Disclaimer: I am not Mrs Kishimoto, so not even in marriage do I own Naruto.

Kakashi was surprisingly only an hour late and, instead of giving us some unbelievable excuse, he just started training us. Training with Kakashi had improved, now he was actually trying to train us.

I'm sure most had to do with the fact that, even though I could now cut my chakra in half with the Kage Bunshin, he still disliked me trying to exclude raw chakra. It didn't matter that to me it was easy, it still made Kakashi-sensei uncomfortable.

We started on the physical training first, and although I was clearly way behind my teammates, I knew if I carried on trying, I'd eventually reach them.

Let's just hope the stay at this level, if they keep getting stronger we'll be screwed.

Thanks for that inner. I remarked sarcastically.

Stop sassing me and run faster. Inner waved her finger, her other hand on her hip.

Inner, I'm doing push ups. I pushed up to put emphasis my words.

Uh, right. Inner scratched her head laughing slightly, causing me to shake my head and give a light chuckle.

"Something funny Sakura-chan." Kakashi's words interrupted inners and I turned to him.

He was just sitting against a tree with that orange book in front of him. He looked as if he was ignoring the world, as if he was totally at ease and had no worries. If I'd been an enemy, I'd think this would be the perfect time to attack, however I knew that Kakashi was very alert to the things around him.

"Is it my training regimen that you're laughing at?" His eye connected to mine and before I could speak he carried on. "Well then, I think you should do the rest within the next ten minutes...only using one arm."

I fell to the ground in shock and he merely crinkled his eye in a smile.

I stared. Was he serious? Could he not see how much I was struggling to do this with my two arms? They were shaking with the effort to not give out, and now he wanted me to do the rest in ten minutes? I had two hundred left and it had taken me half an hour to do half of that with two arms.

After wasting a good minute staring at him I realized that he was dead serious and, what was worse, I had wasted time. So with a deep breath I gently put my left hand behind my back.

I wobbled for a second but quickly righted myself before starting again. Furiously, I did the push ups, making sure to keep myself steady. Although I knew it was cheating, I also circulated my chakra to strengthen my muscles in my right arm.

Sweat poured out of my large forehead and, even with the chakra, I felt the strain in my muscles, but I pushed through all of that. I'd show Kakashi and my team that I was serious, that I could match their strength with my own. I felt myself speeding up, determined not to fail. I was so close, only a few more to go. I thought to myself.

I finished my last one right before collapsing, I turned onto my back, disliking breathing in dirt. I laid on my back panting. I'd done it. Two hundred push ups in only ten minutes.

"Fail." Kakashi's voice cut through my happy thoughts.

"What?" I asked breathlessly, I knew I'd done it in less than ten minutes, I'd counted. Kami, I had even took into account the minute I had wasted gaping at my sensei.

"You never swapped arms, you'll have to do another two hundred using the other arm." Then he looked over his book at me and gave that infuriating eye smile before speaking again. "I wouldn't want you to favour one arm."

I knew what he was saying was true, if my hits were better with right arm, I'd start to use it more and my left side would become weaker. I'd be teaching myself to leave openings. I knew all this but I still couldn't help but curse my sensei in my head.

Kami did I miss the days that he'd ignore our training and just send us on useless missions. Still, I suppose this was good for me, I'd become stronger.

Or die trying. Inner supplied helpfully.

"Sakura." I turned to Kakashi-sensei when he spoke who beckoned me over to him, instantly I ran over to where he was standing at the edge of the lake.

After I had completed another two hundred one armed push ups, Kakashi-sensei had moved us on to water walking. Something that came as easy to me as the tree walking did.

"Yes Kakashi-sensei?" I asked when I was standing in front of him, on top of the water.

"Your control over chakra is amazing." He said it offhandedly as he turned the page in his book but still I felt shock hit me before it quickly flipped to pride. I recognised this feeling, it was the same feeling I got when my sensei's at the academy praised my knowledge. I stood a little straighter, however, the pride was short lived when he spoke again.

"It may just make up for your poor strength, lack of speed and abysmal stamina." He continued, eyes trained on the orange book in front of him. "If you learn how to use it."

For the first time since he called me over he looked up, but not at me, instead his eyes trained on my teammates for a brief second before, slowly, his eyes wandered over to meet mine.

"It seems that Sasuke and Naruto may be busy for a while, would you like me to train you in something else?"

I stared at him, his words finally reaching my brain after a few seconds. Kakashi never offered to train me before, not even when we were on the wave mission and I had easily walked up the tree.

It was a rare opportunity that I didn't want to waste so I quickly nodded my head, ecstatic to learn something new. He chuckled and placed a hand on my head to stop its movement.

"So what are you going to teach me Kakashi-sensei?" I almost vibrated with excitement.

"A new jutsu of your own." He said simply.

We get a new jutsu that will only be ours! Take that Pig, you can have your family jutsu. Inner threw her fist in the air.

My eyes lit up and, if possible, I was even more excited.

"Really? What does this new jutsu do?" I asked.

Maybe it's one that will let us take down a thousand enemies at once. Or one that makes us fly! Inner guessed.

"I don't know." He said simply and my excitement fell away into confusion.

"What?" I stated my confusion. "You're going to teach me a jutsu and you don't know what it does? Did you get it from a book or something?"

"No. You misunderstand. I'm going to teach you how to create new jutsu's of your own." He looked me in the eyes and I felt stunned.

My mind went blank. Never before had I ever had much thought on the creating of jutsu's, I used them all the time but I never thought of their creation. To make a jutsu of my very own, the thought seemed unreal.

THIS IS AWESOME! We'll beat that Pig with a jutsu of our own. Inner rubbed her hands together, imagining all sorts of nasty, mean and very inventive jutsu's to use on Ino. They ranged from making her nose grow to turning her hair green to a particularly mean one that had one of Naruto's dirty socks appear in her mouth every time she went to say something.

When a minute passed and I had yet to utter a word Kakashi-sensei spoke again.

"As you know I have my own jutsu I created when I was about your age. It took me two years to create and master. To this day it is the most powerful jutsu I have." Kakashi shared, he pulled out a small black notebook from his weapons pouch and handed it to me. "This is my notes on how I created the chidori."

Excited, I opened the book only to realize that it was blank. I looked back at my sensei, sure that he had given me the wrong book.

"Kakashi-sensei. This book is blank." I told him, ready to hand it back.

However, instead of taking it back or saying that he must have grabbed the wrong one, he did that annoying eye smile.

"Iie. I just hid what I wrote. You can read it once you've figured out how, after that you can come see me."

I gaped at him, unable to say anything.

Inner sighed. Of course there was a catch. Stupid, lazy, unreliable, deceiving, perverted, mean sensei.

"Well, I best see how the boys are progressing." He said.

"Wait." I said before he could walk away. "I thought you said you were going to train me." My tone was accusing.

"Ah, dear Sakura-chan. The best kind of sensei trains you even when they're not there." He said simply before walking off towards the boys.

I shook my head. I should have known it was too good to be true.

You said it Outer.

I stared at the stupid book in front of me, glaring as if it had done me wrong, and in a way it had. Not only was it keeping secrets from me, it was stopping me from training and it was also taking up my time.

There were other things I needed to do. I hadn't finished reading Yawarakai's letters nor the other books that I had to read regarding my mysterious Kekei Genkai. I could have been doing a million things, but instead I was trying to figure this book out.

I took a breath to calm myself down and looked up from the blank pages of the book in front of me to glare at my sensei. He wasn't even helping Naruto and Sasuke, it had been an hour and they made little progress and Kakashi just stood on top of the water in the middle of the lake, reading his perverted book.

I laid my hand on the page, ready to rip it, I wasn't in a patient mood today, but just as I was about to, I stopped. The pages felt like there was something on them, dips that said there was writing on the page. But I looked down, there was not a thing on the pages. They were clean, untouched, in fact, they looked a little too good the cover looked worn and the black was faded into a lighter colour that was, too dark to be grey, but still too light to be considered new. It was completely different to the inside which looked new and untouched.

Genjutsu. I realized. Kakashi sensei casted a genjutsu on the book to hide the writing. I grinned as I put my hands together to dispel it.

I did it once and the thing did not waver. I did the jutsu again, stronger this time, again nothing happened. The third time I poured half my reserve into the jutsu but the crisp white pages stayed blank.

I growled and glared at my sensei, of course he would make it this hard. If this book was anything like him, the words wouldn't show on the page until a few hours after I dispelled the jutsu.

Inner snorted and agreed with me.

How was I suppose read this book when I couldn't see the words? And the only dispel I know, didn't work.

Kami, did I need help.

Inner at your service. Inner saluted.

Let me clarify, I need helpful help. I corrected.

Har, har Outer. You are so funny. Inner said sarcastically. I'm all you have right now so deal.

I shrugged, I guess if Inner was all I had. What have you got?

Well how I see it we have three options. One, we ask Pervy-Sensei how to cast the genjutsu to look at the book. Two we go to the library and look up genjutsu's. Or Three, we use our amazing chakra control to figure out why the dispel doesn't work and maybe gather some information about the genjutsu itself.

I nodded and chose the third option. Kakashi-sensei had already told me to come to him when I had figured out how to read it, so option one was out. We were still in the middle of team training and it didn't feel right just leaving. Even if we weren't training as a team at the moment, so option two was also out.

Besides, I'd already read a lot about genjutsu's but I had little experience with it physically. This was a chance to analyse a higher level genjutsu.

So with that I gathered chakra to my hands and then pushed outwards, similar to how I released it into the air. But this time I did not let go of the chakra and let it descent into the air. This time I weaved it, pulled and shaped it, much like a piece of clay. It was easy for me, even though my chakra was now out of my body I found it was as easy to mould as the chakra inside my body. I could also still feel it as strongly as I felt the chakra in my reserves.

But that was not all I felt, I also felt what my chakra touched. I felt the air, the soft breeze that was blowing when I'd previously thought there was no wind. I felt the tree I sat against, the life it held. How water moved through it from the very top, where the branches seemed the driest and most fragile to the roots that reached so far underground that I realized that the tree was almost twice the height it looked. The Grass too, I felt it swaying slightly, always moving, bending and swaying.

And the book, I felt the book, it was the strongest thing around, the chakra it had pulsed as if it was alive. I used my own chakra to poke at it, examine how the genjutsu weaved over it and as I prodded more I realized that it didn't. This genjutsu that was cast on the book was the most complex thing I'd ever encountered. Not that that was saying much, but not even in the books I'd read did they write of a genjutsu that was like this.

With all genjutsu it was the same principle. The chakra covered a place, person or thing and distorted it in the perception of others. Illusions of course. They made it seem like something was different, made a desert an ocean. If one was truly an expert they could incorporate taste, smell and feel into the visual illusion. But still, it was only a cover and underneath that jutsu of that wonderful ocean was still a dry, barren, desert.

This genjutsu, however, its chakra did not sit on top of the page, it was ingrained, not merely sitting atop, but laced through each page. It was one off converting the written page into a blank one. I wondered if it had anything to do with how thin the layer of chakra on it was, which was another thing that confused me. Smaller amounts of chakra made genjutsu's weaker, yet this one was strong.

I knew that this genjutsu just may be the strongest I'd ever come across, my body tingled at the thought of removing this genjutsu. I know that it would not be an easy accomplishment, but I had to try at least.

Carefully, I tried to weave my chakra in between the page and the genjutsu. The genjutsu, however, proved to be unyielding and it would not lift. I stopped and took a deep breath.

Okay, let's try a different approach. I thought, slowly, I turned my chakra into long needles and slowly sunk them through the genjutsu. It was difficult to lace my chakra into the genjutsu, I was sweating already and I hadn't even done three needles. I shook my head as I retracted my chakra once more. It would be impossible for me to go further, doing the whole book page by page would take me hours, days even.

I sat back and thought it through. The chakra of the genjutsu was thin and ingrained too deeply into the page for my last attempts to work. The chakra of the genjutsu was so thin that I couldn't get my chakra to slip in between. If only the chakra in the genjutsu was thicker. Maybe then I could work through it. I whined to myself.

I froze. What if the chakra was thicker? Would it help at all? Theoretically, it would strengthen the genjutsu, make it harder for me to penetrate. But this genjutsu went against theory anyway. Besides, if I entwined my chakra with the chakra for the genjutsu, I'd have some control over the genjutsu and if not the chakra on it may just be think enough for my own to slide in between.

It's worth a shot. Inner said, prompting me forward.

I nodded in agreement, and started to stretch my chakra to cover the whole book again instead of just the one page. I then made my chakra act as water, laying on the book ready to drop through cracks that the jutsu had.

I felt no difference for a long time, I growled, it was not working. But just as I was about to retract my chakra, I felt it. I would not have noticed it in the first place, if the chakra in the genjutsu did not react the way it did.

The book felt as if it sparked and sizzled at the same time. On one hand it felt as if I'd beat one part of the jutsu, but on the other hand, I felt as if I'd strengthened it too.

Strange, I thought, there must be some type of element base to this genjutsu. It makes sense, it would explain why the chakra reacted to mine only when I'd converted my chakra into a chakra type similar to water.

So then what was Kakashi's chakra element, I asked myself, because I knew it was him that cast the genjutsu, it was, after all his book. My first guess was, of course, water. I had of course put a water type of chakra into the genjutsu but then I quickly dismissed this line of thought. Water had obviously cancelled out the other element of the genjutsu, which could only be fire.

Then I thought about the second element being wind, but this too, was dismissed. Not because it could not live in harmony with fire, in fact wind made fire stronger. No, it was because the water chakra had weakened the fire and strengthened the other.

It took me a second before I realized how much of an idiot I was. I knew what the chakra was, I'd felt it and yet I still had to analyse and guess. I mean the answer was so obvious, everything was pointing to the answer but like a baka I ignored it and carried on.

First, the feeling of the chakra that sparked, second the extreme reaction to water chakra, because it was such a small amount. And the biggest clue had to do with the information I was trying to get. What type of elemental ninjutsu did this explain the making of?

Lightning.

It explained it all now, though water put out fire, it powered electricity, it made lightning stronger. With this information I came up with my plan.

I checked my chakra levels, I still had a quarter of my chakra left. I weighed my options. Would it be enough? I know the answer was no, it was not, but I could not stop now, I was so close that I could feel the success just beyond my reach, waiting for me to reach out and grab it. I decided to carry on anyway.

Again, I gathered chakra and made it act as water. Only this time I sent my own, small, even with the water based chakra amplifying it, and pathetic spark of lightning chakra through to. It mixed with the genjutsu after just a few minutes of hesitation, and I found the lightning chakra growing. With the large amount of water based chakra the fire was all but exhausted.

Soon the lightning chakra was much stronger and I could feel the chakra was much thicker on the book and with a deep breath I stopped funnelling my chakra into the book and started to try to control the genjutsu.

This, I found, did not work, and worse, it was making me dizzy. I had very little chakra now and I had one more plan but I wasn't sure if I'd be able to complete it with the little chakra I had left. Still, I had to try.

We could die from chakra exhaustion Outer. I think that's enough, we'll try again later. Inner said in a worried tone.

I ignored inner and gathered all the chakra I could spare and moulded it into a ball, I rotated it, making it act like air and with one final breath I release the chakra in a pulse, a mini chakra explosion that ripped the genjutsu away.

I snapped my eyes open. I'd did it, logically I knew I'd done it, I'd felt the chakra release and dispel but still I expected to look down and see empty, blank pages mocking me. I felt too light headed, my reserves were dangerously low, and I was too tired to deal with the disappointment of that.

But still, I found it in myself to look down and what I saw was worst then it being blank. I felt my stomach drop and my heart pounded a beat that was too fast and too loud in my own opinion.

Kakashi found himself grinning under his mask even though the muscles in his checks hurt from the strain of it. A smile never graced his face often so grinning as he had been for the last two, almost three, hours was almost torture.

But he just could not stop himself. Oh what a devious prank he had pulled, a prank that was set and had already trapped its victim. Now he was simple waiting for the person who'd been pranked to realize that they had been fooled.

This part of being a sensei was his favourite. Sure there was other things that were good about it. Helping mould future ninja, protecting the village, passing on his knowledge, doing his duty to Konoha...Yada yada yada. He suppose those were good, in a way, but no, his favourite part was torturing and misleading cute little genin like the ones in his team. They fell so easily for his tricks.

So when he'd felt a certain little genin approach him he knew his trap had been realized and let out a little giggle.

"KAKASHI-SENSEI!" The pink-haired genin screamed before even reaching where Kakashi stood on the water.

Hello everyone I am back. Sorry I have not updated, I have been in Korea for a month and just got back last week. And I know what you're saying, "but Angellwriter, you had hours on a plane with nothing to do, why not update then." Well I'll tell you, it was because I stupidly left my iPad at home. Good move right?

Anyway, it's been hectic, trying to get use to my time zone again and then my great grand-uncle passed away on Monday and I haven't been able to write for the past couple days. Standing in the heat all day in a cemetery wearing black clothes while your feet scream at you, is not fun, I also knew only eight people there, out of over a hundred, and yes, I was counting myself. It's also the reason this chapter is not that long.

I literally am falling asleep as I write this so please excuse all the errors because I guarantee there must have been a few. I thought about updating tomorrow when it had been edited by a more awake mind but the I thought over a month's wait was long enough. Anyway I better stop, being tire always makes me write long ANs. Hope it never got to confusing, again, tired.

Also I am curious to hear what you think Kakashi did, if anybody guesses right I will give them a sneak peak of a future chapter I already wrote for this story.