Chapter 4: Testing their skill
Tsunade and Jiraiya had searched everywhere for Naruto, but had yet to locate the one they thought of as a grandson. While walking trying to think of where he could be, Jiraiya finally stopped and cracked a grin. "I know where the idiot is, it's probably his second favorite place in the village next to the ramen stand. Gosh why didn't I think of it before?" Tsunade gave him a quizzical look. "Well?...where is he already." The man just pointed and let Tsunade follow his finger. Once she traced the path of his finger. In the distance sitting atop the head of the Yondaime sat a puff blonde hair.
Naruto looked out at the village atop his favorite look out. He was always mesmerized by the site that was his home. The village was a bustling place with villagers galore. Merchants here and there sat at stands trying to get the best price for their wares. While farmers had produce stands selling people food. He noticed a fellow shinobi here and there, a few he recognized and a few he didn't. Just then he felt the presence of two people standing behind him. "Hello old granny. Miss me much?" He stated with out turning around. Tsunade was curious as to how he knew it was her. But realized what he called her and got pissed. She quickly threw a punch that connected with the back of his head…the boy was out cold. "That boy will learn one day to keep his mouth shut." Jiraiya said with humor in his tone. Tsunade just turned with a frown "well I wonder where he gets it from? Who do you think it could be?" Jiraiya just shrugged like he hadn't the slightest clue. (A/N: it was Jiraiya he got it from) "Well come on we will just carry him to the training ground." Tsunade said, and she, Jiraiya, with an unconscious Naruto in his arms, headed to training ground seven.
Sakura sat at training ground seven waiting for the others to get there. 'where the heck is everyone sensei told me to meet her and the others here thirty minutes ago. Gosh I wish they would hurry up.' And with that she swiftly punched a tree uprooting it and sending it into another tree in the process. As soon as the tree fell to the ground the other three got there. "Man Tsunade she is like a miniature you isn't she?" Jiraiya stated shaking his head. "Well Naruto is basically a second you, minus the pervyness thank goodness." She countered. "Well I don't know I see his dad in him more and more with each passing day." The conversation then ended as they reached Sakura. The pink haired girl looked at the two in frustration. "I didn't think you were ever gonna get here. Why did you want to see me sensei and why is Naruto out cold?" "Well to answer the latter question first, he was just being Naruto." Sakura shook her head in understanding at this. "And as to your first question, we are here to test you and Naruto's growth and to see just how much you have advanced." With that Naruto slowly stirred to consciousness. "Where am I? What happened and why is my head pounding?" Jiraiya was the one that answered. "Well you are here at training ground 7 to test your skills and your head hurts because well…your Naruto and you can't help yourself." Naruto mainly just heard the first part. "So me and Sakura-chan have to fight you two?" Tsunade shook her head "No not exactly, we thought we would choose a more fitting opponent," and pointed toward a near by tree. Up in the tree sat none other than their old sensei Kakashi. Now that everyone was looking at him, he jumped out of the tree with book in one and and the other in a motionless wave simply saying "Yo."
Sakura and Naruto faced off against Kakashi while the two sannin sat in a tree near the opening where they could observe. "So Jiraiya how do you think they will do?" Jiraiya not looking at her answered. "Well I can't say for Sakura but to be honest, Naruto could probably take Kakashi alone." Tsunade's eyes went wide in shock. "Jiraiya you can't be serious, you have to either be underestimating Kakashi or overestimating Naruto. Now I am sure he has grown tremendously but Kakashi is one of the strongest shinobi in our village, I doubt he can take him all on his own." Jiraiya just shook his head. "Just watch and see."
Kakashi looked at his two former students and thought to himself 'Well this is going to be a lot tougher than the first time we did this. I can tell by just looking at them that I will most likely have to go all out from the start.' As he finished his thought he put up his treasured book. Naruto noticing this decided to tease his old sensei. "What's wrong Kakashi-sensei? Think we may be a little more of a challenge than we were at our last bell test?" Kakashi wasted no time in answering. "Actually Naruto yes that's exactly true, I can tell this is going to be much more difficult than it was several years ago." With that he also pulled up his head band revealing his one sharingan. At this the pink haired kunoichi got into a fighting stance while Naruto just stood there with his arms crossed smiling. For some reason this didn't sit well with Kakashi, so he decided to try Naruto out first by throwing several shuriken in the boy's direction. As the projectiles zoomed closer it looked as if they were gonna impale the boy right in the chest.
Well how about we leave it with a slight cliff hanger nothing major but just something to maybe grab your attention. Hope you like the story so far. Please keep reading and then review. Thank you.