Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of it's characters.
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Author's Notes:
Firareth3: thanks for the review and yea, nothing much did happen
Faridaquant or always lost123: here's the update and thanks for reviewing
Akira Stridder: thanks for all the reviews and paring is going to be a vote which will start in this chapter
who's asking: thanks
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talking
thinking
kyuubi
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Beginning of the End
Wave Country: Start!
Blood could be seen covering the tree.
Kakashi's blood that is. Standing in front of him was a buxom blond girl. A buxom blond girl who only had clouds covering her private areas. Kakashi could only stare at her so long before blood spurted out of his nose.
Once he was lying on the ground, the girl stepped over him and bent down towards him. Her hand reach down towards the waist of his pants. She grabbed the bells. 'POOF' Naruto appeared out from he smoke that was made.
"Too easy," he said to no one in particular as he went back out into the clearing to wait for the end of the exam to come. "Five, four, three, two, one," 'BUZZZZZZZZZ' "Right on time."
Naruto stood up and looked around for his teammates. He saw Sasuke getting up off the ground and a flustered Sakura. When Sakura saw Sasuke, she screamed and attacked him. Sasuke didn't know what hit him, but it hurt like hell. Getting kicked where the sun don't sun ought to. "That is for trying to kill me," she huffed and walked away. Sasuke could only watch as his pride took a deep beating.
Then not even 10 seconds later, Kakashi shows up. He walked out of the clearing and looked at the three children in front of him. "All I have to say is that you fa--" Kakashi began before being interrupted by a certain blond.
"The Avenger Prick and Pinky can have them." Naruto threw the bells at his other two teammates.
Sasuke and Sakura looked at Naruto as if he was carzy. He had just passed the test and was now giving up his position so the two of them could pass. All they could do what just look at him with awe in their faces. Except Sasuke becaue he thinks emotions are a weakness if he wanted to avenge his family.
"I don't want it," Sasuke said to the older man.
"Why not Sasuke-kun? If we take it, that means we pass." Co-President of the Sasuke Fan Club asked.
"Because it wouldn't be right. He did all the work and what do we have to show for it. Nothing. I don't want his pity. If it means I have to go back to the Academy, then I will," Sasuke replied, which was one of the mosy wrods he ever said to Saukra before.
Saskura just looked at him. "I don't want it either then."
"You know what this means..." Kakashi started,"You ALL pass!" He finished with a smiling face and you could tell because of the change in his eyes.
"WHAT!" Sakura yelled, thinking of why they all passed.
Sasuke just looked at Kakashi wondering the same thing
Naruto just sat there staring at the gray-haried man. "Damn it. There goes my chances of ditching this team. I could of just waited and gotten a better one, but noooooo."
"HA. I knew you were consipring to fail. This is what you get for trying to go against my wishes."
"I was only trying to fail because of these two 'rats' as you call them, are my teammates, but this wierd-ass sensei of mine decided we passed."
"Don't worry. I am happy for your welfare. AHHAHA"
"Bastard Fox," was Naruto's only reply.
"You three must be wondering why you passed, don't you?" Kakashi asked the three children in front of him.
They could only nod.
"It is because of Naruto-kun's sacrafice and your relucntance to take his off that you all passed," Kakashi explained. "If he hadn't given up the bells, I was going to fail you all. If you had taken his offer, I would of failed. Do you know what the point of this whole exercise was?"
None of them decided to answer until Naruto rose his hand, finally getting what went wrong with his plan. "The point of this was teamwork. There was no way any of us could of take you one on one and get the bells. We had to work as a team to get them."
"You are right Naruto-kun. Now that you have passed, let's go celebrate. Anyone up for ramen, my treat?" Kakashi asked his newly aquired team.
Before Saskue could protest, Saskura had already latched onto him and started following Kakashi as he was alreading leaving Training Ground Seven. Naruto just stood there, thinking of what had just transpired.
"I guess everything is going according to your plans, isn't it furball?"
"Yes it is, all we have left to do is finished the requirements of the Sandamine and we are free."
"Yep, but that is going to be a while you know."
"Don't worry, if everything goes right, we will be out of this dump by the end of next year if not sooner."
"Excellent," Naruto said, with an sadistic smirk while pushing his fingers together back and forth.
"NARUTO!" Sakura yelled, looking at the blond boy. "ARE YOU COMING OR NOT!"
Naruto looked up at her and started running to catch up with the rest of his group. Once he got there, he noticed they were heading towards Ichiraku Ramen and started thinking of the kinds of ramen he would eat. "Pork, beef, chicken, lamb, ham, miso, miso pork, fish with pork, all-meat, vegatable. OH MAN THERE IS JUST SO MANY POSSIBILITIES!"
"Shut up before I give you indegestion brat," Kyuubi threatened.
"You wouldn't dare," Naruto tried to call off his threat.
"I would and I will if you don't stop talking about ramen."
"Fine then" Naruto sulked.
While this all happened, his teammates were looking at him as if he had gone crazy. One momment he is all quiet and then all happy and then sulking. Sakura thought it was because he was crazy. Sasuke blamed it on him being the dobe and all. Kakashi just looked on without a care in the world because he was only paying for ramen and he knew how cheap that stuff was.
That was until Naruto was on his 30th helping and quickly going to his 31st. Kakashi soon learned that day never to treat Naruto to ramen ever again. He lost most of his pay from his last B-rank mission and the mission had a bonus in it too.
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Next Day
The new Team 7 showed up at Training Ground 7 at 7AM to meet the sensei of Team 7, only to see no one at Training Ground 7 except the people of Team 7. The time following that consisted of each of them doing their own thing. Sasuke was throwing kunai at a nearby tree while Sakura was fawning over how great he was and asking him out on another day.
Naruto could be seen sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed on the small bridge over the river that split the training ground from the town. Looking from afar, you would thinking he was asleep, but in reality he wasn't. He was playing a game of called 'chess' that Kyuubi taught him how to play.
"You know that is a bad move brat," the fox told his vessel.
"Shut up..." mumbled Naruto.
"Here comes checkmate. MUHAHAHA." Kyuubi moved his rook two space to the left of the king trapping him in.
"..."
"You lost. Now admit how great I am. Come on, you can do it," Kyuubi taunted the boy.
"Fine, you are better than me at chess."
Kyuubi was about to laugh manically at the boys comment, but was interrupted. "BUT! I have opposable thumbs and you don't. HA."
"You do realize I have been playing this game with you with an opposable thumb because I am in my human form."
"Technically you are wrong. Your fox form is your true form and this human form of yours is just an altercation. So basically you have no thumbs." Naruto explained to the brooding fox.
"I hate you. You know that. When I get out of here, you are so dead."
"Sure, sure You can do that, but here comes that new sensei of mine. Don't do anything stupid like drinking your drool. You know how much of that stuff is in here," Naruto said as he stood up from the ankle high water and left.
Kakashi suddenly appeared in front of his three students. Before he knew it, Sakura was already up in his face yelling,"YOU'RE LATE!" stating the obvious to everybody else.
"Well you see...my mom swallowed a chicken bone, so I had to take her to the hospital and make sure she was alright," the late sensei explained, chuckling nervously.
"LIAR!" Sakura screamed. "Do you expect us to believe such a stupid excuse."
"Acually, I do," was his reply.
Sakura could only look at him and think,"He's hopeless."
"Now on to missions," Kakashi tried to brighten up the mood. "Let's go see the Hokage to find out what we get. Now follow me" he then headed towards the Hokage Tower, while his three students followed him thinking why they had such a strange sensei.
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15 ½ Minutes Later
"Why do we have to till the soil on this stupid farm, Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura complained. "This is so pointless."
"Well, Sakura, it builds character and stamina. Also this is what D-rank missions are like," Kakashi told the pink-haired girl. "Good thing I didn't have to do this when I was a genin."
Sakura found no point in arguing, so she decided just to shovel more dirt. By the end of the day, they were all dirty and tired. Except for Naruto because of his almost inexhaustible stamina and Kakashi who just read his 'literature' all day. This continued for many days to come until a certain cat escaped a tad too many times.
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"I have the target insight, over."
"Good job, Orange Fox. Where is your position? Over."
"I am 3 meters left of Blue Chicken, and 5 meters in front of Pink Starfish, and 7 meters right of you Gray Wolf. The target is 6 meters in front of me, over."
"You guys have the position? Over." Gray Wolf announced to his team.
Blue Chicken and Pink Starfish both replied,"Affirmative, over."
"Good. We will commence operation Take Down in: three, two, one, GO!" Grey Wolf yelled through the radio.
Orange Fox ran at it, trying to herd him to Blue Chicken. "Blue Chicken, he's coming towards you, get ready."
"I am," was his reply before the target appeared right in front of him. He threw several kunai, cutting off the target's escape route, leading him towards Pink Starfish. "Pink Starfish, he's coming, get ready."
"Alright," Pink Starfish said, getting her kunai and shuriken ready. When the target appeared, she threw them, surrounding him in a circle. The target looked around for any possible escape, but was grabbed from behind.
"Target acquired," Orange Fox answered through his headset while trying to subdue the target.
"Good job team. Now bring in the cat, so we can get this over with," Kakashi told Team 7.
Said cat was trying to claw at Naruto, who held it away from him with distaste. "Stupid cat. If I have to catch you one more time, I am going gut you and feed you to your fat-ass owner, but I wouldn't blame you," Naruto thought as he remember what kind of owner the cat had. He shuddered.
When they reached the Hokage Tower, the owner was there waiting for her pet cat. She looked just like a whale, take or add a few pounds. She was the wife of one of the daimyo's of Fire Country and had requested, again, that her cat be retrieved, again. Once the cat was back in her hands, she was hugging him furiously, squeezing the life out of him while telling him 'what a bad pussy cat' he was. The cat was already trying to get free already and thinking of how. Team 7 could only sigh as they knew the cat was going to do.
"Come on Team 7," Kakashi called out, taking out his 'holy book'. "Let's go get our next mission for today." He walked towards the entrance of the Hokage tower, whilst his three genin followed.
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Five Minutes Later
"Another mission already, Kakashi," the Hokage spoke. "Your team must be really good."
"Yes they are," Kakashi answered, smiling from the change in his eyes.
"Well, I have the perfect one for them then. This D-rank---"
"NO DAMN IT! I WILL NOT HAVE ANOTHER D-RANK MISSION AGAIN!" Sakura screamed loudly, making most of the people in the room cover their ears.
Kakashi could only thinking of impending doom once she was finished yelling.
"And why is that Sakura?" the Sandaime Hokage asked.
"Because all we have been doing were D-rank missions. I think, no, I know we are ready for something better than this. We have been doing more than all the other teams already. I know we can do this, so just please give us a better mission," Sakura pleaded her case.
Naruto and Sasuke couldn't agree with anymore than they could already, even though for different reasons. Sasuke wanted better missions, so he could get stronger faster to avenge his family. Naruto wanted a faster way to get out the stupid village and the only safe way without any trouble was the old man's offer.
"OK then," Sarutobi answered Sakura's pled. "Here is a C-rank mission. You are to escort a bridge builder to his home and protect him until he finishes the bridge. Any questions?"
"Yea," Sakura said. "Where is he?"
"He is in the waiting room right now. You will meet him when you start the mission. Now off you go."
"Alright people. Meet me in one hour at the Main Gate. Now let's go get ready," Kakashi told him team.
As Team 7 and Kakashi was leaving, Sarutobi stopped Naruto. "Naruto, I need to talk to you for a few momments."
Naruto turned around and went back to see the old man. "What do you want, old man?" he asked.
"You still remember our deal, right?"
"Yes, I do and I plan on finishing it," he answered.
"That's good to hear," Sarutobi replied.
"Yep. Anything else?"
"Yes, one thing. You are to not show your true potential on this mission--."
"WHAT! Why?" Naruto exclaimed.
"You didn't let me finish," the old man replied. "You are not to show your true potential on this mission unless you have to. I do not what anyone knowing how strong you really are yet. If they do find out, it will only cause problems."
"Problems like..."
"Problems like me getting impeached from my position. If that does happen, our deal is canceled and you will probably be caught and executed. If the villagers or other shinobi find out how strong you are, they will be thinking I have been giving you too much lee-way. Any questions?"
"No," Naruto answered. "But if I have to, I will."
"Yes, yes. I know. You can go now if you want," Sandaime told the blond.
"OK then. See ya when I get back," Naruto replied as he was about to leave.
"Also, Naruto."
"Yea," he answered back.
"No killing the client please," Sarutobi informed him.
"Yea, yea," were the last words heard as Naruto was already gone.
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Main Gate- One Hour Later
Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke all showed up at the gate at the same time. When they got there, amazingly, Kakashi was already there. They all stared at him, thinking that the world was going to end, or something close to it. "What are you three looking at?" he questioned the genin.
"Yo-you're early," Sakura stated the obvious. "How is that possible?"
"So you mean I can't be early once in a while?"
"Yes," Sakura stated.
"OK...Well anyways...OH. Here comes the bridge builder," Kakashi pointed out to an old man walking towards them. He had gray hair and a gray beard too. He wore a dirty dark green tank top and dirty light-brown pants with brown working boots. On his head was a straw hat and tower over his shoulders. In on of his hands was a sake bottle and from the looks of it, he just got out of a bar.
As he approached them, he asked,"I'm Tazuna. Are you guys the ones that are suppose to escort me?"
"Yes we are," Kakashi stated.
"So you mean these three brats are suppose to protect me. They look like nothing special to me, especially that one blond one,"the old man said, pointing at Naruto.
If glares could kill, the old man would have been dead 100 times over. His teammates watched on as Naruto tried to keep his cool. "Stupid bridge builder. If only the old man didn't tell me not to kill the client. It seemed like he knew what I was going to do. Damn fortune teller."
"Don't worry brat. If we get lucky, some random shinobi might just kill for you," Kyuubi told his vessel, not knowing about what was going to happen.
"Let's just hope, now for some death threats." Naruto smiled inwardly at the thought of it. He looked straight into the bridge builders eyes and sent out a little killing intent. "If you value your life, you stupid bridge builder, then you better not make fun of me."
Sakura and Sasuke couldn't believe it. This was one of the rare times that Naruto actually spoke in front of them outside of a mission. "Wait.." they thought. "This is a mission. Damn, never mind then."
Tazuna almost started to plead for his life, but Kakashi butted in. "Well it seems my student likes you. How about we be on our way now." He reached into his pocket and took out his 'book' to read. "Let's go." And off they were.
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Author's Notes:
Another chapter done, another chapter to start. For those who are wondering what the paring is, it's still undecided. Sort of hard making a paringing for a dark Naruto who is eventually going to run away from Konoha and I dislike canon-parinings for Naruto unless it actually makes sense, but I still dislike them for some reason So vote for the following because those are what I can write since this is my first one.
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Polls:
Female Haku:
NaruxOC:
Tayuya:
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And that's it. Those are the only the only ones I could think of that would work for my story. Suggestions are welcomed if they are reasonable. Now please READ AND REVIEW!