Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. But, I probably could if I um, bought it. All I need now is a couple hundred thousand dollars, maybe a couple million, and um… does anyone know what else I'll need? Or a couple hundred thousand dollars to start me off?

I will start updating twice a week- Sunday and Saturday- because I am going to camp for four weeks and it's coming up quick. so if you come on the computer, look for updates, people!

The New Annoyance

Sasuke crawled into bed feeling… well, a lot of things. He felt happy that he could be there to help her. He was sad because of Keitrin's past. He was confused because… well, a lot of things. What was going on? Teleporters? And why did he feel the way he did? Why was he so happy around her?

He woke up the next morning to… a chorus of pebbles on his window. He looked outside his window to see Keitorin standing there. "Come on! Wake up! You're late!" She cried, cupping her hands over her mouth.

"What?" Sasuke opened up his window. "It doesn't matter! Kakashi Sensei's always late anyway!"

"Okay, how about; you're four hours late!" She shouted.

"What!" Sasuke turned around. 9:00! He wished he could have gone to sleep last night. He was up till 3:00 thinking about everything.

He cursed under his breath. He got ready as fast as he possibly could and flew out the door.

"Geez, that was fast!" Keitorin giggled.

"Yes… very funny," Sasuke said darkly.

"Anyway, I wanted to thank you for last night. You really helped me. With the fighting, and then you even listened to me last night. I felt so much better, I was just itching to tell someone," Keitorin said, much more serious and a bit shyly.

"It wasn't a big deal. All I did was listen, and that wasn't bad cuz I had nothing else to do, and fight, which wasn't bad cuz I like doing it," Sasuke muttered.

"Well, I felt like I should do you a favor, and I guess part of that was waking you up! It's a good thing you closed your window last night," She joked.

"Yeah; lucky you!" Sasuke replied.

"I think we're late!" She said suddenly. Kakashi was standing over the patch of dirt Sasuke was drawing in the day before.

"Sasuke! Keitorin! Nice of you to join us!" Kakashi said.

"He just got here!" Naruto said, looking irked. So, they weren't really late. Well, not much more than he was anyway.

"Sasuke, I admire your talents as an artist," Kakashi said.

"What?" Sasuke asked.

Kakashi motioned for him to come over, and pointed the spot where he had drawn a clock falling on his Sensei's head the previous day.

"Um…" Sasuke stuttered, rubbing the back of his neck.

"Okay- now Sasuke, you can go first," Kakashi said in a bored tone.

"What?" Sasuke asked.

"This is Takai Kara Nawa. You will jump over it and not get hit, basically," Kakashi explained. He held up a thick rope with a hard, solid, metal ball attached to it. "It's as simple as this!" Kakashi continued.

He swung the rope hard at Sasuke close to the ground, and Sasuke wasn't ready for it so the rope collided with his shins, almost knocking him over, and the metal ball kept the ropetwisting around his legsuntil it crashed into Sasuke's shins, now knocking him over. "Ow! That hurts!" Sasuke complained.

"So don't get hit!" Kakashi said.

Naruto laughed. "Sasuke, baka!"

Sasuke glared at him.

"Sakura-chan, are you ready to see me do it?" Naruto asked. Sakura was too busy seeing if Sasuke was alright to listen to him.

The poor little loser… But he is kind of cool for a loser. I just wish Sakura would treat him better. Keitorin was thinking. She really did like Naruto; she looked to him as a brother. He was hyperactive and strange enough to be one.

Naruto tried. He almost did it, but he jumped a little too late. He toes got stuck on the rope and he fell on his face. He really was very close, though.

Sakura laughed. Keitorin turned and stuck her tongue out at her. I'd like to see you do better! She thought.

"Okay, Sakura. Naruto, try jumping just a bit earlier," Kakashi said helpfully.

Keitorin noticed that both the boys had deep cuts where the rope had hit, especially Sasuke. Ouch, that had to be reinforced rope!

She turned just in time to see Sakura jump, but she jumped way too early. The rope hadn't even got there by the time she touched the ground. The same thing happened to her as with Sasuke, but she couldn't handle the weight of the rope and she fell before Sasuke. The metal ball was still traveling, and it her on the back. Or it would have, if Keitorin hadn't stopped it. It was a good thing she did, because if the metal ball had hit the right spot, it could have had disastrous effects; the back controls most of the nervous system. Keitorin did hurt her hand, but she'd been in worse pain.

It was Keitorin's turn. She was quite confident. This was a bit like jump rope, and she was the best jump rope- uh, jump roper of anyone she knew. Not to brag, but that is with the knowledge that she hasn't done it in so long. She saw it coming and she jumped with perfect timing- except she didn't know that it would be coming back at her, and Kakashi saw this. He tried to make it go over her head so that she wouldn't get hurt after achieving the objective, so he tried to redirect it to go over her head. It didn't exactly work. She was turned the other way, and thought that Kakashi had stopped it.

Sakura smiled. Now she'll know what it feels like to get hit, kinokiita ketsunoana.

Naruto gasped. "Watch out, Keitorin-chan!" Naruto cried.

Sasuke worked spontaneously (More reflex, really). He saw the metal ball heading toward her face. He jumped over and pushed her out of the way. The metal ball just barely scraped her shoulder. This put them in a fairly awkward position. Their faces were only inches, no, centimeters away from each other, and they quickly pulled away.

Kakashi had managed to stop the thing, and realized that he missed something. (He couldn't see what went on because he was worried about the training thingy. The name, by the way, means Death by Rope) Something from the look on Sakura's face and the flushed faces of Sasuke and Keitorin, his adopted goddaughter, told him so. Not Naruto, though. If you looked at Naruto, he looked confused, the same way he looked when two plus two equals four is being explained.

Sakura exploded. "Temae mesuinu! Doushite kan temae yume dzuki choudai are shuuketsu dzuki waga Sasuke-kun! Mesuinu! Mesuinu! Mesuinu! Mesuinu! Mesuinu! Mesuinu!"

Naruto would have flipped out on Sasuke, because he looked at Keitorin as a sister, but Sakura kind of scared him. She would scare anybody now. He just hissed, "Chikushou itto, Sasuke!"

(What that meant: Sakura said: You bitch! How can you even dream of getting that close to Sasuke-kun! Bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch! And Naruto said: Damn it, Sasuke! Got it?)

Kakashi looked at Sakura, looked at Keitorin, looked at Sasuke, and just for the heck of it, looked at Naruto. Then he calmly said, "Okay, let's not do that again and get on with our lesson, shall we?" He motioned to Sasuke.

A bit long, but no complaining! Do you know how long it took me to translate the name of the training thingy, to think of the name of the training thingy? And to translate those three f-ing sentences? No! And, it's 11:57 right now. I'm supposed to be in bed cuz I have a communion party tomorrow, and now I' m thirsty. So, why don't you review while I get a drink? I mean water or something, maybe even soda.