I do not own Naruto, just my original stuff.

Today was our first day after the break and we were back at full speed. Naruto was hoping that we would get another exciting mission but the Hokage had assigned us several D-ranked missions. And nobody was enjoying them, except Kakashi sensai, who was torturing me and Naruto even more because of our surprise meeting with his girlfriend. Our missions were very simple but Naruto always ended up in a mess, trying to outdo Sasuke. In short our teamwork is a mess and we are nowhere close to going to do a higher rank mission.

"Hey Hikari. I am heading home. coming with?" Sasuke put a hand on my shoulder and brought me back to the present. And that was basically Sakura hitting Naruto on the head and the both of them shouting and making a fuss and Kakashi sensai disappeared probably really done with us for today.

"Yeah I'll come with you."

"Hey Naru-chan! We are heading out. See ya later!" I waved at him and he waved back "See ya Kari-chan!"

"Hey Sasuke-kun, so you want to have lunch with me and you know work on our teamwork?" Saukra came in front of us at a lightning fast speed and looked at Sasuke, shyly, sort of.

"You know Sakura you should use all of this energy to train and make yourself stronger. In reality, you are worse than Naruto. " Sasuke said annoyingly and walked away. Sakura looked shocked and whispered "I am worse than Naruto."

"Hikari! Are you coming?" Sasuke shouted from the end of the street.

"Oh yeah!" I shouted back. I looked back at Saukra. " Hey, Sakura. Don't take it too hard. What Sasuke was trying to say is to just train a bit more so that we can progress as a team." Sakura looked back up at me, determined.

"Can I train with you sometime?" Sakura asked. I smiled.

"Sure. Do you want to meet up tomorrow at training grounds 10?"

"That would be great." Sakura smiled at me for the first time. 'I think we just became friends'

"Great, I will be leaving first. See ya." I waved at her and then ran towards Sauske who was looking at me.

"What were the two of you talking about?" He asked after I reached him. We started walking.

"I know she might seem annoying to you but you shouldn't be so harsh with her. She is our teammate after all." Sasuke gave me a look that said 'answer the question I asked'. I sighed.

"We will train together tomorrow and if things go well then we might do it regularly." I said

"Hn. Its your choice. But don't bring her to our house." I rolled my eyes.

"Yes brother." I said playfully. He smirked.

I heard some familiar voices shouting in the distance. I looked at Sasuke, he nodded and we went towards the noise. I could see the vaguely see the people standing there. I recognised Naruto and Sakura immediately. There were three kids but that wasn't my major concern. There were two other ninjas and they didn't look friendly.

I turned towards Sasuke. "Sasuk-" But he wasn't there. 'Where did he go? That baka, always trying to do things himself.' I went towards the group by myself. Then I spotted Sasuke sitting on a tree nearby. 'Really? Showoff.' I rolled my eyes

"-down here! I hate show offs like you!" The guys with the mummy said and he looked pissed.

"Yikes, what did I miss." I said standing next to Sakura. She jumped.

"Hikari! When did you come here?" She pointed towards me.

"Well you see there is this thing called walki-" A very sharp pain went through my stomach. "Stop it Kankuro. You're an embarrassment to our village." A dark and raspy voice said from the tree next to Sasuke, who looked shocked. "Losing yourself in a fight like this... How pathetic."

"Gaara" The boy with face paint looked like we could wet his pants any second. The boy-Gaara jumped from the tree and stood next to the other ninjas.

"Listen, Gaara, it was that boy who started it. I was just-" Kankuro started stuttering

"Shut up. Or I'll kill you." I widened my eyes. 'Wow, that was a bit too extreme.' "Sorry guys" He looked at us "We came here a bit early but we are not interested in playing kids games. Lets go." He turned around and started to leave. "Wait!" They stopped. "I can tell from you headbands that you guys are from the sand village. Even though we are allies you are not allowed to be here without permission. State your purpose, depending on that we will decide whether to let you go or not." Sakura said confidently. I mentally face palmed. 'Even though she has a point we wont be able to do anything. They are on a completely different level from us.'

"Talk about clueless." The girl with the spiky, blond hair scoffed. "Don't you know anything? We are genins from the hidden sand village and we are here for the chunin selection exams" Sasuke jumped down from the tree.

"Hey you. What's your name?" He pointed towards the guy with the gourd. The guy looked at Sasuke and said "Gaara of the desert. I am also interested in your name"

"Uchiha Sasuke" Both boys looked at eachother, promising for a good fight. Gaara looked at me and our eyes met. His eyes widened. He was about to say something but was interupted by Naruto. "Hey! Do you want to know my name?!"

"Not interested. Let's go." Our eyes met once again and they left. I narrowed my eyes. 'What's up with him?'