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AN: For those of you who hate OC's deal with it, if you don't like it don't read it. For those of you still here enjoy the story….

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto so please don't kill me!! (dodges kunai) hey watch it!!

(off scene) Sorry!!

Another Demon

Prologue… "It's your choice child, you could take me in and help me live, or you could stay here and die beneath the sand." A voice whispered from the shadows.

"I don't know it's so scary," a small voice sobbed "but if I die now all they did for me would have been in vain."

"Yes, then the power that could be rightfully yours will be taken by your enemies." The voice continued.

"If I take this power then what will I become?" the child asked quietly.

"Nothing more or nothing less than yourself." The shadow answered.

"Then I choose life if nothing else, I will live to see the next sunrise." The child whispered. A deep chuckle rang in her ears.

"Excellent, lets get started."

A small robed figure stood on the sand dunes far above the burning city. A gust of sand hid her from view for but a moment. When it cleared she was gone, and the city continued to burn beneath the twilight sky.

Kohona Present Day…

"Congratulations Inara, you are now a genin." Said a man with a scar across his nose giving the girl a pat on the head.

"Thank you Iruka sensei" answered the girl, as she inconspicuously tried to get out from beneath his hand "I'll try to do my best."

"I'm sure you will Inara, good luck." Said the scarred man happily. She smiled once more at her one time Academy instructor, and gave a short bow to the other tester Mizuki. She grabbed a black headband and returned to the waiting room. As she slid open the door she tapped the metal leaf symbol on her forehead.

"Piece of cake." She said smirking arrogantly. The other kids grumbled at her declaration. She went back to her seat and was about to fall asleep when she heard the boy next to her talk.

"You're too troublesome Inara." The boy drawled.

"I know Shikamaru," replied the girl "that's why you all love me." His only response was a sigh as he went back to sleep.

West Side Kohona…

She walked the streets quietly, watching the residents go about their lives. For a moment she stopped, watching a family go by. Something in her chest twinged.

Just don't think about it, keep walking, it will be okay.

I know Kasaki; it just hurts sometimes…more that I'd like to admit. She kept on moving giving no indication that she was having a conversation with her inner demon. She eventually spotted her apartment building. Home sweet home she thought bitterly.

Next Day the Academy…

She watched the show as the blonde headed idiot, better known as Naruto, screamed at the class heart throb.

Naruto Uzamaki, the class clown prankster; he's a loud mouth who claims to be the future Hokage. He loves ramen, and can't even produce a simple clone. I wonder how he passed. She turned her attention to the "heart throb".

Sasuke Uchiha, wanted by every girl, yet he rejects every single one of them. Last of the Uchiha clan, he's now rookie of the year. He's a skilled ninja who already knows multiple fire jutsu's. Sasuke is pretty much a cool headed arrogant bastard, and damn, I think I'm in love.

She looked away hoping he hadn't seen her appraising him.She turned so fast that she accidentally bumped Naruto, who was crouching on top of Sasuke's desk. He was less than an inch from Sasuke's face when Inara's leg caught him in the chest, and sent him flying into the wall.

"Damn it Naruto, quit climbing around like a monkey!" she shouted.

Sasuke sighed; Thank god for her quick reflexes. Their attention was brought to the front of the room when Iruka sensei came in.

"Alright boys and girls you are all now ninja of Kohona, SO SETTLE DOWN!" he yelled. Silence gripped the room.

"Good, now for your squad assignments." He continued.

Squads will only slow me down. (Sasuke)

I hope I'm with Sakura. (Naruto)

I'll be with Sasuke and shove it in Ino pigs' face. (Sakura)

Forehead girl will see that I'm the only one for Sasuke. (Ino)

Munch... chips…Munch… (Choji)

What a drag. (Shikamaru)

I want to be with Naruto. (Hinata)

Good god, don't the idiots realize that even the ANBU black Ops work in squads? (Inara) ( I labeled who said what for all the bakas who don't know the show very well)

As these various thoughts floated through the room the teams were announced.

Inara blocked most names out until a certain one was mentioned.

"Squad seven will consist of Sasuke Uchiha…" Every girl that hadn't been placed waited with baited breath.

"Naruto Uzamaki…" Sasuke's eyebrow twitched.

"… and Inara Ayanami, your squad will be lead by Kakashi Hatake" Inara remained passive. I don't know if this is a blessing or a curse. she thought.

"Squad eight: Kiba Inuzuka, Hinata Hyugga, and Shino Aburame, you'll be lead by Kurenai Yuuhi."

"Since there's an acting squad nine on to ten, Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, and Sakura Haruno, your leader is Asuma Sarutobi." Screams, groans, and demands of team changes were heard at the news. Immediately Sakura and Ino began ranting about how Inara was placed with "their Sasuke". Remaining quite calm, even though the fury was burning beneath her exterior, she gave a reply.

"Listen you harpies, Sasuke is his own person unless one of you two is dating him you have no right to call him "your Sasuke" so lay off. Even if he doesn't show it, he hates dealing with you fangirl types." For a moment everyone in the room was speechless, allowing them to hear Sasuke give quiet thanks.

"No problem, they were starting to annoy me." she mumbled. Leaving a deflated Sakura and Ino behind, squad seven left to the holding room to await their new sensei.

Wait who did he say our squad leader was…her eyes widened as she remembered…Kakashi! Fan-fucking -tastic, this will be interesting to say the least.

Holding Room…

A skeletal child sat on the crowded dock quietly, her sandaled feet thumping gently against one of the support beams. Clutching a large claymore to her chest, her eyes fearfully watched the people coming and going. Finally at dusk a silver haired, mask wearing, teenager appeared in a swirl of leaves.

"You the Ayanami? He asked. The small child nodded.

" The Hokage's waiting for you." the teen stated. She stumbled in exhaustion as she go up and was caught by the teen.

"You haven't eaten or slept in awhile have you?" he asked her quietly.

"Nope, don't need food, don't need water, don't need sleep." The child answered giggling.

"All humans need to eat." He said setting her back on her feet.

For the first time she looked up, the hood of her robe slid back, revealing her insanity filled eyes.

"Not human," she said grinning like a madman "not anymore." With one last giggle her eyes slid up into the back of her head, and she promptly passed out into his arms. He sighed as he picked the small child up bridal style.

"Why do I always get the weird ones?"

She tried to forget the memory, it was the first time she met Kakashi. His lateness coupled with the lack of food and sleep had driven her into a temporary spell of insanity. When she awakened a few days later in the hospital she apologized profusely for her actions, but Kakashi just smiled and forgave her. (Well she assumed he was smiling, she couldn't tell because of that danm mask.) That was the last time she had seen him, well until now at least.

The minutes turned into hours, as Naruto screamed about ramen, Inara balanced a kunai on her finger using chakra, and Sasuke brooded about…something. After two and a half hours of ramen related topics Naruto ran out of things to say. To relive his boredom he stuck an eraser in the space between the door and the frame. Finally after three hours of purgatory, Kakashi arrived. As he opened the door the eraser fell and Naruto yelled something along the lines of success or direct hit. Upon closer inspection he saw that the kunai that had been balancing on Inara's finger had pinned the eraser an inch above Kakashi's head.

She pushed herself up from desk and retrieved the kunai from the wall, as the eraser clattered harmlessly to the floor she said,

"You really shouldn't sell your self short Hatake."

He leaned down and said "That's Kakashi sensei to you Ayanami." She shrugged and went back to her seat. She turned to look back.

"I might consider it," she said grinning "If you were on time for once."

"My first impression, or second" he shot a look at Inara "Is that I hate you." The entire group face faulted into the ground.

Bastard still full of himself I see.

He gave a smile and said "See you on the roof."

Academy Roof…

"Okay let's start with the introductions, first the orphan." Squad seven all opened their mouths to speak and looked at each other in disbelief.

"Oh, oops, I meant the mental one." Once again they all opened their mouths to speak, the whole group sweat dropped.

"Alright the Uchiha." Kakashi sighed. Sasuke was slightly annoyed about being the mental orphan as Kakashi so tactfully put it, never the less he continued.

"I'm Sasuke Uchiha; I have few likes and many dislikes. My hobby is training. I don't have a dream because I think that they are just a waste of time. My goal, is to kill a certain man and resurrect my clan."

Resurrect huh? If he was really serious about that, with his fan club he could have already populated half of Kohona. Wait…what? Inara thought staring off into space as she contemplated this conundrum.

"Okay, now the annoying one." Both Naruto and Inara went to speak, and the group sweat dropped again.

"The blonde." Kakashi mumbled as he covered his face with hand.

"Believe it! I'm Naruto Uzamaki; I like ramen and dislike the three minutes it takes to cook. My dream is to be the greatest Hokage, and then everyone will have to respect me." Naruto shouted at the top of his lungs.

"And last but not least the kunoichi." Kakashi said giving his upside down U smile.

"I'm Inara Ayanami, I like spending time with my best friend, and I dislike ignorant people and orange book reading perverts who are always late. (a.k.a Kakashi) My hobbies include talking to my self, training, and reading scrolls." She said with a smile, the guys in the group double sweat dropped at the pervert and talking to my self part.

"Okaayyy…we have a survival test tomorrow that has a pass fail rate of 66. Arrive at sunrise to training ground seven, and don't eat unless you want to throw up." With this last piece of advice Kakashi waved, and disappeared in a swirl of leaves.

"Wait we never asked him to introduce himself…danm it all." Naruto grumbled. Inara just shrugged, no use crying over spilt milk. Especially when the milk had something to do with the copy-cat ninja. (If you got that stupid pun kudos to you)

Training Ground Seven…Next Day…

She stared into the pond below her; she had arrived on time which meant that she was early. Her reflection looked back up at her, she was sure hell wasn't normal, not by any standard. Her hair was pale silver, like Kakashi's, but more white than grey. It was held back by her headband so it wouldn't obstruct the view from her golden cat like eyes. Her face and body were slender, revealing well toned muscles. A black long sleeved shirt covered her upper half, and black cargo pants the lower. Hiding the demonic looking tattooing that covered her entire body.

Her shuriken and kunai holder strapped to her left leg. A long claymore was sheathed on her back, with the handle over her left shoulder. The sheath was crimson with designs in gold, separating into seven different vines, or tails depending on how you looked at it.

She felt her team mates approaching, arguing by the sounds of it. She disappeared from the pond, and reappeared at the training grounds. When they finally came into view, she smiled slightly and waved. Naruto ran up to her, when he arrived his eyes widened and his jaw dropped.

"That's one big ass sword Inara." He shouted slightly amazed.

"Not really, it may be larger than the average katana, but it's much smaller than a zanbatou Naruto" she explained.

"Inara, what's a zanbatou?" Naruto asked.

"Never mind." She said sweat dropping.

"Hn." Sasuke mumbled clearly uninterested in Naruto's stupidity.

"Where did you get a claymore? Their not exactly a Ninjas weapon of choice." Sasuke asked, as he turned to Inara.

Her eyes misted over "It came from my family, before they left me all alone." Naruto and Sasuke both decided not to pry, they had their own memories that they didn't want others to know.

"Well I'm guessing it's pretty light, giving the fact that you can carry it around like that Inara." said Naruto.

"Yeah, it doesn't weight that much actually for it's size, can't be more than three or four pounds." stated Inara as she drew the weapon out of it's sheath.

"Hey can I hold it Inara, PLEASE!!!" Naruto begged.

"Sure, just don't cut yourself, the blade is razor sharp." Inara handed the sword over to Naruto handle first.

"Awesome!" THUD. Inara wince as her precious blade hit the dirt.

"Hey, what's the big idea, Inara I thought you said this sword was light!!" complained Naruto, who was clearly having trouble lifting the blade from the dust. Sasuke walked up next to Naruto and said, "Did you even consider the fact that the sword is light, but your just too weak to lift it? Let me try." Naruto sulked as he haded the blade to Sasuke.

"Holy shit, Inara this sword isn't light" replied Sasuke as he nearly fell over. Inara took her sword back, and held it up with one hand.

"Well that's weird," she said as she threw it in the air and caught it with the opposite hand, "It's always been feather light to me." shrugging she rested the blade across her shoulders, which nearly resulted in her head being cut off when Kakashi appeared in a swirl of leaves.

"WHY THE HELL, DO YOU HAVE TO KEEP DOING THAT KAKASHI?!"Inara screamed as she rubbed the back of her now sore neck, "Jeeze I broke the skin.Grumbling she went over and pouted by a training log.

"Anyways... welcome to the test. To pass you have to get one of these two bells from me, you have until noon and if you fail you will be sent back to the academy for more training okay...go!" giving his trademark masked smile. In a puff of smoke the students vanished, leaving behind a lone blonde giving an awkward grin

Training Ground Seven One Hour Later...

Looking to her left she could see Sasuke up to is neck in dirt, looking a head that had been chopped off and left behind or something like that... And to her right a screaming Naruto was hanging from a trap looking like a demented blonde squirrel.

WTF? She thought keeping her self alert for Kakashi's inevitable arrival. With lightning fast reflexes, her sword batted away a handful of kunai.

"Is it time to play already Kakashi?" Inara smirked, drawing her claymore across the ground. She leapt away swinging her sword behind her cleaving a log in half, that had just moment before had been her sensei. The fight went on much like this, with Inara batting away at things that Kakashi had replaced himself with.

Near by she could her the clear ringing of the alarm, signaling the end of the test.

"Damn it!" she groaned, slumping to the ground in defeat.

"Better luck next time Inara" Kakashi said reading from his perverted novel.

"Seriously, how can you expect one little genin to... so that's what this is all about."

"Bingo"Kakashi chirped vanishing in a puff of smoke. The birds in the trees leapt to the air as a twelve year old's stream of curses filled the afternoon sky.

She returned to the training logs to find Naruto tied to the center log and Sasuke looking very annoyed sitting to the left. Suddenly Kakashi arrived in a swirl of leaves.

"Well I have one thing to say to you three." said Kakashi, who was clearly upset that they team had failed, "all of you can relax because I've decided not to send you back to the academy. "

"AWESOME WE ALL PASSED! WE'RE GOING TO BE NINJA!!" Screamed Naruto who was still tied to the log.

"Instead of more training your going to be dropped from the program permanently" remarked Kakashi calmly.

"WHAT! WHY?" All three genin were enraged.

"Face it," Kakashi continued, "none of you will ever become shinobi, because you can't think like one. You missed the whole point of this exercise. Sasuke you thought that you team mates were lower than you, and would only slow you down. Naruto you attacked alone the way your used to doing things, and Inara you just stood around waiting for me to attack. Not even bothering to help your team mates when they needed you the most. If all three of you had come at me at the same time you might have succeeded in getting at least one of the bells."

"Wait a minute sensei there are three of us and only two bells, either way one of us would have had to go without lunch, even if we had been able to get them"stated Inara in a matter of fact way.

"Exactly, I pinned you against one another to see who would put the team before themselves, because a team that thinks only of themselves is a dead one. Now I'll give you one last chance. Rest here and eat but don't give Naruto any, he brought this upon himself by trying to sneak lunch for himself during the test. I'll be back shortly, then the test will continue only it will be much more difficult than the first time." and with that Kakashi left the genin to their lunch.

Well that's the end of this Chap. I apologize for any cheesiness that you might have experienced. But since this is my first fan fic PLEASE R&R I need to know what you people think.

P.S. I'm really slow at updating so don't expect another chap. any time soon. Sorry (dodges shuriken) HEY I SAID I WAS SORRY JEEZE!!! I HAVE A LIFE TOO YOU KNOW!!! EVEN IT IS WEIRD AND TWISTED!! Did I just say that out loud?