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Chapter 10

In the ROOT underground base

"Are you sure you aren't bluffing?" asked Danzo with a serious expression on his face.

"Yes Danzo, what I am saying is the truth. I might not have believed like you if Simon had not demonstrated his power. He has complete control over fire whatever the source, moreover his whole body is fire-proof. He withstood my fire dragon bullet without even a single burn on his body" replied an equally serious Hiruzen, currently he was smoking his pipe. One the two were present in room, Danzo had sent away his bodyguards when he realised the importance and secrecy of the matter.

"Simon is the good one, right?", asked Danzo, to which Hiruzen nodded "Are you saying that his power has no exceptions?"

Hiruzen was now smiling "Still the tenacious one I see. But yes, his power has some limitations and exceptions. The limitation is that he uses up more of his power to control fire from other sources. He cannot use the fire produced by people with uttermost confidence in their abilities"

Danzo now had a small smirk on his face, I can work with that. I just have to train my ANBU to be fully confident of their abilities.

Sarutobi realised his intentions and said "Don't you dare think of confronting him! What I told you is just his natural advantage, even without using that he can defeat all my three students without breaking a sweat. So I advise you not to try anything stupid while he is training Naruto" he glared at Danzo for a moment to make his point clear. Danzo held eye contact for some while but then he lower his gaze in defeat.

That much power? I'd better take his advice on this matter until I know better, thought Danzo accessing the situation. If Simon was half as powerful as Sarutobi said, then very thought of even tailing him seemed foolish.

"If so, then why are you telling me all this?" asked Danzo.

"I am telling you this because we are friends", said Sarutobi to a now visibly confused Danzo, "Even though we have our differences we have always had the same goal- to protect the village to the best of our abilities. I am telling you this as a sign of trust. The same trust that Simon, an outsider showed me when he told me of his abilities. I want you recognise our allies and be wary of our new enemies. According to Simon, his adversary is more powerful than him, so we would do well to co-operate"

Danzo nodded in understanding, but he needed more intel than that "What is the power of the adversary of his?"

"Ah yes! I forgot to tell you about that. That is the most important part, his power is absolute control over water"

Danzo's mouth was now open in shock. He was thinking of the possibilities and dangers that such a power represented. The possibilities were endless, he could even dehy-

"What you are thinking is absolutely right, he could even dehydrate someone. But he too is not invincible, he has the same weakness as on Simon's. He cannot dehydrate someone if their will is strong. Still he is the one we should be wary of. His sole purpose for coming to our place is to kill Naruto"

Danzo was now getting irritated, how does that brat fit into all this? He was the jinchuriki of the Kyuubi, yes, but what else was so special about him?

Before Danzo could ask his questions Hiruzen answered "And the reason is that he can use Mokuton"

Danzo was now speechless. This was too much to handle, his hands were now shaking, both with excitement and anger.

"Why wasn't I informed of this before? How can he even use Mokuton? He is not even a Senju for Kami's sake!"

"I know it raises many questions. But if you think about it, none of Hashirama's descendants had Mokuton. I am not even sure that Mokuton is even a bloodline trait, as Hashirama was the only one who had it and now Naruto. But if you look closely you can find many striking similarities in the two, especially their indomitable will and their ever burning will of fire"

"Are you out of your mind? How can you base his power on something like that?"

"Think what you may Danzo, but I am certain of it."

Then they continued on how to safeguard the village from the new threats.

In the training grounds the next day at 6:00 AM

Naruto arrived early for the survival test as his jiji hadn't mentioned the exact time. He was dressed in his new clothes with the swords across his back. Since he was alone he thought he would look for the root the popped up from the ground yesterday when he was fighting with his clones. But even though he searched for it several times he couldn't find the root, moreover the grounds looked like no one had trained there for at least a week.

"Looking for your recent creation?" said a figure that appeared out of nowhere. Naruto jumped in surprise and looked at him sceptically. The guy looked like a jounin, with a bunch of spiky silver hair. One of his eyes was covered with his headband. The weirdest thing about him was that he somehow seemed to be smiling with his lone eye.

"What do you mean? What creation are you talking about?" Naruto asked him, still a bit suspicious.

"Oh? Naruto, I am talking about the root you created yesterday while fighting with your clones", the jounin said to Naruto "The same root that I destroyed so that nobody else could see it"

Naruto was a little scared now, this guy knew his secret. His hands slowly moved to his sides to draw his kunai. The jounin's eye looked surprised.

"Hey hey" said the jounin holding up his hands, his eye giving a sorry look "I am not here to hurt you, now. I just wanted to see how you were doing, though I would like to talk to you later"

Now he eye was smiling when he saw Naruto relax "That is, if you manage to pass my test"

Naruto's eyes widen slowly in realisation "You mean- you mean you are Kakashi? My new sensei?"

"That is correct. I will see you later, when the others have arrived" and he vanished with a shunshin.

After an hour

Naruto was sitting on the ground admiring his swords. The Senju clan emblem carved perfectly onto the hilt, the blade itself had a hidden strength about it.

I don't know why, but after the fight with my evil-self I have started to notice things. I no longer jump into action the moment something happens, nor have I become a serious person, thought Naruto, still gazing at the swords, for better or for the worse, I have changed.

Then came the sound of approaching footsteps from different directions. When he saw his pink-haired crush coming from his right his heart leapt and he jumped up throwing aside the swords and running straight up to her.

"Hey Sakura-chan, how have you been? You are looking very good today. Want to go out on a date with me today evening?" asked Naruto jumping all the way up to her, all the while giving her his happy grin.

Sakura was very irritated. First her sensei told her not to eat anything for breakfast, now her third teammate happened to be the one person she hated. She hit him on his head.

"Why should I go on a date with you?" she screamed "I have my Sasuke-kun. Did you think that wearing new clothes would make me like you? If you did, then you are WRONG! I would never betray Sasuke-kun. Do-you-understand?"

She said the last sentence while pulling Naruto's ears emphasising her point.

"You could have just answered no, dattebayo" mumbled Naruto crying comical tears.

"What was that?" screeched Sakura in Naruto's ears.

"AaaH AaaaH! Nothing, nothing at all" said Naruto rubbing his ears.

Meanwhile Sasuke who had just come up from the other side notice the swords lying on the ground.

Those look valuable, I should add them to my collection, thought Sasuke while picking them up.

"Hey! Those are my swords, give them back emo!" shouted Naruto when he saw Sasuke pick up his swords.

Sasuke gave him his trademark emo smirk "Why should I give them to you. I deserve them more than you being an Uchiha elite. Moreover if these were yours then you should have kept them with you, not left them lying around"

Naruto was now scowling, he was getting seriously pissed off, "Give them back to me or I'l-"

SMASH!

Naruto fell head first onto the ground. When he regained his senses and looked up he saw Sasuke smiling at him victoriously and Sakura screeching at him, something about 'what will you do to my Sasuke -kun?'

He got onto his feet and looked directly at Sakura. Blood rushed on his face, he was grinding his teeth- controlling his anger.

"Sakura", said Naruto softly, almost whispering, then he got close to her and whispered in her ear, "I think you are beautiful and all. I meant what I said when I asked you out on a date. But if you do something like that again…."

Sakura felt a chill run up her spine, she could feel his anger and resentment. It shook up her whole being, she, for the first time in her life felt mortally petrified.

"O-ok, N-naruto. I won't do it again" she said weakly.

"Then we are good" said Naruto in the same serious tone. Then he looked at Sasuke "I won't repeat, give me back my swords"

Sasuke first thought he would fight him with his new skills. But when he saw the look on Naruto's face he knew that if he didn't return the swords now, he would later regret it.

So against his better judgement he mumbled something about 'I don't want the dobe's trash anyway' and passed on the swords to Naruto. Then they all waited for their sensei to appear.

Two hours later

"Hiya students, good morning!" said a cheerful Kakashi who appear via shunshin.

"YOU ARE LATE!" screeched a very angry Sakura, while both Naruto and Sasuke scowled.

"Quiet down! We all do not have hearing problems and I do not want any in the future" said Kakashi irritably "Well, as for being late, a cat crossed my path and I had to take the long way to get here"

"LIAR!" screeched Sakura again, while both Naruto and Sasuke palm-faced.

"Whatever. Now, before your survival test, I would like an introduction from you, Naruto", said a smiling Kakashi, looking at Naruto encouragingly.

"Why should I?" asked Naruto the same way he had asked Shikamaru the last day.

"Because, I am your Sensei", said Kakashi in stern tone.

Naruto narrowed his eyes, then he smiled, I will show him not to mess with me.

"My name is Uzumaki Naruto. I like ramen and going to the Ichiraku's. My ambition is to be the Hokage, the best there is, so that I could protect the village and those who live in it"

Huh? He wants to protect the villagers? Even after all that they have done to him? Kakashi thought he'd better voice his thoughts.

"Why do you want to protect the village and the villagers?"

Naruto smiled mischievously, "Isn't that the Hokage's job?"

Kakashi lost his composure. He, the great Kakashi, beaten at his own game? Ridiculous! Unacceptable!

Sakura was shocked. When did Naruto become a smart-ass?

Sasuke was stunned, he thought it was part of the test and started shouting 'KAI! KAI!'.

(At that time Might Guy suddenly got an inspiration and decided to give a treat for his student.)

After Kakashi collected his marbles, he gave Naruto a look that promised a lot of pain. Then he took a timer from his pocket and placed it on a wooden post.

"The timer is set for 12:00 PM. Your objective is to take these bells from me", said Kakashi holding out two bells, "As you can see there are only two bells"

He then looked at Naruto and smirked, "That means one of you will fail!"

At that Naruto also smirked and came towards Kakashi, drawing his swords. But the others jumped into the woods nearby.

Yes! Now I will show you who is boss, thought Kakashi still smirking. He quickly engaged Naruto is a little taijutsu.

"First Ninja Technique- Taijutsu", shouted Kakashi. Then he quickly came behind Naruto making a seal and said, "But the most basic ninja ability is deception, which you happen to lack"

BAKA!, thought both Sasuke and Sakura from their respective hiding places, now you are screwed! This is what you get for messing with a jounin!

A THOUSAND YEARS OF DEATH!

Whatever Kakashi expected by poking Naruto in the butt, he never expected him to go poof.

A Kage Bunshin?, thought Kakashi in shock. In the next moment-

BHAM!

And the great Kakashi fell on his face, hit by a rock on the head. He recovered instantaneously, but he was now seriously pissed off. Then he saw a glint of a kunai from a patch of bushes in the forest. He took off in that direction with a murderous look on his face (If that is even possible!)

"Ready or not, here I come! Whoever you are you won't escape my wrath!", he shouted maliciously.

Meanwhile in the bushes

Shit, now I am screwed, thought Sasuke mentally cursing Naruto, I have to use that jutsu!

He came out of the bushes even before Kakashi reached him, then he made hand seals at very high speed and shouted-

FIRE STYLE: FIREBALL JUTSU!

What!, thought Kakashi in shock, then a huge fireball closed on him.

After the fireball impacted Sasuke saw no trace of Kakashi, Huh?, and then-

EARTH STYLE: HEAD HUNTER JUTSU!

The next second his whole body went underground with just his head sticking out. In front of him stood Kakashi, his right sleeve still burning.

Sasuke smirked "Aha! I got you!"

"Shut up kid!", shouted Kakashi and smacked him on his head, "Now tell me, where is Naruto?"

"How should I know?", shouted Sasuke back.

I'd better find him myself, thought Kakashi, sighing. Then he left to find Naruto and Sakura.

Thrice. I was fooled three times today, and worse by two genins, Kakashi was disgusted with himself, I underestimated them, the he thought with determination, I won't make that mistake with the third one.

He then found Sakura hiding behind a tree, Kakashi saw her and smirked evilly, Now I got you.

After a few minutes, Kakashi was seen frantically using small water jutsus to wake up Sakura. The latter was unconscious, with froth coming out from her mouth. A drastically changed Naruto and the vision of seeing her Sasuke-kun being cut into pieces by a monster was too much for her rational brain to handle, so it the only thing it could do, it shut down.

Three and a half hours later a tired looking Kakashi and Sasuke were sitting with a very happy looking Naruto and a crying Sakura. After three hours of continuously searching for Naruto he gave up dead tired fighting nearly a thousand clones of Naruto. So he called everyone back near the timer. Sasuke had to dig himself up to get back, his bones were aching all over.

"Though none of you got the bells, I will give you one more chance after the lunch. Naruto and Sasuke may eat the lunch, but you are not to give any food to Sakura, nor is she allowed to help herself to any. If any of these happen you all will be disqualified", said Kakashi and vanished with a shunshin.

Sasuke hungrily helped himself to the food, but Naruto was having second thoughts. Even though he had changed, he was still the kind old Naruto in his heart. When he saw the bags under Sakura's eyes, he made his decision.

"Here, Sakura-chan", he said holding up a rice-ball at her, "Have a rice-ball"

Sasuke coughed with the food in his mouth. Sakura looked at Naruto tearfully.

"Are you nuts? If you give her food all of us will fail. This way at least both of us will pass", shouted Sasuke at Naruto.

"Sasuke, look at her, she need the food more than you and me. Besides we have a better chance of defeating him with her to support us"

Sasuke looked unsure, then he nodded and offered Sakura the rest of his food.

"You are right", said Sasuke reluctantly, "Besides I don't sense Kakashi-sensei nearby"

Sakura looked at both of them gratefully and muttered a 'Thank you', she then moved to take the food.

At that moment, the sky darkened and lighting struck. Kakashi appeared in front of them with a very ghostly look.

"You disobeyed my orders!", said Kakashi angrily, "ARE YOU READY TO ACCEPT YOUR FATE?"

"YOU ALL-"

All the three were terrified, they were holding their breaths.

"-PASS!"

Kakashi smiled at their shocked faces and said, "In the Ninja world, those who disobey orders are scum, but those who abandon their comrades are worse than scum. You three deserve to be Ninja"

Then he walked away, "I would expect the three of you day after tomorrow for training". Then he suddenly stopped and looked back angrily at Naruto, "But Naruto, we are not through, yet"

-Chapter End-

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