A/N Really to me the canon part of the story, which I need to get to the good bits, is pain in the ass boring to write… I apologize if you lose interest in the story between here and the prologue.

Konoha Twelve Months, Twelve Days Ago:

Kakashi held up two bells, "You have until noon to get one of these from me, the one who doesn't get a bell by noon, well" Kakashi said grinning wickedly behind his mask, "Not only do they fail they get no lunch and the ones who pass get to eat lunch in front of them while they're tied to this log tied to this log. Come at me with intent to kill or you won't pass." Perhaps not the smartest thing to say to this group but Kakashi was sure he could handle anything they could throw at him. "The test begins…Now"

They immediately scattered, each going in a different direction. Sasuke had decided to hang back and watch whoever attacked Kakashi first, so he could gather information and form his own plan of attack. Naruto paced in a small clearing, he knew he was outmatched. If Kakashi wanted to keep him from the bells, Naruto would have no chance, unless maybe he summoned Gamabunta directly above Kakashi… but then they wouldn't have a sensei to teach them. Hinata was deep in thought, she had never heard of two man teams, and knew that she had no chance what so ever of getting the bells on her own. Reaching the conclusion that this was a teamwork test, she went to find the others. First she found Sasuke, "Sasuke-san, we need to work together, we won't be able to take a bell by ourselves. The point of this test is teamwork not individual strength."

"There're only two bells, what if you're wrong?"

"If I'm wrong I'll go back to the academy."

"Naruto won't like that. But I'll go with you to find him. We can decide what to do when we find him" Bye now Naruto was cursing and banging his head against a tree so it wasn't that hard to find him. "You know if this was a stealth based test you'd have already failed right fishcake? Hinata thinks this is a teamwork based test, says she's willing to go back to the academy if she's wrong."

Never one to let others make the sacrifice when he felt he could shoulder the burden Naruto interrupted, "Hell no! I can go back! Without Mizuki-teme sabotaging my test I could get rookie of the year! I'll stay back!"

"I told you he wouldn't agree. Let's save this conversation for when we actually have the bells."

"W-What's t-the plan?"

"First of all Hinata-chan, what are your skills? I know Sasuke's well enough to make a plan with him, but I really know almost nothing about you." Naruto said, sheepishly rubbing the back of hi head.

"Um… I know the Hyuuga style Taijutsu, Juuken…"

"Well what does it do?"

"I-It can b-block an opponents t-tenketsu, but I can't s-see them yet…so I can't stop his chakra, but I can disrupt it I guess."

Grinning like a madman Naruto said, "Oooh I can work with that! Okay here's what we do…"

After half an hour Kakashi was getting bored, he had honestly expected someone, even Hinata, to have mad there wove by now. "Come out and fight me!" Kakashi sighed at Naruto's shouting. His hopes that Naruto would play it smart had completely evaporated; resigning himself to a boring one-on-one fight he hopped out of his tree and lazily strolled over to Naruto, still reading Icha-Icha Paradise.

"Think you can take me on by yourself?"

Naruto's palms began glowing with a sickly green light, the Kanji Tsubasa glowing on his palms, "I don't need teammates to beat you! Not when I have this!" Clapping his hands together the green light began to form a summoning formula in mid air.

'Well that's new,' Kakashi thought as the ring in Naruto's left eye began to glow with a silvery light. The Uzu no Tsubasa appeared in a puff of smoke, grabbing it out of the air Naruto charged Kakashi. 'Well he's not bad with it, still boring though.' Kakashi had dodged several slashes and a thrust or two, with minimal effort while still reading his book. "Naruto you have to do better than that if you want to win."

"How about this!" Naruto swung his weapon at Kakashi's head.

Sighing Kakashi ducked the blow easily "You already tried…" Kakashi almost missed Hinata aiming a kick at his head. 'Oh! Either she saw the opening and decided to take advantage of it or they were working together for a while,' Leaning out of the way he expected the kick to sail harmless past his ear. Instead he felt ninja wire wrap around his arm and pull him towards Hinata's oncoming foot. 'Huh, well played Sasuke.' Kakashi thought after the blow connected. But before Hinata or Naruto could attempt to grab a bell, Kakashi yanked the wire still wrapped around his arm, causing Sasuke to come crashing into Hinata. "Maybe you kids have some talent after all," Kakashi said while he put his book away, "Well, don't just stand there. Bring It!"

Once again Naruto charged in head-first his blades whirling around him like a tornado, This time Kakashi saw his goal he was forcing Kakashi to keep his attention focused on him while Hinata and Sasuke got into their positions. Dodging a slash Kakashi turned to intercept Hinata's attempted Juuken strike to his lower back, but as soon as his focus was off Naruto, Sasuke wrapped his leg with ninja wire and pulled, and with his turn slowed Hinata managed to hit his thigh with her attack his turn slowed. Then Naruto sped up his attacks, managing to graze Kakashi's side, and forcing him to turn his attention back to Naruto and Sasuke who were working together seamlessly now, every time Sasuke managed to get him with his wires Naruto would land a blow, not a major blow, even bound Kakashi was too fast for that, more of a scratch, but combined with Hinata's Juuken strikes he was slowing down. After Hinata's fingers brushed the bells for the third time in ten minutes Kakashi realized that they were going to win. And he couldn't live with himself if three Genin managed to beat him. Sighing he managed to break away from the melee but as soon as his feet touched the ground again he heard Sasuke and Naruto cry out.

"Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu!"

"Fuuton: Daitoppa!"

Kakashi's lone visible eye widened in shock at the size of the fireball, he barely managed to Kawarimi out of the blast zone in time. "I can't believe I'm doing this against Genin…" Kakashi said as he lifted his Hitai-ate to reveal his Sharingan. "But, you leave me no choice if I don't want to kill you." Once again the three of them charged Kakashi. But with his Sharingan's near prescient abilities avoiding all of their blows became a piece of cake. The formerly complex series of weaving spins that Naruto used in his attacks, became simple slashes. Without the distraction of Naruto's blades it was child's play to dodge Sasuke's wires. And with out both of the screening her strikes Kakashi could beat Hinata with one finger.

"Damn it!" Naruto was sweating bullets. "Oi! Duck-butt, why can't you do that yet?"

"The Sharingan has to be unlocked to use, I haven't managed to unlock mine yet, I'm not sure why. There's no definitive way to unlock it, my brother's unlocked as soon as he put any chakra into his eyes. I've tried almost everything in the clan records. Short of genuine life threatening injuries, that is."

Panting Hinata said, "Every one in my clan is born with the ability to use their eyes. It must have been hard for your clan." Before resuming her attacks

"My right eye unlocked when I was almost murdered by a drunken mob, but my left eye didn't… The Toads!" Naruto's left eye began to glow as he prepared to summon the toads to help.

"Oh no you don't!" Kakashi rushed Naruto, landing his first real offensive maneuver by sucker punching Naruto, disrupting his concentration. Kakashi followed his punch with a chop to the back of Naruto's head, knocking the blond out.

"Naruto!" Both Hinata and, surprisingly Sasuke, shouted as the he hit the floor, unmoving, their reactions past that couldn't be more different. Sasuke went cold with rage, his move precise and lethal. Hinata on the other hand was furious; her attacks lost the timidity they had earlier, coming in fast and furious hands glowing from the amount of chakra she was pushing through them. But Hinata didn't have the boy's ridiculous levels of stamina, and was clearly tiring, but the few hits she managed to land before passing out hurt. After she knocked herself out from acute chakra exhaustion fighting Sasuke was a piece of cake. Blocking Sasuke's last attack, Kakashi countered with a kick that sent him crashing into a tree. Sighing tiredly as he lowered his Hitai-ate back over his eye, Kakashi almost missed Sasuke finishing the hand seals for his 'Katon: Gokakyu'. Kakashi avoided it by using the 'Doton: Moguragakure no Jutsu' (Earth Release: Hiding Like A Mole Technique)

Panting tiredly Sasuke said, "Damn it where'd he go?" looking around he thought, 'above? To the left?'

He felt a hand grab his ankle, "Doton: Shinjū Zanshu no Jutsu (Earth Style: Double Suicide Decapitation Technique/Earth Style Headhunter Technique)" Kakashi pulled him underground, leaving only his head above ground. "I'll see you later kid!" Kakashi said he went of to tie up Hinata and Naruto.

Hinata woke to the sound of an alarm ringing, "Finally awake Hinata?" Sasuke voice came from the ground to he left. "Do you have any idea how boring it is to be buried up to your neck for an hour?"

"Um, w-why am I t-tied up s-Sasuke-san?" Hinata was cocooned in ropes, tied to a training post.

"Because Kakashi wanted to bugger of somewhere instead of risking one of you two waking up and letting me out."

Just then Kakashi strolled up carrying three large bentos, "hmm… I guess I'm just going to have to eat all three of these in front of you!"

"I'm not hungry."

"I-I h-had a nice breakfast sensei."

"Oh? And why did you eat when I told you not too?" The air around Kakashi seemed to get colder, the lights seemed to dim and all sound died.

"Because, I told them to, Kakashi-ojisan." The smell of food had woken Naruto. "And you only told us that we would throw up if we ate."

"Well I really do hate having to say this to you guys." Kakashi looked sad, "but after what you three did…" Kakashi drew things out as long as he could, relishing the looks of defeat as long as he could, "You all pass! Congratulations!" Kakashi gave the three of them one of his infamous 'eye-smiles', "You three showed exceptional teamwork, I'm very proud of you. But tell me which of the three of you would have stayed back if I wasn't lying?"

The three of them shared a look.

Grinning like a madman Naruto said, "Oooh I can work with that! Okay here's what we do…" Naruto said, "I'll do my best to keep him occupied with my Uzu no Tsubasa…|

"Wait your what, Fishcake?" Sasuke was confused he wondered what wings Naruto was talking about.

"Oh! I completely forgot ot show you guys here look at this," Naruto clapped his hands together; left eye glowing, and the green summoning formula wrote itself in the air. Grabbing his overlarge staff sword and giving in a twirl over his head Naruto continued, "this is the Uzu no Tsubasa, ancient weapon that technically belongs to my clan, see along the blades? Those seals are in the traditional Uzumaki style." Naruto pointed to the seal formulas etched along the flat of the blade. " as I was saying, I'll use this to keep Kakashi distracted," he tossed Sasuke three spools of ninja wire, "I've seen what you do with ninja wire when you think no one is watching you Sasuke, I know you have a lot of talent with this stuff. Use this to try to bind his arms or legs, slow him down so there's a chance we can get a bell. Hinata you use your Juuken strikes to mess with his legs make it as hard for him to move as you can, I'll try to cut off the bells, Hinata you grab them if you can, I'll stay back if I have to."

"N-No, Naruto-kun, I'll stay back."

"It doesn't matter, Hinata-chan, if he actually sends one of us back I'm going with them."

"As much as it pains me to agree with Fishcake, if he actually wants to destroy whatever potential for teamwork he shouldn't be a Jonin-sensei. I'll stay too."

"So either we all pass or none of us do, Duck-butt? What about your vengeance?"

Sasuke shrugged, "It can wait a year."

Naruto's jaw dropped, "Who are you and what have you done with the real Uchiha Sasuke!"

Annoyed Sasuke said, "I've grown more sparring with you then I ever did before. Besides he looks lazy I bet I could learn more on my own then with him!"

"All of us." They said in unison.

A/N I know I'm not good at action scenes, I'd love some good advice on writing decent action scenes. But I hoped you enjoyed it anyways.