After a mission goes haywire Naruto is left as a fox. Will they be able to undo what was done and how will the village cope with a fox running round town. Also the rest of rookie nine wonders where Naruto is. Will they find out? Also is Naruto's life still in danger.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
Sitting in his tree Kakashi watched as his team waited for him, the first team he had ever passed. Kakashi smiled at this. He watched as Naruto tried yet again to get Sakura to go out on a date with him and he watched as yet again Sakura brushed him off and went to have a one-sided conversation with Sasuke. Kakashi frowned as a presence moved up beside him and relaxed as he recognised who it was.
"Checking up on him?" he asked.
Iruku sent him a look before saying, "The Hokage has given your team a C-ranked mission." Kakashi was going to ask why Iruku was delivering the message but thought better of it. He had seen firsthand what Iruku was capable of when someone brought up his attachment to Naruto. He did not want to go there. When Iruku vanished to go teach his class Kakashi moved to go to his team. A smile touched his face followed by a frown. They had given up waiting for him and were training by themselves. Two of them were throwing shurikein and the third member, who was defending himself with a kunai. They were taking in turns being the one to defend himself. "It is an effective training technique" he mused, "But a dangerous one at their skill level."
Jumping down, "yo" he greeted his students. Instead of their usual greeting, he simply receiver glares from all three. Ignoring this he handed out the mission details to them. Their expression brightened considerably. "C rank again" Naruto complained, as expected "why can't we do another B rank mission" referring to the bridge builder mission. Sasuke just "hned" and sakura just read the details and then focussed on Sasuke again. "Get your gear and meet me at the gate in 20mins and don't stop for Ramen" Kakashi said aiming his last comment at Naruto. Who just shrugged and offered his sensei a grin. Kakashi scowled in return.
The team then split, heading in their respective directions to gather what they would need.
Their mission was to simply gather herbs needed to replenish the medical-nins stores, they should not encounter any missing ninja and it was only a C rank mission because the area the herbs were located in was populated with many dangerous predators and was prone to rockslides and earth quakes. Kakashi smiled under his mask. It should only take a day or two to get there, a few days to find the correct herbs and collect them and then one or two days to get back. Noticing the time Kakashi headed for the gate where his impatient students were waiting.
Without saying a word Team 7 moved out towards their destination. Kakashi knew the silence would not last long, not with leaf villages #1 knuckleheaded ninja on his team. Sure enough Naruto got annoyed with the silence and steady pace and was throwing in a flip every few steps which, pretty soon pissed of sakura.
"Would you knock it off!" she yelled. In reply Naruto simply grinned and did another flip.
"Dobe" muttered Sasuke, Kakashi smirked at the antic of his students but was going to tell them that a ninja is suppose to be stealthy when Naruto made another flip, misjudged the landing and crashed down through the trees, landing on the ground with a loud bang and a cry of pain.
All three remaining members of Team7 exchanged glances that held concern, exasperation and a glint of amusement, before bouncing down towards their fallen teammate/rival. Landing on the ground they scanned the area for Naruto and where surprised when they didn't see him. Senses alert Kakashi called out "Naruto where are you?" His voice held a slight trace of worry as he looked for his student.
"Up here" came the pained yet amused reply. Kakashi, Sasuke and sakura all looked up to see Naruto hanging from a branch. Sasuke once again muttered "Dobe" as Naruto landed next to them and leaned against the tree, effectively keeping his weight of his right leg. Sasuke noticed this and moved forwards but Kakashi was quicker
"Are you injured?" he asked
"Nope" Naruto replied moving to stand on both legs and the whole team tensed ready to catch him when he fell, He didn't.
"Are we gunna get on with the mission or what?" he asked clearly confused at the concern his team was showing. They all nodded and followed Kakashi, once again with Naruto flipping about.
"Will he ever learn?" Sakura thought to herself. Then the rest of the trip to the grove of herbs was uneventful and they arrived there in a day and a half. Kakashi surveyed the area in an attempt to find a location to set up camp out of harm's way. Seeing none he sighed and motioned to the safest place he could see. His team obediently moved forward to pitch the tents when the ground moved underneath them. Kakashi and Sasuke lunged forwards tackling Sakura and Naruto to the ground but not before the earth proceeded to bury them alive.
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