Chapter 9
A Dangerous Mission: Journey To The Land Of Waves
I don't know the song that I'm I have in this chapter " In this quiet night" from the anime Gundam Seed.
* Sachi's P.O.V*
" Sachi, I'm at point D."
" Sasuke, I'm at point B."
" Sakura, I'm at point C."
" Naruto, I'm at point A, believe it." Naruto said on his comm.
" You're slow Naruto." Kakashi sensei said shaking his head.
" Ok, squad seven."
" Hm?"
" Target has moved! Follow it!"
" Over there." Naruto whispered as we all got closer to capture our target.
" What's your distance from the target?" Kakashi said.
" Five meters, I'm ready just give the signal." I said as I followed that target.
" I'm ready too." Sasuke said.
" So am I." Sakura said.
" Sachi?" Kakashi asked.
" Hm?" I said as I nodded my head.
" Ok…NOW!" He said as a figured lunged at me and I almost got attacked but I kicked it in the face and it tumbled to the ground. I finally saw that it was Naruto who was on the ground holding his chin where I kicked him and as he was rolling on the ground. And I felt something on my shoulder and I look over and it was the target that we were chasing and it was a cat with a red ribbon around it's neck.
" I'm sorry Naruto." I apologized helping him stand up to his feet.
" Owww. I'm okay." He said getting up to see the cat on my shoulder.
" When did you get the target?" He asked loudly.
" When I was helping you get up." I said petting it behind it's ear making him purr in delight.
" Grrr…stupid cat." He said as he started to dust off the dirt.
" Want to hold him?" I asked as I gently grabbed the cat from my shoulder and held him in my arms and when he reached out to touch the cat. The cat pounced on him and started to scratch him and almost stomping him into the ground harder them I accidentally kicked him in the face.
" Did you verify ribbon? Right ear?" Kakashi asked.
" Affirmative, we got a positive ID." Sasuke said in his comm.
" Right, lost Tora captured. Mission accomplished." He said as Naruto plucked the cat off of him and gave him back to me, who jumped on my shoulder hissing at him until he nuzzled me under my chin.
" CAN'T WE GET A BETTER MISSION THAN THIS?! I HATE CATS!" Naruto yelled in the comm. I ripped the ear piece off my are drum in the process. Sasuke took the cat from my shoulder which made the cat hissed at him at first but he didn't care and plucked him off of me. We met up with Kakashi holding his ear from Naruto's yelling and walked to the Hokage building.
When we got there, a fat lady was fiddling with her fingers and she looked upset but Sasuke walked up to her and put the cat in front of her face and the poor cat was struggling to get away and when she saw the cat in her face lit up and she was squishing it to death making the cat yowl in pain.
" Oh, my poor little Tora, mommy was so worried about her naughty little fuzzykinz, truly felt sorry for that poor cat, he must be suffocating right now.
" Hahahahahahahaha, stupid cat. That kitty deserves to be squashed." Naruto said as I elbowed him in his ribs to make him stop talking.
" No wonder he ran away." Sakura murmured.
" Now then, for squad seven's next mission. We have several available tasks. Among them, babysitting the chief counselors three years old. Helping his wife to do the shopping. Digging up potatoes in-."
" Noooooo." Naruto complained crossing his arms in front of his chest.
" I wanna go on a real mission, something challenging and exciting, not this little kid stuff. Come on old man." He said to him while I just sighed at his behavior. Usually you don't refer to Lord Hokage as an old man, but Naruto's too dense to realized not to do that. It's harsh but it's the truth.
" How dare you! You're just a brand new Genin with no experience! Like everyone else, you start with simple missions to developed your skills and improve yourself!" Iruka sensei yelled standing up from his chair.
" Are you serious?! Babysitting is not a mission, it's just a stupid." He shouted getting his upside the head by Kakashi.
" Will you put a lid on it?" He asked as Naruto face planted into the floor.
" Naruto. It seems you do not understand the tasks you have been given. Listen, many different kinds of requests come into our village everyday. From babysitting to assassinations, these requests are carefully recorded, analyzed, then ranked A,B,C, or D. Depending on their difficulty, we ninja are also ranked by ability. Hokage at the top, Jounin, Chunin, and Genin at the bottom. At the highest level, we select the missions and assign them to ninja who have the appropriate skill and experience. And if the mission is successful, we receive a fee that supports our village and our work. Since you are untrained Genin, just starting down the Shinobi path, you are given D-level assignments of course, Hm?" He explained seeing Naruto not even paying attention.
" So I had this tunkatsu ramen yesterday, and I'm thinking Miso ramen today-" He said.
" Silence!" The Hokage yelled.
" Oh, sorry." Kakashi said.
" Ah! You always lecture me like you're my grandfather or something. But I'm not the little brat who used to pull pranks all the time. I'm a ninja now! And I want a ninja mission!" He said turning away with his arms crossed and puffing his cheeks in annoyance.
" Hmm, I'm going to hear about this later." Kakashi said as he was rubbing the back or his head, after about a minute of thinking the Hokage made a decision.
" So be it, since you are so determined, I'm going to give you a C-mission. You'll be bodyguards on a journey." He said with a smirk on his face.
" Really? Yea! Who? Who? Are we guarding a princess? Or some big counselor?" Naruto asked excited.
" Don't be so impatient. I will bring him in now. Send in our visitor." He said as one of the guys left and about a minute later, an old man came through the door and you could almost smell the booze from where we were.
" What the? A bunch of snot nosed kids? And you, the little one with the idiotic look on your face, you really expect me to believe you're a ninja?" He asked slurring a bit being somewhat drunk.
" Hahahahaha, who's the little one with the idiotic look on his…." He said as we all lined up with me and Sasuke being the same height and then Sakura and finally Naruto.
" I'll demolish you!" He yelled trying to attack as Kakashi held him back by the collar of his shirt.
" You can't demolish the client Naruto, it doesn't work that way." He said as the old man turned to me.
" And you, you look really weak. Can you really put up a fight?Huh?" He asked making me give him a cold glare to make him shut up.
" She graduated with the highest score of a rookie." Kakashi said defending me.
" I am Tazuna, a master bridge builder and I must return to my country. I'm building a bridge there that will change our world and I expect you to keep me safe, even if it means giving up your life." He said as we nodded.
" Ok, good. Everyone, meet at the exit of Kanoha in about an hour and we'll get going." Kakashi said, and Sasuke and I headed back to the Uchiha compound and grabbed a bag to pack all the necessities of our travel. We met up at the bridge about a half an hour later with everyone ready to go.
" Yeah! All right!" Naruto yelled.
" What are you getting so excited about Naruto?" Sakura asked.
" This is the first time I ever left the village. I'm a traveler now, believe it." He said looking in different directions.
" Hey! Am I supposed to trust my life to this runt? He's a joke." He said making Naruto stop in his tracks.
" He's with me and I'm a Jounin, so you don't need to worry." Kakashi said as we all looked at the very ticked off Naruto.
" HEY! Never insult a ninja, it's a big mistake and I'm one of the greatest ninja ever! Someday, I'll be a Hokage and you'll look up to me! my name's Naruto Uzumaki! Remember it!" He yelled pointing his finger at him.
" Hokage, a powerful and wise. You are puny and brainless. The day you become Hokage is the say I'll sprout wings and fly." He said taking another gulp of his booze.
" Ahhh! Shut up! I'm willing to do anything to become Hokage! No matter what it takes! And when I do, everyone will have to admit that I'm the top ninja including you!" He yelled annoyed.
" Heh, you can become Hokage many times over, to me you'll be nobody, a loser." He said.
" I'm gonna make you pay for that 'runt' thing!" Naruto yelled getting held back again by Kakashi.
" I told you, you're supposed to protect the client, not attack him." He said
We walked for a little while and I zoned out for a bit because when I looked back, Kakashi was in chains and got pulled by enemy ninja's, tearing him to shreds. I knew he probably used the substitution jutsu but it did scared me.
" Ka-Kakashi sensei!" Naruto yelled as Sakura screamed in fear.
" Now it's your turn." One of them said as they got out their chains again and Naruto froze in fear and I jumped in and kicked one to the side.
" You little brat!" His partner said as he aimed both of their chains at me as I didn't move an inch, it was two feet from my face and the chain was pinned to a tree with a shuriken and a kunai pinned that down to keep it from moving. Sasuke kicked the one on the right and I got the left sending them in opposite directions. He stood up again and charged at me making a deep cut and kicked in the stomach but before he hit the ground I grabbed his shirt and head butted him, as he landed I kicked his face and he was sent flying face first into a tree knocking him out.
I could barely hear it but Sakura murmured to herself. " Wow, Sachi is really strong. I'm kinda wishing I hadn't said she was weak."
Sasuke worked on the other and I grabbed a rope from my emergency bag and tied him to a tree while he was still down. His partner launched at Tazuna with Sakura protecting him and Sasuke jumping in at the last minute and was just about to stop him until Kakashi had him in a head lock and tied him to the tree I tied mine up.
" Hi." He said as I sweat dropped at him, but still relieved knowing I was right about him being alive.
" Bu-but he was…what?!" Naruto asked confused as he saw the logs he placed when they attacked him.
" Good job, Sasuke and Sachi. Very smooth. You too Sakura." He praised as I blushed not used to being complimented by him. He doesn't praise very often.
" Hey." Sasuke said to Naruto.
" Yeah?"
" You're not hurt are ya? Scaredy cat." He taunted as I nudged him to be quiet. He got the message but still had a big smirk on his face.
" Grrrr…..Sasuke!" Naruto yelled.
" Naruto." Kakashi said.
" Stand still. These ninja have poison in their claws, we need to take it out of you quickly. You have to open the wound and remove it, it's in your blood so don't move around. That spreads the poison. By the way Mr. Tazuna." He said as Naruto began to panic.
" Yeah, what?" He questioned.
" We need to talk. They're Chunin from the village hidden in the mist. Their specially is relentless attack, they keep fighting no matter what the sacrifice." Kakashi said as they glared at him through their masks meaning my guy finally woke.
" How did you know about our ambush?" One of them asked keeping his gaze away from me in fear.
" A puddle on a clear day? When it hasn't rained in weeks?" Kakashi said as he looked at him.
" In that case, why'd you leave it for the Genin to do the fighting." Tazuna said.
" I could have taken them out quickly, but then I'd have learned nothing. I had to know who their target was. And what they were after." Kakashi said as he turned to him.
" Hm? What are you getting at?" He asked defensively.
" This, I wanted to know if they were after us, ninja attacking ninja. Or, if they were after you, the master bridge builder. When you put in your request, you asked for standard protection from robbers and highway men. You didn't say there were ninja looking for you, hunting you down. If we knew this, it would be a B-rank mission or higher. Our task was simply to get you to your destination, and protect you while you finished building your bridge. If we knew we'd be fielding attacks enemy ninja we would have staffed differently, and charged for the cost of a B mission. Apparently you have your reasons. But lying to us in not acceptable. We are now beyond the scope of this mission." Kakashi said looking at him seriously.
" We're Genin, this is too advanced for our level of training. We should go back, and I really think we need to treat Naruto's wound and get the poison out as soon as possible, back in our village we can take him to a doctor." Sachi said sweetly.
" Hmmmmmmm, Naruto's hand could become a problem. I guess we should go back to the village." He said as Naruto growled at him. He took a kunai and stuck it in his hand and looked at him worried about how hurt he was.
" Why am I so different? Why am I always….Grr." He said looking at his hand.
" Naruto, stop that. What are you doing?" Sakura asked.
" I worked so hard to get here, pushing myself until it hurt. Training alone for hours, anything to get stronger, to reach my dream. I will never back down again, and let someone else rescue me. I will never run away. And I will not lose to Sasuke. Upon this wound, I make this pledge. Believe it. Bridge builder, I'll complete this mission and protect you from this kunai knife. A real ninja never gives up and neither will I, don't you guys worry about me, I'll be fine, now let's go." He finished as we all looked at him shocked but I smiled knowing he was at least getting stronger and stronger. You've come a long way, Naruto.
" Naruto, uhh. That was really cool how you took the poison out and all, but if you lose any more blood, you're going to die." He said as Naruto only freaked out more.
' Way to ruin the moment sensei.' I thought sweat dropping.
" Good idea to stop the bleeding now, seriously." I said as I looked at him.
" No! No! No! I'm too young for it to all end like this! No! No! No!'' He yelled flailing his arms around.
" I can handle this one, I have some medical wraps in my bag." I said opening my bag.
" Ok. Ok! Hurry!" Naruto yelled panicked even more than a few minutes ago. But when I started wrapping it was healing on it's own, I kept going but I was curious about that, and wondering if it had to do with the tailed beast inside of him.
After we all got up and started walking Naruto noticed something and stopped in his tracks.
" What the?! Sachi, are you okay?!" He yelled coming up to me as I looked at him confused.
" Huh?" I asked as everyone came up behind him.
" Sachi, you have blood on your clothes! Are you feeling alright?! Why didn't you bandage it up!" Sakura yelled and I was still confused as I looked down and saw there was blood on my clothes, but I didn't her hurt. But then I realized.
" Oh, this isn't my blood. It's probably the enemy ninja's." I said as they all stared at me with jaws dropped and totally pale.
" What?" I asked.
" You killed him?!" They all yelled at me.
" No, but I cut him along his arm and his blood probably splattered on me." I said turning away.
" Sachi can be scary even when she doesn't want to be." Naruto mumbled.
" No kidding." Sakura mumbled back as Sasuke just smirked at me.
We continued to walk down the path till we finally made it close to our destination and we went over to rent a boat and we were riding in silence as we crossed to river till I got bored and then I started to sing quietly to myself.
In this quiet night
I'm waiting for you
Forgetting the past
And dreaming of you
Time passes by
And memories fade
But times can't erase
The love that we've made
And the stars in the sky
That I wish upon can't bring you back to my side.
Though you're not here with me
I dream of the day we'll meet again.
Hold me close, so deep in your heart
I will find you, no matter where I have to go
And dream of me, for I will be there
Follow the stars the lead
Into the quiet night
( Just imagine it's a little quieter)
When I was done I realized everyone was really quiet and when I looked back everyone was looking at me either in shock or in peace from the song and I blushed looking away from them knowing they heard my song and rest of the boat ride was silent with the occasional glances from the others as we were crossing the river.
End of Chapter 9
I hope you like this chapter and the next one is going to get better and comment and let me know what you think of this chapter and I'll get started on the next one since now I have internet in my house now. Till next time.