Update: I re-edited the whole thing since I thought it would be better to get the script-like dialogue out as someone suggested :). Please gimme some more reviews so I can improve my work. Thanks!!
It wasn't long since Sasuke had ran away from the village to Orochimaru, leaving Sakura and Naruto behind. But then again, life still goes on even without your friend. Naruto knows this and trains hard, hoping that one day Sasuke would come back to the village.
CHAPTER 1 – Memories of misery
It was raining. The clouds covered every single bit of the sky, leaving no trace of the sun visible. Two Konoha shinobis jumped from one branch to another. They moved swiftly through the woods without making much sound. Suddenly, the male shinobi raised his hand and signaled his partner to stop. His partner, a female kunoichi stopped a few branches behind him. They stayed silent for awhile before the male shinobi told her to start moving again.
Drip, drop, drip, drop….
The Konoha shinobis sailed through the woods. Suddenly, a few kunais and shurikens flew towards where they were. The male shinobi dodged them and landed behind a bush. "An ambush?" He thought. The kunoichi joined him and accessed the situation. They stared at the place where the weapons came from. "Nothing…?" The shinobi focused harder and scanned the damp area in front of them.
Suddenly, a ninja dressed in full black clothing attacked them from behind. The male shinobi jumped backwards into the opening. "Shit!"
Kunais and shurikens shot at him in every direction. There was too many for him to dodge all of them. The ninja who previously attacked him threw him a mysterious object. It was very much a glass ball. Inside it, the shinobi spotted, was an explosive tag. The ninja formed a seal with his hands, "Its over… Konoha shinobi!"
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Kakashi's eyes shot wide open. He waited until his eyes focused on the ceiling of his apartment. He slowly wiped the sweat off his forehead with his hand. "A dream…?" The images were still very clear in his mind.
Kakashi closed his eyes.
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Tsunade tapped her heels as she waited impatiently in her office. "Shizune! Is Kakashi not here yet?"
"It seems that way…" Shizune answered as she helped tidy away some documents on the desk.
Tsunade grunted. "How long is he going to make me wait for him?" She shuffled the documents lying in front of her and handed them to Shizune. She sat back in her chair.
There was a knock on the door, Tsunade looked up, "Come in!"
Kakashi peeked into the room, not surprised to find a rather annoyed-looking Hokage. He stepped into the room with his hand on the back of his head. "Good morning, Tsunade-sama. Well you see… a black cat crossed my path so…"
"Cut the excuses. Here's the mission for your team." Tsunade handed Kakashi a document. Kakashi opened it and read it. Tsunade carried on explaining as Kakashi's eyes scanned through the document. "Asuma's team is also going to join you with that mission."
"Protecting the priestess of the water country? Isn't that a little too hard for genins to handle?" Kakashi's eyes didn't leave the document.
"Well that's why we have two jounins accompanying them. Besides, your team has experience with escorting, right? And I thought you have already met up with the priestess before?" Tsunade was a little impatient.
Kakashi scratched his head. "That's right, but-"
"So there won't be a problem. Hurry to the gates, you are to join the priestess once she enters the borders of the fire country."
"What about before she reaches the borders?"
Tsunade took a sip of tea from her cup. "She has a couple of body guards traveling with her. Anyways, we have to make sure that she doesn't get hurt on the way, especially once she has entered our borders."
"Understood." Kakashi put away the document regarding the details of his mission.
"It is rare for a foreign priestess to pay us a visit, make sure you guys protect her well!"
"Yes!" The jounin exited the room. Shizune poured some tea back into Tsunade's cup.
"Tsunade-sama, are you sure about this?"
"Sure about what?" Tsunade looked at her assistant.
"About your choice of teams. After all, the water country is where she came from…" She trailed off.
"He should be fine. He should've let it pass already, it's been three years since that happened." Tsunade slid her hand through her hair.
"You might be right…" With that, Shizune still looked a little worried, but if it was Tsunade's choice, she went with it.
Kakashi walked down the streets with his signature book- Icha Icha Paradise, covering his face. "The water country… Three years already passed since that incident if I remember correctly…"
"Kakashi-sensei!!!"
Kakashi looked up from his book. Naruto and Sakura were standing at the gates of the village, with team 10 just beside them. "Kakashi-sensei!!! You're late!!!"
"Oh… well, this old lady needed help while carrying her luggage so…"
"Yeah right." Sakura eyed Kakashi, who was slowly walking towards them with a smile. Kakashi sweat-dropped. Sakura and Naruto continued complaining on the fact that Kakashi was late. Asuma took out another cigarette and started smoking.
"This is so troublesome…" Shikamaru yawned as he leaned against the gates of Konoha.
"Well calm down… the priestess wants our protection once she enters the fire country, we should hurry up." Kakashi was trying to calm his own group of genin down.
"Hmph. Then you should've arrived earlier, Kakashi-sensei." Naruto pointed his finger at Kakashi, who just stood there innocently. Kakashi sweat-dropped again. The team finally headed out towards where the priestess told them that she was going to enter the fire country from. They arrived a lot earlier than the priestess, so they decided to rest there for the night.
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Kakashi and Asuma's team head out for a mission to protect the priestess coming from the water country. Tune in for the next chapter!!
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Author's Notes: Okay my second Naruto fanfic :D... this story somehow relates to my first story, New Friend. So if you don't understand what's going on you can always go back and read it :). Once again, thanks for reading and please gimme reviews 8D!!