Journey Of A Soul - A Naruto Fanfic

its been a week since i met hiruzen, i am now kinda nervous about the whole exam which my sadistic master may come up with... well atleast tsunade is in the village so i can most probably come out of it alive right??

in the past week, i learned two more variants of shadow clones- shadow shuriken and kunai jutsu.. i am able to multiply them by 40 at a time but still needs to work on their aim..

another thing is, i have started spending time with the girls where i tried playing with them like normal children and helped them in some training but stopped the playing thing as i was grossed out on myself... i just started doing common things with each which they were intrested in.

with natsume, i played pranks on the village and at the same time trained her in stealth. it seems like natsume took into pranking as everyone in the village sucks up to the siblings which she doesnt like... mostly we try to prank kakashi.. dont know what she got on him, but atleast its a challenge as kakashi is tricky if i dont use haki to erase my presence where he wont be able to sense me... will more fun that way.

with mito, its mostly reading together and me helping her with chakra control. i started her and natsume on tree walking in secret and gave her my foundation training notes with my own ideas to get pink muscles from my old world which she found intresting..

tsuki hime was tricky.. training with her is mostly tijutsu matches where she tries to win and i give her a trimmed down hiruzen style beating... i pointed out some of her mistakes by the end, where she huffs, glares, blushes and just hits me on the head or atleast tried to which mostly fails, rinse and repeat.. it seems she is more of a kinetic learner and has good strength..

akemi was on other level, she improved everyday and now is on par with only tsuki when it comes to training. well we are mostly amicable if you ignore the passive flirting by a 4 year old and glares of itachi from the side... we battle each other until i mention she was on par with tsuki, where akemi usually levels up like a cute pokemon and comes at me with a sadistic smile and tries to prove she is advanced..

hinata was comfortable enough where we trained together. i noticed gentle fist is mostly rigid for her personality and taught her basics of wing chun along with flexibility exercises and told her to develop her version of gentle fist and sparred with her regularly to help her refine it. i also got introduced with neji who started calling me aniki with a smile... my visit to hyuuga clan have me a fanboy it seems.. cue shudders. i helped neji sparring with him too.

you must be wondering how i did all these.. well i went all out with shadow clones of course along with making sure i was not hit by general use of haki it was a piece of cake.

now i am waiting for hiruzen to start my ninja exam or gennin test or trial by fire.... whatever..

hiruzen and minato suddenly appreared before me. while hiruzen looked as prestine as ever, minato looked haggard. i gave a questioning look when suddenly jiraya got hurled out flying towards us.. i was now thoroughly confused with that was going on when tsunade and kushina came out after jiraya pissed off. a few moments later mikoto too made it after them happily..

so, after a while everything calmed down, hiruzen came beside me and said.

hiruzen- 'this is not public but only known to hokage, inside the hokage training ground, we have found a cave which was sealed and the seal got weakened after the nine tails attack. inside we have different beasts which usually start with genin level beasts but while you go on their strenght get increasing.. in the past four years, minato sealed it where only he had access to it and cleaned up everything which comes towards the surface.

now, your trial by fire is to defeat atleast 10 chunin lvl beasts.'

'hey master, isnt this too much, most of 12 year old have to give an academy three and write a stupid test, so why are you giving such a hard test to me?? when you said trail by fire, i thought at most i need to defend against another ninja for a bit.. so tell me whats really going on.'

minato- we were not able to find anything down there and we were hoping you would be able to find something which tells us its origin with your senses.

hiruzen- dont worry brat, minato had developed a seal to summon you if you are truly in danger, we cannot go with you as the cave only allows one person at a time.. along with that, jiraya will apply a seal on you which makes sure we can watch what is going on at all times while we will be on stand by..

i thought for a while, their plan itself is good enough, and i guess having something like that in the village and not having know its origin had been a problem. i can totally use my haki to help them out.

'okay master.' with that, minato and jiraya applied their seals while tsunade did a thorough check up and added a body monitoring seal. with that we started moving to hokage mansion when we saw tsuki and akemi arguing on the road. we saw akemi saying something which got tsuki angry and say something at akemi, which got a creepy smile on her face and suddenly both of them started fighting with fists flying right on the road.

suddenly they saw us, and stopped fighting and made their way towards me?? okay what's going on...

tsuki- sasaki, where are you guys going.. i was looking for you, come lets go train

wow, she dint even give me time to answer a single question.

akemi- ara ara, sasaki kun leave this brute and lets go to our daily training..

tsuki- who is a brute you uchiha

since when was uchiha an insult??

akemi- what cant come up with something good as a reply.. and yes i am a uchiha, senju, say do you want a reward for the wonderful deduction??

okay, before things can escalate, 'i told you guys, today is my genin test right? why dont you come with us to see it?'

they made a oh sound and then realized their mothers behind me. after that distraction we made it to the hokage mansion..

we saw the other four girls there.

natsume came towards me- well when dad told us your test was here i thought we will cheer for you

'thanks natsume chan.. you too girls' i said warmly.. we then moved to the training ground while tsunade and jiraya set up the visual and medical equipment to observe me going through trial.

after everything was setup, minato started doing some seals and put his hand on ground as if summoning, and we saw a cave formed.

i said goodbye to everone who were wishing me luck and made it into the cave.

after making it inside i saw a corridor , i upped my observation haki and started going deaper..

when i made it to the end, i saw a huge under ground clearing with artificial sky, lakes and trees like a jungle and when i steped outside suddenly a huge black stone with symbols appreared before me from the ground.

i made it to stone and inserted my will to read it, and it said

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cliffhanger