Sakura scowled at her instructor as he ate his sandwich. Her stomach growled at her.
"Why do we have to wait for Naruto?" she complained. Kakashi closed Make-out Paradise and looked calmly at his student.
"Because you three need to start working as a team again. If he doesn't have anyone, none of you get to eat." Sasuke stood up straight.
"Eh, That fool probably doesn't even know how to get the information off the stones." He grumbled. The higher ninja sighed, they just couldn't grasp it. He saw the last boy walking towards them with a large grin on his face. However, the instructor knew he would even grin like this if he failed miserably.
"Hello!" Naruto called happily. The two younger ninjas glared at him. Kakashi smiled; no matter how hard he tried they just never got anywhere.
"Alright, now I want you all to report, remember, your lunch is on the line here." He said putting his book away.
"I got the Third Hokage!" Sakura stated happily, and recited all she had learned. Sasuke followed with his information on the first. They all looked at Naruto, who was smiling nervously.
"Did we have to get a Hokage?" The instructor smiled and shook his head.
"No, it's just the graves of the Hokages have the instructions on how to gather the information from them." He shot a glance at Sasuke and Sakura, who sulked down. Naruto smiled brighter.
"Well I got the information from a common ninja's marker!" Kakashi smiled as Sakura's mouth dropped open, the boy finally did something right. Naruto laughed.
"But I forgot most of it!" he said happily. The instructor fell down.
"Baka," muttered Sasuke
"D….do you remember anything?" Sakura asked helplessly. Naruto thought hard, then finally nodded.
"Yeah!" he said finally, "Because I thought it was so strange. It was girl's grave." Sakura hit him.
"Being a female ninja is strange to you!" she screamed. Naruto rubbed his head.
"No, the fact she was from a different village was. That hurt." Sakura sighed.
"Baka, did you thing we would fall for something as stupid as that? There is no way that another village's markers are –" she was cut off by Kakashi appearing in front of Naruto grabbing his shirt.
"How did you find that marker?" he asked. Sakura gasped. This wasn't like Kakashi sensei. Then the instructor smiled. "Naruto, can you show me the marker you're talking about?" Naruto nodded and started to lead the way back from which he came.
Kakashi dropped to his knees at the sight of the grave. He closed his eyes and made the necessary seals. After a bit he got up again and looked blankly at Naruto. It was strange that the boy picked this grave out of the thousands of others, could it have been the kinship between the two? The higher ninja shook his head, that was impossible.
"Why did you pick this marker? Why not any of the others?" he finally asked. Naruto smiled slyly.
"I was hoping I wasn't go to have to tell you, but actually I saw a girl mourning over the grave and went to talk with her." Kakashi gave him a questioning look. "She said she was the girl's sister and that you would recognize the name on the marker." The instructor looked back to the gravestone. Fuyu Tsukiko, a name Kakashi definitely recognized.
"Umm… Kakashi sensei," Sakura started, "if she was from an another nation why is her marker here?" Kakashi turned to his students with sad haunted eyes.
"The Fuyu family name means winter, that was the name of the founder of the Hides-in-snow nation. Her great-grandfather. It was her dieing wish to be buried here." Kakashi smiled brightly and pointed, "Next to my own plot! I mean she was a girl! How could I have no?" The three students fell down. Naruto got up, he's worse than me.
"How did you know her?" Sakura asked still bothered by her sensei's initial reaction. The higher ninja's tone became serious once again. He had to think back.
"That doesn't matter now, I wanted you to learn about the past ninja's because their failures could show you the way to success in your own missions. These stones show how the ninja's were able to secure their success in their journeys; it might happen you will cross the same road they once had to travel. However, of course, not all ninja's missions are revealed here. Like Miss Tsukiko here, there were hundreds of other missions and trials she had to face that do not display themselves here for the sake of security. Come now, I believe Hokage-sama has a new mission for you three." Kakashi walked quietly out of the graveyard, his subordinates confused by his actions.
