Disclaimer: If I had created Naruto, Sasuke wouldn't have betrayed the village.

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It had started out as a normal 'D' rank mission.

Team Seven was told that they had to find a little, lost puppy, and after searching the village for an hour, they came to the conclusion that it must be in the woods.

They were about to enter the woods when the face of fury made his appearance.

Iruka stalked up to Kakashi. His entire presence seemed to ooze a dark aura. "Hatake..."

Kakashi cowered before the infuriated chûnin. "Yes, Iruka-sensei?"

An evil grin slowly slid across the chûnin's face. "You forgot to turn in the last three of your mission reports."

The jônin attempted to perform a 'happy eye crinkle.' "What's a few reports between fellow ninja?"

Iruka's eye began to twitch erratically, and Kakashi knew he had made a grave mistake. Iruka's voice was low, barely above a growl. "Since you're so interested, Kakashi, I'm going to let you do all of my paperwork for both the mission room and the ninja academy. Then, what's a classroom of twenty-one monster between 'fellow ninja'? So, I'll let you also take my teaching duties for the rest of the day."

Kakashi paled drastically. "You... You don't mean that."

Iruka let loose a laugh that would have made a maniac in a lunatic ward sound perfectly sane. "I'm overworked, underpaid, under-appreciated, and completely taken for granted. Kakashi, I'm very serious. So serious, in fact, that I got Tsunade's approval."

Kakashi managed to pale even more causing him to appear more like a ghost than a living being. His visible eye darted from left to right, searching for an escape route. Suddenly, Kakashi was lying on his back in the dirt with Iruka standing over him.

Iruka's left foot was planted firmly in the center of Kakashi's abdomen, effectively winding him. Coffee-brown eyes swept down to lock with a slate-gray eye. "I will hunt you to the ends of the Earth if you try to run away, and don't try any of that 'I'm a jônin' crap, either. I'm a teacher; you can't scare me."

He reached down and grasped Kakashi's collar. "Welcome to the worst day of your life."

With those words, Iruka formed the hand-sign for a teleportation jutsu, and both men disappeared in a poof of smoke.

The three genin blinked, too shocked to do anything else.

Sakura was the first to recover and asked the obvious question, "Do we abort the mission?"

Naruto leaped back in surprise. "Of course not! We can't just give up! Believe it!"

Sakura turned to Sasuke.

The raven-haired boy shrugged. "Naruto can finish the mission if he wants, but I'm going home."

Naruto growled at Sasuke before yelling in obvious delight, "Then, I'm going to get RAMEN!"

Both boys started back up the trail that led to the village.

Sakura stood there for a moment before wondering aloud, "What do we put on the mission report?"

Sasuke paused. "We'll put the truth. 'Mission aborted due to kidnapped comrade.'"

Naruto grinned and shouted over his shoulder, "Make sure you're very far away when Iruka-sensei gets it, though!"

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