Sorry for not posting this sooner! I kept telling myself to write this, but I ended up playing the wii =_= Anyway, here's chapter 9 :D

The little voice inside Miyako: Underlined.

DISCLAIMER: Naruto and Lucky charms do not belong to me! 8D

Miyako hopped from tree to tree, looking for her teammate. She was listening to the battle between her sensei and Naruto. Eventually, she strayed from the battlefield and was deeper into the forest. "Great. Now I'm lost." Miyako looked around for anything familiar until she saw the tree that Sasuke had been last seen.

She started to run over to join him, but stopped when she saw something completely insane. Kakashi was talking to Naruto, who was now upside-down hanging on a tree by his ankle. Sasuke threw multiple shuriken and kunai toward his sensei and they stabbed him in the side. The sliver haired jonin fell to the ground bleeding. Miyako looked in horror as her gaze went from Sasuke to Kakashi. She jumped up to his branch.

"Sasuke-kun! What do you think you're doing!?" Miyako said harshly. He looked at her.

"We had to get the bells didn't we?" He responded calmly.

"Yeah but that was overkill!" She was lucky that he wasn't aiming for Naruto though. "You probably killed him!" She looked back at her fallen sensei.

"Sasuke! You over did it!" This time it was Naruto. Miyako and Sasuke looked back at Kakashi. The Uchiha's eyes widened as the jonin turned into a log. Before the black haired girl could relax, the branch that the two genin were sitting on jerked. She looked up to see Sasuke running off.

"Sasuke-kun! Wait a minute!" She yelled to him before chasing after him. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Naruto cut himself free, only to fall into another trap. Miyako laughed quietly. "Hehe. Typical Naruto-kun."

After running for a while, Sasuke stopped and seemed to be looking for something. Miyako was out of breath when she reached him.

"You need to learn… To listen to people when they are talking to you." Miyako said between gasps. She looked at him. "Why did you stop so suddenly?"

Sasuke frowned slightly. "I thought I heard Sakura scream." Miyako tilted her head to the side.

"I didn't hear anything." She said before grinning. "I think you're going crazy." Sasuke rolled his eyes before turning to leave once again. "Wait! I want to ask you something." He stopped.

"What is it?" Sasuke said without turning to face her.

"If we work together, maybe we can get the bells." Miyako suggested. Sasuke was silent for a moment before he answered.

"No. You'll only get in my way." He replied blandly before running off into the trees. Miyako frowned slightly. She put a hand on her hip and began to mimic him.

"You'll only get in my way." She said in a taunting, high-pitched voice. She brought her hand back down to her side and sighed. Miyako started laughing at her imitation of her comrade. She stood there and thought for a moment. "Naruto-kun is probably gone from the tree so it would be pointless to try and find him. I saw which way Sasuke-kun went so I can follow him and see if I can get a bell," The girl nodded on her decision as a voice went off in her head.

"But he said he didn't want to team up with you!" the voice said. Miyako frowned. It sounded like a chipmunk on helium, and why was it in her head?

"Who are you? Get out of my mind!" She mentally screamed at it.

"I'm just stating the facts." If it was real, it would have held up its hands defensively. A mental image of Miyako kicked the voice so hard it flew out of her mind. She grinned proudly at her imaginary achievement. Then she remembered.

"Oh right! Find Kakashi-sensei and Sasuke-kun!" Miyako thought as she started to run into the forest ahead.

After about five minutes of running, Miyako began to grow tired. "How far did he go?" She muttered to herself. She went deep into thought, while still dodging the obstacles around her. The raven haired genin snapped out of her thoughts as she heard yelling ahead. "That sounds like Sasuke-kun! He sounds like he is a few minutes away." She thought as she ran faster to get to the spot she heard the yelling.

Miyako was almost there when she heard more yelling- this time belonging to a girl. "Now it sounds like Sakura! What happened?!" Miyako thought back to what she just heard. "Did she just scream 'Sasuke-kun's just a head without a body and he's talking!' That's probably the craziest thing I've ever heard. Of course she might just be over exaggerating too."

Miyako came into a clearing to see Sakura passed out on the ground and Sasuke's head a few feet away from her. Her jaw dropped and was trying to force back her laughter. "Don't laugh. If you do he'll kill you!" She told herself. The corner of Miyako's mouth were twitching upward until she couldn't hold it in any longer. "Ahahaha! W-what happened to your body, S-Sasuke-kun!" She said while laughing. Eventually her legs could no longer support her and she fell to the ground, while laughing still. Sasuke glared over at her.

"Are you just going to stay there and laugh or are you going to help me get out of this!" He snapped. Miyako sighed as she finished her laughing fit. She got to her feet and went over to the Uchiha.

"So, how did you end up like that?" She asked putting her and on her side. "And what happened to her?" Miyako continued pointing with her other hand to the unconscious girl.

"It doesn't matter!" Sasuke answered quickly.

Shortly after getting Sasuke out of the hole, Sakura began to wake up. The two waited over Sakura for her to realize that Sasuke wasn't decapitated. Sakura's eyes fluttered open and the first person she saw was Sasuke. She jumped up and wrapped her arms around his neck.

"Sasuke-kun! You're body is still attached!" Sasuke tried to pry the girl off of him.

"Ah! Hey, knock it off! Let go! Let go!" He protested. Miyako just laughed at them.

Sasuke got up and turned to leave. "I need to get a bell before lunchtime. I don't have much time." He started to walk away.

"Sasuke-kun, you're still trying to get a bell?" Sakura said standing up.

"A while ago, I hit one." The Uchiha stopped and turned around. Miyako's eyes widened.

"He HIT one of them? I almost made it but Kakashi-sensei blocked my hand." She thought as the scene replayed in her head. Miyako clenched her fists.

"That is great. I can't believe you did that. That's amazing!" Sakura said. She sounded like she was trying to hide disappointment. Miyako got up to go and try to get a bell from the jonin. "You know it's almost lunch and there isn't much time left to actually get one. Maybe we should just try again next year." Sasuke shot her a look.

"With Sasuke-kun, that isn't an option." Miyako thought as Sasuke began to space out.

"I'm the only one who can destroy him." Sasuke said.

"First hearing things now talking to himself. Yep, Sasuke-kun has DEFINITELY lost it." Miyako told herself.

"Who? Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked also confused on what the Uchiha was talking about.

"That day, I was crying." He continued on. Sakura grew even more concerned.

"Why were you crying? What happened?"

"I am an avenger. That means I must be stronger than anybody else. I need this training. I can't waste any time." Miyako's eyes widened a little as she remembered what he said when they met Kakashi. She stiffened as they heard the timer go off.

"Times up… Maybe Naruto-kun got a bell." She thought as she began to walk back to the starting area.

Sakura, Sasuke, and Miyako sat on the ground while Naruto was tied to the middle post. Everyone was starving and you could hear their stomachs growling.

"Oh, someone's hungry. Well, that's too bad." Kakashi said. Miyako glared up and him through her bangs. "And about this exercise, I've decided NOT to send you back to the academy after all."

Naruto had a grin across his face. Sakura began jumping up and down and the two were cheering. Miyako sighed. "I can't believe it! We passed!" Then something hit her. "Does he ACTUALLY mean that?" She tried to read any emotion in his eyes, but to no avail. "Something's not right. I can feel it."

"You mean it!?" Naruto asked excitedly. "Then that means… All four of us… We're…" Kakashi smiled under his mask.

"That's right." His voice was cheerful as he spoke. But then it turned serious. "All four of you are being dropped from the program. PERMANENTLY." Everyone froze and went silent.

"What…" Miyako couldn't find the strength to get her voice higher than a whisper.

"Dropped from the program!? That means we can never become ninja! You told us that if we couldn't manage to get a bell, you would send us back to the academy. Why would you change your mind like that?!" Naruto yelled struggling under the ropes.

"I'm sending you back to the academy because you don't think like ninja. You think and act like brats." Kakashi stated calmly. Sasuke ran toward the jonin reaching for a kunai.

"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura yelled. Miyako looked up. She had been staring at the ground since they found out about their results. She saw that Kakashi had pinned Sasuke to the ground and was now sitting on him, with a foot pushing his face down on the ground and holding his arm behind his back, which looked pretty painful.

"You think it's all about you, don't you?" Kakashi asked.

"Don't step on Sasuke-kun! Get off of him! He's not some kind of bug!" Sakura yelled. Kakashi stared at the group.

"You don't know what it means to be a ninja. You think it's a game. Why did we put you into teams? Did that question ever come into your head?" He glared at the group.

"I don't get it. What do you mean?" Sakura asked while Miyako and Naruto stayed silent, still thinking of an answer.

"What do I mean? You don't know what this exercise was about. Not the slightest clue."

"What it's about? We had to get the bells didn't we?" Miyako thought as their Sensei continued.

"Well that's what I wanted to ask you about from the beginning." Sakura told him.

"Use your head! Four people on a team. Why would we do that?" Kakashi was getting even more irritated now.

"Four people on a team. We had to get the bells. We couldn't do it individually, so that means…!" Her eyes widened. "Teamwork! Gah! I knew we should have teamed up!" She frowned mentally.

"How are we supposed to know? We didn't come up with these rules!" Naruto protested.

Kakashi sighed. "Isn't it obvious? It's teamwork!" Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura's eyes widened.

"Working together? That's what you meant?" Sakura asked him.

"No Sakura. It's when we all go and eat lucky charms and dance around with unicorns and wizards in a flowery field with a dozen rainbows!" Miyako felt so angry, she didn't know what she was thinking. "Wait, what was that? It's a good thing they can't read my mind." She sighed mentally.

"If all of you had come at me, you would have been able to get one from me. But that's not the case." Sakura looked at the bells before she realized something.

"Wait a minute! If there's four of us and three bells then one of us wouldn't get one and everyone would be fighting and the squad would disband." Sakura pointed it out. Kakashi nodded.

"That's right. I purposely pitted you against each other. I wanted to see weather you would put the squad ahead of you. Genin should automatically feel the need for teamwork. Instead," He began pointing his attention separately now.

"You Sakura focused your attention on Sasuke though you didn't know where he was and ignored Naruto who was right in front." He turned to Naruto next. "You thought you could do it all on your own." He looked at Miyako next. "You were the closest at teamwork but you either didn't tell the others what your plans were, or you weren't assertive enough to tell them correctly." Finally he glanced down at Sasuke. "You thought the others were so far below you that they were worthless."

The jonin looked back at the group. "Missions are carried out in teams. Yes, it is important to have individual skills but teamwork is the most crucial detail. When one person makes a play as an individual, it can expose your comrades to failure or death." Kakashi began to reach into his kunai pouch. "If you do that you might as well just kill them yourself." He pulled out a kunai. "Example. Sakura! Kill Naruto, or Sasuke dies!" He said placing the kunai at the Uchiha's neck.

Naruto was full out panicking and Sakura was just confused and scared. Miyako just stared at the scene unfold, unsure which emotion she should feel. "Is this guy for real?!"

"That's what can happen on a mission." He said bringing the kunai away from Sasuke. Sakura breathed a sigh of relief and Naruto was just lucky she didn't take his threat seriously. Miyako thought Sasuke looked a little embarrassed, but she might be seeing things. "It could happen when one of you is taken hostage and you are forced to make a difficult decision. Your lives are always on the line." Kakashi said getting off of Sasuke.

Kakashi walked over to a stone that had names carved into it. Sasuke slowly got up and wiped the dirt off of his face. "Have you seen this stone? The names written on it? They are the names of the ninja who are honored in our village." Naruto's eyes lit up.

"That's it! That's where I want MY name to go! I'm not going to throw my life away. I'm gonna be a hero!" Naruto grinned.

"These aren't normal heroes." Kakashi said, turning slightly.

"Really! What kind of heroes! What kind? What kind?" Naruto asked impatiently.

"The dead kind. They died in battle." Naruto stiffened. Naruto suddenly felt a little uneasy about how he wanted to be on the stone. "This is a memorial and it includes the names of my closest friends." He said without looking away from the stone. Miyako looked down at the ground. Everyone felt awkward and a little sad.

Kakashi turned around. "Alright! I'm giving you one last chance! But, this will be much harder than the last test. You'll have 3 hours to get a bell, so eat lunch now to build up your strength." Sakura, Naruto and Miyako looked wide eyed at their sensei. "But no feeding Naruto!" The blonde's eye twitched. "It is your punishment for trying to eat during the previous test. Anyone who feeds him, is automatically disqualified. They are my rules and you will follow them. Understand?" The four genin nodded their heads.

Sasuke and Sakura ate their lunches while Miyako just sat there. "I haven't eaten, so why am I not hungry?" She sighed. Naruto's stomach growled loudly again and the other three looked at him.

"This easy I can go without food for days, weeks even! Believe it!" He said before his stomach growled once again but even louder. Sasuke glanced up at him. Naruto was starving.

"Here. Take it." He said handing his lunch to Naruto. Everyone's eyes widened.

"Sasuke-kun! What about what Kakashi-sensei said?" Sakura asked nervously hoping they won't get caught.

"He's gone. If we need to get those bells, we'll need all the strength we can get. If Naruto's hungry, he'll just slow us down." Sasuke explained. Miyako looked down at her own untouched lunch and handed it over to him smiling.

"I'm not really hungry anyways. Take it Naruto-kun." She said holding out the box. Sakura looked down at her food before giving it to Naruto.

"Thank you." He said. Sakura looked at him.

"Just hurry up and eat." She said.

"But, isn't that your lunch?" Naruto asked wondering weather this was a dream.

"I, uh… I don't eat as much as Sasuke- I mean I'm on a diet… Just take it!" She urged him.

"I can't take it. My hands are tied." He said showing how he could no longer move his hands. "You'll have to feed me." Miyako laughed at Sakura's reaction.

"Just hurry up before he's back." Sasuke said shifting his eyes to make sure Kakashi wasn't watching them. Sakura debated weather or not she should.

"This is it. Just one time. I'll never do this again! Agreed?" Sakura yelled.

Naruto nodded his head. "Agreed!" He said before taking a bite. Just as he did that, a cloud of dust and wind appeared before them and Kakashi emerged from it.

"You-!" The jonin yelled. He sounded angry. Naruto was twisting himself from side to side in hopes to free himself. Sakura held her hands up in front of her head to shield herself from any attacks. Sasuke got into a battle pose to defend himself. Miyako just sat there frozen, eyes wide. "You broke the rules. Are you ready to face the punishment?" Kakashi said as he formed a few handsigns. Dark clouds rolled in with thunder and lightning. "Any last words?"

"This is it! We're going to die! We're gonna die! We're gonna freaking die now! Oh my God! We're gonna die!" Miyako was scared beyond imaginable. Sakura was now hiding under her arms, Naruto's teeth were chattering with fear and Sasuke, well he was doing what Sasuke usually does.

"You- you said that there were four of us, and that's why they…" Naruto trailed off.

"We are all in this team together." Sasuke defended.

"Y-yeah! We gave him our lunches because we are one!" Sakura said coming out from hiding.

"Yeah! We are cell seven and we stick together!" Miyako said trying to hide the tremor in her voice.

Kakashi walked toward them. "The four of you are one? THAT'S your excuse?" It was quiet for a moment. Kakashi smiled. "You pass." The jonin stated simply. Miyako's mouth was open partially and just stared for a minute, trying to process what had happened.

"We… Passed…? Oh no! PLEASE don't be another test! I'm begging you!" Her inner self screamed.

"What do you mean? How did we pass?" Sakura asked. The dark clouds began to disappear.

"You are the first team to succeed. The others did just like I told them to. And they fell into all the traps. A ninja must see through deception. In the ninja world, those who break the rules are scum. But those who do not care and support for their fellow teammates, are even lower than that." Kakashi explained.

Sakura, Miyako and Naruto smiled and grinned while Sasuke just smirked.

"The exercise is over. You all pass." Kakashi said giving them a thumbs up.

"We didn't die? Heh, I wasn't scared!" Miyako's inner self said proudly. Then the voice that she had heard a few hours earlier had come back.

"HA! As if! You were TERRIFIED!" The voice began laughing maniacally.

"What the-? Why are you back?!" Miyako screamed in her head. "LEAVE!" She mentally forced it out and put up an imaginary barrier so it couldn't get back in. She sighed.

"Well lets go." Kakashi told them.

As Miyako entered her apartment, she couldn't help but think that they forgot something there. Her eyes widened. "NARUTO-KUN!"

Well there you go! I hope you're happy! I stayed up late just so I could finish it for you! Staying up till 2:30 a.m, what a joke… =_=

Kakashi talked a lot in this one, didn't he?

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