Sasuke made his way to the main gate where for the first time Kakashi was waiting for them. Along with their client an old bridge builder who was still not happy with his escort. "Sensei you're early for a change," Idate said in a laughing at the sight of his sensei.

"So they came I thought they were all talk," the bridge builder said coldly.

Flash back

"Hokage I am tired of these fake missions, I want a real mission something that I can show case my skills," Idate said boldly.

"Watch how you talk to the Hokage you idiot!" Sakura shouted hitting him on the head.

"I hate to admit it but he is right, about a real mission," Sasuke said in a cool tone.

"Kakashi do you think that they are ready for a higher ranked mission?" the Hokage asked his pipe in his mouth.

"Yes Hokage-Sama," Kakashi said giving him a bow.

"Then meet your mission, enter!" called the Hokage and in came an old man with a bottle of sake in his hand.

"These runts are the ones that are suppose to protect me," the bridge builder said in disgust, "they look like they should still be in diapers."

"Look, we are more than capable of protecting you. But I see why you need protection if we weren't being paid to do it, I would think about kicking your old ass!" Idate shouted.

"Hey calm down we will leave tomorrow at ten give people some time to calm down and sober up," Kakashi said opening his orange cover book and vanishing.

End Flash back

They started out of the village; it was a perfect day not a cloud in the sky. When the village was no longer in sight they passed a poodle. Only Kakashi and Sasuke seemed to find this strange, they both knew it hadn't rained in a week and with the temperature all the poodles should have dried up by now. Suddenly Kakashi was caught in chains and ripped to pieces. Two shinobi appeared laughing at the sight of the young leaf shinobi.

"This will be easier than I thought," one of them said.

"I think you are right," the other responded. 'What do we do they killed Kakashi?' Idate thought frozen with fear as he stared at the two shinobi before him.

"Idate get it together focus on the mission!" Sasuke shouted, but it did no good he stood there still frozen, "Sakura stay with the bridge builder I will take care of those two."

Sasuke charge them Kunai drawn, he threw his first on pinning their chain to a tree, and then he threw a second for good measures. He ran up kicking them both in their faces, the chain broke off and they made their way to the bridge builder and Sakura. Sasuke could get to them in time, he just wished he was stronger faster, but they both stopped as Kakashi grabbed them both by the necks.

"You have some explaining to do," Kakashi said to the bridge builder as the two would be assassins went limp in his grip. "Sasuke, Sakura you did well, Idate what happened?"

"Sorry Sensei I froze it won't happen again," he said looking down at the ground, he felt ashamed of himself.

"This is not a C ranked mission this is more of a B or possible an A ranked mission, so you lied to us," Kakashi said his voice was colder than they had ever heard it.

"Yes I know I am sorry, my home land is poor and if this bridge doesn't get finished it will remain that way," the bridge builder said in a pleading voice.

"Come on Sensei, we can finish this," Idate said sounding as if he was getting his confidence back, "think of it this way, they will owe us one if we ever need anything," he said smiling.

"Do the rest of you want to finish this mission?" Kakashi asked. The other two nodded, "fine we will finish this mission."

"Thank you all so much," the bridge builder said as Kakashi tied the two demon brothers to a tree for the patrol unit to collect them. After they left, two people appeared in the shadows. Soon the demon brothers came too bound to a tree they tried to break free but they couldn't.

The two stranger stepped from the shadows, on was a large man about six two he wore a black hood yellow mask black under armor and yellow armor. Next to him was a much shorter blond shinobi with a blue bandana that covered most of her blond hair, orange vest baggy blue shirt and orange baggy pants and blue ninja sandals.

"Master so was that Kakashi the copy-cat ninja?" the little blond asked.

"Yes," the name said in an emotionless voice.

"I think I have a new plan," the little blond said with a foxy grin.

"Oh, that's new," the large man said in the same tone.

"Master that not funny, I do come up with plans once in a while," the blond said pouting.

"You are scorpion," one of the Demon Brothers said in horror.

"Master he knows who you are does that mean you are going to kill them?"

"Yes," he said unsheathing the sword on his back taking the heads off the two shinobi with one swipe of his blade. Then they both vanished leaving the corpses as the only sign that they had been there.

When the two shinobi found the leaf shinobi who were fighting with Zabuza they hide in the shadows watching the fight, "sensei those three they are my age right?" the blond asked.

"Yes," he said coolly.

"Then why are they so weak?"

"Because they haven't been thru the training you have. You were forced into a world of kill or be killed, at a very young age, this is their first time," he explained.

"Well I guess that makes sense," the blond said rubbing her chin. She remained quiet as they watched the last of the fight. Which the leaf shinobi ended up winning but barely Kakashi was unable to walk after the fight.

"Sensei, Kakashi is rather weak too," she pointed out.

"No, it is just harder when you're attention is split like that. His own team is like his enemy he has to watch them along with his opponent he has to protect them from attacks along with himself, if he would have been alone it would have been an story, Zabuza would be dead right now," Scorpion said.

"That make sense," she said as they both vanished.

A week later Kakashi were in a nearby wooded area train he was teaching them the tree climbing jutsu. It did not talk long for Kakashi to leave them to their own devices. He stopped just out of ear shot of his students, "I know you are there so just come out."

From the shadows stepped a little blond girl with bright blue eyes and whisker like scars. Her blond hair reached half way down her back. She wore a blue t-shirt and orange shorts and blue ninja sandals. "Is that you…Naruko?" Kakashi asked as if he was looking at ghost.

"You know me but, I am sorry I don't know you," she said dropping her smile.

"I am Hatake Kakashi," he said not expecting to see her here, "what are you doing here?"

"I am on a quest to find the world's best ramen," she said a dreamy look coming over her face. A sweat drop formed on the back of Kakashi's head, she hasn't changed since she was little.

Flash back

Kakashi sat at a little girl's bedside no older than four years old. He had just saved her from an angry mod. He wore his dog mask as he was instructed to do at all times when he was on duty. He wanted to read his book it had just released but he couldn't if was suppose to be watching Naruko and Hokage-Sama would burn all the copies in the village if something happened to her while he was reading that book. When she woke up, she hid under her covers at the sight of him.

"Stay away from me," she cried from under her blanket think it would keep her safe from him.

"Naruko you don't have to fear me I will not hurt you," Kakashi said kindly.

"How do I know you aren't lying to me?" she asked peeking from underneath her blankets, "you problebly think I'm a monster too."

"No you're not a monster," Kakashi said as kindly as he could. She lowered the blanket a little more looking at him in disbelief. He heard her stomach growl her face turned slightly red.

"Are you hungry?" Kakashi asked smiling under his mask, she nodded slightly. "What would you like to eat?"

"Ramen," she said in a small voice.

"Alright let's go get some ramen," Kakashi said her eyes lit up and there was a huge smile on her face as she jumped out of bed. It took her not time to be ready to head out the door. He was amazed at how fast her attitude had changed towards him with the offer of ramen. She went from being a shy timid little girl to a happy carefree little girl hanging on his arm smiling brightly up at him.

When they got to Ichiraku Ramen Bar Naruko turned to him "why do you wear that mask?"

"It's a sign of my status in the ANBU," he said but she didn't understand, "you know how the Hokage-Sama wears that hat and robes?" She nodded, "well in my position we have to wear mask."

"Oh I get it, I am going to call you Puppy-Sama," she said smiling.

"Puppy-Sama, why Puppy-Sama?" Kakashi asked.

"Because I don't like dogs they chase me, but I like puppies and I like you," she said smiling up at him, he felt his heart melt, 'Sensei I will keep her safe I promise I will even if it cast my life,' Kakashi thought to himself.

One year later

He was on her trail; he hoped that he could get to her in time, why did Mizuki leave his post, but that didn't matter right now he would take care of that later right now he had to find her before something bad happened to her.

When he finally caught up too her she was surrounded by corpses and she was covered in blood. 'Did she do this? No someone else did,' his eyes fell on the man standing beside her was a man; he wore all black and yellow and the symbol that he had never seen before.

"Naruko get away from him!" Kakashi called out to her.

"I have saved this child's life so there for it belongs to me now, stop me if you can," he said in the same cool tone.

"No," she whispered.

"Naruko what did you say?" Dog asked.

"No I am going with Sensei," she said her eyes hardened, she felt a large hand on her shoulder and they both vanished without a trace. He had failed his Sensei he could protect his only daughter.

End Flash Back

"Why don't you come with me Naruko?" Kakashi said kindly.

"Let me think about it," she said rubbing her chin, "no I think I will pass, bye-bye," she said waving as she turned to leave vanishing back into the shadows her chakra he disappeared.

'I don't know why she is here but if she is here does that mean he is too. So Zabuza isn't the largest threat anymore, figures it wouldn't be that easy,' he thought to himself. He decided that he would keep a closer eye on his students just in case.

A month later they were all at the bridge, Kakashi had not seen a sign of Naruko since then but he had a feeling that she was still around. A fog started to roll in, "defensive formations," Kakashi called out to his team.

"Kakashi you still haven't ditched the brats, they're just dead weight, unlike mine suburbanite," Zabuza said coolly as a masked shinobi appeared, it was just as Kakashi thought the hunter-nin was working with him this whole time. Sasuke started to do battle with the masked shinobi while Kakashi stood in stalemate with Zabuza. Idate and Sakura stood in formation around. 'Sasuke is doing well in battle so if I can deal with Zabuza we should be fine for now.' But it did not last long Sasuke began to lose the battle, and he could not help Sasuke without leaving the others open to Zabuza.

"Idate are you going to help Sasuke?" Sakura asked.

"But I… I can't," he said weakly, "my legs won't move, I'm sorry, I'm too scared," Idate said his voice shaking. Sakura started running towards Sasuke but Kakashi called to her.

"Stay where you are at Sakura if you try to save him Zabuza will kill you," Kakashi said wishing there was something that he could do.

Naruko stood watching as one of Kakashi's students did battle with Zabuza's student. "What will you do?" an emotionless voice asked her. She didn't answer but she pulled out a kunai throwing towards Sasuke but the masked shinobi caught it.

"Interesting," Naruko said starting to smile, "this might be a little entertaining," she said vanishing reappearing on the other side of the dome and threw another kunai this time when the masked shinobi caught it she smiled even more then said, "boom," as the kunai exploded blowing Haku from the ice dome. Haku lay on the ground slowly dying, his right and chest had been blown off, and the mask had been cracked from the force of the explosion. She walked up to where Sasuke sat panting; he looked like a giant pin cushion.

Sasuke looked up into the face of his savior, he had a bright blue eyes whisker like scars on his face and a hint of blond hair peeked thru under his blue bandana. He also wore an orange vest and pants and a blue long sleeve shirt. The kid just smirked as he turned away and on his back was a strange symbol that he had never seen before it looked like a scorpion. Sasuke got to his feet and followed the stranger back to the others. 'Who is this kid he did something I couldn't and without any problems too, how weak am I?"

"Where did you come from?" Zabuza asked as they came into his line of sight, "where is Haku?"

"In pieces over his defeat," Naruko said in a playful tone.

"Why you…" Zabuza said pulling out his sword charging them, Sasuke looked at the blond stranger and he was smiling, but before he reached them there was a bright light and a strange sound, Zabuza stopped dead as Kakashi's attack hit him. Zabuza dropped the sword then looked down at the hand sticking out of his chest. Kakashi pulled his hand back. Zabuza fell to his knees the fog started to clear up. When it did they noticed for the first time a pile of corpses at the end of the bridge.

"Tazuna, who are those men?" Kakashi called to the bridge builder.

"They look like Gato's men," the bridge builder called back. 'So there is someone else here, or did Naruko kill them before saving Sasuke?' Kakashi thought to himself he pulled down his head band covering his Sharingan.

"Who are you?" Sasuke asked.

"He's kinda good looking but not as good looking as Sasuke thou," she heard Sakura whisper to Kakashi.

"Who are you talking about?" she said pouting slightly.

"Allow me to introduce everyone," Kakashi said in his usual bored tone, "That one is Morino Idate, Haruno Sakura, and Uchiha Sasuke. Everyone this is Uzumaki Naruko."

"But that sounds like a girl's name," Idate pointed out.

"Because I am a girl you ass wipe," Naruko shouted as she pulled off her bandana her hair fell to her back. Sasuke felt his heart skip a beat and both Sakura and Idate looked shocked. Kakashi took a deep breath.

"Naruko is that any way for a young lady to speak?" Kakashi asked.

"Stop talking to me like you know me, you don't know anything about me," Naruko snapped.

"I'm sorry Naruko," Kakashi said truly meaning it, if it wasn't for his slip up she would have still been in Konoha but would it have been for the best he would have like to think so.

To Be Continued


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