Helping the Orange Kid
5- Capture the Ninja
Last Time
Preside it is all OK because I am tired, and Cindy will give me a long talk about it later. When she does it, I do not insert fall asleep. After my last thought, I fell into a pleasant and peaceful sleep; nothing hit my forehead this time.
Naruto N. POV
"OK, kids gather around," Minato said, with a casual evil glint in his eyes.
We all walk over to him to listen in closer.
It would look nice if I were not awkwardly standing behind Obito and Rin. And Kakashi sensei uh… wait… I mean… kid, uh… Kakashi, confusing. He is just standing there like he is too cool for this, but he is paying attention even more than the team's reverse.
The only girl on the team looks around and sees me; she then steps aside and allows me some space to step into the group.
I smiled at Rin in thanks, and I felt protective eyes time to burn a hole in my head. But sadly, failing at it.
Rin smiles happily up at me, accepting my thanks.
I then felt eyes on me and looked to see Minato at me; he says "good, at least one person on the team like you, other than me." he said the last part with a bit of a laugh.
Out of the corner of my eyes, I see the team look surprised about their sensei making a joke. But the one girl has a different emotion under the surprise on her reding cheeks.
Team seven is always weird.
But for me, I just scratch the back of my head and smile. "Thanks for showing me some of the love," I say as I stretch the back of my head.
See, team seven is always weird.
Minato begins to say, "Naruto, we all know you are part of team 7, with or without a test. And what the third told me is you already know about the bell test."
I nodded.
"Welcome to the team Naruto," Minato said.
And now is he, my sensei? But before we can start cheering or high-fiving each other and most of all go and get some food from the gods.
My new sensei says, "But we do need to have a fun test to see how you stack compared to the team." The evil quint in his eyes is back, but you can say it never went away.
He continued after a bit of pause, "and it will also be a good opportunity to see how much my original team glows with their teamwork and fighting style."
"A spar? But I don't see why-" Obito was beginning to say, but he got cut off by Minato sensei, odd.
"Yes, but no," Minato says dryly.
I nodded, "I bet it is a fight with an odd twist." I say, not knowing I pull my new teammates out of their trance by Minato doing.
"That sounds fun, Minato sensei," Obito says energetically.
"Yeah, that sounds like what Minato sensei will come up with," Rin says more neutrally, but she makes it sounds like she is holding back a laugh.
"Sensei, will it be two on two? It sounds more like when we first meet. And you watch us on the sidelines because you know our stales already." Kakashi said in a factual tone.
'Even back then or… now?' I thought to myself.
Minato says a little quickly, trying to get his genin team back under control. "Yes, you are right about the two on two, but there will be a twist."
"Go on, Sensei," the team says at the same time. But for me, I just think he is making this up on the fly.
Minato begins to say, "You four will split up into groups of two. One member of the team can attack and defend."
"Defend? Sensei defend what?" Obito asks; even know if he hasn't asked, he will probably know faster.
Minato did not answer the question, and he continued as nothing had happened.
"The second member of the team is the one who must be defended. Yes, they can fight, but if they get hit once their team loses." Minato says with a smile. At this point, he is not trying to be scary. Even now, it might be better to do because everybody is afraid of being the one who makes the team lose.
'I must say he is strong at fighting but not with common sense.' The fox says in my hand.
'But you must admit he skills even right now are good,' I say in defense of my father.
'I am not saying he is weak at this point, but the war has made him much better at his method of killing.' The fox says in his defense. (AN:2)
I nodded in my head, 'we do need to talk about this later; I don't want to spoil something to him accidentally.'
No response from the big nine tells fox.
I shook my head in the real world, getting me entirely out of my mindscape.
I came to Obito finishing a long speech about how the test is no fail because I am already on the team, and their trial is impossible to get without their luck. Or something like that.
"Doing this can be better than training and doing D-ranks missions because of someone," Kakashi says, looking angry at Obito.
Obito says quickly, "that was an accident."
"And now we must do D-ranks missions for another two months because of you. How can you get strong if you can only chase a cat around the village?" Kakashi says angry, which is surprising, but at the same time not because everyone hated D ranks.
Nobody likes D-ranks, no one.
Minato steps in and says, catching all our attention. "I was going to pick teams by straw, but it might be best for you to work on your teamwork by being on the same team." And now that is scary.
"What!" The two other boys of the teams shouted in horror.
"See, not hard at all." The fox says, holding in a laugh.
'Shut up that my father you are making fun of.' I say, angry in my head.
And I got no response again.
I look over at Rin and ask, "you want to fight, or do you want to be the flag in the game?" I say with a smile.
No, you can fight for me. I would like to be the flag of our team. Rin says brightly because she can stay out of the fighting for one day.
She blushes, but I don't know why.
But All in all, she looks cute. Wait, what, attractive?
And that made me smile.
The next thing I see is Minato shaking his head, not in surprise or disappointment, like this is an everyday thing.
"Kids, what about Kakashi fight and Obito can just sit back and relax, maybe take a nap," Minato says like he is talking to a child.
Obito shouted, "what, no, I want to fight, I do not know what to take a nap!"
Sensei save trying to calm them down for the fight by saying, "you can change your position, but you both must agree to it."
But I feel like that was wasted breath.
Kakashi says, "we will do what you say, sensei." Kakashi grabs Obito's jacket and drags him to the forest.
And we can only hear Obito screaming 'bloody murder' to the tree line.
I look at Rin and asks, "Is this normal on your team?"
She answers, "sadly, yes, it is normal, but you will get used to it."
Well, Team seven is always weird, I thought with an audio laugh.
"Oh no, not you too…." She says, horrified after she hears my laugh.
Before I can say something about the curse of team 7, Minato Step in and say, "since your opponent went into the forest on the western side, in comparison where we are standing now. I guess you can enter the forest on the eastern side and have this field as the no-man zone."
"Yes, Minato sensei," Rin say.
"I will give you two, 5 minutes to figure out a plan and to talk about your abilities to each other," Minato said. "After all, this test is to evaluate Naruto's abilities."
"Yes, Minato sensei," I say, "but should you tell me that, you know? About the test."
"Yes, but I think you already know all about the test," he answers my statement.
I smile at Minato, turning around, and I start running to the tree line. With Rin slightly behind me, on my right side.
XxXxX
After we got into the forest, we found a good hiding place. Good enough to talk in, but not good enough to hide us for the entire match.
Rin looks at me and asks, "strengths or weaknesses I need to know about?"
"Umm… as an Uzumaki, you know I have a lot of chakra, but I have low control over it. My fighting style is random and unpredictable, or that is what people say." I said to Rin.
She nodded. "As an Uzumaki, are you good at seals?" Rin asks, Trying to get a better understanding of her partner.
I answer, "Yes, I am, but we don't have time to draw them out as traps."
She nodded again, "what about your chakra uses?"
"Don't tell her about your abilities that you're not allowed to know now. but if you must use them, we can just say 'The Third,' was just keeping us to date." The fox says in my hand.
"Uhm… I say, leaving out a lot of my abilities. I know the shadow clone jutsu is a B-rank, and I have Wind Release. And don't forget I have one hell killer punch." "And you?"
She looks shocked and says in wonder and fascination, "you are learning a release… wow." She says, looking lightheaded.
I gave her a little moment to process the new information.
She nodded, slowly getting out of her thought. "Sorry about that."
"No problem," I say with a smile at the girl.
"Uh… I'm good at medical jutsus, and I have a good eye to see where the blood vessels and pressure points are in the human body."
"Do you use needled to throw at the blood vessels and pressure points?" I say, thinking of one of my first friends.
"Uh… what no? I use a kunai." Rin says, a little shocked.
"I will strongly recommend you get some and practice with them. Trust me, and if you know what you are doing, they are more useful than a kunai."
"Thank you for the recommendation," the girl says in thanks.
"No problem," I speak. "Anything else I need to know, or are you in a Clan?" I don't remember Kakashi ever answers this question, so I ask.
"Yes, my last name is Nohara, but the Inuzuka is the mother clan. In the eyes of the older clans in the village see the Nohara clan is a side branch of the Inuzuka." (AN:3)
"So, do you have a puppy or a dog? I look around for one, and I do smell dogs on her. Where are they?"
"No… I don't have one." She said quietly, looking away from me.
I blink and say in response, "you don't?"
The girl who looks two years my junior, at least going off looks, not mind. I just nodded, at my question, because she already answered it.
I laugh at my stupidity; I scratch my back in my head. It felt weird because no angry, pretty girl hit me yet.
Yet? Remember, this is Team seven.
I shook my head confusedly. And say, "I thought your clan gave you a pup when you first begin learning your ninja techniques?"
"Yes, they do, but… Uhm… since I am a Nohara, I must be pick by the pup or dog. And none of them have picked me yet." She says, looking down, sounding like she can start to cry at any second.
I put a hand on her shoulder.
I still have my hand on her shoulder, "never give up; if you need anything, don't be afraid to ask me." I say with a huge grin.
Going off her chakra, I felt her calm down slightly. But the hidden sadness inside remains.
Feeling angry and sad about the feeling of her chakra. I say, "I mean it, you can come to me for help anytime." The tone is happy and loving, but the undertone sounded like an order. Look like a master ordering a slave. Not talking, just leave but ordering the slave.
Kurama POV
'Good job Naruto, you sounded confident and demanding. Like you should talk to an Inuzuka. they respect people who talk confidently.'
'But I think you overdid it.'
'Because when Rin heard the undertone,' she can't help but smile. But Naruto does not see because she is still looking down. 'I can feel it by her chakra.'
'I see why no pup has not picked her yet.'
'But….'
'Looking move into her chakra, she felt happy about someone saying they can help her.'
'I have a feeling that she is not getting trained a lot.'
'After this training, I need to tell Naruto about this.'
'Looking under the underneath. I know Naruto will say she like Hinata by the shyness.'
'I can't believe I didn't notice it the first time around. although I need to get myself some guided, I was in a different sealing.'
'She was dead in our time, and at this point, Kakashi is not experienced enough to see the underneath the underneath.' (AN:4)
'Uhm… so which come first, Rin or Hinata?'
Before, I can start thinking about it, thankfully.
One of the girls in question, Rin. says, "thank you, Naruto."
The tone itself makes me smile.
Before I can solve, going more into the depth-in thought on the topic at hand, I sense chakra releasing in the clearing.
'So, the match starts now.'
I am getting ready to pull Naruto into his mindscape and tell him.
He says outside, not talking to me, "I sense Minato start the match."
"You meant Minato sensei." After she said that, I heard giggling from her.
Naruto N. POV
I smile at Rin, patting her shoulder as I do. I say, "I meant it. You can ask me anytime, whenever you need help."
"Thank you, Naruto-Ku-." She stops talking and just turns it into a huge smile, looking up at me.
I smile back at her.
And I say, "and now the other thing is… do you have a plan?"
She blinks…. "Oh my God… No. I am so sorry for taking up the time for planning, she said quickly, add in a slight bullish in embarrassment."
I shook my head; "you are good. It is no big deal." I say, continuing my smile.
"I want to remind you I'm not a good fighter, So can I Uhm-." I cut her off
"Yes, if you want to do say in the back of behind me, that is completely fine."
"Ones again, thank you, Naruto."
"So, Rin, what do you think they would do?"
"Mumm… I feel like they are going to make a frontier attack."
"What makes you say that, Rin?"
"They both want to beat each other in almost everything, and you know the first one to get you or the first one to punch you." She says with a shrug.
I laugh; in that case, they are coming to us. "Rin, Whichever side they come from, you stand behind me, not directly behind me but at least in a different branch."
She nodded, "OK, I will."
Once again, I smile at the girl.
XxXxX
After two minutes and 27 seconds of small talk, I hear a snap of a twig. "They are here," I say to Rin.
"They found us," Rin said.
I say, "yes, they did…. remember the plan, Rin."
"I will."
I put chakra in my legs and jump to a different branch. Making little sound as I jump.
As I got on the second branch of the doubletree.
I felt Rin put chakra in her leg and jump. To the branch behind me.
I hear an intelligent boom of chakra and a crackle of the tree bark falling to the ground.
'Too much chakra and the training to be a medic-nin. I know Jiji says this is a new team, but how new is it?'
"And that is coming from a Genin?" Kurama asks to finish off laughing to himself.
'Yes, bu-.'
The laughing fox cut me off in his laughing fit. He mumbles between laughing fits.
I will say they aren't that nice, and most of them are jokes about me still being a Genin after all the years.
I shook my head and said in my mindscape, 'sometimes I wish you were the older version of yourself because that one takes a nap all day and says something mean occasionally. But you.'
I say, exiting my mindscape.
When I left, I heard the fox beginning to say something.
I smile and think, 'we are friends.'
XxXxX
I was getting out of my head, not next to the big red fox.
I look around to see Obito and no kid Kakashi. But I can sense him in the trees. (AN:5)
Although, Obito is standing in the open on a tree branch, watching Rin and me. I am waiting for one of us to move or waiting for a leaf to hit the ground.
'Hey Kurama cut off your chakra to me; I do not know what to use your nine tails chakra accidentally. Because it will over-kill, and it will bring up too many questions about me.' I thought to the fox.
I felt the chakra in my body shift, so he heard me. 'Good.'
I am going back to the fight at hand.
XxXxX
Obito is not doing anything but just looking and watching me, waiting for me to do something.
The Genin in front of me shouts to me. "are you going to do anything. or are you just going to stand there like a chicken!"
I smile, "I was waiting for a leaf to hit the ground for us to start." I jump to the next tree branch and hear Rin jump to the branch I was on. (AN:6)
I see him brace up, getting ready for my punch.
When I punched him, he got knocked back to a different branch of another tree. I hit him in his arms.
Obito hit the tree trunk and landed on the branch as he stood up from his knees. he shakes his head and says, "good thing I block it, or I already losses the game in one hit."
When he got back on his feet, I was in front of him, powering a punch once again.
But this time, I am aiming for the part of the body between the left shoulder and the breast. I am seeking there because even though it is the undocumented hand, it will begin to numb. And it will make it much harder to do jutsu.
Although looking at Obito, even without the Sharingan. He looks like he is observing everything, my head and arms, even the direction where my feet are facing.
I must remind that Sasuke self-train with the books of his Clan, but Obito has his Clan to teach him.
About three inches away from my target, Obito reacts, but it looks like instinct. I will say that because he is going faster than his ninja rank.
'Did I made him show some of his cards?'
'Maybe…?'
'It was a low or mid Chuunin level. It looks like muscle memory, normal training speed, maybe?'
Where my strike passes the Internet target area, and my torso is in front of his.
Looking over at him, I see him smiling in the way that his family smiles.
It is his tarn to counter my attack.
Obito uses his left arm to swing at my open shoulder, and his arm is in the way of my head. So, I duck.
Obito then kicks 70 degrees in comparison to the branch we are standing on.
It is like I am in a mouth; undo me is a kick and a punch above me.
I don't want to get a punch or kick; even know I can take it. And if I do get it and Minato does not come out and say they are the winner, then it is clear who is the target is. What I like to call the 'flag.' I don't know where his teammate is or better known as Kakashi.
I use my free hand to grab onto his extended arm. I use it as the central point to spin around. And to get over him.
I used the momentum and the Power generating for my unused punch, directly punch down on his head.
About two inches away, Obito turns to smoke. Yet, I am still holding onto something.
A moment later….
I hit the object, and I can only hear a loud shriek of wood getting cut in half. I always hate that sound.
I thin hear metal hitting metal.
Still, upside down, I see Rin fighting with Kakashi; her weapon is falling to the ground.
Kakashi is feeling his arm with lightning chakra. No head sign; he is just using the natural lightning chakra in his body. If it by, it will give you a shock and fluff up your hair. But I wasn't thinking of that.
But I am still falling, but I usually am falling; I am just speeding up my mind and train of thought.
'If I am going this speed fighting Madara Uchiha or Sasuke Uchiha, I will be dead many times over. And don't get me started with Kaguya Otsutsuki because that will be just embarrassing.'
'I am falling in the air. Wait… what about wind chakra?'
I then put wind chakra into my feet, exploding it out.
The explosion launched me to the branch I was standing on just a couple of moments ago.
I land on my feet, leaning forward to get ready to jump, to help Rin. I once again put chakra into my feet. Like the tree-climbing exercise, but I overdid it because it would blast me off.
I am hearing the wind passing through my ears.
I got to Rin and Kakashi fight, but it was more of a one-sided beat down.
When I got to them, the first thing I did was grab Kakashi's arm. And my momentum carries the two of us off the branch.
I was just going to punch him; I what to get him out of the spar. But before I can, I hear a scream behind me.
Looking behind me, I see Rin falling off the branch. I guess my shockwave behind me knock her off.
Only looking at her, I used the thing I was grabbing onto as a launching pad, also known as Kakashi. He will be fine because he will land in a pile of leaves.
But Rin will not.
I launched myself to the underneath of the branch; when I got there, I ran. I jump.
I catch Rin, the bride styler. And using the momentum from the jump, I landed on a different branch, untouched by the fight.
Minato then jumps down from the treetops and says, "you guys win, Naruto and Rin."
And, done.
AN1: You know, when you accidentally double your story with one chapter, how fun.
If you haven't noticed, it is a slight AU.
What do you think about the fight scene? Should I make it longer or shorter?
AN2: Minato's techniques are all good; he doesn't have enough training in them yet. (It had little weight in the story). I do have some ideas about it, but it can just be a throwaway line.
AN3: The entire time of watching Naruto, I thought Rin was an Inuzuka for the longest time. (So, in this story, she is, kind of). Hey, at least I Never thought Kurenai was an Uchiha.
AN4: I know it AU; the actions from people in the past might be different. I want it to be somewhat the same as cannon, like if Naruto were not sent back in time, the same story would happen.
AN5: Naruto is not a true sense; he just knows Kakashi is in the area.
AN6: Naruto smile because he knows he has won the mind games.
