Hey guys I'm back, sorry again for the wait for me to get everything revised and changed, If you haven't already done so please read the first two chapters to see what changes I made to the story. Well I hope you guys enjoy it and please review, I'm still a new writer and I need plenty of advice thanks.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
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Naruto was hiding behind a group of trees scanning the forest for his two teammates; he quickly spotted Sakura hiding under a bush. 'Jeez how on earth did she get the top scores in the class again? That's the dumbest thing I've ever seen she's wearing bright red, and has neon pink hair, seriously who does that?'
He shunshined over to where she was and proceeded to cover her mouth before she started her screeching. "Sakura it's only me Naruto, just stay calm and shut up" he whispered.
Sakura nodded and then Naruto released her and then continued "I'll say the same thing I told you yesterday, the only way we can manage to get the two bells is if we work together. I don't exactly feel like going against an elite jounin like Kakashi and then getting sent back to the academy right now do you? So are you in or out?"
Sakura pondered this for a second before responding in her usual screeching voice "No way! I don't want your help besides Sasuke-kun will save me if something happens to me!"
Naruto groaned and then hissed "You moron you just gave away our posit.."
"Well well well, you rejected working as a team Sakura, and then you gave away you and your comrades' position. I don't think you're getting any points for teamwork. But let's begin, Lesson one: genjutsu. Magen: hell viewing technique" Kakashi said while reading his book atop a tree branch.
Naruto quickly dispelled the illusion but cringed when he heard Sakura start screaming. "ok this is just really really sad, why oh why couldn't I get a useful kunoichi team-mate." The blonde jinchuuriki said shaking his head before looking at Kakashi and speaking "Don't worry I'll be back to face you and take those bells I just want to see if I'll have better luck with my other team-mate first; have fun with your book."
Kakashi eye-smiled and then waved "K good luck, I'm glad someone has the right idea, I mean what kind of moron would attack a jounin head on without any kind plan or surprise."
"Probably the kind that wears bright orange and screams about becoming hokage while dreaming about ramen, but I'm so glad we don't have any of those around here." Naruto said before using a body flicker to go where he saw Sasuke.
Naruto appeared right in front of Sasuke making him jump, 'well at least he didn't scream, although that could have been some good black mail. Oh well let's see if I have better luck this time.'
"What do you want Uzumaki?" Sasuke whispered.
"The same thing I wanted yesterday teme, for us to work together against the ol' Cyclops. I can't beat him by myself, and if all our fights were any indication you know you are worse than me by a lot, so you know you don't stand any kind of chance against him. So if we work together we have a slightly better chance of getting the bells." The root member stated.
Sasuke didn't even bother thinking about it before responding in typical Uchiha style "No way I am an Uchiha elite he has no chance against a prodigy like me!"
"Do you even know who we are fighting? He's the 'Sharingan no Kakashi' he was graduated at five, chunin at six, and then became a jounin at 13, while your only a genin at 12. He's the prime example for prodigies everywhere so let me just tell you that you have even worse chance than I do, so are you gonna come or not?"
Kakashi was standing above them in a tree listening to their conversation, hiding his chakra signature and making sure he wouldn't be seen. 'How does he know about all that? Sure it'd be common knowledge for a genin if he actually tried to find this all out but still.'
Sasuke had started paying attention when he heard Kakashi's nickname but then shrugged it off before responding "I told you I don't need any of your help Uzumaki back off!"
Kakashi sighed before coming down from his place "Is Naruto the only one here that actually wants to work together?"
Sasuke quickly scattered to get away, he may be proud but he's not that dumb too actually try and attack a jounin without any kind of plan or trap like that.
Naruto just groaned before speaking "Yeah apparently so, oh well might as well get started." He then dispersed signifying he was a clone.
'Smart he knew that I could find him easily so he switched with a clone so that he could hide' kakashi thought to himself before jumping back to avoid a flurry of shuriken aimed at him.
The second he hit the ground however he felt two pairs of arms on each of his legs holding him in place. He then saw four Naruto's on both sides of him finish making hand seals and then shouting "Katon: grand fireball jutsu/Fuuton: great breakthrough!"
Seeing two powered up fireballs coming from both sides he quickly made a seal-less kawarimi and then had to duck under a fuuton enhanced slash of Naruto's wakizashi.
He came back up with an uppercut aimed at Naruto's ribs, while Naruto used the force of his strike to make him continue on spinning out of the way.
Naruto then sheathed his blade and then made five shadow clones and then called out his jutsu Fuuton: wind drills.
Kakashi watched as drills of wind appeared upon each Naruto's arms he quickly made a seal-less shadow clone before jumping back to watch what the happenings.
All of the Naruto's rushed upon the clone from all sides giving it a hard time trying to dodge. For dodging was the only thing it could really do for if he tried to block one of those deadly punches it'd be missing an arm and then disperse.
After a minute of this Naruto and company managed to disperse the clone. He then turned to kakashi and had his clones scatter to be used for kawarimi purposes just in case.
Naruto proceeded to throw a pair of kunai at kakashi with one being right above the other.
Kakashi lazily watched and noticed that they would end up going a little high and then dismissed them before looking at Naruto to taunt. "Are you getting too tired to aim right Naruto?"
He was surprised when Naruto just smirked and then twitched one of his fingers indicating that one of them was attached with wire.
The one below tilted up and the struck the top kunai making the top kunai go straight down aimed at Kakashi's head. While the bottom one just started falling behind Kakashi's head.
Kakashi still easily caught it the one aimed at his face before He could say anything however Naruto disappeared and a kunai appeared where Naruto had been standing. 'Oh crap!' Kakashi thought before leaping forward out of the way he didn't get away unscathed however.
Naruto slashed across his back and managed to get his arm while the kunai Kakashi had caught transformed back into one of Naruto's clones which then proceeded to slash at the wires of the belles. The original Naruto then proceeded to grab the bells and then kawarimi with a clone.
'He really is his father's son to come up with a simplified version of the hiraishin.' Kakashi pondered.
"Well I knew I couldn't defeat you in a straight fight, but snatch a couple of bells, no sweat" Naruto said smirking.
Both Sasuke and Sakura who had woken up watched in awe how Naruto easily managed to get the bells from Kakashi.
Naruto tossed a bell back to kakashi "I only need one bell right? So I might as well give the others some kind of chance to pass so I'll just be enjoying the show. Ja ne"
Kakashi reattached the bell and then used a low level medical ninjutsu to heal his arm. 'Well he easily passes, he definitely figured out the teammate part down and then still managed to get a bell from me. But it won't matter if the others don't get it.'
Sasuke then appeared before Kakashi, confident that he could also get a bell from him. "If that loser can get a bell so can I, you shall know the might of the great Uchiha clan!"
"What clan? Aren't you always preening about being the last loyal Uchiha? If they are so great they should be alive and not be killed by one man." Naruto shouted from his spot up in the trees.
"Shut up Uzumaki! Well anyway I'm not like those other two I'll easily defeat you and take the bells." Sasuke said while adding a couple more feet to that already fifty foot pole in his butt.
"Oh I'm sorry did you say something? This is my favorite part" said the Cyclops while turning a page in his book.
"Stop mocking me, you will fear the power of the Uchiha and bow before me!" Sasuke screeched much like a certain fan girl watching the happenings.
"Ya know this is kinda why Naruto is my favorite right now, he's the only one on this team not causing some kinda damage to my ears, and plus he doesn't spend ten minutes before a fight talking." Kakashi stated before trying to take out the ringing in his ears.
"Fine then here I come!" Sasuke charged throwing a couple of kunai in hopes of distracting him before he reached kakashi.
Kakashi lazily moved out of the not wanting to take any chances after what happened with Naruto before calling out "lesson two taijutsu."
Sasuke reached him and jumped into the air and coming down with a kick and his heel aimed at kakashi's temple.
Kakashi leaned bent over backwards with his hands supporting him and then promptly kicked Sasuke in the middle of his back sending him flying up into the air.
Kakashi disappeared, and then reappeared right above Sasuke aiming both feet at Sasuke's stomach. Sasuke had no chance of dodging and was slammed back into the ground while coughing up blood.
Kakashi landed next to him tossing three kunai in a triangle surrounding Sasuke and then stated out one last time lesson three: ninjutsu then finished the hand signs and then called out the jutsu name. Raiton: static barrier. Sakura and naruto watched as Sasuke was then inclosed in three walls of lightning.
'Well that was fail, Sasuke really should've accepted my help, oh well his loss.' Naruto said chuckling.
They were then interrupted by the clock going off signaling the end of the test.
Five minutes later
"Why I am I the one tied up to the post!" Sakura screeched after kakashi finished the last knot.
"Well you did absolutely nothing other than look around for Sasuke, reject all of Naruto's offers for help, and then promptly fall victim to a simple E-ranked genjutsu." Kakashi said while grinning not that they could tell under his mask.
"Well anyway Naruto is the only one who passes while you both will be sent to the academy, he was the only one to retrieve a bell and also he was the only one to find out the real purpose of this test and actually attempt to work with you too. Can any of you guess the real meaning of this test?" The copy-nin asked.
Sakura and Sasuke just shook their heads indicating they didn't know before looking at Naruto in hopes he would tell them.
Naruto just sighed "The whole point is teamwork, why else would there only be two bells, to make us set aside our differences and work together to attempt to get the bells, was that so hard?"
Sasuke and his loyal fangirl had the decency to look away before kakashi spoke. "That's correct Naruto, now I will give you both one more chance to get this last bell after lunch, now don't give Sakura any." The jounin then shunshined off a distance away to see what they would do, Sasuke looked around and then handed some food over to where Sakura was.
"But Sasuke-kun, if you give me that Sensei might fail you, I'll be fine." Sakura said with worry in her eyes.
But apparently Sakura's stomach thought otherwise and started grumbling; Sasuke then spoke "Eat it, your completely useless if you don't have any strength, you need to eat."
"If you say so Sasuke" Sakura said smiling 'he cares about me, take that Ino-pig!' She then took a bite but then choked when she saw Kakashi appear with an angry look on his face and lightning magically appearing out of nowhere and thunder rumbling menacingly.
"I told you not to give her any food! Why did you disobey me?" kakashi questioned.
"Because she's my teammate and she'd be of no use starving, I may dislike her, but I know I'm going to need her if I'm to try to get that bell again." Sasuke stated.
"Well then, you both!...pass" kakashi said with an eye-smile at the end and a thumbs up sign.
"Wait what? we pass! How come?" Sakura yelled.
"Because as I said earlier the whole point of this test was teamwork, I needed to see if you were willing to break the rules in order to help your teammates. Remember this those who break the rules are considered trash, but those who abandon their teammates are even worse than trash." The sharingan wielding jounin said with a somber mood at the end.
"Well anyway from now on we shall be taking missions as team seven, report here tomorrow at seven for our first team meeting and our first mission. Ja ne" Kakashi then shunshined away to go give his report.
Naruto looked over to where his teammates where sitting "Well now that we passed how about we go out to celebrate my treat?"
"Tch no this doesn't change a thing I don't have time for this I still need to get stronger." Sasuke said.
Sakura then proceeded to ask for another date for the umpteenth time "Oh I see you turned him down so you could have some alone time with me and go on a date."
Sasuke didn't even bother looking at her and start walking away "Not on your life."
Naruto just sighed/groaned for the millionth time today "you guys won't ever change I see, oh well I tried." Then proceeded to shunshin away.
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Sarutobi took a puff of his pipe and then went on to the next team "Since Kakashi as usual isn't here yet, let's let Kurenai go next."
Kurenai stepped up and then stated "Team eight passed"
Sarutobi nodded expecting this and then went onto Asuma's team. Asuma stepped forward and stated "Team ten passed, but we're gonna need a ton of motivation to make them a fighting force."
Sarutobi nodded, and then watched as Kakashi came in with a puff of smoke.
"Ah, Kakashi right on time, well for you anyway, how did your team fare?" the wizened hokage asked.
Everyone just started getting ready to leave expecting to hear how his team failed again. Kakashi nodded and started "Team seven… passed." This caused most of the jounin to start yelling 'kai' in earnest thinking this was all a lie.
Kakashi faked hurt "Oh come on this isn't that big of a shock is it? I'm not some kind of lazy sensei who fails people for the fun of it so I don't have to work."
Everyone just rolled their eyes disbelievingly. "Well that will be all then, send the written reports in sometime tomorrow dismissed." Sarutobi called out watching the jounin leave the room.
"You may come out now Danzo" said the sandaime.
"Danzo stepped out from the shadows and then spoke "Well it seems I win my little wager, and I'm sure you've seen the real gap of differences between Naruto and Sasuke by now. So it's an ideal time for you to keep your end of the bargain before classes start up again."
Sarutobi nodded before answering "Yes I will keep it after watching the fights of our so called 'kunoichi' in the graduation test I believe for sure that we need to make some serious changes to our curriculum."
"Good well I'll be off then here's the list of changes that you must go through before submitting, enjoy the paperwork" Danzo said with a smirk.
Hiruzen cringed when he saw the large stack of papers placed before him "I bet your so loving that Tobirama-sensei didn't pick you for hokage right now."
"I sure am, enjoy" said the mummy looking man before walking out.
The next morning Naruto got there at the training grounds at 6:00 and then proceeded to start training with his jutsu until his teammates arrived so they wouldn't see all of his tricks.
After his teammates got there Sasuke proceeded to brood and Sakura sat as close to Sasuke as possible without actually touching him and just staring at him…again.
Naruto just started his physical training with his clones off in the forest still working on more jutsu from the scrolls given to him by Danzo.
Three hours later
"Yo" said kakashi with a wave.
Sakura went up to yell at Kakashi but no sound came out. They all looked around in confusion until they saw Naruto smirking while having a hand in a half tiger seal.
"Yeah I kinda put a silencing seal on her that's remote activated pretty handy right?" Naruto said with a grin.
"Very very handy Naruto, now I don't have to worry so much about hearing loss." The silver haired jounin said with an eye-smile.
Sasuke muttered his agreement while Sakura was fuming.
"Well anyway now that we're all here we may go to the hokage's office for our first mission let's head out." Kakashi stated before starting to walk in that direction.
Sakura and Sasuke started following him while Naruto, having heard about the D-rank missions made a shadow clone and sent it after them while he decided to continue training. 'Have fun guys, I just hope I put enough chakra into that clone I don't want him getting destroyed or anything that'd be bad.' Naruto thought to himself chuckling.
Three weeks later
Naruto clone and company were standing inside the mission room having just turned in their last mission and awaiting their next one.
"Well let's see we have painting some fences, babysitting, ooh and cleaning out the Inuzuka kennels again." Iruka said with a pitying look at the genin.
Sakura couldn't take it anymore and yelled out "That is it! No more of these D-rank missions, we need something that challenges us, how else are we going to improve?"
"How about training for once?" Naruto muttered while everyone chuckled.
"Now now, you three are only newly promoted genin, you have to get more experience before you can do anything for real. You aren't ready yet." Iruka stated.
"Umm no offense Iruka, but how exactly is cleaning kennels experience for real missions? I mean I can understand babysitting and chasing Tora, because those can be attributed to guarding a client and then chasing down a target but still we could have done all of these in the academy when are you guys gonna finish changing this up?" Naruto asked keeping his frustrated emotions restrained.
"Well those are too build teamwork of course, you need to learn to split tasks and such and we are still working on that but it takes time." Iruka said matter-of-factly.
"Teamwork? Do you see who I have to work with? These two won't work with me even if it saved their lives." Naruto said while shaking his head.
"Well then that's why we should keep on giving you these then, you just sealed your own fate" one of the other mission givers said with a smirk.
"Now now, I believe team seven has made a good enough point, it seems that these D-rank missions aren't enough for them to put aside their differences and work as a team, maybe a C-rank will suffice to help them out." Said Sarutobi.
"Yes! Finally!" cheered Sakura while Naruto and Sasuke smirked, kakashi just groaned inwardly, he would actually have to do some work now.
"Alright, send in Tazuna!" Sarutobi called out.
In walked an old man holding a bottle of booze and smelling worse than the bottle.
"Your mission is to guard Tazuna here to his country in Nami no Kuni and then guard him until he has completed building his bridge." Hiruzen said while reading off the mission scroll.
"This group of brats are the ones going to protect me? The blonde one actually looks ready, armed to the teeth as he is but what kind of brain damaged idiot tries to be a ninja while having pink hair?" Tazuna questioned while slurring his words.
Everyone but Sakura started chuckling and Kakashi restrained Sakura to prevent her from harming the old man who was probably the only person Sakura could actually win a fight against.
"Alright everyone meet me at the front gate in twenty minutes so we can leave. Don't be late now, later" said Kakashi.
All Naruto had to do to get ready was place his food and extra clothes into a sealing scroll and he was all set to go. He placed a bunch of clones back to the training ground to continue practicing Fuuinjutsu among other things, he actually had been taking to it really easily, Danzo had insisted that he try it a couple years ago and since then Naruto had been creating tons of new seals and been getting better at it.
Naruto was the last one to arrive at the gate and he was shocked to see Kakashi there already and started yelling out "kai" over and over but kakashi just scratched the back of his head and eye smiled. "Don't you know how rude it is to be late Naruto?"
"I'm sorry guys I got lost on the road of life" Naruto said with a smirk.
"Ah, touché" Kakashi said with an eye-smile. "Alright guys now that Naruto has arrived we may leave form up and let's go."
"Hai sensei" the three replied.
Naruto was in front with Sakura and Sasuke on both sides Kakashi in the back and Tazuna in the center. After a few hours of walking Naruto spotted a puddle, which was odd since it hadn't rained in a while and then reasoned it was enemy shinobi. He glanced at Kakashi, who nodded, and then made hand signals behind his back so that Sasuke and Sakura could be aware, they then nodded as well.
A few seconds after they had passed by the puddle the two mercenaries rose up and then wrapped around Kakashi with their chains ripping him apart. Only Tazuna was surprised by this, to the three squad mates this was all a part of the plan.
Sakura and Sasuke quickly stood in front of Tazuna while Naruto drew his blade and charged and created a seal-less shadow clone. They both charged before blurring out of existence, both of the chunin had their eyes widened in surprise before that had their hearts pierced through with a fuuton enhanced blade.
"Don't you think that was a bit much eh Naruto?" Kakashi questioned from his spot up on a tree branch.
"Yeah you didn't have to kill them!" Sakura screeched.
'Darn didn't make the seal work in time oh well' "Well it's better than them having a chance of escaping, besides we already got the information we needed. They were clearly after Tazuna and we can get simply get the reason why from him." Naruto stated while cleaning off his blade and then sheathing it.
"Naruto's right, so care to explain yourself Tazuna?" Kakashi questioned after Naruto used a quick fire jutsu to get rid of the bodies and then sealed away the heads to get the bounty.
Tazuna then went into detail describing how Gato had enslaved his country and how he needed to build the bridge to save it and then didn't have enough money to afford a higher ranked mission.
Kakashi processed through the information and then looked at each of his students to which they all nodded. "Well you're in luck Tazuna, we'll help keep you safe until you successfully complete your bridge I believe with Naruto and I we can handle whatever Gato will throw at us don't sweat it."
"Thank you all so much! Oh and about the money for a higher class mission, once my country is back on its feet we will send you the amount. " said the old bridge builder while shaking Kakashi's hand vigorously.
"You're very welcome now let us continue on, but be on your guard everyone, next time we may be facing a jounin like myself, not just chunin" Kakashi said seriously.
"Roger that sensei, alright let's move out everyone" Naruto said with a mock salute and then proceeded back to his position in front of Tazuna.
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