Naruto woke up groggily to a blaring alarm clock, he rolled over and slammed his hand on the top of it. He sighed when the alarm stopped and he sat up on his bed.
"It's time to meet my team and for everyone else to the new and slightly improved Naruto." He said as he hopped out of bed and went to his closet.
He picked out a fishnet shirt that had no sleeves and an orange trimmed black hoodie with the Uzumaki swirl displayed on the back. He put on some black pants and taped them around his ankles. He strapped on his kunai pouch around his right thigh and then he put one some black ninja sandals and was out the door.
He stopped by the training ground which he had come to learn the name is Training Ground Three. He created 200 clones and nodded to them as they got to work.
He had learned after the first day that his basics needed touching up as they weren't up to par. Instead of focusing his training in the elemental exercises, he had only 25 clones focus on that. While most of the clones focused on the academy taijutsu, shurikenjutsu, and the three academy jutsus.
The real Naruto and 15 more clones worked on his new powers. He could create a 'ROOM' that went to 20 meters in diameter. He tested the Kyuubi's theory about being able to cut without damagimg by attacking a clone. The clone never dispersed even after Naruto had cut through an arm or a leg.
He also learned that while inside the 'room', he could switch places with anything much like a substitution but much faster and it didn't drain chakra.
His other powers were harder to test but easier to use. All he had to was essential strike anywhere while channeling the power of the fruit and big things would happen. He destroyed the training ground and half of his clone army when he he struck the air on accident. He was confused when he saw a glowing blue crack in the air but soon grew panicked as the ground started to shake. Soon enough, the whole ground was torn up and the clones on it were dispelled. Naruto was knocked out by the all memory feedback in such a short time but got up quick enough to make an escape before anyone found out.
He found out he could channel the Gura Gura's power into a blade as well when sitting at home studying his sealing. He had a kunai in hand and channeled his power into it and saw a glowing white sphere surrounding the blade of the kunai. He then took out a shuriken and did the same and the shuriken became a glowing sphere of white energy. He didn't see the practically of an earthquake shuriken because he couldn't throw it like he needed to.
Naruto arrived at the classroom and opened the door and everyone just ignored him until Shikamaru noticed him.
"Naruto? What are you doing here?" He asked.
Naruto smirked and pointed his thumb to his forehead protector, "I graduated." He said.
Shikamaru just shrugged and put his head muttering about troublesome blondes. Naruto walked over and took a seat by Sasuke Uchiha, the Rookie of the Year. He either didn't notice him sit down or didn't care.
Naruto pulled out a scroll on sealing and started to study it. He had to look up when he heard something from his right and saw pink hair. Sakura Haruno, Kunoichi of the Year if he wasn't mistaken.
He noticed her mouth moving and decided to pay attention, "Hmm, did you say something?" He said.
Sakura's eyebrow twitched, "I said I want to sit by Sasuke-kun! Move it!" She screeched.
Naruto took a thinking pose, "Hm. No." He said simply.
Sakura looked livid, "Narutoooo!" She said as she swung her fist to strike him in the head. Naruto caught her punch to everyone's shock. "You should really get your temper in check, Haruno." He said in a nonchalant tone. He squeezed her fist and made her wince.
The door opened and Iruka came in with a couple of bandages here and there. He looked up and saw Sakura holding her hand with tears at the edge of her eyes and glaring daggers at Naruto. 'Weird.' He thought.
"Okay, class today you are officially shinobi and I won't be your instructor. I will give you your team assignments. Your senseis should be here within the hour to pick you up. So Team 1..." (Every team is the same)
"But sensei, I want to be on a team with Sasuke-kun! Why does forehead get to be on his team?!" Ino whined.
"If you have a problem with your team placement then take it up with the Third."
Ino promptly sat down and slumped her shoulders, defeated. "Good. Now if no one else has anything to say, your senseis will be here to pick you up later. I hope you the best in your ninja careers." Iruka said as he left the room.
-Two Hours Later-
Every other team had left except the members of Team 7. Sasuke and Sakura were very annoyed at their senseis tardiness. Naruto was indifferent about it as he was trying to work on increasing his ROOM size and how long he could keep it up until he got tired.
He created a ROOM but kept it as small as he could so that it wrapped around his hand. He could maintain ROOM like this and increase his control. He slowly made it grow to it's full size and back a couple times. He then tried to break the limit he set on the diameter of his ROOM and tried to go for 30 meters. His breath became labored as he struggled to push past the 25 meter mark.
Finally, he relented and stopped and started to intake some air. 'I can only get to 25 meters. Better than 20 but I'll wait and see if the clones made any progress.' He thought.
Soon, the door slid open and the saw a man wearing a standard Konoha jounin attire with a black face mask. He had white gravity defying hair and his headbamd tilted over his left eye.
His right eye was half-lidded and lazily looking them over, "My first impression of you is you're boring. Meet me on the roof in 5 minutes." He said as he closed the door and walked away.
-On The Roof-
Kakashi looked over his team, 'The girl looks like she would be useless in the field. Staring at Sasuke like she is probably means she's a fangirl. How was she Kunoichi of the Year?' He mentally asked himself.
He turned his gaze to Naruto, 'Hmm, that's strange. He changed his looks and got rid of the orange..mostly. He looks surprisingly calm and serious. A farcry from how he was just a couple weeks ago. This is the deadlast, supposedly.'
He switched his sights to the last member of his team, "The Last Uchiha. Rookie of the Year and hailed as a prodigy among prodigies. I don't think I would go that far. Not better than Itachi or myself. I will keep you line going, Obito.'
"So how about we introduce ourselves? Your names, like, dislikes, hobbies and dreams for the future. That kind of thing." He said
Sakura raised her hand, "How about you go first, sensei? Give us an example." She said.
Naruto gave her a side glance and sweatdropped, 'How hard was that to understand?' He mentally asked.
Kakashi sighed, "Fine. I'll go first. My name is Kakashi Hatake. I like some things, I dislike some things, I have hobbies, and dreams for the future..hmm."
All the genin promptly sweatdropped, 'All we got was his name.'
"Okay, turn pinkie." He finished as he pointed towards Sakura. Sakura's eyebrow twitched at the name, "My name is Sakura Haruno. I like.." she steals a look at Sasuke and squeals, "my hobbies are.." she steals another look at Sasuke and squeals again, "My dream is.." she looks to Sasuke with a blush on her face and squeals again.
'What a fangirl. I can't believe I used to like her.' Naruto mentally shook his head.
"Now you, Whiskers." Kakashi pointed to Naruto.
"My name is Naruto Uzumaki. I like ramen, training, and helping people in need. I dislike the three minutes it takes to make ramen, people who judge before getting to know someone and when I can't figure something out. My dream is to become Hokage one day." Naruto said.
Kakashi nodded, "Alright. You dark and brooding." He got a glare from the boy.
"My name is Sasuke Uchiha. I don't like alot of things and I hate alot of things. My dream, no, more like my ambition is to kill a certain man." He said darkly towards the end.
Kakashi nodded, 'Hmm. So much hatred for Itachi. I hope I can steer him from this path.' He turned his sight on his blonde student, 'And what happened to you? You're not that hyperactive ball of sunshine I used to watch over.'
"Okay. Now that introductions are out of the way. Let's get to the real graduation test."
Sakura raised her hand, "But sensei we passed the graduation test."
Kakashi eye-smiled, "That was to see if you have capability to be ninja. Basically to weed out the cannon fodder. This is the real test but there's only a 66% chance of passing." He said as the genins eyes widened a bit.
"Well meet me at Training Ground 3 tomorrow at 6 in the morning. Oh. Don't eat breakfast or you'll throw up. Ja ne." He said as he disappeared in a poof of smoke.
Naruto stood up and walked away. He needed to check the progress of his clones.
-Break-
Naruto got to the training ground with a headache and he knew why. When he arrived he saw the training ground was in shambles again and saw a clone rubbing it's head sheepishly with a grin.
Naruto sighed and dispelled all the remaining clones which further increased his headache, "Damn. Didn't think that there were that many left." He said as he held his throbbing head.
He immediately slapped his forehead as he went through the clones memories. The clone didn't have access to the Devil Fruit powers and they figured it out before he did. They just sat around all day, lazy bastards.
"Ugh, I need some sleep." And he walked of grumbling about stupid memory backlash and lazy ass clones.
-Next Morning-
Naruto walked to the training ground and saw Sakura fawning over Sasuke and Sasuke trying his best to ignore her. Naruto just jumped up to a tree above them and started to work on his ROOM.
Three hours later, Kakashi had finally shown up with a backpack on. Sakura and Sasuke stood up and walked to him with annoyed expressions, "Your late!" Sakura shrieked.
Kakashi just eye-smiled, "Sorry I got lost on the road of life." Both genin in front of him sweatdropped, 'What a terrible lie.' They both thought.
"Where is Naruto?" Kakashi asked as he lazily gazed upon them.
"I'm right here, sensei." Naruto said as he jumped down from the tree branch he was on and landed next to Sakura.
'I didn't even sense him.' Kakashi thought.
'How did the dobe get the drop on me. Must have been a fluke.' Sasuke thought as he mentally nodded with his conclusion.
"Naruto-baka! Stop trying to be cool like Sasuke-kun!" The pinkette of the group shrieked making everyone wince. Naruto just ignored her, which made her angry and she went strike him over the head but was stopped again when her grabbed her fist again.
"Do you not remember what happened yesterday, Haruno? I can break your hand to make you remember from now on." He said in a chilling voice but he had a smile on his face.
Sakura quickly shook her head and Naruto nodded, "Good." He said as he released her fist and she quickly hid on the other side Sasuke.
Kakashi clapped his hands, "Okay, now that we have everyone here, let's get started." Kakashi took off the backpack and pulled out a pair of silver bells.
"Your test is to take these two bells from me." He said as he tied the bells to his pants waist.
Sakura raised her and Kakashi nodded towards her, "Sensei, there are only two bells."
Kakashi eye smiled again, "Very observant, Sakura. Yes, there are only two bells which means one of you are going back to the academy." The cyclops said as their eyes widened but Naruto's narrowed slightly afterwards. 'Something isn't right.'
"The person who doesn't get a bell also gets to watch the other two eat these two bentos I brought while tied up to that post." Everyone's stomach abruptly growled. 'This bastard came late on purpose and made us not eat breakfast.'
'I told you to eat but noooo.' The fox in his gut said. Naruto just mentally ignored the fox.
Kakashi then pulled out a clock and set the time. "You have until noon to get one of the bells."
"You were late yet you brought a clock." Naruto deadpanned. Kakashi looked sheepish and rubbed his head. He cleared his throat and got as serious as he could be against three genin, not very.
"Remember come at me with the intent to kill or you won't be able to get a bell. The test starts now!" As he finished Sasuke and Sakura jumped away and hid while Naruto just stood there.
Kakashi pulled a orange book and started to read, "You're not very bright are you?"
"Quite the contrary, I know something is wrong with this test. I don't know what but I'm going to figure it out." Naruto said as he turned around and walked away.
"Hm. That's a first. There's something definitely something different about him." He shrugged and put it on the back of his mind.
After about 15 minutes, Kakashi sighed and walked off, "I guess I better go find them."
-With Naruto-
Naruto was looking for his teammates when he heard a shrill scream coming from the distance, "He must have gotten to Sakura." He continued to walk until he heard sounds of conflict up ahead.
He hid behind a tree and peered over and saw Sasuke and Kakashi in the middle of a taijutsu bout. Kakashi was easily outmatching Sasuke but that was to be expected he was a jounin.
"Wait! That's it! There's no way we could beat him one on one. We have to work together." He said as it dawned on him.
"Lesson 2: Ninjutsu." Kakashi said as he watch Sasuke flip through handseals at a quick pace. "Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu." Sasuke spit a constant stream of flames towards Kakashi. The flames engulfed him and Sasuke stopped blowing the flames.
Instead of seeing a burnt cyclops, they saw a pile of burnt pieces of wood. 'Substitution." They both thought as they started to look around for Kakashi. Naruto's eyes widened, 'I can see the whole field but I can't see Kakashi. That means he can only be one place.' He thought as he took off towards his dark haired teammate.
'He's to the right or the left. He's not above me so that only leaves..' Sasuke was thinking before the ground broke apart. "Below." He heard someone finish his thought. He looked over and saw Naruto with his fist covered with a white orb and he struck the ground.
The ground broke apart into different chunks and Sasuke had to jump away so not to be crushed. He landed next to Naruto and looked at his new teammate.
"Why did you do that?" Sasuke asked.
"I saw what Kakashi was planning. I know you don't know earth release so there wasn't much you could do."
"So you were watching the whole time?"
"No just when you guys where finishing up the taijutsu."
Sasuke seemed to accept the answer as he nodded. They looked over to where they heard shifting rocks and saw Kakashi pushing some rubble off of him. He dusted himself off and looked at them with the same lazy eye.
"What does it take for this guy to get serious?!" Yelled Naruto.
'What was that attack? It wasn't a justu and I'm sure a kid like him couldn't have that much raw physical strength. He was the dead last so where did he get that attack? It was almost like Tsunade's super strength.' Kakashi thought in analysis.
"Sasuke," he said getting the boy's attention. "We need to regroup with Sakura. We can't beat him one on one and we all a much better shot if we work together."
Sasuke seemed to think about. "Why should I join? I was doing fine on my own."
Naruto shook his head, "Yes but he was taking it easy on you. He was about to finish the spar until I came in."
Sasuke nodded after thinking more, "Okay lead the way, dobe."
"Just follow me, teme." He said as he jumped towards the scream her heard earlier with Sasuke in tow.
They missed Kakashi eye smiling, "Seems like their getting it." He walked after them.
-Sakura's Location-
Naruto saw a flash of pink and red and flipped down to the clearing with Sasuke. They walked over to Sakura and Naruto nudged her with his foot.
"She's under a genjutsu." Sasuke said annoyed. 'Maybe it was a mistake to come get her.'
Naruto put a hand on her shoulder and flared some chakra and she woke up slowly.
She looked to Naruto and was angry but grew worried after she remembered what happened, "Naruto! Our sensei killed Sasuke-kun!"
"He's over there." He deadpanned as he pointed to an annoyed looking Sasuke.
Sakura rushed over and looked at him to check for any injuries. "It was a genjutsu, Sakura. I'm fine. What do we do now, dobe?"
"Well now we set a trap." He said as he eyed his hand with a blue ring in it.
-Later-
"There's only 30 minutes left. Might as well give them a last chance." Kakashi said to himself as he chased Sasuke through the trees.
Sasuke landed in the middle of a clearing and stood his ground as Sakura and Naruto joined him at the sides.
"Oh, working together? You know only two of you can get a bell."
The genin said nothing but went into motion. Naruto and Sasuke ran at Kakashi while Sakura pulled out a kunai. They wanted to overwhelm him with numbers as a shadow clone or two popped up ever so often but it wasn't working.
They jumped back from the exchange slightly winded but Naruto much more so. "It's finished, Kakashi-sensei." Naruto said with a smile.
"Is it? I still have the bells." He said as he looked down towards the bells and saw a kunai hanging there. He looked up to see Sakura jingling the bells in her hand.
"H-How?"
All the genin smirked, "You'll never know sensei." They said cheekily.
Kakashi got himself under control and eyesmiled, "Very well but who will you give the other bell to Sakura?" He asked.
She tore one of the bells off and handed it Sasuke, "Sasuke-kun, of course." She answered happily.
Kakashi and Naruto sighed, "Then you all fail." He said as Sakura and Sasuke's smiled faded and turned to shock.
-Later-
We find Naruto and Sasuke sitting by a tied up Sakura.
"You have failed to find the real reason of the test. I thought you two had it but apparently not. You guys will get a second chance after lunch. You two are not to feed her anything." He said as he disappeared in a poof of smoke.
Naruto looked down at his bento and opened it. He took some in his chopsticks and held it to Sakura's mouth. "Here, eat." He said.
"B-But he said not to feed me."
"It doesn't matter. The test was about teamwork. We can't work as a team if one of our members is starving." Naruto said he gestured for her to eat again. Sasuke looked at his bento and decided to follow Naruto's lead and held some food in front if Sakura.
'Sasuke-kun does care about me!' She mentally squealed. She took from Sasuke's chopsticks.
A poof of smoke appeared in front of them and showed Kakashi glaring down at them and pointing at them, "YOU...pass." he said with an eye smile.
"What?!" Sakura yelled.
"Yup. Naruto was right. The lesson was teamwork. I was going to pass you before you decided to be selfish and put you and your desires before you team, Sakura. That is why you are tied to the post. If this was life or death mission, would you trade Naruto's life for Sasuke's?" He asked.
Sakura got wide eyes and looked at both of her teammates, "I..umm." She struggled to come up with an answer.
"You don't need to answer. The Village Hidden in the Leaves has won all the wars by looking out for their comrades and working together as a team." Kakashi said.
"Remember this. Those who break the rules are trash but those who abandon their comrades are worse than trash." He said and he was amused by the looks that crossed faces.
"Now that we are an official team, meet me here tomorrow for training and then we can start missions. Ja ne." He said as he disappeared in a poof of smoke.
Naruto nodded to Sasuke and Sakura and left the area. Sasuke just turned and left, leaving Sakura in the middle of the training ground tied to the post, "Hey! What about me?!" She screeched into the sky.
-At Naruto's Apartment-
As soon as Naruto got into his apartment he fell onto his bed with a groan. 'I pushed it with the ROOM today.'
-Flashback-
"So what do we do?" Sasuke asked.
"I can pull off an advanced substitution jutsu. I'll switch the bells with a kunai that Sakura pulls out of her ouch while Sasuke and I distract Kakashi." Naruto pitched his plan.
"Why should I listen to you? Sasuke-kun could come up with something way better. Right?" Sakura asked looking to her crush.
"How can you do this.. advanced jutsu?" Sasuke said ignoring the girl.
"It's basically like using the substitution but with items. So if I needed a sword on the other side of the battlefield then I could swap for a kunai." Naruto explained.
'Technically, not the truth but close enough. I don't want them knowing about my fruits. I already slipped up using the Gura Gura earlier.'
"Alright. We'll go with your plan, Naruto." Sasuke said.
"Good. Let's go." Naruto said.
-Flashback End-
'I tried to tell you not to push you ROOM area.' The Kyuubi said.
"I should have listened. I'm not ready for that, yet. I need to work my body more even with your little boost the most I can get is 30 meters and that's pushing it." Naruto said.
'Yeah but for now you need rest. Train more tomorrow.'
-End-
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