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Mrs. Nozomu Sohma – hehehe... now I know what the other two names are grin if you know any other names of minor characters, that would be awesome
Eevetta – thank you very much. I try. -
zimori – Gomen gomen! I'm sorry if you think that, I find that if everything is explained at once it takes away from the surprises later on. I'll try and see if I can make some things more clear though.
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That night Naruto didn't get any sleep. While Sasuke and Sakura were resting in their nice comfy beds with indoor heating, Naruto was resting high in a tree branch panting. He had spent the last 4 hours in the dead of night and early morning to reconstructing the training area to suit his needs. A small mountain of ice and snow now stood erected and proud surrounded of course, by more snow and ice. It had taken the better part of his 4 hours to figure out a way to prevent the snow from melting come morning. He sighed and wondered how his Kage Bunshin was doing haggling the ANBU that were following him. Probably giving them hell, he allowed himself a small chuckle at that.
None the less, Naruto took advantage of the spare time he had to himself. He sighed again and stared up at the canopy, watching the stars in the cloudless sky. During the times he kept night watch he passed the time watching the stars. A habit he had surprisingly picked up from Kyuubi. He would often get lost in them. Comforted in the thought that no matter where he was, someone he cared about would see the same stars as he. It made him smile.
Had anyone come upon him at that moment would have been flabbergasted at the sight. His body was obscured by darkness and his skin illuminated as pale as the moon. Those seep blue eyes were contented and yet as mysterious as the sky reflected in them. Blond locks fell gracefully around his face. And Naruto was, at that moment, an angel.
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Before the sun cracked the black sky, Naruto reinforced the genjutsu around his ice arena. Why? He wanted to surprise them. Honestly he wasn't sure about his teaching capabilities. He just hoped they would listen to him. He jumped down from his tree top and onto the middle post, smiling at a long ago memory of being tied up at this very spot. His original opinion of Kakashi was still the same: too cool for school.
His smile turned into a feral grin as Sakura and Sasuke arrived on either side of him. It looked like they had sneaked out. He used his hands to sign to them in their own unique form of code language.
-Ice Arena behind us. Under genjutsu, don't act surprised.- at the last remark Sasuke scoffed at the mere thought. But then again, Naruto probably created a mountain to show off. Sakura however, only rolled her eyes as she leapt down onto the ground and took a seat. Sasuke decided to stand on the ground and lean up against his post while Naruto crouched down on his. It was ingrained in them to strike a cool 3 man pose.
And they didn't even have to wait long. Coming on the sun's first rays was Anka, Ibiki, Hisashi, the Elder Shikamaru, Inoishi, Chouza and Sarutobi. Minutes ticked by as others started to straggle in, most only coming out of respect for the Hokage. But it was a start. After an hour of waiting and several loud complaints from Anko the infamous Maito Gai and Copy-ninja Kakashi arrived. One looked to be dragged by the other (bet you can't guess who).
"FINALLY!" Naruto yelled pointing to Kakashi. The ninja in question raised an eyebrow and waved in a rather harassed and disgruntled manor. Gai had that effect. But Naruto was grinning from ear to ear in a rather feral way, Sasuke had that 'I-know-everything' look and Sakura had her usual soft yet sweet smile on.
"So, before we begin today, Sakura, Sasuke?" Naruto asked, passing them a meaningful look. Sakura ruffled in her backpack and produced a small one person cake while Sasuke took his arm out from behind him and produced a thin rectangular package.
"Happy Birthday!" they all said in unison, Naruto the loudest. Kakashi blinked. He never did have a birthday…the jounin around them were all sporting looks of amusement, disbelieve and anger while the Copy-nin was standing there scratching the back of his head.
"Arigato-" he mumbled half-heartedly as he took a bite of his cake, and told Sakura she was a good cook before turning his attention to his gift. Aside from Gai, no one really did go out of their way to get him something. So when he opened the box he nearly dropped it from the sentiment. There, softly laid against white silk was an obsidian black kunai. But this Kunai was very special. Before the handle met the blade there were 3 pieces of doe skin leather, each respectively dyed red, yellow, and blue. But not only that, the handle itself had carvings in gold lettering. It spelled out "Honour, Loyalty, Pride," and "Friendship." Kakashi, oddly enough, felt honoured.
"Arigato." He said, but this time he meant it. Who cares if he'd get teased about it? And while others milled around the copy-nin and demanded to see the Kunai, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura used their keen senses to feel out each individual's chakra levels, even those who suppressed theirs. Naruto also noted that the 3 sanin where here as well. He motioned to Sasuke.
-let me deal with them.- Sasuke only jerked his head in agreement before putting his mask back on. Naruto then stood up on his pole and cleared his through. Nothing happened, each Jounin wasn't paying attention. Well,. That was a lie, a few were. Naruto sighed and started making hand seals, purposefully keeping his chakra condensed until the final seal. But by then, everyone was caught in the jutsu. The ground had seemingly liquefied and solidified in the blink of a second, causing everyone to be knee deep and unable to move. This had the desired effect of everyone's attention now being on Naruto.
"A Shinobi who does not follow the rules is trash
A Shinobi who does not pay attention is trash
A shinobi that does not follow orders is TRASH." He blasted them with killer intent and disappointment. They fiddled like little children. Narutos eyes blazed, and even Sakura and Sasuke were adding to the atmosphere with their own disapproving eyes.
"If you are the representation of Konoha Shinobi, I shudder to think how week the next generation will be. Are you trash then? Do you deserve to be nothing but the trash you are? Well?" he waited, several wouldn't meet his eyes. The three Sanin were transfixed on him. True, they had been told the situation, but not all of it. It was amazing how the Kyuubi container was able to shift the mood in a single second.
"No?" he asked again. His eyes narrowing. "Then prove to me you are not trash. Line up, single file in a straight line facing Sakura-chan." From there he released his genjutsu and let her take over.
"I will be testing you're strength." She told them, eyeing certain stronger individuals. "One by one you are to punch into my hand with all the strength you can muster. Understand? Now who will go first?" she calmly asked earning a lot of appraising looks. Was the pink haired one crazy? Even though Sarutobi knew Haruno Sakura was still healing, he decided to take a leap of faith and go first. The both bowed; Sandaime took up his fighting stance while Sakura merely put up her open fist. He pulled back and put all his force into his punch and let it rip. The result surprised even him as she caught it without the barest hint of movement from the impact.
"Yush! Very good, you can go stand over there now, by Sasuke-kun." She smiled at him, motioning for the next person. It didn't take long to test everyone out. Even the Sanin didn't make much impact on Sakura, except Tsunade who was last. Being the medical ninja that she was, she immediately saw the signs of pain and injury, thankfully healing quite nicely, but the fact that his young girl, hardly 16, was taking blows in a single hand while injured was truly amazing to her; so when she punched Sakura's hand (who had changed hands to her stronger right hand) she didn't not actually use all her strength. But the resulting aftershock made the newest jounins gape and the older jounins to blink.
"That wasn't your full strength, Tsunade-sama" Sakura spoke evenly with a smirk. Tsunade bristled.
"Yeah well, it's obvious you're recuperating from injuries." Sakura chuckled and turned back to Naruto and gave a small nod. Yesterday night they had all gone over their plans for teaching their superiors, this was only the beginning. Now that Sakura had impressed everyone (and she was the weakest of the group) eyes now turned to Sasuke, who merely jutted his chin to Naruto who began talking.
"This winter will be the first true winter Konoha has seen in the last 10 years. And it'll be a doozy. Konoha will literally be covered in snow and ice. Therefor, we are going to teach you how to best fight in these conditions, as well as jutsus that are ice and snow specific. We've spent the night creating-"
"You spent all night creating it, we slept, remember?"
"Right, right.." Naruto scratched the back of his head at Sasuke's reminder. "Anywas, I created this training area for our uses-" he was interrupted again, this time by Chouza.
"How does this help us?" He waved around to the blooming trees, the bright blue sky warm sun and overall pleasant surroundings. Narutos grin turned feral again, but this was more intense.
"Seems no one here is able to detect my genjutsus" he chuckled. "'Lo and behold, you're new training area!" he waved his hand and the original genjutsu disappeared, revealing a small mountain of ice and snow, the air went below freezing the wind further cooled everyone down and all found themselves standing either on ice, or in snow. Sarutobi was the first to recover from shock and chuckled. Everything these kids did was a shock to everyone else. No… everything Naruto revealed was a shock to everyone else. Sasuke and Sakura were moderate in comparison to how much the blond gaki showed off. He was officially the most surprisingly Ninja.
"Well? Since everyone looks like they need a warm up, 200 laps around the arena, now!" he urged them, striking the good guy pose and grinning stupidly. Naruto thought to himself: 'I'm going to like teaching…' Naruto jumped off as everyone started their laps, a few even grumbling.
"How are your arms" Sasuke asked, trying to look indifference and failing. Sakura, who had long since gotten beyond her crush smiled.
"Not as bad as I first thought, I'm using healing chakra to fix the torn muscles. They're a weak bunch in the physical department."
"Good, because I have an alteration to our plans a bit; Sasuke, how do you feel to fighting Tsunade? And Sakura, you Jiraiya?" Naruto asked calmly, his eyes dancing with merriment that caused Sakura to grumble and Sasuke to frown. As much as they loved Naruto, sometimes they downright hated him. Seeing their looks, he laughed
"Oh buck up. Now here's what we'll do…."
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ahahahaha. Oh goodness, this is truly an all-time record. 3 chapters in a week. ; I'm only slightly shocked. I'll let you know now, my updating schedules are random, so don't get used to the quickness… But, anyways, I Hope you like it! Oh, and please review, it lets me know how I'm doing.