Ch 6 The Bell Test
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Three tired and currently annoyed genin sat in the middle of a clearing waiting for their late sensei to arrive. As they sat there Naruto suddenly pulled out an apple from his pocket and took a bite out of the delicious fruit.
In an act of bravery yet stupidity Sakura began yelling at the blond "Naruto! What are you doing, Kakashi told us not to-!" she immediately stopped as her gaze met two ice cold eyes. Suddenly everything around her began to turn black as she continued to start into the orbs that were currently piercing though her soul. She then found herself in a tundra where she was slowly freezing to death. Everything was blue, the same blue of his eyes. She slowly felt herself slipping into the darkness until….
The demon container decided to end her suffering and turned his head while explaining
"Telling us not to eat was obviously a trick. It was merely used to intimidate us and to weaken us for the "Exercise". Because of this, the dumbest thing you could do is actually listen to that pervert and end up failing."
"Very good Naruto, you saw right though my plan" Kakashi casually said as he suddenly appeared from behind the blond.
The blue eyed boy slightly jump while his two teammate showed expressions of obvious surprise.
'I didn't even sense him. Maybe I should be more careful' Naruto thought to himself as he turned to his sensei to here the rules for the "Exercise".
"Ok., the rules are real simple, I have two bells, your objective is to retrieve them. If you haven't noticed there are three of you which means one of you won't be able to get one. That person will be tied to one of these three posts and will have to watch me eat my lunch. The masked jonin explained in a slightly serious yet at the same time bored tone. "Oh yea, and if you can't get a bell by 12 o'clock you'll be sent back to the academy." Kakashi added nonchantely.
He was slightly amused at the shocked expressions plastered on his new apprentices face's.
"Ready……..START!" yelled the former anbu.
At that exact moment all three of the genins suddenly dispersed heading for cover.
'Well it seems they know how to hide, but lets see how well they can fight, and more importantly, work together.' As soon as he had finished that thought a huge mass of about 20 shuriken and kunai we're hurdling toward the gray haired pervert from all directions.
"Thump!" the projectiles all ended up being embedding in a log.
'Hmmmm...interesting……judging from their locations in the log if I hadn't used the replacement jutsu I would have been hit in every vital part of my body including the heart lungs and liver.'
'Damn my attack failed…..I'll just have to try a new tactic' thought a now frustrated Naruto.
The blond jump down from the tree he had been recently hiding in to confront his sensei from across the clearing.
"Your attacking from upfront? Despite your scores in the academy you seem to be quite stupid." Said the one eyed jonin.
The blue eyed boy simply smirked and before the masked man knew it there were shuriken hurdling at him from behind. He diverted his attention from the orange clad ninja for one second to catch the projectiles but that one second was all the blond needed.
He was suddenly above kakashi sending a hard drop kick toward the man's head. The jonin blocked the attack with his right hand while using his left to catch the shuriken that were aimed at his vital points.
Naruto then maneuvered his body so he was hanging upside down and reached for the bells. When his fingers barely grazed them the gray haired man jumped back effectively dodging the sharp projectiles that continued to fly from the trees. Sadly for him as soon as he touched the ground two hands grabbed his feet. He had no time to react as a naruto clone jump out of the ground sending an uppercut directed at the jonins chin, but he's not a jonin for nothing. Kakashi back flipped effectively dodging the second clone's attack while pulling the one holding his feet out of the ground. As soon as he landed, the masked man threw a couple of shuriken hitting both clones, causing them to poof with impact.
'Woah, even Naruto couldn't get the bells! If he can't do it what chances do I have!' thought a worried Sakura.
"……." Was all Sasuke had to say as he watched the battle taking place in front of him.
'Damn…..I underestimated him. No matter, I'll just take this battle up a notch.' Naruto thought to himself.
"Ha! Yea right! How do you expect to destroy an entire village if you can't defeat one measly jonin!" Bellowed the kyuubi from his steel prison.
Naruto simply ignored the demon lord and smirked, " You may have beaten two clones but try this!" The blond quickly made the correct hand seal and yelled, "Shadow clone jutsu!"
Suddenly a small army appeared before the lazy pervert. With a simple snap of the fingers the clones were charging toward their sensei. Kakashi expertly dodged and destroyed the bushins one by one but just when he was about to attack another a barrage of shurikens and kunais we're sent toward him. He flipped backward only to be forced to make another maneuver to dodge a clone flying from the ground. He was suddenly put on the defense as he continued to dodge the deadly projectiles coming from the trees and avoid the clones that continued to fly from the ground all while being chased by a small army of narutos.
'Woah, Naruto actually might win this!' Sakura thought to herself.
'See I told you I could take on a jonin, now I just have to keep this up for a little while until he begins to tire then I'll strike using my best technique.'
The Kyuubi simply replied " Even IF you do manage to defeat him there is not a chance you will be able to kill off and army of jonin plus anbu AND the hokage with the aid of two of the legendary Sannins."
Naruto simply ignored the last comment and continued his barrage.
'It looks like I underestimated blondy, Oh well I'll have to end this now' Kakashi thought to himself.
The gray-haired man jumped about 20ft back successfully dodging any oncoming shuriken while getting out of the range of the clones hidden under the ground. He then flashed though a series of seals and yelled "Fire style: Phoenix Flower jutsu!"
In an instant, fire balls flew in all directions destroying the clones hidden in the trees while dealing critical damage to the clone army.
After finishing his attack the jonin once again began flashing though seals and then yelled' "Fire style: Fireball jutsu!" He then blew a massive fireball destroy any remaining clones and temporarily blinding kyuubi container. When the fire finally cleared Kakashi was no where to be found.
Naruto murmured to himself "Where the hell did-" just then he felt a hand on his foot and in a matter of seconds his entire body, minus his head, was underground. The boy instantly began wiggling in an attempted to free himself from the ground.
Kakashi crouched down until he was eye level with the orange clad ninja and simply stated, "No use in struggling, you won't be getting out of there for a while." He then stood straight up and disappeared in a gust of wind and leafs.
'I can't believe it! There's no way we can beat Kakashi!' screamed sakura in her mind.
Sasuke simply left to pursuit his sensei while Naruto just smirked.
While ignoring the now hysterically laughing demon he thought to himself ' Oh, don't count me out yet Kakashi. This is only the beginning.' He then proceeded to dig himself out of his dirt prison.