aiko: omg i updated...

sCARRED mARIONETT: Upps. caps lock. Okaaayyy...yes family issues..sucks, doesn't it?

Metaligal: YEE YUP!!!

Rogue Souls: Yup, this fanfics' got issues :D :D :D

nevermore raven: yeah...i needed to make her a lil angsty

sakura1025: here you go!!!

Elysium: thanks!!! just a litto humor to start things off :D

animesenko: yes, our poor little ninjas...

Dan Inverse: thanks!! the boys part was just to add a litto twist :D

Rednal29: no, no naruhina for this ficcie. I don't want any couplings...

animevivvers: yes....muahahahaha......ahem. so yeah, thanks!! :D

Momochi Zabuza: I hope this chapter is long enough.

Night-owl123: thanks!! here's chapter five!!!

"So...so...so..." Naruto said, as he paced around the large opening. The Sun was peaking through the horizons and birds were starting to chirp. It would have been a friendly setting and you would expect the three of them to hold hands and cry about their family peoblems.

No.

Naruto was flicking rocks at random trees, implanting them. Sasuke was leaning agsint the wooden pole while glaring at a piece of grass. Sakura stared blankly at the dimmed sky.

"He's late," Sakura said.

"No shit," Sasuke muttered.

"Wahh!!! I'm hungry!!! I want ramen!!! I say we ditch and tell him that we couldn't-" Naruto stopped short and stared off at the forest.

Sakura and Sasuke looked up too, it turned deadly quiet, only the whispers of the trees were heard. Suddenly Sasuke turned the opposite direction and threw two kunais towards a bush. A few shurikens came back and Sakura boosted herself over Naruto and into the trees. Sasuke ducked, rolling over he ran into the trees as well. The remaining blonde ninja backflipped into the tops of the trees.

"Two bells. The two that get them from me pass," Kakashi said. He stepped out into the opening. "The one without a bell goes back to the acedemy(sp)."

'So it's a free for all?' Naruto wondered. He flinched as a twig poked him.

'Too easy, there has to be a catch.' Sasuke though. He was hiding behind a tree with two shurikens in his hands.

'This nakes no sense...why did they put us in groups of three, then?' Sakura thought, she was under the bushes.

Kakashi lazily took a book out of his pocket and turneda page. "Anytime now, you got 'till lunch. Loser gets to watch me eat it."

Sakuratwicthed, Sasuke cursed, and Naruto's stohmach growled.

"That's it!!!" Naruto screamed. He jumped from the trees and attemtped to punch Kakashi. The copy nin swiftly stepped to his side. Naruto instead of punching now, grabbed the ground and boosted himself up to kick Kakashi.

Sakura, seeing her chance, sprung into the fight. Doing a few signs, she made one copy of herself. Then she dove for the bells while her copy made an attack. Kakashi moved slightly, making the real Sakura hit the tree and the copy into smoke. Naruto cursed and made five copies. Sakura took this chance and dove into the trees again.

Sasuke on the other hand, had shurikens and kunais ready for the next opening.

Naruto being flunged off for the fifth time, got annoyed. Finally after the last of his bunshins was hurled off, Naruto hit the ground to cause dirt to circle around. Naruto jumped back into the trees. All was quiet again.

"Where were you?!!?" Naruto pratically screamed at Sakura.

"Shush, he'll hear you," Sakura said in a pout. "I couldn't take him on so I left."

"I was about to die!!!" Naruto screamed again. He pointed to Sasuke. "And you!!!! You weren't even in the fight!!!!"

"Dope, this is a free for all," Sasuke huffed. Naruto was about to jump him if it wasn't for Sakura.

"Honestly!! Boys, they only make things more complicated..." Sakura mumbled.

"Shut up, Miss Spolied. What would you know?!" Naruto yelled.

"Stop yelling!!!" Sakura yelled back.

"Hypocrite," Sasuke remarked.

"And you!!!I've heard about you! You betrayed your Clan!!!" Sakura yelled.

That straw broke the camel's back.

Sasuke suddenly charged at Sakura who already got out a kunai to defend herself. Naruto jumped in to stop the fight but only got a punch in return. Enraged, Naruto joined in the battle.

Sasuke stepped back and used his fire jutsu on Sakura, who jumped on a tree. Naruto doved into Sakura, pinning her against the tree. A poof sound came and Naruto realized it was a log. Sasuke jumped and kneeed Naruto in the head, who got hurled towards the real Sakura.

Doing his seals, Naruto summonded some Kage bunshins. Surrounding Sasuke, the two engaged into a fight. Sasuke jumped and activated his sharingan. He quickly hit the fake ones and moved straight towards the real one.He slashed Naruto in the arm.Naruto got out a kunai and rammed head first into Sasuke.Doubling over, Naruto jumped to bring his heel down but was tackled by Sakura.

The three paced away from each other. Until...

"STOP RIGHT THERE!!!!"

Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura jerked their heads up to a not so friendly Kakashi.

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"Because of your behavior, you all fail. But, I'll keep you untied for now," Kakashi said. He gestured towards the first aid kit. "Don't go near that, when the clock hits an hour you are allowed to heal yourselves. Consider this your punishment."

In a poof he left.

Naruto held his arm and bit down the pain. Sakura looked up from underneath her bangs.

Sasuke stood up and hit the log, cauing it to fall over. "Damn."

Sakura kept eyeing Naruto. His stupid bleeding arm. As a medic she would usually heal him, but Kakashi told her not to. On top of that, he hit her. He actually hit her. Thinking back, Sakura wondered if the fight was all her fault.

"Hey," Sakura mumbled to Naruto. "I think I should heal that."

"Why? Want to plant some poison in me?" Naruto said, giving her a dark look.

"Shut up, I'm out of chakra to do that anyways," Sakura said. She gestured to the first aid kit.

"Don't, you heard Kakashi," Sasuke warned.

"He's hurt!!! He could bleed to death!" Sakura yelled.

"It's only an hour, he'll survive," Sasuke said darkly.

"Now I know why your clan abandoned you..." Sakura muttered, but Sasuke heard every word.

Immediately, he held her up by the collar. "Want to repeat that?"

"What's so bad agout it? I'm rejected all the time, and not just that, by the whole fricking village!!!" Naruto yelled. Sasukeslowly put Sakura down.Naruto leaned his back against the log. He motioned to Sakura. "What's your sad story?"

"Nothing! I don;t have one!!" Sakura yelled. She made her way towards the first aid kit again.

"I said don't touch it!" Sasuke barked.

"He's going to die if he doesn't get that healed!! If he dies, our team is a two man team, and that means we won't be quialified!!!" Sakura hand reached out for the kit but Sasuke grabbed her wrist. Sakura winced.

"If you touch it, I'll break your wrist," He threatened.

above the trees

"Wow, he does take after you," Jiraiya said.

"I trained him well," Orochimaru smriked.

"How dare he threaten her!?" Tsunade yelled.

team seven

Naruto looked at the two. He really didn't care. The kyubi would heal him anyways. Still, it was nice to see someone cared.

"He'll die!!!"

"We'll fail!!!"

Still. It would be nice if they were more quiet.

"As a medic nin, I can't stand around and watch him suffer!!!" Sakura screamed, "A team means to look after each other!!!"

"Really? Wow, you sure showed that when you were trying to kill us in the forest!" Sasuke rolled his eyes.

"Well you deserved it!!!"

"You called me a traitor."

"I take it back!! Just please, I can't stand seeing someone in that much pain!!!"

Naruto, smiling, hummed a tune to himself.

Sakura was crying now. Sasuke stood back. He never made a girl cry before. Huffing, he remembered Naruto grinning at him at the ramen shop.

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"You know Sasuke, I didn't warm up to my teamtes either. I thought they were useless. Still, when I first saw Jiraiya I knew he would bug the hell out of me, but at the same time I had a feeling we would be...uhm..."

"Friends?"

"Yes, or comrades that would be close and share things."

"Are you gay?"

"What the hell did you just say!?!!? Your only five!!!!"

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Letting go of Sakura's wrist, he nodded. Smiling, Sakura reached for the first aid.

Naruto stood up. He looked at his arm, it was healed. Maybe he should tell them. Going over to Sakura, he tapped her on the shulder.

"Hey."

But it was too late, Sakura reached out with her other hand and grabbed the first aid.

Suddenly the ground shook and Sakura screamed. Sasuke stared in horror at Naruto's healed arm.

"You idiot!!!" Sasuke yelled. He punched Naruto in the head.

"I tried to tell you!!!" Naruto yelled.

"Oh my god!!! All my years of training, gone!!!" Sakura cried, "I'm a failure to Tsunade sama!!!"

"Orochimaru is going to kill me..." Sasuke muttered.

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"I'm off to see Kakashi now,"

"Oh, Sasuke?"

"Yeah?"

"If you don't pass I will literally open your stohmach and kill you in the most painful way possible."

"No you wouldn't...I- what's with the knife?"

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"Gawd, this has been going on for five minutes straight," Sakura said, sitting herself down.

Sasuke was still worrying over Orochimaru.

Naruto gulped at the trees shook violently.

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"I'm laaaate!!!"

"Good luck Naruto!!! You better pass!!!"

"And if I don't?"

"Then don't bother coming home, you brat!!!"

"Sniff..."

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"What did your sensei tell you?" Naruto asked Sakura.

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"I'm going now, Tsunade sama!!!"

"Have a great first day!!!"

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"That is so not fair..." Naruto cried.

Then three kunais struck the trio, pinning them to a tree.

"You three..." Boomed a voice. "..pass."

Kakashi winked at them, though it was hard because his mask was covering his face.

"Oh really? That's a relief!" Sakura smiled. "Tsunade sama will be so happy!!! Naruto, Sasuke, I want to say I'm sorry."

"I don't think their listening," Kakashi said. He took the kunai off Sakura's shirt.

The two looked at Sasuke and Naruto, who were both passed out.

aiko:I didn't like this hcappie too well...