A/N: This is the last chapter I uploaded before editing and mass uploading everything that I have written. 06/04/2021

edited: 05/03/2022

Chapter 7: Genin Assignment

The Academy graduation test was split into several parts: taijutsu, ninjutsu and theory.

They had to show competence in Academy taught taijutsu in two ways. The first was by simple completing the nine katas with little to no mistakes while under observation of their class instructor. The second was by using the theory in an actual combat situation against a chunin (which turned out to be Iruka or Mizuki alternatively), you had to last up to five minutes without being knocked out of the ring, extra points for skill, improvisation and for landing a hit. Finally, the last part of this exam was stamina showed by getting through an obstacle cause. Overall, this section was worth 50%, split 15%:45%:40% between the three sections.

Next was ninjutsu which was only worth 20%, so you could fail this portion of the exam as long as you got 85% or more from the other two sections. During the year they had to demonstrate that they could use all three of the techniques taught: the clone technique, the body replacement technique and the transformation technique. However, they only had to demonstrate the use of one of them during the exam but it was randomly selected each year. For them, the technique was the Bushin which Sasuke found the worst of the lot because it didn't have any physical worth to the clone and so most ninja's over Chunin level would be able to tell if it was false unless a subtle genjitsu was used alongside the henge to give it a shadow.

Finally, there was the theory exam which was worth 30% of the grade. This consisted mostly of history, tactics and scenarios. It wasn't hard, as long as you paid attention to anything Iruka said in class, or did any of the homework, you would be able to answer the questions. If you didn't then you weren't ready to go out into the field since it suggested you weren't prepared to read the field and intelligence reports, or if you did read them utilise and take in the information.

Leaving the room where they had to demonstrate proof of their ability to perform the Bunshin, Sasuke immediately made his way to the roof before sitting and staring at the head band. It was a simple blue strip of fabric with a metal plate in the middle. On that metal plate was a swirl with a triangle coming of the left-hand curve. The head band didn't mean much in itself, but what it symbolised was far greater.

All of her training had paid off. She was finally at the point in her life when all that work could be put towards helping the village, helping the very thing that her brother had sacrificed everything for. This headband meant she was strong enough to go out there and make a difference.

Clenching her fist around the band, Sasuke took off across the roofs back to her home.

Over the years since she had gotten out of the hospital, she had allowed her hair to grow to the point that it could be pulled back in a ponytail like her brother had done. This meant it was already pulled out of her face and so she had no need to wear the headband around her head. She had decided to wear the band around her arm or waist instead. She also wanted a change in wardrobe, something different to what she had warn in the academy to make the claim that she was a proper ninja.

Shisui had warn a brown high collared shirt and grey shorts that were baggy around the knees. The only accessory he had worn was his bandages around his legs, up to his knees, and around his palm and wrist, and oddly he had sown bandages around his right thigh trouser leg with a black ribbon in the middle of the bandages. Itachi wore a blue high coloured t-shirt with green shorts, with bandages around his legs and arms (instead of just his palm and wrist like it was with Shisui). He had also sown the bandages around his thigh with a green strip of fabric instead of black. They both wore the ninja sandals in brown and their headbands on their foreheads. On the left sleeve of their shirts was the Uchiha fan.

For the new wardrobe Sasuke decided to stick with the mesh shirt, but this time she used chakra resistant fabric which would also withstand more ware and tare then her previous one. Over this she wore a green t-shirt which had three quarter length sleeves, and clung to the body. The fabric was made of three layers, a silk inner layer, metal mesh inserts and finally a durable fabric outer layer. She paired this with black three-quarter length trousers which clung to the legs below the knee and had six pockets (left hip, right hip, two on the bum and one on either leg).

Sasuke tied chakra enhanced resistant bands around both ankles and wrists. These bands were different to the ones she had been using before because she could increase the resistance on the band without replacing them with stronger bands. For basic training the Uchiha family had 5% up to 55% resistant bands which would be turned on and off with the application of Chakra. The chakra enhanced ones could be set to increase resistance depending on the amount of chakra added and could be turned off and on with a spike of chakra applied to a particular area on the band. They could go up to 180% resistance before she would have to start doubling up the bands. Once she maxed out the first resistance band, she would have to have it fully active while adding the second band which would have the same consequence of increasing the resistance against her body by 5% (at the first level) with the already present 180%. The compounding effect of the layered bands made them more effective for her use rather than trying to double up and use the basic bands.

To cover up the fact that she was wearing the resistance bands she wore bandages from her ankles to the tips of her trousers, and from the palm off her hand to her elbow (covering the t-shirt). In memory of her brother and his best friend, Sasuke sowed five loops of bandages around her right thigh, with a black band and a green band in the middle. Finally, Sasuke tied the Konoha symbol around her upper right arm. She decided to forgo the Uchiha Clan symbol until she was at least a Jonin, at which point she felt having the target embroidered on her shirt wouldn't make much of a difference.

*****Scene Change*****

Two weeks after graduating, all the paperwork that Sasuke needed to complete was filed, her new personnel photo was taken and team assignments were ready to be given. Sasuke left home early and arrived at the academy half an hour before anyone else started arriving so she could claim her normal seat in the back corner by the window. This gave her the perfect advantage to see who had actually passed graduation since she hadn't interacted with her peers since passing the test.

The first people to wonder in were Kiba and his dog, Akamaru, who were practically bouncing in excitement. Then Hinata Hyuga wondered in with her head bowed and silently sneaking into a seat. She was quickly followed by Aim, Ami and Dai (three of the fangirls Sasuke had spent the majority of her time hiding from). Then it was Daichi, Ena and Atsushi. Except for Kiba and Hinata they were all from civilian families and based on their performance during the academy they would end up either failing out or joining the genin corps. They didn't demonstrate what it took to become Jonin.

Shikamaru and Choji came in together and took their seats next to her just like they always had. They silently nodded in greeting to each other although Shikamaru did raise a questioning eyebrow about her outfit.

"Needed something to show the change." Sasuke explained.

"Like when you were eight." Shikamaru realised, trying to be delicate while also letting her know that he had noticed and he wanted to make sure that she was okay. Her change in clothes following the massacre had been easily noticed and he'd also picked up the change in her shirt (from a normal collar to a high collar) during her first year, and the fact that she'd gotten quieter and more withdrawn during that time. Unlike with the clan massacre, he didn't know what happened to her during that period, but he did know that it had been something negative.

"Sometimes, a change in appearance can be a result of a good thing." Sasuke explained offering him a smile. Shikamaru had been her anchor over the last three years, and one of the only people who actually understood her without saying anything. They had once even had an entire conversation without saying anything or using hand signs.

Over the last year Sasuke had managed to convince Shikamaru to join her on Sunday afternoons in an abandoned training ground. They would practise taijutsu together, as well as situation awareness and Shikamaru's speed and control over shadows. After a while of this training, Shikamaru would get out his Shoji board and they would play while discussing strategy based on historic battles. Shikamaru had only agreed to this after Sasuke had pointed out the advantage of a Nara knowing taijutsu since it wasn't something his clan was known for and wouldn't be expected. The shoji and strategy were Sasuke's concession for making Shikamaru do physical activity, although she did generally enjoy engaging in such activity with Shikamaru.

They both exchanged a telling look when they heard Ino and Sakura's footsteps racing down the corridor. They had made it a habit in the last two years to race to the classroom in the hopes of getting the seat next to her. They hadn't succeeded yet. Seconds before they stepped foot into the classroom, Naruto jumped through the window into the seat in front of Sasuke with a smirk on his face. He had realised that if he sat in any other seat, he never got a note book of information so he made it a habit of getting to the seat first.

"Ha, I'm first I get to sit in the seat by Sasuke!" Sakura cheered.

"No way. I was first!" Ino shouted in disagreement.

They both turned, pushing and shoving each other, to face the chair in front of Sasuke.

"Hay, what are you doing there?!" they shouted as one at Naruto.

"Sitting." Naruto answered.

"But you didn't graduate. You don't belong here." Ino said, placing her hands on her hips and scrolling at Naruto.

"I did graduate." Naruto showed them his headband which was proudly placed on his forehead.

"But you can't do the Bushin." Sakura accused. "Everyone knows that."

"So?" Naruto answered belligerently.

"Everyone, take a seat." Iruka shouted as he walked into the room with the last of the graduates in front of him.

Sasuke's eyes narrowed ever so slightly as he took in the slight limp that their instructor was walking with and his stiff back. Iruka, despite being a chunin, still kept up with his training so it was possible that he was recovering from a training injury, but those didn't normally result in something that the chunin would struggle to hide from them and she had a vague recollection of Naruto and Iruka in a forest trying to protect a scroll and the older ninja giving the blond ball of sunshine his headband. It's possible that those events had included their sensei getting injured, but it was clearly not a severe injury even if it was paining him.

Sakura and Ino glared at each other and rushed to seats near the front of the room.

"Right, congratulation everyone. If you're sat in this room that means you are no longer an academy student. You are now a ninja of this village, a representative of our great nation. And so you are now adults, with all the responsibility that implies." Iruka looked over all of the students proudly.

"This morning I will be giving you your team assignments, which you are not allowed to change. Do not complain to me about who you are assigned with. You'll be meeting with your Team Leader at 10:30."

Iruka grabbed a list from his desk. "Team one is Aim, Daichi and Ena under Aoba Yamashiro. Team two is Ami, Atsushi and Gentaro under Dan Akimichi." Sasuke tuned out what Iruka was saying until he got to Team Seven. "Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto Uzumaki and Sakura Haruno..."

"YES!" Sakura cheered while there was a series of moans from the other girls who had wanted to be on the same team as Sasuke.

"Hh." Sasuke sighed, leaning back in her chair in an attempt to hide from them all. She had always known that she would be on the same team as Naruto, because despite her help he was going to be the dead last. The prejudice of the teachers, his large chakra capacity and energy reserves practically guaranteed it.

The Rookie of the Year was always placed with the dead last. The fact that their skill sets meshed and complimented each other well also didn't help. The only wild card for the team was Sakura. Her skills didn't particularly clash well with theirs since she couldn't be used as a heavy hitter, nor had she demonstrated any strong practical skills. She was Kunoichi of the year only because the civilian council had influenced the Academy enough that a 90% (or higher) in the theory and Ninjutsu could overrule an average physical score. If Hinata had demonstrated more confidence in her physical instead of just letting everyone beat into her, she would have been the Kunoichi of the year.

"Team 8," Iruka spoke a little louder to get everyone's attention. "Kiba Inuzuka, Hinata Hyuga and Shino Aburame under Kurenai Yuhi.

"Since there is still a team nine from last year, the next is team ten consisting of Choji Akimichi, Ino Yamanaka and Shikamaru Nara. Finally, team eleven is Dai, Hayao, Fujio under Ensui Nara."

"Why do I have to be with those two lazy louts?" Ino complained, glaring at her old friend turned enemy.

"No complaining." Iruka reminded them. "Now, I have a meeting with the Hokage. Your Team Leaders will be here to collect you shortly." With that he disappeared out of the window.

"Well, I'm not sure which one of us got the short end of that deal." Shikamaru commented looking at Ino and Sakura who were arguing about whether being on a team with Sasuke was also worth being on a team with Naruto.

"Right now, I'm going to say, me. You can get your parents to tame her." Sasuke answered in an undertone. "Commiseration training? Sundays?"

"Shoji?" Shikamaru countered.

They had discussed it before when theorising about their teams. Although Shikamaru was naturally predisposed to be lazy, he didn't want to witness the death or injury of a team mate because he wasn't good enough. And Sasuke wanted to train against someone who had the intelligence to strategize on the fly. They had agreed once they graduated to meet up on Sundays – or otherwise on a day off – to train for the whole day instead of the half day they had done before graduation. And as consolation, they would play shoji afterwards – Sasuke considered it strategy training, although their games had been known to dissolve into cloud watching on particularly nice days.

"Team one." A tall ninja suddenly burst into the room, ordered his genin to follow him and left just as quickly. This started a chain of ninja's coming in and collecting their genin although they weren't all as brisk as the first jonin.

Finally, only team seven remained.

"Where's our instructor?" Naruto complained sinking into his seat.

"Could have been called to investigate something or be briefed on a mission." Sasuke pointed out, hopping up onto her table and waving Sakura over.

"Did we get a name?" Sakura asked Sasuke directly; her body positioned in such a way it was clear she was intentionally ignoring Naruto's presence.

"No. You interrupted him before Iruka could tell us." Sasuke answered. "But we can use the time we've been given to get to know each other since we're going to be working together."

"What do you mean?" Naruto asked confused. Sasuke had never shown interest in getting to know anyone before. Sasuke didn't speak in class unless he was asked a direct question by Iruka-sensei, and he didn't talk to any of the girls who chased after him. In fact, Naruto wasn't entirely sure he'd ever actually heard Sasuke say anything that wasn't directed at Iruka-sensei.

"What are we good at? Taijutsu, Ninjutsu, skills, knowledge etc." Sasuke explained, waving a negligent hand. "For example, I got a 100% on the Konoha basic, and I know the Uchiha fighting style. I'm still at an intermediate level for this, but as I grow, I will be able to progress on to advanced sets. In regards to Ninjutsu I can use the academy three and two Katon Jutsus. I prefer to fight with back up weapons such as shuriken, ninja wire and kunai. My weaknesses are my team work and communication skills. I also need practise with all of my skills on missions." Sasuke listed of several of her skills, although she didn't mention her extensive use of D and C rank ninjutsu, her personalised fighting style and her kenjutsu training since that would discourage her fellow teammates who were already behind her on the skill level.

"Well, I've got lots of stamina and can use the Kage Bunshin because I have a lot of chakra," Naruto said thoughtfully. "Um, I'm not very good at theory or control." One of the big things that the books he had been reading told him, was that he needed to be aware of what he wasn't good at so he could adapt to cover those weaknesses and so that he didn't endanger any potential teammates he had by lying about what he could do.

"I'm Kunoichi of the year, I always scored highest in theory." Sakura informed them proudly. When Sasuke raised an eyebrow, she grudgingly added on a weakness. "I suppose my stamina could have been better."

"Kay. So, we can work on taijutsu together, combat experience and adapting of styles which will allow us to work together better in the field. Sakura you need to work on stamina, endurance and probably your strength. Naruto, you have shoddy chakra control so you could do with learning how to use it properly and you said you know how to use the Kage Bushin?" Sasuke ran through with a thoughtful frown, trying to work out how this team could best come together to overcome their weaknesses. Because they would need a plan if they were going to help Kakashi train them.

From what little Jane could remember, and from her own research into the elite of Konoha, Sasuke knew that Kakashi was an intuitive genius. He probably didn't know how to explain the low-level stuff in a way that they would be able to understand and therefore copy because he could just do it or understand from watching another do it. It would be easier for him to explain the higher level stuff expected of a chunin due to his time as a an ANBU captain which would have seen him training his subordinates, but there was a big difference between an ANBU trainee and a freshly graduated genin.

"Yes." Naruto answered proudly.

"We can work on you using that effectively. Could be useful for team formation." Sasuke said thoughtfully. A solid clone could be extremely useful, especially if you can create many of them like Naruto could. Then there was the benefit for Naruto as well, helping him learn new skills far quicker than other people. "I need to practise my trapping skills, which I know you're good at Naruto from all your pranks."

"What do you mean?" Naruto asked confused.

"You sneak around trained ninjas, and even escape from ANBU on a weekly basis. That means you are brilliant at trapping, tracking and evading." Sasuke explained.

"But he's the class clown. The dead last." Sakura disagreed.

"Maybe, but grades aren't everything." Sasuke informed them. "Besides, being a genin is about team work. One person's strength is the teams' strengths, one person's weakness is a teams' weakness."

This was something that she needed them to recognise early on. Because avoiding the dangerous missions and the end of the world shit that was heading their way was impossible. They needed to be as strong as possible, as soon as possible, in order to continue to remain just one step ahead of their deaths. And the easiest way to do that, was to stick together.

"Why do you know anything about it?" Naruto asked confused. "That genin is team work?"

"My brother. He told me everything." Sasuke answered, a sadness she couldn't hide in her voice. She missed her brother so much. They used to talk every day Itachi was home, with Itachi making sure she was as prepared to face the world as she could be. Near four years he had been gone, four years since she had heard his voice. Then again, she shouldn't really be the one explaining teamwork and genin formations, that should have been the job of the academy.

"You have a brother?" Naruto asked confused.

"Had." Sakura corrected hitting Naruto over the head. "How can you be so oblivious?"

"Sakura stop hitting him." Sasuke ordered sharply. This was something she was going to have to put a stop to early on, because abuse of a teammate was something she couldn't stand. "He's allowed to not know about the attack on my clan. He wasn't in the class back then, nor is Naruto told anything by the people of this village. The only way he could have known was if he interacted with my clan before their death, or I told him." Sasuke defended him.

"Your clan…?" Naruto trailed off with wide eyes.

"Was murdered. That's why you don't get chased by police with the Uchiha symbol on their back's anymore." Sasuke explained. "Although, I never got to thank you for the prank where you covered the uniforms in itching powder. It saved me from a very boring meeting."

"Ha. I remember that one! Did you like the one where I died their uniforms pink?" Naruto asked excitedly.

"Almost as good as the one where you painted the shop keeper's walls." Sasuke complemented. She always found his pranks to be inspired.

"I always found your pranks immature." Sakura sniffed disdainfully. "How long do you think we're going to have to wait, Sasuke-kun?"

"Until we're done waiting." Sasuke answered, automatically using her mother's favourite saying. When the words registered, Sasuke had to supress her wince; it had been a while since she had thought about her mother, and even longer since she had recalled one of her mother's favourite sayings. To be confronted with something so blankly related to her mother because she hadn't been monitoring her words was a surprise that caught her off guard it took her a second to regain her equilibrium. Despite the distance that had formed between her and her mother in the time before her death, Sasuke still loved the woman and the good memories that loitered in her mind of her.

"What do you know about being a genin?" Naruto asked curiously. No one had ever taken the time to explain what being a genin actually meant. About how team formations worked and how one progressed up the ranks to reach chunin and jonin. All he knew was he had to be the best in order to reach Hokage.

"Well, genin are always three-man teams who work under a jonin instructor. They generally consist of two boys and a girl, since it's believed having a girl on the team will balance out the temperament of the boys. Depending on our sensei, we will likely be trained as a heavy combat team or as a general-purpose team." Sasuke gummed thoughtfully as she thought over the best way of explaining genin to her team mates without giving them information they didn't need to know.

"The first two too six months, depending on skill level, will be spent doing nothing but D-rank missions. These are basically chores done around the village in order to help the civilians, and get them used to the ninjas of this village so they trust us. Which is vital. It also gives us experience with ninja skills and team work in a safe environment. When our sensei deems our basic skills and teamwork to be good enough, we will move up to C-rank missions which are outside the walls of the village. At first, we will likely alternate between very basic C-rank mission and D-rank mission until we become more experienced as a team, and will drop the D-rank missions entirely for only C-rank missions. The dropping of D-rank missions for C-rank mission doesn't typically occur until the second-year mark of being genin as teams make their final preparations for the chunin exams."

Sasuke was generalising of course, since some genin had been known to become chunin in as little as a year, and then there were others who failed their chunin exams and so were still running D-rank missions at two years. Still, it was generally expected that those on the jonin track became chunin between twenty-four or thirty months of instruction and experience under the jonin sensei. Typically, the promotion is earned in their second chunin exam, since the first was used as experience and for teaching. It was the rare genin who was promoted from their first exam, or one who had been held back from entering for longer periods of training like the current Team 9 who had been genin for a year but hadn't been entered into the chunin exam that had taken place in Kusa two months past.

"As genin we will rarely come across a B-rank mission unless we're on a C-rank that gets upgraded mid-mission. The upgrading of a C-rank is typically caused by the potential of facing combat against enemy ninja or due to the need for an assassination in order to ensure mission objective. We should never have to do an A-rank until we make chunin but it is not unheard of that a C-Rank mission gets re-classified as a B or higher mid-mission." Sasuke finished her explanation.

This is something that they should really cover in the Academy but they don't, which means that civilians and orphans enter genin level with very little knowledge about what they were about to face. She had a more detailed knowledge of the different mission levels, beyond what her brother would tell her, because of the amount of paperwork she had access to.

"General purpose or heavy hitting?" Sakura asked hesitantly, clearly not liking the idea of being a heavy hitting team.

"With me and Naruto on this team, heavy hitting is pretty much guaranteed. But a proper sensei would also be able to train our other skills and make us a general-purpose team." Sasuke explained.

"How did you come to that conclusion?" Naruto asked, honestly baffled by how he made the team heavy hitting.

"You're a chakra power house, full of stamina, and can take a hit and get up again. You're also extremely unpredictable, which makes you a hard opponent to face and bring down. With training you could become an exceptional taijutsu and ninjutsu specialist, with a sub-speciality in trapping" Sasuke explained. "I have a higher-than-average chakra reserve, and my taijutsu is the highest in our class, and off the graduating class above us, only two of them are likely able to defeat me in pure taijutsu. I'm currently working on earning the title of taijutsu and kenjutsu specialist, with sub-specialisation in ninjutsu and intelligence."

It was at that point in the conversation that their sensei opened the door.

Their sensei was quite tall, easily over 6 feet. He was wearing the standard jonin outfit, with flat jacket, despite the fact that jonin typically wore their own clothes, only wearing the full uniform when they were on a diplomatic mission or a mission which required them to represent the village. It was more typical for chunin to wear the uniform of their station than for jonin to do so. His face was mostly hidden with a black cloth which covered his nose and mouth, and his headband was pulled down to cover his left eye. What was most identifiable about the man was his white hair which was stuck up all over the place like he had been struck by lightning.

"Hmmm." Kakashi Hatake said observing the way the three of them had been sat conversing while waiting for him. "Interesting… meet me on the roof. You have five minutes." And with that their sensei disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Sakura eeped before taking off out the classroom at a run, Naruto quickly over taking her since he was far faster. Instead of following after them, Sasuke decided to take the faster route and left through the window. Swinging from the window sill up to the wall, Sasuke applied just enough chakra to her hands and feet that she stuck. Then, modulating her chakra output, she began running up the wall.

In the last three years she had managed to perfect this technique to the point that she could jump large distances across buildings, run at her top speed without hesitation and she didn't have any chakra loss. Due to this she got to the roof in under a minute and lent on the metal railing that Kakashi was leaning on reading his Orange Book.

"How… how did you beat me?" Naruto spluttered when he reached the roof and saw Sasuke lent casually about an arms distance from Kakashi.

"I took the short cut." Sasuke answered, jumping from the railing and taking a seat in front of Kakashi with Naruto as Sakura joined them, puffing to catch her breath.

Sakura glared at Naruto and went out of her way to ensure that she was sat next to Sasuke. Sakura shot Sasuke what she assumed was a flirtatious smile that Sasuke decided to ignore. One of the first things they needed to work on was Sakura's attraction to her, and then they would have to work on her commitment to being a ninja. She wouldn't work in a team where one of them didn't want to work to get stronger, or was actively sabotaging their ability to do anything.

"Starting with pinkie, I want to know likes, dislikes, hobbies and your dream." Kakashi pointed to Sakura who glared at being called 'pinkie'.

"Um… well my name is Sakura Haruno, I like…" she shot Sasuke a side eyed glance and a giggle. "I dislike loud mouthed idiots," she shot Naruto a glare. Sasuke sighed internally, it would be a slow journey to change Sakura's way of thinking in regards to her and Naruto. Hopefully, by showing that she believed in Naruto and by Naruto demonstrating that he was more than capable, it would be enough to change her mind about him. But it would probably take far more than that to remove Sakura's crush on her.

"My hobbies include…" again she shot Sasuke another glance while turning red, "and my dream…" Sakura finished with a sigh.

"Blondie," Kakashi pointed to Naruto next despite the fact Sasuke was the one sat next to Sakura. Interesting.

"My names Naruto Uzumaki, I like Ramen. I dislike how long it takes cup Ramen to cook. My hobbies include training and eating Ramen. My dream is to try every Ramen flavour and become the Hokage." Naruto said excitedly, getting a raised eyebrow from Kakashi and a snort from Sakura for his dream. Sasuke just shook her head. Only Naruto would put eating Ramen at the same level as becoming Hokage.

"Broody." Kakashi pointed to Sasuke next.

She sighed at the nick name. She had discovered that she found it difficult to express her emotions ever since the attack, mostly because she didn't feel comfortable doing so around people. So, she had developed a mask that came across as cold and distant. Probably one of the reasons why she had so many fan-girls. But her cold mask wasn't exactly uncommon in the ninja world since it was a common copping mechanism next to the weird quirks commonly found in the best ninjas (exhibit a and b, Kakashi and Might Guy).

"My name is Sasuke Uchiha, I like tomatoes, I dislike ignorant people; my hobbies include gardening and training. My dream is to see my brother returned to Konoha and to be a ninja that he would be proud off." Sasuke rattled of her information quickly.

She had other dreams of course, but those were the ones she didn't mind sharing with people that she barely knew. Maybe, in time, she would express some of her other dreams such as becoming the ANBU commander so that she could be the shadow protector to the Hokage. She also wanted to bring down Root, re-start the Uchiha police force and protect the village to the best of her abilities against threats from within and outside her walls.

"What about you, sensei?" Sasuke questioned.

"My name his Kakashi Hatake, Jonin of Konoha. You're not old enough to know my likes, or my hobbies, what I dislike doesn't concern you and my dreams are my own." Kakashi rattled of getting protests from Naruto and Sakura about his withholding of the same information that they had just shared.

"But you didn't tell us anything." Sakura complained.

"Yes, he did." Sasuke contradicted easily, deciding to show off a little. "He told us his name and his status and that's all we actually need to know to learn anything about him. All ninja of Konoha are registered and basic information can be read about them depending on your access. Then of course, are the shinobi who have earned themselves a reputation. For example, Kakashi Hatake is considered one of the elite of the village since he graduated from the academy at the age of 5, and was apprenticed under the late Yondaime. He was also vital in leading a mission to take down Kannabi Bridge which was one of the steps to ending the Third War. That was his first mission after making Jonin. He is the son of the White Fang, and the last member of his clan which were fabled for their use of White Chakra. He has one of the longest mission success records without losing a team member currently on record. He is twenty-four years old and is known as the copy-cat ninja. An S-ranked threat. It's a well-known fact that Kakashi Hatake enjoys reading the Icha-Icha works." Sasuke rattled of the information that could be commonly found about Kakashi either from his Bingo book page or gossip. She had memorised every Bingo Book page entry since the time of the Third War, and researched every Jonin of Konoha.

"Impressive." Kakashi complemented before changing the subject. "You have been told that you are genin of Konoha. This is not true. There is another test that you must pass before you can be considered true genin. If you fail the test, you go back to the academy." Kakashi smiled at them in a sinister manner.

"WHAT?! THAT'S NOT FAIR. DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD I WORKED TO PASS THAT TEST?!" Naruto demanded out raged.

"This is the way it has always been. To be accepted as a genin on the Jonin track, you must first past my test. I'll warn you now, that only one in three genin pass the test. Meet me tomorrow at training ground three at seven o'clock. Oh, and I suggest not eating breakfast if you don't want to throw up. A ninja must learn the consequence of their actions." And with that he disappeared with a flicker of leaves.

"I really should learn how to do that." Sasuke muttered to herself, watching the leaves drift to the floor.

Although she could use the substitution jitsu to get out of harm's way during a fight, being able to use the body flicker technique meant that she would be able to travel distances quicker and it would take less time and energy then running at top speed. Perhaps she might even be able to reach a similar mastery as Shisui who had mastered the Shunshin to the point that he became known as Shisui no Shunshin because he could create after images.

"I can't believe that we have another test." Naruto grumbled.

"We should all get a decent dinner tonight and plenty of rest. I doubt that Jonin Kakashi's test will be easy." Sasuke got to her feet and prepared to leave the roof.

"Wait! Sasuke-chan do you want to go out with me?" Sakura jumped up and asked.

"No, Sakura-san." Sasuke responded before jumping from the roof and running off so Sakura couldn't follow; well, she couldn't follow at the minute since roof jumping was a skill taught to all genin and so she would be able to following in as little as three months. Fortunately, even after Sakura learnt the wall-walking/roof jumping exercise, Sasuke larger reserves and training would allow her to move faster than the Kunoichi and so escape from any attempts at following or stalking that may be attempted.