NARUTO BELONGS TO MASASHI KISHIMOTO. I AM JUST A FAN AND WANT TO LIVE NARUTO ALL OVER AGAIN.
AN: No AN.
Chapter 3: Teamwork
Minato never had a violent streak. But Kami, if he didn't want to strangle Kakashi and Obito with their own forehead protectors. It was 7 a.m. in the morning and he already had a really bad headache. If Obito had really bothered to come to the training ground on proper time(two hours earlier) and started arguing with Kakashi, Minato would have drowned himself in the naka river.
"Okay boys, you need to stop arguing!"
Rin scolded the two rather insolent little monsters in a motherly voice which, very surprisingly made the two boys fall silent.
"Now, let's talk about your test."Minato rubbed his temples to release some of the pain."I have got one bell. You have to take it from me by noon. Kakashi is already a genin. So, between the two of you, whoever gets the bell, passes. And if you fail to get it, you go back to the academy. And it's Kakashi's choice whether he wants to help or not. I'll count to three and then your test will start."
"But…but…it's okay Rin. You can take the bell!"
"1…"
"Obito! I don't need you to pity me! I want this to be a fair and square competition between the two of us. If you don't try your hardest then I'll never talk to you again!"
"2…"
"You're fools! Both of you!" Kakashi dropped two smoke bombs and dragged Rin and Obito behind a bush.
"You don't have to help us Kakashi! It's not your fight!"
"Shut up Rin! Don't you see? It's all a lie. A gigantic lie. Not even I can take the bell from him if I fight alone. The objective of the test is to work together. Sensei just wants to see whether we can function as a team or not."
"Umm...okay...I guess. Do you have a plan?"
"Yes Obito! I have the perfect plan." The mask hid Kakashi's smirk.
oOo
Minato took the purple smoke as a cue to begin and didn't bother to count more.
Soon Kakashi and Obito emerged from behind the thick bush.
"Sensei, we have decided. Rin is just a dead weight who'll be a burden on us. We dealt with her. Only I and Obito will fight you."
Like Minato was going to fall for that. Rin was probably hiding out there somewhere and setting traps for him to trigger.
"Very well then. Come and get the bell."
Obito charged forward with a war cry and engaged the yellow flash of Konoha in a battle of taijutsu as Kakashi fell back and waited.
Obito tried sweeping Minato's feet from beneath him but Minato jumped a little and threw a roundhouse kick targetting Obito's left cheek bone with his right leg. Obito blocked the blow in time with his left wrist and tried landing a hit at his sensei's most sensetive organ with his right arm. Minato frowned at that and tapped gently on Obito's wrist with two fingers. The resultant force of Obito's punch and Minato's tap made the hand slide down between his legs and miss it's target by inches. Minato used the opening to land a blow on the Uchiha's right shoulder with the sole of his foot and used the momentum to carry himself backwards. Obito fell back but managed to throw a kunai. Which missed Minato by almost a metre. He made it a point to teach Obito to throw kunais if they passed.
What he hadn't seen coming was Kakashi turning up to his side and guiding the kunai towards him with a kick to it's hilt. The jounin had already landed by then and dodged the kunai easily. The kunai lodged itself into the bark of a tree behind him. The blue clad knucklehead ninja, earning his title in every right, again charged at him with another war cry. Minato made it a point to teach the meaning of sneak attack to Obito as well. If they passed that is.
He jumped back and landed on a branch of the tree behind him. The complete and sudden disappearance of his target made Obito tumble and fall face first. Minato perched on the tree branch and looked down at Obito who was doing his best to not resemble an ostrich. He would have been amused had he not been cursing inwardly for tripping the trap that Rin had somehow set up on the branch. But the kids would be seriously wrong if they had presumed that he could be defeated with just a few accurately placed traps. He dodged the kunais and jumped to reach a branch at higher altitude. He tripped another trap and a few kunais pierced his skin and damaged a few vertebrae. Minato disappeared with a pop sound and turned into a log of wood.
The yellow haired jounin perched on another branch and decided that the girl was too good a trap setter for academy stabdards.
"SENSEI! I'VE GOT YOU NOW!" Obito announced from somewhere in the woods and exhaled a humongous fireball that incinerated a few trees and made it's way towards Minato. Minato smirked. The kids indeed were doing good.
"Water style! Water dragon jutsu!"
A giant dragon emerged from the naka river and collided head on with the fireball. The whole forest clearing was covered in steam. It was impossible to see anything, but Minato could recognise that crackling sound anywhere. He quickly made another leap and landed almost thirty metres behind him and landed on the ground. Only to trip another wire. Hundreds of kunais and shurikens again made their way towards him. And like that wasn't enough, Kakashi's lightning beast also appeared in front of him.
However, Minato was an elite jounin. And being an elite jounin means one has at least two chakra natures mastered.
Minato breathed out a gust of wind. The lightning beast immediately dissipated into thin air and the kunais were also blown away.
Minato decided that he had been on the defense for far too long and needed to check how they did while defending themselves. That's what Minato liked to think. In actuality, he just wanted to end this and meet Kushina as soon as possible. He had already decided to pass the idiots anyway.
Minato concentrated on the seal he had put earlier on Obito's shoulder with his feet.
All the breath got pulled out of his body like someone had punched him in the chest and a moment later he appeared a hundred metres away from his position quarter of a second before. Right behind a piece of blue garment lying on the ground.
Kakashi jumped from above, his blade luminous. But Minato was, well umm...let's just say Minato. He didn't need the hirashin to appear behind Kakashi. So fast that Kakashi couldn't even see. At that precise moment Kakashi was enlightened. Minato wasn't called the yellow flash because of the flying thunder god technique. No.It was a teleportation jutsu. Minato was called the yellow flash because of his speed. Even without the hirashin.
He sent Kakashi to the ground with a light kick to his back. Which, given Minato's speed, wasn't really light. Kakashi was still groaning in pain when Minato dragged him to a post and tied him.
"SENSEI!" Obito attracted Minato's attention from atleast fifty metres away. "ME AND YOU! ONE ON ON-"
"Idiot!"
The hairs on the back of Obito's neck stood as Minato's warm breath made contact with his skin. Perhaps Obito would have seen more than just a yellow flash if he had the sharingan.
Obito woke up when Minato released the genjutsu and found himself by Kakashi's side. Tied to a post.
oOo
Minato wasn't a tracker nin. And Rin didn't really have a particularly large amount of chakra to make it any easier. Children had that natural protection. Their chakra amounts, unless too exceptional, was too small to be felt from far away.
Minato was a genius. It wasn't really too difficult to put two and two together. Minato had keen eyes. And thus, had spotted most of the traps even before triggering them, though he decided to set them off anyway. Most ninjas subconsciously made mistakes while setting traps. And Rin had made a mistake as well. She had left the area around her hiding place trapless to not trigger them herself.
Minato mused whether he was going too hard. But then again, he had seen what he needed to see. The kids could work perfectly fine with one another. Now he had cute little genins of his own.
He made his way toward his third and final target. The said target had no idea about Minato's position. Because the said target was still looking at Minato's clone standing in front of his students.
Minato found 'it'. 'It' because 'it' wasn't Rin. But a clone. Kakashi's clone.The clone that was responsible for the traps all along. He destroyed the clone with a single chop to it's neck.
oOo
Minato appeared in front of his students with hirashin.
"You two! Did you really leave Rin behind?"
"But sensei. She's not ready to be a gen-"
"Shut up Obito! The way I see it," Minato got on his knees and took off Obito's forehead protector."you don't deserve this.
And Kakashi! You are not becoming a chunin until you are fifteen and ready to decide for yourself! Now tell me. Where's Rin?"
Obito managed to tell him about where they had tied her up through gritted teeth.
Minato quickly ran across the forest clearing towards where Rin had been tied this entire time as the other Minato watched over the arrogant little demons.
Rin indeed was tied up to a tree, her voice muffled by a piece of cloth. Tears trickling down her cheeks. Minato took the cloth out of her mouth and she started sobbing uncontrolably. He put Obito's forehead protector down and started loosening the rope around her. What happened next was unexpected. Rin disappeared in a puff of smoke. And Obito's forehead protector attracted Minato's attention with a pop sound. Rin, the real Rin, emerged from the cloud of smoke around the forehead protector. She snatched the bell with one quick movement as Minato was too surprised to do anything.
Then the bell and Minato disappered in a puff of smoke as well. The real Minato, it seemed, was standing infront of Obito and Kakashi.
oOo
"Whose idea was this?"
Kakashi grunted in respone to the question.
"And when did you henge into the forehead protector?"
"From the very beginning."
"You can hold a henge for that long? Very impressive indeed. And whose clone was that, tied to the tree?"
Kakashi grunted in response once again.
"Of course."
Minato took out the bell and held it infront of the three members of team seven.
"You pass."
The three genin cheered as Minato burst into laughter.
"Wow! Someone seems to be quite happy today."
"Kushina?! What are you doing here?!"
Usually Minato would have been happy at her sight but...
"I've brought lunch."
"Why?!"
"What? You don't want it?!"
"Yes! Of course I do. But…but…Yes! Kakashi was saying earlier that he doesn't have money to eat out. So I'm sure he can have it." He turned around to look at Kakashi. "You are damn lucky!"
"Wipe that stupid grin off your face! I have enough food for everyone."
Rin and Obito cheered like they had won some lottery whereas Kakashi and Minato looked at each other with half lidded eyes.
AN: Hope you liked this chapter. Please review to let me know what you feel about this chapter.
Author out.