Previously on IGPX: Team Hidden Leaf was introduced at the opening ceremony, where Takashi said that he was looking forward to going up against the newcomers. When we left off Team Hidden Leaf's first race is against Team Edgeraid was just beginning.

Episode 2

"Let's go Yori! Time to show them what Team Hidden Leaf is all about!" Naruto screamed through the radio.

"Hey, son?" Minato's strained voice came back. Up in the tower he was laying on the floor holding his ear.

"Yeah, dad?"

"Keep the screaming to a minimum. Remember the speakers are right in our ears."

If there was a camera in Naruto's mech you would be able to see him grinning sheepishly, "Sorry about that."

"Both teams are coming into the Battle Round with Team Edgeraid out in front. Now we get to see what Team Hidden Leaf is all about!" Benjamin screamed over head.

"Ready guys?" Kakashi asked.

"You got it!" Naruto replied back

"Yeah ready when you are." Shikamaru came back.

"Alright then; let's go!" Kakashi said pushing his mech forward so he was right behind the other teams forward. Kakashi knew that both Shikamaru and Naruto were doing the same thing. "Shikamaru. Naruto. What you do you say we show them what we are made of?"

Kakashi heard Shikamaru snicker on his end of the radio.

"LET'S DO IT!" Naruto yelled once again. This time it actually made Kakashi wobble.

"Uh-oh does Team Hidden Leaf have something wrong with their mechs?" Benjamin was asking to no one in particular.

"No just one overly crazed pilot." Came the voice of Konohamaru. Laughing from the control tower could be heard.

"HEY!"

"Naruto focus." Kakashi said making the blonde shut up for once.

xXx

"AND THE WINNER IS…TEAM HIDDEN LEAF!! WHAT AN AMAZING SHOW THEY PUT ON FOR US TODAY!!" Benjamin was screaming at the tops of his lungs along with the crowd while the teams disembarked from their mechs.

"WE DID IT!" Naruto was jumping up and down pumping his fist in the air, while Yori was jumping around him as well.

"Nice job guys." Kakashi said once he was next to them. He gave Shikamaru a high-five and watched his hyperactive blonde team-mate jump up and down, while chuckling.

xXx

Up in teams booth there was only one word that anyone said after the race; "Whoa." Even Liz, who was normally rambunctious, was silent. Takashi was sitting next to her with his arm behind her just staring at the screen completely dumbfounded. Amy and Luca were looking up information on Team Hidden Leaf. The other teams around them were all talking about what just happened in the race. Something didn't seem right to Takashi. Something about that Naruto kid and his fox just didn't seem right.

xXx

"Come on Yori, let's go train." Naruto said to the fox sitting on his bed, "Maybe Kakashi is there and he will have a round with us." With that the fox jumped down and made his way over to Naruto who was standing by the door. The two of them made their way down to the training room to find that Kakashi was sitting on the mats with his eyes closed. 'Must be meditating…I wonder if Yori can sneak up on him?" Naruto thought. Yori looked up at the moment and saw the huge smile on Naruto's face. Yori tilted his head to the side and Naruto nodded his head to Kakashi, nudging the fox over to him. Yori trotted over to Kakashi and sat in front of him hoping that Kakashi would play with him. After a few seconds Naruto could tell the fax was getting annoyed, because Yori tried to jump on Kakashi but Kakashi was holding him away.

"Did you really think that you could sneak up on me?" Kakashi said opening one eye and looking at the fox in his hands.

"Man you really are good Kakashi-sensei." Naruto said walking over to him and taking the fox. Naruto called Kakashi 'sensei' since he was the one training him. Naruto's father, Minato, was busy helping with the Mechs or creating plays for them for their next race. So everything Naruto knew it was from Kakashi.

"Naturally." Kakashi said, giving Naruto an eye smile since he covered up the lower half of his face with a mask all the time.

"How about a round?" Naruto asked setting the fox on the ground, where he went over to the small treadmill and started running on it. Kakashi stood up and pulled out a small kunai. Naruto taking this as a 'yes,' pulled out one of his own.

Neither moved for a second, until there was a clash and either person was now standing on the opposite of where they were, backs turned.

"You're getting faster Naruto…but do you think you can beat me?" Kakashi asked turning around and getting back into stance.

"You bet I can!" Naruto yelled over to him, getting back into his stance as well.

"Alright then…let's see it!" with that Naruto lunged at him, trying to strike with his kunai but when Kakashi blocked it Naruto tried to kick his legs out from underneath him only for Kakashi to jump up and out of the way. But this didn't slow Naruto down; he went after Kakashi trying to punch him but every time Kakashi seemed to block it. "Concentrate, Naruto." Kakashi said as he blocked another punch from the blonde. Naruto jumped back and closed his eyes for a moment to center himself, "Too slow," He heard Kakashi say but he knew what was coming, he could feel it. He ducked out of the way as Kakashi threw a punch at him. Another feeling this time Naruto knew where the kick was coming and blocked it. He opened his eyes and everything seemed to be moving in slow motion, Kakashi was getting back into his stance, he could see Yori running on the little animal treadmill, but both were moving too slowly. Naruto took advantage of this and came up behind Kakashi with the kunai to his throat.

"I win." Naruto smiled behind Kakashi.

"But…how?" Kakashi asked surprised. One moment he saw Naruto in front of him and then he disappeared only to reappear behind him with the kunai.

"I call it 'Shadow Clone'" Naruto smirked removing the kunai from Kakashi.

"Sweet dude," came a voice from the hallway.

xXx

What Takeshi saw amazed him.

He had been walking by Team Hidden Leaf's practice site when he decided to look he saw Naruto and Kakashi standing and facing each other. Each had an object that Takeshi had never seen before. It wasn't long like a sword but small like a knife but it wasn't shaped like any knife he had seen before.

Takeshi ran into the building and stopped at the door leading to where the two were going to spar. Making sure that he wasn't noticed he watched the two charge at each other, the sound of metal against metal met his ears as the two appeared opposite of where they were to begin with. Takeshi's mouth opened in surprise. He had never seen anyone move as fast as these two did. He watched as Naruto kept attacking Kakashi but all Kakashi was doing was blocking them.

"Concentrate, Naruto." Kakashi said just before Naruto jumped back and closed his eyes.

'Why is he closing his eyes? He needs to know where his opponent is at all times!' by now Takeshi was thoroughly confused. This wasn't anything he had ever seen before. He watched as Kakashi lunged at Naruto and at the last second Naruto dodged one attack after another with his eyes closed. Kakashi threw one more punch but Naruto blocked it and appeared behind Kakashi with the weird knife to his throat.

Takeshi's mouth opened even further. He wanted to know what this style was called.

"Sweet dude," He made himself known after the two had separated. Kakashi and Naruto looked his way.

"What are you doing here?" Naruto asked that smile still on his face.

"I was walking by and I looked and saw you two were about ready to spar. I hope you don't mind that I watched, it was really impressive."

"No, not at all." Kakashi said.

"If you don't mind me asking, what was that style called?"

"ah well you see, it's not so much a style as it is a tradition from where we come from." Kakashi said rubbing the back of his neck and giving Takeshi an eye smile.

"Really?"

Naruto nodded as Kakashi continued, "Where we come from is a village not a city. There are no cops to protect us from anything so our village trains youngsters, like Naruto here, in the way of, what some people would call, the ninja."

"Ninja? Really?"

Naruto smiled at him as said, "Yep! Kids have the option of enrolling into what we call the Ninja Academy at the age of 7. I have been training ever since then. Kakashi here was one of the teachers at the school and took me and my teammates under his wings and showed us what he knew from experience!"

"Then how did you guys find out about the IGPX?"

It was Kakashi's turn to answer this one, "We may be from a village but we still know about what goes on else were. We have known about the IGPX since it first started. Naruto's father, our couch, was on the first Hidden Leaf Team."

"Wow…" Takashi said in amazement, "you think you could show me a thing or two!?" he asked coming out of his shock.

"Sure," Kakashi said, giving Takashi another eye smile.

To Be Continued..

yay! so i got another chapter out!! srry if it seemed kinda rushed but i didnt know what to do for this one...i cant make them all have races in them so i had to find something ^^;

anywho! how did you like that i put in the 'shadow clone' even if it didnt make sense lol oh well had to make it appear somewhere without him actually creating clones...

so!

tell me what you think! =)

Evil Angel