"Ready? Go!" Naruto shouted as the six genin dispersed immediately.
"Well, they have more sense than you, Naruto," Kakashi said from his relaxed pose against a tree. Sakura resting on the tree nearest him giggled, her three genin watching intently as they sat by her feet.
Naruto didn't respond. He doubted he needed the concentration to defeat the students, but had he responded, he was sure Kakashi would have reprimanded him for loosing focus.
"Kage bunshin no jutsu!" he crossed his index-and-middle-fingers as he created a clone of himself. Beside him, Sasuke silently began manipulating his fingers so quickly Naruto couldn't tell what seal he was creating, though he had a guess. His suspicions were confirmed as the Uchiha brought his fingers to his mouth, ready for a genin to come out of anywhere.
As if on cue, the slightest rustling of leaves came from the right, and Sasuke released a massive wave of fire. The shout of Raito met their ears with a piercing undertone. "Are you trying to kill me, sensei?"
Sasuke smirked as he saw the slightly singed student emerge from the flaming woods. "You're not trying hard enough, Raito, we've had five sessions already, this shouldn't be so easy."
"Only five sessions! That's not enou-" he was cut off as a hand reached up from the ground.
"Doton: Shinju Zanshu no Jutsu!" Naruto replaced himself in the earth with Sasuke's genin.
Raito had no idea what had happened for the first few moments, until he began struggling in the earth's grasp.
"Sasuke, didn't you teach them not to fall for that one?" Naruto smirked at his friend.
"I figured I'd let them find out for themselves," Sasuke replied. "Naruto, move!" He shouted suddenly, though no one caught the faint smile on his lips as he shouted.
"Huh?" Naruto looked up to see three speeding shuriken rapidly coming for him. The blades planted themselves firmly into Naruto's side, knocking him to the ground. From a near by tree came a celebratory rusting of leaves, followed by a shriek as a Kumari was thrust out into the clearing.
The Naruto on the ground disappeared in a puff of smoke, leaving a log with three shuriken imbedded in it, and the real Naruto came out behind his pupil, beaming.
"Nice try, Kumari, but I don't drop my guard that easily," he said slightly snidely.
"Futon: Daitoppa," she released a gust of wind, but Naruto focused his chakra in the tips of his left hand as he grabbed the ground, and blocked his face with his right.
"Not happening," he brought a spin kick around as she picked herself up into a crouch on all fours, pulling her arms out from under her. Her chin collided with the ground and she glared at him through her fine, silky, hair that had toppled over her eyes when she fell.
"Oi, Naruto!" he heard Sasuke call, Naruto lifted his gaze to see his fellow jonin surrounded by five genin, and looking completely at loss for what to do.
"Hn," he smirked. "Release!" The image disappeared, and he looked back down at Kumari. "You just don't give up, do you? Well, at least I've got some proof that you actually care about being a ninja. Now, if you'll excuse me," he clenched his fist and Kumari's hands pulled together. "I never was all that great with this stuff in training," he noted, fingering the near invisible string. "But even so, never put it out of your mind." He drew up chakra in his hand, and pushed down into the earth, released the strings, and retracted his hand, leaving the strings buried in a good six inches.
Kumari continued to glare at him.
"Well, I'm off, come calling once you've gotten free!" He leapt away with ease, one hand muffling the bells as he began weaving through the trees. His brow knit as his eyes wandered back to the silver-blond kunoichi-in-training. A week into training and she can pull off a well-preformed, abnormally powerful C-rank jutsu? However, he did not have long to mull this over as he deftly swiped two kunai from the air between his fingers. "Katsu, wasn't it?"
"Correct, Naruto-sensei, so how goes it?" The blue-haired genin appeared, relaxing on one of the tree's thicker branches.
"Don't treat this like nothing, if you fail you are sent back to the academy," Naruto warned.
Katsu shrugged. "I'm not worried. The academy wasn't too bad, if you could tune out Iruka's lectures."
Naruto gave a bitter-sweet smile of reminisce. "Listen once, in a while, they mean something."
Katsu snorted.
Naruto raised an eyebrow. "You honestly don't care?"
"Nah."
"You're worse than Shikamaru, not only do you have no motivation, but unlike him, you've got no brains."
"Is that so?" Katsu glared from the corner of his eye. "Then why have you fallen into my trap?"
"Your trap?" Naruto looked down at himself, only to see the faintest glimmer of a string. He followed the trail of reflected light to a number of kunai's with tags on their ends
"While you were lecturing me, I thought I'd toss a couple of kunai. Move an inch and you'll set off the exploding tags," Katsu explained offhandedly.
"Exploding tags?" Naruto demanded. A genin shouldn't be able to get his hands on exploding tags.
"Just hand me a bell and I'll disable them."
"I have two, wouldn't you rather I toss you both so you could give one to you're a teammate?"
"No, I've worked for mine, they can work for theirs."
"Hn, in that case . . ." Naruto disappeared in a cloud of smoke, then reappeared behind the suddenly tense Katsu, hovering his kunai above Sasuke's student's neck.
"I might just have to send you back, maybe make you listen to those lectures. My sensei once said, 'those who don't take care of their friends are worse than trash', and I abide by this to the fullest extent.
"Oh, and don't think I'd fall into a trap like that, such an amateur one."
Katsu didn't reply, he was frozen in fear, sweat dripping down the side of his jaw.
Naruto laughed. "I won't hurt you, coward, but you won't be moving. I believe another set of strings has somehow found it's way around your ankles, and into the tree." He gave a huge smile. "Train hard now!" and was off once again.
Naruto circled the clearing from the trees a number of times before he found Sasuke locked in combat with Ayami. He nearly choked on his breath as the genin landed a single strike on the underside of the Uchiha's arm. However, upon closer inspection, Naruto found it wasn't as serious as it first appeared to be. First, it was obviously the first hit landed. Second, Ayami was almost at her limit of using her Byakugan, obvious due to the intense sweat dripping from her face, and her labored breathing. Third, Sasuke wasn't using his Sharingan. And finally, he was smirking.
Naruto decided to watch, sitting back against the tree and its limb, giving a crooked smile.
Ayami was graceful in her fighting, even when she was so close to being drained of chakra. Each obvious attack was more graceful than the swoop of an eagle. Every subtle undulation of movement was like a water's ripple. In all, it was as though she were dancing through her gestures of internal destruction, those native to the Hyuuga clan.
Not only this, but her eyes, even under their already intense state of Byakugan, where determined. She had one goal, and one goal only.
"Come on, Ayami, don't you want to pass?" Sasuke taunted. She grunted and landed a second hit in the same spot on the opposite arm. Sasuke recoiled a moment, then swiftly sidestepped her as she charged straight for his centre. He struck the side of his hand to the nape of her neck. She inhaled with a sharp gasp.
"Don't you want to win?" he whispered as she fell onto her front. She struggled to her knees again, but, to Naruto's dismay, fell back to the ground. Aside from her back rising and falling, she did not move.
"Let's go, teme, we've still got one more to take down," Sasuke said from beside him.
(A/N: Well, this is my attempt at action.
Naruto: *cough cough* fail *cough cough*
Me: *Sakura punches* Shut up, baka, I didn't ask for your opinion! *glomps* Just kidding! Love ya Naruto! Anyway, I'd love feed back.
I wasn't all too pleased with the encounter of Katsu, but I tried my best. I don't want to just recreate Team 7 in a genin team again, even though at times you'll see similarities, I promise they're not the same people! As of now, it may seem like I've created another Shikamaru, but Katsu's a much nastier person, while Shikamaru's just awesome. ((Love Shika!)) So yeah, tell me what ya think! Thanks for reading!)