A/N: I hope this chapter turns out ok. Chapter updated!

Post of Teamwork

Kick, punch, kick. Hah. Sasuke thought and while Kakashi held him in an awkward position, Sasuke used his free hand to grab the bells. That would have been a great move had not Kakashi, in a flash, threw him away.

Hmm, that was a close one. Kakashi thought. Sasuke runs and throws a kunai at Kakashi but as it hits he poofs into a log. Where is he? Sasuke thought. Suddenly a hand shoots up from the ground and grabs Sasuke's leg.

Once Sasuke's body is buried Kakashi smirks, "Don't worry, I'll get you out sooner or later." and walks off.

Unlike Naruto though, Sasuke didn't have exploding chakra, so he had to settle with trying to dig his way out… without much success.

Umm, where did Sasuke go…oh. Sakura stopped suddenly as she saw Kakashi standing there reading a book. 'Phew, he didn't see me.' She thought as she carefully backed away.

"Sakura, behind you."

Hundreds of leaves started fluttering around and just as quickly vanished.

'That was weird.' She thought.

"Sakura…"

"Huh?" She turned around and saw Sasuke with shurikan and kunai sticking everywhere on his body and covered in blood.

Naruto was still looking for Kakashi when he heard a piercing scream. "Looks like he got Sakura." He muttered and started running but then he nearly tripped over something.

"Huh?" Naruto said but as he turned around at the object he burst into laughter. Staring back at him with killer intent was the head of Sasuke, still stuck in the ground.

Once the fits of laughter subsided to giggles, which took 5 minutes, Sasuke's glare hadn't subsided, in fact, it got worse.

"Ah ha, ok Sasuke, since you're my teammate, and even though you are a really annoying bastard, I'll get you out."

Naruto reached out a hand and put his chakra around the submerged body. Sasuke eyed the ominous red chakra warily.

Then the chakra exploded, and in the large crater stood a shocked Sasuke and a giggling Naruto.

"Ahh, Naruto tried to kill Sasuke!" A voice screamed.

Sasuke and Naruto turned to see Sakura with wide eyes and her hands covering her mouth.

"What?! No, I didn't…" Naruto started.

"Sasuke! Kill him, kill him!" She shouted.

"What is going on?"

All three turned to see Kakashi standing on the side of the crater.

"Kakashi-sensei, I didn't do anything, I mean, I got Sasuke out of the ground, I didn't try to kill him…" he mumbled.

"Don't worry, I know you meant no harm. Come on, let's go back to the training grounds and sort this out."

Once they were at the training grounds, Kakashi turned to Sakura. "Now, Sakura, why did you accuse Naruto of such a thing?"

"I saw it with my own eyes, Kakashi-sensei. Naruto was standing next to the crater with Sasuke in it."

Kakashi sighed. 'I should have known this would cause problems.' He thought.

Flash Back

"He means no harm, but the other jonin would reject him fiercely." The Hokage said sadly. "He is such a kind, enthusiastic kid, yet everyone hates him."

"Don't worry, Hokage-sama." Kakashi said. "I'll be his teacher, but the other students..."

"I just hope they can learn to trust him too." He said.

"I'll do my best."

End Flash Back

"We shall be doing the test again, but Sakura, you will be tied to the post and watch while the others eat. And you two. Do not feed her, that is the law. You will be severely punished if you do." He said and started tying Sakura to the post. Once he finished he disappeared.

Naruto and Sasuke started to eat while Sakura looked hungry and vulnerable. Naruto couldn't stand it anymore. He lifted the chopsticks with rice and held it to Sakura's mouth.

"Here, eat it, we'll need everyone's strength to pass Kakashi-sensei's test."

Sakura looked shocked at the food, then at Naruto's face, then at the food again with hunger. The opened her mouth and ate the rice.

Sasuke also started feeding Sakura, all knowing the consequences if they were caught.

Suddenly dark clouds filled the sky and lightning was heard. Kakashi appeared in a flurry of leaves in front of them.

"YOU!!!!" Kakashi said in a dark tone. "PASS!!" he said cheerfully and the clouds disappeared.

"Huh?!" all three said.

"You pass." He repeated again.

"But, why?" Sakura said.

"You see, the point of this test was for you to use teamwork. Before, when you accused Naruto of harming Sasuke, I was going to fail you all, because you can't have a two-man-team, it has to be three. But now I see you can trust each other fairly well, so you pass."

"Yay, I'm finally a ninja!" Naruto screamed and ran around in circles.

Sasuke had a grin on his face while Sakura also had a smile.

(Time Skip: The team are in the forest trying to catch a certain cat…")

Naruto pops his head out from a tree and speaks into his headphones, "Target in sight."

"Good," the other voice said, "on my signal, attack."

"Go!"

The three genin spring into action and Naruto pounces onto the cat. Unfortunately he misses and the cat scatters up a tree.

"Damn, missed it." Naruto curses.

The team and the jonin look up into the trees where the cat stands.

"Great, now what do we do?" Sakura moaned.

"Che." Sasuke exclaims and throws a kunai just above the cat.

The cat loses balance and falls… hitting Naruto on the head. Before the cat could run away though, red chakra holds it in place.

"Got you now kitty." Naruto said smugly but couldn't smile hard from the cat scratching his face.

"Good work, team." Kakashi said. "Let's go back to the Hokage's tower."

(Time Skip: they are in the Hokage's tower with the cat.)

"Oh my poor little Tora, you were probably so scared out there in the horrible woods, well don't worry, mummy's here." The fat lady said as she hugged the cat extremely hard.

The team and the Hokage sweat-dropped. "Well no wonder the cat ran away." Sakura said.

After the Feudal Lord's wife leaves, Naruto starts arguing with the Hokage.

"We have been getting D-ranked missions the whole time, they are so lame, why can't we get a C or B-ranked mission this time?" Naruto complained.

"Naruto, don't be so rude to the Hokage." Sakura said.

The Hokage begins his speech. "There are different ranks for different missions, and depending on the mission, it is ranked from-"

"Come on, old man, we already know all that!" Naruto states.

"Naruto, this is the Hokage you are talking back to." Kakashi says.

"Hmm, ok Naruto I'll give you a C-ranked mission." The Hokage said.

"Really? Great"

"Come in Tazuna."

They all turned towards the door and in came a scruffy man with old dirty clothes and seemed to be drunk while holding a bottle of beer.

A/N: This chapter has been updated after my 15th chapter, there are a few differences to the original. Ja!