Summary: It takes ten awry missions, a strange swan man and a clingy toddler for Kakashi and Naruto to realize they're attracted to each other. KakaNaru. FemNaruto. Short Chapters. Slight AU!
(Slight AU! As Sasuke never left the village. In this fanfiction, Naruto was the only one out of Team Seven who left Konoha and that was only to train under Jiraiya)
OOC!ness! Jonin!Naruto. Read at your own risk!
Cover Image belongs to camilamassuda on DeviantArt.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
Prelude
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Maa, it was supposed to be an A-Rank mission, was all Kakashi could think as he stared down at the stack of paper in his hands, dark eye carefully blank and body slouching with disappointment.
When Tsunade told them that they (Naruto and Kakashi, because Sakura was celebrating her mother's birthday and Sasuke is ANBU) could possibly end up fighting a dragon, of all things, he had suspected that the informant had left something out but this was a whole new level of omitting information.
He remembers the mission scroll, "In need of a shinobi to fight off a dragon and a strong kunoichi to act as bait! Will provide necessary clothes, a place to stay and three meals a day. Must be somewhat decent at controlling emotions."
Where in the mission scroll did it even explain they were going to act in a play? Why not list this as a D-Rank mission instead? Is their client insane? Kakashi was a shinobi, he shouldn't have to play dress up and spew lines and dazzle an audience! He'd been looking forward to the usual good fight which comes along with an A-Rank mission. To be fair, if they were getting A-Rank pay for a D-Rank mission it was to their benefit, but he couldn't help but feel a little agitated. If he'd wanted a D-Rank mission he would have just taken one.
But, a mission is a mission. He swallows the indignation, rests his back against the headboard of the bed provided to him by their client and starts reading the script. The plot is horrible, he notices. It was about a princess who had been kidnapped by a neighbouring country and a ninja who is sent to save her. The knight supposedly defeats the king of said country and saves the princess when - surprise - a dragon appears as the last defence left by the king. The characters couldn't be more rushed even if they tried. All of their actions were so sudden and didn't fit their character at all and he couldn't even read the dialogue without feeling the impulse to cringe. He is barely done with the twentieth page before he hears Naruto's horrified yell in the room next to his and the sound of stomping echoes through the hall.
"Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto yells, bursting into his room with an explosion of long blonde hair, black and orange and a horrified expression. She shoves her script into his face and screams, "What is this?!"
He blinks, glances down at the paper and then back up at the seventeen year old, raising a silver eyebrow. "Maa, that's paper, Naruto," and he gives his signature eye-smile for good measure.
"No!" She forcefully shoves it in his face again and he's glad he wears a mask because otherwise he'd have a mouth full of paper. "The words, last paragraph, Kaka-sensei! Read them!"
He takes it from her grip, hand brushing against hers, and reads. This isn't that bad, he thinks. Then he reads the next sentence and his eye widens.
{Ryota: 'Would it be too bold to ask for a kiss as payment, Fuyumi-hime?'
Fuyumi: 'Never, Ryota-kun! You saved me, therefor you are the only suitor worthy of my hand!'
Princess Fuyumi takes Ryota's face in her hands and they both kiss passionately.}
All Kakashi can say through the tightness in his throat is, "I find Jiraiya-sama's work much more realistic."
Naruto's horrified yelling intensifies.
