Hidden Genes

Summary: There is a type of jutsu only one shinobi could use,the Shodaime became famous for it being impossible for anyone who doesn't have his DNA, and even then it was rare. Sharingan is an Uchiha doujutsu,so no one can have it unless an eye is given, so why does the Kyuubi vessel have both?Why does he move like the Yondaime?

The newly formed Team 7 did indeed meet at the crack of dawn the next morning, at 5 a.m. on the dot, Naruto rubbing the sleep from his eyes, Sakura barely answering his mumbled greeting through a yawn and Sasuke not daring to open his mouth lest he show them he was almost dead on his feet. Neither of the three had had a good night's rest, what with their new sensei's words echoing in their heads the whole time. Not even the bids were up yet when they made a small triangle in the middle of the clearing that was supposed to act as their training grounds for the day.

They stood there for hours, Naruto eventually sitting down and returning to sleep, Sakura sitting down a half an hour later while Sasuke stubbornly remained on his feet. The other two genin marveled at his persistence but Kurama (pissed off to be awake at this ungodly hour of the day) bet on his nine tails that the Uchiha had fallen asleep standing. The dark skies turned a bright blue, the world came to life around them, the sun got warmer and higher in the sky and yet they still waited. And waited. And waited until finally ...

''Hello fellows. Good morning.'' Kakashi said with a cheery smile and his three students turned around as one being, all three glaring death at him (Sasuke had the action mastered to an art and was quite scary while the other two looked like puppy's trying to imitate their mother's growl) and Naruto and Sakura pointing an accusing finger at him while the third member adopted and aggressive stance.

''YOU'RE LATE!'' The pinkette and the blond yelled together, punctured by the growl that actually left Sasuke's lips. They were mighty pissed and were not afraid to show it. Actually, their collective anger spurred their individual anger on and that individual anger gave more fuel to the raging fire that was the collective anger. A very dangerous combination indeed.

''A black cat crossed my road so I had to go back and around it.'' He said as his excuse and he swore Naruto's eyes flashed with an ungodly rage that didn't belong to a human either. What he didn't know was that Kurama currently had more anger towards him than he had towards all those who had imprisoned, sealed and used him all these years. Oh yes. Kakashi would be dead if Naruto didn't want to get a piece of him first. He looked at their faces and coughed in his hand. ''Right, let's move on.''

The three genin watched the jonin as he took out an alarm clock of sorts and placed it on a stump of wood, setting the timer. ''Alarm set on 12 p.m. Today's topic is getting one of these bells,'' He held up said bells for the three to study. ''Off of me. Whoever can't won't get lunch.''

''WHAT?!'' Did this guy tell them not to eat just so he could starve them all day?! Was he a sadist as well as a creeper?! ''I'm going to tie you there,'' three heads followed the direction of the finger and saw three wooden posts. ''And sit and eat my lunch in front of you.'' As if on cue, their stomachs started grumbling. Sakura held hers and Naruto got slightly worried while Sasuke tried not to show that he was miserable about this, too. The blond knew that these two would manage without a meal or two, but he couldn't. Because of Kurama's presence, Naruto had an extremely high metabolism. And so, despite not listening to Kakashi's warning yesterday and having had a light breakfast this morning, he would be in trouble if the next meal he has is only in the evening. The cramps he is bound to get will be more painful than any hit the jonin might land on him during this training. Kakashi really was a sadist.

''But wit, why are there only two bells?'' Sakura snapped out of her food misery when she saw that there was, indeed, only two when there was three of them.

''Because at least one will have to be tied to the post, silly!'' The man said as his visible eye made a happy little arch. ''That person will fail since they failed to complete the mission.'' He swung the little bells, making them bounce against each other and ring out softly. ''That person will go back to the Academy.'' Three pairs of eyes narrowed on the two bells. ''It might be just one or all three.''

Bullshit! Kurama screamed. Genin work in three man teams! What's his game?

I don't know, but we're sure to find out. Naruto sent back, clenching his fists. You ready, Kurama? Because I don't think I can do this without your help.

Don't worry, Naruto. I've always got your back. Kurama sat up on his hunches and knees and placed his hands together in a fake prayer motion, his fingers facing towards the sky. I'll start accumulating chakra right away.

I'm counting on you, dattebayo.

''You can use your weapons, all are accepted.'' Kakashi continued. ''You won't be able to pass this unless you come at me with the intent to kill me.''

''But isn't that dangerous?'' Sakura protested and Naruto silently agreed. Kakashi had just invited an avenger and a Jinchuuriki to attack him with all they've got. He didn't know how strong Sasuke was but he was sure that the Uchiha will go at Kakashi with all that he's got. And Kurama was still pissed off as much as Naruto was about the wait. ''You couldn't even dodge that chalk eraser!''

''In society, those who lack abilities tend to complain more. Just ignore the guy with the lowest score.'' Naruto felt a vein start to throb. He had seen the look the silver haired man had sent his way. Oh, he will make Kakashi wish he had never uttered that sentence in his life if it was the last thing Naruto ever did! ''We're going to start after I say ''Ready, start!'' And only then. Don't get hasty.'' He was still looking at Naruto as he said this, as if taunting the hot tempered boy, but Naruto was not stupid. He decided to act childishly and stuck his tongue out at the man, making the other two genin groan in exasperation while Kakashi sweat dropped.

''It seems that you now have the will to kill me,'' he said, looking directly into Naruto's eyes. There sure as hell was that intent there yet he swore there was also a lot more. As of the intent was not solely Naruto's. ''We're going to start. Ready, start!'' In a second, all three genin were out of his sight and Kakashi prepared himself.

After all, it would be shameful if a bunch of genin defeated an ex ANBU captain once upon a time entrusted with Naruto's safety as the Kyuubi's vessel.

'They seem to have hidden himself well,' he thought, although he could still tell which way they went. If they became his team, he will have to teach them to better cover their tracks. However, he was impressed so far. They weren't half bad. They showed promise.

That didn't mean much to him, as all the past teams sent to him for this test have failed.

He was brought out of his thoughts when he barely dodged the direct attack from Naruto as the orange clad tween sailed past his head. The blond landed nicely as Kakashi stared in shock. He had not even felt the boy approach, hadn't heard or seen him move. How had a genin come so close to him that he didn't notice!?

Naruto smirked inwardly when he saw the expression well hidden behind Kakashi's face mask. It had been rather easy to sneak up on the man. After all the years of pranking and running away from the villagers, hiding in every dark corner he could find and staying undetected by chuunin and jonin and even ANBU, the little sneak he did was nothing new. The villagers were unaware of it but their every attempt at killing him only made him a better ninja. He might not know many jutsus or have the best chakra control (he had too much and very complex chakra due to the Kyuubi sealed in him and the two strange abilities he in all right shouldn't even have for him to have any real control over it without the use of the Sharingan, which seemed to help a great deal with it), but he could sneak in and out of anywhere he wanted and he could suppress his chakra to the point of him being invisible and undetectable even by Hyuuga eyes. The biggest problem was Kurama suppressing his immense chakra but they soon found a way around that, too, and it also served as getting Naruto some backup, if only for fifteen minutes.

Kakashi wiped the surprise from his face when Naruto lunged a second time and he brought up a hand to catch the ankle, only for Naruto to twist in an almost unnatural way to move away from him. Naruto spun in the air and landed deftly on the tips of his feet, blue eyes never leaving the masked jonin. Kakashi narrowed his eyes. How did someone move like that without twisting a joint beyond fixing?

It was another thing that had come with his Sharingan. Kurama told him that the last person with eyes like his used this specific fighting style that greatly resembled the Drunken Fist style. It was unpredictable due to the twists the body should be able to make and the speed one should use. It required great grace and it had taken Naruto years to learn to do even a few moves. With no one to show him, Naruto learned by watching the Kyuubi's memories of this person's battles. Naruto had been predictably fascinated with Madara and the way his body could twist in such strange ways. He learned as best as he could but he was still no good. Kurama suggested he just needs to grow up more since the moves needed grace and grace needs longer limbs.

But no matter how good he had gotten with those few moves or how many times he had escaped jonin and ANBU alike, fighting Kakashi was hard and he knew that this was the one fight he was going to lose. Once Kakashi got over his shock, he had taken out an orange book called Icha Icha Paradise and started reading it. It predictably pissed Naruto - and Kurama, but Kakashi didn't know that - off (the demon fox had told him he had his mother's violent temper, as she could explode in seconds) and he started fighting more in anger and the desire to make the man acknowledge him than with any pre-thinking.

Which is why he ended up thrown in the small lake not far away and he decided to throw caution to the wind.

Kakashi had to admit he was startled when twenty Naruto's, plus the original, jumped out of the water, nearly hitting him again. He hadn't felt a rise in chakra at all! For the number of clones the blond was using, it should have hit him like a bullet train!

In the trees and bushes surrounding the area, the other two members of Team 7 watched on in awe and shock as their sensei fought over twenty blonds. Sakura was stunned speechless, not believing this was the blond dropout she was used to in the Academy. Sasuke, however, had often seen the blond training on his own, doing his best to keep up with the class and still lagging behind but never giving up. Those small accomplishments that he made by himself that the other students made in twice as short a time and with much less effort due to the help of adults caused the brightest smile to stretch across the tanned cheeks, despite the fatigue in his eyes. That's the Naruto Sasuke knew, as well as the small blushing boy that he had stay the night at his house that one time. That's the Naruto no one else was willing to see.

The raven haired teen sighed in exasperation when Kakashi used a replacement technique and the Naruto's started fighting before the real blond dissolved them. The blond was a bit beat up but he didn't really care. Kurama was already on it. Sakura face-palmed when the blond caught sight of one of the bells lying innocently on the ground and he rushed to it, only to predictably be caught in the obvious trap. The orange clad ninja was now hanging upside down by his left ankle with Kakashi admonishing him for being so reckless.

Sasuke, however, saw this as an opportunity. He took out eight shuriken and took aim before throwing them with all of his might. He watched the shuriken arch through the air, even making a slight zigzag motion and he smirked. The girl and the blond watched in stunned silence as the weapons hit Kakashi dead on from the side, bringing the man down from the right.

"What are you doing!?" Sakura yelled from her hiding spot, looking up towards where the shuriken had come from. "That was too mush, Sasuke-kun!"

"Shit, Sasuke, RUN!" The blond yelled a second before their 'sensei' popped and revealed himself to actually be a log. Sasuke's eyes narrowed and he took off, Sakura eeping in worry and running deeper into the surrounding forest, leaving Naruto behind. Alone.

The blond smirked. Perfect. Now no one would see. He brought his hands in a prayer position and closed his eyes.

When they opened, they were red with a slit pupil and three tomoe settling in place from their spin. A second later, the branch bent gently.

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Sasuke cursed Sakura in his mind as he made his way through the forest. The jonin had used a substitution and her yelling in his direction completely ruing the point of his shuriken coming in from a direction that wouldn't reveal his location. Naruto hadn't helped much either, as the blond had also yelled at him to run. Now Kakashi was bound to come after him.

Sakura was doing her best to follow after the Uchiha, fearing that Kakashi-sensei had already caught him. Well, she would let him capture her Sasuke-kun! She stopped just in time to catch sight of Kakashi-sensei reading his perverted book below the tree she stopped on and she sighed in relief. He had almost seen her. She suddenly heard a faint rustle behind her and a by now familiar voice.

"Sakura, behind you."

The scream she released echoed through the forest, dragging Naruto's attention to it just as he cut the rope around his leg. He had lowered the branch so that when he fell free, it wouldn't hurt. However, since he was distracted, he fell to the ground and rolled over to sit up, only to be caught in another trap, this time hanging from his right ankle.

Kurama sighed in exasperation inside his head. Kit, please don't embarrass me.

'Shut up, Kyuubi. It's not your ears that were near deafened by that shriek,' Naruto sent back with a pout but quickly let it go and looked at the ground. He saw one mare trap and decided to spring it with a clone while he freed himself. That way he won't have any more unpleasant surprises in the wait for him.

Whatever, just get free and get those bells. I'm almost ready, anyway.

'Got it, dattebayo!'

Sasuke turned towards the scream, recognizing it as Sakura's and wondering what Kakashi had pulled this time. Ge sensed a presence behind him and knew Kakashi was going to speak even before the man said anything. So Sakura fell for a genjutsu? He had thought her smarter than that.

"Still, I am not like Sakura and Naruto," he told the jonin that has been casually leaning against a tree, still reading that damned book.

"Say that after you get one of these bells," Kakashi pushed off of the tree and walked a bit closer to the raven haired boy. "Sasuke-chan." The younger male turned towards him with a serious expression on his face and all humor died in Kakashi. That was a face that greatly reminded him of another. Two boys from his new team were calling up memories of the two strongest shinobi Kakashi had ever known. Even some of their character fit while most of their features were the same. The boy in front of him now looked at him with the same black eyes of one of his greatest ANBU colleagues and it sent a small thrill through the man. This was bound to be exciting.

They stared at each other for some time, measuring each other up as if they were about to enter the duel of their lives. The wind blew their hair around along with a few stray leaves from the surrounding trees. Kakashi still had the book in his hand while Sasuke's fists were clenched. The glare on his face would have sent a lesser man crying for his mommy but Kakashi was not a lesser man.

Sasuke mad the first move by swiftly throwing six shuriken at the jonin but the silver haired man easily dodged. "There's no point using normal attacks." Sasuke just stared at him before throwing a kunai into the trees and cutting a rope. "A trap?" He barely stopped his sliding against the earth to jump away from the tree where a few kunai embedded themselves a mere second after he dodged out of the way. He slid some more across the ground when Sasuke suddenly appeared behind him. 'What?' He thought before barely catching the attack with his firearm and hand. Unlike Naruto, Sasuke couldn't leap away and instead twisted up and around to deliver two punches which Kakashi barely stopped, then a kick with his other one left that completely turned Sasuke upside down. Sasuke smirked and reached for the bells and Kakashi all but threw the genin away when a finger touched one.

'This kid,' he thought as he put distance between them. Sasuke easily landed on his feet and met eyes with his sensei. 'He's fierce. I won't be able to read my book now.' "Well, you are different from your two teammates, I'll give you that."

That seemed to piss the boy off, as he got a very scary his face. Kakashi wasn't sure how he had pissed the young Uchiha now but he was more focused on the hand seals the other was so effortlessly making with a grace that can only come from making them often and he was fast. His eye widened when he recognized the jutsu.

"Katon: Gokakyo no Jutsu!"

"What!? Genin can't do fire jutsu! It takes too much chakra! There's no way." Kakashi tried to tell himself, only to get the shock of his life when the jutsu not only succeeded but succeeded magnificently in a giant fire ball. Even a good part of the soil burned away by the time Sasuke was finished, but he only then noticed that there was no sign of his sensei and he hadn't went all out because he didn't want to kill the man. Who was supposed to be their sensei if this idiot died?

He looked around, trying to spot him so that the man couldn't catch him off guard, but he saw nothing. Suddenly, a hand shot out of the ground and wrapped around his ankle like in those stupid horror movies had had watched a few times out of boredom. He cried out when the jonin's hand tugged and brought him underground.

"You have talent and you were right. You are different from your teammates. But different isn't always better." Kakashi said as he turned to leave. Sasuke glared at him, even from his position with his whole body stuck in the ground and only his head above so he could breathe. "They say that the nail that sticks up always gets hammered down." He continued, pulling back out his little book.

'Ah, great. Now what am I supposed to do?'

Just then, Sakura ran into the clearing and saw Sasuke. After the vision of Sasuke near death, the sight of his talking head was too much for the girl and she fainted. Sasuke could only sweat drop and curse his own lack of attention for getting caught like this.

'Well, at least Naruto hasn't seen me like this.' He wasn't sure if he could live it down for the usuratonkachi to catch him in a situation like this. He would rather die than live through that.

"Sasuke?" And dread filled him when he heard that familiar voice from behind him. Since he couldn't turn around, he heard Naruto running to come in front of him so they could be face to face. The scrawny boy crouched down and Sasuke caught sight of two bentos in his arms before he focused his gaze on the pretty blue eyes the dobe was gifted with. "Hey, are you alright, dattebayo?"

"I'm fine. Kakashi just caught me off guard. Go check on Sakura. She kinda fainted when she saw me like this." Naruto looked over his shoulder and frowned worriedly when he saw the sprawled form of the kunoichi. "By the way, why do you have those lunch boxes?"

"Hm? Oh, these." Naruto said with his head indicating at the two bentos. "I stole them from Kakashi. I figured we could divide it for the three of us and eat before he makes one of us go on without lunch. We're already at a too big a disadvantage, what with him being a jonin and us having not eaten this morning. I could hear your and Sakura-chan's stomachs growling from where I was hanging earlier."

"That's actually not a bad idea. But go check on Sakura first. See if she bumped her head." Sasuke said, resisting the urge to tell the blond to free him first.

"Sakura-chan seems to be breathing fine and there's no blood, so she can wait a minute while I free you. We'll need to take her some place safe so she can rest and we can eat. Kakashi-sensei is going to come back any minute now, dattebayo." Naruto said as he turned around to put down the bentos, letting his eyes turn red and quickly placing his hands in the prayer position. Sasuke nearly jumped when he felt something brush against his leg as roots started wrapping around him, softening the earth and crumbling most of it into smaller particles that should be easier to move around with. 'What the was that a moment ago?'

Whatever it was, it stopped as soon as Kakashi's voice reached their ears. "I already am." Naruto, who had been pretending to be on the lookout, dropped his hands and called off his powers, turning swiftly around and being met with the dreadfully cheery smile on Kakashi's masked face. "Caught you, Na-ru-to."

"Ah damn it."