Naruto was deeply confused. He had awoken at 7 AM to Sasuke knocking on his door, and telling him to follow. And he had been having such a pleasant dream too. Sakura-chan had said yes and gone on a date with him.

He had then been dragged to breakfast by his stoic teammate, where they were met by a bubbly, cheerful pinkette.

Who had promptly glomped him, and refused to let go until their food arrived. Throughout the meal they had discussed what they thought was coming and made plans to counter their sensei, who no doubt outclassed all of them by significant margin.

And now, said sensei had arrived on-time (something which shocked Sakura and Sasuke for some reason) and was demanding he take a bell from from him.

Sasuke for his part was silently enjoying the utter confusion on his teammate's face. When he had shown up at Naruto's apartment, the blond had grumbled repeatedly about temes ruining good dreams about Sakura-chan. Sasuke had suddenly been looking forward to breakfast a lot more.

He had finally convinced (read physically dragged) Naruto to breakfast after explaining that if they were going to be on a team together, the two of them were going to have to work together, and that probably meant being a little less antagonistic towards one another. (He had then had to explain what antagonistic meant but that was besides the point)

He had then waited rather impatiently for their third teammate to arrive. He was not disappointed when a pink missile had flattened Naruto, with a cheerful "Hiya Naruto-kun! Hiya Sasuke!" He had even had his sharingan activated under a small genjutsu. He could now watch the entire thing in detail over and over again.

So he was a little vindictive about someone else having to deal with an obsessive kuinoichi, sue him.

Naruto's eloquent response was to mumble "Wait, am I still dreaming?" which had made Sakura giggle. He had then proceeded to drill a number of plans into Naruto's had to ensure they would be able to pass the bell test. Not that he expected Kakashi to fail them, but it was important to put on a good show.

When they had arrived at the training field at the appointed time, he expected to have several hours to lay traps and prepare. Which is why he had leaped clear into a tree at Kakashi's timely arrival, as the cyclops demanded Naruto take a bell.

Sakura was still a little giddy. The medical practitioner in her realized that part of her sudden obsession with Naruto was probably a psychological reaction to the fact that he had saved her, and more importantly died for her. But she really didn't care. Naruto had always been there for her and she had, for a long time responded with violence and bile.

Yet still he stayed with her. And maybe it had just taken him dying for her to realize it, but she wouldn't give him up for the world. He was, indelibly, a part of her life, and had been for a while. That it took so long to realize that said more about her own self-perception than anything. Still he was here now, whole and warm and alive. So yes she was going to hug him, and make sure he knew that he was valued.

Because she knew Naruto, and she knew that was all he ever really wanted. So she passed the morning cheerfully conversing with her Naruto-kun.

They had arrived at the training ground and expected to have several hours to prepare traps. Which was why she was rather startled when Kakashi-sensei arrived on time. She had immediately deduced that this was an impostor, intending to take advantage of their lack of knowledge about Kakashi. But since she knew Kakashi she saw through the trap.

She also rapidly deduced that there was only one logical target. She was still a clan-less genin-prospect born to first generation shinobi. A no-one, which meant she wasn't the target. Sasuke also likely wasn't the target since whoever it was would have had to infiltrate the village if they were from outside (something which took shinobi of Itachi's caliber, and anyone that strong wouldn't have bothered with impersonating Kakashi), and almost everyone in the village practically worshiped Sasuke still.

No the target was most likely Naruto. Especially since the impostor appeared right in front of him. Sakura cracked her knuckles as she advanced.

Fun fact that should be mentioned. Last night the three time travelers had met up to discuss what they were capable of in the past. Sasuke had almost no chakra reserves (relatively speaking) and was thus relatively harmless until he could build them up again. Kakashi had likewise lost a portion of his reserves, but had already had fairly massive stores of chakra already at this point, so this wasn't much of a loss for him. But Sakura had never had particularly large reserves.

She never needed them because she always had near perfect control. Which she still had, which meant she could still use Tsunade-taicho's monster strength.

Which she did. On Kakashi's face.

When Kakashi woke up he was rather displeased, despite Sakura having healed the damage she inflicted while Sasuke distracted Naruto. Which was sadly easy. He had watched his team proudly all morning as they planned to tear him a new one in the test. So naturally like any good sensei he decided to throw a wrench in the works by rewarding them and passing them all immediately.

They could apparently play dodge ball quite well, since they caught said wrench and proceeded to beat him with it.

So instead of having skipped the morning shenanigans and spending the afternoon training he spent an hour unconscious, and only had time to explain the test and get them started on tree walking before he had to rush off to the jounin meeting.

Wouldn't want to be late after all.

He poofed into the meeting space 5 minutes early and calmly leaned against a wall reading his Icha Icha, and pretended not to see Gai trip and fall flat on his face, or Asuma accidentally swallow his cigarette. Seeing the younger Sarutobi alive cemented the fact that they were in the past and gave Kakashi a warm feeling in his heart. He would go to any lengths to help his comrades, that was his promise to Obito's memory.

He was a bit saddened that he couldn't go back to save him as well, but since Sasuke was the one powering the seal, they could only go back as far as he could remember. So they went back as early as was practical.

Finally as the meeting was scheduled to start the Sandaime walked in and Kakashi couldn't help but smirk a little. This was bound to be hilarious.

"Well who's up for poker since we have three hours till Kakashi reports?" asked the Hokage. When no one replied he added "I'll add a ticket for a guaranteed weekend with no duties..." he offered.

"I'm game as long as we're waiting for me," Kakashi said, still smirking.

Sarutobi smiled, then froze and looked up eyes wide, seeing everyone staring at Kakashi.

"Yo," Kakashi finished smugly.

"B-but your on time!" was all he managed to get out.

"Actually I was early. I have to set a good example for my cute students, after all," he replied.

"Wait you actually passed a team!?" Genma interrupted.

"Yup!"

"But you never- Did you even have time to test them?" Kurenai asked from where she was still helping Asuma stop coughing.

"Nope!" Seeing the other Jounin's deadpan stares he figured he'd better explain. "They met up two hours early this morning to plan and prepare. If I had shown up at my usual late time, they would have had three hours to turn training field seven into hell for me. And Sasuke, the most reclusive of the group was the one who started the whole process. The whole point of the bell test is to see if they can work together. They were doing so before I even showed up, no test needed."

Hiruzen was still looking rather stupefied, so Kakashi decided to sum it for him. "You finally got lucky and putting the dead last with the two best students DIDN'T result in with two arch-nemesis on the same team! Good job boss!" He gave the Hokage a thumbs up. "Now if we are done here, I have three little legends to water." And with that he Shunshin'ed away.

Finally recovering the Sandaime shook his head. Then he smirked 'If Kakashi-kun is taking those three's training so seriously, then they might just become legends indeed...' He looked over the rest of the jounin. "Who else has passing teams to report?

The rest of the jounin sensei hurried to report in, suddenly far more eager to get back to their teams, lest they be left in the dust.

A/N: MY MUSE LIVES! Sorry its short but I had ideas, and wanted to get this written and posted enjoy!