Title: Unexpected

Chapter: 9- Reactions, Emotions emerge

Author: Tia/Bijou

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, but I do own Airashii and the plot.

Author's notes: Thanks for all the great comments, and a special thanks to KaL-El of Krypt0n, who gave me the idea to make the reactions a separate chapter.

Current standings:

Airashii-Sasuke: 20

Sakura-Naruto: 17

Airashii-Naruto: 17

Sakura-Sasuke: 2

Love triangle: 3

Naruto-Airashii brother sister relationship: 2

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Last time:

"Kakashi-sensei. How could Naruto have met with the Kyubi?" Sakura wondered, "Wasn't the Kyubi killed?"

Kakashi looked over at Naruto, who nodded, giving him the ok to tell them.

"Well, the Kyubi wasn't killed. He was merely sealed inside an infant boy, in this case, Naruto."

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Sakura's Point of view

I looked at Naruto. He was the one. The boy who saved our villiage from total distruction. It was almost amazing, now that I look at it, how he stayed so positive, so determined all these years, despite the verbal, and somewhat physical abuse from the rest of the villiage. This burning passion in his soul. It came from being unloved, but from that, he was able to make almost anyone smile. This was the boy I ignored, and maybe even hurt, this entire time. I didn't know what drove him to be so great. But now I do, and I think I want a part of it.

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Sasuke's point of view

Naruto being the vessel for the Kyubi. I didn't dwell much on it. Though I did wonder, despite being alone, and hated for all these years, how he was able to go on with life as happy as he was, almost always being able to make people laugh, or at least crack a smile. I almost felt sorry for how I had treated him, but I didn't dwell to much on it.

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"Anyways," Kakashi said, bringing everyone out of their thought, " I know I said that you would be partners for a week, but I decided to change things up a bit. Right now though we're going to work on climbing trees."

"That's so easy!" Naruto said, confident.

"Without our hands."

"How can we do that?" Airashii asked, genuinely confused. How do you climb a tree with no hands?

"Simple," Replied Kakashi, "I simply mold the chakra in my feet," he said, walking over to the tree, "and walk right up."

Naruto stared in awe.

"Now I want you guys to try. Right before you fall off, I want you to mark your spot with a kunai. You can get a running start, and remember. This is about chakra control. Not how much chakra you have."

All four genins made the ram seal, and focused the chakra in their feet. They then each ran at a tree, and started running up. Naruto fell off almost immediately. Sasuke got higher, but used a bit more chakra before he fell off. He quickly made a slash in the tree. Airashii almost got to the top, but slipped. She quickly made a mark, but was falling. Airashii barely managed to grab onto a branch with the chakra in her feet, but she knew she was slipping.

"Umm, could someone catch me! I'm going to fall." She suddenly fell towards the ground, but was quickly caught, and put down. She turned to face the person who had caught her. She had expected Kakashi, or maybe Naruto, but she was surprised to be staring into obsidian orbs.

"You should be more careful," Sasuke said, emotionless.

"That's the second time you said that to me this week" the kunoichi replied, before running back up the tree.

Sasuke sighed. Couldn't she at least say thanks?

"Hey everone!" Sakura said, from the top of the tree, even though she said everyone, she was really trying to get Sasuke's attention.

"Good job," Kakashi said, looking up from the Icha Icha book.

Sakura sweat dropped. Sasuke didn't even look her way, but for some reason, It didn't bother her as much as it should have.

When Sakura came back down, Naruto had barely gotten any further from the first time. He walked up to Sakura.

"Um, Sakura-chan?" He asked timidly. Asking for help wasn't his big thing.

"Hmm? What?" She inquired.

"Could I get some tips?"

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All of the genins were sprawled out on the ground, and panting. Airashii had been able to go up and down without slipping, and Sakura could now walk up without much effort. Naruto and Sasuke had both improved, but neither had reached the top quite yet.

Kakashi appeared in front of them.

"Earlier I said that I was going to trade your training partners up a bit."

Airashii sighed. Change partners? Today Airashii was going to teach him the murasaki bakuha no jutsu! Why were they changing partners so early?

"Naruto and Sakura are going to work with me, and Sasuke and Airashii are going to work together." Kakashi said. He had reasons for doing this. Not really for the training, but more for the teamwork factor. The old pairs generally got along, but he knew that the new pairs would have a bit of trouble warming up to each other. Airashii reluctantly got up and followed Sasuke to the other side of the training grounds.

'The rock? Why did Kakashi put me with the rock? Even Sakura would be better than this,' Airashii thought.

"So what do you want to do?" He asked Airashii.

"I don't really care. I suppose we could do a little taijutsu match."

"Alright," The raven haired genin replied, his hands in his pockets.

They both took their places on the field. No one really said anything, but they both started at the same time. Sasuke and Airashii charged at each other. Sasuke threw a punch, which Airashii easily evaded. As she ducked, she swung her leg out to trip the Uchiha boy. He barely avoided this, back-handspringing out of this move just in time. Airashii ran at him, and threw a seiries of punches and kicks, causing the Uchiha to go on the defensive.

"Why don't you like me?" He asked, blocking a punch.

"You're about as exciting as stale bread," The kunoichi said, doing a complex jump kick punch technique.

Normally Sasuke just brushed it off when somebody insulted him, but for some reason this bothered him. She threw her hand out, trying to get a good hit at his neck, but he grabbed her arm and pulled her in. Airashii used his grip against him, and ducked, bringing her hand over her head, causing Sasuke to have to front flip to avoid his back hitting the ground.

"You're so concentrated on revenge and getting more power, that you forget to see how you're affecting other people. You don't let anyone get close to you. It's like, because you're so good of a ninja, you're too good for freinds. People are trying to get close to you, but you just push them away." Airashii explained, blocking his punch, and retaliating with a punch of her own.

Sasuke just froze, and allowed the punch to hit him square in the face. It was all true. Every single word she said was true. No doubt.

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I hope you liked this chapter. As you may have noticed, I split it and chapter eight up, and added some more in-depth reactions.

Murasaki Bakuha no jutsu purple blast technique. In Naruto's case, it would be Aoi Bakuha no justu, or blue blast technique.

Don't forget to review, and remember, I love constructive crit!

Bijou