"I'll go see Sakura later." Kusaki said. He jumped out of the window and ran off to the Hidden Leaf Forest.

"The Forest of Death....." Kusaki looked up to see the challenge that lie ahead of him.
He walked up to the gate and tried to open one of the doors, but, it was locked.
"Darn." Kusaki said. "I can't jump this fence either."

"It looks like you need some help." A persons voice said.
"Huh? Whose there?" Kusaki asked.

He looked around the area for the person.
"Over here." The voice said.
Kusaki looked behind him to see an adult Jonin with white hair and 2/3rds of his face covered by a mask. He was reading an orange book.
"Are you the person who just talked to me?"
"Why, yes. In fact, i've heard about you, Kusaki Endo." The Jonin said.
"How do you know me?" Kusaki said.
The Jonin walked up to him. "There was word around that a Shunin from the Sound Village escaped Orochimaru's mansion and come here."
Kusaki was amazed by the Jonin's wealth of information.
"And that the Genin has the Cursed Mark on him"
Kusaki immediately grabbed the Curse Mark on his arm, stunned by how much this Jonin knew.
"H-how did you....?" Kusaki stuttered.

"Well, the purpose of being a ninja is to gather information. That's how."
Kusaki nodded.
"I also heard that you and Sakura were attacked by the waterfall by three of your former comrades from the Sound Village. Thankfully, Sakura was there, huh?" The Jonin said.
"Yes." Kusaki looked down, humiated.
"Hm? What's wrong?"
"It's just.......I'm able to fight.......but I just couldn't....." Kusaki said. "That's why I need to become stronger. Because I want to protect my new home, Konoha!"

The Jonin was taken in by his words and closed his book.
"You're just like him.......just not as obnoxious." The Jonin said to himself.
"Did you say something?" Kusaki said.
"No. I didn't. Anyway, I can get you in the Forest of Death."
"Really?"
"Yes. Oh, and i'm sorry, I didn't introduce myself. I am Kakashi Hatake."
Kusaki bowed in respect. "it's nice to meet you, Kakashi-san."

Kakashi walked over to a small hut and pressed a button, which opened all of the gates.
"Oh, and by the way," Kakashi said. "If you need more training, you can ask me any time im here."
Kusaki smiled. "Thank you." He said.

He ran into the forest at a blazing speed.

Halfway into the forest, Kusaki got lost. "Wait. Where am I supposed to go??" He said. Suddenly he heard rustling.
Kusaki was suddenly surrounded by the three Sound Ninja who attacked him and Sakura the other day.
"TenguBaz, Yorimoto, Ran!" Kusaki growled.

"Hey." TenguBaz wheezed. "You think because you had somebody frm the village beat us up that we were gonna let you go?!"
"Leave me alone!" Kusaki yelled. "I want nothing to do with Orochimaru!"
"Face it," Ran panted. "You're wet behind the ears, Little Kusaki."
"Yeah!" Yorimoto coughed. "I bet all three of us could beat you in the state we're in!"
"Just get out of my way!" Kusaki said.
"Heh. You're not with your girlfriend anymore, so this is gonna be easy." TenguBaz said.

Suddenly, TenguBaz quckly performed handsigns. "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" TenguBaz spat out a long stream of fire. Kusaki jumped out of the way and hovered in midair. He felt an extreme pain in his back and was suddenly hurdeling toward the ground. He looked up and saw Yorimoto kicking his back. "Not this time." Kusaki said. He grabbed Yorimoto's foot and threw him to the ground like a ragdoll, causing Yorimoto to crash into the earth. Kusaki landed on a tree branch and looked around. However, the three Sound Ninja were not there. Kusaki looked around in a panic to find them, and hopefully prevent a sneak attack.

Suddenly, everything was blurry and Kusaki felt lightheaded.
He then saw a desert-like field with skulls and bones all over. The sky was blood-red and the moon was black.
Suddenly, black vultures came down and started to peck the skin off of Kusaki's bones. Kusaki tried desperately to fight off the vultures, but couldn't get them to go away. He screamed in pain as the vultures tore him apart.

However, in real life, Kusaki was only tiwitching and thrashing about. Suddenly, the three Sound Ninja approached him. Knowing he was caught in a Genjutsu, the ninja combined their weapons and chakra to use a killing jutsu.

"This time, we won't miss." TenguBaz said.

"Fang over Fang!" A voice yelled out. What seemed to be a rotaing, gray cylinder struck the Sound ninja, causing the killing jutsu to be cancelled.

"Who are you?!" TenguBaz yelled out.
Suddenly,a group of insects bound all three of the ninjas together.
"..Who are we, you mean." A young man in a gray overcoat said. "Nice work, Kiba."
"Well, it's about time you showed up, Shino." Kiba said.

Kiba and Shino looked back at Kusaki, who was thrashing about and screaming.
"Who is this kook?" Kiba said.
"That must be Kusaki." Shino said.

"Hey! We were talking to you over here!" TenguBaz said.
"I can't take being here anymore!" Yorimoto said. As if gaining herculean strength, he broke out of the insect hold and knocked Kiba and Shino into the ground. He ran full speed to Kusaki and punched him in the face, adding to the pain he was already feeling from the genjutsu. Yorimoto continued his assault by using a kunai to stab Kusaki repeatedly.

However, Yorimoto's vision got blurry all of a sudden. His arms went to his side as if being bound by a large boa constrictor. He saw that tree branches were binding him to a tree. Suddenly, a woman with long black hair and red eyes wearing a composite dress came out of the tree. Yorimoto panicked and squirmed around.

"What?!" TenguBaz said in disbelief. "Ran! Did you use a genjutsu on him too?!"
"No!" Ran protested. "It has to be someone else!"
"Find them then!" Suddenly, insects bound TenguBaz and Ran together again.
"You're not getting away." Shino said. "Kiba, get Kusaki out of here."
"Got it." Kiba said. He went over to Kusaki and restrained his arms as he was thrashing about.
Kiba pulled Kusaki over to a group of bushes.
The same woman in the composite dress and a young lady with blue hair and a fleece jacket were waiting behind the bushes.
Kiba tried to keep Kusaki still. "Hold still, darn it! Hey! Are you even listening to me?!" Kiba yelled.
"Kiba." The woman said. "He's obviously in an illusion."
The woman held her hands up together. "Release!"
Suddenly, Kusaki calmed down and stopped thrashing. However, his real wounds caused him to pass out.
"Hinata," The woman said. "I want you to stay here with Kusaki."
"Alright, Kurenai-sensei." Hinata said.
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<b> 4 hours later....... </b>
ANBU had arrived to the Forset of Death and had taken the ninja into custody again.
They then took Kusaki back to the hospital where he was treated for his injuries and rested for the next day.

He woke up the next morning and noticed he was in the hospital again.
"Again........?" Kusaki wondered. "I couldn't beat them even when they were like that.......?"
Someone knocked on the door.
"Come in." Kusaki said.
It was Sakura.
"Kusaki." Sakura ran to Kusaki and hugged him. Kusakigroaned.
"Oh, sorry." Sakura laughed nervously.
"It's ok." Kusaki said.
"What happened?" Sakura said.
Kusaki explained the whole situation to Sakura, about how he was told to choose another instructor to teach with....
"So, you won't be training with Lady Tsunade and I?" akura said.
"No. I will. It's just, I don't want to cause Konoha any more problems. And I don't want to rely on you or anyone else too much." Kusaki said.
"I understand." Sakura said. "I'll still be here whenever I don't have a mission and we can train then."
........and about how the Sound Ninja attacked him a second time.

"What?!" Sakura yelled.
"Yeah. They got out and attacked me." Kusaki said. "Luckilly, someone saved me."
"Who?" Sakura said.
"I don't know." Kusaki said.

Kusaki felt lightheaded all of a sudden and fell asleep.
Sakura wrote a note and left the hospital room.

20 minutes later, Kusaki woke up and found the note on his lap.

"Kusaki, I need to go on a mission. But I should be back within an hour or so.
Don't leave the room. I still need to give you your initiation.
Sakura"

"That's right." Kusaki said. "I wonder what this initiation is."

After he read the note, Kusaki.....