Chapter 10

Kakashi POV:

"Gai-san! So then…" Kakashi looks at him slyly "what was your count of Saves?"

Gai looks at Kakashi, broad smile on his face "My youthfulness granted me a grand total of 420 saves! Now say you beat that my ETERNAL RIVAL!" He yelled while in what looked like a drunk Jiraiya sensei attempting to do the samba.

Kakashi looked at him, deadpan, and said after a brief pause "I actually find myself sitting pretty comfy on 4300, Gai-san" to which Gai replied by falling out of his pose into a jaw dropped whine for a second, than rallied and said "Good job Kakashi! And now, as payment for our bet…" Gai fishes through his pocket and pulls out a bag of Konoha Genjutsu Hash, which when Kakashi saw he let out a wolf whistle, truly impressed. "Pleasure doin business with you, Gai" he said as he pocketed it with a secret grin.

"Now what has become of the knuckle-head?" asked the new owner of some high quality pot. "he might need some just to keep focused" he joked (mostly)

"I expected as much of you sensei" came a voice that Kakashi was only mildly surprised to hear, " but I don't do drugs, aside from the natural drug of BEING ALIVE DATTEBAYO!"

Kakashi waited until his ears stopped bleeding to respond, only to find that his pupil had already left to go fix the arena.

Meanwhile with the Hokage:

"You can't be serious!" proclaimed Iruka as he read the list of new chunin handed to him by the Hokage, "He only graduated the academy! I'm all for acknowledging his progress but CHUNIN!?".

The Hokage looked the angry chunin straight in the eyes, drew a breath through his trademarked pipe and calmly explained to Iruka that if he found any OTHER chunin capable of taking down the Ichibi with zero preparation without dying after a fight with the premier genin in the leaf village then he would rethink his proposal but until then Iruka could "shove it" or the Hokage would shove it for him.

In the arena:

The Hokage, in full ceremonial dress, walked up to the parapet and looked down on the Genin hopefuls He truly is your son Minato, I will tell him soon my old friend. As he looked down he remembered his own team 'you three aged me more years than I could count' he sighed as he remembered the argument that had led him to banish them from the Leaf Village 'you were always too damn stubborn Jiraiya, and taking your team mates with you, are you happy my disobedient pupils?' He remembered it like it was yesterday however, he had to live in the present and he was going to make things right sooner or later, as soon as he finished all the paperwork. Some days he swore that the paperwork bred like tribbles.

"Due to the fact that the Ichibi interrupted the exams we would NORMALLY promote none of you to the rank of chunin, HOWEVER, due to the fact that I don't give a crap about that rule cuz I'm ninety something and am the HOKAGE, I have decided that Uzumaki Naruto, Hyuuga Neji and Nara Shikamaru will be elevated to the rank of chunin. The rest of you can try next year, good luck." The Hokage left, leaving an extatic Uzumaki, a bored Nara and an Uninterested Hyuuga behind as well as a bitchy Uchiha.

Several Days later…

"So what are we going to be training Kakashi-sensei?" asked Sasuke as they headed away from the leaf village to their training camp ground

"We'll be training your Raiton, giving you more control over that chakra type, and hopefully giving you more control over chidori"

"ah I see" said Sasuke as he brooded over the Gaara fight, and how fast the dobe had grown "We're here" said Kakashi, ripping Sasuke from his thoughts. "And before we start training, I have a surprise for you… I notice you've been stuck in your head most of the way here, well, in my pocket I have a cure for that, at least for a night"

Sasuke looked interested, and asked "and what would that be sensei?"

Kakashi reaches into his pocket and brings out a small bag filled with plants with orange leaves and shiny crystals on the plants in abundance and says "This. It's called genjutsu weed… you'll see why once you try it" and then proceeds to pull out a small pipe from his pocket and start puffing on a pre-packed bowl he had packed on the way. He snapped his finger and a flame appeared on it, which he then lit the bowl with and started puffing the smoke, until the plants inside the bowl had burned white. He then packed another bowl and handed it to Sasuke, saying "Repeat what I did, and breathe deep" and Kakashi watched as Sasuke lit his finger, and then puffed the plants using his finger as he had seen, and then exhaled…

Sasuke's POV (A few hours later)

Sasuke was truly tripping. His vision undulated and curled almost like snakes, crawling across the corner of his eyes while his hearing sounded as if his very sense of hearing was vibrating. His senses screamed in what felt like confused pleasure meanwhile half of what he thought he was seeing felt almost unreal, as if he was watching a waking dream. His body was feeling what could only be described as estatic agony and his mouth felt like the Village hidden in the Sand. He was so hungry he got up to find food but he couldn't walk straight, and Kakashi had passed out half an hour ago, so he had taken to laying down outside the tent enjoying watching the stars. He had packed himself another bowl of that genjutsu weed, and lit his finger, puffing it, hard. The last thing he remembered as he blacked out was a pair of eyes watching him…

Inside Sasuke's head:

'You deserve it' called a voice inside his dream 'with me all of your dreams and desires are possible.' 'I told you I will do this alone! I need no one! I AM AN UCHIHA!' 'I WILL NOT BE DENIED!' Images flooded his dream and he saw Naruto fighting the shukaku again. 'his power his strength they should be YOURS Uchiha' Sasuke was finding it harder and harder to resist the voice inside his head 'I…I…I' 'join me, and you will have the power to kill your brother.' That tore the last of his resistance into little shreds and sasuke let himself go as the presence surrounded him. 'MINE! AT LAST ALL MINE!'

AN: You know,we had this huge scripted speech prepared doing the usual thing, intimidating people and begging for reviews but we decided this time to do the same thing but from the spur of the moment instead of written dribble –C.F.

You're absolutely right! Did you see where I put my holy water? –H.C.D.

No No No! Last time you tried the Japanese got very upset! Hiroshima and Nagasaki will never be the same –C.F.

You know that was a fluke! Now we know not todo it in any civilized area… Eve-H.C.D.(interruption) Unless I'm VERY bored. –C.F.

Or if we don't get reviews for this chapter –H.C.D.

Nevermind the possible nuclear holocaust, we just hope you enjoy the chapter. At least until Crymson tells me where he hid the holy water. How he does that without touching it and why I'll never know –H.C.D.

Because fuck you, that's why. Now we will see you again next chapter –C.F.

Also I feel compelled by the lawyers I managed to smuggle in past my co-author here that I do not own naruto.