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The next day found Harry and his team meeting up, much to his displeasure, to receive their examiner. Already, both Ron's team and Hermione's had been given one. The Weasley twins as well as their sister were given Professor Snape, which brought out mixed feelings from Harry. Pity, at the fact that they had to deal with the potions master and head of Slytherin house, and relief, that Harry himself did not. Ron and his team were opposed by Professor McGonagall, while Hermione and her teammates were confronted by a seventh year Ravenclaw student.

"Alright you three" said a voice from behind Harry. "You're all with me." Turning around, Harry spotted Mad-eye Moody, and found he was silently wishing for Snape at this point. At least Snape wasn't mad as a hatter. Harry also didn't feel comfortable around the man after his first class with him. He displayed in front of the class, three curses that were meant never to be used. And he had demonstrated them as if they were used every day. "You all know the rules" he continued as his larger eye swiveled back into his head, and he took a drink of something from a flask on his hip. "We'd better get to it. You have one hour to complete the test." As soon as he said this, Naruto caused some sort of explosion, drawing attention to him.

The blonde shinobi looked at all the teams as well as the examiners, before making a few last minute announcements. "This is your day. All of you. This is the day that you either walk away, or hold your head high and truly enter this class. The entirety of the grounds, even the castle, is your battlefield. You know the rules. No summoning charms, no lethal spells. My advice to you still stands. Look underneath the underneath." He let his words sink in and saw the fierce determination of several faces, and the horrible nervousness of others. "The test begins...NOW!" The signal was given, and instantly, the charms started flying.

"Expelliarmus" shouted Harry, pointing his wand at Moody, but a flick of the man's own wand caused the spell to nullify. Pointing his wand out toward his group, Harry could see that Moody indeed was going to be quite serious about this test.

"Incendio" cried the man, sending a wave of flames out, igniting the grass in front of the three teens, forcing them to retreat, hiding behind several trees on the edge of the forest. Moody smirked and walked toward the forest himself, his eye whirling back and forth, easily spotting each one of the students. Pointing to one of the trees, he gave a shouted his spell. "Evanesco!" The tree instantly began to fade, before vanishing completely, leaving Cho completely exposed. Before she could move, Moody cried out "Incarcerous!" Cho was suddenly knocked to the ground, tied up in ropes, rendering her immobile. Keeping his wand trained on her, Moody then lifted the poor girl up high into the air. Moving his wand as though conducting a symphony, Moody caused Cho to float and fly around, in such a manner that it was beginning to make the girl feel sick to her stomach.

Peeking out from behind a tree of his own, Malfoy waved his wand, but before he could hast his spell, Moody had turned and shouted a spell of his own. "Obscuro!" he shouted, forming a blindfold over Draco's eyes, causing him to loose aim in his surprise and inability to see. Shouting his expelliarmus spell in his surprise, it blasted Harry, who had run out to help Cho in Moody's distraction, blowing him back, as well as his wand. Luckily, it wasn't sent flying far, and Harry quickly grabbed it and ran for cover once again.

Ripping the blindfold off, Malfoy again pointed his wand and this time was successful in casting a spell. With a cry of "Serpensortia," a particularly large snake shot out, and upon looking, Harry found it to be a fair bit larger than the one used against him in second year during the boys' duel. But Draco wasn't done yet. Flipping his wand to the snake, he gave a shout of "Engorgio." Before their eyes, the snake grew in size, approximately to five times larger than it was normally. It was easily large enough to swallow Moody. The man merely laughed however.

"Well boy, I must say I'm rather impressed that you would think of combining your two spells like that." He flicked his wand and the snake disintegrated, erupting into flames. "But it's gonna take a lot more than that." While the man was distracted with Draco, Harry pointed his wand at Cho.

"Diffindo" he said, severing the ropes which were binding her, allowing her to follow Harry for cover. As they got farther away, Cho grabbed her arm, claiming it to have been injured. Perfectly logical, as when Moody had become distracted by Malfoy, she had fallen a good ten feet directly on it. Rolling up her sleeve, much to the girl's chagrin, as it hurt quite a bit, both were able to tell that she had broken her arm during her landing. Pointing his wand toward her broken arm, Harry uttered a quick "Ferula." This produced a bandage and splint, allowing them to bind her injured arm.

"This is a nightmare" said Harry. "There's no way we can get these bells off of him. The man is used to hunt dark wizards for a living. There's no way a single forth year can take him down."

"Well, we're going to have to" replied Cho, gripping her wand with her unbroken arm. "You heard what Naruto-sensei said. We have to get the bells, no matter what the cost. That is our objective." Harry's eyes widened a bit at that.

"Say that again Cho" he asked. "What you just said."

"Getting the bells is our objective" replied the girl.

"Getting the bells is our objective" muttered Harry, barely audible. "What if that's supposed to be literal?"

"What is?" Cho asked. "Harry, do you have an idea?"

"I think so, yeah" said Harry. "Unfortunately, I think we need Malfoy. Getting the bells is our objective. OUR objective. The point isn't to get the bells. It's to work as a team to try and get them."

"I think I get it" replied Cho. "That must be what Sensei meant when he said look underneath the underneath."

"Alright" said Harry. "If I distract Moody, do you think you can grab Malfoy and fill him in?" When the girl nodded, he continued. "Alright. We'll all attack together, from three sides, that's the plan." Once again, Cho nodded. With that, they ran back to where Malfoy and Moody were still engaged in a heated duel. Heated being the appropriate term as there were several flaming patches of grass, scattered throughout the miniature clearing.

"Expelliarmus" shouted Harry, and Moody merely flicked his wand, stopping the attack cold. As He and Harry began sending spells at each other, Cho quickly made her way over to Draco, who looked a little worse for wear. Getting in close, she whispered in his ear. As she told him the plan, he scoffed at the idea of working together, but when Cho explained to him the actual purpose of the test, he begrudgingly nodded, making his way behind Moody and to the left, while Cho stood behind and to his right. Giving a signal, all three wizards took aim and in unison shouted "Expelliarmus" Whipping around, Moody deflected Harry's spell as well as Draco's, but was caught in the back by Cho's attack, sending his wand flying. Quickly binding him, Draco searched for and took the bells from Moody, making the man smirk.

"Well, I guess congratulations are in order" he said. Naruto suddenly appeared to help the man up.

"Not until they can beat you without you giving yourself up. You purposely got hit with that disarming spell, I could tell" said Naruto.

"It was that obvious?" replied Moody.

"Yes it was" said Naruto. "However, these three were able to grasp the concept of the test, AND got the bells, meaning they pass. And with only ten minutes left to spare." That said, Naruto handed Moody his wand back and told their team to wait back by the lake. Harry and Cho nodded while Draco just looked smug at passing. Making their way back to the lake, they passed several others still taking their test, and so had to avoid several wild spells. The entire area was something of a battlefield.

"Harry!" Turning toward the shout, Harry saw Hermione running up to him. "What happened, did you pass?" she asked.

"Yeah, we all passed. What about you? Did you figure out the point of the test?" asked Harry.

"Only after it began" replied the girl. "How could I have been so stupid. I didn't realize it until after the examiner kept trying to keep us apart. The only real reason behind that that I could see is if we were expected to work together. Once I figured it out, I told Cedric. We tried to get our last member, William, to help us, but like the classic Slytherin, he wanted no part in it. We managed to get the bells, and both Cedric and I passed for working together."

"What about Ron?" asked Harry. "Time's running out. Hasn't he finished yet?"

"Not that I know of" replied Hermione. "Fred, George, and Ginny passed within the first ten minutes from what I hear. Apparently, Sensei is really impressed not only with their chakra reserves, but their teamwork skills as well."

"Well, really Hermione, what did you expect?" asked Harry. "After all, they are family. Fred and George are twins. It stands to reason they'd have exceptional teamwork skills."

"Oi, Harry, Hermione!" Looking to their left, they both saw Ron run up to them.

"Did you pass?" asked Harry.

"Yeah" replied Ron simply. "Of course it took one of the Ravenclaw girls to figure out that we were meant to work together. After that, we worked as a group until Sensei came and told us that we had good enough teamwork skills to pass. For being old, McGonagall is tough though. We didn't even manage to touch one of the bells."

"Yeah?" asked Harry. "I would have been happy to have traded you. Moody didn't hold back. Cho ended up with a broken arm. Luckily, there weren't any more injuries than that."

"Wow, I don't envy you. Then again, I don't envy Neville either. Did you know that his examiner is Dumbledore himself?" asked Ron. Hermione sighed.

"Putting a group of students against one of the most powerful wizards the world has ever seen" she said. "That is what I call cruel and unusual."

"Yeah, but can you believe that he's the only one that passed?" said Ron, shocking both Hermione and Harry.

"What happened? What about his teammates?" asked Harry.

"I don't know, but I asked Neville about it" said Ron. "He didn't even realize the point of the test when I told him. He didn't get the bells either. I guess he just naturally tried to get his team to work together without knowing that was the point to begin with, and that was enough to catch Sensei's attention."

"This is without a doubt the strangest class I think we've ever taken here" said Hermione.

"No arguments here" said Harry, with Ron just nodding. Once the time was up, almost half of the class had been cut back. Harry was rather astonished by the sheer number of people who hadn't managed to at least work with one of their team members, but Hermione explained that that was what the whole test was about. The rules were deliberately made to make it seem like they had to work by themselves in order to get what they needed. Only those who could put aside their differences would be able to work together and pass the test. And if Neville's team was any indication, the bells weren't even that big of an issue. It was all a matter of teamwork.

"Congratulations" announced Naruto. "If you passed, then that means you successfully realized the true purpose of this test. Teamwork. While you will always have situations in which you will be alone, you must realize that you are always stronger as a team than on your own. I know there is a bit of rivalry between some of the school houses. That is why I decided to use this test. To see who could set aside differences and work together as a group to get the job done. But now, your real challenge begins. Tomorrow, you begin directly accessing your chakra, and begin your physical training. So I suggest you all get some rest tonight."

Running up to Naruto, the golden trio began asking him questions. The three were incredibly curious about their new teacher. "Um, sensei?" asked Harry. "Do you think maybe you can answer a few questions for us?"

"Ask away" replied Naruto, not even looking at the boy who lived, continuing to make his way to his office.

"Well sir" began Hermione. "We were wondering if perhaps you could tell us...where exactly you come from." Naruto merely turned to face the girl as they stopped walking. Sighing, he spoke.

"I knew this question was going to come up after Hagrid told you about my coming here" he said. "And yes, what he told you was accurate. I came here from a world separate from this one. Where I come from, at the age of seven, children are evaluated, and if they have the right stuff, they have the option of entering the shinobi academy. They train for several years, and at around age 15, they graduate and become genin, placed on teams of three."

"That explains your reason for dividing up the class into groups of three" said Ron. Naruto nodded.

"I may have tweaked it a bit, but the bell test is what my teacher had my squad do our first day" he said. "Things were different back then. We all made the classic mistake of every man for himself, and if it wasn't for Sensei giving us another chance, we were practically set up for failure."

"So, what is it exactly that shinobi do?" asked Harry. "You've never had to kill anyone, have you."

"Anyone no" replied Naruto. "I did kill a couple animals though, particularly a giant snake." That caught Harry's attention, having fought the Basilisk in his second year, which was without a doubt a very large snake.

"Wicked" replied Ron. "How'd you do it?"

"It ate me" said Naruto, shocking all three as they continued up to his office.

"It ate you?" asked Hermione incredulously. "Then how are you standing here right now?"

"Well, I said it ate me, it never killed me. While I was inside it, I made a bunch of Kage Bunshin. Long story short, I quite literally busted out" said the blonde.

"Let me get this straight" said Harry. "You cloned yourself so many times that the Snake burst open from the inside?"

"That about sums it up, yeah" said Naruto. "Talk about a bad case of indigestion. And I smelled like snake guts for three days. Luckily, I was still able to compete in the rest of the exams, unlike a lot of other genin that couldn't handle the so called 'forest of death.'" he added as an afterthought

"Wait a minute" said Hermione. "You mean that they sent a bunch of people into a place called the forest of death, for some examination?" Naruto nodded. "That's a bit much, isn't it? It sounds horribly barbaric."

"If I were you, Ms. Granger, I would think long and hard about questioning the way of life of someone different than you" said Naruto, his voice taking on a warning tone.

"But sir, how could they do that" she asked. "I mean, aren't they taking young children and just turning them into killing machines? It's not right."

"Hermione, just drop it" said Ron, Harry nodding in agreement, but the girl would have none of it.

"How could anyone subject others, or even themselves, to something like that?" she asked. And that was the final straw. Slamming his fist into a wall, Naruto put several spiderweb cracks into it, while at the same time, frightening several of the portraits that lined the halls.

"That is enough, Granger" he said. "Ten points will be taken from Gryffindor, and you will be serving detention with me, after your dinner." Harry and Ron backed away, slightly intimidated by the shift in demeanor of their teacher.

"But sir, that's not fair" protested the girl.

"Care to make it a week of detention?" asked Naruto dangerously. The girl was royally pissing him off. What right did she have to question his way of life. And her mention of people subjecting others to it only brought up the memories of the Sandaime Hokage, reopening the old would of his death. "No? I didn't think so. Report to my office after dinner." With that, he disappeared in a swirl of wind and leaves, leaving the three teens gaping at what had just transpired.

"What were you thinking Hermione?" asked Ron. "Don't you remember what he did to Malfoy on the first night? Why would you go ahead and make him angry like that?"

"He's right Hermione" continued Harry. "It wasn't exactly the brightest thing to do."

"I was just expressing an opinion" replied the girl, slightly shaken as well.

"Well, I hate to point this out, but your opinions aren't always based in fact" said Harry. "You don't know the reasons behind why his world is like it is."

"Yeah" said Ron. "This is even worse than your thoughts on House Elves." Hermione just turned around and walked away, a dangerous scowl on her face.

"And I don't think bringing up the house elves was very smart on your part Ron" said Harry, shaking his head.

That night found Hermione entering Naruto's office almost nervously. She was almost afraid of what sort of detention punishment someone like Naruto could come up with. As she entered, she saw Naruto sitting calmly, waiting for her.

"Granger" he said curtly. "I don't believe in punishment just to punish. I believe that something good should come out of it as well. So, in wracking my brain, I have come up with a solution."

"And what is that, sir?" asked Hermione calmly, though she really didn't want to think of what could be coming.

"Simple" said Naruto, handing her a piece of parchment. "We're going to do some training. On that is a list of all the exercises I want you to do." Looking at the list, Hermione almost groaned. Fifty push-ups, one hundred sit-ups, two hundred jumping jacks, and to top it all off, she had to run a lap around the black lake.

"Come on" said Naruto, heading for the door. "The sooner we get to it, the sooner you get done"

"Yes sensei" said Hermione, before following him down to the lake. Once they arrived, her punishment training began immediately, while Naruto supervised, making sure she didn't skip out on anything, and Hermione noticed that he even ran with her around the lake, but had absolutely no trouble with it. With all of her stopping during the work out, as she wasn't as used to the physical conditioning that Naruto was, it took over a half hour to just do the push-ups, sit-ups, and jumping jacks. The run around the lake took somewhere between forty-five minutes to an hour. By the time they had finished, Hermione was exhausted, never having done so much exercise at once before.

"Wow" said Naruto. "Maybe it's a good thing you're in my class. If you're any indication, you witches and wizards are all horribly out of shape."

"Is this...the kind of thing...we'll be doing in class tomorrow?" asked Hermione, through gasps of airs.

"Similar, but not nearly as much" said Naruto, before rubbing the back of his head sheepishly. "I guess I did go a little overboard with your punishment. I apologize."

"No, I'm sorry" said Hermione. "I never should have spoken like I did. I probably deserve detention." Naruto nodded sagely.

"You know, I've heard about you from your other teachers. A bit of an over-achiever I hear" he said, as though coming up with an idea. "You know" he continued. "If you'd like, I can help you with your training outside of class. You and your friends. We could meet at special times. It would be a big help for me as well, because it would speed up the classes progress."

"It could work" said Hermione. "With the other classes, there really is no time to train on our own for your class."

"Excellent" said Naruto. "You may go back to your common room and tell your classmates my idea. I'll run it past Dumbledore, just to make sure we can."

"Yes Sensei" said Hermione as she began to make her way back to the castle, almost dragging her feet from the soreness of her muscles. It was almost as much of a pain getting to Gryffindor tower as the actual work out was. Even the Fat Lady that guarded the portrait entrance to the common room noticed her fatigue, knowing about her detention from gossip told by the other portraits. Giving the password, she entered the common room and promptly fell over into an arm chair, before Harry and Ron ran to her and bombarded her with questions. What did she do? Was Naruto still in a bad mood? She answered all of their questions, and they grimaced hearing about the work out punishment.

"Remind us never to get on his bad side" said Fred and George, who had both heard of her punishment as well.

"Sensei also said, that he'd work with Dumbledore to see about setting up extra training sessions" said Hermione, relaying the information. "Apparently he's unimpressed by our physical ability."

"Oh man" said Ron. "Now I wish I hadn't passed the bell test."

"Too late now" said Harry. "You could always drop from the program I suppose, but I think we should tough it out. Who knows. This could help us in the long run."

"Harry's right little brother" said Fred, ruffling Ron's hair. "You aren't gonna run away from a little back-breaking labor, are you?"

"Yeah" continued George. "After all, the Weasley's have more chakra than anyone in the class. It would be a shame if one of us dropped out because they were afraid to work."

"I'm not afraid to work" shot back Ron.

"Than prove it" said the twins simultaneously.

"I will" said Ron.

"It's official" said Harry. "Things at Hogwarts have gotten a lot more interesting."

Chapter end

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