Kakashi walked through the streets, his nose in his favorite books series, though he also tried to keep an eye out for Kyle; an impressive feat considering he has one eye covered up.

Hinata walked by, and Kakashi decided to ask her. "Hello, Hinata. Do you know who Kyle is?"

"Y-Yes. I h-helped him f-find an a-apartment." Hinata said. "W-Why?"

"Tsunade needs to see him. Thank you for your help." Kakashi said.

"I-Is he i-in any t-trouble?" Hinata asked.

"We're a bit worried about him. I doubt it'll amount to anything." Kakashi said. "Where does he live?"

"T-Two streets d-down, the s-second door o-on the r-right. H-He lives i-in room f-fifteen." Hinata said.

"Thank you." Kakashi said, and walked to Kyle's room.

After Kyle and Kakashi got to Tsunade.

"Have you ever met Sasuke?" Tsunade asked.

"No." Kyle answered.

"Do you hate him?"

"Sure, why not?"

"Do you know you're the second-last Uchiha alive?"

"Yeah. It sucks, I can tell you that." Kyle said. "Why am I here?"

"We need to see where your loyalties are." Kakashi said.

"And getting in a knife-fight with Sasuke didn't show where they were?" Kyle asked.

"Stop being sarcastic." Tsunade said.

"So, you're Tsunade?" Kyle asked, taking a deck of poker cards out of his pocket.

"Yes." Tsunade said.

"I challenge you to a game of blackjack. I win, you don't question my loyalty. You win, I sit at home until you decide I can be trusted. Whenever that is." Kyle said.

"Tsunade..." Kakashi cautioned.

"What harm can one card game do?" Tsunade asked.

'Great,' thought Kyle. 'Taking advantage of a woman who has no luck at all.'

"But I won't be playing. I'm much too busy. Kakashi, please play in my place." Tsunade said, standing up and letting Kakashi sit opposite to Kyle.

'Back-stabbing, giant-breasted whore!' Kyle thought.

"If you insist." Kakashi said, showing off his sharingan.

"I'll deal." Kyle said, shuffling the card deck. Kyle dealt the cards, and looked at his. A three and a seven.

Kakashi looked at his cards, quickly counting them. He had a four and a one.

"Want another card?" Kyle asked.

"Hit me." Kakashi said, and Kyle gave him a new card: a seven. That made twelve.

Kyle gave himself another card. A two, making Kyle have twelve cards.

"Oooh! This is getting interesting." Tsunade said, running between each side of the table.

"Hit me." Kakashi said, and Kyle gave him another card: an eight.

Kyle drew a card, and smiled. "Huh. A perfect twenty-one."

Kakashi's eyes widened. "That's not possible."

"'Possible' and 'probable' are two different things." Kyle said. "I assume no nines were drawn, so I had a fair chance of getting a nine."

Kakashi frowned, and said "I fold. You win."

Kyle stood and picked up his cards when Tsunade roughly grabbed him around the wrist.

"Drop them." Tsunade said. Kyle did as she said, revealing that he had gotten a ten. Kyle had lost, but bluffed his way out of losing, causing Kakashi to lose.

"I thought you were a bad liar." Kakashi said.

"Lying to a person for no reason and lying to someone to win a card game are two different things, Kakashi." Kyle said, putting the cards up. "I'll see you tomorrow?"

"A deal's a deal." Kakashi said, hiding his sharingan eye again. Kyle left, and Tsunade asked a question she'd been meaning to the whole game.

"Did he cheat?" Tsunade asked.

"When?" Kakashi asked.

"When shuffling the deck." Tsunade said.

Kakashi didn't answer for a while, then said "No. He thought about it, even when I was using my sharingan, but stopped himself."

"What does that mean?" Tsunade asked.

"It means Kyle's honorable. He knows that he could lie to win, or use his skills to win." Kakashi said. "Knowing the difference is easy, but taking the hard way, using your skills to win, is the way many avoid. Kyle, however, avoids cheating, taking the road less traveled by. Kyle deserves to be on Team 7, I'm sure of it."

Tsunade nodded, smiling. "I can't wait to see what Kyle can do."

"Neither can I." Kakashi said, and left.

A/N: I'm trying (and succeeding, if only in small amounts) to make these chapters longer. I think it'll be easier when the story really gets going and the team goes on missions.

-MN1