Ghost Ninja
Ch 04: Final Test, Fear
By: MikeJV37
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Author's Note: Here's what many are waiting for, Team Assignments. I took a different path than canon, and 1 of the Sensei is an OC from another fic of mine, with a last name (and history) change.
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===Jan 3, 10:01 AM, Academy, Homeroom, Naruto: Age 12===
"First let me congratulate everyone on passing. I'll assign teams then you'll meet your Sensei." Iruka said.
Naruto listened to Iruka read off names, everyone knew the first 6 teams were the minor teams, it was teams 7-10 that got the best missions as they'd be composed of the Elite of the class. There was nothing wrong with the first teams, it was just how things were. Shinobi life was hard, and not everyone was cut out to be an Elite ninja.
"Team Seven will be Sasuke Uchiha, Neji Hyuuga and Sakura Haruno, your Sensei is Kakashi Hatake." Iruka said.
"That's an interesting team." Naruto said as he compiled the abilities of the 2 team members.
"Team Eight will be Kiba Inuzuka, Shikamaru Nara and Ino Yamanaka, your Sensei is Kurenai Yuuhi." Iruka said.
"Looks like a recon and tracking team, very useful." Naruto said then smirked at Shika's and Ino's reactions..
"Team Nine will be Rock Lee, Shino Aburame and Choji Akimichi, your Sensei is Might Gai... Kami help you." Iruka said.
"YES!" Lee exclaimed fiercely.
The rest of the room sighed or shook their head.
"Team Ten will be Naruto Uzumaki, Hinata Hyuuga and Tenten, your Sensei is Kouseki Yamanaka." Iruka said.
Naruto perked up at the mention of his name, then smiled when his team mates were named. "Yes." Naruto said with some excitement, then looked at his team mates and exchanged smiles with them.
Ino glanced at them, mainly Naruto. "Aunt Kouseki is taking on a team again?"
Naruto turned to Ino. "Is that good or bad Ino-chan?"
"Oh, that's good, very good... she's the best." Ino said then smiled and started laughing.
"I don't like the way Ino's laughing." Tenten said, slightly nervous as she knew Ino well.
"We'll be fne, just be respectful, do what she says... and follow my lead." Naruto said.
Hinata and Tenten nodded.
"You'll have until Eleven to get aquainted with your new team mates when your Sensei will arrive to pick you up. Afterwards your dismissed. Good luck everyone." Iruka said, straightened his desk, picked up some papers and left.
Naruto watched everyone move to seats near their team mates, picking their leader for various reasons based on each team. Neji and Sakura moved to Sasuke. Ino was already near Shikamaru so she just called over Kiba who reluctantly obeyed. Naruto smirked as he read Kiba's lips when he mumbled about having to deal with pushy bitches all the time now, but he knew Kiba wasn't being mean, most of the Alphas in his Clan were female, his older sister Hana and mother Tsume in particular, especially since Tsume was Clan Head and anyone with half a brain didn't challange her. His new Sensei Kurenai was similar, but she was known for her patients, she wasn't a woman you messed with either, but for a different reason than Tsume. The new team nine was the exception because of Lee, while not a natural leader, he already had an established relationship with Gai, as was obvious by his clothes, appearance and speech. He figured Shino would be the cool head and voice of reason on the team, and possible team leader, Lee might also take that spot, he had the potential because he patterned himself after Gai down to the smallest trait... which was almost scary sometimes, but despite Gai's quirky personality, there was 1 thing about Might Gai you NEVER questioned, and that was how much he cared for his apprentices, he treated them like his own children, and if you hurt them... may Kami have mercy on yor soul, because Gai wouldn't. Naruto wasn't surprised when Hinata and Tenten moved to him. Both were strong and capable, but he already had the experience and training, not to mention how both girls felt about him.
===11:00 AM===
"Ladies first, I insist." A strong male voice said from the hallway.
Naruto turned to the door like everyone else did. His eyes opened a little wider when the just mentiond lady walked in. black kunoichi sandles, bare legs up to mid-thigh where the hem of a dark blue kunoichi battle kimono was, black shinobi belt, obviously custom made, the top of the kimono loosely covered a very impressive chest, the low v-neck showed a little cleavage and an armored mesh shirt, it was sleeveless, but she wore armored elbow length fingerless black gloves, a steel plate on the back on both hands. Her face was like an older, more mature Ino, sky blue eyes, bright blonde hair in a topknot ponytail down to her waist, around her forehead a Leaf hitai-ite, she appeared to be in her late 20's, early 30's at most, her body perfectly sculpted. He'd never met her before but had no doubts about who she had to be.
"I'm Kouseki Yamanaka, Sensei of Team Ten, I want my team to meet me at Training Ground Thirteen in no later than ten minutes from...now." Kouseki said 'now' just as the clock struck 11:01, and vanished.
Naruto immediately stood, grabbed his things, and with a nod to the girls they ran for the door, passing Might Gai standing in the hallway smiling in amusment.
As thy crossed the front grounds Tenten spoke. "Naruto... do you know where Training Ground Thirteen is?"
"Hai... a ten minute run from here for most Genin... but we aren't most Genin! Follow me and don't hold back!" Naruto said just before they exited the Academy Grounds.
===11:09 AM, Training Ground 13===
They stopped by the biggest tree, 20 yards inside the clearing that was Training Ground 13, Naruto breathing deeply, but not winded. Tenten was breathing heavy and only a little tired, Hinata was breathing the heaviest, bent forward, hands on her knees for support, but smiling and only a little sweaty. "So how did we do Kouseki-sensei, did we impress you?" Naruto said casually.
Hinata and Tenten looked around but didn't see her.
Kouseki appeared, smirking. "Hokage-sama told me it wouldb't work on you Naruto, I'm impressed, most Jonin can't keep me from hearing their surface thoughts, she trained you very well, your mind is very disciplined, even now I can't read you."
"You can hear our thoughts?" Tenten said, a little shocked.
"Hai, not all Yamanaka can do it, but I have the gift. Among other techniques I can hear surface thoughts. And no, Ino can't do it Hinata." Kouseki said.
Hinata gasped.
Kouseki closed her eyes a moment. "For now I turned it off, I don't want you getting too nervous to pass your final test."
"Final test, aren't we already Genin Kouseki-sensei?" Tenten said curiously.
"No, not until you pass my test will you officially be a team." Kouseki said.
"And if w,we fail?" Hinata said with a slight studder.
"You all go back to the Academy for another six months before you can try again. before you ask, I can't tell you whatt he test or what I need to see from you, each Sensei has a different test. Naruto, I must insist that you do this yourself, no help from your special friends." Kouseki said.
"Hai, Kouseki-sensei." Naruto said.
"Now... how about I take you three to lunch, you must be hungry." Kouseki said, then smiled when Tenten and Hinata sweat dropped.
'Aren't they just adorable?' Naruto thought.
'Yes they... how'd you know I was still reading you?' Kouseki thought to Naruto, genuinely surprised.
'Ino's Great Grandmother taught me a few things. Don't worry, only a few living people know, even my friends don't know everything I can do.' Naruto thought. "Did you have some where in mind Kouseki-sensei?" Naruto said.
"I do. When I became a Genin my Sensei introduxed me to a tradition his Sensei did during the last war... while you are Genin, you aren't Team Ten until you pass my test, so I want to get to now a little about you all first. I will tell you that you're only my second team, the first I had was many years ago shortly after I became a Jonin. So if you're ready, follow me." Kouseki said.
===11:32 AM, The Shadow Room===
"This is a bar, we can't go in here." Tenten said.
"Actually it's a shinobi only bar, and yes you can. As Genin you're all legally adults now." Kouseki said.
Tenten swallowed nervously. "Hai, Kouseki-sensei. Come on Hinata-chan."
Hinata nodded nervously and followed her team mates and Sensei inside.
Once inside Tenten glanced around, it wasn't quite what she expected, which told her Anko didn't come here much, if at all, based on the stories she'd heard. "Kouseki-sensei... uh, why did you bring us here, there are a lot of great resturants just down the street."
"True, but there are certain things I like that I can only get here." Kouseki said then lead them to a table in the back left corner, she took the corner seat, Tenten to her left, Hinata to her right, Naruto across from her.
"Morning Kouseki-san, these your kids?" The brunette waitress said.
"Yes, I'm treating them to lunch to get to know'em before their final test. I'll have a number four, and gimme three number seven specials." Kouseki said.
The waistress smirked. "Hai, that'll be about twenty minutes." She said and left.
===32 Minutes Later===
"I gotta use the bathroom... scuse me Koushekee-senze." Hinata said, her speech a little slurred.
"Me too... I can't seem to hold my ssssake." Tenten said, giggled, thenn stood with Hinata, wobbling a little.
"I think I'm... what does Anko-chan call it... oh yeah, I'm shit faced!" Hinata said then giggled and staggered to the bathroom with Tenten.
Naruto looked at the table, it'd only beed 10 minutes, but Hinata and Tenten couldn't seem to stop drinking their sake, both were already almost finished their second bottles, like something was making them thirsty. He'd had as much sake as them, but he was stone sober, thanks to Kyuubi he couldn't get drunk unless he wanted to, a fact not in his records, he'd never touched a drop of sake as far as anyone knew... anyone living anyway, but he'd seen Anko and Kakashi enough to know how to act. "I think I have a higher tolerance for it than the girls... how about you Sensei?" Naruto said.
"Not bad for your first time...if you all pass, I'll have to remember that for missions out of Konoha." Kouseki said and downed another shot of her sake. She picked up her bottle tipped it and pouted. "Empty... you stay here while I get another bottle."
Naruto nodded, watched her get up and head for the bar with only a slight stagger. "Hmm, I wonder..." Naruto said to himself, finishing his thought in his head.
"YOU CLUMBSY LITTLE BITCH!" A powerful female voice yelled.
Naruto turned and saw a near 6' woman with wild, waist length black hair, black leather jacket, unzipped to show her at least F cup breasts straining against a dark blue sports bra, black leather skirt, armored shinobi gloves. shinobi sandles and black metal shin guards, when she turned toward him slightly her hair moved revealing a Leaf hitai-ite on a studded, black leather collar. The red fang mark on her cheek and distictive eyes teld him she was an Inuzuka.
"I'm... ahhh!" Hinata said, then screamed when she was slapped down.
"You think you can treat people like shit because your a Hyuuga? That dog doesn't bark in this place you arrogant little cunt. That broken bottle of sake on the floor cost me five hundred, and you're going to reimburse me or I'll take it out of your ass... and your little slut girlfriend too!" She said, full of anger.
"It was an accident, and you ran into us... bitch!" Tenten said after helping Hinata up.
"Do you little pussies have any idea who I am? Rukari Inuzuka, and I'm the meanest, toughest, bitch in the place. You're going to cough up a thousand, or I'm gonna get nasty." Rukari said and clenched her fists, cracking her knuckles.
"I don't have that much." Tenten said.
"I'll pay her Tenten..., I don't want you getting because of me." Hinata said then started patting her coat, then her belt. "I can't find my money... Tenten, go check the bathroom, maybe I dropped it in..."
"Forget it, you ain't going anywhere... keep the money, I saw you sitting with the blonde pup, he agrees to be mine for the night, and I'll let you two walk out of here as functional females." Rukari said with a perverted feral smile.
"NEVER, NAruto-kun is mine! You'll touch him over my dead body!" Hinata yelled fiercely, the sake clouding her judgement.
"Mine too!" Tenten said strongly.
"Ohh, the little bitches have some teeth after all... then I agree to your terms, this is gonna be fun!" Rukari said then flashed through few hand signs. "BEAST MIMICRY!" She said, took on a more feral appearance, the dropped into a low crouch, fangs bared in a feral, predatory smile, clawed open hands ready to slash.
"Hot damn, a fight! I didn't miss anything good did I?" A female voice called out.
Everyone turned to the door. "Anko! You're just in time, Rukari's about tear a couple Genin girls apart." A man said.
Anko ran up to the front of the group, they parted to let her through. The moment she saw them, her eyes scanned the room and found her favorite brat, this brought a snarl to her lips. "WHO'S THEIR SENSEI?" Anko yelled fiercely.
"I am." Kouseki said from the bar.
"Why didn't you step in?" Anko demanded.
"You know the Special Rule as well as I do Anko." Kouseki said, her expression subtley changed for a moment as she did.
Anko's eyebrows raised subtley as she realized what was going on. "Damnit!" Anko said angrily. "If I can't stop it, I can do this... two fresh, drunk, Genin girls against Rukari Inuzuka isn't a fair fight, even in my book. I'll say this once Rukari, I don't care what started this, you wanna kick theur asses, fine, but cripple either of'em, or kill one... and no one will stop me from killing you." Anko said and pushed up her left sleeve, showing the snake summoning tattoo, her face emotionless.
"Fine... I can always add to my nipple collection another time... I'm still putting thee little bitches in the hospital though." Rukari said then turned back to the girls.
"Want me to help Hinata-chan? Tenten-chan? Say the word and I'm there." Naruto said from his table.
"We got'er Naruto-kunnn." Hinata said drawing out the 'n' in kun with a slight slurring.
Tenten nodded and took her fighting stance.
Hinata activated her Byakuugan and dropped into her Gentle Fist stance.
"Are you two sure you want to do this?" Kouseki said.
Both girls nodded.
"Without Naruto?" Kouseki said.
"We can't have him bailing us out every time we get in trouble... we have to get strong too." Hinata said strongly, partialy focusing through the sake haze clouding her mind.
"Naruto-kun would cause too much damage anyway... she's a bitch, but she's a Leaf Kunoichi to." Tenten said.
Naruto smiled.
Rukari turned her head back towards Kouseki. "Seen enough Kouseki-chan?" Rukari said with a smile.
"Hai." Kouseki said, stood and walked over to them, obviously totally sober. "Congratulations Team Ten, you pass."
Hinata and Tenten looked at their Sensei confused.
"I figured as much... she set us up from the start, this was our test." Naruto said walking over to them.
"He's right, I arranged this before I came to get you, Rukari bumped into you intentionally to start a fight, after I got you both a little drunk." Kouseki said.
"And Anko-chan?" Tenten said.
"I didn't know until a minute ago when she tipped me off... why do you think you were so thirty." Anko said, smirking.
The girls stood up, looked at each other a few moments, then both let out an 'I'm stupid' sigh. "The special!" Both said.
"I was drinking diluted sake, it was mostly water, but it had to smell right, I know about Naruto's nose, he's almost as good as the Inuzuka, which this was designed to fool by smell." Kouseki said.
Tenten let out a big sigh. "Good, because without my weapons to throw, I was... worried I'd need new clothes."
Everyone laughed.
Kouseki walked up to them as she pulled something from her belt pouch. "Here, take these pills girls, they'll clear the sake from your bodies in about five minutes."
Both girls took a pill from her hand and swallowed it.
As they did, Rukari cancelled her Clan jutsu and changed back to her normal appearance.
"This is gonna make a great story!" Anko said then quickly moved to Naruto, put him in a headlock with her left arm and noogied his head with her right fist. "I knew you'd make it brat... and now that you're all legal... I'm taking you somewhere decent to eat."
Naruto pulled free, smirking. "Ichiraku's?"
"Of course... you'll need your strength for the party tonight... I know the girls are looking forward to it."
Both girls smiled happily and nodded.
"Party?" Rukari said, suddenly smiling. "I know we just met, and not in the best way... but I was just doing my job, it wasn't personal. I'd really like to join you... if you'll have me."
"Anko, you know this isn't just a party, or did you forget what else is happening?" Naruto said seriously.
Kouseki and Rukari looked at Naruto, then Anko, confused.
"What wasn't I told?" Kouseki said seriously.
"Not here, come on, lets take this somewhere private." Anko said and headed for the door.
Kouseki motioned for them to followed her, nodded to Rukari, then went after Anko.
===12:38 PM, Konoha Park===
"So you're who sis is always going on about..." Rukari said then saw the slight confusion on Naruto's face. "Tsume, she's my adopted older sister. Long story, I'll tell you another time. I give you my word as a Special Jonin and Inuzuka I won't tell anyone."
Naruto nodded and smiled. "Good enough, you're invited, Tsume knows the time and place. Tell me something... why chain, that's not really a name I'd expect an Inuzuka to have.?"
"I have a very special gift... get your pack established, then come see me and we'll exchange favors." Rukari said, gave him a very sexual, feral smile and nodded to Kouseki. The moment Kouseki cancelled her Cloak of Silence she vanished in a swirl of leaves.
Naruto sighed. "She's as bad as you are Anko-chan."
Anko laughed. "Yes she is."
===1:30 PM, Naruto's===
Naruto opened the door and walked in. "Can my new team mates have dinner with us tonight?"
"Of course they..." Hokara said, paused then screamed happily, came flying out of the bedroom, jumped the couch, scooped him up in her arms, hugging and kissing him.
Naruto blushed, totally embarrassed.
Hinata and Tenten stood there in shock a moment, then both looked at the other and started giggling... until a chakra spike froze them in place with fear, both looked up at the suddenly VERY intimidating red-haired woman.
"Naruto, shut te door and seal the room, the four of us are going to have a talk... NOW." Hokara said strongly.
"You must be Hokara-san... a pleasure to meet you." Hinata said then bowed deeply.
Tenten exceeded Hinata's bow, literally folding herself in half at the waist, and stayed that way.
"You surprised me... I was about to tell you, honest." Naruto said, a little nervous himself.
"All of you, couch, now... Might as well get some of this over now." Hokara said.
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End Chapter 4