The Old Will of Fire

This is my favorate chapter so far and I'm glad its up now

hope you enjoy!

I Do Not Own Naruto

Chapter 4

Sarutobi sat down silently as this would take a long time to explain to the two young leaf shinobi. "My sensei, Shodai Hokage, often talked about an ancient type of ... jutsu would be the best word to describe it, he was so fond of this technique he based the village's virtue off of it. The Will of Fire that Konoha is so proud of for having it each and every one of their shinobi was once on the outside as well."

Naruto and Sasuke went wide-eyed at this statement but nodded for the old ninja to continue. "Well my teacher so often talked about it that I happen to know much of the supposed legend. It is very powerful but also very rare which is why mystery surrounds this topic. The flames were used as weapons of the shinobi who were either extremely lucky or chosen by fate. The Kyuubi has nothing to do with this miracle, Naruto you have the Will of Fire inside and out and I'm very proud of you." The old Hokage would have liked to add that his father would also be very proud but decided Naruto had enough on his mind tonight. After answering some of Sasuke's and Naruto's questions, The professor took his leave without realising how excited Naruto and Sasuke were of his new found "miracle".

"Naruto! Do you know what this means? With your fire... thingy, you really need to name it and my Sharingan we could become the best shinobi ever." Surprised by Sasuke's sudden outburst so full of joy and...innocence, Naruto couldn't help but smile at his new friend, who got embarrassed and returned to his usual answer "Hn"

"You should get going Naruto, sensei will probably turn up hours late again but we still need to be on time"

"Umm Sasuke? Do you think it would be alright if I slept over because I thought it would be cool since we are friends and all and I've never had a sleep over and..." Naruto trailed off. The last thing Sasuke wanted to do as reject Naruto as he seemed so dam lonely but he still wasn't on good terms with his house and wanted to keep Naruto out of that big mess. So Sasuke chose to be the bad guy this time.

"That's probably not a good idea" Sasuke said firmly.

"oh, ok cool, see you tomorrow" Naruto said defeated. Naruto's head was hung low as he walked out of the Uchiha compound and just as Sasuke was starting to feel regret, he reminded himself how no body he cared about would get hurt again. Sasuke decided all those years ago that he just wouldn't get close to anyone so he wouldn't have to worry if anyone got hurt but it was too late with Naruto so he chose the next best option, protecting him from himself as Itachi came above all else, he had to get revenge for himself and his clan. At that moment he decided to push Naruto away as Itachi's cold dark eyes entered his mind.

The next day at the training ground that was to become their regular spot, Sakura was the first to arrive in her usual attitude, Sasuke arrived next in a particularly dark mood and even though Sakura admired the Uchiha, she was not stupid and decided to back off this time and not ask for a date so soon.

"Hi Sasuke, how was your night?"

"Get lost" answered Sasuke in a low voice. Sakura took the message because at that point in time, Sakura's fear for Sasuke overcame her love for him. Naruto arrived an hour late with an unusual neutral expression plastered on it. Sakura bounced over to ask Naruto what was wrong in an attempt to avoid the awkwardness of Sasuke telling her to get lost. Sasuke just looked at Naruto with an expression of doubt which turned to a glare when Naruto turned his way. The look on Naruto's face was enough to make plants die after that but Sasuke kept telling himself over and over in his head, he was doing the right thing by his friend. Just as the conversation between Sakura and Naruto was about to begin, their sensei exploded into the clearing with a Shunshin that kicked up the leaves all around him. The copy-cat ninja greeted his team with one of his eye smiles as he made up some excuse for him being late. Naruto perked up automatically wanting to train to get him out of a bad mood.

"Hello kiddies" Kakashi said with a smile. "Today will be a test to see if you can become Genin." Kakashi held up two bells as he said the next part, "you will have until noon to get these bells from me, there are only two so that means one of you will fail, oh and if you don't come at me with the intent to kill, Just go home now" The three Genin now stood in their fighting stances then Kakashi said "Go" and they all vanished looking for cover to plan for the next move. Kakashi was impressed at the stealth of his students as they could fool a low level Chuunin but not a Jounin like him. Several moments later a scream was heard all over the training ground as Sakura to fell to a Genjutsu cast by Kakashi to look like Sasuke was covered in kunai and blood. Naruto was the next to attack with his shadow clones, wanting to keep his fire powers a secret for now, he was easily beaten by the experienced Jounin and was forced to hang upside down in a trap while Kakashi went to find Sasuke. Sasuke appeared in front of the former ANBU captain with a confident smirk on his face. While the exchanged blows, Sasuke was quickly outmatched and buried up to his head in the ground. Naruto who had managed to set the trap on fire and burning the ropes off of him was thinking he finally got the idea of this exam ran off to find Sakura but sent a couple clones to keep Kakashi busy.

"Pssst Sakura" Naruto whispered trying not alert their sensei to their position. Sakura whipped around quick enough to make Naruto flinch but her eyes eased as she realised it was just Naruto.

"What do you want Naruto? I'm running out of time and me and Sasuke need to get a bell to become Genin" Naruto felt a little hurt that she was so ready to throw him away for herself and Sasuke.

"Listen, I figured out this test and I know how we can all pass" Naruto said with a cheeky grin

"Yeah right, you are the dead last remember as If you could figure anything out that Sasuke couldn't"

"Listen Sakura, I want to pass this test and if you help me you will get to work with that bastard, Sasuke." As soon as Sasuke's name was mentioned she agreed with a slight nod. Naruto and Sakura ran out into a clearing to find a sight that they thought they would never see, it made Sakura scream in fear and Naruto laugh in joy, it was Sasuke buried up to his neck in the ground.

"Listen Sasuke, you don't like me but I want to pass and I need your help and you need my help with this." Naruto stated

Sasuke not wanting to hurt the boy's feelings anymore or make him feel friendly again answered with a simple "whatever" and then Naruto set his clones to dig out Sasuke while he explained his plan.

Kakashi was getting sick of striking 'Naruto's' only to have them poof away. His prayers were answered when he saw all three Genin coming at him from opposite sides, hoping they had figured out that they needed teamwork to win. Naruto charged in first with a battle cry and started violently swinging at his new sensei trying to land a hit but was countered and sent flying through the air by his teacher, then Sakura came and started throwing shuriken and kunai at the copy-cat ninja, Kakashi easily deflected them as Naruto was back up and now Sakura and Naruto engaged him at the same time. This made Kakashi smile as he thought at least two of them got it but was slightly confused as to why Sasuke was just sitting there and watching. Kakashi finally put a few metres in between him and the two attacking Genin and that's when Sasuke moved, he sped through hand signs and took a deep inhale before yelling,

"Katon! Goukakyuu no Jutsu!"

Kakashi's eyes widened as he realised that the trajectory of the fire ball was going to go straight through Sakura and Naruto to get to him. He wasted no time in reacting trying to save his students from his other student's stupidity or utter lack of care but before he could act, Naruto pushed Sakura out of the way and took the fire ball head on with a blood curdling scream, Naruto was completely engulfed by the flame, Kakashi acted quickly and made a small Suiton jutsu to put out the flame and to check on his beloved sensei's son.

"NARUTO? NARUTO ? Sakura run and get a medic, Sasuke run for cover, this is inexcusable and you better hope I don't find you anytime soon."

Kakashi was surprised that Naruto was still on fire as he was sure that he had put it out with his jutsu but he hadn't checked on Naruto's condition as he was barking orders at his students. What surprised Kakashi more was that Sakura and Sasuke were just standing there with a smile on their face, Kakashi thought they couldn't possibly be this heartless but had his thoughts interrupted when there was a tug at his waist where the bells were located, he looked down to see a Naruto, completely covered in flames, Smiling from ear to ear, with two bells in his hands.

"Sensei, we passed your exam "Naruto said with a smile still glued to his face.

After having Naruto explain the situation and their plan to him he felt pride swell up in his chest knowing his students were going to be among the best. Kakashi took Naruto aside to discuss his "power" while Sakura attempted talking with Sasuke only to fail miserably.

-Time skip-

The night the Genin had gone through their final test, there was a meeting for the Jounin's to report the failure or success of their students. Yuuhi Kurenai stood forward and announced proudly that her team had passed with flying colours. Sarutobi Asuma was the next to announce the results of his team, he told the room they had passed and had a lot of potential once they grew into the life of a shinobi. Everybody was packing up, ready to leave because they knew Hatake Kakashi was next and he never passed a team but all got a very big surprise when Kakashi stood forward.

"Hokage-sama, team 7 consisting of Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura and Uzumaki Naruto have...passed" announced Kakashi with one of his famous 'eye smiles'.

END

well that's it and there might not be some up for a week or two because I'm on holidays and loving it :P

Cya!