Shirubi-chan: I'm so sorry I haven't updated for a while (it is quick compared to other stories, but I'm usually a little faster). I've had to get ready to graduate elementary school and enroll in junior high and all. (w00t! 6th grade is almost over!) I'll try and update quicker than this... Now, Neji... We must continue your torture... -hands him the paper with the review on it- Oh, and everyone, I'm still working on the picture of all the new Genin... So just be patient. I just need to figure out how to draw Mamoru's hair... If anyone would be nice enough to offer to draw it for me (though you don't have to) I'd appreciate it greatly and your Pen Name would be right on my user info page by the link unless you'd ask me not to put it there... Now I'm just blabbering so Neji, answer the review please.

Neji: ...

Shadow-Wind Auror- Well, from what I've heard from her, that's what Shirubi-chan says she thinks a lot in the morning too... She also thinks that Mamoru and Haruya look good together too... For Sato Inako (Inako Sato if you put it the western way...) wasn't really ment to be Kin's daughter, but maybe that will work... Oh, and Shirubi-chan say's thanks for reviewing so much.

Chapter 4: Who Knew A Dog Was So Troublesome?

Just like their sensei had said, Haruya, Mamoru, and Rumiko were standing by the front door of the ninja academy at sunrise. And there was nothing to be seen, not one person, animal, or even bug. Well, that is, if you didn't look up on the roof of the building you were near.

"OHAYO, my students full of the vitality and energy of youth!" Lee said jumping down from the roof and almost scaring Haruya and Rumiko to death (Mamoru just stood there, pretending he already knew that their sensei was there, but in his head he was yelling, What the HELL! WHERE DID HE COME FROM! Yes, he had an 'Inner Mamoru'... He is Sasuke and Sakura's child, you know...) (A/N: From now on, 'Inner Mamoru''s speaking will be in italics and bold at the same time.)

"TODAY WE WILL BE GOING ON YOUR FIRST MISSION!" Lee yelled, waking up half of Konoha.

All right, damn it! Just shut up and tell us the mission! "Lee-sensei... What is the mission?"

"And -yawn- why did it have to be so early..." Rumiko said, a very bored / tired look on her face.

"And w-why do you h-h-have to be so l-loud..." Haruya said poking her index fingers together, stuttering because she was so tired.

"OUR MISSION IS TO FIND A LOST DOG! IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE SOMEWHERE IN THE FORESTS ON THE INSIDE OF THE VILLAGE!" There were some complaints starting to be shouted out of windows as more groggy people were woken up. "LET US GO FIND THIS HELPLESS LOST DOG!" Someone threw a shoe out of their window and it was heading straight towards Mamoru. He quickly took out a kunai and cut the shoe in half just a few inches from his face so it went around him. The look on Haruya's face was just pure amazement, and it would've been on Rumiko's also, if she hadn't fallen asleep, that is.

Haruya and her teammates were all standing in one of the trees around a clearing, where a young puppy was laying, half asleep. Rumiko, who was standing in a tree behind and to the right of the dog looked for the sign to know it was certainly the dog they were looking for.

"The troublesome target has an ice blue ribbon tied around his tail, it is the dog we're looking for..." Rumiko said over her communicator (the sort that Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura had on the mission where they were finding the cat.) , and before either of the others could try attacking she also muttered, "How the hell is something able to be this troublesome..."

How the hell is someone who thinks everything is troublesome able to BE so troublesome!

Just at that moment all three of them jumped out to grab the white puppy at the same time, ran into each other, and fell on the forest floor in a pile, right on top of the dog. Lee jumped in right then, knowing they had caught the 'target', but not exactly how...

"MY YOUTHFUL STUDENTS! You have just completed you're first mission and are only a few steps away from the ultimate test of your youthful skills!" He opened his eyes and saw the situation his students were in. Haruya was at the bottom of the 'dog pile' (A/N: Get it, they're on top of a dog in a pile? If you don't get it, whatever...) she was facing down, with the dog scratching her face. Mamoru was on top of her, facing up, trying to push a certain unconscious Nara girl off of him.

After a few minutes of getting untangled they were ready to bring the dog back to the owner. All of them sporting a few minor scrapes and bruises, Haruya with the most because of the puppy. They got back on the main road, Lee know holding the frightened puppy.

About half way back, Lee was walking in front, then there was Haruya, then Rumiko, and finally Mamoru. And being as un-Mamoru-like as possible, he tripped, falling into Rumiko, then both of them fell into Haruya, and all three of them crashed into their sensei, making him drop the dog. And, coincidentally the dog ran right into his owner's arms.

Later that day, when all of the team members were bandaged up, they ate dinner at Ichiraku Ramen. About half way through their bowls (everyone except for Haruya that is, she was on her fourth bowl of ramen) Rumiko just said randomly, "You know what? Even I wouldn't imagine a dog being so troublesome..."

Shirubi-chan: Yes, I know that was short, but that's because I'm going to be making another chaptered fic... I'll try and update once a week at the least on both, reviews or no. But it's fun to torture Neji here, so keep sending reviews.