Authors Note: HOLY SHIZ! It's been too long... I've had this in the making for a while now, but last year I had exams and then I have a crap ton of stuff coming up along with work... Plus my laziness, you can never forget that. Anywho, I hope you enjoy this very late chapter. It's quite short but there will be more action in the next chapter. Woohoo!

Chapter Ten:

The bell, the beautiful bell that they had all been waiting for ringed in the morning air so calmly. Nothing seemed disturbed by it, no birds fleeing at the sound and no insects stopped their crawling to wonder what the odd noise was doing near their home. The soft breeze blew through the trees, caressing all leaves that fell from the branches of heathy trees. A calm day, yes, but to three Genin's, it was not.

It was a turning point for all of them, though the path it led them on would surely split some day, they needn't worry of that at that time. They were still kids, inexperienced kids. When speaking to an adult, experience comes a long way. This reason was pushing them further, the craving to have such knowledge, to be a real ninja. A ninja with hard missions, stressful training and painful injuries. A ninja with relaxing days, calm research, the feeling of joy one felt when they had done something correctly. It would be tough for them, but each one knew they would perservere to the end.

A girl, with long and soft raven locks stood in a open area. He eyes, a soft lavender, bulged with veins, a prize in its own. Her body lowered into a stance after hearing the bell, ready for everything. She didn't have to wait long, for in the next twenty seconds, two blurs jumped from the trees toward her.

Her response was quick and easy, grabbing two kunai and flinging them at the moving objects as quick as she could. They evaded them and jumped down infront of her. There stood Sasuke and Naruto, each having a cruel smile on their faces.

"Hey Kagome. We need to be ninja's so we thought that we would use teamwork and defeat you." Naruto grinned. "Plus, a girl on the team would drag us down. You would be the weakest link."

"Hn." Sasuke nodded.

Hm, Neji had said that teamwork was key... I guess that means they already understood and decided to use it against me. Kagome thought, eyeing the two boys.

"So, Naruto... You really think Hinata-nee is weird?" she growled at him, narrowing her eyes at the orange ninja.

"Of course she is. First of all, she's from the Hyuga family which automatically means she must have some sort of problem. Second of all, she's trying to be a ninja? Why would she do that when she's a girl? Girls are ment to stay home to cook, clean and make babies. Plus, her stuttering is weird." Naruto crossed his arms.

That made Kagome growl. She was big on womans rights, never liking when a man were to tell her where she should be or what she should be doing. They would deffinitley earn a punch to the gut. The thought that a man trying to 'own' her made her feel sick.

"And you, Sasuke, are you really going to do this?" her hand moved to her kunai pouch slowly. The exact pouch that she had recieved as a present from him, filled with weapons they had picked out together. In a deep part of her mind, she was saddened to have to face him with the items from past memories.

"Hn." He looked at her, obsidian orbs challenging her.

As usual, she took such a noise as a 'Yes'.

"Fine." she huffed and flung herself forward, making the first move. In a tangle of limbs, Kagome avoided any kicks or punches that came her way, it was mostly coming from Sasuke but Naruto threw in a few good hits. Kagome herself finally landed a jab of gentle fist to Naruto's chest, making his body... Poof away? She had no time to ponder on this because something behind her was calling her attention, as she saw Sasuke come up behind her to deliver a punch through the Byakugan. She twisted her body and slammed him in the chest with her foot. For a momment she swore the kick had been delivered to a hollow mass, but as soon as the feeling was there, Sasuke had already flown back from the blow. Kagome watched as her best friend rolled on the ground when he too... Poofed.

Clones? She narrowed her eyes, looking for the originals, not finding any in her Byakugan. It had been too easy to defeat them. She continued to look but didn't see anything until she stepped on a twig, snapping it. All the sudden a rain of weapons fell frim the trees, all trying to destroy her. Luckily, she had dodged them, using a substitution jutsu.

"Cursed woods." she muttered and was off again, jumping through trees in the forest trying to find her 'teammates'.

It made no sence to her though, why Sasuke and Naruto would team up. First, she knew Sasuke was independent and liked to do things on his own. Second, Sasuke had made it clear he disliked the blond boy. Naruto himself didn't seem to like Sasuke. Kagome could understand that the two of them would do anything to become ninja, but to gang up on her? She thought she knew them better than that.

She herself wished to become a bonified ninja, but to gang up with another would just be unfair. The small Hyuga knew she was too nice for her own good, but that was somthing she was proud of. It was a characteristic she shared with her Mother and Sister, it made her feel closer to the two.

Yes, Kagome's goal was to pass the test. She would risk everything to do so... But still, something weird was going on.

Naruto, the one and only hyperactive, blond ninja had rushed off as soon as the bell rang. His head was swarming with thoughts on how to get back at Sasuke, his arch rival. Kagome on the otherhand, was different. He knew he would feel horrible if he so much as tried to hurt her, but then again, if she was so weak to fall under Sasuke like everyone else was, then was she really worth it? For a while she seemed kind, maybe it was all a trick that she had been planning for some time.

Naruto, as dense as people thought he was, had heard things from around the village all the time. How Kagome Hyuga was a threat to the Main Branch, whatever that meant, but the blond wondered how the girl could be dangerous. He knew their were many people in the Hyuga Clan, so if she dangered them all, that meant she was strong right? Plus, he knew she was smart. Not only because of class but because of all the whispers of kids and adults when they saw her. They call her a 'genius, like her cousin'.

Naruto just shook off the sour thoughts and jumped onto a large fallen tree. Just as he was about to jump again, there was a swift snapping sound and he was being pulled from the ground, his head just skimming the bark as he was pulled up. It seemed he had fallen right into a trap.

The boy struggled, lifting the half that wasn't stuk in rope, to try and cut it off. But before his kunai could touch the rope, a shuriken swiped past his hand and grazed the flesh, drawing blood. The Uzumaki's blue eyes searched around for who his capture was, only to come to see the image of an upsidedown Sasuke with Kagome standing a few steps behind him.

"Hey, Teme! Let me down or I'll have to come over there and kick your ass so hard that-" The blonde shouted his curses, though the yelling didn't faze the two at all.

"You're useless anyways, a pathetic little whinner that will never become Hokage." Sasuke smirked. "I could finish you off right here, right now."

Naruto growled, feeling an intense sence of anguish building up in him. He just wished that he could swipe at that bastards mouth and make him take it back.

"Naruto, we do not need your asisitence in the world of Ninja training. If we finished you here, the Hyuga and Uchiha would be left to grow further." Kagome seemed cold, the words formulating from her mouth seemed out of place and wrong.

Having enough of the cold and unplaced words (along with the feeling of all blood rushing to his head), he raised his hands and placed them into the now normal and familiar sign. One that would call forward his Shadow Clones. As the fake Naruto's popped out of the white smoke, they rushed forward in a very unorganized and Naruto-ish mannor.

"Hey, let me at 'im!" One would yell, pushing another out of the way. Another would just hop over the clone and continue to launch himself at Kagome and Sasuke.

The two smirked as they saw the blonds attempts at fighting them off and went right to work on destroying the clones. Slashing through them, kicking them or tearing them apart. When they were all through, they looked back to Naruto, still tied up by the rope.

"Weak." was all that Sasuke spat.

"Oh yeah!" a loud voice came from behind them. The duo looked back to see another brightly colored Naruto being flung their war from a tree.

Kagome glared. "Another clone... Wait, no.."

The girl looked back to see the blue-eyed boy hanging from the tree give her a funny face, before it poofed away. That was the clone.

Naruto luckily got a good slash on Kagome before turning to Sasuke and punching him back into a small river nearby. His brows furrowed when he noticed the two poof away.

"What the... They must have run!" the boy raged.

As soon as he came to this conclusion was built, he was running off again... Only to step on a paper bomb and be thrown across the forest.

"Naruto, blasting off again!" he cried.

Never once did he take into consideration that neither Kagome or Sasuke knew Shadow Clone Jutsu.

Sasuke himself stood there and waited after the bell rung. He knew that running would get him nowhere, so he would stay and wait until something caught his eye. From darker spots of the forest around him, he could see two shadows moving. Assuming Kakashi was right, Sasuke believed his new company were his team mates.

Soon enough, he was bombarded by kunai, shuriken and paper bombs. All of which he quickly avoided and sent a few back in their original direction for retaliation. He could hear the clanks of them being knocked away or the hollow sound of them hitting the wood from tree's.

He narrowed his eyes when he heard the rustling become faint. They were running? Of course they would. He was an Uchiha afterall, they had all privledge to be scared.

A smirk played out onto his pale lips as he took after them, coming closer and closer until he spotted a mass of blond hair and sharp image of ghostly white eyes. The blue eyed boy he hated so much, and the raven haired girl who had become too close to him.

Kagome automatically jumped away but Naruto wasn't as quick so he took a few kunai to the back. Sasuke had been expecting him to either have Kagome save him or use clones, and he was correct on the second assumption. His body went away in a puff of smoke and when he looked up, he noticed two more coming down onto him. He easily dodged and shot them away with one of his families Fireball jutsu's. He smirked again as he heard the poofs of smoke. Naruto was actually putting up a fight.. But where was-

"Sasuke..." came the broken voice of the only person he knew like the back of his hand.

He turned his head around to see three Naruto's holding a scared Kagome. Two of the orange clones held back her arms while the other held a kunai to her neck. Sasuke could read the fear within her eyes and his own eyes almost widened. He watched as a tears leaked down Kagome's white orbs. Would Naruto really do that to her? The idiot that always tried to beat him in school, the one that never cried when he was picked on, the only other one who was alone like him? He was trying to take away one of his precious people. He was just like... Itachi.

When Sasuke blinked, all he could see were ravens flying everywhere. They flocked around Naruto and all the sudden, it wasn't blond hair, but long black strands. It wasn't orange and blue clothing, it was a black and silver ANBU uniform. Not the blue eyes he hated, but the charcoal that he loathed. There he was, his own brother, holding Kagome with a kunai to her throat.

"Foolish boy." Was all he said, and Kagome was laying on the ground, throat bleeding scarlet blood.

"N-No.. Not again.." Sasuke took steps backwards until his back touched the rough bark of a tree. Itachi was gaining on him and all he could do was stand there, petrified.

The man of all his nightmares walked to him and raised a hand to cut through him with his blade.

"Sasuke.. Sasuke.. Sasuke!" The words echoed through his mind as he looked at Itachi.

The older male Uchiha gained a look of confusion until there was a smirk on his face as well. He burst into pieces of white snow that flew into his face, blinding him. When he could finally see, he was looking up into the alive face of Kagome Hyuga. His eyes were still blurry, but he swore he had seen a faint white glow from the mark on her forehead.

"Ka-Go-Me?" He asked hoarsely as he sat up.

The girl nodded and slapped him on the back. "Yes... Why were you laying there, you baka! I know what you said before... And I understand that you would do anything to be a ninja, but where is Naruto? Kakashi said you would be with him..."

Sasuke jerked from the harsh hit and turned his head to look at the girl. His eyes narrowed into slits as he spat out, "Why are you asking me? I thought you teamed up with him."

"What! No! You two were going to team up against me... At least, that's what Kakashi-sensei said..." the girl gave him a confused look.

"He told me that you and Naruto..." Sasuke murrmered.

"Wait... Then... " Kagome let out a gasp. "That's what Neji-ni-san meant! Teamwork... As in all of us. We were supposed to already know that he was lying from the moment he spoke."

Sasuke's eyes widened a slight bit as he took in Kagome's words. That was it! Kakashi had told them lies to set them against eachother. He had known that Each of them had a quirk about them that would peeve them off when spoken about, so he played it to his advantaged and had fooled them all... but that meant...

"Resting on a mission, eh! No wonder Kakashi-sensei likes me the most!" a loud voice yelled.

Several Naruto's jumped down from the trees in attempt to ambush them. Kagome and Sasuke both jumped out of the way as fast and as best they could at the time. Sasuke got away free but Kagome got swiped with a kunai to her left arm. Naruto growled and stood between the two, his clones dispersed.

Kagome put her hand over the cut and frowned, that had damn well hurt!

"Naruto stop, we aren't suppose to be fighting!" She called but was sent a fox like stare from the blond.

"Don't lie to me Kagome, I know you and Sasuke-teme are going to team up and try to take me down. That way you two will be the most powerful team because you're from big clans!" he yelled.

Kagome bit her lip lightly. So that was what Kakashi told him? It was a believable lie, but Kagome would never kick someone out because they weren't from an honorable clan. She would be quite the hypocrite considering she hadn't been allowed in her own clan until she was five.

"I assume that is what Kakashi-sensei told you?" Sasuke asked coldly.

Naruto blinked. "Huh? How did you know!"

Kagome sighed lightly. She knew what this meant, they would have to go after Kakashi. She wasn't sure how easy it would be, but it would take time and presision.

After ten long minutes of explaining to Naruto countless times what Kakashi had planned and finally getting it through to him when Kagome drew a diagramin the dirt with a stick, they were back in a team. A hesitant and trust-issued team, but they were back together none the less.

"Mission: Capture Kakashi-Sensei and kick his ass, Begin!" Naruto called with a big fox-like smirk on his face.