A/N: Hi!

I thought I would update early since the last chapter was under 2,000 words ;P Enjoy!


When I got close to the explosions I stopped, just in range of sight. The ground was completely obliterated. Maybe I shouldn't be here... I jumped down to the rubble and listened to the sounds of clashing metal, that wasn't too far off. Naruto burst through the trees, huffing and with his hands on his knees.

"Naruto?" He looked up a saw me.

"Nizumi? What are you doing here?" He walked across the clearing and up to me.

"I heard explosions."

He scratched the back of his head and chuckled. "That was Sakura."

Woah. Sakura didn't really look strong in the hospital. "So what's going on?"

"Master Kakashi, Sakura and I are doing an exercise." Sakura came out of the trees and saw me.

"Mind if I join?" I said to her.

"Well it'll definitely surprise him." He said thinking.

"Lets talk about this behind the trees where he can't see us." Sakura said as she pulled Naruto by the ear. Once we were behind the bush Sakura balled her fist and glared at me. "Why are you out of your bed?"

"I'm perfectly fine." I said holding my hands up, "Lady Hokage already saw me so if she had a problem she would've sent me back to the hospital." Not that I gave her the chance.

She sighed and looked at Naruto. "The element of surprise is key against Kakashi."

"So am I in?" I asked her.

"Depends. What skills do you have?"

"Come to think of it I've never seen you fight either." Naruto said, interested to see what I can do.

"Well, I can mold chakra into any solid form I want." They stared at me, dumbfounded.

"Really?" Sakura asked.

"Yeah." I made my hand signs. "Chakra Molding Justu!" A ball of glowing purple chakra appeared between my hands. I willed my chakra to mold into a long-bow and a single arrow, then aimed at a tree across the clearing: causing it to shatter and the two trees behind it split down the middle. "With any attack my chakra can explode on impact, even severing chakra points if I wanted." Naruto looked sick and Sakura smiled at me.

"Yeah, you're in."

"Alright!" She drew a map in the dirt.

"Here's the plan."

I crouched in a near-by tree. Naruto and Sakura would be ready if Kakashi came along. Sakura told me that he had a keen sense of smell, great reflexes, a sharingan to see through jutsu, and his tijutsu was more then exceptional. I told them that there is a way to take care of his smell. My jacket was under a rock, and my entire upper body was covered in mud, which concealed my sent. Once Naruto and Sakura found this out they decided that by deceiving his nose we could deceive him temperately. He was sure to figure out that an extra player had entered the game but the longer he was ignorant he was the better chance we had of getting those bells. Naruto sent shadow clones to scope out the area, hoping to draw Kakashi sensei out. But if he's as good as they say he is then, this plan may take longer to execute then either one of them could expect. So to cut down the time I sent a small mouse, made of my chakra, with each one of Naruto's clones. I stayed absolutely still. This way I could sense where the clones were and if any of them where to disappear.

"Anything yet?" Naruto asked being very impatient.

"Shh." I retorted back "It's hard to focus on chakra especially having it all spread out."

Sakura nodded in agreement "It's hard to have chakra control to be a medical ninja but to shape pure chakra the way you want into physical form must be difficult. Not to mention requiring an impressive amount of chakra."

"Sakura." I said and she turned to me. "The only thing that can penetrate my chakra is other chakra and a chakra blade. Do you know if he has one on him?"

"I don't know."

"Lets always assume that your opponent is one step ahead." I said, continuing to concentrate on my chakra.
Naruto and I both bolted upright.

"He just took out a shadow clone!" Naruto exclaimed.

"It's about a mile north, north-east." I said pointing in that direction.

"Do you remember the plan?"

"Yup!"

"Alright, let's go!" Naruto said as he and Sakura hopped from tree. I jumped due west and started to circle back around, and if this worked, Kakashi wouldn't see this plan coming.

Kakashi's POV

Wow, they've certainly grown. But something was different. Naruto and Sakura weren't only working as a team but they were working together so well that it seemed they were at my level, and they've been apart for two years. The sun had just set. Which meant my eyes would not be as reliable as my nose. Oh, well. Nothing I haven't been through before.

I sat in a tree and relaxed, thinking that it was better for them to come to me then fall into what ever they were planning. I had this odd feeling that something else had happened and that it was going to be extremely difficult.
Something caught my eye. A small glowing object was at the base of the tree. It almost looked like a mouse Once it started moving I threw a kunai at it. It passed through the mouse and it scurried off into the bushes. "Chakra. How peculiar..."

Sakura had an immense amount of chakra control but to have the skill to do that is almost unthinkable, and the amount of chakra to create and sustain a jutsu like that would be too demanding. However Naruto did have four times the normal chakra amount of any ninja, but he definitely didn't have that amount of chakra control.
I heard bushes move and was instantly on my feet.

Ten, then twenty, no thirty of those small little mice scurried to the base of the tree. "What the hell?" I said jumping to another three. Just as I landed on a branch the tree I was just on exploded. Then there were mice at the bottom of the tree I just landed on. "Shit!"

Just as I jumped Sakura was above me, fist back and ready to strike. "Hell yeah!" Just in the nick of time I made a wood substitution. The smoke from the explosions concealed my getaway behind a large boulder. That was close. My sharingan was drawn to a point in the dirt and before I could react, a glowing hand reached out and grabbed the bells. "No! Chidori!" The lighting blade penetrated the chakra and the bells fell free. Picking them up I had my back open.

"Rasengan!" Naruto shouted.

"Teleportaton!" I ended up at the three posts. Okay, THAT was close.

Nizumi's POV

"Okay now lets really think. He's got to have some weakness."

"And we only have till sunrise right?" I asked as I popped a food pill in my mouth. Naruto nodded, answering my question and thinking at the same time.

"Wait. I've got it." Naruto said smiling.

"What?"

"He he, come on Sakura just think."

"Well I can't so you'll have to tell me."

I'm curious to see what could be powerful ninjas downfall. So obvious even Naruto could see it.

"He hasn't read all the make-out tactics book yet. So if I try to ruin the end of the book.."

"Then he'll have to cover his ears!" Sakura exclaimed.

"Not to mention his sharingan can read movements so he'll have to close his eyes." I added. Naruto smiled and looked at me.

"Do you know where he is?" I crossed my arms and smirked.

"He never left my sight."

"Then what are we waiting for?!"we all stood and I lead the way.

He was leaning against a tree by the tine we got to him. Naruto and Sakura circled around front whereas I went around back. I made chains out of chakra and made them shoot through the tree, wrapping around Kakashi's torso.

"Now Naruto!" Sakura ordered.

"Here I go! Hey master Kakashi! Make out tactics final plot twist! The main character is really -"

The bells jingled and the exercise was over.

"Hehe shinobi read the hidden meanings behind the hidden meanins. Remember Kakashi sensei?" I let the chains vanish and began to go get my jacket when Naruto called me.

"Hey Nizumi, come meet Kakashi sensei." I came around the tree and stood next to Naruto. Kakashi looked at me and then at Naruto and Sakura.

"Had to pull a fast one on me, hu?" He pulled his headband down over his left eye.

"Sometimes there are more players on the field then you think, and the only reason why you couldn't sense her was because she was covered in mud." Sakura explained.

"We can talk on the way back to the village."

"Great! Let me go get my jacket." I said running to the rock I left it under.

Kakashi turned to Naruto and Sakura. "You two go ahead ill catch up." Once I heard Kakashi say that I stopped and waited for him. He walked next to me and put his hands in his pockets.

"Your from the land hidden in the waves right?"

I looked down. "Yes, but the village was destroyed."

"I know. Jiraiya told me what happened."

"What else did he tell you?"

"That you're a Jinchuriki like Naruto. But with the zero tails and that he repaired your seal about twenty-four hours ago."

"Okay so he has told you everything." Great does the entire leaf village know who I am? I picked up the rock and wrapped my jacket around my waist so it wouldn't get dirty.

"Before we head back, how about a little sparring?" Kakashi said smiling at me. I looked at him trying to read what he was tying to do.

"Okay." He came at me fast. I barely had time to react! I dodged his punch and jumped back ten feet. Once I saw he was coming at me again, I jumped and threw kunai at him. He deflected them. He threw shuriken at me.

"Chakra Molding Jutsu!" I made chakra whips and hit each shuriken.

"Not bad." He said. His hand reached up and I reacted, I changed my chakra into a bow and was already drawn back.

I let go of the string and watched him dodge the fast arrow. The tree behind him exploded. Then I grabbed his ankles with chakra chains. Kakashi disappeared into a puff of smoke and a wood block fell to the ground. I realized my back was open and I made a mold of my body out of chakra and felt Kakashi's kunai. His kunai exploded. Quickly I disabled the mold and tackled him to the ground while he was harboring his injured hand.

"Nizumi!" Naruto said as he and Sakura ran through the trees. With my forearm at Kakashi's throat I looked at him, breathing hard. That's when I noticed all the dirt had fallen off because of my chakra mold.

"Congratulations." He smiled. I got off and helped him up.

"For what? Almost killing you?! You saw what my attacks can do and decided that sticking your hand in my chakra was a good thing?"

"I'm congratulating you for catching me off guard." Sakura came over and healed Kakashi's hand.

"Kakashi" I said looking at him. "Then it's a good thing I didn't allow my chakra to sever the chakra network in your hand." He studied me and smiled.

"You went easy on me, did you?"

"You were testing me."

"True. I've seen all I need to." He said as Sakura finished healing his hand.

"For what?" I said folding my arms. He turned to Sakura and Naruto.

"If Lady Hokage agrees to it, and you want to, we could add Nizumi to the team."

"What?" I said. Naruto smiled and gave me a thumbs up.

"I'm up for it." Sakura said smiling.

"You don't even know me that well. How do you know that I'm not here to let the beast out and destroy the village? How do you know that I'm trustworthy? How-" Naruto set his hand on my shoulder.

"You lost your village and the leaf isn't so bad" Naruto said.

Sakura put her hands on her hips. "Besides I don't want to be the only girl on the team."

I looked at Kakashi. "You definitely have a Joinin level skill set so you'll be reliable in battle." My old team...I knew in my heart there was no replacing them but being apart of a team again...

"I'd like to ask Lady Hokage myself. For citizen ship and to be apart of team Kakashi."

By the time we got back to the village the sun was just over the trees and the village was just waking up.
"My, my, how you guys have grown!" Kakashi said looking at Naruto and Sakura "I honestly didn't think you'd manage to take the bells!"

"Hehe maybe I've surpassed you, master Kakashi."

"Like that will ever happen, Naruto!" Sakura spat at him.

"Someday, maybe. After all this old dog's still got some new tricks. In fact, just the other day, I invented this amazing new jutsu-"

My stomach growled loudly and I remembered I hadn't eaten anything but a food pill since the inn.

"Hey! We still haven't gone to Ichiraku ramen!" Naruto said holding his stomach.

"Now that you mention it, I'm starving from last night's challenge." Sakura said.

"Master Kakashi can treat us!" Naruto said smiling.

Kakashi turned away "Sorry. Gotta go draw up and submit the platoon list with the new teams. Later, gators!"
And with a puff of smoke he was gone.

"Probably going off to read the rest of his book." Sakura guessed started to walk away.

"Hey, I thought you were hungry." I asked Sakura as she was walking away.

"I'm going to eat at my place and meet up with you guys later." Naruto smirked.

I looked at him. "What?"

"It's just the two of us then."

"Okay. Lead the way." We started walking toward Ichiraku.

"So what else can you do? I mean other than molding pure chakra into objects and make them explode?" Naruto asked putting his hand behind his head.

"Well..." I thought for a moment. "I have decent tijutsu."

"You took down master Kakashi single-handed. I think you have amazing tijutsu." I looked down hoping to hide my reddish face. He was the first boy other than my father to complement me on my tijutsu. We walked up to a small booth and sat on stools.

"Naruto? Hey, Hey! Its been a long time!" an older man said behind the counter.

"Yeah, and I've been dreaming of your ramen for two years now!" Naruto said rubbing his hand together.

"Now who is this young lady?" The old man said preparing noodles.

"This is Nizumi! She's my future team-mate!"

"Oh I thought she was your girlfriend."

"Oh no, no, nothing like that." I said waving my hand in front of me.

"Well regardless of this being a date or not. Your bowls are on the house."

"Alright!" Naruto fist pumped in the air. The old man returned to preparing the ramen.

"Hey Naruto?"

"Yeah."

"Do you think Lady Hokage will grant me citizenship?"

"I don't know why she wouldn't."

"Well I've just been thinking because I haven't even been here three days and your sensei suggested that I join your team."

"It's a good idea!"

"It may be, but it all seems so fast..."

"Hey you have Sakura and I. We'll be behind you!" He smiled. And for some reason, seeing him smile, makes me smile.

"Here ya go!" Said the old man as he handed both of us our bowls. Naruto was just about to dig in when I stopped him, giving a mischievous look.

"On three?"

"Your on!" He smirked.

"One."

"Two."

"Three!" We both said digging in. We finished around the same time but Naruto was slightly faster. We laughed and I looked in my bowl, finding that I had left a noodle.

One.

Then it hit me. I knew what the Akatsuki's next move would be!


A/N: Hehehehe!

Please review and/or tell me your predictions :)

-Nizumi