Naruto bounced around as much as he could in his seat. It was all the little bugger could do to amuse himself, he had to piss his comrades off for the sheer pleasure of it. He knew how much Sakura and Sasuke hated his mouth rambling off, and the movements he made… He let a giggle out as he could have sworn he saw Sakura's nose blow steam out with a snort.
"Anosa, Anosa… Sakura-Chan! Sasuke! Kakashi-Sensei… what do you suppose the Ramen will be like?" He asked with a big grin on his face and his famous 'Naruto-Giggle'.
"Who cares… baka…" Sasuke said, a harsh tone letting Naruto know that he wasn't in the mood. Then again, when was he?
"And would you stop bouncing!" Sakura poked in, she would have stood up to tackle and hit Naruto had the train not rocked and made her fall immediately back to her seat.
Kakashi let out a sigh of relief as he felt the train slowing down. That meant that they were almost to the shrine. He really loved his students, but for as much as he loved them like they were his own children, he really wanted his day off. They'd been on too many mission's lately, and this new b-c rank mission on the spur of the moment made him almost cringe.
"Settle down please, Naruto…" Kakashi said, his one visible eye peering out lazily from the top of his book. "We'll be off the train soon enough." He reached a hand over to pat Sakura's shoulder to calm her down. He knew exactly how she was feeling at that very moment.
Over the loud speaker a deep voice said that the train would be stopping at the station in less than fifteen minuets. After that announcement had been made the relieved expressions of Team Seven made the tension in the air lighten dramatically.
"Why did Gramps send me?" Sota muttered out loud to himself while kicking a pebble under his foot. "He could have gone himself… These Ninja's might knock my head off."
"Not unless you irritate me…" Sasuke looked at Sota, the same expression as always paved his features.
"Oi! Sasuke! Do you have to be so mean?" Naruto said stepping past the silent Sasuke, he extended his hand to Sota.
"Naruto!" A hand came down fast to wack Naruto in the back of the head. "Don't talk to Sasuke-kun like that!" Sakura smiled as she looked to their ambassador.
"You're the Ninja's?" Sota asked raising an eyebrow. This'll be rich… He thought to himself. They're loud enough to wake the dead.
"We are." Sota almost giggled as his thoughts and the older mans spoken words seemed to play together. The silver haired Jounin took his last step off the train to join his team.
"Oh, man…" Sota whined. "Follow me…" He said less than enthusiastic. "We're going to have to walk there, it's not far…"
"Do you know any idea of why we're here?" Sakura asked catching up to Sota, who was a fast little walker!
"Shouldn't you already know?"
"Well, yes…" She leaned down to whisper to him. "But our Sensei never tells us anything!"
"I told you that I would brief you once we reach the Shrine." Kakashi said over his book, though his eye never left the page.
How was he paying attention to two things at once?
A sheepish grin spread across Sakura's face and her cheeks flushed a rose color. "Well, what exactly is the shrine then?" She glanced back at her sensei assuming that this was an ok question to ask.
"Why don't we leave the questions for when everyone is paying attention?" Kakashi gave a smile finally looking over Icha Icha.
"Fine…" Sakura huffed and fell silent.
"Are you sure your Ninja's?" Sota asked looking behind him to Sasuke, who seemed to be too moody for any kind of job like this, and Naruto, who was way too loud to pull off any kind of stealth.
"We are." Sakura said reassuringly.
"My name is Uzumaki Naruto! Don't you forget it! I'm going to be known as the Hokage of Konoha!" He blurted out with a big idiot grin while playing with his forehead protector.
"Dumbass" Sasuke muttered turning his head away from Naruto.
"No one's going to know Konoha from here! We're a HIDDEN village!" Once again, Sakura was the voice of knowledge, though she could rival Naruto's pitch any day. Sota could almost swear that everyone around them was staring.
"Has anyone ever told you that your too loud?" Sota said rubbing his right ear to try and sooth it.
Sakura's eyes almost bulged out of her head, her face had gone pale and her left eyebrow had started twitching. That's exactly what she used to tell Naruto, in a round about way. Damn this kid, and oh how she wanted to hit him right then and there. Instead, she donned an indignant scowl and crossed her arms over her chest. She was going to be silent and have a hissy fit now.
Kakashi sighed, he knew what was going to come if someone tried talking to the young boxer. He knew it was going to be Naruto to get the first blow too, it always was. She wouldn't dare hit her teacher, and Sasuke was her love… but this kid might end up being the punching bag. He'd have to laugh if it was him, but of course he wouldn't laugh outwardly. He didn't want to encourage her in the least bit.
They walked in a rather uncomfortable silence the rest of the way to Sota's house. This sucks… Sota thought to himself. Aren't Ninja's supposed to be cooler? Why did Gramps make ME do this? He made a mental note to find a way to punish his grandfather in the future. He was sure a really bad April fools joke was merit for this troublesome deed, but April fools would come early.
"Kagome, quit your stalling and let's go already…" Inuyasha said being aggravated, his foot tapping on the wooden floor.
"Just wait a minuet would you? I want to see what the Ninja's look like at least." The door was cracked and her nose was sticking outside.
"Man oh man! I hope they're cute!" she screeched excitedly. Secretly she really did want to know what the Ninja's were like, she had even lied to herself about it. Finally Kagome saw her brother with three other people.
"This must be them!" She gasped. The taller one with silver hair would most probably be handsome if wasn't hiding himself behind a black mask.
"I wonder what he's hiding?" She said out loud… more to herself than anything.
"He's Probably ugly…" Inuyasha passively suggested as he crossed his arms, waiting further for Kagome to finish gawking.
Kagome on the other hand ignored her puppy companion. Her eyes drifted from the taller one to the younger looking ones. First she saw the dark haired one, he seemed to have a huge chip on his shoulder… that made him even more attractive. The blonde was yapping none stop. He'd get irritating after a while. The other, a girl. That was definitely NOT her natural hair color. No one had bumble gum pink hair naturally. She kept staring at the darker haired one too.
"Alright. Now that I've at least had a chance to see what they look like we can go." Kagome said closing the door and turning to walk past Inuyasha, who's nose was going a mile a minuet.
"Wait." He said going forward to open the door again. "I smell a demon close by."
"what? That can't be!" Kagome exclaimed almost frightened.
Inuyasha pushed the door open fully only to spot a young blonde kid wearing an orange jumpsuit. "there!" He yelled rushing toward the unsuspecting youngster.
"Iron reavor soul stealer!" Inuyasha burst as he flew with lightening fast speed toward the now stunned and gaping kid.
"Inuyasha… sit!" Kagome howled. With that command Inuyasha fell to the ground before he could reach Naruto.
"oh no!" Kakashi gaped.
"what the F…" Naruto tilted his head looking down at the… thing. "It has dog ears?" He burst out laughing, holding his gut then rolling to the ground.
Sakura gasped as she bent down to help the poor guy up, noticing his ears only after Naruto had pointed them out. She gave a giggle as she reached toward them.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you, he has a bad temper…" Kagome said casually walking toward the group. "He thinks you're a demon…" She nodded to Naruto, who was still laughing hard enough to cry.
"We don't go there with that subject…" Kakashi stepped into the conversation, dropping his book to his side. He watched the now angry Inuyasha with interest. "But I was hoping we weren't going to run into him… this will take a lot of explaining on Naruto's part." He looked to Sakura. "That's your area, I believe."
"Get off me will ya!" Inuyasha said angrily to Sakura, who gasped as she finally saw the rest of his face.
"Your gorgeous!" She let out a deep breath.
"hey! Stay away from him!" Kagome narrowed her eyes at the bumble-gum haired Kunoichi.
"I believe maybe we should all step inside?" Kakashi said casually. "We'll need to talk with you anyway."
Author's Note: sorry about the bouncing around so much in the first chapter… I promise it's not going to happen much anymore. It was only to introduce you to how they think. I realized how suck ass that was for anyone to read. Lol.
Thank you for the wonderful comments. Sometimes I lack the drive to actually get on with things. I'm very much like Shikamaru in that respect. Lol.