Hey ho. That's right; it's Rori with a totally brand new Naruto fic! I just love Naruto!
But contrary to most of them, it's not really about romance and stuff, it's mostly a humour fic, and it's to be taken lightly, the characters don't act as they normally do, well, some of them do, but that's not the point.
The point of the above; It's not a serious fic, there is much OOC-ness and a couple of OC's
Ah and now the disclaimer is a bit complicated, so it's going to be said by my wonderful Gaara because he's better at things like that, excuse me while I go weep in the corner.
Gaara; Naruto and the characters involved do not belong to Rori even though she would have liked to think it up. However the original character's that are introduced later are hers. Kemurigakure however is part of the Naruto Land. The description however is entirely made up and is part of Rori's imagination of it, because there in no description.
See look, my Gaara is so smart. Yeah my Gaara, so back off girls, I'm the Ultimate Gaara Fan Girl, bwahahaha. HE'S MINE! ALL MINE!!!
AND IT'S THE SAME STORY WITH KAKASHI! Because every 13 year old wants a 29 year old extremely hot guy.
But I'd rather have Gaara, but having both of them is okay too.
I AM LOOKING FOR A BETA READER FOR THIS FIC; if you enjoyed this chapter in the story and would like to beta read the rest of them please drop me a private message right away!
And now, on with the story.
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Sakura's point of view.
You know, things have been kind of quiet lately. It's been about two years since we had to rescue Gaara from the Akatsuki, and really, nothing much has happened since then. Naruto, Sai, Kakashi-sensei and I have been doing a few missions here and there but to be honest even they weren't that challenging. Though somehow we got wound up in one of Konahamaru's missions, they were trying to get that wretched cat with the ribbon back to it's owner. I swear, that cat is even more spoiled than I am.
And that's saying something.
Though it's kind of peaceful, you know to be able to kick back at home. I'm still learning from Tsunade-sama, and I act as Naruto's anger management when his ANBU rejection letter comes back, it's going to take a while for Naruto to understand that they only take on members above the age of eighteen, especially after what happened when they took on Itachi when he was thirteen. Though, Naruto deems himself a special person and so thinks that he should be allowed in early.
Boys, eh?
Right now, I'm sitting under my favourite tree in Konoha Park, why might you ask? Because I had to get away from Ino-pig somehow. Yeah, our rivalry is still strong even if it isn't about Sasuke anymore, because we're pretty sure he's not coming back. Though I wish he would, I can't believe he can just forget everything, I should stop, I get depressed when I think about him. Come to think about it, it's getting late and I should be getting home, the suns sinking into the horizon after all, wait, I'm speaking in a poetical way. I must be even more tired than I thought.
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The next morning, in Tsunade's Office.
Tsunade looked over her piles of paperwork. It was first thing in the morning and she was sitting at her desk in her squashy chintz arm chair with a extra strong black coffee in one hand and four piles of paper work. Well, three piles and one letter on its own. The three piles and letters were ranked. The biggest pile on her left side was 'Unimportant for the moment' and the next pile was 'More important but can be put on hold' the pile after that was 'Should be addressed to soon' and the last one which comprised of that letter was the 'EXTREMELY IMPORTANT CANNOT BE PUT ON HOLD' with all the capital letters.
It was unusual for Tsunade to have extremely important things to address, after all, Naruto had stopped graffiti-ing every clean surface of Konoha long ago, and anyway, all assassination missions were given to the ANBU to take care of, Tsunade had long since grown tired of completing tonnes of paperwork to give to the ANBU who just lost them immediately after. So what the fuck was a letter doing in her most important pile?
Tsunade stared at the letter for a few seconds before calling her favourite little apprentice. "Shizune? Shizune! I need you for a second!"
It didn't take long for the brunette's head to snake around the door to look at the Hokage. "Yes Tsunade-sama?" Shizune said trying to keep a certain amount of calm about her, she had been making coffee for Tsunade all morning and if she had to make another cup, Shizune swore she was going to burst.
Tsunade picked up the letter in the extremely important pile and waved it in Shizune's face, much to Shizune's displeasure. "Who sent this?" Tsunade inquired.
Shizune studied the letter carefully for a moment before taking it out of the Hokage's hands. Examining the paper carefully, she turned the letter over. The seal on the letter was blue with the crest of the Kazekage. Shizune momentarily looked at Tsunade as if she was stupid, but quickly inverted her gaze. "The seal suggests that the letter is from the Kazekage." Shizune said retaining her practical demeanour whilst handing back the letter to Tsunade, who looked at it with an expression of surprise.
"Gaara? Sent me a letter? Must be important." Tsunade proceeded to open the letter at once; after all, Gaara wasn't one to send letters often. Tsunade groped for her extra strong cup of black coffee before realising it was empty. She looked up and smiled a sweetly serene smile at her apprentice, now secretary. "Shizune, be a dear and make me a new cup of coffee." She went back to her letter as soon as Shizune grabbed the cup off the Hokage's desk.
Shizune's expression changed to one of muted rage and anger as soon as her back was turned.
Tsunade smiled again as soon as Shizune had left the office, Tsunade did enjoy having a secretary very much, but on to more pressing matters, the letter that Gaara sent her. Tsunade ripped it open and read it to herself in her head with a lot of squinting. Gaara's illegible scrawl was very hard to read, they boy might have been a ninja prodigy, but god he needed some handwriting lessons. The last sentence made Tsunade sit up very quickly. "It seems that this letter is more important than I thought, but the Jonin ninja's would never do something like this, some maybe but…"
Suddenly Shizune's head appeared around the door once more. She quickly walked up to Tsunade's desk with a brand new cup of coffee. "Here." She said with a little venom in her voice, but it was hardly recognizable. "And by the way, most of those requests in the unimportant pile are requests from people like Naruto, Lee etcetera with requests for more challenging missions."
"Ugh, I would be rich is requests were money." Tsunade sighed; she was almost at the end of her tether with the Chunins. But then she had the most brilliant idea, while she stared at the letter from Gaara. "If the Jonin ninjas wont go, then I'll just send the Chunins, EUREAKA! Shizune! Get Kakashi and Gai immediately!" Tsunade rubbed her hands, if everything worked, she would be shot of the troublesome Rookie Nine + Team Gai, for a good while, allowing her to get on to more pressing matters, like where they should build a super casino.
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Later that day at the Ichiraku Ramen Bar.
"Another bowl please, Ayame-sama!"
"Naruto-kun, I think you've had enough…"
"I'll tell you when I've had enough, lady, another bowl!"
As usual, Uzumaki Naruto was stuffing himself with ramen, who could blame the boy though? The seventeen year old had to have food, he was a growing boy. But today he was eating because he was miserable. This was the fourth time that the ANBU had said he was too young, and this time they had threatened him that if he applied again they would permanently strike him off. He was only six months off eighteen years old; those guys were really strict on age.
And when our little blondie wasn't in the mood for company, who should come along? Of course! It's Team Gai, minus Gai of course. TenTen and Lee were up front talking but waved enthusiastically when they saw Naruto. Neji, who had held back from the other two suddenly gave a big smirk and came to join Naruto's side quickly. "Naruto, you look down." Neji's tone of voice was one that could aggravate the most patient of people, and Naruto was never the most patient of people. "Did the ANBU reject you for being too young again?"
"Hah, no, they were just waiting to get some real missions, then they said they'd recruit because they know how great I am!" Of course Naruto always knew how to up the tables to his favour, Naruto grinned with a mouth full of ramen back at Neji who looked somewhat disgusted. Of course, it was then when TenTen and Lee managed to catch up.
"Naruto-kun!" Lee bounced in with his typically bright nature. "Rejection is all part of your youth! You need not fear it! Youth is… umph." Lee was stopped from saying anything else as TenTen clapped a hand over his mouth. Lee was definitely more sensitive about the feelings of others than Neji, but he did say the wrong things and Naruto definitely wasn't in the mood.
But the sharp minded TenTen knew exactly what to do. And what might that be I hear you say? Yes, that's right, she changed the subject. "Hey Naruto, where's Sakura and Sai?" She said as she took a seat next to him.
Typically, Naruto shrugged and said something incoherent when quickly gained him in inquiring glances from all three of his friends. Naruto swallowed his mouthful, "No idea, probably training."
"Oh." TenTen said, which was pretty unremarkable but then again, she had just taken her hand of Lee's mouth causing him to erupt at the sound of the word 'training'.
"Speaking of training. Neji! My eternal rival, I challenge you to spar against me! The loser will accept defeat gracefully while the winner may take all the glory but commend the loser on…" For the second time, Lee was cruelly cut off.
"I'll spar, if it shuts you up." Neji said glaring at his said opponent, while TenTen grinned roguishly.
"Naruto, do you feel like watching?"
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Later that day
Tsunade was beginning to sympathise with Team Kakashi, was their sensei always this late? It was the one aspect which put Gai on her good side today and Kakashi on her bad side, unless Gai did something stupid and made her mad, which was likely to happen since Gai was quite clueless.
"My prompt arrival is what sets me apart from people like Kakashi." Gai grinned showing all of his pearly white teeth with that unmistakable sheen. It was so shiny that Tsunade had to put her hand in front of her eyes just so she could see.
Of course, then Kakashi arrived, on time? No, not in a million years. Though with the way he walked through the door, it was like he was perfectly on time. "Gai," Kakashi very slightly nodded at his 'eternal rival' and Gai very slightly nodded back. "What was it that you wanted me for, Tsunade?"
Tsunade, who was about to burst into a very dramatic 'Why the hell are you late?' scene but completely forgot about it as soon as Kakashi had mentioned what she had called them for. A crazy twinkle came into her eyes, as she prepared to launch the mission at them; this really was her ticket for some free time. "Yes, well." Tsunade cleared her throat dramatically for effect. "This morning a received a letter, a very important letter from the Godaime Kazekage, and as you both know the Sunagakure and Konohagakure are allies and it seems Gaara has come up with something quite important."
Tsunade walked around from the front of her desk to behind it where she sat on her chair. "Gaara realised that though there have been shinobi from a place called Kemurigakure, the Village Hidden in the Smoke, no one has ever been there." Tsunade gestured to a map which lay flat on her table. "Nor is it marked on the map, it seems that we must find this village, as we never know if it's threat, though it probably wont be as it will also probably be very small," Tsunade stood up dramatically. "BUT, IT MUST BE FOUND!" Tsunade banged her fist on the table dramatically also.
Gai was the first to make a comment on Tsunade's actions. "Wonderful, it's a brilliant idea; you should get the ANBU on to it right away!" Gai smiled again and made two thumbs up signs with his hands in a way of showing how good an idea it was.
Kakashi however, saw the more logical sides of it. "Yes, that's all very well, but what does this have to do with us?" Kakashi said this in a very 'cool' pose, leaning against the wall with his arms crossed and eyes closed, it really is amazing how many times he talks with his eyes closed. This 'coolness' made Gai erupt into muted anger in his mind.
"I was getting to that." Tsunade was quick to snap back at Kakashi, not only was he late but he was also getting on her nerves, he was meant to act surprised and excited, it looked as excited as he would if he was watching paint dry. Damn the man's nerve. "As the ANBU consider themselves too high up to be fit for a mission like this, and the Jonin level shinobi would think of it as not challenging enough, I have decided that the only people left to send is…" Tsunade paused for effect. "The Rookie Nine plus Team Gai! They will now become… THE HIDDEN LEAF SUPER SONIC EXPEDITION TEAM!" Tsunade looked at the two men with a somewhat idiotic smile etched onto her face.
Kakashi remained somewhat unimpressed.
Gai was still registering what he had heard.
Tsunade's smile was falling with every second.
And it was Kakashi who broke the silence. "So what did Gaara bribe you with exactly?" Kakashi cut right to the chase, he realised that Tsunade had to have been bribed; of course, he didn't find that hard, with all that superior intellect locked inside his head.
"Bribed!? Me?! NEVER!" Tsunade tried her very best to look innocent and offended but you never really knew with Kakashi, he was just too good, and Gai was still registering everything. "It was three boxes of exclusive Sunagakure chocolates." Tsunade finally said with a quiet voice and her head hung low. "But I really, really, really like Sunagakure chocolates especially the exclusive ones!" Tsunade put on big watery eyes, they just had to do it, or her free time and those chocolates would be just a whimsical fantasy.
"I think…" Tsunade and Kakashi turned to Gai who had just spoken. "I THINK WE SHOULD DO IT!" Gai did the shiny teeth, thumbs up thing for the second time causing both Kakashi and Tsunade to squint. "We'll be traversing into the unknown! Going boldly where no Leaf Shinobi has gone before. Curiosity is connected to YOUTH! FOR KONOHA, WE MUST PROCEED!" Gai punched the air striking a very bold pose.
Kakashi sighed, this could only end badly, perhaps the 'Hidden Leaf Super Sonic Expedition Team' wouldn't even find Kemurigakure, oh well, if Tsunade said so. "Fine then, we'll go."
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Next time on The Hidden Leaf Super Sonic Expedition Team; Reactions, Responses and the Sand Siblings.
Now my lovelies, I must go and do my Italian homework, until next time!
