Skylar POV…

When I woke up, it was already 7 a.m. I was defiantly NOT a morning person. I pack my weapons and supplements that I left out last night into my backpack. I left my katana at my apartment though. I wouldn't need it.

I also ignored Kakashi's warning about skipping breakfast. I quickly cracked two eggs, chopped up some bell peppers, onions, and carrots. I pulled out two slices of bacon too. I tossed the vegetables and eggs together and made an omelet. I also added some cheese. I quickly ate that, grabbed an apple and slung my backpack over my shoulder before I left to the training ground.

When I got to the training ground, Kakashi still wasn't there and it was around 7:45 a.m.

"Skylar! You're late!" Naruto exclaimed.

"So? Kakashi isn't here yet," I pointed out.

"But Kakashi specifically told us to be here at 5 a.m." Sakura piped up.

"Whateva, suck-up," I said, brushing her off. I took out my apple from my backpack and I was just about to eat it when Sakura screeched, "DON'T EAT THAT!"

"What the hell?" I ask, looking at her like she was an idiot, which she was.

"Kakashi-sensei told us that we can't eat before the test," Sakura said putting her hands on her hips.

"So? It's not like you're gonna puke if I eat the apple." She shut up after that.

"Are you really gonna eat that?" Naruto asked me.

"Yeah. I already at an omelet and some bacon at my house."

Naruto's stomach growled and I sighed, handing him the apple.

"Here eat it."

"But Kakashi sensei said-,"

"Trust me; you'll be fine if you eat it."

Naruto didn't wait for another second of reassurance. He grabbed the apple from me and took a big bite.

"Thanks Skylar," he said with his mouth full.

I merely shrugged and sat under a tree to wait for Kakashi. I knew he would be late so I took out my weapons and started polishing them.

By the time I polished every inch of all of my weapons, (which I had around 12) Kakashi still wasn't there. It was around 8:45 too.

I packed all my weapons away into my bag after I was done. I leaned against the tree trunk and went into a light sleep until 11:00. Naruto was sitting on the grass while Sakura gave up on trying to talk to Sasuke. He just stood there in silence.

Finally, around 11:10, I felt Kakashi's chakara. I got up and pulled out a shuriken.

"What's wrong Skylar?" Naruto asked, alarmed.

"I'm going to teach this old geezer to be late again," I snarled.

Within a few seconds, Kakashi appeared. "Skylar, who were you calling old geezer?" he asked.

"You," I snapped, skillfully aiming the shuriken. I just wanted it to graze him. I threw the shuriken and it whizzed through the air. Kakashi realized that I threw the shuriken at him but he acted too late. The whirling ninja weapon grazed Kakashi's left cheek, cutting a piece of his mask and giving him a stinging little cut.

"Try waking up so early in the morning and then coming HOURS late again, and you will earn yourself a broken leg," I hissed. Kakashi touched his cheek and saw that I had actually cut him.

"Anyways," he muttered. "Morning everyone. Ready for your first day?"

"YOU'RE LATE!" Naruto and Sakura cried.

"Skylar already established that," Kakashi sighed. "But a black cat crossed my path so I had to take the long way here."

I rolled my eyes. "Whateva, give us the test and hell, it better be worth it."

"Well," Kakashi cleared his throat. "Let's get started." He set up an alarm clock. "It's set for noon. Your assignment is very simple. You just have to take these bells from me. That's all there is to it." He held up 3 bells. "If you can't get it by noon, you go without lunch. You will be tied to these posts while you watch me eat my lunch in front of you."

"So that's why…" Sasuke thought. "He told us not to eat breakfast to make it harder on us," Sakura finished.

"HELL YEAH! Skylar and I ate breakfast even though you told us not to," Naruto grinned. "Your torture plan failed!"

Kakashi raised his visible eyebrow at me. "You disobeyed my orders? You aren't making a very good first impression Skylar."

"Pff, first impression? What about you, being 6 hours and 10 minutes late?" I scoffed.

"Touché," Kakashi answered. A slight smile showed through his mask.

"Wait a minute, there are 4 of us. How come there are only three bells?" Sakura asked.

Kakashi smiled. "That way, at less one of you will end up tied to a post and ultimately disqualified for failing to complete this mission. That one goes back to the academy."

Sakura, Naruto and Sasuke glared at Kakashi. "Then again, all 3 of you might flunk out too. You can use any weapons including shuriken. If you're not prepared to kill me, you won't be able to take the bells."

"Those weapons are too dangerous sensei!" Sakura cried.

"Especially since you couldn't dodge that eraser," Naruto added in, grinning.

"Class clowns are usually the weakest links. You can safely ignore them. Lowest scores, losers," Kakashi shrugged. This made Naruto get angry.

"When I say start, you can begin."

Naruto had already gotten worked up, and he pulled out a kunai and charged at Kakashi. I just shook my head.

Kakashi easily manipulated Naruto's kunai and twisted it so the tip of the kunai faced the back of Naruto's head.

"Don't be in such a hurry. I didn't even say start yet." Naruto struggled from the jonin's powerful grip. "But you came at me with a full intention of destroying me so… how would I say this? I'm actually starting to like you guys."

Naruto smiled and Sakura beamed. I just stood there, coming up with my plan.

"Get ready," Kakashi said. "And… START!"

I darted by Kakashi so fast, he didn't even sense me. I passed him and then concealed my chakara and hid in a tree in the forest.

Sasuke and Sakura had darted into hiding also. All except Naruto. I groaned and watch Naruto, who was standing in front of Kakashi.

"You and me; fair in square; right now! Let's do it!" Naruto exclaimed.

Kakashi cocked his head to the side and gave Naruto the 'really' look.

"Fool," Sasuke and I both muttered to ourselves.

"You know compared to the others, you are a little bit… weird," Kakashi said.

And he just figured that out, I thought. Kakashi seems kinda slow for a jonin.

"Oh yeah?" Naruto challenged. "The only thing weird here is your haircut." With that, Naruto charged head on at Kakashi.

"Shinobi battle technique lesson one: taijutsu- the physical art." Kakashi reached into his weapon pouch. Taijutsu is hand-to-hand combat. Why is he reaching into his weapon pouch? Naruto thought. Kakashi whipped out a book from his pouch and I almost fell out of the tree laughing. Almost.

"What the-?" Naruto asked looking weirded out.

"What are you waiting for?" Kakashi asked. "Make your move."

"Why are you reading that book?" Naruto exclaimed.

"Why? To find out what happens in the story of course," Kakashi said like it was the most obvious thing in the world. "With your weak attacks it doesn't reall matter if I'm reading or whatever."

That got Naruto really mad and he blindly attacked Kakashi. Kakashi blocked all of Naruto's attacks without even taking his eyes off his book. Naruto tried to blindly attack Kakashi with a simple punch but Kakashi got behind Naruto with a hand sign of the tiger.

Kakashi said this was taijutsu. He isn't going to use a fire ninjutsu on someone as weak as Naruto, I thought.

Sure enough, Kakashi just stuck his fingers up Naruto's butt and called it 'A Thousand Years of Death.'

"Those two are just total idiots," I heard Sasuke mutter to himself as he watched Naruto fly into the water.

I jumped through a few trees until I got a good view of Kakashi. I sensed Sasuke's chakara nearby. A few trees down, I saw Sasuke's hand inch towards his weapon case. Just then, two shurikens came flying towards Kakashi but he easily caught them. Naruto attempted to try to get Kakashi's bells by using his shadow clone technique but it ultimately failed. Then Naruto of course fell Kakashi's trap of leaving a bell in the open. Kakashi went to talk to Naruto while he was hanging by a rope in a tree. Or so it seemed like Kakashi. It was only a substitution of him but Sasuke fell for it and he threw some weapons at the fake Kakashi. When the weapons hit, Kakashi turned into a log.

Sasuke started moving away from his hiding place as Sakura darted out, trying to find him.

Kakashi made a genjutsu on Sakura and she screamed and fainted. Pathetic, I thought as I switched hiding places so I could get a better view of Kakashi and Sasuke who were fighting now.

I watched them for some time. Sasuke wasn't as bad as I thought, but he let his guard down when he released his fire jutsu. From my hiding place, I saw how Kakashi maneuvered underground, right below Sasuke.

"Earth style, Head Hunter Jutsu," Kakashi said as Sasuke got buried underground.

He's not bad, I thought to myself. But he's not good enough.

Of course, Sakura was right on cue and came running through the bush. She freaked out and fainted… again.

I sweatdropped as I jumped from my hiding place. Sasuke turned his head as much as he could to look at me. I just blankly stared right back at him.

"You look like you can use some help," I said and I stared down at his head next to my foot.

"Can you just get me out?" he snarled.

"Now why would I do that? With you unable to move, I get a better chance of getting one of those bells," I smirked as he narrowed his eyes.

"You wouldn't be able to get those bells if I couldn't," Sasuke growled, letting his pride get the best of him.

"We'll just see about that," I bet disappearing into the forest.

My turn, I thought. I kept my chakara concealed while trying to sense Kakashi's chakara. He was easy to sense because he didn't conceal his. Obviously he thought no one could sense chakara.

When I got to where Kakashi was, he was punishing Naruto, who tried to sneak a bite for lunch.

No one could sense my chakara. Kakashi thought that I had disappeared.

"I wonder where Skylar went," Kakashi thought out loud.

I appeared behind him pulled out a kunai. Kakashi whirled around and he widened his eyes.

"I'm right here."

"Huh, I thought you chickened out," Kakashi muttered while regaining his composure.

"I know why you're doing this test," I stated.

"Of course, I'm testing you to see if your good enough to become a genin," Kakashi said in a 'duh' tone.

"Not only that, you want to see if we can work as a team. You think that no new academy student can beat a jonin like you, so you want us to work as a team. You put only 3 bells for 4 students to see if we could get over the fact that one wouldn't get a bell."

"Well you're a first to figure that out, but if you figured that out, why aren't you working with someone?" he asked.

"Cause I don't need to work with anyone," I snapped and pulled out 4 shuriken.

"You're so arrogant. That is a bad trait," Kakashi sighed, shaking his head.

"Or maybe I'm arrogant for a reason." I whipped out the shuriken and then charged at the jonin. He caught the 4 shuriken and threw them back at me. I pulled out my kunai and easily blocked 3 of them but caught the 4th shuriken. I focused a bit of chakara into my weapon and the shuriken started to glow an iridescent ice blue. I flicked my wrist, which made the shuriken flash by Kakashi. He quickly moved out of the way but since I added chakara to the weapon, I was able to control the shuriken. It nicked Kakashi's arm and the blue chakara injected into Kakahsi. He barely noticed that it hit him but when I snapped my finger, the chakara turned to ice crystals. The crystals dug into Kakashi's flesh and he winced.

Suddenly, my surroundings started to spin. Genjutsu, I thought. This is kinda pathetic for a genjutsu. How could anyone besides Sakura fall for something like this?

"Release," I waved my hand dismissively and the illusions instantly disappeared. "If that all you've got?"

"Not quite," Kakashi challenged when he appeared behind me. I felt him start to build up chakara. It was for a fire ninjutsu.

"Fireball Jutsu," Kakashi commanded and blew a massive fireball straight to me.

No academy student can block that, Kakashi thought. This is the end of the game for her.

I merely glanced at Kakashi right before the fireball hit me. Out of nowhere, I simply created a wall of water. When both jutsus touched, they each canceled each other out. The fire disappeared and the water turned to steam.

Kakashi started walking towards me… or rather to where I was. He looked around, expecting to see me lying there, injured. But when he looked around, I was nowhere to be seen.

He whirled around, touching the bells to make sure he still had them. He still had his bells so he started concentrating to sense my chakara. But I had hidden my chakara so well it was like I disappeared off the planet.

"Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Jutsu," I commanded.

Impossible! That's a rank-B technique. She won't have enough chakara to make an attack like that, Kakashi thought.

But I proved him wrong. A large fierce water dragon emerged from the river and charged at Kakashi. Just in time, Kakashi made a few swift hand signs and commanded, "Earth Release: Earth Style Wall. He made a wall of earth to protect him from the dragon.

So he uses the opposite energy that is most effective against my elemental jutsus. Good but not good enough.

I made a hand sign and blew an icy breath onto the water dragon. My breath turned the water dragon into an ice one. It easily broke though the earth wall and Kakashi was wide open.

Just as my dragon was about to pulverize Kakashi, the bell rang. Saved by the bell! Kakashi thought and he disappeared.