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Disclaimer: My name is not Masashi Kishimoto. Therefore, Naruto is not mine. NOT.
Chapter 2:
The Bell Test and
The Date
The four heroic (or soon-to-be) ninjas traveled to a training ground-
"Training Ground 13," Naruto read aloud.
"This is the site of the bell test. In my pocket I have two bells. You must get the bells. Obviously, someone won't get one; the person who doesn't will be tied to a tree. You have until 6:00 p.m., and it is 11:00 a.m. Begin!" Kakashi explained.
The three ninjas disappeared from Kakashi's sight into a tree nearby, discussing what to do.
"The bell test is designed to test the teamwork between us." Naruto said.
"We already have great teamwork." Sasuke said.
"But Kakashi-sensei doesn't know that." Hinata butted in.
"Right. So, let's attack separately at first and then later join forces to take him down." Naruto said. Sasuke and Hinata nodded and dispersed. Naruto stepped out to meet Kakashi.
"No friends?" Kakashi asked.
"Not really." Naruto said. Then he threw two shuriken.
Kakashi dodged one and plucked the other one out of the air. He tossed it back at Naruto, who ran at it, moved to the right to dodge and punched at Kakashi. Kakashi dodged the attack and hit Naruto in his over-exposed gut. Naruto fell to the ground in pain, but then burst into smoke. Kakashi quickly anticipated that it was a Shadow Clone.
Kakashi turned and pin slapped Naruto out the way as he attacked. Naruto skidded along the rough dirt until he came to a halt on his feet. Then he rushed in once more.
Naruto launched a kick, but Kakashi blocked with the forearm. He then twisted his arm so that his hand was holding on to Naruto's ankle. Naruto did a mule kick that caught Kakashi by surprise. Kakashi used the force from the kick to back flip and land instead of crashing into the ground painfully. When Kakashi looked up, Naruto was gone.
Instincts took over as Kakashi manually rolled to the left. Hairs flew off as Naruto's kunai knife seared way too close to Kakashi's head for his liking. He turned and dodged a left foot. Kakashi replied with a right hook knocking Naruto over. Then Kakashi backed away, performing hand signs.
"Water Style: Water Trumpet," Kakashi said. A large jet of water spiraled from his face area and hit Naruto at top speed. Naruto was sent through several trees and crashed into the ground, seemingly unconscious.
Before Kakashi could fret over his injured pupil, shuriken cut through a nearby bush and traveled at Kakashi. He was hit several times and landed on the ground with a painful THUD!
Silence…
Sasuke jumped from his hiding spot in a tree 20 meters away and worried. Had he really caught Kakashi off guard? Was he… was he dead?
POOF!
Kakashi turned into a log.
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'Substitution Jutsu', Sasuke thought. He turned.
'Left?' he wondered, trying to see where his sensei was.
'Right?' he thought, knowing that Kakashi was not on his left.
'Behind?' he frantically guessed, figuring that his teacher would strike soon.
'Above?' he decided, thinking that if Kakashi wasn't in front of, next to or behind Sasuke, then he had to be above him. But he wasn't.
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'BEL-' Sasuke started to think that Kakashi was under him. But Sasuke didn't finish the thought as a hand grabbed Sasuke's leg and pulled him into the ground. When it finished, Kakashi stood above Sasuke, whose body was buried in the ground with his head being the only visible part left.
"Earth Style: Head Hunter Jutsu!" Kakashi announced. Sasuke grunted, having been caught in the move twice before hand; once by Itachi, and a different time by Kakashi. Kakashi eye smiled at his response and went off to find the Hyuga. If he had stayed for just a moment longer, he might have noticed the blond-haired ninja and a clone drop down from the sky and pull the Uchiha out of the ground.
Kakashi ran through the forest and dived through a bush as a kunai knife with an explosive tag flew down from above and landed in the ground. Kakashi looked up. Through the smoke dashed one Hinata Hyuga.
She struck with a palm straight for his heart. To her surprise, she landed the hit. Kakashi staggered back, and collapsed on the ground. Hinata lowered her guard for one second.
That one second was all Kakashi needed to unleash his counterattack.
"Wind Style: Pressure Damage," Kakashi said. Hinata turned to see a blast that blew her back through several trees and into the lake. Again, Kakashi did not notice that once 'Hinata' fell into water and sank a few feet; she dispersed in a puff of white smoke.
Kakashi paused for a while; nobody was around. He whipped out his little orange book and began giggling.
Meanwhile, his three charges were stationed about ten minutes away in a large tree. Hinata's Byakugan was active. She turned to her two best friends and teammates.
"Kakashi-sensei is about ten minutes to the east…reading a book." Hinata stated. Sasuke and Naruto nodded.
"I think its time we start working as a team." Sasuke said.
"Yeah, sufficient time has passed so that we have seemingly 'figured out' the test." Naruto agreed. Hinata nodded mutely to show her union. The three headed for their teacher.
Kakashi raised an eyebrow as they got close, though it was hidden by his book.
'They're coming,' was all he thought before Sasuke and Hinata charged him.
Kakashi put away the book and bent backwards as Sasuke tried to kick him. He did a flip backwards as Hinata jumped over Sasuke and tried to palm strike his face. Kakashi dodged another strike aimed at his face, and kicked Hinata away. Sasuke ran around her and aimed for Kakashi's face.
However, it was a feint, as he brought up his knee to Kakashi's stomach. Kakashi, however, had quick reflexes and blocked the knee. Sasuke pulled back and disengaged, throwing a poison-laced kunai at the silver-haired fellow. The Jonin dodged. Above him, however, a smoke bomb went off.
When the smoke cleared, about one hundred Naruto clones stood around Kakashi. Furthermore, it appeared that another hundred had henged into Sasuke, and a third group of 100 had turned themselves into Hinata. Kakashi sighed and drew two kunai, wielding one in each hand.
Kakashi ripped through the clones with little mercy. He kicked one, dodged another, stabbed it, threw a third into two others, and blasted through several more with his Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu. He continued his merciless assault on the quickly diminishing army of clones.
Finally, the former ANBU captain punched a Hinata clone in the face and swept a Naruto off his feet, before throwing a Sasuke into the other boy. The final three clones were dispersed. Unfortunately, the originals gave him no time to recover.
"Lightning Style: Electromagnetic Murder," Naruto said, using his dad's signature electric jutsu. A wave of lightning erupted from his palms and ripped through the air. Kakashi jumped over the attack as Sasuke performed another jutsu.
"Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu," the Uchiha child performed. Several small fireballs, all aimed at one of the geniuses of Konoha, traveled quickly. Kakashi did some hand signs of his own.
"Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu," Kakashi said. A water dragon rose from the nearby lake and protected the Jonin from harm. It charged at the two Genin.
'Wait…two Genin?' Kakashi thought. Where was Hinata?
His answer came when the girl appeared behind him and tried to grab the bells. Kakashi twisted just in time as Hinata grazed the bells. Kakashi punched Hinata down to the earth before he tried to land.
His landing, however, was hindered by five Naruto clones. Kakashi ducked and weaved through the force, destroying each one quickly. He looked to the three Genin…to see them all smiling.
"What are you smiling about?" Kakashi asked. To answer, all three held up a bell.
"How did you get the bells? And why are there three of them?" he asked, dumbfounded. Hinata giggled, Sasuke snickered, and Naruto smirked while explaining.
"While you were fighting the clones, a sixth one sprang from a branch, grabbed the bells, and tossed them to us. I made a replica of one and handed it to Hinata." Naruto said. Kakashi stared for a minute before sighing.
'Impressive.' the scarecrow looking man thought. Then, he handed his final judgment to the team.
"You guys pass. Meet me here tomorrow to start your duties as Team 7." Kakashi said. The three Genin nodded as the Jonin disappeared.
"So guys, want to go get some ramen?" Naruto asked. Sasuke saw a little match-making opportunity for the Hyuga, who liked Naruto so much it was painfully obvious.
"I can't… Itachi promised to help me out with a jutsu I'm creating. But I know for a fact that Hinata has nothing to do." he said while inwardly smirking. Hinata blushed and poked her fingers together.
'She's cute when she does that…wait, did I say she's cute?' Naruto thought. He dismissed the strange feeling he had for now and asked Hinata if she wanted to join him.
"Y-Yes, Naruto." she stuttered out.
"Great! Let's go!" Naruto said. He grabbed Hinata's hand and ran, practically dragging the Hyuga heiress away. But her face got even redder.
'He's holding my hand! He's holding my hand!' she thought. His hands were so smooth and soft, so gentle…
Meanwhile, Naruto was thinking along the same lines.
'Wow… her hands are just so soft and small…it feels kind of nice to be holding it…wait, what?' Naruto thought. A small tint of pink appeared on his cheeks He had to admit to himself that recently, he had been feeling unusual around Hinata, but in a good way. He was still unsure of what he was feeling, however.
Sasuke was staring at the two with a small amount of sadness.
'I wonder if I'll ever meet someone who doesn't like me because I'm an Uchiha…' he thought. He turned and walked away...and five minutes later met a kunoichi named Kin who didn't care about him being an Uchiha. After a brief argument, they had both huffed and walked away. Still, though, Sasuke couldn't help but wonder about the girl…
Meanwhile, the two teammates were nearing their destination, when they ran into Team 8.
"Hi guys!" the blond son of the Fourth Hokage cheerily said. They all noticed that he was holding Hinata's hand. Sakura's eyebrow twitched.
'She's got our man!' she thought. 'Our man is Sasuke, idiot!' Inner Sakura argued. They settled upon the fact that she liked them both.
Shino remained as stoic as ever. However, on the inside, he was laughing at the sight. Naruto was completely oblivious to the effect he had on Hinata. And yet, he himself seemed to be…embarrassed but unnaturally happy. Shino wondered if Naruto was developing feelings back for the girl.
Kiba, however…
"LET GO OF HER, IDIOT!" he yelled while charging him. Naruto jumped away as Kiba tried to slash him. He gave Kiba a shocked look.
"One, I graduated with way higher marks than you, so you're the idiot. Two, I'm the son of the Hokage…attacking me is a crime punishable by death. And three, what is your problem?" he said calmly.
"SHE'S MINE!" Kiba roared as he charged again. Naruto sidestepped while sticking his leg out. Kiba missed and tripped, falling on his face. Naruto smirked and Hinata giggled, while Sakura outright laughed and Shino smiled underneath his collar.
Kiba growled. "Let's go Akamaru!" he said. His white dog appeared from his hood and dropped down. Naruto watched as the two charged him. He made some quick hand signs.
"Summoning Jutsu!" Naruto said. A puff of smoke appeared as a small black fox appeared. The fox intercepted Akamaru, while Naruto and Kiba engaged in combat.
Naruto threw a punch for Kiba's head. Kiba caught the hand with his hand. However, he wasn't prepared as Naruto twisted around him, grabbing his arm and throwing him into a tree. Kiba hit it with a resounding smack, much to Naruto's taste. However, Kiba wasn't one to give up so easily.
The Inuzuka stood and threw two kunai at Naruto. The blonde replied by drawing a kunai of his own and deflecting the two. He sidestepped as Kiba tried to slash him, before pushing his challenger off balance. Kiba fell on his butt, rather embarrassed. He growled again and got up doing a jutsu.
"Man-Beast Ultimate Taijutsu: Fang over Fang!" he said, spinning in a drill towards the Fourth's son. Before Naruto could counter, however…
"Shinra Tensei!" an unknown voice said. Kiba was blasted back until he crashed against the side of Ichiraku Ramen. The force of the blow actually reverberated through the wall and back at the poor ninja, as he bounced off and fell to the ground. Everybody turned to see the Fourth Hokage's oldest son, heir to the Namikaze clan and Naruto's older brother, Nagato staring at the Inuzuka with cold blue eyes.
"You will cause no harm to my brother." He said plainly. Naruto smiled.
"Thanks, Nagato. What brings you by here?" he asked.
"I was on the way to report to Dad about a recently completed mission of mine, but then I heard a battle and came running to find this." He said the last part in a tone so disgusted, Naruto was shocked.
"Brother! You've never talked about someone like that before!" Naruto said, shocked. Nagato blinked twice.
"I wasn't talking about him; I was talking about that fight. That was easily the worst fight I have seen in recent memory!" He yelled at his little brother.
Naruto simply responded by sweat-dropping. He turned to Hinata, who'd been trying not to roll on the floor from laughter as she watched how Naruto totally embarrassed the other clan heir.
"Um…do you still want to have lunch?" he asked. The girl responded with a nod. The two walked into the stand, undisturbed by everyone else.
"Hey Ayame! I'm back!" he yelled. The young adult with red hair stepped forward from the back of the restaurant.
"Hi Naruto! Ohh, it seems that you've brought your girlfriend on a date." She said while smirking. Hinata turned a deep shade of red, while Naruto, to her surprise, also turned red. Shocking her even further, he stuttered as she normally did.
"N-n-no, Ayame! She's not my g-g-g-girlfriend! She's my t-teamate, H-H-Hinata." He stuttered out. In his mind, he tried to sort out what was making him feel so…embarrassed about the situation.
"Come on kid, you like her, admit it." A soft voice in his head said. Before he could even react to the fact that he was hearing a voice in his head, another one, this one more harsh and gravelly, spoke up.
"I still don't understand what this whole 'love' business is about…to me, death is the only thing that can make a person happy." It said.
"Pshht. You just haven't seen the wonders of life yet."
"I don't need to see these so-called 'wonders,' because none of them please me. Nothing but death pleases me. And nothing can fool me, because of that lack of pleasures. That's why I was the strongest of us ten."
"Hah! Out of us ten, I knew all the wonders and secrets of life. Therefore, I was the strongest of us ten."
"No!"
"Yes!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
'Who the heck are you two and what are you doing in my freaking mind?' our blonde thought.
"Pay attention to your date!" the soft voice yelled at him. He ignored the comment and decided to talk to his Dad about it after he was done eating with Hinata.
"Naruto! Naruto!" the dark haired girl called repeatedly, worried. He had suddenly zoned out, and Hinata had spent the last minute trying to shake him from his thoughts. He quickly shook his head and gave her a heart-fluttering smile.
"Sorry Hinata." He ordered three large miso ramen and three large pork ramen. Hinata ordered a medium shrimp ramen.
While Naruto breezed through his dishes, the two got to know each other even more then they thought possible. He had found out that her favorite food was cinnamon buns (which he himself had eaten at least once a week before he found this out), and that her favorite animal was the dolphin. So, when the small black fox he had summoned earlier came in, he was shocked at her reaction.
Her bowl of ramen smashed against the floor. The fox, with its midnight black fur and yellow eyes, surveyed Hinata for a second. His instincts had told him to run. But he himself could not move in time, as Hinata screamed "FOX!" and dashed for it. Before the thing could even turn, Hinata had it in her arms in a hug, stroking it and calling it the "cutest animal she'd ever seen." Naruto shook his head.
'She likes foxes just as much as I do. Another thing we have in common.' He thought. Ignoring the still bickering voices, he observed the scene with a smile. He vaguely wondered how he would feel if her soft hands were stroking his hair…he shook that thought off as well.
He paid for the thirty-six bowls he had eaten, as well as for the bowl Hinata had broken and a replacement. Of course, being the son of the Yellow Flash of Konoha meant he was…well endowed in financial issues. And then there was the fact that his dad was the Hokage, which Naruto had not even thought about yet.
The duo walked to the Hyuga compound, chatting amiably along the way. He learned that she was once kidnapped when she was a child. He, in turn, revealed that he had almost died one night when he was eight.
Flashback
Young Naruto walked through the crowded streets of Konoha. It was October the tenth, both his birthday and the day his dad, the Yellow Flash and the Fourth Hokage, had defeated the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox and saved the Leaf Village from total annihilation. As his second son, he was treated like royalty, but this specific day was a day when they really sucked up to him. Not that he didn't like…abusing…his privileges.
He turned and walked through an alleyway. As he walked, he couldn't help but notice that there was a strange man there, just standing. Naruto, despite his better judgment, went over to the man.
"Uhm…hello?" he offered a greeting. The man didn't respond.
"Helloooo?" he asked again, only to receive naught once more. It was then that he noticed the giant blade the man had strapped on his back, and a strange headband tied around his forehead. Naruto blanched when he realized that the man was…
BAM!
Flashback over
"After that, I was out for three days. Luckily Grandma Tsunade healed me up with some nifty jutsu. All I was told was that a man had sliced across my chest, leaving a terrible scar. My dad never told me who did it or if he had been caught. All I know is that if I ever see him again, there will be hell to pay." He said while looking off into the distance. Hinata had silently sobbed through the story. Suddenly and unexpectedly, Naruto pulled her into a hug and comforted her by rubbing circles in her back and telling her it was okay. The blonde himself wasn't sure why he did so.
Hinata felt his warm embrace and snuggled closer to his chest. She stayed like that for a minute before her eyes snapped open and she got out of the hug immediately. She blushed to several shades of red in a matter of seconds, while Naruto was doing the same. After an awkward pause, the two continued on to the estate, though in relative silence.
At long last, the two reached the gates of the compound.
"Hinata-sama, Hiashi-sama was worried about you!" the guards said. She turned to them.
"Tell him I was with Naruto. He'll understand." She said. The two guards scurried off. She turned back to Naruto.
"Well, I guess this is goodbye…see you tomorrow." She said and ran off. Naruto stood there for a moment and was about to leave until she came back and kissed him on the cheek before running off again.
'I gave him a kiss on his cheek and he didn't freak out!' she screamed in her mind over and over while blushing a dark shade of red.
'Did Hinata…just kiss me…on my cheek?' he tried to process. He, too, was blushing.
"Yes child…that is one of the many wonders of life…love. And judging from the way you're blushing, I'd say you like her." The soft voice said.
"Yeah kid, even I can tell you like her, and I'm nowhere as near good as she is when it comes to this type of thing." The other said.
'Okay, okay I do like her; now just leave me alone about it. And who are you two?' he asked.
"All in due time, child." The softer voice said. Naruto shook his head and decided to get to the Hokage's office and talk to Dad about the voices.
Naruto reached the office in five minutes by jumping from building to building and crashing through the window. He was hoping to scare his father, but he didn't even look up from his own paperwork.
"Hello Naruto. Next time, use the door." He said. Naruto sweat dropped.
"Uhm, Dad…there's something I want to talk to you about." At this, Minato looked up and created a clone to do the paperwork for him.
"What is it son? Tell me what happened." He said.
"Well, Hinata and I were eating at Ichiraku Ramen-" he began when Minato interrupted.
"Aww, you took her on a date? That's so adorable! My son is growing up-" he teased.
"Dad, this is important!" he roared. Minato waved his hand.
"Fine, continue." He said.
"And while I was sitting there, I heard two voices in my head. One sounded real soft, and the other sounded rather gravelly." Naruto said. Minato leaned forward, all business now.
"Naruto, was there anything specific they talked about?" he asked.
"Well, besides them teasing me about liking Hinata-don't interrupt, Dad-the soft one talked about the 'wonders of life' while the other talked about death a lot. Then they got into an argument about who was the strongest out of the ten…Dad, what's wrong?" Naruto said. Minato had blanched when he said that.
"Naruto, I want you to meditate like you normally do, right now." Minato said. Naruto shrugged, got into his position, and started to meditate.
He appeared in a small forest, like normal. Only one thing was amiss…there was a dirt road leading through the trees. As far as Naruto had remembered, there was no road in his mindscape. He followed it to a clearing.
There were two rocks with chains in the clearing. However, there were no occupants for said chains. Naruto scratched his head in confusion, until he heard a voice behind him that almost made him piss himself.
"Boo." the gravelly voice said in his ear. Normally, it wouldn't even startle the blonde ninja, but the person…demon…thing had a voice that radiated death. The aura behind him emitted death as well. It clearly said: "I eat, breathe and live death. I would kill you right now if I could."
Naruto turned to find a male about six inches taller than him with several scars running across his face. He wore all black, but had blood red wings.
"That's not nice, Andorra." The other figure emerged from behind the male. She was obviously female and wore all light blue. Unlike the male, she had white wings like an angel.
"I don't care, Katuru." He replied. Right about then, Naruto left his mindscape. He turned to his Dad and relayed the events. His father paled.
"Dad, what's happening?" he asked hesitantly.
"Naruto, you are the next person to be chosen to hold Andorra the Death Angel and Katuru the Life Angel."