A/N: Haha I really love writing fanfics, but its really exhausting! Gotta get back to studies now, or I'll really fail my exams!
Disclaimer: Although I stay up till 2am to write these fanfics, I don't own Naruto :(
Initially, Sasuke Uchiha was eating his onigiri peacefully in an empty room, enjoying the peace and quiet away from his rabid fan girls when a raven haired girl dressed in a hoodie jumped into the room, almost resulting in him dropping his onigiri in shock. Fortunately, his famous Uchiha ego did not allow such an embarrassing act to be seen, so he maintained his composure.
"If you are a fan girl, get out." He said coldly, tightening his grip on his precious onigiri.
Chiaki smirked mentally. The onigiri's slight wobble did not escape her eyes. "Idiot, trying to act so cool and calm even when he almost dropped his onigiri…"
"Well, the only thing good about you is your grades." Chiaki replied in the same cold voice. "Since I already presented myself as a cold, anti-social and arrogant slacker with low grades, I have to keep up that façade."
She knew the importance of keeping a low profile and not attracting any attention in this village she was unfamiliar with, especially when the security in the village was pretty good. She had already noticed several ANBUs trailing her throughout her 3 month stay in the village.
"Hn. At least better than you, number 19th." The Uchiha mumbled and finished the onigiri. It was almost time for him to report to the classroom for his jounin sensei. "Since I'm going to be dragged down by that dobe Naruto and this stupid girl with equally low grades, I seriously hope I have a decent jounin sensei who would train me to be strong enough to kill him…" he thought as he exited the classroom wordlessly.
Once the Uchiha left the room, Chiaki rolled her eyes.
"Idiotic arrogant Uchiha with a stick up his ass." She said out loud.
She then looked out of the window. A bird with a worm in its beak flew past her and settled itself on a nearby tree. Among the green foliage, several small birds poked their tiny heads out and chirped happily. The bird dropped the worm in their nest and flew away, presumably finding more worms for its young ones.
Chiaki sighed. "Why am I forced to play a part in destroying this perfectly peaceful village that didn't do anything to harm Suna? The elders in Suna are stupid, greedy, power-hungry idiots for forcing a girl like me to travel miles away from her family just to gather some stupid information…"
She suddenly felt really hollow. "My parents…are they alright? Will I survive when this village is attacked?" Her heart was filled with many doubts and uncertainties, which she quickly cleared with a shake of her head. "Get a grip, Chiaki Yamane. Think logically, there is only one road out of this situation. Gather the information, give it to Baki, hide under some shelter during the battle and flee back to Suna before the battle ends. There is no time for you to stumble here."
"Yeah, I get it." She murmured out loud and exited the room, heading towards the classroom to wait for her Jounin sensei.
-Countless hours later-
Chiaki had her head buried in her hoodie, trying desperately to catch some sleep while waiting for their oh-so-punctual sensei. However, the room was simply too noisy and chaotic.
To be more precise, there was a hyperactive blonde nutcase prancing about in the room and yelling every 5 seconds about how late their sensei was.
She heaved a sigh for the umpteenth time when the noise finally stopped. Looking up to see what could have possibly caused the unnatural silence, she saw the Jinchuuriki placing a duster at the door of the classroom.
"Hahaha, this is what he gets for being late!" He exclaimed triumphantly.
Sasuke Uchiha rolled his eyes, most probably thinking the same thing as her. "How the hell would a jounin sensei fall for such tricks?"
5 seconds later, the room door slid open and the duster fell on a nest of disheveled white hair, dying it a colorful myriad of pink and yellow.
"Aha! He fell for it! He fell for it!" Naruto did some kind of weird monkey dance in the room while Sasuke started to doubt the capabilities of his sensei.
On the other hand, Chiaki sat up instantly, her body muscles tensed. Alarm bells were going off in her head. Her sensei was actually the infamous copy ninja, Kakashi Hatake! "Darn, of all people I must get an S-Rank ninja whose name is in the bingo book! There would be a greater risk of my identity being discovered!"
"My first impression of your are…you are all a bunch of idiots." Kakashi Hatake said pleasantly, delivering a harsh blow to all the gennins' ego.
-At the roof -
"My name is Kakashi Hatake; I have no intention to tell you about my likes and dislikes, dreams for the future…hmm…I have a lot of hobbies…"
Chiaki blinked. The impression she had of Kakashi Hatake was that he was an insanely strong genius ninja who had killed thousands of other shinobi, but what she was seeing now was a slackish-looking man with pink and yellow chalk dust on his white hair, making him look like a clown.
After her sensei's detailed introduction, the blonde nut case, Naruto began his lecture about Ramen, followed by the Uchiha prince's talk about killing someone, most probably the person behind the clan massacre.
Finally, it was her turn. "I am Chiaki Yamane, I don't like or dislike anything, my hobby is sleeping and my ambition is none of your business." She stated coldly.
Kakashi Hatake cocked his eyebrow as he did a mental assessment of the girl. "Hmm…she seems to have a cold personality, she conceals her chakra well for a Gennin…I sense something off about her. I'll have to keep an eye out for her."
"Ok, meet me tomorrow at the training field for survival training. Bring all your weapons and don't eat breakfast, or else I can't guarantee it will stay in your stomach." Kakashi said before he poofed away.
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And here it is!
-One day later, at the training grounds-
"Come and fight me!" A yell echoed throughout the entire training ground and everyone sweat dropped.
"What a moron." Chiaki and Sasuke both thought and watched in amusement and slight pity as Naruto got an extremely forceful ass poke from their porn-reading sensei.
"There is something wrong with this test. The motive isn't for us to take the bells, but for us to work together…" Chiaki realised as she observed the fight between Naruto's shadow clones and Kakashi-sensei. "If he really wanted us to take the bells, there wouldn't only be two."
"Should I tell both of them what the real objective is? No, I can't or I would be attracting attention to myself. And knowing Kakashi sensei, he would immediately pick up that something is suspicious with me. Anyways, it would be better for me if I failed this test. I would be able to remain as a Gennin and I would have more time to gather information."
Suddenly, Kakashi-sensei appeared in front of her with a poof of smoke.
"So, only you are the only one left, Chiaki Yamane." He smiled at her.
"Tch!" Chiaki frowned, annoyed that she had been caught off guard.
"I have to act like I really want to take the bells away from him without attracting too much attention." She thought as she took out a few senbons and flung them towards her sensei. Needless to say, he dodged the expertly. However, just when the senbons were centimeters behind him, they exploded.
"Hah, take that! My favourite senbons with exploding powder!" Chiaki thought as she stood silently in the smoke, trying to detect her sensei's chakra.
"There!" She thought as she swung her leg towards the chakra source, only to be stopped by a hand.
"Not bad for a kunoichi." Kakashi sensei said in the midst of the smoke while gripping onto her leg.
She clicked her tongue in annoyance and swung her other leg backwards, almost making contact with her sensei's jaw, had he not jumped back in time.
"Is that all you can do?" Kakashi taunted.
Unknown to Kakashi sensei, she had actually been making some hand signs when she did the backwards kick. Now, she turned to face him her hands in the "rat" seal.
"What jutsu is she using?" Kakashi thought when he felt his head spinning. Then, he realised what was going on. "A genjustsu, eh? Not bad, I'd say her standard is slightly below Sasuke's." He thought and broke through her genjutsu easily.
At that moment, the bell rang.
Chiaki stood in front of him, panting heavily from chakra exhaustion.
"Not bad for a Gennin." Kakashi mused aloud. "But not good enough. Follow me to the clearing."
-At the clearing—
"You guys fail! Are you underestimating ninjas? Why do you think you were divided into teams?"
"Huh?" Naruto blinked.
"Teamwork! Naruto, you were just running about by yourself. Sasuke, you assumed that everyone would just get in your way and tried to do everything by yourself. If you had help from Chiaki, you might have been able to pull your stunt off. And Chiaki, I am most disappointed in you, you didn't even help both of them even though you were nearby!"
"Look at the names carved on the stones. They are all heroes of the village. My best friend's name is carved there too."
"Hey, I want to be a hero too! I want my name to be there too!"
"Dobe, they are KIA." Sasuke mumbled as he stared at the stone in respect.
Chiaki stared at the countless names on the stone too. "After the battle between Suna and Konoha, how many more names would be added there? How many more people would lose their loved ones? How many people from Suna would die too?"
Her heart suddenly felt as if it was made out of lead. "Damn, why must I be chosen for this stupid mission? Why can't I just run away? Why me? Why me!"