This fic is more serious than my first, so if you came to see the drug addictions, I'm sorry, but no one's on drugs. There's almost no humor in the first chapter, but there will be in later chapters. You might want to check in on my favorite author, though. coughNumbercoughone

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto

Naruto was starting to get annoyed with Kakashi-Sensei. He'd recently taken to giving them a pop quiz every time he popped in, so before every mission. Most of his questions weren't even related to being a ninja.

Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura were sitting on an old rope bridge above a deep chasm. Birds were chirping from the trees on either side of the ravine. It was early in the morning, 5 am actually, and the sun was just beginning to peak over the Horizon.

"It's time for a pop quiz!" Kakashi sung as he appeared on the bridge from out of nowhere, making it shake dangerously. "Now, according to Christianity, what are the seven deadly sins?"

Naruto's eyes lit up. He knew this one. Normally Sasuke would just sit there and ignore Kakashi. Sakura would get a triumphant look on her face and give the right answer. Naruto would just sigh and turn his gaze shamefully down.

Naruto opened his mouth to reply but Sakura beet him to it. "Well," she declared with a smug look on her face, "first there's superbia, which means hubris or pride-" when she heard these words leave her mouth, she looked thunderstruck. All she could say after that was "Oh my god."

Naruto began to laugh and Sakura was furious at him. "At least I know them" she spat. "So Naruto, what are they? Or don't you know?"

"Easy," he laughed, "they're superbia meaning pride, avaritia meaning greed, luxuria meaning lust, invidia meaning envy, gula meaning gluttony, ira meaning wrath and acedia meaning sloth."

Everyone was stunned. It was the first question that he answered correctly. Sakura let out a shriek, Kakashi stumbled backwards and Sasuke actually looked up.

"That's…right." Kakashi muttered as he stared hard into Naruto's eyes. "Wow, it really is Naruto. I thought it must have been an impostor." He shrugged. "Anyway, your next mission is to locate a missing person."

"Really," Sakura asked, there was still an air of surprise in her voice.

"Who are we looking for?"

"Well," Kakashi replied, "We're looking for a girl named Kala. She was last seen here in the village below us."

"If she was last seen in a different village then why do we have to find her?" Naruto whined, "Shouldn't the ninja there have to find her? What about the tracker ninja from her village? What happened to them?"

"About fifteen years ago, that village was wiped out by a rouge ninja." Kakashi answered. "As for the tracker ninja, we're not sure. We don't even recognize the symbol on her headband." He pulled out a scroll, unrolled it and showed it to them.

It was a diamond with a cross in the middle. Above and below the diamond, on both sides were stars.

"Wow, that's weird." Naruto remarked as he took it in his hand. "So, what does this girl look like?" he asked.

"We only have a vague description." Kakashi responded. "She's approximately 5 feet, 2 inches, has dark green eyes and long black hair. Last time she was seen, she was wearing black boots, black pants, a white shirt and a black trench coat with the same symbol in red on the back. We think she might be from a new village."

"So how are we getting there?" Sakura asked as she looked down into the chasm's depths. "We can't exactly just jump down there, can we?"

"No, we can't," Kakashi agreed as he joined Sakura in looking down. "But we could ride down the waterfall." With that he pointed to the end of the ravine.

The three of them looked to where he was pointing and sure enough, there was a huge waterfall. They had mingled looks of confusion and doubt on their faces.

"We'll have to build a raft or a boat." Kakashi replied to their unasked question, as if reading their minds.

It was short, but it'll get longer as it goes on. Please review.