Still don't own Naruto
Chapter 31: To be a Sensei
Chunin exams were fast approaching, being held in Konoha the following month for the first time since the invasion three years ago. This explained why Konohamaru and his team were currently upset so early in the morning.
"Stupid Ebisu sensei, thinks we aren't ready, he has to let me compete how else will I catch up to that rival of mine" Konohamaru said brooding about the fact that Naruto was a chunin only six months after graduating.
"He just doesn't think where ready yet, as a jonnin he would know best, it is disappointing though" Udon said trying to calm his over eager friend.
"Yes Konohamaru, you might think your ready but the chunin exams are supposed to be really dangerous and Ebisu sensei is just looking out for us" Moegi reasoned
"Yeah but he said he would enter us if we prove ourselves ready and he gave us a month to do it, so lets get to training, and I know the perfect sensei to help us" the young monkey said plotting a way into the exams, he would not give up until they were over. "Let's go guys, time to hunt us a sensei"
Udon and Mogei shrugged in confusion but followed after there fearless leader.
(Elsewhere in Konoha)
Kakashi had knocked on the door to Naruto's apartment so he could begin his training. But he had been shocked to find it completely empty, worried by this development the infamous copy ninja decided to head straight for the Hokage to find out if she knew where he was.
Tsunade was sitting in her office relaxing, but like so many other times in the past few weeks when ever the busty Hokage had time to relax she was interrupted, mostly due to the antics of her favorite blond chunin.
Just as the Hokage decided it was such a nice morning she would take a nap her door busted open and in came a worried looking Kakashi. "What the hell, Kakashi" she yelled not wanting to give away just how big a fright he gave her when he charged into the room.
"Hokage-sama Naruto is missing" he said urgently.
"WHAT!" this time her anger was real if the Akatsuki somehow took him last night she would tear the whole land of fire and any of her allies country's to pieces trying to find him.
"I was just at his apartment and its completely empty, it's like he packed up and left" Kakashi spoke quickly so they could set up a search party.
Tsunade relaxed immediately "Don't worry about it" she said offhandedly.
"What do you mean 'don't worry about it' Naruto is missing surely we should set up a search party at least" Kakashi said even more frantic now as it seemed to him that the Hokage didn't care that his sensei's son was missing.
"I said don't worry about it because he moved to a new place, here ill give you the address" she said before taking out some paper and handing it to Kakashi.
The copy ninja took the piece of paper and blushed in embarrassment. "Thank you Hokage-sama, and I'm sorry to disturb your nap" he said quickly before leaving the office before Tsunade could reply.
(Iwa)
In a large office a small man with a large off color nose several times too large for his face was fighting the very same foe that all kage must face, paperwork. "I have fought in three shinobi wars but I cant find a way to get rid of this, kami I bet that old monkey knew a way, every time I saw him or went to Konoha he was so damn relaxed" Oonoki sighed. The door opened suddenly and a young Girl with dark brown hair ran in holding a book.
"Kurotsuchi, what are you doing here I thought you were out on a mission" the Tsuchikage asked bewildered by his granddaughters sudden appearance.
"Sorry Ojiisan but we were ambushed by several unknown ninja, we couldn't make it to where the host for Yonbi was living in time and now he is missing, looks like there was a big fight though" the girl said panting.
"Hm don't worry about it he always does this to avoid work. I will have to set up a larger search party to find him again, ever since he ran off to live in the wild that damn jinchuuriki has been so hard to find, always moving around. Now tell me what is that book, it looks like a Bingo book from Oto" Oonoki said eying the book suspiciously.
"Yes it is, in the group that ambushed us there were Bingo books from every nation, Iwa included" Kurotsuchi said eagerly.
"Then why would you take the Oto one and not all the others as well, its not like we cant get them if we just ask anyway" the vertically challenged Tsuchikage said.
"Because of this grandfather" she said handing him the book "Page six, your not going to believe it"
Oonoki took the book and gave it a quick look over, it was brand new there latest release only a few days old. Slipping to page six he read the name on the top before blinking and going over it again. The book slowly fell from his fingers only to clatter onto the desk open on the page with a picture of a Blond with spiky hair and blue eyes looking exactly like the worst nightmare of many ninja in Iwa.
Slowly coming out of his shock he began to decipher the bingo book entry word for word.
Name: Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze
Age: 16
Status: Chunin of Konohagakure and Apprentice to Jiraiya of the Sannin
Reward: 5,000,000 Ryo
Wanted: Alive
Information on Bounty: Wanted by Otokage for questioning and is considered a danger to Otogakure,
Skill's: Ninjutsu – High, Genjutsu – Has no Tallent for Genjutsu due to large chakra capacity, Kenjutsu – Unknown, Fuinjutsu – Master level
Other Information: High Wind affinity and uses several S ranked Fuuton Jutsu. Use's Restriction seals to mask his true strength and speed. Known master of the Rasengan, a jutsu created by the Yondaime Hokage, he has mastered it to such an extent he has created his own variants of the jutsu. Kyuubi Jinchuuriki. Uses an unknown form of chakra that does not come from the Bijuu, finally his chakra levels are so high they can only be compared to Kisame Hoshigaki who has been called the 'Tailless Bijuu.
Rank: S – Approach with Caution.
Oonoki was shocked, he just couldn't take in the fact that there was another Namikaze "It just has to be his son... just look at the photo"
"I know, just like all of the picture's I have seen of him, I would say I was looking at the man himself" Kurotsuchi said.
"Looks like we are going to be sending some of our elite genin to Konoha for the chunin exams instead of the weak teams we usually send... I want to see this Namikaze in person" Oonoki said.
"Surely your not planing on harming him in his own village, we should wait until he is out on a mission then strike at him from the shadow's" Kurotsuchi said
"I don't plan on harming the boy at all, Minato was the reason we lost the war, not this boy. I want to see what type of person he is, if hes anything like his father it would be nothing short of suicide to make enemies out of him" Oonoki said calmly.
"You cant be serious, this is the son of the Yellow Flash we should send some shinobi and eliminate him and be done with his family for good" Kurotsuchi spat .
"And that is why you are still a chunin and not a jonnin. Think!, if we were to attempt an assassination on this boy we would be at war by the end of the week. Konoha also has four S ranked ninja with the sannin the Namikaze and that old war hawk Danzou, and they also have far more high A ranked than we do a war with Konoha would be like handing that slug queen a open invitation to destroy Iwa, and she has the help of Suna as well" the Tsuchikage said.
"I cant believe this, we have a chance to get revenge and you do nothing" she said in shock
"Revenge for what, we were in a war, and he fought, I met Minato and I can tell you he did not kill when he could avoid it, but he loved his village just as we do and would protect it with his life, that does not sound like a bad man, that sounds like an honorable man. Even if I hated him more than anything else I still respected him and I will not harm his son unless I am forced to" the Tsuchikage snapped.
Kurotsuchi just shook her head and stormed out of the room.
(Konoha)
Kakashi had just left Tsunade's office and was walking towards Naruto's new apartment when he saw a curious site. Walking in the opposite direction, head slumped and crying slightly with a note pad in one hand and a pen in the other was Jiraiya.
"Uh Jiraiya-sama, what happened" Kakashi asked wondering what could possibly upset one of the jolliest people he had ever met.
Jiraiya didn't even look up he just kept walking while sulking "I couldn't see anything" he cried out and just kept going, walking down the street aimlessly.
Kakashi just shrugged it off figuring they must have sealed off some of his favorite peeking holes at the hot springs.
When Kakashi arrived at Naruto's new place he had a quick look around "Strange, I cant hear anything coming from inside, could he have gone out already" Kakashi said to himself as he slowly went to check a window only to find he couldn't see inside 'huh whats this'
Deciding to find out for sure if he was home or not the copy ninja gave the door a quick knock then waited. When there was no response, he knocked again, still nothing. 'One more time then I give up' he thought and began to pound on the door loudly.
He waited several seconds and was just about to turn to leave when the door opened and there stood a very irritated Yugito wrapped in Naruto's jacket. "Can I help you" she said in a way that made it very clear that she wanted the copy ninja to leave very very soon before she got angry.
"Oh...uh... Hi Yugito-san I was not expecting to see you here" Kakashi said trying not to focus on the fact that despite Naruto's cloak she was wearing, she was in fact quite naked. And when that thought passed he couldn't help but feel a little proud of Naruto for getting such a hot girlfriend.
"And why not I live here" she said obviously irritated.
"I was not aware you were living with Naruto, I'm sorry for waking you but I was hoping that I could speak to Naruto about his training" Kakashi said calmly and friendly hoping to lessen her rage.
"No" she replied flatly
"What... why not?" the silver haired ninja asked
"He's Busy!" she said and shut the door in the stunned cyclops's face.
Kakashi just stood there stunned and was about to bang on the door again in anger when he realized what she meant and collapsed into a fit of uncontrolled giggles. 'well that would explain why Jiraiya was so upset as well seeing as you cant see into the apartment'
Several hour later Kakashi was standing in front of the memorial stone when he felt a chakra signature, he turned around just before Naruto arrived in the traditional leaf shunshin.
"Hey Kakashi sensei, uh sorry about that this morning if I had known it was you I would have come out. Yugi-chan just said it was Jiraiya sensei trying to peek again" Naruto confessed.
"Heh that's alright Naruto, I would have stayed in bed if as well. She is a good one Naruto, but next time could you answer the door the only thing that stopped me from fainting from blood loss was my mask stopped the bleeding" Kakashi joked.
"Stupid perverted sensei" he grumbled "So when are we going to get started cant wait to find out what my second affinity is, you need to have two to qualify for jonnin don't you" the blond asked curiously.
"Yes its a prerequisite to take the jonnin exams but you don't need to have control of both you just need to show you have sufficient control of your primary affinity so that a secondary has appeared. Now you know what this is of course" Kakashi said pulling out several familiar pieces of paper and handing one to Naruto.
"Yeah chakra paper how could I forget" Naruto said with a smile
"Good, now I want you to channel your chakra into the paper but consciously hold back the Fuuton elements, this will stop the Fuuton from overloading the chakra of your second element" Kakashi said
"So basically don't let any wind chakra into the paper so it wont just split" Naruto said receiving a small eye smile and nod from the elder ninja.
"Exactly you see if you don't restrict the flow of your primary element only that will show, the only time you get two elements on the same paper is if you have a active bloodline like Mokuton" the ninja with the gravity defying hair said.
Wasting no more time Naruto began to pump his chakra into the card while restricting the flow of Fuuton. For a moment nothing happened before the water started dampen before turning to a soggy mush on the ground. "So Suiton right... that's good its more defensively focused and will work well with Fuuton" Naruto surmised.
"That's right, now your first objective is to soak a leaf with Suiton chakra" Kakashi said
Naruto created close to a thousand clones and began attempting to soak the leaf, most failed miserably on there first attempt while the others managed to cut the leaf in half. The real Naruto who was watching with Kakashi just shook his head "Don't cut the leaf you idiots" he shouted
"We didn't mean too, this shit is hard" the culprits replied while the others looked on smugly, they may not have gotten it right but at least they were not being yelled at.
"Its alright, its a common occurrence when somebody is learning there second element to subconsciously use the chakra of there first, to help with Suiton imagine your chakra like it was a liquid trying to flow out of you and then contain the fluid into the shape that you want" Kakashi said.
"Hm so flow and contain for Suiton and sharply and finely for Fuuton. Well back to work you heard the man and the first one of you who get's it will be given a bowl of the ramen I get for lunch" Naruto said causing all the clones to give a determined shout of joy and get to work.
"Are you really going to share your lunch with a clone" Kakashi asked curiously.
"Well In my mind yeah, I have every intention to do just that, the thing is they always finish anything they learn at the same time so whenever I use something like this as a motivator they always end up fighting each other until there are no clones left for me to share with and I get it all to myself" Naruto said with a smile
The clones had been working for a few hours Naruto dispelling large chunks every so often before reforming them to get back to work, eventually just as Naruto said all the clones finished at the same time, began arguing, and subsequently began mass murdering each other as to which one of them would get to eat lunch much to the amusement of Kakashi and the real Naruto.
(Meanwhile with Yugito)
The kunoichi with the slitted pupils was walking through the streets, she had offered to do the shopping for the week while Naruto went to train with the copy ninja.
As she walked she could see that some of the women seemed less interested in glaring at her now that that Naruto wasn't around, that thought carried her until she saw someone she had suprisingly became good friends with three years ago.
"Hey Hinata-chan" she called out running to greet the still Hyuga.
"Oh hello Yugito-chan, when did you get back to the village" Hinata asked
"Oh just yesterday came back with Naruto-kun" the blond said
Hinata instantly became more interested "I-I didn't know Naruto-kun was back from his mission, I went to Tsunade-sama the day after he returned but she said he had already left on a mission and was unsure when he would be back" she said sadly.
"Oh so you haven't seen him yet, well if you weren't jealous before you soon will be" Yugito said suggestively causing Hinata to blush.
"I have heard he is very popular now, you are lucky to have someone as nice as him, but like I said before I haven't given up yet" Hinata said
"That's fair enough but I don't plan on screwing this up... He's mine and I will not let him get away. As for the other girls, well they can try to get him... but they wont. Did you know that every Hyuga branch member that is a single female that is anywhere near a respectable age for him has sent a letter to Tsunade asking for an arranged marriage" Yugito said, she had wondered about this, the Main house was not big only around twenty or thirty members and mostly old now and of the two young females in the main house Hinata liked Naruto, this seems normal enough until you factor in the 100 or so branch member females that also seemed to like him.
"N-n-n-n-no I d-didn't know that. Father allows the branch house members organize there own marriages and lets Hanabi and I choose as well as long as he approves" Hinata said.
"Huh so they all sent them in by themselves. Damn Tsunade-sama must have been right, Naruto is like the Hyuga whisperer" Yugito laughed before another thought crossed her mind. "Or maybe it is just they have all been peeking with those eyes of yours and know just how much of a man Naruto really is" Hinata blushed heavily at this she had not used her byakugan to check him out, she was to young back then to be thinking about that. But she had planned to now and Yugito just called her on it.
"It-it's not po-p-p-possible Naruto was only in the village for one d-day before he left again, and was nowhere n-near th-the Hyuga compound" the blue haired kunoichi stuttered out.
"Oh I just love how easy you are to fluster Hinata-chan... come on lets go get some lunch and you can tell me all about what its like on a team with the dog lecher"
"Kiba-kun is not that bad, he just is a little extreme at times" Hinata said and the pair began to walk towards a nearby dango hut that the pair knew sold both cinnamon buns and sushi.
(With Kakashi and Naruto)
The copy ninja and the sage were currently standing on top of a rivver just down from the waterfall that Jiraiya loves so much. Naruto looked down in interest as small fish swam around beneath him.
"Ok now for the hard part" Kakashi said in truth the copy ninja wasn't sure Naruto would find this that hard at all with all the clones he could make and having senjutsu take care of his fatigue the copy ninja could see him getting this down in a day.
"So what do I do stop the river with Suiton jutsu like I had to do to the waterfall with Fuuton" Naruto asked.
"No nothing that extreme, you need to create a pillar of water, you will know you have mastered it when it is about ten foot high and about a foot wide" he said and moved out of the way while Naruto filled the river for as far as he could see with clones.
Naruto got to work with his clones completely expelling them all every hour while using senjutsu to cope with the fatigue, and then repeating the process. It had been about three hours in when Naruto felt three chakra signatures approaching. 'hm wonder what they want'
Naruto left the river and walked in the direction of the chakra signatures then gave a small grin when he felt them trying to hide so they could ambush him.
"You know you guys really have gotten a lot better, three years ago you would have got me for sure" he called out
Konohamaru, Moegi and Udon came out of a tree with slight pouts on there faces. "Ah you found us, I would expect nothing less from my greatest rival" the young Sarutobi said
"Hey, you guys stopped using the exploding powder" Naruto said slightly disappointed. "so what do you guys want" he asked
"Um Boss we were wondering if you could train us so we could convince Ebisu sensei to let us into the chunin exams" Moegi said.
"Hmm I'm kinda busy, but if you can pass a test I guess I could train you, and I have the perfect test for you. Actually better yet"
Naruto stopped to walk to the edge of the clearing "Hey Kakashi sensei" he called out moments later the tall masked figure of Kakashi appeared in the clearing.
"Yo" he said giving the genin a wave "whats up Naruto, you need something?" he asked.
"Yeah I want you to test these genin with the bell test. Jiraiya sensei told me about the bell test that was invented by the Nidaime and I know it is the best way to judge how a team will work, I don't know how the test works but I know my father gave it to your team so you would" Naruto said
"Alright I will test them if you want but you saw what happened to the last team that passed my test" Kakashi said sorrowfully.
"Ah don't feel bad Kakashi your a great sensei and watching you explain this test will let me know how its done so I can use it when I get my own genin team one day" the blond said.
This raised Kakashi's spirits considerably and decided it was time to have some fun "alright the idea of this test is for each of you to get one of these bells" he said producing two bells from his back pocket.
"But Kakashi sensei there are only two bells" Moegi said.
"That's right only two of you will pass and be trained by me" Naruto said cutting off Kakashi who was thankful that the reason was believable.
"What but Boss that's not fair" Konohamaru yelled
"Life isn't fair... now if you will excuse me I have to go check on my clone's they start slacking off if there left unsupervised for long" the blond said before casually heading back to the river listening to Kakashi's explanation of how long they would have and the fact they needed to come at him with the intent to kill.
When Kakashi yelled "begin!" all three sprang away into the tree's 'well they have got there stealth to around high genin level, that's a plus now lets see who acts first' the silver haired jonnin thought before taking out his little orange book and looking away uninterestedly.
Suddenly a kunai came flying out of the tree's at the back of the lazy jonnin who tilted his head to the side and it flew past him. 'hm not bad but could have waited longer and used more than one kunai'.
Then Konohamaru jumped out of the tree behind the copy ninja and ran at Kakashi, sending a flurry of punches and kicks which were easily dodged but to the young Sarutobi's credit he did have to put his book down to do so.
Kakashi quickly ducked under a swing from Konohamaru before running through some hand signs "Nimpou: 1000 years of death" Kakashi called out before sending Konohamaru flying by what could only be described as the enema from hell, Kakashi's eyes widened slightly when the Konohamaru that was currently airborne and clutching his ass in severe pain and mental trauma puffed into smoke. 'Shadow clone!' he thought before turning to see the real Konohamaru charge at him from the side.
He was so close, just a finger tip away from the bells when Kakashi reacted and spun away from him leaving the young genin grabbing at air.
"So Naruto has already taught you some tricks hey" Kakashi said impressed 'his taijutsu could use some work but its not bad, he's reasonably fast and to be able to use the Kagebushin no jutsu, skill wise he could be a chunin if he got lucky but what about mentally'.
The jonnin jumped into a tree away from the charging genin. "your a bit slow you will never get a bell like that" Kakashi taunted his trap set.
"Oh yeah just you wait and see... Hah you dropped something" Konohamaru said running over to a bell that lay on the ground. Kakashi made a big deal of looking around his body to see what he missed, then the trap sprang and Konohamaru found himself hanging upside down tightly tied to a tree.
"Well it looks like you fell for my trap... see ya" and with that Kakashi jumped away and hid in a nearby tree to see if the others would help him moments later Udon came out of the bushes and began to cut his teammate down. 'looks like he figured it out, well better go test the other one while I'm not being attacked' Kakashi thought and jumped off to where he could sense Moegi.
The copy ninja found Moegi nearby watching Udon help Konohamaru out of his confines and decided to test her genjutsu.
Pink petals began falling around the genin and she began to feel drowsy 'so tired, I need to sleep, wait what are these petals... this is genjutsu' "Kai" she shouted and the petals disappeared turning she came face to face with the smiling face of Kakashi "Yo"
She screemed she couldn't help it, but reacting quickly she jumped back and ran up a tree and started peppering the lazy jonnin with kunai and shuriken. Drawing a kunai of his own Kakashi began to swat them out of the air until he began to realize that they were now coming from two angles.
Looking up he saw Udon in the tree sending his own shuriken at the copy ninja.'so that's two, now where is' but he didn't get to finish this thought. Konohamaru came out of the clearing on both sides, one of them was obviously a shadow clone, kunai in hand and lunged at Kakashi.
The copy ninja jumped over the on rushing genin and landed in a tree only to find he had just landed on a tripwire. Looking across he saw several exploding tags, what made matters worse were several looked like they were designed by Naruto.
BOOM! The explosion rocked the clearing and the three genin stopped there assault to look for there sensei, the tags while creating a large explosion were not powerful enough to kill. Arriving at where they had expected to see the unconscious body of Kakashi found only a log.
There eyes shot open when they felt a presence behind them "phew that was a close one, but it seems your time is up" the sharingan user said as they heard a buzzer.
Back in the clearing the three genin sat looking disappointed, they had failed and would now have to find some other way of getting strong enough to let Ebisu enter them in the chunin exams.
Naruto entered the clearing shortly after. "So how did they do, did they get the bells?" Naruto asked.
"No they failed to retrieve the bells" Kakashi stated
"So how do you rate there skills" the blond asked.
"Tough question, Konohamaru is the fighter in this group he is fast and has has passable Taijutsu, the shadow clone jutsu which I take it you taught him he uses exceptionally well for a genin but his mentally not chunin material and If I know Ebisu he wont let them enter unless he knows they are fully ready" Kakashi said firmly making Konohamaru sigh in frustration.
"Next we have Udon. Clearly the brains of the team was able to formulate a plan to get the bells and figured out that he needed help to do so, his problem is he showed no signs of wanting to come in close which means he prefers long range fighting yet his Aim needs to be improved and showed no signs of ninjutsu, I suggest he learn the Kunai and Shuriken Kagebushin's" he said and Udon gave a sad understanding nod.
"Finally we have Moegi, she was able to recognize a Chunin level genjutsu and release it, she was also quick to react if not a little loudly to a threat in close proximity, she had the same issues as Udon but instead of the long range jutsu I would recommend several genjutsu and maybe some medical ninjutsu as she is a support type ninja" Moegi didn't say anything either, she knew she often let Konohamaru and Udon do most of the work.
"So overall what do you think, can they make it" Naruto asked.
"They Pass!" Kakashi said and the tree genin looked up hopeful for the first time since the bell rang for the end of there test.
"Well you heard him Meet me here tomorrow at 3, I still have to finish my own training first" Naruto said getting whoops of joy from Konohamaru and large smiles from the others.
End Chapter!