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Warnings: Swearing, violence, bloodshed, the usual.

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Chapter Three

It had been at least an hour since the jounins had started to arrive and pick up their squad and our's still haven't shown up yet. By now the classroom was virtually empty, even Master Iruka left and now Naruto wouldn't settle down, being eager to meet our new sensei, and had started to impatiently glance every now and then down the corridors of the school.

Sasuke and Sakura were seated besides me as usual. But Sakura moved away, easily getting annoyed at Naruto's constant grumbling and decided to yell at him.

"Cut it out Naruto!"

Naruto turned over his shoulder to look at her. "Why are we the only cell whose teacher hasn't shown up yet?!"

The blond boy folded his arms and pouted. "All the other teams have already gone off with their teachers. Even Master Iruka has gone!"

'Speaking of the other teams.' I thought, my head laying on the table, buried in the crook of my arms. 'I miss Shikamaru already. It's a shame that I'm not on the same team as him.' But oh well, guess their teacher didn't want to deal with two students taking naps together. I mentally laughed at the thought. That's probably what me and Shika would have done.

I was dragged out of my thoughts by Sakura's voice. I looked at where she was. She was still scolding Naruto who was preparing another one of his pranks. It was a simple but funny joke that consisted a blackboard rubber being jammed between the door and the door frame at the very top, so that if one opened the door it would drop down on their head, giving them a hair full of chalk dust.

"Heh heh heh." Laughed Naruto before jumping down from the stool he was using. "It's what he gets for making us wait!"

Sakura scoffed. "Grow up! I want no part of it!"

I hear Sasuke 'tch' from besides me. "No way could a superior shinobi be caught in such a simple booby trap."

"Or he could just simply not care." I mumbled quietly to myself, rising from the slumped position and stretched my body of it's kinks, making loud cracks as I loosened up my joints.

I notice a hand on the door and watched as it creak open as a silver-haired man stepped in. Everyone excluding the man and myself, held their breath as the blackboard rubber landed on the man's head.

Naruto burst out laughing at the show whilst pointing his finger at the shinobi. "Ha ha ha! Gotcha! Good one!"

Of course though, Sakura tried to take herself out of the equation. "I'm sorry, sensei. I tried to stop him, but Naruto…" She trailed off at the end. The man put a hand to his chin and gave a single eye-smile. "Hmm, how shall I put this? Based on my first impression, I'd have to say… I hate you."

My teammates gave a gloomy look whereas I just stared lazily, it wasn't the first time someone said that to me and I've long since gotten used to being hated by everyone… well almost everyone. The silver-haired man still eye-smiling, said. "Meet me on the roof." And with that he teleported away in a cloud of white smoke.

I sighed and rolled my green eyes. I stood up and performed the necessary hand-signs for teleportation. "See you there." I saluted to my team-mates, leaving them surprised as I disappeared in a poof of white smoke.

I reappeared on the roof of the nearby building. My new sensei was sat on the railing in front of me reading an orange book titled 'Icha Icha Paradise' and from what I could tell from the cover of the book it was about romance. I have seen the book before in the book store, I remember it being in the adult section… Not that I was in the adult section, of course! I was across from it and just saw it on one of the shelves… I'm not a pervert I swear!

Sensei didn't even look up from his book appearing to be engrossed in his book. Mentally sighing, I just assumed he noticed me and sat on the concrete floor in front of one of the wooden benches that neatly lined the rectangle of symmetrically positioned trees in the centre of the building's roof and leaned against it. I calmly watched my sensei as he flicked through the pages of his book. I was curious about the man, his obscured looks gave him a mysterious vibe, I have yet to know his name and his strength and ability as a shinobi is still unknown to me. That makes me very curious.

I put a finger to my bandage-covered lips and stroked and played with it thoughtfully. 'I can't help but feel as though I've seen him somewhere. Maybe in town or something? I really have no idea.' I racked through my brain in search of an answer and came up with nothing. I tilted my head back to look at the sky above me and winced when the wooden seat of the bench bashed against the back of my head. I gazed at the fluffy clouds, remembering some of my childhood memories fondly. My reminiscing didn't last long though as Naruto's boisterous laughter reached my ears. I turned to where the sound came from and saw my teammates clamber onto the roof one by one.

Sensei finally lifted his head from his book to gaze upon his new students as they took a seat on the bench I was leaning on. Naruto on the left, Sasuke in the middle and Sakura on right. I was seated on the floor as always, except I was in front of Sasuke with my back to him to face Sensei. I could feel the warmth of his legs on my arms and shoulders as they parted to accommodate me. I was tense at the sudden contact but soon relaxed as I got used to them. I focused on Sensei immediately when he cleared his throat to get our attention.

"Now, I'd like you all to tell us a little about yourself."

Sakura looked at Sensei questioningly. "Like what?"

"Oh you know, the usual. Your favourite thing, what you hate most, dreams, ambitions, hobbies, things like that." Sensei responded.

This time Naruto was the one who spoke. "C'mon help us out here, coach. You go first, show us how it's done."

"Yeah, that's right. After all you're a stranger to us. A mystery." Sakura pointed out.

"Huh. Me?" Said Sensei with a lazy look. "Well, alright. My name is Kakashi Hatake. I'm the kind of person who doesn't talk about his likes and dislikes. My dreams for the future is none of your business. But anyway I have lots of hobbies."

Kakashi-sensei's, as his name is now, little biography gave away nothing but his name. Leaving us slightly annoyed.

"Well that's no use. A big speech and we know nothing but his name." Sakura muttered.

'Exactly,' I thought to myself, seeing the logic in it. 'As a ninja you must be careful with the information you give out. So that if an enemy were to be eavesdropping they would gain no useful information.'

Kakashi gestured a hand to us and told us. "Now it's your turn. Starting with you on the right." He pointed to Naruto who straightened up slightly and fiddled with his headband.

"Oh! My name is Naruto Uzumaki! What I like is Instant Cup Ramen! What I like even better is when Master Iruka treats me to ramen at the Ichiraku Noodle Bar! What I hate is the three minutes wait after I pour in the boiling hot water. My dream is to be a better shinobi than Lord Hokage!" Naruto said proudly in his usual loud manner. "And then all the villagers will acknowledge my existence at last!"

Sometime during the blonde boy's speech, I felt hands lightly comb and fiddle with my somewhat messy hair. I stealthily look across to see who the culprit was. It wasn't Sakura as she was busy playing with her own candy floss hair and Naruto has his hands to himself. So it must be Sasuke, it's so strange and out of character for him though. 'Why would he be doing this?' But before I could think any further into it, Naruto spoke again.

"And hobbies? Well, I like pranks and practical jokes I guess."

Kakashi sweat-dropped and said with a dead-panned tone. "I see. Next!"

Sasuke paused a little in his petting before resuming. His movements were soft and calming, but his voice held little to no emotion as he spoke. "My name is Sasuke Uchiha. There are plenty of things I hate, but I'd don't see any of that matters, considering there is almost nothing I do like. It seems pointless to talk about 'dreams' that's just a word. But what I do have is determination. I plan to restore my clan, and there is someone who I have sworn to kill." As he hissed the last part of the sentence the grip on my hair tightened suddenly, releasing a pained yelp out of me. The noise startled the others. They were unaware of what Sasuke was doing with my hair during the time, so it came as a surprise to them when they saw me clutch at my head where the hair had been yanked.

Sasuke immediately released the hold he had on my hair and I internally sighed with relief. That really hurt my head. I heard a barely audible apology from behind me, I turned my head to see Sasuke looking away, his eyes hardly meeting mine. A blush unnoticed by everyone except myself dusted the boy's pale cheeks giving him a rather sheepish look. I eye-smiled as the bandage-mask hid my real smile from view. "It's okay." I whispered gently and turned away from him. I could practically feel Sakura's intense glare drill holes into my skull and I resisted the urge to roll my eyes at the typical fangirl behaviour. 'And all because she doesn't have Sasuke's attention.' I thought to myself. The sound of Kakashi-sensei voice directed our attention back to him. "Okay. Now next up is you with the pink hair." He said pointing to Sakura.

At that Sakura stopped glaring at me to speak whilst blushing furiously. "I am Sakura Haruno. My favourite thing is, well it's not a thing, it's a person. A boy and that boy is, well, let's move on to my dream." Her blush intensified at that point. But became a look of intense dislike when she said. "I hate Naruto."

Naruto yelled in disbelief. A tick managed to find it's way above my eye and I mentally groaned in annoyance at the behaviour of the two. It seemed Kakashi-sensei had enough as well as he raised his voice. "Enough!"

The two shutted up and calmed down. "Now that you're finished we can move on to the last person." Sensei said calmly and looked at me expectantly.

I sighed and straightened myself up. "Name's Reicheru Kurogami. I like sleeping, hanging out with friends and learning. I dislike people that are annoying and people who interrupt my sleep, which is generally most people. My ambition is to protect my friends and restore my clan and uncover the secrets it hides. And my dream is to be the strongest kunoichi ever, so that people will stop pitying me and treat me as an equal. My hobbies are reading advanced books, training myself to get stronger, sleeping and cloud watching." At that I leaned back against Sasuke's legs and gazed lazily at the rest of the group. "That's it."

Kakashi scratched the back of his head. "So I believe we all understand one another. Formal training begins tomorrow."

Naruto gained an excited look and saluted. "Yes sir! What will out duties be! Our first real shinobi mission!"

"Our first project involves only the members of this cell."

"What is it? What?" Inquired Naruto eagerly, Sakura and Sasuke also gained curious looks, wanting to know what we'll be doing. Kakashi deliberately prolonged his response to add suspense.

"Survival exercises."

Naruto tilted his head like a puppy, in confusion. Sakura perplexed asked. "Survival exercises? But why would that be a mission? Our school days were full of survival training!"

"But you'll be surviving against me. It won't be your typical practise." Kakashi explained.

"Well then, what kind of practise will it be?" Naruto asked. Kakashi sniggered suddenly for some reason. Sakura frowned and inquired. "What are you laughing about Master Kakashi?"

Kakashi smirked under his mask. "Oh, it's nothing. Just that, if I told you, you'd chicken out."

I narrowed my eyes at comment and listened carefully as I waited for Kakashi to explain it.

"Chicken out? Why?!" Naruto demanded.

Kakashi leaned forward and rested his chin on his hand. "Over the twenty-seven members of your graduating class, only nine will actually be accepted as junior-level shinobi. The other eighteen must go back for more training." Kakashi stared at as intensely sending shivers down my spin. "The test we're about to perform has a 66% rate of failure."

Me and my teammates stared at Kakashi in absolute shock. My eyes were wide and my mouth slightly agape, stretching my bandages out. Kakashi laughed at our faces. "Ha ha ha! See? You're chickening out already!"

My face turned angry at being laughed at. I hate being humiliated. Naruto seemed to have reached his limit as he snapped. "This sucks! We've been through hell! What about our graduation test?!"

Kakashi raised his eyebrows, the only visible one going up into his slanted headband. "Oh. We wanted to eliminate all the hopeless cases from your ranks. The ones who are left are the only students who show true potential."

"Say what?!" Naruto raved. Kakashi just continued. "In any case, we'll meet tomorrow on the practise field so that I can evaluate each of your skills and weaknesses. Bring all your ninja tools and weapons." Kakashi rubbed his chin. "Oh, and don't breakfast before hand. Unless you enjoy throwing up that is."

Sakura had a panicked expression on her face, her hand digging into her flamingo pink hair. "Throw up?! How hard is this exercise gonna be?!"

Kakashi grabbed a few papers from his pocket and handed them to us. Sakura grabbed the sheets and took one before handing the rest to Sasuke. "The details of your assignment are in this handout, memorize it and don't be late."

I took the sheet that Sasuke passed to me, our hands briefly touched creating a sort of tingle run across my skin. 'What was that?! It was like chakra except it was not. Like lighting.' I pondered, staring at the sheet to disguise myself. The information on it was the basic, what time you need to be there, which training field it was, etcetera. I stood up along with everyone and pocketed the slip. I should probably go home and train. But before I teleported away I ran a hand through my hair, I had felt a weight on it that wasn't there before, my hand stopped at a particularly thick part of the hair. It felt familiar and out of curiosity, I brushed my hair around the side, only to see something that made me smile.

It was a thick braid that started at the left side my head near the bangs and dropped down to end just below my chest. It was tied off with a single midnight blue ribbon with a small Uchiha Clan's crest on it.

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