A note from Takeshi Hou to readers

Alright, to make up for the TOTAL lack in any sort of action I snuck onto the internet (I'm not allowed to on weekends because my mom's a jerk .) to give you the chapter with the cool fight scene...well at least...I think it's cool. Anyways, I present to you: Chapter 4, The Strength to Fight!

Review Please!

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Takeshi jumped back as Kakashi attacked with kunais, who had thrown two at Takeshi. Skidding along the ground and jumping towards Kakashi, Takeshi sliced in a vertical slash with his tonfas. Kakashi used Kawarimi at the last second and appeared behind Takeshi, hitting him in the back. The figure disapeared, a Shadow Clone.

"You'll have to actually fight me, or you'll die Kakashi-sama..." Takeshi said

"Wha?!" Kakashi spun around just in time to block Takeshi's tonfas slicing in a horizontal sweep. The two were in a deadlock as they stood there, perring into each other's soul through their eyes. Takeshi's eyes were enough to tell Kakashi that the boy wasn't kidding. He would have to actually fight...or die...

Takeshi spun to the side and skidded, punching the ground at a soft spot. Dust went everywhere. Kakashi jumped towards Takeshi's last position, but hit nothing. He stood still for a moment, and then spun around, blocking a kick. The two went into an unseen flurry of taijutsu, each throwing almost everything they had. After the dust settled, so did the combatants.

"Sasuke-kun....what's wrong?" Sakura asked. Sasuke's eyes were as wide as dinner plates. He had used Sharingan to see through the dust and had seen all of the insanely-fast taijutsu that had been performed.

"He-" Sasuke was cut off when Takeshi spoke to Kakashi

"Pretty good...." Takeshi said, "But it'll be hard without your Sharingan..."

"I don't use Sharingan in practice matches..." Kakashi said, "Or against children, for that matter."

*How does he know about my Sharingan in the first place?!* Kakashi thought to himself, obviously shaken*This kid...how does he know so much...what can he see?*

"Fine then." Takeshi performed a few hand seals and then brought his hand to his head protector

Byakugan?! The thought shot into Kakashi's mind as he prepared for the worst. Although he didn't want to admit it, this child wasn't too far from his own strength.

"You know Kakashi, it's been a long time...do you remember the..." he lifted his head protector, "Ketatamashii-Maboroshi?!"

Kakashi dropped his kunai. The boy's eyes showed no pupils, they were totally enveloped by the iris. However, the iris wasn't just one color, it was a swirling silver and blue, always moving.

"Ke...ketatamashii...Maboroshi?!" Kakashi demanded, "Can it be...?"

"Find out for yourself Kakashi-sama..." Takeshi said.

"Kage Bushin!" About four or five Kakashi's appeared and jumped at Takeshi

"Kage Bushin." Takeshi said, and three Takeshi's appeared

The clones engaged each other, disapearing in a puff of smoke each time. Kakashi and Takeshi jumped from each other again. Takeshi pulled out some shuriken and fired them at Kakashi, who vanished. Takeshi reappeared and punched the air, but made contact with Kakashi's face a split second later.

However, Takeshi was exausted. The Ketatamashii-Maboroshi was passive, and always 30% active. When he increased it to 60% active, and combined with Kage Bushin, he was low on Chakara. And, the Genjutsu surrounded his headband was also a very large factor, in fact, the largest, sapping over « of his chakara so Kakashi wouldn't see it until Takeshi wanted him to.

After around another minute of fighting, Takeshi admitted defeat in his own mind and let the genjutsu go.

"It can't be-!" Kakashi said, "...Takeshi?"

"Heh. Always quick in the eye." Takeshi said, smirking, "I'm glad I found you Kakashi-sama...It's been a long time..."

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!" Naruto yelled

"Takeshi Hou..." Kakashi said, "You're alive huh?"

"Yeah." Takeshi walked slowly up to Kakashi, "I've missed you Kakashi-sama..."

"WHAT'S GOING ON?!" Naruto yelled again

"Team 7, meet Takeshi Hou...he's...erm"

"A former student." Takeshi put in, "I was taught under Kakashi when I was very young."

"Uchiha Sasuke." Sasuke said, walking up to Takeshi, "How did you do all of that?"

Takeshi was a little startled. He had heard of the Uchiha tragedy...this boy...was a prodigy...and was the sole survivor...except for Itachi of course...

"Haruno Sakura." Sakura said. Takeshi smiled, she was pretty cute. However, it seemed that Naruto was drooling over her unless he was yelling at someone.

"Uzumaki Naruto!" Naruto yelled, but Sakura noticed he didn't have it I won't lose to you or the I'm the next Hokage! traditional greeting this time. In fact, Sakura was pretty scared herself if he could hold his own with Kakashi-sensai

"What rank are you, Genin, chuunin, Jounin?" Sasuke asked promptly

"Officially, I'm not even a Genin." Takeshi said, "But I consider myself one because of this headband." Takeshi motioned to it. The Leaf symbol was gone, replaced by the Hidden Blade village.

"What the-?!" Sakura yelled, "I-...I didn't even see the Genjutsu..."

"Where are you from?! What's that symbol?!" Naruto yelled, prancing around like a confused fool, which was rather accurate

"I'll explain later." Kakashi said, "Takeshi, I'm glad you're here...but my group has training to do-"

"For the Chuunin exam?" Takeshi put in, Kakashi nodded "That's why I'm here. And, I promised it wouldn't take longer than ten minutes right? It's been seven." With that, Takeshi vanished into smoke.

"Takeshi Hou huh..." Sasuke said, "the Chuunin exams are always sound so fun..."

"HELL YEAH!" Naruto yelled,

"Sensai..." Sakura started to ask

"Like I said, I'll explain later." Kakashi said, "But since he's going to be in the Chuunin exam...you might be facing him, so are we ready to train or what?!"

Takeshi smiled, Kakashi sure had a way to inspire people with sheer talent to train. However, that Naruto boy....his Chakara was normal...but he seemed to have another reserve of Chakra in him, but it was being supressed. And that Uchiha boy...

Are Chuunin exams always this fun?