Woho! It's that time again, and damn am I excited! It's the first action scene I've ever written, I hope you enjoy!

I took forever on this one, and I cannot give you a bullshit excuse, nor will I try. Just please don't hate me. Without further delay, the next chapter!


It was early in the morning, half past four to be exact. Angel had just arrived at training ground seven with a sleepy Naruto, who was complaining about the rude wake up call.

"Angel-chan, can I go back to sleep? It's not natural to wake up at four in the morning." Naruto whined, wondering how Angel woke up early enough to get ready and wake him up.

'Naruto, stop whining and come here, sensei said he will be here in half an hour, and I want to spar before he gets here. Come here and stretch with me. If you win I may treat you to Ichiraku ramen." Angel told him, which got his attention. She searched through the backpack she was wearing and threw him a granola bar

"Alright, but only taijutsu for this one, since it's a skill test later we should save our chakra." Naruto replied, earning a nod from Angel. "First to three points?" Naruto asked, earning yet another nod to confirm his guess. Angel picked up a rock as they got into starting positions. She threw the rock slightly in the air, waiting for the sound of it hitting the floor to start the spar. Just after the light thump did the two make a dash for one another.

The two genin breathed heavily as they noticed their fellow comrades. They were both sitting beside a tree, and the cloaked genin immediately sat up at the sight of the two. Seeing them meant it was five o'clock, and their sensei was supposed to be here soon. She remembered her old Anbu friend, one she had seen frequently due to her many visits to the Hokage and many times an 'accident' with the civilians happened, one that usually involved death. Then she remembered the time she met Kakashi, on Naruto's sixth birthday.


Flashback starts

'Please leave him alone!' Angel said, projecting her thoughts to the mob before her. Only one man looked at the girl standing behind his prey trying, but not succeeding, to stop the attack on the demon. She wasn't beaten like the boy in front of her, but she had been roughed up. The man smiled before he threw a punch that made the young boy double over in pain, coughing large amounts of blood.

Angel looked down, unable to watch the scene before her unfold. She closed her eyes and found herself in an unfamiliar place, a sewer with an enormous cage that looked neglected. Two white eyes glared daggers at the young Angel, who fell backwards out of pure fear.

'Who a-are you? W-where am I?' Angel said, now trembling with fear.

"I am the ten tailed beast hybrid, and we are in your mind." The figure said in a feminine voice as it stepped out of the shadow to reveal her beautiful, elegant form. She, Angel assumed the gender, was a white fox with ten beautiful tails swaying cautiously; a necklace completing her enormous form. Angel immediately felt soothed by the comforting aura the fox gave off. She felt at home, and she immediately respected the creature. Angel bowed before the creature, who bowed back in response.

'You look lovely, umm..." Angel began, but stopped not knowing what she was looking at. She felt a small headache, but thought nothing of it.

"I am Amare, young one. I have been here for years." Amare replied, putting her head level to Angel.

May I inquire as to why I am here?' Angel asked the majestic beast.

"I want to offer my help in protecting you and the boy you call Naruto-kun. You seem to have a strong bond, if it were to lose the bond you may have many problems I would rather not deal with anytime soon, or at all if possible. Accept my request, and you will never regret it." The demon said kindly, giving Angel a soft smile. Angel got up and walked up to the cage, she reached a hand in the cage and petted the wolf, its fur unnaturally soft. Angel, being the gullible little girl she was, nodded as she closed her eyes, bringing her back to reality.

Her eyes darkened to an unnaturally black color. The wind around her picked up, and she was visibly surrounded with chakra, though the color was almost as black as her eyes. The killing intent she gave off was more than extreme, it was insane. She grew many white tails made of a substance similar to chakra, but too dense to be normal chakra. They immediately began thrashing about, hurting, and even killing, some people instantly. She knew what was happening, and she was in complete control.

'You hurt Naruto-kun… I'll kill you all!' Angel yelled through their minds, making them all flinch. The amount of killer intent had already brought most of the mob to their knees, though Angel closed her fist before making an enlarged replica of it out of the same material of her tails. She turned to the leader, a chunnin shinobi with red triangular war paint below his eyes, and used the extra limb to grab the man. She squeezed her real hand, making the replica do the same. The man yelled a blood curdling scream that could be heard throughout the village, making Angel laugh.

'You will know the pain that Naruto-kun and I went through.' Angel told them as they all yelled in fear, running to save themselves before her tails got them. Her tails then became even more savage and began piercing people's hearts at random; going so fast only the owner of the tails knew where they were.

"Please… spare me. I-I'll never… hurt you again." The chunnin leader pleaded, bringing a dangerous smile to Angel's face. She tightened her grip before replying.

'How can I trust you, who tried to kill my best friend?' She said just before squeezing the life out of the poor man, his blood spilling everywhere, along with that of the other people in the mob. The mob was now lying dead in an alley.

Angel's eyes changed back to her normal white color, and the tails and hand receded back into her body. She tried to lift up Naruto, but couldn't. That's when he appeared, decked out in his Anbu uniform, both his dog mask and black cloak.

"What happened here?" the Anbu said, looking at the bloody alley.

'Anbu-san, please save Naruto-kun. Please!' Angel begged. The Anbu looked at the boy, and saw his serious injuries. He picked up the boy and before jumping off, told Angel one thing in a kind tone.

"If you want, come to the Hokage's office later and ask for Mr. Inu. I'll want to know what happened, okay." When Angel nodded, the man jumped away, off toward Konoha Hospital.

Flashback end


Noticing how they were all here, Angel asked Naruto to tell the group about some of the test. Naruto was more than happy to cooperate. "Hey, Sakura-chan, Sasuke, listen up!" Naruto cheered enthusiastically.

"What do you want dobe?" Sasuke replied, as cold as ever.

"Naruto, who wants to listen to you?" Sakura yelled, hurting Naruto's feelings and annoying Angel.

"Angel wants me to tell you about the test." Naruto replied, a bit less excited because of Sakura.

"She knows about them?" Sasuke asked, the topic interesting him.

"She knows Kakashi-sensei's tests. He would tell her about them every year, and he even let her watch one last year." Naruto told them. "It's about teamwork, though she won't say anything else. She is willing to trust you, only for the day. After that you need to show her trust before she will talk." Naruto continued. The two nodded, and they heard a childish voice in their head.

'For the test, we must work together to take Kakashi down. He is better than the average jounin, so we need to have almost perfect teamwork.' Angel began before Sakura started to panic.

"H-how is she doing that?" Sakura stuttered, fear apparent in her eyes.

'It's called telepathy, baka. Now back to business. I will go straight for Kakashi, and keep him busy.' She began, and the four genin sat down as they began making a plan.


When the group finished making their plan, Angel noticed the sun was up. Their teacher was nowhere in sight, but she could sense the man. He was reading, probably an Icha Icha book, something that ticked the cloaked girl off. She stood up as took out some senbon, her preferred weapon of choice, and threw it in a seemingly empty bush. That's when the small group saw their sensei with his book come out of that same spot, a couple of senbon caught in his vest, but not deep enough to puncture his body.

The three other genin sweat dropped, not only did their sensei appear to be stalling to read a book, but he was so close to them. Sasuke kept his cool as he stood up, thinking that he was going to need to get better to catch up to his teammate. Sakura stood up, seeming to be calm though her Inner Sakura was ready to kick Kakashi's butt. Naruto, being himself, got up and started yelling at Kakashi.

"You were there, reading that book this whole time? How long were you there?" Naruto yelled as he stood up, making the jounin eye smile.

"I was there for half an hour." Kakashi replied. Angel shook her head in reply.

'He was. I even heard him arrive, though since I knew he was out of earshot and wasn't bothering us, I left him so we could finish.' Angel told everyone.

"So, we could have already been taking the test?" Sakura asked which confused Kakashi. Angel nodded and Kakashi eye smiled as he figured it out.

"Well, it looks like someone's having fun." He said as he looked at Angel, making Naruto laugh. Angel took out more senbon, and threw it at Kakashi. He dodged some, but two went straight through his book.

"That wasn't nice. This book is expensive!" Kakashi exclaimed, anime tears rolling down his cheeks.

'Tough luck, you should know better. Next time I won't miss.' Angel replied looking up at him as she finally stood up.

"I think I'll pass for now." He replied, which made the other three genin laugh. "Okay. Now that we have the humor out of system, it's time to get serious. This test requires you to get these bells." He began, holding up three bells. The next thing he knew, the bells disappeared, along with Angel.

"Give me them back, I didn't say go." Kakashi said sighing at her actions. Angel jumped down from a nearby tree and walked toward Kakashi, handing him the bells.

"You will use everything you know to get these from me. You will have until noon." Kakashi said as he eye smiled.

"Wait, if there are four of us and three bells, what happens to the fourth genin?" Sakura asked, unaware of how bad the answer would be.

"They don't get lunch and they go back to the academy. If none of you get the bells, you all go back." Kakashi replied, his face as serious as a heart attack.

'Can we start now? I still need to train later.' Angel said, getting impatient.

"One second then." Kakashi replied. He then began to set an alarm clock he got from seemingly nowhere. He set the clock down on the second of three poles in the middle of the clearing they were in.

"Okay… go!" He said, and all but Angel and Kakashi left.


"You didn't tell them?" Kakashi asked as he put away his Icha Icha book. She got into an offensive stance.

'I didn't want to give them the answers. You know I need intelligent teammates.' Angel replied. She continued, 'Though I won't let them drag me down, if they can't see it I'll make them.'

"True, but many genin are dense." He said, as he got into a defensive stance.

'I have to agree, especially last year's group. But I think I'll get through to at least Sakura, she isn't too dense. Sasuke may be trouble with teamwork.' Angel replied, and on that note she ran at Kakashi, and she sent a left fist toward Kakashi's right shoulder. He dodged and moved to her left, unknowingly waking into her trap.

"You always start with that pun-"he began just before he was cut off by a backhanded fist to the face. He jumped back using the momentum from her attack to give himself some space to maneuver. He threw her a right jab, not giving her a moment to adjust. She took it, unable to dodge or block, and was hit right in her solar plexus, which made her double over in pain momentarily, until she disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Another Angel then came dashing out of the forest, a kunai in hand. She slid past him, coming to a stop just behind him. She threw her arm forward, causing her kunai to go forward as well, aiming at the string on the bells. Kakashi parried her kunai and pushed her back, causing her to slide toward the forest. She threw her kunai at him, which Kakashi parried with by throwing his kunai. Then Kakashi decided to go on the offensive, testing Angel's defense.

He rushed at her, sending a high kick aimed straight for her jaw. It was fast, so fast Angel could barely duck. As she ducked she sent Kakashi a low kick to send him to the floor. Kakashi noticed just in time and jumped high in the air.

Kakashi looked down to see his opponent throw her arm up in the air. He found it odd, until a certain Uchiha made his presence known. "Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu!" Sasuke yelled just before he took a deep breath, creating an enormous fireball as he exhaled that headed straight for Kakashi.

'Naruto scout the area. He substituted.' Angel commanded, looking into a bush as Naruto walked out of and ran off into another direction. Sasuke walked over to Angel as the log used to replace Kakashi dropped with a thud, half burnt and partly still on fire. As soon as he was almost there, Sakura jumped out of the nearby forest.

"Okay, the trap is set. As soon as Naruto is done we will have him! I just hope he doesn't screw up." Sakura said, to which Sasuke nodded. Angel nodded, and they ran towards where Naruto disappeared.


"Hidden Leaf Ancient Taijutsu Technique: A Thousand Years of Death!" They heard Kakashi yell just as they entered the clearing the thought Naruto was in, then saw Kakashi poke Naruto in the butt. Naruto went flying, holding his hindquarters the entire time. He landed in the large pond nearby, causing both Sasuke and Sakura sweat dropped.

Angel ran at Kakashi, using the opportunity Naruto gave her, and sent him a high jump kick to his spine. Kakashi took a step forward to dodge, and then kicked Angel out of the air, tumbling a few yards away. She landed with a thud, twisting her ankle.

Kakashi didn't notice the explosive tag buried just beneath his feet by a pink-haired kunoichi. It exploded, and a considerable sized hole was left, with a few burnt rocks in the bottom. Angel got up slowly and walked into the hole, picking up three of the rocks, and began walking out, limping the entire way. The other three genin ran to the hole as Angel walked out, Naruto lending her a hand.

'Each of you, hold out your hand.' Angel commanded them, in which they obeyed. She placed a burnt rock in each of their hands, making all three of them confused. That's when they heard the alarm go off, and Kakashi appeared out of nowhere, not one bit burnt.


'I was too soft… I need to get my act together. This shouldn't have happened. I should have just let them fail.' Angel thought to herself as Kakashi finished tying her to the post.

It was ironic; she let herself help her best friend's rival and her personal bully at the same time, and for no reason. She was wondering what would happen now, she had never seen the end of the test, just the actual fighting, nor did Kakashi ever tell her what happened. Did she really go back to the Academy? These thoughts swam around in her head as Kakashi walked in front of the four genin.

"Okay! Now that that's over, here's your lunch. I will leave quickly to analyze your performance, and will be back soon. DO NOT FEED ANGEL ANY FOOD! If you do, you will be severely punished!" Kakashi told them, walking away as the other three genin opened their lunches. They all began eating, though quite slowly, as they were feeling awfully guilty eating in front of Angel.

A few minutes later, Naruto could no longer stand this guilt. He got up, and walked directly to Angel

"Are you hungry?" He asked, picking up a bit of his lunch with his chopsticks. "Here, open up." He continued as Angel opened her mouth so he could feed her.

'He's feeding me… why do I feel so weird. It's like…' Angel thought to herself as her eyes changed into a red color. She couldn't figure out what she was feeling, so she shoved the thought to the back of her mind and just ate what Naruto fed her.

"Have some of mine too. If you don't have your strength you will drag us down." Sasuke said, and motioned for Naruto to take his food.

"I agree with Sasuke-kun. We need strong comrades." Sakura stated, motioning like Sasuke for Naruto to give Angel some food. That's when Kakashi appeared in a cloud of smoke.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Kakashi yelled as he came into view, jumping out of the smoke.

"I-I was just…. feeding my friend!" Naruto said, slightly intimidated by Kakashi's glare.

"Well, it seems like you guys broke the rules." Kakashi said, calmly sighing as he looked toward the Hokage Monument.

'Kakashi…' Angel said, not knowing what would happen next.

"Congratulations! You four pass. You are officially genin." Kakashi said calmly, confusing them for a moment, until Naruto jumped up and cheered. They were all glad to pass, and a little while after Kakashi left to inform the Third Hokage about the grades Sasuke left, followed by Sakura. Naruto raced after her, wanting to ask her out on a date. Which left Angel, still tied to the post, alone in the training field.

"At least I can work on my escape skills… I can't believe even Naruto forgot about me." Angel thought to herself as she used a senbon that was hidden in her sleeve to untie the rope.


Again, I am so very sorry about the delay. Any excuse is bullshit, like I said, and I won't give you any. I hope you won't hate me now, but I will try my best to hurry the story along. You have my word.

I am a bit busy beta-ing also, but that's no reason to not write my story.

Oh, quick question. Should I make Angel and Naruto take their time to realize their love, or just make it have a small "complicated" arc in there? Put your answers in your reviews along with any suggestions and/or mistakes I can fix!

Maybe tell your friends about this story… but only if you think it's really good!


Oh, and tomorrow (10/14) is my birthday! Happy birthday to me and Angel! Oh, Happy late birthday to Naruto, his was on 10/10!

Oh, and thanks Vires. You never fail to help with this story!