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Chapter 7- Trap Detection
"Ah it's a perfect morning not a cloud in sight" Naruto thought giddy as he walked the main street of Konoha. He had prepared the whole test the night before for his team. He sent a clone to each of their houses about an hour ago saying to meet him at the forest of death which was training ground forty-four. The clone he sent to Nawaki's house was dispelled by a punch from Tsunade and a threat that if he did the same damage he had done to Nawaki a second time she would make sure he would go through three times the amount of pain.
"The forest of death is the perfect place for this kind of test, they will have to dodge my traps while staying away from the deadly animals through out the forest" Naruto thought. He was going to be an hour late though to show up because first he needed to pick up a couple head set radios so he could talk with his team or they could spread out in the forest to cover more ground.
Once he had gotten the radios, still about forty minutes remained before he had to meet his team so he decided to go train. Team five sat in the clearing before the forest of death waiting for Naruto.
"Where is he, if he doesn't get here soon I am going to kick his ass" Nawaki shouted jumping up to his feet. He wanted to get the test started already passing it so he could go to the party his sister had set up for him. Kushina and Shisui were both invited, their sensei was to but he still had not shown up yet so he could tell him.
"Calm down Nawaki, he will be here when he has everything he needs. We only just got back yesterday so he probably needs supplies for this test" Shisui said calmly. Shisui sat in a meditative poise in the grass with his eyes locked on Nawaki who was pacing back and forth.
"Damn it stop that it's annoying" Kushina told Nawaki. The pacing was driving her nuts, she was trying to think of ways to get their sensei back but she couldn't with Nawaki bothering her.
"Mind your own business" Nawaki shouted. He turned in her direction getting met with a fist into his gut doubling him over before a kick to the face sent him into one of the many gate's of the forest of death. Nawaki did not get up right away but Kushina did not care all she did was sit back down to think once again.
"Not matter how strong our sensei is I will get him back at least once" Kushina thought crossing her arms. She knew it had to be something he would not expect or it would not work but that was the thing, what would he not expect to come from her.
None of team five sensed Naruto who was perched in a high tree above the gate Nawaki had collided with. He looked down chuckling at his team.
"They really do like fighting, it might become a problem in the long run but I will deal with it later when I feel that it gets out of control. I better go meet them or they may attack me to" Naruto thought as he landed next to Nawaki who was slowing lifting himself up. He jumped from the sudden appearance of his sensei making his head collide with the metal gate giving him a nice bump.
"what the hell tell us when your going to appear out of no where" Nawaki shouted rubbing the back of his head from the pain. Kushina shot up out of her sitting position at Naruto who's eyes widened not believing that she actually was trying to hit him. He noticed Shisui slowly got up from his meditative position with a sigh.
"This isn't going to work Kushina-channnn" Naruto said catching her fist in his hand. Kushina swung her other arm around trying to get him but it was quickly deflected as well. She jumped back giving herself some room to think about how she was going to attack. She didn't get the time however as Naruto appeared behind her pinning her arms behind her back. He leaned forward to her ear breathing heavily in it to tease her. Kushina's face became crimson from the contact.
"Now Kushina the test did not start yet so calm down and maybe I will give you something special" Naruto said. Kushina's face got even darker after the comment, she began to feel dizzy not knowing why.
"Your so fun to mess with" Naruto whispered in her ear. He released her as he walked to the gate Nawaki had been at but he now stood near Kushina and Shisui. He could hear that Kushina was grumbling, while Nawaki sported a big old grin as he looked at her.
"Stupid sensei, why do I always feel weird when he is near me like that. He is the only one that I get the feeling from when he is close to me" Kushina thought. She quickly pushed those thoughts out of her head as their sensei began to speak or he would have if Nawaki did not interrupt him.
"Hehe Kushina did you think sensei was going to give you a kiss" Nawaki said. He began imitating what a kiss looked like but before long his face met the ground curiosity of Kushina's fist to the top of his head.
"Shut up you idiot I do not want anything from him and I especially don't want a kiss from him" Kushina shouted. Her face was covered in a blush, it looked like she was mad but probably was from embarrassment. She continued to stomp on his back taking the cry's of pain from Nawaki as a sign that she was doing her job right. Naruto knew he had to stop this before Nawaki got hurt, he could not let any of them injure each other before his test.
"I could give you a kiss if you want" Naruto said in a serious tone trying to hide the laughter he held in. He could not wait for her reaction to come from what he just announced. Out of the corner of his eye he caught Shisui looking calm as ever. He must of known what he was trying to do.
"Wha-what bu-but" Kushina stopped stomping on Nawaki as she turned to look at Naruto. Her face was dark red just like her hair with no signs of turning back anytime soon. She could not believe that he just said that because she did not know how to respond to it. She was not expecting him to come right out and ask her. A couple moments later though the blush faded from her face as it was replaced by a scowl.
"Your messing with me aren't you?" Kushina growled out as a grin appeared on Naruto's face.
"Yep, but enough of the teasing, here" Naruto said as he pulled out three head sets for them to use. Nawaki had gotten back on to his feet when Naruto had caught Kushina's attention. Nawaki, Kushina and Shisui caught the head sets as they were thrown to them. They were confused but they strapped them on anyways.
"What are these for sensei" Shisui asked. Nawaki had been about to ask but did not get the chance to.
"Those headset are so I can communicate with you guys in the forest behind me. You can also use them to communicate with each other. Your goal for this test is to find me without setting off any of the traps in the forest. If you set off a trap I can change my hiding position every time you activate a trap meaning the test will get longer. Your second goal will be once you find me, you have to fight me for about a minute. Not very long I know but the point of this test is detection" Naruto explained. All of team five nodded their heads as they walked up to the gate that Naruto was standing next to.
"Good luck I hope you like my traps" Naruto said grinning. He was about to dispel but Nawaki stopped him a moment before he could.
"Wait sensei, after this test is over my sister wanted me to invite my team to my party. Kushina and Shisui are already going to be their so would you come" Nawaki asked.
"Sure why not as long as Tsunade doesn't try and kill me" Naruto said. Nawaki nodded his head as Naruto went up in a plume of smoke indicating he had been a shadow clone the whole time.
"I guess we can begin" Kushina said. He never told them when to begin but it did not really matter. They jumped into the forest a second later.
"I think we should split up because we can cover more ground easier and if we find sensei tell the other two through the radios" Shisui said. Kushina and Nawaki nodded as they split up. Shisui went straight ahead as Kushina went left and Nawaki went right. They were being very observant as they went because they did not want to hit any of sensei's traps.
Nawaki had to much on his mind though because when he jumped to the next branch a trip wire sprung breaking in two making his eyes widen.
"Shit already" Nawaki shouted. Multiple kunai came at him from all angles so he did the only thing that came to mind dropping to the forest floor but that must have been precisely what Naruto thought the person would have done as a big pit opened up covered in explosive tags.
He was about to fall in the pit but he caught the side of it as his body hung down into the pit. As he climbed out he thought he was in the clear, though luck was not on his side when one of the kunai that were launched from the previous traps fell into the pit igniting the explosive tags.
Nawaki's eyes widened as he stumbled away from the pit as fast as he could, a second later the area was lit with a white light as several trees were uprooted and launched in multiple directions. Nawaki had gotten out of the main blast radius but was still hit with the force of it flinging him about ten feet away from the pit face planted into the side of a tree.
"I have to worry more about sensei's tests then dieing in the field against the enemy" Nawaki groaned. He fell on to his back trying to catch his breath, it had hardly been five minutes and a trap almost killed him already.
Unknown to Nawaki a Naruto clone sat up in a tree a little ways away watching everything that he did. He wasn't the only one being watched Shisui and Kushina were being watched to. The reasons the clones were watching them was to make sure none of them died and to provide another challenge before they reached the real Naruto.
"I can't stop now, I got to find sensei" Nawaki shouted. He quickly got up darting in the direction he had been earlier before the trap had been set off. He was paying more attention now to his surroundings managing to disable a couple traps without setting any off.
Shisui was doing even better then Nawaki was because he had set no traps off yet but disabled around eight traps already.
"Sensei sure filled this forest with traps, one wrong move and I am dead. I don't think he would let it come to that though" Shisui thought. He missed the next branch having to opt for the next one or land on the forest floor. He landed on the next branch missing the see through trip wire he sprung but he was more concerned by the giant spider that now hung down in front of him. Pulling out several kunai launching them at the spider hitting it in two of it's eye's, as the others were deflected by it's leg.
"This thing is not like a normal spider" Shisui thought trying to come up with a plan but a plan was given to him as fireballs came at him from above and from all sides. Shisui jumped to the side quickly using another tree as cover, he knew that his body would have burns when this was over but he would be fine enough to continue.
Two of the fireballs slammed into the spider burning it to a crisp as it dropped down to the forest floor dead before it even made contact. The rest of the fireballs hit the trees in the area as the fire spread like wild fire through the area. The flames came around the tree Shisui was hiding behind starting to burn the sleeves of his shirt but before the fire could reach his shirt completely the fire was extinguished by water that came out of four activated seals on a couple trees.
"Thank you sensei" Shisui thought. He was very grateful that Naruto had set up countermeasures just incase his traps had gotten out of control.
He stepped back near the spot he had stood before noticing the now dead spider below or what was left of it.
"I'm lucky I wasn't hit, I would look like that spider right now" Shisui said. He inspected the area seeing nothing he could use continued his trek through the forest being even more careful of his surroundings now.
He missed the seals that were set off from the water. He jumped in mid air to land on the next branch but before he could reach it a force slammed into him sending his body smack down into the forest floor which did not feel very good possibly two broken ribs from the impact maybe more.
"Crap I wasn't expecting that, what happened" Shisui groaned. He could not get up it felt like a couple tons were placed on his back making him unable to move at all.
He was only able to lift his head enough for him to get a glance at the area. What he saw were seals on almost every tree barely visible even to the most hawk like eyes.
"How are we supposed to find him and complete this test if his traps are almost undetectable. At least I am the only one trapped here, it was a good idea to split up after all" Shisui thought. He was in a lot of pain but he would bear it, it was a good thing he landed in high grass even though he still hit the ground it was a softer landing then if he collided with complete dirt ground.
"Those seals activated at the worst possible time" a Naruto clone thought sighing as it smacked it's forehead. He was going to get yelled at from Tsunade especially since Shisui was going to be at the party later.
"I better go release him so he can at least get up and not get eaten by the wild life in the area" the clone thought. It jumped down to the forest floor putting a hand on the base of a tree. A second later all the seals grew dim in the area before completely going out as the weight was lifted.
Shisui noticed the change of weight immediately as he slowly got up into a sitting position holding his side as pain shot up him. He knew he could not continue anymore by the state he was in but he had to so he was about to call one of his team mates for help but a hand landed on his shoulder before he could ask for anything.
"You did enough, you pass" the clone said. Shisui turned his head slightly towards him to get a better look at his sensei.
"What about Kushina and Nawaki" Shisui asked.
"Don't worry about them, you know how to detect traps really well so you pass but they have not yet. You are going to the hospital now to get treated but don't worry I will pick you up for Nawaki's party later" Naruto said. What he said was true Shisui had great detection capabilities probably because of him being an uchiha but who knows. His best traps were laid out further in to bad Shisui got hurt to much to continue on.
Shisui nodded in understanding, even knowing himself that continuing would be impossible.
"Shouldn't you make a clone to take me though, I mean you can't just leave them here with all of your traps alone. Unless you are a clone" Shisui said. Naruto nodded to the last part hoisting Shisui on to his back disappearing without a trace a moment later.
"I don't even know where I am going" Kushina grumbled. She had turned back when she heard a muffled yell come from the radio that sounded like Shisui. She needed to make sure he was ok.
She stopped on the next branch disabling the trigger for a trap that was set on the branch before moving on. The forest was like a maze but without a direction. It was too dense to really see much any which way.
Her thoughts were cut off as she landed on the next branch head long into Nawaki as they both tumbled to the ground in a heap. They both groaned as they entangled from each other.
"Watch were your going Kushina, you could have killed us both. Why are you going this direction anyway didn't you go left?" Nawaki said a little angry at being knocked out of a tree.
"Shut up I came back this way when I heard Shisui yell over the radio" Kushina said punching Nawaki in the arm.
Nawaki opted to shut up because they were both here for the same reason to help Shisui out of what ever trouble he had gotten into. He began looking all over the area they were in feeling a chakra build up around them. Kushina felt it to as she looked all over as well, they could not see nothing though.
"I guess it's time for the next faze of the test" Naruto thought. As he appeared from behind a tree near Nawaki and Kushina making them take a couple steps back.
"I thought we had to come find you, why are you here" Kushina asked. They knew something was up when a grin appeared on his face making them gulp.
"The test has changed slightly since I took Shisui captive" Naruto replied pulling out Shisui from behind the tree he had stepped out from. His hands were tied as were his legs. Their were no noticeable injuries anywhere on him.
"They must of heard Shisui earlier if they came this way so this clone here will be their test if they take the bait they fail but if they don't then there is one more part of the test left which is going to be my favorite" Naruto thought chuckling. He was definitely enjoying himself toying with fresh genin.
"Why are you holding him hostage, I thought this was supposed to be a trap detection test" Kushina said.
"It is but I decided to add another part to the test. This will show me if your ready for actual battles in war because you have to fight while watching your surroundings for any danger. So come and try to take him back" Naruto said from his position beside Shisui.
Nawaki threw multiple kunai at Naruto following it up with a couple shuriken directly behind the kunai.
"Shinra Tensei" Naruto said as the kunai and shuriken were inches from him flinging back towards Nawaki. Lucky for him that he knew something like that would happened so he was able to move out of the way in time.
Naruto quickly turned his attention back to Kushina as a chain rushed at him from the ground.
"Crap I forgot that she could do that" Naruto thought jumping back a good distance away giving enough time for Nawaki to grab the clone that looked like Shisui jumping back to land next to Kushina.
"When did you learn that" Naruto asked. He was shocked because he did not think Kushina would know that at such a young age already.
"I figured out how to do it on that mission we were on. I still don't know how I can do it but I can still use it against you" Kushina said grinning. Around five chains shot forward at Naruto making him deflect one of them as he charged at them to show that she still needed practice with the move. The four remaining chains tried to wrap around him but he just vanished as he appeared behind Kushina kicking her in the back sending her towards a tree but she never hit the tree as Nawaki appeared in the path catching her before impact. He placed her back on to her feet getting ready for another round with their sensei. Shisui was leaned up against the tree behind them.
"Kushina are you ok, can you still fight?" Nawaki asked. He could tell that she was winded and tired being hit around like that. She wasn't a person to give up though so she got back into her fighting stance.
"I'm good just protect Shisui so sensei can not get anywhere near him" Kushina said. She glanced at Nawaki catching the nod he sent her way. Nawaki looked back towards the downed form of Shisui realizing something.
"That yell over the radio sounded like Shisui was in pain but here he looks to be perfectly fine" Nawaki thought. His eyes widened realizing that it was one of his clones that would probably explode. He launch forward grabbing Shisui by his shirt tossing him quite the distance away so Naruto could not use it against them.
Kushina looked on shock and dumb founded that Nawaki had just tossed their team mate across the clearing while Naruto grinned in approval finally making some progress with them.
"Why did you do that" Kushina said angrily.
"I did it because it was a clone made by our sensei to explode. Remember what he did against us during the genin test, I believe he was trying to do the same thing again to see if we learned anything" Nawaki explained. Kushina finally understood so she turned back to Naruto thinking the test was finally over.
"Is the test over now since you can't pull one over on us now" Kushina said taunting him. Naruto just stood perfectly still, with the grin still plastered on his face.
"Nope you first have to find a way out of this situation" Naruto said. A horde of clones popped out of everywhere surrounding Kushina and Nawaki on all ends. They started going through hand signs as the gravity began to increase around them pushing their bodies harder into the ground by the second. They were still standing but not for long because their legs were starting to give out so they needed to come up with a plan and fast.
"What should we do" Nawaki said hoping Kushina had a plan to get out of this mess they were in. Kushina began to think after a couple seconds finally coming up with a good enough plan that might work.
Ten chains shot out wrapping around ten clones before the chains launched them into the others giving them a hole to escape through but they had to hurry as the clones started glowing white. Just as they made it a couple feet away the area exploded outwards taking out trees and even some of the ground by the amount of clones that had went off. When Naruto noticed how big the explosion was going to be launched himself in front of his team slapping his hands on the ground making a rock wall rise up out of the ground blocking the explosion.
"Thanks sensei" Nawaki said falling on his ass huffing from exhaustion. Kushina was mad but she saw how he protected them from his jutsu knowing that it was a little too much for them to handle, so she decided to forgive him for now.
Naruto lowered the rock wall once the explosion had ceased. The amount of damage done to the surrounding trees and ground probably will never be fixed completely because right now it looked like a small wasteland.
"I don't think I should have made so many exploding clones" Naruto said sweat dropping not really knowing that it would cause this much damage to the area.
"You went way to far sensei but where is the real Shisui anyway" Nawaki asked from his position on the ground.
"Oh him he is in the hospital because he broke a couple of ribs falling mid jump into the ground" Naruto said rubbing the back of his head.
"How did he fall mid jump" Kushina asked. She was curious because most people did not just fall for no reason so sensei must have done something. Naruto saw the accusing look Kushina shot his way.
"Hey it wasn't completely my fault, he stumbled in range of my gravity seal that I placed up over a area extending the flux in gravity. The seals had activated when he was in mid air making him land hard on the ground not able to get up" Naruto explained. He saw them sigh, they probably wished they had a different sensei at the moment.
"Your crazy sensei" Nawaki says standing up.
"At least you guys didn't get hurt as bad and you did learn something. You knew Shisui was a clone and you guys were able to detect my traps after a bit of work so my training helped" Naruto replied. Team five began their walk out of the forest.
"You could teach us a little differently maybe so we don't end up hurt every training session" Kushina said. She felt so soar and it was only about five in the afternoon so she still was going to go to Nawaki's party
"It doesn't matter at least it is over with for now. I got to go home to start the party with my sister, you coming sensei" Nawaki asked. Naruto told them he would go to the party later after he picked up Shisui from the hospital first. He vanished without a trace a moment later leaving Nawaki and Kushina to leave the forest by themselves.
Naruto quickly went to pick up the present from his place he had been saving to give to Nawaki on this day. After he got the wrapped present from his place he went to the hospital picking up Shisui for the party.
"Next time no gravity seals sensei" Shisui said as they approached Nawaki and Tsunade's house.
"I wasn't planning on using them anymore in training sessions anyway because they are unpredictable" Naruto explained to Shisui knocking on the door. The door opened revealing Tsunade standing their. She noticed Shisui was leaning on Naruto for support.
"Did you hurt him in one of your training sessions again" Tsunade said growling.
"No I didn't, one of my seals that were laid out went off at the wrong time sending him into the ground hard. So I decided I am not using them anymore when training them because it is to dangerous" Naruto said putting a hand on Shisui's shoulder about to lead him in.
He didn't get the chance as the door flung open more revealing Jiraiya who looked to be a bit tipsy already.
"Come in the party just started" said a drunk Jiraiya leading both Naruto and Shisui into the house as Tsunade closed the door behind them. Jiraiya led them to the living room where he noticed Kushina and Nawaki were hanging around Jiraiyas team talking about random things.
Minato was sitting awfully close to Kushina but her sight was set on Naruto who just walked in the door with Shisui. She and Nawaki bolted off the coach running to Shisui to check him over.
After an hour of talking it began to get late so they ate dinner. Having dinner with Tsunade and Jiraiya was one thing he never really got to do in his time. He made sure to enjoy every minute of it.
"I'm going to change things and make them better no matter what" Naruto thought as he looked around at the dinner table at all the faces. Kushina was sitting next to him on his right while Shisui sat to his left. They began discussing the training he had his team go through as did Jiraiya before they began to eat cake.
Once the cake was gone they each handed Nawaki a present for his birthday. He was sitting on the coach as he opened each and every present very excited by all the things he got. What caught his eye though was the wrapped present Naruto presented him a moment later.
"This is a special gift from me Nawaki" Naruto said as Nawaki began to tear the paper off. Once the paper was off he opened the box revealing a Katana with a white hilt and a blackened blade.
"Thank you sensei" Nawaki said memorized by the sword not expecting to get a present like this.
"Nice sword it looks very expensive" Jiraiya commented studying the swords design as he stood next to Naruto. Naruto turned his head to take a glance at him.
"It wasn't to expensive but I wanted to give him something nice for the training I had them go through" Naruto said. He liked training them because it gave him something to do.
"What about us sensei" Kushina asked. They all went through the same training sessions that Nawaki had.
"You will get something on your birthdays just like Nawaki has but it won't be the same thing" Naruto explained not wanting to say anymore about their gifts for when the time came they would receive their gifts. He noticed out of the corner of his eye how Minato was staring at Kushina.
"You should tell us the story of how you took down that army of ninja before they could reach Whirlpool" Jiraiya said putting a hand on his shoulder.
"Nahh, I don't think it is such a good idea" Naruto replied. He caved in though when Kushina and the rest of the room said they wanted to hear it to. So he sat down next to Nawaki beginning to tell them about the battle leaving out the Rinnegan abilities putting other things in their place but the short time to change it was caught by a couple people in the room mainly Tsunade, Jiraiya, Kushina and Minato kind of felt something was wrong with the story.
After he was done telling his story he looked around the room at all the shocked faces. They could not believe how easily he had taken down an army. Kushina had sat down next to him about half way through the story but now she was leaning on him out cold. A shadow clone quickly materialized in the room picking up Kushina taking her home for the night.
Jiraiya began his tails of adventure explaining some of his many battles against ninja to that date. His stories lasted quite awhile but everyone enjoyed themselves. Well Nawaki and Shisui were having fun but the rest were sound asleep so Jiraiya decided to take them home after wishing Nawaki a happy birthday one more time.
Shisui left a couple minutes later and then he began to leave to but he caught sight of Tsunade pulling Nawaki towards the back.
The party began to wane down so Tsunade decided to give Nawaki her gift to him now leading him on to a little balcony out back of the house.
"Why do you want to give my present to me out here nee-chan" Nawaki asked.
"The reason I want to give it to you out here is because I want to know what your dream is first" Tsunade said. Nawaki thought about it for a second quickly finding the answer because he always wanted to become it since he was young.
"My dream is to gain the respect of everyone, to become the greatest hokage ever so I can protect everyone in the village" Nawaki said. He smiled knowing this is what he truly wanted and he would go forth full tilt to accomplish this.
Tsunade smiled as she slowly began to take off her grand father's necklace placing it around Nawaki's neck gaining a shocked look from him.
"Why are you giving me this nee-chan I thought you would never give it away" Nawaki asked twirling the jewel part of the necklace between two of his fingers.
"It is to help you accomplish your goal, with that necklace you are sure to become hokage" Tsunade replied as she leaned forward giving him a quick kiss on the forehead making him blush from embarrassment.
"Nee-chan someone may be watching" Nawaki said pouting. Tsunade took a step back to give him some room as she stared at her brother in the dimming sun light.
"I'll make you and grand father proud" Nawaki said smiling.
"I know you will" Tsunade replied ruffling his hair. Unknown to them Naruto was standing behind the door that lead to the balcony listening to every word that was spoken.
"I will make sure you survive Nawaki no matter what, you deserve a second chance. You were an innocent who died in war but this time you will live on" Naruto said. He slowly walked away from the door out of the apartment being the last one in the house besides the two senju.
He shut the door behind him as he walked into the streets away from the house looking more determined then ever.
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