Disclaimer: I sadly don't own Naruto, or I could draw really cool stuff.

Traveler's law

Chapter 1: The scroll

"This is so cool!", Obito cheered.

"This is so stupid", Kakashi deadpanned.

Obito was so focused on the content of the scroll, that he didn't really listen.

"Eh, what did you say, teme?!"

"Nevermind."

"Kakashi-kun, Obito-kun! Are you alright?"

"Rin-chan! Yes, everything is fine here! We killed these two bandits pretty fast! You should have seen my Katon: Housenka no Jutsu, it was so fast, they couldn't avoid it!"

"Can you speak one sentence without an exclamation mark?", Kakashi asked annoyed.

"You're an emotionless bastard!"

Kakashi shrugged.

"Obito-kun, Kakashi-kun, please don't fight again", Rin said softly.

"We are not fighting, I'm just talking with the idiot. Besides Rin is right, Obito, you should be quiet, there could be still more bandits, we wouldn't want to reveal our position."

"Grrrr!"

"You lost your words, Obito? That's really rare!", the appearing Minato teased.

"Sensei! Don't pick on me!"

Minato chuckled. "Shouldn't you be with the caravan, sensei?"

"The perimeter is clear, there are no bandits left, still I have left a kagebunshin and hiraishin-kunai with them. Kakashi, do your report."

"Hai, Minato-sensei! Three bandit's appeared, two men and one women, the men seemed to be low-level rogue nins, they suspected Rin to be the weak one, so they separated Obito and me from her. We fought the two bandits, one used some basic Doton Jutsu, the other Suiton Jutsu on the same level, their taijutsu-style was really sloppy, even worse than Obito's."

"Hey!"

"They didn't use any genjutsu, that's why I presume they may be genin. We took them out combining Obito's Katon: Housenka no Jutsu and kunai", Kakashi stated.

Minato nodded: "Rin, what happened with you?"

"As Kakashi-kun said, I fought the woman, she didn't seem to be a shinobi, I caught her easily in a genjutsu, Magen: Narakumi no Jutsu, I put her out with a senbon, coated with a mild potion, to the neck, which put her unconscious. I didn't kill her, because I thought, maybe she could provide some information for T&I. I tied her up after that, though it's unlike that she would recover this soon."

"Good work, everybody! So we need to pick that female bandit up and head back to the caravan. Let's go!"

"Minato-sensei, wait! I found a really weird scroll on one of the bandits!"

"Let me see it, Obito." Obito gave the scroll to Minato, who immediatly started reading it. After a few seconds he raised his eyebrows: "Could this be? No, that's impossible."

"What's wrong sensei? You don't believe time-travel is possible? It would be really cool!"

"You understand that much of the scroll?"

"Sure I did! Do you believe I'm stupid?! I'm not stupid!"

"You're stupid", Kakashi murmured in his masked, however no one did hear him, but that too was his intention, he didn't want to hear more of Obito's outraged rambling.

"No, Obito, I don't think, that you're stupid, but the scroll is written in an outdated language. It just surprised me, that you could read it, they don't teach that in school, do they?"

"I'm surprised, that he can read at all", Kakashi murmured again under his breath.

"No, the don't, sensei. My uncle made me read some really boring and really ancient scrolls about really boring stuff!"

"Okay, we will discuss this topic later, we should head back to the caravan now, the sooner we will continue, the sooner we can end this mission, now let's go on."

They started running back, Minato picked up the still unmoving female and they set for the trees, jumping, using chakra, was really the fastest way to move in a forrest. It took only ten minutes to reach the clearance, where the caravan has settled already for the night. The were greated by the wife of their client.

"Welcome back, Minato-san! We already called in for the night, if that is okay? The threats are handled and the area is safe, isn't it?"

"Hai hai, everything is fine. We just need to discuss the matter of this prisoner, but she is still unconscious, don't worry! We will put her in our wagon."

"That will be okay, this way you can watch over her, right? Anyways dinner is already cooked, you need to eat first. Exspecially the little kid with the white hair."

Obito sniggered. Kakashi gave him a death glare. They set the tied woman in their wagon and sat down around the campfire, mingling with the travelers. Dinner was some sort of stew with many vegetables and meat. After they quietly ate their meal, well, not so quietly on Obito's part, who gave a made-up tale about a mission, where he was the hero, it was quite entertaining for the kids, even a few adults listened, because they were bored.

"... and then Kakashi got captured by two ugly men, I figured that they would want to extract information from him with torture. As his teammate it's my duty to prevent that from happening and I set after the ninja and fried them with my Katon: Gokakyuu no Jutsu..."

"Never going to happen", Kakashi said in disbelief, shaking his head.

Minato chuckled: "He is quite the entertainer, isn't he?"

"The story is really stupid."

Minato ruffled Kakashi's hair.

This disgruntled Kakashi even more. "Sensei! I told you to stop that! I'm not a kid anymore!"

"Sorry, Kakashi-kun, I forgot that you grew up so fast", Minato tried to apologize.

"Hn."

Rin just smiled.

"Rin, I'm very proud of you, you did a really good job today! You're hard training paid of!"

"Well, thanks to you sensei, you're my teacher."

"Don't flatter me, all this iryoujutsu and poison you taught yourself, I didn't have a hand in this."

Rin smiled gently. "If you say so, sensei."

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