'The basic rule of the shinobi is to able to hide yourself in the surrounding,' I thought to myself as I crouched on a branch halfway up on a fair side tree, making sure to keep my hair out of the sun. The downside to having such vibrate hair is that it stands out against the foliage. A little bit to my left I heard a rustle of leave. Looking over I could easily spot Sasuke through the branches, and just below him hiding in the bushes was the tiniest pink of pink hair. Fan girls are one of the few things I truly do not like, but I guess I will have to endure having one on a team, if I'm on this team for very long. That or teach her how to properly hide herself, as well as simple hand-to-hand taijutsu.

'We may all be in the same area, but it does not look like the other two are thinking about working together,' I noticed how both of them had their eyes trained on Kakashi, instead of trying to collaborate on a plan. Rolling my eyes, I silently jumped to the branch just above Sasuke's. He flinched when I did so, but didn't acknowledge I was there, so I sat down and gently tapped him on the back of the head.

"Oi, Sasuke, you do know that the only chance we, as genins, have to take those bells from a joinin, is for use to work as a team," I whispered to him when I finally caught his attention. But all he did was glare at me and rub the back of his head.

"I don't care if you really are a chunin or now. Stay out of my way, you ginger-baka."

'Oh hell no! That little jerk did not just say that! He needs some manners drilled into his smug brain!" I was just about to jump down a teach him a lesson, but then I got distracted by the sight of Naruto, my genius sensei's son standing in the middle of the open field yelling at the top of his lungs for Kakashi for to fight him.

"Umm... You're a bit off, aren't you?" Kakashi questioned as Naruto began to yell at him.

"The only thing a bit off is your hair cut!" I watched as Kakashi reach for something as he continued to talk. "Shinobi fighting lesson number one, taijutsu. I'll teach you about it."

'What is he reaching for. He doesn't need to use a weapon on these three. And if Naruto pulled one on him, Kakashi could easily deflect all of Naruto's attack with the metal plates on the back of his gloves...'

"What the fuck is that?!?!?!" I nearly yelled when I saw pulled out an orange book with an age restriction on the back. 'Did he turn into some sort of pervert or something?!'

I couldn't help my opinion of Kakashi fall drastically as I saw him 'teach' Naruto taijutsu, ending with Kakashi sticking his fingers up Naruto's ass as he yelled "Konohagkure ancient taijutsu supreme technique 'A thousand years of Pain!!'." And sending Naruto flying into the pond close by. Around the same time, I put my palm over my eyes from the sheer stupidity of what was going on, and just relied on my hearing. Which didn't stop me from knowing how stupid things were at that moment.

By the point that Naruto punched his own shadow clone, which Kakashi substituted with, I had heard enough and jumped out the tree and made my way closer to the tree where I knew Kakashi would set a trap for Naruto. I got there in time to have a prime view of Naruto bouncing up and down, feet tied to a tree, upside-down, failing like a fish. Not even Obito had fallen for that trick.

"Think before using a jutsu. Or it will be used against you." Kakashi said as he picked the bell up from the ground. "Also, shinobi should see through all types of deception. Idiot."

"I know all that stuff!" Naruto shouted back, but Kakashi responded in a tone that oozed 'I am better than you, and I know it'. Which was also the tone that I associated with solely him for a majority of our friendship with Obito. It actually set me at ease seeing that part of him again, because lately I've felt like I was seeing someone I didn't know.

"I'm telling you this because you don't."

"Fa-!" I nearly screamed out from my spot un the trees as I watched several kunia and shuriken imbed themselves into Kakashi's face a neck. I know he wasn't stupid enough to be actually hit, but the genjutsu he must have casted at the same moment was too real. I had seen too many good people die the exact same way in the war to know how to see between a fake and real death.

After the disguise on the substituted log wore off, revealing Kakashi's second trap to get Sasuke, and in turn Sakura, to reveal their hiding spots. Both Sasuke and Sakura ran off to go and find new hiding spots.

'I think I may have to go and find one as well, because I may have given my spot away as well. Though, Sasuke was more likely to have thrown those weapons, so he'll be next on Kakashi's hit list. And Sakura shortly after because she'll be probably very close by again.'

Deciding it was safe to approach Naruto as he was cutting the road free, I slowly walked up to him.

"Damn it!! I'm not going to fall for his stupid traps again!" he yelled as he righted himself in the air, only to land on another trap and get strung back up upside-down. "Dammit! The exact same trap! Right under me!"

"You know, things may work out better if we team up Naruto," smiling I leapt up to the branch there the rope was tied too, and cut him loose, only for him to this time to land on his head. "I know neither one of us can get Kakashi on our own, but maybe if we team up we can get the bells."

"Ow! What was that for Harmony?" He yelled at me from the ground. I laughed slightly and jumped down beside him.

"Well, I thought with you being an official genin now, you should at least know how to not land on your head. You did it just thirty seconds ago too." With a glare, Naruto looked at me, casing me to hit his head slightly to stop what he was going to say. "Okay so I am pretty sure you didn't hear anything I just said a minute ago, so I'll repeat it. Let's team up. If we do, we'll have a better chance of getting some bells from Kakashi."

Naruto just looked at me before shaking his head as he got up. "No thanks, I don't need any help. I will prove it to everyone that I can be hokage, and then get acceptance from them."

As he ran off in a random direction after that, I flicked my bangs away from my eye and sighed.

"So getting the bells is now a challenge of getting acceptance from the village. Kinda strange, but it makes sense on a weird level. And for a child that is a mix of Minato-sensei and Kushina, it fits." I smiled for a few seconds before I heard a scream off in the distance.

'It's too soon to have taken down Sasuke. Must have been Sakura he got to first.' I took on in the direction I heard her scream. 'Damn it Fang. I know you're efficient, but you're going to fast for these three to comprehend what they need to do.'

---FF---

"Sasuke-kun.... Sas... Sasuke...." Sakura was whimpering when I found her, curled up in the fetal position on the ground with tear tracks running down her cheeks. I wiped the wetness away and brushed a stray leaf from her hair. 'So Kakashi used a genjutsu on her. And I'm guessing it was quiet a cruel on.' I held up the release hand sign and used my chakra to disrupt the jutsu, freeing her.

"SASUKE!!" was the first thing she yelled out when she opened her yells and sat up. I knelt down and placed a hand on her shoulder to steady her when I saw her sway slightly.

"It's okay Sakura, Sasuke is not here. It was just a genjutsu Kakashi placed on you. It's alright."

"Wha-? Harmony? What's going on? Where are Sasuke-kun and Kakashi-sensei?" she asked confused when she finally realised we were the only ones there.

"Neither one is here, just as you can see. Sasuke is most likely fighting again Kakashi right now. Look, we need to team up together if we want to have any change at getting the bells, and if we do-" I had to cut myself off before I swallowed a cloud of dirt, which Sakura created as she ran off to find her crush.

"God, when it comes to Sasuke, that girl sure can move," I muttered out loud to myself and to the one who was hiding in some tree teen feet. "And you should know that to successfully sneak up on someone, hiding your chakra should be the number one thing to do."

I heard Kakashi laugh as he jumped out of the tree he was in. "But where would all the fun be if I did that?" I turned and shrugged.

"I don't know, seems as much fun as fighting a team of genin over a bell, as it is right now. Don't you think you're going a little too hard on them?" I tried to joke, but the end fell flat when I looked him in the eyes. We stared at each other for a few seconds, not saying anything, before I had to look away.

"Has it really been thirteen years since we last saw each other?" I asked as I looked at the dirt. "Must have been hard on you, first losing a teammate and a childhood friend on a mission during the war, not knowing if I was dead or alive, and then loosing Obito in a brutal battle the same day. Losing two in the same day must have been torture, but loosing the last three, Rin and Minato, along with Kushina, and probably countless others, must have been hell."

"It was tough, I learned how to cope over the years. But I still go to the KIA stone never everyday I can. Did you know that they nearly put your name down on that stone the same day they put down Obito's? The only reason you're not was because no one saw you die. So on the file you've been labelled as M.A.I. But everyone thought that you had died that day."

A humourless laugh escaped me. "I'm almost glad that they didn't. So you know how much harder it would be trying to get used to life when your name in on the stone that honours the dead? And try telling people your name then! That would be just plain cruel."

"In a way yes, it would be." I looked back up at him and saw that he was smiling. And for some reason, that smile made my sad mood almost turn to anger. I brought my fist together and cracked my knuckles.

"You seem to be coping fine. Tell me, was this whole hundred-and-eighty degree turn in personally a coping mechanism? Actually, you don't have to tell me, I'll find out for myself, as well as if anything else about you has changed, you closet-pervert."

After I said that I dropped my hands and took a run at him, only to be pined down in under ten seconds, with him on my back.

"Closet-pervert? Now that's mean. And don't be like Naruto, it's not like you to rush things and not take your time. If you didn't, then I would have time to give you back something I think you would like. It's something I found thirteen years ago." Kakashi got off me and reached for something in his back pockets...

And yeah, that'd where I'm ending it. I'm quiet proud, I turned on old 1115 word chapter into 2070 words :D