He wears a tight fitting long sleeve black shirt showing off his very chiseled physique, along with custom made dark green ANBU pants with black combat boots. Along his arms however were strange gauntlets that many of the other genin had never seen before. Starting at his hands were odd prices of armor that reached all the way up to his shoulders.
These gauntlets were a dull gray but almost black and had a dark green Uzumaki swirl on the back of his hands. They seemed to mold to his arms so you could still see all of the muscle they contained. There were also strange black symbols going along the gauntlets, there were multiple lines made up of kanji that went up and down his arms. There were also many rings made of kanji going around his arms.
"They're durability and storage seals." He answered seeing as many of his classmates curiosity got the better of them. "What are in the seals?" Asked Kiba. "Some sealing supplies and my kunai and shuriken. As well as some other things you don't want to know about."
This confused the other classmates, what could be so bad? Sakura voiced this but kind of wished she hadn't. "If you ever find out, you'd have to be an enemy." He said as he leveled an emotionless stare at her that he usually used when he was angry or in their class spars.
"Alright class be quiet, I know you're excited to graduate but some of you won't." Said Iruka as he came into the class to take attendance and proctor their genin exams. "We'll start with the written test afterwards we'll head outside for your accuracy and taijutsu test, then we'll come back in for your ninjutsu test." He said as the class calmed down for the most part but some were still bouncing in their seats.
Naruto was dissatisfied with the test, was Konoha really this lax? He could bet all his saving that already half of the civilian born children would pass. He sighed to himself as he received his test. "Okay everyone you will have an hour to complete this test so don't rush and make mistakes. It may cost your life in the future." He said in his 'serious teacher voice'.
Naruto looked down at his test and sighed, 'These are ridiculous. How is this supposed to be hard?' He looked around the room and saw most people either answering the questions or trying a little too hard to remember the answers. 'Wow. How did they even make it this far?' He thought as some of the potential genin hadn't answered more than two questions and to be honest they were probably wrong.
He looked back down at his test and started writing his answers. He finished in less then ten minutes but there was still more than forty five minutes to go. He raised his hand to ask a question. Iruka called on him to ask his question but was merely expecting for him to ask permission to use the restroom. "Can I read a book while I wait?" He said, surprising Iruka and his classmates.
Iruka nodded his consent and watched him pull out a book titled "Earth nature manipulation" which surprised Iruka even further as he knew that was at least a chuunin level practice. Naruto want back to reading about strengthening weapons and armor through the use of earth chakra. He was hoping to reinforce his gauntlets this way and had already succeeded in doing so with very small amounts.
He had yet to actually find out what affinity he, stealing chakra paper was more difficult than he thought. That was how he got the book, he had snuck in when the librarian was talking to one of his transformed clones and sealed the book into his gauntlets. He could have taken some of the other elements as well but he had always been facinated by earth.
He had quickly learned that controlling his chakra to the extent he needed to be able to use it this way was very difficult for him. He knew he had a lot more chakra than he should have but he just assumed it was because he was an Uzumaki. He had found that out pretty quickly seeing as it's his name, apparently some people just missed that.
*~Timeskip~*
"Alright class test is over. Now let's go out to the target range and test your accuracy." Said Iruka as most of the class stood up a little less excited then they were at the start of the day. Naruto put away his book thinking this was gonna be too easy.
"Come here when I call your name and try to hit as many targets as possible. Aburame Shino!" Said Iruka as students started to go up and try their luck. Like he suspected many of the civilian born children didn't get more then a six an either shuriken or kunai. "Uchiha Sasuke!" A bunch of the female class members cheered and yelled things like 'You can do it Sasuke!' or 'Youre the best!'. But he really wasn't, Naruto had surpassed Sasuke very early on but only a few of his classmates seemed to notice, not including Sasuke himself so he still walked up the the front with his Uchiha smirk thinking he was indeed 'the best'.
Sasuke threw his shuriken all at the same time and got 8/10 but threw his kunai one at a time and got 9/10. He walked back with the same smirk and said, "You can't beat me dobe." But I always did so I don't know how he could forget that almost every time we did this. "Uzumaki Naruto!" He walked up to the target range and readied his weapons, like Sasuke he threw all of his shuriken at the same time but all of them hit the bullseye. He split his kunai so he had five in each hand and threw them together again hitting all ten in the bullseye.
He walked back showing no emotion on his face and stopped in front of a seething Sasuke, "I beat you." He said and Sasuke scowled further and continued to glare at him. "Ok now we'll start the taijutsu test, you'll face Mizuki for 3 minutes or until you're pushed out of the ring. If you con not stay in the ring or you are knocked out you will fail the taijutsu portion of this exam." Said Iruka as he started calling people into the ring.
Some of the fights were interesting but he'd seen it all year long and Mizuki was holding back as to not purposely hurt anyone. "Uchiha Sasuke!" Again as he walked into the ring he had his smirk again and his fan club was still going strong. The fight was okay but still wasn't a very good one, Sasuke thought he was amazing considering he got a couple of light hits on Mizuki and lasted the whole three minutes. He walked out with the same smirk but his shirt and arms were scuffed up.
"Uzumaki Naruto!" Walking into the ring Naruto still had an impassive face on. As he got into a slight stance he crouched slightly and brought his arms in an odd looking boxing stance with his left side slightly in front of his right. It confused Iruka and Mizuki because this Is the first time either of them had seen him use this stance or the stance itself.
As Iruka called the start of the match Naruto shot at Mizuki faster than a genin should have been able to he tucked his head and turned his body slightly the the left. Mizuki tried to block but was not quite fast enough even when using his real speed and revived a metal clad shoulder to his chest forcing him out of the ring and off of his feet coursing him to roll a couple times upon hitting the ground and coughing very hard trying to get the air back in his lungs.
As Naruto walked back to the group they were stunned silent at how quickly that had happened and how easily he had done it. Iruka was thinking along the same lines but more so of the speed he had seen Naruto move, it was easily compatible to his but Naruto did it without breaking a sweat and looked bored. He knew Naruto was good but this was more then he had shown throughout all of his time at the academy.
Shaking himself out of his shock he quickly ran to Mizuki who had regained the ability to breath and took him to the nurse while he told the cids to head back to the classroom. On the way there many of the students asked how he did that. "I just rushed him and hit him in the chest with my shoulder, there was nothing special about it." He said but the students didn't believe he didn't do anything so they asked how he was so fast and strong enough to push a chuunin out of the ring. "I just used a little bit of speed and I didn't really put all that much strength behind it." He said surprising them again.
"How fast can you go?" Asked Kiba his curiosity getting the better of him as usual. "Faster than that." He said simply before reaching the classroom and sitting in his seat at the very back left corner so he could look out the window if he wanted to. Iruka came in and told everyone to settle down and said that two of Mizuki's ribs were fractured and one was bruised shocking the class again as Naruto had said that he didn't use very much strength and he had cracked someone's bones.
"Now we will begin the ninjutsu test so once I call you, you will come to the front of the class and perform a Kawarimi, henge, and bunshin jutsu and a bonus jutsu if you'd like." He said as the kids began to get excited again. As everyone did their test some passes easily while others failed miserably and again it was Sasuke's turn. "Uchiha Sasuke!" He walked down to the front with his mandatory cheers from his fan club.
"Please do a Kawarimi, Henge, and Bunshin jutsu and a bonus if you have one." Sasuke nodded and performed all of them easily enough. "Good job, do you have a bonus?" Sasuke nodded again and walked to the window to open it. 'Katon: Kokyaku no jutsu' With that he shot a large fire ball out of his mouth.
"Ok very good job, please go back to your seat. Uzumaki Naruto!" Naruto walked past a, yet again, smirking Sasuke to the front of the class. Ok Naruto please do the jutsu and a bonus if you'd like." Naruto proceeded to silently perform a Kawarimi with a student from the last row and back, next he Henged perfectly into the Sandaime Hokage and then he summoned two clones.
"Very good job Naruto. Do you have a bonus?" And to the mild shock of everyone in the class room his clones nodded and walked to the still window and performed a few quick hand seals and both called out 'Doton: Kengan no Jutsu'. Both of their fists started to slowly be encased in earth and rock until they both had large fists made of rock. One jumped out of the window and landed back into the training field where he walked up to a wooden log they used as a training post and punched it with his rock encased fist and destroyed it sending splinters and chunks of wood flying through the air. Afterwards both of the clones dispelled themselves going up in a puff of smoke.
"That was very good Naruto, you're definitely making genin with that." Said Iruka as Sasuke seethed at the compliment and the comment about his promotion, as well as the jutsu the blond had shown. "Thanks Iruka-sensei." He said with a small smile which was rare from him, but in reality it wasn't it's just that over the course of his academy experience there was nothing worth being excited about but now that he was going to become a genin and do missions he was feeling pretty excited.
When he made it back to his seat Iruka started again. "Alright everyone while you guys go have lunch your exams will be graded with all of your tests today adding up to your final score, and that will decide if you become genin or not." He said as he grabbed the stack of written tests off of his desk along with their taijutsu, accuracy, and ninjutsu scoresheets and headed out the door while the students all took out their lunches.
*~Timeskip~*
As Iruka walked back into the class everyone started to quiet down without having to be told for once. 'They're nervous.' Thought Naruto as he saw some of them were fidgeting slightly waiting for Iruka to announce the results.
"Alright when I call your name you will either come down here to receive a Hitai-ate or stay in your seats." He said as he satarted down the list of students. All in all Naruto wasn't at all surprised with who passed so far, some of them being Shino, Hinata, Kiba, Ino, Sakura, Shikamaru, and Choji. "Uchiha Sasuke, you passed so come choose your Hitai-ate." Said Iruka as Sasuke had his smirk back on and went to choose his Hitai-ate, unsurprisingly he went with the normal black forehead protector.
"Uzumaki Naruto, you passed so please come choose your Hitai-ate." He said. Naruto made his way down to choose his Hitai-ate but there weren't too many options so he chose the standard black as well but had yet to put it on like everyone else.
"Ok everyone, you are now officially ninja of the Hidden Leaf. You now have the responsibility to protect all of its citizens and to guard it with your life. You must pass on the will of fire to those who will come after you. You have all become amazing ninja and I'm proud of you all. Come back here in one week for team assignments. Congratulations, and good luck." Iruka said with a smile watching all the new genin cheer and celebrate. Naruto just had a small smile on his face but had yet to put on hit Hitai-ate. He had something in mind for it.
*~Timeskip~*
Naruto was heading to his personal favorite store that sold ninja supplies. It's called Higurashi's, it's a little pricy but it's always really good quality so it's very worth it. He entered the store to see a girl he hadn't seen before behind the counter looking bored. She had brown hair with two buns on her head, she was wearing a pink Chinese style shirt with red trimming and blue Chinese style pants that only went halfway down her calf she also wore brown Chinese style sandals that covered the toes instead of the standard open toe Konoha sandals.
The girl hears the bell above the door ring and turns to me and he notices she's probably only a year or two older then he is, he also noticed a faint blush on her cheeks when she looked at my stomach through my shirt. He walks closer to the counter and introduces himself. "Hi, I'm Uzumaki Naruto. Nice to meet you…" He trailed off fishing for a name. "I'm Tenten, nice to meet you Naruto." She replied with a smile and he felt himself smile back with out thinking about it. "Nice to meet you Tenten." He said with a soft smile that made her blush a little darker and shook her hand.
Getting back on topic "I'm here to see if you cans customize this in anyway?" He said taking out his Hitai-ate. "I wanted to see if you could possibly fuse it with my gountlets." She took it and looked over his gauntlets and thought about whether or not it was possible. "We could probably do that but you'd have to leave them here for a few days." She said with a smile and a glint of determination in her eyes at trying to get this to work.
He looked at the ground somewhat sadly and said "Is there any way at all I could keep them on and you still be able to do it?" He asked hopefully at possibly not having to take them off. "Maybe but not with the skill I have, I'll go ask my dad and see if he thinks it's possible." She said with a small smile. As she was walking away Naruto watched as she went towards the door in the back of the store. His eyes somewhat shamefully tracing her figure downwards until he got to her waist which was perfect in his opinion, small but not overly so and leading to very nice hips that were again perfect as they were wide and maybe a little more then necessary but he wasn't complaining. And all of this led to, in his opinion, an incredible and very alluring ass that was quite big for her age but was perky and round and he couldn't help but stare the entire time. He may have been some what shut out from people but he was still a human and a man at that, well, a young man if anything and puberty does crazy things.
As she was walking to get her fathers opinion she stumbled and a box of newly delivered merchandise as she was lost in thought about Naruto's gauntlets and Naruto himself and why he looked so sad at having to take them off. As she caught herself before she could fall and hit the ground she turned slightly hoping he hadn't seen that, but when she turned she saw his eyes were following her every move or more specifically her ass's every move. She blushed furiously and sped into the back room while Naruto looked in another direction embarrassed at being caught staring.
Tenten meanwhile he'd her back against the closed door and still he'd her blush. 'He was staring at me!' She thought, she didn't know whether to be happy or to be embarrassed. She could admit that she found him very attractive and he seemed like he'd be interesting. Getting back on track she called out to her father and asked him if it was possible. He said that he'd need to see these gauntlets to know for sure. She blushed again but complied and brought him with her back to the front of the store.
Naruto saw Tenten come back out and blushed slightly, she wouldn't look directly at him as she would only take small glances. Switching his eyes to the man who was obviously her father he couldn't see the resemblance. She was small and dare say cute, an inch or two taller than him and he was the tallest in his class tied with Shino, and her dad was massive and scary. He wasn't the tallest of people but he was very bulky as he had huge shoulder and arm muscles.
As her dad inspected Naruto's gauntlets she couldn't stop herself from staring at him when he wasn't looking. She could clearly see all of the muscle he already had and how chiseled they were, she couldn't stop the blush from forming on her face as she slowly moved up. His abs were very visible through his shirt as well as his chest and when she finally got to his face she couldn't deny he was very handsome, more so then most of the guys she's seen around the village if not all of them. His whiskers added to this but it was more cute in her opinion.
After her dad had finished scrutinizing his gauntlets he made a decision. "I don't think I'd be able to do this without you taking them off but I don't see why that's a problem. Just take them off." He said in a nonchalant voice not seeing why he had to keep them on. Naruto was visibly saddened by this.
Naruto sighed as he nodded his head and started to take off his gauntlets very slowly. He got the right one off but as he was taking off the left one his hand slipped and he dropped it, he saw that it would land on his foot and inevitably course a good amount of damage as they were pretty heavy at the moment. He had also put seals to increase their weight for his training, they were both currently five hundred pounds each.
As he jumped back to avoid injury his sleeve caught onto the gauntlet and with the weight of the gauntlet it ripped his sleeve off showing his bare arm. When both Tenten and her father saw his arm they could understand the need to keep them on. From his hand all the way to his shoulder were too many scars to count, there was one in particular that stuck out though.
From his mid forearm to his shoulder there was a scar that looked like there was an explosion on his arm, it was a grotesque sight to behold. It covered most of the outer side of his arm as it looked like it originated from just above his elbow as it was the worst there. Looking at it you could tell there were signs of burning but there were also many slashes and cuts originating from that point.
They sat in stunned silence as nobody knew what to say, Naruto merely walked over to his gauntlets and released the weight seals as they had cracked the floor and gave them to Tentens dad. "How long will that take?" He asked with no emotion on his face or in his voice. "A-A couple d-days at most." Said Tenten's dad who was still recovering from the shock. Tenten wasn't doing much better as she couldn't stop staring at his face or the scar, she couldn't pick one so she kept looking back and forth.
"Thank you." He said flatly and turned to leave, this snapped Tenten out of her daze and she ran forward and grabbed his hand stopping him and causing him to turn around. "Could you come back tomorrow? I'll be manning the store again and I wanted to talk to you more." She said in a quiet voice, somewhat embarrassed and nervous of his answer. He stared at her for a minute thinking it over before he said "Ok. I'll see you tomorrow I guess." He said with some emotion back in his voice.
She smiled as she watched him walk to the door and unseal a hoodie to put over his now torn shirt and walk out. He was very interesting, he was cute, he was mysterious, he was 'sexy', and she just wanted to know more about him. Naruto was thinking some where on the same line, she was cute, she was energetic, 'her ass was incredible', and she was very refreshing. Everywhere he went there was not one person who didn't hate him or at least treat him less then nice.
*~Timeskip~*
"Hey Tenten, how are you?" Asked Naruto as he walked in. She turned to him leaning on the counter with a happy smile and a small blush seeing him in a similar wardrobe to yesterday. "Hey Naruto, I'm good. How are you?" She asked actually somewhat curious of his reply. "Better now." He replied with a small wink as he got to the counter and leaned on it just opposite of Tenten. She blushed even more because of whet he said and their position, she was secretly liking it but that didn't mean it wasn't embarrassing.
"So you said I was interesting, why did you think that?" He asked even thought he knew the answer. "You're just interesting, I don't think I've ever seen someone wear gauntlets like yours and I like your personality." She said kind of mumbling the last part. This shocked Naruto a little bit as he thought she'd immediately ask about his scars. "So it has nothing to do with the scars you saw?" He asked expecting a yes because they were not something you'd think you'd see on a thirteen year old.
She blushed a little at being caught. "Maybe a little bit." She said with a cute smile and showing a small gap between her thumb and index finger.
He chuckled at her response. "So what did you want to know? By the way I like your personality as well." He said with a small smile but he had a playful look in his eyes.
"Just, how did that happen?" She asked her curiosity getting the better of her as she's had been thinking about him all night and she couldn't stop. "People hate me for some reason so when I was little they attacked me. Most of my scars are from back then, the one you saw is from when I was six. Some villagers had convinced some ninja to help them beat me. They took me and chained me to a table and cut me, but it got worse as they went on. Eventually the civilians convinced a ninja to use explosive notes, a very powered down version but still enough that I could have taken my arm off." He said while slightly shaking in rememberance of the pain and anger towards those civilians.
Tenten stood in front of him speechless and disgusted that the villagers would do that to someone who hadn't done anything. She slowly reached forward and grabbed the same hand as yesterday and rubbed her thumb against the back of it trying to comfort him. He was surprised by this as she hardly knew him but was being so compassionate towards him of all people. He responded by doing the same to her hand and given her a small smile and giving a small "Thank you." She smiled and they continued in silence for a while longer until her dad came out of the back of the store.
"Oh Naruto right? Tenten said that was your name, anyway your gauntlets will be ready in two days." He said with a small smile and nod to him to show my appreciation. He noticed what Naruto and Tenten's hands and gave a bigger smile and walked back where he came from with a chuckle and a quick "Welcome to the family." before he burst into laughter and went back to his work while Naruto and Tenten boy blushed but only a little in Naruto's case. 'I wouldn't mind.' He thought and sent one of his softest smiles at Tenten who blushed harder at the thought that he might have liked the idea. They had just continued the day making small talk and sometimes about their more secret sides seeing as Naruto went as far as to let her in on something that was undoubtedly painful to talk about let alone think about.
"It's getting kind of late now. I should head home soon, sorry Tenten." He said with his soft smile. She sighed at having to stop being around him, she just loved his company and couldn't get enough of him and she was very happy to be learning so much about him. Naruto was disappointed at having to go home for the night, he really liked talking and just listening to her. She made him smile which most people had never seen, and he couldn't help but love every second of time he spent with her. He also really liked to hold her hand.
"Ok, I'll see you tomorrow Naruto-kun." She said with a small smile which he returned. They were both still leaning against opposite sides of the counter so it made it easy for Naruto to swoop in and quickly peck her on the cheek. She blushed furiously and sputtered trying to figure out why he did that. He just gave her the softest smile she'd ever seen from him. "Goodnight Tenten." He said as he started to leave the store, again she ran up to him and spun him around to also peck him on the ckeek. "Goodnight Naruto-kun." She said before running to the the back of the store and closing the door.
*~Timeskip~*
"Ok quiet down, I'll take your attendance, announce kunoichi and rookie of the year, and then I will tell you of your team placements." Said Iruka as all of the new genin begun to get quiet. As Iruka finished his attendance everyone started to get excited again. "Okay everyone, you're kunoichi of the year is Hyuuga Hinata." He said as everyone looked at the shy Hyuuga heiress as she blushed bright red. "Now everyone you're rookie of the year is…" he trailed off as most of the female students were cheering for 'Sasuke-kun' in their heads. "Uzumaki Naruto!" He said as most of the female students immediately said that he cheated, while Sasuke was in his seat seething. Naruto merely had a small smile on his face at knocking Sasuke down a peg.
"Now, Team 1…" Naruto just ignored him until he heard his name. "Team 7 Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura, and Uzumaki Naruto, your jonin-sensei is Hatake Kakashi." He said, Naruto was very disappointed with his new teammates. Sure Sasuke was pretty good, for a genin, but not by Uchiha standards, and Sakura couldn't be more useless.
He knew of Kakashi, he was a strong Jonin but he was also very laid back and lazy. He of course knew of his habit of being late as well. He could put up with him though, seeing as he might actually be able to help them with some training.
*~Timeskip~*
'If he doesn't teach us something good, I'm going to destroy his book.' Thought Naruto who was still in his seat even after waiting for 3 hours. This guy must be the slowest person in the village, but he some how made Jonin. He was woken from his thoughts by the door opening and a man with odd silver hair came in. He was also wearing a face mask and his Hitai-ate was covering his left eye.
"So you're my team. I don't like you, meet me on the roof in 2 minutes." He said before going up in smoke. Sasuke and Sakura got up grumbling about 'stupid late sensei's', well Sakura was, Sasuke just had his patented scowl on his face. Naruto just sighed and used a shunshin to appear on the roof.
Kakashi looked up at the sound of a shunshin and saw the blond appear before him with a bored look on his face as he sat on the bench just in front of him. "Well that was fast." He said in a bored tone of voice. "No it wasn't. This should be the standard but Konoha is too lax." Naruto said with an equally bored look on his face.
Kakashi could see his point and had to somewhat agree with the blond. On the other side of the roof a door opened showing his other two genin. They looked to see Naruto already there and of course, Sasuke seethed that he could be beat by his blond classmate.
"How did you get here so fast baka?" Asked Sakura genuinely curious but also mad at him for beating her 'Sasuke-kun'. "You're slow." Was all he said without turning to look at them. Sakura immediately started yelling 'Stop trying to be cool' or 'Sasuke-kun is better then you'. "Did you not just hear that I'm better then him?" Naruto asked referring to his rookie of the year position.
"Ok calm down, sit down and tell me about yourself." Kakashi said while gesturing toward the 3 benches in front of him. Naruto was already on the canter bench, Sasuke took the right and Sakura tried to sit with him but she ended up taking the left one. "Ok tell me about your likes, dislikes, hobbies, and dreams for the future." He said as Sakura raised her hand. "How about you start so we know what to do?" She said as Kakashi sighed and nodded.
"Hatake Kakashi, I like and dislike a lot of things, my hobbies are none of your business, and I never really thought about my dreams. Now you go pinkie." He said with an eye smile. All three genin he'd the same thought of 'So we only know his name.' Except Naruto did know more then that, he had done his research and found out that Kakashi was indeed 'Kakashi the copy cat' or 'Sharingan Kakashi' said to have stolen over 1,000 jutsu.
"My name is Haruno Sakura, the things or the person I like…" she stole a glance at Sasuke and blushed "I hate Ino-pig and Naruto-baka, my hobby is…" again she stole a glance and blushed "and my dream is…" this time she stole a glance and squealed. Kakashi sighed as he thought "Great. I have a fan girl and from her grades she's one of the most physically useless ones. Hopefully she can actually use her book smarts for something.' "Okay you're up next broody." He said looking at Sasuke.
Sasuke scowled a little harder at the nickname but answered anyway. "Uchiha Sasuke, I don't like anything and I dislike almost everything. My hobbies are training, reading my family scrolls, and learning jutsu. My ambition is to kill a certain man." He said and Sakura squealed saying 'Sasuke-kun you're so cool!' Again Kakashi sighed and thought 'An avenger who thinks too highly of himself, al least he's kinda useful.' "Ok blonde your up." He said hoping for something good to finally come out of this.
"Uzumaki Naruto, I like training, earth jutsu, and steak. My dislikes are tardiness…" he said giving Kakashi a flat stare "people who mistreat women, and people who think they are above others. My hobbies are training, reading on earth jutsu, learning earth jutsu, and cooking. I don't really have a dream but I guess my goal is to be the best earth user in Hi no Kuni." He said and Kakashi finally nodded his head at having a competent genin but was a little wary of that tardy comment. "Ok well Naruto, you're my favorite for taking being a ninja seriously." He said as Naruto gave a small smile while Sakura and Sasuke were seething for saying they didn't take this seriously.
"Well let's you're all better then I think because tomorrow you're taking the real genin exam." He said shocking 2 of his new genin. "Meet me at training ground 7 at 6am tomorrow, and I wouldn't eat breakfast if I were you. You will just throw it up." He said with an eye smile and disappears in a puff of smoke. Sasuke and Sakura were somewhat speechless. "We'll see you tomorrow." Said Naruto with a small wave and he also disappeared in a puff of smoke.
*~Timeskip~*
Walking into the training ground Naruto saw both Sasuke and Sakura sitting under a tree looking worn out already. Sakura took notice of his arrival which was 2 hours and 50 minutes late. "You're late!" She said jumping to her feet and pointing her finger at him. "No I'm not, Kakashi isn't here so I'm not late yet." He said in his usual bored tone as he walked towards the tree and jumped onto a high branch to lay on and mask his presence.
10 minutes later Kakashi showed up with a shunshin and said his trademark greeting. With a small wave he said "Yo." Sakura again shot to her feet and accused him of being late to which he replied "I got lost on the road of life." He said with an eye smile further infuriating Sakura. "Where's Naruto, he's later then I am." He said looking around the training ground. " I'm up here sensei." Said Naruto as he dropped out of the tree right between Sakura and Kakashi.
"You hid your presence pretty well, why did you do that?" He asked somewhat surprised he couldn't tell he was there. Sakura and Sasuke has both almost forgotten he had already shown up. "To see if my stealth was any good, and to see how good your senses are." He said with a small smile while Kakashi's eye widened a little bit and he thought 'He was testing ME if I'm good enough to teach him?' He was further impressed by this as he didn't expect too much really out of 3 genin but this one was good.
"Ok well now I will explain the test." He said pulling out two bells. "You will have to get these bells from me, the one who doesn't get a bell will be tied to a training post and skip lunch while the other two eat in front of you." He said as Sasuke and Sakura both looked horrified and their stomachs growled while Naruto gave no reaction. "Did you eat breakfast?" Asked Kakashi as Naruto gave a small nod and Kakashi asked him why? "You didn't tell us not to, you said we shouldn't but I knew we were going to need the energy for this test so I didn't take your advice." He said as Kakashi nodded and told him good job.
"Good, you were right to do so as I did not order you not to. It was merely advice which you could have decided to follow or not." He said as Sasuke and Sakura seethed at missing that tidbit of information. "Now I will give you until noon to get these bells, but like I said this who don't get any bells don't get any lunch and will also be sent back to the academy." He said as Naruto narrowed his eyes at his sensei, there's no such thing as a 3 man genin Team. There is always a Jonin and his 3 genin, nothing less. 'So he wants us to fight over them and try to make us do it ourselves, but we should do it as a team since this is a Jonin we're talking about.' Naruto thought, seeing what their sensei was trying to do.
"Okay, start!" Said Kakashi as his 3 genin all disappeared in different directions.
Naruto created 2 clones to find his team mates while he kept an eye on Kakashi. He saw Kakashi reach into his pouch and take out his trademark orange book but he knew he was still aware of his surroundings.
One of Naruto's clones had found Sasuke somehow already buried neck deep into the ground. "I know you're the almighty Uchiha but you need to listen to me. We have to work together or we're not gonna pass, this is a Jonin were talking about you know. So just come with me and distract him while Sakura provides support. Ok?" The clone asked in a deathly serious voice letting the Uchiha know he was not in the mood for any games. Reluctantly acknowledging he was right the Uchiha nodded. Naruto's clone nodded and pulled Sasuke out of the ground with one arm.
His other clone found a passed out Sakura in the middle of a clearing so he walked up to her and shook her awake. As soon as her eyes opened she shot into. A sitting position about to yell out for her 'love', but Naruto covered her mouth with his hand. "Be quiet. Sasuke's fine, it was a genjutsu. I already told Sasuke but we need to work together on this. Kakashi is trying to make us do this by ourselves so he can take us out easier and so we fail. He's a Jonin, do you really think you can get those bell when you lose every taijutsu match we've had in school?" He said with full seriousness and a small glare telling her not to talk back. She slowly nodded her head, sadly seeing his point. He removed his hand from her mouth and explains to her what she needs to do.
In the clearing Kakashi was busy reading his book but wasn't actually reading, he was focusing his senses around him. He could tell Sasuke and Sakura were together and getting closer but he couldn't find Naruto. He was broken out of his thoughts as Sasuke charged him and Sakura provided support, throwing shuriken and kunai. Once Sasuke was in range he launched the Uchiha's favorite jutsu 'Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu' and he launched a pretty big fire ball out of his mouth at Kakashi. After the fire subsided all that was left was a burnt log, the telltale sign of a Kawarimi. He turned to see Kakashi right behind him and engaged in a taijutsu battle with Kakashi who was only dodging and had yet to look away from his book.
Watching all of this was Naruto who was waiting for his chance to sneak in and grab the bells. Deciding that they need help to create that chance, he created a mud clone and sent it to help distract Kakashi while he sank into the ground saying 'Doton: Moguragakure no Jutsu'. He navigated his way under Kakashi who was dodging Sasuke and his clone. When his clone appeared behind Sasuke and shoved him at Kakashi, Sasuke threw a spinning kick at Kakashi as he used his secret taijutsu the 'Sennen Goroshi'. He shoved 2 fingers into Sasuke butt and launched him into the air, as Kakashi and his clone were watching Sasuke fly, he stuck his hand out through the ground and silently grabbed the bells and sank back into the ground to wait out the rest of the time.
*~Timeskip~*
"Okay times up." He said as he stood in front of his 3 genin who all sat in front of the 3 posts. "You failed to get the rings so there for you all fail." He said in a somewhat disappointed voice having liked the potential that Naruto had. "No we didn't sensei." Said Naruto as he held up the 2 bells. Kakashi looked shocked at the bells and then down to his waist to find no bells. "When did you get them?" He asked surprised he hadn't noticed. "When you were fighting Sasuke and my clone and you used the 'Sennen Goroshi' on him. I was underneath you." He said with a small smile.
"So who are you going to give the bell to?" Kakashi asked having regained his composure. Naruto smiled and gave both of his teammates a bell. "You tried to pin us against each other so we would fail. So I talked them into working with me to get the bells. I knew about the secret point of this test, which was teamwork." He said shocking Kakashi again and making him somewhat proud that he would be teaching someone like Naruto. "Well I guess you all pass. Have lunch and then you're free to go. Come back tomorrow at 8 for your first mission and some training." He said with a small smile as he disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"I'll see you guys tomorrow, I have somewhere to be." Said Naruto as he stood up and walked a few steps away before disappearing in a puff os smoke.