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Having finally graduated the fresh genin meet their respective sensei's and undergo their true genin exam.

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The False Apocalypse

The Shinobi Saga

Chapter 14

Bad Move Naruto

Disclaimer: See chapter 1

“Ggrrrr…Oh come on! Where is Kakashi sensei he said to meet us here two hours ago. Jeez even you didn't show up here till an hour ago!”Naruto ranted after having paced back and forth for nearly an hour.

“I told you to do the same, Nazomishi told me Kakashi's chronically late.” `How could he forget so quickly, seriously I told him yesterday.' Sasuke was more annoyed with Naruto's forgetfulness than he was with Kakashi's tardiness. Of course, it was simply going to be that kind of day.

“ Naruto will you stop complaining your annoying Sasuke!” `CHA! That'll show that blond showoff.'

“Sakura…” Sasuke stated in an annoyed tone. Something was obviously getting on his nerves and whatever it was it had flown right by her. Hearing her name called by her beloved had removed any thoughts of him being annoyed with anything. She couldn't even tell that she was the one he was annoyed with.

“Yes Sasuke kun.” The fan girl chirped, plucking herself out of the angry mood she had been in only a moment before. Naruto had to wonder if she was severely bipolar or something. The way her moods fluctuated from one extreme to another at a moments notice was going to be a pain for the team no mater how you looked at it.

“Shut up.” The dead pin received precisely the desired effect, a few moments of silence. At least, that's what occurred for about half a second. What would have been a welcomed moment of silence was instantly shattered by Naruto and his generally loud nature.

“That's right you tell her Sasuke!” This had Sakura shocked. Naruto was the one being annoying, wasn't he? Who was he to tell her the same thing she had told him only moments ago…and get away with it…

“…But Sasuke, isn't he being annoying?”

“Right now you're the one being annoying. I'm used to Naruto because I've trained with him for six years. Frankly he has earned my respect, and until you do, you have no right to fight on my behalf.” Sasuke was far from the brooding emo that he was meant to be but was in a very serious mood due to the sheer annoyance he was experiencing. Though he would never admit it out loud the girl was… the term he supposed most would use is `pretty,' but all such emotions aside she was still a shrieking banshee with an attitude to match. It was a difficult position for Sasuke's mind to rationalize. On one hand he couldn't help but feel strange towards her, yet at the same time he couldn't help but loath every moment within her general vicinity.

“But I uhh…” Now that was something, she was finally speechless. Sasuke liked that, at least for the flittering seconds until the door squeaked and Kakashi finally walked in.

“It's about time you finally got here!” Sakura quickly diverted the embarrassing situation over to Kakashi's tardiness hoping Sasuke would forget the matter.

“Gomen, you see I was …” A sword lodged itself in the wall next to Kakashi causing him to turn to the blade and sweat drop. He knew in an instant that this was one of the blades Nazomishi had made. It looked all too familiar and the way it lodged itself into the wall left no room to mistake it for another. Like the many he had seen his new allies use it was yet another masterpiece of craftsmanship.

“I don't want to hear it let's go get some missions already!” Naruto screamed bolting from his seated position and fondling the hilt of his own sword with his left hand. He was simply itching to finally use the blade in a real fight, this much was apparent even to Sakura who nook notice of the strange action. She had to wonder what strange and unusual things they had been taught for the blond to caress his blade in such a manner. It reminded her of a brown, bun haired girl that worked at a weapon shop she visited not too long ago. The girl was frankly…frightening with her knowledge of weapons of every sort. Come to think of it she did the exact same thing when Sakura asked her about some kunai in a case. The thought of the horrible explanation that issued still haunted her to this day.

`Well he certainly is the lively one.' “Well my first impression…you three are annoying. Meet me on the roof in five minutes.” Kakashi then poofed away for the three potential Genin to fallow. Unlike her teammates who had seen this sort of exit dozens if not hundreds of times Sakura was bug-eyed for a moment trying to comprehend where their sensei went.

A few minutes later they all sat on the roof with Sasuke looking over the edge of the building wondering if he will ever be powerful enough to defeat Madara. Naruto was simply longing for some ramen and Sakura was daydreaming about `her Sasuke.'

“Alright, now that were all here why don't you all introduce yourselves. I guess I'll start. I'm Kakashi Hatake, my likes and dislikes…hmm, I guess I don't really feel like telling you right now. My goals for the future…meh I don't really feel like telling you those either. As for my hobbies…eh I have a lot of hobbies.” All three potential genin sweat dropped thinking `All he told us was his name…' “W ell what about you in the strange get up.” Kakashi pointed to Naruto wondering where the hell the kid got such a gaudy costume. He guessed it had to be better than the rumored orange jumpsuit. God that was awful.

“Me…uh I'm Naruto Uzumaki, I like ramen, training, and fighting strong opponents. I hate judgmental idiots. My hobbies are training, sparing, eating ramen, learning jutsu and …yea that's it. My dream is to be the greatest Hokage ever and make sure nobody grows up the way I did before the old man started training me.”

`Thank god, he's toned down a lot since the last time I saw him. The last thing I need is a hyper prank obsessed idiot with a … hmm I wonder if there's a diagnosis for that…' Kakashi's mind ended up flying away on a tangent, attempting to place the name of the psychosis Naruto likely had. The thought was actually a bit frightening. Seriously most people were more than freaked out by the concept of Jinchuuriki. The thought of a legally psychotic Jinchuuriki was much worse.

`You have got to be kidding me I thought all he thought about was ramen.' Sakura thought having completely missed the portion of the academy that had anything to do with Naruto.

“Alright you're up pinkie.”

“Ok well I'm Sakura Haruno I like…” She looked over at Sasuke and giggled trying to feebly to restrain her excitement. “My dreams for the future are…” She repeated the previous embarrassing emotion. “My hobbies are…” Wash rinse and repeat. “My hates are…?…Naruto!”

“Well that's harsh…” Naruto grumbled, shrugging it off as he changed his seating position, now leaning back and slouching with his arms behind his head. Sasuke couldn't help but smirk at Naruto's lax attitude towards the insult. Of course he had to admit, the guy had heard it a thousand times or better.

“Your up Ibiki Clone.” A look of chock and fright adorned Sasuke's face at the thought that he could look even remotely like that sadistic torture expert. A memory of a training session with that monster flashed into his mind with the disturbing image of himself being bald and covered in scars. It was almost enough to make him puke. He had to admit though, he would love to see Sakura's reaction to such a look.

“…I am Sasuke Uchiha I like swords, training and sparing. I dislike Fan girls, shrieking banshees, traitors, and those who haven't earned my respect. My dream is to hunt down traitors. My hobbies are training, sparing and more recently pulling pranks on fan girls.” A sadistic smirk graced his lips as he added the last part much to the fright of Sakura and pleasure of Naruto.

“I knew you liked the one we pulled last week.” Naruto said with a massive grin plastered on his face.

“Yea Ino's face was priceless.”

“Wait you're the ones who died Ino's hair green!” The glow in the dark neon green look was defiantly …wow…

“Yea her face was stuck like this all day long.” Naruto made an interesting impersonation of Ino with her jaw down and deformed as best he could.

`Oh god there's two of them.' ” Kakashi shook his head in dread of Naruto's original prinking nature, having fallen into more than one of the amazingly well laid out traps himself.

“Cha that was awesome! I couldn't stop laughing for hours.” Sakura commented a little late and received some awkward stares. The reason for her delayed reaction was an internal struggle with herself. There was a part of her that wanted to agree with them because it was funny. The other part of her wanted to stay quiet because it was still mean…and … Naruto…How the hell was Sasuke involved in…Naruto stuff.

“…”

“…” Naruto and Sasuke turned to each other as if speaking to each other mentally and nodded. Yup she was definitely next.

“Alright, I guess that's it for today, meet me in the morning at training ground seven. Oh and I suggest you don't eat.” `This should be fun.'

“Why?” Sakura asked wondering why on earth anybody wouldn't eat breakfast before training.

“There's no need to bother, you're only going to throw it up.” Kakashi said it like it was nothing at all, just another meaningless event for the day. Granted he knew the immense importance of eating breakfast. He loved manipulating people with little games like this. It was defiantly one of the things that helped him get along with Nazomishi so well.

“…oh…” The look of shock on her face was priceless; the other two didn't really care. Naruto wasn't going to be separated from his three square ramens a day and Sasuke was simply … too rich to avoid a meal…

“Well Ja ne” Kakashi waved casually and poofed away. Naruto and Sasuke stood up ready to leave when Sakura spoke up again.

“Hey guys uh, do you think he meant what he said about not eating?” Her stomach growled causing her to blush a bit. The thought of not eating breakfast was a little dissatisfying.

“I don't care, I eat no mater what. If I throw it up so what, I'd rather have the energy to move and some disgusting flavor in my mouth than be dead at the first step.”

“I agree with Naruto, he's probably just messing with us trying to weed out weaklings.” Sasuke added having already thought about that point.

“…Uh yea… Right he's just messing with us.” Sakura looked to the side pretending she had got that already, even though there was no possible way anyone would have believed her. Ok maybe Naruto… in her mind anyway.

“Oh and Sakura.”

“Yes Sasuke.” She perked her head up at the sound of her beloved. It was so amazing to be on his team, she could only think about how she would finally be able to spend some time with him.

“Don't slow us down, we work together or not at all and a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.” Sakura frowned as his words hit her like a ton of bricks. Was this why he ignored her? Did he think she was weak? Weaker than Naruto? Did he really think that she was `the weakest link?' She slumped over grimacing in the thoughts of her conversation with Ino the other day. `Maybe Ino was right…'

The next day they took the advice Nazomishi gave Sasuke the other day and showed up two hours late arriving only five minutes before Kakashi, much to their dismay and delight.

“Alright, this is the real genin exam, the chance that you will become genin is only thirty-three percent so this is the real deal, screw up and your going back to the academy. I have two bells here and to pass you must retrieve at least one of the bells from me. You have two hours and should come at me with the full intent to kill. Otherwise you would never stand a chance. Hajime.” Kakashi drew his signature orange book as the three genin hopefuls leaped away to hide.

`Hmm, I guess the Hokage was right those two have grown quite a bit. I can just barely sense them. It's a good thing Sarutobi Sama is making me pass them regardless; perhaps I can have some fun with them.'

Over in the trees Naruto Sasuke and Sakura were hiding behind a bush together trying to think of a plan.

“Hey Sasuke, want to team him with me? It will be easier to get a bell if we work together.” Sakura said hoping he would join her and they could be on a team together.

“You haven't figured it out have you?” Sasuke glared at here wondering how stupid she could really be. `How did such a simpleton get the highest written scores?'

“uhh.” What was he talking about? Figured what out?

“Look, he's obviously lying. Teams are made of three genin and a Jounin sometimes a skilled chuunin. No more, no less. Its basic stuff Sakura, it's a mind game.” Sasuke was slightly perturbed at Sakura's immediate lack of thinking. She was actually very smart when she wasn't thinking about him. That's what perturbed him so greatly. She was thinking about him…every wakening second of the day…

“But why…damn it I can't believe I fell for that, it's teamwork isn't it.” Sakura slapped her own head blushing a bit at how she fell for the scheme. `God, how am I supposed to impress him if I keep screwing things up?'

“Exactly he wants us to work together, the bells probably don't even matter.” Sasuke commented as they hid in the forest surrounding the field.

“So what's the plan?”

“Well I'm more of a juggernaut so I think I should use my Kage Bushins to distract him while Sasuke mixes in with a henge and goes for the bells separately.”

“Good, if that doesn't work lets meet back here and come up with something else.”

“Wait I thought this was supposed to be about teamwork what about me?”

“Watch him and look for weaknesses in his defense while were fighting. If this doesn't work we'll need a backup plan.”

“Right…” With that Naruto went ahead and made five clones as Sasuke transformed into Naruto, activating his Sharingan and masking it with a genjutsu.

“Hopefully he won't use his Sharingan, if he does, masking mine will be useless.”

“Let's go.” Sasuke nodded in confirmation and they both leaped out of their hiding place and began charging Kakashi, all screaming the most likely thing Naruto would say. “Your mine Kakashi Sensei!”

They all leaped into action drawing two blades each and charging towards Kakashi.

`Hiding Sasuke among the clones eh? Shouldn't be that hard to keep track of, the chakra signature is so different.'

One Naruto leaped into the air in a sidespin hacking down at Kakashi with the blade in his right hand fallowed by the one in his left as another clone came around behind him with a sweep to his legs and another two thrust their blades at his sides with the other's moving in for when the others were likely to be dispelled.

Kakashi blocked the slashes with a kunai and was thanking Kami that Nazo had made his new kunai for him. Even for these kunai Naruto's blade took large chunks out causing it to shatter after the fourth strike. After a few more slashes Kakashi took a painful slash through the stomach as the Sasuke Naruto took a swipe at a bell successfully grabbing one of them.

“Hey I got one!” The `Naruto clone' screamed only for it to poof out of existence as the damaged Kakashi turned into a log in a puff of smoke.

“Damn.” Kakashi stood upside down in a tree on the edge of the field a few hundred yards away.

“Well, that was interesting. Nothing less from Sarutobi sama I suppose.” Kakashi's attention was soon diverted to the screaming of multiple Narutoes speaking to one another.

“Hey where did he go?”

“I don't know, after the kawarimi I lost his scent.”

“Don't worry this will get him.” He crossed his fingers in a way all too familiar to himself. “Tajuu Kage Bushin no jutsu.” Literally thousands of Narutoes filled the area with several popping up within feet of Kakashi himself. Sakura was amazed that anybody could create that many clones. She had of course heard of the massive amounts of chakra required to perform the technique, but this many. This was absolutely insane.

Kakashi's eyes went wide in realization that he was found and summoned his sword himself.

`Those chakra levels are impossible.' Kakashi thought hoping he wouldn't have to use anything too damaging to deal with them.

“Here he is!” One of the Narutoes screamed alerting all the others who commenced in charging Kakashi as Sasuke stood in shock having never seen Naruto perform the jutsu this many times over and not pass out.

Hacks and slashes surrounded Kakashi as he skillfully dodged around them finally having to reveal his Sharingan to keep up with the intense onslaught of blades.

“I had hoped it wouldn't come to this Naruto so I hope your not one of the ones attacking me right now.” He stated as he charged a Chidori through his blade enhancing its cutting power dramatically. Kakashi began to move with a speed the three had never seen before. The electricity leaped from Kakashi's blade vaporizing all the clones within a twenty-foot radius of Kakashi; as he spun rapidly and ended with a backhanded stance with the blade behind his back.

A few moments passed as Kakashi's blade settled down and he stood from his crouched stance as Naruto's clones began poofing out of existence. The clones all vanished and Kakashi began looking around for his students taking note that they had hidden once again, apparently realizing that this plan was a failure.

`Naruto's chakra levels are way beyond anything I've felt from an enemy in years. At the minimum it's double my own. He must be drawing on the Kyuubi's chakra. Sasuke, clearly he's the one moving faster, apparently with some knowledge of thunder jutsu' Kakashi recalled one moment where one of the `clones' utilized one blade to attract the electrical attack and divert it through the other blade, harmlessly into the ground. As for Naruto's abnormal chakra readings Kakashi was referring to where his chakra levels should have been before training with the Zate. Kakashi had grown use to keeping his chakra sealed around the levels of a normal Jounin to use the extra boost as a surprise later in battle. The way Naruto was emitting chakra at this point would easily top his when fully released. Sarutobi had to have taught him how to tap into some of the Kyuubi's energy. Jinchuuriki or no the kid shouldn't have this much chakra.

Only a handful of seconds passed as Kakashi thought when he looked down to his side. His eyes opened in horror as he realized his kunai pouch was missing… “Oh hell no…”

Meanwhile over in the bushes the trio was meeting attempting to discuss a good way to get to the bells. That was of course before Sakura greeted both boys warmly waving with a familiar orange book in her hand.

“Sakura what on earth are you doing with Kakashi's stupid book.”

“You told me to look for a weak spot and I found it. He was so busy fighting you and protecting the bells he had forgotten about his most prized possession.” She laughed a bit grinning widely. The jaws of both boys dropped instantly as they realized the ramifications of this turn of events.

“You…You,? You got the book?” Naruto's shock turned to glee as he grinned and gave her a thumbs up.

“Yup and now we have a bargaining chip.”

“Sakura hand it to me.” Naruto stated in a blunt tone as he crossed his fingers and created a shadow clone.

“Why, it would be much safer with Sasuke.” Sakura retorted, clutching it tighter till Sasuke defended Naruto's plan.

“Do it Sakura, Naruto knows the Bushin Daibakuha. It's of more use to us if the book is in danger of being destroyed.”

“…Right good point!” She quickly handed it to the clone after remembering the lecture about that technique. Naruto made several more clones to monitor the area holding the seal to set off the clone should Kakashi try anything.

Back with Kakashi he slowly walked towards their location after locating them. Kakashi sighed in defeat knowing they had his book and would likely have it covered with tags by now. The question was, how? How on earth did they take the book, hell they took the entire kunai pouch. For genin to do this to a former Anbu captain was unheard of. When Sarutobi trained someone he certainly did it well…a little too well…

`They went beyond the bells and went for something more valuable, something they could use as the ultimate bargaining chip. Very good for genin. Yea I'll just end this now before something unwanted happens to my precious book. It is after all a signed first edition copy, and my favorite at that…They will have to pay once I have it back though. This is simply cruel and unusual.'

Kakashi came into view for the three genin hopefuls with his hands over hid head.

“Ok you three you got me, now hand me the book so we can get on with our lives.”

“Don't think were stupid Kakashi, give us the bells first.”

“Hai, hai” He waved his hand in a casual manor, reaching down to the bells and tossing them to the three. “You pass.”

“Your kidding me, it was that easy?”

“Yes and no. Not easy because you were the first team to ever do it, yes easy, because you somehow managed to get my book in the chaos back there. If you don't mind how did you do it anyway?”

“We continued our plan till you hit us with that jutsu. Sakura grabbed it without our knowledge or consultation while the clones were vanishing.”

“I see, well then its time for training. Since I can't let you fall behind Gai's team you cannot return home until you complete one thousand laps around Konoha. Five hundred on your legs then five hundred on your hands.” `eh I guess that's ok, Gai's always saying two and three.'

“n..nnn… nnnnn… NANI!!!!!” They all screamed in unison “ That's suicide!” Kakashi had already opened his book and started reading when he noticed that they said something.

“Hmm, did you say something?” Kakashi looked up from the book he was now reading before picking some earwax out of his ear. “No? well get started, I'll be right here.”

It wasn't a very nice night for the new genin.

---Earlier in the day, after Iruka's giving out of the team assignments---

The Iruka had just finished giving out the group assignments and was wrapping up a conclusion for the many proud Genin hopefuls. Not that they actually new they were `hopefuls.' “Alright, that about wraps everything up, everyone please gather into your groups and wait for your sensei out here.” The many new Genin complied grouping themselves with their new team and began talking away. Ino expressed deep dissatisfaction with her placement on her team though she knew it had something to do with their parents, so she couldn't complain too much. Shikamaru didn't relay care and thought it troublesome that Ino would babble on with no point. Couldn't she learn to be quiet?

Hinata didn't really show it but she was highly disappointed that she didn't manage to land on Naruto's team. She had spent a great deal of time watching Naruto train with Sarutobi for the past few years and felt giddy when she saw him put his skills to use in the graduation exams. If only they had been placed together then maybe… just maybe…The thought alone had her turning shades of red when Kiba placed his hand on her head, checking if she was getting a temperature. The embarrassment that she felt as a result of being caught in her thoughts was enough to make her feint and just enough to make Kiba shrug everything off as annoying habit of his new teammate. Little did he know how right he was.

Naruto was ecstatic, he was on the same team as Sasuke and the pair were bound to make a top-notch team. Sure there was the pink banshee to worry with but that could be remedied. Sasuke was pleased with his team lineup, sure Sakura was annoying but there was something about her…wait, no that wasn't right she was an annoying bitch with a mean right hook. How did he know? There was one interesting day about a year ago when Sasuke didn't think when trying to stop her from beating the blond to death. It wisent one of his favorite moments in the academy nor was it one Naruto would ever let him live down. Ok so Naruto could hit harder when he was trying but she had one hell of a temper. Unfortunately, despite the likening of their lineup what they didn't really know was that Kakashi was going to be late…so late in fact that they would be forced to wait in a classroom for the next two hours.

As for Team 13, Nazomishi's team, Hayate Gekko was punctual if sickly as was his norm. He arrived just as Iruka was finishing up his speech.

“You are… Team thirteen correct?” Hayate coughed twice in the middle of his sentence, earning a concerned look from Rei.

“We are. Are you sick?” Hayate coughed again, looking at his hand. He prayed the he wouldn't start spiting blood again anytime soon. They had just fixed that little problem in the hospital the other day.

“Unfortunately.” He cleared his throat, remaining silent for a moment before continuing. “Don't worry about me. The… hospital gave me some medication. I should be better soon.”

“You don't look it.” Rei added. She could tell it was bad, possibly poison from a recent mission. There were very few diseases that could cause the symptoms he obviously seemed to have. His skin seemed to be dried out and his eyes had bags under them. This could be from a lack of sleep but she could tell after the many poisons she had seen this was quite different and likely some form of poison. The Force was telling her it had to be.

“I'm fine, fallow me.” The group walked to the outer edges of the village to a highly forested park. “This should be a good spot.” Hayate seemed to be holding back another cough but held it back with some strain. Apparently he was in better shape when he neglected speaking. They had stopped in a small grove in the park where several benches were set up near a creek. All four of them promptly sat down with Rei between the two boys of their group and Hayate on a bench facing them.

“Alright, since were a team why don't we…introduce ourselves.” Hayate once again held back his urge to cough, drawing yet another look of apathy from his students. “I am Hayate Gekko, a special Jounin and Sword master of the Leaf village.” He cleared his throat before continuing. “My hobbies deal with swords and other swordsmen. I am getting married in a few months to Yugao Uzuki, my gorgeous moonflower.” Somehow the thought of Yugao pulled him through the long statement without any issues. Still he kept it short to avoid having another coughing fit. Hayate soon pointed to Nazomishi, expecting him to go first. The blue haired boy nodded and went on to tell them about himself.

“I am Nazomishi Mitsukoi. I am creating my own style of swordsmanship, which I like to call Sentoryu (thousand sword style) I like my team, especially Rei chan.” Nazomishi turned giving her a peck on the cheek, the two shared a look for a moment before Nazomishi continued. Hayate couldn't help but smile as it reminded him of his own love for Yugao. “I love combat and the thrill of battle but I hate those who kill without a good reason. It is my goal to better the world with my skill as a warrior by destroying those who would kill the innocent. It is also my goal to be the greatest sword smith the universe has ever seen.” Nazomishi's visage suddenly became dark and frightening as he continued with one last statement. “And I will personally annihilate any man, demon, or creature who dares bring harm to my friends such that they will know true fear.” Rei gave him a slightly annoyed look for a second, just before his countenance lightened up into a much more cheery one.

`Swordsmith, come to think of it Sarutobi did say I would find this team interesting.' “And you?” Hayate pointed to Rei and she perked up.

“I'm Rei Witok I am forming my own fighting style called Enshou Tekken (Fist of the Spreading Fire) It revolves around my bloodline which permits me to create and manipulate fire. I guess my likes and dislikes are the same as Nazo's. Only I hate it when Nazo gets too serious, don't I Nazo Kun?” She gave him a sadistic grin as he recoiled back in his seat a bit.

“I certainly wouldn't want to be that boy. A fire manipulator with that attitude could be painful.” “And you?”

“I am Aoshi Shinomori. I fight using Kaiten Kenbu and my ice bloodline. The only goal I have aside from those we have in common is to develop my rare bloodline. Unfortunately the books on it are few and dwindling. I like tea.

`Kaiten Kenbu? That's odd, I've never heard of that and I'm supposed to be the expert on the subject. The Hokage was right. They are strange. I should talk to Kakashi soon to learn some more about them. They certainly don't hold themselves like genin.

“…” Hayate seemed to be deep in thought but after what seemed to be forever Rei finally decided to break him out of his trance.

“…Uh earth to Gekko, aren't we suppose to go through some kind of evaluation.”

“….um…..Yes… Meet me at” Hayate closed his eyes as he held back the urge to cough one again. He continued as soon as he regained control. “Training ground 13 … 8 AM, dismissed.” Two of the three looked at the Jounin with confusion. How on earth could he still be on duty with that kind of injury?

As soon as Hayate had left and was out of range Nazomishi spoke up with a comment on the matter. “Yea… I'm going to contact the Zate. There's a good medic I know of that could help him with that. Too bad she's wondering around aimlessly right now.”

“He needs it. Wait did you say `wondering around aimlessly? How the hell is someone like that going to help?” Rei commented with concern turned confusion.

“You'll see…She's…interesting.”

---The Next Morning after the training from hell---

Beep beep beep beep beep beep beep SMASH

“Grrr stupid Kakashi, stupid Gai spandex freak.” Naruto mumbled to himself as he looked at the remains of his former clock. “Five… Damn it… I only get an hour of sleep and the stupid alarm goes off.” He immediately went back to sleep glad he had till ten to be at the Hokage's office to receive his first mission.

Sure enough ten o clock came and all three genin arrived groggy and exhausted with a gleeful Kakashi reading his favorite orange book.

“Kakashi, could you explain why your students are so exhausted. They look like they didn't get to sleep last night?”

“First day of training, they didn't finish their laps till late, it shouldn't last too much longer.”

“Good then for your first mission you will spend the day weeding yards in the Kimori district. They like their yards well kept so I suggest you do a thorough job.”

“Wagata, alright lets go.” Kakashi said taking pride in the annoyed faces of his students. Kakashi loved payback a little too much. A few moments later Hayate and his new students, Nazomishi, Aoshi, and Rei walked in raising an eyebrow when they took notice of the abnormally exhausted Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura.

“Wow what happened to you guys.” Rei snickered with her hand at her mouth holding back full blown laughter.

“Stupid Kakashi, Gai, freak, training.” Nazomishi immediately knew what Naruto meant while the other two seemed utterly clueless. Aoshi and Rei turned to each other with a questiong look before shrugging it off as something odd.

“Let me guess a thousand plus laps around Konoha, hands and feet?” They nodded as Aoshi and Rei seemed a little freaked out by the intensity of such training.

“Now you three let them go, they have a mission to get to and you have one, yourselves.”

“Yes Hokage sama” Team thirteen stated while moving out of the way for team seven to leave

“Alright for you I suggest you prepare yourselves for one of the most horrible jobs ever devised by our employers. It is a job so horrific many a genin team has run home to the academy in pain begging for a civilian life.” At this point Nazomishi and Hayate were about to break out into laugher knowing exactly what Sarutobi was likely talking about while Aoshi and Rei were wondering what the hell could be so horrible and still be classified a D-rank mission.

“You will retrieve Tora, the Fire lord's cat. She has run away again and must be returned unharmed.” That did it, everyone there broke out into complete and unhindered laugher with Hayate wheezing in between bouts of it.

“Oh that reminds me Hokage Sama one of our friends contacted us after meeting an old student of yours. I sent a reply back after seeing Hayate sensei's `problem' the other day. I asked if she could take a look at him…Well after some arguing, my friend got her to agree to make a short visit.”

“Tsunade!… She's going to … help… me?” Hayate stated in astonishment while coughing through every word.

“Wonderful it's about time she made a visit. How did they convince her?”

“Little gambling money and some good saki.” Everyone's face was faulted and blank wondering how some kids could get a hold of `good saki.' All the while Nazomishi and the others knew very well that Hiko was the saki expert in the Zate. How she ran into Hiko in Oto they didn't have a clue.

Missions for the next few weeks consisted of the same old boring D-rank missions. Weeding, cat catching, construction work, yard work, tree trimming, cross town delivery, all in all very basic missions to pound the mission system into their tiny little heads. Of course that all ended abruptly when team seven was called into the Hokage's office to meet an interesting old drunk for their first C-rank mission.