Some answers to reviews:

Gaaraxx33: Thanks! And I know about Nightfall, it's one of my favorites as well. It was actually one of the stories which inspired me.

MadaraRennigan: Thanks for the praise, but I believe there's better stories than mine.

Dragonskyt: I know right. I sometimes think cannon Naruto is masochist. If you know what I mean.

xxOMGgalxx: Thanks a lot! I'm trying to update as fast as I can, but I usually have a writing spree only on weekends.

Freakfondu: I know what you mean. I too like good Sasuke bashing, but I also enjoy good Sasuke fics. Fics where he is good and not yaoi are rare.

semaxx3: That's the best comparison there is. I can also compare a jar and ramen in it. Like if ramen is in jar it doesn't mean the jar itself is ramen. But, well, that's stupid comparison and Sakura would bash Naruto's head once again. lol

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Also, there is going to be a fight scene written in my humble english. I hope it won't ruin the pleasure of reading. I really tried.

I would also like to receive some feedback which tells - did you liked the fight scene, what could be improved, etc. It's really appreciated and it helps in development of my writing.

Also I want to announce that with next chapter I'll try to combine few first chapters together. In my point of view, beginning is really slow and dividing them in several chapters is pointless. If it's possible, I'll combine them so don't be surprised if you see fewer chapters.

On with the story then.

Disclaimer: I do not own Narutoverse, but OCs are mine unless I say otherwise.

Chapter 5

The way it should be

-Council room-

In Hokage's mansion, in council room, Hokage sat in his throne, behind a large desk. His fingers were interlocked and he looked over all jounin sensei gathered here, trying to find out who was absent. It wasn't council meeting, no, just a meeting of jounin sensei to declare which teams passed true genin exams and which didn't. Obviously there were many non-sensei jounin who were present just to hear everything in live - who passed and who not and various notes on genin. There were various discussions around the room and the most famous were about new genins. They discussed things like who failed, who passed, potential of team and such.

Hokage raised his hand asking for silence. Immediately room was silent as cemetery in a funeral day.

"I see everyone except Kakashi is present here." Hokage sighed "I had enough of his lateness. Lets see what's more important than a meeting." Hokage took out his crystal ball and placed on desk.

"But Hokage-sama! You're about to invade someone's privacy." some random jounin objected.

"Yes and I really don't want to do it but I need to know why he is late for this meeting. Have you ever wondered why he is always late?" some ninjas nodded, "Well then it's about time to find out why he is late today." Hokage said. He did some handseals and focused on Kakashi's chakra "Hokage art: All seeing eye projection!" (A/N: lame jutsu name, ne?)

As he finished the last syllable, a blue light escaped the crystal ball and made a screen in the air which showed three genin and one eyed jounin, who was still explaining the exam.

"No way. He had to do the exam yesterday!" Kurenai shouted.

"Wow. His genin looks amazing!" said random jounin when he noticed the outfits. "They look like experienced shinobi."

"Hey! Who's the blonde brat?" asked another jounin. When he closely inspected the blonde kid, he gasped "No way! Yondaime-sama!"

Hiruzen started to sweat bullets.

"No... it's Naruto Uzumaki, our jinchuuriki. But he looks like carbon copy of Yondaime-sama," another jounin answered. "I've heard rumors he is the son of Yondaime-sama."

Several jounin's widened their eyes. "But of course! Now it makes sense! Yondaime-sama wouldn't choose someone's else child to seal the beast. Also, a Kage would seal bijuu in a family member to ensure their loyalty to village." someone said and more eyes widened.

"Kami-sama... I wouldn't be surprised if he leaves the village after everything the village has done to him!"

"Enough!" shouted Hokage. All of the present ninjas were jounin and ANBU so they could talk about the Kyuubi without receiving the punishment. "I admit it, Naruto-kun here is Yondaime's son and he knows it. I won't make a law, but please don't talk about it in public - I don't need civilians running around and worshiping him. And don't worry about his loyalty. Even after everything the civilians have done to him, he still promised to be a loyal ninja and to protect them. He promised to prove that he is not the beast, but his jailor. He promised he will show that he is Uzumaki-Namikaze Naruto the future Hokage of the leaf and I totally believe in him, because if he promises something, he won't break his word, that's his ninja way!"

When Hokage finished his little speech, many were stunned. All of the jounin now looked at Naruto differently. They now admired him - his determination and his devotion to village.

"I'll make sure to punish my ANBU for spreading rumors, because I forgot to mention it's classified when Naruto asked about his father. Damn old age." Hokage muttered as he rubbed his temples and some ninjas chuckled at that. "Anyway, the exam is about to begin. As you might now until now any team is yet to pass under Kakashi so lets see how these three will do."

Everyone now looked at the screen, but more specifically at Naruto. Yondaime was a genius, so maybe his son was as well. They knew that Naruto was 'dead-last' but in ninja world everything might happen.

-With team 7-

Naruto crossed his arms and with confident smirk called out "Formation 'Mesmer'!" and with that both Sakura and Sasuke jumped to hide in the forest, both in opposite directions, while Naruto remained in front of Kakashi.

"At least they can hide..." Kakashi thought until he noticed that Naruto was still in front of him. "Ehh, Naruto. You're supposed to hide now."

"Oh yeah? I'll show what I'm made of!" Naruto shouted back and took basic academy stance, after which he run towards Kakashi at mid genin speed.

"I suppose his new looks was just for showoff, hmm." Kakashi thought and pulled out his beloved Icha Icha.

Seeing the book Naruto smiled "Perfect. Just like I thought."

Naruto finally reached Kakashi and delivered right punch to man's face which was easily blocked by Kakashi's left arm, Kakashi's eyes never leaving the book. Naruto then elbowed him, following by kick in the gut, which were blocked with Kakashi's free hand. Naruto then landed and did a spinning kick, which Kakashi dodged by side stepping, following with punch. Kakashi had enough so he caught the fist and delivered a kick to Naruto's gut and sent the boy flying. Thankfully, before receiving the kick Naruto managed to focus some chakra to the impact point and lessen pain and received damage from the kick. While in mid air, Naruto flipped and softly landed on ground in crouching position. That's when all hell broke loose.

In some brushes, not far from Kakashi, sat Sakura and waited. She saw how Kakashi kicked Naruto and knew it is the awaited signal.

"It's time." she thought and quicker than normal eyes could see did 15 or so handseals. "Magen: Shuriken Storm - Binding ivy!" she whispered and threw some shurikens.

Sensing danger, Kakashi turned around and his eyes widened. He saw storm of shurikens coming in his direction. There were about 1000 of said pointy weapons. Realizing that it's only a genjutsu, he dispelled it and saw how 1000 turned to 10 shurikens. Realizing that genjutsu was only for distraction he was about to draw kunai and deflect the incoming missiles, when suddenly Kakashi felt like his movements were restrained. When he finally took out a kunai, it was too late because shurikens were almost in his face. So he dodged. His movement still was restrained, so he managed to dodge only 7 out of 10 shurikens. He had a small cut on his right cheek, deep cut on left shoulder and small cut on his left thigh. He finally looked down and saw some kind of vines or thorns around his legs and arms coming from ground.

"Another genjutsu! It was a double layered genjutsu from beginning. KAI!" Kakashi muttered and dispelled the genjutsu. Both genjutsu were pretty weak so it was hard to notice them, but easy to dispel. "It must be Sakura who's casting them. She has talent..." he said to himself. He sensed another danger. This time it was in opposite direction from where Sakura was.

"Now it's my turn!" said Sasuke and did quickly did some handseals "Magen: Kunai dash!" he whispered and threw some kunai.

Kakashi turned around and saw 20 or so kunai flying at him in astounding speed. Now when he dispelled a genjutsu, nothing stopped him from deflecting the kunai. He put his right hand (in which he held a kunai) forward and blocked the first kunai... only to it pass through him. Kakashi widened his eyes once again realizing it was again a genjutsu. He continued to block all the kunai, because he knew some of them are real, just like with shurikens and he will receive some cuts if he would try to dispel it. Soon enough he heard some some 'cling!' sounds, which proved his theory.

"Magen: Imposter!" Sasuke whispered his second jutsu exactly when the first kunai passed through Kakashi. Kunai dash and Imposter were the only genjutsu he knew and both of them relied on each other.

Suddenly, one third of the remaining kunai stopped in the air and before Kakashi could dispel the genjutsu, they... just dissolved in black smoke which was blown away with light imaginary breeze. Nevertheless, one-eyed man wasn't given any rest because he sensed a presence behind him. He quickly turned around on his heels just in time to notice Sasuke's last handseal. Kakashi's one visible eye widened once again when he heard Sasuke cry out "Katon: Goukakyuu no jutsu!"

A large fireball flew towards Kakashi and he managed to dodge by jumping to the side. He noticed that the fireball didn't produce any heat nor it exploded when collided with trees. He looked back at Sasuke only to notice the last remnant of black smoke. He then looked back, where the fireball should be and noticed the same black smoke dissipating in the air.

Kakashi stood there and tried to work out what happened.

"They tried to confuse me and they did it just fine. Firstly, at the beginning Naruto distracted me so Sakura or Sasuke could cast double layered genjutsu. One of them was successful and managed to cut me in some places with shurikens. Then another kunai genjutsu was cast one me and I couldn't dispel it because real and illusion kunai were mixed together. They were pretty fast, so if I tried to dispel a genjutsu, one or two kunai would find their mark in my body. Hmm... Then yet another genjutsu were cast one me, this time imitating Sasuke and his jutsu. It could be either Sakura or Sasuke himself; both of them are capable of genjutsu and both of them knows some of Uchiha clan ninjutsu - Sakura from books, Sasuke because he is an Uchiha. Now the question is: what are they planning?" he thought within 2 seconds. He also didn't like the eerie silence which surrounded the training field. He still could hear the lake nearby, the light breeze in the trees and birds chirping. In a battlefield, this kind of silence was eerie, just as if someone got in a trap or an ambush is about to be executed... That's when Kakashi's one visible eye widened. "It was all setup for a trap. But what exactly?"

In a corner of his eye he noticed Sakura, who was running at him in mid genin speeds. Sakura threw some shurikens at Kakashi which the man easily dodged. As Sakura approached Kakashi, she jumped and did a falling axe kick with her right leg which the man easily blocked with his left forearm. Before Sakura could follow up with another attack, Kakashi caught her right leg with his right arm and spun 180° and threw the girl away. Sakura did a backflip in midair and gracefully landed on ground, after which she dashed towards Kakashi but this time in low chunin speed.

Kakashi raised an eyebrow at her speed and asked "So you're better than reports say after all. Are those two stronger than simple genin as well?" He didn't receive any answer, only punch in his face which he easily blocked. Sakura then followed with knee strike before punch to the gut, which Kakashi blocked. The one eyed man decided it's his turn to take offensive, so he tried to kick Sakura's head, but the girl crouched under the sweep kick and did a rising punch which Kakashi evaded by sidestepping. Kakashi then followed by elbow strike to face and knee to gut. The former one was blocked, but the latter still managed to connect with her gut. But instead of coughing in pain, 'Sakura' exploded in cherry blossom leaves which immediately surrounded wide eyed Kakashi and started to cut him in various places. It wasn't painful, more like tingling sensation which left some cuts and numbness.

The moment Kakashi felt the first cut, he realized it's a genjutsu and quickly dispelled it by making one handed ram sign and shouting "KAI!". But it was already too late because someone sliced his back with something and then kicked him in the back, hard. He fell on the ground, then rolled forward and quickly stood up, kunai already in hand all the while shaking off the numbing sensation from that strange sakura genjutsu. He saw Sasuke standing in a place where Kakashi himself was standing a second ago, smirking and holding a kunai with bloody tip. Sasuke then threw away the kunai and started to make a long set of handseal. Recognizing the jutsu he is making, once again wide eyed, Kakashi threw the kunai. Sasuke didn't even try dodge or block incoming missile - the kunai pierced Sasuke's left shoulder. Still smirking 'Sasuke' turned into dozen of dozens medium sized crows which flew towards Kakashi with hungry eyes. It looked like they were about to pierce him with their black beaks.

Realizing it's yet another genjutsu, Kakashi dispelled it.

"What the fuck!" he thought "They are real, because I can feel their touch as well as they can injure me, yet when I strike they turn into a genjutsu. Wait. They turn into a genjutsu when I land a hit, meaning they're some kind of Bunshins." then Kakashi realized "Of course! They are combining Kage Bunshin with genjutsu! Instead of filling in Kage Bunshin with pure chakra, they create them utilizing chakra already adjusted for selected genjutsu, meaning that once the Kage Bunshin is dispelled, the genjutsu infused chakra is released and affect the surrounding area or a person. In other words, I think it's like Mizu Bunshin but instead of water chakra they're infused with genjutsu. Ingenious! But that leads to more questions: why and how a genin knows Kage Bunshin?, who creates them? These genin are something else!"

All his observing and calculation happened in 4 seconds. In these 4 seconds Naruto appeared on scene. Kakashi saw him and already took out another kunai and took defensive stance. He was really confused and didn't know if that was real Naruto or kage bunshin. He also didn't know what if it was genjutsu infused kage bunshin or a simple one.

Naruto smirked and dashed towards Kakashi in mid chunin speed. "He is too fast to be a genin!" Kakashi thought and threw the kunai into Naruto already knowing said blonde will dodge it. But 'Naruto' proved him wrong when kunai pierced his his heart and he disappeared in a... small cloud of smoke, just like Kage Bunshin should do. Not taking any chances, Kakashi did one handed ram handseal and said "KAI!". Nothing happened until he saw a shadow behind the smoke.

Another Naruto run through the smoke, even faster than previous one and jumped high into the air to avoid some shuriken. Kakashi looked up and if not for the serious battle he would snicker - Naruto was in the air, in front of the sun and his golden hair moving in the slight morning breeze, his arms on the sides, imitating some kind of wings. In Kakashi's opinion he looked like this one hero from the movie he had seen recently...

Back to to the battle. Kakashi threw another bunch of kunai. Unfortunately, or fortunately (it depends from which point of view), kunai barely reached halfway to the blond because 'Naruto' dispelled himself in a yellow flash. Kakashi was slightly blinded thanks to the yellow flash and sun, which he was staring at now when no one blocked a path of view, he did two backflips in case something was coming for him. No, he can't underestimate them anymore. When he landed he already recovered from his 2 seconds blindness. Sensing that something is coming he looked up, but it was already late. Numerous yellow tendrils, which glided through the air at faster than chunin speed, managed to wrap around Kakashi's arms and legs, restringing him from taking any action. Just when he was about to fall, he managed to slightly overpower the tendrils on his right arm and performed a quick Kawarimi with a log. He reappeared about 20 meters away from his previous place and those yellow tendrils were already gliding in his direction. Acting quickly, Kakashi dispelled the genjutsu.

One bead of sweat dropped from his right eyebrow.

"No way! I actually broke a sweat just from dodging and dispelling the genjutsu." he thought. Then he heard some bell jingling coming from lake where those three logs were. Panicking, he checked his left waist where the bells should be. Kakashi widened his eye when he didn't find his bells. He sighed and approached the three genin who were sitting on the ground, their backs to logs. It seems they had some kind of light chatting.

"...ace expression?" Kakashi heard as Sakura asked something to their teammates. He was getting closer so he already could hear what they're talking about.

"Yeah! Jeez, have you seen how many times he widened his cyclopean eye?" Naruto said and all three of them started to laugh. Well, Naruto and Sakura laughed while Sasuke snickered.

"I bet he didn't even expect it. In my opinion, he expected me to abandon both of you and try to get bells by myself and to prove something, Sakura to ignore Naruto and search for me, and Naruto to act like an idiot and charge ahead with his clones." Sasuke said. A sudden silence overtook them.

"I think that's exactly what would happen if we wouldn't meet and I didn't do my training." Naruto commented while holding a bell in his hand.

"Was I really that bad?" Sakura said, holding the bell as well.

Sasuke merely shrugged "Yes, you were." Sakura sighed, defeated. She knew it was said as a joke though.

They heard some footsteps closing in. The trio turned their heads in sound's direction and saw their sensei who curiously was observing them as he walked closer.

"Well, well, well. My little genin showed skill beyond my expectations." Kakashi commented in sing-song tone "You almost had me there!"

"Oh please, Kakashi. If it would be a real battle you would be dead 4 times already." Sasuke stated.

"What?" Kakashi raised his one visible eyebrow. "Care to elaborate that?"

"The first genjutsu, as you may already know, was a double layered one with some real shurikens. I cast it." Sakura started off the explanation "It wasn't powerful, but enough to mess up your senses. Then, the second genjutsu was cast by Sasuke. Your senses didn't have time to recover so they were messed up even further. The third genjutsu, where Sasuke shoots one of his techniques, was a final one in this sequence. In that moment Naruto easily took the bells. And thanks for so many genjutsu's your senses were so messed up that you didn't even sense him. In a real battle, it would be a moment of your death.

You see, these were low level genjutsu - they didn't require much chakra, they were harder to detect and thanks to that they looked quite real. Imagine if I would use a genjutsu where random meteorite falls on you or a tree grows beneath you and ensnares you. It would be quite obvious that those are genjutsu and you would manage to dispel them before they even affects you. Of course, higher level genjutsu requires much more chakra to dispel, but low level genjutsu requires more time to detect because it's hard to notice the small chakra usage." Sakura finished her explanation.

Then Naruto continued from that point "After we got bells, we decided to 'play' around with you. So we created Genjutsu Kage Bunshin. When one dispelled, we had approximately one or two seconds to kill you with ranged weapon or jutsu. If you would fight with real me and genjutsu filled kage bunshin, I would need just one second to kill you in close range. We created three clones, meaning three easy kills." he finished with a grin which threatened to split his face in two.

With each passing second Kakashi's eye widened further and further. It looked like that eye will jump out of its sockets. But they had a point. If it would be real battle, he would be dead four times. Even he admits that.

"Wow. I don't even know what to say." Kakashi finally said.

Sasuke snorted "Just say we're cool and you didn't expect that one from us."

"Well you're not as cool as me, but I admit it - you surprised me." Kakashi answered. "And it looks like my theory was right. They were Kage Bunshin filled with genjutsu. How did you made them?"

Naruto smirked "We can't tell you our trademark secrets now, can we?"

Sakura lightly smacked him in the head "Naruto, he is our sensei so we can tell him."

Naruto pouted as he rubbed his head "Alright..."

"It's not like he will know ALL our secrets." Sakura said "Anyway. It was actually Naruto who came up with that technique work like this - I do the handseals necessary for genjutsu and convert necessary amount of pure chakra to genjutsu chakra. Then via quick touch I guide said chakra to Naruto, who then uses it to add remaining amount of chakra needed for Kage Bunshin. You see, Naruto has..." Sakura quickly glanced to Naruto, who nodded in response "...a special chakra, so low level genjutsu doesn't affect him, especially the one made with simple chakra. Then, he created Kage Bunshin henges in one of us."

Kakashi slightly narrowed his eye "Did she knows about the Kyuubi?"

Sakura didn't notice Kakashi's face expression and continued "Surprisingly, Naruto has very good chakra control and he is able to guide both my genjutsu chakra and his chakra to cross seal without completely mixing them up, resulting in Kage Bunshin made with his chakra, but filled with my genjutsu. Originally, when Kage Bunshin dispels, it disappears in a cloud of smoke, but Genjutsu Kage Bunshin disperses in very small visible cloud of chakra. You don't see that chakra because half a second before Bunshin dispels, it affects you with genjutsu resulting in various effect. In this case, you saw how I dissolve in numbing cherry blossoms, Sasuke dissolves in dangerous crows and Naruto disappears in blinding yellow flash. By the way, all those genjutsu are created by me!" Sakura finished her explaining with a cheerful tone in the end. Both boys sweatdropped at her antics.

"It's really nasty when fighting both the real person and Genjutsu Kage Bunshin." Sasuke commented.

Kakashi was at loss of words. "Wow. That's pretty ingenious. I can clearly see the pros, but what are the cons?"

This time it was Naruto who answered "Firstly, it takes more time to create this kind of Bunshin, because I have to wait until Sakura finishes her handseals and guides her chakra into me. Secondly, it depends on the touch. If Sakura can't touch me, the technique can't be performed because I don't know any genjutsu at all. Even if I would know any, despite my good chakra control it would be utterly hard to create. I once tried it. Furthermore, if enemy didn't touch Kage Bunshin or if clone it self didn't touch the enemy then genjutsu would affect everyone in the area rather than just one, selected person. Thirdly, I can only create one Genjutsu Kage Bunshin at a time. If I want to create two, then we would have to repeat the process twice. If I create more than one with one go, then said genjutsu chakra would distribute between created Bunshins, but they would become original Kage Bunshins because they wouldn't have enough genjutsu chakra in them to perform the genjutsu. In this case, if I would create two copies of Sakura, the only thing you would see is how they disappear in cloud of cherry blossoms once they dispel. No whirling cherry blossoms around you, no numbing sensation at all."

"I see. Pretty clever though. Naruto, I think you invented a new type of bunshin." Kakashi said, quite surprised about technique.

"Hell yeah, I'm awesome!" Naruto almost shouted.

His other teammates just shook their heads. One moment he can be serious as hell, the other he is back to his cheerfulness.

"By the way, when did you managed to try out this? I can say for sure that to accomplish all these moves so smoothly, almost without talking, you trained together for some months. Reports from academy said you weren't very friendly to each other."

"Hn. Ask the dobe over there." Sasuke said with a smirk.

"Oi, emo, shut it." Naruto shot back. Oh how they loved to annoy each other. He then looked back at Kakashi "Anyway, Kakashi. Deception is ninja's greatest tool." he mysteriously said.

The man understood the secret meaning so he asked "So you want to say everything what happened in academy between you three was just façade?" seeing all three of them nod their head, he continued "Just how long you know each other outside the academy?"

"It doesn't matter, Kakashi. What matters is that what you just saw was a tip of an iceberg." Sasuke said.

Now that brought Kakashi's attention. "Hmm?"

"Before we say or show more, do we pass?" Sakura asked.

"Of course you three pass. The reason for this test was to see your teamwork. I had only to bells to-" before Kakashi could continue, Naruto interrupted him and continued in his place.

"make us fight between each other instead of trying to get bells from stronger opponent together. Also it was a test if we could get that secret meaning of teamwork."

"You knew all along?" Kakashi asked.

"Yeah. I've got my spies in the village. I'm sure you've seen them. Not only I know some of your techniques, but also your likes, dislikes, your hobbies and friends." Kakashi stared at him with wide eye "And you're not the only one. I won't reveal who else I have information on, because it doesn't matter now, but know that I'm completely loyal to the village and won't reveal this information to anybody, even to my fellow shinobi. They," he pointed at Sakura and Sasuke "won't reveal anything as well."

Kakashi let out a breath of reveal. "These three are genin, but I have a feeling there's something more to them."

"Okay then. It was a fun morning today and seeing as you all passed, you're dismissed." before he could shunshin away, Sakura stopped him.

"But Kakashi-sensei. Wouldn't you want to know what we're capable of in a fight?"

"Hmm? Oh but I already saw some of your skills."

"No, Kakashi, you haven't seen everything." Sasuke said as he and Naruto stood up.

"Yeah, you only saw some low level genjutsu performed by Sakura and Sasuke and Kage Bunshin from me. Do you really believe it's everything we can?" Naruto asked.

Kakashi thought about it a little and answered "Actually yes, I think that's everything you can."

All three of them face faulted.

"Kakashi." Sasuke addressed the man but Kakashi interrupted him.

"From this day I'm your sensei, so call me Kakashi-sensei."

"No." Sasuke deadpanned. "I won't call you sensei until you actually teach me something."

"Yeah, same here." Naruto added his voice on the matter. "Besides, I don't think there's much you can teach us at the moment."

Kakashi's one visible eyebrow raised so high that it threatened to disappear under his gravity defying hair. "Hmm? What do you mean?"

All three of them smirked and he didn't like that. Not even one bit.

"Kakashi." Sasuke started ignoring as Kakashi's quietly added 'sensei' at the end, "Fight with us. With your Sharingan. We will come at you in full strength and you do the same."

-With Hokage and Co.-

Half of the jounin present, including Hokage, were sitting on the floor and chewing a popcorn. No one know when, why or how they appeared, but it just appeared in the middle of the 'movie'.

At the beginning many were confused, when they saw how Kakashi was trying to dodge or block nothing but thin air. When Kakashi shouted 'KAI!' they understood he was under a genjutsu. And so they continued to watch how Kakashi was dancing around.

Then, what surprised them the most, was how easily Naruto approached Kakashi and took bells from his waist, the man didn't even notice it.

One of the jounin's were most impressed here. One Yuhi Kurenai.

"Impressive for a genin. How strong genjutsu did they use to be to mess with his senses so much?"

What surprised all of them the most were next events which includes Kage Bunshins, bursts of visible chakra when they disappear and Kakashi randomly shouting 'KAI!'.

"Wow, one of them knows Kage Bunshin!" someone said.

"It have to be Sasuke."

"I believe it's Yondaime's son, Naruto."

"Wait, they're not simple Kage Bunshins - they have to disappear in a cloud of smoke instead of chakra."

And so on and so on.

When the explanation part came, each passing second everyone's eyes became wider and wider until they were as wide as saucers. Kurenai was a bit embarrassed when Sakura mentioned her 'Magen: Jubaku Satsu' as random tree, but she agreed with her nevertheless.

Everyone was shocked, even the Hokage, when the genin trio explained Genjutsu Kage Bunshin and how many times they would be dead. They became even more shocked when Naruto admitted that he had information on jounin, and everyone in the room almost fainted when Sasuke challenged him to full out fight.

"He must be insane. Kakashi is the strongest jounin here, along with Gai." someone said.

"I agree, but if they challenge him then they must be pretty confident in themselves."

"Sparrow!" Hokage shouted and everyone looked at him in curiosity. Is he really going to stop Kakashi and his team from fight, using ANBU? Said ANBU thought something similar. "Quickly, buy popcorn and soft drinks for everyone. I assign it as B-ranked mission! If you need help, take any ANBU who is free. Now GO!"

Half of jounin's face faulted and half sweatdropped. ANBU really wanted to face fault as well, but he managed to control his emotions. "Hai, Hokage-sama!" he answered and in a second he was gone via shunshin.

"I feel like it is going to be interesting!" Hokage said. Everyone else in the room couldn't disagree and nodded their heads.

-Team 7-

Kakashi laughed. It was really amusing. Them? Fight in full strength versus him with Sharingan?

"You so funny. I don't even need Sharingan to beat you up now. If you have something more to show then fine, so be it. I won't underestimate you anymore and instead of waiting for an attack from you, which gave you advantage in last skirmish, I'll come for you as well. But don't expect me to come at you in full strength, because then you would be dead in an instant. I promise I won't use a Sharingan, but I won't go easy on you."

"But Kakashi," Naruto said, a bit confused "You said you won't underestimate us and then in a next sentence you still underestimated us. It contradicts each other."

Kakashi sweatdropped. "Anyway, are you ready?"

Naruto, now all playfulness gone from his voice, said "Sasuke, 'duo force'. Sakura, 'hebi'. After the second set, Sakura switch to 'sonata' and Sasuke to 'chakram'."

"Hai, taichou!" both Sakura and Sasuke said in unison, their tone completely serious.

Kakashi raised an eyebrow "Taichou? And what's 'duo force' or 'sonata'? Some kind of formations?" he then shook his head in amusement "I guess some childish games."

"We're ready." Naruto said and took his stance. His right leg was behind him and a bent, while the left leg was in front of him also slightly bent, but overall straight. His fingers on both hands were held in a fist except for his index and middle fingers, which were held together, straight. These were his offensive fingers.(A/N: like 'ram' handseal) His left arm was bent, elbow perpendicular to his chest, his offensive fingers just below right shoulder. His right arm was straight (slightly bent), which he held in front of him in low position. His right hand's palm was just above his left leg's thigh. The stance didn't offer stability, instead it offered a quick execution of any action, either defense, offense or evading. This stance didn't look like much, but it gave the user a great boost to speed (in case he is rushing forwards).

Sasuke took his advanced Uchiha taijutsu stance, while Sakura took basic Uchiha taijutsu stance, but her right arm was close to her kunai holster.

"Hmm? I don't recognize that taijutsu stance." Kakashi thought referring to Naruto, "I see you're ready. HAJIME!"

The moment the last syllable left Kakashi's lips, Naruto, in a blink of an eye was already in front of Kakashi, his right arm cocked back and his fingers ready to pierce his gut. Acting on pure instinct, Kakashi brought his hand in front of his gut and blocked the strike with his forearm. The moment Naruto's fingers connected with man's forearm, stinging pain overtook his body. The feeling was like the bones were being shattered. Although the feeling was brief, it sure hurt like hell.

Kakashi ignored the brief pain and let his right fist fly towards Naruto. Naruto saw it coming and he merely tilted the head to the left, feeling the air from the punch caressing his hair. Then, in a blink of an eye, he hit and held Kakashi's elbow with back of his palm to disable the man from counterattacking with his right arm, and sent his two left arm's fingers towards man's right temple. Already knowing the consequence of his hits, Kakashi tilted his head back, letting Naruto's attack fly past his face.

Not allowing Kakashi to recover after failed attack, Naruto slid his right arm along Kakashi's right (the one which he held from counter attacking) and tried to face palm him. Kakashi saw it and blocked the strike by spinning around and blocking it with his left forearm, before kicking him. Just as kick was halfway to Naruto's head, said blonde managed to evade it by sidestepping, coming closer to Kakashi's left side. Because Kakashi's leg was still stretched out in its momentum, it gave Naruto the opening. Naruto didn't strike him, because the man would obviously block it with one of his free arm. Instead he jumped, grabbed him by shoulder and vaulted over him, landing behind Kakashi.

Kakashi was confused why Naruto didn't hit him and he spun around on his heels to face Naruto, obviously forgetting about his other two teammates. Just as he did 180 degrees spin, his shinobi senses kicked in, forcing him to back flip. In a corner of his eye he saw how a single kunai flew past him. Before he could land, though, he was kicked in a back by strong kick from Sasuke. Recovering in midair he gently landed on ground, some distance away from 'genins'.

"What the FUCK? Naruto's speed is abnormal, almost as high as mine, Sasuke's kicks are not as strong as Gai's but still pretty strong. I don't even know what Sakura is capable of. These are not genins."

His thoughts were cut short, because Naruto was already in front of him and Sasuke following him on hot heels. Kakashi was about to block and immediately counter attack, if not for Naruto's another confusing action. Instead of using his momentum for attacking, Naruto crouched. He didn't underestimate them anymore so he was on full defensive for now, awaiting an attack. And it came. Sasuke, who was just behind Naruto stepped on Naruto's back and jumped, using Naruto as a platform. It wasn't high jump, but enough to perform dropping axe kick. Kakashi also saw how Naruto, from his crouching position, shot towards him, his fingers ready to strike. Seeing where this is going, Kakashi put up his right arm and blocked Sasuke's kick with his forearm while at the same time he redirected Naruto's attack past him with his left arm.

Sasuke, his leg still on Kakashi's forearm, twisted his body and delivered a heavy kick with his left leg to Kakashi's head. Seeing how he couldn't block or evade him, he took the hit... only to Kawarimi behind them, ready to strike. But before he could even close the distance, his shinobi senses kicked in once again and he rolled to his left. As he rolled he saw how a bullet of water flew past. It looks like Sakura performed simple Suiton: Water Bullet.

"Their teamwork is amazing. While Sasuke and Naruto combines their taijutsu to make unpredictable moves, Sakura assists them by throwing kunai or jutsu. So, Sakura's main role is to keep me close to them while not allowing to strike back from blind spots. What if I'll target Sakura?" Kakashi analyzed the situation in 1 seconds and dashed towards the girl.

Despite the fact that Kakashi is dashing towards Sakura, the girl remained calm and started to do a chain of handseals. Just as he was about to reach her he heard Sasuke cry out

"Katon: Hōsenka no Jutsu!"

Kakashi abandoned the idea of chasing Sakura as he now was weaving and evading the bullets of fire which came from Sasuke. The last fire bullet flew past him and he dashed at Sakura once again, intended to make a hostage so the fight would end.

He was about to grab her head when he heard Sakura calmly say

"Magen: Trinity Force!"

And with that she dissolved into cherry blossom leaves, which in turn dissolved into pink smoke which was carried away with imaginary breeze.

The same second the first leaf appeared, Kakashi understood he was under a genjutsu so he dispelled it. In a corner of his eye he saw Sakura ready to pierce him with a kunai. He spun around on his heels, ducked under the stab and uppercutted her in a jaw. Sakura once again dissolved into leafs.

"Double layered!" Kakashi realized and before he dispelled the genjutsu, he leaped high into the air using chakra, in case something was coming at him. In midair he quickly dispelled the genjutsu only to large thorns rise from the ground and shot towards him. "Another genjutsu? TRIPLE LAYERED?..the fuck?" he shouted in his mind and performed another 'KAI!', but this time it didn't work. "It's more powerful one!" he realized and used twice more chakra than before to dispel the genjutsu, this time successful.

He landed on the ground and saw Sakura and Naruto perform some handseals, while Sasuke already finished his before he shouted

"Raiton: Lightning Arc!" he then extended his right arm forward, as if throwing a shuriken and a lightning bolt came from his fingertips but instead of going straight for Kakashi, it made an arc which flew just in front of Naruto and Sakura as if defending them from direct assault before going on Kakashi.

In a second Kakashi did a series of handseals and threw his own fingertips in front and cried out: "Fuuton: Kaze no Yaiba!"

An invisible blade wind, visible only by gust of wind which accompanied it, sliced through the lightning, dividing it in two different arcs which flew past Kakashi, exploding behind him in two places. The wind blade kept going to Sasuke who in turn did a quick, medium sized Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu. Fire overpowered wind and slightly larger fireball now flew towards Kakashi who dodged it by jumping over it.

As he landed, Naruto and Sakura finished their last handseals and in unison told the world the name of their correlation jutsu:

"Moonlight Sonata!"

Suddenly, the whole scenery changed. The river nearby turned to endless sea or ocean, trees's leafs became more thicker and turned to cherry blossom leaves, a breeze picking them up and swirling in the air making beautiful scenery. The bright blue sky turned to dark one, the one belonging to the nigh, and the sun changed to the huge full moon.

There, on the sea Sakura and Naruto stood. The moment Kakashi glanced at them, Sakura disappeared in swirl of leaves which were taken by the breeze and joined the cherry blossoms in the air, swirling around in random directions.

At the same time from Naruto's seal on his right arm, a red leafs spilled out like a fountain of water. In less than a second these leafs morphed into a sword which Naruto gently took. (Actually, Naruto just summoned the sword from his storage seal on his arm; all the fluffy stuff was made by the jutsu). The sword itself was beautiful.

It was a mix of rapier and a sword. It had silver pommel, followed by silver cloth which was wrapped around the handle. The knuckle guard was also made from silver and came over quillon in a graceful arc. Guard ended up with some kind of wing shape and rear and front quillon were also in wing like shape. The blade was purely crimson and it was 4 feet and 5 inches long, double sided. It was wide enough to make fast thrusting attacks and wide enough to make powerful slash attacks. (A/N; I'm sure if I described it good enough. Type in google image search 'Genesis's sword'). The sword was quite long for Naruto and offered a great reach.

Everything happened in less than 2 seconds.

Naruto leap up in the the dark night sky, the giant moon behind him and leaving along the way a trail of cherry blossom leaves. Kakashi was about to dispel the genjutsu but Naruto didn't give him any time as he came down with his sword in wide downward slash, pink cherry blossom leaving a trail from Naruto's back and sword's blade. As Naruto was quickly approaching, Kakashi took out a kunai and blocked the slash.

A 'cling!' sound could be heard, but it didn't stop Kakashi from receiving a slash across his back. Ignoring the pain, Kakashi jumped to the side just in time to avoid another slash from the Naruto he saw in the beginning. As 'Naruto's' sword touched the ground, the whole clone, IF it was a clone, disappeared in a cherry blossoms which joined other leaves in the air in their dance under the moonlight.

Kakashi quickly tried to dispel the genjutsu by using a bit more chakra than last time, but to no avail. Before he could try another time, he sensed another presence behind him.

He spun on he heels just in time to parry Naruto's thrust, but once again he received a slash on his calf. Just as the pain sensation started, the Naruto in front of him dissipated in cherry blossoms. He turned around and saw no one there. He also couldn't sense nor Sakura nor Sasuke.

"What the HELL is this jutsu?" he thought as he tried to dispel the genjutsu using enough chakra to make a big fireball. The scenery slightly wavered, but still remained. "How strong is this thing. This technique should take enormous amount of chakra to make!"

Thanks for not underestimating them, his senses was on high alert which now said to him that danger is approaching from his left. He jumped forward only to receive a slight burn on his right foot. He didn't even sense the heat of a fireball until it touched him, but he still couldn't see it. He threw a bunch of shurikens to location where he thought fireball was coming from.

Sasuke, who cast the fireball, easily dodged and blocked all the kunai, although they were quite precise.

Before Kakashi could take any more action, Naruto appeared once more, from thin air in a swirl of pink leaves. Naruto did a downward slash, which Kakashi dodged this time, following with a side slash. One eyed man jumped over the slash and pierced 'Naruto' in the shoulder already knowing it wasn't the real one. It was true, it wasn't the real one as his kunai slid through 'Naruto' like hot steel through butter. 'Naruto' then dissolved into pink leaves.

Expecting attack from behind, the moment Kakashi landed he took another chakra enchanced jump while backflipping backwards and throwing the kunai where he thought real Naruto's back will be. Kunai just merely hit the ground. When Kakashi landed he immediately received a gash from the sword across his chest. He winced in pain but nevertheless took out a kunai and threw forward.

A 'cling!' sound could be heard when sword deflects a projectile. Grinning under his mask, Kakashi performed a quick set of handseals in a blink of an eye and shouted out "Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!" and spilled a medium sized fireball just where he heard the metal voice. The fireball flew and exploded as if connecting with some sort of wall. While the fireball was flying, he didn't waste any second and performed another dispelling technique, now using chakra equal a bit less than for his Chidori. The genjutsu heavily wavered and he could briefly see a shadow of all three of them - Sasuke standing near Sakura, ready to protect her, Sakura holding a 'Ram' handseal and concentrating, while Naruto did something. He also saw how something was receding back into the earth. He couldn't see what Naruto was doing because genjutsu was back in its place.

"Someone of them have used Doton: Doryūheki to block the fireball!" Kakashi thought. "Damn this thing is so strong! What kind of chakra is needed to sustain this genjutsu. Kurenai-san will be envious!"

And then he felt it. A slight spike in chakra in front of him. He looked up and saw Naruto already in the air his sword ready for downward slash. He also noticed how all cherry blossom leafs were building up behind Naruto.

"I think that's the real Naruto it's the end of technique. It should be something grand if my senses don't lie to me. Shit! I don't have time dispel the genjutsu, because half of the technique is real!" Kakashi thought in a hurry.

And he was right. The moment Kakashi finished his 3rd sentence, which consisted of swear word, Naruto shouted out "Judgment of Cherry Blossom Fox!" and swung his blade downwards as if trying to slice someone in half. As blade got lower and lower, a large blue beam escaped the sword's arc which in a second reformed to large, blue fox's head and flew towards Kakashi in astonishing speeds. Following the head was the rest of fox's body which was entirely made from from sakura leaves.

"Fuck!" Kakashi swear and used chakra to do a bunch of backflips, just in time to avoid being impacted by a giant head. The head of a fox impacted with the ground where he was standing and exploded in a fire. But instead of debris, the cherry blossom leaves were whirling around until they settled down, dispelling the genjutsu.

Kakashi looked at the point of explosion and widened his eyes. It was real after all and it made a large crater there. Also, some dust was still in the air and debris scattered around. Furthermore he noticed a bunch of sakura leafs scattered around.

"Why are those laves still here if genjutsu dispelled?" he asked himself. He then looked at his supposed 'genin' while panting and restoring his energy. Sakura was slightly panting, otherwise she was okay. Both guys looked to be in good condition. "So Sakura was sustaining the genjutsu. Sustaining genjutsu, huh? It's the first time I experience one and it was terrifying to say the least. But the chakra control required should be near medic-nin and amount of constantly channeled chakra would be enormous. I can't believe Sakura did it by herself." he then remembered something. "Of course! Both Sakura and Naruto did the same handseals before the jutsu. I suppose it was the strongest correlation jutsu of both Sakura and Naruto. Their teamwork is just... awesome. Each cover each's blind spot and attacks when is the chance. Sakura successfully distracts me, leads me to boys and at the same time defends them. I didn't even have time to land a successful hit! Furthermore, I can bet it's not ALL their skills. Using only their teamwork they made and exploited an openings without revealing much of their skills. There's still so much combinations they can use. I didn't even see what Sakura and Sasuke together can do!" he thought, clearly awed by his genin. Also, he used a lot of chakra just for trying to dispel the genjutsu multiple times. He concluded that together they are force to be reckoned with.

"Wow. I'm clearly impressed. No... I'm awed! How did you became so strong? That jutsu at the end was... beautiful yet deadly. These gashes from your sword, Naruto, just proves it. Each gash means one my death. You will have to explain me how it works. Kurenai-san will be envious once she heards about your jutsu, Sakura. And good job protecting them while they perform the jutsu, Sasuke. And Naruto, your speed is unreal for a genin. All three of you are unreal."

And all three of them grinned.

"Thanks, Kakashi-sensei." Sakura said, already regained some of her strength "But you didn't saw out full strength yet. We won thanks for our teamwork and because you were man with honor and didn't use Sharingan as promised. But even if you would use it, we would win."

Kakashi raised an eyebrow for countless time today "Hmm? And why's that?"

Naruto smirked. "Guys, he is our squad leader so we can show him what we mean by 'full strength'."

"Just a squad leader?" Kakashi said a bit sad "But I'm your sensei... Only Sakura-chan acknowledges me." he muttered. Sakura smiled to be on Kakashi's good side. "Anyway, no more fighting. You already proved you're at least mid to high chuunin. Plus, I wasted too much chakra from trying to break out from that genjutsu."

"Chuunin? Hn. Me and Naruto are much stronger than high chuunin by ourselves and Sakura is about on same level as high chuunin - low jounin." Sasuke stated.

"Yeah. Besides, we're not attacking you, just showing what we mean." Naruto said.

Kakashi didn't quite believe them in being on jounin level, but he wasn't sure now. Everything may happen. "Okay, show me."

"Hn. I would love to see his expression." Sasuke said and closed his eyes. He slowly opened them and said "Sharingan!" Well, he didn't need to say it out loud, but it sounded epic (in his opinion). His red eyes revealed three tomoe in each eye around the pupil.

Kakashi's eye widened. "Im-Impossible! Already at maximum level!"

Sakura took out her special dirk, which she didn't touch the entire time. She channeled some chakra into it and the seals on the knife started to glow blue. She then stabbed the knife in her left palm (which received even more widened eye and shocking expression from Kakashi). Sakura didn't even wince from pain. A trickle of blood dripped down, but before it reached the ground, Sakura did three one handed handseals, stopped on 'Ram' seal and cried out "Chishioton!" (A/N: I suppose it's translation for Blood Release)

The trickle of blood stopped and all the drops now floated in mid air. All the blood which came from Sakura's palm moved together and made 4 floating orbs of blood which expanded to the size of small volleyball. Sakura took out the knife from her palm and the cut immediately healed. The orbs now hung in the air, just behind Sakura.

Kakashi's visible eye widened even further (and he wasn't the only one.) "Blood release? What the fuck? What else is in store? Mythical Rinnegan?"

Oh how ironic.

Naruto, just like Sasuke, closed his eyes and then slowly opened them. As his eyes were halfway open, he let out a large gravity push towards Kakashi to emphasize the main power of his eyes. Kakashi couldn't resist the push so he slid a small distance away from Naruto. The blonde finally snapped his eyes open and said in serious, yet powerful voice "Holy Rinnegan!"

Kakashi barely stopped himself from fainting. Keyword: barely.

END!

Wooh. It was really hard to write the fighting scenes. They're not that epic, but I'll try harder next time.

IMPORTANT! They may sound overpowered because they defeated Kakashi without his Sharingan with, what may be seen, as cheap tricks. But if cheap trick can lead to victory why not use it? Furthermore, they won because of they brilliant teamwork. If Kakashi would use Sharingan, which blocks most low - mid maybe even some high genjutsu, it would be a bit more difficult fight and they would have to reveal more of their skills. If it would be 1 on 1 versus Kakashi, they would really need a good plan to win, because all of them are weaker than Kakashi in some ways, mainly in experience. Also, I think that's how great teamwork should be.

If anyone wants omake on how Naruto trained (like how he discovered some abilities, or like how Sakura did hers training, or the battle between army of clones and trio, etc etc.) then just say (vote) which ones you would like to see.

Thanks for reading and I hope I somehow impressed you. :)

I know all that genjutsu chakra thing might be confusing so feel free to ask and I'll try to explain in my best ability.

Ja ne!