Third Person's POV
Naruto looks at Akira confused, she looks like she is annoyed, well it's not like Akira doesn't always look like that. But it is different, you can literally see the annoyance in her eyes and she is basically radiating annoyance.
"Akira, you look like you wanted to punch someone-dattebayo" Naruto said making Akira look at him.
Akira looks at their Sensei and glares at him, doing it subtly, which makes their Sensei chuckle. He's been teasing her about the book, he said that maybe she actually already read it that's why she knows what it is about. She wasn't annoyed that he is teasing her that... but hearing the same thing over and over again hurt her ears.
"Indeed" Sakura said also looking at Akira. She notices it since they started their mission Akira would look at their Sensei annoyed, and she almost throws the pot she was holding on their Sensei. First, their Sensei would say something they didn't understand but Akira would ignore him but he will say it again and again, which really confuses her.
Sakura looked at Akira amused. She had never seen Akira lose her composure, besides she had been trained just by being with Naruto.
"No, It was just really hot" Akira said with a sigh. She's trying to stay away from him but their Sensei would always make jokes about it out of nowhere, which makes their teammates confused except for her.
Kakashi smirks behind his mask. He wanted to play with all of them today. He just has the energy to do it, so why not? He looks at his students and walks in front of them, making them all look at him.
"Okay guys, listen. I have a meeting with the Hokage which means our mission is over. You're dismissed" Kakashi said making them all confused.
"We're done already? But it's only ten in the morning! Lately, all of our missions have been so boring! When are we gonna get an S-rank mission?" Naruto said making Akira's brow twitched.
"S-rank? You can't even do a simple D-rank without tripping, Naruto" Akira said making the other three nod. Naruto looked at her insulted.
"What? You should be on my side, Akira-ttebayo" Naruto said with a sigh.
Kakashi just observed the team. If Naruto wanted some exciting things to do, he have a perfect plan for it. Kakashi looks at Akira. This sure is gonna be fun.
"Uh, there aren't any. Okay, dismissed!" He said lazily, turning his back on his team.
Akira looks at the sky, it is still so early, what is she gonna do?
"You heard him, Sasuke-kun. Why don't we go on a date..." Sakura said but Sasuke just ignores her. Akira sighed looking at the two.
"Date?" Naruto said, tilting his head a little
"Akira, why don't we go on a friendly date-dattebayo!" Naruto said making Akira look at him dumbfounded.
"Huh? Where did this come from?" Akira said looking at Naruto
"For all I know, you just wanted to eat Ramen..." Akira said making Naruto laugh scratching his cheek slightly.
"Ah well..." He said giving his best puppy eyes. Akira stares at him for a few seconds debating whether to go treat him or not.
"Ah, fine. Let's go on a friendly date" Akira said lazily, putting her hand in her pocket. She still has money, at least.
"Yoshi! A friendly date-dattebayo" Naruto said jumping up and down. Akira turns to look at Sakura but Sakura shakes her head indicating that she didn't want to join.
They were about to separate ways when a figure appears in front of them. They all stumble back, making them all sit on the ground
"What the-" Naruto said annoyed, as he stands up very quickly.
"What are you doing appearing here all of a sudden-dattebayo" Naruto said pointing at the person in front of them.
"Ah, no, no. Who are you?" Naruto said shoving the guy away from Akira who didn't fall to the ground as the guy hold her hand to steady her.
The guy laughs apologetically. He lets go of Akira's hand and holds his camera.
"Well, I heard that you are the students of the 'Copy Ninja'. I am a photographer and I have been following him and hope to see his real face. Since you're his students you should know what he looks like right?" The person explained as he take a picture of them with his camera.
Naruto and Sakura's shoulders dropped.
"You say that, but in everything we do, we still failed to see his face. We also look at all his picture-dattebayo" Naruto said with a sigh.
Akira looked at the guy in front of them. Judging by his chakra he is a former Shinobi. What confuses her is that there is something wrong with the person's chakra like she is being blocked by something which makes it hard to recognize or remember his chakra. The guy crouches a little and snaps a photo again making her snap out of her thoughts.
"Can you stop taking pictures?" Akira said with a raised eyebrow, the guy just look at her and smile looking at his camera.
"The photo submitted to the Hokage for the Ninja registration form... should be one of him without a mask. But it's an extremely classified, top-secret document... Accessing it would be no easy task." The guy said giving them a smile.
They all look at the person in front of them wondering what is his name. Sasuke is the first one to say out loud what's in their mind
"Who are you?" He said
"I'm Sukea, a photographer. I travel to the east and west looking for scoops." He explained with a smile looking down at them.
"Anyways, I was searching for a scoop and happened to find the student of the famous 'Copy Ninja'. I have heard a lot of conversation about him, and a lot of them is about what he looks like under his mask. I wanted to be the first one to see under his mask, I will earn a lot of money if I happen to do it." He continued.
Naruto nodded considering if they should do the 'Kakashi-sensei real face mission'.
"There's a rule that the photo for the Ninja Registration Form must be of your entire face." Sasuke said making them look at him.
"Will you let me join you in this adventure?" Sukea said with a smile.
"Why would we trust you?" Akira said making Sukea look at her.
"No, it shouldn't be a question. We can't trust strangers...also Sensei would be-" Akira said but a hand covers her mouth making her stop and looks at Naruto confused.
"Akira, this will be our chance..." Naruto whispered as Sakura also nodded, agreeing with Naruto.
"If I'm able to capture Kakashi-san without a mask, I'll have the biggest scoop since the Hidden Leaf was established. I'm sure to make a lot of money out of this. I could even treat you Ramen" Sukea said still smiling, Naruto perked up on that.
Akira nudges Naruto on the side making him remove his hand from her mouth
"You guys, really?" Akira said looking at her teammates, they all smile at her excitedly. Sasuke sent her a smirk.
"Ah, mo" Akira said as her shoulders drop.
-skip-
"Secret documents are stored here...This is an infiltration mission... Sukea-san, will you be able to keep up?" Sakura said as they were all hiding.
"He sure will..." Akira whispered looking stressed. Sukea glanced at her before nodding to Sakura.
"Before I started taking pictures, I was a rank-and-file ninja..." Sukea explained.
They look at each other before nodding as a signal to start the 'mission'. They jump and go to where the file was being kept, trying their best not to be seen.
After a few minutes, they all manage to go to their destination without them being noticed by the guards.
"Not done yet, Sasuke?!" Naruto said looking around.
"Naruto, shh..." Akira said nudging him. She really didn't want to be caught, especially at a place like this.
"Sasuke give it to me..." Akira said crouching beside Sasuke. Sasuke looks at her before nodding and giving the pins. After a few seconds of trying to unlock the lock, they heard a click.
"Akira, you should teach me something like that-dattebayo" Naruto whispered as they pushed the door quietly.
"yeah, yeah..." Akira whispered, her heart was beating fast. Damn, why did she join them?
They look around, a lot of files were stored inside.
"We have to search in all of these?" Sakura said looking around.
"Sukea... What division did you belong to?" Sasuke suddenly said.
"The Intel Unit that reported directly to Hokage-sama." Sukea answered
"ANBU Black Ops..." Akira whispered brows furrowing. Akira raises her brows. At any chance did their Sensei knows him...As far as she knows their Sensei is also a former ANBU...
"Things happened and now I'm retired." Sukea explained walking very quietly.
"Considering your past, is it wise for you to be doing this? You'll be targeted by the ANBU. Sasuke explained
"Don't worry about it. Let's hurry." Sukea said as he quickly walk towards a section of files making them all move.
Akira is beside Sukea who is looking at the envelope one by one.
"Hatake Kakashi..." Akira whispered as she lift the envelope and looks for their Sensei's name. Sukea looks at her, he can see the little shakiness of Akira's fingers. Akira then suddenly stops an envelope in between her fingers. Why is her file name written in a code, and why is her file in this section? It should just be next to Naruto and the other genins that just graduated. She looks what was next to her envelope was an unknown name that was also written in a code, which made her brow knit.
Sukea looks at the envelope's name in between Akira's fingers. His heart skips and beats fast looking at Akira. Did Akira decipher the code? He forgot about that fact. He averts his eyes and calms his heart, and do what he's intended to do here.
"Maybe it's not mine..." Akira whispered as she lets go of the envelope and went to the next box. Sukea sighed, relieved that Akira didn't bother to look inside the envelope.
She didn't have time to be confused, she needed to find their Sensei envelope. She stops again a glimmer in her eyes.
"It's here..." She whispered, making the others quickly gather beside her.
"Okay, let's open it." Sukea said as Akira remove the tie of the envelope.
"The moment is finally here-dattebayo!" Naruto said looking intensively at the file.
Akira smirked an idea popping out of her little mind. She slowly pulls out the file, as her teammates intensively look at it. Their heart is beating fast.
Sukea looked at Akira with amusement in his eyes. This will be hard for the three if not only one was playing with them but two.
Akira wanted to laugh as she slowly pulls out the file. The eyes of their Sensei are the only thing they can see.
When they were almost halfway, a presence behind them made them stop.
"Don't move! We're taking you in. Make a move and we'll take that as a resistance... Depending on the situation we may have to take you down." The voice said. Naruto shivered as he tries not to sneeze. Akira averts her eyes to take a glimpse of who is behind them, seeing three ANBUs.
The ANBUs become still for a second, meeting familiar eyes and a familiar glare. The ANBU quickly recovered.
"Follow us and don't make any unnecessary movement." The ANBU said making them all stand up slowly. Akira let go of the file and put it on the ground. The ANBU push them forward indicating them to walk.
"Akira why do you have to pull the file so slow-dattebayo" Naruto said in a whisper, both hands raised.
Akira laughs awkwardly " Ah, eh, I want to make it intense..." Akira whispered making Naruto sigh.
Akira put her hands down making the ANBUs alert. " A genin like us will not do anything, calm down" Akira said. Her teammates beside her were tense.
"B-Baka, what are you doing..." Sakura said hand still raised. Sukea looks at Akira amused, they were on a verge of being locked up, and she can still manage to talk?
The ANBUs look at the purple-hair kid, seemingly calm about their situation. They actually were just scaring them so they would follow without hesitation and without resisting. The Anbu exchange glances looking at the kid, they only know one person with that eyes and hair.
Sukea take notice of that and tense, they wouldn't notice it by any chance, right? It seems like this plan wasn't going smoothly.
"You..." The one ANBU said making them all look at them.
"Huh?" Sakura and Naruto said at once. Akira locked eyes with the ANBUs, making them alert.
"You, do you have any relatives?" The ANBU said looking directly at Akira. Her team quickly looks at Akira waiting for her to answer, they were in trouble, please don't make it worse, they all thought.
The ANBUs waited for her answer. They shouldn't be asking these things. But the similarities are really uncanny. Her death was so mysterious and so sudden, the thought of it was still surprising to them
*Little Flashback*
"Did you hear? Our little ANBU died..." The ANBU who just entered said.
"Who? Miyagami?" The other ANBU inquired in disbelief. The ANBU nod immediately.
"But isn't she is in the foundation now?" One of the ANBU said again.
"Even so, she is just ten... Also she's with us for four months..." The ANBU answered with a sad tone.
"What happened?" The ANBU with a headgear said.
"I don't actually know, but they said it was an assault, also she was found on the border of fire" The ANBU explained, making them all confused.
"That's so sudden, she's very talented and some of us can't even beat her..." The other ANBU said, making them nod.
"They were sure it was the little ANBU? I mean... we didn't see her face, how can they be sure it was her..." The Anbu asked again.
The Anbu shakes his head with a sigh "It was ANBU who saw her body, there were also some foundation's dead body there... they actually took off the mask so at least they can bring her to the Hokage to know if she is really the one since the Hokage-sama and Danzo-sama were the only ones who know her face. Unfortunately, the face was really unrecognizable even Hokage-sama and Danzo-sama, didn't recognize it. But Danzo-sama and Hokage-sama confirmed that it was her judging by the mask she is wearing and by the hair and her height. Also, she is wearing a pendant, that the little ANBU always wear." The ANBU finishes with a sigh.
"That's sad, she is really kind even with the prisoners we caught, despite how she looks at them... Well, that's how a shinobi lives" The other ANBU answered, disappointed by the news. She was their little ANBU, her death was really shocking to them.
*End of Flashback*
"Ah, no..." Akira said with confusion, why are they asking her that?
"I see..." The ANBU mutters, making her team sigh in relief.
"Move faster" The ANBU said coldly, pushing them a little. Sukea looks at Akira, he's glad that the Anbu didn't push it any further.
-skip-
They all sigh, glad that the Hokage just lectured them.
"Really? An infiltration mission?" Their Sensei said
"I'm so sorry... I tried to stop them, but they insisted..." Sukea said making Akira step forward.
"I will not let that slip. First of all, you didn't stop us and-" Akira said but Sukea quickly put his hand on her mouth making her stop.
Kakashi looked at Sukea's hand with a raised eyebrow. Sukea sweatdropped at that and remove his hand on Akira's mouth. Sukea suddenly gritted his teeth in pain when Akira stamped on his feet.
Akira frowned, why would he do that, they weren't close or anything. Tch, acting like one. Besides she's just telling the truth, why would he blame them.
Kakashi wants to laugh at Sukea, who glared at him.
"They wanted to see what you looked like..." Sukea said once he recovers from the pain
"You're a former Anbu Black Ops, aren't you? Honestly! Who cares what I really look like?!" Kakashi said.
Akira wanted to throw a rock on their Sensei. Acting humble now, he was just bragging about it a few days ago. Akira looked at Sukea as he laugh, squinting her eyes a little, he even rehearsed his laugh, tch.
"I can't stand guys who are handsome, but do nasty things." Sakura muttered making Naruto nod, who is furious.
"Tch, he isn't handsome at all..." Akira muttered cross-armed. Kakashi and Sukea look in her direction brows twitching.
-skip-
"This is so foreign, that you, Akira will ask something to me?" Kakashi said amused.
"Right, I can't believe it myself..." Akira said lazily. Naruto nudges her, she clears her throat proceeding with their plan.
"Why don't you eat some dango first while I explain it you?" Akira said putting on a smile, making Kakashi tilt his head.
"Sukea-san, what are you doing?" Sakura said when Sukea suddenly snaps a picture.
"I was just trying to see if the camera is really working..." He said looking at the pictures, making the two sigh.
"Is it working?" Sasuke said looking at Naruto and Akira who still trying to convince their Sensei. Sukea just hums as he finishes looking at the picture and positions the camera again.
"Sensei, come on, I will not start if you don't eat. hmm?" Akira said trying to look as kind as possible.
"Okay..." Kakashi said holding the dango. Kakashi can't help but smirks. Akira, are you planning something this time that would ruin your plan? He thought.
Akira's smile drops when his Sensei smirk that is visible even with his mask on.
Kakashi slowly takes off his mask as he hold the stick of dango to eat, while the three from the distance prepare to capture Kakashi's face.
"Yo, Naruto, Akira. Are you guys taking a stroll too?" The familiar voice said, Naruto and Akira turn to look at the newcomer.
"Kiba..." Akira whispered, it's been a while since she last saw Akamaru and Kiba.
Akira looks at her Sensei again, but avert her eyes to look at her hands when her Sensei was halfway of taking his mask off.
"You're really taking your time..." Akira whispered, keeping her mouth just slightly open. The birds fly when Akamaru suddenly jumped , disturbing the birds.
Kakashi takes a glance at Akira, she wasn't even looking at him she's just looking at her hands acting distracted. Why does she didn't want to see his face so badly, there have so many times that she could have seen his face, already.
She stands up and tries to distract herself by shooing the birds away. He finishes his food quickly when the birds clear out, putting his mask on place. Akira takes a glance at him. She knows it, even without looking at the pictures. They didn't capture their Sensei's face.
Kakashi can't help but chuckle quietly, this time it's someone's fault for their failed plan.
Naruto looked at him shocked, Akira act looking at him shocked, too. Naruto remembers something and giggles.
"Oh, I actually forgot what I was going to ask you, Sensei" Akira said when Naruto pulled her and left their Sensei not waiting for his reply.
They were now all gathered looking at the photos.
"It's like a divine power..." Akira said making them nod looking all of the failed photos, not even one of them capture their Sensei face.
-skip-
They were now on their last plan. This time they have a companion which is Hinata, Ino, Shikamaru, Kiba, Choji, Shino.
"Really if this didn't work, I don't know what to say..." Akira said through the mic. She is hiding on a bush with Sukea who is ready to capture their Sensei face. They was just waiting for their Sensei to rescue Naruto, who is in the henge of a woman.
"He's here..." Sukea said as he position the camera.
Kakashi kneels to examine the said person, who drowned in the river
"This is bad, her pulse is weak" He said checking her pulse.
"This calls for..." Kakashi said his hand on his mask.
Akira wanted to laugh again. Just like how she laugh when Naruto volunteers to be the drowning person. Their first plan was for her to act like she drowned by taking Sakura's medicine, but she refuses making Naruto volunteer himself and henge into a woman.
Kakashi starts to pull his mask down but stops, deciding to do something else.
"This women's in danger. We needed to bring her to the hospital right away" He said as he carries the woman and start running. Sukea and Akira looked at each other and nodded as they wait for a few seconds before following Kakashi.
Plan B... they all thought positioning.
Kakashi stops immediately when a group genin appear in front of him, as he knows this is Choji who belongs to Asuma's team.
Choji attack Kakashi, but Kakashi jumps away still carrying the women. Kakashi looks at the ground shocked, he lands on the insects, as another genin appears in front of him. A shadow quickly goes towards his way, making him unable to move.
"Shadow Possession Jutsu! Complete!" Shikamaru said.
Kakashi looks in front of him when he recognizes the rookies with Sukea again. He tried to move but it was no use. The woman he was holding suddenly jump and go with the rest of the genin.
Naruto removes the henge and looks at their Sensei with a smirk, he's really amazed by all the skills of the other genin but it can wait... this is his priority right now.
"It finally worked, Naruto-kun" Sukea said readying his camera.
Kakashi sweats, he locks eyes with Akira, who is looking at him disappointingly.
His hand moved on its own, and reach for his mask. He sweats, sending Akira a look.
Akira raised her eyebrow amused by her Sensei, is he expecting her to do something?
Akira smirks, well...
Suddenly a running person makes them all stop from what they were doing.
"Oi! Don't go this way" Sakura said but the said person continue to run towards Shikamaru's direction.
A woman following behind the person.
"You, come back here!" The woman shouts but the guy just continues to run. He looked back at the women, when he looked forward again he went straight to Shikamaru, making Shikamaru land face first to the ground as Kakashi's body moved on it's own and his face landed on the ground just like Shikamaru.
The guy quickly stands up and runs again as the woman chases him.
"Help me this guy took my bag" The woman shouts. The genin was too stunned as they look at Kakashi who disappeared in a cloud of smoke. Akira and Sukea was the only one who heard what the women said.
Akira and Sukea follow the woman and the thief.
The genins just stood there still shocked.
"Shadow Clone..." They all whispered in disbelief.
"Does that mean Kakashi-sensei was onto us since the beginning?" Sakura said dumbfounded.
They all sigh and their shoulder drop, they look at the ground defeatedly.
-skip-
They are still sulking on the Konoha street. When a figure appears in front of them, getting their attention.
"Akira, where did you go-dattebayo?" Naruto said, looking like he is dying
"Well, I just help a lady..." Akira said scratching her head a little. She pulls out a bill from her pocket making them all look at her.
"Well, Sukea-san already left... and he left me with this and the lady I helped also gave me some..." Akira said holding money on her hand.
The genins all stand up and perked up at what they hear.
"Oh, it seems we're not that unlucky-dattebayo!" Naruto said cheerfully.
"Hmm... even if we didn't see Kakashi-sensei face we have some money to eat, which is more alluring." Choji said, almost drooling at the thought of food.
"Well, I guess" Akira said scratching her head a little.
"This is troublesome..." They heard Shikamaru say making them chuckle a little.
"Yoshi! Let's just go and eat-dattebayo" Naruto said jumping up and down.
"It's troublesome but I'm gonna join, since I help you guys." Shikamaru said patting his clothes.
The other also nodded in agreement.
At least they can eat after their failed attempt...They all thought.
Sensei, you still owe me...