REWRITTEN
03/24/10 – And here's revised chapter three for you all!
DISCLAIMER - I does not own thy rights of the Naruto.
"Speaking"
Thinking
Ryou is the money of the Naruto World. I don't know how much Ryou is a dollar, but for this story it is pretty much going to be the equivalent of yen, basically 100 Ryou = 1 dollar.
Please enjoy!
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Naruto opened his eyes slowly, allowing them to get used to the dim light that was just entering the room. He was going to stretch but felt some weight on his chest. He looked down and saw Sakura resting her head on his chest, her hair all scattered around everywhere. He sighed and watched her breath for a moment.
The two were on the couch from the last day in the Uchiha Mansion that they all decided to live in together. Naruto was near falling off the edge while Sakura had the inside of the couch to herself, and was having her head rest on his chest. Sasuke was again sleeping in the chair across from them, saying something the other night about how he had nightmares whenever he slept in his own room.
Naruto moved his hand from its position hanging off the couch to move the hair out of the girls face. He smiled when she sighed softly. Of course, he wanted to do more like give her a morning kiss or something, but he still remembered her lecture from last night.
Dear god, even at this age she can yell so loud… He thought.
She was claiming how he can't do certain things with her at this age because they were so young and hadn't even hit puberty yet, and all kinds of other things. All he really got out of it was all he could do with her right now was flirting and hugs, and kisses were usually a bonus if he was really good he decided.
He again looked down at her when she began to stir herself. "Morning." Naruto offered to start the conversation.
"Yeah," She muttered, not wanting to wake up. "What time is it?"
Naruto looked at the clock they had installed last night in the room so they wouldn't be left in the blue of what time it was.
"Almost seven." He answered looking back at her.
"Ah," She said. "Wake me up in an hour." She promptly went back to sleep.
This could be bad, Naruto thought, slightly worried about the situation. He wasn't tired anymore, he wanted to get up and go practice some things, but on the other hand, this was his long time love laying on him! She didn't even object to it! The only downside to that was that they were too young to do anything very serious, This is quite the dilemma… He sighed and continued to lie there.
What should I do? His eyes wandered the corners of the room and such; nothing interesting was going on around there. Hm…
"Comfortable?" Sasuke asked from his position on the chair. A smirk was evident on his face.
Naruto looked over and smiled, "Jealous?"
"Nah." Sasuke said, "She deserves you, especially after all you two have been through together."
"Even though it was to bring you back, the so called 'love of her life'." Naruto smiled at the irony. "This is awesome," He sighed happily. "I have you two to help me get through all the challenges ahead, and we have a chance to save all those that died."
Sarutobi instantly flashed in their minds, "We need to save the Old man this time." Naruto said quietly, "He's like a grandfather figure to me, the first person to ever show me any kindness or respect."
Sasuke nodded in understanding, "He was a great man," He thought for a moment then corrected himself, "He 'is' a good man."
"But," Naruto started, "That brings up one problem, what will be the point of getting Tsunade to come to the village?"
"If Itachi decides to have an early visit again," Sasuke mumbled, "Then we'll need her if he used his Sharingan on someone."
Naruto smirked slightly, "So, we should let someone go through all that torture to get us the mission to bring her?" He asked, "Oh yeah, I bet the old man would love that plan a whole lot."
"I also want to try to save him."
Naruto paused, "Yeah, he ended up being a good guy the entire time, right?"
"Yes, he was ordered to wipe out the whole village by the higher ups."
"How could we help him?" Naruto shook his head, "That also brings up the point about Danzo as well. When Sakura and I went to try and save you, he was trying to gain control of the village from Tsunade, who went into a coma after a huge assault by Akatsuki."
"I don't know, but the sooner he is out, the better. Then we can do something about Itachi."
"I don't know." Naruto sighed, "Look, we'll cross that bridge when we get there. There is no need to concern Sarutobi about a betrayal that isn't going to happen for a decade, however, we'll do anything in our power to prevent him from getting to power." He looked thoughtful, "Let's get back to Tsunade for now, how do we convince her to come to the village?"
"Ok then," Sasuke sighed, "Why don't we simply ask the Hokage to request her to come here then? He's her sensei after all; I doubt she'd instantly decline it."
Naruto nodded. "Now, what will we do when Akatsuki begins acting up again? Gaara was targeted right away," Naruto lost his track of words, "Damn it, we have to make sure Gaara turns good again. That could be a pain… Shukaku underestimated me greatly last time and that's why I was able to beat him, and this time if he sees an ANBU coming at him with Kyuubi's chakra within him, he isn't going to go easy again."
"Well," Sasuke sighed, "Who says you need to look like an ANBU? Just be disguised as a Genin and take him on again."
"True, but who will save the Old man?"
"I'll let you go after Shukaku; I'll attempt to save the Hokage this time around."
"And I'll go with Naruto, Shukaku isn't an idiot, he'll feel all the chakra within Naruto and go all out quickly within the fight." Sakura said as she made her way into the conversation. "Orochimaru was once your sensei Sasuke, so that means you know all his abilities, furthermore, he'll be weaker because he hadn't trained as much as us."
Sasuke nodded at Sakura; temporarily derailing from the conversation he asked, "Sleep well?"
"Yeah, I have a comfortable pillow." She said squeezing Naruto. Afterwards she sat up, allowing Naruto to. She then leaned against him; both still had the blanket around them.
"Anyways, back on topic." Sasuke began, "This brings up another problem, earlier than the Shukaku issue; Orochimaru is going to enter the Chuunin exams."
Sakura nodded, "Yes, but we won't be in that, we'll have to tell the Hokage to allow us to supervise most of it."
"You really think he'd let us?" Naruto asked, "I mean, that is a huge responsibility."
"He'll let us." Sasuke answered, "He knows that we know everything that is going to pass in the next decade or so, just as long as we try to keep the original timeline somewhat like this one, he'll put all his trust into us three about some of the larger decisions he's going to make."
"We'll obviously have to have a sort of alternate lifestyle from our ANBU status; we don't want the world to know we're one. So I suggest that we participate as Chuunin supervisors for the exam, we'll be able to make fun of all our friends who enter it." Sakura thought with a gleam in her eye, "And it will allow us to track Kabuto."
No one spoke for a minute at the mention of that name. Finally Naruto snarled, "I say we just break him apart while he's in the forest of death and blame the death on Orochimaru."
"I like that plan." Sasuke said, not missing a beat.
"No." Sakura sighed, "Even though he's our enemy, Orochimaru is smart enough to know that if he dies then someone knows he is around and will possibly retreat from the exams." She turned to Naruto and said, "But I liked that plan as well."
"We got the Chuunin exams planned out and the Tsunade search, but what will we do about the wave country?" Sasuke asked, "We can't just leave all that to Gatou to rule and have some unlucky Genin team go into that mission."
Sakura thought for a moment and said, "We could always further our disguise as Chuunin and accept the mission. So we have a record of some C and B rank missions in our book."
"True," Naruto muttered, "Ok, what are we going to do about the Sound five?" Naruto asked questionably, "You know, the four that made you betrayed Konoha and go join that damn Sound Village. Then the fifth one showed up and allowed you to run far away to the Valley."
"I don't know, I don't plan on going to join that damn village again, whenever they appear I guess we'll just have to kill them as soon as we can."
Sakura spoke up saying, "If they come thinking you'll betray us and join you, us three will take them out. They're strong, but we could beat them if it was us three against them four, and plus they'll be in the village, so we would have help quickly."
Naruto nodded. "Now, back to Akatsuki and Gaara," Naruto sighed, "They will be taking the tailed demons from one to nine. I remember they got Gaara easily because he was not expecting the attack, and they got all the demons besides mine." Naruto was silent for a moment. "We'll have to accept any assassination mission that even remotely deals them with." Naruto decided, "We need to kill them as early as possible so they aren't as strong as they will be later in time."
"Alright, we have a set plan." Sakura said getting up and stretching. "I am going to take a shower." She simply stated and went away.
She wore pink Pajamas, a shirt and pants. Naruto and Sasuke both wore blue ones. "So," Naruto said, the mood instantly lightening from what it once was. "Why was it that you had pink PJs?"
"Well…" Sasuke sighed, "Itachi told me this when he was still here," He stopped for a moment, "He said once when I asked the same question that mom and dad were expecting me to be a girl. He told me that they bought clothes for me so I would not have to get any new ones until I was like ten years old," He sighed, "Itachi says that they were devastated when they found out I was a boy."
Naruto was quiet for a moment, and then he burst out laughing, "Oh my god! That is hilarious!" He continued laughing and fell to the floor. "Ha! Man! That is so funny!"
Sasuke watched with little amusement in his eyes.
"Ahhh!" Naruto sighed happily. "Ok, I'm going to take a shower too."
"Naruto…" Sasuke started, "That bathroom is the only one around here."
Naruto looked back with a peace sign, "Wish me luck!"
"Really Naruto?" Was all Sasuke could say before he placed his head in his hand and sighed. A moment later he heard a shout of 'IDIOT' and the door open and a huge 'SLAM' sound as Naruto made contact with the wall.
"Ouch…" Naruto muttered as Sasuke walked up to him.
"Heh, Might want to wait another nine years for that trick." Sasuke sighed.
Naruto whined, "But that is so far away!"
"Pervert." Was all Sasuke could say as he made his way to the Kitchen. Naruto followed shortly after claiming he was not a pervert.
(Uchiha Kitchen)
The kitchen is Sasuke's house was, for lack of better words, big. It had several tables in there, and several stoves and other machines. The fridge, as big as it was, was almost always empty however. This was all Naruto could look at when he entered.
"Sasuke," He began. "Your Kitchen is the size of the fire country; it could hold millions in it, yet you don't have any food in here?"
Sasuke walked over and said, "I am the only one living here now, and this is food." He pulled out some milk and leftover oatmeal from the day before.
Naruto stared at it for a moment before saying, "As I was saying, do you have REAL food?"
"Suit yourself." Sasuke muttered as he walked over to a nearby table of the many and began to eat it. Naruto sighed and walked over with a slump in his walk and sat next to Sasuke. He accepted the plate and chopsticks Sasuke offered him and grabbed the bowl and watched the oatmeal slide around in the bowl as he moved it back and forth.
He sat it back down and looked at it closely for several minutes. "I see nothing bad." He picked up the chopsticks and slowly brought it forward to his mouth and swallowed slowly. Sasuke watched in slight amusement.
"Well?" He asked as he took another bite of the food.
"Gah!" Naruto screamed out and fell on the floor. "This- this tastes just like," Sasuke leaned closer and listened, "Tastes just like, oatmeal…" Naruto then stopped moving and stayed motionless on the ground.
Sasuke watched, and after ten seconds he asked, "eh, Naruto, are you all right?"
Naruto didn't even twitch at his words. "Naruto!" He said a little louder.
As Sasuke began to get a somewhat worried feeling in him, Sakura entered the room and looked around and saw Sasuke sitting and Naruto on the floor. "Hello!" She called and rushed over.
"Sakura-chan?" Naruto instantly got up, ending his act and ran over to her. "Please forgive me!" He got on his knees and bowed down several times. "I was sleepy and I wasn't in full control of myself and, and um, I don't know why I did it!"
Sasuke watched the change from a dead Naruto to a very lively Naruto and sighed, it is going to be very interesting living with these two.
"As long as you don't do it again Naruto." Sakura sighed, "I'll forgive you." Naruto cheered and gave her a hug.
The both of them came over and sat with Sasuke. "How are you Sasuke?" Sakura asked.
"Fine." He answered, not saying anything else.
"Well…" Sakura said, "We're supposed to be getting ready to head to the academy, yet you two haven't changed out of your pajamas yet." Sakura wore the same clothes she had on the day before, the blue ribbon holding her hair together again.
Both boys turned their head and said, "Screw the Academy."
Sakura sighed, "Ok then, what do you two want to do today?"
"Train." Sasuke responded.
Naruto took a little bit of time to respond and said, "Shop for some new clothes, no offense Sasuke, your clothes are comfortable, but I prefer to have clothes that I know you haven't worn."
"Good idea." Sakura added, "We all should go get some new clothes!" A thpigjt suddenly crossed her mind, "Naruto!" She turned to him, "If you buy that damn orange jumpsuit again I am going to have to hurt you."
Naruto backed off and said, "Hey! Who said I was planning on that?"
"You seem to be attracted to idiotic clothing." Sasuke said, "We'll help you choose."
"Heh, Yeah…" Naruto said looking away from both of his friends' eyes, his grin turned to a frown. "Well, when will we head out?" He quickly covered the frown up with another grin.
Both Sakura and Sasuke saw the quick change in expressions, but kept it mostly to themselves. "We'll head out now." Sasuke said, "Let's go change Naruto."
Naruto nodded and both left the Kitchen leaving Sakura there.
I have a feeling something bad is going to happen… She thought to herself, a frown coming onto her face.
"Ready to go Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked.
She got up, not allowing her mind to wander onto other things, and said, "Yeah, let's go!"
(Konoha Village, shopping district)
The three children were wandering through the shopping district of Konoha. It was a very nice part of the city, with stalls lining the street, and at every corner there seem to be some kind of food cart. Above them were wires where lights hung off of, they'd be turned on at night. The Sun was overhead of them, and all the buildings had their items all on display trying to get people to get into their shops.
Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke were all getting the normal glares, but from the younger people they got looks of confusion. Three children should either be in school or the ninja academy at this time, depending on their profession.
Naruto led the group a huge grin on his face, "Man! It feels so good to be out here instead of at that boring place!"
"Yeah," Sasuke agreed. He looked over and spotted a nice ninja clothing shop. "How about we head in there?" He asked.
"No, I hear it has horrible stuff." Naruto stated.
Sakura looked skeptical and said, "Stuff?"
"Yeah you know… things, materials all that kind of stuff." He said.
Sasuke and Sakura eyed each other. "Ok," Sakura muttered, "How about that one?" She pointed to a pretty fancy one, and Sasuke gulped. He had the most money and had agreed to pay for all of them, but even that would put a dent in what he brought.
"Nah!" Naruto said. Sasuke mentally sighed and thanked Naruto, "Too fancy."
"But don't we want fancy equipment?" Sakura questioned.
Naruto shook his head, "No. We want equipment that won't burden us, not something with so many little gadgets on it that my head would explode if I were to even try to figure out the thing."
"Ok," Sakura sighed. "Where do you suggest we go? You are after, the one that suggested we do this in the FIRST PLACE!"
Naruto thought for a moment looking at each shop, "Well, I hear imported clothing is really good…"
"NARUTO!" Sakura smacked him across the head, "Why don't you want to go in any of these shops?"
He sighed and looked down, "Well," He looked uncertain of whether to tell them or not, "You see," He thought harder; "In the other timeline both of the shops you two pointed out kicked me out when I wanted to get something. I have no reason to think they won't do the same thing in this one." He looked down; the grin that was once on his face was a deep frown.
"Ah," Sasuke said, "I figured it was that."
"We'll force them to allow you to buy stuff from them!" Sakura said slamming her fist into her other hand.
Naruto shook his head, "I don't think that would work, When the Hokage brought me to these shops, they sold me low quality items at a very high price. It wasn't all that worth it. That is how I got the orange jumpsuit, It's not because I wanted it or liked the color orange. Even then I wasn't that big of an idiot."
"Well then." Sasuke muttered thinking, "This is quite the problem."
Sakura just smiled, "Not at all."
She grabbed both boys by the hands and dragged them into the fancy shop she pointed out. Sasuke nearly felt tears come out of his eyes thinking of how much this would cost him, and Naruto was squirming, not wanting to get his friends in trouble.
She entered the shop and a bell rang throughout the shop. To the left of her was a counter, and all in front of her was endless racks of ninja clothing. On the walls, there were all kinds of weapons being displayed. It was an ideal shop for any ninja.
"Hello!" Greeted the man as he walked over to them. He had a kind tone in his voice and he came out with a smile on his face for his customer. He was obviously a retired ninja, he had the stance of one, and each step was one that could counter anything thrown at him.
"Hi!" Sakura greeted. She was finally managed to pull both boys in who fell on the floor with a thud. Sasuke landed on top of Naruto, making him groan in pain.
"Did you have to be so forceful?" Naruto whined as Sasuke got off.
"Well if you'd of just walked instead of having me drag you then no." She replied.
The man looked at Naruto for merely a second, and then the kindness of his figure turned to one of hate. "What are you doing in here?"
Naruto had no idea what to say, but luckily for him Sakura came to the rescue, "He's here to buy some ninja gear, is that a problem?"
"For you and the Uchiha, I have no problems," He eyed Naruto, "For that brat though, I wouldn't allow him to leave here with anything."
"How could you say that about one of the future ninja of this village?" Sakura demanded angrily, "He's going to assist in village affairs, and you just shove him off?"
The man looked down at the girl, "Listen, girl, I don't let blood thirsty creatures into my shop and give him weapons to kill others with." He obviously wanted to intimate her, as was obvious with his glare, but she glared right back at him, although it wasn't as threatening as it was cute.
"Listen, man," She said mocking him, "This 'blood thirsty creature' is one day going to save your ass, so I suggest you allow him to get whatever he needs here so he can actually be effective in helping you!"
The Man got annoyed at this point and snarled, "Shouldn't you be in school or something! Didn't your mother ever teach you to respect your elders?"
"You got that elders part right." She huffed and crossed her hands. "Come on, all we want to do is buy some new equipment and we'll NEVER bother you again."
The man seemed to consider it for a moment and sighed, "Fine. Go buy whatever you want, damn demon lover." He sneered at her.
"You got that right!" She hugged Naruto tightly and the man looked on in anger.
The three of them wandered towards the back of the shop. "Ok, we're all pretty small, so we need to go somewhere over here." Sakura wandered through the places, guiding both boys, who were unfamiliar in the arts of shopping. "Here we are." She found a spot with plenty of clothing that could fit them all.
"We need something that we can be stealthy with and will last us a couple of years," Sasuke muttered searching through it all, "And no jumpsuits!" He said mostly towards Naruto.
Naruto just sent him a glare and continue searching. "Here's something." He said as he pull out a shirt along with some pants, both were black, and had slots around the wrist and feet where weights could be put in. There was a belt around it that could hold all kinds of equipment. "This looks pretty cool, I could probably make this last a couple years."
Sasuke nodded, "Hm, I didn't think you had a good fashion sense Naruto."
"It looks great Naruto!" Sakura said as she took a second to admire it and then go searching for her own clothing. Sasuke wasted no time and chose an outfit pretty similar to Naruto's.
Sakura sighed, "Weights are so overrated." She muttered as both Naruto and Sasuke began to argue who would be able to wear more weight than the other. However, she paused and thought about Lee, You know, maybe they're not so overrated after all.
Sasuke and Naruto waited a minute for Sakura, that minute quickly became two, then ten, then twenty. Soon an hour had passed, and there was still no sign of Sakura finishing. "Ok, Women take too long to shop." Naruto groaned.
"For once I actually agree with you." Sasuke moaned.
They waited a few more minutes until she came to them holding a suit that was too similar to theirs. "You guys think this looks ok?"
"It- It's almost the exact same thing we're getting…" Naruto muttered, getting a glare from her he straighten up and said, "Um, yes, looks wonderful if I do say myself!"
"I thought so." She said, a smile was on her face. "Ok, let's get out of here!" She said, both followed her again to the front of the shop.
Sasuke walked forward and grabbed his wallet and asked, "How much is it all?"
The same man from earlier was there and said, "60,000 ryou."
"60,000?" Sasuke asked, his eyes widening for a bit. "That's a bit much." He said suspiciously.
"Don't have the money?" The man smiled, "Then get out and give me those back." He held out his hand expectantly.
That bastard, Sasuke thought to himself, he sighed inwardly, "what's the real price?" He said, putting emphasis on the word 'real'.
"That is the real price." The man sneered.
Naruto had enough. He jumped up to his feet and jumped at the man. He climbed onto his chest and got a grip on the collar of his shirt and snarled in his face, "Damn you! I waited over an hour! We don't have time to waste like this!" He gathered chakra into his eyes and opened them, showing a red hue, "Now lower that damn price." He said in as demonic a voice he could muster with the demon chakra active within him.
This definitely got the desired result. The man let out a short scream and Naruto got off him. "You can have it all for free! Just get out of here demon!" He shouted throwing the gear at Naruto and his two friends."
Sasuke placed some money on the counter anyways. "Thanks." He said.
"OUT!" The man shouted as loud as he could. I am going to report this directly to the Hokage! The demon is getting control!
The three children hurried out of the shop as quickly as possible, in fear that the man may scream at them again alerting others.
Once they ran a fair distance away, Sakura turned towards Naruto and smacked him hard across the head, "What the hell did you think you were doing?"
"Well, I think I would have snapped a long time ago if I were in his shoes." Sasuke added as a side thought. "Though I think that may come back and bite us in the ass later."
Naruto snorted, "Who cares, if anyone does anything to you two even if it's a small thing I'm going to kick their ass, At least we got the clothes for a lower price."
"Yeah," Sakura sighed, "Free."
Naruto patted her on the back, "Want to go get Ramen?"
"No Naruto. Just because you didn't eat breakfast with us this morning, doesn't mean I am willing to pay for you." Sasuke said and turned round the corner. The three of them were on a narrow stretch of road, wooden fences lined the sides of both sides of the road and some benches were along them as well.
As they continued down Naruto couldn't help but say, "I feel as though we're being followed." Being trained by Jiraiya definitely had its benefits, Naruto was able to hone his skills in more than the three Jutsu's each ninja was required to know. He was able to 'feel' if he was being followed, whenever a set of eyes looked at him long enough it felt as though the hair on his neck would begin to stand.
"Yeah, I feel it too." Sasuke whispered. Sakura simply nodded her agreement.
"What should we do?" Naruto asked as they walked, not facing the direction that the people surely were. They all looked at one another, and decided that it would be best if they just stayed silent, hoping for the best.
When they were about the reach the end of the road they were on, several ANBU members jumped in front of them. Five members stood there, all in their black robes with masks on. The one in the lead was one wearing a Dog mask.
"Uzumaki, Uchiha, Haruno. You three must come with us." He spoke out with authority in his voice. "The Hokage will see you three little spies."
"Eh, what are you talking about?" Sasuke asked, with a questionable look on his face, he looked down at the clothes they recently bought and went, "Oh! I paid for these, it's just the owner was screaming so loud he probably missed it. Here, I'll pay you some for the trouble." He grabbed his wallet.
The ANBU simply swatted away his wallet, his voice still as emotionless as it was before. "No jokes. Now come with us."
The three eyed each other. "Ok," Sakura said, "We don't want any trouble."
Naruto and Sasuke knew that she was right, there was no way they could beat these guys in their current state, so they lowered their guard and allowed the ANBU to surround them and begin to escort them to the Hokage tower.
They jumped on top of the buildings and began to go at unimaginable speeds. Naruto and Sakura glanced at each other worriedly.
What the hell, doesn't the old man trust us? Naruto thought angrily to himself, I figured we gave enough proof as it is…
They made it to the Tower, and walked in. They went down the halls, no one speaking to one another. All three of the children kept their emotions in check. To be a successful ninja one must never show his or her emotions, even if death is certain. Of course, Naruto and Sakura both occasionally broke this rule, like when they were about to die.
Naruto snapped from his thoughts of that rule and looked ahead; they stood in front of the door of the Hokage's office.
Time to find out what you want Old Man. Naruto thought as they were lead into the room with the Hokage sitting there. He looked up at them and smiled.
"Hello, it's nice to see you here in a timely fashion." He said happily. He looked at the ANBU, "You all can leave now." They all began to walk out before he called out, "Hold on, you." He said pointing at the one with the dog mask on, "Stay here."
Hm, Seems this isn't what I thought it was going to be, Sasuke thought to himself.
"What do you desire Hokage-sama?" He said bowing down to the person. Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura all walked to the left of the room, as the Hokage got up and put up silencing seals and the chakra seals from the last time he spoke with the children.
"Kakashi." The Hokage spoke evenly, "You said you were to quit being in ANBU within a month, correct?"
Sakura and Naruto looked up instantly, "Kakashi-sensei?" They said in disbelief. Sasuke just had a curious look in his eyes.
The man took his mask off, and the silver hair, the forehead protector going over the left eye, and the masks were all the same as they remembered it. "I assume you trust these three if you're using my name."
"Yes Kakashi." Sarutobi said as he walked forward, "As your last mission as an ANBU agent, I want you to spend the next year training these three in the art of being an ANBU agent."
Kakashi looked down at the three children then back up to the man and said, "Ok, you're pulling my leg right? They're only nine, I mean sure Naruto and Sasuke can both use Kage Bunshin, a high level forbidden jutsu," He got lost in thought, "And Sakura can do medical jutsu's, which I didn't even know they taught at the academy."
"Sensei-," Sakura was going to say, but was cut off by the man himself.
"Why do you keep calling me your Sensei?" A curious look in his eye, "I haven't even accepted the mission yet."
Sasuke decided to speak up now, "In the old timeline, that's who you were to us in our Genin team."
"What are you talking about?" He finally asked.
"Kakashi." Sarutobi said, "What you know here is an S-class secret, no one must know of what you will learn today." Kakashi nodded. "These three used some complex jutsu to come back in time to change this timeline. They know what is supposed to come, but they don't want to change anything too drastically. I'm sure you've already spotted some differences with them already."
Kakashi was silent, "I see. Well, the Haruno girl was all over the Uchiha here, but seem to have a change of heart over night. They know some complex jutsu's, and I can feel lots of raw chakra coming off of all of them."
"If you don't believe us, ask us any question about you in the future decade or so, and we'll answer it." Sakura said with an all-knowing grin on her face.
"Fine," He thought for a moment, "If you all became my Genin team what was the test I conducted?"
Sakura answered saying, "You wanted us to get bells from you. Problem was that there were only two. The real goal of the test was to see our teamwork skills. In the end, Sasuke and I end up breaking the rules you set to help Naruto, and you passed us."
Kakashi nodded, "Sounds just like my sensei's test."
"Anything else?" Sasuke asked.
Kakashi sighed, "If you know so much about me, why not tell me my whole life story?"
Naruto nodded, "That's easy. You were teamed up with the Fourth Hokage, an Uchiha named Obito, and a girl named Rin. You were recently promoted and it was your turn to lead the mission. Of course your teammates were supposed to get you some presents or something like that and Obito didn't have any." Naruto checked to see if Kakashi was paying attention, he was, "In the end, the enemy ninja capture Rin and Obito goes to save her, you lose your left eye, and while in the cave Rin was in the enemy ninja tried to crush you all."
"Unfortunately only you and Rin got out unharmed," Sakura continued, "Obito was about to die just after activation his Sharingan. He decides to give it to you as a present for being promoted and dies shortly after. Rin goes away after that mission, and that's why you visit that rock every day."
When she finished Kakashi sighed and asked, "That's a story that I usually don't tell many people. What was the occasion on which I told you?"
Naruto and Sakura looked around a little uncertain of whether to say or not. "Well," Naruto mumbled, "When we went to go save Sasuke there, we ran into some difficulties and-"
"You got injured," Sakura sighed, "Badly."
Kakashi just nodded, "No need to say more."
This was all new to Sasuke, he had never heard of Kakashi's past, and he now heard that he was responsible for the death of his sensei. He looked down some sadness in his eyes, "Sorry guys, I won't let him get me this time."
Naruto and Sakura both nodded towards Sasuke, expecting him to live up to that.
Kakashi sighed and said, "Hokage-sama, I accept this mission."
"Good Kakashi, I knew that they'd change your mind." He looked down at a document in his hands and said, "They'll be ready to begin ANBU training whenever you see fit. Making out a schedule for them should be your first priority, they all have different strengths in different areas, and you need to get them all set for when they are to begin training to harness their massive chakra."
"Ok." Kakashi said, "Well begin training at the end of the week. You three better be ready," He said turning to the children, "Because I will not go easy on you."
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03/24/10 – Documented changes:
-New conversation between Naruto and Sasuke in the beginning about Danzo and Itachi.
-Got rid of the subplot involving Sakura's inner personality. It was stupid in my opinion because her inner personality represented what she was too shy to say on the outside, it was not a completely different person.
-Tried to make the part about them being followed more clear, because even I was confused when I first read it. However, on second thought I just removed it entirely, because they aren't supposed to know WHY they are being followed at this point.
-Got rid of a lot of ellipses and grammar mistakes. Along with Sakura saying kun at the end of Naruto's name, and a lot of the people calling Naruto a demon has been removed.
This is the first chapter in which I actually rewrote a few scenes. I hope you enjoy it. See you all in the rewrite of chapter 4!