Space Case

By: Kaki-kun

Ah, I found that to be a good chapter. This is going better than I thought, and the ideas better than the camping trip one cause there would be less people to weave in. Please review and give me thoughts or maybe some ideas, everything is appreciated except flaming.
And I also noticed my mistake last chapter. Not only were there a few spelling errors, but I put the wrong pen name. ;;; This fic, including the first chapter, is written solelly by me, Kaki. Again, gomen.

People who need disclaimer or key, look at last chapter. I'm too lazy. ;p

Chapter 2: Announcement

7 a.m.

"Hopefully Sasuke will arrive before Naruto..." Sakura mumbled to herself while trudging down the road. Another early morning, another day Kakashi would be late by several hours. She heard a rustle and looked up in the trees, her eyes widened in disbelief. "OH MY GOD, NO WAY!!"

"GAH!" Kakashi lost his balance and fell to the ground, ears throbbing. Naruto and Sasuke ran up behind her.

"Sakura, what's going on? Why did you scream?," Naruto asked worried. Sakura pointed at Kakashi holding the side of his head, dazed.

"HE'S ON TIME!!" Naruto and Sasuke looked in disbelief.

"I am...?," Kakashi muttered.

"The world's coming to an end! But I still haven't kissed Sasuke yet!"

"Yeah, and the all-you-can-eat ramen feast is next week!" Kakashi blinked, finally pulled together. "But at least Kakashi-sensei came here on time!"

"We were meeting here?" Sasuke sweatdropped as the other two fell over anime style.

"So much for miracles..." Kakashi scratched the back of his head and put his book away for the moment.

"Okay, let's try and get started then..."

"That's it for today..." Sasuke, Sakura, and Naruto looked up in surprise.

"But it's only noon! Why so early and in the middle of our training? I was just getting used to this!," Naruto whined.

"We're meeting up with the other teams to announce something relayed for Hokage-sama."

"Why can't you just tell us individually?," Sasuke asked while raising an eyebrow.

"Because we're having enough problems admitting it to ourselves to admit it to you." The three of them looked amongst each other and shrugged it off.

Team 7 arrived at the location the Jônins agreed on earlier. Ino ran up and glomped Sasuke.

"Oh Sasuke! I've missed you so much! That pink-haired dog didn't do anything bad to you did she?"

"Ino-pig!" As Sakura attempted to pry off Ino, Lee came up to Sakura.

"Hey Sakura! How are you doing?"

"Not now Lee!" He pouted sadly. Naruto rolled his eyes and sat down next to Shikamaru.

"...What's with you?" Shika asked while staring at the sky.

"I just want to get back to training so I can beat Sasuke."

"Your mad because you have no attention compared to Sasuke, aren't you?"

"Shut it, Shika!"

"Whatever they're going to tell us won't be good." Naruto looked at Shika, interested. "Haven't you noticed how different they're acting? Your sensei and mine are normally the calmest but they even seem fidgety. Gai-san's even nervous, and none of us had any clue he could actually feel that emotion..." Naruto gulped. "But worrying about it won't change whatever they will say."

"Attention!" All of the Genins quieted down. "Alright, we have some very...unusual news from Hokage-sama...Asuma, you tell them!," Kurenai whispered to Asuma.

"Me? I think Gai should tell them."

"I'm not telling them! You do it Kakashi!"

"Hah-NO." All of the Genins sweatdrop nervously.

"They're arguing over who will tell us??"

"That's sad."

"Maybe we should write it down...," Gai proposed.

"JUST GET IT OVER WITH!," Naruto yelled at them.

"We're all going to die.," Kakashi said bluntly and the other Jônins looked at him with blank expressions.

"That's a little bit obvious, Kakashi-sensei," Sasuke pointed out. Suddenly Gigi ran up to the group.

"Awww, a monkey! How cute!" Tenten said with delight. Akamaru barked at Gigi, but Kiba scooped him up.

"It's okay, Akamaru."

"Hey, I finally got an idea: we kill the monkey then we can't even get off the ground." Asuma gestured his cigarette at Gigi.

"Good idea...," Kurenai started, "...but he could give us something even worse like a goldfish. And if the second animal died, he would get suspicious..."

"Damn..."

"Can you get to the point?!," Neji snarled.

"Okay, we don't want to tell you that Hokage-sama is trying to kill us..."

"He's going to kill you if you tell us?," Choji asked while stuffing his face with greasy potato chips.

"No, he's just trying to kill us. And by us, I mean all of you, the four of us...and the monkey," Asuma attempted to explain.

"W-Why would he want to kill the monkey?," Hinata asked cautiously.

"That is a good point. I mean, he does likes the monkey so why would he kill Gigi?," Gai asked the other Jônins.

"FORGET THE MONKEY!," Kakashi yelled, on his last nerve. Everyone became quiet. "Can we LEAVE the monkey out of this so we won't confuse them anymore than we already have?!" The other Jônins nodded while slowly backing away from Kakashi. "I'll tell you everything Hokage-sama told us, and any questions you can ask him personally." The Genins nodded also. "All present here are going to space. That monkey named Gigi is piloting our shuttle. We're going because."

"Because what?," Shika dared to ask.

"That's all Hokage-sama told us. He left the sentence end with because," Kurenai intervened before Kakashi could blow his lid a second time. "We're leaving in 2 days, so use this time to pack up, make a will, whatever you want. We'll be working on trying to get us out of the situation. We'll meet at the school around 8 am, don't be late." Lee ran up to Gai with teary eyes.

"Gai-sensei, is it true?" Gai and Lee hugged each other and a sunset appeared behind them dramatically.

"Yes! We're going to space together!"

"Oh sensei!"

"I hope they stop before I gag...," Kakashi muttered to Asuma.

"You're not kidding..." Ino latched onto Sasuke's arm.

"Sasuke, did you hear that? We're going to space together! Isn't it romantic?" Sakura grabbed on to the other arm and pull him away from her.

"Yes, just the two of us-and Ino-pig will just stay locked up in her room. I assure you." Both girls glared at each other furiously while making cat noises. Sasuke sweatdropped.

"Can you let go of my arms?"

"NO!," the two girls yelled in unison. Naruto pouted.

"It's always about Sasuke!" He thought for a moment. "Oh no, I'm going to miss the all-you-can-eat ramen feast!!" Choji joined in crying with Naruto.

"I'm going to miss it too!" They hugged each other while crying.

"So much for peace and quiet...," Shika mumbled to himself. Suddenly, Hokage ran up to them out of breath.

"Ah...I finally found you..."

"What do you need, Hokage-sama?," Kurenai asked.

"Okay how's this: you're going to space to fight and claim Mars back from the evil aliens by using some kung-fu!" The Hokage threw his fist into the air. The wind blew by, dead silence overcoming them.

"We don't even know kung-fu!," exclaimed Kakashi. Lee bounced up and down happily.

"I know kung-fu!," he exclaimed while waving his hand in the air.

"That's...nice...," Kakashi eyed him unusually. Gigi climbed up a tree and hung down from the branch.

"There you are Gigi! Come on, let's go make some origami!" Gigi clambered down and sat upon the Hokage's head as he skipped off. Everyone stood there speechless. Shinbo finally spoke up.

"Well...if we're in space, at least he can't drive us nuts with his crazy antics..." They continued to stand there, a loss of words, only Sasuke nodded his head to Shinbo's comment.

This was going to be their toughest mission yet.