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Chapter 7: A Differen Kind of Mission

"I also understand that Uchiha Sasuke is on your team. Tell him, that his brother is impatiently waiting for him to grow stronger."

That phrase has been playing over and over in my head since last night. I wasn't able to sleep at all since they left. I went to my mother to check on her, but she hid herself in her room and continued to sob. I couldn't take it anymore. I got dressed and got my gear and left, heading over to the bridge where Team 7 meets each day and sat, pondering what I should do.

"I also understand that Uchiha Sasuke is on your team. Tell him, that his brother is impatiently waiting for him to grow stronger."

I sighed. I want to get to the bottom of this so badly that I was ready to take a risk in talking to Sasuke. I have finally made up my mind. I would talk to Sasuke as soon as I saw him.

Steps came up behind me. The person, whoever it was, sat next to me. I turned my head slightly. Speak of the devil. It was him.

"What are you doing here? Training doesn't start till thirty minutes," he said.

I gulped and turned to him. "Sasuke, I need to talk to you."

He gazed in my direction, his eyes bore into mine. "What?"

"Somebody visited my apartment last night."

He simply stared at me, waiting for me to continue.

I gulped again. "Sasuke, could you keep a promise? I mean, you swear you won't repeat this to anyone? I could get in a lot of trouble. I really need to tell someone about this. And I feel that you're the right person to tell this to, even though you may not like me much."

He seemed to be taken aback, but he nodded slightly. "I promise."

I took a deep breath. Everything, everyone could be in jeopardy. I was about to repeat the phrase that I had done so many times in my head. That was before Kakashi-sensei showed up with both Naruto and Sakura beside him. Stupid bakas. Why did they have to come now?!

Kakashi held up a hand in greeting. "Yo."

I glared at him. "Training doesn't start till thirty more minutes," I said, remembering Sasuke's statement.

"Well, that was before I found out that we were assigned a secret mission."

Naruto began to bounce up and down. "YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A MISSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" he yelled as he punched the air.

Sasuke tilted his head. He didn't seem at all fazed by it.

Sakura began to look nervous.

I, however, didn't care. I wasn't in the happiest of moods right now.

Kakashi leaned into our little group. "Now here is what you must do..."

"What's the distance to the target?" Kakashi asked through the headset.

"Five meters," Naruto said through his head set. "I'm ready at any time."

Sasuke nodded. "So am I."

Sakura's eyes narrowed. "Me too."

When I didn't reply, Kakashi asked, "Zeni?"

I got into a position to pounce. "Same here."

"GO!" Kakashi yelled.

We pounced on our victim, never even letting it have a single chance to escape. However, Naruto had the honor of getting to it first. "Gotcha!" he yelled.

I sweat dropped at the thing Naruto held up. "A cat?"

Naruto squinted up at me. "Weren't you listening to Kakashi-sensei?"

"I must've dozed off," I shrugged.

Kakashi sighed. "Ribbon on left ear...are you sure this is our target, Tora?" he asked through the headset.

Sasuke rolled his eyes at Naruto and mine's conversation. "Yeah, we're sure."

The cat scratched Naruto in the face. "STUPID CAT!"

Sakura couldn't hold in her laughter. I tried to smile, but the events that happened a few hours earlier restricted me to.

I heard Kakashi chuckle through my headset. "Good. Lost Pet 'Tora' Mission is COMPLETE!"

We walked into the Hokage's meeting room for another so called 'mission'. Man, this sucked.

Naruto walked over to a plump woman, carrying Tora at arm's length. He handed the cat over to her. The lady snatched the cat away from him and began to give the feline a heartwarming hug. So heartwarming that the cat's eyes were bulging out of it's head. Serves it right, I thought.

We looked to Hokage to see what we needed to do next. Iruka appeared beside him and handed him a paper. Iruka took a seat next to the Hokage. The Hokage cleared his throat. "Now, Kakashi's Team 7, your next duties are to baby sit an elder's grandson, shopping in the neighboring village, and help with the potato digging."

I groaned. Man, this SO sucked.

"NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! No, thank you!!!" we all turned to see Naruto complaining. Naruto's eyes shone bright. "I want to do, you know, a more incredible mission! Find us a better one!"

Silently, we Gennins agreed with the blonde.

Iruka got up from his seat, anger rising. "You idiot! You are just a Gennin! Everyone starts off with the simple duties and work their ways up!" Whoa, I've never seen him that angry before.

"We keep getting the crappiest duties, though!" Naruto whined.

Finally, Kakashi-sensei had enough and bopped Naruto on the head. "Be quiet," he hissed.

The Hokage sighed and took his pipe out of his mouth. He began to talk about all the levels of 'missions' and how dangerous it was and how would we could all get ourselves killed and on and on.

Suddenly, Naruto burst out exactly what I was feeling. "Geez! All you do is give us lectures like that! But, you know what? I'm not the trouble making brat you still think I am!"

That was when Hokage and Iruka both smiled. "Ok," Hokage said.

We all looked at him, surprised.

He continued, "If you want it that much I'll give you a C rank mission. It's a protection mission of a certain individual."

Naruto began to bounce up and down, once again. "Who?! Who?! A Feudal Lord? A princess?"

Hokage smirked. "Calm down. I'm about to introduce him," he raised his voice a little. "Hey, will you come in here?"

An old man stepped out, downing sake. I looked at him in disgust. This was the 'super' mission? Was the Hokage crazy? The man looked at all of us in his drunken state. "They're all a bunch of kids," he slurred. He gazed in Naruto's direction and let the bottle loose in his hand. "Especially the shortest one, with the dumb look on his face."

Naruto chuckled and tried to look for the shortest one of us 'kids'. We moved in closer, showing who was the shortest. Naruto glared at the man. "I'LL KILL YOU!!!!!!"

Kakashi held Naruto by the collar of his jacket, preventing Naruto from tackling the old man. "What's the point of killing the person, we're supposed to protect. Idiot!"

The old man took a step forward. "I am the super expert bridge builder Tazuna. I expect you to provide me super protection until I get back to my country and complete the bridge."

I stomped up to the Hokage, until I was inches to his nose. "Are you kidding?!" I hissed quietly, so only he and Iruka heard me. "This man is a crazy old drunk! How do you expect us to protect him?!"

Hokage settled in his seat. "I don't expect you to do anything, Zeni. But, I can tell you, if you do not complete this mission, there will be nothing but D missions that you can acquire until you are twenty."

I clenched my hands into fists. Were all ninjas this crazy?

After that, we all gathered outside of the building and onto one of the streets of Konohagakure. Kakashi rubbed the back of his head. "Okay, team, hurry up and get your stuff packed and tell your folks good bye. Meet me at the regular training grounds in an hour."

We each nodded and headed off to each one of our homes.

And, it was when I went into my apartment that I regretted ever talking to Sasuke.

Reviewer Responses:

swt-angel-babi3:Wahoo! You updated! I'm so happy! Ok, I don't understand still about 'excitement'. Do you mean comedy? Fighting? And you want Kaka/Saku? K, I'll think about it. Can't make any promises though. Thanks for pointing out my mistakes! Sorry about that! Anyways, thanks for the happy compliments.

lukeluke: Thanks for the happy compliments! And thanks for having confidence in me with the pairings and telling me it's MY story!

MokeyShoes: Nope, no pairings yet. Soon, though, soon (at least, I hope.). But, I agree with you on Sakura.

Demoneyes14:Thanks for the happy compliments! Neji thought, huh? Thanks! I'll keep that in mind!

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