I do not own Naruto or any of the characters. All I own is my own character Koei X, and the original plot that has been inserted in.
Naruto
Number 2: All that Work to Be a Failure
Saga: Darkness is All I Can See
"Where the hell is the teacher?" Koei asked looking around. "And he told us not be late…"
"Good morning!" Kakashi shouted waving at the four kids as he approached them.
"YOU'RE LATE!" Naruto screamed angrily.
"Great…" Sasuke sighed.
"Let's get this stupid thing over with," Koei muttered as she shifted her eight to her left leg.
"I've set this alarm to go off at noon," Kakashi started as his students looked at him with confused expressions on their faces. "I have here three small bells…" He paused to show four kids that he had them in his hands. "You're challenge is to steal these from me before the timer sounds. Anyone who fails doesn't get any lunch."
"So…" Koei said, and then frowned in Naruto's directions when she noticed the horrified look on his face.
"Instead you will be tied to that tree stump, so I can eat your lunch in front of you," Kakashi finished as Naruto let out a moan.
Sakura edged away from Naruto and closer to Sasuke, who looked at the two of them in disgust.
"Pathetic, I don't eat much anyway," Koei shrugged, looking at Kakashi. "I can go without lunch and the other two meals for a week without complaining."
"Are you anorexic!" Kakashi screamed jumping in surprise. "Ninja's can't be without food! Where else do you get all the energy to move around and perform sacred arts with your charka?"
Koei frowned at him, and then crossed her arms over her chest. He was only doing this to make a scene, waste more of their time, and make the four of them nervous.
"Anyway… All you need is just one bell, apiece. But since there aren't enough to go around, one of you is definitely headed for the stump. Whoever that is will be the first of you to fail," Kakashi then started to tie the three bells to his belt. "One of you is on your way back to school… and disgrace."
Sasuke glared at his teacher. No way in hell was he going to be the one sent back to that miserable school for more training. No way in seven hells was he going to end up there again…
"You may, if you choose, use shuriken," Kakashi said finishing up. "Attack as though you mean to kill or you'll never stand a chance."
"But…" Sakura started out scared. "But that's so dangerous!"
"You couldn't even doge an eraser!" Naruto added in. "You're going to get yourself killed!"
"Only the weak speak loudly," Kakashi said, staring at Naruto. "Now let's forget the dunce, and we'll start on my signal!"
DUNCE? Since when can he call me a dunce? No one calls me, Naruto a dunce! He's gunna pay for it!
Naruto's hand swung down to his shuriken pouch and whipped out a kunai. He charged at Kakashi ready to kill him, as he had instructed before.
"Oh…" Kakashi said looking at him a little shocked as he saw Naruto in front of him a second latter. He flipped out his right hand and caught Naruto's kunai barring arm and then slammed his left hand on top of Naruto's head, spinning him around in the process.
Naruto gasped as he realized what had just happened. His attack was now flipped around; his kunai barring hand was flipped around so he was now pointing it at himself, the back of his neck.
"Not so fast," Kakashi grinned at him. "I didn't say, 'go'."
Interesting… I didn't even see him move. Koei thought as a small smile spread across her face. At least now I know what I am up against.
So this is an elite Shinobi…Sasuke looked at his teacher with an interesting smile on his face. This is going to be fun.
"But at least you stuck to kill… So, it seems you've begun to respect me," Kakashi finished up with Naruto as he let him go. He then laughed. "Maybe, just maybe. I'm starting to like you four."
Naruto smiled.
"And now, ready… steady… GO!" Kakashi screamed as his four students disappeared from sight. "The basis of all Shinobi arts is to become invisible… eradicate yourself…"
All four of them are pretty well hidden…Kakashi scratched the back of his head as he looked around in front of him.
"It's time for the match to begin!" Naruto screamed out form behind Kakashi, causing him to flip around to face him.
"What the…" Kakashi said looking at him. He had been mistaken. Only three of his students had hidden. The dunce stayed in plain sight, mistaking his meaning of a fight.
"Let's make it a real match, worthy of the greatest warriors!" Naruto screamed as a huge smile spread across his face.
"You may be thinking of the wrong kind of match…"
"That idiot…" Koei said looking down at the two of them that were in plain sight from behind a tree. Naruto did have potential, but he was going to get killed instantly in a real battle.
"The only wrong thing here is your hairstyle!" Naruto screamed, charging at his teacher.
Kakashi sighed as he moved his hand towards his tan pouch that was around his waist. He stuck his hand inside of it and smiled.
"Uh-oh!" Naruto blared without even thinking, screeching to a halt.
"Let me teach you… first Ninjutsu skill!" Kakashi said a huge smile spread across his half covered face. "Tai-Jutsu, the art of the trained body!"
The trained body? Isn't that like hand-to-hand combat? SO how come… He's going to a weapon? Naruto stared at his teacher unblinkingly as he waited for the next move. A confused look spread across his face as Kakashi revealed what he pulled out form his tan pouch.
Make-Out Paradise Vol. 1
"Wha…"
"Is something wrong? I thought you were coming for me," Kakashi said, looking at Naruto with the same confused look he had on his own face.
"But… You… I mean, I… I mean… Why are you… That's a book!"
"Of course it's a book. I've been dying to find out how this story ends. I shouldn't make any difference in the outcome, considering who I'm up against." He then turned his attention over to his book and begun to read it. "Carry on."
"I'M GUNNA FLATTEN YOU!" Naruto screamed as he charged at his teacher, on arm held back, ready to punch him. "GRAAA!" His punch was blocked with Kakashi's hand as he continued to read. He threw his foot at him next.
"Hmf…" Kakashi let out as he ducked from Naruto's kick.
"All right! That's it!" Naruto screamed again. He threw another punch but ended up begin in front of Kakashi somehow. A second ago he was about to punch the guy in the back of the head. "What the…?"
"Showing your back so many times is very poor Ninjutsu…" Kakashi said and then added in. "Dunce."
Idiot… He's gunna get himself killed like Master Kakashi said… Oh! He's using his hands to make the sign of the tiger! But he couldn't be! It's much to advanced a technique to use against Naruto! Koei frowned as she watched Naruto helplessly. "Naruto! Get out of there! You'll be KILLED!"
"What?" Naruto said flipping around to the sound of Koei's voice.
"Too late," Kakashi muttered looking in Koei's direction. He flung his hands up together with his middle and index finger slammed together. It made contact right up Naruto's ass. He was sent flying into the air and into the lake that was a few so hundred years in front of the two. "Konohagakure village's most secret and most sacred technique! One Thousand Years of Death!"
"… That's supposed to be Ninjutsu! What kind of 'Sacred Technique' is that? Looks more like he just shoved something up Naruto's ass!" Sakura remarked as she watched Naruto fly into the sky.
"Huh! They're both buffoons!" Sasuke frowned at the two buffoonsin front of him.
"I warned him," Koei said shrugging her shoulders. "Guess the poor kids done for now…"
Kakashi sighed as he flipped the page in his book and went back reading.
He won… That kind of strength isn't fair play… Koei thought frowning.
CRAP! Naruto looked around as he stayed in the water he had just landed in. Sinking closer to the bottom. Not like this… This isn't how this is gunna go! He reached his hand into his shuriken holster and flipped two of them out. Throwing them out of the water and towards his reading teacher.
Kakashi flipped his hand out while he laughed at what he had just read in his book. The two shuriken were aught around his index and middle finger.
"NOOO!" Naruto screamed out under the water as his hands turned into fists.
"…" Koei stared down at Kakashi.
And he's still chuckling over his book… He's just playing with Naruto. Sakura looked over in Naruto's direction sympathetically. For once she felt sorry for the position he had placed himself in. He had just walked into a battle everyone knew he was going to lose.
I WILL NOT BACK DOWN! Naruto thought angrily as he put himself into the form of the Ninjutsu doppelganger technique.
Naruto shot up out of the water and landed right in front of Kakashi on his hands and knees.
"Well? What's the hold up? Get one of these bells by lunch, or you'll have no lunch!" Kakashi said not taking his eyes off of his book.
"Duh! I know that!" Naruto said angrily.
"You claim to want to surpass Lord Hokage, but you've already run out of steam…"
"Crap! Crap! Crap! I can fight no matter how hungry I am!" His stomach growled. "I just wasn't ready! That's all!"
"So learn to get ready. Don't they say that chance favors the prepared mind?" Kakashi begun to walk away from Naruto, his eyes till plastered to his book.
Crap! I'm starving…and completely out of gas… He glared over in Kakashi's direction. But… I have to get a bell no matter what! And I have to earn his respect!
"Jeez…" Kakashi was still musing over his book.
NO MATTER WHAT! I have to become a true Shinobi!
Seven doppelgangers of himself shot out of the water and laded in front of Kakashi.
"Hunh?" Kakashi asked finally taking his glance away from the book and to the eight Naruto's in front of him.
"Ha-Hah! My specialty the art of the doppelganger! Get ready! Now you face a lot more than just one of me!" Naruto screamed as a nasty smile spread across his face.
At least they're all solid… Last time he preformed it in class he wasn't even able to summon one, let alone make it alive. He must have been training real hard to be able to summon up eight like that… Koei watched them as a smile spread across her face. Maybe, just maybe her cell that she was placed in actually had some potential.
"Not misdirection, but actual, multiple… Multiple, flesh-and-bone bodies!" Kakashi breathed out looking at Naruto. At least this kid had something to him, more than he would have thought.
This is the lost Shinobi skill from the forbidden scroll… It's a technique he used to defeat Mizuki!
"But at your level you couldn't be strong enough to keep this up for more than a minute. You talk a good game… But you're still only Naruto! You're a one-truck pony who hasn't got what it takes to win!" Kakashi said now turning his attention back to the book.
"Who-what!" Kakashi cried out a second latter as he felt another body attach to him on his back. "Behind me?"
"Uh…" Koei said looking down at the attack that had just happened, she hadn't even expected it.
Sakura looked dumb folded.
Sasuke just smiled.
The bells jingled at Kakashi's side.
Naruto snickered happily. "Nice to see your back… Master!" His other copies approached while he explained what had just happened. "I isolated one of my doppelgangers… sent it out of the water posing as me. While I circled around, behind you! Here's payback for what you did to my ass! This must be hard on you, so I'll go easy! One good hit is all I want!"
Idiot… Do you really think he'd leave himself out in the open so much?
That guy…
"He used the art of misdirection… feinting to distract his enemy before he stuck somewhere else." Sasuke smiled.
"Relax! I told you, I'm only gunna hit you once!" Naruto screamed pulling back a fist, ready to hit him in the face.
One of his doppelgangers screamed out in pain. The real Naruto looked at where he had just punched, it was not Kakashi. It was in fact a clone of himself, he had just punched himself, and another self was attached to his back… But where was Kakashi!
I thought I hit…
"Naruto!" Sakura said looking down at him wide eyes.
"Ow! Ow! Ow! OW!" the doppelganger cried out.
"You're Master Kakashi aren't you! You sued the art of transformation to change!" The real Naruto screamed out angrily.
"No! You did!"
"So did you!"
"Did not!"
"You have the same smell as Master Kakashi… Like an old guy!"
"I DO NOT!"
"Hey wait a minute… Drop the illusion. If you do, there'll be just one of us… and you'll know for sure which of us is which…"
"Why didn't you think of that sooner, idiot!"
"Because I'm you idiot!"
The illusion was dropped and one Naruto was left, standing alone in the center of the battlefield. Kakashi was nowhere in sight. He was gone.
Naruto… Looks awful. Sakura thought and then jumped a little as she saw Koei jump into plain view. Near Naruto.
"He used the art of substitution. It's the third article in the first scroll of Ninjutsu! You act with speed and skill to swap places with one of the plants, animals, or people in the landscape. Part of the technique is to make it look as though you've been stuck and in the interval strike back…" Koei begun looking around from where she was standing patently and then continued. "That so called Elite Shinobi traded places with one of Naruto's doppelgangers. When he was attacked, not only did he create an optical illusion but he used your actual attack… against him…"
Naruto just looked at her, as if he didn't really understand anything she had just said. He turned his attention over to his side, happily seeing a bell. He then quickly glanced back at Koei and looked back at the bell, jumping at it. "It's mine! HUH!" He flung up in the air and was wrapped around his ankles with a rope. It was a bobby trap, he had been captured. "WHAT THE HELL?"
"Of course it's a trap stupid…" Koei muttered under her breath as she looked around where she was standing. But even more troubling… Master Kakashi didn't even drop his guard once when he was fighting Naruto…
"Uh…" Naruto said as he saw Kakashi step into view. "OH!"
"You sued your technique well, but so did I, and you were the one who got used…" Kakashi said picking up his bell. "And to be caught in such an obvious trap, was stupid!"
"ARGH!" Naruto breathed out grinding his teeth together.
"Shinobi read the hidden meanings within the hidden meanings."
"I know that!"
"Uh, no you don't. That's why I'm saying it."
Finally! He's finally off guard! Koei said smirking as she threw four shuriken at him. She was just happy that he had not noticed her, or at least from what she thought.
"Naruto you…" Kakashi begun but stopped when the four shuriken slammed right into his side.
"Whoa! Whoa! No way! That was over kill Koei!" Naruto screamed flaring around wildly.
"No it wasn't…" Koei breathed angrily as she saw a log fall down in his face with her weapons slammed into it. "It was never him to begin with… He used substitution again, and I knew he was so gunna do it again. And I stupidly thought he was off guard and fell for it like an amateur!" She jumped back from where she was standing hurriedly as she heard a twig snap. But could it really be him? Would he be so stupid as to make so much noise…?
Sasuke… Where are you going? Sakura asked herself as she watched him jump away from his hiding place. A rustle of leaves was hear and she jumped to the ground, behind a bush, looking at Master Kakashi who was reading a book right n front of her.
Safe… He hasn't seen me…
"Sakura, behind you…" A voice said.
She flipped around to see Kakashi starring at her wide-eyed.
"Read the hidden meanings within the hidden meanings my ass!" Naruto screamed angrily as he cut himself lose from where he was bound. He landed on the ground with his feet, to only be thrown back up into the air a second latter. He was trapped again.
"NOT AGAIN!"
Sakura gazed sleepily as she watched a whirl of leaves form around Kakashi. She slowly closed her eyes and then shot them open a second latter, realizing what she had just done.
"What? What was the! Where'd out teacher go!" Sakura cried out.
"Sakura…" a voice said, but it sounded to distant.
"Sasuke!" Sakura cried out happily spinning around in the direction of the voice that had just called out her name.
"Sa…Saku…Ra… H-help… Me…" Sasuke called out looking up at her. HE had all sorts of shruiken sticking out of him, bleeding all over the place, dead.
Tears formed in Sakura's eyes as she let out a horrible scream and then fell to the ground, fainting.
"Was that to much?" Kakashi asked himself.
"That scream I just heard…" Koei said aloud frowning. "Sakura?"
"The second Ninjutsu skill… Genjutsu the art of illusion. And Sakura fell for it," Kakashi replied, still looking over his book.
He's been using the art of illusion… Employing hypnotism to create hallucinations in others… If that was Sakura, it's possible he may have beaten her… But…
"I'm not like them," Koei said aloud.
"Save your boasts until you've got a bell… Koei," Kakashi said leaning against a tree that was behind him, to get a better look at his book. "The strength of the X clan… The most elite family in Konohagakure village. I'm looking forward to it."
Koei just gazed at him plainly and then flipped out ten kunai in-between all of her fingers. She smiled and then flipped them all out at Kakashi.
"A frontal assault is wasted here!" Kakashi shouted out as he saw a huge smile spread across Koei's face. A trap!
Thirty kunai came shooting out of no where at him as he dodged the first ten, he jumped out of the way just in time and then dodged Koei's body as it came flying at him with a kick ready. He blocked another kick and then her fist when it cam flying at him. A frown was placed upon his face.
Koei flipped herself upside down and grabbed for one of the bells but missed, just barely as Kakashi kicked her away from him. She caught herself by her hands and did a black flip until she was standing upright on her feet again.
This one's not bad. I can't even read 'Make Out Paradise' while we're fighting.
"Hunh?" Sakura sat up. I remember! Sasuke was dying… And when I saw that I… "Sasuke! Don't die… Don't leave me! Where are you!"
Naruto spied around in mid air with his arms crossed over his chest.
"Is that a rock? The tree stump! So that's what it looks like from behind… Hey… The lunch boxes are on top of that boulder!" Naruto cried out happily. "Shinobi are supposed to read the hidden meanings within the hidden meanings… right!" He laughed to himself happily.
"I admit it. You're not like the others…" Kakashi smiled.
Koei smiled at him and then flipped her hands around, performing a technique that was only passed down in her family.
BIRD! TIGER! DRAGON! DARKNESS STYLE! DEATH TECHNIQUE!
"Wha… aat!" Kakashi screamed out amazed. That skill is beyond the capacity of any novice… Her Chakra shouldn't have developed enough yet to perform it!
Black flames came shooting out from Koei's mouth and surrounded where Kakashi was standing. She stopped her technique, watching the smoke clear. She smiled but it was then replaced with a frown as Kakashi was nowhere in sight. He had totally missed her whole attack.
He's gone! Behind me…? Above…? Where'd he go!
"Below," echoed Kakashi's voice as Koei jumped. She was then pulled into the ground by Kakashi's hand.
"Earth style! Groundhog technique decapitation!" Kakashi yelled.
"NO!" Koei screamed, as the only part of her body that was sticking out of the ground was her head.
"Shinobi battle technique, lesson number three… Ninjutsu," Kakashi said crouching in front of her with a smile on his face. "But at least, as you predicted your performance was head and shoulders above that of your companions."
Koei just starred at him as he begun to walk away from her.
"Oh well… You know what they say! The nail that sticks up is the one that gets hammered down right?" Kakashi laughed as he left Koei.
"Idiot," she muttered under her breath.
Naruto laughed evilly. "Even if I can't take those bells fair and square… I can deal with it. I'll just hang out here and eat everybody's lunch!"
Kakashi cleared his throat above Naruto, crouching on the 'boulder'.
"Uuuh… Just kidding…?"
"Too late!" Kakashi answered.
Crap… And I was so close too, or at least that's what it seemed like… How could this have happened! I didn't learn all that stupid stuff just to show it off as a trick! It was meant to attack him! I want to pass! I can't fail now! Not ever!
"Lovely seeing you out here… Where's Kakashi?" Sasuke asked walking into sight.
"Don't know…" Koei muttered glaring up at him. "Think it's funny don't you. Seeing me talk so big and now I'm here defenseless!"
"I didn't say anything at all," Sasuke replied. "What'd you do to get like that in the first place?"
"Kakashi," Koei muttered. She twisted around and then gritted her teeth. The ground around her exploded and she shot out from it. Landing on her feet she stared up at Sasuke. "It's almost noon. Time's running out, I'm going to get one those stupid bells, even if it kills me…"
"Koei do you honestly believe you can get one of those bells?" Sasuke asked looking at her. If anyone should get one, it should be me. Who cares about the rest of those losers anyway!
"I got close enough to touch them… This time I'll take them," Koei said walking off.
"Really?" Sasuke asked, following her. "How can you be sure? After all, you are nowhere near his level. I bet your Chakra's so low. Even Naruto could probably put up a better fight than you, after all, we know nothing about you Koei X."
Koei stopped dead in her tracks and frowned.
"OF course you don't! Everyone forgets the X clan!" Koei said as a wind picked up. Blowing her hair out of place.
"X clan?" Sasuke asked. "I've never heard of them."
"Again, of course you haven't. Only the most important people know of my family, such as the Hokage. After all, we've all turned out to be extremely Elite Shinobi. Hiding ourselves in the darkness, not wanting to draw attention," Koei replied. "You don't know what's it's like to live in a family such as mine. See you mother die right in front of you… Living on your own, without a mothers' love, or a father's attention. So don't tell me, I'm not strong enough. That my Chakra is low; I've spent my whole life training. I'm going to kill him. I'm going to get my revenge."
"Who…?" Sasuke asked shifting his full attention to her. "Who?"
"My father, Yuki…" Koei breathed out looking over to Sasuke. "My only goal is to have my revenge. I have to become stronger than he is now… I have to be powerful. I have to kill my father."
Sasuke just stared at Koei amazed, he opened his mouth to say something to her but was interrupted when the bell rang, signaling that it was noon, and their battle with Kakashi was over.
None of them had gotten a bell.
"I should have saved my breath…" Koei hissed.
Sasuke just looked at her, almost with pity in his expression, but managed to hold it all back.
"Oh my. Listing to all the little stomachs growl!" Kakashi cried starring at them all. "By the way, you four. I have an announcement about this exercise. None of you need worry any more about being sent back to the Ninja Academy," Kakashi begun looking at their happy faces.
" Yeah!" Naruto cried out twisting around in between the stump he was tied to and the tope that bound him.
Sasuke looked dup at Kakashi with a small smile on his face.
Even me? After the way I fainted! We all passed? Sakura thought surprised.
"Noo…" Koei said with tears in her eyes. "This can't be… No. I tried to hard…"
"This rocks! It means all four of us-" Naruto was cut off.
"…Are hopeless. More schooling would be pointless. None of you will ever be Shinobi!"