Hey, you made it, nice! I'm sorry but this was cringeworthy even for me. Just... pretend it happened in a much cooler and bdass way rather than what it is here. you'll know what I mean. Anyway, let's go!

Super hero time!

Ex-aid: New objective: beat the sensei!

Naruto: There's deceit around! It isn't a game anymore!

Ex-aid: Looks like the difficulty is set to high with this Naruto!

Naruto: just remember, there's no respawn...

E-a + N: Game start! Showtime!

"Naruto! You're late!" Bellowed Sakura in her abnormally loud voice, causing Naruto to cover his ears in a vain attempt to protect them. Oh how he had loathed the thought of being stuck with these two as well as a pervert and lazy ass for a teacher.

"Maybe you would've been like me if you actually bothered doing you research." At the confused faces of his soon to be teammates, he elaborated. "Kakashi Hatake, a man notorious for being incredibly late no matter what, even sometimes for important meetings. The typical wait time is 2 hours, so you have been waiting for about…. 1 and a half hours, which means that you still have a grand total of half an hour left."

"And why the hell should we even bother thinking that you would be telling us the truth?" Sasuke said, his trust pink haired lackey also nodding.

"Besides, you came here now and by your words, there is still half an hour left of waiting! Why did you come here if it wasn't going to start?" Naruto sighed and began to stretch off where he stood.

"I don't know about you, but I thought I would get some exercise in first. After all, you wouldn't be prepared if you weren't ready for a fight." In a world of ninja where you would expect to have to kill from an early age, you could never discount the idea of having to fight in order to prove yourself worthy of a Jonin's time. Apparently the thought had never occurred to the two, who were left a little disgruntled that the dead last of the class was thinking ahead.

"What's gotten into you?" Sasuke bluntly asked the red pirate. "You won't ever be anything other than a dead last, so why do you even try?"

"Well, appearances aren't everything my dear Sasuke." Naruto said with a chuckle that irritated the broody boy. "Maybe everything you know is a lie…"

"Not even you can be that much of a liar Naruto!" Sakura instantly denied. "You failed for three years; I don't think you can get any dumber than that if you tried."

"That's because I was trying to be that dumb."

"Sure, whatever helps you sleep at night." Naruto had expected them not to believe him, so it didn't really bother him. What did bother him was that the test would be focused on teamwork and they were sure as hell not going to help or even stand near him if their beliefs transferred to the field.

'Probably think I'll drag them down or something. How ironic.' Naruto mentally chuckled as he started to punch the tree nearby repeatedly. The trees were special ones that had been able to absorb chakra within them and become much stronger, which would help in defence when the enemy weren't able to simply bulldoze through the forest. This also meant that they were often used in strength training, as they would be able to take many more hits than a punching bag and would require more muscle to even dent.

Sasuke looked on in confusion when Naruto began punching the tree. Did he really think something like that would be good enough in the real world? All he was doing was denting the oak, but he had managed to break through the bark of one of the trees at the academy easily.

"Hey, Dobe! Can't even break a bit of wood?" He taunted, though the blonde continued the repetitive motions.

"You can't." Was the basic reply and anger boiled in Sasuke as he moved to a tree of his own. How dare that idiot claim that he couldn't do something as simple as punch through a tree? A smirk appeared on his face as he wound his fist back, ready to show who the weakling really was. Sakura was at the side, watching eagerly for her beloved Sasuke to show the dead last his place. Her mind was emptied of all but those rippling muscles, that dashing hair and….

Copious amounts of blood. Wait, what?

"AGH!"

"I'm surprised you didn't know Teme." Naruto remarked, looking at the broken hand with a ghost of a smile at his lips. Sakura had rushed to her crush's side, desperately trying to cradle it and kiss it better while the more intelligent of the two desperately kept it away so it could get some proper medical care.

"Chakra trees aren't going to break at a simple punch like that. Why do you think they only let us do that with the academy trees?" It was much easier to procure normal trees for the academy, as it was a lengthy process to imbue a sapling with enough chakra to withstand such force. If the academy made sure that it was known not to do so outside of the school, then they were free to use the trees as they wished, to give children a little boost in strength. Naruto didn't know if he had been sent out when they said it to the class, but by the looks of things, they must have let the class believe that it was a chakra tree and had Sasuke break it for a pride boost.

"How the hell aren't your hands a pulp?!" Sasuke demanded, pain seeping into his voice. "If I can't do it then there should be no way that you can!"

"You must've done something to that tree!" Was Sakura's answer to the issue of her idol being shown up. "Did you get some stupid Jonin to strengthen it so Sasuke would feel weak?"

"From what I sense, the two are exactly alike, but Naruto puts more caution into his punches." The three all turned at once to the voice, seeing Kakashi sitting above the tree that had injured Sasuke's hand.

"Kakashi sensei! We can't do this when Sasuke's been injured like this!" Sakura shrieked, manhandling the broken appendage and quickly dissolving into apologies when Sasuke hissed at the pain of sudden movement. With a sigh, the grey haired man strolled up to Sasuke and took the broken hand in his own, ignoring the gasp of pain. Light green energy coated the hands and once he removed his own a couple of seconds later, the blood, bruises and pain were mostly gone.

"There. One of the few medical ninjutsu I know." He told the potential team, before pulling out a clock and two bells, placing the items on a tree stump.

"Right then, you have one hour to get a bell off of me. Whoever doesn't succeed will have to return to the academy. Oh and also, if you don't get a bell, you don't get lunch." At the mere mention of lunch, two different stomachs rumbled, Sasuke and Sakura having followed Kakashi's advice. When Naruto looked absolutely fine, they became irritated further with the boy.

"I chose not to follow the advice because it made no sense whatsoever. Who wouldn't eat before a mission? It wasn't like it was an order or anything." He, Lee and Hinata had all shared a lovely chat around the dinner table with sandwiches, because without eating, you wouldn't have the strength to reach your fullest potential. It was probably part of the test to see if they would follow stupid orders.

"Well done Naruto. I had fully expected every one of you to do so." Kakashi praised, before taking a look at the clock. "I suppose we should start now. Let me just place these here…"

"Kakashi sensei, why are there only two bells for the three of us?" Sakura politely asked and Kakashi smiled from behind his mask.

"Why, whoever doesn't end up with a bell doesn't deserve to be a part of the ninja business." He explained to the fresh from the academy girl. "I suppose you'll just have to try your hardest to get one. Your time starts now and trust me, if you don't come with the intention to kill, then you won't succeed."

"But sensei!" Any further questions from Sakura would be left unanswered as Kakashi used the shunshin to disappear in a swirl of leaves. Immediately, the three separated out to find Kakashi, hiding away in the foliage until they could formulate a plan.

"Hmm. Well they all seem to hide away decently, though they don't exactly dress for it." Kakashi thought out loud as he wandered through the forest. If they decided on an appropriate wardrobe, the task of finding them would've been a lot harder, but with pink hair, blue clothes and a red coat, they should be easily found. In fact, he had already come across Sakura and Sasuke, merely acting as if he hadn't found them, but he had truly found no sign of Naruto.

"So are you up to it?" Kakashi paused as he heard the voice of the person he had lost talking. A smile came across his masked face.

'Maybe they will be the first to pass the test.' He mused, but the sound of gurgling sent him into caution mode. Sneaking silently through the treetops, he came across where both Sasuke and Sakura were and the sight appalled him

Both had decided to take a kunai and stab through Naruto's clones (which as shadow clones, were solid and so were pretty much the boy himself) just for even suggesting that they work together. Sakura had sent the metal through his heart while Sasuke chose on the eye and piercing straight into the brain. Never before had he seen such disgusting behaviour and the thought of that ever occurring to anyone, even if they did hold what Naruto did was enough to make him want to throw up.

"Alright, this test is cancelled!" He called, the wrathful yell echoing throughout the entirety of the forest. The two who had stabbed Naruto looked up to find their sensei above them with anger visible on his face. The teacher jumped down and grabbed the two by the collar, pulling them up to eye level.

"What in all of the world made you think that would be an acceptable action for you to take!?" Growled Kakashi at the two in his hands.

"Well he had no real chance of succeeding and he wouldn't stop annoying me for working-" Whatever Sakura was trying to say as an excuse was only serving to make his wrath grow and light sparks began to dance on his fists, drawing slowly closer to the pair.

"Just because you thought he wouldn't help doesn't mean that you were free to stab him!"

"Don't worry, the Dobe wouldn't have amounted to much anyway." Sasuke dismissed, but the appearance of Naruto meant that he was too stunned for words, as was Sakura.

"How are you alive!? I remember stabbing you!" Sakura yelled out, not even caring that she just admitted to trying to kill the pirate, but Naruto was expressionless as he slowly held up a single finger.

"I've come to haunt you for your misgivings, so you may forever be reminded of your sin." Naruto spoke in a hauntingly slow voice, which soon degenerated when the smell of faecal matter began to cone from the loud mouthed girl, causing Kakashi to drop her.

"You know, you are very lucky that they were clones that you stabbed, otherwise I would have you kicked out of the ninja forces. Actually, I might still do so for such abhorrent behaviour." The threat came out as a whisper, but hit like a mountain for Sasuke. Because he pretty much tried to do the world a favour by getting rid of Naruto, he might get his licence removed from him? Well, the council would probably give it straight back to him and force Kakashi to teach him, but he would forever have the ugly mark of having lost it on his record.

"But if it was a clone, then it doesn't matter then does it?" Sakura tried to say, but when she got up, Kakashi simply kicked her back down.

"But those clones were solid, meaning they were shadow clones, for we don't teach any other in Konoha. That means that he felt both stabs as soon as you did it." Kakashi explained to the girl, turning away and beckoning Naruto to follow him.

"I think I've learnt enough for now. We'll be going to the Hokage to see what will happen about you and your futures. Somehow, I don't think there's a good chance of it being in the ninja business." As Pirate and Ninja walked off, Sasuke stared at their backs with unbridled malice. This had the potential to go badly and Sasuke didn't like the thoughts of that. Sakura didn't matter at this point; it all came down to Naruto and how he would be suitably… dealt with for his gall to turn Kakashi against him.

"Um Kakashi, do you think they're going to do something stupid because of this?" Naruto asked the older ninja.

"Why do you ask that Naruto?" Returned the man. There was a sinking feeling in his stomach with those two, but it was most likely due to what he had been witness to making his judgements a little biased.

"Oh, it's nothing. I just feel like something bad is going to happen."

"Well, it most likely will for them, but I doubt that anything will happen to you. Although, I am interested in how you gained access to the forbidden scroll." The passing comment nearly made Naruto stumble in his step.

"What do you mean?" He questioned his would've been teacher. Kakashi just gave him an eye smile, a staple of his when he realised that people wouldn't be able to see any actual smiles he gave.

"Well for all I know, the shadow clone jutsu can only be found in the forbidden scroll and there was talk about how you helped defeat a traitor that was going after it." Naruto rubbed the back of his head. Did people really talk about that? It was just a simple task like any other mission.

" Jiji gave me the instructions when I had too much chakra to do the normal clone jutsu, so it just had the side effect of looking like I had taken it from the actual scroll and that meant that Mizuki was less likely to believe it was fake." Naruto explained. Kakashi nodded slowly.

"Then would you by chance know what caused the immense amount of chakra in your body?" Kakashi hoped he had phrased the question openly enough, but gave a slight wince when Naruto stared at him with dead eyes.

"You knew about the Kyuubi in my stomach didn't you?" the question was spoken in monotone and Kakashi lowered his head as he nodded.

"I was told to not give any indication of knowing until you found out for yourself. It was a pretty dumb idea in hindsight, but it was believed that you might develop a dependence on someone. That would terrible if I were to die."

"But that doesn't excuse the fact that you weren't there for the mob beatings and chasing." Naruto countered. Whenever he appeared, the people would've been able to get many hits in.

"I knew that they were trying to divert me away, but I can't ignore any higher up orders, even if it did mean that I was never there for you. With my rank, it would be easier for me to take care of you as I would be more reputable than if I was kicked out for insubordination." To be honest, Kakashi grew sick of hearing the 'you can't afford to deny this' and the 'if you want to be late, you better make up for it' speeches, but it was all true. Naruto sighed and just continued walking, the masked man following behind.

"So what brings you to my office so early?" Sarutobi asked Kashi as they shyly made their way through the door. "If I remember correctly, you should be having your test."

"Well there were some issues that came up in the team chemistry that meant it had to be postponed." Seeing how Kakashi was wording his explanation, the wizened Hokage gave a wave of his hand, causing three different ninja to leave the room from their concealed hiding places. Once they had left, another lazy wave caused the wall to low with various shapes and kanji.

"A series of protective seals you see." Sarutobi explained to Naruto, seeing his confused face. "Now tell me all about this."

"Well you see…" Kakashi hesitated. How did you break to the person closest to the boy hat he had just been stabbed by both of his teammates? Fortunately Naruto didn't have such restraints.

"Both of the teammates you set me up with decided that instead of wanting to work with me, they would rather have me dead, as seen by the fact that they thought it was alright to stab me." There was a moment of silence for Hiruzen to try and absorb what Naruto said, but when it had finally settled into his brain…

"What!? They tried to kill you!?" He bellowed and if it weren't for the sound suppressing seals, the noise might have been heard in Suna.

"Well yeah. Sasuke went for the brain and Sakura chose the heart." Naruto said with a shrug. They would never be able to kill him as long as he kept up with the training, but it had still hurt when the clones' memories of being killed came back.

"I cannot believe that you are takin this so lightly." The Hokage said, taking his face into his palms. His teammates just attempted to murder him and Naruto treated it like they had punched him.

"Well I can tell that this would clearly not work and everyone else has been placed in a team, so I am left at an impasse." Hiruzen admitted after a lengthy period of silence. "There are many things we could do in this situation, but I think you'll like this."

Let's end things there shall we? So yeah, you may be able to guess what's coming up next. If you can't then don't worry, I'll make sure to point it out with a big silver spotlight!