I apologise if my writing is a little scrappy in this chapter, I'm writing this on my iPad with the new iOS 9 update.
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ForgetfulDaffodil:Thank you for revisiting this story once again! Since 'Memory Escape' has gotten to this stage of the story I can almost guarantee that he'll be in every chapter after this one.
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Just a note,
Team 7 are now in the stage of the bell test, of course will be some differences from what actually happened in the bell test since Sakura is more mature, the Uchiha massacre hadn't happened and Naruto wasn't completely alone. He had Sakura as a friend and Sasuke as a rival yet a friend.n Sakura won't be as boy crazy, Sasuke can be a little more open but he's Sasuke. I can't make him too OOC. Naruto won't as obnoxious and loud, even turning to Sakura for some help.
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Surprisingly, Ino had gotten up earlier than the rosette that morning. Sakura groaned as the blonde threw a blanket over her head.
"What's the big deal pig?" The pinkette mumbled groggily.
Sakura smacked her lips together in an attempt to rid them of the dryness that occurred overnight. As the hokage's pupil, Sakura had gotten used to the early risings. The rosette quite enjoyed the times when she would halt her training for a few minutes to watch dawn rise. Going back to an earlier point in her life, Sakura had slacked off and slept in, taking advantage of the fact that her shishou wasn't berating her on the importance of early rising.
"Hurry up Sakura, I need to get up early for my qualifying test and as a girl I am not going on the streets alone at this time of the day," Ino scolded.
Sakura threw her head back and moaned into the soft pillow while slipping her left hand under the pillow.
"Five more minutes... I hardly had any sleep last night,"
Ino frowned before snatching away the pillow and hugging it to her chest, letting the rosette's head fall to the springy but comfortable mattress. The girl moaned in irritation, weakly reaching out to retrieve the stolen pillow.
"Did you get that one with the lizard again?"
Sakura slowly hoisted herself up and rubbed her eyes. Blinking, the rosette sighed and grabbed the pillow, effectively surprising the blonde and successfully releasing the captured pillow in distress from the blonde witch.
"It's weird Ino, Yamanaka-san gave me one of my kaa-san's clan weapons. I trained with it a bit yesterday and that weird lizard appeared except I could actually see it, not just its figure and... It was made of water,"
The blonde looked down at the sheets thoughtfully.
"When I was younger, Shikamaru told me about a clan he had read about in one of the scrolls in the Nara clan library. He said that most members had died during the third shinobi war as proud Kiri shinobi. The few members that survived scattered across the land. Disguising as civilians. He told me that since no one had thought anyone from the clan survived, the clan name was soon forgotten," Ino scrunched up her nose before continuing, "Most of their techniques consisted of sealing summons made of elemental chakra into regular ninja weapons and calling upon their powers during battles and such,"
Ino shrugged.
"That's all I know, if you want to about anything else you should probably ask Shikamaru for that scroll,"
Sakura nodded before realisation hit her.
"I FORGOT ABOUT THE BELL TEST!"
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"You told me that your sensei wouldn't be here until the afternoon, it's only eight in the morning. Now you're making me carry all these bentos," The blonde grumbled as she adjusted her arm to stop the third bento from falling.
Sakura smiled sheepishly.
"Don't you want to see Sasuke?"
That shut up the blonde quickly.
"But don't you like Sas-"
"Sasuke! Naruto!" The rosette called, she waved vigorously to make sure the boys saw her.
Ino turned away and blushed furiously as the blonde and her crush walked over.
"You're late again!" Naruto accused.
"I slept in, gomen'nasai," Sakura bowed respectfully.
"What's Yamanaka doing here? Why do you have bentos? Kakashi specifically told us not to have breakfast,"
Both girls frowned, each for different reasons.
"Sasuke, it's disrespectful to call an elder without an honorific," The rosette pointed.
"Just answer the question," The Uchiha stuffed his hands into his pockets, his shoulders slightly lifted and fell from a shrug.
"I asked Ino to help me carry the breakfast I made last night before I went to sleep and Kakashi-sensei told us that the survival exercise would be so hard that we'd throw up if we ate. If it was so hard, we'd probably be better off eating and being filled with energy,"
Sasuke's brow furrowed but he seemed to accept the answer and took the top bento from the stack Ino was carrying. The blonde flushed as he touched her hand. Sakura took the next two bentos and handed one to Naruto.
"Arigatou Ino, min'na itadakimasu!" Sakura chirped.
Ino may or may not have run off fangirling over the Uchiha touching her hand.
Kakashi arrived hours later with three innocent faces and three bento boxes henged into twigs behind a tree. The silver haired man decided not to comment.
"Hi fellows. Good morning,"
"YOU'RE LATE!"
"A black crossed my path, so-" Kakashi gestured to his left.
The three of them grumbled while smirking to each other at the same time. This didn't go unnoticed by the jounin who simply just raised his eyebrow. The silver-haired man cleared his throat awkwardly.
"Let's move on..."
He pulled out an alarm clock from who knows where and placed it on a convenient tree stump.
"Alarm set at 12 PM," He clicked the top of the clock. Sakura almost instantly jumped but restrained herself. The silver-haired jounin pulled out two bells, one bell knocked against another. A harmonic twinkling sound filled the rosette's ears.
"Today's topics is to get one of these bells from me," The serene bells sounded once again, "Whoever can't will have no lunch,"
The genin smirked among themselves. Kakashi furrowed his brow before continuing.
"I'm going to tie you there, and eat lunch in front of you,"
Kakashi wasn't pleased to only here the quiet chirping of birds to say the least.
"Wait... Why are there only two bells?" The Uchiha asked.
"Since there's only two, at least one will have to be tied to the log. That person will fail sinc he failed to complete the mission, the person will go back to the academy," Kakashi crookedly eye-smiled.
"It might be just one, or all three then," Sakura pointed.
Of course she had already figured out her plan to get Team 7 to pass the test. After all, Team 7 had no chance of failing. Even if she had no imput in the plan.
Kakashi nodded and held up the bells, "You're already my favorite student,"
Kakashi smiled again as everyone sweatdropped.
"You can use your shuriken, you won't be able to get this unless you have the will to kill me,"
"That's too dangerous! You couldn't even dodge that chalk eraser!" Naruto grinned, he nonchalantly crossed his arms behind his head. Sakura slapped his elbow and glared at the blonde lightly.
"Don't say that Naruto! Treat your elders with respect and for all you know, he deliberately done that!" Sakura scolded.
"Aww... Sakura-chan!" Naruto whined.
Kakashi smiled again during their small exchange.
Aa... So Sakura-chan's already getting the concept of this exercise
"We're going to start after I say 'Ready, start',"
This time around, Kakashi had given Naruto no reason to lunge at him. Perhaps it could be easier to get through to Naruto with her plan if he wasn't going to be as boastful as last time.
"Ready... Start!"
The three genin disappeared, Sakura was thankful that Naruto had actually decided to hide this time around.
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The rosette appeared next to Sasuke, before the Uchiha could protest she quickly slapped her hand over his mouth.
"Listen Sasuke, I'm only going to say this once," The rosette lifted her hand off the boy's mouth, "Kakashi-sensei wants to test us to see if we can work well as a team,"
Sasuke shook his head, "I'm not going to work with you to get the bells,"
Sakura felt her spirit being crushed slowly and painfully, "W-why not?"
"There's only two bells, you're probably just going to use me to get the bells, take one and give the other to the dobe,"
Sakura suddenly found herself getting angry, the rosette mustered the most hateful glare at the Uchiha. The boy flinched, almost falling off the branch they were sitting on.
"Do you really think I'm that shallow you bastard?" Sasuke shook his head furiously, leaning as far back as he could against the tree trunk.
Sakura smiled happily as if boy had never mentioned his thoughts.
"Good! Now I'll go get Naruto, you stay here and make a plan,"
Stealthily, Sakura hopped off the branch and into the shrubs and bushes without a sound. Sasuke watched as Sakura leaped out, her head constantly checking her surroundings to see if Kakashi was anywhere nearby before throwing a shuriken into a direction.
The Uchiha leaned forward, slightly irritated that the tree canopy was covering his view. Seconds later, the boy's eardrums were filled with excruciating pain,.
"YOU COULD'VE TOLD ME BEFORE YOU THREW THAT SHURIKEN SAKURA-CHAN!"
The rosette below him just looked up at him and grinned. Unconsciously, the corners of the raven-haired genin lifted into a small smile as his heart slightly defrosted.
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The silver-haired jounin knew something was wrong the moment Sakura had come up to him asking to quit the survival exercise. His hands lifted into the proper hand sign as he spoke under his breath.
"Kai," The image of the rosette swirled and flickered.
Both Naruto and Sasuke had appeared out of nowhere and started attacking him. Their moves were uncoordinated and seemed random. Occasionally, Sasuke's jutsu would dispel half of Naruto's shadow clones often causing the jutsu to not hit at all.
Genjutsu... Only Sakura has the ability to cast genjutsu, Naruto and Sasuke were physical attackers often relying on taijutsu or ninjutsu.
Kakashi jumped back, furthering the distance between him and the two boys. The the rosette had jumped in, the jounin hadn't been expecting her at all. The kunoichi had obviously been masking her chakra which the silver-haired jounin only grow more wary of her rather than the two boys further away.
The girl clawed at the bells only to miss and grab his precious orange literature. Kakashi watched in horror as the book fell to the ground, its pages forcefully ripped from the spine. The paper danced in the air until it finally landed gracefully on the ground. He fell to the ground, almost crying at the loss.
But the books weren't there. Kakashi looked up to see the three genin standing over him, Sasuke and Naruto clutched a silver bell each. Sakura smirked proudly.
Their plan had been quite simple, Sakura cast a genjutsu on Kakashi. The jounin would break out to be ambushed by Sasuke and Naruto. The boys would force Kakashi to create distance between him to single him out. During all this, Sakura would be hidden preparing another genjutsu to through him in. The jounin fell for it, the Sakura in the genjutsu aimed at his orange book to rip it apart. Kakashi would be distracted with the torn book to notice the rosette dispelling the illusion and the boys grabbing the bells.
"We did it! We're genin!" Naruto lunged at Kakashi to try and hug him.
However the jounin simply moved to the side, letting the blonde fall over on his face.
"Your first mission will start tomorrow," Not wanting to see the genin anymore, he shunshin-ed away. The silver-haired man had never been outsmarted by genin before. Something told him that his group of genin would be quite different and unique from any other team in history.
I'm not kidding, this chapter was probably the hardest to write. I've got an iPad mini so yeah... I had tonnes of free time today, this probably won't happen again. I'm actually very surprised I managed to upload both chapter nine and ten today.
-LucidClockwork