Hey guys and-probably some-gals! I hope you enjoyed last chapter, oh, and I do apologize for this ones lateness. But, I swear to you, I will make sure that the content on this fanfiction is great!
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Remember the Name
Naruto woke from the strange world, blinking his bleary eyes from the clouds of sleep.
Then he felt a poke.
Several pokes.
Someone was poking him insistently.
...Why?
"Stop doing that!"
A girly scream filled the air with a horrendous wail, forcing all but the screamer to cringe in pain.
"Ow..." Kakashi deadpanned, clearing his ear with a pinky.
Sasuke and Naruto second that, both nodding with the jonin.
Eventually things got back on track, and Kakashi began explaining what was going to happen. First, they had a set time to get two bells, and the one who doesn't, gets sent back to the academy. Sakura and Naruto both hated the thought, whilst Sasuke seemed unaffected, more or less determined to get the test done and over with. Kakashi set the timer and told them the go ahead, to come at him with everything they had, with the intent to kill.
All of them leapt back into the trees instead, completely hidden.
"Well, at least they have stealth down..."
A cough brought his attention backwards.
"Except you, you seem content on being so, revealed."
"Well I ain't the normal shinobi!" Naruto Uzimaki bellowed, bringing his sword down, to point its deadly tip at the masked man. "I'm gonna be the next Hokage, dattebayo! And if you don't believe in me," here he pulled his blade back across his side, "your about outta luck!"
And he swung.
"That wasn't very nice, Naruto."
An ominous voice arose from behind him, and Naruto saw him make the tiger seal, two fingers tightly held and poised behind him. He thrust his fingers forward, ready to poke Naruto severely hard right in the spot most men preferred others stay clear away from.
Naruto swung his sword back, cutting deep into the earth, blocking the fingers with the flat of his blade.
Kakashi drew back, surprised by the move, but stilled himself, knowing the boy was just as surprised that he was attacked in such a way. With Naruto pulling his blade from the earth, Kakashi adopted his cool headed demeanor once more and reached in his back pouch. Thinking he was going to bring out a kunai or shuriken, Naruto brought his sword up to block, only falter when instead, the man brought out a pervy book.
"Shinobi rule of fighting number one: taijutsu."
Naruto's mouth hung agape, so much so that a fly could come in and out, and he would never know.
"Are you making fun of me!?" Naruto shouted the next second, anger brilling up his spine, muscles taught and rearing up like a spring. Then he moved, so fast, the air rushing past him was too much! Too fast! Too fast!
Naruto skidded to a stop, turned around, and found that Kakashi was no where in sight. In fact, he was lost himself.
What was that just now? Was that flash-step? Had he just performed flash-step? But he had done it too well now, and he couldn't see the others or the clearing. Then, he decided that maybe, maybe this could be an advantage to him, maybe their sensei was just as surprised as he was. But Naruto wasn't surprised now, now he had an advantage. All he had to do, was take some time and practice this new ability, just take a bit of what time he had, so that he could beat that un-nervingly calm man into the dust.
Back in the clearing, Kakashi was surprised, and so too was Sakura and Sasuke, all three very surprised.
"First its a sword, then its a mysterious woman, now he does this? It wasn't quite a shunshin, that's teleporting, but this is something else entirely. It was a high speed move, that's for sure, but of what..." The Hatake pondered aloud, putting his book away.
His senses screamed at him a moment later, and he leapt back as a hail of kunai plunged into the dirt right were he had been. Kakashi whirled around and smacked away a pale fist before it could collide with the back of his head. Next he ducked beneath a swirling kick, and brought out his own foot, knocking his assailant over.
Sasuke whirled back up, unphased, launching fists at the man. Kakashi blocked some, brushed others to the side, and caught one. Holding tightly, he rolled back, slamming the boy into the ground with a harsh thud.
Kakashi brought out a kunai and threw it at the boy, only for the Uchiha to poof into a log.
"Hm, my students appear smarter than they really are..."
Soon after that, Kakashi walked away into the timber, deciding that if they were to even come close to getting the bells, they'd have to come after him.
A few more minutes in, and Naruto had gotten used to the flash step-not to say he had completely mastered it-but that he was comfortable when he did it, and now could go where he wished. With this move in hand, and his sword in the other, he began searching for the Hatake.
He found the man, setting up a trap, one so that if stepped on, it would wrap around the leg and string them up in the tree. Naruto noted that and grinned. Out of the brush he leapt, sword behind him, trailing in his wake. Kakashi was put off guard by this, even as that sword was swung, its passing cutting the air and making it scream a whistle of pain. The man barely had time to bring out his kunai. And that was it, he blocked as best he could, but Naruto had the leverage, and he could do nothing as he was shoved down into the ground.
"Gotchya bitch!"
Kakashi regained his senses after that and slugged Naruto across the face. The boy stumbled back with a bloody nose, spat out some blood-along with a nasty curse-and flung himself at the jonin once more, and Kakashi did the same.
As they fought, the Hatake felt that something was wrong. How could the supposed dead-last come out of no-where and start fighting him with the same tenacity as a low level chunin-at the least! How did he perform that technique as well, it wasn't one he had seen before. Maybe if he used his sharingan he'd be able to find out. A point was proven to him, one that he should have always kept in mind.
Never stop focusing on the enemy.
He ducked, feeling the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end. A whoosh of air hurtled over head, and yet, as he whirled with the kunai out, he hit nothing but air.
This went on for some time, Kakashi so dedicated to keeping the boy at bay-with minor ease-and Naruto flash-stepping around him. Then, as Kakashi was about to take out his sharingan, the boy was gone. Just like that, poof, gone. He stood up straight, looking around for the whiskered blond. He couldn't find him. But, as he put his kunai back in the pouch, he felt it. Or, its better to say, what he didn't feel.
"I got the bells!" Naruto shouted out back in the clearing, looking around for his team-mates.
Black and pink flew out of the tree-line the next moment.
"What?" Sakura screeched, mouth agape.
"How did you..." Sasuke asked next.
Naruto became a blur one moment, the next he was back, smiling gently.
"Something I picked up." Naruto told, grinning now.
A moment of silence passed between them.
"So...where are the bells?"
His grin increased.
"Meh, I can go through the academy again." he told with animosity, striding away.
As he walked away, they felt inside their pockets, a realization dawning on them.
"No." Sakura admonished.
"He did..." Sasuke spoke, just as surprised.
He had left them the bells, and therefore, allowing them to pass, but not him. So shocked were they, that they could not move.
Until Kakashi leapt from the trees like a banshee.
"YOU!" He shouted at the top of his lungs, landing and kidding to a stop in front of them.
"Pass..." He said next.
Kakashi explained to them all that this was not a test to see if they could get the bells, but to work as a team, that those who do not follow the rules are trash, but those who abandon their friends are lower than trash.
After that, the week went on, with them doing D rank mission's, and Naruto doing Rangiku's training. He told her all that he had accomplished, with the bells and the flash-step. She was proud of him and spoke well of him, praising how well he was coming along. But she also reminded him, that there was still a lot for him to do, like learning his shikai-and bankai. He understood what she meant, and so the week went. He slept in the bed with her still, but nothing happened, well, she still cuddled, and would hug him into her breasts, which by the end of the week, he didn't mind it at all.
But it was at the end of the week that she had to leave, and he was sad to see her go, but she assured him that she would try and get another one off soon. After bidding her farewell, he sat in his room that evening, finding that the apartment felt empty, hollow if you will. Maybe it wasn't the apartment, maybe it was him.
He missed Rangiku already.
The next day, when he and his team went to get another mission, he flat out refused to do yet another mundane D rank. They tried to explain to him that going on higher mission's were for higher ranked nin, that going out half cocked was a bad idea.
"I don't care!"
Naruto yelled at them.
"We got the bells from Kakashi, we passed, and we've been doing dumb mission's for far too long!"
He couldn't tell if the old man was mad, or just considering his words then.
"I guess it can't be helped, Tazuna, come in." Apparently it was the later as Sarutobi called out for someone.
Out came an old man, wearing an old straw hat and glasses. He was wrinkled, much the same as Sarutobi, and had a bottle of sake in his hand.
"The short one looks stupid." Was his rough words.
Naruto looked around, and saw that he was the shortest, therefore-
"I'll kill 'em!"
Kakashi held the boy by his collar, holding in a chuckle as he swung his blade about with ease, anything to reach the man.
"Naruto, we can't go around and kill the clients, just hold that anger in until we see a bandit or two."
The boy stopped struggling but gave a sour face.
A/N I would like to apologize for the lateness, and the crappy writing. Recently, I've been having trouble getting back into the groove of it. I won't give you guys excuses, this writing here sucked, badly, hopefully next chapter I can do better.