Chapter 10: Bell Test
It was early in the morning; the leaf village was still quiet as everyone in the village was still asleep, Except Team 7 who were at the training field waiting for their Sensei to arrive. They had been waiting for an hour for Kakashi to arrive which was quite annoying as he had given them a time to meet up.
"Come on where is he I want to start training already" Complained Naruto, starting to get tired of waiting.
"Naruto will you ever stop complaining about every single thing that you don't like, it's starting to get irritating" Said Sakura who too was starting to get annoyed at waiting.
"Sorry, but I just hate it when people keep me waiting that's all" Another thirty minutes past and Kakashi had finally showed up.
"Sorry for being late, a black cat crossed my path so I had to take the long way instead" Said Kakashi, while the other three sweat dropped at their sensei's lame excuse.
"Liar!" Yelled Naruto and Sakura, as Sasuke just remained quite as he rolled his eyes at Kakashi.
"Well anyway for today we will be doing a survival exercise" Said Kakashi
"What a survival exercise, you got to be kidding me" Whined Naruto.
"Sensei, Naruto has a point we have already down survival training back at the academy" Said Sakura.
"That may be true, but that was all beginner stuff, you're a Ninja now so it's time that for you to go under more difficult exercises now" Said Kakashi.
"So what do we have to do then" Said Sasuke, as Kakashi pulled two bells out of his pocket.
"The objective of this training exercise is to get these two bells off me by noon, If you fail to get a bell by noon, then you won't get lunch, instead you will be tired to them logs over there and have to watch me as I eat your lunch instead"
"Hang on, there is only two bells and three of us so how is that fair, one of us will have to be tied to the log" Said Sakura
"Well you will just have to discuss that between the three of you then, anyway there is one more there is one more thing I need to tell you, If you don't come at me with the intention of killing me then there is no hope of obtaining one of these bells"
"But wait isn't that dangerous?" Said Naruto
"Your ninja so it shouldn't be a problem, anyway let's get started then" Said Kakashi as he disappeared in a blanket of smoke. The other three quickly jumped into the nearby bush to hide themselves.
"So what's our plan then" Whispered Sakura
"I don't know, the only thing we can do for the moment is wait for a moment to grab the bells" Said Sasuke
"I say we just mob him with shadow clones and then grab the bells while he is distracted" Said Naruto,
"That is actually a good idea, but do you think it will work" Said Sakura
"I don't know it depends how skilled Kakashi is"
"Well then I guess we should find out then" Said Naruto
Meanwhile Kakashi was standing in the middle of the field looking for any sign of movement, he was impressed, and they had concealed themselves quite well.
"Get Him!" Shouted out Naruto, Kakashi turned around at the source of the noise, to see multiple clones bursting out the bush and running towards him. He was amazed that the three of them knew the shadow clone technique but they needed more than that to defeat him. Kakashi started to fight back as he punched and kicked most of the clones that came towards him making them disappear. The number of clones was starting to reduce as Kakashi showed no sign of slowing down, seeing this Sasuke moved out into the open and started to form hand gestures. Kakashi turned around to see Sasuke inhale a large amount of air. He was surprised to see a Ninja at genin level to be able to perform an elemental based Jutsu, but then again he was an Uchiha.
"Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu" Shouted Sasuke as he started to exhale fire from his mouth making a large stream head for Kakashi. He had no time to move as the fire begun to engulf him, and several of the clones that were in the way. After the fire had stopped Kakashi was nowhere to be seen. Naruto and Sakura both came out of hiding and out onto the field.
"Sasuke don't you think that was a bit too much, and where did you learn to do that" Said Naruto
"Fire Style jutsu's came natural to the Uchiha, so it's easy for us to use them"
"Earth Style: Head Hunter Jutsu" Suddenly all three of them were pulled underground one at a time, till the only thing above the ground was there head, Kakashi then appeared from the ground.
"I do have to say, I'm rather impressed at your teamwork, but you are going to need to do better if you want to obtain these bells" Said Kakashi as he walked off into the forest leaving the three of them to free themselves from the ground. After they three of them had gotten out from the ground, they quickly hid back in the bush to form a new plan.
"Now what do we do" Said Sakura
"I don't know but we better hurry otherwise we will run out of time" Said Sasuke
"Hang on where did Naruto go?" Said Sakura, looking around to see where Naruto had gone.
"There he is" Said Sasuke pointing out into the open.
"Naruto what are you doing" Shouted Sakura
"I can see one of the bells over by that tree; ha he must have dropped it while fighting" Said Naruto as he walked over to the tree.
"Naruto wait!" Warned Sasuke but it was too late Naruto had set off a trap and was left hanging in the tree by a simple rope trap.
"Naruto are you alright" Shouted Sakura
"He really is a dobe isn't he" Said Sasuke
"Dammit I can't believe I fell for that" Shouted Naruto as he tried to untie himself.
"You know you really need to see through these things" Said Kakashi as he walked out from behind the tree and picking the bell up.
"Crap, he's got Naruto now; we need to think of something and quick" Said Sasuke
"What do you mean, he hasn't got me yet" Sasuke and Sakura looked behind them to see Naruto standing there.
"Naruto, how the hell" Said Sasuke
"Simple, that's a shadow clone hanging in the tree over there" Said Naruto
"So how does that help us" Said Sakura
"Just keep watching, you'll see" The three of them continued to watch the Naruto clone dangle from the tree, when suddenly the clone pulled out a smoke bomb and through it on the ground covering the area in smoke.
"Now I see, so you already knew what was going to happen" Said Sakura
"Yep, now come on let's get him while he can't see" The three of them came out of the hiding spot and ran straight at Kakashi, The three of them jumped in the smoke until one of them had grabbed him. Once the smoke had cleared them could all see Naruto hanging onto Kakashi, when suddenly Kakashi disappeared and was replaced with a log.
"Dammit he used a substitution Jutsu" Said Naruto tossing the log aside.
"That was a good plan, but it's still not good enough" Said Kakashi walking out from behind the tree.
"Oh well we will just have to keep trying then" Said Naruto
"Well if I'm correct your time is up" After Kakashi finished the timer had gone off, it was now noon.
"Crap"
"Well normally since you failed the exercise I would send you back to the academy"
"What you can't do that, we only just finished the academy" Said Sakura
"She's right you can't just send us back" Said Naruto
"Now just hang on you didn't let me finish, I said I would normally send you back, but in this case you pass"
"Wait what?" Said Naruto and Sakura
"I said you pass"
"But how, we failed the test" Said Sasuke
"True, but what I really was looking out for was teamwork"
"Teamwork"
"Yes teamwork, in the Ninja world those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their comrades and work on their own are worse than scum but you don't need to worry about that because you guys do work in a team, so from here on Team 7 is now an official team"
"Alright we did" Shouted Naruto jumping around in excitement, Sakura and Sasuke were both glad that they had passed as well.
"Alright then i will call you whenever we have a mission, so until then rest you guys have earned it" Said Kakashi, while the three of them nodded. From this day there journey had just begun and will only get harder as they progress.