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Danzo was one of the last to enter the hokage's office. Sarutobi saw him enter and flashed him a half sad half disappointed look. Danzo focused on not showing his annoyance and took his seat in the shadows of the back wall. Sarutobi had been giving him that look ever since Nobutoshi had been killed. Hiruzen had obviously seen through his scheme and realized exactly who had ordered the hospital director's execution.
That had been allowed for in the plan. As long as Hiruzen thought that Danzo had Nobutoshi killed out of spite then the rest of the plan was safe from further scrutiny. Hiruzen couldn't afford to go public with his suspicions, and Danzo suspected that his rival didn't even want to. Two months ago Danzo had allowed himself a small sigh of relief when the hokage had put his public support behind the infiltrator story and they had both used it as an excuse to justify increasing the villages security for the upcoming chuunin exams.
At the time Danzo hadn't realized just how annoying Hiruzen could be just by looking disappointed. He strongly suspected that the hokage knew exactly how annoying Danzo found the looks, which of course made it even more annoying.
Danzo spared a moment to mentally mumble in an only half sarcastic tone about the things he did for Konoha before returning his focus to the hokage as the last of the jounin-sensei arrived. Hiruzen stood and addressed the ninja crowding into his office, 'Though it should be obvious to everyone gathered here, I'll introduce it properly. In seven days on the first day of the seventh month we will host the chuunin selection exams.'
From some of the mumbling it was at least a few of the jounin hadn't managed to divine the cause of the meeting before hand. Or decided to act like they were surprised for some reason or another. Or they were might guy. Danzo knew better than to try to listen in on whatever the green clad jounin was muttering about. He was old and wanted nothing to do with Gai's interpretation of youth. Danzo memorized each of the mutterers and resolved to have their files reviewed. A jounin of the leaf had no excuse for being surprised by an event which had been planned for the better part of a year. After a few moments more the hokage silenced the crowd with a wave of his hand. 'It is time for you to submit your genin if you believe they are ready. I don't have to tell you but a genin must have completed at least eight missions. Of course they normally have completed many more before they are recommended.' Hiruzen suddenly locked eyes with Danzo and said, 'We will start with the rookies.'
The crowd followed Hiruzen's gaze to Danzo. He smirked at the crowd and stood while mentally commending Hiruzen for allowing his team a bit of showmanship. His voice was absolutely flat and cold when he answered. 'The Danzo led team seven of Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno and Naruto Uzumaki...Under the name of Danzo Shimura I recommend them to take the chuunin selection exam.'
'What?' Danzo suppressed a snort of irritation when Kurenai interrupted the proceedings. He had hoped that the hokage's runt would speak out of turn. Cutting down the boy in front of his peers would have been a fair payback for how irritating Hiruzen was being. Danzo caught the hokage's slight wince at Kurenai's protest, and raised an eyebrow. The hokage coughed and started fumbling for his pipe.
The younger jounin must have missed the look of sympathy growing on Hiruzen's face and continued, 'Hokage-sama, please let me have a word. I may be speaking out of turn, but while Danzo-san's students are all very talented.' Danzo had to force his eye to not twitch; her tone indicated she believed his students were anything but talented. 'They are not experienced enough for this exam. They-'
Danzo cut her off, 'Where are your reports?'
Kurenai looked taken aback, and the room fell absolutely quiet. Kurenai broke the quiet a moment later with a quiet, 'What?' that she probably thought was threatening.
Danzo let a bit of drawl creep into his voice, 'The reports. The ones detailing your extensive observations of my team that make you more qualified to determine if they are ready for the chuunin selection exams than their teacher.' Danzo let Kurenai mumble for a moment, before continuing in a tone of fake surprise, 'Ah, you don't have them.'
Danzo twisted his face into a mix of disappointment and disgust as Kurenai mumbled. He gave her a few moments to stumble before he asked, 'Who are you girl?'
Kurenai's face went beet red at the implication that she was unworthy of remembering and Danzo heard a few snickers from some of the less disciplined jounin. The hokage's firm voice ended the snickers, 'Enough.' Hiruzen had either decided that he had humiliated Kurenai in front of her peers enough or he desperately wanted to move the meeting along before his formal robes caused him to overheat. Danzo couldn't tell.
'Yes hokage-sama, forgive an old man's senility.'
'Perhaps we should reconsider your position in light of your new found senility.'
Danzo put on a defeated look totally at odds with the satisfaction that he was feeling. After his little show no one would question his student's places in the chuunin exams, and Hiruzen had been able to shore up his authority in front of the younger, more ambitious jounin. That was even more important, since the advisory council's long term plans passed over the current generation of jounin when planning for the future holders of the hokage's hat.
He idly wondered how the jounin in the room would react if they knew that the pariah Naruto Uzumaki and the traitor Itachi Uchiha were both already closer to becoming the hokage than they would ever be. Then he was jarred out of his thoughts by something totally unexpected. Kurenai stood up suddenly and firmly stated, 'The Kurenai led team eight of Hinata Hyuga, Kiba Inuzuka and Shino Aburame...Under the name of Kurenai Yuuhi I recommend them to take the chuunin selection exam.'
Danzo considered the situation. According to the latest reports Kurenai's team was the weakest of the three rookie team, but as a recon team they would probably pass the first task. They were just competent enough to place themselves in far more danger than they could handle, and he couldn't do a thing to stop it after his earlier display. He wondered if Kurenai realized that and was cold enough to sacrifice her team over a slight.
Danzo caught the slight paling of a Hyuga branch member in the back of the room and something else occurred to him. Every bit of intelligence he had read on Hiashi indicated that he was irrationally overprotective of his daughters, especially the one intelligence reported he privately thought was too kind to be in the ninja service.
There was a strong chance that Hiashi had warned Kurenai against entering her team into the chuunin exams. If she was going against his warning and Hinata was killed or seriously injured then he would call for her head. And with the black mark that the loss of the Kurama heir had left on her record he would get it.
He looked at Hiruzen and realized that the hokage had reached the same conclusion, and that neither on of them could prevent what was to come without losing face because of the show they had just put on. The hokage accepted the nomination with a smile that was only slightly strained. They would have to change their plans for the chuunin exams to insure that the hyuga heir is protected or they risked internal strife and the loss of a valuable if troublesome jounin.
The hokage's runt spoke up next, 'The Asuma led team ten of Ino Yamanaka, Choji Akimichi and Shikimaru Nara...Under the name of Asuma Sarutobi I recommend them to take the chuunin selection exam.' Danzo hadn't expected Asuma's nomination either, but in light of Kurenai's it made sense. If Danzo remembered the dossiers correctly the members of team ten compensated for their lack of individual power with an excellent team dynamic.
Danzo thought they stood a solid chance of passing the team events, but would probably fail to advance in the individual rounds. Though, Shikaku's son would probably be a favorite in the biannual Root betting pool that always seemed to slip by his official notice.
Danzo suspected that he was the only one in the room who picked up the slight displeasure coloring the hokage's voice when he spoke. 'Hmm...All of them...how rare.' Then Danzo caught Asuma wince slightly and reevaluated his opinion. Maybe the runt wasn't a total waste after all.
The jounin-sensei of older team's quickly spoke up for their own teams. After watching all three of the rookie teams being recommended almost all of the jounin were nominating their own teams. Danzo mentally complemented the one jounin who broke the trend and refused to nominate her team despite the peer pressure. Hiruzen had recently given the women a very unusual replacement team member and it was obviously weighing heavily on the jounin.
When the last of the jounin had recommended their team for the chuunin exams the hokage was left with a bumper crop of candidates and the jounin started filing from the room. The chuunin academy instructor, Iruka Umino, caught Danzo's attention as he was about to leave the building. Danzo guessed what the chuunin wanted to discuss, but let the man catch him anyway. Danzo thought he owed the chuunin at least that much, the man had featured prominently as a stabilizing agent in Naruto's file.
Iruka introduced himself in a rush, 'Shimura-sama, I'm Iruka Umino. I teach at the academy...can I have a moment of your time?'
Danzo let the boy stew for a moment and idly wondered the boy's reasons for choosing the -sama honorific. He decided it wasn't out of any desire to brown nose and came to stop. He took a moment to give the younger ninja his copy of Hiruzen's grandfather smile and said, 'Yes, Naruto speaks of you often.'
The chuunin seemed unsure how to proceed for a moment, but then firmed his resolve and spoke the heart of his concern in a rush, 'Is Naruto really ready?'
'Naruto, not team seven?' The instructor reddened, but Danzo continued before he could speak up, 'After the unpleasantness with Kurenai, I can see why you wouldn't want to express your concerns publicly.'
Iruka scratched his head and said, 'Ah...yes.'
Danzo wondered if he had picked up that habit from Naruto or if Naruto had picked it up from him. Then he gave the boy a kind smirk at the reply before continuing, 'Naruto has grown since the academy.' Danzo saw Iruka's doubting look and continued in his copy of Hiruzen's grandfather tone, 'Don't take my word for it, feel free to check up on him yourself.' Danzo waved the boy out of the building ahead of him and idly wondered if Naruto had told Iruka he was a sensor.
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Sakura hung from the ceiling of her room with her chakra and did inverted situps. Her workout clothes clung tightly to her with another minor application of chakra. She was a bit proud of that, it had taken her two weeks to figure out how to keep her loose shirt from bundling around her shoulders and baring her midriff for the world to see. Of course when she had told the rest of team seven Naruto had ruined the moment by immediately offering to buy her a belt. She didn't talk to him for a week after that.
Sakura shook the sweat from her damp hair and did another repetition of a hundred situps. She did each situp slowly, making sure to work every muscle group like Gai had told her too. Apparently doing situps quickly like she had in the academy didn't really do her any favors if she wasn't doing them correctly.
After her ninth set of a hundred she hung loosely for a moment, trickling sweat into a small puddle below, and tried to catch her breath. Her whole body ached, and she was smiling. Gai had taught her a couple of lifestyle lessons while working on her stamina: Treat everything as an opportunity to improve yourself, keep working hard and you can reach your goal no matter what …. But the most important thing she had learned studying under Gai had definitely been unintentional.
If she worked herself to her absolute limit where at the end of the day all she could do was collapse weakly on her bed, then the nightmares wouldn't come. It had taken her approximately a second to realize that sore muscles were worth the price. Sakura took a sharp breath and started her last set of a hundred situps.
After finishing she carefully walked over to the wall and walked down from the ceiling. The one time she had just jumped her parents had been less than pleased. Her mother's rant about how she would break the floorboards had quickly devolved into the now infamous 'ninja or not speech.' The extra effort it took to get down without disturbing her parents was worth it if she avoided another argument.
Once she reached the ground spent a second rubbing her sore legs before glancing into the mirror. The last two months had left her face looking a bit gaunt, but in exchange her body had gained a layer of lean but defined muscle it had never had before. Her hair had grown out enough where she had to keep it in a small ponytail or it would end up in her face during training...She really needed another haircut.
Sakura pulled off her sweat soaked gray shirt and her baggy shorts and threw them into her hamper before glancing at her clock. She bit back a curse, she didn't have time to take a bath before she was supposed to meet the rest of the team at Ichiraku's Ramen. After they had come back from the Wave mission they had all drifted off into their own private training. Even though they were still doing D-ranks together and had group training once a week, Danzo-sensei had apparently worried about the separation. He had kept dropping increasingly obvious hints until they had established a weekly meeting to talk things over and build team relations.
Sakura started digging clothes out her closet. For some reason or another each member of team seven had decided without consulting the others to not wear the uniform Danzo-sensei had given them outside of missions or joint exercises.
She grabbed the set of spandex that Gai had given to her after her second week of endurance training then set it on the bed behind her with a small smile. She might be able to pull off green spandex a lot better than Gai and Lee, but it wasn't quite what she had in mind for an unofficial team meeting.
She eventually found a red cotton shirt that was embroidered with small flowers on one side. She gave the shirt a small smile before pulling it over her head. It had been a present from Ino for graduating the academy. She found a pair of white pants and threw them on a second later. Once she finished dressing, she gave the mirror another glace and gave her hair a few quick brushes while reaffirming her need for a haircut.
She shouted, 'I'm heading out!' down the stairs before leaping out of her window onto the rooftop across the street. She could hear her mother's complaints following her as she hopped from roof to roof across the residential district. Once she had learned that the second hokage had mandated that every building in Konoha must be reinforced for rooftop travel, she had challenged herself to running along the roofs everywhere she went. She had started with only traveling on the flat parts, but had since increased the difficulty to only use chimney's and telephone poles. Sakura cleared the residential district and made a mental vow to travel the rest of the way to Ichiraku's using only telephone poles, and if she couldn't do that then she would run along the roofs backwards after lunch!
Sakura came to a stop on a pole a few hundred yards down the road from Ichiraku's and made a an odd variant of the bird sign. The sign helped her slowly push her chakra into the air around her, searching for the slightest push back that aligning her chakra with natural chakra caused. Eight seconds later she felt the push. She smiled in satisfaction, but refused to let her concentration waiver. Sakura made another hand sign and wove her chakra into the world around her. After a few moments of effort she felt the natural chakra begin to drain her reserves. She relaxed and let her concentration slip. As long as she allowed the drain to continue the presence concealment technique would sustain itself.
She walked down the telephone pool into the street and moved through the crowd towards Ichiraku's Ramen. With a bit off effort could see Naruto sitting at the Ramen stand already. He was wearing a pair of dirty cut up fatigues and had his pair of tipless tanto strapped to his hips. She felt an irrational surge of relief that she wasn't the only one who had cut their training time too close to the meeting time.
She walked with the crowd as long as possible on her way towards the stand. When she finally had to break away she made sure to use a sliver of chakra to silence her footsteps. And then when she was ten feet away Naruto said, 'Did you know you're the only chakra signature in the city that randomly vanishes?'
He didn't even look up. Sakura pouted, 'Your range increased again.'
'It has to. Some pink haired maniac keeps trying to ambush me.'
Sakura rattled off an obviously fake laugh that screamed 'not funny' and took a seat next to her teammate.
He smirked at her, 'You know what would make your skulking ways more successful?' He didn't give her a chance to make a sarcastic reply. 'You need a mask.' He scratched his head and added, 'Maybe a cape too.'
Sakura didn't buy it for a moment. 'Naruto are you trying to get rid of evidence-'
Sasuke's called out from behind them, 'A cape and a mask?'
Sakura turned around and asked, 'How are you doing Sasuke-kun?' Sasuke had taken to wearing a pair of goggles ever since Kakashi had introduced him to anti-doujutsu techniques by throwing a half can of pepper in his face.
Sasuke smirked at her and answered, 'Fine.' Then he turned and asked, 'Naruto are you really trying to pawn off your superhero disguise on Sakura? Even Konohamaru isn't that stupid.'
Ayame appeared to take their orders and deliver a few glasses of ice water to ward off the summer heat. Sakura decided on a bowl of miso and Naruto said, 'I'll start with a deluxe Ayame-chan.' before turning to Sasuke with a big smile on his face and a argument on his lips, 'I disagree; Konohamaru really is that stupid.'
Sakura grinned and asked, 'Academy brat with short spiky brown hair and goggles?'
'Yeah he's the old man's grandson, you know him?'
Sakura shrugged then admitted, 'I put him in a humiliation genjutsu a couple months ago.'
Naruto started snickering, 'That was you? Moegi's been making fun of him for weeks.' Naruto laughed outright then continued, 'He broke down crying when when I told him that I was awesome and could do algebra.'
Sakura started laughing as well then asked, 'Alright, now you've heard mine, I want to her about why you need to get ride of a cape and mask?'
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Sasuke cut in, 'Oh, you haven't heard of the exploits of masked ninja-sama? She is my hero you know.'
Naruto made a face before protesting, 'Oh come on it wasn't that bad. Or maybe you want to addition as a villain? We could call you pink eye and tell all the academy students that you have a horrible infection.'
Sasuke didn't bite. 'I heard Ebisu is on the warpath.'
'I'm not scared of the closet pervert.'
Sakura sighed and asked, 'Are you going to tell or not?'
Naruto scratched the back of his head and said, 'Alright, you have to promise to take it in good humor though. I didn't mean it as an offense to females everywhere or something.'
Sakura knew she was going to regret it but insisted in a firm voice, 'Tell now.'
Sasuke answered before Naruto could work up the courage to tell her, 'You know that perverted transformation of his?'
'Yeah Naruko?'
Their was a moment of awkward silence before Naruto asked, 'You named it?...That's actually kinda creepy.'
Sakura stuttered and felt her cheeks heating. She tried her level best to keep the nervous titter out of her voice when she answered, 'It wasn't me-'
Naruto cut her off, 'Sakura's a pervert.'
A dozen possible arguments ran through Sakura's head, but she took one look at her teammates and sighed, 'I'm not going to win this am I.'
Naruto replied in an insufferably cheerful sing song tone, 'Nope.'
'Consolation prize then. Finish the story.'
Sasuke smirked and started again, 'During one incredibly boring day filled with one to many D-class missions.'
Sakura interrupted, 'So last Saturday?'
Naruto was nodding yes, but Sasuke huffed indignantly and asked, 'Do you want to hear the story or not?' She nodded and he continued, 'So last Saturday Naruto and I were walking by the academy and saw three young goggle adorned faces being subjected to a horrifying sight. Their instructor was teaching anatomy, with charts and all. I was content to walk on by, but the hero in Naruto just couldn't let the injustice pass. He produced a mask and cape which was on his person for some unknown reason.'
They turned to look at Naruto who was fidgeting awkwardly, 'Um that was Lain-chan's fault.'
'The sensor girl with the bear pajamas?'
'Yeah.'
'I want a pair of pajamas like that.' Naruto turned to stare at Sakura and her face went a bit red. She protested, 'What? They sound really cute.'
Sasuke huffed and said, 'So Konohamaru's creepy instructor, Ebisu, apparently brought one of those models ANBU use for their courses to help explain, but when he opened the bag a transformed Naruto in nothing but a mask and a cape was inside. The instructor about fainted from shock at the sight and Naruto took the opportunity to jump out and give Konohamaru's little gain a speech before calling himself masked ninja-sama and vanishing into the woods.'
Naruto paused a moment then chimed in with a correction. 'It wasn't shock that made Ebisu faint; he's just a pervert.'
Sakura nodded and quashed instant desire to protest out of feminine pride long enough to picture Ebisu's face. She let Naruto stew a moment before admitting, 'That's actually pretty funny. So why were you pawning the cape and mask off on me?'
'Ah, that's because Ebisu is making a big commotion over the whole thing and trying to get me punished for my 'impudence,' but since all he saw was a henge he can't prove anything.'
'So if someone else was spotted with the cape then he would loose face for jumping to conclusions about you? All right I'll take the cape if you can convince someone else to wear the mask.'
'Okay, I'll call in a couple favors Kiba owes me for taking the heat when we did stupid things in the academy.'
'That's even better since they will blame it on Kiba instead of me.' Sakura suddenly smirked in a way that made Naruto flinch, 'You know his mom will kill him if she thinks he did that.'
Naruto suddenly felt extremely apprehensive about the plan to get rid of evidence. 'You know the only way his mom would find out is if you told her or Hana.'
It was Sakura's turn to respond in an insufferably cheerful, 'Yep.'
Their was an awkward pause long enough for Ayame to arrive with the food. Naruto decided to dig in instead of asking why exactly Sakura wanted to ruin Kiba's life. Partly because he felt a bit bad about helping Sakura with what had to be revenge for something, and partly because Ayame had brought delicious delicious ramen.
Naruto ate quick and put in an order for another before asking, 'So is the scary old lady still running you ragged?'
Sakura took a sip of water before halfheartedly correcting, 'Utatane-sama. At the recommendation of Jounin Gai she has started alternating taijutsu exercises and evasion exercises.' Sakura made a face and complained, 'I'm not sure which one of those is supposed to be the light day.'
'Does Gai's clone still have a crush on you?'
'Yes. Though he still hasn't asked me out or anything. I think Gai might have a ban on relationships during duty like Danzo-sensei. Or Gai might have just warned his clone off.'
'So no torrid romances this week?' Sasuke prodded.
Sakura brushed off her irritation. 'You shouldn't make fun of him.'
Naruto caught and undertone of genuine respect in Sakura's voice and bit back a follow up comment. That tone made Naruto hold off further comments until he had more to go on that Sakura's half serious complaints. No matter how much fun it was to needle Sakura on what she had introduced as the greatest crime to fashion in history.
Sasuke either missed the tone Naruto noticed or simply didn't care. He played with his goggles and said, 'I still don't understand why someone who can't do ninjutsu hasn't been washed out of the program.'
Naruto rolled his eyes and watched on as Sakura responded in a very cold tone, 'Sasuke in a spar between you and him, he wouldn't lose.'
Sasuke frowned at the reply and his cheeks reddened a bit. 'Who would spar a taijutsu specialist. In a real fight I would definitely win.'
Naruto thought Sasuke was probably right, but suspected that at least part of the heat in his cheeks was because Sasuke realized exactly how badly a taijutsu only spar would go for him. It was a point of embarrassment for Sasuke that his taijutsu had improved only marginally since the academy and that he was using his sharingan to compensate. The lack of improvement wasn't his fault of course. He had been busy training hard at other things, but it still bothered the Uchiha. Which was exactly why Sakura had brought it up.
For the next few minutes, Sasuke and Sakura quietly picked at their ramen while Naruto devoured his. Naruto called out an order for another bowl before starting up the conversation again, 'So do either of you know whats going on between old man hokage and Danzo-sensei?' Naruto made a face and complained, 'They've been making me run messages back and forth between them for two months now. And yesterday old man hokage asked me a bunch of really weird questions about Danzo-sensei and our training.'
Sakura clapped her hands in realization and said, 'That's what Utatane-sama was complaining about!'
Sasuke and Naruto stared at Sakura for a few seconds, before she blushed and explained, 'She's been complaining off and on about 'pig-headed men acting like children' for awhile now. Apparently she's really fed up playing peacemaker.'
Sasuke's frown was back and he asked, 'Why do you want to know?'
Naruto took a sip of water and answered, 'I don't really have a reason; I just want to know whats going on.' Naruto scratched his head and continued, 'When Lain and Fu showed up to help me with training while I was suspended I was almost certain that the old man had sent them. You know, as a bit of under the table help since he didn't agree with the suspension or something. But yesterday he didn't seem to know who they were.'
The three of them spent a few minutes in quiet consideration before Sasuke said, 'He could just be denying it in case someone complains.'
'No he definitely wasn't.'
'Isn't that a bit presumptuous? Thinking you can get a clear read on the hokage?'
Naruto shook his head and explained, 'I'm not really sure why, but he lets his guard down around me.' Sasuke opened his mouth to protest that the hokage's apparent relaxation was just an illusion, but Naruto cut him off, 'I might be a lot more observant now than I was before-'
Sasuke interrupted and smirked. 'That's an understatement.'
Naruto ignored the jibe and doggedly continued, '-But I remember him acting the same way even when I would meet him during my academy years. He really relaxes around me; I just wish I knew why.'
'So who do you think sent your temporary instructors?'
Naruto didn't hesitate, 'Either Danzo-sensei or Kakashi. I'm leaning towards Danzo-sensei because they obviously had his permission, and I think he would have refused anything Kakashi set up for me on general principle.'
Sasuke nodded and smirked, 'Danzo-sensei is still going out of his way to express just how dissatisfied he was with the wave mission.'
Sakura frowned for a moment then protested, 'I just don't buy it. Why would he suspend you in the first place if he was just going to assign someone to teach you during the suspension?'
Naruto shrugged and said, 'I don't know. Maybe regulations required it.'
'No. A jounin-sensei has total control over any and all discipline his genin require. Even hokage-sama can't do anything about it short of relieving the jounin.'
Sasuke finally voiced his opinion in a very neutral tone, 'It is possible that their current hostility is related to the recent assassination of the hospital director.'
'Wait the director was assassinated? Danzo-sensei told us that he committed suicide.'
Sasuke sighed and said, 'Naruto you need to read more into these things. Don't you remember how wound up the village was for a couple days after the director died? They wouldn't have reacted like that for a suicide.'
Naruto nodded in sudden realization, 'They reported it as a suicide because admitting a successful assassination occurred makes us look weak to the other countries.'
'Exactly.'
Sakura nodded slowly as she thought through Naruto's logic, then she asked, 'But why would that cause hostility between the hokage and Danzo-sensei?'
Sasuke paused for a moment then said, 'Danzo-sensei is apparently well known for constantly wanted to increase the village's security. The hokage might just be frustrated because this assassination proves him right.' Sasuke frowned again and added, 'Or it could be because Danzo-sensei lead the council in embarrassing the director a few days before he died. Embarrassing the man was fine while he was alive, but after a murder it probably left a bad taste in the hokage's mouth that he is taking out on sensei.'
Naruto ran his finger through the bottom of his empty ramen bowl and said, 'I just thought of something-'
'Shocker.'
Naruto frowned at Sasuke's interruption and continued, 'Danzo-sensei is our teacher, but he made Kakashi take us on missions and he still has him helping to train Sasuke with the sharingan. Before wave our sensei was assigning a jounin to do what amounts to babysitting while we do D-ranks. That's way outside of standard operating procedure. Especially since the jounin in question is the legendary Sharingan Kakashi.'
Sakura knew she was going to regret it the second it came out of her mouth, but she asked, 'What do you think is going on?'
'You know how Kakashi used to be in ANBU? Well I think he still is. Danzo-sensei is the head of a super secret ANBU branch and one-eye works for him. That's why Danzo-sensei can order Kakashi around!'
Sasuke shot it down immediately 'No way. I'm not sure why Kakashi is helping us, but its definitely not because Danzo-sensei is ordering him to. He acts contrary to Danzo-sensei's interests way to often.'
Sakura cut Naruto's reply off, 'He has a personal stake.' Sakura smiled bitterly and continued, 'I looked up what happened to his team when he first started helping Danzo-sensei teaching us. He and the rest of his genin team were caught up in the third war. A lot of what happened is still classified, but towards the end they were sent on a mission that killed Obito Uchiha and left Kakashi with his sharingan. I'm fairly sure that mission is the reason that their third teammate left the village later, but was never marked as a missing ninja.'
Naruto replied first, 'So you're saying that he's helping because of some unresolved guilt towards the Uchiha?'
'I think so. Of course he really is the only one that can teach Sasuke to use the sharingan, so he could just be here on the hokage's orders.'
Ayame picked exactly the right moment to bring Naruto another bowl of Ramen, and his teammates watched in horror as he made it disappear. A few seconds later Naruto smiled contently at the bottom of the bowel as though he hadn't just made the Akimichi look like a bunch of amatuers when it came to eating.
Sasuke stood abruptly and put enough ryo on the counter to pay for the entire team's meal. Neither Sakura or Naruto complained, they had been quietly informed of exactly how wealthy the sole heir of the Uchiha clan really was.
Sakura stood up and Naruto followed after a quick mournful look at the empty ramen bowls. To him eating ramen was a dilemma. He wanted to eat it quickly because it was delicious, but then it was gone and he couldn't eat it anymore.
They were about to part when Sasuke suddenly said, 'One more thing Naruto.'
'Yes?'
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'Does the term jinchuuriki mean anything to you?'
Naruto frowned in confusion a moment then said, 'No, should it?'
'Don't worry it is just something I ran across.'
Naruto nodded in acceptance before vanishing in a body-flicker. Sasuke's eye twitched in annoyance and asked, 'Do you think he didn't tell us he could use body-flicker just to annoy me?'
'Probably.' They both stood quietly a moment. Finally Sakura asked, 'What do you think?'
'He definitely didn't recognize the term. He's not good enough to fake something like that.'
'So does he not know or is your guess wrong?'
'I don't know. I think he knows whatever secret is hanging about him, but I'm almost certain that I'm correct. He fits the profile and the family library confirmed that it has always been entrusted to an Uzumaki.'
'The files showed that he isn't an Uzumaki.'
'They're wrong. I can't tell you why now, but I can see the truth on his face.' Sakura thought that the joke, if that's what it was, fell flat.
They both started fishing for their wallets and paid their bills before leaving the ramen stand. Just when they were about to part ways Sakura asked, 'So what do you really think is going on between the hokage and Danzo-sensei?'
'Hmm...I think Danzo-sensei got caught doing something illegal, but the hokage doesn't want to make it public.'
'Then why-'
'It's a ninja village, everyone has secrets. Unearthing sensei's doesn't do anything to advance our goals and might bring a lot of trouble with it.'
'That sounds strange coming from the one who is digging into Naruto's secrets.'
'That is different.'
'Why, because you are the one who is curious?'
Sasuke frowned. 'Maybe.'
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Naruto came to stop outside of his apartment. The street was almost deserted, most people who lived in his part of town worked long hours or wer in the ninja force. Which made it easy to pick out the small fluctuations of chakra caused by the genjutsu being cast on him, and even easier to pick out Iruka's chakra signature waiting on the small overhang that kept the rain off his door.
He waited for Iruka to complete what he suspected was a false surroundings technique. Then looked straight at the chuunin and asked, 'So what's up Iruka-sensei?'
The chunnin almost fell off the building and the genjutsu around Naruto fell apart totally. The chuunin hopped down after recovering his balance. 'Since when can you use the genjutsu cancel technique at all, much less signlessly?'
Naruto smirked at Iruka and asked, 'What makes you think that I used the cancel technique?'
Iruka gave him a puzzled look and Naruto explained, 'Fu has been helping whenever Lain is either bored or distracted. He's started teaching me to break genjutsu using my chakra sense.'
Iruka's eyes went wide and she whispered, 'The sense leaning method?'
Naruto shrugged and asked, 'What's that?'
Iruka slipped into his academy lecture voice and explained, 'You know the general release technique?' He waited for Naruto to nod before continuing, 'Well there are a couple other, more advanced ways to dispel a genjutsu. The sense leaning method involves using a sense that is not affected by the genjutsu to make the genjutsu collapse on itself.' He looked at Naruto's blank face and wondered how exactly his former student was learning something if he didn't even understand how it worked. The lecturer in him took over and he continued, 'Imagine someone uses a genjutsu that makes you think your buried underground. Normally you would either need to perform a sign less release technique or hope someone saves you.'
He stared at Naruto, trying to determine if the genin was following his lecture and kept speaking, 'The normal release technique uses a pulse of chakra to break the illusion. The sense leaning technique is different. Instead of trying to break the technique with brute force you trick the technique into breaking itself by asking a question it can't answer. The person buried underground thinks 'Why can't I taste the dirt?' The genjutsu tries to answer that question and tears itself apart in the process.'
He finished, 'Its a bit more complicated than that of course, but that's the basics.'
Naruto stared at him a moment before asking, 'So can you use the sense leaning method?'
Iruka stuttered a moment before admitting, 'No. Normally it isn't learned by anyone other than genjutsu specialist or the Yamanaka Clan.'
'Why's that?'
Naruto had a moment to realize he had provoked the historian in Iruka before the academy instructor started lecturing again, 'Well genjutsu specialists learn it because it expands their options when confronting a genjutsu, but otherwise it isn't more effective than the normal release technique. And its much more difficult to learn than the normal release technique.'
He took a breath and continued, 'The Yamanaka Clan learn it because of an interesting bit of history. The Yamanaka weren't always famous for their mind techniques. The original Yamanaka were a trio of brothers who were recognized as a clan due to their unique mental sense. Before the development of their possession techniques, their mental sense wasn't exactly thought to be useless, but no one recognized the true potential until the middle brother's son managed to combine their mental sense with the sense leaning technique to easily counter most genjutsu. The second son used that discovery to almost single highhandedly bring his clan to prominence at the expense of the Kurama Clan.'
Iruka suddenly had a teasing smile and concluded, 'I think your familiar with his granddaughter?'
'Ino-chan's grandfather sounds scary.'
'I've never been so happy to see Inochi as I was after the time Ino's grandfather attended a parent teacher meeting.' Iruka gave an exaggerated shudder and continued, 'I'm surprised they are teaching you to use it with your chakra sense. You must be a great sensor if you can get that to work.'
Naruto shook his head, 'Nah, I'm mediocre at best. Fu probably just taught me because he thought it would help me improve my control.' Naruto unlocked the door to his apartment and held it open for Iruka.
Naruto didn't quite smirk at his academy teacher's expression. 'I cleaned up a little.'
Iruka nodded as though he had expected Naruto to have an orderly room and took a seat on one of Naruto's chairs when the blonde offered. He started glancing through the the pile of papers stacked neatly on the kitchen table while Naruto fiddled with his kitchen cabinets a moment before asking, 'Would you like tea?'
Naruto shrugged when Iruka politely turned him down and turned on his kettle anyway. He grabbed the seat across the table from Iruka and said, 'You know if those were classified you would be in a lot of trouble.'
Iruka's cheeks reddened a bit at the jab, but he brushed it away with a shrug. 'You would never leave classified materials out, plus teachers are aloud to snoop.'
'Says right so in your contract?'
'Exactly. So you're memorizing types of seals? Your jounin must have a lot of faith in you if he's showing you things like this.' He tapped a paper where a very complex seal was inked, and continued, 'Only about half of these were covered in the sealing course I took before becoming an academy instructor. Is your teacher making your decipher them or are you just learning to recognize them?'
Naruto decide just a little bit of bragging was in order and tapped the page Iruka was looking. 'This is an intermittent burst tracking seal. It leaves a small chakra trail that a sensor can use to track a target.' Naruto allowed a smirk to cross his face and scratched the back of his head before admitting, 'And I wrote it.'
Iruka tried to keep his face straight, but it moved enough for Naruto to tell that his academy instructor didn't really believe him. Naruto's eyes narrowed a bit it response, but he didn't make anything of it. Though his voice may have been just a bit rough when he asked, 'What did you need again Iruka-sensei?'
Iruka didn't react to the tone. 'Ah, I just realized we hadn't talked for almost a month so I decided to come visit.'
Naruto nodded and they made small talk until Iruka left a few minutes later. Naruto saw him out before pouring himself a cup of tea. He frowned into his teacup and said, 'Iruka-sensei, you liar.' He took a long drink of his tea before speaking he started thinking aloud, 'Iruka-sensei was here to test me...but why?' He paused a moment before deciding, 'Danzo-sensei has nominated us for the chuunin exams.'
Naruto drained his teacup before leaving it in the sink, and went to change into his uniform. The heavily reinforced fabric seemed strange after he had spent so long without it. He pulled at it a moment to stretch it out the fabric before he walked out of his apartment. He locked it and sent a burst of chakra through the key to arm the security seal that he had found in one of the scrolls Danzo-sensei had lent him.
Naruto slipped his keys back into one of his uniform's pouches before walking towards the meeting place Danzo-sensei had decided on. Naruto could hear Danzo and Jiraiya arguing inside, and spent a brief moment wondering why they hadn't put up the security seals before he knocked politely on the door. The argument inside died down immediately and a few seconds later Jiraiya opened the door for him.
Jiraiya announced, 'The brat's here.' And Naruto walked past Jiraiya without reacting to his totally unnecessary introduction. Danzo didn't bat an eye at the scene and motioned for Naruto to take a seat on the couch that ran along the wall of the room. Danzo waited a few moments for Jiraiya to close the door and actually activate the security seals around the room before he asked, 'So are you ready to proceed?'
Naruto nodded and started pulling off his jacket. By the time Naruto had his shirt off Jiraiya was already rummaging through the sealing supplies he had laid out on the table. He pulled a small pot of ink and a thin brush from one of the trays, only to find Naruto staring at him with his hand outstretched.
Jiraiya stared at Naruto for a moment before asking, 'Alright, what?'
'I want to see the seal diagram.'
Jiraiya took a quick glance at Danzo before he started muttering about cocky brats and seal masters. It took him a few more moments of vitriol before he produced the diagram from one of his pouches and handed it over with a warning, 'Keep it closed for now, I'm inspecting the foxes seal for any conflicts I might have missed last time before I apply that thing.'
Naruto nodded. He might not be very talented a sealing, but he knew enough to realize just how bad a seal conflict with the kyubi's seal could end up. He had read one cautionary tale about a novice who stole his master's seal matrixs and applied them to himself. The conflicts between the different matrixs somehow changed all of the charka in the novices system into fire elemental chakra. If something like that occurred with the kyubis chakra then the name fire country might become literal.
He channeled a small stream of chakra into the fourth hokage's seal, just enough to make it visible and waited while Jiraiya poked and prodded him with various sequence of chakra and one wodden stick. He also made a mental vow to break the sannin's stick before he left the room.
Jiraiya was finally satisfied that the two seals would not conflict after a full half hour of examination. And allowed Naruto to open the scroll detailing the new seal that the three of them hoped would solve his problems with the shadow clone technique. Naruto opened the scroll with a flourish and stared at the dense weave of kanji and geometric designs. As he studied the seal a small frown appeared on his forehead. The frown grew until he finally said, 'This isn't what we discussed.'
'What makes you think that brat? This is way beyond your ability no matter how much you have been studying since I embarrassed you last month.'
Naruto didn't react to Jiraiya's barb and gestured to the seal, 'I have no idea what this does, but I know what a time elapse trigger looks like, this seal doesn't have one. If you had done what we discussed then it would have something very similar right about here.' Naruto thumped the scroll for emphasis before continuing, 'And this part looks like -'
Jiraiya cut him off. 'Enough, you're correct. This isn't what we discussed. I'm fairly sure what we discussed is impossible.' Danzo gave Jiraiya an amused smirk and held out his hand. The sannin grumbled and pulled out a few ryo to pay the old man with. Then he turned back to Naruto and whined, 'Why did you have to notice. If only you had stayed incompetent one more day...'
'So you think I'm competent now?'
'Hardly, you've just gone from incompetent to useless.'
Naruto nodded as though Jiraiya had said something perfectly reasonable and asked, 'So what does this actually do?'
'As far as I can tell spreading out the information return of shadow clones to minimize stress is impossible for a stand alone array.' He poked the paper in Naruto's hand and continued, 'This is the next best thing I could come up with.' He paused a moment for dramatic effect before asking, 'Have you heard of a technique support seal?'
Jiraiya spoke right over Naruto's halfhearted answer, 'Support seals are used to help make certain techniques more cost efficient. In rare cases they can even enable those who can't perform a technique in the first place. But their most useful function is adding an additional attribute to a technique to create a composite skill.'
He grabbed the scroll and waved it a bit, 'Using my magnificent genius I've created a support seal for the shadow clone technique that should block any memories from clones created through it. And because I'm such a nice guy I even threw in a few more special features.'
Naruto idly wondered if Jiraiya was having one over on him, but nodded like he would have been disappointed if the sannin hadn't gone to such an extent. 'And the features are?'
Jiraiya smirked, 'I'll get you a user manual.' Before Naruto could react something impossible happened. The seal design on the scroll burned a bright blue and lifted off of the paper. It hovered a moment above Jiraiya's palm, then in a movement Naruto couldn't follow Jiraiya's palm was pressed against Naruto's shoulder. The seal branded itself into his skin in a flash of pain. Naruto didn't react.
When the light show finally died down and the seal faded to a much smaller circle of black kanji Naruto quirked an eyebrow at Jiraiya and admitted, 'Cool trick.'
Jiraiya frowned at the remark and protested, 'Cool trick? I show you something only possible for those who stand at the absolute pinnacle of sealing techniques and its a 'cool trick.'
Danzo smirked at Jiraiya and added, 'For what its worth, I thought it was cool also.' Jiraiya huffed and started poking around both the fourth's seal and the new shadow clone seal. He spent almost twice as long as he took the first time he inspected the seals to announce that the seals were free of conflicts and interference.
Jiraiya started to tease Naruto, who politely thanked him for checking the fourths seal and applying the new one before bidding the sannin a good day. Jiraiya broke the security seals around the room with a wave and stalked out muttering about no fun brats.
Danzo-sensei's smile told Naruto all he need to know about his teachers opinion on the meeting. Danzo wait to see if his student had any questions before asking one of his own, 'So how far have you progressed in the ninjutsu scroll I loaned you, and do you have any questions?'
'I've gotten the reduced sign version of the wind bullet under control and can successfully use the single sign version of doldrums about half the time.' Danzo nodded in satisfaction and allowed a bit of a genuine smile to creep onto his face. One of his students having a wind nature was an unexpected boon that had kept him smiling smugly for weeks. He had kept it up until a few anonymous members of Root convinced Torune to explain how terrifying the majority of the division found that smile.
The smile stayed even when Naruto admitted, 'The vacuum spike palm on the other hand is a disaster.'
'Its a complicated technique, I would have been astonished if you were able to master it without help.' Danzo didn't bother to add that the one hand version of the signs he had provided his student with added another order of magnitude to the difficulty. Humility was important after all. Danzo gave his student a second to elaborate, and when Naruto didn't say anything more Danzo commanded, 'Show me.'
Naruto paused a second and took a quick glance around the room, but Danzo gestured impatiently before Naruto turned his concerns about their surroundings into an actual question. Naruto nodded in quiet acceptance before abruptly freezing. His face twisted into a smirk and he brushed a pair of fingers over his newest seal and sent a small surge of chakra into it.
A shadow clone abruptly appeared next to him. Naruto took a step back from the clone and snapped his left hand through seven hand seals before thrusting it into the clones chest.
For a brief moment the clone stood at the center of a small whirlwind of air. Dozens of random air currents surged through the air disturbing papers and supplies. It was a long way from the spike of negative pressure that would ignore any armor to destroy a target's internal organs. Danzo considered a moment then demanded, 'Again.'
Naruto's second performance didn't go better. Neither did the third. After Naruto's fourth vacuum spike palm, Danzo gestured for him to stop and then said, 'Your allowing small amounts of your Yang chakra to contaminate the technique. I suggest you practice the Yin Yang separation exercise until you have sufficient control to hold it for at least ten minutes before you continue to practice the vacuum palm.'
'Yes, Sir.'
Danzo stood before the clone a second. Then he snapped out a single hand sign and struck before the clone could react. He gave the clone a nasty smile and commanded, Wind Style: Vacuum Spike Palm. The clone dispelled instantly and for a fraction of a second Naruto could see a dark distortion in the air in front of his teachers palm.
Naruto waited for the technique to fade entirely before he threw one of Danzo's own quotes back at him, 'I thought that stating the name of a technique was 'useless waste of breath.'
Danzo gave his student a smirk he knew the blonde would find annoying and said, 'Oh that? I lied.'
Naruto fixed a glare at his sensei, and the old man stared back with a smirk for several minutes. Eventually Danzo finally gave up the impromptu staring contest and explained, 'When we state the name of a technique we perform a bit of self hypnotism. When we hear ourselves say the name of a technique it actually becomes a little easier to perform the technique.' Danzo took a deep breath before he admitted, 'I'm afraid I don't know the exact reason why this occurs. If you are really interested hokage-sama might know the answer.'
Naruto nodded briefly before summoning another shadow clone and hitting it with a shout of Wind Style: Vacuum Spike Palm. The winds flickering around the shadow clone were a little less violent now, but it was still a long way from what it should be.
Danzo waited for Naruto to dispel the shadow clone before he added, 'With sufficient practice stating the name of a technique becomes little more than a bad habit.' Danzo waited for the lesson to sink in before he gave Naruto a conspirators smirk. 'I was able to obtain the other thing we discussed.'
Naruto smirked back when Danzo pulled a small book bound in dull red leather out of his coat. Naruto lifted the old book carefully out of his teachers hand and flipped the first page open. There handwritten in tiny flowing scrip was Jinchuuriki by Mito Uzumaki Senju. A small frown flickered across Naruto's features at the word and Danzo explained, 'Jinchuuriki, the power of human sacrifice, it is a term used to describe those who are sacrificed to contain demons.'
Naruto stared at the word a long time before finally saying, 'Today at lunch Sasuke asked me if I knew what the term Jinchuuriki meant. At the time I had no idea...So he's close to discovering the truth.'
Danzo's smirk managed to become even more smug. 'Oh, then he's progressing faster than I thought.'
Naruto couldn't help but snap back, 'Why don't we just tell them again?'
'Learning it through their own efforts will be good for them. Are you in such a hurry to announce what you are?'
Naruto's face hardened at Danzo's question, but he didn't reply. After a few minutes of silence Naruto slipped Mito's book into one of his uniforms pockets and was about to leave when Sasuke walked into the room. He spared a glance to Naruto before he turned to Danzo and asked, 'Kakashi said you wanted to see me Danzo-sensei?'
Danzo's smirk was back in full force. 'Yes, but I think we should wait on Sakura. I have a surprise for all three of you.'
Naruto wasn't in the mood for his teacher's games. He shot Danzo an irritated look before calmly telling Sasuke, 'He plans to nominate us for the chuunin exams.'
Sasuke looked at his teacher in time to catch Danzo sending Naruto a dirty look. Then Danzo sighed theatrically and said, 'I suppose Iruka was less than circumspect?'
Sakura walked in just in time to hear Naruto ask, 'What are you talking about Danzo-sensei? I was just taking a shot in the dark.' Naruto shook his head sadly, 'You shouldn't give up information like that sensei, its a bad habit.'
Somehow the reply brought a smug smirk back to Danzo's face. He waited for all three members of team seven to take a seat before he sat a large folder on the table. He flipped it open and started speaking in a voice that indicated he believed exactly none of Naruto's reply, 'No matter how Naruto came by the information he is indeed correct. I have chosen to enter the three of you in the chuunin exams. It will begin in seven days.'
He took three pages from the top of the folder and passed them around before continuing, 'These are your entrance forms. All three of you must choose to compete for team seven to enter. I trust this will not be a problem.' He turned a sharp look on all three of his students. The three predatory, almost arrogant grins, he received in return brought a smile to Danzo's face and caused a small surge of pride in his team to well up inside him.
He banished the smile after he was sure every member of his team had caught it and continued, 'I also have a secondary missions for you to accomplish during the exams. You are to eliminate foreign teams and aid leaf ninja whenever the opportunity presents itself. Do not jeopardize your own chances of advancing, but I would like nothing more than an all leaf final.'
A stray thought brought a frown to Danzo's face and he decided to modify his original instructions. 'You are also to insure that Hyuga Hinata survives the exam through whatever means necessary.'
His genin chorused in unison, 'Yes, Sir.'
Danzo tapped the folder on the table and finished, 'This folder contains a break down of each task and suggested strategies for completing them. It also has our current intelligence reports on your competitors and suggested strategies for dealing with them.'
Sakura considered a moment before asking, 'Danzo-sensei isn't this cheating?'
Danzo smirked, 'Yes.'
Sakura managed to keep the blush off her cheeks and nodded, 'Okay.' Danzo gave his team a final look before walking out of the room without the folder. He almost froze in surprise when he felt the security seals on the room go up behind him, but then smiled and kept walking.
A/N General:
Yes this was ridiculously late. To the point I'm sure more than one of you thought I had abandoned it. I haven't. The problem with doing your own repairs on a computer is its hard to use it at the same time. So my computer spent the better part of a month in pieces while I waited on a replacement dc adapter for my motherboard. Then it spent more time in pieces because I was busy.
Honorifics – I realized I don't really understand how honorifics work well enough to use them properly in this story so I have decided to drop most of them. The honorifics that remain are their because I felt it was important to keep those specific ones for some reason or another. In other words if an honorific is dropped in this story, it does not imply the same level of familiarity it would in Japanese.
Chuunin exams will be (finally) starting next chapter. Hopefully it will be a little less of a disaster. And now for ….
A/N Chapter:
Tried a bit of a different style this time. Mainly because I don't know how to write a timeskip well and I was very very tired of what I have dubbed the training arc from hell. Note that is the training arc from hell, not the training from hell arc.
The bit about Kurenai's team is pretty much an authors tract. Sorry about that, but I really don't think that team had any business in the chuunin exams. I'm pretty sure they would have died against any team we actually see fight.
Tried to use conversation and description to hint at the results of everyone's training without just infodumping it.
The seal is my current solution to the shadow clone problem. I'm really starting to hate that technique. Either he is an idiot for not abusing it or his a juggernaut because he does. Plan B is to just have someone (enemy) seal the technique outright, but I don't want to do that since shadow clone is pretty much Naruto's signature move.
The thing about hearing yourself speak affecting performance is actually from something I heard in a psychology course a couple years ago. I don't remember the study very well so it actually working might be wrong.
You didn't really expect Danzo to not cheat did you?