Konnichiwa!
So, how'd you like the prologue? I hope you thought it was good. So I think I'll be working mainly on this story. Like I have said earlier, my creative juices are running dry. So the best way to get out of writer's block is to write! Try from a different angle.
To answer a question, no, it will not be Naruto/Kagome/Sasuke, I only put Naruto U. and Sasuke U. because I wanted to fill in two characters. But I took it down, no worries. I'm strictly against Naruto/Kagome pairings. They've got this bro/sis, mum/son, or cousin thing going on, really.
I'm really hoping you people out there actually review after reading it. Honestly, I spend time out of my own life thinking up and tying up a story for you people, and you won't even take a couple seconds out of your life to write a short, simple review! I get hundreds, even thousands of hits on my chapters, but only a tiny fraction of them actually review.
To my actual reviewers, I love you all and thank you!
Oh, and one last thing. I'll write everything, like Jutsus, in English, because I don't want to put any translations at the bottom. But I'll add simple terms, like shinobi and kunoichi and Konohagakure.
Summary
Uchiha Sasuke, an avenger. Uzamaki Naruto, the jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi. Sakura, a rabid fangirl. Higurashi Kagome, heir and sole survivor of the Higurashi clan, powerful and mysterious. Their sensei, Hatake Kakashi, the elite jounin who is forever late. This is what makes up the infamous Team Seven.
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Last time…
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Kakashi sighed. He must have the weirdest team ever! An avenger, an overactive hyper kid, a crazy fangirl, and an heir from a mysterious and secretive clan. What had he done to anger a Kami? He was probably the only one with a team like this…
"Tomorrow, we will begin your test," Kakashi said. "Take these sheets. And remember not to eat breakfast. By the time I'm done with you, if you eat breakfast, you'll puke."
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Kakashi's Test
Each person from Team Seven shot off to their respective homes, hoping to prepare for what will come tomorrow.
Morning…
Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura were all waiting at the training grounds.
Naruto and Sakura were seething! Where was Kakashi-sensei? And where was Kagome? They were both over two hours late!
They whirled around when they heard a soft, feminine voice say, "Hey."
"Kagome! Where have you been!" yelled Naruto.
She shrugged. "Kakashi-sensei was late yesterday. It's probably a habit of his. So, what the hell? I'll come late too. You should do the same."
Naruto nodded. "That makes sense, I guess."
Kagome smiled. "I'm going to meditate, only wake me up when he gets here, okay?"
"Sure," said Naruto.
1 hour later…
"Hey guys, sorry I was late, there was this old lady, an-" Kakashi began.
"Shut up! You're late!" yelled Naruto.
"You told us to wake up early and get here by six, and you come three hours late!" screeched Sakura.
They both continued to yell at him, until Naruto remembered that he had to wake Kagome.
He walked over, and tapped her shoulder. Her eyes snapped open.
"Ah, Kakashi-sensei, it's good to see you again," greeted Kagome.
Kakashi's eyes crinkled into a 'U,' hinting that he was smiling, obvious to the people who paid attention to detail. Finally, a girl with some sense and patience! He then frowned. Too bad she would probably fail like the others.
"Today in your task, you have a seventy-five percent chance that you will fail. You see these bells here?" Kakashi held up three silver bells. "You need to obtain these bells by noon. The one who does not get a bell will be tied to the stump over there with no lunch, and that person will go back to the academy."
'That's why he told us to not eat anything,' realized Kagome.
"You told us not to eat breakfast this morning," said Kagome. "Is this the reason why?"
"Yes," Kakashi replied. "Now, you will fight to kill. You need to get the bells by any means possible."
"But sensei! We'll hurt you!" whined Sakura.
Kagome rolled her eyes. "Us, four genin straight out of the academy, have no chance of killing or hurting an elite jounin such as Kakahsi-sensei. I bet you can't even scratch him."
"Why you," seethed Sakura.
"But she's right," Sasuke said.
"Of course it's right, Sasuke-kun, you're so smart," gushed Sakura.
Everyone excluding Sakura rolled their eyes.
"Well, if you say so!" yelled Naruto, before aiming to throw his kunai at Kakashi.
Everyone froze, but after the dust had settled down, Kakashi had moved Naruto's arm so to place the kunai by Naruto's neck.
"I didn't say go yet. But I think I'm liking you brats a little more," said Kakashi.
All four of the genin were taken aback.
"Then… Go!" he said, before disappearing in a poof.
'Transportation Jutsu,' thought Kagome.
Sakura, Sasuke, and Kagome sped off to find vantage points. Naruto, however, had other plans.
"Hey Kakashi-sensei!" he yelled, after finding Kakashi. "I challenge you!"
"Well, if you're sure…" Kakashi reached into his holster, making everyone tense up, including Sasuke, Kagome, and Sakura who were hiding in the surrounding area. He then pulled out a book, which made everyone sweatdrop.
Icha Icha Paradise.
"Take me seriously!" said Naruto, getting angry. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
A bunch of Narutos appeared after a cloud of smoke. They all began attacking Kakashi.
However, they couldn't seem to land a hit on Kakashi. Suddenly, one of the Narutos punched another Naruto.
'Ah, I see, he replaced himself with one of the clones, then went back into his own body,' speculated Kagome.
They watched as the Narutos began fighting with each other about who was the real Naruto, until Naruto just released the jutsu. Then, Naruto saw a bell lying on the ground.
'Hehe, Kakashi-sensei must have dropped it when he was fighting me!' snickered Naruto, walking towards it. Naruto was very close to his prize before the trap caught him, a rope dangling him upsidedown.
Kakashi walked up to him, and said, "A shinobi shouldn't be caught in such a simple trap like that."
'Now, on to Sakura, a genjutsu should be fine,' thought Kakashi.
When he spotted her, he formed the hand signs to perform a genjutsu.
Within that genjutsu, Sakura saw Sasuke with kunai, shuriken, and senbons embedded within his body, bloody and dying.
"Sakura, help me," the genjutsu Sasuke moaned.
Sakura let out a piercing scream and fainted.
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Naruto had worked himself free of the trap, and then he spotted another bell.
'Kakashi-sensei must have actually dropped this one,' Naruto thought.
When he went to pick it up, the same thing happened, with even the exact same trap.
"Aw, man!" Naruto yelled.
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'Was I too hard on Sakura? Nah,' thought Kakashi. 'Now for Sasuke.'
He suddenly dodged a kunai that had come from his left. 'Apparently, I don't even have to go looking for him.'
"Ah, your teammates, so easily picked off one by one," drawled Kakashi.
"I am not like the others," said Sasuke.
The fight began.
It began with Sasuke throwing kunai and shuriken at Kakashi, while using ninjutsu at the same time.
Then, Sasuke made hand signals.
'A genin shouldn't know this technique yet!' thought Kakashi, eye widening, before disappearing underground.
"Grand fireball technique," said Sasuke, breathing out a huge ball of fire.
Sasuke looked around. Kakashi was missing.
"Under you," he heard, before he was pulled down underground, with only his head showing.
'Last one, Kagome,' Kakashi thought.
Just then, Sakura had stumbled through the forest to find Sasuke's head.
"Ehmigod, Kakashi-sensei killed Sasuke and chopped off his head!" screamed Sakura before passing out again.
Sasuke just sweatdropped.
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"You're the last one," Kakashi said to Kagome.
"I do not intend to lose," said Kagome, narrowing her eyes.
She suddenly ran at him, kunai in hand.
Kakashi just swerved out of the way. However, he was not expecting that the first one was a clone, and the real Kagome leaped up and threw a shuriken at him. He deflected the shuriken, but was not expecting the second shuriken hidden in the shadow of the first one. He blocked it using his arm, but got a gash on his arm, blood dripping down.
"You really are serious about this, aren't you?" questioned Kakashi.
"Completely," answered Kagome.
She formed hand signals, and said, "Dragon fire jutsu!"
A large dragon made completely of fire sped towards Kakashi, but he hid underground like as with Sasuke.
Kagome made more hand signals. "Earth shatter jutsu!"
The ground in which Kakashi was hidden in broke up and forced him aboveground.
"Water bullet jutsu!" Kagome said, releasing yet another jutsu.
However, Kakashi dodged these as well.
Quickly, Kagome bit her thumb, brought out a scroll, and then brought out a huge boomerang, taller and wider than she was. It was pure black with red markings. She threw the boomerang with relative ease.
Kakashi dodged it, and watched as it cut through several trees. He was shocked. What exactly did this girl know?
Suddenly, the bell rang.
"Time's up," he said.
Kagome cursed. She had waited too long.
When they were all assembled at their meeting point, they found Naruto about to eat the lunches.
"Ehehe," he laughed nervously, scratching the back of his head.
"Naruto, you idiot!" screeches Sakura before smacking him on the head.
"Itai!" he yells as she continues to hit him.
Kagome suddenly grabs Sakura's arm.
"Hit Naruto, and I hit you," she says frostily.
Sakura screams, making everyone flinch, and runs over to Sasuke and grabs his arm.
"Sasuke-kun, protect me from that bitch!" she screeches.
Kakashi clears his throat. Everyone turns around to look at him.
Kakashi said, "None of you should go back to the academy-"
Naruto started jumping up and down.
"-because it would be of no use. None of you should become shinobi," Kakashi finished.
"Because Naruto tried to each the lunches, you three will eat while he is tied to the stump. I've got to make my report to the Hokage," he said. "You will not, under any circumstances, let Naruto have food."
After he tied Naruto up and handed out the lunches, he poofed away.
Naruto looked hungrily at the lunches.
"Kakashi-sensei said you can't eat it," said Sakura snootily.
"But I'm so hungry!" wailed Naruto.
Kagome took a kunai, and cut free his ropes. She then tossed her lunch at him. "Eat this. Hurry up."
"But-" Naruto started.
"Shut up and eat already," said Kagome. "I woke up at five today, so I already ate breakfast. And I have a breakfast bar in my pocket."
Naruto started to cry anime style. "Ka-Kagome-chan-" he started.
"Hurry up and eat it before he gets back," she hissed.
The genin hadn't gone through the first bites of their lunch before Kakashi unexpectedly poofed up next to them.
"It was her fault sensei," babbled Sakura. "I told her not to give him the lunch!"
"What are you talking about?" asked Kakashi, his eye crinkling into a 'U.' "You all passed."
"What?" said Naruto, bewildered.
"The whole point of the test was-" Kakashi started.
"Teamwork," Kagome finished.
Kakashi looked surprised, but then said, "Kagome seems to know, do you want to explain it to us?"
"It's kind of hard to explain," Kagome began hesitantly. "The whole point was, our numbers and all of our skills combined should have been ample enough to get a bell, but maybe not. Sasuke and I could have fought to distract you, as we occupy you the most. Naruto, with his trickster nature, could have slipped the bells away. Sakura could have helped us with the planning."
"Naruto, you want to do things on your own, to prove yourself. Sakura, you are too obsessed with Sasuke to help Naruto. Sasuke, you believe that others would get in your way," said Kakashi. "Kagome, you are too solitary, but you seem to get what I was aiming for. But the real test was to see if you would follow my orders and not give Naruto any food. You see, all the other teams obeyed my order to not give one specific person food. In the shinobi world, a shinobi or kunoichi that doesn't follow orders is trash. But one who abandons his comrades is lower than trash."
Kakashi leads them to a stone inscribed with names.
"This is where great heroes are honored when they have done a great sevice to the village-" Kakashi started.
"I'll be on that rock!" shouted Naruto. "Dattebayo!"
"-who have died on their duty." Kakashi finished.
"Oh." Naruto fell silent.
"My best friend's name is inscribed on that rock," Kakashi said.
Kakashi then leads them back to their training ground.
"I will fight you, one by one, in taijutsu, genjutsu, and ninjutsu," Kakashi said. "Naruto, you first."
Naruto stepped up.
"Taijutsu," called out Kakashi.
Naruto ran up to Kakashi, and aimed a punch at him. Kakashi blocked it, and also the foot that had been intended to sweep Kakashi's feet from under him.
This way it went for about ten minutes, then Kakashi called out, "Genjutsu!"
Kakashi casts a genjutsu on Naruto, but Naruto is unable to find the flaw.
"Ninjutsu!" Kakashi calls out again.
Naruto makes around fifteen clones of himself, and they all charge at Kakashi. Naruto also throws shuriken and kunai at Kakashi. After about ten minutes of this, Kakashi calls up Sakura.
Naruto pouts and moves off.
"Taijutsu," Kakashi says.
Sakura runs up and aims a kick at him. He easily blocks it. Her feeble kicks and punches come out in vain.
"Genjutsu," Kakashi says.
Sakura sees another genjutsu in which Sasuke is dying again, and she passes out. Again.
Kakashi sighs. "Oh well. Sasuke, you're up. Let's start with taijutsu."
Sasuke runs up, and delivers a flurry of kicks and punches. However, Kakashi blocked all of them. After about five minutes though, Sasuke managed to punch Kakashi in the stomach and then kick his back.
"Genjutsu," Kakashi says.
Sasuke quickly finds the flaw in the genjutsu, and dispels it.
"Ninjutsu," Kakashi says.
Sasuke makes the hand signs. "Grand fireball jutsu!"
A large ball of fire flies toward Kakahsi.
Kakashi dodges it, and throws a kunai at Sasuke. Sasuke deflects the kunai, and throws shuriken.
After ten minutes, Sasuke had managed to scratch Kakashi twice in the arm and once in the leg, and lightly burn the heel of the shoe that Kakahsi was wearing.
'He has potential,' he thinks, before he calls up Kagome.
"Taijutsu," he says.
Before he noticed, Kagome ran up and aimed a punch at his head, which Kakashi barely blocked. Her kick was deflected, yet he wasn't expecting her to use her other leg to kick his arm, freeing her fist. She flipped in the air and landed on her feet. Falling into a pose that would be both excellent for both defense and offense, she waited. Kakashi aimed a kick at her stomach, which was caught by Kagome. She twisted his leg, causing him to flip over. She then ran and delivered a flurry of kicks and punches, which were all block by Kakashi. When Kakashi moved to punch her face, she used her leg to block the attack, and attempted to punch his stomach with her fist. Kakashi caught that fist, but then Kagome used her other arm to punch him in his stomach, causing him to fly into the tree.
This exchange had taken no more than two or three minutes.
Kakashi coughed, and said, "Taijutsu."
Kagome immediately found the flaw and dispelled the jutsu.
"Ninjutsu," Kakashi said.
Kagome began with a simple wind jutsu. "Great North wind jutsu!" Large gusts of wind forced Kakashi back, but he held on and rooted himself to the ground.
"Lightning star jutsu!" A large bolt of lightning headed straight at Kakashi.
He dodged the blow, but barely.
'This is a genin?' Kakashi questions himself.
Kagome then threw a kunai with an exploding tag tied to it, which Kakashi was forced to avoid.
While Kakashi avoided the kunai, Kagome quickly bit her thumb and pulled out a scroll. She pulled out a deadly looking katana still in its sheath. It had a pure white blade, and a black handle, with a red sash tied near the top of the handle. The handle had some characters written on it in red. The sheath was also black with red characters.
Kagome throws several kunai and shuriken at Kakashi. Kakashi dodges them all.
Kagome placed the sword in her sash, and performs another jutsu. "Binding earth jutsu!"
A tree begins growing near Kakashi, and the branches became like vines, and entrapped Kakashi.
Kagome flashed up to Kakashi, unsheathed her katana, and tapped him on the side of the head with it.
"I win," she says softly, before walking over and standing next to Naruto.
'Extraordinary,' thought Kakashi.
"Kagome! You have to teach me those jutsus!" Naruto yelled, bouncing around.
"I'll consider it," teased Kagome.
"Gome-chan!" whined Naruto.
"You don't get it Naruto," Kagome says, tilting her head up and looking at the sky. "Since I was born, I have been trained in the arts of a shinobi, miko, taijiya, and in my kekkei genkai. In real combat, Kakashi would have killed me. He didn't go all out."
"What's your kekkei genkai?" asked Naruto.
"That's for me to know, and for you to find out," Kagome says mysteriously, before asking Kakashi, "Are we done?"
Kakashi nods.
"Okay then, what time do we meet tomorrow?" she asks.
"Same time," Kakashi replies.
As Kagome passed him to go home, Kakashi murmurs, "You didn't go all out either, did you?"
Kagome just flashed him a small smile, and continued on. Suddenly, she disappears with a poof.
"What was that?" Naruto asks curiously.
"A teleportation jutsu, dobe, you don't even know that? You're more stupid than I thought you were," Sasuke says, smirking.
"Sh-shut up, Sasuke-teme!" yells Naruto.
Just then, Sakura wakes up.
"What did I miss?" she asks.
"Kagome and Sasuke's assessment," Kakashi answers.
"What?! I'm so sorry Sasuke-kun but I'm sure you were amazing!" she gushes. "After all, you're the best shinobi in Konohagakure, you're so cool!"
"Oh, and one more thing," Kakashi interrupts. "You guys really have to work on your teamwork," before disappearing in a poof.
"Sasuke-kun! Let's work on our teamwork together!" Sakura squeals, grabbing his arm.
Sasuke looks at her coldly.
"If you have time to bug me, go practice a jutsu. You don't know any jutsus beyond the simple ones taught at the academy. Your taijutsu is beyond horrible. And you can't even stand a genjutsu. You're weak, the most pathetic kunoichi I know," he says, before walking off.
"But Sasuke-kun!" Sakura whines, following him. She suddenly brightens. "You're just telling me this so I can get stronger! You know I'm strong, at least stronger than that bitch Kagome! You care so much about me, Sasuke-kun! I know you love me too!"
"Hey, leave Sasuke-teme! Let's work on our teamwork!" says Naruto.
"Shut up Naruto!" Sakura screeches, before hitting him on the head.
"Itai!" he yells.
Sakura starts running to Sasuke again. "Sasuke-kun! Wait up!"
Kakashi…
"Boy, I've got my work cut out for me, huh?" Kakashi wonders aloud at his apartment.
What had he gotten himself into?
"Uchiha Sasuke. He wants to kill Uchiha Itachi, he's an avenger. He has great potential. However, he'll probably do anything for power," Kakashi mused. "Naruto. He still doesn't know about the Kyuubi or Namikaze Minato, the Yondaime, the Yellow Flash. Sakura… I don't think she'll amount to much, honestly. She's too much of a fangirl. Now Kagome. She's much too strong to be a genin, but too late now. Basically, she was the heir to the Higurashi clan and was trained in the arts of the shinobi, miko, and taijiya. Then her clan was massacred."
Kakashi rubs his forehead. "Great, Sasuke hates everyone, Naruto hates Sasuke, Sakura hates Naruto and Kagome, and Kagome hates Sakura. This is not going to end well…"
So how was it? Did you like it? Huh? Should I continue? Thanks for all of your guys' support. I really hope I will be able to make chapters good enough for you to enjoy!
Oh, and don't worry, Kakashi lovers! Kakashi isn't weak, he was just assessing their strength, so he was on a light defensive. Anyway, he hadn't known her abilities, so he had to be able to see them, and he wasn't expecting it at all. I mean, Kagome's just a genin. Of course, if he had gone in total strength, the genin would be dead within a few seconds. He is an elite jounin after all, and the rest are genin fresh out of the academy.
So here are your cyber cookies, cyber brownies, cyber muffins, cyber sundaes, cyber ice cream cakes, cyber cakes, and cyber orange chicken. However, the ramen and oden are being delayed because somebody ate it all!
Naruto: Ehehe –scratches back of his head-
Kagome: -clears throat-
Okay, I'm begging you, drop a review! Gosh, you won't believe how many people just put me on a story or author alert or favorite my story or my username, but didn't drop a review! I know who you people are!
That's just very rude.
And please don't review saying a weird comment like sas/kag or whatever, because I honestly cannot tell if you liked the story or not, and I already know it's going to be Sasuke/Kagome.