My excuse?

I bloody tired. Eh. I know the whole world is going to hate me for saying that, but oh well. Anyway reviews? Please I need them badly….

And I'll give you a cookie…please give me credit it takes me two hours (or longer) for me to write one chapter.. No joke, I proofread and check with the show, ( so I'm not fully playing this on my memory alone) I proofread some more, spell check, underlining italicalizing, ect. Grammar, punctuation, all that good stuff. And then I have to write the whole thing, you know? I am trying to break my old bad writing habits with this and counterparts. So please, give me a few pointers, please.

Oh and another thing I can understand in other fics that you make Naruto seem better and Sasuke look like an idiot. I can understand why, I mean I'm not a fan of him either but you gotta give credit when its due. I'm not criticizing the other peoples fics they are really good. But I will just try and keep to their personalities ( even damned Deidara)

Ch. 4 pass or fall: survival test.

Team 7 sensei told them to be there around 7:00 O'clock. And that exactly when they arrived expecting to see their new teacher. However, he was incredibly late, and those three just got to wait for him.

"He's late" Naruto grumbled poking his head outside the door looking for any sign of him, because the entire building had been empty except for them, and Naruto hated it.

"Naruto, just sit down!" Sakura was getting disturbed by the way Naruto kept wandering around and looking out the door, it was very unsettling.

"I don't want to!," he turned toward her. " How come our teacher is the only one late? I'm ready to roll, believe it!" the blonde said poking his head back out and Sakura sighed to be honest she was getting impatient with their sensei too. He was indeed very late, later than everyone else in the building, later than the latest person there, but what could you do about it?

"we know, okay?" she said toward the blonde who, being Naruto, started to take the eraser and place it in-between the cracks of the door so when it was opened it would fall on his head.

"hey! What are you doing?" Sakura ran up to Naruto and confronted him, he was giggling.

"that's what he gets for coming late! Surprise!" the blonde said jumping down off the stool.

Sakura tried to act like she wasn't approving of this but inside, she was all for it. But she said it anyway. "you're asking for trouble, you know you shouldn't do that." she said in a rather motherly tone of voice that the blonde did not notice at all.

"hm, our teacher an jonin do you think he'd fall for that?" the raven haired boy who sat in the desk row, and hadn't really played attention to the other two finally said.

"yeah! Sasuke's right! You're so clueless Naruto!"

A few minutes later a hand slowly opened the door and the eraser, as you would have guessed, fell right on the mans head. Everyone was silent for a minute, then Naruto started laughing "hahaha I can't believe you fell for that! Hahahaha" and Sakura told her sensei

"I am so sorry sensei, I told him not to, I'd never do anything like that!" but she was thinking on how perfect that shot was and mentally gave Naruto a thumbs up.

Sasuke was actually disappointed, believing the tall man had fall for that, and considered about whether or not this man was actually a jonin. They looked at him taking in what he looked like,

He had his left eye covered with his headband and his lower face covered with a piece of cloth tucked into his vest that most leaf jonin and chuunin wore he had fingerless gloves on and a black shirt underneath the green vest he had silver hair cut upward and to the left side a bit.. The man slowly picked up the eraser and examined it for a second than placed it back down and placed a hand on his chin, as if thinking.

"hm, how can I out this? My first impression of this group…you're a bunch of idiots." he said the last part flatly. And made all three of them upset, though Sasuke not willing to show it.

They all went up to the roof and sat down, "alright, lets start by introducing our selves. One at a time."

"introducing?" Sakura questioned.

"well, things you like, things you hate, hobbies, dreams for the future… things like that." the man replied

Off in the distance far away in the sky a platinum haired little boy looked down at them, he wore an unzipped vest, and black baggy pants but he had no headband, and was not a ninja. And he had golden eyes that questioned every move of the group below. But the most striking feature was not his hair or his eyes, but floating out of his back supporting him in the air, were wings, small, blue, electrical wings. He new something was up, he kept a close eye on the two boys more than anyone.

"is it true?" he asked him self "are they really? But they are children, how could…" his voice trialed off. And he just hovered there, watching them.

"good, you're each unique and have your own ideals, we'll have our first mission tomorrow." the man who called him self Kakashi said and dismissed the group. Naruto however held him up, "ooh! What kind of mission!"

"it's a task that we'll all do together." Kakashi replied.

"what, what, what, what?" the blonde said rather quickly.

"a survival exercise." Kakashi said rather slowly.

"Huh?" the blonde made a face.

" I thought we were supposed to go on an actual mission, not more practice, we did that at the academy, that's how we got here!" Sakura piped up.

"this isn't like you previous training."

"so then. So then.. What kind of training is it?" Naruto asked the man replied with a chuckle. And he kept chuckling

"hey that's a normal question. What's so funny?" Sakura didn't like standing up for Naruto, but she was dyeing for an answer too.

"well if I tell you you're not going to like it." he said then chuckled some more. "Out of the 27 graduates who passed only nine of them can actually move on, the others well be weeded out and sent back to the academy. Meaning this is a make or break it pass or fail test, and the chance you'll fail is a least 66% "

That sent everyone in shock, they had finally passed, and now this? Naruto almost fell down. "see I told you, you weren't going to like it." Kakashi said teasingly. And Naruto protested over and over questioning the man. And the boy in the sky let out a scoff. And mumbled, "if they don't pass.. Then how will I do my mission? if I must, I'll give them a hand… if I must."

Kakashi then told them to be at the designated area at 5:00am and not to eat breakfast or they'd throw up.

The next day all Sasuke got up unfazed by the time and got ready, he left his breakfast alone and headed out. It was a cool morning, as the sun haze loomed over the sky and the leaves blew around Sasuke had started to walk down the path. A small teenage boy with platinum hair ran up to him and stopped him, "here" gave him something, a red jewel, that the way the light caught, it had glowed. And it had looked like it had an red dragon eye in it, but that was obscure. Sasuke thought, he didn't think anything of the jewel and tucked away. The boy looked at him "so it is done… Master, I have done it, but I doubt he will be the one to use it." he mumbled to him self and Sasuke had heard it, barely, And became suspicious of the boy, but went on his way.

All three of them arrived there at the same time Sakura rubbing her eyes a little bit and Naruto barely managing to walk at all he was mumbling to himself a little and looked ready to pass out. They stood there for a few hours and the sun arose high in the sky and the three has realized that their teacher was once again late and Naruto used what little strength he had to stay awake and he groaned and yawned and whined.

"morning everyone, ready for your first day?"

"hey you're late!" both Sakura and Naruto said pointing at him and all three of them made a face.

"well a black cat crossed my path and I had to take the long way." if he wasn't wearing a mask you would know he was smiling. Naruto growled and pouted some more, no one was convinced.

"well, " he cleared his throat. " lets get started." he said walking and setting a clock. "here, its set for noon. you're assignment is very simple, you just have to take these bells from me." he held up two bells " that's all there is to it." he put out his other hand on his waist as he gave instructions he rang the bells. " if you can't get them by noon, you go with out lunch, you'll by tied to those post" he said pointing at three posts " and you'll watch me eat in front of you."

"waa?" Naruto exclaimed as he gripped his growling stomach in protest he groaned and Sakura honestly felt like doing the same thing all three of them knew the real reason Kakashi did not want them to eat. Damn him, all three thought across those lines. Then Sakura noticed, he only had two bells.

"wait a minute, there are three of us, how come there are only two bells?"

Oh no. Naruto grimaced at the thought

"that way at least one of you will fail and ultimately be disqualified." He said " but then again all three of you could fail, you can use any weapon, and I you are not ready to kill me, you will not get these bells."

Sakura protested though, she did not want to hurt the sensei and it was not in her heart to kill anyone. Kakashi ignored her.

"When I say start you can begin." Kakashi said.

Naruto was fired up, he had to get those bells, had too. He took out a kunai and ran toward Kakashi, but he had grabbed Naruto hand and pulled it back behind his head, " don't be so hasty, I haven't said start yet." he said." but you did come at me with the full intent to kill me, so. I actually might start liking you guys…. Get ready and.. Start!"

Iruka had offered to have tea with the Hokage, he had something to talk to him about. And the lord Hokage knew it.

" Naruto has been assigned to squad seven, the jonin in charge of that group is Kakashi Hatake. Just how hard is he?"

"Kakashi, you are concerned about him?" the old kage asked.

" I am" Iruka stated firmly. " I heard a rumor about his training methods."

The Hokage nodded as if to confirm the rumor and pulled out a book, "all the trainees who have been assigned to him all who passed and all who failed."

Iruka gasped every one had failed, no one had ever passed his test. Iruka was worried, Naruto had worked so hard, and he deserved to become a ninja.

" a ninja must learn to conceal his movements… well they seemed to have learned that much at least." Kakashi said aloud looking around then he noticed a mess of blonde hair.

"you and me, right now! fair and square!" the blonde yelled and made Kakashi wonder how the hell he passed from the academy.

"you know, compared to the others… you're a little…. Different" Kakashi tried to find the nicest word for it.

"oh yeah? The only thing different here is your haircut," the boy rushed toward the sensei and saw Kakashi reach into his pouch and pulled out..

A book.

Are you serious? A book? He opened it a begun to read. "ninja training part one.. Taijutsu, the physical art." he said. " well what are you waiting for, make your move,"

"but.. But why are you reading for?"

"why? To find out what happens of course" the sensei said reading the book.

"grr I'm going to crush you!"Naruto charged at him attacking over and over, but the sensei kept blocking and dodging and disappeared.

"don't let your enemy get behind you" he had his hands in a hand sign naruto looked at him a gasped. "secret finger taijutsu! A thousand years of death!" he jabbed his fingers into Naruto ass. And made the poor boy jump up screaming and shouting curses holding his hurt butt and he fell into the river. "okay.. Were was I?" he re-opened the book.

The platinum haired boy stood watching. His gold eyes watching hawk-like and a dark blue haired girl came into view. "Nobuo… what are you doing?" she asked sweetly.

"that's Kakashi-sensei, Junko.… he was supposed to be my teacher.. But I failed, you see. " he closed his eyes for a second. "this test is not only to get the bells. I hope they realize that soon." the boy named Nobuo said.

"oh.. So that's Kakashi huh?" Junko seemed at least three years older that Nobuo but Nobuo seemed more mature. "watch" he said.

Sasuke was ready to make his move and Sakura was re-considering the whole thing all together. And Naruto…. Was hurting in the lake. He was also thinking up a plan…

I'll attack from the water! He threw shuuriken at the man. Who caught them around his fingers smoothly. Unfazed by his reading.

Iruka questioned the Hokage on why Kakashi made his test so difficult.

"Kakashi's test may be a bit more difficult, but it is not with out reason."

"A bit more difficult? Not a single student has passed him!" Iruka exclaimed.

"that's true, not a single student could live up to his standards. So they all where eliminated" the Hokage said grimly.

Iruka looked back down. Thinking about how hard Naruto tried, only to be failed by Kakashi.

Naruto slowly claimed out of the lake, he was tried. And hungry.

"What are you doing now? You know you won't get lunch if you don't get a bell by noon." the sensei said without looking up from his book.

"I know! I know! You told us already!" The thought made Naruto's stomach growl in protest to Naruto's body.

"you look pretty wobbly for someone who is going to surpass the Hokage." Kakashi teased.

"you told us not to eat breakfast! How can I fight when I'm staving to death?" the blonde yelled accusingly at the sensei. The two who where hiding had that same thought as well. "you only caught me off guard that was it! believe it!" his stomach growled and the sensei turned around and walked off. "grr I am so hungry I can't move…" he whined aloud. " but I can't let that stop me, I have to find out a way somehow… believe it! I'm going to pass this test and I'm not going back to the academy!" he said his thoughts aloud, loud enough for Nobuo and Junko to hear him.

"he's really determined huh?" Junko looked at the platinum haired boy beside her.

"determination alone is not enough to pass this test, though, it's a start." he said flatly.

Naruto then made clones that came out of the water, and assaulted Kakashi. For a second he was caught off guard but he was ready to face clones.

"so the stories are true, he can make shadow clones, but it isn't enough. You can't bet me with this jutsu." the sensei said matter-of-factly not caring that the blonde was not listening to a word he said anymore. Then Kakashi felt a tug from behind. "what?" he exclaimed. Clones climbed on him holding him down.

"now this is for nailing me in the but earlier!" the blonde yelled out to the trapped sensei. Instead when Naruto hit he hit on of his own clones and not the sensei. "huh?" he was dumbfounded. Then he mistaken that for a transformation jutsu, and all of them began whacking one another. Both Sakura and Sasuke, who had faith in Naruto that small instant were highly disappointed. Naruto in the end decided to undo the jutsu only to find he was alone, Kakashi gave him the slip. He pouted for a second then saw a glitter in the grass, he looked toward it and found the bells. He dropped the bells! He did what you could expect he did, he reached for them.

Bad mistake.

It was a trap all along and Naruto fully fell for it. His foot got hoisted up from a rope tied to a tree, holding him up-side-down. The boy trashed and yelled, kicked and screamed, but to no avail. He reached for the temping bell below him, but was just out of reach. Damn his little arms!

Nobuo hung his head down, and muttered to himself, he gave one of them the spirit, can't they use it? Or was he making a mistake? He shook his head , it wasn't the blonde he gave it too, he remembered.

Kakashi grabbed the bell below Naruto making him whine some more. " think before you use a jutsu, or your enemy might use it against you. Oh and also, if the bait is obvious, don't take it" he stated smiling " A ninja must see through deception.

"I.. get.. It" the boy struggled to get loose.

"you know, he told me that once too." Nobuo told Junko.

"hmm?"

"it was 5 years ago." but before Nobuo could start his story, Sasuke blasted the sensei with shuuriken.

"ah! Sasuke! You went way to far! Are you crazy?"

Junko started to rise but Nobuo held her back,

"don't worry. It'll be fine." he said calmly

"what?"

"trust me. And listen to my story.. This happened five years ago." he looked at her and smiled "trust me, Junko. Trust me, and watch."

They killed Kakashi! Damn you Sasuke! *coughs* anyway, reviews? I'll love you forever and ever if you do! *winks* I'm out!