Skylar POV…

Just as I was about to whoop Kakashi's butt, the bell rang. I guess that will have to wait for later…

I meet at the places where the three poles were. Kakashi was there with Sakura and Sasuke. Looks like he finally made it out of the ground, I thought to myself, inwardly smirking. Naruto was tied to a pole because he tried to eat lunch, even after he had the apple.

I walked over to the group and Sasuke looked at me raising an eyebrow.

"Did you get a bell?" he asked smugly.

"Of course she didn't," Sakura exclaimed. "If you couldn't get one Sasuke, she would never be able to get one."

I felt an anime vein pop out of the side of my forehead but I kept my cool.

Naruto's stomach growled, interrupting the tension.

"Uh-oh, stomach's growling, huh?" Kakashi said crossing his arms. "That's too bad. Oh, by the way about this exercise? Well I have decided. I won't send any of you back to the academy."

Naruto grew a huge grin of his face in shock and excitement.

"What? I passed? All I did was faint and fall over. Do you get points for that?" Sakura questioned.

Sasuke didn't say anything but he smirked. Sakura and Naruto started getting all excited and started cheering.

"The whole team didn't pass," I muttered. "The team did worse than failing this test." But they didn't hear me.

"That means all four of us," started Naruto.

"Yes, all four of you… are being dropped from the program. PERMINATLY!"

Shock filled all of their faces. I knew it. That was because none of us worked together, I thought.

"Drop us from the program! That means that we will never be able to become ninjas! You said if we couldn't take the bells, we'll be sent back to the academy. You can't just change your mind and kick us out like that! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!" Naruto screamed.

"Cause you don't think like a ninja; you think like little kids- like brats," Kakashi explained.

Sasuke got angry and idiotically charged Kakashi. But Kakashi easily caught Sasuke's arm and twisted it behind his back while sitting on Sasuke and putting his foot on Sasuke's head.

"You think it's all about you," Kakashi said in a discussed tone.

"HEY! LET GO OF SASUKE! YOU CAN'T STEP ON HIM LIKE HE'S A BUG!" Sakura yelled to the jonin.

"You don't know what it means to be a ninja," Kakashi continued. "You think it's a game huh? Why do you think we put you on squads? Did you consider thinking about that question for one moment?"

"I don't know what you mean," Sakura cried anxiously.

"I mean you never realized what this exercise is all about- not even close."

"What it's about?" Naruto stupidly echoed.

"Yes, that determines whether you pass or fail."

"But that's, I mean I wanted to ask you that from the beginning," Sakura said, trying to worm her way out of trouble like a little suck-up.

"Psh, use your head," Kakashi scoffed. "Four people on a squad; why do you think we would do that?"

"ARG! How are we supposed to know why you picked four people? We didn't make the rules!" Naruto yelled.

"It's so basic. TEAMWORK!" Kakashi explained. Shock masked all three of their faces.

Well duh! I thought. They just realized that…

"Just working together? Is that what you mean?" Sakura asked.

"That's what I mean. It's too late now, but if all three of you would have come at me, you might have been able to take them. Well, anyways, it's over," Kakashi declared.

"You set it up with four people but how come there are only three bells? If we worked together, only three of us could keep the bells. That would lead to group conflict and the squad would break-up." Sakura questioned in a dangerously know-it-all tone.

"Exactly, I purposely pitted you against each other," Kakashi answered. Confusion fell over their faces again. "I wanted to see if you could overcome that and put the squad ahead of yourselves. A genin should have a natural feel for teamwork, but you," he said with disgust. "It never even crossed your mind. Sakura! You are obsessed with Sasuke when he was gone, while Naruto was right in front of you and you wouldn't lift a finger to help him!"

Shame flashed across Sakura's face as she realized what she did.

"Naruto! You do everything on your own. Everything. You, Sauske," he snapped, still sitting on Sasuke, pressing his face into the ground with his foot. "You thought the others were so far beneath you, they were worthless. Arrogance."

Kakashi looked up and then glared at me. "And you. I had high expectations for you, but you've disappointed me. You are skilled, I'll give you that, but you have absolutely NO sense of teamwork. You understood the point of this exercise but you still didn't work with the team. You are completely arrogant."

"But you did want us to get the bells, did you not?" I asked in a challenging tone.

"Yes but not a single one of you got a bell," he said pulling the bells of his belt.

"Think again," I smirked, pulling out three bells.

"Those are fake," Kakashi stated, but he sounded more like he was reassuring himself.

"Or yours are fake," I said. I snapped my fingers and Kakashi's bells turned into a shadow clone of myself. I snapped my fingers again and the shadow clone poofed away. "I got the bells. That was why I was so arrogant- because I already had them."

Kakashi narrowed his eyes. "When did you get those bells from me?"

"The second after you said 'go,'" I explained. "I concealed my chakara and retrieved the bells as I sprinted by you. You thought that no student, no matter how good they were, could get the bells right when you said 'go.' That gave me time to create a shadow clone and transform that into what looked like bells. I didn't ask the others to work with me because they would be trying to get a fake bell."

"And you still understood the reason behind this exersice," Kakashi muttered. "Well, let me rephrase this. Skylar is the only one who passes. All the rest of you fail."

"WHAT?" Sakura yelled. "Just because she got the bells doesn't mean that she understood that she had to work in a team."

I narrowed my eyes and glared at Sakura.

"Actually she did Sakura. She even explained that to me while fighting me," Kakashi countered. That shut Sakura up.

"With all due respect, I will not accept," I said after a few seconds. "As you said earlier, we are a team. If we fail, we fail as a whole team. Excuse me," I said as I got up to leave.

"Wait Skylar," Kakashi called out. I stopped and turned to face him. "Since you showed dedication to the team and you understood the concept of this exercise, I'll give the team one more chance, but I'll make it much harder for you. You'll have 3 hours to get a bell. Eat lunch now to build up strength but Naruto doesn't get any. It's your punishment for breaking the rules and trying to eat by yourself. And if anyone tries to feed him, that person will immediately fail. I make the rules here. You follow them. Got it?"

As soon as Kakashi left, I took my chopsticks and shoved some food down Naruto's throat.

"What the-?" Naruto started to ask but I shoved more food into his mouth.

"What? No Skylar, you can't do that. You heard what the sensei said," Sakura screeched.

"Did you not hear the damn words Kakashi just said? Well let me refresh your memory. Kakashi just gave us a hell long lecture about working as a team. He set us up to work against each other when we tried to get the bells. But now we have to work together and that means no one goes without lunch," I snapped.

"She's right," Sasuke said after a few seconds of silence. "We need to get those bells as a team. If Naruto's hungry, he'll be weak and ineffective. That hurts the team which jeopardizes the mission."

After hearing Sasuke talk like that, Sakura offered her lunch to Naruto.

"Sakura?" Naruto asked getting teary eyes. "Thanks."

"Don't thank me just hurry up and eat."

"But isn't that your lunch?" Naruto asked.

I shoved my food in his face. "Eat," I commanded. "I had breakfast already so I'm not hungry."

"Thanks Skylar. You can eat your lunch Sakura."

Sakura sent me a glare but didn't refuse eating her lunch. I cut the ropes off of Naruto so he would be able to eat.

"Are you allowed to do this Skylar?" Naruto asked.

"Probably not but if anyone, I'm gonna fail so no one really cares."

"No," Sasuke interrupted. "You ARE part of this team. It DOES matter if you fail. If you fail, we all fail."

"Looks like you did listen. Impressive Uchiha," I smirked. He narrowed his eyes but turned away and put food into his mouth.

A huge cloud of dust and smoke appeared. Kakashi appeared and snarled. "YOU DISSOBEYED MY RULES! I hope you're ready for the punishment." Kakashi did some handsigns and created large gray storm clouds with giant bolts of lightning.

"Get on with your point," I growled to Kakashi. I did a handsign and countered his jutsu. The clouds cleared and the lightning stopped.

She was able to counter-cancel my jutsu? Who really is this girl? Kakashi thought.

"Um alright then, why did you feed Naruto?" Kakashi asked.

"And what happened to your enormously long lecture about teamwork?" I asked.

"Ok, it seem like you got the point of the exercise. You pass," Kakashi concluded sweatdropping and rubbing the back of his head.

Sakura and Naruto went on a rampage about how they were able to get into becoming a genin.

I glanced at Kakashi and then Sasuke. Then I started walking back to my house until I felt someone following me. I closed my eyes and focused on the chakara. Sasuke…

"Is there something you need?" I asked, stopping in my tracks.

"Why are you here?" he said bluntly.

"What do you mean why am I here? I'm here cause I just came back from training."

"No. I mean, why are you training with us? You are obviously stronger than a regular genin. Why are you wasting your time and training with a team of genins?"

I gave him a weird look. "What makes you think that I'm any stronger than you?"

"I never said that you were stronger than me. I said that you were stronger than most genin."

"Fine, what makes you think that I'm stronger than most genin. If this is about the test, maybe I used my head unlike my teammates…"

Sasuke grew an anime vein but then collected his cool. "Not that, it's just everything about you."

"Thanks?" I cocked my head to the side.

"I didn't mean that as a compliment," he growled.

"What should I take it as then?" I asked

"….."

"That's what I thought," I sighed and turned. "Bye… Uchiha."