Sorry, before I never mentioned what happened to Shippo. He mysteriously disappeared one night when Inuyasha told him to come with him into the forest, so everyone assume he was dead. And Kaede died before the final battle from old age.

Chapter Four:

Recap:

"My name is Higurashi Kagome." Her voice was very soft and melodic, but you could tell that it could turn cold and sharp in an instant. "That is all the information you need to know. If you wish to know more, ask the Sandaime Hokage. Even then, I doubt you will get any information about me."

End Recap

Everyone was silent. Kakashi coughed and that seemed to bring everyone out of their temporary trance. 'Okay. I've got a hyper kid, a fan girl, a guy out for blood and a girl who no one knows anything about. Grreeeeeaaaaaaaattttt.'

"We're going to begin a mission starting tomorrow. First, we're going to do something that we five can do." After a lengthy pause, he spoke. "Survival training."

"Survival training?"

"Why are we going to train when it's a mission?" Sakura asked, indignant. "We had plenty of training at the Academy."

"This is no ordinary training." Kakashi said in a foreboding tone.

"Then what kind of training is it?" Naruto asked. Kakashi chuckled darkly.

"Hey, what's so funny, Sensei?" Sakura asked.

"Well, if I say this, I'm sure you four are going to be surprised." he said, still laughing. "Out of the 27graduates, only nine become Genin. But due to the fact that there were 28 in the class this year, 10 are going to become Genin. The other 18 are going to be sent back to the Academy. There is a very high chance that you will get sent back when you take this test. It has a dropout rate of 66"

At their surprised faces, Kakashi said, "See? You guys are surprised!"

Naruto was surprised and outraged at the same time. "No way! I went through so much trouble…then what was the final exam for?"

"That just picks out those that are qualified to become Genin. Anyway, I'm going to determine whether or not you pass tomorrow at the training grounds. Bring your equipment and be at training grounds 7 at 5 AM." Different thoughts were going through Naruto and Sakura's head, but the ones going through Sakura's were pretty much worthless and stupid reasons. They were: 'If I fail this test, I'm going to be separated from Sasuke-kun. This is a trial of LOVE!'

"Now then, meeting over. Oh yeah, don't eat breakfast. You'll puke." Kakashi ended his sentence on a rather dark note, and everyone's eyes widened, except for Kagome of course. She sat there silently, reading through a book which had a language that no one in but her could read. (AN-It was in English, but I don't really think that anyone would have been good enough to read English back then…I could be wrong….)

The next morning…

Sakura and Naruto stumbled to the meeting place, while Sasuke seemed wide awake. Mumbling out half-hearted 'good morning's Naruto glanced around and noticed that there was something missing.

"Hey, where's Kagome?" Naruto asked, now wide-awake and peering around. The three waited until it was around 9:30 AM, and that was when Kagome showed up.

"Where were you? You were supposed to be here four and a half hours ago!" Sakura lectured, trying to make it seem like she was better than everyone else.

Kagome shrugged. "I just had a feeling that he would be late, so why bother waking up early just to wait?" Kagome took out a thick book and sat down, reading. They waited for another half and hour before Kakashi FINALLY showed up, and by now, Sakura and Naruto were steaming mad. You could literally steam a bun over their head.

"Yo. Sorry I'm late. There was this black cat and it crossed my path, so I had to take the long way and-" Kakashi was cut off by his two angry students.

"LIAR!" Sakura and Naruto yelled.

"Well, anyway, today's topic is you have to get one of the three bells that I'm holding." he said, holding up the trio of bells and jingling them.

"But…there are only 3..." Sakura said.

"Yup. Whoever can't get a bell will have no lunch and will be tied to one of those stumps over there." Kakashi said, smiling and pointing to three stumps around 10 meters away. "In addition to that, you will watch me while I eat my lunch in front of you." he said this while chuckling. The same thought was running through all four of the team's minds. 'That sadist. So that's why he said don't eat breakfast.'

"The person that doesn't get a bell will fail since he did not complete the mission, thus that person will be sent back to the Academy. You can use any weapon. You won't be able to get past me and grab the bell unless you have the will to kill me."

"But that's dangerous, sensei! We might seriously hurt you!" Sakura yelled.

"As if. He is a Jounin. You are not even a Genin yet. There is no way that you could even touch him." Kagome said, her voice like ice. She didn't even bother looking up from her book.

"Oh yeah? Like you're any better!" Sakura replied hotly. When Kagome didn't reply, she took it as a victory for her. What she didn't see was Kagome's secretive smile.

"We're going to start after I say 'Ready, start'." Kakashi said. Naruto ignored this and charged at Kakashi with a kunai raised. In less than a second, Kakashi grabbed Naruto's hand holding the kunai and twisted it behind him so that the kunai in Naruto's hand was pointed at his own neck.

"Don't get so hasty. I haven't even said start yet." he said in a dangerous tone. Sasuke and Sakura took two hasty steps back, while Kagome didn't move from her sitting position, still reading her book. Kakashi let go of Naruto , who stumbled forward.

"I think I can finally start liking you four. We're going to start. Ready, start!" As soon as he said start, everyone jumped and hid away. Well Sasuke and Sakura did, while Naruto stood in front of Kakashi in a cocky pose.

With Iruka and the Hokage…

"What do you want to know? I'm sure you didn't just come to enjoy tea with me." the Hokage said.

"What kind of teacher is the Jounin for Naruto and the 7th group? Is he strict?" Iruka asked hesitantly.

"Are you talking about Kakashi? Does it worry you that he is their teacher?"

"Well, I heard a disturbing rumour about him." The Hokage pulled out a book and handed it to Iruka.

"What's this?" Iruka asked, puzzled.

"It's the pass/fail list of the Genins, Kakashi was in charge of." Iruka opened it and his eyes widened.

"This is…"

Training Ground 7…

'A basic for a ninja is to cancel his presence and hide. Good, everyone is well hidden…' As he looked around, his gaze finally settled on Naruto and Kagome. Naruto crossed his arms over his chest, put on a big grin and yelled, "Okay! Let's have a fair fight!"

"That idiot." Sasuke sighed.

"Oi. Aren't you a little weird compared to the rest of them?" Kakashi asked, exasperated.

"What's weird is your hair style!" and with that, Naruto took off running full speed at Kakashi. When the Jounin reached into his pouch, Naruto stopped and tensed, waiting for shuriken to come flying at him. Imagine the look on his face when Kakashi pulled out……a book.

"Why do you act just like Kagome? Are guys related or something?! Put down the freakin' book and fight me seriously!!" Naruto yelled, pissed off at the false alarm. Kagome got an angry tick mark on her forehead, but continued to read.

"I'm going to pound you!" Naruto said, rolling up his sleeves as he ran towards Kakashi. Even as Naruto tried his hardest to land a kick or a punch on his sensei, Kakashi never looked up from his book and evaded all of Naruto's attacks easily. When Naruto tried to throw one more punch, he noticed that Kakashi had suddenly disappeared.

He heard Kakashi's voice from behind him saying "Never let the enemy get behind you." Naruto also swore he heard Sakura's voice saying to get out of there, but before he could do anything Kakashi shoved two fingers into his behind and pushed up yelling, "Hidden village of Konoha's secret taijutsu master art: A Thousand Years of Pain!"

Everyone sweat dropped. 'Two idiots.'

With Iruka…

"This is….there are ZERO passes!" Iruka said.

"Yes. Kakashi has never passed anyone."

Back to Kakashi and Team Seven…

After the Kage Bunshin fiasco, Naruto spotted a bell on the ground and ran towards it, but ended up getting caught and tied up in a tree.

Kakashi ran around, eliminating the other students (No he didn't kill them.). After Sasuke had thrown the many shuriken, he gave away his hiding spot and had to run to another one. Sakura, ran around looking for Sasuke.

"Sakura, behind you." Kakashi used a genjutsu on Sakura, and when she came out of her trance she got really confused. When she spotted Sasuke covered in shurikens and dying, she screamed and promptly fainted. 'Did I go to hard on her?' Kakashi asked himself, '…Nah.'

Kakashi suddenly appeared in front of Sasuke.

"Ninja tactics know-how number two, Genjutsu (AN-sorry I was too lazy to type the first one which was Taijutsu.). Sakura fell for it so easily."

'Genjutsu, huh? A type of hallucinatory mind-controlling technique. It's no wonder if she fell for it so easily. But…' "I'm different from them." Sasuke said aloud.

"Why don't you say that after you get a bell?" Kakashi drawled, still reading his book. Sasuke started the fight off by throwing many kunai and shuriken at Kakashi who dodged. He then threw a shuriken so that it cut a rope activating a trap, which sent kunai flying at him.

Kakashi dodged and the kunai hit the tree. Sasuke appeared behind Kakashi who was still skidding and tried to kick him, but it was barely blocked by Kakashi. He tried to throw a punch while his leg was still caught , but Kakashi caught his fist too. Lastly, he used his other leg to kick and used his now free hands to try and grab the bell, but Kakashi dodged and moved a safe distance away, Sasuke managing to touch a bell.

Meanwhile, Sakura woke up, disoriented and confused. When she suddenly remembered the image of Sasuke dying, she panicked and screamed out, "Sasuke-kun! Don't die and leave me behind! Where are you?"

Naruto was still hanging by his foot, but he suddenly spotted the bentos on top of the memorial stone. He laughed and devised an evil plan.

Getting back to Kakashi and Sasuke, Sasuke had just finished his hand signs and shouted out, "Fire element: Blazing Fireball!" He blew out between his fingers and a huge fireball formed, going straight toward Kakashi. When the last of the fire died down though, the Jounin was nowhere to be seen. Sasuke panicked, and a hand from underneath the ground grabbed his leg. "Earth element: Suicidal Beheading!" was what Kakashi said, before dragging Sasuke into ground until only his head showed above the surface.

Sakura had been running everywhere looking for Sasuke, and when she only saw his head, she thought he had been beheaded and screamed, fainting again. Kakashi found Naruto trying to eat all the bentos.

Naruto was the one who was tied to the stump while Sasuke and Sakura sat beside him on the ground. Kagome still had not moved from her sitting position since the beginning.

"The results of this training…well none of you need to worry about returning to the Academy. Yeah, you four….should quit being ninjas!" Everyone froze at his words (except Kagome, I'm sorry that she isn't in this chapter much.) Sasuke tried to charge at Kakashi, but ended up with a foot on his head.

"Do you guys think being a ninja is easy? What were you thinking breaking up into groups and attacking me individually?" Kakashi asked, his voice angry.

"What do you mean?" Sakura asked.

"He means that the point of this entire exercise was teamwork." Everyone's head turned towards Kagome who was putting her book away. "The point was for all of us to work together in getting the bells."