I was sitting in a random classroom that I found, eating my lunch. I thought back at what happened with Sasuke, some what sticking up for me; if you could even call it defending for someone.

If that were to happen four years ago, I would have considered it as him supporting his friend. But now? I have no idea... he has yet to directly say one word to me. But reasons would he have to talk to me?

'You're on the same team, remember?'

Oh right, thanks brain for giving me back to my harsh reality. Although I understand why this team was put together, I can't exactly say that I'm happy about it. I mean, I'm in the same team with the most annoying girl in the world!

And of course, there was Mr personality plus himself, who doesn't give a damn about anyone. Being on the same team as him, this was either rally bad karma, or my Goddness wants to punish me!

And speak of the devil, not a second after I'd finish eating, he happened to charge into the room.

"Fucking girl!" he muttered under his breath whilst leaning his weight on the desk. well, I can only guess what he who he was talking about. He then halted his actions, he must of finallynoticed me in the room, because he turned round and gave me an emotionless stare.

"What are you doing here?"

I examined my nails with a bored expression "I could ask you the same thing..."

"Naruto's stupidly and Sakura's insolence!" he stated simply.

Yep, I was right, one point for me!

"Well get use to it" I told him, "you gonna have to deal with it for a long time".

There was an uncomfortable silence that followed. Since I figured he wasn't going to say anything else I went to leave, because I knew I defiantly did not want to talk to him anymore.

"Where'd you get those?" he suddenly asked referring to the vambraces. I turned back to face him and threw him the dirtiest look I could muster, then carried on out the door.

"What? You're not speaking to me now?" Sasuke stated cooly, which kinda pushed me over the edge.

I hastily turned to face him for the second time "That's what you told me to do remember?"

Sasuke narrowed his eyes "what the hell are you talking about?"

This caused me to laugh, but not the kind of laugh you're thinking "Really Sasuke? You're a class act! Unless its mission related don't even think off speaking to me!" and with that I stormed off.

When it came time to meet our Jounin teacher I was still pretty steamed at Sasuke, I can't believe he's playing the clueless card with me! He know exactly what he did and if he thinks I'm gonna forgive and forget because we're on the same team, he has another thing coming.

Everyone except our team had met their Jounin teacher and left, it had now been two hours and I was beginning to believe that this guy probably forgot or something.

"He's late!" Naruto moaned.

I was really tempted to say, 'no shit sherlock' but I kept my mouth shut, since I was already in a foul mood. The fact that our sensei was nowhere in sight wasn't helping the situation either.

"Naruto, why won't you sit still?" Sakura asked not trying to sound irritated. At the moment Naruto had his head stuck out the door, looking left and right down the long hallway. Sakura was leaning against one of the student desks. Sasuke was sat down, as usual with his hands linked. And I was leaning against the wall near the black board.

"But why is the teacher for our seventh group the only one late?" Naruto whined. "All the other groups went somewhere with their new senseis already and... even Iruka-Sensei has gone home!"

"That's not important" Sakura mumbled, but Naruto didn't seem to pay any mind to her, as he rushed to the black board and grabbed one of the erasers.

"What are you doing now?" I asked him as he ran back towards the door. But all he told me to do was watch, he proceeded to stand on a stool and put the eraser in between the doorframe and the door.

Sakura walked over to him with her hands on her hips. "It's his own fault for being late" said Naruto innocently as he could and he jumped off the stool.

"Geez" Sakura hissed "it's your own fault if you get into trouble!"

I could feel a wet drop form on my head 'you little liar' I thought seeing through her act, 'you want it to happen just as bad!'

Sasuke made a ahem sound "A jounin isn't going to fall for a stupid trick like that."

"Yeah! Naruto, you're so stupid!" Sakura quickly agreed.

Naruto groaned then turned to me "what about you Tomoko... admit it, it would be funny?"

I gave him a small smile "yes it would, but I'm gonna have to agree with the others. I'd be slightly worried if he fell for it!"

But as I was talking, a hand suddenly appeared at the door which caught everyone's attention. The person pulled the door to and to my surprise and horror, fell right into the trap as the eraser bounced off his head and onto the ground.

I couldn't believe he fell for it! I would've have laughed along with Naruto, but I couldn't help but feel doomed if we had a rubbish sensei.

"I'm so sorry Sensei! I tried to stop him but Naruto-Kun didn't listen to me!" Sakura said in a panic.

"You little lick arse!" I snapped "bullshit you tried to stop him!"

Sasuke just glared at him, probably thinking what I was thinking... how is this guy a Jounin?

Now that he fully came into the classroom and picked up the eraser, I started to notice what he looked like, well... Kinda.

He had spiked up, messy silver hair which was held upright by his ninja headband. All that could be seen of his face was his right eye which was a steely black, everything else was covered by is headband over his eye, and a mask over his noise, which went all the way down to his neck; it was probably all one shirt. He outfit was your typical Jounin outfit, the navy blue sweater, black pants, green ninja vest and blue sandals.

He looked as if he was ready to fall asleep, or that he just rolled out of bed, which I wouldn't put past him.

Our Sensei examined the eraser for a second; whilst he did this I walked over to the others and waited for him to speak.

"Hm... how should I say this..." he said lazily and put his hand on his chin thinking "My first impressions of you guys are..."

I could feel everyone's curiosity to what he was going to say. But I'll honestly say, I think it was a super downer for everyone when he said...

"I hate you"

A couple of minutes later, the five of us, along with our new sensei, where sitting on the roof of the academy with us four on the steps and our sensei leaning against the rails opposite us.

"Let's see, why don't you introduce yourselves" Our sensei told us.

"Introduce yourselves?" Sakura questions "What should we say?"

"Your name for a start" I shot back full of sarcasm. She gave me a heated glare before Sensei continued.

"Well... What you like, what you hate, your dreams and hobbies. Something like that".

"Hey, hey why don't you go first sensei?" Naruto suggested.

"Me?" he asked pointing to himself "I am Hatake Kakashi. I have no intention of telling you my likes and dislikes. As for my dream..." I he pondered for a second "I have a few hobbies".

"Well that was a complete waste of time" I whispered.

"Yeah..." Sakura agreed "we only found out his name".

"Now it's your turn!" Kakashi announced "You first" nodding his head to Naruto.

Naruto grinned and started to play with his headband "I'm Uzumaki Naruto! I like cups of ramen, But I like the ramen at Ichirkua that Iruka-Sensei brought me more! I hate the three minutes that I have to wait after I put the hot water in. My Hobby is to eat and compare cup ramen".

'Good lady of Light I'm surprised he hasn't turned into a ramen noodle cause of the amount he eats' I thought to myself.

"And my dream is to become greater than the Hokages! I'm going to make all the villagers recognize me for my existence!"

Kakashi was clearly not very impressed, probably the only thing that went through his head was ramen this, ramen that. "Alright... next!" he said looking at Sakura.

"I'm Haruno Sakura!" she chimed "I like... well the person I like is..." she then stopped and kept stealing glances towards Sasuke.

'You've got to be kidding me!' I thought boredly

"And my hobby is... well, my dream is to..." and then squealed as she must have thought of something in that massive head of hers.

"And? What do you hate?" Kakashi asked.

Sakura then turned moody and said one word.

"Naruto!"

I watched as Naruto was practically crying silently at what she said.

"Okay..." Kakashi said a little freaked out "second girl..."

"Oh... er..." I hadn't really planned out what I was going to say. "Well... My name is Mori Tomoko, I really like animals, especially horses." Hey I wasn't lying, I actually had a pony when I lived back in Yamakure. "I hate most girls my age, they're incredibly annoying and always judge me." I managed to earn another glare from Sakura but like I even cared. "My hobbies... I guess praying, reading and cooking would hit the nail on the head and my dream... erm..."

Thinking about it now what was my dream? My dream was to make it out of the academy, now that I've done that...

"I guess... To try and give back what the village has done for me, and find out what happened to my village and my mother".

Kakashi gave me a apologetic look, did he know what happened or something? There was someone else who was staring at me also, I could feel those onyx eyes bare into the back of my head.

Of course Sasuke knew about my mother and the village, I mourned for weeks after she was confirmed dead. At that time, Sasuke was really the only one there for me, since Haruo was busy at the academy. A part of me wishes he still was because I still haven't fully healed. Don't get me wrong, I'm much happier now and have settled quite nicely here, but not a day goes by I wonder why my own village was attacked and why I was given these vambraces.

I have no memory the events that transpired before the attack and memories of my mother are vague. Haruo told me that my memory loss was mostly caused by the fact I was so young, not of because of any mental trauma. Either way, a huge part of my life was missing, so when I am ready, I will go searching for it.

"Alright... last guy".

All of us turned to Sasuke and waited for him to start. "My name is Uchiha Sasuke. There are many things I hate, and not a lot of things I like. Also I have an ambition that I have no intention of leaving it as a dream." I knew exactly where he was going with this, and broke my heart every time I heard it.

"The revival of my clan, and to... kill a certain man".

An uncomfortable silence was met afterwards, I wondered what was going through his head. Sasuke never told me why he was spared from the mass murder of his clan, in fact he didn't talked to me at all after the massacre. In a way, the Sasuke I knew did die that day, the little boy that was my best friend I'll never see again.

A part of me wonders if the massacre never happened, would we still be friends? And would he have this emotionless attitude?

And of course there was the murderer himself, I tried not to think about him so much, because it was hard to believe that the same, gentle boy I'd met went I came here, could mercilessly kill his clan.

"The hardest one's to love are the ones who need it most" is what my mother always told us, but ever since the massacre and Sasuke changing, I found that hard to believe.

"Alright..." Kakashi spoke "you all have unique personalities, I like that. We are going to be starting a mission tomorrow."

Naruto then got really excited and did a salute "What kind of mission is that, sir!"

"First, we are going to do something we five can do..." Kakashi stated.

This only amplified Naruto's excitement more "what, what, what! What is it!"

Kakashi stared at us a little longer "Survival training".

All four of us looked at him as if he had several heads...

"Survival training?" Naruto repeated.

Sakura was the first to ask "why are we going to train when it's a mission?" She then proceeded to bang on about how we already had training at the academy.

"This is no ordinary training" Kakashi answered.

"Then what kind of training is it?" I asked raising an eyebrow. That one question cause Kakashi-sensei to start laughing, which made Sakura ask what was so funny.

"Well..." he mused "if I say this, I think you four are going to be surprised". We all just stared at him blankly, wondering what he was on about.

"Out of the twenty seven graduates, only nine or ten students are going to become Genin. The rest will be sent back to the academy. In other words, this training is going to be a hard test with a dropout rate of sixty six percent."

I could tell the others weren't exactly impressed, but I do recall Haruo mentioning something about it when he became a Genin.

I listen in on my brother's conversations way too much.

"See? You're all surprised!" Kakashi yelled like a kid in a candy shop.

"NO WAY! I ALREADY WENT THROUGH SO MUCH TROUBLE PASSING, THEN WHAT WAS THAT STUPID FINAL EXAM FOR!?" Naruto demanded.

"Oh that? It basically just picks those who are qualified to become Genin. Anyway, I'm going to determine whether you pass or fail at the training grounds. Bring your ninja equipment and meet me a five am."

'Geez five am! Haruo doesn't even get up that early!' was all I could think. Looks like I'm getting an early night tonight.

"Okay, meetings over. Oh yeah! And don't eat breakfast... or you'll throw up" and with that he disappeared.