I own Itsuki! Wow, that felt good. I finally own something! Wooh!

Well guys, I am loving the responses and I've come to a decision of sorts. I think I'm going to set up Anko as the somewhat big-sister role and Tenten and Haku as Naruto's one and only's. Know though that when I do this that I will put Naruto and Anko into compromising situations at which I hope will leave you all in tears. Hopefully from laughing. And if you cried from sadness I must be doing something wrong.

Oh yes, I'm also willing to take up any kind of challenges a well since I find myself enjoying more often than not so go ahead! I'm not afraid!

On with the show!

Naruto collapsed. The training...was hell.

Haku and Tenten sat beside him, throwing one arm around their shoulders to help keep him up. "You know, I honestly thought Ibiki-sensei would try and take it slow with us for our first day." Tenten chimed.

"I agree, but compared to other genin I think sensei see's us in a superior light." Naruto tilted his head. "Remember when Kakashi-sensei's team came here?"

Naruto nodded. Of course he remembered. Kakashi and his team of Sasuke, Sakura, and this one kid named Itsuki had come to train to at the same training ground and had calmly asked—demanded—that their sensei go find another place to train.

Ibiki had just smirked and pointed to Naruto. "You'll have to beat my genin first."

Apparently Ibiki was one of those guys that loved making bets. The difference between himself and others was that he was never one to make a bet unless he thought he was going to win. It just wasn't how he played.

Kakashi looked over to the other team and seemed to study them.

From what he'd heard about Kakashi, and that wasn't much, Naruto could safely assume that Kakashi was a skilled but closet pervert of a shinobi. His eye could never quite make it to Anko's face whenever they saw one another which was why the purple haired kuniochi had taken the effort to keep Naruto grounded and respectful beyond what Haku had already passively instilled.

It still confused him to no end when he thought about it. Looking someone in the eye wasn't difficult, so why did men's eyes always flicker down to a woman's chest. He sighed, he'd just ask Anko later on. She'd always gave him advice on things like this.

"You're on Ibiki-san. How do you want to play this?" Kakashi questioned, a bored look.

"I'm fine with anything, 'cause no matter what your genin do, they'll never win."

Kakashi nodded. "Fine. How about we have Sasuke and Naruto face off and the other two have a double duel of sorts."

Ibiki smirked devilishly and agreed with a nod.

Keeping his stoic mask pressed Kakashi's thought's flurried through. He'd read the genin's files when they were choosing teams a while back. His assumptions back then had been changed slightly accompanied by new thoughts. Naruto was his sensei's student and he bartered for the Uchiha instead because of the council's demands and when he requested for Naruto to be on it as well the Hokage had said that Naruto and his friend Haku were a packaged deal because of certain circumstances.

Though when he said that he would take them both the Hokage had interrupted by saying that Ibiki had already chosen them and another just before Kakashi had walked in.

He'd nearly thrown a fit internally before deciding to leave with the genin he thought would work well with Sasuke. One of them a fan-girl and another a silent kid from a civilian family. Why take a fan-girl and civilian-born some would ask? Well, as far as Kakashi saw in her file she was the third best kunoichi in her class with a sharp mind. He'd work with her about the fan-girl issue later.

And as far as academics went for guys, Itsuki was one of the best with a contingency for genjutsu and weapons. The only thing Kakashi could think about working with him on was his silence. While a good thing in most cases, there had to be balance and communication in order for a team to work. Insert communication for him and they'd be perfect, for the most part.

Thinking back to their test and how horribly they did. He would've failed them because of the lack of camaraderie between them but thanks to the council he couldn't afford to fail them otherwise the council would be all over him one way or another. Either through missions or daily life the council would slowly intrude upon it as a silent fit of revenge.

Now his plan was to hopefully show his team what real team-work looked like, all the while showing Sasuke humility since he seemed to lack it all together.

He stretched his eye to see Sasuke. He remembered their conversation after the exam about Naruto and how Sasuke supposedly held back against him in the academy, and how the girl he liked rejected him favoring "the dobe". Kakashi wasn't fooled. Sasuke had always went all-out against Naruto when they sparred and each and every-time Kakashi knew that Ibiki's student had been holding back because he simply didn't think harming Sasuke was worth the back-lashing mouths of his fan-girls.

Or it could be something that Hokage-sama mentioned a while back. Something about Haku's fetishes...

Kakashi frankly didn't know. He could always ask Ibiki later when he went to check in on the T&I department.

"Sasuke, you will have to go all out if you want to beat him." Kakashi said seriously.

Sasuke let out a guttural growl clenching his fists. "Not against the dobe I don't!"

Plastering a serious tone Kakashi rebutted, "Sasuke, if you don't take this seriously Naruto will beat you. He's been able to in the past and, from what Ibiki mentioned to me the day before, he's capable of doing it again."

Sasuke just shook his head and glared at his sensei.

Chuckling Ibiki interjected, "If you two are done, I'd like to get this show on the road."

The silver-haired jounin nodded and gestured for his team to get ready.

Only feet away from Ibiki did Naruto and his family stretch, preparing themselves. Putting needles in the seams of their clothes and sealing scrolls they hid them in different compartments of their clothing. Taking extra care to tighten some strips of clothing with bandages just in case. And finally each of them adjusted their white masks with Naruto silently putting chakra into the seals located promptly on either cheek of his mask.

When they were finished and looked ready Ibiki called over to Kakashi's team. They looked deadly in Ituski's head.

Eyeing each-other Naruto took note of Itsuki's naginata being firmly gripped with a stone resolution etched onto his tan skin. His brown hair laid slicked back in a deadly form aiding his hardened hazel eyes. Oddly, he looked ready to kill whenever his will was pushed. The clothes he wore spoke volumes to Naruto... The kid wore nothing but black. Everything had black on it, even the bandages were colored black for crying out loud!

Next Naruto's eyes fell on Sakura. Her frail form was shivering in odd contemplation as her eyes flickered to her teammates and back to them. In fact, if Naruto looked hard enough he'd bet he could see Sakura's cheeks blush slightly as her jade eyes seemed to molest Sasuke.

Laslty, he glared at Sasuke through slitted eyes and mentally growled. Ever since that day he'd hated the Uchiha. Irrational maybe but his heart told otherwise. He didn't know why but every time he saw Sasuke all he saw was a target going after the person he considered most precious. He'd throw a kunai if it meant that it would make him stop.

"Hajime."

Ibiki's team disappeared suddenly and reappeared behind them. Haku threw a silent kick at Itsuki's mid-back throwing him forward and into a tree where he fell back unconscious. Tenten grabbed Sakura from behind before putting her into a choke-hold, effectively putting her to sleep. And lastly Naruto went to disable Sasuke through his senbons, but was surprised when Sasuke actually managed to turn and roll out of the way in time.

Not wasting any time Naruto was on him in a matter of seconds and barraging him with multitudes of kicks and punches to meet either air or tender skin.

Minutes passed and Haku was becoming anxious. She looked over to their sensei and decided to ask whether they could join or not. But before she could she heard a loud yell and turned to see.

Pinned under a knee and a senbon in each limb was Sasuke. He'd gotten cocky after a few blows that managed to miss him and let his guard down to hopefully perform one of his jutsu before Naruto had used that time to throw four senbon that had emerged from the seam of his wrist. Whereas the blonde just put his knee on top of him in mocking victory.

Haku and Tenten smiled jovially under their masks. They both knew Naruto had wanted to do that for a long time because whenever Sasuke was in a manner of ten feet he'd glare at him. Which Naruto didn't do very often. He was either a very caring person or an uncaring one, but to show true anger from him meant that someone did something really bad. And from what Naruto had told them he had a good reason to be. The Uchiha had essentially tried to get in between their family and him.

Now Naruto could release some of the anger that had festered for the Uchiha. It really was a good day.

"Well looks like my genin won Kakashi." Ibiki boasted, "Now get out."

Until.

"Alright, back to training." Ibiki said, a menacing smile encroaching on his face.

"Ya know something." Tenten said.

"What?"

"It feels good to be put on a pedestal."

All three nodded and smiled. It did.

Peacefully they got up and started to leave before Haku remembered something. She hitched her back and found their sensei walking towards them. He seemed... satisfied, of all things. "Sensei," Haku called out, "when do want us to be here tomorrow?"

Broke from his thoughts Ibiki shrugged. "We'll skip tomorrow. You all did well today." Ibiki said, "But know that if you don't try hard under my teachings, we won't have these breaks until you do start trying." Ibiki warned, hiding a smile.

If anything he knew they would work hard. He just liked messing with them.

The three nodded quickly and picked up their pace, they wanted to enjoy what was left of the day.

Naruto walked side by side with Tenten and Naruto as they made their way through the shopping district. As always, no one paid attention to them with the exception of a few shinobi who knew of the person under the masks. But why didn't they tell anyone about it? They were ordered not to.

Ever since some of Hiruzen's genin started wearing masks he'd noticed more people becoming anxious around them. From what he could only guess and assume it was just a bunch of rumors floating around. However one rumor he'd heard from some of his anbu had him bristling in his seat.

One of his shinobi was trying to let the civilian populace know about the people under the masks. The whole purpose, for Naruto, was the sanctuary that that mask provided and the friendship that wrought between him and his friends. If they found out about who was underneath. Hiruzen didn't want to think about it the hateful looks Naruto would get again.

He could only thank Haku for it since Naruto had told him shortly after-wards who came up with the idea, and what would've happened if he hadn't accepted.

That's when Hiruzen ordered that if anyone of his shinobi was to mention the identities of anyone who wore those masks than any active shinobi around him or her were ordered to execute upon notice.

It was clever really.

The trio smiled as they entered a shop. It was said to be a completely new place with a bountiful supply of weapons. Supposedly they were stronger and could be wielded much easier than other kunai or shuriken but they didn't care it was really just something for them to do together rather than a shopping spree.

The store did look new with furnished floors and well painted walls. Stacks of different weapons hung from unique stands at several points in the room with shelves and shelves packed with finely made weapons from the katana all the way down to a few fuma shuriken.

Instantly they made their way to a shelf full of smaller weapons. Each looked up and down the shelves until Haku gasped and grabbed a single senbon from one of the shelves before she closely started to examine it.

"This is chakra metal." Haku whispered.

Leaving the store Haku sighed happily with a case full of new senbon and Tenten a case of new kunai. His wallet sure took a hit today Naruto grumbled mockingly to himself...

When they reached their apartment Haku and Tenten went inside and set down their things before running back to and hugging Naruto, making him blush.

"Thank you, Naruto." Haku and Tenten calmly said.

Believe it or not I actually spent five hours on this one. It was especially difficult for the fight scene-however long-because I have never really done one before so, eh. Also if you'd like to know I actually modeled Itsuki after me. The Naginata is a favorite weapon of mine and I used to always be quiet so I thought it was fitting.

I will update tomorrow as always!

See ya!