Obito reached the training ground, breathing heavily, "Sorry sensei...." he began, only to find that sensei wasn't there.

"Where is sensei, Rin?" he asked.

"I don't know. Kakashi-kun and I have been waiting for a while. But that doesn't mean its okay to be late Obito." Rin scolded him.

"It's not my fault. There was a cat stuck in the..."

"Save it." Kakashi-teme interrupted him. "I don't want to hear your washed up excuses."

"I'll show you washed up, teme." Obito moved to attack him, only to stop at the sight of Minato-sensei approaching them, along with two teenagers, maybe a year or two two older than him. Both of them, a girl and a boy were Uchiha and looked similar enough to be siblings.

"Good, all of you are here. We have new additions to our team. These are the new genin - Uchiha Karasu and Uchiha Sarada." he gestured to his companions.

"Your parents must really suck at naming. Seriously, Crow and Salad?" Obito blurted out, before he could stop himself.

Sensei looked at him reproachfully, while Rin tried to do damage control, "They are no worse than usual names. Even Kakashi-kun's name means Scarecrow."

"Don't bring me into this." Bakashi grumbled.

"Right." Sensei cleared his throat. "So, we need to know about each other. Why don't you two introduce yourselves?"

It was Sarada who stepped forward. "My name is Uchiha Sarada. I like Papa, and......" she coughed. "I dislike people who don't take being a ninja seriously. My hobbies are training, reading and....." she coughed again. Obito hoped all this coughs didn't mean that she was a stalker fan girl. "My dream is to become the first Uchiha Hokage." she ended with a flair.

It took a moment for Obito to procees that.

"Hey, you can't do that. I'm going to be the first Uchiha Hokage." he protested.

"And who are you?" she asked.

"I'm Uchiha Obito and I'm going to be Hokage, the first Uchiha Hokage. And unlike you I've already been a genin for two years."

She sniffed. "I'll have you know that circumstances beyond my control were responsible for me not being a ninja until now. I'm pretty sure I am stronger than you."

"Would you care to prove that?" he asked. No way, she was going to beat him to his goal.

"Sure." she answered, cracking her knuckles.

"Obito, Sarada-chan, calm down. You'll get a chance to spar after introductions." Sensei interrupted them. "Your turn Karasu-kun."

"I'm Uchiha Karasu. I like dango and onigiri with sea weed. I dislike war. My hobby is training and my dream is to find a way to stop wars." Karasu said, solemnly. Atleast he wasn't an arrogant bastard like most of the clan.

Rin introduced herself after that, which Obito didn't listen to, as he had already heard it a few times and he was excited to show Sarada who was the boss.

As usual, Bakashi introduced himself with a grunt of his name.

"Time to fight." he said, excitedly.

"All right, then. Every one except Obito and Sarada chan, stand back. Hajime." Sensei started the spar and Obito had to dodge a kick aiming for his head.

She was fast. But sparring with Kakashi all these years has given him experience fighting fast opponents. He was about to attack, when she punched the ground and the ground broke into chunks of earth.

Holy shit.

Obito was distracted by this, when she able to bypass his defenses and put a kunai to his throat.

"Sarada wins." Sensei called. "Was that Tsunade-sama's technique Sarada-chan?"

"Something like that." she answered, shooting him a smug smile. Obito would have lashed out at that, but this girl could break the ground with one punch. It was probably best to be on her good side.

Not that he was giving up on his dream. He just had to get stronger.

"Now Kakashi vs Karasu. Hajime." Sensei started the next spar, while he was distracted. He probably wanted to find the abilities of the new members of the team. Obito really felt bad for Karasu, Kakashi was going to decimate him.

Obito had to eat his words, when one minute of taijutsu later, Kakashi forfeited without any reason. He looked towards Rin to see if she understood what happened, but she was as confused as him.

"Genjutsu." Sensei murmured. "At this level, without using the Sharingan. It's pretty impressive."

What?

Kakashi was defeated by a genjutsu?

Kakashi was good enough to dispel genjutsu with such an ease, it seemed he was an Uchiha. That was the reason Obito never used genjutsu against him, despite it being his clans specialty.

But somehow Karasu had trapped Kakashi in a genjutsu that was crippling enough, that he was forced to forfeit.

Just who were these people?