Well finally I'm in the double digit chapter, (yeah, baby) So first I wanna thank everyone who left reviews keep 'em coming. Ok, Danny all in due time. As for Naruto yes it will definetely be NaruHina, but I want to develop them in my own way so that when I do get them together it will mean that much more. I'm really not fond of the whole falling in love and moving from there I think and hope that this story will be more than just a love story. (It'll be an Epic) J/K I don't know yet, but hopefully everybody will enjoy it. Also there is a whole lot more story in my head so keep checking. Oh and one more thing they already sent the message to Temari, so yeah keep reading.

I don't own Naruto in any way shape or form, but if I did this is how it would go.

CLONE WAR

Kakashi looked at his former pupils and said, "You have one hour." Naruto and Sakura rushed at him together unleashing a flurry of physical attacks. Kakashi dodged them all with ease, Sakura quickly raised her foot and brought it down with all her might and made the ground underneath Kakashi tremble. Kakashi lost his balance for a second, but that was the only opening Sakura needed she threw a chakra filled punch that connected squarely with Kakashi's jaw. Naruto was surprised to see how much his team mate had improved, so much so that he had thrown only one punch which was blocked and just watched her go at Kakashi. Unfortunately as soon as Sakuras fist made contact Kakashi turned into a log with a puff of smoke. They had once again fallen for the replacement jutsu, Kakashi stood off in the distance looking at Naruto and Sakura. "It seems you both still have much to learn." Kakashi let out an exasperated breath. "I haven't even said start yet."

Naruto smiled slyly. "No, sensei it would appear that it is you who have forgotten one of your own lessons."

Kakashi looked at Naruto long and hard trying to determine what he meant. "And what would that be Naruto?"

A voice directly behind Kakashi whispered, "Never let your enemy sneak up behind you." and Kakashi felt the tip of a kunai press itself against his back and then it was taken away. He looked back to see Naruto. Kakashi was stunned at Naruto's tactic and how easily he would have lost had he said start at that moment it seemed Kakashi had been the one to underestimate his pupils.

He looked around at Naruto and asked "When did you do it?" The Naruto he was looking at disappeared in a puff of smoke and the answer came once again from behind. Kakashi was creeped out by this development.

"You looked at me while I was looking through my bag, I did it when you looked at Sakura warming up." Naruto said matter of factly.

Kakashi was now starting to see that this would not be easy, but it was no time to back down. "Well then I guess now is a good a time as any. Let's begin." Kakashi took off running towards Sakura at a fast run. Naruto stepped forward to start following him when he stepped onto a smoke bomb. He was instantly surrounded by smoke, he held his breath and ran out of the cloud in a defensive stance trying to avoid any more surprises. He had to admit that Kakashi did that well. Naruto didn't even see when he set that trap.

Sakura got into her fighting stance waiting for Kakashi. Kakashi threw two kunais at her and kept coming. Sakura pulled out one of her own kunais and deflected one of Kakashis Kunais and dodged the other one. Kakashi stopped a few feet in front of her, he changed directions and made a quick step to his right. At that very moment there was an explosion to Sakuras left and behind her. She had failed to notice that Kakashis kunai's had exploding notes attached to them. She was surrounded by smoke and lost sight of Kakashi. When the smoke cleared Naruto and Sakura were standing alone looking at each other. Sakura seeing how the situation had unfolded ran directly at Naruto grabbed his hand and started running dragging him behind.

"What the hell are you doing Sakura? We gotta find Kakashi." Naruto said. He wanted to pull back and stop her, but was unsure of what to do because maybe she had a good reason to react the way she did.

"Wrong Naruto we have to loose Kakashi. He has a tactical advantage right now in that he knows where we are, but we don't know where he is. We need to think of a strategy quickly, we have less than an hour to get this done." Sakura said. She led them to a forested area and set off a few exploding notes to hide where they went. Sakura had let go of Naruto's hand and followed Sakura up a tree where they sat on a branch and gathered themselves.

Naruto caught his breath and looked at his former team mate thoughtfully. He knew it probably wasn't the most opportune time, but he wanted to tell her sooner than later. "Sakura-chan, I well I wanted to let you know that I haven't forgotten my promise to you." He looked down at his feet wondering how to proceed. "I guess I just wanted to say I won't fail this time Sakura."

Sakura looked at her team mate and felt horrible about the way she had treated him so far. She knew what promise he was talking about she and it made her glad that he was her friend. "It's ok Naruto don't worry about that right now. We need to worry about getting this exam out of the way and moving on."

Naruto nodded his head in fierce determination glad that he had gotten that out of the way. He knew it was kind of dumb, but he couldn't really focus on the fight if he had this nagging thought running through in the back of his head. "So got any ideas?" Naruto inquired.

Sakura shook her head, "I haven't really come up with a strategy yet, all I keep thinking is that we have to get those bells." She hated that she couldn't think of a strategy right now, she tried breathing slowly to try to get her mind under control. As she let out a deep breath Naruto started talking.

"Let me see, well first we have to find Kakashi or force him to show himself. Then we have to find a way to get the bells away from him." Naruto looked at Sakura with a gleam in his eyes. "What do you think?" A smile was starting to form on Naruto's face.

"Hmm, I-I" Sakuras mind cleared up. Naruto breaking the mission down into objectives helped her think better. "We would be better suited to force Kakashi to show himself, right. Because, it could take us forever to find him if he keeps switching hiding places." Sakura still didn't really see where this was going. Naruto was about to clear it up for her.

"Right, so what I was thinking was making a bunch of clones to go after him. Then you would find out..." Naruto whispered the rest of the plan to Sakura.

Kakashi was watching them from a hidden distance. Wishing he could hear what they were planning. Even though he would not admit it to them he was being very cautious around them. They had both been trained by Sannin and if that weren't enough these two had the potential to be even better. Even though Kakashi was older and supposedly their mentor they had done a good job of catching up to him. He did not have as much advantage over them as he would like.

As he was pondering his situation and wondering how they were going to go about completing their task a loud cry broke the silence. When he looked up in the direction of the noise his eyes widened. There were about 30-40 Narutos flooding the area. Dammit Kakashi thought at this rate I won't be able to hide for much longer. The Naruto clones were starting to scour the area looking for Kakashi. Kakashi brought his hands together forming seals then there was an explosion of smoke. When the smoke cleared there was about 30-40 Kakashis running out from behind the bushes and shrubbery.

Sakura had to admit she was impressed with Naruto's plan. When he first told it to her she thought it was rudimentary and thought it would fail. She only agreed to it because she couldn't think of a better idea at the moment, however the more she thought about it the more sense it made. She had stayed up in the tree while Naruto formed his clones and headed out, sure enough just as Naruto had said Kakashi had made clones to counter Naruto's. Now it was up to her to run through all the fights that were about to take place and find the real Kakashi. (Inner Sakura was laughing diabolically, "We will crush you Kakashi-sensei" she cackled with glee.) She waited patiently in her spot until the opportune time to jump in. She felt very surreal looking down at the events transpiring below her. It was like a battle was about to be waged by two clans, but in fact it was only two people who could make a lot of clones.

Meanwhile the Narutos had noticed the Kakashis appearing in the area and they all began charging towards them. One Naruto ran in front of the others pulling out a kunai and letting loose an ear shattering war cry. Kakashi and his clones stood their grounds waiting for the oncoming fight. As Naruto came closer he threw the kunai and it buried itself to the hilt in the ground closest to the nearest Kakashi. Kakashi looked down at the kunai and when he looked up the Naruto's were upon them.

Kakashi narrowly escaped the first Naruto's attack dodging to one side. He immediately had to dodge the oncoming kick by the Naruto following the first one. The first one had already moved on to engage another Kakashi. The second Naruto also went by him to find another target. Already Kakashi was starting to regret his decision in thinking he could manage this situation. He had already lost his advantage because being where he was at he could no longer find Sakura. His only real hope was to remain undetected for another forty five minutes after which time the test would be over. Unfortunately that was much easier thought than done. Already Kakashi and Naruto clones were disappearing in clouds of smoke, and now Kakashi was faced with another Naruto that had decided to make him his adversary.

Sakura saw that the battle was starting to heat up and saw that she had the opportunity to enter the battlefield undetected. Naruto's words went through her head. All you have to do is find the real Kakashi, that should be our first goal. Naruto had made it sound so simple, but she had told him she could do it. One of the lessons she learned from studying under Tsunade-san was to be able to discern those with a pulse from those without quickly. She remembered her lessons and then took a deep breath as she readied herself. She let out a long breath and stealthily ran down the tree to join the battle. As soon as she hit the ground she ran towards the first Kakashi she saw and touched his neck as she flew past him. She ran to the next Kakashi and repeated the procedure, she gained speed as she gained confidence and continued to do this operation efficiently. Keeping in mind what she was looking for she deftly wove in between combatants.

Kakashi was surprised by the level of skill Naruto was displaying. Kakashi was having a difficult time beating this Naruto and the worst part was Kakashi didn't even know if he was facing a clone or the real thing. Also he was unable to really guard himself if he was attacked by a second Naruto. Kakashi wasn't about to give up though.

Naruto was enjoying this battle so much. It was fun to be able to cut loose. He had eliminated one Kakashi already and was working on his second one. He hoped Sakura was close to finding the real Kakashi soon, but wanted to enjoy himself while he could. Naruto fought the Kakashi's on their level and thought they were doing the same trying to only buy time. Kakashi moved a little bit faster than Naruto, but that was ok Naruto wasn't at that big of a disadvantage. Besides he thought he wanted to show off later and if he did what he wanted to here it wouldn't be as pleasing to him. "Dammit Sakura hurry up I don't want to do anything to mess this up." Naruto shouted, god how he wanted to show off.

Sakura was blazing through the field with only a few more Kakashi's to check. A negative thought was forming in her head. What if Naruto was wrong and Kakashi did leave the battle she thought to herself. With this thought going through her head at that moment she almost missed it. She had found the real Kakashi, she reached for her kunai with a blurr of her hand and threw it up in the air. Kakashi turned in time to see Sakura holding her hand towards the sky when the exploding note on the kunai went off Kakashi was instantly seized by two Narutos. Dammit he thought.

The two Naruto's had barely touched him when there was a cloud of smoke and a kunai fell to the ground and exploded.

At the sound of the explosion all of the Naruto's started disappearing in puffs of smoke. The two that had touched Kakashi remained near Sakura until the real Naruto joined them. The two clones then appeared to hand something to Sakura and Naruto.

Kakashi was watching them stunned at what was developing before his eyes could it be that they got his bells and he didn't even notice. He reached for the bells and found them there, but a bit of doubt had entered his mind now. He brought them up to eye level to inspect them when they made a jingle. At that very moment a fist came flying through the bush behind where Kakashi was hiding. The fist was followed by Sakura and the fist connected. Kakashi fell to the ground letting go of the bells as he did so in order to catch himself. Naruto exploded through the bushes and pounced on the bells picking them up quickly. Naruto and Sakura were successful. Naruto was holding the bell like it was a treasure that was going to give him god like powers and Sakura was holding the bell with both her hands while inner Sakura was insane with joy. (We did it we beat Kakashi. YYYYAAAYYY!)

After the exam was over and they had all recovered their composure Kakashi asked the question that had been burning in his mind. "You two planned that all out?"

Naruto and Sakura were both still wearing huge grins. "Hell yeah!" Naruto said. Sakura promptly slapped him in the back of his head.

"Yeah, it was actually mostly Naruto's plan" Sakura said and then mumbled "If you can believe that." She then went on to explain while Naruto nursed the back of his head where a small lump was starting to rise. "Naruto said you would create the clones and fight him because the best place to hide is out in the open." Kakashi's eyes widened as she went on, he had completely underestimated them. For some reason he thought their strategy would be something foolish and he had allowed himself to fall for their plan. Kakashi was impressed. Sakura continued "Once we got you to engage Naruto he said you wouldn't really be able to maneuver so I would then find the real you and alert Naruto as soon as possible." Sakura grinned at the next part, "I didn't have much trouble finding you thanks to Tsunade-sans training, see your clones don't breathe or anything like that so it was easy to tell the difference. Anyways, I noticed earlier that you had used the replacement jutsu so I thought it was possible you would do it again. So we decided to try to get the bells from you when I set off the exploding note, but made a backup plan." Naruto suddenly interrupted.

"Damn right, Kakashi we fooled you. Hahaha we tricked you into thinking we succeeded so you would pull out the bells and we would find you then. You can't perform the replacement jutsu with just one hand. Hahaha." Naruto was once again hit on the back of the head only this time with enough force to send him to the ground. "What the hell is wrong with you Sakura" Naruto said in a weak voice.

"Baka! don't interrupt me like that again, if you know what's good for you. Anyways Kakashi sensei that was our plan." Sakura said.

Kakashi eyed them impressed with their strategy, but decided it would not look good if they got to full of themselves. "The plan was good until the last part, had I investigated your actions or not pulled the bells out your plan would have failed." He saw their faces drop a little bit, they really hadn't thought of that, but Kakashi got what he wanted in that they did not grow overconfident. "However I am impressed with how you did. We can now officially be a team again." He got up and turned around.

"Where are you going Kakashi." Sakura asked.

"To the Hokages office we need to make this official and let her know her know our services are now at her disposal."

In front of the Hokages office Jiraiya took a deep breath. "So, you guys wanna come in to give your report right." Jiraiya looked at them hopefully. Shino simply nodded his head. Jiraiya felt relieved, with them in the same room it was less likely that Tsunade would try to kill him. Hopefully.

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What will the Hokage tell or do to Jiraiya? Whats going on in the sand of village? Check out the next ch. to find out.