Mothers Chapter 10: Tests Suck
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Kitsune: Sorry I'm late, but my computer caught a bunch of viruses and died, taking all my incomplete chapters with it.
Kratos: Liar!... Wait, that's true...
Towa: Ugh...Quiet...
Kitsune: Anyway... On with the chapter!
=Training Ground # 7=
'Mother, Sasuke. Sakura is the only one here.' Naruto thought.
'I am aware of that Naruto-kun. I knew they wouldn't be here.' Kyuubi replied.
Sasuke looked quizically toward her/Naruto. 'Then why didn't you tell us?' Kyuubi sighed in response.
'Because as a ninja, you won't be able to get enought sleep all the time, and sometimes your clients will set you up. Consider this a little practice session' She replied smoothly.
The boys nodded their heads in response. They walked over to three training posts set up a little off to the side of the field, where sakura was sitting half asleep, and sat down to meditate. After three hours had passed, all parties were more than a little pissed. Two figures finally came trudging through the undergrowth. Kakashi and a slightly blood splattered Anko.
Sakura was somehow instantly awake and on her feet. "YOUR BOTH LATE!" Howled the fangirl. Kakashi was the first to recover.
"Sorry about that, but a black cat crossed my path, and I had to take the long way around to prevent bad luck" He 'expained' Sakura was about to retort, but Sasuke was talking before she shouted, instantly mesmerising her with his annoyed tone.
"Kakashi-Sensei, I thought that you had to grab the cat by the tail, drown it in boiling salt water, bury it at the area where it crossed you path, THEN take the long way around. Am I wrong?"
Kakashi, showing his ninja skills of improvision, replied steadly without missing a beat. " Yes, but that's only if you want to guarantee results. Unfortunatly, Anko caught me before I could cook it, so I settled for just taking the long way."
Sakura then looked over to Anko, her visual perception slowly returning to reality. "A why are you la... WHY ARE YOU COVERED IN BLOOD!" She Screeched in terror. Anko looked down at her self, and seeing that she was indeed covered in the precious life substance, adopted an 'oops, my bad' look, complete with her hand scratching behind her head, and her tounge sticking out slightly.
"Well... I was going to take a shower and redress after an interrogation session, when I ran into Kakashi and had to drag him here. We would have been here an hour ago, If he didnt insist on taking the long way around." It was Naruto's turn to contribute to the conversation.
"Wait. If you would have been here an hour ago, and you had been doing you job, what the hell were you doing for the other two hours Kakashi?" All three genin glared venomously at the silver haired scarecrow. His eye turned into a little 'u' or a smile, depending how you look at it.
"I was busy playing Shogi with Maito Gai" The rest of the team face plant. "Now that that's out of the way," He continued " It's time for your test." Kakashi pulled out two little silver bells from his pocket and jingled them. "You have two hours to retrive these bells from me, anyone without a bell will fail, and be sent to the Academe."
"But Kakashi-sensei, there are only two bells."
"Exactly, wich means one of you will undoubtly fail. Two more things, Anko will be hunting you during this test, and If you don't come at me with the intent to kill, you won't pass this test."
Naruto reached his hand out, cloak already flying toward his target. "Fire pri-" he stopped talking when he felt cold steel to his neck. 'Is this the speed of an elite jonin? Increadible.'
"Tsk tsk tsk, I didn't say start yet Naruto. I think I'm starting to like you guys a little." He puts a clock on the middle post. "Now then, begin!" All other occupants dissapear. Kakashi takes a lazy look around. 'they've hidden themselves well, Sakura needs some improvement, or some hair dye' thought the silver haired ninja, spying sakuras bubblegum locks in a patch of bushes. He then finds Sasuke and Naruto's Chakra signatures in some trees behind him. 'Sasuke needs to learn chakra supression, but not as bad as Naruto. Kids basically a flare to any ninja with sensory training.' Naruto jumps out of the tree and lands a couple yards behind Kakashi.
"You and me let's go." He challenges. His target gives him a 'Are you kidding me?' look.
"Ya know, your a little weird."
"The only thing weird here is your face!" Retorted the Blonde. Sasuke faceplanted out of the tree, Anko fell behind him, her sneak attack ruined.
"Lesson one, Fuinjutsu." Kakashi preformed a few handsigns then slamed his fingers, alit with a purple flame, into Naruto's stomach. It only took him a fraction of a second. "Five Pronged Seal!"
Naruto's cloak dissapared as he buckled over onto the ground. 'It hurts so bad, what did he do to me? Mother?' her reply was barely a whisper to him.
'An ele... seal! Pre... me... helping...'
Naruto stands up on shakey legs. He casts a glare of absolute hatred to his opponet.
"That should keep your 'mother' from interfearing, Now for the real lesson one, Taijutsu." he reaches into his pocket, causing naruto to tense, until he sees the orange book that was retrived.
"The hell? Why are you reading during our battle." Naruto shouted, outraged.
"Why, to find out what happens in the end, of course. Go ahead and attack, I won't be bothered."
Naruto charged at Kakashi in a blind rage. Of course, since he never got to truly spar during the academe, and sense when he did fight mother helped, he got his bum whooped until he missed on a spin kick toward Kakashi's head.
Kakashi preformed some hand sighs, ending with the Tora Seal.
'Naruto, Get out of there!' Sasuke cried through the link, which was unfortunatly shut off due to the Seal on Naruto.
"Never let your enemy get behind you, Naruto. Konohagakure's Hidden Secret Taijutsu Technique: One Thousand Years of Death!" Kakashi then proceded to insert his fingers into Naruto's unprotected rectum. The pain from this 'attack' in addation to the Five Pronged seal, caused Naruto to lose consciousness as he flew into the forest next to his other teacher.. Looking over to where sasuke lay defeated, he then disappeared toward his last student. 'And then there was one.'
=Mean while=
"Anko, Why are you attacking me?" Shouted Sasuke as he avoided a flurry of Kunai.
"Simple, this is your test!" She replied casually, but her grin said she was enjoying this. The game of 'Dodge or get Stabbed' continued for a while, until Sasuke noticed Kakashi holding the Tora sign, right behind Naruto
'Naruto, Get out of there!' He cried, then faceplanted due to the 'attack' Kakashi used. Fortunatly, his falling helped him dodge some weapons thrown at his person, unfortunatly, it allowed Anko to rush over and knock him out that much more easily. Anko looked over to Kakashi as Naruto rolled to a stop at her feet. Seeing him go after the last member she dragged them over to the training posts.
=Later=
The three genin were aroused from their slumber by the ringing of an alarm clock. Kakashi and Anko were standing infront of them, looks of dissappointment on their faces.
"All of you, I've decided not to send you back to the academe." The three genin were happy, and sakura would have jumped for joy, if not for being tied down. "That's right, I'm going to remove you three from the ninja program." Naruto burst at that.
"What the hell do you mean? So what if we didn't get the bells! That doesn't mea-"Anko interupted him.
"The reason you failed isn't because you lost the bells, but because you all didn't discover the true meaning of the test!" They looked at her confused, until Kakashi elaborated.
"It's teamwork."
"But Naruto and I already work great as a team, and you two kept us appart the whole time!" complained Sasuke. Kakashi explained.
"True, you to do work together, but why do you think you are on teams of three? If you had tried to include Sakura, you would have passed."
"Then why am I tied to a log and not them!" she complained. Anko replied this time.
"That's becaue you couldn't break a simple Genjutsu." Sakura looked ashamed.
"Now, Anko has convinced me to give you one last chance, you have five minuets to eat from these bentos and recover your energy, but do not give Sakura any. These are my rules and they will be obeyed. We'll be back." He and Anko dissappered in a puff of smoke.
After a few seconds Sakura's stomache rumbled, causing her to looking down and blush. "Here" She looked up to see Sasuke holding up his bento to her. "But sensei sai-"
"Ignore him, you'll need your strength." Naruto said, holding up his bento beside sasukes.
Sakura was touched. "Thank you, but my hands are tied." Sasuke sighs deeply. He grabs some food and puts it infront of her mouth. She bites and swallows it.
In a flash the sky had darkened and a powerful wind had started to blow. Kakashi appeared infront of them glaring malevolently.
"WHAT DID I SAY! YOU BROKE THE RULES!" he bellowed.
Naruto glared back."We work together."
Sasuke joined him, "We protect our own."
Sakura halfheartly glares up, "We are a team."
"FINE THEN, IF YOU WORK AS A TEAM, THEN AS A TEAM YOU SHALL...pass." calmly finished kakashi, the cloud's and wind disappeared, and Anko appeared as the final word was said.
"Wha?"
"You see that rock behind you, It is a monument with the names of Konoha's greatest heros. They are all shinobi, like yourselves, but with one key difference." the genin leaned foward, listening intently.
"They all died in the line of duty". This shocked them still. "The names of my dearest friends are on this monument. One of them told me these words, which you three should take to heart. 'Those who break the rules are trash, this is true. But those who abandon their friends and comrades are much worse than that'." He continued solemly. Anko then spoke up. "Enough with this depressed atmosphere, you all report at the small bridge beside the Dango shop at seven sharp for missions! You all can celebrate now!" Kakashi released the seal on Naruto, and the jonin's left to tell the results.
'Can you here me?' Kyuubi asked, getting two replies of 'Mother! What happened?'
'Well, It seems placing a restraining seal over the one holding me will completly block off our axcess to each other.'
Sasuke looked to Naruto. 'that explains why you couldn't hear my warning'
'Huh?'
'During the test, when he impaled your rear.' Sasuke deadpaned.
'Oh.'
Sakura looked at the two worriedly. "Hello? Can one of you untie me?" she asked. They snapped out of their trance and cut the ropes, then Sasuke turned to her.
"Sakura, this is it. We are shinobi now, and need to take things seriously. That means no more worring about your hair and makeup, or going on some rediculous diets. If you train hard enough, you would burn away any fat you would gain from eating normly anyway, just look at Naruto." She turned and seeing he hadn't gotten his cloak back on yet, saw his lean muscular figure. She was about to ask about the multitude of white lines on his skin, when he spoke.
"Sasuke, we need to go home, and I need to see a doctor about my colon." They left, leaving a bewildered female behind.
Kitsune: How was that? Good? I hope so.