Sakura led them outside the city gates, which Saria could see had massive characters where written on each of the two doors of the main gate. They then turned and continued along the side of the large wall that encompassed the city.

When they reached the training fields there was a small panel of 3 judges. There was Kakashi-sensei, a old man in a red and white set of robes and a red and white wide brimmed peaked hat with the character of fire written on the front of it, and lastly was another younger man who wore an outfit similar to Kakashi's except his shirt didn't cover his face and his headband fit perfectly strait upon his forehead below dark hair pulled back in a ponytail and across his nose was a wide scar that stretched almost from cheekbone to cheekbone.

The old man had a look of simple content seriousness, while the other judge had the kindly face of a sensei. Sakura stopped at the edge of the fence that encircled the training area in the clearing just outside of the city. Outside of the fence numerous posts where sitting on their ends.

Saria stared at them, thinking for a moment that she had seen one of them move but she dismissed the thought. Sakura gestured that they where to continue on.

They walked and stood in line with the table and waited. The old man stood up and addressed them.

"You two have caused a slight commotion with your arrival here as well as much suspicion. We have assembled here today in order to discover what skills you may know and evaluate your capabilities as to discover the truths you claim to have told us as to who you are and where you are from. Saria Cloudwalker, which is your full name, is it not?"

At this Saria gasped, "Yes! But how did you know? I haven't told anyone since we got here."

The old man laughed at this, "We asked your friend. To continue Saria you will be the first to be evaluated. To your left and behind you is a clone, punch him in the chest as hard as you can. This shall reveal to us whether or not you have had any Taijutsu training."

Saria turned around and found a perfect clone of the old man. She pulled her arm back and punched him full in the chest as hard as she could.

"Good, good. Now to your right is a wooden post. Perform one or some of your choice jutsus.

Saria turned and found a stout post as tall as she was and was about two foot thick. Saria reached into the pouch she had picked up on the way to the training ground and pulled out a small glass vial of water and pulled the stopper out of it.

She poured the water over her hands and immediately followed up with a blur of hand signs.

As Justicur watched her, he noticed not one drop of the water fell from her hands and seemed to collect even more so as her hand signs got faster and faster. Eventually a globe of water surrounded her hands.

Suddenly in a blur of speed she ran towards the wooden post, clasping her hands together behind her with her shoulder down and towards the post, her index and middle fingers pointed out inside of the orb of water.

She stopped suddenly just short of the post and brought her hands forward her fingers inside of the globe where just centimeters away from the post. But while her hands stopped the water shot from the end of her fingers freezing and forming a needle that shot pierced through the 2 foot thick post.

Saria stood there for a moment, the post cracked as the water within it continued to freeze, become colder as time passed.

After about ten seconds the post began to bulge around the ice needle. Suddenly the post exploded from the pressure from the water inside the post as the water froze and expanded.

After the dust had cleared, one very proud Saria came sauntering back to the judges table. "How was that? "She inquired, quite proud with herself.

The Hokage, unfazed, replied "while you obviously have had physical training you lack form in your Taijutsu and your hand signs where slightly sloppy. Not even an experienced ninja attempting to pass as an inexperienced novice would make hand signs as sloppy as the ones you just performed. Thus it is shown you are not accustomed to our or anyone of this world's customs. However due to your ingenuity and your obvious potential we shall accept you as one of our own if you would like us to do so," he held up a hand stopping Saria, "hold your reply until your friend has completed the tasks we set before him." Saria complied, stepped back, happy at passing but feeling slighted at the old man's comments at her jutsu.

Justicur stepped forward.

"Now as for you, we are not as sure of your innocence as we where of your friend, there is a simple clone of Iruka next to you. Perform one of the jutsu you have managed to teach yourself with the scrolls you acquired from the hidden room of the library. Yes, we know you managed to acquire those scrolls, we where tempted to eliminate you immediately, however I wished to see what you would do with those scrolls. Now, show us!"

Justicur immediately got over his shame of being caught and pulled of one of his gloves and showing his slightly darkened fingertips,

"This is what I have learned, and please, forgive me for searching into the further reaches of your library I have learned that the stronger power's are hidden away so as to protect the weak from themselves and so that only the strong may learn the secrets," He bowed low, "forgive me."

The judges nodded in acknowledgment, "and now for what I have learned, he curled his fingers leaving only his index finger extended.

With it he reached out and taped the clone on the chest; there was a slight flash as patterns etched themselves in glowing light upon the chest of the clone. And then the light was gone and the clone stood there looking no different.

"Now if you would please perform a simple jutsu, for example: the fireball jutsu." The clone complied, its hands a blur as it sped through the hand signs and then finally it placed its thumb and forefingers against its mouth,

Sakura fearing for her new friend's safety shouted out to him trying to warn him.

"Move Justicur! Get out of the way!"

Justicur stood still, unmoved, paying no heed to Sakura's warning.

The clone blew between its fingers.

Sakura winced shutting her eyes, not wishing to see her friend get hurt. She waited for the roar of the flames from the clone's jutsu but nothing happened. there was only a slight whistling sound as the wind passed through the clone's lips.

Justicur, smirking, glanced at the judges and saw their expressions of initial surprise, then amusement and understanding.

He pulled off the glove of his remaining hand. Then swiftly, with his hand curled like a claw, he slammed it into the stomach of the clone.

Instantly the clone flew back a little ways from the blow and vanished in a puff of smoke. "What I just performed is, "the Hokage cut him off.

"An extremely weak chakra seal. Now, whether or not that was purposeful or accidental shall determine our decision. Was it purposeful?"

Justicur nodded his head, "Yes I purposely flawed the final seal of each of the individual chakra seals in order to weaken them."

The three judges each looked at each other and then the old man stood up again, "Then your jutsu is nothing short of brilliant, this makes us worry, but you are obviously new to these techniques, much like your companion. Thus if you where from a different village, you would certainly be of no serious danger to us. Do not take that as an offence nor as a challenge," at this he smiled at his little joke.

"None taken and I shall not take it as a challenge."

Justicur, we would also appreciate your last name, unless of course you have no last name?"

"Where I am from I have no last name, for I have no memory of my past and know not of my origins. But I was called in title Justicur of the shadows"

"Then from now on you shall be known as Justicur Sukage," he turned to the other judges, "Agreed?"

"Agreed."

With a flourish the old man raised his arms, "there for, the people hidden leaf village and I the Hokage welcome you Saria Cloudwalker and you Justicur, to our village as one of our own! We shall train you as one of our own and you are welcome to select a residence within the village which to take up as your own! However with this you will be expected to swear an oath of loyalty to the hidden leaf village, and to you.

At this there where numerous small explosions and the entire area outside the fence was covered by dense cloud of dust.

Above the explosions Saria and Justicur could hear a loud roar of cheering. Once the dust had settled all of the wooden posts outside of the testing area were replaced by shinobi.

Apparently it had been spread around that the two companions where spies and where to be eliminated after the evaluation and as a result the ninja of the village had gathered to witness the execution of the spies! But once they saw the skills of the two companions and heard that the two companions where not spies and where to be inducted into the ranks, the assembled ninja cheered the two friend's success.

Justicur found Sakura and Sasuke off to his left with a second Genin with spiky yellow hair, headband, and an orange jumpsuit with a thick high white collar.

Sakura was jumping around jubilant that her new friends had made it through the test and had been accepted.

Sasuke appeared indifferent but there was a hint of a smile at the corners of his mouth. The third of the trio seemed rather bored with the whole thing and looked like he could have been doing something better with his time.

Justicur was suddenly crushed by a hug from an ecstatic Saria. "Saria…gasp…we're not…gasp…done yet,"

Saria let go, "what?"

"We still need to find Tric!"

Saria instantly went into gear. She ran up to the table the Hokage was still sitting at and bowed deeply, "Excuse me but I was wondering, have you found any information as to the where our friend is?"

There was a blur of motion at the Hokage's elbow and there stood another ninja. He handed the Hokage a scroll and left in a blur of speed.

"Ah! It seems your cat eared friend is in the vicinity of the village less than a miles walk away. I shall send one of our guides to take you there,"

The third judge at the table walked forward the Hokage introduced them, "This is Iruka, He currently is a teacher at our school, but for now he will guide you to your friend's location,"

He glanced down at the scroll and read on his eyes widened ever so slightly in surprise,

"Wait, let me see the one who brought me this,"

There was a blur and the ninja that had brought the scroll reappeared a little ways behind the Hokage.

Without turning to the ninja but instead looking at the scroll intently the Hokage inquired, "Has this been confirmed?"

The ninja nodded.

The Hokage snapped his fingers and immediately five ninja assembled in front of the Hokage,

"I fear there is something amiss with our new friends' companion, I would like you to accompany them, unseen, to provide them with protection, now go."

The ninja nodded in acknowledgment and vanished as the Hokage turned to Saria and Justicur,

"I am sorry but it appears that your friend is unwell, my sources inform me that when your friend was first seen entering the clearing of the location he is still at, he was muttering to himself and when he was approached by an individual the individual was," the Hokage glanced at the scroll and quoted it, "pierced at numerous points by black chains." He continued, "I am sorry but for your own protection we must send an envoy with you in case your friend becomes violent, there will be no argument, am I understood?"

Justicur and Saria both hung there heads, "Yes, sensei."

The Hokage looked at them, "maybe the sight of friends will placate him and we can discern the nature of his violence. Well, you should get going, we wouldn't want to keep your friend waiting now would we." The Hokage put on a slight smile in order to comfort the two friends.

Justicur looked towards the sky at the sun, "let's go," a somber tone to his voice.

In low spirits the companions, accompanied and comforted by their new friends Sakura and Sasuke and their friend, whom Justicur and Saria learned was named Naruto, began to make there way, lead by Iruka, to their friend.