So, as promised! Here is the next chapter ( I moved the AN to the bottom of the chapter.) Please REVIEW! Also, there will be a
Chapter Ten: The Bells
Naruto sat up in one of the trees on the training ground the next morning. He watched at his team arrived right on time. Naruto smirked as he looked at his team who ridiculously resembled the team he was on when he was genin. He watched them interact and tried to gauge the personalities. He knew he would have to get them to work together just like Kakashi did. Naruto sighed. He watched them for some time.
"Good morning, Morimaru-san!" Kasumi waved to the boy with the ponytail, who just waved back.
"Senseis not here yet?" Ashi said as he walked up behind Kasumi.
"No," Morimaru replied simply.
"I see," Kasumi said with her tone slightly less enthusiastic as it was earlier.
"I wonder what the training will be?" Ashi asked to no one in particular.
"Who knows?" Kasumi replied.
"All I know is that I am not going back to the academy," Morimaru said sitting down next to his bag.
"Me either," Kasumi replied.
"I asked my dad about Sensei last night," Ashi said as he sat down next to Morimaru.
"And?" the kid with the ponytail asked.
"Apparently, Naruto-sensei saved the whole world during the war. He's an amazing Shinobi and everyone loves him," Ashi explain.
"Psh, I doubt he's that good," Kasumi waved her hand.
"I don't know. Dad said he took on the enemy alone and then with the help from the shinobi alliance, they took him down," Ashi shrugged.
Naruto sat in the tree watching the interaction.
I wonder if this is what Kakashi did with us? Naruto thought as he laughed to himself.
A few hours passed as Naruto watched his team. It was now two hours past the time he told them to be there. Most of the time, they group had sat in silence. Ashi was goofing off, Morimaru kept going through his bag and Kasumi would talk about nonsense to no one in particular. Naruto sighed and decided to start the test. He had taken a liking to his team. He really didn't want to fail them if he didn't have to, but he knew that if they didn't understand the bell test, he would have fail them. The blonde jumped down from the tree and placed his hands in his pockets. He started walking towards the group but stopped at the three logs that were lined up.
"So, lets begin," Naruto said.
The three looked up at his direct and blinked.
"You're late!" Kasumi yelled as she pointed to the blonde.
Naruto placed his hand on the time clock sitting on the center log, "the clock is set for noon. There are two bells," Naruto said holding up to bells Kakashi gave him, "You have till then to take them from me."
"But you're a Jonin, how are we suppose to take them from you?" Ashi asked.
"You'll find a way. Those who don't get a bell, don't get lunch. I will tie you to the log and eat in front of you," Naruto said as he tied the bells to his waist.
"That's why you told us not to eat," Morimaru gave the blonde a look.
"There are only two so that means at least one of you will not get lunch, and the person who doesn't get a bell, gets sent back to the academy," Naruto continued.
The group starred at him with different looks. Ashi looked like he was going to kill him, Morimaru looked determined and Kasumi looked terrified.
"You can use your ninja tools. If you don't come at me with the intent to kill, you will not succeed," Naruto continued as he placed his hands in his pockets and walked up to the group.
"But you'll be in danger!" Kasumi yelled.
"I doubt you three will put me in any real danger," Naruto shrugged with a blank expression on his face.
Apparently this statement really made Morimaru mad, he suddenly had a thrown two shuriken at the blonde's head. Naruto raised his hand and caught both of them on his first two fingers and threw them back at the ponytailed boy.
"Calm down, I haven't said to begin yet," Naruto rolled his eyes as the ponytail boy caught then and then he smiled, "but it seems you are ready to come at me with the intent to kill."
Morimaru made a 'humph' sound as he placed his shuriken away.
"Alright then, lets being," Naruto said as he disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Where'd he go?" Kasumi looked around.
"I don't know," Ashi looked around too.
There was a ruffle in the forest and the group assumed it was the blonde and started running into the forest.
Naruto was sitting on a tree watching the three interact. He noticed they heard the ruffle from the clone, but no one seemed to notice it was a clone. None of them tried to hide themselves like they were suppose to. Morimaru and Kasumi ran after Ashi into the forest, and Naruto decided to follow them. Naruto jumped from tree to tree as the three shinobi ran underneath him.
They suddenly stopped when they saw the clone disappear. Naruto couldn't help but chuckle at the faces on the three.
They finally noticed me huh? Naruto shook his head and turned around to start jumping in the opposite direction, but something stopped him. He looked down and saw a shadow attached to him, which was connect to the Morimaru.
"I see you already know Kagemane no Jutsu, but how long can you keep it up?" Naruto smirked, just then he felt the shadow start to weaken and break.
Naruto jumped up and started jumping through trees until he came to the clearing. He jumped down and looked around.
Naruto sighed, their pretty slow, even for Genin.
Naruto made a shadow clone and sent him off to gather natural chakra. Then the genin finally appeared.
Morimaru narrowed his eyes at the blonde and lunged at him. Naruto put his hand in his pack, which stopped the ponytailed boy.
"Shinobi fighting lesson number one, Taijutsu. Let me show you," Naruto said.
Naruto pulled out the orange book the Kakashi gave him and started reading.
"What's that?" the boy asked with his eyes narrowing.
"I want to know what happens next, plus fighting you, it really won't matter," Naruto said not looking up from his book.
The boy lunged at Naruto, and when he tried to kick him, the blonde ducked. When he tried to punch him, Naruto stopped him. This went on for several minutes, until Naruto finally got annoyed. With in a flash Naruto was couching, behind the boy this his fingers in a tiger position.
"Allow me to show you a technique my sensei taught me," Naruto smirked.
Morimaru turned around with his eye widened, "what?"
"Hidden Leaf Ancient Taijutsu supreme technique: A thousand years of pain!" Naruto yelled as his stabbed the young boy in the butt with the tiger hand seal, push chakra through his hands shooting the boy in the air.
The boy landed in the river, just like Naruto did when he was genin. Hmm, I thought Ashi was more like me, but I guess people can surprise you.
Naruto looked over that the other Genin who gave him an annoyed look. Ashi was the next to come at Naruto. At first the blonde thought he was going to repeat the same thing but Ashi surprise him. The dark haired boy stopped and made several hand signs.
"Suiton: Teppōdama!" the boy yelled.
Naruto jumped out of the way of the water bomb that was about to it him, what! How can he do such an advanced technique! It takes too much chakra!
Naruto suddenly felt a bunch of shuriken being thrown at him, in a flash Naruto had pulled out a kunai and blocked all the metal. Naruto looked over at where the shuriken was being thrown from, and a very wet Morimaru stood there looking really pissed.
"Ashi! Watch your aim!" Morimaru yelled at the boy.
"Ha-ha, sorry Morimaru!" the boy yelled back.
When the three looked around their sensei had disappeared.
"Where did he go?" Ashi asked looking around, and suddenly he saw a bell lying beside a tree, "He dropped a bell!" He yelled as he ran towards it.
"Wait! Ashi! Don't!" Kasumi yelled.
Right before he reached the bell, a rope tied around his leg and pulled up towards the tree making the dark haired boy hang upside down. From another tree Naruto looked at the boy hanging there and rolled his eyes.
He fell for it too huh?
"Someone get me down!" Ashi yelled as he swung back and forth.
Naruto hopped down and walked towards the tree, he reached down and grabbed the bell, tying back to his waist, "Think before using a jutsu, or it could be used against you. Also don't fall for such an obvious trap."
"Damn it!" Ashi yelled.
"A shinobi must be able to see underneath the underneath," Naruto continued as he looked up at the boy hanging in the tree.
"I know that!" Ashi yelled crossing his arms.
"No you don't, I am telling you this because you don't know," Naruto said as he turned away.
Naruto was then hit with a bunch of kunais and pushed back.
"Finally!" Morimaru yelled just before the Naruto turned into a log.
"Damn it! A Kawarimi!" Morimaru hissed. Then suddenly he felt a Kunai at his neck.
"Too slow," the voice said from behind him.
Morimaru turned and saw his sensei holding the kunai, but the blonde disappeared. The three looked around and saw their sensei had disappeared again. Each went their separate ways look for him.
Kasumi was walking on the edge of the training ground when she thought she saw her sensei. She crouched down behind a bush to watch him. Her eye caught the two silver bells that hung at his waist.
Phew he didn't see me. There are still two bells, which means the other two didn't get them yet. I still have a chance. She thought to herself.
"Kasumi, behind you," Naruto said.
Kasumi turned around and was face to face with her sensei. His hands were together in a ram sign and suddenly she was out.
"Shinobi fighting lesson number two: Genjutsu. You seem like you would be good with it, I will teach you," Naruto said to the unconscious body.
Naruto shook his head and walked away from Kasumi. He jumped up to one of the trees and found that Morimaru was setting up traps.
What's he planning? Naruto thought as he eyes the kid.
Morimaru turned around and started running towards where he had left Kasumi. Naruto decided to follow the boy, who stopped when he saw Kasumi's unconscious body. He just left her there though.
These kids have a long way to go. He didn't even check to see if she was all right. He's too focused.
The kid kept running while Naruto followed him. They stopped in the clearing and Naruto jumped down behind the boy, who immediately turned around.
"You're from the Nara clan, which is bad for you. I know most of the jutsus since Shikamaru is my… partner," Naruto stood there with his arms crossed.
"The Mori's are different than the Shika's," Morimaru huffed.
"Oh yeah? Show me," Naruto pushed.
Morimaru got in a crouched position as several shadows started towards the blonde.
Its ready…. Naruto thought and he dispelled the clone that he sent off earlier. Naruto eyes suddenly changed and had an orange ring around them.
"Sage Art: Wind Release Stream" Naruto yelled and sent the boy flying back into a tree, "Oops might have over done that…"
The boy looked up and saw that his sensei had disappeared again.
"Where is he?" Morimaru looked around, "Above? No. Side? No."
"Below you," A voice called.
Morimaru looked down and saw that a hand had grabbed his ankle and started to pull him down.
"Doton: Shinjū Zanshu no Jutsu" Naruto called as he pulled the ponytailed boy into the dirt.
Naruto stood in front of the head and laughed, "Shinobi fighting lesson three: ninjutsu, remind me to teach you one day."
Naruto stood up and walked away leaving the boy in the ground.
Elsewhere, Kasumi finally woke up from the genjutsu Naruto had placed on her, she walked by where Naruto had been fighting with Morimaru, but stopped when she saw Morimaru's head.
"Kasumi!" the ponytail called, "Help me!"
"Morimaru!" Kasumi yelled as she ran over to help him. Once they were both able to walk they headed back over to where they had left Ashi.
When they reached there, the timer went off and Naruto appeared.
"Looks like you guys are out of time," Naruto smirked.
Ahh! So whats gonna happen next? Stay tuned to find out. ;)
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Hey Guys! This is an Author's Note. I have several story ideas floating around in my head and so I need your help in which story to start writing nex. So here are the ideas. :D
1) In an AU Naruto is a very quiet genus. His father is still alive. (Starts when Naruto is still in the academy.) Naruto hides who is really is. The son of the 4th hokage and a genus. Everything thinks he is a complete idoit with no talent since all he does is sit there and never tries.
2) Naruto was taken by Danzo after he was born. The elders believed it was best to train the young boy so he would be able to control the nine tails, but when he is 10 they send him to the academy. What will happen if the rookies and their sensei's find out that Naruto is actually a highly skilled ROOT member?
3) What is Naruto and Sasuke had switched places? What if Naruto had been the one to deflect from the village and Sasuke was trying to bring him back?
4) Naruto disappeared when he was only 5 years old. Taken by the Akatsuki, memories wiped and trained so they could use him to take the rest of tailed beasts. What happens when Naruto is sent to retrieve the one tail that Konoha obtained? Minato and kushina alive.
5)Right after Naruto returns from his mission in the Land of Waves, he is kidnapped by the Akatsuki and they wipe his memories. The unknowing Naruto is trained by each member and then is sent to each village to obtain the Jinchuurikis. What happens in Konoha when they hear romurs about a blonde Akatsuki member kidnapping the jinchuuriki?
Alright, so those ate my latest ideastho will set a poll soon! But for now, please review. This will be changed to an actual chapter soon when the poll is up! Thank you all for your help!