Author Notes: I don't do, you don't sue

This is my first fanfic, so don't kill me if it sucks.

Naruto is in thought, a first o.o

Italic: Thoughts or Flashbacks

Bold: Emphasis

Fast forward 14 years. Enter Training Field 7, where three VERY bored teenagers were waiting for one really late teacher.

It was about 7 am when they arrived.

Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke were waiting for the really late Kakashi. While they were waiting, they were doing their usual waiting routine. Sakura was looking at Sasuke, Sasuke was doing his cool guy thing while leaning on a post, and Naruto was sleeping.

OR WAS HE?

In reality, Naruto was thinking about his past. Everything that happened to him from day 1 to now. Well, what else to do when you have a lot of spare time on your hands? Naruto had transformed from the troublemaker to a quiet, intellectual person. Wait, scratch that. Naruto was still Naruto, but bored Naruto tended to walk down Memory Lane.

Everyone hated me. They didn't want to play with me. Only that old geezer helped me.

Flashback, 8 years ago:

Naruto was playing on the swings, alone. Then some kids came. He wanted to ask them to play with him, but once the kids saw him, they ran away, screaming their heads off.

End Flashback

Naruto sighed. People could be so mean.

Everyone shunned me. No one really cared for me except Old Man Hokage (3rd Hokage) and Iruka.

Flashback, 3 Years Ago:

Naruto was cleaning up the mess he did on the Hokage Mountain. Iruka felt sad for him and offered some ramen after Naruto finished. Of course, Naruto cleaned up in record time. All the events of that night were a bit blurry, but Naruto remembered what Iruka said to that traitor Mizuki. "I have nothing but respect for Naruto." Just thinking about that made Naruto teary with happiness.

A Kakashi Interlude (We have to know where he is right?)

Kakashi was a bit confused… wasn't this the way to the training ground? He could swear that it was right. Oh well, it wouldn't hurt to go on ahead. I mean, Kakashi wasn't late for anything, was he?

Let's just say for the sake of the confused that Kakashi had one too many head injuries and that one eye doesn't really enhance your vision.

Anyways…back to poor team 7.

Sasuke was still doing his cool guy pose while lightly snoring, leaning against the post.

Sakura was doing her staring thing.

Rock Lee was spying on…wait, wrong story.

Anyways…Naruto was deep in walking past the memories of his childhood, once again.

Flashback, 2 years ago:

It was in the chuunin exams, the 3rd part to be exact. Naruto vs. Neji. To be ironic, it was a battle of two opposite systems of thought.

Of course Neji thought he was going to win and kept on blabbering on his destiny thing. Naruto wasn't going down with a fight though. Back and forth they sparred. Naruto suddenly attacked with his shadow clones and it seemed that Neji was defeated.

But, being the dramatic manga that Naruto is, Neji used Hakkesho Kaiten and effectively stopped his attack while staging his own attack.

Hakke Rokujuyon! Those words would echo in Naruto's head for quite some time as one of the MOST painful attacks ever.

As Neji continued to pummel Naruto, he began thinking.

One!

I can't lose to this guy…

Two!

I have to become the Hokage

Four!

I've got to win!

Eight!

I have to believe in myself!

Sixteen!

Others believed in me, Kakashi, Iruka, and Old Man Hokage!

Thirty-Two!

Come on!

Sixty-Four!

I WILL BE RESPECTED!

At that time, his Kyuubi chakra leaked out and fueled him with chakra that Neji's attack attempted to prevent. Needless to say, that's the end of that.

Naruto sighed. There was a lot of time to think about this and his head began to hurt. Poor Naruto.

Let's visit some of the thoughts of the other members of team 7 while Naruto cleared up his migraine.

Sakura was…well thinking about how much she LOVED Sasuke. After a sideway glance, she thought of how much she HATED Naruto.

Sasuke was dreaming about killing Itachi. So original. Oh yeah, and butterflies. Can't forget butterflies. 0.o

Back to Naruto.

Flashback, 1 year ago:

Sasuke was in the hospital when Naruto visited him. Then, out of the blue, Sasuke asks Naruto to fight him. Naruto does, and it leads to the classics of the classic. Rasengan vs. Chidori. But before the attacks collided, someone, by the name of Kakashi stopped him. At first it seemed that Sasuke would have won, judging by the hole in the water tank he blew when Kakashi threw him over there. A second glance would assure the viewer that Naruto would have BLEW THE HEAD OFF Sasuke if it had hit.

Speaking of him, where was Kakashi?

Believe it or not, Kakashi actually found out that Obito, his friend, was actually alive. So he began a lengthy conversation with him, with no regard to poor, poor team 7.

Back to them.

Sasuke was off to the restroom, and we can't disturb privacy, can we?

Sakura went off to spy on Sasuke in the bathroom, but would fail miserably when she got held up by Ino-Pig and about 30 fan girls.

Back to Naruto's thoughts.

That same day, Sasuke ran away and broke all our hearts.

Flashback, 6 months ago:

Naruto was on the SECOND rescue mission for Sasuke. Unlike the first, this one went smoothly. Well, until they reached the sound village.

Well, the basic layout of the confrontation was this. Neji, Kakashi, Sakura, Chouji, Tenten, Shikamaru, and of course, Naruto, fought against 100-odd Sound nins. What fun.

Well, about an hour into the battle, Naruto made a break for it and got Sasuke, who was locked in a maximum security jail cell. Come to think of it, that Snake Sannin should of kept him somewhere safer…

Anyways, they made a run for it. Their lives depended on being quiet. Naruto learned the hard way when he "accidentally" opened his mouth to yell and a score of nins came. They disposed of them easily, but Naruto was changed by the experience forever, because of the embarrassing fact that he was trying to do his business (ah hem) at that time. Heh.

Anyways, Kakashi finally realized he was late for a "meeting" and said bye to Obito. He rushed off to the village.

It was 5 pm now.

The Fifth Hokage, Tsunade, was waiting for Kakashi when he arrived. On cue, she beat Kakashi into a nice small pulp (since this is rated T and the violence behind this encounter is WAY too graphic, we'll omit that), before handing the little more than jello Kakashi a slip for a C-Ranked mission.

Those kids deserved something after waiting so long.

It was 7 pm when Kakashi oozed his way to the training field. Everyone was sleeping soundly when he came. And with the stealth of a ninja, Kakashi yelled, "WAKE UP!"

After everyone was orientated again, Sakura and Naruto finished Tsunade's work by nearly killing Kakashi for being so late (It was actually a new record) while Sasuke acted indifferently.

After he could breathe again, Kakashi said five words that could make or break Naruto's excitement.

"We're going on a mission!"

Insert what you think Naruto did.

Anyways, in the way of Naruto, this so called C-Ranked mission would soon turn out to be much more.

Please review! Some advice would be gladly accepted!

Next up: A C-Rank Mission: Deja Vu Style

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