(A/N) To get this straight, I suppose you can just read this one and not read Half Clans and Rejects, but you'll get a bit more of the story if you also follow Akiko's story. I'm attempting to make sure the two line up, so one or the other is not too far ahead.

"Alright, introduce yourselves," Kakashi said with a long-suffering sigh.

Sasuke grunted but began. "My name is Sasuke Uchiha. I like high powered fire jutsu and large explosions. I can use medical ninjutsu, and I'm best at healing burns caused by fire and explosions. I plan on killing my brother, hopefully by blowing him up."

Naruto grinned. "I'm Naruto Uzumaki! I want to be Hokage, and make really big explosions! I also wanna test if the Kyuubi's chakra is explosive and if it can be used to make explosive tags."

Sakura sighed, facepalming. "My name is Sakura Haruno. The two idiots over there are my friends and I keep them from blowing up Konoha. I know medical ninjutsu, and also specialize in burns. I don't like Ino-pig, and when the boys decide to put fire elemental chakra into explosive tags. I'm the only sane person here."

"You assume my level of sanity?" Kakashi asked, fake hurt.

Sakura gave him a deadpan stare. "Yes, I do. If you dated Akiko, you can't be very sane."

"And we've known her for about two minutes," Sasuke added. Not looking insulted or surprised in the least.

"Why don't you just meet me at training ground 7 tomorrow at 8?" Kakashi offered faintly.

Naruto grinned happily. "Sure Sensei!"

Kakashi decided it was best to just shushin off the roof, leaving the three there.

"See you tomorrow I guess," Sakura said, shaking her head. "Come on boys, let's go back down all those stupid stairs."

They showed up at 8 o'clock, and to their surprise, Kakashi was already there. He was glancing around nervously, clutching a book to his chest. When he noticed them, he carefully tucked the book away into a pouch. "Alright, your task is simple, get these bells from me." Kakashi held up two bells.

Sakura tilted her head at the bells. "Is there a reason? And are there boundaries in place?"

"If you don't get a bell, you go back to the academy," Kakashi said, eye-smiling.

Sasuke narrowed his eyes at Kakashi. "Explosives?"

"Low grade. We aren't going to kill him." Sakura interrupted whatever Kakashi was going to say.

"I was going to say, use what you have. Come at me with the intent to kill, or you won't get a bell."

Sakura glared at the two boys, who were giving her puppy dog eyes. "Low grade. No killing Sensei. Or leveling Konoha."

Kakashi paled slightly. Maybe he shouldn't have told them to come at him with intent to kill. "Your test begins now," he said, attempting a flat tone. He wasn't sure if it came across correctly though. "You have until noon."

It didn't come across correctly. All three genin realized he was nervous, and evil grins grew on Sasuke and Naruto's faces, while Sakura looked at him with pity.

Naruto's grin only widened as he pulled out one of his tags, before throwing it on the ground in front of them, and running off, Sakura and Sasuke behind him.

Sakura tried to dart through the foliage as quietly as possible when she was separated from her team. She noticed them on the other side of a clearing, their heads together. They were drawing a seal at the same time, and it worried her. She frowned at the image, squinting real hard. Hm, that seal isn't one of the approved low tier ones. That's a rather big indicator. "Kai!" She shouted, locking her fingers together. The image faded, and she simply stood still, listening for the inevitable explosion.

Sure enough, the sound of an explosion rippled out across the forest. She began running, heading toward the source of the explosion. The boys had better not have combined an explosion with a fire jutsu.

They had. She could tell because of the scorched ground. It was too spread out to be just an explosion, and too weak to just be one of Sasuke's fire jutsu.

"Boys, what did I say about combing fire jutsu and explosions?"

"We had to," Naruto protested, almost entirely underground next to Sasuke, who was in a similar position. Only their heads were above ground.

"Alright, Sasuke-kun, Naruto, substitution jutsu out of there, would you?" Sakura sighed. Both boys disappeared, then walked back into the clearing. "Alright, we can't beat him on our own without leveling Konoha and killing him. There fore, we have to work together."

"I'll take half a bell," Naruto volunteered.

"They aren't going to separate us," Sakura said flatly. "They know better than that. If they don't want Konoha leveled by accident because one of you wasn't obeying the rules I set in place, they'll keep us together. Also, since when have you heard of two genin and a jonin as a team?"

"Now that I think about it, no, I haven't," Sasuke said, thinking hard.

Naruto shrugged. "I dunno, I was just chased by ANBU, not any teams."

Sakura sighed at the mention of Naruto's pranking days. She'd put a stop to it, of course, and the ANBU were grateful to her. She looked at him expectantly.

"What?" Naruto asked.

"Finish your camoflague seal yet?"

Naruto's grin turned foxy. "Oh yes, all complete. Proven to be able to fool most Chuunin and some jonin."

Sakura smirked at Naruto as he placed a seal in each of their hands. "Place on clothes and activate?"

"The seal will transfer to the fabric, so maybe place it on the inside of your jacket," Naruto advised.

Sakura sighed but placed the seal on the inside lining of the jacket she was wearing. She'd taken to wearing one with storage seals on the inside of the pockets because she frequently needed to confiscate certain seals from the boys. She'd already confiscated a few that were high tier, plus one that shot lightning. And a few other weirder ones. In one of her inside pockets, she had a couple of seals that were helpful. Like a few more storage seals. And one that was a henge, but the henge didn't wear off unless you removed the seal.

Sasuke smirked triumphantly, disappearing into the foliage. Sakura and Naruto quickly followed, locating Kakashi. Naruto stuck an explosive tag to the ground next to the distracted Jonin and snuck back to Sakura and Sasuke. Naruto and Sasuke exchanged pyromaniac grins, and Naruto blew up the tag.

Sakura's first thought: 'Kami, I hope we didn't kill our sensei.'

(A/N) Got you! Kakashi shouldn't be dead. Probably.