Hello people I'm back and within 1 week of the first chapter too! I think this is the most dedicated I've been to anything.
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Disclaimer: I'm flattered that you people think i own Naruto but sadly the genius that owns this is Kishimoto-san. Though i do own the genjutsu that i use in this chapter because i made it up! :)
"talking"
'thoughts'
"inner sakura and demons" (like kyuubi)
(random things)
Enjoy the second chapter of The Cherry Blossom Reborn! )
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When Sakura woke up the next day she let out a small groan. 'Why did we have to do taijustu training yesterday, now my body is all sore, and why the hell did I wake up so early, I mean it's 6:30 in the freakin' morning!'
'Well aren't you forgetting something?'
'Hmmm….no I don't think so….'
'Yes you are we have that survival test with Kakashi-sensei today and its 6:38 and he told you to be there at 7:00.'
' ….OMG you're right! I still have to take a shower and eat breakfast!'
Sakura jumped out of bed and took an amazingly short 3 minute shower and did her hair, putting the senbon into her still damp hair.
'OMG its 6:52! Need food!'
Sakura got dressed in her usual clothes and wrapped her arms in the bandages quite quickly. She then ran down the stairs into her kitchen and grabbed some onigiri that she made last night when she got home. She looked at the clock again,
'SHIT! Its 6:57 and the training grounds are on the other side of Konoha! It takes 15 minutes to get there normally!'
She ran to put on her ninja sandals and ran towards the training grounds, pumping chakra into her legs to make her move faster.
When she arrived at the training ground at 7:02, having had successfully cut the time it takes to get there by 10 minutes, she saw the Sasuke and Naruto were already there. Sasuke was leaning against one of the bridge railings, staring into nothingness. Naruto was in front of Sasuke yelling at him about god knows what.
When Sakura arrived at the bridge Sasuke stopped looking into the dark abyss of nothingness and said,
"Oyaho Sakura,"
Before Sakura could respond a large yellow blur enveloped her in a hug and knocked her off her feet.
The large yellow blur, now being identified as Naruto, then yelled, "OYAHO SAKURA-CHAN!"
As Sakura laid on the ground completely oblivious that Sasuke was glaring at Naruto or that she was in a very, ahem, suggestive position, responded to both of them with a large smile on her face.
"Ohayo Uchiha-san, Uzumaki-san."
Naruto, quite perturbed at being called by his last name so formally exclaimed, still from on top of Sakura,
"Ne Sakura-chan don't call me Uzumaki-san, call me Naruto-kun!"
Sasuke nodded silently saying that he did not like being called by his last name either. Sakura then looking slightly puzzled said,
"You don't like being called Uzumaki-san, Uzumaki-san?"
"No! It makes me feel like you don't know me and it makes me feel old!"
"Oh, sumimasen, I'll call you Naruto-san then and I'll call Uchiha-san over there Sasuke-san. Now, Naruto-san, could you please get off me, my back is getting dirty."
Naruto got off Sakura reluctantly and Sasuke stopped glaring at him. Naruto was still grumbling how she wouldn't call him 'Naruto-kun' but happy that she didn't call Sasuke 'Sasuke-kun'.
Sakura, after getting up and dusting herself off, then looked around and noticed that their sensei want there yet.
'Oh, I forgot, Hatake-sensei is usually late for everything.'
'WHAT!? So you mean we grabbed a quick breakfast for nothing!? We could have had a nice, more tasty breakfast!?'
'Yeah I guess so…'
'DAMN HIM! I will make him pay for making us eat such a bland breakfast, SHANNARO!'
'sigh, why are you so obsessed with breakfast and eating in general?'
'I get to eat, it gives me energy for my hippo hearding I do!'
'…hippo hearding?'
'Yeah now excuse me here comes a customer.'
'How does she heard hippos when she's in my head?'
While Sakura was having her conversation with her inner, Naruto and Sasuke saw her face flash with a different emotion every 2 seconds. Right when Sakura came back to reality a 'poof' was heard and there was Kakashi-sensei, only one and a half hours late.
"YOUR LATE SENSEI!" Naruto yelled at him.
"Ah well, there was an old lady carrying groceries and she looked like she needed help so-"
"LIAR!" Naruto yelled pointing a finger at Kakashi.
"Yes well, I see that you are all here on time or so I assume." Kakashi said while scratching the back of his head sheepishly.
'Yeah we've only been waiting for 1 ½ HOURS!' inner sakura yelled inside Sakura's head, looking away from the hippos that mysteriously appeared in Sakura's head.
"Hn, just tell us what we need to do for our survival test." Sasuke said while glaring at their sensei for making him wait for so long.
"Ah yes, well your test is to retrieve these two bells before noon so that you can get one of these two lunches," As he said that he took two bentos out of nowhere and showed them to his students. "The person that doesn't get a bell will be tied to that stump and I will eat their lunch in front of them."
"So then there are only two bells so that only two of us get lunch?" Sakura asked
"Well yes and also the two people who get the bells will officially become genin and the person who doesn't have a bell will be sent back to the academy."
'hmmm…that doesn't make sense there is no way that a single genin ninja can beat an elite jounin….unless….ok I get it, he wants us to work together and work on our teamwork. If the three of us take him on then we'll have a higher chance of getting those bells.' Sakura thought in her head.
"Now you all have to come at me with the intent to kill or you'll never get a bell."
"DATTEBAYO! I'll definitely get a bell from you Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto yelled, and with that Naruto charged at Kakashi wielding a kunai. In a flurry of movement Naruto was pinned onto the ground, his kunai lying harmlessly on the ground a few feet away.
"Now I haven't said go yet but, it's good that you are clearly coming at me with the intent to kill."
Kakashi got off Naruto and set a timer to go off when it was noon. Naruto ran back to where Sasuke and Sakura were standing.
"Now, GO!"
Before Naruto and Sasuke could jump away in different directions, Sakura grabbed them by the arm and jumped into the forest.
Kakashi stood in the center of the clearing looking around him and at the forest that surrounded him.
'good at least they hid themselves well. I think I'll try and look for them.'
So he jumped off into the forest to go find the three genin.
With Team 7
"Why did you take us here?!"
Sasuke demanded slightly mad at Sakura for dragging them into the middle of the forest, though, he couldn't stay mad at her for long, damn hormones! Besides she was cute standing there in the sunlight that was filtered through the trees.
'Whoa, I did NOT just call Sakura cute. I must have meant annoying, yes that's it, annoying.' (Yeah he's in denial)
"Yeah Sakura-chan, why did you drag us away from Kakashi-sensei? I was about to kick his ass!"
Sakura let out a small sigh and then said,
"Do you think that one genin, even if he is from the Uchiha clan, can take on an elite jounin? Kakashi-sensei expects us to separate and work alone because he knows we stand no chance and that, since there are only two bells, that we would fight for the bells."
"Ne, then how do we get a bell Sakura-chan?"
Naruto asked looking confuzzled, Sasuke silently agreeing.
"Well alone we might not stand a chance, but, if we work together and use teamwork, then we'll have a higher chance of getting the bells."
"Hn, you know that might work as long as the dobe here doesn't mess up."
"Who are you calling a dobe, teme!?"
"You dobe."
"Teme!"
"Dobe."
"Teme!"
"Dobe."
"TEME!"
"….D.O.B.E."
"TEM-"
"OK! ENOUGH!"
Sakura yelled letting out a little bit of inner Sakura's anger.
'DAMNIT, WHY THE HELL WON'T THEY JUST SHUT UP AND LISTEN!'
Both Sasuke and Naruto stared at Sakura since they had never seen her yell before. Sakura, after making sure that inner Sakura wouldn't make another outburst, said in a calm voice,
"Ok, I get that you both don't want to work together, but can't you do it just this once?"
'Besides, the more time we waste the less time we have to get the bells and the more likely it will be that Kakashi-sensei will find us.'
Both of the boys turned their backs to each other with a hmph, clearly stating that they refused to work together.
After thinking for a moment, Sakura then said,
"If you work together we'll go to Ichiraku and I'll buy you all the ramen that you can eat Naruto-san, and Sasuke-san, I'll bring you some tomatoes from my garden and some onigiri when we are there. So please will you work together?"
Sakura gave them the most adorable puppy eyes that they had ever seen. The two boys contemplated the offer for a few seconds but, when she did the puppy eyes, they immediately said yes. I mean how can you say no to that face?
"Yay! Thank You!"
Sakura hugged them both out of happiness, completely unaware that when she did so both of the boys had light tinges of pink on their faces. After Sakura let them go Sasuke, who recovered first, then asked,
"So do we have a plan?"
"Yes I do now, here's what we have to do Naruto you have to…"
And Sakura told them her plan
"Ok you guys got it?"
"Aa"
"Yeah! Now, let's go kick Kakashi-sensei's ass, DATTEBAYO!"
With Kakashi
Kakashi had been trying to find the three genin for the past 30 minutes.
'Hmmm…. I wonder where they are, I haven't been able to find even Naruto.'
Suddenly he saw a flash of yellow out of the corner of his eye. He stopped and turned and there was Naruto, in all his orange glory staring at him, then he exclaimed,
"Ne Kakashi-sensei, bet you can't catch me!"
Naruto wagged his butt at Kakashi and then he was off.
'sigh, of course I find Naruto first and he insults me and tells me to follow him.'
Kakashi followed him and they made it back to the clearing where they had started out at. Naruto stopped in the center and Kakashi stopped right in front of him and said,
"Now Naruto you wanted to fight me right?"
"Nope not me, I have other plans, Now Sasuke-teme!"
Sasuke then appeared from behind Naruto and quickly preformed a series of hand seals while Naruto jumped away.
'No way! His chakra shouldn't be able to do that jutsu yet!'
"Katon: Goukakyuu no jutsu!"
Sasuke called out and a fire ball came speeding towards Kakashi. After he dispelled the jutsu he saw that Kakashi was no longer where he once stood. He looked around then, he heard a
"Doton: Shinjuzanshu no jutsu!"
"Wha-"
Sasuke was pulled underground and Kakashi was standing over him.
"Is that the best that you can do Sasuke?"
Sasuke smirked, Kakashi was surprised and immedietly on guard again. The Uchiha then said,
"Not even close, Now Naruto!"
The 'Sasuke' poofed away having had been a kage bushin.
"Wha-"
"You didn't think that I was done with you did you Kakashi-sensei?"
Naruto appeared with 10 other kage bushin and they started to attack Kakashi. Kakashi kept blocking and dodging, never noticing that one certain pink haired kunoichi was missing during the whole battle so far.
Kakashi was slowly being forced closer and closer to the forest's edge.
'Seriously, is this all he's going to do? There's no way he can beat me with his taijutsu.'
Right when he reached the edge of the forest Naruto threw a kunai at Kakashi, it was the first weapon that was used the entire battle. Kakashi quickly deflected it and it went sailing into the forest. Naruto smirked secretly and kept attacking Kakashi, making sure that he didn't move to far from the spot that he was in.
With Sakura
'There's the signal, Naruto-san finally threw that kunai.'
Sakura who was concealed in the tree right above Kakashi, concealing her chakra so that he wouldn't detect her, started to rapidly perform hand signs. When she was done she muttered,
"Tengoku Ongaku."
With Kakashi and Naruto
All of a sudden Kakashi started to feel sleepy and Naruto stopped attacking him. After being sleepy for a few moments he realized that he was in a genjutsu and made a hand sign and muttered "kai" and the genjutsu was dispelled.
However it wasn't dispelled fast enough because once he returned to reality he saw a dancing Naruto who was yelling,
"Ninja Ninja Ninja Ninja!"
Sasuke was smirking and Sakura was smiling brightly while holding both bells.
Kakashi smiled at them and said,
"Congratulations! Now, who gets the bells?"
Naruto stopped dancing and singing and Sakura stopped smiling. After looking at each other Sakura sighed and said,
"Naruto-san and Sasuke-san get the bells Kakashi-sensei."
Both Naruto and Sasuke looked over at her surprised, and so did Kakashi. He expected of three of them to argue amongst themselves. Both Naruto and Sasuke looked like they were about to object to the statement but, before they could, Kakashi said,
"And why would you let them have the bells?"
"Because both of their dreams require being ninja, Naruto-san wants to be hokage and that obviously requires being a ninja, and Sasuke-san wants to kill a certain someone and, from what it sounds like, he needs to be a ninja to do that. I did state that I would protect the dreams of my precious people and, if that means putting my own ambitions on hold, then so be it. Besides I don't wasn't us arguing and forcing one of us to do it because that would be like leaving your comrade, and those who leave their comrades are worse than trash."
Familiar words flashed through Kakashi's mind and he said,
"Well…. YOU THREE PASS THE FINAL TEST!"
"Huh?"
The three genin looked quite confuzzled at the news.
"The first part of the test, when you had to get the bells from me, was a test of teamwork which you three passed with your well coordinated attacks and your good strategy. The second part of the test, deciding who would get the bells, was a test of who would sacrifice themselves for the better of their comrades, which you three passed since I saw that both Naruto and Sasuke were going to object with you giving up the bells to them. You three passed both tests so you are officially genin ninja so meet me here tomorrow at 7:00 for your first genin mission."
And he poofed away to wherever the hell he goes after training. After a brief silence it was broken with Naruto yelling,
"WOOHOO! IM A NINJA!"
Sakura said,
"Well guys lets go. I owe you right?"
And with that the newly passed genin ninja went to go eat out since their test was a success, and they went on their first mission tomorrow.
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Katon: Goukakyuu no jutsu (Fire Element, Grand Fireball technique): A technique where the user builds up chakra in their chest and blows a large ball of fire from their mouth. A common jutsu that the Uchiha clan uses, one of the many fire jutsus that the clan knows.
Kage Bushin no jutsu (shadow clone technique): Unlike the regular Bushin no jutsu, Kage Bushins fight back. The power and chakra of the user is evenly divided among the clones depending on how many there are. This makes it impossible to decipher which is the real body. If a clone receives a direct hit, the clone will disappear. It is mainly a jounin level technique.
Doton: Shinjuzanshu no jutsu(Earth element: Sacrificial Beheading): A technique in which the user is underground and then pulls the enemy underground, effectively switching places with them. It is usually a move used to immobilize the enemy so that the enemy can be easily incapacitated. It is considered a chuunin level technique because it can be easy to break out of.
Tengoku Ongaku (heaven's music): The user forms an alternate reality and forms their chakra into sleep waves which enter the brain making the victim sleepy. Though it has a short range of 10 meters it requires perfect chakra control so as not to harm the brain when the sleep waves enter the brain. This techniqe is mainly used to incapacitate the enemy. This is considered a jounin level technique though, you have to have an affinity for genjutsu.
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Yay another chapter done! Oh yes, if I make a mistake with the Japanese please blame the English Japanese dictionary that I use. I hope that you liked this chapter and as always review! The more reviews i get then the more likely i'll update sooner. Cmon you know you want to press that little button. Oh yeah and i now have a poll on my profile so i hope you vote! Well until next time, ja ne!
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