Chapter 4 - Survival Training

A day passed since the first meeting with Kakashi and Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura waited in the training field.

Naruto looked at the Sun as they've been waiting for quite awhile. Well… awhile is an understatement they've been here since 5 f*cking AM! It's about to be 10 AM!

"I should have seen this coming… Kakashi-sensei was late in the genin team formation too…" Naruto murmured sluggishly while leaning against a tree.

Sasuke and Sakura who heard Naruto's murmur looked at his way and they silently agreed.

A silhouette suddenly appeared to be seen traveling through the branches of trees and arrived in front of them.

"Hey guys, good morning!" Kakashi greeted with a smile as he looked at them

Naruto said in response "Good morning my ass! You're f*cking late!"

Sakura nodded like crazy while Sasuke looked like he wanted to kill Kakashi.

"Haha… Sorry about that, there's this old lady…" Kakashi began bullsh*tting which Naruto cut off "Yeah, yeah. And after that you met a black cat or something right? You made the same reasons yesterday enough with the bullsh*t and let's start the training."

"You guys are no fun." Kakashi sighed as Naruto cut him off and put his bag down and brought out an alarm clock and set it for noon and put it on top of a tree stump "Okay. This alarm clock is set for noon."

"?" Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura looked at Kakashi in confusion as they looked at the alarm clock

Kakashi answered their confusion by bringing out two bells "Here are two bells. Your task is to take these from me before noon. Those who cannot get a bell for noon… get no lunch… He'll not only get lunch he/she'll be tied to the tree and watch his/her teammates and me eating lunch."

Naruto's eyes twitched at this sentence as he thought 'So that's why he didn't let us eat breakfast.'

Kakashi continued as he waved the bell in the air "You only need to get one bell. There are only two, so one of you will definitely be tied to a stump. And… the person who doesn't take a bell fails. So, at least one of you will be sent back to the academy.

Naruto smiled while Sasuke and Sakura sweated as they didn't get the hint Kakashi said yesterday before he left.

Kakashi looked at Naruto in surprise. 'I guess only one person got the message from the printout.' He continued speaking from where he left off "You can use shurikens. You won't succeed unless you come at me with the intent to kill."

Sakura, filled with ignorance of the ninja world said in a bit of worry "B-but! You'll be in danger!"

Naruto sighed and explained "You think a jounin with like a million times more experience than us would be in danger just because of us fresh out of the academy not even genin ninjas?"

Sakura stared at Naruto knowing that there were some truths in Naruto's words where Kakashi nodded in agreement to Naruto "That's right. Right now, you're comparable to ants against me so I advise you to do your best fighting against me and of course with the intent to kill."

Naruto smirked and started weaving hand seals for [Wind Style: Great Breakthrough]. [Tiger -> Ox -> Dog —--] but was stopped by Kakashi midway as he appeared in front of Naruto suddenly while nonchalantly saying in a badass way"Slow down… I haven't started yet…"

Sakura 'No way… I couldn't even see…'

Sasuke 'So this is a Jounin huh…'

"Hehe~ I'm sorry… Sensei~" Naruto cheekily retorted

"Haha… You're so cheeky. Well… Let's get going. Ready. Start!" Kakashi said and let go of Naruto's hand seals disappearing into the woods

Naruto also ran fast towards the opposite of Kakashi's direction while saying "Sasuke! Sakura! Follow me!"

Sasuke nodded and followed Naruto as he has a certain level of trust towards this rival of his.

Sakura also followed being the biggest fan of Sasuke, she'd follow him everywhere.

Kakashi, who was watching the three genins in the distance , thought 'Hoh… It seems like this team of mine will pass this time.'

…

The three met up in the distance.

"So what'd you call for?" Sasuke asked Naruto

Naruto replied "Well… you didn't see Kakashi-sensei move right? You know we won't stand a chance if we don't work together. Let's worry about who passes and who doesn't later when we get a bell."

Sasuke recalled Kakashi suddenly appearing in front of Naruto and nodded "So? What's the plan?"

"You'll work with me to fight against Kakashi-sensei. What are the jutsu's you know?"

"Well… all the basic jutsu in the academy and [Fire Style: Great Fireball]."

Naruto rubbed his chin and replied "Well… I expected as much, it's just like mine the only jutsu besides the academy basic jutsu's I know is the [Wind Style: Great Breakthrough]"

"My Shurikenjutsu is also advanced and involves some wire maneuvering too."

"I see… then we'll do this… and that…" Naruto talked about his abilities and Sasuke's abilities with each other. Meanwhile Sakura was looking at the two with a bit of panic because she was being left out "Um… what about me…?" She asked

Naruto stopped speaking for a moment and looked at Sakura, Sasuke also looked at her.

Naruto then said to Sakura "You're weak so you can't participate in the close combat battle. And I don't know your fighting style, meanwhile, Sasuke here is like my brother from another mother despite always arguing with one another. So? What do you think you can do to help in this training?"

Sasuke silently agreed and nodded

Sakura was a bit heartbroken by what Naruto just said but knew it was true. Although they might fight a lot they're like brothers to each other. So she replied after carefully analyzing her abilities. "How about I set up traps?"

"Traps huh? I guess that's a better use for you instead of fighting with us upfront." Naruto said as he pondered what they could do with traps.

Sasuke then asked Sakura "What kind of traps can you set up?"

Sakura was relieved that she made a great decision to mention traps, she knew he couldn't keep up with them in terms of fighting directly "Well, I can set up traps like a rope in the ground" She brought out paper seals and continued "I can use these seals to make the ropes transparent." She brought out another kind of seal and said "I also have explosive tags. I only have 2 so I can only set up two wire traps if triggered will explode."

"I see… That's actually not bad. But Sensei is a jounin. Leading him to a trap will be quite difficult. Do you think you can set up traps as the battle goes on and predict where the battle might head to?" Naruto asked, trying to know Sakura's limit.

"I think so. The explosive wire trap is simply a wire with kunai's on both sides so probably. And I can also try to guess where the battle is headed. Forgive me if I can't make an accurate trap." Sakura blushed in embarrassment

"No need to be embarrassed. A battle doesn't always go as planned so we certainly wouldn't blame you for that."

Sasuke nodded silently agreeing and said "So let's do it then?"

"Yup! Sakura, watch the fight, find opportunities to throw kunai and set up traps." Naruto instructed

"Got it!" Sakura replied enthusiastically.

"Let's go, Sasuke!"

"Don't order me around!" Sasuke replied but was excited to fight against Kakashi with Naruto.

Kakashi was reading in the open field of the training field.

"That guy's messing with us… He's reading." Sasuke gritted his teeth as his anger issues was triggered

Naruto patted Sasuke's shoulder and said "Okay, okay. Don't get so jumpy. Let's go."

Sasuke breathed out and calmed down and followed Naruto. "Do a great fireball in Kakashi-sensei's direction."

Sasuke looked at Naruto at first but realized what would happen and weaved hand seals. At the same time Naruto also weaved hand seals.

Sasuke breathed in a lot of air and released it out in the form of flames, [Fire Style: Great Fireball!] "Fuuuu!!!!". Naruto also breathed in a lot of air at the same time, [Wind Style: Great Breakthrough!] "Haaaaa!!!"

Sasuke's jutsu and Naruto's jutsu fused and Sasuke's original fireball turned into a tunnel of fire coming towards Kakashi that almost broke the speed of sound. But Kakashi just sighed 'I'm gonna have these kids as my pupils later? I don't know if I'll be relieved or worried." Kakashi weaved hand seals and sealed the ground [Earth Style: Mud Wall!]

The ground trembled and a thick wall made out of mud appeared in front of Kakashi. Sakura, who was watching from the side, thought 'Now!' and jumped up from the bush to the top of a tree and threw a kunai with an explosive tag attached to it to Kakashi.

Kakashi saw this in the corner of his eye and thought. 'Not bad. But I saw it so it won't work.' Kakashi was still blocking the fused Jutsu of Naruto and Sasuke but undid his chakra flow into the jutsu and before the mud wall was destroyed by the fused jutsu, in that tiny fraction of a few seconds. He used [Body Flicker Technique] to disappear from the place and dodge the kunai with an explosive tag.'

Sasuke and Naruto undid the jutsu as they felt the explosion

Sasuke asked "Did we get him?"

Naruto replied "Nah… Probably not. The tag exploded because our jutsu hit it, not because it reached the target."

Sasuke nodded as he noticed the explosion was indeed a bit too high.

Sakura used [Body Flicker Technique] as well to appear beside Naruto and Sasuke "I'm sorry. I thought I got him but he escaped."

Naruto smiled in reply "Don't worry. Sakura-chan. I won't blame you for that but we certainly underestimated Kakashi-sensei even though we prepared for a bit."

He then was startled along with Sasuke and Sakura as they heard a voice "Well… you certainly did."

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