So yeah sorry it took so long to finish this chapter, but it was seriously a pain to write plus I procrastinated a lot. Hopefully the next one will come out in a week but no promises. Anyways if you enjoy and want to see me write some more remember a favorite or follow always helps. Also feedback is always appreciated.


Hokage's office

Hiruzen in the middle of smoking a pipe drops it in shock after Iruka bursted inside his office through the doors. Iruka stomped towards hiruzen and slammed his hands on his desk. Realizing he'd just insulted the Hokage immediately regretted his actions, but continued anyway, "Lord Third please forgive my rude arrival, but can you please explain this" Iruka said before showing him the paper for team 7.

The old man sighed, "Well it's team 7 composed of Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, Naruto Uzumaki, and Kakashi Hatake..."

"That's exactly my point" Iruka cut off, "Why in the world would you choose Kakashi Hatake of all people to lead them, I mean surely there was a better choice"

Hiruzen leaned down picking up his pipe from the ground, "No. He was the clear choice." Hiruzen bluntly responded before lighting his pipe.

"B-but..." Iruka was silent, he didn't know what to say. He stopped and collected his thoughts, "Lord Third, while I don't understand you're reasoning, I'd like to ask if you've at least taken into consideration the fact that Kakashi Hatake is the only Jonin in the history of Konaha to send his students back to the academy?"

"I understand you're worried Iruka, truly I do, but here's the thing Kakashi wasn't wrong to send those kids back to the academy" the old man said sincerely.

Iruka saw the old Kages face as he curiously asked, "w-what do you mean?"


Konaha Forest: Training Fields

The day was hot, and hiding underneath a bush didn't exactly make it better. Sakura did her best to not make even the slightest sound, but no matter how hard she tried she couldn't calm her beating heart.

Her sensei words rung in her head. She had to get one of those bells, but that was easier said than done though. A few minutes ago she might have had some confidence in her ability to complete the mission. However everything changed once she saw what her sensei was truly capable of.

It seemed as though he teleported, however it was clear it wasn't a jutsu, he was just that fast. As if things weren't already bad enough with his speed, sakura saw the look in sasuke's eyes were just like her. Sasuke was dumbfounded by their sensei's speed. Which could only mean that... "That even you weren't able to see him" sakura thought while suppressing the chill in her spine.

If it were any ordinary genin then she wouldn't have been a fraction as worried, but sasuke wasn't any ordinary genin. As much as she hated that prideful bastard, she'd be lying in saying he didn't have reason to act like a cocky little punk. After all, he was without a doubt talented. He wasn't named the top genin, and fawned over by all the girls for no reason.

In spite of all of sasuke's titles their sensei casually moved at a speed sasuke couldn't perceive and that scared sakura more than anything. It gave her this unshakable fear, because if sasuke couldn't complete the assignment with easy her chances are practically no existent. Still she couldn't fail, she had to get one of those bells, so she devised a strategy, "I-i just h-have to wait for one of my teammates to get him to drop his guard then I'll strike. I-it's not t-the best plan, a-and the others w-will probably do the same, but it's all I got." sakura shook no longer being able to suppress it.

Sasuke hanging on top of a tree hidden by it's leaves had a great view of the area and kakashi hatake who was still sitting on the wooden pole with his eyes closed. Sasuke clenched his fist, before he thought passing would be a breeze, but now he's faced with an incredible roadblock. "Kakashi Hatake,", Sasuke thought while sneering, "You deceived me, I was wrong to underestimate you, but I won't do that again. I see what you were trying to do, get us confident by playing the fool, then smack us down filling us with fear by showing your true colors."

Sasuke glanced over a couple meters to his left as he heard shaking coming from a bush, he rolled his eyes, "and it seems as though it worked, but I won't be so easily defeated. I have a goal and nothing is gonna stop me from accomplishing it. Not even you."

Kakashi sat silently as he hummed a simple melody. After he finished he grabbed and flipped over the hourglass, "The mission has started." Kakashi announced. He had a vague idea of what to expect based on the information he gathered on his possible students.

"Alright Mr Kakashi! I hope you're ready for the fight of your life! Believe it!" Naruto announced with his arms crossed, facing Kakashi in the middle of a field.

Kakashi wasn't completely surprised, but still he certainly wasn't expecting such an upfront assault.

"Are you an idiot!" Sakura thought.

Sasuke smirked

"You know compared to the others you're not very bright." kakashi said in disappointment.

"Oh yeah, I'll show you how bright I am, at kicking your butt!" Naruto roared charging at Kakashi.

"That didn't even make sense" Sakura remarked as she facepalmed.

As naruto got closer kakashi reached for his back which caused naruto to stop dead in his tracks. "He's not going for his s-sword is he?" Naruto shook in fear. He saw earlier when his sensei first arrived that he had a sword strapped to his back, but did he really plan to use it?

Sakura's eyes popped out, was her sensei really about to use a blade against his student, "You are allowed to use any weapons you have against me, If you're not prepared to kill me then you won't be able to pass" she remembered his words back then. "I-I... Don't tell me that that a-applies to him to" sakura shivered aloud.

Sasuke was shocked to say the least. As a chill ran down his spine. For the first time in a long time he felt fear. He hated this feeling more than anything, however he wasn't afraid of death necessarily, but the possibility he might never accomplish his goal.

Just then kakashi pulled out a book from behind his back.

"What the..." The genin all thought of at once.

"Well what are you waiting for? Go one make your move." Kakashi said as he opened and began reading the book, "Besides with attacks as weak as yours it doesn't really matter."

Like before a vein popped in naruto's neck as he charged forward, "You're dead!" He yelled before unleashing a jumping kick. Naturally kakashi dodged it, but naruto wasn't done as he continuously threw more kicks and punches which in turn would be dodged just as easily.

From afar sakura and sasuke were stunned as they couldn't even perceive kakashi's dodges, he simply seemed to shift from one position to the other.

Eventually after one final punch, naruto had lost sign kakashi's whereabouts before hearing from behind, "You know you really shouldn't let your enemy get behind you all the time."

Sakura gasped as she noticed kakashi had weaved a hand sign for a Jutsu, "he... He's really gonna..."

"He's gonna kill him." Sasuke thought as he prepared to jump kakashi the moment he released his jutsu. Sure it would have been at the cost of naruto's life but sasuke didn't care, still he did feel the slightest bit of regret in letting the blond die, but it was nothing compared to his need to pass this test.

"Naruto get away from there!" sakura yelled out catching naruto's, sasuke's, and kakashi's attention.

"Too late, Leaf village Secret Finger Jutsu: 1000 years of death!" Kakashi uttered before jabbing his hands straight up naruto's butt.

Naruto groaned as the uncomfortable sensation travelled up his body as he was then quickly sent flying through the air into a lake.

Both sasuke and sakura gave looks with a mixture of confusion, shock, and utter disappointment.

"H-he just poked him?!" Sakura stood irritated.

"Those two are complete morons" Sasuke signed

Kakashi afterwards simply returned to reading his book.

Underwater, naruto was filled with anger at being humiliated like that. He was gonna make kakashi pay for that, and it's gonna start by stealing those bells from him.

Naruto drenched in water climbed out of the pool breathing heavily.

"You know for someone who's gonna be the greatest Hokage you're not looking to good." Kakashi mocked.

"Well it's not my fault, you sabotaged me by tricking me into not eating breakfast, but that doesn't matter I'll still get one of those bells from you. I can't fail you know, cause then all me hard work would go to waste, I'm not going back to the academy that's not an option. So I will get one of those bells, Believe it!" Naruto preached.

Kakashi with his back turned was motionless he wasn't even reading his book as though he was lost in thought.

"Did you hear me!" Naruto yelled.

"I did" Kakashi said emotionlessly, "But actions speak louder than words, so come prove to me you're worthy of being a genin. Take these bells from me boy or else all that talk is worth nothing."

Naruto grinned, from behind kakashi another naruto charged in silence as he reached for the bells but was slapped away quickly.

"Damnit almost had him there, but it's fine I'm nowhere near done." Naruto thinks before two more shadow clones come at Kakashi from the sky and from beneath the ground. Kakashi casually grabs and tosses them away.

Sakura is stunned, from what she was seeing it seemed as though Naruto had made physical clones of himself, and from what she's read in the library Jutsu's like that could only be used by Jonin because of the sheer amount of chakra and skill required to create a clone. Yet Naruto before her eyes had created 3 clones of himself.

Sasuke's jaw dropped. He couldn't believe his eyes, naruto last place in the academy knew a Jutsu more advanced than anything he knew. "No that can't be possible, he's weak, he's not strong, this has to be some kind of mistake" Sasuke tried to rationalize as his heart beat increased before taking deep breaths calming himself down.

Kakashi looked around as naruto and his 3 clones surrounded him from 4 directions. "So this is the Jutsu he used to take down mizuki, or at least a version of it. Not quite 1000 shadow clones, but still remarkable for someone of his level." Kakashi studied.

"Alright Kakashi, I'm impressed with your performance so far but it ends here. Prepare to give those bells to me your future Hokage!" The naruto's said in unison before rushing the Jonin at once.

The man signed, "You know naruto, here's a thing you got to understand, you act as though you're the best and like becoming Hokage is mere inches away but..." Kakashi preached as he dodged everyone of naruto's attacks even with his clone's help he wasn't even getting close, "You are years away from even reaching Chunin!" Kakashi yelled out as he kicked the real naruto several feet away, and took out his sword from his back which turned white and with one long swing cut through all of naruto's clones as the horrible sound of his swing cutting through the air echoed around the training grounds.

Naruto on his back was left stunned as the place he once stood was covered in dust that was caused by Kakashi swinging his blade.

Sakura was also left speechless at kakashi's display of power.

Sasuke's eyes darked as he grabbed a kunai from his pouch and clutched it tightly. He knew that it likely didn't matter, but taking the kunai out of his poach would be wasting precious seconds to throw the kunai that would take down Kakashi. He knew that if he wanted those bells every second saved mattered.

When the dust settled Kakashi was gone, naruto stood up looking around but saw no sight of him. Then he noticed the sun's glare off the metal of a bell on the grass where Kakashi once stood. Naruto then laughed before rushing over to pick up the bell, "haha you moron looks like you dropped a bellllll!" Naruto was cut off as he was suddenly dangling legs first from a rope tied to a tree. He was caught in a trap.

Sakura facepalmed, "What was that idiot thinking, of course it was a trap! Only someone with half a brain would fall for that."

On the other hand Sasuke paid little attention on naruto's stupidity and more so on kakashi's awareness, "This man, he never drops his guard, I haven't noticed it until now, but not once against even naruto had he ever dropped his guard, let alone relaxed... He puts on this carefree persona, but in reality he's quite the opposite. Always aware, always prepared, never makes a mistake, that's the kind of person Kakashi Hatake is" sasuke praised with an irritated grin on his face.

Naruto still hanging upside down struggled to get out of the trap despite his best efforts, "I thought this might be obvious, but I guess I have to spell it out, a ninja must see through deception, especially when the bait is obvious." Kakashi mocked as he stood just out of reach of the dangling naruto.

"I know I know, I get it!" Naruto grunted out still trying to breakout of the trap.

"I'm telling you this because you don't get it. Saying you get it isn't the same as actually getting it, although I guess I'm asking to much from a screw up like you. Last in the class, yet chasing an impossible dream, truly hilarious." kakashi said as his eye lit up from amusement, before crouching down to pick up the bell.

As kakashi reached down for the bells sasuke's eyes shot open, "This is it! His guards down now's my chance." The window was small but sasuke had noticed that kakashi's shoulders were always stiff, but the moment he went to grab the bells the slight movement of his muscles had indicated that he had relaxed perhaps for only a moment, but a moment was all sasuke needed as he threw the kunai in his hands as hard as he could.

The kunai seemed to have impaled as sasuke clutched his fist in victory.

Sakura watched as kakashi mocked naruto, more than anything she was captivated by his words. It was as if he knew naruto despite only knowing him for the better part of a day. Then she saw a kunai being thrown as it headed straight for kakashi's neck as it appeared to have connected she shrieked in terror believing he had just died, but she realized Kakashi was no longer there as the kunai hadn't impaled kakashi but a lot of wood, "substitution" sakura quickly realized.

"No i-impossible how could he h-have..." Sasuke thought but was interrupted as a hand touched his shoulder.

"Found you" kakashi said from behind.

Sasuke's eyes were full of terror, "he tricked me, h-he must of known that I would attack the moment he dropped his guard so he prepared a substitution while he purposely dropped his guard."

Sakura saw as Sasuke flew through the air before crashing down fully exposed in the field, "Sasuke he found, wait a minute you threw the kunai didn't you, well of course it was you, and he baited you into giving up you're position. What a genius."

"Impressive right" kakashi remarked from behind Sakura.

Sakura froze, "H-how did.."

"You were the one who screamed out, and didn't bother moving positions this is on you." kakashi said.

"oh" sakura squeaked

Sakura was tossed through the air and she braced for her crash, but it never came as she was caught by sasuke in mid air. Sasuke held her in his arms before setting her on her feet. She desperately fought a blush, again she was annoyed at how much pull he had over her.

"I didn't need your help." She tried to yell but it came out as more of a whimper.

Then suddenly multiple shurikens pierced sasuke from every direction as his blood dripped down all across his body, "s-a-ku-raa..." The bloodied sasuke moaned.

Sakura's was horrified at the sight, her world was spinning, she wanted to hurl, water began engulfing her eyes, "s-sasuke..." She whimpered, before being struck in the head from behind. She was knocked out as her sensei stood over her and sighed, before leaving her.

Sasuke was on his knees as he panted heavily. He felt hopeless, he wasted his one chance, and for that he was gonna be sent back to the academy, "No. I'm going to get one of those bells and then I'm going to continue on my path to avenge my clan. I will avenge them all and kill him!" He told himself and stood up with newfound resolve.

"Hey can you cut me down" naruto asked still dangling from a tree behind him.

"Why would I do that it's as I said every man for himself!" Sasuke angrily replied.

"Wait I can be helpful, you saw I have shadow clones they can at the very least be a good distraction so you can get a bell, but please if you don't cut me down I'll be out of this mission for sure, you won't regret please you gotta believe it!" naruto desperately tried to reason.

Sasuke was stunned, for once the blond actually made a good point.

"So you gonna cut him down Uchiha." Kakashi mocked from across the field, "I thought the uchiha clan was the most powerful clan in Konaha and yet the only surviving member is begging for help"

"I wasn't BEGGING! THE ONLY ONE WHO'S GONNA BE BEGGING IS YOU ONCE I'M DONE WITH YOU" sasuke furiously screamed as he rushed towards kakashi weaving some hands signs as he ran.

Fire style: Fireball Jutsu

Suddenly a huge wave of fire came out of Sasuke's mouth as it engulfed the area where kakashi once stood.

Naruto's eye's popped at the seer heat and size of the fireball and when it was all set and done Kakashi was nowhere to be seen, " don't tell me obliterated him" naruto said in awe.

It took a second for sasuke to calm down as he released heavy breaths, doing that Jutsu usually takes a lot out of him, and he especially overexerted himself because of his anger.

Suddenly the ground opened behind him as a hand grabbed his leg, "what in the?"

Earth style: Headhunter Jutsu

He thought before being pulled down into the earth as he was trapped leaving him as only a head sticking out from the ground. Sasuke tried to break his body out from beneath the hole but it was useless.

Kakashi then came up a few feet in front of sasuke from the earth with sakura over his shoulder. He dropped her on grass around sasuke.

Sasuke and Naruto both watched as kakashi careless dropped sakura, as naruto once again tried to breakout but to no avail.

Kakashi walked over to the hourglass and announced, "We have around another hour and a half left to go. Great just enough time to finish my book."

Naruto continued trying to breakout as Sasuke had a defeated look in his eyes it was as though he wanted to cry but he never did.


1 hour and 30 minutes later

Naruto was tied to the pole as an empty sasuke sat to his right, and sakura rubbing her head sat to his left. They were all for the most part broken as kakashi held the hourglass with all the sand having reached the bottom.

All their stomachs began to growl in hunger, and to sakura's and sasuke's surprise kakashi had thrown them a pack of lunch boxes. They both stared at him in confusion as naruto groaned in jealously.

"Your stomachs are growling right?" kakashi questioned, "Well eat up?"

Sakura and sasuke didn't touch the food and only stared at Kakashi. Eventually sakura asked, "Well when are you gonna send us back to the academy?"

"Oh yeah that, you see I decided I wasn't going to send you back."

All the Genin stopped realizing what he said as they all celebrated with naruto yelling out that he pasted, sakura crying, and sasuke chuckling.

"And that's because I'm personally seeing to it that none of you ever become ninja."

All their hearts stopped. There was a chilling a silence.

"Why..." naruto asked in a whimper.

"Why!" Kakashi laughs at the question then composes himself, "Well it's because you don't think like ninja you think like kids, brats, every single one of you! Naruto you charge in head first without even the slightest thought before hand you'd be the first dead! Sasuke you think you're so much better than everybody else to the point you can't think of anyone else but yourself you'd be the second one dead! And sakura you did absolutely nothing and were useless to your teammates and to yourself, so you'd might as well be dead before the battle even started. Stupid, Arragant, and Useless that's what this team is. You didn't even figure out the purpose of this exercise" kakashi answers with anger and a hint of disappointment.

"There was a point..." Naruto stupidity asks.

"Yes There was a point" kakashi imitates naruto, "Why did you think we put you on squads? Did you all ever even consider that?"

"W-what do you mean?" Sakura questions.

"What I mean is that you all never realized what this exercise is all about, not even close. And realizing it is what would've determined whether you passed or failed."

"Bu-bu... I-I wanted to ask you that earlier..." Sakura blubbered.

Kakashi sighed, "tsk, come on use your own heads. Three people on a squad. Why do you think we would do that? Come give me an answer!"

"Teamwork..." Sasuke said coldly, "that's what this exercise was about wasn't"

"Precisely, if all of you were able to work together you might have been able to get at least one bell, but it's too late now!"

"But wait, if that was the test why would you only have two bells." Sakura asked

"Because that's the point of the test, you were supposed to put aside your differences and work together, despite the possibility that one of you would certainly fail. It's a tuff choice for most, but for a ninja it's daily life, you'll have to leave and abandon comrades that you've known for the sake of the missions, and those comrades must for fill their roles for the sake of the missions."

Sakura pushed to silence by kakashi's words, and Sasuke was motionless.

"What do you know! You're just some teacher. You probably don't know anything! Abandoning people is wrong do you here me! It's wrong! There is no way in hell that we do that! We would never do that the old man wouldn't allow it." Naruto passionately yelled while continuing to fight against his bonds.

"You ignorant child" Kakashi muttered before making some hand signs and slamming his hand on the ground.

Summoning Jutsu

The ground around team 7 shook, as a smooth and complexly shaped stone came from the ground before them.

"Do you know what this is?" Kakashi asked in an empty tone.

"That's just a dumb rock! Who car-" Naruto yelled.

"LOOK CLOSER" Kakashi interrupted with a fury.

The quick tone swift in kakashi's shifted naruto's train of thought. From the corner of his eye he saw sakura cover her mouth, "why is she?" He then he heard sharp breaths coming from his right, "Sasuke too, what in the..." Then he saw it on the stone and he noticed it had hundreds of names on it.

"What is this?"

"It's a stone with the names of some of the greatest Shinobi in Konaha's history, everyone here is a hero, a legend." Kakashi said with his eyes glued to the stone.

Naruto looked on with awe, "So if I get on this stone I'll be a legend." Then he smirked, "Ha so who needs to be Hokage if I can get my name written then I'll be a legend! So what do I gotta do to be on it"

Everyone was silent, naruto noticing that all eyes were on him assumed he did something wrong, "why are they all looking at me like that? Did I say something wrong"

Then Kakashi said plainly, "Die"

"W-what" naruto said befuddled.

"If you want to get on one of these stone then you have to die during a successful mission." Kakashi clarified but never taking his glaze off the stone.

He was speechless, naruto's stomach was in knots, he just mocked the dead. Then he truly realized the weight of Kakashi's words, "w-wait s-so you're telling me all those people on that stone, died to accomplish a mission, and they were a-abandoned" naruto shivered.

Kakashi was silent and so were the kids. "Who said this was the only stone?" Kakashi depressingly continued before once again slamming his hand on the ground.

Summoning Jutsu

Suddenly hundreds more stones appeared from the ground all around them filling most of the clearing.

Sakura nearly passed out, Sasuke was shaking, and naruto's jaw was wide open.

"All these people, were Shinobi who gave their lives for the sake if completing their missions, some were sacrificed, others were simple casualties, many were older than me, and many more were younger than even you. However all of them played a role in this nations survival in their own ways. Which is how they got onto these stones. Every shinobi should strive to be on these stones at the moment of their death, and with the way you performed on this test none of you would ever make it onto this stone so why make you proper ninja?"

The Genin were silent all with their heads down. After hearing kakashi's words all of them were filled with fear, but naruto also had a hint of anger. Why was this the norm, why does everyone strive for this end. It didn't make any sense to naruto, and it made him angry.

"Listen here and listen carefully. I'm gonna give you all one last chance." Kakashi said sternly as he threw sasuke and sakura lunches, "I'm gonna repeat the exercise in 20 minutes so eat up and get your strength back, but DO NOT give any to naruto and that is an order. Ninja must listen to those higher ranked than them those are the rules, and if you ever hope to get your name on a stone like that then you must never break the rules, otherwise your as good as scum." Kakashi said and flashed away.


15 minutes later

Naruto tied to the pole watched enviously as his teammates slowly are their dishes. It wasn't malicious it's just that sakura and sasuke had lost most of their apatite. Still the two are because they needed too.

Naruto groaned, he didn't want to be the reason they failed but he was so hungry it was killing him, "i-it's fine guys d-don't w-worry about me I'll pull through, b-believe it..." he preached weakly.

Sasuke sighed, "Here take a bite." As he lifted his plate up too naruto.

Both naruto and sakura were surprised.

"Um sasuke he clearly said to not give naruto anything." sakura reminded the uchiha.

"He's not even here, besides if we are gonna do this then we all need to be at full strength, sakura give him some too."

Sakura flinched, she didn't exactly want to give naruto some food, but sasuke was right they need him at full strength if they wanted even a chance to beat kakashi, after all his shadow clone jutsu would be incredibly valuable. "Fine, I guess you're right." She conceded.

The two took turns feeding naruto, and it seemed relatively successful at first, then a massive gust of power wind came their way, as sakura and sasuke struggled to stand up.

"YOU!" Kakashi roared with a newly seen fury, "You broke the rules! I hope you're ready for the punishment!"

Naruto screamed out of shock, Sakura was about to get on her knees and beg for forgiveness, but Sasuke yelled out, "Sakura get ready, don't back down get on guard and prepare for a fight!"

Sakura looked at sasuke, but there was no time to think and on instinct took out a kunai and prepared for battle despite shaking like crazy.

"So you're gonna fight huh!"

Sasuke said nothing as he stared at kakashi with a determined look, and sakura too although far less confident

"Well then, YOU... pass" he ended with a grin.

The three Genin each had a confused look not truly grasping what kakashi had just said.

"W-what do you mean?" Sakura finally questioned.

"I mean what I said, you pass." Kakashi chuckled and elaborated, "You're the first squad to ever pass my test, everyone else just blindly followed my orders, they couldn't think for themselves. After all a ninja must see through deception"

"Wait so does that mean we're worthy to be on that stone?" Sakura asked.

"Oh heavens no, you'd be scrutinized for ever helping naruto and abandoning you're orders. But listen close because this is something I want you to remember, those who break the rules are regarded as scum, but those who abandon their friends are worse thsn scum." Kakashi said.

Naruto couldn't help but slightly tear up at kakashi's words, "you know maybe kakashi... no kakashi sensei is a pretty cool guy after all" he thought.

Sakura laughed, whether it was from pure happiness, or built up stress being released she didn't know all she knew was, "I passed, I'm a ninja" she thought.

Sasuke took a deep breath of relief. It felt ridiculously good. It was as though it was the first one he'd taken in years.

"The exercise is over, everyone passes! Team 7 starts it's first real mission tomorrow!" Kakashi smiled behind his mask giving a big thumbs up to his students.

"Yes!" Sakura unknowingly let out.

Sasuke exhaled with his eyes closed giving no apparent reaction.

"Yes Yes Yes, I'm a ninja ha I'm a ninja" naruto celebrated still tied to the stump.

"Alright you're all free to go" kakashi grinned as he walked away. Sasuke and Sakura did the same.

"Huh, no wait! Oh you funny bastards! Hey wait! You guys forgot to untie me!" Naruto called out.


Ninja Academy Lesson: Ninja Ranks

"Iruka sensei, Iruka sensei"

"Oh hey what's up naruto"

"I wanted to ask you what are the ninja ranks of Konaha."

"Oh naruto we went over this in the academy don't you remember."

"Oh could you please explain it one more time"

"Alright fine, there are 4 ranks of shinobi, Genin, Chunin, Jonin, and Kage and they rank in that order. By far the most populated rank is chunin, followed by genin, the Jonin, and lastly Kage. There is only one Kage per ninja village and they usually are considered the strongest in there lands. Of course it is important to remember that a ninjas strength isn't entirely determined by there rank, so keep that in mind in your future endeavors."

"Wow iruka sensei thanks for the information, but wait how does one advance in the ranks."

"Sorry naruto but I'm out of time, I'll tell you another time goodbye."


Alright so I'm uploading this very late so I'll keep it short, cause I'm going to bed. Sorry I took 3 weeks off to write this chapter, I'll try to be more consistent but man I had heavy writers block when it came to sakura.

anyways hope you enjoyed this regardless and please fell free to favorite or follow. Also apologies if there are any spelling mistakes of grammatical errors I'll probably go back and fix it later, but I'm to tired to do it right now and I just really want to get this out finally.