Chapter 3: The Real Test
Normal Speech: Rawr
Speech in a flashback: Rawr
Justu Name: Rawr no Jutsu
Akako, Inner Sakura and Demon Pig of Impending Doom: Rawr
Akako in a flash back: Rawr
*Poll!*
Okay guys, I need to know, first, I need to know who you would like Naruto to be paired with as the third person, anyone his allowed... no yaoi... just sayin'.
And should I change Akako's name? I know that Kurama is neither masculine nor feminine, but I used Akako because it means fiery... I think... Just tell me in the reviews and in chapter three, I will post all of the options that were reviewed! So you better tell me who you want, or they might not make it...
I got a few suggestions from you guys! Which is great... I need more reviews... I may or may not have got addicted to them... Older people than Naruto are okay... but no more than maybe 7 years... I can also do a Fem Haku, you guys wanna Fem Haku? I like Fem Haku... She's Nice...
*New Poll!*
Is Haku not a guy? Will Haku die? Is Zubuza not a dude? Will Zabuza die? Who will I name my next two OC's? I already know how to implement them... apart from one... and... one of them... is modeled after my Beta reader Jade... YOU SHALL ALL SUFFER THE PAIN OF 1,000 MANLY MEN! AND WOMEN! One last question... who should I give the Space Cow summoning contract to? I already know what they do... and I'm not telling you... Mwahahaha... the milk...
*Disclaimer! I Don't own Naruto in any shape or form... until my Space Cow's threaten Kishi-kun at Udder-point... Soon... he shall be my Moo-Minion... AND YOU SHALL ALL JOIN HIM!*
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Naruto was an idiot, after walking away from his group he had realised the purpose of the test.
Kami-sama! It was so easy! Whatever Asuma-sensei wanted them to do, he wanted them to do it as a team. He had to find Choji and Shikamaru.
Using chakra to speed up his running, he quickly found Shikamaru and asked him to help him round up Choji.
The lazy Gennin, of course, agreed, but only because it would be 'To troublesome to fail'.
After a few more minutes of searching, they had found Choji, and Naruto was beggining to explain the situation.
"Alright guys, I need to ask you a question." Naruto said, serious for once.
"Guy ahead Naruto." The Chubby Akimichi said.
"Yeah... do it... Once this is over... I can sleep..." Said the Laziest of all Gennin.
"Alriiight..." Naruto said, sweat-dropping at his team.
Shaking himself out of it, Naruto began to explain, "What does Konoha focus on?"
Shikamaru blinked, trying to figure out what Naruto meant, obviously he was refering to ninja, and it was highly probable he was refering to Gennin, but what about the Gennin?
"Ummm, Naruto?" Choji asked, hesitantly, "Isn't Konoha a ninja village? I mean, you should know that."
Naruto just chuckled at Choji's answer. He wasn't expecting him to get the answer, but he at least wanted him to try. "I know that Cho, I was refering to something that Konoha Jonnin-sensei educate their students in, that other Shinobi Nations don't."
Shikamaru pondered that, 'What do our Jonnin-sensei educate us in, Fighting skills, Chakra Control, Teamwo-'
"Teamwork." Shikamaru answered, realising exactly what Naruto was getting at and berating himself for not getting it sooner. "Konoha Jonnin-sensei all teach their Gennin teams teamwork, therefore, you're implying that it's highly likely that the final test will be about us working together in some way, shape or form."
"Correct Shikamaru," Naruto replied, "That was exactly what I was saying."
Choji smiled, he may not have understood what the answer was when he had gotten the question, but now he knew, he knew that they would form unbreakable bonds. Bonds that would save their lives, and created the next generation of Konoha nin.
"Now I propose that we go scout out the area Asuma-sensei told us to meet at... and maybe lay some traps while we're at it..." Naruto grinned, a dark and positively evil look donning his face.
Shikamaru and Choji just gulped, scared for Asuma-sensei, and intrigued to what Naruto had planned.
"Now," Naruto said, "TO THE PRANKMOBILE!"
"Prankmobile?" Shikamaru asked, trying to understand.
"Oh wait, I forgot, it needs new tires..." Naruto said, making his teamates sweat drop.
"Never mind that, TO THE 100 RYO SHOP!" Naruto exclaimed.
"AS YOU WISH MY LIEGE!" Choji and Shikamura shouted in unison, attracting the attention of may civilians walking past at the time.
TIME SKIP NO JUTSU 10am the next day, Training Ground 10
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"What's up guys?" Asuma asked, walking into the grassy field that Naruto, Shikamaru and Choji where lying down in.
"Nothing much, sensei." Naruto responded, not even bothering to look at him.
"Ooookaaaay..." Asuma said, not really sure how to respond, "How was your night?"
"The pig was espescially angry... I showed him though... yes I did... who's a good Naruto-kun? Do you want a treat?" Naruto... spoke... talking more to himself than to anyone else.
Everyone sweat dropped... not believing Naruto for a second, even if it was true...
"Alright then everyone!" Asuma said, snapping everyone out of their confusion, and Naruto from his crazy speaking.
"Today will be the real Gennin exams, I will be looking for one key thing in each of you." Asuma said, going almost exactly as predicted. "Today, you have to land one hit on me to win, I will have my arm tied behind my back, and I will not be allowed to attack you, only dodge."
"On my mark you will begin, does everyone understand?" Asuma asked
"Yes Asuma-sensei." His three obedient do- I mean Gennin, totally what I was going for there...
"Three, Two," Asuma assumed a position that was meant for dodging, "One, Mark!"
In that instant, all three Gennin simply dissapeared.
"What the hell..." Asuma muttered under his breath. There was no sign of them, they had been here until seconds ago, until they vanished with a... puff... of...smoke...
"Shit!" Asuma shouted, dodging the kunai that had been flung at him from behind. He had only just realised that he hadn't been talking to Naruto, Shikamaru and Choji the entire time... this wasn't good, espescially with a Nara on the team...
Asuma continued to back up to the trees, when suddenly, Choji came rolling towards him, already having used his expanding jutsu.
Having no other option Asuma jumped back to the safety of the trees, where he couldn't move.
"Damn, thats you isn't it, Shikamaru?" He asked, already knowing his answer.
"Yes it is, sensei." Shikamaru replied.
"You do know, you can only hold you for a few more seconds, there's no way that you can reach me before I can get loose." Asuma said, smirking.
"Oh, but sensei," Shikamaru said, "I wasn't meant to hold you for long, just long enough to trap you."
"But you've already trapped me..." Asuma asked, confused as to where he was going, "Unless," He said trailing off as he looked up... to see over 200 clones of Naruto.
"Oh shi-" Asuma started until it started raining... pink...
Lying on the ground, Asuma groaned, covered in Naruto's pink... whatever it was, he mumbled, "I give up... you win... can you please untie me now?"
"Fine..." Naruto said, dissapointed about his sensei's skill level, It wouldn't match his, but he would make a descent sparring partner.
Asuma gasped as he stood up... already wondering how he would explain this to his dad, beaten by three Gennin of all the things, on their first day as shinobi, they would go far.
"Ummm, Naruto," Asuma asked, trying to scrub of the pink, "What is this?"
"What's what sensei?" Naruto asked, trying, and failing, at acting innocent.
"The paint, how do I get It off?" Asuma asked, getting annoyed.
"You don't," Naruto replied simply, "It wears off after three days, that's the only way to get it off you."
Asuma paled, realising that he would have to go to the meeting about the Gennin teams, looking like how he was now...
"Damn you, Naruto..." Asuma groaned... wondering what he had done to deserve this.
"Anytime, and always." Naruto replied, with a full blown grin on his face.
"Just go home..." Asuma said, "I don't want to see you until tommorow at 10am, same place."
"Alright then," Shikamaru said, speaking for all of them, "Until then, don't do anything troublesome."
Asuma sweat dropped at the last statement, "We'll see."
TIME SKIP NO JUTSU One Hour Later
"Alright everyone," The Sandaime Hokage adressed all of the shinobi in the room, "Now is the time to reveal the passing Gennin."
"Team Six, "Hayate Gecko said, "Failed, they didn't work together at all, merely trying to out do each other."
"Team Seven," Hatake Kakashi said, stepping forward, "Pass, if it weren't the Civilian council, they would have failed, none of them realised the true purpose of the test, however, the Civilian council forced me to pass them anyway." He said, shrugging, ignoring the angry looks forming in Sarutobi's eyes.
"Team Eight," Yuuhi Kurenai said, "Passed, their teamwork was good, rough around the edges, and while they didn't figure out the meaning of the test, they still showed it's meaning."
"And finally, Pink Bo- I mean Asuma's team, Team 10." Sarutobi said, sniping Asuma for his new looks.
Grumbling, Asuma stepped forwards, "Team 10, passed. They defeated me with ease, showing teamwork greater than the original Ino-Shika-Cho team." Asuma said, shocking the majority of the room.
"But of course," A random Chunnin called out, "You had two clan heirs in your team, I bet all the Demon did was hold them back!" He said, sweating at the killing intent a few of the Shinobi's in the room where aiming at him.
"For your information, CHUNNIN," Asuma said, glaring at the man whilst aiming all the killing intent he could muster at him, "Naruto led the team from the beggining."
"Do tell. "The Proffesor asked, curious as to how his own son, an elite Jonnin, had been 'schooled' by some fresh Gennin.
"Well," Asuma began, "From the beginning, I was in their trap. I was explaining the rules to three of Naruto's shadow clones. As soon as I finished, they dispelled, leaving me confused, giving them the time to ambush me."
"One of the Gennin, most likely Naruto, threw some kunai at me, maneuvering me to a place where Choji had a good shot at me." He said, still impressed with the teamwork. "Choji rolled towards me with his Body Expansion no Jutsu, making me jump into the shadows, straight into Shikamaru's trap, his objective was to stall me."
"Realising his objective, I looked up, seeing hundreds of Naruto clones, a few of them directly above me, holding a vat of pink... stuff... resulting in my current looks." Asuma finished.
"But surely this is a joke!" Another random Chunnin called out, "The Demon can't be this stro-" He said, only to choke under the K.I. aimed at him.
"Never, EVER, refer to Uzumaki Naruto like that around me again." Hagri- I mean The Sandaime Hokage said, pointing an umbrella at the Chunnin. (A/N* If you didn't get it, it's a Harry Potter Reference! I love references! 3)
"This meeting is over, and Asuma, get that pink stuff of you." Sarutobi said, sighing at another victim of Naruto's pranks.
"Thats the thing..." Asuma said, rubbing the back of his head, "It won't come off..."
Hiruzen just chuckled to himself, "Don't worry then Asuma, at least change your clothes though..."
"Yes Tou-san..." Asuma said, seeing as no-one was around.
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Naruto, Shikamaru and Choji had decided to spend the rest of the day relaxing and enjoying themselves, seeing as they would need to be training more and more often to get stronger for their career.
"Hey, Naruto," Shikamaru said, "Isn't that Sasuke, Sakura and Ino?"
Looking to where Shikamaru was pointing Naruto smirked and said, "Yeah, yeah it is, wanna go say hi?"
"Sure why not," Shikamaru shrugged as Choji simply nodded in reply, "It's not like we have anything better to do... except maybe cload watching..."
Sweatdropping, Naruto, Choji and Shikamaru walked towards Team Seven, wondering if they had passed their test or not.
"Hey Dobe." Sasuke called out in his emo attire.
"Hey Sasu-gay." Naruto replied casually, earning snickers at Sasukes expense from his teamates.
"DON'T CALL ME THAT DOBE!" Sasuke roared, "I AM AN UCHIHA! THE ELITE OF THE ELITE! I AM BETTER THAN YOU WILL EVER BE!"
"Yeah Naruto-baka!" The Pink Banshee screached, "You're just a useless retard, you probably can't even hold a kunai right! And you're parents probably killed themselves because they couldn't bare to be seen with you!"
Naruto could barely restrain his urge to kill the idiotic fan girl, instead choosing to use his rage in the form of KI, making her stumble backwards and almost wet herself.
"Haruno Sakura, don't think for ONE SECOND, that you know anything about my parents," Naruto said, using Akako's chakra to enhance his voice to make it sound more demonic, "No, I don't know who my parents are, but that doesn't meant that you can destroy my image of them!"
"Sh-shut up baka!" Ino said, feebly trying to fend for her teamate.
Naruto just ignored Ino's attempt at defending her teamate and turned to Sasuke, "I could beat you any time I want and anywhere I want." Naruto said as Sasuke started to retort.
"Ther only reason I haven't done this so far, is because you have the support of the entire village, whilst I have almost none of it." Naruto said, anger builing in his voice at the mention of the village, "If you want to fight me, wait for the Chunnin exams."
"Hn," Sasuke snorted, "If you want to be made to look like a weakling in front of hundreds then thats fine by me dobe."
"CHA! Sasuke-kun is sooo coool~~~~!" Inner Sakura said with stars in her eyes, "There's no way that Naruto-BAKA will be able to defeat him!"
Ino just looked away, wondering just how powerful Naruto really was. Sure she loved Sasuke, and there was NO WAY she would let 'Forehead' have him, but she was brought up in a clan, so she understood how powerful people where, and all of her weak instincts were screaming at her to get away from Naruto because of his power.
"You know what," Naruto said, looking straight at Sakura, "We came over here to see how you three were doing, wondering if you had passed the 'True Gennin Exams', instead you slander me and my family."
"Come on Choji, Shikamaru," Naruto spoke, "We where never wanted here."
Walking away, Choji and Shikamaru couldn't help but wonder how weak Sakura, Ino and Sasuke were, and how strong was Naruto really.
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Separating for the night, and bidding each other good bye, they walked in seperate ways.
'Troublesome," Shikamaru thought, "I'll have to ask Naruto how strong he really is tommorow, I've know he has been hiding his strength for some time now... but how much of it has he really shown?"
As Shikamaru walked up the steps of the Veranda outside his house, he realised that Naruto would be great, he would be remember, be in history books for saving nations, and destroying them. He decided to remain with him.
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Naruto walked home and smiled as he remembered the days events, before Team Seven came along of course.
They had gone out to lunch at one of the restaraunts that the Akimichi Clan owned, as the clan as a whole liked Naruto, he was free to eat and enjoy places like that at his leisure.
Naruto and Choji had an eating contest as usual... scaring the hell out of Shikamaru in the proccess.
He was pretty sure that the Nara was still trying to think up explanations as to how much food Naruto had consumed, and where it had gone.
Then, they had gone to the top of a grassy hill, where they just lay there, bonding and talking about their lives. Naruto, had to... tone down his life of course. He had not been happy until he had bet Akako, and had been tortured as recently as last week, by Konoha's finest... (A/N* Not Ibiki-kun... he likes Naruto, Naruto's finest educates Naruto about new methods of torture, who then educates Ibiki about the torture used on him... to use on them... mwahahaha)
Naruto shook his head, trying to forget some of the darker memories. He had stopped doing the 'Scavenger Hunts' around Konoha, he spent way to much of the night doing that, and he was getting more than usual sleep now, about 10 hours.
Akako wasn't training him as hard, she seemed preoccupied by something else, frequently muttering something about 'A disturbance in the force...' or 'The Space Cows have returned... we must hide our carrots...'
Naruto thought she was just going crazy... and he was scared for his safety because of it.
Naruto shrugged, getting the excesively violent thoughts out of his head, thinking about what he would... dream about... yeah... and train in his head... that to.
And just like that, after getting ready to go to sleep and lying down on his bed, he was out like a lightbulb.
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Omake- Akako's Mumblings
Akako sat down, next to a tree, scared.
Not many things could scare her, and one of them was returning.
It was the Space Cows... From Space.
The lazers... the mooing... the miiiilk...
She could only pray for humanities survival, in the wrong hands, they could destroy hundreds of thousands of innocent... stuff...
But she knew, she knew that they would join her side... the dark side always has plenty of room for more... and lot's of cookies... yeesssss... the cookiesssss...
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Greetings dear friends! It is I... Shadow Revolution! Brining you news and info and stuff! I am planning on updating every Friday for me... it's Friday for me today... in Australia... that's why I'm updating... Anyways, I just want to address one final thing about Naruto's mindscape training. He had to go to sleep in his mind to ya know! So about 2/3s of the time was training, and the other 1/3 time was night-night time...so his mind can rest... within his mind... meh. I'm getting great support from around the interwebs, getting hits at the time of me uploading this! thanks for the support! I also have 17 reviews... which I am addicted to... please review, even if it's pointing out that I made an error with something, I am grateful, it allows me to make this better for you guys! (A/N* did I even spell 'Grateful' right?) Oh yeah, do stuff for the polls, people have suggested people to be paired with Naruto for, and I like some of them... I hope it ends up with NarutoxHinataXFem-Haku... but that's just me. Anyway, please review, please favourite and please follow. For whatever day it is for you, from now on, this will probably be the day I update on... bai guys, and once again, tysomuchjademahbetareada!
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