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"Soooo, what did I do wrong again?" Inquired a rather funny positioned blonde human.
Currently tied upside down to the middle log post of three. "We were supposed to work as a team to get the bells, not charge head first into battle!" cried out his two new teammates.
"Tch, if you remembered correctly that was my clone and not me. Besides I still got the bells didn't I?" Naruto tried to reason but to no avail. "THAT WASN'T THE POINT!" His teammates shouted. "Jeez, you are just as much a knuckle head now as you were then, Naruto." Sasuke taunted.
It had been about six hours since they started their first team exercise and already the were fighting.
Sighing while standing about twenty feet away was Kakashi looking on at his troubled crew. "Might as well step in." He mused to himself. Striding forward Kakashi stuck his hand into the fray trying to break it up, but unintentionally getting pulled in. "TELL HIM HE'S WRONG!" shouted the two teens at Kakashi.
Taking the time to dust himself he cast his gaze upwards. "To be honest, he did do well in accomplishing the task at hand." After hear this Naruto began to smile.
"But you did fail to work with you team to meet the standards of the test." Kakashi finished as Naruto face faulted, "I teamed up with my clones just fine. Those two were taking to long." Naruto deadpanned.
"While that's true Naruto, the point of the test was to teach you teamwork with your new teammates ." Kakashi defended. "I already told you…I did use teamwork, How's it my fault if those two Baka's were too chicken to fight. I did what I was told to. That's that." Naruto pouted and turned his gaze away from his new Sensei.
Kakashi looked back at Sasuke and Sakura, both of them were holding each other back. Not because they were afraid of the consequences, but because they both wanted to kill him themselves.
"That's enough!" Kakashi slammed his book shut and quickly returned it to his pouch. "I want all of you to run fifteen laps around Konoha to clear your heads. And NO shadow clones or chakra use. Raising his headband slowly he turned his gaze towards them.
"Now go…. I'll be watching.." and with that Kakashi disappeared into the thin air.
In the tree line.
Kakashi looked on from his position at his team, then dove his hand back into his pouch for his book. For the next few moments he apologized to it for the slamming.
"What am I supposed to do with these kids…"
Turning around, both Sasuke and Sakura began to run away. Leaving Naruto tied upside down to his post. "These people are idiots" he thought to himself.
Looking around Naruto found a stick a few feet away, within seconds the two were switched.
"I thought I told you no justsu." Naruto hear from below him. Before he could react, but having enough time to turn his head and see his sensei squatting below him, Naruto heard the name of a jutsu he would not soon forget.
"ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF PAIN!" In one swift plunge into the blondes nether regions, he was sent soaring into the air. "Whyyyyhyhyhhyy…?" he shrieked.
Looking up, Sasuke and Sakura saw their unfortunate teammate soar past them only to be not so gracefully stopped by the walls of Konoha. "That... looked bad…" Sasuke drawled out.
Sighing, Sasuke headed towards the splattered boy on the wall while gaining a questioning look from Sakura. Stopping for a moment Sasuke sighed again and pinched the bridge of his nose while shaking his head. "Though he may be an idiot… I feel for him, you remember what happened to me after I unlocked my Sharingan and started talking smack to Kakashi."
Going white Sakura nodded at remembrance. "I try not to think about that Sasuke" she quivered at the thought.
Moving to the blonde who was now peeling off of the wall and falling to the ground like a leaf, the duo got there just in time to catch him. "Whyyy meeee…" they heard him whisper.
A white wisp slightly resembling Naruto floated out of his mouth. "Hold on Naruto! Sakura start healing him!" Sasuke commanded while fighting to push the white cloud back into the boys body. Sasuke reached into his pouch with his right hand sent up a red flare signaling that medic nin were needed.
Moments later a squad of three medic nin and one chuunin showed up and took their teammate to the hospital via stretcher.
Running with the squad of ninja, all seven of them made it to the Hospital.
Being told to wait outside, Sasuke and sakura watched on as Naruto was taken behind the double swinging doors.
"He should be fine now, lets hurry back to our laps. I'd rather the same thing not happen to us." Both of them paled then turned to the entrance of the hospital and took off running.
The twitch of his nose was all it took.
"I hate the smell of hospitals." Naruto deadpanned "It's too clean yet somehow…a grotesque notion."
"Then change the world so Hospitals don't need to exist." he heard rasp around the room. "Night time all ready huh? I must have been unconscious for a while."
"Tch, you are never unconscious. Regardless, it is time to train. Now get out of this horrid place." "No need to tell me twice" he grumbled, moving from his bed and phased through the window. "It's good to see that you have gotten at least THAT far in your training." the voice slithered around him.
"Well I'm sorry that what you are saying just doesn't make that much sense to me."
To those who happened to be up and about this fine night, all they would have observed from the blonde teen were two things.
One, he had a large resemblance to the demon..I mean Brat…that used to lurk through the streets of Konaha at night, Looking for its..his next meal.
Two, He was talking to himself.
Not in the sense that he was thinking out loud but rather he was holding a conversation with himself, he would speak in his normal voice but would then switch to a voice that seemed to touch all that was under the nights spell.
"Hey idiot, your talking out loud again. It seems like you've relaxed on your training, Tch. How are you supposed to find yourself if you can't even manage to concentrate on such a low level as this."
Stopping Naruto gripped his head and shook it in his palm. "I still don't Know what you mean."
Looking up, Naruto noticed the once lively street had been deserted. The only trace of life was the small squeaks of windows and doors as the villagers peered out at the Lunatic.
"Hmm" Naruto mused. Looking around Naruto's eyes began to glow purple, and wherever he moved his head there was a short tracer of light.
"Fe FI Fo Fum…How many civilians will fill my tum?" He vocalized.
"Sir. Should we take him down?" Asked a freshly minted ANBU. "Stand down and watch, He's just getting his payback in prank form." Commanded his officer who had a cat mask with red swirls on.
The Captains subordinate let out a small growl of disapproval but remained in position.
"Boo" Naruto said before disappearing.
Taking to the roof, he heard the screams of the section of town his was in. He laughed as he felt the rumbled of their hysteria filled stampede. "Silly people, Mass killings are for Demons."
After about fifteen minutes Naruto arrived at a pond that was in one of the many training fields outside of Konoha. Walking towards the pond, Naruto stopped at the edge and looked at his reflection.
"What do you see?" " I see me." "Tch" "Fine.. *huff* I see this version of me." "Oh? How do you mean?" Naruto closed his eyes and gazed into the darkness of his mind.
"I see…that this 'me' that I am now is just one of many possible versions that I could be." "But I don't see why this is so dang useful for my future training!" Naruto finished annoyed.
"Tch, you are a coalition of random events that have swirled together to make you who you are now. Fate only means that you are living in a time stream of events that are most probable to happen based off of your own past experiences and expectancies."
"What?" Naruto sweat dropped.
"No more hints. Get back to work."
"How was THAT a HINT?!" Naruto screamed.
"You already know the answer. All you have to do is be willing to accept it." and with that the presence that claimed the night seemed to dissipate. "My head…" griped the teen.
Sitting down by the pond, Naruto dug his hands into the ground and began to meditate. "I know the answer already? what bull. If I knew the answer, I wouldn't have to go through all of this crap. Whatever, getting mad about this won't change anything." Naruto's thoughts drawled off and his mind stilled.
Focusing on the darkness in his mind Naruto tried to feel out his surrounding, and to his surprise and slight annoyance he felt someone hiding a few yards to his right. "Come on out!" He shouted. Earning a girlish squeak from behind the trees. "No use in running either, I already have clones surrounding the area.
After a few moments he heard shuffling and the crunch of leave underfoot as his spy came forth. "To what do I owe the pleasure miss?" He asked, eyes still closed and hands rooted firmly in the ground. "i..i..I hap... Happened to n..notice you earlier a..and ju…just wanted to confirm my suspicions." She squeaked out at the end. "Your suspicions? And what might those be?" He inquired.
"W..Would you ha..happen to be Uzumaki, Naruto?" She questioned.
"The one and only baby!" He cheered out, turning his head with a smile and giving a thumbs up at the girl. His eyes open and glowing purple in the moons light.
Watching as the girls face went bright red, even in the night, He watched as she toppled to the ground. "OY! LADY" he shouted, Dashing to her and catching her in time.
He started fanning her face with his hand. "Are you ok?!" He shouted. Turning his head to the pond, he concentrated hard and managed to pull a softball sized sphere of water from it, bringing it closer to him. He dropped it when it lined up with her face, however the sudden splash of water caused the mystery girl to let loose a squeal and send an open palm to the underside of the blondes chin sending him flying up and crashing into the water.
Quickly realizing what she had done the girl took off her grey jacket and dove into the surprisingly deep pond. Catching up to the blonde, she tried to pull him up only to let air escape in awe at how heavy he was.
Activating her family bloodline she noticed a few weight multiplier seals on his clothes. Blushing underwater, she tugged at the blondes top and successfully removed it.
Managing to loose enough weight she was able to pull him up to the surface and to land.
Getting out and pulling him back to where her jacket laid she covered him after making sure he had no water in his lungs and was breathing. She left to gather wood for a fire to dry them.
Coming too, Naruto noticed that he had a jacket covering him and there was a nice heat coming from his right. Looking towards it's source, Naruto saw a gorgeous girl with pure white eyes curled up in her knees and slightly shivering. Leaning up he took the jacket in his hand and took it to the girl and wrapped it around her. "It's good to see your alive…and me too haha" he joked while sitting himself down only to then realize that he had no shirt.
"Hey, where is my shirt? Did you do something funny to me after you knocked me out?" he asked with a ludicrous expression on his face.
"W…WHAT!?" she cried out.
"Hah! I'm just messing with you….miss?" He questioned. "Hinata Hyuga." She replied curtly, "Well miss Hyuga, lets get you home huh? Your Family must be freaking out by now!"
"Thanks, But I'd rather stay under the stars tonight, besides I already have the fire going." Hinata leaned back with her arms behind her head.
"It's good to sneak out sometimes." Naruto told her. "It gives you time to think and a since of adventure hehe."
"I agree" laughed the Pale eyed girl.
"Well it looks like me and you are going to get along swimmingly, Hinata" Naruto laid dow beside her in the same fashion.
It wasn't long before the two slipped into their respective dream realms, awaiting for the daylight to reach their side of the planet again.