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So here is the second chapter of the story.
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The third Hokage was addressing his adoptive grandson before they announced the death of the Kyuubi. There were already rumors of its death, most everyone believing the rumors meant Naruto. "Now, Naruto, during this announcement I want you to be somewhat more subdued than normal, if you can, we are trying to make a good impression. I know that most of them already don't like you, but that should change afterwards, so long as you show that you can be serious."

"Right Gramps, Can do." Naruto saluted.

The pair walked out onto a balcony that overlooked a large town square that was filled with people, it was so packed that people were standing on the walls of the buildings that lined the square. Village-wide announcements were a Big Deal because they only happened when something very important happened that could not be kept secret, a very rare thing in a ninja village.

"People of Konoha! I have called this gathering for a joyous announcement. The Kyuubi is dead; it was destroyed by the person who contained it, Uzumaki Naruto, through the use of a forbidden jutsu. This jutsu converted the entire yin half of his chakra into what is known as an AT field, as the half of the Kyuubi that was sealed within him was made completely of yin chakra it was consumed entirely by the technique. As such, I am lifting my law, as Uzumaki Naruto is no longer a Jinchuriki."

During the announcement Naruto had been on his best behavior, standing at the side of the Hokage trying to get a feel for the crowd. Contrary to popular belief Naruto was acutely aware of body language and how to read people, he just usually ignored it because what he saw when he paid attention were things he didn't want to see. The crowd was mostly shocked, to think the town pariah had used a very risky jutsu, the bulk of forbidden jutsu are suicidal to use, either inherently or practically, and managed to destroy something that even the Yondaime had been unable to kill.

There did seem to be some people that refused to believe that the beast was dead, thinking that the Kyuubi had merely possessed the boy and was trying to get them to lower their guard around it. Luckily this group was a minority.

Suddenly a kunai charged with lighting shot out of the crowd heading towards Naruto. Reflexively Naruto unfolded his AT field and put his hands out an orange translucent octagonal barrier grew in front of him in a split second. When the kunai hit the shield it seemed to stop in mid-air trying to break through it. After the energy left the weapon and fell to the balcony floor. Sarutobi seemed Furious, "Find that man NOW! I want him gone. Attacks will not be tolerated on Konoha Shinobi!" when the ANBU guards tried to find the attacker, but he had already slipped away. The attack seemed to sway most of the people that were still anti-Naruto to the Hokage's point of view, the ability just used was purely defensive in nature, as far as they knew at least, and the Kyuubi was well known for being all attack with no abilities that dealt with protection. There was some cringing amongst the crowd when Naruto unfolded his AT field, but the vast majority of those there seemed to calm down more than anything else.

"Well then, the announcement is over, please disperse in an orderly fashion. If anyone saw who performed the attack, please let an ANBU know on your way out.

"I can't believe someone attacked me!" Naruto shouted once they had entered the Hokage's office.

"Naruto, it happens, someone might have recognized the technique name and thought to eliminate you because of what the sacrifice needed for it to work is."

"What sacrifice?"

Sarutobi sighed, "That technique requires the sacrifice of a soul in order to awaken the AT field in a person. The original creator of the technique was actually Uzumaki Shinji's mother, whom performed it on him with herself as a sacrifice. His father created another AT field user by sacrificing an, unwilling, family friend. You were very, very lucky that it recognized the yin half of the Kyuubi as the soul to be sacrificed. Now then, you may practice with your ability, since everyone will know what the AT field feels like and it won't raise an alarm. You are also lucky you still have use of the yang half of your chakra; it will allow you to use Taijutsu and the ninja movement techniques. Otherwise you would be no faster or stronger than an extremely fit civilian."

Naruto looked down, "I came really close to letting the Kyuubi loose, didn't?"

"Yes you did, but the important thing is that it did not happen, and as long as you learn not to be as hasty from this then something good came from it. You are dismissed, and, Naruto?"

"Yes?"

"Your parents would be proud of you, your mom especially."

Naruto hugged Sarutobi, "Thanks Old Man. That means a lot. I'm going to go start training. There isn't a moment to lose if I want to take that hat from you." He let go of the Hokage and ran out the door.

The Hokage going back to his desk while letting out a fond chuckle, "I have no doubt you will be able to do so someday, Naruto."

The team assignments had come and went, he was in the same team as Sakura and Sasuke, that bastard, Their Sensei was supposed to come pick them up but they had already been waiting hours.

Naruto stood up from his desk, "That's it; he is just asking to get pranked." Naruto then set up a fairly simple trap that would drop a chalkboard eraser on his sensei's head, once he finally showed up.

A short while later a masked face poked through the door, "Yo!" the he promptly got chalk dust all over his head curtsey of Naruto's trap. "I am your Jonin sensei, and my first impression of you is... I don't like you. Now meet me up on the roof."

Once assembled on the roof the man introduced himself, "I am your new sensei. To get a sense of you three what don't you tell me about yourselves? Name, Likes, dislikes, dreams, hobbies. Those kinds of things."

The only female of the group asked, "Why don't you go first, Sensei, show us how you want it?"

"Well, I am Hatake Kakashi, I don't feel like telling you my likes and dislikes, dreams for the future, hmm..., I have lots of hobbies."

Naruto deadpanned, 'All we learned was his name.'

Kakashi continued, "Alright you first Pinky." calling on Sakura using a nickname based on her hair color.

"Well I'm Haruno Sakura, I like..." she looked at Sasuke and blushed, "My dream for the future is..." she blushed even deeper then got a stern look on her face, "I hate Naruto and Ino-pig!"

Naruto got a hurt look on his face, and Kakashi sighed, "Ok, short, pale, and broody, you're up."

Sasuke grunted and replied, "My name is Uchiha Sasuke, there isn't really anything I like and there is a lot I dislike, and my dream, no my ambition, is to kill a certain man."

Kakashi thought to himself, 'Probably his brother.' and said aloud, "last but not least Eyesore."

Naruto shouted, "Hey, my jumpsuit is awesome!"

"How'd you know I was referring to it then?"

"I've had some arguments in the past about it. Hmph. Any Way, My name is Uzumaki Naruto, and I like Cup ramen, what I like more is when Iruka Sensei buys me ramen. I dislike the 3 minutes it takes for ramen to cook. As for my dream, it is to surpass the Hokage and have the village acknowledge my existence!"

Kakashi sighed, 'that sounds about right, good thing he's already on a good start for the second dream.' "Alright, listen up tomorrow we are going to run a survival drill at training ground 7 starting at 0700 sharp. This isn't your normal drill, tomorrow; your opponent will be me. As for the purpose of this drill, it's to see if you have the chops to be a Shinobi. If you fail then you get sent back to the academy."

Naruto burst, "What! What the hell was the point of the academy exam then?"

"Oh, that was just to keep those with no chance at passing this test out; you see the failure rate for this exam is over 66%. I'll see you there tomorrow, oh and I wouldn't eat breakfast, at least not unless you like throwing up." Kakashi disappeared in a cloud of smoke and left the three prospective genin on the roof alone.

The three children had been waiting for four hours before Kakashi was seen walking down the path towards the training ground.

A twin shout of, "You're late!" echoed through the clearing.

"Mah, Mah, I was on my way here, but a black cat crossed my path so I had to take the long route, then I came across an old woman struggling to carry her groceries so I had to help her, and she lived on the other side of town, then she insisted on making me breakfast as thanks. After that I was already so late that I felt I should stop and grab Bento Boxes for lunch..."

The two loudmouths of the group shouted, "Liar!"

"Anyway," he set the three bento boxes he was carrying down on one of the sparing posts and pulled out an alarm clock, "The test will last until Noon; you have that time to take one of these bells from me. If you don't then I'll tie you to a post and eat your lunch in front of you, then send you back to the academy." He set the alarm down on another post and continued, "Begin in three, two, o-"

Naruto moved before he finished his countdown, pulling a Kunai and going to throw it at the Jonin, but was intercepted by said Jonin seemingly teleporting to him and placing his hard around Naruto's before he could let go of the weapon.

"Now, Now, don't be hasty, good show of initiative though. I guess I might be starting to like you guy. Ready? The test begins...NOW!"

Sakura and Sasuke jumped off to hide in the trees, while Naruto just stood there. "Hey, Fight me."

Kakashi chagrined, "You a little special aren't you? OK, first lesson, Taijutsu." he reached into his weapon pouch and pulled out a book with an orange cover.

"What are you doing, not even taking me seriously?"

"Even if you have a shield that can block some of my raiton techniques doesn't mean you can defeat me."

"That was you! I almost died; wait until I tell Hokage-ji that you were the attacker!"

"He already knows, he asked me to do it, though I didn't actually attack you, I threw it in your direction, not at you. We planned it out to help get more people to accept that the Kyuubi was dead, and not you."

"Whatever, I'm going to kick your ass!" he unfolded his AT field and a barrier formed in front of him and, after it was fully formed, had another form then another, it shot forward a few feet, and stopped. "Shit, I was sure I'd be able to pull off the basic AT Hammer."

Kakashi appeared behind him, "You should never leave your back unguarded." his hands were in the tiger seal with hands clasped together, pointer and middle-fingers out straight.

Sakura saw this and thought, 'That's for a fire technique!' the shouted, "Move Naruto, he'll kill you!"

Kakashi shouted, "TOO SLOW!" and shot forward to attack, "Konoha secret technique: 1000 YEARS OF PAIN!" Instead of ninjutsu Kakashi shoved his hands forward, about to hit Naruto in the ass, but a shield formed and blocked the attack.

Naruto was jumping at the same time and shot off into the water. 'Hmm, I can't take him right now, all of my moves are defensive in nature I need to team up with someone.' He stayed underwater and swam off to the tree line to see if he could find one of the others to work with, he wanted to team up with Sakura, but teaming up with Sasuke (much as he hated to admit it) would be the better idea if he wanted to pass.

Meanwhile, with Sakura, 'I need to find Sasuke, then we can team up and Sasuke can beat Kakashi and then we can be on the same team.' she was off in her own little world when she almost stumbled into Kakashi, "EEP!" and then a swirl of leaves appeared and Kakashi disappeared. She heard a voice.

"Sakura."

'I know that voice, It's Sasuke!' She turned and ran to where she heard the voice.

Sasuke was bloodied and covered in weapons impaled into him and his left arm had been severed at the wrist, "Sakura, help me."

Sakura promptly passed out in shock and fear.

Kakashi was standing nearby, "Lesson number two, Genjutsu."

Sasuke had watched the whole thing and launched an attack at Kakashi from the trees. it seemed to hit, only for Kakashi to turn into a log in a puff of smoke. 'Shit, replacement technique, now he knows where I am, I need to move.' He leapt from the branch he was on and sprinted away from that clearing only to run into Kakashi in the next clearing he saw. 'Shit, I guess I need to start fighting.' Sasuke hurtled into the clearing with a kick aimed at Kakashi's unprotected side.

Kakashi blocked with his forearm quickly and said, "That's pretty fast, I should probably put this up, I don't want my book getting dirty." He jumped back and placed his novel within the confines of his weapon pouch while moving.

Sasuke followed him saying, "I'm not like those other two, I'm an Uchiha." he launched another kick at Kakashi.

He caught the kick, "Different doesn't make you better-" he caught the follow up punch, "-and you know the saying, the nail that sticks up is the one that get hammered." he blocked another kick that Sasuke sent at his head after readjusting his body weight. Kakashi threw Sasuke several meters away.

While in mid-air Sasuke went through the hand seals for a fire technique, Kakashi saw it, 'impressive he shouldn't have the chakra reserves to pull that off yet."

A burst of flame quickly engulfed the Jonin, when the flames died down there was only scorched earth, Sasuke looked around, "where did he go, left... right... behind... above..." as he looked at the said direction as he said it.

A shout ended his search, "Under!" two hands grabbed ahold of sasukes ankles and pulled him into the ground up to his neck. "Now just stay there and think about what I told you." kakashi wandered off thinking, 'I wonder how hard I'm going to have to hint that they should team up?'

Naruto had just found Sasuke, "BWAHAHAHAHA. Get in over your neck?" he started to dig sasuke out of his predicement, even after sasuke insulted him for his comment. "Listen, the way I see it is that we have no chance at all by ourselves, he's a Jonin with years of experiance at that rank, we were made genin last week. the only chance we have is if we all work as a team and go at him at once. if it helps I'll give up my bell so you two can advance, another year at the academy ain't gonna hurt me."

Despite his ego, Sasuke was able to see the wisdom, what was the world coming to Naruto with good wisdom, of Naruto's words. "As much as I hate to agree with you, we probably should work together, lets find Sakura and come up with a plan."

Unfortunately for the would-be ninja, the alarm went off right as Sakura wandered into the clearing they were in.

All three kids were tied to the posts with kakshi standing in front of them. "Well none of you were able to get a bell, despite teaming up, or at least trying to, you know what that means. All of you... PASS!"

"WHAT!" chorused three surprised kids.

Kakashi explained, "we put you into teams for a reason, to work together for a common goal. The bell test is designed to pit you against each other and see if you can work together to overcome a problem none of you could on your own. Sometimes when on a mission you may not be able to accomplish goals by yourself, or your minor goals may be contrary to each other, you need to be able to work together to accomplish the mission as a whole. remember those who fail the mission are trash, but those who do not help their comrades are worse than trash." Kakash became sullen and pointed to a large stone monument. "The names of Konoha's heroes are engraved on that stone-"

Naruto interrupted him, "Then that's where I want my name engraved one day, along with all of Konoha's other heroes!"

Kakashi continued, "- those are the heroes who have died in the service of Konoha, every single one of my teammates are on that stone. Are you sure you still want to be on it?"

Naruto replied, "Well, yeah, not soon, but I can't think of a better death than one in combat to save my comrades."

"Keep that sentiment Naruto, and I know you'll be Hokage some day." he undid the bindings on all three handed them the bento boxes and said, "Congratulations on becoming genin of Konoha, take the rest of the day off, we'll meet back here tomorrow to begin missions and training for real."

well, there's another chapter done, hope ya'll liked it. I'll try to get another chapter out by Wednesday.