Chapter 4

After we passed Kakashi-Sensei's test, we began doing D-ranked missions, which I have to say, was so boring. I forgot how boring these little D-ranked missions were; all you do is walking dogs and pulling out weeds. But there is a reason for doing this, I guess. We get to bond with our team and we could improve our teamwork, which would be important for future missions.

When we went to the Hokage tower, Naruto snapped. Again.

"CAN WE PLEASE GET A CHALLENGING MISSION? NINJAS AREN'T SUPPOSE TO BE CHASING CATS!" Naruto howled, dropping to his knees dramatically.

"Naruto-" Iruka started.

"If you insist, I will allow you to take on a C-ranked mission, it's to escort a certain person to the Land of Waves." The Third Hokage said, eyes twitching at Naruto's loud voice. "I'll introduce you to him now. Can you please come in now?"

Finally. The mission which turned out to be much more dangerous than it was supposed to be.

The door slid opened, and a drunken man stepped in and looked around the room. His eyes finally rested on the three of us.

"Are those my escorts?" He asked.

"Yes Tazuna-San, these are your escorts." The Hokage said, gesturing towards our team.

"So a midget, a pink-haired freak and a dispassionate kid? Are you sure they're ninja?."

Pink-haired freak? Now that seriously pissed me off.

"Excuse me sir, you shouldn't judge someone the second you see them, it's rude you see. Also, you should be grateful that we are actually helping you out here." I said to him, sweetly, smiling innocently at him.

The Hokage coughed so that he got everyone's attention.

"Right, well you will all be leaving in half an hour, dismissed."

After packing, we met at the front gates. I met Naruto on the way so we met the rest together, we quietly discussed about Zabuza and Haku, we've decided to save them, with Naruto giving them 'Therapy Jutsu', hopefully they would come back from the Dark side. Therapy Jutsu is not an actual jutsu; it's just Naruto talking to the enemy or person, making them a better person, in a way and making them see sense, like what he did to Tsunade when he first met her.

So after meeting up with our team and client, we set off. It started off relatively well, although Naruto just wouldn't stop talking which annoyed the hell out of me (and Sasuke too by the way he keeps on death-glaring at him); before we were transported back into the past (so basically the future), Naruto was not so loud and noisy, he would still have his moments, but just not as often. So basically, Naruto was pretending to be his old self. Don't get me wrong because that is a good thing, it means that no one would find out that we were from the future. I, however, seemed to have changed a lot, maybe I should be a bit more 'weak' and girly like how I used to be.

After travelling for a while, we walked pass a puddle. I quickly glanced at Naruto. He had his usually grin on his face, he tilted his head to face me, he sent me a wink, most likely saying that he saw the puddle as well, then turned back around.

I looked ahead and closed my eyes; waiting.

Then we heard them. The 'whoosh' from their clothes and clinking of chains and weapons. We all turned around; Sasuke and Tazuna looked shocked, while me and Naruto screamed a high-pitched scream, and hugged each other tightly when we saw Kakashi getting 'ripped apart' by two Mist-nins. One was wearing a big cloak and they were both wearing a mask.

"KAKASHI-SENSEI!" We cried out dramatically, rivers of tears running down our cheeks. We're such great actors, am I right, or am I right?

The Mist-nins ran at us, their weird claw-like weapons around their hands ready to be used. We stood in front of Tazuna in a defensive stance with our weapons drawn. I was about to attack when Sasuke stopped me.

"Stay and look after our client." Sasuke told- no, demanded me. I scowled at him. Little prick, I wasn't that weak was I? I'm going to need to prove myself to him and everyone else one day. I nodded at him, then reluctantly stood closer to Tazuna, still scowling.

Sasuke and Naruto shot forward and attacked the two ninjas while I just watched from the sidelines. Again. Anyway, enough about me in a sulk, Naruto went to fight the guy with the big-ass cloak and Sasuke with the other, however, it didn't last long when the two darted away from their opponents towards me and Tazuna. I smirked. Some frickin' action at last!

I twirled my kunai's around my fingers. I added chakra strings on them and threw them at the advancing ninjas. It went around them, missing them completely. I heard them snort. I smiled a sweet smile at them as i stood still, waiting them to come. I moved my fingers, making the kunai's (which were still in the air) change direction. Sasuke shouted something at me. I just rolled my eyes. Suddenly the two mist ninja were tied up and were flung into some trees, I moved my fingers again and they crashed into each other, unconscious.

I released the chakra strings and the kunai's dropped to the ground. Well, that was easy, I didn't even have to move an inch from my spot!

"Kaka-Sensei, come out!" I said, with a small smile on my lips.

Kakashi appeared next to me not even a second later. Naruto and Sasuke walked towards us, well, Naruto skipped; he had a smile on his lips and his eyes were shining brightly, Sasuke, however, was scowling and looked confused.

"That was awesome Sakura-Chan!" Naruto cried.

"How did you do that? Actually, what did you even do?" Sasuke asked, brows furrowed. "And Sensei, I thought you got ripped apart?"

"Actually, Sasuke, I merely just went off; I knew that you guys could deal with those ninja and it would be great for experience as well. As for Sakura, she used chakra strings, which is difficult and good chakra control is needed." Kakashi explained, he turned to look at me. "Who taught you it?"

"I taught myself! I used some books and scrolls, of course." I told him, it wasn't a lie either.

"Oh? Hm, well done Sakura." Kakashi smiled, looking impressed. I smiled cheerfully back, and skipped off to get my kunai's back, when I passed Naruto and Sasuke, they were both pouting from the lack of attention (well, Naruto was anyway), I stuck my tongue out at them then carried on skipping. When I got my kunai's back, Kakashi was talking to Tazuna with a serious expression while Naruto and Sasuke listened to them talk.

"- if there was going to be ninjas involved with this mission, it would have been an A or B-ranked mission, why did you not tell us?"

Knowing what Tazuna was going to say, I drifted into my own world, drowning out all the talking voices. Hmmmm what is the meaning of life? Everyone asks that, I don't know why though, shouldn't they be asking more important deep question such as, why are there mosquitoes? I mean, they don't do anything except drink your blood then an hour later dying because they have such a short life span.

"Hey! Sakura? You there?!" I heard Naruto's loud voice shout at me. I snapped my eyes up and nearly had a heart attack when Naruto's face come into view, right in front of me, waving his hand in my face.

"BAKA!" I screeched, punching him in the face. I clutched my hand to my heart, trying to calm down my thumping heart as I watched Naruto fly into a tree and breaking it in half. Damn, he's lucky I didn't use any chakra or else he'd be dead by now.

"Wow."

I turned towards the voice and saw Tazuna, Kakashi and Sasuke's jaw drop to the ground, looking at the broken tree in shock. They turned to look at me at the same time then looking back at the tree, then back at me. Just then, I heard a groan from somewhere near the broken tree. Naruto. I ran to where he was and hugged him, squishing his face to my chest.

"I'm so sorry Naruto! I didn't mean to punch you!" I cried.

"Mff mff mff!"

I looked down and saw Naruto trying to say something but couldn't as his face was getting squished. Quickly letting go of him, I rubbed my head sheepishly, smiling nervously. Naruto's face was red and he looked dazed.

"So. . . Soft." Naruto murmured.

"Huh?" Naruto didn't say but just looked at me, or more precisely, my chest. My eyes widened in realisation; I pounced at him but someone grabbed me around the waist and hoisted me onto their shoulder, all I could see was blue ninja pants, a flak jacket, someone's back and their ass. I immediately knew who it was.

"Let me go Kaka-Sensei! Let me go and kill that ramen-loving pervert!" I screeched, thrashing, trying to escape from Kakashi's strong grip on my legs trying to keep me still. I kicked him and I heard a "oof" coming from him.

"Sakura, you are not allowed to kill your own comrades, and anyway, you're the one who hugged him into your chest." Came Kakashi's answer, I frowned, little dickhead! I was hugging him for goodness sake! "Now stop thrashing, I'm going to put you down, you are not allowed to kill Naruto, if you do, I'll force you to read my books."

I froze. Read his. . . Books? Oh hellz naw! I ain't reading that disgusting thing! Or what Kakashi calls it, 'adult literature'. Suddenly, I was dropped to the ground with a little thud.

"Ouch! Kaka-Sensei, was that really necessary?!" I cried out in pain. "At least tell me you were gonna drop me!"

"You deserved it seeing as you kicked me, you pink-haired devil!" Kakashi said cheerfully before leaving to catch up with everyone else, who apparently left us. I got up and dust myself before running after them, my ass still hurting from the drop.

We were on a boat; there was a mist so thick, we couldn't make anything out. We sat there in silence, 'we' as in Sasuke, Kakashi, Tazuna, the guy rowing the boat and I, Naruto was being his usual idiot self, that was, until he was told to shut up. Kakashi then asked Tazuna more questions; the bridge, Gato, everything.

Once we were on land again, we started walking, Kakashi was deep in thought while Naruto skipped happily along next to me, Sasuke was walking with his eyes closed, which is seriously weird and cool at the same time, how the hell could he not trip?! Uchiha's. . .

So all was silent until Naruto threw a kunai somewhere into the bushes; there was a little thud. It was a rabbit. Okay, so that means that like, in two minutes, Zabuza is going to throw his kick-ass sword at us and show himself. I looked around into the trees , though not moving my head, to see if I could spot him. Aha! I spotted him! He's not that far way from us and he was looking at Kakashi. I smirked a little before turning away, counting down in my head.

Three, two, one. . .

Whoosh!

"Everyone duck!" I heard Kakashi yelled at us. We complied and all dropped to the ground. I saw the sword embed into a tree and at the corner of my eyes, Zabuza came flying out from the trees and stood on the handle of his huge sword. He stood there, his back facing us but his head turned so he was looking at us. Damn! What an entry!

We all stood back up slowly. Kakashi walked up towards Zabuza and looked up at him.

"Oh, my, you are Momochi Zabuza, the exiled ninja from the Hidden Village of Mist."

"I'm guessing you are Kakashi the Sharingan user." Came Zabuza's reply. "You're gonna have to hand over that old geezer."

Kakashi put his hand over his forehead protector, ready to move it away from his Sharingan eye.

"Don't join the battle." Kakashi told us.

Pfft. Whatever.

A/N: And there you go! Sorry for the delay, I had a lot of school work to do. I hope you enjoyed this chapter!

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