Team Six is back
"I see you had a rough night, huh?" In his eyes, Naruto had a weird but happy smile plastered on his face. Hinata, while her hair was tousled, she was positively glowing in happiness. "Did you even reach the third base?"
Hinata blushed and quickly shook her head sideways, "Hehe, we had a lot of fun, Teme. And it's none of your business ~ttebayo."
"Hmph, I knew you didn't have the balls to do that. As I became a reserve captain of our team, from now on for the rest of your miserable life, you Dobe must call me Supreme Commander." Sasuke smirked back at his friend.
"Kiss my ass, Duckbutt-Teme! I will surpass you and become a real jōnin faster than you ~ttebayo!"
"Just so you know, Hinata is also a tokujō - you have a lot of catching up to do, Chūnin-Dobe."
"Eh?! You too?!"
"I-I'm sorry, Naru-kun. I didn't want to worry you." Hinata replied meekly.
"Haah... No problem, Hina-chan, I was just surprised."
"Heh, Hinata surpassed all of us from Konoha 12. She was the first one to get the rank, Dobe."
"Sasuke-kun!"
The Uchiha shrugged his shoulders, "I'm only speaking the truth here. You aren't the last one, but almost half of our classmates are tokujō already, Dobe."
"Wait! If Hinata is the best one, how come you're the one acting as a backup to Scarecrow, Teme?"
"I-I might be good at combat, Naru-kun. But Sasuke-kun received specialized education from Hiruzen-sama - he is better suited to be a leader." His girlfriend explained.
"Right, you should listen to your betters, Chūnin-Dobe!"
"AHH! It's so frustrating ~dattebayo!"
"Sasuke-kun, please stop taunting my bo..." Hinata's voice drifted off as she blushed.
"Hmph, pity, I had so much fun. Haah, okay, now hush. We have guests." Two seconds after his words, their respective teachers flickered in front of them.
"Hey there, kiddos. Ready for the test?" Kaname smiled at Team Six.
"Sure thing, Sis! I will show you how kick-ass I've become!"
"Naruto, it's not only about you." Jiraiya scolded his student.
"And you won't survive even a single flick from my student, gaki." Tsunade smirked at the blonde.
"Hmm, I wanted to ask you why didn't you come home last night. But I see you were... practicing the snuggling - good job there, my Hime!" Hinata's mother gave her a thumbs up, causing her daughter's face to light up like a Christmas tree.
"*Cough* Shiori-dono, please do not embarrass Hinata-chan. It could have an effect on the exam results. Kakashi-kun..." he sighed.
"Yes, Hiruzen-sama?" Kakashi called out from behind the old man's wheelchair.
"Inu-taichou, I believe it's because you're still reading the book. It's not the time nor the place."
"Haah, you were always so strict, Kouhai-kun... Yes-yes, as you wish, Hiruzen-sama." the silver-haired jōnin hid the smut in his pouch.
"Good. Kana-chan, please continue."
"Thanks, Jiji. Team Six, first, we will do a little warmup - a free-for-all duel, no holds barred, show us what you've got. Begin in three." At her command, Hinata and Sasuke flickered away into hiding.
Naruto looked astounded between the empty spots of last known positions of his teammates and bolted towards the direction Sasuke run off to, "GET BACK HERE TEME! I DIDN'T FINISH WITH YA!"
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'What a complete moron! We had a fighting chance against Hinata if we worked together.' Sasuke massaged his temples, looking over his arm at Naruto's chase. He was trying to get the distance before the Byakūgan princess steamrolls them.
"You can't run for long, Teme! I'm faster than you!"
'Imbecile, I'm not running from you! You're a bit faster, but it's your stamina that's monstrous.' Sasuke sped up, attempting to hide from the unrelenting blonde.
"Gah! I won't let you get away ~ttebayo!" Naruto put some more effort, matching Sasuke speed, "Run! You will only get more tired when I finally get you!"
'Shit, he is right about that...' Hoping that he gained enough gap from Hinata, he jumped down towards the ground.
"Ha! And I thought you got scared, Teme." Naruto landed ten steps away from him.
"Okay, it may be hard and painful to you, but use your head for a second. Dobe, if we don't work together, Hinata will destroy us. You never saw what she is capable of now. She wasn't just promoted to a higher rank - Kaname-neesan singled Hinata out for that."
"So?"
"Idiot... Your sister was so astounded at Hinata's growth, she bent several rules to promote her. If we don't work together-"
"Yeah, I don't care." Naruto interrupted him. "Truth to be told, I lacked our daily sparring sessions, Teme."
"Haah... As you wish, Dobe." Sasuke pulled a twin pair of tanto blades from the sheets on his back and awaited in a defensive stance, "Try me."
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Uchiha's eyes blazed in a blood-red glow, the speed of the swarm in front of him drastically slowed down, letting him slam one of his swords into the closest clone. Sasuke started mowing Naruto's copies down at a frightening rate, filling the woods with characteristic pops. To his astonishment, every ten or so slash, the clones started getting better at combat. The last five put up a fight and scored a couple of lucky blows on his body.
"Is that all you got, Dobe? Two years of training wasted on some shadow clones?" Sasuke jeered, turning to Naruto, "Huh? Where are you?"
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"Oh, for fucks sake!" The second round of combat began.
At the same time, Naruto gazed down at Sasuke's showdown against his clones. "It's time, you two, go now, attack with his back towards you." he ordered, sending in his clones.
'Shit, that Dobe is better than I thought. Ugh!' he groaned, receiving another kick to his side, 'That's so like him to spam out the clones, but I never expected him to use their experience to his advantage. Each one I kill sends new input on how to fight to the rest of the swarm. AAAH!' he slashed down the last clone. "Haah...haah... Enough games, Dobe! Show yours-"
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'Damnit!' Thinking fast, Sasuke lifted up one of his swords, "
"Hehe, not bad Teme, really not bad." Naruto slowly clapped his hands, waiting for his teammate down on the ground.
"Kiss my ass. Do you think I'm finished, Dobe?"
"Before I end our spar, can you explain something to me? How did you get to know one of the Wind Release techniques ~ttebayo? From what I knew, you had Fire and Lightning chakra affinity."
"Heh, I had a good teacher, Dobe."
"So Hokage-Jiji, I see... Good fight, Teme.
"You and your monstrous reserves..." Sasuke sighed back, "I didn't want to use it, but it seems I've to..." his Sharingan eyes started to spin wildly. A second later, the design in his eyeballs changed, "
Swiping his sight through the swarm, Sasuke incinerated all the blonde shadow clones. Naruto's jaw fell open as his teammate eradicated his copies in an instant. "You- Th-That's the same as Itachi-nii! How?"
"Ugh..." Sasuke closed his eyes, fighting with a developing headache, "It's none of your business, Dobe." he groaned out.
"Wait a moment. Sis told me that for the Sharingan to evolve, you need to lose someone close to you? How come? Who died ~ttebayo?"
The Uchiha narrowed his eyes at his best friend, "Do you remember when that Snake bastard put a seal on my neck?"
"Yeah?"
"Kaname-neesan wanted to erase it - I refused. Instead, I took advantage of it. It's a free chakra given to me by my enemy."
"But it's from that Snake guy!"
"Yeah, so? There were two downsides to embracing this seal. Firstly, it caused occasional berserk rage events - I dealt with that on my own. The second vice were the nightmares that I had to deal with every single night - I had Nee-san help me with those."
"Huh? But the Mangekyō Sharingan-"
"Zip it, Dobe. To evolve the Sharingan, you need to experience the death of someone close to you. And a very well and delicately woven genjutsu just gave me a reason to laugh at anything that Snake bastard could show me in my dreams."
"So you saw yourself kill someone close ~ttebayo?"
Sasuke once again narrowed his eyes at Naruto and clicked his tongue.
"Ah! Hehehe." Naruto laughed, scratching the back of his head, "Thanks, but I do not swing that way ~ttebayo."
"Do you want me to kick your arse, Dobe? In one of my rage attacks, I was showed killing everyone I care about, for gods know why you were included as well."
"Hehehe, I see you got all tsundere here, Teme."
"Fuck it! Now, I've to knock you down a peg, Dobe!"
"Come at me! I can do this all day,
"Now, that's a little scary, Dobe. I can fight fifty of you by myself - let's level the playing field!
"Cheater, impostor, fraud! That's my technique!"
"Ha! It's not that difficult. Don't forget my teacher, a.k.a The Professor, was a man that mastered more than ninety percent of all Konoha's jutsus, Dobe." Sasuke jeered back at him.
As the battalion of blonde shinobis surrounded a small group of their opponents, a certain raven-haired kunoichi jumped into action. Small balls of levitating water in her hands flattened themselves out, creating a disk around her. Before she reached Naruto's first clone, Hinata started spinning, releasing chakra from her hands, "
Two young men's conversation was brutally interrupted with a loud buzz-saw ripping through Naruto's forces. Hyūga's ultimate defense, combined with a water technique, had an overwhelming effect. Hinata, propelled by the water on her feet, did not slow down to fight a clone - she just wrecked over it. "HA!" leaving only a handful of them standing, she released all pent-up energy on the one clone that was attempting to attack Sasuke.
The clone wasn't hit - Hinata stopped her hands a hair-breadth away from the shadow copy chest. It didn't feel pain when its chest splattered on Sasuke's face, painting it and the immediate surroundings red. Three unnaturally calm seconds later, the clone died and dispersed, leaving two shinobis gawking dumbly at their teammate.
"... I give up."
"Eh? Teme?"
"I give up. I just got slapped with your gallbladder and other parts I don't even want to admit, Dobe... that's a new nightmare for my collection." Sasuke groaned out.
"I-I'm sorry, Sasuke-kun."
"It's not your fault, Hinata. That imbecile's clone just stood there and watched you instead of dodging the attack."
"Hey!" Naruto exclaimed angrily.
"WHAT?! Who the fuck just stands on tracks looking at the headlights of a speeding train? Have you ever heard about evading a hit, Dobe?" Sasuke pointed his finger at Naruto.
"Ugh." Uzumaki took a step back.
"And what's with your training? Two years wasted on spamming shadow clones?! Are you freaking kidding me?! You could do that when we were twelve!"
Naruto tried to take another step back but tripped on a tiny wire, instantly snapping it.
"Ah!" Hinata screamed in fright.
Beneath the feet of all three young shinobis, traps were sprung, catching them in thick nets and launching towards the top of the trees.
"Hina-chan!" Naruto shouted after her, trying to extend his hand towards his new girlfriend.
"Hmm, it seems that I won this time, huh?" a silver-haired man calmly sat upon a tree branch with a green book in his hand with three nets dangling around him.
"Huh? Scarecrow-sensei? What the heck?!"
"It's either that you're deaf or just plainly stupid Naruto. Your sister told us it was a test for Team Six. From what I remember, I'm still a member of it."
"Ah!"
"If you think that a measly net can stop me, Kakashi-"
"You're wrong, Sasuke-kun." Hinata interrupted, "It could have been any other trap. Kakashi-sensei is right - we didn't see it coming and were caught by an 'enemy.'"
"Okay, that's enough." Kaname spawned in, hanging on Naruto's net, "Let them go, Doofus-kun. The warming session is over. Time for the test."
"That was a warmup, Sis? Are you kidding me?" Naruto yelled out as the net around his body slackened.
"Yep, and nope. You too, Doofus-kun, come down."
"Ugh, do I have to? I just reached a really raunchy fragment, where Ame-chan finds herself in a dark alley-" Kaname's smile did not reach her eyes,
"Will you come down on your own, or do you want to check how a Bijūdama tastes like?"
"Ah, yeah..." Kakashi jumped off the tree branch, landing in front of his team.
"The test is something you like very much, Doofus-kun."
"And that is?" he asked.
Kaname pulled out a pair of small golden bells, "A teamwork test."
"... I should have expected it." Kakashi facepalmed.
"Okay, four of you against me. Only suffering awaits if you don't come at me with the intent to kill, is that understood?" Everyone nodded, "Good, try to catch me!" Kaname's body combusted into red flames and disappeared.
"Kya-!" Hinata evaporated a blink of an eye after the woman.
"Just great, Nee-san disabled our best tracker before we were even able to react. I just love our chances."
"Less talking, Sasuke. She hasn't even started playing with us." The team leader called out, "Cover each other. We can look for Hinata later."
"Psst, I have a plan, Scarecrow-sensei." Naruto whispered.
"Sure, anything is better than nothing - let's hear it."
"During my practice sessions, I fought with Itachi-nii hundreds of times. I became really experienced at fighting against an Uchiha ~ttebayo. When Sis shows up, I want you two to close your eyes for a moment."
"Will it even work, Dobe? You didn't show it during our fight."
Naruto shrugged, "I didn't have to, Teme. You were too weak. Hmm, is that mist?" the team was almost instantly shrouded with a thick mist.
"Heh, now she is playing with us." Kakashi chuckled, "Brings back memories, eh?" The trio stood in a circle with their backs facing each other.
"We had a better company last time, Scarecrow-sensei." Naruto joked, feeling the overwhelming killing intent crushing their bones.
"And had a chance of victory..." Sasuke deadpanned in return.
"She is... here!" Kakashi called out the moment the first blaze of red flames flickered between them and closed his eyes.
"HAA!!!" Naruto released tremendous amounts of chakra. To a dōjutsu user, the blonde would look like a small star from up close.
"Agh, my eyes!" Sasuke dropped on his back.
"Got you, Sis!" Without even looking, Naruto jumped at the black-haired woman between them, knocking her over. He felt something big and squishy in his right palm, jumping back on his feet - the blonde shouted out, "I'm sorry, Si- eh? Hina-chan?"
His pale-eyed girlfriend laid on the ground in front of his feet, sporting a massive blush on her face.
"Ugh, you should have warned me, Dobe." Sasuke slowly put himself back together.
"I did, Teme. I'm sorry, Hina-chan, I expected Sis to be here ~ttebayo." Naruto apologized, pulling her on her feet.
"I-It's okay, N-Naru-kun. But where is Kakashi-sensei?"
"Huh? Wait, where is he?"
"Think it through, Dobe. Nee-san understood what she was doing recreating the scene from the Land of the Waves. She knew that we would expect her to play the Browless freak here and teleport in between us. With that knowledge, she pranked the shit out of us by taking out our leader and making you look like a fool."
"It's okay, Sasuke-kun. I know where Nee-san is hiding."
"Oh yeah! Hina-chan rocks! Which direction should we go?"
Hinata lifted her finger, "Up."
Sasuke facepalmed, "I should have known!" With the help of his Sharingan, he noticed a red speck of dust flying high above their heads. "
The vivid-red creature poofed out of existence, just a moment, before his flames reached it, leaving behind a plummeting black silhouette. He tried to concentrate on the woman, but she was chaotically teleporting around, which resulted in a stream of black fire zig-zagging towards the southeast.
Sasuke noticed Kaname's plan a little too late - following with his eyes after Kaname, he did not expect her haphazard moves to have a goal. With the zoom that Sasuke received from his evolved Sharingan, he was taunted to look straight into the noon sky's sun.
"AAH!" the young jōnin instantly fell onto his back - doubling up in agony, he swiped his arm along the closed eyes.
"Oh, Sasuke-chan. I said it before, do not overestimate the advantage that our bloodline grants you. It's a tool, not a go-to for every problem." Kaname teleported behind Sasuke.
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*KABOOM* The blonde's technique created a massive crater - the explosion almost sent Hinata flying.
Once Naruto landed on his two feet, he felt someone patting his shoulder, "That would have killed Sasuke, Naru-chan." she smirked, throwing the black-haired young man at Naruto. "I'm rather upset at you three - after two years of training, I can still fight you with my eyes closed. Is that all you learned?"
"Uff..." Naruto groaned under the weight of his best friend, "Sasuke wouldn't get hurt with you next to him, Sis ~ttebayo." he replied with a smirk of his own.
"If you continue shouting what your next move is, you will never even scratch me, oh brother of mine."
"Yeah, we know. Isn't that right, Teme?" Naruto chuckled, pulling his teammate back up.
"Let me go, you imbecile." Sasuke huffed, "Yeah, we do. We're just buying time."
"Hoh? Waiting for Doofus-kun to come back? I sent him back to Konoha - he has a long trip ahead of him."
"We have a plan of our own, Nee-san." Hinata joined her teammates.
"Hehe, now that's what I like to see. Show me what you've got."
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"What the actual fuck?" Ryuichi entered his office, only to see a silver-haired man dangling from the ceiling, bound by ropes.
"Yo, Commander-san. Do you mind giving me a hand?" Kakashi eye-smiled at ANBU commander.
"... Let me guess, Kana-chan is playing around with Team 6?" Kaname's brother casually threw a kunai, cutting Kakashi's binds.
"Your sister is one of a kind, Senpai." the jōnin agreed, standing back up, "Now, can you tell me where I can find my self-proclaimed eternal rival?"
"You're looking for Guy? That's a first."
"Believe me, I'm as astounded at this as you are, Senpai. But we had a deal - I need to get somewhere fast. Excluding Kana-chan, he easily is the quickest one around."
"Wait! You're going to let him carry you?! I have to see this!"
"As long as he doesn't princess carry me, I don't really care. We had a plan on how to knock Kana-chan down a peg. But I need to be there for the plan to work. Humiliation and a promise of sparring are a small price to pay. We knew she would attempt to separate us - I just didn't expect her to send me fifteen clicks away."
"That's like twenty-five minutes if you started running now."
"Five if Guy gets serious about it, that man is nuts." Kakashi murmured.
"True. At the moment, Konoha's green beast is torturing, I mean training his team and my subordinates. They should be somewhere around Konoha's outer wall."
"Thanks, Senpai. I owe you one." Kakashi flickered out of existence through the ANBU commander's window.
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"Hahaha, look what have you done, Naru-chan! Hinata-chan is wet because of you!" Kaname laughed out, still holding one of Naruto's clone hands.
Just a second ago, she dodged a Rasengan and used it to drill one of the water projectiles shot by Hinata, soaking the young Hyūga. She let the clone go, evading Sasuke's fireball.
"You three really have a plan! Sasuke would never use a fire technique in such humid air. Interesting." Kaname hummed, casually using a wind technique with her hand to redirect a fire projectile shot by Naruto.
"You will have to teach me that, Sis!" the blonde laughed out.
"I'm not sure, Naru-chan. Truth be told, from what you showed me as of yet, neither of you is ready for the big leagues - you will just get slaughtered."
"Hehe, a shinobi doesn't show all of his cards, Sis!" Kaname rose her eyebrow in question at her brother's boasting.
"As you wish, I will make you show all of those cards." Her body disappeared behind a thick red aura.
"Ugh, you had to do that, Dobe?" Sasuke groaned, looking at a fully armored version of Susanoo.
"Easy peasy, Teme. Sis won't hurt-" The chakra construct struck the earth with one of its swords, caving in the soil exactly where two young men stood.
"Uhh, you sure about that, Dobe?" Sasuke huffed out after getting blown away by the explosion. "Get closer to me! Susanoo!" An aura looking like a light purple ribcage grew around Sasuke, providing Team Six the shelter they required.
"Can't you make it bigger, Teme? Look at Sis!"
"Yeah~ right. I don't have the necessary chakra reserves for this, moron."
"Ah? You should have said that from the start, Teme! Chakra is not a problem for your future Hokage ~ttebayo!" Putting his hand on Sasuke's back, Naruto sent a river of chakra towards his best friend.
"What? You could do that from person to person?" The Uchiha instantly felt his chakra reserves quadrupling. His Susanoo quickly developed into an armored form resembling that of Kaname's.
"Hehe, pros of being an Uzumaki, Teme."
"Hmm, nice one, kiddos." Their role model waited patiently.
"Hinata, call the shots. Dobe, keep the chakra coming. I will protect us!"
"Umm... Shoot at the tree base on our ten o'clock!" The Hyūga pointed out.
The purple Susanoo created a chakra bow on its palm and shot a projectile at the indicated massive tree of Land of Fire's forests. The ground yielded, felling the tree towards Kaname.
"Hahaha, now we're talking!" Kaname laughed out, ordering her Susanoo to deflect the tree.
"Tree on two o'clock!"
"I see what you're doing, Hinata. Dobe, keep Nee-san occupied!"
"Yosha! Let's do this!
At the same time, Hinata formed her chakra to create a small-house-sized tiger made of water and made it pounce at the red Susanoo.
'Hahaha, I could just catch them in a genjutsu or down them using Hikōjin to finish the fight. But it would be cheating.' Her Susanoo was occupied by holding up an enormous tree, and she was playing around with clones. With a satisfied smile, Kaname let the water imitation of a tiger slam into her spectral armor.
"Ha! We chipped the mask ~ttebayo!" The blonde pointed at the red avatar's face.
"Not bad... Let's see what you can do about that." Kaname smirked.
Naruto's sight was filled with bright red light. Then, he was looking at his teammates from the other side of the battlefield, "Huh? I can't move?!"
"I'm sorry, Naru-chan, it's a seal. I would like to see what they can do without you." His older sister whispered to his ear.
The strain of keeping the armored Susanoo up without a constant supply of chakra sent Sasuke onto his knees.
"Sasuke-kun?" Once the purple giant dematerialized, Hinata jumped towards her teammate.
"I-I'm okay, Hinata. Nee-san just violently cut me off from my chakra battery." Sasuke groaned.
"What did you call me, Duckass?!" Naruto shouted back at the young Uchiha.
"Hmm?" Kaname felt the ground started shaking from the direction of Konoha. Soon, on the horizon, she noticed a cloud of dust heading towards them and quickly recognized Guy running in her direction with a weird dark blue-green flag flapping behind him.
"TOU!" His pure muscle strength let Guy jump over the last part of the journey. The Green-Beast of Konoha landed in the middle of the battlefield dragging a silver-haired jōnin with his hand.
"Ugh... thanks for the ride." Kakashi slowly got back up on his feet, attempting, without much success, to straighten out his hair molded by brutal winds that resulted from Guy's sprint. The gravity-defying silver hairstyle was formed by the wind over his head into something resembling a spike. With such a hairdo, Kakashi looked like a B-class villain that would shout 'over nine-thousand!' over and over again.
"Muhahaha! Nothing but a small warmup, my Eternal Rival!" The latex-wearing shinobi gave him a toothy smile and a thumbs up.
Kakashi narrowed his eyes at Kaname, noting that she was barely able to contain her laughter, "Not even a word from you!" he responded sorrowfully.
That tipped the balance, she burst out with laughter, pointing at Kakashi's hair.
"Yeah-yeah, mock me as much as you like, problematic woman..."
"HA! I like this laugh! It's so FULL of energy! Kana-chan, can I ask for a spa-?" Guy froze midsentence.
"Hahaha-" Kaname wiped her tears.
"Eh? What did you do to Bushy Brows' Sensei, Sis?" Her red Sharingan looked straight into Naruto's eyes.
"I gave him what he wanted, Naru-chan." she winked playfully.
"Tsk... So she caught Guy in a genjutsu." Kakashi joined his young students, "Good job preparing for the final, Team 6. Now we have to rescue Naruto, and we're good to go with the plan."
"Hmm, have you heard that, Naru-chan? They will attempt to rescue you. Hahaha, I can't let them do that too easily, can I?"
"Hehe, you lost already, Sis."
"Oh?"
"Watch me!" Naruto smirked at Kaname.
A second later, she felt a tingle of chakra coming from a seal placed on Naruto's body. Her little brother had a shit-eating grin on his face as if he won already.
"And?" she questioned.
"And, see ya'!" the shadow clone puffed out of existence.
"Replacement Technique? No, you weren't able to move? Did you...?" Kaname found the blonde with the same smug smile as his clone.
"Hehe, I worked two years for this, Sis. Whenever I wish, I can instantly replace myself with any of my clones nearby ~ttebayo."
"Damn, Dobe..."
"Good... Very good. Not on the level of Hiraishin or Hikōjin, but you're getting close, Naru-chan." Kaname smiled, truly happy for her brother.
"Hehehe." Naruto scratched the back of his head, joining his team.
"Now that Team 6 is back together, it's time to show you our teamwork, Kana-chan. Prepare to get your ass kicked back to Konoha." Kakashi continued.
"Hoo~ big words, Chūnibyō." she chuckled.
"Yeah, truth be told. This hairstyle sucks on you, Kakashi." Sasuke added.
"Look who is talking! Little Duckling..." the jōnin shot back, "Eh, let's do this, kiddos!"
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"I'm waiting..." Kaname replied.
"Hehe, confident, aren't we, Sis?" the blonde chuckled as all of his clones took a deep breath, "
"Wait?! Storm clouds? But when?"
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"Ah, I see what you're trying to do!"
"Too late for that, Nee-san!" Sasuke flickered on top of her Susanoo and impaled one of his swords on its head. "Kakashi!" the Uchiha shouted out as he jumped away.
Kakashi's hand was sparking with electricity, "Try this, Kana-chan.
"Heh." Kaname chuckled, just a brief moment before the battlefield was struck by a bolt from the sky.
*KABOOM*
"That one was scary... Thank the gods for Susanoo." She gasped.
Kaname's Susanoo head was blown away the moment lightning fell upon the steel sword.
"Hehe, what about that, Sis?"
She erased her Susanoo and stood in front of Team 6, "Yeah, I believe that you passed the test. What do you think, Jiji?"
"Hohoho." The old man flickered next to Kaname, "Yes, it's heartwarming to witness the next generation growing up to take your place."
"Hmm, they're not ready for that yet, Sensei. But I do agree - they impressed me." Tsunade has shown up next.
"It's only a question of time, Tsunade-chan." Hiruzen turned towards Kaname, "The younger generation will always outmatch their predecessors."
"If you say so, Sensei. Now that I saw what Kakashi's team can do, I'll have to think about new assignments for them..." Tsunade replied, depressed at the prospect of future mountains of documents to fill up.
"Hokage-sama!" an ANBU kneeled in front of the group.
"Yeah?"
"We have a problem at the west gate. Sunagakure's envoy came back - she was wounded and lost her consciousness when she saw the guards. We escorted her to the hospital."
"Damnit! Let's go!" the female Hokage turned towards Konoha.
"Hey Granny, wait a moment!" Kaname called out after the woman.
"Not the time, Flat Board!"
"Have you forgot about something?" Kaname smirked at her.
Tsunade stopped for a moment, "Ah! Right! To the hospital!" she walked towards Kaname, and both women left in bright red combustion of fire.