Chapter 1: The Bell Test
Umino Iruka was a very lucky man, he knew that. And when he walked into the classroom to announce the teams, each student looked at him awestruck.
"Sensei, what happened?" a pink haired girl asks, quietly for once.
"Oh, just about got killed by a teacher that turned traitor, then saved by a woman who is one of three warriors, and missed the other two beat the hell out of said traitor, who just so happened to endanger one of the newly graduated Genin." Iruka replied, setting down at his desk, and propping his crutches on the all behind him.
The entire class murmered at that, before a slightly feral looking bow with a dog asked, "Which student?"
"Who do ya think?" a loud and boisterous voice asked from everywhere, yet no where at the same time.
All looked around, confused as a black and orange blur shot into the room, landing on Iruka's desktop.
Everyone gasped at the blonde's new look. He was slightly taller, almost 4 foot, and the orange monstrosity was, thankfully, nowhere to be seen. He now wore what looked like a traveling cloak; though the front was closed up the bottom was moved behind the pair of shuriken holsters the teen wore on his thighs. Set onto the small of his back is a ninjato going horizontal, along with a pair of fingerless leather gloves on his hands. The cloak and gloves were trimmed with orange and red flames. His pants were loose fitting hamakas, with a pair of combat boots on his feet. His hair was slightly longer than they remembered, and his head band was keeping the bangs out of his face.
"THE HELL?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE BAKA!? THIS IS ONLY FOR GRADUATES!" Sakura yelled, as all but Naruto and Iruka grimaced, and the aforementioned two simply sighed and removed their ear plugs, and Naruto shot Sakura a glare.
"1: do you not see the Headband? And 2: If you ever yell like that again, I'll personally make it to where you can never speak or make a sound again." Naruto states, shocking all the students, only for Sakura to growl in anger and stomp forward. She is stopped when a soft breeze is felt, and she's lifted by a rather strong arm into the air.
Everyone gasps at the appearance of the stranger, who has a long blood-red cloak on, with a golden gauntlet on one hand, and a golden boot on the opposite foot. His hair is long and black, and his eyes are a bright crimson. He is simply standing upside down on the ceiling, holding Sakura by her shirt collar, then says with a voice as smooth as glass and cold as ice, "If you ever approach the young master without his permission, I will use you as a chew-toy for Cerberus here." At his words, he pulls a tri-barreled gun out of the holster on his right hip, and waves it in Sakura's face, "Understand pinkie?"
"Mah, mah Vincent-kun, no need to be so mean." A new voice says, as a girl only slightly taller than Naruto enters, she is wearing almost nothing, a small halter top, and booty shorts with a larger than normal Demon Wind Shuriken on her back. "It's not like she knew that we are not supposed to let anyone harm Naruto-kun."
"That's why I did this, to let her know." The newly named Vincent says, as he drops Sakura and then moves down next to Naruto, doing his odd cloak travel thing. "Besides, its not like Naruto can't protect himself from a fangirl, I just wanted to see her face when I did that." He ads softly, so that only the girl and Naruto can hear.
"Vincent, Yuffie, how are you two?" Naruto asks, looking from one to the other.
"Good" is Vincent's stotic reply, though if one were to look closely they would something akin to amusement shining in his eyes.
"Super duper AWSOME!" is the excited girls reply, as she all but tackles Naruto to the floor. "Especially since we can now be seen in public by everyone! Now the world will know The Great and Amazing Yuffie! Materia hunter extraordinaire!"
"ok you three, come in know." Naruto says, and the door opens to reveal Cloud and Tifa, who are holding hands, and Sephiroth, who has his blade, Masamune, resting on shoulder.
"Ohayo!" Yuffie shouts, and smiles at the three.
Hinata sat, staring at the five people, knowing who and what they were. "so Naruto-kun can physically manifest them now? That's wonderful. At least now he's not so alone. Though…." She thinks to herself, as her face slowly reddens, and she turns her attention to Naruto.
"Now for the final act!" Naruto shouts, leaping off the desk and snapping his fingers.
Sephiroth disperses into black feathers, which fly to Naruto and turn into a pair of wings.
Yuffie glows and the Demon Wind Shuriken flies to Naruto as the glow recedes.
Tifa glows and turns into a bluish-green orb, which flies into his gloves.
Cloud simply disperses in a cloud of smoke, and a lion necklace appears on his neck, and then Vincet sighs as he tosses Naruto his gun, and is surrounded in a dark red enery that flies into the gun as Naruto catches it and holsters it in the hidden holster on his right hip.
Everyone but Hinata and Naruto gasps, before Kiba asks, "Dude, what the hell?"
"they are my weapons, they were once warriors who fought to save this planet, but died, and entered what is know as the Lifestream, which is what all living things come from, and eventually return to. I can wield each of their weapons, and even summon them for help, making me a virtual one man army. They don't die unless I do, though a mortal wound will dispel them, and when I summon them, they don't leave until I tell them to."
"Don't tell them that we live inside your mind with a giant fox that wants to jump your bones Naruto, or they'll think your crazy." Tifa's voice says in Naruto's mind, which cause the blond to mentally face-palm at the Kyuubi's remark of
"Not my fault I'm sealed inside a strong, hot man that is fucking sexy as hell!"
Naruto simply cuts the connection off as Iruka begins the standard lecture on how, as Genin they are now warriors of Konohagakure, and as such should conduct themselves in a manner befitting of such a status, he then proceeds to list off the team formations. "Team seven will be: Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura," cue Sakura and Naruto both slamming their heads on their desks, "and Uchiha Sasuke." Here Naruto and Hinata bang their heads on the table while Sakura screams something about love concurs all, and the Uchiha give his classic response.
"Hn."
"Team Eight will be: Aburame Shino, Hyuga Hinata, and Inuzuka Kiba." Hinata sighs as her teammates move to where she is, though Kiba moves a little too close.
Uzumaki Naruto was not happy, their sensei was over two hours late, while this in and of itself did not bother him, who his company was did.
"Hatake will pay!" Naruto whispers deviously as he runs to the only door and, using ninja wire, kunai, shuriken, a rather unhealthy dose of chalk dust on a chalkboard eraser, and a small unassuming orange book, Uzumaki Naruto proved to his casemates why he was Konoha's Number One Prankster Ninja.
The door opened, not even two seconds after Naruto sat down, and a Cyclopean Ninja with gravity defying silver hair happened to see said small book, and almost reverently went to pick it up, only to hit the trip-wire, and be caught in a net of ninja wire after dodging a volley of Kunai and Shuriken, then hung upside down with a chalkboard eraser smacking his face.
The man's face was blank for all of two seconds before he eye-smiled at Naruto, "Impressive as ever kid, though what did I do?"
"You made me wait here for over TWO HOURS with the Emo and his fangirl! Why do you think I did it?!"
"Ah." Is all the Jonin says, before the one before them disperses in a puff of smoke, revealing it was only a Kage Bushin. The real one pokes his head in, eye-smiles and says, "Meet me on the roof in five minutes."
Naruto simple smirks before leaping out the window, and opening his wings to fly up to the roof.
4 Minutes: 59 Seconds later:
A panting Uchiha and Haruno reach the rooftop, and nearly fall over in exhaustion, with the pinkette leaning heavily on Sasuke. The two look over to see Kakashi reading a little orange book, and Naruto tossing a ball to a small fox that would bat it back with its tail.
"Well, seeing as we are all here, lets get the introductions over with, shall we?" Kakashi says, not even looking up from his book.
"Sensei, what do you wish to know?" the pinkette asks.
"Well, give us your likes, dislikes, hobbies and a dream of yours. Oh, and don't forget your name~!" he ads, with a sing-song voice at the end.
"Would you go first Sensei?" she asks again.
"Sure, why not…. My name is Hatake Kakashi, my likes…. Not many, my dislikes…. Even fewer, my hobbies and dream…. Never really thought about it."
"Lazy ass scarecrow." Naruto mutters.
"Ok, Pinkie, your up." Kakashi says, as he turns the page in his book.
"My name is Haruno Sakura, my likes are…" she glances at Sasuke and giggles, "My hobbies are…."another glance at Sasuke with a slightly louder giggle, "My dream…" here she give a fangirl squeal, "And I dislike Naruto!"
Kakashi and Naruto blink before Naruto says, "Dude, if I were you id start running."
"It doesn't work. They'll just sniff me out." The Uchiha replies, before starting his introduction, "My name is Uchiha Sasuke, I like few things and dislike more, my hobbies are not important, and what I have isn't a dream, but an ambition, to kill a certain someone and restore my clan to power."
Kakashi sighs outwardly, while inwardly he cries anime tears, "WHY!? Why am I cursed with an avenger!?" he thinks before saying, "Ok, then that leaves Naruto-kun."
"My name is Uzumaki Naruto. I like ramen, foxes, dragons, Hitome-chan, and the stars at night. I dislike petty people, the three second wiat for instant ramen. My hobbies include, but are not limited to, trying new flavors of ramen, visiting with my Nee-chan and Teuchi-san, training, and learning to speak to animals. My dream is to become the greatest ninja ever, and to one day become Hokage!"
"Well, meet me at Training Ground Seven tomorrow at 7 am for your real test. Oh, and you better not eat breakfast unless you wanna puke."
*The next day*
Uzumaki Naruto sighed as he walked up to the training ground. He had attempted to get the other two members of his team to open up to him so that they could work together, but no dice.
So he had gone home and talked with his 'teachers', and they told him that the test is probably something to due with teamwork, and as such it would depend on if the other two tamed up with him.
But in Clouds words, "Like the arrogant ass-hat and that pink banshee will ever team up with you."
So he had come up with his own plan. Even if the other two failed to get a bell, he would.
He reached the training ground, looked at the banshee and the emo, the proceeded to call upon Cloud and Sephiroth.
They appeared in twin columns of blue energy, and the three immediately began to spar, starting off slow, but slowly gaining speed until all three were a blur to the two Genin-hopefuls. Kakashi, who was hiding within a tree, watched in awe as the Blond fought off both blades, which were much larger than the blonds own ninjato.
Deciding he had tortured his charges enough, he made a single handseal and sunshined*did I spell that right* down to his team, in the middle of his spread out team, with Naruto to his back. "Ohayo!" He says cheerfully as his eye turns into an upside down u.
"YOU'RE LATE!" screamed the resident Haruno, scaring the hell out the Uchiha beside her (though he gave no outward proof and will deny it if you asked him).
Kakashi simply kept smiling and said, "I got lost on the road of life."
Naruto blinked at his sensei, he knew the man had been watching him, Vincent's 'Detect' had told him that much. "So sensei, what's our test?" he asks as Cloud and Sephiroth glow before becoming two floating orbs, which seemed to have a flickering flame coming off the top of them. Cloud's was as blue as the sky, while Sephirtoh's was a bluish-green. The two orbs simply floated nearby Naruto, off to either the left or right.
"Quite simple really, all you need to do is retrieve these two bells by noon. The one who doesn't get a bell will then be returned to the academy for remedial studies." Kakashi replies, removing two bells on thin red cords from his Jonin Flack-jacket. "Oh, and if I were you, I'd come at me with the intent to kill. Is everyone ready? Begin."
*Cue song Full Frontal Assault (let the battles begin)*
At his words, the three Genin launched into action, Sakura and Sasuke fleeing into the forest, while Naruto grinned like a mad-man and blasted forward at speed no Genin should be capable of, poor Kakashi never saw it coming.
Sakura gasped in shock as Naruto hit Kakashi in the back, bowling the Jonin over, as the two floating orbs followed him.
Kakashi managed to recover quickly and lept up and back, launching several kunai at Naruto, who simply rose his right hand and shouted "Protect!" the sky blue orb glowed momentarily, before a large blue barrier in the shape of a crystal appeared, stopping the kunai dead in their tracks. Not finished with his display, Naruto flicked his left hand forward as if throwing a kunai or shuriken and shouted "Thunder!" at his cry, the greenish blue orb glowed brighter, and a bolt of white hot electricity flew from his hand, aiming right at Kakashi, though more importantly the cord holding the bells.
Sasuke seethed as the blond performed jutsu without the use of handseals. Sakura, who had been wondering about the blonds' new change had nearly fainted when she saw the supposed dead last of the academy do sealless jutsu. Kakashi simply sighed before replacing himself with a log just before the lightning hit, which destroyed the poor innocent log (more accurately it blew it to smithereens and lit it on fire).
"Very good Naruto, you took the deception lessons to heart. Though your reaction time could use some work." Kakashi says, appearing behind Naruto in a crouch, fingers in a familiar seal. "Leaf Village Secret Finger Jutsu: Thousand Years of Death!" He cries, shoving his hands at Naruto's butt, only for Naruto to smirk and shout
"Reflect!" this time the blue orb glowed, and a silver mirror like surface appeared between the blond and Kakashi, which forced the chakra in the Jonin's hands to rebound and strike him in the face, forcing his head backward violently and bouncing him off the ground.
Capitalizing on their sensei's distraction, Sasuke threw several kunai and shuriken at the Jonin, and then quickly dashed off to another spot, only to run into said cyclopean Jonin.
"Now that wasn't very nice Sasuke." Kakashi says, as the Uchiha launches himself at the Jonin, throwing a punch, followed by two consecutive kicks, before reaching and nearly grabbing a bell. Kakashi's single visible eye widens at the Uchiha's ability, before leaping back and going through handseal as Sasuke does the same.
The Uchiha finishes first, and cries out his jutsu, "Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu!" and breathing out through an 'o' made by his thumb and forefinger, expelling a large fireball.
Hatake smirks as his cry of "Earth Style: Hiding Like a Mole Jutsu!" is drowned out by the roar of the fireball. He quickly sneaks up underneath the last Uchiha and cries out his follow up technique, "Earth Style: Headhunter Jutsu!" and grabbing the black haired teens ankles and dragging him into the dirt. "You did good Sasuke, though you weren't good enough." Kakashi says as he walks into the forest, little orange book in hand.
*End Song*
Several minutes later and a loud scream of "SASUKE-KUN IS JUST A HEAD!" and Naruto sighs as he stops mid fight with Kakashi.
"Our team is doomed." The Uzumaki says sadly, before Kakashi nods and replies,
"It's a shame to; the Uchiha has no care for teamwork, and the Haruno…. She'll die before the end of her first mission."
Naruto nods, before looking at his Sensei with a smirk, "What if I told you that I knew the meaning to this test, and could get a bell from you without their help?"
"Fat chance gaki, but if you wanna make a 'Friendly Wager', I would hear you out."
"Ok, if I win, I get to become Genin no matter what."
"And if you lose?"
"You decide that one."
"ok….. You tell Anko how you really feel about her." Kakashi says, smirking under his mask as Naruto turns bright red, then white as a ghost.
"Guess I better win then huh?" Naruto says, holding his hands forward and grabbing at air, until two new orbs appear, one a bright crimson. The other a dark brown. "Vincent, Yuffie, TO ME!"
At his cry the two orbs launch forward, glowing brightly. The dark brown one shifts into the form a the young Materia Hunter, while the red turns into the host of Chaos.
"LETS DO THIS!" Yuffie cries excitedly, her oddly shaped shuriken in hand.
Vincent merely nods, leaping off to the side, and firing Cerberus at Kakashi, who starts using Kiwarmi to its fullest, narrowly avoiding both the Chakra Bullets the gun fired, and the odd Shuriken from the two.
As Yuffie and Vincent kept Kakashi busy, Naruto began chanting in an odd language, as blue and reddish energy began to coalesce around him. "FIRAGA!" The blond shouted, and a small array appeared before his open mouth, from which a fireball much larger than the Uchiha's own leapt.
Kakashi's visible eye widened at the fireball, even as Vincent and Yuffie closed with him and began to launch a flurry of blows at him. Each time he attempted to move in any way but towards the fireball, the two would force him to dodge right back into its path.
Unseen to Kakashi, a large red wolf lay in the shadows of a tree. It launched forward, caught the bells in its mouth, right before the fireball fizzled out and Vincent and Yuffie returned to spirit form, before returning to Naruto.
"And that Sensei is endgame!" Naruto shouted, as the large wolf appeared at his side, offering the bells to the boy.