AN: Hey guys I'm back again with another chapter, just pumping them out righ–!... oh wait... the last chapter was released almost two years ago... crap.

Yeah, I'm sorry about that, I've not really worked on this as much as I'd have liked. It started of as me having a bit of a writers block, and then I started procrastinating and then I procrastinated some more and all of a sudden, I had barley touched it for a year. I don't dislike working on this fic, but it takes a lot of time and I'm not a very patient person. I also redo a lot of stuff and think what I write isn't good enough, I'm just pretty perfectionistic. With that said I still got this chapter done eventually and I still want to continue writing this fic, just don't expect me to release very often (I will try, but don't expect anything).

I also have to mention that I rewrote a bit of the previous chapters, mostly just corrections in grammar and such, but I also mentioned Rin in chapter one and made quite a bit of changes to chapter two, so you might want to reread that. (I was stuck on redoing chapter two, so that slowed down the progress of c3 quite a bit too).

I also changed the title from "Team 7, led by Obito" to "The Chronciles of Team 7". I never really liked the old title and this new one I feel is better because the story won't revolve around Obito as much as the previous title suggests.

Anyhow, that's enough rambling. Let's get on with the chapter, I hope you like it!

Note: Surnames are said first just as they are in Japan (and because i watched the anime in japanese this is how i prefer it).

Note: "..." = Thought
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"..." = Speech
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"..." = Special speech (like Nine-tails)
Nore: ~:~ = Flashback (indicates the beginning and end of a flashback)


Chapter 3: Chasing cats and pulling weeds

Naruto stared into the pale blue eyes of the white cat that sat infront of him. The cat looked innocent with it's little pink collar that proudly spelled out the name Yuki. She tilted her head and sat completely still, it's tail slowly swaying behind her.

Naruto's clothes had spots of dirt all over and his face and skin had received several scratches. When staring at the cat irritably, he made sure to stay completely motionless and remaining dead silent. He then quickly raised his arms and jumped right towards the cat, successfully managing to get ahold of the cat in his arms.

"Yeah, I got you! Look who's struggling now!", Naruto said, but he spoke too soon. To his dismay, the cat got away after scratching his face. "AWWWW! THAT HURT! Sakura-chan, Sasuke, the cat is right here! Catch it!", Naruto said, making sure to inform his teammates the whereabouts of the cat.

Sakura and Sasuke quickly arrived after they had heared Naruto. They easily managed to catch it by having Sakura lure it towards Sasuke who grabbed it, and calmly held it up in the air, the cat seeming strangely okay with it.

"Naruto how did you manage to fail several times to catch this thing when we manage to get it at the first attempt?", Sasuke asked. "You were the only one who encountered it too".

Naruto grunted. "Well, maybe because I soloed it and you didn't", he said.

"You got 15 tries on catching it though", Sakura said.

Naruto pretended he didn't hear her statement and continued speaking instead. "I even caught it a minute ago, but it slipped out of my hands and scratched my face. Look I'm bleeding", Naruto said and pointed towards the scratch mark he had received on his face. There wasn't really any blood, it had dried up maybe a centimeter down from the wound.

"Oh geez. That looks real painful Naruto", Sakura said with an obvious tone of sarcasm.

"Well, I guess it doesn't hurt that much", Naruto said in attempts to impress on Sakura. She wasn't impressed.

"Let's go back to the hokage tower and get this mission done. Obito-sensei has probably been waiting for us quite a while now", Sasuke said. Naruto and Sakura both agreed and with that they started making their way towards the tower.


The three of them had arrived at the hokage tower and proceeded to open the door of the building. A couple of meters away they saw Obito, who was talking to Kakashi.

"Who's he talking to?", Naruto asked.

"I would assume he's another jonin. Maybe he's also in charge of a team", Sasuke said.

"He looks sort of suspicious, almost his whole face is covered up", thought Sakura.

"We've captured the cat now Obito-sensei", Sakura said. Sasuke held the cat up in the air to show Obito the cat.

"Yeah, that seems to be the right cat. It took you long enough", Obito said after he had stood up from the bench he had been sitting on. Obito noticed his students glancing at Kakashi, and remebered that they'd never met him before. "This is Hatake Kakashi, a friend of mine. We were also in a three man team once. Kakashi, this is my students, Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke and Haruno Sakura".

"Yo, nice to meet you! I'm in charge of team 4", said Kakashi.

Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke greeted him back, when three people (seemingly the same age as team 7) entered the room.

"Oh, speaking of which, there's my students", Kakashi said, referring to the three. Naruto examined the three of them. Two of them were male and the third member of the team was female. One of the two boys was holding a kitten in his hands and walked up to Kakashi.

"We caught the stupid cat.. So can we move onto something a bit more challenging now?", said the boy bitterly.

"Listen, you will get more challenging missions eventually, but not yet. You just became genin after all", Kakashi answered to the boy who was holding the kitten, receiving an irritated snort from the boy. Naruto turned towards the boy to introduce himself.

"Hi! I'm Uzumaki Naruto, the guy who will surpass all previous hokages!".

The boy frowned at Naruto. "Oh, really. So the guy that has scrath marks on him after catching a cat wants to be hokage?", he said and let out a laugh. Naruto became enraged.

"Who the hell does this guy think that he is?! He's as smug as Sasuke! I really don't like him". "Who the hell do you think you are?!", Naruto shouted.

"Better than you atleast", he replied. Before Naruto did anything stupid (such as getting into a fight with the boy) Kakashi interupted.

"Kinzo, don't act like a child. At least introduce yourself", the grey haired jounin said.

The boy, who's name apparently was Kinzo let out a loud dissatisfied sigh. "My name is Hayashi Kinzo", he then let one of his hands point towards the female member of the team "this is Hamasaki Haruka", he then pointed towards the last memeber of the group "–and this is Kimura Takasu, we're from Amegakure(the village hidden by rain)". The members of team seven were left confused, hearing they're from Amegakure.

"What are you doing in Konoha if you're from Amegakure?", Sakura asked.

"None of your buisness. Forehead", said the girl whoose name was Haruka.

"Kill that bitch!" raged Inner-Sakura. While tempted, Sakura decided to dismiss her inner's advise and instead settled with an angry glare.

Just before Naruto was about to heaten things up, Kakashi once again stepped in. "Alright, let's stop this before things get too childish. Obito good time talking to you–" Kakshi said and Obito nodded in response. "–and nice to meet you three". Kakashi said to the three genin of team seven. "You three, follow me. We're gonna find a new mission for you", he said as he led his team away.

When team 4 had left the building Naruto let out a couple of angry comments about them. Sakura asked about the genin instead. "Obito-sensei... do you know what those guys are doing here? They said they were from Amegakure, so why would they be situated in Konoha?".

"Hmm... I guess you could call them refugees", Obito said, getting a reaction from his students. "Kakashi told me a little about them earlier. You see, Amegakure is a village in the middle of a lot of nations, thus there are many battles occuring in the village. Many innocent people die there, so a lot of people end up fleeing from Amegakure, the members of team four being some of them", Obito explained.

"That must be hard...", Naruto said sympathetically, but quickly changed his attitude. "But they're still arrogant jerks". Naruto said, crossing his arms.

Obito chuckled. "Yeah, that's true. But still try to make sure they feel welcomed at Konoha", he said as to which Naruto and Sakura reluctantly agreed by nodding. Sasuke stayed silent.

"Sensei, what about this cat?", Sasuke asked who had been holding the cat for quite a while now and was getting severly tired of it.

"Oh right, I'll take her and bring her to her owner", Obito said and took the cat from Sasuke, the cat suddenly raged and bit Obito's finger.

"Ouch!", said Obito and struggled with the cat, but failed as the cat managed to slip out of his arms and run out of the building. Obito's face turned white pale.

"Yeah, we're not getting that cat again", said Naruto and Sakura in unison. Obito sighed.

"... yeah, I'll fix that during my freetime".

"So are we dismissed now?", Sakura asked.

Obito nodded. "Yup, you're dismissed 'til tomorrow 9:30, where we'll meet here and you guys will have another mission, which is...", Obito stopped for a second and picked up a piece of paper from his pocket, he read through it and the put it back, continuing his sentence. "—which is removing weeds from peoples' backyards".

Naruto cried out in misery. "Why do we have these boring missions 'ttebayo?! I can't stand it, I thought being a ninja was supposed to be exciting", Naruto said.

"Well someone needs to do these missions and since you are still rookie genin, you guys are the most suitable for them. Besides they're not that boring", Obito said in response to Naruto's complaints.

The three of them glared at their teacher. "Oh, well if they're not that bad, then I guess you wouldn't mind going on these missions with us would you?" Sakura said.

Obito froze, then chuckled nervously. "No, of course not... I can go with you on our next mission. Sure, it'll be fun", Obito said, knowing that he had screwed up. He remebered not being a big fan of these missions, but that was a long time ago, so it couldn't be that bad, could it?


This was way worse than Obito had remembered. He really wasn't enjoying the weed pulling. It was extremely boring and had started becoming slightly tiering after a while. Obito let out a dissatisfied breath and leaned back to take a rest from the boring chore. He looked at his three students, they looked as if they'd rather stare into a wall all day. Obito sighed and then cleared his throat.

"Alright, I see that you're almost done. So I would like to announce something", Obito said, grabbing his students attention. "I've decided that from here on out we will ditch the D-rank missions and move on to C-ranked missions instead", he continued and displayed a broad smile on his face. His students lightened up with relief and happiness, but it quickly faded.

"Wait, wait, wait. You're only doing because you don't wanna go on these missions!", Naruto shouted out in realization.

Obito flinched. "No, no of course not, what are you talking about? I just saw how much you didn't like this and as the great person I am, I made this decision", he said unconvincingly, his students dismissed it though as they had nothing to complain about.

"So, what kind of mission do you have in mind?", Sasuke asked Obito.

"I haven't quite gotten to that yet. I will try to find something suitable for you guys. We can meet up eight tomorrow morning at the Hokage tower, I think I should have found something by then... but, you still have one D-rank mission left though", Obito said.

"WHAT?!", Naruto and Sakura screamed out in unison.

"I guess I should've told them about this earlier", Obito thought. "Sorry, but I've already accepted the mission, so you'll have to carry it out. Oh and I won't be able to go, since I'll be looking for a mission for you guys".

Naruto sighed in disappointment. "So, what is this mission we'll be having?".

Obito loosened up and smiled at his students, hoping that this would decrease the anger he would receive from his students. "Babysitting".

To Obito's dismay his charisma didn't work.


Team 7 were now standing in front of the door leading to the house in which they were going to babysit. Sakura lifted her hand and knocked on the door. It didn't take long until the door was opened by a man in his mid 30's, his hair was black and backslicked, he was dressed up in fancy clothing signifying that he would be attending a more formal occasion.

"Hi! You're the ones to babysit my child, I'm assuming?", he asked.

"Yes, we are, my name is Haruno Sakura, this is Uchiha Sasuke and this is Uzumaki Naruto", Sakura said, introducing their team to the man.

"My name is Yukimura Ryota, nice to meet you. Please come inside", he said. The members of team 7 all walked into the house, taking off their shoes before entering. "I'll go get my daugther down here before I go", the man said and went upstairs. In the meantime Naruto took some time to look around the house. It was a huge house, the bottom floor probably three times as big as Naruto's apartment. It was very tidy with exclusive furniture everywhere and artistic paintings hanging on the wall, it was very clear that the family were doing very well financially. Even though the house looked very nice, it lacked warmth and character.

After a minute Ryota came down the stairs with a little girl around the age of 4 in his hand, hiding behind her father.

"This is Hana, my daughter", said Ryota, Naruto and Sakura greeted the girl, Sasuke tried to look a little more friendly, but looked bored more than anything. "Hana, these are shinobi who will be babysitting you when I'm gone for tonight. Say hi". She didn't, instead she hid herself even more behind her dad.

"It's nothing personal she's just kind of shy", Ryota whispered to the three. "I have to go now. I'll be back at 10. There's plenty of ingredients in the fridge that you can use to cook dinner with, and make sure she's asleep at about eight", he informed them before turning to his daughter. "Goodbye Hana, I'll see you later okay?", he said and gave her a hug and then he was off.

Hana stood standing in the middle of the hallway, looking kind of lost. Sakura picked up on this and approached her.

"Hana, what do you want to do? Are you hungry?", Sakura asked. The girl didn't look her in the eyes but nodded her head. Sakura looked at her teammates.

"She's hungry, so let's prepare some food".


Sakura opened the fridge of the Yukimura's. It was full of ingredients, many of which looked quite expensive.

"Wow, that's a lot of ingredients... We have a lot of options on what t–", she started, but got interupted by the whistling sound of a kettle. She turned around to see that the noise had come from Naruto who was boiling water in the kettle.

"What's the water for?".

"This", Naruto said and held up a package of instant ramen noodles, before he knew it there was a raw piece of steak on his face, that quickly fell to the floor revealing to Naruto Sakura's angry face.

"You can't eat that kind of food for dinner! Let's make a proper meal instead!", said Sakura.

Sasuke, who had been having an expression saying "I really don't want to be here", laid his eyes on the piece of meat that had fallen to the floor.

"What a waste", he said, looking at Sakura. Sakura started blushing in embaressment, barely having realised what she had done.

"Oh... yeah, you're right, what was I thinking? Haha!", Sakura said akwardly and returned back to the fridge. She then heard running water and looked over at Naruto, who was now holding the steak under the tap.

"Naruto... what are you doing?", Sakura asked. Naruto looked over at her with a smile on his face.

"Sakura-chan don't worry. The meat is fine if you wash it, dattebayo!", Naruto said convincingly. Receiving a sigh from Sakura.

"You're really more stupid than I thought", said Sasuke mockingly.

"Say what!? Sasu-".

"Hana not like steak", said Hana out of nowhere, interrupting Naruto. They all looked at her slightly taken a back, as she had been completely silent since they got there.

"How about instant rame-", Naruto started, but interrupted himself when feeling a dark aura emanating from Sakura. "- how about... fish?". Hana nodded approvingly. Sakura came to the decision that they could make sushi, and told her teammates what to do.

"... I'll give Hana some company and you can start making the food in the meantime", Sakura suggested and sat with Hana who had sat down at a kotatsu(a type of table from japan) in the kitchen. Naruto and Sasuke were left a bit lost on what to do, neither of them never really having made a proper meal before.

"Sasuke, you fix the fish and I'll do the rice", Naruto suggested. Sasuke nodded as he didn't really have much of a better idea. After Naruto had found a bag of rice he stared at it for awhile, wondering where to go from there.

"What do I do with this... I could ask Sakura-chan, but I don't want to bother her...", thought Naruto. In the meanwhile Sasuke was looking at a piece of salmon he had put on a cutting board.

"I just have to cut it I guess, kind of like using a kunai?", Sasuke pondered.

Sakura noticed that Hana was looking a bit uncomfortable, so she decided to try to make her feel a bit better by starting a conversation with the girl.

"Hana-chan, are there any hobbies that you have?", Sakura asked, realising it was a rather boring question.

"Hob bee?", Hana asked, clearly unfamiliar with the word.

"Something that you like to do", Sakura clarified.

"Hana like drawing!", she said enthusiastically.

"Oh really? How about you show me some drawings?", Sakura asked. Hana nodded and quickly got up to get some of her drawings, she ran up the stairs where her room assumingly was. Whilst Sakura was waiting she suddenly started smelling something burning. She looked over and saw smoke from coming from the stove. Naruto was panicking and didn't know what do. Sakura quickly ran over to see what was going on.

"Uh... Sakura-chan, what do I do?!", Naruto asked as she came up to him. She noticed Naruto holding a frying pan filled with rice that had been burnt black.

"Did you try to fry the rice?!", she asked in exasperation and disbelief. She turned off the stove and let the frying pan stand on one of the cold plates.

"Is that the wrong way to do it?".

"Yes. You're supposed to boil the rice when making sushi...", she let out a heavy breath "I'll do it instead, you go keep Hana company in the meanwhile", said Sakura commandingly.

"... yes ma'am", Naruto said, dissapointed that he didn't manage to do anything helpful.

"I'm done", said Sasuke who had finished slicing up the salmon. Sakura looked over at the salmon, seeing that the slices looked more like cubes than sushi slices.

"That's pretty good, Sasuke-kun! You could cut them just a little bit thinner though, I can show you-".

"If that's not good to you, do it yourself", said Sasuke and walked to sit down at the kotatsu.

"N-No! They're good! It's fine", Sakura responded to Sasuke.

"Sakura-chan I could fix the salmon", suggested Naruto.

"No way".

"Sakura-chaaan...", cried Naruto. Hana got back into the kitchen looking a bit confused until she found Sakura and walked up to her.

"Drawing", said Hana holding pages of paper towards her.

"Oh, I'm sorry I can't look at them right now. I had to take over making the food, maybe you can show them to me after dinner? You can show them to Sasuke and Naruto in the meantime if you want to", said Sakura making Hana a little dissapointed. Still, Hana seated herself at the kotatsu and showed her drawings to the two boys instead. The first one she showed them was a picture of what looked like herself and some sort of animal.

"A cat?", asked Sasuke, pointing at the animal on the drawing. Apparently he said something wrong because Hana's eyes started to tear up.

"Huh?! Can't you see that's a horse? Right Hana-chan", said Naruto, who was correct, making Hana smile.

"How the hell did he know that was a horse?", thought Sasuke, trying to look at it from another perspective, still not seeing it.

Hana had decided to focus her attention on Naruto and showed him some more drawings. Sasuke didn't really care... much.

Sakura glanced at the two, noticing Naruto goofing off making Hana laugh.

'He's not that bad with children... but probably just be because he's so childish himself', thought Sakura.

It didn't take long before Sakura was finished with the food and announced it to everyone. She put a plate of sushi on the kotatsu they were sitting at, it all looked very well made, except for the cube shaped salmon that Sakura had left untouched. Everyone dug in, enjoying the food.

"This is very good Sakura-chan!", Naruto said to her.

"Thanks", Sakura said and turned to look at Sasuke. "What do think Sasuke-kun?", she asked.

"It's okay I guess", Sasuke said. Sakura was left dissapointed, "okay" wasn't really much of a compliment.


"It's not happening".

"Oh come on Kakashi!", said Obito. "It's not like we're going to do an A-ranked mission or anything, we're just gonna gather some information. They are ready to take the next step now don't you think?".

Kakashi sighed. "Yeah they are growing fast, but I don't feel too good about Amegakure, I don't know if my students are ready for that yet...", said Kakashi. "...and I think the whole missing people thing might be connected to something more dangerous". Obito gave him a questioning look. "I don't know, it's just a hunch", Kakashi said. Unfortunatley, Kakashi had a tendancy to often be correct in his hunches.

"Well... I guess we'll just have to be careful then", said Obito.

"I told you already, it's not happening".

"I know, but... I already accepted the mission for me and team 7", said Obito, his mouth twitching nervously. Kakashi's eyelids drooped. "It's no worry, I mean I'm with them, so it's fine. Buuuut– it'd be even safer if you followed along too! It's a great oppurtunity for them to grow, you know".

Kakashi sighed. "I guess I have no choice in that case...".


"Sasuke, gimme your eights!", said Naruto in anticipation.

"Go fish".

"What?! You had eights just a while ago!".

"Naruto, didn't you remeber? Hana and I took them from Sasuke-kun", said Sakura, Hana who had teamed up with her was nodding agreeingly beside her. Naruto sighed in defeat and took up the second last card, which was a king, his hand now consisting of three kings and one eight.

"Naruto, kings", said Sasuke. Naruto glared at him, reluctantly giving him his cards. Sasuke then turned over to Sakura and Hana.

"Aces"

"Wow, Sasuke. Impressive speaking abilities that you have", said Naruto sarcastically.

"Atleast I don't suck at card games, deadlast", responded Sasuke.

"Say wha-", started Naruto but stopped himself when he heard Sakura cracking her knuckles.

"I don't have any aces Sasuke-kun, go fish", said Sakura. It was now her and Hana's turn. "Gimme, eight", said Hana looking at Naruto. Naruto dropped his head in defeat and gave her his last card. After that Sakura and Hana managed to get the last remaining pairs from Sasuke's hand and the game ended with Naruto having two pairs, Sasuke having four pairs and Sakura and Hana having the remaining seven.

Hana cheered and giggled for their victory and gave Sakura a high-five. Naruto glanced over at the clock and noticed how late it had gotten.

"Crap, it's already 9:30!", said Naruto.

"Already?", said Sakura and looked at the clock to confirm what Naruto said. "Well, in that case you've got to go to bed", said Sakura to Hana, who after a while reluctantly agreed to go to bed.

By the time Hana got to bed, it was 9:45. Hana laid in the bed and Sakura sat at the edge of the bed tucking her in. "Goodnight Hana", said Sakura.

"Goodnight,", answered Hana as her eyelids grew heavier and eventually closed. Sakura smiled at the little girl. She hadn't initially looked forward to baby sitting, but she had had a very fun time. Spending time with Sasuke was obviously great, but Hana was so adorable to be with; and she hated to admit it, but Naruto didn't bother her at all, infact, it was maybe even a little fun to be in his company... But just a little.

Sakura returned backstair, and it didn't take too long for, Ryota to finally get back home. He thanked the three shinobi for their help and they made their way back home.


They walked together side by side. The sky was dark but the moon and stars managed to bring light to it. Despite it being late, Konoha seemed more alive than ever. People were walking down the streets talking and laughing joyously, resturants stood open, filling the air with pleasent smells.

"Tomorrow we're going on our first mission, huh?", said Naruto excitedly. "What do you think we'll do? Maybe fight some bad guys!?".

"It's just a C-rank mission, so it's probably not going to be very intense", Sakura said, dissapointing Naruto slightly.

"Meh, it's exciting either way", said Naruto, receiving a nod from Sakura.

"It's all just child's play, nothing exciting about it", said Sasuke. Naruto glared at him.

"Ha... you really do have a stick up your ass", commented Naruto. Sasuke glared back at him, before walking off.

"Where are you going, did I hurt your feelings?", said Naruto snickering. Sakura glared threateningly at him.

"My home is this way".

"Ok, see you tomorrow then", Naruto said. Sasuke put a hand in his hair to wave goodbye, surprisingly expressive for him.

"Sasuke-kun, can't you walk me home?", Sakura asked Sasuke. He didn't respond, devastating Sakura.

"Sakura-chan, I'll walk you home!", offered Naruto.

"No thanks", said Sakura with passive agressiveness in her voice. Naruto's head fell, but their homes were the same way and they walked together for the majority of the way anyway. It didn't take all that long before Sakura went her seperate way.

"Goodnight Sakura-chan! See you tomorrow!", said Naruto waving with both of his arms to her as she walked away.

She answered with a simple 'goodnight' before walking away. She reached her house shortly and went straight to bed, prepairing for the upcoming day.


"He's late again... isn't he?", said Naruto to his other two teammates, who were sitting in the Hokage tower awaiting their sensei.

"It seems so", said Sakura. Sasuke gave an acknowledging look. Naruto sighed.

"I even got up extra early today and all...", he complained. Minutes later they saw Obito finally enter the building. "Obito-sensei, what took you so lo-", Naruto started, but was interrupted as he noticed the members of team 4 following close behind him. Naruto and Sakura stood up from their seats.

"What are they doing here?!", they said fiercely in unison. Obito looked at them and hesitated, knowing the reaction he was about to recieve.

"We're going to be going on a shared mission together with team four".

Naruto and Sakura weren't pleased.

Next chapter: Departure for Amegakure


AN: Wow, finishing this chapter feels a bit surreal to be honest. I took such a long break and now that it's done I feel really relieved, like a weight off my shoulders. Sorry again for the delay.

I hope you liked the chapter, it might not be much considering the wait, but personally I'm pretty proud of it. I was wondering if I should have removed the babysitting part, but I think it would be a good chance for team 7 to get a little bit more used to each other before the mission and I found a lot of it to be very funny and charming, I hope you feel the same way.

I know things are still quite boring, but we're finally getting into the first arc of the story. Yay! And things will just pick up from here. I've got a lot of ideas that I'm really looking forward to writing, I think it's going to be great.

If you have any questions, feedback or something, feel free to leave a review as I can learn a lot and it'd be great to get your input on things.

With that said, thanks for reading and I'll see you next chapter, hopefully there won't be such a long wait this time.

Thank you for the follows, favorites and reviews. It really keeps me motivated :)