Previously on Naruto…
"Team Seven. Naruto Uzumaki, Peri Senju, and Sasuke Uchiha"
"WHAT!" Naruto exclaimed
Dark lines appeared on Peri's forehead as he sulked to herself. "I'm doomed."
"You've gotta be kidding me." Sasuke groaned annoyed
"And Sakura Haruno will be placed on this team until further notice. Now the next group." Iruka said before continuing listing the squads.
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"Who would have never thought an Uchiha and a Senju could possibly be on the same team." Izumo said.
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"What the hell do you know about being alone? You go home every day with food on the table and clothes on your back. You have no idea how it feels not to see your parents in the morning knowing that you will never see them again! People like you make me sick! You take everything for granted not knowing how lucky you are to still have a family!" Peri yelled.
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"Well, how do I say this? My first impression….you're a bunch of idiots." the man said bored.
The group made their way up to the academy roof. Naruto was sitting on Peri's left while Sakura was sitting on her right the closest to Sasuke. And Kakashi was in front of them leaning against the rail. "Alright why don't you all introduce yourselves one at a time." the silver-haired man said bored.
"What should we say? Why don't you go first so we can know what to do." Naruto suggests.
"Me? I'm Kakashi Hatake. Things I like and things I hate...I don't feel like telling you that. I don't feel like telling you my dreams for the future and well...I have lots of hobbies." the man said.
"That was stupid he only told us his name," Peri whispered. Naruto nodded in agreement.
"Okay you on the right, you go first." Kakashi said.
"Believe it, I'm Naruto Uzumaki! I like ramen in a cup and I love Ichiraku Ramen. But I hate the three minute wait. My hobby is comparing different kinds of ramen and my dream is to become the greatest hokage! That way all of the villagers will start treating me like somebody important!" he cheered
(He's grown up in a very interesting way.) Kakashi noted, "Next."
"I'm Sakura Haruno. What I like-I mean the person I like is….uh my hobby is….and my dream for the future…KYA~!" she squealed looking at a certain Uchiha.
"I'm gonna puke." Peri groaned, rolling her eyes. Sakura just glared at her before batting her eyes at Sasuke who ignored her.
(Girls like her are more interested in boys than ninjutsu.) Kakashi sighed annoyed. "Next."
"My name is Sasuke Uchiha. I hate a lot of things and I don't particularly like anything. What I have is not a dream because I WILL make it a reality. I'm gonna restore my clan and destroy a certain someone." Sasuke said darkly.
A tense silence was laid in the group.
(Geez I hope he's not talking about me.) Naruto whimpered.
(Sasuke is so...HOT!) Sakura cooed.
( "Restoring his clan?" Isn't he too young for that?) Peri sweat dropped.
(It's just what I thought.) Kakashi thought sadly. He's had his work cut out for him, but maybe he could help him more. "Alright, you're up next Princess." he said to the last member.
"My name is Peri Senju. I love to go fishing I don't like bullies or arrogance. My hobbies are to train and take walks, my dream is to be the strongest shinobi in the world!" Peri smiled with determination.
(The Will of Fire..at such a young age. Nice to know there's at least one girl that's interested in becoming a ninja.) Kakashi said to himself watching Naruto and Peri arguing about who would become the hokage first before breaking it up. "Alright then, you're all different in your own special way." he said, crossing his arms.
"So what's gonna be our first mission, sensei?" Naruto asked
"It's gonna be a task that we're gonna do together." Kakashi began.
"So what will it be?" Peri asked (Maybe we'll fight a pirate or protect royalty!)
"...A survival test." the jounin finally said.
Talk about a total let down.
"But why? We already did that several times at the academy. That's how we graduated." Sakura said however, the Kakashi just laughed at her.
"Hey what she said was true, what's so funny?" Peri asked, confused.
"Out of the twenty-seven students that graduated only nine will be accepted as genin. So to put it basically, this is a make it or break it a pass-fail test." Kakashi explained.
All four genin looked like they got punched in the face. "S-So what was the graduation exam for!" the Senju asked, gaining her voice.
"Oh, that was just to select the candidates. I'm the one who decides if you become a ninja or not. Now be at the third designated training ground at five in the morning and bring your ninja gear." Kakashi said standing up.
"Is there anything else sensei?" Peri asked. She wanted to be prepared for this sudden exam especially since the test will decide if she gets to become a ninja at all.
"Yeah. Don't eat breakfast or else you'll puke." Kakashi smiled.
-The Next Morning-
Peri ran full speed to the training ground at a frantic pace. (Oh no, oh no, oh no! I can't believe I overslept on the one day I can't over afford too! I'm never gonna become a ninja now!) the girl wailed urging her legs to go faster until she finally made it as she collapsed to the ground face first. "I thought you bought a new alarm clock?" Naruto asked
"It broke. Is Kakashi Sensei here?" she mumbled, still face down.
"We're still waiting for him." Sasuke said
"Then let me sleep." Peri said, closing her eyes.
-Two hours later-
"Good morning everyone. Sorry, I'm late a black cat crossed my path so I had to go around." Kakashi said, watching the Senju rubbing the sleep from her eyes. Then he walked over and set a timer on top of a small wooden pillar. "The test is very simple. You have to take these two bells from me that's all." Kakashi explained holding up two small bells.
(Why only two bells?) Peri pondered to herself.
"You have until noon to get a bell. If you fail then you'll be tied up and watch me eat my lunch in front of you."
"So that's why you told us not to eat." Sasuke groaned. His stomach was so loud he could hear. So we're Naruto's and Sakura's.
"Wait we weren't supposed to eat?" the brunette said dumbfounded.
"Of course he said that yesterday!" the Uchiha said, but the girl just stuck her tongue out at him.
"Hold on a minute. Why are there only two bells and there's four of us?" Sakura asked
"Because only two of you will pass and the other two will be tied up and set back to the Academy. You're free to use all of your ninja gear if you're not prepared to kill me you won't pass." Kakashi finished their explanation and placed the bells on his hip.
"This will be easy! Especially since you couldn't dodge an eraser!" the Uzumaki laughed
"Class clowns are usually the weakest link. They can safely be ignored." the jounin taunted and that really got under the blonde boy's skin. Quickly, Naruto charged at the silver-haired man with a kunai, but he disappeared right before their very eyes and reappeared behind him restraining him.
(I couldn't even see him move!) Peri gasped
(So he is a jounin.) Sasuke thought.
"Don't be so impatient. I didn't say start yet, but you did come with the intent to kill. I'm starting to like you guys." Kakashi said, slightly impressed. The four genins took a couple of steps back. "Get ready….Start!" he ordered and the four dove for cover.
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At the Hokage's office, Hiruzen Sarutobi was sipping his coffee looking over some paperwork. Much to his dismay. "I hope Kakashi doesn't go too hard on them." he said softly looking out his window.
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Peri was hiding in a tree watching Naruto trying to fight their sensei. She bit her lip as Kakashi blocked all of Naruto's attacks again and again. (This is impossible! There's no way we can beat Kakashi Sensei he's a join in! ) she said as her teammate tried to attack the silver-haired ninja once again.
(But….what if we work together? If Naruto used his shadow clones to distract him with Sasuke and I attacking from both sides, Sakura can grab the bells. That's it! Sensei doesn't expect us to beat him, he wants us to work together. He wants us to work as a team!) Peri gasped in realization, "I gotta tell the others!" she said.
"Hey, he dropped a bell!" Naruto grinned.
"No, you twit it's a trap!" Peri yelled running over to him.
But it was too late. Naruto reaches to grab it, but a rope tied itself around his foot as he hung upside down from the tree. Kakashi shook his head with a sigh bending down to pick up the bell. "Think before you use a jutsu or else your opponent will use it against you. By the way, if the bait is obvious don't take it." he smiled.
Naruto scowled in frustration.
"A ninja must see through deception." Kakashi advised.
"I. GET. IT!" the tied up blonde growled, trying to break free. Kakashi continued to lecture him, but then he was blasted in the face with twelve shuriken falling to the ground in a cloud of smoke.
(Damn it was only a clone and I fell for it!) Sasuke inwardly cursed himself, speeding through the woods with Sakura not too far behind him. Peri was looking at the broken log analyzing it her teacher was crafty and there was no way four kids can beat him. "Naruto, how about we team up so we can sensei?" she asked him, cutting him loose. Her friend landed on his feet shaking his head, "Sorry Peri, but I gotta do this on my own to be Hokage!" he yelled running off. The Senju swallowed a frustrated growl before heading off to find somebody, she had two other teammates.
"EEEEYYYYAAAHHH!" a scream tore through the area.
She followed the scream to find her pink-haired teammate unconscious. She still had a pulse so the girl was only under a genjutsu. "Release!" Peri said, breaking the jutsu
"Sasuke! I gotta find him!" Sakura yelled looking around for her crush. Senju put a hand on her shoulder to calm her down, "Relax you were just under a genjutsu. Let's work together to-"
"No way I gotta help Sasuke!" she retorted, running away. Annoyed, she went to find the Uchiha. Hopefully, he would help her fight Kakashi. When she did find him he was already in the midst of fighting their sensei.
Sasuke threw a kunai at the silver-haired jounin who dodged however five other kunai were released from a spring trigger from his backside. (What a trap!) Kakashi thought with his own kunai and deflected the kunai. With him distracted the Uchiha slid under him, swiping at his feet before faking a punch to the face, and almost grabbed one of the bells.
He only missed by a hair as Kakashi pushed him away. (This kid is fierce. I won't be able to read my book. He's definitely different from the others.) Kakashi said to himself, impressed by the boy.
Sasuke took a step back and made some fast hand signs. "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" he yelled
"What?! That takes too much chakra there's no way you can pull it off!" Kakashi said startled.
(Watch me.) the Uchiha gloated, taking a deep breath and releasing a giant fireball from his mouth. The fireball hit its marks as it evaporated into the air, but the silver-haired man wasn't there. "Where did he go?" he asked looking around then he felt a hand grab his ankle.
"Where am I? Where you least expected." he said, pulling him down to the ground as the jounin jumped from his hiding spot. While Sasuke was stuck in the ground with only his head visible, he was completely a sitting duck. "That was Earth Style: Headhunter Jutsu. You are talented, but that doesn't mean that's good." Kakashi said, walking away going back to his book. That's when Sakura appeared and fainted… again.
Peri came from the tree and squatted down next to him. "Need some help?" she smirked, pulling the boy out of the hole. As he began to walk away she grabbed his hand and he turned around confused. "Listen Sasuke, how about we work together to get the bells?" she suggested
"No." the raven-haired boy declined. Now the brunette was angry at her teammate. All three of them have turned her down. When will they understand they couldn't beat him alone?
"Come on stop being stupid! We're gonna fail the test unless we work together as a team! You really think like you can beat Kakashi Sensei?!" Peri said, trying to change his mind. "I almost got a bell on my own. I can do it again. Besides, you will only slow me down." Sasuke said only to get punched in the face.
Sasuke sat up holding his cheek in shock then in anger. "What was that for?!" he yelled in her face, but she just shoved him away from her
"I slow nobody down you jerk! You wanna fail this test then fine!" Peri snarled, stomping away.
This team was impossible!
At this rate, they all were gonna fail and get sent back to the Academy. "What am I gonna do now?" she said sitting down on the ground
"Good question. What are you going to do?" Kakashi repeated her question reading his book.
She looked away from him and sighed, "I don't know. I mean Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura won't help me. So I guess I'm on my own." Peri said throwing a kunai at him, but he caught it. However, the kunai had a tag on it that began to glow brighter and brighter. (A paper bomb!) he said, throwing the kunai before it exploded and hid underground for the second time.
"Earth Style: Headhunter Jutsu!" he said, pulling Peri down to the ground. As he resurfaced the girl turned into a pile of water as the real Peri was right in behind of him throwing a single shuriken and made a hand sign.
(She's behind me?!)
"Ninja Art: Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Peri said as the shuriken multiplied into six of the flying towards the join in with deadly accorcely . Kakashi skillfully dodged most of them.
(That's an A-rank jutsu that Lord Third developed! How on earth can she do it?) Kakashi thought bewildered. She was different from the other girls at the Academy.
This girl can fight.
He fake a punch at the girl swiping under her feet, however that also was a clone. "Another clone?" he questioned until he felt another blast on his back. Quickly, turning around he caught her first acting purely on reaction. The kunoichi twisted her body free and made a hand sign with one hand.
"How can a genin make hand signs with one hand?!" Kakashi said, not even he was that skilled.
"Ninja Art: Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu!" she said again, but this time he got hit by two of them leaving two small cuts in his jacket. Using his shock to her advantage the Senju quickly grabbed the bells and backed away from him. The silver-haired man wiped off his jacket and noticed that she took the bells. To say that he was impressed would be an understatement. There wasn't anyone he knew that could use a jutsu with only one hand. And she use an advanced level techniques without trying herself out.
(Peri's definitely on a different level than the other three. She could have easily been the top kunoichi of her class perhaps she was holding back at the Academy.) Kakashi analyzed.
This girl was full of surprises and she surprised him again when she gave him back the bells. "Why are you giving these back?" he asked
"I-uh...I just don't think it's fair if I pass, but the others don't. They worked just as hard as I did to get this far." Peri shyly answered.
BBBRRIINGG!
"Well anyway, time's up," Kakashi said, turning off the timer and looking back at the now four hungry genins. None of them looked very happy. "Hungry? Wel, that's okay since I decided not to send any of you back to the Academy. Because I decided that all three of you will be dropped from the program." he concluded.
Naruto's, Sasuke's, and Sakura's jaws dropped.
"Drop us from the program?! That means we can never become ninjas? You say if we didn't get a bell you would send one of us back. And what do you mean by three?! You can't just change your mind like that, why would you do that?!" Naruto demanded kicking through his restraints.
"Because none of you think like shinobi. You're nothing but brats." Kakashi glared. Sasuke clenched his jaw and ran at him to attack, but he was pinned down by the jounin.
"LET GO OF SASUKE YOU CAN'T STEP ON HIM LIKE HE'S SOME BUG!" Sakura screamed, making both Peri and Naruto flinch at her voice. "You don't know what it means to be a shinobi, do you think it's some kind of game? Why do you think ninjas are put on squads?!" Kakashi said harshly. The Senju clenched her fists in sadness and in anger.
"How should we know we didn't make the rules!" Naruto yelled
"IT'S TEAMWORK YOU IDIOTS! HE WANTED US TO WORK TOGETHER TO GET THE BELLS!" Peri roared angrily.
Kakashi nodded in agreement and stood up to leave to report another failure. But as he looked at the memorial statue then back at them something told them to give the kids another chance. "Look, I'm gonna give you one more chance. Eat lunch to regain your strength, but not Naruto. It's his punishment for trying to eat." he said before leaving them alone. (Let's see if they can actually work together. Otherwise, I'll just have to take Peri on as my only student since she was the closest.) he thought hiding in a nearby tree. Peri looked around her before handing her lunch to Naruto. "What are you-"
"Shut up and eat. Sensei's will be back any minute." Peri interrupted him stuffing a rice ball in the blonde's mouth.
"We're not supposed to let him eat!" Sakura protested.
"Have you not learned anything?!" Peri snapped. She couldn't believe this girl!
"Peri's right. If Naruto's weakened it will only hurt the team he needs to be at full strength." Sasuke added, handing the grateful blonde his lunch too. The Senju and the Uchiha fed Naruto quickly, they didn't want to get caught by their sensei breaking the rules. But it was too late.
He caught them and now they were definitely doomed.
"Do any of you want to explain to me why you broke the rule?" he asked threateningly
"We don't care about your stupid rule! Naruto's our comrade of course we're gonna feed him!" Peri standing up with the Uchija beside her standing up as well.
"We're all a team and we have to work together." Sasuke added
"Yeah that's right, the four of us are one!" Sakura said, gaining her courage. Naruto looked at the three of them with tears. He couldn't believe that all of them were risking being dropped from the program to defend him.
"You pass." Kakashi smiles
"Say what now?" Peri asked
"All of you passed. In fact, you are the first squad of mine who has ever passed. The rest of them listened to everything I said and fell for every trap. A ninja must be able to see through deception what you four did. " he explained before looking at the sky.
"Those who break the rules are scum that's true. But those who abandon their comrades are worse than scum. So congratulations to you all. Team Seven, we'll begin our first mission tomorrow!" Takashi declared giving them a thumbs up.
"I DID IT! I'M A NINJA!" Naruto yelled excitedly. (Soon everybody gonna look up to me!)
"YA KNOW IT!" Peri exclaimed. ( One step closer to becoming the greatest ninja ever!)
"CHA!" Sakura yelled (I get to be with Sasuke!)
Sasuke also had a huge grin on his face.
"Well time to head home." Kakashi said, leading the group out of the training grounds.
"YOU FORGOT TO UNTIE ME!" Naruto yelled at their backs.
Author's Note
Team Seven passed the bell test and now the real adventure begins! I want to thank you everyone for their support and I hope all of you will stay safe!
TheSenjuPrincess
