I want to start off by apologizing for taking so long, I had most of this chapter written before my computer freaked out and deleted it, as you can well imagine this slowed me down more than just a tad, I should've saved more prodigiously and for that mistake I apologize.

With Sakura

A tanto flashed through the air but missed the pinkette's jugular; leaning forward had saved her life. With a quick jab a senbon was stuck deep into the boy's arm, causing him to scream out in pain. With a chakra propelled leap the boy sailed through the air away from the young medic-nin, just barely escaping a slash from her kunai that would've spilled his intestines.

Sakura stood back up and took a deep breath before steadying, the soldier pill had done wonders to restore her stamina and the adrenaline rush made it stretch, the boy on the other hand was breathing hard covered in sweat as he pulled out the senbon. After experimentally moving his fingers and arm he laughed boisterously at the medic, "Is this all you have?"

Sakura meanwhile ignored his taunt, doing complex calculations in her head as she figured in body mass, physical exertion and potency of the poison she had put on the senbon. Three, Two, One. She flinched as the boy suddenly dropped to his knees, his tanto hitting the ground with a solid thud, a scream tore its way out of his throat as he clawed desperately at his windpipe, fear and pain etched deeply into his face.

Sakura watched on, subjectively she knew that she had to wait for the enemy nin to fall unconscious, but everything Tsunade had taught her screamed at her to give him the antidote now and end his pain. Finally, the screaming stopped and the young tanto-wielder toppled to the ground. She waited a few seconds, to see if he was faking, then rushed forward and turned him over. She poured the antidote into his mouth and gently worked his Adam's apple with her fingers to make him swallow before using medical chakra to heal his throat; his fingernails had begun to tear through the skin before he had lost consciousness.

With barely a whisper her teammates arrived on the scene, a quick glance sent relief through her body, They're all okay.

Kakashi gave his famous eye-smile, "Well done Sakura, now we can interrogate the enemy and find out who hired them." Turning serious he looked at the rest of his team, "You guys will not want to be here for this, go wait on the road."

The three teens nodded and quietly returned to the road, a few minutes later Kakashi appeared in a Shunshin after having disposed of all the bodies, "I'll explain on the road, can't be late to this one." Nodding the team started walking once again towards the border.

"Some minor politician from Ame was offended by the ambassador two months ago. Said politician heard about the ambassador's trip to Konoha and hired the team to come ambush us and kill the ambassador. The mission briefing said that we would be a low level genin team with few missions above D rank."

Naruto cocked his head to the side, "Technically we haven't had many missions above D rank, so their intel wasn't quite THAT bad."

Sai decided to pipe in, "Their estimation of our strengths based upon the mission documents were incorrect, but the fact that they were able to even get such low level intelligence means that we will have to report a leak in the Hokage Tower upon our return."

Kakashi nodded, conceding the point, "We'll tell it all in our debriefing Sai."

Two hours later they arrived at the border, "Naruto, Sai take up positions in the trees. Stay out of sight."

The boys nodded and disappeared into the trees while their teammate and leader waited for the Kumo-nin to arrive. An hour later Sakura turned to her silver haired teacher and spoke softly, "They're late, Kakashi-Sensei."

Kakashi didn't even look up from his book as he replied back, "They're traveling with a civilian Sakura, they might have had to stop multiple times for their client."

Eventually the client and his son arrived and the handoff occurred with all the general distrust that shinobi of different villages are known for. The trip was quiet, with only as much small talk as was politely necessary, they did have to stop multiple times for the client who while not in bad health, wasn't up to shinobi standards.

It took the rest of the day to make it back to the village, by the time they reached the village gate the sky had begun to grow dark and stars were starting to poke through. They escorted the ambassador and his son to the hotel specifically set up for foreign emissaries, it was guarded by several members of Anbu at all times, once the client was in his room Kakashi turned to his team. "Okay guys, good job out there today. Go ahead and go home, we'll debrief in the morning."

The skin around Sai's eyes grew slightly tight, "We have arrived back in the village, we should go to Hokage-sama and report and debrief."

Kakashi seemed to nod to himself as if he expected this, "I understand that is protocol Sai but trust me in that one night won't matter, and you do not want to be waking Tsunade-sama at this time of night. Can't debrief if we're dead."

"But the report must be given promptly when we return."

"Sai, I don't know about you but I'm tired and a tired shinobi may remember events wrong. Is it better to turn in a report fast or accurate?"

The pale boy seemed to ponder this for several seconds before slowly nodding, "I understand, Kakashi-Sempai."

The rest of the week passed quickly, they would show up at the Hotel every morning and escort the ambassador and his client to the Hokage tower. Once there he would be under protection of the Anbu and the team would be allowed time off. During these breaks Kakashi insisted that they go to the training fields to work on their teamwork.

For once, the silver haired Jounin seemed to be vested in their training and was throwing every trick in the book at them, to make them work as a team and adapt at a moment's notice with perfect knowledge of their teammate's actions.

After 3 days of teamwork training he came to them after lunch handing them each a slip of paper, "Okay you three, this is Chakra paper and it will tell me your chakra affinity. Your chakra affinity will tell you which style of elemental Ninjutsu you will be able to learn easiest. This doesn't mean you can't learn other elements but it'll be easiest with your element. Now channel chakra into your paper and we'll see your elements."

The three nodded holding their paper and channeled their chakra, causing the paper to glow blow for a moment, the reaction happened within seconds. Sakura's paper grew brittle and was blown apart by a slight breeze. Sai's paper crinkled until it was drawn tight against his pinched thumb and forefinger. Naruto's paper was split, but not just once the paper was cut into about 25 pieces that then proceeded to slowly fall to the ground. If not for Kakashi's trained eyes he would've missed them growing wet and falling at a much higher velocity. Squatting down on his haunches the Jounin tried to pick up one of the pieces but the moment he tried to lift it the place his fingers held tore loose with little resistance.

Dusting his hands Kakashi smiled happily at his three students, "Well this is unusual, you all have different chakra affinities, Sai you have a high affinity for lightning Jutsu, Sakura you have an Earth affinity and Naruto you have a very strong affinity for both wind and water jutsu."

Sakura sighed unhappily, "But doesn't that mean you can't train all of us? There's no way you have four affinities even if Naruto had two."

Kakashi merely eye smiled at the pinkette, "It's true that I don't have an affinity in them all but I do have jutsu from them all and know the training to Master each, I am the shinobi with over 1,000 jutsu after all."

Making a cross symbol Kakashi made three shadow clones and then focused back on his students, "Okay, one of these shadow clones will go with each of you and start you on learning to control your element better. This will help you in making the jutsu of your element cost less chakra and be stronger, and will make you understand it better and able to make Jutsu of your own someday like my Chidori." Deciding that a little showing off was in order he flashed through the hand signs and his fist roared to life, covered in a dancing ball of electricity too bright to look at.

He powered down his Chidori and nodded to his clones, the clones nodded back and waked up to each teen. They put a hand on each one's shoulder and disappeared in Shunshin, taking their students with them for more private training.

The silver hair Jounin, now standing alone in the training field, lifted his headband and created 12 more clones all standing with Sharingan bared. The next second the training ground was a warzone. Fire, Water, Lightning, Wind and Earth were flung about with almost casual ease while retaining surgical precision. Trees shattered, waves crashed and the earth surged. I won't fail my team again!

With a flare of chakra the weight seals deactivated and the silver haired Jounin moved with speed that would've made a certain spandex wearing man cry tears of joy. The clones threw jutsu of every element at the original but he was little more than a blur now as he whizzed between his clones, who could only go as fast as the original could with his weights still active. The battle waged on for hours when Kakashi formed twin chidori's and focused his chakra through his hands causing the Chidori's to extend to the length of a tanto. Plunging them through the clones' chests causing them to dispel ending the fight.

"Should go get them, we have to go pick up the ambassador."