A/N: In this story, Sasuke never left. And they're 14 years old, kaaaaay? :) Oh and the first chapter is kind of boring because it's all in the introductions and what the eff is going on and stuff. I promise I'll make the later chapters better. ;) (And yes, I know that this chapter's seriously RUSHED.)
Disclaimer: Oh, how I wished I owned Naruto Uzumaki and Fredward Benson.
Chapter One
"You called for us?"
Tsunade, hearing the familiar female voice, looked up from her paperwork to see the trio standing before her. Sakura in the middle, trying to look all business-like to impress her precious Sasuke, Naruto standing next to her and grinning like an idiot since he was always so excited for every mission (unless they turned out to be D-rank, of course), and Sasuke just standing there, all cool-like with his hands jammed in his pockets and his expression, blank.
"That's right," Tsunade said as she cleared her throat. "I have a new mission for all of you, as you probably figured. And it's B-rank too. And this mission isn't exactly any ordinary mission. By using a jutsu that I will teach you in a moment, you will be traveling through space and time, and you will all end up in the...well, future."
"ALRIGHT! THIS MISSION ROCKS!!" Naruto shouted with joy as he punched his fist triumphantly into the air. Sakura gaped, her eyes wide as she stuttered, "Wh..wh..?!" and Sasuke just...well, he just continued to stand there, but there was a glint of surprise and amusement in his eyes.
"B-b-but...why, Tsunade-sama?!" Sakura demanded, her eyes blinking rapidly. "What's the...purpose of this mission?!"
Tsunade glared at the trio.
Damn annoying kids.
"Yes, I was JUST about to GET to that, before Naruto oh-so-RUDELY INTERRUPTED," she said through clenched teeth.
Naruto grinned sheepishly as he scratched the back of his head stupidly.
Tsunade rolled her eyes as she continued, "The objective of this mission is to get as many information about the future as possible. Now mind you, when I mean, 'the future', I do not mean just a few years from now, I mean like centuries from now. I just want to get enough information to be readily prepared for anything. Now, I have very little information about the era you will be in, but so I've heard, ninjas are extinct in this era and only normal civilians are living their lives. On top of that, you three will be attending school, which I heard is attended by all kids from the ages of perhaps five or four to eighteen."
"School?!" Naruto groaned. If there was one thing he despised, it was his academy days filled with useless homework and listening to boring teachers drone on and on.
"And...no ninjas?" Sakura gasped as she wondered how in the world ninjas could've gone... extinct.
"That's right. So because of that, you can not blow your cover. You three will be acting as normal civilians too, am I clear?"
"How will we get the information back to you? And where will we be staying?" Sasuke asked, for he was the one always readily prepared for anything.
"Oh, you will be recording any information into these notepads," Tsunade said as she tossed them three notebooks and as the trio caught them neatly. "And when you come back, you will give the notebooks to me for me for me to read. As for where you're staying, well, you'll find a way easily." She smiled ever-so-sweetly and innocently at them.
It took each member of Team 7's might not to slap their foreheads and groan.
"This mission is starting to sound worse and worse!" Naruto whined. "I mean, at first, I thought it was all cool that we got to go to the freakin' future, but we have to go to school and take notes?! How boring!! And not only that, but we have to 'find our own place to sleep'?! I'd rather have another mission."
"Shut up, Naruto!" Sakura snapped as she glared at the whining blond boy. "Your whining is so annoying." But she had to admit herself, at first, the mission did seem kind of cool, and now the mission just seemed deadly boring and useless.
"Hn," Sasuke grumbled. Hearing Sakura like that was annoying too.
Tsunade sighed in exasperation. "The reason I chose you three for this mission is because... well, all the other teams are on different missions. And, I was going to assign Kakashi to come with you just in case anything happens, but he is currently filling in for someone on an ANBU S-ranked emergency mission."
Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura exchanged looks and then they all turned back to the notebooks, and back at Tsunade again.
"So..I guess we have no choice then," Sakura said softly finally.
Tsunade raised an eyebrow, amused. "I guess so."
Pause.
"Go pack up your things. You will be staying there for two to four weeks, at most. Oh and wear your plain non-mission clothes. I don't want you three to stand out. Then come back here, and I will teach you the jutsu. You will be able to learn it quickly, I'm sure."
Team 7 nodded as they left the room to go pack up their things.
- & -
"What the hell does Baa-chan mean by, 'wear your plain non-mission' clothes?! I have no 'non-mission clothes'! I just have...this," Naruto said as he gestured the normal bright orange jumper he was wearing and always wore.
"Take off your jacket, dobe," Sasuke said.
Naruto turned to him and raised an eyebrow. "Huh?"
"You're wearing a t-shirt under that, aren't you? Take off your jacket."
"Why?!"
Sasuke rolled his eyes in exasperation. "Because that t-shirt under your jacket is what Tsunade-sama means by 'plain non-mission clothes.'"
"Ohhh," Naruto said as he zipped down his jacket and shrugged it off to reveal that he, indeed, wore a black t-shirt underneath.
"Oh Sasuke-kun, you're so smart," Sakura gushed as she grinned at him.
The three of them were all sitting upon Sasuke's room. (Not Naruto's because his was way too dirty and Sakura didn't want to lay a foot into it, and not Sakura's because they wanted to discuss what they were going to pack and what they were going to do in secret and in peace without her parents coming to bug them.)
Sasuke then turned to Sakura.
"Sakura, you have a plain t-shirt, don't you?"
The rosette thought for a moment until she finally said, "I have a red tank top. Will that work?"
Sasuke shrugged. "It'd blend in more than that dress of yours.. and as for me, I'll just wear a plain blue t-shirt."
The three sat in silence for a moment.
"I still don't get the point of this mission," Naruto finally said.
"It's just to prepare anything that's coming up," Sakura explained in exasperation. "I mean, what if something horribly terrible happens in the future?! We have to be readily prepared for anything."
"Sakura's right, dobe," Sasuke agreed as Sakura inwardly squealed at the thought of Sasuke agreeing with her on something.
"Anyways, we shouldn't need to bring all our weapons.. in case people get suspicious. After all, in the era we're traveling to, there are only civilians. It would seem kind of strange to them to see a bunch of kids carrying around a bunch of weapons, probably. But just in case something does happen, let's bring just a few," Sasuke said.
"Right," Sakura said, all business-like.
"And as for our headbands, I think we'd better take them off so that it doesn't blow our cover. We'll pack them in just in case, too, though."
And with that, the three of them untied their headbands.
"Well..I guess that's it, huh?" Sakura said quietly.
They exchanged looks and then stood up to pack.
- & -
"AHHHHHHHHHH!!" Naruto screamed as he felt himself falling – falling from what, he couldn't understand but before he could think about it, he felt himself land on something... well, quite comfortable. At least more comfortable than a hard ground should feel.
"OOF!" A voice cried beneath him.
Blinking rapidly, Naruto turned around and saw that he had landed on Sakura.
"Get OFF me!!" She screamed at the top of her lungs.
Frightened, Naruto quickly did so as Sakura quickly got off Sasuke, the one who was at the bottom, having to hold up Sakura and Naruto. Poor, poor Sasuke.
"Ngh.." Sasuke grunted as Sakura helped him up.
"Sorry Sasuke-kun!" Sakura apologized with a sort of nervous grin.
And being the Sasuke he was, he didn't say anything to ease her nervous state that he might be angry with her for landing on him.
(Sakura secretly enjoyed landing on him, though.)
"Ugh... where are we?" Naruto grumbled as he rubbed the back of his head.
"The future, obviously," Sakura scoffed.
And then the three of them observed their surroundings.
They seemed to be in a pretty crowded area where people just walked by them as if they were nothing. A few people paused and glanced at them – especially at Sakura because of her bright pink hair that stood out – then quickly turned away and went on their way. They saw a lot of huge buildings, so tall that they thought that the buildings literally touched the sky. There were no such huge buildings in Konoha. In fact, all the buildings in Konoha were quite small, well at least smaller than THESE buildings! These buildings were huge.
But what amazed them the most were the strange looking metal-like... things zooming across the road in front of them. And they came in all shapes and sizes and colors! Most were black, white, and silver.. but there were some that were brightly colored like yellow and blue. And they were all shiny. They looked like some kind of high-tech thing that just zoomed quickly across the roads! And as the three of them squinted to take a better look at these straaange... 'things', they realized that people were riding in them! At least one person was in every single one of these strange shiny fast things! The most they've seen in one of these high-tech things so far were seven freakin' people!
"Whoaaa.." Naruto gasped as he blinked wildly, just staring at everything, everywhere, swallowing in everything greedily, wanting more and more.
"Oh yeah, Benson?!"
The three of them quickly turned and raised their eyebrows to see three kids walk out of the building they were in front of. And they looked around the same age as them too. Two of them had their hands up in the air, squabbling like crazy. One of the squabbling pair was a girl with long curly blond hair and the other was a male with brown hair. It was obvious that the two of them did this frequently because the third one who wasn't fighting – she had long brown hair – was looking very exasperated as she tried to break up the fight hopelessly.
But just as Team 7 stared at these three kids, the blond girl stopped mid-sentence and gawked at the three kids standing before them.
"What are you looking at, hobo kids?!" the blond girl demanded aggressively as she glared at Team 7.
Startled, the trio of Team 7 exchanged looks.
"What do you mean?!" Naruto demanded, clearly slightly miffed by this girl's aggressive and rude attitude. "We were just looking and..and what are hobos?"
The blond girl blinked and gawked at him some more.
"Sam!" The brunette cried as she took hold of the blond's arm. "Don't be rude to hobo kids!"
Hobo kids? What were they talking about?! What they hell were these hobo kids they kept mentioning about them?!
The brunette's eyes widened as she turned to the 'hobo kids'. "N-not that you.. you are hobo kids.. I-I mean.."
"Is that your real hair color?" The brown-haired boy spoke as he stared at Sakura's hair, one eyebrow arched up.
Sakura blinked in surprise as she subconsciously touched a strand of her pink hair. "Yes.."
"Strange..." The brown-haired boy said. "I didn't think that was genetically possible!"
Team 7 exchanged looks.
"Listen," Sasuke spoke for the first time as he gave his serious cool, business-like, look. "We... we need a place to stay..."
The brunette and the blond slowly turned to Sasuke, and the instant their eyes settled upon him, their mouths hung open stupidly and their eyes goggled.
Sakura, instantly having her fangirls-on-Sasuke senses tingle, quickly wrapped her arms around Sasuke protectively as she glared darkly at the blond and brunette.
"Step AWAY from MY Sasuke-kun~!" Sakura hissed threateningly as the blond and brunette's eyes snapped open wide and instantly took a step away from the scary pink-haired girl.
"S-sorry," the brunette apologized. "Didn't realize he was your boyfriend there..."
Sakura nearly died of happiness of having someone call Sasuke her boyfriend.
"Sasuke-teme's not Sakura-chan's boyfriend!" Naruto interjected bitterly as he crossed his arms and glared at the ground, clearly jealous and mad.
The brunette, blond, and brown-haired kids all slowly turned from one member of Team 7 to another.
"Anyways," Sasuke said finally in exasperation as he pushed Sakura out of the way. "We need a place to stay temporarily.. do you know anywhere we can?"
"And it has to be free!" Naruto chirped up.
The three of the kids in front of them exchanged looks until finally the blond and the brown-haired boy slowly turned to the brunette.
The brunette sighed in exasperation as she finally said, "Well.. since you are hobo kids... I guess you could crash at my place for a while.. Spencer wouldn't mind, I guess."
The trio of Team 7 exchanged triumphant looks.
Looked like Tsunade was right, getting a place wasn't that hard. And it was hard to believe that just minutes ago, they were in Tsunade's office, practicing the jutsu Tsunade taught them to get them here.
Little did they know the chaos they were about to get themselves into.