Disclaimer: I do not own the Naruto Franchise that belongs solely to Masashi Kishimoto; I do not own Heavens lost Property, High School DxD or any other Anime I borrow themes from. The only thing I claim is my OC's and original Story Plot.


Authors Note (A/N): Hey everyone I'm back. This will be the last chapter before I go on my little vacation so I hope you enjoy. Now with the drama in the Uzumaki family over and behind them Naruto must now tackle the Bell test so that he can become a Genin. Do you think he can do it?

Lets find out.


Chapter 5

Team 7 and the Bell Test

'So it's time huh?' Naruto thought as he made his way into Training Ground 3 at 5:45am which was 15 minutes early as appose to the 6:00am sharp time as designated by his sensei. Upon seeing the training ground Naruto couldn't help but smile as the place was beautiful and full of life. A wide open field took up one area of the training ground with three log stumps situated side by side off to one side by the forest. On the other side opposite of the log post was a large black kunai shaped monolith that Naruto didn't know the purpose of yet. In the middle of the training ground there was a wide river that split the training ground in half with another smaller field on the opposite side that while small was still large enough to actually train and perform activities in. The river had many stones and rocks peeking out to the water and the river was substantially deep extending down maybe 50 feet. Seeing the entire training field with the shady colors since it was early dawn made mixed in with the dew still hanging onto the grass and trees made for a perfect picture.

Through the entrance he used which was partitioned off by a tall metal grated fence Naruto could see that the fence wrapped around the entire training ground and let him know the entire area that Training Ground 3 encompasses. Seeing as how he arrived 15 minutes early Naruto sat down and leaned back against one of the log posts. "Hey Eva are you ready for this? Where going to have to give it our all." Naruto asked as he sat with his legs crossed. He brought along a backpack that he set down next to him. In it he had many supplies he thought he may need and he was fully armed with a Kunai holster on his leg and his back pouch carrying even more along with shuriken, smoke pellets, rope, ninja wire, and a few small scrolls. Naruto was armed and ready for anything Kakashi would throw at him.

"Yeah I'm ready. But I wonder why Kakashi sensei asked us to meet up here at six in the morning. I'm still tired." Eva said as she lay down in Naruto's untamable spiky blond hair. "I wonder that same thing but hey we use to go out for our runs around this time years ago so it's nothing new." Naruto said with a chuckle remembering the times him and Eva would be out breaking into stores early in the morning and taking as much supplies and food as they could carry. However they had their morals. They only hit stores that refused to sell them anything when they were little or stores that often had bad customer service and prices. In Naruto and Eva's minds they deserved to get robbed.

"Yeah but we haven't had to do a run in years. We have everything we need and we can just walk into a store under a Transformation Jutsu now." Eva whined as she like Naruto were naturally not morning people even after having to adjust for the sake of Iris and Chaos since they would normally wake up early in the mornings as infants. "Oh don't complain Eva it will be fine we can rest up later on today." Naruto said with a chuckle getting a pout from Eva.

Since the stressful event which occurred yesterday Naruto and Eva have slowly tried to get back into their normal routine and put what happened behind them. After getting home Naruto and Evangeline had a long talk that lasted for hours and they did their best to resolve the issue. She also mentioned the Fairy Daylily and her part in what happened and Naruto voiced his suspicions that he knew something like that were going on for a while. He never mentioned it out of respect for her privacy. In private the two talked for hours and Eva broke down and apologies for what happened.

Checking the time using a watch that Naruto [earned] a few years back Naruto saw that it was now 5:55 and then he heard a noise. Coming from the same entrance as he did was his teammate Sasuke Uchiha and he was five minutes early. Naruto watched as the boy who was wearing a blue high collared shirt with his clan's symbol on the back, beige shorts with a kunai holster on his leg and blue and beige arm warmers sat down in front of the stump next to him. "Good morning." Naruto said politely with a nod of his head. Sasuke saw this and nod back at him out of respect.

While Sasuke and Naruto never really interacted much although that was mostly because Sasuke would shoot down Naruto's advances to reach out to him he still respected the blond haired boy simply for his fighting prowess in their sparing match. None of the other boys and much less the girls in their class could give Sasuke a good workout in their spars except Naruto and sometimes Kiba and his clan's excellent Taijutsu skills. Whenever Naruto would try to reach out and be friendly Sasuke would decline although he tended to do it politely unlike how he handles the rest of his fan girls and others who tries the same thing. Naruto took this as a sign that Sasuke respected him and he left it at that.

However there was one time when 4 older Genin tried to jump Sasuke because of his popularity and because they wanted bragging rights, this happened back when they were in the academy and despite Sasuke's advanced skills he was quickly losing especially since it wasn't a spar and the Genin were not fighting fair. Naruto who was walking by witnessed this and jumped in and him and Sasuke showed off impressive teamwork and beat all four of the older Genin in under two minutes. After giving Sasuke a roll of bandages to help cover up some minor wounds he sustained he smiled at Naruto although it was a microscopic smile that was barely noticeable. Sasuke nodded in his first show of respect to Naruto and verbally thanked him before walking off. That was the last time he ever verbally thanked him but between the two boys they each remembered it.

Five minutes passed and Sakura showed up at 6:00 and she looked like she just got out of bed. Her hair wasn't perfect like she would normally have it and her clothes had wrinkles in them. Sakura was wearing a red qipao dress with white circular designs with short sleeves and a zipper, tight dark green spandex biker shorts, standard ninja sandals, and her headband was in her hair which she used to replace her red ribbon that she used to accentuate her face. "Good morning Sakura." Naruto called out as the 12 year old girl took the other log post next to his. "Oh good morning Naruto." Sakura said politely. Again while Naruto hasn't had much interaction with Sakura which was mostly her fault since she focused more on trying to talk to Sasuke much to Naruto's secret disappointment it didn't stop Naruto from being polite to the girl whenever they had to talk to each other in class. Sakura who had nothing against Naruto personally was polite to the blond haired boy as well.

The three Genin hopefuls stayed in silence for 15 minutes before they each felt the beginning stages of boredom set in. Stretching out his senses Naruto searched the entirety of the Training ground and felt no sign of their late sensei. Although Naruto wasn't particularly expecting to find the man since he's a Jōnin Naruto knew he should be decent at hiding his presence. Sighing Naruto crossed his legs and placed his fist together in his lap. Naruto then closed his eyes and calmed his breathing down. Sasuke looked over out of the corner of his eyes but otherwise he didn't comment. Sakura did however.

"What are you doing Naruto?" With his two teammates here he couldn't talk to Eva so with boredom setting in Naruto decided to meditate and talk to someone else. "I'm meditating Sakura. You should do some basic exercises to loosen yourself up before Kakashi sensei gets here. There's no telling what he will have us do." Naruto advised as his breathing started to even out. Sakura didn't look like she wanted to do any exercises this early in the morning but she had another question. "What about you shouldn't you do some exercises?" Taking a moment for his breathing to finally even out Naruto answered his teammate. "I already did some before coming here."

Seeing Sakura about to ask another question Sasuke cut in and told her to stop bothering Naruto. She relented and the clearing was thrown into silence.


Naruto's Mindscape

Appearing in his mindscape Naruto found himself at the center of his inner world with the World Tree as he took to calling it over to his left and the mountain with the golden gate at the bottom to his right. While curious about what was behind that gate Naruto traveled up the tree and quickly reached the bird cage that housed the great phoenix and his daughter's true form the Goddess Sōkyoku. "Hello! Lady Sōkyoku you there?" Naruto called out into the darkness that was the phoenix's cage. Suddenly two massive green eyes opened up in the void and Naruto could hear earthquake like footsteps that nearly had him loose his balance. Small candle like fires bloomed all around the cage brightening it up just enough for Naruto to see Sōkyoku. [Hello again father.] Sōkyoku voice sounded out.

"Sorry I haven't been around to talk to you for a while. You must have been lonely so I apologize." Naruto said with a bow of respect. [Wait, wait, wait! How many times must I say not to bow before me?] Sōkyoku said with a blush growing on her beak. [Although you are right I suppose. It's been a little lonely without anyone to talk to.] The phoenix rambled as it paced back and forth in front of Naruto. It's a habit he noticed she would do whenever she's embarrassed. Chuckling Naruto sat down on the floor. "Your embarrassed again Sōkyoku." Naruto commented.

[I am not. That's simply preposterous!] Sōkyoku said with a huff and all the flames in the cage got twice as bright before settling back down. Sitting down and tucking her legs underneath her massive frame Sōkyoku towered over Naruto as she peered down at him from her superior height. [So what is it that you wanted to discuss?] She asked. "Well anything really. I was bored and I remembered that I hadn't spoken to you in a while so here I am." Naruto admitted. [I see. Well ask then.] Sōkyoku replied. Feeling bashful Naruto agreed. "Ok this may seem random but what type of accent do you have? I've never heard anything like it before and I'm noticing that it's starting to mix in with Iris's voice now." Naruto asked curiously.

Turning her large head to the side like many birds do Sōkyoku contemplated the question. [Well that's an easy enough question I suppose. It's a language called English. British English to be exact. It's also mixed in with another language called French. Both languages are European in nature so I guess you can say I have a European accent.] Sōkyoku explained. "I've never heard of those languages before and what's European?" Naruto asked his curiosity now peaked. Giggling at the cute curious face Naruto was making the Goddess spoke up. [But of course you wouldn't know of a language such as that. Your world speaks only Japanese with no other languages being mixed in which I've always found odd but I never gave it to much thought.] Sōkyoku conversed. "Huh? So what are those languages then?" Naruto asked.

More than happy to answer the questions Sōkyoku explained the history behind the two languages but didn't elaborate too much on the people that used them. Naruto noticed this fact but he decided not to question it. Their conversation lasted for a long while and it was starting to wine down but Naruto still had something else to ask. "Well Lady Sōkyoku I was wondering since I'm teaching Iris a unique fighting style to compliment her powers; I was wondering if you would teach me something sometime?" Naruto asked as respectfully as he possibly could. Seeing this display a playful look entered Sōkyoku's eyes. [But I am Iris] She said with a giggle. "Oh, uh yeah I keep forgetting that." Naruto said embarrassed as he rubbed the back of his head. [My answer is yes but perhaps another time; besides tell me how is that little speed technique of yours coming along?] The ancient Phoenix asked.

"Well it's coming along great; I'm almost at a breakthrough to increasing my speed in the technique." Naruto admitted with an excited tone. [That's great to hear.] Sōkyoku complimented. "Yeah thanks, I was thinking of expanding this technique and make it an entire branch of skill all on its own. I'm thinking of calling it High End Skill and since learning the Shadow Clone Jutsu I was thinking of coming up with more techniques for this. The one that I started out with which was named Acceleration will be the base for this branch. It will be called Accelerating Turn." Naruto explained his ambition. [That's a very ambitious goal that you have in mind. Do you think you can pull it off?] Sōkyoku asked curiously. "I know I can it's me were talking about here." Naruto said with confidence flowing from every word he spoke. [That's what I like to hear… oh well would you look at that you sensei is coming. A pity I was enjoying our talk.] Sōkyoku said with a disappointed tone. "It's ok I promise I'll talk to you tonight how does that sound?" Naruto asked in a tender fatherly like tone as he stood up and rubbed one of Sōkyoku's massive feathers.

Jumping to her feet with an earth shattering earthquake Sōkyoku's beak was bright red. "Oh ok, you should get going now!" The phoenix said as it consumed Naruto in a plume of fire erasing him from his mindscape and bringing him back to the outside world. Once Naruto was gone Sōkyoku shrunk down to her human form while pacing back and forth. "Why did I react that way?" Sōkyoku asked herself. "Why did it feel so nice to have him talk to me like that?" She wondered as she sat by one of the thick golden bars of her cage. Sōkyoku pouted after a while of not finding the answer she was looking for. She would admit that she didn't think too long or hard on it but that was mostly because she was too embarrassed and she was impatient. It also didn't help that she could hear Chaos's giggling from outside her cage mocking and making fun of her.


Real World

Once back in the real world Naruto suddenly jerked awake while blinking rapidly. His sudden actions scared Sakura since Naruto didn't move in the last 3 hours. 'Sōkyoku can be so weird sometimes. She's so easy to embarrass for a goddess.' Naruto thought to himself with a mental chuckle. He suddenly spread out his senses and sure enough he could feel Kakashi's chakra signature enter the training field he then sensed that it suddenly flickered and in seconds Kakashi was standing in front of them again scaring Sakura at his sudden appearance.

"Yo!" Kakashi said with a lazy wave. "YOU'RE LATE!" Sakura screamed in frustration since it was currently 9:00 so that meant that they were forced to wait for three full hours just like yesterday for Kakashi to show up. "Oh sorry well you see I got lost on the road to life." Kakashi said with his eye shutting in such a way that let you know that he was smiling underneath his mask. All three Genin hopefuls each gave Kakashi a blank stare. 'This guy here. Why does he seem familiar to me?' Naruto thought to himself. He chose to ignore the lame excuse Kakashi used.

Before anyone could comment further Kakashi walked over to the center log post that Naruto was using and placed a timer on the top of it. "Ok everyone here is the rules for this little exercise of ours. The clock is set for 3 hours and once it goes off your time is up now here is your objective." Kakashi explained as he then reached into his pocket and produced two small silver jingle bells attached to a small red string. Kakashi then tied the bells to his waist. "Your objective is to get one of the two bells that I have on my person." Kakashi said lazily. "But Kakashi sensei there is only two bells." Sakura pointed out after seeing only two bells. "When times up the person that does not have a bell will lose and be tied to the post where everyone else will eat their lunch and you will go hungry. Oh I almost forgot the person that fails will also be sent back to the academy." Kakashi explained and this got everyone's attention. 'So that's how it is? But something doesn't feel right about this.' Naruto thought suspiciously.

"Ok now that everything's been explained when I say go the match will begin. Oh and if you don't come at me with the intention of killing me where I stand then I can guarantee you that you will not get a bell." Kakashi warned with a smile.

Hearing this all three Genin tensed their muscles in preparations. "Ok 3…2…1… go!" Kakashi said and like that all three Genin took off to hide. After a moment Kakashi hummed in approval. "They hid well." He complimented.


With Naruto

'Ok here we go. Now the question is how am I going to get a bell from him?' Naruto thought to himself as he gazed down at Kakashi from a tree. 'I don't particularly want to fight him, but then again I can't fully do that without going all out against him and that will reveal my powers to everyone. I don't want that. So what to do.' Naruto strategized as he watched Kakashi stand in the middle of the clearing. "What's the plan Naru?" Eva asked her partner. "I'm not sure Eva. I don't want to reveal our powers so soon. But we will have to fight him if we want a bell." Naruto explained. "Well then let's do this." Eva suggested as she explained her plan to Naruto.


With Kakashi

'So who's going to attack first?' Kakashi contemplated as he already found out where everyone was seconds after they finished hiding, now he was just waiting for someone to make a move. Suddenly to his right he heard and saw movement as Naruto came out of the tree line walking towards Kakashi at a calm pace. Once he reached Kakashi Naruto waved his hand in greeting. "Hey Kakashi sensei nice morning isn't it?" Naruto struck up a conversation. "Yes you're quite right it is a nice morning. You know your quite different than the other two, you know you should have stayed hidden with the others right and plot out a strategy to get the bells from me." Kakashi offered his advice in an amusing tone. "Yeah you're right and I did come up with a strategy." Naruto said as he smiled. Intrigued Kakashi decided to indulge Naruto. "Oh and what might that be?"

"Can I please have one of the bells Kakashi sensei?" Naruto asked politely with a nice smile on his face.

'Huh?'

That was the collective thought on everyone's mind as Naruto dropped that random bomb on everyone. Recovering Kakashi responded to Naruto in an unsure sounding tone. "Um Naruto when I said you had to get a bell I didn't mean you just come up and ask for one." Kakashi stated. "Well you never said we couldn't so how about it Kakashi sensei can I have one?" Naruto asked again. "Uhhhh… No." Kakashi deadpanned at seeing Naruto's insistence.

"Well that was worth a shot I guess." Naruto said with a shrug of his shoulders as he suddenly and without warning violently explodes engulfing the area around Kakashi in a large explosion of fire.

BOOM!

'What they heck? Naruto blew himself up?!' Sakura questioned in her mind as she simply couldn't understand what was going on. 'What on earth? How did he do that?' Sasuke thought as he clenched his fist tightly. He narrowed his eyes as he saw Kakashi jump out of the cloud of smoke with smoke trails clinging to his body. 'Now I wasn't expecting this. He's got more tricks… wait it's not over.' Kakashi thought as he saw multiple shuriken fly out of the cloud of smoke and race towards his position. Taking out a kunai Kakashi deflected the shuriken thrown at him. Landing on his feet and skidding across the ground Kakashi came to a stop by the river and waited for Naruto's next move.

'Now!' Naruto thought as he and four other shadow clones jumped out of the river and attacked Kakashi from behind. Falling back Naruto let his clones go ahead of him. The first clone came in with a simple punch to see how Kakashi would handle it and as he expected Kakashi deflected the punch without wasting any movement whatsoever. Using the same arm that just blocked the first clones punch Kakashi deflected a jumping roundhouse kick from another Naruto while simultaneously jumping over a sliding kick and roundhouse kicking the fourth clone who was coming in from his left side in the face dispelling it easily. Lashing out with a viscous and fast knife chop Kakashi struck the first clone in the neck and elbowed the second clone in the face both dispelling them instantly. Round house kicking the last clone Kakashi stood back up and watched the original Naruto who was also watching the exchange in front of him go down.

"Pretty good. I must admit I'm impressed. To be able to use the Shadow Clone Jutsu at such an age is really good." Kakashi said as he eyed Naruto carefully. "Thanks." Naruto said as he blurred from the spot he was in. Getting on guard Kakashi blocked a fast leg sweep by Naruto and stepped back to avoid a rising leg sweep with his other leg. Jumping to his feet Naruto quickly threw a shuriken at Kakashi's waist were the bells were but Kakashi caught the shuriken on his finger and with a flick of his wrist sent it back at Naruto who sidestepped it but also taking his eyes off of Kakashi for a split second and that was all it took for Kakashi to bury his foot in Naruto's stomach which sent the 12 year old flying back to the river side.

"Ok I take that back that was better than good. I'm starting to like you but I'll let you cool off for a minute I have to go play with your teammates after all." Kakashi said before without warning his body was littered by over a dozen shuriken and kunai courtesy of Sasuke who thought he had an opening. Widening his eyes Naruto watched as Kakashi's body exploded in a plume of white smoke and suddenly a log was in his place.

"Substitution Jutsu." Naruto muttered as he could no longer sense Kakashi in the area. He was most likely after Sasuke who they both knew threw those weapons. "Well that could have gone better." Eva said sarcastically. "Yeah but we weren't even serious with him. We could have pushed him much harder if we were actually fighting at our full strength." Naruto said as he sat up while holding his stomach in slight discomfort. "Yeah so what now? Going head on didn't work and we can't team up to bring out our full power so what's next?" Evangeline questioned. "Well I guess we have…" Naruto began to say before he was cut off by a loud girlish scream.

"And that was the pink haired girl." Eva deadpanned. Sighing Naruto got up and headed in Sakura's direction. Once he got there he saw her lying on the ground unconscious. "What happened to her?" Eva asked without much care in her voice. Looking at Sakura carefully Naruto reached out and touched her shoulder and pulled it back. "She's under a weak Genjutsu." Naruto explained. "Oh great." Eva commented dryly. "I'll wake her up." Naruto said as he placed his hand on her forehead. "Genjutsu: Release." Naruto said as he sent a pulse of chakra into Sakura that woke her up from the Genjutsu she was under. "Huh! What's going on? I saw Sasuke and he was hurt and…" Sakura started to say before she was silence when Naruto placed a hand over her mouth. "Enough Sakura. You were under a Genjutsu. It wasn't real." Naruto soothed.

Sitting up Sakura looked around and then at Naruto and more specifically the hand that was on her mouth. Wanting to scream Sakura instead slapped Naruto's hand of her mouth. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Sakura yelled in fright. "Waking you up from your Genjutsu induced dream." Naruto deadpanned. Before Sakura could ask any more questions Naruto made the universal sign of be quiet by putting a finger over his own lips.

"Listen we don't have time for talking. Kakashi is most likely engaging Sasuke right now and if we have any chance at getting a bell for ourselves then we must move now." Naruto said in finality. "Ok, but wait what about Sasuke?" Sakura asked. "I don't know; we all can't get a bell so one of us has to go down." Naruto said was he stood up. "But that's not fair." Sakura said with worry in her tone. "It can't be helped." Naruto said as he was going to say more but a small boom and what looked like a fire was coming from the direction of the side field. "Come on we have to move." Naruto said as he took off to the field with Sakura behind him.

Reaching the field Naruto and Sakura saw no sign of Kakashi or Sasuke. Narrowing his eyes Naruto took out a kunai and cautiously walked into the clearing with Sakura bringing up his rear. Walking around a small patch of trees that was blocking his view Naruto suddenly stopped dead in his and blinked his eyes, when the scene in front of him didn't disappear he did it again a few more times to make sure what he was seeing was real.

Sasuke was literally buried alive. The only visible part on his body was actually his head. It was taking everything in Naruto's power not to laugh at the sight. Eva was covering her mouth as best she could so she wouldn't blow their cover by laughing to death. "Huh Naruto why did you stop?" Sakura asked as she came up from behind Naruto. Sakura saw Sasuke's head and she stopped dead in her tracks. Naruto could see the gears in her head turning at the sight and after that she simply fainted. Naruto reached out and grabbed her before she hit her head on the ground. "Good grief. What is with her?" Eva asked in slight annoyance. "I know. She's going to need a lot of work. But she has potential." Naruto said supportively although he himself is slightly annoyed with his teammate's performance so far.

"If you say so. I'll believe it when I see it." Eva said disappointedly. Carrying Sakura over to where Sasuke was Naruto squatted down in front of Sasuke with a grin on his face. "Yo Sasuke I see you stuck your neck out for the team." Naruto laughed at his own lame joke. Growling in anger Sasuke wasn't too happy right now. "This isn't the time for you jokes Naruto!"

"You're right I got ahead of myself." Naruto laughed once more. "Your jokes aren't funny Naruto!" Sasuke barked in anger. "Yeah, yeah I know I'm not that much of a jokester. I prefer pranks and I have to say this is the perfect setup for one and I'm kind of jealous I never thought of it." Naruto said as he pumped chakra into the ground around Sasuke to loosen it up and free the boy. Naruto added Water Nature Chakra to the mix to make the process go faster. Grabbing Sasuke by the head Naruto yanked the last Uchiha out of the ground with mud and dirt sticking to his body.

Taking a small break Naruto woke Sakura up and the three Genin hopefuls gathered around each other and rested up. "Ok so going at him all by ourselves didn't really work now did it?" Naruto stated sarcastically. "Then what do we do? All of us can't get a bell." Sakura added in. "I have no intention of going back to the academy. I've come too far." Sasuke said firmly. "I second that." Naruto added in loosely. "Well we have to get the bells somehow; and even if we do who is going to keep them?" Sakura pointed out one of the big problems. "Well whoever gets it gets it but it's clear to me that none of us can get one on our own." Naruto chided. 'Well I might but I would have to go all out with the intention of hurting Kakashi and even then it's still a might. He's a lot stronger than what he's letting on.' Naruto thought to himself privately as he looked at both his teammates.

'Wait teammates? Why put us on a team of three if only two can pass. That doesn't make any sense. I've never seen a Genin squad of only three members before. That team from last year… what was their team name again. Oh yeah Team 9 they have four members if I remember correctly. Three Genin and a Jōnin not two Genin and one Jōnin. So what's going on?' Naruto thought with narrowed eyes as things were not adding up.

"Hey guys have you ever heard of a two man squad led by a Jōnin?" Naruto spoke up while waiting for their answers. Looking confused but still willing to answer Sakura spoke up. "Well no not really I always thought it was three." Sitting up Sasuke joined in. "Something's not right about what Kakashi said to us." Putting his hand on his chin Naruto turned the gears in his mind. "What did Kakashi tell us yesterday about the exam I wasn't listening?" Naruto asked. "He said that out of the 27 graduates from our class only 9 will be Genin." Sakura said slowly as she started to get it.

"Then that's it we've been tricked. Through any normal test if you're eliminate 18 of the graduates you will be left with 9 but let's say we pass but only two of us. Wouldn't that mean 8 Genin instead of 9?" Naruto theorized. "He lied to us." Sasuke said as he punched the ground. "Yep I don't think the test is about getting the bells. The bells are just a tool. He wants us to fight each other. Individually we can't take him on as we all just experienced but he can't fight all three of us." Naruto said with conviction in his voice. "But he took you and those weird clones of yours down easily." Sakura added in with uncertainty in her voice.

"I wasn't really trying and those clones had the same moves and thought the same as me. Plus they are dispelled with one hit. We are three different people with three different ways of thinking and our advantage is that we won't pop form a single hit." Naruto said with a smirk on his face. "I think I get it." Sakura said excitingly. "I see what you're saying so we should work together. But what do you have in mind?" Sasuke said as he looked at Naruto with a hidden curious look on his face. He wouldn't admit it but he was curious about what was going on inside of Naruto's mind.

"Sakura do you know any Genjutsu?" Naruto asked. "Um not many, I only know a few basic ones. But they are all weak and they won't work on someone like Kakashi sensei let alone beat him." Sakura said dejectedly. "Who said anything about beating him?" Naruto said with a smirk on his face.

"Here's what we will do."


With Kakashi

"So what are they up too? They've been in the forest for a while now." Kakashi said as he pulled out a brown covered book with a lighter beige color in the center of the book where the title was. "Not my first choice but why not." Kakashi shrugged his shoulders. After a few minutes he heard rustling in the bushes and looking over he saw Naruto come out the bushes for the second time today. "Coming to talk again Naruto?" Kakashi mused. "Yep. You bet." Naruto said with a smile. "I hope you don't blow up on me again." Kakashi said with fake worry in his voice. "No, no none of that. I was just wondering if the offer for the bells was still on the table." Naruto asked. "No I'm sorry their not." Kakashi refused although on the inside he was prepared to jump away. "That's a shame. So what are you reading? It seems like you aren't paying attention to me." Naruto said as he casually strolled around Kakashi with Kakashi being on guard. "Oh but I am paying attention to you Naruto." Kakashi said in a cryptic weird tone.

"I see so does that mean I have to fight you for the bells then?" Naruto questioned. "You're more than welcome to try." Kakashi offered with an eye smile. "Then I'll take you up on that offer." Naruto replied with his own smile as he blurred from his position and appeared above Kakashi with a falling axe kick in mind. 'Ice Style: Frost Step Jutsu!' Naruto shouted in his mind as his foot made contact with Kakashi's outstretched forearm. The second his foot touched Kakashi's arm the grey haired Jōnin immediately felt his arm start to get really cold and numb. Kicking off Naruto launched a barrage of punches and kicks at Kakashi that he either dodged or blocked. 'Ice Style: Frost Touch Jutsu.' Naruto thought. Each time he managed to get one of his attacks blocked by Kakashi he would start to lightly freeze the man's body. It was not enough to be visibly noticeable on the surface but he was rapidly cooling down the older ninja's body with each hit.

In the cover of one of the nearby bushes Sakura and Sasuke were about to make their move. "Do it now Sakura." Sasuke said as he got ready. "Right. Genjutsu: Perception Delay." Sakura called out as she focused in on Kakashi and nailed him with her Genjutsu. Jumping back from landing another barrage at his sensei Naruto saw Kakashi twitch and that let him know what to do next. Putting his finger in a cross shaped pattern Naruto called out. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Next to him 6 clones appeared around him. Quickly throwing down a smoke bomb immediately afterwards Kakashi found himself trapped in a large cloud of smoke. Jumping out of the smoke Kakashi suddenly came face to face with 7 Sasuke's and several of them were going through hand signs.

"Fire Style: Fire Ball Jutsu!" Sasuke called out. Out of Sasuke's mouth came a medium sized fire ball that was actually pretty big for a kid his age and it also takes quite the bit of chakra for the average kid their age to accomplish. Next to him several other clones that looked like him went through hands signs as well and blew out a gust of wind that fueled the fire ball making it 4 times the size as it originally was.

Kakashi disappeared as he was consumed by the raging flames of the massive fire ball. Landing on the ground Sasuke threw several shuriken into the fire storm raging in front of him. Naruto who was on the other side of the massive bonfire saw Kakashi exit the flames with his flak jacket badly singed with many other burn marks littered across his body. Seeing several of Sasuke's thrown shuriken emerging from the fire as well making their way to Kakashi Naruto knew now was his chance. 'Alright girls I only need a little.' Naruto prayed as he closed his eyes and when he opened them they were a darker shade of blue that glowed with a whitish color for a brief moment. 'Now! Accel Turn!' Using Acceleration which he renamed Accel Turn Naruto closed the gap between Kakashi and himself in less than two seconds. While Kakashi was reacting to the thrown shuriken coming at him Naruto blurred past him while snatching the bells right off of his belt.

Naruto timed it just perfectly so that the large wall of fire would hide him from Sasuke's and Sakura's view. Also with Kakashi focused on the incoming shuriken that were on fire he wouldn't be able to see or react to Naruto until it was too late. Skidding to a halt Naruto grinned as he held the bells in his hands. "Gotcha." Naruto said triumphantly. Naruto's silent victory was cut short however when he heard Sakura let out a startled cry.

Whipping his head in Sakura's direction Naruto saw Kakashi holding Sakura in a light chokehold with an eye smile on his face. "What?" Naruto questioned in shock. Hearing the sound of popping Naruto saw the Kakashi he swiped the bells from go up in smoke and so did the bells in his hands. "Looking for these? Well these are the real ones. Trying to pass with fakes won't really do you any good Naruto." Kakashi said with another eye smile while holding up the actual pair of bells attached to his waist. You could clearly hear the amusement in the older Jōnin's voice as he gazed at all three of his students.

'He's really good.' Naruto admitted. He could feel his respect for the grey haired Jōnin going up as he fell into Kakashi's trap. "Now what to do, you guys have made this difficult for me." Kakashi said contemplatively just as the clock he left on the stump rang signaling that time was up.

"We lost didn't we?" Sakura asked dejectedly. "Well not necessarily. You guys did pull together towards the end but you Sakura didn't contribute enough to the effort and you didn't even try coming for the bells on your own. After starting you went looking for Sasuke and while I'll give you some points for that you didn't go looking for him with all the right reasons in mind. So with that being said you will be tied to the post and Sasuke and Naruto will get to eat their lunch." Kakashi explained.

Sakura was shocked by this and tried to protest but Kakashi swiftly tied her to the log post and handed Sasuke and Naruto a bento. "Now as for you two you both did excellent. You Sasuke came close to getting a bell you even managed to touch one during our scuffle and you showed an impressive display of the Fire Ball Jutsu as well, but you decided to go it alone and didn't come to Sakura's aid earlier. But with that being said you will be getting a bento." Kakashi said as he reviewed Sasuke's performance.

Turning to Naruto Kakashi spoke up. "Now Naruto I'm quite impressed by your performance. You academy scores place you towards the bottom of your class but at the same time you've scored at the top of the class for physical and practical application of Ninja skills. But with that being said your use of the Shadow Clone Jutsu was impressive for someone your age and quite frankly it shouldn't even be possible for someone your age. Your battle skills are quite advanced and your combination of Shadow Clones and the Transformation Jutsu during the battle was a wise tactical move. Also you went to the aid of Sakura and helped not only her and Sasuke out. I'm also to assume that you came up with the strategy to attack and steal these bells from be am I correct?" Kakashi asked as he also reviewed Naruto's performance during the test.

"Yes I did." Naruto answered simply. He was curious about where Kakashi was going with his analysis. "I see, good job on that Naruto. As you can see Naruto I have a lot of good things to say about your performance today and I'll admit that it was great but I have one big problem with your performance." Kakashi stated as he looked directly into Naruto's now shocked eyes. Sakura and Sasuke were also looking on in both shock and anticipation.

"What did I do wrong Kakashi sensei?" Naruto asked as he wanted to know what Kakashi was trying to hint at. "Oh it's not what you did wrong Naruto, it was what you were going to do wrong that has me concerned. You are elusive, clever, sneaky, and a pretty good thief. Those are all excellent qualities in a Shinobi and they will be skills that you would need in the future but I'm afraid they have no use to you in the way that you employed them. So let me ask you this Naruto. Let's say the bells you snatched earlier were the real ones. Who were you going to give a bell to?" Kakashi asked simply but the implications were clear to everyone there.

Widening his eyes in shock Naruto understood what Kakashi was trying to say. Sakura and Sasuke were also looking at Naruto but the look on their face was clear to Naruto. They also wanted to know the answer to that question. Thinking it over Naruto suddenly looked down in shame. "I don't know Kakashi sensei; I don't know who I would have given it to." Naruto admitted as he realized he didn't know who he would have given the second bell two. He wasn't vindictive or greedy enough to step over someone else and achieve his own goals. Ok so in some cases he would but not now in a situation like this when he's been in school with his two teammates for the last 4 years. 6 with Sakura since she entered the academy at age 6 and then transferred over to the Shinobi core classes two years later.

Naruto didn't want to cheat Sakura out of a chance of becoming a Shinobi if he didn't give her a bell. He would admit that his soft spot for cute girls and just girls in general was making it hard to throw her under the carriage so to speak and the fact that he knew she had potential was another reason why he didn't want to turn his back to her. Now while he would admit that Sakura wasn't the prettiest girl in the world and he was not attracted to her he would be lying if he said she wasn't at least cute so that was complicating things for him.

As for Sasuke Naruto respected the boys fighting ability and he understood that Sasuke wanted revenge on his older brother for massacring their entire clan. Sasuke worked hard during his time in the academy to reach where he is now and Naruto didn't have it in him to undermine his fellow teammate and get in his way. Naruto simply didn't have it in him and he didn't want to be that type of person either.

Looking at himself he may have gone through some very tough hardships to graduate especially on the day of graduation but in the end Naruto realized that Sakura if she didn't graduate she would end up with a civilian job or re-apply for the academy, Sasuke would very well still be placed on a team as it would undermine the villages military strength to keep a skilled Ninja off the roster and as for himself Naruto knew that he always had the Mafia to fall back on if anything happen and an even more disturbing thought that he recently learned and put together is that it would be foolish of the higher ups to keep him in the academy since as the village's Jinchūriki he is the village's secret weapon and a symbol of the military might the Leaf Village possess which is further amplified since he is the host to the Nine Tails. It was a slightly depressing thought to Naruto that some people in the village only viewed him as a weapon. He wasn't naïve enough to believe that some people didn't view him that way. He knows it's true.

"And that is why none of you are ready. However you three interest me so I'll give you another shot after lunch to prove to me that you have what it takes. With that being said I'll be back in a few minutes I have to go grab something's." Kakashi said calmly as he starts to walk away. Stopping Kakashi looks over his shoulder and gives the three Genin parting words. "Oh and don't feed Sakura you two or you won't like the consequences." Kakashi said with a cheerful eye smile as he disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

After a few minutes Sasuke dug into his lunch as Naruto opened his and started to play around with it. He couldn't get what Kakashi said out of his mind. Thinking about it he realizes that he has more growing up to do and he felt slightly ashamed of what his actions implicated. 'I'm going to have to do things a little differently from now on.' Naruto told himself. Hearing Sakura's stomach growl from obvious hunger Naruto felt guilty and pity for the girl. "Hear Sakura eat up." Naruto said as he turned to his tied up team mate. "What are you saying Naruto. Kakashi said you can't feed me." Sakura exclaimed but it was clear on her face that she wanted to eat the bento. "You will need your strength when Kakashi sensei gives us a second chance and we can't do that with you on an empty stomach." Naruto pushed.

Seeing this Sasuke sighed as he also turned to Sakura. "Here." Sasuke said simply while not looking at Sakura. The pink haired girl had hearts in her eyes as her crush offered his lunch to her. After a few minutes of them bickering who would feed Sakura since she was tied up Naruto dumped the responsibility on Sasuke. He didn't feel comfortable feeding Sakura for a few reasons.

One he didn't know her that well even if they have been in the same class together for six years.

Two he was a little shy about the thought of feeding someone his age especially a girl.

Three when he thought about it the image of Hinata, Henrietta and surprisingly enough Eva would briefly flicker in his mind greatly confusing him.

Four he was avoiding female contact with other girls around his age because despite the long talk they had Naruto and Eva were still walking on egg shells since yesterday and he didn't want to upset her again. Being completely honest with himself Naruto's heart couldn't bear having Eva angry at him again.

Finally five, Naruto would admit it was a petty reason but he adamantly refused to feed anyone else besides Iris and Chaos and that was because of his childish view that he must baby them and spoil them. It was a petty and childish reason and he knew it but he didn't care. The only way he would do that for someone else would be if they were very sick or incapacitated and couldn't help themselves. Since Sakura was fine and it was just a test Naruto was sticking by his word.

Being fed Sakura could feel her stomach being sated. This feeling wouldn't last however as the sky around the clearing darkened and a crushing presence surrounded them. Looking up the three pre-teens saw Kakashi walking up to them with a furious expression burning in his only visible eye. 'This chakra is very strong. It's overwhelming. I say it's about the level a veteran ANBU agent would have. It's still not quite up there with Shoko's when she releases her chakra but still it's powerful.' Naruto theorized as Kakashi suddenly dwarf them. 'This is bad what's going to happen.' Naruto thought. Sasuke and Sakura were of similar thoughts and Sakura was panicking. She didn't want the two boys to suffer for helping her.

Naruto wasn't fairing any better. All of his instincts were screaming at him because they were reacting badly to Kakashi's presence and killing intent. His instincts were telling him to either attack or retreat from Kakashi.

"I thought I told you not to feed her?!" Kakashi said furiously. Standing up partly because his instincts were getting hard for him to control in the face of Kakashi's encompassing killing intent and partially to shield Sakura form Kakashi's wrath Naruto stood defiantly in front of his sensei. "I know you told us not to feed her but if we were to take the test again Sakura would be left in the same boat as before. She wouldn't be useful to the team and this time it wouldn't be by bad choices on her part." Naruto said. "He's right. She needs her strength if we are to continue. She's in this just like we are." Sasuke added in his own piece.

"I see. Are you ready for your punishment then?" Kakashi said in a menacing tone as his killing intent soared to another level. Naruto was already stockpiling his chakra to perform three techniques on instinct just in case. Sakura had tears in her eyes as she was not use to any kind on killing intent and she was close to urinating herself out of fear.

"You all past." Kakashi said happily as the dark clouds and his killing intent disappeared so fast that you would have to wonder if they were even their to begin with.

"What?" All three Genin asked in bewilderment.

"You all pass." Kakashi repeated. Seeing their confused faces Kakashi smiled as he explained to them the true purpose of the Bell test. Suffice to say they were all shocked as they all started to think back to their time in the academy and how Iruka and all the teachers would stress the importance of teamwork and realization set in as they remembered all the discreet hints Iruka would leave them like a skilled ninja, ever so slowly preparing them for their future.

Seeing them starting to get it Kakashi untied Sakura and brought all three of them over to the memorial stone where he showed them some of the names of the Shinobi who lost their lives in service to the village. Giving them a speech Kakashi finished it off with a line that has been with him for a very long time.

"So guys this is probably going to be the most important lesson I can teach you guys and it will be worth more than any Jutsu you learn." Kakashi said as he got their full attention.

"Those who break the rules and regulations will be regarded as trash in the Shinobi World; but those who abandon their friends are worse than trash." Kakashi said in a melancholic voice. He sounded as if he both heard and spoke these words close to his heart and judging by the faraway look on his face it would be safe to say so. 'This man. Those words were great. They are definitely something I could get behind. Believe it.' Naruto thought to himself in his mind using that verbal tick he picked up from Chaos a long time ago.

After saying his piece Kakashi waved goodbye saying he had somewhere to be. The man disappeared in a Body Flicker. Sighing Naruto looked at his two teammates who were looking contemplative about Kakashi's words. Before he could say anything Sasuke started to walk away and Sakura suddenly perked up and started to follow the last Uchiha pestering him for a date. "Back to square one. Here I thought that Kakashi sensei's words would have at least stuck in their heads." Naruto said with a sigh as he was left in the clearing. "Meh… it was too much to ask for." Eva spoke up suddenly. "Yeah, worth a shot though. Oh well lets head home Eva." Naruto said as he picked up his bag and left the clearing.

Kakashi who was up in a tree closed the brown book in his hands. The title of the book read: "The Tales of the Utterly Gutsy Ninja" in bold Kanji. "Naruto Uzumaki, let's see how interesting things are going to get." The silver haired Jōnin said as he placed the book back into his pouch and pulled out a familiar orange book that read: "Icha-Icha Paradise."

"Now what page was I on?"


Jutsu Library

1.) Transformation Jutsu - One of the three basic Jutsu's required by the academy for everyone (with exceptions of course) to master in order to pass or at the very least to adequately on. The user coats themselves in a thin layer of chakra that projects the image of someone or something else onto the user. While simple the technique can be used in multiple ways and advanced users of this technique can mask themselves in the guise of other objects that don't typically match their body size, shape, weight, or height. Also advanced users can also change of their voice and mannerisms to match that of the thing they have transformed into.

2.) High End Skill - Naruto firmly believes that he can increase the speed of his Acceleration technique. He believes that he's only scratched the surface of the techniques power and speed. As such he has dedicated himself to coming up with variations of his original base technique Acceleration. The first branch will be a direct off shoot of the base technique and as such when using it he calls it Accel Turn. However Naruto believes with some creativity and ingenuity as well as his stubbornness and drive he can create other branches that use variations of Acceleration. So with that in mind he decided to name this new branch of skills and potential skills under the banner of High End Skills because of the difficulty and skill needed to use them.

3.) Shadow Clone Jutsu - A Jutsu invented by the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju. The technique was created to be used to spy on an enemy without fear of going in person. The Jutsu works by splitting the chakra of the user evenly in two which makes the clone have half of the users chakra. By creating multiple clones the fraction in which you have to split your chakra becomes larger. The clones can think independently of one another and can use any technique that the original can use as long as they have enough chakra to use it. A clone can feel pain and can even bleed but it will be dispelled if it is hit hard enough. The unique ability of the Jutsu is that during the clones entire life span it is recording everything that its five senses experiences and upon dispelling all of that information is transferred back to the caster of the Jutsu. Because of this training or learning something new that would take an extended amount of time can be cut down to a fraction of the time depending on the amount of clones you use. Because you have multiple people learning the same thing at the same time and having all of that knowledge compiled into one person it can speed up the time it takes to learn something.

4.) Substitution Jutsu - One of the three basic Jutsu's required by the academy for everyone (with exceptions of course) to master in order to pass or at the very least to adequately on. This Jutsu is simple in how it works. The user searches or senses out a target and with his chakra he will identify that target and latch onto that object or target with his chakra. Then using his chakra like a beacon and transmitter the user will jump to the location of the object causing the object to switch places with the user so that the user can reconnect with his chakra in a space not already being taken up by said object.

5.) Genjutsu: Release - The most basic of chakra control techniques as well as the beginning tier in Genjutsu. The jutsu simply involves you injecting your own chakra into another person's chakra network to disturb it and wake the person up from a Genjutsu that they may be under at the time.

6.) Ice Style: Frost Step Jutsu - A move used by Naruto that allows him to freeze an opponent's feet or any object that his feet come into contact with.

7.) Ice Style: Frost Touch Jutsu - A move that is identical to Ice Style: Frost Step Jutsu. However this jutsu is not limited to Naruto's feet. Any body part that Naruto uses to strike an opponent with will freeze the person's body instantly. However Naruto can control the temperature of his ice so that he can either rapidly cool down a persons body just by touch or outright freeze the person solid.

8.) Genjutsu: Perception Delay - A basic genjutsu that causes the target's perception of reality to slow down. The target will feel everything going in slow motion. However the effectiveness of this jutsu depends on the skill of the caster. This technique like most genjutsu are mainly used as tricks and delay tactics as well as distractions.

9.) Fire Style: Fire Ball Jutsu - The Hallmark Jutsu of the Land of Fire and the Hidden leaf Village and founded by the famous Uchiha Clan the Fire ball Jutsu is the go to fire style Jutsu as well as a right of passage in the Uchiha clan. The Jutsu spews forth a fire ball from the mouth of the user and the size of the technique is depended on the amount of Chakra used by the user. The Jutsu is the gateway Jutsu to many other advanced and powerful fire style Jutsu.

10.) Accel Turn - The name of Acceleration. This is the first level of Acceleration that Naruto has been using for years. Naruto believes that he can increase the speed of Acceleration to new levels and as such he with that believe firmly in mind has dedicated himself to creating a whole sub group of skills for that technique alone.


Authors Note (A/N): Hey guys so I hope you enjoyed that show down. Team 7 is now formed with a few bumps along the way. This was a really interesting chapter to write so lets review.

- For starters Naruto has come back to visit Lady Sokyoku to speak with her.

- He learns some interesting history lessons from her.

- He speaks his mind about his ambition to create his own sub group of techniques.

- We learn that Sokyoku despite being an ancient Goddess is easily embarrassed amongst other things.

- Moving on to the fight just as expected we find that Kakashi is no push over and was just toying with them easily.

- We learn that given the opportunity Naruto will tell some bad jokes.

- We learn that Naruto despite how good he thinks he is still has some growing up to do as well as some conflict with his own morals.

- We also learn that Naruto has a rather bais and childish view on who he would ever dare feed and why.

- Kakashi gives Team 7 his most important lesson speech.

- Lastly we find a little scene with a certain book at the end of this chapter. It also refers to an earlier statement made in this chapter.

So there you have it guys that was Team 7 and the Bell Test. At least my version of how it went. Now some might shake their heads at the jokes I had Naruto telling to Sasuke but I'm the kind of person who if one of my friends found themselves in some crazy weird situation like that I would be the first one to start making the most jokes about them. Mostly because if the situation was reversed they would probably do the same to me. After that I would definitely help them out and probably get punched in the process.

Also Naruto decided to spend some time with Lady Sokyoku and she gave him a history lesson on the different languages and accents. When writing this I thought that if you had the chance to speak with an Ancient Goddess for an unlimited amount of time then asking "What are the secrets of the Universe?" or some other stereotypical question like that would be boring and lame. So I had Naruto ask her a question that would naturally be born from someone's curiosity especially if they were witnessing a change in their child and the only one who could possibly have the answers you were looking for was that Goddess.

So other than that I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. I'll admit it was a weird one to write and it was quite challenging in some aspects. Especially since I didn't want to fall into the general mold of how the Bell Test is usually depicted in many Fanfics and while I know it can't be completely avoided I tried my best to make it original or at the very least something that fits in with the rest of the story.

So with that being said I hope you guys really liked this chapter. This is the last one for a little bit since I'm going on a long awaited vacation with my family. Once I get back in about a week or so I'll resume with all of my content. So thanks everyone for the support and don't forget to leave a review. They really help and are greatly appreciated.


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Published: 7/21/15