IV

The door to the classroom slid open and stepped in Kakashi who had lowered his book when he saw that two of his students were missing. "Where did Rin and Naruto go?"

Sasuke glared at Kakashi who was rather late. "Rin got sick of waiting for you and left, dragging Naruto with her."

"So her patience can run thin," said Kakashi, raising his book back into position. "I was going to have us introduce ourselves and such, but since that would be kind of pointless now, we are going to do something else."

"What are we going to do?" Asked Sakura who wasn't looking pleased

"We are going to hunt down your teammates!"

"I understand trying to find Rin, but Naruto is practically useless," said Sakura, whose mood was still going downhill.

Kakashi gave Sakura a disapproving look. "What makes you say that?"

Sakura started to feel uneasy when she felt Sasuke glaring at her. "Well, all he does is sleep in class, doesn't speak to anyone, obviously can't fight since he doesn't participate in sparring, and gets horrible grades! I still can't wrap my head around the fact that someone actually wants to be around him."

"Well," said Kakashi, putting his book away. "It seems like there will be another change in plans. After we find your teammates, we are going to have another little test." Kakashi looked directly at Sakura who still had yet to move. "If he is useless then he should be easy to find, so get to it!" Sasuke had already left the room with Sakura lagging behind.

-M-

Naruto tried to pry himself from Rin's incredibly strong grip without success. "Let me go, damn it!"

Rin pulled him closer to the clothing store, but was unsuccessful as she only managed to move him about an inch. "You need new clothes! The ones you have are completely trashed!" Despite her strong grip, she couldn't get him to move.

"I don't care! I am not going shopping with you!" Naruto felt his arm go limp, and then, without warning, his entire body from his shoulders down to his feet went limp and he found himself lying face first in the middle of the street. He looked at Rin who was grinning. "What did you do to me?"

"I temporarily paralyzed you from the shoulders down to your feet." She kneeled down in front him, the glare he was giving her just made this whole experience ten times better. "Just agree to get new clothes and I'll let you go!" Rin's grin instantly disappeared when she felt herself get shoved face first into the street, a huge amount of pressure held her to the ground, taking away her ability to move.

"Doesn't feel too good does it?"

Rin just glared at him. How did he do that? This was so unfair! "Let me go, damn it!"

"No," said Naruto with a victorious smirk.

Rin struggled to get out from under the pressure to come out defeated every time. This was downright unfair. "So what are we going to do, just lie in the middle of the street?"

"Well, seeing as we can't do anything else, yes."

"I feel like such a fool!" The people staring and stepping over her weren't making this situation any better. "Naruto please let me go! I'll teach you how to walk on water; you've been asking me how to do it for the past three days!"

Naruto thought about it for a second before making up his mind. "Okay, if I let you go you have to teach me how to walk on water."

Rin grinned. "Good, and if you want me to release you, you have to let me pick out new clothes for you!"

"I changed my mind."

Rin glared at Naruto and growled. She would have punched him if she could move. "Why are you so difficult!?"

"Why can't you just take no for an answer!?" Naruto retorted.

Rin started to take deep breaths in hopes of calming down. There was no need for violence. "Naruto, didn't you say you couldn't create a Bunshin, no matter how little Chakra you used?"

"Yes…" Naruto answered suspiciously.

"Well, I'll teach you how to walk on water and a Jutsu that I can't even do if you let me go and buy you some new clothes."

"Why can't you do it?" Naruto asked curiously.

"Because it would kill me."

"Why the fuck would I want to learn it if I'll die?"

Rin stayed silent for a few seconds. That wasn't the brightest thing to tell him. "No, you wouldn't die! I would die because I don't have enough Chakra, but you might!"

"Might? Are you telling me that there is a fifty percent chance I could die? How is that comforting? You really suck at persuading people your way."

"Listen you pain in the ass!" This kid was so infuriating! "We'll do some tests and find out! I'm not going to take you to a field and just hope for the best!"

"What if I can't perform the technique?" Naruto watched her with a small grin. He was waiting for her to just snap and beat someone.

"Naruto," Rin growled out. "I know the human body inside and out and I promise you that if we can't come to an agreement in the next five minutes I will fuck all of your shit up."

"Fine," Naruto sighed, "If I can't perform the technique you have to buy me dinner."

Rin nodded, her face going red, "O-okay."

Naruto eyed her, not understanding her sudden change in attitude; friends went out to eat together all the time. Naruto let a small grin slide itself into place when he realized the way she was taking it. He released the pressure around her arms and patiently waited for her to release him, which took a surprising amount of time because she refused to look at him and just felt around. His amusement quickly vanished when he felt himself get ripped up from the ground and dragged into the store, a whole new level dread sweeping over him.

-M-

Sasuke stopped walking when he heard a scream of frustration echo across the field. He had been looking for his teammates for the past hour and a half and was starting to get annoyed. Sakura was no help and Kakashi, who was a Jonin and should have been able to find them without a problem, was also having trouble. Sasuke followed the sound of laughter into a clearing and saw a soaking wet Naruto trying to stand on top of water with a soaked Rin standing next to him giggling. What caught his attention was that there was more than one Naruto standing on top of the water, which was surprising as he couldn't remember Naruto knowing how to create a Bunshin and the clones being solid. Sasuke looked to his left and saw Kakashi standing next to him with Sakura right behind him. "I found them…"

"Great job, Little Trooper," said Kakashi, not looking up from his book. "Seems like they are having a good time, don't you think?"

Sakura just folded her arms and looked at the ground. She didn't care what those two were doing, she was just glad that they could stop looking for them.

-M-

Naruto stood back on top of the water; he was having a little trouble staying on top, but was quickly getting the hang of it. Shopping with Rin wasn't as bad as he had thought it was going to be. She just gave him a look over before throwing a bunch of clothes at him. All of his black and orange was replaced by white and blue. He had on a blue sleeveless hoodie with the Uzumaki crest on the back and a white short-sleeved t-shirt under it with some blue pants and blue sandals. He had refused to wear his forehead protector, or anything that had the Konoha symbol on it. He didn't know what happened to his forehead protector as he threw it somewhere in his apartment and lost it.

Training with Rin was great as it didn't actually feel like training, but more like just a time out with a friend, but yet again, he didn't know what it felt like to have a friend so maybe it was just the fact that someone was actually willing to spend time with him that made this feel different. She didn't yell at him when he failed, but praised him on what he did right and helped him correct what he was doing wrong. It was refreshing. He had learned the Kage Bunshin first and was surprised that he was able to learn it, and that the original would receive the memories of the clone once it was dispelled, which according to Rin, made it faster for him learn things out of a book, Jutsu, and the Chakra Control exercise he was doing. Naruto grinned when he found himself still standing on the water without even thinking about it. He dispelled all of his clones and instantly regretted it when he received a splitting headache and fell into the water. He felt a hand grab his arm and pull him out of the water. He looked at Rin who was laughing and rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. "I got kind of excited."

"I noticed," Rin said, still grinning. "You finally got it! I'm so proud of you!"

Naruto looked away when he felt his face go red. "Thanks!"

The grin slowly fell from Rin's face when she saw him look away. His thanks sounded a bit forced and it seemed like praise was a foreign thing to him. "What's wro…?" Rin stopped mid sentence when she saw all of the water that was covering Naruto instantly rip away from his body and clothes and fall into the grass, leaving him completely dry. "How do you do that?"

"Do what?"

"How do you control the elements like that? I mean, you were able to set your hands on fire without any hand-signs, you threw me to the ground without moving a muscle, and you just pulled the water off of you like it was nothing." She had never seen someone control the elements like that. Not even her Sensei, who Naruto extremely resembled, could control the elements.

Naruto shrugged his shoulders and made him-self comfortable next to her. "I don't really know how I do it; sometimes I don't even do it. It's weird. Though, depending on what I want to do, I have to move. It's hard to explain and I don't really know how it works. Sometimes it reacts to my emotions, or if I don't want to get wet when it's raining the water droplets will completely change course to avoid me. It's pretty awesome, but I have never heard of a bloodline like this, nor have I heard of anyone being able to control them. Has anyone in the past been able to do what I do?"

Rin shook her head. "Not that I am aware of. It's really neat though!"

"How do you know how to do the Kage Bunshin if you can't perform it yourself?"

"Sensei was teaching it to Kakashi and I decided to spy on them," she answered without shame.

"Didn't he let you know why you couldn't perform the Jutsu?"

"Yes… But I figured that when I had enough Chakra to perform it I would learn by myself, but I haven't reached that point yet."

Naruto looked away from Rin when he saw Kakashi land in front of him. "Look at you two getting a head start in training. I love your eagerness to get better!"

Rin cocked an eyebrow at Kakashi's cheeriness and scooted closer to Naruto. "What the hell happened to you, Kakashi?"

Kakashi ignored her and put his book away. "Since you two decided to run off and have your own little party, we now have to completely skip the introductions and get straight to the test!"

"What test?" Naruto asked, annoyed.

"The test that determines if you're a Genin or not!"

"Wasn't that the point of graduating from the Academy?" Asked Sasuke

"Not really. The point of the Academy graduation was to weed out all of the weaklings, the useless."

Oh, look at that, he was still an asshole. Rin stood up and pulled Naruto up with her. "Let me guess, you're going to do the bell test?"

"Shush," said Kakashi, not even looking at his old teammate. "We are going to do the bell test." Kakashi pulled out two bells attached to red strings and held it out for his students to see. "All you have to do is steal a bell from me to pass."

"And if you don't?" Asked Sakura

"Then you fail and get sent back to the academy."

Naruto glanced at Sasuke who nodded at him and then looked at Rin who gave him a smile. He turned his attention to Sakura who looked nervous. "What are the rules?"

"Well, that's the thing, there are no rules. I want all of you to come at me with the intent to kill; otherwise you won't stand a chance at passing." Kakashi pulled out a timer and set it for an hour before placing it back into his pouch and pulled out his book. "Your hour starts now." Kakashi watched as his students disappeared into the trees and frowned when he saw Naruto still sitting in the grass. "Why aren't you off hiding somewhere?"

"Why hide? You're not going to kill me; I have no reason to hide somewhere and try to make a plan." Naruto stood up and glared at Kakashi. "Why are you always late?"

Kakashi lowered his book and looked at Naruto whose eyes were completely void of all emotion. "How do you know I am always late?"

"Because you and the Hokage have no idea what privacy means. I know you watch over me, but what you don't know is that I know when you leave for the night and when you start in the morning." Naruto watched as Kakashi put his book away and was eyeing him suspiciously. "You were always on time at first, but after a while you ended up being two or three hours late."

"What point are you trying to make?" Kakashi was not suspecting this, the kid was more aware of his surroundings than he had originally thought.

"I am saying that I don't want to be on your team."

That was unexpected. "Why not?"

"Your tardiness could have gotten me killed. What would you have done if a traitor tried to kill me at the academy and I was killed because you were too busy staring at a stone? How many ninjas have died under your watch because of your carelessness?"

Kakashi's only visible eye narrowed dangerously. "Watch your step, Naruto; you are walking on thin ice."

Naruto's blue eyes turned cold as they glared holes into Kakashi. "I've been walking on thin ice my entire life; I'm not scared of falling through. Why were you assigned to be a team leader? You don't have any qualities of a leader that I can see; all I see is a coward." Naruto turned around and started to walk into the clearing. "I hate you, and I hope whoever you are mourning has turned over in their grave for the things that you have allowed to happen." The sound of a knife cutting through air and the thud of it impaling earth echoed throughout the training field.

Naruto smirked and turned his head to look at Kakashi. "You missed."

Kakashi stood frozen as he looked at Naruto who was still standing behind the pillar of earth. He had always known Naruto could control the elements at will as he watched him train, but what he didn't know was that they could act without Naruto doing anything. It was like the elements had a mind of their own. Neither of Naruto's parents had this ability to control all of the elements, so where did Naruto learn it? What shocked him the most was how Naruto was playing with his emotions and at how quickly he fell for it. Kakashi was quickly brought out of his thoughts when he heard the sound of shuriken slicing through the air and quickly replaced himself with a log. Kakashi kneeled down on a branch and scanned the area and saw that Naruto was nowhere to be seen.

Naruto cursed as he landed on a branch. He had missed, even with Kakashi not paying attention. He couldn't use any weapons as he was out and didn't carry any, so his only option was hand to hand combat as he didn't know a whole lot of Jutsu and he wasn't skilled at using the Kage Bunshin yet. He had no idea where Rin or Sasuke ran off too and Sakura was useless. Naruto sat down on the branch and grabbed the rocks he had covered with explosive notes out of his pockets and played with them for a bit.

Kakashi walked into the clearing and stopped when he saw three rocks covered in paper land in front of him. He looked at them curiously before quickly jumping backwards away from them when all three of them exploded, completely destroying everything around them. He could feel the bark from the trees that had been destroyed stabbing into him and he put out his sleeve that had caught on fire. That was too close.

Kakashi span around and caught Naruto's fist before it made contact with his throat. Naruto threw his free hand to the ground and swung his foot at Kakashi's ribs. Kakashi caught Naruto's foot with his free hand and snapped the boy's wrist when he saw him swipe at one of the bells, his middle finger grazing one. Kakashi threw Naruto to ground and ignored the boys' cry of pain. He had to admit that Naruto's Tai-Jutsu was a lot better than he had thought and impressed that the boy was actually coming at him with intent to kill. He had yet to decide if that was a good or bad thing. He let a small smile come to his face when he saw Rin jump down from a tree and grab Naruto before disappearing. His smile instantly vanished when he saw a giant fireball tearing through the trees straight at him. He quickly jumped into the air and watched it hit the ground under him. His eyes went wide when it exploded and completely engulfed him.

Sasuke glared at the burning log that was lying where Kakashi used to be. He almost got him. He placed his hand into his pouch to grab a pair of shuriken and glared in the direction that Rin had taken Naruto when he couldn't feel any. That bastard had robbed him of all his Shuriken and he couldn't even remember the blond getting close enough to take any. He reached into his kunai holster and pulled one out before looking at Sakura. "Why don't you start being useful and distract Kakashi for me?"

-M-

Rin leaned Naruto against a tree and gently grabbed his broken wrist. "You almost got one."

Naruto leaned his head against the tree and began thinking of different ways to get a bell. "I can't believe he actually broke my wrist."

"Well you did piss him off," said Rin as she started to heal his wrist. "Why did you do that?"

"I was hoping he would have become sloppy if he got angry," said Naruto. He winced when he felt his bone snap back into place. "Apparently it wasn't sloppy enough."

"Why did you follow Kakashi to the memorial stone? Another question…Why was he there?"

"Because he was assigned to make sure I didn't do anything out of line and I got curious about him. So I just followed him and listened to his conversations. A teammate of his was killed; I believe his name was Obito Uchiha."

Rin lowered Naruto's hand and became silent. So that's why she had never seen her second teammate around. "Did he mention how he died?"

Naruto shook his head. "He never said." He looked at Rin who was wiping her eyes with her sleeve. He didn't really know how he felt about this situation as he usually told people to grow the fuck up and accept that people die, but he was also around people that he didn't like and enjoyed actually seeing them so down. It gave him some weird kind of satisfaction. But right now he wasn't feeling any of that satisfaction and actually felt bad. "You know," he started quietly. "It's not like you won't see him again. You'll eventually get to go back to your time period and make sure the event of him dying doesn't happen. Don't think so negatively, think positive. You have a chance to change what you don't like."

Rin wiped her eyes dry and grabbed Naruto's hand. "You're right." Rin stood up, pulling Naruto up with her.

"Can I ask you a question?"

"You can ask me anything." Rin put a finger to Naruto's lips to silence him. "But first we need to pass this test."

Naruto sighed and scratched his head. "Well, seeing as you have passed it once, it shouldn't be hard for you to pass it again."

"I'll need your help. I explained this to Sasuke while you decided to attack Kakashi, so I wasn't able to tell you. The point of this test isn't really to get a bell, but to see how well you can work with a team. The bells are just a distraction; well at least I think they are because my team didn't get a bell and still passed."

"Okay," said Naruto reaching into Rin's pouch for some shuriken, ignoring the glare he was receiving. "Let's get this over with."

"Why don't you get your own weapons?"

"No question shall be answered until the completion of our test."

-M-

Sasuke glared at Sakura while he rubbed his incredibly bruised leg. "I said distract him, not get him to use me as a punching bag!"

Sakura rubbed her black eye, smiling weakly. "Well excuse me for not being able to hold his attention while a hail of kunai is about to cut him to pieces! Did you ever consider that he probably values his life more than he values teasing me?"

Sasuke just glared at her. "You piss me off." Sasuke sighed in annoyance and raised an eyebrow when he saw Kakashi land in the middle of the clearing with Naruto attacking him. He would have jumped in to help if he could actually move his leg without it bursting in pain.

Kakashi quickly ducked under Rin's fist and cursed when he felt his arm drop to limp to his side. He quickly jumped to the side to avoid an attack from Naruto and kicked Rin to the floor. He looked at his two students with a smile under his mask, maybe Naruto was willing to work with others. His smile instantly disappeared when he dodged a punch from Naruto. Confusion filled his lone eye when he saw four slashes across his Jonin vest; he had completely evaded that attack. He looked at Naruto's fist and grinned when he saw four shuriken stars in between his fingers with a little bit of blood dripping from his hand.

Naruto charged at Kakashi once more and threw the shuriken stars only for Kakashi to catch them out of mid air and throw them back at him, each star impaling him in the chest. Kakashi's lone eye went wide when he saw his student disappear in a cloud of smoke. He turned around and caught Naruto's fist with his free hand and smashed his knee into Naruto's gut, ignoring the blood that flew to the ground. Naruto ignored the blood that filled his mouth and eyed one of the bells that had swung towards him. He was so close.

Rin watched as Kakashi threw Naruto into the air with his knee and kicked the blond in her direction. She quickly braced herself and caught the blond with a wince when the force of Naruto hitting her knocked her off of her feet and sent her sliding towards her teammates.

Kakashi walked over to his students, not taking his eyes off of Naruto who had rolled off of Rin. The blond had blood dripping from his mouth and his hoodie was starting to get stained. He looked at Rin who was holding her chest in pain while Sakura and Sasuke both sat behind them shocked. What he didn't understand was why he hit Naruto that hard. Yes he was still pissed, but that shouldn't have led to him actually using that much force on his student. "You four pass!"

"Did we really?" Asked an excited Sakura

"Yup! The whole point of this test was to see if you would be willing to work as a team, despite knowing you could go back to the Academy. Even though you didn't work as a full team, you still worked together! The bells were just to pit you against each other!" Kakashi looked down at his belt and his eyes went wide when he saw that he was missing a bell. He looked at Naruto who stuck his tongue out and on top of it sat a bell. "Well, isn't this a surprising surprise? Care to explain how you managed to get one?"

Naruto ignored the astonished looks his teammates were giving him and let the bell fall into his lap. "When you crushed my stomach with your knee I noticed a bell swing towards me. I cut the string and was able to catch it in my mouth before you punted me at Rin." Naruto spat out some blood and smirked at Sasuke. "You're falling behind, Uchiha."

Sasuke glared at Naruto. He was annoyed that his teammate actually got a bell, but it wasn't as bad as the smirk the blond was wearing. "At least I didn't have to let someone knee my in the gut for a bell, Uzumaki."

"At least my injuries got me somewhere," said Naruto, the smirk never leaving his face.

Kakashi grinned at his students. They needed work, but he was pleased. "Everyone is dismissed except for Naruto. Meet me back here tomorrow morning around six." He watched Sasuke stand up and leave with Sakura latched onto his arm. If anyone needed the most help it was definitely her. He looked at Rin who had yet to leave. "You aren't required to stay, you know."

"I know," said Rin who was checking over Naruto, her hands glowing green. "I'm just making sure Naruto is okay before I go." Rin removed her hands from Naruto and looked at him questioningly. He was perfectly fine. He wasn't injured and any sign that he was injured was completely gone. Even the cuts on his hand from the shuriken were nowhere to be found. "Come find me when you're done, okay?"

Naruto nodded and watched her leave before turning his attention to Kakashi. "What do you want?"

"You have passed, but you are not going to be part of Team Seven." He watched Naruto for any reaction and was surprised to see a bit of disappointment instead of the indifference he was expecting. This was an improvement. "The Hokage wants you to have more interactions with the other teams in hopes of you gaining some friends and building up your teamwork with different types of ninja."

"Why is Sasuke part of a team then? He needs friends and teamwork more than I do; after all, he is the last Uchiha, the most precious person in Konoha."

"Sasuke has already been taken care of. The Hokage wants me to train Sasuke how to use the Sharingan when he awakens it."

Naruto stayed silent. He knew why the Hokage really wanted him to make friends and build teamwork, it wasn't because he cared, but because they wanted their demon container to try and build relationships so he would have a less chance of leaving. It would also be easier to have more people watch over him, to make sure he isn't up to something. "Why do they think they have to keep an eye on me?"

"They just want to make sure that you are doing okay." Kakashi eyed Naruto and noticed the anger flash across his blue eyes.

"Well I'm doing fantastic. This place is pathetic and everyone who lives here is trash. They take a newborn baby, seal a demon into him, and then treat the kid like the monster he's protecting them from! Now they think they can just throw me around to different Jonin because they want to make sure the trauma they have caused me isn't permanent? Fuck them and fuck the Hokage for pretending he is doing something good for me!" Naruto jumped to his feet and started to walk out of the field.

Kakashi just stood there and watched Naruto leave. He didn't know what to say because Naruto had actually made a point. They all had treated him horribly and were just barely realizing the problem that they had created.

-END-