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"Don't get too excited, Lynx. It's not as much fun as it might look like." Kurenai told us, sternly.

"I never said I thought it would be easy, Kurenai. I just thought it would be interesting." I grinned sadistically.

"Uh oh." Naruto and Sasuke glanced at one another, obviously scared of what my sadistic mind might do with the knowledge we were about to be presented with.

I began to cackle sadistically, though quietly. That seemed to scare the men more than my words. Sakura, on the other hand, grinned along with me and glared at Naruto just as sadistically - if not more.

"Now - before any accidents occur -" With a glance at Sakura and me, she continued. "We shall begin."

With that she began her lecture on the who, what, when, and hows of genjutsu. She then told us of which handsigns would be of use to us while practicing it. And so on and so forth. Naruto stood with a bewildered expression on his face, Sasuke simply stood cold and stoic, while Sakura and I gazed at her with our full attention, both sets of eyes bright and interested.

We then began practicing, simple techniques. Naruto neither understood nor completed any of them - growing more frustrated by the second. Sasuke got everything perfect, and Sakura and me? It was second nature to us. Somehow this ability suited us very well. Playing with other's minds, just with chakra. It took pinpoint chakra control and a lot of strong will. Both of these traits commonly appear in kunoichis. It's just in our nature.

"Well done Sakura. Lynx, that's amazing." Kurenai told us proudly, then continuing to point out whatever errors we might have made. "That's good, Sasuke. But your handsigns are too fast and not separated. They have almost 'melted' into one."

She flinched visibly when Naruto tested out on her. Then scolded him for the lack of attention he showed towards her. Then she tried to help him improve his technique - in vain. Ninjutsu seemed to work a little better for Naruto.

We didn't get to do that much, but we did get to learn and perfect the easiest of genjutsu techniques.

"Wow. Kurenai is such an awesome teacher, I wish Kakashi-sensei were more like her sometimes…" Sakura sighed in exasperation with our lazy teacher.

"True dat. I wonder if she teaches her students this stuff as well? Actually- I don't give a shit. I just wanna learn more." I had my heart set on becoming a genjutsu master.

Sakura laughed, then said: "I'm not sure, it was very interesting and all, but it just doesn't seem like the way I'd like to spend my training. I think I prefer ninjutsu."

"Oh. You can join the guys then! Just kidding wit chu, Sakura. If we get, like, a taijutsu kid the three of us would be, like, soooooo awesome!" I exclaimed, my mind racing around the possibilities of what we could accomplish.

"Yeah. But Sasuke-kun is good at taijutsu," She acknowledged, a blush crossing her face.

"So, Sasuke-"kun" is a self-centered, egotistical little man who doesn't give a shit about anyone but himself." I told her, annoyed.

"Oh, I guess." Her face fell, but she looked up again sharply and exclaimed: "ROCK LEE!"

"Who's Lee?" I questioned, befuddled.

"Rock Lee, he graduated a year before us from the genin academy! He only uses taijutsu, and he's really amazing at it, too!" Exclaimed she happily.

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 'kay." Nodding, I backed away jokingly.

"No, seriously, Lynx. He's an awesome shinobi, he saved our lives during the chunin exam." She gestured towards our other two teammates who were walking - in step - behind us.

"Oh." Replied I intelligently.

We chatted happily the rest of the way back, Sakura explaining - boasting (she had every right to) - about what her team had to go through during the chunin exams. I was shocked by what mere 12 year olds were put through over here. Then again, they had chosen this path. But it still shocked and astounded me.

We entered the clearing once more and Kurenai 'appeared' in front of us. Kakashi and Lexi's team were already waiting.

"Are you finished, Kakashi?" Kurenai inquired, challengingly.

"Yes, are you, Kurenai?" Replied he, lazily as always.

"Hai." She confirmed, "We need to split the children up into teams, so that they can spar. What do you suggest."

"I suggest they work in pairs, each with someone they have never worked with before." He said, actually looking up from his porn magazine.

She 'hn'-ed in agreement. And thus they began the seperation process. Obviously I wouldn't be on Lexi's team, we've worked together for most of our lives. And no one from our team, cuz we're on the same team. So that left Kiba and Shino - not Hinata because I had actually met her before, and Kurenai and Kakashi were bent on making us work with someone completely new to us.

Kurenai and Kakashi stood aside from us, every once in a while casting a calculating glace in our direction. Then they smirked simultaneously and walked over.

"OK, the teams are as followed. Lexi and Sasuke," Lexi glared him down, I guess she thought he was one of the 'wannabe' emos we used to know. "Hinata and Naruto, Sakura and Shino, and Lynx and Kiba."

I grinned and walked over to the equally hyper dog-boy.

"Yo." I greeted.

"Hey."

"Lynx, nice to meet ya."

"I know. Kiba, and same."

"Coolio."

"What?" He looked at me strangely - befuddled.

"Haha, it means cool." I explained with a laugh.

"Ohhh… coolio."

We smirked.

"Tactics?" I inquired.

"What do you specialize in?"

"Uhh… I dunno, I'm sorta new to this whole thing. I'm good with chakra control and I get the basics of genjutsu well. You?" I replied uncertainly.

"Tracking and I use Akamaru here to attack. We attack as clones, and both know each other's moves well. I can do distraction, and then hit the final blow. If you're willing to sneak up behind our opponents?" He offered.

"That sounds awesome. So, opponents?"

"OK, Sakura and Shino first. Shino uses bug techniques to get behind enemy lines - much like you're about to do. And Sakura… I'm actually not sure. We all saw her taijutsu fight with Ino and we've seen some of the ninjutsu she does, but we don't know that much. The two's styles are different but compliment each other greatly. They are the hardest, but we can try to attack Sakura first, aiming for Shino later when he has no one - two on one - will work better for us."

"Sakura usually mixes taijutsu with ninjutsu, her main abilities are the replacement technique and rapid attacks. She also has pinpoint chakra control. She attacks straight up. Just to let you know," I informed.

"Sasuke and Lexi. Lexi uses mainly taijutsu and kinjutsu - swords and weapons. She also uses taijutsu. Her attacks are not very well thought out. Also she is rash in battle."

"Sasuke deals in ninjutsu, again he can track with his eyes. He specializes in taijutsu and ninjutsu. Usually using ninjutsu do distract or injure the opponent, then finishing them off with taijutsu. As long as we keep away from him, then once he is injured - arms hopefully - we deal the killing blow. Though Hinata might choose to take it for him, in which case we can let her take it from you while I attack Sasuke with a simple genjutsu and you finish him off."

"OK. Last but not least, Naruto and Hinata. Hinata specializes in her kekkei genkai - the byakugan. She has a 360 degrees sight, though with one miniscule blind spot that is almost impossible to find. She usually does tracking and uses soft-punch technique. So we need to stay clear of her. And using clones with evenly distributed chakra would - might - confuse her. Naruto?"

"Naruto mainly uses clones and likes to deal the final blow with rasengan, though he rarely uses it. His taijutsu is OK, it is what his clones stick to. He needs at least one clone to deal rasengan. To counter this we could eliminate his clones with out own, so that he could use rasengan on a clone while we attack from behind?"

"We're done?"

"Yeah, we good."

Just in time Kurenai called our meetings to a halt.

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!