"Well Emiko?" Kakashi asked giving the bells another teasing jingle.

'Oh please someone make him stop. I have to kill this damn clone!' I thought annoyed.

As if a god above answered my prayer the clone poofed away and in the distance I heard Naruto yell. "Sasuke that was overkill!"

I smirked, yeah I owed him one for that.

I heard the rustle of the tree leaves and I looked over to find my raven haired hero had appeared out of breathe in front of me.

"Psst, Sasuke right?" I flailed a bit trying to get his attention. "Could you maybe untie me?" I asked a tad bit embarrassed.

He looked over at me and smirked. "So another idiot got caught. You're as bad as Naruto." he teased but came towards me and unhooked the kunai from the tree freeing me.

"Hey now! I tried to use what I could without blowing off too much chakra!"

"Suuure"

"Look, I could have very well used my black fire, but I figured I'd only use that as a last resort!"

Sasuke raised an eyebrow. "Black...fire?"

"Yeah.." I began before I was interrupted by a female scream. The two of us turned quickly in the direction of the plea.

Sasuke glared darkly, "That scream I just heard..."

"Sakura..." I finished.

Kakashi chuckled teasingly. "The second Ninjutsu skill, Genjutsu, the art of illusion and Sakura fell for it.

The wind blew my hair around as I stared at him in disbelief. This was INSANE, how could we beat a jounin at this level!

"I'm not like the others," Sasuke said defiantly.

Kakashi laughed and teasingly replied "Save your boasts until you've got a bell, Sasuke."

He sighed softly before continuing a little more seriously. "The strength of the Uchiha clan. The most elite family in Konoha. And the heir of the most controversial clan ,the Fuuyas. Perhaps you're ready for real this time? I'm really looking forward to it."

I sighed. Maybe if Sasuke made an opening maybe I could jump in and grab the bells. Ha! Like he'd ever agree to that!

Sasuke smirked and reached into his holster drawing and throwing a handful of shuriken towards Kakashi. I watched as our sensei dodged ever last one of them but gasped as a trap sprung and hurled throwing knives at him. He jumped out of the way and sighed in anger. "Frontal assaults are wasted here!"

"He's right maybe if we both attacked him!" I tried to protest.

"Don't get in my way!" Sasuke yelled running towards Kakashi and throwing a few kicks at him. Kakashi of course caught them all, however Sasuke's efforts allowed him to graze a bell ever so slightly.

I gasped hopefully. Maybe he would grab it but my dreams were crushed as he jumped back to join me. I guess it was back to page one.

At this point it was my turn. Taijutsu may not have been my strong point but I had speed on my side to make up for it. I jumped into the air above him hoping if I approached from a certain angle, I could get the bells. Throwing a few stray kunai to cause a distraction I made my descent down.

"I told you Emiko, a frontal assault is useless!" He easily dodged my attack and waited until I was in a striking range before kicking my chest, sending me flying back into the ground. I skidded a little before coughing softly and looking up only to groan, knowing I was at the feet of the one person I was trying to show up.

Kakashi chuckled, " I will admit neither of you is like the others."

Sasuke smirked down at me and flew into hand sign forming. I watched his movements and went wide as he finished his jutsu with the tiger sign. So he used fire moves too! "Fire style: Fireball Jutsu!" Sasuke cast ,sending a flame out of his mouth and right for Kakashi and sadly it almost hit me.

"What!" Kakashi yelled surprised.

I jumped up and out of the way. "Hey!" I raged, "Do you mind! I am your teammate here!" When the smoke cleared I looked around for the elder ninja, sadly he was no where in sight.

"Oh no!" I gasped and began to panic. I went to move but heard the familiar sound of a trap being sprung. "What not again!" I yelled and tried to dodge the incoming objects. I tried jumping up and out of the way but by the time I moved it was far too late. The trap hit me and once again , flung me backwards and tied me tight to the tree. I gasped as my head hit the hard bark and I saw spots for a moment. I looked around as my vision clear and saw Sasuke gasp as the ground below him collapsed and he was pulled into it up to his head, trapped. Kakashi jumped up from a similar hole not far from the raven haired male.

"Shinobi battle skill number three, Ninjutsu. But at least both of your performances were head over shoulders above your teammates. But it seems you got too tied up in your cockiness." The male ninja smirked looking at me. "Didn't you Emiko?" He chuckled and jumped off to tease the others.

"You know Sasuke, if we had worked together this shit wouldn't have happened!"

"Shut up!" he snapped back clearly annoyed with my statement.

We heard someone approaching and halted our conversation looking in that direction. In a blur of pink and red came Sakura out of the bushes stopping and eying Sasuke with eyes like those of deers in headlights.

"Eeeeeyaaagh!" she shrieked "It's Sasuke's head, it's been severed!" she fell over backwards passed out in horror.

Sasuke sighed, "What the hell was that all about?"

I, however, raged. "She runs over here notices you and not even a concerned glance at me! Some teammates you are. I may be new but you could at least PRETEND to care!" I sighed sadly biting my lip to resist my urge to cry.

Sasuke glanced at me with a hint of apology (or maybe it was annoyance I couldn't tell) "Let me get out and I'll help you down again." he muttered just barely loud enough for me to hear.

Sasuke shook Sakura softly trying to wake her .I was happy to be able to move but my dislike for Sakura was very apparent as I kept my distant from the two rubbing my rope burned wrists. "Hey," I heard Sasuke say to what I assumed was a awake Sakura. I turned my head to find out.

Sakura jumped up hugging Sasuke tightly. "Sasuke you're alive!"

I snorted out in disgust and moved to join the two watching Sasuke shove Sakura off of him and standing. "Times running out, it's almost noon. I'm off"

Sakura opened her mouth and tried to stop him "Sasuke do you honestly think you can get one of those bells?"

"I...well Emiko and I" he eyed me softly. "Got close enough to touch one of them. This time at least I'll take them."

"WHAT!" Sakura yelled looking between the two of us. "Really wow you're amazing!" she praised him not even acknowledging me. "Uh..I mean there's no more time and even if we couldn't manage it this time I'm sure next time if we all give it our all."

"Oh hell no!" I yelled unable to keep my silence anymore "I have too much riding on this...Too much I have left to do.."

Sasuke turned and glared darkly at Sakura before turning away just as fast and looking at his feet. "Emiko is right besides....only I can kill him.."

Sakura gasped softly "Kill who? You mean Kakashi-Sensei?"

"He made me cry..."

"You cried" Sakura began

Sasuke muttered" My.." and let it end at that

Sakura looked on in shock "What...what are you talking about?"

Sasuke spoke loudly " My only goal is to have my revenge. I HAVE to become stronger than he is now.."

"What on earth" I muttered softly

in the distance the loud buzz of the alarm filled our ears. I let out a grunt "Dammnit all!" I growled.

Sasuke sighed angrily "Oh crap I should've saved my breath."

WE took off in the direction of the clearing in silence our wonderful friend the black cloud joining us once more.

WE sat next to a stump Naruto tied up for ,as Kakashi put it, trying to steal his way to winning. Our stomachs growled in unison. Kakashi chuckled softly. "Oh my listen to all the little stomachs growl! By the way you four...I have an announcement to make about this exercise. "None of you need worry anymore about being sent back to the ninja academy.

"No way!" I yelled happily.

"Yeah! This rocked It means all four of us!" Naruto began cheering but stopped when Kakashi began again.

He smiled softly. " You four are hopeless more schooling would be a waste of time. None of you will EVER be shinobi."

"What....." I said shocked