Rika-Chan24: Thanks for all the favorites and reviews last chapter. Here is the second chapter. I hope the bell test scene is ok.
I don't own Naruto
"What should we do now?" Sakura asked turning to her two teammates.
"I think we should start hanging out with the others. If we can get them to start improving early, then there will be less stress of us.
We won't have to worry about them getting hurt. As you know in the future were not always there to save them." Naruto explained.
"Then how do you propose we actually do that?" Sasuke asked. "They are not going to just do as we say."
"I know! We can have a congratulatory picnic. We tell them we want to celebrate the nine of us passing the actual test." Sakura suggested. "We can have it at training ground 7."
"That's not a bad idea. We could spar against each other too. If we show them that the three of us are stronger than we all actually showed in the academy. It might just motivate them enough to work harder." Sasuke replied.
"If it all goes to plan, then we can start making it a weekly get together. We could even get Team Gai to join the group a few weeks after.
If we catch their attention early, it might help us out in the long run." Naruto explained.
"You really just want to see all of them, don't you?"
"Of course I do Sakura, they all either died or were captured. I want all of us to live this time around. I am going to try my hardest to keep it that way." Naruto replied.
"I think that should work for now. Let's go track the teams down. We can plan our first "Get together" after our test tomorrow." Sasuke said. "So who should we look for first? They all might be home by now?"
"No, I remember Shikamaru telling me that they were at the barbecue place tell evening. Kiba I believe, told me they had their test the same day as introduction. So if we hurry we can catch them before they head home." Naruto explained.
"Then Team 8 is probably the team we should look for first. We have until at least tell five or six to meet up with Team 10." Sakura said.
"I think they might be at training ground 8. They always go there, at least that's what Kiba told me. I am too far away to sense them from here. It would be easier if I could go into sage mode"
"Let's just go already." Sasuke interrupted as he jumped down from academy roof to another smaller roof nearby.
It didn't take long for them to find Team 8. Kurenai raised an eyebrow at the three of them when Team 7 walked into the training grounds. "Weren't they supposed to be with Kakashi."
"What are you three doing here?" Kiba asked as soon as he spotted them.
"We just wanted to know, if you guys wanted to come to our congratulatory picnic at training ground 7 around One pm tomorrow?" Sakura explained.
"You want us to go on a picnic with you?" Kiba asked, as Akumaru barked from on top of Kiba's head.
"Were planning to invite Team 10 too, we were planning to do a little sparring. If you are up to it, of course." Sasuke smirked; they were definitely going to come now.
"I..think..I..t will be…a gre..at idea….I will…go." Hinata shuttered as she poked her fingers together.
"That's awesome Hinata! What about you Shino? Kiba?" Naruto asked in excitement. This was going just how he wanted it.
"I suppose it would be a good idea. I will go" Shino responded.
"Fine I will go too! It will even give me a chance at kicking your ass in a spar." Kiba said quite loudly.
"We will see about that Dog breath. I am way better than you think." Naruto replied with a foxy grin.
Kiba huffed, "I will believe it when I see it."
"Well we should probably go now, so that you can get back to training. Bye, see all of you tomorrow." Sakura butted in, before Naruto and Kiba could start a bigger argument.
"Right, we still have to talk to Team 10." Sasuke added.
"Bye guys, bye Kurenai-sensei, sorry for bothering your team." Naruto cried out, before the three of them jumped into the trees to head to the barbecue place.
"Man, I am starving."
"You're always starving Dobe," Sasuke replied as they jumped from roof to roof.
"Shut up Teme! I can't help that I am hungry. Though too bad it's not a ramen place. I haven't had any in a long time."
"You had some yesterday. Right after we trained." Sasuke replied.
"Oh yeah….well it's still a long time. Before we came back I hadn't had ramen in months."
"Both of you knock it off. Were here." Sakura stated as they dropped down at the entrance of the barbecue restaurant.
"Good thing the owners are ok with me being here." Naruto pointed out as they walked in.
"There they are" Sasuke pointed to Team 10 at a small booth. Shikamaru looked absolutely bored. Ino was shouting at Choji for eating all the food, and Asuma looked almost as bored as Shikamaru.
"Hey guys!" Naruto shouted at them, as they walked up.
"What are you three doing here? Aren't you supposed to be with Kakashi?" Asuma asked.
"We have our test tomorrow. We came here to ask the three of you something." Sasuke replied turning towards the three twelve-year olds of Team 10.
"What troublesome thing is it?" Shikamaru asked with a yawn.
"Yeah Forehead, what do you guys want?" Ino added.
All three younger members of Team 10 looked at them for an answer.
"We wanted to know if you guys wanted to come to our congratulatory picnic. Team 8's going. We will probably spar a little too." Naruto answered.
"Where at and when is it?" Choji asked
"Training ground 7, tomorrow at One pm. Are you in?" Sakura asked.
"I will go, anything to be with my Sasuke-Kun, and to beat you Forehead!" Ino shouted.
"I don't think so Ino-pig. I can easily beat you." Sakura replied.
"That's a lie Forehead!" Ino argued.
Naruto ignored the two fighting Kunoichi, "So will you guys go?"
"Sure, it's free food. All of us probably won't get to hang out much once we start missions and stuff." Choji replied.
"You never know Choji, we could always make this a weekly thing." Naruto replied knowingly.
"I was also planning on bringing a Shogi board. Hopefully someone else is good enough to beat me. We all know Naruto can't." Sasuke stated.
"Hey I have you know. I am pretty good at it. I beat you a few times." Naruto grumbled.
"Sure you do Dobe." Sasuke replied with a smirk.
"Troublesome, I guess I will go. Maybe I will get a chance to stare at some clouds. I might even take you up on your challenge Uchiha."
"Looking forward to it then. We should probably go before Sakura and Ino trash the place." Sasuke replied pointing to the two arguing girls.
"Good point. Sakura! Come on we are leaving. We still have stuff to do." Naruto yelled to her. The two arguing girls stopped shouting at each other when Naruto called to Sakura.
"Oh right. Well by Ino-pig, see you tomorrow." Sakura said as she began to walk towards the front door.
"Bye Shikamaru, Choji see you tomorrow." Naruto waved to them. "Bye Asuma-Sensei, sorry we disturbed your team meeting." With that the three of members of Team 7 left. Ino sat back down in her seat beside Choji.
"What's with Team 7. They are acting quite troublesome. I don't think I have ever seen Sasuke talk that much." Shikamaru mumbled.
"Yeah, they seemed different." Choji added. "But didn't you say Naruto was always troublesome?"
"I did say that, he is more troublesome then anyone I will ever know" Shikamaru replied.
"Alright boys that's enough talk. We will meet tomorrow at nine. I will make sure you're training's done before One." Asuma interrupted them.
(Training ground 42)
After training for a few hours Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura sat under a tree to discuss their plan for the next day.
"Getting the teams to agree about the picnic went well, now we all we have to do tomorrow, is pass our test with Kakashi." Sakura said to her teammates.
"Yeah, luckily we know everyone pretty well." Naruto began.
So at this moment, our current level is where it was during the end of the Chunnin exams.
Except I can't use Rasengan, or toads until I sign the contract and train with Ero-sannin. It would be too suspicious if I can just use it out of the blue.
So I need to increase my speed and strength for now. Maybe add a few more wind jutsu's." Naruto explained.
"Were all in the same boat here, we can't use anything extreme yet, unless we have to." Sasuke replied.
"Luckily our teamwork is back in sync. Since we work well with each other, we should be able to surprise Kakashi. He will probably underestimate us for the test anyways. So far we have the advantage."
"Let's go rest up, and eat something. Wait why didn't we eat when we were at the barbecue place?"
"I don't know. You were talking about being hungry before we got there. Come on, we can go eat something now." Sakura replied to Naruto's question.
Sakura you are going to have to bring the food for the picnic." Sasuke suddenly said.
"Right, because if I let the two of you get the food. The only food that would be in the basket is Ramen and tomatoes!"
"That's not true, I would bring other things. Besides there isn't anything wrong with Ramen!"
"There isn't anything wrong with tomatoes either. There healthy for you." Sasuke commented.
Sakura sighed. "You two can't really cook much anyways. Naruto will get over priced for food or get spoiled food if he bought stuff at the store. And you Sasuke, wouldn't even take the time to bring other food."
"Well that's why you're bringing the food." Naruto replied. "Come on let's go already."
(The next morning at Training ground 7)
Kakashi arrived at training ground 7 at ten am, no one was in sight. He could feel their chakra signatures but he couldn't see them.
A puff of smoke suddenly appeared in front of him. Only to reveal his team. All three looked refreshed and ready to go.
"Sorry were late sensei, you see my alarm doesn't work so I got up late. And on the way here I found a drowning fish that needed saving. I had to save it you see. Every life is important." Naruto replied with a straight face.
"I was late because as I was leaving, a cat jumped through my window and into my house. I had to get him out before I could leave. He ran all over my house and broke a lot of things. My parents made me clean it up." Sakura replied.
"I was late because my alarm clock was broken. So I had to go buy a new one. There was a long line at the check-out counter, and sadly the line was filled with mostly fan-girls." Sasuke explained.
Kakashi sweat dropped. "Are my excuses that bad?". If they were going to be ninja they would have to be more serious.
"Ok well let's start the test." Kakashi pulled out two bells. "You have to get these from me, and you have until noon to do so."
"But there is only two bells sensei."
"I know, only two of you will be getting a bell. One of you won't get a bell and that person will be tied to the pole with no lunch. That person will also be going back to the academy." Kakashi explained.
Kakashi smirked behind his mask. He got them now. But to Kakashi's surprise they didn't react to it at all. What was up with his team?
Kakashi set the timer to an alarm clock he had brought to noon, and sat the clock down on the middle stump. "Begin." With those words Team 7 vanished into the trees.
"Weird, I can barely sense them anymore. Do they know how to suppress their chakra?" Kakashi thought. "My team sure is interesting. I wonder what they can do."
Kakashi then proceeded to pull out his beloved orange book from his pouch. A few minutes later he had to jump away from a barrage of Kunai and Shuriken. To his surprise, Sasuke came charging at him as a fast pace for a genin. Kakashi went to intercept Sasuke when he felt another presence coming at him from behind. He discovered that it was Naruto.
"So maybe they will figure out my test." Kakashi quickly put his book away. He would need both of his hands to fend the two of them off.
The two jumped away from him, and both slid into a Taijutsu stance.
The two proceeded to attack him at once. One attacking where the other wasn't. They worked well with each other as if had been working together for years.
It was getting a bit harder to block both of them at the same time. The three of them had been fighting off each other for over twenty minutes now.
Kakashi side jumped away just in time to miss Sakura come at him from his right. "So they were leading me towards her."
Kakashi's eyes widened when Naruto and Sasuke both began doing hand signs. "No way, they can't know that."
"Wind style: Great Breakthrough!"
"Fire style: Great Fireball Jutsu"
Kakashi quickly used Body replacement to get out-of-the-way. Once the technique was over Kakashi surveyed the damage. "How much chakra was in that!"
Kakashi jumped down from the tree a moment later. He was definitely going to have to be careful.
Sakura and Sasuke came rushing at him this time. Naruto hung back, waiting for something. Kakashi quickly began fending them off.
"Wow Sakura is pretty good in Taijutsu. Her records said she was really low in taijutsu."
"Kage Bunshin No Jutsu" At those words many Naruto's appeared around the training grounds.
As soon as the Naruto clones appeared they began swarming Kakashi. Sakura and Sasuke jumped out of the way as the Naruto clones swarmed around them.
Kakashi swiftly made his way through all the clones. He didn't notice that they were getting him pushed back into a triple tripwire. Once he set it off, it was too late and he was caught into a chakra infused net. Sakura quickly grabbed the bells from his belt just before Kakashi cut himself lose.
Just as he freed himself from the trap, the alarm clock went off.
"The three of you are good. I didn't expect that at all." Kakashi replied truthfully. "so Sakura who are you going to give the other bell to?"
"To both of them, after all they did most of the work." Sakura said throwing them each a bell.
"No way Sakura, you did a lot during the test. You can have my bell." Naruto said throwing his bell back to her.
"No you don't Naruto, you can have my bell." Sasuke passed him the bell he was holding. "After all it was mostly your plan."
"You don't have to worry about it, all three of you pass!" Kakashi replied.
"The reason for this test is for teamwork, but the three of you already knew that didn't you."
"Of course we know, after all you have to look underneath the underneath." Naruto replied with a foxy grin.
"That is correct. Those who abandon the mission are trash. But those who abandon your comrades are worse than trash." Kakashi explained to them.
The three genin smiled and smirked in Sasuke's case at his words.
"We will meet tomorrow at the bridge over there at 7am." Kakashi said pointing to a bridge a few yards away. "Later". Kakashi waved before disappearing in a swirl of leaves.
"That was quite fun don't you think?" Naruto asked his friends.
"A drowning fish Naruto? That's the best you got?" Sakura replied.
"I thought it was funny! Have you heard the excuses Kakashi has given us?"
"The others with be here soon, Sakura why don't you go get the picnic supplies. Naruto and I can clean up the training grounds." Sasuke explained before another argument started.
Sakura nodded before leaving the two best friends alone. Hopefully they don't start fighting while she was gone.
It normally happened if she left the two of them alone long enough. Sometimes they just did it for fun too.
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