Ok, Chapter fourteen is here! This chapter is going to be the start of the mission to the wave arc; I hope you all enjoy it!
Also, I figured out what to do with Haku and Zabuza, it's something that I came up with and I haven't read in ANY other fanfics, so I hope it goes well.
Another note, if you've seen Elfen Lied (It's an anime and manga.), you HAVE to agree that there was WAY too much blood and evil in that series. I mean seriously! That was like watching some… person murdering people… in person! Most violent. Show. Ever.
DISCLAIMER – I don't own Naruto, but I do own pie, which has an 'I' in it!
"Speaking"
Thinking
Koga speaking in Kyuubi mode
Ok, not much I can think of to say now, so be good and enjoy the story!
(Team Seven meeting area.)
Once their team was officially made, Kakashi told them to meet at the bridge everyday early in the morning. This wasn't a problem for the most part, but Kakashi seemed to always show up really late, causing his team to yell at him, but for the most part he just shrugged it off.
Anyways, today Kakashi would give them their first mission. All the other days had been mostly him lecturing his students on the finer points of being a ninja.
Now, they would begin their mission any day now…
"Is he always late?" Sakura muttered. She had been quiet for almost the entire time she was there, but each passing day her patience began to dry thin quicker.
"Hm… late to pick us up in the classroom, late for our exam, late yesterday, the day before…" Naruto began to count off all the times he was late.
Sasuke finally sighed and muttered, "I'm going to sleep in tomorrow…"
The others couldn't help but agree with him. Suddenly they all saw sudden movement from above, and Kakashi appeared right in front of them. "Yo!"
"YOU'RE LATE!" Naruto and Sakura both screamed at him.
"Well you see I was walking when suddenly a black cat crossed my path… so I had to go the long way to get here…" He said, but his students still held an evil glint in their eyes.
Sasuke sighed and muttered, "Can we just have our first mission?"
Kakashi nodded quickly and handed Sasuke an envelope and said, "That is top secret, the details of your missions of the day are in there, so do not lose it."
"Hurry open it Sasuke!" Naruto shouted as he stood next to his friend excitedly.
Sasuke had a grin on his face as well as Sakura. Finally our first mission! Sasuke happily thought.
I can't wait to prove how much ass I can kick! Naruto thought with a huge grin on his face.
Finally done with those lectures! Sakura smiled happily from Sasuke's side.
When they opened the envelope, Kakashi ran as Sasuke began to read it out loud. "Today you have three missions…" Sasuke read the rest in his mind and his eyes narrowed. What the hell…
Naruto realizing that Sasuke wasn't going to continue reading it read it himself and got the same look on his face… That is… He couldn't think of a word to finish his sentence with.
Sakura had already read the whole thing and simply looked at the 'secret' missions and her sensei. I can't believe we have to do this!
"Kakashi sensei…" Sasuke began, "I believe we are Ninja's… We're not children that do chores for people anymore…"
"What do you mean?" Kakashi asked innocently as he grabbed the paper. "Lets see here… Walking dogs, Grocery shopping, and babysitting. These look right to me."
Naruto had a look of disbelief on his face as he muttered, "Sensei… aren't we supposed to do things like save people from bandits and escort princesses?"
"Naruto, you're just Genin… Actually you just became ninja's a few days ago. These are D-rank missions. Genin's can only do D and sometimes C if the Hokage deems them safe. Anything above those are for higher ranking ninja's." Kakashi explained.
Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura all looked at their sensei in defeat. "Well…" Sasuke said after a while, "We should get started…"
(Dog pound.)
"Ok, all you guys need to do is walk these dogs for about a half hour. Any questions?" A tall man probably in his thirties asked. He was wearing black pants, along with a black shirt.
Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto nodded.
"Ok then, if you'll follow me I'll get you the dog you're to walk." He motioned for them to follow him.
For Sasuke, he gave him two medium sized dogs. Each dog had brown fur and was incredibly friendly to anyone. Sakura got a small little white poodle dog, which was incredibly cute looking. The man stopped and sneered at Naruto, and suddenly Naruto had a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach.
"For you, Uzumaki, you'll be walking these boys." The man motioned to the five huge, drooling, evil looking dogs behind him.
Naruto looked on with dread and asked, "Um, are you sure I can handle them?"
"You're a 'ninja' now, Uzumaki, you should be able to handle any challenge." The man gave Naruto a glare and handed him the leases for each dog. "If you're late I'm going to petition to the Hokage to deduct your pay as well."
Naruto sighed and simply nodded to the man and grabbed onto all five leases. He walked over to Sasuke and Sakura and said, "Well, you guys ready to go?"
Sasuke just nodded, but Sakura asked, "Naruto… Are you sure you can handle having that many dogs at once? Especially since… well… they're huge."
Naruto put on a fake smile, which wasn't easy to detect, but his friends were able to see through it, and he said, "Nah, a ninja is supposed to handle any challenge."
Sasuke nodded and sent the man that handed them dogs an evil glare. Sakura also gave him one, but Sasuke's was much more effective. "Stupid racist dumb ass idiots…" Sasuke muttered under his breath.
Once they were a far enough distance away Naruto said, "Sasuke, don't worry about it, I am treated like that all of the time… I'm used to it."
"But Naruto," Sakura suddenly spoke up, "This could injure your performance as a ninja if you're given more than you can handle."
Naruto sighed and said, "Guys, I have an almost unlimited supply of Chakra in me, I can heal from anything and face many things which a normal Genin couldn't."
Sasuke smiled and said, "Naruto, you're forgetting that our whole team isn't normal." Naruto sent him a confused look and he said defensively, "Hey, you made it sound like Sakura and I were just 'normal' Genin's."
"And Naruto, if you ever need assistance, Sasuke and I will do anything in our power to help you." Sakura added.
Naruto smiled at both of his teammates and said, "You'll help me with anything?" They both nodded. "That's good, because I'm beginning to lose control of the chakra I'm channeling into my feet to prevent these dogs from pulling me. They're making it very difficult for me to… concentrate…"
Suddenly a pop-like sound could be heard, and Naruto went flying forward with the dogs he was holding. Sasuke and Sakura with their dogs quickly ran after him.
(Later…)
Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura all managed to get all the dogs back to the pound within a half hour, but the man insisted that they were late by a few minutes.
"You're late! I should send a petition to reduce you payment!" He growled.
Sasuke finally had enough and roared, "LOOK! You said walk them for ABOUT a half hour! You never gave us any deadlines or anything! So lay off him." He gave the man the leases to all the dogs and left in an instant.
Naruto quickly followed behind, and Sakura sent the man one last glare before leaving herself.
Why do they like that demon spawn so much anyways… He wondered. No matter, I'll consider what I told them to be a warning for now…
(Several days later…)
Sakura and Sasuke were on the bridge. Their team was supposed to meet two hours ago, but it was a proven face that Kakashi could never be on time to give them their missions. This motivated Team Seven to do one thing, sleep in. Of course, they had to make sure their sensei didn't know about this, or he might actually come on time.
"Where do you think Naruto is?" Sakura finally muttered as the silence began to get a little scary.
"From being his friend for so long I can guess that last night he forgot to set his alarm clock." Sasuke answered.
Sakura sighed. Over the past few days they had been getting closer as a team, for the few missions that actually required teamwork, their work was nearly flawless, but the people who they worked for always tried to find something wrong with Naruto's part, and this served to infuriate everyone on the team besides, surprisingly Naruto.
"Sasuke." Sakura mumbled. "Why can't everyone treat Naruto like a normal person?"
Sasuke sighed and said, "Because like me they fear something about one of us that we had no control over." He smiled and added, "But we know I won't end up betraying us like my foolish clan, and Naruto's father wouldn't kill us all."
Sakura nodded thoughtfully. Over the time that she had gotten to know Koga, also known as Kyuubi, she was surprised by how kind he was towards her. It boggled her at first, but she simply accepted it eventually, and treated him like anyone else.
"What time is it?" Sasuke asked out of the blue.
"Well, I don't have a watch on me…" She mumbled, "But by being able to see the shadows around here… I'd say it's a little pass nine."
Sasuke smiled and said, "Thanks Sakura."
(Naruto and Koga's Apartment…)
"Heh… Ramen… Come to me…hehe…" Naruto was sleeping, with drool slowly sliding down his face. The constant laughing stated to creep Koga out, who had the day off, so he slowly walked to Naruto's room and knocked.
"Um… Naruto… What the hell are you doing?" He asked kindly.
Naruto didn't respond and instead shifted in his bed, and hugged his pillow. "I love my ramen… no one can take it from me… hehe…"
Koga sighed and took the pillow away from his son, hoping that it would wake him up. This should get him up… Suddenly Naruto grabbed his blanket, and continued his weird behavior.
Ok… Arashi, what the hell should I do to wake up this child? Koga asked in his mind.
What? You've done this a million times before, why is this time any different? Arashi muttered.
Koga let out a frustrated sigh as he said, I know that, I meant if you have any like… you know… pranks, I can pull to wake him up…
Arashi let out a laugh as he said, Oh really? Well… I could help you… BUT you got to do exactly as I say, alright?
Fine. Koga agreed.
Koga could suddenly imagine an evil grin on Arashi's face as he said, Ok, we need a Shovel.
A… Shovel? Koga asked, I seem to remember Naruto doing something like this earlier…
Arashi was silent for a moment until he muttered, Like father like son? (A/N Is that the phrase? I can't remember…)
(A little bit later…)
"Hey Naruto… do you want some Ramen for breakfast?" Koga asked as he entered the room again. Mud covered a large portion of his body, but Naruto shot out of bed and didn't seem to notice.
"Ok Dad, just lemme get dress really quickly and I'll come out and eat with you!" He shouted too quickly for Koga to understand right away.
Koga nodded with a grin forming on his face. "Ok, but don't wait too long, it's getting cold."
Naruto didn't waste a single second. He quickly threw on a shirt, and began to put on his orange jumpsuit. One he did that he quickly stepped out of his room and ran towards the kitchen, but quickly tripped on some wire that was on the floor. When he tripped he heard a trap beginning to activate.
Oh shit… What did I get myself into? He quickly got up, but jumped down again as a bowling ball went flying towards his face. Once it passed him, he turned to see where it landed and noticed that it hit a shovel that was conveniently hanging outside of his window… on the second floor… Wait a minute…
Before Naruto could even go to the window to investigate, he heard a familiar sound right above him. "What the!" He looked up in time to see some explosive tags beginning to light. He opened his eyes wide with panic, and quickly tried to get the fire out by jumping up and down trying to put it out with his hands.
There… He had finished putting the flames out, but each time he jumped, he heard something near the window. Not wanting to risk luck so far, he quickly ran to the kitchen where he found another wire on the floor. "HA! You think I'll fall for that!" He stepped over it, and tripped over the second wire. Goddamn…
For a few seconds nothing happened… "Was it a fake?" Naruto asked to no one in particular. He got up from the ground and heard muffled shouting from outside.
"Hehe… We did it." Koga muttered as he put the shovel away and quickly entered the house to where he saw a panting Naruto.
"What the fuck did you just do?" Naruto asked out of mostly surprise.
Koga laughed a little before diving in to how he did the trap. "Ok, when you tripped on the first trap wire, it made this man made mini catapult right here." He gestured to the thing near the doorway of the house. "Anyways, that shot a bowling ball at you which I knew you'd dodge. It then hit the shovel outside which was barely attached to a wire hanging on the ceiling, so when the impact of the bowling ball came, it fell down, and started a lighter that was handing on the ceiling as well. The lighter then lit a tiny string which touched the explosive notes, which I knew in your panic you'd put out."
Naruto stood there shocked at what his father had just done to him. "What about the two trip wires in the Kitchen?" He asked.
"Those were just there to scare you." Koga said happily.
"…" Naruto had no idea what to say. Finally he found his voice and said, "That's… very good."
Koga swelled up with pride by pulling a prank on his child. Oh wow, the mighty Kyuubi is full of pride for tricking a mere CHILD! And it was MY idea in the first place! Arashi screamed in his mind.
Koga completely ignored Arashi and said, "So Naruto, you have the day off today?"
"Huh?" Naruto looked thoughtful for a moment until he paled considerably. "OH SHIT!" He rushed out the door and screamed back to Koga, "NO! KAKASHI IS GOING TO KILL ME IF I'M LATER THAN HE IS!"
Koga simply stood there for a moment. After a little bit he sighed and told Arashi, So… Want to play checkers?
I don't know… I prefer Chess… Arashi commented.
Koga snorted and said, I can beat you in any game anyways…
This is how the morning of the great demon lord, Kyuubi, began…
(Team Seven meeting bridge.)
"Am I late!" Naruto shouted as he finally got to the bridge. His two teammates were both there, leaning against the railing of the bridge talking with each other. Kakashi seemed to be nowhere in sight.
Sasuke looked up and said, "Kakashi isn't here, so I'd say no…" He looked thoughtful for a moment before adding, "but I'll add some friendly advice and say, don't sleep in so late."
Sakura nodded to Sasuke's logic and added, "I wonder how Kakashi would have reacted if he saw that you were later than he was… Actually, I don't think it's possible to be later than him…"
They all sat there in awkward silence for a little bit before Naruto muttered, "So… I'm thinking of doing a C-rank mission today! Aren't you?"
"Yeah… The D-rank missions are… Very… stupid." Sasuke agreed.
Sakura then added, "Yeah, almost everyone treats our team unfairly… Have you heard that we've been dubbed the 'outcast' team?"
Naruto sighed and muttered, "An Uchiha, the 'demon' child, and a girl who likes to hang out with those two… Yeah, I guess people would treat us a little differently."
"Why do you refer to yourself as 'demon child'?" Sasuke asked out of curiosity.
Naruto laughed slightly and looked into his friends eyes and said, "Sorry, I met to say…" He paused, allowing hi eyes to turn bright red and said, "Demon carrier."
"I don't see what the problem is…" Sakura said thoughtfully, "I mean, you have advantages that we don't because you have two chakra sources… and both of them are huge amounts…"
Sasuke nodded in agreement. "Yeah… I don't see why they'd pick on you and try to piss you off… By the way, why haven't you gone on a rampage and killed off the whole village? I'm sure that you must've nearly went insane when you were a child…"
Naruto laughed and said, "Well… Lets just say if Koga didn't come when he did then I probably would be a lot like how Gaara was when I first met him."
"Gaara?" Sasuke and Sakura both asked, clearly not knowing who he was.
In truth, Naruto told them as little about his would be brother as he could. He only mentioned him once when the three of them trained together, and they apparently forgot about him. His name just brought up a lot of painful memories.
"He's just a friend I made when I went to Suna." He muttered, his voice clearly saying, Do-not-go-further-into-this-subject.
His friends heeded his warning and did not ask him anymore about his friend. After a little bit Kakashi appeared and said, "Yo!"
"YOU'RE LATE!" Naruto and Sakura both yelled. Sasuke again stuck with glaring at his sensei.
"Well you see… This old lady needed help to cross the street and-."
Naruto just sighed and said, "Whatever…"
Kakashi nodded at him and said, "Anyways, I haven't picked up your missions yet for today, so I'll just escort you to the Hokage tower where we'll pick one or two up for you guys."
(Hokage Tower.)
Once Kakashi's team entered, they earned several glares from the people who were previously working just a bit ago. Once they thought he got enough of their, 'evil glares', they quickly went back to work.
"Hello Naruto!" Iruka said as Kakashi's team came up.
"Hi Iruka-sensei!" He called out to him.
Once the whole team made it to the table, the Hokage who was sitting next to Iruka, began to list out the choices. "Ok… Today you guys can either catch a missing cat, Pull weeds, or advertise a business."
The three Genin's looked at the Hokage's face as if to say, 'You're not serious, are you?'
Finally Naruto got a dissatisfied look on his face and he yelled, "No way! I don't want to do another lame D-rank mission! Send us on some mission where we have to save a princess, or capture a villain! Anything but these pathetic excuse for missions!"
"Naruto! These missions are for inexperienced Genin's such as yourself! Everyone starts out with the low ranked missions first, then work their way up! That's how it is! You see Genin's have to do…" Iruka continued to go on and on about the missions while Naruto's team was chatting.
Naruto sat cross-legged on the floor, while Sakura and Sasuke kneeled down next to him. Kakashi simply stood up and listened to what his students were saying, it was more interesting than the lecture Iruka was giving!
"I like all kinds of Ramen! I eat it for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner! I like Beef, shrimp-." Naruto was cut off.
"Naruto, how can you only eat Ramen? I'm surprised that you're not so sick yet! You need to eat vegetables and other things!" Sakura scolded him.
Sasuke sighed and muttered, "I agreed with Sakura here Naruto, you need to eat some other things… Come over to my place sometimes for Dinner." He then added, "Sakura, you can come along too if you want."
"ARE YOU GUYS EVEN LISTENING TO ME!" Iruka shouted to them once he realized that they were having a small conversation of their own.
Naruto turned to him and said, "Iruka-sensei, we've been doing boring D-rank missions for days now. We've been ready to take on any challenge for a while now, or else the training Dad put us through would be completely pointless."
"I agree with Naruto." Sasuke added. "We have been training together with Sakura for two years now. We are able to work very effectively together."
Sakura nodded proudly and said, "Yeah! So give us the toughest C-rank mission you got!"
Kakashi nodded towards the Hokage, meaning that he completely agreed with his team.
"Alright then." The Hokage said, "I'll allow you to take this C-rank mission. You have to escort someone back to the Country of the Wave, and protect him while he finishes his bridge."
"So…" Sasuke muttered, "I'm guessing we're just going to protect a bridge builder from bandits and the like? No chance of any enemy ninja's?"
Sarutobi nodded, "That is correct."
Naruto shot his fist in the air and shouted, "Alright! Our first C-rank mission! Lets show them how it's done!" He paused for a second before asking, "So, who's the person we're escorting?"
"That'd be me." A man answered from behind the trio. They all turned around to see a man leaning against the door with some wine held in his hands. "I expect super protect while we're in the wave country so I can finish our super bridge soon."
"Hello." Iruka said as he greeted the person. "This team will be escorting you and protecting you while you're there."
The man snorted and said. "You expect a pack of goofy looking kids is enough to protect me? Especially the stupid little one right there."
"Hah! Who's the stupid little… one…" Naruto looked up to both his teammates and Sensei. "WHY YOU!" Naruto jumped towards the man, but was suddenly held back by Kakashi.
"Naruto! You're not supposed to kill the client idiot!"
Sasuke muttered, "If he wants us to be protecting him, then he'd better show more respect for Naruto and the rest of us."
Kakashi sighed and said, "Don't worry, he will." He then quickly said, "Also, meet at the front gate of Konoha in an hour so we begin to leave towards the country of the wave."
The trio nodded and zoomed out of the room.
(Front gate of Konoha.)
The front gate was opened slightly to allow the team that was soon leaving to get out. Standing there was only Sasuke, Sakura, and the bridge builder. Naruto and Kakashi had yet to come. Finally after a little bit, smoke appeared along with Kakashi.
"Ok, is everyone here?" Kakashi asked as he headed towards the gate.
Sasuke looked up and said, "No, Naruto is still at his home."
"Doing what do you suppose?" Sakura asked.
Sasuke looked at her in shock and said, "You should know. He's packing up ramen but realized that if he does he won't have room for clothing and other such things."
Sakura slapped her forehead, "You're right, I should have known that."
As if on cue Naruto came hurrying after then saying, "Sorry I'm late! I had to make room for my Ramen, but I couldn't fit in my clothes, so I had to figure out which Ramen I didn't really want and what ones I really did want!"
"Alright then…" Kakashi muttered. "Is everyone ready then?"
Everyone nodded, and so, they left on their first C-rank mission, unaware of the dangers that were up ahead for them all…
CHAPTER FOURTEEN – ENDYay, finished this. It didn't have everything I wanted in it, but then again some of it wasn't necessary, so I cut it out. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed the chapter, and I'll see you all in chapter fifteen!