Chapter Seven: Missions and Training

Naruto, Sasuke and Hinata are currently waiting for the Sensei to show up on the training ground for their first day of missions. They have all been waiting patiently for 15 minutes and Naruto is already getting antsy while his hand is twitching with his ink brush in it.

Kakashi appears in a Body Flicker of leaves and cautiously looks around. "Safe?" he asks his cute little students. "Safe." Hinata answers smiling happily while holding Narutos' hand. "Okay my cute little students, time to take your first steps into the grown up world of Shinobi life. First things first, we go to the mission centre at the bottom floor of the Hokage Tower and get a mission for the day." On the inside Kakashi is cackling loudly to himself while thinking of all the chores he will make them do today and their reactions to chasing a cat around.

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"Team 7 reporting for their first mission" Kakashi announces loudly to the Chunin in front of him, who seems to be hiding his amusement poorly at what is about to happen.

"Ok, first mission for Team 7 is…. Go paint old man Petersons fence white"

Naruto jumps forward "WHAT, IM A GENIUS"

Sasuke yells "I suck and complain about everything… hn!"

"I am nice and beautiful" says Hinata politely.

Kakashi looks confused about the reactions.

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"Naruto, do you think they will figure out they are Shadow Clones?" Hinata worries. "Of course not Hinata, I told them all to act like us!"

"If you say so Naruto, so how are we training today."

"Well I have been using a Resistance Seal lately, and I think it has been helping greatly with my speed."

"Dobe, you are barely as fast as me"

"Yes because I have had the Seal on me the whole time, I would be quicker if I took it off"

"I don't believe you, prove it!"

Naruto sighs to himself, "Fine duck butt. RELEASE!" he instantly feels a difference in his body, it's like he is no longer moving through very thick water. "Ok, ready to spar?"

"Anytime Dobe"

"Begin!" Hinata smiles softly at her stupid boyfriend, if you have had seals that make you slower on yourself for months or years and suddenly release them. You should get used to your new speed first or you will… BOOM! A giant explosion goes off in the clearing across from Sasuke, when the dust clears we see a deep crater in the ground where Naruto used to be and following the line of carved up ground they both turn their heads slowly to see a line of downed trees. "So I guess he is faster" Sasuke ponders.

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All three Shadow Clones and Kakashi stop what they are doing and look towards the sound of the giant explosion in the forest. 'Usually it's Naruto that makes those kinds of things happen, but he is right here' Kakashi muses to himself. He suddenly starts panicking 'What if there is another person like Naruto, oh god I don't think this village could handle that.'

"YATTA! I love explosions, but I could have done better!" Naruto proclaims. "Wah wah, I suck and have bad hair" Sasuke cries. "I love Naruto and love helping people" Hinata says softly.

"You guys are acting quite strange today" Kakashi looks sharply at each of them as they start to sweat. "Meh, must just be me" he says as he goes back to reading his book and the clones let out a sigh of relief.

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"Okay, so maybe I should have practised a bit" Naruto grumbles as he walks back into the clearing. "I want the Seal on me!" Sasuke demands to Naruto. "hmmmm, sure as long as you agree to help test one of my seals in the future." Naruto smiles evilly at Sasuke whose eyes narrow at the blonde. "Is it going to kill me?"

"Kill? No"

"Why did you say it like that?"

"Say it like what?"

"Like it won't kill me, but it will do something else horrible to me!"

"You are being ridiculous Sasuke, when have my Seals ever done something horrible?"

"Are you joking? Like every second Seal you use does something horrible, I've had to have a Yamanka wipe the memories from my head so I'd stop having nightmares!" Sasuke yells at his teammate.

"Does it even count if you can't remember it then?"

"Just shut up, please just shut up, okay I accept, only one seal though?"

"Yes just one!"

"Fine, deal!" They both say as they shake hands. "What do you want from me for the Seal Naruto?" Hinatas asks her boyfriend. "Oh, don't worry it's free for you Hinata, all my seals are!"

"HOW is that fair" yells Sasuke.

"Girlfriend discount, obviously." Naruto remarks as he looks at Sasuke wondering if he was dropped on his head as a child. "Okay, first take off your shirt Sasuke and sit with your back to me while I draw the Seal."

"Why do I have to do that?"

"So I can draw the Seal directly on your skin" says Naruto seriously considering the head dropping idea now. Sasuke reluctantly takes his jacket and shirt off. Naruto gets to work quickly and starts drawing seals all along his back and across his arms. "Okay so the seal has different settings according to how much Chakra is added to the control sigil on your hand. The more Chakra you add, the heavier your body and limbs will feel. SEAL!" he says forcefully at the end with his hand on the middle of Sasukes' back.

Narutos' black haired teammate instantly feels the difference. "it feels like I'm walking through rough winds."

"Yes that is how it works, as you move it up the feeling will start to get stronger, channel a little Chakra to your hand." When Sasuke does so the feeling does indeed increase and he adjusts it so that it feels as though he is walking through water.

"Time for yours Hinata." Naruto says lecherously while Hinata blushes, smiles and nods at Naruto. "Let's do it over their a bit so Sasuke doesn't peek."

"Like I would dobe"

"See he agrees"

Sasuke waits patiently while he hears random giggles and laughs coming from over in the bush where Hinata and Naruto went. As the two walk back into the clearing, he can overhear them speaking a little. "I couldn't help it Naru-chan it tickled a lot"

"I know, are you sure you don't need me to look over it again once or twice.. or ten times?"

"Maybe later Naru-chan."

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"Okay class, now that we have finally got used to the seals" Naruto says as he claps his hands in front of his teammates. "I think it is time that you both learnt how to climb trees."

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We find our three shadow clones who are Disguised as Naruto, Hinata and Sasuke respectively waiting in line to hand in their first mission scroll with their Sensei. "Team 7 reporting a successful first mission as a Genin squad." Reports Kakashi proudly. 'Didn't kill or blow anything or anyone up, I am so proud'. Kakashi looks over his cute genin as he sees Sasuke and Hinata pumping their hands in the air yelling "YATTA!" while Naruto face palms at his team mates. Kakashis' mind starts going into over drive at the sight. 'Maybe Hinata would say his catch phrase to tease him, but there is no way that Sasuke would join in, let alone jump around like that and they have been acting strange all day. Only Naruto usually acts like that, wait a second… Oh, they are all dead.'

The Chunins' in the Mission Centre immediately feel a terrible bloodlust emit from the masked Jonin as he disappears and his Genin squad erupts into smoke. "DEAD, ALL OF THEM. DEAD!" he yells as he disappears.

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"Oh shit!" Naruto exclaims while showing his teammates how to climb trees with Chakra. "QUICKLY, NO TIME TO EXPLAIN. HENGE INTO ME AND PRETEND YOUR MY CLONES!" he yells at his two teammates after getting the memories from his clones. Due to the panic they hear in Narutos' voice they quickly comply and turn into the young blonde just as Kakashi arrives on the scene with a black aura radiating from him.

"Oh hello Kakashi sensei, what can three Shadow Clones of Naruto help you with today?" asks Naruto as Kakashi gets closer.

"All I think about is Seals and how dumb I am at everything else, I wish I could be as a cool as Sasuke" Sasuke-Naruto says.

"Aaah." Hinata-Naruto starts panicking and just yells "SEALS!"

Naruto face palms at his teammates and how his clones that he sent to the Mission Centre acted while pretending to be his teammates. Kakashi seems unfazed by their acting and continues to advance on them. "PLAN FAILED, SPLIT UP, EVERYMAN FOR HIMSELF!" Naruto yells as he turns to run as everything turns black.

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Naruto comes becomes conscious slowly and the first thing he smells is the beautiful scent of ramen. He opens his eyes and sees his two teammates and Kakashi sitting about two metres away from him eating ramen, he tries to move and realises he is tied to the post in the middle of the training ground. "Hey guys, can't help but notice I've accidently been tied up"

"This is your punishment Naruto for tricking me" respond Kakashi

"WHAT about them!" he nods at his team mates.

"They explained to me that it was all your idea."

"TRAITORS. BETRAYERS." He starts yelling at his friends. Kakashi quickly covers the young blondes mouth with a cloth. Sasuke and Hinata say a silent prayer for their teammate and friend.

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"Okay so next time, send a clone to replace me too" Kakashi says and his team sweat drops at the irresponsibility of their Sensei. "So let me get this straight" calmly responds Naruto "You weren't mad that we tricked you, but that we didn't involve you and that you had to do boring D-Ranks all day."

"Exactly, so what have you been doing while I was busy all day?"

"Well, I placed Resistance Seals on both of them" after Kakashi asks what they are and Naruto quickly explains the process it quickly repeated with Naruto drawing the Seal on Kakashi.

"And we were about to begin the tree climbing exercise."

"Ahh yes" Kakashi mutters as he swings his arms around trying to get used to the new feeling of working his muscles.

"Well don't let me stop you"

The team quickly gets back to each standing in front of a tree. Naruto turns to his teammates on either side of him "Now since I already know how to do this, I am going to try and climb the tree with different parts of my body, for example trying to climb it with only my fingertips, that should be the next level for you guys as well if you can get this part down." They both nod at him and start to channel Chakra to the soles of their feet.

Kakashi watches his team work from a far as he is doing his own exercises, he can't help but feel a proud smile come to his face as he watches them work together. 'This team will be great' he thinks to himself.

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At no surprise to anyone, Hinata has the highest level of Chakra control after Naruto, she needs it to control the Gentle Fist properly and she has also been training with Naruto for a couple months now. Hinata looks up proudly as she sees how far up the tree she has gone, smiling she looks over at her boyfriend who is half way up the free only using a finger on each hand. 'He doesn't even realise how difficult that is too most people, he just continues on until he can do everything he needs to do to become stronger, no matter if someone says it is impossible or that he will never be able to do it.'

Sasukes' eyes gain a new tint of determination as he looks over at his blonde teammate. 'I will master this and anything you throw at me Naruto and I will catch up to your level, through my power alone!' While Sasuke always calls Naruto a Dobe and insults like that, anyone who has ever seen them when they hang out together would know that Sasuke has nothing but respect for his young blonde friend for how strong he is and also how much he helped him when Sasukes whole clan was slaughtered by his older brother. 'I can't even imagine how I would act if it wasn't for you Dobe' he thinks as he allows a small smile to break out onto his face.

A:N: This will mark one week since i started my story. I'm pretty proud of it if i do say so myself. The chapters will be getting a little bit more serious from now on but i will continue with the comedy, i think next chapter will be their first C-Rank Missions! anyway hope you enjoyed this chapter, see you tomorrow.