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Chapter 48:

She got up and grabbed the files as she pulled out its contents and the files she had on her former akatsuki, she started to lay it out in a certain pattern as Kakashi chewed on dumplings. "looking back at the results from the labs on these along with the findings. It rules out" Kagome started to point at each file and counterpart along with trails and images as Kakashi nodded.

Kagome yelped when Madara poked her cheek as her and Kakashi spoke about the map and clues laid out before them, Kakashi put a hand to his mouth and stifled a laugh as Kagome turned and glared at Madara.

Madara held out a glass container that showed a beating heart on the inside, behind him Tenzou was on the ground gasping as he struggled to stay awake. "what did you do to him?" Kagome asked in exasperation as she watched Tenzou get up slowly.

Tenzou shook his head "ill take any mission from now on." Tenzou pointed at Madara "just as long as you keep me way the fuck away from him and missions with him!" Kagome rolled her eyes as Madara turned around with a grin "oh come on Tenzou, it wasn't that bad!" Tenzou pulled down his collar as he pointed at bite marks and burns "TELL THAT TO MY ACHING BODY!" Kagome sighed and went forward to heal him.

Tenzou held out a hand and shook his head "stop, just give me some disinfectant and oipments to help speed along the healing and ill be good." Kagome looked at his wounds "they will scar Tenzou." Tenzou nodded and looked over at Madara "id like to keep it as a reminder." Madara came over and clasped his hand on his shoulder making him yelp in pain "or you can keep them as a testament to your achievements!"

Kagome shook her head and held out her hand "mission report." She said as Madara came forward and gave her one, she started to walk over to her desk as she pressed a button, Kakuzu came on screen and looked at Madara holding the container "ill be on my way" he said as he cut of conection.

Kagome barely noticed as she sat back and kept on reading before bursting out in laughter and looked at Tenzou "you know, underestimating your opponent gets you killed." Tenzou smiled nervously and Madara crossed his arms and nodded. "it's a good thing I was there to help him out than!" Madara practically yelled as Kagome pouted.

Kakashi sweat dropped and said "hey, do you happen to know what time it is?" "its 4pm, why?" Madara said as he looked over. Kagome saw Kakashi fall over anime style and said "man… I am soo late…" kagome laughed "let me guess, 3 hours late?" Kakashi nodded as he slumped forward. Kagome pushed him out the door "well get to it than!" kagome shouted at him, without even asking what he was late for.

Over in training ground 1 itachi was overseeing the genins sparring matches as narutos squad watched and sakura couldn't help but feel all the more useless when she saw how good the genins were at hand to hand combat, it was like they were moving in one unit as they fought each other.

Kisame shook his head, the bandaids still on his face as he glared at his genins. Akira and Misaki had smug looks on their faces as they looked over at Kisame.

Souta snickered "I don't know about you guys, but it was soo worth it…" he said as he dodged a punch to the face and kenta smirked "I have to agree with the dobe on this one." He simply said as Itachi shook his head "you guy wont be saying that when kagome sees the bill that you guys put on her tab from the commercial district…" Akira laughed.

"oh come on sensei, we absolutely had to get those clothes!" Misaki nodded aggressively and chimed in "they were practically begging us to buy them!" Kohaku snickered "great, now they talk to inanimate objects!" Miroku dodged as Akira and Misaki turned around and round house kicked Kohaku into a tree.

Misaki stuck her tongue out "like your one to talk, you guys practically bought out the whole weapons shop!" Miroku had a look on his face as he turned his head to the side, practically turning his nose up on the females of the group as he said "sorry, but weapons happen to be rather useful in battle."

Akira punched Mirokus nose and said as he fell over, blood spurting from his face "well, clothes are useful too! Just look at kagome-senpai!" Kohaku snickered "she has you there Miroku" Miroku turned to Kohaku while holding his nose yelled out "YOUR SUPPOSED TO BE ON MY SIDE!" Kohaku held up his hand. "hey, i'm just saying she has a point Miroku!" souta shook his head.

Before they can critisice kenta and souta on the stuff they bought over in the commercial district Kakashi appeared in a puff of smoke and gave a closed eye smile as he waved at Naruto. "yo!" he said and Naruto along with sakura pointed a finger at Kakashi "YOUR LATE!"

"well you see a bla-" Kakashi was cut off mid-sentence again as ino scoffed at him "can it Kakashi." Ino said as they walked over to a tree and sat down, the genins joined them and Akira was looking at Kakashi weird.

"say Kakashi-sensei, where you with kagome-senpai again?" Akira asked in a sly voice and Misaki turned and looked at Kakashi with a smug grin. Kakashi blushed and waved his hands "its nothing like that!" Kakashi breathed out and souta shook his head "right…" the Uchiha twins said at the same time and Kakashi slumped forward in defeat.

"anyways, I asked you guys to meet with me for a little game" the genins perked up at the mention of a game and Naruto looked at kakashis hands to see Kakashi holding the bells.

"but, this isn't team 7.." sakura said as Naruto nodded. "well you see, it's a special case. You guys will always be team 7 to me." Ino opened her mouth as if to say something and sakura shook her head before saying loudly "well, sai is technically team 7, not ino. But tsunade didn't want him participating in these exams for some reason." Kakashi nodded and said "well, you guys will just have to make do than." Kakashi said as the genins came forward and said in a timid voice. "can we watch?"

Kakashi turned around and gave the genins his closed eye smile and said in a kind voice. "you guys can do more than watch, the first time we are going to do the bell test. But we are going to incorporate your game into this and include the waterfall as a battle ground. Afterwards once they are finished than you guys can have a go at it." The genins cheered and Naruto turned to sakura.

"are you thinking what i'm thinking?" Naruto asked sakura and sakura said "we go at him all at once while we buy time for ino" Naruto laughed nervously "right, that's what I was thinking…" ino glared at Naruto and said "you were thinking of going to go get ramen as a celebration afterwards weren't you?" Naruto froze and waved his hands. "no, I was totally thinking of a battleplan!"

The genins sweat dropped when Kakashi set a timer. "the bell test starts… now!" Naruto and sakura disappeared while ino stood there confused and looked around. Kakashi came forward and grinned "my ino, I thought you would know what you are supposed to be doing during this test."

In the bushes Naruto and sakura were argueing about who was going to save ino when they watched in amazement at inos skills against Kakashi in a taijutsu fight and blinked when ino was thrown into the waterfall.

Kakashi tightened the gloves on his hands as he grinned at the crater that ino was in before the water continued to fall around her and covered her from sight. "that's one down…" Kakashi said as Naruto used his shadow clone jutsu and rushed at Kakashi.

Sakura charged her fists with chakra as Kakashi pulled out a book and smirked as he dodged narutos punches and kicks with blocks of his own. "I thought you guys would know the first time that this test is about team work." Kakashi said as he turned a page and Naruto snarled at him.

Behind Kakashi, sakura charged forward and threw a punch at kakashis face, Kakashi dodged and sakura hit a tree that was behind him. The tree shattered into splinters as the genins watched in amazement at her strength. Misaki and Akira breathed out "wow…." As souta said "shes awesome…" kenta narrowed his eyes at sakura as the uchihas activated their sharingans.

Kakashi started performing hand signs soo fast that his hands were blurs and Naruto and sakura yelped "we cant even see his hands!" sakura cried out as Kakashi threw up a hand and a water dragon started to come barreling in their direction.

It went on for a while, each side using elemental attacks against the other. minus sakura who was still trying to get in some punches on Kakashi when he lets down his guard. Finally, they forced Kakashi to put up a mud wall and they were on the otherside.

Naruto looked at sakura "psst, I have a plan…" Naruto said as the genins leaned forward, hoping to overhear the conversation and sweat dropped. Kakashi jumped over the wall and Naruto grinned. "hey Kakashi, I see your reading the new book that pervy sage released. You know he tried to get me to read the manuscript and" kakashis eyes widened and he held out a hand "DON'T TELL ME!" sakura grinned and went along.

"yea, the main character was going through the trials and in the end." Kakashi covered his ears in hopes of drowning out their voices. Kakashi thought in horror 'no, I can still read their lips with my sharingan!' Naruto had a smug smile on his face as Kakashi closed his eyes shut and lowered his head.

After a while Kakashi looked up at them and saw Naruto and sakura holding bells in their hands and grinned at him. "I didn't really read it Kakashi-sensei, I found it soo boring!" Kakashi glared at Naruto and sakura. "well you guys passed…." Kenta drew a ice whip and the genins watched as he cut through the water fall and pulled out a unconscious ino and Kakashi sweat dropped.

Sakura came forward and asked, "is she still breathing?" Kakashi scratched his head "uh…" he tried to saw as ino woke up and looked around groggily. She winced when he tried to get up and sakura started to examine her.

"great Kakashi-sensei, you gave her a concussion…" sakura said as Naruto shook his head. "will she be able to fight in the finals?" he asked and sakura nodded. "yea, but for the rest of the day she will have to spend at the hospital." Naruto nodded and glared at Kakashi.

Kakashi sighed. "ill take her to the hospital" they were cut off by clapping and looked over to see kagome clapping as she walked out of the forest. "bravo Naruto, you certainly have grown." She said as Naruto tackled her and looked at her hair "wow kaasan! Your hairs back to normal!" Kakashi slumped forward and asked. "can you fix mine?"

Kagome laughed and ruffled narutos hair before looking over at Kakashi and shaking her head. "sorry bakashi, but no can do." Kakashi started to anime cry as the genins laughed at him. "your own fault Kakashi-sensei!" Akira cried out in between laughter and Misaki nodded.

Kakashi opened his mouth and gaara closed it behind him. Kagome raised an eyebrow at gaara and gaara moved around Kakashi before bowing to kagome "the five kages have asked me to come fetch you." Kagome laughed "i'm sorry, but aren't you a kazekage?" gaara nodded "but we all agreed that I am the most familiar with you kagome." Kagome rolled her eyes and grabbed gaaras arm before disappearing in her light orb.

The genins yawned and started to rub their tired eyes as Kakashi laughed "well, I guess it Is passed your bed times little ones." He said as he picked up akira who fell asleep against a tree. Misaki shook her head and said tiredly "but bakashi, you said we can play…" Naruto picked up Misaki and sakura along with ino picked up the others.

Sakura shook her head "i'm sorry, but you guys are too tired for this." Kakashi sweat dropped "man, they weren't able to make it home for supper either… their mothers are going to kill me…" Naruto shivered, if their mothers were like kagome in terms of supper and food. Than he wouldn't doubt that.

Kakashi and team 7 started to walk to the clan districts and dropped off each child to their respective places, surprisingly once the mothers saw the way their children were sleeping and raised an eyebrow at team 7 carrying them they simply thanked them and grabbed them.

Of course, ayame was bitching at Itachi for working their twins soo hard on their trainings. Kakashi couldn't help but laugh at Itachi, Itachi just turned to Kakashi and glared before slamming the door shut. Naruto looked at his watch and sighed, seeing that it was only 8pm now.

Naruto jumped and yelled out "restruants may still be open!" he started to run to the kage building leaving a trail of dust behind him as sakura and ino fanned the dust away from them as they coughed. Kakashi laughed and looked at sakura and ino. "come on, we might want to try to catch up to Naruto. Otherwise we will loose him once he gets to the commercial district." Sakura and ino nodded.

Rin smiled fondly at Akira as she tucked her into bed after eating and taking a bath. Hidan walked up behind her and smiled at the sleeping child before turning to Rin and saying "you can leave to the areana now Rin. Ill make sure to wake Akira up in the morning for the finals." Rin raised an eyebrow at Hidan. "you going to make sure she eats breakfast too?" Rin asked sceptically and hidan laughed. "HEY! I can cook just fine!"

Rin shook her head and walked out the door "just as long as Akira doesn't get food poisoning. I get that she may be immortal like you, doesn't mean that we can let harm come to her." hidan started swearing under his breath as he walked out and closed the door behind him.

Rin was walking down the streets as she hummed, the districts were now starting to die down. No doubt on behalf of the sleeping children and she smiled fondly as she walked to the arenas she have set up for the final exams and blinked when she saw Sasori there.

Sasori bowed to Rin and she blinked when he said "I am to help you run some tests for the screens and scanners." Rin laughed and said "I understand her sending you to help with the tests for the screens to make sure they are able to project live feedback and audio. But I don't understand how you can help with the scanners."

Sasori raised an eyebrow and puppets appeared before them as they floated along on strings. "simple, puppets are without souls so we can test the scanners accuracy." Rin started laughing and pressed a button on the panel beside her. "that's actually a smart idea, ill have to call in a squad to act as the 'real' ones than."

Kagome rubbed her forehead when alarms went off from the areanas and Rin appeared on the screen looking slightly winded. "forgive me kagome-senpai. We are just running the tests now." Kagome sighed and said. "I understand that, but CAN YOU TURN THE DAMN THING OFF NOW!"

Rin fell over and cried out "right!" and the alarms shut off as kagome rubbed her forehead. She turned around and grinned at the council before her and started to go over the new development on the data her and Kakashi went over, she also started to explain her and kakashis theories on where the kidnappings may have taken place and the routes that are the most likely used for the travels afterwards.

Naruto was lieing in bed as he looked up at the ceiling, he was really glad that there were restruants still opened. After they ate they went over to the inn and Naruto still didn't get why Kakashi stayed at the tashio district…

Naruto had a look of determination and slammed his fist into his other closed hand and said in a determined voice "I will find out Kakashi-sensei!"

At the district Kakashi was going to put a slide of black forest cake into his mouth when he sneezed and nearly smeared his face before sighing "am I catching a cold?" he asked absent-mindedly as he watched fullmetal alchemist on kagomes projection.

He went back to eating and groaned when Madara slapped his back. Madara grinned at Kakashi and said "I understand what you will have to do tomorrow morning?" Kakashi glared at Madara.

"I am to report at kagomes office tomorrow morning at 8am, at that time she will be giving me a disguise so I can be among her and the kages box as ANBU and we are to keep our eye out for this person who have been collecting the jinchuurikis despite the akatsuki disbanding. Once we are sure that we have found this person than I am to leave it up to kagome to deal with the kages as me along with the ANBU stationed there are to capture this person in for questioning before anyone else can get to them."

Madara nodded and grinned. "good, I see that you have remembered your orders. But one problem, you are not to report to kagome at 8am, but at 5am…."

Kakashis eyes widened as he looked over at a clock near the projection and anime cried. "that means I have to go to bed…" Madara nodded and took Kakashis empty plate and picked him up before pushing him in the direction of the rooms and said "get to it, I hate how you get when your tired." Kakashi turned and glared at Madara.

Madara went to the kitchen and put the plate away after washing it and sighed. He had better get some rest… if he can… since he is the feudal lord, than he must go to the meetings of the others… he shook his head, its not a meeting. Its more of a safe grounds… Madara hated how the nations 'treasured' their feudal lords to the point of confinement…

At the arena Rin was grinning up at the sky, the moon was out and since there were no clouds in sight than she can see the night clearly. Just as she saw a shooting star pass by Raksha called out to her "hurry up Rin! We have everything ready!"

Rin turned around and her grin widened when she saw the sutras at each point of a circle along with symbols that glowed with a pink light, in the centre Raksha and a couple others were there with books charms and ufadas.

Rin walked away from the edge and walked to the circle, throughout the area everyone around was able to see a flash of pink come from the top of the arena, after a high pitched chime a pink barrier was absorbed into the structure as it created a dome over Rin and her group.

After a couple second, the barrier was absorbed further into the wall, causing the walls to gleam a silvery pink as it disappeared and Rin clapper her hands together.

"THERE! Now not even an explosion will harm this place!" Rin said, clearly satisfied with their handiwork.

Raksha rolled her eyes as the ufadas and sutras disappeared into the concrete floor and she got up with her book and looked around. "are you sure this will be good enough?" Rin turned around with a twitching brow.

"Raksha, the only other person to make a barrier stronger than this would be kagome-sama. If she wanted a stronger barrier than she could have done it herself! So quit complaining! Its getting annoying!" Raksha sweat dropped and rubbed her head. "alright, alright. I get it Rin." Raksha said as they looked at a watch and sighed. "we better go report to kagome-sama that we are now finished with arrecting the barrier. It will be a couple hours of her inspecting it, so we better get her started on it as soon as possible."

Raksha snickered "it would suck if it were to be a flawed barrier, all those hours of inspecting it." Rin groaned "don't jinx it Raksha!" Rin cried out before their group disappeared. Rin in a flare of fire, Raksha is a flare of pink and the rest of the group through speed.