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Team Blondie
by
French Naruhina
Chapter 7 : Begining of the genin days
The remaining months at the academy went smoothly. Our four heroes reinforced their position as top students and finally made friend with all other clan's heirs, making Shino act except for Sasuke who was not the friendly kind of person. As they reached the graduation exam the class effective was reduced to 20 students, 13 of wich were female, 11 of wich were fangirls, 9 of wich were yaoi fangirls; such a fact was unheard from all the academy's history. The big day came and, well... everyone passed the pathetic excuse of a test they called a graduation exam. After the congratulations Iruka and Axel sent the new gennin home telling them to come back a week later for team assignement.
"My Hina-chan is the rookie of the year, do you hear that Konoha ?!" Naruto shouted at the top of his lungs.
"And I'm second, girls power !!!" added Naminé.
"That's only because written test are over-rated Nami-chan..." retorted Roxas.
"And Naruto-kun had to be the fourth of all positions..." stated Hinata.
"Yeah, strange..." replied the other three in unison.
"Anyway, what do you want to tell us Naruto ?"
"Well, you remenber that Kakashi-senseï told us there is a secondary gennin test, right? And that deception was a ninja first weapon ?"
"Yes, your point ?"
"Since our jonin-senseï's will probably know all of our moves from academy's reports I guess it's time to learn a new jutsu in order to surpise them : the RASENGAN ! We got a week, I know we can master it in that time..."
Six day later, four youth who hadn't mastered the rasengan went at the Hokage tower to retrieve their ID's. Naruto was the last to retrive his, as the Hokage handed him the precious card a shadow entered the office and began running at the Hokage, carton shuriken in hand. The young boy took his foot on his own blue scarf and fell on the ground. Naruto recognized the boy from this Naminé's drawing some time ago and decided to have some fun. He advanced to the boy who was rubbing his head "I'm sure you tripp...whoaaah" he didn't finished his sentence as he was suddently lifted into the air by his collar.
"What's your name kid ?"
"S-sarutobi Konohamaru..."
"Konohamaru, do you realize attempt against the Hokage's life is considered a capital offence ?" Sarutobi chuckled at his grandson expression.
"N-no sir..." Konohamaru's preceptor, Ebisu, entered the office.
"Honorable son, what are you doing to the honorable grandson ?"
"I'm just teaching him a lesson..." responded Naruto as he put the kid down "observe carefully Konoharu, it's how you must do it. Kage bunshin no jutsu !" nine clones of him appeared causing raised eyebrows from the two adults. "It's how you defeat a Hokage... ORIOKE NO JUTSU !!!!" in a cloud of smoke the ten Naruto's were replaced by naked blonde bimbos. The hokage and Ebisu fainted from blood loss.
"That was awesome ! They didn't even knew what hit them... Can you show me how to do this move ? Pleeasseee" The young Sarutobi tried to make his cutest face.
"Sorry, I can't, I don't know how my girlfriend would react if she knew about this technique... but if you want you can come watch me and my friends train... what do you think ?"
"Sure, I mean you seem pretty strong and all..."
Konohamaru was bored, he tough he was going too see some cool stuff but all they were doing was trying to pop water baloons by swirling their chakra, he was about to lall asleep when a loud splash was heard. "Yes I did it!" it was the older boy, he seemed proud of himself but Konohamaru couldn't understand why : when he wanted to burst a water baloon he just threw it at someone and took a run for his life, that was fun at least... how could soaking oneself help becoming a better shinobi ?
"Then why don't you take care of this kid Roxie-chan, he seems like he's going to sleep anytime soon..."
"Don't call me that... okay, Konohamaru right ? Do you want to see some marvellous jutsu ?"
Some hours later they all managed to get the first step of the rasengan down, wich was quite an accomplishment in itself. Everyone returned home to rest for the next day.
Iruka and Axel entered the classroom with a pale skinned black haired boy aroud Roxas an Naminé age in tow.
"Hello class, as they were an non multiple of three number of graduate this year the civilian council proposed we incorporate Saï here into a team, he may not have attended the academy but proved himself worthy of the tittle of genin in a test of skills, please welcome him fully..."
"And now for the main event of the day, » annouced Axel « the team assignement, as you know the teams are usually balanced in function of the genins grades, the rookie of the year being team up with the dead last an a mid-ranker student... as it was a foolish way to do things Hokage-sama decided the teams will be custom this year so let's begin..."
The first three teams were all female teams.
"Team 4 : Saï, Uchiha Sasuke and Haruno Sakura; jonin instructor Hatake Kakashi. Team 5 : Yamanaka Ino, Nara Shikamaru and Akimichi Choji; jonin instructor Sarutobi Asuma. Team 6 : Inuzuka Kiba, Hyuga Hinata and Aburame Shino; jonin instructor Yuhi Kurenai. Team 7 : Namikaze-Uzumaki Naruto, Namikaze-Uzumaki Roxas and Naminé; jonin instructor Mitarashi Anko..." Axel bursted out in laugher at the three blonds terrorized expresion "just kidding, jonin instructor of team 7 Gekko Hayate" Soon each jonin came for their team, except Kakashi who was three hours late.
Naruto and his fellow teammates were following their sicly looking senseï to a nearby park, the jonin motioned them to seat on a bench. « I *cough* think introductions are in *cough* order... I am Gekko Hayate, tokubetsu jonin my *cough* interests reside in kenjutsu and matters that concern only myself. My main objective from now on is to turn *cough* you into fine Konoha ninjas, your *cough* turn... »
"Roxas, I like trainning. I plan to perfect my dual katana style and help my cousin becoming Hokage."
"Naminé, I like drawing. Don't really have plan for the future yet..."
"Naruto, becoming Hokage, when do w got the second test ?"
"So you already *cough* know about it ?" three nods "And you *cough* decided to tell me the less possible *cough* information in order to surprise me *cough* later ?" again three nods "Well I was planning *cough* to let you a good night of rest *cough* but I guess we can begi now as you are probably already equiped... Trainning *cough* grounds 26 in 15 minutes." he shunshined.
As they reached the designated location Hayate called out to them "You're in time, that's a *cough* good point. Your objective is to draw *cough* blood from me by any mean necessary, if *cough* I remain unscratched by the end of two hours, *cough* you'll fail and be sent back to the academy... If I draw *cough* blood from you you'll also fail. Begin !" the three blonds charged at him head on "It is the best they students they had ? Seems it'll end quickly" « Don't be overcomfident ! » he unsealthed his katana and swinged it horizontaly, cutting each of them lightly,causing them to burst into smoke. "Kage bunshins ?" he promptly took a defensive stance in case of a surprise attack... nothing came. "So they want to play it this way..."
The three friends were hidden in bushes. "He's good..." mumbled Roxas "did you find out something about his tactics Nami-chan ?" She was drawing rapidly several scenes on her sketchpad.
"Sorry, nothing useful for the moment. We're lucky he doesn't protect his memories..."
Naruto then got an idea "Wait, I think I know how to do it. But first we should let him test our skills."
Hayate was desperatly waiting for a move from his students "At least they don't rush head on into action... " when two small balls flew from the nearby bushes and rolled under him, they exploded into smoke. "Smoke bombs ? Clever..." coughing he took two step back avoiding a diagonal katana slash and parried an horizontal slash to his left with his own. He jumped out of the smoke only to avoid Naminé's punch coming at him, he kicked her on her mid section and attempted to slash at her only for tri-kunaïs to shot out her sleeves blocking his blade. A pair of hands bursted from the ground and grabbed his ankles, he quickly pushed Naminé away and cut the hands who disappeared in an small explosion of smoke. The three youth charged at him when Kakashi emerged from the bushes.
"Yo, sorry to unterupt you but Hokage-sama need to meet with this two boys..."
"No Icha Icha ?" "You are *cough* not Kakashi, show me your *cough* true face."
"I guess it's no use to hide it now..." he dropped his henge revealing a Iwa shinobi in battle attire. He dashed toward Naruto. Hayate intercepted him as he was about to slice his throat open, he thn felt a light pain in his arm, he looked behind him to see that Naruto had cut his arm with a tri-kunaï.
"Got you senseï !" said Naruto with a grin, the Iwa-nin then bursted out into smoke.
"That was *cough* a sneaky move... something *cough* that should be expected fom a true *cough* shinobi plus you did draw blood from *cough* me. You pass. Come back here *cough* in two days for our first trainning session as team blondie... »
"Team blondie ?"
"Sounds better to me *cough* than Team 7, but if you want *cough* I can change it to team dumb..." he received three death glares "I though *cough* so too. See you." He shunshined away.
Naruto then took his teammates in a group hug "We did it ! We're genin !" he broke the hug and pointed in the general direction of the village "TO ICHIRAKU !!!"
The next day all jonin instructor assembled in the Hokage office to announce the second xam outcome. They went by numerical order, the firts one to go was a visibly terrified male jonin.
eT-team o-one passed. H-however I-I re-request a ch-change of affectation..." his request was denied immediatly causig him to wince.
"Team 2 failed."
"Team 3 failed too."
"Team 4 barely passed."
"Team 5 passed."
"Team 6 passed."
"*cough* Team *cough* 7 *cough* passed *cough*." Asuma's presence induced a higher coughing frequency.
"Well it sems that the raising of academy standarts led to a greater number of genin," stated Sarutobi "congratulation to those of you who passed their teams.I expect your teams tomorow for mission attribution."
As they exited the office the jonin began chatting about their teams. Asuma adressed Kakashi. "Congratulation for your first sucessful team Kakashi, how did they pass your bell test ?"
"Well, officially they showed a great teamwork, but in fact Sakura and Saï only praised Sasuke, Saï also fought under his true level of skill. I couldn't fail them as the merchant guild threatenned Hokage-sama to starve the village if this team didn't suceed... this team only purpose sems to be stroking the Uchiha's ego." "Plus that Saï character being proposed by Danzo this couldn't be worse..." "Anyway, why did you looked so scarred Toji-san ?"
The jonin instructor of Team 1 spoke up "Y-ou don't want to k-know... those g-girls, they m-made me see t-things no man s-should ever s-s-see... their gen-genjustus are t-terrific" "Curse you Leonida..."
A month of borin D-ranked mission folowed for the new genins. The members of team blondie and Hinata finally mastered the second stage of the rasengan and developped a theorically devastating technique. Naminé, with the Hokage's authorization, revealed her special ability to Hayate who advicd her to focus on genjutsu as she could use her gift to discover an opponent's fears; Hinata gladly transmited her some genjutsu scrolls from her instructor. Under Hayate's tutelage Roxas greatly improved his kenjutsu skills. Naruto reached a level of fuuinjutsu mastery allowing him to create storage scrolls and explosive tags by himself, earning him high praise from his godfather. Hinata began studying the medical arts, however without proper tutoring medical ninjutsu's were beyond her reach so she focused on herbalism and medical salves creation.
Naruto was medidating, it was the third time this day he had to bring back Tora, the daimyo's wife's cat, this day and he clearly had enough, so he decided to kill the "evil cat from hell" then burn him to ashes he would burry under the Hokage momument; while he had the unspoken agreement of Roxas this proposition greatly upset Naminé, Hayate gave him a sympathetic look but told him they couldn't do it since it represented a great income for the village and advised him to go meditate in order to calm down. So there he was, trying to find interior peace and serenety. After ten minutes of deep relaxation effort he felt something, he opened his eyes hoping to come upon the secret meaning of life, only to see he was in a dark sewer. "Wait, when did I got here ?" he started exploring the new location and soon found himself in front of a large cage whose doors wher maintened closed by a small piece of paper thaat read seal, he immediatly understood wher he was. "Why does my mindscape look like a sewer ?"
"I asked myself the very same question many time among the years..."
"And that make you the Kyuubi." a pair of blood red eyes appeared inside the cage, followed by the figure of a red-furred nine-tailed giant fox.
"Himself. You wouldn't believe how hard it was to bring you here."
"I suppose you want to talk to me, maybe convince me you're a nice guy actually..."
"No, I wouldn't qualify myself as a "nice guy", I'm rather the neutral kind of fox."
"Said the being considered as a natural disaster wherever he went... Sorry but "destroyer of many villages" doesn't fit my definition of neutral."
"Well let's say they deserved it... I may not be the kindest of creatures but I have honor and know when recognize the value of others. I believe a malevolent being would not hold such polite conversation. I however don't appreciate affront so as long as you show yourself respectful I'll do the same, disrespect me and I will take revenge in every way possible."
"Shall I understand that your attack twelves years ago was deserved ?"
"No, and that is the matter I wanted to discuss with you. But first a little tale is in order. More than a century ago, some members of the Hyuga clan branch family came upon me requesting I freed them from the seal that enslaved them, swearing eternal veneration to me... I acepted the deal and granted them new powers, a strong chakra-affinity to fire and evolved their Byakugan into the Sharingan. They formed the Uchiha clan and respected their part of our agreement for a generation, however I made a mistake : I created the Sharingan too powerful and they became arrogant, the second generation of Uchiha forgot its debt to me. Then came the third generation and the accursed Uchiha Madara, he and his brother Izuna managed to unseal a new level of the Sharingan, the Mangekyo Sharingan, they thought themselvees to be the new gods of the battlefield but such power came to a price, each time they used this new power, wich was often, their sight deteriorated. In a desperate attempt to avoid blindness Madara took his brother eyes obtainning the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan wich granted him immortality and more importantly the ability to put me undr his direct control. Later he founded this village with Senju Harashima. Being refused the position of Hokage he decided to betray the village but receiving no support was obliged to leave. Harashima opposed him,this man was something else, kid, he managed to defeat me on his own power, somthing only your father manged to reproduce, his mokuton ability quickly imobilised me allowing to watch Madara getting beatten, such a wonderful spectacle. He even had the honor to excuise himself for having to attack me, we though Madara to be dead but fate prove us wrong... Twelve years and a half ago I found myself in a forest Madara facing me, before I could eat him he made eye contact gaining control over myself, he then made me attack the village leading us to this discomfortable situation. Uchiha Madara disrepected me on various occasions, even daring to make me commit unjustified crimes... In order to to clean my name I, the Kyuubi no Kitsune, resquest from you to defeat and end the life of Uchiha Madara. As this task will prove itself uneasy at the least I will allow you to use the help of your three closest friend. Know that my reward will be great and immediate if you accept, I will grant you a chakra-affinity to fire wich combined with your wind affinity will make yourself much stronger; your mate's Byakugan will be improved; I will unlock a power that is dormant within your blond haired friend and give more control over her power to your female friend. You are not obliged to respond me now, come back to me when you and your friends come to a decision. Warning your Hokage should also be a wise move...I think you shall leave now."
Naruto found himself back under the tree his team let him at, said team was in front of him, cat retrieved, obviously waiting for him to report the sucess of the mision. He nodded at them and they went.
After the report Naruto stayed behind and asked to talk with the Hokage in private. "Old man, earlier today I was meditating an something hapened... I talked with the Kyuubi."
Sarutobi paled "What did it said ?"
"Well..."
AN : And this was chapter seven, I'm not satisfied the way the first of it part flowed but it was the best I could do. Naruto finnaly know who his enemies are. Will he accept Kyuubi's offer. What could be Roxas's dormant power ?Why am I asking those question ? The answers to this questions, and to many others, will be revealed in the next chapters of Team Blondie. By the way, making Hayate cough is a pain...