Naruto Characters: Adventures at SuperMart

Sorry if this sucks. It's my first fanfic I have ever written, and it may not be that great.

It was late afternoon, with the sky turning a deep orange, preparing for sunset. Naruto, Sakura, Shikamaru and Ino were walking side by side, on their way to the Hokage to hear their next mission.

"They've never done something like this before, have they?" Sakura asked, concerned. "It must be a challenging mission to request for all of us to come." Naruto laughed. "Challenging? That makes this even better! Time to put my training into effect! This'll be easy."

"All of us…" Shikamaru muttered. The only person he really got along with well was Chouji. The rest would just annoy him. "Sounds too troublesome…"

Ino sighed. "You think everything is troublesome, Shikamaru." Although she really did agree; it was going to be pretty stressful. "Anyways, let's just hurry there. You know how Hokage-sama gets when we're late."

Naruto had noticed that everyone was really there. All of the genins who had passed, except for Sasuke who had fallen into the darkness, and Shikamaru, who was there, but was a chuunin, and Neji, Tenten and Lee were there as well. Even their jounins were here, standing by Tsunade. The Fifth sat down, and glanced around the room. "You're all here, I see. And you're probably wondering why I called you all down here." Tsunade leaned back in her chair. "I need you to go on a mission, all of you. And it will require great patience and teamwork as well. I'm not assigning a leader for this one." Naruto grinned and stepped forward, already excited.

"The eleven of you are assigned to go shopping at the nearest Super Mart. You are required to get everything on the list and get it back to the right person." She told them in a serious tone. All was quiet as the kids stood in disbelief. Only one person could break the silence. "What!?!?!" Naruto shouted, angrily. "You're asking us to shop!?!?!?"

Tsunade glared at Naruto. "Yes. It's a really dangerous mission. The SuperMart is not right in Konoha, and you have to go down a potentially dangerous road to get there." She knew she was lying, but hoped to have her lie silence Naruto. Unfortunately, it didn't succeed. "Are you kidding? We've been to the Super Mart plenty of times." Naruto exclaimed.

"You know, I think Naruto may be right. Isn't this kind of...simple?" Ten-ten asked Tsunade.

"That's not the point. This is to test your organization and searching skills." Tsunade told them. "No more complaints. Here's your list. Every request is on it, telling who needs what. "

"No fair! Do we really have to go on this mission?" Naruto whined.

Lee took a step forward. "Obviously this mission has been given to us to test our skill, and after all, organization and searching is key to success in a lot of missions. I believe we can do it!"

"The power of youth has spoken!" Gai spoke dramatically, receiving looks from the other three jounin. "Thank you, Gai-sensei!" Lee exclaimed, with a tear in his eye.

"Go there right away. There's only two hours until it closes." Tsunade told them firmly.

As they were walking away from the building, Ten-ten read the list. "There's a lot of stuff here." She told them. Naruto looked over her shoulder, seeing one page.

"Hey! A lot of this stuff is for Granny Tsunade!" He grabbed the list and scanned through it quickly. "In fact, there's a full page with only her requests!"

"How many pages are there exactly?" Ino asked, curiously. Kiba took the list from Naruto and flipped through the pages. He muttered. "Eleven."

Everyone wore the same look at that point; annoyed and tense. "Wow." Chouji said, still eating as usual. "Konoha has a lot of requests."

"Well, should we all meet at the Super Mart in a half hour?" Sakura suggested.

Shino shook his head. "No time. We have to go straight there in order to make it in time." They nodded, and then started down the path, unaware of what would happen once they got there.

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Notes: Super Mart – basically like a mall today, with less stores, but they're bigger.

Only the first chapter. This is more like an introduction, though.

Next Chapter: Trapped