Prologue

Sora was extremely bored. She ran her fingers through her hair and put her chin in her hands. Iruka Sensei had been listing who was in which team for hours, and he still wasn't done yet.

"Haruno Sakura, Uzumaki Naruto, and Uchiha Sasuke are in Squad 7."

Sora looked up at the sound of "Uchiha," then relaxed again when she heard her brother Sasuke's name being called.

Sora glanced at Sakura, who was sitting behind her. The pink-haired girl was trying hard to keep her excitement from showing, but it was a failed attempt. Ugh, Sora thought. He's just a boy. If you really knew what he's like, you'd have a very different impression.

Sora looked out the window and caught sight of her reflection mirrored there. Since there was nothing else to do, she scrutinized her face closely. People were always telling her that she looked like Sasuke, he being her twin after all, but she didn't think so.

Granted, their noses and faces were of the same shape, but just about everything else were different. Sora's long tied back hair was thick but straight and a dark green-black in color, while Sasuke's stood up near the back and had a blue tinge rather than green. Her brother's eyes were the same color as his hair, but Sora's were a mix of gray and sea green. Her thoughts gradually drifted to making a new weapon. Genji had made some: kunai and shuriken filled with a sticky, spider web-like substance that was strong as rope and sticky as glue.

"Uzumaki Genji, Uchiha Sora, and Hyuuga Natsuko are in Squad 11." Iruka Sensei announced.

"What!!!???" cried a boy near the back. "I've got two girls on my team!!!????"

Sora had a somewhat different reaction. This Natsuko person had better not be one of the girly types. Having crazy Genji on my team is bad enough. Hmm… Hyuuga. Hopefully a quiet person.

Iruka Sensei chose to ignore him. "You will all be meeting your sensei's tomorrow 8:00 sharp at the academy, dismissed." Chairs slid and footsteps echoed down the hall. Sora glanced around, craning her neck to find her teammates among the mass of people.

She already knew who Genji was; the boy who was yelling, and the one who had made those sticky weapons. He was a direct cousin of Naruto and had basically the same personality of him, too. Almost everyone knew what he looked like; he was the class clown. His hair was the color of fire, and his eyes seemed to change in ranges of blue, depending on his mood. Besides his hair color, he was just like Naruto in every way. She guessed that he would be in a bad mood, so she decided not to look for him. Sora didn't really know what Natsuko looked like, but since the girl was Hinata's cousin and Neji's younger sister; she probably would look like them.

All of a sudden, she spotted Natsuko walking ahead of her. Sora ran toward her, following the yellow leg-cape that the Hyuuga girl always wore. Elbowing past a few people, she caught up to her. "Hi," Sora said.

"Oh, hi! You're Sasuke's sister, right?" asked Natsuko, excited. She had sea-blue hair and the trademark lavender eyes of a Hyuuga, just as Sora had thought. In fact, she looked just like Hinata, apart from her clothes. But her personality!

Sora was slightly taken aback. She had thought that a cousin of Hinata would be shy and quiet. "Um, yeah."

They stepped out into the sunlight. "Oh, well, I guess I'll see you tomorrow!"

"Bye!"

The minute Sora got through the front door of the small apartment that she shared with Sasuke, she called out, "Hey, bro! You've got Naruto in your team, right? Well, I've got his cousin!"

Sasuke peeked out of his bedroom's sliding door. "Nice to know. Dinner's on the table."

She rolled her eyes, and repeated, "I said, I've got Genji in my squad..."

"What am I supposed to do?"

"Uh...you're supposed to say: Gee, what a coincidence."

"Gee, what a coincidence." Sasuke said in a bored voice. "Now go eat dinner."

"I'm only younger than you by ten minutes and you treat me like an eight-year old!"

"Just eat."

"Fine… what's for dinner?"

"Fried rice."

"Come on! Not again. We had that yesterday."

"Too bad for you. If you don't like it, you can just starve to death."

"Fine."

Meanwhile, Genji was a having a somewhat more fruitful conversation with Naruto.

"I can't believe I'm stuck with two girls! They're probably going to be just like Saku – I mean, Ino."

"Well, it's better than being a girl yourself and having three on a team, right?"

"Um, was that supposed to be a joke?"

"Yeah, what else could it be?"

"I dunno…"

The next morning, Sora awoke to the chimes of the clock tower. She counted along with the bells; "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight...Aack! It's Eight!!! Better hurry!" She threw on her ninja clothes and hurried down the stairs, not even glancing at her breakfast. Sasuke was already gone. "Darn bro, why didn't he wake me?!"

She ran down the streets of Konoha swiftly, but when she arrived at the correct room, the only people that were there were squad 7 and Natsuko. "Hi!"

The sea-blue haired kunoichi remarked, "Everyone already left except for us."

Sora briefly held Sasuke in a death glare for not waking her up before realizing the meaning of Natsuko's message. "Our sensei is late!?!"

"Look on the bright side, Sis, my sensei is late too." Sasuke said, shifting his gaze to Naruto as he set up a mini trap.

"There! Once Sensei opens the door, the blackboard eraser will fall on his head!"

Sakura shook her head at his hopelessness, but her inner-self throbbed with excitement. "Yeah! I love this type of stuff!"

Just then they heard a noise. "Eek! Sasuke, help meeeee!" Sakura cried, hiding behind Sasuke.

Sora greatly despised anyone who tried to flirt with her brother, and she watched Natsuko roll her eyes, Naruto quiver with rage, and Genji jump up and down idiotically screaming.

"Good thing Hyuuga girl doesn't chase after my bro," she whispered to herself, extremely annoyed.

Without warning the door creaked eerily.

Thump!

A tall guy with raggedy, soot black hair stepped in. His index finger was blocking the eraser and it landed loudly. He appeared to be deep in thought, and his eyes were closed as if he was meditating.

Genji landed harshly on his butt. "Ouch! Huh?! How did you block that with your eyes closed?"

The young jonin shushed him as he continued meditating. After what seemed like hours, his eyes opened. "Okay, I'm done. I'm Takeshi, your sensei." He said, pointing to Sora, Genji, and Natsuko. "Squad 11, follow me."

"B-but you still didn't answer my question!" Takeshi ignored him.

"Now...tell us about yourself, your name, hobbies, likes, dislikes, dreams, that kind of stuff. I'll go first. My name is Ogawa Takeshi. My hobbies are thinking and meditating, I like thinking, and I dislike anything that disturbs my meditation. My dream is to lead a peaceful life, nothing more."

Sora and Natsuko exchanged a glance. This guy was turning out to be just as passive and boring as Kakashi, the top jonin. They wondered if their sensei was as good as him, too.

"Now that I'm done, you can go," Takeshi said, pointing to Sora.

"My name is Uchiha Sora. My hobbies are beating up anyone who tries to flirt with Sasuke and . I like practicing my skills and having adventure; I dislike boring, repetitive, uninteresting things. My dream...is, um...I guess I don't really have one."

Takeshi pointed his finger at Natsuko. "My name is Hyuuga Natsuko! My hobby is being happy. I like to train with Hinata and Neji, I dislike girly people and my dream is to become as great as Neji!"

"Finally! My turn," Genji broke in. "My name is Uzumaki Genji, my hobby is tasting different kinds of ramen with Naruto, I like to eat ramen with Naruto, I dislike Naruto's enemies, and my dream is to beat Naruto and become hokage!"

Takeshi nodded, "Interesting group...meet me again at this same spot tomorrow at nine. Bye!" Before anyone could say anything Takeshi vanished as if the wind had vaporized him.

"What!?! Aren't we going to do something else? All we did was talk about ourselves! When's the mission stuff going to start?" Genji's words poured out like a torrent of water. "I bet Naruto is going on a cool mission tomorrow and we have to just sit here with a philosopher!?! I mean, come on...don't you guys agree? Plus, when's our training? We probably won't even go anywhere with this sen--"

"Shut up, will you?" his teammates grumped in unison. Genji's mouth immediately snapped shut.

Natsuko slapped her forehead and exclaimed, "Thank you!"

"You're welcome."

"You're such an idiot."

"Thank you."

"Thank you?"

"I mean...how dare you say that to the future hokage?!"

"You're not going to be the future hokage if Naruto does."

"I agree with Sora."

"He won't be hokage!"

"How do you know?

"Because...of...something..."

Both kunoichi shook their heads, "Let's just go."