Cherry Blossoms | A Naruto FanFic

Chapter Eleven: Master Tactician

It was inconceivable, in twenty-one years of experience and battling in the field. Never has Kakashi seen such a technique that Naruto did.

In front of him were thousands of small cherry blossoms floating around Naruto, "W-What is that?" Kakashi asked, his voice a little shaken up from the pure shock factor.

" Throughout the years of owning this sword, I've come to realize that this isn't a normal blade by any conventional means. However, you don't need to know the rest of the details, " Naruto said.

" I still haven't mastered this technique at all, I can only summon about four thousand cherry blossom petals, " Naruto thought, his face calm and relaxed showing no sign of worry.

" It doesn't matter, I'll have to stick with the plan and we'll win no matter what, " Naruto thought, as he raised his hand towards Kakashi with the cherry blossoms reacting to his will.

They started to rush towards Kakashi at speeds that far out-classed a regular jounin, however, Kakashi wasn't a regular jounin.

He was an elite jounin with the sharingan at his disposal, " Relax Kakashi, this might be a new technique you've never seen before. But every technique has a weakness, find that weakness and you can win, " Kakashi thought to himself while raising his kunai to block the cherry blossom petals.

However, what he didn't account for was that those cherry blossoms weren't your regular blossoms. They were made out of a quark size piece of silver that's sharper than diamonds that bunch up together to create a cherry blossom. But because of the lighting, it gives the appearance of cherry blossoms.

This became apparent once the steel kunai made contact with the cherry blossoms of Naruto's Shikai.

The kunai was quite literally erased from existence and reality, within 1 zeptosecond of a second, the kunai was erased from existence.

Kakashi's eyes widened at this, one second he was holding his kunai to block the cherry blossom petals, then his kunai was completely gone from his hand.

Kakashi stepped back, but it was too late. His entire left arm was completely cut with shallow cuts, " Amazing. Your powers are simply amazing, the only person that has ever come close to defeat at such a young age like you is Izumi Uchiha. It seems like you have defeated me, " Kakashi announced with an eye smile.

Naruto merely smirked, " Who says my goal here is to defeat you? I was merely a distraction, " Naruto replied calmly, Kakashi's eyes widened.

Before Kakashi could move, his entire body stopped moving. " What's happening!! I can't move my legs, arms, chakra, or anything!! " Kakashi thought, while looking around.

He could still move his head and eyes, but everything else was unable to move. " You might be wondering what happened, " Naruto said while slowly approaching Kakashi.

" Before this exam started, I created a strong shadow clone who transformed into Natsumi. Once the exam started, my clone used the Substitution Jutsu with the real Natsumi. Then I bought Sasuke with us and we created a plan. I would set up string traps around the area, however, the string has a subtle genjutsu placed on them that would give people light head and reduce physical movements and comprehension skills by twenty percent. Along with this, I gave Sasuke an explosion tag that had two layers. The first layer was your regular explosion tag, the second layer was a paralysis seal that I just activated. If you move your head to the right, you'll see the seal that I created, " Naruto explained.

Kakashi's eyes widened at such a complex plan for mere genin, however, something stuck with Kakashi at this plan.

" I know what you're thinking. How could Sasuke escape a technique that he has never seen before and placed that explosion tag on me?. Well in truth, he didn't. Once he was trapped in that earth jutsu, I used the Substitution Jutsu on Sasuke with a log and then I transformed into Sasuke and placed that seal on you, " Naruto explained, Kakashi's eyes widened for the one thousandth time this day.

Naruto then grabbed the bells around Kakashi waist with ease, " You two can come out now, or are going to hang up there on the tree all day, " Naruto said, within seconds two blur landed in front of Naruto.

They were none other than the village pariah, Uzumaki Natsumi, and the village prince, Uchiha Sasuke.

Naruto stretched his hand out and placed one bell in Natsumi's hand, and the other one on Sasuke's hand.

Then Naruto turned around and looked at Kakashi, " So what do you say sensei? Do we pass this exam of teamwork, or not? " Naruto asked calmly while placing his hand in a half ram seal.

The unique and complex seal on Kakashi's right arm glowed blue, after a second of glowing blue it completely disappeared.

Kakashi stood up from his knees and cracked his neck, " You guys definitely passed, you showed excellent teamwork with a plan that I could never expect from a team of new shinobi, " Kakashi announced.

The results were immediately, Sasuke and Naruto slightly smirked and Natsumi started to shout while jumping up and down.

" Kakashi~sensei, Naruto~Ni, and Sasuke, let's go get something to eat really, " Natsumi said, Naruto and Sasuke nodded while Kakashi eyed smiled.

" Sorry, I've had to report to Hokage~sama. I'm like three hours late, " Kakashi said sheepishly, Sasuke and Natsumi sweatdropped while Naruto nodded.

" Meet us at Ichiraku Ramen Shop, be there within three hours, if you can even do that, " Naruto said, Kakashi pouted at the insult to his late habit.

" See you soon, brats, "

( A/N: I'm only uploading two chapters that I made today simply because they serve as an interlude between this beginning Arc and the Land of the Waves Arc, Please enjoy that next chapter: The Talk )