AN: OH. MY.GOD! I am in LOVE with the sand's new Kazekage… drool…keels over and dies.

3

A Set Back

Once again, Tsunade found herself being the center of the adolescent's anger. She watched warily as the blue eyes narrowed to slits. Soon the color of the eyes couldn't be made out.

"I thought we had an agreement." Naruto seethed. His eyebrows came together harshly, creating wrinkles across his normally smooth forehead. The shadows created by the said wrinkles were unsettling, and Tsunade would be lying if she said that the expression on the boy's face didn't effect her.

"We did," Tsunade chose her words carefully, her wariness enforced by the foreboding red glint flashing under blond lashes. "But you didn't quite uphold your part of the deal either now, did you?" Raising an eyebrow for effect, she looked down at Naruto in what she hoped was a critical expression. It wasn't easy keeping the 'keeping one's emotion in check' part of being a shinobi when in a room full of killing intent.

"I'm here aren't I?" Naruto growled. "If I come here with out complaint, and then I don't have to be ninja and you stop bugging me about going to Konoha. That was our deal wasn't it?" Sandal clad feet made their way across a carpeted floor to stand before a wide desk, occupied by none other than Tsunade. "I walked across half the continent to get here, didn't I?"

"True," Tsunade sighed "Heck, I walked that whole half continent with you." Tsunade swept her hand through a pig tail before continuing. "But you ran didn't you? You didn't come back till I sic'd Sasuke on you did you?" This time the eyebrow was raised in earnest smugness. "How cooperative of you, with out a single complaint…." Naruto was robbed of all of excuses.

"But I don't wanna be a ninja!" the blonde grumbled, pouting.

"Oh stop acting like a child, brat."

Naruto blinked as he sensed irony.

"Look, I don't see why you're so reluctant to become a ninja, I mean you trained your whole life to become one. In fact I trained you so you could become one. Why do you refuse to be one when you have the chance?" The Godaime watched Naruto's face grow blank. He walked to a window, turning to look out into the streets of Konoha.

"But for the hidden leaf?" Tsunade was just about to ask the boy exactly which village he was expecting when she caught his voice growing more faint.

"How can you do that?" He placed a hand upon the window as if trying to reach out to village that lay beneath the tower.

"How can you trust me like that?" Naruto had leaned his forehead upon the cool glass when Tsunade threw the smile toward his direction.

"Because I can, brat, and cuz you make it so easy." Tsunade's smile grew when she saw Naruto's smile reflected on the window.

"Besides, it's convenient, I wouldn't want to lose a ninja so skilled, now would I? I mean he was trained by the best kunoichi that was to ever exist, eh?"

Naruto gave a exasperated sigh.

"Then wouldn't it be more convenient to trust Orochimaru? He is stronger you know, having been taught by the same sensei as the 'ultimate kunoichi'."

"Nonsense, where are we to keep all the snakes for his fetish? Such a inconvenience, besides everyone knows that brunettes aren't to be trusted." She flicked a blond strand of hair from her eyes, as if to strengthen her point.

"And everyone should know that blondes aren't to be trusted with money." Naruto grumbled.

"Shut up. Now get out of here brat, you have a team to meet."

"Hai hai, but I'll probably have to wait a few hours anyway." Opening the window, he waved as he jumped out of the opening leaving a smiling Hokage in his wake.

'I trust you because I know that I won't be disappointed…. Brat."

-

Naruto's prediction had struck true. Team seven had a long wait ahead of them and what better time would their be for Naruto to practice his favorite pastime, annoying Sasuke.

"Sasuke!" The blond horror pounced on the unsuspecting Uchiha.

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Sakura had been watching Sasuke blink before the orange wonder had attacked him, effectively blocking her view of the bishonen. Sakura didn't know much about Naruto , He was loud, obnoxious, and a complete moron. She doubted his abilities as a ninja as well. All in all, Sakura's first impression was none too bright.

Today was supposed to be the first c-class mission of the Sasusaku team! And now they had a annoying blonde tagging along. Though the blonde did know to try and stay clear of the pink haired girl (Sakura had recently acquired a liking to dumb blonde jokes.) none of her glares seemed to be able to keep him away from Sasuke, and worse yet, Sasuke didn't ignore him like he did everyone else, and paid even less attention to Sakura. Not that she got much attention to start with. Anyway, Sakura didn't like Naruto, and Ino had agreed. Naruto was nothing but a set back.

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Naruto sneezed(1). Naruto sneezed into Sasuke's face. Sasuke's face was sneezed on. The sneezed on Sasuke's face turned bright red. The bright red sneezed on Sasuke's face was seen by Naruto. Naruto wondered if he should run. Sasuke's fist told him it was too late. The violence ensued.

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When Kakashi had finally arrived, he was greeted by the sight of: A hysterical Sakura, a Sasuke with a painful looking bruise on his cheek and a Naruto trying to spit the blood out of his mouth and insult Sasuke at the same time (Not an easy feat mind you). Kakashi was glad the two boys had yet to manage to kill each other, if they had, he would probably have had to fill up for the casualty.

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AN:

(1) Everyone knows that "sneeze"… "Someone must be talking about me…" gag right? Right.

Er I tried to give an explanation to all the questions on your reviews, in this chapter. (keyword: tried.) I'm not sure I did such a great job though…. So I will try to be blunt!

Ahem….

1) Naruto's not a ninja?

Er… I tried to play use the fact that no matter how good a ninja you are you can't become a Chuunin unless you pass the test…. I figured it would be the same with the genin. I mean you can't be a ninja if you're not even a genin right? And you can't be a genin unless you pass the genin exam at the academy. Since Naruto was never in Konoha before, he never took the exam, but he was trained by Tsunade while traveling. And for a reason that will most probably be revealed soon, he doesn't want to become a ninja of Konoha

2) Why did Kakashi have to grab Naruto?

Well, Naruto wouldn't have been able to come on his own, being quite tied up at the moment… coughbecauseofsasukecough And well, Team seven needed their third man, and Tsunade had recommended coughforcedcough Naruto as a candidate. Thus, Kakashi delivered an already wrapped Naruto to team seven.

3) What's up with Naruto's mood swings?

Actually, it's practically the same reason he doesn't want to be a ninja… so yeah….

Anyway….

Yuen-chan: You are going to remember to review from now on ne? ne ne ne?

:): Ohohohohoh….

ghostninja85: I attempted to explain… I hope it helped…. I hope….

Demonesse: Tied up Naruto… With tied up Sasuke… Hand me tissues before you say things like that! TISSUES!

Hieisbestbuddy888: Noodle of dom… curious… most ever so curious….

Animegrl: Yes, it's horrible imagining Sasuke's smirk on my cousin's face… (ACK!) Sasuke evil eh… kekekeke

Omniousboy: Thank you! I like Sasuke and Naruto too! Especially when they're alone…. And doing …. Things…. Yes. And oh yeah, at least you only have to worry about you pen name, people on the street look at my face and suspect me to be a guy…

kenshin346: Sasuke is just evil… yes he's evil and as they say in my country: Give the ugly one another rice cake. (What that means I do not know)

Hi! keels over and dies. (Cause of death: unexpected sighting of the sasusa… sasu… sa… Dies again) SASUNARU DAMMIT! P.S Do not worry about me being fourteen and knowing of 'yaoi' . I mean my 12 year old underclassman is drawing hard core yaoi doujinshi every time we have a anime meeting.