chapter 12
team 7
It had been two days since the graduation exam. Yesterday, Naruto had had his picture taken for his shinobi license, fine-tuned the creation of a new ninjutsu he had been working on for a while, moved into his new apartment, and met Ojiisan's grandson Konohamaru, though not necessarily in that order. He had taken quite a liking to the eight year old boy once he had stopped acting like a complete idiot and had even taught him the newly-dubbed orioke no jutsu for use against his grandfather and closet pervert sensei. Now, though, the blonde was sitting in his classroom in the Academy waiting for team assignments and going over the details of the ninjutsu he had just finished making that morning.
He had named it atsuryokuha no jutsu (pressure wave technique). It was a wind element jutsu that gathered up a large amount of chakra and shoved it out of the body to create a large wave of air pressing towards the ground, forcing anyone caught in its range downwards powerfully. He had even set it up to only affect things above a specified level of chakra, namely ninja. It was his first entirely original jutsu. Naruto hadn't bothered much with creating jutsus in the past because his chakra control had always been so bad that he wouldn't have been able to put his ideas into effect. But with the atsuryokuha, control wasn't an issue, especially since wind was his dominant chakra nature. He just had to pour as much chakra into the jutsu as he could before releasing it. At this point, his thoughts were interrupted by Iruka-sensei's voice.
"Team 7. Uzumaki Naruto." The blonde looked up, wondering who his teammates would be and hoping he was with Hinata-chan. "Hanuro Sakura." His hopes fell a bit; but on the upside, being on a team with the pink-haired girl would force her to interact with him Maybe he could finally have a chance at breaking her obsession with the Uchiha... "Uchiha Sasuke." Scratch that. But on the other hand, the close contact with the dark boy might enable Naruto to get through to him.
"Team 8. Inuzuka Kiba. Aburame Shino. Hyuuga Hinata." Interesting. Apparently the wanted a team specializing in tracking and reconnoissance. Well, at least Hinata-chan had been placed with decent partners.
The next group contained none of his friends, so the blonde tuned Iruka-sensei's words out. The group after, however... "Team 10. Yamanaka Ino. Nara Shikamaru. Akimichi Chouji." The three would work well together. Shikamaru and Chouji were already best friends, and all the team members had abilities and skills that would complement each other perfectly.
"That is all. Please wait here for your jonin senseis to arrive."
Three hours. Team 7 had been waiting three hours and still no sign of the jonin who was supposed to have been there long ago; everyone else was long gone. Naruto had noted his friends' senseis as they led them away. Team 8 had gotten a beautiful pale-skinned woman with red eyes named Yuuhi Kurenai; she seemed to be a kindhearted bout strict person. The sensei for team 10 was Ojiisan's son Sarutobi Asuma; one glance had told the blonde that the man would get along perfectly with Shikamaru.
And here were the three remaining genin, impatiently awaiting the arrival of the final jonin.
Naruto had had enough. If their sensei was going to be this late, there would be consequences. The blonde made two kage bushins and got to work.
Sakura was curious despite herself. "Naruto? What are you doing?"
A blonde who was crouched on the floor drawing a seal on the wood in front of the door looked up. "Teaching our sensei a lesson in punctuality."
"Ha. You really think a jonin is going to fall for one of your traps, dobe?" Sasuke looked smug.
Another Naruto who was up by the ceiling, having wedged himself into the corner of the room, was the one to reply. "Believe me, teme, he'll fall for this. Especially since he won't be expecting it."
Having finished his work, the boy returned to a seat, poofing his clones out of existence in the process. No sooner did he get there tan his sensitive hearing picked up footsteps in the hallway. Three pairs of eyes were riveted on the door.
A tall man with one eye covered by his forehead protector, a mask over the lower part of his face, and grey hair that somehow stood perfectly vertically walked through the door. "Hey, you guys must be team 7. Sorry I'm late, a bl-" The man froze suddenly. He looked up slowly, unable to move anything but his head due to the temporary paralysis seal Naruto had placed in front of the door. Hanging from the ceiling directly over his head was a bucket, which slowly started to tip. A stream of water poured straight into his face.
"That's your punishment for being so late, Sensei," Naruto explained.
The dripping wet jonin gave him a death glare with his uncovered eye. "Meet me on the roof." The man vanished in a puff of smoke. The genin went to the roof as instructed.
Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura were now sitting in a group looking towards the one grey eye of the man across from them. Despite his earlier tardiness, the blonde found himself liking the still-wet jonin.
"All right. Now that we're all here, let's introduce ourselves and get to know each other," the silver-haired man was saying, "Tell us your name, likes, dislikes, hobbies, and dreams for the future. I'll go first.
"My name is Hatake Kakashi. My likes and dislikes are none of your concern. I have some hobbies... As for dreams for the future, nothing, really. Pink-hair, you next."
Sakura spoke up, upset that they had learned nothing but his name. "My name is Hanuro Sakura. I like, well, the person I like is..." She glanced at Sasuke and blushed. "I dislike Naruto!" A stern glare in the blonde's direction. "Hobbies, not sure really. And dreams..." She looked at the Uchiha again and blushed ever harder.
"Okay," said Kakashi, entirely unaffected by her obvious fixation, "Broody, you next."
Sasuke gave the man a look that clearly said he didn't want to be there. "My name is Uchiha Sasuke. My likes are training and growing more powerful. I dislike just about everything else. I have no time for hobbies. I have an ambition that I have no intention of leaving as a dream. I will revive my clan, and..." At this point, he released a strong killing intent. "I will kill a certain man."
The reactions of his teammates varied. Sakura thought he sounded cool. Kakashi seemed to have been expecting it. And Naruto renewed his vow to help the Uchiha; he knew from personal experience that revenge didn't turn out well.
Their silver-haired sensei brought the genins out of their thoughts. "You finish up, blondie."
Naruto stood and spoke in a loud, enthusiastic voice. "My name is Uzumaki Naruto! I like my important people people and friends, ramen, especially Ichiraku ramen, training, the color orange, and making new things. I dislike narrow-minded idiots and the time it takes to wait for ramen to cook. My hobbies are trying new flavors of ramen and inventing new seals. My dream is to become Hokage and be the greatest ninja ever. The paint around the village the other day was to tell everyone that." Here he suddenly put on a serious expression, his eyes became ice-cold, and he let out a burst of killing intent that made Sasuke's look weak. "I too have to kill a certain man, but more out of necessity than revenge."
At this announcement, everyone looked surprised. Sakura became scared of the boy. Sasuke tried to understand the last bit about necessity instead of revenge. Kakashi became worried about the strength of the killing intent and the look in his eyes, proof that the had in fact killed before, and wondering just who this man could be.
The jonin was the first to speak. "Okay, we're done for the day. Tomorrow I want all of you to meet me at training ground three at five A.M. for some survival training."
"Survival training?" Naruto asked suspiciously. Something in the man's attitude had caught his attention.
"Not just normal survival training. You'll be shocked to hear this, but it's actually an extremely difficult test with a 66.6 failure rate. Those who don't pass have to return to the Academy. And don't bother eating breakfast; you'll just throw up." After speaking, Kakashi-sensei leapt away.
"I knew the Academy exam was too easy," said the blonde, turning to his teammates, "And he was lying about the breakfast comment and the time. My guess is that he'll be three hours late again."
Sasuke just looked at him. "How do you know, dobe?"
"I'm good at reading people, as you should know, Sasuke-teme. Anyway, I'm going o head off to Ichiraku's for lunch. You're free to join me if you want." And with that, Naruto leap off the roof as well.
Unsurprisingly, neither of his teammates had taken him up on his lunch offer. He did find teams 8 and 10 at the ramen stall, however, and immediately took the seat next to Hinata-chan.
"Hi, Hinata-chan! How did meeting your sensei go?"
The pale-eyed girl turned to face him. "Oh, Naruto-kun, hello. Kurenai-sensei was quite nice. She had us introduce ourselves and told us that we'd be having a test tomorrow and if we fail we'll have to go back to the Academy."
"Don't worry, Hinata-chan. You' ll all do fine," the blonde said encouragingly.
"It's troublesome, this test," Shikamaru spoke up from his other side, "Asuma-sensei is going to give us one too. I guess I'll have to put in a decent effort."
Ino spoke up two seats away from the lazy boy. "You'd better. I won't forgive you if you make us fail. And the same goes for you, Chouji!" She glared at the boy next to her who was busy devouring a large bowl of ramen.
"Ichiraku-ojiisan!" the blonde boy shouted out, "Ten bowls of miso ramen to start for me!"
The old man looked at his new arrival. "Sure thing, Naruto. Coming right up."
"So, what took ya so long, Naruto?" Kiba asked. Akamaru barked in agreement.
The orange-clad ninja looked over at his friend on the other side of Hinata-chan. "Our sensei was three hours late. Three hours."
"Ugh, poor you," the dog boy said, "Stuck in a room with pinky and broody for that long. I don't envy you."
"Don't insult Sasuke-kun like that!" It was Ino. "Why did forehead girl get to be the lucy one on his team?"
Naruto spoke up on behalf of his teammates. "Hey! They're not that bad... Okay, they are that bad, but being on a team with them means I can do something about it. I bet that in a year I'll have made them both completely different personality-wise." At this point, his ramen arrived and he stopped talking to stuff his mouth with the delicious noodles.
It was seven thirty when Naruto turned up at training ground three, wide awake and well-rested. A quick glance at the other two genin proved that neither had taken his advice. Both looked half asleep and he could hear their stomachs growling. The blonde gave them a look that said "I told you so" before doing a few warm-up stretches and exercises in preparation for whatever their test would be.
Half an hour later, exactly three hours late, Kakashi-sensei showed up in a puff of smoke. "Yo."
"YOU'RE LATE!" Naruto and Sakura shouted simultaneously.
"Sorry, sorry." The jonin's eye gave an apologetic half-smile look. "A little old lady needed my help crossing the street."
"THAT'S A LIE!" shouted the two loud genin.
The man sighed. "Anyway, time for your test. Your goal," he said, taking two small silver bells and a little alarm clock out of a pocket, "is to get a bell from me. You have until noon. Anyone who does not get a bell fails and must return to the Academy." He set the alarm clock and placed it on one of three identical training logs positioned behind him.
Something was off about this. Naruto's shinkagan was picking up deceit coming off of the silver-haired jonin. "But sensei, there's only two bells."
"Well, Naruto, that means one of you will have to fail." The blonde's eyes narrowed. That was an outright lie. "Also, whoever fails will be tied to one of these logs and forced to watch while the rest of us eat lunch. Now, I want you three to come at me with the intent to kill, otherwise you won't stand a chance of getting a bell."
"But Kakashi-sensei, "Sakura interrupted, "what if you get hurt?"
the other three just stared at her for a moment as though she had two heads. "Don't worry, Sakura. I'll be fine. Ready?" All three genin nodded. "Start!" Sasuke and Sakura leapt off.
"Umm... Naruto? What are you doing? I said start." The one-eyed jonin stared at the blonde.
"I have an idea as to the real meaning of this test, and if I'm right, it doesn't really matter what I do right now," he stated.
"Well then, wouldn't it be good to tell your teammates this idea?" The silver-haired man was upset, amazed, and a bit relieved that someone might have figured it out so quickly.
"No," said Naruto, "If I'm right, it would be useless if they didn't figure it out on their own. After all, a team is made up of individuals working together. There can't ever be truly proper teamwork just by someone saying they have to cooperate. And I see by your expression that I'm right. Teamwork is key."
Kakashi was shocked. "You're right, Naruto. But what will you do if the other two don't realize it?"
"Then if time starts to run out, I'll tell them. Teamwork out of necessity is better than none, and I'm not willing to spend an extra year at the Academy because I got an unlucky team assignment. But I have faith in Sasuke and Sakura. They'll figure it out if given enough time." The blonde looked up at his sensei. "Anyway, while we're waiting, I have a request of you."
"Oh? And just what would that request be?" the silver-haired jonin asked curiously.
"Well, y'see," he scratched the back of his neck sheepishly, "I'd like for you to test my abilities. I mean, I don't really know how strong I am. None of my classmates are enough of a challenge and I can never bring myself to go all out against Iruka-oniisan because I'm afraid he might end up seriously hurt, but you're strong enough that I don't need to worry about that."
"Very well, Naruto. Come at me when you're ready."
The blonde deactivated his weight and resistance seals and prepared for battle.
Sasuke was leaping through the trees, trying to come up with a plan. He knew a straightforward attempt to get the bells was doomed to failure. This was a jonin they were up against, one of the village's best ninja. He'd have to set some kind of trap for the man. Lure him in and take it from there.
But would that be enough? His humiliating defeat at Naruto's hands was fresh in the Uchiha's mind, and he was determined to not underestimate his opponents ever again. But at the same time, he was the top of the class. It couldn't be that hard. After all, the village got a few new genin teams each year...
Sakura was creeping through the bushes, trying to sort things out in her mind. She had to get a bell. She just had to. Sasuke-kun was sure to get one, and she couldn't bear to be separated from him after just getting the perfect opportunity to spend time with him.
She knew, though, that she stood no chance. Her grades had been excellent, yes, but that was just because she excelled a written tests and book learning. In the practical field, she was a bit below average. And her teammates were the top of the class...
Kakashi was impressed; Naruto was quite good. The boy had started off by staying back and sending in a few kage bushins to begin. A genin knowing that jutsu and having the chakra capacity to use it as freely as the blonde had was unheard of in the first place, but the boy's speed was well beyond what a genin should have been capable of.
Taking care of the clones had been easy enough, though. The boy's taijutsu was unbelievably sloppy. He telegraphed his attacks nearly half a second in advance and he left himself so wide open he was practically begging to be hit.
Just after the last replica poofed out of existence, Kakashi sensed a kunai thrown by the original heading his way. He reached out to grab the weapon and teach the boy not to waste weapons, only for what he had thought was a kunai to turn out to be a henged kage bushin ready to punch him in the chest. Having no time to dodge or stop the clone, the jonin gathered up chakra in his chest to soften the blow. It still felt like a ton of bricks as the force of the punch sent him flying backwards.
The boy's physical strength was astounding. Kakashi had sensed no chakra enhancement to that blow, just pure muscle. He absently noted that it had been a smart decision on the boy's part. Use of chakra would have tipped him off to the true nature of the kunai. And that hit had come from a kage bushin as well, one made at the same time as at least twenty others, yet it still had that much power behind it. Taking into account just how the kage bushin no jutsu worked, he estimated the boy's physical strength to be on par with and possibly surpassing most jonin.
He found the large discrepancy between strength and speed odd. Perhaps Naruto trained by having constant weight on his body, as that would mean his body would not be used to moving without the extra weight, as it was now, resulting in a lower speed than what he should have been capable of, given his strength.
Kakashi saw suddenly that the path of his flight from the punch would take him right onto a seal that the blonde or a clone had drawn on the ground. Likely the lattter, judging by the still-fading wisps of smoke in the area. Remembering the temporary paralysis seal from the day before, the jonin quickly performed a kawarimi. He watched from a tree branch a few yards as the log exploded in a burst of flame. The boy had predicted his response.
"Fuuton: Atsuryokuha no Jutsu" (wind element: pressure wave technique)
Hearing the unfamiliar jutsu name, in itself a slight surprise, as Kakashi knew more jutsu than anyone besides Hokage-sama, the one-eyed jonin prepared himself for anything. Unfortunately, anything did not include an enormous pressure that caused the branch he was standing on to break and forced him to the ground with enough force that he actually sank into the earth up to his waist. As he stuggled free, the experienced ninja took out a kunai and prepared for the attack he knew was coming.
Naruto was on him in under two seconds. His taijutsu was still junk, but his reaction time had increased to an impossible level, and combined with Kakashi's prone position the boy was able to get a couple hits in without taking any himself. Fortunately, the earlier blow had warned the man to put a lot of chakra into defense, or he would have received some broken bones. The jonin noticed an unusual chakra flow to the blonde's brain; maybe the reason behind the insane reaction time?
Kakashi stabbed out with his kunai, intent on getting the boy to dodge and gaining enough room to free his legs. Naruto, however, just took the wound in his left shoulder and kept on with his attack as though nothing had happened.
The jonin finally managed to get a good grip on the blonde's arm and tossed him away, using the brief moment he had gained to force himself fully from the earth. He saw Naruto standing about ten feet away, apparently waiting for him to make a move. Kakashi started forming handseals to attempt a genjutsu, only to be interrupted by a shuriken the boy had launched the moment he had started. He dodged a good distance away, not wanting a repeat of what had happened with the kunai.
Kakashi threw his own kunai at the blonde and immediately launched back into his handseals, this time completing them without interruption. He didn't bother calling out the jutsu's name, as he had learned from experience that intelligent opponents could often detect the illusion from that alone.
Seeing by the boy's actions that it had worked, he calmly walked over. The jonin discovered a moment too late that he'd been fooled. Naruto leapt at him, and the short distance combined with the unexpectedness and the blonde's speed left him unable to to stop the genin as he ripped the bells from his belt.
"I'm completely immune to genjutsu. So, how did I do?" he asked excitedly, tossing the bells back to Kakashi.
"There's still a test going on; I'll tell you afterwards. Besides, we seem to have company coming, and it appears they're together. I wonder if they figured it out?" He put the bells back on his belt as the orange-clad boy leapt off in the direction of his approaching teammates.
Naruto felt proud as he leapt through the trees towards the other two genin, his seals returned to their normal levels. He had managed to impress and surprise Kakashi-sensei several times. Though the jonin hadn't said anything, his shinkagan had picked up the emotions well enough. Now, if he was lucky, his teammates would want to work together, and they would pass the test.
"Dobe." He had arrived.
"Yeah, teme?"
"Sakura and I were thinking we should all work together to get the bells. I realized there's no way any of us could take a jonin alone, but with all three of us and a good plan, we might stand a chance."
Internally, the blonde was jumping for joy. Now to see if Sakura had gotten it. "Okay, but what about there only being two bells? How do we decide who fails?"
The pink-haired girl answered. "That's just the thing. I think there's something more going on here. Going back over everything I've read, new genin teams are always three people. He can't just fail one of us. It wouldn't make sense."
Naruto grinned his huge grin. "Well, what are we waiting for? Let's come up with a plan and get those bells!" This was going to be fun.
Kakashi was spending his free time leaning against a tree and reading from his favorite orange book, giggling a bit as he did so. It was nearly noon. He knew that his three genin were planning something, but he didn't let it worry him too much. That is, until he saw a huge fireball speeding toward him, sent his way courtesy of the dark-haired Uchiha, who had suddenly appeared in front of him.
The silver-haired jonin jumped out of the way, only for a barrage of kunai and shuriken to fly at his prone midair form from another direction, where he could make out bright pink hair among the bushes. He immediately performed a kawarimi with the nearest suitable object away from the two genin.
Only to receive a strong kick to the gut from Naruto. The three had set it up so he would be forced to use the jutsu and prepared a target for him. Fortunately, the blonde had replaced whatever weights he wore, as the blow was far weaker than any of the earlier ones.
It was still enough to send him flying back in the direction of the other two, and upon landing, Kakashi found himself surrounded by sixty Sasukes, Sakuras, and Narutos. They all leapt at him as one.
The jonin prepared to fend off the coming assault, until every single performed the kawarimi jutsu to be replaced by sixty logs... covered in several hundred exploding notes.
Having learned his lesson about one of his favorite jutsu, the one-eyed man used the shunshin no jutsu to escape the imminent explosion, which turned the small clearing into a large crater.
Knowing that the genin weren't done, Kakashi prepared himself for anything. He heard the distinctive poof of a kage bushin dispelling behind him and found himself mobbed by many more, about two thirds henged into the pink and black haired children, before he had a chance to recover from the shunshin.
Each individual clone was easy enough to destroy, but they just kept on coming from all directions, and he had no idea wether the originals were mixed into the mess or not.
After about thirty seconds of constant poofing, the attack suddenly broke off as all the remaining replicas dispelled. When the smoke cleared, Kakashi found himself staring at three smug genin, with Sakura and Sasuke each holding a single bell. The alarm went off.
"Excellent work, you three. You all worked together and came up with a functioning plan to get the bells. You pass!" His grey eye smiled brightly. "We'll start doing missions and team training tomorrow."
The genin, even the Uchiha, smiled, and Naruto started jumping about for joy. "Heha! We did it! We're the best!"
"That was some plan you all came up with. Mind telling me how it came about?" the jonin asked.
The blonde appointed himself spokesperson. "Well, we were thinking that we'd need to weaken you somehow in order to be able to grab the bells. We were trying to think up ways to do that when Sakura brought up the shunshin no jutsu, which was perfect. All jonin know it, and there's a minimum three seconds of recovery time due to the strain caused on the body.
"Then came the problem of finding and attacking you within those three seconds. My kage bushins were able to solve that, though. I had them hidden around the area in pairs, so that one would dispel, letting me and all the others know your location, while the second immediately attacked before you had a chance to recover.
"Now we had to find a way to make sure you used shunshin instead of kawarimi. I figured that if we could take advantage of the kawarimi, you'd become wary of it. So Sasuke set up that opening bit to force you to use the jutsu without thinking, while Sakura had the brilliant idea of giving you an object to use it with, manipulating where you appeared.
"We guessed that predicting and taking advantage of the jutsu twice in one day, me during my solo attempt, and then again during our team effort, would convince you to use shunshin the next time you needed to get away in a hurry. Then Sasuke came up with the exploding note-covered logs as an offensive use of kawarimi, both forcing you to move and psychologically making you more reluctant to use the jutsu yourself. I added in all the kage bushins for effect and to make sure you couldn't just jump away. We spent most of the time preparing all the exploding notes and logs and getting everything into position. And Sakura managed to grab the bells, so it must have worked."
Kakashi was amazed by the depth of the plan and how they had all worked together to create it. "Again, excellent work, you three. Sasuke, Sakura, would you two mind letting me have a word in private with your teammate?" The two genin not wearing orange left.
"I told you they'd figure it out, Kakashi-sensei," Naruto spoke up once his teammates were out of earshot, "They just needed some uninterrupted time by themselves to think over the test. So, how did I do?"
"Well, Naruto," said the one-eyed jonin, seeing that the blonde was still impatiently awaiting the results of the man's earlier evaluation, "All around, if you go all out, you're on fairly equal footing with most chunin. You have a strong and inventive mind capable of coming up with good plans on the spur of the moment. You seem to be quite skilled at reading people. Immunity to genjutsu is a powerful asset. Your speed is exceptional for a new genin, but still only decent for a skilled ninja. In terms of physical strength, you outclass most of the people in this village, including possibly myself. Your pain tolerance is extremely high. You also appear to have extraordinary stamina, your senses are well beyond that of most humans, and you have a ridiculously large amount of chakra, far surpassing anyone else currently living in Konoha. Not to mention your genius when it comes to seals." The boy beamed at the huge praise.
"But at the same time, your chakra control is bad, you are still lacking in experience, your taijutsu is absolutely pathetic, and your speed is far below where it should be when compared to your strength. Do you train with weights?"
"Yeah. I've been using weight seals on my body since before I turned four," Naruto answered, "Why?"
His suspicion confirmed, the one-eyed jonin explained, "Keeping constant weight on your body, while it does wonders for muscular ability, has the side effect of the body not being used to movement without the weights and therefore not able to fully control its speed. From now on, I want you to spend one day a week without the extra weight during training, getting your body fully used to just what it can do. I can only assume you're already working on your chakra control, as I'd imagine that with your massive chakra stores you have many times more difficulty than others your age, and so even the control you do have is quite impressive ttaking that into account. As for taijutsu, I want-"
Here the blonde interrupted him. "I know my taijutsu sucks. It always has, and no matter how hard I try, I just plain can't learn any sort of taijutsu style. I've tried hundreds of them with the same result. In fact, I don't think there's a single style in Konoha I haven't at least given a shot at. Hinata-chan even tried to teach me the basics of Jyuuken, and Kiba attempted to explain the Inuzula style, but those didn't work at all, either. It's like my brain has some sort of mental block about it."
Kakashi was shocked. The Hyuuga heiress had tried to teach the boy Jyuuken? And he called her -chan? But he could tell Naruto wasn't lying. "All right. I'll have to think on it, but I'm sure I'll come up with something. Is there anything else I should know about you?"
"Yeah," said the blonde, "My clothes are special, as I can change them around at will using my chakra, I heal at an accelerated rate," he made the left shoulder of his orange suit recede away, showing the already-healing stab wound, "I know about the Kyuubi, who is female, by the way, and I have a bloodline limit." Kakashi just gaped at him
Naruto explained about his shinkagan and what it was capable of, then told the man a bit about the demon fox and the nature of the seal on his stomach, and finished up by talking about his mother's gift to him.
"Naruto, one last question, if you don't mind."The blonde genin had been just about to head off. "Yesterday, during the introductions, you had said there was a man you needed to kill. Care to elaborate?"
Thinking about the Yondaime, his eyes once more took on that icy look. "No. Not now, anyway. Only Ojiisan, Iruka-oniisan, and I know the full truth, and it's something I don't think you're ready for yet. I promise I'll tell you someday, though." With those words, Naruto walked away, leaving behind a very puzzled Kakashi.
