What's up bitches? I'm back and with a new chapter. Just an F.Y.I, there is no way in hell this is going to be a Sasuke x Naruto or harem fic. For one, it'd be like Naruto and his dad based on his genetic information, and I just hate harems, I think they're weird. Now this Chapter may seem to be Naruto x Sasuke, but it isn't. Think Uryuu and Ichigo's relationship. A mutual respect-hatred rivalry friendship.
Naruto was barely able to stay awake during the team assignments. This was of course, due to Gai-sensei hearing what had transpired last night. However, the rumor mill had already blown what had happened way out of proportion. So what Gai had heard was that Naruto had single-handedly saved Iruka and killed Mizuki with a bowl of ramen while the third Hokage fought Orochimaru off with a chopstick. Granted none of that had happened, but that still did not stop Gai-sensei from giving Naruto a lecture on how to behave "youthfully" and that a young kunoichi shouldn't be fighting people with noodles.
"Naruto-chan, I have no idea what possessed you to act that hip and cool, although the noodle thing was rather impressive, I'm not even mad about that, but now that you're a ninja, you can't fall into that act,. You'll end up like my eternal rival Kakashi Hatake. So I must show you the power of youth!" Gai lectured. Naruto dared not try and speak up; it would only worsen the situation. "So to reinvigorate your youth, we shall triple today's training." Lee was ecstatic about this, Naruto however, was less than thrilled.
So now Naruto was practically in dreamland until reality was forced into her vision by a rather lazy and abrasive voice to the right of her. "Naruto, what are you doing here? This is for graduates, not drop-outs." The laziest of geniuses asked our favorite blond protagonist.
Naruto just glared at him with her dark blue eyes. "I did pass Shikamaru, can't you see the headband?" she said as she pointed with her thumb towards her forehead. "But for calling me a drop out," she said as she shifted slightly to the left, Shikamaru however felt a presence behind him. Naruto wrapped her arm around his neck and put her index and middle fingers against his carotid artery. The Naruto in front of him fizzled out of existence. "Still think I'm a drop out, Shika-kun?" Naruto said as saccharinely cute as possible, than she sat down and rested her head on her arms with a bored look on her face.
Shikamaru did not even know what happened in front of him. Wasn't Naruto the dead last of their class? So how did she get behind him without him noticing? And what was with that second Naruto in front of him. So he just stood there with a shocked look on his face.
"It's an afterimage, if you were wondering," Naruto told the puzzled Nara. "It happens when a person moves so fast that a person's eye muscles can't follow. A friend taught me it."
"Tch, troublesome," Shikamaru said as he walked away. Naruto just smiled and tried to fall back asleep.
Of course Naruto's sleeping bliss would not last very long as she unwittingly was sitting next to Sasuke. Of course Sasuke had planned this to see if he could find out who the ninja who was better than him, by defeating this person he'd be that much closer to Itachi. But back to Naruto's rather rude awakening. Of course the Sasuke fan club had wanted to sit near him, but he chose to sit next to an occupied chair. And occupying that chair was no less than Naruto! The one girl who didn't show interest in him and he sits next to her, well this would not do.
"Naruto move!" Ino and Sakura shouted to the blond and black-haired girl, who was asleep.
"Mmh… no Gaara, get that away from me… I'm too young to drink and you always get sand in the glass..." Naruto mumbled in her sleep, not even noticing the killing intent emanating from the girls in the classroom.
"Naruto wake up!" The two girls yelled again. Naruto sputtered awake.
"What, who, where?" she asked as she shook her head awake. "Oh… it's you two." Naruto sighed, "What did I do this time?"
"You're sitting next to Sasuke." Sakura shrieked.
Naruto looked over to her right, "So, I am," she said as she shifted to face the mob of girls. Then she felt a sensation on her back. She turned her head to the side to see what was happening in the corner of her eye. It was Sasuke mouthing the words, 'Help me' to her.
"We want to sit next to Sasuke!" Ino yelled, albeit timidly, to the multicolored haired girl. "So move!"
Naruto just stared at her lazily and uninterested. "Make me." Was all she had to say to make most of the girl's back off. However, the ones that stayed were either really stubborn or really stupid; naturally Ino and Sakura were remaining. Naruto sighed as she made the hand seals to a very weak wind ninjutsu. She just blew towards one of the girls and off came her pants to the shock of everyone in attendance or who was paying attention.
"Wow Ino, purple and yellow I expected. Did not expect a thong though," Naruto said lazily, "especially since we're, like, what, twelve." Ino just squealed and ran away. "Maybe I should get a pair?" Naruto laughed at her.
Sasuke was in shock at what had transpired before him. The person who was always messing up and pulling pranks actually did him a solid. Begrudgingly, Sasuke said to his savior, "…thanks."
Now Naruto was surprised. She had never heard that word ever come out of the Uchiha's mouth. She didn't even know that he could say that word. "Uh… don't mention it?" She said, not sure of the situation. Remembering what she was doing before she had to embarrass some fan girls, she said to Sasuke, "Hey, I'm gonna take a nap, wake me when you hear my name." Sasuke didn't give any form of answer except a 'hn,' which Naruto took as a yes.
Naruto was gently awoken with a tap on the arm in time to hear her name be called, "…Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, and Sasuke Uchiha." Iruka said as he read off Team 7, as Sakura cheered at being on her beloved Sasuke-kun's team. Naruto gave a glance towards Sasuke who returned it in an unspoken, but begrudgingly mutual respect. Naruto passed out again.
Waking up, once again for lunch, Naruto slumped out of the room, only to be confronted by Sasuke. "Naruto, we should have lunch together." Sasuke said with a practiced emotionlessness.
"No thanks, I promised a friend that I would have lunch with him," Naruto told him and walked off. Sasuke, however, was speechless. He was just rejected; he had never felt this before and did not know how to handle it, so he asked a rather stupid question.
"You're boyfriend?" Naruto stopped in her tracks. She slowly turned her head around to face him with an angry look on her face. Sasuke did not know, yet again, what to do. So he decided for bad idea number two. "What's your boyfriend's name?" Next thing Sasuke felt was a massive wave of killing intent and the overwhelming nausea that was usually accompanied by a swift, but powerful pain to a man's genitals. Sasuke now noticed how much his testicles hurt, and crumpled over in a heap of pain.
"He's not my boyfriend." Naruto told him in a voice colder than anything he could ever do, and she walked off.
"You know," Kumajiro said to Naruto in her mind, "he's kinda right. I mean you are going on a date with Lee now."
'I am not!' She shouted back to him. 'We're just having lunch, and it's with his team too, so it's NOT a date.'
"Whatever you say kit, but remember, it's okay to like other guys now, and you aren't a lesbian." Kurama chimed in. "And I mean you could do worse than Lee…"
'I do NOT like Lee like that!' Naruto cut him off as her face went beet red. 'It's just that he's a friend and I would rather have lunch with him, than Sasuke.'
Currently Team Gai was taking a lunch break from training, with Neji going off into the distance to brood, Gai going off to find Kakashi and Tenten and Lee sitting under a tree with Lee looking around and pacing. This was bothering Tenten who decided to put an end to it. "Lee, sit down," she said calmly, "I'm sure Naruto will show, I mean, she did promise, didn't she?"
"Yes, but what if she's attacked by enemy ninja, or gets lost or she can't make it or she is too embarrassed about being seen with…" Tenten cut off her spandex clad friend.
"Lee, calm down. She seems nice enough, I think she'll show," Tenten reassured her friend, "Is that her now?" She said as she pointed at a figure in the distance.
Naruto took a deep breath clutched her food and sprinted off towards Lee and Tenten. "Hey Lee!" she said to greet her friend.
"Naruto-chan!" Lee exclaimed, and ran up to greet her. They exchanged a short and awkward hug and Lee looked back at Tenten. "Oh, Naruto-chan, this is my teammate and friend Tenten, I told you about her."
"Oh yeah… um, hello." Naruto awkwardly greeted her.
"So you're the famous Naruto-chan that Lee and Gai-sensei have been talking about. It's nice to finally meet you." Tenten said as she grabbed Naruto's hands in a friendly way.
"Uh… yeah… nice to finally meet you too," Naruto stumbled out, still red and embarrassed about the conversation that went on in her head earlier.
The next half hour was one of the most awkward moments of Naruto's life. Aside from having to answer rather girly questions, like where she shops and where she does her hair. She also had to try and eat in a way that wouldn't embarrass herself along with Lee staring at her. But, despite the awkwardness of the meet, she still rather enjoyed herself talking about the various ninja weapons that she and Tenten liked to use. After they had all finished their respective meals, Tenten and Naruto exchanged a friendly hug and Lee and Naruto sharing a rather longer hug, and with that, Naruto left to go back to the academy.
When Naruto was out of sight Tenten leaned over to her love struck teammate and whispered to him, "I think she likes you too."
Hours after the rather eventful lunch hour, Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke, who had a bag of ice on his crotch, were all sitting in the classroom, waiting for their Jounin teacher.
"Ugh! Why is our sensei so late?" Sakura yelled.
"Calm down Sakura," Naruto told her, "I'm sure he'll be here soon." Almost on cue, a man's head with a mask and gravity defying gray hair and a forehead protector popped through the door to great his new charges.
"Hello, why don't you meet me on the roof?" The man said and left as quickly as he came.
On the roof, the four ninja arranged themselves in a circle, with the man standing up and leaning against a rail. "So why don't you guys tell me about yourselves?" He asked the young ninja.
"What do you want to know sensei?" Sakura asked the man.
"Hmm, how about your likes, dislikes, dreams for the future, hobbies, stuff like that." He told them.
"Why don't you introduce yourself first, sensei?" Sakura asked.
"Ohh… me, well, I'm Kakashi Hatake, my likes are," he paused, "my dislikes are," another pause, "dreams for the future…hmm. Well I have a lot of hobbies." Kakashi told his Genin team.
'All we learned was his name,' both Sakura and Sasuke thought. Naruto was thinking about the bell test that would be tomorrow, and what she should do.
"Ok, how about you in the orange jacket?" Kakashi said pointing towards Naruto.
"Well I'm Naruto Uzumaki, I like training with Gai-sensei, I dislike it when I get lost on the road of life, or when a black cat crosses my path and makes me take the long way around, or when an S-class missing ninja attacks the old lady that I'm helping cross the street." Naruto said with a smile. Kakashi thought that she was rather funny, knowing all his excuses… wait… Gai?
"Please don't tell me you shout about youth all the damn time." Kakashi told her.
"Oh no, I have a 'hip and cool attitude like his eternal rival.'" She said with air quotes. "Anyway, my hobbies are learning history and training and my dream," she paused for effect, "is to live up to my parents' legacy," with that she smiled.
'So she knows about Minato and Kushina then? This could be interesting,' Kakashi thought inwardly. "Alright, next," he said as he gestured towards Sasuke.
"My name is Sasuke Uchiha, there are tons of things I dislike but I don't really like anything. I don't want to use the word dream. I have an ambition to resurrect my clan and to kill a certain man!" Sasuke said with finality.
'And he's a stick in the mud. I hope Naruto can help bring him out of avenger mode, but that maybe too much to ask,' Kakashi thought. "Next, you pinky," he told Sakura.
"Well, I'm Sakura Haruno, I like," she looked at Sasuke, and "my hobby is…" again looking at Sasuke, "my dream for the future is…" this time she let out a squeal of joy. " I dislike Naruto!" she told them finally.
"How do you feel about that Naruto?" Kakashi asked his new charge.
"What? Was Sakura saying something? I wasn't really paying attention." Naruto waved off the insult.
Kakashi smirked under his mask at this. 'I think I might like teaching her,' he thought to himself. "Alright, tomorrow at 7 we begin our duties."
"What kind of duties, sensei?" Sakura asked her teacher.
"Oh it's just survival training," Kakashi told his team, though this only confused Sakura and Sasuke further.
"I thought we did all that training in the academy, that's why we're ninjas now." Sakura said aloud.
"Oh but this is different, because I'll be your opponent." Kakashi said as he started laughing.
"Why are you laughing sensei?" Naruto asked, completely aware of the answer.
"Because this is a super difficult exam with a 66% failure rate, of the 27 graduates, only 9 will actually go on to become Genin. The rest are sent back to the academy." Kakashi finished, shocking two of the three, but Naruto was faking surprise well enough that he did not notice. "Anyway, your test is tomorrow on training field 7; bring all your ninja tools. Oh and skip breakfast, or you might just puke." Kakashi finished with a smile. "You're dismissed." And with that, they left.
The next morning, both Sasuke and Sakura arrived on time, with Naruto coming around an hour later, But still no Kakashi. He actually arrived around ten.
"Sorry I'm late, but I was lost on the road of life." Kakashi told his team, with the two not knowing what's going on sweat dropping at his remark. Naruto however, responded to the excuse while she was sharpening her sword.
"I know how you feel sensei, that damn road has too many twists and turns. I get lost on it daily." She said as they both laughed.
"Well, all jokes aside. Let's get started." He said as produced an alarm clock. "You have until noon to get one of these two bells. The person who does not doesn't get lunch and will be tied to that stump and forced to watch me eat my lunch." He said as he pulled two little silver bells out of his pocket. "Since there are only two bells, one of you is guaranteed to be tied to the stump, and the person who does not get a bell," he paused for dramatic effect, "will be sent back to the academy." This again, shocked both Sakura and Sasuke, while Naruto was thinking about something rather different.
'Should I have miso ramen, or beef ramen with Lee tonight?' Naruto asked the occupants of her head.
"I think beef, good source of protein," Kenta told her, "helps build muscle."
'Good idea, Kenta.' Naruto told the man with a penchant for fire.
Snapping back to the task at hand, Kakashi told them that it was ok for them to use anything at their disposal, but nothing would work unless they came at him with the intent to kill. "Do you understand?" Kakashi asked the Genin, they all nodded. "Then, go!" and with that they all disappeared.
"Lesson 1, a ninja must be able to move stealthily," Kakashi said aloud to himself. Noticing where Sasuke and Sakura were hiding, "those two have the idea. But where is… Ah." Turning around, Kakashi was face to face with Naruto. "You know a ninja is supposed to be stealthy, right?"
"Yeah, I know. But where better to hide, than in plain sight?" Naruto told her teacher while doing a set of hand seals. "Hidden Mist Jutsu," she had said with a smirk. Kakashi was surprised that she knew the jutsu, but was not surprised that she could do it.
'It is a low rank ninjutsu, but does she know how to use it right?' He asked himself.
'How does Naruto know that jutsu?' Sasuke thought as he observed from a nearby tree top. 'Did this 'Gai-sensei' teach her it?'
"Well, you know how to hide using this jutsu, but I bet you can't attack with it. I bet you can't even see where you are." Kakashi taunted Naruto, hoping to get a hasty reaction out of her, but to no avail.
Instead, Naruto responded with a rather terrifying line. "There are 8 choices you know?" She taunted back. "Eight places that will instantly kill a person," her voice sounded like it was nowhere and everywhere at once. "The liver, lungs, spine, clavicle vein, neck vein, kidneys and the heart," she told her teacher. "Of course, I don't want to kill you," Naruto told her teacher, still sounding like she was everywhere at once. "I just want the bells!" She shouted as she appeared in front of Kakashi and thrust her sword at his waist near where he put the bells.
"Not this time Naruto!" Kakashi yelled as he brought up a kunai to block her sword.
"Leaf Whirlwind!" Naruto said as she swung her foot towards his face. Kakashi brought his hands up to block her kick. Naruto noticed this and once the kick connected, she used the momentum transfer to push off her teacher.
Sasuke was visibly trembling as he felt the exchange of chakra. "When did she get so strong?" he asked himself. He should be stronger, he was an Uchiha.
"Well, you're good Naruto, too good for a Genin, but you're still not good enough to take me on." Kakashi said as he made the hand seals for the one wind ninjutsu that he knew. "Wind style: Great Breakthrough!" He shouted as he clapped his hands together to blow away the mist. Naruto was standing in front of him, sword stuck in the ground to keep her from blowing away. "Now I'm gonna get serious." He said as he brought his hand up to his headband, but was forced to stop when Naruto threw a kunai at his hand.
"No Sharingan," Naruto said in a mocking tone. Kakashi was surprised that she knew what was under his headband. Naruto took off running towards the river to her left and doing a set of hand seals, Kakashi followed her closely in an attempt to gain the upper hand.
"What are you doing now Naruto?" Sasuke asked himself, now completely dumbfounded by her skill.
Naruto had reached the river bed and turned around to face her teacher with a smile on her face, "Water Style: Water Bear Jutsu!" she shouted as a giant bear made of water flew out of the river and dived at Kakashi, teeth and claws bared.
Kakashi's eyes widened at this new development. How could she know such a powerful and rare jutsu as a Genin? 'Well, this is getting really interesting now,' Kakashi thought to himself as he did the hand seals for a fire jutsu. "Fire style: Fire Dragon Jutsu!" He shouted as a giant dragon of flame came out of his mouth and flew at the bear made of water. When they met, they met with such an explosive force that Naruto was thrown back into the forest and Kakashi had his hands up to protect his face from the explosion.
'Now's my chance!' Sasuke thought as he sent a barrage of kunai towards his teacher. At first, it looked like it connected, but what he actually had hit was a dead log. "Shit, Replacement Jutsu!" Sasuke shouted as he took off into the forest to find a new hiding spot.
"I'll give you points for style, but you really need to work on your timing." Kakashi said behind Sasuke. Sasuke stopped dead in his tracks and turned around to look at his teacher. "I mean, my awareness was at full blast because of my fight with Naruto, the supposed dead last of the class. Let's see how good the 'Rookie of the Year' is, shall we?" Kakashi said as he got into a fighting stance.
Sasuke lunged at Kakashi with a spinning back kick which he caught, Sasuke followed up with a back fist from midair. Kakashi caught the fist and flung Sasuke away. "Come on now, you're supposed to be good. But I'm not impressed right now." Kakashi said as he stepped forward, causing Sasuke to throw a kunai at a nearby tree which triggered a trap he had set. Two giant trees sped at one another, with Kakashi in the middle. "Hmm," Kakashi hummed and jumped out of the way, only to see Sasuke doing a familiar set of hand seals.
Kakashi's eye widened as Sasuke called out, "Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu!"
'That is a rather big fireball,' Kakashi said as he did the replacement jutsu once more. Sasuke seeing that he used a replacement, started to look around panicked.
'Where is he?' Sasuke thought.
"I'm below you!" Kakashi shouted as his hand wrapped around Sasuke's leg and drag him down under the dirt. "Earth Style: Tunneling Fang Jutsu," Kakashi said to the now buried Uchiha. "Now to find Sakura," Kakashi said as he walked away, just leaving Sasuke as he struggled to free himself.
"Sakura," Naruto whispered as she found where her teammate was hiding. "Sakura," Naruto said to get her attention.
"Oh good, Naruto, where's Sasuke?" Sakura asked her.
"Kakashi took care of him already, and you're going to be next if we don't work together." Naruto told her pink haired teammate.
"No, I don't want to be separated from Sasuke!" Sakura yelled.
Naruto looked away for a second, then looked Sakura right in the eye and whispered, "cheese it," and disappeared in a flash of smoke.
"What?" Sakura said as she looked around. She got up in an attempt to find her beloved. Once she got out of the bush she was hiding in, she found Sasuke, and she found him stabbed, punctured, burned, and missing a foot, bleeding to death.
"Sakura, help me," Sasuke said as she noticed him. Sakura screamed and passed out from the shock of seeing her crush in such a bad state.
"Maybe I should have gone a little easier on her," Kakashi said as he sweat dropped. "But she should have noticed the illusion, and taken Naruto's advice."
Naruto was searching for her other teammate now, in hopes that she could get him to help her, but as she was searching for Sasuke, she noticed a twinkle on the ground near a tree. She smiled her big foxy smile, and walked over to the bell, "How convenient, a bell just magically appeared in front of this tree, without Kakashi-sensei noticing. It would be too bad if the bell was…" She unsheathed her sword and cut through the tree, "Booby Trapped!" She then made another cut to make sure that the two traps were disabled. She then reached down and picked the bell up. "Now to get the other one." She said to herself, humming away. Kakashi sweat dropped at this. Maybe he had been underestimating her all along. But off in the distance, his musings were cut short by the alarm clock ringing.
"Well, time to go round them up." Kakashi said rather merrily, and took off to collect his students.
Now Team 7 was positioned in front of the three training logs, both Sasuke and Sakura were tied to logs. Kakashi cleared his throat to get their attention.
"Well, I have good news for you all," Kakashi said, which perked up Sasuke and Sakura. "I'm not gonna send you two back to the academy." Sakura smiled at this, the thought of being on a team with her beloved Sasuke. "No, I'm gonna recommend that you two are dropped from the ninja program entirely." Kakashi said with a cold glare. "Naruto was the only one who managed to get a bell, so she is the only one who passes. Sakura, you worried over Sasuke, even when Naruto asked for help, instead you chose to ignore her advice and in doing so, fell victim to a simple Genjutsu. Sasuke, you had tried to be a lone wolf, merely observing while Naruto so obviously distracted me. So you know the rules, Naruto, you can eat, but Sasuke and Sakura must go hungry." Kakashi said as he looked toward his students. "I'll give you two another chance after lunch, any questions Naruto?"
"Yeah, let them go, and tie me up in their place." Naruto told her teacher.
"Excuse me?" Kakashi asked the Genin.
"Can you let them go, and tie me up in their place?" Naruto said with fire in her eyes.
"Are you sure Naruto?" Kakashi asked dumbfounded, while the other two gazed on in shock. "If I do that, then you'll forfeit your bell and have to try again with them after lunch."
"I know, but these two guys need me, and even if I'm not happy about it, they're my teammates, and I'll be damned if I just sat back and watch them suffer." Naruto told her teacher, who looked at her in shock.
"Ok, untie Sakura, I'll untie Sasuke, and then tie you up in their place." Kakashi said as he walked toward Sasuke. "But before I do anything let me say one thing." Kakashi said as Sakura came loose from the log. "In the Ninja world, those who break the rules are trash," he said as Sasuke came loose too. Walking to the middle log where Naruto was standing he continued, "But those who abandon their comrades are worse than trash, they're scum!" He said as he finished tying Naruto up. "Always remember that," he said as he backed up to admire his work, "but before you two dig in know this," he stepped toward Naruto and cut the ropes loose, freeing her. "You pass." Kakashi said as his eye turned into a smile.
"What?" Sakura said as she looked at the blond in amazement.
"You pass!" Kakashi said as he turned toward her. "Tomorrow Team 7 will begin its official duties."
"Hn," Sasuke sounded in contentment walking away.
"Yes!" Sakura yelled in jubilation walking away.
"Alright, time for me to get some ramen!" Naruto said as she started off, only to be pulled to the side by Kakashi.
"I want you to tell me how you knew Kumajiro Momochi's silent killing style, and his most prized jutsu, and I want to know why you're at Jonin level. Tell me." Kakashi said as he grabbed Naruto by the shoulders "Now." He demanded.
"Alright sensei, but you're not going to believe me at all." Naruto told the cycloptic ninja.
"Try me," Kakashi answered.
And that's another chapter in the bag. Let me know what you guys think, I really appreciate all the reviews I've been getting with this story. Anyway, happy reading and until next time my readers.