Chapter 4: The Genin test… In reverse?

Talking

Thinking.

Demon/Boss summon talking

Demon/Boss summon thinking.

*Jutsu*

"So how do you like your new team." Naruto asked his sister absentmindedly while slurping some noodles, after they had finished meeting their sensei's he and her decided to grab some food as a pick-me-up when they discovered there teams and if they were bad.

By the fact that Natsumi was on her seventh bowl of ramen, things probably went less then stellar.

"God they are horrible, first of all sakura is completely useless outside of the academy. Kakashi asked are likes, dislikes, dreams and stuff, multiple times she didn't finish her thought, looked at sasuke and squealed. Even Kyubbi was complaining about her ears ringing after that." Natsumi started earning a chuckle from Naruto about his mother.

Next we have the ever brooding Uchiha, you know I get it his brother almost killed his clan and is now a rouge but why is he so broody. He still has his mom, most of his clan, and people who actually want to be his friend yet he feels like he is this superior ninja who looks down on all others like he is a god or something, it's infuriating." Natsumi continued.

"I believe mom said it best, ignore the egotistical one's and leave them to deal with their eye infections themselves. Just try to keep things civil for atlas Mikoto's sake." Naruto said, Mikoto while in addition to being the matriarch of the Uchiha was also his godmother so they tended to get along, she even showed him a few low rank fire Jutsu.

"All right but, if he start's shit you can bet ill knock him on his chicken headed ass." Natsumi said.

"I think that's the most I have ever heard you curse, anyway what about kakashi, he as bad as everyone say's he is?" Naruto asked.

"Are you kidding, HE'S WORSE. First of all he was three hours late to meet us, second as we were talking to him he was reading Jirayia's books right in front of us. And worst of all, I believe he wants to favor the uchiha as some kind of recompense for how he acted to his old teammate meaning I'm only gonna have training with mom and dad to go with, well and whatever you and kyubbi are willing to give." Natsumi said, the last part in a low voice to avoid others hearing.

"Well, don't worry, knowing mom and dad they'll help fill in the blanks. Besides you already have a ton of training from them and are probably way ahead of where those two are so no harm done right." Naruto said.

"Ha, yeah I guess your right." Natsumi said and finished her ramen, paying for the bowls the two left heading different ways.

"Hey, aren't you coming back home. Mom and dad said that everyones coming over tonight for a get together with Jirayia back in town?" Natsumi asked looking as he left.

"You go on ahead and tell them i'll be there in a little while, I got a few things I need to take care of before I get back revolving around tomorrow's Genin test." Naruto said glancing back, Natsumi shivered when she saw the smirk on his face. Many had learned to fear that smirk because when it came out, the inner fuzzy trickster came out and someone was about to be pranked. So choosing the smart option she nodded and left the area as fast as possible, heading to tell her dad to prep the ANBU for a Code Fuzzy.

'Now, how can I make Anko-Sensei's life a living hell tomorrow.' He thought deviously as he headed to meet up with his friend's.

The next day team outcast looked up to see the imposing sight before them, they stood in front of a large fenced off forest filled to the brim with massive ominous trees looming over them, sounds of wild animals and insects louder then they should be, and worst of all the smell of absolute fear and death. A single thought passed through their minds as they stared up at the grounds of doom.

'Home sweet home.' They thought.

Unknown to almost everyone in the village Team Outcast was probably the only one's who had spent more time within the Forest Of Death then their sensei, to them it was the perfect training grounds to not only hone their skills but practice their more secretive techniques and their animal sense's.

"Welcome kiddies, this behind me is the charming little hell hole known as the Forest Of Death." Anko said looking down at them from her spot on top of the fence, if she expected them to be pissing themselves she was proven wrong when they simply nodded. So with that she hopped down.

"So then, since I am not like most teachers and don't want a bunch of pansy students I have to babysit I have devised a very specific test, one I believe only your particular group can pass." She explained.

"What kind of test are we talking about." Kiana asked crossing her arms, she had an idea in mind but wanted it confirmed.

"Simple, in a few minutes-after we get some things settled-I am going to head into the forest. Your job in the time span of oh let say a day, is to find me and put one scratch me in any shape or form. Blocks don't count so don't even think about whining, you do this and your Genin, if not then I get to chuck your butts right back into the academy." She explained.

"First though you need to sign these, this way I can't get in trouble if one of you gets munched." She said handing them a set of wavers to sign. As they did she took a moment to study them and noticed two things that hadn't been there the day before, first the cat girl had a large silver folding war fan strapped to her back obviously making her a wind type user if she had it, second the dog boy was now carrying a Chokuto on his belt.

'That's odd in and of itself, i've never seen an Inuzuka carrying around a weapon that didn't work in conjunction with their family style. Maybe this kids trying to break the normal for them, would explain why he is on this team. I'll have to watch kitten, if she knows how to use that war fan I may be in some deep shit. Ha, wonder if Fuzzy has any hidden tricks up his sleeve.' She thought.

"So you said this test was specific for are team, what did you mean?" Kenji asked out of curiosity when they handed back their forms.

"Well, lets say by some miracle you end up passing this little test of mine, if you did then I intend to make this team a tracking and interrogation team." She said, she had thought about having them be assassination but she soon realized on thing, though they were silent they always seemed to know the best ways to get info out of people, she had seen them do things like that once or twice and it impressed her.

"Well, now that this is settled you kiddies have ten minutes till you can start, see you later probably." She said before vanishing in a *Shunshin* into the forest.

The three looked at each other and smirked.

"How long until she figures out that it's not us being tested to see if we can be her students but, she is being tested to see if she can be are teacher?" Kiana asked her smirk hidden by her face mask.

"Oh, give it ten minutes and we'll probably hear the first scream." Kenji said, Takamaru snickered on his head and barked.

"Ten minutes? I give it two before she hits the first trap." Naruto said.

Anko snickered to herself as she jumped through the branches of the tree's, this was going to be so much fun messing with the kiddies and seeing if they could actually even find her.

When she had first gotten this assignment to be team eleven's sensei she had assumed she would hate it, she had absolutely no patience for any kind of kids and dealing with them for an extended period of time did not sit well with her.

However, when she had first heard which team she was teaching her initial fears had been put to rest, they didn't act like fresh little punks straight out of the academy who thought they were almighty and would live forever. The three of them were ready warriors who accepted they needed to get stronger, weren't about to go and whine about how hard things were and were actually going to put in the effort to learn and grow as ninja and odds are that would save their lives.

Her thoughts were interrupted as she stopped on a nearby branch and looked around, she could swear she heard a faint sizzling sound and she had no idea where it was coming from. Looking around she grew even more confused until she looked down, and their were about five explosive tags under her.

"Wha-" Was all she got out before BOOM, she was sent flying in a rain of multicolored paint bombs and stopped herself from face planting on the ground just barely.

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT." She yelled wiping stray paint off her face, she was about to march off when her foot was yanked out from under her and whipped her upwards until gravity returned and she landed fast first into a large puddle of mud.

She growled as she pulled herself out and wiped the mud away, taking a kunai she slashed the rope on her ankle and stood.

"If those three have anything to do with this, I swear I'm gonna-" She was stopped once again mid rant when the sound of something clicking was heard, looking down she realized she had been moving while she ranted and just hit a trip wire. Before she even had time to think multiple balloons filled with some form of liquid hit her dead on and made her fall over onto her back.

"WHAT IS IT WITH YOU THREE AND HITTING PEOPLE IN THE FACE?" She yelled out knowing they could hear her.

No answer came and she growled, standing she kept moving now being far more cautious then she had been before and taking things slow. This worked for about two hundred feet before she hit another trip wire, this time nothing hit her, instead she stumbled back as two logs came down and smashed together, her face a mix of terror and confusion.

'Are these brats trying to kill me?' She screamed in her head as she took off like a bullet to find a place to hide, a bad idea as moments later she was pelted by numerous traps and pranks.

Elsewhere, watching things from afar in a safe place, Naruto and the others watched Anko with great interest as she made her way through the boobytrapped woods. You see, the night before they had spent many hours filling up the forest with as many prank items and non lethal boobytraps as they could make, thus far Anko had barely hit a hundredth of the traps including the only semi lethal trap.

"You think we were a bit to cruel with all these traps?" Kenji asked munching on some snacks they had brought.

"We had to make sure they she is a strong person otherwise do you really think she would be able to teach us, we're not normal people Kenji and we can't have a sensei who will assume that and break when we don't behave like they expect us to." Kiana pointed out.

"Besides we only layered the first ring of the forest with traps, if she can get through that then we can go and find her and land the strike to pass her test, she proves to us she can handle are weirdness and we prove to her that we are ready to be Genin." Naruto said.

"Yeah supposed your right, she has done pretty well so far." Kenji pointed out.

"Ahh but remember, she hasn't even reached the seals yet." Naruto said.

Back with Anko she was slowly becoming a nervous wreck, pecking around corners and checking everything before she even moved a foot ahead.

'This is insane, the Jonin are the one's who are supposed to be giving the test yet i feel like I'm the one being tested.' She thought to herself.

Finally she came to a clearing that seemed empty, scanning everything in sight just to make sure, however. Finally when she deemed it safe she stepped in and took a breath, only for a moment later a large seal to glow and her to be covered in honey.

"OH COME ON." She whined and began moving again, no place was safe as far as she was concerned and she needed to keep moving.

For the next half hour it was a game of dodge the seal for her, everywhere she went some kind of seal or another was painted in a random spot with a random effect. Sometimes she was covered with something, sometimes she was chanced by animals, sometimes something crazy would happen to her senses or just confuse her and think she was huffing some kind of drug.

Finally she reached then end and found no more seals, she nearly weeped by this point. Her clothes were almost completely shredded and matted with paint, her hair was a mess, she looked like a clown gave her make up advice. She was simply a mess and collapsed right there on the spot.

"Ok, ok thats it I give up. I can't deal with any more of these insane damn traps, if you brats don't want me as your sensei then just tell me and ill find someone else but for the love of Kami no more." she yelled hoping they heard her, she panted as darkness began to creep into her vision. the last thing she saw before she slipped into the bliss of darkness were three pairs of feet landing in front of her.

The next thing Anko knew she was blinking her eyes awake in some kind of dimly lit wooden room.

"I told you two we went to far, we were meant to make a point not mentally break her or something like that." A voice off to her left said, was that dog boy?

"Ok, ok we get it Kenji, we went way overboard on the traps and need to apologize for it. Kami you don't have to rub it in." Another said, that was fuzzy.

With a groan Anko pushed herself off whatever she was laying on, which turned out to be a surprisingly comfortable bed. Glancing around she saw her three students all sitting at a table talking with each other.

"Where am I?" She asked squinting as she looked around.

"Anko-sensei, glad to see your finally awake." Naruto said rushing over and checking her to make sure she didn't have any injuries.

The events of the test suddenly sprang up in her mind and she jumped back half expecting some crazy trap to come flying out of no where and cover her with paint or eggs or something.

"No, no I am not dealing with any more of you three's crazy traps. Just tell me now who you want and ill ask the hokage to get them as your sensei." Anko said.

"Anko-sensei, what are you talking about. We don't want any other sensei, hell your probably the only sensei we could actually want." Kenji said clearly confused.

"Oh really, then why was the forest filled to the brim with traps?" Anko asked accusingly.

"To make sure that you can survive being around us and not get hurt when things turn bad." Kiana said in a calm tone.

This took a minute for Anko to process, when it finally hit her she answered with the most intelligent question she could come up with at the moment.

"Wha?" She asked.

The three chuckled before turning serious.

"Anko, we know about how bad you have it with the fact that you were Orochimaru's apprentice and him turning traitor ended up ruining your life with half the village hating you." Naruto said making her stiffen." Well, in some ways we have it the same as you and in other's we have it differently." Naruto said starting before pointing to Kenji.

"For Kenji it's his clan, even though the Inuzuka care for the pack more then anything they see him as an outsider, a lone wolf, someone who doesn't belong because he is different then them." Naruto said.

"For Kiana it's her past, yes she may have come here looking for a home but no one seems to accept her, they all see her as nothing more then a girl from a different ninja village who they think will turn traitor any time like they think you will." Naruto continued.

"And for me, it's my sister and my mother. Everyone in the village despite what my dad says just keeps seeing Natsumi as the kyubbi, they all hate her for it and they hate me because they think I should be with them calling her a freak rather then defending her. Not to mention I constantly give them hell whenever they do decide to try something against her." Naruto finished.

Anko thought over those words, suddenly a lot of things like the traps and the forest and everything made sense. Even if she had a rough life they were showing her that joining them would not increase her standing, if anything it would make her hated more. They wanted her to make sure she could handle it, odd since she was supposed to be the teacher but she saw where they were coming from. They had just as rough of lives as her and didn't want her to get sucked into their problems if she couldn't deal with them. Well damn it she was going to be dealing with them for one reason now, they were her brats and no one else's.

"Well, I will say this. This has been the oddest Genin test that has ever been given in the history of the Leaf Village but I can honestly say it was a good one." She said smirking which they mirrored.

"I get what you guys did, and I understand where you coming from so understand I don't care. I don't care who comes at us with what, you are now officially my brats and anyone who messes with you I will gladly feed to a snake." She said standing.

"And your are sensei, who if anyone gives a hard time will discover just what it means to get payback from Team Outcast." Naruto said.

"All right then, in that case Team Eleven is officially formed and Team Outcast is now an unofficial team of Konoha. Now I just have one last question to ask you." She said.

"Where they hell are we?" She asked.

Anko smiled a bit as she stood in line next to the other Jonin commanders who had been given team's, after her and the kiddies had finished talking they went their separate ways to prepare for the start of their real training tomorrow.

"All right everyone, lets get things started here. Kakashi, how did team seven do?" Minato asked looking at his former student.

"They passed but, only barely. They failed the initial bell test because they couldn't work together and only managed to pass the second when Sasuke and Natsumi fed Sakura." Kakashi explained.

"Kind of saw that one coming, all right what about team eight." Minato asked Kurenai.

"The team passed, we will need to work on how Kiba acts and boosting Hinata's confidence but I can see them making a well rounded tracking team." Kurenai said calming.

"Good, next is team Ten." Minato said.

"They passed just fine, we are gonna have a few thing's to work on if I plan to get them up to stuff like the old InoShikaCho team but other then that they will do well." Asuma said taking a drag from his smoke.

"Try to make sure not to focus all their skill right there, we have had that team before so some nation has bound to come up with a weakness for it." Minato told him, he could already see that problem happening.

"Will do." Asuma said nodding.

"Finally we have team Eleven." Minato said, at this all eyes turned to Anko who's smirk sent shivers down their spines.

"Not only did they pass with flying colors, I already plan to get them to help me interrogate prisoners. Those three are lethal when they work together and their devious little minds can make even though toughest man squeal. All in all they earn their spots as Genin and then some." She said.

Minato felt a swell of pride inside him when Anko said that, he always wanted to praise Naruto for his accomplishments more since he wasn't his born son and this would be something to celebrate.

"All right then, in that case your dismissed." Minato said deciding to have a talk with both his children when they got home for dinner.

The other Jonin nodded and left, Anko smirked as she left through the windows and made her way towards her favorite restaurant to get herself some well earned dango.

After everything that had happened today she had begun to realize that being the brats sensei was going to be one hell of a ride yet she had a feeling she was going to enjoy it every step of the way. And when that road finally ended she was going to look at her students with pride at the legends they had become.

Yep, life for Team Outcast was about to get a whole lot more exciting.

Hello ladies and Gentlemen, how are you.
So sorry for the late update folks, had a few family commitments I had to take care of the last week so I didn't have the most time to update but here it is finally.
Hope you all enjoyed my twist on the Genin test, I mean come on Naruto's a freaking Kitsune who are BORN tricksters, it would be blasphemy to do anything less then what I have cooked up in this chapter.
So a heads up, I have found another free day in my schedule and plan to fill it with a fourth story, yes it will be Naruto but, it wouldn't be the Naruto you know. Things are about to get a bit, on the wild Kung Fu side.
Anyway that's all for now like, review and all that. PEACE.