Chapter 2

Last time:

Though the jounin looked lazy, he was thinking a lot, ' so this is the last survivor of the Uchiha.' " last one…" the teacher looked at Naruto.

The blond still starring at the clouds began, " my name is Uzumaki Naruto. I like a lot of things. I dislike a lot of things. My dream is to become a hokage and to kill a snake."

Now… to the story…

Sakura arched an eyebrow. " snake? And to tell that you're a ninja! You haven't even killed one?" she said this with sarcasm in her voice.

Naruto looked at his pink haired team mate. " well… it's not an ordinary snake that you can just kill out there on the woods. That snake is special." then he looked at his sensei,

" right, kakashi-sensei." He gave him a smile before looking back at the sky.

If you were a good observant you would say that kakashi in return smiled to Naruto as the fabric that was covering the half of his face was moving. Again, Sakura's face showed much more confusion.

"now then… tomorrow, meet me at the 1trainging grounds. Umh… around 7 am. And don't eat breakfast, you'll just throw it up. Bye." With that said he vanished leaving smokes.

Next day

Naruto woke up 6:30 in the morning. Knowing his sensei well, he didn't even tried to move fast. He left his apartment 7:15. He knew what his teacher was up to, so putting the 'don't-eat-breakfast' aside he stopped at Ichiraku to eat his favourite ramen. For that morning he just ate 2 ramens. He arrived at the training grounds almost 8 a.m. When he was near the 3 logs, he can see his girl team mate's angry face.

" oi!" Naruto called. " I bet Kakashi-sensei isn't here yet! Am I right." He said not in question but in statement. He was so sure that their sensei wasn't the type to show up early.

10:00 a.m.

" mou! He is very late. It's 10 already!" Sakura stomped her feet several times then kicked the log beside her. " if he isn't going to show up then I'll just leave…" as if that was the magic word their sensei arrived. His right hand was raised to the level of his face as if saying hi.

" yo!"

The right eyebrow of sakura was raised and was twitching. " DON'T 'YO' ME! YOU WERE THREE HOURS LATE! IT WAS GOD DAMNED THREE HOURS!" good thing Kakashi was a 'always alert ninja', he immediately put ear plugs to his ear. And it was good thing that Sasuke and Naruto was kilometres away from them.

After Sakura's shoutings the two shinobis walked back to where Kakashi and Sakura was. " you better have a good explanation for this one." Sakura warned.

" well you see… I was on my way here but a horde of black cats were blocking my way and so I needed to avoi-" kakashi was rudely cut by his student.

" Liar!" sakura shouted.

Kakashi scratched the back of his head. " well… I'll be straight to the point. Today we'll have a survival training." He then got something from his pocket. " as you can see I have bells here," he held the bell up and moved it so it would make sounds. " you three must get this before this clock rings." He laid the clock on top of the log.

Sakura just snorted. " haven't we have enough training at the academy?"

The copy ninja glanced at her, " I forgot to tell that this is part of the test. This is to know if you would be fitted at the ninja world or perhaps go back to the academy and train. If you can't get a bell then you will fail and be tied to that log and I'll eat your lunch in front of you. Oh, and you will be brought back to the academy. This test has a 66.6 of failure rate." He explained.

" what? No way!" Naruto shouted.

" then what about all those trainings we have passed. It will just be all wasted." Sakura said.

"then...so be it." Kakashi said. " if you don't want to… there is always an option, you could quit being a ninja or try to be one by doing this test. So, what's your choice?"

Naruto tied his hitai-ate tighter. " I'll never back out of this test even if I go back to the academy!"

Sasuke just looked at him then nodded. Seeing that, Sakura joined the team.

" so it's settled… the training starts… now!" Kakashi said as he pulled out his perverted book.

As the team heard the word now, they went to different directions and hid themselves. Sasuke is hiding in the trees right in front of Kakashi. Sakura is on the west wing of the training field. Naruto is hiding at the bushes at the back of Kakashi. The copy ninja could detect Sasuke and Sakura as if they were just in front of him, sitting like ducks. ' hmm… guess he wanted to take this seriously.' He thought as he was looking for the hiding place of Naruto.

Naruto was smirking to himself. He didn't want to obey the things his sensei had told him. He didn't want to hold back just for his team mates. He knew what this test is for, for he had tried it once.

flash back

"oi! You blonde-boy! " A boy with greenish hair called Naruto's attention. His grey orbs looked into the sapphire orbs of his team mate. His name is Gin ok. I won't give them surnames coz I suck at naming characters. " why don't you help me get out of here!"

Naruto glanced at him then turned his whole body towards Gin. He decided to free him from the net that was hanging in the tree which is one of the traps their sensei had set. He calmly walked towards the green haired boy. " you know, you can hurry up if you like." Gin said while rocking the net.

" but it's so tiring." Then Naruto remembered something, he got a shuriken from his holster which he threw to cut the rope. With the sudden action, the boy fell with out warning. He landed ungracefully with his butt making contact with the bumpy ground.

Out of nowhere, their other two team mates arrived. The first one was a girl with long wavy honey-brown locks that were neatly tied in a high pony-tail and she had dark brown eyes, her name is Akiru. The other one is a boy with his black left eye and a blue one on his right and he has dark brown hair that had reached his shoulder but it was tidily tied in a low pony-tale, his name is Hotaru. " what are you two idiots doing?" Akiru raised an eye brow to them as she placed a hand on her hip.

Naruto grinned to them, " nothing really." The green haired boy and Naruto stepped closer to the other two shinobis. " I thought we were going to get him by cooperating with each other? What had happened?" the blond boy asked in mono tone.

Hotaru scratched his head before answering him. " well actually… he got me by surprise. He used a clone to attack us on our spot then Gin suddenly vanished from my sight." He said briefly.

They looked at the only girl in the team, now it was Akiru's turn to explain what happened to her. " cough… the clone fought with me using taijutsu only. Then I was pushed back at the forest."

Then she looked at Gin so the other two followed her gaze. " hehehe…when I vanished from your sight I was cut into that trap, " he pointed the branched of the tree where the remains of the net and rope was hanging.

After the short explanation they all turned to look at the youngest member of the group the three genins are one year older than naru and Naru is only 11 in this flash back . " huh?" he pointed himself. " me…? Well I was just left unharmed in my spot then none of you signalled me or moved so I tried to find all of you then I saw Gin and you guys."

The girl gritted her teeth, " that was totally unfair! Why did Kakashi-sensei leave you unharmed!" by this time now, after saying that aloud, she was trying to calm her self a bit.

" Any way… let's renew our plan." Hotaru started the plan. " since your senses are reliable," the long-haired boy looked at the green headed boy, " you'll tell us if he is near. I'm kind of sure that he will be hiding. Akiru, could you use the kage mane?" he averted his gaze to the girl.

"uhn. I think I can for only two or three minutes."

"good that will buy us some time." He angled his head to the direction where Naruto is, " Naruto, you and I will get the bells as soon as Akiru uses the Kage mane. If not successful, we will keep him busy while you get the bells since you're the fastest here." They all nodded to their acting leader.

A.N: so what do you think? good? bad? worse? any comments and suggestions are welcome