Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. (Are they trying to rub it in our faces by making us say this or what... They're so mean)

Sasuke woke the next morning and found that he wasn't in his bedroom, in fact, he wasn't even in his own house. He found that he had been sleeping in a chair, which would explain the slight back ache which he had. He then remembered what had happened the night before and quickly looked over to the bed next to where he was sitting, but found it empty and done.

He quickly caught a scent with his nose and followed it, leading himself unconsciously to the kitchen. There he found Niina cooking something, though he couldn't tell what as her back was hiding it.

"When did you get up?"

Niina jumped slightly before turning around to see that it was Sasuke who had spoken. "Not t-too long ago…" Sasuke just nodded as he sat down on one of the chairs by the eating table, stretching his arms back and letting out a yawn, but somehow managing to pull of the Uchiha charm whilst doing it.

"Th-thank you…"

"Huh? What for?..."

"F-for saving me y-yesterday…" She felt a warm tear slide down from her face as she thought of what would have happened if Sasuke had not come and save her. She knew what their intentions were, and she was too scared to protect herself, in fear of harming them. She knew she could have taken care of them, but from what she had seen during her training, she… deep down inside… that she wouldn't be able to stop herself, as all of the emotions which she had stored up inside would have been released on those two men. She didn't want that to happen.

"It's alright… what are teammates for anyway…" Niina just nodded as she placed two plates on the table, one in front of Sasuke, and one in front of t he seat which she was about to sit in. She sat down and began to eat, as did Sasuke, in complete silence.

When the two were done, Niina stood up again, taking the two now empty plates, walked over to the sink and began to wash up, drying the dishes as she finished.

Meanwhile, Sasuke had taken the chance to look around the room. At the moment he was staring at a photo which had a woman standing in it, smiling. She was very beautiful; she had long silver hair which was the same length as Niina's and she had shimmering silver eyes. She also had a look of innocence and purity about her, making it seem like she was connected somehow to Niina.

"Who's this in the photo, Niina?" Said girl stopped what she was doing and walked over to Sasuke to look at the photo. He looked to see what her facial expression was and found that it had saddened slightly.

"Sh-she was my mother…"

He now regretted asking the question but couldn't help but ponder where Niina had gotten her looks from, as she didn't look that much like her mother, apart from the shape of her face and her figure. But the hair and eye colour was definitely not from her. "Who's your father then?"

Niina's already saddened face became even more depressing. Sasuke mentally kicked himself in the butt again for asking, but he really wanted to know, and if and Uchiha wants something, then they'll do whatever it takes to know, no matter how long it takes. But he regretted his curiosity. "Don't worry, you don't have to answer it if you don't want to." He tried to reassure, but he still wanted to know.

Niina nodded before she went back to where she was.

"By the way, we're supposed to meet Kakashi-sensei at the bridge soon. Are you sure that you don't mind, you know…" Sasuke still didn't know how to put it… oh well, she knew what he meant.

"Y-yes… I'm sure… But I'll w-wear my cloak."

So the two left to go to the meeting point, Niina with her cloak covering every part of her body, you wouldn't even know if it was a girl or a boy, so she received some curious or confused stairs as they made their way to the bridge. Sakura was already there waiting and when she saw Sasuke, she immediately ran up to him and asked if he wanted to go out once today's work was finished, but he gently reclined… okay, so he just said 'no'. Her face dropped for a second but was quickly back up to its cheery mood when she noticed that Sasuke had company. She questioned who it was before Sasuke hit himself in the head for her being so forgetful.

"Our teammate…" He said monotonously. Sakura adopted a thinking position for a few seconds before it hit her. She had thought that the previous day had been a dream of some sort, but now it was obvious that it wasn't. She also smacked herself in the head for being so stupid.

So the three of them sat by the bridge, waiting… waiting… and waiting. The time was passing so slowly for them, that they had all three fallen asleep when their sensei arrived in his usual manner, with his nose deep down into his book.

"Yo. Sorry I'm late guys, but I was just…" Kakashi stopped as he saw that the three genin were fast asleep. But then Sakura stirred, waking up instantly and rubbing her eye with her hand sleepily.

"You're late… Kakashi-sensei." She managed to say whilst yawning, but then she heard some rustling and murmuring coming from beside her. She turned and saw that the noise was coming from Niina. "N-no… Stop… Pl-please… No…" She whispered, but you could here that she was pleading. Kakashi had also noticed so he went over and woke her up. When she did wake up, she immediately sat up with sweat evident on her forehead.

"You okay?" Kakashi asked, you could tell by the sound of his voice that he was generally concerned.

"Y-yes… I'm fine… It was j-just a bad dream… just a bad dream…" The last part she said to herself, almost as a reassurance.

"Good…" By now, Sasuke was also awake. "Now, the reason I wanted you all here was because I have some great news to tell you all…" He paused for a moment to emphasize what he was about to say. "… I have decided to enter you all into the chuunin exams." He finished it off with one of his eye smiles.

"Um, sensei. Are you sure that we're ready for this, I mean, there is always next year." Sakura stammered.

"If I didn't think that you were all ready, then I wouldn't have entered you all, now would. It would be rather stupid if I did. Anyway, enough of that, here are a couple of forms which you will need to sign and hand in. Remember that this is your own choice and no-one is forcing you to do this. You and you alone can't decide whether or not you want to do this.

The thoughts of the three genin were all different. Sasuke was thinking; If I don't do this, then I'll have to wait longer before I'll be able to defeat Itachi… Sakura was thinking; I don't know if I'm string enough… but I want to show Sasuke that I am, but if I do, then who knows what could happen… Whilst Niina was thinking; I know that I'm strong enough to do this, but I don't know if I'll be able to handle the pressure… I don't want to have to hurt anyone and I don't want to lose control again…

Kakashi had noticed the expression of his three students. "You have two weeks to decide, so you don't have to choose right here at this very moment." And with that he was gone in a poof.

Niina then stood up and started to walk out into the forest.

"Where are yo going Niina?" Sakura called out.

"T-to train…"

"Well, Sasuke, since we're alone and all, do you want to go out on a date with me?"

"…No." Sakura let out the breath she had been holding in defeat. Yet another rejection from her love. She looked up again and found that Sasuke was walking away, in the direction of the market.

"Guess I'll be going home then…" She murmured to herself as she stood up and left as well.

Well there you go. But I have a question to ask; does anyone know of any good fics where Naruto has gone 'bad' or something, as I really need to read one. (okay, so I don't need to but I really really want to) Thanks again, until next time...