WogboyAC

The Four Guardians

Chapter Eight

'Where are they?' Haruno Sakura wondered deciding to just sit down and wait for them. 'They wouldn't be too long right?'

Three hours later, Sasuke and Naruto had finally shown up and the first thing that Sakura noticed was that outfits had changed.

Sasuke now had a black shirt on with the collar up and the trademark Uchiha fan on the back a pair of white shorts on and a pair of black Shinobi sandals. All in all the only thing he changed was the color of his shirt and the color of his sandals but due to Sakura's chronic fan-girlism she thought he still looked super hot and super badass.

Naruto was no longer wearing an open black jacket and the tight black shirt that showed off his abs and gone were the black pants and black boots.

Now he was wearing a black robe that has an orange swirl on the back of it (that was usually seen on the Chunin and Jounin flak jackets) and a pair of black pants. He had and orange belt sash around his waist, his usual black metal plated gloves and an orange bandana that ran down to his lower back with his hitai-ate tied around his left arm. His trademark orange mask still in place. (Think Tobi/Madara/No One during the Shinobi war arc…minus the different colors and the Hitai-ate).

Even though you couldn't see them he had a silver bracelet on his right wrist and the silver necklace around his neck that he had gotten from Mei.

Naruto, in Sakura's opinion also looked badass, creepy, but badass although she would never admit that out loud.

Sighing Naruto thought back to how he had gotten his new outfit yesterday.

:::Flashback:::…

*sigh* 'now what do I do for the rest of the day?' Naruto as he slowly made his way back to the apartment waving and greeting some of the women in the red light district where his apartment was.

'I want to go train with Sasuke but I know if I go over there, things will get awkward pretty quickly.' He thought to himself sadly.

When he finally reached his destination the first things he saw a package sitting outside his apartment's door.

'Wonder what that's about?' he thought picking the package up and reading the small note attached to it.

Naruto

I had always planned to give you these for your thirteenth birthday but now that you're a Genin…again I figured now would be a better time.

They are modified Uchiha robes that I made for you a couple of years ago.

Hope you like them

Mikoto

'Mikoto-chan?' He wondered hurrying. When he reached his bedroom he saw a silver bracelet on his bed. It was the same one Mikoto had given him for his tenth birthday. She told him it was to go with the necklace he had.

Smiling sadly he said to himself 'I take it she found the box then and the photo album.' Before he opened the package.

:::Flashback End:::…

'Well I suppose that it does give me an excuse to go over there.' He figured just as Kakashi arrived in a puff of smoke.

"Yo, sorry I'm late I got lost on the road to life." The man said his visible eye firmly placed in an upside down U.

"LIAR!" Sakura screeched.

"Hmm, you say something bubblegum?" Kakashi asked lazily making the boys smirk and Sakura screech loudly about deaf Sensei's.

"Anyway." He said deciding to get straight down to business. "to pass this test you have exactly one hour to get these bells off of me." He said bringing two bells out of his pocket and tying the string around his belt.

"But sensei, there are three of us and only two bells?" Sakura asked.

"Yes I know, and the reason behind that is the one who fails to get one of the bells will fail this test and go back to the academy." Getting a shocked looked from Sakura, a smirk from Sasuke and….a masked face from Naruto.

"Now I should probably warn you that the only way you can hope of getting these bells of me is coming at me with the intention to kill." The man informed them.

"But, won't you get hurt sensei?" Sakura asked getting a roll of the eyes from the three males present.

Chuckling the man said." Thank you for your concern Sakura but I assure you I will be fine." With his eye-smile in place.

"Alright then, Hajime!" The man exclaimed as Sakura hurriedly left the clearing to come up with a plan.

"You know the two of you are either really brave, really stupid or simply have a death wish" Kakashi said turning to the two boys.

"Come on son." Naruto said.

"We're not stupid." Sasuke stated.

"Oh, please explain…the best idea would have to hide like sakura and come up with a plan."

"Then we would have already failed the test." Sasuke said smirking as Kakashi's eye widened in surprise.

"How so?" The man asked wondering if indeed they had figured it out.

"Hn, you said yesterday that this would be a team test." Sasuke reminded him.

"And we have never heard of a team that only had two Genin and a Jounin." Naruto stated.

"Besides the fact that you're a Jounin. No freshly graduated Genin like Sakura and myself could ever hope of taking on a Jounin level Shinobi by themselves. If this were a mission and you are our enemy, if we stand against you as a team we would stand a better chance of surviving. Hell…if two of us died in the process and only one managed to escape and survive. That's better then all of us dying." Sasuke smirked.

During the monologue, kakashi was just becoming more and more proud of his student. Of course he knew that Naruto, being a former ANBU captain, would have figured it out from the very beginning but Sasuke well, it sure was a nice surprise. He had heard that during the academy he was a selfish, arrogant kid that had basically inherited his clan's way of life and thought he was the king of the world. He had heard that he didn't make any friends during the academy and that the only friend he had was….Naruto.

Coming in to this thing Kakashi figured that Sasuke would think he could do it all himself and that anyone else would just get in his way and slow him down. But it seems that with Naruto being here with him he was different story.

'It seems that these two are great friends and they both seem to understand the importance of teamwork. With these two by each others side they could be deadly force to be reckoned with.' Kakashi thought to himself.

"hmm that's great that you two want to work together but what about Sakura?" The Jounin queried.

"Hn." Sasuke grunted. "Sakura!" the boy exclaimed turning his head to the side so he could look behind himself. "Get down here!" he ordered.

"HAAAIIIII! SASUKE-KUUUUN!" Was the loud response they all heard before Sakura had come running out the bushes. A massive cloud of dust following.

"Sakura." Naruto said as the pink haired girl huffed and puffed trying to catch her breath.

"what baka?" Sakura managed to screech in between pants of air.

"In order for us to pass this test we need to work together." Naruto told her.

"AS IF I WOULD EVER WORK TOGETHER WITH YOU NARUTO-BAKA!" She managed to bellow in one massive breath before she started panting again.

"Hn, Sakura…he's right we need to work as a team." Sasuke defended his friend. Which he regretted immediately because Sakura turned to him with stars in her eyes.

"That's a great idea Sasuke-kun!" The girl exclaimed.

Naruto, who was a second away from killing the banshee for being so damn loud just looked at kakashi and shook his head as the man eye-smiled in return.

"So did we pass?" Sasuke said ignoring Sakura, who was staring at him with hearts in her eyes.

"Well, yes I suppose you do." The man said cheerfully making Sakura began shouting in celebration as Naruto and Sasuke just bumped fists with smirks on their faces.

"Now about tomorrow." The Jounin began getting their attention. " Normally we would begin training as a team but apparently Hokage-sama has a different idea this time around." He informed them getting perplexed looks from all three of them. With Naruto he could the blonde was a confused as the others because he had tilted his head to the right.

"It seems that he and the Shinobi council want to know what your individual skills are, so tomorrow all the teams that passed their tests, along with their Jounin sensei will meet Hokage-sama and the council here at eight o'clock tomorrow morning. Ja Ne" Kakashi said before he disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"Let's go dobe, I'm sure Kaa-san wants to know how we went."

"You just want me to come with you so you don't have to walk there." Naruto said annoyed before grabbing Sasuke on the shoulder.

"Hn." The Uchiha grunted smirking as they, like kakashi moments before, disappeared in a puff of smoke, leaving a sad dejected Sakura alone in the field who had wanted to ask Sasuke out on a date.

Appearing in front of Sasuke's house, Naruto sighed as he followed his friend inside

"Kaa-san I'm back, Naruto's here too." Sasuke yelled out so his mom could here him.

A minute later Mikoto joined the boys in the kitchen where they were getting a drink. Waving at Sasuke, who waved back with a smile, she turned to Naruto, who when she waved, quickly waved back before quickly looking away from her, something that made her frown.

Turning to Sasuke she asked him how they went.

"We passed. Before the test even began, the dobe here helped me find the true meaning of the test." Sasuke said smiling wide when his mother beamed at him.

"Hn, it took you longer than I thought it would teme." Naruto stated.

"Shut up dobe, not all of us are former ANBU captains." Sasuke fired back

"Tch whatever." Naruto shrugged not really having a comeback for that.

Finishing his drink Sasuke turned to Naruto. "I'm going outside to train, you coming?"

"Yeah I guess, in a minute though." The blonde replied.

"Hn." Sasuke grunted quickly leaving the room. He didn't want to dawdle when he knew what they were going to talk about.

As Mikoto turned to leave because she really didn't want to be alone with Naruto considering it was just going to extremely awkward she started to leave the room as well but stopped when the blonde said her name.

"Hmm." She replied.

"I…uh I just wanted to say thank you. You know for the robes and all." He said softly looking at her back.

Smiling slightly she responded "I'm glad you like them and I'm glad to see that you are wearing them." Before she began walking again about to reach the door.

"And about what happened the other day." He said quickly this time he made her stop and turn around to face him.

"I…I'm sorry." He told her making her eyes widen. She didn't really expect to hear that.

"What I said…..it was stupid..and I know I shouldn't have said anything bu-"

"Naruto." She interrupted.

"What you said to me the other day….do you really fell that way about me?"

"Yes."

"Do you love me?" she asked wanting to hear it from him.

"Hai." He nodded rather nervous now.

"Naruto." She said softly walking up to him.

"Hmm." He replied when she wrapped him up in a hug.

"What I said to you…you know about me not feeling the same way…..i was telling you the truth." She said her hold on him getting tighter as he tried to step away from her.

"Listen. I know I said I saw you as a son. But even I know that there is something else there and you are just going to have to give me time to figure out how I truly feel about you." She told him pulling away from him only to see pure sadness in his eyes.

"Please don't be sad Naruto, I don't mean to hurt you I just-"

"It's ok Mikoto, I understand." He said looking at the ground before he sighed dejectedly.

"Tell Sasuke I'll see him tomorrow." He said as he started to run out the house.

"I'm sorry." Was heard as Mikoto quickly followed him to the front door.

The next day, Training ground seven was packed with people as Naruto slowly made his way there.

"Am I late?" The Jinchuuriki asked seeing everyone there except for his own sensei Kakashi.

"Only by a small amount Naruto." The Hokage said nodding toward him.

"Now that every one is here, we are going to start things off by having you Genin show myself and the members of the Shinobi council you're two strongest Jutsu." Hiruzen said as all Genin looked on surprised.

'I'm not really in the mood for this." Naruto thought to himelsef, no longer paying attention to what was going on.

A few minutes went by and he didn't know about everyone else but he certainly wasn't impressed.

'They are doing nothing but showing off their clan Jutsu. I wonder if I should do that?' he asked himself. *sigh* 'Such a waste of time.'

"Uzumaki Naruto, you're up next." Hiruzen said. 'let's see which Jutsu you do Naruto. Will you actually show us your two most powerful Jutsu or will hold back.'

A few moments later the bored blonde walked forward only for a Kage Bunshin to appear next to him.

'Ok I know that's not one of the powerful Jutsu in his collection but to be able to do the Kage Bunshin No Jutsu seal less and not even saying anything is particularly impressive.' The old man thought with a smile.

Just like the fire shadow the council were also impressed. 'He's already come so far and he's still so young. I can't wait to see what he is capable of when he hits his prime.' Nara Shikaku thought finally not finding this whole meeting troublesome before he Kage Bunshin began to glow.

A few seconds later the stunned crowd had to shield their eyes as the Kage Bunshin suddenly exploded.

'Bunshin Daibakuha (Clone Great Explosion)' the adults exclaimed in their heads whilst the Genin just looked at the blonde in shock and awe.

"Excellent Naruto-kun but unless I've gone senile I know for a fact that those two aren't your strongest Jutsu." He smirked.

"Hn, that may be, but everyone else didn't exactly set the standard very high for me to show off old man." Naruto remarked.

'He can do more than those two?' was the question going through everyone's head…well everyone except for Sakura who was shivering in anger.

'HOW DARE THT BAKA INSULT MY SASUKE-KUN LIKE THAT!'

'YEAH LET'S SHOW HIM WHO'S BOSS CHA!' the pink haired girl inwardly exclaimed charging toward the blonde with her fist raised.

"DON'T INSULT MY SASUKE-KUN LIKE THAT BAKA!" she screeched her fist about to meet the back of Naruto's head.

"NANI?" everyone thought as Sakura seemingly passed straight through the blonde.

"HOW DID YOU AVOID MY ATTACK BAKA!"

"Hn." Naruto grunted. "Because you are, without a doubt, the worst excuse of a Kunoichi I have ever seen. And if you ever and I mean EVER try to hit me again I will show you exactly why I am a former ANBU Captain." He said casually like he was talking about the weather before he swirled away.

"And that's a guaran-damn-tee because Sakura is a bad girl." The high-pitched voice was heard after naruto had disappeared surprising everyone.

"Was he really a former ANBU Captain?" Sarutobi Asuma asked his father, lighting up his second cigarette of the day.

"Hai." The elder Sarutobi nodded before he shun shined away leaving everyone to question themselves on who exactly the blonde is.

Taking his leave as their queue everyone slowly made their way out the field to get on with the day.

Two hours later Jouin Sensei Hatake Kakashi finally showed up.

"Yo, everyone sorry I'm…..late" The man said losing his eye smile when he realized he was the only one there.

"AHOU, AHOU." A crow was heard as it passed the over the field.

Lowering his head in depression the silver haired Jounin slowly left to go find his team.

YES- CHAPTER EIGHT FINALLY DONE!

THIS CHAPTER WAS SLIGHTLY BORING BECAUSE WELL NOTHING EXCITING HAPPENED…. NOTHING AT ALL REALLY HAPPENED JUST THE INTRODUCTION TO NARUTO'S MODIFIED TOBI ROBES AND SLIGHTLY MORE ON THE NARUTOXMIKOTO RELATIONSHIP

DEPRESSING REALLY ISN'T IT I HAD SOMETHING PLANNED FOR THIS BUT I DECIDED AGAINST IT – ORIGINALLY NARUTO WAS GOING TO SHOW THEM HIS STRONGEST JUTSU - BUT I FIGURED THAT COULD WAIT UNTIL THE CHUNIN EXAMS.

FROM HERE ON IT WILL BE MOSTLY CANON EXCLUDING THE CAPTURE TORA MISSION. I WILL SKIP STRAIGHT TO THE WAVE ARC

MY NEXT UPDATE WILL POSSIBLY BE A REPOST OF THE PROLOGUE. NOTHING WILL CHANGE I'M JUST FIXING UP THE GRAMMAR AND WHATEVER ELSE I FEEL IS WRONG WITH IT.

!PLEASE REVIEW! IF YOU DON'T I WONT REALLY BLAME YOU SPECIALLY FOR THIS CHAPTER!