The wind blew in Ichigo's orange locks as he hid behind a tall fat tree.

"How far away is the target?" Came Kakashi's voice through the little microphone that was resting in his ear.

"Five meters and closing." Came the disgusting voice of his rival, Sasuke making him stick his tongue out with the look of annoyance like an elementary student when they hear someone they hate.

"I'm in position." His heart skipped a beat when he heard the voice of Naruto. 'I love you Ichigo.' The tired voice of Naruto from the night before ran through his head making his heart beat faster.

"Don't get your hopes up Ichigo, he probably meant as a brother." He told himself under his breath. Ichigo felt his cheeks heat up more as the thought of dating and possibly marrying Naruto popped in his head. "Stop, you look like a girl." He said as he slapped his cheeks trying to get them to go back to their original color but it was only making them darker.

"Ichigo are you in position?!" Kakashi's voice came out of nowhere making the orange haired jump.

"Y-Yeah." He answered coming back to reality.

"Finally, Kakashi sensei has asked you that five times now. We were beginning to think you're dead." Naruto said slightly relieved.

'Was he worried about me?' Ichigo thought but his day dreams where cut short by his sensei saying, "alright GO!" At those words all three males ran at their target.

Their target didn't notice them even with the loud screaming they where doing, in fact it looked completely distracted so Naruto took this as his opportunity to catch it.

"BWAAAA!" He screamed as he jumped at the poor cat then then trapped it in his arms.

"Gotcha." He said followed by a little laugh as the cat tried to wiggle out of his grasp.

"Remember our target has a ribbon on its right ear that says tigger." Kakashi told Sasuke through the mic in his ear.

Sasuke looked back at the cat who was scratching who he now thought was his boyfriend. "Target confirmed." He told the white haired then ran to his 'boyfriend's' side screaming, "STOP SCRATCHING HIS BEAUTIFUL FACE YOU DIRTY ANIMAL!"

Sasuke ripped the cat off of Naruto's bloody face then chucked it at a tree knocking it out.

"Great going Sasuke." Ichigo said with a mix of anger and annoyance.

"Yeah now we might fail the mission and I'll never become hokage." Naruto said with a little more anger and annoyance then Ichigo, if that's even possible.

Kakashi hearing the whole thing through the microphone sighed and shook his head. 'This is going to be such a pain.' He thought with the look that said I wanna die.


Everyone was now back at the village in the hokage office waiting to be assigned their next mission.

"The next mission for team seven will be." Minato picked up one of the many papers and started reading them the list of missions out loud, none of them striking the males interest.

"NO WAY! NO THANK YOU DAD! BORRRRING!" Naruto yelled/ said with his arms together forming a X.

"Minato please give us something different to do."Ichigo basically begged the blonde.

"YEAH, YEAH, SOMETHING IMPORTANT! SOMETHING AMAZING!" Naruto agreed with the orange haired.

"Can't you two just be grateful for what you can get." Minato said as he put down the slip of paper back on the large pile.

"But dad." Naruto started but was cut off by his mother who slammed her hands on the table and yelled, "DON'T BE FOOLS YOU TWO! YOU'RE ONLY BEGINNERS! EVERYONE STARTS OUT DOING GRUNT WORK! ITS WHERE YOU GET EXPERIENCE SO CAN WORK YOUR WAY UP!"

Ichigo, Sasuke, even Kakashi stepped back in fear but Naruto surprisingly stepped forward and yelled, "WE'VE DONE LOTS OF SMALL STUFF! CANT WE GET SOME ACTION!"

Kushina's eyes now glowed with anger and her hair started surrounding her like red flames of anger.

"N-N-Naruto, I think that's enough." Minato said scared out of his mind for not only his son's safety but for everyone's in a 50 mile radius.

Kushina feeling the fear around her started to feel bad about it so she forced herself to calm down. "Apparently Naruto needs an explanation on ninja ranks and jobs."

Kushina explained the ranks and jobs to the three boys, saying how the village gets many requests a day so they sort them into categories, the higher mission going to the higher rank ninja and the lower going to the lower rank.

After she was done Ichigo and Sasuke nodded in understanding no longer being upset about their missions they were getting but Naruto on the other hand didn't listen at all, instead he just sat there thinking about what ramen he's going to have for lunch.

"NARUTO ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING!"She yelled her anger returning.

Naruto turned around and looked at his mother with just as much anger. "IM SORRY I DON'T WANNA HEAR IT! EVERY TIME I STEP OUT OF YOUR LINES EVEN A LITTLE BIT YOU GIVE ME A LECTURE! ITS NOT FAIR TO ME, ITS MY LIFE AND I WANNA WALK MY OWN PATH AND GO AT MY OWN PACE! NOT THE PATH YOU SET FOR ME AND WALK IT AT THE SPEED YOU WANT ME TO!" Naruto turned around with a pout thinking, 'I'm going to be in so much trouble for this later.'

Kushina and Minato looked at their son in shock. They didn't think they were forcing him to walk a certain path, they just thought they were guiding him through life so he'd be ok when they're gone.

Ichigo slowly walked to Naruto's side then sat down and rubbed his back gently. "You ok?" He asked in a soothing whisper.

Naruto sighed as the tears from his eyes fell off his cheeks. Ichigo wrapped his arm around his shoulders and pulled him into his chest. "It's ok Naruto, I know what you're going through."

Naruto sat up and wrapped his arms around Ichigo pulling him into his chest this time. "I'll be fine Ichi." He said as the orange haired felt his tears hit the top of his head.

Sasuke watched the scene in jealousy. That should be him comforting his boy friend not that orange haired loser. 'First I'll kill Itachi then I'll kill that loser!' He thought as he clenched his fist in anger.

Minato watched the fox and the strawberry hug lovingly with a smile. 'They make a cute couple.' He thought acknowledging his knowledge about Ichigo's secret.

"GET OFF OF HIM!" Sasuke yelled as he ran up to the two.

Ichigo glared at Sasuke and hugged Naruto tighter. "I said OFF!" Sasuke grabbed Ichigo's arm and ripped him off of Naruto. "He's mine." He said as he hugged the blonde.

"Get off Sasuke." Naruto said coldly but Sasuke didn't listen he just hugged him tighter. "I said get off." He said sternly before pushing the Uchiha off making him fall on his ass with an ugh. "Naru that's no way to treat your boyfriend." Sasuke said with a school girl pout trying to be cute.

Naruto ignored everything the black haired said and just ran to Ichigo's side. "Ichigo, are you ok?" He asked as he helped Ichigo off the ground. "Yeah just a little bump on my head." He said as he rubbed where a small bump was forming on his head.

"You shouldn't do that to your teammates Sasuke." Kakashi kinda scolded looking down at the male who was still on the ground with a pout.

"May I come in now." Came a annoyed voice from the other side of the door.

"You may." Answered Minato.

The door opened with a loud creek revealing a very old man drinking a bottle of gin (I don't know if it's gin or not but it is in this story because it sounded better.) "What's going on here?!" The drunk man asked as he slammed the door shut. "They look like a bunch of wet nosed brats." The man wobbled a little bit trying to keep his balance then gave up and leaned on the nearest wall. "Especially the midget, he's got a face of an imbecile. Don't tell me you're actually all ninja."

Ichigo turned his head from left to right confused on who the man was talking about. "What do you mean mean midget and what imb?" Ichigo stopped once he realized the person he was talking about was him.

"I'LL KILL YOU!" The orange haired yelled as he tried to run at the drunk man but was being held back by Kakashi.

"Calm down Ichigo, don't kill the person you were signed to protect." Ichigo stopped trying to get out of the white haired man's grasp and looked at the hokage confused. "What?"

Minato smiled and crossed his arms. "You guys said you wanted some action so I'm assigning you to a transportation mission."

Naruto's face lit up with joy. "Are you serious dad!?" Minato nodded his head then Naruto tackled him in a hug. "Oh thank you, thank you, thank you." The older blonde ruffled the younger's hair then pulled him away.

"This is Tazuna, he's a bridge builder and until he is back in his own country he needs you guys to protect him." Minato explained and all the kid nodded in understanding then walked out of the office with the drunk old man, all but Kakashi who waited until his team was gone then walked up to his sensei's desk. "I need to tell you something."

Minato looked up from the paper he began working on and said, "ok shoot."

Kakashi looked over to Kushina who was playing with her long red locks. "She needs to leave." He whispered making the other slightly confused. "Uh why?"

"I don't want her overhearing this." Minato sighed then turned to his wife and said ever so kindly, "Kushina you need to leave." The red head looked at her husband with a mix of confused and hurt. "But why?"

"Me and Kakashi have to have a serious conversation and we can't risk anyone over hearing." Kushina looked a little hurt but understood and walked out even if she didn't want to.

Minato watched his wife walk away feeling a little guilty but more sad then anything but he pushed that all aside and looked to Kakashi with a serious look. "What is it you need to tell me?"

"When Ichigo got all mad and I was holding him back I felt an odd source of power tingle up my arm."

"So chakra." Kakashi shook his head. "No this felt way more powerful, it kinda scared me." He whispered the last part not wanting anybody to hear him but his sensei.

"Is he a jinchuuriki perhaps?" Kakashi shook his head again. "No this felt like it was coming from him and him alone."

Minato taped his chin with his pointer finger, confusion written all over his face. "This kid, it's like he's from a totally different universe." Kakashi nodded in agreement. "His power felt stronger than any shinobi I've ever fought before and I've fought some pretty powerful people." He said slightly scared and it takes a lot to make the white haired scared, so this kid's power must be no joke.

"His clan has no files in any of the villages big and small and was killed by god knows who what then he comes out of nowhere with a tremendous amount of power. I'm beginning to think he's an extraterrestrial or something." Minato said feeling a headache starting just by trying to figure out Ichigo.

"But yet his last name sounds familiar to both of us." Kakashi said shifting his weight from his left to his right leg.

"Don't stress about it, it's probably a name of a character from a book." Minato said as he leaned back in his chair letting his body weight sink into the cushions.

"You may be right but something in the back of my mind is telling me not to settle with that." Kakashi said before looking at the clock seeing that it was half pass 4. "Well I better get this mission started before it gets any later." He said in a bored tone and a sigh.

"Well you better not keep them waiting." Kakashi turned around and began to walk to the door but when his hand touched the door knob he turned his head and told his sensei, " Continue looking into the Kurosaki clan for me, please?"

Minato sighed then nodded his head. "I doubt there's anymore I can do but sure I'll try."


"ALRIGHT ROAD TRIP!" Naruto yelled excitingly as he walked up to his two friends and their client. "This will be the first time in my life I've ever been outside the village." He said with twice as much excitement then his last sentence as he slightly jumped in place like a kid in a candy store.

"Really, you've never went outside with your dad? He seems like he leaves here a lot." Ichigo asked the blonde.

Naruto put his hands behind his head still smiling excitingly. "Nah, my mom was always a worry wart so she never let me."

"Well this is my first time to so we can discover the world together." Ichigo said smiling at the blonde making him blush for some reason he didn't understand.

"Am I really expected to place my life in hands of fools?" The drunk ruined the moment pissing off both boys.

'What a jerk! If I wasn't being payed to protect him he'd be dead 10 times over by now.' Ichigo thought as he clenched his fists trying to hold back the urge to punch the man.

"There's no need for concern, I'm an elite ninja and I'll be going along too." Said Kakashi as he walked up to the four.

'This guy has to be the worst client in the history of our village and I'm not gonna let him give me crap.' Naruto thought angrily as he crossed his arms and glared at the man.

The scene went down as it did in the show, Naruto saying he's going to be hokage then the man insulting him more making Naruto more angry and yell insults at the man then yell how he should respect him.

"Respect you? Ha never, even if you become hokage." Those words that the drunk man said made something snap in Ichigo. "YOU'RE DEAD!" He yelled as he tried run at the man but he was being held back by Kakashi again.

Ichigo never tried to kill people unless they hurt him or his family so it confused him greatly on why he was trying to kill this man just because he hurt Naruto's feelings.

"I said no! You little dunce." Kakashi said trying to hold back Ichigo but let go once he felt the odd power tingle up his arm once again, this time it pained him.

'What the hell was that?' Kakashi looked down at the hand he used to hold back Ichigo and saw no signs of external or internal damage. 'It hurt like hell but it didn't do any damage to my body. I'm definitely going to report this to sensei when we get back.'


Team 7 has been walking for about half an hour now and both the fox and the strawberry feet where beginning to hurt but instead of dwelling on that Ichigo decided to ask his sensei something that's been on his mind sense they where assigned this mission. "Hey Kakashi sensei we're going to The Land Of Waves right?"

Kakashi looked down at the orange haired boy and said, "yeah, what about it?"

"Do they have ninja there to?" Everyone looked at the orange haired. Did he seriously just ask that? The answer is something even a 3 year old should know. "Seriously did they teach you anything at that old academy of yours?" Naruto asked feeling slightly embarrassed for Ichigo.

"No. Not in the land of waves." Kakashi got out a big scroll map and explained the great villages and there kages to the three kids.

After the lesson Ichigo was very very confused. He knew that his teacher put it in the most simplest way he could but he still couldn't get a grip on it, kage villages, ninjutsu, ninja, he just couldn't wrap his mind around it. 'Maybe the longer I'm here the more it'll make sense.'

"But there's no need to worry, you won't have to deal with another shinobi on a C rank mission." Kakashi told Ichigo as he patted his head. "That's a relief." Ichigo must of jinxed it because shortly after he said that Kakashi was tied up in a chain. "WHAT THE!?" Everyone yelled at the same time shocked and scared out of their minds.

"One little piggy." A mystery man in a masked said as he ran towards them.

The mystery man whipped the chain and what can only be described as exploded their sensei.

The 4 males stood in shock, fear taking over them as quickly as the event happened. "K-K-Kakashi s-sensei." Seeing all the blood everywhere made Ichigo have PTSD from when he came home to his whole family killed making him unable to notice the two men that where behind him. "Two little piggies." They said at the same time getting ready to attack the poor boy.

"ICHIGO!" Naruto yelled as he jumped up in the air and got out some shuriken from his ninja tool bag and threw them at the nearest tree turning the enemies attention on him.

The mystery men tried to grab Naruto but he jumped out of the way and threw a kunai at the tree. 'I won't let you hurt Ichigo!" He yelled internally as he jumped on the two mens hand trapping them in his shuriken rope then grabbed both their trapped hands, one of them cutting him in the process, then began pulling them back. (I'm reading the manga as I'm writing this and I'm trying to make sense of these pictures so if I'm wrong and they're running backwards then he's pulling them in this story.)

Ichigo stared shocked at the scene. 'He's protecting me, so did he really mean what he said last night?' Ichigo thought as he watched his crush continue to pull the men back but the men broke free and ran towards the old man and Sasuke planing to attack.

"AHHH!" Sasuke screamed out of shock when he noticed the man was right behind him. Sasuke then grabbed one of his kunai and cut the dude's face. "Ow my face! My beautiful face." He said as he covered the bleeding cut and stumbled backwards.

Ichigo noticed the man coming for the drunk so he snapped out of his daze and ran in front of him yelling, "STAND BACK SIR!"

Sasuke because of Ichigo's yelling snapped his head in that direction and saw the man about to stab Ichigo. 'After that little stunt Naruto pulled off its very clear who he love and it's not me.' Sasuke thought as he ran to Ichigo. 'And if Naruto loves him.' Sasuke stopped in front of Ichigo and acted like a human shield. 'Then so do I.' He thought as he stared the man down as he got ready to stab them.

Ichigo closed his eyes preparing himself for the blood or blade that was about to come but it never did.

Ichigo shakily opened his eyes to see his sensei alive and well holding the two men in his arms. "Kakashi sensei you're alive." Ichigo said relieved with a smile. 'He must of switched places again like he did when he fought Naruto but why didn't I see through it like last time? I guess I have to have a clear mind in order to do so.' He thought to himself.

"I'm sorry Ichigo I should of moved to help you sooner but it never occurred to me that you'd freeze up, Naruto would get hurt, and Sasuke would be willing to sacrifice himself." Kakashi then turn to the rest of the team and said, "good job team."

'I couldn't do a single thing, but yet Naruto and Sasuke who have never been in a battle before acted like it was nothing and saved my life.' Ichigo began to mentally beat himself up for doing nothing but stand there and basically tried to get stabbed.

"Hey." The voice of Sasuke pulled him out of his daze. "You ok?" The black haired asked sounding concerned confusing Ichigo because last time he checked the Uchiha hated him. "Why are you concern for me? Don't you hate me?"

Sasuke sighed. "I didn't really hate you, I just saw you as my competition for Naruto's heart but after he protected you it's clear that he loves you and not me and I don't wanna get in the way of that and ruin our friendship." Sasuke then looked away not wanting to look Ichigo in the eyes when he said, "so I was hoping we could be friends."

Ichigo smiled slightly. "Sure Sasuke, I'd like that." And just like that the two ended their little rivalry and started a new friendship.

I know I said I'll wait to update until five good reviews but that was before I found out that all these people who are bullying me are well into their 20s and 30s and have nothing better to do then make fun of some high school student's fan fiction on the internet, I mean at least at the rate I'm going at, when I'm 30 I'll be successful and have no time to even be on the internet because I'll be busy with my job and social life and these people will still be bullying kids because well their nothing and will never be anything, so why should they even bother me.