*DISCLAIMER* I don't own Naruto or any of the original characters or the story this all belongs to Masashi Kishimoto, I only own my own character. Is rated will be fixed the deeper I get into the story.

"You know, I feel like I'm starting to like watching the water flow on this bride." Masumi says to the boys while they wait for their sensei like every morning. "It's calming I guess…" Sasuke replies when Kakashi actually appears. "Hey guys, I got lost in the path of life!" Kakashi smiles but they all roll their eyes. "What matters is that you're here Kakashi Sensei." Masumi smiles at her teacher ready to hear what mission they have today. "I know this is sudden I recommended you all for the chunin exam so here are your papers." He hands them to the team but they all just stare at the paper for a few seconds. "You all don't have to participate but I still will have you all have the papers." Naruto then hugs Kakashi. "Sensei you're so awesome, I can't wait!" He says while Kakashi is trying to get him to behave. "Only those who sign the slip can take the exam, those of you who decide can go to room 301 at 3:00 pm five days from now. That's all." Masumi turns to look at Sasuke who is looking at the paper quite seriously, then at Naruto who looks very excited. What ever the two decide I'll be with them. I will support them no matter what. Masumi thinks

"Which is shinobi rule number 25?" Mayumi, a then 7 year old, asks Masumi, a then 7 year old too. The two girls were sitting on the floor in the living area of a hotel room. "A shinobi must never show tears during a mission." Mayumi nods. "That means that you must push aside your feelings while on the mission no matter how hard it may be." Masumi turns to look at her sister then back at the rule book questions. "But onee-chan, most of these rules seem harsh…" Masumi complains, Mayumi just closes the book and sets everything aside. "Let's get ready to go to bed." Mayumi then rolls out two futons, she then takes out a comb and makes Masumi sit in front of her and brushes her hair. "The rules may be harsh but would you want someone to start hurting your team mate in order to make force a reaction out of you?" Mayumi asks. "No…" Mayumi nods. "So then, what if you give into your emotions and they start inflicting pain on them to the point where they pass out of pain or blood loss?" Mayumi asks. "But onee-chan what if they already know who I care about?" Masumi asks. "Tsunade has taught you well, entering the academy you are already going to be at a high level in your medic skills that you don't have to worry much when it comes to easing someones pain or healing them. You also train harder than anyone I know with that pretty element you know. I'm jealous but nothing has suited your pretty little self more." She smiles looking back at Mayumi who was now putting the brush away. She laughs and lays in bed next to her sister the pair holding hands. "Onee-chan…" She softly whispers. "Mmm what is it Masumi?" Mayumi turns to her sister who is already dosing off. "You… Tsunade-nee-chan… Shizune-nee-chan…" Masumi says in between her eyes closing. "i'm glad.. I have you three." Masumi is then startled awake by knocking on her door. "Masumi, are you in there?" She can hear Sasuke calling for her. "Oh no, I slept past my alarm clock…" She gets up panicked and answers the door. "Sorry I slept in late… if you don't mind waiting outside while I change into my usual outfit." He nods to her and she quickly goes back inside to get dressed. It's the day they are to submit the papers for the exam by going to the class room they were told to go to.

"You normally don't sleep in like this." Sasuke tells Masumi. "My head was some place else…" She says as they walk down the street to the training grounds. "It's normal training time though we still have a few hours before the academy opens." She says placing herself in front of a log. "Don't you think we aren't ready for the exam?" Sasuke asks when she suddenly pulls out her bow and a regular arrow pointing it too high for the log, when her arrow reaches the other side it's thrown back by a masked ninja. "Sasuke get behind me…" She trails off. "Is what I would still not say if this was real." She states knocking her bow once more. "Sasuke doesn't come to my apartment to invite me to train or to wake me for anything, we value each others time. Precious training time that you're cutting into with this cheap illusion." Masumi says then grinning. "Not even you are real." She lets go of the arrow and it just darts through him. "As expected from Kakashi's student… and a member of the esteemed Senju clan. But you will see.. the chunin exam isn't something you want to go messing around in." The ninja says disappearing. "My priorities are taking care of my team mates. Don't appear to me trying to scare me away." She tsks and starts her way to the academy. I know how much they want to do this and I want to walk with them every step of the way. Masumi thinks.

"Masumi, you're here early!" Naruto exclaims making Sasuke look her way. "You both too, excited about applying?" She asks with a smile on her face, she notices Sasuke looking at her strangely. She walks towards him and she wraps her pinky around his with their hands directly downward making sure no one is looking. "Seems like they sent out some ninja yesterday… at least I ran into one trying to make me back out of this." Sasuke then eases off looks like that was the question he wanted to ask. "You too? I don't know why they had to involve Moegi in this!" Naruto exclaims. "As long as she's safe now is what matters, I'm sure you got him good!" He laughs at Masumi. "Yup! But he disappeared last minute." Naruto laughs and she turns to Sasuke. "Oh… yeah. But it was no big deal." She knows he is saying that so she wouldn't worry and she just grips his pinky tight hoping that it could convey the message to him that it was truly no big deal.

The group then sees two boys halting students outside the door of where they were supposed to go to apply for the exam. They seem to have been giving people a rough time over who was joining the exam. She notices how they have kicked a strange boy in a green jump suit and slapped a girl away. "Please, can you just let us through?" The girl asks. "Listen to us were just letting you off easy the chunin exams are dangerous so you best leave now." Says one of the boys seeming to rather want to intimidate participants. "What's better for us is weeding out the competition who will just end up becoming crippled or end up dying?" The other boy says. "Fair argument but you will for sure let me through." Sasuke is the first to put his 2 cents in. "And could you immediately undo this genjutsu you are using to block the real path." Masumi smiles at Sasuke didn't even have to take out his sharingan to see this through, just as I would expect from him. Plenty of days have Sasuke and I trained to see through deception… all because of that night… "Oh so you noticed." The boy said back. "Right, Masumi? This is quite weak for a genjutsu." She chuckles. "Of course, this whole topic of random ninja trying to hold us back from taking the exam. It's all just been pure illusion." She snickers. "I see, but this is all you've come to find out." One of the boys says ready to kick Sasuke away, Masumi wanted to intervene but it all happened so quick but the boy in the green jumpsuit stepped in with such speed he was able to stop them both. "This isn't the time, you were the one who didn't want to attract attention." A boy with long brown hair stepped forward to his team mate who seemed to be the one in the green jumpsuit. "But…" He turns to look at Masumi who is turned smiling at Sasuke who looks a bit taken aback by the speed of the boy. She pats Sasuke on the shoulder when the boy walks up to her within inches. "My names Rock Lee, and yours is Masumi as he said before, right?" She looks at lee with a blank face. "huh?" She says when he winks at her making her tense up. Oh no… not in front of him…"Please be my girlfriend! I'll protect you until I die!" She stares at him then shows a fake smile. "Impossible." She replies. "Ehh?" Lee stares at her with a sad expression then at Sasuke who still has her hand on his shoulders. "Impossible." Sasuke says as well. The double rejection didn't seem to sit with him well. "Hey you, identify yourself." The long haired boy called out. "You should know when asking someone his name, state yours first." Sasuke talks back. "You're one of the rookies, arent you?" He presses. "I don't have to answer." Sasuke says turning around taking Masumi away from Lee by grabbing her hand. "Naruto, we're going!" Masumi announces to him with a smile and he walks behind them. "You know, you don't have to have an impact on people." Masumi whispers over to Naruto.

"Hey you, someone with such an unpleasant look can't be her boyfriend." Lee calls from upstairs. "Why don't you fight me here and now, for her." He instigates. She smiles at Lee and once again says. "Impossible." Sasuke turns around. "Even so, I can't have others asking for your hand." Sasuke looks over to Lee who jumps down from the stairs. "I'd like to test my strength against one of the decedents of the leaves most greatest clans." Sasuke grins. "So you all knew my name anyways." Masumi pushes Sasuke behind her. "I am part of one of the leaves greatest clans, my grandfather founded this village a long side one of the Uchiha clans most strongest ancestor. If anything, this isn't the time or place to be wanting to fight anyone." Masumi then looks back at Sasuke who grabs her hand and pulls her back. "It's between me and him." Sasuke tells her and she frowns stepping back and taking Naruto with her. "Wait but I want to take him out!" Naruto frowns. "Let it go and come rest over here with me. You're not the one fighting for my affection." Masumi chuckles. "But I can be…" Naruto whispers. "Impossible." She smiles again. This day is turning out to be such a headache, She thinks to herself looking up at the clock. "It's almost 3:00pm we don't have much time to finish the registration." She calls out to Sasuke. "It'll be over in 5 minutes." He stubbornly says.

Masumi watches as Lee throws Sasuke around making a sign that looks like he's going to use some sort of jutsu throws Sasuke off. For a while now since first meeting Lee, Masumi has been unable to sense any chakra in Lee leading her to think he must be a very good sensor ninja. The type that can go completely undetected. How can that even be so, he's a genin. If he indeed can camouflage his chakra so well then he must be talented far beyond our levels. Especially when fighting, it takes a lot of concentration as it is to be able to control your chakra that well. Masumi thinks to herself holding her breath each time Sasuke has to get himself back up from how much he's getting beat by Lee. She is more upset when he finally lands on the floor attempting to bring himself up. "Fine, I guess I don't have to hold back." Sasuke says much to everyone's surprise he activates his Sharingan. Masumi can only swallow her fear, she in no means wants to ever interrupt Sasuke and make him seem weak. She just beats her own self over the fact that she has only respected his training time and never put effort into training together. Sasuke then goes in to attack Lee, At least with his Sharingan he'll be able to see through Lee… The battle hasn't been decided yet. She cheers to herself but she then frowns when Lee kicks Sasuke back with so much force Sasuke lands at her feet. "If you haven't already picked up with those eyes, I don't have ninjutsu or genjutsu." Lee announces when Sasuke gets back up to fight him again, he throws Sasuke up from the ground and appears behind him as if using a finishing move. They are stopped by a turtle who pins Lee by his uniform to the wall before he could do whatever he was planning to do. "That's as far as it goes, Lee." The turtle spoke, all of this would've been an amazing joke, but all that aside Masumi jumps into action and catches Sasuke as he is falling. "Sasuke was… beaten?" Naruto asks. All on Masumi's mind was treating his bruises, she didn't care who won or lost rather than to ease Sasuke who was still looking at Lee with intent. "You were watching this whole time..?" Lee asks the turtle. "Lee that technique is prohibited!" The turtle scolds him. "I'm sorry, I took advantage." Lee apologizes to the turtle who then appears to look him deep in his soul much to Lee's fright. Masumi and Sasuke just look over at Lee in weirdly. "Thats… a turtle right?" Naruto asks. "It...is." Masumi replies. "That must be it! That turtle is his sensei, no doubt. But can a turtle become a sensei." Naruto points over to the turtle. "I… don't know….?" She replies while dampening gauze with a healing ointment to rub over Sasuke's bruises. "Fool! Did you think such deceit would work!" The turtle continues to scold Lee. "I'm sorry, I want to laugh so much…" Masumi whispers over to Sasuke who just sighs at her. Even through this painful out come of a fight Sasuke couldn't find it in him to glare at her when the strangest man appears dressed in the same outfit as Lee. "Guy sensei so I hear…" Masumi says continuing to rub the bruises, "As funny as those two must be. This is neither the time or place because the clock shows 5 min to run up to the 3rd floor and apply for the exam." Masumi throws away the gauze when Sasuke and Naruto quickly look startled. "By the way, how is Kakashi-sensei?" Guy asks the trio. "You know our sensei?" Naruto asks. "Of course, all too well. We are eternal rivals." Guy answers. "This guy?" Masumi whispers to the boys. "No way." Sasuke dismisses it right away. Masumi then notices the damage done to his fists underneath the bit of tape that peeled away from his hands. I can't possibly be training as hard as him. Masumi thinks looking at her smooth hands where only small callus are visible. She notices Sasuke curl his fist as he watches Lee make his way up the stairs for the exam. "Enough waiting around… we need to go." She says grabbing them both by the hand and running up the stairs. If anything, this now shows how much I'll be having to protect these two. Determined, she grips tightly on Sasuke's hand where he now noticed just how much she must've been holding back for his sake.