Missions...

'Ready for the briefing?' Kakashi smiled underneath his facemask. He quickly adjusted his headband over his left eye and jumped down to the three genins.

'I'm ready to take on any challenge! Today is the day I'll prove I'm ready to become Hokage!' Naruto was jumping up and down punching the air.

'Kakashi sensei...you're on time?' Sakura seemed surprised.

'What is it today?' Sasuke blurted out in an uninterested tone.

'Today we've gotta retrieve some fortune for a Noble from the lightning country' Kakashi put up a V with his fingers 'the highest rank D Mission we've had so far'.

'Yay! I knew you saw my true power and now your ready to acknowledge me as your leader right!?' Naruto shot his arm in the air with fury.

'Uhhhh....' all three of Narutos teammates made confused faces. 'Yea something like that' Kakashi replied. 'This is going to be more dangerous then all of your missions so far, let's hope you'll be prepared.'

'whatever...' Sasuke began to walk away from the team. 'You wouldn't be able to handle it by yourself....chibi Sasuke' Kakashi made an obvious grin under his mask.

'What did you say...' Sasuke turned around flustered with anger. Naruto fell over laughing; he couldn't even breathe properly 'chibi Sasuke! You're tiny!' Naruto pointed and Sasuke and laughed more.

'Are you ready to pay attention?' Kakashi asked Sasuke.

'Yes.' Kakashi pulled out a scroll and opened it, the scroll was a map of the Leaf country. 'We have to intercept them within the next 3 days, if they leave the country its out of our jurisdiction' Kakashi began to explain. 'Well why can't we just let the other countries handle it?' Naruto asked. Kakashi sighed 'because then we don't get paid...idiot' Sasuke snickered and Sakura stared at Naruto blankly. 'Well what if we don't get paid?' Naruto asked again.

'Then you'll never become Hokage...' Kakashi said bluntly. Naruto jumped up and pointed in a random direction 'Well then lets catch up with these thieves so I can show off my masterful skills and become the best Hokage in the history of the Leaf country! 'Kakashi grabbed onto the back of Naruto's collar and pulled him down to his knees with the rest of them. 'You'll never become Hokage if you never learn to listen' Kakashi explained beginning to lose his cool.

'Ok ok ok just tell us what we gotta do' Naruto pouted.

'We know which direction they are headed, east. All we have to do is find their path, then make an interception point and make a surprise attack. We can be in and out of there 2 days tops' Kakashi pointed out where in the map they needed to be while he explained the plan. 'We need to spend today finding their path, they appear to have some skilled fighters with them this could be dangerous...no mistakes' Kakashi looked directly at naruto.

'What're you looking at me for!?' Kakashi stood up and put the scroll in his vest 'alright you 3 follow me.' The four of them jumped into the trees and headed east. After about half a day's travel the sun was beginning to set. 'Still no sign of them, maybe they're moving faster then expected' Kakashi thought to himself. Kakashi pulled the three of them together in a small circle, 'alright...you three make camp here, I'll go find them and come back. After that we can make our move.' With that said Kakashi zipped off east, leaving the trio of genins to fend for themselves for the night. 'Well what do we do now?' Naruto asked scratching the back of his head.

'Alright, I'll take command' Sakura jumped up obviously wanting to be in charge 'Sasuke will have to fall head over heels for me when he sees how good of a leader I am' sakura thought to herself. 'Naruto, go collect some water! Sasuke go get firewood! I'll go find us some food!'

'What a bossy lady' naruto said, he was rewarded for that comment with a large bump on his head. Sasuke had no trouble collecting firewood, and sakura was having trouble finding them food...mostly because she didn't want to kill any animals. Naruto walked up to a river about 200 meters away. 'Awwww man....now what am I gonna do!?' Naruto yelled in his brain. After about 30 minutes Sasuke had built a pile of firewood that would last them a week if necessary, Sakura brought berries and rubbage she found.

'No hunt?' Sasuke asked Sakura bluntly.

'Uhhh...well ya see...I....the animals...' Sakura was punching herself in her mind 'I made myself look stupid yet again!'

'By the way, where's dead-last?' Sasuke asked.

'Dunno, he should be around here somewhere....NARUTO!' Sakura yelled with no answer.

'Ok let's make the fire quickly and go search for Naruto' Sakura said as she began to put the logs and kindling together. Sasuke used his Karyuu Endan to shoot fire onto the wood and lit them quickly. 'Alright lets go' Sakura stood up ready to go search for Naruto. Suddenly they heard what sounded like 100 elephants running toward them.

'What is that!?' Sakura yelled grabbing onto Sasuke's arm.

'I have no idea' when Sasuke's eyes picked up something in the distance...it looked like an army.

'HERE WE COME!!!' the sound of hundreds of Narutos yelled in the distance. As they got closer Sasuke and Sakura realized that there were about 200 Narutos digging a stream towards the fire with their bare hands! As they got in about 10 feet of the fire they did a complete 180 degree turn heading back in the direction they came.

'Naruto what are you doing?' Sakura asked him with a confused face.

'Watch', a naruto jumped out of the crowd and turned around and put his hand over to keep the sun out of his eyes so he could see farther....despite the fact that it was dark out.

All of a sudden the three of them heard water rushing toward them. Filling the stream that the Narutos had dug. 'What's the meaning of this?' Sakura asked still confused.

'Hehe...' Naruto giggled. 'Let me explain my super-ingenious-brilliant-super-awesome-idea!' Naruto made the V symbol with his fingers. 'I found a river back that way' Naruto pointed behind his back towards the river. 'But there was no way to get the water over here, I didn't have a bucket. So I decided I'd bring the river closer to us right? Then we could have all the water we wanted. So I used Kage Bushin no Jutsu to make lots of us so we could dig it to here. Pretty smart huh?' Naruto smiled a huge smile from ear to ear.

'Actually that's pretty smart' Sasuke said leaning up against a tree in the shadows.

'I can't argue with that, good job Naruto' Sakura smiled. Naruto smiled even more.

'Let's rest up and wait for Kakashi-sensei' Sakura ordered. So the team ate some berries and began to doze off.

The next morning at around 8 AM Kakashi jumped down to the camp, the fire was out and the three of them were snoring away. 'I don't remember there being a stream here?' Kakashi questioned. Then he looked at Naruto's fingernails and smiled 'smarter then he looks'. Kakashi woke them up and told them were their target was, and where they needed to be to intercept.