Sakura and Naruto had spent most of the night moving Sakura's stuff in. She had pulled him through her window and forced him to help her move her possessions into a storage scroll until all that was left was the furniture and then left a note telling her mother that since she was legally an adult she didn't have to put up with her shit anymore and would live elsewhere.

While Sakura cleaned the apartment Naruto made room for her stuff in his room and set up a bed on the couch until they could get another bed. Unfortunately by the time morning came around they had both gotten minimal sleep and hadn't talked about what they would do for the bell test.

Since Kakashi was always three hours late the two had decided to have ramen for breakfast at Ichiraku's and then show up about an hour before Kakashi was due to arrive. "So I'm tired, your tired and neither of us want to fight Kakashi," Sakura said in between bites, "You can make a shadow clone for me and you and then we can sit in a tree covered by one of my minor genjutsus until he calls time for lunch. Then we just have to feed whoever he ties to the post and boom we pass."

Naruto slurped up noodles, "Good plan. It's almost time, let's leave."

"You two are late," Sasuke berated them when they showed up, "Don't you take this seriously."

"Sensei isn't even here yet," Sakura said at the same time Naruto snarked, "I don't take anything seriously."

Sasuke glared and didn't speak up until Kakashi showed up. Sakura didn't pay much attention of Kakashi's explanation of the test until the end. "We just need to get two bells," she asked making sure to pitch her voice so it sounded incredulous in an attempt to annoy her teacher.

Kakashi remained unperturbed, "Yes."

Naruto grinned, "Piece of cake."

"Ready, Set, Go!"

All three ninja dispersed. Sasuke hid in a tree and Sakura grabbed Naruto and put a genjutsu that would make anyone look away from them and not notice they were there and hid themselves in a opposite tree while Naruto made a couple of shadow clones to reenact their first bell test. As Kakashi fought off Naruto's shadow clones, Sakura made a single clone herself and used it to reenact as well. Naruto pulled out a bag of chips and offered some to Sakura as they watched their sensei fight their shadow clones without realizing that none of them were actually his students.

They watched as Sasuke struck out at Kakashi's back and their sensei in turn use the replacement technique. Sakura giggled, "How long do you think it will be until Kakashi pulls him under ground."

"Less than a minute I bet."

Sakura giggled again. "Oh he just trapped my clone in a genjutsu. It's Sasuke dead. If only." She tilted her head eyes far away as she watched the experience through her clone's eyes. "Shit I accidently made the clone laugh. Let's hope he doesn't catch that," she said as she returned to her surroundings.

They watched from the tree as Kakashi set up the trap for Naruto with the bells and made a clone walk into the trap. Kakashi bent down and picked up the bells and then gave the clone a light hit. The duo laughed uncontrollably as their sensei's eye widened comically as the clone disappeared in a puff of smoke. The watched his posture change as he carefully picked up the bells and hooked them back on his belt.

"You wanna end this?" Sakura questioned, "It's getting close to lunch."

"I'll bring my clone around, you ready?" he asked and she nodded.

She had her clone turn into the bells and did a modified version of their first fight with Zabuza. Naruto clone picked up the transformed Sakura and made his way to the clearing and did a little one on one with Kakashi. After a couple minutes of fighting he let Kakashi lad a hid on him that made the clone hit a tree, with a little help from Sakura's genjutsu it made it look like the clone was the real Naruto, and made the transformed land by their sensei's feet. Kakashi looked down and spotted the bells he bent down to grab them and Sakura released her transformation and had her clone kick him in the jaw and take the real bells. Her and Naruto's clone's each took a bell and raised them in victory.

Kakashi pushed himself off the ground as Sasuke came in the clearing covered in the dirt and the bell for lunch rang. In the tree the real Sakura and Naruto nodded at each other and released their clones. The looks on Kakashi's face were getting increasingly amusing and this time his jaw could be seen dropping underneath his mask.

Sakura released her genjutsu and the duo dropped from the tree. "Did we do okay Kakashi sensei?" she asked innocently as Naruto passed he the bag of chips nonchalantly.

Kakashi seemed to regain his senses, "I wasn't aware that you knew the shadow clone jutsu, Sakura."

"Oh that? Naruto taught me yesterday as a peace offering of sorts."

Kakashi led them back to the posts, "Unfortunately none of you pass."

"Excuse me? We got the bells just like you asked," Naruto asked in fake anger.

"Yes, but only the two of you worked together."

"There were only two bells," Sakura deadpanned as she tried to keep from giggeling.

Kakashi yelled at them the same speech he had given long ago about how ninja need to work together. "Ninja who break the rules are scum, but ninja who abandon their comrades are even worse scum," he ended as he tied Sasuke to the post and walked off after telling them that they'd have another chance after lunch.

Naruto and Sakura opened their bento boxes and Sasuke's stomach growled. "I guess we'll just have to share," Sakura said pretending to think. "You probably didn't eat breakfast, but we did plus we've been snacking all morning."

She tried to move her chopsticks toward his mouth but Sasuke moved his mouth away, "No way am I going to eat."

"You need your strength," she tried again.

He moved his mouth away, "You heard Kakashi, under no circumstances are you to feed me."

Sakura sighed, "Naruto hold his mouth open, I'll feed him."

"Why don't I get the chopsticks?" he whined even as he began to hold Sasuke's head in place.

"Because you'd just stab him with them, I know you haven't forgiven him for the dropout comment," She eyed Naruto who was trying to look innocent while she fed their teammate.

They'd barely gotten a few bites in when the sky darkened and clouded over and the wind picked up. Kakashi appeared in the middle of the whirlwind yelling at them, "You all… pass," he finished happily as the genjutsu was disbanded.

"Well that's a relief," Naruto murmured as he tried to look like he had actually been scared.

"Well that's all well and good," Kakashi said like he had never been yelling in the first place. "I need to go submit a mission report and our first mission is tomorrow. Let's meet at 9:00 on the bridge."

Kakashi left Sakura and Naruto walking away discussing going to train and Sasuke tied to the post sulking and disappeared in a swirl of leaves. He reappeared on the roof of the hokage building. He made his way down the side of the building and through the window to find Asuma and Kurenai already waiting to tell the hokage how their first day was.

Asuma went first, "Nothing unusual they all have solid bases, but it will take a while for them to work together." He shrugged, "Though I'm guessing it's not really my team you wanted to hear about."

Kurenai was prompted by the hokage. "Kiba and Shino have no problems other than inexperience. Hinata has some serious confidence issues caused by her father from what I saw when I went to the compound to make sure he was okay with the clan's heir going on missions only to find that he has already lost hope in his daughter. No more to report," she ended formally.

All eyes turned to Kakashi, "Sasuke is exactly like the reports from Iruka said: he is sullen and refuses help from his teammates and wants to do everything simply to surpass his brother." Kakashi paused.

"What is it, Kakashi?" the hokage prompted.

"It seems that both Naruto and Sakura are not what the reports said," he began cautiously. The hokage motioned for him to continue. "Naruto seems to have learned the shadow clone technique the day that he stole the scroll."

"Iruka reported that," the hokage dismissed.

"But he taught it to Sakura within the short amount of time that he has known it. They also seem like really good friends who know each other well when Iruka's report said that Sakura hated Naruto and was like a fangirl for Sasuke. Now, though, she is acting almost the opposite."

"You are holding something back, Kakashi."

"They got the bells on the first try," he let out.

"They worked together on the first try?" the hokage asked incredulously.

"No, only Sakura and Naruto, and they literally got the bells. They used shadow clones on me the whole time and I didn't realize that it wasn't really them till after they had gotten the bells and then they disappeared. They had been hiding in a tree since the very beginning and I, a jonin, didn't realize that they had been in the tree till they disbanded their genjutsu and jumped down."

The hokage sighed, "It is not totally implausible. Tsunade and Jiraiya never showed much promise until they were introduced to each other and became friends, but just in case keep an eye on them."

Kakashi's mouth formed a thin line, "Yes, hokage."