Author's Notes: Hello to all my readers! K, folks, this idea just popped into my head one day.I really hope you guys will like it. Heck, I just hope you'll read it. Reviews would be nice.

Disclaimer(s): I do not own Naruto or 6TEEN. Any original ideas that aren't familiar in any or the series mentioned do belong to me. Yeah.

Story Notes: Naruto and his teammates are still twelve and they're Genin. K?

Kakashi Hatake, copy ninja, was late.

He had asked his squad to meet him… and he was late.

Sakura Haruno had arrived at the meeting place first, followed by Sasuke Uchiha and Naruto Uzamaki.. The three Genin were standing together, bored.

"Yo."

Kakashi had appeared at a speed impossible for any normal human to achieve. Sakura and Naruto both stared at him irritably, while Sasuke was content with simply looking bored.

Naruto, who was as hyperactive as ever, sprang to his feet and faced his sensei, "Hey, Kakashi-sensei, you're late!"

Kakashi grinned behind his mask. "Black cat crossed my path. Had to take the long way."

Naruto wasn't convinced. Pointing his finger at his mentor accusingly, he declared, "You kept us waiting for at least an hour!"

The Jounin blinked. "Oh." Then he produced a long parchment from apparently nowhere. "I called you because we have been entrusted with a mission. This scroll contains all details about the mission. I shall now read it to you."

He cleared his throat. "Kakashi Hatake and his squad, Team 7, have been ordered by the grand Hokage himself to retrieve a scroll containing secret jutsu. The scroll was stolen by a fugitive from the Hidden Mist Village. The fugitive, who goes under the name of Kenji, is supposedly hiding on the other side of the world, posing as a worker in the Galleria Mall."

Sakura raised an eyebrow. "The Galleria mall? Never heard of it before…"

Kakashi shook his head. "Neither have I, Sakura." The Jounin then resumed his reading. "Since the Mall is located in Canada, a place where the inhabitants have never heard of shinobi-"

Naruto cut him off. "What? Never heard of shinobi? How is that possible!"

Kakashi ignored his comment. "-the team is required to go undercover and not use any jutsu unless in severe emergency."

The Jounin rolled up the parchment and smiled at his team. "Well, this mission normally wouldn't be entrusted to Genin, but Konoha is having a ninja shortage."

The three members of Team 7 stared at him. Naruto was practically gawking.

"We can't use any justu! What the-"

Sasuke cut him off. "Shut up idiot. The inhabitants of this 'Canada' haven't heard of shinobi, so we mustn't startle them with displays of chakra control. I'd think even an idiot like you would understand that."

Naruto grumbled and started sulking mentally. "Jerk." he muttered under his breath.

Kakashi feigned not noticing their little squabble. "Well," he said in a cheerful voice, "Shall we go then? To get to Canada, we are required to travel by boat. Oh, and one more thing. The reason I made you take English courses a month ago is because I thought it might come in useful. Now, coincidentally, Canada is a country where people speak English."

Naruto paled. He could barely pronounce any English at all, and here he was being sent to a place where people spoke English. Great. (That was sarcasm)

Sasuke frowned. His English wasn't that good either. He had been thinking about Itachi so much that he didn't really pay attention during his courses.

Sakura, unlike her teammates, wasn't worried about having to use another language. As a matter of fact, she was delighted by it. She thought it would be interesting to finally get to use this new language she had been taught. Her English grammar was nearly perfect, as though she had a heavy accent, she was getting along well.

The Jounin took in the expressions on his students faces for a while, then grinned. "Okay, since you all seem so enthusiastic about this mission, the boat leaves tomorrow, and we should arrive in four days, provided nothing happens on the way."

Author's Notes: WOW! I actually did better than I expected. You guys might have a different opinion though. Ah, well. R&R!