I don't own Naruto. I only wrote the fan fiction! If some of the characters seem a little OC-ish then I'm sorry - I haven't been keeping up with the episodes so don't bug me, and I might have changed a couple things - that is another thing NOT to bug me about! (Italic - thoughts, and "..." is speech)
Prologue
The jounin watched as his students had spared against each other; showing their skills and what they needed to improve on. He noticed that the two boys on his team had been improving very quickly; leaving the lone girl in the dust, but he had faith that she'd pick herself up; still keeping an eye on her improvement though.
"Hm. Naruto and Sasuke are showing a lot of improvement, but Sakura still has a long way to go even though she may be the smartest of the three. This doesn't look good for her, and for the rest of the team." The jounin thought as he observed the sparing matches. He saw a jutsu he thought he'd never see from his strongest student on the team, and the move was a very difficult jutsu to perform. "Whoa. Did Sasuke just use the...Crystal Geyser?! I never knew he could perform such a jutsu...I guess I misjudged his power and abilities."
Sasuke skidded back away from the defeated Naruto; lying on the ground. The jounin decided to call it a day, and maybe he'd get a good chance to talk to Sasuke about the Crystal Geyser jutsu. "Alright I think that's enough for one day don't you think?"
The three gennin stopped and looked at their sensei as he approached them.
"Whadoya mean Kakashi-sensei?" The blonde gennin asked with an irritated sound in his voice.
"You three have done enough today. Good job. I saw a lot of improvement in your teijutsu, and ninjutsu; especially you Sasuke." Kakashi started.
Sasuke's eyes widened slightly, and Naruto had a goofy grin on his face when he heard that trying to push his rival to his limits really helped him. Sakura just giggled.
"As for you Sakura..." He started again.
Sakura frowned; she fully knew what her sensei was going to say now that he had told Sasuke and Naruto that they were showing more improvement.
"You need to do a little bit more training on your own or study up on your teijutsu and ninjutsu because I'm sadly not seeing any improvement from you."
"I know Kakashi-sensei...I'm sorry; I've just been really stressed lately, but now that I know that what I have to deal with now is more important I think I can sort things out myself." The pink-haired girl stated to her teacher.
"Good. Now get home and rest up; we're going to be doing something similar to today's training. Be ready and on time."
"You're one to talk!" Both Naruto and Sakura yelled. Sasuke stayed silent as usual; leaving his sensei to wonder what goes on in his head, why he's always so cold towards others, and why he pushes people away when they try to help him and find out what's wrong. "What's on your mind Sasuke? Why won't you talk to anyone and let them know what's bothering you." The jounin thought before snapping himself back into reality to see Naruto and Sakura leave, but he never saw Sasuke leave the training grounds, but before he grew concerned for his student's well being he saw a kunai fly past his face and hit the tree behind him - dead center. Kakashi turned to see his student starting a jutsu with hand signs. "What kind of jutsu is that? I've never seen anything like it..." The jounin thought as the kunai that had previously flown by his face had been drawn back to its original place - between Sasuke's middle and ring fingers; nothing was out of place. Kakashi's eyes widened and realized that the jutsu that Sasuke had just performed wasn't a jutsu that was written in the scrolls; it was an original jutsu; which made him even more impressed by the young gennin.
"What kind of jutsu was that?" The jounin asked as he walked towards Sasuke.
"It's an original jutsu. It's called the rewind jutsu; it makes it seem as if any weapon thrown had never left its starting point to begin with. Why do you ask?"
"I was asking because I've never seen any jutsu like that one. I'm impressed by how you managed to create such an effective jutsu like that one Sasuke."
Sasuke put the kunai away and adjusted his head gear, and then put his hands in his pockets like nothing had ever happened - not saying a word.
"Anyway...I was wondering if maybe I could have a little talk with you at my place; that is if you want to. You chose." Kakashi suggested shrugging.
Sasuke lifted an eye brow at the man. "Why?"
The jounin sighed. "Something seems to be bothering you, and it's starting to grab my attention. Maybe you wanna talk about it perhaps?"
Sasuke's whole body froze of doing anything, and he said nothing.
Kakashi saw how bringing up the subject of bothersome thoughts had made the gennin uncomfortable. "I'm sorry; that isn't my business. I was wrong to intrude on your business, but you can't push yourself so hard Sasuke. Go home and get some rest." Kakashi had said before turning to walk home.
Sasuke didn't have time to think; this was the one person he thought he could trust and it was his now-or-never situation where the boy didn't think at all about what he did. He grabbed the jounin's sleeve; not moving or saying a word; just a simple action caught the man off guard. He didn't want Kakashi to leave; he needed to say something, and his time to do that was the offer the man had made before deciding it was a bad idea. "Wait..."
Kakashi's eye widened "He...he wants to talk about it? B-but this is so unlike him. Whatever it is must really be bothering him."
"I need to talk to you Kakashi-sensei."
"Sensei?! He called me sensei?! This must be bad..."
"I'll take you up on the offer..." Sasuke said with his head down; his voice was a low mutter.
"Did you want to talk here or at my place?"
"Your place would be nice..."
"Alright...follow me then." Kakashi said; feeling that Sasuke let go of his sleeve right after. "This is going to be one long talk by the looks of it...oh boy..."
Sasuke just nodded.
