Hi sorry about the update length for some reason I just completely neglected this story for awhile. Most likely caused by my horrible lack of inspiration for what to write. Now this update is not saying that I'm going to be back and updates are going to start coming in on a regular basis, I was just able to come and write this chapter suddenly. Also the special swords that appeared earlier, I'm taking them out I found and finished the last book and some problems arose to create a confliction between story lines so I replaced what that man was doing with a high ranking technique.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or the twelve swords, I own any jutsu I make until proven someone else had it first, and I own the Akuma that I created.

Review Answering:

narutos vixen: I have actually been debating that ever since I started this story and I still don't have an answer for that. I know that I wont have him begin to fall in love with her or anything like that, but as far as will he treat her as just another person in his way while on his path to ultimate power or if he actually wants to be friends with her, I still haven't decided. I think I'm leaning more towards a neutral area with it though.

P5yCH0: While that maybe true they are fun and quite addictive, they hold my interest very easily. Hmm… maybe that is because I am easily distracted, oh well. I have actually only played one game where I was killed at the end and that was Mafia, which was a surprisingly good game (can't wait for Mafia 2^_^). At least that's all I can think of… if I have played any others than they didn't stick in my head.

Now for Chapter 5

Naruto walked into a clearing with a small lake next to it. He looked around and saw he was the only one here. He walked over to three large logs that were stuck in the ground, 'these have been infused with charka, I wonder for what reason.' He unclipped the strap holding his sword in place and brought the sword out in front of himself. He brought it back and swung it at the log. The sword hit the log and bounced off, 'as I thought, the charka was set here to be some sort of barrier. However, that still doesn't explain its purpose here.'

He walked away from the log and walked over to a tree on the edge of a clearing. 'If Kakashi's arrival patterns are as I calculated them, then I have enough time to get a few extra bits of sleep.' He made a clone to keep watch and curled up under a tree to sleep.

After about an hour Hinata walked into the clearing, she took a quick scan of the area and saw Naruto lying at the foot of a tree curled up in a ball. She sat down next to him and waited for Kakashi. Sasuke came about 5 minutes later he looked around saw Naruto and Hinata sitting next to each other talking. Naruto looked towards Sasuke and beckoned him to come over. Sasuke walked over and sat down, "What do you want?"

"Well no need to be so antisocial, any way I don't care what you do until Kakashi arrives just be careful and stay near here, because I think Kakashi may have made a few traps for us." Sasuke nodded and, got up, and walked over to another tree. He sat down and waited for Kakashi.

"Kakashi's here." Naruto stood up and turned to watch Kakashi come into the clearing "Kakashi-san you're late."

"Well you see I was almost here when I tripped and dropped my book which had fallen on a cart headed out of the country and I hadn't realized it so I had started to look for it when I remebered the cart so I had to chase the cart down and get my book back. After I had gotten my book I had realized what time it was and hurried here." Kakashi walked over to the three logs Naruto had inspected earlier. He pulled a small clock from his backpack and set it on a nearby stump. He pushed a big button on top, and turned to face them. "Alright, its set for noon, your goal today is to take these two bells from me before times up." He pulled two bells from his pocket and tied them to his belt.

Naruto looked at him "Sounds simple enough, one question though. There are only two bells so that means only two of us can pass right?"

"That is correct; I hope you guys didn't eat like I told you not to."

Naruto patted his stomach, "I did and I must say it was a very delicious breakfast."

Hinata laughed a little, "You didn't think we would fall for your trick did you Kakashi-san. You told us not to eat so that we would be weaker during the test. Besides everyone knows that if you're going to puke it is a lot better to puke something, rather than dry heaving. It's common knowledge." There was a small grumble from behind them. "Sasuke did you actually fall for this?"

"Shut up." Sasuke was holding his stomach. Naruto fell to the ground in laughter.

"How the hell did you pass if you fell for something as simple as this?" Naruto managed to gasp out.

Hinata also stood there laughing, she reached into her pack and pulled out a box of food. "I guess it's a good thing I anticipated this, Here you go." She handed the food to Sasuke. He took it with a grimace on his face. He opened it up and began to eat it. Kakashi stood there watching trying to keep a straight face, 'Well now what am I going to do with those lunches. My whole plan relied on them actually not eating. At least Hinata was thinking ahead and brought food for her team.' "Are we ready to get back to the test now?"

Naruto stood up taking in large amounts of air, and letting out small chuckles "I think so."

"Alright now you are allowed to use any weapon that you have with you, and remember the only way you will be able to get these bells is if you come at me with the intent to kill. Now we will start on my mark." Kakashi walked out a bit and turned to face everyone. "Begin." Everyone jumped into the trees. 'Well everyone seems hidden well enough.' he reached towards his pocket and noticed Naruto was standing in front of him, "You do realize you were supposed to hide when I gave the signal right?"

"Yeah but I think that I can fight pretty even with you, just in case you forgot about the classroom."

"You do realize that was a clone right, and that clones usually have a very small amount of power compared to your normal power, right?"

"Of course I noticed it was a clone, I'm not incompetent. I also know about the power limitations of a clone. You must not have noticed that I had been a clone when we fought. So common sense teaches us that if my clone can fight yours and not be decimated, than the real me can fight you.

"You make a valid point with that little speech but that wasn't anywhere close to how a real battle between us would go, and you have yet to actually see my full strength. As such I'm sure that your clone wasn't fighting at its fullest potential either." Kakashi got into a battle stance facing Naruto. "Lesson 1: Taijutsu."

Naruto reached up and unclipped the sword from his back, he swung it in Kakashi's direction, "The real fun begins now." He charged towards Kakashi and swung the sword in a wide arc towards Kakashi's chest. Kakashi took a quick step back and ducked under the swing running towards Naruto. Naruto watched Kakashi come towards him, he let the weight of the sword carry him in a circle. He quickly angled the blade in a more downwards direction so that it would cut into Kakashi's Left arm. Kakashi jumped back seeing the blade come towards him, but as he jumped back he grabbed a kunai and threw it towards Naruto. Naruto brought the sword in front of himself and blocked the kunai.

He took a quick look at the handle of the kunai as it fell and started to jump back. The kunai exploded as Naruto tried to jump away. The smoke cleared and the sword was lying on the ground where Naruto had just been. Kakashi, who was taken by surprise due to the disappearance of Naruto, was struck in the chest by a fist and was pushed back a few feet. Naruto picked up the sword and looked over to see that Kakashi had disappeared. "Kakashi I expected better of you. I just don't believe that you actually fought me instead of using a clone." Naruto quickly flung a few Kunai into a tree which Kakashi quickly jumped out of yelling, "Katon: Karyu Endan(Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet)" A giant flaming dragon came flying from Kakashi's mouth towards Naruto. 'Kyuubi, did I ever tell you how much I appreciate you teaching me?'

'No, but you can go ahead and tell me now.'

'Thank you so much, oh Queen of demons for blessing me with your knowledge.' Naruto quickly made some hand seals and yelled out "Suiton: Suijinheki (Water Release: Water Encampment Wall)" a large amount of water flew from the lake and wrapped Naruto in a pillar of water. The fire dragon hit the water and caused a large amount of steam to form. Naruto quickly made a few clones and sent them to attack Kakashi while he landed.

'You know that didn't sound very heart felt.'

'You can take it as you want, although I guess I could've phrased it differently.'

Kakashi saw the five clones charging towards him. He quickly threw some shuriken at the clones and called out Shuriken Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique). The shuriken hit two of the clones while the other three jumped out of their path, throwing kunai at Kakashi. Kakashi landed then jumped backwards to dodge the kunai. Kakashi quickly jumped into the trees to conceal himself from the clones. He threw a few kunai which hit another clone and jumped back into the forest. The two clones followed him a for a little bit satisfied that he was going right where the wanted him, they smiled at each other and disappeared.

Hinata quickly found Sasuke and jumped into the tree with him, "Hey, Naruto told me to get you and follow him." She turned away from him and jumped to another tree. Sasuke turned and followed her jumping from tree to tree. As he jumped time seemed to slow down as he watched Hinata get hit by what must be more than 50 kunai. As she fell she tried to yell something but was unable to, due to the three kunai logged in her neck. She hit the ground and moved no more. Sasuke quickly hid in a tree 'Shit, so this is the power of a jounin, she was stronger than me and got wiped out in a second. Shit, Shit, Shit, how the hell am I supposed to do anything?'

Sasuke heard a noise behind him; he quickly turned and saw Naruto coming towards him. Something didn't seem right though and he looked closer at him. He saw that Naruto was missing an arm and had multiple kunai lodged in his back. Naruto jumped and land in the tree, he sat down and chuckled "Looks like I got a bit too cocky, seems I'm still no match for a jounin at full power." He grimaced in pain as another spout of blood squirted out of his stump. "Looks like none of us are passing this round, where's Hinata I haven't been able to find her she was supposed to be with you."

Sasuke looked towards the ground and pointed at the figure of a mutilated Hinata on the ground. Naruto had to look multiple times before it sunk in that the thing on the ground was Hinata. "No way, that's impossible. She should have been stronger than that. How the hell could th-" at the sudden cutoff Sasuke turned to look at what had startled Naruto so much. He immediately looked away, however, the image of Naruto sitting there unmoving shooting blood from his neck where his head was supposed to be and the head sitting next to Sasuke staring up at him in shock would forever be burned into his mind. 'Shit I might really die out here, damn it, why me. I was supposed to be able to get revenge on my brother.'

Sasuke heard another noise coming from behind him only this time he new what it was and it was a sound he dreaded. He slowly turned to look and saw a very bloody Kakashi who seemed to be enjoying himself.

"Boo" Kakashi said in a very gutural and demonic voice, Sasuke stepped back in fear forgetting he was in a tree and fell to the ground with a loud thump. Kakashi jumped down after him and quickly swung a kunai at Sasuke's head. Sasuke watched in fear as the kunai came towards his head, and as it hit his head, he thought no more.

"Lesson 2: Genjutsu, now I have to find Hinata and Naruto. This is really turning into a pain in the ass.

Kakashi moved through the trees when more of Naruto's clones caught up with him he quickly destroyed them and ran off. He encountered a few small groups of clones, which he easily got rid of, as he traveled but eventually he landed in a small clearing, a demonic laugh came out of the darkness that surrounded him.

"I thought a great shinobi like you would know when they were walking right into a trap."

"Shit, Naruto where are you, show yourself?"

"Kakashi you above all people should know to never give away your position, especially if you are a shinobi."

Kakashi looked around quickly trying to distinguish where Naruto was located, he pulled a kunai from his pouch and readied himself.

'Alright Kyuubi are you ready?'

'Of course, this is gonna be fun.'

Hinata jumped back as Kakashi swung a kunai at her 'Shit, I thought Naruto had him distracted right now, and if Naruto can't hold kakashi and I can't beat Naruto than there's no way in hell I can beat him with strength. So I need to figure out a way to win using surprise or intelligence.' Hinata jumped into a tree and pulled a dagger from a sheath on her waist. The Dagger's blade was about 10 inches long decorated with strange curves and swirls that flowed up the blade and met at the tip. The handle was decorated in the form of an angel with feathery wings forming the cross guard. She quickly did some hand seals and the cut her thumb with the dagger, the blood ran over the blade and the pattern started to glow blue.

Kakashi pulled a handful of shuriken from his pouch and threw them at the tree that Hinata was sitting in. She quickly jumped out and skidded on the ground, she did some hand seals and squatted very low to the ground facing towards kakashi making a slash on the thumb of her other hand with a different dagger. This one was similar to the first one that she had pulled out only the pattern on the blade was a lot more rigid on its path to the tip and the handle was that of a skeleton with its arms outstretched to form the cross guard. The blood from the cut went along the blade making the patten glow red. She moved the blades so that they were parallel to the ground and waited for kakashi to move.

Kakashi pulled two kunai from his pouch and held one in each hand, he moved into a position that he could and better from. He threw one of is kunai at hinata and charged towards her grabbing a few shuriken and throwing those at her as well.

She blocked the kunai which bounced off and landed tip first in the dirt she jumped and dodged the shuriken which kakashi had anticipated and he moved himself to plunge the kunai he hadn't thrown into hinata's thigh, hinata blocked the thrust and stabbed her skeletal weapon into kakashi.

Kakashi stepped and dodged around to hinata's back taking another kunai and stabbing her in the back, hinata quickly kicked off of kakashi's chest seeing the danger through her byakugan. She got cut on the thigh and so when she landed she stumbled a little bit. This stumble didn't escape kakashi's eyes though and he immediately charged, hinata grinned, "My win." Kakashi looked around in confusion, when he looked down he saw the kunai he had thrown earlier only now there was an exploding tag which was about to go off.

The kunai exploded and when the smoke cleared there was nothing left. Hinata looked around with her byakugan, she couldn't find him anywhere. Then it dawned on her, "SHIT! I was fighting a clone the entire time. How did I get injured by a clone. Damn it." She grabbed some bandages from her pouch and bandaged her legs. She got up and moved out looking for sasuke, 'sasukes the weakest of the three of us I better find him so he doesn't have to fight alone.'

Sasuke jumped through the trees cursing himself for falling pray to kakashi's genjutsu. He jumped down from a tree and landed in a clearing he looked around and saw Kakashi standing in the clearing with him. He quickly pulled some kunai from his pouch and got into a battle stance. Kakashi mimicked sasuke's movements and charged at him.

Sasuke moved to kakshi's side as kakashi stabbed towards his legs. Sasuke tried to stab at kakashi's back but kakashi quickly flung the kunai he wasn't stabbing with into his arm, stopping the movements of the stabbing arm. He then turned spun and kicked sasuke in the gut, sasuke flew back into a tree with a small smirk. "Hah, I hit someone even Naruto couldn't get a good hit on." with those words kakashi proceeded to be blown up by the exploding tag sasuke had stuck to his leg. Sasuke looked around for kakashi's body but couldn't find any trace of it. "Shit, was this a clone."

Sasuke heard some rustling from behind him and grabbed a kunai ready to defend himself despite being quite banged up. Hinata emerged from the brush already pulling bandages from her pouch. She walked over to him and bandaged up his arm, "So you run into one of his clones too?"

Sasuke looked away from her and mumbled out a feint "yeah". She turned away from him and stood up, "Well no use staying here may as well try to find Naruto and help. Since he is the only one of us that could really come close to being able to subdue Kakashi enough to get the bells from him." Sasuke stood up and followed her out of the clearing.

Hinata looked back over her shoulder to look back at sasuke, "You know if you wanted to be stronger than you should actually try pushing your self far beyond your limits, rather than just saying..." she scrunched her face into a more serious and moody expression and tried to speak with as little emotion as possible, "I am the heir to the Uchiha clan the strongest clan in Konoha. Therefore I should be handed everything to me on a silver platter rather than do some serious and hard work." she returned to her normal expression and chuckled, "I mean just look at Lee he was born with a defect that made him unable to use chakra so he has been training with just taijutsu, and is actually quite a force to be reckoned with."

Sasuke pretended to ignore her but deep inside himself he knew that everything she had just said was very true. He kept thinking about what she had said the entire time they were traveling. They reached a clearing that showed signs of a large battle that had obviously belonged to very good fighters. Hinata crouched down looked around saw many slashes from a large sword cut deep in the ground, she looked around and saw the two bells sitting on the ground, "Sasuke we're in luck during the fighting Naruto must have been able to cut the bells from Kakashi's waist." She grabbed the bells and as she stood up she could hear the sounds of battle from a little ways off. She pocketed the bells ad waved sasuke over, "Alright, we are heading towards that battle to back Naruto up be careful while maneuvering you never know when one of them might mistake you as an enemy." She walked off in the direction of the battle.

Naruto and Kakashi were both breathing heavily, naruto a little more so. Naruto had two big gashes on his left arm one above his right eye and another on the thigh of his left leg. Kakashi had a small cut on his chest and a cut on his right leg. Naruto was leaning on his sword which he had sunk into the ground for support. He brought out a few clones and Kakashi did the same, as his clones appeared he started doing hand signs, but he was interrupted when a clone came from the ground and pulled Kakashi's feet out of position causing him to lose balance.

With that Naruto ripped his sword from the ground and charged towards kakashi, Kakashi quickly grabbed a few kunai from his pouch and threw them towards naruto. Naruto blocked most of them but two hit him, one in his right leg another in his right arm. Kakashi was then kicked up into the air by a clone he hadn't noticed while in the air another clone punched him downwards. As he fell another clone intercepted him and kicked him right back into the air. Naruto had gotten himself ready and when another clone knocked kakashi back down he brought his sword in a big arc towards kakashi's body. Kakashi knew what naruto was doing and quickly spun himself around used a kunai to push the blade o its trajectory the tip of the blade caught him in his side leaving small cut but it was fine since this move had left Naruto wide open.

Kakashi took advantage of this opening and quickly punched naruto in the face. Naruto stepped back and brought is sword in front of himself to block any attacks towards his body. Kakashi kicked naruto in the side and naruto rolled over while throwing kunai from his sleeve towards kakashi's chest. Kakashi grabbed the kunai out of the air and threw it back at naruto who blocked it with his sword. Kakashi charged at naruto again hitting towards his face naruto dodged this time and sliced upwards with his sword kakashi quikly grabbed the blade and threw it down into the ground, this earned him a big cut along his hand but saved him an arm. Naruto was pulled to the side when his sword was pulled out of trajectory.

Kakashi brought his fist back and punched down into Naruto's face pushing him downward. When Naruto's body hit the ground Kakashi landed and grabbed Naruto by his shirt and threw him back down to the ground. Naruto hit and coughed up a little blood, Kakashi kicked him in the gut in such a way that Naruto went upwards. Kakashi did a roundhouse to his face, Naruto flew back into a tree. Kakashi ran towards him, but Naruto began to smile, "Hinata did you get the present I left for you?"

"I think so, was it theses." She grabbed the bells out of her pouch, and Kakashi quickly looked down to check and see if the bells were really gone and sure enough they were missing.

Kakashi rubbed the back of his head and laughed a little, "well it looks like you did well enough to pass."

Hinata looked a little confused, "Didn't you say that only two of us could pass this test?"

Kakashi stroked his chin, "Yes, I did say that but only to try to pit you against one another. You see the real meaning behind this test was to see how well you could work as a team. While you didn't do well with that at the beginning of the test, at the end at least hinata thought about the safety of her comrades rather than say who she liked the most or something like that. I had deliberately positioned the battles so that it would have been faster for hinata to just come straight to the aid of Naruto, but she went and found you sasuke because?" he indicated towards hinata.

Hinata spoke a little embarrassed to have to be the one to say it, "Because he was a lot weaker than Naruto and I knew that he was going to have the most trouble out of us all. So I thought I should back him up and make sure he wasn't seriously injured."

Kakashi nodded, "And there lies a sort of teamwork, which will grow stronger as time goes on. So this means you have all passed, congratulations. Remember there are going to be many challenges waiting for you, but with teamwork you can overcome them. Now go home you all deserve a nice long rest." with that kakashi left the area. Sasuke was directing a look of hatred towards Naruto, who smiled back at him. Sasuke just turned around and left without saying a word, Naruto made a face at his back.

"Pompous emo asshole." naruto said as he winced in pain.

Hinata walked over to naruto and began bandaging his wounds."So how did you manage to get the bells off of Kakashi, wouldn't he have been guarding them?"

" Well during the beginning of our fight I had gotten him confused a little because he didn't know where I was. So when we started actually fighting I had already used a clone to hide in the ground. That way when kakashi's attention was completely focused on me my clone could grab the bells and go hide until we left the area. When you showed up I had already needed that clone so the bells were left at that battle area. Where you would hopefully find them." Hinata finished bandaging him and stood up. Naruto stood up and walked over to where his sword had fallen. He picked it up grabbed a whetstone out of his trench coat pocket and started to sharpen the blades edge.

They walked out of the training ground together, they walked around a little talking with each other. They sat down on a bench together in a park, Hinata looked into the sky watching the birds fly around. She had always wanted to fly with them but now that she had more confidence in herself and her abilities she found her self looking at the sky a lot less and paid more attention to what was happening around her. She sighed and watched some squirrels that were running around through the trees.

Naruto noticed her sigh and looked at her, "Is something bothering you?"

"Huh, Oh no, I was just remembering how I used to be. Before I met you and Achlys and all that followed suit."

"Oh, I see. Yes it's so easy to zone out and think back to years past when your in the presence of a calming nature." A few tears fell from his eyes, which he quickly tried to wipe away before hinata noticed them. He was a little to slow however.

"Hmm, Naruto is something wrong?" she looked a little concerned since this was first time she had seen him shed any tears.

Naruto shook his head and looked up at her smiling, "No, I'm fine just a few pains from the injuries I sustained from Kakashi."

Hinata nodded with an obvious look of disbelief, "Well if you ever need to talk to someone, I'm here for you." She looked into the sky again and saw how late it was, "Oh shit, I'm gonna be in trouble if I don't hurry back home. See you later." She got up and started running home, she stopped and looked back. Naruto was still sitting there staring off into nothingness. She turned back and continued on her path home.

Naruto stood up and walked home he bumped into a few along the way he quickly apologized and continued on his path. Kyuubi noticing the change in his behavior remembered the date. 'That's right it's getting close to the anniversary of the day of betrayal.'

Well that wasn't the most incredibly amazing chapter I have written. Oh well remember to review, also remember this isn't necessarily a return of my writing I was just able to write this chapter. See you all next chapter.