Alternate Universe Half Disclaimer: I say half because some characters are my own. As i said before...I write original stories then turn them into fan fiction. SO if there are some characters you don't recognize, its cause i made em up. I would've changed their names but no one in Naruto is really like them. Maybe from another anime but if you do see a common characteristic. Do leave a comment and if i see it too, I'll change the name. ENJOY!


"What are you talking about now?" Yamato asked.

"I call it 'One of them, one of us', I saw it on a show," he admitted.

Yamato nodded his head at him in an understanding manner. We looked at him confused. Gaara closed his eyes in what seemed like annoyance. Saire inflated his cheeks in a childish manner looking us over. Mikhayl groaned in annoyance then surveyed us until her eyes stopped on Bruce and she shrugged. He flinched ever so slightly. Naruto winked at me. I looked at him lost and confused. What does this all mean?

"So you want them to team up with someone on the other team?" Yamato said simply.

"Yeah, but I'd prefer it if you chose the teams," Kakashi said as if wouldn't work any other way.

"Oh, okay," Yamato said not expecting to have such power. "Line up then."

"Won't you grace us with your presence, Mikhayl," Kakashi said annoyed that he would probably have to clean the mess she made of the leaves. Saire looked at her.

"Mhm, hold on," Mikhayl said as she crouched down took out a small bag and put her fists in it then opened them. Many leaves fell into the bag. He grinned as best as he could holding his jaw. When did she do that, I never saw her catch any leaves though then again I never saw any leaves fall to the floor.

Kakashi seemed relieved and annoyed at the same time. Apparently she did that a lot.

"Well, you'll just have to excuse her a moment. Please go on," Kakashi said.

"Oh, right, well let's see," Yamato started. He thought for a moment.

"Sakura," he said slowly, still thinking. "With...Gaara." I flinched for a moment when he looked in my direction. Boy, did he creep me out. They stayed where they were until Yamato told them to move it so he wouldn't get confused and call them again by accident. They walked towards the bleachers. Poor Sakura.

"Okay, next," Yamato breathed deeply with his eyes closed in contemplation. He opened them suddenly. "Yes, Saire and Suigetsu." Saire jumped up excitedly clearly forgetting about his jaw. He bent down to kiss Mikhayl on the forehead and say goodbye. He jogged to Suigetsu who shot me a hopeless terrified glance. Saire raised his hand for a high five and Suigetsu flinched hard think Saire was going to hit him. I laughed out loud but quickly silenced myself when he looked over. I waved awkwardly. He grinned and waved back enthusiastically. He still held his hand up waiting for the high five from Suigetsu who had lowered his hand shields. He smiled a small smile and gave him five which made Saire so happy he flashed Suigetsu a model worthy smile. Suigetsu worries seemed to vanish.

"Talk about a complete 180," I murmured to myself. I looked to my side to find Naruto but not as close as he was before.

"Perhaps you should tell the players you aren't going to utilize to sit down," Kakashi offered hoping this would make the decision making easier. Yamato went into deep thought and consideration. Kakashi looked at him with narrowed eyes. He seemed to be regretting his decision to let Yamato pick the teams.

"No matter what happens, please don't hate me?"

"...Did you kill my brother or something?" I asked joking. He didn't respond.

"How'd you know?" he asked looking at me shocked.

"Oh my god, seriously?"

"Sorry, but he was in the way," Naruto said looking away cracking his knuckles.

"Of what?" I asked horrified. He looked to the other side of him shaking his head slowly. His shoulders were shaking like he was overcome with grief or... laughing.

"You fucking asshole," I gasped hitting him and with that he broke out into fits laughter.

"Why are you so gullible?"

"I'm not."

"Do I really look like the murderous type to you?" He said chuckling a bit.

"No, but..It scares me how convincing you can be."

"Me too," he said returning back to his serious self. "Do you trust me?"

"After that stunt."

"Do.. you... trust me Sasuke?"

"..Yes," I said after a moment.

"Then promise me."

"Why?"

"Just promise me please."

"Okay."

"Say it."

"I promise."

He reached out his pinky to me and I hesitantly wrapped mine around his.

"Yubikiri genman, uso tsuitara hari senbon nomasu, yubi kitta," we sang.

"Thank you Sasuke."

"Will you tell me why?" I asked looking up at him but Kakashi spoke.

Yamato took too long. When he didn't decide immediately Kakashi revoked his rights and made Johnny and Hinata sit down. They didn't complain.

"Mikhayl and Sasuke, Naruto and Bruce," Kakashi said immediately with no consideration. He just took one glance at us and so that was the verdict. I was a bit disappointed but I wasn't really sure why.

"I would have switched Bruce and Gaara's positions. Don't you think that would have been better," I heard Yamato argue after we sat down. Kakashi nodded.

"Of course, it's would have been too perfect that way. I thought you knew that the way you teamed up the first four, I mean the perfect matches should have been Gaara with Suigetsu, Sakura with Saire, Mikhayl with Bruce and Naruto with Sasuke. As for the other two Hinata and Johnny, I think I have just the perfect pair for the two of them. And I have another for that'd probably be a perfect match for a goalie. He's very versatile. His name is Ichigo. But if I, I mean we put them together now, Friday wouldn't be much fun, now would it," Kakashi explained. I grinned to myself. This man they called Kakashi is a genius, I was honestly thinking that this was how it ought to be.

"I suppose you're damn right," Yamato complimented Kakashi. "You pretty smart for being a kid yourself."

"I'm 22. So I'm pretty sure I'm not a kid anymore," Kakashi said defending himself with such a lame excuse.

He's so young. He must still be in school. This must be a part time job.

"You must be some sort of prodigy if they let you teach at Mitsuhara at that age," Yamato commented trying to kill his shock.

This team never ceases to amaze me. Mikhayl stifled her chuckle. I stared at her confused. She ignored me. I became curious for a moment. She cocked her head to the side and looked at me with a curious and annoyed look. I wasn't afraid of her and I could tell she knew it.

"Are you really midfielder?" She asked. I felt my eyes widen a bit. Is that why she raised her brow when I introduced myself?

"Yeah," I replied recalling that she had spoken to me. She looked up at the clouds.

"You'd make a better goalie," she told me. I looked at her confused. She's never even seen my play.

"How do you know?" I asked curious now. She shrugged.

"I don't know, I just do for some reason," she replied.

She's a lot nicer than she let's on. She's really rather interesting. Yamato and Kakashi stood in front of all of now.

"Okay, so, yeah you guys are all in teams. Would work better if you guys actually had a goalie though," Kakashi began sadly. I thought about it for a moment.

"Yamato," I said calling him over.

He seemed a bit annoyed but came over anyway. Mikhayl looked off to me curious. I can't believe I was about to do this.

"I know our goalie isn't here, but how about I sub for a bit?" I suggested. I watched his face contort.

"What, no, I need you on the field?" he whined a tad loudly. A few people looked over.

"I'll still be on the field though, but I'll just be securing the goal, and besides, you don't want to show the enemy our best moves," I reasoned.

Yamato thought for a moment.

"Hn, okay but as soon as-" Yamato started. I smirked.

"Thanks," I told him.

He walked back over to Kakashi and told him what was going on. He smiled at me. I looked off to the side. My eyes locked accidentally to Naruto's. He looked pensive. I looked away slowly finding it hard to tear my eyes away. He looked like he knew what was going on and wasn't too happy about it. He looked worried like he knew what Mikhayl knew. Saire looked back at me curiously and Gaara just glared at me or rather, no he was glaring at Mikhayl. Was I really the type to be a goalie? and besides that were all these guys equipped with sensors like what the heck?

"Now this ought to be interesting," Mikhayl commented looking over at Naruto.

"I have never seen Naruto so worried. Maybe he knows just how good you really are too. Oh.. Gaara is going to kill me for talking to you."

"Really?" I said more to myself than to her.

"Yeah, we actually came here not expecting a challenge, but I'm sure that if we knew you were here, we would have actually practiced for next Fridays' game, well at least if we were to know you potential," she continued sounding a little worried herself not for today but for next Friday.

"I take it you're glad you're on my team, for now," I replied. She chuckled.

"Yeah, but not for the reason you think. You skill would be below average if you were on our team. I'm just saying you got potential, but I could very much be wrong, but not likely," she evaluated.

Wow.

"Well, thanks anyway," I told her. She shook her head.

"You should transfer, we can unlock your true potential at Mitsuhara."

I stared at her incredulously. That was pretty corny but she seemed to actually mean it.

"Sorry about the delay, but it looks like Nishinomiya has a temporary goalie for this game. This ought to be a very interesting game now," Kakashi explained trying to conceal his excitement.

He looked like he was having fun. Yamato Kakashi huh. No, I can't leave my team like that. Besides you need to be filthy rich to attend that academy and have a advanced natural talent which I don't.

"Okay so, basically, think of this a four teams on one field with one ball playing soccer. Naturally teams that have goalies have a slight advantage but also a disadvantage because they only have one player o the field. I can tell that these two will have no problem on their own," Kakashi explained referring to Mikhayl and Bruce.

"And as for the rest of it all, it's just like a regular soccer match," Yamato finished.

"Any questions?"

They waited for a moment. No one said anything.

"Why can't me and Hinata play?" Johnny asked. Kakashi raised a brow.

"Because you look like shit and she looks like the caring motherly type," Kakashi murmured annoyed. I raised my eyebrows.

"What?" Johnny asked not hearing him.

"I said that I never said that you guys couldn't play...but mean, it defeats the point of this activity but I don't see why not. You guys need to work on your teamwork anyway." Kakashi explained loudly but then murmured the last part as he looked off to the side.

Apparently he's seen us play before. Is that why is recognized me. Wait.. yeah, He came to most of our previous matches. I thought I recognized him. This could be troublesome. He knows our strategies. I was starting to think if this exercise really had a purpose but now I see. He wanted to see if his team could teach us a few things.

"Okay, so without further delay, let's start," Kakashi said glancing at his watch. He had a look saying that this wouldn't take so long, but a look that said they'd be here for a while. Although he said it was time to start, no one took there position, instead got up and stretched and yawned.

"Move it," Kakashi said suddenly becoming serious. Everyone seemed to comply, some more slowly than others.

"Keep it in you pants, Kakashi, this shouldn't take more than 30 minutes and that's on a off day," Mikhayl said yawning. Kakashi smirked.

"You're arrogance is reassuring but this is no ordinary team, they just don't know that yet," Kakashi said seemingly worried. Mikhayl raised an eyebrow and smirked.

"You think I don't see that. If they got their act together, we could actually lose Friday, which would be rather interesting," Mikhayl replied sounding like she would like that.

"You getting tired of winning?" Kakashi asked looking like he already knew the answer.

"I wouldn't calling winning if there was no competition," Mikhayl admitted as she walked away.

"Touché," was all Kakashi said in a agreeing manner.

"Okay so basically," Yamato started, "First team to make five goals wins." Everyone was in their position.

"And, oh, you can score in any goal," Yamato added as he handed Mikhayl the ball.

She closed her eyes for a moment and took a deep breath. Mikhayl held the ball under her for until Kakashi blew his whistle. All eyes were on here and then she was gone. She was heading towards Naruto. Johnny, Hinata, Suigetsu, Sakura were looking in the wrong direction assuming that she would head towards me for an east goal. Gaara, Saire, and Naruto knew better though as they were prepared. Gaara ran after her trying to steal the ball but she stopped dead in her tracks leaving him to slide on the grass. She smirked, then continued running, until Saire caught up to her near the goal. She pretended to fake left. Saire saw through this and went right, but she went left anyway and jetted pass him leaving her path empty. She looked like she was going to kick right, but Naruto stayed where he was. She needed a distraction, Naruto form was far too perfect. Saire and Gaara had caught up to her. This wasn't looking so good. The rest of Nishi had caught to her also. Damn. She looked pensive , as she raised the ball onto leg and kicked it directly upwards high into the sky. Everyone watched waiting for it to come down. Mikhayl however took a jumping stance and jumped rather highly into the air bicycle kicked the ball into the goal and landed lightly on her toes. My teammates looked blankly at her.

"Goal," Kakashi said plainly unimpressed. Naruto ran his hand through his hair.

"Didn't think you'd use that so early into this thing," Naruto said clearly having seen this before. Mikhayl shrugged.

"Had no choice. Took too long, perhaps I should take this thing more seriously," she explained running past the group that watched her incredulously.

"She is human right," I heard Johnny asked Saire. He shrugged looking at her like she was the greatest thing to ever exist. He was so in love.

"She's been working on that for a while," he replied proudly.

Well sure but even so. I raised a brow and Mikhayl approached me.

"So you're a ninja now," I told her. She shrugged.

"I like to think so, but in reality, I'm just a gymnast," she replied as the game got back onto motion. Oh well that explains that a bit. Flexibility from gymnastics, and skill for soccer, genius. Gaara was casually strolling down the field with the ball defending from various people.

"Don't take him for granted, he's good, but predictable. He's left handed so, take the obvious route. I'll bet anything he knows what were talking about and he going to go for something he doesn't normally do. Remember instinct," she told me as she left to go on the defense. She slowed down those that were trying to steal the ball from Gaara.

"That's really not necessary," Gaara told her. She smirked.

"Well, I just want you to know that nothing but skill stopped you from scoring," Mikhayl told him.

"That's quite the confidence you have in the enemy," Gaara said kicking the ball in the direction Mikhayl had said. I caught the ball right in my chest and it continued to roll in my arms dropping me to the ground. The ball slowed to a stop. It burned a bit.

"You kick really hard," I told him as he watched me a bit of shock in his eyes. Mikhayl smirked.

"Hey, um you got a little something on your face, right there," she indicated to Gaara's face.

"Funny. But I will admit, I've underestimated him," Gaara said looking at me now. Mikhayl nodded as he backed away.

"Good job with that, now if you can keep that up, I'm going to reap what I sowed on Friday," Mikhayl said extending her arm to me helping me get up.

"You should go," I said putting the ball back on the floor, getting ready to kick it.

She nodded taking off into Naruto's direction. He stared completely at me. I couldn't tell what he was thinking. I took a step back and kicked the ball the only way I knew that had enough force to move across the field. It didn't lower like it should have though around midfield, in fact it kept moving forward. I didn't mean to kick it that hard. It looked like it was going to go straight out of bounds, but it curved a bit and lowered almost into the goal. Naruto kicked it perfectly out of the way and sent it flying back into midfield.

"Don't mock me, Uchiha," Naruto yelled.

"I assure you I had no intention to do so," I replied. I saw Kakashi smirk out the corner of my eye.

"Enough talk, get back to the game," he said. Yamato looked at me in disbelief.

"You've been holding back on me Sasuke," he asked. I shook my head.

"No sir, I didn't know I could do that," I admitted. I looked ahead at my teammates, that held the same look in their eyes. I shrugged.

"Excuse me sir, it seems you're true potential is leaking out," a voice said.

I looked to my side and saw Mikhayl push the soccer ball into the goal. I smiled at that.

"Goal," Kakashi said. Gaara, Bruce, Saire, Naruto shook their heads. The game never stops until it's over.

"Surely, you guys didn't forget this is soccer we're playing," Mikhayl asked rhetorically. Kakashi nodded and Yamato agreed.

"Stop with the conversation, and play now," Yamato said.

The look in their eyes changed, they've had enough with all the showboating. I kicked the ball back to midfield and Johnny headbutted it to Hinata who was about to score but had the ball stolen by Bruce who kicked the ball to Naruto who let it pass. Naruto kicked the ball a little pass midfield in my direction. Suigetsu got to it and when Hinata got in his way, he kicked it to Saire who kicked it in my direction trying to get a point but didn't count on Mikhayl intercepting and kicking it in for him earning another point for us. He should've seen that coming.

"Thanks for the setup, mate," she said running back in the other direction.

He raised his palm to his face for a moment and smiled then ran back to midfield. We had 3 now and the only other team that scored was Bruce and Naruto's. I kicked the ball a little short and Gaara intercepted it waiting until he was a few inches from the goal to kick it to Sakura who kicked it pass Naruto earning a goal. I could tell he had forgotten about her. He wouldn't make that mistake again was what I could make from his eyes. He kicked it to midfield where Bruce was. He ran towards me focused only on me, not concerned about anything. He was trying to look for a hint as to where as I was going jump. I stood still until he was just a few feet away. Mikhayl tapped his shoulder, causing him to glance to the side for a moment, which was more than enough time for her to steal the ball. She could have easily made a goal but she ran back towards Naruto. He looked curiously at her. He was not about to let her score on him again.

She begged to differ as she ran pass the other teams disregarding them completely as they tried to steal without earning a red card. I noticed Johnny starting to get a bit annoyed. A goalie is never supposed to leave there post, well it's best not for a goalie to but I left anyway. I amazed at how much energy I had left as I ran passed midfield. Naruto glanced off to the side for a moment then looked back a stared at me for a moment. Mikhayl raised a brow at me for a moment then somehow saw Johnny coming from the side about to trip her. She quickly kicked the ball to me and flipped out the way and stood over him as he layed on the floor. I watched the ball slowly descend towards me. And all eyes settle on me, some wondering where I'd come from, and some looking for the opportunity to steal and get a free goal. Hinata tripped over Johnny not seeing him there as she looked at me. Mikhayl moved out the way just in time. I was running with the ball now about 20 feet away from the goal. Sakura tried to steal but miscalculated my speed and fell flat. Bruce and Saire tried to steal from opposite side. I knew this wasn't going to end well, then I remembered what Mikhayl had done and stopped suddenly, watching them collide into one another, I flinched then continued. Gaara was the only person in my way after Naruto. Mikhayl saw this and knew her teammate well, so I passed it over Gaara knowing very well he couldnt touch the ball with his hands, but I could I remembered as the ball landed in Mikhayl's possession. Gaara went after her relentlessly trying to steal. She had no choice but to kicked the ball back. Naruto watched this exchange with unblinking eyes. They were flickering red. I balanced the ball on my head and then dropped it down to my feet. Was I seeing this right? I saw his eyes widen as he prepared to defend the goal from me. No they were blue.

"You wouldn't," he said. I smirked.

"It's not against the rules, technically," I started as Gaara came back over to me trying to steal the ball without using his hands which was quite a difficult feat if you could imagine.

Naruto seemed to agreed. I raised my knee a bit and dropped the ball at an angle that made it go directly to Mikhayl, that was about to encounter the defensive wall that was Gaara. She spun out the way last minute. She didn't turn around completely in time and ended up kicking the ball with the back of her foot. There was no telling where it was going and Naruto could tell this as he just stood there waiting until last minute. He jumped to try to deflect the ball but he missed it just slightly but a second or two as the ball crashed into the goal. Mikhayl fell to the ground due to lack of balance but got up as quickly as she fell when she found out that the ball actually went in. Naruto punched the ground and his eyes looked red again.

"¡Mierda!" Naruto murmured along with a series of other words I didn't understand. I assumed that he wasn't speaking English.

"Me cago en," he continued. He actually seemed to be more angry at himself.

"Naruto, get up, the game isn't over yet," Yamato told him.

" Que te jodan a ti y a la madre que te parió," Naruto said picking up the ball and throwing it across the field in what seemed like rage.

"Ok, I don't know what you just said but I'm going to go ahead and assume it wasn't very nice," Yamato said. Kakashi shushed him.

"He told you to go fuck yourself.. and I'm not even going to tell you the other part because it's just well.. rude," Kakashi enlightened him. Yamato raised a brow.

"You know Spanish?" Yamato asked. Kakashi frowned.

"Cantonese, Mandarin, and English. All teachers are required to know more than one language at Mitsuhara so I guess you can say I'm over qualified," he replied quickly.

Yamato seemed impressed then remembered what Kakashi told him.

"What'd I do to him?" Yamato whined. Kakashi shook his head.

"Its nothing you did, he's just a little upset that he didn't see through Sasuke's plan. He's very emotional when it comes to soccer," Kakashi explained.

"I'd hate to see him during a real game," Yamato settled. Kakashi patted him on the shoulder then confronted Naruto.

"Naruto," he started.

"¿Qué carajo quieres?" Naruto asked seemingly annoyed.

"Okay, this isn't going to work out, if you're going to talk me like that," Kakashi said reaching in his pocket, pulling out a yellow card as he rose an eyebrow.

"Me importa una mierda," Naruto said slowly and in the same tone.

"You should. I'll suspend you," Kakashi said frowning pulling out a red card now. Naruto raised a brow.

"¡Y una mierda! You need me," Naruto sneered. I saw a worried look in his eyes though. Kakashi seemed to weigh his options.

"You're not completely irreplacable, but you're right. Tell you one thing though, pero vuelve a hacer algo como esto, y te haré desear no haber nacido," Kakashi told him quietly. "Now does that work for you?" Kakashi asked him. Naruto seemed bitter.

"Yea," he said nearly inaudibly.

"What was that?" Kakashi asked.

"Yessir," Naruto repeated with clenched fist. Kakashi smiled.

"Good," he said as he walked away back towards Yamato.

"Pendejo," Naruto murmured quietly as Kakashi walked back. He took a deep breath then looked at me.

"I suggest you return to your position Sasuke," Naruto said his eyes still a red blue color. I found myself frowning but knew he was right. Is this what he meant by the promise? I sighed as I ran back to my goal. Although the game didn't officially stop, it seemed to continue as I reached the goal. Everyone had been watching the transaction between Kakashi and Naruto. No one was really into the game anymore and it ended with the scores rather close.

Mikhayl and I 4

Bruce and Naruto 3

Hinata and Johnny 3

Saire and Suigetsu 5

Gaara and Sakura 4

Saire and Suigetsu were the most skilled and least phased after what happened with Naruto and Kakashi. Naruto seemed to go back to his old self after the game ended. I didn't think that Naruto was that passionate. It was kind of scary for the most part but I wouldn't hate him for it.

"Curious about the beast?" A voice asked as I tied my shoelaces. I looked to the voice for a moment to find Saire lolling on the wall beside me. He was looking at Naruto.

"What?" I asked not really wanting to have this conversation with him.

"He's a beast and needs to be kept on a short leash, though one might say he doesn't look it in the least, you got to stay away from him, capiche," Saire said. I looked at him blankly. Why was he rhyming? Was it by accident?

"I'm sorry, what?" I asked confused by him.

"Ah man, why can't you understand? I'm trying all that I can to make you-," he started but I interrupted him.

"If you want to say something to me, I suggest you say it properly," I told him getting a bit annoyed.

He raised a brow. Damn it, what I just said rhymed didn't it. Saire nodded as if he heard my statement.

"Not bad. You'd make a great poet and you'll owe it, to me," he said. I sighed annoyed as I got and left. I heard his footsteps behind me. "But seriously though, Jules is a great guy but cross him on the field and he might just kill," Saire warned. I glared at him. He just can't stop rhyming.

"Sorry, force of habitude, people tell me its an aptitude, and that its just a part of my attitude, but I'll shut up now before you decide to throw an apple or two," he ended glancing at the apple I just took out of my bag. I was too impressed to be annoyed.

"Is that your thing?" I asked. He seemed surprised for a moment then answered.

"Part of it, this is the annoying part, the rest of it is pretty bizarre." he continued seemingly annoyed that he kept rhyming.

I polished my apple on my shirt.

"Yeah, well, good luck with that," I told him as I walked away and out of the field to go home. I raised my apple to take a bite but was interrupted.

"Hey," the voice said. I ignored it not bothering to turn around and face them. I knew it was him. He was tiring and I really just wanted to go home. Besides that fact, it looked like it was going to rain and I didn't want to get in trouble with Itachi for not carrying an umbrella.

I sighed quietly and took a bite of my apple, finally. I grunted in response not really wanting to talk to Naruto right now. He took hold of my free hand gently making me turn to face him. He had a slight look of urgency on his face.

"Please," he said softly. He eyes seemed to burn with regret and sorrow. Oh.. he was probably wondering if I hated him or something. I closed my eyes and sighed trying not to roll my eyes.

"Sasuke."

I felt his hand on my shoulder and the next second he was parting my lips with his sweet essence.


AN: You already know...Tired. Complain or Praise.. Review this. Special Thanks to HikaruWinter for Spanish Translations. I owe you.

Bye Katan 3