The next morning, Naruko showed up at training ground seven for their training ground well after the time they were supposed to be there.
"Your late, Naruko." Sakura growled at the girl who was slowly ambling her way into the field, her nose buried on the orange book.
"Kakashi is gone." she said simply."
"What? What do you mean?" Sakura asked, her voice alarmed, even Sasuke sat up in interest. The blonde only then looked up,
"Eh? you thought... no Kakashi disappeared quite often. He will re appear here in an hour or so. I suppose he is probably talking to the memorial stone." Naruko's innocent blue eyes looked slightly sad at this.
"Why does he talk to the memorial stone?" Sasuke asked incredulously, talking to a stone? How dumb.
"My mother and father are there... as are his teammates... and his father." naruko looked down, her eyes sad.
"Oh." Sasuke immediately felt a twinge of guilt.
"Anywho, did you two eat?'
"No, Kakashi-sensei told us not to." Sakura sneered. Naruko rolled her eyes and tossed rice balls to each of them,
"They are salmon onigiri, you need protein, anyway, a Shinobi never knows when their last meal ois. Oji told me about the test my Okasama gave him as a gennin, I assume it is the same one, if we don't get the bell we don't get lunch." naruko glared at Sasuke, "If you drag me down uchiha, I will personally finish what Itachi-sem… Itachi started."
"What were you going to call him?" Sasuke glared.
"Nothing." Naruko glared right back, "I don't care anything of the council, I will kill you." Naruko growled. of course, she wouldn't dare hurt Itachi's younger brother, she was just trying to get her point across.
"What is the test" Sasuke asked begrudgingly.
'We will have to collect bells from him." naruko sat back down and re-buried her nose in the book. Sasuke watched her for a moment and had to admit, she was actually pretty she was short but long imbed wearing a pair of black anbu pants and sandals and a jacket with an orange stripe down the right sleeve and a raven emblemed on the back. she also had long blonde hair in pigtails. he never liked long hair much though. he did not know why the girls though he liked long hair, but it did look good on naruko.
Hours passed and Kakashi finally showed up
"Sorry there was a black…"
"Save it sensei." Naruko growled " lets hear the test. kakashi eye smiled then explained the rules.
"You will have to get the bells from me, come at me with the intent to kill." Kakashi smiled, "Begin!" The three students jumped in a different direction, Naruko Karasu-shushined away from them into the forest. she grabbed each of her teammates by their shirts and drug them out of earshot.
"Look. Kakashi won't use his sharingan against us since we are only Genin." Naruko explained.
"Yeah, so?" Sasuke scoffed.
"He won't be able to see through my genjutsus. you two need to distract him as I weave my Dusk Crow jutsu." Naruko instructed. Sakura immediately nodded, realizing that Naruko was a strategist, and probably smarter than herself.
"Why should we listen to you, dobe." Sasuke snapped, hating to be bossed around by a clanless loser like Naruko.
"Because I know my Oji-san. his biggest value is teamwork and the bond between teammates. you listen to me, and you will pass." the young Kunochi explained.
Kakashi scowled. he had been sure Naruko had understood, but obviously not. Maybe she should have let him train her. there was a loud cawing noise and he looked round. the treed were suddenly laiden with black birds. crows, he thought. he shook his head and went back to his book. Suddenly, the crows took flight and began pecking and clawing at him. they formed a cloud of darkness and black around him. they pecked and clawed and scratched. he felt his clothes ripping. he flapped his arms at them yelling in pain as he felt one of the beaks dip into his cheek.
Naruko and Sakura sat and watched, Narko had a look of hard concentration, sweat was dripping down her face as she stared hard at Kakashi, who was flailing like he was covered in spiders. Sasuke was setting a trap that Kakashi would be backing into any moment now, and Sakura pulled a freshly sharpened Kunai from her pouch. Kakashi flailed into the trap and wires and shuriken flw. he flopped down, tied to the ground by ninja wire. Sakura ran forward and sat on his chest, pointing the kunai at his throat, while Sasuke removed the bells. Naruko limped out of the trees breathing hard, she was suffering chakra exhaustion.
"Hmm. You pass. now take naruko to the hospital before she collapses." Kakashi sighed. he had told her not to use the jutsu. he had no Idea what it was, but he knew when she tried it, she almost always had to be brought to the hospital for chakra exhaustion.
"I did it, Oji. I finally got the Dusk crow to work…" she gasped.
"Here." Sasuke lifted her onto his back, and while Sakura shot her jealous looks, she understood that naruko could barely walk. she promptly passed out on Sasuke back.
"Damn she;s heavy." Sasuke grumbled.
Itachi smiled and left the forest. he had been coming much more frequently than he should, but he didn't care, the girl was progressing.
'Itachi, this is unhealthy." Kisame sighed, the giant blue man had only agreed not to report this to the leader if he came along. Itachi stiffened "I Know you care about her, and your brother, but watching them makes it harder for you. what happens if Leader-sama finds out that she holds the Kyuubi?"
"Then I will Kill him. no one will ever hurt Naruko again."
Alright, to answer some questions, To the Irish guest, I found the name Fenneg on the internet x3 it said it meant Crow, so i used it. I love old Irish words, they sound so pretty and ethereal. to the rude guy who was talking about Hirashin and shlit, not Hirashin, its just cause she has gold hair. she has taken the name Namikaze because shes a bad ass and doesnt care, she is proud of er father. and to the line break guy, for some reason they never stay unless they are at the end. I'll try and make extra enter marks and indentations.
-Ari the Fox