The day after yesterday,
"Morning Hokage same." Team 7 greeted. "Morning children." Hokage replied. He then went through the paper in front of him. "Hmm…. Ok. Sorry for yesterday's mission. The department got a little bit mess up so we had to rearrange the stuff. Some other genin had accidently receive A-rank mission and I had to sent the ANBU had to rescue them." Sarutobi sensei explained.
Naruto was getting pumped from the story the Hokage is telling him. "Can you tell us our mission this time? I hope you choose a good one!" Naruto exclaimed. "Ok, ok. Cool down child." Hokage said. "This is your mission." "Mr. Lee. Please come in." Hokage called. A man dress in jounin suit came in. "This is Mr. Lee. He was assaulted when he was on his way to send some important scrolls to the minister. So, he hired you to be his bodyguard. This is a rank B and A mission as it consists of protection, escorting and maybe assassination and killing. So, I need you three to listen to your sensei Kakashi and protect yourself as well as Mr. Lee. Understand?" Hokage sama explained their mission to them. "You only have to escort him to the palace and you're done." Hokage sama explained more.
They walked out of the mission room and Naruto was the last one to leave. He was scanning the man called Mr. Lee. He was about Kakashi sensei's height and was carrying a blue bag behind his back. "That must be where he kept the important scrolls." Naruto thought. Kakashi sensei was talking to Mr. Lee when Sasuke elbowed him in the stomach. "Aren't you happy? We have high rank mission to do. You look like you're sick or something. Maybe a few loose screws or wires? " joked Sasuke.
"Hi Naruto kun." "Huh?" Naruto looked left. Hinata was standing there blushing, poking her fingers and murmuring "Good luck in your mission." She said after making up her mind and doesn't know anything to say. "Thanks Hinata. You're the only one who said that to me since I left the mission room." Naruto said to Hinata. He patted her shoulder and left her standing in shocked. "He touched me….." Hinata was thinking.
Outside, Rock Lee was fighting with Ten Ten. Naruto walked past them and managed to greet them in between their fight. Ten Ten's nearly weapons missed Mr. Lee. Ten Ten threw a kunai at Lee. He parried it with his kunai and Ten Ten's kunai headed directly at Mr. Lee. Naruto then took out his shuriken and threw it at the direction the kunai was heading. They were 10 feet away when the shuriken parried the kunai. "Thanks." Mr. Lee said to Naruto. "Sorry." Ten Ten and Lee apologized. "Never mind. It's part of your training."
As they were about to leave Konoha Hidden Village's Door, Jiraya was in front of them performing his dance. He was spinning his head in a circle while his long white hair was following from the back. The then jumped left then right chanting "I'm known as the frog sannin from the west till east. The master of frog summoner." he chanted. He then grabbed his overgrown side burn that has grown till his chest length and said "I'm the great Jiraya sama, one of three famous sannins."
The five of them who saw Jiraya sama sweat dropped. Mr. Lee had his eyes wide opened. Kakashi scratched his head while Sasuke sniggered. Sakura was speechless and Naruto slapped his face.
"Closet pervert! Jiraya sensei!" Naruto shouted when Jiraya finished his dance. "Jiraya frozed in his last dance position and sweat dropped. "Oh, see that you have a customer. Hahaha." Jiraya laughed uncomfortably. "What are you doing here Jiraya?" Kakashi said. "Me? Oh, nothing. Just wanted a word with Naruto." Jiraya explained. The four of them looked dagger at Naruto. "What did I do?" he threw those words back at them.
Jiraya brought Naruto about 20 feet away from the group. "Er….." Jiraya was blushing. "Could you give me some money? I need it." he added. "So, you're after my wallet huh?" Naruto asked. "No!" Jiraya was push back. He then walked towards Kakashi. "Kakashi, I've got a brand new Icha Icha paradise that hasn't been published yet. It's finish but not published yet. Do you want it? Heard you've been reading my novels. So, what's your choice?" Jiraya offered. "Hmm….." Kakashi thought. "Naruto, can you borrow me some money?" Kakashi asked Naruto when he reached the group. "For what?" naruto asked sarcastically. "I need it to buy a book. You know, the book that I always read. Beside, it'll keep me busy while we're on our mission." Kakashi pleaded. "No! I'm already drained and there is a hole in my pocket, so the answers no." Naruto said sternly
"Here." Sakura gave some money to her sensei. "That's from my work at Ino's parents flower shop." "Gee, thanks Sakura." Kakashi thanked. So the money and the book exchanged owner and Naruto just walked away. Sasuke was right behind him. "Hey, irritating huh the both of them." Sasuke asked. "Yup. Pain in the butt." Naruto added. "They always aim for my wallet."
Three hours later,
"How far are we exactly from the palace? Make it the main city." Naruto looked at Mr. Lee. "It's about five days walk from Konoha and twenty days from where I came from and that is Grass Village." Naruto narrowed his eyes and said "Ok."
They continued their journey. Suddenly, Naruto heard some ruffle coming behind them. Sasuke and Sakura made the threee point defence while Naruto slowly backed towards his position. Three of them extracted their kunai while Mr. Lee stood in his fighting stance. Kakashi was absent minded and looked at them. "What are you doing?" he asked. Naruto pointed towards the bushes and Kakashi looked. "Hahahaha. That's only a rabbit silly." he laughed at them. True, a white rabbit popped out and hopped towards Mr. Lee. Behind was a talisman tied to the tail of the white rabbit. Sasuke spotted the written stuff on the talisman and shouted "Exploding paper!" The five of them quickly disperse and hid while Mr. Lee was with Kakashi hiding up in the tree. Sakura quickly threw a kunai aimed at the talisman. It hit the talisman and the rabbit hopped away from it. The talisman suddenly caught fire and exploded. "Who would do such a thing to a poor rabbit?" Sakura asked. Naruto walked up to the kunai, pulled it out from the ground and looked around. He then turned ninety degrees and threw Sakura's kunai towards the bushes. A shadow leaped out from the bush and landed feets away from Naruto. Naruto glanced at him. The stranger spoke, "Hand over the scrolls that Mr. Lee is holding." "What scrolls?" Naruto fooled around with the unknown ninja. "Let me see. Scrolls, scrolls, scrolls… " "Ah!" Naruto exclaimed. He dug into his pouch and threw the ninja a scroll. "Ok, now you have it. So leave!" Naruto said. The ninja untied the scroll and check the contain. "Fool. It's not what I want. Now hand over that scrolls Mr. Lee is holding." Mr. Lee came out of hiding and Kakashi had not realized what Mr. Lee did. He did not have enough time to stop Mr. Lee. "I'll never hand over those scrolls to you!" Mr. Lee shouted at the ninja. He then threw a dozen of kunai at the ninja and was dodged by the ninja. "Fool!" the ninja said.
The ninja lit a talisman and tied to his kunai and threw it into the air. Five seconds passed and it exploded. Ruffling could be heard coming from all direction. Team 7 quickly did a basic triangle defence wall around Mr. Lee while Kakashi just kept hiding and monitor their progress. More than twenty ninja jumped out of hiding and started charging at the four of them. Team 7 quickly parried their attacks and managed to counter-attack. More and more ninja appeared and it quickly out numbered them. "Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!" Naruto summoned his clones. "What the?" the ninja said. He was shocked but calm when he saw what happened. "GO!" Naruto commanded his clones. All his clones spar with the ninjas and won. The ninja was tired and he called for reinforcement.
Three cool shinobies came out from nowhere and stood in front of Team 7. They were claded in green suit and the first one had a mask covering half of his face. The second one was a female shinobi. She had yellow hair like Naruto and was till arms length. The third member was a boy, same age as Sasuke. He wore a blue band on his left arm and orange band on his right, which covers his shoulder till his elbow. His eyes were burning red and stared deep at Sasuke, challenging him to a duel. "You, black shirt boy, I, Nacha challenge you." he demanded. "Ok, Sasuke ease his fighting stance to standing position." Sasuke then walked over and the boy did the same. They faced each other while the rest looked on. Naruto took the opportunity to do an ass poke at the ninja who was speechless as the two stared deep into each other. "Ha ha ha ha!" Naruto laughed at the fainted ninja. "Naruto, get back here!" Sakura called.
Sasuke and the boy just stood there doing nothing, waiting for their foe to act first. Then the both drew their kunai and hit each other, parrying the attacks while trying to counter–attack. "Katon Gakakyuu No Jutsu" Fire blasted out of Sasuke's mouth at Nacha. Nacha counter the justu with Katon Gakakyuu No Jutsu also. "What? He can use that jutsu from my clan?" Sasuke thought. Only member of Uchihas clan has Katon Gakakyuu No Jutsu. He then spotted that Nacha has Sharingan. "Oh, no wonder. He could copy my moves."
"Ok, since he has that skill, I'll use my taijutsu. Hand-to-hand combat." Sasuke thought. He then started running around Nacha, inflicting damages randomly at Nacha who couldn't keep up to Sasuke's speed. "Oh no!" Nacha thought. Naruto was laughing at the thought of the ninja that had received his ass poke until he almost couldn't breath. "Ayayaya.." Kakashi said. Sakura slapped her forehead.
Back to Sasuke, he was still circling Nacha at high speed and Nacha was badly wounded. He then finished him off with his Katon Gakakyuu No Jutsu, which had direct hit on Nacha. The flame circled him and he was trapped. Sasuke did his Shishi Rendan. He kick Nacha up into the air, followed behind and kick Nacha's left stomach, punched his right shoulder, and hammer him to the ground. Seconds before landing, Sasuke did a flip kick on Nacha's stomach, paralyzing him permanently. Sasuke jumped back and back to his fighting stance, legs close, one arm behind him and one arm in front with his palm facing him. " Told you not to underestimate me." Nacha got up and leaned against the tree. "He's strong." "Ok, next one up is me." said the masked boy
"I challenge you, yellow hair boy!" the mask shinobi said. Naruto stood up, clench his fist and showed it to his opponent and said, "Don't you underestimate me, boy!" "It's my dream to become Hokage and you shall not stop me!" Naruto said, passively accepting the challenge. "Ok." the masked boy said and made his fighting stance. He stood one leg in front and one behind, making out an L shape. He stood low with his arms forward in forward blocking position. Naruto however, just stand there like normal, eyes over his opponent, studying closely every details on the masked shinobi.