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Chapter 1 – The Mission:

Kakashi woke up, when his alarm ringed , but he was still very sleepy and his hair stuck out from his head, so that he looked like a hedgehog, who overdosed on hair restorer. He ran with a hand through his hair and sighed. Damn, he hated getting up early. When there was no mission to do he could usually sleep until noon, but today he wanted to go to the bookshop to buy a new book from the Icha Icha series. He had been waiting for this the whole week. The moment he wanted to stand up from his bed to take a long shower that would hopefully wake him up completely, he shrank together by noticing that one of Tsunades slugs was sitting on the window sill, staring at him. "Oh, what's the madder with you"; he asked slightly nerved. Instead of an answer a piece of paper glided to the floor, which must somehow have been kept inside the slug. Kakashi picked it up and read it. – Come to my office immediately. I've got a very important mission for you. Tsunade - "Guess I won't have time for a long shower today", Kakashi muttered to himself and quickly got himself dressed.

Iruka was sitting in front of Tsunades Office, trying to hide his yawning behind his hand. It was 10 past five in the morning. He usually got up at that time to get ready for class, but the children had two weeks off and he was free to go out on missions. Seriously , I wonder why she keeps me waiting for so long, Iruka thought. In the message she send him it all sounded very seriously, so Iruka tried to be at the Hokages office as fast as he could. And right now he was sitting here waiting for the old Lady to arrive.

Iruka jumped up from the light sleep he had fallen into, when the 5th Hokage herself suddenly appeared in front of him. "Oh, Tsunade, …err…I mean Lord Hokage …er ..I mean LADY Hokage…err well…", Iruka blushed and scratched his had. Really what kind of Ninja was he actually? Falling asleep right in front of the Hokages office, if his students had seen that, they would've never treated him with respect again. Well actually they never even did that before… The 5th Hokage smiled at him and declined into smalltalk, while leading him inside her office." Well Iruka do come in, so you can get the details of your first mission this month. Well that teacher job really must keep you busy. By the way, sorry to keep you waiting this long. You won't be carrying this mission out on your own. It's an A-rank mission, so I thought it would be better, if you had a Jounin with you. But unfortunately he didn't show up, yet…", At that moment they heard a loud bang and white smoke appeared in the room. When Iruka could properly see again, a man with spiky white hair had suddenly appeared in the room. He held his left hand up high waved over to Tsunade and him and though he wore a mask Iruka could see that he was smiling. That was the man he was going to carry out the mission with? No, that couldn't be…it WAS him. Kakashi - Narutos sensei. What a coincidence that was . Iruka could remember himself very well working through Kakashis statistics noticing that Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura were the only team, that had passed Kakashis exam. He had been a Jounin at the age of 6! Iruka felt kind of uncomfortable carrying out a mission with a guy like that. He wondered what Kakashi was like.

"Yo", said Kakashi smiling at Tsunade and the good- looking guy standing next to her. Tsuande smiled and shook her had. "Kakashi, late as always." She pointed at the guy. "This is Iruka. You'll be carrying that mission out together with him." Kakashi took a closer look at Iruka. Hadn't he seen him before somewhere? Oh yees , sure that must be Narutos former teacher. When Iruka caught up Kakashis glance he blushed and quickly looked to the ground, which Kakashi found very cute.

"As for the mission, you'll get the details now.", Tsunade walked behind her desk. Iruka followed her, while Kakashi was still standing in the middle of the room glancing at Irukas ass. " We got the information that a group of enemy Ninjas from a an enemy village are on the way to Konoha. We don't know what they're up to. It's your mission to find that out immediately destroy them, understood?" The two men nodded. The tense look on Tsunades face disappeared and she smiled again. "Allright, I guess that won't be a problem for you two. The enemies were seen in the South the last time, so you should try to start tracking them there. I godda go now- good luck you two!" The two men nodded again and Tsunade disappeared.

About twenty minutes later Kakashi and Iruka met outside the village. "So, looks like we're gonna carry out that mission together, then", Iruka scratched his had trying to ease the situation a bit. Kakashi smiled back at him. Wow, he really was damn cute. "Shall we get going?", Kakashi asked and cried "Summoning Juutsu!". A bunch of hounds appeared. "Could you find any enemy scents nearby Konoha?", Kakashi asked them. The dogs soon jumped away in all different directions and so did Kakashi and Iruka. After some time while jumping through the wood Iruka thought it might be better for their Teamwork if they knew more about each other, so he asked:" Eerm..well…so you're Narutos new teacher. Is he improving well?" . "Yep, he does great!" Kakashi held one thumb up and did his awesome Kakashi smile. "By the way, if we don't succeed in finding them today, where are we gonna spend the night?" Iruka asked. They had been going for quite a long time now and they had to be miles away from the village already. "I really believe in my hounds fining them very soon. They never needed more than 4 hours to find someone I was tracking. It's very unlikely for them to even need more than 2 hours",Kakashi said proudly.

8 Hours of pointless jumping through the wood later Kakashi gave in, that his hounds must have failed this time. It had started raining heavily and they were already wet after a few minutes, so they decided to rest on a small clearing waiting for Kakashis dogs to show up. Eventually that didn't happen , Kakashi got bored and Iruka began to feel uneasy, especially because he was soak with water. "Shouldn't we try to find a warm and safe place to rest?" he demanded carefully. Kakashi , who was sitting on a tree above him, turned his had slowly around and said "You're right, I'm getting kind of wet." He jumped down from the tree and got something out of his bag.