"Oi! Sakura!" I shouted at my bubblegum haired teammate, an over the top grin on my face, running towards her. It was a wonderful day. The sky was a brilliant, azure blue dotted with puffy cotton ball clouds. Shikamaru was probably laying under some tree, in the shade, watching them drift by until they slowly sunk over the horizon. My thoughts were suddenly interrupted by my screeching teammate. Her name Haruno Sakura. She was obnoxious, and annoying. With candy colored pink hair that screamed "FAKE!" that framed her ugly mug. Not that I'm a shallow person or anything if she had a good personality I would like her but the fact was that she didn't. She was a hormonal, abusive girl who was so emotional and Uchiha obsessed that you couldn't say one thing without getting a rap on the head.
"Naruto! Your too loud, try being more like Sasuke." The said girl stated while hitting me on the outside of my head as expected, but I took the blow trying with all my might not to flinch while recollecting all my previous beatings. She doesn't know what she does to me. No one knows about my past being anything that wasn't sunshine, flowery meadows and rainbows except for a select few who I trusted with my life. I was thwacked again and this time I did flinch but she didn't notice, she didn't my internal suffering. With every hit my soul gets torn apart by devastating, painful memories that appear in my mind, no matter how hard I try to will them away. My select few including my inhabitant, the nine-tailed demon fox, Kyuubi helped me to mend my heart but we all know that tape and glue won't hold forever. Little things can break tape, water can wash away the glue. They all hope I will return to the person I once was but I don't even remember that person anymore.
After a well rehearsed pout I looked at the Uchiha, eyes closed, leaning against one of the smooth polls on the well-worn wooden bridge and internally smirked. 'Sakura, you fool. I'm more like Sasuke then you'll ever know.' But I didn't speak my mind I just glared at the pale-skinned boy and waited for him to say something so then my mask could start yelling and arguing with him, like always.
"What dobe?"
"I told you not to call me that, teme!"
He just gave me a "Hn," and my facade went into a fit of cursing until the Uchiha fangirl gave me another smack over the head. Now that our ritual was done, we impatiently waited for our lazy-ass teacher as I chatted away with Sakura though I know that she wasn't listening and she knew I knew she wasn't listening until finally a poof of smoke appeared and revealed our sensei.
"Your three hours late!" I shouted in unison with the girl whose forehead was unproportional to her face. It was seriously aggravating pretending to be this buffoon, it always gave me a migraine to shout so much, but it's been eight years since I cultivated my mask so you would think that I would be used to it, but unfortunately no. Kakashi as usual gave us some absurd excuse and told us our mission. I scrutinized the silver-haired man. I had always detested the man. He would read porn books in the presence of children, he thinks we don't know about this stuff, please! What does he think we're seven. Another thing about him is that he tries to keep an air of secrecy around him by wearing that mask around the lower section of his face. I came up with my "mask" at the age of four, though it was not tangible, but it surpassed his in many ways in keeping my identity a mystery. Tuning back to what the said man was saying I learned what events the day would bring.
"Today, you will go after a thief who stole one of the Hokage's scrolls. The scroll isn't very important so that's why they're just sending us but this mission is still of utmost importance. Now go!"
"Yeah!" I screamed to the heavens as racing off into the distance, sensing my teammates shake their heads and race after me. 'I'm such first-rate actor if I do say so myself. It's comical how well I've fooled them, I can't wait till I show them the real me.' Feeling their presences on my sides I passed them a smile that portrayed pure, simple bliss while inside I snickered at their idiocy. Little did I know that I would reveal myself sooner then expected.
As we dashed from branch to branch, nimbly, trying to conceal ourselves for a quick, effective ambush, I started to sense the enemy's chakra. Sasuke gave me the signal to back-off and let him take it. Knowing that this enemy was stronger than the young Uchiha I ignored his order and started trying to catch up with him. I watched as the other ninja, clad in black, ornamented with metal platelets and wearing the symbol of the village of lightning, picked up Sasuke like a rag doll and easily tossed him into a tree. The large oak made a cracking sound as my teammate's body started plowing through it. Finally catching up I approached the opposing ninja.
"Naruto! Stay back! He's mine!" the avenger roared. Disregarding his order yet again, I made a kage bunshin and while the lightningnin was preoccupied with my clone I unleashed seventeen percent of my speed and appeared behind him. Before he knew what happened I had already hit him with a precise blow over the neck, knocking him out. Feeling a sense of pride I looked toward my comrades only to see a fist flying toward me. Caught by surprise I barely dodged it.
"What they heck Sasuke!" I growled as he prepared for another attack.
"I told you he was mine I had everything under control!" This time I let the punch connect so as not to reveal myself.
"Not from my view." At this I got a hard kick to the stomach.
"Naruto you idiot! Trying to show off! You could never be as good as Sasuke so why even try!" Sakura added as she finally caught up with us.
"This is what I get for completing the mission quickly and accurately? Well screw this I'm leaving!" Anger raged through my figures as I went through the appropriate hand seals. My aura deadly I gave my so called "team" one final glance before disappearing in a swirl of leaves.