DISCLAIMER: I OWN NARUTO! Or at least I will right after I become the last man alive on earth. Until then, Masashi Kishimoto owns Naruto. T-T

WHAT IF Naruto learned more from the Forbidden scroll. WHAT IF Naruto wasn't a complete idiot as he was supposed to be. WHAT IF kyuubi took more action to Naruto's strength? NaruHina, SasuSaku, NejiTen, ShikaTema, InoChou

'I wonder if anyone can hear me.' - Thoughts

"Am I loud enough?" - Speech

'oh yeah… I Rock!" – kyuubi speakin'

CHAPTER 7: WHAT IF they trained harder? o.O

Tazuna's House

Team 7 had arrived at Tazuna's house several hours after their encounter with two of the Seven Swordsmen. After Hayate set up a few traps around the house, he went upstairs to Team 7's room.

Inside, Sasuke was leaning on the wall sharpening a few kunai, while Sakura was sitting on a chair watching him.

'She's got a long way to go till she's a good kunoichi' sighed Hayate

Naruto and Kakashi lay still on the beds in front of them. Hayate placed himself on the floor in a meditative position. Silence prevailed for several minutes until it was broken by Sakura.

"Ne Hayate-senpai, what did you mean by regroup for our next encounter" asked the curious Sakura.

"Weren't those two killed by the hunter-nin?"

Hayate sighed as the last awake members of Team 7 waited for his response.

"Didn't you notice anything wrong with Hunter-nin?"

'for Kami's-sake! What in the world is Kakashi teaching them? This is basic survival knowledge.'

Hayate opened his mouth to respond, only to close it once again as a voice cut in before him.

"What Hayate-san means Sakura is that Raiga and Zabuza aren't dead."

Sakura jumped in shock as Kakashi sat up with his trustee book in hand. Sasuke merely grunted in acknowledgement at his sensei waking.

"But you said they were dead sensei!" yelled Sakura.

'They'll come back wanting revenge' panicked inner Sakura

"If you hadn't noticed, none of us were in any condition to fight." Kakashi paused and stared out the window. It was so peaceful and tranquil that it was hard to believe there had been a grueling battle just hours ago.

"As far as I knew, Naruto and Hayate were incapacitated and the hunter-nin was at an unknown strength. I was running low on chakra, so I bluffed hoping he would leave."

"We saw them killed though" grunted Sasuke.

This in turn drew the attention of everyone in the room. Including an unconscious Naruto, who seemingly tossed and turned for a few second as if he was having a bad dream.

Sasuke just continued to sharpen a couple of kunai while replying with a glare. Now there's the Sasuke we all know.

"Let me answer this Kakashi-san, seeing as I have more expertise with weapons" said an enthusiastic Hayate, finally something he could talk about to relieve his boredom.

"As the two of you noticed, the Hunter-nin used senbon. While more dangerous then a kunai in the trained hands of an expert, it actually has a lower death rate. The reason for this is that a senbon must hit certain vital spots or organs at an exact place in order to be fatal. Otherwise it will only disable or incapacitate someone. In otherwords, a senbon is good for capture, but not straight out killing in a battle. A Kunai however, does not have to be completely accurate to be fatal, it also has more targets to deal a deadlier blow…"

Kakashi let out a mock cough for Hayate to get to the point already. Hayate glared at Kakashi, his students were finally learning something and he wanted him to stop. He could tell Sasuke and Sakura were quite interested by the way they paid attention to him.

'lazy bastard's loss' he thought before letting loose a few coughs.

"As I was saying, a senbon has a low chance of fatality but a high chance in incapacitating. If used on the right way, it can put a person into a trance in which they appear dead."

Sakura was about to protest, but stopped as she noticed he wasn't finished. Sasuke grunted for him to continue.

"Another clue is that the hunter-nin left with the two bodies" said Kakashi with a smirk.

He had a twinkle in his eye. Seems Kakashi seemed a bit mischievous at the moment. Hayate seemed to catch on in seconds and gave him a smile telling him he was in.

'Time to mess with their heads'

Sakura and Sasuke turned to face Kakashi waiting for him to continue.

"Can anyone tell me what that is" continued Hayate.

Again, Sakura and Sasuke turned to Hayate.

"Guess not" said Kakashi

Once more, Sakura and Sasuke faced Kakashi

Getting fed up, inner Sakura was unleashed. She then threw a punch at Kakashi, which he dodged barely.

"JUST GET TO THE POINT! SHANARRO!"

Hayate and Kakashi sweatdropped at the sight of the new fist shaped hole dent in the bed.

'She's got potential after all' thought the amused Hayate

'That almost hit me!' thought the slightly relieved Kakashi

Slightly relieved because Kakashi had not escaped completely unscathed, at the bottom of the fist shaped dent was the remains of a book… all that could be read from the title page was ic…a…p… the rest was too hard to make out.

Kakashi looked blankly at the remains of his precious.

'Two! They're out to get them!' were his last thoughts before drifting to sleep, while being plagued with nightmares of losing his whole collection.

Everyone awake in the room sweatdropped as Kakashi twitched constantly.

Hayate coughed and got Sakura and Sasuke's attention.

"As we were saying…" he paused to watch Sakura crack her knuckles. Letting out a weak laugh, he continued

"Hunter-nin are supposed to dispose of the body immediately to destroy village secrets. If need be, its only the head that is needed for confirmation. The fact that he took the bodies confirms our theory. Raiga and Zabuza are still alive."

Sakura quivered in fear before retreating to her own thoughts.

'I was useless before! I didn't do anything! Hell, the class dobe did more then I did'

'SHANARRO! Lets show them who''s boss! Lets Train!' yelled inner sakura

'But…'

'no buts! TRAIN!'

Meanwhile, Sasuke trembled in excitement.

'I need my Sharingan! I have another chance to learn all those jutsu!'

'I could even learn all of the dobe's jutsu! I'll show him who's stronger!''

"AHEM!!" interrupted Hayate.

"Until Kakashi is no longer bedridden, we will be training. We shouldn't waste our time. Our opponents are two of the seven swordsmen, you'll need every second of training you can get. "

With that, Hayate stood and walked out the door. Sakura and Sasuke watched with wide open eyes.

'We're doing something useful already! Why did we get stuck with that useless excuse of a sensei!'

"Well, what are you waiting for? Kakashi to realize you guys destroyed his book?"

Kakashi's arm twitched to his kunai holster in his sleep. Not deciding to risk another moment, both genin dashed past Hayate and straight out the door.

'Geez… I was just joking'

As Hayate was making a move to leave, Kakashi's hand grabbed a kunai and started stabbing the bed.

"die…" he mumbled in his sleep with a sick and twisted smile.

'I don't even want to know'

In the forest around Tazuna's House

"What are you going to teach us Hayate-sensei?"

Hayate surveyed the area around them. There were plenty of trees, and by the sounds of it, there was a nearby stream.

'Perfect'

Looking up he let out a whistle before coughing. The trees were quite tall. He might as well start them on tree walking exercise and if they're ready, maybe water walking exercise.

"For now, we'll be practicing chakra control. First I'll give you the tree climbing exercise and we'll see if we can move onto the water walking. The point is to walk up the tree using your chakra. Like this…"

Hayate took a few steps towards the tree before walking up it vertically. Sakura watched with an open mouth. Sasuke smirked with eagerness.

'Finally something useful'

"Piece of advice," said Hayate, "it might be easier if you get a running start."

With Sasuke being more daring than Sakura, he took the first try. He ran towards the tree before leaping at it and running a few steps before being claimed by the all so sweet gravity.

As Sasuke recovered, Sakura walked towards the tree and took a cautious first step, testing her limits before continuing.

'It's not so hard' she thought

Hayate and Sasuke were astounded at Sakura, she had picked it up in an instant, not only that but she was already half way up the tree with no sign of her falling soon. When she reached the top she did a courtesy before asking.

"What next Hayate-sensei? Anything more difficult? This seemed a bit easy"

The lone uchiha fumed. Not only had Sakura beaten him to the top, but she was practically mocking him!

'I'm an Uchiha! I can't be upstaged by a mere genin!'

Hayate shook his head before replying

"Just keep practicing this Sakura. If you notice, it must be getting a bit difficult to stand up there."

Indeed Sakura was having second thoughts on Tree Walking being so easy. Sweat was all over her face. Just as she was about to collapse, Hayate appeared next to her and carried her back to the ground.

"Just because you got it straight away doesn't mean you're ready for the next exercise. You may have better control then Sasuke, but you don't even have half of his chakra reserves, something that I plan to fix. Meanwhile Sasuke, just because you didn't get it straight away, doesn't mean your worse. You just have a higher chakra reserve.

Hayate paused to go into a coughing fit. When he finished, he threw a kunai into the tree beside Sasuke. He also handed Sakura a rope.

"Sasuke… use the kunai to mark your distance up the tree. Sakura… use the rope as a safety line against a branch. I want you to stick to the tree as long as you can to build your reserves. I'll be back at sunset. I have to guard Tazuna."

With a smirk on his face, he left one last comment before using a leaf shunshin.

"Remember, don't do anything Kakashi wouldn't do. Afterall, its just the two of you in the middle of nowhere."

Sakura blushed scarlet red at the thoughts that passed through her mind. Oh the possibilities!

'come on… no one would know!' screamed Inner Sakura

Sasuke replied with a glare accompanied by a couple of Kunai. He grunted as he moved to pick up the kunai. Noticing Sakura scarlet red, he groaned… it was going to be a LONG day.

Deciding now better then later, Sasuke started his training.

Tazuna's House

'Where am I? What hit me?' thought a groggy Naruto.

Naruto slowly opened his eyes, filtering the light going into them. He stretched his limbs and found them numb. Sitting up, albeit slowly, he looked around the room. To his left, he saw Kakashi.

'Maybe he can answer my question'

"If you're wondering where you are… I can answer that. We're at Tazuna's house. And that numb feeling, its an effect of chakra exhaustion." Said Kakashi

"huh?" was all Naruto could say.

As always, our favorite blond didn't understand what chakra exhaustion was. Sighing, Kakashi could only figure as much from the blond. From what he read about him, he never paid attention during class. He'd have to simplify the lesson a bit if he wanted to teach Naruto.

'So much work'

"Chakra exhaustion is when a Shinobi uses almost all of their chakra. As you know, chakra is the basic energy for all living beings. That numb feeling you have is because your energy is just enough to keep you alive. You don't have enough energy to move your body around."

"ooooh…" said Naruto closing his and slamming into his other hand, he continued "still don't get it"

Kakashi face-faulted

'is he thick or what'

He'd have to simplify it a bit more.

"Chakra exhaustion mean almost no chakra, meaning no energy. No energy means Naruto no move. Understand?"

"hey! I'm not that stupid!" yelled Naruto.

'Although I still don't fully understand'

Anyway, Kakashi decided that this was as close as Naruto could get to understanding. So he decided to ask Naruto other questions.

"So Naruto… how did you come up with that plan earlier? and where did you learn those jutsu? Even I haven't had a chance to learn the Bakuretsu Kage Bunshin"

"huh… what plan sensei? Oh earlier? I just did what ever came natural" Naruto replied with a goofy grin.

'He beat two of the seven swordsmen and passes it as if it was nothing? He's definitely has potential'

"And my jutsu? Let say its my secret!" he taunted Kakashi. There was no way that he'd break his promise to his Ji-san. He had promised not to tell anyone where he got them before.

Deciding to do the right thing, Kakashi asked Naruto

"Hey Naruto, when your able to run and walk, I'll train you in tree climbing. Afterall, both Sakura and Sasuke are being taught right now by Hayate-san"

"Damn you teme… your not getting ahead of me…" he cursed

"Your on Kakashi-SENSEI"

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Omake: Sasuke's Fetish

With a smirk on his face, he left one last comment before using a leaf shunshin.

"Remember, don't do anything Kakashi wouldn't do. Afterall, its just the two of you in the middle of nowhere."

Sakura blushed scarlet red at the thoughts that passed through her mind. Oh the possibilities!

'come on… no one would know!' screamed Inner Sakura

Sasuke replied with a glare accompanied by a couple of Kunai. He grunted as he moved to pick up the kunai. Noticing Sakura scarlet red, he groaned… it was going to be a LONG day.

Deciding now better then later, Sasuke started his training.

A couple of hours later

Contrary to Sasuke's belief, time had passed by quite quickly. Sakura had focused on training. After the initial incident, she hadn't said a word, hell… she hadn't even so much as glanced at him.

It was starting to creep him out. Sakura not glancing at him is like Naruto not eating ramen. It just didn't happen.

Sighing, he looked up to check his improvements. Several meters of scratches greeted his sight. Not much progress. Deciding to lower his pride, he walked towards to Sakura to ask for help. She was standing just a few feet above the ground to avoid more bruises.

"… Sakura… ano... … any advice for tree climbing" he muttered with his voice full of shame. Better shamed than a failure.

No Reply, did Sakura just ignored him? He repeated his question… err… more like demanded Sakura to help. Still no reply.

In truth, Sakura wasn't ignoring Sasuke, she was so engrossed in not falling that she had completely lost her focus on Sasuke, She didn't even know he was just a few feet below her. To her, the voice was just a distraction

After the umpteenth question, a frustrated Sakura replied

"Later, busy training, not interested, get lost."

'Get lost?! She told me to get lost? She did… didn't she?'

Sasuke stared at the hanging form of Sakura.

'hmm….is this a new light I see?'

Sakura was concentrating. She didn't even give a damn about Sasuke.

'Damn that's hot!'

Yep girls, that's right. Sasuke has a thing with the 'unattainable'. The fact that Sakura seems to not want him make him want her.

Sasuke grabbed Sakura's shoulders and pulled her into a deep kiss, starting an intense make-out session.

After a few minutes of making-out, Sakura realized she was being kissed. All her motor functions stopped as she realized SASUKE was making out with her. SASUKE-KUN!

'Take him now!' screamed inner Sakura

"Yes Sasuke-kun! Take me now! Make me yours!" Sakura screamed.

Sasuke suddenly stopped kissing Sakura and dropped her on the ground. She wanted him, she became 'attainable'.

'Not interested anymore' he thought as he turned around and walked away.

Sakura could only cry in disbelief… she had realized she was so lost in her thoughts previously that she had missed most of her make out session with Sasuke.

'NOOOOOO!!!!'

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FINISHED!!!

AN:

Props to 'A Forgotten Fairy' for giving me the basic idea for the omake. Sorry if it's a bit OC but I couldn't get it out of my head. Lol

SORRY!!! DON'T KILL ME!!! kneels down and cowers. I'm sorry I didn't update last week, but I had an extremely busy week! I had several assignments due in the next few days, as well as another 3 or 4 group reporting, in which my group mates were EXTREMELY useless. I had to do practically most of the organizing and all of the handouts in a few days.

Anyway… sorry if the chap is a bit sub standard… I just forced myself to write. Once again, my muse has left me. Lol… in lamest terms, I got addicted to Ragnarok AGAIN, as well as my FIXED Wii. Lol. Wii (I still prefer the old name revolution) ROCKS! ROK ON! Lol. Originally this was supposed to be the last of Wave arc but I just couldn't get my groove on. Lol

Btw, if any of you remember, I was testing something that chap. Just wanted to see who was reviewing/reading just for omakes. Lol… I'm so happy that majority of you still reviewed! You proved me wrong! THANK KAMI! Lol…

Anyway, Ja Ne!

And as always, this chap is dedicated to you sweetie!