Chapter 3:

Three cheers for team work!

Me and Sakura walked out into the open, in view of Kakashi, screaming at each-other.

"You better shut that big mouth of yours you pink haired freak! It's almost as big as your forehead!"

"Look who's talking you little stuck up! I've know bugs smarter than you! Of course you would have no idea considering your afraid of them! Oh no! Look out, that big scary bug might kill you!"

I shoved Sakura backwards. She fell down on her butt, then immediately got right back up and shoved me back.

"Listen blondey! Sasuke is mine so you better back off!" Sakura snarled at me.

I snorted rudely. "My hair isn't blonde! It's dark honey colored! Show's how much you know! And Sasuke is mine. So I'm sorry but you better go find someone else to be a bother too," I remarked.

A look of pure anger shown on Sakura face. She ran towards me and tackled me to the ground. We began pulling at each-other's hair and hurling insults to one-another.

"Billboard Brow!"

"Pig Face!"

"Freak of Nature!"

"Wanna be Loser!"

I punched Sakura in the faced, causing her to stumble back a few steps. I then stood up with a big grin.

"Face it Sakura. Sasuke's never going to like you. Your just not right for him. Short, dumb, ugly, and fat, yeah definitely not his type."

Sakura glared at me with rage, and took out a kunai. She held it in her hand, pointed towards me.

"Oh you asked for it! This just got personal!" She announced.

I reached into my holster and pulled out a kunai of my own. "Bring it. This is a fight for Sasuke and my love!" AGH! It burns! Remind me again why I have to say this crud?

Flash

"Me and Sakura will act as a decoy. We'll get into some cat fight, gaining Kakshi sensi's attention. Once our 'cat fight' starts to get more serious and it seems as if we're going to kill each-other, Kakashi will be forced to break it up. Right when he's about to do that, Sasuke, Naruto, one of you can attack him from behind while the other grabs the bells." I looked around at the other's and none of them looked sure.

"I know this isn't the best plan but it's all I got. And we don't have enough time left to be sitting around thinking. So what do you say?" I asked hopefully.

"It's worth a shot," Sasuke said and the other's nodded in agreement.

"But what are we going to fight over?" Sakura asked.

"Hm... I haven't really thought about it. But it has to be something believable. Something girls around here usually get into arguments about..."

Sakura looked over at Sasuke and giggled. "I know exactly what!"

"I get the feeling I'm not going to like this," I groaned.

Flash

Oh yeah... That's why. Jeez you'd think the girls around here would find something more meaningful to fight about.

Sakura threw the kunai. It was coming at me dead on. I ducked, and it hit a tree behind me, sticking into the bark. I threw the kunai in my hand at Sakura. She easily dodged it by taking a small step to the side. Oh well, at least I was able to throw the kunai at all. I charged at Sakura, but was met by her elbow in my gut. I doubled over, and Sakura took this advantage to pull out another kunai. But before she got the chance to throw it I grabbed her ankle, pulling her down to the ground. I delivered a punch right to her stomach. To anyone watching this fight it would look as if I had punched her as hard as I could, but really it was a weak punch. After all this was a fake fight. Sakura put one hand around her stomach and moaned. Using her other hand she reached up and grabbed a fist full of my hair. Then she slammed my head into the ground. Again it wasn't hard. Thank god because any harder and I'd be knocked unconscious. I brought my knee up and slammed it into Sakura, though I'm not exactly sure where it hit. She released her grip on my hair, I stood up all the way and stepped back a few steps. After a moment Sakura stood as well. I took out two shurikans, and Sakura did the same. I threw mine, aiming for her, and at the same instant she threw the ones in her hands. They both came in contact, clashing, knocking each-other to the ground. I look down at the shurikans that were now laying on the dirt covered ground, when I looked up Sakura was running at me with a kunai in hand. She knocked me back down to the ground and threw the kunai at me. It missed by not even a centimeter. Fear filled me and my eyes grew wide. Was she really trying to kill me? Sakura must have seen the worry in my eyes because she gave me a reassuring wink.

"Oh so that's how it's going to be? Fine then!" I said sounding mad.

I pushed Sakura off of me and jumped on top of her. I pulled out a kunai and held it up above her head. With one swift movement I could bring it down upon her. And that would be it.

"Now Sasuke really is mine, huh?" The bitterness in my voice was so convincing. I'm so glad mom made me take that acting class last Summer!

Kakashi sighed deeply. This fight was going to end badly if he didn't step in soon. Why on earth girl's could get this serious over a guy was beyond him. But seeing as it was Sasuke he knew these girl's would do crazy things.

"Sakura, Sayuki. Break it up," Kakashi said taking a step forward. But right when he did two Naruto clones grabbed onto his ankles. Two more appeared at his sides and grabbed onto his arms. Another behind him, it held him in a head lock with a kunai at his throat. The real Naruto appeared in front of Kakashi, grinning widely. What the...? Kakashi thought. Kakashi broke loose from the grip of the clones without hesitation. He threw a kunai at the real Naruto in front of him. At least he thought it was the real Naruto. When the kunai hit, the Naruto poofed away and a log was in it's place.

Kakashi felt for the bells, and when he didn't feel them he looked down only to see they were gone. A faint ringing could be heard from behind him. He turned around to investigate the cause of the sound and saw Sasuke sitting on a tree branch, the bells dangling from his finger.

"Got ya sensei!" I said grinning. Me and Sakura walked over to Kakashi, Naruto was trailing not too far behind us. Sasuke jumped down from the tree and approached our sensei as well.

"So, Kakashi Sensei, do we pass?"

Kakashi's face looked surprised, well from what we could see.

"Do we have to explain it to you sensei?" Sakura asked. When she didn't get an answer she continued. "Me and Sayuki pretended to get into a fight to act as a decoy. When Sayuki and I acted as if we were going to hurt each-other badly, we knew you'd have step in and break up the fight. So while you were distracted with our fight Naruto attacked you when your guard was down the most, which was when Sayuki and I got serious. Naruto used his shadow clone jutsu, holding you still with his clones. While he did that Sasuke quickly and quietly sneaked over and grabbed the bells, you were too distracted with Naruto's clones to even notice."

There was a moment of silence.

"So?" Naruto asked anxiously.

"Do we pass or what?"

Kakashi disappeared in the blink of an eye. Not even a second later he re-appeared behind Sasuke. He had a kunai at Sasuke's back, and the bells in the opposite hand. Just then the timer went off, telling us that it was noon and our time was up.

Kakashi removed the kunai from Sasuke and put it away, than he began to speak. "Well even though I must admit that your team work was incredible, you failed to successfully get the bells before your time was up."

"But we had the bells!"

"Yes, you had them. But you didn't have them when time was up."

"You never said that was part of it!" Naruto said angrily.

"I shouldn't have to. Let's say you were sent on a mission to retrieve a important scroll. If you had managed to get the scroll at one point, but the enemy got it back from you, then the mission was unsuccessful. The scroll is now in enemy hands and they can use that against you. It can lead to the destruction of the your entire village depending on how important the scroll is. Do you understand now?" Kakashi explained.

"But we were so close!" I pouted in defeat. It was no fair! We should have passed!

"But not close enough."

Man this sucks!! We did everything we were supposed to! We worked as a team! Why isn't he passing us!!

"But..." Kakashi started, "Since you all decided to work together as a team, which in a real mission increases your chances of success, I'm willing to give you one more chance. You will have two hours to get the bells. Eat lunch now and build up strength, but... Naruto doesn't get any! As punishment for breaking the rules and trying to eat by yourself!"

Naruto did that? Guess I wasn't paying as close attention as I thought... Must have been day dreaming... I quickly remembered Kakashi was still talking and snapped out of my thoughts.

"And if any of you try to feed him, that person will automatically fail. Everyone got it?"

Naruto wasn't tied to the stump like he originally was in the series, but he still wasn't given a lunch. I slowly ate from the boxed lunch in front of me. The food looked so strange. I never had like Chinese food. Not that this was Chinese but still...It wasn't the greatest but it wasn't the worst. At least it was filling and satisfied the pain in my stomach.

I looked over at Sasuke and Sakura, they were both eating too. A sudden noise made me turn to look at Naruto. His stomach had growled loudly.

"This is no big deal! I can go without eating for days! Believe it! This is no big deal!" Naruto yelled. His voice lacked the confidence to back up his words.

"Here," I said holding my lunch out to Naruto with a smile on my face. "Take it."

Naruto looked at me strangely. It was obvious he was confused as to why I would offer him the food.

"Kakashi's gone, we need to get that bell as a team," I explained to him, "If your hungry, Naruto you will be weak and ineffective, and that hurts the team and jeopardizes the mission." I looked over at Sasuke and smirked. Ha Ha I stole his line!

Naruto took the lunch box from me. "Thanks," He said before stuffing some food into his mouth.

"Don't mention it!" I replied.

Smoke appeared in front of us, and it was surrounding a certain jounin that was going to kill me for what I just did.

"You!" Kakashi yelled pointing a accusing finger at me. Man could he be scary when he wanted to or what!?

"Eek!" I squealed as I scooted back a little.

"You broke the rules! I hope your ready for your punishment!" Kakashi was really scaring me right now! "Any last words?"

"W-well y-you see I was j-just..." I started not finishing my sentence out of fear.

"B-B-But you said..." Naruto said in a shaky voice.

"Yes...?" Kakashi asked impatiently.

"We're all on this squad and we're all in this together!" Sasuke announced.

"That's your excuse?" Kakashi asked still looking at us with fire in his eye...or at least that's how it seemed!

"Yeah! We're a team and we stick together!" I said gaining a little confidence.

"We are one!" Sakura added in.

"Yeah yeah yeah! Believe it! That's right!" Naruto shouted.

Kakashi chuckled to himself and spoke, "You pass!"

"But that's not fair! Wait...what?" I was now totally confused!

"Huh?" Apparently Naruto didn't get it either.

"You...pass," Kakashi stated again.

"You're the first squad that ever succeeded, the others did exactly what I said and fell into every trap. They couldn't think for themselves," Kakashi began explaining to us, "A ninja must see through deception. In the ninja world those who break the rules are scum, that's true but... those who abandon their friends are worst than scum."

Naruto got all teary eyed. "He's uh... you know...kinda cool..."

"The training is over! Everyone passes! Squad 7 starts their first mission tomorrow!""Kakashi told us. He then shot us thumbs up.

"Cha-yes!," I shouted jumping in the air, "We're ninja! N to the I to N J A We're ninja's!"

Inner Sayuki: CHA! Ninja power!

I could tell the other's were just as excited as me. Especially Naruto.

"I did it! I'm a ninja!" He sounded so excited.

"I think this calls for song!" I announced.

"Please don't," I heard Sasuke mutter under his breath.

"What was that?" Sasuke just glared at me saying nothing. "Well if you don't want me to sing you could just kindly say so! How rude!"

We all walked away from the training grounds, with me and Sasuke bickering. Okay so maybe it was just me going on and on about how rude he was and that I could sing if I wanted to...but still!

Author's Note: So what do you think? You should be very pleased that I didn't take as long to update this time! So don't worry be happy! Turn that frown upside down! And PLEASE review!!

Oh, and... as for pairings for this fic. of mine...

Sayuki x Sasuke

Sayuki x Naruto

Sayuki x A different Character?

Please tell me who you think would make the best couple for this fic.!

And as I said before... REVIEW!