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Chapter 4

Lie's P.O.V.

"Pathetic," I thought as I listened to that annoying pink haired brat throw a tantrum about not being on the same team as pretty boy over here.

"Just don't get in my way." It was a warning. From none other than Sasuke Uchiha himself.

That ass, I fired back with venom dripping in every word, "listen you cocky prick. I'll kick your ass up and down this village."

He looked at me with an amused smirk that irritated me to no end, "is that a challenge."

I glared and Shizuko looked upset, "guys we're on a team we shouldn't be fighting."

"Shizuko is right, that's enough both of you," the teacher ninja Iruka agree and announced that it was lunch time and we should spend it with our teams to 'bond'.

The boys on our team however bolted, Sasuke out the window and the annoying orange blob after a group of screaming girls, which left Shizuko and I walking out in silence. Which was fine with me but obviously not her.

"We should find the guys."

It was kind of a suggestion but kinda not at the same time.

"Now why would we do that?" I sighed tired and hungry since we didn't have time to grab food of any kind this morning and I'm not used to sleeping at night.

Shizuko seemed hungry too. I had no idea if she had, had any kind of decent meal since the incident with her family but I wasn't about to ask that either.

"Going to find that frustrating brat Sasuke is a terrible idea on its own. I might destroy him," I exclaimed trying to convince her to just let them stay lost.

"Why do you dislike Sasuke?" Shizuko asked with an eyebrow quirked stopping at a tree.

I leaned on the tree as I remembered yesterday's first encounter with the Uchiha.

(Flashback to yesterday)

We had just passed the stupid three-part test that involved; hand to hand combat, a written strategy based test, and a clone jutsu test. Awkwardly enough I passed the test with water clones since I can't summon basic chakra, only water and dark energies. Shizuko passed as well and we were walking out graduated with our headbands in hand.

"I'll be right back, meet you at the gates." Shizuko called out suddenly going towards her miserable looking new friend.

I shrugged I didn't really care who did or didn't pass this pathetic test but I was snapped out of my thoughts when a blond girl bumped into me.

"Hey freak watch where you're going there's a difference between being blind and rude."

I was already irritated and exhausted from lack of sleep so i held nothing back, "Your right, obviously you're both because you're the one who bumped into me because you're too preoccupied with your pathetic obsession over an uninteresting pretty boy who wants absolutely nothing to do with your annoying weak ass. I honestly don't understand what all of you see him."

"He's the handsome and strong Uchiha Sasuke of course. All Uchiha men are known for their strength and good looks."

"Never heard of them. Must not be that well known," I argued, still annoyed at the girl.

That's when the raven-haired boy stepped forward. The boy and his fangirls all looked on with disbelief. His frown apparent.

"What backwater village are you from anyway, to not know the superior abilities of my clan."

If only I could speak my real clan name. But I won't. "Call it what you want. Only people with inferiority complexes talk as big as you."

I was gonna leave it at that turning away from him but he grabbed my wrist. "I'll take you on in a battle, any time you feel unsure of my superiority to you."

I flicked his hand away like a gnat a dark smirk appearing on my face. I felt a little darkness seeping out but I couldn't stop it. I didn't want to, "sure pretty boy, you could totally beat me."

The sarcasm was obvious but the threat didn't last long because Shizuko got directly in between us grabbing my hand, "are you ready to go Lie, I'm beat!"

It wasn't a question. She was already pulling me away. It was a save for the sake of our identities. This holding back thing was gonna be a lot harder than either of us thought. We relied heavily on our special abilities. Too much so.

(End Flashback)

"Eh he just irritates me. People from my clan are cocky but he reaches a whole new level of conceded," I shrugged.

Shizuko lightly chuckled and I cocked an eyebrow but she ignored my gesture.

"You know the Uchiha clan was one of the first clans known to ninja kind. Including the Senju and our own two. They date back extremely far," she informed. I knew she wasn't taking his side but at the moment it sure felt like it. She continued, "there's something else you should know about our team."

I turned my head in her direction signaling that I was paying attention.

"Every single one of us are orphans. I don't expect that to make you see them any differently but I thought you should know."

"Yeah but every single one of you had a choice. And that's what makes me different. You all knew what it meant to choose ninja. It meant loss and pain. Whether you choose it to exterminate evil or like your new friend, to bring peace. You still got to choose. I could never choose not to be a ninja and I could never choose to stop now."

She looked down contemplating for a long time before she spoke again, "if it was under different circumstances would you choose not to?"

I thought about it for a second, "who knows, but whatever I would have chosen it would have at least been my decision."

"Maybe you need to stop wall-" she started. We both may have been a little happy for the annoying orange blob that stopped her we saw out of the corner of our eyes for breaking the tension of our serious moment.

Shizuko's new friend was sneaking on a rooftop towards Sasuke who was looking in our direction from a second story window eating a rice cake. I would be curious as to why he was looking our way but didn't have time to think about it because the boy dropped down into the window kicking the Uchiha back and knocking the window shut. We waited about two minutes to see what befell our two 'teammates' when 'Sasuke' jumped back out unscathed and hopped away. Except it wasn't Sasuke, because Sasuke had known we were here and saw him. This copy cat had no clue.

"I should go see what Naruto is up to…" Shizuko looked in his direction.

"Not a chance," I intervened. "You check on Uchiha and I'll take the annoying orange blob. Not giving her a chance to argue back I hopped after the boy.

I stayed back far enough to make sure he didn't notice me. Probably too far but it's good to be cautious. I saw him stop and shove his hands in his pockets and lean against a tree in front of the annoying pink haired girl. Sakura I think her name is. Only to flirt pathetically telling her how beautiful her forehead is only to chicken out when she leaned in for a kiss and ran off in another direction.

Well that was uneventful. I headed back to the classroom where Shizuko and Sasuke were already sitting there waiting.

Sasuke just hned as I walked past which I just ignored and sat next to Shizuko with my usual leaning back and feet on the desk, "well did you find him?"

I debated telling her the truth or not because I didn't know what she thought of this boy. Maybe I'll tell her later, "it was uneventful. He couldn't hold the transformation long enough to do anything interesting. She cocked an eyebrow curious about what interesting things he wanted to do and Sasuke looked relieved that he couldn't do anything out of character in his name.

Naruto dragged in later holding his stomach and complaining about milk something or other and we all sat there in silence, Sasuke resting his head on his hands, Shizuko reading, Naruto trying to make the pain in his stomach go away huddled in a ball, and me comfortably napping. Teams came in and left with their jonin leaders. About two hours went by until our team was the only one left.

"WHERE IS OUR NEW SENSEI?" Naruto screamed breaking the silence obviously feeling better and stir-crazy breaking me from my nap and almost caused me to fall out of my chair.

Half of me wanted to kill him and the other half of me agreed, still I yelled, "Shut up."

Unfortunately, it was in complete unison with the annoying raven haired Uchiha on my left. We looked at each other horrified and Naruto cracked up laughing and Shizuko struggled to hold in her giggles.

Disgusted we turned away and Naruto laughs, "looks like you finally found your match Sasuke."

"Shut up dobe," Sasuke shot back glaring in his direction.

"Shesh it was just a joke, lighten up a little," Naruto pouted and then goes to grab an eraser and propped it on the door.

"Naruto our sensei is going to be a Jonin he isn't going to fall for something like that." Sasuke lectured but before Naruto had a chance to argue back we heard the crescendo of footsteps slowly resonating through the hall. Everyone stared the door down. In the next minute a gloved hand pushed the door open, causing the eraser to plant directly on the head of our new Jonin, sending white dust through his silver hair.

He didn't look shocked but he did seem kind of annoyed as he scanned the room. "My first impression of you all is… You're a bunch of idiots." Shizuko frowned. Naruto was busy laughing at his joke and Sasuke sweat dropped. I just sighed and got up following the man to the roof with the rest of my team.

He leaned on the railing and motioned us to sit on the steps in front of him in the following order;

Lie. Shizuko.

Sasuke. Naruto

Sensei/Kakashi

"Ok team we're going to introduce ourselves and share things like likes, dislikes, hobbies, and dreams for the future. I'll go first to show you all what I'm looking for. My name is Hatake Kakashi. My likes and dislikes well… I don't feel like talking about them. My hobbies, well I have a lot of hobbies. As far as dreams for the future. I guess I never really thought about it. Ok your next," our sensei said grinning and rubbing the back of his head with fake embarrassment for telling us literally nothing. We all cocked an annoyed eyebrow and Naruto began to introduce himself.

"I'm Uzumaki Naruto believe it! My likes are training and eating ramen, especially when Iruka-sensei buys me some at Ichiraku's. I dislike waiting three minutes for instant ramen to cook when you add the water. My hobbies are trying different kinds of ramen-"

Does this kid ever not talk about ramen? I didn't seem like the only one annoyed. Kakashi also seemed unamused and Shizuko just giggled into her sleeves.

"-And your dream?" Kakashi prompted changing the topic.

"To become hokage! Then everyone in the village will stop disrespecting me. Believe it!" Naruto half screamed.

Hmm, strange kid. Next Kakashi's eyes wandered to the Uchiha. "You're up," he prompted with a smile.

Sasuke just narrowed his eyes and began, "My name is Uchiha Sasuke. I dislike a lot of things and I don't particularly like anything. My hobby is training and I don't have a dream because I will make my ambition a reality. I will restore my clan, and kill a certain man." He said the last part with much more malice than usual.

For once I'll admit that I was finally curious about the story behind this Uchiha Sasuke and all of his hatred. Shizuko was staring down at the ground. No doubt thinking about her past misfortunes and their similarities. Naruto looked panicked for some odd reason and Kakashi just smiled and pointed to me.

"I sighed already irritated. My name it's Lie… Kawakami Lie." I silently cursed my pause for momentarily forgetting my 'clan name' but continued anyway, "I have some things I like more than others but they aren't really worth mentioning. Also, I have things I'm good at but not really any hobbies. My goal is to eradicate the sins of my people and if possible to change my fate."

It was my turn for people to look at me strangely, including Shizuko but I didn't care. Even Sasuke seemed intrigued at the last part wondering exactly what the Kawakami clan was about. Kakashi decided it better not to dwell on the subject.

(Shizuko's P.O.V.)

Kakashi's eyes looked into mine, as the others turned to look at me, eyes bright with curiosity. With a bright grin I told my story. "Hi, I'm Hoga Shizuko! Hmm, let's see. I like; sweets, reading, animals, foxes in particular, and helping others. My dislikes are judgey and mean people, also snakes and bugs," I bite my tongue between my teeth after I mention bugs.

"Hobbies…. Learning new healing techniques….and dancing." Smiling softly as I remember my mom and I dancing around the kitchen laughing.

"And your goal?" Kakashi- Sensei interrupted, frowning I stared at him, fiddling with my crest under the white cloth.

"Ummm I need to stop someone and I want to rebuild something…." Looking away at the ground as they stare, waiting for more.

(Lie's P.O.V.)

Kakashi pushed himself up from his leaning position and smiled, "well team seven it seems like you all have your own personalities and goals. Now for the bad news…"

We all narrowed our eyes at this unexpected turn of events.

Kakashi chuckled as he continued, "out of the whole graduating year only 3 to 4 teams are expected to actually become genin. The test you all took was more of a qualifier. Tomorrow you all will take one last survival test with me and if you fail, you will be dropped from the program entirely unable to even repeat your academy years."

"What?!" Naruto screamed flabbergasted at the news while Sasuke looked irritated and Shizuko looked panicked but determined. I didn't really care either way, named ranking didn't make any difference to me. In fact I was almost praying that I failed.

Kakashi smiled, "well now that all of you look excited, I'll meet you at the training ground at 05:00 am sharp. Also, I wouldn't eat unless you want to see it again later. If there are no questions…"

Before anyone got a chance to even think of one to ask he had already vanished.

I stood up immediately, "great now that the day is half over. I'm gonna leave, I have things to do."

At that moment Sasuke stood up grabbing my wrist, "fight me."

I got immediately annoyed, "Why the hell does everyone think it's alright to touch me lately."

I twisted my hand out of his grip, "go take a long walk off a short cliff Uchiha didn't you just hear me. I'm busy!"

"Chicken," he called out after I had turned and started to walk away.

I stopped, it was hard to resist a challenge and I could feel my tolerance slipping. What was it about this boy that made me so on edge?

I turned his way with a smirk and a battle-ready stance but before I had time to move Shizuko was already blocking my path, "I thought you had things to do. Fighting can wait right."

I hated holding back and I may have been fond of the little angel but her ruining my fun lately is really starting to irritate me.

I just turned around "yeah, whatever," and walked to the weapons shop to stock up for tomorrow and future battles. Tomorrow's gonna be a long day.