A/N: Dear anonymous,

Simply because I put those characters does not mean I am fishing for readers from that particular fandom. If that was the case, I would not have stated so before the story.

Secondly, I did not include romance in the genre to obviously state that there is no romance in this fic.

Thirdly, just because I put the two main characters as the two main characters does not mean there has to be any romance between them.

So there you go, thank you and have a nice day. (:

Kurochi

One

Sarutobi Hiruzen shuffled papers around in his stuffy office, looking at the files of all the genin teams that would partake in the exam.

There were the Konoha teams, including an oddity of an all-male team - Team 7 -, Iwa, Kumo, the newly-formed Oto... and Suna, with whom they held a shaky alliance.

He turned to their files.

Superficially, the only team of interest was that consisting of the Kazekage's children. The youngest, Gaara, seemed to be the strongest, if the empty list of injuries was any indication - given that they had already completed a B-rank.

He flipped through the other teams until he landed on the last three on file. He paused, his wrinkled face frowning in disturbance. The kids all held the same blank expressions, but their eyes were filled with a mocking, mirthful look.

What made him do a double take was the fact that all their five missions were B-rank.

It was obvious that they were hiding something. Or...or were they just so short on ninja that these kids fit the description for those missions more than anyone else?

Someone knocked on the his door. "Come in," Ibiki, Anko, Genma, Hayate, Izumo, and Kotetsu - the proctors - walked in. Anko grinned. "Here for the briefing!"

Sarutobi placed the files back on his desk and gave a tired, old man's smile.

They were all silent. The first group was spread out, the sensei Baki at the front, Temari and Kankuro not far behind, and Gaara with a generous amount of space between he and his siblings.

The teams behind them were close-knit, giving Gaara his space, with the senseis at the front to protect them in case Gaara decided that he didn't like the way they breathed.

The team at the end ran in a line, their own sensei miles ahead of the group to watch out for threats.

The male on the left had a curious spiky muted blonde hairstyle that was short on one side and shockingly increased on the other, with a long wrapped ponytail in the back, long earrings dangling down ending in a four-point star above a black bead.

The male on the right had light brown hair, one side of his bangs hung in his face, nearly shoulder length, while short cropped in the back. On the opposite side of his bangs, only a few strands stuck up.

The female in the middle was of relatively short stature, with bright pink hair hanging down to her shoulders, a small scar reaching from her neck to her jaw, the only imperfection on her porcelain skin.

On each of their right wrists was a small black cuff with Suna's symbol, but only said team had the cuffs.

If one stared at the symbol long enough, one could distinguish a faint, flashing glow which could be traced back to a cramped room under the city of Suna, linked to a complicated-looking machine that had three colored lights - yellow, pink, and brown - in a line, possibly representing said shinobi.

Ibiki scratched the side of his scarred face. "Are you sure these three are top-priority? There are the Kazekage's own children."

Sarutobi shook his head.

"No, they're more dangerous. Why else would they only have been sent on B-ranked missions?"

Anko snatched the folder from Ibiki's hand and flipped through the files, memorizing everything.

"So, Eon, Kaiko, and Sakura? Alright!" She practically slammed the file back on the table.

Sarutobi laughed. "Now, my grandson has been attempting to eavesdrop. Let him in, please." Anko and Ibiki turned to leave, Anko violently tugging the door open, causing Konohamaru to fall to the floor on his face.

"Ah! I let you embarrass me!" She cackled at the junior shinobi before she stepped aside and let Konohamaru run back inside Sarutobi's office.