[A/N 5/31/19]: As part of my current "clean up process", I am going through my old stories and trying to fix some of the glaringly obvious grammatical and spelling mistakes.
"Sasuke-kun!" The raven-haired boy looked towards his teammate and grunted.
'Sasuke-kun is so cool!' Inner Sakura squealed.
A few minutes later Sasuke's other teammate Uzumaki Naruto appeared.
"Good morning, Sakura," The blonde said.
Sasuke rolled his eyes, mornings were always predictable.
The jounin that lead team 7 would be late, as usual.
"Uh, Sasuke..." Sasuke looked towards Naruto.
"What?" He said.
"Um... Never mind."
Sasuke sighed. The blonde had been acting strange lately. He wasn't happy anymore and he often stared off into the distance at nothing.
The boy always looked longingly at the gate.
"YOU'RE LATE!" a pink-kaired girl yelled, bringing Sasuke out of his thoughts.
Sasuke grunted. Naruto looked indifferent.
"So, Kakashi. Did you get lost on the Path of Life, again?" The blonde asked in a neutral voice.
"Actually I helped an old la..." Naruto cut Kakashi off.
"That the same excuse you used last week, Kakashi," Naruto said.
Sakura and Kakashi stared at Naruto in disbelief. This was so unlike him.
Sasuke wanted to laugh, but Uchiha discipline kept him from doing so.
"Naruto are you okay?" Sakura asked worried.
Naruto nodded.
"Kakashi, what's today's mission?"
The silver haired man raised an eyebrow. 'No -sensei? Naruto what happened to you?' Kakashi thought.
"Na-Naruto?" Sakura asked.
"What Sakura?" Naruto said harshly. Sakura's lip trembled.
He was being so mean.
Sasuke and Kakashi frowned. Naruto never acted like this, especially towards Sakrua.
Naruto rolled his eyes as Sakura started crying. "You're annoying, you're weak. You're not cut out to be a ninja."
"N-Naruto..." Sasuke said.
Naruto turned towards Sasuke, with an evil grin on his face. "What Sasuke?" he said before disappearing.
Sasuke stared at the place his friend, teammate, and rival had been moments ago.
Naruto was jumping from tree to tree. He had been running for hours. He estimated that he was 50 miles away from Konoha. He couldn't stop until he got 100 miles away though. The further he went the better.
'Hey Naruto!' the Kyuubi shouted inside his head.
Naruto ignored him.
'Naruto if you don't take a break you'll die!'
Naruto knew the Kyuubi was right. He jumped to the ground and searched for a river. He found one soon enough.
He sat by it and drank some water.
Naruto sighed. He was finally free from Konoha. Now he would seek out Akatuski and get his revenge on his former village.
He was now a missing-nin, he was wanted, but now he was free.
He took off his headband and sliced it across the symbol. All of his connections with Konoha had been destroyed with this motion.
"Tsunade-sama!" Sakura burst into Tsunade's office followed by Kakashi and Sasuke.
"What?" Tsunade asked, "Don't you have a mission?"
"Naruto's gone. He left!" Sasuke said.
Tsunade's eyes narrowed. "What?"
"Naruto left," Kakashi said.
Tsunade's eyes widened. "Is he crazy. He's a missing-nin now. There's nothing I can do," Tsunade said as Sakura started to cry.
Sasuke got angry. Naruto had saved him from Orochimaru, dragged him back kicking and screaming, and then he leaves.
'I guess it's time to return the favor.' Sasuke thought.
"Hokage-sama. I request permission to go after Naruto," Sasuke said.
Tsunade stared at the Uchiha. 'Naruto saved him. I guess he wants to save Naruto now.' She thought. "Permission granted. You have half an hour to put together a team. Then you leave immediately."
Sasuke nodded and ran off.
[A/N 5/31/19]: Okay, it's still pretty horrible, but it's less horrible now... Geez, I wish I had the confidence that my 2008-self did when this was posted. :''''D
For this story, it was later pointed out that Hanabi is 5 years younger than Naruto & co. in cannon (which when this was originally written, I did not realize/pay attention to). This made some of the content kinda creepy; thus, for the purposes of this story she is only a couple years younger. This doesn't matter for this chapter, but keep it in mind if you continue.
