Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, infact I'd much rather be allowed to rule the world and keep writing this fanfic.

Previously : "Maybe this might be the start of a beautiful relationship," He smiled, "You ready?"

He received three nods, "Well then…Let's get this Going"

"START!"

Chapter 3: What was that Jutsu?

Kakashi examined his surroundings. It was dead silence, 'Well I'll be damned, seems like they know how to hide themselves, Basic Ninja 101'

"Ne! Kakashi-sensei I Wanna Fight you!"

'Well most of them'

Naruto stood proud in front of the white-haired jounin, with his hands folded, "Hey, you listening to me? I want to fight you"

"Naruto…your sense of stealth is slightly off" Kakashi drawled .

Naruto scoffed, "Pfft, tell that to the ninja's wearing the masks, ANBUs, I think they are called, I outran them pretty much every day."

Kakashi chuckled softly, 'I remember those'

"Regardless, are we going to do this or not?" Naruto challenged the older shinobi.

Sakura face-palmed.

"What a Dumbass" She whispered to herself. She herself, like any ninja worth their salt, knew that you never charge as recklessly as her blonde teammate just did.

'With tactics like that, I'm pretty sure he'll be the one sent back to the academy, but then again, he is different, he might have some power to back up all that talk'

Sasuke frowned, the dobe was honestly throwing him of left right and centre, first he was quiet and calculating in the classroom and then he goes and pulls off a stupid stunt like this.

'Hn…Dobe might as well be the world's most unpredictable ninja'

He steadied himself on the branch he stood, he was curious as to the result of this fight, maybe he might be working with the dobe in the near future, and he didn't need someone who would hold him back.

Naruto cracked his knuckles, "Ne Kakashi sensei, you ready to do this? I don't want to catch you off guard or anything"

Kakashi chuckled, "Well bring it on squirt, but highly doubt you would be able to do anything like defeat me."

Naruto ignored the jab at his height, "We'll see"

He dashed forward towards the masked man suddenly, hoping to catch his target by surprise. Kakashi placed his hand into his hip pouch, resulting in Naruto arriving to a screeching halt.

'A weapon?' Naruto asked himself frowning.

"There are three fields a Ninja must know if not master, one of those is the art of Hand to Hand Combat, so my first lesson to you will be Taijutsu" Kakashi proclaimed to his blue-eyed foe

"Then why use a weapon sensei?" Naruto asked confused.

"A Weapon?" Kakashi smiled, well that's what Naruto believed he did, as he reached further in to his hip pouch, "Don't kid yourself, you're not that good, regardless of what you think, however use a weapon if you wish" Kakashi pulled his hand out revealing a small orange book, with the title 'Icha Icha Paradise'.

Naruto raised an eyebrow, 'A book? Really?'

"Well what are you waiting for? Come at me" Kakashi said as he opened the book to a certain page and began reading.

Naruto shrugged and dashed forward with the same gusto as before, he fished out a small piece of paper, as he charged towards his towering opponent, who casually read the book in front of him. A sudded crisp right was thrown towards Kakashi's face by Naruto, the Jounin caught the approaching fist nonchalantly. Naruto stepped in closer towards Kakashi's body and threw a wide uppercut with his free hand which approached the white-haired man's face from underneath his very own book, in his fist discreetly hidden the piece of paper he withdrew before. Kakashi moved his book to the left as the fist approached and disinterestedly avoid Naruto's wild swing with his head by a small margin. Expecting the dodge, Naruto twisted the very same hand used for the uppercut and clenched the Shoulder pad of Kakashi's vest, sticking the piece of paper on his shoulder blade, Naruto threw himself upwards aiming to distract his soon to be sensei with a knee attack straight to the face. Kakashi's eye widened slightly from the unexpected attack, he twisted the fist he had caught earlier and threw Naruto away from him allowing the oncoming Knee to miss its targe completely.

"Not bad Naruto" Kakashi drawled as he focused on his book again, "You actually had me surprised for a second"

"Heh…Thanks Kakashi-sensei, I was told by Iruka-sensei that my unpredictability is one of my strong points.

Kakashi nodded, "Enough talking or do you not want a bell?"

Naruto readied himself again, and then dashed in for another round, "Bring it on Kakashi-sensei."

He charged in with a fist cocked back, and threw it straight at his target when he reached him. However Kakashi had disappeared. Naruto was shocked, his fist was outstretched, but there was nothing in front of him, he scanned his peripherals but there was no sensei.

"Idiot, A ninja is never supposed to expose his back to his opponent"

His target was located crouching behind him, with his book closed between his hands as he made the tiger seal.

'Shit…The Tiger Seal…No friggen way is he going to use a ninjutsu in a taijutsu fight' Both Naruto and Sakura thought.

Sakura took it upon herself to scream, "Naruto get out of there he's going to use a Jutsu, you're going to get killed!"

Naruto got distracted momentarily, "What?"

Kakashi got a glint in his eye, "Konoha's Hidden Supreme Taijutsu Technique!"

Fear overtook Naruto's face as he craned his neck to see his attacker behind him, 'Shit!'

"SENNEN GOROSHI!"*

Kakashi shoved his index and middle fingers up somewhere the sun doesn't shine for Naruto. Time stood still for a brief instant at moment of attack, the other two gennin's were shocked from the sheer stupidity of the attack.

Sasuke face palmed himself, 'I'm surrounded by idiots' and Sakura just muttered to herself, "Supreme Technique my ass, that was just a ridiculous butt poke"

Naruto comically flew into the air screaming in pain while clutching his precious behind as he was propelled towards the lake he was facing. Naruto crashed into the waves as his attacker re-focused on his novel, blushing slightly, from the story he was reading.

'Damn it…I can't let it end here…That's it' Naruto pulled out a three shuriken from his pouch and flung them towards his opponent from underwater. They flew out towards Kakashi with such strength, not that Kakashi was infact phased at all by this half-attempt of an attack and caught the shuriken on his fingers allowing them to spin freely. "Is that all you got?" He asked calmly as he kept his only seen eye on the little orange book clenched in his remaining hand.

Naruto threw a tantrum from underneath the water. 'Can't believe I have to use my trump card now of all times…Bird Boar Tiger!' He motioned the one handed seals while repeating them in his head.

Kakashi was concerned, his blonde haired opponent hadn't resurfaced, 'I hope he isn't unconscious, it would totally suck if one of the genin died while being tested' He thought to himself. He shrugged and went back to reading his book, 'Maybe the kid has just gone and hidden like a proper Shinobi should' He looked back at his book. The scene was getting interesting, and he really wanted to read this part, it was one of his faverouite scenes in the book.

"Ne Kakashi-sensei? Shouldn't a ninja be always aware of his surroundings?" A voice came from behind him.

'WHAT?' Kakashi wheeled around, his single eye widened in surprise, an expression that was mirrored on the other two genin, 'HOW?' Kakashi asked himself, 'How did he get behind me without me realising?'

~Jingle~ The sound of the bell. Naruto aimed to grab both the bells, however it was a seasoned Jounin he had startled, unfortunately for him. Kakashi was in the process of wheeling around at this point, which resulted only in Naruto being able to snatch one of the bells. Kakashi kicked off the ground and pushed Naruto away from him. Naruto landed in the bushes not too far from him and Kakashi slightly closer to lake.

"Heh Caught you by surprise eh Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto grinned. He dangled the bell in front of Kakashi, from a distance obviously, "Ninja Rule #1…What was it sensei? Ahh yes Taijutsu, the art of hand to hand combat" Naruto imitated Kakashi. He then scratched his head, "Does that mean I pass?"

Kakashi smiled, "Heh, We'll see Naruto"

Kakashi dashed forward, slightly faster than earlier, 'If his speed was true, then he should be able to keep up with me' Kakashi approached Naruto and delivered a swift palm into his gut and lifted him off the ground, 'then again, maybe not' Naruto was winded and dropped the bell. Kakashi followed through and used a little chakra to propel Naruto away from him. He simultaneously swiftly caught the bell with his free hand.

"You honestly caught me by surprise there Naruto, but I can see you moved that fast from a certain jutsu, rather than it being just your base speed. I'm curious Naruto? How did you learn the technique of the Fourth?" Kakashi threw the bell up and down repeatedly; its soft jingle was heard in the area.

Naruto grinned, "Shinobi tactics, never reveal anything about your techniques or where they were learned to your enemy lest it be used against you."

"I see, well then talking aside let's get this test on with" Kakashi grinned attaching the bell back to his hip.

"I totally agree Kakashi-sensei," Naruto reached into his pocket and pulled out an oddly shaped kunai, "I only have one of these Sensei and it's precious to me so handle it with care as it was a gift for graduating from JiJi"

Kakashi was surprised yet again today, something that was happening a lot today, 'Sensei's Kunai'

Naruto dashed forwards towards his soon to be sensei and threw the kunai at him, it flew wobbly and slightly off course, due to its odd shape and weight. Naruto grimaced he wasn't used the Yondaime's special kunai. Kakashi deftly avoided the Kunai and lunged forward, grabbing Naruto's arm. Naruto smiled expecting this and swiftly went through the three handsigns plus a fourth one assigned to the tag on Kakashi's jumper. He disappeared from Kakashi's vision, Kakashi foresaw this and turned around expecting an attack from behind, just as Naruto disappeared from his vision, however, there was nothing behind him.

Naruto appeared back in his original position albeit slightly closer to Kakashi, he grabbed one of the bells and dashed backwards pushing of Kakashi. Kakashi got slightly winded from the unexpected attack and was pushed further away from Naruto. Naruto quickly went through the handsigns for the Hirashin and disappeared.

Kakashi was shocked, he had clearly been unprepared for this, and severely underestimated this genin. Kakashi smiled, 'Naruto is probably at that Kunai which I avoided earlier in this small skirmish,' I'll get to him later, at least I had the foresight to place a small genjutsu on the bells and replace one of them with a rock on a string. "A Ninja must always look Underneath the Underneath"

Meanwhile somewhere in the bushes, Naruto celebrated, "Yatta…I managed to do it, I got a bell of that Sensei." Suddenly everything went hazy, for a brief instant, "ne?" Naruto muttered as he rubbed his eyes, there were feathers falling around of him, "Whats..going on?" He yawned loudly before falling asleep.

Sakura was shocked, she couldn't say anything, Naruto had gone toe to toe with a Jounin, something that should be physically impossible. Yet the man in front of her was missing a bell, Sakura couldn't wrap her head around what had happened 'Naruto is seriously skilled, what was that Jutsu that made him move so fast? Kakashi-sensei said something about the Yondaime' Sakura kept peering at the jounin in her vision, he hadn't noticed her just yet, he was to focused on his book, "Hey Sakura!" The jounin called out. Sakura furrowed her eyebrows, "Behind you" a voice whispered.

Sakura jumped out of her hiding place in fear, "Kyaaa" She screamed from being startled. Kakashi was surrounded by leaves before he disappeared.

"Huh? What the hell was that?" She said confused, she looked around, Kakashi was nowhere in sight, "Where did sensei go?"

Suddenly from the bushes nearby she heard a soft groan, "S-Sa-Sakura…" Sakura turned around with glee, 'That voice…that's Sasuke-kun!' Her happiness was short-lived. Sasuke dragged himself from the bushes with force, he was in a bad shape, both legs broken, an arm brutally cut off, and his whole body was peppered with Shuriken and Kunai.

"Sakura….H-Help me…P-Please" He stammered.

Sakura's eyes widened and tears fell from them in fear and shock.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

A scream resounded in the area. Kakashi was sitting in a branch above, 'Maybe I went overboard' He thought to himself as he kept on reading.

Sasuke looked around, he heard that scream, he had lost the white haired jounin somewhere, "That was Sakura" He muttered to himself.

Kakashi arrived in front of him a few metres away in a swirl of leaves reading his book, "There are three fields a Ninja must know if not master, one of those is the art of Illusions, lesson number two, Genjutsu," He sighed, "both Naruto and Sakura fell for it, though Naruto's was more subtle, than Sakura's"

Sasuke smiled, "I'm not the same as them" Sasuke formed the Tiger seal, "KAI" he muttered. Two bells materialised at Kakashi's hip, "Seems that Naruto didn't get a bell, he probably got something henged to look like a bell.

"Heh…Say that after you get a Bell Sasuke…The strength of what was once a great clan, The Uchiha. This should be interesting" Kakashi spoke with an air of laziness. Sasuke threw an assortment of Shuriken and Kunai, which Kakashi easily avoided, something again he seemed to be doing a lot today, "Please…Such attacks are pointless Sasuke"

Sasuke smirked, one of the kunai he threw cut a rope behind Kakashi, 'It's a Trap!'* Kakashi observed. He moved himself out of the way allowing the blades that originally flew towards him to embed themselves on a tree trunk. Sasuke having foresaw this as a backup, positioned himself behind Kakashi bringing a flying round house kick towards him.

'What?' Kakashi was quick, using reflexes that only belonged to a Jounin blocked the kick quickly. He grabbed Sasuke's leg. Sasuke twisted around a brought his fist around towards Kakashi's face, using the arm he blocked with Kakashi caught Sasuke's fist. Using a ninja's flexibility Sasuke brought his remaining foot down from above upside down as a makeshift axe-kick. Kakashi blocked this strike as well with his original arm, while distracted, Sasuke made for the bell with his free hand. However Kakashi noticed this.

'Damn'

He moved himself further back and pushed Sasuke away from him, the boys were good, if they passed he might actually enjoy teaching them. Kakashi smirked, 'I haven't had the chance to read my book at all this fight'

"Heh…I'll acknowledge you, you aren't like the other two"

Sasuke dismissed the acknowledgement, "Bah" He ran through a few seals quickly, which ended with horse and tiger, "Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu"

'What? A Gennin like Sasuke shouldn't have enough Chakra to use a jutsu like that just yet"

Sasuke blew a giant fireball towards Kakashi, an inferno burned the area before it calmed down and receded. Sasuke looked around, Kakashi was gone, 'Front? No Above? No Where the hell is he?'

"Behind you" A voice said. Sasuke craned his neck, but no-one was there, "Just kidding, I'm below" A hand grasped Sasuke's ankle from the ground "Doton: Shinjuu Zanshu no Jutsu"

"Damn" Sasuke gasped before he was promptly dragged into the Earth leaving his head above ground.

" Once again there are three fields a Ninja must know if not master, one of those is the art of Ninja Techniques, lesson number three, Ninjutsu, though it seems your pretty adept at that, in fact if it wasn't for Naruto I probably would have gone slightly easier on you"

Sakura was rushing around, she eventually did manage to dispel that illusion, though it took too long embarrassingly enough to do so. She eventually stumbled across the open field where she had heard a clash happening, and saw Sasuke, or rather Sasuke's head "Kya! Sasuke-kun's severed head!" She screamed before passing out with gusto.

"Damn Fan-girl" Sasuke muttered to himself as he tried to dig himself out.

"Sakura…Sakura"

Sakura woke up to a dreamy voice, she opened her eyes and saw her beloved Sasuke-kun staring down at her, "Sasuke-kun! You're alright" She hugged him. He struggled to get out of it, "Let go off me"

He stood up as soon as she did, "There's not much time left before lunch, I'm going, I touched it this time, I should be able to get it by lunch"

Sakura fiddled with her fingers, "That's incredible Sasuke-kun" Sakura was worrying on the inside 'this is bad…I might not be able to get a bell…I might be left behind'

"Why are you trying so hard, there isn't enough time, try next year, we don't have to push ourselves to hard" Sakura stuttered.

Sasuke stopped and glared at her, "There's a man I have to kill, I'm an avenger…." Sakura looked down, "I have to get stronger to Kill him"

"Him?" She asked, but before she could press any further the bell rang.

"Damn I wasted too much time…" Sasuke muttered with frustration.

~10 Minutes Later~

Sakura was tied to a post, "I hope you all know why Sakura is tied to a post?" Kakashi drawled, "Sakura out of all three of you was the least effective, she didn't even attempt to get a bell and was knocked out of the running before I could even asses her abilities…"

Sakura looked down in shame, "In anycase, there isn't any need for you three to go back to the academy" Kakashi stated.

The trio looked up with anticipation.

"Hey Hey," Naruto stammered, "Does that mean we-"

"You should all drop out of the ninja program altogether" Kakashi interrupted.

"WHAT?" All three exclaimed.

"Quit as Ninjas?" Naruto exclaimed angrily, "I understand we couldn't get those damn bells, but all three of us tried our hardest to get them, why should we quit then?" Naruto asked heatedly.

"Because you all are just punks pretending to play ninja!" Kakashi exclaimed angrily.

Sasuke got pissed, he dashed towards Kakashi in anger before the other two could react. Kakashi saw this coming and countered him and sat on the offender, placing his foot on Sasuke's head, "See Punks…all of you"

Kakashi glared at Naruto and Sakura, "You guys are clearly underestimating Shinobi! Why do you dubasses think you were divided into teams of three? Huh?"

Sakura and Naruto looked at Kakashi confused, "Will you enlighten us?" Sakura said softly.

"Simple…You guys don't get the answer to this test….Geez"

"The answer?" Naruto stammered.

"It's Teamwork!" Kakashi exclaimed.

'Wait a second though!' Sakura thought to herself, 'There are only two bells'

"But there are only two bells" Naruto exclaimed, "That would make our teamwork fail and…ohhh" Naruto exclaimed when the realisation hit him. It was thanks to the books he read in his week off.

"Exactly" Kakashi stated "The Test's purpose is to divide you purposely, it was designed to see whether gennin can put their interests aside and work together for the benefit of the team, take for example you guys, You sucked royally, Sakura, you were more focused on Sasuke, who was furthest away from you, rather than Naruto nearby…Naruto you just went ahead and did everything yourself, and Sasuke, despite what Naruto showed you, you believed the other two would just hold you back currently and tried taking me on by yourself."

Kakashi sighed, "indeed a ninja's own abilities are important, but what is important, within all Shinobi villages is proper teamwork" Kakashi pulled out a kunai, "Thinking about yourself can disrupt teamwork and can even get you killed, for instance" Kakashi leaned forward and placed a Kunai on Sasuke's neck.

"Naruto!" Kakashi barked, "Kill Sakura or Sasuke dies!"

Naruto froze in shock. Sakura had tears in her eyes.

"There will be instances where this situation arises, and you will be forced to make a decision that may forever alter your course…" Kakashi got up and pointed to a rock in the distance, "You see that there….That's where specific heroes have their name carved"

Sakura frowned, "Specific Heroes?" Naruto asked.

"Heroes who died in the line of duty, on that memorial, my best friend's name is marked on it"

Kakashi glared at his students again, "Look…I'll give you guys one more shot after lunch, but no feeding Sakura, she failed to do anything in the initial test and she will pay the price for it, the test after lunch will be even tougher, so prepare yourself adequately, and again if you feed Sakura, you WILL fail…I Make the rules here" With that he disappeared.

Sakura's tummy rumbled, she had skipped out on breakfast like the other two. Naruto lifted his bento box and held it in front of her, "Neh take it Sakura-chan, you sound hungry dattebayo" However as soon as he said that his own stomach rumbled even louder. Sasuke grunted in amusement and presented Naruto with his bento, "We can split between us Naruto, that way all of us can be in top shape" Sakura smiled with tears due to the kindness she never expected of Naruto and Sasuke, "Thanks guys"

Kakashi smiled from a distance. "Heh" he disappeared in a puff of smoke and appeared infront of the trio. Ominous clouds brewing above him.

"YOU GUYS!"

Naruto and Sakura shriek in terror and Sasuke braces himself for a harsh punishment, "Pass!" Kakashi said with a smile.

"What?"

END

A/N: Well sorry this took so long to come out I was just soo so busy with Uni starting and all it all just got to me, regardless I know this all so usual Naruto nonsense, but it's important to the plot, as you all know it brings team 7 together. But don't worry it should get better. Anyway Please tell me what you think.

A Few Answers to reviews-

Well we shall see how I bring Kuro into this story and hopefully you guys won't be disappointed.

Again in relation to Naruto being immature, again I will say, he's only 12 we have to cut him some slack, I mean even Sakura is acting like a 12 year old, but don't fret I will make sure they become better and Mature, as they are in a job that is littered with Danger.

I did enjoy reading your reviews and look forward to them

P.S. my other fic is on hold as I am drawing blanks on how to explain what I'm thinking.