"Yo."
"YOU'RE LATE!"
"Aha, sorry about that. You see I..."
"IT'S A LIE!!!!"
"Alright, hold on..." Kakashi begun, "You haven't let me finish yet."
"BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO LISTEN TO YOUR LAME-ASS EXCUSES!" Naruto and Sakura chorused.
"Anyway..." Kakashi started again. "There was this cat stuck up a tree, and..." He rambled on.
Naruto sweatdropped. "H...He's just completely ignoring us."
"Ahahahahaha! No, seriously, the real reason I was late is because I was talking to Tsunade and..."
"Sama."
"Hmm?"
"That's Tsunade-sama to you." Sakura glared at her former sensei, a kind of glare that would stop even the scariest monster in it's tracks. But Kakashi was used to it by now so...
"Yeah." Kakashi said seemingly unfazed. That was the thing about Kakashi, you could never tell what he was thinking...because of that stupid mask of his. Someone should burn that mask...anyway...
"You guys have a mission." The duo moved closer.
"Yeeeesss?" Naruto asked, his curiousity taking over.
"Yeah.Yup, you two have a mission."
"About?"
"About? Well, all I know that it's long-term, and that you'll be working with Neji.."
"Oh." Naruto gave a disheartened sigh. "I would rather work with Hinata-chan..."
"Anko...and myself."
"Anko... AAH! YOU MEAN THAT CRAZY-PURPLE-HAIRED-BLOOD-LOVING-VAMPIRE FROM THE CHUUNIN EXAMS!?!?!?!?"
Kakashi pondered a while. "...Yeah, that sounds like her. Anyway, you need to be in the Hokage tower by 10 o'clock."
Sakura looked at her brand new Gucci watch which she spent, like, YEARS savng up for. "...It's 1:00."
"Oh. Better hurry then!" Kakashi said, giving that 'u' smile thing that he always does, and then promptly poofed away.
"...One day..." Sakura muttered, "I'll burn all his Icha-Icha books." A slightly evil smile creeped up on Sakura's face. Just then, Naruto, who had been unusually quiet up until now, decided to speak up.
"Oi, Sakura-chan?"
"Hm?" Sakura grunted.
"Don't you think Kaka-sensei's acting a bit...OOC(Out Of Character)?"
"Really? in what way?"
"Well, I dunno. He just seems...more hyper than usual."
"Oh.Well, I didn't notice. C'mon, we're late." the pink-haired girl replied beore jumping towards the hokage tower.
