Mission to the Land of Lightning
Chapter 1
The mission scroll of mystery
Shizune had been doing assignments for Tsunade all day long, take and bringing messages to and from the Hokage herself. Shizune is Tsunade's advisor and also best friend. One day, Shizune was receiving a mission scroll from a jonin who was passing it off.
"Whose mission is this?" asked Shizune to the jonin. He shrugged and began to explain.
"Well, it's complicated. See, we don't know who this mission belongs to, or where it came from. It's more like we found this scroll. We found it hanging from the ceiling tied by a long string. We even ran tests on it too; there are no fingerprints or anything on it anywhere. Whoever delivered it must have been a very skilled ninja from another village. As for the level, we made an accurate prediction of at least a B-rank mission". said the jonin. Shizune was mystified. This was the first time a mission scroll had shown up like this. After the mission was given to Shizune, she gave the scroll to Lady Tsunade and told her the same story she was told by the jonin. After looking at the scroll and hearing Shizune's story, she began to contemplate.
"Hmmmmm..... A mission like this with absolutely no evidence of anyone touching it. Well........ regardless of the lack of information on this mission, it still needs to be done." thought Tsunade. She looked at her clipboard of the ninja that were still in the village. Everyone was on a mission except for two ninja. She turned to Shizune who had been waiting to receive an answer.
"Shizune, go round up these two ninja. I'm giving the mystery mission to them." said Tsunade. She gave the clipboard to Shizune to examine the choices, and one quick glance worried her. She looked to Tsunade from the clipboard.
"Lady Tsunade, are you sure you want to choose them? I mean, this is a pretty high level mission and I'm worried if they can handle it or not." said Shizune in a worried tone.
"I know. But no one else is available, and they make a pretty good team. They're all we got for now." she said. Shizune nodded understanding her reasoning and left in a hurry to get the two participants of the new assignment. Shizune hit it on the mark looking for one of the ninja, who was almost always training at the training grounds. The occupant of the training field was Naruto Uzumaki. Naruto was the true-blue odd ball of the hidden leaf village. He had a bright shock of yellow hair and shimmering eyes that were as blue as the sky.
The whisker marks on his cheeks symbolized the Nine Tailed Fox that was sealed inside of him. The Nine Tailed Fox was a demon that attacked the hidden leaf village 16 years ago in an attempt to destroy everything. However, The Fourth Hokage was able to seal the beast inside Naruto in exchange for his own life. Doing so, in hope that Naruto would be revered to as a hero of the village. The villagers, however, ignored the Fourth Hokage's last wish and shunned Naruto from the entire village population. After he became a full fledged ninja though, everything started to change for him, so he now has lots of friends.
He was loud, obnoxious and almost always wore an orange jacket that was black on the shoulders and sleeves. Because of his tough past, Naruto had the large dream of becoming the Sixth Hokage, which was the leader ninja of the entire leaf village. He trained everyday working himself until he couldn't move and sometimes injuring himself. He trained like a crazy person. He was doing vertical push-ups when Shizune found him.
"Naruto!" she said interrupting his training. Naruto ceased his push-ups and used his detached shirt as a rag to whip off his sweat.
"Hey Shizune! What's up? I hope you bothered me to give me a mission?" asked Naruto hopefully. Shizune nodded with a smile.
"You hit it right on the head Naruto, but this mission is special of sorts." she said scratching the side of her head.
"Hugh? What do you mean 'special'?" asked Naruto dumbly. Shizune started walking away, gesturing Naruto to follow her.
"Lady Tsunade will explain when you got to the Hokage's House to pick up your mission. I gotta go!" she said running off like she forgot something important. Naruto shrugged and put his shirt back on and headed for Lady Tsunade's place.
The other ninja that Shizune had set out to look for was Hinata Hyuga. She was found in another part of the hidden leaf forest. She was training alone with no one to watch her. After finishing up two-thousand jabs of her gentle fist Byankugan, Shizune found her in the forest. Hinata Hyuga was unlike most girls. She was very shy, and hard to talk to because of the way she mumbles and stutters a lot. On top of that, she was never really sure of herself in anything.
One thing that was breathtaking about her though, was her beauty. Long black shiny hair that was very straight and healthy. When Hinata wasn't shy enough to smile, her smile could fill anybody with joy. And of course, the most interesting thing about Hinata was her eyes. Such beautiful eyes that were almost white, but were instead a very pale lavender. Her eyelashes were long and beautifully curved. She was almost a perfect role model for every young lady.
"Hinata!" said Shizune. She had surprised Hinata from behind and unintentionally scared her. She turned to see Shizune with a shy smile.
"Oh.... Miss Shizune. Hello." said Hinata quietly. Shizune drew closer to Hinata and reported.
"Hello Hinata. Lady Tsunade wants to see you for your next mission." said Shizune casually. Hinata nodded.
"Okay. I guess we'll head back there now." said Hinata just as quietly as before. The two of them walked back to Tsunade's office back at Hokage Tower. In the conference room, hinata got a very good, yet unexpected surprise. Naruto stood with his hands behind his head and his elbows up. He looked irritated as he was waiting for something.
"Oh! Oh no! What's he do-doing here?" thought Hinata as her face turned red. Ah yes, how could I forget to tell you something very important about HInata Hyuga. She is madly in love with Naruto Uzumaki. It was because of him that she is able to become stronger and stronger everyday. Hinata always looked up to Naruto as a hard worker, persevering and attemtping to always do things that were far above his own level. Not only was it his attitude that she loved about him, it was his body.
He was very strong in chakra, strength and heart. She just loved the color of his hair and eyes and just wanted to gaze upon and touch his handsome face. Oh how she loved him so much. But poor Naruto is too much of an oblivious idiot and too hardheaded to notice her feelings. Naruto looked around the room until Hinata had met his gaze and he had met her. He smiled but then looked confused.
"Hey HInata! What are you doing here?" asked Naruto looking drawn to Hinata's presence.
"H-Hi... N-Naruto." she said. "I-I'm here to take a m-mission from Lady Ts-Tsunade." said Hinata slowly. Naruto looked at Tsunade as she commanded both of them to stand before her.
"Good to see you guys were found by Shizune. Thank you." said Tsunade nodding at Shizune. Shizune bowed and let Tsunade finish. "Naruto Uzumaki and Hinata Hyuga. You are going to be placed on a very special asignment together." said looked surprised, but Hinata was devistated. She had always wanted to be with Naruto, but whenever she was with him, she could only talk slowly and quietly, or faint. She only fainted if Naruto had made any physical contact with her.
"Cool, its been awhile since I've been on a mission; its esspecially been awhile since I've seen Hinata too. Come to think of it, this is my first time seeing you again since I came back with pervy sage." said Naruto ginning at her excitedly. Hinata's heart fluttered like a butterfly's wings everytime Naruot smiled at her like that.
"Y-Yes. I-It is the first w-we've seen eachother s-since you came back." she sad shyly. Naruto shortly laughed at Hinata.
"If you're done reminscing, I'd like to explain to you two what your mission situation is." said Tsunade. Naruto and Hinata both listened intently. "Your mission will be... difficult of sorts. When we first got the mission, it was an abandoned scroll left by someone who had intended to give it to me and approve it as a mission. And when we found out what was inside, the rank for the mission was a B-Rank or hight. This is your mission:" Tsunade pasued to pull open a drawer from her desk and pulled out a green scroll. She opened it and read aloud
"There is a strange situation going down in the land of lightning. A strange intelligence has revealed information stating that a scroll known as the Sacred Scroll of Dragons is in danger of being stolen. The scroll is said to contain a very devastating jutsu that could wreck havoc everywhere if that jutsu was put into the hands of someone eil. It is your job as Konoha Shinobi to assist in guarding the scroll in the land of lightning." said Tsunade. Naruto jammed a fist into his hand and cracked his knuckles.
"Perfect! just what I was hoping for!" said Naruto already getting overly excited. "So how many people are going on the mission with me and Hinata?" asked Naruto stupidly.
"Oh? Well, I'm afraid that all the other ninja are out doing other assignments right now. It'll have to be just you and HInata alone on this one. Do you think you guys can handle it?" asked Tsunade. Naruto looked at Hinata who looked completely red in the face and nodded.
"Yeah, with out a doubt! I know that Hinata and I got this!" said Naruto thrusting a fist high in the air. Tsunade grinned and nodded.
"Very well then, you better be ready to hit the road leave tomorrow morning as soon as first light. The travel between our two nations will take at least four days. We all wish you the best of luck!" said Tsunade. Both Naruto and Hinata bowed and headed out the door. As they were walking out together on the way out of the hokage tower, they discussed their mission.
"This is gonna be so great! Its been a while since I've had a good mission. What about you Hinata?" asked Naruto.
"W-Well I haven't been on a mission i-in a while. I-I'm excited to go on this mission." said Hinata looking away from Naruto with a blush on her cheeks. Naruto smiled and breathed in the fresh air.
"Yeah? Well I guess we're both excited." said Naruto as he was turning the corner. "See you tomorrow Hinata! Remember, first light is when we leave!" said Naruto waving as he left with his back towards Hinata. She waved good bye slightly and sighed as she watched Naruto walk away. She headed back to her house as will to het some sleep for the night. As Naruto walked back to his house, a strange thought was floating around in his thick, empty head.
"Hmmmm... Something is different about her, but what is it? I know something has changed..." he thought. Poor, poor Naruto. How oblivious can you be?