Tests
This had been beta’d by the lovely Ankaa Sage!
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Sasuke and Naruto got training ground 7 to see Sakura already there, leaning against the third stump that was in the ground, looking highly bored till she saw Naruto and Sasuke.
"Sasuke! You're here!"
She had a large smile on her face but when she looked at Naruto she scowled and shouted in anger, "Naruto! Why are you so late?!"
In return Naruto just raised a brow and sat a top of the middle log, one leg raised with her wrist leaning against it. "I love how you noticed I was late and felt the need to complain about it, yet Sasuke and I both got here the same time. I will also take the moment to say, you realize I sent a message to you last night, saying our sensei would come late and yet here, you are, hungry and bored."
Sakura opened her mouth, most likely to berate the blonde, however, Kakashi chose that moment to poof in front of them from the trees where he had been a few minutes before they got there.
"Well. It would seem you're all here. My test is pretty simple." he pulled two bells from out of nowhere and showed it to them. "You need to get these bells before noon. See, simple."
"Um but sensei? There are only two bells and three of us?" asked Sakura. Naruto felt like facepalming and did so. She had explained the test to Sakura the night before in her letter and yet she still decided to ask stupid questions.
Giving an eye smile Kakashi resisted the urge to copy the blonde and said, "Well only two of you can pass this test, meaning one of you will be sent back to the academy, or if I'm feeling generous, I'll give you another shot afternoon, however the weakest from the first round will have to be tied to the post without lunch."
As if on cue Sakuras stomach growled loudly whereas Sasuke and Naruto's were fine.
So Naruto and Sasuke can think for themselves. Naruto, I hope you're prepared for my bombardment of questions I have for you later. Thought Kakashi.
"I think he's having a little too much fun with this."
"I am still curious as to why you told him last night you were a girl and not tell him today."
"Because I may be powerful but Kakashi is the one that helped me to become so. He still has the one-thousand years of death up his sleeve and I have no intention of having that up my ass. No thank-you."
By the time she was done talking to Kurama, Kakashi had already taken out the timer and just yelled for them to go.
Sasuke joined where Naruto was so they could plan together, "So dobe, how are we going to get Sakura on board?"
"I didn't think you'd be all that willing to join forces, to be honest. I'm shocked." she wasn't really but she had to keep up pre-tenses.
"I can't be sent back to the academy, I have too many things to be getting on with that won't work if I'm stuck in a classroom all day," he replied in a hushed voice. He thought he heard something and quickly looked around and saw a squirrel.
Nodding she said, "Well first I suggest we move because he's spotted us." with that she grabbed Sasuke by the upper arm and shunshined quite a distance from Kakashi's somewhat all-seeing eyes. "Okay, so first I take you to where she is, then you go to her and tell her we need to work together, then call me out when she agrees and we'll come up with a plan when we get there. Or I might just think of a plan as you convince her."
He nodded but internally he wondered when Naruto became so smart. He knew she wasn't the complete idiot people thought she was, but he didn't know just how clever she truly was. When he thought about it, he didn't know very much about Naruto besides what perhaps everyone in Konoha did, despite the fact that she would have been a matriarch of his clan. I'll have to fix that later.
Naruto grabbed him by his upper arm again and shunshined them to Sakuras general location, just a few trees behind her. Sasuke went to do his thing and convince her to join them as Naruto thought of what to do. She could distract Kakashi with a clone whilst Sasuke attacked him with a fireball and Sakura with some kunai with explosive tags attached to it, as the real Naruto come from underground and grabs the bells and tosses it the other two, explaining how they had worked together.
Fool proof right?
Kakashi was bored.
Even with his precious Icha Icha book in his hands, he was still bored.
Why?
These three children knew how to hide, Sasuke and Sakura not hiding their chakra properly, however, he could barely sense Naruto. Truthfully, he couldn't feel Naruto at all.
He stood in the middle of training ground 7, looking everywhere, discreetly smelling and listening to anything and everything around him.
He wasn't bored for long though, as all three of them started to attack him up front. They all came together, he noted, so they must have planned it.
At this point, he knew that even if they didn't get the bells from him, he would still pass them. They looked at each other every so often that clearly showed that they planned something and wanted to make sure everything was going right.
If they're all in front of me, who do they intend to take the bells? It was then that he felt the ground below him move slightly.
His eye went wide slightly before he chuckled, and jumped.
This may just be more interesting than I thought.
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Her plan was fool proof. Or so she had thought.
Kakashi, sannin knows how, had sensed or felt her coming and jumped into the air avoiding her attack, as they re-enacted her plan, so she had to try something else. She signaled for the two of them to carry on how they saw fit as she got out her tonto and fused it with her wind chakra and some lightning, going to close combat fighting instead.
If Kakashi was surprised, Naruto didn't get the chance to see as she was too busy concentrating on the fight at hand. Had this been a fight in her original body, it wouldn't require this much concentration, however, her strength was less than half the strength she had in the future unless she accessed at sage mode which would give her body a lot of endurance.
To deflect her attack, he raised a kunai after and put away his book that always annoyed her to no end. Now, Naruto had nothing against the book, most of the powerful shinobi and few kunoichi, herself included, read those books, but like the memorial stone, it took a lot of Kakashi's attention so once she lost her temper she had cut it with her wind.
The two of them were at his apartment, Naruto making eggplant soup and as she was telling him about her day, he was reading his book. She was used to Kakashi not showing interest in her during the day with people around but seeing him do the same thing in the private confines of his home, where they could be themselves made her lose it. She had ripped the book into pieces and left the apartment, going to get rid of some pent up frustrations and came home to see Kakashi already waiting for her there and asked her to forgive him, he had bought the food she had made them and decorated her dining table with a silk cloth and candles. And as always, whenever he did apologize, she forgave him and had dinner with him. He hadn't wished to upset her further and had not bought the book instead so she had done it for him and told him not to read it when they were alone since they didn't get very much alone time back then.
Kakashi had the advantage, in the fight, he had his adult body which had all his strength with it. Even if he wasn't as strong as future Kakashi still overpowered her so discretely she absorbed some nature energy into a clone, not enough to enter sage mode, just enough to raise her strength.
He had at some point sent her tonto flying leaving the two to fight in hand-to-hand combat and despite being at an obvious disadvantage she was doing okay. Naruto was no idiot, she knew he was holding back but not even he could focus on holding back and his surroundings, so once again when Kakashi hit her, she replaced herself with her clone who continued the fight, she placed more chakra into it to make sure it didn't disperse just by being hit.
Real Naruto joined up with Sasuke and Sakura then proceeded to replace them with henged versions of her clones as themselves as she spoke with them. "Okay, new plan. Before I continue, we're a team so I want to know if you have any ideas?" they both looked at Sakura since she was best with book smarts but she shook her head, no. "Okay, I'll make a bunch of clones, me and Sasuke will attack him upfront and behind whilst Sakura and a clone go to get the bells."
"Um, Naruto. If the purpose of the test to teamwork, well we're doing that. Why do we need to actually get the bells?" she asked quietly, not wanting Kakashi to hear her as she twiddled her fingers through her hair.
Sasuke, who hadn't said anything silently agreed with her. "Simple. I seriously just want to get those wretched bells off him and rip that I-know-more-than-you-dolooks right off his face. That's why." In the future, she had managed to get the bells with Sakura, and although she did know a way to get the bells off him on her own, this was a test of teamwork and not to see if they could get the bells.
There were 3 months during her time with Jiraiya that she had been kidnapped by Akatsuki, and Itachi had asked her why no one simply used kawarimi to get the bells. It was so simple yet no one but the Uchiha prodigy had thought about it. When he had suggested it, she had turned around on her bed and screamed into the pillow for not having thought about it before.
Both Sasuke and Sakura looked skeptical, wondering if it was a good enough reason to go through all the trouble, but decided to do it since he had made them wait for so long yesterday and today, well not for Naruto and Sasuke, but still.
This time when they reenacted Naruto's plan, they succeeded to the joy of Kakashi, if his smile was anything to go by. He gave the same who is scum speech before giving a pointed look at Naruto before saying he was going to see Konoha's view by poofing out. Again. Naruto internally sighed and followed him over to her dads head via shunshin leaving Sasuke with the banshee.
Kakashi had already taken the comfiest spot of the rock, her spot, and she sighed before moving to stand across from him.
"Konoha is truly beautiful, wouldn't you agree Naruto?" he asked, not taking his eyes off the village he and many others protect.
"You're right, but I think we're kinda biased, with it being our home and everything, 'tebayo." she took a seat a meter or so away from him in her meditating pose as she waited for Kakashi to begin.
"Tell me what you think I should know about you before I start asking questions."
"Well, last night I told you I was a girl. Mostly so you didn't end up using the one-thousand years of death on me but still. You already know I'm the host of the nine tailed fox, I am your late sensei, Minato Namikaze and his late wife, Kushina Uzumaki's daughter. I was sort of engaged to Shisui Uchiha from before my birth. My parents decided that, so if something should happen at my birth and no one wished to marry me, Shisui would do so, hence why the old man always sent me to him." she paused when in the corner of her eye, she could see a crow with red eyes, but shook her head and continued. "I have full control over the nine tails. Oh before I continue, please promise me you won't tell the old man? I swear none of this is threatening to Konoha and if you think it is, tell him only the parts that are."
Kakashi looked strangely at the blonde before him and gave her a smile before ruffling her hair, "I promise. Unless a time comes and I need to tell him due to Konoha's safety."
Her heart skipped a beat at seeing him trust her so easily before she continued, "The nine tails has a name, Kurama. A few years ago, he and I became one. It took some time since when I tried to remove the seal on the cage dad showed up fixed it, then later I broke the seal again to merge our two chakras when my mum appeared and spoke to me for long time." she gulped and held back tears as she remembered meeting her mother all those years ago. Taking a shaky breath, she tried to stabilize her breathing and when she felt Kakashi's hand on her shoulder she managed to do so. "Um, in a few months I'll be uh, starting my cycle. I can deal with that what I can't deal with is the side effect of being merged with Kurama's chakra. I'll be going into heat regularly and he is quite picky about the men he believes will be able to help."
Kakashi's only showing ear turned red as he understood what the girl was saying. She needed someone to sate her more carnal desires and the person had to be powerful if he understood correctly. "What is it, who?"
There was a long pause that put Kakashi on further edge. If Naruto went into heat, many men would want her and some might not be willing to listen to reason since it was the almighty nine-tailed fox demon causing those hormones to activate. If anyone dared to touch her he would have to hunt them down and give them a piece of his mind and make them do right by his senseis legacy.
He thought of different shinobi that were strong, he even went for rogues. Gai. Asuma. Iruka. Sasuke. Itachi. Genma. Raido. Ibiki. Deidara, the blonde student of the tsuchikage. Shisui, no he was dead. Shikamaru, Shikakus son. Neji, Hiashi's nephew. Perhaps the Inuzuka who was in her class. She did say she liked dogs.
He was bought out of his musings when Naruto told him who was the candidate and it made his heart drop to the pit of his stomach, "You."
TO BE CONTINUED!!!