Skylar's POV…

I woke up at 7:55, five minutes before class. I groggily got up and splashed cold water on my face. I whipped up my hair into a messy pony-tail and brushed my teeth. I walked out into my kitchen and grabbed an apple from the fridge for breakfast.

I swiftly walked to school, making it right before the bell rang. I quickly analyzed what was going on in the classroom.

Naruto was there, excited about nothing. Haruno was fighting with the blond-haired bitch that attempted to trip me. Uchiha was being emo as ever just sitting there, oblivious of his surroundings. Bug-guy was silent but listening to Dog-boy talk. Hinata Hyuuga was twiddling her fingers nervously but shyly staring at Naruto. The fat kid was eating chips while the lazy boy next to him was daydreaming off. Why is this class so pathetic?

I silently took a seat in the far corner of the room, isolated from everyone else. I blocked out all noise and started thinking to myself. Was it really a good idea to come to this Village?

Sasuke's POV…

I was just sitting there in the classroom, waiting for Iruka to come and trying to block out Sakura and Ino's bickering. Just before the bell rang, I noticed the new girl, Skylar, come in quickly. Her brown eyes darted around the room, as she quickly scanned her surroundings. I looked away before she caught me looking at her. She silently walked into the left back corner of the room and sat down by herself. She shouldn't be in this ninja academy. The way she walks is too silent for her to be a genin and yesterday proved she had far better aim than all of the class. I glanced back at her again. Her eyes were shut and she seemed to be concentrating hard. She was also one of the few girls that didn't fall head over heels for me. Out of all the people in the class, I think she might be strong enough to work with me.

Skylar's POV…

I snapped my eyes open and noticed Uchiha was intently staring at me. I frowned and narrowed my eyes. He seemed to snap out of it and he jerk back around so he was facing the front of the class.

Iruka finally came in and started class. "Alright class, I have the teams. All of you will be put into groups of three…"

I quickly counted the amount of people in the class. There were 19, kids in the class, including me. That meant that one student will be by themselves. I internally hoped that student would be me.

Iruka called out the teams. "Kiba, Hinata, and Shino are a team. Shikamaru, Choji, and Ino make up a team…" he continued. "Naruto, Sakura…"

"YES!" Naruto said standing up.

"No!" Haruno groaned.

"And Sasuke," Iruka finished.

"NO!" Naruto groaned sitting down.

"YEAH!" Haruno screams. I shook my head at how bad their teamwork would be. Iruka finished calling out the teams but he never called my name.

Yes! I thought as each team filed out of the room for lunch. I stopped by a dumpling-bar and ordered 5 fried dumplings. I took the package of dumplings and headed back to the school. I stealthily and skillfully climbed up a cherry blossom tree and sat in one of the high branches. I opened the package and slowly ate the hot, delicious dumplings.

I walked back to class and sat in the same seat from this morning. Iruka was there and he asked me to talk to him.

"What?" I asked.

"I think you've noticed that you aren't on a team," Iruka started.

"I'm fine with that. I'd rather work along," I cut in quickly.

"Actually, I just talked to Team 7's teacher, Kakashi. He said that he wanted you on his team."

I frowned and then cocked an eyebrow. "Kakashi? Why does he want me on his team?"

"I'm not sure but you are temporarily on Team 7."

"What do you mean temporarily?"

"Well a lot of Jonins wanted you on their team. So you will be switched back and forth from team to team. It is inconvenient, I know, but that was the only solution the Hokage could come up with to make everyone happy. You can choose the team you permanently want to stay with at the end."

I inwardly sighed. And I was so close to being on a team by myself. "Well you will meet your sensei in this room. Good luck," he smiled and left as other kids filed into the classroom. Pff luck- you make your own luck and that is called skill, I thought.

I went back to my seat and started wondering off. Most of it was about what Kakashi might do. I snapped back to reality and saw that most of the students already left with their new senei. Naruto was aimlessly walking around and Sakura was trying to talk to Uchiha. Naruto started putting an eraser in between an almost closed door so when someone would open it, it would fall on them.

"Naruto, what are you doing?" Sakura asked in annoyance.

"That's what he gets for being late. Surprise!" Naruto said giggling.

"You're asking for trouble. You know you shouldn't do that," Haruno said like a big know-it-all.

"Hn," Sasuke said looking away. "Our teacher is a Jonin, an elite ninja. You think he'd fall for that?"

"Yeah, Sasuke's right. You are so clueless Naruto."

Right on cue, Kakashi walked in and the eraser hit his head.

"HA!" Naruto exclaimed. "I got him. He totally fell for it. HAHAHA!"

"I'm sorry sensei," Sakura said wide-eyed. "I told him not to do it but he wouldn't listen to me. I would never do something like that.

Sasuke was silent but he looked at Kakashi with a 'really?' look on his face.

I scoffed at Kakashi and Sakura. The big forehead 'genius' was wrong and Kakashi, a jonin, fell for a academy student's trick.

Kakashi looked at them for a few seconds before he said, "Hm, how can I put this? My first impression of this group… you're a bunch of idiots." He looked around for a few moments before he asked, "Where is the fourth member? I thought I had a group of 4."

"Skylar is right there," Naruto said pointing to where I was a few minutes ago, but my seat was empty. "Well she was there. Where'd she go?"

"I'm right here," I said calmly as I appeared behind Kakashi. I saw everyone, even Kakashi, go into shock as they saw me.

How could she sneak behind me without me noticing? She even suppressed her chakara so well, I didn't even know she was there, Kakashi thought in wonder.

THAT WAS SOOO COOL! Naruto thought, grinning at me.

How the hell did she get from the corner of this room to there without anyone noticing her? Even the jonin didn't see her, thought Sasuke as he just stayed silent.

That was nothing, Sakura thought as she brushed it off. She can't impress Sasuke like I do.

I narrowed my eyes and my hand inched towards my weapon pouch. "Still think we're a bunch of idiots?"

"Except you, I don't think you're an idiot," he added hastily as he saw me reaching for a kunai. I looked at him but stopped reaching for my kunai. Everyone sweatdropped.

Kakashi lead us out to the top of the roof where he asked us to introduce ourselves- our names, likes, dislikes, hobbies, dreams, etc.

"Why don't you tell us stuff first, I mean before we talk, tell us about you so we can see how it's supposed to work?" Naruo asked.

"Me? Well, I'm Kakashi Hakate. Things I like and things I hate… I don't feel like telling you that. My dreams for the future… never really thought about it. As for my hobbies, I have a lot of hobbies."

"That was totally useless," Sakura frowned. "All he told us was his name." Naruto nodded his head in agreement.

"Ok, your turn," Kakashi said, pointing to Naruto.

"Ok believe it! I'm Naruto Uzumaki. I like instant ramen in a cup and I really like the ramen Iruka-sensei got at the Ichiraku noodle shop. But I hate the 3 mimutes you have to wait after you have to pour the water into the ramen cup. My hobbies are trying different kinds of ramen and comparing them. And my future dream is… TO BE THE GREATEST HOKAGE! Then the whole village will stop disrespecting me and start treating me like I'm somebody- somebody important.

Kakashi maintained his bored look as he listened to Naruto. "Alright, next."

"I'm Sakura Haruno. What I like, what I mean is the person I like is…" she giggles glancing at Sasuke. "My dream for the future is," she squeals at her thoughts.

"And what do you hate?" Kakashi asked.

"NARUTO!" she exclaimed and Naruto began to anime cry.

I thought in disgust how Sakura paid more attention to Sasuke than her ninja training. How did she pass the test?

Kakashi stayed bored as he looked to Sasuke. "Ok, you."

"My name is Sasuke Uchiha. I hate a lot of things and I don't particularly like anything. What I have is not a dream, because I will make it a reality. I'm going to restore my clan and destroy a certain someone," Sasuke said in a dark tone.

"….." everyone stayed silent. Naruto scooted away from Sasuke and Sakura turned pink as she looked at Sasuke with admiration. Kakashi narrowed his eyes at Sasuke's statement.

"Alright, you," Kakashi said looking at me, breaking the silence.

"Skylar Hisuga. Don't like anything much. Hate pervs, fan boys and girls, stalkers, backstabbers, girly girls, brats, heat, dresses, being judged, being wrongly accused, and a whole lot more. Hobbies are mostly training. Dreams are personal."

Naruto smiled at me while Sakura just turned away from me. Sasuke and Kakashi showed mild interest in what I said.

"Good, you're each unique and have your own ideas. We'll have our fist mission tomorrow."

"What kinda mission do we have?" Naruto asked.

"It's a task that the 5 of us will do together."

"Like what?" Naruto pressed on excitedly.

"A survival exercise," Kakashi said.

A test to see if we're good enough… I thought and Naruto looked confused and Sakura started asking questions.

"But I thought we were going to have a real mission, not more practice. We already did this stuff at the academy. That's how we got here."

"This is not like your previous training," Kakashi explained.

"So what kinda training is it then?" Naruto asked, still looking confused.

Kakashi started chuckling to himself. "If I tell you the answer, you're not going to like it. But out of the 19 graduates, only 9 will be accepted as genin. The other 10 will be weeded out and be sent back to the academy. In other words, this is a make-it or break-it, pass, fail test. And the chance you'll fail is at least 66%."

Naruto had 'WTF' written all over his face, while Sakura had a droopy face and Sasuke maintained his blank expression.

"See, didn't I tell you, you wouldn't like it?" Kakashi smirked under his mask.

"What! That's crazy. We worked hard to get here. Believe it. What was the graduation test for anyways?" Naruto yelled.

"Oh that was just a test to select candidates that might make it to genin… or not."

"What!"

"That's right. I decide whether you pass or fail. Be at the training ground at 5 am. Bring your ninja training gear. That's it. You're dismissed."

Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura all had a determined look on their face. They wanted to pass the test.

"Oh, tomorrow you better skip breakfast or else, you'll throw up."

Kakashi disappeared in a puff of smoke, leaving all of them shocked. I looked at them and then got up to leave.

"Skylar, aren't you scared? We might not make it to genin and I worked so hard to graduate the academy," Naruto cried. Sakura and Sasuke turned to look at my expression.

"No," I said calmly.

"What!" Naruto and Sakura screamed.

"Shut up. We just have to be the 34% that pass the test. Easy."

"THAT'S ONLY 34%!" they cried.

"Well then some of you will need help," I said as I back-flipped off the building and silently landed on the ground. I walked back to my apartment where I laid out my weapons that I was going to pack for tomorrow's test and some chakara supplement. I made some pizza for dinner and then went to bed.