A/N: Thanks for all your reviews.
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I do not own Naruto or any Naruto characters, nor do I own any one-piece references or characters that are mentioned in this story. I do own any OC's displayed unless I say otherwise.
BEGIN
Walking down the streets in Konoha is an interesting experience, especially for Naruto. At one point they openly glared at him, then eventually that wore off and now they just ignore him. To make things weirder every time he sees a beautiful lady a voice in his head goes haywire
"MELORINE! MELORINE! MELORINE! MELORINE!" it got annoying after a while
"WOULD YOU JUST SHUT UP!" Sanji may have shut up, but everyone around to hear him gave him weird looks. A few people even thought he was talking to the demon within him (I guess you could actually say they then on respected Naruto for the burden. 'Yelling out to the demon within him, refusing to give into its murderess ways' you get the point) Naruto sighed and continued walking towards the academy.
On top the roof following Naruto silently was one Jounin,
"hmmm, so that's the brat on my team, seems to have met the demon within him. I wonder…" silently he left to go to the Hokage, so he missed the interaction between Naruto and a boy named Konohamaru.
"Konohamaru I can see you" the horrible camouflage moved and a young boy was revealed,
"I expected as much from my rival, NOW TRAIN ME!" Naruto sighed,
"Sorry squirt but I don't have the time, I've got to go to team selection. I'll train you another day" Although Konohamaru moped you could see he accepted Naruto's answer. Naruto just smiled as he continued towards the academy,
"I wonder if I'll be on Sakura-chan's team, hmmmmm Sakura-chan"
Shikamaru sat of the academy roof admiring the clouds, across from him was his best friends and comrade Chouji. It has now come to Shikamaru's attention that there are scrolls, scrolls that are part of and connect to the infamous straw-hat pirates.
'Your crew is so troublesome Usopp' the Nara spoke to the voice within him,
"so? I can't say your ninjas are any better" Shikamaru knew better than to argue, it was too troublesome. Looking at Chouji he couldn't help but wonder if these days bloodlines and there day devil fruits were connected. It was a little known fact that only an Akimichi could use their jutsu while anyone can use a Nara's although only a Nara's body and mind are best suited for it.
"Chouji, would your skills be classified as a blood limit?" Chouji sat there thinking, he wasn't sure pondering he decided to take a long hard look at home
"Hmmm, I guess so" Shikamaru nodded stood up, left the cloudy haven't and walked towards the classroom, Chouji following.
Kiba sat with Akamaru looking across to Hinata,
"She's been different since the day after she graduated, like she learnt some life changing information. Such as finding out the person you love is the indirect hero of Konoha but they all think he is evil incarnate all because of fear and prejudice, luckily that's very unlikely. Its probably family problems, aren't we luckily Akamaru our family isn't like the hyuuga" The truth was that Hinata was thinking about something she learnt about Naruto claiming he was in the indirect hero of Konoha but everyone actually thought he was Kyuubi's incarnate and treated him as such, with barely hidden hate and fear. When her family found out that she knew they asked her what her opinion of Naruto was now, she became honest
FLASHBACK
Hinata looked across the clan head and the elders, it had been brought to their attention that Hinata now knew the secret and they had to see if her opinion had changed,
"Hinata, you now know the secret of Uzumaki Naruto. Has your opinion changed?" Hinata was nervous, she didn't know she didn't know how to react, how was she suppose to answer. Deciding to be honest to herself and the hyuuga elders she did something she has never done before, she help her head up high
"my opinion has changed" The elders knew she hadn't finished, Hiashi was impressed, she was now handling herself like a hyuuga should
"My opinion may have changed, but it changed into something more. My opinion has changed from a poor suffering boy who doesn't let the pain effect him, to the hero of Konoha who isn't treated like the hero he should be" although as an experienced hyuuga the elders and Hiashi showed no visible reaction to Hinata's reaction, they were impressed. They let her go, telling her opinion is noted. Hinata will never know if that was good or bad.
END FLASHBACK
Sasuke sat in the classroom brooding, when he was young his older brother went haywire and murdered the entire Uchiha clan in one night saving only his brother, how could he have murdered the entire Uchiha clan if some would have been on missions? Some have asked themselves. The truth is that there were no Uchiha's on missions that night; a clan meeting was to take place so the entire clan was there. The meeting never came; they were all killed before it could.
This event left Sasuke mentally scared for life, swearing in his parent's grave he would avenge them. His aim in life has left him extremely ambitions. He has plunged himself to inhuman amounts of training to prepare for the fight destined to come, because of this he has to be the strongest, there cannot be any stronger.
Naruto ran, his new weights making it visibly hard to make it. He hadn't been given enough time to get used to them, it seemed like every other day they increased. Walking inside the classroom he ignored the questions his appearance brought. Sitting down in the nearest seat he promptly fell asleep.
DREAM SCAPE
Naruto was walking along a road; he saw a toad as huge as the animals he saw in his other dreams. He saw someone looking like another Naruto riding it screaming at the top of his voice as the toad tried its best to make the other Naruto fall of
"Naruto! Wake UP!"
END DREAM:
Naruto shook as a loud scream jerked him awake, turning he saw an angel
"Sakura chan!" the flower in question looked past Naruto and looked at Sasuke
"Naruto move, I want to sit next to Sasuke-kun" Naruto sighed in defeat; Sakura still didn't see him. Standing on the desk he turned and stared at the brooding maniac
"What's so good about you anyway" lightning flared between them, but it was all over when someone pushed Naruto into Sasuke causing them to kiss. Their eyes opened wide and they both jerked away and hacked pretending to die
"I knew you had questionable habits Sasuke but this is just over the top" Sasuke threw back a retort
"You kissed me, not the other way around" as soon as those words left the Uchiha's mouth Naruto felt killing intent and in a moment of pure fluke Naruto tripped and missed the brutal punishment that he would have received, sitting on the other side of the Uchiha letting Sakura sit next to the brooding prodigy Naruto managed to avoid a questionable death. Sasuke couldn't help but improve the 'Uchiha-glare-of-brooding' into the 'Uchiha-glare-of-amusement'. Iruka walked into the room in shock, there was no beaten up Naruto like he expected, and in fact he was sitting normally, like nothing happened. Sighing he opened the package with the teams the teachers put together and the Hokage approved of
"Team 1" Naruto tuned out Iruka's voice weighting for his own team to come about
"Team 7: Uzumaki Naruto" Naruto stopped his day dream about Sakura and focused on the teacher much to Iruka's amusement
"Haruno Sakura" Naruto left into the air and yelled
"YATTA! I'm with Sakura Chan!" Sakura looked at the ground in depression but hope still remained, Naruto thought
'Now I'll accept anyone else as my other team mate as long as it's not Sasgay' As if the heavens had heard the thought and decided to ruin Naruto's happiness Iruka called
"And Uchiha Sasuke" this time Naruto and Sakura's roles reversed
"TRUE LOVE ALWAYS WINS" was Sakura's declaration of happiness while Naruto looked at the ground in depression. Hinata at that moment thought,
'Awe, but I wanted to be on his team' Hinata just sighed which caught the attention of Shino, who filed it away for future use. Once again Naruto ignored the other teams to be happy and depressed at his choice of teammates.
Kakashi neared the academy, he was just under 3 hours late, and he had just recently spoken to the Hokage about Naruto.
"Don't underestimate him Kakashi, although he may seem like an idiot he gets the best of people when they aren't ready" Kakashi decided he would believe it when it happens. Opening the door a duster hit his head.
'Hmm, maybe I should take the Hokage's words seriously.' Looking around he saw Naruto laughing his head of, Sakura trying not to laugh and Sasuke questioning his ability as a ninja. 10 words about summed it up
"I first impression of you is… I don't like you" all three Genin sweat dropped unsure wether to take his words seriously or not.
"Meet me on the roof" he disappeared in a puff of smoke. When the three ninja's finally appeared and sat down he began,
"Well, lets get to know each other, you know your name, likes dislikes, hobbies and dreams for the future." Sakura lifted her hand and before waiting for a response spoke
"why don't you go first sensei, we don't know anything about you" Kakashi inwardly sighed, it was the same every year
"My name is Hatake Kakashi, I have lots of likes, some dislikes and I don't feel like telling you my hobbies and dreams for the future" Kakashi loved the looks on peoples faces when he introduces himself like that. Pointing to Sakura he spoke first
"You first pinkie" Sakura took a deep breath, "my name is Haruno Sakura, I like Sas ----giggle-- and I dislike Ino-pig and Naruto" Kakashi turned to Naruto when she said that and saw he was heartbroken
"my hobbies are –chuckle-- and my dreams of the future are OH MY! --giggle while blushing and looking at Sasuke--" Kakashi inwardly sighed
'fangirls' pointing to the object of Sakura's affection he spoke
"You next broody" Sasuke twitched at the nickname and spoke
"my name is Sasuke, I have few likes and many dislikes, my hobbies are training, my dream of the future, no more of an ambition is to kill a certain man" Kakashi out of the corner of his mind saw Naruto stiffen most likely thinking if it was him Sasuke was talking about. Turning to the last person he didn't have to speak
"MY NAME IS UZUMAKI NARUTO, I LOVE RAMEN, COOKING AND SAKURA CHAN, MY HOBBIES ARE COOKING. TRAINING IN MY UNIQUE TAIJUTSU STYLE AND MEETING NEW FRIENDS. I DREAM IS TO BECOME THE HOKAGE AND HAVE EVERYONE ACCEPT ME!" Kakashi had to stop the ringing in his ears and he saw Naruto get angry when Sakura and Sasuke chuckled/laughed at his dream when Naruto was about you yell Kakashi spoke
"Interesting, now lets get to business, tomorrow we begin our duties, tomorrow be begin an survival exam" all three student wondered what he meant
"We've already did an survival exam in the academy, why do we have to have another one" Kakashi chucked, it was a chuckle no sane person wanted to hear. It promised pain, anguish and general insanity
"Your going to flip when you hear this, out of the 27 students that passed, only 9 are actually going to become Genin" naturally Naruto took this as the biggest insult possible
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN? Are you saying all that work was for nothing?" Kakashi chucked again
"Oh no, it served a purpose. It was to see who had the potential to become Genin. This is to weed the weak from the strong" Naruto, Sakura and even Sasuke were getting worried
"I told you that you would flip, here are the pamphlets for the test tomorrow and before I forget, don't eat breakfast tomorrow or you will puke" with that he disappeared in a wind of leaves. Sakura turned to Sasuke nervous but firm
"Will you go to have lunch with me, you know team bonding?" Sasuke didn't even reply so Naruto spoke
"I'll team bond with you Sakura" Sakura was to depressed to accept
"Sorry Naruto, but how could you help?" Naruto sighed, he may be the dead last, but how could you expect him to catch up after years of sabotaging his academy progress?
Three hours, three hours at training ground 10, and Kakashi still hadn't turned up. 'Poof'
"YOUR LATE!" was the yell Kakashi received when he arrived, he completely understood why Obito did it a lot, the expressions you get to see are completely worth the wait.
"Ok, now they your hear we can begin the test. See these bells, if you don't get one then I tie you to the log over there and each my lunch in front of you then you get sent back to the academy" 3 stomaches rumbled
'That's why he didn't have us eat breakfast, that sadistic fruit loop' Sakura saw something was off
"Why are there only to two bells?" Kakashi smiled his special eye smile
"That's so one of you definitely goes back to the academy" All 3 faces instantly watched each other wearily.
"You have to come at me with the intent to kill, or you will fail as a ninja" before Sakura could question his sanity he yelled,
"BEGIN!" instantly all 3 run and hid. Naruto produced a Kage bunshin and sent it to lay traps and Naruto himself attacked Kakashi in an attempted to make him enter the traps. Charging he challenged Kakashi
"Man to man fight, when I win I get a bell" Kakashi couldn't help but sweat drop,
"I think you've missed the point" sighing he put his hand into his weapon pouch Naruto tensed, tension was heavy in the atmosphere but completely dropped when Kakashi pulled out a perverted novel 'come come paradise' Naruto head dropped,
"What are you doing?" Kakashi looked at Naruto like he had 15 heads and a bumper sicker on his back that said 'I'm stupid'
"I'm reading a book, don't worry it won't effect me in any way" Naruto was naturally enraged by his casually brushing off, he had worked hard for his skill, he wasn't going to let some idiot with a perverted novel get he better of him, anyway perverts are always weak. Charging he entered the Redleg stance, Kakashi raided an eyebrow
"Hands in pockets, ok" Kakashi readied himself, Naruto charged. Sakura and Sasuke watched in awe and Naruto attacked his moves changing from one attack to another, going to a single kick, only to Kakashi to dodge, unconcerned Naruto used the momentum to speed up the next attack to kicked again only this time Kakashi was forced to block, 'BOOM', dust blew up from the force of the wind. Kakashi was forced backwards, his eyebrows raised
"Wow, that was a strong attack" Naruto took the complement and attacked again. Unfortunately no matter how hard he tried he was either blocked or dodged, luckily his plan was still working he was forcing Kakashi backwards, he smirked and threw a kunai, Kakashi dodged but saw that it wasn't him he was aiming for but a trap wire.
Kakashi cursed under his breath as a range of traps activated pummelling Kakashi to pieces. Naruto smirked, showed him that he wasn't to be underestimated. He examined the area Kakashi should be only to see the area was clear except for a beaten up log
"Dam" Naruto cursed as he stepped forward to look for his target only to run strait into a trap, a wire hit his legs tripping him then he fell into a dug hole. Kakashi peered over the opening,
"Good job, but look underneath the underneath" Naruto's eyes twitched as he tried to climb the hole, only to fall back down cursing he created some Kage bunshin to make a ladder.
Sakura watched the entire fight and knew she was the weakest link, if Naruto didn't stand a chance then neither did she, in fact she doubted Sasuke would either but she had to be sure running she went to the area that Naruto was so see if he wanted help only to run into Kakashi.
"AAAHHHH" screaming in fright Kakashi chuckled,
"I wouldn't scream, unless you want to end up like Sasuke?" Sakura questioned Kakashi when Kakashi 'poofed' away, as Sakura turned the corner there was Sasuke, blood was dripping, Kunai in places you don't want to thing about, and Sakura froze with fear.
'If that happened to Sasuke, what about Naruto!' Pushing past the image of Sasuke she focused on the ground ahead and saw something
"The blood isn't staining GENJUTSU!" putting her hands together in a seal she called
"Kai" the image of a beaten Sasuke blew away in the wind, pleased with herself she ran towards her target.
Kakashi was impressed he was sure she was going to fall for the illusion, then again if she wasn't looking for Naruto at that moment but was looking for Sasuke then she would have fainted. Turning he let them be and went to find Sasuke.
Sakura made it to the hole Kakashi dug to rescue Naruto only to see 50 clones pulling each other up one by one. Confused as to why they were real she approached
"Naruto!" the boy in question turned while the clones disappeared in a volume of smoke
"Yes Sakura-chan" Sakura approached and put her head into a thinking position
"Don't you see that something fishy about this exam" Naruto nodded his head slowly, he didn't get anything but he licked to pretend to be smart, unfazed Sakura continued
"I mean, have you ever seen or heard of a 3 man team. 2 Genin and a Jounin" now Naruto new the answer to that
"No" Sakura suddenly had a light bulb appear above her head, Naruto was actually freaked out about that, luckily it disappeared as quick as it came
"Its because there are no three man teams, this whole things a trick, quick we have to find Sasuke-kun"
Sasuke himself was neck deep in dirt, both literately and figuratively. He was pouting, that was the only way to describe his predicament, when the two-worst people in the world show up before he could dig himself out, how he got there he didn't want to talk about.
"Hmmm, you appear to be neck deep in dirt Sasuke" Naruto said as he laughed, Sasuke used Uchiha death glare number 54, pity it didn't help.
"Look, I don't like you and you don't like me, but in order to pass this was have to work together" normally Sasuke could care less, he worked better alone, he always had. Unfortunately he knew the blonde haired idiot had a point. Alone they stood no chance. Sakura spoke up,
"Think about it, why aren't there any three man teams? If there are none why would Kakashi-sensei give us a test like that?" Sasuke put his brain to work, think over the situation
"To get us to work alone," Naruto nodded at Sasuke then continued
"He tried to pit us against together this is a test of" Sakura finished for Naruto
"Teamwork"
Several trees away Kakashi smiled they finally got it, they still had thirty minutes to get the bells and work together, lets see how they do.
Waiting at the posts Kakashi watched for his cute students to make their move, it came so quick and so fast you could barely see it happening. It started with 5 copies of the genin; Kakashi didn't know which ones were real, so he put his book back into the pouch, after all its best to honour his student's seriousness. Together they charged each in the right style, thinking fast he dodged the first few strikes, when he hit them they disappeared in a bunch of smoke
'Kage bunshin? Impressive. Naruto's reserves should be as high if not higher than mine'
Jumping back Kakashi punched another only for it to faze through eyes widening he thought
'Bunshin!' he wasn't to be caught unawares though so he punched another Sasuke, unfortunately another was behind him on the Tora seal
"Katon Goukakyuu no Jutsu (Grand Fireball Technique)" Kakashi was forced to retreat unless he wanted to be barbequed, feeling someone behind him he ducked narrowly missing Naruto's kick, Naruto called out
"Quasi (Rump)" performing a two handed handstand Naruto span around and went for another kick, Kakashi managed to duck under it. Not to be deterred though Naruto continued the spin swang the other leg and gave a hard kick to Kakashi's tailbone as he called out
"Queue (Tail)" when the attack connected Kakashi exploded into a log and the log was smashed in half. Kakashi's eyes widened comically from the attack
'If that had hit me…' barely dodging a pair of thrown kunai curtesy of Sakura and nearly running into an attack combo via Sasuke Kakashi believed that unless he removed his chakra suppressing weights or revealed the sharingan they might beat him, although that was the point.
After destroying 3 of Sakura's bunshin that were leading him to a trap which he narrowly dodged it via a Kawarimi, He threw a kunai at her only to have it deflected. Sensing someone after the bells he turned to face Naruto only to be caught from behind, trapped he saw Sakura and Sasuke covering all escape routes as Naruto called
"Concasse (Crush)" Naruto jumped into the air, starting to spin rapidly he gained extreme speed; Kakashi knew that if that hit him, he would be knocked unconscious. Performing a quick Kawarimi with a clone he managed to avoid Naruto's heel from smashing his head, thinking quick he Jumped back throwing Kunai at Sakura and Sasuke to avoid them retaliating. Luckily before his students could follow him the alarm went. Breathing a loud sigh of relief, he turned to his students, they were depressed smiling he told them the good news
"You pass"
Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke looked at Kakashi with confused expressions on their faces
"How did we pass? we didn't get a bell!" Kakashi smiled, although the only way to tell was by his eye curving upwards
"This wasn't a test to get the bells, it was a test of teamwork, which you figured out in the end" Pausing he lead them to a monument
"You are the first, everyone else just stayed with the rules and ignored each other to try to get the bells, they failed" Walking he squatted and put a hand on the memorial
"This is a memorial of all the heroes of Konoha" Naruto grew excited
"Then I'm going to get my name on there one day!" Kakashi grimaced
"Every person on this stone was killed in action" Naruto calmed down with a solemn look on his face. Sighing he gave them their lunch and spoke to them,
"Those who disobey the rules are trash, but those who abandon their team mates are worse than trash, place those words close to your heart." Performing an eye smile the mood lightened up and the 3 started talking about finally becoming Genin and how they were the first to pass Kakashi's test
'Is that what it was like for you, Minato-sensei?'
END
A/N: And there we have it, Kakashi revealed. I quite like the character of Kakashi, he would be my favourite character followed by Gai, why do I like Gai? I like his personality; it's happy go lucky like Naruto. I changed the fight seen a little so that you can follow it easier.
NEXT TIME: Missions, Training and the 2 green beasts.
Please Review and honesty is appreciated. Thanks, The great David
