Chapter 2: The Test Part 1

The next morning everyone woke up and sleepily walked to the training grounds. Kira, Sasuke, and Sakura waited. Naruto was ten minutes late and Sakura blew her top.

Chasing the blond haired boy around the training grounds till she got ahold of him.

"Sakura! That was uncalled for!" Kira snapped storming up to the pinket.

"He was late!" Sakura defended herself. Sasuke didn't seem to have an opinion on the subject.

"Who cares? Being ten minutes late isn't a bad thing! I've been ten minutes late before and I've never once been beaten up because of it!"

"He should have been here on time! Your brother is our instructor! He told us to be here at seven!" She yelled.

"My brother can go lick a toad! He's late to everything! So stop being a raging bitch to MY best friend." Kira snapped a predatory growl in her tone.

Meanwhile Sasuke and Naruto watched the bickering girls with interest.

'Sakura is so pretty, I wonder if she'd get ramen with me later.' Naruto thought happily, a goofy grin spread across his face as he pictured what their lives would be like when they were adults.

Sasuke on the other hand watched intently as the woman he loved fought Sakura head on about abusing Naruto. He could care less about anyone hurting Naruto. Though it was good to know that she would defend who she cares about.

"Well sorry for trying to be a good student! Unlike some people we won't get special treatment."

"You know what. You want special treatment. You got it." Sasuke watched Kira storm over to a tree and sit down glaring at the ground as she tried to calm down.

Sakura was pleased with herself. She won the argument or so she thought. 'How do I look now Sasuke? I just won that argument against Kira.' She looked at Sasuke happily as Naruto walked over to his best friend.

"You didn't have to do that," Naruto spoke softly holding her hand.

"I couldn't stand by and watch her hurt you Naru, she had no right to do that."

"It's just who Sakura is. But I know I can always count on you to have my back." Naruto gave her his signature smile that always told her he would be okay.

Kira leaned closer to him, resting her head on his shoulder, much calmer now but she was still angry. The two continued to talk in hushed tones while Sasuke observed. He couldn't make out what they were saying. But he knew that he didn't like how they were positioned.

That should be him over there. That should be his shoulder she's leaning on, that should be him giving her comfort. Stupid Naruto. He hated him. That was his girl!

Three hours passed and it was clear to everyone that Kakashi was very late.

Sasuke hasn't moved, barely even blinked.

Sakura was pacing back and forth complaining about Kakashi.

Naruto was drawing random figures in the grass with a stick he found an hour ago.

And Kira was thinking of ways to murder her brother.

A swirl of leaves appeared out of nowhere and Kakashi suddenly appeared with a poof.

"Yo," he said. "YOU'RE LATE!" Sakura and Naruto shouted, while Sasuke and Kira glared daggers at Kakashi.

"Well, you see, a black cat crossed my path and since I didn't want to get…" Kakashi tried to explain.

"LIAR!" the blond and the pinket shouted again "Oh well." Kakashi said as he paced to the stump and set the timer to noon, which is two hours later.

"Okay, it's set for noon. You task is to take these 3 bells before noon. Those who doesn't have a bell will be shipped off back to the academy for another year, seeing as if you're not good enough." Kakashi explained.

"WHAT?!" Sakura shouted, Sasuke's eyes widen in shock. Naruto was making sputtering noises as if he couldn't believe what he was hearing.

"You are to attack me as if you're going to kill, or else you won't have a chance at all."

"B-but we could kill or hurt you, sensei!" Sakura shouted thinking it was the stupidest thing Kakashi could ever say.

"Oh yes, four tiny Genin are going to kill or maim an overly experienced Jounin." Sakura glared at the other girl. "Brat."

"Bitch."

"Great so we all know what to do then. We can start when I say go…GO!" Everyone scrambled to his or her hiding places, well everyone except Kira.

"Aren't you going to attack me?" Kakashi asked his younger sister curiously.

"No, I wanted to tell you that I hid all your Icha Icha books." He squinted his eye(s) at her waiting for her demand.

"Buy us ramen later." He nodded. Sasuke, Sakura, and Naruto watched confused. What was she doing?! Sakura glared down at her. She knew her brother gave her special treatment.

"Is that all?" she nodded. Kakashi threw his hand back just in time to catch a clone from touching his belt. "Did you really think I'm that stupid?" she shrugged before hitting him with a Mizu no Waruasobi. Flicking her wrist in his direction, Kakashi quickly avoided her trick of water. He should know. He taught her.

Kakashi avoided her kicks and jabs with ease. She knew she didn't have long before she'd be done. "You know what has to be done don't you?" She asked staring him down as he fought back barely reading his book. She wasn't even fighting for the stupid bells. She knew they couldn't get it. It was a team building exercise.

"I do," Kira quickly did a few hand signals. Kakashi watched her hand work and avoided her Uo Tsuba. She could feel the cool water fill her lungs, air was becoming scarce. Taking one large deep breath of air, she shot a strong force of water through her mouth at her brother. It barely grazed him. She was only able to do two of those but she didn't get a chance to do another.

Kakashi quickly caught his sister by the arm spinning her toward him and kicking her back a few feet. She lost her battle. Her head was killing her as Kakashi walked past reading the next page of his book. "You did good." He mumbled softly but she heard it.

"Thanks," she rubbed her chest when he kicked her and stayed on the ground. Kakashi ran toward a clearing near a large tree where he set up his trap. He made sure no one saw.

"COME FIGHT ME" a voice shouted, making Kakashi turn around. It was Naruto.

"You know, you are a weird kid." Kakashi stated while little sweat slowly dripped down to his mask.

"The only thing that's weird is your hair!" Naruto shouted.

Naruto started with a kicks and punches, but when Kakashi dodged all of them, he started getting frustrated. He then powered up a really hard punch and crashed it into Kakashi's stomach, only to have 'Kakashi' disappear, replaced by a log.

"ARRGH!" Naruto shouted until he found a bell next to the floor beside the tree. Without thinking, Naruto started sprinting towards it. He almost reached the bell when his foot got caught. He looked down and saw a rope on his ankle.

Next thing he knew, he was hanging of a tree.

The real Kakashi then appeared in front of him, grabbing the bell that Naruto almost caught. Then, he disappeared, leaving Naruto hanging there.

Kakashi then walked towards the clearing where he spotted Sakura. Kakashi chuckled when he saw that she was still looking at Sasuke. Hmm, what should I use, Taijutsu or Ninjutsu? Ahh, I know, Genjutsu

Sakura saw Kakashi standing in the middle of the clearing, holding an orange book. "Icha Icha Paradise?" Sakura said, as she squinted to read it. What kind of book was that?

Sakura then leaped to hide underneath another bush, getting ready to attack Kakashi. "Good, he didn't notice me." Sakura whispered. "Think again." A voice said as Sakura was suddenly spun around. She looked around; there was no one around.

"Huh?" Sakura panicked. What happened? A bush rustled about a foot away from her. Then came a bloody Sasuke, with shurikens and kunai pierced all over their bodies.

"Sakura…Help me…please...help" Sasuke said while Sakura looked at them with tears coming out of her eyes.

"NOOO!" Was all that Sakura said before she fainted. Did I go too hard on her? Kakashi thought. Oh well.

"That scream… it has to be Sakura…" Sasuke thought as he raced towards Kakashi.

"Sakura easily fell for that trick." Kakashi said when he felt Sasuke in front of him.

"I'm not the same as them." Sasuke stated.

"Let's see if you can get the bell first." Kakashi said in monotone as he continued reading.

Sasuke started throwing shurikens at Kakashi, but he simply dodged them, finally taking his eyes off his book. Sasuke then threw a kunai towards the bushes and BAM; thousands of shurikens and kunai came flying at Kakashi. Kakashi eyes widened when he quickly dodged all of them. Then, they started a taijutsu fight. Sasuke appeared behind Kakashi and swung his fist at Kakashi's head but Kakashi duck down and he missed. Then Sasuke used his free leg to hit him but Kakashi used his arms to block the hit.

Kakashi was surprised that Sasuke kept him so busy that he didn't have time to read his book. His thoughts were interrupted when he recognized what Sasuke was going to do next.

A genin like Sasuke shouldn't know how to do this jutsu!

"Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu!" Sasuke yelled, ending his hands in a tiger seal. Fire erupted in front of his hands as it hit Kakashi directly on the face.

It was a fake. "Damn! Where could he be? Up…left…right?"

"Below you!" A voice cried out from below as a hand came out and pulled Sasuke down.

"You know, you're right. You're not like other academy graduates I met before." Kakashi said. He then disappeared.

"Shoot." Sasuke said in a frustrated voice.