Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto

A.N.: Well, here it is the conclusion of The Light in the Dark Trilogy. If you haven't read Part I or II, then I would read those first. For those who already read Parts I and II, thank you and I hope you enjoy the rest of Kakashi and Mayu's story. Though they won't be the only couple. I plan to include other pairings. Also as a reminder, this is an AU story. For those who don't know, AU means Alternative Universe, which means the story doesn't have to follow the series exactly. So don't flame me if some things turn out differently than they do in the anime or manga.

Chapter 1

The Chunin Exam

Mayu Kigaro woke up as she felt the sunrays coming through the bedroom window hit her face. She slowly opened her eyes to see that she was in the arms of her boy friend Kakashi Hatake, which was now a routine thing for her since she moved in with him. She just loved waking up to see his handsome face. But what made her really happy that morning was that he wasn't wearing a night shirt. Being in Kakashi's strong arms with her head lying on his well muscled chest was a moment she wished won't end. Which she knew it had to, once she looked at the clock.

'Oh crap!' she thought. She knew that if they didn't hurry, she would be late meeting with the Hokage, and Kakashi would be late for meeting up with his students for the missions for the day. Mayu worked her way out of his embrace and tried shake Kakashi awake. "Kakashi, wake up" she ordered him.

"Five more minutes mommy…" Kakashi mumbled.

"Get up now!" Mayu ordered Kakashi. But he continued to sleep soundly.

"That's it! I hate to do this to you, but you leave me no choice." Then Mayu picked Kakashi and carried him towards the bathroom, while he continued to sleep. She placed Kakashi in the shower and turned the cold water on.

"WOAH!" Kakashi suddenly woke up cold and wet, wondering why was in the shower till in his pajama bottoms. Then he noticed Mayu nearby and knew right away she had something to do with it.

"What was that for?" Kakashi asked in an annoyed tone as he shut the water off.

"Sorry, but how else was I gonna wake you up?" Mayu responded. "Now get out, I have to use the bathroom" she said as she grabbed Kakashi and pushed him out the bathroom door and shut it.

"You know it's my bathroom." Kakashi pointed out.

"Well, unlike you I can't afford to be late. Besides I pay half the rent, so that make the apartment half mine." Mayu responded back through the bathroom door.

Kakashi knew she had him there.

Ever since the Kage of the Hidden Light Village chose Mayu to be a representative of the village, Mayu had to meet with the Hokage often in order to keep a peaceful relationship between the Light Village and Leaf Village. Fortunately, Mayu made it in time for her meeting with the Hokage. As much Mayu loved Kakashi, she knew she was going to have to talk to him about his habit of never setting the alarm.

Even though Mayu had managed to get Kakashi up on time, he still showed up late to meet his students, and of course he was late because he stopped to pay respect to Obito at the Memorial Stone.

After another routine day of missions, Kakashi along with the other Jonin had to meet with the Hokage. Mayu waited outside for Kakashi, and read The Notebook. Well, to some it looks like she's reading The Notebook, but actually The Notebook was hiding a certain orange book.

When Kakashi came out of the meeting, he and Mayu walked home.

"So what was that about…or is it one those "I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you" things?" asked Mayu.

Kakashi chuckled and said, "Oh, it only that the Chunin Exams are coming up and I recommended my students for it."

"Oh, so you think they're ready for it? How long have you been training them?" asked Mayu. Kakashi then told her that they were still rookies, and Mayu's eyes widened.

"Do you really think they should take that exam so soon?" she asked. "Though now that I think about it, you probably would recommend them for the exam if you didn't believe they were ready for it. Besides, I passed that thing at the age of 10."

"And I passed at age 6" said Kakashi. "So what makes them think someone twice that age can't pass?"

Mayu's eyes widened again. 'I am so not worthy' she though.

The next night, Mayu and Kakashi waited on a roof for Iruka to report if all the members of the Rookie 9 passed the test that determines if they're ready for the Chunin exam.

"I'm bored" Mayu complained.

"I heard you the first 10 times" said Kakashi starting to get annoyed.

Just then Iruka showed up and told them that all 9 rookies passed the test. Kakashi didn't look one bit surprised.

"AH! Told ya. Pay up." Mayu said to Iruka. Iruka mumbled as he pulled out some money and handed it to Mayu. "Hey if you think the Chunin Exam is tuff, just wait till you take the exam to become a jonin."

The next day Mayu and Kakashi stood in front of the waiting room for the genin who were taking the Chunin Exam. Then Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura finally showed up.

"I'm glad you decided to come, Sakura" said Kakashi. Then he went on to explain that if Sakura didn't show up, then wouldn't have been able to take the exam.

"I'm proud of all of you" said Kakashi.

"Good luck, you guys" said Mayu.

Then Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura entered the room.

"Aaww, your little genin are growing up" said Mayu in a mock sentimental voice.

In the waiting room, Team 7 sees the rest of Rookie 9 was there, along with Team Guy, some older more experienced genin, and a certain genin team they recognized from their visit to the Hidden Light Village.

"Hey Yuki! Maya! Miori!" Naruto called over to them. Sasuke wasn't particularly happy to see girl team from the Light Village. He still hasn't gotten over the fact that Maya had beaten him.

"You know those girls?" Kiba asked Naruto.

"Yeah, we meet them while we were on that mission at the Village Hidden in the Light." Naruto told the rest of the Rookie 9. "Oh, and guess what?"

"What?" asked Kiba, Shikamaru, and Choji.

"Sasuke got his ass kicked by Maya!" Naruto said loud enough for everyone in the room to hear. "Yep, it's true" said Maya adjusting her glasses.

"Naruto!" shouted both an annoyed Sasuke and Sakura.

"What! How could some four-eyes beat my Sasuke!" exclaimed Ino.

"Who are you calling four eyes?!" Maya asked Ino.

"Four-eyes! Some of us here resent that!" shouted a certain older genin who took the exam 7 times.

Meanwhile outside the waiting room, Kakashi wasn't feeling as sure as he as did when he first recommended his students for the exams. But he wasn't willing to tell Mayu that, since she trusted his judgment. (Well, at least half the time.) Unfortunately for him, Mayu can sense when something is wrong.

"What's the matter, Kakashi?" she asked him. But before he could answer, they heard some commotion in the waiting room. They were both in silence agreement that Naruto had something to do with it. Among the commotion Mayu recognized the voices of some Light Village genin she knew.

"Oh yeah, Tama-sensei mentioned to me that he was recommending Yuki, Maya, and Miori for the exam" said Mayu.

Later, while the genin were taking the written part of the exam, Mayu and Kakashi, along with Asuma and Kurenai were sitting in the lounge. While the two couples were chatting, Asuma brings up that the proctor for the first part is Ibiki Morino.

"Who's Ibiki Morino?" asked Mayu and Kurenai. Then Asuma and Kakashi went on to explain to their girlfriends about how Ibiki specializes in torture and interrogation.

'I'm beginning to wonder if I should worry' though Mayu.

The Rookie 9, Team Guy, and Team Tama all successfully passed the written part of the exam. But during the course of part 2 of the exam which was the survival test, Mayu was in major freak-out mode. Because of her ability to sense when someone close to her was in danger, she would become scared every time she sensed something was wrong.

On the day when the second part of the exam ended, she was relieved to see Team 7 made it through okay, along with Team Tama. Also Team Guy and the rest of the Rookie 9 made it too. Not to mention Mayu was happy to see her old sensei Tama was there.

Because of the high number of people who passed the second part of exam there had to be Preliminary Rounds. The first match was Sasuke vs. Akado. Before the match started Mayu overheard the conversation between Anko, Kakashi, and the Hokage about their being something wrong with Sasuke. Mayu started to feel worried.

It was a close match, but Sasuke managed to defeat Akado. But Sasuke was badly injured. The medic tried to help him, but Sasuke insisted he didn't need any help. Kakashi says and he'll take care of Sasuke and takes him to another room.

Mayu watched the next match, which was Shino vs. Zaku, with Sakura and Naruto. During the match Mayu sensed something was wrong and ran as fast she could to the room where Sasuke and Kakashi were as fast as she could. By the time she got to where they were, Sasuke was shirtless and passed out on the ground, and Kakashi had one of his gloves off and had a look on his face as if something just scared him.

"What happened here?" Mayu asked Kakashi in a concerned voice. Kakashi wonder if he could tell her about Orochimaru. But he knew he couldn't lie to her. He told her everything as she helped him get Sasuke to the hospital and left him in the care of a few ANBU.

They managed to get back in time to see Shino defeat Zaku. Sakura and Naruto asked them where they'd been. Kakashi just told them he took Sasuke to the hospital and Mayu excuse was, "Oh you know the ladies room, lines, lines, lines."

The next match was Kankuro vs. Miori. Miori fought her best, but she was no match for the Sand Ninja. Fortunately she wasn't fatally wounded. After the match Kankuro made comments about Miori being a weakling.

"Hey, she almost defeated you!" Rock Lee pointed out. "You should acknowledge the skills of the second most beautiful flower in the room."

"You have to admit that Lee guy is kind of cute." Miori whispered to Yuki and Maya.

"You just said he was a weird a few days ago." Yuki pointed out.

"Oh who cares, he's defending my honor." Miori responded.

The next match was Sakura vs. Ino, which ended in a draw.

After that was Shikamaru vs. Kin, which Shikamaru won.

Next was TenTen vs. Temari, and TenTen was defeated. Temari dissed TenTen, and Lee got on Temari's case about it, which caused Miori's eyes to flame up in an angry way.

Then it was Kiba vs. Naruto, and Naruto won.

Next was Neji vs. Hinata. Hinata fought her best, but still lost against Neji. Most of the jonin had to hold Neji back from killing Hinata, and Hinata had to be quickly sent to the infirmary.

After that was Lee vs. Gaara. Lee gave it his all, but Gaara was too much for him. Guy had to step in to keep Gaara from killing Lee. Lee was then carried off by 2 medics.

The next match was Maya vs. Misumi. At first it seemed like Misumi had the upper hand, but then he learn the hard way not to underestimate Maya. Maya turned the fight around and defeated Misumi.

Then it was Dosu vs. Choji. Dosu managed to defeat Choji in less than 5 minutes.

The only person left to fight was Yuki, but since Kabuto had dropped out earlier she had no one to fight. So then the remaining genin had to draw numbers. These were the results:

Naruto-1

Neji-2

Gaara-3

Sasuke-4

Kankuro-5

Shino-6

Temari-7

Dosu-8

Shikamaru-9

Yuki-10

Maya-11

Then the Hokage explained that they would be participating in a tournament, and they were shown the standing of who would fight who. Yuki and Maya didn't really like that fact that their first match in the tournament would be against each other.

Later Mayu got one her feeling, so she and Kakashi went to the hospital to check on Sasuke, and were able to get there on time to save him from being killed by Kabuto. But unfortunately, they weren't able to keep Kabuto from getting away. But they also found out that he was working for Orochimaru.

When they left Sasuke's room, they found Naruto at the front desk demanding to see Sasuke. Kakashi then had to tell Naruto not to yell in the hospital. Naruto was about to ask Kakashi to train him for the tournament. But Kakashi said he couldn't and said that he found someone else to train him. But Naruto wasn't happy to see that it was Ebisu.

"Why can't you or Mayu train me?" asked Naruto.

"Sorry Naruto, but I already promised Tama that I would train Yuki" said Mayu.

But Kakashi tried to convince Naruto that Ebisu was a better teacher than him. But no matter how much Naruto protested, Kakashi wouldn't change his mind.

So over the course of the next month, Kakashi trained Sasuke and Mayu trained Yuki. Though Naruto only trained under Ebisu for a day. Though it took a lot of work, Naruto was able to convince the Legendary Sannin, Jiraiya to train him.

A.N.: It may be quite a while before I can update, so be patient, okay?