The Hideout
Naru moaned softly as her eyes opened. She immediately smiled at the sight of Yorudan snoring softly as she rested her head on his chest. 'It's hard to believe it wasn't a dream,' she thought as she snuggled against her boyfriend 'I am glad I know why the villagers hate but I don't understand why the Yondaime chose me though, wouldn't a clan member be a better choice?'
"I know that look," Yorudan whispered causing Naru to start a little "What has got your mind spinning?" he asked as he wrapped his arm around her shoulder.
"I want to know why the Yondaime chose me to carry the burden, I'm an orphan, why not a child that a clan would support?" she asked sadly "It doesn't make any sense."
"He didn't choose a clan because that would break the fragile balance amongst the clans." Yorudan answered. "Or maybe the Yondaime knew who your parents were and trusted them, and they ended up dying during the attack. Though, I have my own theory."
"What?" Naru asked. Yorudan then smiled. "Maybe the Yondaime saw something in you, when you were born." He said. "Maybe he gave you the Kyuubi, because he thought that you could put its power to use. I know enough about seals to know that it is possible to tap into the sealed beast's power. That may explain why you have such massive Chakra reserves. Some of it is the Kyuubi's." He then gave Naru a quick kiss on her forehead. "Whatever his reason was I am sure it was a good one." he reassured stroking Naru's hair.
Naru smiled. "Well, I guess I'll have plenty of opportunities to put it to good use." She said, Nodding in agreement they got up and went through their morning routine.
As They stepped out of the Cave, they were wearing their new gear that they have been saving for when they graduated.
Naru had a crimson kimono top with a fishnet shirt underneath and a rust orange obi holding the kimono closed, she had a pair of fingerless black gloves reinforced with a metal back and a pair of rust orange armguards, she had a pair of black skin tight knee length shorts and a pair of rust orange shinguards and black shinobi sandals. On her right hip was her respective wakazashi sword with the Uzumaki swirl as a guard and a red sheath.
As for Yorudan, he had a nice new change to his gear. His clothes were now a Red black striped mussel shirt, over that was an armored Steel grey shoulder plates, with another Red Black striped plate was across his chest, wearing leather combat boots, and tough fingerless leather gloves. In addition to having his Duel Bladed Katana sword, he now had small hidden blades under his gloves. Imprinted on the Chest plating was the Takeo clan symbol, a Tiger risen up to its hind legs, and it's mouth wide open, ready to roar.
As the two looked of the Cave, they gave a quick glance at each other, they both smiled, and exchanged a quick kiss before they used their Flying Cloud jutsu, and flew away to meet their friends.
OoOoOo
Hisanaga Main Household
Ryu sighed as he made breakfast and looked out the window to the clan training field that the house rested beside, the compound itself was located away from most others in the middle of a small but hard to navigate forest due to his ancestors paranoia of people stealing their clan techniques. 'Something tells me that we are going to have to go through a lot of trials to remain together, Kami-sama please guide us through our trials and bless us with happiness through our pain.' He prayed to himself as he turned back to the food he was preparing, some omelet's filled with bacon and vegetables along with a side of home-style fries. 'Please protect them where I cannot and comfort them when I am unable, I ask you this as your humble servant and follower.'
Sighing he turned the stove off and set up the table and sat down just as Rinda walked in the room with wet hair from their showers. "Smells good Ryu-kun," Rinda said grinning as she sat down at the round table in the semi-large kitchen "Like always."
She then giggled at Ryu's slightly abashed and embarrassed look "You always have had a way with food Ryu-kun, if a ninja doesn`t work for you, you should open a restaurant." She said and causing Ryu to blush harder and mumble a thank you.
Then Yorudan and Naru finally arrived, and the smell of good food guided them to the kitchen. When the two entered, Yorudan instantly took into account their new Attire.
Ryu was wearing a black muscle shirt with an armored woodland green shoulder plate on his right shoulder while another green plate was across his left breast covering his heart. He had woodland cameo khakis along with a pair of black combat boots. He also had a katana slung over one shoulder, a pair of chokaku's across his lower back and two bladed tonfas at his waist.
As for Rinda, she was dressed in a fish net shirt under her dark blue t-shirt with the Takeo Tiger on the nape of the neck, a dark blue miniskirt with skin tight black shorts underneath and black shin- and armguards and dark blue shinobi sandals.
"Looks like we're not the only ones with new clothes." Yorudan observed as he and Naru sat down and ate their breakfast.
After Ryu finished his own breakfast he went upstairs to have his own shower leaving the others in the kitchen to clean up. Naru and Rinda gossiped as they washed the dishes unaware when Ryu came down, and shortly after Yorudan ran up for his shower.
Ryu stood in the doorframe leaning against it as he watched them with a forlorn look as if he was looking into the future, in all honesty he could hear the sound of children`s laughter in his mind as he looked on. Shaking his head he cleared his thoughts with a grin as he stepped forward "You two ready?" he asked as they finished up, and Yorudan ran downstairs after he finished.
"Yeah, let's go get this done." Rinda confirmed strapping on her sword.
oOoOoOo
Hokage's Tower
Sarutobi sighed as he review yet another registry form 'I hate paperwork.' He thought to himself as he gave it an approval stamp and called the next group in. He immediately smiled when he saw Naru and her friends enter 'finally a distraction!' "Hello, Naru-chan, Rinda-chan, Ryu-kun, Yorudan-kun, how are you doing?" he asked in concern directing the questioned to the red-headed Jinchuriki.
Naru smiled brightly at the aged Hokage "I'm fine jiji." She said "Still a little shocked but fine."
Sarutobi nodded as he smiled reassuringly "I'm glad Naru-chan, and I am truly sorry that you had to find out that way." He said sadly shaking his head.
"It's alright" Naru assured "Yorudan-kun really helped me out, reminding me that I'm not the Kyuubi."
"Damn straight you're not." Yorudan said with conviction in his voice "The villagers are morons if they truly believe that. Besides, I don't think you would be so kind if you were a demon." Yorudan then slinging his arm around Naru's shoulder and hugged her while Ryu and Rinda chuckled at the pair and Sarutobi stamped their registration papers.
They were just about to leave when a young boy around eight years of age jumped into the room shouting "I've got you know old man!" right before he tripped on his overly large scarf that was around his neck introducing his face to the ground.
Yorudan barked a laugh. "FAIL!" he shouted.
Growling he stood back up and glare at the four "It's your fault, you tripped me!" he accused loudly.
"Correction: that overly large scarf of yours tripped you." Yorudan deadpanned pointing at the scarf before the four vanished from the boys sense only to reappear around him with their weapons drawn and blank looks on their faces "Not to mention how stupid it was to attack the Hokage when his subordinates are in the area." Ryu added in a cold voice his katana, Tenryu, at the boy's neck. The katana was double edged with the center of the blade indented on both sides, it had no guard but had a dragon's head where the guard would be and had the blade coning out of its mouth.
"Honorable Grandson!" a 5'9" tall man shouted from the doorway, he was wearing the standard jonin outfit with dark sunglasses covering his eyes and a bandana covering his hair. Surveying the room the man growled at the sight of the four surrounding his charge "Unhand the Sandaime's grandson this instant, demon brat." He growled the last part causing the four's and the Hokage's eyes to narrow at him, before Ryu turned to the Hokage for confirmation.
At the Kage's nod the four sheathed their swords and grabbed their ID's from Sarutobi's assistant who smiled in a comforting manner to Naru who smiled back. As they passed the kid Ryu leaned down and whispered "I wouldn't advise you to try and attack the Hokage again kid, next time someone might take offence and fix the matter."
Ebisu glared at Naru as they passed and they kept their hands on the hilts of their swords waiting for him to attack. Just before they left Yorudan gave his a hint of Killing Intent, causing him to shake slightly, and exited the door. After they left Ebisu turned to the Hokage to apologize for losing track of his grandson when he froze at the Sandaime's expression. "Ebisu," the kage said softly, but there was no mistaking the power behind the words "Tell me, is the glass that holds the water, water itself?"
Ebisu blinked in confusion at his leaders words "Hokage-sama?" he asked in confusion "What do mean?"
Sarutobi sighed in regret "Do you know how much that child has suffered in her life due to blind hatred Ebisu?" he asked slightly angry "I suggest you follow her and take a good look at how the villagers treat her. Dismissed."
Moving to grab his charge Ebisu blinked in confusion, he was gone.
OoOoOo
Konoha Streets
Naru fumed as the four made their way through Konoha heading to Ichiraku's for lunch "I can't believe it, why can't people see past that." She growled in frustration as tears threatened to spill from her eyes "Why can't they see I'm human?"
Suddenly Yorudan grabbed her and dragged her into a small alley where he forced her to look at him "Naru-hime, it doesn't matter what they think," he said sternly as he stroked her cheek "All that matters is that it shows you who your true friends are, if they can't see past your burden than are they really worth it?"
Naru sniffled as tears started to spill from her eyes "But it hurts," she whispered throwing herself into Yorudan's chest "It hurts so much, Yorudan-kun, all the hate, it presses down on me so much" sobbing she clutched harder to Yorudan as he ran his fingers through her crimson-blonde hair and rubbed her back in a soothing manner.
"It's alright Naru-chan," Yorudan whispered soothingly "just let it out, it's alright, I'm here for you, we're all here for you." Sobs continued to rack Naru's body for a while before she started hiccupping and lightened her grip on Yorudan.
"Thank you guys," she whispered gratefully as her sobs slowed down "I don't know how I would survive without you. You three were always there for me as long as I could remember."
Yorudan, Rinda and Ryu smiled at her reassuringly "And we always will Naru, doesn't matter what anyone says, we will always love you, I will always love you Naru-hime." Yorudan swore and the others nodded in agreement.
"C'mon, there is a bowl of ramen waiting for us at Ichiraku's." Ryu stated and grinned as Naru brightened up immediately.
"Well what are we waiting for than!" She exclaimed happily as she and Yorudan dragged the pair with surprising strength "We can't keep Ramen waiting! It's blasphemous!" Yorudan said.
Ryu and Rinda laughed as they allowed themselves to be dragged by the jinchuriki and her Boyfriend, unaware of Ebisu standing at the edge of the building looking depressed having heard the entire thing knowing his role in it. His eyebrow rose at the sight of his charge attempting to follow the four unseen, key word there, attempt. It really was sad, I mean really, what ninja uses square boxes with holes cut in front and painted to look like a rock, I also don't think a ninja uses a camouflage in the opposite direction it was intended with the fingers and feet peeking out.
The four studiously ignored the kid as they made their way to the ramen stand in the hopes that he would leave them alone, unfortunately it didn't work. Ryu sighed as he stared directly at the kid who was failing miserably at using a camouflage sheet to try and blend in with the fence "Come in, sit down and tell us why you're following us." He ordered in a semi frustrated semi bored tone before he entered the stand and sat between the two girls, with Yorudan on Naru's left side. The kid hesitated for a second before steeling himself and entered the stand.
"I want you to train me." He demanded standing behind them as they waited for their orders, arms crossed with an attempt at a stern glare on his face.
"Did you guys hear that!" Naru exclaimed sarcastically "He demands that we train him! Whatever should we do?" Ryu Yorudan, and Rinda snorted at that as the kid grew furious "and pray thee, why should we train you." Yorudan said. "Especially when you have a bloody fucking private tutor, you know how many academy students would sacrifice their arms and legs for that?" he asked spinning on the stool to face him with a bored expression and his arms folded across his chest and an eyebrow raised "Not to mention you never introduced yourself at any point."
The kid's glare hardened "I am Konohamaru Sarutobi, grandson to the Sandaime Hokage!" he declared "I want to become stronger so that I can beat the old man and become Hokage so that everyone will recognize me as Konohamaru not the Honored Grandson!"
The four paused and stared at the kid in disbelief before Ryu and Yorudan started laughing soon followed by the girls giggling. Konohamaru glared at the three of them growling in frustration "What is so funny!" he demanded in a loud voice stamping his foot on the ground.
"Sorry kid, inside joke," Yorudan said calming down "Let's just say we knew someone like that once." Chuckling he faced Konohamaru with a grin on his face "So you want to become strong fast so that you will become Hokage right?" he asked, seeing the kid nod in confirmation he continued "Well, in that case... hell no."
Konohamaru blinked in shock before shouting "Why the hell not!"
"Aside from the chance of being arrested for conspiracy and aiding in the assassination of the Hokage, you would never be able to beat the old man with a mindset like that." Naru explained "Unlike you he doesn't grow strong for selfish reasons, he grows strong for the people that live here in Konoha, he fights to protect, whereas you are trying to destroy."
Konohamaru stood stunned for a few minutes as Naru turned back to her ramen "We aren't unsympathetic though, people can't see through our titles to see the real us," Rinda commented sadly "Tell ya what, if you can tell us where real strength comes from, we will help you train."
Ryu grinned broadly at the kid "Here's a hint kid, it's close to home." He added cryptically "Your sensei is waiting for you outside kid."
Konohamaru exited to see that Ebisu was indeed standing outside of the stand waiting for him with a forlorn expression "Honored- no Konohamaru-kun please wait here for a minute." He requested before entering the stand himself.
Standing in front of the four who eyed him either with suspicion, contempt or fingered the hilt of their blade as they waited for him to speak. He surprised them by suddenly bowing to them "I you an apology Uzumaki-san," he stated "I allowed my hatred to overcome my better judgment and that led me to wrong you. Please forgive my ignorance, it will never happen again."
Naru blinked a couple times in shock as she stared at Ebisu before tears started welling up in her eyes. Seeing this the others smiled gently as Yorudan put an arm around her shoulders and hugged her gently "That's the first time anyone has apologized to me for treating me like that." She explained sadly to Ebisu who looked confused at first than started to look angry at the fact that no one has ever apologized to her before than realized that he was no different. "Thank you for your apology Ebisu-san, it, it means a lot to me." Naru said gratefully as she melted into Yorudan's embrace.
Ebisu nodded and turned to leave the stand, just before exiting he turned back "If you need it, I can help with your training," he offered with a smile "Just let me know if you need help with something."
Naru had silent tears of happiness streaming down her face as Ebisu left "It looks like people are beginning to realize, eh, Naru-hime." Yorudan said gently as he rubbed her back soothingly. "It's about damn time, eh?"
"Got that right," Ryu inputted happily "Took them long enough though."
They stayed in the stand for another hour as they talked with Ayame and Teuchi who offered their own opinions on the Ebisu event before they decided to head home and get some training in for the day before heading to bed.
OoOoOo
Dreamscape
Yorudan was panting as he ran on all four's like a tiger through various dimly lit corridors running past doors searching for the exit while trying to evade his pursuers 'Gotta get out, gotta find the exit.' He thought hurriedly as he sprinted down a new corridor that suddenly opened up into a large coliseum like opening with a large throne in the center covered by shadows, only the intense golden, slitted, snake-like eyes that told him that someone was sitting there. "Fuck me sideways." Yorudan growled out the cruse as he flexed his tiger claws, and showed his tiger-like teeth, getting ready for a fight as his Greenish Red catlike eyes darted around looking for an escape.
"There is no escape for you," The figure sitting in the chair mocked as several ninja with headbands sporting musical notes fazed into existence surrounding Yorudan "I cannot let you leave at this time, not until the experiments are complete anyways, Kukukuku."
White and Black chakra erupted around Yorudan as he let out a massive roar that knocked two of the shinobi surrounding him back. and Oddly two figures appeared next to him, a pair of Tigers, one black and one White. "I will get back to them," he vowed, as the two Tigers seemed to merge with him. "and no one will get in my way!" and suddenly his eyes, still catlike, shared two different colors, one White, and one Black. With that said Yorudan leapt at the closest nin with higher than jonin speeds and slashed his claws across the shinobi's chest before leaping into the air and gathering pure chakra into his hands. Taigārirīsu: In'yō supirittsu no kessoku (Tiger Release: Yin-Yang Spirit Unity)' he intoned before launching a pair massive beams of pure energy, one Black, and the other white, at the ground. The minute it connected everything went white.
End Dream
Yorudan let out a strangled cry as he shot up awaking from his dream. Panting he stared at his hands seeing the clawed afterimage of his dream clenching and unclenching his fist as if to make sure it wasn't real.
"Yorudan-kun?" Naru questioned sleepily from her spot next to him as she looked at him in concern "What's wrong?"
"Nothing, nothing's wrong hime," he reassured smiling "Just a bad dream, that's all, go back to sleep"
Nodding she let him lie back down before snuggling back up against him drifting back to sleep. Sighing Yorudan stared at the ceiling as he thought about the dream 'what the hell was that?' he thought to himself 'And what the hell was I, it was like I was transformed into some…Tiger.' A yawn escaped his lips as his eyes started to droop 'I'll deal with it later.' He thought tiredly before slipping off to sleep pushing thoughts of his dreams aside for later analysis.
OoOoOo
Hisanaga compound, next day.
The four were lively as usual in the morning as they prepared for the day, each feeling equally nervous and excited about the team placements. Chatting amicably as they made their way to the academy they tried to calm their nerves by joking with each other and remembering some of their screw ups during training. "I still remember the time Ryu-kun first tried to create an explosive tag," Rinda said giggling as Ryu grumbled in embarrassment "You looked so cute when you stumbled out of the room covered in residue from the explosion exclaiming how awesome it was."
"Well at least I didn't cause all of the trees to lose their leaves on somebody's first attempt at a wind jutsu." Ryu countered grinning triumphantly as Naru blushed a deep crimson in her own embarrassment and started mumbling something about if someone wasn't distracting her than she would have gotten it the first time. By the time they had gotten to the academy they had fallen silent and walked together in companionable silence together, entering they nodded to Iruka who nodded back and took their usual seats near the back of the class.
By the time nine o' clock rolled around the class was full with the freshly minted genin along with a couple of older ones being cycled into new teams due to unfortunate circumstances. "Alright listen up," Iruka called out and twitched when the class continued to talk, muttering under his breath he made a couple of seals for his 'Ninpo: Akuma Heddo' technique causing his head to swell to large proportions and his voice to take a demonic quality "SHUT UP BRATS!"he shouted and surely enough it worked like a charm, like always. "You are all now full genin of the hidden leaf, meaning you are all now representing your village and kage, please act appropriately," scanning the room he smiled when he laid his eyes upon Naru and her friends 'yeah they'll do just fine.'"I am proud to have been your teacher and hope that you do this village proud, now team one is..."
Our favorite four tuned out the first six of the team allocations until they heard Sasuke's named being called for team 7 "Sakura Haruno," the trio winced at the screech that she unleashed about true love conquering all "and Sai Takeru. Team 8 will be Kiba Inuzuka, Shino Aburame and Hinata Hyuuga," Iruka praised Kami that none of them reacted the way Sakura did "Team nine is still in circulation, Team 10 is Shikamaru Nara, Chouji Akamichi and Ino Yamanaka," he was prevented from continuing due to Ino's whining about Sakura getting paired with Sasuke while she was paired with a tub of lard and a lazy kid "Now, for the 4-team set up," He said, drawing their attention. "Team 11 is," Iruka grinned when he saw the team then the sensei 'Oh yeah, they will do just fine.'"Naru Uzumaki," the four perked up "Rinda Takeo" Rinda and Naru exchanged high fives "Ryu Hisanaga." Rinda cheered and hugged Ryu. "And…" Iruka paused for Dramatic effect, Yorudan and Naru had their fingers crossed, and praying to Kami. "…Yorudan Takeo." Iruka and Sasuke managed to block their ears just in time to protect them from the bombshell that was Naru Uzumaki.
"OH HELL YES." She shouted in excitement as she glomped Yorudan who was laughing along with them as everyone who didn't block their ears were temporarily deaf.
OoOoOo
Hokage's Office
Sarutobi ginned and shook his head as he attacked his paperwork once more with renewed vigor.
OoOoOo
Unknown Location
The figure with ice-blue, crimson flecked eyes blinked "Did you hear that?" he asked in confusion looking around as the nin around him nodded "What the hell was it?"
OoOoOo
Opposite Side of the World
Jiraiya blinked as he looked around 'Must of been nothing' he thought with a shrug before turning back to the group of naked ladies in the hot spring giggling perversely.
OoOoOo
In the Real world
117Jorn typed these words in the computer as he suddenly herd someone shout in the distance "Oh Hell Yes!"
117Jorn stopped typing, and looked around. "Hu?" he asked. "...Did I just break the fourth wall?"
DragonKnightRyu pops in out of nowhere "Dude you didn't break it, you shattered it beyond repair." He said sighing as he sat down.
117Jorn looked at him oddly "Don't you live in Canada?" He asked.
"Yeah, so?" Came the bored reply as DragonKnightRyu started flipping through the channels on the T.V. "Dammit you guys get all the good stuff on T.V."
117Jorn blinked "How in the hell did you get here so fast, let alone find me, when you just said online you were at your sisters?" He asked in confusion.
DragonKnightRyu shrugged "No clue."
OoOoOoO
Classroom
Iruka shook his head with a grin and continued the assignments once the deafness worn off smiling at the sight of Naru latched on to Yorudan's arms as he smiled sheepishly to Iruka. "Your sensei will come and pick you up after lunch, good luck and train hard." Iruka said dismissing them.
After a lunch at Ichiraku's with Sasuke who was using one of Ryu's Bodai Ten'i seal to hide himself from his fangirls. After revealing the new level of their relationship to Sasuke who after offering his congratulation. After lunch they entered the classroom once more to wait for their sensei. About a half hour later a Lightish-Brown haired, blue eyed jonin wearing the usual Jonin uniform jumped into the room.
"Team eleven your with me, meet me one the roof in five." He said before shunshining out of the classroom, following by more conventional means, i.e. stairs, they found their new sensei leaning against the railing his arms folded across his chest with a slight grin on his face as they sat in front of him. "So you're the pranksters the Iruka-san talks about at the bars," he stated smiling wider with a twinkle in his eyes "How about we start by introducing ourselves, our likes, dislikes, dreams, the works. I'll start, My name is Zuko Yashima. I like Candy, training, Reading, and hanging out with my friends. I dislike perverts, rapist, how the Villagers treat Naru-Chan, and Snakes. My dream is to get married, and maybe start a clan. You're up red." He said pointing to Naru who grinned and adjusted her hai-ate.
"The name is Naru Uzumaki and I like ramen, training, and Yorudan-Kun, I dislike the time it takes for ramen to cool, arrogant people who believe their better than everyone else and people who can't see past the surface, I have two dreams, first become Hokage to protect the happiness in the village, and I want to marry Yorudan-Kun." She ended blushing brightly as Zuko gave a short laugh before pointing to Rinda to introduce herself.
"I am Rinda Takeo and my likes include reading, training, Onii-san, and Ryu-kun. I hate the copying abilities of the Sharingan as they are only a shortcut to true strength and can never measure up to hard work, along with how almost everyone treats my little sister here. My only dream right now is to marry Ryu-kun." Rinda said slightly embarrassed at the end.
Grinning Ryu spoke up while resting his elbows on his knees and leaned forward "Ryu Hisanaga is my name and I really like my hime here and swords along with training. My dislikes are arrogance, traitors and ignorance including my own. Like Naru here I have two dreams, one is to become a Seal Master that can rival the Yondaime and second to marry my hime and have a lot of kids that would probably run me ragged." He said chucking at the end as Rinda had vacant a look and a slightly perverse smile.
"Yorudan Takeo here." Yorudan said. "My likes are swords, Tigers, Fire, and Naru-Hime. My dislikes are Arrogant people, ANYONE who attempts to hurt my friends especially Naru-Chan, and people who fight for only themselves, and not for others. My dreams are to become as powerful as my father once was, and…well…To marry Naru-Hime and…uh…havealotofkids."
Zuko grinned as Yorudan and Naru both blushed bright red, while Ryu and Rinda were sharing his Grin.
"Alright, now it's time for your real genin exam. The first was only to weed out the ones that really weren't suited to being a ninja, however, this test will be a lot harder as the dropout rate is 66%." He elaborated grinning at their shocked turned awed expression. "Meet me in one hour at training ground twelve for your test, be sure to be ready." He ordered before vanishing in a swirl of leaves.
"Well shit." Ryu said summing up their feelings at that point before they stood up and leapt off to prepare for the coming exam. "Ah, don't worry Ryu!" Yorudan said, possibly the most cheerful of them right then. "We're all a team now! We can do this no sweat!"
"He's right!" Naru said, smiling. "We're all on the same team, and we've been training since we could walk. We can beat this guy!"
Ryu chuckled and nodded. "I guess your right Naru." He said. "I guess you're right."
OoOoOo
Training Ground 12
Zuko was waiting for them as they entered to field that was loosely covered with rocks with a pond and a decent sized wooded area. "Good, you're on time with minutes to spare," He complimented the four as they stood in front of him, pulling out a trio of bells he held them out in front of them "These are you objectives," he explained as he tied them to his waist "You have until the sun sets to complete this objective, the one who does not obtain a bell will be sent back to the academy."
Ryu and Yorudan narrowed their eyes as both Rinda and Naru stiffened. Yorudan's brain was working overtime in an instant 'What that can't be right, all genin teams are four to five people, three or four Genin one jonin, so why say that the person who doesn't get the bell goes back to the academy?' he thought suddenly his eyes widened 'That's it, he wants us to find out if we can work as a team under similar circumstances. Hehehe, oh boy is he in for one HELL of a surprise.' Grinning he subtly signaled the others to separate than meet with him after. Seeing them nod a miniscule fraction he tensed himself.
Seeing them ready Zuko offered them one last piece of advice "Come at me with the intent to kill or you will never succeed, begin!" the minute the words left his mouth the genin vanished. 'Not bad,' he thought 'their suppressing their Chakra quite well (heh), guess it's to be expected from pranksters.'
Deep inside the tree line Yorudan and Ryu were explaining the test meaning to the girls as Naru's and Yorudan's Kage Bunshins kept a lookout for their sensei "So your saying that the point is to make sure we can work together no matter what?" Rinda asked in confirmation.
Nodding Ryu pulled out a couple sealing tags "And I have a plan," he said grinning "These are seals for the 'Fuinjutsu: Shintai Kousoko', it will restrict all movements for a period of time, it's not perfected so it won't last forever. Who will be the bait to give the others time to plant the seals?"
"We will," Naru and Yorudan volunteered "With our Kage Bunshins we can hold out a lot longer than you guys while giving cover at the same time."
"And personally," Yorudan said. "Even though this is a team effort, why don't we make it seem that we're not working as a team? I'll go out alone at first, get him thinking that I'm doing it alone, then Naru will pop out and we coordinate our attacks."
Ryu and Rinda shared a glance before nodding in agreement "Alright, just be safe won't you two?" Rinda pleaded "This is a jonin after all."
Naru flashed her fox-like grin at the two, and Yorudan gave them his signature Cat smile. "Don't worry, we'll be playing it safe." he reassured before they melded with the forest and disappeared.
Zuko sighed as he eyed the tree line 'Their planning something, could they have already figured out the purpose of the exam?' he wondered to himself as he started to move forward when suddenly a strange mist surrounded him. "What the hell?" he said. "What is this…and that smell…is this…GAS!" The moment it hit him, he heard someone shout "Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu (Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique)"
Zuko barley had enough time to get out of the gassy mist as the fireball hit the flammable gasses engulfing much of the area in a fiery explosion.
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Then, through the fire and flames, grinning like a maniac, came Yorudan Takeo. "Damn, your quick!" He said. "Not many can get out of the Katon: Kasumi Enbu no Jutsu (Fire Release: Mist Blaze Dance Technique) before I rain hell like that."
Zuko's eyes narrowed. "So, where are your friends?" he asked. "Or do you plan on taking me on by yourself?"
Yorudan smirked. "Ah, I just wanted to see how well I'd do against you on my own." He said. "I leaned a few new Jutsus a few days ago, and I've been Dying to try them out. So don't hold back on me, Ok Sensei?"
Zuko blinked once, and grinned. This kid reminds me of me! He thought. "Ok kid!" he shouted back. "Here I come! Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet" Zuko then brought out a massive water dragon from the nearby lake. Yorudan smirked. "Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Technique!" He shouted as he summoned his own Fire Dragon. The two Dragons Clashed, but even though the Water Dragon extinguished the Fire Dragon, it was dispelled into steam surrounding the area, fogging up the whole area.
Zuko landed back on the ground, waiting for his next attack. Where did you go? He thought. Then, he felt a strange heat behind him, and he ducked just in time as a Arc of fire blazed right over him. "What the?" he shouted. Then, there were more Arc's of fire that flew in from multiple directions, but Zuko managed to dodge most of them, but a few managed to singe his pants. He's good, I'll give him that…but how is he moving this fast? He thought. It's like you're fighting more than…one…that was when the mist cleared, and he then found himself surrounded by Kage Bunshins of Yorudan and Naru.
'Holy Fucking SHIT! How in the HELL do genins have this much chakra!' he shouted in his mind, panicking slightly.
Then each of the Naru Bushin's gained fox-like grins on their faces and their wakazashi's in their hands ready to go, while the Yorudan ones had Cat-like smiles with their Duel Katana's drawn. "Ready Zuko-sensei?" Naru asked slightly mockingly "'Cause here we come!"
"Well shit." The Brown haired jonin stated before launching himself back while drawing his katana at the same time "Well come on than!"
Naru and Yorudan's Kage Bunshins began to attack in random variables unable to land a hit as Zuko dodge and weaved his way through the attacking clones lashing out with his katana as he passed each clone.
Gritting his teeth Zuko planted his katana in the ground and flashed through some hand seals "Suiton: Suishoha" he intoned before his chest swelled up and spat out a large torrent of water that destroying the clones in the surrounding area. Grinning Zuko pulled his katana out of the ground "Now that's much better." he said before his danger senses flashed, jumping to the side he narrowly avoided Ryu planting a seal tag on his back.
"Shit." He growled as he put the tag away and drew Tenryu and held it parallel to the ground with his legs spread out and the finger tips of his left hand resting on the blade itself "Naru! Yorudan! Back me up!"
"Hai!" They confirmed as They started flashing through some seals "Katon: Faiāburesu (Fire Breath)" Yorudan shouted as he shot out a wave of fire from his mouth. "Fuuton: Kaze Ya" Naru intoned before inhaling and sharply exhaling several transparent arrows of wind, therefore increasing the range of the fires spread.
Cursing Zuko jumped out of the way of the arrows only for Ryu to charge at him clashing blades with his sensei "Hey sensei, you know what the swordsman's greatest weakness is?" Ryu asked seeing his skeptical look he grinned viciously. "They don't use their body." Lashing out with his fist he caught Zuko by complete surprise and managed to land the blow and leap back out of the way of Naru's 'Fuuton: Kaze Kunai'.
Zuko grunted as the kunai embedded in his skin before he poofed away reveling a log "Fucking 'Kawamari'." Naru cursed as she, Yorudan and Ryu stood back-to-back looking for Zuko. I can believe we just got Logged. Yorudan thought.
In the tree line Zuko appraised the trio 'Good idea going back to back, but where is Rinda-san?' he wondered before shrugging 'Best deal with those three first.' Sheathing his katana he flashed through a couple of handseals before whispering "Suiton: Mizu Bunshin" causing the water to rise up around them and form into copies of their sensei.
"Oh, fuck me." Ryu moaned.
"He's stealing our tricks Naru!" Yorudan said, and Naru rolled her eyes before they saw half of the clone flash through handseals and the other half move to attack "Oh fuck me sideways!" Yorudan said as they leaped and they barely managed to avoid several blasts of water but were immediately set upon by the clones that leapt to engage them.
Narrowing his eyes Ryu blocked the sword of one clone while he lashed out with his foot destroying another in a round house kick, using the momentum he spun around the clone he was blocking and punched it in the back of the head before slashing his sword against another's throat.
Yorudan ducked under one Clone's swipe, and parried another's against his sword. As another Clone came up from behind him, he separated his sword into two separate Katana's and caught the Clone's attack. He then twirled around knocking the clones off balance and stabbed them each in the chest dispelling them into water. Three more Clones Charged at him, but he smirked. "Kumo-Ryū Kaengiri (Cloud-Style Flame Beheading)" he shouted as fire enveloped his swords, and in two swipes two arcs of fire sped forward, intercepting the clones dispelling them.
Naru was leaping above clones using her agility to surprise them by attacking from odd and unusual angles flicking her hand out she embedded several shuriken into a clone before using another as a footstool to leap off of, throwing her wakazashi at the clone she just leapt off of she flashed through some seals before shouting "Fuuton: Kamaitachi!" before thrusting her hand out and sending a massive whirlwind at the clones destroying them.
Landing she recovered her sword as Ryu and Yorudan finished the last of their clones off. inhaling through her nose she caught their sensei's sent and threw a barrage of shuriken causing Zuko to abandon the position only to be met by Ryu and Yorudan who just finished a set of handseals.
"Raiton: Kougeki Boreto"-Ryu intoned thrusting out his palm and launching a bolt of lightning slamming into their sensei. "Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu" Yorudan shouted as he blasted a ball of fire, forcing him to dodge.
Just as he was recovering Rinda suddenly appeared and slapped a seal on his arm causing his joints to freeze up making him unable to do anything as Rinda gathered the bells and rejoined the others high-fiving them. "Boo-ya!" Yorudan shouted.
"Very well done, mind releasing me now?" He asked but before they could do anything the weight in his arms vanished causing him to blink in confusion and look at the oddly as he stood up.
Ryu chuckled as he scratched behind his ear "The seal isn't finished yet so it doesn't last very long unfortunately." He explained sheepishly.
Blinking Zuko stared at him "You made this?" he asked in confirmation, a nod, "Fuck, let me know when you're done, I know tons of ANBU who would give an arm and a leg for a seal like this, even incomplete." he praised causing Ryu to blush "Now who gets the bells?" he asked turning serious.
The four look at each other and nodded before Rinda tossed the bells down surprising Zuko "None of us, we're a team, if one goes back to the academy, than we all go back to the academy." Naru said with conviction.
"Besides, Iruka-sensei would give us a sensei just so that he doesn't have to put up with us again." Rinda joked giggling as Ryu smirked broadly.
"I go wherever Naru and my friends go." Yorudan stated firmly. "If that's back to the Academy, I guess I could wait to be Genin for one more year."
It started off as a giggle but soon Zaku was holding his sides in full-blown laughter as the four looked at him uncertainly wondering if they should call the nice men dressed in white to take him away for 'help'. Calming down Zuko smiled at them "Congratulations, you are the first to pass the bell test that Kakashi Hatake created to test for teamwork." he said as they stared gob smacked for a minute before they started smiling.
"We did it!" Naru shouted glomping Yorudan to the ground, and Rinda did the same for Ryu as they fell to the ground, laughing. Zuko looked on in amusement for a minute letting them celebrate before clearing his throat calling attention to himself.
"Yes you have passed, you are now team 11, meet me here tomorrow at 6 o'clock to start your training." he ordered with a grin "Now get out of here I have to report this to the Hokage."
Yorudan turned to the other's and grinned "well everyone, how about we go to Ichiraku's to celebrate?" he asked causing Naru to glomped him again and Ryu and Rinda to laugh at their antics.
Unknown to their knowledge, a figure in a black robe watched them from a distance. The figure smiled as he watched them. "You've grown up quite a bit…" the man said, standing up. "I look forward to seeing you again…Yorudan." And with that, he disappeared.
OoOoOo
Hokage's Tower
Zuko arrived in a swirl of leaves at the Hokage's office still wearing the grin "Proud to report Team 11's success Hokage-sama." He reported shocking Kakashi as the other Jonins looked on curiously "And they passed the bell test with flying colors to." He added causing the other jonin to drop their jaws in shock.
"They passed my test?" Kakashi asked finally recovering from his shock, a nod and a wider grin from Zuko "Holy shit, I knew they had good teamwork, but this is beyond anything I thought they had."
The elder Sarutobi chuckled as he surveyed the reactions "Good to hear Zuko-san, anything else?" he asked pleasantly.
"Just that they are all prodigies in their own right," she said "Naru-san's massive chakra reserves and Naru's skill with Fuuton jutsus is downright scary, she made over a hundred shadow clones and still had plenty of chakra to spare, Yorudan is almost the same when it comes too Chakra, he can make almost just as many Bunshins as Naru can, and seems to be a Pyromaniac with Fire Jutsus. Hell, the kid pulled off a Katon: Gōryūka no Jutsu (Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Technique), and Katon: Kasumi Enbu no Jutsu (Fire Release: Mist Blaze Dance Technique) that probably would have cooked me if I wasn't prepared. Ryu-san created a seal that completely restricts movement for a short period of time, and Rinda-san managed to sneak up on me while I was recovering from a nasty shock using a genjutsu to cloak herself."
By this time it should be assumed that everyone was significantly shocked to say the least, I mean who wouldn't be, you expect to hear stuff like creating over a hundred Kage Bunshins from a jonin that has train for a hundred years started the minute he or she left the womb, not a bloody genin, the only ones not in a state of near apoplexy was the Hokage, Zuko(obviously) and Kakashi who taught her and Yorudan the technique.
"Thank you Zuko-san," The Hokage said with a smile "You may go now."
Bowing Zuko left via shunshin as Kakashi started laughing at everyone's shocked expression.
117Jorn: I had a lot of fun writing this Chapter…Special thanks to DragonKnightRyu!
DragonKnightRyu: You are bloody WELCOME!