So….AU obviously…I want Sai in here WITH Sasuke…..Like both…at once…Kakashi's team has Sakura and Naru-chan…and Sai and Sasuke.….cuz my friend is a Sai fangirl…. And all the characters are older in this version. And they have Japanese names. I changed it up to make more sense and be more um...deep?

Sooooo…if you think its better, tell me so please
If you hate it with a fiery passion burning deep in your soul (I love that cliché xD) tell me, and I'll put up the old Flying Kunai as EXACTLY close to the original as I can remember. But under another title…Cuz I happen to like this one a lot. ILY all my fans...if...there…are…any…ummm...AWKWARD MUCH?

Read, honey bunches

Disclaimer: Sadly, I do not own this awesome empire of ninja amazingness known as Naruto.

If your life was easy, would it really be a life worth living? Would you keep going if you knew there would be no challenges?

But if your life is full of despair, full of challenges. Wouldn't you strive to keep on living? Just to prove your own worth? That you can do a well as someone who isn't as messed up in the head as you are.

Hope you can have some oodles of fun with that.

I crouched on a tree branch, peeking through a thicket of branches high above the ground. Four shinobi swarmed over Kakashi, trying to attack him to collect the bells.

Oh I hate those damn bells. I'm going to crush them someday.

I watched as two of the four repeatedly attacked him, while one other made repeated (but better strategized) attacks with painted beasts. The last was unwilling to participate, only attacking when he absolutely had to.

"So who you spyin' on?" I jumped at the sudden murmur in my ear.

"Kōhī?" I whisper-screamed through gritted teeth. She had snuck up on me, and had probably been there for a little while.

"Yes. That would be my name." She said, crunching on an apple.

"Why the hell are you up here?" I hissed.

"Hey….why are we up here?"

"NATSŪME, GO AWAY!"

"But I was having fun spying with you." Natsūme smirked at me.

"If you're going to be annoying and stalk me, at least shut up and watch like a good audience."

"But I don't wanna. I say we go down there and say hi." Kōhī stood up and tossed her apple back over her shoulder. She broke a couple of branches in front of us, clearing a Kōhī-sized hole.

"Kōhī, do not even think about going down there. He doesn't know you're part of my team. He'll have my ass for this if you drag me in." I said, with an irritated tone.

"Then stay up here."

"I'm not an idiot."

"Yes you are," Natsūme interjected.

"Shut UP, Neko-chan."

"Bitch."

"My pleasure-KŌHĪ DON'T YOU DARE JUMP-damn that girl."

"Ijōna, she would have done it even if you had chained her to the tree."

"…That's true. Natsūme, go on down. I gotta transform or something before I go down there. Kakashi will kill me if I interrupt him training that team."

"You have three minutes or I'm going to shoot you down with a bazooka."

"…Neko-chan, where would you get a bazooka from?"

"Summoning jutsu. Shikeru-sensei helped me develop it when I was having trouble launching kunai in a fast barrage."

"Ooooohhh…."

"Three minutes." Natsūme launched out of Kōhī's little doorway.

I crossed my legs, and began making hand signs. I could feel my appearance melting and rearranging and being weird. It made my skin tingle.

I stood up, and shook my head back and forth. My eyelashes were thicker, so my eyes felt funny. And my hair was brown and short. My skin was darker, and my facial features were softened and rounded. My entire body felt funny. These body modification jutsus always left me sort of…discombobulated. And disoriented.

"HENTAI-CHAN!"

Oh god. Did she really have to use THAT to call for me? Damn Natsūme.

I leapt through the gap in the branches, thwacking my legs against them, unaccustomed to my burst of height. A foot or so, so I was just under seven feet tall. Maybe four inches shy. I was very disoriented.

I flipped through the air, and smashed feet-first onto the ground.

I stood completely up, and suddenly my air supply was blocked off. I choked, and stumbled down. I fell, and lowered to the height of the person holding (more like clutching in a painful I'm-going-to-hurt-you sort of way…) me.

I took in shallow breaths, trying not to expand my lungs to much, or they would be damaged. I was being squeezed that tight. I looked around, trying to find my team. Kōhī was being held in an armlock by Sai, but she was too busy blushing that he was touching her to be mad. Beside her, Sakura was knocked out, her nose bleeding. Along with a busted lip.

Great. Damage Kakashi's team, why don't you, Kōhī? I thought. A struggling, and VERY angry Natsūme was being sat on by Naruto, who had one foot on the back of her neck. She was hissing and spitting at him, while he growled back. More like snarled, actually.

….Weirdos….

Even with how tall I was, Kakashi would not be shorter. The only person left was Sasuke. Explains why he's trying to strangle be, instead of just subduing me. He's such a sadistic (and masochistic) asshole. I can't see what Natsūme could possibly see in this duck-butt head.

Sasuke started to squeeze harder. It felt like he was crushing my throat. My voice would be hoarse for days. I rubbed my foot into the dirt, trying to shimmy my weapons pouch down enough to get at it with raising my arms to alert Sasuke.

I felt the pressure on my neck lighten for a moment, and I took the opportunity to jump away from my captor. But at the same time, he ripped away my pouch. Damn. He noticed anyway.

He dropped my pouch, and ran after me.

CRAP!

I dodged his repeated blows, and barely avoided getting my face slashed off by his swinging chakra sword. He was a much better swordsman than I expected. Add his potent chakra, flowing across the steel, into the equation, and I'm as good as dead if that thing gets me. I pulled out my own chakra sword. It was about the same length, a little shorter. Its blade is inset with a carved seal.

I nicked my finger as I dodged and ran, and swiped the blood along the blade, and the blood ran down the impression, shining red like a hard lacquer.

"DEMON SUMMONING!" I held the sword horizontally in front of me as it began to glow and shine red. I held it tight in my fist, making hand signs with my other hand against the flat of the blade. My hand bled as I repeatedly sliced open my fingers as I formed the signs.

"HOUND OF SENBON!"

I turned the sword vertical, and twisted it. It burned red-hot as a giant black shadow burst from its tip, spewing out like smoke. It landed on the ground, solidifying into a huge wolf dog, 5 feet from foot to shoulder. Its soft fur brushed my skin as it prowled in front of me, growling loud enough to drown out Natsūme and Naruto's animal-sound-fest over there.

The hound paced, getting closer and closer to Sasuke with every lap.

Suddenly, Sasuke made a flying jump, flying high over the dog, aiming at me with his sword. I swung mine, which no longer glowed, burned, or had blood lacquer. I spun the sword in my right hand, then clenched it in my fist point up. I wasn't worried, but if he didn't expect the dog's attack-

Speaking of the dog's attack…..

The hound let out a loud, growling, bark of a yell, jumping high to meet Sasuke in mid-air. Its silky soft fur hardened into razor sharp senbon needles. Sasuke slammed to the ground, the dog landing far away with momentum. It raced over to pace beside me, still growling. I petted it again, its fur having become silky again.

"Good girl, Akaishi." She let out a puppy-like whine of happiness as I scratched her neck, the red and silver collar jangling, standing out against her gray and white fur. I turned back to see Sasuke wincing in pain, sitting up painfully on the clearing floor.

He was scratched almost everywhere, leaving most of his shirt in ripped shreds. What wasn't already ruined enough from the needles was quickly soaking up blood. In several places, Akaishi's fur had pierced him all they way through. He flinched as I approached him.

"Apologize."

"What? No."

"Apologize and I'll help you. Those are demonic wounds. Sakura's healing isn't going to help you at all."

"How do you know?" he snapped at me. Idiot.

"Dumbass. I know because that dog is my weapon. You don't know jack shit because you are arrogant and cant deduce anything once you get mad. You perceive everything with red-tinted vision. And you aren't happy until there is blood spilt. Well, better get happy, emo-boy. Cuz right now you're losing quite a lot of blood."

"Fine. I'm…-ry….." he mumbled, not even forming the word.

He thinks I'm going to accept that as an apology?

"Speak up. That's not even talking."

"I'm sorry…" He mumbled under his breath.

"Huh? Didn't quite hear you, duck-butt head." I bent down a bit, turning my head to the side to stick my ear out at him. I held my hand beside my head, as if to help me hear him.

"I SAID I'M SORRY!" He yelled at me. I laughed as everyone else in the clearing went silent and turned to stare at the Uchiha. Sakura was going to be so mad that she missed this….

I knelt beside him, and ripped off his shirt completely. His torso was decimated. It had been positively gored by Akaishi. I beckoned her over, and removed her collar. I put it on Sasuke, who looked really funny with the 'necklace.' I stifled a giggle, as I saw Natsūme, Naruto, Sai, and Kōhī all stare at him. First he actually said the word sorry, and now he's letting someone put JEWELRY on him. It must be shocking.

Although, Neko-chan is probably more interested in staring at his body than she is in looking at his necklace….

Eh.

The wounds began to heal, closing with black stitches, which burned away, leaving him with faint, and fading, scars.

As I put the collar back on Akaishi and let her fade to smoke, and disappear, I realized Kakashi was nowhere to be seen. At the same moment, I realized my hair was blonde again. And long. And I was shorter.

Shit.

Now he knows it's me…..

"FUCK!" I yelled, grabbing my sword and shoving it in the holster strapped to my back.

"Neko-chan! Kōhī-chan! Let go!"

"Huh? Hentai-chan, whats up, oh shit-RUN!" Natsūme (a/n: btw if you haven't figured it out by now, Neko-chan is Natsūme's nickname. It'll make sense in a few chapters) yelled, struggling even harder against Naruto. I yanked him off of her, and threw him into a tree. She had seen Kakashi running out of the tree line. Kōhī got away from Sai on her own, probably by looking at him with that funny face of hers and confusing him.

I ran for it, leaping from tree to tree. I heard Sakura wake up, and barely listened to their conversation.

"Naruto….Wha-What just happened?"

"You got knocked out. AND Sasuke got beat by a girl."

"And what's wrong with that?" she snapped. Aha! Feminist! Respect level for Sakura, has gone from 5% to 7%.

"She made him say sorry."

"She deserves an award." 7% to 80%. Yes, I do in fact deserve an award.

"And she got him to wear a necklace."

"WHAT? That's so rude! Sasuke wit a necklace on? How dare she!" 80% to negative one thousand percent.

I burst through the tree line, and was closely followed by Kōhī and Natsūme. We roof-hopped, getting across town and into Natsūme and Kōhī's apartment.

I locked the doors, and began to freak out.