Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, but I do own the OCs that appear in this fanfic.

Welcome to the fourth chapter.

Naruto of the Steel

Chapter Four: Get the Bells

Naruto woke up early that morning, he got up at 5'am. He actually forgot why. He didn't really care at that point. He was really hungry, so he got up and had his usual five bowls of ramen for breakfast. After that he went to go take a shower. He kept on wondering what he got up so early for. But then his mind wandered, as it usually did when he took as shower. He recalled the events the events that happened when his sensei had visited him the night before……………..

--Last night--

Naruto was about to go to bed, he was extremely exhausted from his long day. As he was about to collapse on his bed he heard a knock on the door. He was thinking about ignoring it and pretend he wasn't home.

But then he heard, "Naruto, open up. It's Tsukiko."

He knew then he couldn't ignore her, she probably already knew he was up. So he walked towards the door and was grumbling about "sensei's who stay up too late".

He fumbled with the locks on his door a bit, he had quite a few. Since his apartment was constantly getting broken into. He even kept a Kage Bunshin home to take care of anyone who does.

"What do you want sensei?", he said to his sensei a little bit annoyed.

"Well, I came to give you your training schedule for the next week or so. I got a mission a little while ago, and I'll be gone for awhile.", she said.

"Okay.", Naruto replied.

They both stood there for awhile, neither one of them moving or talking, until Naruto finally said, "Are you going to tell me what it is?"

"Oh, of course. All you have to do is see you training partner, she'll be the one looking over your training.", she said.

"Who?", Naruto asked.

"Ai."

Naruto paled a little when she said this. He still remembered what she did to that training dummy.

"No offence sensei, but I think I can train on my own just fine."

That may be so, but she can teach you a few tricks that you can't learn on you own. Well anyway, I gotta go and pack. See ya.", she said as she walked away and waved.

'She's not really giving me a choice is she?', Naruto thought to himself as he was looking at the retreating figure of his rather strange sensei.

--Back in the shower--

Naruto was just finishing washing his hair when he thought, "Kakashi-sensei might be weird too, but at least he doesn't make me train with……..

"I have to meet with my team!", Naruto shouted.

--Training Ground--

"Did you hear something Sasuke?", Sakura asked Sasuke.

"No.", he replied.

The silence between them continued.

'Where the hell is Naruto and Kakashi-senei!?', Sakura thought.

--Back with Naruto--

Naruto had just finished getting dressed.

"Okay, am I missing anything?", Naruto asked himself.

After a moment of thing he said to himself, "Oh yeah!".

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!", and a clone appeared.

"Alright, now guard the place while I'm gone.", he ordered himself.

"Roger!", the clone said as he saluted Naruto.

After that Naruto grabbed his swords and left. Little did he know he had left his kunai holster and kunai pouch on the table.

--Training Ground--

"Hey guys, what's up?", Naruto said as he arrived.

Naruto didn't receive a response, all he got was daggers stared at him from Sakura.

Naruto rubbed the back of his head and said, "Sorry, I slept in."

"Yeah right.", Sakura replied.

Sasuke noticed that Naruto was carrying swords with him, so he asked, "What are you going to do with those?", he said as he pointed at Tasogare and Akatsuki.

Naruto looked down, he smiled and looked back up and replied, "Oh I was only planning on kicking your butt with them."

"Yeah right.", Sasuke replied with a smirk on his face.

They had waited there for another 10 minutes. Then Kakashi showed up.

"Where were you!", Sakura yelled.

Naruto didn't say anything since he knew he was just as guilty, and Sasuke didn't care.

"Sorry, a black cat crossed my path so I had to take the long way around.", Kakashi said.

"Liar!", Sakura yelled.

Kakashi just closed his eye and rubbed the back of his head.

"Well anyway., lets start.", he said as he pulled out two bells, "All you have to do is get these bells away from by lunch. If you don't get them, you won't get your lunch and I'll send you back to the academy."

Naruto and Sakura gasped. Naruto wasn't really concerned about lunch, he just didn't want to go back to the classroom and sit through all those boring lessons.

"Remember, if you don't come at me with the intent to kill me, you have no chance of succeeding. You may begin.", Kakashi said, and Sasuke and Sakura spread out

"Hmm? Now why did you stay behind?., Kakashi asked Naruto.

"I figure I save us both the trouble and kick your butt right here and now!", Naruto smirked.

"I suppose there isn't anything wrong with that, but are you sure you want to fail this early in the game?", Kakashi replied.

"Don't worry about me.", Naruto said as he pulled out his swords.

"Alright.", Kakashi said as he pulled out a kunai.

At first they both just looked at one another, sizing each other up. A gust of wind blew past them, rustling the leaves in a tree nearby. This caused one of the leaves to fall. It slowly swayed down to the ground. As soon as it hit, Naruto and Kakashi dashed at each other.

Naruto was the first to make an attack. He made a cross slash with both his swords at him. At the point where the blades met Kakashi placed his kunai there and they locked weapons. As fast as they did, they both jumped away from each other. Naruto immediately dashed back at him, hoping to catch him off guard. Making wild slashed at him. Maybe just kept on just them, occasionally parrying one that got too close.

Kakashi saw an opening, an took advantage of it. Naruto sword was low to the ground and Kakashi stepped it, pinning it and his hand on the ground. Naruto used his other to attack. But Kakashi just grabbed his hand, making his other hand useless.

"Looks like you lost.", Kakashi said as he put his kunai against Naruto's throat.

Naruto looked nervous. After a moment passed Naruto grinned.

Curious as to why he did this he asked, "Is losing that much fun?"

"Who lost?", As Naruto burst into smoke.

"Well that was unexpected.", Kakashi said.

Kakashi looked around, and he spotted a patch of blonde hair dashing through the trees. He kept his eyes wondering where he was going. Then he spot another patch of blonde, then another, and another. They were several Narutos running in the surrounding forest.

'I heard he could use Kage Bunshin, but I didn't think he'd be able to create so many. And he distributed his chakra equally, I can't spot which one is the real one. He's better than I thought.', Kakashi thought to himself.

A few minutes had passed, Kakashi had looked around trying to spot the real one, in the process he spotted Sakura and Sasuke..

"Hmm…they hid themselves well.", he thought to himself.

'That could have gone better.', Naruto thought, he was simply hiding under a rock that he dug out.

Lucky that this training ground was one of his hiding places when he as running after pulling a prank.

He knew that Kakashi was looking at a Kage Bunshin he created to distract him. So Kakashi was only looking for his other self.

He reached for some kunai to throw, but he was surprised. Where his pouch should have been, there was nothing.

"Damn.", I must have left it back at my place.

Naruto was thinking on what to do. He knew he had no long distance attacks. He could only attack at close range. He sat there thinking. The a thought occurred to him.

"That might work.", He thought.

So he created two more Kage Bunshin to search for the Sasuke and Sakura, and relay a message to the rest them.

Kakashi noticed that there were a few more bunshin of Naruto running throughout the forest around him. He was wondering what he was up to. He was actually curious about his plan. He also noticed that one found another, he looked surprised at seeing him, then it whispered into his ear and he nodded.

"Looks like its almost time to start again.", Kakashi thought.

As soon as those words went through his head, fifteen Naruto's had jumped from their hiding places.

"You know Naruto, you're supposed to catch your opponent off guard. Not when they are on full alert.", Kakashi said to the Naruto that he had been keeping his eye on.

"There's no more need to hide anymore, Kakashi-sensei!", Naruto shouted as he drew his swords. Then all the other Narutos had copied and drew their's. Then all of them pointed their swords up.

Kakashi had actually been confused, he had never seen this in combat before.

When he was thinking about this, the Narutos had begun bringing their swords down. On each side of each clone, only one chakra sword appeared. This made a total of 15 swords floating in the air.

As soon as the clones had finished, they all shouted at the same time, "Multi-Sword Stance!", and all charged at Kakashi.

The first clone that had tried to make an attack burst into smoke when Kakashi dodged and punched it in the stomach. He had another surprise when the swords in the air didn't disappear, but remained and continued slashing at him. This was going to be really annoying.

"Yes, it worked! I didn't think controlling the chakra blades from a distance would work!", Naruto thought. He was hoping that the last clone would find Sasuke and Sakura in case this didn't work.

Four clones had tried attack from from all sides. They all tried to drive their blades into him, but he just jumped, and threw shuriken at them. All of of his attackers disappeared. Kakashi had only one more Naruto to attack, but he still couldn't deal with the floating chakra blades. He had attempted to throw a shuriken at the leg of him, but the swords just blocked it.

"Damn.", Kakashi thought. As he his hands into a seal and disappeared into the ground.

"Huh?", the Naruto thought.

Then a hand appeared below Naruto and pulled him under. Kakashi noticed that the blades stopped moving.

He then said to Naruto, "Your better than I thought, maybe you can keep up with my training?"

The Naruto in the ground smirked and said, "Maybe I'm better than you think!", and he disappeared into a cloud of smoke.

"What!?", Kakashi thought.

Then the swords started moving again, attacking him so he barely had any chance to retaliate. All he could do was look for the original Naruto. He didn't expect the kid to be able to use this many high-level jutsu. He scanned the forest, dodging the blades that kept on attacking.

'Come on! I can't keep this up forever!', Naruto thought waiting for the signal.

Almost as if on cue his remaining clone popped out from behind a tree and gave him a thumbs up. Naruto just smirked.

The blades kept on pushing him back, all Kakashi could do was block and dodge.

'Gotta do something fast!', Kakashi thought as he kept scanning the forest for Naruto.

Now! He heard someone shout and heard the sound of rope snapping. All of a sudden the ground beneath him gave way. He suddenly found himself on his in a hole in the ground.

"A pitfall, you're kidding me.", he said to himself.

His keen ears caught the sound of swift movement from above. He saw Sasuke going various hand signs.

"Uh Oh.", Kakashi thought.

"Katon!", Sasuke began.

"Ok! Ok! You got me!", Kakashi said as he put his hands up in defeat.

After Kakashi got out of the hole he was standing in front of them.

"Good job to all of you, the real reason behind this test is teamwork. And needless to say you all pass with flying colors. To have Naruto distract me while Sakura and Sasuke had prepared a trap was pretty good. Despite the use of the bells to divide you amongst yourselves.", he said, smiling with his single eye.

All three of them were all beaming with pride...well Sasuke was just smirking.

"Now all of you take the lunch boxes, go home and rest, we'll be getting our first mission tomorrow. Naruto stay behind for a bit, I want to talk to you.", so everybody left except for Naruto.

When he was sure that Sakura and Sasuke were gone he spoke to Naruto.

"Naruto, that was some technique you have. But I'm just curious, in your file it says that you didn't receive any training with swords from any of the instuctors at the academy. So why are you able to wield them as good as you do. ", Kakashi asked.

"Well, I guess you could say that I'm self trained.", Naruto replied.

"You can go now Naruto.", Kakashi said.

Naruto nodded and began to leave.

As Naruto was almost out of earshot, Kakashi asked, "Where is you kunai pouch Naruto?"

"Bye, Kakashi-sensei!", he yelled as he started running.

"You forgot it didn't you.", he said out loud.

--At Naruto's Apartment--

That was a long day he said as he was climbing the stairs up to his apartment. He knocked on the door expecting his bunshin to open up for him. The door did open, but not by who he was expecting. Standing there, looking a bit angry, was Ai.

"Where were you?", Ai asked.

"I was out doing my own training. Umm….where is my Bunshin?", Naruto asked.

"Oh, you mean him?", she said pointing behind her.

Naruto looked around her and saw that his clone was tied up and gagged.

"I just used him to find out a bit more about you."

Naruto looked at her suspiciously. He decided to dispel the bunshin and find out what it knows. When the information reached his mind, he cringed. He never wants to think about it again.

"Since I put your little buddy through quite a bit, I'll let you off the hook. Be prepared, we're going on a joint mission with team 7 soon.", she said with a smile on her face.

She was about to leave when she said, "Oh, one more thing. Don't let happen again, kay?"

"Kay.", Naruto replied.

"Good.", she said as she closed the door behind her.

"What did I do to deserve this?", Naruto thought to himself.

This chapter isn't as long as previous chapters, and this is my first attempt at writing a battle scene. And a few things I'd like to say:

1)Naruto managed to get Kakashi to worry wa because he underestimated them.

2)The bunshin that was in the apartment didn't disappear because Ai didn't hit it hard enough for it to disappear.

Remember, if you want to know more about me or the story, feel free to email me. This is also the last chapter that you will be able to vote on Naruto's power.

Please R&R