Hey there readers! heres chapter four, before we get started, i have to say now that the test for genin is meant to be more challingeing, and the poll isnt closed yet, the team doesnt arrive today.
The True Genin Test
Three days after that busy day, we find Naruto sitting on the edge of his clearing taking a small break from the Taijutsu training, and more specifically working on a seal in paper. Though hard at work, Naruto's mind drifted into two days before, his first real training session with his new friend.
*flashback*
Naruto walked toward the clearing of the training ground, carrying his new staff, wondering what actual training from another person was like. When he reached the clearing at Tenten's training ground. When suddenly he came upon a sight that no one could see without nearly vomiting. He saw a man, but the scary part was the thing he was wearing, it was… green. He slowly took every detail of the man in, as if it was a disaster zone.
'Bowl cut, spandex, eyebrows, leg warmers, this guy is a walking freak show!' Naruto thought to himself. After thinking that there was no possible way this could get worse, he heard a yosh, turning away, he actually yelped in surprise.
'ANOTHER ONE?' he screamed inside his head as he saw a shorter version of the man, in exactly the same outfit, minus flak jacket, point at him. He almost wanted to run away, but then he saw the other two in the training ground. One he recognized as Tenten, and the other, was a guy with white eyes and a loose outfit, and what he could tell from here, a Sasuke ego. Before he could continue his observations, the two spandex clad ninja were in front of him.
"Hello my youthful comrade!" the older one started, "what brings you to this training ground on this youthful day?" he asked showing his impossibly white teeth.
"uhh…" Naruto replied smoothly. He thanked Kami when Tenten came over.
"I met him at the shinobi supplies store." She explained smoothly, "he helped me with restocking my weapons and I offered to train him in bojutsu." she finished.
"Ah, what a youthful thing to do!" the taller one said, "I am Tenten's Jonin sensei Mite Guy what is your name?" he asked.
Naruto being who he was forgot what he was talking to, and began his introduction.
"I AM NARUTO UZUMAKI! THE GODAIME HOKAGE OF KONOHAGAKURE NO SATO! DATTEBAYO!" he yelled to the heavens, he heard a deep breath, and his psyche was totally shattered.
And Gai, being who he was, made his comment. "YOSH! YOUR YOUTH IS INSPIREING NARUTO-KUN! I WILL DO 1000 PUSH UPS FOR YOUR YOUTH!" he yelled scaring Naruto back to this world.
"GAI SENSEI! I WILL DO 2000 PUSH UPS FOR NARUTO-KUN'S YOUTH!" the younger one said.
"LEE!"
"GAI SENSEI!"
"LEE!"
"GAI SENSEI!"
"LEE!"
"GAI SENSEI!"
He vaguely heard the cry of Tenten to look away over the yelling. But then he saw a sunset, and the two ran at each other, Naruto was unable to look away, but he wondered one thing
'Why do things like this keep happening to me?' and all he knew was darkness.
*Flashback End*
After that traumatic experience, he trained with Tenten for a few hours, mainly telling him how to NOT hit himself with the staff. But beyond that, nothing much happened besides physical training and Jutsu practice, he read up on a few seals,
The simple explosive tag was done well enough to not randomly explode. He found a few more that were less dangerous and got them down. He found a Jutsu in the book he got form the Old Man, it was scribbled into the margin by who he assumed was this MN, it was simple enough, use chakra to stick a pre-drawn seal inconspicuously on a person, though the seal was severely weekend in strength.
Naruto's musings were interrupted by the sound of a shuriken flying. He made a wide jump to the side, and drew a kunai.
"Uzumaki Naruto" he heard a voice say, "It's time for your test" the voice said ominously. Turning around, he saw that the voice came from a man. The man wore the standard leaf shinobi uniform. Naruto deduced that this man was easily a Jonin in rank, and a veteran one at that, due to the mask being worn, which is usually to hide scars, and his Hitai-ate slanted over his left eye, leaving only his right eye and upper cheek visible.
"You are to land one hit on my torso or head to pass while I only fight defensively. If you don't come at me with the intent to kill, you'll never even touch me." The masked man said in that same ominous tone.
With those words Naruto immediately charged the man preparing to stab him, only to find his arm in a bar, with his own kunai pointed at the back of his head. Naruto stared down in shock at what just happened.
"I didn't say go" the Jonin said nonchalantly, he pushed Naruto away and tossed the kunai into a tree branch. "By the way… you have till noon." He said. "Ready…" the Jonin said reaching into his weapon pouch. "Start." He said. As he said this he pulled out a familiar orange book and began to read.
Naruto just stared at the Jonin, but deciding not to give up a distracted target, and completely forgetting the ass whooping he had earlier, charged strait at the Jonin. Only to end up on his ass again.
'What the hell is this guy?' Naruto thought, deciding to take things up a notch, he pulled his sleeves down revealing a pair of storage seals. He poured chakra into them both and in two small puffs and a click his Bo was ready for action.
The Jonin seemed a little surprised by this, but just turned back to his book. Naruto was getting annoyed by this, and charged at him, he attacked ferociously but the Jonin simply dodged each swipe and jab.
'Surprise asshole!' Naruto yelled in his head as he pumped chakra into a seal that was already on the staff, causing it to separate into three segments by metal loops. Again the Jonin looked surprised, but blocked the surprise attack with his metal plated glove, and the Sansetsukon dropped to the ground which Naruto retracted into its Bo form.
'I'm impressed.' Kakashi thought to himself. 'That would have worked on most. Though, most wont loose if a blow connects either.' Kakashi dodged another attempt at clubbing him, figuring he wanted to move on, he waited and when Naruto made another stab Kakashi dodged and looped his arms around and double palm strikes the staff, one to the end, and the other near Naruto's hand, sending it spiraling into the woods.
Naruto was shocked, annoyed, angry, and nervous at the same time, he was running out of tricks, he had a few more with the staff, but the Jonin sending it catapulting away, it wouldn't really matter. So Naruto did all he could think of doing. He jumped back and preformed a few seals and pulled out some shuriken.
"Shuriken Kage Bunshin No Jutsu" Naruto yelled out.
The shuriken multiplied into nearly fifty and hurtled toward the Jonin like a razor wall of iron. Naruto's eyes widened and he nearly screamed when shuriken made impact, believing he killed him. And it was too his amazement that the Jonin bursts into a puff of smoke, revealing log with 20 shuriken completely covering one side.
"That was good." He heard from directly behind him. "But not good enough, Leaf ultimate Taijutsu, 1000 years of pain." And all Naruto felt was searing pain in everything waist down.
"SON OF A BITCH!" Naruto screamed as he sailed through the air as he landed in a pond.
'I wonder if I was too harsh.' Kakashi thought to himself, as he walked toward the edge of the water. Which in retrospect wasn't a very good idea. Suddenly there were several splashes, turning into hundreds. And Kakashi's eyes… eye stared wide at the wall of orange that surrounded him.
'This one has absolutely no tact does he?' Kakashi asked himself almost rhetorically.
"We'll get you for that Jonin-san." All the shadow clones said at once,
"That's right; I didn't even tell you my name did I?" Kakashi asked, ignoring the taunt of the clones.
The shadow clones looked around for a minute as if thinking about it. "no." the clone army replied simply.
"Well that's what's been bothering me… I knew I forgot something." Kakashi said.
"Enough talk. Time to lose." the clones said, charging him.
"Well anyway, I'm Kakashi Hatake." The now dubbed Kakashi replied, and right after he said this there was a ring. "looks like time is up." He said
All the Naruto clones just stared ahead with gaping expressions. And they all suddenly dispersed leaving the real Naruto standing there staring at him.
"All right, now I will have lunch and we can try again." Kakashi said with his lone visible eye curving up into an upside-down u. "well that and…"
*a few minutes later*
Naruto was pissed, more or less; this Jonin is happily eating his lunch, while SOMEHOW not taking of his mask. But the real issue was he was tied to a training post, forced to watch him eat, while he had been training since dawn, and was genuinely starving.
Naruto's thoughts were in turmoil as well, he was unsuccessful at even touching the Jonin once, and he threw everything he had at him too
'Well not everything.' Naruto thought to himself, and immediately feeling a phantom pain in his chest, and that's when it hit him, in the tactics book AND the shinobi theory book said 'brute force will only ever get you an ass kicking. Ok so he may have paraphrased a bit, but that's beside the point. 'Ok so I know I need a plan. So what should that plan be… fuck my life.' Naruto thought to himself, realizing he wouldn't come up with a good plan without inspiration, or food.
Naruto looked up at the Jonin who was slowly eating his lunch, staring at his book…
'THAT'S IT!' Naruto thought with glee.
"All done." Kakashi said, he pulled out a kunai and tossed it, nicking the rope. Naruto watched as the rope fell away harmlessly from him. And as soon as it was gone Naruto yanked Kakashi's kunai out of the log, and tossed it at him making the seals he whispered 'Kunai Kage Bunshin no jutsu'
The one kunai in a puff of smoke turned into seven and hurtled at the Jonin in a wide ark, who was replaced with a log as soon as they hit, and as soon as the log became visible, Naruto bolted into the woods.
'I wonder where he's going.' Kakashi thought from the tree, deciding to follow him, he jumped from tree to tree to where he could sense Naruto's uncontrolled chakra. 'what is he doing… SON OF A BITCH!' Kakashi thought seeing an explosive tag floating through the air, he used a substitution and the explosion went off, incinerating the poor log that was the receiver for an attack. 'That was too close.' Kakashi thought to himself, as he hid in a tree, waiting for more.
*with Naruto, a few minutes before.*
Naruto was trying to use shinobi travel to get away from Kakashi as fast as possible, but was having trouble preparing and moving at the same time.
'Shit… ok so this will go here and these will go… crap I dropped one!' Naruto thought seeing he let an explosive note slip away. 'that could give me away… oh well, better just get rid of it.' He thought and with a seal and a boom, he moved on to finish with the traps. 'All right, everything is in place, except…' Naruto thought and made a seal, briefly noting he'll suck even more if this plan doesn't work, and with that, and the creation of over 50 shadow clones he said, "you know what to do, only one of you has to touch him for this to work." Naruto passed out several pens, that he made with the Shuriken Kage Bunshin no Jutsu and his ink and made the final preparations.
*with Kakashi*
Kakashi was annoyed with himself for getting farther behind than he wanted, he had no idea how Naruto knew he was right there but he would ask later, Kakashi continued to leap through the trees, and found Naruto in a small clearing, with his Bo and two shadow clones.
"Ne, Naruto… how did you know where I was?" Kakashi asked.
Naruto ignored him but mainly because he was screaming in his head about it still not being ready. 'time to buy some time for the rest to be in position.' Naruto thought to himself. And with a nod to his doppelgangers, they all charged with a yell. Only to end up the same as before, Naruto's shadow clones weren't too lucky as they were taken out by Kakashi with little effort, as Naruto charged in, he attacked with his Bo which was blocked by a kunai, with a click the staff was in too pieces and the other was aimed to brain the masked man. Only to be caught with his gloved hand. They stared at each other for a second, and a smirk appeared on Naruto's face… "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" and a puff of smoke appeared right between the locked opponents, revealing a shadow clone which made an opened palm strike at the Jonin.
'Shit!' Kakashi thought to himself for a moment, 'can't let go, he may brush me with a staff, cant substitute, he's touching me, block it is.' Kakashi kicked the shadow clone's wrist away and wrapped his leg around his neck.
'Phase one complete, phase two now!' The clone thought to himself and right then he dispersed. And Naruto jumped away.
'He fell for it,' Naruto thought 'he thought I used actual shadow clone technique, thank you henge!' Naruto smiled at the memory, 'good, he's been marked, I hope this works.' Naruto thought as he pulled out several shuriken and kunai. Naruto charged most of his remaining chakra into the Jutsu, "Taju Buki Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" and Naruto threw the tools at the Jonin and in several puffs of smoke there was a solid wall of razor iron that made the first look wimpy heading straight toward the Jonin and with a thud, there were numerous sharp weapons sticking out of a log. Naruto turned to a tree to his left and with a seal, there was a 'what the hell' from the tree and an explosion. And a smoldering log flew out. Without even looking Naruto made the tiger seal again followed by another explosion.
Kakashi was confused as hell, one this dead last seems to know exactly where he is, even when he substitutes with something across the clearing, Naruto somehow immediately knew. Another was that there were homemade explosive notes EVERYWHERE, and third, he's actually cutting it close.
After an hour or so, the clearing was about 10m wider, and a tired looking Kakashi and Naruto.
"You still haven't hit me." Kakashi said, still confused as hell, Naruto on the other hand was getting excited.
'Phase 3 begins now!' Naruto thought and suddenly disappeared into a puff of smoke.
'THAT WAS A SHADOW CLONE?' Kakashi nearly screamed, he never would have known, he couldn't stay in one place, due to the impromptu shinobi style game of hide and explode.
"CHARGE!" he heard turning, he saw an army of shadow clones charge him all intent to beat him up.
'I'm using a suppression seal, I'm nearly out of chakra… if I cancel the seal, he'll pass automatically!' Kakashi thought to himself, 'wait, I got one.' Kakashi thought to himself, he made the seals and whispered. "Magen: Narakumi no Jutsu."
All of the shadow clones suddenly stopped and stared ahead. 'I'm pretty much out of chakra now.' Kakashi sighed as he looked around. 'Damn… he totally switched gears on me,' Kakashi thought knowing that this was a rather elaborate plan. Suddenly there was a freakish spike in chakra, and Kakashi looked to see Naruto with chakra similar to flames surrounding him.
"Wait, is this… SHIT!" Kakashi yelled as he ran too Naruto as he suddenly passed out from that Jutsu. Kakashi picked him up and with a seal, was off to the hospital.
*with Naruto in the Genjutsu*
Naruto stood for a minute as leaves swirled around him, and entered a daze. When he woke up, he was in a place he never wanted to see again. The massive room with the ominous blue glow from the pipes, and the red mist from the cage, oh that terrible cage, which held that terrible monster. Suddenly the eye appeared again, that same eye that held malevolence beyond compare. And that's when he did pee himself, when the tag tore itself in half and the bars flew opened. Naruto stood frozen for a second as the beast moved out of its cage. Naruto's hands were already halfway through the seals, as if they had minds of their own, suddenly the clearing returned, and then he was out cold from the pain.
*in Naruto's subconscious*
There in that same sewer sat the sleeping beast, the dull glow of the pipes were drowned out by the thick red mist. There was a groan in the pipes and a flash of blue light, and the creature was awake looking around frantically, and in its feral mad eyes the tomoe seals in them appeared in them, the three in one, and the one remaining in the other slowly disappeared.
*the next day*
Several Jonin stood at attention in the Hokage tower's Jonin meeting room. The Hokage looked at each of them with pride in his old eyes. Each for their strength and duty to protecting the ones they care about. He looked at the clock and saw it was time to begin, he stood and all the Jonin stood straighter.
"Good morning." The Hokage started. "This, as you all know is the meeting for the new Genin team placement." A chorus of Hai Hokage-sama was heard, Hiruzen swore he heard a YOSH from the back but brushed it off, "now down to business, Jonin, I need your reports for the Genin you tested." He said.
"The graduates Saya, Suiyuma, and Jiro failed Hinata passes." Kurenai Yuhi, one of the volunteers for Jonin sensei said professionally.
"The graduates Hattori and Gensuke fail, and Ino, Shikamaru, and Sakura pass." Asuma Sarutobi said, his cigarette hanging out of his mouth, getting a disapproving look from… everyone."The graduates Vajra, Maka, Asura, and Shao fail, and Naruto pass." Kakashi Hatake said lazily looking up from his book, earning the same disapproving looks from everyone who cared. And a second later a look of realization appeared on everyone followed by displeasure on most, anger on few, and smiles on fewer.
"Kuro, Shiroi, and Gensui fails, and Choji and Shino passed." Genma Shiranui said a senbon hanging out of his mouth.
"Yuki, Nitara, Raizen, and Lao fail, and Kiba and Sasuke passed." Hayate Gekko coughed out, his voice barely a whisper.
'so I only need three sensei this year,' Sarutobi thought. 'Kakashi, Kurenai, and Asuma are the best choice.'
"Kakashi, Kurenai, Asuma, Genma, and Hayate come with me too my office after the meeting is done, we can discuss the teams there." He said.
*After The Jonin Meeting*
Kakashi, Kurenai, and Asuma sat in the Hokage's office waiting in silence for the Hokage to show up. Standing up, they all bowed to the Hokage as he entered the room, and sat down.
"Let's begin." The Hokage started.
"I guess ill begin." Kurenai started, due to nobody else starting. "Hinata is extremely timid, in her speech, body language, and fighting. But she was able to get me before the test ended." Kurenai said with a shrug. "Her Taijutsu is average… for a Hyuga, and her Byakugan is good for tracking or sensing." She finished.
"I guess I'll go next," the cigarette wielding Jonin said, "Sakura and Ino aren't really great, they're just better than average, and Shikamaru is a smart cookie, but is good at hiding it." He finished taking a puff.
"Choji is in fact a power house, good at hand to hand, especially after I called him fat," Genma said with a sheepish look. "And that Shino kid's bugs are killer, they almost got me." He finished.
"Kiba is a good Taijutsu fighter, for his age, and Sasuke is a prodigy if I've ever seen one, I haven't seen a kid use the fireball Jutsu since the war." Hayate said biting back a cough.
Everyone looked at Kakashi, waiting to hear how the dead last of this year's Genin class managed to be the first Genin to get passed by Kakashi EVER.
Kakashi sighed and began his report, "Naruto's Taijutsu is subpar, but not as bad as I was lead to believe, he is capable of wielding a Bo staff," this caught the Hokage's attention, seeing as he was a master of Bojutsu himself. "His Ninjutsu is… incredible for a Chunin, he preformed 2 B ranked Jutsu, an A ranked Jutsu, and a S ranked Jutsu during the test," this shocked pretty much everyone, Sarutobi because he told Naruto to not use that technique unless his life was in danger, what was Kakashi doing? "and after lunch, he proved he has an… unusual tactical capacity." Kakashi finished. Turning the page of his book, only for his eye to widen a fraction,
'so that's how he did it… but when… oh yeah.' Kakashi thought, remembering the initial attack at the second clearing, with the shadow clone without seals. 'he marked me.' Kakashi thought looking at the small seal on his icha icha book with the kanji for track on it.
"And he was able to track me using this." Kakashi said holding out his book, revealing the seal hidden on the inside cover.
"Incredible," the Hokage said out loud, "he has learned how to make and apply a seal mid fight… before I forget… what were the circumstances that Naruto used the S ranked Jutsu."
Kakashi explained how he used the demonic illusion, hell viewing technique on Naruto to stall for time, and that Naruto is in the hospital now.
"All right, I need to check on him, we will select teams later, think about this hard." Sarutobi said.
And with that, and several puffs of smoke, they were gone. Sarutobi got up and in his own puff of smoke, he was heading toward the hospital.
my final is in a week... so probably no update for a little while, and the supression seal was forceing kakashi down to 10% of his full power, all the jonin had them.
another thing is sasuke is a protigy by the standard of then, itachi and kakashi were truely protigal.