'Thinking'
"Biju/Summon talk"
'Biju/Summon think'
"Jutsu"
Today was the day, today was team assignments. After the pitiful test that was designed to weed out the worst of the worst yesterday, today he would be assigned to a team and start his ninja career. Itachi and Mikoto both explained to him that teamwork was necessary throughout his career even if he was teamed with someone he didn't like.
They both told him what to expect for the first 2-3 months as a Genin, D-ranked missions; nothing more than garden chores that civilians are too lazy to do themselves.
He had already deduced from his class that he would be on a team with his cousin and his fan girl which could prove disastrous or could prove to be one of the best teams to ever come out of Konoha if trained properly.
He figured that he would be part of a combat team because he had skills in most ninja arts whilst Sasuke would be the close distance fighter with Taijutsu and Sakura would be the Medic with a possibility of a Genjutsu user.
Kiba Inuzuka, Hinata Hygua and Shino Aburame would all for a scout and capture team. Each had a blood line, the Aburame and Inuzuka limits may not be well known and maybe considered clan Jutsu but they were Kekkei Genkai all the same and with all 3 of them combined they would make an ideal scouting team with the option of capture and ambush.
He took a rough guess and came up with the second generation of the Ino-Shika-Cho trio that was so popular in the Third Great Shinobi war due to their team work that would specialise in capture and field interrogation.
These teams would work in tandem to protect the lives of Konoha's citizens. If he had to guess about the team sensei's then it would be Kakashi for his team due to the fact that he has one of the only Sharingan left in Konoha and his brother refused to teach him until he dropped his thirst for revenge and he was his father's student not to mention he knew of Naruto's Sharingan.
Speaking of Sharingan, he wasn't quite sure how to work around that one; Sasuke would find out sooner or later and would be pissed, not to mention his is fully matured and has a Mangekyo which he wasn't even sure Sasuke knew about.
He knew about the Mangekyo techniques that cost the users eye sight per use, his brother snuck him into the meeting room of the Uchiha clan to read the tablet that was left by his ancestors. He was visibly annoyed by the fact that it basically goaded a Uchiha into killing their best friends for power.
He had used each technique once just to see how to use them and was already starting to get annoyed with his eyesight, it appeared that the techniques deteriorated the eyes faster than anybody realised. At this rate if he used them a couple more times then he would have to swap his eyes with his brother which if he was honest he wasn't wanting to do because it meant that he may become reliant upon his Mangekyo.
He decided to take the wait and see approach and if needed he would get the transplant before the Chunin exams in just over 9 months.
Walking towards the Academy for team placements he left a few clones at home to start his fire manipulation training like he did with his lightning. He was rather happy with his progress in the Ninja arts.
Before he knew it he was at the academy in front of his classroom door, he sighed; whilst he may of been cold and calculating to the majority of people like his older brother he was a kind person at heart and few in the academy knew that because they had made friends with him.
Shino Aburame, Kiba Inuzuka albeit partially and Hinata Hyuga. All 3 of these were what he would consider friends, the last one was a request from Kurenai, she explained that her father was an asshole and she needed more confidence; he of course knew she had a crush on him, he wasn't an oblivious fool that he portrayed to the world. He used this to get her to become more confident.
Whilst it would end up breaking her heart sooner or later by then she would hopefully have enough confidence to stand on her own without him helping. He just hoped that she would go "Crazy ex girlfriend" mode and try to kill him. That would be bad.
He decided to once again take the wait and see approach when it came to her, he didn't want to harm her but she needed to learn on her own. Sighing he took his seat by the window and waited for everyone to arrive at class when suddenly a loud boom was hear and low and behold there on the floor were Sasuke's two biggest fan girls Sakura Haruno and Ino Yamanaka.
"I win Ino-pig!"
"Ye right forehead!"
"SASUKE-KUN" they both screeched at the top of their voices, he wasn't sure why they were like this; he was one of the last Sharingan users in Konoha, he would be required to take multiple lovers/wives/girlfriends in the future. Maybe they didn't know? Oh well, he may dislike his cousin but he didn't hate him enough to force that hell upon him.
He shivered just thinking about it. Poor bastard.
10 minutes later and Iruka walked into the room, yet another person Naruto considered a friend; one of the few that didn't hate him for what he contained or at least was professional enough to work around it for the sake of the other kids. He liked him for that and he respected him for it as well.
"All right class settle down."
Kids were still shouting about how awesome they were going to be as Ninja and he finally got tired with a developing tick mark above his head. He used his own personal Jutsu called "Demon Head No Jutsu" (A/N: So original) to make the class quiet down.
"Now before I read out the team selection sheets may I say that I am proud to have taught each and every one of you; even if some of you were a pain in the neck most the time." Oddly enough most people were looking at himself when Iruka said this. 'I wasn't that bad was I?'
"Continuing on, Teams 1 through 6 are still in rotation from last year. Team 7 is Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno." Sakura screamed about true love conquering all or something whilst Naruto was repeatedly banging his head on the desk whilst saying "Why me Jiji? Is this payback for teaching Konohamaru THAT Jutsu? I said I'm sorry!" as he cried anime tears of pain.
Little did he know though that all the Jonin sensei's were in the Hokage's office with the old man and his crystal ball that he uses to spy on his villagers to make sure they aren't doing anything bad. Kakashi smirked at Naruto's antics.
"Ugh Hokage-Sama, what Jutsu is he talking about?" Kurenai asked actually concerned about his Grandson.
"Oh nothing that you need to know Kurenai, you would most definitely kill him and from what I understand he gets on quite well with you am I right? So no need to tell you." he winked at her.
"Kakashi, you're going to have your hands full this year. If they pass."
"I'm feeling good about my team this year Asuma."
Back in the classroom Naruto was finished banging his head repeatedly and getting his sympathy pats on the back from his friends when Iruka carried on. "Team 8 is Hinata Hyuga, Shino Aburame and Kiba Inuzuka." Naruto sighed, that wouldn't be a bad team to work with.
"Team 9 is still in rotation from last year and team 10 is Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara and Choji Akimichi. Wait here until your Sensei's come."
With that he disappeared in a Shunshin.
In the office the Jonin were getting ready to depart when Kakashi sat down on the chair and started reading his book, Kurenai smacked him on the head "You better not turn Naruto into a pervert or so god help me!"
"Isn't he a bit young for you Kurenai?"
"What?"
"I mean isn't he a bit young to be your boyfriend?" She was spluttering whilst Asuma and Hiruzen watched on in amusement, truth be told she and Asuma had a few dates here and there but it lead nowhere and she was getting tired of it. She had agreed to have a date with Naruto when he was a Chunin because he was kind and generous but she liked the fact that he would go out of his way to help someone precious to him.
"He's not my boyfriend!" said a red faced Kurenai.
"Yet?"
She didn't even dignify that with a response and Shunshin'd to the class to get her team whilst Kakashi and Asuma burst out laughing, "She is going to kill me one day isn't she?"
"Yep."
"And if she doesn't Naruto will beat me up because I'm being mean to her right?"
"Yep."
"Am I screwed?"
"Yep."
"Oh well, I suppose it's time to get lost on the road to life."
He disappeared in a standard leaf Shunshin only to reappear 3 hours later in the class room.
"Yo."
"You're late!" The pink haired thing known as Sakura shouted.
"I wasn't told what time to arrive at so how could I be late?"
She just shut up at that.
"Meet me on the roof in 5 minutes." He shunshin'd to the roof and waited, as soon as Naruto's two team mates were out the door he vanished in a flock of crows only to reappear on the roof with Kakashi watching in amusement.
"So you know Itachi's crow Shunshin?"
Naruto snorted, "Who do you think taught it to him?"
"What do you mean?" asked Kakashi generally surprised, he thought Itachi made it since he was rather famous for it.
"Who do you think taught him it? It is Genjutsu with Shunshin no Jutsu. I taught him how to do them together."
Before he could respond dumb and dumber walked through the door to the roof.
"Ok, tell me about yourselves?"
"What do you mean Sensei?" Asked the so called smartest girl in the new generation, they were doomed.
Kakashi just flipped a page in his book and looked up "Huh you say something?"
Sakura and Sasuke face faulted whilst Naruto was laughing up a storm inside, he always liked how Kakashi could rile up anyone by doing nothing.
"Tell me about yourself; name, likes, dislikes and anything else you find important like your dream? and since you asked you can go first pinky."
"My name is Sakura Haruno, I like... My dreams are to..." She said whilst looking at Sasuke the entire time, "And your dislikes?"
"Naruto-Baka!"
"Oh how will I live with myself? I know how, because I don't give a shit."
Sakura just glared at him whilst Kakashi just eye smiled at him. "Broody-mc-brooder."
"Sasuke Uchiha, No likes and I dislike everything. My dream, no my ambition is to kill Danzo for what he did to my clan and surpass my brother."
Naruto and Kakashi just sighed expecting as much but were quite surprised at the last bit especially Naruto because his brother hadn't informed him of his brothers dream to beat him. Sakura in her normal fan girl ways squealed like a pig.
"And lastly the one that looks normal."
Everyone turns to Naruto whilst he just looked bored and didn't respond. 2 minutes passed and still nothing so they asked again and his simple response was "Huh did you say something?"
Kakashi was crying Anime tears at the fact that his Sensei's son was embracing the cool and hip attitude whilst Sasuke and Sakura were fuming.
"Oh well my name is Naruto Uzumaki 'Namikaze Uchiha', I like a lot of things including my friends and precious people and my ramen; no one touches my ramen or they die, unfortunately my precious people have seen fit to cut down on my ramen intake which I dislike completely. I dislike people who label prodigies and Geniuses because they tend to take the easy way out of things instead of working for it, anyone can be a prodigy but that gathers too much attention; to be a Ninja means to hide in the shadows, we deceive, lie, cheat and steal to get the job done.
Dreams? To one day have a family, help my precious people achieve their own dreams, make Hokage and I suppose to live long enough to see my friends and their families live a happy and eventful life whilst protecting them the best I can."
Sakura and Sasuke were looking at him in a new light, this wasn't the dead last of their class; what had happened to him? Kakashi smiled behind his mask, he expected something like this but didn't expect it to be so detailed.
"Good, good. Meet me at training ground 7 and 5AM tomorrow morning for the test."
"What test sensei? We already past the academy."
"Hmm, I suppose you're right but this is a test to see if you can cut it as a Genin not graduate the academy. Don't eat breakfast or you will simply be sick." before anyone could ask any questions he Shunshin'd away.
Naruto just waited for them to leave and also Shunshin'd but to a nearby roof where he Sensei was waiting.
"Ah so you came."
"You know they won't work with me right?"
"So you know the test."
"How long have I known you Kakashi? What did you drill into my head whenever we trained together?"
"Teamwork."
"The test will most likely incorporate this and they won't work with me, however you will be forced to pass us anyway."
"And why is that?"
"Because if you don't the council will give you hell for failing the last Uchiha, amazing they don't consider Itachi an Uchiha just because he isn't able to be moulded into their little pet that they want isn't it? This test is a farce and you know it."
*Sigh*.. You're right, I am being forced to pass the team and focus on Sasuke's training, we both know that you don't need much training and we don't even know your real speed since you have never released the resistance seal on you, speaking of which do you know how to?"
"Yes, I know how to but I've never really found a situation that requires it at the moment; I will have to release it before our first mission outside the village to get used to the new speed, my Chakra weights are up to 100Kg now. It took some time to get past 70 and I'm slowly adjusting to the weight each time and it takes longer each time as well.
How much skill do you want me to show?"
"High Genin/Low Chunin. We don't want Sasuke getting jealous now do we?"
Naruto snorted, "When he awakens his Sharingan you will have your hands full and the council will try to make you shove your techniques down his throat until he knows them all."
"Agreed, I won't teach him any personal Jutsu on principle because he is just too unstable."
"Good, sooner or later he will want to fight me and I don't particularly like the idea of being run through with a Chidori-enhanced fist by some Genin who got a sneaky shot from behind."
Kakashi nodded and took out a scroll from his chest pouch, "Speaking of Chidori, congratulations. I told you when you graduated I would give you some Jutsu as a special congratulations and since we have this situation with the council it will help you even more now. Chidori is in there. I don't have to tell you not to use it on Comrades ever right?"
"Of course Kakashi-Sensei, what do you take me for?"
"Just saying, now is there anything else?"
"My Sharingan, sooner or later I will need to use it; what will I do?"
"You don't depend on it that much for fighting, you made that taijutsu style that is deadly and you already know quite a few Jutsu that are mastered to a high degree so you should be fine but if you need it then hide it under a powerful Genjutsu or make sure Sasuke and Sakura are knocked out. When we eventually fight outside the village feel free to use it to copy enemy Jutsu and even mine since I can't teach you properly due to the council."
"Hai Sensei, see you tomorrow." and with that Naruto disappeared with the crows, he could make anything with a Shunshin to be honest since it was a Genjutsu, he was just waiting to see an Iwa nin to make it a flash of Yellow like his father to just make them shit themselves it would be hilarious.
Arriving at home he sees Mikoto in the garden doing one of her favourite past times nowadays which is gardening, since she didn't leave the house that often. He smiled, she always seemed so happy these days since the Massacre, it made him feel bad that she was so sad when she was in the Uchiha clan; he hoped that one of these days when he was powerful enough to protect her that she could come out and come clean to the village showing that she was still alive. He was waiting for that day. It wasn't fair that she had to change herself to hide.
Walking up to her he gave her a hug, "Kaa-san, I was placed on Sasuke's team with his most loyal fan girl and Kakashi."
When she heard this she sighed, she knew just how much her son hated Sasuke but he tried multiple times to make friends and steer him from revenge for her sake, it seemed like a lost course to be honest but he didn't give up.
"Do your best Sochi, I know you can work past the fan girl and Sasuke to become a great Ninja."
"Thanks Kaa-san, Kakashi is being forced by the Civilian council to pass the team because of Sasuke and is also being forced to focus on training Sasuke but has agreed not to teach him any personal techniques such as his Chidori and Raikiri but he gave me a scroll with some techniques since he isn't allowed to train the "Demon brat" and he said the Chidori is in there so I'm quite happy."
She smiled, Kakashi was always a good person and even though he wasn't allowed to train him personally like he wanted because it would pay back his debt that he felt he owed to not only Obito but also his Sensei, he still gave him some stuff to help train even if it was in secret. That old monkey probably knew he would do this so he assigned him for this reason and more.
"I've agreed to only show high Genin/ low Chunin skills until the Chunin exams and only use my Sharingan under a high level Genjutsu or if Sasuke and his fan girl are knocked out."
"Good, you look tired Sochi; why don't you go lay down whilst I make some dinner for us and Itachi?"
"Hai Kaa-san, Arigato."
That was another thing, since Itachi refused to train his cousin, Sasuke practically said he didn't want anything to do with Itachi; this actually hurt Itachi pretty badly and the civilian council seemed to forget that Itachi was heir and now clan head and not Sasuke. So at least 4 times a week Itachi would come over for dinner with his mother and brother. Sasuke lived in his own apartment that was paid for by Itachi with the clan funds. He may not act like his little brother that Itachi knew and loved but he was still family.
6 Pm rolled round quite fast because of his nap, he awoke to a lovely smell of curry that filled the house and made him practically drool. He walked towards the Kitchen rubbing his eyes and found Itachi at the table and Mikoto at the stove. Itachi was the first to notice him and smiled at him.
"Hello Nii-san, Kaa-san. Something smells good."
"That would be Kaa-sans cooking Otouto."
He smiled and sat at the table. "Did Kaa-san tell you about my team?"
"Yes she did, I know you don't like Sasuke but please look out for him out on missions."
"Of course, he may be a douche but he is family even if he doesn't know it."
Itachi smiled, "If you pass tomorrow then I will let you finally sign your contract from your father and enter the library but no learning more than one thing at a time and no taking things out of the estate."
He grinned and nodded furiously, he had been waiting to get into the library for 8 years now since he first saw it when he was 5. After dinner with his mother and brother it was getting pretty late and he wanted tomorrow to come earlier so he could leave a clone or two to explore the library in his stead looking for his father's legendary scrolls for the Hiraishin and Rasengan and went to bed ready for tomorrow. He was going to have a little fun with his sensei.
Tomorrow came fast enough, he was pretty worn out recently from acting like the idiot; it was stressful to act stupid when you were quite smart, watching ever word you say in case you say something that was above your supposed level. He woke up and went through the normal routine of, 1 hour training then shower and breakfast not to mention speaking to his mother. His brother would always leave to sleep at the Uchiha compound and he hated it; it felt like his family was split apart and he traced the split back to the Civilian council. He would need to fix this now that he was a Ninja.
He walked towards the training grounds where his team would meet and looked at the time, he was 3 hours late but he didn't care; the chances were that Kakashi wasn't even there yet and wouldn't be for at least another half hour.
He could see Sasuke and Sakura in the distance doing nothing but sitting down by a set of 3 wooden posts, he sighed. Ninja are proactive, if their Sensei was late then they should trust in the fact that he was late for a reason and start their own training to be ready for when the Sensei arrived.
He decided to skip them and stealthily go sit in a tree and relax, he liked sitting in tree's when the sun shun just right through the leaves; it was a beautiful feeling and sight, it always relaxed him.
Half an hour later as predicted Kakashi Shunshin'd into the clearing to see two of his team and noticed the third in a tree about 5 meters away. Ignoring the Banshee scream he just smiled
"Alright Test time."
"Sensei Naruto-Baka is missing."
"No he isn't."
"Huh?" Came the intelligent reply.
"He's in the tree behind you and has been for the last half hour, I was here 2 hours ago watching you all to see how you would work together."
"THEN WHY THE HELL DID YOU MAKE US WAIT!" screamed the Banshee again.
"I just said why."
Naruto just Shunshin'd into the clearing in a normal leaf Shunshin, obviously no need to let his cousin see he can do what Itachi can otherwise he may put 2 and 2 together although he would probably come out with 5 but still.
"How nice of you to join us Naruto, the time is currently 9AM you have till 12 to get these bells from me. The one who doesn't is getting tied to the post and forced to watch the winners eat lunch whilst getting sent back to the academy."
'so that is why he didn't want us to eat' Thought Sasuke and Sakura at the same time.
'idiots, it wasn't an order.' Thought Naruto
'I wonder if the new Icha Icha is out yet' came the obvious thoughts of Kakashi, he took out a timer from inside a scroll and placed it on the log.
"Go."
A simple command yet only two followed it, Naruto waited in the clearing smiling at his Sensei.
"Well aren't you an odd one."
"It's too boring to be normal, don't you agree Sensei?"
"Too true but there are limits unlike Gai and Gai Jr."
Both shared a shiver at the thought of the green spandex wearing duo.
"So what are you going to do?"
"Wait until you knock them both the fuck out and then have some fun."
Kakashi smiled, he hadn't fought Naruto since he was younger and was sure that he became more powerful in the recent years so he quickly went away and found Sakura, he was completely annoyed by her for a simple reason.
He placed her in a Genjutsu of her family being slaughtered in front of her and she breaks it instantly but places her in a Genjutsu of her Sasuke riddled with Kunai and she faints. What is up with that?
He finds Sasuke hiding in some bushes and figures that since he has to pass the team anyway that it was a moot point in testing him, the reports said he had Genin level stamina, Taijutsu and knew the standard Katon Jutsu of the Uchiha clan so he just knocked him out by hitting the back of his neck.
Once they were both out he carried them over to where Naruto was and tied them up against the posts, he sighed this would be an annoying team to teach but at least he had a competent member within the team.
He looked at Naruto, eye smiled and clapped his hands together.
"So how are we going to do this?"
"I'll show you mine if you show me yours?"
He nodded and placed his book in the safety of his pouch whilst lifting his headband to reveal his implanted Sharingan whilst Naruto activated his own 3 Tomoe'd Sharingan.
"All out until they wake up?"
He nodded once again. Naruto stopped sending Chakra into his weights and stated "Lesson one: Taijutsu." Naruto sped at Kakashi with high Chunin speeds pushing Low Jonin and started fighting, Kakashi was relatively familiar with his Taijutsu style because he guarded him at times when he was practising, not to mention he could see Chakra transfer from the user to the intended target; that poor target dummy.
He actually found a weakness in the style which allowed him to go into hand to hand combat with him, as long as he didn't get hit by either his fists or his feet then Naruto didn't have enough concentration to transfer chakra from any Tenkestu point just yet so if he blocks by the arms and redirected the attacks then he could only be hit with brute force and not Chakra like the Hyuga.
He had actually came up with this just for Naruto because he knew that one day he would have to fight him but that didn't mean that Naruto wasn't strong.
Naruto was getting rather tired with Kakashi redirecting his hands and feet when he tried to hit him, it seemed that he had been studying Naruto's style for this moment and smiled; he liked not to be underestimated by allies and enemies alike.
Jumping away he smiled at Kakashi whilst Kakashi smiled back, he was truly having some fun. This wasn't the kind of spar he got from Gai, this was the kind of spar he used to get from his Sensei when they battled. The fierceness and unpredictability that Naruto provided was a wonderful change from the static and monotone style of Gai.
"So what will you do now Naruto?"
He grinned, "I figure that since I have to release them sometime why not now eh?"
Kakashi's lone eye went wide, if he was talking about what he thought then Naruto was going to get a rather large speed boost, after all he had the resistance seals active since birth.
"I don't know what current level I'm at since they go up gradually so when I reset them I think I will start at 5 and work my way up until I feel trouble again." He sent Chakra to his stomach and produced the half Ram sign for Genjutsu and said "Kai!"
Instantly a wave of air came off him, he wondered what level they were at because he felt so light right now.
"Now Kakashi, shall we dance?"
Without waiting for another word he sped off towards Kakashi once again at Mid Jonin speed, Kakashi could only muster one thought before he felt his right arm go numb 'FAST!'
Kakashi quickly recovered, although he felt his right arm numb he wasn't a Jonin for nothing and could keep up with his speed thanks to his Sharingan but he was also one of the top Jonin within the village and as such still have mid-High Jonin speeds. One of Naruto's favourite tricks with Ninjutsu was to use the hand seals for the Jutsu so quick it looked like he hadn't moved which was quite do-able considering he had mastered most if not all his Jutsu.
10 minutes later and they were both breathing hard, "2 minute break then start lesson 2: Ninjutsu, since this is more of a test to figure out my level than the bells we might as well do it relaxed then rush through. Don't you agree Kakashi?"
"Agreed."
2 Minutes later and they were both breathing normally again although Kakashi took longer since he didn't have Naruto's monster stamina; the break was more for him than Naruto and he knew it and silently thanked his little comrade for the breather after all having a sharingan implant working at full speed for a non Uchiha was a severe drain on the Chakra system of its user.
"Shall we start again?"
Kakashi nodded and started through a few hand seals, he saw no reason to hold back against Naruto; he could take it and if he did somehow get injured he would heal quickly thanks to his tenant.
"Raiton: Ryouken" Kakashi said whilst his fist lit up with lightning, this attack formed a dog made out of lightning from the fist and the dog chases its target up to 10 metres away before exploding and shocking the users opponent.
Naruto seeing this jumps backwards by 5 metres just out of reach from the lightning hound.
"Oh that's a nice technique Kakashi, want to see my first ever Raiton Technique I made? You can use it if you have the Chakra but don't teach it to anyone and be careful not to use it around broody so he can't steal it?"
Kakashi nodded, they shared Jutsu sometimes because they knew they could trust each other so it was ok, Naruto smiled and started his own hand seals for his first ever Raiton Jutsu making sure to use the full chain of seals for Kakashi's Sharingan.
"Raiton: Raionzu roa" he shouted, this was his first ever technique he made when he was 10, just after he was starting to learn how to expel large amounts of Raiton chakra. A lion formed behind him, 6 metres tall and 15 feet long, it was incredibly detailed but before Kakashi could get a decent look at the Lion it ran at him with high Chunin level speed; quite fast for most Jutsu.
He didn't know how far the range of this Jutsu was so he started jumping back as it reached him 15 metres away and then jumped again and again before the Lion dissipated with a large electrical current shocking everything in its wake. Those poor bugs.
"Damn that was good, would take almost half my Chakra to do that once though."
"Ye I made it when I was 10 after learning how to use large amounts of Raiton Chakra, it was made to shock large groups to death so it would use allot of chakra to be fair."
"Continuing on." Kakashi said whilst going through some hand seals, Naruto saw this and with his Sharingan produced the same seals; he hated this aspect of his Dojutsu. Whilst it was ok to copy enemies it wasn't ok to copy friends and he knew that he did with Kakashi but he was happy to find that it was a Jutsu he already knew and had mastered to a decent degree when he was learning Chakra control at an early age.
"Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu" Both shouted and launched equally sized fireballs at each other before jumping out of the way and landing in a clearing, he couldn't see Kakashi anywhere and something felt off about this.
He felt the ground rumble and knew it was one of Kakashi's favourite earth Jutsu since he had been subjected to this little useful Jutsu enough when he sparred Itachi so he listened to his instincts and jumped out of the way.
Kakashi appeared out of the ground and looked at Naruto panting a little bit, he was getting tired; he wasn't an Uchiha and Obitio's eye was using allot of Chakra to maintain. Naruto saw this and smiled.
"Kakashi, we both know you are getting tired so how about we skip to lesson 3? I've shown enough competence with Ninjutsu for you to rate my progress."
"Agreed, although I might need some help getting to the office after."
"Ok then Lesson 3: Genjutsu, "Ninpou: Kemono no shin'nyū""
Kakashi was instantly frozen, he remembered this Genjutsu from a couple years ago and whilst he hated to admit it, this Genjutsu was probably one of the best anyone would ever make but it could only be utilized properly by anyone with Kage level reserves or someone with Sannin level chakra control and high Jonin reserves. He cursed himself for falling into this Genjutsu and the worst thing was that even if he did break it by causing himself pain it didn't matter because he would simply fall for it again since it was a later version of the Genjutsu he created that involved a constant stream of Chakra to the system so even if it was disrupted then it would simply start again until he let it go.
"Sorry Kakashi." Naruto said and walked up to him taking the bells away before releasing the Genjutsu and watching Kakashi fall to his knees. He had never been under this Genjutsu but from what he was told it felt like a crushing pressure due to the amount of Chakra introduced to the system so quickly.
Naruto helped Kakashi up and walked over to the clearing they were in earlier, in their fight neither of them noticed that they were moving away from the clearing and it was a good thing to because he noticed from afar that Sasuke and Sakura had woken up. Quickly deactivating his Sharingan so Sasuke couldn't see it he walked over with Kakashi leaning on him, his breathing steadily slowing back to its normal pace.
"WHAT HAPPENED, WHY AM I TIED TO A POST AND WHY IS SASUKE-KUN BUT NOT NARUTO-BAKA!"
Everyone had wringing in their ears, Kakashi sighed.
"You two are tied because neither of you learnt the importance of the test whilst Naruto did and got the bells off me, Good work Naruto."
"Arigato Kakashi-Sensei."
"Now explain the purpose of the test."
"Team work. No one man works alone in a team and must work together to get the job done efficiently and effectively."
Kakashi nodded and Naruto threw a bell at each of their laps. "You pass since Naruto gave up his bells for you which proved team work. Come here in two days time at 7AM for team training and missions, I'm going to need the time to recover." He said with the last bit under his breath so only Naruto heard it.
Naruto started to walk with Kakashi away leaving his team mates to get untied themselves, once out of the clearing he Shunshin'd to the Hokage's office in a flock of Crows.
In the office were all Jonin Sensei waiting for Kakashi as usual but all of a sudden a flock of crows appeared and started to circle everyone before joining into one being. Naruto with an exhausted looking Kakashi.
"Yo, Sorry I'm late I got beat up by my student."
Everyone except Kurenai, the secret Anbu and the Hokage that knew Naruto looked at him like he was crazy.
"Well, I'll just wait here since I will take him to the hospital afterwards." Naruto said.
Kakashi and the Hokage both nodded in acceptance.
Kurenai went first, "Team 8 pass.
Hinata Hyuga needs a major confidence boost but is skilled just too shy to actually inflict damage to an opponent; most likely due to the fact that the main house practise on the branch and she doesn't like hurting them so it's probably force of habit by now.
Kiba is a goddamn pervert, he thinks that because he is a clan heir that he is the "Alpha dog" of the team when the other two are just as good if not better, he needs to calm down and get his hormones under control; I swear if I catch him looking at my ass once more I will put him under a Genjutsu." She said and no one but her, the Hokage and Kakashi heard a small growl come from Naruto, she smiled at him; although they weren't dating she did like the fact that he was protective of her.
"Shino is most likely going to be the Captain of the team, he is logical like all Aburame and quite skilled in his clan Jutsu although I will need to up his training for endurance, speed and Taijutsu since his clan are mostly long range fighters."
The Hokage nodded at that, it was a decent team and fairly laid out although Kiba worried him a little bit since something may happen on missions.
"Guess it's my turn" Said a rather tall man in the standard Jonin uniform but with a sachet around his waist with the Kanji for Fire on it. He had black spiky hair and a pointy black beard, he was Asuma Sarutobi, the son of the Third Hokage.
"I have the next generation of the Ino-Shika-Cho trio, they pass.
Ino is a fan girl of monumental proportion, it's quite sad but she worked together with Shikamaru and Choji so she might have some hope and she is quite proficient in the clan Jutsu she knows, she will probably make quite the interrogator when she is older.
Shikamaru is the brains of the team, I suspect that he almost qualified as dead last at the academy because he thought it would be too troublesome to pass at a higher ranking, he is a hidden Genius in every sense of the word, I think he takes after his father in the thinking department.
Choji is the muscle, his strength is easily higher than the rest of the team and his endurance is up there as well but he needs to work on his speed and Genjutsu since his clan is mostly Nin-Taijutsu."
Once again the Hokage nodded, he saw hope for Ino and the second Ino-Shika-Cho trio could prove to be extremely helpful assets in the years to come. He turned his head to Kakashi who was still leaning on Naruto. This would be a headache from the looks of Kakashi.
"Team 7... pass." He said with an eye smile. Everyone looked at him shocked, even if he looked like shit and even if he had Naruto they hadn't expected him to pass a team. Asuma was the most surprised since he didn't know about Naruto.
"Let's begin with Sakura Haruno. Who is their right mind let this girl be a Kunoichi? Did she pass the academy by paying off the instructors or something? It was ridiculous. I found her quickly and placed her under a basic Genjutsu which her file says she should be able to break easily. It was her family being slaughtered in front of her and she broke it quickly realising it was a Genjutsu so I decided to take a different approach. I placed her in a Genjutsu and she saw Sasuke who was riddled with Kunai begging for help; she screamed and fainted."
Everyone was thinking the same thing, 'She's going to die on her first C rank'
The Hokage sighed and said "Continue."
"Sasuke was a bit better, although I still knocked him out with a quick chop to the neck. He was as his stats said. High Genin level endurance, Ninjutsu and Taijutsu but I didn't check Genjutsu." He smoothly lied so that he didn't have to admit that he just knocked him out so he could fight Naruto.
Everyone nodded feeling a bit better since the team wasn't a total failure.
"Do you want Naruto's report in present company?"
"Yes, Asuma whatever you hear is an S-class secret as is most of the stuff pertaining to Naruto."
Asuma sighed, whilst he didn't hate the boy or have anything against him in fact he did understand the need for secrecy when it came to him.
"I used my Sharingan straight away and we started through the principles starting with Taijutsu. I guess he disabled his weights right off the bat since he came at me with High-Chunin speeds." everyone raised an eyebrow at that, they knew he wore weights (well everyone except Asuma knew) but they didn't know he had progressed to such a speed already.
"We fought for about 10 minutes and his taijutsu style is deadly as you already know but it needs more refinement I feel he could have gone further in creating it when he did and I will help with this when I can but the Council are making me concentrate of the brooder.
Anyway after 10 minutes he jumped away and told me he was disabling his resistance seal for the first time in his life, he had never done it before and I was instantly on guard since he would get a huge speed boost but I didn't think it would be that much; he came at me with Mid-Jonin speeds which is really fast and if I didn't have my Sharingan out he would have done more damage to me.
He got a quick hit on my arm making it numb so I couldn't cast hand seals and we continued to fight before stopping, he let me have a 2 minute breather since we were both panting heavily.
2 minutes later and we started off again but this time on Ninjutsu; I started with one of my own creations "Raiton: Ryouken" and sent the lightning hound at him, he jumped back far enough so it wouldn't hit him and then countered with a Jutsu I've never seen before called, "Raiton: Raionzu Roa" Which created a 6 metre tall Lion made out of lightning. It was incredibly detailed but before I could get a proper look at it the thing shot at me with high Chunin speed, I jumped backwards so I was 20 metres from Naruto and it came still so I jumped again and it seemed to dissipate around 25 Metres but not without shocking everything around it, I saw some poor bugs get electrocuted.
We both launched fireballs at each other before I disappeared underground trying to get him with "Doton: Shinju Zanshu no Jutsu" But he jumped away before I could get him, I came out of the ground panting because of the amount of Chakra that was being used by my sharingan and Naruto suggested we move onto Genjutsu so I can come here and still be able to report without heavy Chakra exhaustion.
He cast multiple hand seals quickly, I didn't see how many and used a Genjutsu of his own creation again. I couldn't move and I couldn't hear what it was called but it felt like I was being crushed by the amount of Chakra invading my system. I bit my lip to exit the Genjutsu but as soon as it stopped it started again. He walked up to me and grabbed the bells then stopped the Genjutsu at which point I fell to the ground panting because of the Chakra that was in my system."
Everyone was wide eyes, most of them knew Naruto was good but he beat Kakashi even if it sounded like it was more a battle of attrition than experience since Kakashi was using a lot of Chakra to keep his Sharingan active.
The third Hokage looked at Naruto and asked "Naruto what is that Genjutsu?"
"Remember the Genjutsu I showed you and the others? It's an updated version where I constantly stream the Chakra necessary instead of invading the Chakra system once so if they do break it then they are caught automatically; the only downside is it takes allot more Chakra."
"You won't be happy until you give me a headache will you?"
"Me? Never. Anyway need to take Sensei to the hospital and got some stuff to do so Ja Ne." And with that both were gone with a flock of crows, "Remember what I said about the S-Rank secret." Asuma and Kurenai nodded.
Naruto dropped off Kakashi at the hospital with a mild case of Chakra exhaustion, he would be out in enough time for team training in two days but with only light sparing if he chose to fight.
He shunshin'd home to inform his mother and brother who was currently on leave from missions due to a stressful A-rank mission about his test, both were rather shocked about what he did and both looked rather proud but expected better since he wasn't meant to go full out. He explained how Kakashi had knocked out both Sasuke and Sakura and they said that it was ok.
He signed the Contract for the Crows that evening but had yet to summon a crow since he had to summon the boss first and decided to speak to Hikari about it later. He left a clone in the library that evening to add his personal Jutsu collection to it and maybe update a few Jutsu and look for the scrolls for both Hiraishin and Rasengan whilst he slept; he didn't expect it to be easy to find, if his father wanted to hide something then it would be hidden. He was a master of seals after all.
He decided that he would finally start learning how to use his Chakra sabres, they were to be part of his legacy so to speak; people would forever remember his duel sabres from the battlefield. His father was remembered for the flash of Yellow before killing his enemies, his mother was remembered for her Kenjutsu and speed and he would be remembered for them seeing only his blade before he struck.