TEAMS?
Months had passed since Naruto had joined the academy and he had gained a few names for himself some being: the prankster, a genius, know it all and he got one from the teachers mini Kakashi as he wore a mask and decided to turn up whenever he felt like it.
No one let his Onee-san and Onii-chan know after all he was the best in the now very small class. Over the previous months kids had dropped like flies due to random reasons. So far only seven remained they were Nara Shikamaru, Chōji Akimichi, Inuzuka Kiba, Aburame Shino, Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto which was all the boys in the class the only girl was Hyuga Hinata.
The Hokage had even visited and told them that because of the sheer number of drop outs this year that they would half the term making it six months long instead of the year.
Everyone was over joyed with the news.
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The time finally came for the exams to see who would make it to Genin rank. So far everyone that went into the room had passed and now it was Naruto's turn to go in.
"Good luck not that you need it!" Kiba had shouted.
"G..g..good luck Naruto-kun." Hinata said shyly while Chōji, Shikamaru and Shino had waved him off.
Entering the exam room Naruto saw Iruka and another sensei that went by the name of Mizuki.
"Hi Naruto all you need to do is perfect create a clone then a perfect henge and you will get your rank of Genin." Mizuki said trying to hide his hate. Naruto noticed it but ignored it.
Naruto created a single shadow clone without the hand signs as he no longer needed to. Iruka and Mizuki were honestly surprised by this and gave a small clap.
"Now for a Henge please Naruto." Iruka told him with a smile.
Naruto then turned and walked away and hi fived his clone saying "It's your time now." before disappearing into smoke.
What the sensei's hadn't noticed was Naruto and his clone swapping positions to carry out the simple trick. They had done it so flawlessly that the sensei's couldn't even see where they swapped. Now came for the Henge and he knew just who to transform into.
Naruto smiled through his mask. In a puff of smoke Kakashi had appeared book and everything.
Iruka had a sweat drop on his forehead then face palmed before saying "Right Naruto you can change back."
"Not yet this is getting good." Naruto/Kakashi replied not looking up from the book with a smirk that could be seen through his mask.
"Like father like son." Mizuki said shaking his head.
"Well Naruto I'm glad to say that you have passed well done here is you headband that symbolises you as a ninja of Konoha." Iruka announced while walking around the table he was sitting at and held out his hand while holding the headband. "However you will need to come back tomorrow to see what Jōnin you will be with."
"No problem and Ja ne (See ya)." Naruto said while still in his Henge as Kakashi reading one of the Ichi Ichi books after taking the headband and leaving the room.
Naruto dispelled the Henge and walked over to his friends and showed off his headband before putting it on and smiled wildly.
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On his way out of the academy grounds he ran into Ibiki who seemed to be pacing about in front of the gates.
"Hey Ibiki-san what's up?" Naruto asked seeing the man pace back and forth.
"Oh Naruto-kun your finished good I'm the one that's talking you back home. Anko and Kakashi have been caught up in something and I don't know what it is. They owe me good for this." Ibiki told Naruto. Being around Ibiki and taking his money through various card game Naruto could read the man like a book- that and Ibiki was a bad liar.
A thought came to Naruto and he smiled evilly. "Okay but first I want ramen." Naruto said in a confident voice.
"I ain't paying for it then." Ibiki told him.
"Fine I'll just tell everyone about how much you lost to a kid through card games and you still owe me. Do this and all debt is gone." Naruto knew Ibiki would take it although he was the head of the Konoha Torture and Interrogation Force, he still taught Naruto to well in reading people and regretted it but on the other hand if Naruto ever needed a full time job one would be waiting for him there.
"You have twisted my arm lead the way." Ibiki said with a smile. It looked creepy on him but it was a funny creepy.
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They arrived at Ichiraku's ramen stand. Ayame and her father Teuchi greeted them and Ayame ran around the counter and hugged Naruto screaming "Well done Naruto you made it."
"He did it did he well you get ten free bowls of ramen then Naruto well done!" Teuchi said as he shook Naruto's hand from the other side of the counter.
"Thanks Ayame-chan and Teuchi-san." Naruto said with a smile but pinched his mask when he felt Ayame trying to pull it down. "What are you doing Ayame-chan?" Naruto said glancing over at her.
"I have known you for years and I don't know what you look like underneath that mask of yours." Ayame told him as she made her way to the other side of the counter.
"If you wanted to see underneath my mask you just had to ask." Naruto told her in return. Everyone stared at huh in disbelief while he ignored them and started on his first bowl of ramen.
"Well?" Ayame said aloud.
"Well?" Naruto replied in between bites.
"Are you going to show us or not?" Everyone said in unison.
"Oh that's what you were all waiting for." Naruto said lazily. He then proceeded to slowly grasp the top of his mask and pull it down slowly.
Everyone stopped breathing while they watched Naruto.
Naruto pulled the mask down quickly only to reveal another mask.
Everyone fell over backwards and sighed heavily. Naruto however just laughed maniacally before him and a recovered Ibiki left to get Naruto home.
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Eventually when the two of them arrived at Naruto's house there was an odd feeling in the air and that made Naruto stop and take a look at his surroundings.
He noticed the same cat walking in a pathway ahead. 'Genjutsu.. when did this happen?' Naruto thought to himself then he noticed a hazy shape out if the corner of his eye. Without thinking Naruto dispelled the Genjutsu and threw a kunai at where the haze had been.
He narrowly missed one of Anko's friends a kunoichi by the name of Yūhi Kurenai she was know as the 'Genjutsu Mistress' due to her affinity with the style. Naruto however who was bad at it could still detect when he was in one and could de spell them rather easily due to brute forcing it with chakra.
"Why were you hiding Yūhi-san?" Naruto whispered in her ear as he appeared behind her in an instant.
"I..I was told to keep you occupied while it happened." Kurenai spluttered.
Naruto then channelled some of Kurama's chakra to deepen his voice "SPILL!" Naruto commanded forcing KI (killing intent) onto her which forced her to comply.
"I was meant to keep you trapped in a Genjutsu while they prepared it for you." Kurenai said as she gasped for air. Naruto then released his KI but glared at Ibiki and dragged them both to his house at speed.
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Naruto arrived at his real house this time and jumped over the fence into the back garden with both Jōnin still in his grip which was tightening as they made there way to the back door of the house.
As they entered quietly he saw his friends and those he considered his family watching the front door waiting for him to arrive so they could start the party.
Naruto slowly filled his lungs with air "I HATE SURPRISES!" Naruto yelled as everyone in the house jumped at the shock that Naruto had snuck in through the back door.
"Surprise?" they all shouted back in the confusion of the situation.
That night the partying went on for ages, Kurenai went over and sat with a Jōnin called Asuma and they chatted. Naruto instantly saw that they liked each other and smirked while watching them. Anko had seen Naruto plotting something and when she followed his line of sight she wanted in.
"Naruto I want in on whatever your planning and well done today." Anko said as she walked over to him and pulled him into a hug.
"Thanks Onee-san and they like each other don't they." Naruto said nodding over in the direction of Asuma and Kurenai.
"Yeah but neither wants to go first. I take it your going to get them together?" Anko said after taking a quick glance over at the pair.
"Just watch." and with a smirk Naruto walked over to where the two ninja in question were sitting.
"Hey guys how are you?" Naruto asked them both.
"I'm good thanks Naruto and well done today my old man said you done really well." Asuma said with a laugh.
"I'm fine as well Naruto-kun but you did go a bit far earlier." Kurenai said as she tried not to look over at Asuma.
"Well you put me in a Genjutsu. When are you two going to go out you look cute together." Naruto said off the cuff taking everyone by surprise. With that everyone stopped and watched what would happen.
Both just sat there staring at each other then everyone else.
"Errm" they both said at the same time.
"You know Asuma-san the longer you wait the bigger the chance someone will steal this hottie from you and I don't think you'd want that would you?" Naruto said picking up on their insecurity.
Asuma shook his head then turned to Kurenai sighing then opened his mouth "Kurenai would you like to go out with me?"
Kurenai just leaped onto the man and kissed him. Naruto didn't know where to look but he got cheers from everyone at the party for finally getting those two together.
The partying carried on into the early hours of the morning but Naruto had went to sleep by that point because he wanted to see who his sensei would be for the foreseeable future.
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"Well done boy I'm proud of you all you need to do is work your way up then you can achieve your dream of Hokage." Kurama told him when he summoned him to his mind space. It wasn't the old sewer network that it used to be it was a the village of Konoha all be it larger to accommodate for Kurama's massive size.
"Thanks Ku-san that means a lot coming from you." Naruto said as he held up a fist.
Kurama laughed then raised one of his massive paws and touched Naruto's fist with it.
" I have something to show you Naru-kun." Kurama told him. He shut his eyes and concentrated heavily. Soon he began to shrink and change. After a while a man stood in front of Naruto and wore a very orange suit that was matched by his hair colour. He had the same whiskers as Naruto did and he still had the blood red slitted eyes.
Naruto clapped at the new appearance of Kurama. "Very nice but all orange really?" Naruto said.
"Fine then how about this." Kurama said as his suit lost all colour and became as black as the night shy.
"Your voice has changed it's not as rough as it was before." Naruto told him.
"Well I'm in human form now so I will blend in even if I have to change my voice." Kurama informed him.
The two spent the night talking away and sharing ideas on new jutsu as well as new idea's for seals.
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Naruto sprinted to the academy to find out who his new sensei was. He wondered just who it could be and what they could teach him.
He decided it would take just to long so he flashed to the academy to find a very shocked Iruka standing in front of him.
He informed Naruto that he would have to wait for everyone to get there.
Two hours had passed before everyone had turned up and some were shocked to see Naruto sitting in the class waiting on them.
"Now then I will Tell you the teams." Iruka said once everyone had arrived.
"Team Seven will consist of Sasuke Uchiha, Nara Shikamaru and Chōji Akimichi." Chōji and Shikamaru nodded while Sasuke grunted "Your Jōnin will be Hatake Kakashi."
"Oh you guys will be here for ages." Naruto told them from his place at the back of the class.
"Team eight will consist of Inuzuka Kiba, Aburame Shino and Hyuga Hinata." All of them nodded "Your Jōnin is Yūhi Kurenai."
"Finally Naruto you have an ANBU I don't know what the Hokage has planned for you but you need to stay-" Iruka was interrupted by Naruto saying "So that's why one of them has been hiding on the roof across the way. Ja ne." and with that Naruto disappeared.
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The ANBU that was watching Naruto was surprised when his target appeared behind her. She spun round to see Naruto standing there staring at her. She was a sensory type yet she didn't notice him till it would have been to late.
"Hey Cat your going to be my instructor then. Nice sword you must bee good at Kenjutsu then." Naruto said as he was trying to understand this new person.
"Yes Naruto-san but I need you to come with me to training ground Zeroth and we will begin the real training there." Cat said before disappearing. Naruto sighed and flashed to where Cat had disappeared to. This happened a few times.
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After half an hour the two had arrived in the centre of training ground Zeroth.
Cat turned to Naruto to explain what was going to take place. "Naruto I'm here to ensure that your skills are good enough for what he has planned for you. The test is to get this tag from me." She showed a green band that was linked into her scarab "If you get it the test will be over. You have two hours starting from...now!" and with that she disappeared in a poof of smoke.
Naruto sighed and started to stretch. Cat watched him do this and wondered just what he had planned for her.
After Naruto stretched he activated the seals on his eyes and disappeared from sight. Cat was shocked at what she saw the boy had sharingans there was no way that should be possible. There was a sound behind her and she turned to see nothing but she activated her chakra senses and just then she was shocked at what she now knew.
There was at the very least one hundred strong chakra signals making their way to her at a high speed. She needed to get out of there fast but her opponent was faster.
Naruto was gaining fast- all of them were. Soon she would need to turn and face him. Soon she reached an open field and drew her katana ready to face the Naruto horde.
A minute passed before the army of Naruto's emerged from the forest. They slowly walked towards her all slowly drawing their kunai's except from one who revealed a chakra blade. She figured that that was the real Naruto. Naruto first channelled his fire chakra into the blade as he walked towards her. Then he buffed his flaming sword with his wind chakra which set the nearby ground ablaze. Naruto looked quite scary as the flames light up his visible features.
Cat cast a glance at the blade but before she looked all the way back to the boy he was gone. Her back felt heavy. Out of instinct she spun round and slashed upwards. Naruto had just managed to grab the green tag from Cat when he felt something come into contact with the left side of his face.
It didn't stop though the blade went upwards slicing through the flesh on his face as it made it's way towards his eye. Naruto passed out from blood loss after Cat noticed what she had done.
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Naruto immediately sat bolt upright and pain shot to his face as he yelled out. Four people ran into the room.
"Naruto are you okay tell us what you're feeling." Naruto knew the voice.
"Onee-chan?" Naruto panted. He was answered with a hug and another from a different direction.
Naruto opened his right as that wasn't the one that gave him pain.
"What happened I remember getting the tag from cat then...nothing." Naruto said as he looked from Anko to Kakashi.
"Well you're more like me than ever Naruto." Kakashi said with a smile before he held up a mirror and saw the scar that covered his left eye. Funny how he was becoming a mini Kakashi.
Naruto just laughed at his reflection which surprised both the Hokage and the ANBU with the Cat mask.
Naruto slowly opened his left eye fighting through the pain to see that the seals were still active he tried to shut it off but it wouldn't respond. Naruto sighed as he looked around.
"Naruto how do you have that?" Sarutobi asked with fear ringing in his voice.
"What this?" Naruto said pointing to his eye. Sarutobi nodded. "It's not real it's a series of seals. The base layer is a seal that is one of my own creations it's a processing seal that speeds up the time needed for my brain to tell my body what to do. The second seal is a gathering seal which speeds up the, well, gathering of information that my eyes take in and the top most seal is an impersonation seal which I made it look like the sharingan because that's what I based it off of." Naruto told them as he touched his left pinky and a scroll popped out and he handed it over to Sarutobi. "That's how I made it don't worry that's a copy only I can access the original." Naruto told them further about the seals that he had on his hands as well as others on his body.
"Thank you for this Naruto." Sarutobi said as he held up the scroll Naruto had given him. "I heard from Cat here that you passed her test so now you are officially a Genin well done."
"What do I do now then Jiji? Aren't we meant to be in a three person team to promote teamwork." Naruto said in confusion.
"Well you can only promote teamwork if you have one. You however are a special case that and there was an odd number of student for equal teams. You will be working with any team that you chose ." Sarutobi told him.
Naruto then looked over at Kakashi "Did your team pass Onii-san?"
"Yeah they did...just take it you want to come with me then." Kakashi said to a nodding Naruto. Kakashi just smiled then pulled Naruto's headband down to cover the scar. "If you're coming with me you will hide that and only use it when you need to. It will shock your enemies and give you an edge. I want you to also remove the impersonation seal off of your other eye. Follow those and I'll let you join us."
Naruto quickly undone the top of the seal, jumped out of the bed and hugged everyone in the room bar Cat who he punched in the shoulder before walking out of the door.
"Naruto-san I'm very sorry about what I done if there was every a way to apologise I will do it." Cat cried out after Naruto.
It was quiet in the corridor until Naruto opened a window and propped himself on the edge. "You can teach me some Kenjutsu and that will be us even." Naruto shouted down to her before leaping out of the window.
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This chapter to a lot longer than what I thought it would- about 6 hours. I had a few ideas for this chapter but I chose this one.
Thanks to and scoccerlover91 for favouriting the story and AnniBananni, Natesume, jh831 and soccerlover91 for following the story. Just to let everyone that I love doing this how ever it will be slowing down because the holidays are coming to a close but I will keep it up.