At 8 o'clock in the morning, Naruko and Shion walked to the place they were told to meet with their sensei yesterday. Naruto ran up behind them and called out to them. They walked at a leisurely pace towards the area. Upon arriving, Sasuke glared at them and Sakura looked pissed off.
"You're so late!" She screeched.
"Well, you see, Kakashi-sensei will always be late by at least 3 hours to everything, so we came 3 hours after the time we were told to meet. Plus, me, Shion, and Naruto did some team bonding last night, so we told him all about Kakashi's little quirks and such so he wouldn't be starving and tired when he got here." Naruko said.
"Why didn't you guys take me and Sasuke-kun to this team bonding?" Sakura accused.
"Well, you two had already run off, and we figured you wouldn't accept anyways, so, we just went by ourselves." Shion said.
Sakura was about to make another accusation, but Kakashi appeared.
"Yo!" He said.
"You're late!" Sakura screamed at him.
He laughed and put his arm behind his head. "Sorry, I sort of-"
"Got lost on the road of life?" Naruko suggested, grinning.
Kakashi sighed. "Let me guess, you guys just arrived and did everything I told you not to do, like eat breakfast, right?"
"Yep." Naruko, Shion, and Naruto said.
"Damn it." He said. "Well, regardless, we'll be doing the test now." He said as he held out three bells. He continued on to explain the bell test he was giving them. "Now, Begin!" He yelled.
Sasuke jumped up into a tree while Sakura hid under some bushes. Naruko and Shion grabbed Naruto before he could do anything and jumped into a tree with him.
"Shion-chan, Naruko-chan, what are you doing?" He whispered to them.
"Look, there are three bells. We all work together, we each get a bell. This is about teamwork, not about individual strength. So what do you say? Me and Shion always work together, you wanna join in too?" Naruko asked.
"Sure! Let's get those bells and show Kakashi-sensei how awesome we are!" Naruko said.
"Okay, we need a strategy. Shion? You were always a better strategist than me, what do you think we should do?" Naruko asked.
"Okay, so here's the plan..." Shion began.
Kakashi stood in the middle of the field and started reading from his book, or at least he pretended to, it always pissed off his students. He found Sasuke and Sakura's chakra signatures, but yet he couldn't find the three blondes on his team chakra signatures. He knew that there were techniques for hiding chakra signatures, but none of them should know how to do that. Then again, Naruko was the adopted daughter of the master spy, Jiraiya, so he most likely taught his daughter and his 'niece' some stuff.
He felt Sasuke start rushing towards him, alone.
'Figures he thinks he's so good he doesn't need any help.' Kakashi thought. He blocked the kicks and punches Sasuke started aiming at him with one hand, face still in his book. Sasuke was getting pissed off, he did some hand signs and blew a fire ball at Kakashi.
The said man then went into the ground, traveled to just underneath Sasuke, and pulled him down so that only his head was sticking out of the ground. HE then went out of the room and in front of Sasuke.
Sasuke glared at the man present before him.
Kakashi suddenly felt the chakra signatures of his three blonde students appear only several meters behind him. He turned and Naruto was flying straight for him, aiming his foot for Kakashi's face. Kakashi caught his foot and pushed the boy back. While he was doing this, he put away his book, knowing he would need both hands.
Shion had a kunai in hand and was aiming for Kakashi's side. He pushed her wrist down, but she saw his other hand was preoccupied with Naruto. She did a flip and brought her foot down on his shoulder, the heels on her shoes painfully hitting him in the neck.
Kakashi threw the two away. They got up and charged at him again. He was about to interact with him when he got the surprise of Naruko's chakra signature appearing right behind him.
Just then, he felt the ground under him smash into millions of pieces, every piece sticking up this way and that way. Kakashi had turned his head to see Naruko's fist make contact with the ground and see what had happened as he jumped pretty far back. Noticing Shion and Naruto had just been a distraction and were now a safe distance away from the huge mass of unearthed land.
"Well, pretty good, but you still didn't manage to get me." Kakashi said.
"Didn't I?" Naruko said.
Just then, he felt something wrap around his ankle, he looked down and his eyes widened. A tree limb came out of the ground and quickly wrapped around his right leg. At the same time, one had come out and wrapped around his left leg, while two other grabbed his wrists and pulled him towards the ground.
"Mokuton!" He exclaimed.
Naruko had been walking towards him as the tree limbs over took him. She was now in front of him.
"Yep! Turns out that my great-granddaddy's ability was actually bloodline that had yet to stabilize until me, pretty cool huh?" Naruko said.
She reached forward and took the three bells from around his waist. Naruto and Shion ran forward to Naruko.
"Here ya go guys! Couldn't have done this without ya!" Naruko said, throwing them each a bell.
"Looks like we passed the test Kakashi-sensei!" Shion said.
Kakashi sighed. What was he supposed to do? Even though they hadn't worked with all of his team. Leaving out Sasuke and Sakura. They had still worked with each other, quite well for people who were new with each other concerning Naruto. Plus, they had managed to capture and subdue him, a Jounin! They were more than worthy of passing. But where did that leave Sasuke and Sakura? He couldn't fail the team, since three of them had passed with flying colors, while the other two failed. Maybe he could use this as an excuse to the Hokage. After all, teams were supposed to only be 4 man cells anyways. Maybe he could just get the Hokage to put off Sasuke and Sakura to the next year, since they didn't pass.
Naruko undid the limbs that were around Kakashi and pulled the back into the ground.
Meanwhile, Sasuke had been getting out of the hole he was in. Naruko's cracking of the ground had caused him to be able to get out. He ran towards the others and Sakura emerged from the shadows.
Sasuke pointed at Naruko.
"Hey, you! You will teach me how to do that thing where you cracked the ground and how you were able to create trees!" He said.
"Oh? And why should I?" Naruko asked.
"Because! I'm the last Uchiha. I am taught anything I want to learn!" He said smugly, while smirking.
"You idiot! Even if I somehow developed the patience it takes to teach a jackass like you, which I doubt I ever could, you couldn't ever learn them. My Mokuton ability, which makes me able to create trees out of nothing, is my bloodline. No one in this world other than the Shodaime Hokage, my granddad, and me have ever possessed this bloodline, therefore, like I can't use the Sharingan or Byakugan, you can't use the Mokuton. As for my super strength, since you're a guy, you don't have the chakra control it takes to use that technique. It requires absolutely perfect chakra control, something that you lack." Naruko said.
"Don't insult Sasuke-kun like that!" Sakura screeched.
"Wow, you're an idiot. Naruko-chan wasn't insulting him, she was stating the truth, no guy could ever learn that technique, they simply can't develop the chakra control needed. And Naruko and Auntie, or Lady Tsunade as most call her, are the only ones to ever have good enough chakra control to do it." Shion said.
"Okay all of you, settles down!" Kakashi yelled. "Now, I must speak to Hokage-sama about something, you will wait here. I'll be right back." he shunshined away.
The teens got into a glaring match with each other. Sasuke was going to flip out if he had to go back to the academy. He was the Uchiha! The superior one of the group! Yet somehow, these two girls and the dead-last had managed to do something he couldn't! Sakura was angry at Naruko for making fun of her Sasuke-kun. Naruko was annoyed by the Uchiha's arrogance and Sakura's focusing on her obsession with the Uchiha rather than focusing on something that had value. Shion was glaring at Sakura since she thought the girl was stupid. Naruto was glaring at Sasuke because he had tried to force his new friend (Naruko) into something.
Naruko was the one who broke the silence after a few minutes. "Well, we might as well do something useful right now. Ne, Shion, wanna train in chakra control?" She asked. Shion nodded her head, she had great chakra control, but was trying to get higher reserves of chakra, even though she already had as much chakra as a low Jounin or High Chuunin from all of her training.
"Chakra Control?" Naruto asked.
"Yeah, want us to teach you something? It's always good to keep practicing chakra control." Naruko said.
"Sure!"" Naruto said.
Naruko, Shion, and Naruto went to the other side of the field. Sasuke crossed his arms and pretended to look the other way, while he would just look at the hand signs they were making and learn them and practice the technique himself. Sakura still glared at Naruko.
Over on the other side of the clearing, Shion and Naruko explained to Naruto what he would have to do, they would be climbing trees. Though they told him not to get discouraged, since it took awhile to learn how to walk up trees.
Naruko and Shion started focusing chakra in their feet and just calmly walking up and down the tree. Naruto focused the chakra in his feet and made it a few steps up while running, but then fell back. He continued to try, determined to learn this.
Sasuke and Sakura were gaping. They were walking up trees! They didn't make any hand signs while doing it, so now Sasuke couldn't even learn it since he didn't know what to do. Sakura just saw Sasuke looking angrily at the group, so she did the same.
An hour later, Naruto had managed to make it all the way up the tree, since Naruko and Shion had dropped him a lot of hints on how to do it. Sasuke and Sakura had just been standing in their spots the whole time. Shion and Naruko had just practiced the whole time, building up their chakra reserves. Kakashi appeared before them.
"Alright, Hokage-sama and I have decided on something. Since Naruto, Naruko, and Shion completed the test, and that is the majority of the team, this team will pass. Congratulations." Kakashi said.
"YEAH!" Sakura and Naruto yelled. Shion and Naruko smiled. Sasuke didn't have any reaction at all.
"You may go about your own business now, we'll meet here at six o'clock tomorrow." Kakashi said, then he shunshined away.
Naruko and Shion walked home, leaving the rest of the group. On the way back to her family compound, Naruko looked up to the Hokage faces, 4 of which were her family. She smiled and looked forward again, the leaf village was starting to grow on her, especially when she thought about how the people she had always wanted to meet, her great grandparents, her grand uncle and aunt, grand cousins, her uncle and her dad, had walked on the very streets she walked on. She looked up at the sky and had a thought.
'One day, I'm going to figure out a jutsu that will bring them all back. Every single one of them.' She thought.
She and Shion continued on, just quietly enjoying each others presence as they always did.
