Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Team Four: The Untold Story ❯ The Lamest Test Ever! ( Chapter 3 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

A/N: Sorry this took a while to come out. I'm leaving for college this week and I've been busy with last minute shopping. Plus I share this computer with my three younger sisters. When I get my laptop later this week updates might start coming faster.

The test that I have Team Four go through was all made up by me, so it may seem very stupid. Sorry, I'm not all that creative, but I wanted something different then the bell test since the anime made such a big deal about no one ever passing Kakashi's test before. This made me think that each team would have different test depending upon the Jounin in charge.

I hope someone will like this chapter enough to review. I feel like the only person that likes this story is my sister. Oh well, I still keep writing it even if everybody hates it. So on to the story!

One last note on disclaimers. For the rest of this story please refer to Chapter 1 for the official disclaiming of my ownership of anything to do with Naruto.

Chapter 3: The Lamest Test Ever

The next morning I made my way to the kitchen to find Alviss already there, blinking at his rice.

“Morning,” I yawned and grabbed a bowl, “Where's Nee-chan?”

“She had an early mission and she won't be back until the day after tomorrow.” Alviss answered, pushing his half-eaten bowl of rice out of the way so he could lay his head on the table.

“What's wrong with you?”

“I'm nervous and I'm tired.” He mumbled with his face buried in his arms.

“What's there to be nervous about?”

“You do know that if we don't pass whatever test our Jounin instructor gives then we have to go back to the academy don't you?” He raised his head to blink at me.

“No! Where did you hear that?” I exclaimed.

“I overhead Nee-san talking to Genma-sensei last night. She wanted to know what he was going to have us do, but he wouldn't say.” Alviss explained.

“Then we'll just have to come prepared and give it our all. Starting with a good breakfast.” I gently pushed his bowl back towards him. “Besides, this is Genma-san we're talking about here! How bad can it be.”

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Thirty minutes later, when I heard what Genma had in store for us I regretted those words.

“You want us to do what!” I exclaimed.

“Move one of these 30 gallon barrels full of water through the booby trapped training field to the finish line. Oh, and only the first one across will pass. Then the rest will be sent back to the academy while the winner will be placed on a new team with the winners from the other students. Good luck!” Genma poofed away leaving us shocked.

“Now what? Do you think it's a trap?” Alviss asked.

“I don't wanna compete against Aniki!” I chibi-wailed. (1)

“Hmm... there are always there new Genin teams at one period of time. However, there are tight teams competing for those slots this year instead of the usual nine since we had a smaller class then normal. I think this is a test within a test. You can't have a two man team. Therefore, we can't be disqualified unless one of us doesn't make it through the course. In which case all three of us would be disqualified. I think that to pass this test we should all work together so that we are all able to get through the course,” Narumi reasoned.

“Naru-chan! You my hero! Marry me!” I yelled while glomping the taller boy.

“Um...sorry, but I'll have to decline.” He blushed.

“Ahh! Rats!”

“Come on guys, let's get moving.” Alviss called while picking up his barrel and sliding his arms through the straps Genma had put on them.

So we started out. Everything seemed normal, until we got to the first quarter mark. Then Alviss started to get twitchy.

“Did you step in poison ivy or something?” Narumi asked.

“No, but something doesn't feel right...Let's stop for a second, I want to try something.” We stopped and watched as Alviss set his barrel down. Then he started making some familiar hand signs.

“A genjutsu?” I asked, glancing around more carefully.

Alviss finished his jutsu before answering. “Just like I though. There's a high level concealment jutsu over the field and we just stepped through the barrier.”

“Can you dispel it?” I asked.

“Not for all of us. Nee-san hasn't taught me that much yet. I only know how to dispel it from myself and it's more difficult to expel a genjutsu from someone else, especially if you don't know how.”

“That's okay. You do it for yourself and tell us what you see.” Narumi suggested.

Alviss nodded and started making hand signs again. Hes was soon finished with the jutsu and opened his eyes. He immediately groaned in dismay.

“Oh man! Am I glad I stopped us just then! About five more steps and we would have been waist up in wet cement.” He explained. (2)

“Is there anyway to get across?” Narumi asked.

“Yeah, there's trees planted in the cement. The only way across without going out of bounds is through the branches. Jump when I tell you.” He jumped over the grass and landed in thin air about 10 feet up. Then he stripped off his barrel again and took a few minutes sitting it up beside him. “Okay, Kari first. Just jump to me and I'll catch you and guide you across. Then I'll come back and do the same for Narumi.”

“Okay! Here I come!” I jumped...and missed. I ended up heading towards Alviss's water barrel. Alviss tried to grab my arm and use it to pull me away before I hit, but it was too late, his barrel went barreling into the ground below and seemed to disappear.

“Shit! I'm so sorry Alviss! You can have my barrel.” I offered.

“No, it's my fault. I should have taken it across first. You keep your barrel. Now let's get you across.”

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When we were all through the genjutsu I tried apologizing again, but Alviss wouldn't hear of taking my barrel, so we continued onward. We got to the halfway mark when I felt the air shifting to my left.

“Duck!” I ordered, dropping to the ground, with Alviss and Narumi following. Not a second to soon as senbon shot over our heads.

“Well, now we know that the midway point is set to throw weapons. Alviss, I know you don't want my water barrel, but if you'll carry it for me I'll deflect the senbon.” I offered.

“How will you deflect them all?” Narumi asked as Alviss strapped my barrel on.

“With a little wind.” I pulled out my tessen. Unlike Temari-chan, I used two medium sized fans, on in each hand. As we continued forward I made short work of deflecting the flying senbon. Deflecting flying weapons is the easiest task for a wind user to do. As soon as we were through I reclaimed my barrel from Alviss again.

“I'm sensing a pattern here. Who wants to bet there'll be another trap at the three-quarter mark?” I asked.

“We're not stupid enough to take that bet,” Narumi replied. We walked on in weary anticipation. When we reached the three-quarters mark, though, nothing happened. We slowed down and stayed alert to our surroundings. We were almost through when Genma-sensei suddenly came shooting up out of the ground behind Narumi, busting his barrel wide open. Narumi quickly shrugged off the, now useless, straps and blocked the incoming attack for my barrel. At the same time Alviss made a genjutsu to cover me and created a clone of himself that looked like me.

I took the hint and started running for the finish line. Alviss and Narumi following close behind, fighting off the attacks from the army of Genma clones. It was an all out race for the finish. Who would win. Us or Genma-sensei.

Us, of course!

As soon as we were across the Genma clones poofed out of existence.

“Huff...huff...That was close!” I wheezed.

“At least one barrel made it,” Narumi stated tiredly.

“I'm so sorry Naru-chan! I~” I paused, thinking about something. Then we heard clapping.

“Congrats, you all fail,” Genma said cheerfully.

“What! But Kari got across!” The boys protested as I stayed silent, still thinking.

“Sorry, but rules are rules.” Genma said.

“Wait, Genma-sensei. Didn't you say we had to get one barrel across?” I asked.

“Well...yeah.” He said suspiciously.

“Well, we did get a barrel. You never said to bring one each and we all worked together to get this barrel here.” I pointed out as the guys waited with baited breath to hear Genma's response.

“Yes! I won 200 yen!” Genma cheered.

“Um...What?!” We screamed.

“I bet Raido 200 yen that you all would pass all parts of the exam and I won!” He explained.

“What do you mean?” Alviss asked.

“You all passed the teamwork, genjutsu, ninjutsu, and taijutsu tests. And, the hardest of them all, the directions test. As shinobi it is important to take in and recall perfectly all of you mission instructions. You all have passed with flying colors. Congratulations on becoming Genin.” Genma explained.

“Yes!” We cheered.

“Now,” Genma asked. “Who wants to have a celebratory lunch?”

Needless to say, he was met with an enthusiastic acceptance.

A/N:

(1): Think of all the anime characters that turn chibi and start crying. Examples include: Genji from Getbackers, Shuichi from Gravitation, and various other people.

(2): Do they use cement in Naruto?

Other news: Voting for who Kari will be with is now closed. The person with the highest votes was Shino so that's who it will be. There will be a small one-shot that will go with this story that I will put out next. It will be a separate story though called Missions and Games. After that the next chapter will begin after a time skip. The story will pick back up after the Wave country arc in Naruto, just before the Chunin exams. My OC team will already be Chunins because they participated in the exam before the Naruto one.

I hope any readers this story might have liked this chapter.