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New summary: Naruto died in revenge against the village, leaving his 'son'. But being raised by the most prestigious family in Konoha, how did the boy turn out into an ... avenger!? Things are going to go down the drain soon.
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"Speech" – Character speaking
Italics - Character thinking
One last chance
Chapter 6: It all comes together
Naru woke up at eight and got ready for the day. He dressed in a black shirt, black pants and an oversized orange trench coat.
Right, I'm ready. Soon Kyuubi, please have patience.
It seems Kakashi had come over again, he was sitting at the kitchen table with Hiashi, eating breakfast. "Oh, good morning Naru-kun. Didn't I tell you to meet at seven?"
"I've heard many great tales of your everlasting tardiness, so I feel that there's no need to walk there and wait when I could have been catching up on sleeping."
"Son, don't be sarcastic to your teacher."
"I'm sorry, Tou-san."
"And what if I was on time today?"
"You are never on time for anything, ever." Naru sneered.
"Hmmm, I guess you're right. Well, since I'm done here, shall we go and meet your teammates? Thank you for seeing me so early Hiashi-sama." He rose up and left.
Naru grabbed an apple and followed him. "I'll be leaving now, Tou-san."
"Be sure to do well today, and tell that to Kachi too."
Kakashi and Naru arrived at the meeting place at NINE. Kachi and Reika screamed and shouted obscenities. Kakashi simply smiled and proceeded to explain their test.
"There are two bells, one bell is here." He held it up, the bell was gold-colored with a small red stripe. "This one is going in my pouch." And he pocketed it. "The other bell is the same color and is hidden somewhere inside the city. I will disappear into the city, you three have to find me and snatch the bell off me in whatever way you think is best. Or, alternatively, you could spend time looking for the other one. This test will end in five hours, the ones who have bells pass, the others fail." He gave a wink and took off.
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"Isn't this test a little unfair to us, the ones who don't have those fancy eyes?" Reika didn't look happy, Kachi grinned.
"If we're going to get that guy, we'd better team up against him."
"What! Why should I have to fight him? I could just go find the one he left in the city." Kachi screamed. Naru bopped him on the head.
"You idiot, the other bell's obviously in the pouch too. It's just a trick to split us apart."
"And how would you know? He said he hid the bell inside the city."
"And isn't he inside the city right now? And besides, I heard two bells jingle in his pouch when we were walking here together. SO, we not only have to find him but also take both bells off him. Here's the plan..."
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Kakashi was hiding at the hot springs, might as well have something to do while I wait for them to show up. Hihihihi.
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The team was currently looking for their sensei, "I spy with my awesome eyes, he at the hot springs, and he's peeking into the baths." Kachi grinned. Naru groaned. He's at it again, and during work too.
The three snuck up to the hot springs. Kakashi was too busy to notice. All right, let's begin. Naru gave the signal.
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Kakashi was peeking into the baths while drooling. (Let's assume Kakashi is turning into Jiraiya in the last 12 years.)
A dozen kunai flew out of nowhere towards him. Being an elite jounin, he caught them all with ease, and without looking away, he heard Kachi swear behind him. "Dammit I'll get you this time! Kage Bunshin no jutsu!" Does this seem familiar?
Nine clones instantly appeared and each threw a dozen more kunais at him. Even an elite jounin probably couldn't catch a hundred and twenty kunai, so he dodged them easily and glared at the boy. "So you actually found me huh?" Not sensing the other two nearby, he began a counterattack. "Take this: Suiton mizu-yadama no jutsu!" (Water type, water projectiles)
Being that they were in a hot spring, Kachi was screwed. A few dozen water needles flew towards him, there was no way to dodge them all! "Arrgh!" About two dozen managed to hit, doing only slight damage. Most only scratched his skin, only three went in. Unfortunately, being water needles, they soaked into his clothes, and being made from hot spring water, they were very very hot. "Gaah, it burns, it burns! Get it off! Get it off!"
Kakashi amused himself with the boy's reactions, so he didn't notice until "Doton Shinjuu Zanshu no Jutsu" (Earth type, inner decapitation attack) What!?
He only barely managed to dodge as a hand shot out of the ground and tried to grab his legs. At the same time, kunais flew at him from Kachi's direction, both actions forced him into the hot water. There was a 'poof' and the body made contact with the water and dissolved into water.
The hand that had shot out of the ground belonged to Naru. His whole body had since appeared. A mizu bunshin! When did he... The rest of his thought was cut off as Kakashi launched a counterattack. "Suiton, suiryuudan no jutsu." (Water type, water dragon blast)
Naru's hands made rapid seals, "Katon, Gokyakyuu no jutsu!" (Fire type, grand fireball)
The water dragon and the fireball made contact and cancelled each other out. Huh, it's getting hot around here.
Having no choice but to go on the offensive, he sped towards his sensei. Hyuuga-ryu jyuken!(Hyuuga-style, gentle fist)
He attacked with jyuken, but Kakashi skillfully dodged all his attacks and countered with his own attacks, throwing up a small layer of chakra to dispel the jyuken. The two attacked at hurricane speeds, but with no Byakugan, Naru's jyuken was pretty useless. Eventually, speed was on Kakashi's side, and he threw the younger boy to the ground, Kanai at the neck.
"Humm, I'm faster." Kakashi simply said.
But Naru was grinning. What? His body had stopped responding, and he found himself the target of a shitenshin. (Mind body switch)
Being former ANBU gave him an edge on countering mind attacks, and he easily forced the intruder out. However, it took him a second to do so, which gave Naru enough time to grab the bells from his pouch.
The boy stood up, grinning like mad.
Damn, kids these days are so annoying.
Team: 1
Sensei: 0
At that time some people from the baths came out to see what the commotion was, so Kakashi didn't completely lose. Hehe.
Three pairs of eyes twitched in annoyance. "Anko-san is not going to be happy."
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Later, team eight and their sensei were sitting around the BBQ house. Having three genins outsmart a jounin was impressive enough to earn a reward, although Kakashi severely maintained that he was distracted by their combat surroundings. The kids groaned. Well, at least Kakashi treated them to a free lunch, only if they kept their mouths shut about the hot springs. If this gets out, my reputation is ruined. Not to mention if the misses finds out about the peeping.
"Well it seems you work pretty well as a team." Kakashi smiled. The three kids beamed.
"What I want to know is, who the leader of this little plan is. Was it the class dunce?" Kachi fumed.
"The pride of the Yamanaka family?" She is good at manipulating people.
"Or the genius of the Hyuuga clan?" It probably is.
None of the kids spoke up.
"Sigh. I guess it's none of my business then. Well anyways, Naru, you have two bells, who do want to pass? And who's going back to the academy?"
"What!? Naru you said that all we needed was teamwork to pass this test!" Kachi shrieked.
Kakashi smiled. "So it was the genius huh?"
Reika whacked him in the head. "You idiot, you gave us away!" And she whacked him again. Naru bopped him in the head for good measure. "Ouchies."
"Just as I thought. Well, I suppose that was good enough to count as teamwork, so I guess you all pass. Let's eat."
"Dunce, didn't Naru-kun tell you to keep your mouth shut?"
"Sorry, Reika-chan."
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In the end, out of nine graduating teams, only five managed to pass. And so there were fifteen new genins this year.
After people found out Shikamaru was too lazy to even come up with a test, the Hokage screamed at him.
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Four months later
"The target is in sight. Are you guys ready?" Naru whispered. Said target was of the feline family, and was currently having a nap in the middle of the forest.
"Alpha one, ready." "Alpha two, ready." "Alpha three, ready." "Beta three, ready."
There was one missing, "Beta one, are you ready?" "Give me a second."
"All right on the count of three, attack! One, two, three!" Six genins pounced at the target, which roared in defense. It was a big cat, very, very big cat swiped at the six until it tied up by Tenka and Naru, having been disabled by Reika. The six wasn't well off, the cat managed to scratch all of them, their mothers would need to fix their clothes.
"Good work guys, next one then." They groaned.
The two teams were currently working together on this capture mission, two other teams had also been sent here, and were currently capturing the other targets. Their client had several pets escape, big nasty pets. Said client was the zoo and said pets were several ferocious tigers which were now roaming about the countryside.
After months of boring D-rank missions, the four teams were given this low-C-rank assignment. The zoo's keepers had been unable to recover the tigers and asked for ninjas. The Hokage's mission list was backed up and had no choice but to send four genin teams for this job.
The zoo was located in the fire country's capital, a four day walk from Konoha. After the mission was completed, it would take time to get back to Konoha.
Their senseis had to buy them some new clothes.
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The whole group was currently staying at an inn at the outskirts of the capital. It would take four days to get back to Konoha.
Kakashi had dragged Shikamaru somewhere, leaving the kids alone to talk. Karasu stated that her dad had probably dragged Shika to the hot springs nearby, to which team eight nodded in agreement. Reika exclaimed that they had better get her uncle back, lest her aunt Ino found out about this. The six nodded.
Kachi used the fabulous power of the Byakugan to find the two, currently assembled with the other two jounins around a restaurant beneath the inn. Seeing no problem with that, they abandoned the mission.
Naru snuck down in disguise, having an almost perfect disguise in the form of a twenty-something man. He was interested in what the adults were talking about, and wanting to get away from the others for a while.
"We're lucky there hasn't been any trouble with this mission. The Hokage did send a message to watch out for anything suspicious. Did any of you spot anything?" The other jounins shook their heads. Shikamaru let out a sigh. "The Hokage is probably being overcautious."
"Shikamaru, this problem is mainly yours, you should be the one being overcautious."
"Hmph, there was nothing out of the ordinary."
"We can't be too careful. The four teams MUST travel together at all times, until we get back to Konoha."
"Are you sure the information is correct?"
"Yes, I heard there was trouble within the wind country recently. I just reconfirmed it with a contact just now."
"Still, if the sound interfere, it would be trouble, especially for us."
Their drinks had arrived, so the conversation ended. Interesting.
Naru left the restaurant. Sending some clones out for recon, he transformed back to his original self and went back to the room.
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Naru woke up early and went for breakfast outside. Buying a pastry, he sat in the park to eat. The clones snuck in as birds and delivered their reports.
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The four teams left after breakfast, heading back to Konoha together. While the twelve genins talked together, their senseis were on full alert, although none of the kids noticed, save Naru.
They had opted to stay in inns in towns along the way, rather than camping out. That in itself was unusual, since they had been camping out along the way to the capital, not to mention the fact the teams came separately but left together. None of the kids noticed that either, save Naru.
They reached Konoha late at night on the forth day. The teams went home, it was too late to be debriefed.
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Naru and Kachi walked home together, since they lived in the same district. "Hey Naru-kun, I was pretty awesome on the mission right? Tell Hiashi-sama how good I was."
"Oh is that so? As I recall, you were the last one to arrive at the target's location, and you got injured the most by its claws." Naru teased.
"Grrrrrr."
"Haha. Don't worry, I'll exaggerate things when I tell Tou-san." He laughed. "Good night."
"Cya tomorrow Naru."
The whole Hyuuga district was quiet, it was getting around dinnertime so all the families would have retired for dinner already. Making his way towards his house, he spotted something in the garden. Approaching it, Naru let out a soft growl. The creature growled back and leapt out, a scroll in its mouth. The small messenger fox dropped the scroll and ran off. Naru picked up the message and pocketed it.
His father and mother were having dinner when he arrived. Going to his room to change first, he was followed by Hinata. "Naru-chan, welcome back."
"Thanks Hinata-san. Did anything happen while I was away?"
"The Hokage came over once, and your father has been poking into your room again."
"I see. Tell father I will be at dinner soon." After getting changed, he made several clones which snuck off as birds.
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Next day
Hiashi walked out for a morning stroll. He spotted was a pack of birds in the garden, but ignored them and walked off. Naru snuck out of his room to feed them.
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Teams seven and eight and their senseis gathered at the Hokage tower. The other teams had already arrived earlier and handed in their reports.
Kakashi gave the mission report to the Hokage and the other mission-assigning people. (The guys in that big room who hand out missions).
"So, how are your teams doing?"
Shikamaru grunted. Reika translated. "That means his team is doing great."
Kakashi wasn't as lazy. "My team is performing exceptionally well. Under my instruction, I think they're already at chuunin level." He smiled. Maybe I can get a raise for this.
Excellent. Both Naru and Tsunade thought at the same time, although in different tones of thought.
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The two teams were back to D-rank assignments.
After the team's mission had ended and Kakashi went off to read, Naru went back to the Hokage tower to find Tsunade.
"Oh, you don't come to visit me often, what can I do for you Naru-chan?"
"Well, seeing as Kakashi himself said we are at Chuunin level, I want to get promoted. Could you ask Kakashi to enter us into the exam?" He gave her a pleading look.
"Are you sure about this, you've only been ninjas for four months. Maybe it's too early."
"Please Tsunade okaa-san." He employed his deadly 'puppy-eyes no justu'.
Tsunade took the full blast of the attack and yielded instantly. "Oh all right then, if you think you're up to it."
"And put Shikamaru's team in it too."
"All right, I'll see what I can do for you."
"Cool! Thanks okaa-san." He beamed. "Cya." He waved.
Tsunade waved back.
As Naru turned to leave, he smiled, an evil kinda smile. A random secretary walking in almost fainted from fright.
Tsuzuku – TBC
Next chapter: And they were played like pawns
Chuunin exam! Big fights! The two teams encounter an enemy in the forest. Intentions come to light, six go in, but only five come out.