Yellow!

To everyone who is reading this, chibi Wolf gives you a big hug. Especially fullmoonlonewolf, you get two hugs for the nice compliment ^-^

BTW I edited the end of the last chappie so if you haven't read it DO SO NOW! (sorry if shouting offends anyone because they are too 'princess' to handle caps lock)

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, only my OCs

And on with the story.

3 years later...

"You summoned me Hokage-sama." The Hokage looked up from his paperwork and at the young girl in front of him. She wore the standard ANBU uniform, her mask showing a snarling wolf painted in red. Her hair was in the same short style it was when she first stepped into his office.

"Please sit down; I have a new mission for you." The old man gestured towards the chair across from him. The girl reluctantly sat on the seat. She was never really fond of it. Sure, it was extremely comfy but she was too short for her feet to reach the ground. The Hokage smiled as he noticed this 'Well she is still just a kid'.

It was true, she was still a kid. No matter how mature or old she was mentally, she still had the body of a short eleven year old girl.

"Wolf, your next assignment is spy mission I guess you would call it. You will go under cover as a genin. To help establish your 'false identity' I guess, you will be an addition to the genin teams selected tomorrow." The Hokage watched the young girl in front of him.

"Mission accepted, Lord Hokage."

"Y-you didn't pick up on the true intention?" The Hokage sounded slightly astonished. He would always try to say the mission in a way that would make the task seem less death revolved and she would always state the real mission back. And extremely bluntly at that. This was the first time she hadn't stated the true meaning.

"I did 'pick up' on it, Lord Hokage, I just prefer to see it as a mission instead of you giving me a break from the ANBU and having me socialise with kids around my age."

The Hokage smiled. That was Wolf for you.

"A question, Lord Hokage. Will I have to handing my uniform and mask for the duration of this 'mission'?"

"You make keep a hold of it. Who knows when the 'Blood Wolf of Konaha' will need an appearance? But Wolf, you should get used to being called by your real name, Tsukiko."

The girl nodded. "Yes Lord Hokage. Is that all you wish to talk to me about?"

"You may leave Tsukiko." And she was gone in a cloud of smoke.

I enter my room to find Monkey lying on my bed.

"I'm guessing he let you off too." She says staring at the roof.

I nod as I hang up my ANBU cloak. "Apparently there is only so much blood a person can have."

"Well I guess you're lucky you're a wolf than." She jokes. I sigh and collapse into my chair. "So when are you let off?"

"Tomorrow."

"Really? The Hokage tends to give a larger warning than that."

"Not for missions."

"I thought you were being laid off?" She said sitting up. If it wasn't for her mask you would see 'confusion' written across her forehead.

"He knew I would refuse to take time off, so he gave me a mission that shouldn't contain much blood and last for at least a year or maybe more."

Monkey lets out a small laugh as she flopped back down on my bed. "That man sure does know you. So what's your 'mission'."

"Undercover as a genin."

"I see. Do you even remember your name? I can't remember you being called anything other than Wolf."

"It has been six years."

"Really? That makes me feel old now."

"Will you return to ANBU after this break? Last time you weren't sure." I ask tilting my head.

I look over at the girl and am reminded that she is a kid. Her head tilted in slight curiosity while her toes barely reach the floor. It is hard to see her as the ANBU agent who has killed without a second though and earned the name 'Konaha's Blood Wolf' with each mission. I smile at her child like posture from under my mask because it is a rarity.

"Probably not." I say. I watch her nod slightly, taking it in. her shoulders fall slightly like a sad child. It's quite depressing to see her like that. "You want to do some training in the gym before we are kick out of this place tomorrow?"

Instantly she is standing with the posture of an adult and grabbing her weapons pouch; her inner child locked away deep inside. No more emotion to be gathered apart from determination.

A young yellow haired ninja walked proudly towards the academy, a leaf hitai-ate in perfect condition on his forehead. He was finally a ninja, and on his way to becoming Hokage. 'I hope Sakura is on my team.' He thought as entered the main doors.

Meanwhile a certain ninja entered the building for the second time in her life. 'Where do I go? I can't ask someone. Maybe...' Tsukiko didn't let herself finish the thought as she silently tailed the yellow haired boy. She watched patiently as he entered one of the classrooms, waiting a few minutes. She was just about to enter when two girls came charging down the hallway. Flattening herself against the wall to avoid being a speed bump, she avoided the stampede. As the two shouted in the doorway about who arrive first the small girl slipped in unnoticed, finding a shadowy corner to conceal herself in.

She looked around the room full of genin. 'They're ninjas? Look like a bunch of squabbling toddlers.' Another glance around continued to dishearten her. She was shorter than everyone else in this room. Not by one or two inches. More like she barely reached the nose of the shortest kid.

As a small glaring contest started between two boys, Tsukiko had a familiar feeling of being watched. Smirking slightly on the inside she pulled out a kunai and started carving into the desk she was sitting at.

The jounin and the Hokage were gathered around a glass orb, gazing onto the seen in the classroom. Many were sweat dropping because of Naruto and Sasuke's antics.

"Um, Lord Hokage, is that kid carving in the desk?" A jounin pointed out the small girl in the back corner. Looking a little closer the Hokage and a jounin laughed a little.

"Wolf." They murmured in unison.

Carved in the desk were the words 'Hello Lord Hokage'.

But the ninjas' attention was quickly placed back on Sasuke and Naruto as Naruto was bumped into the broody boy; causing them to kiss.

Once I was sure the Hokage had got my message I looked up at the sudden silence. The two boys who had been glaring were now kissing? I winced slightly at the high pitch screams of almost every girl in the room.

"Okay, everyone shut up and settle down." I felt the Hokage's gaze leave as a man walked into the classroom. I don't bother listening, I just keep an ear out for my name.

"Sensei, why does an awesome ninja like me have to be on a team with a slug like Sasuke?" The boy I followed earlier shouted as he stood up.

"Well Naruto, we based the teams on grades. Sasuke had the highest marks while you had the lowest. We placed you two together to try and balance it out." The room is full of laughter as Naruto pouts.

"Just don't slow me down, loser." Sasuke growled, only adding fuel to the boy's anger.

The sensei than looked back down at the sheets of paper before scanning the room. "Is there a Tsukiko here?"

'Oh goody, now everyone will have their attention on me' I think sarcastically as I raise my hand, remaining stoic on the outside.

"It says here," he looks back down to read the message out "Tell Tsukiko that due to numbers the Hokage needs a word with her but for now she will be based with team six."

He looks back up at me a little curious but I nod to show I understand.

"Well now you can all go to lunch then come back here to meet your jounin."

It is pretty much a race for the door but I remain seated in my shadowy corner; fiddling with my kunai.

"Umm..." I look up at the shy girl standing in front of my desk. Two boys are flanked behind her. "I-i'm H-hinata. Th-this is Kiba, A-akarmaru a-and Shino. W-we are t-team s-six. I-i-i was w-wondering if y-you w-wanted to join u-us for l-lunch."

I look from her to the shaggy boy who smells like a dog, to the dog, to the stoic boy who's high collar covers his mouth. Well I am stuck with them now. I nod once and stand up, letting them lead the way outside.

As we walked over to the big shady tree I looked at the fourth member. She is short, hell I even think she is shorter than Naruto. Her hair is like a black messy version of Hinata's except the fringe blends into the bangs and the right half is red and covers her eye. She is wearing a brown hooded vest, black shinobi pants, brown ninja sandals and her hitai-ate around her left arm. Bandages are around her ankles and wrists and you can see black fingerless gloves sticking out of her brown shoulder bag.

"W-what do y-you have f-for l-lunch, Kiba?" Hinata asks bringing me out of my thoughts.

"Umm,…money." I say pulling a few loose coins out of my pocket. Shino holds out his hand with a few more coins and Hinata follows suit.

"Oh man, this isn't enough for even one bento." I whine. Suddenly a fourth, slightly smaller hand appeared in front of us. I look at her in surprised. In her hand is enough money for a bento each. 'It's almost like she doesn't even care about money. Are her parents that cashed up or something?'

"What?" I exclaim, eyes widening but her hand stays there.

"We can't let you pay for all of us." I look at her dumbfounded. Her hand still remains. 'She must be stubborn.'

I sigh and reluctantly agree. After a bit Shino and Hinata also agree.

"Here, I will get it." I say, she hands me the money as I start walking off to buy lunch.

"Your name is Tsukiko, right?" Shino asks between mouthfuls. I nod and bit into my rice ball.

"I'm not gonna remember that, can't we call you something simpler? How about Shorty." Kiba whines. I immediately resent the nickname, but it is a fact, I am short. Besides, the more demeaning I seem the less likely people will link me with The Blood Wolf. Reluctantly I nod, accepting the new name.

For the rest of lunch I listen to the others talk. Watch as they laugh when Akamaru stole Kiba's rice ball right out of his hands. Felt the sun's rays on my face. And on the inside, I smiled.

When we were back in the classroom and Kiba made Tsukiko sit with us. It was a little awkward trying to share a seat, she would flinch whenever my arm accidentally touched hers, but in the end she just stood leaning against desk behind us. I couldn't help but blush as I watch a certain very loud ninja enter the room.

Kiba smirked shouted, "Hey Naruto! You're looking a little pale there."

'Crap! Why did you make him look this way Kiba?' I thought as Kiba glanced at me with a smug look. My face grows bright red.

"Hey Kiba. I guess they think you suck enough to need an extra team mate." Naruto shouts back, gesturing to Tsukiko who only looks at him with a blank expression.

"I'm not the one who got the lowest score!" Kiba smirks

"And I'm not the one who smells like a mutt."

"You're right, you smell worse."

"I do not!"

"Quiet." Kiba, Naruto, Shino and I all turn to look at Tsukiko in puzzlement. She stares at the door. We all are left wondering if she even spoke. Though our little silent trance is broken as Iruka Sensei enters.

"Alright, sit down."

I look back at Tusiko. 'How did she know? She wouldn't have heard them over Kiba and Naruto. I don't think she has any sight or smell jutsu like Kiba and I. Is it possible that she can sense chakra presence? Impossible. Even chunin struggle with that. Perhaps it was a lucky guess? Or perhaps she didn't even know and I'm over thinking things.'

"Team 6, come with me." A voice interrupts my thoughts. I look up at the jounin. She is tall with brown, wavy hair and red eyes.

I follow team 6 to a clearing called training ground 16. Our jounin walks to the middle before turning to face the four of us. Her red eye gleam in the sunlight. An intimidation technique I guess. Though, that hair looks familiar.

"All right, unlike the other jounin who enjoy toying with their new teams, I'm just going to get to the point. Those genin exams you had weren't the real thing. They were a test to see who had even the slightest chance of becoming a ninja. The real test is in your teams. There is a 66% chance of failing and being sent back to the academy. Does everyone understand so far?"

Kiba and Hinata looked a little surprised and slightly annoyed on Kiba's part, but the other three nodded in understanding. I just stared at the woman in front of us.

"Good. Well I think it is a shame to get introduced and comfortable only to realise you won't be a team so we will have the test before the introductions." She says as she pulls out a scroll. "The test is to past the course in my genjutsu; which means if you release the genjutsu you fail, you don't pass you fail and if you take longer than an hour you fail. Let's begin."

Her hands were a blur of signs as she placed the genjutsu on us. We were no longer in a clearing, but a maze. And we were no longer together. I guess I will just have to find them on my way.

I step into the maze and instantly a volley of kunai is sent toward me. I dodge and block as many as I can but some manage to cut my bare arms and my cheek. I can already hear Monkey's voice in the back of my mind saying "well that didn't take long, only the first five seconds and there is the sight of blood. Let's just hope that's the only blood."

I scan the path ahead of me before plunging deeper into the maze.

"Byakugan!" I shout, activating my blood line trait. 'There.' I make out the charkra networks of two opponents hiding at the next bend in the maze. 'I make fight, that's the only way to get past' "Gentle Fist!"

"What's that Akamaru? These two people ahead?" I smirk, "Well let's get 'em boy. Man Beast Mimicry!"

"Arrgh!" I hear the screams as my bugs take out the man who lay around the corner. I walk straight past the man and deeper into the maze.

BOOM!

Everyone looks at the direction of the explosion. A lone kunai, quite damaged, fell back towards the ground.

"Byakugan!" Hinata scans through the walls of overgrown bushes and sees a small persons charkra system surrounded by five larger people's charkra system. 'It's Tysukiko! Was that explosion on purpose? How can she take on all five?' Hinata thought as she started running through the maze towards her team mate.

Meanwhile both male team mates also started working their way towards the explosion, thinking a team mate was hurt.

Punch, kick, dodge, slash, roll, stab, whirl, kick, punch, block, dodge, punch, punch, kick, stab, dodge, slash, kunai, roll, kick, flip, punch, shurikun, punch, kick, block, kick.

"Tsukiko!" My name brings me out of my thoughts as I fend off five ninja. Each time I kill one, another appears. Team 6, one by one, joins me in the circle, surrounded.

"Nice of us all to come eh?" Kiba jokes as we all form a square, facing outwards towards the circling ninja. There are now six of them. "Let's have some fun!"

Soon enough we figured that injuring them didn't make more appear. By the time we had gotten rid of the six, Hinata, Kiba, Akamaru and Shino were huffing.

I start to walk off farther into the maze when I feel three gazes on my back. I turn around to see Kiba looking at me like I have two heads.

"You're not a single bit tiered?" He asks astonished. I just shrug it off and start to walk again. We only have fifteen minutes left to complete the course.

"T-tysukiko, w-wait up. W-Wouldn't it be best i-if we all w-went together?" Hinata stutters as her breathing comes under control. Sighing irritably I turn around and just look at them, my gaze screaming 'well hurry up or I will leave you behind.'

We are nearly at the centre after facing many hurdles; even I am starting to get short on breath. Hinata is leaning on Shino as her injured ankle causes her to limp. We round the corner and come face to face with the last obstacle, a gate way into the centre of the maze.

But it isn't you average gateway. Across the top are severed heads skewered with a spear. Blood flows out of the spot where a neck should be. Hinata looks like she is about to faint while Kiba looks like he might spew. You can even see a slight green tinge on Shino's stoic face.

Sighing, I start walking forward to go through the opening.

"Are you mental?" Kiba practically shouts. "There are freshly severed head dripping down blood and you're gonna walk through like it's rain!"

I shrug. Oops, wrong choice of words, Kiba looks at me in horror.

"I think she means we have to face blood when we are ninjas and that this is only an illusion; genjutsu." Shino says. Kiba and Hinata don't look as horrified now, but they aren't making any sign of going through.

'Come on we are running out of time.' I think as I go through first. The familiar warm, thick liquid oozes down my head and neck, rolling down under my hooded shirt and down my back. It feels strangely comforting. Next Shino walks through, wearing a hood over his head to stop the liquid hitting him. After a while both Kiba and Hiata come through, wearing their hoods as well. Akamaru is safely tucked away in Kiba's jumper.

We are now in a square shaped clearing. In the centre stands our sensei, holding a clock facing her. She stares at the clock with a blank expression.

"Umm, Sensei? Did we make it in time?" Kiba asks, slightly worried that they failed.

"If Kiba and Hinata had entered straight after Shino and not delayed for five seconds then you would have completed the maze within an hour." She says, staring at the clock.

"S-so that means we f-fai-" Hinata's disappointed voice is cut off by their sensei.

"You pass!" She looks up at the almost teenagers with a closed eye smile. In return she gets two flabbergasted looks, a confused titled head and a stoic gaze.

"But sensei, we didn't complete the cause within an hour. How could we have passed?" Kiba says/ almost shouts.

"You didn't complete the maze within an hour, but you completed the course within 35 minutes."

"H-how d-does that work?" Hinata stutters.

"The course wasn't to complete the maze." She states. Team 6 give her incredulous.

"So what was the course then?" Shino asks.

"It's something every ninja must have. Teamwork." Our sensei answered. "You all displayed that when you worked as a team against the ninjas in my genjutsu. Hence you pass."

There is a moments silence before Kiba leaps up into the air and fist pumps the air, Yelling "Yeah. Alright. We did it!" Akamaru runs around Kiba, barking happily. Hinata has a bright smile and I swear Shino has a slight smile hidden under his high collar. Slowly the maze fades back into the clearing as the genjutsu is released.

"Alright, now we can have introductions." Our sensei smiled. "I'm Kurenai Yuuhi, I specialise in genjutsu. Now introduce yourselves. Starting with the loud boy."

"I'm Kiba Izumaki and this is my familiar Akamaru."

"Now Hinata."

"I-I'm Hinata H-hyuuga and I f-fight with my c-clans style, g-gentle fist."

"Next is the stoic boy."

"Shino Aburame and my bugs are my familiar."

"And finally you."

"Tsukiko."

"Ha, so you can talk." Kiba points an accusing finger at me while I fight the urge to roll my eyes and say 'no duh sherlock'.

"Ok, well you three are the main team 6." Kurenai-sensei says changing the subject. "You're a tracking team. Tsukiko isn't a tracker, she is a fighter. But she's on this team all the same. Though she will be interchangeable with the other teams, especially since there is only supposed to be three members per team. Otherwise, welcome to team 6. Also if Asuma's team passed, we are going to celebrate at the BBQ restaurant tomorrow. So be at training ground 11 tomorrow to find out the results. Well that's all I have to say so I will see you then. Bye."

There was a cloud of smoke as Kurenai-sensei left.

"Well I guess we will see you guys later. Cya." Kiba said as he and Akamaru ran off.

"I m-must go home too. G-goodbye." Hinata took off in the opposite direction.

"See you tomorrow." Shino said indifferently before walking away.

"Goodbye." I whisper barely audibly even though they are out of sight. I turn and take off towards the Hokage tower. Lord Hokage did wish to speak with me.

"Lord Hokage."

I had to suppress my surprise as I was startled from my paper work.

"Ah, Tsukiko. I take it Iruka got my message to you."

"Yes, and Kurenai explained my place on the genin teams. So what is it that you wish to tell me?" I can't help but grin. Always deducting the possibilities and if that doesn't solve it, asking bluntly. I don't think she will ever change.

"I was wondering if you had any questions. After all, this isn't the kind of mission you're used to."

"It wasn't completely different." I raise a curious eyebrow. "Kurenai's genjutsu had a severed head display."

I chuckle slightly at her bluntness. "So, Tsukiko, did you have any questions?"

"Does Kurenai know I am Wolf?"

"Yes, she was one of the agents under the code name Sparrow five years ago and recognises that kanji on your neck."

"That explains the familiar hair. What am I to do if someone is onto the fact I am Wolf?"

"I guess you can tell them if you wish. Though I would like to know as soon as possible afterwards who knows the true identity of one of my top ninjas."

"Yes Lord Hokage. I have one last question."

"What is it Tsukiko?"

"What are D rank missions like?"

Well that the end of this chapter. Sorry it's kinda cut short but it has been quite a while since the last update.

Also, I know I said that I'm not gonna bother asking for reviews but that DOESN'T mean 'DON'T REVIEW OR I WILL GET WOLF TO KILL YOU IN YOUR SLEEP.' It's ok, the button doesn't bite.

I will try and get the next chapter done and up quicker than this one. Once again, sorry for the wait.