A/N: Well. There we go. New chapter. This one's pretty much all action. Hope you like it!

Chapter 10: Reevaluation

Sasuke's eyes narrowed slightly. He remembered the deflated ego he'd gotten last time they'd gone through this. Well, this time he knew the secret. He'd show Kakashi.

He beckoned both of his teammates over. They came and the three of them huddled together. "All right," said Sasuke. I think I get the trick."

Naruto nodded slowly. "Teamwork, right? We have to put aside our own interests for the interests of the group."

Sasuke nodded, meeting Naruto's eyes. They'd agreed to keep everything secret from Sakura for the time being. The former Hokage was a much better actor than Sasuke would have expected, knowing him.

"But then what about the bells?" Sakura asked. "Who'll get them?"

"Screw the bells!" Sasuke snarled. "If I'm right, they don't matter in the slightest. What matters is that we work together. Sakura, you're our best mind – got a plan?"

Sakura blinked, blushing slightly, taking his words as a compliment rather than what they were – a statement of fact – and then shook her head to clear it. "Well," she said, thinking. "Naruto's a taijutsu expert, right?"

Naruto nodded. "I've got the Shadow Clone and Shuriken-Shadow Clone Jutsus, as well as all of the basic Ninjutsu in the academy besides the standard Clone. I also have one wide-area technique, but it's too dangerous to use in a forest."

Sasuke looked at him in surprise. "Fire style?" he asked.

Naruto nodded. "Yeah. I'll explain later. Anyway, that's all the Ninjutsu I have. No Genjutsu. I can charge him with Shadow Clones, barrage him with Shuriken Shadow Clones, or anything else you need. I can make hundreds of each."

Sakura's head whipped around to face him. "Hundreds?" she asked.

"Yeah," said Naruto. "I can do about five hundred Shadow Clones and one thousand Shuriken Shadow Clones at once. I can't do that kind of thing too many times though."

"Chakra tank," muttered Sasuke.

"No kidding," Sakura said, staring at their blond teammate. "All right. Sasuke, what Ninjutsu have you got?"

"My best is the Fireball Jutsu," said Sasuke. "I've mastered all of the Academy basic techniques. I can dispel Genjutsu as long as he's not going all out. Naruto can, too, just not as well." Naruto nodded. "I'm not quite as good as he is in Taijutsu, just because his fighting style is ridiculously unpredictable, like a mash-up of every form imaginable. I'm much better at Shurikenjutsu."

Sakura nodded. "I'm definitely our team's weak link in combat," she said slowly. "At least for now. All right." Her eyes closed as she considered and Sasuke was reminded very strongly of Shikamaru.

Then her eyes opened after a couple minutes. "All right," she said. "Naruto, you get the memories of your Shadow Clones, don't you?"

Naruto nodded. "Yep. Dead useful."

"All right," said the Kunoichi with a nod. "Naruto, I want you to get us about two hundred Shadow Clones. Get twelve of them and use Transformation to get them to look like teams of us – four of them. The five teams will scatter though the forest, with the clones looking like they're going separately. Once the first of these team clones is dispersed, they'll form back into squads. While the teams get away, your army of clones will fight Kakashi as long as they can. And keep one clone separate from everything to tail him constantly – we need to know whenever he lays a trap. With me so far?"

Naruto's mouth moved silently as he cleared everything in his head. Then he nodded.

"All right," continued Sakura. "Now, as soon as your army is dispersed, start sending in the team clones, first just one, then team by team. One they've all gone down, make another army and send them at him. This'll wear him down."

"And I know exactly what we can do to finish it!" Naruto exclaimed – quietly, so Kakshi couldn't hear. "I have one other justsu. Trust me on this one, Sakura. You won't like it, but it works. If it doesn't totally incapacitate him, then Sasuke should come overhead with a downward fireball, and my clones will have set up immobilizing traps all around the clearing. This should work!"

"Save your special jutsu, though," Sakura decided. "Leave it as an ace in the hole in case it doesn't. Okay. I think we're ready. Whenever, Naruto."

Kakashi was still reading. They'd been inactive for a surprising amount of time. They were actually planning as a team. Amazing.

Then; "Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu!" yelled the small Minato-lookalike.

Whoomph. Kakashi looked up to see himself surrounded by a couple hundred Shadow Clones, all looking like Naruto. "Well," he said quietly, putting his book away and standing up straight. "This should be a lot of fun."

And then they attacked. "Lesson One," Kakashi said, taking a combat stance. "Taijutsu."

His palm came out and was swept aside by a clone's forearm. At that instant, a roundhouse got him in the ribs. There was a lot of force behind it.

Kakashi's eye widened slightly. All right. He had to get serious. The kid was surprisingly good at Taijutsu, Kakashi had to give him that. He was also much stronger than he'd have expected. Still, Kakashi was a Jounin. He was better.

Kakashi began to spin, deflecting strike after strike with lightning speed and taking out one clone at a time. He was tempted to use his Sharingan to learn a bit about whatever style Naruto was using, but this was, after all, only a Genin exam. It wasn't worth it.

He caught a Naruto's fist and swung the clone around, taking out all the clones in a four-foot ring around him. Then he leapt up, swinging his legs in a double hook kick, taking out several more. As more came towards him, he blocked one's punch while kneeing another in the gut. His other hand speared another in the throat. Then he whirled, blocking two strikes and taking out four clones with a crescent kick.

One by one the clones went down, but he was sustaining hits too. He was already starting to bruise on his ribcage where that first strike had landed, and he'd taken two ridge-strikes to the rights side of his neck, as well as a bruise on the outside of his left thigh – a close block he'd managed when the boy had gone in for a low blow.

Eventually, though, it was over. Kakashi was slightly, bruised, but it wasn't too bad – he'd still give any Jounin a run for his money, and the Genin were no more of a problem now than they'd started.

Then, suddenly, he heard a whisper of shuriken coming at him through leaves. He jumped into a roll out of the way. When he came up, Sasuke leapt down into the clearing.

"Hm," murmured Kakashi. "I thought you three were working together."

"A mistake," grunted the Uchiha. "I shouldn't have let that idiot try to fight you." He quickly pulled out several kunai and held them in a defensive position. "I'll take you out on my own!"

"Hm," said Kakashi quietly. "If you're going to try to do that, then here's a bit of advice." The Jounin body-flickered to be right behind the boy, who began to turn, eyes wide. "Don't let your enemy get behind you," Kakashi said, delivering a side kick to the back of Sasuke's knee.

The technique was meant to knock the boy down, and it did, but as he fell, he screamed, "Fool!" and evaporated into smoke.

Kakashi blinked, and his battle-honed mind immediately worked out the reasoning behind the clone's shout. It was meant to mask another noise – one from behind him.

The Jounin leapt to the side, narrowly avoiding the hail of shuriken. Then he turned just as Naruto and Sakura leapt down.

They're probably also clones, he thought. No need to go too easy. Still, there's a chance. I can't afford to use killing moves or anything permanently maiming. Damn.

The two charged. Naruto's Taijutsu stance was the same as that the clones had used, but Sakura's was a clumsy Academy Basic stance. Maybe it really was her. Unfortunate.

He blocked a couple strikes and took out the Naruto clone. Then after deflecting a clumsy attack from Sakura he struck her with a palm to the stomach. She dispelled as well, proving that she too was a clone. And then he was attacked by Shuriken on three sides.

He rolled out of the way and was surrounded by the team of three. Sasuke was in a stance for a Genin level Taijutsu form, Sakura was poised for her clumsy Academy-level techniques, and Naruto was in his same improvised stance.

"Well, there you are," Kakashi said. "Unless, of course, you're just more clones."

They were, as he found out in the end. So were the next two times he faced the trio. And after he'd taken them out, he was assaulted by another ridiculous army. How much Chakra did this kid have?

But this time something went differently. While he was in the midst of the clones, he heard a voice from on high. "Fire style: Fireball Jutsu!"

His eye widened slightly. Sasuke, he thought. He jumped, avoiding the jutsu coming down on him from above. He leapt over all of the clones, many of which were incinerated by the flame, and came down on the outskirts of the clearing.

And just as he came down on them, he saw the wires. There was a net of them, all to be snapped upon his entry, all sure to launch traps.

His shoulders sagged in midair. Son of a… he thought. Then he quickly formed a Ram Seal. Substitution Jutsu, he said to himself.

He landed. The strings broke, and he was entrapped in a cocoon of ropes. And there was the team of three – probably the real ones this time.

"We win," said Naruto with a grin, high-fiving the other two. Sakura looked very pleased, but Sasuke seemed to have misgivings, although he partook on the high-fiving.

Then Kakashi decided to ruin their fun. He said quietly, "Lesson Two: Ninjutsu." And then he activated the Substitution he'd set, and there was a stump where he'd been while he was in a tree over their heads.

Naruto and Sakura seemed to blink in surprise, but Sasuke was instantly moving. He launched a flurry of kunai directly at Kakashi; the Jonin realized he'd probably noticed the log on the branch before.

The white-haired Ninja dodged by leaping down to the ground. He stared at them flatly as he said, "You three are pretty good you know that? Shame it ends now." His eye widened dramatically. "Lesson Three: Genjutsu." He formed hand signs as quickly as he could and said, "Demonic Illusion: Tree Binding Death!"

In an instant, the three of them were imprisoned in their own minds. But then the Naruto army came along from the clearing.

"He got the original!" one of them shouted.

"What are you talking about?" Naruto said loudly from behind Kakashi, and then in unison, he and Sasuke said, "Release!"

Kakashi whirled. They were fine, all three of them. They'd broken a B-Rank Genjutsu, cast by an A-Rank Jounin with a Sharingan. Damn, they're good, he thought, and then amended, well, for Genin.

"Hey!" Naruto called to his clone army. "You lot know what to do! Here's more!"

And then there were a hundred more clones. Every single one of them formed a Ram Seal (except the original, who Kakashi could just see.

Kakashi readied himself to counter some jutsu from all around, but he could never have anticipated what happened next.

"Harem Jutsu!" screamed all of the Narutos. Kakashi figured out what was going to happen an instant before it did, but it was too late, and he was surrounded by naked blondes cloaked in steam and making excessively realistic sounds.

Kakashi's nose positively exploded – he was probably dyeing his whole mask red. Damn you, Jiraiya, he thought weakly as he fell to the onslaught of being cuddled by that many nude females.

A few minutes later, he awoke. Sasuke stood over him, juggling the bells while Naruto and Sakura seemed to be… discussing what was permitted in the presence of a female.

"I think we won," said the Uchiha, grinning slightly as he helped Kakashi up. "And I'd change my mask if I were you."

"How were you unaffected?" Kakashi asked blankly. Sasuke was – or should be – a pubescent preteen! By rights he should be bleeding out right now.

Sasuke smirked. "I saw that jutsu once the other day," he said. "I knew when to avert my eyes."

"And cover your ears?" Kakashi asked.

"And cover my ears," Sasuke agreed with a nod. "Anyway, I'm right, aren't I? Since we won through teamwork, the bells don't matter, do they?"

"No," said Kakashi with a shrug. "You'd have passed even if you didn't get them. Your teamwork was flawless. I'm surprised, actually," here he looked sidelong at the Uchiha. "You three were expected to be one of the most dysfunctional teams in history."

Sasuke shrugged. "We've got a few things going for us that we didn't have a month ago," he said. "You'll wind up surprised by more than this, I think."

And Kakashi was sure that he was right.

A/N: Now KAKASHI'S been on the receiving end too! Whee!

Hope you enjoyed the chapter! Please review! Thanks!

First Revision Notes: I've been asked how Sakura knew that Shadow Clones delivered their memories to the original when the jutsu is supposedly forbidden. The answer is simply that the Shadow Clone Jutsu isn't forbidden – it's Jounin-level. The Multi-Shadow Clone Jutsu is forbidden. The jutsu are different only in that the latter is only used for massive numbers of clones. The former just doesn't work for it. I hope that clears that up.