It's time for Squad Seven to meet their teacher, and he's... late. Naruto decides to punish his teacher with a good-old fashioned prank, complete with chalkboard eraser. Sakura doesn't approve. Inner Sakura does. Hee. Their teacher arrives, to get ninja-punk'd, to the team's disbelief. He's a sleepy-eyed fellow, and immediately hates the squad. One can hardly blame him. Minor digression - I love Kakashi's character design. Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes instilled a deep, almost genetic love for mask-wearing ninjas of all kinds.
Next up is Kakashi-sensei wanting to get to know his knew batch of wunderkind. He's amusingly tight-lipped when asked about himself, and but prompts the squad to tell him about themselves. We don't learn much about Naruto and Sakura - Naruto likes ramen, and Sakura likes Sasuke. Oh, but Sasuke, who doesn't like anything, and wants to reap unholy vengeance on whomever brought the downfall of his clan. Naruto immediately suspects Sasuke means him, and troubled loners only ramp up Sakura's jonesing for him.
Kakashi takes Sasuke's vengeance-quest in stride, but I'm fairly sure that even at this early date Kakashi takes [i]everything[/i] in stride. I wondered the first time I saw this if he picked Squad Seven or was assigned, but it seems like the latter. Poor Kakashi. It's test time. The trio's up bright and early to start the test to determine whether they can stay in training, and it's a fun one. They have to de-bell Kakashi, which I am already sure is the very definition of 'harder than it looks.' There's only two bells, so somebody definitely gets sent back to Ninja Academy, and more importantly doesn't get lunch. Naruto starts it off before the bell, and gets ninja-pwned right away, to everybody's shock and all. Being a Jonin means you don't fart around. It does endear the kids to Kakashi a bit.
Sakura and Sasuke try to pick their spots with some stealth, but Naruto goes for the direct approach again. Naruto insults Kakashi's awesome hair and takes another poke at him, and gets schooled in Taijutsu, or ninja thuggery, while Kakashi reads a book called [i]Make Out Paradise[/i]. Genius. Kakashi displays a heretofore unknown jutsu:
ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF DEATH UP THE POOPER!
Cut scene to Hokage and Iruka, and we find out that Kakashi's never passed anybody during the Genin trials. We might infer that's a lot of flunked kids who got ninja-goosed. Naruto goes for the Shadow Clone Jutsu, and fakes out Kakashi in a bold move. Even Sasuke's impressed, though perhaps less so when it looks like Naruto's attacking his own clone. Naruto suspects Transformation Jutsu, which immdiately sets our hero down a path of self-abuse, literally. Turns out Kakashi trumped the Shadow Clones with Substitution Jutsu. Very handy.
One of Kakashi's bells came loose, and Naruto makes a grab for it... to be immediately rope-snared. Hee. He gets a lecture from Kakashi on Your Jutsu And You, which makes him forget he probably has some sort of knife to cut himself down with. Naruto is unreceptive to his advice, but Sasuke sees it as a chance to make his move with a barrage of throwing knives which... Kakashi doesn't duck!
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