Chapter 4: The Test

Moon of the Leaf

In this story The Leaf 11 and Sasuke (Leaf 12) are all of the same year so there will be 4 graduating teams instead of 3. They will be known as the Rookie 12. Slight AU.

Pairings: NaruHina, SasuSaku, NejiTen, ShikaTema, and ChouIno, as well as OC pairings.

A/N: on a side note, I am a very big follower of the American dub, so I will be using terms and jutsu names in their English dub versions unless it hasn't been translated in the dub or was never translated. If that's the case, I'll use the literal translation of the jutsu. If it's a made up jutsu it will be in English too.

There are things that will not be translated, instead their Japanese names will be used, but I can't tell you what they are because I don't want to spoil future chapters. I will not be using honorifics on people's names.

A/N: Sorry for not updating earlier but I was very busy with some things and distracted by others. By the way I forgot to mention, but in my story, Hinata has longer hair than in the actual series. It's like her hair in Shippuden but shoulder-length instead of waist-length.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any other subject matter that is already owned by someone else

Chapter 4

The next morning, Naruto woke up hungrier than ever. He got dressed and left his apartment without even looking at the kitchen.

On his way to the area that Kakashi had told them to meet at, Naruto saw Kiba and Akamaru walking ahead of him. Kiba turned around and saw Naruto. Then he turned forward and started walking faster so that Naruto wouldn't catch up.

Naruto was thinking about trying his new jutsu to get ahead of Kiba but decided not too.

"He can go ahead, I'll just outshine him today," he thought to himself.

When Naruto reached the training grounds, he saw Kiba and Akamaru hiding behind a bush. Naruto got behind the bush as well and decided to see what Kiba was looking at. It was Hinata.

She was doing what appeared to be a warm up exercise, but what had the two boys' attention was that she wasn't wearing her jacket. She had taken it off and was just wearing a navy blue tank top that was tight on her frame and showed off her curves.

Naruto was mesmerized. Kiba wasn't and was able to notice Naruto looking at Hinata some five feet away from him and Akamaru.

Suddenly, Hinata stopped what she was doing. She turned around and picked up her jacket and put it back on quickly.

"She saw you, you idiot!" Kiba whispered harshly.

"She hasn't noticed anything since I got here, how could she see me?" Naruto whispered back, though more calmly than Kiba.

"Maybe she heard your big clumsy feet!" Kiba said as he got up ready to walk towards wear Hinata was. (A/N: The spot wear the boys are is at the top of a small hill that's near the training area)

"I'll show you big clumsy feet!" Naruto snapped as he tripped Kiba.

Before Kiba fell, he grabbed onto Naruto's shirt and pulled him down too, which resulted in the two boys, plus Akamaru, to roll down the hill.

The two boys and the dog tumbled down the hill and landed right in front of their team-mate.

Naruto hopped up to his feet with a red face. He had never been so embarrassed before. He actually thought Hinata, who was one of his best friends, was actually going to look at him with a look of disappointment or something. But, to his relief, she just giggled at the situation that her team-mates were in.

They all looked at each other and sat quietly by the nearby memorial stone.

It was a stone that had the names of ninja who were killed in battle.

They must have waited for five hours. It was really seven, but who's counting. Kakashi was late like the day before and it was almost noon.

"Sensei's lucky there's no door around here," Naruto thought to himself, a scowl on his face.

Kiba and Hinata were looking drowsy. It wouldn't be too long until they all fell asleep. By now, their stomachs were growling.

"We should have had breakfast," Hinata said in a low voice.

"Yeah," Naruto said, his scowl disappearing from his face, "Kiba, do you smell Kakashi-sensei nearby?" Kiba merely shook his head and Naruto sighed.

Just then, Kakashi appeared in front of them in a cloud of smoke.

"Sorry I'm late," Kakashi said getting glares from Naruto and Kiba, "I brought lunch," which he said holding up three lunch boxes.

As soon as that was said Naruto, Kiba, and Akamaru stood up ready to attack.

"Whoa!" Kakashi said bringing his hand up to stop them, "First you have to take the test."

"What test?" all three genin asked.

"Well, it's just that too many kids graduated from the academy and we, the jonin instructors, must test you, the genin, in order to see which ones deserve to be ninja and which don't," Kakashi answered.

Kakashi took out two small bells from his weapons pouch and held them up for his students to see.

"In order for you to pass and become true ninja, you must take these two bells from me, but be warned, whoever doesn't get a bell will be tied up to a log, won't get any lunch, and will be sent back to the academy," Kakashi said, a serious look on his face.

His three students all had horrified looks on their faces.

Kakashi then took a clock out of his pouch and placed on top of a log.

"You have until two o'clock to get the bells," Kakashi said turning towards his students, "Good luck and remember, you have to come at me with the intention to kill, begin!" and the three disappeared. Kakashi closed his eye and counted to ten, giving his students a chance to hide.

"Nothing to do but stand here and wait," he said to himself as he opened his eye.

Kiba's hiding place was the closest to Kakashi.

"I'll just rush him and get both bells," he thought, "one for me and one for Hinata."

"Ready Akamaru?" His dog growled in agreement.

"LET'S GO!" Kiba yelled as he and Akamaru ran towards Kakashi.

"No you idiot!" Naruto thought looking at Kiba's actions.

Two seconds later, Kiba was flat on his back. One of Kakashi's feet lay on his chest while Akamaru was chewing on Kakashi's ankle. And to add insult to injury, Kakashi was reading the same book as before and hadn't looked away from it the entire time.

"Pathetic," Naruto thought.

"That was quick," thought Hinata who had seen what just happened.

"Lesson 1, Taijutsu," Kakashi said taking his foot off of Kiba's chest.

Kiba then tried to punch his sensei but missed as Kakashi disappeared from in front of him and reappeared behind him crouching with his hands on the tiger hand sign.

"Too slow, Hidden Leaf Village Secret Finger Jutsu: A Thousand Years of Death!" Kakashi said inserting his index fingers into Kiba's rectum sending him flying into a nearby pond. Akamaru ran towards the pond to see if Kiba was okay.

Hinata was disgusted by the sight while Naruto smirked in satisfaction.

"My turn," Naruto thought to himself as he put his hands into the cross-shaped hand sign.

"Shadow Clone Jutsu," he said as three shadow clones appeared behind him.

"Attack," he said signaling his clones towards Kakashi while he stayed behind in his hiding place.

Naruto watched as the silver haired jonin dodged the punches and kicks that the clones threw at him without looking away from his book. Suddenly, Kakashi kicked all three clones away in one kick making them disappear.

"You know a ninja should never give away his position and stay there," Kakashi said in a casual tone.

Naruto cursed under his breath when he realized that Kakashi now knew where he was.

Kakashi then threw a kunai with a paper bomb wrapped around the handle towards the tree that Naruto was hiding in.

"Oh shit!" Naruto yelled as he jumped out of the tree and the tree blew up to pieces.

He was now in the open facing Kakashi.

Said silver haired ninja suddenly disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

Naruto froze. He stood out there like a sitting duck and didn't know where Kakashi would pop out from.

"Earth Style: Headhunter Jutsu!" Naruto heard from below him, but before anything could happen, he was pushed out of the way by Kiba who got pulled underground until his head was the only thing above ground.

"You idiot," Naruto said, "Why did you help me?" If Naruto could see Kiba's face from where he was standing, he would've seen that Kiba was giving him a dark look.

"I don't like you Naruto, I have no problem watching you lose a fight, but I think that there's something we're not doing right," Kiba said.

Kakashi, who was standing behind a nearby tree smiled at Kiba's words.

Naruto then looked around to see where Kakashi was and noticed that Hinata was standing near a tree looking at them and he nodded.

"Lesson 2: Ninjutsu," Kakashi said coming out of his hiding place.

"Shadow Clone Jutsu," Naruto said as he made ten clones to attack Kakashi.

As the silver haired jonin was finished dispatching of Naruto's clones he noticed that Kiba and Naruto were nowhere to be seen.

Naruto had pulled Kiba towards Hinata and the three found a new hiding place.

"Let go of my hood!" Kiba yelled, "It's cotton."

Naruto let him go and sweat dropped at Kiba's words.

"Listen," he said, "We have to all work together if we want to beat Kakashi-sensei and I have a plan," he continued.

"We're all gonna have to participate," he said as he looked at Akamaru, "Even the dog."

His team-mates nodded, agreeing with him.

"Good, now you see that book that Kakashi-sensei has?" Naruto asked receiving nods from the others, "Well, he seems to be very attached to it," he said with an evil grin. Kiba grinned and Hinata smiled.

"Here's what we gotta do…." Naruto said.

Kakashi was just standing near the memorial stone reading his book when he heard some noise from a nearby bush.

Kiba jumped out of the bush and attacked once again, Akamaru at his side.

"This is getting old," Kakashi thought as he side stepped Kiba's charge, causing the dog boy to trip and fall, but then 'Kiba' transformed into Naruto.

"Naruto?" he thought as he heard another poof of smoke behind him.

He turned around to find Hinata in Akamaru's place, with her Byakugan activated.

"Gentle fist!" She yelled as she hit the arm that was holding the book, causing Kakashi to let go of the book, which was caught by the real Kiba, who had used a substitution jutsu to switch places with Naruto moments earlier.

Kiba then threw the book at the real Akamaru, who caught it in his mouth, and started to sink his teeth into it.

"You see, the reason why I had such low grades in the academy," Kiba said as he smirked at Kakashi, "is because my dog kept eating my homework." (A/N: I sweat dropped at this line)

Kakashi looked at Akamaru's hunger-filled eyes.

"You wouldn't," he said in the most confident tone he could muster at the moment.

"Watch me," Kiba said as he signaled Akamaru to shred the book to pieces. Akamaru nodded and started to tear in to the book with his teeth. Pages flew everywhere.

"No!" Kakashi yelled as he fell to his knees sobbing, holding his head in agony, and grabbing his hair as if he were going to pull it out.

Everyone watching sweat dropped at the pathetic sight.

Kiba and Hinata ran and snatched both bells from Kakashi's waist.

Kakashi who noticed this was now sulking.

Naruto lowered his head accepting the fact that he didn't get a bell. Hinata looked at him. She couldn't stand going on to become a ninja without him so she gave him her bell.

"You're stronger than me Naruto," she said blushing, "You should be the one to go on."

Naruto looked at her. He blushed and didn't know what to say.

Kiba stared at his two team-mates. They were both smarter than him. He believed he didn't deserve to go on while one of them didn't.

"Here," he said giving Hinata his bell, "I need a lot more time to study anyway."

Naruto was happy with letting Kiba go and passing with Hinata but it didn't feel right to him.

"Here," he said, giving his bell to Kiba (reluctantly), "You two got to the bells first so you deserve to pass," he continued smiling at Kiba.

Their little moment was interrupted by Kakashi's crying.

"You monsters!" he cried, "I was on the last chapter!"

The three genin sweat dropped and Kiba pulled out the real book from his pocket. He had switched with a substitution before throwing it to Akamaru.

He then tossed it towards Kakashi who caught it and hugged it tightly.

The jonin got up and wiped his visible eye with a handkerchief before he spoke.

"Well, you all pass," he said in his normal voice.

"What!?" they all asked.

"Well the point of the test was to see if you could work as a team," Kakashi said, "and you did just that, and apart from that you're the first team that I've had that actually passed this test."

"You little bastards," he said in a low voice, obviously still mad that they had tricked him, twice. (A/N: Don't forget the eraser incident)

The three genin cheered and jumped for joy. Kakashi watched them as they celebrated.

"They did something that even I didn't expect," he thought, "Next time, I won't underestimate them."

WHOO!

That was good. About time I updated.

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