OHMYGOD I AM SO HAPPY! *SQUEALS_IN_FANGIRL_FASHION*

I check my mail 2 hours after it's published, and I've already got people following this story! Yay!

Anyways, I don't have much to say this time, so...

PARTY!

Yeah… don't know where that came from.

No wait, I do have something to say.*ahem*

There will be an OC introduced in this chapter. She won't play a major role though.

Organised chaos. That phrase is one of my favourites cos those words completely contradict each other but still make sense. Kinda like professional moron.

Okay. Let's roll!

"So, Kakashi-sensei, where was I meant to receive my disguise from again?"

"Naruto, I can't believe you forgot again. Actually, yes, I can believe that. WE'VE TOLD YOU FIVE TIMES ALREADY THAT YOU WERE MEANT TO MEET SHISHOU IN THE FOREST OF DEATH, NARUTO-BAKA!"

"But Sakura-chan, I can't help it! I'm excited! I can finally advance to Chuunin and beat the teme! Take that, Sasuke-teme!"

"Maa, maa, Naruto. Sakura's right. Besides, we're already heading there now. Calm down." The silver-haired Cyclops of a sensei strolled along two of his students with his ever-present orange book in his hands. He turned the page, giggled perversely before calming himself down. The newest book in the series, Icha Icha Tactics, was brilliant! He would have to profusely thank Jiraiya for it. Maybe set him up for a date with Tsunade or something…

"Anyways, what's gonna happen when we get there?"

"Shishou said that we were going to either put you under several genjutsus or actually change some of your characteristics, like your hair, your face, you know."

"WHAT? But I like my hair! I don't wanna go bald or get a bowl cut like Fuzzy Eyebrows and Fuzzy Eyebrows Senior!"

"WE'RE NOT GOING TO SHAVE YOU! And I really hope that we won't cut your hair like Lee… and… Gai…" Sakura trails off, shuddering violently at the thought of a third spandex-shiny-bowl-cut-youth-obsessed shinobi, and her teammate at that! Inner Sakura reared her head and yelled, 'NO WAY AM I GONNA LET NARUTO GET A BOWL CUT! I AM NOT HANGING AROUND HIM IF HE DOES, SHANNARO!'

"Oh look, we've arrived. Tsunade-sama told us to meet her in the tower used for your first Chuunin exams, so off we go!" Kakashi states, with way too much positivity for the scene. They were in Training Ground 44, also known as the Forest of Death. Even some jounins were wary of this place, but still. They had two people who had been trained under a Sannin each, one of them having possibly, no, definitely reached Kage-level, and their original teacher (not that he actually taught them much), Sharingan Kakashi, the Copy Cat Ninja. They were going to be fine. Probably.

So much for faith in your own students.

"Hey, Kakashi-sensei, Sakura, where is the teme anyway?"

"Hm? Oh, Sasuke said something about taking a look at the Uchiha library now that he's back or something…"(Read: Kakashi was barely listening and Sasuke still has remnants of power-hungry-bastard in his personality)

"So Sasuke-kun is trying to gain knowledge of his clan, huh?"

"As expected of the bastard. I'd better not fight him again and drag his ass back to Konoha for defecting. Again. Cos I have better things to do that defeat evil, traumatised bastards and try and convert them with my Therapy Jutsu a second time!"

"Therapy jutsu?" Kakashi and Sakura ask.

"Mmm, yeah! Therapy jutsu! It basically involves me defeating some poor evil bastard, preferably with a sad, haunting childhood which caused them to go evil, giving them an inspirational speech based on my life experiences, and becoming friends! Or at least dispelling any feeling of murder between each other. You know. Examples of people who have experienced this are Neji and Gaara."

"So that would mean that Sasuke and Pein fit in that category as well, right?"

"Mmm, and don't forget Tsunade-sama, after all it was Naruto who managed to convince her to come back to the village."

"Hehe, hell yeah! I'm just awesome that way, aren't I? Granted, Pein died soon after, but we saw the effects of my work! He revived the entire village!"

Suddenly, the trio tensed. They felt a chakra signature flying through the trees towards them from behind, but visibly relaxed when they recognised it to be Yukinaru.

Hitomi Yukinaru was something of a surrogate sister to Team 7, and a close friend to Kakashi. Many a jounin had joked of Kakashi and her actually being girlfriend and boyfriend, even though the pair fervently denied it. She was the last of the Hitomi clan, a clan that possessed a kekkei genkai. Well, many kekkei genkai. Her clan was the oldest known one, existing centuries before the Hyuuga. It was suspected that it was from this clan that all the current kekkei genkai in the world hailed from, which resulted in clan members having a variety of kekkei genkai being developed. Some of these included Mokuton, Hyouton, Youton and various other chakra-technique based kekkei genkai. Occasionally, the Sharingan, Byakugan or Rinnegan had been known to have formed. Their clan was also recognised by a long line of successful kenjutsu masters. Their swords were also unique, being sentient, but this fact was a closely guarded secret that Yukinaru herself had kept. Of course, she had used her sword in the Fourth Shinobi War, but she had only told people she could trust fully, which included the Konoha 13( A/N: I'll refer to them as the Konoha 13) and the Sand Siblings.

Yukinaru herself had Hyouton (Ice Release) as well as all forms of basic elemental releases (i.e. earth, water, fire, wind and lightning), with Doton being her weakest one, and Raiton and Hyouton being her strongest. Somehow, she had also ended up with all of the Three Great Dojutsus, but she rarely uses them.

Having all these kekkei genkai also had its setbacks. It seemed like the more powerful and the more frequently used by the person the kekkei genkai was, they would suffer an extreme sickness soon after. This could lead to death, but if used carefully, the victim would survive. This applied to all kekkei genkai except their own- the Uzume no Ken.

Their clan was also noted for their ridiculously bright hair colours, such as maroon, white, and orange, occasionally even neon green and blue. Most clan members were not exactly sane, and many had trigger words that would start a frenzy of something, like a sugar rush, ranting about how beautiful people are, destroying stuff, and other things that generally lead to a bar fight. Unfortunately, this trait was passed down to Yukinaru, so the shinobi of Konoha had to deal with random outbursts of rants, face-raping of cute people, and lack of liquor in certain bars.

Yukinaru herself had long, midnight-black hair that reached down to her knees when braided. It had streaks of white going through it frequently. All of this is probably natural, but Yukinaru jokes that it is because of the stress from dealing with paperwork and Naruto that causes this. She predicts that she'll go completely white by the time she's 30. She was also six years older than the Rookie 9, (so that means she's 5 years older than Neji and Co.) and graduated the year after Kakashi. From there on, she eventually made Jounin when she was 12, where, for some reason, she was immediately pushed up into the ANBU force. Half a year later, she was made Commander of ANBU. She still is in that position, but rarely takes ANBU missions anymore.

She was about 170 cm tall, wearing formfitting dark navy sweater, jounin vest and jounin-issue pants, the cuffs being tied in leg wrappings. A kunai holster was strapped on her right leg, weapons pouch around the back of her waist, and a tachi hanging from her waist (a tachi is a type of Japanese sword). She also had a katana hanging diagonally across her back, the hilt jutting out over her right shoulder.

"Hey kid. Excited yet?"

"You bet! I'm so gonna win this, 'ttebayo!"

"Sure, sure. Just remember that deal we made, yeah?"

"Of course! I'm gonna become Hokage, and then you won't call me 'gaki' or 'kuzo' anymore, 'ttebayo!"

"Well, I'm certainly not going to call my boss brat or kid, can I?"

"Yukinaru-san, what are you doing here, if I may ask?"

"Maa, maa Sakura-chan, no need to be so formal. It's Yuki-nee or Yuki-san. And as for your question, I'm here to help with Naruto's appearance."

"What? I think that I'm beautiful enough already, Yuki-ne-"

"KID I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT YOUR CURRENT LOOKS I'M TALKING ABOUT YOUR APPEARANCE IN THE EXAMS OR HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN ALREADY?"

"Saa, saa Yuki. No need to overdo it."

"Oh shut up you. You're in no place to talk Kakashi. Maybe stop being perpetually late to every meeting and stop reading that porn of yours, and maybe I'll consider it. And stop laughing at us! You did nothing to diffuse the situation!"

"How can you tell whether or not I was laughing at you?"

"My ANBU-senses were tingling. And I felt the sudden urge to throw a person through a wall, or two or five. That intent was focused on you Kakashi."

"… Oh…"

She grinned smugly. "Yes, oh indeed."

YES IT'S NEW YEAR! HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY! I KNEW I WAS RIGHT WHEN I YELLED PARTY IN THE AUTHOR'S NOTE ABOVE! YAAAAAYY! TIME TO GO ON A BLEACH AND NARUTO ANIME SPREE! AND HEROS OF OLYMPUS TOO! YAY TO THE YEAR OF THE SHEEP! (ASIAN CUSTOM, LUNAR CALENDAR, YA KNOW. YOU DON'T? OH.) YAY TO BLISTERING HOT SUMMERS AND SWIMMING POOLS! YAY TO BEING SICK SO I FEEL HORRIBLE NOT BEING ABLE TO SWIM!

(In case you didn't know, most of that was sarcasm. I'm like that. Deal with it.)

And another chapter finished! But seriously people, happy New Year! I actually hate it cos it's so close to Christmas that everyone's still in the Christmas spirit and then we're like, 'OMG ITS NEW YEAR?' when we're still trying to finish off the leftover Christmas fruit cake from a few days ago.

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