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Also, the numberings of the chapters are a bit off, so I'll continue with 8, sorry...
Chapter 8: The Team and 'The Battle of the Titans'
Naruto woke up, the next day, feeling happy. Why, you ask? Because, it's time for the team placements! He is finally going to be in action! He wanted to practice his skills in the real field. He changed from PJ's to his usual clothes (the ones described last chapter), and went to the table.
"Ohayo!" Naruto happily shouted. Kyuubi and Mikoto smiled.
"Ohayo, Naruto-sama.""Ohayo, Naruto." They replied respectively.
"You seem happy, today, Naruto." Mikoto said.
Naruto grinned. "Of course! It's time for the team placements...though, I'm pretty sure that I'm going to be in a one man team."
"Oh? What makes you so sure?" She asked.
"Well, I requested it." Naruto said, embarrassingly.
"Hontoni?" She asked again, "But what makes you so embarrassed?"
"W-well..." Naruto trailed off. He didn't want to hurt the Sandaime, but he asked for it so...
"Well, don't worry about it, Naruto." She said, assuringly. "I'm sure, Hokage-sama accepts it fully." She smiled. Naruto felt a slight tinge of pink on his cheeks.
Wh-what am I feeling? Embarrassment? Shyness? For what? Am I really... Naruto thought. He shook it off. "Of course, Mikoto-san. So, I'll see you guys! Ja ne!" He took his ramen and chopsticks and left.
Mikoto looked at Kyuubi and asked, "Did I just see a tinge of pink on his cheeks, Kyuubi-san?"
Kyuubi nodded her head. "Hai, it seems he is beginning to like you, Mikoto-san."
Mikoto smiled. "Hmm, I hope he doesn't hurt himself in the process."
"Oh? You are also beginning to like him, Mikoto-san."
Mikoto blushed. "W-well, in a sense, yes, but...then, again, I can't bring myself to say it. I didn't do anything for him, since his birth. I couldn't forgive myself for that..." She let a tear fall from her eye.
Kyuubi shook her head. "Forgive yourself, Mikoto-san. You can do it. This is not the famous Uchiha Mikoto that I have been hearing about from Kushina-san. Besides, I'm sure that Kushina-san and Minato-san will forgive you, too, along with Naruto-sama."
"Well...I just have to make it up to them." Mikoto replied, "Thank you, Kyuubi-san."
Kyuubi waved it off. "Anytime."
Naruto entered the classroom. He walked to where Hinata was, and sat down on the chair.
"Ohayo, Hinata!" Naruto said to her.
Hinata replied, "Ohayo, Naruto-kun."
"So, today's the day, huh?"
"Hai, the day of the team placements."
"Yes..." Naruto looked around. Sasuke was brooding, as usual, with his usual fangirls arguing about who will sit beside 'Sasuke-kun.' Shino was stoic, not that he did anything else. Shikamaru was dozing off, Chouji was eating from a chip bag, Kiba...well, let's just say that he was at the back part of the room, glaring at Naruto, while often looking at Hinata, with a calculative gaze...as if figuring out the perfect opportunity to strike. He turned back to Hinata. "Oh, well, good luck with your team, Hinata."
"Hai, you too, Naruto-kun." Hinata replied. Kiba glared even more, though no one noticed it.
Iruka entered the room. "Ohayo, mina." He took out a team roster. "Okay, I will announce the team placement."
"Team 1:..."
"Team 7: Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura, and Inuzuka Kiba. Your sensei will be Hatake Kakashi."
The team produced different results. Sasuke just 'hn'd, while Kiba groaned and banged his head on the table, Sakura squealed in delight at being with her 'Sasuke-kun.'
"Team 8: Aburame Shino, Hyuuga Hinata, and Hikashi Setsuna. Your sensei will be Yuuhi Kurenai."
The response? Shino nodded in confirmation, Hinata had her head down at not being on the same team as Naruto, but still happy that she was not with Kiba, and Setsuna just 'Hai'd.
"Team 9:..."
"Team 10, still in circulation: Nara Shikamaru, Akimichi Chouji, and Yamanaka Ino. Your sensei is Sarutobi Asuma."
Again, different results, Shikamaru muttered 'Troublesome' and went to sleep, Chouji just munched on his chips, Ino screeched and demanded to know why wasn't she put with her 'Sasuke-kun.'
"Don't ask me, Hokage-sama made the teams. Moving on,"
"Team 11:..."
"And that's-" Iruka was cut off by Hinata.
"Ano, Iruka-sensei, what about Naruto-kun?"
Kiba shouted, "Ha! The loser gets no team!" He laughed. Yes! He finally gets a chance at Hinata! And since he is a ninja, now, Naruto can't harm him.
Iruka shut them up. "Enough! Just because I didn't say his name doesn't meant that he will have no team." Iruka looked at the roster. "In fact, he's the only member." Iruka said, proudly. "Congratulations, Naruto, you are a one man team!"
That caused different reactions.
Fangirls: How could that loser get a one man team and not Sasuke-kun? It should be him, and not the loser!
Shikamaru: Troublesome...
Chouji: Wow...these chips taste good. *munch!*
Kiba: Impossible! The loser gets his own team? I may be happy that he's not with the same team as Hinata, but, HOW?
Shino: ...impressive. To be on a one man team, one must impress Hokage-sama...who are you really, Uzumaki Naruto?
Hinata: N-Naruto-kun? A one man team? G-good job! I may be sad that he's not on my team, but still I'm happy!
Sasuke: Masaka? That loser? In a one man team? He would get killed, first day on the job!
Sasuke spoke up. "Ne, Iruka-sensei, how come this loser gets his own team, when I didn't? An Uchiha? An elite?" He asked, arrogantly.
Naruto and his tenants shook their heads. Idiot, just because you are an elite doesn't mean that you should have your own team...it is earned and entrusted, baka.
"Well, Sasuke, Hokage-sama entrusted it to him." Iruka replied.
"Then, how come he entrusted it to a loser? The Uchiha clan are the best in everything, including manning his own team." Sasuke said back.
"YEAH!" The fangirls shouted, "Sasuke-kun should be on a one man team, not that clanless loser!"
The temperature dropped to the level of the Arctic as KI washed off of Naruto.
"Listen, and listen well, sorry excuses for kunoichis, just because I am a loser doesn't mean that I am clanless. In fact, how did I come into this world without a clan? Even the lowest case of losers and idiots come from a clan...so put this into mind, 'kunoichis.' If I ever hear you calling me 'clanless' or calling any of my clan members evil things, I swear, not even Kami can save you from my wrath. Understood?" Naruto said, in a deadly tone. The mere word 'listen' at the beginning made everyone have chills run up their spine. He didn't wait for an answer as his KI receded.
"Oh-kay, Naruto, no need to get violent, all of the sudden." Iruka said.
Naruto shrugged. "Hey...they deserved it..."
"WE WHAT?" The fangirls shouted. Naruto had enough.
"YOU HEARD ME! YOU DESERVED IT! YOU THOUGHT THAT EVERYTHING BELONGS TO THE UCHIHA, NOT EVEN THINKING ABOUT YOUR OWN NEEDS!" Naruto shouted back.
"ENOUGH!" Iruka shouted, shutting them all up. "Hokage-sama chose Naruto to have his own team. You have a problem? Ask him! Now, wait for your senseis." Iruka left the room. At that instant, everyone went to Naruto, either asking for advice on how to have a one man team, saying downing statements that include 'you will lose, baka'-not that he didn't mind it-and demanding to have his jutsu to make him into a one man team, the same as him.
Naruto wouldn't have any of it, and 'kawarimi'd with the farthest from the group and closest to the door, which was Setsuna (she is not interested in how he got a one man team), so he did it.
When the girls saw that it was Setsuna was there instead of Naruto, they fumed. He switched with her? They spread out...when the doors opened and in came the senseis. One by one, they picked them up...except Team 7.
"Argh! Where the hell's our sensei?" Kiba asked, as he scratched his head. They have been waiting for almost two hours, already.
"YEAH! SHOULDN'T HE PICK US UP? Right, Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked her 'crush.' Sasuke just 'hn'd.
Then, the door opened, all three hopefuls stood up. Well, their hope is great to have their sensei in here now. He had a face mask that covered half his face, a slanted hitai-ite that covered his left eye, a jounin suit, gravity-defying hair, and an orange book that he was reading into. Hatake Kakashi.
"Hm?" He looked around. "So, you guys Team 7?"
"OF COURSE! AND WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU? WE WERE WAITING FOR TWO HOURS STRAIGHT!" Sakura shouted. Everyone grasped their ears at her volume.
"Maa maa, sorry, I got lost on the road of life." He said, with an eye smile.
"LIAR!" She shouted back.
"Okay, okay, sheesh, meet me on the roof." He disappeared via shunshin.
"Great, he left us here to go to the roof ourselves." Kiba grumbled and went out the door, Sasuke following suit, and Sakura followed the latter, like a loyal dog.
Naruto closed the door to the mansion as he went to the living room.
"Tadaimaa!" He said to the inhabitants.
"Okairi (sp?), Naruto-sama/Naruto." Kyuubi and Mikoto said, respectively. Naruto lounged off at the sofa and sighed.
"Busy day, ladies." Naruto said, while sighing.
"Oh?" Mikoto asked.
"Yeah, they announced the teams..." Naruto told them everything that happened at the classroom. After that, Mikoto shook her head.
"Sasuke had always been arrogant...inherited from his father, it seems." Mikoto apologized.
"No need, Mikoto-san. It's not your fault that his father gave birth to a baka that thinks that everything belongs to him on a silver platter." Naruto said. Mikoto gave him an odd look. Usually, they say 'his mother blah blah blah' but no, he said 'his father.' He sure is interesting.
"Of course, arigatou, Naruto." Mikoto started to bow but found Ashbringer in front of her, halfway through the bow.
"Don't bow, Mikoto-san, you have nothing to apologize for nor bow for. Besides, your hair hides your beautiful face." Naruto said, as he sheathed Ashbringer. Mikoto raised her head to look at him. Interesting indeed. People always considered it an honor to have a person from any of the high clans to bow for you, but he rejected it...saying that...! B-beautiful face? Mikoto blushed, as the last two words clicked.
"N-no need for such kind words, Naruto-kun." She replied, then, five seconds later, what she put as suffix in his name clicked. Naruto looked reddish.
"Either way, don't bow, unless if you want people to think that they are superior." Naruto said, sagely, as his blush receded.
"Hai." Mikoto said. "Now, what shall you do now?"
Naruto smirked. "I will enter my mindscape and train some more." With that, he closed his eyes.
Naruto reopened his eyes and saw the sewer once more. He looked around for the inhabitants. When he can't find them around the cage, he walked around, checking every door. There!
Arthas and Alexandros were having a very quiet fight, in one room.
Kyuubi was meditating, in another.
Minato and Kushina...! Kushina was on the wall who had her shoulders held by Minato, and they were making out! Naruto fought the tendency to blush! OMG, a small speck of salive trailed down both their mouths, both were pink on the cheeks, and both seem to be enjoying it, if the moans from their mouths are an indication.
Must not look at otou-san and okaa-san at their private moment...leave...leave... Naruto slowly closed the door. It closed without a sound, but the moan from Kushina and Minato was lingering in his ears. I don't want to know, I don't want to know... He kept repeating in his head. Resigned to the fact that everyone is busy, he went back to the main room and trained.
A few hours later, the other occupants entered the main room. They looked surprised that Naruto is here.
"Ah! Sochi, okairi." Kushina greeted her son.
"Arigatou, okaa-san...so...how was it?" Naruto asked innocently. Arthas and Alexandros snickered, as Minato, Kushina and Kyuubi blushed.
"I-I don't know wh-what you mean..." Kushina said.
Naruto looked at them with a more innocent look. "I mean that little activity you and otou-san did...while, Kyuubi-chan was meditating and Arthas-ojii-san and Alexandros-ojiisan were training." The others did, what they just did a while ago, even more.
"Naruto...you do know that peeping is not allowed, right?" Minato asked.
Naruto nodded. "Of course, but I can't help it...I wanted someone to help me train..." Naruto put up the Puppy Dog Eyes. "Please, don't punish me...I was only looking around."
Kyuubi had to restrain glomping the boy and shout 'Kawaii.' Arthas and Alexandros chuckled. Kushina and Minato, on the other hand, just smiled and waved it off.
"No damage done, Naruto." Minato said. "After all, people can't help but know how to please the opposite gender." He finished with a smirk. Kushina and Kyuubi blushed harder. Arthas and Alexandros were laughing. Naruto, on the other hand, looked confused.
"Eh? What's so pleasing about a kiss, otou-san?" Naruto asked.
Minato sighed. "Oh, nothing, we'll tell you later...when you're older." Minato patted him on the head. "You're still too young to know." Minato smiled, while he and the others just released a breath of air. He hadn't found them doing that. Though, it was still embarrassing to be found making out, regardless of how more embarrassing it is to be caught doing that.
"Aw." Naruto pouted. Everyone laughed.
"Don't worry, Naruto, I believe you can wait." Minato said, before composing himself, "Well, you wanted someone to train you?"
Naruto brightened up. "Yeah!"
"Good, are you 100% healthy, fine, and in good health?" Minato asked.
"Huh? Well, yeah, except for that tiredness I got when I got here." Naruto replied.
"Good, because..." He turned to the others. They mumbled and all that, but Naruto caught nothing of what they said. After a few minutes of talking, they fixed themselves. "...because, to test your skill and ability, you will fight all of us." Minato smiled as Naruto widened his eyes.
"HELL YEAH!" Naruto shouted. He always wanted to fight everyone, at their fullest. Kushina, Minato, and Kyuubi stopped telling him to not curse.
Now, onto the more important matters, I believe it is time to train. Arthas took out an ordinary Death Knight sword.
Indeed, Arthas. Alexandros took out his own sword.
"Good luck, sochi." Kushina said as she took out a bunch of scrolls that said, 'Weapons.'
"Make us proud, Naruto." Minato took out two of his Hiraishin kunai.
"I hope you don't push yourself too hard, Naruto-sama." Kyuubi assumed a stance.
Naruto grinned. He held out both his hands to his side. Light flooded the area. When the light cleared, it showed Naruto holding Frostmourne in his right hand, and Ashbringer in his left. He also had a Hiraishin kunai in his mouth. Not to mention that he changed to the Lich King armor and accessed Kyuubi's chakra. "Let's dance!"
All of them rushed at once. They met halfway...
The 'Battle of the Titans' has begun.
Finished! Yes!
Oh, and the 'Battle of the Titans' thing? Well, it's sort of true.
Minato was considered the strongest Hokage, and had his prized Hiraishin and Rasengan. With those two, and the Namikaze clan's Kekkei Genkai, the Tekigan, he was known as the 'Konoha no Kiiroi Senkou.'
Kushina was known as the 'Aka Shi,' the Red Death...which was more like-able than 'Akai Chishio no Habanero,' the Red Hot-Blooded Habanero, but still powerful, nonetheless. She also had use of her hair, that turns to a chain that attacks or binds the enemy. That and along with the Uzugan, she is another strong ninja.
Kyuubi was, as always, the strongest of the 'Chakura no Bakemono,' the Chakra Monsters. Or otherwise known as the 'Dai Kyuu no Bijuu,' the great Nine Tailed Beasts.
Arthas was known as the 'Chosen One of the Lich King.' He was, also, known as the 'strongest and most number of kills' Lich King. If it is not so, just review and I'll look into it.
Alexandros was the known creator of Ashbringer and thus, an important being in existence. If not for him, Arthas would have destroyed everyone, leaving the world soulless and led by corpses.
Naruto was taught by everyone of the above, so there.
Hence, 'Battle of the Titans.' Too grandeur? Too bad?
Review and, as the famous Shade's quote, 'I'll look into it.'
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