Yuki

Since the fight last night, Sasuke and I haven't talked at all. Right now we were in the middle of a mission.

"What's the distance to the target?"

"Five meters. I'm ready anytime." Naruto said over the communicator.

"Me too."

"So am I."

"I'm ready as well."

"Okay!" Kakashi Sensei said. "Go‼" We all ran towards the target. A cat... Naruto was the first to reach it.

"Ribbon on the left ear... Are you sure this is the target, Tora?"

"Yeah, We're sure." Sasuke replied.

"Good, lost pet "Tora" search mission... Complete!" We took the cat back to the Hokage Mansion to give her back to the client. When she saw the cat she took it and hugged it. It looked almost as if she was crushing the poor thing. I think I'd run away too. I silently thought to myself.

"Ohh, my cute little Tora. I was so worried."

"Now... Kakashi's team #7, your next duty is..." The Hokage said. " Hmmm... Babysitting an elder's grandson, shopping in the neighboring village, and help with the potato digging."

"No‼ No‼ No! No, thank you! I want to do, you know a more incredible mission! Find us a better one!" Naruto said. He was speaking his own mind, but unknowingly, he was speaking the rest of ours too.

"You idiot! You are just a rookie! Everyone starts off with the simple duties and works their way up!" Iruka Sensei responded. Does he really have to yell?

"But! But! We keep getting the crappiest possible duties!"

"Be quiet you!" Kakashi Sensei said, punching Naruto on the head.

"Naruto! It seems I have to explain to you, what these duties are all about." The Hokage said. "Listen, everyday the village receives numerous requests, from babysitting to assassination. Each request is written down on these lists and divided into an A,B, C, or D ranking based on difficulty. The village is also divided based on skill. Starting with me to the jounins, chuunins and ginins. The missions are then handed out by us at the top to ninjas based on their abilities, and if the duty is complete successfully we receive payment from the client. You guys just recently became Genin. D-ranked missions are perfect for you." We hadn't been paying any attention to the Hokage, we were too busy listening to Naruto. "Hey! Listen!" He said.

"I... I apologize." Kakashi Sensei said.

"Geez.. All you do is give lectures like that but you know what⁉ I'm not the trouble making brat you still think I am‼" Naruto said.

"Ok, if you want it that much..." Hokage said. "I'll give you a C- Rank mission. It's a protection mission of a certain individual."

"Who⁉ Who⁉ A feudal lord⁉ A Princess!?"

"Calm down, I'm about to introduce him. Hey, will you come in here?" the Hokage said.

"What's this? They are all a bunch of super brats." an old man said, as he walked in with a sake bottle, "Especially the shortes one with the super stupid looking face. Are you really a ninja? Hey!?" The old man said.

"Haha! Who's the shortest one with the stupid face?" Naruto said looking back and forth. I already knew the old geezer was talking about Naruto. Once he noticed that it was him, Naruto got really angry. "I'll kill you‼"

"What's the point of killing the person we're suppose to protect? Idiot!" Sensei said.

"I am the super expert bridge builder, Tazuna. I expect you to provide me with super protection until I get back to my country and complete the bridge." The old man said. After that we left.

"Let's go!" Naruto yelled as we got outside the village gate.

"What are you so excited about?" Sakura asked.

"Cause, I've never left the village before." He replied.
"Hey! Am I really going to be safe with this brat?" The old man inquired.

"Haha! Well, I am a jounin, don't worry." Kakashi replied.

"Hey, old man! Don't mess with ninjas! I'm incredible!" Naruto shouted in my ear. If he shouts one more time... I'm gonna kill him. I thought to myself. "One day I will take on the super elite ninja title, Hokage! My name is Naruto Uzumaki! Remember it!" Just when I was about to hit Naruto the old man spoke up.

"Hokage is the village's #1 ninja, right? I doubt someone like you could become it."

"Shut up! I am prepared to do anything to become Hokage! Once I become Hokage you will acknowledge me!"

"No, I won't, you brat. Even if you did become Hokage."

"I'll kill you!"

"Stop it, moron." Kakashi sensei and I said at the same time. Kakashi held Naruto back and I smacked him up side the head. We continued walking.

"Umm... Mr. Tazuna?" Sakura asked.

"What?"

"You're from the wave country, right?"

"What about it?"

"Umm... Kakashi Sensei? Do they have ninjas in that country too?"

"No, not in the wave country. But... In most other countries, the culture and customs may be different, but hidden villages exist, and so do ninjas. To the many countries of the continent, the existence of the shinobi village means military power. This is how they hold and maintain advantages over each other. But it's not that the villages rule the countries, they merely stand equally with the county's government. A small island country like the wave country doesn't receive much interference from the larger countries and may not need a shinobi village. Within the many shinobi villages, Leaf, Mist, Cloud, Sand and Stone are large and powerful. Which referred to as "The Great Five Shinobi Countries." And, these are the only countries whose leader receives the name "Kage". The "Five Kages" are Hokage, Mizukage, Raikage, Kazekage and Tsuchikage. They reign over the thousands of ninjas in the world." There's no way that old geezer could be that great. All he does is sit around all day and file papers.

"Wow! Hokage is the best!'

"You guys just doubted the Hokage didn't you?" We all shook our heads. "But don't worry. There won't be any ninja combat in a C- rank mission."

"Then we won't come in contact with foreign ninjas?" Sakura asked.

"Of course not!" Kakashi sensei answered confidently. Just then I almost stepped in a puddle of water. Strange an puddle of water and not a cloud in the sky, Plus it hasn't rained in weeks. Something's up. I thought to myself and put my guard up but didn't show too much so as not to alarm the client nor the people who were fallowing us. If they knew that I noticed there could be trouble. I pretended to accidently bump into Sensei and used a jutsu to transfer my thoughts to him as long as we touched for that one second. He ever so slightly nodded at me. He had noticed it too. We kept walking. I turned as soon as I heard the chains, just in time to see them wrap around Kakashi Sensei and rip him to pieces.

"Kakashi Sensei!" We all yelled. They were two ninjas using mechanical arms that had chains as weapons.

"One down." our opponents said. I took an offensive stance, drawing two kunai and launching them at the two. They dodged the kunai.

"Two down!" They said going after a petrified Naruto. Sasuke threw a shuriken, pinning the chain that connected their arms to a tree. He threw a kunai further pinning their chain and saving Naruto's ass. After jumping into the air and landing on the mechanical arms, he took a second to look cool then did this flip thing and kicked both of them in the face st the same time. The strain was too much for the chain and it snapped. We need to take care of this threat now, but I have a feeling that I need to stay clear of their claws. The ninjas easily regained their balance and went after Naruto and the bridge builder. I have to do something now! My main priority was the bridge builder but Sasuke was already going their so I went after the one that was going to kill Naruto. I flitted behind him and as soon as my Kunai was about to pierce his skull something took him out. I looked over to the bridge builder and saw Kakashi sensei standing there. Show off... Sasuke and I wore the same irritated look.

"Naruto, sorry for not helping you right away. I got you injured. I didn't think you wouldn't be able to move. Anyway, nice work, Sasuke. Sakura and Yuki too. All three of you did well. Naruto just stared at Sasuke like he was the weirdest thing in the world. Sasuke walked over to him.

"Hey, You alright, scardy cat." He said, giving Naruto a cocky look. I smacked Sasuke on the arm loud enough that even Kakashi lookrd in our direction.

"Shut up, Sasuke! You can't make fun of Naruto for being scared! You hypocrite! We all were scared out of our minds. You're crazy not to be."

"I wasn't afraid at all, and you may have been scared but you weren't completely useless like Naruto. As ninja, fear is something we do not show nor can we afford it. If you are going to be scared like that then you may as well not even call yourself a ninja."

"Why you -" I was about to punch him when Kakashi interrupted me.

"Save it for later. Naruto, their claws are soaked in poison. We have to remove it quickly. We must open up the wound and release the poisoned blood from your body. Don't move much, or the poison will spread through your body. Tazuna."

"W- What is it?"

"I need to talk to you. These guys are chuunin class ninja from the village hidden in the mist. They are ninjas known to keep fighting no matter what." Kakashi stated as he tied them to a tree.

"How did you read our movements?" One of the beaten chuunins inquired.

"On a sunny day like this when it hasn't rained in days, a water puddle shouldn't exist."

"Why did you let the brats fight when you knew that?" Tazuna questioned, I couldn't really tell, but he almost sounded appalled. Almost.

"If I had wanted to, I could have killed these two instantly, but there was something I needed to find out. Who the target for these two were after."

"What do you mean?" Tazuna furthered inquired, though his stament was obvious.

"Meaning, were they after you or one of us. We haven't heard that there were shinobi after you. Our mission was to simply protect you from thieves and gangs. This has become at least a B - rank mission. This was suppose to be simple protection until you completed the bridge. If it was known that ninjas were after you, this mission would have been an expensive B-rank. I'm sure you have a reason but it causes problems when you lie about mission details. We are now operating outside of our duties."

"We aren't ready for this mission. Let's quit! We will need medicine for Naruto's wound, We should go back to the village and take him to a doctor." Sakura said. As mu as I'd hate to admit it, she's right. I thought to myself.

"Hmmmm... This might be too much. I guess we should return to the village to treat Naruto." Kakashi said. Just then Naruto took us all by surprise as he stabbed his poisoned wound with a kunai.

"Naruto. What are you doing?!" Sakura Said, As shocked as everyone else.

"With this kunai, I'll protect the old man. We're continuing this mission!" He said, a determined look in his eye. I couldn't help but smile.

"Naruto, it's good that you're releasing the poison but anymore and you'll die from lack of blood." Sensei said, Causing Naruto to totally freak out.

"No! That's bad! I can't die from something like this!"

"Let me see you're hand."

"Naruto, are you a masochist? What are you thinking?" Sakura chimed in. Does she have to have an opinion on everything? I asked myself.

"Ok? Umm, am I going to be-"

"You'll be fine, Naruto."

"Kakashi, I have to talk to you." Tazuna spoke up. Sensei finished wrapping up Naruto's hand and we continued to walk on. Tazuna and Kakashi in the front, Sakura and Naruto in the back and Sasuke and I in the middle. I didn't bother talking to him. I didn't want to. He was being such a jerk. Then again it is Sasuke Uchiha, so what am I suppose to expect. A perfect angel. Sasuke spoke, interrupting my thoughts.

"Yuki, about last night -"

"I don't want to talk about it." I said coldly.

"I'm sorry." He said ever so faintly. Just then I could feel someone glaring daggers at the back of my skull. It was Sakura. Great, I'm on the fangirl's radar. Just what I need. I thought as I kept walking. I wasn't watching where I was going and tripped in a hole in the road. Sasuke grabbed my arm and pulled me toward him before I could hit the ground. We stood there facing each other. My breath was caught in my throat as I looked into his onyx eyes. I could feel his heart beat against my hand. I could only hope he couldn't feel, or hear, mine. It seemed like we had been standing there for an eternity when Sensei spoke up.

"Ummm, guys? Are you two going to get on the boat so we can leave?"

"Um, yeah. Right." said, snapping out of my daze. Sasuke followed me as if nothing had happened between us just now. My heart was still pounding. We set off. It wasn't long before we entered an extremely dense mist.

'What a thin mist," Sakura aid, stating the obvious, "I can't see ahead."

"We should see the bridge soon," the boatman replied, "The wave country is at the base of the bridge."

"Wow, it's huge!" Naruto yelled.

"Shut up idiot!" I said smacking him upside the head.

"Hey! Be quiet!" the boatman said to Naruto, further proving my point, "Why do you think we are hiding in this mist and not using the engine? We'll be in deep trouble if Gatou finds us." My mind went back to the earlier conversation between Tazuna and Kakashi sensei about the merchant and his evil scheme. I seriously wanted to destroy this guy.

"We'll be there soon. Tazuna, it looks like we've avoided detection so far, but just in case, we'll take the route that has vegetation. It will make the enemies harder to spot us." The boatman said, interrupting my thoughts.

"Thanks." The old man replied. He led us through a tunnel to a small dock. We all got off.

"This is it for me. Goodbye and good luck."

"Yeah, thank you." Tazuna replied. It was the first time I saw something on his face that wasn't a sour look. He turned to us. "Ok! Get me home safely."

"Yes, yes." Sensei replied. Suddenly Naruto ran out in front of us and randomly threw a kunai yelling "There!"

"Heh, just a rat."

"Stop trying to act so cool!" Sakura yelled.

"Please stop throwing shuriken, it's seriously dangerous." Kakashi reprieved.

"Hey! Midget! Stop acting like a moron!" Tazuna yelled, more irritated than any of us. It didn't help because he was at it again in a matter of seconds. Idiot. I thought to myself.

"I said stop!" Kakashi said, smacking Naruto upside the head after he threw another shuriken.

"OW! Somebody is after us, I swear."

"Yeah right!" Sakura said, turning on him once again. What he had thrown the shuriken at was just a rabbit but something seemed off about it.

"Everyone, get down!" Kakashi said. Sasuke ended up straight on top of me, his body covering mine. Is he.. protecting me? I asked myself as I kept my head covered and my eyes closed. I Felt a huge wind pass over us. We all got up.

"Well, well, if it isn't the hidden mist's missing-nin Zabuza Momochi." Kakashi said. I could tell just by looking at him that he was really bad news. I watched as Naruto rushed forward to fight him but Sensei stopped him.

"Everybody, get back. This one is on a whole other level. It will be difficult unless I do this." He said uncovering his left eye. I looked on, wanting to see what he was hiding. This is going to be interesting.