Chapter 7: Bell test
Naruko after having some breakfast heads to the academy building. Where she meets up with Hinata, Sakura, and Ino in the classroom. They sit down in their seats as a group and begin to gossip about who their jonin sensei's are going to be. Meanwhile, Shikamaru and Choji are off to the side one taking a nap and the other eating chips. While, Kiba the dead last is trying to impress the girls with his headband even though the others had there's as well. With Sasuke he is sitting staring out the window looking disinterested. While, Shino was just being shino calm and stoic and above all quiet. When Iruka arrives he congratulates all of them for making it this far and begins to list out the teams. Until finally it comes to team 7.
"Team 7 will consist of Sakura haruno, Naruko Namikaze, and Sasuke Uchiha your jonin sensei is Kakashi Hatake." Iruka states causing Sakura and Naruko to jump with joy and hug each other while Sasuke just grunts.
"Team 8 will consist of Hinata Hyuuga, Kiba Inuzuka, and Shino Aburame your jonin sensei is Kurenai Yuhi." Iruka states causing Hinata to frown, Kiba to jump in excitement, and Shino to give a subtle nod of the head.
"Team 10 will consist of Ino yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, and Choji Akimichi your sensei is Asuma Sarutobi." Iruka says causing Ino slump down to plant her head on her desk, Shikamaru to mutter how troublesome it is, and Choji just smiles while, eating his chips.
"I wish all of you the best of luck in your future careers as shinobi." Iruka states as Kurenai and Asuma come to pick up their teams along with the rest of the sensei's for the others but, Kakashi does not arrive. Causing the team to wait 3 hours.
Naruko decides to work on a seal arrangement as Sakura is reading a medical book as for Sasuke at Naruko's suggestion is doing a little workout by doing push-ups. When Kakashi is about to introduce himself by going through the day he is shocked by the door handle and he backs away and slowly pushes the door open to find a seal on the door handle courtesy of Naruko who planted it there.
"My first impression of you all is I hate you." Kakashi states to them his hair still buzzing from electricity.
"Same here Sensei especially for keeping us waiting." Naruko says sweetly
"Meet me on the roof in 5 minutes." Kakashi says before body flickering away
Five minutes later on the roof Naruko, Sakura, and Sasuke are huddled together facing their sensei.
"So I would like to start off with introductions such as likes, dislikes, and hobbies." Kakashi states
"Why don't you go first Sensei." Sakura asks
"Fine my name is Kakashi Hatake i don't really like anything, nor do I dislike anything in particular, as for dreams I don't really have any." Kakashi finishes
"All we learned was his name." the three genin thought annoyed
"Next you pinkie." Kakashi says pointing to sakura
"My name is Sakura Haruno. I like Hinata, Ino, and Naruko, I dislike perverts, and my dream is to be a great medic ninja." Sakura states
"Up next is you blondie" Kakashi states
"My name is Naruko Namikaze and I like Sakura, Ino, and Hinata, I dislike people blaming me without any proof, and I don't really have a dream." Naruko says
"Your up next emo" Kakashi states
"My name is Sasuke Uchiha, I don't like anything in particular, nor do I dislike anything, I don't have a dream but, i do have an ambition to restore my clan and to destroy a certain someone." Sasuke states
"So a medic wanna be, a potential thief, and a avenger" Kakashi thinks
"Tomorrow we will begin your genin exam to see if you are ready to become a ninja." Kakashi says
"But, we already took the exam." Sakura says
"That was to weed out the worthless your real exam is tomorrow at training ground 3 at 5 am i wouldn't recommend eating breakfast tomorrow or you'll throw up." Kakashi says before he body flickers away.
Naruko gets up to leave and begins to walk away along with Sasuke.
"Where are you going Naruko?" Sakura asks following her in step
"I'm going to be asking Jiji something about Kakashi since, what he said sounded suspicious. Don't worry about me just go out and celebrate with the others I'll catch up." Naruko says waving bye to Sakura
The next day arrives and Sakura finds herself at training ground 3 at 5 in the morning along with Sasuke wondering where Naruko and Kakashi are. About 5 minutes later Naruko appears along with a picnic basket that she opens up and spreads out a picnic blanket and starts to take out some food much to the confusion of her teammates. She then creates some shadow clones and hands them a couple of scrolls then they take off into the woods.
"What are you doing Naruko?" Sakura asks as she sits down on the picnic blanket
"Simple I'm having breakfast so should you Sakura and Sasuke." Naruko says with a shrug
"But, he said not to eat anything" Sasuke says
"No, he recommended something to us when we are not yet his students and besides he is going to be late again another 3 hours so, we have time." Naruko says sweetly
Sakura and Sasuke look at each other when their stomachs groan so, they decide to sit down and have a picnic. They pass the time quickly eating and packing up the basket and blanket that naruko seals into a scroll. They then, hear Naruko's plan for the exam even though they are skeptical of her knowing what the test is going to be.
When it's 8 am Kakashi finally arrives expecting someone screaming at him he looks at his potential students to them glaring at him. He shrugs it off though.
"Alright your test is simple it's going to be a survival exercise and what you need to do is get these two bells from me." Kakashi says holding up the bells before placing them on his waist.
"If you do not get the bell by noon you will go without lunch and if at the end you don't get a bell you will be sent back to the academy." Kakashi says surprised that Naruko is grinning while, the annoyed glares of the other two continue.
"So he wanted us hungry to get us to fight each other for the bells Naruko was right this is about teamwork" Sakura and Sasuke thought causing them to nod slightly to Naruko who only nods back.
"When I say go you have to come at me with the intent to kill." Kakashi says seriously
The three take positions ready to charge off at Kakashi's word.
"And Go!" Kakasha says
Sakura and Sasuke scatter into the woods while Naruko creates a bunch of shadow clones.
Kakashi looks surprised at the number of clones before commenting.
"You're a bold one aren't you to attack me face to face instead run for cover to hide." Kakashi says
"What can I say I like direct confrontation now let's begin." Naruko says
The clones attack Kakashi but he easily dispatches them when suddenly he is grabbed from behind and an explosion occurs but, only for a log to go flying due to substitution jutsu. Kakashi hiding in a nearby tree sweat drops never expecting an exploding clone from a genin. So, he decides to try his hands at the other two to see how they perform. He finds Sakura hiding in some bushes and prepares the hell viewing technique on her but, it doesn't work since, it's a regular clone while, the real Sakura tries to snatch the bells from below hidden in the ground but, Kakashi just jumps away before being surrounded with ninja wire hooked to exploding tags that go off. Kakashi manages to escape slightly singed but, when he land on the branch he is shocked by a seal on the branch as a log comes flying towards him but, he body flickers away to avoid it hitting only to dodge a set of trap kunai that come flying at him that he catches one and parries the rest away with only to find his hand glued to the kunai as spring loaded senbon are launched at him from every direction so, he dives to the ground only to fall into a pit filled with spikes but, he catches himself on the edges but, the spikes shoot out of the ground as he jumps out of the way into the forest that he treks through careful having no idea what is in store for him.
Kakashi eventually finds his way out of the forest of sharp pointy things when he comes across Sasuke waiting for him.
"I see you got tired of waiting for me." Kakashi says as Sasuke grunts as he charges in and begins a bout of taijutsu.
But, as the fight draws close to a tree Sasuke throws a kunai to trigger a trap that launches shuriken at Kakashi who replaces with a log as it is imbedded with shuriken. Sasuke goes through a set of hand signs and performs the water release: water bullet at kakashi who ducks into the ground and pops up burying Sasuke up to the neck.
"I didn't expect a water jutsu from an Uchiha" Kakashi says
"Who says i'm a Uchiha" Sasuke says before exploding sending Kakashi flying back sliding into the range of the real Sasuke using the Fireball Jutsu. So, he jumps into the brush to avoid it when he is pulled under ground by earth release: double suicide decapitation jutsu but, he quickly pulls himself out as Sakura brings a fierce punch to his jaw stunning him he is stumbles back as Sakura makes for the Bells but, he jumps away. As the timer for the test has gone off.
They meet back at the posts where Naruko is grinning like a loon while, the other two are calm but, dirty and out of breath.
"So, do you have anything to say for yourselves" Kakashi says a bit dirtied himself
"We pass Sensei!" Naruko says merrily
"Now why would you think that Naruko I still have the bells?" Kakashi says with a raised eyebrow
"Care to check again sensei." Naruko says chuckling
Kakashi pulls up the bells to show them but, realizes something is wrong with them the string connecting them was now blue not red when he started.
"How?" He asks When he notices Naruko holding out the bells for each one of the team to take.
"Simple really when you were pulled under the ground I snagged the bells while, slapping a genjutsu seal on you that made it look like you still had the bells and it slowed your reaction time slightly allowing Sakura to hit you and plant the two fake bells onto you." Naruko says grinning
Kakashi checks himself and pulls a seal tag off his back and marvels at it since he couldn't of dispelled it even if he wanted to because it was a seal. Turning his attention to Naruko he can't help but wonder about her potential.
"I see you handed the bells to your teammates are you alright with going back to the academy." Kakashi says seriously
"Not really but, you are going to send me back to the academy we all passed since, you said to get the bells not anything about keeping them." Naruko says smirking
"You're right Naruko you all passed by using teamwork that was the whole point of this test." Kakashi says
None of them look surprised which, puzzles Kakashi.
"You already knew didn't you." Kakashi states
"Yes Sensei Naruko figured it out and explained it to us before you arrived." Sakura says
"How did you know Naruko?" Kakashi asks curious
"I went to the old man when what you said about breakfast didn't make sense to me so, i asked about you and the teams you took. Imagine my surprise when you didn't have any in the past so, I asked some dropouts about your test that they took considering they all took the same one meant I could expect the same out of you as for how i figured out the meaning well all those things that set us up to fight against one another keyed me into what the test was about." Naruko says with a beaming smile
"Well good job Naruko on your intel gathering work and congratulate you on figuring it out afterall ninja need to look underneath the underneath. But, there is a lesson I want to impart to you that those that break the rules are scum but, those who abandon their friends are worse than scum that is what I wanted to teach you in this exercise." Kakashi states
"I get sensei we all do thank you for the lesson so, when do we begin doing missions." Naruko says
"Right now as of this moment we are Team 7 and our first mission will start tomorrow at 8 am." Kakashi says giving them the thumbs up
The team goes their separate ways with Naruko to go see the Hokage, Sakura to see her parents, and Sasuke heads for home, while Kakashi pulls out his favorite orange book and begins to read it as he wanders off.