The next morning Naruto was woken by Minato poking him obsessively at four o'clock In the morning. Groaning, the Genin snarled * Kurama , can't you control your mate?* causing his father to blush a bright shade of red.
~ He is not my mate yet, kit. Something about not deciding and already having a obligation.~ the demon fox said sadly. Sending a wave of encouragement towards the nine tails , Naruto slowly got ready and made his way out the door towards the training grounds.
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Once there Naruto started stretching and warming up, before he started throwing Kunai at a tree. Halfway through his routine, he felt Sakura appear and acknowledged her with a " Sakura" before he returned to warming up. Ten minutes after her, Sasuke arrived and was greeted with a wave.
"Naruto-kun? Where is your estate? I mean .. " here Sakura stopped awkwardly and just looked at him curiously. Raising an eyebrow, Naruto glanced at the Kunoichi and said " I don't know how that is any of your business, Sakura." Glaring at him, the Kunoichi went back to gazing fawningly at Sasuke until their teacher arrived two hours later.
"Yo! Sorry I'm late. A black cat crossed my path, so I had to take the long way. " Kakashi said, blank faced. Minato hearing the bald faced lie, snorted in laughter and said ( I never thought I'd see the day. Kakashi Hatake, lying to my son in order to make them ignore the fact that he was late. )
Kakashi went on to speak about the test, what it entailed exactly and what the risks were. Then pulled out a orange book [which caused Minato to say ( What! He's reading that in front of my son?) and Naruto to snigger quietly]. All of a sudden, Sakura dove out of the trees and screamed " Aargh!" as she ran at the Jounin.
Kakashi yawned and stepped out of the way of her attack, causing her to go crashing into Sasuke's hiding place. Naruto rolled his eyes and created to shadow clones. Then transformed them into Sakura and Sasuke, making Kakashi blink in surprise to see two pairs running around.
Going after the clones, the Jounin ignored the real Genin's for now leaving the three to figure out a plan. Smirking slightly, Naruto transformed into his father and sauntered into the clearing to lean against a tree - while Kyuubi and the real Minato roared in laughter in the seal.
" Kakashi-kun, I don't think your going to teach them anything by running around like that. " Fake- Minato said lightly , making Kakashi screech to a halt at his Sensei's voice. Turning around shakily the Jounin Sensei paled and backed away from Naruto/ Fake - Minato. " Sensei? " the Jounin asked quietly as he stumbled backwards towards the alarm o'clock.
Unknown to the Jounin, while this was happening Sasuke had crept around behind the man with Sakura. ~ Wait for it..~ Kyuubi snickered quietly at Kakashi's misfortune, ~ And..NOW!~ At the same time Kyuubi yelled [or rather roared] this, the other two Genin had tackled Kakashi and tied him to a tree. ( Oh dear..) Minato sighed softly, as the Jounin scowled at them.
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Hokage's office:
"Team 1-6: Pass or Fail?" The Hokage asked the Jounin quietly as they gathered in his office to report on the Genin teams. "Fail." All six teams said respectively. " Very well. Team 7? Pass or Fail?" Everyone turned to the sulking Kakashi Hatake and waited.
"Pass. " he eventually ground out. " did they do? " Asuma asked quietly. "Nothing you need to know about. " Kakashi snarled, in a wolf like fashion. "Very well. Team 8?" the Hokage intervened. " Pass. " Kurenai said quickly. " Team 9 ? " was the next question and it was answered with a " Fail." " Team 10?" the Hokage asked at last. " Pass."
Nodding the Hokage handed out the team's first missions and dismissed them quickly, happy with the teams for this year.
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Later that day, all three Genin's of Team Kakashi as they had been named by the Shinobi were dragged on their first D-rank by their Sensei. Naruto, sensing boredom decided to spice things up a bit by using his Chakra control and walking on walls or trees all day to catch Tora the cat.
Sasuke and Sakura, decided it looked like fun and joined in once they got the hang of it. Kakashi just rolled his eyes and muttered something about ' idiotic daredevils' and began reading his book.
Halfway through the mission however, Asuma and his team walked by after completing their D-rank mission. Asuma seeing what they were doing started gaping like a fish, while Shikamaru said " Naruto .. What exactly are you doing?" The blond haired Jinchuuriki grinned and said " Oh! Hey Shikamaru! Heh are supposed to be catching Tora. But I was bored so.." Asuma catching on laughed and said " So you decided you would try and train at the same time! I gotta hand it to you kid. That's ingenious!"
Naruto grinned and was about to answer when all of a sudden he saw the CAT.." Mine!" He yelled diving for the animal in the rooftop gutter. Tora screeched and tried to make a run for it but was snatched up by Sasuke. " Now what, dobe?" The Uchiha asked, annoyed at the animal clawing away at the bag in his hand.
" Now.. The stakes are going to get higher. Instead of walking into the Hokage's office normally. And no, I will not tell you how. " Naruto said happily. Inside the seal Kyuubi and Minato glanced at each other, then Minato said ( I had no idea my son could be so sadistic.) Unaware that the same thought was running through Asuma's and Naruto's teams heads .
Sighing softly the three Genin on the building wall slowly trudged across towards the Hokage tower - slowly gaining more spectators [ made up of clan heads and ANBU] as they did so. ~ Wow. He's really sadistic. Even Ibiki Morino looks awed at this.~ Kyuubi said, as the two in the seal watched what was going on.
And it was true -as down on the ground Kakashi was now surrounded by the ANBU,Asuma's team , other Jounin Clan heads and Ibiki. If they strained their ears enough the three Genin could hear questions like ' Was this your idea, Hatake?' and ' Are you trying to kill them?' Kakashi seemed tell them the reason they were up there and about Naruto's boredom- because all of a sudden the other Ninjas turned shocked eyes on the Jinchuuriki who ignored them in favor of getting into the Hokage's tower.
Once inside the front door, Naruto suddenly remembered all the halls and doors the tower had in it. " Oh crap." He swore softly to himself , unaware that he now had everyone's attention. " WHAT NOW?" Sakura yelled at him from her place upside down on the ceiling. " I.. Uh.. Forgot how many doors this place has." Naruto said sheepshishly. In answer to this, Sasuke face palmed and everyone else gaped at him.
" Whatever dobe, lets just finish this and get down from here. My legs are killing me." Sasuke groaned from the opposite wall, causing Sakura to nod in agreement. Shrugging the blond made his way from one wall to another until he had to go through a doorway. "Dammit." He growled and eyed the door carefully, now fully aware of the audience following his team.
Finally Naruto placed one Chakra enhanced foot on the door then let it swing inwards faintly hearing ~( Wheee!)~ from the seal. Rolling his eyes slightly he clambered up to the wall and yelled " Ok guys! " In response, Sakura swung herself around the door frame , took the cat from Sasuke and waited. A few minutes later the Uchiha inched up to the top of the door and let himself hang upside down.
Then the three trudged up the hall - all upside down - towards the Hokage's office and followed by no less then twenty ANBU, Ibiki Morino, Anko Materashi, Asuma and his team, as well as the clan heads. Once at the office door, Naruto once again went in upside down - only this time he let gravity do the work and quickly pulled himself unto the wall again with a chakra infused foot.
Sasuke soon followed with the cat and placed himself on the other wall to catch Sakura. Two minutes later the Kunoichi let rugged with gravity as she tried to get her foot back on the wall. Eventually though, the girl channeled enough chakra to stay on the ceiling.
Pausing slightly the three Genin of team sevlegal earned forward slightly and panted from exertion. Slowly catching their breath they suddenly became aware of applause in the room and looked up to see not only the Hokage, but their Sensei and everyone who had followed them as well.
" Come on down you three." Kakashi said proudly but amazed at the same time. Only too happy to do so Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura complied - only for them to collapse on the ground tiredly. "Hokage, if I may?" Ibiki asked quietly from his corner. Nodding the old man looked intrigued himself and gestured Ibiki forward. " May I ask who thought this exercise up? It is quite ingenious!" The interrogator was amazed.
Blushing furiously Naruto said " I did, Ibiki-san." Snorting Shikimaru grinned and said " Not only is it ingenious but its sadistic as well, Naru. Who knew you could be so evil?" Naruto gazed at the Nara heir tiredly and said " I'm not evil. Just .. Maniacally inclined. " Sasuke looked incredulously at the boy and said " Does that include pyromaniacly? Because I can give you many reasons for why you should not be allowed near fire."
Pouting now, Naruto glanced at the laughing team ten and sighed sadly " But I like fire." This just caused many of the adults to raise their eyebrows ( except Kakashi who looked slightly worried) and the kids to laugh harder. Grumbling, Naruto grabbed Tora and handed her to the Hokage, then he scowled at his friends and left the room.
