Naruto

When Kakashi's clone returned with Naruto's shopping list the first thing he did was check the sake bottle. It was old Yoi arukōru made from the time that the Land of Iron was first being formed. "Fuck this is some expensive sake sensei," he whistled in appreciation. Not even waiting for a response he opened the bottle and started drinking, "not too bad. I prefer Land of Earth's sake better though."

"Uzumaki I do not care to hear your opinion of the sake. Get to making Rest," Kakashi ordered.

Naruto shrugged, "sure thing boss," he responded, giving a flippant salute.

As Naruto went through the bags, he tried his best to ignore the fact that Sakura, Kakashi and Sasuke were watching him intently, "they obviously want to learn how to make their own Rest," he thought to himself in amusement.

Realising that he had forgotten to ask for a pot or a large bowl Naruto sighed before deciding that one of the plastic bags would have to work for now.

"What are each of the ingredients for?" Sakura asked once Naruto was done checking to make sure everything was there.

Naruto slowly held up each item as he told Sakura, and the other two just what it did. "Devil's claw works well against headaches and back-pains," he told them as he put the herb in an empty bag. "The bark of a White Willow is useful to help against muscle pains while the Licorice Root helps with fatigue and heals the adrenal receptors in your body. These three are the main ingredients in the Rest Elixir." He then picked up the sheep's brain and with a kunai cut it in half, discarding the right hemisphere and placing the left inside the bag with the herbs. "The left hemisphere of a sheep's brain causes the elixir to focus on the mental aspects of the herbs and not the physical aspects," he said, getting confused looks from Sakura and Sasuke. Naruto sighed, "essentially instead of getting rid of pain or headaches your body just thinks that you got rid of it," he told them.

"Why not actually get rid of the pains dobe," Sasuke asked.

"Because then it wouldn't actually do anything for the mental aspects of your body. You will still need to sleep," Naruto responded. "This is why I never took on an apprentice," he internally sighed.

"Why not do both," Kakashi asked.

Naruto rolled his eyes, "that would require a large amount of gold as a binding agent for the two different elixirs. It would even then most likely result in a large explosion. One does not simply combine Alchemical elixirs."

"Why not also make an...elixir that helps the body as well?" Sakura asked, obviously not realising or caring that Naruto was getting annoyed with her.

"Because I already have that made up," Naruto snapped. "What do you think was in that other bottle I was getting you two to sip on? It sure as hell wasn't any of my sake. Now are we done or can I get back to work here?"

Everyone stared at him in shock, they had never seen Naruto actually lose his cool before.

"Thank you for the information Uzumaki," Kakashi said. "You may resume your work."

Naruto resisted the urge to snap at Kakashi...barely. He then picked up a lump of raw copper, "good thing you got this instead of something more refined. Raw is better after all," he murmured before dropping it in the bag. Sakura opened her mouth but was stopped by Naruto holding up his hand, "the copper is used to represent blood as blood is high in copper. This allows the elixir to work internally instead of say applying it on the skin or on a weapon," he told her with a sigh.

Naruto picked up the kunai that still had some sheep's brain on it and cut his hand, allowing his blood to fall into the open bag. "My blood works as a sort of power booster as I regularly drink elixirs the residual power from them has gathered in my body."

"I find it hard to believe that you are going to turn all of that into an elixir, especially in a plastic bag of all things," Sasuke said with a small amount of derision in his voice.

"Yeah well go fuck yourself," Naruto growled out. "Oh and by the way bastard THIS is why you can't do Alchemy," with a touch of Naruto's hand to the plastic bag he began to focus. After a minute all of the bonds in the ingredients structure weakened and the solids turned to liquids.

Ignoring Sakura's and Sasuke's shock Naruto lifted his hands and forced the liquids in the bag to raise with his hands. "Haven't done so much at once in a while," he internally muttered as he strained to focus on the ball of liquid in the air. He forced it to condense, cooling it down as he did so. This was the most vital part of the process, if he condensed it too much then the effects would be too strong and may cause permanent brain damage, not enough and it wouldn't work. If he didn't cool it enough then it wouldn't mix properly, cool it too much and it would freeze and no one would be able to use it. Once it was the size of a basketball and Naruto was sure it was done he let out an order, "grab all of my empty sake bottles and open them up now!"

Sakura and Kakashi jumped to it while Sasuke just ignored him, probably thinking that he was too good to have to listen to the dobe.

Once all of Naruto's numerous empty sake bottles were ready he slowly pulled of strings of liquid and guided each string to a sake bottle opening and allowed the liquid to fill the bottles.

Once each and every single bottle was full and there was no more elixir left Naruto allowed himself to collapse backwards, breathing heavily and trying to ignore the way that everything refused to stop moving.

Sasuke

Sasuke stared at the dobe in wonder. The dobe couldn't use chakra, everyone knew that. So what had he just done? He turned solid objects, copper even! Into liquid with only a little bit of concentration, he had then without touching it forced the liquid into the air where he had condensed and manipulated it. Sasuke wasn't sure what it was exactly that the dobe had done but whatever it was it had certainly taken it out of him, the dobe looked like he was suffering from major exhaustion.

"Uchiha," came Kakashi's cold, business like tone.

Sasuke looked at him, wondering just what it was that his crazy sensei wanted when he paused..."where did he get that?" he thought in shock. "No that can't be, it's at home there's no way..." "Where the fuck did you get that," Sasuke snarled, his voice full of hatred as he snatched the guitar from Kakashi's hands.

"From your apartment," came Kakashi's blunt answer.

"Of course from my apartment," Sasuke thought sarcastically. "You just broke into my apartment and stole one of my most prized possessions, sensei of the year right here!"

"I want to see how good you are. Play," Kakashi ordered.

Sasuke let out a small growl, "why should I?" he asked as he looked over the guitar, looking for any marks or damage done to it.

"Play or run. Your choice Uchiha."

Sasuke had to resist the urge to smash Kakashi with a heavy blunt object, only because the only heavy blunt object was his guitar and he would die before he let something happen to it. "Fine," he spat.

"Sasuke-kun, you're going to play something for me?" the banshee asked in her annoying voice.

Sasuke ignored her and began to play a song that he had personally written. It was a dark song, he knew that. If his psychologist heard him play it then Sasuke knew that he would be medicated but he didn't care. It made him feel better to release his feelings like this and the song practically screamed them out, not that he actually sang the words, just played the chords.

"I feel it deep within…..the nightmare's just begun...it wants my soul, it wants my heart… maybe it's inside of me...I must confess that I feel like a monster!," Sasuke sang, not realising that he was no longer singing internally but out loud for everyone to hear.

When he finally finished the song Sasuke opened his eyes, unaware that he had closed them while playing, and found out that everyone was staring at him in wonder, except Kakashi.

"Damn," the dobe muttered, obviously in awe of sasuke's skill, "never knew you could sing so well Sasuke," he finished.

Sasuke stared at the dobe, "wait what!?"

"You have a beautiful voice Sasuke-kun," the banshee said, tears in her eyes.

Sasuke could feel himself heat up, "oh kami no! Please no, please let it be a lie please kami!" Sasuke mentally begged, he had not just sung his original song out for everyone to hear. He hadn't!

"I agree," came Kakashi's bland voice. "While the subject was a little dark I have to admit you do show excellent aptitude for the guitar Uchiha."

Sasuke jumped to his feet, "I'm done for the night. I'm going home," he growled praying to Kami that no one could see the embarrassment all over his face.

Sasuke hadn't even gotten two steps when he was stopped by a hand on his shoulder and a kunai to his neck. "I did not give you permission to leave Uchiha," Kakashi stated coldly, "now sit the fuck down!"

Kakashi

Kakashi observed his three students, it still felt weird to think of them as that, quietly. The run had already told him several things about them, just as the aftermath had done as well.

He had learnt that Uzumaki was not the fastest of the group and was only barely faster than Haruno. Uzumaki also was not afraid to use his elixirs, as he called them, to assist himself when desired. He appeared to have little patience when explaining his alchemy to others, a trait that Kakashi had found many masters of their arts had. The 'alchemical process' for lack of a better term had taken a lot out of Uzumaki but he had gotten better in a manner of minutes, Kakashi would have to decrease that time if he was going to get Uzumaki to make elixirs in the field.

Uchiha on the other hand was a pleasing surprise. He was faster than the others by a large margin and would be the equal of the average chuunin in speed. He was also exceptionally skilled with his guitar and his song had affected even Kakashi's cold, dead heart, if only slightly. Despite his arrogance and his skill he was easily embarrassed by his skill with the guitar. Kakashi would have to rid him off that embarrassment, a skilled bard could get work anywhere and that would be useful.

He hadn't learnt as much from Haruno but he had learnt what he needed to. She was slow and her stamina was pathetic but she did have promise. Every single step she took even while exhausted was soundless and Kakashi had to almost strain his ears to hear her while she was gasping for breath during the run. She didn't eat nearly as well as a ninja should but that wasn't Kakashi's problem, he was to train them not feed them, if she died from malnourishment then she died.

Kakashi sighed, he had seen some of Uzumaki's alchemy and some of Uchiha's musical talent time to see what Haruno can do, Might as well involve all three of them instead of just her though.

Kakashi pulled out three kunai and tossed them, one landing in front of each genin. "time for a test," he announced seriously. "You three are to go to a different building each, you are then to sneak around and try to 'kill' the other two. No jutsu and no alchemy, you may only use the kunai I have given you and whatever else you can find in the area. Do you understand?"

"Yes sensei," Haruno replied.

"Whatever," Uchiha growled.

"Sure," Uzumaki answered with a shrug of his shoulders and a drink of his sake.

"You have five minutes before the test will begin. Move!" he ordered, watching in minor amusement as all three of them jumped to attention. Well Haruno and Uchiha jumped, Uzumaki just gave a lazy salute and walked off to a building, an apartment complex. "Probably wishes to hide in the crawl space and drink."

When all three were in a different building and ready to begin Kakashi created three shadow clones, one to follow each of his students, and waited for the test to begin.

Yoi arukōru according to translate that means good alcohol.

Yes Sasuke played monster by skrillex, love the song.

So sakue can play and Naruto can make expensive and odd tasting cocktails. Next chapter will let Sakura shine.

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