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Chapter 4: The power to defeat a Hokage

Naruto, Shikamaru, and Hinata walked in a single file towards their target. Shikamaru hadn't told Naruto anything besides that he would know what to do when the time came. Naruto knew that Shikamaru was smart and just figured that he would handle it. Hinata, however, was worried about the challenge.

'If we fail, Naruto and I won't be together an a team anymore. And if I cause the team to fail, then Naruto might hate me for it. Bt how can we hope to fight against a jounin as powerful as Anko-sensei? She used to be ANBU; that's a level far above even a normal jounin's level. Is this a test any team of genin could hope to pass?'

Hinata's thoughts almost caused her to miss seeing the jounin she was thinking about. She waved her hand and pointed out where Anko was to Shikamaru.

Shikamaru looked around and muttered, "How troublesome." Anko was still within the forest, and her shadow was not easily visible, so Kage Mane no Jutsu would be difficult to use. 'I guess it's on to plan B.'

"Naruto!" Shikamaru shouted to the blond-haired ninja, "Get her!"

"Hey, didn't you say I wasn't strong enough to beat her early?"

Shikamaru just shrugged his shoulders and turned away.

'Heh, after seeing how strong my Kage Bunshin is, he must have changed his mind and admitted my strength. Now I just need to show this loud mouthed jounin how great I am, and I'll be the number one ninja in the leaf.'

While Naruto charged, Anko laughed. 'It took them this long and they still couldn't come up with a plan. They really are the failures of their year. Now I just need to show this loud mouthed gennin how great I am, and I'll be free of them forever.'

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"

Five more Narutos appeared in front of Anko.

'Kage Bunshin no Jutsu? Well that is impressive.That's at least a chunnin level technique maybe even low jounin level. It's quite impressive that he has the stamina to be able to pull off such a chakra hungry technique. I'll bet learning such a powerful technique went to his head. It is my duty as his temporary jounin instructor to bring his ego to its proper level, like the floor.'

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu," Anko said as ten copies of her appeared.

"Nani! You can use Kage Bunshin too," the six Narutos cried out at once.

"Of course," the ten Ankos laughed. "Too bad a lowly gennin like yourself can only produce a measely five clones. For a guy who wants to become Hokage, you sure are pretty worthless."

Each Anko clone threw a kunai at the Naruto clones. Each of the five clones disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

"I'll show you worthless. Kage Bunshin no Jutsu."

Ten Naruto clones appeared and kicked the Anko clones, causing them to disappear into smoke.

"How do you like that, old woman."

"Old Woman! Would an old woman be able to do this? Kage Bunshin no Jutsu."

Fifteen clones of Anko punched Naruto's clones faces.

"How do like them apples, gaaaa-ki."

"Gaki? Who are you..."

Shikamaru was just sitting back, watching the events unfold. He would have been suprised that his plan was working so well, but it was just to much effort to be suprised about anything. He knew that Anko was show-offy, but he never figured she would be this concerned with beating Naruto.

'In Shogi, the key is to take advantage of your opponent when they let their guard down, and she just let down her guard.'

Shikamaru did the hand seals and unleashed his shadow. The next time Naruto destroyed her clones, Shikamaru sent his shadow straight for his back. He saw the shadow connect before Anko was even able to see it coming.

"Kage Mane no Jutsu succ..."

Suddenly Anko disappeared and was replaced with a rock.

'Damn. Kawarimi no Jutsu. Where did she go off to?'

"Do you see her?"

"N-n-no," Hinata timidly replied.

Hinata was upset with her inability to see where Anko had gone. She had one job and she was unable to do it properly. 'Maybe father was right. Maybe I really am worthless. If only I had been born with greater ability I would be able to...'

Suddenly she saw Anko. The jounin was flying towards Narutos back, a kunai in her hand, aimed straight for Naruto's heart. Hinata suddenly lost control of her body. Her legs started moving on their own. She was running. Faster than she had ever run before. When she saw that Anko was closer to Naruto was, she ran faster still. The edges of her vision blurred and began to fade. All Hinata could see was Naruto, Anko, and the dagger between them. She reached Naruto a second before the kunai did. There was no time to knock Naruto out of the way, so she went for the kunai. Hinata's palm firmly connected with Anko's knuckles, causing the kunai to go flying out of the kunoichi's hand.

Anko was stunned. The attack wouldn't have actually hit Naruto, she was going to have stopped when it touched him and would have sent the team home then. Hinata had been a blur and had hit like a lightning bolt. Anko looked at her hand, and realized that she couldn't push chakra into it anymore. There had been more to Hinata's attack than had met the eye. Her father had said that Hinata couldn't use jyuken, but all of the tenketsu in Anko's right hand been sealed.

'This is getting interesting. The fact that the brat has that much chakra is impressive, but that this girl can also already use her bloodline limit is even more impressive. They might not be as bad as their grades represent. Now what does that other guy bring to the team.'

She turned to towards Shikamaru. Suddenly her mouth dropped. That guy was lying on his back staring up at the sky.

"Hey you, what the hell are you doing? The battlefield is no place to be cloudwatching."

Shikamaru sighed and muttered, "How troublesome."

"Troublesome!" Anko screamed. "I'll show you troublesome."

Anko pulled out two Kunai with seals attached to them.

"Naruto," Shikamaru said in his lazy manner. "Use the technique that you used to beat the hokage."

"Nani!"

"Just do it."

Anko turned to see what attack Naruto could have that was capable of defeating a man as powerful as the hokage.

"Sexy no Jutsu!"

Anko's jaw dropped. All she could do was stare in disbelief.

Naruto laughed. "I didn't you were that kind of a pervy person, ero-sensei."

Shikamaru easily caught her in his Kage Mane no Jutsu. As soon as she felt the technique connect, she tried to fight it, but by that point she had already used up too much chakra from making kage bunshins to break free of it.

"Kage Mane no Justsu, success."

"Yata! That means we win, right?"

Naruto and Shikamaru both looked at Anko with questioning glances. Hinata was still blushing red after seeing Naruto using such a disgraceful attack. She had turned away and refused to look back until she was sure that Naruto was back to normal.

"Yes, dammit, you all pass. Now let me go."

"Hooray," Naruto chanted while grabbing Hinata's arms and dancing around, "I'm a ninja!"

"Hey you three," Anko said, "Come over here."

Once they had all arrived and huddled up, Anko whispered just loud enough for them to hear, "If any of you tell anyone what happened here, I will personally hunt down each one of you make sure you die in the most painful, gruesome way I know, and I know hundreds of them."

She stood up and spoke in her normal voice, "That being said, I'll contact you all with missions tommorrow, enjoy your evenings."

SECTION BREAK

Anko was back in the offices of the hokage in order to report the results of the trials.

She slammed down the paperwork onto the table the Hokage was sitting at.

"Team 9 passed."

"Really?" Iruka said with hopeful eyes.

"Really really."

"Interesting," the Sandaime Hokage said thoughtfully.

"What is?"

"Team 9 is the fourth team to have passed the exams."

"Which other teams passed?"

"Teams 1, 2, and 5."

"Does this mean that team 9 has to go back to the academy?" Iruka asked worriedly.

"Of course not, I was watching the trials in my office, and team 9 legitmately beat jounin using team work, and that qualifies them to be full gennin." The old man then winked at Anko, "Don't worry the same technique got me too."

"Neh?" Iruka said, "What technique?"

Anko turned in place and started walking away with her knees in place. "I don't wanna talk about it."

END Chapter 4

Authors note: I am extremely sorry for the extended break I took. But I have written this chapter and hope to write several more soon. No excuse is adequate, and I sincerely apologize for disappearing like I did. And to everyone out there, ye I am still writing this!