On this side, when Kakashi found out that he had been cheated, it was already too late to rush back.
With a glimmer of possibility, Kakashi subdued the real Sasuke and searched him all over. The result was self-evident, the bell was not on Sasuke either.
"Okay, three hours have passed now." Kakashi said to Sasuke who was tied up: "I have to admit, you three gave me a big surprise."
Kakashi still can't figure out two things.
The first thing is, why can Naruto's transformation technique fool him? The second thing is, where is the bell hidden? Why can't it be found after searching the bodies of the three of them.
With these two questions, Kakashi himself picked up Sasuke, and the other clone picked up Haruno Sakura, and the two of them rushed to Naruto's location.
When Kakashi brought the remaining two people from Team 7 back to Naruto's location, he saw Naruto gently shaking two bells, making a crisp sound. He himself looked at it with an 'innocent expression'
Looking at Kakashi.
Kakashi withdrew his clone, and Sakura woke up at this time and saw this scene.
"Great!" Sakura exclaimed in surprise. She looked at Kakashi: "Teacher, can we..."
Kakashi said in a lazy tone: "It's really embarrassing. But you have completed the requirements of the exercise. Congratulations, you have become an official ninja!"
"Yeah!" Sakura exclaimed in surprise. Although Sasuke put on a bad face, he was relieved in his heart. He didn't want to go back to the ninja school to "reinvent the wheel."
Kakashi looked at the three people in Team 7 and finally sounded a little more serious: "You three really gave me a big surprise!"
Naruto smiled and said, "Thanks to Kakashi-sensei for being merciful."
The key to the success of his concealment tactic was that he bet that Kakashi would never approach this exercise with the same attitude towards an S-level mission.
If Kakashi separates into two clones as soon as he comes up and uses the teleportation technique to rush forward, no matter how Team 7 hides, the three of them will definitely be captured by Kakashi.
"I still haven't figured it out yet." Kakashi said, "Naruto, where did you hide the bell?"
"I just used some tricks. I didn't think I could hide my success, so I just tried it casually." Naruto smiled and brushed the matter off.
The bell was turned into a metal animal pendant by Naruto using a monkey charm, and he managed to trick Kakashi unexpectedly.
Kakashi heard the hidden meaning in Naruto's words and said nothing more.
"You can disperse today. I will report to Lord Sandaime Hokage that you have officially become genin." Kakashi said, "Starting from tomorrow, you will officially perform ninja missions."
"Have a good rest tonight. Let's meet tomorrow... at 8:30 in the morning."
This time, Kakashi did not set a too early time.
After playing the late trick twice, no one in Class 7 would believe it in the future. Kakashi thought of this and simply pushed back the time.
After Kakashi left, Naruto looked at the excited Sakura and Sasuke, but he did not tell them the truth about the so-called ninja mission.
Ninja missions are divided into five levels: s, a, b, c, and d according to difficulty from high to low.
Among them, D-level tasks are tasks related to daily chores, such as cleaning rivers, weeding, finding lost pets, etc., which do not involve other ninjas and do not require leaving the village.
According to regulations, newly graduated genin must do D-level missions for a period of time to hone their patience. Only after the guiding jounin who leads the team feels that they are qualified will they take them to receive C-level missions.
"I'm leaving now, see you tomorrow." Naruto waved to Sakura and Sasuke, and then walked out of the training ground.
Returning to the streets of Konoha Village from the remote and deserted training ground, there were people everywhere around him, which immediately made Naruto feel a lot more lively.
Konoha is a village in name, but in fact it is a very large town. In such a town, many daily necessities, such as rice, flour, grain and oil, need to be imported from the outside world.
This street is where outsiders come to live in Konoha, and it is also Naruto's favorite place.
Most of the pedestrians around him came to Konoha from the outside world. They did not know Naruto's identity as the so-called 'son of the demon fox', and they would not be full of discrimination or look at him strangely.
Naruto was wandering on the street and happened to pass by a flower shop.
"Naruto?" A girl's voice suddenly came from the shop next to her.
Hearing someone calling his name, Naruto turned around and saw a girl who was taking care of flowers, dressed in purple clothes and with a long golden ponytail.
"Ino?" Naruto immediately recognized the girl's identity.
Her name is Yamanaka Ino, and she is Naruto's classmate. She was assigned to Class 10 along with Nara Shikamaru and Akimichi Choji. Her mentoring Jonin is Sarutobi Asuma, the son of the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen.
The moment he saw Ino, all kinds of messages kept popping up in Naruto's head.
Of course Ino didn't know that there were so many complicated things in Naruto's mind. She just saw Naruto in a daze after answering her.
"Didn't Sakura say that Team 7 is going to participate in a drill today? The drill is over?" The reason Ino stopped Naruto was because he wanted to ask about Haruno Sakura's situation.
"Oh. The exercise is over. Sakura has successfully become a real genin." Naruto recovered from his thoughts. "Tomorrow we will carry out our first ninja mission."
When Ino heard Naruto's answer, she kept moving her hands and said, "So that's it. Congratulations to you."
She was actually very curious about Naruto.
Even in peaceful times, the criteria for selecting ninjas are very strict. Ino heard from friends he knew that many people were ruthlessly beaten back by their mentor jounin and went back to the 'ninja school' to retake training.
As for Kakashi's name, Ino also heard of its terrifying 'prestige' from her father, Yamanaka Kaiichi.
It is said that among all the jounin instructors, Kakashi has the lowest pass rate. So when he found out that his friend Sakura's instructor jounin was actually Kakashi, Ino was very worried for Sakura.
When she heard that Sakura had passed the exercise test, she felt happy for her friend.
However, Ino became curious about Naruto.
When he was in the ninja school, Naruto was famous for being a "high-scoring, low-energy" person, and was even ridiculed by other peers as a "question-producing ninja." In the recent graduation examination, Naruto finally performed a complete clone technique.
Assessment completed.
But now it's only a few days before graduation from Ninja School. How much progress will Naruto have to make before he can pass under Kakashi?
Or could it be said that Naruto was actually hiding his clumsiness when he was in the ninja school?
"Ino, why are you standing there in a daze?" Mrs. Yamanaka looked at her daughter holding the showerhead for watering the flowers in her hand, standing there blankly, not even knowing that the water in the showerhead was flowing out.
"Ah!" Ino came to her senses and quickly lifted the shower head.
She looked up again and saw that Naruto had already gone away.