Hi! Just want to let you know that i don't intend to pair up any one yet with Naruto or any other people with a romantic relationships yet. There could be crushes, but no, not yet. I find Naruto still is stoo secretive for people to fall in love with him. Admiration, yes...Maybe wait a couple more chapters, you give me more reviews, and ill see what i can do, okies? thank you!
And to Akume: The Uchiha Clan had not been killed, in fact, they are...corrupted beyond belief. Well, i gave you more info than i can give, so please, continue reading my fic, thanks!
Icha Icha Novel Series are the current best sellers within the Shinobi continent. Why, you wonder? It consists of a mixture of realistic situations with dirty jokes, exaggerating yet possible situations between main and side-kick characters. But the best parts are the love scenes. The founder and author of this amazing series is a traveller- a very horny traveller none other than the Legendary Toad Sannin of Konoha, Jiraiya.
His inspirations are up to date, and selling the needs to the modern male society, ninjas and the like is the highest profit. Not to mention he takes pleasure in peeping at the same time. He is one the riches shinobi in the land these days.
But there are risks to be him, you see. He usually spends one sixth of his annual income for hospital fees. Even as legendary as he is, it does not give him free passes for peeking in spring baths, locker rooms and red light districts, so if discovered…the girls beat the crap out of him. Period.
It does have advantages to know him closely though. He periodically sends out rare editions to the people he cares about for free- with his extravagant signature on the cover of the novel. One of them is his mentor Sarutobi, a closet pervert.
The Emerald Edition of Icha Icha Moisture Land is currently being read by none other then the infamous ninja Hatake Kakashi, also one of Jiraiya's closest people within his friend's list.
He received this prized book via toad mail two days ago while he is roaming in the largest book store in Konoha. Since the toad was none other than Gamagichi, the loudest yet the smallest toad in existence, it bellowed between the legs of the silver haired Jounin about the treasure novel being delivered especially to him. Once every single male shopper in the store heard the message, they launched themselves at the tiny toad. Not loosing to his intruders, the Copy Ninja quickly grabbed the book and teleported away to his home, leaving the poor toad squashed like a pancake.
He just received a bird mail from the Hokage himself requesting to see him as soon possible while taking his bath in his tub. Not caring too much about the consequence of being late, he used a leisurely pace to take the bath. One hour later after his nap in the bath tub, he gradually dried himself and wore his usual outfit; a long sleeve black shirt and put his jounin green vest proudly on top his shirt, ninja black pants and his fingerless gloves.
He masked his face with freshly washed mouth cover and his Konoha leaf band on his forehead and pushed the left side of it to hide his left eye.
Not forgetting to carry his beloved new icha icha edition, he walked towards his apartment's door and left. He seemed to forget something, but knowing that his book in his hands, he just shrugged and teleported to his boss' office while sticking his nose on his novel.
A poof of smoke later, Kakashi saluted his boss with a wave of his arm without leaving his hungry eyes from the book.
"Yo, Lord Hokage, looking for me?"
Still sitting in his leader chair, the old leader of the Leaf Village screamed at his subordinate, saliva spitting everywhere, "Kakashi! When I said you arrive immediately, you arrive immediately! You don't want to be in probation, do you?"
He only heard giggles from his subordinate.
Using his hand to support his head, the old man continued speaking, "I found a suitable candidate to pave the hole of your team, Kakashi,"
That got his attention.
His eyes leaving his book, he look at his leader and asked, "May I ask who he or she is?"
"Uzumaki Naruto, you must have heard of him," the old man stated lightly.
"The jinchuuriki? I thought he's an independent Jounin, Lord Sarutobi,"
"If you let him in your team then he won't be one anymore,"
"Does he even know what role he'll play in my team? You do know that I need a support, not a leader, plus, he's the same type of ninja as me," the copy ninja said.
"Well, why don't you go meet him where your team usual waits for you? I already sent him there not too long ago," suggested the Hokage.
His visible eye widened and proclaimed, "That's right! I asked my team to wait for me at eight in the morning. No wonder I feel like something is missing!"
The Hokage sweat dropped, "You may be dismissed, Kakashi,"
Before teleporting out of his boss' room, he enquired curiously, "What if I deemed him unworthy, then what will you do to him?"
"Good question. If his abilities do not suit your need, I can always ask Yuuhi Kurenai to join your team. She obviously qualifies as a support. Are you satisfied with response?"
"What will happen to him then?"
"I will place him as the temporary leader of Team Eight, any more questions?" answered the old man.
"Isn't he a bit too young to lead a team?"
"I assure you Kakashi, I trust his abilities with my life, now go meet your team," he said in a tone of finality.
The silver haired man bowed and before he poofed away, the Hokage unexpectedly said, "I give you permission to go all out to test him,"
With an expressionless façade, the copy ninja nodded and poofed away.
The old man leaning against the back of his leather chair whispered to himself, "I hope he won't hurt you too badly, Kakashi…"
With a poof, Kakashi appeared in front of his two subordinates in their waiting place, the bridge. As usual, Uchiha Sasuke was leaning his back against the railing of the bridge, wearing a cold mask that tells everyone who approaches him to piss off. To the Uchiha's right, Haruno Sakura was sitting on the patch of grass legs crossedadmirng the the baby blue, cloudless sky.
The female member of the group noticed her teacher appeared in front of her and said, "Sensei, what's your reason this time for being late?" she raised her right pink eye brow.
"Oh, you see, ah, the Hokage wanted to meet me so I listen to his instructions…" he replied slowly.
Hereyes narrowed, "Hmm…alright, not a bad excuse, but I don't doubt you actually forgot to meet us," it was not a question.
He put his hand behind his head and scratched, "Uh….."
The Uchiha sighed, "Whatever, let's train already,"
The teacher clasped his hands together, "Before that, I want to introduce you to a new…uh…ninja who will be your team mate if he passes my test,"
Their eyes were as big as plate.
The uchiha composed himself and replied coldly, "The last one was in the hospital for two months after being tested by the three of us, surely you think it's wise to let an outsider join us?"
The Jounin shrugged his shoulder, "This time the Hokage has confidence that he'll pass with flying colours,"
The medic ninja asked, "Where is he then, Kakashi sensei?"
Without responding, he calmly walked to the opposite of the bridge rail; he bent down and shouted towards the stream, "Uzumaki Naruto, care to join us? I will be your examiner for the team entering test,"
The Uzumaki teleported fancily at their place with spinning leaves around him in clock wise motion, "So the rumours are true, Hatake-san, tardy as always,"
He has been here this whole time? I did not even sense him! The Uchiha thought angrily in his head.
The pink head was scrutinizing her future team mate with predatory eyes. God, he's hot! No, no, no, what am I thinking! This is totally inappropriate!
Shaking her head frantically to shook off her thoughts, she rose from the ground and raised her hand to attempt to shake his hand and introduce herself, "Welcome. My name is Haruno Sakura, a medical Chunnin, you?"
The blonde eyed her hands and shook her hand, "Uzumaki Naruto, a Jounnin,"
The raven haired young adult gripped both his hands into a fist inside his pants' side pockets. How can that goofy looking guy be a high rank ninja! He's around our age!"
Naruto turned his head slightly to his left and look at the Uchiha questionably. He asked the silver hair Jounin curiously, "Excuse me, Hatake-san, is that guy over there related to Uchiha Itachi?"
"How did you come up with this deduction?"
"He just looks like Itachi, that's all, am I right though?"
The copy ninja only nodded.
The blonde walked toward the brooding young man and introduce himself, "I'm Uzumaki Naruto, and you must be Uchiha Sasuke then?"
The black hair young man activated his Sharingan, showing his annoyance, "So?" replied the angry Uchiha.
The blonde raised his eyebrow, "Just asking since I worked with your brother a couple of times and whenever we rest he talks about you. You must have a special place in his heart," stated the Uzumaki.
"YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT US SO SHUT YOUR MOUTH!" bellowed Sasuke.
Naruto raised both his hands showing him that he surrendered. "Calm down, Uchiha san, it was only a question. You don't have to shout,"
Intervening the verbal assaults, Kakashi cut Sasuke off, "Well, why don't we go to do the tests hmmm? It will be fun. COME, LET'S GO!" He said cheerfully.
They all nodded.
Five minutes later, they arrived at training area seven.
The Copy Ninja closed his novel and put it back in his back pocket and spoke to Naruto, "Naruto, the Hokage gave me permission to go all out against you, do you have a problem with that?"
"No,"
Kakashi sighed dramatically, "Well, Sasuke, Sakura, this time you two won't be needed to test him,"
Sakura started to protest but Kakashi cut her off, "I'll use everything I know. He won't have a slight chance of winning against three opponents, especially with two Sharingan users. So, why don't you two be the extra two judges to see if he qualifies, hmm?"
Without hearing their answers, he turned and faced his opponent, "Well, Naruto, I also wish you will utilize everything that you had learned until now. If you don't, I wouldn't be able to evaluate your overall strength, sounds good?"
A gleam shone in the Jinchuuriki's eyes, "All out huh? Ku ku ku…very well,"
Kakashi tensed. The young Jounin before him is completely different from the one doing the introductions on the bridge. The blonde can mask his emotions whenever he wanted to? Not even I can do that all the time, he's good… thought Kakashi.
The silver hair man was not the only one who noticed it. The Uchiha also seemed to become aware of the fact that the blonde hid his emotions so quickly. The only person I know who can mask their emotions so well is Itachi…
Lifting his head band, Kakashi exposed his Sharingan to everyone in the grass field.
The two other chunnins went to the furthest they can without being caught in the duel and without missing any single actions within their visions.
The two opponents were now facing each other. Kakashi prepared his taijutsu stance waiting for the blonde to first attack. On the other hand, Naruto just stood their, feet a little apart and brought his two arms at chest level, semi fists formed.
Thinking the blonde is underestimating him; he ran at him at a fast face and launched a series of fast powerful punches at him in different areas. In the last moment, Naruto, with great reflexes, batted the first punch with his left hand aiming at his head, he uppercut the second in-coming punch which was aimed towards his chest and he twisted his body to the right side in an unnatural way and Kakashi completely missed his opponent while he launched the third attack at his abdominal.
For the counter attack, Naruto kneed at Kakashi only to be blocked at an abnormally fast pace with the older man's right palm. Continuing to pummel the silver haired jounnin, the blonde extended his right arm and elongated it to punch a surprised Kakashi in the face, only to be ducked skilfully.
With Naruto's other free arm, he jabbed toward Kakashi and muttered, "Hidden Shadow Many Snakes Hand"
More than ten anacondas burst through his loose sleeve trying to coil and munch their master's enemy.
When the snakes bit their prey, he turned into a piece of log.
Replacement…
Kakashi teleported three hundred meters north of their training ground, his back against a tree trunk. I only thought he went into hiding and given some training by the Hokage, I never knew Orochimaru, of all the people, mentored him! I clearly miscalculated his strength. From now on, no more mister good guy!
After rearranging his thoughts, he teleported back in the grass field.
With the same expressionless façade, Naruto questioned him, "Is the warm up done yet?"
"…yea," replied a serious looking Kakashi.
"Good…" the blonde answered.
This time, the blonde acted first. With a speed naked eyes could barely see, he leaped at Kakashi and in an inhuman strength, he punched Kakashi with his right fist who reacted just in time, thanks to his Sharingan's prediction, to only receive a burned horizontal scratch on his right cheek. Seeing his enemy exposed his defense on his right side, he used full force to kick at his opponent with his left leg.
Score! He finally injured his opponent. His excitement was short lived when his kick connected to Naruto's body; it twisted like a snake and absorbed almost all the power from the kick. Knowing that he was exposed, he immediately hopped backwards and started making incredibly fast hand seals, "Fire Element: Technique of Fire Dragon Blast!" he whispered.
A roaring inferno in a shape of a dragon rushed forward from the older Jounin's mouth intending to roast its' foe alive.
After canceling the fire technique, he noticed a mud wall where the examinee was suppose to be. Kakashi narrowed his eyes. Orochimaru taught him well. It's time to use what I practiced for hours for the last couple of years.
Six hand seals later, the Copy Ninja clapped his hands together in a gesture while you pray only the knuckles towards the ground; he gathered most of his chakra in both his hands.
After finished charging his chakra, he noticed the mud wall crumbling.
Show down…
"Lightning Edge: Infinity Impact!"
The older Jounnin charged at the blonde with two Lightning Edges, each surroundingbothhishands. It pierced through the mud wall as easily as hot knife cutting butter, but instead of dissipating like usual after using the technique, it screeched even louder, roaring with life.
The second Lighting Edge burned Naruto's left arm completely. It was only instinct that he was able to move away just in time instead of receiving the fatal blow through his right chest.
But Kakashi was not finished in the slightest; he continued to pursue his prey in lighting speed.
Hatake Kakashi, a genius ninja, finally mastered a taijutsu he solely owns. Each lighting edge dived expertly at his opponent, only missing inches every time. With his full fledged Sharingan, he predicted every single area his foe wanted to escape.
With extensive injuries, Naruto couldn't think of any other way then to use it if he wants to win, or…live to tell the tale.
Clearing his mind, ignoring the screeches from the Lighting Edges and his own injuries, he used every ounce of discipline he acquired during his tough years of training and with a speed rivaling a Sannin, he flashed his hands and started making seals stopping at the "serpent" seal.
"Wood Element: Forest Genesis!"
Roots started to sprout around the two combatants. From tiny vegetationsturned totrees as big as buildings in a matter of seconds, carrying them both up on branches in a rapid pace.
Copy Ninja Kakashi was too stunned to even register what is happening around him. How in the world did this brat…use wood element? I thought only the First Hokage…!
Chakra encased branches stabbed both his legs and his left arm, bring him out of his stupor, and as a result, his Lighting Edge dissolved.
More branches were tangling him at an amazing tempo, until it formed a huge cocoon around the genius ninja. Expect the unexpected, Kakashi… he scolded himself.
Both ninjas used two much chakra, they can only last for five more minutes maximum.
Naruto was huffing and puffing heavily. Thanks to dad, he manipulated the First Hokage to make a blood contract with me. Although I can not use the secret element as fluently as the First…I guess it is alright… for now.
"Kakashi, do you yield?" screamed the wood element user.
"…Never! I still did not go all out yet!" replied Kakashi.
Without replying, Naruto concentrated his chakra in the trees and slowly to squeeze Kakashi.
Not hearing any screams from his foe, he panicked that he accidentally killed him. It's my first time using it after all, can't blame me right?
"Mangekyou Sharingan!"
Hearing this, the blonde knew even with his secret trump card, he may not win this fight. The wooden cocoon around Kakakshi started to vanish in front of his eyes. Naruto tried to dodge in the last minute from Kakashi's vision but too late.
He felt the space between his left leg started to tightened in a exponential rate. With instinct, he ignored the pain and commanded more tree trunks to block Kakashi's view.
The pain immediately stopped. He hopped to a secure area where he can spot Kakashi. He completely relaxed. Kakashi, in the end, finally had fallen due to chakra exhaustion.
The last thing Naruto thought before darkness over whelmed him was I need a vacation very badly…