The next morning, Ryonoto wakes up as he walks out of his tent, to see Lee doing pushups next to the campfire.

"What on earth are you doing at this time of the day?" Ryonoto asked. "9001...9-Oh, morning, care to train with me?" Lee turned his head towards Ryonoto as he continued his pushups. Ryonoto shook his head. "No thank you, I have no strength to do that...Atleast that much." he said, while looking around. "By the way, uh...-" Ryonoto pondered as Lee was quick enough to reply. "I am Rock Lee, Konoha's noble blue beast!" Lee finished as he had not stopped doing pushups. "Yes...Rock Lee...Have you seen Uzumaki Naruto?"

Lee nodded as he said. "He's still sleeping in his tent, he told me to tell you that we need to send a message to Konoha, requesting a jóunin to join us...And after he said that, he told me that he got an excuse to sleep." Lee said, being oblivious to his words, he once more began counting, as Ryonoto taught to himself.

*The village hero...Finds an excuse to sleep, on a mission...*

Ryonoto sighed as he walked to his tent, where he took a small parchment, and began writing onto it. "We are in need of a capable jóunin, to help us in a mission in the borders of Konoha. The coordinates are: X, 178.91, and Y, 253.27"

After some minutes, Ryonoto walked outside, where he looked around as he asked. "Erm...Where do you keep the pidgeon?"

Lee turned his head. "Hmm?...A pidgeon, why would we have that?" The answer confused Ryonoto as he then continued. "A hawk then?" Lee shook his head. "Why would we need a pet bird with us to a mission like this?" he asked. Ryonoto lifted his palm and smacked it straight to his face. "Ai,ai...We need a bird of some sort in order to deliver the message to Konoha!"

He southed, being rather irritated. Although soon both, Lee and Ryonoto heard a loud yawn as Naruto walked out of his tent. "What's all this racket?..." he asked. "Well, we need to send a letter to Konoha, but we have no bird to deliver it!" Ryonoto said, irritated, but more calm.

Naruto looked at Ryonoto as he yawned once more. "Could we not catch one?" he asked. "You can't have a wild bird deliver a message! They need to be trained, and that training can take well over a year!" Ryonoto said, before sighing. "Well, I guess we need to head back to Konoha..." he said. But Rock Lee stood up and southed. "Ten thousand!" before looking at Ryonoto and saying. "I will deliver the message and bring a jóunin here! I bet I can get to Konoha in just three hours!" Lee southed, being filled with excitement.

Ryonoto looked at Lee as he sighed. "If you say so..." he said, and handed the letter to Lee. "I shall return soon!" Lee said as he took the letter and sprinted off to a run.

Naruto chuckled as he said. "Njeheheh, see? That's dealt with!" Ryonoto looked at Naruto as he forced out a smile. "Atleast now you can sleep the whole day..." Narutos smile froze as he spoke. "Eh...Lee told you?" Ryonoto nodded, as he let out a small chuckle. "Well, now when you're up, we could go fishing. We have enough food to last for the mission, but with this setback, we'd be starving by the time we are heading back to Konoha." He said, while walking to a nearby tree, unsheathing one of his swords, and slicing couple of long branches off. The branches drop to Ryonoto's left arm, as he grabs and walks to the campfire, as he sits down and begins to sharpen the ends of them.

After a couple of minutes, he stands up and hands one of the sticks to Naruto. "These should do." he said. Naruto took one of the sticks as he asked. "Should these be fishing poles?.." Ryonoto chuckled as he said. "No, they're spears. We don't have the materials for fishing poles." Naruto looked at the spear as he frowned. "Ugh..." He said, but before he could continue, Ryonoto grabbed Naruto's shoulder and slightly shoved him forward. "Let's get going, we've got lots of time untill Rock Lee returns!" He said.

After what seemed like two hours of walking, Naruto and Ryonoto reached the shore of a river. Ryonoto took off his boots and lifted his jeans up to his knees, as he walked to the water, and lifted his spear. "Now we'll just wait for the perfect catch." Naruto watched from the shore as Ryonoto stood still, holding the spear up, a salmon swam to him, as Ryonoto attempted to stab the fish, but the salmon was too quick and dodged everything. Suddenly, Ryonotos face got ice cold, as he dropped his spear, and took up his two swords, and yelled. "You won't get away from me you damn scum!" as he began to slice the water furiously.

Naruto watched from the shore, with a rather confused look. *Slicing water with swords...Only because a fish managed to dodge a stab...* he taught. As Ryonoto walked back to the shore, with the salmon in his hands, the salmon having, couple of slices on it's back. "See? This'll be our dinner tonight!" he said, while having a wide smile. Pretending that the small incident had never happened. "Let's head back to the camp, we can cook this before Rock Lee returns." he said. As he walked towards the way they came from. *And is such a bad actor..* Naruto taught as he followed Ryonoto.

When the two came back, the sun had set, and from the camp, they spotted light. When they arrived, they noticed that Rock Lee had returned, and was accompanied by Might Guy, and the two we're doing pushups.

Ryonoto's face froze as he taught. *Oh lord, not another one.* Guy noticed them as he increased his pace and finished doing pushups. "9 999, 10 000 pushups!" He said while leaping up, landing infront of Naruto "Naruto, so wonderful to see a man of youth yet again!" Guy southed, before looking at Ryonoto. "And who is this another man of youth?" He asked. To which Ryonoto replied with an confuses expression. "Eh...Ryonoto Hazikuura. You must be the jóunin we asked?" Guy replied with a simple nod, as Naruto opened his mouth. "Bushy Brows, could you've not bring Kakashi sensei, or Yamato?"

Lee looked at Naruto. "Well, I taught that Guy-sensei would be better with us." Lee said, while finishing his pushups. The moment was broken when the growls of Naruto's stomach were heard. "Urgh...I'm starving, let's cook the fish..." Naruto said, the others nodded, as they began to prepare a cooking fire.

An hour later, the fish was being slowly roasted in the fire, as Ryonoto cooked it, as suddenly, Guy neared him, inspecting him carefully. "You...Ryonoto, seem like a strong young man." He stated, to which Ryonoto replied with a chuckle. "Strong? I highly doubt it...Skillful with the use of swords, maybe. But strong? No..." The response only got Guy excited as he jumped up and southed. "What!? Then you must train with me, I shall make you a strong, man of youth like myself, along with Lee and Naruto here!" He once more stated as he pointed at Ryonoto, who was suprised, but on the same time intrigued. *I could use some stamina and strength...And these two DO achieve things I could only dream off...* He taught, after a small moment of thinking, he gave a smile as he replied. "I would be honored."

The response got Guy leaping from joy, then he stopped and took a green jumpsuit from his back bag. "You must wear this! It has been tailored to fit anyone, and increases your performance!" He said. Ryonoto looked at the suit. "Eh?..." *That suit...It's...Plain ugly...* He taught, but tried to reply with a smile. "Could I possibly...Wear my current attire?" He asked. To which Guy replied with a grunt. "Hmph. Doubt full...You'll learn to like the suit as you shall see me and Lee in action trough the mission." Ryonoto quickly looked at the fish as he stated "Oh, the food's ready! Let's eat shall we?" He quickly changed the subject.

When the group ate, Naruto, Lee, and Guy had an eating contest...And Ryonoto sat next to his tent, keeping some distance from Lee. He'd rather not have burning hot salmon to his face tonight. "Ihm, hoihn ho heah youhh hushy howhs! (I'm going to beat you Bushy Brows)" Naruto southed, to which Lee replied. "Hishwhuhh heahihm Hahuho-hun! (Wish full dreaming Naruto-kun") Suddenly, Guy dropped his plate as he burbed. "You two are too slow! You need to train more!" He southed. And Ryonoto just looked at the group, and could not hide the laughter he had within him. He finished his plate, and said. "I shall head to sleep, tomorrow, we'll leave before dawn, we're terribly late." before going to sleep. Leaving the three there, sitting.

"A true man of youth!" Guy said, as he looked at Lee and Naruto, who were now stuffed. "Aaah..." Naruto sighed from relief. As Lee let forth a belch. "I believe we should head to sleep too, a tired shinobi is a useless shinobi." He said, seeming to quote Shikaku-, or Shikamaru Nara. Guy nodded, "Yes, you two head to sleep, I'll keep guard." He said, as Naruto and Lee went to their tents.

At some point of the night, Ryonoto woke, as he got out of the tent, to see Guy, sleeping in the ground. Ryonoto sighed as he quickly went to the bushes to relief himself. As he finished, he heard some muttering from behind him. "Sakura-chaan..." the voice said. As Ryonoto looked behind him, to see Naruto standing there, asleep. "Huh? Who's Sakura?" He asked. As Naruto's mouth turned upside-down. "You're not Sakura..." he muttered. Ryonoto was confused as he replied. "Of course I'm not." Naruto took a kunai and attempted to stab Ryonoto as he managed to dodge it. "You lied..." Naruto muttered.

"What the!?" Ryonoto southed as he quickly leaped behind Naruto, and as he took some distance, he looked back. And noticed that Naruto was running towards him, having the rasengan ready in his palm. "Rasengan!" Naruto southed while asleep. As Ryonoto did nothing else but looked at the incoming attack. Soon, a power full blast, accompanied by a yell, echoed trough the forest... "YEAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!"