OK, I'm so stupid. I forgot the disclaimer for the 1st chappie... Anyways, I don't own Naruto and ifI did I wouldn't be writing this would I? WARNING: CHAPTERS MAY BE VERY LONG Sorry...;;>

The next month, the team received a new mission, this time ranked C. Everyone was slightly happy that they had a better ranked mission but Sakura and Naruto feared for the sanity and well-being of their new team mate, Misanagi. Sasuke was still ignoring her, even though Misanagi was trying her best not to infuriate the boy even more and lose her own temper.

The group was walking on a long dirt road and Sasuke had upset Misanagi yet again. Misanagi ended up stomping off ahead of the group; cheeks pink and lips contorted into a malicious frown. Nothing could get her out of her bad mood, not even takoyaki.

Kakashi sighed and quickened his pace to walk next to Misanagi.

' How're you hanging in there?' A small growl escaped the small girl's throat and a menacing glare was also thrown his way. This was going to be a long mission he could feel it. He just wondered why Sasuke was being so cold to her. Sure, the kid was like that anyway, but this was starting to get out of hand. He'd just wait for things to work themselves out for a change.

' So, uh Kakashi-sensei, you never actually told us what we're going to be doing…' Naruto asked, walking slowly with his hands behind his head.

' Huh? We're just going to the Wave Country and helping out the villagers. We'll be doing small jobs over there and whatnot… Should be fun…' Kakashi trailed off.

During that time, Misanagi had managed to get rid of her anger by killing a small rabbit that looked like it needed to be put out of its misery. One down, millions to go, thought the somewhat deranged shinobi. Of course, no one saw her, except maybe for Kakashi, but that didn't matter.

She was back in her usual good moods and started talking to Sakura about random things, something that amused her greatly. Anything random or slightly nutty was good in her books.

' Wow, so you're saying that you live with Kakashi-sensei, managed to burn half of his prized book collection, and you still managed to survive?' Sakura looked at her new friend in awe; everyone knew about Kakashi and his strange obsession with ahem, porn novels.

' We'll it was a stupid mistake really, I was practising a couple of jutsus and a candle just happened to be near me, and yeah… he still hasn't forgiven me yet.'

' And I don't ever intend to do so.' Kakashi called from up front. Misanagi only blushed and smiled.

' What an idiot. Why the hell did she have to come with us anyway? She's even worse than Naruto…' Sasuke thought. He still didn't like her. Personally, he thought Misanagi was a superficial and very irritating brat. The kind whose parents always spoilt. Narrowing his eyes in anger, he walked on trying to think of something to get his mind off of the shinobi.

Misanagi decided to try once more to be nice to Sasuke and forced herself to think of happy thoughts, just so she wouldn't lose her temper so easily like last time. Taking in a deep breath, she began to talk to Sasuke in a soft tone, so the others wouldn't hear them.

' Sasuke-san, um about before, I'm sorry if I made you angry and all. But hopefully, maybe we can you know, start fresh, without trying to rip each other's heads off. So, what do you think?' Sasuke tried to ignore her, but heard what she had to say.

' Why are you so annoying?' He asked.

' Huh? What do you mean?'

' I mean, why are you always so irritating? You act like an idiot, even though you might be better than Sakura as a fighter, but still, that's no way for a ninja to act. Try acting your real age and not your shoe size.' He said angrily. Misanagi was taken aback and didn't know what to say. Normally when she had a fight with the boy, she always had a cutting remark to add.

' You're such an annoying brat; no wonder if anyone hates your guts. If you keep acting like an idiot then maybe you'll end up killing yourself. But then again, maybe that isn't a bad thing.' Misanagi stared at him and thought to herself. He was being so mean and was demeaning her and treating her like dirt, but then. Was she?

' Don't talk to me unless you have to.' He growled and walked off. Misanagi followed silently and tried to keep the hurt inside. Forcing herself to smile, she walked ahead of Sasuke and walked alongside Sakura.

' Hey, you okay there? You seem, a bit, I don't know, edgy…' Sakura asked. Misanagi put on her brightest smile and turned to look at Sakura.

' I'm fine, borderline hyper actually.' She began to skip and eventually gave Kakashi a headache after snatching one of his books.

' Misanagi, get back here. If you give me the book, I'll let you off without a punishment.' Misanagi thought for a moment.

' And if I do give this splendidly written book back to you, will you stop sneaking into my room and going through my stuff?' Since, no response came from the perverted ninja, Misanagi continued to walk on.

' What's so good about this book anyway?' She muttered, opening the book to the page where Kakashi had stopped. Realising what she was about to do, Kakashi went into a sort of panic mode.

' Don't read that! Oh no… this can't be good.' Misanagi had only read a few paragraphs but she was feeling quite sick now. She dropped the orange book and ran towards the woods where she promptly began to vomit everything she ate for the past week.

' That's the kind of stuff you read? Are you out of your mind?' She shouted at Kakashi from the side of the road. Kakashi was quite embarrassed and it didn't help that Naruto was laughing at him. Sakura was comforting Misanagi while Sasuke was muttering insults about Misanagi once again.

' Never show that book in my presence ever again. Got that?' Kakashi began mumbling about his lack of a social life, which lead to a lack of a sexual life.

' Then why don't you put on a disguise and go out once in a while? Who knows, you might get a girlfriend.' Sakura suggested. Their sensei only smiled at them.

' I'm not good around girls.'

' But Sakura-chan and I are girls.' Misanagi said.

' I mean relatively pretty ones…' Uh oh, thought Naruto, he's in for it now.

' Are you calling us ugly you pervert?' The two girls screamed.

' Um, Sakura-chan's sorta cute.' Sakura released her hold on his neck and walked away slightly satisfied.

' And what about me?' Misanagi hissed. Too scared to know what to say, Kakashi said the first thing that came to his head. And that just turned out to be very stupid.

' Uh, you're just scary… Please don't hurt me!' Although Kakashi was acting like a moron for the moment, his students knew he'd never be beaten by a ninja of a lower class. But then again, Misanagi was a force to be reckoned with.

Misanagi kicked the masked ninja up the backside and stalked off, clearly ticked off. She began muttering and didn't realise she was walking next to Sasuke.

' I'll show him scary. I look alright don't I?' She asked herself. Sasuke couldn't resist and just had to say something spiteful.

' What he meant Hijikata, is that you look ugly. I quite agree with him actually…' He whispered softly. Misanagi's eyes widened in fear and before anyone could see what was going on, ran into the woods.

' Asshole!' She yelled.

' What did you say to her?' Growled Naruto.

' I didn't say anything to offend.' Sakura, who had the slightest idea of what was happening, spoke up.

' One of a girl's greatest fears is being ugly. You really did a nice job of making her feel like crap.' She followed Misanagi into the woods and frowned. Kakashi stared at Sasuke in amazement. This wasn't the Sasuke he knew.

' Although she'd skin me alive if she found out I told you this, but I think you should know. Misanagi is very insecure about herself. She had a rough childhood and didn't have many friends. She didn't even have family she could go to talk to. Sasuke, I don't know what's gotten into you but whatever it is, it's got to stop here.' He said sternly.

' Good one you've probably made her cry now…' Naruto said angrily. Deep down, Sasuke felt a bit bad but quickly waved it away.

Later that night when they set up for camp, Misanagi made it her top priority to steer clear from Sasuke. His cutting remarks were starting to get to her and she didn't want to cry in front of the others. She personally thought that crying over something like that was pathetic, but that was only from experience.

' Mi-chan, there's a river nearby, want to help me find dinner?' Asked Naruto. He was decked out in swimming trunks and had a big grin on his face. In his hands were three kunai. Misanagi smiled and followed him deeper into the woods.

' So, I'll go round up the fish and you can kill them.' Misanagi said. Naruto nodded and turned so Misanagi could change.

' Ne, are you done yet?' The fox-boy said grumpily. He was starting to get hungry and standing around waiting for Misanagi wasn't helping.

' Yeah, I'm down at the river.' Misanagi called. Diving into the water, she looked around and scared a school of fish so they would all move closer to Naruto. Naruto, who was itching to throw his kunai, smiled excitedly when three large fish jumped out of the water. Spearing all three, he jumped up and shouted in joy.

' Cool, only three more. Ready Mi-chan?' Misanagi nodded and dived under the water again. When they had finished fishing, Misanagi decided to swim a little longer as it had been a long since the last time she did so.

' Anou, Mi-chan, I think we should go now. Oh Sasuke, what're you doing here?' Asked Naruto. Sasuke was scowling again, his hands were in his pockets and he just kicked an odd shaped rock, making it fall into the river. Misanagi hauled herself out and walked over to her team mates.

' Kakashi-sensei told me to get you guys. Hurry up.' He glared at Misanagi who was standing near him, as she tried to find her clothes.

' Hey guys, have you seen my clothes? They were right here, or at least, I thought they were.' Misanagi was shaking now, as she was drenched in water and only wearing her underwear. Naruto refused to look at her because she wasn't dressed properly. Sasuke just refused to acknowledge her presence.

' Guys really, I need my clothes. I'm going to catch something if I- achoo!' she sneezed.

' Don't…' She finished. Naruto saw something flowing down the river; they were dark and oddly looked like clothes.

' Anou, Mi-chan, I think I've found them…' Naruto said, pointing at the river.

' What? How on earth did they get there? I'm never going to find them again. Shit… achoo!' She was shaking even more and her sneezes became more frequent.

' Oh, those were your clothes? I just thought it was a really ugly rock, sorry.' But Sasuke was far from sorry, he took immense pleasure in tormenting to girl and he wasn't about to stop now.

' You what? Are you- achoo! - out of your mind?' She screamed. Sasuke just shrugged his shoulders.

' Oh well…'

' Sasuke, give her your jacket, she's going to get really sick.' Sasuke glared at him menacingly.

' Why me?'

' Because if I had any proper clothes with me, I'd give them to her, but since I don't and you do, just give her your jacket.'

' Achoo! Achoo!' Misanagi started to shake even more if that was possible and fell to her knees.

' Sasuke!' Naruto shouted. Sasuke only rolled his eyes and gave her him jacket.

' Keep it, I wouldn't want to get any of my germs on you.' Misanagi managed to say without sneezing.

' Whatever take it, just keep it away from your face, I don't want to catch anything nasty.' He hesitantly put it on her as she had lost control of her limbs.

' Why are you doing this?' Misanagi asked pointing to the jacket as they neared the campsite.

' Because if I don't, you'll probably die and then Kakashi-sensei would kill me. Then Sakura and fox-boy will kick my bloody corpse around.'

' Sick, twisted little boy.' Misanagi muttered.

' At least my face doesn't look like a monkey's butt.' Sasuke taunted Misanagi a bit more. She'd had enough. She screamed and punched him square on the jaw. Although he'd never admit it, it hurt more than any of Naruto's punches.

' Teme!' She ran back to camp catching the unwanted attention of Sakura and Kakashi. Running over to her, Sakura put her hands on Misanagi's shoulders.

' What on earth happened to you?'

' That –achoo! – thing over there kicked my clothes into the river and there's –achoo! - no way of ever –achoo! - getting –achoo! - them –achoo! - back.' She finished still shaking violently. Kakashi sent a stern look at Sasuke who was looking on in disinterest. Kakashi gently pushed Sakura away and held Misanagi close to him so she could warm up a little faster and stop shaking.

As Kakashi was taking care of Misanagi, Sakura and Naruto were taking turns in yelling at Sasuke and Sakura went as far as slapping Sasuke, who didn't do anything, to vent some of her anger. Unfortunately, it didn't work.

That night Misanagi stayed in Kakashi's tent, while Naruto joined Sakura in the one she shared with Misanagi.

' I hate him…' Misanagi kept muttering. Kakashi sighed, Misanagi hadn't been this sick since she was little and even then she still wanted to kill people.

' Misanagi-chan, stop thinking about it and try to stay warm ok? This mission would be pointless if you couldn't carry it out because you were ill. Come here, try to get some sleep.' Kakashi held Misanagi tightly and sighed when she snuggled closer to him and finally fell asleep.

Yeah, as I mentioned before, the chapters are VERY long... Please R&R!

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