Beneath Deceit
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. If I ever did, I wouldn't be writing this.
I'm sorry for my grammatical errors. And I changed the 'Hitachi' word to 'Itachi'. Hehe. I'm quite clumsy with the keyboard. Thanks for pointing out my mistakes.
Chapter One
"Okay! That's all for today!" said the ultimately cool Hatake Kakashi to his students.
"WHAT! But it's only about ten o' clock! We don't finish until an hour later!" complained the blonde loudmouth in his team, the great Uzumaki Naruto!
"Eh? Shut up, dobe." Said the very famous bishounen of Team 7, Uchiha Sasuke.
"Hah! Tired already, teme?" Naruto said in between breaths.
"I'm not the one lying on the ground. You're the one to talk."
"Shut up, teme!" Sparks emitted from each other's frightening glares and their beautiful petal-haired teammate could do nothing but sigh at their childish behavior. It was always like this and yet Haruno Sakura couldn't quite get used to it. At least she found it amusing at times, but it could get annoying, too.
"Hey! Break it up!" Sakura managed to get in between the two. "Kakashi-sensei already left!" The two boys looked around and saw that there teacher was already gone.
"Aw well." Naruto looked down for a while, then his face lit up again. "Sakura-chan, would you like to go on a date with –" Sakura cut him off.
"For the millionth time, Naruto, NO!" Sakura might've rejected Naruto, but then she'll find herself rejected when she asked the Uchiha out. That was always the routine after their training sessions.
Let's go to Kakashi. Age 26, jounin rank, 184 centimeters and weighs76 kilograms. Oh and let's not forget, single and looking! Kakashi continued to read his lil' orange book, otherwise known as 'Icha Icha Paradise' on his way to the Hokage's office. He reached it a little later, only to find an ANBU captain talking with the current Hokage, Tsunade Godaime.
"Tsunade-same, you've called for me?" he asked in his usually monotone voice.
"Ah yes. I'm sending you on a mission with an ANBU team." Tsunade answered. Kakashi looked at Tsunade questioningly.
"Surely that an ANBU team could do the mission on their own?" he asked. It was not likely to send an ANBU team with a high-level jounin on a mission.
"Not quite. We're dealing with a particular enemy that concerns you." Kakashi looked at her expectantly. "Uchiha Itachi." Kakashi's eyes narrowed, remembering his last encounter with the S-class missing nin.
"What's the mission?"
"The target has been spotted lurking near the east gate. Capture him alive. We need to know the whereabouts of his… organization."
"I accept." And they were off.
But somewhere outside Konoha, a cloaked figure stood at a tree branch, skillfully hiding somewhere in the trees.
"Sakura, gomenasai. Demo neh… otanjou-bi omedetou. (Sakura, sorry. But… happy birthday.)" a voice whispered in the air.
Ah! I'm trying my best to finish the second chapter on time! Please bear with me nano! I'll post it a little later. Or maybe tomorrow. Please read and review!