Hi guys, long time no upload, no idea how long it's been but it sure has been a while, I've just had my mocks so I found that I had some free to write and I managed to produce this 4th chapter. YAY! Anyway, hope you haven't been too disappointed with the long wait (hope you remember what happened before as well lol xD) and finally, I hope you review!
At 7:30am in the morning exactly, in a classroom in the ninja academy in Konoha, a bunch of Genin were getting ready for their Genin tests. Sakura, Naruto and Hinata walked in together and were hit with a bout of nostalgia of their old lives.
"Everything used to be so easy… we could just play around… I wish we could go back to being like that." Sakura said wistfully.
"Remember, we have to act like our old selves to keep suspicion away from us." Hinata reminded Sakura.
Naruto suddenly whipped his head around. "What! Do you mean I have to act all competitive against Sasuke again even if I am so much better than him? Also, do I have to accidentally… kiss him as well?" Naruto added the last bit with a look of sheer horror on his face.
Sakura gave a devious look and a wink to Hinata while Naruto was freaking out and said "Well, who knows? If you change what happened in the past, there may be dreadful consequences in the future."
Sakura hadn't even finished the sentence before Naruto had started running in circles screaming he didn't want to relive that event again while everyone else didn't pay any attention to him as they thought that he was just being normal.
However, he wouldn't have a chance to (luckily for him); Iruka-sensei was standing behind him giving him a 'you-are-in-trouble' look.
"What are you doing again, Naruto?" Iruka asked with an exasperated tone to his voice as if he had asked this question for decades. "Just go sit down. I'm not in the mood today."
Naruto gave Sakura and Hinata an evil look seeing them already in their seats and pretending to be all sweet-like smiling at him. Naruto stuck his tongue out at them but was swiftly knocked on the head by a watchful Iruka. Naruto then, without a word, skulked to his seat, next to Sasuke.
"Well, as you all know, today is the Genin exams day! I hope you all are ready!" Iruka exclaimed the cheerfulness in his voice back again. Everybody cheered except for Sasuke who just sat there with a bored look on his face.
"Please come to the front one by one please. The test will be…. (drum roll) the Clone Jutsu!"
One by one, everyone including Sakura and Hinata stepped up to the front passing the test easily. Then, came Naruto's turn. Everyone watched as he walked slowly down the steps to the front of the classroom, with everyone muttering and trading expectations of the outcome.
The only reason Naruto was walking slowly and not his usual jumpiness of rushing about was because he was thinking. Thinking very hard. About whether he should deliberately fail… or ace the test completely. This was because he was heeding Sakura's (joke) warning from earlier on saying that if you changed something from the past, there will be dreadful consequences in the future.
He finally reaches to the front of the classroom.
"Grr, this is a complication…" Naruto thought. "Oh what the heck, I'll just fail and make sure nothing bad happens… but by failing I might have lost Sasuke's respect and make him seek more power elsewhere… this is bad I need to think of something really quickly…"
"Naruto? You can start now…" Iruka said, seeing him standing there.
"Alright, I'll just play it safe and fail…" said Naruto, resigned to failing again. "I'll just throw as little chakra into it as possible and it should come out as a fail."
Once he decided, he shaped a seal, shut his eyes tight and cried "Clone Jutsu!"
Next to him a perfectly formed clone of Naruto himself staring meekly back at him. Naruto's face blanched while everyone else's face rose in shock.
In the rows of seats, Sakura and Hinata giggled. They both knew that when Naruto failed before, he did not master the clone jutsu properly and that once you learn it, no matter how little chakra you put in it, it will be a successful clone… just a very weak one!
While everyone was still shocked at Naruto's success, Iruka shook his head and smiled proudly at Naruto.
"Well, it looks like you pass! After all those years… thank goodness I don't have to put up with you anymore!" Iruka said while trying to hold back tears.
Iruka got over his moment of sentimentalism quickly and announced that they would be put into teams.
"Alright, that's all for today, I'm extremely proud to have been a teacher of a class of which every one of you passed. You will officially be put into your teams tomorrow, so don't be late!"
Everyone cheered as they left the classroom in good spirits leaving Iruka-sensei smiling and teary-eyed.
The next day, everyone was punctual as they were all excited about their new teams. As Iruka-sensei entered the room, everyone was still chatting away about who they would want on their team and who they wouldn't want.
"Okay, now, everyone be quiet, it's time… to announce the teams!" proclaimed Iruka.
Everyone cheered whilst Iruka prepared the cue cards he was given.
"Ok, Team 1, Sakamato Takami, Kyou Ekudo and Kanade Takenami.
Team 2, Jyunsei Kita, Shouwa Nakahiisa and Touma Daimon …a…few…teams…later…
Team 7, Uchiha Sasuke, Kiba Inuzuka and Shino Aburame.
Team 8, Hyuga Hinata, Uzumaki Naruto and Haruno Sakura (at this, Naruto's face lit up while Sakura's face dropped into one of sadness, all pretend of course…)
Team 9, Deiwa Natsume, Nareji Keima and Gin Toshiki.
and finally, Team 10, Yamanako Ino, Nara Shikamaru and Akimichi Chouji.
Now everyone…" Iruka said, while tears in his eyes formed. "It has been a pleasure to teach you and I'm so very proud of every one of you for passing. Alright, now all you need to do is wait for your new tutors."
Iruka then walked out of the classroom leaving his pupils behind, gossiping about who they got and how tough it will be.
Meanwhile, Naruto, Hinata and Sakura got together and started playing card games.
Seeing this, Shikamaru came over, "Oi, what're you doing? Shouldn't you be waiting for your tutor?"
Naruto swiftly replied without looking up, "Kakashi's always late anyway, we might as well do something to while away the time… oh, Hinata that was cheating! I was distracted talking to Shika over here!"
Shikamaru raised his eyebrows, mulling over the fact that Naruto had just called Kakashi by his first name casually without adding the suffix –sensei or even –san. Also, Naruto had called him by the shortened version of his name: Shika, something only close friends would call him. There was certainly something wrong here. As he walked away, he decided to keep an eye on this team.
As all the teams left with their team leader, only our three protagonists were left and finally, Kakashi decided to show up.
Naruto, Hinata and Sakura all sensed him a long way off but decided to play it dumb and carry on playing carelessly and pretended to be surprised when Kakashi suddenly shunshinned right next to them.
Kakashi eyed them lazily and said: "There's no point really doing anything today… meet me tomorrow in the clearing next to the lake at 6 AM sharp tomorrow… and remember, don't eat anything… otherwise… you may suffer bad consequences…" his voice changing from lazy to menacing.
The three kids pretended to look frightened and nodded silently.
"Alright, that's it then, seeya tomorrow" Kakashi said brightly and disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Naruto, Sakura and Hinata all looked at each other and started to roll on the floor, suffering from intense laughter.
When tomorrow came, Naruto, Sakura and Hinata went to the clearing at 9AM sharp, with a full breakfast meal safely tucked away in their bellies and yet, they were still an hour too early.
When Kakashi arrived, the three kids were lazing around the pool casually enjoying the breeze. Kakashi looked with a vaguely shocked expression but put it all to youthful complacency. He quickly announced his presence by throwing a few kunai at the genin and they quickly rushed over to Kakashi.
"Alright, you guys, today, we'll be doing the bell test. The aim of this is to take the bells from me. If you manage to do that, you pass."
"But Kakashi… -sensei, there are only 2 bells!" Naruto intelligently pointed out.
"Therefore only 2 of you can pass." Kakashi said while his eye turned into a U-shaped smile.
"Can we begin then? Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura confidently asked, while Hinata also did not look at all phased by the test.
Kakashi thought to himself "Theyareeitherreallyconfidentintheirabilities,orarejustplainstupid."
Once Kakashi initiated the test, all three genin started to run straight at Kakashi with Naruto heading the gang with Sakura and Hinata close behind.
Kakashi thought to himself "AnotherbunchofrecklessgeninIsee…"
However, Naruto suddenly spinned off one way allowing Sakura to throw a powerful punch at Kakashi, who managed to dodge it just in time, also noticed that Hinata had disappeared from behind Sakura.
Kakashi realised that these were not normal genin and decided that he shouldn't be too casual about this.
After dodging Sakura's punch, Naruto came rushing in with kunai in hand but Kakashi kicked at it revealing that it was only a shadow clone. The real Naruto came up behind Kakashi and dealt a kick to his back causing Kakashi to lean forward and suddenly Hinata came rushing out of the trees with a flying kick aimed for Kakashi's hand, trying to make him release his grip on the bells. However, Kakashi was equal to this, spinning into the air avoiding Hinata's attack and dealt a counter attack with a spinning kick aimed for Hinata which she easily dodged with a few backflips.
Kakashi suddenly realised that he was surrounded by the three genin, and as all three attacked at the same time, Naruto aiming for Kakashi's head with a high kick, Hinata using her gentle fist to attack Kakashi's midriff, and Sakura with a sliding tackle on Kakashi's leg, Kakashi found no way to escape their attacks physically and had to resort to a substitution technique to escape.
However, Kakashi's brief respite was not to last very long as behind him, another Naruto clone was swiping at the bells touching them before Kakashi yanked them away, but this brief lapse in concentration proved decisive as Naruto, and about 10 of his clones, as well as Sakura and Hinata all attacked Kakashi together causing the bells to fall away from his hands into the hands of Hinata who was ready for it.
When Kakashi looked up, he saw three triumphant genin standing before him. "Well, I don't know what to say, obviously, you're stronger than most genin and you managed to work in a team so very well it seemed you were together for a very long period of time. I have no choice but to say you pass."
At this the three genin jumped up and high-fived each other.
"Okay, you three, since you passed today's test so easily and in such a short period of time, what say we go to Ichiraku's Ramen shop to eat some ramen?"
Both Sakura and Hinata looked at Naruto but strangely, Naruto refused, saying "Sorry, Kakashi-sensei, but we're busy training this afternoon, so we can't go to eat."
"Hmm, ah well, more time for me to catch up on my reading then, seeya guys!" and disappeared in a poof.
Sakura and Hinata both looked at Naruto bewildered.
He looked back at them. "What?"
Sakura managed a few words "Y-y-you r-refused r-r-r-r-RAMEN?"
"Yerp, and besides, I want to test out how much I can achieve in this body."
Hinata then asked "So you want to train?"
"Of course." Said Naruto with that gleam of determination in his eyes which had inspired many young ninjas in the distant future…
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