Naruto woke to the sound of arguing. At first, she had thought that Deidara and Roshi were fighting again, but then she remembered a key fact.

Roshi had to wake up early this morning in order to get Team Roshi's first mission, no doubt a D-Rank, so that they could all start working toward being Chunin.

This meant that someone other than Roshi was in their house, someone who dared to argue with Deidara but didn't have the violent reactions certain others did.

Two seconds pushed by where Naruto sorted through her thoughts before a large grin spread over his face and she shot out from under her covers. Her feet hit the floor and her body shot across the wooden surface toward the living room where the arguing could be heard.

After rounding one of the hallway corners Naruto sped past the walls on either side, a male will rather long blue hair standing at the entrance to the den with a soft smile playing over his lips. Beside the male, another one stood smirking as he waved in the direction Deidara no doubt was in.

"Hatori!"

The blonde shouted as she launched herself at the blue haired male. He turned, his arms automatically opening after years of dealing with the same thing. Naruto was hoisted and twirled around Hatori as he chuckled loudly. The other two males in the room stopped their arguing and instead looked at Naruto.

"Hosha! What the hell are you wearing!?" Deidara's shout broke the moment, Naruto glancing over her shoulder at her brother as Hatori lowered her and hugged her while laughing.

She knew that she was only wearing a pair of Deidara's old boxer-shorts and a cropped top, but honestly, Deidara's Genin teammates had seen her in less.

The other male, the one who had been arguing with Deidara, whistled at her while his eyes strayed a bit too close to her chest and legs. "Whatever it is I approve, Hosha-Chan."

Naruto's cheeks began to flame at the perverted wink that the green haired male sent her along with his damned leer.

Deidara snatched her away from the quiet Hatori rather quickly as he hissed to his Ex-Teammate.

"I dare you to say that again Ikate! My sister is far too innocent for a prick like you…!"

Deidara hissed in warning, his visible brow twitching in irritation while his hand tightened around Naruto's body.

The younger Blonde muttered softly but smiled and leaned against Deidara's chest. Honestly, she never felt embarrassed over her brother's overprotective instincts. She found it endearing and after losing all of the members of their family but each other it just became something she wanted rather than something she hated.

Still, Naruto looked to Hatori and mouthed 'help me' at the boy.

In a true Hatori fashion, the male walked in the middle of a smugly smirking Ikate and a dangerously pissed Deidara and slapped both of them with the back of his hand.

The two boys gained shocked expressions, leaving Hatori to clap once happily.

"Alright girls, stop fighting. There is enough Hosha-Chan to go around. First, though, how about Hosha-Chan gets dressed and we get some breakfast so that you two can tell us what you were up to while we were away." Hatori commented with his diplomatic charm in full swing. Grumbles could be heard from both sides of the fight, but Naruto's thankful nod was enough to get them all moving.

I~~~~I

Naruto sat at the table with the other three males several minutes later, all four of the Iwagakure Shinobi eating peacefully.

Deidara was still sending a stink eye toward the rather pleased looking Ikate, but that was to be expected.

Ikate was rather odd in looks, at least in terms of being an Iwa Shinobi. He was the only shinobi Naruto had ever seen with his coloring, though his build was similar to most of the other Iwa Nin. His skin was the average olive tone while he had dark ruby eyes and forest green hair that was trimmed at his ears. His choice of clothing stemmed from his fixation on skintight red shirts with gray shorts. His kunai pouch rested on his right hip while his headband was tied around his waist with a gray cloth. He was the oldest of the group at the age of nineteen.

Hatori was the second oldest of his team at the age of eighteen. He had multi-colored eyes due to his rather odd heritage. Both were useful in combat since they sported two rather unknown Doujutsu. One of his eyes was colored a faded blue while the other was dark silver. His skin was lighter than Ikate's by a few shades, but his build was a little bit heavier than Ikate's. The boy tended to wear a gray coat with a dark red sash crossing the chest of it. Under the coat, he wore a fishnet shirt with brown shorts. Strapped to his right side was his Odatchi while his kunai pouch was situated on his right thigh. The sash he wore over his coat wrapped around his right shoulder and left side. It was his secret weapon since it was made of chakra-reinforced fabric and chakra absorbent thread was woven into it as well.

Both of the boys were very skilled despite the fact they were still Genin. The only reason that Ikate and Hatori hadn't made Chunin was that their families had interfered while trying to get them to back out of the Ninja Lifestyle.

Hatori's clan was known as the Sarumi Clan. The Sarumi were at the top of the political food chain in Iwagakure. They were known as the Matriarchal sharks to those committed to politics due to their very heavily woman-based command line. Hatori's mother was the head, however, she had Hatori out of wedlock and so Hatori was not entitled to anything but her name.

Ikate's clan was a little more complicated than Hatori's. His clan was the Mayuri Clan, which specialized in the medical side of things in Iwagakure. His uncle was the standing head of the clan, but he had already chosen Ikate to be the head over his three daughters that happened to be priestesses. Ikate's clan hardly ever involved themselves in the Ninja World, but with their Heir being a somewhat respected Ninja they had been dragged into it.

Both of the boys had to go to meetings and they had to establish treaties on behalf of their families, despite Hatori's outcast status because he was considered a bastard child. The past Chunin Exams had been right during several meetings with their families, and because neither could afford to make their relatives angrier with them without risking losing everything, they had both pushed the exams aside.

In Naruto's opinion, the two needed just to show the clan heads that both of them were serious about being shinobi. Deidara had had to do the same thing in front of many other adults and he was still proving himself as the youngest Clan Head in Iwa. The judgmental behavior had been the cause for Deidara changing their names to Iwatoshi rather than keeping Rida's name.

"Earth to Hosha-Chan~." Ikate suddenly spoke, poking her cheek with his index finger. Naruto flushed again and pulled away from the male's hand after she had been caught so deep in thought. The green haired boy chuckled at her reaction while he leaned forward with his chin resting on his hands.

Hatori glanced at her over the rim of his cup of water, worry playing in his oddly colored gaze. Deidara was frowning as he looked at her and his teammate.

Naruto coughed into her hand, her cheeks darkening at all the attention.

"N-Nani?"(1) The blonde questioned all three Nin.

Hatori set his cup down on the table as his lips twitched upward over her confusion. His voice rang with humor as he spoke. "We were wondering about your Genin Team. Deidara mentioned you had finally received one worthy enough in the Old Man's eyes."

Naruto froze as she took in everyone's gaze again, chuckling and rubbing the back of her neck while she thought of what to say.

She could not very well just come out and say that all of her teammates were guys. If she did then all three of the boys before her would most likely go ballistic. In addition, while Naruto was okay with Deidara's protective instinct she really did not need Ikate's jealous rage or Hatori's calm and diplomatic downplaying. It wasn't much of a secret to those that knew them that she was cherished by each member of Deidara's Genin Team, even the part where Ikate saw her as more than a simple friend did.

"Well…Uh…" Naruto looked around frantically as she stumbled over a reply. She took in the narrowing eyes as she swallowed the thick lump in her throat. It seemed she was screwed either way.

That had been the tense atmosphere that surrounded all them that Roshi decided to walk into a moment later; his head tilting in confusion over the rather fierce stare down his apprentice was enduring under the gazes of her protective males.

Roshi muttered a curse under his breath before he decided to rescue the poor blonde. "Naruto, hurry it up. The boys are waiting for us at the Gates."

Naruto turned sharply to Roshi, her eyes wide with relief as she shot from her seat faster than the Jinchuuriki had ever witnessed before.

"O-oh good…w-well by Hatori, I-Ikate…Deidara-Ni!" Naruto shouted over her shoulder as she grabbed Roshi's arm and sped away from the scene, her steps leaving dust in her wake.

I~~~~I

Naruto panted as she collapsed along with Roshi and her teammates a few miles outside of Iwa. Roshi and she had met their team at the gates and had promptly dragged Shisui, Darui, and Yarui without another word toward the general direction of their mission for the morning.

Roshi had been the first to stop and drop Yarui and Darui from his shoulders, Naruto letting go of Shisui's arm as she fell to the ground.

"T-Thank you R-Roshi…Ugh…I'm not gonna be able to go home at this rate…Stupid Old Man could have been the one to tell them he gave me an all guy team…"

Naruto hissed under her breath as she tried to even out her pulse. The other three Genin were all staring at her as if she had grown a second head since none of the three understood why they had to dash madly from Iwa.

Shisui, the most logical of the group, decided to question his Sensei and fellow teammate.

"Sensei…Why did you two drag us from Iwa so fast?"

Naruto groaned as she looked at the boy before she decided she should let Roshi answer and promptly collapsed back onto the ground.

Roshi glared at her. He reluctantly replied to Shisui as he tried to burn holes into his apprentice's head. "Naruto here had to tell her protective older brother and his brats for teammates that she had an all guy team. They tend to be a little insane when it comes to other people even looking at their Gaki."

Shisui cast a glance to Yarui and Darui, the other two shrugging at him. Naruto huffed in annoyance at the three and slowly started to sit up.

"Whatever…Anyways, what mission do we have?"

Roshi continued to glare at the blonde-haired Kunoichi while he explained the parameters.

"The Old Man wants us to go to the west outcropping. There have apparently been some wolves that have stolen some of the rations from a nearby village, and they requested that we deal with them. I wanted the mission that involves taking supplies to border patrol, but the Old Man suggested we might as well do the easy stuff before we focus on C-rank material…Something about D-ranks not being done right anymore and all that."

Roshi muttered under his breath near the end of his explanation.

Naruto nodded along with her teammates to show they understood.

Naruto knew better than most how the mission system was rather messed up. Iwa was rather pushy with their Ninja's and left most of the in-village 'chores' or E-ranked missions for the Genin to do. Missions that involved the outside of the village but within Tsuchi no Kuni were D-ranked and C-ranked. Any mission located outside of the country was B-ranked or higher.

D-rank missions most often involved the smaller villages and residences outside of Iwagakure. C-ranked missions mostly consisted of jobs around the border of Tsuchi no Kuni. Naruto tended to do C-ranks and B-ranks when she went with Roshi, but on the off chance, she would be assigned a D-rank and she had even gone on an A-ranked mission as an escort with Deidara for the Tsuchikage.

It wasn't too surprising that their team had been given a D-rank mission considering they were newly formed. One thing that was surprising, however, was the fact that the Old Man had trusted them to do it right when his other Ninja hadn't.

Naruto steeled herself for a rather taxing but still rewarding few days with her team. She would not allow the Tsuchikage to regret placing his belief in their abilities.

Based on the resigned and yet confident looks playing on her companions' faces, they were thinking along the same line as she was.

I~~~~I

Naruto's fingers snapped into place after she had launched into the air, wind chakra curling in her gut.

"Wind Style, Gale Bullet!"

The blonde-haired woman's hair whipped backward after her shout as highly compressed air flew down to the five savage wolves snapping their jaws at her.

The wolves were far from friendly and were at least the size of one of the damn Ninja Hounds that the Inuzuka of Konoha were so fond of. They all were bloodthirsty and crazed as well and had shown as much in the face of Naruto's team.

Despite their savage nature, Team Roshi had them under control.

Shisui had noticed Naruto's incentive and had prepared fire chakra for when she had finished. A second after Naruto's gale was fired the boy was shouting his own technique. "Fire Style, Phoenix Flare!"

A rather large sized string of blazes struck Naruto's jutsu, expanding it into a swelling blaze that lit the spiky terrain they were in before it engulfed the pack of wolves whole. Naruto landed in a crouch on the ground. Flames danced across her blue eyes as she tuned out the whimpers of their targets and simply enjoyed the warmth of the blaze she and Shisui had just created.

Said Ninja glanced to her with a nod and a simple tilt of his lips. His friends were keeping an eye of the blaze for any stragglers. Darui seemed to be quite still for a few moments before his glazed eyes snapped to attention again.

"That's all of them." Darui intoned his voice firm. Naruto wondered for a moment how he knew, but then she remembered that the boy had explained being a Sensor earlier.

A victorious grin crossed Naruto's lips, her arm shooting up in a cheer. "Yosh! Alright then, we should find Sensei so we can go get the reward money from the village."

Shisui nodded to her while Yarui joined in on her cheering, his right arm slinging over the blonde-haired Kunoichi's shoulder. Darui fell back beside Shisui and the two shared a glance over the rather rambunctious nature of their other teammates.

They all worked rather well together when they combined Darui's ability to pinpoint their enemy, Yarui's ability to contain that enemy, and Naruto and Shisui's abilities to deal with said enemy.

Team Roshi was going to excel together; there was no doubt in any of their minds.

I~~~~I

And there is the first D-Rank for Team Roshi. If any of you have suggestions for missions or even a name for their team, do not be afraid to mention it.

As for the whole Missions classifications, I decided on the difference from Konoha's missions because Iwa is much more militaristic and it is well known that Konoha focuses on Teamwork with most, hence the team building D-Ranks. I see Iwa as the Ninja village that trains tanks that go out and fight as soon as they leave the academy. I already mentioned that the Academy is much harder than Konoha's, and that ties in with the Pre-Genin already doing missions. Naruto is also able to go on higher-ranking missions because Roshi is a damn Jinchuuriki and her brother is already a Jonin.

As for Deidara's teammates, well that part is very plot oriented, but I had already made their families very political and so that helped. As a way to keep the two from advancing into the Ninja ranks, their Families forced them to not go to the Chunin Exams. Deidara was able to advance so quickly because he is favored by the Tsuchikage and has no one to keep him from doing so.

Other comments-

(1)-Nani: Nani is Japanese for what. I used it because I like to sneak some sayings in once and awhile.

Thanks for reading!

Drabble- Ikate the Womanizer

The very first time Naruto met Ikate, she kicked him in the face.

Ikate never allowed her to live the moment down, despite the fact she hadn't known who Ikate was and he had flirted horribly with her.

The Tsuchikage still laughed to the point of hurting himself when the topic was brought up.

It was on one of the days she had been delivering paperwork to the aged Kage.

Ikate had come to give Oniki the update on the hospital as well as the new trainees.

The two had run into each other right outside the door, and instead of helping Naruto up like a logical person, Ikate had taken one look at her on the floor and raised a brow.

"If you wanted to praise me you could have waited until I finished work."

Ikate chortled at her, smirking as Naruto's eyes narrowed on him.

Oniki had looked up from his desk in time to witness Naruto flip up and kick Ikate under his chin, glaring at him as she did so.

Ikate had hit the wall and slid down it in a state of shock as Naruto calmly stood, grabbed her papers, and stalked into the Kage's office.

At the time, she was barely eight years old, and so she looked far cuter when angry than she did as she grew older.

Ikate would forever say that her hair whipping about her amidst her fury had been what made him fall for her the first time.