My journey to Konoha

"Hey! Aren't you starting yet?" said the impatient Naruto dissatisfiedly.

"Naruto, this is the time to test your patience." Chu Yue taught seriously.

"Oh, is that so? Then I will never lose!"

Fortunately, Naruto is simple-minded and easy to deceive... Chu Yue thought to herself.

"Stop." Shenwu said abruptly.

Chu Yue and the other four quickly scrambled for the chairs, and in the end Naruto failed. "A boring place is actually a place for practice." Sasuke whispered calmly.

"Sasuke, this game is up to you." Chu Yue responded immediately.

Sasuke was slightly startled, his eyes swept over Naruto, and a smile appeared on his lips.

"Hey! What are you laughing at? You'll know how powerful I am soon!" Naruto immediately challenged Sasuke.

"It's just a test of your training." Sasuke looked at Naruto with a rare smile.

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"You bastard!" Naruto pointed at Sasuke angrily and shouted, "If you lose, you will be punished by being covered with young birds!"

"Childish bird?" Sakura asked doubtfully.

"Perhaps, this is all Naruto has drawn." Chu Yue smiled, "Then let's continue."

The competition resumed, and unlike last time, both Naruto and Sasuke were full of energy...

……

As night fell, Chu Yue walked Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura to the bottom of the building.

The final result is revealed... Naruto and Sasuke have won and lost, with almost no difference. Sakura and Bai occasionally lose, but it's rare. Chu Yue... this person has never lost!

"I didn't expect it to be so late at night." Chu Yue smiled faintly, "There will be a trial tomorrow, so you should rest early."

"Oh no... Tomorrow's trial seems to be quite early..." Naruto said in annoyance.

“Haha, actually it’s okay to go there later.” Chu Yue said with a smile.

"Huh? Really?" Sakura asked in surprise.

"If it's Kakashi, it won't matter if you go late. You will know in the future." Chu Yue said, "I feel much more relaxed today spending such time with you."

Indeed, such carefree gaming fun is hard to find. Chu Yue is no exception.

"In the end...is it still a wasted night..." Sasuke pondered.

"Don't be so pessimistic." Chu Yue suddenly smiled at the three of them, and then suggested, "In fact, it's not wasted. After returning, think about another question about this game."

"What's the question?" Sakura asked curiously.

"Well. If the contestant is not an opponent, but... a companion, what will be the outcome?" Chu Yue nodded.

Sasuke was stunned, then shook his head, "How can it be a companion...Besides, I don't need a companion."

"Well, um, Sasuke, we, we are already companions..." Sakura said shyly.

"Companions? How is that possible? Why would companions fight over a few chairs? Haha." Naruto's foolish words caused everyone to laugh.

"Forget it, it's getting late, you should go back early." Chu Yueyan, "Goodbye."

"goodbye."

Everyone said goodbye and went home.

The next day.

The knock on the door disturbed Bai's dream. After getting dressed and opening the door, Bai saw that the person coming was an ANBU.

"Anbu?" Bai was slightly surprised.

"You are Bai, right?" asked the Anbu.

"Yes." Bai nodded, "May I ask what brings you here this morning?"

"Are Chu Yue and Shen Wu here?" the Anbu asked.

"Chu Yue and Shen Wu..." Bai looked back, "If nothing happened, I should be sleeping with Shen Wu at this moment."

"Please ask them to stand up immediately." The ANBU said, "The Hokage has summoned you secretly."

"Okay, I'll go right away." Bai nodded, walked to Chu Yue's door and knocked, "Chu Yue, the Anbu is visiting! Get up quickly. Chu Yue? Chu Yue?"

Bai knocked on the door for a long time but no one answered. He felt strange. Just as he was about to knock again, the Anbu had teleported to Bai's side and directly knocked open Chu Yue's bedroom door.

Chu Yue and Shen Wu's bedroom was empty.

"Eh? Where's he?" Bai looked at the messy bed, "He did spend the night in this room last night..."

The Anbu was silent for a moment, then instructed, "Don't mention this to anyone else." Then he disappeared.

The Third Hokage secretly summoned Chu Yue and Kanna, but they were nowhere to be found. The Anbu reported the situation, which surprised the Third Hokage.

"Find him." The Third Hokage said, "I'm afraid that guy is going out to play alone again."

"Yes." The Anbu responded.

At Chu Yue's house, Bai was confused as to why Chu Yue left quietly. He rarely left without saying goodbye. This time, he also took Shen Wu with him, obviously deliberately leaving home when no one was paying attention.

However, Bai knew that if Chu Yue wanted to hide, no one would be able to find her, so he stopped looking for her and started to do housework instead.

Where did Chu Yue and Shen Wu go? Of course, they were in the dense forest outside the village.

Kakashi once said that Chu Yue was not allowed to participate, so as not to affect the final trial results. But Chu Yue wanted to record the trial process of Naruto and his friends, so he took Shenwu into the jungle and hid first.

Although Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura followed Chu Yue's advice that they didn't need to arrive early, it was their first trial after all, and it determined whether they could be promoted to Genin, so how could they dare to be late?

Before dawn, the three of them had gathered.

It wasn't until eleven o'clock... that Kakashi showed up.

"Hey, good morning everyone." Kakashi smiled at the three of them.

"You're late!" Naruto and Sakura immediately questioned Kakashi.

"Well, I met a black cat on the road..." Kakashi was about to make an excuse, but seeing the contemptuous looks of the three people, he coughed awkwardly a few times and walked to the wooden stake.

There were three wooden stakes in the middle of the training ground in the dense forest, where items could be placed. Kakashi placed a copper bell on one of them.

"Okay, set the time to 12 noon." Kakashi said, "Your mission is to take the copper bell from me before noon."

Kakashi's trial begins.

After Kakashi finished explaining the mission, the three of them were stunned.

Last night's game of grabbing the stool came to their minds, as well as Chu Yue's words before she left.

"What would happen if the contestants were no longer opponents but...comrades?"

No one took it seriously at the time, but now it has become a reality.

Seeing the three people in a daze, Kakashi shook the copper bell again and asked, "If you understand, I will say start."

"Let's get started!" Naruto was inexplicably full of fighting spirit and drew out his kunai, "Let us see your strength! Teacher Kakashi!"

After Naruto took out the kunai, Sakura and Sasuke also took out the kunai and shuriken respectively.

"Yeah, you look very motivated." Kakashi looked at the three of them, "Then... let's begin!"

Unlike the anime, Kakashi gives the order and Naruto and Sasuke charge straight towards him!

At this time, Naruto and others were still weak, so the best strategy was to hide and look for opportunities to attack.

However, Naruto's weird thinking made him look bad frequently.

Today, thanks to Chu Yue's teaching, Naruto and Sasuke have surpassed their past. Although Naruto's test scores are not good, he has been catching up with Sasuke in actual combat.

The most important thing is that for them, the Kakashi in front of them is not only Kakashi, but also Chu Yue... Chu Yue had surpassed Naruto and Sasuke in the past, and it is still the same now. However, the two of them did not stop, and their cultivation gradually improved. They thought that although they were not as good as Chu Yue, at least the gap was not too big, after all, they were both cultivators of the same age. They never thought that Chu Yue had already been promoted to the upper realm.

In recent years, they have practiced hard, but they are still not as good as Chu Yue. Therefore, Naruto and Sasuke want to know how far they are from Chu Yue.

I had a feast with Chu Yue last night, but we didn't have time to discuss it. Today...

Chu Yue and Kakashi are both leaders of the upper realm, so their strength should be similar. Naruto and Sasuke challenged Kakashi directly, intending to test the distance between themselves and the upper realm.

After Kakashi shouted "Begin!", only Sakura disappeared quickly. Naruto and Sasuke...

Kakashi was slightly stunned when he saw the two of them coming directly to kill him.

He had taught many novices, but this was the first time he had been attacked like this.

"How should I put it..." Kakashi smiled and blocked the kunai thrown by Naruto with his kunai, "I actually admire you guys a little bit."

The difference in strength was huge, and the young Naruto was no match for Kakashi, so he easily pushed him away. Naruto fell to the ground, and several shurikens flew from behind.

Kakashi blocked the attack lightly and deflected the shuriken with his hand. "Oh, not bad."

"The best is yet to come!" Naruto stood up and threw the kunai in his hand.

"Huh?" Kakashi saw Naruto throwing the kunai, but it stood still like a mountain.

Naruto's kunai missed, but soon after, Sasuke threw one too, the two kunai collided, and then...

The two kunai changed their directions at the same time, Naruto's kunai was inserted into the ground, and Sasuke's kunai shot directly at the back of Kakashi's head!

Kakashi was surprised that Naruto and Sasuke had such a tacit understanding.

However, Kakashi's realm was far superior to the others. He raised his head and turned around in an instant, reaching out to grab the flying kunai.

As Kakashi tightened his grip on the kunai, he felt something was wrong.

At this moment, Naruto and Sasuke were behind him.

"When fighting, never show your back to the enemy, Kakashi-sensei." Naruto said with a smile.

When Kakashi grabbed the kunai, Naruto and Sasuke were already standing on his left and right, swinging their kunai at the same time.

"We won!" Sakura, who was hiding nearby, cheered.

Before this, seeing Naruto and Sasuke not avoiding or giving way, Sakura was still blaming Naruto for pulling Sasuke into the water, but unexpectedly, her surprise was shocked by their actions.

The two of them are so powerful... Sakura thought to herself, but Kakashi-sensei seems to be even better...

Naruto and Sasuke successfully swung the kunai, and Sakura felt that they had won the game...

however……

"Huh? What's going on?" Naruto looked at the target - a wooden stake - in confusion.

"It's a substitution technique! Hide quickly! Naru..." Before Sasuke could finish his words, he was kicked away by Kakashi.

Then, Naruto also flew in the same direction, but Naruto was faster and hit Sasuke directly.

"Uh..." Naruto and Sasuke fell to the ground.

"No way..." Sakura stood there in a daze, so surprised that she forgot to react.

"You two are really good newcomers." Kakashi approached, "You two are probably the strongest two people I have led recently."

"Sasuke, don't hold me back..." Naruto complained after being kicked on the cheek.

"Tsk." Sasuke wiped his face, "You are the one who is holding us back."

"But newbies are newbies after all." Kakashi glanced at Sakura next to him, "By the way, you two have good coordination. Did you practice in private?"

Now is the time!

While Kakashi's eyes turned to Sakura, Sasuke quickly formed a seal: "Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu!"

"What?!" Kakashi was shocked again. The Great Fireball Technique was not an ordinary ninjutsu!

"Water Style: Great Waterfall Technique!" Kakashi also formed a hand seal, his speed far surpassing Sasuke!

Sasuke was the one who formed the hand seal first, but Kakashi finished it first.

The huge fireball grew bigger and bigger in front of Sasuke. At the same time, water vapor rose from the river behind Kakashi and turned into a waterfall towards him.

Fire Style and Water Style confronted each other, and the result was obvious: Fire Style was suppressed by Water Style. Moreover, the Great Waterfall Technique was even better.

"Wind Style: Great Tornado Jutsu!" A huge tornado formed, carrying a waterfall and rushing towards Kakashi.

Despite this, Naruto and Sasuke were still a little wet.

Kakashi looked at the incoming waterfall and tornado, but did not dodge.

"Haha, you always give me surprises." Kakashi said to Naruto and Sasuke with a smile.

Wow—Kakashi was hit by a huge waterfall and a huge tornado.

"Win, win?" Naruto stared at Kakashi who was surrounded by the waterfall and asked in confusion.

"Earth escape: beheading in the heart!"

The ground beneath Naruto and Sasuke's feet cracked open, and a huge hand stretched out from the ground, grabbed the two men, and dragged them underground, leaving only their heads exposed.

"Ah, it's really not easy to control you." Kakashi squatted down and said to the two heads, "Now, what do you think?"

"..." Sasuke was silent.

"Idiot! Let us out if you dare! I will definitely... "

Before Naruto could finish his words, Kakashi pressed a kunai against his temple.

"You still dare to speak so arrogantly in this situation?" Kakashi said, "Your lives are in my hands... Chu Yue, didn't I teach you how to deal with being caught?"

"Chu Yue?" Sasuke was startled, "You and Chu Yue..."

"Ah, yes. We have performed several missions together, so we are quite familiar with each other." Kakashi said, "I guess your skills were all taught by him."

"That, that, teacher." Naruto remembered something and asked, "Who is stronger between you and Chu Yue?"

This question made Sasuke stare at Kakashi as well.

"Hmm... well..." Kakashi thought for a moment, "I don't know."

“Huh?” x2.

"If it was four years ago, he would be inferior to me." Kakashi said, "But now that Chu Yue has returned, I don't know how strong he is."

"Really..." Naruto and Sasuke both lowered their heads.

Go out to gain experience and improve your cultivation...

Suddenly, a shrill buzzing sound came from somewhere, causing Sasuke and Naruto's hearts to tremble.

"Hey, newbies, are you awake?" Kakashi's voice came from the other side.

Naruto and Sasuke suddenly opened their eyes and saw Kakashi standing next to the wooden stake.

"I..." Naruto looked down at his body, standing beside a wooden stake not far away, side by side with Sasuke and Sakura. All the scenes just now were the illusion technique set by Kakashi! Since the "beginning", the three of them have been trapped in the illusion and cannot extricate themselves!

"What happened just now... was all an illusion..." Sasuke looked at himself in disbelief, "How is it possible... is this the power of a high-ranking cultivator?"

Gollum—

A sound came from the stomachs of Naruto and the other two...

After hearing what Kakashi said, the three did not eat. It was already noon and they were all starving.

"Well, the results of your trial have been revealed." Kakashi ignored their hungry stomachs and continued, "It's past noon and no one has taken the bell... You three..."

"Wait!" Naruto retorted loudly, "I, I don't accept it!"

"Hmm?" Kakashi looked at Naruto, "What do you mean?"

"I, we didn't lose!" Naruto said firmly.

"Why, you doubt me?" Kakashi asked, "Why do you say you lose?"

"Th-this, I, we..." Naruto didn't dare look Kakashi in the eye.

"Naruto is right, we didn't lose." Sakura suddenly spoke.

"Oh? Tell me about it." Kakashi's face darkened. "If you can convince me, I will not only provide you with lunch, but also give you another chance to take the test after the meal."

"Okay." Sakura nodded, "It's a deal."

"Would I lie to you?" Kakashi said this with an unhappy look on his face.

"Everything is an illusion, but when did the illusion begin?" Sakura stared at Kakashi. "The three of us did not move, but after you, Mr. Kakashi, shouted 'start', I hid on the other side of the bush."

Naruto scratched his head in confusion, "Sakura, what do you mean?"

"What I mean is that we were already caught in your genjutsu before Kakashi-sensei said 'start'," said Sakura.

"Right." Sasuke nodded, "In that case, how can we win if you attack us before the trial begins?"

Kakashi was silent, his face gloomy, and everyone understood that he was extremely unhappy at the moment!

"Well, what you said makes sense. The newbies in the past didn't dare to argue with me like this. You are pretty good." Kakashi laughed in anger. "Then, as mentioned before, we will have another trial after lunch. But..."