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Chapter 2

I've been up for hours, unable to sleep, and it's only seven in the morning. I keep thinking over my new team. I know that when they decide who is on what team it is based on scores, skills, and in some cases family.

Sasuke and Naruto balance each other out, in some weird way. Sasuke is quiet, Naruto is loud. Naruto had the lowest scores and Sasuke was one of the top students. Sasuke is calculating and Naruto just rushes in.

I haven't quite found where I stand in Team 7.

Kakashi, when he finally shows up, has us training every day. He says it is to build up our teamwork, but that would mean that all three of us would be working together and that has yet to happen. He gives Naruto and Sasuke complex moves to work on but he has me running laps and doing simple exercises.

Today is no different. All of us are at the training grounds and like always I have to do such simple things while my teammates get to actually learn something.

"Come on Kakashi-sensei I want to learn something more important than this." Again, Naruto is unable to complete a jutsu after a few tries and wants to learn something 'more important', more like he wants to learn something that he can get right after just a few tries. He gets so annoying with how often he begs to be taught something else, and we have only been a team for a week.

Without even looking up from where his nose is buried in his book. "Naruto before you move on to other jutsu you need to learn the basics."

Naruto just huffs, turns around and plops on the ground, pouting. "Why would I want to learn the basics? Basics aren't going to help me become Hokage!"

'Why do I have to be on a team with an idiot?' I just keep with my exercises that Kakashi told me to do. 'Really, I have to do sit-ups and push-ups while the boys get to learn jutsu? Why do I have to do things that the boys don't even have to?'

Kakashi just sighs, "How do you expect to learn complicated jutsu if you can learn the simple ones? Knowing the basics help you with the complicated ones."

Naruto just pouts for a few more minutes, acting even more like a child then most five year olds. Eventually he does get back up and starts to do the jutsu again.

The entire time Sasuke is continuously trying the jutsu, and getting more and more frustrated after each failed attempt.

I just laugh to myself. 'Do they both think that they will get it on the first try?'

I am almost all the way through the regime that Kakashi told me to do. One hundred sit-up, one hundred push-ups, five laps and repeat three times. 'Seriously, could this be any easier? I won't even break a sweat at this rate.'

Kakashi closes his book with an audible clap. "All right you three, that's enough for today. Be back tomorrow, same time." With that he just 'poofs' away.

Naruto and Sasuke don't say anything to me or each other and just start walking out of the training grounds. Naruto practically running saying something about getting ramen. Sasuke with his hands in his pockets, glaring at anything and everything in his path.

It's only three in the afternoon, so we have only been 'training' for about four hours. I'm not even tired because of what Kakashi has me doing.

My parents are not expecting me to be home until at least six. 'I might as well stay and try the jutsu that Kakashi was 'teaching' Naruto and Sasuke. Training after everyone else leaves is probably going to be the only way I will learn anything.'

I just start thinking about what Kakashi told the boys about the jutsu. Kage Shuriken no Jutsu, being able to throw two shuriken but make it appear to only have thrown one. Sasuke was getting close by the end of training. He could get them to leave his hands together like one, but half way across the field the bottom one would separate from the top one.

I take two shuriken together and throw them at one of the wooden posts in the training grounds. 'Well, I knew I wouldn't be able to do it on the first try, but I was at least close.' I was able to get them to leave my hands together as one but like Sasuke about half way the bottom one would start to fall.

'How do I get them to stay together?' I try a few more times, adjusting how I throw them each time. I keep getting them to stay together for a little longer each time but the bottom one eventually falls.

I try something different. I throw them separately but close enough together that the second one looks like the tail of the first one. This time it works. After only half an hour I was able to do what the boys were trying for hours and were unable to do.

'Ha, I was the one Kakashi didn't actually teach or show the technique to and I am the only one that was able to do it.'