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Did you read the last chapter? Good. There's a lot of information in there that you need to understand this chapter.

Without further ado, Chapter 7:

Old Acquaintances

"Why do we only get the grunt stuff?" Kirimaru whined, "It's boring!!"

"You have to start somewhere!!" Shidou scolded him, "Genin take the grunt work to let the upper ninja focus on the hard things!!"

Team two had just gotten back from another D-rank mission, and Kirimaru had wasted no time in complaining to the Third Hokage about doing only grunt work. Shidou, who was helping the Hokage that day, was scolding him for it, while Sensei, Akane, Aoi, and Kitara were trying their hardest to make up for their partner's behavior.

"What can you do next?" the Third asked, ignoring Kirimaru, "Hmm… pulling weeds, finding a lost cat… well, this is interesting!!"

"What is?" Shidou asked.

"We have a B-ranked mission here that specifically requests Team two without you," the Hokage replied to the "Flash", "Well, send her in."

Shidou left the room for only a minute, and came back with a young girl around twelve or thirteen years old. The girl had long red hair in a tight braid down her back, and was wearing what looked like an old English forest man's outfit: a green tunic, green shorts, and a brown vest over that.

"Well, well, well. So this is team two," she said, coolly walking up to Aoi, "Aoi!! It's been forever!! Still as handsome as ever, I see."

Akane was fuming over the fact that this girl was hitting on Aoi. "Who're you?" she asked.

"You must be Akane. Weak, but she'll do," the girl replied.

"Weak? I'll show you weak!!" Akane exclaimed, and Sensei had to hold her back to keep her from fighting the client.

"And the boy with the face of an imbecile, he's Kirimaru, right?" the girl asked, completely ignoring the raging girl next to her. Kirimaru started at her as well, and it took all of Sensei's strength to hold them both back.

"And who is this?" the girl asked, stopping in front of Kitara.

"Don't play dumb. You know perfectly well who I am," Kitara replied just as coolly as the girl was talking.

"What if I don't?"

"Oh, but you do, little cousin," Kitara purposely stressed the word little, just to tick the girl off.

"Don't call me little, Suchi," the girl's voice said in an angry whisper.

Just as cool as ever, Suchi replied, "Well, now that we know that you know me, Shana, you can tell us what our mission is."

Shana, for that's who the girl was, started fuming, but calmed herself enough to say, "Follow me. I'll tell you when we get there."