"I've got you now, sensei," Kara teased as his hand blazed through signs. Rat, Tiger, Dog, Ox, Rabbit, Tiger. "Fire-Lightning Release: Phoenix Flower Jutsu!"
The smirk of victory on the youth's face quickly fell, replaced by total confusion. The jounin was replicating his hand signs. "Fire-Lightning Release: Phoenix Flower Jutsu!" The combatting fires collided, sending sparks and arcs though the trees surrounding them, scorch marks spiderwebbing the bark. Kakashi took advantage of the young ninja's shock and continued into the forest until he came into a larger clearing, one full of beautiful sakura trees swaying in the light breeze, their petals floating to the ground all through the clearing.
"Stop running, Kakashi-sensei," Kara chuckled landing a few meters in front of him and, in a flash, slid his sword back onto his back. "I'd like to finish our battle from a few days ago. I want to know your real power."
"We'll see..." His new teacher dropped into a rather aggressive looking taijutsu stance. "Maybe you'll force me to increase my speed to half." And with that, he lunged at his student, the sudden increase in speed startling him.
How is this possible? I was sure he was moving as fast as he could during our first fight. Kara shook off the shock and prepared to defend. Push your chakra into your arms and legs. Kara kicked off of the ground, flipping over Kakashi, and landing on his left leg, bringing his right in a circle into a nasty chakra-enhanced kick at his sensei's unprotected abdomen. At least, he thought it to be unprotected.
"Now, now," Karasu really hated that; his sensei had caught his kick by the ankle. "Did you really think that was going to work out?"
"Well, I had hoped for it to." Kara managed to tear his foot out of Kakashi's grip and formed two quick hand signs. Tiger, Monkey. "Fire Release: Burning Windmill!" His technique may not have worked, had it not been for the chakra Karasu had been pushing into his limbs. He rushed forward, dropping his hands and preforming a cartwheel-like motion. He then pushed off of the ground, twisting his body in a helicoptering kick that trailed flames behind it. Darn, his attack had barely missed Kakashi, but he noticed the heat coming from his legs had startled the man. Needs more chakra, I guess. He flowed form one movement to another, the momentum of the kick carrying him up slightly, He kicked off of the ground, bring his now clearly flaming knee up towards the older shinobi's face, causing the man to flinch away from the shear heat pouring off of it. He then brought his leg out, finishing the attack with a flaming axe-kick that narrowly missed the shinobi, the result being the impact of the kick cracking the ground in front of him.
"That's enough of this!" Kakashi now had to take the genin somewhat seriously. What did they teach him in the Cloud? He's way above genin level! No mattre, I'll just have to see how do does when I go on the offensive. Kakashi dashed forward, pricking his hand on the kunai on his belt, and marked the youth with his blood. He turned a few meters from the boy and pulled out a scroll, opening it and wiping the rest of his blood on it, forming a quick series of hand signs. Tiger, Snake, Dragon, Dog. He ended this by slamming the scroll on the ground, "Summoning: Earth Release: Tracking Fang Jutsu!" A summoning seal spread on the ground around the scroll before he saw a small fissure open on the ground, lengthening until it reached Karasu.
He had just barely managed to jump from his place when 8 ninken broke through the ground below and began to latch onto him, pulling him back down and holding him in place. Little did Kakashi know that the boy he been fighting had been a shadow clone. The clone dispersed as the ninken sank their teeth into him, and it was almost too late for Kakashi to dodge, as Karasu was in the air, dropping down on him with flaming fists, fists that shattered the ground where Kakashi had stood just moments before.
This kid's pretty strong, no more underestimating him. "Well, done, Kara," the boy he referred to could tell where the voice had come from, strangely. "It seems I'll have to start trying, if I don't want to be hit. Time to end this. Tiger, Hare, Boar, Dog. "Earth Release: Multiple Earth-Style Wall!" Walls of stone closed around the youth, trapping him in the enclosure. He pulled down his mask, revealing his sharigan, and tried to trap the youth in a sleeping gentusu, but the boy shook it off quickly, activating his own in response. "You think your sharingan fazes me, Oh Famous Copy-cat Ninja?" Kara began to walk towards him. "If it wasn't for me already having gotten the bells from you, I would show you the power of these eyes in the hands of an Uchiha. I don't know how you got that sharingan, but it isn't yours, so don't flaunt it in front of me again."
Kakashi was in complete disbelief; not only had the boy broken the genjutsu with ease, when he looked down at his belt, the bells were gone, the string that had held them still partly there, but singed. His attacks! They burned them off?
"Right here, Kakashi, sensei!" Naruto held up the bells, jingling them slightly. "Ha! Whatta you thinka that, huh?"
"Shut up, Naruto! We didn't do anything, this jerk decided to do everything himself!"
"Sasuke, what's your problem with me? I'm your cousin, you know."
"As if! Just because you wield the sharingan doesn't mean you can call yourself family! Where were you all these years? Hiding away somewhere? The rest of the clan was dead. Dead! I was all that was left, spared by my brother. You dare to call me family, when I was left alone for all that time?"
"Sasuke, I didn't know what happened to you until less than a year ago. My family was killed, and now I'm here with you. It's just the two of us now, Sasuke. Well, and Itachi, but we're what's left of this clan, so it's our duty to preserve it. We can't fight like this, not when we're all we have left," Kara pleaded with his cousin, his only remaining family. His eyes reverted from the sharingan they held, now soft and holding back tears.
Sasuke could only nod to this before tears began to flow. He fell to his knees and began to sob. Years of pain, frustration, and hate that had held the boy together so far fell apart as he did in his cousin's arms.
"Once you activate your sharingan, I'll train you and we'll rebuild the clan. We'll kill Itachi together. I've heard how you want to be the one to do it, but you're not alone anymore."
"You'll stand with me?"
"As long as I still have the strength to do so, I'll never let what's precious to me die. That's what it means to be an Uchiha."