6 Bell Test-part one

[you can skip to chap 12 to avoid re-reading the parts of summoner of the league, it deviates starting from there.]

Naruto entered his home and dropped his pack on the ground. He quickly made his way over to a bookshelf and while he put on a pot of coffee, he thought about the best strategy for tomorrow's fight. 'I could re-summon Annie or Ashe, but I have a feeling they wouldn't be a good matchup against Kakashi with his sharingan. I need someone fast and skilled in 1v1 battles. I need a duelist. I can only think of two that would fit the bill. Fiora and Jax, that is, if I can even summon them.' he mused as he went to find a book to read and settled on a puzzle book to solve in his boredom as he drifted to sleep.

The next morning came easy enough. The first part of Naruto's plan against Kakashi was to actually eat his breakfast which was easy enough. Now he could think clearly and he wouldn't have been as easily susceptible to irritation than he would have if he was hungry. Sasuke and Sakura seemed to listen to his advice, but, it seemed Sakura hadn't eaten enough, owing to her dieting obsession.

Without a word, Naruto leaned against the fence before taking out the same book filled with puzzle games that he had been doing last night. "Each door is the exact same as the last. One door goes right and five others go left. For every third door on the left, the sixth on the right will change color. Make each door the same color and go three doors to the left," Naruto narrowed his eyes before he got to work.

"What are you doing?" Sakura asked, glaring as she watched Naruto work on his book. She couldn't suppress the irritated look in her face when Naruto didn't answer her. She hadn't eaten enough and she was a little pissed off right now! "How long are you going to ignore me?!" Sakura asked as she marched up to Naruto, her hands on her hips.

"…" Naruto continued to tune out his teammate as he worked on this new challenging puzzle. Unknowing to him he was actually making Sakura angrier and angrier with his denying of her existence. Sakura scowled as she balled her fists. She held her fist up and was ready to strike the blonde, but Naruto lowered his book and glared into her eyes. He turned the book towards her. "I'm occupying myself with a puzzle while we wait. Are you done?" Naruto asked. Sakura looked at the book in surprise. Sasuke gave Naruto a small look. The dead last was doing puzzles?

"Since when do you do puzzles?" Sakura asked. She had never known Naruto did puzzles. Granted she didn't know a lot of what he did in general. Still, the puzzle looked complicated even by her own standards and Sakura prided herself on her intelligence least from the grades she received from the academy. "Rather than worrying about what I do. I would like to ask you a question. Why didn't you eat?" Naruto asked. Sasuke opened his eyes and turned to look at Sakura, and seemed to mouth off 'idiot' while Sakura stared at the blond incredulously.

"Just as soon as I think you might have a brain, you ask something like that. Don't you remember? Kakashi-sensei told us not to eat or we'd puke!" Sakura said. Naruto brushed off the insult like water before looking over their faces. "Hmph, you already look like you're about to puke. Looks like you fell for Kakashi's tactic even though I told you how to outsmart him, your straight-laced following of rules and inability to think outside the box WILL get you or someone else killed one day." Naruto said making Sakura widen her eyes. With these words, Sakura went to go pout while Naruto and Sasuke waited for Kakashi to arrive.

In time, two hours passed by as Kakashi came into the clearing with a smile on his face. He wondered how his cute little genin were going to blow up in his face for being late. A small part of him did feel bad making them suffer, but that part might as well have been minuscule. He just couldn't stop thinking about it. He could see the forms of Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura in the clearing. Naruto seemed to be the calmest for one who was hungry, but given his attitude from last time, Kakashi couldn't tell if he was hungry or not. However, he was most concerned when Sakura was looking at him with surprise completely etched on her face. She looked back and Naruto before looking back at Kakashi. Kakashi blinked. Did he miss something?

"You're late Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura shouted with extra vigor that Kakashi didn't know a hungry girl could have. He just rubbed the back off is head as Naruto looked up and Sasuke stared at him. "Maa maa, sorry about that. I saw a black cat in my path so I had to take the long way around the village. Then an old lady was carrying her groceries. So I had to help her." Kakashi said. Sasuke frowned while Sakura tightened her fists. Naruto blinked before releasing a sigh.

"Well, the sun's still in the sky. There is a fresh breeze in the wind. Shall we get started?" Kakashi asked as he walked through the gates. Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura followed him until they all stood in the middle of the training ground's clearing. Kakashi stood before them with a smile. He then reached into his pocket. "Your test is to, retrieve these bells from me. You can use anything at your disposal. Oh also, another word of advice, come at me with intent to kill, or you will never get these bells." Kakashi said holding two bells in front of the three students. "Are you sure Kakashi-sensei? Won't you get hurt?" Sakura asked. Kakashi smiled.

"Oh, I think I can take care of myself just fine. You have one hour. If you don't have a bell by that time then you will be tied to a post as you watch me eat my lunch. Also to the person who doesn't have a bell, not only will you be tied to a post, but you will also be sent back to the academy. Kakashi said. Sasuke's eyes hardened. Unlike Sasuke, Naruto looked unaffected, 'What does he know that I can't figure out? I hate this feeling..' He thought to himself. Meanwhile, Sakura's eyes grew fearful and didn't try at all to figure out what the underlying meaning of Kakashi's words were.

Kakashi tied the bells to his flak jacket. "Well, are we all ready?" Kakashi asked. Naruto took a glance to the summoning formula on his arm. He then glanced back to Kakashi. Sasuke nodded. So did Sakura, albeit hesitantly.

"Well…GO!" Kakashi said and without a word, Naruto slammed his hand on the ground shocking Sakura and Sasuke as the blonde spoke. "I know someone can hear this, come, fight for me!" he yelled in his mind as his eyes glared into Kakashi's form. "Kuchiyose No Jutsu!" Naruto shouted as a puff of smoke came over the area.