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Sakura Encounter

Sasuke and Naruto graduated from the academy, but they were placed in a team that only consist of two Genin and a Jonin, because the academy didn't have enough graduates to form full three man cells, one of the teams had to have a missing member, at least until the next batch of students graduate.

They were doing their first mission that includes leaving the village, Naruto was ranting on how boring his missions as a ninja is, just chasing cats, walking dogs, gardening and many more chores, Sasuke couldn't agree more, but of course, he didn't say anything.

Finally the Hokage gave in, he sent Naruto and Sasuke to a C-rank mission, they were suppose to pose as a bridge master's bodyguard to the Land of Waves.

Members of Team 7….

Name: Uchiha Sasuke

Personality: Cold, Mature, Mysterious, Serious

Hobbies: Unknown…

Dislikes: Naruto, Annoying fangirls, etc

Likes: Fighting

Dream: To surpass his brother

Life: Uchiha Sasuke was 6 year old when his parents were sent out to the battlefield a never returned, he is now an orphan along with his brother, Uchiha Itachi, They live in the Uchiha head mansion, his brother is now leader of the clan and also the ANBU leader of squad 3, he lived a pretty bad childhood, many were slaughtered in front of him, his whole clan was nearly wiped out, due to their superior skills and man power, the Uchihas are usually sent to high ranking missions, some never returned. The young Sasuke was left alone in the mansion that had a special barrier, preventing any unauthorized or non-Uchiha from entering, His parents set it up to protect him before they were killed, once they were killed the barrier automatically dispelled, leaving him unprotected and vulnerable….

6 years ago…

It was raining heavily when the seals that were placed on the ground around the Uchiha manor exploded in flames. Inside the building, a little boy's eyes widened. The Uchiha shinobi that were close by, noticed that the barrier their leader and his wife set up to protect their son were dispelled.

"What happened?"

"The barrier...!"

"The chief, you don't think he's-" the man was cut off.

"Don't say that!" the woman interupted.

A 6 year old Sasuke had hear everything, he was leaning against the wooden fence separates the manor and the outside world. His hands clenched in fists and he pushed himself off the fence and snuck out of the manor, nobody had noticed him, thankfully. He ran in search of his parents, he turned at the next alley. He witnessed his own people get slaughtered, The battle was fierce and one man was left standing, too bad it wasn't an ally. Sasuke's feet were rooted to the bloodstained ground. The man lifted his head and revealed his crazed black eyes he had shoulder length silver hair that were soaked with blood at the end, he chuckled and took a step towards Sasuke, who instinctively took a step back but that was all he could manage.

When Sasuke thought it was the end of him, someone grabbed the enemy's ankle and stopped his movements. "Run... Sasuke-bochama"

Sasuke blinked and snapped out of it as he could recognize the voice. It was his eldest friend, the one that kept him company while his parents were away and Itachi were busy. He served under the Uchiha Main Family for years, he taught Sasuke how to use a kunai, and the seals to use fire jutsus.

"Run!" The voice cut itself into Sasuke's mind, snapping Sasuke out of his trance. Sasuke turned and started running, but not before he witnessed the murder of his loyal friend. Tears were rolling down Sasuke's cheeks like rain. If he'd just stay down... he would've lived. But he chose to save him and inform the enemy that he wasn't dead. Sasuke was still clutching on to the kunai, he didn't dare look back to check whether the man was pursuing him or not. The streets were totally free of people, had everyone been wiped out already? Sasuke shook that thought from his head and turned at the next corner.

A dead end.

He quickly turned back, but it was too late. He was cornered like a mouse in a lion's cave, his hands trembled as he held his kunai. He threw off any hesitation he had, it's do or die now. He spread his feet and got ready for the silver haired invader. The man charged, Sasuke gritted his teeth. A katana came down on him.

Metal clashed with metal.

"Nii-san...!" Sasuke's eyes widened at the sight of his brother,12 year old Itachi blocked off the katana with a kunai. He looked over his shoulder to look at his little brother. "Are you alright? Sasuke" he asked. Sasuke nodded slowly. Itachi turned back "Stand back" Itachi said. Sasuke, still holding onto the kunai, stepped back.

"Who are you" the silver haired man asked arrogantly, irritated at the sudden intrusion. Itachi's sharingan activated, she scowled at the enemy. Almost immediately, the enemy's eyes turned from craving to kill to fear for his life. "U-Uchiha-" He blinked and the next thing he knew, he was bleeding to death. "Itachi" he said before the life disappeared from his eyes.

Itachi walked to his brother, the kunai used to kill the man was still in his hand. "Sasuke... why did yo leave the manor" Itachi said sternly. "Because... father and mother... they're..." Sasuke looked down, not even bothering to stop his tears. Itachi dropped his kunai and fell to his knees and hugged his brother. Sasuke buried his face into his brother's shoulder, Itachi's hand moved to his brother's hand and made him let go of kunai. "Your time isn't now, Sasuke" Itachi muttered.

Later that night, Itachi brought Sasuke back to the manor and remade the barrier, though it wasn't as strong as their parent's it was good enough to keep Sasuke safe.

Sasuke hid in the closet of his parent's room, trying to hide from the terrorized screams, the sounds of metal clashing, the feeling of losing everyone that was just smiling to you yesterday. Sasuke didn't cry, neither did he sleep.

"Sasuke!"

Sasuke's head rose slowly to meet his brother's eyes, he looked pretty beaten up and tired. Sasuke snickered, "W-What's so funny" said Itachi. "Had trouble looking for me?" Sasuke mocked. A faint blush tainted Itachi's cheeks, a jounin having trouble looking for a boy in a closet. This pride had been stained "S-Shut up, I'm just exhausted from the fight" he said, settling himself down next to Sasuke. And that was the last peaceful moment the brother have had together.

End of past vision…

Next Member…

Name: Uzumaki Naruto

Personality: Hyperactive, Caring, Stubborn, Playful, Rude, Noisy, Hot tempered.

Hobbies: Training.

Likes: Cup Ramen

Dislikes: Having to wait 3 minutes after you pour the hot water into the ramen cup

Dream: To become the greatest Hokage.

Life: Born as an orphan, Naruto grew up not knowing his parents. He was treated like an outcast by the village. The third hokage forbade anyone to speak of the nine-tailed beast that lies in Naruto. All information on his parents were kept from him just as the fact that a legendary beast had been sealed in him. No one was to know that the very man who saved the village 12 years ago was Naruto's father.

Everyday of Naruto's life.

He walked through the streets of Konoha, everyone got out of his way when he passed. He received the cold glares of the villagers. But Naruto's cheeky grin didn't leave his face for a step, he refused to show any signs of weakness around the people that seemed to hate his guts for no reason.

"Monster"

"Filthy beast boy"

"He shouldn't have been born"

"Stay away from him...!"

"He's a demon in disguise"

In Naruto's point of view, he was just a normal orphan boy trying to make friends and have people acknowledge his existence. But to everyone else, he would always cast the shadow of the beast that had wrecked Konoha and stole the lives of their beloved. But no matter what everyone thought, Naruto was going to show them. "I'm gonna become Hokage one day!"

End of Introduction…

"Finally a mission where it doesn't include chasing stupid cats around the village" shouted Naruto as he reached the gate.

"Do you have to be this loud" a toneless voice said the footsteps halted at the gate

"Sasuke! Teme! You are such a boring piece of turd!"

"I'd rather be a boring piece of turd than be as annoying as you"

"Hmph! I can't believe a genius like me got teamed up with a bastard like you" huffed Naruto, crossing his arms.

You could actually see the electricity from the tension of their glares to one another, till Kakashi came walking in with the Bridge master, Tazuna.

"You're late again Kakashi-sensei!" shouted Naruto, shifting his glare to Kakashi-sensei.

"Ah, my bad, my bad" he said, scratching his head.

"I asked for shinobi and all I get are two brats that barely look like ninja, especially that stupid looking one" said Tazuna, gulping down a mouthful of sake.

"Ahahahaha! Sasuke, he just called you stupid looking." Said Naruto, laughing.

Everyone just sighed.

Before anyone could say anything, Kakashi cut in "Tazuna-san, I can assure you that these boys are more than capable of protecting you from bandits and besides, I'm a jounin, so there's nothing to worry about" he said as Naruto beamed with pride. "Let's go let's go let's go!" he shouted, pumping a fist in the air.

"Idiot…." muttered Sasuke, under his breath.

Kakashi sighed, it was tiresome being the jounin of a hyperactive powerhouse and an emotionless ice cube. He began to regret making the decision to pass this team.

The team travelled on foot for the whole day, and stopped to set camp for the day since the harbor was still another day's walk from where they were and it was too risky to travel at night when they're easily targeted.

"Awww…. We didn't cover as much distance as I expected us to" whined Naruto. "Cause you kept stopping every few minutes and throwing your kunai at some random direction" said Sasuke, leaning against the tree.

"It's called intuition, Sasuke, you need to learn to be more careful" said Naruto. "Naruto you nearly killed a rabbit, what did it ever do to you" said Kakashi. "To you it's a fluffy creature of nature, but to me it's a beast in the making. One day it's going to grow fangs and bite you in the ass, Kakashi-sensei. Be thankful that my intuition was there to save your asses." said Naruto. "No, it's called stupidity and I don't think they have a cure for that" Sasuke added.

"Bastard!" shouted Naruto, as he charges at Sasuke then he rammed into the tree that he was leaning on. He rubbed his nose in pain then looked up and glared at Sasuke who just raised his eyebrows in boredom.

Then Sasuke suddenly took out a kunai and went into an offensive stance, Naruto looked puzzled "Oh! You wanna fight now, huh. I'll take you on anytime" said Naruto, reaching for a kunai. "Sshh, be quiet for a while, Naruto" said Kakashi

"What?" said Naruto, turning his head to face Kakashi, who looked too serious to be joking."What's going on…..?" said Naruto, looking as confused as Tazuna.

Suddenly they could hear metal clashing and a man voice "Come back to the master obediently, Little twit!" Naruto gasped "There's a fight going on" he pulled out a kunai and ran after Sasuke and Kakashi who were already running to the direction of noise.

They came to a clearing where a the battle was taking place, it was a fight between a big sized man with a huge sword and a small fragile figure, her head hung low and she was wearing a khaki colored hood that reached down and covered down to her elbows, when she moved they noticed that she was wearing a plain white sleeveless dress that ended slightly above her knee. The hood obstructed their view of her appearance but they could tell by her body build that she could be no older than Naruto and Sasuke.

Naruto tried to come out of hiding and help the girl but he was stopped by Kakashi, Naruto looked at him and he just shook his head.

"She's wounded" Naruto whispered harshly

Then Kakashi glanced at the female figure and noticed a brownish red stain of blood on the left side of her waist. It looked like a wound that was inflicted recently since it was still bleeding. They could see a red trail of blood rolling down her left thigh and down her leg before dripping onto the ground. Her only weapon was a kunai with a red string tied on the finger hole, and she was barefoot. They heard someone approaching from behind and they turned around, just to see Tazuna walking towards them with a sheet of newspaper in hand.

"Get down, old man" whispered Naruto.

Tazuna just nodded and did as he said.

The battle didn't last very long. The fragile looking girl turned out to be exceptionally skilled. The girl charged at the man first, the man made his move by swinging his oversized blade sideways at her, she disappeared at the last minute. He looked around for her, when she never left his side. He looked up at his huge blade, he caught a glimpse of her before he had his skull bashed open by a fatal kick. The girl flipped and landed behind him.

The man cried out in pain, he dropped his blade and clutched his face. Slowly, he turned to the girl, who was standing sideways facing him. She threw up her kunai and caught it's tip, she drew it back and it brushed her left shoulder before she threw it at the man. Taking out one of his knees. She ran at him and pulled out the kunai then stabbed his other knee, making him completely disabling his movements. He thrashed around with one arm as the other hand held his head in pain.

The girl avoided his random but violent swings, she was behind him in seconds. She threw her kunai into the sky, she looked like she was going to end it with one last move. She formed some hand seals. Sasuke's eyes widened a little as he noticed those were seals for a fire jutsu.

"Katon, Karyuu Endan! (Fire style, Fire Dragon Flame Blast)" her voice sounded confident and firm but somehow she sounded off as soft spoken. She blew into the hole she made with her fist and a Dragon made out of flames engulfed the man. He cried out in pain. When the flames ended, there was a huge piece of charcoal in the place where the man was supposed to be. But if you look closely, you can make it out as a body.

Naruto gulped nervously. Sasuke narrowed his eyes at the girl. Kakashi seemed impressed by the girl's abilities especially when she looked around Sasuke and Naruto's age.

The girl straightened and the kunai came back down to earth, stabbing into the earth. The girl bent down to pick her weapon up, but she paused halfway. Her vision began to blur and her body throbbed; she fell with her hood sliding off her head and revealing her pink hair that was held up by a hair needle with a light pink Sakura flower at the end that slipped off her hair and landed on the floor in the end.

Naruto and Sasuke's eye widened a little at the sight of her. For someone that's dressed like she had been living a cave her whole life, she looked rather pretty. But that was no time to be admiring her. They all leaped out from behind the bushes to help her. Kakashi was checking her wound and her pulse when a voice suddenly shouted.

"This girl! Sh- She's-!" he glanced at his newspaper and then at the girl again the down at the paper then the girl.

"You know her? Old man?" said Naruto.

"She's got the whole Iwagakure riled up, it's all over the news. They seemed desperate to reclaim her, they even offered a reward to anyone who can provide information on her and even more for her return" said Tazuna. "For now, we should probably treat her wound first" said Kakashi, he carried the girl back to their camp.

Naruto followed for a few steps before noticing that Sasuke wasn't in front of him, he looked back and saw Sasuke just standing up. "What's with the slow reaction, Sasuke. It's not like you" Naruto mocked with a grin. "Shut up" Sasuke deadpanned and jumped off before Naruto could.

Kakashi patched her up based on the basics of medical treatment all shinobi were required to know. He disinfected the wound and bandaged it up.

They put her on Kakashi's never-been-used sleeping bag. Since no one had seen that man use it to sleep in and left her kunai next to her. "Right, now that that's taken care off. You guys should go get some rest, we're going reach our goal by afternoon" said Kakashi.

"That's it? We're just going to sleep till daybreak?" Naruto complained rather loudly, till a rock was thrown at his head from some random direction. Naruto cursed and turned to that random direction, Sasuke was acting innocent and faced away from him. It didn't really work, considering the fact that he still hada rock in his hand.

"Teme! I'll show you how to throw a rock at someone!" Naruto looked around to find something big enough to permanently injure Sasuke with. But Sasuke paid no attention to his teammate trying to find the murder weapon to kill him with, instead his attention was on a certain hair accessory that smelt faintly of cherry blossoms and dirt.

Kakashi sighed tiredly, "If you insist on staying up so much, I'll let you take turns in standing guard" he offered. "Alright then, I'll stay up first. Kakashi-sensei and Teme can go sleep your ass off. I'll wake one of you up in an hour, then again..." Naruto trailed off and started fantasizing about beating the crap out of a midnight bandit and having Kakashi and Sasuke at his feet .

After a few hours, he fell asleep….

Sasuke was on a branch, on knee propped up and the other leg dangled from the branch. "What a loser..." Sasuke rolled his eyes, then they landed on the sleeping female. His eyes narrowed suspiciously at her, who was she...? He felt the need to know, badly. But the more he stared the more unaware of his surroundings he got, he snapped out of it when he suddenly felt light. Too late, he felt off the branch he was sitting on with a hard thud and a toneless "Ow"

Sasuke stumbled out of the bushes and began shaking off leaves and twigs stuck on his body. "What' wrong, Sasuke" Kakashi said after placing Naruto in his own sleeping bag. "Falling out of trees when you're not even moving isn't like you" he said in a half mocking tone. Sasuke pulled out a twig from his hair and threw it off behind him. He decided to ignore his sensei's question, and just sit down near the fire.

"You should get some sleep too, Sasuke" Kakashi said, placing a hand on his student's shoulder, Sasuke attempted to glare at his teacher till he understood that he had no intention of sleeping through the night, but Kakashi didn't seem like the type of person to give in no matter how scary the glare was. "Tch" and with that, Uchiha Sasuke's glare failed to convince his teacher and he moved over to one side of the clearing, away from everyone else and laid there for what seemed like hours till he finally fell asleep.

Next morning, Sasuke was woken up by a loud noise, AKA Naruto's morning call.

"AH! Kakashi-sensei didn't keep me awake" said Naruto, jumping on his feet

"Oh, Naruto, you're awake" said Kakashi-sensei, walking out of the trees. "Noisy shit…" muttered Sasuke, sitting up and ruffling his hair that was spikier in the morning.

Naruto pretended he didn't hear that and ran straight to Kakashi-sensei. "You didn't fight anyone when we were asleep right?" his eyes looked up expectantly at Kakashi.

"No, I fell asleep too" said Kakashi, rubbing the back of his head.

Everyone sweatdropped

"What! You do realize that I could've been attack while you... lazy shinobi were dozing off on duty" said Tazuna, everyone looked at him suspiciously. "Why are you so anxious, Tazuna-san? Is there something you've been keeping from us?" Kakashi said as he narrowed his eyes. "I-I have my reasons" Tazuna said rather nervously, quickly turning the other way.

Before Kakashi could push him any further, they heard someone getting up. They looked to where the girl was, she rose to sit up. She rubbed her eyes a little before they opened and blinked a few times, as her eyes adjusted to the view. Her eyes were a beautiful bright shade of green, those eyes scanned the camp and then they showed hints of alarming. She noticed a bunch of people she didn't know. Her eyes completely transformed into an alert and fierce shade of green. She reached for the sides to feel for anything she could use to defend herself, and that's when she was reunited with her kunai. For a brief moment there was a flash of relief and happiness in her eyes before the fierce side took over again.

She was on her feet in a flash, taking on a defensive stance since there were so many opponents. Her eyes widened just a little Kakashi flinched and two clawed shinobi came out of nowhere and rounded him then ripped him to pieces.

His two students were alarmed that their teacher had just been ripped apart in front of their own eyes. Naruto didn't move from his spot, but Sasuke was already in a battle stance.

"Hmm, the jounin is gone, only two more brats to go, I'll handle them, you get the bridge master" commanded the one with the claw. Tazuna stood looking around anxiously, expecting his death very soon. Sasuke was in combat with the clawed one, Naruto didn't turn out to be as useful in combat as he proves to be with his mouth. Sasuke gritted his teeth his frustration as he noticed their client was in trouble and his motor mouth teammate was just standing there wetting himself!

The other assassin was about to wrap Tazuna in his spiked chains and rip him to pieces like what he did with Kakashi, the chains went round and round Tazuna, the assassin pulled the chains and they closed in, but before the chains were able to wrap Tazuna up, a blur of pink and white entered the field and with a clang, she sent the chains flying off course and off Tazuna's body

She then rushed at the man whose chains were already starting to reel in. She was in front of him before he could feel his metal hand reunite with him, she kicked him in the chest, knocking him backwards, Sasuke also did the same with the other guy, they rammed their backs into each other and fell unconscious

The two were shooting scowls at each other, the two worked unconsciously well together but neither trusted the another. He tied them up then turned to Naruto who was still rooted to the ground.

"You're not hurt are you? Scaredy cat" Sasuke mocked

"Sasuke….." said Naruto, clenching his fist and gritting his teeth 'I couldn't do anything...! Why! Naruto you loser!' then he just remembered "Kakashi-sensei's…!" said Naruto.

"What about me, Naruto?" said Kakashi, reading his book on a branch just behind them."Kakashi-sensei! You're alive!" he shouted. "Course I am" Kakashi answered in a flat tone, too engrossed in his book to even look up."H-How'd you" Naruto said looking at the pile of wood pieces that were supposed to be pieces of Kakashi.

"A substitution technique….." said Sasuke.

"If you were there all the time, why didn't you help? I could've died!" yelled Tazuna.

Kakashi closed his book and looked at Tazuna straight in the eye "I wanted to see who were they aiming at, you?" Kakashi looked over at the girl who still looks like she wants to kill them "Or her. But those assassins were clearly aiming for you." Kakashi jumped down from the branch and landed right in front of Tazuna, who began sweating too much for him to blame it on the weather. "But I had to admit, I never expected Naruto would pose as a statue in the middle of a battle after all that talk about being able to fight a man as big as a bear" said Kakashi, looking over his shoulder at Naruto.

Surprisingly Naruto didn't deny it with extreme force like he usually does, instead he just kept silent and dug his nails into his palms. "Be more prepared next time, Naruto" said Kakashi. Sasuke snorted "Or at least try not to wet your pants in the middle of a battle" Sasuke mocked. The normal Naruto returned, more fired up than before "Shut up, Teme! I didn't wet my pants!" Naruto shouted at Sasuke's mocking accusation. "You got beaten, by a girl"

"She beats you too!" Naruto shouted. Kakashi cut in "Speaking about the girl" he looked over at the girl, she narrowed her eyes darkly at him. "Who are you people?" she demanded with a voice that sounded hostile no matter how you take it. Kakashi raised his hands "Let's just talk... shall we" Kakashi said with a smile, though you can't see most of his face, his eye showed everything you needed to know. Or at least what he wanted you to know.

The girl didn't seem convince, and Naruto probably made it worst by-

"Hiya! My name's Uzumaki Naruto!" Naruto said from beside her. "Uwaa!" the girl jumped in shock but that only lasted a second before it all stonified as she held her kunai tighter, she pressed the weapon at Naruto's neck before he even had time to react. She glared at him darkly. "D-Did I do something wrong...?" he asked nervously, looking back and forth from the girl and his sensei.

Sasuke smacked a hand to his forehead at Naruto's ingenious act to make the girl trust them by sneaking up on her. "You people saved me... why" the girl wasn't so hostile anymore, but she was currently holding Naruto hostage to demand useless information out of them.

"Why? Well we couldn't like leave you there, right?" said Naruto, speaking casually even though his life was clearly in her hands. "And what did you plan to do after that" she growled. "Planned?" Kakashi scratched the back of his head. "I was just planning to talk, we'll answer whatever questions you ask. You can let Naruto go, but that's optional, we'll answer either way" said Kakashi. "Hey!" Naruto shouted. The girl reluctantly let go and Naruto quickly took a step away.

The girl clutched her side and fell on one knee, when everyone tried to help she threatened them with a menacing glare which they guess, meant: Any closer and I'll rip your guts out. Sasuke started walking towards her, hands in his pocket with a face that didn't seem affected by the silent threat. "S-Sasuke!" Naruto called out to him.

The girl held up her kunai and he knelt down, as if daring her to do it. He ignored her kunai and hostility and took hold of her hand that was clutching the wound, she growled at him and etched away like an injured animal. Sasuke scowled then looked up at her, only to have it back fire him cause one second he was irritated at the stubborn girl, then the next he'd wished he never got angry at her because she looked like an injured prey about to get eaten by the predator, which in this case, was Sasuke. Her eyes starting to water as she looked down at Sasuke's unmoving hand, as if he was going to stab his hand violently into her wound the lick the blood out of his hands like some kind of maniac. Sasuke was staring at her with a faint blush on his cheeks

"Teme's having pervy thoughts!" Naruto shouted, earning him a death glare deluxe that send him quivering behind Kakashi, "I-I'm not scared of y-you!" Naruto lied helplessly. Once Sasuke turned back to try and help the girl again, she was narrowing her eyes at him, no longer showing that weak form from before. That was fast.

Sasuke decided to shake it from his head, and instead of trying to pluck her fingers open from her clutch, he decided to put his hand on top of hers. "Let me see..." he said softly. The girl looked at him, the look in her eyes starting to soften, and eventually she let go, allowing Sasuke to take a look at the wound from behind the bandages. There was a growing stain of blood coming through. Sasuke started to unwrap the bandages, he could tell the girl was holding back from slicing him up with her kunai as her free hand kept twitching.

After resealing the girl's wound, he wrapped it up with fresh new bandages. "That should fix it" he muttered to no one in particular then standing up. "Th-" he heard someone stuttered and looked down at the girl that was still crouched down. "Thank you" she eventually got it out. Sasuke just jammed his hands in his pockets and turned away without another word.

"Impressive Sasuke, never knew you had it in you" his sensei told him as Sasuke passed his sensei without so much as sparring him a look. The girl stood up "Who are you people" she asked with a softer tone, but not soft enough to let people know she's vulnerable. "Konoha Shinobi! I'm Uzumaki Naruto. I'm going to be hokage someday!" Naruto declared.

"H-Hokage...? One of the world leaders?" the girl said, actually believing him. "He's lying" a voice from behind sound and Naruto started cursing at Sasuke on the tree.

Kakashi walked over to the girl, she didn't consider them a threat anymore. "Don't mind them, they're always like that. I'm their sensei, Hatake Kakashi" Kakashi held out his hand. The girl shook it then she glanced at Sasuke who was sitting on a tree branch, ignoring Naruto's wrath. "Who's that other boy" she asked, looking back at Kakashi.

Kakashi glanced at Sasuke, "Uchiha Sasuke" he answered. The girl glanced over at Tazuna. "I suppose you people are on a mission?" she asked. "Yeah" Kakashi pointed a thumb at Tazuna "He's our current client, that aside. Who are you?" Kakashi asked.

This question cause the boys to shut up, well Naruto's doing most of the shutting up. Sasuke just listened as Naruto moved over to the girl. "Haruno, I-" she paused "I was from Iwagakure" she answered softly. "What's your first name" Naruto asked. The girl stayed silent for a moment "I don't have one"

"How can you not have one, everyone has one." Naruto asked, more like demanded. "Sensei just calls me Haruno or "The Monster Tool'" she told him, Naruto now wished he hadn't asked that question. But then an idea hit him. "Then we'll give you a name!"

The girl looked at him "Eh?" Naruto grinned at her. He looked around for a stick then picked it up and knelt down. "Erm... Haruno... how do you write that..?" he asked, scratching his head. The girl took the stick from him and wrote down her name in kanji on the ground. "Right! Let's see, what would make a good name for you..." Naruto glanced over at the girl. She was a pretty girl with pink hair that reached down to her hip, though it looked like it has never been combed properly. She had refreshing bright green eyes and a child like face, with a few bruises here and there. Naruto started scribbling down names that he thought would make the girl next to him.

Soon, Kakashi joined in and started suggesting names too. "No no, Keiko doesn't really suit her" he reached out to cross the name

"What about ramen!"

Kakashi conked him on the head.

Sasuke snapped a stick in half and jumped off the branch then started walking towards the ground crouching around a bunch of scribbles. He knelt down and everyone looked at him as he wrote the words in katakana 'Sa-ku-ra'

Naruto tilted his head as he read "Haruno... Saku-ra." Kakashi nodded in satisfaction. "Sakura, that's a suitable name"

Everyone looked at the girl. She was smiling "Sakura... I love it" The guys seemed relieved. Naruto stood up "Alright! From today onwards, you'll be known as Haruno Sakura-chan" he announced. Sasuke smirked and Kakashi smiled, invisibly.

Sakura nodded firmly. "Now that we know who you are, back to the previous subject" Kakashi said, glancing over at Tazuna, who looked rather nervous. "If I remembered correctly, this is a C-ranked mission. We are only supposed to protect you from bandits and robbers. If you included shinobi assassins" Kakashi glanced over at the tied up two that's trying to escape. "It would've been ranked as a B-ranked mission, which clearly. Naruto isn't ready for" said Kakashi.

There was a loud "HEY!" and then a snicker from Sasuke. Tazuna looked reluctant for a moment then sighed and decided to split "Alright I'll tell you" (I assume you all know the reason)

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"We're people from a poor town, how can we afford a B-ranking mission..." Tazuna finished off. "I see... well, now that we know. Naruto, Sasuke." He called out to his students, earning their attention. "I'll give you two choices... one" he held up a finger "We turn back to the village and report to the Hokage" Naruto opened his mouth to protest "Or" Kakashi cut him off "We see this mission to the end, but it's going to be risky" he said.

Naruto exploded "Of course we'll help this old man! A good shinobi don't turn their heads away from danger" Naruto turned to Sasuke "Right? Sasuke" Sasuke snorted "Says the guy who stood still during an attack" he mocked. "That was a long time ago!" Naruto shouted. "Yeah sure, 30 minutes is a long time" Sasuke's voice laced with sarcasm.

"He's right, Naruto. We might not be so lucky during the next attack" said Kakashi. Naruto's dug his nails into his palms. "I won't freeze like that again! I swear on my shinobi pride!" Naruto declared rather confidently. Sasuke raised his eyebrows "I'll hold that against you" he said. Naruto turned to him "Bring it on!"

"So we all agree?" said Kakashi. "Whatever" "Yeah!"

Kakashi turned over to the girl, running her chakra through her kunai to sharpen it. "What are you going to do" he asked. Sakura looked down "W-Well, I don't really have anywhere to go. So I was wondering if I-I could tag along. That is, i-if you don't mind" she said, nervously looking on the floor. A hand reached out before. "Let's go" Sakura lifted her head and her green eyes met Sasuke's black ones.

She took his hand with a smile. Sasuke tried to hide his blush by scowling at the ground with full force. It wasn't long before they reached the harbor, it was misty and dark and no one was there. "This is the harbor to the land of waves...?" said Naruto. "This is the only way to get to the island, though, no one really wants to go there, not when Gatou reigns" said Tazuna.

They looked around for a boat but no one appeared to be there, Kakashi looked over at Tazuna "You said there was a guide here to bring us to the island" said Kakashi "He should be here soon"

He walked to the group of people sitting down on the bench "Alright then, you guys can go scout around" said Kakashi-sensei but the boys were already running in different directions.

"Ok then…. I'll just stay here" said Kakashi then he noticed that Sakura was staying put, he smiled at her "Why don't you go for a little walk, I'll stay here" said Kakashi. "A-Alright"

The harbor wasn't far from the forest, since there wasn't any other route, Sakura stepped into the forest and entered a clearing, it was an extraordinary sight, the leaves were shining from the sunlight, in the middle, there weren't any trees covering the sunlight from entering, which made the sunlight enter the clearing, it was a beautiful sight and there was no mist.

Sakura looked around excitedly.

"What a beautiful place, ne, Sasuke-kun" she said while turning to an apple tree beside her.

"Hn, is there a time where you are not on your guard?" said Sasuke, standing on a branch with a kunai in his hand, probably planning to throw that to test Sakura, he put it back and leaned against the tree.

"I have my weaknesses" said Sakura, smiling

"Sure you do" said Sasuke, sarcastically, then he noticed that the kunoichi's attention wasn't focused on him, it was focused on the fruit above him. He picked it and jumped down, landing swiftly on his feet "Here" he said, tossing her the apple with one hand in his pocket.

She caught it hesitantly.

"You're suppose to bite it" he said, slipping his other hand in his pocket and staring at her with a bored expression. Sakura stared at him with a suspicious look, he rolled his eyes "It's not poison" Sakura frowned then stared down at the fruit, then lifted it to her mouth.

She bit down, but she didn't severe a piece, she paused then put a little more force down

-Shhaackk-

"It's good…" she said, smiling.

"Hn" exclaimed Sasuke as walks to the apple tree and threw a kunai to cut an apple down.

But instead of falling on his hand, it fell on it head, he gave a silent "Ite" when it hit him. Sakura started laughing lighting. Sasuke scowled at her then shoved his hands in his pockets "We should go back" He said, turning and walking out of the clearing.

When they reached the docks, they saw Kakashi pulling out thistles from Naruto's outfit. "What happened to the dork" said Sasuke, tonelessly.

"I'm not a dork!"

"I bet you slipped off a tree and fell into a thistle bush or something" said Sasuke.

"You were spying on me?" Naruto demanded in shock.

"Anyone could've figured that out just by looking at you" said Sasuke.

Naruto turned to look at Sakura as if asking if she agreed with Sasuke, but she was still eating the apple Sasuke introduced her to, she looked up from the apple and gave a smile while chewing. Naruto blushed and looked away.

After a while of waiting and pulling thistles, much to Naruto's dismay. The boat finally arrived, it was a man paddled boat and the paddler was one of Tazuna's workers.

When they reached the village, they silently got off cause if one of Gatou's men caught them using water transport, they would be executed. Just as everyone got out of the boat, Kakashi shouted "Everyone get down!"

A spinning blade came flying towards them, everyone got on the floor except for the paddler, he was terrorized with fear that he couldn't even move. Sakura got up and jumped in front of the paddler, and blocked the sword with her kunai, even after it was stopped the blade kept on spinning in high speed.

Sakura clenched her teeth then turned around and knocked the paddler off his feet, they escaped death but the sword grazed Sakura's shoulder.

She sat up and turned around to see the sword stuck on the tree and let out a breath "Ite" she exclaimed and held her shoulder.

The two boys landed next to the wounded kunoichi as Kakashi remained next to Tazuna with a kunai in hand.

"You alright?" asked Sasuke.

"I'm fine" said Sakura, wincing a little.

Next Chapter

"Shit, he caught me"

"You brats don't stand a chance against me without the copy ninja"

"Suiton, Daibafuku no Jutsu!"

"There's no such thing as a real hero!"

"He's alive"

So how was the alteration :D I'm sorry I couldn't shorten it much though. For the new readers! What did you think? Do you hate it? I know Sakura is a little Mary-sue-ish haha! XD Reviews are much appreciated and will be treasured by the author. If you don't feel like reviewing it's okay! I'm still happy that you clicked this amateur writer's story :3

Before you go! I have a question

Naruto or Sasuke?