Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or anything connected with it. This is just for entertainment purposes.
*Now re-edited*
Team Seven met up at the training grounds for the test, but they couldn't find Kakashi anywhere! They each sat down against one of the three posts and slowing started drifting off to slumber. It was an hour later when Kakashi arrived.
"Good morning! Sorry I'm late I got lost on the road of life." They all jumped up rubbing their eyes trying to become as alert as possible.
"…Road of life?" Naruto muttered. The jounin pulled an alarm clock out of nowhere and placed it on top of the post behind Naruto.
Kakashi set the alarm for noon, explained that the test was to get one of two bells from his before the time is up. "Begin!" Three blurs disappeared into the trees.
'There is no way for a gennin to defeat a jounin… so attacking alone is out of the question…' Naruto thought. Her perch in the trees gave a clear view of the field.
"Why don't we see what he can do first?" Kurama said, her red haired host nodded and created two shadow clones. One ran to the water behind Kakashi to hide and the other ran to another tree and jumped into the clearing.
"Let us fight fair and square for a bell." Even from her tree she could see the sweat drop that the jounin had.
'What is that idiot doing?' Sakura thought.
"You're a little bit off compared to the others…"
"The only thing off here is your hair!" the clone charged but stopped when Kakashi put his hand in his pouch.
"Shinobi fighting lesson number one: taijutsu." Everyone froze when what Kakashi pulled out was not a weapon but a book. "What's wrong? Hurry up and attack me."
"Why did you take out a book?" The clone asked.
"I just want to know what happens next. But don't worry, it won't make a difference against you guys." The clone was more than angry. She sent a flurry of attacks only for each of them to be blocked or dodged. He only attacked once, a kick that sent her into the water where she dispelled.
The gained knowledge and experience was sent back to the original. 'That water is really cold…' The other clone that was already in the water attacked with weapons. They were also stopped. Kakashi wasn't even fazed. He just laughed a perverted laugh at whatever he was reading. The original removed her eyes from the fight between her clone, Kakashi and the five other clones she had just sent to help delay him. She jumped through the trees looking for signs of her team-mates.
To her luck she found them not far from each other. Sakura was lying behind some bushes and Sasuke was seated in a tree just behind the bushes. "Sasuke, Sakura." They swung around surprised.
"Huh? Naruto what are you doing over here? Aren't you supposed to be out there with the clones?" Sakura asked.
"I sent them to delay and gather information on Kakashi-sensei." The girl replied. They moved so they were deeper in the trees. "From what I can tell there is no way for any of us to pass by ourselves. We will need to work together."
"So we need a plan." Sasuke said.
"But what if we get the bells? There are only two so who goes back to the academy?" Silence.
"I did not think of that…" Naruto admitted.
"Wait. You don't think that that is part of the test?" Sasuke said. The females of the team gave him a strange look. "I mean what if the point of the test is teamwork? There being only two bells would put us against each other so it's to test if we can put the team ahead of ourselves."
"Wow Sasuke-kun! You're amazing!" The two others shook their heads at the girl's fangirl-ness. Surprisingly she snapped out of it. "Then how do we get the bells?" They thought for a moment.
Naruto's head shot up. "My last clone just dispelled. There is nothing delaying him from coming to find us. We must hurry." They could hear her mutter a "Dispelled by an obvious trap too… if they find out about that it will be embarrassing."
"The only idea I can think of is to have two of us distract him and the other hides then when they get a chance restrain him and another takes the bells." Sasuke finally said. "I'll distract."
"I have no way of restraining him so I'll distract too." Sakura volunteered.
"I can use my chakra chains to keep him still, but it will be difficult to get to him for the bells before he escapes." Naruto said.
"If only we had one more person." Sakura muttered.
"Aren't you forgetting about someone?" Kurama proofed into existence on top of Naruto's head with one tail. In her one tail form she is about the size of Akumaru. Sakura screamed. Naruto and Sasuke quickly muffled it with their hands.
"Do you want him to find us?" Sasuke asked/demanded. She shook her head.
"I will explain her to you later." Naruto promised the rosette. "Kurama, why do you want to help us?"
"I'm deathly bored and you guys seemed like you could use the help."
"Okay then. So here is the plan." Naruto said.
Kakashi was a little surprised when all of the Naruto's that had come at him were just clones. He went off to find the gennin-to-be. He found the pink haired one and placed her under a genjutsu, she screamed and passed out. Then she disappeared in a cloud of smoke, first into Naruto then out of existence. 'A clone disguised as Sakura? Could they be…?' A smile began to work its way onto his face.
Sasuke jumped into the next clearing Kakashi entered. He started by throwing a large number of weapons repeatedly. He threw a kick, Kakashi caught it. He threw a punch, Kakashi caught it. He threw yet another kick, Kakashi blocked it. He reached for the bells, Kakashi jumps away.
A kunai flies from another direction than the Uchiha. More kunai fly from the same direction as Sakura jumps down to join the Uchiha who is flying through hand signs.
"Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu!" A large fireball lit up the clearing. Kakashi was forced to dodge closer to the nearby river rather than underground like he had planed due to explosion tags going off underfoot. 'I'm really starting to like these kids. Now where is the last one?' He looked around but could only see the two soon-to-be genin in the vicinity. 'Where is the other on?'
Naruto was under water with Kurama ready with her chains. She made sure that they were all blue so as not to burn her sensei like Kurama's do. Seeing the water lighten she sent her chains, one with Kurama hanging to it, at the spot where she could now see her sensei.
Kakashi was unable to move, he looked down to see glowing blue chains wrapped around him. Two blurs passed him. One blur directly next to him, and the other out of the water holding the chains. 'She can use chakra chains? There isn't anyone in the village that could have taught her that!' His shocked grew when he saw what was in the smaller blur's, what he now recognized as a fox, mouth. The bells.
The fox jumped on to the red head's head and dropped the bells into her open palm. "It looks like we passed, Sensei." She said with a large smile.
"I can see that… But who are you going to let pass and who are you going to fail?" He asked. The girl grinned wider and passed one of the bells to each of her team-mates. A hidden smile graced his face. "Oh? Why would you do that?"
"They are my team-mates, why would I not help them? They did most of the work anyway."
"Well, congratulations to the three of you, you are the first team to ever pass my test." Two loud cheers and a much more subdued one came from the now official team seven. "Now, can you let me go?" He said eyeing the chains.
"Oh, sorry." And he was free.
Before they left Naruto had to tell both Kakashi and Sakura about Kurama. Kakashi: so that he knew she knew about the kyuubi,while being on good terms with the fox, and that she wasn't dangerous… well not very. Sakura: she had promised. It took longer since she had to explain everything about the seal and that she and the fox were different entities. Since she was already explaining it she figured she might as well explain her left eye and her family. She swore them not to tell anyone about her heritage; To which they agreed.
When asked why Sasuke wasn't freaking out with them they had to tell them that they were actually childhood friends and that he already knew all of it. So with a shell-shocked Sakura and a surprised jounin sensei they went home for the day.
Over the next few weeks of D-ranks Sakura became good friends with the other two members of the team. They showed her and Kakashi the underground training area, where Sakura now also trains and has her own room like the others. Kakashi was amazed that such a place was in Konoha while remaining hidden.
The underground training area now held Naruto's seal room, Sasuke's jutsu and fighting study room (Like theory not actual training room), Sakura's medical room (She had found books about medical ninjutsu and wished to learn it to support the team…. They get hurt a lot, whether during training or missions so she gets a lot of practice.), and the library. They let Kakashi have the 'key' to the area along with them.
There is another chapter! They have officially become ninja! Next chapter will be the start of the wave arc! WHOOO!
I would have updated sooner but I didn't have the chapter written and all weekend I was play closed beta Tera... wipe after it end this weekend... I shall miss my character until I recreated it... Have to start alllllll over! T.T
Please tell me what you think about how I changed the test. I wasn't sure how to write my version of the characters into the canon way so I made it up... I started Sakura on her way to becoming a real konoichi now since I think that would be cool and in a way it makes sense. They started working together as a team during the test so why not help their teammate become stronger?
-Lil