Since I haven't updated in so long, I'll give you another chappie!

Here's Chapter 10!

Disclaimer: nothing new, ME NO OWN NARUTO!!! I also don't make money off of this...:( (ha he ha he!!!)

Now with the story:!!!

Konoha, Chuunin Exam:

Sasuke shifted absentmindedly to create distance between himself and the girl next to him. He had no idea who she was, but it was apparent she knew who he was, she wouldn't shut her damned mouth! Sasuke didn't even make an effort to look interested, because it was more than obvious that she could have disappeared off the planet and he wouldn't have cared.

The portion he had assisted with in the exam didn't really have much importance, all he got to do was scare the genin and send them threatening glares if they were looking for answers in the room. Now since the genin had moved onto the second part of the exam, he was waiting in the final arena, with girls chattering non stop near him. ... I wonder how many of those genin passed... lowly bunch... not very gifted... Expected better... but I suppose it's too hard to--

His thoughts were cut off by another squeal and the body of a girl flying at him for a hug, which he dodged with ease and thankfulness.

... Baka onnas... if only they would shut up.. then I could think...

"Wait! Where are you going Sasuke-kun?!"

Sasuke disregarded them with disgust and disappeared behind the walls of the arena to find a nice and quiet place, just so he could be alone. He found a lonely hallway and welcomed it gratefully. Even though he was helping with the Chuuin exam, his mind couldn't have been any farther from it!

All he could think about was the Spring Festival, and he knew he shouldn't. From experience he had learned not to hope for anything but the worst that way he would never be let down. However, the Spring Festival was one thing that he had to admit, was fun, regardless of his brother.

"I know you want to Sasuke! What harm could it be? You go, you help with the festival security and other stuff, and you get to spend your day with me!"

Yes, Sasuke had already promised Sora that he would go, and he had promised himself as well, and why should he feel any different going with her to the festival than going with (oh let's say) Sakura? Maybe it was because it's not every day that a beautiful, strong and intelligent girl enters the village after being gone for so long.

Or maybe it was the reason was that Sora was his teacher. ...Gahh... Sasuke stopped thinking for a moment and glanced out the doors; the sun was beginning to set on the first day of examinations, meaning less than a week for the Spring Festival.

"...Sasuke-kun?" Sakura's shy, yet bold voice, entered the hallway.
"...What..."
"Oh! Well the rest of the examination assistants were all called to the arena so we could help prepare for the fights tomorrow," at this point, Sakura paused and attempted to find eye-contact with Sasuke and then continued. "Hokage-sama would also like a word with you."

At this, Sasuke's gaze met Sakura's squarely, and had this situation occurred several years ago she would have cowered in embarrassment, but now she was trained to simply nod and stare straight back.

"I'm sorry Sasuke-kun, he didn't say why." Sakura and Sasuke had reached a point where she could simply read his comments just by his posture or facial expression, which made it much easier for him on the whole. Sasuke nodded with appreciation in his eyes and then turned silently to leave.

Sakura let out a heavy sigh and adjusted her bun so it would look slightly neater, she didn't know why she felt so depressed just then. She had already tried for Sasuke, and in a sense, both won and lost..

Somehow, she'd managed to become the closest girl figure Sasuke had in his life, and he was obviously the closest guy figure she had; so one thing led to another, and they wound up hanging out more often. Of course, Sasuke confessed to her that she was the younger sister he'd never had, and her, being the agreeable girl she was, agreed full heartedly, claiming him as her own older brother. She stopped liking him as anything more than a friend, and for a year or so it worked... until that moment in the hall just now of course.

... but he doesn't like me...

Sakura thought sadly to herself. She had thought that she had mastered the art of denying one's feelings, but apparently she had not, considering she had a longing to be held in his arms. She shook it off and put on her game face, forcing herself to look excited as she raced through the arena doors with the other assistants. Sakura might not have been an official assistant, but she was more than qualified. As she entered the arena, most everyone was already beginning to set up the surroundings for the fights tomorrow, and Sasuke was already striding coolly over to the Hokage.

"Ah.. Sasuke! How are you today?"
"... Fine Hokage-sama... What did you call me here for?" Sasuke bowed stiffly towards the Hokage and then awaited for him to answer.

"Please, sit," the Hokage gestured at the tatami mat in front of Sasuke, and Sasuke obeyed, allowing himself to sit comfortably for the moment. "Tea?"
"...No thank-you..."

The Hokage sipped his tea lightly and then placed it down, staring not quite directly at Sasuke. "I head Sora-san is taking you on a her student."
"Hai."
"You know that Sora has never taken on a student before?"
"Hai."
"You know she will be tough correct?"
"Hai..." Sasuke's eyes were lowered in a sign of respect, but with the questions that the Hokage were asking, he was tempted to raise his eyes high enough to throw a light glare at him.

"... I see... Go help the rest of the Chuuin then Sasuke, that will be all."

Sasuke nodded and stood up slowly, careful not to glance anywhere near the Hokage himself. ...If he was going to say something... he should have said it... Sasuke thought bitterly to himself as he tore his thoughts away from Sora and onto the task that lay ahead of him -preparing the arena grounds for the examination tomorrow-. Given, it wasn't a difficult task, and even an imbecile like Naruto could handle it, however, it usually allowed the higher level shinobi to 'rig' the field to the advantage of their favorite.

So in a sense, although the Chuuin examination was intended to be fair, it usually wound up meaning that if you made enemies with the upper shinobi, the chances of you passing were slim. Sasuke, naturally, could have cared les about the stupid ignorant incoming Chuuin, and instead of helping, he turned a corner and retreated from the examination grounds.

There were far more important things to do.

He had just stepped into the street, when an older woman nearly tackled him.

"Oi! Hello! I'm sorry to bother you, but I have seen you with Sora-chan, have I not?" Sasuke glanced up wearily and nodded slowly, causing the wrinkles on her face to fade with a smile.

"Oh good! Could you please tell her that after these examinations, I need to meet with her? It's quite important!"
"... Okay."

She grinned cheerfully and bowed, even though it was he who really should be bowing to her, and then departed with a polite wave. Sasuke shrugged mentally and continued to make his way through Konoha; perhaps there would be some sort of peace found within the mayhem in his mind. Everything was making him upset, especially speaking with the Hokage. How did the Hokage find out that he was going to be taken on as a student finally? What was finally changing around him? He desperately closed his eyes to find peace within himself.

But to no avail.

"Oi! Stupid-head!" ...Naruto... Sasuke sighed mentally, his will to snarl at him had passed him for a year, but right at that moment, his mouth had a mind of it's own. "What the hell do you want?"

Naruto frowned at Sasuke's demeanor, they'd been relatively civil towards each other for the past few months, what happened? "Feh, nothing if you're going to act like that."
"...Whatever..." Sasuke turned to walk away, but Naruto called his name again, this time with a little more aggression.

"Hey, I don't know what pissed you off so bad, but Sora-sensei wants to talk to you. She's off patrol for the rest of the exam, said something about training." at this Naruto paused and added his own thought, "Maybe I'll stick along to--"
"Fine, and no."
"Who are you to judge who can and can't train with Sora-sensei?!"
"Go train with your great Jiraiya." Sasuke snapped, he was tired and was unwillingly upsetting Naruto even more.
"Is that a challenge?! Well you have no idea where Sora-sensei wants to meet you, for all you know it could be out on the moon!"

Sasuke's mouth finally stopped moving on its own, and his anger died down, "...Whatever... Let's just go.."
"Hmph, that's more like it!" Naruto commented before gesturing for Sasuke to follow.

As it would turn out, Sora was waiting for them by the lake, and waved with a smile as they approached.

"Hello Sasuke! Thank you Naruto for getting him for me!"
"You're welcome!" Naruto leaned over her shoulder and whispered. "He's in a bad mood right now, couldn't drag him here for a whi--"
"--I can hear you idiot."
"Oi! Who're you calling an idiot?!"
"Naruto! Sasuke! Break it up kiddos! Now if you two can't play nicely, then don't play at all, got it?"
"... hn.."
"Fine."

Their glares lasted for a moment, but Sora gently put her hand on Naruto's shoulder. "Okay Naruto, I need to train Sasuke for a while, but maybe we could get some noodles lat--"
"Hai! I'll see you later Sora-sensei!" Naruto paused in his sentence, "Bye-bye Sasuke-kun."

Naruto walked away rather slowly, causing Sasuke to tap his foot in slight impatience, but Sora merely put her hand on his shoulder to calm him. Once Naruto was gone, she smiled at Sasuke. "Alright... So I'm your sensei now neh?"
"...When do we start to train."

It was more of a statement rather than a question, but she answered nonetheless. "Right now; and it all starts with this," Sora broke a piece of apple off of what she was eating and placed it down near an anthill.

"Now Sasuke, the purpose of the rest of this week, will be for you to accomplish one thing: learn to control your chakra so that you can protect this slice of apple from the ants."

"You're kidding me."
"No, I'm not, go ahead, try."

Sasuke puffed impatiently as a sudden movement in the wind coursed around the apple slice, only to dissipate quickly. The ants were already on the apple, and Sasuke had failed. "Do you see what you did wrong?"

Silence. ... oi... I think this will be much harder than I thought it would be...

"Here, let me show you." Sora pulled off another piece of her apple and place it neatly about 70 millimeters from the ant hill and then brought her chakra forth so that the ants were unable to reach the apple.

She glanced up at Sasuke, and took his hand, while still controlling her chakra. "Here, feel the difference between the air here, and the air here."

After a moment of moving Sasuke's hand back and forth slowly, he smiled slowly at her. "... Yes..."

Sora smiled largely at him and then let go of her own chakra, allowing it to let up the invisible shield around the apple, and the ants to scurry quickly across the dirt to claim the apple as their own.

"By the time you're done with my training, you will be able to control your chakra to create a shield around just about anything."
"Anything?.." he murmured quietly, almost as if he were talking to himself.
"Yes, anything, and yes, this includes yourself, but for now, I can help train you on your fighting tactics."

Sora stepped back from Sasuke and began counting off main points with her fingers. "Alright, rule number one: expect the unexpected, and rule number 2: never let your guard down. Got it?"

"...Got i--"

SLAM

"Sasuke!" She exclaimed in mock shock, continuing to pin him down to the dirt. "I thought I just told you, to expect the unexpected, and never let your guard down, ne--"

"You mean like this..?" Sasuke kicked her legs to the side and then jumped out from underneath her with a proud smirk on his face.

"Precisely. Wow, you pick up on the nuisances of this pretty quick huh?" Sasuke almost grinned, but saved himself and merely nodded, but his smirk quickly faded as Sora's fist made contact with his jaw, sending him flying backwards into a tree.

She quickly ran over to him and slanted her head to the side. "Oh.. I'm sorry Sasuke! I-I didn't mean to!"

Sasuke was instantly up on his feet and jumping to attack her with quick brash movements, unlike his usual thoughtful and precise ones.

Sora sighed and grabbed his fist as it came flying at her, and then proceeded in twisting it behind his back. He struggled but quickly knew he couldn't break away from it. She then leaned in to his ear and stated. "You're telegraphing your movements Sasuke, you know better than to do that!" She shoved him forward and then faced him squarely. "Here's a little tip: when it looks like you hit on accident, you can annoy even the most stoic of people, a.k.a. you."

Sasuke had a look of absolute confusion so Sora decided to elaborate. "Hear me out now okay? Say you're sparring with someone like.. oh, let's just say Naruto okay?" Sasuke nodded and she continued. "If every single punch you landed on him seemed like an accident, wouldn't that rattle him?

As in, everytime Sora hit, she had a look on confusion on her face, or maybe she'd make a comment like, 'oops... I didn't mean to do that..' when Sora very well intended to hit him there. It works on quiet people all the same, if she keep talking, sometimes it throws off their concentration.

Sora threw a throwing knife at Sasuke and allowed it to land right next to him. "It's a mental game Sasuke, not a physical one, so don't depend on your attacks. Defense is far more important."

"... Okay..."

"Which means," She paused and pulled something out of her belt loop. "You need to have an insanely strong mind to resist others. This is a little training device it'll strengthen your mind hopefully, otherwise you might be... heh.. slightly uncomfortable for the rest of your life."

Sora grinned at Sasuke's confusion and threw a pendant necklace at him. "Put it on."

Sasuke nodded and put the necklace on, and instantly his eyes widened, as he fell to the ground and began to struggle to move. Sora walked over to him and helped him stand up straight. "Sasuke, take a slow breath, that's it! Slow... Yes..."

After his breathing had finally stabilized, he choked out a few words. "Wh-what is this?"
"Glad you asked that Sasuke!"
"Wh-What is it?!" Sasuke demanded almost frantically.

Sora grabbed a stick and began to sketch a diagram. "This is a pendant that I used during my training, it makes even breathing seem a 100 times harder. It works as a kind of weight for your brain, your thoughts will take slightly longer to process, or so it would seem, and all your movements will be slowed drastically."

She pointed at the pendant. "It's connected to your brain through some of your main chakra paths, and it'll give me an accurate scan of whether or not you'll be strong enough to endure my training. By the end of the day, you'll be so wiped out you might not be able to move, but you must keep getting up. Do not leave your body entirely sedate at any moment for the first week, even when you sleep, try to make it so that you're sleeping sitting up, or somehow in an uncomfortable position."

He exhaled deeply and gave her the look as if to say, 'you've got to be kidding me', but Sora merely smiled and began helping him walk. "Come on, you'd better get home to try and practice sleeping like that!"

Sasuke's expression was unreadable, it might have been because anything other than a bland look would have completely exhausted his energy, or maybe it was because of her unorthodox training, whichever way, Sasuke's future was beginning to look more and more clear.

Well, this chapter is kind of boring, but at least you know that Sasuke has started training!!! And, I'm sorry that it has no parts about Kakashi, and the other team, But I promise it will in the next chapter!!!

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