"He asked me to meet him here on my day off and he's late?" Naruto asked Shizune, who had led him into the King's throne room.
"Yes Captain."
Naruto sighed and sat on the ground. "You'd think I'd learn by now that he's always late!"
"Captain please don't speak so informally about his majesty."
He groaned and sat in silence for the next half hour until finally the king waltzed in with an iced coffee in one hand and a book in the other.
"Yo." He called calmly as he walked past Naruto and sat on the elegant throne.
"Your majesty please don't speak so informally." Shizune whispered to the King so that only he could hear. At moments like this, she greatly missed working under the former monarch, Queen Tsunade, who radiated elegance and professionalism. Her retirement caused everyone, but especially her, a headache.
"Ah. Sorry. I'm still learning." King Kakashi said simply before turning over to the captain.
Naruto sprung up and bowed deeply to the king, resisting the urge to tell him off for arriving so late. Kakashi had once been the head of the Knights and Naruto had worked closely with him, but that title was passed on to Naruto after the people chose Kakashi to be the next King (much to Kakashi's dismay).
"Naruto as you can imagine I'm still trying to gain legitimacy as King at an international level. The other Kings think that I'm..." Kakashi thought it through for a moment. "Well that I'm lazy." Kakashi said simply and Shizune's eyes widened and turned to look at Kakashi as if to reprimand him.
The laid-back king didn't realize the stare and continued on in the same casual tone ."So you can imagine how happy I was to receive a request from the Sand King to have you personally go and rescue his sister who is sealed away in a tower."
Naruto's eyes widened. "Gaara's sister is in trouble?! Why are we wasting time standing around just talking here?! I have to go and help him right away!"
Shizune cleared her throat.
"I mean...It would be an honor to accept this mission your majesty." Naruto quickly corrected himself and bowed.
Kakashi smiled at the man through his mask.
"May I request a team?" Naruto asked, still in that overly polite tone that didn't suit his personality.
"Yeah." Kakashi said with a shrug, opening his book to read now that the mission had been assigned.
A vein popped on Shizune's forehead.
"I'm requesting our strongest knight Sakura Haruno and our smartest knight Shikamaru Nara to accompany me on this mission." Naruto looked determined as he spoke.
"Granted." Kakashi said simply, he knew that even if he denied the request Naruto would find a way to convince the two to take time off and go with him.
"Thank you!" Naruto rushed out of the room without any of the proper formalities and Shizune just sighed in frustration.