"Nice to see he has moved up from graffiti to slightly less destructive pranks. I guess it is an improvement." Kakashi thought. "So. I am Hatake Kakshi. I'm going to be your teacher. What are your names, likes, dislikes and hobbies. You start." He spoke for the first time, ignoring the batter coating him with some effort.
"I am Uzumaki Naruto! I like Chocolate and Ramen. Not mixed, thank you. My dislikes are morons who can't see past their own noses. My dreams are to surpass the Hokage and my mentor. My hobbies are video games and comparing ramen brands."
"I'm Haruno Sakura. I like…………." A look at Sauske accompanied this statement. "I dislike Naruto and my hobbies are……………" This time the look was accompanied by a blush.
"I am Uchiha Sauske. I hate a lot of things and like very few things. My dreams are the revival of my clan and killing a certain man."
"Well, that was about as I expected." Kakashi thought "We are having a mission tomorrow."
"What kind of mission, sensei?" Naruto asked.
"One we can do together." Kakashi started laughing "You are going to be surprised at this! Out of the 27 graduates, only 9 are going to become genin. The rest get sent back to the academy."
"What?!" Sakura yelled. Sauske and Naruto stayed silent, Naruto's eyes closed and his forehead frowned in concentration.
"See! I told you would be surprised! The final exam just picks the ones to be able to take this test. You have to pass this one now. Meet me at the training grounds at 5 am! Have a nice day." And with that, he was gone.
The next morning, Naruto, Sakura and Sauske showed up at the training ground. Naruto just sat on the ground and closed his eyes. Sauske stood there silent as ever. Sakura eventually sat down. At noon, Kakashi finally arrived. "A black cat crossed my path so……………. Anyway, timer set for noon."
"The objective is to get these bells from me. Whoever does not have a bell gets no lunch."
"Fine. And what happens to the person with no bell?" Naruto asked
"They go back to the academy. And have to watch me eat while tied to the log over there."
"Good thing I come prepared then." The blond responded, laying back down and apparently going back to sleep.
"Start!" While the other two potential genin jumped and disappeared, Naruto was sleeping, his breathing peaceful.
With a shrug, the jonin just disappeared.
Standing with his back to the river, Kakashi waited for his students to show themselves. Naruto walked out of the tree line, his face contorted in a yawn. With a few slow and deliberate steps he came to stand in front of the jonin. "I guess we should get started." The blond charged the white haired man, a kunai in each hand.
Kakashi just stood there, his book open and his feet spaced for balance. Naruto threw the first kunai at a distance of ten feet. Kakashi sidestepped and prepared himself for the blonde's next attack. The knife exploded behind the jonin, causing a net to fly at him from behind. Naruto attacked with a round house kick to the legs. Kakashi jumped 10 feet in the air, dodging both attacks, then came down with an axe kick. However, Naruto was nowhere to be seen. Landing on the ground lightly, Kakashi looked around. No Naruto. With a flash of white light and a "Whoosh" sound, Naruto reappeared, behind the jonin. Backhand, block, knee to the gut, twist away transitioned into a roundhouse kick. When the round house kick connected with Naruto's side, Naruto went poof, the shadow clone dissipating. Three "cracks" sounded as soon as the clone disappeared. Years of experience were the only thing that saved the older man as he jumped to the side, dodging the three small metal projectiles that came from the tree line.
Not giving the jonin a chance to breath, Naruto came at him again, this time two clones from behind and him from the front. The white haired man was up the challenge as he kicked out behind him, destroying the first clone. Reversing the movement, he then blocked the real Naruto's kick. A flick of the jonin's wrist sent a kunai into the last clone. Naruto's hand reached out for the bells but came up short, his fingers just barley brushing the bells. Kakashi threw him a dozen feet in the air and 50 feet away. He tumbled to the ground and laid there for several seconds before disappearing.
The jonin now moved away from the river, heading out into the forest. Running across Sakura, he knocked her out using Genjutsu. Moving on to Sauske, they stopped as soon they saw each other.
"I'm different from those two."
"Say that after you get the bell."
Four kunai flew at the older ninja. Dodging was simple, though the next salvo of knives was a bit harder. Sauske flickered into the space just to the right of Kakashi, attacking him with a kick to the head. Block, Punch, catch, kick and block. Just as the momentum of the assault was waning, the prodigy made his grab for the bell. And came up just as short as the troublemaker.
The twelve year old and the 30 year old flew apart, thirty feet separating them in an instant. As the future genin tried to find his future sensei, Kakashi attacked him from below. After a moment, Sasuke's head was the only part of him that was visible.
"Hey sensei! Over here!" Naruto called. Kakashi looked to the grinning blond. Naruto was standing 20 feet away, with his Ninja-to held in a two handed grip in front of him. As soon as Kakashi looked at him, four shots rang out, the bullets coming from the tree line. Kakashi jumped to the side, but the bullets were not aimed at him. The four shots hit the dirt around Sauske, the small explosive charges busting up the dirt, allowing the raven haired youth to jump free. The blond was already on the attack, slicing the air in front of his teacher, just missing his face. Sauske attacked from behind, a mid-air round house kick that was blocked by the jonin's arm.
Three more shots came from the tree line, this time aiming for Kakashi's torso. The jonin's skills were up to the task as he twisted in mid air to avoid the projectiles. With a metallic clank, the bullets stuck to each other, pulling the wires that connected them back to the source and pinning the masked man's right arm to his chest. With that arm now disabled, Naruto and Sauske pressed the attack, a sword thrust low and a punch high. Kakashi's left arm blocked the punch and he jumped into the air, avoiding the sword. He kicked Naruto in the face, only to have his foot pass right through the youths grinning face. The image of Naruto disappeared, having never been there in the first place.
More bullets from the tree line accompanied this time by four Narutos, each armed with a kunai in each hand. Kakashi dodged the bullets and the raven's kick, only to have a fifth Naruto come at him from behind, trying to slash his stomach open. The jonin kicked him in the face and Naruto turned into a cloud of smoke. However, it became quite apparent that the sword was not intended to cut the copy nin, as the wires snapped, severed by the sword. Instead of falling to the ground, freeing Kakashi, the wires instead wrapped further around him, pining his other arm to his chest. With both arms now disabled and caught between four clones and Sauske, the jonin retreated, disappearing in a blur.
"So close." Naruto said, walking from the tree line. "Nice work with those holograms, Sakura. You did a great job keeping him busy."
"Thank you." The young girl said, walking out of the trees. She was wearing black bands at each on her joints. "These bands are cool. The images did what ever I did. Where did you get these?"
"I made them. With the kind of facilities my mentor has, it was simple. It took me a week to perfect the devices and another two weeks to program the HSEs to respond like they needed to." Naruto shrugged "I'm just sad he got away."
"Who asked you to interfere?!" Sauske was pissed. How dare they interrupt his battle? He did not need them.
"You did not seem to have a problem when I broke you out of the hole. Nor did you have a problem flanking him while we attacked him from other angles. So shove it. You can't have it both ways, either we are a team or not. Make up your mind quick, because we have 2 hours till the bell rings. And it is gonna take an hour just to find Kakashi. That leaves 1 hour to get those bells and you are burning that time away with this uptight attitude." Naruto finished talking, his arms on his hips and his face stern and serious.
"Fine, dobe. Let's find him." Sauske said after a moment. He disappeared to go look for their future sensei.
"Naruto! Don't talk to Sauske like that!" Sakura yelled at him
Naruto just ignored her, taking out the SEE and making a hologram of the training field. A line traveled across the image, back and forth. Obviously that method was not working, so he put the device away and turned to Sakura. "We have two hours. Better get started." And he was gone, the HSEs hiding him from sight and sound.
Despite searching the entire training area, Kakashi continued to elude them. Finally, the bell rang and the three future genin all went back to the starting area. Kakashi appeared in front of them and said "Well, that was exciting. But you can have one more chance." Before he could explain what that chance might be, Naruto was moving, five shadow clones behind him, and four in front of him. Sasuke was gone from where he was standing a second before and reappeared behind the jonin. An elbow just barely hit the back of Kakashi's head, knocking him forward. The four clones of Naruto came at him, 2 punching down from the air, one kicking for the older man's stomach and the fourth sweeping his legs. Kakashi side stepped the high attacks and caught the middle's kick, throwing the two clones into one another.
He then glanced at the clock out of the corner of his eye. It still had two minuets left! Somehow, they had made a sound so close to that of the alarm going off that the jonin had come out of hiding. And he had fallen for it. He brought his attention back to the fight, only to find that all four Narutos were gone. Sauske attacked again, this time from the front, kicking for Kakashi's head. Block, roundhouse, catch, punch, catch, and once again, the jonin kicked Sauske in the gut. But this time, his foot passed right through the boy, sending him off balance. The distinctive "Whoosh" noise caused by Naruto's transporter came from behind him. Sauske was there, this time with a side kick. It hit Kakashi in the back, sending him tumbling to the ground. Four kunai flew from the trees, hitting the trees at the opposite end. Sauske was not slowed at all by the knives as he axe kicked Kakashi. The jonin jumped back, dodging the strike, and jumped back again, putting some distance between himself and Sauske. His back now to the three logs, two of those logs disappeared as if they were not there in the first place. They reappeared, this time on both sides of the jonin. Kakashi noticed the glint of wire attached to the kunai stuck in the trees. Bullets came out of the forest, dragging the other end of said wire along with them. The wire hit the logs and the inertia of the bullets carried it around and around, forcing the logs together, trapping the jonin in between, with the wire wrapping him up. He disappeared, replaced by a third log. The wire rapped around and around, forcing the three logs into a tight bundle.
"Too late." Came the jonin's voice as the alarm went off.
"As I was saying, you all have one more chance." In a flash, he had Sakura tied to the remaining log. "I will be back soon. You two can eat lunch but you are not to feed her. Got it?"
"Yes." They both responded
Kakashi disappeared in a blur, leaving the three genin behind. Immediately, Naruto turned around and tore open one of the lunches. He picked up a piece of meat and put it in Sakura's face. "Eat it." He said
"But he said not to………….."
"I don't care want he said. If he told you to take a flying leap into the sun, would you?"
Sakura did not know just how hot the surface of the sun was but the blonde's point was obvious. "No….. But…………."
"So eat."
Finally, she gave in. As soon as she took her first bite, the jonin reappeared and shouted "You!!!!!!!!!!! PASS!!!!!!!!!!!"