I do not own Naruto.

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Quick Recap:

Naruto masters the Shadow Clone technique, and is put on Team 7. He manages to make the other team members sit down with him and brainstorm strategies.

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The three would-be genin simply stood there, looking at him.

Kakashi sighed. They weren't any fun at all. Well, that meant he had to get right to business. "Alright, the test is this: At my waist are two bells. Anybody who gets a bell passes, anyone who doesn't is sent back to the Academy. And I warn you: If you don't come at me with the intent to kill, you won't succeed. Ready?"

The three students just nodded, settling into fight stances Naruto whispering to the other two, "You two take the bells."

Kakashi just pretended he didn't hear that, and shouted "Go!"

Immediately, the students sprang into action. Naruto came at Kakashi at a moderate speed, which really felt like a snail's pace to Naruto. His stance was the Academy Taijutsu style's offensive stance. It was textbook perfect, not a flaw in it. Kakashi, who had been expecting a total pushover with a berserker style, actually found himself preoccupied with Naruto.

However, that lasted only a little bit. When he finally got over his shock, he began to slowly work harder and harder. Naruto planted his hands on the ground, using them to swing into a crushing leg sweep. Kakashi simply jumped over the two legs. Then he spoke. "First lesson: Taijutsu." At this point, he threw a powerfully fast axe kick at Naruto's head, as it was swinging upwards from his standing up. Naruto, showing surprising agility, caught it with his hands; from there, he swung himself into a front flip, one leg extended. Before the leg could connect with Kakashi's head, though, Kakashi formed a few hand-seals and sunk into the ground. Naruto realized what his most probable target was, and began to run back to where he felt his teammates' chakra signatures. When he finally reached them, he noticed a distinct lack-of-Kakashi in the area. Sasuke quickly asked, "Where is he?"

"He's somewhere underground. Quick, in the trees, now!"

Naruto quickly followed his own command, and Sakura was quick to do the same. Sasuke, who still wasn't used to taking orders of any kind, was a bit slow. Before he too could leap into the air, a powerful hand reached up to his leg and pulled him straight down, into the Earth. Kakashi popped up in his place, grinning as best he could under his mask.

"Lesson two: Ninjutsu."

Then, Kakashi turned to the two remaining students in the trees. Quickly, he formed hand-seals. Suddenly, Naruto smelt horribly burning flesh, and a terrible screaming. Turning to his side, he saw Sakura being roasted alive, uttering hellish sounds. With a grin, Naruto used his powerful control over his chakra to temporarily halt its flow, disrupting the Genjutsu that he had been put under. When he was free, he shot a little bit of chakra into Sakura's arm, waking her from her trance before she fell out of the tree.

Then, jumping down from the tree and facing Kakashi, he began forming hand-seals for a rather simple technique he had learned from the library; sure, he didn't need hand-seals, but as far as he knew he was the only one who didn't need them, and so not using them would seem conspicuous.

Slamming his hands to the ground and guiding his chakra through them, he shouted the name of his technique. "Earth Release: Pillar!" Usually, it would only form a small pillar of Earth about as tall as the user, making for useful cover. However, with the amount of chakra Naruto used, it picked Kakashi up and rose fifty feet in the air. Immediately, he ran over to Sasuke and pulled him out of the soft dirt he was stuck in.

Now, with all three of them ready, the turned to face Kakashi as he jumped down, smiling his infamous eye-smile as he did so. The three of them converged on Kakashi from all directions, each supporting the other. Or rather, Sakura did her best to support Sasuke and Naruto did his best to support Sakura. Sasuke, always the loner, didn't give a damn about his teammates.

Kakashi was impressed. They were certainly capable of working as a team. "Congratulations! You all pass!"

Sakura just shouted "WHAT?", as Sasuke smirked and Naruto grinned.

Kakashi was glad that they had passed so easily, and explained. "Yup! The whole point of the exam was to see if you could work as a team, and it seems that you can! Admittedly, Sasuke here could use work in that department, but you two are willing to help. Meet me here in the same place tomorrow for a bit of training before we go and get our first mission. Sasuke, Sakura, dismissed."

Sasuke and Sakura were more than happy to get out of there, and that's what they did. Kakashi simply turned to Naruto. "Just how strong are you?"

Naruto shrugged. "Eh, about as strong as Sasuke. I just stayed at the bottom of the class 'cause I figured that being on Sasuke's team would get me to the Chuunin exams quicker."

Kakashi just gave him a dark look. "Oh, you were right about one thing. Sasuke will get you guys to the Chuunin exams quicker, but he's an Uchiha. The pride of Konoha. No demon can hope to compare to him. But by all means, you're welcome to try."

With that, Kakashi disappeared, leaving Naruto to heave a sigh, and begin his daily exercises. God dammit! My sensei's not only an obvious see-Naruto-only-for-the-Kyuubi kind of guy, but he's a fucking Uchiha-worshiper to boot! I mean really, god, what the fuck? Do you hate me? Is that it?

Suddenly, Naruto found his hatred towards his home village rekindled. If most people wanted him gone, who was he to stick around?

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Admittedly, I'm going a bit far with the Sasuke favoritism thing, but it's a lot more fun that way. Furthermore, that's more or less how he treats them in canon.