Chapter 3: Screaming Comet Day

Three weeks had passed since the second test had come around and Team 7 was busy doing their 36 mission. Operation: Catch Neko! It wasn't an uncommon mission, in fact it was like some kind of Tradition for every team to have to try and catch the same cat for one of their first missions. This would be Team 7's fourth time getting the annoying feline and Naruto was on the verge of just killing it already, the owner couldn't keep an eye on it anyways. Right now Naruto was on top of a building while Sakura and Sasuke searched the alley and Kakashi…Kami knows where he is. As Naruto's team mates walked down the alley a white blur detached itself from a garbage can and began running towards the opposite end of the alley where a small wooden gate laid, and beyond that lots of woods.

"There she is heading for the gate!" Naruto said into his head set and he saw Sasuke run towards the gate in an attempt to catch the cat.

"How long till she reaches the gate?" Sasuke yelled and Naruto made a rough guess.

"Maybe four seconds at least." He said and Sasuke grunted and picked up the speed.

Sakura took off in the other direction trying to run around the building to cut the cat off, even if she was separated from Sasuke for a little bit... She knew she had no chance of making it in time but she had to try anyways. As she turned the corner she slipped and grazed her knee on a rock and winced as she got to her feet. She wasted no time in bringing her index finger down and touching the wound and it began to glow a light shade of emerald green. In about three seconds the wound was healed and Sakura was on her way again.

Naruto jumped down from the building he was on and jumped off the side of the building opposite of him and landed gently on the ground and raced after Sasuke. If he caught the cat he would have three catches on it and Sasuke only one. Naruto watched as the cat ran up the wooden gate and jumped over and Sasuke vaulted over the fence. Naruto picked up his speed and jumped before he reached the gate and landed on the top of it he teetered for a bit before he caught his balance and launched himself high into the air. He made a hand seal and shouted.

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"

In a cloud of light smoke three clones appeared by him and they all soared threw the air and landed on the dirt path behind Sasuke who turned and grunted at his appearance. The Uchiha picked up speed and ran at the cat in order to catch it first. Naruto frowned and him and his clones took off in hot pursuit. Along the way the cat ran under a ladder that was holding a man who was putting up a giant mirror over his store. Beneath the man was a large salt cart and its owner. Sasuke's eyes widened in shock and he veered left to avoid the obstacles but Naruto was not so lucky. His first clone crashed into the ladder and it crashed onto his back destroying it. The man fell and crushed another clone while the mirror he was holding fell and shattered stabbing another clone. The last clone plowed into he salt cart and the air was filled with whiteness. As the salt drifted downwards the clone sat in the middle of the salt field and Naruto watched as a man flicked his cigarette and instantly the salt ignited and his clone blew up in an extraordinary display of fireworks.

Naruto sighed, he had committed three of the most famous superstitious acts and his clones had paid for it. He began to run again and didn't notice the black cat that walked in front of him as he jumped up high.

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Sasuke ran after the cat that had made a quick turn before the forest and turned into another ally. The Uchiha was dodging trash bins and hissed at the annoying feline and remembered something Kakashi had told them the first time. 'Do not kill the client.' The silver haired man said.

"I can't kill the client." Sasuke muttered to himself and continued chasing the cat that jumped up a garbage bin and pushed off of it knocking it over. Sasuke wasn't prepared for it and his eyes opened in horror as he hit the rolling object and time seemed to slow. He was knocked off his feet and was sent sailing forward as Naruto ran past him laughing his ass off. Sasuke started to say something but he wasn't able to finish the statement because suddenly his face was buried in the ground. He slid a couple feet on his face and slowly got to his feet and rubbed dirt from his face and mouth. Naruto had already cornered the cat and was about to get his third catch.

"Dammit!" Sasuke swore and ran at the cat.

Naruto bent over to grab the cat and dodged a swipe at his hands. He darted in and grabbed the cat around the chest and held it up in front of him. He stared into the cats eyes and the cat stared back at him. The cats eyes looked at him lazily and it raised a paw and slashed downwards.

Zoom out and look at the trees around Konoha.

"AHHHHH!!!!" the blonde screamed and tons of birds took off in an early migration south.

Zoom in on the scene in the alley.

Naruto was on his back rolling back and forth while Sasuke was hunched over in uncontrollable laughter.

"Th-That's…what you… g-get D-d-dobe!" Sasuke wheezed out as he fell to his knees.

Naruto pulled his hands away from his face and felt blood running down it.

"Damn cat, I will kill you!" he screamed and jumped to his feet. Three long scratch marks stretched from the left side of his forehead to the bottom of the right side of his cheek. Naruto looked around wildly for the cat and he passed over it but his gaze shot back to it. The cat was sitting on a trashcan licking its paw nonchalantly.

Naruto advanced already drawing his Katana while Sasuke slowly regained his composure and wheezed something out.

"You can't kill the client dumb-ass." He said and Naruto shrugged.

"It's about time this damn pussy was sent to the afterlife, it has lived for too damn long." Naruto said and Sasuke rolled his eyes at the blonde.

"It's your neck." The Uchiha muttered as he watched the actions take place.

Naruto got closer to the cat and smirked a he brought his sword back. He was about to swing when a shadow suddenly appeared above him. He looked down at the shadow that was increasing in size and looked up just as Sakura's foot smashed into his face and he was laid out with enough force to create a gust that billowed Sasuke's clothes wildly.

"You Block head! You were going to kill the damn cat!" she screamed as she stepped off Naruto who lay in an awkward angle, his eyes boggling and his mouth wide open drooling like an idiot.

"No Sakura-chan I was just_" he began.

"Don't lie, BAKA!" she yelled and kicked him in the stomach and then proceeded to walk over to the cat and held her arms out to it. "Come here kitty Kitty." She purred and picked the cat up.

The cat raised its paw and three sharp claws flew out of it.

"Uh-oh." Sakura said.

Zoom out to the trees of Konoha

The pink haired girls scream made the birds migrating South fly faster.

Zoom in on the scene taking place.

Sasuke was holding both Sakura and Naruto back as they tried to kill the cat that sat on the trashcan again watching them with a mocking look in its eye.

"Calm down you guys." He said coolly and walked over to the cat and smirked at it. "Not so tough huh?" he said as he bent down to pick it up. The cat slashed down across his face twice and Sakura and Naruto gasped.

Sasuke's eye twitched in anger.

Zoom out on Konoha.

A small black shape detached itself from a random alley and rocketed into the sky.

"RRRRRRRRRrrrrrr!!!!!" it screamed as it flew threw a cloud.

Zoom in on Team 7

"Oh…" Naruto began.

"Shit!" Sasuke finished as he lost sight of the cat.

All three teens looked at each other in silence not knowing what to do now.

"How high do you think it went?" Naruto whispered.

"Well beyond the clouds…" Sasuke whispered back in horror.

"It will fall to earth and hit the ground like an asteroid, there will be damage." Sakura uttered as she squinted to find the yowling cat.

"Did you use your gift Sasuke?" Naruto muttered.

"Yeah…my bad." The Uchiha responded.

It was then that they heard a strange and horrifying sound. Naruto looked in the distance and saw a flaming black mass rocketing towards the center of town. All they heard was, 'MWWWWRRRGGGRRRRrrrrrr!!!!!!' and then they waited for a second and then…

BOOM!!!

"HOLY SHIT!" They heard many people screaming in horror.

"Was that?" Naruto asked.

"The Cat?"Sakura finished.

Sasuke didn't answer and took off running towards the center of town and Naruto and Sakura were right behind him. They passed many concerned villagers who talked about the screaming comet.

_

When they arrived to the center of town the scene was not pretty. Many people were around the fifty foot wide crater that was in the middle square. Detaching itself from the crater was a twenty foot long trench that was streaked in red and tufts of fur. At the end sat the smoking remains of the cat, if that was what you would call it now. It looked more like some mutated cross breed between a frog and a crushed squirrel. Naruto groaned as they got closer to the smoking remains and he gagged at the smell of the cooking cat.

"Talk about a hot pussy." Naruto said and Sasuke nodded his head in agreement.

"Should we just leave it here?" Sakura asked as she prodded at the dead cat with her foot.

"I don't know but I don't know how we are going to explain this to sensei." Naruto muttered.

"NARUTO!!! WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!?!" a familiar voice shouted as it got closer.

Naruto turned and saw Hinata and Kiba running up behind him and he grinned weakly and pointed to the cat.

"Is that some kind of cooked frog squirrel?" Hinata muttered and Naruto turned red.

"Umm you guys know that one annoying cat that everyone has to catch?" Naruto asked shyly.

"Yeah we just caught it the other day." Kiba said and then looked at the smoking remains in horror. "Naruto don't you tell me…"

"Yeah, the cat kinda fucked with the wrong people today." Naruto said scratching his head.

"Naruto-kun! How could you do such a thing?!" Hinata yelled but you could tell she was holding back a laugh.

"I cannot believe you killed the cat dude…the objective of a mission is to not kill your client unless you're on an assassination mission and the last time I checked, Genin don't get many of those" Kiba muttered.

"Hey it wasn't me; it was Sasuke here who did the deed." Naruto said pointing at Sasuke.

"Hey you were about to cut the little shit in half before Sakura stopped you." Sasuke accused.

"And she was about to strangle it three seconds later. But at least she didn't throw the little shit to the moon!" Naruto said glaring at Sasuke.

Both teens burst out laughing suddenly and fell on the ground convulsing in laughter.

"Do you think it reached the moon?" Sasuke asked and Naruto nodded as tears streamed down his cheeks.

"Wait you guys mean, Sasuke you hurled this little prick…"Kiba said and soon all three boys were on the ground rolling in laughter while Sakura and Hinata looked at them in amusement.

"I wonder if any other villages found out about it?" Naruto gasped.

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"Lord Raikage we have just received reports of a yowling meteor streaking across the sky towards Konoha!" a man yelled running into the Raikage's office.

"A screaming what?" the Raikage asked shocked.

_

(As the Cat entered the atmosphere)

"What the hell is that?" a man who looked like a snake asked.

"It looks and sounds like a screaming comet." A grey haired teen replied.

_

"Did you just see that?!" a Blonde haired woman said jumping to her feet.

"Um yeah what was it?" a raven haired woman replied as she squeezed her pig tightly against her chest.

"I think it was a screaming comet." The blonde woman replied and returned to drinking her sake.

_

A White haired man was interrupted as the Cat streaked across the sky yowling. "What the hell was that?" he muttered to himself. He looked off into the distance and saw that all of the girls he was spying on were jumping around when they saw the comet.

"Oh, thank-you whatever it was." The white hair man said and refocused his telescope.

_

Kakashi was turning his page when he heard the screaming comet make contact with Konoha. "Oh dear." He muttered and jumped to his feet.

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"You arrogant basterds do have any idea what you have done?!" Iruka screamed using his giant head jutsu. Naruto's and Sasuke's hair blew behind their ears as they were scorned.

"We made some fried Cat?" Naruto asked and both boys snickered.

"We have been getting reports like crazy, and all of them are talking about a screaming comet that made contact with Konoha!" Iruka screamed and Naruto rolled his eyes.

"Well at least we cleared that problem for future generations." The blonde muttered and Sasuke nodded his head.

"Yeah, that thing was like 40 years old anyways…it was time to die." the Uchiha said and Iruka's vein burst.

"You created a national holiday you two, people are calling this day Screaming Comet day!"Iruka screamed and Naruto pumped his fist happily.

"That rocks!" he said and Sasuke shrugged his shoulders.

Iruka groaned and plopped into his desk and the Sandaime Hokage eyed the two boys' carefully.

"What do you guys have to say for yourselves?" the old man asked.

"That using Cat-o-logical warfare can be dangerous." Naruto said and Sasuke's cheeks puffed out as the two boys started cracking up.

The Hokage sighed and dismissed them. "Your punishment would originally have been to collect all of the stray cats in the village but…"

Potential Future-

"What is going on?!" a ninja screamed.

"It is raining screaming comets again!" another man replied.

Naruto dropped kicked another cat high into the air and as it fell back down towards earth Sasuke smacked it with a baseball bat and it was sent yowling into the atmosphere.

"Homerun, my turn. Naruto said and made one thousand clones and they began to make a giant structure and when it was finished Naruto stood in the clouds with a cat in his hand. The cat looked at Naruto and tried to scratch him but the blonde dropped the cat to earth and it began to yowl the whole way down.

Potential Future end-

"Yeah, I am going to have to pass on that." The Hokage sighed. "Your punishment will be to work at the acad-" the Hokage began but he thought about how Naruto would most likely teach the kids how to chuck Cats into the atmosphere to make a Cat nuke. "Your punishment will be to hold a funeral for the cat. And you will give a speech for it also." The Hokage said and Naruto and Sasuke looked at him in shock.

"Okay Sasuke lets make a rocket ship out of the casket this time!" Naruto said suddenly and Hokage pinched his nose.

"Fine, you will both clean the Hokage monument and no chucking cats off of it, I mean it." The Hokage said and both bys bowed to him and began to walk away before Naruto turned around.

"Do we get paid?"

_

Naruto finished washing the face of Yondaime and he grumbled more as he splashed his bucket of water on a spot of the monument to clean the soap off. He looked over and saw Sasuke finishing up his face also and Naruto sighed, they hadn't really done anything horrible if you thought about it. Naruto began to pull himself up the rope he was dangling from slowly. Sasuke saw him going up and began to do the same thing and used his gift for a little help. Naruto watched as Sasuke whizzed up his rope and he sighed, the Teme had to be better at everything. When he reached the top of the cliff he stretched his cramped muscles and began walking towards his apartment when Sasuke's sharp voice stopped him.

"You're not better than me." The Uchiha said and Naruto halted in his tracks and turned to face Sasuke.

"Who said I was?" Naruto asked and walked away leaving Sasuke staring at him angrily. Their bond that had formed had already shattered.

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Naruto awoke the next morning and reported to the Hokage's tower to get his next mission and found Sasuke and Sakura already waiting. He sat down on the bench opposite from them and waited for their ever late Sensei. Naruto glanced over and saw Sasuke glaring at him and Sakura staring lovey dovey at Sasuke. Naruto sighed just as a cloud of smoke appeared in the space in front of him and Kakashi appeared with his hands in his pockets.

"Sorry guys I ran into a-"the man began but Naruto raised a hand.

"Save it." The boy said and Kakashi chuckled lightly.

"Well lets go get our mission." Kakashi said and they all stood their feet and followed him into the office.

Iruka, the Hokage, and a couple other men sat at a table with a stack of folders in front of them. Naruto eagerly stared at the missions before the Hokage spoke getting his attention.

"Hmmm back for another mission already?" the grey haired man asked and Team 7 all saluted and said "Hai!"

"No more cat incidents I hope…" Iruka muttered and Naruto held back a grin.

"So what do you have for us today Hokage-sama?" Kakashi asked and the Hokage grabbed a random folder out and opened it.

"Walking some of the villager's dogs." The Hokage said and Naruto groaned.

"We already did that mission, give us a harder one…I want a C-rank at least!" the blonde exclaimed and Sasuke nodded in agreement.

The Hokage sighed in defeat and finally accepted the blonde's demand.

"Fine, we have a bridge builder here in Konoha who needs an escort back to Wave country, his name is Tazuna." The Hokage said and that was when the door was kicked open and in marched a drunk old man. He stopped in front of the Hokage and pointed one accusing hand at him and in it was a bottle of sake.

"Wheresh my eshcortsh, I ashked for 'em two daysh ago." The man said and pounded his fist on the table. "I gotsh to get back to wa-wave conshry shoon." The man said and burped out loud.

"Your escorts are right there." The hokage said pointing at Team 7.

The man looked at the three teens and snorted out loud. "Them? Sherioushly they are just runts!" he exclaimed and Naruto frowned.

He walked up to the man and stared at him. He reached behind his back and made a hand seal that only his team mates could see. Suddenly five clones surrounded the man and they all flicked their swords at his throat and he stiffened.

"Now what was that?" Naruto asked calmly and Tazuna chuckled.

"You guysh got the job." Tazuna said and walked from the room after Naruto dismissed the clones.

Naruto looked at his team and gave them a thumb up. They all grinned at him and started to leave the room when the hokage spoke up again.

"Meet Tazuna at the front gates in an hour." The old man said and Team 7 nodded.

_

Each member went to their homes and got their supplies they thought would be helpful on the mission. Naruto didn't have to grab much since he always wore his stuff now but Sasuke decided to get more kunai and even his giant shuriken. Sakura just grabbed some extra medical equipment. Kakashi, well he grabbed an extra book.

The four met at the gate and found Tazuna already there waiting for them. The man nodded when they got near him and he spoke.

"The trip should only take two days." He said and Naruto gasped at his sudden soberness.

"You were just drunker then a bum!" he exclaimed and Tazuna chuckled lightly.

"That maybe…"the old man trailed off and Sasuke rolled his eyes.

"Well shall we set off?" Kakashi said and began walking with the other four right behind him.

They walked for most of the day and when it got to be around 5 o'clock it was then that Naruto noticed the small puddle. He looked at Kakashi who nodded and then looked at Sasuke who immediately activated his Sharingan and looked at the puddle. He nodded and Kakashi acted as though oblivious to the puddle and step over it. Tazuna and Sakura followed and just as Naruto walked over he drew his sword out and in one fluid motion slashed the puddle in half. He back flipped away and landed next to Sasuke just as the puddle disappeared in a brilliant spray of water and standing there was two men, one of them was missing his arm and his chest was slashed open. Naruto looked and found the arm sitting on the ground next to him.

"MY ARM!" the man screamed and Naruto shrugged.

"Your own fault for laying such a stupid trap." Naruto said and the ninja glared at him.

"Sasuke first one to finish their opponent off wins." Naruto said as he launched himself at the harmless man. He swung his sword at him but the man jumped left spraying blood everywhere. Naruto quickly spun and almost halved the man but he brought a kunai up to block the slash. Naruto knew right away that the man had lost the arm he favored and he grinned in amusement.

Sasuke had ran at his opponent already drawing a kunai and he thrusted forwards. The man dodged the kunai and threw a roundhouse at Sasuke's head but thanks to his Sharingan Sasuke saw it coming and ducked underneath it and came straight up with his kunai and it buried itself inside the man's leg. The man let out a roar of pain and Sasuke back flipped away and landed and de-activated his Sharingan. He could now use his second gift to finish the fight. He ran at the man and threw a right hook at his face.

Naruto lunged at his opponent but at the last second slid by him. His sword lodged itself in Sasuke's opponent's heart and he fell to the ground dead as Sasuke's fist slammed into the armless man's back. The man was sent flying forward at insane speeds and crashed into a boulder that cracked from the force. Sasuke rubbed the blood off his fist while Naruto pulled his sword out of the man and Sasuke turned to Naruto.

"I win." The raven haired boy said and Naruto scoffed at him.

"Yeah right I so finished my guy-"he said and his eyes widened in horror. "SASUKE GET DOWN!" he screamed and tackled the man.

Just as they hit the ground a giant blade whirled by and embedded itself inside a tree. Naruto rolled off Sasuke and jumped to his feet and a man appeared behind him. The man shot his arm at Naruto's unprotected back but Kakashi appeared behind Naruto and caught the arm. Kakashi pushed Naruto away and the boy rolled a few feet and jumped to his feet just as Sasuke ran over and joined him. Sakura and Tazuna watched from a distance and Sakura gasped in horror. 'Oh Sasuke please be careful!' she thought in her head.

"Zabuza, nuke-nin from the mist, former seven swordsmen." Kakashi said and Zabuza smirked and jumped away from Kakashi and landed on his blade. It barely moved under his weight and Kakashi sighed.

"Sasuke, Naruto go and guard Tazuna with Sakura I will handle this." Kakashi said and pulled his head band up to reveal a Sharingan!

"How the hell did you get that…?" Sasuke muttered in anger and Naruto raised an eyebrow.

"That is my own business." Kakashi said and Naruto ran to help Sakura, dragging Sasuke behind him.

"Time to die, Hatake Kakashi!" Zabuza chuckled and pulled his sword from the tree and charged at Kakashi and swung downwards.

"AHHHHHH!" Sakura screamed as blood spurted.

Author's Notes: Okay so this story may seem like cannon right now but trust me it will be different as I draw closer to the Chuunin exams. Okay so first off, if anyone wants to diss on the cat part please don't I really wanted to add that because the cat annoys me and it deserved to die already. Second I am sorry these chapters are not incredibly long, I have four other stories I am working on and I am starting a fifth also. Other than that please tell me what you do and do not like about this story, my review page is getting lonely.

Kage Bunshin no Jutsu = Shadow Clone Technique