And here is the next chapter! I apologize for this chapter being extremely late, with being past the holidays and my grades and all that. Please enjoy…hopefully… :O

The following two anime/ games do not belong to me in any way, shape or form. Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto, and all characters and items and mentions of TF2 belong to Valve.

Dialogue:

"Normal Speech"

'Thought Speech'

"Demon Speech"

'Demon Thought'

'Flashback Thought'

"Flashback Speech'

MEET THE ORANGINEER: Chapter 10

The sun slowly rose over the Leaf Village from behind the Hokage Mountain, making a slow ray of light shine over the village. One particular ray happened to shine through a certain blonde's window, getting him directly in the face. He lay there undisturbed by the light for a second, before he scrunched his face. He raised a hand to his face and tried to swat off the thing disturbing his rest, but no avail since it continued to shine in his face. Trying more frantically, he raised another hand, now swatting around his face like he was hunting for flies. Soon the small hand swipes had turned into complete, erratic arm flailing…

…which resulted in Naruto falling out of his bed. A large thud echoed through his room as he hit the floor, most of the covers following him on his journey. A groan emanated from the fallen covers, before it revealed Naruto with a bad case of bed head. Trying to keep his eyes open, he turned his head to the clock on his bed side table.

'8:30 huh?' he read. Thinking over the time, he shrugged before standing up. He took a look around his room before spotting a note on the door. Curious, he walked over to his bedroom door and skimmed over it.

Yo Naruto.

Now listen, I'm probably going to forget when I go to sleep, so read this. Today are the Genin Exams, so you have to get up and get ready. Don't forget to get all my stuff for it, and make sure to remember to eat, don't want to fight on an empty stomach.

From yourself,

Naruto

Naruto sweat-dropped after reading the letter. "Oh yeah… I guess I did write that before I went to bed." He mumbled under his breath, before opening the door. Heading over to the bathroom, he knocked on the door. Hearing no reply, he walked in and shut the door behind him. He yawned loudly, before walking over to the counter and looking in the mirror. In it he saw himself in his blue pajamas, his hair going in every direction and a very small trail of drool on the corner of his mouth. He saw something in the bottom right corner of the reflection, and changed his gaze to it.

Looking at it for a second, he sighed before lifting his right arm and showing his hand. Or in this case, what looked like a hand. Where his right hand should be was a Gunslinger exactly like Engineers. The only minor difference was that the blue section of the hand and ring near the wrist had stripes of orange going through them. He stared at the metallic hand attached to his arm, watching and feeling as the fingers flexed before returning to a normal position.

"It's been that long since I got this…" Naruto said quietly, still staring at the hand that he held in front of him. Closing his eyes, he exhaled deeply before letting his hand return to its position on the bathroom counter. After a minute of leaning on the counter, he opened his eyes again, still seeing his reflection in the mirror. "Well, it's too late to change now anyway…" Sighing, he turned away from the counter, stepping over to the shower behind him and turning the water on.

What felt like minutes later, Naruto stepped out of the bathroom in a towel, his hair still wet from the shower. He walked across the hallway back to his room, closing the door behind him as he walked in. Turning on the light, he was surprised to see most of his bed on the floor. He was about to wonder what had happened, but then remembered what had occurred minutes before.

"Oh yeah." He said, remembering the bed flail. Shrugging, he quickly tossed all the sheets back onto the bed before opening his closet. It took a few minutes, but after rummaging through it, he found his Engineer outfit. Slipping on the shirts, he quickly put on the boxers, overalls and boots. After that, he grabbed the rest of his gear from the desk in his room (his helmet, belt and kneepads). Putting them on, he was about to leave his room when he felt something was missing. He looked around the room in search of the missing 'thing' before scratching his helmet in confusion.

Scrape, scrape, scrape…

'What the…?' he thought in wonder. Why did his head hurt now? He lowered his hand to think on it some more, when he saw which hand it was. His Gunslinger hand.

"Oh…" he said, now understanding why his head hurt. "Oh...OH!" he quickly exclaimed, the Gunslinger making him remember what he had been looking for in the first place. Walking across the room, he went over to his bedside table, and picked up the glove on top of it, slipping it over his Gunslinger. Looking it over, he gave a small smile and nod before walking out his bedroom door.

He walked down the hall for a minute until he arrived at the living room, seeing the TV on. Looking around, he also saw that Scout was taking up one of the couches with a bowl of cereal in hand, with Sniper on another drinking a cup of coffee.

"Morning." Naruto said, giving a small wave in their direction. Both of the BLUs turned their heads in his direction, and gave their own respective response. Sniper gave a small wave in return, while Scout said hello. Or tried to since his mouth was full of cereal. So the response came out more like 'Hrurwooe.' Naruto sweat-dropped, giving Scout a raised eyebrow.

"Wow. Real classy Scout." he said sarcastically. Scout gave a small glare in return before swallowing.

"Whatever runt. Don't you gotta get ready for ya' test or somethin'?" Scout asked before putting another large spoonful of cereal in his mouth.

"Yeah, but it doesn't start until ten. I just have to eat, grab my stuff, and then I'm ready to go. And where is everybody? I've only see you guys so far." He said. Since Scout was barely able to chew with all the food in his mouth, Sniper answered for him.

"Well Medic's already bolted off to dat hospital, and Engie needed some help from Soldier so they're off somewhere. Then I got no bloody idea where Demo or that wanker Spy is. He's probably drunk somewhere, an' Spy's probably snoopin' around for a place to 'read'." Sniper said, making air quotes with his free hand at the last part. Naruto rolled his eyes at that before speaking again.

"Alright, so where are kaa-san and Heavy-oji-san?" At this, both Scout and Sniper pointed towards the kitchen. Giving a nod of thanks, Naruto walked over to the doors and opened them. The scent of bacon hit his nose when he walked in the room, and he looked around to see what there was.

The kitchen was clean after the previous night debacle, but slightly dirty from the mess that was breakfast. The table was covered in various plates and dishes, each holding a different food. The Heavy was at said table, a tower of bacon on a plate in front of him. Pyro was standing in front of the sink, putting a large plate into one side of it to soak. Both of them were in their blue team pajamas. It was when she turned around that she noticed Naruto had just entered the room.

"Oh! Good morning Naruto!" she said with a smile, wiping the water off her arms with a towel. Heavy turned his head away from his plate and saw Naruto as well and so quickly gave a laugh.

"Good morning as well little Naruto! You miss big breakfast this morning!" he said in his thick accent, patting his stomach heavily.

"Yeah, I was getting ready for the Exam, so I missed kinda missed out on it." He said, putting a hand behind his head. Pyro rolled her eyes before heading over to the fridge. Opening it, she reached in and pulled out four black bento boxes.

"This should do." She said, walking over to Naruto and giving them to him. "The top one is breakfast, and the rest are for the exam." After saying this, she leaned down and gave him a kiss on the forehead before giving him a hug, careful as to not break the boxes. "You and your friends are going to do great. Don't worry." He stood for a moment before he took a free arm and put it on her back, pulling himself into the hug.

"Thanks kaa-san." He said. After a minute, they both let go, Naruto getting a grip back on the boxes. Giving a smile to both of them, Naruto left the kitchen and walked into the living room before heading to the door.

"See ya latah mate! Good luck!" Sniper said to him as he reached the door. Scout gave a similar reply, but it was muffled since he had shoved another spoonful of cereal in his mouth. Rolling his eyes at Scout, he gave a wave to them before he opened the door with one hand, balancing the bento with his other., and closing it behind him. It was a close call however, since as he closed it, he tripped on something on the ground outside the door. Flailing around and trying to keep his balance, he was barely able to keep a grip on the bento before jumping over the object on the ground and pulling the bento into a tight grasp. Taking a minute to breathe deeply, he looked down at the object on the ground, and immediately started to develop a tick mark on his head.

The 'object' on the ground turned out to be not a thing, but a he. A very specific, drunk he to be exact. Demoman was unconscious outside the door, with numerous bottles of his Scrumpy surrounding him. Naruto was ready to stomp his chest until he woke up in agony, but then remembered the bento boxes he had in hand.

'Well crap. I can't exactly beat up oji-san with these bento. But I also have to get them to the exam field.' He pondered briefly. It wasn't until a second later he got a small smile on his face. 'I got it! Looks like you're doing something for me oji-san.'

With that, Naruto gently put the boxes down before reaching into the pouch on his belt and pulling out a large, blueprint which he immediately laid on top of Demoman. He then reached in again and pulled out a pencil with white lead. Careful not to poke a hole in it, he began to write carefully in the bottom corner. After a few seconds, he pulled the pencil away, revealing what he had written:

ND (A/MA/FS-4)

Nodding at this, he reached next to him, picked up the bento, and placed them on top of the blueprint. Demoman, under the blue, seemed to stir, his breathing seeming to hitch for a moment.

Seeing this, Naruto simply stood there and watched. It seemed normal for a few seconds, but as Naruto watched him, Demoman's breathing began to slow, his face turning a slight blue. As the seconds went by, it started to show an arrange of color, going from blue to dark blue to purple to pink, and then dark red. By this time, his arms were slightly flailing, scratching at his throat. Seeing it was going on long enough, Naruto brought his hands together into a tiger seal.

POOF!

In a small poof of smoke, the bento boxes disappeared, with four small squares appearing on the same corner that Naruto had written on. After a second of showing them, the blueprint swiftly rolled together, rolling off Demoman's chest. It was a good thing to, because after the boxes disappeared, Demo gasped for air loudly, making him sit up and cough. As he went through his violent coughing fit, Naruto reached passed Demoman and picked up the blueprint, putting it into his pouch. He then looked back at the couching Scotsman, who was starting to breathe very deeply.

"Well good morning oji-san." Naruto said to him, getting his attention. Hearing the voice, Demoman looked up, simultaneously holding his head and chest.

"Oough…hey there ladey. Urgh…meh bloody head is killin' meh." He said slowly, holding his head slightly as he let out a moan.

"Drank too much again oji-san?" he asked, helping his hung-over uncle off the ground. He gave a slow nod, the bottles around him shook as he staggered, trying to stand up.

"Urgh…I'm not feelin' to good lad. I was sleepin', and I had dis horrible dream. It was like I was losin' everay breath o' air I had, an' dis' big thing was pushin' me down until I woke up!" Demoman said in his accent, waving his arm around dramatically as he explained it. Naruto discreetly grinned as he patted him on the back.

"I wouldn't worry about it too much oji-san." He said, leading him to the door. Laying him against it lightly, he slowly began to walk away. "I'm sure you'll be fine. After all…" he turned his head back to his uncle, smiling wide now. "…I put the boxes on your chest in the first place. I wouldn't hurt you too much." And with that he quickly ran off, his footsteps thundering against the stairs.

Demoman, who was still hungover and was leaning against the door, tried to think of what he meant.

"Meugh…I'll deal with it latah." He slurred, before falling asleep again, this time against the door he was still on.

Forty-five minutes later, Naruto walked onto the training field, taking a look around. It was a large grassy clearing, which was surrounded by trees and a small creek* running through it. In the center of the clearing were three wooden log posts, and by the edge of the clearing was a large, black stone in the shape of a kunai's edge, with numerous writings carved into the sides. Checking around for anyone and find no one, he walked forward into the clearing as he checked his watch.

'9:50…looks like I got a couple minutes.' He thought. Shrugging, he walked over to a log post and sat down against it, tilting his hard hat over his eyes. He felt the minutes pass as he sat there, thinking over how the test would go. 'Man, it probably doesn't help I'm thinking how the test will go.' He thought, shifting his back against the log. 'We're going to be fine. I know it.' It was then he felt a hand touch his shoulder. Not expecting it, he quickly jumped from his spot against the post, rolled, and pulled out his wrench, ready to fight whatever or whoever it was. That position changed when he saw who it was however.

It was Kiba and Hinata, who had appeared out of nowhere. Kiba still had his hand slightly outstretched, and both had wide-eyes at his reaction. Akamaru was resting on top of Kiba's head, a sleep bubble evident out of his nose. All three of them stared at each other, not one of them moving an inch. After a minute of awkward staring, Naruto slowly lowered his wrench and put a hand behind his head, laughing awkwardly.

"Hehehe…sorry about that…wasn't really paying attention." He said, putting his wrench back on his belt. Kiba raised an eyebrow as he slowly walked forward from his position.

"I can see that…so…are you ready?" he asked, moving to a log post. Hearing this, Naruto nodded as he walked back over to the post he was at.

"Yeah. What about you guys? Do you think we can do this?" he asked, looking at the both of them. Kiba and Hinata looked at each other, before nodding and looking back at Naruto.

"Yeah! We'll pass this, no problem!" Kiba said with a grin, raising his hand in a fist.

"I-I agree with Kiba. We-we're a team. Even if we f-fail, w-we can always try again, and we can have m-more time to become b-better. As a team a-and as friends." Hinata stuttered slightly, having a determined look on her face. Naruto sat there for a moment, before giving a smile to the two of them.

"You guys are right. Even if we fail, we'll do even better next time!" he glanced at his watch, and saw the time. '9:59'. He breathed in deeply before looking at them again. "One minute. You guy's ready?" His response was two nods. Smiling, they all turned their heads to the middle of the clearing, getting ready for Kakashi to appear.

Naruto kept an eye on his watch, and it was a minute later when it hit 10:00, they got in fighting stances…

…and nothing appeared. They were momentarily confused, but still were wary of their surroundings. '10:01'

"Wait…shouldn't we be…starting or something? Kakashi-sensei said ten o'clock right?" Kiba asked, some hesitance in his voice.

"Yeah. He said ten o'clock. Something should be happening…" Naruto said, looking around. He took another look at his watch, which now read '10:02'. Wondering what was happenin,; Naruto stared at the watch, looking at the time. It was after that second that Naruto's eyes went wide as he came to realization. "Oh my god! Why didn't I think of it sooner!" This got some questioning looks from Kiba and Hinata, who gave him confused looks.

"W-what do you mean N-Naruto-kun?" she asked. Stopping his muttering to himself, Naruto looked at the both of them, and gave an exasperated look.

"I just realized that this is Kakashii-nii-san were talking about. I've known him for years and I didn't remember. He's not going to be here for another two hours!" he explained, putting emphasis on two. After hearing that, the effect was instantaneous. Hinata went completely wide-eyed, her jaw slightly dropping. Kiba on the other hand, gave a confused and angry shout of 'what?' before completely face-faulting. Akamaru was somehow able to stay uninjured in the fall, as he simply rolled onto the grass and continued to sleep. Hinata was still in shock as Kiba stood up, his face covered in small grass and dirt stains.

"You mean to tell me that we're going to be stuck here for the next two hours waiting for him?" he exclaimed in anger, a small image of fire appearing in his eyes.

"Sadly, yes we will be." Naruto said, sighing before he took a seat against the log post again. "Better find something to do, because I have a feeling we'll be waiting for a while." Kiba groaned before he lightly picked Akamaru off the ground and put him back on his head, heading over to the post on Naruto's right. Hinata stood there like a statue for a minute before she slowly walked over and took a seat at the post on Naruto's left. They all sat there for a while, with Akamaru eventually waking up and whining to Kiba about and hour later. Kiba was able to tell Akamaru what happened because of his clan's connection with dogs, and by the end Akamaru was growling in hate of Kakashi. It turns out however, that was not the only thing that was growling at that moment.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRUMBLE

Their head's bolted up at the noise, looking around for it. They could tell it was close, extremely close, almost like it was…

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRUMBLE

…coming from right in between them. Naruto and Hinata turned their heads to the middle of them, looking at Kiba. He was oblivious to their stares for a second before he saw them. He was about to ask what they were doing, when he heard the growling come right below him.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRUMBLE

He looked down to the noise, and grew red at what the growling was. It was his stomach that was growling, and it was rumbling loudly for the want of an edible substance to be digested in it. He laughed nervously before talking to the both of them.

"Hehehe…I might have not eaten before I came here. That's what Kakashi-sensei said yesterday." He explained, holding his stomach. Before anyone could say something though, another growl came out, but it was quieter.

Grrrrrumble

Turning their heads, they saw it was Hinata's stomach that was grumbling now. She turned tomato red before tucking her knees in and wrapping her hands around them.

"I-I didn't e-eat either." She stuttered quietly, he face growing red by the minute. Seeing their reactions, Naruto stifled a laugh before he began speaking to them.

"That's okay guys. I didn't eat either. Pyro-kaa-san did give me some bento before I left though. You guys want some?" This got credulous looks from the both of them, and Akamaru.

"Dude, we can't eat. Kakashi-sensei said we couldn't!" Kiba said, holding his stomach as it growled once again. Akamaru shook his head at this, laying down and covering his ears with his paws. Naruto, who saw this, snorted before standing up.

"Ha! Looks like Akamaru isn't agreeing with your stomach Kiba." He joked, laughing lightly before reaching into his belt pouch. "And besides, if he can't even be here on time, why should we listen to his rule? Unless it's training, I've never listened to him." With that, he pulled out the blue-print from earlier. Placing it on the ground in front of him, he unrolled it, revealing a large sketch in the middle, four boxes in the corner, and the writing he had put in the corner earlier. He then put his hands into a tiger seal.

POOF!

A cloud of smoke appeared out of the blue-print, covering the area around it. The smoke stayed around it for a moment, before it slowly started to dissipate. As it began to clear, Naruto reached in without even looking, and felt around before he pulled out the four bento boxes from before.

"Here we go!" he said, before picking them up and carrying them over to his teammates. One for each of you guys. One for Hinata, one for Kiba, and one for Akamaru." Giving one to each of them, he sat at his own post before opening his bento and digging in. The Kiba and Hinata seemed hesitant to, except for Akamaru however, who barked happily before he started to dig in. Kiba seemed about to protest, but the look on his face made it look like he was changing his mind…

"Ah screw it. I'm freaking starving!" Kiba yelled before ripping the lid off and digging in as well.

…which he did. Hinata, who saw everyone start to eat, sighed before she lightly took off the lid and began to eat with better manners than Kiba. Akamaru finished his before the others and so barked happily about being full. As he looked around and waited for the others, he noticed that most of the smoke from the blue-print had disappeared. Now that there were only small wisps of smoke left, he got a good look at the blue-print. At seeing it, he tilted his head before walking over to Kiba and nudging him. KIba, who was still eating, looked down at his partner, revealing his lower face was covered in small pieces of food. Ignoring this momentarily, Akamaru nodded his head in the direction of the blue-print. Kiba decided to look over, and he raised an eyebrow at what he saw.

"What the hell?" He said, wiping the food off of his face with his sleeve. This got the attention of Hinata and Naruto, who looked in the direction that Kiba was looking. Hinata got a surprised look, while Naruto sighed and slapped the back of his head, muttering 'stupid, stupid, stupid…'

The blueprint, in fact, had something on it. It was a large, blue, and metal toolbox, about the size of a small cardboard box, but bigger than a normal toolbox. On the side of it, in white block letters was the word BLU, inside the opening of a white, block wrench.

"Aw crap. Didn't mean to take that out of the blue-print." Naruto said in an annoyed tone, sadly putting down his bento box and walking over to the toolbox. As he went to go and grab it, he was stopped by Hinata's voice.

"N-Naruto-kun? Why do y-you have a toolbox?" she asked, lightly putting her chopsticks and bento down. He looked at her quickly, making her blush, before he sighed and looked at the both of them.

"Alright, you guys really want to know?" he asked them. Hinata gave small nod, while Kiba simply looked interested. Taking it as a yes, he shrugged before pulling out a wrench and slamming it into the toolbox. The effect was instantaneous. The top opening of the box popped off, landing to the side as a blue square of metal rose out of the toolbox. As it rose up, another came out of the top as well, this one slightly smaller than the other. Soon reaching a height about the size of a mini-fridge, the upper square popped out to the side, making a screen appear on both sides of it. As this happened, two slots appeared on the sides, with one making a pressure barrel come out, and the other making a roll of metal come out. After that, a large tray came out of the sides with the screens, and a small section of it flip over, making the word 'DISPENSER' appear in slanted blue and white letters. It was immediately after this that the machine began to hum, the screens light up with a blue background and an arrow system on the front.

"This is a Dispenser." Naruto explained, lightly patting it as he put his wrench away. "As the name suggests, it dispenses things. It gives out a couple of primary things like ammunition and building supplies. It can even heal injuries. Personally, I'm not really sure how it works all the way, since Engie-tou-san hasn't explained that yet." It was then he looked at their faces. Both had their jaws open, Kiba being more dramatic about it than Hinata though.

"W-W-WH-WHAT?" he exclaimed, waving his arms in a dramatic, anime fashion.

"Yeah. It can do all that. It's pretty cool too. You don't see a lot of these around. It's one of a kind." He said, giving the dispenser a pat on the top of it. Before any more questions could be answered or asked however, a large poof of smoke appeared feet from them. They were momentarily distracted by it, so they weren't ready when a voice came from the smoke saying, "Yo." It hung in the air for a few moments before it lifted into the air, revealing a bored looking Kakashi.

"Sorry I'm late. A black cat crossed in front of me, so I had to take a different route around the village to get here." As he said this, a large tick mark appeared on Naruto's and Kiba's heads, both obviously irritated.

"And that route took you an hour and a half?" Naruto said loudly, clearly not amused. Kakashi shrugged, not showing any obvious reaction to their reactions as he walked forward.

"Meh. I had time. It's not like I had anything important to do right then." He said lazily, reaching into his back pocket to get something. It was at this point that Kiba was getting ready to pounce on Kakashi, with Naruto on standby to hold him back. Stopping a few feet from them, he pulled his hand out of his pocket, revealing two silver bells. Their looks when they saw the bells were simple confusion, with Kiba dropping his mood and the others raising their eyebrows.

"Bells?" Naruto asked, clearly confused. Kakashi simply nodded, tying the two bells to his waist.

"Yes bells. Your test is simple. You three have to get these bells from me before noon, and whoever gets them, pass." Another look of confusion appeared on their faces, mainly Hinata's.

"B-but Kakashi-sensei. Doesn't t-that mean only two of u-us will pass." Kakashi gave her an eye-smile as he gave a small nod.

"That's correct. Whoever doesn't get a bell…will be sent back to the Academy." The effect was immediate, as all of them went wide-eyed, while some specific ones started yelling in shock and anger (*coughcoughKibacoughcough*). "Yes, you'll get sent back, but look on the bright side. At least you'll get to try it before I fail you. No team has ever passed my test." Naruto, who had been in shock from the academy statement, snapped out of it immediately after he heard that. He narrowed his eyes, stepping forward in a challenge of opposition.

"No team has passed. Looks like that's about to change." He said in a serious tone, cracking his knuckles threateningly. Kakashi shrugged before pulling an alarm clock out of nowhere and placing it on top of one of the posts, setting it to noon.

"It appears we will see." Kakashi said, before quickly shunshining over to the middle of the clearing, getting their attention. "You have half an hour to get the bells from me, or else. Be prepared, because your final test..." he reached for something in his back pocket, quickly putting them on edge."

"…starts now!" he pulled the object from his pocket, revealing…

And that's where I'll cut it. First off, I'd like to dearly apologize for the super long publish. I got incredibly distracted and I am sooo since this has had enough procrastination, chapter is short this time. I'd also like to explain I haven't written a fight scene before, so here's a mini-poll to be answered as I write the next Orangineer:

How should the fight scene for the Exam be?

Short.

Long.

Short flashback

Please whisper me a soon as possible so the story can continue. Now as I gather this, I start on TASBSPE immediately! Hopefully this one doesn't take a month to do. See ya later guys.

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