Morning came as Naruto opened his eyes. The sunlight beaming on his face as he slowly rose up from his bed and sat up. He come down stairs to see his father sitting at the kitchen table. On one side was 2 plates of egg, toast and bacon while the other was Kabuki with only 1 plate.
"It's up to you, Naruto. Eat or don't eat." Kabuki looked over at his son and said. Naruto didn't need to be told twice as he quickly sat down with his dad.
"Itadakimasu," The both said as they started to eat.
/
Over at the Uchiha District, which was now owned by Sasuke alone, Sasuke sat at a table alone with a single bowl of rice in front of him with an egg one top. He just sat there staring at the egg and rice bowl for a few minutes thinking rather he should eat his breakfast or not.
What Kabuki said yesterday made sense in a way. If he does have the strength for this, then he couldn't show Kabuki he deserved to be trained. As an avenger, he needed power if he was gonna make his goal come true.
"Itadakimasu," he simply said as he picked up his food and began to eat.
/
Sakura brushed her hair as she looked over herself in the mirror. She looked over herself and nodded. She was known to always be the by the book and did what she could to stick to the rule. She knew Naruto would get into trouble for eating so only she and her dear Sasuke would pass while Naruto would be sent back to the academy like the loser he is.
"Love conquers all! Cha!" Sakura yelled as she went out of her room and ran out the door.
/
Training ground 7
Naruto stood in the area sitting while he waited for his team and teacher. After he ate with his dad, they did their morning training and Kabuki gave him a bento lunch with some riceballs. Naruto held both his Ongekikou practicing his stick fighting combined with taiko drumming to help train more and pass the time.
Naruto saw Sasuke walking toward him. Naruto gave him a small wave and Sasuke just nodded. Neither one of them said anything after that. Naruto just practice while Sasuke watched trying to memorized some of Naruto's technique.
"Sasuke!" Sakura yelled as she came, upon seeing Sasuke, she rushed over to him to fawn over him.
After 2 hours, Naruto stopped practicing, Sasuke was getting tired of Sakura, and Sakura was mad that Sasuke would rather pay attention to that idiot Naruto then her.
"Well I've worked up an appetite," Naruto said as he put his sticks on the back of his waist. Naruto took out the bento with riceballs his dad gave him.
"What do you think your doing, baka!?" Sakura yelled. "Kakashi-sensei told us not to eat! Get rid of that before you get just, but mostly Sasuke-kun in trouble!"
Naruto looked at Sakura with a bored look. "For a kunochi who passed her paper test, you're not very smart are you?"
"What did you say!?" Sakura clinched her fist in anger.
"Let me guess, you didn't eat breakfast, did you?"
"Of course I didn't! Kakashi-sensai told us not to eat, so I didn't." Sakura smiled feeling smug. "Only an idiot like you would ..."
"I ate breakfast," Sasuke suddenly said.
Sakura sudden froze. She could feel sweat dropping from her head as she tried to come up with a way to justify Naruto being stupid for eating, while still trying to make Sasuke great for doing it. While she was doing this, Naruto slipped a riceball in her hand and then handed one to Sasuke, who accepted it.
Sasuke looked up at Naruto for a bit wondering why he was sharing his food with him. Naruto said nothing as he just nodded to his teammate and then ate the last riceball. Sasuke looked down at the simple riceball for a second before taking a bite of his.
Salmon filling. His favorite.
Maybe the dope wasn't so bad.
Sakura snapped out of her daze and saw Naruto and Sasuke eating Naruto's riceballs. She notice the riceball in her hand and contemplated what to do. On one hand, Kakashi-sensai told them not to eat and being the good student she was, she always listened to what she was told. Plus she was one a diet.
On the other, what Kabuki said yesterday was true. At the moment she didn't have much strength since she didn't eat and she was really hunger. But most importantly, if she was gonna pass this test to stay with Sasuke, she needed to do whatever it took make that happen.
/
Near the training grounds
Kabuki smirked with his arms crossed as he watched Naruto share his food with his teammates. Kabuki purposely made 3 riceballs, not for Naruto to eat alone, but because he knew there was a chance his teammates didn't. By giving his food to them, Naruto had not only helped them regain some of their strength, but deepen his bonds with them.
"Well done, Naruto," Kabuki nodded feeling pride in his boy.
/
1 hour later
"Yo," Kakashi called out lazily as he walked to his students while reading his orange book.
"You're late!" Naruto and Sakura yelled.
"Sorry I'm late, a black cat crossed my path so I had to take the long way, then there was an this old lady that needed help carrying her bags." Kakashi said making up and excuse.
"LIAR!" Naruto and Sakura yelled at him.
"Let's move on." Kakashi said after clearing his throat. Kakashi placed an clock onto a long and set it. "This alarm is set for 12 PM. Your goal is to get these from me." Kakashi showed them 2 small bells. "If you can get the bells from me, you pass."
"But Kakashi-sensei, there are only 2 bells," Sakura said pointing at the bells.
"Correct," Kakashi smiled "Those who don't get a bell will be tied to the log and forced to watch as I eat in front of them."
Naruto and Sasuke smirk at that. They both ate their fill this morning so they wasn't hunger at all. Sakura, however, looked down in dread. Since she chose not to eat and because of her diet, she was very hunger. Luckily, thanks to the riceball, she wasn't as hungry as she was when she first got to the training grounds, but she was no where near full strength.
"You are allowed to use anything and to come at me with the intent to kill," Kakashi said as he tossed the bells up and caught them.
"Dont get in my way, Dope!" Sasuke told Naruto smirking
"You dont get in my way, Teme!" Naruto told him back with his own smirk.
"Begin!" Kakashi yelled as all 3 of his student leaped and vanished.
/
Kakashi never moved from his spot as he kept a look out for his students. Shinobi basics teaches one to conceal their presence and hide. One of a ninja's greatest assets is stealth. Sasuke hide in a tree while Sakura ducked in a bush.
"Good looks like they hide themselves well, time for me to..." Kakashi said as he was about to go looking for his student.
Naruto jumped out of some bushes and stood in front of his teacher. "Ok! let's go! Me and you!"
"What an idiot!" Sasuke and Sakura yelled in their heads as they watched from their hiding spots.
"Are you an idiot?" Kakashi asked him with a disappointed look on his face.
"I'll show you!" Naruto yelled as he ran at Kakashi.
Kakashi put his hand into his weapon pouch. Thinking Kakashi was going for a weapon, Naruto quickly stopped and jumped back to ready himself for whatever his sensei was gonna pull out. What he did not expect was for Kakashi to pull out an orange book. What surprised him more was that it was the same book he had seen his own father read.
/
Near the training grounds
"Mmm?" Kabuki looked up from his book and saw Kakashi holding the same book as him. "Ohh! A fellow reader. We should talk more, but for now..."
Kabuki smiled and he buried his face in his book and giggled.
/
"What are you doing?" Naruto asked confused as to why was he reading in the middle of a fight.
"Mmm? Oh im just catching up on my reading," Kakashi said as he giggled as his 'read'.
"Why you!" Naruto yelled as he ran at Kakashi again.
Naruto first threw a punch, but Kakashi blocked it without looking away from his book. Next Naruto jumpped and tried a roundhouse kick, but Kakashi ducked under it. Getting really mad, Naruto threw a hard right straight, but found Kakashi was gone.
"Where are you looking?" Kakashi said behind Naruto while held a tiger sign while holding his book.
"Naruto get away!" Sakura yelled concerned for her teammate. A tiger sign was often used for a fire jutsu and at that close range, it could have deadly results.
"Too late. Leaf Village Secret Ultimate Taijustu! Sennen Goroshi!" Kakashi yelled as he unleashed his attack.
Naruto looked helpless as he could only watch. Suddenly he felt a great pain in his butt. Kakashi had inserted his finger into Naruto's bottom and by channeling chakra in his finger, he was able to throw Naruto a great distance.
"GAHH!" Naruto yelled as he held his hurting butt and was sent flying into the sky before falling into a near by pond.
/
Near the training grounds
Kabuki dropped his book as he started to laugh historically. He held his sides with one hand while beating the ground with the other. Soon he was rolling on the ground laughing holding himself.. He knew he should feel bad for his poor adopted son, but that was just too funny not to laugh.
/
Up in his hiding spot, Sasuke saw Kakshi's back was turned away from him. Thinking he could get him while he was unguarded, Sasuke slowly pulled out a shuriken. Suddenly before he could throw them, 2 shuriken flew out the pond at Kakashi. Kakashi, who went back to reading his book, caught them with his fingers with one hand while the other was holding his book. Sasuke looked shocked as he saw this. If he had been the one to throw his first, not only would it not work, but he would have given away his position.
Naruto swam out of the water and looked up at his teacher. Kakashi turned his back to Naruto and asked, "What's wrong was that all you got? At this rate, you're not gonna eat lunch."
"We'll see about that," Naruto smirked before 5 Naruto Kage Bunshins jumped out the pond.
Kakashi turned to the incoming force ready to face them all, but suddenly, felt himself being restrained by another Naruto clone behind him. By using the frontal attack as distraction, a clone was able to sneak up on Kakshi and grab onto him. Just as the Naruto's was about to hit him, Kakashi used Kawarimi to switch places with a Naruto clone. Then made Naruto punch his own clone.
Not wanting accidentally hurt himself, Naruto dispelled his jutsu and looked around. There was no sign of Kakashi, but there laying under a tree was a single bell. Just as he reached to grab it, Naruto was suddenly lifted and hung upside down.
"Gahh! I fell for such an obvious trap!" Naruto yelled as he swung back and forth.
"Yes and I'm surprised even you fell for this," Kakashi said as he lifted came out from hiding and took the fallen bell.
Suddenly Naruto smirked. "Who said I fell for anything? I was never here in the first place!"
Huh?" Kakashi looked puzzled before Naruto sudden bursted into smoke. "What!? A clone!?"
/
Near the training grounds
"Good work, Naruto," Kabuki smirked. He had to admit. Naruto was able not only fool his teacher, but gain some information as well. "Never go against an enemy you know nothing about. That's one of the basics I taught you. A Genin could never beat an seasoned Jonin, so you used a Kage Bunshin to help you. Your Kage Bunshin are solid and they are visually identical and possess the same chakra as you. Making impossible for any one to tell the deference between the clones and you.
Also when the clone is destroyed for dispelled, any and all the experience of it goes back to you. This helps a a lot with information gathering. Now that you have all this info, Naruto, what will you do next?"
/
Far away from Kakashi, Naruto sat with his legs crossed in a meditated. He opened his eyes as he felt his clones experience transfer into him. He had all he need and with luck, he and his teammate might be able to pass all together.
/
"Darn it!" Sasuke growled as he leap through the trees.
He saw Kakashi was just as surprise as he was when he saw that the Naruto Kakashi was fight the whole time was just a clone. Sasuke though he could finally catch him off guard so he threw a volly of shurikens at him. It looked like he landed a hit at first, but Kakashi used Kawarimi to switch places with a log. Sasuke had to move fast if he was gonna pass this test.
/
"Sakura!" Naruto called out seeing her.
"Naruto?" Sakura asked as he walked up to her.
"We need to work together," Naruto started. "There's no way any of us can beat Kakashi-sensei alone, but if we work together, we might be able to pull it off."
"Hmph" Sakura turned her head away from Naruto. "Like I need any hope from a loser like you! Beside you hear what Kakashi said, only can pass! You just want Sasuke to get left behind!"
"Wait, Sakura. You don't understand. This test..." Naruto tried to explain
"Oh! So know your calling my dumb!" Sakura interrupted him. "I'll have you know I made the top score on the written test! If I'm gonna help anyone, it's gonna be Sasuke."
With that, she turned away from Naruto and ran away to look for Sasuke. Naruto stood there for a few seconds before yelling, "What the f..."
/
"Sasuke, where are you!?" Sakura called out as she went looking for her crush.
If she and Sasuke work together, they can get the bells easy and Naruto will be sent back to the academy like the loser he was. She hopped onto some bushes on a hill and looked down. There under her was Kakashi reading his book. She smirked as she thought of a plan. If she could get the bells, Sasuke will not only praise her, but he might even ask her out on a date!
"Sakura, behind you," Sakura heard a voice whisper to her breaking her out of her thought.
She looked to behind her and saw Kakashi leaning down to her looking bored. Before she can make any move, Kakashi uses a genjutsu on her. Sakura looks around her, only to find herself alone in the forest. She looked around scared before remembering she was looking for Sasuke.
"Sakura," a voice called out to her behind her.
Sakura instantly knew Sasuke's voice anywhere turn to see him. Only when she did, she found a very injured Sasuke. Sasuke was on his knees bleeding rapidly with lots of kunai knives stabbed into him. This sight caused Sakura to scream and faint.
"Even though it was only a D rank genjustu, she still fell for it," Kakashi said as he turned the page of his book. "She saw me cast it right in front of her too. Oh well that's what you get for not properly training."
/
Sasuke was near by when he heard Sakura scream. He looked down at her fainted from and could easily tell she was hit by a genjustu. He shook his head disappointed in her.
"Sasuke!" Sasuke turned to see Naruto land right next to him. "I'm guessing you heard too?"
"Yeah, I did, but unlike her, I won't for a weak level justu like that." Sasuke declared. "I'm not like you two. I'm different."
"Why not try saying that..." Kakashi said leaning against a tree reading his book. "...After you get a bell."
"Sasuke, don't do it. He's baiting you," Naruto said trying to help his teammate.
Sasuke didn't listen as he threw a volly of shuriken, but Kakashi easily move away from them. Sasuke smirked as he threw a single kunai which his a rope, which triggered a trap. Kakashi then saw a barrage of kunai flying at him. He quickly moved away just in time for the knives to stab themselves in the tree behind him.
Kakashi was so focused on the trap, Sasuke was about to sneak behind him and swing a left back kick. Kakashi blocked it and then grabbed trying to throw Sasuke off his balance. Sasuke wasn't gonna let him to that and swung his left fist next. Kakashi then used his free and to grab onto that one. With both hand occupied, Sasuke used hit right leg to kick at Kakashi's head to which Kakashi blocked by being his left arm up to block it.
This was all according to Sasuke's plan. Kakashi was forced into a position where he was cut off and bells where swung close to Sasuke. Kakashi looked down to notice Sasuke reach for the bells. Just as Sasuke touched the bells, Kakashi let go of Sasuke completely and moved a good distance away from Sasuke.
"Sasuke that was close you almost got them," Naruto said as he moved back to Sasuke's side.
"Almost, but not quite," Kakashi said as he stood back up.
"Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu!" Sasuke called as he flew threw his hand signs, took a deep breath, and shot a large fireball from him mouth.
Once Sasuke was done, he stopped and let the flames die out. Naruto and Sasuke waited for the smoke to clear. Only to find Kakashi was nowhere in sight. Naruto and Sasuke got back to back and looked around themselves.
Nothing around them and nothing above him so where could he be?
Thanks to Naruto's training as an oni. Naruto's senses were high which helped him when he faught Makamou with Kabuki. His sense of hearing and smell were especially high. He could hear something moving closer to them, but couldn't see anything. Suddenly it came to him, if it wasn't something above ground then it was something from below.
"Sasuke, jump now!" Naruto yelled as he jumped away from Sasuke.
"What?" Sasuke didn't like being told what to do, but he decided to do was Naruto told and jumped away.
Just as Sasuke's feet leaped away, an arm shot out from the ground and just barely missed. Had Sasuke not jumped when he did, he would have been caught. Kakashi's arm then reeled back into the hole from once it came.
"Sasuke, I'll aim low! You aim high!" Naruto yelled as he ran to the hole while move though hand signs. Naruto took a deep breathe in a simillar fashion to Sasuke as he gathered chakra in his stomach. Only instead of fire, Naruto let out a strong vortex of wind into the hole. "Futon: Toppa!"
Kakashi was suddenly sent flying out of the ground by the vortex. Kakashi tried to compose himself, but he didn't have time as he notice a giant fireball shot by Sasuke already heading towards him. Kakashi quickly used a substitute just before the fireball could hit. Kakashi landed on the ground safely, but he wasn't given a second to relax however.
"Now!" Naruto yelled
Naruto and Sasuke suddenly appeared on both side of him. Both with their right arms raise ready to throw a punch at their teacher. Just as they both threw their fist Kakashi moved slightly back, thinking the 2 would collide and hit each other.
Too bad for him, that didn't happen.
Naruto and Sasuke ran pass each other and used their left hands which was behind them as they reached for the bells. Both of them not only manage to touch the bells, but had their fingers around them. Just as they were about the close their fingers and grab the bells, Kakashi used both hands to push them away from his as fast as he could. Kakashi looked down and saw the bells where still there. He then turned to the duo, who already stood ready to attack him.
"To say I'm impressed would be an understatement." Kakashi thought as he stared at the 2 in front of him. "These two didn't even have time to converse and come up with a plan. Meaning everything they just did was pure unintentional, but that didn't make the teamwork they did any less real. With a bit more training, I can already tell these two will become a force to be force to be reckoned with, however..."
Suddenly a bell could be head in the distance.
Time was up
/
Naruto and Sasuke was sitting in front of the logs while Sakura was the one tied up. Sakura complained how there was no way she would be the one tied up instead of Naruto, but Naruto and Sasuke just ignored her and waited for Kakashi
Kakashi met with the 3 genin and told them that he won't be sending them back to the Academy. While at first they were happy, that was soon crushed when Kakashi goes on to say that they will be dropped from being a ninja permanently.
Kakashi explains that the purpose of the test was teamwork. Sakura not only didn't contribute to the test at all, but when Naruto offered to work together, she refused him. Though Naruto and Sasuke did work together, it had to be all 3 who work together.
After showing them Konoha's Memorial Stone, Kakashi decides to give them another chance. Naruto and Sasuke would be allowed to eat while Sakura would be force to watch. However, if either of them feed her, they will all immediately fail.
After Kakashi left, Naruto and Sasuke took the 2 bento boxes, but nether of them ate. Naruto opened his bento, but instead of eating it, he offered the food to Sakura.
"What are you doing, baka!?" Sakura yelled shocked at both of them. "Are you trying to get Sasuke in trouble!?"
"Now is not the time for this, Sakura. If we stand any chance at beating Kakashi and passing this test. We all need to work together." Naruto explained.
"Like I'm gonna believe that! I bet Sasuke and I could beat this test all by ourselves."
Naruto had enough of Sakura being a fangirl.
He walked up to sakura and backhanded her in the face. Sasuke looked at him stunned while Sakura held her cheek in shock. Naruto looked at her with cold eyes and told her, "When are you gonna grow up? This isnt some romance book. This is real life and Sasuke and I wont be there to save you all the time."
"I don't need you! Sasuke will..." Sakura turned to sasuke for support but he shook his head at her. "But..."
"You're on diet, you not training, you thinking only about Sasuke is not only gonna get you killed, but the whole team killed as well if we go out on missions as we are.
"Enough with following the rule, Sakura!" Naruto said. "If we're gonna get those bells and pass the test, we need to be a full strength."
"Naruto and I ate breakfest so we have more then enough energy. You on the other hand didn't. You won't be able to keep up with us, unless you eat something."
"But guy..." Sakura tried to complain
"Just hurry up and eat before Kakashi-sensei returns!" Naruto interupted her.
Sakura saw that there was no arguing at this point. She just nodded and opened her mouth. Since she can't eat on her own, Sasuke feed her. As much as Sakura loved that Sasuke was feeding her, she couldn't enjoy it that long. The second she got food in her mouth and ate it, a large explosion caught all of their attention.
"You three! You broke the rule! Are you prepared for the punishment?" Kakashi yelled as he came out of the smoke. Kakashi then went threw hand signs and a strong gust of wind blew pass his student. "Any last words?"
"Yeah," Naruto said as he took out a kunai and cut Sakura loose. "If we're gonna get punished, might as well do it together."
"As a team," Sasuke said as he took out his own kunia and got ready to fight.
Sakura looked up as Naruto and Sasuke looked down at her. Sakura felt strength swell up in her as she stood up. She got ready and yelled, "Yeah! We're a team!"
"Really?" Kakashi looked at each of them and saw the determaind look on their faces. He smiled as he despelled his jutsu and the skies cleared. "Then you pass."
"What?" Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura asked confused.
"You pass," Kakashi repeated as he walked over to them. "Those who break the rules are considered scum, but those who abandon their friends are even worse than scum.' You all came together and acted like a team, refusing to abandon each other. Training for today is done! Team 7 starts missions tomorrow!"
Kakashi gave the now official team a thumbs up. Naruto and Sakura cheered while Sasuke just smirked satisfied. The suddenly hear clapping getting louder to them. Everyone turned their heads to see Kabuki clapping as he walked towards them.
"Well done all of you!" Kabuki congratulated them. "I saw the whole thing, you should all be very proud."
"Tou-san!" Naruto yelled seeing his father. "What are you doing here?"
"What? I can't watch my boy become a great ninja?" Kabuki patted Naruto's head. "You did well, Naruto." Kabuki turned to Sakura. "You're finally starting to see not everything can be learned from a book." Sakura blushed as she nodded her head. "You are started to break some of that 'ice' of you. Keep that up and I might consider training you." Sasuke turned away.
"I take it your here for you're son?" Kakashi asked as he walked up to Kabuki.
"Hai, but thats not all." Kabuki reached into his fur coat and gave Kakashi a paper.
Team 7 all looked at the paper and yelled in shook, "EHHHH!?"
"As of today, I will be your 2nd Jonin sensei. I've been given permission to assist Team 7's Kakashi with teaching the Genin."
"So you're gonna be able to teach after all," Sasuke smirked. Looks like he was a step closer to getting his revenge.
"We'll see, little emo," Kabuki teased. "But first put some real food in those bellies!"
"Yeah! Ra-" Naruto began to cheer but Kabuki chopped him in the head.
"No ramen today," Kabuki said plainly. "But there is this barbique place I saw. That's where we're going to celebrate.
"Um.. I'm on a diet so I'll just..." Sakura said nervously as she turned and tired to walk away but Kabuki put his hand on her should while giving her a wicked smiled.
"You're kind sensei is giving you an offering, are you turning it down?"
"Nnno, Kabuki-sensei!" Sakura turned back to his scared.
"He's so scary," Inner Sakura said.
"We'll I have work up quite the appetite so let's go" Kakashi said as He and Kabuki lead Team 7 out from the training ground.
/Next time
"I want a real mission!" Naruto yelled.
"Prepare to die,"
"We'll show you the power of two REAL oni!"
"HENSHIN!"
/
Omake
Naruto and Sasuke were eating some of the grilled meat with rice, Sakura was taking in as small bites as she could, Kakashi was reading his book, and Kabuki was cooking the meat.
"You seem to be very good at that, Kabuki-sensei," Sasuke said.
He notice that Kabuki was a surprisingly good cook. He knew exactly when the meat was perfectly cooked and which of the side dishes would go well with them. Kabuki didn't look that much older then Iruka.
"Of course the life of a single father isn't easy, you know," Kabuki smiled as he put is arm around Naruto. Naruto, who still had food in his mouth began to choke. "You should see our food expenses! Haha! Cause this boy eats so much, we even had to work some other jobs while on the road."
Kabuki let Naruto go, who quickly grabbed some water and drunk it. Thanks to that, he was able to get the good down and stop choking. Naruto turned to his father and yelled, "Are you trying to kill me!?"
Suddenly they all hear a loud crash.
All of Team 7 turned to see a boy around their age and a man the same as Kakashi. Both of them were wearing green spandex and orange leg warmer. The younger one was swaying back and forth in a strange manner. Before anyone could register what was going on the boy yelled in a drunken fashion.
"I'm a splendid ninja!"
That night ... the restaurant was destroyed