"Team Seven, Uzumaki Naruto, Sainamu Toko, Uchiha Sasuke, your instructor is Hatake Kakashi. Team Eight(Canon from here on teams)."
"Yatta, Sainamu-kun we are on the same team!"
"I told you Naruto-kun, as long as you passed we would be on the same team." the girl he had addressed previously replied.
"Why is the Teme on the team though?"
"The Sacrifice upon the Altar of Certainty was that Sasuke-san would end up on the same team." calmly replied the girl.
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As Sasuke stared at her covertly, his incredulity hidden, he noticed a few things he had never bothered to notice about her, first, she wore non-prescription glasses, second, she had very long, wavy hair which had strange highlights, and finally, now that she had turned and the glasses were not in the way, her eyes had a strangely jewel toned green. Topping it off, she was even shorter than Naruto! Was that a senbon?
"Hmm, did you want to say something Sasuke-san?"
"Ah, no..." Sasuke turned away just in time to hide his flush of embarrassment... at getting caught.
"Are you sure?" she asked again... while setting in an odd crouched posture right in front of him!
"GAH!" was all he could get out as he fell back in his haste to get away from her projected head... and her massively huge eyes... how did she do that?
And then, as if to add insult to injury, she threw her head back, and laughed... not a chuckle, not a giggle, not a belly laugh. An honest to kami lung breaking head tossing cackling LAUGH... What was so funny? And now Naruto-dobe was joining in... Worst day EVER.
By the time their instructor had come in Sasuke was in no mood for Kakashi's mind games... Sainamu thought his introduction amusing... Sasuke started the handsigns for Gokakyu... and things got worse from there... but the bell test was on for the week after... or at least... 'Survival Training' was... it was the earliest Sasuke could possibly recover to combat capable from the NDS Sainamu had put him in
The medics had outdone themselves... Sasuke was back to his normal self... with a paranoia regarding Sainamu and Senbon pointing at him... but at least that was justified...
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(Insert standard Bell Test Intro Here, include Naruto's NDE)
"Intent to kill... so, we can go all out Naruto, ignore the bells, we can take them once he is out. We pass whether he is living, unconscious or dead." commented Sainamu.
"And how do you figure that?" asked Kakashi.
"In theory three Genin can take a Jonin. This theory leaves out a few things, One, the Genin are in top shape and the Jonin is somehow impaired, you do not have the use of one eye... so that kind of counts... not the sort of impairment I would like... but I will take what I can, even though you have had that impairment since becoming a Jonin... so you can fight without that eye at full power. Two, that the Genin have some advantage other than numbers, secret techniques, a totally trapped field, something like that... we do not have any of those. Three, that the Genin know the Jonin is there, and the Jonin does not know the Genin are. Four, the team MUST posses teamwork on par with or beyond that of the Sannin themselves. When all conditions are met and cleared the Jonin MIGHT be taken down... but they have at most a 10% chance, and at most a 1% chance of all three making it out alive... and that is with all three crippled for life... these statistics only apply if the Jonin is kind, or underestimates them, and further assumes the Jonin is under-skilled or average. And that the Genin are both advanced in skill, and experienced in battle. Three Green Genin fresh from the Academy... killing a Jonin? Nominally impossible, the Hokage would have to be nuts to pass on a team like that." explained Sainamu in a massive infodump for Sasuke and Naruto, who had up until then been intending to go solo and team up only with Sainamu respectively.
"Um, so we should all fight together and hit him with everything?" asked Naruto softly.
"Yes Naruto-kun, also, don't hold back, if he was intending to take us as students from the beginning he already knows everything there is to know about us... if not, maybe we can change his mind by showing off." Sainamu said, the second part as much to Sasuke as to Naruto.
"Right. Let's Go."
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Sainamu's glasses flashed as five senbon flew from each hand, the senbon striking before Kakashi had recovered from the disorienting flash... wait... why wasn't he recovering... he was getting worse? Poison? Maybe... he hadn't seen the senbon clearly enough to be sure.
Sainamu tilted her glasses again, flashing him, blinding him, by the time he blinked the dots from his eye the Genin were gone... in the same direction.
"Hmm, well, this is a good chance to see if they will properly look underneath the underneath... still, that kunoichi is scary, for a Genin." Kakashi commented.
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"Sainamu-kun... why did we run?" Naruto asked petulantly, "You had him in your genjutsu, we could have taken him."
"Naruto-kun, the way I used my Genjutsu gives us a long term advantage which will grow as time passes, my Magen: Akuma no Doki, feeds on the belief of the victim that they are poisoned, slowly increasing the types of symptoms and the severity of them. It is one of the few Genjutsu that can actually kill. Kakashi is however, certain to know a host of Poisons, it is why I used so many senbon, each of them actually carried a different poison, and each of the minor toxins they carried also contains a plant that can be used to make a much more toxic venom. This way when his symptoms begin to grow and he uses a diagnostic jutsu, he will find sufficient evidence that any non poison or medic specialized nin would dismiss the idea of genjutsu immediately. However, Akuma no Doki is a very fragile illusion, even just the shifting of chakra for combat will break it, especially in its early stages. We have to wait for an hour for its matrix to set deep enough to be unaffected by battle." Sainamu explained.
"And what about when he comes after us?" demanded Sasuke.
"He will not, Hatake Kakashi would be content to fail us for failing to do anything." replied Sainamu.
"Are you sure?"
"Hatake Kakashi is famous in certain circles for failing every genin team to be given him for the past decade... despite any pressure, despite any talent they may have shown, all were failed." replied Sainamu.
"Then how do we pass?" asked Naruto.
"Every one had a single note along with the AAR, 'Failed to Demonstrate Appropriate Levels of Teamwork for Field Ops'." replied Sainamu.
"We have to show... 'Teamwork'?" asked Sasuke in a somewhat annoyed and curious tone of voice.
"Yes. Teamwork well developed enough that Kakashi feels comfortable sending us on Field Ops straight after graduation... god damn the man has high standards. Until the hour is up we need to practice with each other, three way LIGHT spar, no bruises, no ninjutsu, no genjustu."
"Hai."
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"Hoh... what's this?" Kakashi commented as his eye widened at the spread of shuriken and kunai, along with the occasional, mostly off target... waay off target, senbon, coming from all angles, even above.
And then she was in front of him, and there was light... and she was gone and there was pain... fortunately he had kawarimi'ed before anything important was hit... still, at least two students had worked together well enough that perfectly green genin had injured a Jonin... had he been slower he would have taken a fatal hit... not good. Where is Sasuke... oh, there he is... and that was a trap.
And now Kakashi is hanging... and then there was fire and another metal ring and more light... and Kawarimi... and now he has more wounds... and burns... and all three team members have worked together... they probably did last time as well.
Back to the site of the first ambush... and yup, the weapons have three distinct levels of quality, Pariah, Mixed Family Orphan, and Clan Heir... they worked together alright.
Well... just for that he should pass them... but really that would be too easy... he needs to make sure that they are not just trying to kill him and hope they pass that way... he needs to make sure that this really is teamwork, teamwork for the teams sake.
Time to turn it up a notch.
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As expected, the first two ambushes went off without a hitch, the other two wanted to try a third... so I humored them. And as I expected, it failed, Kakashi had probably gone to verify that we had worked as a team on the first ambush. I knew what he would find.
My Uncle this time around had been much nicer than last time... even if he didn't get the Ninja Stuff, he had friends who had family involved, so I knew Hatake Kakashi's rep. He was a badass... as in Dumbledore level skill, with Voldemort level ruthlessness when those who are 'Comrade' are threatened. I knew we would start being the hunted soon. So it was time to move.
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I did not get why Sainamu wanted us to leave the ambush site... until she told me to leave a bunch of henged clones behind... when the memories returned... and for the first time I realized what Shadow Clones could Really DO... I was also terrified... a Burnt and Torn Kakashi had just gone through my clones like a whirlwind loose wheat.
When I related what my clones death had told me, she smiled at me and said, "It is to be expected, Hatake Kakashi was a Jounin at 13, Chuunin at 6, and graduated at 5, after spending one month in the academy, not even Itachi matched his record of ascension. Hatake Kakashi is also rumored to be a possible Hokage candidate, but not an Aspirant."
"What is the difference?" I asked, wanting to know how someone could be on the list but not be looking to be on the list.
"The Hokage Candidates are a list of potentials made by the Hokage in case of his death without successor, in such a case, the Council will choose from among the Listed. A Hokage Aspirant seeks to become the successor more directly." she replied, still smiling secretively.
Then Sasuke piped up, "Why didn't your Genjutsu do anything?"
"My Genjustu is currently focusing its energies into expanding the matrix according to the directions the poisons I implanted into Kakashi with my Senbon provide, thanks to that, when it does kick in, Kakashi will be even less suspicious, in theory." her smiling face replied.
"In theory?" Sasuke said, his head tilted quizzically.
"Magen: Akuma no Doki is a Genjutsu I created, most Genjutsu are like that actually, I just got a head start."
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Hmm, I just killed a whole load of clones... and now I am starting to feel nauseous did Naruto already figure out the Doki Kage? No... he doesn't have the control or knowledge for that one... I will have to rectify that... hmm... the Senbon! It must have been a delayed poison on the Senbon... but... why delay it... specifically for this ambush... but they immediately abandoned it... Genjutsu... clever girl, using the flash of her glasses as the carrier, almost no warning, virtually impossible to detect... now then, lets see what it is... hmm, this matrix is odd... lets run a diagnostic since it seems to be... oh my... I actually AM poisoned... and that is some pretty heavy stuff for a genin to get her pretty little hands on, now why did I ever think it could be... that genjutsu is seriously insidious... and dangerous.
Ok, lets see what this matrix looks like... oh my... that is scary...she was NOT kidding around when she said they would pass even if they had to do it over my cooling corpse... yep, this is clearly teamwork for the team, if they wanted to kill me they would have waited till the genjutsu activated and THEN ambushed me.
Still, KAI. Time to go find them and announce their passing... oops... looks like I missed something in that Diagnostic... oh dear... *thump*
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Hoh, he found Akuma no Doki... and activated the surprise... *Cackling Laugh* "Hey, come on, Kakashi-sensei was kind enough to knock himself out for us."
"Eh? What do you mean Sainamu-kun?"
"Simple, he found Magen:Akuma no Doki, and made a mistake." Sainamu commented.
"A mistake?" Sasuke asked... hoping not to run afoul the same sort of mistake.
"Hmm, when you encounter a Genjutsu user like me, always be careful about what might be on their weapons... their Genjutsu might be the Lock on another poison, and Kai the Key." with that Sainamu started leading them to Kakashi's unconscious form.
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