A/N: Hey, hey, hey

A/N: Hey, hey, hey! I'm back with a new chapter of Son of the Kyuubi! Woo! In this chapter, the head off to Wave! And only one more chapter until Yokoumaru meets Kurenai!

Oh, and I read some of the reviews and I must say…Why would you believe Sakura got rid of her fangirlness just because Itachi told her too? You know people, some habits die hard.

Disclaimer: I don't own Sasuke! No, wait, Naruto!

"This is Sunshine in position, Weasel, do you copy?"

"This is Weasel, Fishcake, are you in position?"

"Hai, I've located the target, roughly thirty feet from me and Blossom."

"I see, Blossom, zero-in on the target."

"Roger."

Sakura jumped out of her hiding spot to capture the target, which is the daimayo's wife's cat, Tora, the cat, seeing her, hissed and ran away. Sakura radioed in: "Fishcake, the target is on the run. It is heading towards you!"

"Roger that!" Naruto jumped out from his hiding spot and pulled out some bones to make a makeshift cage around the cat, Tora then tried to jump out, but Naruto had already put his battle kimono over the cat, suffocating it (Of course until it decides to surrender.)

Naruto radioed to his the team. "This is Fishcake, the cat has been secured, Sunshine, bring the cage."

Sasuke walked out of his hiding with the cage, Naruto hoisted the cat up, and stuffed it into the cage, Itachi and Sakura walked up to them. "Mission success, let's go and report to the Hokage." The three genin nodded and Body Flickered away.

XxXxXx

On the way back to the Hokage tower, Team 7 ran into Team 8, Naruto instantly ran over to Hinata, "Hina-chan! how was your mission?" He asked her, Hinata blushed a bit.

"Well, we went out to the farms pulling weeds and such." She answered, Naruto frowned a bit. "The sounds downright boring! Why do we get such boring missions!!" He shouted to the sky.

Itachi put a hand on his shoulder. "Because, you're only rookie genin, you've been out of the academy for only 5 months." Naruto sighed while Hinata giggled, Kiba meanwhile glared at Naruto, sakura noticed this and narrowed her eyes.

Damn you, Hinata! You got two boys fighting over you! She thought,

Cha! She that's only because she's a Hyuga, I bet she has boys flocking all around her! Oh no, she might try to take Sasuke-kun away from us! Inner Sakura concluded.

That little bitch!

When Sakura came out of her thoughts she saw the conjoined teams at the entrance to the Hokage Tower, Sasuke waved a hand towards her, "Yo! Sakura, are you coming are not?" He asked, Sakura looked over at him. "Coming, Sasuke-kun!"

As they were walking up the tower, Kurenai noticed the change in behavior of her genin, while Shino remained impassive, Hinata was chatting openly with Naruto, while Kiba was glaring at the two—mainly Naruto, she even heard him growl whenever Hinata called Naruto 'Naruto-kun' and Naruto called Hinata 'Hina-chan'.

At last, they made to the Hokage's office, Itachi and Kurenai stepped forward.

"Mission success, we've delivered Tora to its owner and received payment." Itachi said.

"Mission accomplished, we finished pulling the weeds for Doreone-san's garden, and received payment." Kurenai stated.

The Hokage nodded and turned to Iruka, who was rummaging through files, "Ok, we have some more missions for team 7, like gardening, painting a house and baby sitting—"

Naruto growled in frustration. "Grr! I'm sick and tired of D-rank missions, we've been doing D-ranks for 5 FRICKIN MONTHS!! I want a C-rank, at least." Naruto finished.

Iruka sighed. "Fine, how 'bout this? A C-rank escort mission to Wave Country. All you have to do is protect the client from bandits and thieves, do you want this?"

Naruto looked up eagerly at Itachi, he closed his eyes and sighed. "We'll take it."

Naruto shouted 'Yatta!' while Sasuke smirked and Sakura glared at Naruto for his enthuasim while Hinata giggled.

Sarutobi nodded. "Bring in the client." The ANBU at the door nodded and opened it, revealing a middle aged civilian man with a bag of tools on his back, and some sake in his hands. He looked at Team 7, and furrowed his eyebrows.

"Eh? What is this? I get a pack of weak brats? The blond with the dots is especially weak."

Before his team (and Hinata) could unload on the man, Itachi glared at him with his Sharingan spinning wildly. "I'll have you know that my team isn't weak. My team has been training for this kind of mission and we'll be more than enough to protect you."

Tazuna shifted nervously in his gaze, he gulped. "I'm n-not buying it."

Itachi sighed, then came up with a solution. "Then how about we bring one more person with us?" He then turned to the Hokage. "If that is all right with you, Hokage-sama."

Sarutobi nodded. "Of course, but who are you going to bring?"

Itachi turned his gaze to Kurenai. "Kurenai-san, I was wondering if you'd let me borrow Hina-chan for this mission, I'll be sure to bring her back in one peace."

Kurenai looked down to Hinata, she nodded with determination in her eyes, she then looked up at Itachi. "Ok, but you better make sure she comes back safely or I'll castrate you." She threatened.

Itachi nodded nervously, knowing she will hold up to that threat—no, promise. "Ok, meet at the gates in one hour, pack everything you'll need." And with that, Team 7 and Hinata Body Flickered away.

XxXxXx

Naruto and Sasuke arrived home, and walked in, they noticed Yokoumaru sitting on the couch with a bored expression, Naruto walked over to him. "Hey, Tou-san! We got a C-ranked mission."

Yokoumaru looked at him with his blood red eyes. "No shit?" He asked, Naruto nodded, Yokoumaru smiled. "Finally!! I was about to visit the old man about that tomorrow but, oh well!"

Naruto nodded. "Oh yeah, I gotta go, I need to pack." And with that, he went to his and Sasuke's room.

Yokoumaru smiled fondly, and gazed at his fox-fang necklace. I'll have to teach him that Jutsu, when he gets back.

…With Hinata…

Hinata had finished packing 20 minuets early, so she waited by the gates, she noticed Sakura walk up to her with her stuff in tow.

"Hinata, I need to ask you something." She said in all seriousness as she walked up to Hinata.

"Sure Sakura, what do you want?" Sakura gritted her teeth at the innocence in her voice.

"Why are you playing Naruto and Kiba like that? I know you're making Kiba jealous by pretending to like Naruto, you've been using him, since you met." Sakura said, this was the part where Hinata would laugh evilly and say: 'You're right, muhahahaha!!', but it was the opposite, Hinata glared at Sakura in fury.

"I'm not playing anybody! I don't even like Kiba! I would never do that to Naruto-kun, I just wouldn't…because I…" Hinata began to blush a bit.

Sakura was confused. "What do you mean, Kiba always glares at Naruto because he's with you, and so I thought—"

"Well you thought wrong, Kiba only likes me because I'm a Hyuga, Naruto-kun likes me because of who I am, he would never want to see me sad, when my mother died, he was there for me, he truly cares for me…"

Sakura scoffed and looked behind her to see Naruto, Sasuke, Itachi, and the client heads towards the gate. Itachi walked up to the girls. "Are you all set?" He asked. The girls nodded. "Ok, let's head out to Nami no kuni."

A/N: End of chap, sorry for the length, but it was necessary. Anyway, next chapter they confront Zabuza and the Demon Bros. Meizu and Gozu, uh-oh!