A/N: Hello, peoples! We find ourselves here once more, new chapter in hand... well, device of choice, but whatever. This is probably going to be another long chapter, but I don't intend for it to be THAT long; maybe just gonna stick with 10,000+ for now, not 20,000+. I have exams coming up, so I'll either stock up, or just update when I can. Probably update whenever, because I have no patience on these things. Regardless, I just wanna move on in the story a bit faster, so longer chapter are probably gonna be a thing. May get into some of his... background/underground activities this chapter, just to go back to what this story is supposed to be. Also, this chapter may seem to go against what I said about Naruto being only as strong as Kakashi by the end of the original, but Kakashi is gonna get a SERIOUS buff. I don't normally explain what I'm gonna do in the story, but I'll make a few exceptions; my other story taught me that recently. Now, on with my beautiful story... kinda.
Kage Bunshin - Jutsu (I don't think I'll be having NINJAS call out their moves that much though. It will probably be made fun of a lot later on in this story.).
I will destroy you and everything you hold dear. - Extreme anger or demonic speech/thought.
Do angels go back to heaven when they die? - Thought/Flashback stuff.
OH MY FUCKING GOD - Emphasized speech or shouting.
Anything in apostrophes, 'blah blah', occurs within the mind, be it mental communication (which is present) or just plain thoughts.
And any combination from here on out is up to you guys to decipher.
Appearing in his home, Naruto was quickly confronted by Minato, Kushina, Jiraya, and Anko. They all began speaking at once, but Naruto understood the general meaning of the nonsense their voices combined into. "The fuck was that, Naruto!?" Naruto just used a bit of chakra to make some water over their heads, just to "cool them off", so to speak. After they stopped sputtering, he pulled the water out of their clothes with a thought, asking, "Are you calm now?" As they all nodded, Minato stepped forward. "I'll speak for all of us, Naruto. Ahem... WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!?" Naruto chuckled at the synchronized nod of the rest of his audience before answering. "That was something I pulled together with the help of a certain someone after I was taught how to use a scythe. You needn't know that specifics, but I am a badass when I get a chance to prepare for a strike, like that. Now, if you would kindly leave..." Though he said it in a lighthearted manner, his voice left no room for argument. They all looked like they wanted to press for details, but Naruto poured out some chakra, making the very air thick with it and making it hard for them to breath. "I said, if you would kindly LEAVE..." They were gone in an instant after that.
The next day, Naruto appeared in the class, also going in person for today in order to get assigned his team. In his usual seat at the back with Shino, he observed the class, or at least who was there at that point, with his eyes closed and his radar technique going into high gear. Kiba was talking animatedly with Choji and Shikamaru, neither of them seeming too interested in doing anything but eating and napping respectively. Ino was gossiping with Sakura, both looking rather content to talk on. Hinata and Surashi were talking quietly, one of them occasionally sneaking a glance at him. Shino who was sitting at the back with him, was also observing the class, seemingly trying to predict team formations. He could hear the slight buzzing of communication and the exchange of chakra with his advanced senses in hearing and chakra sensing. There was another girl in the same row as him in the back, Yakumo Kurama. She was drawing in a small sketch pad, comparing drawing techniques with the socially awkward Sai, who sat next to her in the back. Everyone else, though they probably passed, he doubted would matter enough in their individual skills to really investigate, as he could sense the depth of their ability and mental state through nature.
Waiting for a few more minutes, trying one last time to find something interesting in his "peers", he felt Iruka and Mizuki appear in the class via shunshin, surprising some of students. "Good morning, stu-. Actually, I won't call you that any longer. All of you here have passed your exams and have become official shinobi of Konoha. We are now comrades, equals, and friends. You may only be genin, but this is just a stepping stone in your career as a shinobi." After a moment's pause, he continued. "You will be organized into teams according to certain factors Hokage-sama has taken into account, such as how well you worked with each other in class, class rank, and individual ability. Now, onto the teams. Team 1 will be..." Naruto tuned him out at this point, faintly registering each team called and storing it in a bin he called "probably don't need to know" in his head. When he heard team 7, he perked up. He'd gone through Minato's files last night, without anyone knowing, of course, and knew he'd be in team 7.
Iruka looked at the sheet in confusion, unable to suppress a "The fuck?", which Mizuki admonished him for until he saw the sheet and said the same thing, but then a look of understanding came across his face as he apparently read a note that explained whatever abnormality he found. Naruto already knew what it was that troubled him, but let him say it anyway. "Okay, class, this team will be a bit different, so don't get too riled up over it. Hokage-sama wanted to try something new, since one of our students is, quote, "able to proceed without guidance if needed and aid in the instruction of fellow genin", so he organized this. Sai Shimura, Yakumo Kurama, Hinata Hyuuga, Surashi Uchiha, and... Naruto Uzumaki." The class erupted into protest on how unfair the team was, but one shout from his big-head no jutsu shut them up.
Clearing his throat, he continued. "The only difference here is that you, Naruto," as he said this, he pointed at Naruto, who he knew was awake despite his eyes being closed, "are expected to be a... teacher's aid, of sorts. You are proficient in ninjutsu, taijutsu, and much more that you can help teach, which will allow your sensei to teach the others more as you help. You will also be back up on missions to any team that gets in trouble. Your position will be known as, and I didn't name it, a Seiei Genin Sensei(Elite Low-Ninja Teacher)." Minato was never known for his naming skills.
The class, sans Naruto, as he already knew of it, gave him an odd look at the name, but he only shrugged. "I didn't name it, guys. Don't shoot the messenger. Moving on, you're sensei will be Kakashi Hatake. Team 8, you consist of Shino Aburame, Kiba Inuzuka, and Sakura Haruno. Your sensei will be Kurenai Yuuhi. Team 9 is still in circulation. Team 10, you consist of Ino Yamanaka, Choji Akamichi, and Shikamaru Nara. Your sensei will be Asuma Sarutobi." He then proceeded to give out a few more team assignments, before finally dismissing them with a smile, Mizuki telling them to come back at noon tomorrow for the final time... hopefully." He mumbled the last part, but a few in the class, including Naruto, heard him and got a bit curious. Unfortunately for them, they had little chance to ask him as he proceeded to leave the room.
Naruto looked at the ones Minato chose as his teammates and began to think, allowing the two demons in his head to hear it. 'Does this guy really want me to train genin... AS A GENIN!?' Kurama shrugged, but Kogo laughed. She only told him one thing. 'You'll be more likely to leave the village on a mission now. This is great!' Kurama nodded in understanding, the action unseen but known to Naruto. 'Good point. I haven't got to do anything worthwhile in a long time. Fighting your clones gets real boring after a while, even with everything you can do.' A mental scoff was his only response, as Naruto didn't wish to dispute that.
Sighing, he got up and looked at his teammates. Surashi was torn between being happy and being really mad. On one hand, she was working with her best friends, but on the other, she was working with Yakumo, a rival of hers. Hinata was beaming, happy to be on a team with both her best friends. Yakumo and Sai looked at one another before giving small smiles, rather content with the team configuration. Naruto just sighed, coming to terms with who he'd be working with for now, and decided to leave, saying good bye to each of his teammates.
Heading down the street to his favorite ramen stand in order to treat himself, he was stopped by Mizuki. "Hello, Naruto-kun. Good job out there yesterday." Naruto nodded but kept walking to his reward for going to school. "I know it was. No, I know you want something from me Mizuki. Out with it." Mizuki was a bit annoyed, but kept up his nice teacher facade, not knowing that Naruto knew what kind of person he was already due to probing him with natural energy a LONG time ago. "Well, Naruto-kun, I was thinking that you deserve a higher rank than genin right now." Naruto nodded. "Ain't that the truth. But, what do YOU want?"
Mizuki gave up the whole beating around the bush thing and just said it. "You can attain a higher rank via a special type of mission that an instructor can assign you as you graduate from the academy. It's rarely used, but I believe it would be worth it to give it to you. Do you accept?" Naruto nodded, not caring about the obvious trap. In all his total hundreds of hours of memorizing Konoha protocol, not once did he encounter a thing such as this, so he was certain it didn't exist. "Good." He handed Naruto a paper with a location scribbled onto it. "Now, you must covertly retrieve a fake copy of the forbidden scroll from the Hokage-sama's office and bring it to this location between 10 pm to midnight tonight. Otherwise, you'll be a genin until you progress on your own. I hope you do well, Naruto-kun." With that, Mizuki stopped walking towards the ramen stand with Naruto and jumped to a roof.
Naruto continued on, not worried by this in the slightest as he'd infiltrated the office a couple times already with no issues, though that's because it was actually his specialty and had been since he was five. Reaching the Ichiraku Ramen stand, he entered and smiled at the two at the counter. "Hey Ayame-chan, Teuchi-jii!" They welcomed him as family as he sat down. "I heard you graduated from the academy, Naruto-kun." This came from Ayame who was already preparing Naruto's usual. Naruto smirked. "Of course I passed, Ayame-chan." Over the years, the bond he had with the ramen chefs had grown exponentially, making them his family, along with Hiruzen.
Teuchi then cut in. "Well then, in honor of our number one customer's graduation, we've added a new order to the list. Go on, look." Spurred on by him, Naruto looked at the list he'd memorized ages ago. "Naruto Special, huh? Has a nice ring to it, ne?" He chuckled, and was soon joined by the two ramen chefs. "Well then, I'll have a Naruto special!" Teuchi gestured to Ayame, who'd been preparing since he got there. "She's already making it, Naruto-kun. One of everything, like usual." As he finished, Ayame finished the first bowl, setting it in front of Naruto. "Enjoy, Naruto-kun. It's on the house today." Smiling, he ate to his hearts content.
An hour later, Naruto was finished going through three Naruto specials. Stretching, he got up. "Gotta go, guys. Thanks for the food; it's still the best." As he left, he threw a stack of cash on the counter. "I know it was on the house, so there's a tip." He winked at them as he left, leaving no room for argument as he walked out, leaving them angry he paid for the meal but thankful for the money from him all at the same time. Making his way home, he got to meditating as he waited for the time of his "mission".
Night fell and, eventually, it was time for his mission. Opening his eyes, he focused his sensory skills on the Hokage office, noticing that it had been locked. Tight. There were guards around it from every conceivable entrance, even the vents. Thankfully for him, he didn't need and entrance. With a thought, he appeared inside the office, his meisaigakure no jutsu( hiding with camouflage technique) active just in case. Appearing in the office while still invisible, he quickly made 2 clones that, which was also invisible, made 2 full copies of the scroll, one for him and one for whoever Mizuki was working for. While he didn't care if Mizuki actually got the scroll, he didn't feel like pushing his luck with his "father" by committing outright treason. After the clone finished, he absorbed it, as he was watching for a possible Anbu check, and left in the same manner he appeared: undetected.
Appearing near a cottage on the outskirts of the village territory, he smiled as he became visible again and looked over the scroll he kept out, as he'd stored the other one. "Kokuangyo no Jutsu (Bringer of Darkness Tecknique), Edo Tensei (Impure World Reincarnation), Chimera no Jutsu (Chimera Technique), the Hakke no Fuin Shiki (Eight Trigrams Sealing Style), the Shiki Fujin (Dead Demon Consuming Seal)... yes. So much yes." 'I mean, I already have the chimera no jutsu AND the kokuangyo, but hey, FREE JUTSU TO MASTER!' Mizuki chose that moment to pop up, congratulating Naruto on doing it so successfully. "Now, gimme the scroll so I can return it, Naruto-kun." Naruto looked at him like he was crazy. "You expect me to give away such power? To YOU? Maybe if your master showed himself, I MIGHT give it to him, but you'd kill yourself with it." Seeing him about to play dumb, he cut him off. "Don't try it with me, Mizuki. I'm well aware that there is no such test. And I can tell that SOMEONE is pulling your strings, too. So cut it."
A creepy but familiar voice rang out in the clearing. "Astute as ever, Naruto-kun." Naruto stiffened at the sound, as he was hoping his senses were wrong for the first time in a long time. Keeping his cool, he addressed the Hebi Sannin."Orochimaru, eh? Well, what is it that brings you to my neck of the woods. Want a rematch? Last time it was clone v. clone, but how about you face the real thing. Or do you really just want this scroll?"
Orochimaru chuckled in his creepy way as he responded. "Kukukuku. I'm afraid that I only wish for the scroll this time, dear Naruto-kun, but don't worry. You can have your rematch soon. For now, how about we just talk." Naruto answered as if he was speaking to an old rival, which he was, in a sense. "Alright. You first, how've you been, Hebi-san?" Orochimaru seemed to smiled wider as he spoke. "Marvelous, Naruto-kun. I recently made a breakthrough on certain experiments. Would you like to see? It's the juinjutsu advancement you helped with. I managed to stabilize it with even more of the enzymes within it." He tossed Naruto a scroll that he opened, actually raising an eyebrow at the contents. "Hm. Impressive, but has anyone stayed sane through this? I know that isn't your priority, but what good is all this power if they can't really use it?" Orochimaru chuckled before responding, "The mind is so easily manipulated, Naruto-kun. All my subjects need do is obey me. Anything beyond that is not my concern, as you know. So, how about you give me the scroll, Naruto-kun? I don't have much time within this blasted village."
Naruto sighed, not wanting to fight the Sannin again, so he gave him the scroll. Last time he fought him, he used, no, needed a near max power Seiei Bunshin just to face a powered up Kage Bunshin from Orochimaru, and even then, he only barely won. Kurama butt in at that point. 'Do you really think you should give him that, ningen?' He gave a mental nod, not really wanting to take his focus off Orochimaru on the off chance the Sannin wanted to attack him. "There you go; I already made my own copy. Now, is there anything else? Your subject is starting to annoy me with his smirking." Orochimaru gave Mizuki a look before sending his tongue out with enough force to smash a brick wall. It collided with his neck, killing him instantly. "There. Now, Naruto-kun, how about we talk for a while. I haven't seen you since that lab blew up. I think we'd both benefit from a bit of catching up. I even have an offer for you." He then turned around an began walking into the forest, making his way out of the Konoha area. Naruto was reluctant to follow, but his curiosity got the better of him. Following Orochimaru, they made their way deep into the forest, reaching one of his hideouts. Naruto sighed, making sure he was prepared to escape in an instant, before following Orochimaru in.
Next morning, as Minato was making himself comfortable in his chair, Naruto appeared in his office with a dead Mizuki slung over his shoulder. He dropped the body on the ground and began talking, ignoring Minato's shock or any of the Anbu that appeared. "He tried to convince me to steal the forbidden scroll last night, so I played along and gave him a fake one that I bugged for tracking, but when he got it, he attacked me, thinking he could kill me easily. I killed him with a swift blow to the neck and waited until you came back in to work, right now, to bring this to you as it stopped being urgent. I found an activated memory destruction seal on him, so you probably can't get any info off him; sorry about that." By the end of his explanation, Minato had gotten up, dismissed the Anbu, and identified the body as Mizuki. He looked at Naruto, concerned, and asked, "Why didn't you say something about this? You could've been hurt, Naruto-kun."
His eyebrows nearly in the ceiling, Naruto looked at Minato as if he was crazy. "Have you READ my bingo book entry!?" Minato nodded but still looked at him like that. "Even the best of us can fall to stupid mistakes, Naruto. We're only human." Naruto shook his head. "YOU'RE only human. I became more than "only human" the moment you sealed a demon in my gut, and I've gone even farther since then. I don't even wanna count as human anymore; the only thing that keeps me as such is this body. Now, let's move on." Minato looked like he wanted to press the matter, but a quick, concentrated chakra burst from Naruto told him to drop it.
Getting back to his seat, he addressed Naruto. "Well, Naruto-kun, it seems as though you've completed a B-Rank mission, regardless of the circumstances. I believe you deserve recognition of such a mission, both monetarily and on your record. Thank you for your exceptional service." Minato smiled at Naruto who inclined his head respectfully, not really wanting to smile at the man. Minato sighed, seeing that he still wasn't on good terms with his son, but kept his resolve to continue trying.
After getting his pay, he went to his apartment, sitting in his bed for the first time since 9:59 the previous night, only to have to dodge one of Anko's flying tackles. Sighing, he asked, "Can't a guy get some peace in this Kami forsaken village?"
His answer came from not, not two, but three separate sources, and all three said the same thing. Smiling mischievously, Anko, Kurama, and Kogo all said, "Never!" before laughing at him, thoroughly enjoying the feeling of messing with him.
Sighing, he went into his kitchen to make himself breakfast, giving up on a relaxing session of meditation before the day's troubles. Grabbing some toast, he ate whilst continuing to entertain Anko. After he managed to finish, he made a clone outside his window which he then switched places with, leaving Anko to "play" with a clone.
Taking the long way, arrived at the yakuza headquarters, a nondescript building in the district. Having become Mujihi the moment he left, he walked in, being greeted by two guards he had posted at the door.
After nodding in recognition, he proceeded to make his way to the basement, entering a storeroom. Walking up to a wall, he placed his hand on it, channeling chakra into a seal he made on the wall. Security was his biggest priority, so it was undetectable to anyone but him, as he covered it with his own chakra AND nature chakra, creating a layer over the whole room's walls, blocking any dojutsu from seeing behind the wall or noticing anything wrong. Every person under him had a seal on them that doesn't allow them to rat out any secrets; he'd learned his lesson from Kiri. Nothing of grave importance was able to be accessed without his express permission and the ability to mold chakra, something he taught to his hand chosen officials. Obviously, he knew how to access everything. At that moment, he just felt the need to check on the impossibility of someone getting in there and messing with his products.
Thankfully, nothing was out of place, but he continued to take stock of the valuable items in his possession, not putting thievery past even his most trusted officials. He encountered one of his officials inside the safe as well, seemingly taking inventory.
He noticed Mujihi, so he turned and bowed. "Good morning, Mujihi-sama." Mujihi nodded at him, holding out his hand for the clipboard the man held. Receiving it, he quickly looked it over before looking at him with hard eyes. "Are you trying to rob me, Takeshi-san?" The man looked surprised before shaking his head. "I would never, Mujihi-sama."
Mujihi looked at him with hard eyes, feeling the truth of his words, making it all the worse. "I counted the crates of my new product, and, from what you counted, we have an extra 3 you didn't take down. If you weren't going to take them, then this is plain incompetence, and you know my policy for incompetence on the job, Takeshi-san. Once, you get a pass, as you're only human. Twice, pay docking and supervision for at least a month. Three times, demotion, if not outright TERMINATION. Do you know which one this would be, Takeshi?"
At the glowing Mujihi's eyes began doing, he gulped, but nodded. "Y-yes, sir. Th-the f-fourth time, s-sir." Mujihi nodded, smiling a little before continuing. At this point, he saw some opportunities to use the man's fear, opportunities he would take. "Good, you can count, at least. Now, didn't I tell you to work with a partner from then on?" He nodded timidly, thoroughly terrified of the thirteen year old. "Good, good. So your memory functions. Now..." Here, Mujihi began to glower at him, black flame-like energy flowing around him. "Give me one good reason not to kill you where you stand!"
In his head, Kurama and Kogo were laughing their ass off at the puddle of piss that formed beneath the man. He could barely breath, let alone provide a response, and all of them knew it.
Even with the man having pissed himself, he didn't let up. "I have spared both your life and your job! I gave you back your position, thinking you'd become a responsible person! I even gave you a partner to work with, to MAKE SURE you'd do better! One who you were supposed to do EXACTLY what you fucked up on with, JUST SO YOU DIDN'T SCREW IT UP! Why shouldn't I kill you, right here, right now!?" Inside his head, Kurama and Kogo had both long since cracked up, enjoying every moment of the man's suffering. The fact that he didn't intend to kill him made it all the sweeter, his fear being wholly misplaced. Fortunately, Mujihi had more than enough anger built up inside him to release a bit on the man and make it believable.
Takeshi, on the other hand, couldn't even think, the pure malice and anger covering washing over him almost shattering his mind. Mujihi then let up suddenly, making the strings of tension that held Takeshi up snap allowing him collapse into his own mess, grovelling. "G-gomenasai, Mujiji-sama! P-please don't kill me; I'll do anything!"
Mujihi smiled at him gently, doing such a total 180 that even Kogo was impressed. "Well, if you are sure you'd do anything, then become a test subject of mine. I need new people but I only want volunteers; no one should be forced into this. This is how I make the... specialized products and develop certain abilities. Don't worry, you won't be paid any less, and you'll get even more the more you participate. What do you say, Takeshi? This is the only job I have that you CAN'T mess up on, so if you say no, you have no more options."
Takeshi "knew" it was this or death, so he nodded, but had some questions. "Will I be able to see my family?" Mujihi smiled before answering. " Even better; they can move into my building, because that's where you'll be working. Don't worry; I refrain from killing my subjects or altering them beyond repair, so you'll have a happy life with your family, Takeshi. Now, follow me. We'll tell your family and select your replacement before noon."
He was so relieved he went to hug Mujihi, but hit an invisible wall. "We'll be getting you cleaned up first, Takeshi-san. Now, come along. I only have so much time in a day, unfortunately enough." By now, Mujihi's neutral face was back in place, but a spark of excitement was visible in his eyes, the prospect of another willing subject making him rather happy.
As he contacted the family of his recently transferred employee, the man right with him, he reflected on what he'd accomplished doing this; WHY he was doing it.
Flashback no Jutsu!(A/N: First one in a while, actually)- 4 years prior
"Finally! This chimera no jutsu is a finicky little shit." This came from Naruto, who'd, only a few weeks prior, discovered an abondoned lab with the chimera no jutsu and notes hidden within it. He'd been practicing on small animals ever since, making small additions like wings on a rat, arms on a pigeon, etc. All of his creations up until this point had died within a few hours of the change, though he'd studied them carefully during their remaining life span ever since.
This creation, though, looked stable and had lasted 4 hours since the merge. He'd managed to get a bat and a rat merged together successfully, though he'd read up on each of their respective anatomies previously. Feeling accomplished, he turned away from his creation, creating a Seiei Bunshin to document it further before deciding what to do with it.
Moving on to what he left another clone working on, and had been working on for months, he stopped next to him, staring down at the work he had layed out in front of him. "Update." Getting a nod from the clone, he prepared himself for a rundown of his most pressing project. "We already know the general cause for opiate addiction among our clients, boss; the morphine within them causing the rush of endorphins they can't get enough of. We stopped distributing heroin due to the serious drawbacks, but their are drawbacks to our alternatives as well. We've managed to lower the tolerance building a person experiences from the pure opium we've genetically modified, but we still need to get rid of the nausea and vomiting. We're having trouble with that, and our, ah, "subjects" have already built a pretty big tolerance, though we've kept off from making them addicted to the substance."
Noddind in understanding, Naruto sighed. Ever since he'd come back and seen a few overdoses on heroin and some of the other drugs he'd allowed the distribution of, he'd been trying to eliminate the destructive side-effects of the drug and reduce how addictive it is, just so people could actually STOP if they wished to. Progress had been slow, to say the least. "What's causing such slow progress, though? I doubt that systematically going through each alteration we could make would be so difficult; just test one on two, maybe three people." His clone shot him a look that said, "What do you think I've been doing?"
The clone then sighed, knowing that getting angry at his creator would only end poorly for him. "Well, it ACTUALLY takes a while to get this done, boss. I've administered a sample to a small group of them, then took down the effects, but the effects weren't uniform, and they weren't pleasant. THEN I give them a break, cause I can't overwork their bodies, but I have to get another set ready since I got nothing conclusive from the previous set. I feel like we just need MORE of them, boss. The sample set isn't large enough for me to draw any concrete conclusions, nor pinpoint what we need to change in the structure."
As of that moment, he only had vagrants and the homeless who were willing to do this job for the good pay and lack of work required. They didn't number too highly, as, despite having an abundance of space, he wasn't too comfortable with a large amount of people in his home. Sighing in reluctant acceptance, he resigned himself to getting subjects from his staff of underlings. Any who were willing, at least. 'These guys are either gonna jump at the chance or be so reluctant that they force me to pick a few out before any others accept.' He was desperately hoping for the former, as he didn't enjoy the feeling of forcing people into his experiments, regardless of the good cause they served; his time with Orochimaru ensured that much.
Kurama butt in right there, curious as all hell. 'I have no clue where you get your morals, ningen.' Naruto gave the equivalent of a mental shrug, not quite sure either. 'Anbu training stripped me of a lot of those because I wasn't really ready to cope with a lot of it, but I forced myself to. Combine that with a demoness in my head who didn't really have many and the occasional teacher TRYING to impart some on me, and you have this; the random bits of morality strewn about my actions.' Kogo's indignant 'Hey!' served to at least brighten his oncoming bad mood.
Bidding the clone to get back to work, promising more subjects by the end of the day, he turned into Mujihi and headed off to the yakuza headquarters, prepared to do what he must for the greater good of his consumers while still in the best interest of his wallet. Thankfully for him, their were a decent few of them willing to do it once he mentioned the level of pay. Ah, the power of human greed.
Flashback no Jutsu: Kai!(A/N: Made it short this time.)- Time-skip: 1:30 pm
A few hours after he got his newest subject to agree and got a few clones to help him with the moving process, he went back to being just Naruto and went to hell, uh, school. He'd intentionally arrived late because he knew who his sensei was, having sparred with him and spent enough unfortunate days at Minato's place to know him well. Kurama, the EVER logical one, asked a question that made him chuckle. 'Why didn't you tell your two little girlfriends?' He's already gotten used to his insinuating that he was building a harem, as much as he'd deny it, not wanting that kind of connection with anyone. 'Now, why would I do that?' Stepping into the classroom, laughing lightly, he was met with the surprised gaze of Sai and Yakumo and the piercing glare of Surashi and Hinata, Surashi more so than Hinata. Sai and Yakumo's shock stemmed from the fact that he was laughing; they could count the times they'd heard him laugh with one hand and it was the first time it wasn't in a condescending way. It was a surprisingly happy but completely foreign sound to them.
Surashi, on the other hand, almost exploded when she saw him walk in laughing, Hinata not TOO far behind her. 'He KNEW!' Before she could say a thing, Hinata beat her to it. "You knew, didn't you!?" Their accusatory glares attempted to drill holes into Naruto, but he paid them no mind. Playing dumb, he asked, "Knew what? I'm surprised you're all still here; luckily our sensei is later than I am." Just as Surashi was about to call him on his bullshit, Kakashi stepped into the room. "Team Seven?" (A/N: He looks just like in the anime. Side note: Surashi is dressed like Sasuke with a shorter shirt that shows her stomach and a skirt with spats underneath.)
The four genin who'd been waiting patiently all tried to kill him with their eyes as they nodded stiffly. Naruto, on the other hand, just gave a lazy wave with a nod. "'Sup, Kakashi." He got a nod in his direction before Kakashi addressed them as a group. "Roof in 1 minute or you're going back to the academy." With that, he disappeared in a shunshin, appearing on the roof, only to find Naruto already there, a second or two ahead of him.
Kakashi sucked his teeth at that. "Still can't beat that technique of yours. You still haven't explained it to me, you know." With a light smirk, Naruto responded. "Might do it after a few missions. Might not. We'll see." As Kakashi was gonna complain in his normal fashion, all four of the others came up over the edge of the roof, having run up the side. "Oh, so you already know tree climbing? Makes my possible job easier." As he said that, he gestured to some seats in front of him, wishing for them to sit down.
Complying with his wishes, the four of them sat in front of the elite jonin, waiting for some kind of signal. When no one said anything for an awkward minute, Kakashi broke the silence. "Won't one of you begin introducing yourself? What's the academy teaching you kids nowadays." Surashi bristled at that, so she took the initiative and responded, but didn't introduce herself. "Isn't it good manners to introduce yourself first, Kakashi-sensei?" The smugness with which she said it was ignored as Kakashi thought for a moment. "Hm? I guess so; how rude of me. Well, my name is Kakashi Hatake. I'm an Elite Jonin of Konoha. I like somethings, I dislike others, and spend my time doing things you shouldn't be. My dreams for the future... hm, haven't thought about them. Now, your turn!" With an eye smile, as his face was covered, he waited for the genin to begin.
"Open as always, Kakashi." This came from Naruto, not in the least surprised at his introduction. "Well then, I'll begin. My name is Naruto Uzumaki. I am Seiei Genin Sensei of Konoha, a recently made position. I like reading, among other things, I dislike certain things for reasons beyond your comprehension, and I take up my time doing whatever I feel like, anything from cooking or training. As for dreams in the future? Well, let's just say you'll know when they come to fruition." His introduction, which was only slightly more telling than Kakashi's, ended on an ominous note, none of his audience really knowing how to respond to it so they noted it for later.
Next Hinata began. "My name is Hinata Hyuuga. I am a Genin of Konoha and heiress to the Hyuuga clan. I like cinnamon buns and training with my friends and family. I dislike mean people. My hobbies are baking and training. My dreams for the future are to..." she paused here, unable to help glancing at Naruto. "To become strong enough to catch up to someone I admire." Kakashi nodded at her dream. "A fine dream, but your shooting for the stars there. Good luck. Next?"
Surashi decided to be the next one, speaking in her normal confident tone, though her dark demeanor stayed as she laced her fingers in front of her face. "I'm Surashi Uchiha, Genin of Konoha. I don't like much besides training-" Naruto coughed into his hand at that point, "subtly" saying "and cookies". After scowling at him, she continued, blushing slightly. "I dislike just about everything else. My hobbies are training. Dreams are for the sleeping, but my future goal is to become strong enough to find, and possibly kill the ones who murdered my clan."
Hinata and Naruto already knew of the goal, so they weren't surprised, and Kakashi was used to dark thoughts, so he just accepted this with a light note to keep an eye on her, but Yakumo were shocked. She'd never truly thought someone in their class would need such closure, and she'd definitely wouldn't have thought it was Surashi. 'It makes sense, though,' she thought to herself. Sai, out of everyone else, had the most visible reaction. He took out a book and took a record on what she said, documenting it, and taking the time to do so for the previous introductions as he saw fit.
Moving on, as Sai was still writing, Yakumo sighed as she began her intro. "I'm Yakumo Kurama, heiress to the Kurama clan and Genin of Konoha. My likes include painting and practicing genjutsu. I dislike overly stubborn people." At this, she looked directly at Surashi, who stared back, sparks almost literally flying between the two. "My hobbies are training, painting, practicing my genjutsu. My goals are to prove that I can be an effective kunoichi with genjutsu alone, as I don't have much in the way of taijutsu or ninjutsu, and to one day repay the person who made it possible for me to follow that dream." During the final part, her eyes darted over to Naruto, but he pointedly ignored them.
Sai was the final one, but he was still scribbling into his note pad, documenting things with fervor that began to get creepy. Kakashi had to clear his throat rather loudly to break the boy of it, gesturing for him to go. Speaking in his usual monotone, he began. "Name: Sai Shimura, Genin of Konoha. I'm fond of art and learning. I dislike interruptions. My hobbies are training with my special ninjutsu and painting." He finished his lackluster introduction in the same monotone he began in, even as he gave a small smile at the end.
Kakashi couldn't help but sigh as he closed his eyes to think. 'So, I've got a mysterious blonde, a raven haired future renegade, and I'm calling that one, a Hyuuga with a sweet tooth, and not one but TWO art nuts... fuck me. At least I have Naruto'. Coming out of the mental regret he was feeling from accepting the job, he addressed the Genin in front of him. "Well, now that we all know each other better, we'll move on." Deciding to be blunt with them, as he wasn't feeling particularly nice, he said it. "I'm not your sensei yet, and you're not really Genin yet." None of them even reacted to that, all of them having sources from which they got information on the process.
Kakashi was mildly surprised, and rather happy that his possible future pupils already had enough sense to gather knowledge where possible. "Oh? No indignant shout of "What!?" or anything? Well, you seem to know already so I'll just skim over this part. We can't have just anyone joining the military force of Konoha. Strength isn't enough; you need to have satisfactory qualities beyond that, and it's your sensei's first job to evaluate if you're ready for this. Your first test will be a survival exercise tomorrow at training ground 7, which will be ours for our time together. Your first task from me is to find where it is within the next 20 minutes or you automatically fail what comes next." With that, he disappeared in a shunshin, presumably to the specified training ground.
Getting up and drawing the attention of the other genin, Naruto just said "Follow me." before jumping off the roof. With that, he began a light, for him, jog to training ground 7. All of his future teammates had to sprint all out to catch up to him, and even then had to run pretty hard to keep pace with him. By the time they got there, Yakumo looked like she was about to die and Sai and Hinata looked rather tired. Surashi, being the most physically fit out of them, was the least winded, and even she was breathing somewhat hard.
Naruto rolled his eyes at their states, but Kogo said something that made him pause. 'How about you lose your Uzumaki stamina, demon stamina, and our youki then run as fast as you were for that long, huh?' He shrugged, confusing Kakashi, who was eyeing him, before he responded. 'Name the time and place. Been doing Anbu training since I was five; this is nothing compared to most of that shit.' Walking up to Kakashi, he asked, "How slow were we?"
He got an answer that made him slightly annoyed. "Took you 6 minutes." Sighing, he gestured behind him. "Had to lead them here. Sorry about that." Kakashi's visible eye told his story for him, but he said it anyway. "You could've just used that technique of yours..." Naruto just shook his head. "You and Minato can use it with me because you're already used to his Hiraishin, but they'd pass out in a pool of their own vomit at the level their at. It's not the most pleasant thing." Kakashi shrugged before addressing the group who (mostly)recovered while they conversed. "Okay, so you managed to get here in a lot under 20 minutes. Get here by 5 am tomorrow... Oh, and don't eat breakfast; you'll just lose it." With that piece of slightly unnerving advice for his prospective pupils.
Naruto turned to his teammates and asked, "Sooo... what do you guys wanna do? I don't have much I need to take care of myself, at the moment." Yakumo, who was still breathing a bit hard, was about to suggest painting, but she was cut off by Surashi. "I am not painting, Kurama." Yakumo pouted a bit before asking, "Why not?" Surashi just begin to walk away as she answered. "It's a waste of time that could be spent doing something productive, like training."
Naruto saw the animosity between the two and chose to deal with that now. "Surashi! Get back here!" He was normally rather laid back when he was speaking with his friends, so the fact that he was so forceful was enough to let her return with no resistance, albeit with a bit of grumbling. "Okay, I'm not gonna deal with this shit for as long as I'm on this team. If you two are gonna work together, you'll have to deal with whatever has you two so... displeased with one another."
Both of them looked at him like he was crazy, having never thought of settling their differences. Sighing, he asked Yakumo something. "What did she do to you?" Yakumo crossed her arms over her chest, looking a bit angry at the memory she was going through. "She said my dream was pointless, that I'd never make it with just my genjutsu." Naruto nodded, completely understanding what she meant. Looking at Surashi, he asked her the same question. Her answer made sense to him, if only just because it was her. "She insulted the Uchiha clan AND my Sharingan!"
Nodding as he thought about what to do, he looked over to see Sai observing with his notepad out and Hinata looking on, slightly worried that a fight might break out among her friends. Sighing, he stepped back and looked at Yakumo and Surashi. Focusing on Yakumo first, he began. "Yakumo, she's right. You CAN'T make it with just genjutsu, even as good as yours is. What if you face someone like me, who's IMMUNE to genjutsu. There are AT LEAST 8, no, 9 more out there who are like me, you know." He had to recount because of his friend Sora in the fire temple. "This doesn't even account for dojutsu users like Hinata and Surashi, who can probably see through any illusions. You need to learn at least some ninjutsu if you want to be prepared for anything. And there's a minimum fitness you should be at for each state in your shinobi career, so taijutsu shouldn't be abysmal either. It's fine to be a specialist, but you still need the other areas unless you physically CAN'T use them. " At the end, she looked down, a bit depressed, but he could only think of the spandex wearing duo he'd encountered when talking with Kakashi in the past year. 'I hope she doesn't turn out like THAT.'
He shook his head of his thoughts before moving on to Surashi, who was smirking slightly. "Now YOU, little lady, have nothing to be smirking at. If she insulted your clan, just show her how great they are. It was that simple, you know! As for insulting your Sharingan, well, I already showed you situation where it's utterly useless, haven't I? Having pride in your clan is fine, but don't let it rule you to that degree. And your dojutsu is just a tool; I don;t know how long both I and your mother have been telling you this. If someone insulted a sword you owned, wouldn't the easiest thing to do be showing them how easily it could cut them? Same thing here." Shaking his head at her, he brought both of them into focus, ignoring the furiously scribbling Sai in the background. "I've done what I can for now. It's up to the two of you to deal with this, because I don't want a dysfunctional pair on any team I'm in. Get it together."
No longer in the mood to get to know his team in their current state, he just went home.
5 am The Next Day
Walking into the training area, Surashi found Sai and Yakumo already there, both comparing artwork. Shaking her head, she looked around to find Hinata but found nothing to show she had been in the clearing at any point that morning. Shrugging, she sat down in a tree after giving her grunt of a greeting to Yakumo and Sai. Closing her eyes, she resigned to rest until it was time for whatever their future sensei had planned for them.
An hour later, Surashi suddenly woke up from the nap she accidentally took. Looking around drowsily, she spotted Naruto walking in with Hinata, or at least she thought it was Hinata. Her face matched Hinata's, so did her skin tone, posture, and everything else. Everything BUT the lack of her jacket. Instead, she had a mesh shirt that was visible from the top of her black t-shirt. It's sleeves were also visible from the edges of the t-shirt's, but the bottom of the t-shirt flowed downward far enough to cover it.
Blinking a few times to make sure what she saw wasn't a hallucination, even rubbing her eyes to make sure they were clear, she couldn't help but laugh a bit, waking Yakumo who was also napping a, drawing Sai's attention to Hinata, and embarrassing Hinata. Well, further embarrassing her, as her face already had a light dusting of pink when she walked into the clearing.
Naruto smirked at the fact that Hinata kept glancing at her jacket, held firmly in the hand he kept separated from her by his body. Addressing Yakumo, Sai, and Surashi, he explained the change, as she didn't seem to talkative at that moment. "If you're wondering, I had to spend almost two hours convincing her to get it off. Don't ask what I had to do, 'cause you'll never find out." He added the last part as he saw they were about to ask how the hell he managed to get her out of the jacket she hadn't parted with for over two years.
Letting his smirk fade, he felt that Kakashi's chakra was only a couple away, falling behind the treeline in the distance. "Oi, Kakashi! Stop making them wait already!" After a few seconds of no response, he began to walk towards the man in a lightly threatening manner. "I already know you're watching, Kakashi." As the man walked out from the bushes, porn in hand, he eye-smiled somewhat nervously. "Hi?" Naruto sighed, but then noticed the book in the man's hand and gave him a bit of leeway.
"Okay, I know you wanted to read the next installment, but so help me god, if you're more than a half hour late for another meeting, I'll spoil the hell out of every chapter of the series that comes out for the rest of its run." Kakashi looked horrified before a look of defiance came over his... eyes... eye. "You wouldn't dare." Smiling maliciously, Naruto began anew. "I've already finished that one. Luciel's love triangle with Chinatsu and Daichi gets out into the open, causing-" Kakashi hit him square in the face, his eyes hardening to the point where Naruto thought he'd crossed an ACTUAL line with that.
Shaking his head, he told Kakashi, "I was serious." before gesturing to the others as he turned around and headed their way. Following the child warily, he made his way to his students. When he finally was able to suppress his oncoming fear and/or hate for Naruto, he addressed them. "Glad you made it. Hope you took my advice and didn't eat breakfast, because we're beginning." He noticed they were all full and ready to take him on, making him have to suppress a smile. 'They're not stupid. I may not have the hardest job ever, then.'
Reaching around behind him, making 3 of his 5 students tense slightly(Not being sexist, but it's the girls). Making a show of it, he slowly brought his hands out, showing three bells. Explaining despite the relieved and somewhat disappointed looks on three of his student's faces, he began again. "In case you couldn't tell, these are bells." Their deadpan stare was ignored by him. "In order to pass, you must get one off of me and keep it until the end of the test, which will be noon." Sai, Yakumo, Surashi, and Hinata all glanced at each other nervously, completely understanding what was said. Two of them wouldn't pass.
Naruto just cracked his knuckles and smiled somewhat threateningly. 'This may be a test of teamwork, but I wanna beat his face in on my own. I'll just take them then be "selfless" and give them to three of the others.' His plan set, he began stretching as he waited for Kakashi to begin the test.
Seeing his students get it, he nodded before hanging the bells outside of his ninja pouch and saying, "We will begin on my mark. Make sure you come at me with the intent to kill, or you won't even come close... HAJIME!" With that, all of them scattered to the trees, each of them finding a different hiding spot. All of them except Naruto. Looking around at each of their locations, Naruto commented, "Not bad. Mid-chunin level at best, but not bad. Now," he said, turning to Kakashi, "how about we do this. No holding back because of the kiddies, Kakashi. You'll die, otherwise." Kakashi nodded, doubting Naruto would try too hard with an audience. Neither intended to truly go all out, as they had to keep some secrets. 50% at most.
With that said, Naruto released most of his physical training seals, both gravity and resistance, and blurred in front of Kakashi, sending a thunderous hit to his abdomen and him flying into a tree. Getting up, Kakashi tucked the bells into his pouch fully before reaching up to his headband and pulling it up, revealing a single Sharingan eye. In the bushes, both Surashi and Hinata, both of which had their respective dojutsu on to observe the fight. With the sharpened sight granted, they noticed it was a fully matured Sharingan, all three tomoe spinning hypnotically, only further showing his mastery as the hypnotic affect wasn't seemingly a conscious decision he made.
Back with Naruto and Kakashi, Kakashi rushed Naruto with speed befitting an elite jonin, meaning he was as almost invisible blur to Sai and Yakumo, and not too much better for Hinata. The only one who could really see him, besides Naruto, was Surashi, her Sharingan specifically made to track movements, and even then he was moving at an incredible speed in her eyes. Naruto took it like a champ, bending backwards under the swing Kakashi sent. Letting himself fall to the ground, he caught himself on his hands and thrust up, nearly hitting Kakashi in the face with both his feet.
Dodging skillfully by wrenching his upper body to the side, he grabbed the boys outstretched feet and sent him into the same tree he was in before. Naruto landed with his feet on the trunk, looking at Kakashi with an excited look on his face. As he crouched to spring back at Kakashi, the man he was still staring at popped out of the ground right below him, nailing Naruto in the face with a knee and knocking him upright before grabbing his leg, which was floating in front of his face from the force of his knee strike, and slammed him into the ground.
Keeping his grip on the boy, he disintegrated into raiton chakra, electrocuting Naruto. Above him, Kakashi blurred into being, leg dropping his body. As he got up, he noticed nothing in the crater he made with his strike, to the relief of all of his onlookers. Turning around as quickly as he could, a panicked look on his face, he wasn't fast to stop Naruto from bringing down both fists on his head from midair, knocking him face first into his own crater and making it deeper.
As Naruto landed, he back-flipped away from Kakashi's position, thinking he had something planned. Stopping a few yards away, he saw Kakashi groggily getting up from the crater, extracting his face from the not so comfortable pillow the ground became for him. As he got up, Naruto smirked and said, "An eye for an eye, Kakashi." While a normal person may have thought he just meant the thunderous strike he just endured, Kakashi was no normal person, and he knew Naruto far too well. Trying to jump away from the small crater, he was too late to escape the blast radius of a raiton chakra explosion coming from a tag Naruto left where he was planted into the ground by his clone.
His muscles seizing up, he was helpless to stop the knee that impacted with his jaw, the sheer speed Naruto was travelling making it all the more painful. Smiling maliciously, Naruto released a barrage on Kakashi that he'd only felt when he and Gai sparred all out. The hits felt like they were anvils shot out of a high powered canon into his body, moving at least twice as fast. Finally managing to regain control of his muscles, he used his root training to ignore as much of the pain as possible and grab Naruto's fists mid-punch, almost breaking his hands in the process. Pulling them apart, he headbutt the shorter Naruto, sending him reeling back. While he could've attacked, he retreated to a branch in the trees to let his body recuperate from the beating it just took. Unable to stop his hands shaking in the very limited time he knew he had, he had to open the gate of healing, speeding up his body's healing factor enough to fight again. By this point, Kakashi was panting slightly, so he popped a soldier pill and prepared to counter Naruto's response to his retreat.
And respond he did. Clasping his hands together, he concentrated before pointing them in Kakashi's direction. Waiting to see if he'd jump out, but feeling him open the gate of healing instead, he folded his middle finger on each hand over his index and said, out loud for once, "Kyofu (Gale Force Wind)." From his hands, a spiral of wind began to spin very rapidly, pushing the grass around him flat and bending a few trees that were nearest to him on the forest edge. Releasing it, the winds tore through trees and rocks, kicking up dust and ripping foliage out of the ground. Kakashi was very quick to vacate the area he was in the moment he felt the winds getting stronger, signifying whatever Naruto was doing was getting closer.
As he turned around to survey the damage, he had a much more controlled version of his other students reactions. Meaning his jaw only dropped while their's hit the ground. Through the dust that was kicked up he saw, where he was hiding previously, that it looked like a tornado decided to go horizontal, ripping through the area and throwing things around like it was nothing, trees and rocks still landing around them. A shadow developed above him, so he dove to the side, narrowly dodging a tree. Another formed above him, but her was tired of the, as he called it, "Naruto BS", so he activated his Raikiri after a few hand-seals and cut clean through the boulder that was above him. Crossing his hands, he let the lightning spread to his other hand as well, dual wielding his creation.
Looking around for Naruto in the settling dust cloud, he quickly saw a mass of chakra speeding towards him at Gai speeds, so he stuck out a hand, impaling Naruto on his arm. Both of them heard a scream that came from Hinata, but ignored it and continued their fight; both knew full well that Naruto was no where near done. Throwing him off his arm to prevent an immediate retaliation, Kakashi didn't notice Naruto's hand reach inside his pouch, grabbing onto the bells. Unaware that the target of the test was now in his possession, he thrust both of his hands out towards the regenerating jinchuriki, shouting, "Raiju Hashiri no Jutsu: So Kairiudo (Lightning Beast Running Technique: Twin Hunters)!" Two wolves made of lightning shot out of his hands, zigzagging towards Naruto at amazing speeds.
He took of, leading them in circles, trying to lose them and failing. He then tried to make them run into one another but they just passed through each other with no cancelling, shocking Naruto at how well thought out the technique was. Unfortunately, he couldn't do too many fancy maneuvers to shake them, the hole in his abdomen still closing at that point; even running like he was was causing a rather large amount of pain, though it was nowhere near enough for him to stop moving.
Running out of ideas, he turned around and ran down the middle of his two pursuers, making them turn to follow. Running along the lines that trailed behind the raiton constructs, he used them to trace Kakashi, who went into hiding while directing his technique due it making him an easy target; his own radar technique wasn't working properly due to the hole in his stomach draining his chakra in uneven amounts to heal, messing his control up a bit.
Feeling Naruto nearing him, Kakashi urged the beasts to go faster, slowly closing the gap with the high speed jinchuriki. 'Speed is MY thing, Kakashi!' With that thought, Naruto ignored the pain the hole in his abdomen was causing him and called out his youki, as he'd refrained from using it the whole fight.
He regained use of his radar and the hole began to close much quicker, muscle stitching itself together visibly, easy to see for any who got a good angle, such as Hinata. The dust had long since settled, and Surashi and Hinata decided they'd sat around long enough, though Sai and Yakumo were content to watch the awesome match. Both jumped out, looking at each other for an instant, an unspoken truce forming. Surashi landed and went through hand seals, ending with tora. Puffing out her chest, she said, as she spewed flames into the air, "Katon: Ryuka no Jutsu(Fire Style: Dragon Flame Technique)!" Hinata, who was still airborne, pinpointed Kakashi with her Byakugan before shouting, "Hakke Kusho(Eight Trigrams Air Palm)!" The flames were caught up in the air bullet, flying at Kakashi with tremendous speed, dragging the scorching hot flames with it. Trees caught ablaze all around Kakashi as he jumped away from the area, inadvertently releasing the technique Naruto was attempting to lead back to him and saving his own hide.
Cursing, Naruto looked at the girls with a mix of pride, as he helped train both of them, and annoyance, as they stopped a possibly battle ending maneuver. Sighing, he located Kakashi right outside the treeline of the burning area of foliage and chose to end it right there. Building up chakra, he shouted, catching everyone's attention, "SUITON: BAKUSUISHOHA(Water Style: Exploding Water Shock-wave)!" A clone of his appeared near each of his teammates and grabbed them, pulling them out of harm's way.
Kakashi was another matter. He was tossed around and battered by the waves that were puled from thin air. Trees and rocks slammed into him underwater and the current was to strong to swim in or even get to the top. Just when he thought he'd pass out from a lack of air, his head popped up above the surface as he was pinned against one of the thicker trees. Still taking a beating from the water, he retreated into his mind to limit the wear and tear on his psyche from the constant bombardment of pain.
Naruto, on the other hand, finished up, seeing as he'd managed to win. Letting up on the jutsu, he went to Kakashi's location with his method of travel(A/N: Which will be explained eventually.), retrieving the currently unconscious Jonin. When he got back, he found his team waiting for him with an awestruck expression on each of the girl's faces, and even the normally stone-faced Sai gave him a slightly reverent look. They were accompanied by Minato, Kushina, and Anko, all of which gave him an approving look. Anko acted first, tackling him in a hug that made him drop Kakashi, who he had over his shoulder. Minato caught him, but laid him on the floor to rest after what just transpired.
Back with Naruto, Anko was squeezing the crap out of him, much to the amusement of ALMOST everyone else. "That was so AWESOME, Naruto-kun!" He was beginning to suffocate in the embrace of her breasts, though it wasn't the most unpleasant way to go Fortunately for him, he didn't need much air, so he let himself enjoy it. Kurama made sure he acknowledged it, too. 'For a guy NOT making a harem, you get this a lot... I guess this is your reward for the fight, though. To the victor go the spoils, and all that other shit. I say you take her, this time.' He would've told him to shut up if he wasn't enjoying himself at that moment. Unfortunately, he could feel the negative emotions rolling off Hinata, growing strong enough that he thought he was sensing another Kurama, so he extracted his head, both thankful for air and reluctant to leave the embrace, a mixture that was plain to see on his face.
A little while later, Kakashi woke up in the clearing, sputtering and coughing up some water from his previous underwater endeavors. Glaring up at Naruto, who he noticed first out of his students standing in a loose circle around him, he got up on shaky legs. Looking over to Minato after giving Naruto another glare, he said, "They pass, Minato-sensei." With that said, he fell face first into the ground.
A/N: And that's a wrap. If you're wondering about the team configuration, well, Naruto is pretty much a jonin already, and Minato knows this, so any team with him on it would have two jonin. It makes sense that they'd get more genin. Besides that, I have another story going right now, so I'll be alternating between the two of these stories for updates, which will be rather common in upcoming weeks. School year is almost over, so I just need to survive my exams and I'll be set to type to my heart's content. Until then, updates will be, oh, weekly? Maybe every other week. Not quite sure yet. Anyway, I think I'll just get to the harem.
(Bold=Confirmed, Italics=Probable, Normal=Possible)
Kogo(Fem Kyuubi)
Fem Haku
Fu
Hinata
Fem Sasuke
Fem Gaara
Fem Hidan
Yugito
Anko(She managed enough votes)
Shizuka: 1
Tayuya: 1
Temari: 2
Tenten: 2
Shion: 3
Matatabi(Nibi): 4
Mei: 1(Got a vote for her)
Fem Kakashi: 1
Now, I gotta ask that you guys give your vote in the more recent chapters, if only so I can go by chapter in the reviews to tally. It's not too hard as it is, since the reviews go by most recent anyway, but I wanna keep the votes current. That's about it guys(and gals) of the internet. I shall see(?) you guys next time. Time to go study for my finals... fuck.