After two days of training, I wasn't great at the transformation jutsu or the clone one, but I was decent enough. It wasn't really a matter of learning the techniques but rather remembering how to do them again. It wasn't like the jutsu's were completely useless when I preformed them at least. I gained gennin status by completing the test of making two decent clones and displaying my target practice. Iruka sensei congratulated me, then stood by the Hokage.

"Luna, you will be on Team 14. Min's team." The third told me quickly, obviously busy and wanting to get back to the paperwork piled on his desk.

I nodded slowly. "Thank you." I said, accepting the forehead protector. "I will serve the Leaf as best as I can."

He gave a small chuckle after a short silence. "That's good. Remember that when you start going on missions."

I nodded, turning to leave. I tied the Leaf's symbol around my neck, then headed straight to the training field where my new team was supposed to be waiting. When I got there, a woman waved me over to where she was standing with a boy around my age. She was real pretty, with short dark brown hair pulled back into a pony tail and orange eyes. She wore something like a sleeveless dress which was a tan colour and has slits in the sides nearly up to her hips, but had fishnet leggings down to her shins while the dress only reached about the middle of her thighs. Her forehead protector was placed in the proper location, but a part of her bangs was hanging over it a little. The boy with her had red hair, and his eyes were a grey colour. He was wearing a black t-shirt and a pair of dark blue pants. His forehead protector was also on his forehead, but was completely visible, since his short hair stuck up instead of hanging over his face. He looked up from fiddling with a kunai when I approached. He took a step back and I stopped and felt the pang of sadness from the frightened look he gave me. Subconsciously, my hand gripped the fabric just over where the pang in my heart was.

"My name is Min, but you'll call me Min sensei from now on. This is Yuuta, your teammate. Asami is visiting someone at the hospital, so she'll be coming a little bit later." The woman spoke up with a friendly smile.

I nodded, then held out my hand to Yuuta. "I hope we can become friends as well as work well together." I told him, but he just took another step back. My small smile faltered at this.

"He's a natural at sensing chakra." Min said, breaking the awkward silence.

"Um, Min sensei?" I started, dropping my hand to my side while looking down, feeling dejected. "Is there something wrong with my chakra?"

She was silent for a second, then a hand on my shoulder made me look up to see her grinning at me. "There's nothing wrong with you or your chakra. It's just different, not bad different, just plain old different. People in this village aren't used to your chakra, so don't worry about them."

I looked at her with my mouth slightly open in awe, wanting to say something, but not being able to think of anything to say to her. "That's-Thank you."

She patted my head. "Now you'll have to work extra hard on concealing your chakra though, so no one will focus on it instead of you. Got that?"

I nodded with renewed determination. "I will!" I then turned to Yuuta, who was watching us with his arms crossed and an eyebrow raised. "Will you shake my hand when I learn to do that?"

He didn't say anything, just turned around and went to start training. Despite that, I smiled with relief. He didn't look as frightened of me as he did when I first approached.

"I look forward to that day." I said quietly, my drive becoming more powerful at the thought of having comrades as well as friends.

Then I remembered what Kakashi said about his team.

"Um, Min sensei, are you going to test us before you let us be on your team?"

She looked at me with a grin. "Yeah, but don't worry, it's easy. I'll test you when Asami gets here though, so let me start teaching you how to hide your chakra while we're waiting on her."


"Don't give up. You're improving. It just takes practice." Min sensei was saying after an hour of teaching me to conceal my chakra. "Some can't do it at all."

"How did you know I could?" I asked curiously.

"Well, I didn't. I figured if after an hour nothing happened, you couldn't."

"So, I can't?"

"No, no, you can. If you couldn't, your chakra wouldn't have dulled slightly just a minute ago when you were concentrating so hard."

"Oh, okay." I grinned, about to try again.

"Hey! Sorry I'm late!" A blonde girl came running up to us standing up while Yuuta wandered over to meet our other teammate.

She had some packed lunches and was wearing a dark blue skirt and a matching tank top that exposed her stomach that was covered with a fishnet. When she looked up at us, I saw that her eyes were a violet colour and she seemed like a bright and happy person. She smiled at Yuuta and Min sensei, then gave me an odd look, but shook it off and smiled at me too. A feeling of relief washed over me when she decided not to treat me like I was an outcast. I hadn't realized I was so nervous until that happened.

"I'm Asami. I hope we'll work well together as a team!" She said cheerfully.

"Okay, okay, we have a test to do." Min sensei clapped her hands, getting our attention.

"What's the test?" Asami asked curiously.

"You need to take out that tree." She pointed to an extremely thick tree nearby.

We all three gave her 'are you serious' looks.

"Okay, no, that isn't all. You have to do it together." She said, not picking up on how weird we thought that test was and instead taking it as us not thinking that was all there was.

"Okay, let's try this!" Asami cheered, looking at the tree.

We started out by trying to push it over, then we started hitting it. Nothing seemed to work, but soon enough, we were down to discussing what our plan of action should be. Well, Asami and I did. Yuuta hasn't said a thing to any of us yet. Actually, he probably spoke to Min sensei before I came, but that's not the point. We came to the conclusion that Asami would use an earth style jutsu to uproot it and Yuuta and I would push it over while she did that. It took a good half an hour, but we finally got the tree to fall over. Asami and I high-fived and Yuuta just had a faint smirk on his face while Min sensei was congratulating us and saying we had passed and now were officially Team 14.

"Now you can all have the rest of the afternoon off. Tomorrow morning we'll start training." Min sensei said, quickly leaving.

"Hey, let's go to Ichiraku together to celebrate!" Asami suggested excitedly.

"I have a little money." I said shrugging.

"Great!" Asami grinned and turned to Yuuta. "What about you, Yuuta?"

He shrugged and came with us.

Asami and I talked and soon began talking like we had been friends for a while rather than just a few hours. Yuuta didn't say much and ate slowly while Asami and I both ate three bowls of ramen before stopping. Yuuta only nodded or shook his head or shrugged when we asked him stuff. Otherwise, he just listened to us.

"Hey, did you hear about Naruto yet? You didn't grow up here, so you probably don't know, but he was at the bottom of the class when he graduated from the academy. He was always pulling pranks too. My parents told me not to talk to him though." Asami said, pouting a bit.

"Mine did too. But I don't think he ever seemed that bad." Yuuta commented with a blank face.

He looked at us funny when all he got in return was Asami and I gaping at him.

"What?"

"You talk?" Asami asked. "I thought maybe you were mute or something."

"I just didn't feel like speaking." He muttered, looking down at his bowl again.

"Are you blushing?" Asami asked, being the one sitting in the middle and seeing his face better than I could. She leaned and looked at his face while he turned his head away. She started laughing. "You're blushing! Aw! So cute!"

"Sh-Shut up!" He started to quickly finish his ramen. "I'm going now!"

"Okay. See you!" Asami waved.

"Wait up!" I called after him, leaving my money on the counter to cover my ramen as well as Yuuta's, since he forgot in his rush to leave. "See you tomorrow Asami!"

To my surprise, he was actually waiting for me when I left the ramen stand. He looked curious and slightly suspicious, but let me walk beside him. I made sure to keep my distance though, careful not to make him uncomfortable. I was terrified of screwing up a possible friendship.

"Hey, Yuuta? Why did you start talking suddenly?"

He looked a bit surprised. "I…Asami's chakra is relaxing. It took a while to get used to your chakra, but when her chakra and yours are together…It's an odd combination and I had to adjust to it too, but when I did, I started to feel comfortable."

"I see. I'm not so good at sensing chakra, but from what I hear, if you're real sensitive to it, it gets hard sometimes."

"Yeah. I have a question for you too." He was quick to change the subject.

"What is it?"

"Why is your chakra so odd?" He stopped and gave me a serious look.

I sighed, shaking my head and furrowing my brow. "I only remember bits and pieces of where I came from. It's coming back really slowly, but I think it has something to do with these tattoos and how I got it back."

"How did you get your chakra back?"

"A wolf. I had to hunt for a wolf. It said something about initiation."

He frowned, seeming to go into deep thought for a minute before running off and calling, "I have to go. See you tomorrow."