Okay ... I finally got the first chapter of Family Ties posted. Took me long enough ... jeeze. Reminder, this is a revised version of Family, so I won't be posting any more chapters to Family, they will all be posted under Family Ties.

Note: This story is AU, though that might not be aparent yet. Also, characters will be OOC, due to the fact that I haven't truely met them yet, or it just fits the story line better. Bear with me please!

Disclaimer - Don't own Naruto or the charecters.

Family Ties

Prologue

Kakashi sighed. He was standing in front of his assigned classroom. The classroom that held the one thing he had hoped to avoid for the rest of his life. Students. Fresh out of the Academy students. Students that didn't know a thing about being a shinobi. 'Students I'm never going to pass, so it's pointless to assign them to me. I told Sandaime not to assign anymore to me, unless he really wants them to fail, with crushed dreams to boot.' Another sigh left his mouth as he spotted the eraser wedged between the door and the wall. Looking at his list of students (a grand total of three) he identified the most probable culprit. 'Uzumaki Naruto. The fox kit.' Looking back down at the list he registered the other names in his brain before setting the piece of paper on fire. 'Uchiha Sasuke, and Haruno Sakura. The silent one and the brain. Oh joy.'

For the three young adults in the classroom, it seemed that their assigned teacher was, put bluntly, an IDIOT. He didn't even avoid the simple test that Naruto had set up.

Even though he was expecting it, the falling eraser hurt. It hurt a hell of a lot more then he expected it to. Neither Naruto's laughter, or Sakura's obviously fake 'sorry' were enough to drown out the mantra running through Kakashi's head. 'I'm going to kill the one responsible for that stupid, fucking eraser. I'm so going to kill …' Fortunately for Naruto, he reigned in his urge to strangle the boy in time to get a good look at his three, unfortunate pupils.

Naruto was just getting over his laughter, his blonde head thrown back and the whisker marks on his cheeks scrunched together, and seemed to find his teachers pain hilarious, but on a quick, closer inspection, his blue eyes didn't hold as much laughter as they should have if the laugh was genuine. His eyes were chuckling while his mouth was guffawing. Kakashi noted that on his mental clipboard.

Sakura was still wringing her hands, and the pink head shaking, and repeatedly stating how sorry she was, and that she had tried to stop Naruto, and please forgive her and Sasuke, even though he had nothing to do with it… and so on and so on. Kakashi nearly did a double take when he looked at her green eyes. 'Was it my overactive imagination or was there another Sakura in her eyes. Yep. Defiantly another Sakura. Creeeeeepy.' Another Sakura indeed. A Sakura who was in tears laughing at his misfortune of falling for Naruto's trap.

Last, there was Sasuke. He was sitting at a desk, looking over his hands at the scene playing out in front of him. Fingers interlocked in front of his face, hiding his lower face from view, but not his eyes, and the black hair didn't hide them either. Kakashi mentally raised his eyebrow at Sasuke's eyes. 'They're not at all what I've heard of. Black, cold, heartless, glaring eyes Uchiha Sasuke. I understand the glaring, he is an Uchiha, but I'd almost have to say he was laughing by the look of his eyes.'

Kakashi came to several interesting conclusions about his assigned team in those few seconds. Simply put he found them a puzzle with in a puzzle. To know them you'd have to look underneath the underneath, something Kakashi was quite adept at doing. He jotted more notes down on his mental clipboard. They aren't apparently friends, but they can't be described, simply, as anything but friends. They're too comfortable around each other to be acquaintances, but not comfortable enough to be friends. Yet, they aren't the kind of people that the others would think of as the not-quite-friend-but-not-acquaintance type. They all seem to be hiding behind some sort of mask. Hiding something together almost, by the way they act. Kakashi tapped his mental pen against his mental chin in thought, for these observations raised some interesting questions. Question one – what were they to each other? Two – what are they hiding? And three – why are they hiding?

Kakashi chuckled, drawing the attention of all three. "Hmm … how shall I put this?" He rubbed his chin (his physical chin) for emphasis. "Based on my first impression, I'd have to say … I hate you!"

Mentally he grinned at the sweat that appeared on their faces. 'Actually I don't hate you quite yet. You three intrigue me really. And I plan to unravel your secrets. Starting now.'

End of the first part! YAY! Not many changes here.

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