ANBU boot camp

Chapter 38

Jiraiya and Hiruzen started to lead at a brisk jog, Tsunade quickly following as the wind picked up and the rain started to pour in sheets.

"The storm looks to be angry," Jiraiya started.

"Well, let us get moving," Tsunade growled.

Hiruzen stopped in his tracks.

"Sensei?" both his students looked at him confused.

The old man just turned to face where they had been coming from. There, walking, was Naruto.

"Naruto," Jiraiya shouted. "We have to get moving, this thing gets nastier the slower you go."

"We are here," Naruto replied. "To settle debts."

The wind picked up as the path started to change before their very eyes. The trail became narrower, one side dropped down into a sheer cliff. The other became a wall of razor-sharp edges. The ground started to slope down and climb and turned into mud. The three older Shinobi started to panic as they lost their footing, even Naruto seemed to focus on the storm.

"This the best it can do?" Naruto called out.

He wasn't looking at any of the adults, he was looking out into the gauntlet itself. The creature pretending to be a hiking trail answered the challenge as a massive bolt of lightning came down and hit the rocks just behind them. Carving out a gouge and sending razor-sharp shrapnel everywhere.

"That's better," Naruto replied as all four of them moved for cover.

"Are you insane?" Tsunade called out.

"Isn't being insane the definition of Uzumaki?" Naruto called back.

Another bolt of lightning came down and hit the rock wall between Naruto and Jiraiya and Tsunade and Hiruzen knocking all for off their feet.

Chief was sitting at the Ramen stand with Teuchi and his Daughter and Kosuke when he just smiled.

"That's a drink," he spoke out and both the cook and the Genin took a drink. All three of the older men knew they would be very drunk by the time this ended. Well, two of them would be Chief was drinking a non-alcoholic drink as he is banned from having any alcohol...to many people have died at his drunken hands.

Ayame just looked at the three confused,

"Do I want to know what is going on?" she asked looking at her father.

"Naruto planned to finish all old business during that hike...there is a lot of old wounds to heal today," her father replied. "And our blonde moron is making everyone including him go through hell to settle it."

"All they have to do is admit defeat and ask for a rescue," Kosuke added seeing the concerned look on the girls face.

"Will they?" she replied. "Ask for a rescue?"

"Never," Jiraiya shouted when Naruto asked him if he wanted to quit. "I have never quit a gauntlet yet."

Hiruzen grunted in reply and Tsunade did not make a sound as she was trying to hold on to her sensei's leg. The rain and mud made the grade so slick that all four fell and slid down. Naruto had sunk a kunai into the edge of the trail as he started to go over the cliff when the trail turned ninety degrees. Jiraiya followed him off the cliff and grabbed Naruto's legs, followed by Hiruzen and then last was Tsunade.