He reached Kakashi's position and went through some handseals.
"Illusion Art: Cloak of Invisibility." Naruto whispered and vanished from sight.
He silently closed in on Kakashi's position, trying to use his high level of stealth to steal the bells without Kakashi noticing him. He didn't really want to show his true abilities when Sasuke and Sakura were possibly watching. The genjutsu was a B-Rank one, but they would never really know that. If those two found out too early what he could really do they would bitch to the council and try to have him forced to teach the emo all his techniques; so not going to happen.
Naruto was now directly below the bells on the ground. Kakashi seemed to not notice him. He reached for the bells when his hand was caught. He kicked out at Kakashi and jumped back. How had he known?
He let his genjutsu on trying to figure out what had gone wrong.
"You are really good, Naruto. I wouldn't have thought you to use a genjutsu that hid you that perfectly, but I have been confronted with a similar one in the third shinobi war against Iwa." Kakashi said and lowered his book. Naruto saw he had uncovered his left eye.
"Sharingan? That's totally unfair in a genin test, Kakashi sensei." Naruto complained and let the genjutsu go.
"That might be true, but then again, you are no real genin, right?" Kakashi replied.
"So you were told." Naruto said.
"Of course. As your sensei I need to know which level you are at to properly train you. Hokage Sama told me of your test. I have to say I am impressed. So I decided when I felt the little chakra disruption from your shadow clone dispelling, that I would be prepared to take you serious." Kakashi answered. "How far do you want to go?"
"I don't want to show all I can do, or I fear the bastard and the banshee will run to the council to try and get me to give up my techniques to him. That won't happen with the Hokage in charge, but I don't really want to have to see the council at all." Naruto explained.
Kakashi covered his sharingan again and put his book back in his pouch.
"Understandable. So how about you restrict yourself to jutsus a chunin could know?" Kakashi asked.
"Sure. It will give me something to do until my clones tell me if they managed to get the two idiots to work with me."
"So you know what my test is about?" Kakashi asked.
"Yes, teamwork. I just have problems to see them listening to me." Naruto said and went into the cheetah style opening position.
Kakashi was ready and the two started with taijutsu. Naruto tried to confuse Kakashi with his speed, but the experienced jonin blocked all his attempts to land hits.
"That will be hard to work against me. After all, my sensei used the same style of taijutsu, Naruto." Kakashi said.
Naruto knew that, but he had some surprises in his style. He finally got close enough for a grazing hit on Kakashi's lower thigh. He used his chakra in his hands to damage a muscle slightly.
Kakashi jumped back.
"I see, not completely your father's style then. You included elements of your own." He pondered.
Naruto followed Kakashi, trying to press a slight advantage. But Kakashi decided it was time to include ninjutsu in the fight. He changed positions with a log, which was hit by Naruto's overhead kick. Naruto was on guard. He knew Kakashi could attack from everywhere. Then he jumped up and grabbed the branch of the tree when Kakashi shot out of the ground. Naruto circled the branch and used the momentum to attack again. He unsealed his bo staff from his glove and started attacking. The greater reach of the staff enabled him to press Kakashi into defence. But Kakashi decided he needed to up his game.
"Fire release: phoenix flower." He said and shot some fire balls at Naruto.
Naruto reacted immediately, putting the staff on his back while jumping back and flying through his own handseals.
"Water release: water bullet." He shouted and shot a water-bullet from his mouth against the fire jutsu.
The water overpowered the fire. Naruto shot a flurry of senbon at Kakashi, which only hit another log.
In the bushes Sasuke was fuming from envy. Naruto was giving Kakashi a hard time in the fight. It seemed like Naruto was a lot better than he had thought.
"Are you now willing to listen?" The Naruto clone behind him asked.
"What do you want?" Sasuke jeered.
"The whole damn test is about teamwork. We pass if we work together. I don't like you anymore than you like me and we both detest the banshee. I only want you to push that aside and show Kakashi that we can work together if the situation requires it. The whole getting a bell is setting us up against each other. That's why he told us to look underneath the underneath. You see my original fighting out there. Kakashi is one of the strongest ninja we have in the village, a former ANBU captain. Do you really think we have a chance against him alone? If you really want to reach your goal you need his training, so we need to play by his rules. Nobody demands that we like each other, we only need to reach the mission goal." Naruto said.
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