Thanks for the comments. I'll work on what was suggested to me. Some may come in later chapters however. I tried to tone down the Sakura syndrome with Rin (lol) Although this chapter doesn't delve into Obito's feelings very much Itried to towards the end. Like I said, I am just writing, I dont really have too much planned out ahead of time. But, if you all still like it, then I'll still write it, lol.
Entering the mission room Yondaime raised a hand in greeting to the Hokage who sat behind a long desk.Sandaime was alone, when usually he had two other aid's at his side. Yondaime smiled brightly, and as always that smile was contageous. The old Hokage's eyes squinted in a grin, while Rin mimiced her sensei's smirk. It was hard to say if Kakashi smiled or not, but it was likely that he did not, and Obito stood near the door with his arms crossed a permenant scowl plastered across his face.
An unsure look passed the Hokage's face as he removed his pipe and looked over the team before him. Had they really passed the bells test? The Uchiha boy standing near the door looked to be sulking, while Kakashi stared forward with that lazy look of his,the girl looked to be in awe standing next to Hatake,. Sarutobi noticed their Jounin teacher's grin slowly fade away.
"Sumimasen, sorry..." The blonde man rubbed the back of his head. "They did pass the bells test..."
The third Hokage nodded and decided not to ask why his team was in such a foul mood, it probably had a lot to do with Kakashi being soaking wet, and with the clumsy Uchiha boy at the back of the room. Best to just move on and explain their first mission. "This mission is C ranked. I would be giving a new team like you a D rank, but because of recent events gardening and walking dogs can be put on hold."
Obito snorted.
Sandaime ignored the gennin at the back of the room and held out the papers for the jounin sensei to take. "Your employer is a very wealthy man from Tanzaku city. His name Takeshi Nobu, he is the owner of a casino called The Sundance. Aparenly one of the local gangs have targeted his casino." The hokage coughed, trying to explain this in a simple way as he caught the confused look on Obito's face. The lost Uchiha boy looked from Kakashi to Yondaime, then to Rin, not quite understanding.
" What his letter asks is that I send a team out to find out just who the culprits are so that he can press charges. They manage to rob the place time and again but no one knows just who it is,or what gang they are part of. From what he has described to me, it sounds like these people have similar skills as a genin or chuunin level shinobi. As far as I know there are no missing nin from the hidden leaf involved..."
"Hmph..." It was Obito. "Sounds easy, when do we leave?"
Sandime smirked at the boy across the room, obviously he still did not understand. If he thought that this was going to be an easy mission he had another thing coming. It was possible that they were going to be away from home for quite some time,and it was likely Obito and Rin's first time away from home. What he was asking of them was to go to Tanzaku city and stay there for as long it would take to find out the culprits, however, before any kind of an attack they would have to distinguish wether they are trained shinobi, or just skilled gangsters.
"You will be away from home for quite some time I suspect, I want to know weteher these are trained ninja. If they are, then they will be taken here and dealt with, however, if they are not then your employer will be able to press charges through the regular system."
"Ah. I understand." Yondaime shook his head in understandment. "When should we begin?"
"As soon as possible. It will take you a day or two to reach the city. Once you are there I have registered rooms for you at one of the hotels, its just down the street from the casino. Once you reach your destination I want you all to meet with Takeshi-san and he will most likely explain his situation to you. From there, you will devise a plan...I shall leave it to you."
"Understood. Well." Yondaime turned slowly to face his team. "You all understand?"
"Yeah..." Kakashi was already leaving the room. "Figure out if these guys are Shinobi, then take care of them in the apropriate way."
"Huh?" Obito gave Kakashi a weird look. They were going to fight against ninja? "What? " His head titled to the side.
"Weren't you listening?" It was Rin. She stopped in front of her teammate giving him a weird look, the incident at the river forgoten by now. Rin was never one to hold a grudge, unlike some other grey haired shinobi who we will not mention at this time.
"Erm, well..." Obito glanced upwards...
"you will be away from home for quite some time i suspect..." The hokage droaned on.
Obito blinked lazily for one moment, then glared at the back of Kakashi's neck the other. Then his eyes focused on the brown haired girl next to the chuunin. He felt the heat wash over his cheeks. Maybe he really should have kept the flower, they were going on a long trip to some casino. Surely she would forgive him, how long could a person hold a grudge?
As much as Obito went on about being ready for this mission, and asking when they were leaving, his mind only picked out certain words. C rank. Casino. Tanzaku city. and gangsters.
"Of course! I was just making sure! now lets go!" There were flames in his eyes, he was ready for this mission. He knew it. His whole body shook with excitement. ...and about the other bits of information, well, he was sure he would learn about that as they traveled. Rin would tell him, or Sensei for sure.
With that said, the hyperactive Uchiha stood tall and walked proudly out of the mission room, smacking directly into some jounin he didn't know.
Hours later the team was meeting up once more, this time near a cement bench at the exit of Konoha, and for once Obito was actually on time. Mainly because Yondaime decided to go along with him to his home to make sure he packed the appropriate things, and to make sure he didnt arrive late. The yellow flash wasn't entirely too sure what Kakashi would do if the Uchiha arrived late again, especially when it was for a misson.
"Okay, ready to go?" Yondaime's smile was brilliant, as if he had not a care in the world. His smile influenced Rin, and she smiled along with her Sensei as the team set off thouhg the large doors protecting Konoha.
"Hai!" Rin flashed her teacher her own smile and the two began to lead the way.
The other two lagged behind, the chuunin slightly ahead of the Uchiha, considering moving up ahead so that he didn't have to be so close to the teams embarassment.
"Ano..Kakashi..." Obito spead up so that he was walking directly beside kakashi. "Do you like Rin?"
It was a question out of no where, actually, Obito had not even planned to ask such a thing. He knew well that Kakashi would likely repremand him for thinking of such trivial things when they were supposed to be on a misson.,but he couldnt help it. He had to know. If he did, then Obito had no choice but to back off...He sighed. "Ne?"
"I like her more than I like you..." Kakashi quickned his pace.
Obito matched the other's pace. "Come on, you can tell me..."
"What does this have to do with our mission?"
"N..nothing, but, I just wanted to know..." Obito pulled his goggles down over his eyes, as he thought he felt some dirt flying around.
"Why is that?" The silver haired boy glanced sidelong at the other, left eye twitching catching the look on the boy's face.
"Just wanted to know, if i should give up on her...you know,because she likes you..." He chewed his lip.
A small smirk twitched at the corners of Kakashi;s lips, he had to look away from Obito or else he would start laughing right in his face. At a time like this, and the kid was talking about silly crushes. There was no time for such things, the mission was all that mattered. Didn't Obito know what type of person he was by now, he should have known better to ask such a stupid question. Half tempted to say yes, Kakashi began to walk faster.
"There are more important things.." With that he left the boy on his own, moving up ahead to join his team.
"Hmph. that doesn't tell me anything,baka." Obito cussed under his breath and followed Kakashi to join his team.
For hours they walked, Rin and Yondaime doing most of the talking. Once in a while Obito would pipe up and add his two cents, but Kakashi remained silent, never letting his guard down. Someone had to do it, Kakashi decided, as it did not seem like the rest of his team were keeping any kind of eye out for attackers.
Yondaime glanced sidelong at the grey haired boy, looking him over before sighing. He too was keeping his eye out, although he wasn't going about it in such a serious way. Yondaime knew from experience that one could be very relaxed and still be on guard, the boy didn't need to look so stiff and serious.
"You can relax Kakashi..." The blonde jounin smiled softly placing a hand on the boy's shoulder. "I dont sense anyone near by, why dont you talk with us..."
"Yeah, Kakashi. You haven't said a word since we left Konoha" It was Rin, trying along with her sensei to get Kakashi to open up.
"What would I talk about?" he grunted.
Obito walked along on the opposite side of Yondaime glaring at Kakashi but keeping to himself. This was as close as he was going to get to real friends, and if he interupted what Kakashi was going to say then that would be the end of that. Especially his chances with Rin, she'd hate him for sure if he spoke up right now.
At least here, with his team, they didn't constantly put him down, or tell him over and over what an idiot he was. Okay, so sitting out in the sun with his uncle's welding helmet wasn't a good idea, but the weird colours he could see through the mask was awesome! Or, maybe that was sunstroke setting in?
So, maybe he did dumber things that his younger siblings, but he knew he was smarter in other things. Obito looked upwards trying to think of what he was good at that his brother and sister sucked at.
"Ah! Cake, I'm good at baking cakes!..." He exclaimed out of no where, his index finger pointed up. He paused for a second, his team staring at him, but he didn't seem to notice right away. "No, wait, I'm not good at that..."
Yondaime and Rin burst out laughing, and even the stoic Kakashi cracked half a grin, though nobody could ever see it. Just what in the world was Obito talking about just now? cake?
"Obito..." Rin giggled shaking the boy's shoulder. "You can bake a cake?"
Obito blushed a deep red, coughed, then looked the other way. It wasn't the getting caught speaking outloud, it was Rin's hand on his shoulder. She was touching him! He couldn't believe his luck. But she removed it as quickly as she had placed it there.
"Do you mind telling us what you were daydreaming about?" Rin inquired a little further, she was actually quite curious. He looked to determined when he said it, and then, disapointed when he said something about not being able to afterall.
"Maybe later..." The Uchiha sighed. He didn't really want Rin to know that he didn't get along with his siblings, or the rest of his family.
"Okay then"
Easy as that. Obito was kind of hoping she would be somewhat disapointed that he wasn't going to say anything now. Maybe he wont say anything at all if that was the case. Hmph.
"Sensei, should we stop for now..?" It was Kakashi, being the team's know it all, or at least Obito thought him to be mr. fancy pants. However, Obito was ready to stop, and was somewhat glad Kakashi had asked.
"You're right, we'll set up camp for the night. Lets take a look around first and make sure this is a safe area." The blonde jounin pointed towards Kakashi and Obito. Sticking those two together may not be the greatest ideas, but it was in his mind, the more the worked together, perhaps the more they could tolerate eachother.
"Kakashi and Obito go that way, and Rin and I will take this side..." He waited for the groans.
"But, but Sensei!" Obito bounced from one foot to another. "Why do I have to go with HIM"
"My sentiments exactly..." Kakashi muttered, then crossed his arms, but Yondaime simply turned away from the two, told them to stop complaining and went off with Rin.
"Well..." Kakashi moved forward, trying to make the best of a bad situation.
"Well what?" Obito pouted, lifting his chin up. He knew Yondaime probably stuck them together because he felt that Obito needed Kakashi's protection or something like that. Kakashi may have been a decent shinobi, but Obito knew he wasn't as horrible as others preceived him to be. Yondaime could have sent him out with Rin, and he would have been able to protect her! He knew it! What he didn't need was Kakashi trying to save him. Then he'd get all the glory, and the oooh'ing and Aaahh'ing.
"Stop being a brat and come on..." The silver haired chuunin sighed, he wasn't going to wait forever. If Obito continued to act like a baby then he was just going to leave.
"I'm not being a brat you ...jerk!" Huffing, Obito turned his back to Kakashi, which was the wrong thing to do. It was the wrong thing to do to anybody, as you never know just who could attack you.
"Why am I the jerk, you ass" He was getting mad now.
"Oh?" The Uchiha could hear that the other boy was getting frustrated. Kakashi never lost his cool. "Because you are a know it all! All you do is follow the rules, everything is by the book. You know what, people dont like you for you, they like you because you're special, because your a genius! Nobody knows the real you, because you hide behind that stupid mask!"
Kakashi was taken back by Obito's outburst.
"Well, I dont like you! I think you are an arrogant ass! I dont care how many missions you have gone on, you're company sucks and thats why I'm not going with you. I'll wait until Yondaime gets back!"
That was it, that was the end of the line, the snapping point for Kakashi. If that ignorant little thing thought he could say all of that and not get away with it. "Thats insubordination you ass!" He growled before launching himself on top of Obito, knocking the kid face first into the hard dirt.
"You follow you're..." Kakashi flipped Obito over, who was not trying to sheild his face with his arms, but the chuunin pinned those to the boy's sides and struck him again. "sensei's rules..." another punch. "If you dont, then..." Obito was struggling now. "You're just trash"
"Trash!" Obito cried out. He had been called this all of his life, and this was the last time he was going to sit back and take it. "You're calling me trash!" With all his strength the Uchiha twisted his body, and using his legs kicked Kakashi so that they were now rolling on the ground.
Obito had manged to gain control and so when they stopped he was on top of Kakashi, pinning him down looking down into his team mate's eyes. His nose was bleeding, his cheek bruised and purple already, but Kakashi was going to get an even worse beating than what he had given to Obito. The Uchiha would make sure of it.
But, when he lifted his arm to punch the other, he froze. He saw Kakashi wince, as if he were waiting for the blow to the face, but Obito just couldn't do it. Instead, he decided on something else.
Just what was Kakashi hiding underneath that mask?
I have a couple of senerios in my mind as to what could happen, but what do you all think?