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Naruto: Demon Reborn
Chapter 10: Kurenai's Test
"The test is mine." She said with a huge smile.
"What is this test then s-sensei?" Hinata asked trying to keep her stutter down.
"Yea, tell us what we got to do. There is no way that I'm going back to that academy again." Akio said.
"Calm down children, calm down, everything will be explained. This test is similar to Kakashi's bell test." Kurenai explained, she did let out a small smile at the kid's enthusiasm though she did have to wonder why Naruto hadn't even said a word yet. "The goal of this test is to grab these bells." She said as she pulled out two silver bells on red strings as she fastened them to her waist. "Those who get a bell will pass but if you don't then you will fail and will have to repeat the academy all over again." She said with a look that said she wasn't kidding around.
"B-but sensei, there are only t-two bells." Hinata pointed out.
"That's right, which means that one of you will be heading back to the academy no matter what. That should give you the motivation to come at me with the intent to kill, because if you don't, you won't pass." Kurenai said giving them all hard stares.
Before any of them could react the Naruto that was in front of Kurenai popped into smoke as another Naruto ran out of the bushes and grabbed the bells off of Kurenai's waist. "Too easy." Naruto said as he held the bells in front of Kurenai before tossing them to Hinata and Akio. "I had the bells and now my team-mates have them, it may be a little loose as to the rules but that's how ninjas are."
Kurenai smiled at him she had to appreciate his skills. "You are right Naruto you all would pass, IF I was that careless."
Naruto's mood turned to one of irritation; clearly she had been that careless if the bells were now in his team-mates hands, but Kurenai soon explained.
"I am not called the Genjutsu Mistress for no reason Naruto." She said with a sick smile unbecoming of her beauty. Naruto was wondering what she meant by that when a gasp from Hinata had him turn around. What he saw was something else; the bell in her hand was slowly fading away. He turned around to Akio and saw the same thing happening to the bell in his hand. Naruto faced Kurenai, a look of confusion across his face. Kurenai smiled as her feet slowly faded away. "Illusion clone, my very own technique, so far no one has been able to duplicate it. The test is as I said before however it won't be as easy as Kakashi's, I am hidden somewhere in the training ground your task is to find me and get the bells from me if u can I am giving you three till two o clock to get the bells, that's two hours." She said as her waist faded away followed by the start of her stomach. "Remember to come at me with the intent to kill otherwise, YOU. WILL. FAIL." she said as her neck started to go.
"I am NOT going back to the academy!" Akio said strongly. The thought of going back scared him more than anything.
"W-we won't f-fail." Hinata said not wanting to disappoint Naruto, or Akio.
Naruto just stared at the fading face of Kurenai.
"Good luck, you three will need it." She said as her face faded away giving no evidence there was ever a fourth person in the area.
Naruto turned to his team, there was no way he was going to fail this test. "Okay look, there is no way any of us three can beat her alone. Hinata, you are from the Hyuga clan with your eyes you should be able to see through most of her genjutsu, no doubt she will only use weak genjutsu not being able to hurt or traumatize three children. Akio I need to know your skills so that I can come up with a plan to beat her." He said. Despite knowing much of the basic info of the Hyuga, he knew next to nothing about the younger boy on his squad.
"Well, my specialty is earth type jutsu and I love getting up-close and personal in a fight. The men in my family tend to be very flexible due to our fighting style and we tend to be fairly resistant to genjutsu but I'm not that far advanced yet." Akio said.
"Okay, good to know." Naruto said as he started thinking up a plan.
Hinata watched as Naruto thought, his ears twitching subconsciously as he did. She couldn't help but stare at him as he did her feelings of admiration growing as she did.
"Okay, I got it." He said unknown of the figure that moved away. Kurenai didn't want to know their plan before they came at her. They had already passed, after all the test was about teamwork, but it's still fun to watch them try. She smiled and disguised herself as a tree and sent out an illusion clone as a distraction.
'This should be fun' Kurenai thought as a smile spread across her face. She didn't get time to think more though.
"EARTH STYLE: PILLAR MISSLE JUTSU!" Akio called out as the earth around the illusion clone broke into very short, thin pillars and shot at it passing through harmlessly.
"Hinata." Naruto called out signaling the next part of their plan.
"Byakugan." Hinata said as she activated her bloodline.
Kurenai quickly reacted and dropped her illusion and grabbed Hinata pointing a kunai at her throat. "In this world your enemy will do anything to guarantee their own safety or success." She said. Naruto smirked as Hinata popped into smoke reveling another Naruto who quickly turned in Kurenai's arms, breaking free of her hold and aiming a punch at her face.
She quickly ducked under it and jumped away and out of range of Naruto's taijutsu and Akio's ninjutsu. Kurenai started making signs for a simple genjutsu. Naruto ran forward to try to stop it but it was too late, she unleashed the genjutsu covering the area of her, Naruto and Akio. Kurenai breathed a little seeing both the young boys drop to their knees their eyes holding a faded color to them. The genjutsu she used was a low level distraction technique designed for escapes and she sure wasn't going to let that chance slip by. As she turned to find a new hiding spot she had to dodge a gentle fist strike aimed for one of her key chakra points. Flipping back she landed in between Naruto and Akio putting kunais to both their necks. "Come any closer and they will die Hinata, could you really live with yourself with the blood of your team on your hands." She threatened.
Hinata stopped as a look of fear crossed her face. She was just a child, how could this woman do this to a child just then a thought flashed through her mind. She activated her bloodline and stared Kurenai down. "G-go ahead, k-kill them if you c-can live w-w-with children's b-blood on your h-hands." She said.
Kurenai was shocked to say the least; she hadn't expected the young Hyuga to call her bluff. She couldn't use genjutsu to trick her while her bloodline was activated. Her options where very limited. Just before she could decide on what to do both her arms where grabbed by the two boys she thought were under her genjutsu.
"NOW HINATA!" Naruto shouted.
Hinata wasted no time as she charged forward and hit several chakra points in her teacher's chakra system effectively immobilizing her. As the two boys let her go she fell and landed on her back and watched as Naruto took the bells and gave them to his team-mates.
"How did you two break the genjutsu at the same time?" Kurenai asked.
Naruto simply held out the ninja wire that was tied to him and Akio. "I tied about ten feet of wire to the both of us in case one fell under one of your genjutsus, that way the other could fight while breaking the effected free. However since we both fell under Kyubi was nice enough to break us out of it simultaneously." Naruto explained as he untied the wire from his waist.
Kurenai was shocked for the second time that day. The Nine tailed fox helped its container and its container's team-mate. Maybe the demon wasn't as bad as the village made it out to be. She allowed herself another smile. "Congratulations you three pass my test. You are officially ninja of the hidden leaf village, now Hinata dear if you don't mind?" Kurenai said.
Hinata just quietly nodded and unblocked her chakra points.
"Well done all three of you. We shall begin taking missions and training tomorrow, for now you are given the rest of the day to do as you wish I am off to report to the hokage on your success." Kurenai said as she disappeared in a swirl of leaves.
"HELL YEA WE PASSED WOOHOO NO MORE ACADEMY FOR ME!" Akio shouted jumping around like an idiot. "What should we do now?" he asked completely calm from about half a second ago.
Naruto shrugged. "We can go get a bite to eat." He suggested. "I know a place."
"T-that s-s-sounds n-nice N-Naruto." Hinata stuttered.
The three new genin walked to Naruto's favorite restaurant in town and took their seats.
"Hey old man, what's new?" Naruto said as the owner came to greet them.
"Ah Naruto, my favorite customer how are you and your friends today?" he asked
"We just passed our genin test!" Akio exclaimed happily.
"Well congratulations to you three as a treat your orders are on the house. Naruto three bowl limit on you, gotta make some money somewhere ya know?" The man joked.
Naruto chuckled a little. "I get you don't worry."
The three ordered and talked amongst themselves before they had finished their food and left.
Hinata had walked to her home alone. It was in the other direction as her new team and she didn't want to burden them. Her father was at the gate to the compound looking at her with his cold eyes.
"I-I m-made genin t-t-today f-father." She said.
He turned and walked back inside with her fallowing him. "Try not to be a hindrance to them. Who are they?" He asked.
"A-Akio Kiyoshi a-a-and N-Naruto U-Uzumaki." She stuttered.
Hiashi simply grunted in acknowledgement apparently not caring too much Hinata thought.
How wrong she was.