The Gift of Sight

Chapter SEVEN

Hatake Kakashi was a very skilled, well known shinobi.

While he expected the three eagerly waiting for the test to start to be better than the other brats, he wasn't exactly expecting much in the skill section.

Compared to him anyway.

After explaining the rules, he set the timer and placed it on the tree stump. "You have until noon to take these bells from me." He said. "Your time...starts...NOW!"

Instantly Sakura grabbed her teammates by their hands and shunshin-ed out of the clearing, leaving a shocked Kakashi behind.

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"At least Shisui-Teme is useful for something." Naruto muttered. He stumbled to his feet, feeling slightly woozy.

"Hn." Sasuke, who had managed to land on his feet, straightened himself.

"Now what?" Sakura asked.

"We need to get those bells, right?" Naruto asked.

"Our opponent is a Jounin." Sasuke said. "We have to be careful."

"His rank is probably not just a title," Sasuke said. "He was on Nii-san's team. He's got to be skilled."

"So how do we do this?"

"I'm sure there's a reason behind the two bells thing." Sakura said. "And not even he has the authority to deny advancement to a team of skilled Genin."

"That's true." Sasuke agreed. "Well, let's see how much we can hold out against him first."

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Naruto shot out of the trees first. He summoned a handful of shadow clones as he went, and sent them all to attack Kakashi.

After getting over his initial shock of seeing a young boy summon more than half a dozen clones, the Jounin easily engaged them, making them vanish one by one. At one point, Kakashi got a hold of the real Naruto, but the boy summoned more clones, using them to camouflage and slip away back into the sea of his copies.

Kakashi had heard that the boy spent a lot of his time playing pranks and running form Jounin and ANBU alike. Perhaps that was playing a part in this whole thing.

Just then, Sasuke streaked out from behind him, gripping a coil of wire. Kakashi noted that the other end was attached to one of Naruto clones and had to admit that it was a good idea. Sasuke flashed through a series of hand signs, once again leaving Kakashi surprised.

"Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu!" The Uchiha blew out a fireball that trailed up along the coil of wire. Kakashi tossed a handful of shuriken at the clone the wire was attached to them jumped away. Shuriken flew out of the flames, having been previously concealed by the flames. Kakashi pulled out a kunai with practiced ease and knocked them aside.

To say the Jounin wasn't impressed, would be a lie.

Kakashi landed in a clearing a little away and noted that the three had followed him.

Sakura appeared from behind the cover of the trees, hands flashing through a set of hand signs more out of habit than the necessity. Her chakra vision allowed her to see chakra, and by looking at the amount of chakra required to perform a technique, she could use her superior chakra control to adjust it without the aid of hand signs.

In most occasions, anyways.

To his confusion, Kakashi realized he didn't recognize the hand sign combination of the technique Sakura was about to perform.