Hey-o! Sorry for it being so long for the update, but there's so much that I have been doing. Anyway, I hope that this makes it up.

Chapter Four: Team and Test

Naruto sat in his usual spot in the back of the classroom. He rubbed his sore muscles while knowing who caused it. 'What did you do yesterday night, Menma?'

'Nothing, just the usual business.' Menma told back.

Naruto rolled his eyes and looked at the brown haired girl looking at him. 'Wait, didn't she fail her test?'

Menma mentally rolled his eyes at Naruto. 'I don't know, I rarely pay attention to anything in you Academy.'

Naruto looked at the front of the class to see Iruka walk into the room. "Okay, class, please quiet down as I read out the teams."

Once everyone was silent, Iruka started to read out the names. "Team Seven will be Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura," A cheer erupted from the crowd of newly-graduated Genin for not having the two most depressing teammates. "And Uzumaki Naruto."

Naruto slumped his head, banging it onto his desk. He could feel a red mark forming but ignored it. 'I might die.'

Naruto heard Iruka dismiss everyone for lunch and ignored everyone leaving. He could hear Menma laughing in his head. 'Hey, know that you will be hearing her all the time too.'

The laughing stopped and grumbling replaced it. Naruto shook his head. 'Anyway, what am I going to learn to get stronger?'

'I'm glad you asked.' Menma spoke with a clear smile. 'I will have you learn various jutsu first. I don't care what jutsu you can't learn but we will learn a lot. Then you will learn to master that Sharingan.

'Despite what people say of the Cycle of Hatred that forms from obtaining the Sharingan, you won't kill your closest friend to get the Mangekyo. You have me so it protects you no matter what. Especially your loyalty to your friends and precious people help keep it away.'

Naruto mentally nodded. 'What then?'

'We'll see when we get to it.' Menma said with a sigh. 'Let's just focus on the jutsu.'

Naruto looked up to see everyone coming in. He glanced at the time and saw that it was close to the time that the sensei's would be coming.

XXX Time skip - two hours XXX

Naruto gripped his hair after looking at the clock for the zillionth time. "Where the hell is he?!"

Naruto seethed as he stared at the clock, expecting a genjutsu to be on it. 'I will kill our sensei.'

The door suddenly opened and the three Genin looked in that direction. They saw a man in the average Jonin attire; a blue long-sleeved shirt, dark green flak jacket, blue pants, and blue sandals. He wore a mask to cover the lower part of his face, from the bridge of his nose down. He had gravity-defying, spiky silver hair spread in all directions and one onyx eye since the other was covered by his headband.

Naruto stared at the man. 'What's with his face? All I can see is his eye and hair.'

Menma was silent in Naruto's head before muttering darkly, 'Fuck.'

Naruto narrowed his eyes in confusion and shock. 'What's wrong?'

'That man…he's an Anbu. One that I encountered when you awoke me.' Menma spoke in a dark voice. 'I killed his partner. He wants to know who I am since then because I out-showed him.'

Naruto nodded. 'Alright, I'll make sure he doesn't find out.'

'I doubt you'll be able to. He is good at what he does, and he'll find out sometime. I only hope he'll consider your well being before me.'

"Come on, dobe." Sasuke called out to the distracted blonde.

Naruto looked up and followed his teammates out. Once he was at the roof he saw Kakashi leaning on the railing. They all walked over and sat down in front of the man. He smiled at them. "Alright. I want us to get to know each other first. So I want you to tell me your name, your likes, dislikes, hobbies, and goals."

"Can you elaborate for us, sensei?" Sakura asked in a moment of being an idiot. "How about you tell us about yourself."

"Well," Kakashi scratched his cheek. "My name is Hatake Kakashi. I like many things, and I hate other things. I have many hobbies, and…I don't have much of a goal in life."

The three Genin sweat-dropped. 'All we learned about was his name.'

"Okay." Kakashi said with a smile. "You're first, Pinky."

Sakura scowled. "My name is Haruno Sakura. I like…" She stole a glance at Sasuke before giggling. "My hobbies are…" She looked at Sasuke again before getting into another giggling fit. "And I wish to be married to…"

You get the point.

Kakashi was unimpressed. He knew of this girl being weak and knew that he had to do something about it but what he didn't know was that she was a fangirl. 'This is nothing like what I had in mind.' He sighed and pointed to Sasuke while he rested his head on his palm. "Your turn, broody."

"My name is Uchiha Sasuke. I like some things, and I hate other things. My hobby is training to get stronger to kill him." Kakashi scowled. "My goal, you can't really call it that; it's more of an ambition. I am going to bring back the Uchiha clan and kill a certain man."

Naruto narrowed his eyes. 'Who? I don't believe I irritated him that much, right?'

Kakashi shook his head before pointing to Naruto. "You now, sunshine."

Naruto scowled with narrow eyes. "My name is Uzumaki Naruto. I like ramen, training, my friends, and Jiji. I don't hate a lot of things and when I do, it seems they aren't around too long after that."

'Yup.' Menma said with a smirk.

"My hobbies are learning and hanging out with my friends. My goal is-" Naruto almost said to get strong and form a group of allies. "To become Hokage."

Sasuke slapped himself in the head, Sakura glared at him, and Kakashi just smiled. 'He's just like you, sensei.' He then clapped his hands. "Okay, I would say that we should have my test, but by just hearing you I know what'll happen."

"What do you mean?" Sakura asked.

"I mean, out of all the students that pass, only a few are able to move on. It's a very low chance and I know that you are among those who fail."

"You want a bet!" Naruto yelled out. "I bet we could pass your little test no sweat at all."

"Oh?" Kakashi asked amused. "Fine. Come back tomorrow at the spot on these papers. Make sure you don't eat unless you want to puke."

Naruto took the paper and looked at it before leaving. 'I'll show him.'

'This was what he wanted...' Menma sweat-dropped at the blonde.

XXX Time Skip XXX

Naruto walked into the clearing he was supposed to be at. He looked around to find none of his teammates or sensei. "Where are they?"

'They won't be here for another hour, or three in your sensei's case.' Menma spoke. 'I wanted to get started on your training with the jutsu you found this morning. I want you to start having your Sharingan activated always now.'

'But what about the villagers and Sasuke? How would I explain it when they ask?' Naruto asked in confusion as he pulled out the scroll from the morning.

'It doesn't matter. You won't ever have to tell them. Ninja's keep secrets and they can't say you stole it and killed an Uchiha because they're all dead already.'

Naruto nodded, activated his three-tomoe Sharingan, and opened the scroll. "Water Clone Jutsu."

An hour later both Sasuke and Sakura came to the muddy field that was their training grounds.

"What happened here?" Sakura asked before seeing Naruto on the ground sleeping.

Sasuke walked over, bent down, and poked Naruto on his chest. "Hey, dobe, wake up. What did you do to this field?"

Naruto's Sharingan eyes shot open and bore into Sasuke's onyx eyes. Sasuke flew himself back in shock and surprise. "What the hell!"

Naruto sat up and stared at the other boy. "What?"

"Your eyes!" Sasuke yelled. "It's the Sharingan! How the hell do you have the Sharingan!"

Naruto rubbed the back of his head, muttering under his breath. He stood up and turned to pick up the scroll on the ground. He heard a screech from behind him. "Don't ignore Sasuke-kun, baka!"

Naruto deactivated his Sharingan but heard a large ringing in his head. "What the fuck?!"

Sasuke and Sakura looked at Naruto in shock and worry when he fell to the ground. They rushed to him and turned him over so he laid on his back. His eyes were ocean blue again and he was squinting. 'What was that, Menma?'

'Just the effects of deactivating your Sharingan. I blew a whistle that I manifested in your mind and if you ever deactivate the Sharingan I will blow this whistle. Now, activate it or I blow.'

Naruto activated the Sharingan and sat up. 'Just so you know, that sounded wrong.'

"Naruto." Sasuke got his attention. "Why do you have the Sharingan?"

"I…I can't tell."

"Why the hell not?"

"I just can't, okay!" Naruto yelled.

Suddenly, a cloud of smoke exploded in the clearing and blew away to show Kakashi. He took one look at them and noticed Naruto. "What the…"

"Don't you dare ask!" Naruto yelled at him. "Can we get to the test so I can show you that I can be a ninja?"

Kakashi nodded. "Sounds fair. Anyway, the test is simple. All you have to do is take these two bells away from me and you'll pass. You'll have two hours"

"But, sensei, there's only two bells." Sakura pointed out when Kakashi pulled out two bells and a timer.

"Very perceptive." Kakashi told the girl. "That is because only two of you will pass on to being Genin while the other goes back to the Academy."

"But Genin teams are made up of three." Sakura informed the man.

"Yes, the two that pass will be separated into a different team as to make it three." Kakashi thought up at the top of his head. "Anyway, start!"

Naruto just stared at Kakashi as his teammates ran. "Why are they hiding? You're a Jonin so you could sniff us out no problem."

Kakashi smiled. "Yup. So, are you going to hide or fight head on?"

"What's the point? Head on!" Naruto yelled before a shadow clone formed and ran at Kakashi. He sent a quick punch to the man but it was easily slapped away. He then sent a punch, kick, shadow clone, punch and kick, and then a punch. He was launched back from Kakashi's counter punch.

"At least you would have lasted longer if you did what your teammates did." Kakashi said before walking away.

'Want me to take care of him?' Menma asked, but Naruto shook his head while getting on his hands and knees.

'No...I've got him. I need to handle my own battles.'

'Fair enough.' Menma spoke and receded away. 'Until near the end, you can handle this yourself. If you don't have a bell ten minutes before the bell rings, I'll do it myself.'

'Fine.' Naruto said before getting up. Kakashi looked surprised to say the least.

"Gonna keep going?" He asked getting a nod from Naruto. He smiled under his mask and closed his book. "Fine. I have a feeling to actually go serious on you this time."

Naruto quickly went through hand signs he practiced so many times. "Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu!"

The large fireball raced at Kakashi before engulfing him. Naruto smirked, but Menma felt otherwise. Naruto looked at the spot where Kakashi was but noticed the wood chips littered across the dirt. 'Substitution!'

Naruto then looked everywhere around him. "Up? Left? Right? Where?"

"Down." A muffled voice said before grabbing onto Naruto's ankle and dragging him down.

Naruto struggled with trying to pull his arms from their confinement beside him while Kakashi easily got out of it. The man smiled at Naruto. "Sit tight the day will be over in no time."

Naruto smirked. "Well, the good thing about being me is…" Suddenly, another Naruto latched himself onto Kakashi. "that I'm unpredictable."

The Naruto in the hole vanished into a cloud of smoke as the real one quickly made more while holding onto Kakashi. Ten more appeared around Kakashi and Naruto before scrambling onto Kakashi, one grabbing onto a bell.

Once Kakashi heard the sound of the bell he knew his test was going to fail. He quickly got one of the clones on his legs off and followed with a quick elbow to the clone on his right arm that left him winded. He used his free hand to rip the clone from his left hand, throwing it against the tree, and started to do the same to the rest.

All that was left from the annihilation of clone Naruto's was the one still attached to Kakashi's back. The blonde chuckled nervously. He let go just as he swiped the bells away from Kakashi and dashed away. "Let's agree for a draw!"

Kakashi stared with wide eyes before running after the blonde. He would have had the advantage of being an ex-Anbu, but the blonde was swift and agile. Which was horribly combined with his natural speed. He was within hands reach before the bell rung signalling the end of the test. 'Fuck.'

Naruto skidded to a stop and grinned at the man. "I win!"

"So you do." Kakashi smiled and sighed.

R&R