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Now, let's begin with the chapter…
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War and Peace
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Chapter: 05: The Bell Test
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Konohagakure no Sato
Training Ground 3
They have been waiting for 3 hours!
3 fucking hours!
His patience was running thin. How dare someone made him, Otsutsuki Naruto, wait for this long! Their sensei will not get away with this, he will pay for it!
The other two had similar thoughts too.
They had been waiting since 7 A.M. Now it was 10 A.M.! And then suddenly…
"Yo!" exclaimed Kakashi in a jovial tone.
"You're late!" Yelled Natsumi. Satsuki and Naruto were glaring at their sensei.
"Ah! You see, a black cat crossed my path and I had to take the long way here!" said Kakashi while eye smiling and rubbing the back of his head.
All three of them sweatdropped at his pathetic excuse.
"So, let's start the test. Here are the rules," said Kakashi while pulling out two bells, "You have to get these bells before the time runs out. The one who doesn't gets the bell will fail and will be tied to the post while watching others eat their lunch." Said Kakashi and pulled out two bentos from god knows where.
On seeing the bentos both the girls' stomach growled.
Coming out of her embarrassment Natsumi pointed out, "But there are only two bells, sensei!"
Kakashi just eye smiled at them. They all got the message nonetheless, that 'One of you will fail here!'
Kakashi produced an alarm clock out of nowhere and said, "Your time starts… NOW!"
On the signal, all three of them disappeared from his field of view and hid in the trees. He could feel the signatures of Natsumi and Satsuki but he had no trace of Naruto's. He extended his senses and still nothing. He smelled the air, still nothing. The boy was really good if he could just disappear even from him. The boy had some talent!
Naruto was hiding a few metres away from Kakashi. He was thinking…
'There has never been a genin team with only two genins. This could be a ploy to pit us all against each other. He probably wants to check our teamwork, that can we sacrifice ourselves for the other team members. But if it is not a ploy and Kakashi-sensei asked the Hokage to give him only two genins. The Hokage may have permitted him, after all he is the best Jounin in the village. If that is true, then I will have no chance of passing. They will neither drop Satsuki because she is the last loyal Uchiha nor Natsumi because of her militaristic importance…Heh, then it is simple for me, I will just get a bell and sacrifice myself. If it was a ploy, we will pass; if it wasn't, I was going to fail anyway.'
He sat there for few moments thinking for a strategy.
When he was done, he activated his Byakugan and started searching Natsumi and Satsuki. He found Natsumi, she was hanging upside down from a tree with a rope and Satsuki was fighting with their sensei…oh she just got stuck in the ground by Doton: Shinjuu Zanshu no Jutsu!
Kakashi was just eye smiling at the girls who were threatening him to free them.
Kakashi's battle instincts told him to duck and he did, a black and white blur shot just above him. Kakashi looked at the perpetrator who was none other than his only male student.
"Hmm, so you finally show yourself!" said Kakashi.
"I will take those bells from you!" said Naruto.
"Hmm, let's see." Said Kakashi while going into his stance.
Kakashi was surprised when Naruto took a Gentle fist stance. Right hand extended forward and the left arm behind the head with a 90 degree angle.
'Does he know how to use the Gentle fist? That's ridiculous!' thought Kakashi.
Naruto disappeared from his sight, his eye widened, a mere genin cannot have such speed! He felt something press on his stomach, he looked downwards and saw Naruto's fist buried in his stomach.
Naruto didn't waste any time and punched rapidly in his stomach. Kakashi's eye bulged out from his eye socket from shock and pain.
"T-tenketsu…?" croaked out Kakashi.
Naruto smirked, "That's not all!" and punched his chest hard.
Kakashi's went soaring through the trees with mask stained with his blood.
'I-I l-let my guard down. He is far stronger than I imagined.' Thought Kakashi while gasping for breath and puking out blood. Now he can't use any Fire, Wind or Water ninjutsu, the boy had disabled his chakra points around the stomach and lungs.
Kakashi didn't get a long time to pick himself up when another fist reached for his face. He dodged the punch and jumped back to maintain some distance.
Naruto threw four kunais which made a square around him and exploded. Naruto wasn't fooled, he knew that Kakashi escaped through a substitution.
Naruto smirked when he heard a painful grunt and went towards the noise, he saw Kakashi lying on the ground with electric sparks all over his wet body. He went towards his sensei to retrieve the bells. Suddenly, Kakashi 'poofed' and Naruto felt a cold metal like object on his throat.
"Your plan was good, but not good enough to catch a Jounin like me off guard. Your usage of seals is something I didn't expect." Said Kakashi in his usual laid back manner but internally he was really impressed by the kid, the power he possessed was not at all genin level. Not even a chunin would be able to defeat him!
Naruto smirked again. Kakashi felt a shift in the air. And then…
Poof!
Naruto poofed out of existence and Kakashi felt a cold metal body against his throat. The position was reversed now. Kakashi didn't make any movement.
"Everything went along as I had planned. I closed your tenketsus around lungs and stomach so you can't use Fire or Wind ninjutsus particularly. If I had not, you would have just evaporated the water or used wind to cancel the lightning and my Compact Enclosing Sealing Technique would have been rendered useless. Since the earth type ninjutsus are slow I didn't take counter measures for them. And now I have the bells too…"
Riiiiinnnnggggg…
The alarm clock rang and Naruto removed the kunai from Kakashi's throat. Kakashi took a long breath and turned backwards. He came face-to-face with Naruto. Yeah! Face-to-face! And the boy was quite smaller than him. He looked at him and saw him flying! Flying!
"How can you fly?!" asked Kakashi, awed internally.
"I manipulate wind around me." Said Nauto, his sensei didn't need to know the real reason, yet.
'That's truly impressisve! To have such control over an element! Even I don't have such control over lightning and he is just a kid!'
"So, that is what the shift in air was. You used your control over wind to take the bells from me. That's impressive!" said Kakashi.
"But how did you predict that I will land at the spot where you laid your Jutsu-releasing seals." Asked Kakashi, he was interested how a little genin predicted his every move.
"I calculated everything, the log you used was placed there by me. I knew you wouldn't want to use high ranking jutsus to defeat a kid." Said Naruto.
"And I'm a genius."
Kakashi sweatdropped.
"What about shadow clones and Gentle fist?" asked Kakashi, this bothered him the most. The boy didn't seem to have a Byakugan but used gentle fist better than many experienced Hyuugas. The boy had integrated the Strong fist and other styles in the Gentle fist. How the boy pulled it off, he didn't know. Even Gai was not able to integrate Taijutsu styles and use them fluently.
"I copied the Shadow Clone Jutsu from Natsumi, it was quite easy. As for the Gentle fist, I learned all the Tenketsu points from a book and about the katas, I told you I'm a genius." Said Naruto.
'The boy is definitely a genius.' Thought Kakashi.
Natsumi and Satsuki came with a clone of Naruto. Both had a frown on their face.
"Hmm, so you have the bells, Naruto. Whom will you give another bell to?" asked Kakashi while watching all of them with a critical eye.
Naruto looked at both of them and then the bells. He threw both the bells towards the girls and they caught them.
"I will give them both of my bells." Said Naruto.
"You know that you will be sent back to academy for another year if you don't pass this test? Right?!" asked Kakashi seriously.
"I'm fully aware of that fact." Replied Naruto.
"Well, then…"started Kakashi but was interrupted by Natsumi.
"Wait! I'm not taking this bell! If you fail, I will fail too! We're a team, right?!"
"The dobe is right. If Naruto fails, then we both fail with him too. And we don't deserve these bells anyway, Naruto was the one who got them." Added Satsuki.
Naruto's eyes widened, he had not calculated this! They both were willing to sacrifice their career for his sake. He was touched, he was happy that he mattered to them so much!
Both the girls threw the bells back to Kakashi.
"We all will fail together and pass together!" said Natsumi.
"Is that your final descision!" asked Kakashi, eyeing all of them carefully, none of them flinched. He got his answer.
"You all…."started Kakashi with a menacing look,
…PASS!" and gave them an eye smile worth a grin.
Both the girls looked at Kakashi shocked and confused.
"Hmm, so I was right. You pitted each of us against one another for the bells. You wanted to see that would we be able to work as a team in such conditions or not." Said Naruto.
"You figured it out, huh? Then why didn't you help them when they were fighting against me?" asked Kakashi, he was curious.
"I lost the track of time." Said Naruto lamely while rubbing his head sheepishly.
All of them sweatdropped.
"Well, you all are Team 7 from now on under the Jounin Sensei Kakashi Hatake. Welcome to the team!" said Kakashi with an eye smile.
"You all share the two bentos I brought, I will be going to report to Hokage-sama about the test results. Wait for me here, it wouldn't take long." Said Kakashi and disappeared in a Shunshin.
They all scowled, they knew he would be late again!
Hokage's Office
Kakashi entered the Hokage's Office room. Other senseis were also present to give their reports.
"What happened to you, Kakashi? You look so unyouthful!" exclaimed Gai.
"Hmm, did you say something?" asked Kakashi while reading his Icha-Icha Paradise.
"By the way what are you doing here Gai?" asked Kakashi.
"I was here to take a mission for my team." Said Gai.
"Hold off the talks for later. Report, Kakashi." Ordered the Sandaime Hokage.
"Hokage-sama." Kakashi bowed respectfully. "Team 7, consisting of Natsumi Uzumaki, Satsuki Uchiha and Naruto Otsutsuki passed with flying colours!" said Kakashi.
The other Jounin started talking and whispering.
"You passed a team, Kakashi?" asked Asuma incredulously.
"Uchiha Satsuki had displayed great potential for Ninjutsu and Genjutsu while Uzumaki Natsumi's use of Shadow clones in her Taijutsu compliments her fighting style. Though they both were not able to take a bell."
"Hmm, and what about Naruto Otsutsuki?" asked the Hokage.
"The boy is a genius. He was able to look underneath the underneath and discerned the meaning of the test in under 2 hours of time, which no team has figured the meaning out since the days of Sannins, not even the Yondaime or I were able to figure it out. The boy had closed all the chakra points around my stomach and lungs and knocked me out of air with just a punch. He is fast, faster than even many Jounins. He showed his mastery over Fuinjutsu too. He was also smart enough to trick me into surrender. He has a very high affinity for wind and from what I saw, he could manipulate the wind without any handseals and can manipulate the element to such a degree that he can fly. In every aspect, he is a prodigy of the level of Itachi Uchiha and Yondaime Hokage, maybe even greater." Reported Kakashi.
The room went silent. Asuma's lighter had fallen a long time ago. Everybody was gaping like a fish. A mere Genin with such power, it was ridiculous! How can they believe it?!
"Are you sure you are not making this up, Kakashi?" asked Kurenai.
"I don't have a reason to. And for proof, you can see what he did to me. I would have been in a hospital or even worse, 6 feet under the ground if I had been careless. He nearly forced me to use my Sharingan." Said Kakashi.
After Kakashi had reported, he went back to his students…
…using the long way. Hehehe, it felt so good to watch them frustrated.
Next Day
Their sensei had made them wait again! It has been four hours already!
"Yo!"
"YOU'RE LATE!" yelled Natsumi.
"Ah! You see, a cute girl stopped me, so I danced." Replied Kakashi sheepishly.
All three of them face faulted.
"Well, I got ourselves a mission!" said Kakashi.
All three of them perked at this.
"What is the mission?" asked Naruto.
"Oh, you all are gonna love it!" said Kakashi in a sweet tone.
They didn't doubt him…
…and regretted it later.
What ninja paints a FENCE! A fuckin' FENCE!
"You'll pay for this sensei!" yelled Natsumi.
Naruto and Satsuki were grumbling to themselves.
"Use your hands, not your mouth! The fence won't paint itself!" said Kakashi while snickering at their misfortune. 'Ah! Life is great!' and went back to reading his Porn.
2 hours later
"Phewww! It's finally over!" exclaimed Naruto.
"YooHoo! We finally finished it!" yelled Natsumi in joy.
"It would have finished earlier if our blasted sensei had not prohibited the use of shadow clones." Said Satsuki.
"You all did well. You all will receive your payment by tomorrow. Meet me tomorrow at the same training ground at 9 in the morning." Said Kakashi.
"You mean 12, right?" asked Naruto.
Kakashi just gave them an eye smile and a soft whistle.
They all got the message, 'I may come early…'
Kakashi disappeared in a shunshin.
They all looked at each other…
"So… where do we go today?" asked Naruto.
"ICHIRAKU!" yelled Natsumi while drooling at just the thought of ramen.
"We're not going there today, too. Don't you get bored with ramen, dobe?!" asked Satsuki.
"Ramen is the food of GODS! I can never get fed up of it!" retorted Natsumi.
"We can go to Yakiniku Q for a change." Advised Naruto.
Both girls looked at him and then thought for a sec.
"Hai!"
And so they went to the restaurant.
At Yakiniku Q
Naruto, Natsumi and Satsuki entered the restaurant.
"Hey! Look, Shikamaru's team is also here!" pointed out Natsumi.
Naruto and Satsuki looked in Team 10's direction, apparently they have also spotted them.
"Hehe! So the whole gang is here!" yelled a boisterous voice which belonged Team 8's Kiba Inuzuka.
Naruto scowled, 'Why is this mutt here? Here goes my peace!'
"It seems like that Kiba." Replied Shikamaru.
"Naaarrruuutoooooo-kuuun! I missed you soooo much! I haven't seen you in ages!" squealed Ino and hugged Naruto like a bear.
"Get off of him! What do you think you are doing, pouncing on our teammate like that?" yelled Natsumi while separating Ino and succeeding due to her physical strength.
Satsuki scowled at Ino, muttering a 'Shameless!'
"H-hi N-naruto-k-ku-kun." Squeaked Hinata while blushing.
"Oh, hi there, Hinata! I didn't notice you." said Naruto.
Hinata turned even redder on gaining Naruto's attention.
Kiba scowled, "Why do you always get the attention, you bastard!"
"Maybe because I don't smell like a mutt like you! Oh, sorry! That's an insult to dogs. You smell like garbage." Smirked Naruto.
"You piece of shit!" yelled Kiba.
"Now, now! Don't get so agitated. We are in a restaurant. Didn't your mommy tell you how to behave?!" asked Naruto with a smile that agitated Kiba even more.
"He's right Kiba. You shouldn't act like this in public. It is troublesome!" said Shikamaru.
Kiba seethed but shut up.
They all ate their food in relative peace while sharing their recent adventures.
"Do you guys know that Sakura from our class got selected for the Medical program?" asked Ino.
"Really?! Sakura-chan got into the Medical program?" asked Natsumi, shocked.
"Yeah, I heard about it too. She is one of the five who got selected this year." Informed Shikamaru.
"That's good for her. She had nearly perfect chakra control. She can become a good medic." Added Naruto. The girl was one of his die-hard fangirls and was really clingy, but she was good in book smarts and chakra control exercises. Her control was nearly as good as him but she had very less chakra. She and Natsumi were friends, he didn't know how but he didn't care.
They talked about different things for quite some time.
It was dusk now. All of them were going back to their home. Naruto and his team were alone.
Naruto noticed something, "Are you ok, Satsuki-chan?" asked Naruto.
"Yeah. Why do you ask?" said Satsuki.
She had just staggered. And Uchiha Satsuki never staggered, she moved with utter grace.
"You just staggered." Said Naruto.
"No, I didn't." replied Satsuki.
Naruto's eyes narrowed, "You are lying, I can see through it. Your body posture screams that you are tired. You shouldn't be this tired, we didn't do any taxing exercise today."
Satsuki sighed, it was useless to lie now, "Yeah, I trained till late night yesterday and didn't get much sleep."
"Hmm. You shouldn't push yourself this hard." Replied Naruto.
"Hn"
"Well, I got an idea!" mischievousness entered Naruto's eyes.
He turned to Natsumi and said, "Natsumi-chan, I will be taking Satsuki-chan to her apartment. Bye-Bye!"
Naruto turned to Satsuki again and scooped her into is arms. She 'eeped' at the suddenness and Naruto took off with a blushing Uchiha in his hands.
Natsumi scoffed at the Uchiha. She will accept her defeat for today! But she will get back at the Uchiha sooner or later!
Satsuki clutched Naruto tighter and buried her face in his chest. She was too embarrassed, she didn't want anybody to see her face.
Naruto purposefully took the long way. It wasn't his fault, she didn't stop him!
Throughout the journey, he heard only one phrase once…
'Shameless Perverted Beast!'
Naruto just chuckled.
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A/N: Thanks for reading the chapter. I hope you enjoyed it. Please review guys, whenever I get a review it makes me work more enthusiastically. Even if it is negative and presents a valid point, I will try to improve it. So, please review. Structured criticism is appreciated. Please tell me if I can improve my writing style, I would love some suggestions. If there are inconsistencies in the fic please review, I would try to solve them.
Hope you all enjoyed the chapter. This was my first time writing a fight scene. I know it wasn't very good but that was the best I could write. I will try to improve.
Wave arc will be starting from the next chapter. I wanted to omit the arc at first but I rewatched Naruto and saw that it was really important. The arc is really important for character development.
I will be making Kakashi a bit stronger than the canon. And don't say that Kakashi is weak in my story, he lost to Naruto because he severely underestimated him and didn't even use his Sharingan. Kakashi will also get powerups in the story.
About Kiba, I am not trying to bash him, but in my story he is what I think of him and his character. He will get character development too, probably.
As for my English, I am not a native English speaker, so forgive me. I am trying to improve my English but I don't get much time. 11th grade is tough.
So, yeah! That's it for today. My exams are still going on! I have Physics exam day after tomorrow, I will update by Saturday most probably.
Thanks again and Bye bye.
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