Note: This fanfiction takes place when Team 7 (Kakashi, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura) was still an official team, training, and going on missions. The Third is still the current Hokage.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, it belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.

Note: The names of the techniques in this fanfiction are taken from the official US manga version of Naruto (except for the ones I created). For example Naruto's "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu " will be "Art Of The Doppelganger" as named in the US manga. I know many Naruto fans are used to the Japanese names of the techniques, so I apologize for any inconvenience (yes, I know they sound kind of stupid).

Thanks for the reviews, here answers to a few:

RadicalL: Thanks man, and yea, he wouldn't be that rough to her, I just wanted to make it a little more interesting.

Dragon18: No hard feelings man, I understand though. Check out this chapter and tell me what you think, ok?

Kawaii Kokkei Tsuita no Neko: Thanks a lot, check out this chapter, and I will try to best to correct the grammar and spellings.

Well, here is the next chapter. Enjoy.

Chapter 3: A Problem

Sasuke could not believe what just happened. First, Sakura almost won the battle, which is unbelievable since she is the weakest of team 7, she used that Cancel jutsu of hers to see through Naruto's illusion.

Even though she shouldn't have known where he was hiding, because the cancel jutsu only let the caster see through the illusion, but if the caster of the illusion is in hiding then she shouldn't have been able to see through it. The only way that could happen is if Naruto wasn't concentrating enough to stay hiding.

'I know something is wrong with Naruto, cause he should have seen that first kick coming, it was like he just begin his ninja training,' thought Sasuke on his way home the big ordeal.

'What was more shocking was finding out about Naruto's Art Of The Doppelganger. He did my jutsu perfectly, as if he was the actual me.'

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"So what is the problem, doctor?"

Naruto heard a voice asking, it sounded like Master Kakashi. He tried to at least open his eyes but they felt so heavy, as if being held down with something.

"Well, the thing is that we are not really sure what the problem is." said the doctor in a low voice as if he noticed Naruto was listening.

"We think that because of all the stress that Naruto is having, put together with the seal of the fox demon..."

The doctor started rubbing his eyes.

"Go on! What about the fox demon?" said Kakashi almost yelling it before remembering that there was someone in the room with them.

"Well, apparently it seems that it begins to slows down Naruto's brain functions, so he doesn't fully process the needed information, in other words, Naruto is having trouble to follow what is going around him and cannot concentrate very well sometimes."

"So, you mean to tell me that must have been the reason why Sakura was able to win?" said Kakashi with a raised eyebrow.

"Yes, that is correct." answered back the doctor calmly.

"Ok, I was a little worried there when I noticed how she was winning, I mean Naruto is way stronger than her." said Kakashi while pacing around the room with one hand rubbing his chin like he was thinking.

Then finally he stopped and looked at the doctor straight in the eyes.

"What about the girl, she is okay?"

"Oh, yes. she wasn't as injured as she looked. It looks like the boy was holding back a lot so he wouldn't hurt her much. We already let her out since this morning." Said the doctor while pointing at Naruto on the hospital bed.

"Good." said Kakashi looking revealed.

"Well, I got to go now. He can leave as soon as tomorrow morning if he wants. You can tell him for me when he wakes up. About Naruto's situation, do you want me to tell him or will you?" said the doctor as he reach for the doorknob.

"I'll tell him. Thank you, doctor." answered Kakashi coolly.

The doctor gave Kakashi a nod with his head to tell him that he understood, and then left without saying another word.

"I know you were listening, Naruto. You don't have to pretend your still asleep anymore." said Kakashi calmly as he take out his favorite book.

"Oh, man. How did you know?" said Naruto as he quietly sat up straight.

"I'm your sensei, I know everything."

"Oh, yea? Well, you didn't know about the secret of my Art Of The Doppelganger." said Naruto smiling.

"Like I said, I'm your sensei, which means I have the power to make you the dummy for shuriken target practice next time we train, so don't push it."

"Sorry, no need to get all control freak on me." answered Naruto as he cross his arm.

"By the way, that was nice of you to use the fireball technique only at half of its power." said Kakashi as he raises his eyes to look at Naruto.

"Yea, well I never really wanted to hurt her, I mean it was only a training battle."

"Good. Since tomorrow is saturday, there is no training as usual. I want you to meet me at the ramen shop at 9:00 am, after that we will head out to a training field so you I can start teaching you the new jutsu on the scroll." said Kakashi as he gets up to leave.

"By the way," started Kakashi as he opened the door to leave.

"Get ready to train hard, for this scroll isn't like the other ones, it's pretty hard to learn, and even I wasn't able to learn it or copy it. So get some rest to relieved some of those stress, and to also get back your strength."

As soon as Kakashi finished he left and close the door gently behind him.

/During that time at Sakura's house./

"Do you want anything to eat, dear?" yelled Mrs. Haruno loud enough for Sakura to hear from her room.

"No thanks, mom. I'm okay." Sakura yelled back.

Sakura was in her room, after taking a nice shower, trying to fix her hair.

'That guy, he gets on my nerve. I can't believe he did this to me just for some ramen and a stupid scroll.' Sakura started thinking.

'But for some reason, I'm not really mad at him for it. I mean other than nearly frying my hair like bacon, and burning halfway through my clothes. I hardly had one injury.'

'Why do I keep wanting to go see him at the hospital? No, he's still asleep, we got in yesterday afternoon and I was out the next morning, but he was more injured than me so... Anyway, he's supposed to be the one to come and see me after what he did.'

'But seriously that was a nice move, no wonder he kept it a secret...'

/Saturday morning./

"Good morning, sensei. As usual you are late." said Naruto with a huge smile on his face.

"You in a good mood this morning." said Kakashi as he sits next to Naruto who had already started ordering some ramen.

"I'm just happy to be eating my favorite food, and also learning a new jutsu." said Naruto as he starts to eat.

"Well, it's not as easy as you think. The scroll you are about to learn isn't even the one I was going to teach you, but it was one given to me by the Hokage to teach to you instead." said Kakashi as he finish his bowl of ramen so fast that Naruto wasn't even close to seeing his face, which he has been trying to do for a while now.

"You also need to stop stressing yourself cause now you know what it can actually do to you because of the demon seal." said Kakashi as he looks at Naruto with a look of concern.

"Yea, yea, yea, I know. I'll try my best."

"You better cause this jutsu is very hard to learn, only about one or two people is able to learn it each generation, but the Hokage thinks you are one of the two that can. I hope he's right."

"You will still have normal training and missions with your teammates during the week and you will train with me on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and the whole day on Saturdays for two months, and not a day more." said Kakashi seriously as Naruto nods to show that he understands.

"Finish your ramen, then get ready for some hard training."

"Oh yea, I am so ready for this." said Naruto through a mouth full of noodles.

'That's a first, Naruto always complain about everything but he doesn't seem to mind learning this new jutsu at all.'

Kakashi sighed as he rubs his temple.

'This is going to be two very long months.'

End of chapter 3.

This was the third chapter. Hope it cleared up some things. Tried my best to make this chapter longer, but next chapter will be longer, I hope.
C U all later.

Next chapter: The announcement