"Talking"
"SHOUTING/SCREAMING/YELLING"
'Thoughts'
"Jutsu"
"Tailed Beast Talking"
'Tailed Beast Thinking'
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A/N: Special thanks to those who reacted, keep them coming and I will keep on publishing. I sincerely apologized for any grammatical errors found in the previous chapter.
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Chapter 2: Teamwork
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6:04 AM
|Training Grounds 7|
Atsushi arrived at the designated training ground, and found out that his team had already arrived even Naruto, and the three of them looked sleepy. Naruto was busy yawning his mouth off, Hinata was trying to suppress an unlady-like yawn and Sasuke also yawned although he tried to hide it.
"Hey guys." He greeted.
"Hey Sushi, How was your sleep?" Naruto replied then asked before letting out another yawn.
"Incomplete if you must ask." Atsushi turned to face Sasuke. "Good Morning, Sasuke."
"Hn."
'How predictable.' Atsushi rolled his eyes. "And Good Morning to you too Hinata."
"Good… Morning… Atsushi-san." The blue-haired Hyuga yawned in between.
"So any sign of Kakashi-sensei?" the Kishida asked as he looked around for any sign of the silver-haired Cyclops, but found none.
"No, he's not here yet. And I have a hunch that he's not going to be here anytime soon." Naruto answered.
All four Genin yawned simultaneously before Naruto faced the Kishida, "So any info on how Kakashi-sensei's tests are?" he asked.
"Very little, only one guy was actually helpful…" he paused, letting out a great yawn, "the others just smiled mischievously once I informed them who our sensei was." The green-haired answered.
"So the only guy, what was his advice?"
"To stick together."
"… Is that seriously it?"
"Yep"
"Well that's surprisingly helpful."
The Kishida chuckled at the blonde's sarcastic words then joined the rest to wait for their Sensei.
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A few hours later
Morning finally arrived and the members of Team 7 were all seated against the bark of a tree, fast asleep. Starting from the right was Sasuke who seemed to be brooding in his sleep, then Hinata who had a content smile on her face as she snuggled up to her favorite blonde, said blonde was drooling on his best friend's shoulder who despite being asleep seemed disturbed by it.
"Rise and shine Team." Kakashi announced as he appeared in a whirl of leaves, waking up the Genin. "It's time for-"
"YOU'RE LATE!"
"...your test." He slowly added.
"You!" Naruto began, rising to his feet. "Why are you so late? It's been, uh-"
"Four and a half hours." Atsushi supplied wiping a bit of drool from his shoulder.
"Four and a half hours." Naruto finished. "Thanks Atsushi, Sensei what were you doing?"
"Well I… a black cat crossed my path so I had to take the long way around." Kakashi said with an eye smile.
"…"
"…"
"…"
"Yeah right Kakashi-sensei." Said the pissed off blonde.
"Ok, we will start the test." He held up three bells and attached them to his belt. "The objective of this test is to take these bells from me, any way you can."
"B-but sensei, t-there is only three bells."
"How observant Hinata. The truth is that only three of you will be staying on at the end of this test, the other will return to the academy…"
"WHAT!" The four Genin shouted.
"You guys should stop doing that, anyway you have until noon to retrieve the bells so come at me with the intent to kill or you won't get any. You are free to use any of your Ninja tactics, clan techniques and weapons" He pulled out an orange book and began reading.
Team 7 stood there for a moment, confused.
"So do we just…" Naruto glanced at the others who just shrugged.
"Well alright then." Naruto made a hand seal, "Get ready-"
"Naruto hold up." Atsushi interrupted, "What is Sensei reading?" The Kishida asked pointing at the book in Kakashi's hand.
It was Icha Icha Paradise, the number one book for literature perverts from all of the Elemental Countries.
… Wow…
"Kakashi-sensei how could you?" Hinata gasped.
"Huh?" Was the Jonin's intelligent reply.
"How dared you read a perverted book in front of your own students?" Atsushi asked in disgust.
The silver-haired shrugged "It's pretty interesting." The Cyclops answered before he continued reading his perverted book.
"That's sick man." Naruto added his two cents while Sasuke had doubts about their Sensei's rank.
"It's not and besides there isn't anything you kids can DO that will really surprise me." Okay that sounded like an insult to all the Genin present, even sweet Hinata glared furiously at him.
Naruto gritted his teeth before making his would be signature hand seal, "Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Suddenly there were a whole lot of Orange in the training ground.
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Kakashi gazed from his book to see about fifty orange beings running towards him. 'Well looks like someone is desperate.' He brought his hand down into his pouch and drew a kunai. As the sea of orange swarmed towards him, he began a rhythmic stabbing motion with the knife while still reading.
The first dozen popped because of being too close, the next fourteen came in with flying punches and kicks but were dispelled due to Kakashi slashing their feet and hands. A few attempted sneak attacks but were swept off their feet.
The last dozens surrounded him and jumped in at once from different directions. He increased his stab a bit faster, the shouting and puffs stopped so he holstered the kunai and looked around finding no one. "Didn't I make myself clear? You're welcome to attack me now."
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Naruto was shocked as he witnessed the clone massacre. "Ok… He's a bit stronger than Mizuki-teme." He acknowledged.
"Well he's a Jonin, what were you expecting?" Atsushi responded, eyes focused on the Jonin who had resumed his reading.
"Do you really think one of us will be sent back to the academy?" Hinata asked worriedly. 'Father will be very disappointed if I'm sent back.' She thought to herself.
"No, he's just messing with us... Right?" Naruto wasn't sure.
"I'm not sure, four man cells aren't common but we need a plan, any ideas?" Atsushi asked after realizing that their sensei wouldn't pull off any sudden moves.
They sat in silence and began to think.
"W-Well what if we attack together, he wouldn't be able to focus on e-everyone at once." Hinata suggested after a few minutes.
"Great idea Hinata," The girl blushed at the praise, "but we can't execute it without teme?" Naruto pointed out, Atsushi and Hinata now realized that their raven-haired teammate was not with them.
"There he is." Hinata pointed, the boys followed her finger and landed on their teammate who was sprinting towards Kakashi with impressive speeds while weaving some hand seals which the Icha Icha lover recognized.
'He can do that Justu?'
"Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu!" Sasuke answered the unasked question by firing a massive fireball which Kakashi dodged by rolling out of the way. The Uchiha landed in front of the Cyclops in a perfect Taijutsu stance, launching a fist to the Jonin's head which the latter blocked. Seeing that Kakashi was preoccupied, Atsushi grabbed a handful of kunai and shuriken and threw them at the Jonin. The weapons nailed into their target, impaling Kakashi who had a shocked expression on his face before disappearing in a puff of smoke being replaced with a log.
"Damn it." Atsushi muttered after witnessing the Jonin pulling off a substitution jutsu.
"Nice try but not good enough."
The three Genin all jumped at the voice of their sensei behind them. Atsushi quickly reacted with one of his Lightning attacks.
"Lightning Style: Laser Gun!"
Kakashi vanished in another puff of smoke, the blue beam of lightning disintegrating a substituted log into a pile of splinters.
"Where is he?"
"Hinata, can you find him?"
"Hai, Byakugan!" Veins began to sprout around Hinata's eyes as she activated her Kekkei Genkai. Thanks to this, she was now able to see everywhere around her in a near 360 degree rotation. Notwithstanding that she could only see about 50 meters. "He's in the forest."
"Then that's where we're heading to, you coming Sasuk-" Atsushi paused when he realized that their raven-haired teammate was already gone.
"That teme!" Naruto growled before calming down a bit and assuming the leadership position, "Hinata please lead the way."
"H-hai Naruto-kun."
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|Training Ground 7 Forest|
"Where is the rest of the team?" Kakashi asked as he walked out of the tree he was hiding behind, still reading his orange book.
"They will only hold me back." Sasuke answered in a deadpanned tone.
"Really? How?" Kakashi asked surprised but didn't receive a reply.
The two shared a stare down between each other, waiting for the other to make the move. Eventually, the wait would be too much for one of them to handle, and one of them would break apart and attack first.
That person just so happened to be Sasuke.
The last Uchiha released some Shuriken in Kakashi's direction, who easily hopped to the side to avoid them as the sound of the Shuriken whizzing by rang through his left ear and out his right.
Sasuke then took out a kunai knife and threw it towards a rope, slicing it into two, unleashing the surprise he had in store for the Jonin.
'A trap!' Kakashi realized once he saw the Uchiha's aim, once again diving to the side to avoid multiple kunai knives which were launched at him thanks to the rope being cut. Kakashi skidded to a halt, where Sasuke was right behind him, reading a kick. "What?!"
A loud sound could be heard through the forest as Kakashi blocked Sasuke's front kick. With superb reaction time, Kakashi grasped Sasuke's foot then threw a hand in front of his face in order to stop a cross from Sasuke, who then followed up with a roundhouse kick to the top of Kakashi's head which the Jonin also blocked it with his arm.
Despite this Sasuke smirked.
'Now is my chance.' He thought while throwing out his remaining hand, aiming to grab at least one of the bells. Unfortunately for the Uchiha, Kakashi had let go and jerked his body backwards, making it so Sasuke's middle finger barely grazed the bell.
'What a guy. I didn't even get time to read Icha Icha Paradise.' Kakashi said to himself quite impressed, as no Genin had been able to fight him without him holding back to the point where he restrained himself with no sight and one arm because of reading Icha Icha Paradise.
"Well, I'll admit, you are certainly different from the other three." Kakashi complimented, for what it was worth. Apparently it meant nothing to Sasuke, who formed multiple hand seals ending with the horse seal, and then tiger as he brought his hands to his face while taking a deep breath.
"Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu!" The Uchiha called.
"What? A Genin shouldn't be able to do a technique like that, it requires too much chakra!" Kakashi exclaimed out of surprise before mentally adding, 'Then again he is the rookie of the year.'
Sasuke exhaled and out of his mouth came multiple mini balls of fire which later converged scorching the area Kakashi was standing on and the Jonin with it. Or so Sasuke thought, as when the fire dissipated, Kakashi was no longer there. Even if he got hit, the fire should leave a scorched Kakashi behind, so where was he?
"Left? Right? Front? Behind? Above? Where is he?" Sasuke said as he looked from left to right, in front of him, behind him, and finally above, but the one place he didn't look was…
"Beneath you!" Out of the ground, Kakashi's hand busted out and grabbed Sasuke by the ankle, causing the Uchiha to gasp out of shock.
"Earth Style: Headhunter/Double Decapitation Jutsu!" [1]
The next thing Sasuke knew, his mouth was wide open, a scream flying out for the world to hear as the lone survivor of the Uchiha clan massacre was dragged down into the ground.
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Later
"DAMN IT! WHERE COULD THOSE TWO BE?" Naruto shouted loudly, causing both Hinata and Atsushi to flinch slightly as they ran throughout the forest, looking for Kakashi.
"Wait a minute, Naruto-kun, Atsushi-san I can see Sasuke in the ground." Hinata spoke up suddenly, and with no stutter at that.
Eventually, they managed to make it to Sasuke, with Naruto immediately laughing his ass off after seeing his rival's situation.
"Something funny, dobe?" Sasuke asked, irritated that the dead last was laughing at him, the last Uchiha.
"Yeah, you." Naruto grinned, happy that for once that the great Sasuke Uchiha wasn't winning at something.
"Well, can you help me out here?" Sasuke asked growing more annoyed as time went on.
"Hmm... how about… NO!" The blonde replied before letting out another chuckle.
"Naruto, enough." Naruto promptly stopped at his friend's order, satisfied Atsushi walked over to his buried teammate.
"Ok Sasuke we will help you out, but on one condition" The Kishida offered.
"Hmph… what is?"
"You help us defeat Kakashi-sensei." The boy answered with a smile.
"Why will I do that?" Sasuke glared. They were wasting time here! If things kept going on like this, he would never be able to get a bell, and then he would be held back, all because of these three losers!
"In order to pass this test as suggested by Hinata we have to work together, if we don't work together you can't pass and if you can't pass you can't have your revenge!" Atsushi responded as he glared back. Naruto and Hinata now saw what their teammate was doing.
They all knew how important Sasuke's revenge was to him and being sent back to the academy due to his inability to cooperate wouldn't help him on his quest of vengeance, so the Uchiha did what any reasonable person would have done at the time.
"I will help." He whispered but it was loud enough for Atsushi to hear.
"Glad you found the light, now let's get you out, Naruto you know what to do?"
"Shadow Clone Jutsu!" A shadow clone appeared besides the blonde and immediately substituted itself with Sasuke freeing him.
"Now that is settled Hinata please locate Kakashi-sensei." The Hyuga nodded and activated her dojutsu.
"He's back at the clearing and is reading his book." Hinata said.
"Well then what are we waiting for, let's go kick some butt." Naruto said but was stopped by Sasuke.
"We need a plan dobe unless you end up in a hole." Sasuke pointed at Naruto's clone which surprisingly hadn't dispelled after performing the substitution.
"He's right, we can't rush into a Jonin battle without a plan so here is what we are going to do." The Genin huddled up as Atsushi laid out his plan.
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|Training ground 7 clearing|
'Those four have been gone for quite a long time' Kakashi thought as he glanced at the clock he placed on the tree stump. '40 more minutes to go, looks like they haven't embraced the true meaning of the test.'
"Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Fourteen Narutos jumped out from the tree line and charged towards Kakashi.
'This kid never learns.' Thought Kakashi as he grab a kunai and began stabbing, some of the clones rolled out of the way while some were unlucky. One of the clones threw a punch aiming for Kakashi's head, the Jonin blocked the attack with his left arm before jamming the clone with his knee dispelling it, before he slashed out at three clones with his kunai, one of the three ducked then struck three points in the outstretched arm prompting the Jonin to drop the kunai as he retracted his arm in shock.
'Was that a gentle fist strike?' Kakashi thought.
The original Naruto seeing the distraction as an opportunity punched the Cyclops in the ribs, however Kakashi was already gone in a band of smoke. "What?"
"A ninja must never allow the enemy to get behind him." Kakashi said as he appeared behind Naruto.
Hinata thanks to her Byakugan saw that Kakashi had his hands in the form of a tiger seal. Dropping the henge and immediately rushing towards the two in an attempt to save her comrade, she managed to yell out loud, "Run, Naruto-kun! He's planning to use a high-level ninjutsu on you!"
"Too late." Kakashi said, prompting Naruto to shoot his head behind him, glancing right at Kakashi, but as the latter had said, it was too late. Kakashi's viewable eye lit with a white light as the Cyclops prepared his attack, "Hidden Leaf Village Secret Finger Jutsu!"
"AHH!" Naruto screamed, fearing for the worst, however, Naruto's face contorted into one of embarrassment. Their sensei wasn't using a high-level ninjutsu at all. Hinata froze in her tracks as she saw what Kakashi was truly doing. He was STICKING HIS FINGERS UP NARUTO'S ASS!
"A Thousand Years of D-"
BOOM!
Kakashi was interrupted by a lightning bolt to the side sending the Jonin towards a tree with his back hugging the bark of said tree. Naruto looked relieved as he and Hinata turned to where the bolt originated from and there stood Atsushi who had his palm open, arm stretched and a clearly disgusted expression on his face.
"You really are a pervert, Sasuke now!" he called.
On hearing the command, Kakashi looked up groaning in pain as Sasuke leapt into air weaving some hand seals.
"Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu!" Sasuke spewed an enormous fireball at the silver haired. Reacting quickly Kakashi leapt out of the way, only for Hinata to appear before him in her Gentle Fist stance.
"The Gentle Fist eh? Let's see what the prestigious Hyuga clan can do." Kakashi said as he sank into a taijutsu stance. Strangely all the other males backed off as the two took center stage.
Hinata opened the pouch strapped to her leg and pulled out some shuriken, throwing them at Kakashi, each one of them aiming for one of his body parts. She took the initiative and rushed at the Jonin, but not before infusing her palms with some chakra to do some internal damage to Kakashi.
The Jonin merely sidestepped the oncoming shuriken, something which Hinata had expected him to do, now that he was open to her attack; Hinata aimed a strike for Kakashi's arm.
The masked man leaned back slightly and quickly grasped Hinata's hand, recovering quickly from the sudden shock of now being unable to move that hand, Hinata rotated her body about 90 degrees so she was facing Kakashi, preparing to strike him in the chest with the other.
However, before the Jyuken (Gentle Fist) strike could even connect, Kakashi had lifted Hinata off her feet and thrown her over his back.
The next thing Hinata knew, her hair was whipping through the air as if wind was blowing against her constantly. And she then found herself letting out a small cry of pain as her back collided with the cruel ground. Atsushi and Sasuke charged towards the Jonin while Naruto helped Hinata.
The lightning user called out "Raiken!" and coated his fist in lightning chakra which he aimed a haymaker at the Jonin's head, Kakashi ducked then sent a punch to the Kishida's gut unfortunately Sasuke interfered kicking him in the side. Kakashi used a quick substitution jutsu to get out of that pickle.
'They are finally working together, that's good but only 10 minutes left.' Kakashi thought glancing at the two.
"Well what are you waiting for? Time's almost up." The Jonin spoke up.
The Kishida and Uchiha stared at each other then shared a nod and began weaving hand seals.
"Lightning Style: Laser Gun!" Sparks cracked around Atsushi's right arm before a blue beam of electricity shot out from his clenched fist.
"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" Sasuke announced spewing out a fireball; the two attacks collided with one another and merged forming a highly concentrated beam of explosive energy which rocketed off heading towards the Jonin with incredible speed.
'What the…?' Kakashi mentally panicked after witnessing this, he knew he couldn't dodge such an attack and began weaving hand seals superfast.
"Earth Style: Subterranean Voyage!" He called before sinking into the earth as the beam impacted the very earth resulting in a mini nuclear explosion obliterating everything within a 10 ft radius.
Kakashi resurfaced some feet way and stared at the crater made by the combined attack. 'That was at least an A rank collaboration Jutsu, these guys aren't holding back.'
"Hey Kakashi-sensei," Naruto called gaining the Jonin's attention, "Eat this!" He flung a Demon Windmill Shuriken at the silver-haired which impaled a tree as the said silver-haired dodged it quite easily.
"Naruto, you seriously need to work on your element of surprise." Kakashi remarked dryly currently unimpressed with the Uzumaki.
"I wasn't aiming to surprise you." Naruto smirked which confused Kakashi as to why he was smiling until he heard a puffing sound behind him then. [2]
"I'm in range…"Hinata began unleashing her barrage of gentle fist strikes on Kakashi's exposed back catching him by surprise.
"2 Palms!"
"4 Palms!"
"8 Palms!"
"16 Palms!"
"Eight Trigrams: 32 Palms!"
Kakashi slumped to the ground due to 32 of his 361 chakra points being closed; Hinata grabbed the bells from his belt and joined the others. The effects of the 32 palms would wear off in a while or so, lucky Kakashi could still talk but couldn't mold chakra so definitely he had lost.
"Well done guys, now the hard part who goes back to the Academy?" Kakashi asked as he struggled to stand up, 'If that was the 32 palms, I wouldn't want to encounter the 64, 128 and kami forbid the 356 palms.'
"Nice try sensei but…" Hinata
"…we figured out the real purpose of the test..." Naruto
"…which was our ability to work together to retrieve the bells…" Sasuke
"…within the allocated time range." Atsushi added tossing the bells back to Kakashi just as the timer rang.
RIIIIIIINNNNNNNNGGGGGGGG
It was noon and Team 7 had passed the test, Kakashi couldn't be any prouder of his team. They were the first to discover the true meaning behind the test and they were honestly the first group of Genin to actually make him shiver in fear with that combination Jutsu.
"Ok guys just remember," Kakashi began as he stood up the effects of the 32 palms now gone, "In the ninja world, those who break the rules are scum, that's true. But, those who abandon even one of their comrades... are worse than scum." Kakashi quoted the words of his late friend Obito Uchiha, the one who changed his outlook on the rules of Shinobi forever.
Tears began to flow from Naruto's eyes as he admitted that, "He's... He's kind of cool."
Kakashi gave a thumb up to the new official team.
"The training ends here! All of you pass! Team 7 will start doing missions starting tomorrow!" And with that he disappeared in a swirl of leaves leaving behind four lunch bentos. The four Genin's stomachs growled before dug into their various bentos, engaging in some conversations about the test.
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Some minutes later
|Kishida Residence|
"Oji-san! I'm home and I brought a friend." Atsushi called out, walking into the living room with Naruto right behind him. The Uzumaki was on the edge in case things went south.
"Ah, good to see you Atsushi-kun." A young man said, also walking into the living room before enveloping the young Kishida in a hug. While this was going on, Naruto took in the senior's appearance; he seemed to be in his mid-twenties, approximately 180 cm in height, same hair and skin tone as Atsushi with similar eyes. His attire consisted of a black and blue combat shirt with matching pants, black arm guards and gloves, standard blue ninja sandals, two ninja pouches fixed on his back-waist and a signature triangle design on back of his shirt which Atsushi identified as the mark of his clan. He just looked like an older and more mature version of Atsushi.
"And who is your friend here?" The man asked taking a look at Naruto.
"Naruto, meet Areku-san, my Oji-san. Oji-san, meet Naruto." Atsushi introduced.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Areku-niisan." Naruto said, bowing surprising the Kishida.
Areku just laughed, "No need for formalities, Areku is fine. So why are you two here? Didn't you guys have a test today?" He asked.
"Yeah, we aced the test but Naruto here needs some help sharpening his ninja skills and stuff." Atsushi explained. The mentioned elbowed him in the side for that.
"Oh, I see." He focused on the blond, "So Naruto-kun, how about a quick spar?" He asked leading the two to the Kishida personal dojo.
"Right now?" The Uzumaki asked surprised.
"Yes, I need to evaluate your skills and a couple of other things?"
"Ok, are there any rules concerning the spar?"
"Only kicks and punches no jutsu or weapons." Areku listed before entering a taijutsu stance. "Ready when you are."
Naruto nodded then formed his own stance; Atsushi raised his hand to commence the spar.
"Ha-"
"What a minute?" Areku interrupted.
"Is some wrong Areku-san?" Naruto asked worriedly.
"Yes, your stance is pathetic." He replied bluntly, surprising both Genin. "You aren't light on your feet, your legs are too close to one another, your stance is too low and your opponent can easily predict your moves before they are even executed, if I'm correct you were attempting to attack me first with punch to the face then a kick to the side right?"
Naruto could only nod as he was rendered speechless at how easy it was for the Jonin Kishida to predict his opening attack.
"If I were the enemy, I would have easily formulated a counterattack to your attack, placing you at a disadvantage before the battle even began, so we have to start from the scratch." Areku sighed relaxing his stance, he knew that some teachers hated Naruto but to the extent of teaching him a wrong taijutsu stance.
"But that's the stance I was taught in the academy."
"Umm and who taught you that stance?"
"Miz-" Naruto stopped himself as he realizes who, "That teme he wanted me to fail from the very start." He snarled.
"Now now," Areku said trying to calm down the enraged boy, "How about some hand seals." That caught Naruto's interest, making hand seals were the easiest skill to learn back at academy. "Please perform the hand seal for monkey."
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A couple of hand seals later
Areku was burning with rage and fury, he had Naruto perform a couple of hand seals only to discover that half of them were completely wrong, no serious-minded shinobi could ever perform the desired jutsu with the wrong hand seals. Hell he/she had a greater chance of losing the hands themselves.
'I need to have a chat with the Third concerning those teachers.' The senior Kishida thought as he watched the two boys.
Atsushi spent most of his time correcting his blond friend on hand seals while also trying to lift up the Uzumaki's mood. 'No wonder he was the dead last of the class, he was always taught incorrectly.'
"Naruto-kun, have you done any of the chakra control exercises?" Areku asked, trying to dispel the current somber mood Naruto was displaying.
"What are chakra control exercises?" Naruto asked, brightening up a little.
"They are training exercises which help to improve one's chakra control like leaf balancing, tree climbing and water walking." Atsushi answered.
"So you have done any of them before?" Naruto inquired.
"All except for water walking." The Kishida boy replied.
Areku rubbed his jaw in thought, "This could take a while due to having the Kyubi inside of you plus your enormous chakra reserves-"
"Wait! You know about my condition?" Naruto questioned.
"Of course I do, when you are a Jonin of the Leaf village it's pretty hard to be left in the dark about these kind of things."
"So you hate me?" Naruto tensed up, awaiting the insults and beating.
"Why will I hate you? I know the difference between a sealed kunai and its scroll unlike those idiotic civilians on the streets." Areku responded frowning at the last part.
"Tell me about it." said Naruto agreeing with him.
"Emhm… We are going off topic folks." Atsushi notified the two.
"Oh yeah, so where was I… Ah yes, your chakra reserves are pretty huge surpassing both mine and my nephew here whose reserves are presently high Jonin and low Chunin levels respectively." Areku stared at the blond for a few seconds before asking, "What's your affinity kid?"
"I don't actually know." Naruto replied, his face slightly red due to embarrassment. 'Just how far behind am I?' he said to himself.
"No need to feel embarrassed Naruto-kun, you can find out right now." Areku uttered before pulling out a paper from his left pocket. "This is a Chakra Induction Paper." He began showing them the paper, "Once exposed to even the slightest hint of chakra, it reacts according to the chakra's latent element." Areku explained handing the chakra paper over to Naruto.
"Now inject a bit of your chakra into it, it will react according to your latent element. If Fire: the paper will ignite and turn to ash, if Water: the paper becomes wet, if Wind: the paper will split in two, if Earth: the paper will turn to dirt and if Lightning: the paper will wrinkle. Now go!"
Naruto did as required and the paper experienced two changes.
A. It split in half which means Wind.
B. It became wet which means Water.
"Ah so you have two nature transformations, wind like me and water like Atsushi-kun, you should be honored most Genin usually have only one nature transformation."
Naruto was about to unleash one of his fox like grins when realization struck. "I thought Sushi only had an affinity for lightning."
'Sushi huh,' Atsushi thought before answering, "Our bloodline limit grants us access to all five nature transformations but for a limited period of time."
Naruto blinked in surprise, "Wait, you guys have a bloodline?"
"Yes Naruto, it's called the Nisankugan and I will explain it you later." Atsushi promised.
"Now see what's going to happen, after training with your team, both of you," Areku pointed to the two boys, "will meet me at Training Grounds 11 for about 2 – 3 hours of training. Agreed?"
"Hai! Areku-san." Both boys chorused, but Naruto had a question.
"Why can't we use our training ground?"
"Training Grounds 7 is already assigned to your Genin team but Training Grounds 11 isn't assigned to any which makes it a perfect place for some private lessons." The boys nodded as the explanation made sense, "Ok I guess we see each other at Training Grounds 11, now if you excuse me I have an appointment with the Third." The senior Kishida promptly left after that, 'Those bastards will pay.' He mentally snarled, those academy teachers better watch out.
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|Hokage Tower|
"Team 1?"
"Failed." The assigned Jonin replied.
"Team 2?"
"Those civilian brats failed."
"Team 3?"
"They aren't ready so they fail."
"Team 4?"
"They ran home crying to their mommies so they failed."
"Team 5?"
"They ended up fighting each other so failed."
"Team 6?"
"Failed horribly."
"Team 7?"
"Passed."
Everyone turned their heads to stare at the silver-haired.
"What?" Kakashi asked feeling a bit self-conscious.
"You actually passed a team?" The Chain smoker Asuma asked in surprise and he wasn't the only one.
"They are an unusual bunch but they do have a lot of potential so yes I did." The mask wearer replied feeling a bit relived.
"Moving on," Hiruzen said, smiling internally, "Team 8?"
"Passed." A beautiful lady by the name Kurenai answered.
"Team 9 is still in circulation so Team 10?"
"Passed." Asuma said.
"34% passed, you are all dismissed." Once the Jonins had left Hiruzen turned his attention to his office window, "Areku you can come in now."
Said Kishida hopped through the window, "Sorry I didn't wish to disturb Hokage-sama." He apologized.
"That's' fine, please take a seat." Once the Jonin had taken a seat the Hokage continued, "I was thinking of a suitable punishment for those academy teachers who sabotaged Naruto's education, so any ideas?"
"Hmm, I do have a couple of ideas." Areku gained a smile which Hiruzen mirrored.
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Omake (ABS)
|Rented Apartment complex|
14 years ago
Sara dragged the two males by their ears leading them to their new apartment. "I can't believe you two, we just arrived 40 minutes ago and you two have already destroyed three vegetables stalls!"
"Sorry Sara-san." The younger of the two apologized once they were inside the apartment.
"It was accident, Sara-chan." The elder explained.
"Yea right, more stalls will be destroyed the second I release you two." Sara replied, glaring at the two brothers.
"We promise no more unnecessary vegetable destruction!" The two pledged with their fingers crossed behind their backs.
"Good but you aren't off the lease yet Daiki-kun!" She said focusing her glare at the senior of the two.
The male sighed, "Fine, now let's focus on our second mission."
"What second mission? I thought we only had one mission?" Areku asked confused.
"Well you see Arashigakure doesn't want to be taken by surprise incase its allies tries to go behind its back so we are here to gather information." Daiki explained.
"Information? What kind of information?" The boy asked.
"Although both villages are in an alliance with each other, Arashi being a relatively middle-level village fears that its allies might break the treaty and attack, so we are here to gather any information about any plans which may lead to an invasion and report back." Daiki replied
"But that isn't that risky?"
Sara answered this time. "Yes it is that is why we have to be very careful. Daiki-kun and I will join Konoha shinobi while you will be in the Academy."
"But I am already a Genin!" The boy protested.
"We know that but you will be attending the final session and it should be easy for you since you are already a Genin."
"Fine but I won't like it." Areku pouted.
"Didn't expect you to." Daiki chuckled, "Now let's get you registered in the academy."
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A/N: As I said I will change some features and Naruto not knowing any elemental Jutsu until after the Chunin exam is definitely one of them.
Members of Team 7 and their affinities
Sasuke: Fire and Lightning.
Hinata: Water and Earth. (These suit her better than Lightning and Fire)
Naruto: Wind, Water and Fire [3]
Atsushi: Lightning, Water and Earth [4]
The Jutsu Atsushi used to disrupt Kakashi's thousand years of death is called the Thunderbolt (Rakurai). It requires firing a bolt of lightning from the user's palm and requires no hand signs. That is one of Atsushi original Jutsu, the other being the Lightning Fist (Raiken).
[1] – Which one is it?
[2] – Hinata substituted herself with the Demon Windmill Shuriken before attacking.
[3] – Will be included later on
[4] – This will be explained in the next chapter
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24/12/20: Minor changes.
Total number of words: 5899 words
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