Rika-chan24- Here is the Seventh Chapter! I hope all of you like it, It's one of my longest chapters so far. I tried my best with the fights with the sensei's. I myself think I did pretty good with them.
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Naruto knocked at the Hokage's office door, he needed answers. The third is one of the few people who could actually give him the answers he needed.
"Come in" Hiruzen Sarutobi's voice called from the other side.
Naruto opened the door, with a foxy grin. "Hey Jii, how have you been?" Naruto asked.
"I am doing well, thank you for asking, and how are you Naruto-kun?" the third asked the short blond boy.
"I am doing great Jii; I have been training a lot. Soon I will be able to get that awesome pointy hat of yours off your hands."
Hiruzen chuckled, "Maybe so Naruto, but what are you actually here for?"
"Of course he would figure it out, he is the hokage." Naruto thought as he rubbed the back of his head.
"Well you see Jii; I have been inviting all of my friends to train together on Sundays. We always have a fun time." Naruto began.
The third hokage nodded at Naruto to go on.
"Today our sensei's showed up out of the blue. They told us that you wanted to test how good of teamwork we all had together. I just don't understand. I have never heard of a group that large fighting together in one team." Naruto explained.
Sarutobi cleared his throat; he should have seen this coming. After all he was having his own concerns about Naruto.
"I understand your confusion Naruto; you see your sensei's didn't know why all of you were training together one day a week. Today you even had Gai's team come along. It was just uncommon. All four top genin teams of Konoha were training together." The third replied.
"Cut the crap Jii, that's not it at all. You are just trying to distract me. If you tell me what is really going on." Naruto gulped, the others were probably going to kill him later. "Then I will share some top-secret information of my own. " Naruto responded.
The third's eyebrow rose in interest, "What could Naruto actually know, that was top-secret." Sarutobi wondered. "All right Naruto, I will tell you."
"You probably want those Anbu gone and the privacy seals up then." Naruto replied before the third could start explaining anything.
Hiruzen flicked his wrist, signaling the hidden Anbu to leave the room. Once the Anbu were gone, the third made a hand sign, to activate the privacy seals.
"It seems we have a lot to talk about Naruto." The Hokage said as he looked the boy over.
"We sure do Jii, it might take a while." Naruto replied as leaned against the wall. This would definitely take a while.
(One week later)
The Konoha 12 all stood in training ground 7. All of them were waiting for their sensei's to show up. The twelve of them had trained all week. Sure they didn't make a huge improvement; it had only been a week.
Every single one of them could work with anyone on the team. Though it was quite obvious who worked better together.
"Alright guys, today is the day we fight together against our Sensei's. They will probably not go all out in less we make them. They will probably underestimate us at first. Do not let that effect you; with all of us working together, we all should do fine." Naruto explained to the others.
"We can definitely do it!" Kiba shouted, "We all trained for this" Akumaru barked in agreement with his partner.
"This day will be youthful! If we do not win then I will do 1000 push ups and then I will climb up and down the hokage monument with boulders strapped to my back. "Lee exclaimed.
"Did you ever figure out why they wanted to test the twelve of us as a team?" Sasuke turned to Naruto.
"I did find out why, and it's actually not a bad reason. We have been training all week, so I forgot to tell you. After out spar, I will tell all of you." Naruto replied.
Everyone nodded in understanding. They were all ready for this test of teamwork. They group had gone over a few strategies for their fight.
"Which strategy are we using for this?" Hinata asked shyly. She didn't have her shudder and more, though she still spoke quietly.
"Well I have to say our best bet it to take them out one by one. Have a few of us distract the other, while the rest take on sensei at a time, until there is only one left. They will probably be using their own teamwork as well." Shikamaru answered.
"I think Gai and Kakashi are going to be out toughest opponents, and I would say Kurenai is the weakest out of the four of them. Since most of us are more combat styled fighters, we can overpower her." Neji added.
"That's true, so who should be the ones that distracts?" Choji asked.
"Our best bet is to have Naruto as a detractor; he can make tons of clones." Shino commented. The others agreed, even Naruto.
"Ok and who else? We can't have all of our heavy hitters as distractors, but the distractors have to be strong enough to keep the other three distracted." Tenten said.
"Why don't we trade out with one another?" Sakura suggested.
"Good idea Sakura." Ino replied.
"Ok, here is how we are going to do it." Shikamaru began as he wrote in the dirt so that everyone would understand.
It was an hour later when their sensei's showed up, but they weren't alone. A few other shinobi must have heard about this test. Naruto recognized each of them. Anko, Genma, Izumo, Kotetsu, and even Iruka were with there. A few seconds later the third hokage appeared in the training grounds.
"What's the big deal, why are there more of you? We aren't fighting all of you are we? That's a little much don't you think? Jii, you never said anything about there being others in this test." Naruto said.
"We are just here to watch, gaki." Anko replied before anyone else could.
"There is a bet going around for this." Kotetsu added.
"The odds are that the twelve of you won't last an hour." Izumo responded.
"Iruka here is the only one who bet against it. He thinks the twelve of you will win." Genma said chewing as he chewed on his senbon.
"Thanks for believing in us Iruka-sensei, we will make you proud." Naruto replied.
"Yeah, the twelve of us are better than all of you think." Sasuke bragged.
"Don't think just because we are genin, that we will lose. It's twelve versus four, even if they are jounin." Neji stated.
"Let's just to this already." Ino interrupted.
The crowed that came to watch, walked to the edge of the training grounds along with the Hokage.
"Are the twelve of you ready for this?" Kurenai asked.
"We were born ready!" Kiba shouted.
"We won't give up," Hinata added.
All twelve of them slid into different taijutsu stances, almost simultaneously. The four jounin slid into their own stances.
"Phase one." Was all Naruto said, before making a thousand shadow clones, all of them started towards all four jounin at once, as soon as they appeared. The shadow clones covered the twelve genin.
"Wow, that's amazing. To be able to make that many shadow clones and still be able to move." Genma commented on the side lines.
The other four other shinobi nodded in agreement. The hokage chuckled; this was certainly going to be a good match.
The four jounin made quick work with the shadow clones. The clones were soon all dispelled. The moment the last one disappeared was when the genin made their move.
Naruto and Sasuke headed towards Asuma, for now they needed to distract him so that he couldn't go help Kurenai.
Neji and Kiba ran towards Gai, they were in charge of distracting him while the rest fight off Kurenai. One by one they would go down.
Tenten and Hinata headed towards Kakashi, all they had to do was distract him. The two of them worked together well, because they could easily combine their attacks.
Kurenai was immediately attacked by Lee who charged at her. He was fast; she could barely keep up with him. Kurenai moved away from him as fast as she could. Once she was far enough away Kurenai started to do hand signs to cast a low-level genjutsu on the six genin that were attacking her.
Just as it was working, it was dispelled by Sakura, who came running towards her with her fist raised high once she dispelled Kurenai's genjutsu. Kurenai went to block Sakura's attack with her own hand. As soon as Sakura's fist met her hand, pain shot up Kurenai's arm.
"Where the heck, did she learn to punch like that? I feel like I am fighting with Tsunade of the Sannin." Kurenai thought.
Kurenai jumped away from Sakura, when the girl when to punch her again. When she landed she felt herself freeze. "Shikamaru" Kurenai thought. Bug's began to swarm her person, all of them draining her chakra. The bugs retreated after a few moments. She was still caught in Shikamaru's shadow.
Ino called out to Kurenai. "I would give up if I were you. Choji will charge at you as soon as I take over your mind." Ino's hands were holding her mind swap jutsu. Kurenai sighed, she knew she couldn't win. Six verse one. She had also underestimated them at first.
"Alright, I give." Kurenai replied with a sigh.
Sakura walked over to her and knocked Kurenai out, with a hit to the neck. They had to, in case it was a trick.
(Meanwhile with Naruto and Sasuke)
Naruto and Sasuke were doing pretty well against Asuma. They were definitely distracting him. So far they had only fought him with taijutsu, and a few kunai and shuriken. Both Naruto and Sasuke must have surprised him, with how well they worked together. Asuma had started to have a hard time, at first.
"Sasuke combination 2," Naruto called to him.
Sasuke nodded his head and began doing hand signs along with Naruto.
"Water style: Water shock wave!" water began to appear out of thin air, and head towards Asuma's direction.
"Lightning release: Electromagnetic murder." A wave of electricity flowed out of Sasuke's hands and combined with Naruto's water jutsu.
Asuma's eyes widened, "Where the hell, did they learn that. I better fucking move. Who knows what it would do to me." Asuma quickly shunshined away from the combination attack. The jutsu hit a group of trees that were behind Asuma, before he shunshined. It knocked down three of them before it stopped.
(Meanwhile with Hinata and Tenten)
Hinata and Tenten were not doing as well as the others. Kakashi was a lot faster and knew to stay clear of Hinata. Tenten's weapon scrolls were helping a lot though. Tenten had been adding her lightning affinity into her weapons.
That shocked Kakashi the first few times it happened, though since Kakashi had a lightning affinity as well. He was easily figuring out ways to counter it. Hinata would shoot different water release techniques at him when Tenten distracted him. Though since Hinata only knew D-ranked ones and one C-ranked. It didn't slow Kakashi down that much.
Tenten hoped that they would be switching around soon, or otherwise the two of them were going to be out of the match.
(With Kiba and Neji)
Kiba and Neji had been fending off with Gai's fast movements for ten minutes now. So far they had a few lucky hits, but it wasn't slowing him down much. They couldn't even use a combination jutsu right now, Gai was just moving too fast. At least one of the jounin wasn't taking it too easy on them.
"Neji, do you think we will be switching soon?" Kiba asked him as they jumped away from Gai.
"I think so; I wish we got to fight Asuma or Kakashi though. I really wanted to try a few element attacks." Neji replied.
"We aren't done yet Neji; we haven't made it to phase two yet." Kiba replied.
"Phase two!" Ino yelled, a few seconds later.
"See what I mean Neji." Kiba replied with a grin.
Naruto spammed more clones to distract the three remaining jounin. The genin quickly regrouped, while Kakashi, Gai, and Asuma dealt with clones.
"This is so fun, Asuma's kind of tired now. From the looks of all of you, a lot of you are tired to. We can make it, there is only one phase left after this." Naruto said quickly.
"You all know what to do. Let's do this." Sasuke added.
Everyone was ready to take out Asuma. It shouldn't take too long, Asuma was already tired, but sadly so were some of genin.
The clones all disappeared once again. The three jounin noticed that Kurenai was mission. They had been so distracted by the other genin, that they didn't even noticed. Maybe they were going a little over board with fighting all twelve of them.
"Don't worry about Kurenai, she was knocked out. She is over here with us." Anko shouted at them when the clones disappeared.
"You guys are doing pretty well so far." Kakashi commented.
"I agree, quite surprising." Asuma added.
"They are so youthful! There flames of youth are strong!" Gai shouted.
There weren't any more time wasted with talking. Lee, Naruto and Sakura headed towards Gai this time. Lee was the fastest out of the twelve of them. So they should be able to distract Gai long enough.
Sasuke, Neji and Ino headed for Kakashi. Neji and Sasuke was a good combination as well. They could easily keep Kakashi distracted, and maybe even make him use his Sharingan. Ino's water release could combine with Neji's wind making the water become stronger. Ino's water worked well with both Neji and Sasuke.
Shikamaru, Choji, Kiba, Hinata, Tenten and Shino faced off against Asuma. Now the jounin wouldn't be underestimating any of them.
"I see how you took down Kurenai, you over powered her in numbers." Asuma commented as he watched all of them. He would have to be careful.
Choji came rolling towards him at a fast speed, a few minutes later. Choji was way faster now. Asuma barely got out-of-the-way in time. Just as he landed Kiba and Tenten engaged him in taijutsu. Asuma noticed that the two of them fought around each other easily. Who know they could team up so well, with only a week of practice?
All of a sudden the two of them jumped back, and he realized why when he felt the chakra presence of Hinata.
She started to strike at him, using gentle fist sort of style. Though was surprised him was that she was using it somewhat differently. Asuma blocked her as much as he could. She hit a few of his tenketsu. Asuma jumped away from her and started doing hand signs.
"Wind release: Great break through." Asuma called out the jutsu. The high-powered wind shot towards the genin.
"Fire style: Great Fireball Jutsu" Shikamaru's voice rang out, shooting out a fire-ball towards Asuma. The two jutsu's clashed, and blew up when the jutsu's met. "When did he learn that? I didn't even know Shikamaru's chakra nature was fire." Asuma thought.
"Shino do you still have those few bugs on him?" Shikamaru asked.
"Yes, his chakra should be depleting." Shino replied.
Shikamaru nodded his head in acknowledgement, and listened for Asuma. A few seconds later, a fire jutsu was sent at them from the smoke.
They all dodged out-of-the-way, just in time. The smoke cleared to show Asuma again. As soon as they could see him, Kiba, Choji and Shikamaru engaged him in another Taijutsu match. This fight was beginning to make them all tired. They had all been fighting for over a half hour now.
"Move" Hinata began to do hand signs.
"Water style: water fang Bullet." Hinata's water jutsu soared though the air, and towards Asuma. Kiba, Shikamaru and Choji jumped out-of-the-way, just as Hinata's jutsu was close enough.
Asuma didn't get out-of-the-way fast enough, and was pushed into a tree by the water. Asuma panted, they were really making him work. He couldn't go all out on them, this was only a test. His chakra was depleting too, because of Shino's bugs, and the few jutsu he had used so far.
"Alright, I give up. I say you pass, but you still have to fight with Gai and Kakashi. They are still going strong." Asuma said.
Shikamaru attacked his shadow to Asuma and had him walk all the way to the other shinobi that were watching the fight.
"They are some genin, aren't they?" Kurenai asked him.
"Yeah, but the battle shouldn't last much longer. Most of them are tired by now. Even though Naruto is known to have a lot of chakra, he must be running low soon."
"I don't know about that. Naruto has more chakra think Kakashi." The third hokage commented.
"You are all going to lose now; it has been almost an hour." Iruka spoke up.
Curses flew out of many mouths. "Who knew this generation was this strong." Kotetsu commented.
"This year's chunnin exams should be interesting." Izumo replied.
(With Naruto, Sakura and Lee)
With the combination of the three of them, they were giving Gai a hard time. Lee was fast as it is, and Naruto wasn't that much slower. Gai learned that Sakura can punch like Tsunade. So dodging her was a good thing.
"This is such a youthful match! I am so proud of everyone's flames of youth!" Gai shouted as blocked and attacked back.
"Thank you Gai-sensei! Your flames of youth are also glowing brightly!" Lee exclaimed.
"Why thank you Lee." Gai replied.
(With Sasuke, Neji and Ino)
Kakashi couldn't believe this, he was really tempted to use his Sharingan. The three of them knew how to combine their elements together. "I don't even understand how their teamwork is this good. Neji and Sasuke both are actually working together. This just doesn't add up. In one week they all get this good in teamwork." Kakashi thought as he jumped away from Neji, who was about to strike him.
Just as Kakashi landed he had to dodge a combination of water and lightning technique from Sasuke and Ino. "This was just crazy, who came up with this idea again. Oh right, the third." Kakashi thought. "The genin are really taking this match seriously, too."
"Asuma's out!"Kiba shouted to the others.
"Kage Bunshin" Naruto cried out a few seconds later. This time there was only about a 100 clones.
The genin all met up together once more. Naruto could easily tell that most of them were exhausted at this point.
Kakashi and Gai easily beat all the clones, once they all dispelled away Naruto called for a time out. Everyone was confused, even the genin. Why was Naruto calling a time out?
"Sakura, I want you to take Ino, Kiba, Hinata, Choji and Tenten out. All of you look tired. I will not letting any of you continue. We have been fighting for over two hours now. This isn't a real life situation, so it will be ok." Naruto explained.
"But Naruto I can still fight." Kiba replied. Akumaru barked in agreement, even though Akumaru was clearly tired.
"I know you can Kiba, but you won't be able to long. I don't want you to get hurt because you are too tired, to move. People take advantage of that." Naruto answered.
"I understand that you are concerned, but we will be fine." Tenten tried to argue.
"No, Sakura is going to take out and heal any wounds you have so far. All of you made me leaded so, I am asking you do it." Naruto replied.
"You are doing that thing again." Choji commented.
"Well, I am sorry. Kurenai and Asuma are out too, so it's not like the rest of us are fighting off all four of them."
"Ok, Naruto we will go." Ino spoke up.
"Good, we will see how far we can go with this fight." Naruto grinned.
Kakashi rubbed his eyes, he swore he had just seen his sensei. Naruto also sounded so much older, like he knew what it was like to lose those you love.
"Wow, that kid sure knows how to lead a group. I swear he looked so much older just a second ago." Anko commented.
"Yes, I have noticed that he does it quite often. Ever since the last week they all had in the academy. Every time I talk to him, he gets this weird look in his eyes, like he has already seen what war is like." Iruka explained as half of the genin, made their way over to them.
Naruto, Sasuke, Neji, Lee, Shikamaru, and Shino stood in the middle of the training grounds facing Kakashi and Gai.
"This is quite a combination." Kakashi commented, as he looked over the genin left.
"It's a really youthful combination! If I say so myself." Gai replied to Kakashi's comment.
"Two supposed rookie of the years, a genius Nara, a quite Aburame, and the supposed dead last's. What surprised me most, is that you have Naruto as the leader. I figured one of you geniuses would have taken that spot." Kakashi analyzed.
"Naruto has this weird 'power' as we call it." Neji began.
"It affects almost every single person he meets." Shikamaru added.
"No matter who you are, he for some reason makes people want to follow him" Shino stated.
"Sadly, Naruto likes to save anyone who has a sob story. His enemies, or even his best friend for almost killing him." Sasuke explained as his eyes grew darker, along with Neji's, Shikamaru's, and Shino's.
"Hey, quit moping. This is why people like me and Lee are around. Someone has to deal with the lot of you. Can we get to the fight now. No one wants to hear about me and my crazy life." Naruto replied, before everyone here started questioning them.
Everyone seemed to brighten up. Naruto sometimes has that effect to others.
All six of them slid into taijutsu stances, ready to face against Kakashi and Gai.
"Hmm, this is quite interesting." Kakashi mumbled before lifting his hitai-ate up showing his Sharingan.
"Troublesome" Shikamaru muttered to the others.
Kakashi and Gai came to them this time, both trading blows with the six genin. All six of them worked well around each other. They would switch between Kakashi and Gai. Making their moves almost unpredictable, Kakashi was lucky that none of them were faster than him.
Shino sent insects towards Kakashi and Gai, hoping to slow them down. Kakashi who seen them coming used a small fire jutsu to kill them. Naruto created twenty more shadow clones to help distract the two jounin while the genin jumped back.
Shikamaru, Sasuke, Naruto and Neji started familiar hand signs.
"Wind Style: Great Breakthrough." Naruto and Neji shouted in unison.
"Fire Style: Great fire-ball jutsu." Shikamaru and Sasuke called out.
The huge steam of fire raced towards Kakashi and Gai, who just kicked away Lee, Shino and the rest of the clones.
"Oh shit" was all Kakashi said as he and Gai used body replacement to get out of the away.
Once the huge fireball dissipated, the genin were breathing hard. Half the training grounds were wrecked. There were pieces of earth missing everywhere.
"Ok, Ok I think we should call it good. All of you pass the test." Kakashi said as he pushed his forehead protector down to cover his Sharingan.
Everyone who was at the edge of the training grounds walked over to them. Iruka was grinning the whole way. After all he had won the bet.
"That was just crazy, are you all sure your genin?" Izumo asked.
"Yes, we all are. We trained all week for this, in teamwork and a few jutsu." Sasuke replied.
"I really can't wait until….." Genma covered Kotetsu's mouth.
"Were not allowed to talk about you know what." Genma whispered.
"Sorry, I forgot." Kotetsu replied.
"Ok, Jii I think the twelve of us deserve a good rest, so we should have tomorrow off." Naruto told the hokage.
"I suppose that would be a good idea. Come speak with me tomorrow sometime Naruto-kun." The third hokage said, before leaving in a swirl of leaves.
"The rest of us, have duties to do. So we will see all of you around." Genma said as he grabbed hold of Kotetsu's and Izumo's shoulders before shunshin.
"Great fight Gaki's I have a date with some dango." Anko said before leaving as well.
"I think all of you did well. I was quite worried at first, when I found out about the test. I will see you guys soon, I hope." Iruka told them.
"Thank you Iruka-sensei." The group replied in unison. Iruka left a few minutes later, mumbling about grading and new academy students.
The twelve genin, turned to their sensei's who hadn't spoken.
"I am quite surprised how well you all worked together." Kurenai spoke first. "Your strategy worked really well."
"I agree, all twelve of you knew how the other worked." Asuma commented. "It normally takes years for teamwork like that."
"So, I do think Naruto is right. All of you need some rest, I am surprised, you are not dropping to the floor, Naruto." Kakashi said.
Naruto rubbed the back of his head. "I have a little chakra left, I should be ok until I get home to sleep like a log."
"All of you are so youthful, your flames of youth just burst out of you." Gai cried out.
"Thank you sensei!" Lee replied with a thumb up and a grin.
With that the sensei's disappeared in a swirl of leaves. Once they were gone, Naruto turned to the others.
"I will explain the test tomorrow, I am super tired right now. The rest of you don't look any better." Naruto explained.
"Ok, you want to me up around two?" Sakura asked.
"That sounds like a good time, it would be after lunch, and we could sleep in." Kiba replied.
Everyone agreed to meet the next day.
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