Disclaimer: Me no own!
REVIEW RESPONSES AT THE BOTTOM!
"Talking"
'Thinking'
'Hand Signs'
"Kyuubi Talking"
"Inner Sakura"
Last Time:
Kakashi watched the four genin from where he hid in the bushes. It was pretty clear that Naruto and Kagome would work together, and that they both either hated or tolerated Sakura. Sakura fawned over Sasuke, Naruto hated Sasuke and vice versa, and Sasuke thought the other three were beneath him, but he tolerated Kagome because she used to live with him. If it came down to it, he'd wager that Kagome, Naruto, and Sasuke would work well together, but Sakura would be difficult to incorporate.
Iruka had told him that Naruto used to have a crush on the pinky, but violent strikes to the head drove him away. Kagome hated fangirls and fanboys because she had a fan club of her own, and Sakura was a reminder of how the fanboys acted, though in his opinion, fangirls were much more vicious. Lastly, Sasuke, he hated Sakura because she was a fangirl, she may have wormed her way in to the Kunoichi of the Year spot, but in Sasuke's eyes, she was still just a weak little girl.
He looked at his watch, he'd been hiding in the bushes since seven, and it was nine now, he figured he'd give them at least three hours to get a bell. With that thought he poofed in to the clearing.
Now:
"Yo!"
"You're late!" Sakura and Naruto shouted.
Naruto went over to Kagome who had been sitting still and placed a hand on her shoulder and shook it lightly.
Kagome's eyes snapped opened, "Oh, is he here?"
Naruto nodded and motioned his head in their Sensei's direction.
"Well, you see, there was this old lady and I had to help her out with her groceries," Kakashi Sensei said.
"Aren't there genin teams for that," Kagome asked.
"Oh but this lady was poor, she couldn't afford genin teams to help her," Kakashi said.
"But if she was poor, then she would not have had so many groceries that it took you three hours to get to us," Kagome said.
Kakashi eye smiled, "Well, regardless of that, let's get started with the survival test that we all will be doing together."
The four genin stood all traces of their previous humor and amusement gone.
"You see these bells," Kakashi held up three bells, "You each must get a bell before noon, or you fail."
"Sensei, there are only three bells," Sakura pointed out.
"Yes, that way, at least one of you will fail and be sent back to the academy," Kakashi said, "If you want to get a bell before noon, you must come at me with the intent to kill."
He walked over to the three stumps and placed the timer on top of the middle one.
"Demo Sensei! We could hurt you," Sakura exclaimed.
"You couldn't even dodge that eraser," Naruto laughed.
"I agree, the Eraser-Wedged-in-the-Door is, like, the oldest trick in the book," Kagome said.
"Ignore the two class clowns, those who speak out the most are always the ones that you have to watch out for the least," Kakashi said.
In all of the worlds Kagome had been in, the modern world, the feudal era, and now this one, had at one time or another experienced someone ridiculing her, comparing her to someone else, or something other along those lines, so she was practically immune to the curses thrown at her, of course there were things that still got to her, but there weren't as many.
Naruto, on the other hand, was not immune, so when he heard his Sensei say that, anger bubbled in his veins, he glared, grabbing a kunai he made to lunge at his Sensei.
In the blink of an eye, Kakashi was behind Naruto, twisting his arm back, he held the kunai at the base of Naruto's neck.
"Don't be so hasty, I didn't say 'Start', yet," Kakashi said. He eye smiled at the shocked faces looking at him, "I think I'm starting to like you guys."
He let go of Naruto and stepped back, "Start."
The four disappeared in the trees surrounding them.
'Hm, they can hide their chakra pretty well, Sasuke is to my left, up in a tree; Sakura is below him, hiding in the bushes; Kagome is in a tree to my right; Naruto is,' He blinked as the last person he was thinking of was standing in front of him.
"Hey! Kakashi Sensei! You and me are going to fight fair and square! Right now," Naruto exclaimed.
"You're a little weird compared to the others," Kakashi said.
"The only thing weird here is your hairstyle, old man," Naruto retorted.
"Alright, then. Shinobi Lesson 1: Taijutsu," Kakashi said, reaching in to his pocket.
Naruto tensed.
Kagome giggled, 'Good acting Naru, now we just have to wait until he takes out his book.' Kagome knew that Kakashi Sensei would not take them seriously, and if her hunch was correct, then he would be carrying around his book and would be reading it when he battled them for the bells.
Her thoughts took a random turn as she thought about Kakashi Sensei's hairstyle; it seemed familiar. She wondered where she had seen it before. She shook her head, now was not the time for this.
Kagome looked to the side, where her two Kage Bunshin stood and nodded, ready to give the signal.
She watched as her Sensei reached into his pocket toward a rectangular shape. He pulled out the orange colored book.
'Just a little more,' Kagome thought, she couldn't see the book properly, yet. Sensei opened the book; he turned his face to the book and turned with the book facing the right, showing Naruto his side.
'There,' Kagome thought, she nodded once at one of the clones, and the clone turned, making hand seals, it Kawarimied with the book.
The second clone caught the book and they jumped out of the tree.
Kakashi Sensei looked up, instead of his book, there was Kagome sitting in his hand, but she felt very light, suddenly there was a poof of smoke and Kagome disappeared from his hand.
'A clone, interesting, Naruto was a distraction to make me take out my book, then when I was facing her direction, she used a clone to Kawarimi with my book,' Kakashi thought.
Naruto jumped and landed beside the Kagome holding the book and took a defensive stance.
Kagome quickly flashed through hand seals, stopping at the last one as a Kagome clone held the book and Naruto defended the clone.
"Hey, Sensei, if you don't want your book to become a pile of ashes by Kagome's Katon, give us two bells," Naruto said as Kagome sucked in a breath laced with chakra.
"Very good, you have a clone holding my book, you as a guard to make sure I can't retrieve the book, and you have Kagome ready to do a jutsu on the book," Kakashi Sensei eye smiled.
Naruto grinned, "Hand over the bells, Sensei."
"But, you forgot one thing," Kakashi Sensei said.
"And, what's that," Naruto asked.
"You forgot to guard Kagome's back," with that, Kakashi disappeared and reappeared behind Kagome's back, he grabbed the back of her tank top and made to throw her against the tree, when she turned her head and blew out fire towards his face.
Kakashi quickly flashed through seals and hid underground. He decided to wait and see how they would react if they couldn't find him.
The fireball cleared, the clearing was empty except for her, Naru, and her clone, there was silence, then…
Kagome's eyes widened, "Oh my god! I fried Kakashi Sensei!"
With her hands, she signed, 'There's no body. He's somewhere nearby. Act like I burned him.'
"Wow," Naruto said, he walked over to Kagome.
'Okay. Where is he?' Naruto signed.
Then it hit Kagome, her eyes widened and her mouth opened in horror, "Oh my…" She swallowed a lump in her throat as she looked at Naruto who was beside her.
'I don't know; if he had gone up, we would have seen him,' Kagome signed back.
"Naruto, you know how you mentioned Kakashi Sensei's hairstyle being weird?"
'He's probably underneath us or somewhere underground.'
Naruto's eyes widened as he looked down, but still kept the conversation going.
"Yeah, what about it?"
Kakashi was amused by her choice of words and also a little curious. He had technically just died and she was talking about his hairstyle? Wait, could they have figured it out? But what had they figured out, that he was alive or that he was…
'We need to move above ground,' Kagome signed and replied, "I was thinking earlier that it was familiar, who else do we know that has silver hair?"
"Well, Dog-san has silver…" Naruto's eyes widened at the implication, "Do you really think Sensei is Dog-san?"
'Jump in to a tree when I nod,' Kagome signed.
Naruto nodded.
"Well, he does have the same hairstyle," Kagome said, she stretched her senses.
Sometimes her miko ability really came in handy when sensing others, especially those with a Kekkei Genkai, because the Kekkei Genkai was a trait passed down from demons that had mated with humans.
Being around the Uchiha clan for five years, even when she didn't have her memories, came in handy when sensing a Sharingan user nearby.
She could even sense the Hyuga Clan through their Kekkei Genkai by being in the same class as Hinata for so many years. She could also sense normal humans, but they were harder to sense. If Sensei was Dog-san, then she would be able to sense him because she knew that Dog-san had a Sharingan eye.
"You know it might be true, but Sensei is always late, aren't ANBU supposed to be uptight and punctual," Naruto asked. He was tense, ready to spring at a moment's notice.
Kagome motioned for her clone to give her the book. The clone gave her the book and disappeared with a poof of smoke.
Kagome felt her Sensei move and she nodded, they jumped away as a hand came up from the ground, trying to grab at their ankles.
They both ran and jumped in to a tree, hiding in the branches as they saw their Sensei come out from under the ground.
Kakashi raised an eyebrow as they figured out that he was Dog-san. Oh well, they would have eventually figured it out, but he didn't expect them to figure it out so soon. He thought that if he pretended not to know them they wouldn't figure it out, but he guessed the hairstyle was a give away.
He had never really liked brats, he had always thought they were annoying until Naruto and Kagome, not that they weren't annoying, but they were more amusing than anything. A few years ago the Hokage had told him that his duty was to watch over Naruto and later on Kagome, to make sure none of the villagers harmed them.
He had eventually grown fond of the two brats, it was one of the reasons he agreed to take on this team, and maybe pass them, but he hadn't faced Kagome's wit and Naruto's attitude full on before. Thinking about this morning, he sighed, he would have to come up with some full proof excuses if this team did manage to pass.
'Okay, time to drag them underground,' he thought cheerfully as he walked toward where he sensed the two, he stretched his hand, but instead of grabbing Kagome's ankle, he grabbed air.
He came out of the earth and looked around. He sensed the two in a tree; he disappeared in a swirl of leaves, this time appearing on the same tree branch as the two genin.
Kagome and Naruto turned around to see Kakashi Sensei standing behind them on the branch.
"I commend you for getting my book, but I'll take it back, thank you," Sensei said as he grabbed the book then jumped down before Kagome could do anything.
"Okay, so Plan Book Fry didn't work," Naruto said, as they crouched on another branch in a different tree (AN: For some reason, I'm craving spicy fried chicken and it's affecting my writing ^_^').
"I got a good look at the cover, it was Icha Icha Paradise IV and it's the one with the boy and girl, although I think we should use the two girls," Kagome replied.
"Let's wait a bit, let the others go first," Naruto said, "What do you think?"
"Eh, sure. We should further develop our strategy," Kagome said.
"Also, is that really Dog-san," Naruto asked skeptically.
Kagome shrugged, "I think so… But Dog-san did say that he was called off duty around two or so years ago, remember? And when he caught me he said that jiji called him back to active duty to catch us."
"True, but Kakashi Sensei is always late, don't you have to be on time to be in ANBU?"
"A lot can happen in two years, plus even when he was Dog-san, we didn't see him unless we were in trouble, he was usually in the shadows, so…" Kagome trailed off and shrugged her shoulders.
"But, you know, if he is Dog-san, then we're going to have to change strategies," Naruto said.
Kagome groaned.
Kakashi's keen ears picked up on the sound of shuffling, ignoring it he turned a page in his precious book as he walked around the clearing. He dodged a kunai thrown towards him; he noticed the kunai land in a bush that had a ninja wire set up.
He was assaulted with numerous kunai and shuriken that he dodged and looked toward Sasuke. He noticed Sasuke move and saw a blur of pink as Sakura made to follow him.
'Hm, let's go after Sakura,' Kakashi thought.
Discreetly making a hand seal, he sent the bunshin off to the other side of the clearing where he could feel Sakura, but the bunshin stayed in the clearing as a decoy.
He disappeared using Shunshin and reappeared close to Sakura. He watched her look in the clearing and notice his bunshin, she stopped and hid in the bushes, he let her catch her breath before going up to her silently and crouching behind her.
His keen ears picked up a sigh of relief, 'this is too perfect,' he thought and heard her say, "Oh thank goodness, he didn't see me."
He grinned, not that you could tell behind the mask, "Psst, Sakura! Behind you," He said, he made a hand seal for a genjutsu.
"!" A scream was heard through out the training ground as Sakura fainted.
'Hm, I think seeing a Sasuke kunai and shuriken pin cushion was a little too much,' Kakashi thought, out loud he said, "Shinobi Lesson 2: Genjutsu."
He walked out from behind the bushes, and was assaulted by kunai and shuriken, again. Swiftly dodging them, he spoke up, "Oh, are you trying to finally get a bell? The others all failed, well, Naruto and Kagome had a good strategy, but they didn't utilize it properly."
"I'm not like the others, I'm better then them," Sasuke said darkly.
"Really? Well then, Shinobi Lesson 3: Ninjutsu."
A full ten minutes later, Sasuke was buried in the ground, "Well, you aren't too bad, but in terms of strength, Kagome and Naruto dodged the technique you are now stuck in. So I would say you're the same as the others," Kakashi said, walking away nose in his book, it was almost time for the bell to ring.
He heard a giggle, he looked up, where had that come from?
"Kage Bunshin," Naruto and Kagome said, making a clone each and sending them off to hide in the trees.
"Sexy Jutsu," Naruto whispered and transformed in to his girl counterpart, but this time she was wearing a light green tube top, making her boobs pop out and black booty shorts. He had different versions of his sexy jutsu, like Kagome, but this was his second most infamous one. She had long lashes, the mascara brought out her eyes and she had a light blush on her soft, velvety cheeks. Her blond hair, which was usually in two pigtails, was left to fall in soft waves down her back. Her body was to kill for; she had a perfect figure with a Double D boob size, a flat stomach, and long toned legs that seemed even longer with her wearing booty shorts.
"Sexy Jutsu," Kagome said, instead of transforming in to a sexy Sesshoumaru, she transformed in to an older, sexier version of her. Her hair was still long and black but it had blue highlights, her eyes were brought out with mascara, she had long eyelashes that hit her soft, rosy pink cheeks. Her boobs were also a Double D; she had a flat stomach and long toned legs with manicured and pedicured nails. She was wearing a yellow low-cut tank top, and shorts that came up to mid-thigh.
Time to put their plan into action.
They saw Kakashi Sensei come in to the clearing, Kagome giggled loudly to gain his attention as she sat on Naruto's lap at the base of the tree.
She saw Kakashi Sensei look up and come towards them to investigate.
Naruto lifted his head toward her and cupped her chin, lifting her face to look in to her eyes, "Kasumi-chan, I love you," he whispered and went to kiss her. (1)
Kagome blushed harder, and turned away, her eyes down, her long lashes brushing her cheeks, "a-Na-Narumi-chan, please, not here, someone might see us."(2)
"There's no one here but us," Naruto as Narumi purred. Narumi ran her hand down Kasumi's back, grabbing at her ass.
"I-I love y-you, too, Narumi-chan," she said, she was acting the shy part of their relationship, of course they both eventually switched it up, so as not to make it boring. She put her hands around Narumi's neck.
She saw Kakashi Sensei out of the corner of her eye, and gasped, pulling away from Narumi.
"Um, we didn't know anyone was here," Kasumi said, averting her gaze in shyness.
Narumi put her hands around her waist and pulled the other female back to her, "Would you like to join," she asked, teasingly.
"Na-Narumi-chan!"
"Ne, Kasumi-chan, you know you want it," Narumi said looking at her partner with half lidded eyes, who blushed harder.
Kakashi was speechless as he watched the two girls groping each other in the clearing, he absently searched for his students' chakra signature, Sasuke was still digging himself out of the hole, Sakura was passed out, Naruto and Kagome were in a tree some ways off and…
'Damn, I was hoping these two were actually older girls, damn Naruto, Kagome, and their sexy jutsu,' Kakashi thought, a little disappointed.
He watched as one of the girls approached him, Narumi, that's the name that Kagome had called her. She was the bolder one of the two; he deduced that she was Naruto while the brunet was Kagome.
"As much as I love to, I am testing my students," Kakashi said, making disappointment taint his voice, which wasn't hard.
The brunet looked crestfallen, but the blond slided up to him and ran her hands down his chest, looking up to him with big, crystal blue eyes.
He kept the blond in sight, as the brunet got up, "RRRIIIIIINNNNNNGGGGGG!"
"Nice try you two, but you didn't hide your chakra signature well enough, and you ran out of time," Kakashi said, the two looked at him with pouting faces, transforming back.
"Damn, we ran out of time," Kagome said.
"We waited too long," Naruto said.
"Sensei, why am I tied to the stump," Sakura whined. Trying to look cute, she made her eyes big and teary. (3)
Naruto and Kagome were snickering in the background as it obviously didn't work and looked more repulsive than cute.
Kakashi was not amused, and bluntly replied, "Because all you did was scream and faint, twice."
Sakura winced and stayed quiet. The second time she had fainted was when she had seen her Sasuke-kun's head without his body.
"None of you will be sent back to the academy," Kakashi said as they all sat around the three stumps.
He let them sigh in relief and exclaim their happiness, as he watched them carefully, trying to see if there was any hope of this team passing.
"This doesn't make sense," Kagome spoke up, "None of us got a bell, yet none of us are being sent back to the academy, there is another meaning to this test, isn't there?"
"None of you are being sent back to the academy because you should all be dropped from the program, permanently," Kakashi said, ignoring Kagome for the moment.
"But you said if we didn't get a bell by noon, that you'd send us back to the academy," Sakura screeched.
There were cries of outrage and disbelief, 'Suddenly the academy doesn't seem too bad to you brats, huh,' he thought.
Sasuke had a kunai in his hand and ran to attack him, but Kakashi took control, putting Sasuke down with a foot and placed the brat's own kunai against his neck.
"YOU CAN'T STEP ON MY SASUKE-KUN LIKE A BUG," Sakura screeched.
Kakashi ignored her, "Kagome is correct in her assumption that there is another meaning to the test, anyone want to take a stab at it?"
Kakashi looked at Kagome who had a frown on her face and her lower lip between her teeth, as she thought things through. Kakashi saw the understanding that lit her eyes as she breathed out, "Oh, hell."
Naruto looked at Kagome, "What?"
"He is a jounin, we are genin, and there is no way we'd stand a chance against him. The only option would have been to work together," Kagome said.
Naruto repeated Kagome's earlier statement, as the pieces fell in to place, "Oh, hell."
"What? No way," Sakura said.
"Think about it, at the beginning, he said and I quote, 'let's get started with the survival test that we all will be doing together.' Also, before that, on the roof, he said 'we' not you guys, when he was telling us about the survival test."
"Indeed, the true purpose of this test was teamwork, why do you think you are put on teams of three and four? Naruto and Kagome worked together well, but you two were so involved with making me fall for your jutsu, that you left Sasuke and Sakura out. Sakura, you were so obsessed with Sasuke that you didn't even try to fight, you simply followed him like a lost puppy. Sasuke, you were so sure that the others were beneath you that the thought of teamwork never even entered your mind," Kakashi said.
"Sensei, you only had three bells, even if we had worked together and gotten the bells, there would've been a fight to get a bell," Sakura said.
"I was seeing if you could put your teammates' interest above your own. You all are just children, on a mission, you'll have a difficult choice to make, that will either help you or ruin you. There are no second chances in the world of the Shinobi. You can't mess up then say 'oops' and then do it again. Once you have made a mistake, it is there and cannot be erased," Kakashi let them take that all in.
"Kagome, kill Naruto or Sasuke dies," Kakashi barked out, pressing the kunai in to Sasuke's throat. He watched Kagome's eyes go wide. (4)
"This is what happens on a mission, you are faced with an important decision," He moved away from Sasuke and Sasuke quietly went and sat next to Naruto.
"Do you see this stone? It is the K.I.A stone, all the great Shinobi and heroes of Konoha are named here," Kakashi said, he walked over and placed a hand on the black stone.
"I'm going to get my name on that stone! I'm going to be a hero," Naruto shouted.
"Naru, K.I.A means Killed In Action, all the people there have been killed in the line of duty," Kagome said softly with sorrow in her eyes.
Naruto deflated as he heard that, there was a moment of mourning for the dead…
"I'm going to give the Hokage my report, and when I come back, I'll give you guys another chance, here are the lunches," Kakashi said, handing out the bentos, "But, you are not allowed to give any to Sakura, this is her punishment for not even trying to take the test seriously. If you do, you fail automatically."
He shunshined behind a tree to watch what they would do.
Kagome looked at her bento, she didn't like Sakura because she was a fangirl that hated her and Naruto, but she also didn't like to eat when there was another person who was starving and she could help.
She couldn't sense him near them, and her miko abilities sensed the Sharingan, but it was probably just Sasuke, so she ignored it, not bothering to pinpoint the direction.
Kagome bit her lip, she got up and thrust the box in to Sakura's face, "Here, Sensei's not here, eat it quickly."
"But, you'll fail! I can't eat this," Sakura said, her eyes wide. Her stomach grumbled and she blushed.
Kagome sighed, "Just eat it, if we're going to defeat Sensei, then we can't have a dead weight on the team. Don't get me wrong, I still don't like you, but if you're hungry, then it affects the team. Plus, me and Naru already ate, and knowing you because of your stupid obsession, you didn't eat dinner because you were on a diet and I know you didn't eat breakfast."
Sakura looked torn if she should obey her stomach or her Sensei.
"And anyways, Sensei didn't specify what 'any' meant. He only said not to give you any, that probably means food, I'm giving you a bento not food." Kagome said the last part for Sakura's benefit.
Naruto got up and did the same, holding his bento out to Sakura. Kagome smiled, and then narrowed her eyes at Sasuke who was quietly eating.
"Excuse me," Kagome said, she handed her bento to Naruto and went over to Sasuke and kicked him in the side.
"What," Sasuke growled annoyed.
"Get your ass over to her and offer her your lunch!"
Sasuke glared up at Kagome, Kagome glared back at him with her hands on her hips, Sasuke growled, "Fine."
He got up, walking over to Sakura he thrust his bento at her, "This doesn't mean I like you, if you're hungry then it affects the team and you're part of the team," he said gruffly. Turning to Kagome he said, "If she gets worse in her obsession with me, I won't ever talk to you again."
Kagome rolled her eyes and beamed, "Well, Sakura? Open wide!"
"Everyone, thank you," Sakura said, she had tears in her eyes.
Kakashi watched the four genin and smiled, then he sighed, he needed to start thinking up some valid excuses. He decided that it was time to scare Kami out of them and poofed into the clearing where the four stood.
"YOU! HOW DARE YOU DISOBEY ME?"
He summoned thunderclouds and lightning, as he watched amused as the four cowered before him in fear, their eyes wide, as he stood over them.
"W-we are a t-team," Kagome said, "And if one of us d-doesn't eat we all feel it!"
"We're one," Sasuke said, looking like he hated himself as he said that.
"Yeah, yeah," Naruto exclaimed, he was hiding behind Kagome, looking terrified.
"WHAT? YOU ALL ARE ONE?"
"YOU…" It was hilarious seeing them sweating as he delayed in announcing the verdict.
"Pass," he finished in a cheerful tone, doing a complete 180, the clouds and lightning disappearing.
"We do?" Sakura asked; her voice laced with disbelief.
"Yes, all the other teams that I tested all did as I said and did not feed their teammate. A ninja must see through deception and see underneath the underneath," Kakashi said.
"Let me tell you one thing," Kakashi said, all traces of humor gone, leaving only seriousness in his tone, "Those who disobey the rules are scum, but those who leave their teammates behind, are worse than scum."
The four nodded, then Naruto grinned, he grabbed Kagome picking her up he swung her around, "We PASSED!"
Kagome laughed and after Naruto put her down, she hugged him, and then jumping over to Sasuke, she hugged him.
Sasuke had a small smirk on his face and Sakura was smiling as everyone was celebrating, though she narrowed her eyes as Kagome hugged Sasuke and he didn't push her away (AN: Sakura's still tied to the stump).
"Kya! Who does that bitch think she is? Hugging MY Sasuke-kun like that!" Inner Sakura was ranting in her head.
"Ok, you all can go, I need to go to the Hokage to give him my report and make Team Seven official," Kakashi said as he shunshined to the Hokage Tower.
"Well, I'll see you guys later! C'mon Naru, I'll take you out for Ramen to celebrate, you want to come, Sasuke," Kagome asked as she started walking towards Ichiraku's with Naruto in toe.
Sasuke shook his head and walked off in the opposite direction.
A few moments passed, "HEY! LET ME OUT OF THESE ROPES," Sakura screamed as she was left alone in the training ground, still tied to the stump.
Kagome was lost in thought as she absently munched on her Ramen; questions ran through her mind, should she tell Sensei about her Kekkei Genkai? Should she show him her real strength? She hadn't even shown her real strengths to Naruto, and he lived with her. But, if he was Dog-san, then he would already know about her real strength because he would watch her teach Naruto the correct forms when the academy instructors taught him the wrong ones and more.
She would occasionally sneak out late in the night to do her own training by herself and Dog-san would watch her, occasionally giving a few tips.
It had started the first time she snuck out; he had thought that she was sneaking out to do a prank, so he had followed her. She had sat meditating in the clearing when a gang of drunken men came towards her.
At the time, she didn't know that they were drunk, just that humans were approaching her, so she didn't do anything thinking they would pass by. She had eventually found her core of Miko energy, when her concentration broke as the men surrounded her with sticks.
Dog-san had appeared in front of her and knocked them unconscious.
From then on, it became a normal routine: she would train, he would watch from the shadows, and sometimes correct her. She remembered once, when she was training with a katana, which was the first time he had ever given her advice.
~Flashback~
Kagome peaked out of her room, it was midnight and she needed to get her two hours of training in. She had promised Midoriko to do at least two hours of individual training daily.
She perked her ears, listening for anything that might indicate Naruto being awake. All she heard were soft snores, she walked out and closed the door softly, she toed on her sandals and quickly, but quietly, snuck out the front door.
She headed to the forest in one of the training grounds where she usually trained. She knew Dog-san was following her; he always did, to make sure she wouldn't get into trouble.
She faced one of the trees at the edge of the clearing, her katana in hand. She was practicing her kenjutsu.
She slid in to the stance that she had seen in a scroll, it was different from the stance she would normally practice with, which was the one Sesshoumaru had taught her. This stance was the one that had originated from Konoha and specialized in defense rather than attack.
She had been training for a good half hour when her frustration caught up with her after her katana had landed on the ground for the 63rd time.
"Why can't I get this right?" Sitting down beside her fallen katana, she took out the damn scroll and laid it in front of her. She studied it for a few minutes, when a voice came from the tree she had been practicing on.
"Move your left foot a bit outward and your right needs to be pointed inward," Dog-san said.
Kagome took a moment to blink, and another to process what he had said.
"You talked," she said, shocked.
"Yes, I did," said Dog-san.
"But, you- never mind," Kagome said, sighing and shaking her head.
She took the stance again, this time doing as the ANBU said, after that, it had gotten easier to manage the katana.
~End Flashback~
The thing with Dog-san was complicated; he knew bits and pieces, but not the whole picture. He knew that she had another chakra source, but didn't know that it was her miko energy.
After going to the Hokage to change her name, she had gone to Konoha's library and researched if there was a clan named Higurashi and found out that the clan was killed a few years back, and that little was known about them, but what was known was that they had another chakra source, and that the chakra was holy.
She also never trained with her Koryoku, so Dog-san did not know of that. She had figured out how to activate it after going over what had happened the first time. With the Sharingan, she had to imagine herself using it, and then focus chakra into her eyes and touch the person wielding the Kekkei Genkai with chakra coated fingers near the place where the Kekkei Genkai was located. This meant that she had to have a basic knowledge about the different Kekkei Genkais that she might have to go up against if she wanted to copy them. So far, she had only copied the Byakugan and the Sharingan.
When she was little and had activated it for the first time, she had unconsciously focused chakra in her eyes and fingers; getting the Sharingan was basically an accident.
Kagome was shaken out of her thoughts by Naruto's voice.
"Huh? Sorry, I wasn't paying attention," Kagome said sheepishly.
"I called your name like five times," Naruto complained.
"Sorry, I was just thinking," Kagome said.
"Are you sure that's wise," Naruto asked, she could see the amusement in his eyes.
"Are you sure it's wise to open your mouth," Kagome shot back, thinking about the picture in her pocket.
"So what were you thinking about," Naruto asked curiously.
Kagome smiled, a mischievous glint entered her eye, "I'll tell you when we get home," she promised, as she thought of a prank.
Naruto recognizing the glint in her eye, grinned, he knew that whenever Kagome had that glint, there was a prank brewing.
He slurped the soup from his 17th bowl, and putting it on top of the stack beside him.
"Jeez, Naru, I'm only on my fourth bowl, and I'm having trouble finishing it," Kagome said.
"I'll finish it for you," Naruto said, Kagome rolled her eyes and pushed her bowl towards him.
Teuchi smiled, "So, what's the occasion that calls for you to pay?"
"We are officially genin and a part of Team 7," Kagome grinned at the thought. She knew that Teuchi knew that she only bought Naruto ramen when there was a special occasion.
"I see, congratulations to both of you and you both get two bowls on the house," Ayame said smiling.
Kagome grinned, "Arigato Aya-nee, you saved me from spending our entire monthly allowance!"
Ayame and Teuchi laughed at that, they knew how much Ramen Naruto ate.
Teuchi grinned, "Well, Naruto and you, are our best customers!"
They talked for a while until Kagome finally dragged Naruto away after his 25th bowl, saying that she had only a little more money left and that they had to go to a lottery stand so he could win back some money.
Naruto was a lottery-winning machine; he had the best luck!
"Kagz, where are we going," Naruto asked.
"The lottery stand was that way," he continued on, pointing in the other direction.
"Oh, we aren't going to that one," Kagome scowled as she thought about the owner, he had tried to cheat them on the money they had won, not because of Naruto, but because they were kids.
"We are going to the other place that I found, the owner is pretty nice and he doesn't care who the customer is if they win. Don't get me wrong, he is a little nasty to the first timers at his stand, but once you win a few times, he warms up to you pretty fast," Kagome explained.
Before she came to the ninja world, she would have been terrified to go to the red light districts, but after she had faced demons, monsters, soul-stealing clay pots, and who knew what else, she was confident in her abilities to defend herself if needed. Plus, what were a few untrained humans verses demons and ninjas?
Naruto nodded, people in the red light districts didn't care who you were because they were criminals and out casts themselves, the only thing that made someone stick out was if that person was a kid. Then, they tried to cheat you out of the money, thinking that you didn't know any better. They took a left and Naruto saw the stand that Kagome was talking about, littered with tickets.
"What's the percentage you get, if we win," Kagome asked. She knew how much it was, this was a test to see if he would cheat them.
"10," he said, his voice was gruff and a little unused. Kagome nodded.
"I want three tickets," Naruto spoke. No goofy grin, no smiling face, gone was the cheerful idiot, replaced with a serious kid that knew the in and outs of the red light district.
Kagome's face was emotionless as she pulled out a few dollars. The man behind the stall was tall and lanky; he wore black sweatpants and a gray t-shirt. He had bags under his dull brown eyes, his cheeks were sunken and he looked like he was having a bad day.
The man had a scowl on his face as he held out his hand for the money. Kagome raised an eyebrow, "Tickets?"
The man smirked and held out three tickets. She gave him the money as Naruto took the tickets at the same time.
Naruto took out a penny from his pockets, and started scratching away at the tickets.
Naruto smirked as he won, Kagome looked over and saw that he had a straight win, the first one was for 15,000 yen, the second was for 55,000 yen and the last one was for 70,000 yen.
Naruto showed the tickets to the man.
It was amusing watching the man's sunken eyes bug out; he grabbed the tickets and gave them the money, keeping 10% of the pay.
"Here kid, you got some good luck," he said, his face turning into a smile, his day just got better.
"Thanks," Naruto said, he counted the money, giving half to Kagome and keeping half himself.
The man nodded to them as the two took to the roofs.
"He was nicer than I expected," Naruto said after a few minutes of jumping from roof to roof.
"Eh, well he doesn't exactly know who we are," Kagome said. She noticed Naruto looking down.
"No, not about the fur ball in your stomach, I meant the pranksters part," Kagome said, "You know they don't care about that."
They had started calling the Kyuubi 'fur ball' in public so that the people around them didn't know what they were talking about.
"Yeah, I know. But the thing is," Kagome looked at Naruto as he looked up at her, a wide grin on his face, "I hate acting so Sasuke-like!"
Kagome laughed, trust Naruto to think about that.
1) Kasumi-chan: Since there was a possibility of Kakashi being Dog-san, he would know about their Sexy Jutsu, so they had to switch it up a little.
2) Narumi-chan: Same as above, I know that Naruto's sexy jutsu is Naruko, but they had to switch it up.
3) The reason that Sakura was tied to the stump and not Naruto was because she didn't do anything except faint. Originally, Naruto was tied to the stump because he tried to eat the lunches early, but Kagome was with him this time and the fact that they had a plan that had a chance to work stopped him from eating the lunches.
4) The reason why Kakashi tells Kagome to kill Naruto to save Sasuke, instead of Sakura, is because he knows that Kagome has emotional ties to both of them, so it would be a harder decision.
~Omake~
"Kagome! Kill Sakura or Sasuke dies," Kakashi said, as he held the kunai to Sasuke's throat. What he didn't expect was for Kagome to jump up with a Kunai in her hand.
"Okay!" Kagome chirped, as she advanced slowly on the trembling fangirl. Kagome grinned and said, "One fangirl dead is one fangirl less."
Naruto's eyes were wide, trying to decide if he should help his once crush, 'Nah, it's fine, one fangirl won't make much of a difference.'
Sakura's eyes were as wide as dinner plates as she slowly imagined Kagome as death; a long black cloak was billowing around her, as a black scythe was swinging towards her, "No! Get away from me you psycho bitch!" Sakura struggled against the ropes.
"Now, now Sakura, you should be happy," Kagome cooed.
"And why is that," Sakura screeched as she struggled harder.
"You're dying so your precious Sasuke-kun can live," Kagome grinned evilly.
Kakashi's one eye widened, he decided that that was enough and he quickly hurried on, "Err, I didn't mean to actually kill her. I was just saying that this is what happens on a mission."
Kagome stopped and turned, pouting, "You mean I don't get to kill her," she asked innocently.
Kakashi's lip twitched, she sounded so sad and innocent at the thought of not getting to kill Sakura. He should probably tell the Sandaime about Kagome's willingness to kill Sakura.
'She sounds like a kid at a candy store that was told by his mother that they couldn't get any candy,' Kakashi thought, out loud he said, "No."
"Aww, darn!"
Emerald: Sorry Kags! But I need Sakura so that I can have someone to bash, so you can't kill her.
Kagome: Aww! You suck!
Inuyasha: No, she doesn't, and I've tried, too.
Emerald: *Glare* because you're a two-timing, no good, bastard!
Kagome: *Blushes and Glares* HENTAI! *Pulls out a kunai and advances towards Inuyasha with a glare*
Emerald: O.O No! Don't kill him! I need him for the story! Just sit him a few times!
Kagome: *pouts* Fine! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT!
Emerald: *Sighs in relief* Review please! I hope everyone liked this chapter and my first omake! I would also like it if people pointed out my grammar mistakes!
Review Responses:
WraithReaper (And Deidara):
Emerald: Thanks for reviewing! Don't worry Deidara, I have something interesting planned for you!
Deidara: *Shudders and moves away quickly*
Spark of the forgotten: Thanks for reviewing!
KEdakumi: Thanks for voting and reviewing!
Cosmic-lover: Thanks! Kagome simply had to end up in Team Seven or my story wouldn't really work. Sesshoumaru's going to be coming up very soon, too, just a little hint!
yue moon: Thanks for reviewing and voting!
Azumigurl: Thanks for reviewing!
kv: Thanks for reviewing and voting!
So far Sesshoumaru/Minato pairing:
Yes: 8
No: 7
Maybe/Don't Care: 1