Note: Only one other fic explored this idea but that fic was cut short. I'm disappointed. Anyways, I took the fight scene from that fic- sadly, I forgot what the fic was titled. Drabble Format.

Plot Device: Team Seven kills Hatake Kakashi in the genin test. Nobody saw this coming.

Warnings: language, mild OOC, character death that's not taken seriously.

With the Intent to Kill

1. Immediate Reaction

"That's what he said. Can you blame us for taking him seriously?" Naruto crossed his arms defensively as the entire Konoha council directed all their attentions onto him, he shook Kakashi's orange book at them. He noticed some familiar faces in the crowd, probably Shikamaru's, Ino's, and Chouji's dads, Kiba's mom, some adults he had bumped into on the streets of Konoha. There were a couple ANBU standing at the shadows; one of them was transcribing the entire interrogation. On his right, Sakura was openly crying that she wanted her mom with her; a silver bell was tied in her hair. Naruto felt his lips curl in disgust as he inwardly scoffed, 'civilians.' On his left, Sasuke sneered at the adults in the stands, his fingers wrapped tightly around the prized silver bells.

The light was blinding and he had to squint in order to look up at his audience but the contrast between the light and the dark made it impossible to decipher the faces that were not sitting in the closest row. 'Most likely, this is only the first of many meetings. But I know they can't accuse us of anything, everything we did was legal. If they accuse me, they'll be accusing Sasuke too and they can't say that I influenced them since the idea was Teme's in the first place."

Naruto opened his arms wide in a gesturing movement, grinning with the intent to unsettle some of the weaker willed in the audience, "Hatake Kakashi said, 'I doubt you'll accomplish anything unless you come at me with the intent to kill.'"

2. Sakura

The chair was too big; it dwarfed her stature, making her seem young and weak. Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed, 'It's hard to believe that she was one of the elements that caused one of my best jounin's demise.' She squirmed in her seat, pushing back against the cushions, twitching in nervousness: her hands, her eyes, her body, her mouth. 'She's not even a ninja yet, nobody had promoted the team. She's too easy to read.' "Haruno-san," the Hokage ventured gently.

"Ho-Hokage-sama?" She stuttered back, shrinking in even more into the backside of the seat. When she turned her head, the light caught the reflection of her hitai-ate and the symbol of the leaf and spiral. It was irony and its finest.

This whole ordeal had been a mess from the very start. Umino Iruka had expressed his doubts of Hatake's ability as a teacher but Hiruzen had brushed off the young chunin's concerns, citing evidence of Kakashi's wish to not teach. That was, perhaps, his first mistake. But he didn't expect this as the consequences- the jounin was a former ANBU captain, for Kami's sake, finishing S-ranked missions like he was breathing air. And to think that a group of green genins… not even genins… could… "I know that at the last meeting, Uzumaki Naruto spoke for both you and Uchiha Sasuke. But I need to know the circumstances from a different perspective. Can you give me your side of the story?"

She twiddled her thumbs and refused to look at him in the eye, instead focusing her interests in the elaborate sewn designs on the chair cushions. It took her a few minutes to summon the courage to begin speaking and when she did, he noted how weak her voice sounded, "I couldn't really do much but I'm good at acting. So I just had to pretend to be hurt and crying so I can distract Kakashi-sensei. Sasuke-kun had put some kunai in me to make it more believable and I put up a small genjutsu; Sasuke-kun said that as soon as the test is over, I can go to the hospital and the scars will disappear." She sniffed, "Sasuke-kun is wrong; I still have these little white lines on my back and arms- see?" She rolled up the sleeves of her pink dress and showed the vestiges of her wounds."

"Was this all Sasuke's idea?" The ease of how the Uchiha managed to manipulate the girl is quite unsettling though not unheard of in extreme cases. The girl hiccupped and nodded.

"Hatake-sensei had put in a genjutsu but they broke it. Sasuke-kun was leading the whole plan but Naruto-baka made little changes of his own and then…" She shrugged and shook her head, a silver bell that was tied in her hair ringed softly, "I had to hold Kakashi down until he triggered the trap. Naruto forced me to switch with one of his bunshins and then the bunshin exploded. Then other bunshins exploded. Then Sasuke unleashed his weapons. Then…" She tugged at her hair, "Didn't see: too much fire."

3. We start

"You're late!"

"Gomen nasai, I got lost on the road to life."

"…Liar!"

"Mah, mah, mah… Ah yes, where was I? Well, here is the genin test. Here, I have two silver bells- get the silver bells and you pass and I'll teach you. Don't get a silver bell and you'll get kicked back into the Academy and I'll eat your bento in front of you."

"That's why you wanted us not to eat!"

"Think of it as an incentive."

"That's all it takes to become a ninja? Haha! No problem! I'll get them before you can say 'Hokage!'"

"Naruto-baka, shut up!"

"Mmmhmm. Little weak genins like you? I doubt it."

"…What? I'm not weak! What are you implying!"

"What I'm saying is: I doubt you'll accomplish anything unless you come at me with the intent to kill."

4. Naruto

"Neh, jiji, they're not going… put me down like some sort of animal, right?" The boy said nervously, adjusting his hitai-ate. Following that question was an uneasy silence where as more time passed, the jinchuuriki grew more and more nervous. "Since, I hold the Kyuubi, the adults might think that it's my fault somehow and then they manage to pin something weird on me and the next thing I know: Bam! Prison, maximum sentence, three lifetimes, no parole."

"No, Naruto-kun. You aren't going to be in trouble." Sarutobi swallowed a lump in his throat, "We're just, ah, trying to find the next course of action." The boy minutely relaxed. "You must try to see the dilemma in our point of view."

"I know." He crossed his arms and nodded sagely, "I looked up Hatake Kakashi in the Bingo Book I nicked from Mizuki-sensei yesterday. He's an important person. I'm, uhh…" He scratched the back of his head awkwardly, unsure how to deal with this, "sorry? I mean, he told us we had to be tough and we did but then… this happens. I don't get it."

The Hokage momentarily experienced a sense of surrealism trying to comprehend the child's reactions to killing a man. Maybe Naruto hasn't fully accepted the fact yet, maybe he was in denial, maybe he already accepted the fact, or maybe he thought that this was a normal occurrence. It was all about perception. Haruno Sakura still didn't manage to wrap her mind around her actions, she was scared of being in trouble, but she couldn't even wrap her mind around the concept of 'trouble'. Hiruzen sighed. One minute, you're working through a tedious pile of paperwork wishing for some distractions. The next, there is an explosion that rocks the foundations of his building that came from Training Ground Seven. The next, you take a few ANBU with you to investigate only to find three genins, two of them holding a familiar silver bell and one holding onto a familiar orange book and the charred remains of someone the medics identified as his prized jounin. Be careful of what you wish for.

Sarutobi chuckled mournfully. At least none of the other jounins had tests for their potential genins that were that… risky. If the test could ever be called risky; no one could have foreseen this. 'Oh Kakashi, surviving a war, the Kyuubi assault, and years of ANBU detail and you get felled by three little brats.' Most of the civilians had no idea what had happened but the news had spread through the gossiping ninjas like wildfire. People attempted to mourn but they weren't quite sure how. It was the epitome of black humor. There were rumors that when Iruka had heard of the news, he had choked on tempura from laughing but he survived. "Hey, jiji." The kid cheerfully piped up, "Do you want to have ramen with me later?"

Hiruzen smiled benignly at the young ninja and folded his hands neatly across his desk, "Naruto-kun, can you give me a detail event of what had happened that day?" The boy nodded happily, eager to be back in his surrogate grandfather's good graces. The first thing Naruto did was take an orange book from his back pocket and set it on the desk. The pages were well worn and there was the familiar censor-ship sign on the back cover.

5. Desperation brings about the most extreme of versions.

"Ow!" Naruto plummeted to the ground when Sasuke sliced through the rope holding his feet up, "Couldn't have done it with a bit of a warning, could you, teme?" He demanded with tears in his eyes, rubbing his backside. There were going to be bruises there tomorrow.

"Idiot." Sasuke sneered back, twirling a kunai on his finger. His entire body was covered in dirt up to his neck. Kakashi must have done a number on him too. "None of us can defeat him on his own: he's a jounin. My father used to complain about him all the time; he knows one thousand jutsus and was an ANBU captain. We're only genins." The Uchiha took a deep breath and choked out the last words as if they offended his very being, "We have to work together." Naruto stared at the dark-haired boy before nodding slowly; the humiliation of the ease the man had in defeating him, and then topping it all with the cherry of sticking two fingers up his ass was still very, very fresh in his mind.

"Just this once, I'm going to be on your side. Don't think that this is going to be a habit, teme." Naruto stood up and brushed dust off of his jumpsuit, is tone was brusque, "We'll have to find Sakura." There was the noticeable lack of "chan" in his sentence. He crossed his hands together and five bunshins ran off in separate directions to find their third teammate.

"The weak fan girl?" Sasuke rolled his eyes, "What can she do that's useful?"

"…" Naruto shrugged, "She's another person that's on our side. It's like during battle when all you need are bodies, you know? She can be… bait or something." He blinked a couple of times, "Found her." He announced, "Follow me," and turned into the bushes, darting between the branches and crunchy leaves. Sasuke stared after the blond boy before shaking his head and reluctantly following.

They found said fan girl unconscious on the grass with froth coming out of her mouth. Naruto grimaced before trying to rouse her. "Weak," Sasuke muttered, kicking her in the sides. Naruto shot him a look, but didn't say anything as it seemed to have done the trick. Sakura's green eyes fluttered; Naruto immediately took two large steps back so that her line of vision was her savior. She leaped to her feet, lunged, and latched onto the Uchiha like a limpet. "Get off me."

"Sasuke-kun! You saved me! Thank you thank you thank you! I thought…" She was sobbing harshly, "I thought that you were dead!"

"Get off me," the tone was colder. This time, the girl listened and stepped back, her eyes still bright and glistening, there were some snot dripping down her nose. "Naruto and I are going to get the bells from Kakashi and you're going to help us."

"But…" Sakura replied, unsure, "There are only two bells. Kakashi-sensei said that only two will pass."

Naruto barked a laugh, "So what? We'll just make him pass all of us. Besides, I want to make him pay…" He grinned maliciously; Sakura stepped back once more, having never seen this side of the Dead Last. "Nobody does that to me and gets away with it."

Sasuke nodded, "Since none of us is willing to sacrifice for the other two, we'll have to force him to promote all of us. It won't be impossible. Now I have a plan: Naruto, I need your kage bunshins, a lot of them, possibly an army's worth."

Naruto tapped his lip as he thought, "So teme," he said in a conversationalist tone, "Remember when the Academy teachers taught us about the Kyuubi?"

6. Sasuke

"So I understand that the plan was your idea?" Sarutobi asked the child who was sitting across the desk. Sasuke nodded.

"Yes sir. But Naruto changed some parts of it; he added more details to trap Kakashi when we launch the final attack." Hiruzen nodded in comprehension. Yes, Naruto's touches to the plans might have made them more devious since strategizing was his strengths. Proof could be seen in his pranks which could never be prevented. "Then he revealed that he had a stash of homemade explosive seals, so we used those too." The Hokage's pipe dropped onto the desk.

"Naruto writes his own explosive tags?" He choked out.

The Uchiha shrugged like it was no big deal, like it wasn't a high chunin ability to write down a functioning explosive tag, "They detonated by his own pulse of chakra. I guess that's what the teachers got mad at him for whenever they yelled at him that he was 'doodling little designs on his tests' in class." The Uchiha's posture was slumped over, like a hissing cat unfamiliar with his surroundings, "I remember that day because after class, the classroom had exploded. I didn't really think about it until the Dobe… Naruto told me that he could make the tags."

The Hokage leaned back on his chair and paused to absorb the information. 'Well, it's not as if the Academy teachers expect their students to have the ability to make explosive tags, let alone test them of their art.' It was another tick on the list of how much he doesn't know about Naruto, despite spending the most time with him besides Umino Iruka. The list should be retitle to 'What everyone doesn't know about Naruto.'

"How do you feel, Sasuke?" The boy's head snapped up, his lips twitched. Sarutobi was reminded of yesterday, his son telling him of the pensive silence as they pondered over Kakashi's death in a local nin-bar. Asuma had described the atmosphere, relatively unsure, struggling to grasp the reality that someone had just died in the most strangest of ways possible. In the end, they all awkwardly clinked together their cups and downed their sakes.

"How do I feel? I killed a jounin… my teammates and I killed a jounin, legally." The Uchiha shrugged and held up a familiar looking silver bell and rang it twice, staring at his small reflection on the metallic surface. "It was his fault for toying with us and not taking us seriously until the very last second, but then it was too late. He underestimated us the entire time and the Dobe… Naruto… was really mad at him, furious, even." The twinkling sound was soft and sharp, high and low, "Well, I want to know. Am I a ninja now?"

7. The procedure.

Kakashi stood in the middle of the clearing, thinking that he should give the little brats some time on their own to regroup and, hopefully, figure out the underneath of the underneath of the test that he had assigned them. He looked down at his Icha Icha Paradisu and gave a small perverted giggle, reading the part where Kuro-chan had just decided to spread her legs to Yamatsu-kun who had just realized that his partner was a virgin. This part of the story even came with pictures! He'll give the brats four minutes before he begins to stalk them.

Each one of them gave a disappointing performance. Naruto had no sense of subtlety, though those masses of Kage Bunshins were useful, he didn't know how to use them because his Taijutsu was atrocious. A quick One Thousand Years of Pain quickly placed the blond out of commission. Sasuke held a bit more promise though he rushed headlong into things without thinking. He could possibly think two steps ahead of the enemy but not after that and he was arrogant to a fault, like most Uchihas. Sakura was the biggest disappointment, top kunoichi of the year his ass, she couldn't even block the simplest genjutsus and haven't, so far, demonstrated anything that might be of potential. 'Looks like it's be another trio back to the Academy, what a waste. I was actually hoping to train the Uchiha and sensei's son.' He sighed and flipped another page in his book. Kakashi looked up.

Small smoke bombs were thrown in his direction, it wasn't a problem for him though, and he could deal. He could hear Naruto begin screaming, many, many Narutos screaming in the trees and around him, high pitched and unfaltering. A clear pulse of chakra reached him; he could feel the explosions from the nearby trees and the earth shake beneath his feet. Cautiously, he placed his precious book back into his pocket, smiling as he thought, 'So they're taking this seriously, hmm?' He heard another yell, this time, it was from Sasuke. He moved his feet, just barely dodging four kunai aimed at his toes- his own genin was testing him. After checking to make sure that his bells were still with him, Kakashi decided to wait and see what the brats were going to think up of next. Another pulse of chakra, this time with the faintest hints of Kyuubi's red chakra, led to more trees exploding. More smoke bombs went off, even when he attempted to blow away the smoke with a fuuton jutsu. His extended senses detected a small body on his right; he could hear the crying of a girl, Sakura.

"Aaauugghhh!" His eyes widened when he saw her state; her dress was torn in different places and she seemed to be favoring her left leg. "Kakashi-sensei! Help me! Please! Help me!" Blood was smeared across her face and arms and there were some shuriken lodged in her arms and legs and one kunai was stuck in her back. She stumbled his way through the smoke; her eyes were watering but wide with terror, "Naruto! He… Sasuke! He took!"

Another pulse of chakra, this time half red and half blue engulfed the area in a wave, more bombs exploded. Sakura screamed and sobbed. She clawed at his arms, crying and crying. He heard Naruto's laughter surrounding them and managed to catch a glimpse of a figure with a fox tail and ears. 'Impossible, how did the seal managed to break during a simple training exercise? Did Naruto exert too much chakra and lost control of the beast?' He brought up a hand to pull up his hitai-ate, revealing a spinning Sharingan.

Pain in his stomach… Kakashi looked down and saw Sakura gutting him with a kunai, her hands were trembling but she pulled the kunai down, "Sa… Sakura? What…"

Sakura glared up at him and gritted her teeth and ripped out the offending weapon, "For Sasuke-kun."

Then Naruto and Sasuke replaced her with dual puffs of smoke, both grabbed onto him, unwilling to let him go. Naruto slapped a seal onto his forehead while Sasuke held his hands down; he could feel Sakura stabbing him through the Achilles tendon. He forced the chakra for a kawarimi but the jutsu didn't respond to him. 'Temporary chakra disrupting seal, Iruka might have handed some over to Naruto…' He saw Sakura pull off something from his belt and he could hear the dual ringing of the silver bells. Their strategy was admirable, dirty tricks and all. Everything was happening too quickly; he could only register the fact that he had been completely outmaneuvered. He shook Sasuke off and kicked Naruto in the stomach, but the damage was done. The last thing he saw was a flash of pink hair, Sasuke's unreadable gaze and Naruto's foxy grin as he put his hands together and overwhelmed him with a new pile of clones.

I doubt you'll accomplish anything unless you come at me with the intent to kill.

Then an explosion ripped through him starting from his forehead all the way to his feet.