Chapter 5: The real test
I read a comment and saw a huge mistake where I kept calling memma Naruto. I apologize, thank you for correcting me that was my fault. Thank you now I can fix my mistakes and make the story better. I appreciate it.
The Hokage Tower. It is the nerve centre of the Hidden Leaf. The very heart of the village. It is from here that that the Hokage goes about running the village on a daily basis. And as usual, now the Hokage is currently in his office on the top floor of the tower, where a view of the entire village is available, discussing a matter that will affect the future of village.
The last few days have been particularly busy for Minato. All three of his children had graduated from the academy. On the night of the day they were promoted to Genin it had occurred that a Chunin academy instructor, one of the two who had been teaching them, had stolen the Forbidden Scroll of seals and attempted to leave the village. Mizuki had come very close to making away with the scroll and all the Forbidden jutsu within and would have done so had it not been for a certain shinobi. Mizuki had been attacked and stopped by a mystery shinobi and left tied up for the ANBU to apprehend.
For the past few days he had been interrogated about why he had stolen the scroll and who took him down before he could leave with it but to no avail. Some, of the few who knew, had dismissed it as the actions of a power hungry fool but Minato is not so sure. Mizuki is just a chunin. Surely no matter how much of a fool he is he would have realised there is nothing a shinobi of his calibre could do with a scroll containing such jutsu.
This leads Minato to the conclusion that someone tasked him with it. But who? An enemy village? Rogue shinobi? The Hidden Stone had been itching to get revenge since the war ended but the memory of Kanabi Bridge ensured that the very mention of his name struck a terrible fear into them. The Hidden Cloud is a very militaristic village and their current Raikage is on a mission to make the village the most powerful in the Elemental Nations.
Though with their failed attempted kidnapping of the Hyuuga clan heads first born daughter occurring only a few years ago perhaps they wouldn't be so brazen. Rogue shinobi? Was it perhaps the criminal shinobi organisation that Jiraiya had informed him of and that Itachi Uchiha was reported to have joined?
Whatever the case Minato knew this should be treated with the utmost seriousness. He had had Ibiki and Anko handle the matter but when they failed, surprisingly, he had Inoichi attempt to extract the needed information. To his shock the Yamanaka clan head failed as well.
After some investigation it was discovered there was a seal on the shinobi's brain that acted as a lock to his memory. The seal wasn't a problem for someone like Minato however it is outfitted with a fail-safe mechanism that ensures that should it be broken Mizuki's brain will be destroyed before any information can be retrieved. This is worrying to Minato. Although this did confirm his suspicion that Mizuki was working for someone and someone powerful but who?
Minato was just thankful that the scroll was recovered. Now if only he knew who was responsible. He understands Mizuki not revealing his master but why not reveal who stopped him? Perhaps this is another individual within the village who was working with him who ended up deciding against handing over the scroll and betrayed Mizuki and now the chunin is protecting this person for fear that they will tell all there is to know about the plot.
Minato is very disappointed in how the scroll was even able to be stolen in the first place. Security around the tower has been tightened as a result. When Danzo gets word of this he won't hear the end of it. But that is not the matter of importance Minato is handling right now.
Sitting across from Minato is a man who appears to be a shinobi himself. Two scars can be seen on the right side of his face. He has dark hair tied into a spiky ponytail, dark eyes and a goatee beard. He is wearing only a mesh shirt underneath his dark green flak jacket and what appears to be a dear skin coat over this. Besides this his outfit is the standard one for a shinobi of the Hidden leaf.
This is none other than the Jonin commander of the Hidden Leaf, and by far it's most skilled tactician and sharpest analytical mind, the Nara clan head, Shukaku Nara.
Currently the pair is discussing the team arrangement of the newly promoted generation of shinobi of the Hidden Leaf which contains their children.
"So Minato how do you feel about this line up?" Shukaku asks not referring to the village leader by his appropriate title.
"Well there are a lot more assault squads" Minato observed. There was only one team completely devoted to tracking and that was pretty much it.
Shukaku nodded at this.
"True, there are. But there isn't a shortage of tracking and espionage personnel within the village. It is to be expected. This is what many people in the village looked at this generation as being destined for"
Minato adopted a thinking pose. There hasnt been a group of individuals with this with this much hype surrounding them in a while. The notion that one needs to be from a shinobi clan to be talented is ridiculous. He himself has no clan background. Though they are quit the promising bunch.
"All right. I'll give it my approval" Minato says. He is hopeful of this generation. And along with this new batch of shinobi, new Jonin senseis would be coming in. Kushina would be coming out of retirement and an old friend of his would be taking up teaching as well. Shukaku leaves Minato's office as the Hokage turns his seat to look over the village. He is deep in thought once again.
Time skip: days later
The Academy: Iruka's classroom.
As more Genin trickled into the room the level of noise rose until he could no longer concentrate. So now he is just thinking. It's been exactly a week since the new genins was promoted.
Iruka detects four chakra signatures approaching the classroom, three of them closer than the fourth. He lifts his head, and sits up straight with his arms crossed. Not long after,in walk the 'Princesses of the Hidden Leaf' and the 'Prince of the Hidden Leaf'. Menma, Mito and Yayoi are dressed in their usual attire. Menma is wearing a red jacket with a black flame motif along the bottom and along the end of the sleeves with the zip left open. Beneath this he is wearing a white shirt with the kanji for fire on the front. He is also wearing black pants and blue shinobi sandals. His headband is strapped around his head keeping the bangs of his shaggy hair out of the way but only a bit.
Mito is wearing a red, open front battle dress. It ends just above the knees and underneath this she is wearing short tights and blue shinobi sandals that reach just mid-calf. Her long red hair is tied in a ponytail that reaches her mid-back. She is also wearing blue wrist bands. Her headband is strapped around her waist.
Yayoi is wearing a pair of tight blue shorts underneath which she is wearing mesh pants that reach her ankles. She is also wearing blue sandals and a midriff white top that exposes her belly button. As always her hair is tied in pigtails and her headband is strapped around her neck.
The arrival of the Hero trio of the Hidden Leaf earns swoons and murmurs from their respective fan clubs.
"Menma! You're here"
" Look at him. He's so cool"
" Yayoi is so hot!"
"Mito, marry me!"
" She's incredible"
The three walk into the classroom behaving completely oblivious to the shouts and murmurs. They have gotten used to this sort of treatment.
They walk to their seats and sit down, Menma high fiving Kiba.
"Man, they can't get enough of you" Kiba compliments
"What can I say, I'm irresistible" Menma brags. Mito smiles and greets her friends.
"Hi Mito" greets Hinata.
"Hey Hinata, Kaori, you ready?" She asks.
The two nod.
Yayoi, meanwhile, is with Mito, Kaori and Hinata but is not paying attention to them. She is looking to the back of the class at Sasuke.
Sasuke realises that Yayoi is looking at him but he is behaving obliviously to this. He hadn't lifted his head to see these three but rather for Iruka who should be starting any second now.
"Hey Yayoi". Yayoi sighs in an exasperated manner. She turns her head to see Kiba standing in front of her.
" How are you?" Kiba asks.
It is no secret that Kiba is infatuated with Yayoi.
Members of the blonde girls fan club begin to protest.
The Inuzuka dares them to do something.
" Right!" Iruka shouts walking in. "Quiet down! Kiba sit down!"
No one listens and it looks as if a fight is about to break out.
Iruka sighs before performing his big headed jutsu.
"SHUT UP!" he yells.
There is silence. Kiba finally sits down.
"Right now first of all I would like to congratulate Menma Uzumaki Namikaze and Sasuke Uchiha for tying for Rookie of the year" he says causing applause to erupt throughout the room particularly from the two boys' fan girls. Sasuke displayed his trademark scowl while Menma smirked cockily.
"And I would like also like to congratulate Satsuki Uchiha and Mito Uzumaki Namikaze for tying for Top Kunoichi" he says causing another eruption of applause to occur, this one laced with whistles. Yayoi is clapping happily. She would have tied with Mito and Satsuki but they had bested her on accuracy and theory. Menma had bested both her and Mito on physicality.
Mito is looking at Satsuki out of the corner of her eye.
'I will...'
Satsuki glances at Mito who is looking at her and simply looks back at Iruka causing Mito to clench her fist and grit her teeth.
"So with that out of the way, Its time for all of you to find out your team placements but before that...
"Right. The following are the squads you are all assigned to."
Sasuke listens but isn't really interested until the notable Genin begin being named
"Team 7 will consist of Menma, Mito and Yayoi Uzumaki Namikaze" The three groan at their luck. Even on duty they can't get away from each other.
' I'm going to give dad a piece of my mind!' they all inwardly say at the same time. "Your sensei will be Kushina Uzumaki Namikaze" Iruka continues with a surprised look on his face. The three siblings are shocked. They were not expecting their mother to be their sensei.
Murmurs of protest fill the room. Many are about how three of the strongest kids are on the same team, team family and how it is unfair while many are also the cries of members of the threes' respective fan clubs. Ino has tears streaming down her face and Sakura is smirking.
"There, there Ino. You never really had a chance in the first place. I mean only true love can prevail"
"Team 8 will consist of: Kiba Inuzuka, Hinata Hyuuga and Shino Aburame. Your Jonin senseis will be Kurenai Yūhi." Iruka continues.
"Team 9 is currently active. Team 10 will consist of :Sakura Haruno, Shikamaru Nara and Choji Akimichi".
"Nooooo" Sakura cries throwing herself on the floor while Ino laughs loudly at her.
"Hah! I may not be on the same team as Menma but at least I'm not stuck with those two hopeless sacks" Ino says pointing at Choji and Shikamaru. Choji raises an eyebrow while Shikamaru looks on with his trademark bored expression.
"What a drag" he says.
Iruka sweat drops at this behaviour.
Ino continues laughing at her best friend who is still laying on the floor and hasn't recovered from her shock.
"SHUT UP!" Iruka shouts for the second time.
"Sorry Iruka sensei" Ino says blushing embarrassedly.
Iruka shakes his head irritably.
"Team 11 will consist of: Sasuke Uchiha, ino Yamanaka and satsuki uchiha. Your Jonin sensei is Kakashi Hatake."
"You will wait here for your Jonin senseis to arrive" Iruka says. Not long after this Kurenai Yūhi arrives and picks up team 8.
Sasuke is not surprised by the team line ups. Of course Menma, Mito and Yayoi are on the same team. Training the village heroes was of the utmost importance after all. He is a bit surprised by the decision not to rebuild the InoShikaCho formation.
Sasuke doesn't know much about Ino. She is the heiress to the Yamanaka clan and the daughter of the clans leader, Inoichi Yamanaka. She is Sakura Haruno 's best friend and has a crush on Menma. That is pretty much all he knows. He isn't too sure about her. It seems to him like her eyes haven't been opened to the cold realities of the shinobi world. And then of course there is...
Ino sighs exasperatedly. She isn't on Menma's team. Well at least Sakura can't rub it in her face because she isn't on Sasuke's team. She knows Satsuki a bit or at least she thinks she does. She used to be friendly and got along with everyone. Then she changed. This was the same time Sasuke changed. It was after their brother supposedly massacred their clan. Sasuke on the other hand is a complete mystery to her. He is quiet and doesn't talk to anyone. She remembers even from a young age he was quite and perservent.
3 hours later...
A man enters the classroom. He has silver hair that sticks up and onyx-coloured eyes with a face mask with his forehead protector over his eye. themHe is wearing the standard Jonin flak jacket along with a dark blue shirt with the symbol of the Uzumaki clan swirl on the back.
"Team 12, follow me." The man revealed to be Kakashi hatake says in a bord tone before turn and leaving.
Sasuke gets up and heads down the stairs behaving obliviously to the watching eyes. He walks out of the classroom for the last time and turns to see a woman approaching. Kushina. She is wearing the standard Hidden Leaf Jonin attire. Her headband is strapped around her head and her red hair is tied in ponytail.
"Sasuke" she says with a smile on her face.
"Lady Kushina" he responds bowing with a blank look on his face, and walking off.
Sasuke takes some time to study his team mates. Satsuki is dressed in a skirt that is above the knees. The skirt has a slit that goes down the right thigh which is wrapped in bandages which allows her to draw her kunai from its holster. She is also wearing black knee high shinobi sandals. On her upper body she is wearing a dark blue long sleeve midriff top that exposes the shoulders and bears the crest of the Uchiha clan on the back. Her jet-black hair is cut above the shoulders and kept out of the way of her heart-shaped face.
Ino has fair skin, blue eyes and platinum blonde hair that she wears in a ponytail that extends to her waist, with bangs that frame the right side of her face. Ino is wearing a purple outfit consisting of a high collar blouse and a matching apron. She has bandages on her abdomen and legs. She is wearing white arm warmers with a purple trim and her headband is worn as a belt.
Training ground 12
Sasuke, Satsuki and Ino are all sitting in front of Kakashi who is sitting atop one of three wooden stumps.
The group have introduced each other to one another and told of their, likes dislikes, hobbies etc. Sasuke ensured he gave away as little as possible. Sasuke doesn't consider himself to be dense.
"Alright then, now it's time for you to take your graduation test."
"What do you mean?" Ino asks "we've already been promoted"
"Not really" Kakashi replies " That was only a means of weeding out those truly capable of being shinobi. And this is a means of acquiring the best out of those capable"
Sasuke is a little suprised but he should've saw it coming.
"So let's not waste any time." Kakashi says taking two items out of his pocket. One is a stopwatch. The other is a pair of bells joined by a red string.
" The test is you each have to get one of these bells from me in order to pass. As you've observed there are only two bells. So the two out of the three of you who get a bell will pass and be declared Genin and the odd one out will be sent back to the academy to repeat a year. There will be a time limit of one hour. Failure to acquire a bell within that time will also constitute failure." Kakashi says setting the stopwatch. He hooks the bells to his belt.
" any questions, no good. Your time starts...NOW!" immediately Satsuki, sasuke and Ino jump away from the clearing.
Meanwhile With Satsuki
Satsuki is tense. She is hiding in a tree looking down at Kakashi who is reading a orange book. By the end of today someone will have failed and been sent back to the academy. She has to make sure it isn't her. As long as she gets to keep her headband, it doesn't matter what else happens
"Pssssst, Satsuki" Ino says causing the Uchiha girl to jump in fright and whip around with a kunai in hand.
" Why are you sneaking up on me? What do you want?" Satsuki hisses.
"Listen. We're up against a Jonin here. We can't go in on our own. If we work together and use all opportunities presented we can get those bells" Ino says.
"Oh yeah? and what about sasuke?" Satsuki asks with a glare on her face.
"We can decide who gets the bells later, Lets just focus on the bells" Ino says.
Satsuki nods in agreement. "So how do we go about it?" Ino asks.
"Well, he's distracted by the book right now. We can capitalise on that"
Ino nods. " you go in and cover me. Once I give the signal get out of the way. I'm going to use my clan jutsu to gain control of his body. Then the bells will be ours" Ino says.
Satsuki nods and they prepare to put their plan into action.
With Kakashi...
There is complete silence. Kakashi is just standing there as he calmly read his book. He is able to sense all three locations of his team and wonders what's taking them so long.
'why isn't they attacking?' Kakashi asks inwardly. 'Are they stalling?" Well if he won't take the initiative I will" Kakashi decides. However he cannot as he whips around to block a punch form his student satsuki.
'fast' he observes.
Satsuki aims a kick at Kakashi's midsection. He blocks and pushes her back. Satsuki doesn't relent and goes on the offensive once again, aiming a right hook at his face but he parries it away. She goes low and attempts a leg sweep but he jumps up and back. Satsuki is growing frustrated. He hasn't thrown a single attack at her. Does he think she's too soft? She'll show him!
Kakashi stands with his arms behind his back. This is much too easy. Her Interceptor fist is incomplete without the sharingan which he isn't even using right now.
Satsuki weaves through some hand signs before shouting "Fire style: Fire Ball jutsu!" Satsuki breathes out a fire ball the size of a small house that careens at Kakashi. He raises his eyebrow at this. "She is using this jutsu against him?" Thought Sasuke who was thinking about helping his sister.
The fire ball seemingly engulfs Kakashi. Satsuki doesn't let her guard down. When the fire dissipates nothing is left where Kakashi was.
She whips around to receive a back hand that sends her reeling back. He stands there with his arms behind his back once again.
A shrill whistle echoes throughout the clearing. Satsuki dives to one side allowing Kakashi a clear view of Ino who has her hands in a triangle formation.
" Mind transfer jutsu!" She shouts. Her consciousness leaves her body, making a beeline for Kakashi. Unfortunately for her he recognises this jutsu and sidesteps.
Kakashi finds himself flying through the air from a kick to the side of the face from sasuke. He skids to a halt by putting his feet back on the ground. His suspicions were correct. Sasuke suddenly appears behind Kakashi aiming a chop at his neck but kakashi head whips around and grabs sasuke's hand.
' He's fast. Amazingly strong too' observes Kakashi. Sauske continues his assault, attempting a spinning kick which Kakashi kneels to avoid. He is forced to jump out of the way as the raven haired brings his foot down on the ground where Kakashi was kneeling causing a spider-web of cracks to appear in the ground from the impact.
Kakashi slid to a halt.
Satsuki is shocked. How is this possible? She knew her brother was strong and even stronger than her, but how was he fighting a joinin like this.
'what is going on?' Kakashi ask himself. Sasuke is supposed to be the rookie of the year of his generation. And yet here he is displaying mid chunin level speed and strength.
'clearly the academy's files were mistaken. He's been hiding his strength.' Kakashi says to himself, a smirk appearing on his face.
Kakashi is smiling as well. He is trying his best not to look giddy with excitement. He hasn't had a fight this good since Akisada.
'Alright, I've entertained myself enough for now' he says inwardly. He weaves through hand signs before shouting "fire style: great fire ball jutsu!"
A large wave of fire rushes at Fugaku.
' He used a fire style jutsu like that?" "He must have a strong affinity to it' he observes.
The man weaves through hand signs of his own.
"Fire style: dragon flame jutsu!". A humongous dragon made of fire emerges from Kakashi mouth. The two jutsu collide and a battle for dominance ensues. Kakashi dominates sasuke jutsu before smoke coverd the area. The smoke eventually clears and when it does Kakashi is standing alone in the clearing, the three kids gone.
With sasuke.
Naruto is jumping through the trees. He has Ino held in one arm and Satsuki in the other. He hops down and onto the forest floor once he is sure they are far enough from their opponent. Satsuki pushes herself out of his arm.
" Let go of me!" she shouts pushing herself off of him, blushing madly from embarrassment.
"Why did you pull me away?" She asks angrily.
Sasuke looks at her with a slightly angered expression" you were losing" he replies.
He lays Ino down on the floor. Her eyes flutter and open slowly.
" Ino are you alright?" Sasuke asks.
She groans. The jutsu didn't work.
"Listen. Our opponent is an Elite Jonin. There is no point in attacking him like this" sasuke says having figured the meaning of the test out. He looks to Ino.
"Your jutsu left you in an extremely vulnerable position. He was familiar with it and was able to dodge it. You were wide open" he says causing Ino to look down and frown.
He turns to Satsuki..
" You use the Interceptor fist of the Uchiha clan so one could say you're at the biggest disadvantage of all. The man we're facing is the copy cat ninja, he for sure already knows that taijutsu style.
"You can't hope to face him using fire Style jutsu either. All of that leaves just me. I'm our best bet" he says. Satsuki resists a scoff.
"Its not me being cocky. It's a fact. He's never seen my fighting style before and he doesn't know of the jutsu I have in my arsenal. I will be the cover. I'll go in and fight him head on and when the opportunity presents itself you will attempt to grab the bells." Sasuke says.
" Oh yeah? And have you forgotten there are only two bells" she asks.
They all look at each other.
" Don't worry about that. You just focus on getting those bells. At this rate none of us will pass" Sasuke says. He stands up.
"Wait for my signal" he says.
With Kakashi.
Kakashi is standing in the clearing with his arms crossed. He is waiting for a move to be made. He had pretty much shrugged off Satsuki. He knows how she fights. It was foolish of her to attack him head on like that. Inoichi's girl had teamed up with her and tried to use her clan's jutsu but unfortunately for her he recognises it from his younger days. But it was Sasuke who really surprised him. The boy is incredibly fast and strong. He also doesn't recognise his fighting style. He is interested to see what else he has up his sleeve.
Sasuke drops down from a nearby tree. He walks a few steps and stops.
"Back for round two huh?" Kakashi says with an uncharacteristic smile on his face. Sasuke flashes a smile of his own. This is going to be fun. He weaves through some hands signs. 'Fire style huh, well give this a try'. " Fire style: Phoenix fire ball jutsu"
Balls of fire style chakra emerge from his mouth and head straight for Kakashi. He leaps out of the way and blocks the fist that comes at his face. The real sasuke meanwhile is standing not too far away.
" clone explosion jutsu!" he yells. Kakashi eyes widen as the sasuke who is in front of him begins to glow a white colour. There is a huge explosion. Dirt and smoke rises into the air. "Damn that costed me a lot of chakra." Thought sasuke. Sasuke whips around and jumps back as Kakashi narrowly misses him with a kick. Substitution jutsu. While in mid-air he whips out some shuriken and throws them down at the scarecrow but he takes out a kunai and parries the incoming projectiles away.
Sasuke doesn't give Kakashi any resting time. As soon as he touches the ground he speeds forward. Kakashi puts his kunai up as sasuke suddenly appears in front of him and tries to cut him only to be blocked. Sasuke who is holding the one kunai in a reverse grip whips out another with his left hand and aims for Kakashi midsection only for Kakashi to block with another kunai. The two smirk at each other.
He jumps back as Sasuke slashes at him. Sasuke holds his hands next to his side. His hair begins to blow as fire style chakra begins to gather. Kakashi sees a ball of concentrated fire style chakra gather in sasuke mouth.
' can't dodge while you're in mid-air' he says to himself.
"Fire Style: great fire ball jutsu." He shouts releasing the ball, firing it right at Kakashi.
Kakashi curses. He holds his hand in a cross hand seal, to Sasuke's surprise.
"Shadow clone jutsu" . A clone forms in mid air next to Kakashi. It grabs Kakashi and throws him out of the way taking the full brunt of the attack. The ball hits the clone and a large explosion is the result. Yet again dust and dirt is kicked up. Once it clears Kakashi is standing with a few burns to his right arm.
"That was close".
Sasuke wastes no time. He suddenly appears behind Kakashi and wraps his arms around the team leader. Kakashi is able to force himself out but decideds not to.
"Satsuki, Ino now!" Sauske shouts.
Satsuki and Ino who have been watching all of this in shock, leap from the trees and run straight at Kakashi.
Kakashi breathes in and even with his hands restrained blows out a fireball that forces the two girls to leap out of the way. Kakashi however can do nothing about the clone that comes out of the ground with a kunai in hand. It cuts the red string, grabs both bells and leaps back.
" it's over" the clone shouts lifting the bells in the air just as the stopwatch sounds signalling that time is up.
Sasuke let's go of Kakashi.
Sasuke walks past to the clone who hands the bells to him and disappears in a cloud of smoke. He then hands the bells to Satsuki and Ino to their shock.
"Well then it looks like...you all pass" he says shocking Ino and Satsuki but not sasuke who had already figured out the meaning of the test.
" The true purpose of this test was to determine whether you would selfishly look out for yourselves or work as a cohesive unit regardless of the outcome. I see one of you figured it out" he says looking at sauske smiling. Ino and Satsuki look at sasuke as well with eyes full of wonder and disbelief. They look down guiltily at how they left him out before.
" we're sorry Naruto" Ino says.
"yeah, im sorry big brother I wasn't thinking right and I was a coward to fight." Said satsuki looking at the ground.
He nods " it's fine. I understand" he responds.
" A great team is born from members who give everything for each other instead of for themselves. From this moment onwards you are all fully-fledged shinobi of the Hidden Leaf and members of Team 12" kakashi declares before leaving in a poof of smoke.
"Thank you sasuke, I see you two tomorrow I got to go home now." Said ino running off.
Sasuke walked towards satsuki before Patting her head. "It's fine, you my little sister you know I love you." Said sasuke as satsuki hugged him.
cling* *cling* *cling* *cling*
Was the only noise heard throughout the forest. Itachi sat in a lotus position before taking out a kunai and deflecting a flying kunai. Slowly opening his eyes, he laid his eyes on Naruto who was kneeling panting a bit.
He looked around as he saw 5 kunais dug in a tree and one kunai near his feet, the kunai he deflected.
"I did this when I was 8, naruto." Mocked itachi.
"I never had any sort of training with weapons, sorry I wasn't trained when I was a kid by my parents." Replied Naruto.
"Didn't you say you had a sensei at one point?" Ask itachi. "Yes, but he only taught me a few jutsu, taijutsu and the basics." Answered Naruto.
"Still don't change the fact you should've done better." Said itachi standing up and putting on his cloak walking off. "Follow me." Said itachi causing Naruto to follow behind.
The two walked in silence for a few minutes until they reached they're destination.
Naruto looked at the building in confusion seeing a Uchiha logo on the stone building. "What is this?" Ask Naruto.
"It's the Uchiha hideout that is located outside of the village, come follow me." Said itachi who continued to walked inside until the two reached a room.
Naruto gawked in aw after seeing the massive room filled with weapons, armor, jutsu scrolls, and secrets.
"Since your my apprentice and a student of an Uchiha I thought it will be fit for you to use some of these stuff, think of it as a birthday gift." Said itachi with his eyes shut.
Naruto eyes widened even more when he heard this was a birthday gift. Nobody every celebrated his birthday or even gave him a gift. He forced back tears before walking over to the wall filled with weapons.
Itachi watched Naruto select his items which felt like an eternity. Naruto came back with a black katana straped to his back with a new outfit which he sported a black long sleeve shirt, with black anbu style pants and black combat boots with tape wrapped around his wrist and arm.
"Seems like you forgot to finish wrapping the tape on your ankle?" Mocked itachi. Naruto looked down and saw a string of tape hanging and blushed in embarrassment before wrapping it around.
Naruto then smiled at itachi. "How did you know it was my birthday?" Ask Naruto. "I would be a complete idiot if I didn't know the day the nine tails attacked the village?" Sighed itachi.
Naruto let out a slight chuckle before following behind itachi. "What are we working on today? Itachi sensei?" Ask Naruto.
"We will be meeting up with kisame to learn kenjutsu." Reply itachi as the two left the building before dashing off into the forest.
Author notes: this chapter is finish and I think I did pretty good with this chapter. I know you may be wondering why Naruto getting Uchiha clan stuff but you will all know when the time come until then next time!