Heh.... I went missing again... I apologize. I will however not be finishing this fanfiction when the group arrives in Kohona, like originally planned. There are some pesky people out there... you'll find out who.

Disclaimer: I own nothing of naruto. I do however own my artwork, and if you ask nicely, i will give you a link to my original character art.

Chapte10 A new home, A test of strength

The next morning, everyone was rubbing the sleep out of their eyes as they ate breakfast, and then prepared to leave. Tsukiko gave warm good byes to everyone, a hug to Ravy and Kaira, a pat on the shoulder to Taara, a hand shake to Kakashi and Sakura, and a high five to Naruto. The heat crept on the temple slowly, and the priestess stood in her robes with a small wooden fan waving back and forth to cool her head. She looked them all over.

"Careful getting out of town safely." she reminded them, then tapped her chin with a now closed fan. "Oh yeah, one more thing." she smacked Sasuke on the back of the head hard to snap the fan in half. "If you hurt anyone of these people, I swear, i will do that again, except with a boulder. Got it?" the Uchiha winced and nodded. "Good. Have a good trip." they all waved and left the temple.

"Marco!" Ravy called out from the back of the formation.

"Polo." Sasuke called out from his spot next to Kakashi.

"What's with that?" Naruto looked between them.

"It's so I know he isn't running away!"Ravy shouted "Marco."

"Polo."

"Sakura and Taara have been gone a while. Think they're in the village yet?" the blond asked his sensei who was behind an orange novel.

"Yeah. I am sure their fine." the greyhaired man replied.

"Marco!"

"Polo." Sasuke sounded agravated.

"Well, it sounds like you're getting annoyed." Kakashi looked at the Uchiha.

"You try having an annoying girl yelling an annoying name at you." he replied, his left eye twitching.

"Ah." he smriked beneath his mask.

"But Sauske..." Kaira started a sentence.

"Marco!"

"Polo! What?" he turned to the brunette.

"Oh nothing." she shook her head.

"No, really. What?" he persisted.

"Well, Ravy isn't trying to be mean, she's trying to be nice." the brunette told him.

"Oh, this is being nice?" the Uchiha quirked and eyebrow.

"She could be beating the crap out of you." she replied.

"True."

"But, I think she's starting to grow on you." Kaira smiled.

"Marco!"

"Polo! What?" Sasuke sputtered.

"You haven't tried to kill her again yet." the brunette shrugged.

"Marco!"

"Polo damn it!" Sasuke yelled back. No way this girl was growing on him. She was just too damn annoying.

"Ah! The gates of Kohona!" Naruto shouted as he entered the village hidden in the leaves.

"Try not to bring too much attention to use." Kakashi warned. "Let's take the rooftops."

"Sorry bastard. Have to tie you up again." Ravy wrapped a rope around his wrists and shoved him in Kakashi's direction who carried him over the rooftops. Ravy, Kaira, and Naruto followed. They quickly made it to the Hokage tower and to an open window and in side.

"Old Hag!" Naruto smiled.

"My goodness, they weren't lying." Tsunade was sitting in her chair and Sakura and Taara were standing in front of her desk, looking tired from explaining.

"Why yes." Ravy entered gracefully. "We did happen to do what we said we would do." she brushed hair out of her eyes. "Ha! In your face." she lost all gracefulness and acted inmature.

"Oh god. See this is what you sic'd on me." Sasuke complained.

"He's talking?" the hokage stared.

"Yeah. He's not mute, just stoic." the raven haired girl grinned.

"Well, seeing you brought him back in one piece, not one of you died, I have to get you three new housing." she sighed and dug up some papers. "Now, if you want to join our forces, you ahve to be ranked." she explained after signing the paperwork.

"What do you mean 'ranked'?" the three of them all asked as the hokage smiled.

The group, including an ANBU guarded Sasuke, were standing in the overhanging balconies of the indoor arena.

"You'll be put up against one opponent each and when you beat one group, you move onto the next stat." Tsuande had a board planned out. "I figured you have to be more skilled than a genin, and to have captured Sauke, I figure your between Chuuin and Jounin range, so we'll start you out with team Gai. They should be addequete enough."

"Who's that?" Kaira asked, looknig over the rankings.

"Good morning lady Hokage, it a wonderful day for training. And why Naruto! I see you and your team are back, full of wonderous youth! How wonderfully splendid it is that you are still youthful and strong!" Three people; not much older than Sakura, Naruto, and Sasuke; walked into the arena. One of which was a green jumpsuit wearing boy who was spouting nonsense about youth.

"Oh dear god." Ravy managed to stutter out, horrified. Taara stood next to her twitching, and Kaira had her head in her hands, shuddering.

"Well who are these youth? I have not seen them before!" the boy announced. "Hello! I am Rock Lee!" he introduced himself.

"Really Lee, do we have to go over proper ways to greet people?" the other boy retorted, clearly unhappy with the way the other boy was acting.

"Neji, Lee, knock it off. The hokage called us here." The last member of the group. She had a oval shaped face and two buns wound tightly on her head.

"Thank you Tenten. Girls, this is team Gai." Tsunade nodded. "Kaira, you will be facing Lee, Taara will fight Tenten, and Ravy will face Neji." she wrote the names on the small chalkboard. "Now where is Gai?" she looked around.

"I am here, wonderful Lady Hokage!" there was a puff off smoke and another green suit clad guy appeared. Taara's eyes twitched even more ferociously, while Kaira smacked her forehead, and Ravy fainted. "Oh, who are these wonderful youth?"

Oh my god I had fun writing Lee and Gai. Although it was horrendous. Please review! I might update faster!