The next morning found Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke in Kakashi's hospital room. The Hokage was in the room listening to Kakashi's debriefing of the mission they completed two days earlier. Kakashi just finished the story and everyone was silent. The Hokage walked to the window and looked out.
"This is indeed an event to look into. How long were the ninja trailing you before they decided to attack?" the Hokage said after a few minutes.
"At least two days," Kakashi answered.
The Hokage turned around. "Kakashi, the doctors say you need two weeks to recover. I'm going to place your genins under another jounin sensei for now."
"But gramps. I only want to train under Kakashi," Naruto complained.
"Naruto. By now you should realize that nobody ever gets what they want. You three, join me in my office. Kakashi rest well." Then he walked out of the room.
Naruto looked at Kakashi. She saw him as a father to her, even though he was her fathers student. She didn't want to train under any one else. But as a ninja, she had to do what the Hokage ordered. She sighed, wished Kakashi a swift recovery and jumped out the window toward the Hokage's tower.
Sasuke walked slowly toward the Hokage's tower slowly. He was watching the crowd thinking. Another jounin sensei. He had just warmed up to Kakashi and now he had to change. Even if it was just for two weeks, he felt like Naruto. He only wanted to train under Kakashi. He heard a sound on the roof behind him and saw Naruto jump over him and land on another roof only to jump again. Sasuke continued walking.
Sakura was walking right beside the Hokage. She didn't really mind who trained her as long as Sasuke was there but she had become a little attached to Kakashi. Sakura was contemplating this so she missed when the Hokage stopped walking and ended up five paces in front of him. She turned and looked at him. He was looking at the roof behind them. Sakura looked up right as Naruto landed and took off again. Sakura followed her movement over them and toward the Hokage's tower. They started walking again.
At the Hokage's tower, Naruto waited for the rest of the party to get there. She sensed someone who was trying to hide their chakra behind her. She jumped sideways twisted in mid-air and threw three shuriken at the person. They dodged all three and jumped back pulling out the short sword. Naruto then recognized him as Konoha's ANBU black ops, the elite ninja's of Konoha's jounin force. She put the kunai she pulled away and apologized to the ANBU. The ANBU's only response was to nod their head.
Naruto studied the ANBU. One look told Naruto that the ANBU was a woman. The way she carried herself, her butterfly mask, and the fact that she had a chest that made Naruto envious. The ANBU was wearing the standard black sleeveless skin tight shirt, a green ninja vest, loose black pants (the fabric was designed to not make a sound), and some ninja shoes. Naruto looked down at her own chest. The small lumps where nowhere near the size of the ANBU's. Naruto glared at the woman jealously. She took no notice. Just then the Hokage walked up the stairs followed by Sakura. Sasuke walked around a corner from the other direction. They all walked in the room including the ANBU.
"Hokage-sama, reporting as requested," she said.
"Good. These are the genin. Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura, Uchiha Sasuke. The reason I am placing you under another sensei instead of just waiting for Kakashi is because he believes you are ready for the chunin exams that start in two weeks. I want you to undergo ANBU training under this woman. She has agreed to train under the conditions that you don't know her name."
"Then how would we address her?" Sakura asked.
"You will call her Butterfly."
"Hn," Sasuke said and looked her up and down.
Butterfly looked all three genin over. "Meet at training field three. Now. Good day Hokage-sama."
Everyone scattered. Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke arrived at the training field at the same time to find Butterfly already there. Now, I'm going to perform a test I'm sure your familiar with, being Kakashi's students." She pulled out two bells. The three genin looked at each other and nodded. They looked back at Butterfly and waited. She looked at them curious as to what they were waiting for. She tied the bells on her belt. Then she said, "Begin." The three disappeared into the forest.
'So they can hide pretty well.' she sniffed and couldn't smell them. 'Of course. The dog summoner taught them how to cover up even their smell.' She dodged a rain of kunai and shuriken from two directions and blocked the kick she felt coming and threw the person. As she threw it she recognized it as Naruto and grinned. 'But this one is impatient.' As Naruto hit the ground, she disappeared in a cloud of white smoke. 'Shadow Clones!'
Then she found herself blocking a volley of punches and kicks from both Naruto and Sasuke at a speed that was clearly over genin. They were also very good with teamwork but Butterfly still hasn't seen the last one, the girl. She found herself actually having to try to keep them from hitting her. Then she felt a tug at her belt and saw Sakura snatching the bells from her. She jumped away from everyone and saw Sakura hand a bell to Sasuke. Naruto, however, had decided to take the fall for the rest of the team.
'Alright. We will continue training tomorrow. Now that I know your current level of strength I can guarantee you that I will double it in two weeks. Meet here tomorrow. 4 am sharp. Dismissed." Butterfly left in a cloud of white smoke.
Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura walked together as far as the edge of the town. Then Sakura walked to her house, Sasuke walked to the Uchiha clan housing area, and Naruto took off to Ichiraku's.
Naruto sat on a chair in front of the bar and ordered a pork miso with extra vegetables. Ichiraku smiled at Naruto and started working. Naruto looked at the one other person in the ramen stand. He was an older man with his long spiky white hair pulled into a pony tail that went to his ankles. He had red marks coming from his eyes and running down his cheek. He had a forehead protector with a strange mark on it. On his lap were two toads. He was talking to them.
Naruto laughed silently. There were some odd people out there. She turned back to face the bar right as Ichiraku put the bowl of ramen right in front of her. She ate the food silently. She looked up to find the old man staring at her. She finished the bowl aware of his stare the entire time. She set the bowl down and turned to look at him. "Can I help you old timer?"
"Your name wouldn't happen to be Naruto would it?"
"What's it to you?"
"Well I trained the Fourth Hokage. I was going to train Naruto but since I can't find her..." he said smiling and turning away.
"I am Naruto," Naruto said thinking that her fathers teacher could get her stronger than him.
"Oh? Well, I will train you after the chunin exams. Do your best," the old man said before dropping some money on the table and leaving.
Naruto looked after him curiously before paying for her ramen and leaving. She slowly walked home. When she got upstairs she dropped her weighted jacket and shorts on the bed. She hung her scroll sling on the door knob and finished stripping. She walked into the bathroom and and showered. She came out and put on a leotard cut like a tank top and shorts. She put her weighted clothes on followed by her sling. She then upped the weight on her clothes a little.
She walked out back of her house. There was a little training area there. She began to drill her forms in the new weight. She then made ten shadow clones. They all jumped her. She sparred her clones until they were all gone. Then she made more clones and practiced removing weight from her clothes while fighting. She got pretty far then she ran out of chakra. Naruto canceled the clone and sat on the ground. She began meditating to replenish her chakra.
Naruto opened her eyes in a leaky sewer system. She looked around and heard a growl from around the corner. She remembered this place now. This is where the Kyuubi was sealed in her. She followed the growl to the cage doors and looked up into the glowing red eys of the Kyuubi. The Kyuubi chuckled softly in an extremely deep voice. Naruto stuck her fist out at it.
The Kyuubi looked down at Naruto. For as long as the Kyuubi had watched Naruto, it realized that this was a gesture of friendship from her. The Kyuubi stuck its fist out and bumped it against Naruto's. The Kyuubi smiled a little at Naruto's childish grin. It retracted its hand and sat down.
"Kyuubi. I have a request," Naruto said suddenly.
'What is it?' the Kyuubi asked. It was genuinely curious as to what she wanted.
"I want to know what your gender is. I can't just call you Kyuubi or it all the time."
The Kyuubi looked down at Naruto. She had a blank face, the Kyuubi couldn't see anything through it. 'I'm a male.'
Naruto looked down thoughtfully. She nodded and looked back up at the Kyuubi. "Thank you Kyuubi." The Kyuubi nodded and layed down dismissively.
Naruto opened her eyes and squinted, the sunlight was bright. She stood up and stretched. She added the weight back to her clothes. She then upped the weight, because she felt lighter than she should've been. She went inside to the scale. She weighed herself with all the weights on. The scale said 450. Naruto then stripped naked and got on the scale again. The scale said 85. Naruto smiled. She showered again and ate a small dinner before going to sleep.
Two weeks passed. After hellish training from the ANBU, Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke were talking on training 3. Kakashi walked onto the training ground and the three genin looked at him. He walked right up to them with a greeting and congratulations on passing Butterfly's training.
"Hn," Sasuke said. If he wanted to kill that man he needed to get way stronger.
"It wasn't too bad. I trained myself on the side too," Naruto said.
"Really?" Kakashi said impassively.
"Yeah, I always train every night, even after training all day." Naruto looked around. "Who else is here?"
Kakashi laughed. "I knew they wouldn't be tricked by that. You can come out now." Butterfly jumped beside Kakashi. "Butterfly wanted to see if she could sneak up on you guys. I told her she couldn't."
"So we were the subject of a bet?" Sakura said.
"No. Nothing was bet. It was just a test if you will. Here. These are the entrance sheets. Sign them and go the Academy, room 301. there you will take the first test. Oh, all of you have to enter or none of you take the test, so think it over well. Goodbye!" Kakashi and Butterfly took off.
Naruto and Sasuke definitely wanted to take the test. Naruto spent the better part of two hours trying to convince Sakura. Sasuke just watched her struggle to make Sakura do it. Naruto gave up eventually and asked Sasuke to help.
Sasuke just simply said, "I want to take this test. You would do well not to get in my way." Then he left.
Naruto looked after him. She was unsure of Sasuke's feelings. He was too distant and secluded himself. She shook her head to clear her thoughts. She turned back to Sakura and said, "Please. This test means a lot to me. I really want to test myself and this seems like a really good opportunity." Then she left.
Sakura thought about it all night. She went to sleep thinking about it. In the morning she signed the paper and walked to the Academy and found Sasuke and Naruto waiting. She sighed and walked up to them.
"I knew you'd come through for us. Come on, let's go," Naruto said leading the way through the gates and up the first flight of stairs.
When they got to the second story they heard a commotion and followed it to a room marked 301. there was a group of genin crowded around it with two people standing in front of it, letting no one in. Naruto grinned at the number of people there. Sasuke smirked, amused that so many people fell for such an obvious genjutsu, a type of ninjutsu designed to trick ones mind.
"If you can't even get past us you have no need in taking the Chunin Exam. You all should just go home," the tallest one said. He looked a little tall to be a genin but some don't become chunin even after 5 years so they weren't overly obvious. Naruto, however, immediately saw through the ploy and started to walk back to the stairs. "See, that girl has the right attitude. She saw its impossible so she's going home," he said pointing at Naruto.
"I'm not going home. I'm going to room 301," Naruto said without even turning around.
"This is room 301," the shorter one said.
"No way. For starters, this is the second floor. And another thing, your chakra levels are a little too high to be genin and you're too tall. You pretty much tower over everyone here." Naruto kept walking down the hallway.
Once on the third floor, Sasuke opened the door into room 301 and all eyes were on them. The room was the largest testing room in the entire Academy. It could easily hold 300 people. And there was easily 200 people in the room. All in little groups, most likely their squads. Naruto could pick out several different ninja villages based on the hitai-ate (the ninja forehead protectors).
"This is going to be fun," Naruto said smiling.
Author's Note:
Super sorry it took so long to post. My computer crashed and I couldn't get it fixed. I had to wait till I got a computer. I also joined the ARMY so I'm gonna be a little busy. Hope you like the new chapter and I will post another one later this week. Please review!