"Hmmm… how shall I put this?" Kakashi rubbed his chin thoughtfully, eyes shut as he tried to suppress his silent giggles. "Based on my first impression , I'd have to say… I hate you!" Kakashi blinked a few times as he opened his eye, trying to be subtle in his attempts to expel the chalk dust. He gazed lazily at his new team, taking in their appearance with little interest. The infamous Naruto, the 'pole stuck up his ass' Uchiha, and… a girl.

A girl with green eyes and bright pink hair.

Now needing some clean air to breathe, Kakashi lead his team outside. He now had fresh air, a railing to lean against, and could make a quick exit. Nice.

"Now, I'd like you all to tell us a little bit about yourselves."

"Like what?" A cool voice asked. The copy nin could feel a disagreeable atmosphere emanating from the young marshmallow, and so he kept his voice nonchalant and closed his eye as he replied. "…You know, the usual. Your favourite thing… what you hate most…" he gestured from side to side with his hands. Dreams, ambitions, hobbies. Things like that."

And like all good ninja (or good wannabe ninja), his team did not immediately offer up any information about themselves. Instead…

"Help us out here coach. You go first." Naruto's eyes held a slight demand in their blue depths. "Show us how it's done." As much as he could brush off the Uzumaki brat, Haruno and Uchiha were now glaring at him with accusatory eyes as well. Both of them were quite sharp, and certainly wouldn't let him wriggle out of it so easily. Damn.

Kakashi reached inside himself for the most deadpan voice he could find. "Oh… me? My name is Hatake Kakashi. I'm the kind of person" Kakashi maintained eye contact with the hyper brat as he spoke "Who doesn't like talking about his likes and dislikes!" His eye left Naruto and slowly bore into the other two as he continued. "My dreams for the future are none of your business… but anyway, I have lots of hobbies…" A snort came from the left and he turned to meet a raised pink eyebrow.

"Sensei… all you told us was your name…"

"Well then… you will have to learn to look underneath. You shouldn't always have to be told."

"Going by today we get a lazy, late and unperceptive man with no desire whatsoever to teach." Sasuke's cool voice broke in, startling Kakashi with its tone. It wasn't questioning, he spoke as a statement. Here was a child who was very certain of himself. He was also quite accurate. Kakashi stared down the interesting brat (he possibly had the most interesting team).

"You don't have to like me. You just have to be willing to learn."

"Well… I am WILLING TO LEARN! BeLIEVE IT!"

"Sensei, what will we be learning?"

"That depends on how well you do in tomorrow's survival exercises."

"SURVIVAL EXER-"BAM! Two fists whacked Naruto on the head.

"Shut up Naruto."

"Shut up dobe."

The next day-

Kakashi appeared in a puff of smoke, half heartedly waving at the genins-to-be.

"Good morning class!"

"You're late!" Naruto shrieked only to be met with an unblinking stare rather than an apology. "Guys…" He appealed to Sakura and Sasuke. "He's late!"

"Hn. Yeah, dobe…" Sasuke reluctantly murmured.

"… Just like he was yesterday." Sakura finished for him.

Kakashi snorted and rolled his eye as he placed an alarm clock onto a tree stump. "I've set the alarm to go off at noon." He reached into his pockets, watched by the children eagerly observing him. "I have here two small bells…" His eye swept around the small group, checking that their attention was on him. "Your challenge is to steal these from me before the timer sounds. Anyone who fails doesn't get any lunch." He gestured towards the stump that held the clock. "Instead, you will be tied to that tree stump so that I can eat your lunch in front of you.

You need one bell apiece, so one of you is definitely headed for the stump. The first to fail."

Naruto gulped audibly at this, his fingers twitching as he thought it through. Sasuke's reaction was limited to a slight stiffening as he schooled himself to remain impassive.

"What techniques may we use?"

"Anything you wish, jutsu-wise. You may also use shuriken if you wish." Sakura didn't appear even remotely perturbed as she smirked at him, completely unafraid. This test wouldn't have any worth unless she was at least a little worked up about it.

He held her gaze.

"Attack as if you mean to kill, or you will never stand a chance."

Sakura ended the match before it had really begun, without landing a single hit, or throwing a single kunai.

A/N I am incredibly sorry for the delay in updating! With a re-write at that! This is so short because it was originally going to be half of a chapter, however because it has been so long I have decided to update now anyway. I will try to have the next chapter up in the next couple of days. I'll definitely be finishing this and updating regularly, but I have somehow crashed my computer keyboard. If anyone else has ever done this, they will understand how infuriating On-Screen Keyboard can be.

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