A/N

Rating of T is for language and mild violence? I guess... There will be a smut chapter, but I'm posting it separate so yeah. There's a lot of cursing. I curse a lot. FUCK. See? It's out of control.

Risa Fugawate

This was it. This was the biggie. Jonin. Say it. Jonin. Risa was bouncing on her heels. God, this old man was taking forever!

"Risa," he drawled. Maybe she would take this if he were the Hokage, but he wasn't so get the show on the road! "We have selected you for a special training opportunity. We are going to place you with a jonin and genin team to further your education until you are fully ready to become a jonin. You will be assessed by your new teacher." He smiled at her like he was doing the girl a favor. She tried not to punch him. She tried not to rip the paper to shreds. She succeeded in only one of these tasks. The paper floated through the streets of Konoha, as she made her way to the training fields. She caught a glimpse of herself in a shop's window and groaned. The jutsu was wearing off faster this time. She looked about a year older than she was supposed to. She stopped in the window and put her hair up experimentally. That took away a little time. She rolled her eyes. The body of a mature adult, stuck inside a teenager. But what was she to do? Revolution did not come easily.

She entered the training grounds and looked around. A team of two was practicing on the south side, but four people were nearer the northwest side. She took the four people, knowing how many genin each team held. A blonde was pacing, annoyance written on his face. A black haired girl was sketching in a book. A pink girl was lifting a tree over her head—sorry, enormous log. Kakashi Hatake leaned in the shade of a tree, reading one of the Make-out Paradise books. Risa had heard they were rather smutty and devoid of any real plot. She would have to read them to get to know her sensei better. She walked up to them and smiled.

"I thought you would be taller," Sai said passingly. Risa narrowed her eyes.

"I thought you were a girl," she retorted. Naruto laughed, clapping Sai on the back, as Risa pulled out her file and thumbed through it. "Sai," she added, finding the page on him.

"He's a little socially stunted," Naruto said, putting a hand on his head. "Don't mind him." It's true—Risa was on the smaller side. She was not built like the other ninja, but she was quick. Sometimes, that made all the difference. She kept her light brown hair jaw-length, styled as to look as innocent as possible. Same with her dress, short but not overly. A calming forest green. Small sleeves and a modest V-neck. However, she knew that is she leaned this way or stood that way, another side of her would show. The dress rode up easily, exposing the black fishnets underneath. The V-neck often shifted in such a way that enticed men. It was all on purpose of course. Men loved the honey in the trap. Of course, sarcastic remarks like that didn't help. She would have to be overly sweet for a while to throw suspicion off. God, espionage was a pain!

"That's okay," she said brightly and smiled wide. Kakashi looked her up and down. She was older than he'd suspected—though it may just be the wear and tear of ninja life.

"Yo," he interjected and waved a hand. "We were about to start a five person lesson with only four people. Good thing you showed up." Risa smiled brightly at him as well and nodded.

"Well, I guess it is. What's the exercise?" Kakashi produced three strips of cloth and smiled.

"Basically," Naruto began. "One of us can't use our hands, one of us our eyes, one our ears, and one can't speak. He refused to tell us which until you got here."

"Naruto," Kakashi said and clapped his hands around the boy's ears. Naruto shook his head, having become deaf.

"Sensei!" He yelled. Sakura's hand shot out and pressed over his mouth so he wouldn't deafen them all.

"Naruto, you idiot! That was right in my ear!" She griped. Risa's eyebrows rose. Did she not realize she was talking to a deaf man? Kakashi laughed, understanding Risa's look. He roped Sakura back, tying a gag around her mouth.

"Sakura, stop talking," he said. Naruto cracked a smile. Sai turned around and held his hands behind his back. Kakashi roped them together without a word and turned to Risa, blindfold in hand. The new girl turned and watched the world go dark. I don't normally do this kind of thing on the first date, she would have said. But she was innocent. Kakashi began to move away, and he picked something up. "Get this stick from me, and I'll call it a day."

"Where did he put it?" Rise asked.

"His belt. Left side," Sai answered.

"Sai, come here. You use art, correct? With your hands?" She asked.

"Correct."

"Be my eyes," she ordered and hoisted him up on her back, piggy style. He secured his hands round her neck. "Sakura, Naruto and I are attacking from the front. I want you to get behind him and find the best time to take the stick. I'm counting on you." Risa gave her an encouraging smile, and Sakura blushed. The pink haired girl didn't usually get an integral role in Team 7's plans. It felt nice. She hopped off, and Risa heard the rustle of leaves. She just hoped she wouldn't hear them later when Sakura was supposed to be sneaking. "Naruto!" She said and put a hand on his shoulder. He turned fully to her and tried to read her lips and crude facsimile of sign language. "Go. Att-a-ck. Ka-ka-shi-Sen-sei." He nodded and ran towards Kakashi's chakra.

"That's the plan? It's kind of elementary," Sai scoffed. Risa shook her head and hopped off after Naruto, not too encumbered by Sai's weight. They found Kakashi battling it out easily with a few of Naruto's clones. Sai couldn't tell which clone was the real Naruto. The copy-nin was easily fending off the few clones without even using any chakra.

"Is he using any jutsus?" She asked. Sai replied with a 'no'. "That won't do. Lead me to the closest Naruto."

"Forwards. Two O'clock. Slower. Reach out your hand. More to the left. Down," he directed. The Naruto turned and Risa stuck out her thumb and jerked it upwards, signaling him to turn it up.

"Aye, aye!" Naruto yelled. Soon Kakashi was using jutsus to fight him off. Nothing major, a fireball here—a lightning bolt there. Risa pulled out a kunai and listened to see where he was.

"Sai. Tell me where he is, where he goes, and what he shoots at me," she asked. Sai tightened his grip on her, and she pulled out a kunai, no longer holding his leg.

"Twelve O'clock. Fifteen meters!" He said, and she dashed forward. "Swipe!" She waved the kunai wildly, listening attentively to Sai's instructions. It did mean, however, that Kakashi knew what she was doing without his sharingan. Naruto yelled something and attacked him in earnest. Their sensei leapt into the air and blew a fireball down. The bulk of it was going towards all the Narutos, and Sai yelled at her to stay clear of it.

Instead, she jumped right into the middle of it.

Kakashi's eye widened, and when he landed, he sprinted back to the spot, dust barely clearing. Dammit, not another one. Why would she do that? He had only just entered the dust cloud when a foot caught him off guard in the head. He rolled with it, coming up with a kunai in hand.

"Thank you, Kakashi-sensei! My chakra reserves were feeling a bit low," she smiled, the dust all suddenly dropping from the air.

"Earth user," he said. She nodded cheerily.

"Guess what you're standing on," she commented. He looked down, and she clapped her hands together. Two slabs of rock enclosed Kakashi, but she felt him slip out of it, into the ground. He had nowhere to hide though because she had some of his chakra. From Risa, you can run, but you can't hide. She couldn't use her favorite jutsus because they were too powerful for someone of her age to know, but she could dumb them down a bit. She did a few hand signs and smacked her hands to the ground, hardening the surface so he couldn't get back. "Sai, I don't need you anymore. I can sense him." The boy slid off her back and ran off. Not; however, before she took a bit of his chakra, allowing her to sense him.

It was Kakashi vs. Risa, and both of them were determined to win. He burst through the ground, having to waste considerable chakra to do so. He shot a lightning bolt at her, and she brought up a wall of earth to block it. He surprised her by vaulting over the wall, almost catching her in the face. He built up chakra for another jutsu—a big one—and Risa flipped backwards, standing her ground. She smirked. He didn't seem to get it yet. He launched seven kunai at her, followed by a volley of senbon, infused with his chakra to cause maximum damage. Typically, the senbon were supposed to slice the opposition up, and the chakra would push into the veins, opening them and pouring the blood out. However, Risa had some of his chakra. She held out her hands and spun, making the senbon like boomerangs. Kakashi's eyebrows shot up, as his own weapons chased him back.

The copy-nin was getting bored, and he decided it was time to end this little game. Risa felt the air about him change, and his chakra became—different. More deadly almost. He levelled his gaze at her, and she glared defiantly back (at least as much as she could with a blindfold). In an instant, he was behind her. He grabbed her by the throat and looped his other arm around her middle, thus pinning her arms. She pushed full force backwards, trying to salvage the situation, but he spun them in midair and trapped her against the dirt. She wriggled a little, realizing as a twenty-six year old that this position was rather indecent, but as the seventeen year old that they saw, what would she know? Risa smirked inwardly and thrashed about under him. He grunted once with the effort of keeping her down for with the strength of a bull, did she flail!

"Can we agree that you're dead?" He asked. His grip loosened when she stilled, and he rose up to his elbows as she rolled over and smirked up at him.

"Can we agree that we've won?" She replied. His hand flew to his side, the stick gone. He too smirked under his mask and got up, brushing his fingers through his hair.

"Looks like you guys got me on that one," he admitted. Sakura held up the stick and smiled triumphantly, Naruto and Sai at her side. He pulled Risa up and untied the strip of fabric around her eyes, prompting the rest to rid themselves of their bonds as well.

"We got you good, Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto exclaimed. Risa smiled happily, overjoyed that her 'elementary' plan worked. Somehow, her smiled was stayed somewhat, as she'd felt the raw force with which Kakashi could have snapped her like a twig. She did not enjoy letting him overpower like that, but such things must be if she was simply a seventeen year old. God, what she wouldn't do to have one night as herself, one night as a twenty six year old. Yet the plot depends upon her being able to look innocent, so look innocent she did. She hated it, but she would need to go to Kyo for another treatment. She was looking a bit older. But enough of her plans, her team was making their own.

"Sure, Naruto. Since you guys won, I'll treat you to some ramen. But after the third bowl, you pay for yourself," he said, and they began to walk off. So immersed in her thoughts, she may not have noticed if Kakashi hadn't turn back and motioned for her to follow. She jumped and hurried after them, catching up to her sensei with a blush.

"I'm not very used to the team scene," she admitted, talking to Kakashi as her other teammates were nearly ten meters ahead, and arguing impossibly.

"You did well today, though. In the team, I mean. Usually, it's rare when I can get them all to work together that quickly. I think it's good that you're here to take charge a little," he reassured her. "I'm also sorry for choking you like that. It's only training, but you seemed a formidable foe." Risa giggled and looked away.

"I'm supposed to be a jonin you know. If I can't hold my own against my sensei, I shouldn't think to become one," she said bashfully. Kakashi nodded, lapsing into silence next to her. She seemed comfortable with it enough, but he found something odd about such a cheerful ninja. Sure, Naruto was as bubbly as ever, but technically he was still a genin. Risa had been through ANBU trials; becoming a jonin hardened you as it was meant to. However, she seemed unaffected. It was a small comfort to know that someone could keep a smile through all that. As they ducked into Ichiraku's, she spoke up again, "Of course, I had no intentions of beating the great copy-ninja, but I was confident in my abilities to distract him for long enough."

He shook his head and replied darkly, "That's a bad attitude to carry into battle." That definitely silenced her, as they took their seats, Kakashi on the outside of the group which forced Risa to sit next to Naruto and the copy-nin himself. Of course, she was yelling at him in her head: Oh, I could have taken you, Kakashi. One day…

"We already ordered for you. You guys were taking so long," Naruto whined. Risa nodded, not really caring. Ramen was ramen. It was quiet for a moment, and Risa began thinking about her plot again. "So, Risa," Naruto began. "Earth…"

"Real eloquent, idiot," Sakura griped.

"Yes, I was wondering about that myself," Kakashi commented, leaning back to face them. Risa blushed a little and took a sip of her water.

"I'm from a little town on the outskirts of Konoha, and my village has only ever had Earth-leaning ninja. We're a humble sort," she explained and gracefully accepted her steaming bowl of ramen. Let's see, how many lies did that make today? "I can do a little water, but I'm mostly an Earth girl."

"That's cool. I use wind techniques, and Sakura's becoming a nurse, and Sai uses his art. Where's mine?" He asked suddenly.

"You ramen will be out in minute, sir," the waitress said and went back into the kitchen, sneaking a small glance at Kakashi that did not go unnoticed by Risa. So there was a reason for the mask. She twisted her glass, pushing just far enough forward that she could see his reflection. Just as she almost blinked, he pushed down him mask and inhaled his pasta. A split second later, Risa stunned, he was looking perfectly normal. All she could make out were vague features. He had lips. A nose. Pale skin under that mask. Nothing she wouldn't have otherwise guessed, but could that man eat fast!

Naruto put his head on the counter and groaned, his stomach sounding along with him. This drew a small giggle out of Risa, and Kakashi noted happily that he hadn't ruined her mood with his earlier comment. They ate and chatted for a while about nothing, and Risa could feel them make a place for her in their team dynamic. It was nice. However, she felt herself grow tired, and she knew she'd dallied too long. She said goodbye to her team, promising to meet them bright and early for a mission the Hokage had assigned them.