A Deadly Sin
Chapter 2- The Bell Test
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"Talking"
'Thinking'
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Walking to the training field the next morning, Naruto's mind was a buzz with all the things his supposed older brother told him, last night.
'If what he said was true,' Naruto thought to himself as he slowly made his way to the village, relying on instinct to guide him safely through the crowd of people, 'Does that mean I'm not human.'
(Start Flashback)
"That...that can't be" Naruto stuttered as he, stumbled backward, waving his hands as he if he was trying to ward off some great evil.
"But it is" Envy purred to the startled boy, advancing on him much like a cat advancing on their prey, "This village used you as a sacrifice to harbor something much greater, then when they decided that you could become unstable or a liability they decided to shun you, attack you, and hopefully dispose of you."
Confusion was clearly evident on Naruto's face as he continued to back up from the green-haired man, until eventually he backed up into the trunk of a tree, and had no where else to go. Still shaking his head no, trying to deny what Envy was telling him.
Now standing in front of the scared boy, Envy kneeled down until he was eye level with the boy. Putting his one hand on top of his hair, Envy stared right into the blue eyes of Naruto and said "Face it little brother, they used you and then wanted to throw you away."
Backing up, Envy smiled delightfully as he watched Naruto's emotions turn from confusion to anger right before his eyes. His insane smile widened as he saw Naruto's fist clench til they started to draw blood. His left eye starting glow white as that same symbol started to form, taking the place of his normal blue colored pupil, lightning starting to cascade down his limbs as he stood there shaking.
Naruto realizing he was letting his emotions get the better of him again, tried to calm himself down. Closing his eyes, he began taking deep breathes, he slowly began to turn back to normal, the lightning stopping and his eye turning back into a light blue.
Envy's insane smile, lessened when she saw that he was returning to normal, and instead started to sneer at the form of the boy. When he saw that Naruto was beginning to open his eyes again, he plastered the smile he had earlier on his face and slowly backed away from Naruto.
When Naruto finally felt he had everything under control, he looked back up at Envy.
Staring down at the boy, Envy said in a very teasing tone of voice "Well, well quite the temper you have there don't you."
Naruto, his head clearly embarrassed by his little outburst.
"But your doing it all wrong little brother" Envy said from across the opening.
Naruto looked up sharply at those words only to find nobody there.
When a hand dropped down on his shoulder, he nearly jumped out of his skin in surprise. Looking up, he saw the face of Envy standing right there, smiling at him.
Envy then moved to where he was standing in front of him again. Lifting a finger, he stood in a pose that looked like he was lecturing a student and said "All the rage your feeling, that wrath, that is your source of power, you should be embracing it not fighting it."
Looking confused again, all Naruto could say was "Huh" and scratch his head.
Huffing to himself in frustration, Envy ran an hand threw his hair and started over again saying, "Your doing everything in your, as of right now, very limited power, to fight off all the anger and rage you've been feeling. If you continue on this path then you'll wrath will take control of you and you'll be nothing more then a berserker attacking anyone that comes near you."
Turning around, Envy smiled at the crest fallen look that Naruto gave off, then making of show of sweeping his arms wide before bringing them close to his body in a mock hug, he continued "But if you were to embrace that anger, that wrath, they you would become something even greater, something much better then this filth you walk around with everyday."
"Greater" Naruto muttered to himself, seeming hypnotize by the word. That is before he shook his head, breaking himself out of his dream, and saying "The way you make it sound, your not human, and I wouldn't be either."
In a flash Envy was in front of the blond haired boy, inches away from his face, eye to eye with an insane smile on his face, and whispered "That's because we aren't."
(End Flashback)
'Not human' Naruto thought to himself, bringing up one of his hands and inspecting it. Kicking a pebble in front of him. Naruto turned his eyes from his hand, to the people walking around him and all the angry sneers they were giving him.
A spike of anger went through Naruto's body, and instead of trying to control just sighed into defeat, and continued onto the practice field his new sensei said to meet at.
Walking to the bridge, that was near the training field. Naruto saw both Sasuke and Sakura already there, waiting for Kakashi to show.
Walking up to the bridge where he was basically, ignored by both of his so called teammates, looking down at the water of the bridge. He just stood there and waited for the late Jounin to show.
After another grueling two hours of waiting, Kakashi finally showed, transporting via a puff of smoke and standing there like nothing was wrong. His only showing eye, closed and smiling in obvious amusement.
Accompanied by his late arrival was the screaming of the only female of the team, "YOUR LATE!!!!"
Still smiling in amusement from behind his mask, Kakashi drawled out, "Well you see I was walking down the street picking flowers, when a bee flew out of one of the flowers and stung me. It was soon after that the sting started to swell and at this point I obviously went the hospital. It actually turns out that I'm allergic to bee stings, and after they were able to fix me up, I started to walk out. But while I was walking out, I saw an old friend that I haven't spoken to in forever and we got to talking. As soon as we left the hospital, laughing and talking along the way, a piano fell from the heavens and landed right on my dear friend. Well as you imagine I couldn't just leave him there, so after I lifted the piano off of him, I picked him up and took him back into the hospital, after finding out that everything was okay, I proceeded to come here as fast as I could, while still maintaining my very cool and laid back attitude."
In response his three students could do nothing but stare stupidly at him, their mouths hanging open, and sweat drop traveling down each of their heads.
Still smiling happily, Kakashi after his students failed to speak for several seconds started again saying, "Well then if there no other questions let's begin" clapping his hands together near the end.
Pointing to his belt and the two bells that hung from it, he continued "Now then if you would look to my stylish belt, you will see two bells hanging from it."
The students seeing the bells nodded there heads in understanding, seeing this Kakashi then said, "Your goal is to get the bells that hang from that oh so stylish belt, the one who doesn't get a bell will be tied to those logs over there, and be forced to watch his or her teammates eat the two lunches," then shrugging his shoulder and adding as an after thought said "oh yeah, and the one who doesn't get a bell will be sent back to the academy."
Seeing the surprised, look on all of their faces, Kakashi's smile widened and reaching into his vest he pulled out an alarm clock dropping it down on a near by stump, "Okay then, you have till noon to get a bell," hitting the button to start the clock, he looked over to his team, only to see that no one made a move, scratching his head, he said in a very bored tone of voice "um...Begin."
Coming out of there stupor the three genins moved so fast they left a cloud of smoke behind.
Coughing and waving his hands in front of his face warding off the smoke in front of his face. Once the smoke faded, Kakashi saw the all three of them were gone and most likely hiding.
Nodding his head, Kakashi turned around only to be surprised to see the form of Naruto, standing there proudly and looking down at him.
Kakashi's happiness plummeted after seeing the blond standing there, and bringing his hand up to his chin in a classic thinking pose, then pointing over to him, said "Aren't you supposed to be hiding."
Naruto, who was wearing his normal fox like smile, said energetically while pointing at him, "If I'm gonna get a bell, I'm gonna have to attack you sooner or later," then pulling out a kunai from his pouch, he started running at Kakashi, and screamed out "AND I DECIDED ON SOONER!!"
"Well then" Kakashi started, scratching his head "If you set on this course, then I'll just have to properly instruct you, Lesson 1: Taijutsu."
Right after saying it, he reached into his pouch, causing Naruto to stop in his tracks, and pulled out his favorite X-rated book.
"What are you doing?" Naruto drawled after seeing the spectacle.
"Reading obviously" Kakashi stated still reading his favorite book.
Naruto, who started to grind his teeth and clench his hands, ground out, "Buy why?"
Kakashi still standing there nonchalantly, shrugged his shoulders and said "Because I can't wait to see what happens next, of course."
"Your not even taking me seriously" Naruto growled out, his anger still rising.
"Well of course not" the now giggling Kakashi muttered.
When he felt his anger spike again, he reflexively tried to control it and push it back down, but right at the moment he recalled what Envy said to him the other day.
'Okay then," Naruto thought to himself 'Embrace the anger.'
Taking a deep calming breath, he straightened his back and let go all of his restraint. All the anger he felt and was subjected to, he let out in one deafening roar that sounded more animalistic then human.
Lighting coursed through his body, before a red aura surrounded him entirely and began expanding. Where ever it touched the ground splintered and shook, causing pebbles to be lifted into the air until they eventually dissolved into nothing because of the aura he was causing.
Naruto, who up into this point had his head down, lifted his head showing his now glowing left eye, which in the center was not a normal pupil but a design that looked like a dragon eating his own tail.
Kakashi now had his undivided attention upon the newly graduated genin, book forgotten and laying loose in his grip, frantically thought to himself, 'Could the seal be breaking, wait no at least not yet, I've got to stop this before it gets out of hand.'
Naruto's two teammates that were hiding and staring stupidly at the sight of the dead last causing such a spectacle couldn't move, frozen by the force of the power Naruto was radiating.
Naruto now staring at Kakashi with nothing but contempt, growled out in a voice full of hate and loathing, "You better get ready Kakashi, cause I'm gonna turn you into dust."
Then in a flash, Naruto disappeared from his spot and reappeared just in front of Kakashi, his face in a sneer showing off his elongated canines and fist raised high, ready to strike. But by the time his fist came down upon the form of his teacher, he had already used Kawarimi(1), switching him with a near by log, causing Naruto's fist to hit and break the log in half scattering the debris in every direction.
Naruto instead of looking around for his sensei, smirked to himself and turned around, coming face to face with a surprised Kakashi. Rearing his fist back again, he struck.
Kakashi this time didn't have time to use of his many techniques and could bring arms up, blocking the enraged Naruto's attack, causing him to skid back, stopping by a near by lake at least 10 feet from where Naruto had attacked him.
Naruto now wearing a haughty smile, started to walk towards the still form of Kakashi, "What's wrong Kakashi," Naruto started "I thought you were going to teach me all about Taijutsu."
Taking slow stops towards his sensei, Naruto's left starting analyzing the situation and showed it's user every possible move Kakashi could make at this point, and several ways to counter each situation.
"Like I said Kakashi," Naruto started, his right eye now completely red, "I'm gonna turn you into dust" complementing his statement with a flare of his aura causing it to expand again.
Kakashi, now taking his student seriously, said "Okay Naruto, that's enough, you need a time out."
Disappearing from his spot, much faster then before, this time when Naruto turned around to greet him, Kakashi was already there throwing a fist and hitting him right in the stomach lifting him off of the ground and into the air. Kakashi this time appearing above the still floating Naruto, kicking him just under the chin making fly towards the lake, where he hit the ground just before it, bounced then landed in. Extinguishing his aura as soon as he hit the water and knocking him unconscious in the process.
Seeing the now floating form of Naruto, Kakashi sighed to himself, before once again dawning his nonchalant attitude. Throwing his hands into his pockets, Kakashi said towards the knocked out Naruto, "Your much to cocky boy, even if you do have some kind of bloodline ability or whatever that eye of yours was, your still nothing but a genin and I'm a jounin, I'm way above you in terms of skill."
Sighing to himself, he waded into the water and put Naruto back on land, just in case he accidently drowned.
Once he was sure that Naruto was safe, he turned back around took out his book again and started to wonder through the clearing, laughing and giggling along the way.
"Damn" Envy muttered to himself, after seeing Kakashi knock his little sibling out. "And he was so close to fully awakening that time to."
"At least it's progress" a sensuous female voice said from behind Envy. At not second later the form of Lust, expecting her nails that were hidden underneath the green gloves she wore, came out of the shadow's followed closely by Gluttony.
"I guess" Envy said, shrugging his shoulders "I just hoped by now that he would have shed his pathetic humanity and joined us."
At this point Envy looked over his shoulder at the other two homunculi, and said "I take it that you dealt with that pawn."
Lust not lifting her eyes from her nails, distractedly said "Yeah he won't be giving us any problems."
"I ate him" Gluttony proudly proclaimed from where he stood beside Lust, while rubbing his stomach, "He was tasty."
Envy stared at Gluttony, eyebrow raised and sarcastically said "Good for you."
The tone of his voice was completely lost on Gluttony, who nodded his head in agreement. Causing Lust to palm her face and sigh in embarrassment and Envy to chuckle to himself, before he looked back towards the field to keep on eye on his new 'little brother.'
When Naruto finally started to come to from his forced nap, the first thing he saw was very confusing. For when his eyes finally came into focus he saw Sakura tied to the middle log, struggling with her ropes. Looking to her other side, he saw Sasuke sitting on the ground his back against the last log, looking at the ground, and in front of the group, Kakashi sat on a rock reading his book and occasionally giggling to himself.
Naruto shifted himself to get more comfortable and in the process brought everyone's attention straight to him.
Looking at the three, Naruto saw an array of emotions, in Sasuke for some reason he felt raw hate coming out of him in waves, bringing nothing but confusion to him. Sakura, who like Sasuke brought him nothing but confusion, was radiating fear and trying desperately not to look his way, and Kakashi. Well Kakashi was his normal happy self and after seeing that he was awake brought his attention right back into his book.
Placing a bookmark to mark his spot, Kakashi closed his book and then reluctantly put it away. Once the book was safely put back into it's pouch, he stood up and surveyed the group of genin with an appraising eye, before just coming out and saying, "Okay I'm not gonna mince my words and just come out and say it," after hearing this all three genin brought their attention straight to Kakashi, who then began again "Not only did you guys fail my test, but you should all quit being ninjas, as of right now."
This caused the expected reaction out of both Sakura and Naruto, which was of course to start screaming both denials and threats at there sensei. But of course level head Sasuke, had a much more controlled response and that was to run straight at Kakashi kunai drawn, trying to do harm to the man that dared talk down to him. Of course, you have to remember, that not a half hour ago, the same man that Sasuke was charging head on had him buried into the ground from the neck down. So the outcome was very predictable, with Sasuke face first into the ground and Kakashi kneeling on top of him.
Kakashi, still looking bored, sighed to himself before drawling out, "You see this is exactly what I'm talking about" then looked over the genin again before continuing "I bet you three don't even have a clue on what the true purpose of this little test of mine is do you."
Seeing the three confused faces that showed up, Kakashi once began to mumble to himself, about the injustice of the possibility of him teaching such pigheaded youth and then said out loud in a booming voice, "The purpose of this test is TEAMWORK!"
Sakura blinked rapidly at that and in questioning tone of voice muttered out "Teamwork, but how could that be when there were three of us and only two bells..." trailing off at the end, before her eyes widened in realization.
Kakashi, happy that someone finally began to understand, nodded his head towards her and said "Well it looks like at least one of you aren't completely stupid."
Kakashi, after seeing that still Naruto or Sasuke didn't get it, said "The bells were meant to pit you against each other, but the goal was to put everything behind you and work as one cohesive unit."
"Sadly all three of you, failed miserably at that" Kakashi continued before looking towards the form of Naruto, "You Naruto not only attacked by yourself, but then let your anger get the better of you and caused yourself to lose any sort of plan you could have had."
Looking of towards the tied up Sakura, he said "You could have helped Naruto, who was right in front of you, but instead went searching for Sasuke."
Then bringing his attention to Sasuke, still under him, he pushed his head a little more into the ground before growling out, "But you, you're the worst, not only did you attack on your own like Naruto, but while doing it put down your other teammates, going so far to state that they were nothing but hindrances to you. Your supposed to be a genius don't make me laugh."
Sighing to himself once again, Kakashi once again brought his laid back attitude to the front and let Sasuke up again, and sent him back over by his two teammates.
Kakashi, after they the team was together again, started again saying "Look I'll give you three another chance so pick up your lunches and eat, then afterwards we'll begin the test again" looking over his students to make sure they understood his orders, he then turned and started to walk away, but before getting to far stopped and turned towards them again and said, "Oh yeah don't feed Sakura, she was the only one of you three that didn't even attack me, therefore gets no lunch, remember I make the rules you three follow them" and disappeared in a swirl of leaves.
After he left both Sasuke and Naruto grabbed there food and Sasuke began to slowly eat it. Naruto just sort of starred at his food, not really hungry and his thoughts whirled around the what happened earlier, the power surge he felt, to what he saw thanks to his eye in that form, but most of all he couldn't help but think of how to get it back.
When the sound of Sakura's stomach sounded through the area both knocking Naruto out of his thoughts and bringing his attention to the now blushing pink haired girl.
Sakura, clearly embarrassed, looked towards the ground and nervously said "Um..excuse me."
Naruto looked back down at his uneaten food and the obviously hungry Sakura, before shoving it right under her face and saying, "Here eat mine, I'm not really hungry."
Sakura now looking at the food, looked back towards Naruto and said "I couldn't, you should it, besides didn't you here what Kakashi said."
Turning his head so that he was staring at the pink haired girl, Naruto happily chirped "Oh come on Sakura, you know me, I don't think there's a rule I haven't broken, so just eat up" his normal smile on his face now, he said "Besides where a team, and if you don't eat, you won't be at your best."
Sasuke listening in on there conversion, sighed to himself before pushing his food towards the only female member of their group, and said emotionlessly "No eat mine," then addressing Naruto said, Your probably weaken by whatever you did earlier and it would be better for you to eat."
Sakura who looked like she was about to cry, struggled for a minute before she remembered the fact that she was tied to log, causing her to become depressed again and hang her head in defeat.
Sasuke sighing to himself, grit his teeth in frustration before standing up and making Sakura look him in the face. Once getting her attention he growled out at her "You will tell no one of this, understood."
Seeing her nod, he bent over picked up the lunch and said through grinding teeth, "Open up."
Sakura, stopping herself from squealing in happiness at her Sasuke feeding her food, just opened her mouth and excepted the food he was offering.
As soon as the food hit her mouth, the clouds over head became overcast, and an enraged Kakashi appearing via a puff of smoke. His one showing eye, wide in anger he angrily called out, "HOW DARE YOU BREAK THE RULES I SET," going threw a set of hand signals lighting started to form in the clouds, "DO YOU EVEN REALIZE WHAT YOU'VE DONE!"
Sakura, and Naruto now visibly shaking, and Sasuke standing getting ready to fight, Kakashi continued "YOU'VE ALL passed" he said the last in his normal tone of voice and quite happily.
Causing all three of his students to sweat drop and looked confused at the grey haired man.
Kakashi, seeing that they weren't going to say anything, continued from where he left off, "Congratulations, you're the first group I've had that didn't blindly follow my rules like little puppets."
Naruto, finally breaking out of his stupor, asked "Wait a minute are you saying we passed because we broke your rule."
Kakashi, obviously smiling underneath his mask, nodded his head in the affirmative and said, "Yes, when you put your teammate above the test, you passed, so like I said before Congratulations."
The three genin celebrated in their own way, all to the amusement of their sensei.
Kakashi, smiling at the antics of his new team, called out "Hey why don't you guys cut down Sakura and I'll treat you to some food." Then turned and started to leave the field.
Naruto, as soon as he heard about food, quickly ran over to Sakura cut her down and then ran after Kakashi screaming about Ramen, and not far behind him was Sasuke and the now free Sakura, and thus the beginning of team 7.
From the shadow's the three homuncli sat and watched the antics of the four people in front of them.
Envy who was standing out in front, leaning against a nearby tree smiled and said in a cutesy voice "Ah, how cute, it almost makes me want to throw up" a sneer accompanying the last of her statement, and voice full of disgust.
Looking over his shoulder at Lust he asked, "Hey how much longer is this supposed to take anyways."
Lust, not looking up from her nails and looking incredibly bored, answered "It happens when it happens Envy, there really is no timetable for this sort of thing, you just have to have some patience."
"Patience is not one of my strong points" Envy muttered before he trailed after the retreating form of Naruto with his eyes, "Maybe it will speed up the process if I talked to him some more."
Lust snapped her fist closed loudly, getting Envy's attention and then said "No, you can not evoke him anymore then you all ready have, he must choose to join us by himself, not because of your actions."
"What does it matter why he joins us, just so he does," Envy said then started chuckling, "By the time I'm done with him, all he'll know is hate."
Lust now looking quite annoyed, called out "That was not a request Envy, but an order."
"An order" Envy muttered to himself, before turning around fully and facing both Lust and Gluttony, "Then that bastard's finally popped up again, huh."
Lust still looking annoyed, said warning her brother, "You should be careful how you talk Envy, if t That Bastard, as you said finds out who you talk, there could be dire..."
"Consequences," Envy interrupted and finished for Lust, "Yes, yes I know."
"I don't think you do" Lust said, before continuing "Where are so close to achieving are goal, if you do something to jeopardize that Envy..." Lust trailed off, for a few seconds, everything was quiet with Lust and Envy staring at each other.
Envy broke the quiet with a huff of indignation, and huffed out "After all this time, you dare question my loyalty, just because I don't act like a dog, Lust doesn't mean I'm not with you."
Lust, shoulders not slumped, relented and quietly said, "I know Envy, it's just with our plans so close to fruition after all the time we've waited..." she trailed off again.
"Yeah I know," Envy answered, an insane glint coming to his eyes "I can feel tingle through my body all the time, to think we are so close" he picked his hand up to it was up to his face and was staring at it, he slowly made it into a fist and said "It makes my blood boil."
The three of them were quiet, Gluttony the whole time doing nothing but staring at Lust and Envy alternately.
"By the way" Envy started, breaking the silence, "What are we going to do about him."
Lust, starting to examine her nails again, said "Plans have already been made in the case of his interference."
Envy looking quite pleased, happily purred, "Good, cause you know, he's going to show up sooner or later."
Lust, nodding her head in agreement, added "Yes, it would be just like him to show up, in a crucial moment."
Afterwards they fell into another silence, this one lasting longer, that is until Gluttony's stomach made it's presence known, sounding through out the forest.
Starting to rub his stomach, Gluttony happily called out "Stomach's hungry again."
Lust merely sighed to herself, but Envy took a more hands on approach, walked up to Gluttony and smack the top of his head, before frustrating saying "Gluttony, can you think of anything besides food, at least in front of me."
Gluttony, in response, brought his finger up to his mouth, looking very thoughtful. That is until drool started to run done his chin and whispered out almost reverently "Food."
The yell Envy emitted in frustration was so loud that everyone in the village that day, could clearly hear the anguish he felt.
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(1) Kawarimi- Body Replacement Technique - This technique allows the user to switch places with a nearby object.
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