Many nervous genins waited with bated breath as Umino Iruka looked down at a paper in front of him, and then back at them.

"Team 7 will be…Uzumaki Naruto…Haruno Sakura…"

"Yatta!" Cried a blonde boy sitting next to a pink haired kunoichi.

"And Uchiha Sasuke!"

"Yatta!" Echoed the pink haired girl as both the blonde boy and a raven-haired boy face faulted.

'Damn…I just HAVE to be stuck with one of my biggest fan girls and the dobe…' Uchiha Sasuke thought as he tried to regain his cold, emotionless composure.

"Team 8 will consist of…Inuzuka Kiba…Hyuuga Hinata…and Aburame Shino!" The three genin glanced at each other and smiled, at least Hinata and Kiba did. Shino merely glanced at them.

"Team 9 will consist of…Rock Lee…Hyuuga Neji…and Tenten!" A boy with a bowl cut yelled "Yosh!" as he examined his new teammates. The pink-clad girl blushed as she looked down at Neji. Neji merely closed his eyes and sighed.

"And finally, Team 10 shall consist of…Nara Shikamaru…Akimichi Chouji…And Yamanaka Ino!" A skinny, pineapple-haired genin merely looked up at the ceiling and mumbled something under his breath. The chubby boy merely grinned as he opened a fresh packet of potato chips. The cute blonde haired girl frowned as she looked at her teammates, and looked over at the pink-haired girl with a deep look of jealousy and hatred.

"Now that all genins have been assigned to a team, you shall go to different classrooms to meet your jounin instructor. Teams 1 through 6, please go up to the second floor, where your instructors will be waiting for you." Iruka paused to allow the many genins walk out of the room.

"Now then, Team 7, you shall have to go to…" He was cut off by a taller, sickly looking ninja running into the room.

"Gemma, something wrong?" Iruka asked.

"Yeah." Gemma said in a hushed voice. "There are two extra genin."

"Damn, isn't there another jounin instructor to take them?"

"No, that's the problem. There's no one to take them on. They'll have to be put into one of these teams." Gemma said, gesturing at the four teams still in the room. He could tell that all of them were trying as hard as they could to hear the conversation.

"Didn't anyone decide which team they would be in already?"

"No, but the good thing is, Sandaime said it would be alright if you did it yourself. He obviously trusts your judgment. Let it not go to waste." Gemma thrust two files into Iruka's hand and quickly left the room.

'Misuru Daeka. Age: 13. Height 5'. Ninjutsu specialist…interesting bloodline. Haete Yikone. Age: 12. Height: 4'11...Whoa, that's impressive, yet disturbing.' Iruka set the files down on the desk behind him and looked back up at the remaining genin.

"Sorry for the delay. There has been a bit of a mix-up, so two teams will be getting an extra member." This aroused the attention of all twelve genin, who had been dozing off.

"May I introduce…Misuru Daeka and Haete Yikone." As he said that, two boys appeared in front of him in a poof of smoke. The taller one had dark black hair with eyes darker than Sasuke's. He wore a trench coat with a blood red trimming and black and red boots. His headband was slightly covered by his unruly hair. The shorter one had midnight blue hair with eyes almost reflecting his hair color. He wore a dark blue jacket with a gray trimming around the shoulders and arms and a black trimming around the torso and forming an outline of a dragon on his back. His pants matched his jacket as did his sandals. His headband was worn around his neck.

The two boys looked up at the other genin with cold, calculating looks in their eyes. The others didn't look them in the eyes, except for Shikamaru, Shino, Neji, and Sasuke.

"Now, after careful assessment of their abilities, I've decided to add Daeka into Team 7 and Yikone into Team 10. Team 7, you shall go to the chakra control 101 classroom to meet your jounin instructor." Daeka, Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke walked down the hallway, none of them saying a word as they entered the empty room and sat down. Sasuke sat in a seat in the middle row of them room, Sakura sitting next to him and ogling him. Daeka sat on the teacher's desk and Naruto paced about the room impatiently.

"Why is the sensei of our team so damn late?" He groaned. Daeka eyed him carefully.

"Shut up, dobe." Sasuke said.

"You shut up, you freak!" Naruto shot back.

"Naruto, don't you dare talk to Sasuke like that!" Sakura yelled, cracking her knuckles threateningly. Naruto's face changed from angry to scared as he backed down from the raging fan girl.

"O-ok…sorry, Sakura-chan…" He stammered. Sakura turned back to Sasuke and gazed at him adoringly. Daeka watched as Naruto's face lit up again and he walked over to the chalkboard, grabbing an eraser and heading back over to the door.

"Naruto, you don't really expect a jounin to fall for that childish booby trap, do you?" Sasuke asked.

"Hey, you can't blame a guy for trying to have fun, I'm bored!"

"Whatever, if a jounin can't dodge or block that, then I'm gonna seriously doubt his skill." Sakura said.

'This girl talks too much…and the blonde kid does, too…Although he's not as dumb as the girl.' Daeka thought.

"You're Uzumaki Naruto, I presume?" Daeka finally spoke in a slightly deep voice. Sakura jumped, forgetting that he was with them.

"Yeah. I guess you've heard about me, you know, like how I'm gonna be the next Hokage, huh?" Naruto said, flashing his grin…his fox-like grin.

"Sorry, I haven't heard about that. ("Nani?!") But I have heard a lot about you. Misuru Daeka." He said, extending his hand. Naruto took it and shook it vigorously.

"Well, you better remember it. Uzumaki Naruto WILL be the next Hokage!"

"I bet you will." Daeka said, smiling a little.

"You can't honestly believe that that idiot is going to be Hokage, can you?" Sakura interjected.

"I believe he could be. Don't you?"

"Naruto, the village idiot? You're joking, right?" Daeka saw Naruto about to retaliate when he quickly covered Naruto's mouth and winked at him.

"Save it for now." He whispered. Naruto gave him a puzzled look, but nodded all the same.

"Haruno Sakura. A smart girl, and exceptionally skilled in basic genjutsu and advanced chakra control." Sakura beamed at him.

"I don't like you." He said coldly. Sakura's smile slid off of her face. Sasuke fought to keep from laughing at that.

"Well, who cares what you think as long as my Sasuke-kun is still here." She said, once again gazing at Sasuke.

"Uchiha Sasuke. The only other survivor of the Uchiha massacre. A genius…or at least, you would be a genius with those eyes…" Daeka said. Sasuke looked at him, shocked.

"How do you…" Sasuke began.

"Don't ask." Daeka interrupted. At that moment, the door opened and a masked face slowly entered, but stopped as the eraser fell onto his spiky hair. Naruto doubled over, laughing. Sakura face faulted.

"Well, my first impression of you four…" He said as he lazily threw the eraser away.

"Is that I don't like you." Naruto stopped laughing immediately and Sakura adopted a hurt face.

"Meet me up on the roof." With that, the jounin poofed away. Daeka and Sakura followed suit. Naruto and Sasuke merely walked up to the roof. When they were all there, the jounin gestured for them to sit on a bench in front of him.

"Ok, let's begin with some introductions. How about…your likes, dislikes, dreams for the future, hobbies, stuff like that." Daeka opened his mouth to speak when Naruto spoke up.

"Hey, why don't you introduce yourself first?"

"Yeah, you look suspicious." Sakura said. Daeka sighed. He really didn't like this girl.

"Oh...me?" Their new sensei said.

"Well, my name is Hatake Kakashi. I have no desire to tell you guys about my likes and dislikes. Dreams for the future? Hm…well, I have lots of hobbies…"

"One of which involves reading Icha Icha Paradise, right?" Daeka said, looking up at the sky. Kakashi examined him carefully.

'Maybe these guys aren't morons after all…'

"So all we learned is his name and that he likes to read a certain book series?" Sakura whispered her to fellow genin.

"Now it's your turn." Kakashi said, pretending he didn't hear Sakura. "From the right."

"Me!! ME!! My name is Uzumaki Naruto. I like cup ramen. What I dislike is waiting three minutes for the ramen to cook. My dream…"

'Does he ever think about anything besides ramen?' Kakashi thought.

"Is to surpass the Hokage!!! And then have all the people of this village acknowledge my existence!" Naruto straightened his headband and continued.

"My hobbies…pranks, I guess." He finished, failing to notice his sensei's look of slight surprise.

"I see…next."

"My name is Uchiha Sasuke." The raven haired boy spoke, never moving his interlaced hands away from his mouth.

"There are a ton of things I dislike, but I don't really like anything. And…I don't want to use the word "dream," but I have an ambition. The resurrection of my clan and…to kill a certain man." He finished, leaving Naruto and Sakura gazing in awe. Daeka, however, continued to gaze at the sky.

'Cool.' Sakura thought.

'He better not mean me…' Naruto thought.

'I thought so…' Daeka and Kakashi thought.

"Ok, now the girl."

"I'm Haruno Sakura. The thing I like is…" She began to blush.

"Well, the person I like is…Um…Should I say my dream for the future…?" Her blush increased and she shook her head.

"Oh my…the thing I dislike is…Naruto!" She said, making Naruto's jaw hit the ground.

"My hobby is…" She continued, however, Daeka and Kakashi had stopped listening.

'Girls of this age are interested in love more than ninjutsu.' The jounin thought.

"Now, the silent one." Daeka turned away from the sky and looked at his sensei.

"My name is Misuru Daeka. I like meeting new people, training, and learning new jutsus. I dislike those who are afraid to talk to me and those that do wrong. My dreams for the future are to become Hokage, just like Naruto, and spread peace throughout the world. Also, I have an ambition. Like Sasuke, it's to kill certain people. My hobbies are training and collecting things. That's all you need to know about me for now." Once he had finished, he again gazed at the sky.

'Hey, I like this guy!' Naruto thought.

'Hmph, he can't compare to my Sasuke-kun!' Sakura thought angrily.

"Interesting…" Kakashi mumbled.

"That's enough of that. We will start our duties tomorrow." Naruto immediately sprang up and saluted Kakashi.

"Yay! What kind of duties?! Duties, duties!!"

"Calm down, Naruto. We're doing nothing more than survival training." Daeka said.

"How d'you know that?" Naruto asked.

"I did some research on every jounin instructor when I became a genin."

"Well, I'm partly scared at that, partly curious as to what is going to happen. Daeka's right. However, this won't be ordinary survival training."

"What is our duty, training?" Sasuke said.

"We did enough survival training back at the academy." Sakura said.

"I'm going to be your opponent." As Kakashi said that, he began to laugh.

"Hey, what's so funny?" Sakura demanded.

"It's just that…When I tell you this, you guys are definitely going to flip."

"Flip? Whadya mean flip?" Naruto asked.

"Of the twenty-seven graduates, only nine will be chosen as Genin. The rest will be sent back to the academy. This training is a super difficult exam with a failure rate of over sixty-six percent." The jaws of Naruto and Sakura hit the ground. Sasuke tensed and, however, Daeka seemed unfazed.

"I told you you'd flip."

"What the hell?! We worked so hard only to…" Naruto was cut off by a hand to his mouth.

"Relax." Daeka simply said.

"Thanks, Daeka. Now then, bring all your shinobi tools. Oh, and skip breakfast. You'll throw up." Naruto was more nervous than he had ever been in his life. Kakashi handed out printouts with details about their training while Sakura continued to spazz out. ("Throw up?! Is it that tough?)

"See you tomorrow morning." Kakashi poofed away, leaving the four students to plan for their next day.

"Hey, don't go home yet." Daeka said as they got up.

"Why? I have to go get ready!" Naruto said.

"Come with me." With that, Daeka leapt off of the roof and ran off to the nearby training fields. His teammates followed. They stopped when they reached a large, empty field.

"What'd you bring us all the way out here for?" Sakura demanded.

"I simply wanted to see firsthand how good you are." Daeka said as he looked around to make sure nobody was around.

"So it's going to be a free-for-all fight?" Sasuke asked.

"No, you're all going to be fighting me at once."

"Don't you think that's a little tough on you? I mean, Sasuke-kun alone is enough to take you down." Sakura stated.

"Maybe, maybe not. Come at me."

"Alright, don't cry if you get hurt!" Naruto said as he ran at Daeka. Daeka merely smirked as he got into a battle stance.

Naruto was the first to make a move. He charged at Daeka, disregarding his other two teammates.

'I'm gonna show Sasuke how much better I am. Then, Sakura will like me more than him!' He let out a battle cry as he lunged at his newest teammate and attempted to punch him in his jaw. Daeka merely ducked under him and punched him lightly in his stomach, sending Naruto tumbling to the ground.

Naruto rolled out of his fall and threw two shuriken at Daeka's back, hitting him dead-on.

"Yeah!" Naruto cheered, but his cheer turned into a yell of shock as Daeka's body was replaced with a log, the shuriken embedded in it. Naruto instinctively turned around, expecting Daeka to be behind him. Seeing nothing behind him, he immediately adopted a look of confusion.

"Where'd he go?" He asked aloud. Sasuke spotted him quickly.

"Naruto, in front of you!" He yelled out. Naruto didn't have time to react as he felt a palm slam into his chest and the next thing he knew, he was hurtling through the air, stopping only when he ran into a tree.

"Damn, this guy is strong. Sakura, stay back!" Sasuke activated his Sharingan eyes and ran towards Daeka. He threw two kunai as he ran and subtly began sending chakra into his mouth and hands. Daeka sensed him channeling chakra and sent chakra into his eyes, activating his bloodline limit.

He blocked the two kunai with his own kunai and put it back into his pouch as he saw Sasuke leap above him and make hand seals. Daeka copied his hand seals and put his right hand up to his mouth just as Sasuke did.

"Katon! Grand Fireball Technique!" Sasuke cried as a large amount of fire emitted from his mouth.

"Suiton! Grand Waterball Technique!" Daeka yelled as an equally large ball of water spewed from his mouth. The two attacks collided, canceling each other out and leaving a cloud of steam above them.

"What the hell was that?" Sasuke asked as he landed.

"I'll explain later." Daeka ran at Sasuke faster than Sasuke's eyes could keep up with. Sasuke used his Sharingan to predict where he would attack from and soon, the two were in a hand-to-hand tussle, although Daeka seemed to be fighting back lazily and dodging his moves easily.

"I thought an Uchiha would be stronger than this…" Daeka said, angering Sasuke.

"Don't you dare call my Sasuke weak!" Sakura said as she threw more shuriken at Daeka than he could count, charging at him recklessly after she did so. Daeka looked over at Sakura and pointed his open palm at her.

"Futon! Tornado Technique!" A small tornado appeared in front of him, trapping the shuriken that were homing in on him. Sakura stopped dead in her tracks as she watched she tornado turn sideways, now pointing at her.

"Thanks, Sakura, you helped me make a new jutsu. Shuriken Twister Technique!" The tornado shot at her. Sakura was too scared to move. Naruto had recovered and dove at Sakura.

"Watch out!" He tackled her to the ground and out of the way of Daeka's attack. He felt one of the shuriken hit him and inhaled sharply as his skin was cut.

"Pervert, get off of me!" Sakura punched Naruto off of her and stood up, glaring angrily at him. Daeka sighed.

"This fight is over." He said, deactivating his bloodline.

"No, it isn't over yet! I haven't shown you my true power yet!" Naruto yelled and made a cross seal.

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" He cried. Four shadow replications of himself appeared and once again, charged at Daeka.

'A genin can do this jutsu already?' Daeka thought as he cursed himself for deactivating his bloodline so quickly. He reactivated it and grabbed two kunai from his pouch. He threw them at the five Narutos, but they all dodged them easily.

"Don't underestimate me!" They all shouted as they surrounded Daeka and leapt upon him. Sasuke and Sakura looked on in awe as Naruto seemingly defeated their new teammate with a jutsu they had never seen before.

"Those aren't regular bunshins…" Sasuke said.

"What do you mean, Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked. Sasuke groaned. He was getting sick of that 'Sasuke-kun' crap.

"You know that a regular bunshin is just an easily-dispelled illusion created to look like the creator or as something he or she chooses. These replications…are actual bodies." Sakura looked on as Naruto and his four bunshins continued to beat down Daeka. When they all leapt back, there was a beat up-looking Naruto on the ground in Daeka's place.

"What the?" Naruto examined it and thought it was actually one of his bunshins.

"You must be the real one, then!" He punched a bunshin to his left and it disappeared.

"Naruto! Just dispel all of your bunshins!" Sasuke yelled out to him. Naruto did so and all of the replications disappeared, including the one that was on the ground. Before he could turn around, he felt something sharp press against the back of his neck.

"Impressive." Daeka said from behind him. "But not good enough to beat me." He put his kunai away and beckoned his teammates over to him. As they walked over to him, he deactivated his bloodline.

"Well, I can that this really is a balanced team." Daeka said.

"Yeah, two good and two bad." Sasuke said. Daeka frowned at him.

"What makes you think of Naruto and Sakura as bad ninja?"

"Naruto was dead last in class and Sakura's useless."

"Even if Naruto was dead last, that by no means says anything about his ability. This is one of the most talented group of young ninja I've seen. Sakura also has the makings of a good medic ninja, what with her good chakra control."

"And what of me?" Sasuke asked.

"You have a good arsenal of offensive jutsus for someone who just graduated from the Academy. We have to put all of our skills to use to pass the test that Kakashi-sensei is going to give us."

"I don't need you losers to help me. Your skills are far below mine." Sasuke said.

"Shut the hell up, Sasuke. If our skills are so damned low, then why can both Naruto and I beat you?" Sakura tensed up.

"Hey, what about me? My skill is--"

"Sakura, you have nothing but basic genjutsu and chakra control. Naruto, Sasuke, and I are far better than you right now. Don't get me wrong, now. You'd make an excellent support or medic ninja." Sakura looked slightly relieved at that and Sasuke looked down at the ground.

"Hmph…"

"Look, you're never even going to be considered a ninja unless we pass this test, and quite frankly, you need us." Daeka said.

"Fine, then what are we going to have to do?" Sasuke said, finally giving up.

"Thought you'd never ask." Daeka said with a smirk. He pulled a slightly large scroll from inside his trench coat and laid it on the ground.

"Now then, I read in the ninja archives that each jounin instructor has a different test for their genin. Kakashi sticks with an old fashioned one. He has bells, one less than the number of genin in his team. So, we're going to need to capture three bells."

"Three bells? What happens to the one that doesn't get a bell?" Sakura asked.

"Honestly, I don't know. They didn't tell that in Kakashi's file. So, we're simply going to have to use teamwork to get the bells, as Kakashi is way more skilled than we are. Naruto, first I want you and…"As Daeka told his well-formulated plan to his teammates, Team 10 was meeting up for the first time.

"This is so troublesome…why couldn't we meet up sooner?" Said a boy whose hair resembled a pineapple. He wanted nothing more than to just watch the clouds, yet he was forced to meet up with his team. His childhood friend, Akimichi Chouji walked over to the bench, munching on a pack of chips as always.

"Hey, Shikamaru." Chouji said as he sat down next to him.

"What's up, Chouji."

"Did you take a look at the other two people that's in our team?"

"Yeah, one's a bitch, the other's emo." Chouji chuckled.

"Something tells me I'm not going to like one of them very much." He said as he threw his empty pack to the ground and opened a new one. Yikone slowly made his way over to them and instead of sitting down next his new teammates, he leaned against the stone wall behind him, not even acknowledging that they were even there. Chouji and Shikamaru stared at him, hoping to find something to say.

"Hi." Chouji said, hoping to break the ice.

"I'm Chouji. Looks like we're teammates, eh?"

"Hmph." Yikone grunted. Chouji shared a side glance with his friend.

"Er…what's your name?"

"Yikone." He spoke in a low voice. They could almost feel the ice in his voice as he spoke and were more than relieved to see Ino walking toward them.

"Hey Ino!" Chouji said, smiling.

"Hey Chouji." Ino said, smiling back at him, then glancing at Shikamaru before looking away with a slight blush.

"Where's our instructor?" She asked. Her question was answered with a stinging smell of tobacco smoke reaching her nostrils. They looked up to see a tall, tan man with a cigarette in his mouth looking down at them.

"So you're my new team, eh?" He said.

"I guess we should start off with proper introductions. Starting from the right, you there. Tell me your name, likes, dislikes, dreams for the future, and hobbies."

"Well--"

"Is it not customary for you to introduce yourself before asking others to introduce themselves?" Yikone interrupted Ino.

"Heh, you're right." Asuma took a drag of cigarette before speaking again.

"My name is Sarutobi Asuma. I like smoking and Shogi. I dislike places where I can't smoke. I don't really have any dreams for the future, and my main hobby is playing shogi." He finished and took another drag, looking over at Ino.

"Well," Ino said, shooting a quick death glance at Yikone, as if she was daring him to interrupt her again.

"My name is Yamanaka Ino. I like flowers and…" She trailed off a bit, but caught herself.

"I dislike intense training and those who try to outdo me. Dreams for the future? Well…I hope to one day expand my parents' shop. My hobbies are tending to flowers and training." As she finished, she looked over at Shikamaru, who seemed to be zoning out in his seat.

"Hey Shika, it's your turn." Chouji said, nudging him.

"Grah…mendoukosai.." Shikamaru said as he looked over at his instructor.

"My name is Nara Shikamaru. I like watching clouds and relaxing. I dislike doing almost any kind of work. Don't really have any dreams for the future…but my main hobby is playing shougi." He looked back up at the sky as soon as he had finished.

"My name is Akimichi Chouji." Chouji said brightly. "I like eating good food and hanging around my friends. I dislike bad food, people who are stingy with food at restaurants and those who abuse my friends. I hope to one day open my own restaurant. My hobbies are training and cooking." He pulled out another pack of chips and looked over expectantly at Yikone.

"Haete Yikone. I have many likes, dislikes, dreams for the future, and hobbies." Yikone said quickly. Asuma fought to keep from face faulting as he lit another cigarette.

"Now that we know each other, it's time to tell you what your duties shall be--"

"Wait, aren't we supposed to have some kind of test before we start our duties?" Shikamaru asked.

"Not at all." Asuma said. "Now then…" As he briefed his team, Daeka was just finishing up his plans for his.

"And that will be our final plan, Alpha-3. We use that one against Kakashi."

"What if it doesn't work?" Sakura asked.

"If everybody does their part, we won't. I have a feeling that the test will focus around how good our teamwork is. We work together, we pass the test." Daeka rolled the scroll up and sealed it with his blood.

"That's all. See you all in the morning. Oh, and do heed Kakashi's warning about not to eat breakfast, or we'll be stuffed by the time we finish that test." With that, Daeka disappeared in a puff of smoke, leaving his three teammates standing in the training area.

"Sasuke-kun, there's something about that guy I don't like." Sakura said.

"What do you mean?" Naruto asked. "He was pretty cool."

"But it felt like he was holding back in our fight. He was also hiding something, but I couldn't put my finger on it…" Sasuke said.

"Bah, you two worry too much." Naruto said loudly. Sasuke looked up at Naruto with the cold look he always had on his face.

"Shut up and go home already, dobe." Sasuke began to walk away to the Uchiha manor, Sakura close behind him.

"Damn that guy…" Naruto mumbled to himself as he began walking in the opposite direction to his apartment.

"Always thinks he's so damn cool…" Naruto quickened his pace, eager to continue working on his Kage Bunshin no Jutsu.

Back at his house, Daeka was busy preparing his dinner when a knife suddenly flew at his head. He merely tilted his head to the left and let the knife hit the cupboard in front of him.

"Welcome home, Yikone." He said, taking the knife out and cleaning it off.

"How's your team?" Yikone said.

"One loud mouthed, hyperactive guy, one fangirl, and one borderline-emo." Daeka said as he began cutting up vegetables with the now clean knife.

"Damn, I thought I had a bad team. One lazy ass, one fat ass, and one fangirl." Yikone replied, taking a bottle of water out of their fridge.

"Lemme guess, she's a fangirl of the Uchiha guy?"

"Yup. What's so good about that guy, anyway?"

"Nothing really. He's just the 'badass' guy that girls seem to like nowadays. He's just an emo really, always dwelling on the loss of his clan."

"Isn't that a bit insensitive?"

"That coming from the guy who humiliates every opponent he fights before killing them mercilessly."

"You can't judge me!" Yikone said, pointing a finger at his friend dramatically.

"Can't I?" Daeka said in a creepy voice before the two broke out in laughter.

"Tell me something, have your teammates seen you smile yet?" Daeka asked.

"No, and I don't plan to let them see me smile."

"Yikone, Yikone, Yikone…" Daeka said, shaking his head.

"You don't smile in public, you don't show any emotion whatsoever. You wear tight clothing. I haven't even seen you peek at a woman from the side of your eyes…"

"What are you getting at?" Yikone asked, his eyes narrowing as he fought to wipe the smile off of his face.

"Are you a homosexual?" Daeka said, turning around and looking at his best friend with a mock-serious look.

"Katon!" Yikone let out a small stream of fire.

"Suiton!" Daeka shot an equally small stream of water. Yikone glared at Daeka.

"Why did you have to copy most of my jutsus?" He asked.

"Don't give me that…I also learned how to do them…also it's a real bitch to learn the real move after copying it."

"That does nothing to console me."

"I let you keep most of your best moves so far."

"What doton technique did you copy the other day?"

"The earth dragon one. Have you mastered how to mix elements together?"

"Not quite yet. Enough of this, what's your test gonna be like tomorrow?"

"Capture some bells. You?"

"There is no test...Looks like we're both gonna have an easy time."

"Yeah. Although…we're going to be doing D-Rank missions for a while."

"Sucks to be genin…that beef and chicken stew ready?"

"Just about." Daeka said as he poured half of his stew into two bowls and passed one to Yikone.

"Itadakimasu." They said as they sat down and dug into their food.

Meanwhile, in the Hokage's tower, Kakashi and Asuma were deep in conversation with the Hokage.

"Hokage-sama, you wanted to see us?" Asuma said.

"Yes. Two of your genin are…troubling me."

"Something wrong with them?" Kakashi asked.

"They are stronger than every other genin…the Haeta boy knows more elemental jutsus than I do and Misuru has the skill of a low-ANBU in both tai and ninjutsu." Asuma's eyes widened.

"What? The only genin who even has potential to do that is…"

"Uzumaki Naruto, and that's only because of the Kyuubi sealed inside of him. I fear what he will be like once he has mastered control of Kyuubi's chakra…"

"So, you're just concerned that some of our newest ninja are a bit too strong?" Kakashi asked.

"No. That doesn't trouble me in the least. What I want to know is…are these kids jinchuuriki?" Sarutobi asked.

"Afraid not." Kakashi said, his Icha Icha Paradise book now open.

"What village were they originally born in?" Asuma said.

"In the Hidden Mist Village." Kakashi stated.

"But, wasn't that village destroyed quite a while ago?"

"Yes, but apparently, a few ninja survived and passed on their knowledge to those born later. From what we know about it, Daeka and Yikone were their star pupils. They were on recon missions when Suna finally found out about what little remained of the Hidden Mist Village and dispatched some of their ninja to annihilate what was left.

"After killing everyone they found, they did a sweep of the village to see if they could find anyone else. Unfortunately, Daeka and Yikone returned to the village at the time the sweep was being conducted. They were taken into custody without resistance and were examined by medical shinobi. After they were discovered to be much more powerful than expected, they were sent here in hopes that if they did get out of line, Konoha would be able to keep them in check." Asuma looked at Kakashi, his mouth agape.

"What I'm really worried about." Sarutobi said. "Is that they haven't shown any signs of hostility to us. It's as though they were born here. They also haven't shown any sign that they were born in the Hidden Mist Village. As you both know, Hidden Mist ninja were cold, ruthless killers. These two are better than I could have ever expected them to be."

"Excuse my rudeness, but can you get to the point?" Kakashi said, now focusing more on his book.

"I want you two to watch those genin more closely. I'm offset by their power and their quick adaptation to life here."

"I highly doubt that they would betray their new home, but orders are orders, I suppose…"

"That's all. You are dismissed now." Kakashi and Asuma bowed and disappeared in a poof of smoke, reappearing outside of the tower.

"You think he's being a little too paranoid?" Kakashi asked.

"Kinda, but I suppose he has a good reason to worry."

"Please don't become as paranoid as some people in your family, Asuma…" Kakashi disappeared once again. Asuma chuckled and lit another cigarette.

"I won't, Kakashi. You don't worry about that."