A/N: Second chapter is UP! I can't help it! Ideas are pouring and all, plus, there's motivation since two people already is following my story!

Disclaimer: Still don't own Naruto... Or Sasuke... Or Kakashi... Or Neji... Or Minato... What? It's normal for a girl to like hot guys!

CHAPTER 2: This Brings Back Memories.

IT WAS a very funny sight. Very. Only could ever be found at Training Ground Three. The sun had rose into a scorching condition, rendered by spring, thankfully. Leaves were rustling as a gust of wind passed ever so often. A nice afternoon. Complete with a string of curses from a boy hung upside down of a branch, his blond hair seemed more yellow than earlier this morning and his cheeks red, fuming with anger or frustration or embarrassment. Frustration sounded funnier. The perpetrator who oh so helpfully helped hang the boy upside down jumped off from that particular branch, confirmed his knots were secured. Sasuke landed flawlessly onto the ground, a sadistic smirk plastered on his face. No wonder Kakashi tied Naruto up back then. It felt awfully satisfying, the swaying motion, flushed face and string of curses coming from his victim. Ironically, Sasuke's victim was one of the member of his new genin team whom he had dubbed as 'Naruto-San', considering 'Naruto-Nigou' belonged to the Third's grandson.

"Damn it! Let me down, sensei!" Kane yelled in sheer frustration, wiggling against his binds, which, the first bind started from his chest to waist, successfully pinning his arms at his side and the second at his ankles. He was looking more and more like a wriggling worm. It was not helping the fact he felt hot and sweaty. He was wearing a sleeveless black turtleneck, inside the bulky navy blue hoodie not made of cotton. He was more than grateful he managed to stand up to his cousin, Kiba on his decision to not wear his old genin attire-something about making the teachers' nostalgic. "Sasuke-sensei!

"Why should I?"

"Because, sensei! Using ropes to bind me is cheating! It's not ninjutsu, taijutsu or genjutsu!"

"I said anything goes so it's not cheating. Hang on tight," Sasuke replied calmly as he trotted away from the squirming boy. He inwardly grinned hearing him calling his name, correction, whined his name. This would be so much fun, even though he would still make Naruto's life ramen free since killing him was not attainable-he is the Hokage, damn it all.

Who should be his next victim?

THREE big eyed children were staring at him. One filled with excitement, one wonder and another apprehension. He was not that good with kids. Or people in general though he was not as bad as Sai. Heck, Ino's kids were great with him and some other of his peers'. The girls though. For the nth time that morning alone, he imagined strangling a chibi version of Naruto in his Hokage attire, just for the sake of it as opposed to the usual chibi with that orange get up. He never taught anyone anything, much less children. He did present a valuable lesson on not to betray your village, not to betray your friends in a quest for power, revenge, jealousy and left a pink haired kunoichi on a bench. Indirectly. Sasuke was thankful, however, for whatever reason which brought Kakashi to the Uchiha residence, his home last night. His left hand felt for something in his pouch, positioned behind his waist on his right. He distinctly felt two small, round objects at the bottom side of his pouch. Might as well get this over with. He needed to be at Ichiraku's by one o'clock for lunch with Naruto, Sakura, Kakashi and Sai. They always had lunch and dinner together when available. Mandatory order from Sakura. Venue-mandatory from Naruto though could be debatable with Sakura's mean right hook. Although for dinner, they usually went to each other's houses.

"Okay, do you know what's the most important thing to a shinobi?" He began.

"Following orders and the rules," Anzu answered confidently.

"Their friends and teammates, of course!" Kane's answer next.

"Not betray everyone in a power hungry quest?" Rui answered with a smirk.

Sasuke replaced the chibi Naruto in his mind with a chibi version of Rui. Chibi-er, that is. It disturbed his rain of thoughts since he still could not forget-translation; ignore-the fact Rui was a mini version of himself. "This is the principle passed among Team Seven; 'In the ninja world, those who break the rules are trash, that's true, but those who abandon their comrades are worse than trash.' Both of you are right but incomplete. A good shinobi would try their hardest not to break the rules and be loyal to their comrades," he answered.

Two of his genin were looking at him in awe while another, Rui looked at him in both amusement and awe, as if saying; "This coming from the shinobi who broke both." Sasuke squeezed chibi Rui harder in his mind. Was he always like that back then? Yup, he was worst. Ugh... That's it. I'm going to show you kids the hell we went through on our first training as Team Seven.

The last Uchiha took out two objects given by Kakashi last night. The objects jingled as he raised his arm until the object was at his eye level. The objects are bells. "Do you know that we, Naruto, Sakura and myself had to go through a test to even learn to be a shinobi after we graduated the Academy?" He could not help himself but smirk.

"...No?" Rui answered on his team's behalf for once, despite his gut twisting.

Sasuke's smirk got wider. "So here's the test. Get these bells from me or no lunch. Anything goes."

"No lunch?" Kane's face showed agony just like Naruto's a few years back.

"Anything goes? Taijutsu, ninjutsu, genjutsu?" Anzu inquired.

"Yup."

"Interesting," commented Rui.

Arrogant kid. Like me. Ugh. "Count to ten while dispersing. At ten, the game begins," instructed Sasuke.

"One." The three genin dashed in their separate directions.

"Two." Sasuke noted the Inuzuka kid was the fastest among them.

"Three." He realized Rui was the most subtle.

"..." A rustling to the east. "..." A rustling to the west. "..." A rustling to the north. "..." A few twigs broke. "..." A few pebbles kicked. "..." Silence.

"...Ten."

So it began.

THE JOUNIN half hoped 'Naruto-San' would not make the same mistake as the original Naruto. Alas, it was the same as hoping Naruto would decrease his consumption of ramen. Or Sakura to not hit Naruto or Sai or Kakashi-he rarely got hit since he behaved better-at least once a day. Or Kakashi to not be an Icha Icha addict. The kid, Kane, practically trailed him and jumped on him like a starving Naruto after a whole day running through paprwork. It did not end well, for the kid though he was rather satisfied with himself. When could he find an excuse to hang a kid upside down on a tree? Exactly.

He was walking through the forest, when he detected a presence. Judging by the chakra signiture, he would pin point it was the girl, Anzu. If he was not mistaken, Kakashi used genjutsu on Sakura. The irony of Sakura being the most proficient on genjutsu these days. Should he risk another Sakura in the making? No, one Sakura was enough even though all the amusement entailed were taunting him. He stopped walking ahead, clearly giving his message of already knowing she was there. Anzu was a smart one, like Sakura. Replacing chibi Rui with chibi Naruto. The girl stood a few meters in front of him. She was wearing a soft purple knee length cheongsam-style dress, with slits up to her waist in the front, and sides, to allow movement. A black shorts were visible underneath, a bit lower than her top. The top was sleeveless, with the girl replacing it with a pair of tight, arm warmers which covered her knuckles like a glove except for her fingers. Her hair was held up in a ponytail, curls flowing down, forehead protector tied like a headband. She was already in her stand, her sandal digging through the ground.

Anzu stared at the tall man standing directly in front of her, her hands clenched in a fist and she was already in her stance. It disturbed her the fact that her new teacher was looking unperturbed, though it was expected seeing the fact that he was one of the second generation of Sannin, having taught by Orochimaru, one of the original Legendary Sannin. If he was any younger or she was any older, she would be his fan-with his handsome face, raven hair opposed to his pale skin-he was wearing a standard Jounin black shirt and pants, only, instead of those green flak vests she saw most Jounin wear, he was wearing a high collarded, sleeveless jacket, blue in colour. She was not one questioninghow he got away with it but then again, he was the Hokage's best man.

"You should keep your eye on your match, little girl." Sasuke whispered, as he bent his body to reach th girl's ears. Looks like his charms worked on the little girl too, only, he guessed not as much that Rui kid since when that brunette was around, his good looks were as good as invincible. A good thing too, because it was disturbing for a little girl to have a crush on him. Though Ino's daughter clearly got that from her mother.

"Eep!" She squeaked. The next thing she saw was a number of hand signs and she ended up only having her neck up above ground. "Sasuke-Sensei!" She whined. Who buries a girl in the ground? Her sensei apparently. She swear she would get those bells by the end of the day.

If he was Naruto or Kakashi, he would have cockled with evil laughter. He forgave Kakashi for burying him back then. Now, the only thing Kakashi did which he had not done yet was genjutsu. His final victim would arrived right about... Now. He dodged the kunai aimed at him on his left and a punch at his right. This kid had the skills.

Rui growled for having missed. He had no time to linger though, because his sensei already threw a fist aimed at him, which he dodged. He knelt to ground and swiped his right leg over, intent on tripping him. He failed, which was expected, why he pushed himself up so quickly and kicked his left to his teacher, which, he had to stop with his hand as he successfully devoid the chance to dodge. Rui distanced himself then, and gave a smirk in return to his sensei's amused one.

He always wondered what he was like as a child-since he barely acknowledged the yonger version of himsef much while he was a missing nin. Honestly, was he always that cocky? He performed a few hand signs and thus began the third main fighting style, genjutsu.

Rui found himself standing in the middle of a field of flowers. The flowers, he noticed were a mixture of jasmines and lavender, the clashing of purple, white gave a soft feeling in the air. The soft feeling then turned rougher, as the petals flew around him erratically, and, in front of him was a bleeding Neji, cradling an equally bloody Ten Ten. Their wounds were not severe enough, but, even so... His heart squeezed tightly at the sight, and he barely registered he was shuddering. No. Not them. Not them!

The kid's body was shuddering so much. His eyes showed immense despair. Sasuke was plagued by confusion. It was only a simple genjutsu. The things he planted was merely child's play so why did it had that much effect? Then he saw something on the verge of breaking in that kid's eyes. He knew, he lived through that, and just as he stepped closer to the boy, he saw hand signs he knew well, and a hoarse, "Kai!" Chocolate eyes met his, though, for some reason, the chocolate seemed a soft purple. The look he saw was replaced with a fire he had a nagging feeling he had seen somewhere before. "That's low, sensei," the sweet tone was familiar but before his mind could figure out from where, he saw Rui already forming hand signs.

"Katon: Hōsenka no Jutsu!"

As soon as Rui uttered the jutsu, small fireballs shot in all directions, approaching him. His eyes widened for a moment, surprised a genin was able to perform the technique. Then again, he felt silly for being surprised in the first place. He used Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu when he was that age and Kakashi was already a Jounin when he was around that age. He quickly formed a jutsu, Bunshin no Jutsu, making five clones of himself moving in every direction, dodging the flames. He noted, though well executed, the flames were not fast enough meaning Rui's chakra control was still flawed. Sasuke knew, after noting that, Rui was working very hard to control his flames so that it would hit him-rather, his four clones, charging at him. He was about to smirk when two flames went his way, which he dodged, just in time Clone Sasuke Three finished kneading enough chakra to release an orb of fire at Rui, which hit a log of wood. Kawarimi no Jutsu. Sasuke, the real one hopped off a tree and dispeled his clones. That was interesting. If Rui was indeed a mirror of himself, then he was sure the kid would find him again after formulating a new plan. Now, what should he do? He could always infuriate 'Naruto-San'.

He had to admit. It was kind of nice. All this stuff brings back memories.

UNDER a tree, where a blonde boy hung upside down, two figures with chocolate and brown hair stood. The male was trying hard to ignore the googley eyes given by his female companion, which he was failing so he gestured for the girl to follow his lead as he jumped onto the branch his idiot teammate was hung on. With a tug of the rope, his teammate was dragged up, and fell atop the same branch face first. The bonde was about to yell out of both pain and anger before a pale hand yanked him to sit straight and a smooth one clasping his mouth, complete with a glare. He gulped at that. The three of them was silent for a while.

"What should we do now?" Anzu was the first to break the silence, looking at both Rui and Kane.

"Isn't that obvious? We kick Sasuke-sensei's butt!" Kane replied, enthusiastically.

"BaKane, we're dealing with one of the second generation of Sannin here. Jumping onto him blindly like you would end up with all of us hanging upside down," Rui sighed.

"It's Kane not BaKane, Rui-teme!" Kane retorted, only to be hit on the head by Anzu.

"What Rui-kun said is true. Our strength is by far lower than sensei. The only way to get the bells is by working together and trick him somehow," said Anzu, a hand on her chin.

"There's no way I'm working with this guy!" Kane protested.

"Kane, work together or no lunch?"

"Alright, alright! I get it Anzu-chan," Kane pouted before asking sulkily, "You have any ideas how to trick Sasuke-sensei, Anzu-chan?"

"I haven't gotten to that part yet," sighed Anzu.

Hearing that, Rui genuinely smiled, which earned twin gasps from Anzu and Kane, in which the former swoon while the later exclaimed, "You know how to smile!" Rui ignored the comment and wagged his right index finger to gesture the two of them to lean closer.

"Lucky for you, I already know what to do," he leaned his head, his arms flung around Kane's and Anzu's shoulders-which Anzu blushed an squealed for a bit before clearing her throat-as he whispered. "So here's what we'll do..."

For the first time, both Anzu and Kane realized Rui was not that much of a cold-hearted boy/bastard only a bit reserved. He was also quite cheeky. After a while, the three genin broke apart, their eyes sparkling with excitement. Anzu was the first to hop down and hide herself. Rui helped Kane up and pushed, leaving him dangling again.

"At least be gentle, Rui-teme!" He muttered grudgingly to himslef, as Rui had already fled the scene.

Their time limit was one o' clock and judging by the Sun's position, they had two hours left.

Now, all they have to do is wait.

TBC: Frustrating, I know. Sorry!

A/N: Thanks so much to Kaori Tamashiro and 1Dlove123 for following my story!

KaoriTamashiro: Thanks for your reviews! It really speeds up this update. I know, I'm easy to persuade and butter up. I'm glad you enjoyed the first chapter. I personally like the part where Sasuke meets his 'team'. You?

So, I guess I should put in some notes.

For those who's wondering, BaKane is a word play between the word baka and Kane's name, Animanga fans like myself would already get that and understand what baka meant. The nickname Sasuke gave to Kane-'Naruto-San' translates into 'Naruto Three' instead of the honorific 'san'.

The Jutsus used in this chapter is:

Bunshin no Jutsu-'Clone Technique'

Kawarimi no Jutsu-'Substitution Technique'

Katon: Hosenka no Jutsu-'Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique'

Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu-'Fire Release:Great Fireball Technique'

Anyway, please review and follow my story, fellow readers! The more I get, the faster I write!