Author's Note: Ok, So I got a little bit lazy in this chapter, I completely stole my bell test from Kyuubi Incarnate and reused it, I just don't like writing the bell test unless I can do something really fun with it, so forgive me for cheating on the bell test .

Kakashi and Naruto were sitting before the Hokage, with Naruto looking less the comfortable at being there.

"Tell me Kakashi, why are you and Naruto here, and what is so urgent about it?" Sarutobi asked, he was a busy man after all, paperwork to sign, porn to read, the list goes on.

"Excuse us Hokage-sama, but we need to discuss Naruto's social skills, and the way he deals with teammates specifically" Kakashi replied, getting straight to the point

Sarutobi frowned, Naruto had been here before during the Academy, when he pulled pranks, The Hokage didn't know that Naruto used a mask, and that his true face was quite darked "Tell me Kakashi, what has he done this time? Nothing to bad I hope"

"I'm afraid it is Hokage-sama, this morning was planned for me to give the team my test to see if they are ready to be Shinobi, but when I arrived at the training grounds, the scene was less then pleasant, Sakura Haruno was curled into a ball on the far end of the bridge crying her eyes out, and Sasuke Uchiha looked as if he had just seen Itachi again. Sakura is currently in the ICU of the hospitals mental ward, they tell me she will be able to be reinstated in about 5 days, and she will likely be scarred for life"

Sarutobi's eyes widened, and his pipe dropped from his mouth as the description went on, by the end he looked quite furious. "Naruto, what did you do to your teammates!?" he ordered

Naruto shifted uncomfortably, he hated explaining it, it made him look like a complete dick "Well, I threatened Sakura to stop insulting me, and I backed the threat with a bit of killing intent, but it seems I overdid it...a bit, I didn't mean to harm her or anything...I just wanted her to stop insulting me and thinking I was stupid and weak"

Sarutobi's scowl lessened, but he was still angry "Well good job Naruto, the girl will likely fear your for the rest of her life. But since it was an accident and you didn't mean any harm by it, I will not do anything too drastic, as punishment I am going to make you wear heavy weights until your team takes it's first C-rank mission"

"Umm, how heavy?" Naruto asked

"You will still be able to move and function...enough, but you will definitely regret doing this, the weights will start at 75 pounds of weight on each limb, via weights on your ankles and wrists, you will also have a weighted belt with 150 pounds of weight, and the weight will be increased throughout the punishment"

Naruto frowned and did his best to look upset at the punishment "450 pounds of weight! That's way to much Hokage-sama!" he yelled, though on the inside he was quite happy 'Sweet, Kyuu-chan, they're giving me free weight training as punishment! I've been wanting a set of weights!'

"That's too bad Naruto, by the end of the punishment the weight will likely be much higher, maybe this will teach you to play with your teammates minds"

Kakashi was happy and upset at the same time "Hokage-sama, don't you think 450 pounds of weight is a bit much? I train using that much weight, and the boy is only 12"

"Maybe Naruto should have thought of the consequences of his actions before he harmed a fellow Konoha Shinobi" he then snapped his fingers and two Anbu appeared with the weights "Please attach the weight to Naruto's wrists, ankles, and waist" Both Anbu nodded and strapped Naruto up with the weights. Having never trained with weights before he was extremely weighed down, he couldn't raise his arms, and he could only drag his legs across the ground.

'Ok, so this isn't as easy as I'd hoped, still this will only make me MUCH stronger in the end, and I will get through this!'

"Good outlook on things Kit, we're gonna spend the rest of the day getting you used to the weights, and also I want the standard 15 clones at the library, have a couple study strictly Kenjutsu, and I still want the other 500 clones working on chakra control, actually I want about 75 of those 500 clones to brainstorm on Jutsu idea's and other training options we could do"

'Kay, Kyuu-chan' Naruto struggled but eventually got his arms up to make the seals and created all the bunshin needed, he sent off the henged ones to the library, and the others to get to work, he then got to work on running around the training ground and getting used to his new weights for the day.

Naruto spent the next five days like that, with his clones learning, working and brainstorming, by the end of the time he didn't even notice he had the weights on anymore, which kind of annoyed him, he wanted to feel more weight.

He was finally contacted by Kakashi telling him Sakura was out of the hospital and they would have their test the following morning, Naruto was glad that they would finally get to take the test, he would try and make it up to Sakura, hopefully she wasn't as scared as they said she would be.

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The next morning Naruto walked up to the bridge on time, to see that Sakura and Sasuke were both there already, he walked onto the bridge as harmlessly as possible, and tried not to look menacing, but it didn't work. The second Sakura saw him her eye's widened in terror and she took off running, crying.

Naruto sighed and chased after her, he found her about a block away in an alley cowering behind a garbage can, when he moved the can out of the way and she saw him there she looked like she was going to lose control of her bladder on the spot. "P-p-please d-don't k-kill me! She wailed.

Naruto sat down before her and hung his head. 'I really did break her mind...didn't I'

"No, she is just incredibly scared of you now, it will take time to go away, maybe you could try being nice to her?"

'I guess I could try it...though I'm not sure how'

"Try apologizing, you could go as far as promising to never hurt her, but I don't think you would do that"

'Actually, I think I will do that Kyuu-chan'

Naruto reached out, very slowly and pulled her hands away from her face, she had covered her face to hid from him when he sat down. "Sakura, I'm sorry for what I did, I never meant to make it that bad, I just wanted you to stop insulting me, you have no idea how much I've been insulted in my life, I...I just wanted it to stop, and I didn't know how to control the killing intent I was using it, I only wanted to get my point across to you, not terrify you."

Sakura slowly lifted her gaze up into his own, and she saw in his eye's that he was sincere. "I know it probably doesn't mean anything after what I did to you, but I promise I will never hurt you Sakura, I never planned to and I still don't I never meant to do what I did"

Sakura sniffled and pulled her hands from his grip and wiped her tears away from her eyes, "Do you really mean that?" Naruto nodded "Yes I do, and I'm sorry for what I did to you" She didn't know why, but for some strange reason she believed, even after lifting her off the ground by her throat and showing her him killing her in a most painful way she believed him when he told her he would never harm her.

"O-okay, I guess I can trust you, and I will stop insulting you. I've been insulted a lot too, I just always needed something else to let my stress out on. I guess I thought I could just pass my pain onto you, I'm sorry Naruto."

Naruto chuckled "There are other ways to let out stress, I find training works great for stress, taijutsu training works great for me, gets the blood flowing and you get so involved everything else in the world just melts away" It was at this point that Sakura noticed the large weights on Naruto's wrists, ankles and waist "N-Naruto, what are those things on your wrists, ankles, and waist?"

Naruto motioned to the weight on his wrist "Oh these? They are my punishment for what I did to you, I have to wear these weights until we I get my first C-rank mission, so if we fail this test I will be wearing them for the next year or more"

Sakura nodded "D-do they weigh a lot?"

Naruto shrugged "Yeah, but I'm already used to them but I'm sure they will get increased in weight again soon. Anyway, do you want to head back to the bridge now, even though we probably have a while until Kakashi's lazy ass gets here"

Sakura giggled slightly at Kakashi's expense "Yeah, I guess we should head back, and thank you for talking to me, it really did help"

Naruto got up from the alley floor and helped Sakura up, the two then walked back towards the bridge. 'Hmm, I don't know why, but that being nice thing was really easy for some reason, any guess why Kyuu-chan?'

"Of course Kit, you are naturally a good person at heart, you don't have what it takes to be a completely heartless person, and it's just a matter of time before someone comes along and fixes your broken heart"

Naruto smiled his first genuine smile for the first time in years, 'Thanks Kyuu-chan, you always know how to bring my mood around'

"Well of course Kit, what kind of mother would I be if I could not make my Kit happy?"

'And what kind of a Kit would I be if I could not make my mother proud?'

"A bad one, now go and make me proud Kit, and look out you're almost at the bridge"

Naruto refocused on the world around him and Kyuubi was right, he and Sakura were almost to the bridge, and somehow his arm had gotten around her shoulder, but he didn't mind.

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Kakashi arrived at the bridge and did not like the scene he came to, Sasuke was sitting on the ground being his broody self, but both Naruto and Sakura were missing, he was about to ask Sasuke if he'd seen them when he jabbed a thumb down the way the two had run. Kakashi looked over and was quite shocked to see Naruto and Sakura walking back towards the bridge, with Naruto's arm over Sakura's shoulder, and was she smiling?

When they got to the bridge Kakashi pulled Naruto to the side "Okay Naruto what's up, why is she smiling, and what was with the arm over her shoulder?"

Naruto grinned 'time to play' "Genjutsu Kakashi, I made her think I'm Sasuke and Sasuke's me, we just totally made out in an alley down the road! Imagine how much she's gone freak when I drop it, and show her she made out with her worst nightmare!"

Kakashi gasped "Naruto, what the hell is wrong with the you, are you trying to destroy the girls mind! After this is over I'm going to talk to the Hokage to see your Shinobi status revoked"

Naruto frowned 'this went from joke to serious way to fast, damn' "I'm kidding Kakashi! I didn't do anything to her, she ran from me when I showed up at the bridge, I followed her to where she ran and apologized to her, I also promised her I would never hurt her. She said she believed me and we came back, and I dunno my arm just got there somehow while we were walking"

Kakashi's visible eye narrowed, now he couldn't tell if he was lying or not! "Naruto, if you're toying with this girls mind, I will have you thrown in prison, regardless of your age"

Naruto put his hands up in a surrendering pose "I'm not toying with her Kakashi, just wanted to play a joke on you, and saw that as a perfect opportunity"

Kakashi noticed how easily he lifted his arms, even with the 'weights' "Naruto, I thought the Hokage made you wear weights as a punishment?"

Naruto pointed to the weight on his wrist "And I am, what's the big deal?"

Kakashi's eye widened now, "You're already used to that much weight?"

Naruto shrugged "Yeah, I mean it's not to bad, the first day was pretty bad, but after that it was easy, now it's like there's nothing there at all."

Kakashi was speechless, He trained with 450 pounds of weight! "Naruto, after the test today I'm going to bring you to the Hokage to have the weight upped again then, okay?"

Naruto shrugged again "Yeah sure, I just hope we're also going to be going to the Hokage's office to get out first D-rank, I just need to convince the team to use Teamwork against you, which is going to be harder then fighting you alone"

Kakashi's eye widened again when Naruto mentioned teamwork 'Did he already figure out the test before I've even given it?!' But it was all Naruto needed to solidify his uncertainties of what the test was about.

'Hook, line and sinker'

"Sometimes Kit, I wonder if you aren't a kitsune in disguise with your cunning intellect"

'Like mother like son eh? I guess you rubbed off on me' They both shared a chuckle at the thought of a half kitsune version of Naruto, if only they knew what would be coming in the future for them.

The three genin regrouped at the bridge and Kakashi stood before them and started to tell them about the test.

Kakashi pulled out two bells and an alarm clock "All right, your goal in this test is to get one of these two bells before the alarm goes off at noon, anyone who doesn't get a bell gets sent back to the academy"

Sakura raised her hand "Umm Kakashi-sensei, there is only two bells though"

Kakashi eye emiled "Precisely, this test has a 66 failure rate, at least one of you will get sent back with there only being two bells, out of the 27 graduates of the academy only 9 of them will become Shinobi, good luck and BEGIN!"

Sakura and Sasuke both instantly took off out into the bushes, but Naruto just stood there, and smiled evily at Kakashi.

"You're a strange one aren't you Naruto, you think you can take me on by yourself?"

Naruto started chuckling darkly "So that's how you're working this test, hiding the need of teamwork to get at a Jounin with the fact that by working together at least one of us will fail, this shall be interesting Kakashi" Naruto then took off to the woods after Sakura.

'Crap, he really did figure it all out already, seems I might be taking a team for once.' Kakashi crouched down and pulled out his favorite little book that we all know and love.

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Naruto had caught up to Sakura and came up behind her, and put a hand over her mouth, somehow he knew she would scream if he snuck up on her. He turned her around and put a finger to his lips, showing her to be quite

"Sakura, I was right with my guess, this test is about getting us to work together, no genin can be expected to beat a Jounin in a one on one fight, but three might be able to distract him long enough to complete the objective. The bells are to try and keep us from working together."

Sakura nodded "But Naruto, what if you're wrong and the bells really do count still?"

Naruto shrugged "Then I'll take the hit and go back to the Academy, my mistake anyway then. But for now, lets go get Sasuke, he's about 300 feet from us"

Sakura nodded and followed behind Naruto, Naruto was right Sasuke was crouched in a tree looking at Kakashi, probably making an attack plan. "Psst, hey Sasuke, down here" Naruto called.

Sasuke looked down and noticed the two of them "What the hell are you doing here Dobe, get out of here before you blow my cover!"

Sakura broke in quickly "Sasuke-kun, Naruto figured out the test, it's about teamwork and getting us to work together, the bells are just a distraction to confuse us"

Sasuke looked fairly amazed that the 'dobe' was able to figure something out before he did "Just what makes you so damn sure dobe?"

Naruto cringed at being called a dobe by Sasuke "I read about these secondary tests being about teamwork in the library, then I tricked Kakashi into giving it away back at the bridge, and if I'm wrong you guys can have the bells, I'll go back."

Sasuke shrugged "Tch, fine so what do we do?"

Naruto grinned "Glad you asked, so here's what were gonna do..." Naruto went into a detailed plan of how they were going to use Kakashi's perverse nature against him using Naruto's Kage Bunshin's of three women, and also henged into the team members.

Naruto made 3 clones and had them Henge into three different, very scantily clad women and had them sneak around to the lake in the back to 'bathe' to distract the perv, he then created another 120 Shadow clones and sent 40 to each of the teammates, the clones each Henged into the teammate they were working with so there were now 41 Naruto's, 41 Sakura's and 41 Sasukes, "Okay guys lets surround Kakashi on the 3 sides away from the lake."

Once in position Naruto gave the mental command for the 3 clones at the lake to start acting like a couple of loud mouthed bimbo's to get Kakashi's attention, it worked quite well, Kakashi got up to walk over to see what the commotion was all about, when he got there he was not expecting what he got, there in front of him were three very curvaceous women giggling and splashing each other, there was a small trail of blood coming from Kakashi's nose at the site and he giggled, which got there attention, the clones saw the blood and the book he was reading and yelled "PERVERT!" and started to charge at him with there arms raised ready to smack the crap out of him. Kakashi did exactly as Naruto expected, he slowly backed away from the women without looking behind him saying "gomen" the whole time, he failed to Notice the 123 Genin behind him untill it was to late, Kakashi backed right into a Sakura clone then turned around and promptly gasped

"What the hell, How did these kids learn the shadow clone justu!? And to create 40 each at this age! What are these kids?!"

Every clone there and Naruto and Sakura all laughed, Sasuke did not of course, when the clones finished laughing one of the Naruto's said,

"Hey, Kakashi, 3 genin couldn't beat a Jounin, but how about 123 genin? You think they could beat you? How bout touch you? We think they could."

With that the battalion of clones charged at Kakashi. Kakashi was dispelling them with punches and kicks as fast as he could, but he was quickly getting overwhelmed so, he whipped out two Kunai, one in each hand, 'well they are just clones right?'

Kakashi started to decimate the clones at a rapid pace, Naruto saw that now was his chance to do his part of the plan and distract Kakashi long enough for the bells to be grabbed, so he jumped up in the air over the rest of the clones and flew at Kakashi aiming to hit him with a flying dropkick, Kakashi saw this of course and brought up both his Kunai and implanted them both into the 'clone' right into the stomach, he then whipped out two more Kunai and went to go and take out other clones, right until he got hit by Naruto, Kakashi stumbled back and Naruto smacked onto the ground with a 'Thud'

Kakashi realized too late that that wasn't a clone he just stabbed two Kunai into, 'Oh not good not good!' While Kakashi was mentally freaking about what would happen to him for killing one of his genin in the exam he didn't notice Sakura grab the bells from his belt and toss one to Sasuke.

After the bells were secured all 120 clones dispersed leaving the 2 genin and Naruto on the ground in a small pool of blood. Naruto leaned up and glared at Kakashi.

"You know Kakashi, you should be a little more careful about where you stick these things." He said while gesturing towards the two Kunai in his stomach.

"I mean, yeah sure I make a great Kunai holster, but it's not as fun as you might think it is" Naruto pulled out the two Kunai and tossed them too Kakashi, who caught them. But the Kunai being removed fully opened the wound, and blood started to poor out of Naruto's two gashes much more rapidly.

"Awww...crap" was what Naruto said as he passed out and fell forwards into his own pool of blood.

Kakashi went over to check Naruto's wounds, he opened his Jacket, and too his surprise, and Sakura's joy Naruto was ripped, the kid was 12 and had a fully developed six pack and chest, and to his further surprise the wounds were already almost done healing, but he also noticed that Naruto's chest was covered in scars, from burns to stab wounds and cuts from all his past beatings.

'Hmm, it seems the Kyuubi being in him makes it so he heals very quickly' "Right, so you all pass and once Naruto wakes up in a minute I'm going to take you to the Hokage tower for our first mission"

Sakura pumped her fist "Hah Naruto was right! It was all about teamwork" she yelled.

Sasuke did nothing but stand there like the stoic bastard he is.

Naruto came to a minute later, he looked around him, and...no hospital? He got up and his team was around him. "Ahh, Naruto good to see you're awake, sorry about those Kunai, I never expected you to attack with the clones. But anyway, we have to go to Hokage tower"

Naruto shook his head to clear his thoughts and realized his jacket was open, and all he had was a large mesh shirt on under it 'actually, the breeze is nice I'm gonna keep it like this'

The 4 members of Team 7 then went off to the Hokage tower to get their first mission as a team, and to increase Naruto's weight for his punishment.