Chapter Seven- Mission to the land of Waves

Natsumi, Sakura and Sasuke were getting closer to their target, they had to be quiet or else the cat would hear them… Natsumi hated that fur ball, they had been chasing the cat all over the village and they still hadn't caught it, at least it was better than Kushina's and Naruto's mission. Since they were a large team, they sometimes had to break of into to two groups. Kushina and Naruto was always together, while Natsumi might be with them or with Sakura and Sasuke.

"What's the distance of the target?" Kakashi asked. He was keeping an ear out for the other two, since they were helping an old women with her shopping, Maemi Lee was an orphan who chose her last name when she became a shinobi, but now at the age of ninety-three she wasn't able to do much for herself. Her once deep black hair was white, and Maemi kept it at her shoulders, even in her youth, her once bright blue eyes were dull with age. She fell in love with the Uchiha siblings the first time she got team seven's help and since then she always tried to get them to help her with things.

"Five meters," Sakura told him. She was tired of chasing this cat, ever time Natsumi went near it, it ran off like a fox was looking at it for dinner.

"I'm ready to go when you are," Natsumi said. She was going to kill this cat and pretend that it was a training accented… like one of Tenten's kunai going off course, but she wouldn't blame Tenten… instead she could always blame that Hiro kid, he was always missing his targets, so it would be easy to believe.

"Hnn,"

"Seriously, Uchiha speech is getting worse with each generation," Kushina snapped. Sasuke forgot that both she and Naruto could hear them, in fact Natsumi had asked how their 'chore' was going and Kushina told them, that both she and Naruto were doing random 'chores' that have been called missions.

"Got ya!" Natsumi shouted as she pulled the cat into a hug. They didn't know this was the right cat, until Sakura looked at her right ear and conformed that it was Tora.

"Hey Natsumi… what happened?" Naruto asked. They had just done the last chore on Maemi's list, this might be great when Genin were just starting out, but Hiruzen knew what time they were from, they could handle a C-rank by themselves, Naruto could do S-ranks for giggled and laughs, but this was an insult.

"Cat…" Natsumi muttered glaring at the cat in Sakura's arms, Kushina just looked at it and it had the same reaction to her as it did to Natsumi "I think it hates us,"

"There's a reason,"

"Don't worry Natsumi, we'll tell you when we get home," Naruto told her. If they were still getting D-ranks, then they were most likely going to have to put in some training, both Naruto and Kushina were sure that Gai and Lee would be more than happy to join them. They had been for the last two months.

"No wonder the cat ran," Sakura said. She watched as the cat she was holding was squeezed, if she was Tora then she'd ran as well… she was pretty sure that the rest of her team was the same. Sasuke would attack her, along with Kushina and Naruto, Natsumi would hiss and run and she'd ran… but they weren't cats, Sakura was glad for that much.

"Team Seven's next duty is babysitting an elders grandson, shopping in the neighbourhood village and help with the photo digging," Hiruzen said. The Uchiha's were glaring at him, and Natsumi looked like she wanted to scream… they would have to go into two and she was sick and tired of being stuck to doing chores, that was all these were, chores.

"No more," Natsumi yelled, her hands were in fists by her side, she was getting sick of this. She didn't get up with the sun and train, just so she'd have to do something civilians didn't want to, something students at the academy should be doing so they have a better understand of missions and teamwork "Just no more chores,"

"You're just a rookie-"

"I'm sorry Iruka, but we've been shinobi for two months and are the only Genin team that hasn't done a C-rank," Naruto said cutting Iruka off. He knew the man saw Natsumi as a younger sister, but he wasn't allowing her to get stronger and to see other lands, instead he wanted her to be safe in the village, even if most of the people hated her.

"She's not as weak as you think she is," Kushina said. She was getting sick of this, even her mother didn't hold her back this much… and she didn't allow Kushina to know why she was training until she was six! Which was three years after everyone else, she still trained hard, but she didn't know why "Natsumi can almost hold up to one of my shadow clones, while Sakura isn't even close,"

"Yes Sakura isn't ready," Iruka told her. He didn't want them risking their necks out there, he didn't know why Natsumi looked at him.

"We could do what we've been doing, Sakura can stay back," Kushina said they didn't need Sakura was she was dead weight, even on the most basic of chores.

"Okay, Kushina, Natsumi and Naruto have made a good point," Hiruzen said. They can't get better if they didn't let them try "I'll give you a C-rank,"

All of Team Seven just looked at Hiruzen, if Kushina knew that was it would take, then she would have done it a month ago or she would have had Natsumi do it about two weeks ago.

"It's a protection mission of a certain individual," Hiruzen said. Watching as Kushina and Natsumi smiled at each other, Naruto just rolled his eyes at his sisters actions, while Sasuke, Kakashi and Sakura wondered how Natsumi got them a C-rank, Sasuke didn't want to owe that girl anything… or the other two, the only plus side was that Naruto didn't put any rules on him. Through he had been to the Uzumaki compound for team lunches, Sakura knew that Ino-pigs team went to a resistant, but she was happy with eating what Kushina had made, since she asked what their favourite food was and she made it for them.

"Can you get the client?" Hiruzen asked one of the Chunin. Who let in an old man wearing warn out clothing, he also had a bottle of Sake in his hand.

"What this?" The old man asked as he looked the people in front of him, five of them were children! At least they looked pretty young "They're all a bunch of super brats… are they really ninja?"

"Sir, you shouldn't judge someone on their age," Naruto said. At least the old man didn't insult one of them, if he did that Naruto didn't think he want to hold Kushina back.

"Yes, most shinobi from clans start training at three, so three of us have been training for a while and Natsumi can get away from high level ninja," Kushina told him. She, Naruto and Sasuke have been training for years, Natsumi was able to get away from ANBU in bright orange… sadly, she didn't have anything to say about Sakura that would make their client feel at ease, she couldn't tell him that she was dead weight, now could she?

"Also I'm a Jonin," Kakashi said. He knew his team would be fine, maybe this will show them what shinobi life really was and maybe he should have trained them, but they could have done their own training.

"I'm 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," Tazuna told them. When he opened his eyes he saw that three were giving the 'well duh' look, it was two of them knew what was going on.

"Meet at the front gate in an hour," Kakashi told them.

"So four hours then?" Natsumi asked him. It was one of his habits to be three hours late and since almost all of Team Seven, but Sakura, worked that out and turned up three hours after the time he told them… even then they were still before him.

"No, Natsumi one,"

"I see, so your three hours to everything, but missions?" Naruto asked. He was pissed, so Kakashi wasn't late all the time because he was helping people… no he was late on purpose? Now that just rubbed him the wrong way.

"Kushina, Naruto we need to pack," Natsumi said. Bring Naruto and Kushina out of their thoughts, they would need to pack, but for how long?

"Pack for two months,"

"Okay," the five Genin said. Sakura running out of the door, Sasuke following behind her, while the other went to the Uzumaki compound the fastest way, body flicker.

Everyone was waiting for Kakashi. The gate was large and bright red, with 'Leaf village' panted on the doors. Kushina and Naruto weren't surprised that Kakashi was the last one… in fact the two had enough time to tell Team Gai that they weren't going to be there for two months. Tenten gave them three scrolls full of weapons, for good luck. Neji just ignored them and Lee was happy for them, Natsumi loved Lee like a brother, so Kushina and Naruto didn't have any problems with the 'youth' yelling young boy.

"Natsumi why are you so exited?" Sakura asked her smiling teammate. The girl was looking outside the gate, so was Kushina and Naruto, but they were looking for threats.

"Where's that sensei of yours?" Tazuna asked the young shinobi.

"The hell if I know," Kushina muttered she swore she felt chakra outside the gate… and her abilities were never wrong, and Naruto felt it has well. While she and Naruto sensory abilities weren't as good as Tobirama Senju's, who had a large range. They could still feel when something was thrown at them, and when someone was about ten meters away.

"This is the first time, we've had a mission outside the village," Naruto told him. He didn't know why Tazuna looked at them with a guilty expression on his face… so he was hiding something. That would explain the chakra signals outside the gate.

"Sorry I'm late," Kakashi said. The Hokage wanted to talk to him, then he said good bye to his friends at the memorial stone.

"Actually, you're two hours and thirty minutes early," Kushina said rolling her eyes "Which means your only thirty minutes late,"

"So mean," Kakashi said. He was getting used to his Genin team, but at times he believed that they were too many Genins, that it until Hiruzen told him the truth about Kushina and Naruto. When he finished team training and basic Taijutsu, he might get their help to teach the other three.

"We should go," Tazuna wanted to get home as soon as he could, he wanted to make sure that his family was alright, but he felt bad about lying to them, but C was all anyone in Wave could afford.

Team Seven had been walking for a while, it would take a few hours just to get out of fire country, let alone across the sea to wave. It was the same direction as Uzu, so both Kushina and Naruto knew where they were going.

"Kushina, there's a puddle," Natsumi said. Kakashi, Kushina and Naruto stopped, there hadn't been any rain for weeks, the whole group stopped wondering why they weren't moving "That lightening seal, I want to see if it works like electricity,"

"It's a good question," There were times like this, that Kushina was glad that Natsumi was picking up sealing like any other Uzumaki… really quickly. The girl was already up to the fourth level, something that might take anyone else years to do. Kushina swore that the Uzumaki's had a bloodline for seals, she meant that it ran in all of their blood to do it.

Hiruzen was teaching both her and Natsumi the newer seals, while she was teaching them the older, more forgotten ones. So in this time she was the same level as Natsumi and Kushina didn't mind, since they learned at the same level.

"So why don't you find out," Naruto told her. He couldn't tell Natsumi to use one of the higher levelled one, but he was sure that she was smart enough to use the one that kills, not paralyse. After this they were going to have to talk to the girl, seeing as it was her fist kill.

Natsumi was happy that she was going to test her idea, that and there was something strange about that puddle, so she was going to use her strongest lightening seal. Kushina made them, since elemental seals were level six… she was almost there, but not quite. Her older sister could only do this, since it was an older version and was designed to kill, unlike the newer one that mostly just paralysed.

"We should continue," Kakashi said as Natsumi put the seal in the puddle, so some of his Genin were keeping this hidden from him, first Kushina and Naruto, and now Natsumi? He thinks that they don't trust him, even though the other two did, too some extant.

As the group walked pass the puddle, Natsumi actived the seal. Soon screams were heard and the puddle disappeared, being replaced with two mist nins… missing anyway. Both had a ganlet on their arms and were connected to each other, wearing the same outfit… with a mask covering their face. Not that it mattered since they were both dead, hearts stopping from the electricity being pumped into their bodies. That and Natsumi added to much chakra into the seal, her chakra control was getting better, since Kushina helped her master the tree walking exercise a day after they become Team Seven and the older girl was explaining chakra theory, before she was allowed to do the next exercise.

"She's an Uzumaki, isn't she?" Tazuna asked causing both Kushina and Naruto to glare at the older man, while Natsumi just stared at the people she just killed.

"Yes, Natsumi is part of the Uzumaki clan," Kakashi sighed. Naruto was whispering something to Natsumi and the girl just nodded at him.

"Wait the Uzumaki is a clan?" Sakura asked.

"You've been in the Uzumaki compound, how stupid are you?" Kushina growled. Natsumi had her first kill and Sakura was asking stupid question, stupid dead weight.

"Tazuna you need to answer some question," Kakashi told him. This was a B-rank mission, but he wanted to see if Tazuna knew that there were ninjas after him… otherwise he might have been the target. His Genin hadn't left the village, but they might have been after Sasuke for being a Uchiha… but he had a feeling that they were after their client.