Chapter 2: The Bell Test

AN: This is really just the events of the actual manga. If you're reading this chapter and you get bored, skip to the next once it's on. In fact, I plan on the third being a duplicate, but it will be shorter than this if it is, and the fourth should be up soon after.

"Hi, I'm Hatake Kakashi, I don't feel like telling you what I like. I have many hobbies" Said the sensei.

"I'm Uzumaki Naruto. I like eating and trying ramen and dislike having to wait for it in the microwave. My goal is to become the next Hokage!" he declared.

"I'm Uchiha Sasuke. I hate most things, like few things, and wish to kill a certain person and revive my clan."

"Haruno Sakura! I enjoy training, I like... um... and anyway I hate... Naruto!"

"Meet me tomorrow early morning. And don't have breakfast."

"Glad to see you all here."

"You're 2 hours late!" exclaimed Sakura and Naruto.

"Forgot to set my alarm. Anyways, you have to take a test to become Genin."

"We already passed that!" replied Naruto.

"That was your potential. But if you fail this, you must be sent back to the academy. Test in 3... 2... 1... Go!"

The alarm rang, and Sasuke had just wasted his breath speaking to Sakura, who had been too distracted by a dying Sasuke genjutsu throughout almost the whole thing. "There's no point in going back to the academy." noted Kakashi.

"Do you mean?" asked Naruto "That all three of us can-"

"-QUIT AS NINJAS!"

"What do you mean?" asked Sakura. "Just because we didn't get bells?"

"Because all of you are just punks who don't deserve to be ninjas." Sasuke proceeded to attack him and fail miserably and Kakashi was at the moment holding him down. "That's why you're a punk. Why do you think you're in teams? What is the point of this exercise?"

"What do you mean?", Sakura responded.

"The answer to the test."

"Which is?"

"Geez."

"Just tell us already!" yelled Naruto.

"It's teamwork. Working together would have gotten you the bells."

"But there's only two bells!"

"That was to make you compete against each other. You were supposed to see past it and work together. Sakura, you only thought of Sasuke who was far away, but not Naruto who was next to you. Naruto! You were going off all by yourself. And Sasuke, you were just thinking the others would hinder you.

Individual ability is important, but not as much as teamwork. Going off on your own puts lives at risk. Like this: Sakura! Kill Naruto or Sasuke dies!" Naruto and Sakura had a moment of alarm before Kakashi said "See, tough choices are needed. In the shinobi world, you risk your life. On this stone is the villages heroes."

"That's what I want to be!" declared Naruto

"They're a special type of heroes."

"What type?"

"The type that died on the battlefield. This is a memorial. My own best friend in on this list. Have lunch and try again, but Naruto cheated," he was referring to Naruto trying to have lunch before the challenge was over, "so don't give him any. Give him food, and you fail." He tied Naruto to a log, and left.

"Here." Sasuke offered Naruto food. "I don't sense Kakashi, and we need Naruto in his best condition for the test."

Kakashi charged in. "YOU ALL!" The trio cowered in fear. "Pass. You're my first team to ever do so. They couldn't see underneath the underneath. Those who break the code of the ninja are trash, but those who don't help their comrades are worse than trash."