Kenta: allo peoples!

I know it's been awhile since i've last been around, but i've been trying to get a job at 'Little Ceasar's' Pizza place. So i've kinda been out of it...then again, that's life!

It might seem stupid, and most likely you people will hate me for it, but too bad, you'll have to deal with it.

Kuro: what is it?

Kenta: I'm going to try doing a fluffy scene!

Kuro: oh, that's it....

Kenta: that's mean Kuro...oh well, i'll have my revenge soon enough, heheheheheh....

Kuro: what do you mean?

Kenta: nothing, nothing. anyway, Kuro, if you please.

Kuro: I'll put it plain and simple for you people, Kenta Raikiri does not own Naruto(R). You see? It has an (R) next to the title, meaning it's reserved. He DOES however, own me and Hikari, the two sides of Naruto(R).

Kenta: good boy, here's your ramen.

*tosses ramen*

Kuro: YAY! but say that again and you're dead.

Kenta: i'm shaking in my sandals....ENJOY!


"Talk"

'Thought'

~Settings change~

"Kuro and Hikari talking in unison/demon tainted talk"


"So what do you want to do now that we're back?" Hikari said as they left the Hokage's office. As if on cue, both of their stomachs growled. A smile crawled across their faces as they smiled. "Ichiraku Ramen!"

~Ichiraku Ramen Stand~

A gruff old man stood behind the counter fixing up some ramen while his daughter was currently clearing off the counter. She had just finished cleaning off the counter, and was looking at the smiling reflection that was now visible. She saw two faces appear on the other side of it and looked up to see a black-haired boy standing next to a light blue-haired boy. They both smiled and said their greeting. "Konichiwa!"

"Hello, what can I get you two boys?" Ayame said as she stood back up. "The usual!" They both said. Ayame looked at the two, about to ask what the usual was, when she realized they both had whiskers on their cheeks. There were only two boys she knew that had whiskers, and the fact that one of the boys had light blue hair, meant that these two boys could only be... "Sure thing guys, just a sec!" She said as a smile blossomed one more onto her face. "Tou-san, we need the usual for our two favorite customers!" She said smiling. Teuchi looked at her for but a moment before he turned towards the two boys who were now seated at the counter. "Kuro! Hikari! Welcome back! You two have a good trip?" Teuchi asked as he smiled, pouring the two bowls and then putting them in front of the boys. "YEAH!" They both shouted in unison. They then picked up their chopsticks and pulled them apart, but not before they said a quick, 'Itadakimasu!'. As the boys attacked their ramen, two figures walked into the ramen stand.

"Welcome, what can I get for you two?" Ayame said as she turned towards the two figures. "I'll have 5 pork ramens!" Said one of the figures. "Ne, I'll just have a chicken ramen..." Said the other in a lazy voice. Kuro and Hikari didn't even pay attention to the two, as they were still attacking the ramen with an almost insane vigor. The first figure who ordered looked at the two in amazement. "Woah, you guys eat about as fast as I do!" He said in amazement. Kuro turned over to the two figures that he finally took notice of, and the first word that popped into his head when he looked at the figure was, 'fat'.

He was wearing a cream colored shirt, along with a green jacket without a hood. He wore the normal blue ninja zaki, and his arms had bandages around them. He had orange hair and brown eyes, along with pink swirls around his cheeks. "Hi, I'm Akamichi Chouji! Though my friends just call me Chouji." He said smiling.

The other boy just sighed, realizing that he had to introduce himself now. "I'm Nara Shikamaru, though my friends call me Shikamaru." He said in probably a more bored tone than Kakashi. The boy was wearing a fish-net shirt underneath a plain brown shirt, with a grey and green jacket that also didn't have a hood. He was wearing long brown pants, as well as the blue zaki, just like his friend. He had onyx eyes, and his black hair stood up in a pineapple style.

Kuro and Hikari gulped down their ramen, then Hikari spoke. "I'm Namikaze Hikari, and this is my brother Kuro." Hikari said as he pointed to himself, then to Kuro, who just waved a hand before attacking his ramen once more. Chouji just laughed it off, and said, "You guy's sure seem to like ramen." The boys nodded and since Kuro was too busy attacking his second bowl to talk, Hikari took his place. "We just got back from a really long training trip, and we used to come here almost everyday. After almost eight years of not having ramen you kinda' expect this." Hikari said laughing. Chouji laughed along with him, sitting down and taking out a pair of chopsticks. After a quick, 'Itadakimasu', he started attacking his ramen at the same speed as Kuro. Hikari laughed a little more while Shikamaru just shook his head and sighed, but a small smile still crawled onto his face. There was some small talk between the group as Kuro and Chouji started a race to see who could eat faster.

"So, you guys are taking the genin exams?" Shikamaru said as he finished his bowl. "Yep. We've got two days until then, so if you please, could you guys show us around? It's been awhile since we were last here, and we've forgotten the layout of the town." Hikari said as picked up his bowl and slurped some ramen. Shikamaru nodded before he got up and paid for his meal. Chouji, who had just been beaten by Kuro, paid for his meal and left, saying that it would be their pleasure, and that he wanted a rematch with Kuro later. The Namikaze bros. smiled and paid for their meals, while waving goodbye to Teuchi and Ayame. After looking around the village for a few minutes, they came upon their sensei, who was just walking up to them, looking as if he had been through the wringer.

"What's wrong Kakashi-sensei?" Hikari asked as he ran up to his sensei. The half-dead Kakashi looked up, blinked a couple of times, and finally recognized the two boys. "Oh, hey guys....Gai just challenged me to another one of his challenges...." Kakashi said, looking as if he would collapse any minute. "Looks like it was painful." Kuro said as he started to take pity on the man. "Yeah, he wanted to see if I could still attract girls if I took off my mask..." Kuro and Hikari's pity on the man miraculously vanished into thin air. "By the way," Kakashi started as he suddenly looked good as new and reached behind him into his pouch. "Hokage-sama wanted me to give these to you two. He realized you two forgot about them when you left earlier." Kakashi said as he handed them a pair of keys and a map. "Here are your set of keys to your new apartment, and a map to it as well." And with that, Kakashi disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"Well, you wanna get some sleep?" Hikari said as he turned towards his brother, eyes sparkling. Kuro hung his head and sighed. The sparkling eyes were almost as bad as the puppy dog pout. Almost. As they started on their trek home both boys sent a silent curse at Kakashi for making them give him un-needed pity.

~Two hours later~

"WOULD YOU JUST GIVE ME THE MAP! WE'VE BEEN WANDERING FOR HOURS NOW!" A rather irritated Kuro yelled at his brother who seemed to have no sense of direction whatsoever. "I'm telling you, we're almost there, just past this corner." As the boys rounded the corner they came upon a dead end. Hikari was trying his hardest to ignore the death glare being sent his way, courtesy of his brother. Kuro was just about to hit him over the head when he noticed something out of the corner of his eye. He quickly disappeared behind the figure and held a kunai to the person's throat. "Who are you and what do you want?" Kuro asked in a very convincing/threatening voice. He then took notice of their follower.

It was a girl about their age that had a tan jacket on, that had what looked like either a smoke cloud, or a small fire on the shoulder of it. She had blue ninja pants, as well as the traditional blue zaki. She had a kunai pouch on her right leg, and a ninja pouch as well. She had mid-night blue hair, and pupil-less eyes. "U-um...I-I noticed you two were l-lost, a-and I t-thought I c-could help..." She said stuttering almost every word.

It was at this point that Hikari took notice of her and the kunai still around her throat. "Kuro! Stop terrorizing her! She's practically shaking in her boots! ...err...sandals!" Hikari said as he ran over to the two and took away the kunai that was around her throat. "Well excUUse me! She was watching us and I thought she was going to attack us!" Kuro said turning away and huffing. Hikari sighed and turned back to the girl. "You'll have to forgive him. He can get a bit....edgy...My names Namikaze Hikari, and he's Kuro." Hikari said smiling and pointing to him and Kuro respectively. The girl smiled a little and bowed. "M-my name i-is h-Hyuuga Hinata." Hikari smiled and asked, "Where's Trail Blaze road? We've been looking forever and Kuro can't find it." "WHAATT!? I CAN'T FIND IT?! YOU'VE BEEN THE ONE HOLDING THE MAP!!" Kuro roared as steam started coming out of his head. "I was kidding! Calm down, it was a joke!" Hikari said as he put his hands up defensively. Hinata, who was all but forgotten at this point, spoke up. "Um..." The two boys turned their attention to her, and because such, she became even more nervous. "Uh...Umm... you n-need t-to head d-down that r-road a-and turn r-right, g-go three b-blocks and t-t-turn l-l-left." She said as her face became redder and redder by the moment.

Kuro, being the idiot of the brothers, looked at her in confusion. "Hey, you okay? You're all red." He said as he put his hand on her forehead. The fact that she had a cute boy fully paying attention to her not mere moments ago topped with the fact that he had just put his hand on her forehead was too much for the poor girl. With that, she bid the boys and the world of consciousness ado.

*Thud*

"AAHHH!! What happened!? Hikari! You're the guy whose always reading those medical books, what happened to her!?" Kuro said as he started waving his arms in a panicking motion, thinking he killed her. Hikari looked at the now unconscious girl on the ground and saw her face that now resembled a tomato, and smirked. He tended to be nice, but there were ALWAYS times where he could be a little mean. He quickly got rid of the smirk that Kuro had luckily not seen, and bent down next to her, looking as if he was examining her as Kuro was shaking while biting off his nails at a ridiculous pace.

-WARNING! FLUFFY SCENE!-

"Uh-oh..." Hikari said after awhile. "What, what!?" Kuro said as more and more fear seemed to take over his body. He got this really bad feeling in the pit of his stomach. Like he wasn't going to like the result. Hikari shook his head back and forth. "I don't know, I don't think she's breathing. She might be suffocating from something she ate earlier..." Hikari said in the best doctor-tone he could manage.

"YOU MEAN SHE'S GONNA DIE!?" Kuro said in what seemed to be pure terror. Hikari held his laughter and tried his hardest not to smile. "At this rate, yes...you remember those CPR techniques Kakashi-sensei showed us?" Kuro nodded his head up and down quickly showing he remembered. "I think you'll have to do that." "WHAT!? WHY ME!?" Kuro asked as his face turned a slight shade of red. "Because you were the last to touch her! So it was probably YOU that made her like this!" He said in the most serious tone he could muster at the moment; which wasn't much, but Kuro was freaking out too much to notice.

Kuro was resembling a tomato as he bent down to the unconscious girl. His eyes were extremely wide, yet somehow he didn't notice that the girl's chest was rising and falling in a peaceful rhythm. He took in every detail of the girl's face that he could as he slowly closed the distance between his mouth and hers. When his lips slowly touched the unconscious girl's, his face felt like it was on fire. He had even forgotten the fact that he had to blow air into the girl for a moment and went along with the urge to just get a feel of the girl's lips. After a moment of doing so, he finally remembered what he was originally supposed to be doing and started blowing air into the girl.

Hinata felt amazing. She was having the most amazing dream. She had met a black-haired boy and his brother, and had actually helped them…HELPED THEM! Sure it was only giving them directions, and sure one of them had held a kunai to her throat…but that was only in self-defense! She couldn't have been happier. And now, for some reason, she felt this odd warmth on her lips. She didn't know why, but she liked it…a lot! However, she then felt like she had put a balloon to her mouth, and sucked in all the air. (If you don't understand, just ask me) She realized that she was unconscious when she felt feeling return to her eyelids. She then opened them to see a sight she would never forget, even after she died. Hinata opened her eyes to see two crimson-red eyes staring right back at her. It took her a moment to realize that a boy was on top of her, but the moment she did she threw her arms out and did a double-palmed juuken to the chest of whomever was on top of her at that moment.

Kuro went flying across the ally and smashed into the wall and slid to the ground, destroying the wooden fence in the process. He didn't know what happened, but he didn't want to get up right now. One second he saw a pair of the most beautiful eyes he'd ever seen, next thing he knew, he felt this burning pain in his chest, as well as pain on his back and the back of his head. Hinata was sitting with her hands on her chest, while her face showed a red that would have the world's greatest scientists baffled at how she gained such an amazing shade. She was breathing heavily as she tried to recall just what had happened. She turned her attention to the boy who was now on the ground rolling around laughing. Kuro then also sat up, much to his discomfort he noted, and noticed his brother's antics. "WHAT'S SO FUNNY!?" Kuro yelled as the red started to leave his face. Hikari could barely sit up for a moment, pointing his finger at Kuro, as he laughed out, "Y-YOU ACTUALLY THOUGHT SHE WAS SUFFOCATING!! HAHAHAHAAA!!" He roared out before falling back into his laughter. "YOU MEAN SHE WASN'T!?" Kuro roared out, now making it apparent that he was not a happy guy at the moment. Hikari took notice of this, and, remembering the last time Kuro got angry at him, took off in the direction Hinata had pointed out to them earlier. Kuro jumped up and shot after his brother while Hinata just sat there watching the two boys run off into the distance before they turned a corner and disappeared from sight.

She slowly brought two of her fingers to her lips and touched them ever so lightly. She could still feel Kuro's lips against hers. 'D-did he…kiss me?' She thought. Her face reddened more, if possible, at the word 'Kiss' in her mind. As she slowly stood up, another figure came up behind her. "Is something the matter lady Hinata?" The figure asked. Hinata didn't even need to look back to know it was one of her body-gaurds. "N-no...e-everything's all r-right." She said in her usual stuttering voice.

~two days later~

The town of Konoha was all silent. Not a single soul stirred as the sun started rising over the horizen. Nothing could ruin this moment of silence.

*BAM!*

Two figures suddenly started jumping over the rooftops at rediculous speeds, as a much larger group took off after them not a moment later. The first two figures were trying not to hit a tree as they were laughing like madmen. "Did you see their faces as they realized what it was!?" A light blue-haired boy laughed out as he jumped off another rooftop. "Are you kidding? the Head's face was so red, I thought it would blow up!" The two boys laughed uncaringly as the group of Jonin chased after them. "GET BACK HERE YOU BRATS! YOU'LL PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID!!" The head of the group roared out in rage. The group with him were grinding their teeth in anger at the fact that these two kids had the guts to pull such a prank on them.

*Flashback*

Kuro and Hikari were sneaking around the Jonin H.Q. putting paint traps, smoke bombs, and other such things into the lockers and on the walls of the building. Hikari was about to leave when Kuro walked over to the Head Jonin's office. He entered and walked up to the desk, opened up a small drawer that had what looked like important information, and placed a paint bomb tag on it. He set it to where it would go off a moment after the drawer was opened. Kuro looked up from his work and gave an evil, almost maniacle grin to his brother. They had the ENTIRE building set up for this kind of prank. Suddenly, they heard footsteps heading towards the door. The Namikaze bros. quickly got out of the room, v.i.a. window, and waited for their plan to start off.

The Jonin came into the room with his assistant complaining saying that he needed to sign these important papers, and that he souldn't be so lazy. (kinda reminds you of a *aHEM!* young future hokage, no?) Just as the head was about to pull out some sake, the assistant slapped his hand, while giving him an irritated pout. The head could only sigh as he reached for the documents he had to get out of the way, and put his hand around the drawer's handle. He opened up the drawer and then looked at the little paper, wondering what it was. Realization kicked in a little too late as it flashed and suddenly exploded. The entire room now revealed seals that had genjutsu over them and went off at the same time. The Jonin who were in the locker room getting ready were just starting to open their lockers, when the domino effect of the seals going off made THEM go off as well. The effect was priceless. The entire building was flooded with paint and smoke to the point that it actually started coming out of the windows and doors. The moment The Sandaime had seen the smoke, *he gets up REALLY early in this story* he sent the fire department, which consisted of Water-Style users, to stop the fire. The moment they got there, they started dousing the entire building in water.

A group of Jonin *including the head Jonin* wobbled out of the building, shaking, *water was cold* and covered in pink paint. They suddenly caught ear of laughing, and turned to find two boys on the ground rolling around clutching their stomachs. They put two and two together and, with a loud battle cry, ran after the two boys as they suddenly jumped up and dashed away.

*End flashback*

And now we rejoin our favorite Namikaze Bros. as they flee the thuroughly peeved Jonins. "Aww, come'on guys..." Kuro said as he took another leap, just missing the grasp of a now fast gaining Jonin Head. "I heard Pink was a MANLY color.......YIPE!" Kuro quickly ducked the kunai of what seemed to be a now demonic-looking head Jonin. "Come'on! It was a joke! lighten up!" Hikari said as he narrowly dodged some exploding tags. If the yelling didn't wake up the villagers, the explosions did. People had actually started coming out into the street to see what the commotion was all about. Some old man shuffled around with his cane yelling wierd obsenetties that the world was going to end. A woman was screaming saying that Konoha was going back into war. After that outburst, the entire town went into an uproar.

~Hokage's Office, 1 hour later~

Two boys were thrown to the floor in front of the Hokage, hog tied and all. Neither of the two could look the Hokage in the eye without at least cracking a smile. The Sandaime dismissed the Pink paint-covered Jonins so they could clean up. The Jonins left with evil grins threatening to crack their faces in two. They knew how the Hokage was like when he was mad. In fact, they had gotten front-row seats.

The Hokage took in a long breath from his pipe, and exhaled, leaving the smoke to filter out of the room. After a moment, he could hear snickering. He looked down to the two boys on the ground who were cracking up. The Hokage could not help but smile at this, and soon the entire room was filled with laughter. the Hokage wiped a tear from his eye as he finally calmed down. "Mission accomplished boys." The Namikaze Bros. just grinned at the old man.

(A/N: Now some of you are wondering just WHAT in the world is going on...but you're questions will be answered soon enough...)

"All right boys, your pay for one B-ranked mission has been sent to each of your accounts. You successfully entered the Jonin Head-Quarters, sabatoged their lockers, and caused an uproar. It seems your skills have improved since your last prank. Now you two must head to the acadamy, it is time for your testing to begin." With that the Namikaze bros. bowed to the Hokage and started hopping away. After they were outside of the office, they turned their attention to the silver-haired man they called 'sensei' for the past 8 years. He didn't look at them as he said, "Soooo, how long are you two going to keep that rope around yourselves?" No sooner than Kakashi said that, the ropes were on the ground. "Well, it'd be nice talkin to ya again sensei, but we gotta go." Hikari said smiling. With a nod from their old sensei, the two dissapeared without a trace.

~Konohagakure Ninja acadamy, 8:56 A.M.~

A large group of genins had formed in the classroom of one Iruka Umino. Now normally, the classroom would be so quiet that you could hear the crickets chirping, but since the teacher was absent at the moment, the classroom was more like a zoo. In one certain corner, two girls were arguing over a familiar duck butt-haired boy. One had pink hair, while the other had bright blonde hair. They were argueing about who got the chair next to their 'destined love' as they put it. Meanwhile the young brooder was trying his best to ignore them, which wasn't exactly helping as they continued to pull the poor boy back and forth.

Chouji and Shikamaru were watching with half interest, the other half of their attention span was pointed towards the fact that Hikari and Kuro were going to be coming soon. They could practically FEEL their presence. A boy with a dog hidden in his jacket was pestering Hinata about how 'great and amazing' he was while she kept her gaze on the door. She too could feel the boys' presence, more specific, Kuro's. As she was wondering if she was just feeling things, the door suddenly slammed open. Her heart skipped a beat thinking it was Kuro, but calmed down as a tan, brown-haired figure walked into the classroom. He had the green chunin vest. Iruka Umino could have sworn he felt an aura of dissapointment coming from at least three people. He looked towards the clock and noticed there was only a few seconds left. So he began his countdown. "Ten...nine...eight...seven...six..." he looked up as he continued to count and saw that everyone was in their seats. The class knew what happened when they were standing and he got to zero. Iruka had become accustomed to everyone listening to his commands, and while he was glad they listened, he still wished for someone to just interupt the class or rebel. "Three...two...one...zer-" BAM!

Iruka turned and quickly dodged the door that suddenly flew at him and slammed into the wall. As Iruka got up, still looking at the door that was now planted into the wall, he heard shuffling. He turned around and saw two boys come in through the door. The entire class turned to see the arrival of the newcomers. Hinata's heart gave a leap of joy, not only being able to see Kuro again, but because she got to actually look at him.

Kuro was standing 5'3", had black hair that had red streaks in it, three whisker marks on each side of his face, and had a blood red muscle shirt on. He had a black jacket *like Shikamaru's* that had red flames coming up from the bottom of it. He had The blue ninja pants that Kakashi and Iruka wore, the kunai and shuriken holsters on his right leg, the ninja pouch underneath his jacket, as well as the traditional Blue Ninja Zaki that most ninja wore.

Hikari was a near mirror image of his brother as he also stood 5'3", but had light blue hair with silver streaks in it. He wore a Blue muscle shirt and a jacket like Kuro's, except his was white with blue waves coming from the bottom of the jacket. He had the same stuff that Kuro had from the waist down.

Kuro and Hikari both put one hand up, and said at the same time, "KAI!" The door suddenly exploded again, this time taking Iruka with it. The Namikaze bros. simply moved out of the way as the teacher went ker-splat against the wall out in the hall.

(A/N: careful what you wish for Iruka-sensei, it might just come true.)

Iruka slowly got up from the ground while shaking. The vein on the side of his head became apparent, and the class held pity for the two newcomers. Iruka slowly walked up to the still smiling boys, and took in a deep breath.

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU TWO THINK YOU'RE DOING!??!?!?!" Iruka roared with his Big-headed jutsu in the most irritated voice the class had heard the entire year. After they had bounced back from the hurricane that was Iruka's yell, the two boys looked at each other, smiled, and turned back to Iruka. "Making a lasting impression?" They said while scratching the back of their heads. Iruka, at this point, was twitching violently and pointed his finger to two seats near the back.

As Kuro and Hikari walked up the stairs to their chairs, they couldn't stop grinning ear to ear. The class would find out soon enough just why they were grinning like madmen. Kuro was about to sit in the closest chair when Hikari suddenly shot for it. Hikari just smiled up at him while Kuro was just giving him a confused stare. He found out why Hikari took the chair, as he saw that the only available one left was the chair next to a wide-eyed Hyuuga heiress.

'He didn't...' Kuro thought as he slowly made his way to the chair next to Hinata, refusing to look at her. After the incedent two days ago, he couldn't look at her straight. It was driving him insane. Why couldn't he look at her like any other person!? He had done it all the time! Now he felt the heat rise to his cheeks as he got flashbacks of when he kissed her. He reminded himself to kick Hikari's butt later. As Iruka finally got behind his desk, he turned around and started writing down the order of events that would happen for the day. As he started writing down the first part, the writing test, he could hear snickering. He quickly turned around to find the class silent. He slowly turned back around and continued his writing before he was inturrupted once again by snickering. He turned around once more to see the class silent once again. 'I KNOW i'm hearing laughter...' Iruka turned around once more and started writing the second portion, the Physical test, when he heard the snickering once more. He ignored it for the moment and continued to write, yet still the snickering continued. Just as he was nearing the end of writing the Physical test down he spun around at a rediculous pace and saw that the entire classroom was holding their mouths shut with their hands. Finally, the entire classroom erupted in laughter. It was at this point that Iruka felt something touch his back. He grabbed at the back of his chunin vest to find a paper.

On the paper was a poorly drawn Iruka with the words, 'Kick me, Laugh at me, i don't care, just don't laugh at this sign.' on it. Iruka was twitching worse than before and quickly turned towards the only two he knew would do this. "YOU TWO!" He roared at them. "Yeeeeeeees?" They asked innocently. This sent the entire class spiraling into full blown laughter. "What can we do for you sensei?" Kuro asked innocently, his fear of looking at Hinata long gone. "You will regret this..." Iruka said still twitching. As Iruka was about to turn around, the boy with the dog in his jacket asked, "Iruka-sensei, who are these guys?" Iruka, realizing he forgot, turned towards the two. "A good question Kiba, You two wouldn't happen to be the two boys the Hokage said would be joining us for the finals would you?" The Namikaze bros. nodded. Hikari walked down the stairs while Kuro decided to be a show-off and jumped off the desk, did a somersault, and landed in front of Iruka. They then walked to the front of the class, and Hikari stepped up. "I'm Namikaze Hikari, nice to meet you guys." He said while giving the class a small salute. Kuro then walked up next to Hikari with his hands in his pockets. "I'm Namikaze Kuro, and currently, i'm hungry. Hey ducky," He said looking up towards Sasuke. "You think you could russle up some eggs for us? I missed out on breakfast this morning." The effect was immediate, Sasuke immediately started sizzling in rage at the insult. "Why you-" He was cut off with a quick yell from Iruka. "ENOUGH!" He then turned towards Kuro. "Would you mind apologizing?" Iruka asked in a stern voice. Kuro huffed and then turned towards the Uchiha. "Sorry...Ducky." Kuro added with a grin.

The entire class started howling in laughter as Sasuke once more continued to sizzle. Iruka just sighed, realizing that the nickname was going to stick. The day went on similarly, with Kuro and Hikari coming up with pranks to irritate Iruka and amuse the class, as well as Kuro cracking insults at Sasuke. Then came the Physical part. Iruka stood by a ring outside the school (which the class was happy to get out of) and watched as the students lined up. "All right, next up is the physical part. It will be a one-on-one match set-up, and based on how you fight, you will be graded. You are allowed to use either your own fighting style, a family style, or the schools style. The match will be declared over when either the opponent cannot continue, I decide the match is over, or the opponent admits defeat. Any questions?" With no hands seen, Iruka looked at his paper and started calling out names. Kuro was about to take a nap when he noticed Hinata shaking. He walked over to her and heard her questioning herself if she could make it. Kuro, getting mad, grabbed one of her hands, which were twiddleing the other a moment ago and made her look straight into his eyes. "Don't even BEGIN to doubt you can't do this! You slammed me clear into a wall, breaking it in the process! You'll pass, period!" Happy with what he said, he let go of her hand and turned to head back to his tree, not noticing the smile and blush that had appeared on Hinata's face. "Arigatou, Kuro-kun." She said in barely a whisper.

"Next up, Namikaze Hikari, and Inuzuka Kiba!" Iruka called out. Hikari got up from his seat underneath the tree next to his brother and walked over to the ring. Kiba bounced out of the group of genin hopefuls and jumped into the ring. "All right! This'll be quick!" Kiba called out. Hikari got to side of the ring opposite to Kiba. It was here that Hikari actually got a look at the guy. He wore a grey hoodie with what looked like black leather underneath it. He had black Ninja pants with a Kunai holster on his right leg. His shuriken holster was on his left leg, and he had the traditional blue ninja zaki. "All right, Ready?" Iruka asked looking towards the two. With a nod from both boys, Iruka swung his hand in a cutting motion. "Hajime!" He called out before jumping back.

-WARNING! FIGHT SCENES! I'M NOT GOOD AT THESE!-

Kiba jumped at Hikari, intent on ending the battle in one strike. What he didn't count on was Hikari just sidestepping off to the side, effectively dodging him. Hikari then sent a shin into the gut of the Inuzuka, sending him back to his starting point. As Kiba got back up, Kuro went into a stance that was similar to the 'Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms', except that his right arm was bent and pointed in the same direction as his lowered left hand. At his opponent. Kiba looked at Hikari for a moment, before going onto all fours and charging at Hikari like a dog. Hikari did a slight gasp as he noticed that Kiba's speed had increased by alot. Hikari saw a clawed fist shoot by his head as he dodged it. Kiba, who was already surprised that Hikari had dodged the attack, was not prepared for Hikari's counter-attack. Just as Kiba shot by, Hikari quickly grabbed the back of Kiba's jacket and slammed him into the ground, effectively creating a small crack in the ground. As Kiba bounced back up after hitting the ground, Hikari spun on his heel and delivered a solid kick to Kiba's back, sending him, once more, back to his starting point. Only this time Kiba didn't get back up.

Iruka ran over to Kiba and checked his pulse already knowing Kiba was out-cold. He then stood up and announced the victor. "Winner, Namikaze Hikari!" As Hikari walked back over to the tree, the entire group of could-be Shinobi looked in awe at how quick the match went. Iruka then had two of the students carry Kiba over to a nearby bench and put him down on it. Iruka then turned back towards the rest of the shinobi and called out some more names. The entire group, after seeing how Hikari fought, was scared about fighting Kuro. Only one cocky little duck was hoping to fight Kuro. Meanwhile, said person was sleeping underneath a tree. "Next up, Uchiha Sasuke," Sasuke tensed up. "And Haruno Sakura."

(A/N: Haha, thought it would be Kuro didn't ya?)

A scream was heard coming from a pink-haired girl, which effectively scared the crap out of everyone and woke Kuro with a start. "What happened!? Are we under attack!?" Kuro said, his Kunai drawn and immediately in a defensive stance. Hikari sighed and put a pinky in his ear, trying to regain his hearing. "Yes, it's the attack of the pink-haired banshees." "AGAIN!?" Kuro said in horror. Everyone just stared at Kuro, including Hikari. "What?" Kuro said, not understanding what the staring was for. Everyone just shook their heads in dsibelief before turning back to the comical scene that was now playing out. Sakura was almost bawling saying that she couldn't fight her love. Even Ino was shocked at this. She was obsessed with the Uchiha, but not to this point. A boy who couldn't stand her crying anymore ran over to her and whispered into her ear, "If you fight him, maybe he'll accept you as an exceptional warrior, and maybe he'll ask you out." With new-found hope, Sakura immediately shut up, much to the happiness of everyone, and got into the acadamy stance. Sasuke just sighed and got into his stance.

~5 seconds later~

Everyone just stared in utter disbelief. This girl was the most pathetic girl anyone could have EVER laid eyes on. Unfortunately this class didn't have a choice. It was over in a matter of seconds, with Sakura bleeding in a few areas, thats it. Sasuke didn't even look winded. As Sasuke turned away Sakura continued to bawl her eyes out. Iruka slowly calmed Sakura down enough to tell her to go and see the nurse. Everyone sighed in relief as the crying stopped and she left. "*sigh* okay, next up is Tora Jin, and Hyuuga Hinata."

Hinata suddenly tensed at hearing her name called, but slowly made her way towards the center of the ring. Her opponent, hearing that he was up against the Hyuuga, started to grin. He stood a mere 4'7", had a grey shirt on, as well as some tattered blue jeans. He had dirty brown hair, and his teeth looked like they were rotting. All in all, either this kid was poor as heck, or he just didn't care for personal hygiene. "Just give up already, you're no match for me! I've seen you fight, you're the most pathetic creature in the world. Even worse than the banshee!" Kuro was already twitching from hearing the insults, but Hikari was holding him back from ripping the guy to shreds. The more insults that were thrown at Hinata, the more she trembled. Seeing her like this was like lighting a match in a gas truck for Kuro. If everyone wasn't shocked at the insults this boy was throwing at Hinata, they would have noticed Kuro's whisker marks darkening, and his eyes turning into slits, as well as notice his hair looking alot wilder. Hikari however, DID notice this, and pulled Kuro back, trying to calm him down. Kuro could barely keep his temper in check with all the things the guy was saying to Hinata. He didn't know why, but every insult he was throwing at her was like it was thrown at him, but ten times worse.

Hinata was just about to forfeit when she heard a shout. "DON'T YOU DARE LOSE TO THAT ***-HOLE HINATA! SHOW HIM WHAT YOU'RE MADE OF!!" Hinata looked over to see a peeved off Kuro being held off by his brother, and while nobody seemed to notice it, she saw that his red eyes were a lot darker than what they should have been. She looked down at her hands and saw that they had stopped shaking. She didn't know why, but she felt as if a wave of courage had crashed into her. She nodded and then turned towards her opponent. The boy stared at her in disbelief, but shook his head. "Whatever, just means I get to beat that ugly little face of yours." A loud slam was heard, and everyone turned to see Kuro pulling his fist back up from a new, and rather large, crator. "Say one more word, I DARE you. You'll be wishing you were in HELL!" Kuro roared out. Luckily it was enough to shut the kid up.

The two opponents locked eyes with each other, and sprinted forward. Tora decided to try an upper-cut, thinking it would be over in one strike, but instead of feeling the bone of Hinata's jaw, he felt nothing. Until he felt a searing pain erupt from his back. Tora suddenly flew forward and landed face-first in the dirt of the ring, while Hinata was already in her gentle-fist stance, preparing for her next attack. She hadn't even activated her byakugan, thinking it would be a waste for someone like him. Tora slowly got up, and ran towards her again, this time just striking out in random areas. Hinata dodged all of them with ease, and as he threw a punch at her, she crouched down, spun on her heel and elbowed the boy in the upper spinal column. The boy dropped onto his knees. "W-wha...H-how did you...?" the boy turned his head as much as he could to look at her. Hinata didn't even look at the boy. "I will no longer take your insults." She said in a clear voice. The boy passed out onto the ground with a thud. As the now extremely focused crowd looked onto the battle with awe, Hinata dropped onto her knees as well. The ground closed in on her face as she fell, but her face stopped moving before she hit the ground. She was turned over to where she was in someone's lap. She looked up to see a smiling Kuro holding her in his arms. "You were awesome Hinata-chan!" He said smiling like the idiot that he was, not noticing the suffix he had unconsciously added to her name. Hinata could only blush as she noticed the suffix, as well as the fact that her face was only a few inches away from Kuro's. A flashback of when they kissed flashed through her head and she abruptly passed out in Kuro's arms.

"AAHHHHH!!! HIKARI WHAT HAPPENED TO HER! SHE JUST WENT LIMP!" Kuro cried out once more in pure terror.


Kenta: well? what did you guys think!? I hope I didn't cause too much confusion...if there are any questions, just ask me and i'll be happy to answer!

Kuro: WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT!?

Kenta: what? you and Hinata look cute together!

Kuro: *blush* I-I don't care! you made me kiss her!

Kenta: you saying you didn't enjoy it?

Kuro: ACK! Wh-what are you talking about!? of course i didn't enjoy it!

Hinata: *sniff* r-really?

Kuro: AAHH!! HINATA! N-no! I-i didn't mean...what i mean to say was...

Kenta: aww just go kiss and make up. *pushes Kuro into Hinata*

there, happy couple!

and yes, i like the pairing KuroXHina, got a problem? I just think that Kuro's as stubborn as Inuyasha, (that's how i'm trying to make him act) and I see him as the one to give her a confidence boost. Also the one whose too stupid to realize what a blush is. who knows? maybe he doesn't realize it, but he IS getting feelings for Hinata if you didn't notice.

next chapter i'll finish up the exams as well as start the Wave Mission Arc. I'm trying to go along with the story with as few differences as possible, except for that fact that this is near impossible! also, since i decided to give Kuro a girlfriend in Hinata, (which you guys'll see more of later) i was thinking of giving Hikari a girlfriend in Haku. (yes, Haku will be a girl. I still can't accept the fact that Haku is a guy...I just can't, and I won't.) I'll put up a poll, you can either choose yes or no. though most likely i'm still going to at least TRY a fluffy scene with the two.

Also, HOLY CRAP! 7,000 WORDS! THIS IS A FIRST! I can't believe I wrote that much in one chapter...

ONTO MORE STUPIDITY!

Kenta Raikiri