TRAINING GROUNDS 7

"Yo," Kakashi said as he had just popped up on time. For his clock.

"your late Kakashi sensei *slurp*," Naruto said eating ramen.

"I thought I said no breakfast," Kakashi said hiding his impressed compliments from the blond for not obeying the stupid rule, with a tone of malice.

"Well this is early lunch," Naruto said finding a loophole in everything, "Like a snack at first break in the Academy".

"Naruto's right Kakashi, you think we're stupid enough to go without something to eat?" Sasuke was eating a bento box.

"Yeah, hey, by the way, Naruto where did you find these cinnamon buns? they're delicious!" Hinata squealed at the sweet taste.

"Oh yeah, I sto- I mean," everyone looked at Naruto with a glare, The blond boy scratched the back of his head "I-I bought them at this really expensive store..."

"I thought you were poor, Naruto?" Hinata questioned, getting more and more suspicious 'don't tell me Naruto's a thief, oh lord please' Hinata prayed.

Naruto looked at Kakashi for help, the Jonin put his book up to avoid eye contact with the blond, "W-Well you see I helped out the store manager once and he gave me coupons for cinnamon rolls, Believe it" 'No seriously please believe it' Naruto internally begged, not wanting Hinata to find out about his situation.

Hinata couldn't help but giggle with a small blush at the blond's catchphrase "Ok I believe you" Hinata smiled softly, Naruto dodged a bullet.

"once you two are done being lovey-dovey with each other" Naruto and Hinata blushed furiously, Sasuke hid his smirk at their embarrassment "we can start with the test." Kakashi pulled two bells out of his pocket.

All the genin wannabes looked at the bells and tried to deduct what Kakashi was gonna say next, They would never expect his next sentence, "you see these two bell's?" Kakashi jingled it in front of the genin, the three nodded "Good, your not blind, this test is pretty simple" Kakashi was nonchalant about this, which made the rest of team 7 worried.

"the members who get the bells will eat lunch, and those who don't will be tied to a stump said person will also be sent back to the academy" Kakashi looked at team 7, and to his surprise.

"Haha, piece of cake, Ninja's have to see through deception and this is a teamwork exercise, we need to get the bell's from you right? so how are we supposed to do that on our own, plus this test is made to pit us against each other in the end, screw that we're gonna charge at you as a team, and take the bells by force, Beleive it!" Naruto shouted standing up followed by Hinata and Sasuke, then they all vanished with a smoke bomb.

Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata all hid in the tree's while Naruto created a couple of shadow clones to attack Kakashi to gather information for him and the rest of his team,

Kakashi looked at the five Naruto clones, 'so, the rumors were true, I wonder what this is about, I can sense Hinata, Sasuke and the real Naruto in the trees to the right I believe' Kakashi pulled out his orange book, and started to read.

"Hey shouldn't you be finished now Kakashi sensei?" a clone asked "Yeah, or is that the new one?" another clone added "In fact yes this one I just bought, its the limited edition one" Kakashi added, all the clones jaws hit the ground, (and the real Naruto's too) "W-WHY ARE YOU READING SOMETHING SO PRESUOSE IN THE MIDDLE OF A NINJA TEST THEIR ONLY 24 COPIES IN EXISTENCE" the Naruto clones all shouted in unison.

"Well I just don't feel threatened by you Naruto, you will always be that same loud brash little boy in my eyes... unless you have what it takes to beat me?" Kakashi mocked, the Naruto clones were fuming but never the less kept themselves from going out into a blind rage.

The battle began with all the Naruto's charging at Kakashi, two clones stopped at a perfect range for Shuriken and Kuni tossing, meanwhile the other three charged in for close range Taijutsu.

1 clone to the left, 1 to the right, and the last going straight ahead, the first Naruto to strike was the one in the middle, going for a flying kick to the face, Kakashi ducked while reading his book, the two other clones threw shuriken to try and keep Kakashi under pressure, the white-haired Jonin jumped back to avoid the blades, the clones all went for a coordinated attack.

the two clones at the back had been calculating the distance and moving into a clear space where (when needed for support) would throw shuriken and use (shuriken shadow clone Jutsu) or (Uzumaki Fiunjutsu style: Kunai cyclone).

the two clones at the rear jumped up into the air and threw three shurikens each and went through hand seals, ""(shuriken shadow clone Jutsu)"" the two clones yelled out in unison, the 6 shurikens turned into 30, Kakashi jumped up into the air avoiding all incoming shots.

the three clones pulled out a kunai with a seal attached to them, they all focused some chakra into said seals and threw them bull's eye on Kakashi, """(Uzumaki Fuinjutsu style: kunai cyclone)""" all three clones shouted as a cyclone of wind formed around the Kunai with the sharpest part being at the edge of the blade.

Kakashi, having studied some Fuinjutsu himself, seen how this seal was not the most complex thing he had ever laid eye's on (nothing else can really compare to 'the flying thunder god' come on) but never the less it had a good basic seal that could be expanded upon.

Kakashi pulled out a Kunai as he spun around in mid-air deflecting all the Kunai, 'C-Come on, that combo should have worked, heh lucky we have a back up' the clones all thought, all the clones huddled and a puff of smoke was created, 4 Fuma shuriken were in one of the Naruto's grasp's, he threw one at a time, directly at Kakashi.

Kakashi made a quick substitution, he was safe, all the clones scanned the area from up above until, "found him" one of the clones whispered to himself, he gave the other clones a nudge and Kakashi felt he was being watched, he looked up to the sky only to see a puff of smoke. 'ehh, they just ran out of chakra' Kakashi thought.

Naruto went through the memories of the clones, they knew of Kakashi's whereabouts and came up with a small plan, Naruto pulled out a white scroll, the scroll for trap making told Hinata and Sasuke to make Kakashi follow this exact route on 35 minutes, "I will help you face off against Kakashi but a bunch of my clones will be making traps, if all goes according to plan we can, maybe, surprise him with these 3 traps right here, here, and there".

Sasuke and Hinata stare at the mini-map Naruto and his clones gathered before the bell test and the traps he labeled, "Oh I think we should get Kakashi out of the trees with a bit of a BOOM!" Naruto whispered enthusiastically.

*BOOM!*

'(explosive shadow clone Jutsu) could be a new favorite of mine' Naruto giggled, Kakashi leaped out of the trees and onto the field 'that was a close one' A explosive clone managed to sneak up on him, 'well at least he takes me seriously enough to use a Jutsu of that caliber'.

Naruto and Sasuke jumped straight forward, threw multiple shurikens at Kakashi, and landed a safe distance away Kakashi put his book away pulled out a kunai, and deflected them with ease but one more shuriken caught him by surprise he dodged to the side but it transformed into Hinata.

Hinata dashed forward at Kakashi attempting to ever whelm the shocked Jonin with Taijutsu, 'not bad, but let's see how well they can do when they fight together ' Kakashi deflected Hinata's attack's carefully, almost getting hit with some, and being caught off guard by a grab for the bell's, 'Hinata's Taijutsu skill is amazing, she reminds me a little of Naruto in some way's, but she mostly sticks to the Hyuga style of fighting' Kakashi notes.

Sasuke and Naruto jump in when Kakashi starts to regain his ground, all three of them fight in decent synchronization, Sasuke and Naruto are using speed to try and create an opening for Hinata, Kakashi is shocked by the team, but, he can still take them on.

One of Naruto's attacks leave him wide open for an attack from behind, Kakashi remembering a technique Minato used as a prank, Kakashi vanished appearing behind Naruto, "Naruto look out!" Sasuke yelled, it was too late Kakashi had the tiger hand seal. (ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF DEATH) Naruto was sent flying away into a river, Hinata looked at Kakashi "K-Kakashi sensei?! S-STAY AWAY" Kakashi looked at Hinata with a worried-looking eye, 'Oh god what have I done' Kakashi was panicking and Naruto got out of the water.

"We need to gain some distance" Naruto shouted throwing shuriken at Kakashi.

Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata jump back from Kakashi to use one of Naruto's ideas, their main strategy revolved around Hinata being the finisher, Sasuke and Naruto finding an opening for their female teammate and using their Jutsu in any way they can.

"(Shadow clone Jutsu)" Naruto creates about 15 clones and 5 transforms into Hinata and another 5 transforms into Sasuke, 'the real Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata must be somewhere in their mini platoon' Kakashi knew this was a good strategy, but completely annoying.

the clones and the real team 7 all charged at Kakashi, Kakashi soon learned that Naruto's clones were trying their best to mimic each other's styles but, there was an odd case where Sasuke would use Naruto's style or Hinata would use Sasuke's style and Naruto would use Hinata's style.

they kept mixing it up and Kakashi didn't know what to expect, plus the clones were grabbing and pulling each other to safety, some clones got dispelled but team 7 had some tricks up their sleeve and Naruto had a new technique he wanted to try.

Naruto looked around Hinata was huffing and puffing, she wasn't very good in the stamina department so he would need to land a good attack on Kakashi, "(shadow clone Jutsu)" Naruto made 5 shadow clones, clones 1 and 2 stayed beside him while 3,4 and 5 went behind Kakashi.

Naruto along with clones 1 and 2 used one of their best Jutsu "(chakra burst)" the Naruto's were surrounded in a blue aura of chakra as they charged at Kakashi.

they managed to surprise Kakashi with their speed, and landed a short span of attacks on the Jonin, with the chakra burst they were faster and stronger.

"(NA"

the Naruto's all landed a devastating kick to Kakashi knocking him back into clones 4,5 and 6.

"RU"

Clones 4,5 and 6 landed an upward kick into Kakashi's back concentrating their chakra into their feet. clones 1 and 2 transformed into massive Fuma shuriken and Naruto threw the both of them directly underneath Kakashi.

"TO"

Both clones dropped their transformation and landed two more upward kicks to Kakashi's back sending him further into the air. Clones 3 and 4 jumped up next to clones 1 and 2, clone 1 threw clone 3 to just to the side above Kakashi, and clone 2 threw clone 4 to the side below Kakashi.

Clone 5 jumped back towards the real Naruto and prepared to throw him with the (chakra burst) enhancement.

"UZU"

clone 3 kicked Kakashi with a chakra burst towards clone 4, then disbursed afterward

"MAKI"

clone 4 kicked Kakashi just like clone 3 and disbursed straight after. The real Naruto was launched by clone 5 and forward flipped to gain momentum.

"BARRAGE!)"

Naruto used all his momentum into a painful ax kick with a load of chakra put into it. Kakashi fell to the ground and Naruto had completed the bell tes- *poof* Kakashi turned out to be a shadow clone.

Kakashi looked at Naruto's 'Uzumaki barrage' with a hint of amazement, also with a hint of sadness, 'Kushina and Obito did the same thing'

He had a small memory when Kushina did an 'Uzumaki barrage' to show off her skill in Taijutsu, Obito copied that (with fewer hits and precision) and called it 'Uchiha barrage' they made fun of Obito's bad attack name being on the level of that of Kushina, it brought a tear to Kakashi's eye, but not his visible one.

Obito awakened in a bed his Sharingan eye had a small tear dripping down it, he just had a dream about the Obito of the past, the one he left behind. The memory was of Kushina and his stupid name for his stupid attack. He laughed on the outside but he did have a little pain in his heart on the inside "Uchiha barrage, Uzumaki barrage, the last Uzumaki is him the Kyuubi Jinjuriky, Itachi is after him he will be gone soon".

Kakashi heard the sounds of shuriken and jumped back, Sasuke had found his location, Kakashi landed on a branch but something was off, he just barely seen Kunia flying towards him at an incredible rate, it was at that moment that he went down a path of trees, the path of traps.

Kakashi was starting to get a little cut, Hinata, Sasuke, and Naruto were keeping him on the path, he decided to go along with it, Naruto gestured towards a certain direction, his three most devastating traps on their way.

Kakashi stepped on the trigger trying to deflect the shuriken Jutsu from Sasuke, and Hinata's (vacuum palm Jutsu) Naruto threw his (cyclone kunai's) as some extra measure Kakashi instantly felt his chakra drain, and chakra flow into him, all of a sudden he was surrounded by shadow clones, he leaped and after dispelling some but attacking others to no effect, he realized he was under Genjutsu and quickly dispelled it just in time before he was smashed in the side with logs and had explosive Kunai flying towards him.

He used the substitution to get away but that last trap took a tole on his chakra, Kakashi seen a ball of massive dense water fly towards him as he leaped into the air above the tree's Hinata threw shuriken at Kakashi but the Jonin just substituted out of there. Just in time.

'Hmm, they're actually pretty good' Kakashi thought, 'Naruto has some great Taijutsu as well as Sasuke, they also have great potential in Ninjutsu, Sasuke because of the (Sharingan) and Naruto because of his large chakra capacity, Hinata is a Hyuga so that's the reason for her great Taijutsu, her attacks have great accuracy, her downside is her low stamina but that can be fixed. Overall this team could prove to have some amazing potential. ' Kakashi closed his eyes deep in thought, they had already passed the test, they just didn't know it.

Kakashi arrived in front of the three genins, "c'mon you want these bell's, come get them" Kakashi pulled out the bell's and teased them.

Naruto, Hinata, and Sasuke all prepared for a team attack, Naruto pulled out his main sealing Jutsu (Uzumaki fuinjutsu style: kunai cyclone) and two green scrolls (pre-made seal), Sasuke went through hand seals and so did Hinata.

"(Uzumaki Fuinjutsu style: kunai cyclone)" "(Fire style: phoenix flower Jutsu)" Naruto and Sasuke both yelled in unison, the fireballs combined with the wind covered Kunai making them bigger and stronger. "(Collaboration style: Flaming Cyclone)" Naruto and Sasuke yelled out

"(Kunai shadow clone Jutsu)" the fire covered Kunai multiplied by 2 preventing an easy escape.

"(Wind style: gale palm)" Hinata shouted a gust of wind flowing from her palm, speeding up the Kunai and empowering the fire.

Kakashi was so shocked he didn't even block all the Kunai, some of them scratched him, and the wide fire was almost impossible to dodge, almost,

Kakashi managed.

He was cut and burned a bit, but he was overall fine, Naruto and Sasuke went to both sides of Kakashi going through hand seals.

"(Collaboration style: Great inferno)" Naruto used (Wind style: air bullet) and Sasuke used (Fire style: fireball) they combined into a monstrosity.

Kakashi was astonished, 'I knew they were in the academy together, BUT THIS, were they practicing on their own?' Kakashi was shocked, He jumped back and avoided the attack.

Hinata was behind him and then she screamed "(Dashing double palm)" Kakashi felt a massive hard blow to his back and that sent him forward, he stopped himself just before the fire.

"(water style: liquid bullets)" all of a sudden the fire was put out and there was mist surrounding Kakashi, Naruto used Shadow clones to keep Kakashi distracted from getting out and Hinata used her (Byakugan) to tell Naruto's clones where Kakashi was and Sasuke where to aim.

Kakashi was so caught up in the battle of evasion, and sheer joy at being able to teach such brilliant students, he didn't even notice Hinata sneak up behind him and say a few words that would make any Ninja in the world think life was over "you're in my range" Hinata said, not in a deep tone, or scary one for that matter, but when someone of THE HYUGA clan says those suttle words...

you better say your prayers.. and hope you have some decent tools for escape.

"(8 trigrams 48 palms)" Hinata said, Kakashi looked behind him with a small hint of fear in his eye, Hinata had assumed a small variation of the natural Hyuga stance, Kakashi was interested, so instead of substituting he watched but kept a distance far enough for him to not feel the brunt of the attack, the strikes were different they felt more like a dance, like flowing water. with the striking of lighting, not perfect, but a work in progress.

Kakashi got hit with a few strikes but managed to jump away from the Hyuga, he was up in the air "NOW! NARUTO, SASUKE!" Hinata shouted,

(Shadow clone Jutsu) Naruto created 3 clones who then new to put the two pre-made seals to good use, Sasuke leaped above Kakashi and done a side one ax kick (like what he does in lions barrage) Kakashi blocked the blow but still got sent to the spot where Naruto intended for him to land.

Naruto and his clones all lined themselves up in a square formation, pulled out the two scrolls placed one on top of the other perfectly, stood on them, and channeled chakra through them, when Kakashi landed they all activated the seal, "(Uzumaki Fuinjutsu style: draining cage)" a green box formed around Kakashi, the four Naruto's on the outside, the corners of the cage ending just before their feet.

Kakashi looked around to see an exhausted Hinata, Sasuke, and even the blonde energetic knucklehead looked like he could use a break, the first thing he noted about the cage was its complexity, the cage itself had no weak spots, any Genin would think that this was a master of Fuinjutsu, Chunin would have a difficult time struggling out of this, Jonin would even use it, although this cage was nothing compared to the other Fuinjutsu he had seen.

Kakashi also noted that the cage was draining his chakra and that the more chakra it drained the more durable the cage became, theoretically if Naruto trained his chakra then this Jutsu would be more powerful, he could maybe add a couple of tweaks but it was a start. "the more time someone were to stay in this the more chakra they would lose, the more harder it would be to get out, only someone with REALLY skilled Taijutsu and extreme physical capability's would be able to get out this way, or if they had I would say, maybe a C or B rank technique would be able to get out, depending on the skill and experience someone had with the C rank, of course, excellent work Naruto".

Kakashi smiled, and gave a nod to Naruto, Naruto blushed at someone praising his work, he wouldn't admit it but Fuinjutsu was a very sensitive topic for him he wanted to make his clan proud witch is why he practiced day and night on his Fuinjutsu.

"T-thanks Kakashi sensei, I will become a Fuinjutsu master, BELIEVE IT!" Naruto smiled but still kept his hands in the ram seal. Not wanting a simple compliment to make him fail.

Kakashi shrouded his hand in lighting before bursting out of the cage.

'NO WAY THAT WAS MY BEST TECHNIQUE!' Naruto was scared but then Kakashi put his hand away. then the bell rang. 'N-No I can't believe it' Naruto internally sighed, 'Damn it, we worked so hard' Sasuke got up, 'I-I really tried my best, B-But that wasn't enough, forgive me Naruto I cant make your dream come true' Hinata was on the verge of tears.

"You pass"


Its more difficult than I imagined putting Hinata on team 7, she didn't do ANYTHING in part 1 battle wise (just like sakura) the only time we seen her fight was against Neji, and even then the only thing noteworthy was her determination to follow Naruto's ninja way, she showed no ninjutsu, the basic Hyuga Taijutsu style, and no genjutsu. But I'm gonna give her some Jutsu and look at some of the games since some of the Jutsu in the games are pretty cool.

Now I believe Kakashi would let them fight it out but still pass them in the end even though they never got the bell's, the reason is Kakashi was only fighting at a level where he could gauge Naruto's, Sakura's, and Sasuke's style in the cannon, to see where they need to improve and glaring weaknesses since Kakashi told Naruto where he was going wrong and let him figure it out himself. But here's a little extra segment for those who made it right to the end.


Sasuke had been watching Naruto read his orange book, Kakashi read the same book, he once remembered Itachi had that same book on a high shelf and so did his father. Sasuke asked his mother to read it to him once, she gasped and took the book right off him and said "Y-YOUR TO YOUNG FOR THAT SASUKE, WHERE DID YOU EVEN FIND THIS ANYWAY!" young Sasuke never heard his mother yell like THIS before and all he could say was "b-big brother had it in his room", Itachi got chewed out that night for leaving it in such a place where Sasuke could reach.

Sasuke had to find out for sure what were the contents of that book... it could help him on his journey to kill Itachi. "Kakashi sensei, Naruto, Now is finally the day where you tell me the contents of this book" Sasuke looked at Naruto and Kakashi with an intimidating expression, Naruto was about to scream NO and pull the book in the opposite direction of the Uchiha but.

"Here, take this one it the first installment of the series" Kakashi handed Sasuke an Orange book, "First installment? there's more!" Naruto questions with a shocked yet overjoyed face "Yes Naruto there is, make-out violence, then there is also speculation of a new make-out book called make-out innocent".

"Well guess I better get to reading then" Sasuke opens up the book and starts to read the first lin- "WAIT, SASUKE PROMISE ME YOU WILL NOT TELL HINATA ABOUT THIS" Naruto yelled, Sasuke looked at Naruto "Heh, what will you do if I tell Hinata-" "I swear if you even think about it I WILL KILL YOU RIGHT WHERE YOU STAND" Even Kakashi was intimidated by Naruto's killer intent (Just a little).

Sasuke put the book in front of his head and just nodded.

after Sasuke read about 40 pages into the book he looked at Naruto and Kakashi with disgust in his eyes "W-Why do you even like this crap, it's degrading. WHO EVEN WROTE THIS" Sasuke yelled to the heavens

"AH AH, ACHOO" a big spiky white-haired man sneezed, luckily it didn't scare off the ladies, he had his signature telescope and notebook preparing for his next book. 'I bet some really pretty ladies are talking about me right now, yes me JIRIAYA, THE GREAT TOAD SAGE' Jiraiya had a small thought pop into his head 'Hey I wonder what Minato and Kushina's kid is up to? last I heard he was put into Kakashi's squad, How long is it until the Chunin exams 3 or maybe 4 months?' Jiraiya never really thought about Naruto that much, when he did he felt a little guilty, he never had time to think about Naruto.

In fact, he spent more time worrying about the blonde boy, he was tempted to just return to the Village and take Naruto away when he heard of the attack, so he kept told Hiruzen to keep regular updates in Naruto for him 'Thank god for Kakashi, Anko, Guy, Kurenai, and Asuma, and from what I heard THE KYUUBI managed to take control, the seal wasn't damaged in any way, just loosened after that he just went back? from what I heard THE KYUUBI doesn't seem to try and take control, good, maybe it was a life or death one-time thing'.

Jiraiya was thinking about Naruto almost constantly after the incident, when he heard that Naruto had no recollection and the cover-up of the story, he felt ok and glad that Naruto was safe, 'I'm getting pretty excited to see my godson, but not as excited as I am for doing some RESEARCH' Jiraiya had a perverted grin as he stared at the woman bathtub.