"C'mon Naruto! Is that really your best?" Sasuke taunted, holding the kunai firmly in his right hand as he crouched into a fighting position once more.
"Oi, You haven't seen nothing yet Teme!" Naruto said forming some hand seals.
"Shadow Clone Jutsu."
"Let's go Teme. Go!" Naruto smirked over at the raven as his shadow clones rushed him.
Sasuke jumped to the left dodging a hook from one of the three clone's fist.
Pulling four shuriken from his pouch he threw them at each of the clones, one of the clones was hit, making it disappear in single poof.
"Damnit Sasukeee!" Naruto yelled running forward himself with kunai in hand.
"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!"
"God damn!" Naruto cried jumping behind a boulder to dodge the intense flames.
Naruto looked around the rock for Sasuke only to find him not there, then he heard a scraping sound followed by clink and he felt cold metal against his neck.
Looking back in front of him he saw Sasuke standing with a proud smirk on his face.
"Keep your eyes open Naruto." he commented flatly.
"Why you cutting it off so quickly?" Naruto pouted as Sasuke slipped his kunai away.
"Dunno, I'm not feeling the best to be honest."
"Ah man! Of course you would get sick. You're just a chicken and don't want to deal with getting beat."
"You couldn't beat me even if I had one hand tied behind my back dobe." Sasuke smirked.
"Why you-"
"Good morning everyone." a cheery voice said.
The team looked and saw Kakashi standing perched in a tree smiling a them.
"I hope you got a good night sleep, because we got an important mission today."
"What kind of mission!" Naruto cried enthusiastically.
"We have an assassination mission. S-rank."
The genin were all quiet at that.
Sasuke was ignoring him but listening about the mission details, but Naruto and Sakura were shocked upon the type of mission and the rank.
"S-rank?" Naruto squeaked, soon a grin spreading upon his face.
"Yep."
"Ah man. You mean we have to work with them!?" a voice yelled.
"Arf!"
Naruto turned around to see Kiba, Akamaru, Hinata, Shino, and their sensei Kurenai Yuhi approaching.
"Kiba." Kurenai said sharply.
"Good morning Kurenai." Kakashi greeted nodding his head.
"Kakashi." the woman replied.
"Now listen. This mission requires two squads so Kurenai's team has also been selected to do this mission." Kakashi explained.
"What?!" Naruto cried frustrated with the situation.
"You know, team work is always the best strategy." he chuckled at him.
Kiba glared at Sasuke, he didn't like him one bit. The Uchiha always seemed like such a blunt showoff to him. He hated showoffs.
Sasuke just stared impassively.
"Just stay out of my way, Uchiha." the brunette sneered.
"Hn."
"So why are we assassinating someone Kakashi-sensei? Who are they?" Sakura asked looking up at the jonin who was conversing with the dark haired sensei of Team 8.
"That is a good question, Sakura. I shall explain." Kurenai said before Kakashi could answer.
Kurenai glanced at Kakashi waiting for a signal saying it was okay, which she got with a nod from the other jonin.
"The target, is the leader of a clan in the Hidden Grass Village. A leader with an enormous ego for power, and is just capable of starting war with the Leaf. The Grass and the Leaf are already on edge, his name is Ikki Hayato, and he is leader of the Hayato Clan." She explained.
"What's the Hayato Clan?" Kiba asked, placing Akamaru on top of his head as the puppy stood up on its back legs and put its paws on his legs barking at him.
Kakashi decided he'd help explain and started to speak at the same time Kurenai did, they both stopped and Kurenai told Kakashi to go ahead after he muttered an embarrassed apology.
"The Hayato is a clan that craves vengeance from the Leaf village, their village wishes war with the Leaf, and they so desperate that he would even crush their own village which they are fully capable of doing." Kakashi added in for her as he leaned against a tree coolly, with his arms crossed.
The genin were shocked, except for Sasuke who didn't seem to be effected at all.
"Uhm... kill all those innocent people just to get vengeance...th-that's terrible...? Why would they do that? Um... why would they do that sensei?" Hinata asked, taking a shy glance at Naruto and turning slightly red before averting her eyes to the ground.
"The Hayato have the power to read the minds of others with their dojutsu, the Rashigan. They are skilled fighters, and are immensely talented in their unlimited chakra supply. Despite their extra gift of unlimited chakra in their clan heritage, I guess you could say they are sort of similar to the Uchiha Cla-"
Kurenai was abruptly cut off by the enraged voice of Sasuke Uchiha.
"Silence!" he snarled standing up from his seat on the boulder he had ended his spar with Naruto, and glaring coldly at her shaking with pure rage.
The woman was silent as was Kakashi, while the rest of the six genin stared at him, shocked that he would use that tone with one of their teachers.
"Arf!" Akamaru yipped randomly.
"You arrogant prick! Who do you think yo-" Kiba started, angered that the Uchiha would distrespect his sensei
"Quite Kiba." Kurenai said softly looking at the brunette with the dog on top of his head reassuringly, before averting her attention to Sasuke again.
"Don't you dare compare me or my clan to those animals! I know about that clan perfectly and I know why they crave vengeance. I know of the bloodshed, my mother told me about it as did my father, and my brother. My clan was not barbaric like theirs is. So don't you even think of speaking such words against the Uchiha, my clan would never form a conspiracy against their own village. We were loyal. Don't put a brand on us just because of him, its unfair since there is only one of us left!"
Sasuke stood still shaking with all his rage as his irises turned bright red, when his Sharingan activated due to his anger, caught in a stare battle between him and the sensei of Squad 8.
"Sasuke enou-." Kakashi started only to be cut off by Kurenai herself.
"No, it's alright Kakashi. I forgot to word my explanation carefully. I'm sorry Sasuke." she said in a gentle voice.
Sasuke's shaking died down after several forced attempts to calm himself, before finely his Sharingan reverted back to his normal dark colored eyes, saying nothing he just brushed past the other five genin, and the two jonin who noticed tears in his right eye, unlike the other younger Shinobi who weren't paying attention, before muttering a hard 'Let's just go'.
Kakashi sighed and looked at Kurenai who looked like she felt really bad, "Don't worry. Just let him cool off, he's done it to me too, I accidentally worded a battle I had with one of his clan members shortly after I met him the second day he was on my team."
"Okay." she said smiling weakly at the copy ninja before addressing her team.
"Team 8 move out." she commanded sharply.
"Yes sensei." the three said and started to follow.
"Naruto, Sakura. Let's go. Sasuke. Come back here, I want to speak with you."
Naruto and Sakura started to follow, and Sasuke came back to go the same pace as the rest of them.
"Sasuke you-"
"Leave me alone." Sasuke snapped.
Kakashi sighed angrily, this was going to be a long day until Sasuke calmed himself of the spat.
Shino walked over to catch up with Sakura. "Is Sasuke always like that?"
The pink haired kunoichi shook her head. "No, only if his family is mentioned. He's not a big... talker on his clan. Because well... you know."
Shino just nodded. "It must have been hard on him."
Sakura nodded, "I can't even imagine."
Sasuke let out a huff upon hearing them, he hated being talked about especially when it was about that.
The two noticed and stopped conversing.
"What's a dojutsu again?" Naruto asked stupidly.
"Dobe."
There we go, trying to get back into the Naruto fight styles, its going to be hard for me so bare with me.
Emily