At very quaint were they are eating and gong over there fight much to naruto's chagrin. These meetings were the only times were they only times that sasuke would actually come and talk to them. Any time naruto and sakura would try to initiate one just so they could like normal teenagers. Sasuke would show up ending in very awkward situations between the other two members of team seven. The ussuly went like this.

"Hey sakura-chan how are you doing today" said naruto

"Is sasuke here yet." She says in a frantic search for sasuke

"Well, no he isn't. How are you doing?" He says a little sad that sakura only cares for sasuke.

In a huff sakura sits down and looks a little mad that she didn't have to rush here."i'm fine I guess."

They go quite. Naruto thought she would ask him how he was doing and he would wow here with how he absolutely demolished a tree with his justu training. But since she didn't he was now in a ditch. He couldn't just talk because she would get angry that he was not giving her a chance to talk, just to tell him to shut up, and would hit him. He finally settled for a conversation that lead him back to his destroying of a tree.

"How is your training going?" He was nearly crackled at how easy it was to lead her to his desired conversation.

"Fine I guess," she looked at the now crying naruto completely unaware of naruto's plans involving her 'he is so weird' she thought with distaste.

The rest of the lunch went mostly like that. Naruto trying and trying to get sakura's attention and sakura giving short answers that left no room for rebuttal. The eventually ordered food and sakura levees with hers in a box and leaves naruto with a bill. He grumpily pays and thinks over his failed 'date' with sakura.

Today however sasuke was the one that wanted them there. He figured that since they were teammates they should be the ones to help him get stronger. Which also got them stronger by association? He figured that it would work for everyone. This time he wanted to talk about kakashi and his total trashing of there plans.

"Well, what do you think we should do now." Said sasuke.

"Nothing now, we are just trying to get better. And kakashi even had to use some of his more of his powerful justu to stop some of are attacks. It would be stupid to change everything because one of the strongest jonin in the village stopped one of are plans." Said sakura. She had always hated how sasuke overreacted over every failure.

"Yeah we didn't even finish the plan." Said naruto putting his two cents in.

"Well, we were beat and he wasn't even trying if it was a real fight were would he would have beat us easily." Said a fuming sasuke. "Is that the power of an elite?"

"No sasuke, we just have to get stronger. We will be able to beat him at this one day. We just have to train to get stronger." Sakura looked like she was about to cry. 'this is all my fault I should have been stronger.' She thought bitterly.

"Stop this sasuke," shouted mad naruto "stop doing this always getting angry thinking that this the last time that we will get a chance we will just have to keep working."

"And what naruto, we have been working on are team skills for six months. What can we work on now?"

At this naruto looked at sasuke with unreadable eyes. He stared at sasuke at what seemed for hours. Sakura had now perked up, thinking that maybe it could help her get her stronger.

"We should work on getting better by our selfs. On our own skills so that we could become better. And soon we will become strong that we could achieve all our dreams. And we wont have to worry about a suicide mission because. We will be strong enough that there won't be suicide missions." Said a sure naruto.

"What will we work on naruto." said sakura?

"Well, for me I will be working on my wind and earth abilities and learn some of kohona assassination techniques. You can work on your strength and earth abilities since you don't like using water," said naruto addressing sakura's concern. "and sasuke could work on his using his sharingan to analyze justu and maybe learn to copy justu."

"I that will work." Said sasuke I fit perfectly into what he wanted to do. He had wanted to stop some of the team training to learn on his own. Since he was now a ninja able to take missions, and fight ninja, this would give him the chance to learn how to copy the justu he wanted too.

"Sure" said sakura a little disappointed that she would no longer get a chance to spend time with sasuke.

They were about to talk about leave since they had long finished there food. When the reason that they had this meeting in first place came to tell them about something. "we have a mission." Kakashi. His face held a look that said 'I don't want to be there.'

At that naruto who had been mostly calm most of the night was shaking at the thought of a mission and held himself back out of fear of the righteous fist of sakura. "well what type of mission. Is it."

Kakashi regarded the blond child with a bored expression, but you could see that he was going to in joy what was to come next. "Back up"

"Nani!"

"Yeah team 8 was on a mission and they came into contact with a missing-nin that is beyond there league. And they ordered back up be sent immediately." Said kakashi loving the look that naruto sported on his face.

"Why us"

"They wanted a chunin squad and a jonin that could cover for Kurenai while she is wounded."

"Any other information" said sasuke thinking that this could be a chance to fight a jonin level ninja one on one.

"We will get more info when we get there. Now we need to hurry up meet me at the North gate in an hour." Said kakashi before he left in a puff of smoke.

"Well, let's go!" said naruto laying cash down on the table so that he could get to his apartment and collect his storage scroll that he prepared for a mission. Sasuke just puffed away. And sakura was left alone thinking of the she needed for the mission.

The trees were flying by. Everything was a blur and naruto was a little disappointed that he never got a chance to see things on his way. He silently hoped that they would go slow so that he got to see things a bit more clearly before they had to go home.

They were traveling through the trees in a defensive diamond formation. With naruto in the front sakura to his left and sasuke in the right. Kakashi in the back of the form was thinking on thing that it was stupid to put someone like naruto in the front and that they must have messed up. He was about to stop them and question them on there formation when naruto signaled a stop.

Naruto said nothing when he suppressed his chakra to a point that it was nothing. 'if I wasn't looking at him I wouldn't be able to find him. He then tapped his head twice and motioned behind him. Sasuke and Sakura knew what those signs meant, and moved next to Kakashi.

Kakashi was astonished because he thought sasuke was the leader. From what little he knew but it seemed naruto was the one that was taking the lead. He whispered to sasuke "whats going on." Sasuke looked at him surprised that Kakashi didn't know but figured he just wasn't prepared on there teams hand sighs, he decided to fill him in.

"It seems that naruto has found something. He will signal us or spike his chakra when he has deemed it safe or thinks he might need backup."

"But why naruto shouldn't he be in the back or at the sides with you at the front."

Sasuke looked at the man wearily. He couldn't help but resent Kakashi because he failed him but thought that he should just keep quite and be prepared for anything naruto should find. He was about to tell Kakashi off when sakura decided to but in.

"We divided up are team so that we could cover up are strengths and avoid are weaknesses. Because of the Kyuubi one of naruto's strengths of is his large chakra reserves. He has learned to channel chakra to his eyes nose and ears for long periods of time so that he has a heads up on anything that comes for him." She said.

"And what about you sakura." said Kakashi.

"I like medical ninjustu and genjustu."

"Sasuke"

Sasuke got a little angry at the fact sakura had given Kakashi a summery of there power. It was a pointless. And so sasuke butted in to there conversation. "I like ninjustu and using kenjustu."

"Oh thats enlightening to know" he looked at there expecting face and sighed. "I like to use ninjustu and my sharingan."

Kakashi gave an eyes smile at there annoyance. He had gave them his bingo book description, nothing that they already didn't know.

With naruto he had just finished looking at the little battle that happened here. His kage bunshin had just dispelled and gave him information he was relieved that there was nobody around, but he had also found cut ropes. They were kohona brand. So it probably the missing-nin that kurenai. Had left so that they could capture and send back to kohona.

But now there had somehow gotten out. It meant that whoever had sent them had found some reason to keep them alive. It proudly meant that they were going to be more than just one jonin. They maybe thought they sent for a anbu teams, but they only got a chunin team and kakashi. This had just got much worse. He decided that signaling his team was the best thing to do.

He raised his left right arm and made a motion so is team mates could come and he could tell them what he had found. When they got there he put his hands behind his head and settled down so he could give his report. "well the chunin were not here. There is a chance that they had found a way to get away. But it is more likely that they were freed. This means that they were expecting more resistance. Probably an ANBU team. Meaning that they may have more than two jonin level ninja an."

"So what now." Said sakura.

"We are in deep shit. Were I over are heads and we are against superior opponents and we have tree genin possibly hurt and a hurt jonin." said sasuke doing a good job of making a situation seem pointless. "we should get going? There going to be a battle and we shouldn't be late."

"Cool"

"Fair enough"

"Wait what. You are all right going into a fight in which you might die." Said a confused Kakashi. Getting nodes from the three ninja in front of him. He shrugged his shoulders and decided to leave it alone. The then started going threw the forest at an even faster pace. The rest of the way Kakashi was thinking of the great ninja that team seven were going to be.

Team seven was coming up upon a a small house and the could tell by the chakra coming from the house that they. Were at the right place. When they got to the door they saw one there class mates walk out. He was wearing a gray jacket and black pants and if you listen closely you could hear the buzzing of a thousand bugs coming from his jacket.

"Naruto, sakura. sasuke you are not supposed to be here. Hoe do I know this? You three failed and are supposed to be in the reserve program you shouldn't be on missions this advanced. Ever " said shino in his usual way of dialect.

"And why is that shino" said naruto getting very angry at the better than thou talk coming from the bug user.

"Well, from what I have heard from my parents, the reserve program doesn't turn out good ninja and that most end up on the memorial stone after a couple of months." Said shino.

"You know nothing shino." said naruto. As he was going for the seal on his wrist to reales his blade.

"Naruto," said Kakashi in a stern voice clearly not amused. "lets go in, shino can you collect Kurenai and the rest of your team mates we need to get a full report on the situation.

"Right away Kakashi-san" said shino as he turned back to the house. Team seven followed closely behind. When they got into the house they saw that it was plain. Nothing of any value anywhere in the house. They also meet the Lady Of The house Tsunami. They were sat at a table and offered food. The happily excepted because they hadn't eaten in a few hours and after intense running they were rather hungry.

While tsunami was preparing the food they found tazuna who was more than happy to meet more people that were ready to fight for him.

After they had got their food Kurenai slowly walked in with support of HInata who got a blush from seeing naruto, sporting bandages across the small of her back from the wound she had received. She sat down followed by her genin who all waited for one of the jonin to start the conversation. Kakashi who was the first to finish his food. Was the first to speak."Well what is the situation Kurenai?"

Kurenai looked at Kakashi and thought about it for some time. And in a pained voice she began."well we have encountered Zabuza Momochi." at this team seven stopped cold. "we have also fought the demon brothers but we didn't have the tools to dispose of them properly."

At this Kakashi decided to lay down the bad news. "um we found that the demon brothers had some way of getting out of there confines. And we think that they will be in the group that shows up to attack us." Kurenai was pissed she could not believe that they had found a way out.

"And that leads to a bigger problem. They know we are here and when they attack us they are going to be ready for anything so I expect more jonin." said naruto. Giving his analysis of what he found.

Kurenai looked at him with distain. She said "and how would you know that chunin." purposely putting an emphases on the "chunin" to bush her rank.

"I am the one that found it."

Kurenai didn't buy it "kakashi you should have more control over your team. You can't let them lie like that." She said in a scolding tone. You could see kiba chuckling at how his sensei totally owned Kakashi.

"He isn't lying he has very keen senses and was able to find the clues that lead him to that conclusion. It was very fortunate that he had because I missed it." Said Kakashi in a dismissive tone.

"Sure whatever Kakashi." she took another look at naruto but quickly looked away. She then began her other points. "well if we are going to be fighting mare jonin I hope I am able to fight. You wouldn't happen to have a med-nin with you."

"I happen to have one. Sakura has some skill so after we are done here she could be the judge of that. Now what is the overall position of wave country"

At this tsunami perked up "Well the country is very poor and have been under the control of gatoh and his men for quite some time. Tazuna the one we are here to protect has been building a bridge. If it is finished wave country will have the ability to break his control over wave."

"Thats good" said Kakashi. "is there any thing we could help with."

"Yes you see my genin are not very good at genjustu so I don't have much to teach them I am hoping you could help them with there training."

"I guess." Said Kakashi. "Well, I think it is not to early to form a plan of what will happen if we have to fight more than one jonin."

"We kick ass!"

"Umm, no if you three genin fight you will die against a jonin thats trying to kill you." Plainly said Kakashi. "I was going to suggest that naruto and sasuke will double team the other jonin while I take care of the other. If there are more than two than sakura ad kurenai will take care of that one."

"What do you mean they are going to take them, they failed they shouldn't even be here we should be the ones to fight the jonin!" shouted Kiba standing up from his seat?

"There are fighting a jonin because they have been training for months for this situation. Now I can tell you are strong kiba, but right now they are stronger." Said Kurenai.

"And how would you know this Kurinai-sensei" said Shino

"I saw them fight Kakashi before we left for the mission. And they showed a good amount of skill so I have faith that they should be able to handle themselves."

At that the two fighting members sat down quietly. Kiba was angry that they were going to fight the jonin and he wasn't, and was hoping Kakashi had something good to teach them. Shino was waiting to question one of the members of team seven to find out how strong they really are.

"Is that all Kakashi-san"

"yes we can get started tomorrow, I'm beat"

Later that night when the everybody had settled for the night. Naruto found him self in a akward position. He thought he would be shareing a room with sasuke and Kakashi, but there wasn't much room in the house so they had to sleep in tazunas room and he got to share a room with shino and kiba.

The male genin of team eight had been staring at him all to frequently. It wasn't a big secret that they had failed after all, with the "last" uchiha on their team, nor was it a secret of how long it took people to get out of the reserve program. The program was studius and most of the trails were things that most would like to forget.

Naruto found a nice courner of the room and prepared his sleeping roll. After placing a kunai under his pillow, a little habit he pick up in the reserve program saved his life a couple of times two, he then sat doun and unsealed his gaint kunai. 'I have to git it a name someday' he thought lazyly as he began to sharpen it. As if they knew he was ready they began with their questions.

"Hey naruto"

"sshink, yeah was up kiba."

"Well I was thinking that since you were in the reserve program that you should have… well you know… still be in it"

"sshink, well the reserve program only last for six months after that time we are evaluated for wich position they think is best for us. My team just so happenes to be a combat team." said naruto not even looking up from his sword.

"yeah, but the say the reserve program doesn't send out many teams with combat pointial" began kiba "so what makes you diffrent from the rest"

"sshink, nothing we just are a team we went through the same training as every onr else." said naruto taking a break from sharpening his sword, and looking up up at kiba "we just did it as a team" he said with a smile in his face. He then looked down and continued sharpening his sword with a "sshink"

"And what kind of training did you have to indure, naruto" said shino who was rarely not in his long overcoat having got ready for bed.

"It was brutal, they took us to these barreks on the outskirts of the city. There they trained us for six months. Everything from chakra control to weapons were coverd. But that wasn't it they also attacked us. Inserpordination resulted in us being put in spares against chunin. We were always defeated with them usally kicking us when we were down." he begain getting a far off look in his eyes. "but that isn't what hauntes me at night. Its…" he trailed off there.

"its what naruto," said kiba

"they made us kill" the goofy look they had come to know was long gone. In its place was a look that fit better on a sad and tired man. "for their final test they took us to anbu prison. Their we had to kill one of the prisoners. We had to look them in the eye ad slit there throat and watch them die. The look they had was just impossible the helplessness the fear. That was sakuras mine new he was as good as dead so he showed me his neck as if daring me to kill him" The 'and' was the unspoken question in the room. It was unspoken because it didnt ne to be said they all knew the anwser. Naruto killed the man in cold blood.

The room was silent after that, the only sound was the sound of naruto sharpening his sword. After a bit shino spoke up "why do they put you trough such rigerus training"

"because we are expendable we are not going o be the elite, you are, we will most likely end up on the memorial stone. Unless the council find a use for us or we have something that makes them want to have a use for us we are expendable."

"but that doesn't explain all of the stuff they put you guys through." said kiba

"but it does, they were and still are training us to be soldiers to be the ones that go out first." said naruto. Expecting his blade.

"But they can't do that!" yelled kiba in outrage.

"don't be so naive, kiba, who do you think gets sent out first. Or on the dangerous missions. The failures do. Because we aren't going to be one of the elite so we can die." said naruto "we only have so few choices, get appernticed by someone, specilize or become anbu."

"and where do you fall naruto," said shino

"nowhere, I have nothing special for me to get appernticed by somone. I am a combat specialist so I will more than likly die on the battle field, and my skilles are to flashy for anbu. So I don't fit any where." said naruto putting his sword up.

"is that fair?" asked kiba

"I guess I will never know." naruto then laid down and closed eyes. Telling them that was all the questions he will answer. Kiba tucked in the now sleeping akamaru and shino turend of the lights. And they went to sleep.

"Genji of the twin blades"

"what" said kiba

"Genji was the name of the man they had me kill."

I know that I made naruto a little bit dark there but It has purpose in the story. He is sopposed to be a someone who has went through hell and came out of the other side. I mean come on he killed a guy so he mellowed out a little bit.

C U LATER GoGt12