Sozen the Ghost Shinobi

Chapter Two

✦𝔼𝕧𝕒𝕝𝕦𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 ℙ𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕋𝕨𝕠✦

Sozen had woken up a bit before dawn the cause, as usual, was a nightmare that had plagued him for several years. The nightmare was a shared own likely between the three people to have witnessed it.

sᴏᴢᴇɴ ɪᴄʜɪʀᴏ

sᴀsᴜᴋᴇ ᴜᴄʜɪʜᴀ

and

ɪᴛᴀᴄʜɪ ᴜᴄʜɪʜᴀ

The Uchiha Massacre as Itachi was in the same rank grouping as Sozen, the two had worked together in the ANBU and Sozen's Kekkei Genkai had played its part. It seems meeting the young Uchiha had stirred some old memories. It was only four years ago that the event occurred. The pain no doubt will never leave the young Uchiha. Not that Sozen cared about Sasuke more than a team member. To a former ANBU, team members were often expendable.

With darker thoughts and borrowed memories, Sozen started his day and went against what the sneak Kakashi said and ate a large breakfast before heading to the training grounds. Just as Sozen reached the door, he remembered to grab a bag of gear that he would have a clone hold onto. Sozen teleported to the meeting point just outside of the training grounds, he was the first one there. One by one, the team showed up with Sasuke quickly followed by Sakura and then Naruto. The three went about in their arguments, no one was getting along at all and Kakashi was yet to be seen.

As the sun started to make it's way across the sky, Sozen assumed it had been about four hours since dawn. Surely Kakashi wouldn't have the idiots who didn't eat wait much longer. As Naruto whined for the seven hundredth time, Kakashi finally made his way up the slope.

"Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto yelled with a tick mark on his forehead, "You're late!" 

"I'm sorry, I got held up. There was a black cat on my path then a grandma needed help with her groceries but she lived on the other side of town," Kakashi brushed the team off.

The team followed Kakashi into the training grounds where we all stood facing him. Kakashi then explained how the evaluation would work:

"It's a survival battle, the aim is for each of you to take one of three bells from me. Anyone who doesn't get a bell before noon will not receive lunch."

Which, as the others realised, was why he'd told them not to have breakfast.

He then explained that "because there are only three bells, at least one person will fail and return to the Academy. You may use shuriken if you would like, if you attempted the mission with anything less than the intent to kill me... you will fail."

"Kakashi-sensei, Sozen didn't go to the Academy," Sakura spoke up.

"I can make any or all of you go back!" Kakashi threatened though Sozen knew better.

The others look on in determination whilst Naruto burst out laughing.

"Bah, Kakashi-sensei will be a piece of cake!" Naruto grinned.

"It's often the class clown is the weakest link and doesn't pose a threat," Kakashi sassed.

Naruto flared up in rage and attacked Kakashi before the test had even started. A shuriken was launched at Kakashi as well as a small set of physical attacks. Easily dodging the attacks, Kakashi stated that the test would be starting. Both Sasuke and Sakura used stealth methods, hiding from Kakashi while Naruto remained his course of physical sets. Sozen stood and assessed Naruto's attacks. They were basic, uncontrolled and fueled by emotions.