Naruto: The New Story
Chapter 4
Hey, guys! I'm glad you all like this story, and I'm glad some of you are reviewing, it makes me happy getting reviews! : )
Anyway, I was saying I'm going to use the original translation starting now. Which means a few things...
1. Shadow Clone Jutsu will just be Shadow Replication, like in the translation.
2. Last names will go first.
3. And... The other Jutsu will have the original names. So... Yeah...
There may be more, but this is all now. Bye nii~!
Kakashi-sensei was falling on the ground, blood spraying from his side. But suddenly, as I knew in the back of my mind, he turned into a log.
There was a moment of silence, just looking at each other, before Naruto grumbled. "How dare he call us stupid. Damn it, I'm never falling for his traps again." Naruto grabbed a kunai and cut the rope, making us fall. He did a few flips and landed on the ground skillfully, while I just barely landed, wobbling a little. Naruto grinned at me, but we suddenly flew up in the air again, another rope tying our ankles together. "I fell for it, ya know!" Naruto! Stop wiggling everywhere!
I... Really wasn't expecting that one. Well, there better not be anymore...
"Waaahhhh!" Naruto screamed, moving around everywhere in frustration. I, on the other hand, calmly checked for Kakashi-sensei's chakra. He wasn't nearby, and so was Sakura and Sasuke. Did they really run away?! "Not fair!"
"Naruto, stop wiggling!" I yelled, grabbing a kunai and cutting the rope again. Naruto, unprepared, fell on his back. I actually landed perfectly, somehow. "Kakashi-sensei isn't near us, but he's by Sasuke and Sakura! What should we do?"
He stood up and grumbled something, wiping the dirt off his body. He then gasped, and started grinning. "Kakashi-sensei isn't by us... Right?"
"Nope."
"Which means..." He giggled, and grabbed my wrist. "Follow me!" He began running, pulling me along with him. I sighed, already knowing what he's going to do...
"What're we doing?" I asked him anyway. He giggled again.
"I saw some food while we were tied up!" He answered.
"What're we going to do with that food?" My stomach growled. "Never mind..."
Naruto laughed. "I knew you would agree with me, ya know!"
We finally made it to the food, which was on the memorial rock thing. Surprisingly, there were two lunches. Good, cause I didn't want to share. I'm hungry!
Naruto grabbed a lunch and sat down. I did the same.
"All we have to do is eat this while hiding instead of getting a bell." Naruto laughed. His hands were in the position you would put them in to pray. "Time to eat!"
I smiled. "Yaho-hoo!"
"Hey." Someone called out to us, causing Naruto and I to jump. That was quick... I wasn't expecting him to come that fast. I jumped up and ran.
"See ya, Naruto!" I waved, running into the woods. I'm sorry, but I actually don't want to know what Kakashi-sensei does to you... All I have to do is find Sasuke, and Sakura will come on her own.
All I heard after that was Naruto screaming... I'm so sorry...
After a while of running, I found Sasuke, his body stuck underground. I looked at him, he glared at me. "...Hi."
Sakura suddenly found us, pausing her entire body as she saw Sasuke.
She stared at him, started to faint, caught herself, looked at him again, started looking sick...
"Sakura, Jalen." Sasuke had a blank face on.
That was all it took for Sakura to scream, "Now it's a severed head!" And faint on the ground. I sighed, and walked over to Sasuke.
"...How am I supposed to get you out?" I asked. He looked like he wanted to shrug.
"I don't know, it's not my Jutsu." He replied. I thought for a second, then grabbed his hair. "Ow! What are you doing?!"
"Shush." I ordered. I clenched his hair and pulled. He looked pissed now, but he was probably holding back tears. I can tell this hurts. After about a minute, he was out.
"...Thanks." He grumbled, bending down to check on Sakura.
"You're welcome." I grinned.
Sakura woke up, looking dazed. "Sasuke?" She quickly got up and hugged him. "You were OK!"
"Don't get so close!" Sasuke yelled, pushing her away. She kept trying to hug him, though... This was probably the only time she would be able to, ya know.
After all that, Sasuke looked up at the sky. "There's little time left until noon. I'm going."
"Sasuke, are you still going after that bell?" Sakura asked him.
"It's impossible, ya know." Darn, Naruto is catching on to me. "I mean, he's a Jounin."
"It doesn't matter if he's a Jounin. I was able to touch the bells a while ago." Sasuke explained. "I can get them next time."
"Huh?" Don't look so confused, Sakura. "Oh? Is that so? You're amazing, Sasuke." Don't praise him. Kakashi-sensei can easily slaughter all of us. "Um... Since we have little time left, why don't we try harder next time and give up for now." Didn't I try to tell Naruto that? I think I did...
Sasuke glared at Sakura, causing her to gasp. He turned around, making her put her head down in sadness.
"Only I can kill that man." Sasuke looked down, his bangs covering his eyes. I guess he's talking about Itachi.
"What..?" Sakura probably thinks he's talking about Kakashi-sensei. "You mean Sensei?" See, I knew it.
"I was crying at the time." Sasuke ignored Sakura.
"Crying..?" Sakura, just listen.
"My..."
"What? What are you talking about?" Sakura looked terrified. I don't know if I should say anything or not... I guess I won't...
"I'm an avenger. I must become stronger than him." Sasuke told us. "I don't have time to stumble here."
"But, maybe it would be better for us all to work together." I told him, but he shook his head.
"You two would hold me back. I must do this alone." Suddenly, we all heard a bell ringing. Was it time already?! "Damn it, I wasted my time talking." Sasuke cursed, looking down again. He started to walk away.
"Sasuke..." Sakura whispered, watching him go.
I started to follow him, and I guess Sakura was following me. I didn't care, because it doesn't really matter.
After a few minutes, we were all sitting down in front of the four logs. Well, Naruto was tied up, glaring at me. I'm sorry, Naruto... But... I was scared. Please, forgive me! Well, Kakashi-sensei was looking down at us in pity.
My stomach started growling, and it didn't take long to realize everyone's were.
"Oh? Your stomachs are growling, eh?" Kakashi-sensei asked us. "By the way, about the results of this training..." He put up a finger. "None of you need to go back to the Ninja Academy."
Naruto smiled and Sakura looked confused. "Huh? But all I did was faint. Is that OK?"
Sasuke also smiled a little. I tried to put up a fake smile, but it wouldn't work, since I knew what was coming.
Sakura started jumping up and down, dancing.
"Does that mean, we four..?" Naruto started.
Kakashi-sensei smiled. "Yep. You four..." They didn't let him finish. They just started celebrating, even though Naruto was tied up. "Should quit being Ninja!"
They paused. Everything paused. We all just looked at Kakashi-sensei, processing what he said.
Sakura looked sick, Naruto did too, and Sasuke looked mad. I just stared at Kakashi-sensei blankly.
"Quit being Ninja?! What do you mean?!" Naruto shouted. "We couldn't get a bell, but why do you have to say we should quit?!"
"It's because you four are just kids who don't deserve to be Ninja." Kakashi-sensei told us.
Sasuke growled and charged at Kakashi-sensei. Naruto gasped, and Sakura yelled, "Sasuke!"
A second passed, and Sasuke was on the ground, Kakashi-sensei on top of him. He was stepping on Sasuke's head, holding his arm behind his back.
"Don't step on Sasuke!" Sakura yelled, looking pissed. Sasuke looked like he was about to cry... Man...
"Do you guys think being a Ninja is easy?" Kakashi-sensei asked us.
"No!" I immediately answered. "Of course not! How could killing and stealing and sneaking around be easy?! Nothing about being a Ninja is easy, you could die any moment!"
"Exactly!" Kakashi-sensei said. "Why do you think we're training by breaking up into groups?"
"What do you mean?" Sakura asked him.
"In other words, you four don't understand the answer in this test." Kakashi-sensei told us. Why are you being so difficult, Sensei?!
"Answer?" Naruto looked confused, or bored.
"That's right. The answer to determine whether you pass or fail." But... We don't know! Well, I know. They don't.
"We've been asking what that is..." Sakura whined.
"Geez, are your brains empty? You don't understand why your all in a group?" Kakashi-sensei asked.
"So what about four people being in a group, ya know?!" Naruto was mad, now.
"It's... Teamwork." Kakashi-sensei told them. They all gasped, and looked at me. Yep, I've been telling them this for a while now. And they know.
"You mean, cooperate with each other?" Sakura asked.
"That's right, but it's too late even if you notice now." Kakashi-sensei glared. "If all four of you come at me at once, maybe you could have gotten a bell." His face was black again. "But, that's too bad."
"Why do we need to use teamwork when there's only two bell?" Sakura asked. "If four people work hard to get it, two people will have to bite the bullet. A group conflict will occur instead of teamwork." ...She's right.
"Of course. This test tries to put you four against each other." Then what's the point of teamwork?!
"What?"
"In this situation, we select those who can prioritize teamwork before themselves." Kakashi-sensei explained. "That was the purpose, but all of you were pathetic."
"Hey! Not me!" I shouted. "I actually urged everyone to work together!"
"But when things got tough or frightening for you, you abandoned the only person that would work together with you." Kakashi-sensei told me. I looked down, while Naruto was probably smirking at me. Probably not, though. "And Sakura." She looked surprised. "You cared more about Sasuke than Naruto, even though Naruto was right in front of you and you didn't know where Sasuke was." True. "Naruto. All you did was make decisions on your own. When Jalen actually had a good idea, you shot it down and continued doing the same bad idea you were thinking of doing. It's the same as doing things by yourself." True. He stepped on Sasuke's head harder and looked at him. "And you assumed that those three were going to burden you and did everything on your own." He looked at us again. "Missions are done in groups. It's true that Ninja need well-developed individual abilities, but it's teamwork that is much more important. An individual action that disrupts the teamwork will result in danger or even death of the teammates." He went in his Ninja pouch and took out a kunai. "For example..." He brought the kunai to Sasuke's neck. "Sakura! Kill Naruto or Sasuke's going to die!"
"Wha!" Naruto and Sakura gasped. Naruto looked terrified and Sakura looked shocked. I actually looked shocked too, cause I forgot about this part.
"That's what will happen." Kakashi-sensei told us. Sasuke looked embarrassed, and closed his eyes. I wonder... Is he holding back tears?
"Oh, you surprised me..." Sakura gasped.
I laughed. "It would have just been better for Sakura to attack you, cause if she would have killed Naruto, it's not certain that you wouldn't have still killed Sasuke."
"Yep." Kakashi-sensei spun his kunai in his hand. "After getting someone taken hostage, you will be faced with a difficult decision, and someone will die." He put the kunai back in his pouch and got off of Sasuke. "In every mission, you put your life on the line." Sasuke just glared, not getting up. "Look at this, the numerous names carved into this stone." Sasuke got up. "All these names are those praised as heroes in this village."
"I like that! I like that!" Naruto grinned. Poor Naruto... "I've decided that I'm going to have my name carved into that! A hero! A hero! I'm not going to die a useless death!" Sasuke walked over to us. Man, he's moving slow.
"But, they're not normal heroes."
"So what kind of heroes were they, ya know?" Naruto asked, totally oblivious to the fact they were all dead. Kakashi-sensei didn't answer him. "Come on, tell me."
"Those who were K.I.A." Was Kakashi-sensei's only answer.
Naruto looked shocked for a moment, but smiled again. "K.I.A?"
"Those who were killed in action..." Sakura's voice was low... In a sad way.
Naruto smiled awkwardly, and paused. He slowly looked down and frowned. I frowned too.
"This is a Cenotaph." Kakashi-sensei looked at the stone. "The name's of my friends are carved on here as well."
Everyone looked sad now. Even me, and I actually knew this already. Just... Really thinking about it makes me sad...
Kakashi-sensei turned back towards us. "I'll give you one more chance. However, the battle for the bell will be much harsher after lunch. Eat lunch only if you are up to the challenge. But, don't let Naruto eat!"
"Eh?!"
"This is the punishment for breaking the rules and trying to eat lunch early." He gave us a dark look. "If anyone feeds him, that person will automatically fail." We all looked at him in dislike. "I'm the rule here, got it?"
He teleported or whatever away. Sasuke, Sakura and I grabbed a lunch and started to eat. Naruto just grumbled, his stomach growling.
After about a minute, Naruto yelled, "I'm OK, even if I don't eat! I'm ok, ya know!" His stomach grumbled again.
"Here ya go, Naruto!" I grabbed my food and held it in front of him. I don't sense Kakashi-sensei anywhere, so that's both bad and good. I... Won't explain.
"Hey! Jalen! Sensei just said that..." Sakura started, but I interrupted her.
"I don't sense anyone near us, so he won't know." I told her. "Naruto needs all the energy he can get."
"I agree." Woohooo! Sasuke, you're finally becoming a little likeable! "We three are going to get the bells together." He held his food in front of Naruto also.
Sakura gulped, and held out her food to Naruto too. Naruto looked at her wide eyed, probably thinking this is a dream. Naruto's eyes got teary, and Sakura smiled.
"Thanks..." Naruto was really about to cry.
"You don't need to thank me, just eat, hurry..." Sakura urged.
"But, um..."
"I'm on a diet, I mean..." LOL. WHAT?! WHY?! "I eat less than Sasuke." Oh really? "So just hurry and eat."
"But..." He tried to move his arms. "See..?"
Sakura looked like she was about to kill Naruto for that split instant.
"Hurry, we don't know when he'll be back." Sasuke told them. I nodded. Well, I think I would sense him...
"I'm only going to do this once. You understand?!" Sakura was shaking now. She really looked mad.
"I understand, ya know." Naruto smiled. Sakura moved the chopsticks to Naruto's mouth, and Naruto ate the rice happily. Sakura looked irritated.
Suddenly, a cloud of smoke appeared in front of us, creating a gust of wind! What the heck?! Why didn't I sense him earlier?! What's going on?!
"You four!" Kakashi-sensei yelled, charging out of the smoke. I quickly grabbed a kunai and stood in front of Naruto, trying to defend him. Naruto just yelled. So did Sakura, shielding her face. Sasuke just looked prepared to fight. "You four broke the rule. Are you prepared for the punishment?" He started doing handsigns. What? I don't remember that... His chakra changed, it was rising. Which meant he was charging for an intense Jutsu... "Any last words?" Black clouds were in the sky, lightning charging up in them.
Sasuke glared, Sakura was on her knees, holding her head with her eyes closed, and I was still holding my kunai in a defensive form, a little scared though...
I couldn't see Naruto, since he was behind me... But I heard him say, "But..."
"Huh?" Kakashi-sensei tilted his head.
"But... But... But..." Naruto started to yell. "You said..! Ya know! That's why these three..." He looked at us.
"We're a four man team, right?!" Sasuke asked.
Sakura looked up, suddenly not scared anymore and shouted. "Yeah! We four are one!"
I smirked, sweat running down my face. "We had to do it, cause as you said earlier, teamwork is everything!"
"Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!" Naruto yelled, trying to break free from the ropes binding him. "That's right, ya know!"
"You three are one, eh?" Kakashi-sensei walked closer to us. He stared at us for a while... I noticed his chakra level returned to normal. He smiled. "You pass."
Moment of silence...
"...Huh?"
"You pass."
"Pass? Why?" Sakura looked speechless.
"You three are the first..." Kakashi-sensei told us. The black clouds were going away, showing the sun. "People I had previously were blockheads who just listened to what I said." He looked up at us. "Ninja are those who need to think beyond the normal. In the world of Ninja, those who break the rules are called scum. But those who don't take care of their friends are worse than scum."
Sakura smiled, Naruto was teary eyed, Sasuke smirked, and I laughed. This was a fun day, even though we came here super early, and Sensei came late... I really liked being with everyone. And that ending with the clouds and everything.. Awesome. I can't believe I forgot about that... And actually thought he was gonna kill us.
"He's... He's kind of cool." Naruto said, smiling widely.
"The training ends here." Kakashi-sensei told us. "Everyone passes! The 7th group will start doing missions starting tomorrow!" He gave us a thumbs up... Which I knew I deserved after all of this.
"Yes, sir!" Sakura exclaimed, also smiling. Sasuke just had his eyes closed, I guess too cool for this.
"I did it! I'm a Ninja, Ninja, Ninja!" Naruto laughed.
"Yaho-hoo! I passed! I actually passed!" I cheered, jumping around.
"Let's go home." Kakashi-sensei turned around and started to walk away. Sasuke and Sakura followed. I cut Naruto's rope to free him, and grabbed his wrist.
He giggled, and we ran towards Kakashi-sensei and the others. In the original series he was actually left behind. I wonder how he got free...
"So, Naruto?" I whispered to him. "Sakura actually fed you. I think this is a good sign."
"Really, really?" Naruto asked, and I nodded. "Well, of course Sakura would feed me in my time of need, ya know! She's so caring and considerate." She wouldn't have done it if I didn't say anything...
After a while of talking, we were finally back in the village. I saw Ino's team talking in front of Ichiraku Ramen. Well, mostly Chouji was arguing with everyone else. Asuma was trying to calm down the heated conversation.
"Hey, Kakashi-sensei?" I called out to him. "Why don't we celebrate by getting Ichiraku Ramen? It's pretty early to just go home."
"Sure." He agreed, making Naruto cheer.
"Really?! Woohoo!" He jumped around. "Ramen! Ramen! Ramen!" It's sad... He doesn't know I'm just doing this to get an opportunity to talk with Ino.
Sakura started to scold. "Now, Naruto. Calm down. I don't want people looking at us weird." Naruto stopped, and we walked over to Ichiraku Ramen.
"Ino?" I gasped in fake surprise as we were near them. She stopped arguing with Chouji and looked over at us. She then gasped and started to blush.
"Sasuke!" She ran over to us and hugged Sasuke, making me fall down Anime Style. Why did she immediately notice Sasuke and not me? I'm way cooler than Sasuke, ya know! Damn it, Naruto! Stop messing up my sentences!
Sasuke had an irritated expression on while Sakura glared at Ino. "Hey, pig. Get off of him!"
Ino smirked at her. "Oh? Sakura's here too?" She hugged Sasuke tighter. "I'm so sorry you have to put up with her, Sasuke..."
"Get off of him!" Sakura pushed Ino away, and they started yelling insults right away. They were talking so fast I could barely understand them.
Now I'm sad... She didn't even notice my presence... I feel like Sai... But she likes Sai, I think...
...
I'm pathetic..
"Hello, Kakashi." Asuma greeted. "Did you just finish testing them?" Kakashi-sensei nodded. "Did they pass?"
"Of course we did, ya know!" Naruto fist bumped the air.
"That's good. These guys passed too." Asuma gestured to Shikamaru and Chouji.
"Hi." I greeted.
"Hello." Shikamaru greeted back. "We met at the Academy, right?"
"Yeah, you were questioning why I was there." This small talk is making me hungry... "Anyway, what were you guys arguing about? I saw you guys over here having what seemed like a heated discussion."
Ino stopped arguing and rushed over to me. "Well..." Is this what you call bipolar? "Chouji here wanted to eat barbeque, while I wanted ramen!" So... It's just as I thought...
"I don't really care what we eat." Shikamaru shrugged.
"I'm just trying to calm these kids down." Asuma said to me.
Chouji just turned around in anger, not wanting to negotiate at all.
"Well, we were just getting ramen... But maybe we should go get barbeque. I'm just hungry, so I don't care where we go." I told them. "If Chouji really wants barbeque, then let's get barbeque today and ramen some other time, OK? It's better to just negotiate."
"Yeah, Jalen's right." I didn't ask you to agree, Sakura. "Come on, arguing over something like food is pointless. Only people like you would do it, Ino." Shut up, Sakura...
"Excuse me?!" Ino exclaimed. Uh-oh... "I just think eating barbeque is too fatty! I'm on a di... I mean..." Is every girl in this village on a diet?! "I'm just trying to help Chouji! He's going to be super fa-"
"What?!" Chouji glared at Ino. Uh-oh...
"Wha!" Shikamaru looked scared. He grabbed Chouji's wrist and led him away. "Jalen's right! Let's go eat barbeque!" I sweatdropped while Ino just sighed.
"So... No ramen?" Naruto asked. Did you not hear that whole conversation?
"Next time, OK?" Why do I feel so much older than everyone else? Well, I am older than Naruto, but I don't know about the rest. I think I'm older than Sasuke too... Speaking of Sasuke...
He just grunted and followed Team... 10? I think that's what they are.
"Well, let's have fun, kids." Kakashi-sensei smiled and walked to the barbeque place too. Sakura ran after Sasuke, leaving Naruto and I behind.
"Well?" I began to walk too. "You comin', Naruto?"
Naruto was silent for a moment, just having a blank look, before he smiled cheerfully and put his arm around my shoulder. "Of course! I'm starving!"
Well, I hoped everyone liked this. It might take longer to update now, since I'm going to be working on my other fics... So...
Please review and stuff! I love it when you guys do! Bye nii~!
