Uni: Weee, I am back!! I am sorry for taking so long, but I have had a wee bit of a writers block -.,- it should be over now though -7, 9, 13, *knocks under the table*- that means that the next chapter of 'Yuki and Is' is currently at Cheryl's too, so it shouldn't be long before I post that as well^^ So anyways, Maaaaatt!!

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Uni: Thank you Matt^^ *huggles and ignores Matt's frantic attempts to run away* And hugs and kisses to Cheryl-chan for betaing it so quickly^^ And now on with chapter two then. Enjoy :)

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Chapter 2 Trial

"Is he asleep?" The sixth whipped his head around releasing a small sigh as he looked at, and recognised the person who was currently standing behind him, apparently on the way to enter his son's room.

"Yeah." He answered, turning his head back around to look at the sleeping boy, whose bed he was crouched down beside.

"I talked to Kakashi today." He told the other, still not taking his eyes off of the boy in the bed. "He had one of his talks with Nasushi again." The other snorted amused.

"As always he wouldn't tell me what it was about." The sixth continued. "Only that he thought we should know that Nasushi mentioned his creation, and the fact that he wasn't really born."

The young Hokage let his fingers run through the sleeping boy's hair. "The contrast in his hair wouldn't have been this clashing if." He muttered softy, trailing off, he pulled his hand back as if it had been burned.

"Did we do the right thing here," He asked, suddenly sounding a little uncertain. "Meddling with something like that I mean?"

His dark haired companion finally stepped into the room. "It is a little late to be thinking about that, don't you think." He said quietly as he crossed the floor and sat down beside his love, placing a pair of slim but muscular arms around the other, and they just stayed like that for a while.

"Could you live without him?" He finally asked, nuzzling the slightly shorter man's wild head of hair with his nose.

"No." Came the prompt answer. "I wouldn't even want to try."

The other smiled beside him "Then that's that." He stated.

The sixth just snorted slightly, then moved his hand up from where he had placed it in his lab before, to lightly trace the markings on either side of the young boys face.

"Those are from nine-tails." He stated the obvious. "What if. What if they aren't just from the fact that your DNA and mine are mixed."

His life long rival snorted beside him, and it vaguely registered in the Hokage's mind that there had in fact been a lot of snorting that night. He shook his head of the strange thought, just in time to hear what the other was saying.

"You worry too much. The chances of the nine-tail's being able to pull off something like that is one in a million, if even that much, and if it turns out otherwise, then we will just have to deal with it. He has markings from the cursed seal too, but we both know Orochimaru hasn't as much as looked at him. Besides, you turned out. okay, everything considered, right?"

Naruto swatted the other upside the head, though he couldn't help but smile in amusement at the others light teasing.

Growing serious again, he sighed solemnly. "I just can't help to think 'what if'." He murmured softly, leaning into the other, who hugged him more closely, but quickly drew back again, looking down at the blond with a spark in his eyes.

"When did you become so thoughtful anyways, usurakontachi?" (A/N: Okay, someone help me out with the spelling?? O.o -.-)

The blond just sent him a glare, and reached out to hit him again, though this time he missed as the other ducked.

"You didn't think I was going to let you do that again." It wasn't really a question.

"I could have hit you if I wanted to." The blond pouted.

"Yeah right." Naruto just squinted at his reply. True, he was the sixth Hokage, but it had never really been settled who was the strongest of the two.

"Let's go to bed, shall we?" He said, pulling his life long rival closer.

"Yeah, lets." Sasuke said, as he affectionately kissed the young Hokage's nose, and with that, the two were gone, the only thing left was the little gush of wind that ruffled the blond and black hair of a young, not so sleeping boy with a small smile on his face.

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Nasushi watched with dismay that his new sensei had already arrived at their appointed destination when he, accompanied by Sake, arrived.

At the same time he watched as Akita approached from the opposite direction. So the blond hadn't suddenly kicked the bucked in the course of the night either. Damn.

Why couldn't Shikamaru just be late like Kakashi-San instead of actually showing up at shit in the morning to put them through that bloody test? He had half counted on being able to take a small nap while waiting, but obviously he was not going to be that lucky.

Nasushi was as customary when it was 5.30 in the morning, not in a very good mood. Both his parents had been up early that morning, partly to get him out of the house on time. It had been unnerving to say the least.

The black-blond couldn't remember the last time his parents had even been home to see him off. Granted they had to be out of the house very early, and was rarely home when he woke up, but still.

"So." Shikamaru-sensei started the instant he reached them. "What you are going to be doing today, is searching."

"Searching?" Nasushi heard himself and Sake repeat.

"Yes search." Shikamaru stated matter of factly. "You see, somewhere in the forest behind me I have hidden five scrolls." He continued, pointing over his shoulder at the trees behind him, to empathise his point.

"Now your mission is to get the scrolls and bring them to me. You each gotta give me two scrolls, and you probably have already figured out only two of you will be able to do that. However, one of the scrolls will count as two, so technically it is possible for all of you to pass." Shikamaru paused to walk a few steps towards the forest, and stopped right beside one of the large shrubs that outlined it.

"It will say inside the scrolls which one is the one that counts for two, but if you break the seal on any of them, you will be immediately disqualified! Any Questions?"

Nasushi and Sake looked at each other, silently agreeing that neither of them had ever heard anything that weird, but none of them was going to point this out, and it didn't seem like Akita had anything to say to the strange rules of the 'game' either so Shikamaru continued.

"Good. I will of cause be trying to protect the scrolls, somewhat anyway, and there is a good deal of traps set up to slow you down. We eat at midday, and the deadline is at sundown. Don't get caught, it will take your time! Understood?"

All three nodded.

Shikamaru smirked. "Then off you go."

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Nasushi had barely made it inside the forest thickness, before his senses alerted him that he had apparently walked into a trap, or something akin to that, and told him to 'duck'.

He chose to jump upwards into the nearest tree instead though, manoeuvring his body in the air to see what exactly had been heading in his direction.

A spear!? O.o What kind of weapon was that to use?

He didn't have the time to contemplate this any further, because his senses once again rang as alarm bells in his head, telling him to move out of the way, as three kunais was thrown at him from the opposite direction.

He only just made it to jump into another tree, before the three knifes buried themselves deep into the bark of the branch he had just been standing on.

Nasushi frowned. What was this guy's deal?

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Meanwhile, about nine kilometres away, a huge white haired man and a young looking woman was sitting across from each other, a small table separating them, and both was looking into a small ball apparently made out of glass, which was placed on the square table.

The man smirked. "Had it been Naruto at that age, it would have been pure luck if he hadn't at least been scratched by now." He stated referring to the small figure that was jumping from tree to tree dodging traps.

The woman frowned. "Yes it had. Even after I met him he would have had his troubles. Are you sure that sensei of theirs knows what he is doing? I know Shikamaru is good, but putting up traps that lethal?"

The man just waved his hand in the air dismissively. "Shikamaru knows what he is doing. That is one thing you can be absolutely sure of."

The woman didn't seem convinced, but changed the subject when the boy inside the ball suddenly had white hair. (A/N: No he is not a Super- Sayajin, the ball changed to Akita -.-)

"Well there he is, isn't he?" The woman said, tilting her head. "The other wonder of the group."

The two adults watched as the aforementioned wonder caught two kunais which was thrown at him from out of nowhere, whereas he jumped up and kicked out at another kunai heading his way, the kick though, made it change direction, sending it flying straight into a nearby tree instead.

"Who would have thought that something so strong would spring from something so. ordinary."

The man lifted his gaze from the ball to look up at the woman's contemplative face. "Have you figured something out yet? I mean, this has got to be a once in a lifetime opportunity for you."

The woman sighed. "No nothing I didn't already know. Advanced bloodlines come into existence when the parents DNA is a 'perfect' match, so to speak. They can't be breeded (A/N: Breed??), and when first emerged, the advanced blood stays from that generation on, yada yada yada. It doesn't help the research much that everyone on the fathers side of the family, including the father has been whipped out."

The woman looked down. As the fifth, It had been a great personal failure and loss when the leaf village one morning had woken up to the sight of the dead bodies of the Inuzuka clan, scattered about the entire village. It had taken weeks before every body and body part had been found and buried.

It was later discovered that a group of Hunter-Nins had apparently gone on a killing spree in all countries to try and wipe out the advanced bloodlines, and the possibility of new ones being created. And since no one knew how the bloodlines arose, they had apparently taken to eliminating entire clans, so that the combination of that clan, and in this case Akita's mothers clan, would never occur again.

The woman's features softened slightly as she looked at the young boy in the ball. "He hasn't had it easy, has he?" it wasn't really a question. "One parent dies and the other acts like she doesn't care." She shrugged "I wonder if she ever did."

"Oh she did. Still does. I just think it is hard for her."

The woman raised an eyebrow in half amusement. "Oh really? And when did you become an expert on Yamanaka Ino?"

The man shrugged and squinted his eyes. "I caught her in an emotional moment about a week after Kiba's death."

The fifth smiled a little. "So she actually did care about him. Who would have thought. Just the fact that they had a child together was a surprise to everyone."

The man grinned. "I think it was the fact that Sasuke in the end preferred Naruto over all others, including herself. Maybe she had had it with pretty guys."

The woman snorted. "Yeah well it is a well known fact amongst women that all the good looking guys are gay."

"That's not true, I am very good looking."

". Yeah, right. I rest my case."

The man just smirked at her, before he turned his attention back to the ball once more, to look at the raven-haired girl who was now visible.

The woman smiled. "She seems to be growing up to be just as beautiful as her mother, and just as strong as her father."

The man grinned again. "Yeah, that's another thing she has in common with Akita. That, and the fact that she too is a result of her mother having had enough of Sasuke. Though as opposed to Ino she chose Lee because he really did love her."

The fifth just half smiled, and both of the legendary looked back into the ball. Watching as the young girl jumped from tree to tree, looking for clues as to where the scrolls might be, all the while dodging weapons and avoiding traps in much the same way as her two team mates had.

She wasn't as graceful or skilled as Akita to look at, or as fast as Nasushi, but she had her own way of working. Like their teacher she seemed to rely more on strategizing then strength, and judging by the apparent extra filling in her shuriken holster, it had already gotten her a scroll.

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Nasushi sighed, feeling a little annoyed with himself. He had stumbled across a raspberry bush, and for a mar second there, he had let his guard slip while he emptied the bush for berries. When it came to food, he was a bottomless pit and he knew it.

It wasn't that Nasushi was annoyed with himself for having wasted some precious time he could have used to find scrolls. No he was more irritated that he had actually let his guard down so much that he was now sitting in a net dangling from a tree branch a little ways above him.

He wasn't even going to bother with cutting himself down, judging by the sun's position on the sky, he estimated that their new sensei would call them for lunch at any moment now.

He was proven right when five minutes later Shikamaru was sitting on the aforementioned branch which Nasushi's net was hanging from, looking down at the boy with a peculiar look in his eyes.

"Lunch is at the clearing in the middle of the forest, Nasushi-kun." He said, pointing south west of their current position, and giving Nasushi another strange look, but otherwise said nothing.

"You should hurry." He commented, before he drew a kunai, and with a swift movement, cut the robes that held the net.

Nasushi groaned as he hit the ground, before he clumsily staggered to his feet and started fidgeting to get out of the net. He was definitely not liking his new teacher.

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After running into three different clearings first, Nasushi finally found the right one.

Akita was sitting on a rock in the middle, apparently having finished his food already, and Sake was seated on the ground beside the rock, leaning hear head on it while munching on a Onigiri (A/N: hmm, a rice ball describes it best I think), Shikamaru was nowhere in sight.

"Where is our teacher?" Nasushi asked, though he wasn't really sure he cared to know.

Akita shrugged. "He said he had something to do, but that he would be back by the time our lunch break is over." Sake stated, while she threw something in Nasushi's direction.

Nasushi looked at it. Okaki? (A/N: Rice cake. I guess. Someone who knows about food descriptions, help me out here?)

"What's this?" He asked, even though it was obvious, and as expected, Sake raised an eyebrow at him. "It's a new weapon, Nasushi," She drawled. "It helps so you don't go hungry when you are away from home, isn't it neat?"

Nasushi just glared. "But why?" He elaborated.

"Because my mother didn't think you would have brought anything." Sake said matter of factly. Nasushi only nodded, turning his attention back to his food, as he sat down where he was standing, across from his team mates.

Sake's mother knew him waaay too well.

"So, did you get any scrolls?" Sake asked after a bit, directing her attention at both boys. Akita grunted and pulled out two scrolls.

Nasushi sighed in annoyance when Sake's eyes turned starry.

She recovered relatively quick though, and inevitably, turned her attention towards Nasushi.

"And what about you?" She asked expectantly.

"What about me?" Nasushi asked, shrugging. Sake sweatdropped, then just closed her eyes for a second before turning her attention elsewhere, looking determined not to look at Nasushi.

"I got a scroll too." She stated, pulling her own fourth from her shuriken holster.

Out of the corner of his eye, Nasushi saw something heading in his direction, and just before it hit his head, he reached out and grabbed a hold of it. A Scroll?

He swore it was the weirdest things people kept throwing at him.

He frowned at the scroll, then his eyes widened with realisation, and he wiped his head around to look in the direction the scroll had come from.

Nasushi opened his mouth to say something, but was cut off by Akita. "Now we have one each. I have a feeling Shikamaru is carrying the last two scrolls on himself, or at least one of them. If we get those, we might just be able to pass. All of us."

"But why?" Nasushi asked confused. "You have two scrolls already. You are sure to pass as it is."

Sake crocked her head. "Hmm, maybe all of us need to pass. A genin team is originally consistent of three. If we don't pass," She said, referring to herself and Nasushi. "Akita probably won't either."

"Exactly." Akita said. "Despite all, I can't take on a Jounin by myself. Are you in on this Nasushi?"

"H-hai." Nasushi croaked, not really knowing what to make of the situation.

"Good." Akita nodded and stood up. "Lunch is over. Lets find him then." Nasushi was still too baffled to say anything, so he just obediently stood up along with Sake, apparently ready to work as a team for the very first time ever.

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To Nasushi's, and quite possibly Akita and sake's surprise as well, fighting alongside each other proved to be a rather positive experience. As the three jumped branch to branch and tree to tree through the forest, this time not just avoiding or destroying the weapons that was flung at them from time to time because it would hurt them if they didn't.

But with each other's help, they turned the almost lethally trap filled forest into a game of steeplechase. As they took the time to destroy the traps simply for the fun of it, and for a couple of hours, all thoughts of the exam they were actually attending was thrown out the window.

"Nasushi!" Akita yelled, and for some reason Nasushi knew exactly what to do, as he jumped up into the air, avoiding another spear but he let his hand come into contact with the long shaft, thus sending it flying in Sake's direction. Who in turn let her foot connect with the end and kicking it into a tree beside Akita, who splintered it with a swift movement of his wrist the moment the tip of the long weapon bored itself into the bark.

The process took less then two seconds, and as they continued through the forest, looking for their Sensei, or the scrolls, it was done both faster and more fluid with every trap they encountered.

As the hours passed it became more and more apparent that Akita more them possibly had been right in his assumption that Shikamaru had both of the last two scrolls.

In the end, Nasushi, Akita and Sake ended up back in the clearing they had had lunch in.

Beaten but generally okay, the trio practically threw themselves onto the ground, some more gracious then others, but the result was the same, as they all lay on their backs facing the sky, and the setting sun.

"Where could he possibly be?" Akita mumbled, sounding annoyed.

"How the hell should we know?" Nasushi knew deep down that the question hadn't really been directed at neither himself nor Sake, but he felt agitated ant tired as well. The sun was setting, and they hadn't found as much as one clue to where their Sensei might be, and irritation and annoyance usually left Nasushi in a bickering mood. And the fact that Akita, the root to all that was annoying in Nasushi's life, at least according to Nasushi himself, was now asking stupid annoying questions.

"Shut up Nasushi, I am not in the mood for you right now." Akita muttered, seemingly nonchalant, thus only succeeding in further pissing Nasushi off.

"Oh so now you have to be in an a certain mood to tolerate me?" Nasushi asked with mock offendance.

Akita, whose back had been facing Nasushi the whole time, spun around to face the other. "No, I need to be in a tolerating mood every time you open your mouth!" he snapped.

"Yeah well you are not exactly a picnic either, you."

What exactly Akita was came out muffled through that hand that had suddenly been slammed over his mouth.

"Stop picking fights with Akita-kun, Nasushi!" Sake reprimanded, glaring at him.

"It is making you both act like children!"

Nasushi gave her a look before he removed her hand from his face.

"Oh really? And here I thought we were children." He commented with dry sarcasm. This earned him an exasperated sigh from the girl.

"You know, you should treat her with a little more respect. Isn't she supposed to be your friend?"

"What?!" Nasushi whipped his head back to look at Akita, who was now standing behind him arms crossed over his chest, in utter shock, noting that Sake was mirroring his expression perfectly, but with a little more enthusiasm.

Then he frowned. "What do you know? And more importantly, since when did you care?" he nearly yelled.

"Since you take just about every opportunity you can get to be annoying, not just to her, but to everyone!"

"Well I'll let you in on a little secret then I am not the only one who." Nasushi cut himself off when his senses op snapped something moving, just outside of the clearing they were in.

"Did you hear that?" he asked the other two in an almost whisper, all thoughts of fighting forgotten.

Akita grunted affirmatively as he slowly walked over to stand beside Nasushi, who was closer to the location the sound had apparently come from.

"Nanaa, Those kids were fast as lightning. In fact it was a little bit frightening." The sing song voice trailed off.

"Hello kids." Nasushi's eyes widened as he, Akita and Sake all spun around to see their sensei, sitting in a tree a little ways behind them.

"Fu Fighters Sensei?" Nasushi asked what they were probably all thinking, raising an eyebrow as he did.

"I like the song." Shikamaru shrugged as he jumped down from the tree, ignoring his sweatdropping team.

"So." He said, looking from one to the others. "You have exactly five minutes to get the last two scrolls."

"You have them." Akita stated as though it was the most obvious thing in the world.

Shikamaru smirked at that. "Nothing gets past you does it? What will you do about it?"

Akita crocked his head looking at Shikamaru in suspicion, for a moment before he blinked as if to shake himself of something.

"Attack!" Nasushi stated, before he disappeared from the spot he was standing on, just to reappear behind Shikamaru.

As of on cue, which Nasushi's half yell of 'attack!' had probably been, Akita and Sake jumped into action as well, in no time forming a triangle with Nasushi, around Shikamaru, all three of them drawing their weapons, getting ready to attack.

"What?!"

Nasushi's shocked voice rang through the trees, as the only current sound in the forest.

"What the hell is going on??" He watched as his fingers unclenched around the weapons in his hands, and followed the weapons with his eyes, when they, as if in slow motion, dropped to the ground, some feet below him.

He was currently hanging in the air, his body completely immobilised. Well, nearly, his arms was currently crossing themselves over his chest, and his body was rising from its half way crouching position, but he wasn't doing it! It was as if someone else had control over his body, and looking around at Sake and Akita, he was half relieved, half annoyed, that he wasn't the only one.

All three of them was hanging a couple of feet above the ground, all having apparently been in the middle of jumping their teacher, when something had apparently happened, which had left them all hovering in the air, and otherwise with their arms crossed over their chests.

Glaring slightly, Nasushi turned his eyes towards Shikamaru, who was standing, arms crossed over his chest as well and looking around at them, smirking amused.

"Kagemane." Nasushi heard Akita mumble to his left.

Shikamaru just grinned. "The sun is setting, you will be down in no time." He stated.

"Or you could let us go, and give us a chance!" Sake cried, looking both angry and frightened. The fright probably being from the fact that they seemed doomed. There was no way they were going to pass now.

Shikamaru just choke his head.

Nasushi growled, but didn't bother yelling anything. After all he didn't really care if they passed or not. And besides, if Shikamaru had made up his mind, however unfair the situation was, he didn't believe there was anything he could say that would be able to convince him otherwise.

Sake however, to his great irritation, kept yelling. Akita seemed lost in thought, and Shikamaru had apparently taken to chewing on a piece of straw.

At least he wasn't making them chew as well, Nasushi was sure he would get a headache from just grinding his teeth together, since he didn't exactly have anything to chew on.

Nasushi sighed. The sun had just disappeared down behind the mountains. It was over, and now it was back to the academy. Damn. Sake looked like she might begin to cry. Nasushi had imagined that Akita would be raging, but looking at the blonde's emotionless face, that seemed to be the last thing he was.

"You pass."

Nasushi barely registered what the familiar bored voice had just said, before he was heavily dropped on to the ground. Taking no notice of the pain he was just as suddenly feeling in his rear, he jumped up.

"We what??" He yelled, looking wide eyed at Shikamaru.

"Why? We didn't get all the scrolls." Akita stated flatly, but Nasushi could see his eyes were slightly wide as well.

"You did what this exam was supposed to make you realise you could." Shikamaru answered, spitting out what little that was left of the straw.

"But, but." Sake raised a finger into the air in objection, but lowered it again, when Shikamaru cut her off.

"You worked as a team." He stated. "That was the real test." He trailed off; looking like something was bothering him slightly, before he smirked.

"I will see you again tomorrow kids. We meet at the gate. Don't be late." And with that he disappeared in a small whirl of leafs, leaving a still rather shocked, but happy, group of twelve year olds that slowly started making their way back to the leaf village together.

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"So, you let them pas?"

Shikamaru raised an eyebrow. "Yes." He answered shortly.

"And the grounds on which you.?" Naruto paused and frowned. "Oh, crap! Why?"

Shikamaru smirked, while all others present either rolled their eyes or grinned. 'All others present' consisted of Sakura, who was standing in the middle of the room, looking like the sixth would be the death of her. Rock Lee, who was standing leaned against the door, looked back and forth between Sakura and Naruto, his eyes glinting with amusement.

Ino, who was standing by the window, looking like she didn't know whether to laugh or cry over the situation. And then of course Sasuke, looking as neutral as ever, and desperately trying to keep the edges of his mouth from turning upwards in an amused smile.

The sixth lifted his head from the papers he was writing on, to look at all of them, one after another, ending with Sakura.

"Did you want to say something Sakura-chan?" He asked, ever so innocently, this time making every single pair of eyes in the room roll towards the sealing, with the small exemption of Lee who seemed to find Sakura's slightly exasperated expression highly intertaining.

"Ano, Hokage-sama, are you ever going to stop calling my wife 'chan'?" he asked the blond, actually sounding very interested.

"Yes, yes, of cause!" Naruto answered, beaming in Lee's direction, before turning his attention back to the papers he was sitting with, and adding. "When she is so old and deaf she can no longer hear it." This elected him several groans from his 'crowd'.

"So anyways, why?" Naruto continued, ignoring the reaction. He had gotten respect and acknowledgement from the entire village, all of his academy classmates included. He could be serious if he wanted to be, and that was what counted, but he would be damned if he was going to go Sasuke-serious just because he had been elected Hokage.

"Because they have shown that they understand the meaning behind the word 'teamwork', and they have even proven that they are actually capable of working together, which is rare for teams going through their fist trial." Shikamaru drawled.

Naruto nodded. Indeed he had been surprised too at the potential the three had shown in working together, and he couldn't help but smile a little at the pride that filled him.

He was drawn back to the lines of the aware, when Shikamaru coughed lightly, and gave him a look.

"Oh, uhm, yeah, I sanction your decision. Rock Sake, Uchiha Nasushi and Inuzuka Akita, are hear by your students. Teach them well."

Naruto beamed, as he turned to look at the crystal ball to his right, sensing how his old team mates, and friends gathered around the ball on the other side of the desk. With the exemption of the person that went up behind him, and placed his left hand on the sixth right shoulder, while joining the rest of the proud parents in watching, as three kids, made their way to the great entrance to the leaf village, two of them arguing, and the third yelling at them both.

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Well, that's it^^ I don't think I will be continuing this. Depends on peoples reaction towards it, and weather I can really build on this.