Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto
Author's Note: I won't be able to update for a while because my mom ordered me to go home until 18th or so August (I'll go home in the evening of 9th August). Here goes the bell test you have waited so far! But before that…read the omake first!
Omake:
Naruto's Prank Mishaps 1
With a wide grin 8 years old Naruto jumped from the big window of Sandaime's office. Concentrating his chakra on his palms and feet, he calculated the right time to cling on the wall. He quickly stood up on the wall and ran toward the ground. With a chuckle the blonde boy escaped from the Hokage tower and vanished into the darkness of the night.
The next morning, with a binocular on his hands, Naruto spied sandaime's office. The old man should've entered his office in about 5 seconds.
'5…4…3…'
The door opened revealing the old Hokage and a black haired woman that Naruto wasn't familiar with.
"Damn I miscalculated the timing," Naruto mumbled. "Oh well," with that there was a loud explosion coming from Hokage's tower, followed by series of loud sneezes and curses. "That's strange…I'm pretty sure that I inserted itching powder not sneezing powder." Naruto frowned. Taking out his backpack he opened it and searched for his itching powder. He took out a bottle of white powder and gave an inaudible gasp when he read the name of the powder. "Super Sensitive Pepper? Guess I was too much in hurry when I snatched this bottle."
Naruto went back to his spying and saw that the guards that were stationed there ran toward Hokage's office… and sneezed violently just like their leader and the unknown woman.
Naruto looked down at the transparent bottle on his hand. "Sensitive indeed…" he smirked mischievously.
That was the first time Anko met with Naruto's prank. Sandaime, Anko, and the chuunin guards weren't able to perform their duties (and to sleep too) in about 2 days straight, because the medic-nin couldn't help them with their violent sneezing problem.
The next day Naruto ordered a new batch of 'Super Sensitive Powder' and put them in his hidden cabinet where he usually put his 'highly dangerous prank substances' for his next prank.
End.
Part Seven The Bell TestNaruto knocked the sandaime's office door loudly and entered the room when he heard a 'Come in' from the leader of the Leaf. The old Hokage didn't look up at the blond and instead searching something on the mount of paperwork piles in his table.
Inwardly, Naruto wondered why did the old man accept this job since it seemed that it just brought headache judging from the frustrated look plastered on the old man's face.
"Ah, here it is!" Sandaime cheered joyfully when he found what he searched for, a small scroll with Hokage's signature. "This is our contract. We only need to seal it off with our bloods," Naruto nodded. He carefully read the scroll sentence by sentence. It wasn't like he thought that the old man couldn't be trusted, but more thinking that he probably forgot to write some of the conditions. After giving a double check, Naruto bit his thumb and smeared his blood in the spot above his name. He gave it to the Leaf's leader who quickly did the same like him, only it was above his own name, instead of Naruto's.
"I also have transferred the money to your account, but I haven't yet sorted out your parents' money. It will take almost a week to deal with your inheritance," he explained. The blode genin candidate only shrugged as he took the contract scroll.
He tuned and touched the door knob when sandaime called him, "And Naruto, please don't prank Kakashi the next time."
"I won't make any prank for the next meeting, but after that…" he trailed off before giving a smirk to the old leader.
Sarutobi sighed as he watched the Kyuubi vessel exited his office. "Kakashi, I can't do anything for you more than this. From now on you're on your own," he mumbled.
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Naruto held back his laughter when he saw a bedraggled genin candidate coming closer. The dark haired boy had a flock of his hair singed and 2 cuts on his clothes. He was a bit dirty as well even though it was nothing compared to what he looked like 5 days ago. A scowl marred his face.
The Uchiha heir has arrived at training field 7. The young shinobi gave a death glare that was of course being ignored by the blond, much to his irate. Sasuke sat on the ground below a tree that he deemed far enough from Naruto and settled there trying to ignore the smirking shinobi who currently played with 2 foxes around him. They were different from the foxes he last seen Naruto with, he noted.
15 minutes later, a more disheveled looking genin candidate arrived. She appeared to be pretty tired and her pink hair was a mess. She didn't even give a look at her crush, something that Sasuke was both glad and curious at the same time, but understood later, as she stalked angrily to the young blond.
Naruto whistled at her state, she looked like she was dragged out of her bed and didn't have time to prepare. "Forget to set up your alarm, Haruno?" he chuckled and quickly stood up and doing back flip to avoid the upcoming punch. His foxes jumped to avoid being hit too and ran to the forest. "You're too slow, Haruno. One might think that you are already over 50 years old," he mocked. It was really easy to get a rise from her and he really enjoyed making people irritated, especially when it was Leaf citizen or his enemy.
"I DIDN'T FORGET TO SET UP MY ALARM! AND THIS IS YOUR ENTIRE FAULT FOR RUINING MY FAVORITE CLOTHES!" she punched again, but Naruto jumped to the tree above them. Her inner Sakura was cheering for her host to give some harsh lesson to the prankster.
"Now, now, I just help to fix your fashion sense," he said cheekily. His foxes yipped in agreement, but Sakura's mind wasn't on the animals.
"MY FASHION SENSE? MY FASHION SENSE?" she was practically shrieking now. Naruto rubbed his ear to add her anger. "WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT GIRL FASHION SENSE, YOU MALE… MALE…" she couldn't find a word to describe her loathe toward the boy above him. "DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG I WAS PREPARING MYSELF FOR SASUKE-KUN?"
"Nope. Nuh-uh," Naruto shook his head in mirth at the panting girl below him.
The pink haired girl pulled her hair angrily, making her hair messier than before, much to the 2 boys' amusement, although the Uchiha boy hid it well with his indifferent look. She screamed in anger loudly before she went away from Naruto in rage. 15 minutes later she already back to bug Sasuke, much to the boy's irate and Naruto's mirth.
10 minutes later and Kakashi still wasn't there, so Naruto made a shadow clone to replace him when he used the time to train, without the other 2 genin candidates' knowing.
2 hours later the 2 genins were on the verge on searching Kakashi and mutilated him. After dealing with Naruto's traps, Sasuke really wasn't in the mood for waiting the silver haired jounin while an annoying fangirl budged him all the time. Sakura was torn between her anger for waiting the jounin instructor and was with the annoying blonde boy (she didn't know that it was a kage-bunshin playing with the foxes that returned from the forest after they deemed that the situation was safe again), and happiness to have more time with her precious Sasuke-kun.
A loud yell from the forest gained their attention and the 2 genins looked around to find the source. Their jounin instructor appeared out of thin air in front of them. A cut was made in his jounin uniform and there was mud that covered his feet. The jounin looked rather annoyed as he gazed at the grinning blond in the tree.
"YOU'RE LATE!" Sakura shrieked as loud as she could, making Sasuke who was closest to her winced.
Kakashi ignored her as he gazed above him. "I thought that sandaime-sama has warned you not to make any prank this time," he gritted his teeth in annoyance although the young shinobis couldn't see it because of his mask.
"I did promise him that I won't make any prank this time, but you see…" Naruto's (bunshin's) grin grew wider. "The traps you just met with are the remnants of the last traps that I built 5 days ago. That way I don't break my promise," Naruto remarked much to the annoyance of the 3 people below.
"Fine, fine. Let's get it done quickly. The sooner I can get you out of my sight, the better," Naruto shrugged before poofed out. "WHAT THE?" a second later Naruto the real one) emerged from the forest, walking as if he owned the world.
"So, what's the test?" The blond said cheerfully, much to cheerful for the their tastes.
Giving a glare to Naruto after he understood what exactly happened, Kakashi coughed and brought forth 2 bells gaining their attention. "There are 2 bells here," he sent a glare to Naruto's direction when the kid rolled his eyes and looked at the silver haired jounin with a 'Yeah, I already know it. No need to say the obvious' look. "To pass as a genin each of you have to get a bell from me."
"But Kakashi-sensei, there are only 2 bells!" the pink haired girl commented.
"Well, I did say 'There are TWO bells here', didn't I?" after being irritated by Naruto's traps and the reminder that he couldn't do anything to pay Naruto back for it, Kakashi wasn't in the mood of any interruption. He really didn't understand how this blonde kid could get under his skin so much without trying to lift any finger. He was usually cool, calm, and collected (AN: yeah, right!) not easily angered by something trivial like being pranked!
The girl blushed at the reprimand. "But—"
The son of Konoha's White Fang held out his hand. "The point is… the one who can't get any bell before 12 o'clock will be sent back to the academy."
Kakashi smiled when he saw the expected reaction. "WHAT!" Sakura shouted in shock. Sasuke was pale.
Naruto though, had to fight the urge to say 'Well, it's easy then. You 2 can try to get the bells while I go home and sleep'. He had said to sandaime that he would be Konoha's genin (this thought disgusted him), so he had to pass the test. He settled to yawn lazily as if there was nothing wrong in the world. Kakashi's eyebrow twitched at the sight.
"But you're a jounin. While we aren't even genin!" the Haruno girl cried out.
"That's why if you don't give your best, you won't make it, pinky!" Sakura twitched at the nickname. "The one who didn't get any bell won't get lunch!" at this Sakura groaned as her stomach grumbled. Sasuke looked annoyed while Naruto took out his bento with a grin.
"I have eaten this morning and already bring bento for lunch," 3 veins appeared on the shinobis' foreheads. The three were ready to castrate the blond.
"Anyway…you have to come to me with the intent to kill to succeed. Now go!" just as he said it a blur from his right rushed to the silver haired shinobi, surprising him. He blocked the attack with a punch and felt the blur latched unto his arm after avoiding his punch. Kakashi's eyes widened when he saw a red fox clutched his sleeve with its small claw and wring his uniform as if it was rabid dog.
"Thank you, chibi kitsune," a cheerful greeting came out of Naruto' mouth turned their attention to the blond. They gawked to see him taking out the bells from a brown fox's mouth and petted it, making it purred in satisfaction. The red fox in Kakashi's arm let him go and went to the young shinobi too, expecting to be petted like its friend. Naruto stood up and threw a bell to Kakashi. "I only need one," he grinned.
Kakashi had the urge to bang his head to the nearest tree. The annoying blond ruined his test! They were supposed to work together to get the bells to pass the test! And he couldn't say that he did it the wrong way, because there were no rules that forbid the use of animals and it was also a form of teamwork between the animal and the its master! And speaking of animals, his file didn't say something like this. Kakshi pondered for a while. The Hokage would kill him if he didn't pass the team. And his sensei in the underworld would come back to castrate him if his son didn't pass. So what should he do?
He couldn't say that this test was supposed to be a teamwork test too because it was too early to say that and they needed to understand it on their own.
He had to improvise…and quickly.
"Fine Naruto, you pass!" he muttered in annoyance. "Meet me in the bridge in Zankuha district tomorrow at 7 p.m. for our first mission." Sensei's son or not, he was itched to kill the annoying genin. "Wait, where's your hitae-ate?" Sasuke and Sakura observed him when they heard it and noticed that he was indeed not wearing his hitae-ate.
"In my flat. Why?"
"As a shinobi of Konoha you should wear them all the time," the jounin instructor reprimanded the scowling boy. "It is a sign that we proud of being Konoha's shinobi," a loud snort came from the young genin as he gave a chilly glare to Kakashi. Yondaime's pupil took a step back in surprise. He knew that Naruto didn't like Konoha and its citizen, but to detest it this much…
"Proud? Are you kidding? Why should I be proud to be a shinobi of this fucking village?" he hissed in rage.
"Then why did you become Konoha's shinobi if you hate it? You should just drop out of the academy!" Sakura yelled. Sasuke wondered about it too.
She froze when Naruto turned to her with narrowed eyes and even colder eyes. "Shut your blabbing mouth, Haruno. Or I'll make you shut up myself. This isn't your business, pinky." He scowled and left them. The 2 foxes followed their angry master.
Kakashi sighed and shook his head. 'Arashi-sensei, what should I do with your son? He's so…difficult.'
"Kakashi-sensei…" Kakashi looked up and met the frightened face of Sakura. He sighed inwardly. "Why did Uzumaki hate Konoha so much?"
Kakashi scratched his back. "I can't say why, but just know that he has the right to hate Konoha," he noticed that Sasuke paid attention to him, apparently he was intrigued by the blonde boy's act. "Let's finish the test. Since Naruto has passed it, there will be only one of you that will pass," at this Sasuke looked confident, while Sakura looked scared thinking that there was no way she could compete with her crush. Not only he was stronger than her, she also didn't want him to get mad at her if she bested him.
"Kakashi-sensei," she looked down timidly. "I-I…I think I'll pass this test. There is no way I can do it."
The said jounin almost groaned in exasperation. 'O, man… there goes my test!'
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"They passed," came the waited announcement from the silver haired jounin to his giddy comrades.
"Whoo! I told you they would pass!" a black haired jounin with brown eyes shouted happily thinking about the money he won. Some jounins groaned knowing that they lost their bet. "So, how did they do it?" the other also looked curious, even they who lost the bet.
Kakashi slouched on the chair and sighed. He scratched his back. "They passed, alright. Only it wasn't in the way any of us thought, so no one win the 2nd and 3rd bets, really." The 2nd bet was when they would realize the meaning of Kakashi's test. While the 3rd bet was who would realize the meaning of the test. The ones who thought that team 7 wouldn't pass didn't bet on the 2nd and 3rd and instead would bet on the 4th bet: when Kakashi would tell them they didn't pass. And the 5th bet: how Kakashi would humiliate them.
"What do you mean by that?" Asuma looked intrigued.
Kakashi sighed once again and recited how his test was ruined.
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Naruto rammed the tree in front of him in anger and watched in satisfaction as it gave off from the power he hit it with and dropped to the forest ground with a loud crack and created a local earthquake.
"Stupid Hatake!" he growled. "Stupid Haruno! They should go to hell!" The foxes around him yipped to soothe his anger. Naruto looked at the pleading looks the foxes gave him and sat on the ground. The foxes walked closer and circled him. The blond's face softened and he scoop one of them, a dark red fox with 4 white legs that looked as if the fox wore socks. He lifted the fox with his hands and brought him closer to his face. "I'm not angry with all of you, you know," Naruto smiled softly. It yipped and licked his face. "Hey!" it licked again. The other foxes jumped to him and played with Naruto.
Naruto laughed and spent his time playing with his foxes until they felt tired and slept around him. Laying on the ground below a tree, Naruto gazed at the sky. The stars were twinkling brightly in the dark sky. Naruto took out his contract scroll. "At least, we will be free soon," the fox inside him agreed.
TBC…
Whew. Part 7 is actually done! I wasn't in the mood to write these days (infact when I wrote this I wasn't in the mood to write anything) and instead using my time to read fanfictions and sleep.
Don't forget to give me your review! And remember, that I won't be able to update my fic before August 18th. I will have to read the information I have on LotR again before I can continue my fic HP and the Ranger. Damn, I shouldn't make too many OC characters there! I got a problem to remember all names.
Sometimes (most of the time) when I want to give reviews to some writer, the damn computers didn't let me. It irked me to no end when it happened. grmbljr
Q: if Sandaime died, then there would be no one who knew about the contract
A: As you can see, Naruto is already given the contract scroll. That would be his permission slip. The Hokage has signed it with his blood and Hokage's official stamp.
Q: Make it Naru/Anko pairing
A: Sorry to say, but I didn't plan to make any pairing (for Naruto and other main characters) here. Geez, why did everyone want pairing in every fic anyway. I don't want to make any pairing for Naruto because I tend to forget anything else when I have to make romance fic. Romance is just not my thing. Beside Naruto is only what? 12 years old! At this time, Naruto's attention isn't on girls, but how to become stronger. I'll think about it when Naruto is older, but for now no pairing for Naruto.