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Two rivals – One mission
by rivendellelve
(might change title later)
"speech"
'thoughts'
Chapter One
Hatake Kakashi was reading his favourite book 'Come Come Paradise' while sitting on the roof. He smirked like he always did when he was reading that book. After a while he decided that he shouldn't let his team wait so long this time, stood up and made his way through Konoha to meet his team. Slowly he strolled through the streets until he saw them: Naruto running nervous in circles, Sakura glaring annoyed at Naruto and Sasuke leaning against a wall and not showing any emotion. And Sasuke was the first who noticed the jounin. Now Naruto and Sakura noticed him too. "You're late!" Both shouted. "Sorry guys, I've forgotten where we wanted to meet so..." "Liar!" Kakashi could clearly see that none of them believed him but he didn't care. "Tss. Can we leave now?" Immediately Naruto forgot about the always late Kakashi and jumped into the air enthusiastically. "Yeah! Let's get our new mission!"
Gai and his team had been waiting for about two hours now. They would get their new mission but this time they had to work together with an other team. He had somehow a foreboding because he knew only one person who was always – always! – late: his eternal rival Hatake Kakashi. 'Damn it Kakashi! You never make it in time. That's why you're so damn cool.' Just when Gai thought this the door opened slowly and he came in. "Kakashi, you let us wait pretty long. You call yourself a ninja and a ninja is supposed to be punctual." The silver-haired jounin turned around. "Hm? Did you say something?" 'Arrgh!'
But before Gai could answer the Hokage cleared his throat. "So after team seven finally arrived I tell you what your new mission will be..." "Yeah, our new mission!" "Shut up Naruto!" "Tss." He sighed. "This mission is for your two teams – Kakashi, Gai – and ..." "What? We'll have to work together with him! Why!" Both jounins shouted at the same time pointing at each other. To be honest Lee seemed to be the only one being happy about that. The Hokage cleared his throat again. "The other teams are on their own missions. And by the way you're both jounins. So don't act that childish." Naruto burst into laughter and Sakura and Tenten giggled although they tried to stifle it. and Lee murmured something like 'Gai-sensei never acts childish'. Whereupon Naruto mocked "He does." The Third took in a deep breath. 'This introduction will last very, very long.' He thought while watching Naruto and Lee discuss whether Gai acts childish or not. The Uchiha boy said something to them and Lee turned away while Naruto tried to knock him out. But the Uchiha dodged easily. Now Kakashi was tripping Naruto up so that he fell down and stayed sitting on the ground and looking pissed. It seemed that only Sasuke and Neji were concentrated. The Third wondered whether it was really a good idea to sent this teams together on one mission. 'This is going to be troublesome.'
Unfortunately Iruka wasn't here. Otherwise he would have drowned them all out so that they would be quiet – for a while. But the Third wasn't in mood for such things so he chose to wait until they would calm down. A few minutes later ... Naruto was talking about his noodle soup although Sasuke wasn't looking really interested, Sakura was glancing at Sasuke every two seconds, Lee was trying to impress Sakura, Gai cheered him and Kakashi smirked as if he would be thinking of his book. ... Somehow the Hokage finally managed to tell them that their mission was to accompany the courier Hokusai to Oaga-no-kuni (A/N Don't ask me where this is. I just put together some letters.) along with a highly important packet.
Sakura packed her bags. She wondered 'How can a mere courier have enough money to hire two groups of ninja... His prince probably pays for it. But then what is in the box. It have to be very important.' She thought of this a long time and developed different theories, one more stupid than the other. But there was no way this could be normal. She would have to wait until they had accomplished their mission. Maybe someone would tell her then. Equipped with some scrolls, kunais and other items she took her bag and went to the main gate of Konohagakure. Gai and his team were already waiting and Sasuke was standing there too, along with that Hokusai-guy. "Sakura-san!" Lee greeted waving his hands. "Hi." Sakura greeted back. "Hi, Sasuke-kun." She said to the raven-haired boy. He just nodded. Ten minutes later Naruto arrived hopping enthusiastically up and down. And – what a surprise – one hour later Kakashi arrived. "You're always late, aren't you?" Gai said reproachful. Kakashi didn't even listen. "Hi, sorry I'm late but Hokage-sama gave a sermon on how to receive a mission and I had to listen so... erm, anyway, it's not my fault." He said smiling sheepishly. 'I highly doubt that. He is never punctual.' Sakura thought. Now the brown-haired courier raised his voice sounding very annoyed. "May we leave now?" "Yeah let's go!" "Well, let him Sakura, you're all still in the middle of your spring. Enjoy it!" "Yeah Gai-sensei!" Lee cheered. "Tss, idiots." Sasuke muttered. "Definitely." Neji agreed. So they started to walk to Oaga-no-kuni.
TBC
A/N:) Chapter One! If you want Chapter Two justreview! Please? Please?