Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Fushigi Yuugi. This fan fiction was written purely for enjoyment, and the author certainly doesn't make any money from it.
Author's Note: The story is set before Konoha gets attacked and Sandaime dies. Naruto ET. Al. have only just become genins. It's slightly AU, but it fits pretty well with canon timeline.
There was nothing very extraordinary about the village. In fact, it was rather typical of the
tiny fishing villages dotting the border of the Fire Country. It certainly didn't strike one as the
type of place in which a top-secret, S-rank mission was to occur. What was extraordinary about
this village was the unusually large number of drunks wandering the streets. The village seemed
slummier than most and looked worse and worse the farther one got from the center. The focus
of the aforementioned S-rank mission actually inhabited a particularly filthy earthen hovel on the
outermost edges of the village, in front of which sat a rather flabby and sweaty man in his
equally sweaty-looking underwear leering at any unfortunate female who happened to pass. A group of dirty children ran about the house while a very tired-looking woman screamed at them and hung out the laundry.
Observing this from his perch in a nearby tree, Hatake Kakashi was beginning to seriously entertain the possibility that the Sandaime was suffering from dementia. Who here warranted sending a jounen? Oh, well. It doesn't seem like my target is here right now. I'll have to check the rest of the village. Leaving his perch, Kakashi sped off towards the busier center of the village.