Chapter 18

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Naruto arrived at the training field pretty late cause he knows that Kakashi would still arrive late. Even if he punish him by taking his book, he would just buy another.... When he arrived he saw the standing Sasuke and Hinata. Hinata waved at him and greet him with a smile while Sasuke just *humph*....

"Naruto-kun, you are late. Did something happen?" Hinata asked him as she walked to him.

"No, nothing happened. Why did you ask??" Naruto question her back.

"Ah, well, most of time, you always arrive first whenever there is appointment, right? That's why I thought something happened when you arrive late." Hinata replied as she looked at him with a loving gaze.

"I see... Well you see Kakashi sensei arrived late yesterday so I figured out that he will still arrive late today, too. Thus, I intentionally get up late. Hehe..." Naruto chuckle and smiled at Hinata.

"Ohh..... Have you eaten anything Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked.

"Yep, Sister Yu make me very delicious breakfast and I even had her prepare lunch boxes for us to eat. Believe me you will love it." he show her the storage scroll containing the lunch boxes and laughed.

"*Cough* Hey, what are you guys talking about??" Sasuke finally found himself unable to contain his curiosity.

""..."" There was a brief silence at the sence. The talking duo look at the black hair boy in silence.

"What?? Something wrong?" Sasuke asked. Being stare at by the duo, really make him scare.

"I didn't think that you will be interested in our conversation..."Naruto said.

"Mnnn..." Hinata nodded and agreed.

"I-I just curious, that all."Sasuke said as he turned around to another direction.

""...."" The duo were speechless. Naruto just tell him that to know the answer he have to wait until lunch time.

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After waiting for some time Kakashi arrived at the place with a new book in his hand.

'I knew it, he just bought another one... And he's still late!!' Naruto thought.

"You are late, again. Sensei. You make us wait for long time without any reason. You should give us a good explanation for this matter..." Naruto said as he look angrily at Kakashi.

"Well, Naruto. You see, I saw an old lady with many bags and needed my helps. And after that I saw a black cat blocking my path, thus I spend my time waiting for someone to pass through." Kakashi give them his old, usual, unreasonable, reasons.

"Ok, leave it at that. Now all of us are here, so let's start the test. Here are the testing objects." Kakashi said as he pull out two bells from his pocket and a small hourglass.

"You guys will have to take the bell from me within the time limit of the hourglass. To pass the test, you will need a bell from me. If you don't have one on you, you will have to go back to academy. Which mean the one without bell WILL...BE...DISQUALIFIED. Are my words clear??" Kakashi said the words with a devil grin on his face. ' You little guys make me fool myself yesterday, now let me see how you guys will manage this....' Kakashi was very happy as he would be able to make fool of them and test them the same time. Sadly his happiness wasn't a long one. Cause he doesn't see any of his desire emotions on Naruto's face.

"Naruto. You seem to not interested in this test. What wrong?" Kakashi asked with curiosity.

"So boring...The same test again..." Naruto muttered under his breath.

"What did you say???" Kakashi asked him as he didn't hear him.

"Nothing... Sensei. So are we going to start now??" Naruto replied to Kakashi.

"Ok, if there is no problems we will start .... Now..." As he finished his words, the trio in front of him was nowhere to see. 'They hided when they can't beat me on combat head on... Good one. Let me wait for their attacks.'

Somewhere inside the forest, the three regroup again.

"So, it is just like you predicted, Naruto. How do you know that the test was going to be this??" Sasuke asked Naruto as he was curious about this. Naruto told them that Kakashi would try to divide them and make them betray each other especially him. As the other duo were always together, hw would thought that the others will take the bells themselves. It is a very good manipulation of mind. As there is only two chances, they will not trust each other and like that there will be no teamwork between three. Thus making them unable to defeat him(Kakashi) and take the bells.

"That's a secret, you see. The mystery of Heaven should not be revealed. Hehehe...." Naruto chuckle at Sasuke and after that his face went back to serious.

"Okay. So just like yesterday, I already made the plans for today and you guys just need to carefully follow it. It is like this..." Naruto tell them his plans for beating Kakashi.

"Okay, Naruto-kun. I understand." Hinata nodded.

"I understand too, but there is something troubling me now." Sasuke said to Naruto.

"Hmm??? What it is? Tell me so I can fix it." Naruto asked him.

"*Cough* I am very hungry..." Sasuke said with a slightly red face.

""..."" The duo look at him, another speechless silence pass by...

"You didn't eat anything?? From morning till now??" Naruto gulped down and asked him.

"Yes. Kakashi said it like that so I didn't eat anything."Sasuke confirmed Naruto's doubts.

"Ahh. You stupid... Forget it. Here, my sister prepare lunch for me. Eat it fast. We will wait one hour for you to digest your food."

Naruto gave Sasuke his lunch box and have him eat it.

One hour later,

"You guys ready? Okay. Three, Two, One... GO...." Naruto signaled the other two.

' Kakashi, get ready to get your ass kicked...'

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Chaptiees here..... Sorry for the wait. But you guys will still need to wait NEXT TIME, TOO. 😆😆

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