Chapter 8

You Fail! Kakashi's Final Decision

* Sachi's P.O.V*

" ' Sigh' Think before you use a jutsu. Or else your opponent might use it against you. Oh and also, if the bait is obvious, don't take it. A ninja must see through deception." Kakashi said grabbing the bell he left behind.

" I…get….it!" Naruto yelled flailing around and I had to cover my mouth to stop myself from giggling.

" I'm telling you this because you don't get it, you think you get it which is not the same as actually getting it. Get it?" He said to Naruto.

I took this chance to get the bell. I used the water jutsu that I've been practicing since I already have learned my fire style and lighting style and it formed into a hand from a puddle near by Naruto's wet clothes the hand grabbed the bell from behind Kakashi and brought it back to me by using a genjutsu to replacing the bell that I took to make him think it was still there and I started to sneak the bell in my pouch. ' I think I'll show myself soon. I don't want to stand around waiting. He will probably want the bell back. I bet he knew about it and let me take it so I could face him later.' I thought to myself as I started to walk out of the area.

But out of the trees opposite of me, kunai and shuriken came out of no where aimed right at Kakashi sensei.

" Won't you ever learn?" He asked as he got hit by all of them.

" AH! He just got blasted by shuriken. Are you out of your mind Sasuke? You went too far." Naruto yelled as ' Kakashi' fell backwards and poofed away as he was replaced with a log.

I heard a rustle from the trees across the field from me and I knew that was where Sasuke was and he was trying to run away, so Kakashi sensei doesn't spot him, but I heard the same thing from the other side of the bushes. Obviously Sakura thinks Sasuke needs her help and will get hurt, which he may not depending on what mood Kakashi sensei is in. If he's mad, I'm going to end up being the only Uchiha left.

" AHHHHHHHHHH!" A voice yelled behind me and because it sounded more girlish than Naruto's it had to be Sakura.

" A ninja must see through deception. Yeah, yeah, how am I supposed to do that?! Grrrr! Well I'm sure not falling for anymore of his traps." Naruto said reaching for the rope and cutting it with his kunai only for the second trap to go off and he was in the same position again.

" I fell for it again!" Naruto yelled irritated, I giggled a little at how funny he looked right now.

" AHHHHHHHHHHH!" Sakura yelled even louder than last time, I might need to check on her and see if she wants some help.

I took out a shuriken from my weapon pouch and launched it at Naruto, he thought it was Kakashi trying to kill him and flailed around trying to escape but that almost got him one step closer to losing his leg.

" AHHHH!" He yelled and flinched at how loud he sounded and if Kakashi heard he would come after me and give away my position. He dropped to the ground face first and I had to hold back another giggle.

" OWWWW. What was that? Huh? Yeah! I'm free! Believe it!" He yelled as I rolled my eyes at him but he got an idea when he saw the K.I.A. memorial stone, and top was our lunches. I'll let Kakashi handle his idiotic plan later. I jumped from my position and leaped through trees at a really fast pace and I saw Sakura on the ground and from her facial expression, something bad happened.

" Sakura, wake up." I said and she didn't respond. I shook my head and I started to make the water jutsu sign.

" Water style: Water Ball Jutsu." I whispered to myself and I didn't use much chakra because I didn't want Sakura to feel like she got attack while she was out cold. I molded it into a water ball big enough to fit in the palm of my hand and fired at her making her shoot up after it hit her in the face.

" Ahh! I'm wet! What was that for?!" She yelled at me getting angry with me. I stood up and held out a hand to help her up but she didn't take it and stood up on her own.

I think Kakashi used a genjutsu on her and when she saw something really bad and passed out. His jutsu level is stronger than mine by a long shot.

But why do we need to fight him to get some bells? He's obviously above over level and if I defeated him then wouldn't that make me a jounin? Then why not make us fight a genin if that were the case to be a real genin?

If me and Sasuke were to work together, I think we might have a chance of beating him but the chances are slim. Maybe Naruto and Sakura could do something but I don't know their skill sets so I can't really say. But wait…If we were to combine our strength we could have a have a good chance of beating him. That's it, I get it. Teamwork. I get it now, man I can be stupid sometimes, or maybe it's just that no one else realized it either.

" Sakura." I said getting her attention.

" If we want to beat Kakashi and get a bell then you and I can try and get it with the others and all of us go against him." I said making her scoff.

" Please, if Kakashi sensei wanted us to work together then he would've said so. It's obviously about our individual skill sets and seeing who could beat him. If anyone, it would be me or Sasuke. Naruto is slow and you can't show any part of your jutsu to anyone other than Sasuke. If I knew what skills you have then we could do it but I wouldn't know so I can't say you have any at all." She said walking closer to my face.

" Then go. See how well you do against a jounin all by yourself, but know if you end up dead or injured I at least tried." I said walking away from her already feeling her glare from the back of my head, but I didn't say anything of it or to her. I kept walking and right in front of me was Sasuke with his head sticking out of the ground. I jogged up to him and he finally saw me.

" Sachi, a little help here?" He asked struggling against the ground and I grabbed him by his shirt barely ever showing from the ground and started pulling.

" Sasuke." I said grabbing his attention.

" If we want to get a bell from Kakashi then we have to team up with the others and come at him all at once." I said and he looked at me and scoffed.

" I don't need those losers to be in my way. I have to do this on my own because I'm the only one who can kill him." He said making me stop for a second but after a minute I tugged on his shirt again until Sakura ran out from the bushes and stopped in her tracks when she saw him with just his head sticking out of the ground.

" Sakura?" Sasuke asked.

"AHH! SASUKE'S JUST A HEAD WITHOUT A BODY AND HE'S TALKING!" She yelled falling over to the ground again and Sasuke made a ' what the hell' face.

" And that's my partner…" He muttered to himself, I finally felt him slipping out and made hand signs.

" Water Style: Water Geyser." I said as he was flung out of the ground and landed on his back as he was drenched in water. I came over to his side and helped him up and he gave me a nod in thanks and we both headed over to the still passed out Sakura. When he got close he picked her up by her shoulders and started to call out her name and she started to slowly opened her eyes and she looked up at Sasuke.

" Sasuke! You ok!" She yelled hugging him as he tried to pry her off.

" Hey! Cut it out! Let go! Let go!" He said finally getting her to stop.

" I've got to get a bell before lunch. That doesn't leave much time." He said.

" Sasuke, you're still trying to get one of those bells?" Sakura said.

" A while ago, I touched one. Next time, I'll get one." He said making Sakura gasp.

" That is really great, I can't believe you did that. You're amazing." She said trying to hold back her panic.

" Uhh, it's almost lunch. There's not really enough time left so maybe we should just give up and then try again next year." She said making Sasuke glare at her and growls lightly.

" I'm the only one who can destroy that person." He said making me gasp at the mention of the subject and turned my head away from them with Itachi's appearance in my head.

" Who? You mean the sensei?" She asked.

" That day, I was crying. We were crying." He said as I felt tears blurring my vision.

" When were you crying?" Sakura asked.

" It was my…" He started.

" What? What happened to you?" She asked and I had a hard time keeping back my tears.

" I'm an avenger. That means I must be stronger than prey. I need this training, there's no time for sit backs." He said as I wipe my tears with my sleeve.

" What are you talking about?" She asked.

" It doesn't matter, we need to get back before time runs out." I said walking away.

After a little bit I got tried of waiting for Sakura to get a hold of herself and we headed to the field we started in. When we got there, Naruto was tied into a post and he was yelling at Kakashi to let him go. Obviously he still hiding and he was probably watching us.

" Hey! Someone! Let me out of this thing!" Naruto yelled kicking his legs trying to get loose.

" Where is he?" Sasuke asked.

" Where am I? Where you don't expect me to be." He said turning back from one of the poles. He looked at me and narrowed his eyes and smiled behind his mask.

" Well Sachi, I've tested everyone here except for you. Let's see how well I taught you." He said as Sakura was just starting to wake up.

" But sensei, time is almost up. There's no way she can get a bell by then." Sakura said in her known-it-all tone.

" But she already has one." He said making everyone turn to me as I released the genjutsu and sighed knowing I would have to face him at some point.

" I wanted to have that bell so I would have a reason to fight you later on and see how well you payed attention to me." He said.

" Wait! What is he talking about? I am seriously confused!" Naruto yelled.

" She was once my student, but sometimes she won't listen. I taught her to pay attention to what I do but I don't know if that was enough to keep that in her memory to try and not forget what others have taught you." He said as everyone looked back at me with their wide eyes.

" Let's start." I said as he got in a fighting stance and I grabbed my katana from my back and made a defensive stance. He came at me really fast and aimed to punch me down but I blocked his fist with my katana and launched him back and when he stood up again from crouching down he made a clone of himself behind me and I heard him and blocked his attack but barely had enough time to react to the real Kakashi right in front of me and just before he got me, I back flipped away from them and waited for him to come at me again and I grabbed some shuriken from my pouch and aimed it at him and he blocked them all but disappeared from my sight as he sneaked up behind me and tried to throw me off guard but I heard him and jumped away from his attack.

I realized if I couldn't show I wanted to let the team help me then I needed to give them an opportunity to do some king of team work and help me out and what better way than to let him get a hit on me and when he wants to hurt me again the guys come and help me realized the exercise. Unless they were too dense to understand.

I waited for another attack again and he came back at me with a kunai in his hand and I blocked the attack with my sword. I jumped a few feet away from him and I concentrated my jutsu into my felt palm making hand signs rapidly.

" Fire Style: Boiling Fire Of Hell." I said making a really hot fire ball with smoke coming out of it on to my right hand and he started to do hand signs as well.

" Water Style: Cooling Waters Of The Heaven's." He said making me gasp in surprise that he almost did the same thing as me and we launched at each other and when the attacks collided with each other, the attacks canceled each other out. All that the others could see was a puff of smoke, if I want them to help and get them to do some teamwork, then I have to do it now. I fell to the ground holding my stomach as if I was in pain and breathing heavy. When the smoke cleared, the guys looked at us in amazement. He jumped in the air ready to finish me off.

" Naruto! Sasuke! Sakura!" I yelled trying to get them to help me and it looked like my brother was about to jump in and help me but then….

RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNGGGGG!

Kakashi stopped his attack right in front of my face and instead held it out to me as I took it to stand up. I was so close to getting them to help me, but I waited too long. I tried to tell them but I'm not going to say ' I told you so.' we all sat next to the tied up Naruto as out stomachs growled in sync.

" Uh-oh, stomachs growling huh? That's too bad. Oh, by the way, about this exercise, well I've decided I won't send any of you back to the academy." He said as everyone get excited.

" What? I passed? All I did was faint and fall over. Do you get points for that?" Sakura asked.

" Hn." Was all Sasuke and I said making us look at each other in surprise.

" Yeahh!" Sakura yelled.

" Then! Then! That means all four of us! All four of us! All four of us!" Naruto yelled kicking his legs in joy.

" Yes, all three of you are being dropped from the program. Permanently." He said making the cheering stop.

" Where as Sachi goes on to be my only student." He finished shocking me and the others.

" Drop us from the program?! That means we can never become ninja! You said as if we couldn't take any of the bells we'd be sent back to the academy! You can't just change your mind and kick us out! Why would you do that?!" Naruto yelled.

" Yeah! And why is she the only one who isn't getting dropped?!" Sakura yelled.

" Because you didn't think like a ninja, you think like little kids. Like brats." He said and as after he said that Sasuke charged right at him from his spot as he was pulling a kunai out from his pouch. Kakashi didn't react until the last second and pinned his arm behind his head and sat on top of him. I gasped a little thinking he wouldn't usually be one to do that.

" You think it's all about you." He said.

" Let go of Sasuke! You can't step on him like he's some bug!" Sakura yelled.

" You don't know what it means to be a ninja. You think it's a game huh?" He asked making me a little uneasy.

" Why do you think we put you on squads? Did you consider that question for one moment?" He asked.

" I-I don't know what you mean?" Sakura asked.

" I mean you never realized what this exercise is all about. Not even close." He said.

" What's it's about?" Naruto asked.

" Yes, that determines weather you pass or fail." Kakashi sensei said.

" But that's - mean I wanted to ask you about that from the beginning." Sakura stuttered.

" Tch, use your head. Four people on a squad. Why do you think we would do that?" He asked her.

" AHH! How are we supposed to know why you pick four people?! We didn't make the rules." Naruto yelled.

" It's so basic. Teamwork. Why do you think I let Sachi pass and not you? She understood the exercise. Unlike you." He said.

" Just working together? Is that what you mean?" Sakura said with a confused look on her face.

" That's what I meant. It's too late now, but if all four of you came at me all at once, you might have been able to take the bells from me." He said.

" Then why did you let Sachi take a bell when you knew it was gone.?" Sakura asked.

" She was a student of mine and I needed to know if she truly remembered what I taught her from years before." He said looking at me.

" Well, anyway. It's over." Kakashi said.

" You set it up with four people when there are only two bells. If we worked together and got the bells only two of us could keep them, that would lead to group conflict and the group would break up." Sakura stated.

" Exactly. I purposely pitted you against each other." Kakashi said looking at her while still holding Sasuke done to the ground so he wouldn't move.

" Huh?"

" I wanted to see if you would come to that and put the squad ahead of yourselves. A genin should had a natural feel for teamwork. But you…it never even crossed your mind. Sakura! You obsessed about Sasuke who was gone, but Naruto was right in front of you when you wouldn't lift a finger to help him. Sachi went to you first to see if you could work with her but you turned her down and called her weak. Naruto! You do everything on your own. Everything. And you, Sasuke. Thought the others were so far beneath you that you thought they were worthless. Sachi asked you to help her and you shot your sister down. Even at the end when time was running out she took a hit from me and stayed on the ground and called for help to see if you would work with her thus making it teamwork. Arrogance. Ninja missions are carried out in squads. Of course you need individual skills, but teamwork is the most essential element. Every shinobi understands this. When individuals put themselves above the squad this can lead to failure. And death. For example." He said as he took out a kunai from his weapon pouch.

" Sakura! Kill Naruto now or Sasuke dies, and Sachi. If she can't handle it, you kill her." He said holding his kunai to Sasuke's throat.

" That's what happens on a mission, the enemy takes a hostage and you've got an impossible choice. And someone ends up dead." He said getting off of Sasuke and I jog over and grabbed his arm with mine and lead him back to the posts.

" On every mission your life is on the line. Did you look at this stone? The names engraved on it? They are all ninja who were honored as heroes in our village." He said as I bowed my head a little in sadness.

" That's it! That's it! That's it! Now I know! I've decided I'm going to have my name engraved on the stone. I'm not gonna live and die fro nothing like a dog. I'm gonna be a hero. A hero!" Naruto yelled as I gasped a little and had a mini flash back.

* Flashback Two Years Ago*

" Kakashi sensei, where are we going?" I asked.

" To some place special. I want to show you something." He said as I followed him and when we stopped there was a big grave stone and there was names on it.

" This is my special place I like to go. Where I get to visit my friends." He said looking down.

" What?" I asked when I looked back at him.

" This stone has the names of all my friends written on it. Even same from your family." He said catching my attention.

" They were great people who gave their lives away because they had a job to do, some of their team didn't care of some did. The fact of the matter is no one can bring them back, but they all died as heroes to our village. When you get older you need to know how to care for your squad. You do not want to see them die. That pain will never go away. Family of friends." He said while I stood there in shock.

" I promise, I am not going to let anything happen to anyone else I care about. Not even one." I said as he walked back to me and patted my head.

" That's why I like you. don't forget, when other people's lives are at risk you need to watch out for the people you care about no matter what." He said smiling behind his mask.

" Right." I said smiling back at him.

* Back To Present*

" Alright, I'm going to give you one more chance. But I'm going to make it much harder on you. You'll have three minutes to get a bell. Eat lunch now to build up your strength, but Naruto doesn't get any. It's your punishment for breaking to rules and trying to eat by yourself. And if anyone tries to feed him, that person will immediately fail. I make the rules. You follow them. Got it?" He asked as Naruto gulped at him.

" Good, come on Sachi, you can eat lunch with me." He said motioning me to go with him as I walked past him.

He lead us to trees not too far from the team and he patted me on the shoulder and I turned my head and looked up at him.

" You can go ahead and go home, this won't take long and I'm sure they'll do fine." He said as I nodded my head to him and I started to head home.

About twenty minutes later I got home and was trying to think of what to do for dinner.

For a little while I cleaned the house and read a book and the door opened and I looked over and it was Sasuke standing there and he went to his room until I realized it was almost six and it was about time to eat. I started getting out the ingredients for Kabocha Korokke.

It was about time to eat and Sasuke came down and smiled lightly when he saw what was for dinner since I didn't make them often unless it was for special occasions. We sat down and ate while he told me what happened after I left and I giggled at how simple Kakashi could be sometimes. And that they left poor Naruto out in the freezing cold.

After dinner I was tired so I went to the bathroom and brushed my teeth and washed my face taking a quick shower and then put on my pajamas and headed to my room. I sat down in the bed and I felt really tried as I brought up the sheets to my neck and closed my eyes going into a dreamless sleep.

Kakashi told me while we were eating lunch away from the squad, that we had to do jobs but I knew we had to do D-rank missions when we start and that's going to stink but I hope we'll get something good soon.

End Of Chapter 8

Again sorry for taking so long on this story and another thing I forgot to do was put that in the first chapter that she could do water style, so you wouldn't get confused with the story so I'm sorry about that it, forgive me . And I hope you like this chapter and another will be ready soon. Have a great day.