The Worst Possible Client

Phew… haven't update for sooo looongg! I'm really sorry about this, but no worries, I'm back XD
Let's on to the story shall we?

"What's the distance of the target?"

"Five meters. I'm ready anytime."

"So am i."

"Me too."

"Me…too…"

"Ready…" Itachi stared at the target intently, waiting for it to move if it did. "…Go!"

Team 7 sprung from their hiding places. The four Genin swooped down on the surprised target.

"Got'cha!" Naruto yelled, grabbing onto the furry creature. Just as soon as he got it, it struggled desperately and scratched Naruto on the face.

"Red ribbon on its right ear?" Itachi asked.

"Yup." Sasuke confirmed.

"Good. Lost Pet "Tora" searched mission, complete." Itachi said.

"Hey! Oww! Oww!" Naruto screamed as the cat scratched his face. Nozomi laughed nervously and walked slowly at Naruto. She bent down and looked at the cat. The cat stopped scratched Naruto and looked at Nozomi.

Nozomi smiled. "Come here kitty, kitty." Nozomi said cutely to the cat. Without second thought, the cat jumped from Naruto and landed in Nozomi's arms.

"Hehe that's a good girl." Nozomi said as she pet the cat.

"Nozomi-chan, you're really good with animals." Sakura said. Nozomi smiled at Sakura.

"Unlike someone I know." Sasuke smirked, looking at Naruto.

"Shut up!"

"Hahaha" Naruto chuckled nervously as he watched the wife of the Fire Daimyo hug her lost cat. Nozomi looked nervously at the cat who desperately tried to get away from its master and jumped to Nozomi's arm. Nozomi gave it an apologetic smile.

When the woman left with her poor cat, third hokage read off the list. "Now… Itachi's #7, your next duty is, hmm… babysitting an elder's grandson, shopping in the neighboring village, and help with the potato digging."

Nozomi sighed quietly. She didn't mind these kinds of missions, really. But she started to get bored. 'Well… we're still a genin…' Nozomi thought.

"Nooo!"

Nozomi snapped out of her thoughts when she heard her brother's loud voice. Sakura and Sasuke also turned in surprise look to look at their teammate. Naruto was glaring at the third.

" I wanna go on a real mission!" he demanded.

Suddenly, Nozomi pinched his cheek. "Nii-chan… " Nozomi said in a VERY sweet voice and smiled "sweetly" at her dear brother, which made Naruto gulped. "Please…" she said in an oh so sweet voice. Naruto nodded nervously and Nozomi let go of Naruto's cheek.

Sakura and Sasuke gulped. They have never saw Nozomi angry before, and now that they saw it, they silently agree to never anger Nozomi.

Itachi also gulped a bit. He'd never thought that Nozomi could be very intimidating. 'Well, Kushina-san is also the same…' he thought.

"Uh… please excuse Naruto… Hokage-sama." Itachi said.

"I need something challenging and exciting, not this little kid stuff! Come on, old man!" The Jinchuriki shrieked, completely forgot that Nozomi just scolded him.

"Hm. He's got a point," Sasuke voiced his opinion, and Itachi shot him a look telling his younger brother to shut up.

Iruka yelled at Naruto and Naruto yelled back, which makes Nozomi shaking her head. She then pinched Naruto's cheek again and smiled "Sweetly" at him again, clearly a sign to telling him to shut up. Naruto gulped and shut up immediately.

'Sometimes I wonder who's the older twin.' Iruka thought.

"Listen, Naruto..." The Third sighed. "We have tons of requests that come into our village everyday, from babysitting to assassinations. These requests are carefully recorded, analyzed, then ranked A, B, C, or D, depending on their difficulty..."

Itachi nodded in agreement.

"Ninja are also ranked, like Kage, Jonin, Chunin, and Genin at the bottom. Genin are expected to clear up the D-Ranks while Chunin are eligible for C-Ranks and B-Ranks. Jonin do the toughest ones, the A-Ranks. When we complete missions, we receive a fee, that helps to support the village."

Naruto didn't look convinced.

"Since you are untried Genin, just starting down the shinobi path, you are given D-Rank missions, of course."

The Third continued to drone on, and when he'd finished, he stared at the sight of Team 7 having a casual chat over Naruto's obsession with ramen.

"Hey Listen!" The Third yelled.

"Umm… I was listening." Nozomi said, hoping that it will calm the third.

The Third sighed. Sometimes he wondered why Naruto become the older twin. Nozomi looked much more mature and more calm. If you look at them, Nozomi is more to an older sibling role than Naruto.

"I…I apologized." Itachi said, bowing slightly to the third.

"Geez… All you do is giving lectures like that. But you know what!? I'm not the trouble-making brat you still think I am!"

The two Uchiha brothers looked away, and so did Sakura. They were all thinking the same thing.

Hahaha, not the little brat who used to play pranks anymore. Yeah right.

"I think you're in no position in saying that Nii-chan…" Nozomi said.

"Eh? Why?"

"Umm… you still played pranks you know…" Nozomi said bluntly.

Naruto blushed in embarrassment and Sasuke and Sakura stifle their laughter. Itachi is also trying hard to hide his laugh.

"Right, right, right." the Third had an amused smile on his face, and so did Iruka. "You want us to know that you're not a brat anymore, but a former brat, and you want a mission." Naruto scowled at the description. "So be it."

This time, Naruto's face brightened up. Nozomi also smiled a bit, showing that she's actually agreed with her brother about wanting to go on an exciting mission.

Sasuke also had a grin on his face, while Sakura had an expression of surprise. Itachi had a passive look.

"You'll be given a C-Rank mission." The old Hokage read off a list. "To be bodyguards on a journey."

"Bodyguards?" Nozomi asked curiously. "Who are we guarding?" she asked.

She was answered when an old man, though not as old as the third, stepped into the room. He carried a beer bottle in one hand, and spared Team 7 an unconvincing glance.

"What's this? They're all a bunch of super brats. Especially, the shortest one with the stupid-looking face. Are you really a ninja? Hey!?"

"Haha! Who's the shortest one with the stupid face…"

His two teammates stepped in to emphasize the three's height difference. Naruto was the shortest of the three. Nozomi then stood beside Naruto. Nozomi is slightly shorter than Naruto.

"Umm… Did he just talking about me?" Nozomi asked, pointing at herself, since she's the shortest of the four.

"Not you girl, That spiky-hair boy. You look smarter than him." The old man said. Cursing, the blonde started yelling.

"I'll kill you!"

Itachi pulled him back with a sigh. Naruto was harder to deal with than his younger brother! "You can't kill the client, Naruto," the Jonin reminded. "It doesn't work that way."

"Umm sir… You shouldn't judge someone based on their appearance. It's rude." Nozomi said. She didn't like it when someone insult her brother like that.

The old man ignored her, making her pout. "I am the super expert bridge builder Tazuna. I expect you to provide me super protection until I get back to my country and complete the bridge."

Team 7 were soon at the gates of Konoha with Tazuna.

"Let's go!" Naruto said excited.

Nozomi giggled at her brother's excitement, that she didn't noticed that Sasuke looked at her with slight blush on his face. Sasuke kind of like it when Nozomi giggled or smile. 'She looks cute…' He then shakes his head furiously. 'Hold on, what am I thinking?' he thought.

Nozomi glanced at Sasuke. "Umm… Sasuke-kun, is something wrong?" she asked as she saw Sasuke's face is bright red. Sasuke shook his head. "Nothing! Nothing!"

Itachi looked back and forth at Sasuke and Nozomi and he chuckled. 'My little brother has grown up.' he thought, then for a moment his expression become a bit sad. 'I wonder where you are now…'

"Why are you so excited?" Sakura asked.

"'Cause I've never left the village before!"

"Hey! Am I really going to be safe with this brat?" Tazuna asked Itachi as he pointed at Naruto.

Itachi chuckled nervously as Naruto had a vein popped on his head.

'Damn it! This old man is the worst possible client! I should give him a shot to the face.' Naruto thought angrily.

"Hey old man! Don't mess with the ninjas! I'm incredible!" Naruto said. "One day I will take on the super elite ninja title, Hokage! My name is Uzumaki Naruto, remember it!" He said.

"Hokage is the village's number 1 ninja eh?" Tazuna asked as he drink another bottle of sake. "I doubt someone like you could become it."

"SHUT UP! I'm prepared to do anything to become hokage! Once I become Hokage you will acknowledge me!" Naruto yelled angrily.

Tazuna looked at Naruto for a few moments before he turned around. "No, I won't you brat. Even if you did become a Hokage."

"I'll kill you!" Naruto yelled. Itachi grabbed him. "Naruto, I already said that you can't kill a client."

Nozomi laugh nervously but then she felt a presence behind her and she looked back. She looked ups, down, left and right. Nothing.

"That's weird… " Nozomi muttered.

"Nozomi! Hurry up or we'll leave you behind!" Naruto called.

"Oh, coming!" Nozomi said. 'Maybe it's just my imagination.'

She the run to catch up with the others.

Unknown to them, two ninjas are watching them from behind…

Ok! So that's that! I'm really sorry for making you waiting for soooo long…

Anyway, R&R, OH and there's a little mistake when I gave you Hikari's biodata. Her birthday is on July 3.