(A/N) Now the D-ranks. Blasted characters for getting off track and pranking Kakashi for an entire chapter. Why don't they listen to me?
Naruto arrived first that day, sitting down and pulling out a fuuinjutsu scroll to work on another seal.
"What'cha working on?" Sasuke asked, materializing on top of the post that Naruto was leaning against.
"Don't tell me it's an explosive tag," Sakura said, materializing on the post next to him.
"It isn't," Naruto protested, showing them the seal. "See? This bit here means container, and this bit makes it so it can contain jutsu. I just have to work out how to not let the jutsu out."
"Make a scroll for each element," Sasuke said immediately. "Then a separate one for shadow clones cause they're weird."
"Good morning my cute little Genin!" Kakashi said cheerfully, shunshining onto a nearby tree.
"Oh good, any later and we would've begun trapping the clearing," Sasuke said flatly.
Kakashi sweatdropped. "Alright, why don't we go get a D-rank."
Sakura nodded, hopping off her post. "Naruto, you can work on the seal later, come on."
"Alright," Naruto agreed reluctantly, rolling up the scroll and sealing it away into a storage seal on his sleeve. "Oh, I got it so the chakra absorbing seal should stop absorbing chakra when the person's chakra is low enough to knock them out, but not low enough to kill them."
"Oooh, maybe when we get that weird cat mission all genin complain about, we can stick that on the cat and it'll pass out," Sasuke suggested.
"Let's just place it on permanently, and we can just activated it when we need! Takes forever to catch the cat anyway, we can spend a little bit of time afterward drawing the seal onto the cat's skin," Naruto continued, oblivious to Kakashi's silent cackling. With this kind of plotting, they'd be getting every single Tora the cat mission for months.
Naruto looked up at the mission room, and sighed. "Alright, D-ranks, here we come!"
"Ah, Kakashi-san, I didn't see you yesterday, did something happen?" Iruka, who happened to be the Chuunin on duty at the time, asked. The sniggers of the three students behind the jounin were enough to tell him what happened. "Alright, I'll be sure to tell Akiko what she'd forgotten yesterday. She was practically going more nuts than usual, trying to remember what she'd forgotten.
Naruto managed to pause snickering in order to say, "well, she doesn't need to worry about it any more!" Which, of course, sent him and his teammates over the edge, the three genin bursting into laughter, and leaning against each other to remain standing."
Iruka blinked. "I don't think I'll ask right now. A D-rank?"
Kakashi nodded, a sadistic smile hidden behind his mask. "Give them the Tora mission."
The three genin stopped laughing after a moment, coughing a few times.
"Already, Kakashi-sensei? We're honored," Sakura simpered.
"Right," Kakashi muttered. "Alright, let's go." He turned and walked out, while Naruto nabbed the mission scroll from Iruka.
"Alright," Sakura began. "Sasuke, find the cat. Naruto, send a clone with him, and find a good place to set up traps. Kakashi-sensei is unlikely to help, and I'll help in chasing the cat into the clearing when Sasuke finds it. Until then, I'll be helping Naruto."
The two boys nodded, and Kakashi pretended he hadn't heard anything. Sakura knew for a fact he had heard her, he wasn't a jounin for nothing, and didn't have the title Sharingan no Kakashi to drop it the second he got it.
Sasuke grinned at them, then split off as Naruto made a clone to follow him.
Sakura glanced at Kakashi, seeing his nose in his book. She sighed, and let Naruto lead the way off into the forests surrounding Konoha, where the cat was hiding.
They found a clearing, and her and Naruto began setting up traps. Naruto set up the seal oriented ones, as most of the ones she had were dangerous, and really shouldn't be used on a cat. Or an allied human. Opponent humans were fair game. She set up a few of the wire ones, the ones that Naruto didn't have the patience to learn or set up.
Naruto abruptly stiffened, then finished his trap quickly. "Sakura, he's west about four baby explosive tags."
Sakura frowned, tying one last knot in her trap, and racing off. They'd developed an entirely new system of measure because Naruto had some serious problems with the normal measurements. Didn't help at all that the teachers for that were sabotaging him spectacularly. The teachers didn't like it, but screw them. They weren't teaching well anyway.
Sakura found Sasuke trying to herd the cat in a random direction, that happened to be right towards her. She dodged the irate cat's claws, and began helping Sasuke herd the cat towards the variety of traps they'd set up.
They caught the cat, ultimately it was one of her wire traps that held it down, allowing Naruto to slap a chakra absorbing seal on it. As soon as it fell asleep, Naruto freed it, then began drawing on its underbelly.
A few minutes later, he stood up happily, the unconscious cat in his hands. "All done!"
"And in just two hours too, I'm impressed," Kakashi said mildly, appearing next to a tree. One of the earlier traps activated, dousing him in orange glitter.
"Oops," Naruto said innocently. "Forgot to disable the traps."
"Should probably do that now. I got the kitty," Sasuke said, taking the cat from Naruto and cradling it gently.
Sakura almost cooed at the sight, but moved to disable the traps she had set up.
Soon enough, they were on their way, Kakashi finding out that no, the glitter did not come out. Not easily anyway.
"Try some detergent," Naruto advised Kakashi. "And a lotta soap."
Sakura snickered behind her hand. It was her fault the glitter was so sticky, after all, what was the best way to get back at Ino, then covering all of her clothes in the sticky, bright orange glitter? And, of course, it had to stay in for at least a week. When on skin, it could last almost an entire two days. With vicious scrubbing, of course.
"Oh, hey Team 7!" Akiko shouted. She maneuvered over to walk beside them, her team falling in behind her like a line of baby ducks. "Ah, Tora mission? How'd you get the cat unconscious?"
"We sapped its chakra. It now has a permanent chakra sapping seal on it, so we can activate it whenever we need to catch it," Sakura explained. "Going into the mission office?"
Akiko nodded. "Yeah. Turning in your first D-rank of the day?" Kakashi continued walking, hoping to high heaven that she wouldn't notice the glitter. She did. "Oooh, Kakashi, orange glitter, huh? Have a run in with tiny terror here?" She ruffled Naruto's hair affectionately.
Sakura snickered, but managed to get Naruto to turn in both the unconscious cat, and the scroll. She grabbed a different one, barely looking at it. "See you later, Akiko."
She nodded absently, looking over the missions.
(A/N) Ah, orange glitter. Fun.