1SC: Heh... I love this story so much right now. I'm getting more reviews on these first few chapters than I did on Into the Game's first three chapters. That's kinda sad, actually... Whatever, on with the show!

Puck: Story.

SC: Must you always ruin the moment!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto characters, just their kids.

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Chapter 4

Mission Time!

Shingetsu fell onto her couch gratefully, worn out from Kakashi-sensei's training. "Hey brat."

"Nngh."

"Tired?"

"No duh. Kakushin, would you mind getting some Ichiraku for dinner? I seriously can't feel my legs."

He tugged her hair. "Yeah, sure. Your cooking sucks in comparison to mom's anyway."

She growled as the door closed and the shuriken she had aimed at Kakushin's head imbedded itself in it. "Ass."

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Hari murmured a greeting to Hanabi as he walked up to his room. Once he closed the door, he sat down on his bed and hissed in pain. Damn it, that had hurt! Maybe he should go and get some ice... no, that would require getting up and possibly tearing something, and he didn't have enough chakra for even a simple medicnin technique. And asking for help was most DEFINITELY out of the question.

He collapsed back on the bed. Maybe he'd just skip dinner tonight...

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Asuka groaned as she threw a bag of frozen peas on her sore legs. Her parents were still at the hospital, of course, so she was on her own. Her room was mind-numbingly quiet, and it was driving her nuts. "Ooh... stupid Kakashi-sensei. If he hadn't insisted on all that training, I could just use a jutsu to numb the pain at least." She threw one of her pillows at her clock, which shook wildly on it's nail. "Oh no... please don't fall, please don't fall..." The nail shook out of the wall, letting the clock fall to its doom... on a pile of dirty clothes.

Asuka sighed and stumbled into the kitchen and over to the fridge. She reread the note taped there.

'Asuka,

We'll be late at the hospital tonight, so you're on your own for dinner.

Love you.

Mom and Dad.'

She frowned. Why tonight, of all nights, they had to work late completely alluded her. Well, there had been more activity at the hospitals, what with all the newbies getting their butts handed to them by their senseis during training and stuff, but it shouldn't be enough to make people actually have to do overtime! Asuka sighed and grabbed some instant ramen. She didn't feel all that hungry, but what the heck. She needed to eat something. Not like she could just skip dinner.

The next morning (whoop-dee-freaking-doo, I'm sure you all care so much)

Shingetsu growled as her shuriken missed the target's "vital spot" by a hair's breadth. Again. Which meant more laps. Her anger at her sensei was so pent up right now, she would've thrown the sharp, many-pointed star at him if she knew where the hell he was. So, she settled with demolishing the paper target, which was sitting there innocently, just doing its job (i.e: being a target), with the rest of her throwing arsenal. This included three more shuriken, she'd already thrown the other three, five kunai, one had been thrown at Hari, and over a dozen needles. Not to mention she finished it off by doing a fireball jutsu and burning it, and a good amount of the grass around it, after, of course, getting her weapons which were most definitely NOT fireproof.

Kakashi popped up behind her. "Well, I suppose that's one way to get rid of an enemy. Not a very subtle one, might I add, but it is effective."

She glared at him. "If you've come down here to tell me to run more laps around the village, I'm not going to."

He patted her head. "Then I wouldn't dream of it. Actually, I need to find Hari and Asuka."

Eyebrow raise. "How come?"

"Hm? Now what was it...?" Shingetsu sweatdropped. "Ah, yes. We need to get ready so we can leave on our mission tomorrow."

"Seriously!" Kakashi nodded. " The last I saw of them was when you told them to stop target practice and go climb trees again."

"All right then. Meet me back at the school in a few minutes and I'll brief everyone on the mission." Then, in true Kakashi style, he disappeared.

She blinked. "I hate when he does that."

And over with the grown-ups...

"Sakura? Sakura, wake up." Sasuke shook his wife's shoulder gently.

"Mm? Sasuke, what's wrong?"

"Look at your arm." The kunoichi raised her eyebrows but did as he told her. After a few stunned seconds, she screamed.

That woke everyone up. Naruto was over first. "What's going- holy!" He stopped as he saw Sakura's arm. Thin black lines, wispy as smoke, were spreading from the puncture wound. Shikamaru pushed away Ino's white blonde hair to see the same thing happening to her neck.

"What the hell was in that thing?" Neji asked. The wind rustled the leaves behind him, making everyone jump.

Tenten growled. "Look at us. We're acting like a bunch of Genin again. Jumping at the wind- ow!" She moved her hand down to her ankle and froze. "Oh no." She pulled out a dart, identical to the one's that had hit Sakura and Ino.

Sasuke's eyes widened. "Naruto, get Hinata-" Hinata let out a little shriek as something hit her wrist. She turned her hand over to see another dart embedded there. Naruto pulled it out gently, trying not to hurt her.

Neji pulled Tenten close to him. "Either someone really doesn't want us to finish this job, or..." A flash of something silver flew through the trees. "Look out!"

Shikamaru made a snatch at the little silver object flying towards the blonde, but instead got another dart in his shoulder. "Naruto!"

Sasuke, being one of Naruto's closest friends, did the one thing he could: He scrambled up and shoved Naruto to the side, the dart sticking in his side instead. Another one shot him in the leg as he pulled out the first, and Neji pulled one out of his own thigh. "Stay down, Naruto."

The blonde nodded as Shikamaru, Ino, Sakura moved to stand around him. "Sasuke, we need to get out of here." Sakura said.

Sasuke nodded. "All right. The SOS was obviously fake, and that's exactly what we'll tell Tsunade. But we're going to make sure Naruto doesn't get hit." Everyone agreed with him and, if some not reluctantly, walked back to the boat surrounding Naruto, Sasuke's Sharingan and the Hyuugas' Byakugan going strong the whole way.

As they reached the boat that they had come in, Sakura and Hinata inspected it to make sure it hadn't been tampered with. "It's okay, it looks like no one's touched it." Sakura said. After a quick once-over with her Byakugan, Hinata agreed.

Even everyone climbed in and they were shoved off, the tension was still high. Only when the island was out of sight did anyone breathe slightly easier. But they were still all sitting around Naruto.

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SC: I know, I know. It's really, really short. But I seriously have no mission ideas whatsoever. Why do you think I skipped all the mission briefings? But since I can't do a timeskip that big without my reviewers killing me, I need some ideas. Lots of them so I can have one for everybody. Cause if I have to think up all of them, then it's going to be a while before I update.

Ja ne.

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