as he cut Sasuke off. With that they both turned their attention to Kakashi, they both breathed in, and their hand seals both ended with the tiger seal. And together the yelled.
"Katon: Gokakyu no jutsu! (Fire release: Great fireball technique)
"Crap" was all Kakashi could say before he was hit by two torrents of flames, the bigger flame was obviously Naruto's. The blast from the two jutsu colliding with each other scattered smoke and dust everywhere on the training grounds. Naruto Sasuke and Sakura stayed in their positions as the dust cleared. The impact of the jutsu left a huge crater at the point of impact. Through the smoke they could see a faint outline of a body lying inside of the crater.
"We got him!" Sakura yelled while jumping up and down, here inner self was screaming 'cha cha!' to no end inside her head. Sasuke just put his hands in his pockets and tried to act all cool.
"Whatever." He said with a nonchalant tone.
"Wait-..." Sasuke and Sakura both snapped their heads. "-...we didn't get him look closely." Sasuke and Sakura looked carefully in the crater and their eyes widened when they saw nothing.
"Too bad, you missed."
"Jump!" Naruto yelled as he followed his own command. It was too late for Sasuke and Sakura though, as a pair of hands sprouted out from beneath both of them and pulled them into ground, just up until their heads.
Kakashi popped out of the ground underneath Naruto and came after Naruto in the air.
"You're not the only who can use clones Naruto." Kakashi said as he punched Naruto in the stomach, followed by a double fisted downward thrust to the ground. Naruto hit the ground, making several cracks in it.
Naruto felt the piercing sensation the impact of hitting the ground left him with, it felt sharp and pulsing. He ignored the pain and still stood up.
"Come on Kakashi let me show what clones are. Kage bunshin no jutsu." Two other Naruto's appeared at the real Naruto's side. They both ran at Kakashi with that above Genin speed. The Naruto on the right charged in first and jumped over Kakashi's head. The Naruto on the left came in with a hard roundhouse, which was blocked by Kakashi.
"Don't forget him. Naruto said as he pointed to the the first clone in the air.
"I didn't forget you Naruto." Kakashi said as a clone of Kakashi erupted from the ground behind him and gave the Naruto clone in the air a clean uppercut, making him poof out of existence. The Kakashi clone then landed on the real ones shoulder's and thrusted off of him. He then hit the Naruto in clone in front of him with fast knee to the face, making him disappear as well.
"You see Naruto, rushing into everything isn't the way to go. How about you think this over before coming at, come up with a plan first." Kakashi said as his clone disappeared. "Naruto, I'm going to strike first now, it's the only time I will do this so pay attention."
Kakashi ran at Naruto, with amazing speed. He grabbed Naruto's by his collar and brought him up to eye level.
"What are you looking at you creep?" Kakashi continued to look at Naruto with his one eyed gaze.
"You're eyes, they bring back memories."
"What the hell is that supposed to mean, how the hell could you have memories of me, I don't even now you that well."
"It's nothing Naruto, just nothing." Naruto was confused at the fact that Kakashi was so engrossed in his eyes, he knew that his eyes were weird, but did they really attract people's attention that much? Both Naruto and Kakashi were broken from their thoughts when they heard a loud buzz.
"Time is up, you failed to get the bells." Naruto could hear the sad cries of Sakura coming from her location in the dirt.
"We failed no no no!" She said.
"Damnit." Sasuke said.
Kakashi put Naruto down and walked away from him and over to Sasuke and Sakura. "Yes, times up you all failed to get the bells from me in the time I gave you." Kakashi scratched the back of his head, sheepishly. "Don't get sad over this though, honestly I didn't expect you guys to put up this much of a fight, I'm impressed."
"Hey Kakashi sensei!" Kakashi looked back at Naruto to see what he wanted. His eyes widened when he saw what Naruto heldin his hand.
"W-When did you-...?" Naruto let out a loud chuckle, for what he held in his hands was what he was aiming for the whole time.
"Wow Kakashi sensei, that was harder then I thought, getting these bells caused me to actually work with those two." He said pointing at Sakura and Sasuke.
"What's that supposed to mean, Dobe?"
"Nothing teme, now get yourself out of the dirt, you look stupid the both of you." Kakashi made a ram seal and the ground around Sakura and Sasuke widened and they both climbed out of their 'man'holes.
Kakashi sighed and put his hands in his pockets, Naruto had gotten him , he was fooled by a Genin. He knew if word got out about this the other Jounin wouldn't let him live this down. This was the first time a group of Genin had passed his bell test, Kakashi was caught off guard and he had to accept it.
"G-Good job, but tell me when did you do it Naruto?" Naruto who had taken to walking over to Kakashi and the rest of his team, stuck his index finger out.
"Right after Sakura kicked you and right before Sasuke and I hit you with our jutsu." Kakashi scratched his chin trying to remember what happened before he went underground to escape the Gokakyu no jutsu.
"Explain." Kakashi said. Naruto waited until Sakura and Sasuke finished dusting themselves off and walked over to him and Kakashi before continuing.
"Remember that clone I had throw a kunai toward Sasuke." Kakashi nodded and smiled when he realized what Naruto had done. He started to laugh.
"W-What's so funny Kakashi sensei, what did Naruto do?" Sakura asked. He rubbed the back of his head and turned to Sakura.
"I sent my clone to get them right before, Kakashi dug underground. This guy over there." Naruto pointed to a tree and a clone of him jumped out. "I told him to swipe the bells right after Kakashi got hit by you Sakura-chan."
Sakura honestly couldnt figure it out, she never saw a thing , all she saw was Kakashi go flying into the fire.
Wow, I didn't see a thing, I never knew that Naruto was this strong, he actually seemed pretty cool when he was fighting with Sasuke but no matter, Sasuke's my man.
"Ok well since Naruto got the bells from me, I guess you all...pass. Let me ask you something though, do any of you know the actual meaning of this test?"
"Teamwork." Naruto said.
"Wow you guys really did know, ok then you all pass, tomorrow we start our first mission. This test was an all out success." Kakashi stuck up a big thumbs up to Everyone. "Now go and get something to eat, I know you're all hungry."
"YAY! Uh Sasuke-kun do you want to go get some ramen together?" Sakura asked with a blush.
"No." Sasuke said immediately as he walked away soon to be followed by Sakura. Naruto shook his head at Sakura's played out attempt at getting a date with Sasuke. Just asking was never the way to go with a guy like Sasuke, then again he was Sasuke.
"Naruto can you come with me for a second, I need to talk with you and the Hokage." Naruto turned to Kakashi.
"Whatever Kakashi sensei."
Naruto and Kakashi both stood in front of the Sandaime Hokage. They were in his office and both Naruto and Sarutobi wore confused faces.
"Kakashi sensei why do I have to keep my eyes closed? This is really starting to piss me off."
"Now now bear with it Naruto."
"Honestly Kakashi-san I don't see the point to holding Naruto-kun's eyes closed."
"You'll see. Naruto open your eyes." Naruto opened his eyes and rubbed them a couple times. Naruto looked at his surrogate grandfather. He raised his brow when he saw the expression on his face.
"Hey...ojiisan, what's wrong with you, what's up with that face." Naruto looked at the aged man in confusion.
"What-..."
"Naruto your...eyes, they came back." Naruto zoomed in on this, the old man had said that his eyes had come back, meaning that he had seen them like this before. Naruto looked at Kakashi then he looked back at Sandaime. It seemed like Kakashi also knew about Naruto's eyes, this seemed like old news that had just resurfaced to them.
"Wait, they've come back? Ojiisan What's going, you know about my eyes." The hokage shook his head yes.
"Of course I do Naruto, and so does Kakashi-san. They're exactly like your father's." Naruto took a step back.
"My father?"
"Yes, you may know him b-..."
"I know him." Kakashi and Sarutobi looked at Naruto in disbelief, Naruto couldn't have actually known his father.
"You're father is dead Naruto, there is know way you could have know who he was." Kakashi said.
"I don't know him, but I know who he is, the Yondaime Hokage." More disbelief came when Naruto said this. Sandaime leaned foward on his desk and rubbed his temples. He looked down for a moment and then looked back up. His eyes made him seem a little angry.
"Naruto who...told you about your father?" His voice seemed to shake. Kakashi sensed that he shouldn't say anything and backed away from the Hokage's desk as well. "This information was top secret, no one above Anbu knew about your father's identity."
"Someone else did ojiisan." Naruto said without a single hit of fear in his voice.
"Who was it?" Naruto took a long pause before continuing, he figured that something as important as this could only be revealed in dead silence.
"The one that my father sealed away-..." Sarutobi's eyes stayed as they were, Kakashi's visible eye sprouted a couple inches. "-..was the one who told me, Kyuubi no Kitsune."
Silence, silence from Kakashi, silence from Sarutobi, even silence from that loud mouthed street merchant selling cabbage in the streets below. Naruto knew the Kyuubi, this whole time everyone who knew of it thought Naruto was oblivious to its existence inside of him. They were all wrong.
Kakashi was the first to speak up, he broke the foreboding silence.
"Naruto how long have you known?"
"Since I was six...why didn't you tell me?" Kakashi let out a sigh, he then walked over to the Hogkage's desk and stood there so that he was facing Naruto. He looked at the Hokage, hoping for him to say something.
"I was going to wait until you were at least fifteen." Kakashi let out a sigh of relief.
"It's too late for that now ojiisan."
"I suppose your right, Kakashi-san I'm afraid that I'm going to have to ask you to leave." Kakashi sighed and shrugged his shoulders.
"But I thought that-..." Sarutobi's eyes suddenly became very serious. Kakashi let out another one of those lazy sighs."I guess it can't be help then."
"Report back, am I clear?"
"Yes Hokage-sama." Kakashi made a hand sign and gave Naruto a glance, he then disappeared in a plume of smoke. Naruto looked at the Hokage.
"Ojiisan."
"You're father was indeed Yondaime, It was him who sealed Kyuubi no Kitsune inside of you. He wished for me to tell you about this when you were old enough but since you already know about it there's no point in telling you. Let me ask you this Naruto-kun, can you talk to it?"
Naruto waited for a second and then responded. "Yes, I can talk to him freely, it is sort of a mental link between us." Sarutobi shook his head in an understanding way.
"I see, well seeing as you can do that I suppose there is no use hiding it from you any longer." Naruto raised his brow.
"Keeping what from me ojiisan?"
"The truth. The truth about the Kyuubi and your father's legacy. Sit." Naruto did as he was told and took a chair from the back of the room and pulled up to the old man's desk. "Your father gave me something before he gave his life to save the village. He also told me a grave secret."
Naruto stayed still in his seat, he needed to hear this one, it was probably the most important moment of his life...so far. He leaned out of his seat as he waited for the Hokage to finish what he was saying.
"He told me ...the secrets of his clan." Naruto's eyes widened. Clan, what was this about a clan, Naruto knew he had a father and perhaps a mother but a clan, impossible.
"Clan, what clan are you talking about?" Sarutobi chuckled. "W-What's so funny ojiisan, what?"
"Nothing, it's just the look on your face. Anyway-.." His facial expression changed to one of seriousness. "- His clan , the Namikaze clan. Naruto-kun your aren't Naruto Uzumaki, you are Naruto Namikaze, the successor to the Namikaze clan and the lone survivor. "
Naruto's eyes widened, he never knew about any of this, Kyuubi didn't mention anything about...maybe he didn't know. Naruto decided that it was not the time to contemplate on whether not Kyuubi was hiding things from him.
"Ojiisan what is it that he told you?"
"Naruto-kun, your father told me of the one thing that lead to the end of your clan, he told me of the existence of his Kekkei Genkai, your eyes."
Sarutobi expected Naruto's next reaction. He knew how surprised the boy would be, and he was fully prepared to handle it.
"So my eyes are like this because...I have a Kekei Genkai..." Naruto put his head down.
"Naruto-kun, I know that it's a lot to- uh...Naruto-kun?" He stopped when he heard a sound coming from Naruto. It sounded like snickering. The snickering grew louder.
"Yes, this is so awesome, I have a Kekei Genkai, this just makes me so much more awesome than I already am! So what's its name?" Sarutobi just smiled at the boy's enthusiasm, this would have been a lot for most people to handle but Naruto took it like it was gift of some sort.
"Hey, ojiisan didn't you hear me I said what's its name?"
"Now, now calm down Naruto-kun I'll tell you the name, It's called the Geostigma. It is what marks those who have you're Kekkei Genkai. Those eyes of yours are the Geostigma, the sacred mark of your clan's Kekkei Genkai existing within your body, however the true name of your clan's Kekei Genkai I do not know, you will have to find that out for yourself."
"This Geostigma, it's only a mark, so how I find out my Kekei Genkai's true name?"
"I don't know Naruto-kun, Minato only told me of the mark."
"Minato?"
"It's your father's name."
"Right." Naruto said. "What was it that he gave you ojiisan?"
"He gave me this." Sarutobi looked down and reached into his desk. He ruffled through a bunch of paper, thern made a hand sign. He said 'release'. There was a flash of light from the sandaime's desk and seconds later he pulled out a small black journal and a large scroll that had the Kanji for seal on it and handed it to Naruto.
"What's this ojiisan?"
"Your father's last words are in that journal, Naruto-kun. It was something he told me that I should give you immediately after you found out about your Kekkei Genkai, I have no knowledge of what is inside of that book however."
"And what about this scroll, just the hell am I supposed to do with this?"
"Ah, this scroll contains your your family's jutsu and possibly the secret to your Kekkei Genkai. Minato told me that I shouldn't open it, or else I would be done for, he said that only one with the geostigma and his genes may open this scroll and no one else."
Naruto looked down at the scroll and journal in his hand, he always wanted to know more about his father and this might be his only chance.
"Naruto-kun, you it would be best for you if you were to hide this from everyone."
"You mean the scroll and journal ?"
"Not only that but your true identity, no one should know that you are a Namikaze, resume your current alias as Naruto Uzumaki."
"Sure. I can do that." Naruto walked over to the window and opened it. He stood on the windowsill and looked back at the hokage.
"Be well Naruto-kun."
"See ya ojiisan." With that Naruto jumped out of the window towards his house, he looked at the scroll and journal. "The geostigma huh?"
I'm done, whew! Second chapter is finally finished and I hope you liked it. I don't know if I really presented Naruto's ability that much in this chap, maybe another fight ought to do it. Uhh next chapter will deal with...welll read it yourself.
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