Sapphire and Onyx

"Talking"

"Thinking"

"Kyuubi/Inner Sakura"

'Jutsu'

Talking to the kyuubi

[author's note]

FLASHBACK

Chapter two: We walk along the road we choose

"Sasuke?"

The brunette turned around to face the girl who was accompanying him to the academy. "Yes?" When he looked in her eyes, he saw fear and he could see clearly that she was nervous; she was biting her lip while poking her fingers together, with her head a bit down.

"Um...um...uh..." Was all that she was able to say, when in reality, she was trying to chose whether to tell him her secret, or not to. The topic on her actually being Naruto was a very sensitive one, anytime that she thinks that someone has figured it out, she goes crazy, stays up all night thinking if everyone in the village has found out, or even worse, she thinks of the day that she would tell Sasuke about her secret, and how he would react, she wouldn't be surprised if he got mad, heck, she would get mad if that happened to her, or if he just accepted her for who she was, the disguised kyuubi girl. As much as she wanted that, it was the most unlikely.

Sasuke put on a confused face, the blond who was beside him right now was none other than the one, the only...Namikaze Keimei. Yet, having accomplished so much in the past twelve years of her life, she looked...scared? "That's not possible, I'm just seeing things." He thought. Even though he had suspicions that she was hiding something from him, but shook it of. "Kei-Chan, what's the matter?" He asked in concern for the well being of his self-proclaimed girlfriend. He blushed at that thought, wondering if she would accept, heck, he would even propose to her right now, but maybe he could ask her when there were of the right age.

"If I hid something from you for as long as you've known me, would you get mad?" She asked, Sasuke's eyes widened, "Just like the one time me and Naruto were talking about something..." Anxious to hear his answer, she waited silently.

"Depends on how good your reason is." He answered. Keimei almost fainted; she was having a very familiar conversation with Sasuke. Keimei took a deep breath, she just couldn't tell him, not now, not later, but, sooner or later she would have to tell him. Just...When?

"I'll tell you later." She was finally able to say something. "I'm thinking that you won't be in good terms with your teammates if I tell you now." Sasuke narrowed his eyes, and then glared at the blond prodigy, who glared right back at him.

"Fine, I'm almost late anyways." He hesitantly said. Sasuke ran of towards the academy, leaving Keimei dumbfounded "Hm, I was sure that he would demand for an answer...psh, whatever." She then ran to an enclosed area, activated her henge, and then disappeared.

'He' had appeared just outside the academy, right before Sasuke arrived, seeing the brunette, he happily, yet nervously waved to him. Sasuke looked at him, as if studying his features.

Sasuke was in deep thought; he couldn't get his and Keimei's short conversation out of his mind. Just as he arrived he saw Naruto waving at him, he stared at him, amazed at how similar he and Keimei looked. "Okay, Naruto and Keimei have...bright blond hair." He thought as he looked at the blond mop of hair on Naruto's head. "They both have...dark blue eyes..." He looked into the blonde's eyes; the only thing missing was the three silver streaks. "They both have tan skin and...Those whisker-like marks..." Sasuke was almost sure that they were somehow related, but they had no family to speak of, or...they could be the same person. Shaking that thought out of his head, he smirked, looking at the blond boy's choice of clothes, "They both have a love for the color orange...though, Keimei wears more red and black now." He was just about to ask Naruto about it when a chorus of "Sasuke-kun!" was heard, Sasuke then, ran for his life.

"Argh! Why is our sensei late?" Naruto asked for the hundreth time. 'Why did we have to get stuck with the perverted Cyclops of a sensei?"

"Shut up Naruto, patience is a virtue." A pink-haired girl said. "Right Sasuke-kun?" The dark avenger glared at her, supposing that it would make her go away, but sadly, it failed. Naruto sighed.

"Patience my ass." He said under his breath. Naruto sat across from his other teammates, deciding to ask kyuubi if he had anything to do. Oi, Kyuu' The nine-tailed kyuubi no yoko awoke from his slumber, just to face his vessel.

"What do you want kit?" he asked in a sleepy tone.

Do you have anything to do? I'm bored. The kyuubi sighed, he hated it when he was awoken from is slumber for no apparent reason.

"Why don't you play a prank on ol' Kakashi A.K.A. dog?" Kyuubi said with no hint of concern for the perverted scarecrow. Naruto's face brightened up, he then nodded. Thanks kyuu'!

When Naruto snapped back into reality, he found his two teammates staring intently at him. "Um...guys? Why are you, like staring at me?"

"Your face was changing in expressions, one minute you looked bored, then the other, you looked extremely happy for no reason. Why?" Sakura asked. Naruto smiled in a very, very evil way, he then made shadow clone and prepared to jump out of the window. "Oi baka! Where are you going?" She screeched. Naruto smiled at her.

"Don't worry; I just need to play a prank on a scarecrow." Naruto said, and then jumped out the window. The two genins just stood there, confused.

A few minutes later, Naruto comes crashing through the window holding a bucket full of bright orange paint. "Bright orange paint?" "Oi Naruto-baka! What are you planning to do with that wet paint?" Sakura yelled. Naruto looked at her stood up, then put it on the top of the door.

"Its' his punishment for his tardiness." Naruto answered, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. Sakura looked at him as if he was insane. But inside, she was excited. "Shannaro! I love pranks like this!" Naruto raised an eye brow at her.

"You baka! Do you really think that our jounin sensei would actually fall for that?" She screamed. Naruto smiled a mocking smile at her.

"You see, I have met our sensei before, and he is a really close friend of mine." Sakura's eyes widened at this. "Also, you may think that he wouldn't fall for this, but no, he will, I'm sure of it. This trick has already worked on one of my best friends, and if I told you his name, you would think that I'm lying." He said, smiling. This time, Sasuke's eyes widened. His memory brought him back to a time when he had once fallen for the trick.

FLASH BACK!

"Oh God! I can't believe that you fell for that!" Said a blond girl, who was on the ground, clutching her stomach from pain, because of laughter. The brunette, with hair now covered with Broght orange paint, glared hard at the girl, which made her laugh even more. "Y-you should have seen your face!" She said, then burst out into laughter once more.

"It's not that funny you know." He said, but in his mind, he was plotting revenge, "Okay, next time she comes over, I am going to coat her in PINK paint! Kukuku..." The girl stopped laughing and looked at him in the eye. "Um why do you have your Omoi (short cut for her doijutsu) on?" After he said that, Keimei sweat dropped. "You heard my thoughts didn't you?" Sasuke asked. Keimei happily nodded.

"And don't you try to prank me..." She said with a deep sounding voice and an evil glint in her eye, which made chills go up Sasuke's spine. "Or I'll have to prank you back!" This made Sasuke freeze in place. "Anyways, I'm coming over tomorrow..." Again with the scary voice, "don't try to prank me..." Sasuke hesitantly nodded. She then ran of into the distance, waving.

FLASH BACK!

When Sasuke snapped back into reality, he found himself in room with a man with sliver hair,holding a book, now covered in orange paint. He saw Sakura apologizing to the man, and Naruto laughing his ass off. He saw the man turn to face him. "You there, Uchiha, right?" He said. Sasuke nodded. He turned to face the rest of the team, "My first impressions of you guys is..." He pointed at Naruto "You're an idiot." He turned to look at Sakura "You're a fake goody-two shoes." Sakura's face turned into horror. "And you..." he directed at Sasuke. "You're a stuck up Uchiha brat." At this, Sakura fumed, Naruto laughed even harder and Sasuke just shrugged. "Okay, meet me on the roof." He said, then disappeared in a poof.

Sasuke sighed, this was going to be a long day...

When the three genin reach the roof, their sensei was already there. "Okay, now that everyone's here, lets introduce ourselves, Naem, likes dislike, hobbies, dream for the future..." He said. Sakura looked pissed.

"Why don't you do it first sensei?" She said, stessing the last word. Kakashi looked up from his book.

"Okay then. My name, is Hatake Kakashi. What I like and dislike is none of your concern. I have many hobbies. My dream for the future is for me to know, and you to find out." He finished. "Now, since you asked, pinky, you go first." Sakura gritted her teeth at the nickname, then put on a fake smile. "All I got was his name!" Sasuke and Sakura thought, while Naruto was trying to hold back his laughter.

"My name is Haruno Sakura. I like, well the person I like is..." She glanced at Sasuke, "My hobbies are..." He again ooked at Sasuke while blushing heavily. "And my dream for the future is..." She squealed, very loud, which made Naruto cover his sensitive ears. Kakashi looked at her.

"And, what do you hate?" He asked.

"Naruto!" She shouted. The blond chuckled.

"Great, a fangirl." "Okay, next, Uchiha." he said. Sasuke look at him in in eyes.

"My name is Uchiha Sasuke. I like this one thing and I hate many other things. My hobby is training to become stronger. I wouldn't call it a dream,. it's more of an ambition. My ambition is to kill this certain someone..." "Itachi" Sasuke, Naruto and Kakashi were thinking, while Sakura was just like, "Sasuke-kun is soooo cool!" "And restore my clan." He said. Naruto swore that he heard him say "with Kei-chan." under his breath. Naruto wanted to scream, he was going to kill him for that later. Kakashi faced Naruto.

"Okay Naru-chan, your turn." He said lazily.

"Do. Not. Call. Me. Naru-chan."

"Fine, fine."

"Okay! My name is Uzumaki Naruto, I like ramen and some other thing. I hate the three minutes it takes to cook ramen. I especially hate people who look down on others just becasue of their name, or position, I also hate..." He walked over to Kakashi. "Perverts." He directed at Kakashi, who smiled. "My hobbies are, training, eating ramen and finding ways on how to piss off a certain furball." "Hey I heard that!" Kyuubi shouted from his cage. Naruto gave a small chuckle, while the others just stood there in confusion. "My dream for the future is...." Sakura didn't really care, so she turned to face Sasuke, about ask him out on a date, Sasuke rejected her before she could even say anything. So she decided to listen. "My dream for the future, like Sasuke, it would seem more like an ambition." Sasuke raised an elegant eyebrow at this. "I wish to become hokage." Naruto said. Sakura looked at him, confused.

"Why would you want to become hokage?" She asked.

Naruto stood up then faced all of them. "I wish to become hokage because..." He looked around for while, checking if there was anyone there. "I want ther village to respect me! I want them to stop looking at me like some kind of worthless junk! I want to become hokage so that I may gain the acknowledgement of the village!" He finished hisd outburst with a chuckle, seeing the faces of his teammates. Sakura looked gulty, Sasuke looked bewildered, while Kakashi looked proud. Kakashi then stood up.

"Okay team, make sure to meet me at training ground 7 at 8:00 am, rest well and don't eat breakfast, you'll puke." He said.

"What are we going to do tomorrow?" Sakura asked. Naruto rolled his eyes. "The bell test....And, I'm so going to eat!"

"Survival training, it's also your real genin test, there's a 66% chance of failure." Att his, two of the genin's mouths dropped. Namely, Sasuke (Who only opened his mouth a bit) and Sakura, Naruto stod there, looking bored. "Anyways, make sure NOT to eat tomorrow okay?" then he disappeared.

Sakura started asking Sasuke out, every time she would ask Sasuke would reject her, but she kept asking him anyways. "Sasuke, I need to talk to you about something." Naruto said in his ear. Taking that as his cue to leave, he walked away from Sakura, in his usual cool way.

"Sasuke-kun! Wait up!" Sakura shouted. Once she got beside him, he knocked her out. Naruto walked towards them, then when he saw Sakura lying on the ground, he raised an eyebrow at the brunette.

"Was that nessesary?" Naruto asked.

"Hn." came the smart reply from Sasuke.

"Okay, I have to show you something." Naruto then grabbed Sasuke, then ran to a secluded place in the forest.

"What do you want to show me?" Sasuke asked. Naruto pouted, as if nervous.

"Just...don't hate me after this." He said flatly. Sasuke looked enraged.

"As if I could hate you! I you already told me about the kyuubi. Do you really think that I would hate you?!" Naruto was a bit surprised at Sasuke's outburst. He then shrugged.

"I guess, but don't say I didn't warn you." Sasuke watched as Naruto made a handsign. In a poof of smoke, Naruto disappeared, he was replaced with the most beautiful girl that he had ever seen.... Namikaze Keimei.

"H-how?" He stuttered.

A/N: I'm sorry if it's late, I wanted to finish this during that goddamned technical glitch, but noooo, I couldn't.

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