Kakashi is getting a bit bored of Naruto and Sasuke's half-assed attempt at getting the bells. Where is Madoka, he wonders half-heartedly. The alarm is about to go off, and the boy is nowhere to be seen. Kakashi mentally counts down to when the alarm will go off. It does not go off right away, and Kakashi thinks he must have misjudged the time by a minute or two. Shrugging, Kakashi waits a little longer. It's not like the two genin trying to attack him will do any damage while they are tripping over each other.
"Gaah! We're almost out of time!" growls Naruto. "Come on, Sasuke! We need to work together!"
That's right, Kakashi smiles under his mask. Someone gets it.
"It's not my fault you keep getting in my way, idiot!" snaps Sasuke.
"You get in mine too!" complains Naruto.
Kakashi decides to up the stakes for the last few seconds of the test and attacks the two arguing genin with some taijutsu. The two genin turn and focus their attention on Kakashi. For some reason, the pair start working in sync. Kakashi is mildly impressed. After one failed attempt at fighting in sync, Sasuke and Naruto can now work together. That bodes well if they are ever to fight on the same team.
Kakashi feels a slight tug on his belt. He snaps around to catch the perpetrator.
Madoka grins at him, both bells in his hand. "I've got the bells!"
Kakashi is genuinely surprised. Madoka took both bells? "I guess that means you pass-" Kakashi begins what would have been a speech about teamwork.
"Cool, now that I've passed I don't need the bells anymore right?" interrupts Madoka.
"Um...yes." Kakashi is not sure what is going on, but Madoka is up to something.
"Sweet!" Madoka grins and hands a bell to Sasuke. "One for you." Then he turns and hands the other to Naruto. "And one for you. Now they have bells. There were enough to go around after all."
"Hahaha! Yes! We all got bells!" Naruto starts jumping up and down in elation. "We all get to have lunch!"
"Well, sensei?" Sasuke smirks, holding up her bell. "We all got a bell, that was the criteria. SO do we all pass?"
Kakashi's head is spinning. "Well, there is nothing in the rules about this..I guess it's okay...Yeah, you all pass. You would have passed anyway since you were all working together."
"Hah! I was right!" Madoka grins in triumph.
Something is bothering Kakashi. He walks over to where he left the alarm clock, his new team trailing behind. The alarm clock is gone. Kakashi turns to team seven. "Where is the alarm clock?" he asks patiently.
"I smashed it and threw it in the lake to buy us more time," says Madoka.
"That's cheating!" snaps Sasuke. "That wasn't in the plan!"
"It's only cheating if you get caught!" returns Madoka, crossing his arms and sniffing in disdain at the very idea that he cheated. "Otherwise it's good tactics!"
Well, well, well, thinks Kakashi, smiling under his mask. It looks as if we have budding strategist here. "Well, I suppose I didn't say anything about sabotaging the alarm clock, so I guess I can allow it."
"You already passed us!" says Naruto. "No take-backsies!"
"I'll do a take-backsie if I want to," growls Kakashi intimidatingly. "And speaking of which, I'd like my bells back." he holds out his hand, and the two genins shrug and give him their bells.
Up in the trees near the newly officiated Team Seven, Wind and Rain are hanging on for dear life. Hanging on to their stomachs, that is. Laughing silently hurts like nobody's business. Once Team Seven is well out of hearing range, Rain and Wind let their laughter burst out in a loud torrent of helpless chortles, giggles and howls of amusement. Both of them fall out of their tree and end up rolling around on the ground, oblivious to the bruises they gained from the fall.
After a good amount of time, the pair manage to control their laughter. They get up off the grass and dust themselves off.
"Those kids broke that test," comments Rain, through a last lingering giggle.
"They did," agrees Wind. "Well, now that we're finished here, shall we go home?"
"Yes, let's," agrees Rain, and uses one of his jutsu to get them there much faster than they could have walked.
When they arrive in the Hidden Rain, Wind and Rain report to Yahiko and head to their apartment. Once there, Wind and Rain take off their cloaks and masks. Stretching out their sore muscles, Wind and Rain head into their apartment.
At the sound of their footsteps, a small boy runs up to them, arms outstretched. "Mummy! Daddy!" the child yells joyously.
Wind picks the toddler up and lifts him into the air. The boy laughs happily.
After having their team photo taken, The three genins of Team Seven head their separate ways to tell their respective families they passed the jounin's test. Naruto crashes through his front door, yelling for his grandparents.
"Grandma! Grandpa!" Naruto calls, running through the house, looking for them.
Grandma emerges from the laundry with a basket of wet, but clean clothes in her hands. "What happened?" she asks. "Did you pass?"
"Yes!" Naruto shouts, throwing his arms in the air. "I'm a real ninja now!"
"Eh? A real ninja?" Grandpa pokes his head through the living room doorway. "So what were you before?"
"An applicant apparently," shrugs Naruto. "But I'm a real ninja now! Where's Iruka niisan?"
"He went to talk to the Hokage, or something," says Grandma, heading outside to hang the clothes on the washing line.
Naruto runs off to find Iruka niisan and tell him the news.
Madoka bursts through the front door of his house and runs to find his parents. He wonders if they will even be home. Civilians have regular jobs, after all. Madoka finds his mother outside, weeding their small flower garden.
"How did it go?" asks Madoka's mother, looking up from her weeding.
"I passed!" grins Madoka. "Sensei seemed surprised when we outsmarted him, but he passed us even though I technically cheated."
"You CHEATED!?"
When Sasuke arrives home, Itachi is sitting on the veranda with their one year old brother sitting on her lap. When he sees Sasuke, Eizo-Mori stops chewing on his teething ring and laughs, waving his hands towards Sasuke.
"Looks like Eizo-chan wants you to hold him," grins Itachi.
"Well I'm busy," says Sasuke, crossing her arms to eliminate the possibility of having the baby forced upon her.
"You sure?" asks Itachi. "You hardly ever hold him."
"I'm sure," says Sasuke who, in fact, has never held her brother.
"How did your test go?" asks Itachi
"We passed." Sasuke marches past her siblings and heads inside to find her mother.
"Lord Third, they didn't just pass the Bell Test - they broke it!" Kakashi whines to the Third Hokage.
"It sounds to me like they totally shattered it," sighs Lord Third. "Totally and utterly shattered it."
"I...I don't even know how they did all that without breaking the rules!" Kakashi whine mournfully. "There are no rules against what they did, but it was still cheating!"
"It sounds like they broke your brain as well as the test," comments Lord Third sarcastically.
"Why?!"
"I would never usually do this," says Lord Third, getting up from his desk. "But even I need to forget this for a while." he motions Kakashi to follow him and heads out of the Hokage tower.
Iruka is nearly knocked off his feet when he is hit by a flying Naruto cannonball. "Iruka niisan I passed! I passed! I'm a real ninja now!"
"Cool," says Iruka. "But how did you pass Kakashi's test? Only three other teams in the History of the Hidden Leaf have passed that test."
"Really? It was easy," Naruto says, scratching his head in confusion. "Once Madoka figured out we were supposed to work together that's what we did. And when we nearly ran out of time, Madoka threw the alarm clock in the lake. Then he stole both bells and passed, then gave the bells to me and Sasuke."
"Naruto!" Hinata yells, running up to Naruto and Iruka. "My team passed!"
"So did mine!" Naruto yells, jumping up and down in excitement.
"Cool, so did we," Shikamaru adds, sauntering up to them with Choji in tow.
"We're all real ninjas now!" Naruto yells, throwing his hands in the air.
"Troublesome," mutters Shikamaru.
Late that evening, Might Gai bursts into a sake bar and marches up to the Hokage and Kakashi who are slumped over a table. Both have a sake cup in their hand and a bunch of empty bottles lying next to them.
"Kakashi, my Youthful Rival," says Gai, pulling Kakashi out of his chair. "I think you have had enough sake for one day."
"They broke the test…" Kakashi mutters through his liquor-induced stupor.
"Never mind, they were just proving their Youthful Enthusiasm," Gai says sympathetically in his booming voice. Gai hoists Kakashi over his shoulder and scoops up the Hokage. Then he carries them out of the Sake bar and drops them off at their respective homes.
AN: Dracorat, credit for Eizo-Mori's name goes to you. So does the idea of giving Fugaku and Mikoto a third kid, although they actually want one in cannon, interestingly enough.