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'MERRY' thoughts

"CHRISTMAS!" dialog

'AND' demon/summon thoughts

"HAPPY" demon/summon dialog

NEW YEAR! jutsu/spell/special technique

Auhtor's note: yo! how you doing? good? excelent! now, this chapter was supposed to be out on the 24th but i had to travel back home for christmas so i couldn't do it, then on the 25th i went out with my cousins and we drank a little too much which transalted as me ending up in the hospital with alcohol poisoning and i just got discharged a couple of hours ago! yay! so even though is already too late... i wish you a merry christmas a happy new year and here is the new chapter! enjoy!


The legend of the wolf and the fox book 1:

The shinobi nations

Chapter 10: "teamwork is the key!"

- (09:00 a.m., Hokage tower) -

"Hmmmm… I raise 200 ryos…" muttered Nack as he sat in the Hokage office with the Hokage, Kakashi, Gai and Genma as the five of them were currently in the middle of a poker game.

"Call" said Kakashi as he put a couple of ryos into the pot. Gai and Genma did the same while the Hokage sat there glaring at his cards; he had a pair of fours only… he so knew that he was screwed but his pride as the Hokage prevented him from folding… stupid pride…

"Call…" said finally the old Hokage and the five of them showed their cards…

"HA! I win! Suckers!" exclaimed Nack as he showed his four of a kind (tens) and the other four men sulked at their losses.

"Oh yeah!" said suddenly the Hokage gaining the attention of the other men "I forgot to tell you Nack-kun"

"Tell me what?" asked Nack with a raised eyebrow.

"Today Kushina-chan comes back from her mission" and just like that Nack's face became a sick shade of white.

"Oh crap…" said Nack before he grabbed the old Hokage by the shoulders and shook him harshly "please tell me that you didn't tell her about what really happened to her kitchen or more importantly who did it!" he demanded or more like begged.

The old Sarutobi just looked at him with a sympathetic look before he answered "I'm sorry…" and that was all that Nack needed to hear because the next second he was out of the office and running in direction to anywhere but the Uzumaki residence.

After a couple of seconds of silence Kakashi spoke "I thought that Kushina-san was supposed to be back in a week more?" he looked at the Hokage who only grinned at him.

"She IS supposed to come back in a week" said the old Sarutobi "…but I was really getting tired of Nack-kun winning all the time" said the Hokage and the other males just chuckled at this.

After they were done with that, they resumed they poker game again until Kakashi spoke "oh yeah! I've been meaning to ask Hokage-sama…"

"Hmm…"

"Why did you put Naruto and Sasuke in the same team? I mean, they practically hate each others guts, so… why put them together?" asked Kakashi as Gai and Genma looked at the old Hokage with questioning looks on their faces.

"oh that!" said the old Sarutobi in remembrance "I did it because the council decided that Sasuke's jounnin sensei had to be Obito as even though they don't like him he IS the only other Uchiha that can train Sasuke in the use of the sharingan… and I put Naruto on the team because Obito asked me to have Naruto on his team a while back, and Kushina agreed to that" explained Hiruzen and the other three males nodded in acceptance of the answer.

They continued to play for a couple of minutes more before Gai said "now that I remember… wasn't it today the youthful gennin tests?" he looked to his eternal rival for confirmation and Kakashi nodded.

"yeah… but if you want to see team 7's test you'll have to wait about an hour more or so… after all Obito is their jounnin sensei…" and the Hokage could only sweatdrop at that.

- (10:45 a.m., training ground 7) -

Naruto was bored… no, scratch that, Naruto was completely bored and he was sure that the other two waiting with him were in equal situations. After all, they had gotten to the training ground around 08:30 a.m. and over two hours had passed and no sign of their sensei… Naruto should have known that Obito had never gotten rid of that habit…

"Yo! Sorry I'm late but a black cat cross my path so I had to take the long road to get here" said sheepishly Obito as he appeared in a shunshin in front of the three gennin aspirants.

"LIAR!" exclaimed Sakura as Sasuke just glared annoyed at Obito and Naruto shook his head at the typical excuse of Obito.

"ma, ma… well as I said yesterday you will have a test to see if you become a gennin or not" said Obito as the three teens tensed up.

"Well, your mission is simple" said Obito as he took out two bells and tied them to his belt "you have to take these bells from me before 14:00 p.m."

"But there are only two bells, Obito-sensei!" pointed Sakura.

"Yeah, Sakura… I can count too you know" said sarcastically Obito which got him a glare out of the pink haired girl "but that only means that one of you is not going to become a gennin, so you better try your hardest… oh! And also, you are allowed to use killing force in this exercise so you better take this seriously… otherwise you wont be much of a challenge for me…" said Obito as he prepared the timer and set it to 14:00 p.m. "ok! Ready" the three teens tensed up "START!" shouted Obito and immediately Sakura and Sasuke jumped off into the trees to hide.

On the other hand, Naruto just stood there looking at Obito with a serious look, Obito on the other hand was looking at the young Uzumaki with a curious look "you know… considering that Nack-sensei trained you, I was kind of expecting for you to have already realized the difference in our levels… and, well… I don't know make a plan to fight me or something… but I guess you are just weird like that" finished Obito with a small grin on his face.

A tick mark appeared in Naruto's head at being called weird "the only thing weird here is you and those ridiculous goggles you are wearing!" exclaimed loudly Naruto, as he settled into a loose fighting stance before he smirked and said "and who said I didn't have a plan!" and with that he rushed in Obito's direction.

Obito watched as Naruto ran at him when suddenly some of the rocks that were in the training ground exploded in smoke and clones of Naruto rushed at him from all sides 'he henged some of his kage bunshins into rocks before I got here, huh? He has gotten smart… but still this is not enough' thought Obito as he reached into his pouch and took a couple of pebbles that he had picked up before hand and throw them at some of the clones, having been running straight and because of the speed that Obito used to throw the pebbles the clones were hit dead on and dispelled in a poof of smoke. Then Obito jumped backwards over a clone and got some distance between the group of blonds before he used his left hand to throw more pebbles at the group dispelling more clones, until only eight Narutos remained.

"I'm a little confused…" said Obito with a smirk "what was supposed to be your plan again?" he tilted his head in fake confusion while the eight Narutos glared at him.

"Oh shut up!" shouted all the Naruto's at the same time "we are still going to kick your whipped ass either way!" at this Obito's eyebrow twitched at the little jab at his marriage.

'this kid has spent way too much time with Nack-sensei…' thought Obito as he settled in a loose stance with his right foot in front of him and his hands in a relaxed defensive stance "well, let's see if you have what it takes to become a gennin then… Naru-chan…" said Obito and Naruto growled at the reminder of the nickname that Kushina and Rin used with him all the time.

"That's it! Your dead!" screamed the group of blonds in synchrony as they rushed at Obito and when the first Naruto was within Obito's reach, 'Naruto' threw a punch at Obito but the Uchiha slapped the hand to the side and crouching down delivered a rising kick to 'Naruto', who went of in a cloud of smoke. Then Obito, who was still in a crouching position, made a hand stand and rotated his body as he delivered a series of kicks to the Narutos that made three of them dispel and when he was done he used his hands to throw himself to the air where he maneuvered his body to fall while delivering an axe kick to another Naruto clone.

Seeing as they 'brothers' had been dispatched rather easily, the remaining Narutos didn't immediately rush in at Obito and stayed still for a moment while observing Obito. After what looked like a minute, but in fact were only a couple of seconds one of the Narutos ran at Obito and threw a couple of shurikens at the Uchiha jounnin who caught them all with his bare hands before he throw them to the side as 'Naruto' used a kunai to stab Obito.

*POOF*

Obito was replaced by a wooden log and the real Obito appeared just a few inches away from the log. Obito then used the distraction provided by his kawarimi to kick the log upwards and forced 'Naruto' to let go of his kunai only to get punched in the chest by Obito.

*POOF*

'Naruto' exploded in a cloud and from the smoke another Naruto appeared with his fist cocked back, Obito immediately jumped back and used on of his hands to catch Naruto's punch and then threw him over his shoulders and spun around immediately to kick the other Naruto that tried to take the bells in the confusion of the attack, thus dispelling the last of Naruto's kage bunshins.

As Naruto righted himself in mid air and dropped to the ground in a crouch he stared at his sensei with narrowed eyes as his mind was quickly thinking of new ideas to attack and get the bells 'okay. A direct attack is a no-no because he is faster, stronger and obviously more skilled… a distraction like using the kage bunshin smoke to attack won't work again… dammit! I wish I would have paid more attention during the strategy lessons in the academy, but then again the teacher was so boring that I couldn't stay awake for more than five minutes. GAH! This is not the time to be thinking about this!' without thinking twice Naruto took out a couple of shurikens and as he ran at Obito he threw them as fast as he could but Obito simply sidestepped the shurikens.

"Well, at least you're taking the advice of using killing force seriously… though you still aren't much of a threat to me…" said Obito mockingly as he continued to evade Naruto's attacks with little effort. They continued this for a couple of minutes more until Obito grew bored and after parrying one of Naruto's punches he delivered a hard kick to the blonds gut that sent him flying to the trees where he crashed and fell to the ground unceremoniously.

"Oops! Maybe I used too much force on that one" said Obito as he scratched the back of his neck sheepishly "oh well, I better go look for the other two" and with that Obito disappeared in a burst of speed.

As Obito disappeared to god knows where, Naruto slowly got up and leaning against the tree behind him he tried to catch his breath and ease the pain in his back from having hit the tree with so much force 'dammit! This is ridiculous! How in the hell am I suppose to fight a jounnin alone?' thought Naruto, before a light bulb lighted up in his head 'unless… the purpose of this test isn't to get the bells by yourself… the purpose is to help each other to get the bells! This is a teamwork test… fucking hell! Why didn't I realized this earlier?' "I better go find Sakura-chan and the teme"

With that in mind Naruto formed a couple of kage bunshins and sent them off to find his teammates while he rested up a little.

- (With Sakura) -

Sakura was currently running at the top of her speed, why? Well the reason was pretty simple as she had just heard a voice screaming from the forest, a voice that she could recognize anywhere… Sasuke's obviously… so there she was running to where Sasuke was, or at least she thought he was, and as he came into a clearing a weak voice caught her attention.

"…k-kura… S-Sakura…" said girl turned around slowly, only to be met by the sight of a fatally wounded Sasuke who was in the process of bleeding to death while he leaned on a tree.

At that point Sakura could do only one thing "KYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" scream her lungs out and pass out.

*THUMP*

Yeah, just like that…

Up in the trees Obito looked at the unconscious Sakura "and she was the top of her class in Genjutsu? If that's true then the students that ended up with Kurenai are totally screwed" said Obito before he jumped away intent on finding the third member of his team.

- (With Sasuke) -

"KYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

"Huh?" Sasuke turned around in direction to the loud scream that he had just heard, he could swore that he had heard that voice before but for the live of him he couldn't care less. It was about 12:30 p.m., if Sasuke's internal watch was correct, and he still didn't have a clue as to where in the hell their sensei was. Sasuke berated himself mentally for not attacking Obito as he was distracted fighting Naruto, but for some reason he just hadn't been able to do it and had opted to watch the little skirmish between that class dobe and their unpunctual sensei, and he had been baring his teeth the whole time as he watched Naruto fight their sensei on his own and actually put up a good fight against a jounnin.

Sasuke shook his head getting rid of that particular train of thought; it would do him no good to think about that, he just needed to concentrate on getting his bell and passing this test as that would mean that he was one step closer to killing 'him'.

"you really should pay more attention to your surroundings" said a voice from behind Sasuke before Obito used his fingers, that were in positioned in the tiger seal, to launch Sasuke to the air by poking him in the ass… really hard…

"Konohagakure Hiden Taijutsu Ogi: Sennen Goroshi! (Konohagakure Hidden Taijutsu Technique: One Thousand Years of Pain!)" Exclaimed Obito.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" shouted Sasuke as he flew through the air and landed in a river across the clearing that he had been.

Obito watched amused as Sasuke flew and then fell to the river "I can totally see why Minato-sensei did this to me on our bell test! Its fun as hell!" exclaimed Obito before he frowned "but for some reason I feel like a total pervert for actually doing that… weird…"

- (Same time, Hokage tower) -

"I can't believe he just did that…" deadpanned Kakashi as he, Gai, Genma, Hiruzen and a recently back Nack, watched team 7's gennin test.

"Yeah… who created that technique anyway?" asked a confused Nack.

"Jiraiya…" said the Sandaime "…and he first used it on me while we where training…" added the old Hokage under his breath but Nack heard it and immediately started thinking of ways to use that information against the old man…

- (Back to training ground 7) -

Sasuke had finally pulled himself out of the water, though he was still a coughing fit, and he glared at Obito who just tilted his head in wonder "is there something wrong?" asked innocently Obito… way to innocently…

Sasuke just kept glaring at Obito not willing to even mention what had just transpired, he finally pull himself to a standing position and he sprinted at his top speed at Obito, his eyes reflecting his intent on killing or at the very least maiming the man that had just took his ass virginity… that sounded so wrong…

As soon as Sasuke is close to Obito he threw a kunai at the jounnin, who dodged with ease before blocking the following kick with his right forearm and grabbing Sasuke's leg he threw him over his shoulders an onto the ground, but Sasuke used his hands to stop himself from hitting the ground and using his free leg tried to kick Obito's face but the older Uchiha just moved his head out of harms way before punt kicking Sasuke away from him.

Sasuke immediately got up and glaring at Obito he started a chain of hand seals very familiar to Obito 'Katon: goukakyouu no Jutsu (Fire Style: great fireball Jutsu)? When in the hell did he learn that?' thought Obito as he watched Sasuke finish his hand seals and inhale deeply.

"Katon: goukakyouu no Jutsu! (Fire Style: great fireball Jutsu!)" Called Sasuke before he let out a relatively big fireball that incinerated Obito as Sasuke smirked proudly at his accomplishment.

"Well, you certainly need to improve your aim with that Jutsu" said a voice from behind Sasuke, who turned around only to see his jounnin instructor completely unharmed.

"How?" demanded Sasuke shocked to see his failure in beating his sensei.

"You serious!" said Obito with a raised eyebrow "you do know that I'm a jounnin, right?" continued the older Uchiha with a tone that could be considered as mocking "I mean did you seriously thought that you would kill me with that pathetic excuse of a Katon: goukakyouu no Jutsu? If you did then you-" unfortunately, Obito didn't get the chance to finish what he was saying as another fireball came straight at him "uh oh~! Someone is angry~!" said Obito in a sing song voice as he dodged yet another fireball that was intended to burn him to ashes.

- (Somewhere in the forest) -

Naruto had been looking around the forest in the hopes of finding one of his teammates and so far he hadn't had any luck at all, but as if answering his silent complains about it as he jumped down from the trees he noticed his female teammate leaning against a tree apparently unconscious.

"SAKURA-CHAN!" exclaimed Naruto as he ran up to her and checked her for any injuries, after finding none he sighed in relief and proceeded to wake her up.

"Hmm~! Sasuke-kun~!… not here~!… Hehehe…" mumbled Sakura, which got Naruto to sweatdrop at her before he shook her again "huh? What?" said Sakura as her eyes fluttered open and the first thing she saw was Naruto's face "kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

A punch to the face later Naruto, with a fist mark on his face, told Sakura about the true meaning of the test and the two of them set out to find Sasuke. About ten minutes later the two of them found a tired looking Sasuke hanging upside down with his hands tied to a rather big rock, five minutes later Naruto had finally managed to untie Sasuke and him and Sakura explained the meaning of the test and the three of them started thinking a strategy to pass the test.

Meanwhile Obito was in the clearing where the test had begun and was growing bored of waiting "*sigh* this is boring… if I knew that having a gennin team would be like this I would have just let Kakashi get this team…" muttered Obito before he noticed his three students coming out of the forest and stand in front of him, all of them with kunais in their hands.

"Ready to give up?" asked Obito tilting his head before he had to dodge a upward swipe by Naruto "or maybe not…" as he continued to dodge Naruto's attempt he noticed out of the corner of his eyes that Sasuke and Sakura where closing in from the sides 'clever… but not enough…' thought Obito as he let himself be stabbed by Sasuke and Sakura before he turned into a log. Obito reappeared a couple of meters away and using the confusion provoked by his kawarimi he landed a kick on Sasuke's back that sent him crashing right into Sakura, who crashed into Naruto and sent the three of them to the ground.

*POOF*

Obito watched in mild surprise as his students exploded in clouds of smoke indicating that they were kage bunshins, and then he looked around searching for them until his eyes noticed Sasuke standing to the side of him with a kunai on his hand. Sasuke then ran straight at Obito and started swinging his kunai around trying to cut the bells off, but Obito stayed out of Sasuke's reach with ease and dodged every single attempt.

They kept this for a couple of minutes, with Sasuke pushing Obito further and further to the center of the clearing until Obito finally had enough and when he saw an opening he delivered a punch to Sasuke's face that sent the teen flying back a couple of meters before he hit the ground where he rolled to a crouching position and threw the kunai to his left cutting a ninja wire that was tied to a mechanical kunai launcher that threw a barrage of kunais at Obito. But Obito quickly jumped to the right effectively avoiding the kunais before he saw Sasuke throw another kunai at yet another ninja wire that sent a second kunai barrage at Obito, who quickly jumped to the side and took cover behind a tree.

"SHANNAROOOO!" Just as Obito was about to step out of the tree a loud shout making him look up only to see Sakura falling down from the tree in direction to him with an axe kick, quickly Obito tried, keyword 'tried', to get out of the way but a pair of arms gripped each of his legs and looking down he saw that it was Naruto, or more accurately a couple of Narutos that had each leg on an iron grip effectively immobilizing Obito. So with no way out Obito was forced to use his right arm to block Sakura's kick but that proved to be the wrong decision as immediately after he blocked the kick Naruto rushed at him from his left side and threw a punch at him but Obito used his remaining free hand to grab Naruto's punch but in the moment he did that he noticed that something was wrong as Naruto smirked at him.

'Huh?' thought Obito before he noticed movement from the corner of his eyes and turning his head to the right he saw Sasuke running at him 'oh shit!' was the only thing that Obito could think before Sasuke got the bells from the defenseless Obito and the three teens jumped away from their sensei.

"HA! We got the bells!" exclaimed an excited Naruto as he jumped in joy as Sasuke handed the two bells to Sakura and turned to look at their sensei.

"So what are you guys going to do with the bells" asked Obito.

"Nothing" was the simple answer from Sakura, before Sasuke spoke in his usual stoic tone "we decided that it was either all of us pass or none of us… because after all… we are a team…"

Obito just looked at the three of them, Naruto was excited and looked like he had enough energy to go for a week without eating, Sakura looked a little winded but had a huge smile on her face and finally Sasuke looked as stoic as ever but if you looked carefully you could see a small (very small) smile on his lips.

"So…" started Obito getting the attention of the three gennins "I'm guessing you figured out the hidden meaning of this test, isn't it?" it was more of a statement.

"Yeah! This test's meaning was for us to work together in order to get the bells!" exclaimed Naruto "so in other words the whole point of this was a teamwork exercise!" said the blond with a grin on his face.

"Exactly…" stated Obito "so… out of curiosity… which one of you guys came up with the plan of multiple attacks to lead me into that final trap?" asked Obito and Naruto immediately pointed at Sakura, who blushed in embarrassment at being put in the spotlight.

"Nice thinking there, Sakura. Well now that this is over I just have one more thing to tell you guys… you pass! Meet me here tomorrow at 09:00 a.m. and we will start your training and hopefully we will go get a mission for you guys" Obito smiled as he turned around and started walking out of the training ground until a loud shout startled him.

"HELL YEAAAAAH!" exclaimed Naruto "I'M A NINJA NOW BABY! I GOTTA TELL NII-SAN ABOUT THIS" shouted Naruto as he ran out of the training ground with a trail of dust following him. The three other integrants of team 7 could only sweatdrop at their blond companion's antics.

- (Ten minutes later, Nack's apartment) -

"NACK-NII!" exclaimed Naruto as he continued to bang on Nack's apartment's door, he had been doing this for the last five minutes and was growing tired of it.

"Naruto?" a voice spoke from behind the gennin who turned around to see his surrogate brother walking to him "what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be, I don't know, eating ramen like there was no tomorrow?" asked in a mocking tone the demon god Jinchuriki.

"I was looking for you!" exclaimed Naruto, who still hadn't calm down from his high at having pass the test "I passed the test, nii-san! I'm a ninja now, so you have to teach me a cool Jutsu whether you like it or not!" demanded the blond and Nack raised an eyebrow in mild confusion.

"Why? I don't remember having promised you any cool Jutsu if you passed" he tilted his head to accentuate his confusion.

"But you told me that you would give me a present if I passed the test!" whined Naruto.

"Oh, that!" Nack grabbed something from his pockets before he threw it at Naruto who caught it in his hands "that's a ticket for ten free bowls of ramen in ichiraku…" said Nack lamely before adding "…congratulations…"

Naruto stared at the ticket for what looked like ten minutes before he dropped his shoulders and started walking in direction to ichiraku ramen grumbling about bastards of a nii-san who didn't want to teach him any cool Justus.

Nack stared at the sulking Naruto for a couple of seconds before he turned to his apartment and opened the door but stopped and looked back at the walking Naruto "…I'm torn between telling him that he will be doing glorified chores for over a month, or not telling him and laugh at his whining when he realizes that… I like the second option better, though…" and with that he entered his apartment, closed the door and went back to his on going project… thinking how he was going to fix Kushina's kitchen before she came back…

- (Unidentified cavern in the borders of iwa) -

A hooded figure entered the cavern the only thing that could be seen under his hood was a sharingan eye and what looked like an orange mask, the figure walked a couple of meters into the cavern before he stopped and threw a kunai to the side of him "you should not hide from me Kiseichu (the cloaked dude from chapter 6)… otherwise I would think you are my enemy…" said the hooded figure but the hidden threat was as palpable as the walls in that cavern.

Another hooded figure appeared from the shadows of the cavern just besides where the kunai had hit "hohoho… no need to be so hostile, fake Madara… or should I just call you Tobi?" he got a glare from the cloaked Uchiha.

"Who are you really, Kiseichu…?" it was more of a demand than a question but Tobi only got silence as an answer.

Kiseichu only clapped his hands and three hooded figures came forward from the depts. Of the cavern, each figure had a chain in their hands and the three chains linked together in a human body that was being dragged by them. The three figures walked until they were in front of Tobi and then they handed the chains to the Uchiha before they disappeared into the darkness again.

"As per our agreement… here it is the Gobi Jinchuriki…" said Kiseichu in a maniacal tone.

Tobi looked at his 'associate' before he asked "and who those three might be…?" he knew that he wouldn't get an answer from his rather reserved and slightly unstable 'associate'.

"Oh! Those are just a couple of my boss's pets… they don't talk much but they can surely do the job when asked… hohohoho" answered Kiseichu in a tone that screamed insanity and bloodlust.

Tobi stared at Kiseichu in a mixture of surprise at getting an answer and suspicion as the insane hooded man had never mentioned who his boss was in all this years that he had been helping him to gather funds for Akatsuki.

"Very well… I'll contact you if I have another 'request' for you… for now I must go and seal the Gobi before his Jinchuriki wakes up…" said Tobi before him and the unconscious Jinchuriki disappeared in the former's teleportation Jutsu.

Having been left alone the insane hooded man just kept looking at the spot where Tobi had been before he let out a laugh "hohohohohohohoho!" his laughter soon became lauder and more maniacal as his body started to sink into the ground in what looked like a puddle of never ending darkness and before he disappeared completely only one thought was going through his unstable mind 'everything is going accordingly to 'his' plans…' and just like that he was gone, the only thing left behind was the pure darkness of the cavern and the strange puddle of black goo that the man had sank into.


Omake: "Obito's proposal"

- (small town a day from konoha, Obito: 23 years old – Naruto: 10 years old) -

Nack and Obito had been going back from a hard mission in the border with taki and had decided to stop at a bar to get a drink before they kept going. And now they were currently drinking some sake as they made small talk about pretty much anything that came to their minds. That came to a stop when Nack remembered something.

"oh yeah! I've been meaning to ask…" started Nack and Obito looked at him.

"what?"

"Why did you stopped at that jewelry, Obito? Did you buy Rin a present?" he said wiggling his eyebrow in a suggestive manner. Obito only blushed which made Nack smirk.

"So what is it?" asked Nack

"i-it's a s-secret" answered Obito still a little blushing for some reason.

"Oh! Come on! You can tell me, I won't tell anyone… I swear!" exclaimed Nack.

"No, I can't tell you… this is very important to me and I really want to keep it a secret until I know the answer…" said Obito with a serious tone.

Now Nack wasn't exactly brilliant, but he was pretty smart on his own right 'uhm… secret, important, jewelry, answer… so he is going to ask something to Rin that it's important and it involves jewelry… oh crap…' "You're going to propose to Rin!" blurted Nack all of a sudden surprising Obito.

"How?"

"Oh my god! So I was right! I'm so happy for you kid!" exclaimed Nack as he palmed Obito's shoulder.

"Really?" asked Obito still a little confused by Nack's reaction and surprised at having his secret being discovered.

"yeah, I mean… marriage is something beautiful… it's a bond, a never ending bond… that will follow you until the day you die… an unbreakable bond… that doesn't end… that's forever…" by now Nack's face was expressionless and his tone was even, which scared the shit out of Obito.

"You alright Nack? You have been repeating the never ending part quite a lot"

Quickly Nack turned to Obito and grabbed his shoulders "are you sure about this Obito? I mean if you married you're screwed! I mean you saw how whipped Minato was when Kushina was around! Are you sure that you want that for the rest of your live?" asked Nack in a frantic succession while he shook Obito back and forth.

"Whoa! Clam down Nack!" exclaimed Obito as he pried Nack's hand off of his shoulder "and, yes I'm sure that this is what I want to" said Obito with a smile that irradiated determination.

"You really love her, don't you?" commented Nack now that he was more calm.

"Yeah… more than anything in the world…"

Nack stared at Obito for a long time trying to see any kind of doubt on his eyes and after finding none he sighed "then… I'm happy for you… not a lot of people found the kind of love that you found in Rin…" said Nack with a small smile before it grew wider "so how are you going to propose to her?" asked the immortal once again wiggling his eyebrows.

"Well I have reservations for the burning leaf, next week… and I was thinking of doing it there… do you think that would be ok?" asked Obito, he was going to do it anyway but it never hurt to have a second opinion.

Nack whistled appreciatively before answering "the burning leaf? Damn Obito that's the fanciest restaurant in konoha… not to mention expensive either…" said Nack and Obito smiled.

"Well I think that Rin wouldn't really matter where you ask her 'that' question as long as it is in a romantic mood… because girls totally dig that kind of romantic and fluffy things" stated Nack and Obito looked at him oddly.

"How do you know?"

"Pfft! Hello! Five hundred year old man here!" exclaimed Nack while pointing at himself "of course I know this kind of stuff!" said the immortal as if what he was saying was the most obvious thing in the world.

"So anyway… how are you planning on doing it?" asked Nack.

"Oh, I was thinking of putting the ring on her drink and then when we toast she would see it and-"he didn't get to finish as Nack bonked him in the head.

"Ouch! What was that for?" asked Obito while rubbing his head.

"You moron! Don't you know anything about making a marriage proposal?" he asked to Obito in an annoyed tone "listen, Obito… when a guy does the 'ring in the drink' trick 10 out of 10 times the girl ends up swallowing the damn ring! It's like a constant or something" explained Nack and Obito arched an eyebrow.

"Really?" said Obito while he looked at Nack with skepticism.

"Yeah! I swear it on Fenrir's mother!" exclaimed Nack

'I don't have a mother you stupid hairless ape!' shouted the demon god from Nack's mind.

'Oh Fenrir! I haven't heard of you in a while' commented mentally Nack.

'That's because that bastard of an author had completely forgotten about my character!' shouted indignantly the wolf demon.

'What?' asked mentally Nack 'what author? What the hell are you talking about Fenrir?'

But before he could hear the whining demon god's answer Nack was pulled out of his thought by the voice of Obito.

"So what should I do then put it on her napkin?" asked the young Uchiha.

"And if she doesn't use her napkin?" shot back Nack.

"The dessert?" inquired Obito.

"And if she doesn't want dessert" answered Nack.

"Then how would you do it? Because honestly that was the only idea I had" said Obito who was racking his brain to come up with something good.

"Well… what about doing the good old 'going to a knee and asking her while a musician plays the piano on the background'?" asked Nack before he added "damn! That's a long name for a plan…"

"But what am I supposed to say to her? And how do I do it?" Obito asked completely confused.

"*sigh* you really are an idiot… fine. Look give me the ring" said Nack and Obito shook his head no "its fine Obito I wont do anything to the ring. I just want to show you how to do it…" but Obito shook his head again "god dammit Obito! Hand me the freaking ring!" shouted an annoyed Nack.

"Okay! Fine…" exclaimed Obito as he handed the small box to Nack "but don't break it ok. It's expansive as hell…"

"It will be fine, you idiot" said Nack before he created two kage bunshins and one of them henged into an average looking waiter and the other henged into a violin. The henged waiter used the violin and started playing a soft melody as Nack spoke again "now first thing first. You have to call for the waiter and ask him to play something for the two of you like this… then you look at Rin into the eyes and say something like 'honey, we have been together for…'" he trailed off and gestured to Obito.

"Ten years…" answered Obito.

"Ten years? Damn that a lot of time! How come you didn't ask her earlier?" asked Nack genuinely confused.

"Uh… well… I was kinda scared that she would say no…" murmured Obito but Nack heard him clearly and just shook his head in exasperation.

"Whatever… well where was I?... oh yeah! Ahem! 'Honey, we have been together for ten years now and it has been the most wonderful years of my life. I love you so much that I know that even if my memory were erased I would still be madly in love with you… because my love for you is a constant in my entire existence…'" at this point Nack stood up and walked to the point were he was besides Obito, and then he knelt down and extended his arms showing the small closed box "'Rin… I have been in love with you since the first day I saw your enchanting brown eyes, since the first moment that I saw your beautiful smile and heard your charming laugh, I have been in love with you since the very first moment that our eyes met on the first day of the academy… and that's why I ask of you now…'" Nack open the small box and shows Obito the ring "'would you marry me?'" finishes Nack before he closes the box and continues "and that's how you do it! Got it!" he then looks at Obito's face and ask "uhm… why are you blushing?"

Obito quickly grabs the box from Nack's hands and shakes his head to regain some of his composure before he answers "i-i-it's n-nothing… i-it's just t-that it's a little hot in here" said Obito before he finally calms down and Nack comes back to his seat.

After about five minutes Nack suddenly spoke "hey… isn't it a little too quiet in here?" asked Nack and Obito nodded with a confused look on his head. In synchrony the two of them turned around to look at the rest of the bar and noticed that everyone was staring at them, the women were staring at them with blushes on their faces and even drool coming out of their mouths, the majority of the men were looking at them with disgust and some of them looked on the verge of throwing up but a small group of the men in the bar were looking at them in the same way that the women in there which scared the shit out of the two konoha shinobis.

Nack and Obito just sat there completely frozen in place before one of the men that was looking at them with a blush asked "so… which one of you is the pitcher and which one is the catcher…" and on that cue the men that were close to throwing up, did throw up and Nack turned to Obito and said one last comment.

"Obito… I hate you so much…" and with that Nack and Obito got the hell out of there and made it to konoha on less than two hours… they would never again speak about this incident or go to that specific bar ever again…


Character stats revamp (out of 5):

Team 7:

Obito Uchiha:

Ninjutsu: 4.5

Taijutsu: 4

Genjutsu: 3.5

Intelligence: 3

Strength: 3.5

Speed: 4

Stamina: 4

Hand-seals: 4

Total: 30.5

Naruto Uzumaki:

Ninjutsu: 2.5

Taijutsu: 2

Genjutsu: 1

Intelligence: 1.5

Strength: 2.5

Speed: 3

Stamina: 4

Hand-seals: 1.5

Total: 18

Sasuke Uchiha:

Ninjutsu: 2.5

Taijutsu: 2.5

Genjutsu: 1.5

Intelligence: 2

Strength: 2

Speed: 3

Stamina: 2

Hand-seals: 3

Total: 18.5

Sakura Haruno:

Ninjutsu: 1.5

Taijutsu: 1

Genjutsu: 2.5

Intelligence: 4

Strength: 1

Speed: 1

Stamina: 1.5

Hand-seals: 3.5

Total: 16


A/N: yay! chapter done! this chapter was originally going to be a short chapter showing the bell test, but then seeing as i couldn't upload this chapter in my originally intended date, i decided to add the first of three omakes that will show how obito got married with rin. the next one will be obito's bachelor party and will come with the next chapter that will probably be up sometime next week... so with that said happy new year everyone, this is my last chapter of the year and i want to thank everyone who has read my story and like it! and with that said blackwolfXI is over and out!

read&review people, or i'll be sad and i'll haunt you for the rest of your lives! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Next: chapter 12 "the wonderful experience of being a gennin"