A thick fog consumed everything in sight as a little girl no older than five fled from a mob of men hunting her down. It was always like this she never knew what she did, she tried to be nice she tried to be good but no matter how hard she tried they just seemed to hate her. She was even kicked from her orphanage for reasons unknown to her. She had no friends no family, no who cared for her. She tripped as she tried to get away from her pursuers; she looked up into the blank faces of the villager. She thought of screaming but it wouldn't do her any good, no one would save her, only one had in her past ever tried and he wasn't here. She closed her eyes tightly. She felt something warm splatter over her, as she heard screaming. She wanted to open her eyes to see what was going on but she was too scared to. Finally she opened her eyes to see all the corpse surrounding her, she looked down at herself she was covered in blood.

"What is your name child?" a cool dead tone said she turned and looked up to see white pupil less eyes. The man wore a black hood with a yellow face mask; he wore black under armor and yellow armor his belt had a strange marking on it he had a sword strapped to his back. She feared this man she didn't know what he was playing at he had just killed her attackers and he didn't have as much as a scratch, and something inside her was telling her to run, run from this man, but her legs wouldn't carry her.

"My name is Naruko," she said weakly. After she was sure he wasn't going to kill her she asked a little more bravely, "what is your name?"

"My name," he said in the same cool dead tone, "you do not need to know my name you will call me Master or Sensei."

"Naruko get away from him!" called a man in a dog mask he was flanked by two more masked ninja.

"I have saved this child's life so there for it belongs to me now, stop me if you can," he said in the same cool tone. Naruko recognized the dog masked shinobi he had saved her before but she was tired of this village, she was tired of always looking over her shoulder.

"No," she whispered.

"Naruko what did you say?" Dog asked.

"No I am going with Sensei," she said her eyes hardened, she felt a large hand on her shoulder and they both vanished without a trace.

"Senpai what do we do?" asked a weasel masked shinobi.

"We tell Hokage-Sama the truth," the dog masked shinobi said as the three of them vanished.

Seven years later

A rave haired boy was in a particularly bad mood he was to be put on a team with two losers from his class this was just going to slow him down especially if he had any of those annoying fan girls, God how he hated those fan girls. He opened the door to the class moving to his usual seat in the back of the class room looking out the window wondering which of these losers he would be stuck with. Slowly students began to file in the class room. Finally the banshees arrived, "I win Ino-pig!" he heard Sakura shout.

"In your dreams billboard brow I won!" Ino shouted.

"My big toe crossed before you did Ino-pig!"

"Sasuke looks like your fan club is here," called an equally annoying voice but this one was surprisingly more masculine considering the source. He turned to glare at Idate Morino, who was sitting behind Kiba laughing.

"Sasuke-Kun, may I sit next to you?" Sakura asked.

"No I am going to sit next to him!" Ino shouted. Sasuke didn't say anything it didn't it didn't matter how many times he turned them down they did not leave him alone.

"Alright sit down so I can assign your teams," Iruka said the class fell silent. He listed off the teams and when he reached team seven he took a deep breath before he read it.

"Team seven Haruno Sakura, Uchiha Sasuke…"

"Yes," Sakura shouted.

"And Morino Idate," Iruka didn't even finish saying the name as Sakura's head hit the desk in disappointment, Sasuke felt like this could not be any worse. Why could he have someone like Hinata sure she was weak but at least she didn't bother him.

"Team eight will be comprised of Inuzuka Kiba, Aburame Shino and Hyuga Hinata. Team nine is Akimichi Choji, Nara Shikamaru, and Yamanaka Ino. Alright go to lunch and when you return you will meet your Jounin Sensei," Iruka said. Sasuke was the first one out of the room so he could avoid his fan club. At the end of lunch he went back to the room where the jounin came to collect their students soon the only ones left was team seven. Three hours later Idate was throwing a ball against the wall bouncing it back to him. When the thrown ball was about to hit the door it opened, hitting a grey haired jounin in the head, as he stepped into the room.

"You're late!" shouted Idate and Sakura.

"My first impression of you all… I don't like you," he said in a bored tone, Sasuke looked dumbfounded at their new Sensei, "meet me on the roof in five minutes," then he was gone again.

"So that is our Sensei?" Sasuke asked in shock. They all got to their feet and made their way to the top of the roof. When they arrived they say their sensei leaning against a rail.

"Well let's take this time to get to know each other, so tell me about yourselves" Kakashi said in the same bored tone.

"Like what do you want to know?" Sakura asked.

"Tell us your name, like, dislikes, hobbies dreams," Kakashi answered.

"Why don't you start show us how it's done," Idate said grinning.

"Very well my name is Hatake Kakashi, my likes and dislikes I don't wanna tell you my hobbies I have a few as for my dreams I haven't really thought about it, next is you pinkie," Kakashi said. Sakura frowned at her nickname.

"My name Haruno Sakura, I like…" she looked over at Sasuke blushing, "my dream…" she looked over back at Sasuke.

"Your dislikes?" Kakashi asked.

"Ino-pig and Idate," she said coldly Idate's head fell.

"Okay the dark and brooding," Kakashi said knowing this was going to an interesting group already.

"My name is Uchiha Sasuke, I don't particularly like anything, I hate many things, and I don't have dreams because I will make them reality, I will restore my clan and kill a certain someone," he said causing Idate and Sakura flinched slightly but Kakashi was already expecting that.

"Alright the idiotic looking one," Kakashi said smiling; Idate knew he was the last one so he knew who Kakashi was talking about.

"My name is Morino Idate, I like pretty girls, I dislike ugly girl's," he said smirking as he glanced over at Sakura, "I also dislike Sasuke, hobbies…well I can't tell you that, my dream is to be respected by my older brother."

"Just as I thought," Kakashi said nodding.

"What is that?" Idate asked scratching the top of his head.

"Oh nothing, nothing at all, but since I have you here I should tell you tomorrow morning you will have your first mission," Kakashi said.

"What kind of mission?" Sakura asked.

"A training mission, but I guess you could consider it more like a test," Kakashi answered.

"A training mission, but we have done things like that in Academy," Sakura said.

"No not like this, this test has a sixty-six percent failure rate, this test will determine your future as shinobi," Kakashi said and at this everyone was upset some just showed it more than others.

"So what was the point of the graduation test if we are just going to be test right away?" Idate shouted in horror, he had barely passed the first test.

"That was just to weed out the weaker of the bunch, now this is to find the best of the rest," Kakashi answered, "now for the details of the test, you will have to wait until tomorrow to find out meet me at the train ground seven at five in the morning, oh and one more thing don't eat anything or you will be sick," and with that Kakashi vanished.

Sasuke got up without a word heading home, where unlike the main part of the village there was no one who adored him there was no one to tell him how great he was, there was no one at all he was alone there was no one who understood the way he felt. All they knew was the little genius the last of the great Uchiha clan. But if he had been true genius he would have been able to save his family from him. That man was a true genius, he had to work hard for everything he had and he was not going to let anyone take that from him, no one at all.

The next morning he went to the training ground he was the first to arrive and all too soon his useless teammates arrived. There was still no sigh of their Sensei it was nearly five hours before Kakashi appeared, "Yo," he said as he appeared in a puff of smoke.

"You're late!" Sakura and Idate shouted at him.

"Sorry I got lost on the road of life," he said lamely, "well we have wasted enough time so let me get down to explaining what you are to do," he said smiling.

"Yeah and whose fault is that?" Idate asked sarcastically as Kakashi pulled out two silver bells.

"Each of you is to get one of these bells…" Kakashi started to explain but he was cut off by Sakura.

"But Sensei there are only two bells," she pointed out.

"Very good you can count, this insures that at least one of you will fail but there are no guarantees for the rest of you. You must take the bells from me and if you want any chance of getting them from me you have to be willing to kill me," Kakashi answered.

"What happens if we don't get a bell?" Sakura asked noticing the rope and the three lunches.

"Well you get tied to the stump while the rest of us eat out lunch in front of you," Kakashi said smiling, as they all looked even more horrified and realized why he had told them not to eat.

"You want to die very well," Idate said pulling out a kunai attacking Kakashi they all blinked and missed it, Idate had his own weapon pointing at the back of his head, and Kakashi had one of his hands on top of Idate head will his free hand held Idate's hand with the kunai.

"Well I don't hate you as much as I did, but I never said start. You have until noon, so…start," they all vanished. 'Well at least they know how to hide themselves.' Idate was trying to sneak away to find the food.

"Hello, may I ask where you are going?" Kakashi asked kindly, reading a book. Idate slowly turned around smiling weakly.

"I was looking for you," he said weakly.

"Well I have saved you the trouble," Kakashi said still smiling.

"Umm, can I take a rain check this isn't really how I envisioned fighting you," he said smiling up at his sensei.

"Oh and how did you envision fight me?"

"Sneaking up behind you taking the bells when you aren't looking then run away as fast as I can, kind of like I am about to do," Idate said getting up running as fast as he could. He looked back and Kakashi was not fallowing him. He thought that he must have lost him, but he was horribly wrong as he ran into something solid. He looked up into the masked face of his sensei. Kakashi was still reading his book like he had nothing better to do.

"Here goes nothing," Idate said attacking Kakashi with everything he had but unknown to him they were being watched by Sakura. Who could decide if she should help him or if she go look for Sasuke. As much as she disliked Idate she could just leave him alone, there was no way he could beat Kakashi on his own only Sasuke could do that. She threw a Kunai that Kakashi blocked with his left hand his book in his right hand open as he read it and fought his students.

"So Sakura you want to join in the fight too," Kakashi asked looking in the direction in which she was hiding. 'How did he know it was me?' she thought to herself, she didn't see much point in continuing to hide if he already knew where she was. She jumped out, kunai at hand and attacked.

Sasuke sat in the distance watching looking for his chance to make his move, and he saw his opening. Sasuke jumped from the bushes making his hand signs, "fire style: fireball jutsu," Kakashi managed to dodge the attack looking stunned at the young Uchiha. Sasuke saw the two bells lying on the ground he had managed to burn the string that were holding them. Idate and Sakura picked up the bells up and Sasuke felt his victory slip from his grasp, everything that he had worked for had just been taken from him.

Idate looked between Sasuke and Sakura, he took a deep breath, "Sasuke here take it," Idate said holding out the bell.

"You know that if you give me that bell you will fail," Sasuke said his figure tips inches from the bell.

"Well yeah but if it was for you and Sakura I would have been in big trouble," he said rubbing the back of his head with his free hand.

"You know what this means right," Kakashi said stepping up to them, Idate's felt the bottom of his stomach fall out as he looked up at his sensei who was baring down on him.

"What?" he asked trying to keep his voice from trembling.

"You all…pass," he said shocking them all.

"Wait what I thought you…" Sakura said confused.

"The point of this was to see how well you could work together as a team, grant it I don't think you all did it on purpose, but you still managed to do it so I can't in all honesty fail you," Kakashi said rubbing the back of his head.

"So what do we do now?" Sakura asked.

"I don't care, go work on team building activity or something. We will meet up tomorrow at the bridge at ten. One more thing," Kakashi said as they all started walking, they stopped and looked back at him, "I still don't like any of you," Kakashi vanished leaving them dumbstruck.

To Be Continued

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