Icarus Chapter 3 – Rise of the King

Hello one and all, Iskander Mandoraekon here with a new chapter for my Icarus story, in this chapter Team Seven will be performing their team's genin test and possibly starting the Tora hunts.

Also before we begin, I have a list of teams since we did add Fuu to the mix.

Team 7

Naruko Uzumaki

Sasuke Uchiha

Sakura Haruno

Kakashi Hatake

Team 8

Shino Aburame

Choji Akimichi

Fuu

Tenzo Yamato

Team 10

Shikamaru Nara

Kiba Inuzuka

Ino Yamanaka

Asuma Sarutobi

Team 12

Hinata Hyuga

Kurenai Yuhi

I decided to remove Choji from the usual Ino-Shika-Cho idea, because really, their parents were well known for their combination and techniques that it is highly unlikely that the other countries haven't made counter measures against them by now.

Now, I am still in College and I just wrote this chapter up to help settle my mind from all the crap that's being shoved into my poor noggin, so don't expect too many updates. That's all for now, have fun reading!

I do not own the Fate/Stay Night or Naruto

Training Ground Seven; Next Day

Naruko sighed as she sat on a tree branch near the entrance of the training grounds that had been specified by her new sensei. She was partially obscured from the view of her two grumbling teammates by a clump of leaves, though from what she'd seen so far, niether the useless fangirl or the heralded 'genius' had even thought of looking up to begin with.

Looking up idly from her newest book on the seals recovered from Uzushio after its downfall towards the large black stone directly across the large clearing from her, the heir of Arturia watched her new sensei read the third-rate smut known as Icha-Icha Paradise while burning incense for the fallen names written on the stone, probably waiting for the best time to 'arrive' just to see the pissed off faces of his newest vict-students.

Something Naruko was sure would be very loud and very annoying, if the Haruno and Uchiha got any further wound up.

And so they spent the next three hours waiting for something to happen. Or in the case of Naruko, taking an hour long nap after growing tired of studying the seal book at the second hour mark.

"Grr!" The howler monkey of the new team snarled as she paced around, her hands obviously trying to choke out an invisible man. "I am going to kill Kakashi-sensei and Uzumaki-baka when they show up!"

Sasuke's barely hidden snort that was missed by his fangirl at her declaration clearly showed what his thoughts on her ability to do so was, especially against the strongest girl of the class and a Jounin-ranked shinobi.

Deciding that she'd humor the two lost idiots after listening to a few more of the pinkette's angry threats upon being snapped awak by her loud declaration and witnessing her sensei rise from the stone to start his small journey over to his newest genin, Naruko jumped down from the branch she'd been on, landing between the two genin wannabies and getting the fangirl to jump in shock at the blonde's appearance.

"Uzumaki-san! Why are you LATE!" Sakura screeched, her flexing hands showing her need to vent some anger, consequences be damned, even if it was the girl that always kicked her ass around the ring in the Academy spars.

"My apologies, I was lost on the road of life," she said with a bored look on her face just as Kakashi appeared behind her in a swirl of dramatic leaves. "Isn't that right, Kakashi-sensei?"

The Jounin merely gave her an unimpressed look at her witty line, before he turned to his other students, "Ah, a very problematic route that road can be. It takes great fortitude and much training to transverse it safely."

Naruko sighed at the man's counter to her jab, before leveling a look at the Uchiha and Haruno of her new team, "By the way, the next time you feel like complaining during a rather long wait about somebody else being late, just look up. I've been sitting above the two of you for the past three hours."

The two of them twitched at her words. The Haruno possessing a pained look on her face at the idea of the Uzumaki heiress having heard her threats, while Sasuke seemed to gain an unhealthy twitch at the idea of having not noticed the girl, despite his 'superior' abilities.

Kakashi ignored the banter between the two of them as he reached into his back pouch and pulled out an alarm clock, just knowing that its existance and the fact that it was in his possession would be pissing off the emo and his fangirl; upon leading the three prospective genin to the posts that he had been standing at earlier, the cyclopean Jounin set it on the middle post.

Turning back to the genin, he reached back into his pouch and pulled out two small bells along with a small scroll, which he attached to his belt via their strings and then unsealed two bentos.

"Now then, I am sure you're all wondering about the test that I mentioned yeasterday," the Hatake said as he turned to face them with an eyesmile. "This test is rather simple and has been used since the time that the Sandaime taught the three Sannin of Legend; all the three of you have to do, is take one of these two bells from me. The one who doesn't get a bell will be sent back to the academy for remedial training in order to try again next year."

That statement was accompanied by three different reactions from the newbie genin; Sasuke's obsidian colored eyes became narrowed into a glare at the older man and his teeth ground together, the Uchiha determined to gain the bells in order to pass this step in his journey to kill his brother.

Sakura had become rather pale, her earlier confidence wavering as she finally took note that both of her teammates outmatched her in everyway and Naruko, merely possessed a small frown as she noticed something off in the man's statement.

"But Sensei, there are only two bells!" Sakura exclaimed as she snuck worried glances at her teammates, wondering if they'd force her to be the one to return to the Academy.

"What is the time limit?" Naruko asked as she ignored the worried looks from the other kunoichi of the team. "And what are we allowed to use during the test?"

"The time limit ends at noon," Kakashi said, his eye-smile returning at the intelligent questions displayed from the Uzumaki of the team. "You can use any weapons you want, however, if you destroy anything then you will have to pay for repairs. The only rule is that killing is not allowed."

"Damn…" The blonde tsked in annoyance, she had been hoping to try out some of Tenten's experimental explosive tags that they'd been working on in the last year.

For some reason, Sasuke and Sakura felt a tremor of relief flood down their spines, like they'd been spared from a horrifying and embaressing fate.

"Oh, before I forget," the silver haired Jounin continued, catching their attention. "Whomsoever doesn't get a bell from me before the time limit is up, or is simply the only one to not get a bell, will be tied to the middle post and will be forced to watch as the others eat their meals in front of you."

Two stomachs gurgled in hunger at that announcement, with both Sakura and self-absorbed Uchiha only now realizing why the man had told them not to eat.

"Naruko?" Kakashi asked with a frown beneath his mask as he looked at the blonde of Team Seven when he took notice that he hadn't heard a rumble from her stomach. "I believe that I told you not to eat."

"Unlike pinky, I don't deliberatly starve myself just to look good for a stuck up brat who holds a problem with his ego outstripping the size of his manhood," Naruko said with a taunting smirk towards the two glaring genin. "Breakfast is considered the most important meal of the day by ninja and civilians alike, and it is ridiculous to follow advice like that in this line of work."

'Ok, guess she is Kushina's daughter, through and through,' Kakashi thought as a small sweatdrop formed on the back of his head at the reminder of the terrifying Habanero, it was a very Kushina answer. "Now then, as I said before, the three of you can use any weapons you have, also remember to come at me with the intention to kill or you won't get anywhere."

"But Sensei, what if you get hurt?" Sakura gasped in worried shock, making Naruko choke off a laugh at the thought of the girl actually thinking that three newly minted genin could possibly even harm a battle-hardened Jounin who'd participated in the Third War during his youth.

Kakashi gave a mirthless chuckle while palming his masked face over getting an idiot for a student. 'How the hell did she nearly get this far in the Academy!?'

"Trust me; I think I'm good enough to avoid getting hurt by a newbie like you," He said with a mocking chuckle at the pinkette's worried look before he locked a serious look at the three of them. "Now then, get ready, set, and go!"

Two of the genin shot off, disappearing into the grove of trees.

'Well at least the two of them know how to hide,' Kakashi thought to himself as he cast his senses out to check his surroundings, only to sweat drop as he turned to look at the blonde that had stayed behind. "You know, compared to the others you're a little weird."

"It would be rather pointless to hide from a skilled Jounin especially someone that has been chosen as a potential Hokage candidate, Kakashi no Sharingan," Naruko said as she cocked her head slightly. "You know, reading your file was very useful and talking to your 'eternal rival' let me learn a lot about you. How did you like your favorite line being used before you could use it?"

'So that was how she was able to give an accurate statement about myself yesterday on the rooftop,' Kakashi thought as a twitch formed under his eye. 'Damn you Gai, wonder if she knows the answer to the test now. But she is right, it is pointless to hide from me, since I do know where the others are.'

"Well you're certainly smarter than your teammates," he commented, taking note that a small frown had come onto her face as if she knew what he was going to say next. "I guess your title as a genius holds true, so now what are you going to do?"

Naruko surprised the man when she growled at the 'genius' title, "There is no such thing as a genius or a prodigy to me, I am simply someone who learns faster than others and works harder than most to get where I am today, the same could be said of Rock Lee of Team Nine and his teammates."

Kakashi gave a small smile that was hidden under his mask, that had been an answer his Late teacher would have given him if he had asked the man when he was still alive and he was glad to see that the title given to her by many of her teachers and the shinobi of the village hadn't gone to her head, unlike it clearly had with the sole Uchiha survivor. "Well, well, that's a very mature outlook on that subject, but, I'll ask again, what are you going to do now? You still have to get a bell from me to pass this test."

He almost didn't like the devious smile that she gave him before she stuck her hands out in a childlike fashion with her head tilted cutely before her blue eyes taking on a big doe look.

"Can I have a bell?"

The act and question caught the older ninja off guard for a moment, before he managed to collect himself, "Um, no, sorry."

"Damn," She pouted cutely as she dropped her hands back to her sides. "Oh well, it was worth a shot."

Suddenly she burst into smoke, startling the man slightly before he waved away the smoke and began looking around for his missing student, wondering when she had switched since, he was sure that she had been within his sight the entire time since he met with his prospective students, 'A Kage Bunshin? I shouldn't be surprised, she has been known to use its variants in her tests at the Academy when tested for the clone jutsus, and it looks like she knows the secret to it's memory retention ability, she's certainly a diamond in the rough.'

He then sighed as he cricked his neck to the side, getting a nice pop, before he walked off into the forest that his other two students had disappeared into, looking for his first victim of the day.

He found the other girl of the team shortly after leaving the field as he walked into a small clearing in the forest. The civilian girl was hiding like a rank amateur, again, making him wonder how she even passed the field tests and how many standards the Academy had dropped since his time as a student.

However brief his stay may have been…

Kakashi sighed silently and rubbed his face in exasperation without removing his lone eye from the pages of his beloved book. He could literally feel the pinkette watching him.

"Sakura, look behind you," the man said without turning his head, freaking the girl out, when she turned around and found a clone of her new teacher standing right next to her staring right into her wide green eyes, the bunshin formed a single hand sign and hundreds of leaves circled around the booksmart kunoichi. Her eyes grew distant, showing that his genjutsu was taking effect.

After a few moments of silence, during which Kakashi had wandered off to find the Uchiha of the group, Sakura blinked and looked around the clearing in confusion, unable to locate her teacher anywhere.

Sighing after struggling to find any trace of the Jounin and failing, she shrugged it off and began walking forward to see if she could find her crush, 'Now then, let's find Sasuke-kun and show him how good of a kunoichi I am.' She thought gleefully only to hear huffing and puffing behind her.

Excited, Sakura turned around to find the 'love' of her life kneeling on the ground and she started towards the boy with fangirlish glee in her emerald eyes, "Sasuke-ku-!"

She stopped abruptly in an instant and stared in disbelief at all the wounds that her 'beloved' had across his body. Sticking out of several different points of his body were dozens of kunai and shuriken, each type of the weapons sticking from his arms, legs and back, and on his right arm, the sole Uchiha of the Hidden Leaf was missing his wrist and hand, the limb severed at the elbow.

When he caught sight of her, he began wheezing and coughing up blood, "Sakura… p-please… help… m… e…"

The slip of a girl froze up in place and after a minute of terrified silence accompanied by Sasuke's pleas for help, Sakura screamed louder than any moment of her life before that moment and plopped down backwards into the dirt, her eyes having gone a pure white while she was foaming at the mouth unconscious.

Kakashi looked down from the tree branch he was in across the clearing from Sakura, when he heard a large thud and found himself looking down from his book to see the collapsed girl.

"Hmm…" He rubbed his chin thoughtfully whilst sweatdropping. "Perhaps I overdid it a bit with that illusion…"

With Sasuke

Sasuke sighed and shook his raven colored head when he heard Sakura scream in terror off in the distance, sneering in disdain at the fate of the fangirl, 'I knew she would be the first to go.'

"What was the Hokage thinking of by putting me, an Uchiha, a member of the Elite, with such lowly trash?"

He then jumped when he noticed Kakashi leaning casually against a tree to his left, flipping through the pages of his orange book, while giggling perversely.

Staring at the older man, Sasuke gave a sigh while looking up at the sky with an annoyed look about being placed on a team with such a lowlife, before reaching into his pouch and throwing a couple shuriken at the occupied man.

However, any sense of victory for the Uchiha was lost when, not even looking up from his book, Kakashi caught the weapons with his fingers going through the holes in the middle of each star.

"I am not like the rest of them," Sasuke growled out, trying to intimidate the elder man.

Kakashi merely chuckled at another line in his book before nodding slightly in Sasuke's general direction, "Maybe~."

The Uchiha growled and silently glared at the man for his blatant dismissal of the skills he had been working on since the massacre of his clan. Reaching behind his back, Sasuke pulled out several kunai and launched them at his new teacher, only to become further annoyed when the man merely dodged the weapons by simply angling his body like it was nothing to him.

Sighing as he came back to rest against the tree he had started out on, Kakashi glanced up for the first time from his book and said, "It's going to take a lot more than that if you want to get a bell."

Sasuke merely smirked and Kakashi glanced back in boredom to see one of the knives hit a thin wire and setting off a trap that launched several dozen weapons, ranging from shuriken, kunai and sharpened stakes, all of which the Jounin evaded with relative ease, slightly impressed that the boy had managed to make him move a mere three feet from his original spot.

"Perhaps I should take you seriously," the silver haired Jounin said with a sigh as he shut his book for the first time since he left Naruko next to the logs.

Emboldened by the man's 'praise', Sasuke smirked in pride and began sprinting towards the shinobi, before leaping up and kicking at the man only for Kakashi to grab his extended leg and pull him off balance with minimal effort. Eyes widening, Sasuke used the sudden momentum to try and slug his teacher, before the elder man caught his fist as well.

Smirking, the emo wannabe reached out with his remaining hand and tapped the bells that hung from the Jounin's vest, making the older man's eye widen.

Quickly, Kakashi threw the Uchiha away from him, thus saving the bells from the younger man's grasp.

Smirking while he landed on his hands and feet like a cat, Sasuke began weaving hand signs for a jutsu and the Hatake's eyes widened in surprise, 'He shouldn't be able to mold his chakra enough for an attack like that just yet.'

The Uchiha finished the handsigns and brought his right hand up to his mouth like he was enjoying a ciggarette, before exclaiming, "Fire Style: Grand Fireball!"

While impressed by the size of the fireball that raced from the young genin's mouth, Kakashi still evaded it like the jutsu was moving in slow motion, disappearing into the dirt and leaving the once smirking boy stumped on where he could be when the fire dissapated and he found no trace of a charred corpse or log.

Taking initive to try and locate his sensei before the man could dispatch him, Sasuke quickly took in his surroundings, trying to find any trace of where the silver haired man could be hiding, "Where is he? Left? Right? To the back? Above?"

"Try below..."

Sasuke's onyx colored eyes widened in surprise and shock as Kakashi's hands burst out of the ground and gripped the duck-ass haired boy by the ankles. "NNNooOOOooOOO!" The almost Rookie of the Year screamed as he suddenly felt himself submerge into the ground, with only his head remaining free from his new prison.

The Uchiha heirling glared up as he saw his teacher's sandalled feet resting in front of him and the older man spoke, gleefully making the child's glare intensify, "You know what they always say; the nail that sticks up the most, will always be the first to be hammered back down."

To add insult to injury, the man tapped his foot on the avenger's forehead, before stalking off and pulling his Icha-Icha back out of his side pouch and giving a giggle at the scenarios inside.

At the Training Ground's memorial stone

Naruko sighed with annoyance when she heard a high-pitched scream that could only come from her new kunoichi teammate, 'So Sakura was the first to be taken down, naturally the Uchiha will be next, due to the idea of attacking Kakashi-sensei head-on thinking to prove that the Uchiha are superior to everyone,' she then sighed and made a handsign, forming a Kage Bunshin next to her that ran off into the forest. 'Well might as well see if I can smack some sense into the mentally challenged idiot.'

Naruko's clone

A mere minute after the clone left the original, the Bunshin walked into the clearing just as the infamous Copy-Cat Ninja left Sasuke buried up to his neck in the ground.

"Well, well," she said with an amused smirk as her blue eyes stared down at the glaring avenger with mockery clear in her gaze. "I wonder if you can bite your dear brother to death like that?"

When she recieved his answer in the form of an irritated growl, she grinned, her inner prankster coming out to play, "If you say please, I'll help you out of your hole, Uchiha-san."

"I am an Uchiha," he snarled up at her, rage clear in his dark eyes at the thought of being forced to beg for help from someone he saw as beneath him. "I am an elite, I don't need any help!"

Shortly after his proclaimation, he began wiggling in the ground in an attempt to free himself much to Naruko's growing amusement, before after a short struggle he sighed and swallowed his Konoha-sized ego, "Please get me out, Uzumaki."

"Uzumaki-sama."

Oh how she was loving this!

This would definantly be a fun story to tell Fuu and Tenten later…

It might even make Shikamaru stay awake for once from laughing, too.

Training Ground 4, Sametime

Shikamaru gave a loud sneeze from where he was laying in a heep against several fallen logs that his new sensei had put him through. He looked up at the sky from his spot in the dirt and wiped his nose with a lazy finger, 'I wonder who's talking about me…'

That was when he noticed that he had completely made his 'playing dead' moment to get out of training moot by his movements and paled as he saw that Asuma's attention was back on him after dealing with Kiba.

"Mommy."

Back with the clone

The Uchiha's face turned a deep red, bordering on purple at her correction, before biting out, "Please get me out of the ground, Uzu…ma…ki…sama…"

"Was that so hard now, Uke-chan~?" The cheeky clone asked as she formed another clone with a simple handsign and had it switch with him.

Turning away once freed, he was about to run off in search of their elusive teacher for a rematch, when she grabbed his shoulder. "Say thanks at least, you spoilt brat."

She really hated this idiot, he always got anything he wanted and ends up showing no gratitude at the end of it. Annoyed at his lack of response when he tried to shrug off her hand, she squeezed harder and he fell to his knees from the pain.

"Th-thanks, now let me go!" Sasuke demanded through the pain and she threw him to the ground with a disgusted look on her face at his arrogance.

Growling, Sasuke quickly returned to his feet with the intent to attack the girl but, she had already dispelled and he stormed off to find Kakashi and have another go at getting a bell.

Naruko looked up at Kakashi with boredom in her blue eyes when the man finally returned to the posts after taking care of her prospective teammates and her clone's rather amusing memories of the situation with the Uchiha returned, like the elder ninja wasn't worth the effort of raising her sword in challenge.

Looking at her calm, seated form where he had left earlier to take down Sasuke and Sakura, Kakashi raised an eyebrow at the waiting kunoichi. "I guess you are ready for your own test?"

She sighed as she dropped her arm down to her side, summoning something shaped like a sword, yet hidden from his eye by what looked like ever-flowing wind. "I suppose you could be a worthy opponent, I see no reason not to take you seriously, unlike Haruno and the recently discovered Uchiha flower."

Kakashi chuckled at the memory of planting the Uchiha in the ground, holding back his flinch at the sight, or rather missing sight, of the invisible blade in her hand.

"Shall we?" asked Naruto.

Naruko immediately activated her reinforcement all over her petite body and dodged his first strike by a hair as the man shot towards her with a kunai in each hand, then she slipped into the Taijutsu stance Gai had taught her and whipped out a strong kick to Kakashi's exposed side, which he, in turn, dodged and captured the extended limb with his outstretched hand, only to let go with a grimace of pain when she applied the Invisible Air to her foot and the razor sharp wind sliced into his hand.

Kakashi jumped back and took a brief glance at the cut up palm, wondering how she did that, when he couldn't feel any spike in her chakra.

"First blood goes to me, Kakashi-san," Naruko said as she took up another stance and held her blade out in front of her with both hands on the hilt.

He pouted at her true words before dodging as the Uzumaki made two clones and they performed the Water Trumpet jutsu, leading to the Jounin evading the two jets of pressurized water and as he did, slightly watching as they carved gouges out of a couple trees.

He then performed a quick replacement to dodge a whip made of water, and popped the clone to his left with a quick stab to the back of the neck, before being forced to dodge a swipe of the sword from the original.

They continued in a fierce battle of taijutsu and kenjutsu, where she made three more clones who charged in with random taijutsu stances she had learned from Kurama's memories of his original host. Since he was so occupied with the group of clones and Naruko ganging up on him, the Jounin never noticed that the strings holding the bells to his belt were cut by an extension of her invisible air.

Taking note of them as they fell, Naruko stopped short and allowed the man to kick her in the stomach, launching her back to land in a crouch over them while he expertly dispatched most of her clones.

She discreetly picked them up and leapt away before forcing her remaining clones explode with her newly acquired clone explosion jutsu, to which Kakashi quickly performed another replacement with yet another log, making her idly wonder if they simply had entire pile of already pre-cut, perfectly cut logs lying about somewhere in the village.

'Hmm, I'd say she was already at least mid-Chunin level in hand-to-hand combat, but, I guess that's what happens when you hang around Gai and his team of misfits for a year,' Kakashi thought to himself just as he came out of the bushes to have another go at fighting the retreating blonde, clearly having enjoyed the fight with her, not noticing that the bell strings had long since been cut.

Just as he was about to follow after her to test her skills with genjutsu as he noticed her slip into the forest on the opposite side of the clearing, the alarm went off, sending a loud blast of rings throughout the training ground, calling the newly minted genin back to him.

Fifteen Minutes later

As they arrived at the wooden posts, with the still unconcious Sakura slumped over Naruko's back. Kakashi quickly hogtied the Haruno to the post and much to the girl's teammates' enjoyment slapped her awake, sadly it wasn't really that hard of a hit.

"Huh, ow, that hurt! Wait why am I tied to the post!?" Sakura shrieked, clearly annoyed at the circumstance that she found herself in, taking note of her crush and Naruko sitting on either side of her.

"Are you serious?" The Uzumaki of the team asked increduously. "You did nothing for the entire test, but scream and faint while under the effects of a rather simple genjutsu that we were taught about in the Academy, so why even ask?"

Sakura just sent a green eyed glare at her blunt teammate, even though she knew the blonde to be correct.

Amused by their argument, but wishing to nip it in the bud before it could go further so that he could get away to get some dango before meeting the Hokage for the debriefing, Kakashi coughed to get their attention. "Well, since it seems that none of you got a bell, yo-"

Before he could continue with his usual speech that ended with the failure of the teams he was always saddled with, he heard a pair of jingles and found himself looking over to his left to see Naruko dangling both of the bells in her hand.

"Do I pass Kakashi-sensei?" The girl asked with an impish smile that had Kushina after a prank written all over it in Kakashi's mind as the man deadpanned at the sight.

Sakura was clearly shocked, while Sasuke was seething at the sight and Kakashi sighed as he looked down to his waist and palmed his face, remembering their fight and the strange wind technique she had used to cut his hand, the girl probably having used that weird wind technique to cut them so he wouldn't notice while being preoccupied with her clone's assault.

"I guess so," the Jounin said with a sigh as he realized that he might just have to have a team this year. "Who do you choose to pass with you, Naruko?"

"Niether," She said, much to the combined shocked looks of her fellow genin hopefuls, before she crushed the two bells in her hand. "Now there are no bells, which means no conflict between teammates and now, we're your students, correct?"

"Or I could just fail you all right now," Kakashi said with a slightly dramatic sigh that did nothing to fool the kunoichi, while her teammates gained worried looks. "But I guess I'll just have to go get some more bells and test you three again. Naruko, Sasuke, you two may eat your lunches, but don't feed any to Sakura or I will fail the three of you, be back soon~."

And with that joyful sentence with the enjoyable look of horror on the face of the already starving Haruno, he shunshinned away, leaving the three at the posts.

With the team

The two un-tied genin ate their respective lunches in silence as they waited for Kakashi's return, while Sakura's already hungry stomach growled louder than before at the sight and smell of the delicious food.

In the hopes of putting on a brave face for her crush to show that she was worthy of his attention, Sakura tried to put on a charming smile and looked at her crush, "Don't worry Sasuke-kun, I'm fine."

Naruko sighed in annoyance as the pinkette's stomach growled even louder, leading to the Uzumaki sticking her food out in front of the sorry excuse of a kunoichi, before proceeding to feed her some of the deliciously made fish cakes, speaking up when the two genin looked at her with questioning looks on their faces. "Come on Haruno, we need you in top form if we want to be able to fight with Kakashi-sensei later."

"This test is about teamwork," she sighed in exasperation when their inquisitive looks persisted. "But during the test earlier, I knew Uchiha-san wouldn't work with me in an attempt to become the only one that passed and by proxy, neither would you, Haruno, so I didn't try. Now eat up, so we can work together."

Dumbstruck at her reasoning, Sakura nodded to the blonde's words and began eating, with Sasuke reluctantly offering his food shortly after.

Immediately, an explosion erupted in front of the posts causing the three of them to tense in preperation of their angered sensei, Kakashi quickly burst from the smoke cloud with a menacing look on his face, giving him a demonic look. "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING!"

"I'm putting my team first," Naruko said as she stared down their demonic looking teacher. "Their lives are more important than your foolsih rules, rules that would get us all killed if it had come to a mission in enemy territory."

"Oh, and do you two agree with that!"

Sasuke and Sakura could only nod their heads quickly at the man's question, a very questionable wet spot spreading along the Haruno's black, skin-tight shorts.

"Well then," Kakashi growled menacingly as his lone eye locked in a glare down at the three genin. "It seems you… PASS!"

His pleased expression was shared with the Uzumaki and Uchiha, while the Haruno just stared up at the man in shock.

"B-but sensei…" Sakura stammered as she stared up at the silver haired Jounin with shock in her features. "Y-you s-s-said tha-"

"You guys passed because Naruko-chan was willing to break the rules to help a teammate in their time of need rather than follow orders blindly," Kakashi said with his signature eye-smile locked on the mentioned blonde. "It is as she said, this test was to test how well the three of you could work as a team and from her reasoning on why she didn't act on this information sooner, I can see to be sound, because you Sasuke, felt that you alone are superior to both your teammates, despite Naruko-san's clear victory over you in the academy. But you need to remember that you aren't invincible and that there is always someone stronger than you out in the world, and Sakura," he turned his lone brown orb in the direction of the fangirl. "Was too absorbed with finding the object of her crush, to do anything, from either looking for help in her teammates or even trying to defend yourself."

His eye switched over to the Uzumaki of the team, "Naruko on the other hand, did great, though personally I do hope that in the future you have some more confidence in your teammates."

Turning away from the three and walking to the large black monument set in front of them, "You see this stone before you? This is one of our village's Memorial Stones, you can find one in any of the training grounds and by the Hokage Monument." Looking back to see if he had the three genins' attention, he looked back at the stone that had the names of dozens of shinobi engraved into it. "Each one lists all of the shinobi and kunoichi of this village that were killed in action while performing their duty for the village and two of my best friends are on this stone, along with my teacher, the Yondaime Hokage."

Seeing the somber looks on his new students' faces, he gained a sad look in his lone eye as he traced the name of the mentioned Kage that resided on the stone.

"Because they all died in combat to help lead Konoha to a better future," he continued. "I come to this place each and every single day, if I am not on a mission and every time I come here to this place, it helps me remember the mistakes I've made in the past, so that I do not repeat them… and trust me, I've made a lot. This is why I'm telling you to help and support one another as teammates and your other comrades, because you will need each other when the time comes, whether on a mission or in the middle of a war, and to hopefully avoid the mistakes that I have made in the past. Remember that those who break the rules and disobey orders are trash, but those who abandon their comrades are even worse than trash."

He turned to them eye-smiling, "As of today we are now squad seven, I will meet you guys tomorrow at 7 o'clock sharp at the Hokage tower for our first mission, see ya."

With that statement, he disappeared in a puff of smoke.

After cutting Sakura down with a kunai as the pinkette thanked her for helping her pass, the blonde began walking home with a barely restrained smile on her face. She couldn't wait to tell Fuu and Tenten about her new status as an official genin, wondering if Fuu had to go through a similar test.

"Damn Kakashi! What the hell happened to you?" A Jounin wearing black wrap around glasses asked with shock clear on his face when the mentioned Hatake entered the Hokage's office, late as usual.

Kakashi sighed as he walked into the room filled with his fellow Jounin and team leaders, still bearing the scuff marks from his fight with the Uzumaki of his team, his left hand wrapped up in bandages to let the cuts heal.

"Hm, did you say something?"

"Kakashi…" The aged Hokage said tiredly as he leveled a look at the student of his successor/predassesor, while ignoring the distant *shudder* 'Youthful' scream about a 'hip rival' from across the village, saddened that apparently Gai and his team had already returned from their C-rank. "Please answer the question."

"Let's just say that I got a rather promising student that knew what they were doing," the bored Jounin said as he whipped out his Icha-Icha Paradise much to the annoyance of the kunoichi gathered in the room. "And it's not the Uchiha."

"What can you tell me about her skill level?" Hiruzen asked with a chuckle as he caught onto what he was saying.

Kakashi twitched in annoyance as he forced his eye away from the steamy scene in a hot springs between the part-time lovers/best friends Mushina and Fikoto to look at the Sandaime, "She is exceptional when it comes to using kenjutsu and taijutsu, and she knew the meaning behind my test long before either of her teammates did, she even managed to get the bells from me without me noticing."

Ignoring the surprised gasp from some of the new senseis' around him, he continued, "I would have tested her further, however the alarm went off and I had to fetch the rest of the team."

"So I take it that Uzumaki Naruko passes?" Asked the Hokage.

"Her, yes." Kakashi said as he kept his eye on the aged leader of Konoha. "The other two though, in my professional opinion would need a lot more work before I even think they would ever ready to be chunin level, the Haruno especially."

"How did they act when you tested them?" Asuma asked, the man that had just come from beating the newly minted Team Ten into the ground, curious about how the vaunted Uchiha did against the infamous Kakashi no Sharingan.

"The Uchiha and Haruno's actions while waiting for me and Naruko-san to arrive, despite the fact that we had both arrived to the training grounds before them, speak volumes of their personalities and abilities," Kakashi said with an annoyed look on his face as he looked lazily over at the Sandaime's youngest son. "Sakura Haruno is the epitome of what it means to be a fangirl and her voice alone would be enough to get her killed by enemy shinobi while on a mission. As for Sasuke Uchiha… well, let's just say that the reports of him being antisocial from his Anbu guard detail and Inoichi were understated greatly. He openly insulted both of his teammates without attempting to know them in the belief that he was immediately superior to both of them, despite Naruko-san being the only one to manage to injure me, and despite managing to perform fire jutsu, it is clear that his ego is much bigger than any talent he may possess, the only thing truly inspiring him to become strong being the need to violently end his elder brother's life."

Hiruzen sighed at the man's report, silently wishing that somebody, other than Danzo, would take over for him so that he could go back into retirement, unknowingly getting a twitch from an obssessive gambler about to drink another bottle of sake, a perverted novelist sitting next to the fence of a bathhouse and the silver haired Jounin standing in front of him.

While he had seen the new team's interactions before they had graduated due to abusing his crystal ball and sometimes visiting the classroom, he had hoped they would have been able to work together better than this now that they had graduated to full shinobi.

He already knew that Naruko was a very promising kunoichi, from the way she had completely taken the reigns as the Rookie of the class from the Uchiha to her sparring sessions with Neko and even studying fuinjutsu with the recently graduated Tenten Higurashi that occupied a spot on the team of Kakashi's rival.

Unlike her teammates, which were quickly becoming a disappointment in his eyes. She was professional in her duty, stealthy and tricky, misdirecting more experianced shinobi, and apparently skilled enough to even injure one of his best Jounin, even if it was only a few minor cuts while the man was holding back.

To be able to injure an active duty Jounin while still only a recently graduated genin was something he had only seen in the genius' of the past, via Minato Namikaze, Kakashi himself and Itachi Uchiha

If Hiruzen ever met Vivian, he would have tipped his hat to the woman that had taken the girl in and clearly trained her. It was because of the mystery woman that his surrogate granddaughter even had a chance of graduating from the Academy to become a successful kunoichi, the old man just knowing that if she hadn't been taken in, the girl would have probably been sabotauged by her teachers.

"So what is the verdict for squad seven?" Hiruzen asked as he brought his attention back to the present. "Do they pass or not?"

"Uzumaki Naruko? Definately," the only remaining student of the Yondaime said as his eye returned to the book with a perverted giggle forcing its way up much to the displeasure of his female comrades as the book's main character Kinato joined the two beautiful women in a raunchy scene. "There's no way that I am letting her slip through the cracks with that skill, even if I don't really approve of her teammates. I'll have to work hard to get the other two up to snuff later, before I even think about taking them out of the village on any missions above D-rank."

"That's good enough for me," the Hokage said with a smile on his wrinkled face as he marked down team seven as active, happy that he had finally managed to get the lazy Jounin to take a team. "I expect you to be in the mission office first thing in the morning Kakashi."

And we are finished. I hope all of you loyal readers and rare flamers enjoyed this chapter. I originally intended to add in a Tora scene or something along those lines, but after seeing how many pages it took for just this, I decided to stop here.

For those of you wondering about whether or not this will be continued, it has my undying support for a continuation, this story having more success than I thought. So be prepared for this to be uploaded to the main page after I write up chapters four and five.

Iskander Mandoraekon signing off, Ja Ne.