Hey everyone, so it's been at least two months and I thought that you were all deserving of another new chapter because, after all, it is the holidays!! Woo! This chapter is kind of short, but it's leading into the next one which is where… THE CHUNNIN EXAMS START!! Lol. Yay. Yes that makes me happy because I can get many ideas out of my head. :D :3 Anyway, thank you all to those who have read and reviewed this so far, and I hope that you all enjoy this new chapter. :D

Start of Training

Hinata and Tenten sat down at the tale while I started to cook up the hamburger. We were going to have tacos. 'Good old tacos.' I thought with a grin as I cooked it on the frying pan.

"You guys ever have tacos before?" I wondered curiously.

"I-I have once," Hinata admitted, "They were good."

"Eat them all the time," Tenten said happily, "Once I tried to get Neji to try them but he wouldn't do it. He grumbled something about spicy food."

'Ha, serves that know-it-all right.' I smirked at Tenten's words as I thought about pouring hot sauce down his throat. 'That would be very amusing.' Pouring the sauce onto the meat, I started to stir it around to make it thicker.

"No, I did not plan this out," I said as I went for the fridge and pulled out the cheese, lettuce, and salsa, "I was going to have tacos for supper anyway."

"Um… can I have the ketchup?" Hinata wondered shyly.

"…Ketchup?" Tenten repeated the word.

"I-it's good on t-tacos…"

"Ketchup coming up," I laughed before pulling it out of the fridge.

'I've heard of weirder things… strangely enough they're usually things I put together.' Placing the bottle on the table, I shut the stove off and brought the meat to the table.

"Okay, give it a few moments to cool off first."

They both nodded their heads and I placed both hands in front of me on my chair as I sat down.

"So do you guys know whose team you're on?" Tenten wondered as we waited.

"I-I don't know," Hinata admitted quietly.

"I have a slight idea, but I'm a little confused now so it'll have to wait," I said with some confusion.

Now that Naruto didn't make it… did that mean that I took his place? I was so confused on the matter. I had tried to think about it on our way to my house, but I got lost and had to give up.

"What about you Tenten?" Hinata wondered.

"Neji's team," she said proudly, "With some guy named Lee and Might Gai for a Sensei… I think I might go crazy."

"We'll back you up," I laughed, having a small idea of who the sensei was.

I knew little about the Hidden Leaf Village except of what I learned as a child. Even then, there wasn't very much.

"This Lee kid id the weirdest thing I've ever seen. He looks like this stupid beetle…"

"Oh wow," I started to laugh, trying to pick out his face, "He must be really strange."

I grabbed the scoop and put the meat in my taco shell. It was cool enough now. Hinata and Tenten did the same. Soon we were eating and my mouth was covered in the orange sauce, dripping down my chin and onto my plate.

"OH MY GOD!" Tenten cried, "You're a vampire!"

'What?' I started to laugh when I saw that my hands were covered in sauce as well.

"Yes Tenten. Didn't you hear that a bunch of people went missing down the street? Didn't you find it strange that I'm having tacos now?" I asked her with a smirk as I leaned into some shadows.

The Sharingan made its presence then, and Hinata started to laugh. Tenten's eyes were wide with almost horror. It was a very amusing sight.

"I'm kidding Tenten," I laughed while shaking my head slightly.

"Yeah, you say that now," she told me seriously.

Hinata and I started to laugh and we continued to laugh until the point where I was finally able to wipe my face. 'That was awesome.'

"Nothing like meat, curry sauce, and cheese all mixed together," I sighed as I leaned back in my chair.

"What do you guys want to talk about?" Tenten asked with a cocked eyebrow.

"I have no idea," I stated with a shrug.

'Training's going to start soon, which means that they'll all be busy while I get trained in the morning… We'll be separated.'

"Well no matter what happens, we'll all still be friends, right?" Tenten asked seriously.

"Y-yes!" Hinata nodded.

"Agreed," I cheered before getting to my feet to do the dishes, "Now how are we doing this hair thing?"

"You cut it at how short you want it," Tenten told me with a smirk, "and then I'll fix it up."

I threw the dishes into the sink and filled it up with water before pulling out a kunai and going into the washroom.

Looking at myself in the mirror, I thought about how I wanted to cut it off. 'My hair… goodbye.' I grabbed a lock of hair in the front and cut it in half, dropping the icy blue hair to the floor. 'It doesn't look so bad…' I did the same to the other side of my head and cur it extremely short at the back, having two locks hanging down the side of my face. When I walked out of the washroom some twenty minutes later, Hinata and Tenten's eyes were side. 'I guess they didn't expect me to cut it so short…'

"Y-you really cut a lot off," Tenten laughed nervously.

"New hair style," I said with a wide grin.

I liked it this way and figured that once it grew back out to be halfway down my back again, I might cut it back off again.

"Do you guys not like it/" I asked with a pout.

"It looks good," Hinata said with a smile.

"I guess it's your hair," Tenten said while rubbing the back of her head.

"You going to make it better or are you going to make me walk around like this?"

Tenten shook her head and crossed her arms while looking away from me.

"I-I think it looks good that way," Hinata said with a slightly blush.

'Then it's settled. No one else is touching my hair.' I grinned widely and looked at my friend with my golden eyes. This was a good way to start things.

Either a few days or a week later; training seemed to begin and I was still on my own. I sat at the training field, early in the morning. 'I still say it should be illegal to wake up this early. I mean, that sun is barely up!' I was sitting on the grass in my bare feet with crossed legs. My elbow was leaning on my knee as I waited for my sensei to show.

My ice blue hair hung down at the sides of my dace and the back was spiked up slightly. My bangs hung over my head protector, moving with the wind with each gentle breeze.

"Well aren't you early," his voice came before he made his appearance.

"Yeah, well I thought you would want me to get here early," I yawned, tired tears forming in my eyes.

I was about to get up, but he raised a hand for me to stop. 'What is he doing?' I cocked a brow by his action.

"Suzu, why don't you tell me about yourself first?" Kakashi asked with a pleased look on his face.

"Why don't you go first sensei?" I asked with another yawn.

'I get an attitude when I'm tired. That and when my memories decide they want to flood my mind…'

"My name is Kakashi Hatake," he said as he bent down to be eye to eye with me, "I'm interested in knowing about you right now."

'Ouch… he turned that one around.'

"I'm Suzu. I like to eat really weird things. I'm interesting in protecting those close to me. I'm going to become an ANBU."

"What's your last name?"

"Don't have one," I stated with a smirk.

Kakashi sensei seemed to laugh at my words and his one eye looked at me rather intently. 'This guy is so strange.'

"You don't have to hide it from me Suzu," he told me.

"Hide what?" I asked with slightly furrowed eyebrows.

"I know you are an Uchiha."

Kakashi Sensei's tone surprised me. He sounded so serious that it was startling 'Damn it… how does he know? How is it possible?'

"How/"

"The night you broke out of the hospital, you ran into me, remember?" Kakashi mused, going back to his light mood.

'Crap… he's right. The Sharingan is in the Uchiha bloodline and if he saw m at night then they were showing…' I glared to the side at the thought, hating my carelessness.

"Now how does that work? Your Sharingan I mean," he wondered with interest.

"When I'm in the shadows they show themselves… I have no ability to control it at all… All I feel is the change."

I didn't seem to care if he knew or not. He was my sensei; he deserved to know that much. It was hard to give this strange man trust because he was a guy and they were the enemy. 'Oh well, better get used to it…'

"When our clan got destroyed… I was around here and when I got there it was too late. Everyone was already dead."

"Then that explains why you want to become an ANBU so badly," Kakashi said with a quiet tone, "… How old are you?"

"Thirteen," I shrugged.

I may or may not have been older than everyone else, bit I had a feeling that I was pretty close to the oldest right now. 'Can we stop talking about me now?'

"Can we start training now?" I asked, still not looking directly at him.

I could believe that I had told a guy all those things. They weren't supposed to be the ones who could understand.

"After one more question," he assured me.

"Fine," I grumbled, getting to my feet.

"Why don't you have any shoes on?"

I laughed at the question and then shook my head with some amazement. That wasn't what I was expecting.

"I have shoes," I laughed, "I just choose to not wear them. Ground feels good under the feet."

"Later on I would like for you to wear them. Tree bark doesn't felt good when it's stuck in the balls of your feet."

'Yeah… I know all about that.'

"Kakashi Sensei, why didn't Naruto pass like you said he would? Shouldn't I have been placed on his team?" I asked with confusion.

"You should have, but Naruto made up for it the other day. His sensei passed him with flying colours," he assured me with a smile.

"I see…"

"Don't worry. I'm sure you have enough experience in team work, and you'll get experience when you join Kurenai's team later in the afternoon."

'Yay, another team.' I sighed and looked at Kakashi Sensei with a cocked brow.

"So what's first?"

We had spent that morning until the afternoon working on proper hand signs and what they meant. I knew I had to listen; even if I didn't want to.

"You have some work to do, but you're doing well for just beginning," Kakashi Sensei told me thoughtfully.

'I'm doing so horrible. There are so many things I haven't learned yet… I'll have to stay a while and practice on my own…'

"Yeah," I sighed, "I didn't think a jutsu could be so complicated."

"Practice on your own time if you think you should. I believe that tomorrow morning we'll meet at the Hokage faces before the sun rises," he stated pleasantly as he went to walk away.

'Before the sun rises?! Is he crazy?!' My eyes went wide and I thought he was insane.

"Where are you going Kakashi Sensei?"

"My other team will be training all ay tomorrow," he promised me.

By the sound of his tone, I knew he would be testing them. I had forgotten that every team had to be passed by their new sensei. If they didn't pass their test, they didn't train for chunnin.

"Oh, look at that. I'm already late," Kakashi Sensei laughed slightly before giving me a wave and walking away.

'So he walks instead of runs… I think he's too laid back for his own good.'

I sighed and looked around the training ground. 'Before the sun rises…that totally sucks. I'll never make it in time…' I sat down and crossed my arms with some frustration.

"Everyone gets to meet their teams today…" I whispered to myself as I stared at the ground.

'They all get to work with others… while I have to work on my own. I only get to talk to Kakashi Sensei…' Leaning backwards, I lay across the ground with closed eyes. 'I wonder what Hinata and Tenten are up to now… I hope Hinata got on a good team and not one with stupid people… like Ino.' I scoffed at the thought. Hinata on a team with Ino? I wouldn't wish that on anyone. I felt bad for whoever did end up on a team with Ino. I yawned and rolled backwards onto my feet. I needed to do something or be somewhere where I wasn't alone. Anywhere would be good right now.

I walked absentmindedly down the street to wherever I thought someone might be.

"My name is Kiba Inuzuka and I enjoy being with dogs," a familiar voice said rather proudly.

I smiled sheepishly at his voice. Kiba knew how to be proud; how to not sink low in self esteem. Kiba was too light for that.

"M-my name is H-Hinata H-Hyuga and I want to become s-stronger," Hinata's voice followed after.

My eyes widened with some surprise at her voice. 'She's on Kiba's team? That's so lucky! She gets to be on the same team as someone she knows.' I smiled with happiness for her and then followed her voice. If Hinata was there, then I would willingly go. As I went through the trees, I saw Hinata, Kiba, and another boy with black glasses sitting in a circle with Kurenai. 'And she gets Kurenai for a sensei? She has the greatest luck ever.' I came into the small opening and leaned against a tree trunk.

"Your challenge for today is to use your skills to find an object in the forest. There are three objects; one for each of you. Through it is possible to get more than one object for yourself. You have three hours."

Kurenai sat down when she was finished talking and Kiba smirked at the thought.

"What happens if someone doesn't come back with an object?" the boy with the black glasses asked.

"Whoever doesn't come back with an object fails."

'Fails? Isn't that a little harsh?' I cocked an eyebrow with interest.

"The time has started, you better get moving."

The three new genin seemed to disappear and my eyes followed after Hinata.

"Don't help her Suzu. If you do she will fail."

'It does seem a little harsh… but I guess life's not exactly fair either.'

"I won't help her," I promised quietly before taking off through the trees.

I wasn't allowed to help her and I knew it was for the best. I had to go to a place where I wouldn't be able to think about it. Hinata had to do this on her own, and I had to accept that. 'Damn that sucks… I had to do it on my own, and she'll have to do it on her own…' I ran towards the house to do stuff there. I could memorize the names of things from there.

I had a strange feeling like things in the future were going to get a little different from this point on. Our friendships would change… the friends we met would either become closer or farther apart. My training would have to be rough and I would have to push myself farther than before. That training too early in the morning was going to be easy compared to later on.

Or so I thought.

I woke up and it took my five tries to get out of bed. Then I fell down the stairs before going out the door. I ran as best I could through the dark to the Hokage faces. Kakashi Sensei was already there, waiting for me to get there.

"It should be illegal to get up this early!" I grumbled as I sat down in front of him.

"Well it would have been the only time for you to train."

'I could have lived a day without training…' I made a face at the thought and I heard Kakashi Sensei laugh slightly. My Sharingan eyes looked at him intently.

"What's so funny?" I asked.

"I'm enjoying that fact that I get to train both Uchiha," he mused lightly.

"You can't tell anyone," I stated with a dark glare, "No one can find out want I am."

"At least you're not bent on revenge like Sasuke," Kakashi sighed, rubbing the back of his head.

'Oh yay… some crazy leader. He's not worthy…'

"Who cares," I grumbled, glaring to the side.

Kakashi Sensei cocked an eyebrow at my attitude before shrugging it off.

"So what exactly are we doing today?"

"I have no idea," he laughed.

End of Chapter 12

Hey again! So, did you all like it? I'm sorry if I get facts and whatever wrong. To be honest, if I make some mistakes, I kind of don't really care to fix them, because then it just causes problems with my brain process and or might screw up a planned future chapter. Just thought I'd throw that out in the open. :3 So sorry that it was really short and that it could have been longer and it's not but the next chapters are going to be longer and more exciting so I hope that you'll all stick around to read them. :D:D Please R&R and I'll update whenever I get the chance to. :3