It's fun to play in the world that Masashi Kishimoto has created and he gets the credit. We do not own any characters but the OCs, the cookies and less important things. Thanks for taking a peak at what we have been working on.

The story doesn't follow anytime lines and the Uchihas are still around. No yaoi. pairings will appear later on. Starting age for the kids are thirteen.

This is a joint story by Aleka446, Cetacea-of-time and botskey. Cover art by Aleka446. We hope that you enjoy the story.

Warning! this story contains: odd sense of humor, suggested stuff, dirty mindedness, running gags and language. Read at your own risk. XD

Team Four

"Morning Yamato."

Yamato turned to see Kakashi walking towards him. He leaned against the wall waiting for Kakashi to catch up.

"Morning."

"Ready for the new a adventure?"

"If you want to call it that." Yamato sighed.

"We'll have to meet up later and compare notes."

"Yes. Well, see you later then."

They left and headed in different directions in the hallway. Yamato reached the room where his team was supposed to be waiting at. Yamato had received a note about them. Team four is what they were to be called. He was to start with two and the third member was to join later on. He slid the door open and saw two kids, both looked alike. He remembered now, the note said something about twins. They both had light brown hair and hazel eyes.

"Aiyana?" Yamato asked.

"Hi." She said softly as she flipped her medium length hair over her shoulder. She was wearing an elbow length mesh shirt under her blue tank top and blue shorts.

"Aaden?"

He gave a nod, but didn't say anything. He had short hair but the front was longer and part of it was long enough to start covering his eyes. He was wearing a black mesh shirt under a white jacket with two blue lightning bolts on either side of the opening. Yamato realized their eyes had a different tint from each other. Aiyana's had more green and Aaden had more blue.

"Come on you two." Yamato said.

Yamato recalled hearing about the two from Iruka. Aiyana was quite like Hinata Hyūga and Aaden was serious like Neji. Interesting comparison, but he had a feeling there was more. He led them out to one of training grounds.

They spent the next couple of hours going over the basics and for them to show him what they knew and needed to work on. Their chakra controls were good but could still use improvement. After a bit, he sent them home for some rest.

Yamato headed to Ichiraku's to meet Kakashi. The night air felt cool as a breeze went by. Yamato saw Kakashi waiting as he sat down next to him, waiting for the food to come.

"So, who do you have?" he asked.

"I have the Senina twins, Aaden and Aiyana, plus a boy name Sai. I got a message that he couldn't come yet. I think he's the one I've been hearing about living with an anbu member named Shin." Yamato said.

"Shin? Yes, he's an anbu. Sai is his adoptive brother." Kakashi said.

"Ah. Who do you have?"

"I have Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno." he sighed.

"Sounds like a handful."

"Yeah, it can be, but I think they'll turn out all right."

They ate in silence for a bit longer.

"You know," Kakashi started. "We should have our teams do a survival challenge together."

"Not a bad idea as long as they don't kill each other." Yamato said.

"Nah, we could put that as a rule."

"All right. I'll ask some of our friends to keep an eye on them too."

"We could have Zaji and Izuna keep tabs on them. If Itachi is around, he could help too. We'll have Shizune on standby incase anyone gets injured."

"So, do we have them start around to Kikyō Castle?"

"No, we should toss them into the forty-fourth training ground."

"You sure?"

"How about this: Izumo guards one scroll and we'll have Kotetsu guard the other. Each team would have to defeat the guards in order to get the scroll. We have them start in the afternoon and they have to be done by morning the next day. If they come back with the wrong scroll, we penalized them."

Yamato was thinking it over in his head. They hadn't even had their groups for a day and they knew their groups needed more training. Yamato still had yet to see how Sai would work in the mix with his group.

"When should we do this?"

"Tomorrow?"

"So soon? We just got the teams today!"

"Calm down. It would be good for them, besides, if they're smart about this. They could technically team up and get the scrolls together."

It clicked. It was to get them to work with others besides their groups. Not many genins pick up on that right away. Usually that happens when they get assigned to different groups when they reach chūnin or even jōnin.

"Kakashi, you're sneaky." Yamato said.

"Yep."

"Anyway, I'll see you tomorrow." Yamato said as he finished his food.

Kakashi gave him a nod and Yamato headed home for some much needed sleep.

(first chapter is a little short, but we promise the next one will be longer).

Authors' chatter:

Aleka: Soda! I need more soda!

Sai: *sighs* Here, I have an extra.

(Aleka tackles Sai in a hug.)

Aiyana: Nice start to the story

Cetacea: yes it is.

Sakura: Where's Botskey?

Aleka: She's on the floor muttering something about Kanky

Sakura: Who's Kanky?

Aleka: Kankuro

(Cetacea laughing)

Yamato: Is that safe?

Aleka: Probably not.

Botskey: I'm fine! Really, I am!

Emo: whatever

(Aaden nods in agreement)

Yamato: maybe Itachi put her in a genjutsu

Kakashi: that was my doing actually

Aleka: Why did you do that? We need to focus on the next chapter

Kakashi: seemed like a good idea at the time. She was talking about pulling strings

Cetacea: oh dear.

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