Chapter Five- Bell Test
Kushina had a habit of waking up at the same time, everyday. She thought it was her family, they always woke up early, but then she knew the real reason. It was to keep her damn Uncle out of the kitchen. That was her domain, where she forgot about those she killed, and if he blow it up on her one more time, then he better start praying, because she was going to hurt him.
"Natsumi, Naruto breakfast," Kushina shouted. She didn't care if that lazy Jonin told them not to eat, it was stupid to go into battle without food. That's how she lost her older brother, Naruto's twin. Kenji never really had a chance.
"Sensei told us not to eat." Natsumi yawned as she sat down at the table. She knew she was going to eat, no matter what Kakashi told her. Kushina had more battle experience then her other two 'team mates', so she had to be right.
"You're not going down the same path as my brother. So eat," Kushina said putting breakfast on the table. She almost killed someone when Natsumi told her, that she never ate anything other then ramen. It was like at home, both Madara and Izuna would ask her how she had gotten enough food for them, but she was tight lipped about it. It was her secret and she wasn't going to tell anyone. "I love you, but don't try to out stubborn a Uchiha, or an Akumu. Anyone else you can win with, Uzumaki are the third most stubborn clan on this land."
"Wait, Naruto doesn't eat?"
"Don't worry Natsumi, I eat. She makes sure I do, she meant my twin, Kenji," Naruto said sitting in his normal sit. "By the time the two had fought, Kenji hadn't slept or ate for three days, he was easy kill for the Senju boy."
"I didn't know you had a brother." Natsumi didn't know what to think. She didn't know that they had family, family that they had lost. She never had anyone to lose, but she did and she didn't want to lose them. She didn't want to be left alone, not again. Not after twelve years of being by herself.
"It's fine Natsumi, I also had a twin sister," Kushina said. Twins just ran in her mother family, Miyuki was the reason she wanted to help Natsumi. They had the same sunny personality, even the hardships. "Miyuki was like you, always smiling. Out of Naruto and I, she looked more like Naruto."
"We better eat. Don't want to be late," Naruto said. Both girls nodded and sat down, during breakfast Natsumi had asked Kushina and Naruto about their childhoods. They were more then happy to tell her, like the time Kushina had fallen into the river.
Natsumi had to laugh. Kushina had less control over her temper then Naruto did. She also loved pranks as much as she did. Naruto had more control over his emotions, on missions anyway. He believed that one couldn't completely abandoned their emotions.
"I think this is going to be a habit," Kushina muttered. She was bored enough to brush out Natsumi's messy ponytail, brushing it and carefully putting it up. "If it is? What should we do?"
Naruto just glared at the forest, Kakashi was even in the area. He hated it when people were late, unless they had a good reason. He also had a feeling that Kakashi didn't have one. "Natsumi, Kushina repeat?"
"Repeat?" Sakura asked. She had given up on asking Sasuke on a date. Sasuke didn't care what the others did, just as long as Sakura left him the hell alone.
"Sorry useless people don't get told," Kushina said she didn't care if she hurt the girl's feelings, she had to open her eyes. She wasn't going to have the girl's blood on her hands, she was still young and could learn.
"Let's go." He had warned him, he really had. After all anything can happen in a second, but everything can happen in three hours. Especially when you left an Uzumaki alone for too long, then the whole world could come to crushing on their heads.
"Of course." Kushina knew her brother was pissed, as far as she could see it, there were three options. One, Kakashi got pranked every morning, two he started to come on time or three they themselves trained for three hours and came 'late' themselves.
"Okay, let's do it," Natsumi said running after her 'older brother'. Naruto was the oldest on the team, to the other three he was the second oldest. So she knew it was going to be fun. Besides in the seal, they didn't just look at the white space in front of them, they did train. As much as they could, they knew how to fight each other, but that was about it.
It had been two hours, since Sasuke and Sakura watched the other walk into the forest. They didn't know what they had planned, but Sasuke knew that he would have to take it to his advance. If it was useful, it should be. After all, two of them were Uchiha. He wasn't by himself anymore.
Natsumi and Kushina had teamed up. Naruto didn't argue with it, after all he didn't want the two to see what he could do when he was angry, plus they could make some random and frightening traps together.
He could make ones that were harder to see, he'd leave the larger traps to Natsumi who looked to be better at them then he was. Plus, if they had a mix, then he won't see some of them coming, then he could see the danger of pissing of an Uzumaki and an Akumu.
Natsumi might not be strong, but she had the two of them willing to protect her. While neither he nor Kushina could stand the brat, he was part of their clan. So Sasuke would be protected, not Sakura neither of them were going to help Sakura.
"Naruto, Kakashi should be here in about ten minutes," Kushina told him. Both she and Natsumi had smiled on their faces. Kushina had started to teach Natsumi the tree walking exercise, which was how she found out that her sister learned by doing. "Also, Natsumi almost has the tree walking exercise down pat."
"Well done, Natsumi," Naruto said smiling at the young girl. He was proud of her, no matter how simple said exercise was. The larger ones chakra, the harder it was. Which was way, both he and Kushina had trouble with it.
"Shouldn't we tell Sakura and Sasuke about the traps?" Natsumi asked, she didn't want to hurt them. She didn't want to hurt anyone, but then again, the traps were harmless. Naruto would know where they were, since Kushina would spike her chakra when she made one. But a the same time, she would do it when they had a 'fake trap'.
"We should," Naruto said. The three nodded and ran back to their meeting point, Kakashi wasn't there, nor was he in hearing range, unless Sakura screamed and then he was. Naruto and Natsumi pulled Sasuke away from Sakura, Kushina would tell Sakura.
"What are they doing?" Sakura yelled at the raven. She wanted to spend time with her 'Sasuke-kun' but those two took him away from her.
"I was going to warn you. But you can find out for yourself," Kushina told her rolling her eyes. She was going to learn, soon enough.
"Warn me about what?" Sakura asked. She knew that the three were already shinobi, after all, her Mum was complaining last night about them being on counsel. So should that mean, she should listen to them? She didn't want a clan hating her family, maybe, just maybe she might be able to be friend's with them. "What are you warning me about?"
"Traps."
"You're late!" Sakura screamed at their brightly coloured sensei. Kakashi's uniform was a bright orange (Kushina agreed with Natsumi on the colour) and it was done, while he was wearing it, so his skin was the same colour.
Sakura only looked at his neon green hair. It looked like Kakashi didn't notice the change in coloour. No one wanted to tell them, since they wanted to see his reaction for themselves. To all five genin he looked like a walking carrot. Kushina guessed that he had walked into their traps, so to Kakashi he looked normal. Kushina loved Akumu Genjutsu, she also loved the fact that only she and Naruto knew about them.
"Good morning," Kakashi said as he waved at them. All three Uchihas glared at him, while Natsumi almost screamed with Sakura, but seeing the bright colours stopped her. "I saw a black cat and had to take the long route."
"Sure you did," Kushina said while rolling her eyes. Sakura had to agree with the girl, that was one the weakest excuses she had ever heard.
"It's set for noon," Kakashi said as he put a timer on the wooden pole. The five genin only looked at him, while he showed them four balls. "Four of you will pass, the one who doesn't get a bell with be tied to a post, and we'll eat in front of them."
Natsumi only smiled at her sister, while Sakura's and Sasuke's stomachs growled. She was now glad that her sister was a mother hen.
"Never thought I'd say this," Natsumi giggled looking a the two, but she would've done the same think if Kushina didn't make her eat, but they didn't need to know that. "You're silly."
"You only need to get one bell, so one of you will fail," Kakashi said a smile on his face. He loved doing this, but no one had ever passed his test. "So one of you will be sent back to the academy."
"Or going their for the first time," Sakura muttered glaring at the Akumu siblings. She hated the fact that they didn't have to go to the academy, just because they were already shinobi from another country. She wanted to make sure one of them got sent back, even if she had to deal with Natsumi, at least she knew the girl.
"If you want you can use shurikens and kunais," Kakashi said. He was sure he'd be able to dodge them, after all he had gotten the academy reports on Sakura, Sasuke and Natsumi, while the Hokage had given him reports on Kushina and Naruto. "You won't succeed unless you came at me with the intent to kill."
"But sensei you'll be in danger," Sakura told him. She didn't want her teacher to be hurt or killed, she didn't want anyone from the leaf to be hurt or killed.
"Silly, his was an ANBU captain," Natsumi told the pink haired girl. She knew she had seen him somewhere, he was one of her guards. "Even then his a Jonin, we've just finished the academy."
"Well at least I know your going to be taking me seriously," Kakashi muttered, both Sasuke and Sakura didn't believe he was part of ANBU. "Begin."
Sasuke and Sakura went off to hide, while Natsumi made three clones, making two of them look like Naruto and Kushina, sure she couldn't hide her chakra, but she can make it harder to trace, by making four more and telling them to hide. After all, where she was Kushina and Naruto were more likely to be with her.
"Something's wrong about this test," Kushina said making Natsumi and Naruto look at her, Naruto sighed and nodded. Something was wrong with this test.
"What could be wrong with this test?" Natsumi asked. It wasn't like he had a test, in their test. That would be silly, since team work only came from trust, which came from spending time together. "Why? Is something wrong?"
"No, Natsumi, we just knew Hashirama," Naruto told her. He knew what the man was like, sure Madara never had anything nice to say about him, but he knew the man would've wanted people to work together.
"He always did talk abut peace. If it was build on his vision, then this test is about team work," Kushina added. "He knew our father. Was friend's with him at one point, but he was also married to our aunt."
Sakura ran in the direction Sasuke was going. She didn't want their sensei to get him, what if what Kushina and Naruto told them was true. She kept running and soon she was surrounded by leaves, causing her to stop and enter a daze.
"What was that? What's going on?" Sakura asked looking around the clearing. She didn't know where the leaves had come from, Kakashi wasn't in the area. Or least she hoped he wasn't.
"Sakura, Sakura," a voice behind her said. The pinkette knew that voice and she knew it well, turning around to face her 'true love'.
"Sasuke!"
"Sakura... Help me," 'Sasuke' said leaning against a tree, his whole body was covered in swords and other weapons. Sakura didn't know what think, how could she help him, he was meant to save her. She wasn't strong enough to protect him. But he didn't need her to protect him.
"I think she fall for it," Natsumi said. She and Kushina had to find the girl, after all, if it was about team work, then they needed the girl's help.
"I think Kakashi also fall for it," Kushina told her. Neither had seen the man, but both knew that he was going after Sasuke. Naruto was going to help Sasuke, they were going to help Sakura. One person to attack Kakashi, while the other would have to protected the pink haired moron.
"That was Sakura," Sasuke muttered to himself. He didn't know what the girl fall for, but he knew that he wasn't going to to be fooled by Kakashi's traps.
"So they trapped the area?" Kakashi asked himself. He should've known, Naruto didn't tell 'everything could happen', but pranking Uchiha wasn't the first thing on his mind when when boy had told him that. "Genjutsu and Sakura fall for it."
Sasuke looked at the tree behind him and saw his sensei reading a book, while leaning against the tree. He was better then Sakura and Natsumi. "I'm not the same as them."
"Say that after you have a bell." Kakashi knew that he wasn't going to have to do much, he sensed something when he walked into the clearing.
"I'm part of the Uchiha clan. The most power clan in this village," Sasuke said looking at him in the eye.
"So are the other two."
"They'll just get in my way."
"Nots not how you should talk about your clan head, now is it?" Kakashi asked. He had three clan heads, and he couldn't find any of them. "It might get you into trouble, more so since their your half-siblings."
"Clan head? I'm the clan's heir," Sasuke shouted.
"Yes, clan heir but not clan head," Kakashi told him. He knew that it was going to piss the boy off, hopefully long enough for the timer to ring. "Naruto's the clan head. His older then you by two years."