Three sets of eyes stared towards the middle of the clearing where a certain lazy one-eyed jonin stood reading his little orange book. Said jonin could easily sense where the three genin were hiding; he wasn't an elite jonin for nothing after all.

"So Naruto, any ideas?" Sasuke whispered to Naruto, who simply nodded in return.

"Well, to be honest, I could probably steal the bells by myself given that he is underestimating us so much, but I think the point of this test is teamwork." Naruto replied

"How could you take them? No offense but you were the dead last and he is a jonin. And how is the test about teamwork, there's only two bells and three of us, it's meant to see which of us are stronger and to send the weaker back to the academy." Sasuke replied with a puzzled look.

"I'll explain soon, don't worry, but for now just trust that I'm much stronger than I let on. About the bells; Konoha values teamwork above all else. I don't think they would make a test where teammates were supposed to betray each other. I think the hidden objective here is for us to show that we are capable of working together as a unit."

Both Sasuke and Hinata, even if she did have a crush on him, had trouble believing that Naruto was capable of such deep thought.

I-I-I t-think N-Naruto-kun is right. It only m-makes sense." Hinata said in a voice that was quiet even for a whisper.

"Okay then we're back to the beginning then. What's the plan?" Sasuke whispered back, accepting their ideas.

Naruto put his hand to his chin in a thinking pose for a moment before beginning "Hinata, can you henge into a kunai?" he said to which she simply nodded. "Okay then, Hinata will henge into a kunai, and I'll throw her among some others. He'll dodge them, at which point she will unhenge and grab a bell. We can distract him with some low level jutsu, just be careful not to hurt Hinata-chan." He finished getting a nod from his teammates.

"Okay Hinata-chan lets begin." Naruto said as Hinata disappeared in a poof of smoke, replaced by a single kunai that Naruto grabbed before it hit the ground. He reached in his pouch and pulled out a couple more. He looked at Sasuke and nodded; Sasuke nodded back and Naruto threw the kunai towards Kakashi with pinpoint accuracy. Kakashi noticed the kunai and simply stepped to the side to avoid them.

From his spot on the edge of the clearing Naruto quickly did a set of handseals and slammed his palms on the ground "Doton: Doryuheki." He said as a wall of mud formed around Kakashi blocking his escape. Next to him Sasuke did his own handseals "Katon: Hosenka no Jutsu." He fired several small fireballs towards Kakashi, forcing him back to where he originally dodged the kunai. Just as Kakashi stepped back by the kunai he heard a poof behind him. He turned just in time to catch a palm strike to the thigh from Hinata before she reached for the bells. She grabbed the bells and jumped back quickly before Kakashi could retaliate. Just as she hit the ground Kakashi disappeared in a poof of smoke, revealing only a log in his place. Hinata looked down in shock as the bells she had disappeared as well.

Before she could react she felt something grab her ankles and look down just in time to see the ground rapidly approaching as she was sunk up to her neck. Kakashi popped back out of the ground beside her with an eye smile. "Doton: Shinjū Zanshu no Jutsu. You almost had me, congrats on that, but not good enough. Now to find your teammates and finish this."

"Dammit! It didn't work and now he's got Hinata-chan." Naruto said punching his fist in frustration. "Come on Sasuke, give me some fire."

Sasuke immediately went through a set of handseals and took a deep breath causing his chest to swell. "Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu." Said said as he released a stream of fire from him mouth towards Kakashi.

"Futon: Daitoppa." Naruto said as he finished his own handseals, blowing out a gust of wind, combining it with Sasuke's fire and making the fireball turn white hot and nearly double in size. Kakashi noticed the attack coming and was impressed that two fresh genin could manage such an attack. Impressed as he was, he still leapt into the air dodging the fireball before going through his own hand seals. "Suiton: Suidan no Jutsu." He said as he spat out several water bullets in the direction that the fireball came from.

Naruto and Sasuke quickly split apart and dodged as the water bullets tore into the ground where they were just standing. "Kagebunshin no jutsu." Kakashi said as he created a clone to go after Naruto while the original went after Sasuke.

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With Naruto

As soon as Naruto landed he had to quickly roll to the side to avoid an axe kick from Kakashi and once again had to jump backwards to dodge a sweeping kick again. Once Naruto landed again he immediately pushed forward and threw a punch at kakashi who easily dodged it before throwing an uppercut into Naruto's stomach. Kakashi was satisfied he had finished off Naruto by knocking him out but was surprised when Naruto disappeared in a poof of smoke. "Shit." Kakashi said before Naruto appeared behind him and threw a roundhouse kick into the back of his head. His eyes widened before he disappeared in a poof of smoke. Naruto smirked at his victory before going to help Sasuke.

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With Sasuke

Sasuke barely landed before he jumped once again to avoid a low kick from Kakashi; while he was still in the air Kakashi jumped up and spun around dropping an axe kick into Sasuke's face slamming him into the ground hard. Sasuke got up slowly but got up none-the-less. He realized that he was running low on chakra so he needed to try to get the bells as quick as possible. He jumped forward once more and drew back to punch Kakashi before he received a kick to the side of his head, launching him into a nearby tree before sliding to the ground unconscious.

Kakashi checked his watch and noticed that there was still fifteen minutes before noon so he went to collect Sasuke and put him in a safe place by Hinata before finding Naruto. He walked over to the tree and bent over to pick up Sasuke when he felt something tug on his belt. He quickly turned back to see Naruto sinking back into the ground behind him with a smile on his face. Kakashi cussed himself for dropping his guard before gathering up Sasuke and walking back to the middle of the field where Naruto was freeing Hinata.

"Congratulations Naruto, you got both bells, now who do you want to give the other one to? Which one will you send back to the academy? The choice is yours." Kakashi said as he looked between Sasuke who was just regaining consciousness and Hinata. Naruto handed one bell to Hinata and smiled at her while holding on to the other. Kakashi frowned at that, he hoped that his student would give some speech about teamwork or something of that sort but looks like he had another failure. He was surpised, however, when Naruto tossed the other bell to Sasuke who caught it and threw it on the ground, followed by Hinata.

"We're a team, and we stick together." Sasuke said as he looked at Kakashi with conviction in his eyes.

"Right. It's a-all or n-none." Hinata added in.

"So if anyone goes back to the academy, we all go." Naruto finished and Kakashi could swear he saw Obito standing behind Naruto smiling.

"Well since you put it that way" Kakashi started as thunder clouds formed behind him "YOU ALL… pass." He finished with a thumbs up as the storm went away.

All three students sweatdropped at his antics but regained their composure quickly and congratulated each other.

"In the ninja world, we are given a set of strict rules to follow. We must follow the rules to a 'T' in order to be efficient Shinobi. Those who break these rules are considered to be trash, but those who abandon their comrades are worse than trash." Kakashi said in a firm voice, commanding the full attention of all three genin. "You are the first to ever pass my test, so I'd like to tell you a story. Once upon a time, several years ago, there was a shinobi here in Konoha who was called the White Fang. It was said he had strength comparable to the sannin in his prime. He lived his life strictly by the Shinobi Code of Conduct. One day he was given a mission to foreign lands, a very important mission with high stakes for the village. Everything was going great until one of his teammates were captured by the enemy. The Shinobi Code states that you should finish the mission no matter the cost, but something in him that day told him different. He was still able to complete the mission without the missing team member but decided instead to rescue the man, causing him to fail the mission. He did what he felt was truly right in his heart and returned to the village to report the failed mission." Kakashi paused here for a moment, noticing the three genin sitting cross legged in front of him taking in every word. "He returned to the village with no casualties after saving his teammates life, however he was ridiculed by the village for failing such an important mission. Even the very man he saved turned his back on the White Fang and sided with the rest of the people. The ridicule, the stares, and the whispers were so bad everywhere he went over the next few weeks that it threw him into a depression. He stopped leaving his house at all and eventually quit eating anything. Over the next while he became more and more depressed until one day he couldn't take it any longer and he took his own life."

Kakashi paused once again, this time fighting back the tears that threatened to fall from his visible eye. He then reached into his pouch and pulled out a scroll before unsealing a sword from it. The sword was short, a tanto judging by the looks of it, and had a small circular hand guard. He made a quick vertical slash and the genin were surprised when the sword left behind a streak of white chakra. "This sword, the White Light Chakra Sabre, was the sword that the White Fang used during his prime. It's the only reminder I have of my father, Sakumo Hatake Konoha's White Fang. Because of my father's death when I was eight years old, I grew up believing in following the Shinobi Code to the letter. Every mission I went on I used the code as law, growing into a cold, disconnected shinobi in the process. It wasn't until my first mission as a jonin during the third great ninja war that I realized that I was wrong. I was in charge of my team in Minato-sensei's absence, and during our mission my teammate Rin was captured. I chose to abandon her and complete the mission, however my other teammate Obito Uchiha argued with me, saying we needed to save RIn, that those who break the rules are trash, but those who abandon their comrades are worse than trash. He left to do just that while I went ahead to finish the mission. A few minutes passed before I realized that he was right. I returned and found Obito fighting a jonin about to be killed. I rushed in and took down the attacker just before he delivered the final blow. However there was another shinobi hidden that I didn't see in time and he came at me, cutting my eye and rendering me blind. Just before he finished me Obito awakened his sharingan and killed the man. We then went and rescued Rin, but as we were escaping the cave where she was tied up, another enemy used a jutsu to collapse the cave. Because I was blind in one eye I missed a rock that was falling that should have killed me, but Obito pushed me out of the way and sacrificed himself to save me. After the collapse we dug through the fallen boulders to find Obito still alive, but only just. The entire right side of his body was crushed under a boulder."

Kakashi paused once again as he lifted his hitai-ate revealing his Sharingan. "In his dying moments Obito decided to give me his left sharingan eye to replace the one that I lost. He wanted me to take his eye so he could see the world through me. After his death we carried on and completed the mission, turning the war in our favor and leading to our eventual victory. Every since I have remembered the words that he said that day. 'Those who break the rules are considered trash, but those who abandon their comrades are worse than trash." Kakashi finished his story and wiped the tears from his eyes. The genin were on the verge of tears themselves from listening to his story. He regained his composure after a few minutes before looking at his team.

"Congratulations on becoming the Official Team 7. Meet back here tomorrow at 0800 sharp to begin your training." Kakashi said before the genin nodded and everyone dispersed.