the genin test
Naruto is sitting in his house it is currently 8 am he smiles currently making something with some metal the housing complex being nearly completely abandoned he lives on the bottom floor and has even made a special basement from storage seal making the basement bigger in the inside about the size of three shops
Naruto had stolen a scroll-based on everything on ninja’s being able to learn them in secret he even found a scroll from suna that was overlooked because it wasn’t flashy it was called puppeteering
it as hard for him to do dew to the amount of chakra he had he could only control a puppet using one hand due to his chakra control anymore any joint or hidden mechanism would glow ever so slightly
this makes the technique useless dew to the mystery that is required to use them and having to keep them hidden though he knew several people in the class who would be good at it if they knew of this but they didn’t bother and search in the library much he has made 5 and a half puppets
“Let the nightmare begin,” he says there as laughter coming from his lantern as the green took a darker hew, he held it up “want to help me, my friend,” he asked the light darkened yet again he smiles
“thank you,” he says the chain reconnects to the lantern he gets up and dressed he go to a nearby completely black pack he opens the top and pulls out 5 scrolls he seals them into a storage scroll In his right forearm as a number changed in his right forearm
one scroll after another was put in going up in number from 1 to 5 with the 6 shows he pulls out 5 more scrolls and did the same for his left arm he rolls up his trouser legs and repeats the prosses again
he pulls grabs a simple sword half a inches thick the width of the blade being 1 ft and the sword being 4 ft with a single edge though the sword having a strait blunt side unlike a katana he put into on his back going diagonal the handle showing over his left shoulder,
he grabs a strait double edge sword a chokuto but is pure black he but threw the sword on his back the opposite side to the larger sword the handle showing over his right shoulder
(not by me)
“big bro are you sure that you need to bring these weapons,” Annie asked from within the lantern he nodded
“yes if out sensei is going to be tardy he is going to have to learn how to take the pain,” Naruto says with a sadistic smirk
“Anyway, shall we go see Anko-chan I’m sure she missed you, Annie,” he says there was laughter from the lantern
“ok let's go see big sis,” she says he smiles he walks out of his word shop and then house locking it and using the same seal as before he walks threw the village people glaring at him like usual but he just hums a little tune to himself he reaches Anko’s apartment and knocks
“who is it,” a voice says from behind the door
“common big sis let us in,” Annie says from the lantern the door opened showing Anko in her usual attire fishnet armour over her body with a trench coach over that she smiles at Naruto
“common in Naru-chan,” she says he smiles and goes in as well he sits down “so want some sake,” she asks he nods she pours him a glass it funnily enough being in a simple glass that would have milk in it as Naruto takes a sip Annie comes out of the lantern in and becoming humanoid in shape while still having a slight green glow around her
“can snake mom come out to play,” she asks Anko smiles warmly and she bites her hand and does the signs for summoning and a large snake around 30 ft long appears a boa constrictor
“oh if it isn’t little Annie,” she says in a motherly tone
“hey snake mom,” she says she giggled as a said snake curled around her and nuzzles her
“alright kaa me and Naruto are going to talk can you and Annie play,” she asks Kaa nods
“it’s always a pleasure to be with Annie,” they say as they slighter starting to go out of the room
“tell jack I’m going to have a drink with him when you are unsummoned,” Naruto says Kaa nods as she leaves Annie following
“so going all out eh what’s the poor sap who pissed you off”
“1. Not all out only partly 2. Kakashi he was late by 5 hours I did leave after him being an hour late” he says taking a sip of his sake Anko snickers
“can I come I want to record this,” she says he nods
“be my guest I’m can’t stop you,” he says she nods smiling she pulls out a can order from her trench cloak “Oh I thought you only kept Dango In there,” he says moving his head to the side dodging a kunai
“don’t talk shit about Dango’s,” she says glaring he simple smiles
“I didn’t I don’t talk shit about Dango and you don’t talk shit about ramen,” he says “I will admit Dango is close number two though,” he says with a content smile as Dango had grown on him over since he was 7
“that’s the best I’m going to get isn’t it,” she asks with a sigh as he nods ‘why couldn’t people appreciate Dango's for the holy gift they were’ “so teammates,” she asks
“Sakura and Sasuke,” he says she winces
“well good luck doing over,” she says he glares at her playfully
“No we’ll pass Sasuke is an ass making fun of maa’s name for me but as long as he can put aside our differences we can work together,” he says she snickers
“sucking him off now,” she says taking a swig from her bottle
“well you are the expert on sucking then” he quips back making her do a spit take coughing she coughs a for a minute
“you cheeky brat,” she says she then smirks “I don’t suck I swallow,” she says smirking taking a swig of sake thinking she won
“Kurenai would know” Naruto quipped quickly making her to another spit take he laughs
“come here you brat” she yells he runs away as she chases him Kaa and Annie come in to see a furious and furiously blushing Anko chasing a laughing Naruto Kaa snickers which had a bit of a hiss to it and Annie giggled
Time skip 1 hour
Naruto has been hung out with Anko for the past hour chanting and having fun with her both taking jabs at each other through Anko getting more reaction than Naruto gets they are walking out of the house Annie back in the lantern and Kaa unsummoned to the snake summon realm
They are walking back to the lace was Kakashi told Naruto to be an hour earlier he saw an irritated Sakura and Sasuke both looking miserable in contrast to his and Anko smiling faces
“your late” Sakura said angrily
“and were is Kakashi then,” he says with a raised bow she held up a hand to say something but put it down and slumped against a tree her stomach growling he took out a scroll from his trench coat as he brought out four rice balls and a pair of red apples he halved the amount and laces then near his teammates the food being on some fabric
“but Kakashi sensei said not to eat,” Sakura said
“he also said to be here at 8 am and yet he’s not here,” he said she nodded and eats the food not being able to go against the logic of that Sasuke refused Naruto took out a green apple and ate it with
“So Sakura can I ask you a question,” he asked
“sure Naruto-baka,” she says
“Why do you love Sasuke so much,” he asks
“that’s simple I…” there was a rather long pause Anko looked to Naruto concerned while Naruto just gave a ‘shh’ gesture “Sasuke is cool and strong he will be able to beat anyone,” she says with a different tone from before
“oh ok,” Naruto says simple Sakura nodding with a look of victory while Sasuke looked even more miserable Anko did some signs
-the fuck was that- Anko signed at him in the Anbu code
-I was testing a hypothesis and it seems it was right- naruto signs back
-care to enlighten me oh so great one- Anko signs with a sarcastic look on her face
-I’ll tell you later- he signs she nods taking out a Dango from her trench coat and taking a bit out of it Naruto ate the whole apple core included as he sat down leaning against a tree opening a book different from the one form before
the books name ‘tales of a gutsy ninja, by Jiraiya the gallant’ a signed copy Anko looked at the book title with surprise where did he get that book it hasn’t been sold in a store in Konoha for years now he put the lantern on the ground and relaxed as he read the book
Anko taking out her own book by the same author a book from the icha icha series the book being icha icha innocence also a signed copy
time skip 2 hours
Naruto is still reading the book Sakura reading a scroll while Sasuke glares at Naruto for whatever reason his food still untouched
“yo,” Kakashi says as he appears, he gets ignored
“hey Anko why did the air just become hotter for a second” Naruto asked not looking u from his book Kakashi turned to him then to near him and indeed sees Anko Mitarashi the second in command of T&I department
“don’t know maybe someone farted or used a fire Jutsu,” she says not looking up either
“Hey I’m right here,” Kakashi says a bit louder
“there it is again,” Anko says casually
“just ignore it it’s probably Sasuke’s gas,” Naruto says without a care in his voice
“fuck you dobe” Sasuke yells he then saw Kakashi and glared daggers at him Kakashi sulks in the corner
“my cute little genin ignored more,” he says
“your late Kakashi sensei” Sakura yelled at him finally looking up from her scroll making Kakashi sulk even more but he recovered quickly
“alright my cute little genin are you ready for the true genin test,” he says Sakura and Sasuke looked at him shocked
“but we are genin Kakashi-sensei,” Sakura says shocked and confused much like Sasuke was internally he just didn’t show it
“not yet you have to pass a secret test that has a 33% success rating,” he says with an eye smile letting the info sink in he turned to Anko “so Anko why are you here,” he asks with his usual tone
“Oh Naruto visited me earlier and I wanted to see his test,” she says
“And you didn’t tell him,” Kakashi says a slightly more serious tone
“fuck you I figured it out,” Naruto says still reading his book giving Kakashi the middle finger
“he did” Anko reassured Kakashi with a serious tone who nodded he went to the most in the middle of the clearing they were sitting in the edge in
“you have till 12 to collect these two bells,” Kakashi says with an eye smile as he toes the two bells to his waist “one bell means one person passes”
“But sensei there are only two,” Sakura says
“yep,” he says with another eye smile “whoever doesn’t have a bell after fails and goes back to the academy” this getting shocked faces of two of his three genin and amused look from Anko
“go,” he says Sakura and Sasuke disappeared while Naruto closed his book he pulled the sword from his behind his right shoulder showing the black chokuto Kakashi opened his book a raised eyebrow as he looked at the sword
“the sword is of good quality who made it,” Kakashi says
“I did,” Naruto says with a smirk “I have other hobbies than you I told you,” he says relishing in the shock on Kakashi face or well eye but the shock went back to neutral as he went back to reading his book
“Are you not going to hide?” Kakashi asks Naruto smirks as he holds the sword in both hands holding it blade pointed for would the same height as his shoulder he disappeared quickly Kakashi jumped back shocked a genin like Naruto the dead last could move so fast Naruto holds the pure black blade in one hand
“Alright let’s test your skills,” he says as he takes out a tanto from his vest
‘the white light blades the blade that made Kakashi’s father famous’ Naruto thinks
“test 1 kenjutsu” Kakashi says as he attacks Naruto still reading his book Naruto says nothing as he blocks an attack from Kakashi he pulls the other sword from his back as he duel wields the weapons Kakashi looks unimpressed
Naruto appears with only the chokuto behind Kakashi and slashes at him but Kakashi blocks it shows to Naruto one sword another with two
“genjutsu” Kakashi thinks he releases a pulse of chakra but both Naruto’s stay both f them attacking him at once he ducks under the duel wielding Naruto having to sidestep from the chokuto wielding Naruto he slashed the chokuto wielder as it disappeared in a puff of smoke
“shadow clones,” he says looking at Naruto who smirked
“I made it when you were focused on my chokuto” Naruto says Kakashi says nothing Naruto clashes his blade with tanto meeting chokuto Kakashi jumped over the larger sword leaving Naruto open for an attack as he kicked him back Kakashi looked to Naruto
“test 2 ninjutsu,” Kakashi says as he does some hand signs still reading his book naruto smirked as he also went threw some hand signs
“[katon: great fire ball]” Kakashi launched out a giant fireball from his mouth “[suiton: water dragon bullet]” a dragon head made identical to the water dragon jutsu came out of the lake and went Infront of Naruto shooting out the steam of bullets blocking the gire ball making a mist filling the area
‘how does a genin know elemental Jutsu’
“[ration: enhanser]” he heard he dodged more water bullets but they penetrated deeper than they should notice a slight arcing of lightning in the bullets
‘clever’ he thinks he disappears in a shushin as the mist begins to clear
“test 3 taijutsu,” he says as he clashes with Naruto hand to hand as he kept his book up he sent a punch to Naruto who blocked the punch he got grabbed and thrown into the air Naruto jumped up and kicked him down
“you left your self-wide open” Kakashi says as he closes his book and puts his hands together with the book in the middle
“all according to plan,” naruto says Kakashi felt himself be replaced he saw Naruto where he was Kakashi’s eyes went wide as Naruto did the same thing with his fingers as he did
“[one thousand years of death]” Naruto then sent both fingers into Kakashi ass Kakashi’s eyes go wide as he is sent into the lake on the sidelines Anko is laughing while Naruto hidden teammates are shocked at what he just did
Kakashi came out of the water and began to run across it his book closed as he clashed with naruto hand to hand them looking even as the fight started but as it went on is showed Kakashi getting more hits in Naruto jumped back and a scroll appeared he unrolled it quickly and there was a puff of smoke
when the smoke faded it showed a wooden puppet with a pure black mess of hair covered in a cloak a pair of hand with armour over them looking like wood on the outside of the cloak is a pair broad sword the puppet having a pair of what look like heavily armoured legs also looking wooden Kakashi looked at the puppet as he saw three eyes one in the middle of the four head the lifeless red eye staring at him as well as having some armour on it (like the armoured titan)
“you’re a puppeteer,” Kakashi asked concerned it was a suna technique
“There is a scroll hidden in the library deep in their hard to find,” he says simply “let’s play,” he says with a smirk the puppet begins to move it rushes Kakashi as the eyes tracked him, he blocked a punch but winces as he felt the hard metal
‘he painted the metal to be wooden clever’ Kakashi thinks he dodged a punch the fist hitting the ground indenting it ‘there has to be some kind of hidden mechanism in it but what’ he thinks he was very tempted to use the Sharingan under his headband but he didn’t want to get totally serious Naruto couldn’t above chin level. Could he?
He puppet got up he notices how unlike other puppets it didn’t make the same clicking noises he used a kunai to block an attack fist from the puppet it pulled back it’s another arm Kakashi kicked under the cloak were the torso should be sending it away the cloak lifting showing some of the torso it also being covered in armour
‘there are gaps in the armour so I should be able to break the puppet’ he thinks throwing the kunai aiming for the knee joint to his surprises the kunai bounced off ‘he armoured the joints as well’ Kakashi think he ducks under a punch from the puppet he slashes at leg scratching it he jumps back and goes through several hand seals
“[katon: great fire ball]” the fireball was launched from Kakashi mouth hidden under the mask the cloak fall of the puppet as a pair of large armour wings came around and blocked the fireball said fireball being absorbed into it Kakashi looked was shocked the chest being armour as well the arms and shoulder also armoured the arms being thick
“thank you Kakashi,” he says with a smile “let me return the favour,” he says as he moves his fingers on his left hand the jaw opened up showing a cannon it glowed red as a fireball is launched out the same Kakashi launched at the puppet
Kakashi got out of the way he went to attack Naruto but he was kicked out of the way by the puppet Naruto sent a kunai at it that got caught in between the armour that closed a sizzle was heard as 10 explosive tags attached to the kunai detonated blowing the puppets to bits
“any more tricks,” Kakashi asked annoyed Naruto smiled as the same sickle that was used to ensnare Sasuke came out of the mouth of his waist armour him grabbing it the lantern was glowing under his left hand that is held up
“maybe,” he says Kakashi glared a black mist with green specks flows out of the lantern but when it faded Naruto was no were to see Kakashi sighed he couldn’t see Naruto any were nearby or hear him he got out his book and went to look for his other genin hoping they won’t cause him that much trouble like Naruto caused him
With Anko
Anko has recorded the whole thing on a camcorder Naruto appeared on the branch next to her
“having fun,” he asks getting a nod from the special jonin
“oh yeah especially the thousand-year of death counter-attack,” she says getting a smirk from Naruto
“it’s what he gets,” Naruto says smiling Anko was about to speak but they heard Sakura's scream
“well time to go help her,” he says getting a nod he leaves Anko smirks as she closes the recorder as she follows him further behind naruto goes to an unconscious Sakura he shaker her awake
“Naruto oh my god Sasuke he, there was so much blood,” Sakura says in shock Naruto gives her a slap upside the back of her head making her look at him
“Sakura that was just a genjutsu” he says she glares at him
“you slapped me,” she says angrily
“a slap in the face is an insult a slap in the back of the head is a wake-up call,” he says simply she says nothing
“but that means Kakashi-sensei if after Sasuke next,” Sakura says Naruto nods “we have to help,” she says Naruto holds her arm
“Sakura Sasuke is arrogant an ass-kicking will help him plus Kakashi won’t hurt him badly if at all then we can go help him,” he says
“But why he could be hurt,” she says as she walks off
“I know how to get the bells,” he says she looks at him
“really how,” she asked not convicted
“teamwork,” he says “not one of us could beat Kakashi on our own,” he asks she looks at him funny
“But you did really get against him,” she says Naruto shakes his head
“No, he wasn’t taking me completely seriously he is an A-rank missing-nin in the bingo book Sharingan no Kakashi also called Kakashi of a thousand jutsu” he says she looks in awe
“and we are a bunch of fresh genin taking on a jonin a highly skilled and feared jonin” he says to her she nods
“I get it,” she says he nods
“ok what can you do skill-wise,” he asks
“well I am good at genjutsu I know the academy basic and have really good chakra control,” she says he looks at her with a look saying ‘go on’ “that all I know,” she says he signs
“ok a lot less to work with than I thought,” he says she look offended “hey you’re the kunoichi if the year Hinata has more skills than you she has good chakra control the Byakugan the gentle fist,” he says she nods looking down
“don’t worry Sakura after this is over, I will help you,” he says
“why,” she asks “are you doing this just to get me to go on a date with you,” she asks fist up ready to hit him
“No,” he says flatly “simply put if we are going to be on a team I refuse to always rescue you,” he says she looks away “but I will help you with training but we need to go get Sasuke so we can work together all of us together should be able to get the bells,” he says she nods
“Alright,” she says “but only is Sasuke-Kun passes,” she says
“he’s that way” Naruto points in a direction and she goes that way he follows but as the wind blows her hair moves out of the way showing a seal on the back of her neck ‘found it’ he thinks he takes the lead and they turn up to see Sasuke with only his heads in above the ground
“hey get me out of here done,” Sasuke says Naruto stares at him
“do you want to go get the bells,” he asks
“of course I do so get me out so I can get one,” he says glaring at him
“I have a plan to get the bells,” he says
“I don’t need your plans” Sasuke glares at him angrily
“and where did that get you dumbass trapped underground and without help you cannot get out,” Naruto says as he knelt down to Sasuke glares up at him Naruto voice took a much darker tone “and if I were an enemy all it would take is a single kunai and,” he says as he pulls out a kunai as the tip is pointed at Sasuke head
“dead” Naruto says with a simple glare “now do you want to help and get a bell or do you want to wait there and not get one and go back to the class,” he says
“I don’t need your help dobe” Sasuke says Naruto shrugs
“Sakura we cannot win now,” Naruto says simply
“but you were able to keep Kakashi on the ropes,” she says “oh right,” she says remembering what he said before
“exact if he saw me as a proper threat and go all out I would end up just like Sasuke head barrier underground and I have trump card I want to keep hidden encase it might not even guarantee a win anyway,” he says shrugging
“dobe how do you have this much power,” Sasuke says still trying to get out
“training,” Naruto says as he gets up
“give me that power dobe” Sasuke says
“no,” Naruto says simply “and if you keep pestering me about it I will leave you and not get you out,” Naruto says Sasuke shuts up “but I will only help you our if you help with my plan,” he says Sasuke glares
“never,” Sasuke says Naruto gets up to walk away as Sasuke screams at him Naruto goes to the same spot as before he saw Kakashi reading
“here to fight again,” Kakashi says Naruto walks right past them and sits under a tree opened the book from before reading Kakashi looked shocked for several second “huh that’s a first,” he says
Time spik 12 am
The alarm rang just as Sasuke came into the clearing who yelled angrily Sakura came in just after the alarm went off looking quite dirty Anko came just after looking smug
“well looks like you failed,” Kakashi says he heard a jingling he saw Naruto holding both bells his book away he looked to his waist and saw two acorns
“when,” Kakashi asked as the other two genins just looked shocked
“When we first fourth when you had your nose in that book I used a chakra string to grab it and stop it from making noise,” he says with a smirk
“very well who are you giving the other bell too,” Kakashi asks Naruto smiled he cuts the bell in half and gives a half each to his teammates him keeping his own it being in his right hand and disappearing in a puff of smoke
“The test was about teamwork even if some didn’t get it,” he says a bit angry glaring at Sasuke who didn’t flinch just smirk that he had a bell “but you said nothing about not damaging the bells or cutting them so they both have the bell,” he says Kakashi sighed but with a bit of amusement
“well I did say you had to have a bell and you all do so you pass,” he says Sakura cheer Naruto smiles while Sasuke smirks “but,” he says getting their attention “you need a LOT of work easily you Sasuke,” he says Sasuke looked pissed off
“teamwork is important without it we are useless even Hokage-same if his team didn’t have teamwork they would have died many times over,” Kakashi says with a serious tone, not like the one he used, to begin with
“Follow me,” he says the three genin nod and Anko does as well curious about what they walk for a bit and reach a stone with names carved into it
“where are we Kakashi sensei,” Sakura asks
“We are at the memorial stone a place where all ninja who died in service,” he says he touches the stone “my teammates and my sensei are on this stone,” he says sadly
“do you know why,” he asks looking at them Naruto could tell from the text itself and the sombre tone Sasuke kept his mouth shut and Sakura did as well
“it’s because we constantly fought and tried to outdo each other and never work together,” he says “it led to one of my teammates captures and giving their life for me and another dying trying to get them back,” he says sadly
“there was a saying that one of my teammates had that has to hold, ‘those who break the rules are trash but those who betray their comrade are worse than trash’” he says in a serious tone
“that single rule I have seen play out many times over one betrays another and died horrible people who work together live to fight another day and are happy they lived,” he says he turns to the group and stairs at them
“that is why we need teamwork because without a team we are useless alone,” Kakashi says with a matter a fact tone naruto agrees with him without the people who helped him he would be utterly useless
“speak for your self I am an elite” Sasuke says
“so was my teammate he was an Uchiha as well and he died because he was alone,” Kakashi says glaring at Sasuke who flinched “I would recommend not speaking I’ll in such a place especially if it’s not anything arrogant,” he says “arrogant gets you killed,” he says with a frown under his mask
“tomorrow at 9 am same training ground we are going to do some training and take some missions,” he says getting a nod they leave Anko patting him on the shoulder him giving a nod back to the special jonin who gives him a kind smile not fitting of her reputation before disappearing in a scale shushin
End of chapter