Naruko: The Story Redone

By: dbrame91

A/N: There will be a few original Jutsu in this chapter, they will be marked with asterisks (*) and explained at the end of the chapter.


Chapter 3: Naruko

"You want us to what?!" Naruko was staring at the white haired Jonin in front of her. She had heard some stories about the man she now called sensei, but they never made him sound this crazy. Sure they were only Genin, but even recently graduated ninja could do some serious damage. "Kaa-san had you all wrong, she said you were just a normal guy. But you are fucking insane! There are three of us and only one of you."

"And I am an experienced Jonin. More than experienced enough to take all three of you at once." The blank stare from his one visible eye told Team 7 exactly how true it was. The look in his eye showed just how easy it would be for him to go against an entire class of Genin, and even Chunin, by himself. "Allow me to introduce myself a bit better than the bare bones I gave you two days ago. My name is Hatake Kakashi, Jonin of Konohagakure. Known as the Copy Ninja Kakashi to many, and able to use all five standard chakra natures as well as yin and yang. I am the last surviving student of the Yondaime Hokage," at this part he looked towards Naruko. "If it makes it easier for you to give it everything you have, think of me as an enemy during war."

"I'm still not comfortable with this idea." It was Sakura's turn to speak up now. She understood that his rank alone should have told them they stood a snowball's chance in hell against the silver haired man. Even knowing that though she felt like he was underestimating them. Sure they didn't have any experience fighting as a team but Sasuke had been Rookie of the Year in their class, Naruko had been an almost unstoppable force back in the Academy, and she herself had a decent skill with both genjutsu and medical ninjutsu. When they were in the Academy Sasuke had top grades in all of their courses, both physical and intellectual. Naruko was so stealthy that she had been able to set up pranks in a crowded classroom without anyone even seeing, and in their last year she could hold her own against five opponents without using a single jutsu or even getting winded. Sakura had been more than able to keep up with Sasuke when it came to intellectual pursuits, in their ninja courses she fell behind on most subjects like taijutsu and ninjutsu due to her smaller chakra reserves but her control had been top of the class. "What if someone gets hurt?"

Kakashi looked at her, a deadpan look in his one visible eye, "You are a medic aren't you? If someone gets hurt, you can help them."

"What are the exact rules of this test?" Sasuke spoke up, gaining his sensei's attention. In his head he was already running down the supplies and tools he had brought with him today: a small spool of ninja wire, a handful of shuriken, too few kunai for comfort, and a couple emergency soldier pills. 'That isn't going to be enough to take him down, but I have to try.'

Sighing deeply the masked man began to break down the test more thoroughly. "I have with me two bells," at this he motioned to them on one of his back belt loops and continued on, "You have until lunch, or for both bells to be stolen from me, to retrieve one. If you fail to do so within the time limit or before they are both gone, you fail and go back to the Academy. This means that all of you can be sent back, two of you can be returned to the academy, or only one of you can go back." Kakashi moved his gaze to each one as he talked. "Does that explain it clear enough for you?" At their nods he clapped his hands together. "Good, now that we are all clear on that, begin."

With his last word all three of the Genin moved as fast as they could. They needed time to plan their own assaults. 'Good stealth, almost completely hidden. I can still smell them, though Sasuke is still moving further away.' Turning away from where they had been Kakashi's view was suddenly filled with the bottom of a slightly heeled shinobi sandal. "Already got you old man!" Naruko cheered as she felt her foot connect, just before a cloud of smoke enveloped the area only to clear just as quickly and reveal a Kakashi masked straw dummy. "Oh Kami, damn it."

"Lesson one, of all shinobi: Taijutsu." Crouching behind the blond was her teacher, looking up at her. "Strike fast and strike hard. Keep your opponent on the defensive and always watch behind you." Reaching out, the Jonin grabbed Naruko by the ankle before pulling it out from under her and throwing the shocked girl behind him, into the training field's water source. "You aren't taking this serious enough Namikaze. Your file made you sound more impressive than this." Straightening up Kakashi patted his knees, despite not being dirty at all. 'Maybe I should make them angry, get them to go all out. Kushina, forgive me, I am about to say some very inappropriate things about you but I do not mean a word.' Twisting his torso around a bit while stretching out his arm he chose to push his luck. "I guess your mother resorted to sleeping with your teacher to keep your grades up. Well what can you do, once a whore always a whore."

Instantly a burst of rage and chakra assaulted Kakashi, actually stunning him momentarily, and causing the water to surge upward. 'I think it worked.' As the water was effected by gravity once again his blond student came into view, standing on top of the water. "Say that again you one eyed fuck and I will show you why even the Kyuubi should fear me!" Flipping through hand signs quickly Naruko created five water clones. Once all six of the infuriated Namikazes stood ready they began to flip through the same, long sequence of hand signs. "Suiton: Suiryudan no Jutsu!" All six shouted, bringing six identical dragons from the surface of the water and sent them after the man as their tails merged, to make it a six headed water dragon, and the true Naruko spoke up, "Namikaze variant: Hidora Nesuto!"*

Thinking quickly Kakashi fled the area, using the substitution technique again. This time the replacement was a log with a note reading "Sorry" carved into it. Now crouching in some bushes by himself Kakashi planned his next course of action. 'Note to self, Kushina-san's legendary temper appears to be genetic.' Kakashi had known his comments would anger the blond. Her file had everything about her, including a report where she had beaten an Academy instructor by the name of Mizuki senseless when he had made a similar comment about the Uzumaki head. "Time to find my Rookie of the Year I guess. Give her some time to cool off before reengaging."

'Hey, you still able to feel where Kaka-sensei is Yoko-nee?' Naruko tried to relax a little, she knew it was a bad idea to let her anger control her and refused to let her teacher get the drop on her again. She also knew, that due to the close relationship her teacher had had with her father and mother, he had most likely only said that in order to make her lash out. "I guess making up jutsu comes easy for the Namikaze family. That was totally an accident." Naruko chuckled to herself with an obviously faked innocence. She did just come up with the idea for that jutsu, but even with only 1/10th of her strength it was impressive. "Almost like a mini Daibakufu no Jutsu."

'No, sorry Naruko-nee. Kakashi-sensei is too far for me to find.' Yoko had a few more differences to Naruko, other than appearance. Where Naruko had wind affinity as well as a developed water affinity, Yoko had inherited the Kyuubi's chakra alignments of wind and fire. Due to Yoko's smaller chakra reserves she tended to act more as a sensor, especially seeing as she had no ability to act upon the real world but could easily pick up on things that Naruko didn't notice, like faint smells.

'Can you feel either Sakura or Sasuke at all then?' Looking at her reflection in the water under her feet, Naruko drew in a deep breath and crossed the water source back towards the spot she had been sitting in before Kakashi arrived. Looking at the damaged field around her Naruko took a mental note for future experimentation with her Hidora Nesuto. Where the six dragon heads had impacted the ground was now a fairly good size crater. 'Smaller than something Tsunade-sama could make, if the stories about her are true.' She also noticed that the sides of the hole where rugged, and more like chunks had been removed than precise digging.

'Yes, I feel Sakura a little to the east of here. She had been watching until you used the Hidora Nesuto. But after that she fled further in. The last time I felt Kakashi he was moving towards Sasuke though.' Yoko stretched her arms out above her head as she spoke, her room seemed to have settled on a forest environment for now. 'Sasuke went further into the training field, heading North before I lost him.'

"Sakura first. She is more likely to listen and agree to a team up. Plus it will be less likely to run me into Kakashi-sensei again." Naruko took off towards the east, moving quick but careful, in case she came across Kakashi again. Sakura was barely hiding when Team 7's blond Genin found her. Approaching the nervous looking girl Naruko cleared her throat gently, "Sakura I think we should work together on this. You can have the bell. At this point I just want to get a clean hit."

"Sorry Naruko, but this is too important to just trust you like that. I won't get in your way on purpose, but I'm not helping you out either." Sakura turned back to the spot she had been watching. Naruko sighed and ran off towards the north after the pinkette's refusal. Thanks to spending a lot of her time with her only male teammate, Sakura had picked up a couple of helpful trapping skills and was now waiting to hopefully catch Kakashi. Using a lot of ninja wire and low grade exploding tags, Sakura had woven a web of explosives that would snap into place, having only been lightly covered with dirt and fallen leaves, with a slight twitch of her finger. Once her sensei was in the trap she would hit him with a genjutsu and take one of the bells herself.

Sakura's plan could have worked if she had noticed that after Naruko left Kakashi had found her as well. Kakashi cleared his throat just as Naruko had, making the medic-nin turn to the noise before having her own plan turned around on her. "Shinobi lesson two: Genjutsu. Illusions meant to trick the enemy. You need to make them believable and fine tune every detail in them." Walking away from the girl Kakashi looked around before heading off after Naruko. As he tried to catch up to her, he was suddenly stopped by a barrage of ninja tools.

"Ah, the last Uchiha, how good of you to start taking part in the test. What subject should we start with?" In a mocking tone Kakashi drew the teen out from behind a tree. The clearing they were in gave both of them plenty of space. Suddenly the younger male moved in and closed the distance, throwing a punch at the same time as his other hand reached out to grab at the Jonin's vest. Sighing Kakashi continued, "Taijutsu again? Naruko didn't beat me, so I doubt you will. Isn't she the only one who could beat you back in the Academy? I mean she put you on your ass at least once a week after your brother went psycho on your clan." Again Kakashi was trying to push buttons. Sasuke's file had been almost as big as Naruko's when it came to disturbances. A large part of his file had all been from after the Massacre until about 2 years later. Each time Naruko had provoked the Uchiha and beat him down until he stopped. Kakashi had guessed it had been some kind of desensitization therapy the blond had been attempting, and it worked. Even with Kakashi bringing it up, the team's male Genin barely reacted, only continuing on with his assault by bringing a downward kick towards his sensei's head. So far not one of the boy's attacks had landed, each being blocked by the older male.

Pushing the Uchiha away, Kakashi disengaged the teen and kept himself ready for Sasuke to attack again. Sasuke watched the man, waiting for any sign that the Jonin was going to retaliate. To his only male student's irritation, Kakashi just pulled out his book and opened it to his last stopping point. The lack of concern displayed by the war veteran did irritate Sasuke, and Kakashi could tell. "So, you pissed off Naruko? I could feel her killing intent from the edge of the training grounds. Let me guess, you said something about Kushina-san, and she freaked out. I made that mistake once, back when we just started living in the compound together, honestly the only time I was more afraid to die than the night of the Uchiha Massacre. I can't even remember what I said, hit my head a few too many times."

Kakashi paid no attention to the Uchiha and his story, and only responded to it with a quick, "Eh." Sasuke had to say, he had never hated being ignored before. He had wished more people would have done it, he wasn't that special just because he was an Uchiha, but this was different for him. Kakashi was doing more than ignoring him, he was saying that Sasuke wasn't even worth his time. That was what rubbed the teen the wrong way. And that was why he angrily flipped through the three hand signs for his Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu. Suddenly a large part of the clearing was filled with fire, being expelled from Sasuke in the direction of his new teacher. 'Ah, good size and power. But it is a little slow.'

Kakashi disappeared before being hit by the fireball, causing Sasuke to look around when he noticed that the Jonin had gotten away. "Lesson three: Ninjutsu. Use of chakra for a wide variety of techniques, usually destructive. In your case, you need to worry about mastering the basics before moving on to high powered skills." Sasuke continued to look around the clearing, trying to find the silver haired pain in his side. "Now, when you lose track of your opponent you need to find them. What happens though when they aren't in front, behind, on your sides, or above you?" Suddenly a hand grabbed Sasuke by the ankle, "Then the enemy must be under you. Doton: Shinju Zanshu no Jutsu!" With this the Uchiha teen was pulled downward, underground, leaving only his head exposed. He was completely trapped, incapable of moving anything more than his neck. "You just stay there for now Sasuke. I will come get you after the test." Kakashi turned on his heels and walked away. 'I wonder if Sakura has woken up yet. And where is Naruko?' After turning behind a tree Kakashi used the shunshin to go back to the main entrance to the training grounds, in order to restart his hunt.

Just behind him Sasuke heard a rustling in the bushes, but unable to turn around in his earthen prison he could not tell what was approaching until he heard the voice of his pink haired teammate. All she got out was his name in a horrified voice before she shrieked and her body hit the ground, passed out. About a minute later there was more rustling as Naruko jumped down from a tree branch and took everything in, laughing as soon as she saw her pseudo-brother. "Ahahaha, you look so stupid down there teme. What did he do to you, just bury you or did he use a Doton technique to pull you under?" A second wave of laughter hit the blonde.

"You really shouldn't be getting distracted Namikaze-san." Kakashi had heard Sakura's scream and gone to look for her, keeping out of site when he noticed Naruko rushing to the spot as well. He spoke up again, drawing his students to look up into the trees where he was sitting on a branch, his orange book in hand and open. "Last I checked you three were in the middle of a test, with about an hour left." With a purposely sloppy roll, Kakashi left his perch and landed in front of the two conscious Genin. "You also don't know if I trapped the area." It was the blond girl's turn to feel a hand on her ankle before being pulled underground as well. "See, never get distracted." Naruko yelled in frustration, causing Sakura to wake up, before collapsing into nothing but water. 'More Mizu Bunshin?'

Naruko had been hesitant to approach the clearing without some kind of back up plan, so before leaving the cover of the trees she created four Mizu Bunshin and sent one of them in her place. This had been a good choice on her part since it gave her the chance to trick her teacher. Dispelling the captured clone, two of the other three Bunshin stepped forward while the third was hidden overhead, waiting for the perfect chance to strike. All of Naruko's bunshin had a small connection to Yoko's chakra, which the two sisters had used to develop a special clone skill that was part of Naruko's current plan.

Following after the two clones on the ground Naruko entered the clearing as well, clapping as she did. "That was super awesome Kaka-sensei. I would never have thought you were using a clone to trap someone." Once she had the Jonin's attention she laughed as she looked at Sasuke again. "That is still funny teme, especially now that I avoided the same jutsu." The real Kakashi put his book away now, ready to lecture his most unruly student before he heard the rustle of clothes over head and felt an additional weight added to his.

The third clone grabbed hold of him perfectly, he didn't even think to try and escape. It leaned in and spoke softly into his ear, "You know sensei, there are so many uses for clones it is overwhelming. However there aren't many for Mizu Bunshin." One of the other clones came forward and grabbed one of his arms before smiling and continuing the taunting. "But I heard about a style of nature release called Futton. And I really wanted to find a way to use it with clones, sadly it is more of a kekkai genkai than just something I can do."

Finally the original Naruko stepped up and finished the explanation. "With a little help from someone else I was able to find an alternative, which is really good since gas is too unpredictable. My Mizu Bunshin have just the right amount of fire chakra in them to turn them from normal water to scalding hot." At this Kakashi cursed himself for not realizing just how warm the clones did feel against his body. "Thanks to Kaa-san I also heard about a special clone that can detonate like an exploding tag, which helped out a lot as I could never get the bunshin to achieve my goal before trying that as well." The heiress to the Uzumaki clan stepped closer once before locking sad eyes on her teacher. "I'm sorry sensei, I don't know how bad this is gonna be."

Retreating to the shadows the real Naruko yelled back to her clones, "let it rip girls." The first clone that had grabbed Kakashi sighed a bit before whispering in his ear. "Suiton: Netto Shodoku Mizu Bunshin Daibakuha."** The three clones broke apart into a geyser of scalding water, covering the entire clearing.

Having never seen or heard of Naruko's attack before Sakura had failed to flee or rescue Sasuke from his hole. Her inaction was instantly regretted as she felt the scalding water wash over her, bringing hot pain to her skin. Kakashi had been willing to take the attack, Naruko's planning had been perfect, and it was an interesting idea for the usually underused Mizu Bunshin. His feelings were revoked though when he heard both Sasuke and Sakura in pain from the attack.

After the water cleared the last Hatake took both of his present genin to the entrance of the training grounds before returning and grabbing a startled Naruko. Once he had the blond girl with the rest of her team he proceeded to tie her to one of the training posts. His entire being was radiating anger at her irresponsible actions. "Namikaze Naruko, you willingly left your teammates in a situation where they were hurt by your jutsu. Any shinobi who is willing to do that does not deserve to wear a hitai-ate." Kakashi still had the look of raw anger in his one eye, and his posture was tense. "You all fail this test, but due to Naruko's actions she will be the only one returning to the Academy."

"Kakashi-sensei, you can't do that!" Sakura got to her feet and drew her teacher's attention to her. "Naruko was the only one who was even able to hit you. If anyone should be going back to the Academy it is me. I didn't even get to raise a kunai against you."

"Sakura, it is okay. He is right. I should have made sure you got away first." Naruko looked at the pinkette as she undid her bindings, and stood up. Taking two steps away from them she turned around and dropped to her knees, prostrating herself to her teammates. "I really am sorry. I never expected the clones to blow up like that." Getting back on her feet she looked at her teacher. "One more hour? I want them to pass properly at least. And I will help them."

Suddenly thrown off by the sudden demand Kakashi nodded. "Okay. We will take a lunch break though. During the break you will be tied to the post and go hungry. After that, you get one hour. At the end of the hour you both pass whether you get the bells or no." Kakashi looked at his Genin, ready to leave after tying up Naruko. "And if anybody feeds her, you all fail." Right as he said this the blond girl in question's stomach rumbled loudly, causing a blush to heat up her face.

After the Genin received their food Kakashi left, hiding away in the bushes. Again Naruko's stomach growled, trying to cover her embarrassment she laughed a bit, "Sorry. About all of this." Resting her head back a bit she watched the cloudless sky overhead. "Sakura, were you going to..." Naruko was cut off as for a third time her stomach made it's emptiness known. Continuing with her previous thought, the blond Genin met the eyes of her pink haired teammate. "Were you going to try and trap him in a genjutsu?"

Sakura nodded, chewing on a bite of her lunch. She had not eaten very much of her bento, trying to keep up with some new diet she was obsessed with. "What about you teme?" The blond looked at the Uchiha next, waiting for an answer. "Were you planning to use ninjutsu?" Sasuke nodded his head as he took another bite of his lunch. "And I tried some ninjutsu as well as some taijutsu. But there is something about this test that feels like a lie."

"What do you mean Naruko?" Sasuke put his box in his lap and looked at her. He hadn't seen anything to make him second guess the test so far, so he was reluctant to agree with his blond housemate. Naruko then went on to explain that it seemed like it had obviously been impossible to win one-on-one against the lone Hatake. She also brought up how easy it had been for Sakura to shoot down her idea of working together just because the test would result in someone going back to the Academy. Every now and then as she talked Naruko's stomach would rumble louder than before. "So you think that we should try working together?"

The Namikaze girl just nodded at her live in teammate. "Especially since you two will pass whether we succeed or not." With one more annoying rumble of her neglected belly Naruko began to work on the ropes keeping her tied to the post, easily cutting her way out of them with one of her hidden kunai. "You think Kakashi-sensei will know if I run to get a quick bite?"

"Of course he will baka." Sakura said looking at the either fearless or braindead blond. "And where did you pull that kunai from, I thought Kakashi-sensei took all your tools when he tied you up?" Leaning in innocently Naruko whispered the knife's previous hiding spot to the pinkette and grinned as Sakura looked at her with impressed shock. "So now what, sensei said you had to be tied to the post for the break. He is going to be pissed if you aren't." Sakura had looked away from the blond as she had said that, not noticing the Namikaze heir stroll over to the pinkette's bento and eat the rest of it.

"Then I am going to make him very angry." Looking between her two teammates she smiled, a grain of rice on her left cheek, and noticed their slightly confused expressions. "I will be his main focus, keeping him distracted and angry. You two will do what you can to get those damn bells," she broke her plan down a bit more while laying back as she finished. "Then once we are done, I'll give him my hitai-ate and you two will pass."

"Wait, you honestly plan to just let him kick you back to the Academy?" Sakura spoke up first, having thought that the blond was going to try and prevent it. "No one from our entire class was as excited to become a Genin as you were."

"True, and I still want to be a ninja, but I never should have put my teammates in harm's way." Naruko continued to lay in the same spot looking up at the two other Genin. "Besides, it will be fun to mess with Iruka-sensei when the class has no idea what to watch out for." A mischievous smile spread across her face as she already began to make plans.

"Oh shut up blondie." Now it was Sasuke's turn to fight the issue. "It was just hot water. Sakura and I can deal with that, especially her. The showers she takes are a lot hotter than your poor excuse for fire nature chakra." Picking her up by the front of her jacket, Sasuke pulled her to her feet and locked eyes with her. "If you go back then so do I."

Laughing in his face, the blonde pressed her forehead to his. "Look teme, let me just accept it. If you try and follow me back I will put you in a full body cast." In an instant she had her fist ready to make contact with the black haired teen. She leaned in instead, allowing her to keep her next thoughts between the two of them. "I know you've seen those fake ANBU guys watching the compound, you were the first in the house to see them even if it was by luck. They were probably watching me for suspicious behavior. Going back to the Academy will help us learn who they are watching." Pulling back away from the Uchiha heir Naruko looked at him before giving words to her next thought. "Wait, how do you know how hot Sakura likes the water when she showers?" Giving it only a second of thought she began to freak out. "Oh Kami! What the hell teme, really? You two better not have done it in the compound shower! I will never get that clean enough. We'll have to tear it all out."

Kakashi watched from the bushes for the entire break. 'Well she does seem to actually regret it. And the other two are more than willing to help her keep her place or give up theirs as well. Let's see what happens this next hour.' As he continued to watch he started to second guess his earlier assessment. Seeing the building tension in his late sensei's daughter Kakashi decided to take action and begin the next part. "Enough fighting, just get ready. Lunch is over. Oh and please remember, come at me with the intent to kill, because now I will be doing the same... Wait, why are you already free Naruko? Did you disobey an order from your sensei?"

"Mah mah, you've already decided that I fail. And that means I'm not your student, so I don't have to listen to someone who isn't my sensei. Besides, old men like you are always complaining about people being on your lawn or kids making too much noise." Naruko was playing completely to her role, get him angry and then keep his attention. "Hey Kakashi, what is your opinion on dating Academy girls? Wait, why am I asking? You're bound to be okay with it. I mean all you do is read that orange book of yours. It's not even one of the better Icha Icha series."

'I am going to enjoy this a lot more now.' Cracking his knuckles and tilting his head to the side, stretching his neck, Kakashi stepped closer to the three Genin. "Now, who is going to go first?" The silver haired man's answer came in the form of Naruko stepping up and pulling out her sealing scroll, freeing her sword and propping it onto her shoulder. "You again bleach-blond?" The other Genin bolted off into the safety of the trees, getting ready to spring their assaults on the silver haired man or back up their blond friend if she needed it.

"Hey, asshat, this is all natural!" In a burst of speed she left her team's field of vision, to reappear behind and to the left of her sensei, with about ten feet between them, while sliding to a stop. Ready to throw her large blade, Naruko confirmed her friends were clear of the area before beginning to throwing the sword in Zabuza's Hisenken technique. Though Naruko's copy of the Kubikiribocho was not as large, it was still a dangerous weapon, especially after having studied the scrolls her first teacher had given her. Right as she began the throw, Kakashi once again got around to her back in a squatting pose and struck, his hands together in what looked like the tiger hand sign and calling out his attacks name of Sennen Goroshi.

Naruko stood there, sword still in her hand as she noticed what was happening. Then she was suddenly airborne and flying into the tree branches. The attack had forced her to let go of her sword, leaving it stuck into the ground. Dropping from the tree branches the blonde landed on her already sore rear. "OOOOOWWWW!" Glaring at the Jonin she puffed up her cheeks like a child. "What are you going to do if I can't get married now?"

"Absolutely nothing." Kakashi's only visible eye gave nothing away as he reached out for Naruko's blade. When he went to pull it free the weight of the sword kept him from doing so completely, only freeing up about an inch.

Smirking with a mix of stupidity and mischievousness Naruko taunted the man, "Can't get it up Hatake? That's okay, most old men can't." Getting back to her feet she patted her backside, wincing a bit as she did, before making a dash to the blade. As she got to it she struck out with a kick that Kakashi blocked with his arms crossed in front of him, pushing him back, as she grabbed onto the hilt, pulling the large sword free. "Well I guess it would be easier without this." Pulling on the end of her scroll to reveal the seals inside, she returned the blade to it's hiding place. "You okay silver hair?"

"Never better." The voice came from behind her, completely opposite of where she had kicked him. With a quick rush of hand signs, and a name going unheard by the the blond, Kakashi put her under a genjutsu. "You know, she is right. This whole test is about teamwork." With this the other two recent Academy graduates returned to the field, side by side. "Honestly, with how bad you three have been doing, all of you should go back."

"Um, Sensei, is Naruko going to be alright?" Sakura asked a bit reluctantly. "And what if she breaks out of that genjutsu while you are explaining all of this?" The pink haired graduate asked as she stood next to what only she knew was a fake Sasuke. "She might just lash out at you, thinking we are still being tested."

"You know her skills better than I do Sakura, she has no ability with genjutsu at all." As he responded he looked at the two Genin and gave them one of his eye-smiles. "I'm also not going to send anyone back. What she did does deserve to be punished but she has made up for it by trying to be a good teammate and through the demonstration of her skill. Plus she would probably demand to take the graduation test early and just get sent back to us anyway."

"Good to know you think so highly of my obvious skill Kaka-sensei." Turning around to face the girl, who should have been out of commission from his last jutsu, he saw the real Sasuke standing next to her with a hand on her right shoulder and the other in the one handed release sign. This sight caused him to turn back around to Sakura who dispelled her copy of the black haired teen. Naruko and Sasuke walked around to their teacher's front, Sasuke in sullen silence and Naruko with a big grin on her face as she rested her hands behind her back. "Since it seems we all passed now, can we call it quits? I have a bathroom to disinfect and achy muscles to heat."

"...Yeah sure. Just report back here tomorrow at the same time. I am going to train you all into the ground, for the next week, before we do even one mission." With a dismissive wave of his hand the Jonin used a shunshin and disappeared from sight.

In the Hokage's Office

All of the adults where standing there watching the events play out in the crystal ball. "It looks like all of the clan heirs have passed. Any comments on anything we have seen here today?" The aged Hokage looked around the room waiting. Kushina was standing there with her eyes closed after the ball had lost its image, hoping no one would bring up Naruko's frequent cursing.

"Well it seems the Namikaze girl has a very... expressive vocabulary." It was Hiashi who spoke up first, instantly making Kushina begin crying pitifully. "They are all promising young Genin though." A few of the other clan heads agreed with the stern faced Hyuuga on both matters, though not many voiced the earlier opinion.

Only Tsume was willing to speak up about Naruko as well. "You got that right pale eyes. That girl can swear with the best of them." Instantly the Inuzuka woman began to laugh and spoke directly to Kushina next. "You were not kidding when you said Kiba wouldn't be able to survive being married to her."

"There is nothing I can do about it. I tried everything, including washing her mouth out with soap." The red head's tears continued to flow. "Yamanaka-san, could you go around in her head and fix it for me? I will pay you." Her desperate plea for help was on the comical side causing the village's ninken specialist to laugh more.

"No way Kushina, the last time I was in your daughter's mind I had permission but still got kicked out by that Yoko girl. No amount of money is worth making that spitfire angry." Yamanaka Inoichi would never say he was a cowardly man but the thought of making the kitsune girl angry was enough to make him rethink that. The time he was talking about happened shortly after Naruko and Kushina had returned to the village. Naruko was still 8 years old and Inoichi had been asked by both the Uzumaki head and the Hokage to do the inspection of the girl's mind. Both wanted to know exactly what Yoko was and hoped that the blond male could help them figure it out. At first it had gone well, he had permission from both Naruko and Yoko to enter the girl's mind, though Yoko's permission had to come through Naruko. When he had found the door to Yoko's room he opened it not expecting anything to occur, and accidentally walked in on her as she was trying to change into clothes for the meeting. As soon as she noticed the clan head she turned on him and forcefully ejected him from the room, throwing things after him and yelling about rudeness and never walking in on a maiden as she is changing.

After his interrogation of the mixed chakra girl Inoichi had cleared her of being any kind of threat and even said she was very well mannered despite his first run in with her. As it was a matter of importance to the village yet still a matter of privacy as well the shinobi half of the council, not counting the elder three, had all been present and informed about the existence of Yoko. All those present had been sworn to secrecy on the matter as it could be used against the Yondaime's daughter in some way.

"I am sure Yoko has forgotten all about that, she is such a sweet girl that there is no way she could be mad still." Kushina was looking him in the eyes, hoping to force the blond man to buckle to her request. "You also said it yourself, she is completely different from the Kyuubi and could be trusted."

"No means no Kushina-san. Please do not keep pushing this." With a pout from the woman she agreed, her mood still not happy. "Thank you."

"I have one thing I would like to know about." It was Nara Shikaku who spoke up. "When Naruko was talking to the Uchiha heir she said something about fake ANBU. What did she mean?" Everyone looked at the man wondering how he knew what was said as there had been no audible sound at that part. "I read her lips, I am sure Hokage-sama did as well."

"I did Shikaku, and I am curious about it as well." The man replied, once again looking at the Uzumaki woman.

"It is something that we have noticed for the past couple months. Sasuke brought it up to me and Naruko one day, saying that he had been seeing ANBU with colorless masks. He never saw them for very long, usually right as they were disappearing in a shunshin." Kushina reached into one of her hidden pockets and pulled out a scroll, unsealing the contents onto the desk. Out of the cloud of smoke fell four ANBU masks, just as the red head had explained them, with no easily noticeable marking except a single kanji for the word 'root' under one of the eyes.

"Naruko was the one who collected these. She said she had chased them all done on different occasions, but when she approached them they resorted to violence immediately. The only reason she got the masks was because she eliminated them. When she came to get me the first time so I could bring the body here we found it was gone with no trace left. The second time she stayed around and found out that it was some kind of delayed Katon just for self immolation that didn't produce heat, just devoured everything organic." Handing the scroll over to the Hokage, Kushina relaxed a bit as well. " I was going to bring this up after the meeting today. But we haven't noticed any of them since Naruko collected the fourth mask about two weeks ago."

"This is very disturbing indeed. These masks belong to the ANBU group run by Danzo. They are only loyal to him, and because of this they were disbanded by the Yondaime's order." Fearing what the war hawk might have been planning Sarutobi had decided he would have a small group of his own ANBU guarding the Uzumaki estate until everything could be taken care of. "Well for now, we will keep this secret as well and look into the matter. You may all go home now. Have a pleasant evening everyone." With a polite farewell all the gathered clan heads exited the room to return home and celebrate with their families over the passing of the generation.

Chapter End


Non-canon Jutsu: I used Google translate for the names, so please do not blame me if I offend you with my lack of Japanese language skills.

Hidora Nesuto: It translates roughly to Hydra Nest. Based off of the greek myth of a monstrous serpent who if one head was cut more would grow in the first's place. Most myths say when one head is removed two grow back, but some myths say the hydra has three or even six heads.

Netto Shodoku Mizu Bunshin Daibakuha: This is a Mizu Bunshin version of Itachi's exploding Shadow clones, but uses scalding water instead of an explosion. The name translates to something along the lines of Scalding Water Clone great explosion.

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