A/N: Ok so here is chapter 4, I in no way want to bash Minato cause I love him. Though he has a reason in the mix. He isn't the bad guy here. Well more Minato in this, Kakashi too and his pervyness that we love so much. More Uchiha Sasuke. I in no way mean to bash Sakura its a process til friendship u know. I seem to divide the pov in two. Naruko, or Sasuke. Well hope u enjoy, bell test, special mission. Well R&R ;]
DISCLAIMER: DONT OWN IT *SIGH* Naruto. or UCHIHA SASUKE *CRYS*
Chapter four: Release!
Sasuke
The survival test was harder than I thought. Kakashi was someone not to mess with. I had managed to touch one of the bells but I couldn't grab it. Kakashi made it seem like he was bored by reading the stupid book by the name Icha-Icha paradise. That stupid fool is reading a porn book while training us. The blonde and the pink haired girls hadn't moved. I expected it from the pink haired girl, but the blonde. It was odd, though they were both hidden very well.
The next second all I saw was a blur of yellow and black. Kakashi saw it coming, though to his surprise he found it hard to keep up.
"Come on Hatake don't tell me you're losing to a girl!" The blonde teased as she sped around the Jounin sensei.
The blonde weaved in and out at a rhythmic pace. Kakashi punched trying to catch said blonde only to be greeted by a poof.
"Interesting Shadow clones."Kakashi said with a smirk as he was circled with amazing speed from the blonde. "Not impressive!" Kakashi said again as he ripped part of the dress off the blonde.
"Says you, copy cat ninja!" The blonde taunted with a smile. She jumped with superb stealth on to Kakashi rang the bell. "Sasuke! Catch!" The blonde motioned. I took my cue and ran over grabbing the bells.
Only thing is we were greeted with a poof as well. He used a clone.
"I know we don't like each other, but its best if we work together if we want to get the bells." The blonde stated. She was right, they were impossible to get without the help of another. The pink haired annoying girl was nowhere to be found.
I wasn't exactly ecstatic per say to find her, Stupid fan girl Baka.
"Take the North, I'll take west." The Blonde barked the orders. I hated taking orders from people I did what I wanted.
"I take orders from no one!" I snarled and she held her hand up passively. "I'll take West you take North. We meet center." I added she nodded showing no emotion. The girl was infuriating.
"Fine, don't say I didn't warn." She said with a smirk. What was she storming?
I ignored said blonde and went West North as planned. I ran into a passed out Pink haired girl. I passed her though leaving her there. Kakashi had gotten to her and by the looks of it. Nothing good had happened.
I ran into said Ninja Sensei. He had shuriken in his hands and looked ready to attack. I managed the appropriate hand signals to summon the fire Jutsu technique I learned from my father.
"I am impressed, but there is no way with the amount of Chakra you have are you going to pull that off."Kakashi added with a supposed mask smirk.
He was wrong one of the things I was proud to say I learned from my father. Fire came out and Kakashi dodged it but his one visible eye was wide in shock. I smirked knowing he didn't expect it.
Said blonde girl was behind Kakashi and did something weird in the palm of her hand. She was summoning what looked like a wind ball in her palm.
"RASENGAN!" The Blonde said. And the grayed haired Nin stood frozen as to what he felt. He was knocked back a few feet as he was spinning.
My eyes were shocked. I had never seen such a technique. What was it exactly?
We were able to get the bells though. It seemed to easy though. Kakashi hadn't seen that coming, well I could add that I hadn't seen it coming either.
She just knocked him down. It seemed to me that the other day she was simply teasing Itachi and me. She wasn't serious. This proved she was stronger, but I wasn't sure if she was toying or this was full potential.
Kakashi stood up, but was dizzy. Through his mask you could clearly state a jaw hanging agape. He was in shock. I didn't blame him, I was too.
"How?" he asked.
"How what?" she replied uninterested and looked at her nails.
"How could you perfect such a technique?" he asked.
"Pssh, no sweat, I learned it from my Grandpa like a long time ago. Well he didn't really show me I just kind of picked it up. It wasn't a strong Rasengan either. I am capable of more." She answered meekly.
"You say that so calmly. You're more like him each day." Kakashi said absently. But Naruko and I heard him. She was like whom? I wanted to know.
"Don't compare me to him. I am nothing like him." She spat as if she had a bad taste in her mouth.
"That's his technique. I only know of one person to do it, but you say your grandfather knows it. It took M…" Kakashi was cut off by a enraged blonde.
"Don't you dare say his name! I in no way am like that man. I know he perfected it in three years; which says from him, I perfected it in three weeks. I was only seven when I picked it up." She said annoyed as she crossed her arms against her chest.
"You're too advanced for this group." Kakashi answered. "You're closing on being near my own strength." Kakashi said and my eyes went wide. She was really that strong. I had underestimated.
"I would have been in the academy sooner. My Grandmother made me wait though. She said I wasn't ready. Now I see what a disappointment it is. She was wrong. They think I am going to break like a crystal figurine." The blonde admitted absently.
That was saying more than I knew. I didn't know the blonde very well. She held her background and history to a minimum. She was a mystery for Pete's sake.
"I understand." Kakashi said like he knew who exactly she was talking about.
"Thank you, Sensei." She added with a court bow.
"Let's go find your other teammate. I will give you the answer to the test." Kakashi said with an eye smile.
0o0o0o0o
We walked to the stumps and Sakura was tied to the stump as she didn't pull her weight. Naruko I will admit we worked together in team work.
"Well since you snots did actually manage to work together. Meaning Sasuke and Naruko, Sakura you sure are weak compared to your two team mates."Kakashi stated and said pink haired girl blushed in embarrassment.
"That means no food for Sakura and you two." He pointed at Naruko and I. "Are not allowed to feed her." He motioned.
"Cut the crap Kakashi I already know about the test. It was meant so we would work in team work. We got the bells. Plus I don't eat. Sakura can have my food." Naruko said as she placed the lunch in front of Sakura. She said it monotonously. It was so dull. She wasn't as well she was always monotonous in front of me. I couldn't say the same about how she was in front of Itachi. I guess it was the trust factor. She was comfortable around him.
"I see well than I have nothing else to say than I congratulate you that you pass. Team work is important. You guys need to work on involving Sakura. Sakura you need to get your thoughts together and not let certain thoughts cloud your judgment."Kakashi added. Stupid Fan girl, I thought as I crossed my arms.
Sakura just blush.
"Sakura word of advice, you need to train if you're going to keep up."Kakashi said. And he was right. "I am pretty sure you can learn from Naruko. Well that said Sasuke you could too." I was enraged by the mere thought.
"I don't want to be a tutor." Naruko said as she stuck her nose in the air and sounded irritated. "It was bad enough I had to baby sit my brother."
"Well these are your team mates. You should treat them like family. When at the end of the day they have your flanks." Kakashi said.
"Fine, But don't think I am an easy trainer. I will crush you guys until you cry." She said as she did the motion in her hand as she closed it.
I grunted no way did I want to train with her, though it was convenient. I still had my issues with being ordered around.
"You know I like you. You're so like my old sensei." Kakashi said with an eye smile and smirk.
Naruko growled and I wondered why that was so bad. I wondered who Kakashi's sensei was. He must have been something if Kakashi was this strong.
"I refuse to be compared." She growled. It seemed like they knew exactly the references. I was confused, but I wasn't the only one as Sakura looked far more lost than I was.
"Well looks like you need to fix your attitude if you want to become Hokage one day. You're close, but not with that personality." Kakashi said with laughter.
I was lost.
~0o0o0o0o0o~
Naruko
I didn't know what I had gotten myself into. We were starting d-rank missions. It sucked. I wasn't all for looking for lost cats, dogs, and chickens. Not to mention the hard labor ones like cleaning people's houses and helping on the farm, though it just made us closer as a team.
I was starting training with my team mates today. I had promised Kakashi. Well he black mailed me. The topic of my father would never be brought up again if I agreed. Kakashi knew and we spoke about it. I was glad I could confide in someone who knew my origins to some extent.
I remembered when he told me if we could talk after the survival test.
-Flash back-
"Dismissed." Kakashi-sensei said as the other two left. "Naruko let's talk." I nodded my head in agreement.
"Yes sensei?" I said sweetly.
Not in my usual monochromatic tone.
"How did you really learn the Rasengan?" He asked. I was going to lie, but most likely he would have seen through it like the one previous in Sasuke's presence. I had lied and half told the truth. Though it was true I learned it in three weeks and mastered it at age seven.
"Well I did learn it at age seven and mastered it in three weeks, saying much from a twelve year old huh." I sighed. "My grandfather does know it. He learned it from my father as you know you were his student. I learned it from my father. It's one of his moves. I have always been able to learn things at an unusual speed. I don't know why?" I said truthfully. First person I spoke this with. Besides my grandparents and father who knew.
"Interesting, seems to me you're a prodigy. You are very advanced in age. I think maybe before you get to your fathers age you'll surpass him." Kakashi said with a look of curiosity.
"I don't have a great relationship with my father. I feel like he wants me to be his pet. Like I am a secret weapon or something." I said truthfully speaking my mind. I had never voiced these ideas. Not like now. It was like I was speaking to myself. Kakashi I knew I could speak to I felt comfortable to voice with him. I wasn't sure why. I hadn't even known him long.
"I doubt that's the case. You're father is an honorable man. One day you'll understand. It isn't my place to tell you. Even if I knew I don't think I'll be able to voice. Minato always has a strategy. It's part of his braniac demeanor." He paused then smiled.
"Says you, I don't have words to justify why he has a need to hide my siblings and I. If he loves us why not show he has us." I said as I wrapped my arms around myself and squeezed for assurance.
"I can't answer that, but I am sure Minato has his reasons. You're actually quite like him in reasoning. Though I think you're like your mother in the stubborn and hard headedness." He said with a chuckle.
"Mama?" I said as I raised an eyebrow. "My mother has always been sweet, though she shelters my twin brother a lot. She always babies him. I have never seen another side of her than that." I said as I collected my thoughts and knowledge of my mother.
"You are so sheltered and don't know it. Your mom obviously acts that way around you guys. With your dad, well I think her wrath is the scariest thing I've seen." Kakashi said as he shuddered a little.
"You've been around them a lot?" I asked; he nodded.
"I know about you, I am the only lasting member of my team. Your father loved the three of us. I show my support to him. I know about Kyuubi, Naruto, Kushina and you. Your Sage grandparents, though I didn't know Jiraiya knew the Rasengan. Tsunade taught you well. Though I see you take after your father a lot more now." Kakashi said.
"I know. I don't see why? I try so hard not to be like him. Everyone sees him as a hero. In my eyes it's hard to see. Kyuubi is screwed up. I am afraid he left. He hasn't been around. I think he went Rogue and it's my father's fault. I want to do well, I want to help people, and it's just so hard." I sighed and then I felt them. Tears?
My chest was feeling relief. Kakashi looked at me surprised.
I was surprised at the feeling. I had never cried, even though so many times I have tried. I didn't think crying was a sign of weakness. As my tears fell it started raining. The rain was falling at a rhythm as my tears. That was an odd revelation.
"You've never cried before?" Kakashi asked and I nodded my head yes. "It doesn't show you're weakness. Though I know Ninja's aren't supposed to show emotion. You're a child not a monster. Emotion is what makes us human." He added as he placed his hand on my shoulder.
"I don't think crying is a weakness." I said through tears. I could talk normally. "I have tried so many times to cry so that this feeling in my chest would go away." I said as I placed my hand on my heart.
"I have never been easy to share when I am sad or upset. It always only comes in Anger or Happiness. It's rare when I am happy. I have been told I have a compassionate heart. I don't see it sometimes when I act snarky. I am told often that I am selfless. Though I think frankly I am selfish. It's conflicting you know. When I try to say no to people I say it with an attitude, then I contradict myself, by well going through with the action." I sighed.
"I am a walking contradiction." I sighed again.
"That just means you are selfless, though you don't see it. We make a deal. I never mention your father in front of your team mates if you train them from your heart. It will be easier if you do it willingly. You are strong and your team mates can benefit from the training. You are something kid." Kakashi added as he ruffled my hair.
I smiled and then agreed. I guess training the two baka's wouldn't be too bad. They were on my team and they needed to have my flanks. We had to work as three yet one.
-End Flash back-
Training would start today. I needed to know what exactly I needed to help them with. So a small test needed to be done. Kakashi said I had potential and that was a good thing coming from my sensei. Kakashi of course would attend said Training, though he gave me free reign to torture my team mates.
He wouldn't conflict in my teaching style. He did learn that I taught Naruto for the graduation exam. He was surprised at the fact when he saw the major improvement of my brother. Well let's say Iruka was shocked as well. He had a weird relationship with my brother. He was like mother hen with Naruto.
Well obviously if I could get a little brat like my brother into shape in only two weeks. Imagine what I could do with these two. They were actually serious unlike Naruto who was a little prankster, Youngster mentality.
"Okay! To business, I will train you my way. You will listen and will not question me. I have full permission from Kakashi to knock some sense into you guys. My training is strict. I take no crap and you will listen closely." I said as I paced back and forth in front of my team mates.
"Bitchy." Sakura said under her breath, but I heard her. Sasuke gave a smirk that I caught.
"Haruno! Two-hundred pushups now!," I barked. She swallowed hard.
"Are you serious?" she asked nervously.
"Did I stutter? Don't test my authority." I said and she swallowed hard. "Get to it before I make you do three-hundred more. You're lucky I gave you so little." I said satisfied.
She obliged as she started doing girl pushups.
"One handed-behind your back Haruno. Start over!"
She scoffed and then obliged again.
"Uchiha!" The word rang off my tongue and gave me a weird sensation as I remembered Itachi. I wasn't sure if it was because this was Sasuke or because he was Itachi's little brother. "You need to work on your Chakra control. I tell you this because I observed you when we sparred. You're too impulsive. The exercise I am going to show you is a little difficult." I said as I directed him near a tree. Kakashi actually was paying attention rather than with his nose in Grandpa's porn book.
"Do you know how to manipulate Chakra?" I know it sounded stupid we weren't back at the Academy. He gave me a look that told me what was wrong with me. "I know but do you know how to push it to different parts of your body. For instance feet, hands, head and other free limbs?" he gave me that bored look once more. Broody wasn't as fun as the Pinkster.
"Of course I am not dumb." He countered. I nodded understandingly.
"Push the chakra to your feet. You're going to climb this tree. No hands allowed." I told him. His eyes gave him away. He was shocked. "I'll show you." I told him as I walked calmly up the tree like if I was just strolling down the street. "It's going to be hard so mark your progress." I said as I handed him a Kunai.
"I saw when you taught Naruto how to walk on water. It's similar." He said with triumph. Only he didn't know that Naruto never did manage to walk on water. He did do this exercise which is baby steps compared to that.
"It's the step before that." I answered honestly. "Walking on water is harder than this. You need to know chakra control. If you can do this there is nothing you can't do. Your fire Jutsu might be stronger if you get this one down." I told him honestly.
He nodded and attempted. To my surprise he wasn't half bad as Naruto he made it to a decent spot on the tree before he fell off. Kakashi watched with a smile at my teaching skills. He was bored after two tries from Sasuke and went back to the porn book.
"Haruno I don't hear you counting." I yelled as Sakura thought I wasn't paying attention to her. "One-hundred more." I told her and she squealed in objection.
"You're tough kid." Kakashi said from behind me.
"It's called dedication. This is nothing compared to what I went through when I was four." I answered honestly.
"Minato sure pushed you." Kakashi said lowly so only I could hear him.
"He held back." I answered. "Grandma was the one who pushed me. She said I wouldn't be walked over. She understood the feeling." I said as I absently played with the ends of one of my pigtails.
"Ah I see." He added as he went back to the porn book.
"Be nice, I can get you an advanced copy of the manuscript for the second book. I know the author." I said with a shudder.
Kakashi's eyes brightened. "You know the Author?" he asked gleefully.
I nodded and sighed.
"I am not allowed to reveal his identity. He'll kill me." I said monotonously.
Kakashi nodded, but he looked content.
0o0o0
Sakura finished her pushups and got up. I told her to do the same exercise as Sasuke. She agreed. To my surprise the Haruno girl was actually good with her Chakra control. She made it to the top with a breeze. Sasuke looking annoyed sighed as he tried.
"Sasuke you'll get it." I encouraged.
"Yea Sasuke-kun you're the best rookie of the year!" Sakura added like a cheerleader. I rolled my eyes annoyed with her stalker tendencies.
To my knowledge Sasuke ignored her but continued.
"Team!" Kakashi interrupted.
"Yes?" I said as Sasuke stopped and came to pay attention to Kakashi.
"Tomorrow we'll be meeting with the Hokage personally to get a mission. I know I normally go and get them myself, but this one the Hokage wants the team's attendance." Kakashi I knew was contemplating my reaction. Sakura was happy while Sasuke gave a simple 'Hn'
I stayed quiet. I wondered what father Dearest had in mind.
Only tomorrow we would be able to know.
0o0o0o0o0o0o
Kyuubi was nowhere to be found still. I worried about him. Mama told me not to. That she was sure he was okay and would be back soon. I knew this time it was something different. He wouldn't come back. I felt it in my stomach.
We were going to the Hokage tower. We met up at our regular spot as we walked in silence. I didn't want to see my father's face. I was still upset with him. But maybe he put me on this team because he knew it would work.
Though I really doubted it, I was stronger than my team mates and he knew it. Maybe he knew that this was practice in teaching. Though Kakashi was happy, he was lazy and would rather be reading Icha-Icha as I trained the team, that lazy bum.
We entered the Hokage tower. I felt nervous; the butterflies were like a Kunai to my stomach. I had never felt nervous about anything. This felt eerie extremely foreboding. It felt like the first time I had learned Kyuubi had left and I ran into Father's office telling him to bring Kyuubi back. This felt like that time, and I swallowed hard.
We walked into Minato-sama's office. I kept quiet knowing my place.
"Yes Yondaime?" Kakashi said professionally.
"Kakashi I know your team has been only receiving D-rank missions by your request. I have a favor. Only your team can handle this task. Are they prepared?" Father asked. I looked at the floor not making eye contact.
Sakura looked perplexed as did Sasuke as they looked between Father and myself. If they didn't notice the resemblance by now they were true idiots.
"It depends on the mission Yondaime. Though I am sure they can manage." Kakashi said again in that professional tone.
"It's a retrieval mission. The one I am sure who will be able to handle it without fail is Naruko. I am sure the team is acquainted well enough to work together. I don't expect less from an Uchiha or Haruno." Father added. I looked up to see father.
"What is it?" I said knowing well it was supposed to be Kakashi asking. Father was taken back a bit. He wasn't expecting me to talk, not after our last fight.
"I think you know very well what it is Naruko. Bring him home." My father said simply. I looked into his cerulean eyes and knew he meant it.
"I have a request though." I said simply. Father nodded showing me he was listening.
"Go ahead."
"How did he break the bracelet?" I asked.
"That I can't answer, I am not sure myself how he did it. Naruko I ask this of you because you know him the best." Father gave me a weak smile.
"Understood." I said as I turned to my team mates.
They were still perplexed by the exact blonde hair and blue eyes.
"You two are smart." Father answered them. "The resemblance is uncanny. Naruko you have my permission to tell them, only if they're sworn not to tell a soul." Father said.
I nodded in response and knew I could trust my team mates. They had grown on me.
"Yondaime Hokage…" I started. "Minato Namikaze…." I said as I bit my lip feeling weird at revealing this. "Is my father." I said as I bit down harder on my lip drawing blood.
Sakura fainted at the revelation. Sasuke for the first time actually showed emotion as his jaw dropped. I was shocked at seeing that reaction at first. Kakashi just eye smiled. Well Kakashi already knew.
"I'll make sure no one knows Sensei." Kakashi said to father. Father just nodded.
"Naruko Please bring Kyuubi home." My father added once more. I felt my father's concern.
He actually cared about Kyuubi.
Kyuubi was wrong.
well its about time they go on a secret mission to get Kyuubi back. figures the ahole would run away. well now the team knows about Naruko's father. Yondaime Hokage.
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