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Naruto – Chapter 3
The Bell Test: Kakashi's Decision
General POV
After their blunt introduction to their new sensei, the team of four joined him on the roof of the Academy; as their sensei sat on the railing, the other four sat on the stairs beneath them.
"Alright then, why don't you introduce yourselves, one at a time." The white haired Jonin asked plainly.
"Introduce ourselves, what are we supposed to say?" Sakura asked him. "Things you like, things you hate, dreams for the future, hobbies… things like that." He answered.
"Well why don't you tell us though first, I mean so we know how it works." Naruto asked him. "
Me? I'm Kakashi Hatake, things I like and things I hate… I don't feel like telling you that. My dreams for the future… never really thought about it. As for my hobbies… I have lots of hobbies." Kakashi answered, the four finally knowing his name.
"Well that was totally useless all he told us was his name." Sakura said as Toshirama and Naruto nodded in agreement.
"Okay, your turn, you on the far right in orange you first." Kakashi spoke up asking Naruto to introduce himself.
"Believe it, I'm Naruto Uzumaki, I like instant ramen in a cup and I really like the ramen Iruka-sensei got me at the Ichiraku Ramen shop, but I hate the 3 minutes you have to wait after you pour the water in the ramen cup. My hobby is eating different kinds of ramen and comparing them. My dream is… to be the greatest Hokage, then the whole village will start stop disrespecting me and start treating me like I'm somebody… somebody important." Naruto said at the last part adjusting his headband.
"Well, he's grown up in a very interesting way, I'm surprised though he didn't say anything about Toshirama, perhaps he's not that comfortable saying it around others." Kakashi thought as he moved on to the next person.
"Alright you in the dark blue shirt, your turn." Kakashi said as he looked at Toshirama.
"My name is Toshirama Sora, the things I like are my friends and the ones I care for and the things I hate… are people who hurt others for no reasons but heir own. My hobbies are book reading, cooking and training in my spare time. My dream is…"
Toshirama stopped as he made a quick side-glance to Naruto which he didn't see but he continued, "Is to keep a promise about a certain friend, what that is though I don't feel like sharing just yet."
The others looked at Toshirama as he talked about himself, Naruto had a smile on his face as he always looked up to Toshirama. Sakura looked quite surprised and Sasuke gave his friend a quick side glance but returned to normal just as quickly.
"Quite the interesting fellow this one, if what Lord Third told me is true then…" Kakashi thought to himself once more as he stopped and continued with the introductions.
"Alright next." Kakashi said as he looked at Sakura. "I'm Sakura Haruno, what I like is…well the person I like is… My hobby is…" She stopped as she giggled to herself and occasionally stared back at Sasuke. Who was probably ignoring her.
"My dream for the future…" Her squeals intensifying. "And? What do you hate?" Kakashi asked, already knowing the answer. "Naruto!" She answered immediately. Naruto's face plainly showed his displeasure at Sakura's 'confession.'
"Girls her age are more interested in boys, then in ninja training." Kakashi thought. "Oh boy, this team has got a long way to go, dear lord above help me." Toshirama thought as well as he set his head in his hands,
"Last one." Kakashi finished as looked at Sasuke. Sakura giggled hoping he would say something about her. "My name is Sasuke Uchiha. I hate a lot of things and I don't particularly like anything…" He began as Sakura slightly gasped at his cold tone.
"What I have is not a dream, because I will make into a reality, I'm going to restore my clan and destroy a certain someone." Sasuke finished never moving his hands and keeping his cold tone.
Everyone around had their own thoughts about Sasuke's introduction:
"Gee, I uh… hope he doesn't mean me." Naruto thought as he started turning blue.
"Sasuke is so hot," Sakura thought with a blush on her face.
"Sasuke, what is it that drives you?" Toshirama thought to himself as he stared at his old friend.
"Just as I thought." Kakashi thought to himself as he stared at Naruto.
"Great, your each unique and you have your own ideas. We'll have our first mission tomorrow." Kakashi said getting out of his stupor about Sasuke.
"Well, what kind of mission are we going to have?" Naruto asked. "It's a task the five of us will do together." Kakashi answered. "What, what is it?" Naruto continued to inquire.
"A survival exercise." Kakashi answered. "Huh, survival exercise?" Naruto asked perplexed. "I thought we were supposed have a real mission not more practice, we already did this stuff in the Academy that's how we got here." Sakura complained.
"This isn't like your previous training." Kakashi answered her. "So uh, what kind of training is it then?" Naruto asked once more.
Kakashi then began to chuckle to himself at Naruto question, Sakura was not happy, "What's so funny, that was a normal question."
Toshirama and Sasuke simply listened knowing nothing good will come from more questions. Kakashi answered her, "Well, if I tell you the answer, you're not going to like it."
"Of the 28 graduates, only 10 will be recognized as genin, and the other 18 will be weeded out and sent back to the Academy. In other words, this is a male it or break it, pass or fail test and the chance you'll fail is 66%." Kakashi answered with the cold truth.
The four graduates were all shocked at the answer except Sasuke and Toshirama. "See, didn't I told you wouldn't like it?"
"That's crazy, we worked hard to get here, believe it! What was that graduation test for anyway?" Naruto answered shocked by the news of what he was told.
"Oh that, that was a selective process of those who could be genin or not." Kakashi answered plainly. "What?!" Naruto replied still angry.
"That's how it is, I decide whether you pass or fail. Head for the designated training field at 5 am tomorrow and bring your ninja gear." Kakashi informed them.
"So, this is what they had in store for us, I wonder who the 10 rookies will be this year, well I'm not going back, if I don't pass… no I've got too whether duck butt or Sakura understand… I have too." Toshirama thought to himself as he sucked in all the info at once knowing what the stakes were.
Like everyone else, Toshirama had clenched his fists in anticipation as everyone had something riding on themselves to stay in the team.
"That's it your dismissed." Kakashi said before turning back around, "Oh and uh, you may not want to eat breakfast or else… you'll puke."
Toshirama POV
After Kakashi dismissed them Naruto immediately left as he said he off to train somewhere, Toshirama say that Sasuke was still lingering so he asked his old friend if he wanted to train one last time before this test.
"Well Sasuke, feel like one last session before this happens?" Toshirama asked his rival. Sasuke looked at Toshirama and replied, "I don't have time to waste, I'll train on my own."
Sakura saw her crush and thought, "Yeah, Sasuke I know you can win, you'd never need help." Toshirama frowned but knew just what to say to grind Sasuke's gears.
As Sasuke walked away Toshirama tuned his back and simply said, "Well I guess that says it all about the great Sasuke, he's not just a duck; he's a big, fat chicken."
Toshirama's taunt worked as Sasuke stopped mid-step and turned at his Academy rival and replied, "If you want to be crushed Toshirama then be my guest, and we'll finish this time."
Toshirama now had a smile on his face as he turned and replied, "So be it, so where do you want do this?" Sauske replied with, "The old quiet forest on the outskirts of the village."
"Fine then, if that's what you want, Sakura do you want to come along?" Toshirama asked the pinkette.
"Huh, you mean me?" Sakura asked perplexed. "Well there's only one person we know whose name is Sakura, right?" Toshirama teasingly answered with his own question.
"No, we don't need distractions." Sasuke said plainly as Sakura deadpanned hearing that from Sasuke.
"So, she's a teammate and learning from us would make for better teamwork, or are you saying you just can't handle a little distraction?" Sasuke's left eye twitched as it should he'd had enough.
With their agreement the three head for the forest and after getting there the two stood a distance away from each other and got into their stances.
Toshirama's stance was straight and narrow his left arm extended and palm open slightly, his right arm tucked in by the elbow and his fist closed, his feet mirroring his stance.
Sasuke's was wider, both his arms apart from him and his feet spread apart. The two looked at each other as Sakura looked on at the two waiting for the two to start.
The spar started when Sasuke tried to go out and aimed a quick strike at Toshirama's face which he easily blocked, Sasuke followed up with an attempt at an overhead kick which Toshirama grabbed as well.
Countering Toshirama grabbed Sasuke tightly by his caught leg and spun the Uchiha around quickly before giving him a quick throw. Sasuke recovered easily but couldn't rest as Toshirama was now rushing him as well.
Toshirama unleashed a series of jabs and ouches at Sasuke, which the Uchiha easily blocked, when Sasuke attempted to counter himself, Toshirama took the chance and instead launched his shoulder at Sasuke knocking him off balance.
Toshirama went in for a straight punch to Sasuke's face, but Sasuke caught it instead, with that he tried to knee him, but using his forearm Toshirama blocked that and the two pushed each other away.
Not wanting to leave his momentum, Sasuke tried once more this time being more aggressive attempting a round kick on Toshirama's left side which Toshirama guarded against. Sasuke then tried for a straight punch just like Toshirama tried before which Toshirama grabbed with his right hand, with one last try did another overhead kick which failed.
Then with his free hand Sasuke went for his kunai pouch, seeing this at the last second Toshirama backed away to escape the situation.
Sakura was surprised that Toshirama was keeping up with Sasuke she had thought that Toshirama was just another average student despite tying with Sasuke, but this had to be just a lucky time for him.
The two at this point were starting to pant so the two smiled at each other and decided there was only one way to end this. "So, Sasuke any new moves you want to try? I've a new one if you're willing to show?"
"Hmph, fine lets finish this." Sasuke said as the two took large breaths to calm down.
The two then suddenly began to weave hand signs as Sakura looked on in amazement. "They know jutsu, but that takes up chakra, how could they have the control to do that?"
"Horse/Tiger… Tiger/Hare… Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu/Water Style: Water Bomb Jutsu!"
The two let off their attacks as Sasuke let out a great breath of flame as Toshirama countered with a large torrent of water. The two jutsus colliding, yet the other was not being overtaken. Both of them putting more chakra into their jutsu, the collision began to give way until nothing, but steam was left on the field.
After that, the two went to their knees and breathing took over their main concern. "Well Sasuke, looks like I've disappointed you again, no win for you."
"Tch, next time I won't be holding back." Sasuke answered a small smirk on his face. "Oh, I'm sure you will." Toshirama replied as the steam had finally cleared. The two met in the middle and each gave the other the customary Seal of Reconciliation acknowledging themselves as comrades.
After the fight, Sasuke left immediately to head for his apartment to prepare for tomorrow. Sakura went after him, leaving Toshirama alone with that he too left for his apartment but before that came to visit Naruto first.
Sakura POV
Sakura was trying to find Sasuke to no avail, "I never thought anyone could match Sasuke, I mean Naruto always wants to get in the way and tries to beat Sasuke and he fails, but its not like Toshirama actually beat him or anything…"
Sakura thought long and hard to herself. She stopped looking for Sasuke and immediately went straight home. With that she started getting ready for tomorrow's survival test.
She would pass, this was a test; a test of true love!
Naruto POV
Hearing a knock at the door, Naruto went to open it and saw Toshirama. "Big bro, where did you go after we were dismissed?"
"Oh that, I went off to fight the duck butt nothing new." Toshirama said. "WHAT?! You fought Sasuke, and I didn't get to see it, darn it!" Naruto replied in anger with puffed cheeks.
"Well maybe if you actually had stuck around you could've seen it, but I can only guess you've been getting ready for tomorrow I assume?" Toshirama asked. "Well um…" Naruto said as he scratched the back of his head.
Toshirama now curious looked inside Naruto's room and was surprised (not really) to see a pigsty of a room before him. Everything from ramen bowls, dirty clothes and drink cans.
"Naruto, why do you live like this?" Toshirama asked his little brother as Naruto continued to laugh sheepishly.
"Well since you're here want to have some ramen?" Naruto said with a bit of excitement in his voice.
Relenting Toshirama agreed, "Sure, I did say we'd have some after we got our team together."
Excited Naruto went to his pantry and got out two bowls of instant pork ramen, the two sat at the table while the ramen boiled and talked for a while.
"Well Naruto?" Toshirama started. "Well what, big bro?" Naruto replied just as confused. "About our team? What do you think?" He asked again.
Naruto thought for a minute until he replied, "Well I don't mind you and Sakura, but Sasuke as long as doesn't get in the way I don't care."
"Hah, Naruto for once think about the whole instead of just yourself, were supposed to be a team, if we don't work as team tomorrow then we'll be sent back to the Academy, do you want that?" Toshirama inquired Naruto who sat in thought to himself listening to his best friend.
"…" Naruto continued to sit in silence not having an answer, that continued until the timer for the ramen went off.
DIIIINNNNG!
With that the two began to chow down on their last meal for the day until tomorrow. After eating Toshirama left Naruto's apartment.
Toshirama's POV
As Toshirama made it back to his apartment he realized the sun had gone down and that he should probably turn in early for tomorrow.
As he lay in the bed under the blankets, he thought to himself…
"Well our team consists of a fangirl, a knucklehead, a lone wolf and…me, whatever role that is. We have to face a survival test set up by a jonin tomorrow and the word team didn't come up at all, I fear tomorrow will not be a good day for Squad 7." Toshirama thought to himself.
"Well no hope in dawdling in what ifs, just have to give it all tomorrow." Toshirama said as he turned over and fell asleep.
The Next Day – Training Field 7
Toshirama POV
Waking up earlier than usual. Toshirama woke up and began his morning workouts which mainly consisted of exercise routines such as push-ups, sit-ups and perhaps his favorite meditating, mostly for the sake of focus and for another reason.
After having breakfast, he gathered his ninja tools and supplies and with some extra food in his pack he left for Training Field 7
The sunrise had barely cracked and Toshirama was almost to the training field, it was then he noticed three other silhouettes coming closer, they were Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura and the latter two looked they still wanted to sleep.
After arriving the four waited on Kakashi to arrive on time, but…
"Where is he!?" Naruto and Sakura yelled together as it had now been over an hour since all of them were to be on time to their destination.
Knowing the wait was longer than what he expected, Toshirama posed the question to them, "Be honest you guys, did any of you eat this morning?"
Everyone looked at him at first and were going to respond but before that could happen all their stomachs growled, proving his point.
"Fine, it doesn't look like he's gonna be here for a while, so I just so happened to have brought some fruit and meal bars with me for something like this, oh and I have some vegetables as well." Toshirama informed them as Sakura and Naruto had smiles on their faces, he looked to Sasuke and saw the slightest twitch come from the Uchiha when he said vegetables.
"Oh yeah, Sasuke here you go." Toshirama said to Sasuke as he gave him a plastic bag with tomato slices.
Sasuke took the bag, "thanks…" The Uchiha said silently. The four enjoyed the food they had it was a few more minutes later they had cleaned up until they heard a voice speak up, "I thought I told you guys to NOT have breakfast."
They turned to see Kakashi looking at them with a single furrowed brow looking back at them.
"YOUR LATE!" Sakura and Naruto bellowed realizing the Jonin's tardiness. "Well a black cat crossed my path, so I had to take the long way." Kakashi explained as if he'd done it a million times. Sakura and Naruto however did not believe him.
Toshirama spoke up, "Besides sensei, I remember this test was for our survival, why shouldn't we do the one thing that could keep us going in a fight?" Kakashi was surprised by Toshirama's blunt comment.
"Well, at least one of them is starting to get it, he's on the right track but…" Kakashi thought to himself as he watched Toshirama
"Well, let's get started." Kakashi said as he cleared his throat and left his backpack. Reaching inside he pulled out an alarm clock and put it on a stump. "It's set for noon, your assignment is very simple, you just have to take all these bells from me." The ringing of 3 bells in Kakashi's hand brought their attention to them.
"That's all there is to it, if you can't get bell by noon you go without lunch, you'll be tied to those posts and you'll watch as I eat my lunch in front of you. Although I do wonder how long those meal bars will last for you." Kakashi.
"So that's why he didn't want us to eat, to make it harder on us. That's why Toshirama brought those meal bars so we wouldn't go hungry, he figured out what Kakashi-sensei was planning to do." Sakura thought to herself.
Anther question popped into her mind though, "Wait sensei, there's four of us, why are there only 3 bells?"
"Well that way at least one of you will be tied to a post and ultimately disqualified for failing to complete the mission. That one will be sent back to the Academy. Then again, the 4 of you could flunk out now. You can use any type of weapons including shuriken, if your prepared to kill me, you won't be able to take the bells." Kakashi finished as he put the bells back on his side.
"Those weapons are to dangerous sensei." Sakura warned. Naruto chuckled, "Yeah, since especially you couldn't even dodge that eraser."
"Class clowns are usually the weakest link, you safely ignore them; lowest scores, losers." Kakashi taunted.
"When I say 'start' you can begin." Kakashi said. Naruto however couldn't wait as Kakashi's previous taunt got to him, he took out one of his kunai and charged the Jonin.
As quickly as it could happen Kakashi had Naruto's own arm pinned behind his head, the kunai at the back of neck now. Everyone was surprised at how fast Kakashi was, it was like he never moved at all.
"Don't be in such a hurry," Kakashi said. "I didn't say start yet. You can calm down too, Toshirama, no need for the kunai just yet."
Everyone's eyes widen when they saw Toshirama was behind Kakashi pointing a kunai at his back like he did to Naruto. Taking a quick breath, he put away his weapon just as Kakashi let go of Naruto who was rubbing his wrist from feeling sore.
"Both of you were very hasty." Kakashi said to Naruto and Toshirama. "But you both came at me with the intent to kill, so… how can I say this? I'm actually starting to like you guys."
He then looked at Toshirama, the fact this young man was willing to protect his own comrade was impressive, he had noticed his movements as well, but was impressed just the same.
"Get ready." Kakashi said snapping everyone back to attention. "And start!"
As soon as the last word left Kakashi's mouth all four of them scattered among the foliage and trees of the training field. Toshirama was high up in a tree nearby were he could see Kakashi and was hidden among the branches and leaves in the canopy.
He knew they needed a plan of attack. How he was going to get them to work together though was probably just as hard as beating Kakashi, but it had to done.
"You and me, right now, fair and square!" A familiar knucklehead's voice shouted in the open. "Let's go!"
Toshirama expected some stupidity out of Naruto, but his didn't he understand what 'hide' means?
"You know compared to the others… you're a bit weird." Kakashi put it bluntly.
With that confrontation going on, Toshirama wanted to help Naruto, but he knew that if they had even a stone's chance of beating a Jonin like Kakashi they had to work together, and for that to happen he had to find his team.
"I've got to try and convince them to work together even for a few minutes, it's the only chance we have, so… we're they?" Toshirama thought to himself as he put the palm of his hands on the tree branch beneath him.
Looking down at the other two he watched the fight between Kakashi and Naruto.
Naruto charged the Jonin but stopped as Kakashi reached into his pouch, "Shinobi Battle Techniques Part 1 – Taijutsu, the physical part."
As Naruto stood ready for him, Kakashi took out what he was reaching for to find it was… one of those Make-Out Tactics novels?
"Oh great, my sensei's a closet pervert what next, Sakura accepting Naruto?" Toshirama sweatdropped at finding this out along with everyone else.
"What, why are you reading that book?" Naruto asked. "Why to find out what happens in the story of course. Oh, don't let this stop you, with your weak attacks you won.t be able to do anything." Kakashi still ignoring Naruto.
Naruto upset he still wasn't being taken seriously charged him once more, "I'm going to crush you!" Kakashi without looking away from his novel blocked or dodged Naruto's strikes and in an instant reappeared behind Naruto.
"Don't let your enemy get behind you all the time." Kakashi said as he crafted what seemed to be the Horse hand seal.
"That's normally used for Fire Style techniques, if he's planning on doing that though he'll kill Naruto, is that really his plan?" Toshirama thought to himself. Taking his attention of the fight, Toshirama went back to focusing on sensing Sakura and Sasuke's chakra.
Concentrating he began to scour the area looking Sasuke and Sakura's chakra. "So, Sakura's on the ground to my left, while Sasuke's to my right we'll Sakura will be the better of the tw…"
His concentration was broken when he heard Naruto screaming and saw that he was strung up by a wire. Seeing his friend in trouble he attempted to go rescue him, but he was interrupted when many shuriken struck Kakashi in his side, looking for the source he saw Sasuke was the one who threw them.
"Sasuke, did you honestly think that would work against him? Damn, now we have np choice but to run, but first…" Toshirama thought to himself as everyone was now dispersed.
After they left Toshirama came to where Naruto was, "Hey there, how's the weather up there?" Naruto got mad, "Just cut me down already, bro."
Toshirama took out his kunai but before he did so he asked Naruto, "If I do this you have to promise me one thing however." Naruto looked at him and asked what.
"I want you to work with the rest of us as a team." Toshirama told his orange-clad teammate.
"NO! If it means working with Sasuke, never!" Naruto adamantly refused. "Naruto, I know you don't like Sasuke, but that doesn't matter right now, do you want to go back to he Academy or not?" Toshirama scolded him.
Naruto gritted his teeth in anger realizing his problem. He stopped squirming and replied, "Alright, I'll do it but if it means Sakura is still on the team then whatever." Satisfied, Toshirama cut Naruto down from the rope and the two went off to find their teammates.
Sasuke POV
"He used the same substitution on me like he did Naruto, and he knows where I'm hiding got to move fast." Sasuke thought as he fled from his original hiding place. "I thought he lowered his guard, but he did that on purpose too, and I fell for it."
Sakura POV
Sakura was running to find Sasuke after Kakashi discovered him, not wanting anything to happen to him, she ran around the field trying to find Sasuke.
"Sasuke? Where'd you go? Don't tell me Kakashi-sensei found you? No, he can't capture my Sasuke, I won't let him." She thought to herself in panic until she stopped when she saw Kakashi standing in the clearing just above the hill she was on.
"Sakura, behind you." A voice whispered to her. She turned to find the real Kakashi behind her. With that she let out a blood curdling scream.
Toshirama/Naruto POV
The two boys stopped as they heard Sakura's scream, "That was Sakura, we have to help her!" Naruto went off to run but Toshirama grabbed him, "Wait Naruto we don't want to rush in first we have to find them and get them all together first so we can come up with a plan, alright?"
Naruto stopped to think and relented, "Alright what should I do?" Toshirama smiled, "You go and find Sakura, tell her that Sasuke has a plan to fight Kakashi-sensei and that when you see my signal come and meet with us."
Naruto was not happy about lying to his crush, "What, you want me to lie to Sakura, big bro?" Toshirama gave his "little brother" a smile and ruffled his hair, "Don't worry by the end of all we'll be a team still, don't you worry. Alright, get going."
With that the pair broke off in search of their respective targets.
Sasuke POV
Hearing Sakura's scream he deduced what happened: Genjutsu
"Genjutsu, illusions of the mind. Sakura could lose to but… I'm not like Sakura, Naruto or Toshirama." Sasuke declared as he knew Kakashi was watching him.
"How about you say that after you get one of these bells, 'My Sasuke'." Kakashi finishing with a chuckle.
The two stared off as Sasuke threw shuriken to begin with as Kakashi slid out of the way. Sasuke followed that up with a weapon trap he had set up earlier which caught Kakashi off-guard for a moment.
Sasuke then decided to get up close and personal he appeared behind Kakashi delivering a quick roundhouse kick until Kakashi blocked it. Grabbing the Uchiha's leg, Sasuke didn't stop as he delivered a straight punch at the Jonin. With one last attempt, Sasuke attempted the same kick he tried with Toshirama only for Kakashi to block that as well.
Seeing his opening he needed Sasuke went for one of the bells, Kakashi was so caught up in the fight he almost forgot about them.
"This kid…he's fierce I won't be able to read Make-Out Tactics anytime soon." Kakashi thought to himself as Sasuke gave a fierce glance to the one-eyed Jonin.
Toshirama POV
As Toshirama raced to find Sasuke's position he continued until he heard what sounded like Sasuke's scream after a few more moments he comes to see…
Sasuke's head above the dirt looking back at him. He stopped in his tracks and looked at the head sticking from the ground and started laughing…
"HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA! Oh my gosh! What happened there Mr. Brooding?" Toshirama laughed heartily as he was on his knees and crying at the sight of the Uchiha before him.
"Grr, stop laughing and help me already!" Sasuke yelled. "Okay, I'm sorry but if I were your position, you'd be doing the same, don't lie." Toshirama replied.
"I'll get you out on one condition." Toshirama proposed. "What?" Sasuke asked.
"You set aside your ego, and work with ALL of us." Toshirama proposed. "No, you'll all slow me down." Was the Uchiha's response.
"Yet your down there and by logic's demand that also means no bell so…" Toshirama tried to bring the Uchiha to reality.
"I was close to getting one without you guys, how far have you gotten?" Sasuke inquired. "That doesn't matter, what does is that if we don't get those bells were ALL going back to the Academy, now do you want that?" Toshirama countered.
Sasuke had a thinking look on his face he replied with, "Alright, deal. Do you have a plan?" Toshirama smiled and dug the Uchiha out of his hole.
"Yes, but it will take all of us working together alright, so no deviating from the plan alright?" Toshirama said.
Sasuke nodded as Toshirama took out a smoke bomb and kunai. Throwing the bomb first then the kunai the sky was filled with smoke.
"What are you doing!? Your giving away our position!" Sasuke inquired angrily. "No, that's my signal to Naruto and Sakura, when they get here, we'll start going over the plan."
Naruto and Sakura later arrived a few moments later as Sakura saw Sasuke and panicked, "Sasuke, you're okay, you're not hurt?" Sasuke looked at the pinkette and replied, "No it was a Genjutsu that Kakashi used and you fell for it."
Sakura deadpanned as she realized her error in judgement.
"Well since you're here now Sasuke, what's your plan?" Sakura inquired of the Uchiha. "I don't have a plan, Toshirama does." Sasuke answered her.
Sakura looked at Toshirama, then backed to Naruto with an angry look, "You liar you told me Sasuke was the one with the plan?"
"I'm sorry Sakura, but Toshirama told me to tell you that so you'd come." Naruto defensed himself.
Sakura stopped herself after realizing it was Toshirama that brought them altogether.
"Okay, since we all seem to be in agreement here's the plan…" Toshirama began to explain his strategy the group listened intently.
General POV
Kakashi was by the clearing near the river once more reading his precious novel when he looked up, he saw Naruto charging him once more with shadow clones.
Sighing Kakashi put up his novel, "Naruto have we not gone over this you can't beat e with this jutsu alone."
"Who said he was alone Kakashi-sensei?" Toshirama said as he too charged the jonin from the other side, clones of Toshirama now charging forward.
"Hmm, so he knows the Shadow Clone jutsu as well. Still just because there are two of you doesn't mean anything will change." Kakashi said he watched the two.
"Naruto, now!" Toshirama yelled as the two attached explosive tags to their stomachs.
Kakashi's eye widened, "Are they insane, they'll get themselves killed! Wait are they all clones?" But the Jonin realized too late.
BOOOOM! BOOOOM! BOOOOOM!
All the explosive tags went off and Kakashi barely escaped jumping out of the explosion just in time. "They really are trying to kill me, is that because I told them to or because I was late?"
The jonin had not time to answer as he looked through the smoke and spotted Sakura with kunai and shuriken in her hands, launching her weapons at the jonin, now forced to use the substitution to save his skin once more.
"Sasuke, now!"
Kakashi turned around to see the real Toshirama behind him and Sasuke in front of him. Both of the were now weaving hand signs, although knowing things were not going his way.
"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!"
"Water Style: Water Trumpet!"
Jumping out of the way, the two jutsus collided creating a large wall of steam clouding the one-eyed Jonin's vision.
"They should've known Water and Fire don't mix, unless…" Kakashi thought to himself but it was too late as in the smoke he heard the ringing of the bells by his waistband and heard the discernable giggle of Naruto.
As the steam dissipated, it revealed all four genin with Naruto holding all three bells with a smile on all their faces for their success.
"Yeah, we did it! We got the bells, believe it!" Naruto cheered. "Yes, Naruto, but now you have to choose whose going back to he Academy?" Kakashi countered.
All four genin immediately frowned, "What do you mean, we got all the bells, that means we should all pass right?"
"Yes, but you only have 3, so tell me whose it going to be?" Kakashi informed again.
The four genin began to think to themselves, everyone was trembling
Sakura started to pale. She knew she was the weakest link of the squad; all she did was throw a few weapons. It was Naruto's clones that did most of the hard work, while it was Toshirama who came up with the plan and supported by Sasuke's jutsu. Was she going to be the one to be separated from the one person she loved?
Naruto was trembling out of anger, after all that hard work and he wants them to betray one and other? Sure, he'd like to see Sasuke go, but even he knew that wasn't fair. The bastard was pretty useful with his jutsu in the fight.
But before wither of them could raise their voice another interrupted, "Well if that's going to be the case, then I'm done with this." It was Toshirama.
All of them were shocked, "Wait you can't big bro, you're the one who came up with the brilliant plan, believe it!
"Yeah Toshirama you helped us work together if it wasn't for you…" Sakura tried to speak as she tapered off near the end.
"No, I won't work with a man who forces others to abandon their comrades. If this is how he treats his team then I want no part in it. So, what's going to be, are you going to me or not?" Toshirama said with a defiant glare.
Silence was all that occurred until Kakashi spoke up, "Well, if that's how your going to be then... you pass."
"…"
"WHAAAAAATTTTT!?" All four genin screamed.
"You…passed." Kakashi repeated. "Yeah, but…" Sakura tried to speak up but was stopped by Kakashi
"It's because you all are the first team to understand the lesson of this test. That the most important thing in a group is teamwork. Isn't that what you did to get those bells?" Kakashi informed them.
"Well, yeah but… your just not making any sense." Naruto was still confused.
With a sigh Kakashi tried to explain further, "I can imagine it was Toshirama that made up this little strategy of yours?"
"Yes, it was me sensei." Toshirama admitted to the question. "If all you wanted was a bell for yourself why didn't you make a plan with yourself in mind?"
"I knew I stood no chance against a full-fledged Jonin so I knew I had to come up with a plan to get those bells as a team otherwise all of us would be flunked back to the Academy or worse…" Toshirama explained
"And there you have it. Squad 7 will have its first mission tomorrow morning!" Kakashi said with a thumbs up as the four genin left with smiles on their faces.
AN#1 – Here's the third chapter of my Naruto story, the infamous Bell Test! The result… Squad 7 is now an official team! There first missions will be easy pickings, but one mission will change everything we know about Squad 7.
Who knows what that could be? Leave guesses in your reviews and we'll see. Next up is… the Land of Waves!
Also if its not obvious, I suck at fighting scenes, so I hope these turned out okay. Tell me what you think in your reviews!
AN#2 – Remember to Favorite, Follow and Review! I wouldn't be here without you guys! :)
AN#3 – I may or may not be taking down the poll soon as I think I've come up with a good compromise I think everyone can agree with:
Since so far, I've got my own decision on you who I want to air Toshirama with I think since many of you want other choices, I've decided to treat the pairings like an in-game choice. By the end of this Part I story Toshirama will have met all of the women on the poll and by the end of the story he'll choose which one interests him more.
During Part II is where the real relationship will grow between Toshirama and the respective female choice.
In this story's case and point, the 'canon' ending will be with Sakura Haruno. So, after the end of my Part II and The Last stories, I'll make a series were Toshirama is paired with Ino, Samui, Kurotsuchi, etc. respectively and of course his ending will change accordingly as well.
I hope this compromise works so that everyone will be okay with whatever result happens in the end. I hope this doesn't change your love and interest for the story, so I hop you still join me on this journey! :)