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Chapter 4: Test

Naruto walked into the training ground at eight am. Seeing his teammates there waiting for Kakashi. Sakura saw him and went banshee mode. "NARUTO! Are you trying to get Sasuke in trouble! What if he had to go another year because of you!" She yelled at me. He just looked at her and said. "Is Kakashi-sensei here?" "No." she answered. "Then why say that if he's not here. Besides he said be here at eight am. Didn't say anything about being here before hand. Speaking of him where's he. Because from the looks of it he's late, again." Naruto said as he looked around. He then climbed up a tree and sat on one of the branches. After half an hour he said. "That's it if he's not coming may as well as do something useful." Before jumping down and starting doing some exercises. After an hour and 20 minutes he stopped for a break getting back on the tree and the same branch. Ten minutes later he jumped down and was about to start again when Kakashi arrived.

"YOU'RE LATE!" screeched Sakura. "Ma ma sorry I got lost on the road to life." Kakashi said as he walked up. "That's a lie!" Sakura said. "Now now no need for that. How come around and I'll tell you the test. Now the test is a survival one. You will have to face me and get one of the bells here." he said to us showing the bells. "Um sensei there's only two bells." Sakura told him. "That's correct only two of you will pass and be on the team. The last will be sent back to the academy for another year." "What!" yelled Sakura. "Oh and you have till noon to get one. This timer." he pulls out a timer. "Will let us know when it's noon. Ready. GO!" The three of them hid. Naruto was hiding close to the timer. Kakashi looked around noting where they are. 'Sakura and Sasuke are good for their level but I can't seem to find Naruto. Then again he is able to hide from chunin, jounin and anbu when ever he gets caught doing a prank. He will be the most troublesome one to deal with as I test him.' He thought to himself. Before moving to the side to dodge a set of shuriken most which disappeared in a proof of smoke leave two. He payed them no mind till he heard hissing which made him jump forward in a roll before they blew up. 'That would be Naruto. For he's the one with that jutsu.' He thought before he stepped on a trip wire. "Shit!" Before dodging a log swinging at him. As he kept running into traps Naruto watched him with a grin. 'You really shouldn't had told me the training ground number Kakashi-sensei.' He thought before remembering what he did last night.

Flashback: last night

"So you're going to make it hell for him are you?" Aimi asked Naruto. "Oh hell yes. I'm not going to make it easily for him at all. Not that he did anything to me when I was younger I just want to have the tables turned on him." he explained to her as he finished setting up another trap. "Well trap 27 set up and who knows how many more will my mind think up and till it's done. The way the training ground is set up doesn't help me for it just keeps me going on what traps to put down." He said to her as he went to the next trap. "You pranking skills don't help as well." Aimi said to him "True now let get this done." He replied to her.

Flashback ends

'It doesn't up he that you replaced the timer with another one and have the bells as well.' Aimi told him. 'May be so but it's funny as hell watching him.' He thought back to her. 'True.' She said. As they watch Kakashi set off trap after trap. 'Damn him. If I find him I'm going to kill him!' Kakashi thought to himself. 'If I was still a chunin I would had been caught by one of those traps by now. Note to don't tell them when I'll have another test for them and till that day I'll test them for this is just plain nuts. One thing for sure if they doesn't pass this test together I'm going to request that Naruto is to apprenticed to someone. I'm not letting this skill of his go to waste.' He thought before jumping back to where he as when he start setting off traps. He checked where the bells are and find they were not there anymore. "What! How did he!? Sigh. All right come out you three, Naruto's got the bells." Sakura and Sasuke didn't believe him till Naruto came out holding the bells in hand. The two then came out. "Ok then Naruto which one will you give the bell to." Kakashi asked him. "Both." And tossed the bells to them. "May I ask why?" Kakashi said. "Because your little test was a cover for the real one." Naruto answers him. "And that is?" Kakashi asked. "To see if we could work as a team. Normally i would go and let them know but both don't like me that much and are unlikely to believe me so I decided to do the next best thing and that's getting the bells and pass them on to them." Naruto explained to them. "I see, then in that case. You all pass." Kakashi said to them. "I do recommend learning to trust one another even if you don't like each other but other than that come back here tomorrow at the same time and we will start as a true team. Now if there's nothing else I must let Hokage-sama know you passed." He then left the training grounds.

"He's right even if i don't like you two and the two of you don't like me at the very least we should trust each other as long as we are a team. Off mission making each other mad or driving them nuts is fine but not during a mission. Even if we can't keep it out, we can at the very least keep it to the least amount as possible. Agreed?" Naruto said to them. The look at each other and said. "Agreed." "Well then let's head home and be ready for tomorrow." Which they did. Meanwhile that the Hokage's tower. "Ok then team one." "Fail." " Team two." "Fail."- Team seven?" Pass." Which made the other senseis and Hokage look at him. Hiruzen asked him. "How did they?" "One of them his name's Naruto was able to get the bells and word of warning don't give him time to go to where any fight you challenged him will be." Kakashi said to them. "Why not?" Kurenai team eight's sensei asked him. "Because when I did yesterday he placed so many damn traps all over the place that if I was still a chunin I would had be caught in one with no way out. I could only count up to at least 25 traps before I lost count of the the damn things." He said in a grim tone of voice. "So never ever give him time to do so because it was hell trying not to get caught and I lost the bells to him somewhere along that time because when I got out and check they weren't there anymore." "Damn that's insane but considering this is Naruto we are speaking of and the known pranks he did it's not that surprising." Asuma the sensei of team ten said with the rest of the room nodding. "I see. Well then team eight?" Hiruzen asked "pass." Kurenai said. "Team ten?" "Pass" Asuma replied. "Then three out of nine teams passed the rest will have to be sent back for another year. You all are dismissed." Hiruzen said to them. The senseis left by shunshin. "Does no one uses the damn door anymore?" He said aloud before looking at the paperwork and said. "Damn paperwork."

Time skip six weeks later.

'Sigh. I knew that we would be given the lowest ranked missions but most of those aren't missions, they are fucking chores that can be done by people who are too damn lazy to do them. While the few that aren't chores and do help with training some I'll be damn if I do another Tora mission for it would be too fucking soon.' Naruto said to Aimi as he headed to training ground seven. 'Perhaps so but it's go practice for you and your team to trust each other for doing so helped you finished a couple of them faster.' She pointed out. 'I know but damn if they aren't annoying to deal with.' He replied to her. He arrived at the training grounds. Sakura and Sasuke were already there. "Hey about time your here. Now we can start training." Sakura said to Naruto. 'If there's one good thing out of this is that the three of us have been training together for the last four weeks which helps Sakura some. She takes breaks a little too much for me to like but she has been taking less as time went on. Plus she's been eating more, not as much as she needs but the point is being driven home to her.' Naruto thought to himself. They trained till Kakashi arrived. "Ok team let's go and get our mission for today done." he said to them. They headed to the Hokage's tower. "Ah here for today's mission?" Hiruzen asks them. "Yes and I believe they are ready for a C ranked mission." Kakashi told him which made his team look at him. "An C ranked? Well there's only one here but here's the scroll. Can Tazuna be bought in." The doors open to let in a man holding a sake bottle. "So this is my team? Looks like a group of brats playing ninja but if they are what I'm getting then fine." Tazuna said as he took a drink for the bottle. "There's no worries and if there's something they can't deal with then I will." Kakashi said to him."True besides what the worse can happen." Tazuna said before turning and leaving. "Meet us at the south gate in two hours." Kakashi ordered before leaving them. 'Well our first C rank. About time' Naruto thought to Aimi. As he and his team left.

NFP

Well the team's now formed and going to head to Wave.