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Chapter 1- The Mission

It was an ordinary Saturday evening for Kakashi, walking down the almost empty streets of Konoha, reading his orange book which he was enjoying until a puff of smoke appeared in front of him and an Anbu Black Ops appeared out of it. He was obviously one of the captains with his tan robe and hawk mask.

"Kakashi Hatake, the Hokage wishes to speak with you as soon as possible." The Anbu said in a respectful, yet, orderly tone and then without waiting for a response from Kakashi disappeared in another puff of smoke.

"Alright then." Kakashi sighed and stuck his book into the pocket of his green vest and big surprise also disappeared in a wisp of smoke.

When Kakashi got to the Hokage's office, the Hokage was sitting at her desk with a bottle of sake in her hand. There where papers scattered everywhere but she simply pushed them all aside. Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke where all ready there and standing in front of Lady Tsunade's desk.

"Kakashi I have a mission for you and your squad, Kurenai and Asuma squads will also be sent on the mission as well," the Hokage said as she took out a scroll with the missions on it and pointed to the B ranked mission.

"A B ranked mission!" Naruto said happily and he started doing his little happy dance while Sakura shook her head in embarrassment, and Sasuke just ignored him. Kakashi ignored his squad as he walked forward and looked down at the scroll on Tsunade's desk.

"The mission was given to use from an anonymous person, all that we found was an envelope at the front gates of the village, in the envelope there was a profile of a girl named Hiroko Takamaru and a letter. The letter said that it was important that we find her soon before she gets hurt,"

The mission is to find a girl from the Takamaru clan; she has gone missing. She is a young girl about eleven years old with brown hair, and purple eyes. That's all that's all that I can see from the picture," the Hokage said giving the picture to Kakashi.

Kakashi took the picture, looked it over and then asked, "how soon till we leave?"

"You and your squad will leave tomorrow morning at 6:00 A.M. after you get everything that you'll need, then you will meet the rest of the squads at the village gates," the Hokage said resting her head on her hands.

"Yes Lady Hokage" Kakashi said and then left without saying another word and went home to his apartment and took a warm shower and then laid down on his bed and stared at the ceiling and then the ceiling started to get blurry and the next second he was sound asleep.

--The Next Morning--

BANG, BANG Kakashi woke up to a banging on his door. Kakashi looked over at his clock it was 5:45 A.M. Kakashi got out of bed and opened his door at first he couldn't tell who it was then saw that it was naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke. "Yawn yeah" Kakashi said in a tired voice.

"KAKASHI-SENSAI YOU SHOULD BE AT THE GATE BY NOW" naruto and sakura yelled at Kakashi.

"There is still 10 minutes before 6:00" Kakashi said in a calm voice and then said, " I'll be there soon just go back to the gate and wait I'll be their in 8 minutes." Said Kakashi then he shut the door on them.

"KAKASHI-SENSAI YOU BETTER BE THERE" Sakura yelled.

Kakashi ignored her and shut the door and went to his dresser and got pants, a shirt, and his jonin jacket and got dressed. He already packed so he got his things and left. Kakashi went back to the memorial stone to pay his respect to Obito before he left.

--At the Village Gates--

Everyone had gathered at the gate only two where missing. Ino and Sakura where standing with there arms crossed saying to themselves, "I'm going to kill him," over and over again in their heads.

Kakashi walked up to the gate. And went over to Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura. "Kakashi-sensei your late?" Sakura said pointing at Kakashi.

"Where were you?" Sakura asked mad at Kakashi for being late.

"I got lost on the road of life." Said Kakashi.

"Yeah right!" Naruto and Sakura said at the same time.

"So are we all ready" asked Kakashi.

"Yeah, finally we can leave." The three of them said.

"Not right yet," Ino said walking up to them.

"What do you mean not right yet," naruto said looking over at Ino.

"You probably didn't notice it but, Shikamaru isn't here yet," Choji said walking over to them and standing in front of naruto.

"Huh, oh i guess your right," naruto said looking over at where Asuma, Ino, and Choji were standing with a weird look on his face, "so were is he?" naruto asked.

"He's probably in his bed dreaming about clouds." Ino said annoyed by Shikamaru.

--At Shikamaru's House—

"Hey Shikamaru are up yet, don't you have a mission today," Shikamaru's mom yelled at him.

Shikamaru groaned as he woke up, "what time is it?" Shikamaru asked lazily.

"It's about five minutes past six," his mom yelled.

Shikamaru looked up with half open eyes as soon as he realized what time it was. "What, five minutes past six, man Ino going to kill me for being late," Shikamaru said as he got dressed. Then he left his house and went to the gate.

--At the Village Gates--

"Shikamaru where were you!" Ino yelled as Shikamaru walked up to the group.

"I was sleeping," Shikamaru said as join Asuma, Choji, and Ino.

"What you were sleeping, how could you be sleeping?" Ino yelled at him.

"Man, what a pain," Shikamaru said sighing.

"What did you say," Ino yelled.

"Alright, are we all here now?" Kakashi asked looking to see if anyone was missing.

They left the village through the village gates in to the forest. Then Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi meet up with Asuma and Kurenai's teams out side of the village gates. Kakashi pulled out a map with all the countries on it and laid it on the ground and talked about the ways they would go. "Asuma, Ino, Shikamaru, and Choji will go north west towards the earth country. Kurenai, Hinata, Kiba, and Shino will go North East towards the lighting country. Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and I will go towards the wind and river country. "If we don't find her then Asuma's team you will go to the bird country, Kurenai's team you will go to the water country and my team will go to the tea country. Do we all understand?" "Yes," Asuma and Kurenai's squad all said at the same time. Then Kakashi rolled up the map and put it in his bag and gave every one a picture of Hiroko and started to walk towards the river country. Then they all disappeared in a puff of smoke.

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