Chapter 7: Training Day Part 1

Training Ground 7

"Where's Minato sensei already? I even got here before he did." a boy with orange goggles and black hair said while laying on the ground

"Yeah no kidding, I think that's a sign of the apocalypse last time I checked." a girl with brown hair and purple marks on her cheeks sitting next to the boy said with a smirk.

"You know, I think you're right Rin. I'm pretty sure the next thing that will happen is that Kakashi's face is finally revealed to the world." the black haired boy said while looking at a silver haired boy with a face mask who was slumping on a log used for training.

Kakashi didn't say anything as he had his eyes closed, clearly in thought.

"Why is he so quiet?" the black haired boy asked.

"I don't know." Rin said with a confused look on her face.

In The Forest Surrounding Training Ground 7

"So these are your student's huh?" Musket asked while kneeling on a tree branch at the edge of the training ground.

"Yep. The black haired boy is Obito Uchiha, he's the joker of the group and yet might just be the kindest man I've met in a long time, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have his problems." Minato said while kneeling next to Musket. Musket's eyebrows raised at this, wanting Minato to continue. "He's well known for being extremely late to just about everything and always has an excuse for it, my favorite is he had to help a cat out of a tree and then it attacked him when it did."

Musket was a little confused from that. "Why that one specifically?"

Minato chuckled. "Because the cat he saved was that one demon cat I told you all genin hate so much and he just made the genin on the mission to catch it have to take longer to grab it, when I found out from Kushina we we're dying. But that's not all about him. He's an orphan, he never met his parents and only had his grandmother to take care of him. I think that's why he wants to become Hokage one day, to be acknowledged by others."

"You said he's an Uchiha right?" Musket asked, curious about the name. "Is he related to Fugaku or Mikoto?"

Minato nodded, "Yes, he's in their clan, but the clan see's him as a screw up at best. Luckily Fugaku and Mikoto don't think that about him though so he at least has some allies there. Actually, it's that that makes him Kushina's favorite of my students. She sees a lot of herself in him."

Musket smirked at that, "Ok then what about the girl."

"She's Rin Nohara. She and Obito have been friends since before they enrolled in the academy. I'd say she's the heart of the team and always seems to be in the middle of Obito and Kakashi's fights. She's also the medic of the team. Unfortunately she's one due to wanting to be like her late father. He died during a mission just before she was born."

Musket nodded to this as he looked to the last of the team. "So the one in the mask must be Kakashi then?"

Minato's smile dropped a little at his last student, thinking of his life and its rough edges. "Yeah, he's the one that's been the hardest to teach my lessons. As a shinobi he may be one of the most gifted, but his past has made it harder for him to care for others. His father was a war hero during the second war but on a mission he decided to prioritize his teammates over the mission and they failed it due to his decision. He was shunned by the village until he committed suicide to regain honer to his family, unfortunately the only one in his family was Kakashi and the day his father died he found the body."

Musket flinched at hearing that. "How old was he?" he asked.

Minato's smile was gone as he thought of what Kakashi has had to go through. "He was seven."

Musket's expression was one of horror, no one deserved that to happen to them, let alone a seven year old.

"I always agreed with him actually." Minato said looking at the ground, "You should never leave your team behind, not even for a mission. Unfortunately I think Kakashi took his fathers actions as a sign that he should always be whatever he wasn't. When I first met him he had no one. I knew he was struggling and I couldn't let him just be alone, so I took him in. Technically he's on his own but he stays with me and Kushina at our apartment and I've always been there to help him whenever he needs it. I still remember the first day he stayed. He didn't even talk to me or anyone for that matter. He's always been quiet but he became even more so after I started to take care of him. But he seems to be struggling most in teamwork. And that's what I'd like to see if you could help with.

"I see." Musket said as a devious smile came across his face, "Well then don't mind if I do." he said, cracking his knuckles before slamming his hand on the branch.

Minato became very scared as he noticed what Musket was doing, "Please go easy on them."

Musket's grin grew even more as he looked at Minato, "No promises."

With Team 7

Obito was lying in the grass on his side while he and his team waited for their teacher to appear, wondering the whole time what was taking him so long. Looking around he noticed his teammates had annoyed expressions on their faces that they usually only ever gave him when he was super late. Obito's anger started to grow as he realized his teacher was almost an hour late. Obito decided he had to find out where his sensei is. As he stood up he heard a thud next to him, looking at the cause of the noise he saw a strange looking knife, with a long blade and a hole at the end of the grip that his finger could easily fit inside. Looking to his teammates, he saw that they were looking at the knife as well and both looked confused.

Kakashi walked over to the knife, looking around cautiously just in case the owner was about to reveal themself and attack. Just before he picked it up another one of the knives landed to stop his hand from getting any closer, all three jumping away from both as they got into stances to get ready for whatever enemy was nearby.

"Ha ha sensei, very funny. You can come out now." Obito said while looking for his teacher who he hoped was the one doing this.

"I don't think it's sensei Obito." Rin said while trying to find the thrower of the knives.

"W-well who else could it be? No one should be able to even enter the village, right?" Obito asked, worry evident in his voice.

"I don't like this." Kakashi said, trying to get any sort of idea of where the hostile enemy was. Looking through the tree's he noticed the slight gleam of metal as another knife came whizzing towards his head, only just dodging out of the weapons' way. Kakashi now knowing where their attacker was rushed towards the trees, kunai in hand, his teammates following behind.

Just as the group reached the halfway to the trees over a dozen knives came straight for them, the children dodging out of the way as to not be skewered. Kakashi recovered first, once again running to their attacker but now without his teammates. Rin and Obito watched Kakashi as they began to recover before Obito noticed something fast coming towards Rin in the opposite direction of the attacker. Getting to his feet he launched towards Rin, grabbing her and pulling her out of the way of the knife.

Kakashi, not noticing what had just happened to his team, kept running to the tree before catching something out of the corner of his eye. His shinobi training was the only reason he was able to escape from the knife thrown from his left. All of the group now confused as they realized the enemy had thrown from several directions, one of which being on the opposite side of the field. This could only mean one thing, they had been surrounded by multiple enemies.

Musket and Minato's Tree

"Hm, it seems they think they're surrounded." Musket pointed out while watching the group get back to back with one another to watch for the next attack. 'I wonder how surprised they're gonna be when I start trying' A devious smile came across his face as he thought that.

"Well they haven't done that before." Minato said while watching his team. "Maybe I should use this tactic next time I train them."

"Maybe, but then again you can't do this." Musket said, raising his hands into the air, ready for the next part of his "training".

With Team 7

The three members of team 7's nerves were now beginning to increase as they waited for their enemy to make a move. As they waited none of them noticed the bayonet that was starting to float in the air behind their backs.

As Obito looked for any sign of movement he noticed something small floating out of the corner of his eye as he turned to see a blade pointed at his face. Obito backed away as the other two looked to see the bayonet floating towards him before Obito began to run away as the bayonet followed him, many others rising from the ground to chase him as he ran past them.

Kakashi looked at his teammate running for his life before dodging another bayonet that had been thrown at his head, looking at where it had been thrown from before noticing nothing. As he turned to see where the one that had been thrown at him landed he instead looked at the bayonet seemingly floating in mid-air, as if time had stopped for it, before it turned slowly towards him to point its blade at his face once more. Kakashi brought up his kunai as the bayonet launched towards him.

Using his kunai he was able to deflect the attack before then having to now fight the floating knife in a knife fight, Kakashi realized he wasn't ready for today at all.

Rin looked at her two teammates as she thought of which one to help, noticing Kakashi struggling more than Obito due to Obito's knives keeping a much slower pace than Kakashis'. Going to help her silver haired teammate with one of her own kunai, Rin noticed that any hit either of them tried to land on the knife was blocked almost effortlessly.

Obito was now running from what had to be dozens of bayonets as he tried his best to not become a shish kabob. Obito realized he may only have one way to keep the knives from skewering him as he started the hand signs for his best jutsu. Breathing in deeply he unleashed his fireball jutsu as the bayonets all got flung away from him and landed on the ground with loud thuds. Finally free from his predicament he noticed his other two teammates struggling with a single bayonet, stopping himself from chuckling as he ran in to help, kunai in hand.

Rin and Kakashi were growing frustrated with the fact that neither of them could beat a single large knife. Just as the knife went in to seemingly cut Kakashi's head off a kunai was flung at the bayonet, causing it to harmlessly fall to the ground with a thud. Both looked to see who had thrown the kunai hoping to see their sensei, only to see a smug looking Obito standing with a happy smile on his face.

"How did you get away from the other knives." asked Rin looking at her teammate with amazement on her face.

Obito rubbed his nose in satisfaction of his teammate's amazement. "I used my Fireball Jutsu on them.

Kakashi looked at his teammate with an annoyed look before his features turned to that of worry. "Um, are you sure you did the job?"

Obito looked at his teammates with a look of confusion on his face as he saw them both looked worriedly at him. "Yeah, why?" he asked before Rin pointed behind him. Obito turned around to see all the bayonets he had blasted away now floating behind him, terror now creeping into them all as they realized this attack was far from over.

With Musket and Minato

"Well it seems they just realized their predicament they are currently in, wouldn't you say?" Musket asked, looking to Minato.

"Seems so. I wonder how they'll get out of this one." Minato said looking at his students

"Well let's find out." Musket said as he got ready to finally test these kids and their true abilities.

End of Chapter