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The morning after the training session found Naruto Uzumaki meditating in his apartment and worried, at least for now anyway. He and his friends had been attacked by someone who was most likely a master of infiltration and there was no telling when Sasuke, Kiba, or Shino would wake up from how strong the drug was and Shikamaru was locked up in the Nara Clan compound, nearly under lock and key. Naruto would normally ignore this but when it came to their own, especially the Clan Heir, the Nara were pretty vigilant and active, the clan was made out of geniuses after all.
'Shino will probably be up in a few more days, his Kikaichu help him against this type of stuff and Kiba will probably be up a day or two after that, Inuzuka don't stay down from drugs and if that was a real fight he would have been up, he would have been feral but he would still be up. The only real problem is with Sasuke but he's getting the best care out of the three of them, I'm sure Shimaru worked things out to make sure of that.'
Naruto knew about Danzo Shimaru and the less than respective actions he took part in but the Uzumaki had a certain respect for the man. He, or at least the memories he gets from the weapons, knew what it was like to do dark things to protect something precious to you. Danzo cherished Konoha and he and his Root fraction were the shadows to the light but the Uzumaki disliked the methods Danzo used to acquire his Root. Stripping them of their emotions and personalities through brutal training, no torture is a more appropriate word, and turning them into mindless drones was just simply ineffective. Root might be good at following orders but they had no way to improvise if things failed so they had one of the highest casualty rates in any fraction in Konoha history, at least when it was still a legal organization.
'I have seals layered in all their rooms just encase Danzo plans to make a move, two injured Clan Heirs and the last Sharingan user in Konoha all at the same hospital is a very tempting target for that man. But it'll take me some time to get there even at my top speed, I just have to hope the traps I have there hold.'
Naruto decided he was done with his depressing thoughts at that point so he hopped to his feet and decided he would go do some training on his own, or at least go pull a few pranks.
'First, time for a snack.'
He stopped at a small dango shack near one of his training grounds and grinned as he sat down.
"So that's the special dang Super Spicy, why are you even eating that terrible thing?"
Naruto looked up to see a violet haired woman standing near his table.
"Did you just call dango terrible?" Naruto asked, deathly calm.
"I called that dango terrible, what are you going to do about it?"
At this Naruto looked up with a far too nice grin on his face with his eyes seemingly closed
"Can I get your name please?"
"I'm Anko Mitarashi, what's yours?"
"My name is unimportant to you."
"Why?" the now named Anko asked, a little hesitant as she looked over his face, trying to think where she saw such a recognizable face at.
"It's because you'll be locked up in an asylum in a few days because you just pissed off the one, the only…" Naruto leapt up onto his table at that and struck a pose as Rebellion appeared on his back."…Pranking God Naruto Uzumaki!"
"So?"
Naruto fell off his table in a shocked silence moments later.
"You haven't heard of me?" the blonde asked and Anko merely shrugged.
"I hear about all the important people but from what I can see you're just a Genin, a really new one at that, so really unimportant to me." Anko answered and Naruto frowned.
"Um Anko, maybe you should let this one go." A new voice spoke up, almost seeing the Uzumaki enter what many referred to as Pranking Mode." This is one Genin you should leave alone."
"Quiet Kurenai, I'm taking this brat down a peg." Anko snapped to her red eyed friend before she heard demonic chuckling.
She looked around and noticed the dango stand was empty and the chuckling was coming from the kid she was talking to.
"Oh lady, you have no idea what you've gotten yourself into."
Without another word the Uzumaki vanished, taking his dango with him, and leaving Anko coughing in a purple cloud of smoke.
She stumbled out of the dango stand and the nearby Kurenai held in her laughter for a few seconds before collapsing to the ground.
"What's so funny?" Anko immediately demanded.
"You're purple." A new voice answered and Anko quickly turned to the window to find herself covered in the purple dust.
Moments later something slammed into her and in another explosion of smoke she was left a rainbow of colors.
"Yeah, that's Uzumaki." Kakashi Hatake commented as he dropped down next to Anko." He even but his sticker on the back of your coat."
"What!?"
Anko stripped off her coat and flipped it around to see a chibi drawing of Naruto grinning while giving the peace sign with the words 'You've Just Been Pranked' written beneath him.
"He ruined me coat, that little brat!" Anko roared, shaking in rage and unconsciously tearing her coat in half." I'll rip him in half, put him back together, and then do it again!"
"Well that's kind of uncreative actually." Kakashi muttered and wisely stepped back to avoid the barrage of kunai Anko threw at him as she stomped off before vanishing in a Shunsin.
"Should we tell her the back of her skirt is missing?" Kurenai asked after a moment.
"Did you say something?" Kakashi asked, an orange book in his hands.
Kurenai's eye twitched before Kakashi was lying on the ground, twitching and moaning on the ground as the Genjutsu Mistress walked away, tearing the book in half as she did so.
"Pervert."
"My book!"
The cover hit his head moments later.
"NOOOOOOO!"
Nightfall…
Anko easily slid open the window to Naruto's apartment, intending on taking him outside for a little revenge when she felt something slam into her face and send her out and over the window where an elastic cord wrapped around her foot and she shot up to the roof moments later with her hands shooting out to grab onto anything to stop herself only for the tiles on the roof to be covered in something that stopped her from getting a grip. Luckily she could stop herself with Chakra channeled to her feet but found her sandals stuck seconds later.
"Hi Anko."
The Kunoichi looked up to see a waving and grinning Naruto standing near the side, juggling something in his hands.
"What is that brat?" Anko asked, a little worried at the far too effective trap she found herself in and the grinning Naruto above her.
"Oh nothing but some paint bombs I whipped up a few days ago. You know, I was planning on using them in a few weeks as a prank on a few Chunin but ever since you insulted my dango earlier today I was thinking on using them on you." Naruto answered, his grin widening as he stopped juggling, catching two of the balls in each hand.
"Please don't hit me with those?" Anko asked after a moment and Naruto simply dropped them.
"Okay."
Anko breathed out a sigh of relief before something slammed into her back.
"They'll bounce into you."
"You little brat, I'll kill you!" Anko roared as she found herself covered in paint." I'll rip you organs out with a toothpick!"
"Good luck with that." Naruto answered as he stepped back.
A seal tag beneath Anko's feet glowed and she found herself slipping and her Chakra repelled anytime she tried to stick to the wall. It was a good thing she carried a lot of kunai with her because two of them hastily became her foothold and she teetered for a moment before sighing in relief, well that was until her entire body began itching.
"Oh and by the way, there's itching powder in the paint, their Uzumaki original paint bombs." Naruto's voice called down to her at his window before closing it.
"Fuck you!" Anko screamed even as she leapt to the rooftops, trying to stop the itching.
Naruto merely laughed as she left before going back to sleep.
Morning…
Naruto walked down the street, planning on doing a little training with Choji today, when he spotted Anko watching him from the rooftops.
'She just doesn't learn.' Naruto thought with a sign before slipping a tag into his hands while dodging the kunai thrown at him almost lazily.
"Hi Anko!" Naruto shouted up to her even as he sidestepped another volley." How you've been?"
"Why won't you die!" Anko snapped as she threw another deadly volley down.
Naruto flipped over them and landed on the side of the building she was on before sprinting up it and planting the tag on her stomach.
"Bye Anko."
A burst of multi colored smoke followed and the Kunoichi was thrown back by it and very quickly shook off the daze she was in before planning to leap after the now walking Uzumaki when she tripped over her now to big shoes.
"What the hell?" Anko demanded as she slowly worked her way to her feet and a nearby Kurenai merely unsealed a mirror.
"He dressed me up like a clown! I'll kill that Uzumaki brat!"
Naruto chuckled as he heard Anko's outraged shout several blocks away before meeting up with the Akimichi Heir.
"Did you hear something Naruto?" Choji asked.
"Must have just been the wind." Naruto answered, a grin on his face at another prank pulled off flawlessly." Now let's get to training, I heard Shino's out the hospital so we can go grab him too."
A few hours later…
An infuriated Anko stormed towards Naruto who was leaning back on a collapsed tree, a bag of dango nearby and he was polishing off the last stick.
"You little brat!" Anko shouted as she threw a kunai that never hit its mark as the dango stick Naruto was holding flew through the ring and sent it flying back, the stick embedding in a tree with the kunai hanging off it.
"Wow, you are determined, I'll give you that." Naruto spoke as he stood up." Kind of stupid after I got all these pranks off on you and you're still coming after me but like I said your determined."
Naruto summoned Rebellion onto his back and one hand reached up to grab the hilt.
"So you compensating for something with that huge sword?" Anko asked and Naruto frowned before answering.
"Nah, I'm set down there." Naruto answered with a wave of his hand before grinning." Want to take a look?"
"Pervert."
"At least I'm not wearing a see through shirt."
"Why are you looking, like what you see?" Anko asked as she took a pose, intentionally pushing out her chest.
"Maybe." Naruto answered before leaping into the trees, avoiding the hail of kunai from behind as the clone vanished as the kunai struck it.
"Dammit!" Anko screamed as she landed in a crouch on the fallen tree." How did you know?"
"I didn't, you talking to me just made it obvious." Naruto's voice answered from above her." Bye Anko!"
He leapt out the trees with a grin and Anko proceeded to throw a few dozen explosive kunai around her, destroying the trees and anything nearby in a massive explosion as she used a quick Shunsin to emerge at the edge of the forest.
An hour later…
Naruto was with Tenten, talking with her while she examined Rebellion for any damages.
"So, any new weapons?" Tenten asked as she handed the large sword back to him." Rebellion is fine but it's edge is getting a little dull with no combat, that sword thrives off it."
"I know but I haven't had any missions to use it on since teams don't get together for at least another week." Naruto answered." And I can't really go challenge any Kenjutsu expert in the village, I'll be schooled in seconds."
"Good point." Tenten answered." But you still haven't answered my other question."
"I just got a few new weapons, a pair of gauntlets and black sword from one side and a lot of abilities on the other side." Naruto answered after a moment." I'm still working on those through since I can't really use them as I would like."
"I've got a training field I go to for weapon testing, it's pretty durable and isolated so if you ever need it just come back and I'll take you to it." Tenten answered after a moment before handing him a scroll." And those are the weapons you ordered, what are they for anyway?"
"Thanks Tenten." Naruto called back as he walked out of the shop.
"You didn't answer my question Uzumaki, that'll cost you more next time around, no discount!" Tenten's voice called out to him and Naruto merely chuckled at the threat.
Anko watched all of this with Kurenai dragged along with her and the red eyed Genjutsu Mistress sighed.
"Anko, are you really taking a Genin this seriously?" Kurenai asked as Anko tracked the blonde.
"I'm going to kill him." Anko snapped as she tossed several kunai with tags wrapped around the handles forward.
"But you aren't even fighting seriously!"
Naruto sighed as he vanished, the streaks that were the kunai hitting where he was and the tags created a cloud of choking smoke.
"Did I get him?" Anko asked Kurenai who held up her hands.
"I'm not part of this, I'm just here to make sure you don't go too far." Kurenai answered as she took several steps back.
A hand reached over the ledge and grabbed Anko's leg before pulling her off her feet and she found herself hanging upside down on the side of the building, Naruto holding on with Chakra channeled to his feet.
"Are you really taking me pranking you this seriously?" Naruto asked with a grin." Or can you just not stand not seeing me?"
"Yes!" Anko snapped as she swiped at him with a kunai in each hand.
Naruto dodged them but kunai tied to cords shot out of Anko's sleeves only for the Uzumaki to step up the building to avoid it only to feel his feet shift.
"What the?" Naruto asked before he found himself sliding down the building.
He let go of Anko as the Blades of Chaos appeared in his hands and he threw them forward to two other buildings, stopping himself from falling and he attempted to pull himself forward only to feel his feet struck.
"Yes, got you!" Anko called out from above him as she landed on his back in a crouch, a kunai slipping into one hand as the other grabbed Naruto's hair." Time to get a haircut brat, Anko Style!"
Naruto could see the kunai had tags tied to the handle and saw an black ooze dripping from them stuck to his sandals.
"You really are trying to insult me, aren't you?" Naruto asked with a grin as he pulled the chain blades back to him and flicked his arm, sending one up at Anko which she leapt off of him to avoid as the other slammed into the side of the building.
"Light of Dawn." Naruto muttered as a orb of energy launched from his hands and the ooze was instantly destroyed, releasing his feet and it would have sent him into a free fall if he didn't have one of the Blades of Chaos in the building, allowing him to turn his fall into a swing to the next rooftop.
The Genin landed and spun one of the Blade of Chaos behind him, knocking away the dozen kunai tossed at him.
"Oh come on lady, I'm not that hot you've got to through all these weapons at me!" Naruto called back to Anko only to see smoke where the kunai had come from.
Anko appeared above him with one hand extended towards him and snakes shot forward from her sleeve, fangs bared and venom dripping from them.
Naruto found his legs quickly entangled by several fast snakes Anko summoned beforehand and he dropped to the ground when he attempted to sidestep the snakes coming down on him.
"Ow." Naruto muttered as he felt the snakes wrap around him, their fangs moments from biting him and injecting their poison.
"So, ready to apologize yet?" Anko asked Naruto who seemed to thing for a moment before answering with a smile.
"Nope." Naruto answered, popping the P as he rolled his bound body to the side, avoiding the kunai Anko threw at him before with a surge of Chakra to his muscles he managed to power out of the snakes trapping him in moments, the serpents hissing as they slithered away before vanishing in puffs of smoke.
Naruto kicked up to his feet as Rebellion appeared in place of the Blades of Exile and blocked Anko's fist with the flat of the blade, but he still found himself thrown back by the force behind the blow, barely stopping himself from falling off the roof.
He spun the large sword in his hands, a bit clumsy before settling into a basic guard stance he picked up from a dream a year ago.
"So, do you plan of fighting me or staring at me?" Naruto asked after a moment only to feel a kunai under his throat as snakes began dropping to the ground, the Anko in front of him losing color and falling apart.
"I think I'll do a little of both." Anko's voice whispered in his ear as the kunai moved from his neck to his cheek and with a quick pull a long thin cut dripped blood onto the kunai.
"You're weirder than I thought." Naruto answered after a moment.
"Weird is part of the job kid." Anko told him as she pushed him away, licking his blood off the kunai." Now get out of here."
Rebellion vanished as Naruto turned around to see Anko grinning even as the cut on his cheek healed.
"You are really, really, weird." Naruto told her before stepping back and falling off the rooftop.
Anko vanished in a Shunsin and appeared and the edge only to see Naruto gone.
"Show off."
"I know!" Naruto's voice called up to her and she spotted him running on the side of the buildings.
Three days later…
Naruto finished mixing a few additions to the punch for the Akimichi buffet today and grinned as he easily walked out the kitchen and leapt up to the side of a nearby building.
"I've never seen a hyper Akimichi, time to see what they do."
It only took an hour or two before complete chaos engulfed the village, Naruto having spiked a few other drinks and even a few bars out of sheer boredom.
"NARUTO!" an enraged voice shouted.
'Time to go.' Naruto thought as he vanished back to his apartment, closing the windows, locking the doors, and reading a book while lying down on his bed.
"Naruto, open the door now!" a voice demanded as the door shook from someone knocking on it." I will break it down!"
"It's steel through, you'll break your foot old man!" Naruto shouted back as he quickly hopped off the bed and pushed it aside to show a trapdoor he hastily opened after opening the locks and the moment he jumped through it the door closed as the bed slid back into place without a single mark on the floor.
The door was broken down by a massive stone fist as the Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi allowed the golem he had created to crumble to dust.
Without even a hand sign eight clones of him appeared and spared throughout the medium sized apartment.
"Naruto, give me the antidote now." Hiruzen ordered as he walked inside." I'll ban dango if I must."
Naruto continued sliding down the ladder beneath the trapdoor and ignored the Hokage's threats.
'I've got enough dango sealed away to last a lifetime, take that old man.' Naruto thought with a grin as he finally reached the bottom and landed silently in a crouch.' Now which tunnel to take?'
The blonde had dug dozens of tunnels over the years, partly out of boredom and partly out of necessity when he was younger.
He decided on the one to his left and sprinted down it and after several more turns he arrived at another ladder and quickly climbed up it, emerging in an alley.
"Yes, home free." Naruto announced with a grin before someone cleared their throat behind him and he cursed.
"Naruto, are you planning on giving me that antidote now." Hiruzen asked as the Genin cursed again but quickly drew out a scroll and handed the Hokage a marked vial he unsealed from it.
The Hokage merely rose an eyebrow at the small size, barely as big as his fist, and Naruto sighed as he rolled the scroll up and dropped it into a pouch on his leg.
"It's linked to a large holder I've got in another place, it'll keep refilling itself until that one is empty." Naruto clarified for the Hokage who nodded as he slipped the vial into his robes and grabbed Naruto by the back of his shirt as he turned to run.
"You're still fixing this Naruto." Hiruzen told him before both vanished in a Shunsin.
'Dammit.'
Team Assignment, Academy…
Iruka walked into a classroom brimming with excitement and merely grinned at the Genin.
"Alright, let's get this out of the way so you can meet your Jonin sensei and they'll explain the squad rules." Iruka spoke to the entire class as they immediately quieted down." On each of your desk is a number, it should be appearing right now and that number is your squad number so when I call your number you will come up, leave the class and your Jonin sensei will meet you in the hall."
"Now, Squad 1 come up and leave."
Naruto glanced down at his desk and saw the glowing blue number seven sitting on it.
A look towards the other saw Sasuke's desk showing seven as well as Sakura's.
'This will be interesting.'
"Squad 7, report to the front of the room." Iruka ordered and the three Genin walked down to him, stopping to bow in respect to their teacher before leaving the room.
A quick search of the hall found a door marked with a glowing red seven and Naruto lead his fellow Genin to it before they fell into a basic formation.
Sakura went to the side of the door with a kunai in each hand, Sasuke took a step back and to the side to be able to rush in with Naruto who planted an explosive tag on the door as the sheathed Yamato appeared in his hands.
Inside the room Kakashi Hatake, renown as the Copy Ninja having copied countless techniques on the battlefield with a Sharingan in his left eye, leading to his other nickname Kakashi of the Sharingan, was reading the files he had on his three students while hanging from the ceiling and a test for his future Genin in wait.
He sensed them at the door and mentally applauded them for falling into a breaching formation.
'Let's see what they can do.' Kakashi thought as he applied a Genjutsu over himself, one he learned from Kurenai Yuhi, Genjutsu Mistress of Konoha and someone even Itachi Uchiha, a master of Genjutsu along with the added abilities of his Sharingan, would be hesitant to face.
The door exploded inward and Naruto rushed in with his eyes sweeping around the room as Sasuke rushed in moments after him searching the side he didn't with Sakura following him and she very quickly cut the tripwires her teammates were about to hit with the kunai in her hands.
"Anybody see him?" Naruto asked, his blue eyes looking over everything in the room.
"Nothing." Sasuke answered, his Sharingan moving everywhere but not detecting the Genjutsu.
Naruto merely tightened his grip on the hilt of Yamato before nodding to Sakura.
Smoke bombs seemed to appear out of nowhere and she threw them down as the three Genin left the room moments later.
Kakashi walked along the ceiling to the wall and found himself approving at his Genin's tactics.
'They may actually pass.' Kakashi thought as Chakra shielded his eyes from the stinging effect of the smoke bombs.' Haruno seems to be a support fighter and filling in the gaps Uzumaki and Uchiha leave with their straight forward charging tactics.'
'Naruto seems to also work with Sasuke, he trusted him to have his back when he entered and the kid didn't hesitate to follow him in and so did Sakura, she even fell into a basic formation without a word from Naruto. He's a natural leader then, good for his Hokage goal I guess.'
Underneath his mask the Copy Ninja grinned as he formed hand signs
'But there still simply Genin, they could use a lot of improvement with their attacks.'
"He's marked, clearing smoke!"
The smoke vanished just as Kakashi finished his hand signs and his visible eye widened as he saw the three Genin at the window, Naruto and Sasuke finishing a set of hand signs.
"Katon: Great Fireball!" Sasuke called out as he took a deep breath before breathing out a stream of fire.
"Futon: Spiraling Bullets!" Naruto called out as he seemed to spit out bullets of wind, the wind bullets spinning moments after forming and racing towards the fire as a set of explosive tags from Sakura shattered the glass.
The wind enhanced the fire as well as turning the attack into superheated drills and Kakashi didn't doubt for a second they found explode into a blaze the moment they hit either him or the wall.
So he was very lucky that he was using a Water Release attack, very lucky he was planning to intimidate the Genin with a high level one too.
"Suiton: Hydro Cannon!"
Kakashi took a deep breath before breathing out a massive blast of water that overwhelmed the fire and he quickly lost his vision, the room filled with mist.
"Did we get him?" Sasuke asked as with a blink his Sharingan was gone, worthless with the Chakra filled mist in the room.
The Jonin had decided to take his Genin seriously at a combined attack like that so he appeared on the side of the academy, grabbed Sasuke's face and pushed forward to the back of the Uchiha's head slammed into the stone. Before either Naruto of Sakura could react he planted an explosive tag on the front of his shirt before throwing him into Naruto and throwing several shuriken towards Sakura. The Kunoichi could barely see the streaks of light that were the shuriken and so were caught in Kakashi's improvised bola, wire strings tying the shuriken together. The explosive tag detonated at the same time, the thrown Sasuke having just reached Naruto and the explosion had the two Genin falling as Kakashi grabbed Sakura and threw her after them as he formed several hand signs before slamming a hand into the side of the academy and with a thought his Chakra shooting from his hand and into the ground, outracing the falling Genin.
"Doton: Swamp of the Underworld." Kakashi called out as the ground below the Genin changed and they slammed into the newly made swamp.
Kakashi quickly cancelled the technique and the Genin now found themselves buried up to their necks in the once again solid ground.
"What the hell!" Naruto screamed, quickly losing his normal calm at the Jonin's rapid attack while finding his struggles to free himself pointless." How did he do that in seconds!"
"He's a Jonin." Sakura answered, her face blank but it soon changed into a grin as she spotted Kakashi." I expected as much through."
"What!?" both her teammates immediately asked her as they turned their heads as best they could to look at her grinning face.
"So I prepared something over the last couple of nights, after I collected a little intel." Sakura continued as if her teammates hadn't shouted a question and turned to face them.
Both immediately paled at her grin and Kakashi glanced down at his feet to see explosive tags covering the side of the building.
"Crap."
A massive explosion blew off the side of the academy and Sasuke and Naruto both breathed out a stream of fire and wind respectively that quickly combined together, the superheated flames melting the rubble coming down on them but it was unneeded. Kakashi had appeared above them and the ground beneath them softened so the three could free themselves even as Kakashi grabbed all three of them and vanished in a rapid Shunsin, costing him a lot of Chakra to move all four of them away from the falling rubble. He rolled as he came to an abrupt stop and let the three Genin fall to the round as he shot to his feet, launching off the ground from the remaining momentum and onto the side of a building before bouncing off of it to the next before moving back to the rooftop of the first building.
"Are you three still alive?" Kakashi called down to them even as he saw Chunin and ANBU flood the academy grounds with the Jonin inside already clearing out the rubble.
He received various pained groans in response.
"Good, meet me up here when you can." Kakashi called down to them as he leapt over to a nearby pole and saw even the Hokage was moving towards the academy.
'I am so dead for this.'
Naruto slowly moved his head to see Sakura next to him and struggling to sit up with Sasuke coughing out the remnants of his impromptu fire blast.
"What happened?" Naruto managed to ask.
"We can check Sasuke' Sharingan later, it was active right?" Sakura answered before turning to the Dojutsu owner.
"Yeah, turned it on right when Kakashi grabbed me." Sasuke answered after a few moments, the Dojutsu still active." At least I think so."
"I think Kakashi hit you too hard." Sakura told him after a moment even as she climbed to her feet, followed by her two teammates.
All three looked up to the rooftop Kakashi's voice came from and Naruto grabbed both before he teleported up, a decorated circle appearing at his feet as he did so.
Kakashi leapt off his pole over to the three Genin who collapsed onto the rooftop moments later.
"So, who's up for introductions?" Kakashi asked, clapping his hands together to get the three's attention.
"Have you ever heard of overkill?" Sasuke managed to ask.
"Has your teammate?" Kakashi asked back and Sakura had the energy to look sheepish as the three saw the now ruined academy.
"Something tells me we'll be stuck fixing that." Naruto commented and received nod from his two teammates and the Jonin in charge.
"Yelp, even if you don't become Genin you'll be stuck fixing that mess." Kakashi told them and they turned shocked expressions on him." Probably me to."
"What do you mean 'IF'!" all three shouted, missing Kakashi's last sentence.
"There's another test." Kakashi answered, his tone nonchalant even as his thoughts raced a mile a minute.
'I'll be stuck fixing the academy now, the Hokage is going to be pissed at me for allowing this to happen. And I'm really rusty if I got caught in that trap, the Chakra in those tags should have shown me where it was and I should have been able to disarm the entire thing.'
"Combat?" Sasuke's question snapped him from his thoughts and he nodded.
"Definitely but let's introduce ourselves first before we get into the end of your Shinobi careers." Kakashi spoke after a moment before pointing to himself." Kakashi Hatake, Jonin."
"Now whisker-face you're up." Kakashi spoke as he pointed towards Naruto who frowned at the nickname.
"The name's Naruto Uzumaki, not whisker-face."
"Pinky." Kakashi pointed to Sakura.
"Call me that again and I'll make your life hell, my name is Sakura Haruno."
"Duck butt." Kakashi pointed to Sasuke and the Uchiha's left eye twitched before he answered.
"Sasuke Uchiha and I'll roast you if you ever call me that again."
"Okay whisker-face, pinky, and duck butt meet me at Training Ground Seven at seven a.m. on the dot or you can say goodbye to even going back to the academy after I fail you and don't eat breakfast, you'll lose it in a minute." Kakashi told the three Genin before leaving in a burst of smoke, his eyes widening at the storm of kunai shooting towards him from the enraged Genin.
"So, where are we running to?" Sasuke asked as he gestured to the ruined academy." Because everyone is going to be mad at us for this one, and I mean really, really, mad."
"I've got a place." Naruto answered before grabbing his two teammates and they disappeared in a burst of smoke.
At the academy…
The Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi merely thought of getting himself a strong drink after hearing Team 7 destroyed most of the front of the academy.
"Naruto Uzumaki's on it?" Hiruzen asked after a moment and the ANBU who had reported it nodded." Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno as well?"
Hiruzen changed his one drink to three.
"Kakashi Hatake's the Jonin in charge, correct?"
Another nod and the Third Hokage changed his three drinks to as many as it took to pass out and forget about all this until morning.
"Get a construction crew here and get anyone still inside out." Hiruzen ordered after a moment and the ANBU quickly left to both follow their orders and also escape the Hokage's imminent wrath.
'You are dead meat Kakashi-sensei.' Tenzo thought as he leapt away, hoping to get as far away as he could from a volatile Hokage.
Hiruzen weighed his decisions at this point. He could either disband Team 7 before it even formed properly if this was just a sample of their fighting when they were Genin or he could allow what was probably something greater, no better, than the Sannin to continue and develop.
'I hope I don't regret doing this.' Hiruzen thought before leaving, intending to grab one of his stronger sake bottles and drink away.
The next morning…
Kakashi was actually on time and saw his Genin waiting for him.
"Good to see you pinky, whisker-face, and duck butt." Kakashi waved and dodged the barrage of weapons.
"Stop calling us that!" all three Genin screamed at him as the Blades of Chaos appeared in Naruto's hands.
"No." Kakashi answered as he held up two bells before placing them at his waist." My test is really cut and dry, two of you will be able to get the bells while the last one gets to head back to the academy for another year of studying. So you three can either do this with a third of a chance of failing or you can all just quit now and all head back together without having a stay in the hospital."
"You've got to be kidding me if you think we'll take the easy way out." Naruto nearly growled before he shot forward, one blade swinging in a wide arc to cut into Naruto as the other shot forward in a straight path.
Kakashi would have easily dodged this if Sasuke didn't appear behind him in a burst of smoke and throw a short barrage of explosive kunai mixed with shuriken.
'Easy to dodge.' Kakashi thought as he leaped to the side, right into a wire string, pulling a tag off a tree and the weight at the end of the wire strings had it wrap around him.
With a surge of Chakra he freed himself by snapping the wire stirngs before finally attacking, sending his own volley of shuriken towards Sasuke and Sakura as they tried to move on him from the sides with Naruto charging straight forward.
"You're dead!" Naruto shouted as he swung to the side, the Blades of Chaos shooting in from the sides.
'Same strategy?' Kakashi asked himself even as he leapt into the air and cursed as he just noticed the logs filled with shuriken on either side of him.' It's a trap and I slacked off way too much if I fell for this.'
Kakashi resolved to burn his Icha Icha books because at this point it was just embarrassing, he was being surprised by Genin, and not even old Genin, fresh ones!
He was brought back to the present by a kick to his stomach from Sasuke which threw him higher into the air as the Uchiha kicked off of his chest and into the ground before turning and flipping so Sakura could jump off of him and throw a hail of kunai up at Kakashi.
"Nice attack." Kakashi commented the Genin even as he redirected the kunai with two of his own." But you aren't really working together."
In a burst of smoke Naruto had Substituted with one of the kunai and the Blades of Chaos were engulfed in flames as he swung them down on Kakashi, aiming to send both blades through his back.
'This is getting old.'
Kakashi grabbed Naruto's shoulders before spinning himself in the air and throwing the Genin into the forest before he landed on the ground thanks to a Substitution of his own, this one with Sasuke who appeared in the middle of the primed explosive tags.
"Fu…" the explosion cut the Uchiha off and he plummeted into the forest moments later, falling in the same general area as the Uzumaki.
Kakashi immediately turned his full attention to Sakura and just in time to avoid the two folded Fuma Shuriken swung at him.
'No real form, so she isn't very good at u…' Kakashi had to dodge again and did this by flipping over Sakura and for once he appreciated his Forehead Protector as the tip of one of the Fuma Shuriken would have taken his eye out if he didn't wear it like he did.
He went on instinct than and moments later Sakura found herself disarmed with Kakashi's foot slamming into her chest, throwing her back before she recovered after a few rolls and threw a handful of shuriken towards the Jonin and rolled to her feet moments later only to see several explosive kunai embed in the ground in front of her.
"You should really give up pinky." Kakashi told her as he was moments away from setting off the tags." Genin, even all three of you, don't hold a candle to a Jonin like me."
"I told you to stop calling me that!" Sakura shouted at him before drawing out twin scrolls from her pouch." Now die!"
She unrolled the scrolls with a flick of her wrist and they formed a half dome in front of her before anything blades that could be thrown or fired launched forward with a surge of Chakra, all of it heading straight towards Kakashi.
"Die! Die! Die!" Sakura roared as she let the scrolls go before drawing out another one that she unrolled in her hands before slamming it on the ground.
She slammed her hand into the center of it where it was marked and with another surge of Chakra the scroll rapidly increased in size before unleashing a massive metal rain.
"Sakura!"
At Naruto's shout the pink haired Kunoichi sealed away the scrolls and dropped several smoke bombs before vanishing in a Shunsin.
Kakashi waited for a moment for another attack but saw nothing was coming so he stepped back and simply waited and it wasn't even that long, maybe twenty minutes at best, before the three charged out of the trees.
"Just like we planned!" Naruto shouted as he raced forward, moving one hand to the summoned Yamato's hilt.
"Really, charging me?" Kakashi asked as he easily dodged Naruto's sword swings." Are you serious?"
Naruto only continued his attacks before leaping away.
"Katon: Phoenix Flower!" Sasuke called out as he breathed out a dozen small fireballs that Kakashi easily avoided by leaping into the trees only for Sakura to wait for him to leap into the air and she threw two Fuma Shuriken from each hand, the blades unfolding in midair as Naruto appeared beneath him, throwing up a handful of explosive kunai that blocked his way to the trees.
"Suiton: Dual Palm Torrent!" Kakashi called out as a massive wave of water erupted from each hand, throwing away the weapons and stopping him in midair.
He formed several hand signs as he landed on the soaked ground, slamming a palm onto it.
"Raiton: Bolt Current." Kakashi called out next and the ground was electrified, the three Genin hurriedly leaping into the trees to avoid the electricity coursing through the ground.
"Doton: Dragon Maw." Kakashi called out next and mud seemed to form at his feet before a massive dragon head as big as he was emerged from the ground, roaring as it did so.
Moments later it fired massive bullets of the electrified mud making up the ground beneath it and Naruto turned to Sasuke who nodded and leapt to the top of a nearby tree and took in a deep breath.
"Katon: Dragon's Breath!" Sasuke actually seemed to roar as fire spewed out of his mouth and he immediately passed out after a dozen or so seconds of using the technique.
Sakura tackled his falling body moments later and they fell into a clearing while Naruto paused for a second to get a nod from Sakura before he leapt above the trees, finishing his hands signs as he drew Yamato.
'Let's hope this works.' Naruto thought as he sent his molded Chakra flowing over Yamato.
Wind Chakra flowed out uncontrollably and covered Yamato and he slashed the air a single time, unleashing a massive sideways vortex of blades, it growing larger and larger as it raced forward while consuming the flames Sasuke sent out and Kakashi's eye widened as the attack dropped down into the forest and demolished it on the way to Kakashi.
'Dammit, I can't dodge something like that, I have to make a path.' Kakashi thought as he saw the towering attack roll towards him even as he flashed through hand signs.' Time to show off for these kids I guess.'
"Suiton: Exploding Water Colliding Wave!" Kakashi called out as he slammed both palms into the ground and moments later a massive wave of water erupted from the ground beneath him, lifting him up to ride the top of it and the wave quickly extinguished the flaming combination attack.
"What the hell!" Naruto shouted as he for the first time since gaining his power chose to run." How is he this strong?"
Sakura watched from the forests and cursed before feeding Sasuke a Soldier Pill, a special blend she developed after studying them for a few weeks. The Uchiha nearly spit it back out, the taste revolting, but Sakura quickly forced his mouth to stay close and swallow the pill.
Naruto landed next to them with the wave right behind him and with a glance Sakura gave Sasuke another Soldier Pill while tossing two to Naruto. Both Shinobi felt the surge of energy and they flashed through hand signs.
"Katon: Phoenix Flower!" Sasuke blew out a large amount of massive fireballs, burning off the excess energy the Soldier Pills gave him.
"Futon: Spiraling Pressure Blades!" Naruto called out as he fired out spiraling blades that pierced the fireballs, wrapping themselves in the fire.
Kakashi leapt off the wave and vanished in midair just as it was bombarded by the fire enhanced spiraling swords of wind, the swords piercing through the wave before detonating into an inferno inside.
'These kids are going to be the death of me.' Kakashi thought with a sigh as he landed in a tree nearby and the branch behind him snapped and he found himself falling moments later.' Crap.'
As he fell his hands shot out to find something to grab onto only to pull several wire strings down with him, pulling the tags connected to them off the trees as well.
Kakashi hit the ground completely bond in wire strings but as the Genin landed around him he popped out of existence, the wire strings falling away from smoke.
"How is he doing this?" Sasuke asked, still exhausted from his two high level attacks." We've thrown some of our best stuff at him but he's still beating us."
"No idea but we've got to keep him off his guard." Naruto answered before he fell out of the tree unconscious as Kakashi appeared behind the Genin.
"This ends now." Kakashi told them with a smile before his fist lashed out and backhanded the charging Sasuke away and sent him crashing into a tree.
Sakura leaped back to another branch when he sent shuriken towards her and quickly dropped down from the trees.
"Stupid." Kakashi commented as he raced after her, launching off of the tree branches and easily catching up with the Kunoicihi." You're supposed to be a genius pinky, what's going on with you, where's that intelligence your file told me about?"
The Jonin appeared in front of the potential Genin who merely grinned before leaping back, pulling her hands back and Kakashi saw the dozen or so wire strings tied to each hand.
Kakashi leapt into the trees and immediately regretted it as he found wire strings stopping him before seals sent out nets that quickly trapped him as he rebounded off the wire strings.
"Enough of this." Kakashi finally growled as he snapped the wire strings binding him before a kunai slid into one hand and a quick application of Chakra Flow freed him from the nets with several swipes.
He appeared behind Sakura and a chop to the back of her neck knocked her out. He grabbed her and shadow clones found Sasuke and Naruto moments later, dragging them by a leg behind him as he sprinted out the forest.
'I hate these Genin.'
In the Hokage Office Hiruzen Sarutobi was mildly worried at what Kakashi would do to Genin that had seemingly done the impossible.
Pissed him off.
"Perhaps it wasn't the best idea to give him those three Genin." Hiruzen admitted to himself as he pulled out a sake bottle and drank a quarter of it." Yeah, in hindsight, it was a pretty dumb idea."
AN: Well the third chapter, the longest thing I've ever posted for now, is up after a long wait so sorry about that and read and review on anything.