Naruto Of The Shadow Clones

chapter 6 Bell Test Part Two

Training Ground 7: Bell Test, One Hour In

Preparations were finished quickly and Matto and Heza headed back into the field to wait for Naruto to do whatever it was he had planned to get Kakashi to chase him through the corridor. They were still wondering how he planned on getting that detestable orange book so that Kakashi would give up the bells, and were hoping that Naruto knew what he was getting himself into.

In the meantime, Naruto had been busy looking for Kakashi for the next thirty minutes. While it is true he could locate Kakashi by firing a chakra pulse or two, that would have alerted Kakashi to the fact that Naruto could do it as well as give Kakashi an idea of where he was. After all, you don't become Chunnin or Jounin without learning things such as picking up chakra spikes.

So Naruto was tracking Kakashi down with a more conventional means. Thanks to all of the training Naruto did with the Kitsune in their summoning realm, Naruto's senses were extremely more sensitive than most other people. He was currently using his Inuzka like nose to track down his soon to be vic- er teacher.

'Good thing I spent so much time at his apartment last night. I've got his scent down good now.' Naruto was doing well tracking Kakashi but the one eyed Jounin seemed to know he was being followed and kept moving around.

Naruto was finally able to mask his chakra enough and got into position. Fortunately or unfortunately in Kakashi's case, Kakashi was just a few football fields from the corridor that they set up. Naruto immediately realized that Kakashi probably knew about the corridor but figured that the cyclops was humoring them so he readied himself to run like a bat straight out of hell.

Meanwhile, Kakashi was nervously checking his surroundings without turning his head. For the past forty five minutes, he could smell Naruto tracking him. The boy was good, but he couldn't entirely get rid of his scent.

But while Kakashi was impressed, he was a bit worried that it was just Naruto. The three hopefuls seemed to know more about what the test was really about than all the other teams he had tested before but only Naruto seemed to be actively searching for him.

This meant a couple of things to him. Either the other two were expecting Naruto to do all the work or they had a plan that Naruto would drag him into. The fact that he had seen them set up the mine corridor led him to believe the second, but either one worried him.

The first thought worried him because it would mean they weren't as willing to look out for each other as he thought. The second concerned him even more. There was quite a bit of explosive just ahead of his position. He had reluctantly headed to his position when he realized that he might as well get this over with and just hoped Naruto wouldn't get too hurt. This of course was about to change soon but he did not know that.

Back with Naruto, he had quickly made sure that Kakashi's pouch was on the same side as the bells and that he was sure that the bulge in it was his target. (I'm making the bells on Kakashi's left side not right like cannon. You will see why in just a second.) Taking a deep yet quite breath, Naruto took one last moment to review his plan mentally. As soon as he had gone over everything in his mind, he blurred straight toward the cyclops' lower left back.

Back with Kakashi, he suddenly felt something coming towards him at an extremely fast pace. He quickly jumped out of the way to his right and saw Naruto appear on a branch in front of him kneeling down on one knee, with his arms in front and head bowed. 'I barely saw him move!' Kakashi thought with his visible eye wide open. 'He almost got a bell. No wonder he and the other two set up that corridor. He could easily go straight through and trigger it half way through to lose me. It almost worked too.' "Not bad Naruto, but I'm afraid you messed up your chance to get the bell that you were after."