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Naruto: The Kaseki Clan

Chapter 7: Team 7 initiated

While Naruto, Iruka and Kohaku were enjoying their ramen, Kaseki Choten was in a sterilized room with research equipment and notes on the table. The room was in a floor below the Kaseki compound main building. With him was his son, Kaseki Kichirou. They both examined the vertebrae.

"With that size, there's no question about this." Choten said, looking at the bone with concerned eyes.

"Yeah, the vertebrae definitely belongs to a sauropod." Kichirou said.

"This is quite troubling." Choten said with folded arms. "This could mean a lot of things, worse still is that it's all just guesses."

"What do you mean?" His son asked.

"It could mean that there other Kaseki members out there that no one knows about. It could be that sauropods are out there or this could confirm that they are no more." Choten said what was in his mind.

"Tou-san, I really doubt there would be anyone left, not after Kirigakure. And also look at the bone. It's like it is as old as the village, if not older. Plus, it is only one piece of a backbone, one very old vertebrae, in the middle of nowhere. This could belong to something else entirely." Kichirou said.

"Either way, I'm going to inform the Hokage about this." Choten said as he went to the door. "Better pray that this is actually nothing to worry about."


The next day. Naruto choosing to wear his goggles on his forehead instead of his forehead protector was on his way to the Kaseki compound, after his kerfuffle with Sarutobi Konohamaru whom he met when Naruto was submitting his profile to the Hokage at the Academy, and thankfully his picture was a normal photo.

After much thought, Naruto decided to tell Kohaku about what was inside him. It was still daytime when he crossed under the arch, and reached the front of the main building.

Before he entered the door however, someone came out of the door. Naruto looked up to see a somewhat tall woman. Her skin was a lighter tanned tone, she had dark brown eyes, her black hair reached at the bottom of her shoulder blades, with her bangs reached at her eyes and in the middle it was longer reaching at the nose. She was dressed in a white office shirt with folded up sleeves, black office pants, and short toe covered black heels.

She was Kaseki Hiroko, mother of Kaseki Kohaku. Despite being in her forties, she looked way younger and she was strikingly beautiful.

Kohaku's mother she may be, but she hardly looked motherly. Her face was passionless, hey eyes were cold. Looking at her, Naruto was intimidated.

She looked down at Naruto. He didn't know who she was, but she knew who he was, and why he was here.

"Kohaku is at the field with the herbivores." She said to the blonde, with no expression her voice. She went past him and headed back to her home, without giving Naruto a second look.

Naruto quickly went into the main building, wanting to get away from the intimidating presence. The blonde got to the field, and there were the same herbivores he had seen before, and Naruto saw the Kaseki on the far end of the field. With him was a young Parasaurolophus lying down the ground.

"Koha-nii!" Naruto called to him, running up to him. Kohaku quickly turned his head. "Hey Naruto. How did you know I was here?" He asked before returning to tend the hadrosaur.

"Some scary looking woman told me." Naruto said, unaware of who she really was. "That's my mother." Kohaku said flat.

Naruto gulped, afraid that he offended the Kaseki. "Oh. Oh uh, uh your mother is very pretty."

Kohaku could see through this, "It's ok Naruto, and thanks."

"What are you doing?" The blonde asked. "This Parasaurolophus ate something bad. Some kind of berry I think." Kohaku replied.

The Naruto looked at the hadrosaur as Kohaku fed the dinosaur a pill. "She will be fine soon, and Oba-san will be checking around the area for that fruit." Kohaku said.

A moment later the dinosaur got up and went back to the herd.

Naruto then decided to talk to Kohaku something that was bothering him after he learned about what was sealed in him.

"Um Kohaku?" Naruto said to him. Kohaku looked at him, wondering why he did not call him with his nickname.

Naruto took a deep breath, and said, "The Kyuubi was actually sealed in me. The monster that attacked the village is inside me." Naruto then looked down.

Kaseki Kohaku looked at him, not really sure what to say, at least now he knew why Naruto was not exactly a well-liked person in the village.

All Kohaku said was "Oh".

"Did you know?" Naruto asked him, still looking down. Kohaku was silent for a moment before giving his answer.

"No, I didn't know. But…"

Naruto looked up at him, scared that Kohaku might reject him now, shun him away, and hate him.

"It would not make anything different even if I did." Kohaku said with a smile.

The blonde's face lightened up and grinned. "Thank you Koha-nii."

The two looked at each other for a moment. "Is that all you came here for? To tell me this?" The Kaseki asked.

"Yeah. But now that I'm here, I was wondering if I could see the meat eating dinosaurs now." Naruto said, a hand behind his head.

"No." Kohaku said flatly.

"Wh- What?! Come on let me see them please?" Naruto whined.

"No." The same flat answer came.

Naruto grumbled, put his hands in a Ram seal. "Henge!" A puff smoke, revealed a naked girl with smoke spiralling around her chest and her groin.

"Please? Koha-Kun." She said softly and slowly with a wink. The herbivorous dinosaurs were now looking at them in confusion. The Kaseki however, remained composed and unfazed.

"Come on, if I knew that it's you underneath that, you really think that's going to work? How pathetic do you think I am?" Kohaku said unamused.

The girl disappeared in a puff of smoke, showing Naruto, surprised that his Jutsu that got the drop on the third Hokage did not work.

"Piece of advice, if you are going to be in a disguise, don't make it so obvious it's you. Who else in the village has blond hair, blue eyes and marks on both cheeks?" Kohaku said to him. Naruto's face then had a cheeky grin. Before he could put his hands into a Ram seal again, Kohaku stopped him.

"Don't bother Naruto. Besides, you are still not permitted to see the carnivores yet." Kohaku said to him. "What? What are you talking about? I'm a ninja now, I'm allowed to see them right?" Naruto whined.

"Well sorry, technically you are not, not yet." Kohaku answered.

"What do you mean?"

"You don't know? When you get assigned into a genin team, you will have a Jounin-sensei. And your Jounin sensei will give your team a test first. You pass, then you are considered a genin." Kohaku explained.

"A test?" Naruto asked.

"Yeah. It's meant to test whether you are a capable ninja and whether you can function with your team. The test will be different with different Jounins, it could be anything, fight something, investigate something, anything. You don't pass you get sent back. And you only have a thirty three percent chance to pass." Kohaku explained to Naruto.

The blonde's face paled. He just graduated, now he's got to take another test? With such a low chance to pass?

"Can you give me a hint?" Naruto asked. "Hint? How would I know? I wouldn't know what your sensei would be testing your team with." Kohaku responded.

"Come on there's got to be something you can help me with." Naruto said, hoping he can learn something from the Kaseki.

Kohaku just looked off in the distance, thinking of what he do to help.

"Maybe we can start with a spar." Kohaku said, spacing his legs to ready himself. "A spar?" Naruto blinked.

"Yeah, show me how you fight."

Naruto looked at him, Kohaku just stared at him right back. Naruto's attack then came, charging straight for the Kaseki. With cry and a raised fist, Naruto threw a right hook. Kohaku stepped to the left dodging his punch, stepped back again to avoid another punch from Naruto, he then crouched down to dodge Naruto's roundhouse kick. Kohaku kept moving back, dodging every punch, blocking every kick Naruto delivered.

"Come on!" Naruto shouted in frustration. Kohaku remained silent and continued to dodge his attacks by moving back, leading Naruto out of the field and into the forest.

Now Kohaku has led Naruto to where he wants him to be. As Naruto threw a punch at him again, this time Kohaku put up a hand and caught his fist. Kohaku then grabbed his arm, spun Naruto and threw him further in the forest, making distance between them. With a yelp, Naruto landed on the hard ground on his back.

As he got up, he saw a shuriken flying at his direction. Naruto quickly got down with closed eyes, the shuriken then hit a tree. Naruto stood up again, looking around the forest, Kohaku was nowhere in sight, just trees and bushes.

Naruto felt a force struck him from the side, he was seeing stars as he was pounced and pinned down. With a groan, he looked up to see Kohaku's face close to his, growling viciously with fierce eyes. A kunai was pointed at his cheek. Naruto looked at his chest, which Kohaku's foot was pushing down on.

Naruto winced in slight pain. Kohaku stopped his growl, and said to Naruto. "They may see you as part of the pack, but you don't fight like them at all." He then got off Naruto, the blonde knew who he referring to.

Naruto rubbed his chest. "What was with the shuriken? I thought you said this was a spar?" Naruto asked him as he got up.

"I made sure I missed. Yes, this was a spar, but that was supposed to show you that being a ninja can mean death in a second. Out there is not a game, there won't be any fairness. There will be people out there who kill you with no hesitation, even if you are just a kid. The next shuriken coming at you may not miss. And if a fight is coming your way, don't close your eyes." Kohaku explained to Naruto. The blonde fell silent, thinking about Mizuki who tried to kill him. If he is going to be ninja, he'd better get his act together.

"Going back to how you fight. Coming straight at me with no plan and with so much blinded confidence, you are just setting yourself up for a very embarrassing defeat. Sorry, but it's a mess." Kohaku said with brutal honesty.

Naruto grumbled, but he knew what Kohaku was saying was the truth. "So how do they fight?" Naruto asked him.

"Well, first thing is that when it comes to raptors, the attack will never come from the front, but from the side or from behind. When I threw that shuriken, I made it look like I was coming straight for you, but instead I took you down from the side. They will never attack the same way twice, they test the enemy for weaknesses systematically. So you must analyse your opponent, and never underestimate them. They will try to herd the enemy into a kill zone, leading the enemy into where the trap can be set. See how I lured you into the forest instead of staying in the field?" Kohaku explained to him.

Naruto then noticed, how Kohaku was leading him to a trap. "Whoa. Cool, I understand now. Thanks Koha-nii." Kohaku then smiled. "Now you know to attack with coordinated patterns right and not just go charging in clueless?" Kohaku said.

"Yeah. Hey can you teach me something else, like a new jutsu? Come on there's still time." Naruto asked eagerly.

Kohaku then pondered, then thought about something. "Well I guess there is this one thing-"

"What is it? What is it?" Naruto interrupted.

"You've seen me done it before Naruto." Kohaku said. "Really? What is it?" Naruto asked tilting his head.

"Alright. Here it is." Kohaku walked backwards with hands in his pocket. Walking backwards, Kohaku's back was facing a tree. "You know that there's a tree beh-"Before Naruto could finish his sentence, Kohaku placed his foot on the tree trunk, followed by his other foot and continued to walk backwards.

Kohaku was walking up the tree backwards, and stood at the branch upside down. Naruto looked at him with dropped jaws, and Kohaku had a small smirk. "It's one of the things a genin would be learning. This requires focusing chakra on the feet, and you need to control the amount and maintain it. And I suspect, with your particular case it's going to be a big challenge."

Naruto was pumped up, determined to accomplish what Kohaku was doing, even if it's going to take him all day.


The next day, Naruto was in the Academy now wearing his forehead protector. He was actually struggling to stay awake. His day with Kohaku was exhausting but miraculously, he was able to make it with time to spare. He was seated next to Uchiha Sasuke, which again is getting most of the girls' eyes fixed on him.

Naruto tried to keep his eyelids open. "Move it!" A voice was heard. Then, he was pulled out of his seat, and he fell. Now awake, he got and turned to see who it was. "Hey! What's the big idea?! You w- Sakura-chan?" His anger has been completely dissipated.

Haruno Sakura didn't not hear Naruto and was standing at the aisle, looking at Sasuke dreamingly. "Hi Sasuke-kun, can I sit next to you?" She asked. Yamanak Ino then followed, "Out of the way forehead! I'm sitting next to Sasuke-kun." Said Ino.

Another girl came to claim the seat next to Sasuke, followed by another and another. Naruto was annoyed with Sasuke's popularity. However, after yesterday his tiredness quickly came back, too tired to be bothered to pick a fight with Sasuke. He made his to Sasuke's left side, the Uchiha looked at him.

"Can you move to make space please?" Naruto asked in an exhausted voice. Sasuke, much to his displeasure, was seated in between Naruto with his head on the table on his left and Sakura on his right, squealing inside that she was seated next to the Uchiha. Though Sasuke did not mind Naruto as much as Sakura.


Kohaku was on the streets of Konoha. While walking down the street someone called out to him. "Kohaku-san." He turned to see Uzuki Yugao in a regular Jounin attire. He looked at her for a moment, her purple hair and brown eyes. He had never seen her in a Jounin attire.

"Yugao-san. Or should I call you Yugao-senpai I'm sorry." He said.

She chuckled a bit "Yugao-san is fine."

"So good to see you again. Been real busy with ANBU huh?" He said. "Yep, it's good to see you too. Where are you going?" Yugao asked him. "I was going to my clan's shop. You off on another mission?" He said to her.

"No, not today. Why don't I join you Kohaku-san? I have time." Yugao said. And they were walking side by side. "You know its Naruto's orientation today?" Kohaku asked her. "Yeah I know. Hope he's doing alright." Yugao said. "Any idea who his sensei might be?" He asked her, not really expecting her to know though.

"I might." She replied.


"Naruto!" Iruka shouted at him and the blonde quickly shot up and was wide awake. He wiped off the drool from his chin. "Honestly Naruto pay attention. You are in team 7 with Haruno Sakura," Naruto's face lit up "And Uchiha Sasuke." His face then dropped.

"Why am I teamed up with the teme?" Naruto stood up and asked clearly unhappy. "If you had been paying attention instead of sleeping on the desk, you would know. We have the teams balanced with this allocation, with Sasuke's top score and your low score, team 7 is balanced out." Iruka said to him.

"Shut up and sit down Naruto!" Sakura yelled at him. He grumbled and sat down, he was not too offended because something more troubling was on his mind.


Kohaku and Yugao arrived at their destination, a shop with the sign displaying "Kaseki Jewelleries" with the symbol on top. Kohaku made sure that when he arrived, it was his cousin's shift. Before they entered the shop, a couple came out of the shop. Looking at each other lovingly with a golden ring on each of their hands.

When they entered, there displays boxes with jewelleries of all sorts, necklaces, rings, bracelets, bangles, in gold and as well as silver. And there were gemstones of various kinds, opals, garnets, amethyst, rubies, sapphires, emeralds and even some diamonds. There were also large ambers on display, some having a mosquito trapped in it.

Kaseki Akane was standing behind the display. She had fair skin, brown hair tied in a ponytail reaching down her back. She was dressed in black shirt, white dress and brown heels.

"Hey Kohaku. Oh, and who is this?" She spoke to them. "Akane, this is Uzuki Yugao." Kohaku introduced the ANBU to his cousin.

Yugao stepped in front him. "Nice to meet you." She smiled at Akane. "Nice to meet you too." Akane replied. As the purple haired woman looked at the jewelleries on display, Akane looked at her little cousin with a raised eyebrow.

"A friend." He mouth the words at her. As Yugao checked out the ambers, Kohaku went up to his cousin. "What you really doing here little cousin?" Akane asked him quietly. Kohaku answered by secretly pulling out an object from his left pocket, he placed the object in her hand. Revealing to be the raw purple diamond he had found.

Akane looked at it, then at Kohaku. Her eyes glanced at Yugao before looking at Kohaku again. "No discount Kohaku." She quietly said and he nodded.

"See anything you like?" Akane then asked Yugao. "They are all beautiful, all of them. But, I'm not really in a need for a jewellery now."

"You sure you are not waiting for some hunk to buy you one?" Akane teased, and Yugao just had an elegant smile, "No, not really."

"So how many dinosaurs have you seen, being a friend of Kohaku's?" She asked the purple haired woman, figuring not many considering her father Choten was very strict about said viewings to the village. "Well very few, I also met Hyoga." Yugao replied. Akane was surprised, someone seeing a carnivore, even though Yugao was a ninja.

"You want to check out the other carnivores. Pretty sure Kohaku could give you a tour." Akane said, jabbing her cousin a bit with her elbow. He looked at her, "What the hell Akane?" He said in his mind.

"That would be nice." Yugao said. "But I have to leave. I need to meet up with Hayate."

"Uh, who?" Kohaku asked. "Gekko Hayate, my boyfriend." She replied.

"Oh, oh, ooohh. Oh, oh ok." Kohaku tried his best not to stammer, inside he felt all swirly and like jelly.

"Well I will be taking my leave then. Maybe we will see each other later Kohaku-san." Yugao said. "Y-yeah. Goodbye Yugao-san." He said, watching her leave the shop. He felt Akane's hand placed on his shoulder.


Naruto was walking around the Academy drinking from a can after being rudely rejected by Sakura in having lunch together. But instead of sulking about his rejected offer, his mind was more preoccupied about what he had learned the previous day.

"This test that I would be getting. Argh! What is it going to be? Is it a paper test? Do I have to find something? Do I have to fight something? Fight each other? Fight the sensei? Fight a dinosaur? Fight a meat-eater?" Naruto's mind raced. "Test how capable I am as a ninja and functioning with a team? Ahh this is a disaster!"

He then decided to focus on something else he learned the previous day. He got rid of the can, stepped out of the path, making sure no one saw him. He faced a tree, and he focused. He ran to tree his chakra at feet. Keeping his momentum, he placed a foot on the tree trunk followed by another. He ran up the tree, and sat on a branch. He was pleased with himself, looking at his achievement.

After lunch, the students returned to the classroom. Their jounin senseis arrived to pick up their students. Only Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke remained in the classroom.

"Our sensei is so late, where is he?" Sakura was pacing around the room. Sasuke was seated at the front row desk, his face with no expression. Seated next to him was Naruto, but instead was whining about his late sensei, he had a pencil and paper, scribbling and deep in thought. Naruto decided to take the time to think and draw out different styles of attacks, remembering what Kohaku said about how raptors attack.

"What are you doing dobe?" Sasuke eyeballed him. Naruto ignored the 'dobe' comment, holding the pencil and paper he got up and went to the door. He opened to check no one was around at the corridor. "What are you doing Naruto?" Sakura asked.

"Guys listen, I need to tell you all something." Naruto said, closing the door. "If this is another joke Naruto, forget it." Sakura said to him.

"No, no this is serious. Just listen to me for moment." Naruto said to them. "What is it?" Sasuke sighed.

"We are going to be taking another test." Naruto explained. "What? What test? We have just taken one to graduate. What are you talking about?" Sakura asked doubting the blonde. "Our Jounin-sensei will be giving us another test, and if we don't pass we will sent back to the Academy." Naruto explained.

Sasuke's eyes narrowed. "Sent back to the Academy? Are you trying to scare us Naruto? Don't be ridiculous." Sakura said, she still did not believe him.

"How do you know Naruto?" Sasuke coldly asked. "A friend told me." Naruto said.

"Who?"

Naruto chose not to reveal his source and ignore the question. "That's not important. What's important is that we need to be prepared."

"What is the test about?" Sasuke asked, same expression. "Yeah, what is the test?" Sakura said now believing him since Sasuke believed him.

"All I know is that the test is supposed to focus on how capable we are and if we can function as a team. I don't know what the test is. It differs with different senseis. We could be doing something big or small. Fight something, fight the sensei. I don't know." Naruto said scratching his head.

"Fight the sensei, I can do that." Sasuke said. "Yeah, Sasuke-kun can beat him." Sakura fangirled. "Beat a Jounin? Need I remind you that just graduated from the Academy? Beating a Jounin on your own? That's laughable." Naruto flatly responded. Sakura tried to retort but she knew he was right. "Hn." Sasuke said.

"We could be fighting each other for all we know." Naruto said.

"Then it will easy for me." Sasuke said with his usual cold voice. Sakura looked at him, "Fight Sasuke-kun? I can't hurt him. He won't me right?" Sakura thought to herself.

"Oh please, don't get too full of yourself teme." Naruto said. The Uchiha glared at him, Naruto stared right back. "Don't try to pick a fight with Sasuke-kun. You can't win idiot." Sakura insulted Naruto, supporting Sasuke.

Naruto with a sigh said, "Look the thing is that my friend said that this test is to focus on how we function as a team. So like it or not we are stuck together and we have to work together or we won't pass this."

Team seven looked at each other, and nodded their heads. "So what should we do?" Sakura asked. "We feign ignorance. If the sensei knows that we knew about the test, he would probably make it harder." Sasuke said.

"And maybe we can think of attack plans if we do have to fight the sensei. Look, I made some of my own." Naruto said showing his paper. "Ok." Sasuke said.

"Alright let's do this." Sakura joined the two as they all brainstormed together.

After another hour, footsteps were approaching the door. "I think he's here." Sakura whispered. Sasuke quickly took the paper they were working on and hid the pencil and paper in his back pouch.

The door opened, revealing a man in jounin attire, he wore a mask covering his mouth, his forehead protector slanted to the left, covering his left eye and his right eye looked lazy. He had silver grey spiky hair.

Hatake Kakashi.

"You are late sensei!" Naruto raised his voice at him and pointed his finger at him, trying to cover up what him, Sakura and Sasuke were doing. "Yeah, what kept you?" Sakura said joining Naruto. Sasuke remained composed.

"Hmm my first impression of you guys." Kakashi paused. "I don't like you guys."

The three flinched a bit. "Alright meet me at the roof. We will talk there."

The four of them were at the roof, with the three kids seated on the stairs while the Jounin on the railing. "Alright how about you three introduce yourselves? Like your hobbies, your dream what you like?" Kakashi said to them in a lazy voice.

"Why don't you start sensei? So we will know how it goes?" Naruto said.

"Well I'm Hatake Kakashi. What I like, I don't really want to say it. I don't really have a dream. And hobbies, well I got lots of them." Kakashi said.

"Well that was helpful." Naruto said sarcastically. "Alright you at the back, you start." Kakashi said looking at the Uchiha.

"My name is Uchiha Sasuke. I hate a lot of things, I don't like anything in particular. My goal is not a dream, it will be a reality. I will restore my clan and kill a certain person." Sasuke said coldly.

"Sasuke-kun you are so cool." Sakura squealed in her thoughts. Naruto just looked at him with suspicion. "Of course that's what he would think, after what happened." Kakashi thought.

"Alright you're next girl."

"My name is Haruno Sakura. My likes…who I like….My hobbies are…..My dream is….." All the time she was just looking at Sasuke and squealing. "Of course, just thinking about boys." Kakashi groaned in his mind.

"Alright now you."

"My name is Uzumaki Naruto. I like ramen and dinosaurs. My hobbies are eating ramen and checking out dinosaurs. My dream is to become Hokage, so people will not hate me and think that I'm worthless or a failure." Naruto said with a smile.

"Dinosaurs?" His two teammates looked at him. Sasuke didn't care about dinosaurs when he was in the Academy, nor did Sakura being too focused on the Uchiha.

"Hmm dinosaurs huh? Kaseki Kohaku." Kakashi thought.

"Alright tomorrow we will doing a survival exercise." Kakashi said to them. The three knew what was coming, but played along.

"Huh? What kind of training is that?" Naruto asked playing innocent. Kakashi chuckled. "Well if I tell you, you won't like it."

"What is it sensei?" Sakura asked. "This exercise will be a test. I decide if you pass or fail. You fail this test, you will be sent back. Out of the twenty-seven student who graduated, only nine will become genin."

Naruto and Sakura looked shocked, Sasuke remained composed. Inside however, they knew what was coming.

"See? Told you that you won't like it." Kakashi chuckled. "Aww come on, we just graduated." Naruto whined.

"That's the deal Naruto. Be at the Third Training Ground at five in the morning. And you should skip breakfast. Or else you will throw up." Kakashi said to them and he left.


I cannot believe I messed up which eye Kakashi's sharingan is, sorry. Thank you for reading and hope you have enjoyed this chapter.