"Hey Naruto," Sin groaned after calling for the boy, seeing as how his bedroom door was shut. "You need to get up and eat breakfast before we go get Hinata."
Sin certainly had better things to do than the growing wake-up call to give his blond student when they had long days of training. Sadly, it was becoming a bad habit of Naruto sleeping in late and getting cold food in the morning unless Sin was kind enough to reheat it with his magic and simply wait for him to get out of bed. It was becoming a nuisance and he was needing to go back over his new bank account and figure out how soon he could find a better apartment or even a house that could possess a backyard for training. If not, he could redesign it to his standards with a wave of his hands.
Now if he could just get the blond to rise from slumber.
"Naruto!" He knocked louder this time to make his presence definitely known. "Get up or-"
"In a minute sensei!" Naruto barked, though it didn't sound like normal to the immortal. He was accustomed to the usual snapping or groggy response of Naruto before the door swung open with either an irate or sleep deprived boy that needed a little time to process where he was and that he forgot to put on his pants. However, the tense, panicking tone in the boy's voice alarmed Sin a little and he proceeded to open the door slowly until he felt another life force from inside the room.
Calm and gentle was this unknown energy, yet all-too familiar to the man. He knew who it was and allowed his old fatherly instincts to take hold before pushing the door open to find that Naruto was indeed in his room, but he was only in his pants and pressed against his bed with another person lying on top of him and ending a kiss to his neck in a flash before looking up to her sensei with only one of Naruto's shirts on her and shorts that were far too short for a girl her age to be wearing. Where she got them, he could only guess that she bought from under the noses of her parents or had them before but never thought to use them until now.
Sin could only stand there with his mouth shut tightly and his eyes wide while his two students lied in bed embracing one another and staring at him in fear and awe since he was not entirely dressed for the day as well. He only wore shorts at the moment, so the secret about his scars painting his entire form was no longer a secret to them.
However, that was not the important matter at hand. He just found out that his two genin were possibly sleeping together and for how long, he was not at all sure, but he was certainly not happy about it.
Collecting himself while the two separated, sitting on their knees in a respective manner, Sin turned away and walked out of the room.
"Couch in two minutes or we'll be taking a walk to the Hyuga compound." He threatened dangerously without having to flare his aura, causing the two to stiffen before rushing around the room to locate their proper attire and dress themselves.
Sin was counting down the time he allowed whilst taking a seat in the chair he purchased a few days ago to gather his thoughts, his mind running in all directions as he manipulated his magic to produce two hot plates of the food he cooked and set them at the coffee table. He waited in silence until time was almost up and prepared to follow up on his threat, but Naruto and Hinata made a quick entrance and sat down on the couch as ordered, together and possibly too close to one another since their teacher was glaring at them bitterly and tapping the mug of coffee he already had.
Their teacher sat there quietly, and from what they could tell, he was trying to wrap his brain around the new discovery that they were indeed a couple and had been keeping their relationship in secret for a little while now.
"How long?" Sin asked, trying to keep his frustration under control.
Hinata was the first to speak, though it took her a minute to gather the courage to do so.
"A month and a half."
"Okay." Sin nodded, looking away from them. "And when did you start sleeping over here?"
"It started about a week ago." Naruto added, putting his hand on Hinata's.
Sin ran though his thoughts and processed with both his fatherly intellect and the various occasions he was a defiant and having girls over when he was a teenager. He couldn't necessarily blame them for being young and possibly in love, not to mention he was not at all a parent for either of them. He was strictly their sensei, their friend, their promising teacher who vowed to make them the greatest ninja. Plus there was the fact that if he reported them to Hiashi that he would possibly be facing not the clan head's wrath but the wife that he later discovered could be a downright monster when he accidentally walked in on her in the bathroom.
He still had bruising memories of her using the byakugan and a kunai to chase him across the village.
"Okay," he dragged his hands across his face and sighed. "Tell me you're both still virgins."
"Of course!" Naruto barked, standing up angrily. "All we've done is make-out and sleep in my bed. Hinata and I are together but the most we've done is lay in bed in our underwear!"
Naruto didn't realize what he just said until Hinata jabbed his side and Sin blushed like a beet before taking a sip of his coffee. The young blond slammed both hands across his mouth and sat back down in thought of throwing himself and his girlfriend under the bus. He looked over to Hinata to see that she was shaking her head.
"You dummy." She sighed.
"Okay," Sin put his coffee down and clapped his hands together. "I'm going to pretend that this never happened." He looked over to Hinata, who was nervous again under that intense gaze of his. "And you, missy, are to never sneak in here ever again. You both may be teenagers and discovering new feelings for one another, but I will not be the one to tell Hiashi that his daughter slipped past my senses and got pregnant overnight."
He shifted his gaze to Naruto. "Is that clear?"
"Yes sensei." They replied sadly, knowing they screwed up and waited for their punishment to commence.
However. . .
"Now," Sin paused, his smile growing as he gestured with his hand for them to eat. "Tell me when you two decided to start dating, so we can later break the news to Hiashi."
Naruto was the first to speak up when suddenly a knock at the door was heard and all attention turned to it. He went to stand up and approach when Sin told him to sit back and made his way to the door to see who was on the other side.
He followed his own procedure of discovering who was at the other side. He used his sensory for his and his students protection first before deducing if it was a familiar energy, and to his surprise it was someone he knew and it made him a little concerned that this person was here already.
"Fuck me." He sighed, opening the door slowly.
Once the door was fully open, a hand wrapped around his torso and firmly grabbed his rear while a pair of lips pressed against neck before a short nibble was made. Taken by surprise, Sin stepped back and fell over from tripping on his feet while the culprit fell with on accident and pressed herself against his form, her supple chest pressing against his as she grinned deviously and used her other hand to cut his cheek with a kunai.
"Now I would love to wake up like this every morning." Anko commented happily, licking the blood off her kunai while the two young teenagers watched with blushes across their faces.
"I could have killed you if I wasn't distracted at that moment." Sin told her firmly, only to get a chuckle out of her while another walked in with same mischevious grin on her face.
"Yeah, I doubt that since you can't handle a woman." Anko retorted smugly, making him blush again by playfully dragging her hand across his crotch.
"Anko, stop that." Tsume ordered, ruining her friend's fun. "We are actually here on important business, not for you to break him and get your rocks off."
"Important business?" Sin questioned, gently pushing Anko off himself and standing up to face the canine woman.
"Yes," Tsume nodded, her expression softening but still carrying that same smile. "Business that requires your attention at the Hokage's office immediately."
Before he could react, Sin found himself licked on his lips by the inuzuka and her fangs slightly pinching the lower lips before she stepped back and handed him the summons that was stamped by Sarutobi.
"Guess we'll have to postpone our date for another night." She told him, a somewhat sad tune to her voice as she stroked his cheek, making him feel very uncomfortable.
By the time the unpleasant encounter waited off between the three, Sin was quick to get himself dressed and have his students quickly finish their breakfast taking off with his genin and admirers to the hokage's tower.
Hokage's Office
Once Sin and Sarutobi were certain that it was just them and the group that followed in tow, a few chakra and magic seals here and there, though nobody except the old kage and young immortal knew which they were, everyone took a moment to relax before making serious with the reason their leader decided to summon them so early in the morning. It was unheard of to Sin on the the account of keeping tabs on the scheduling the hokage made with his teams when missions needed to be done, but from the discerning look on the man's face, he had a sinking feeling that someone was in trouble or something has happened that required their immediate attention.
"You summoned, Lord Third." Sin, to everyone's surprise, said respectfully, causing even the old man to look at him wide-eyed for a moment before coughing into his hand.
Sarutobi's expression sunk deeper into a critical gaze between him and the white-haired man who was firmly gripping Setsuna, nervousness clearly in his newest jounin's expression as he decided to hold up a slip of paper for all to see.
"Yes, I summoned you for an important mission." Sarutobi replied, reading over said paper once more. "Thanks to some anonymous sources in an old friend's spy network, it has come to my attention that team seven has encountered two A-rank rogue ninja and barely made the decisive measures for victory."
"Sounds like Kakashi is as lazy as usual." Tsume scoffed, thanking kami in her heard that her son was not on that man's team. She could only imagine how lacking her son would be in his training should it have happened.
"Yes," Sarutobi cleared his throat, agreeing with her. "However, there are other sources that the escort mission I gave Kakashi is very possibly transferring from a C-rank mission to an A-rank due to the witnessing of a certain swordsman in the land of waves."
Sin cocked an eyebrow at the old man. "Swordsman?"
Sarutobi nodded.
"Yes, a Zabuza Momochi of The Seven Deadly Swordsman was spotted with a nefarious group and causing a problem with the bridge between our lands being built. Builders are being killed before they reach the construction sight, and the one behind these killings happens to be a gang lord that goes by the name of Gato."
The room became thick with killing intent, and all eyes turned to the last ninja anyone expected to feel anger or dislike of situation. Her eyes swam with the burning fury of her byakugan and her hands crunched the arms of the chair that was offered to her, causing even Sin to question just how strong she had become lately.
"Who's this Gato guy?" Naruto asked. "Sound's like a real jerk that needs a beating."
"If only it were that easy Naruto." Sarutobi commented, resuming his explanation until Hinata spoke up.
"He's a vile monster that kidnaps and trades women like their toys, forcing them into slavery and possibly worse."
"You know of him?" Tsume questioned, concern showing on her expression as she kneel to the teenager's eye level.
"Yes," Hinata nodded. "I was young and kidnapped from the compound, almost sold to that man to become a concubine for some disgusting weapon's dealer."
"Yes," Sarutobi agreed, knowing full well the story. "But thanks to your father tracking you down, such crisis was averted."
The young immortal slid his thoughts to a complete halt and eyed his student with pity, looking slightly angered that such a young beauty was almost made a possible sex slave or worse for such a creep. He knew all too well from his various rescue missions in the other world how mortifying it could be for a woman to be reduced to such standards and left to die at the hands at such monstrous creatures.
"Anyway," Sarutobi drew their attention back to him. "Due to it being a possibly legendary swordsman in the midst, I've decided to send your team in as reinforcements for team seven due to our latest update from Kakashi being incapacitated from using his sharingan with an unknown swordsman."
"Unknown how?" Sin asked, wondering just how accurate those details were.
"Kakashi detailed that he fought a swordsman for a short period of time but was unable to deduce who it was. He detailed the area of their combat was thick with a mist and he was forced to use his sharingan to reach par level of combat with the enemy."
"Smart."
"Indeed." Sarutobi nodded with him. "Hence forth I want you and your students to intercept and aid team seven, seeing as how you are the only ninja here who possesses swordsmanship."
"When do we leave?"
"I need you to leave immediately." Sarutobi answered, watching the immortal stand up and tell his students to get packed and ready. However, the voice of the old kage stopped them dead in their tracks and forced them to look back at him in wonder of what else he had to say.
"Sin."
"Yes?"
"I'm also sending Anko and Tsume with you to help and supervise you on this mission." Sarutobi told him with a little disdain, knowing full well he just insulted the man slightly, and it showed on Sin's face. "Understand that this will possibly be your first A-rank mission, which puts Naruto and Hinata in danger as well, so I need someone to assess your capability as a ninja and a leader. Plus you do not know the layout of the land, so it's best to have a guide or two with you."
Sin wanted to berate the man for questioning his capability when he saw the dramatic changes in his two genin over the weeks, but the old war general side of him kicked in and his mind went to processing how beneficial it would be for him to have guides who would also witness just how capable he was with leading a team. On the down side though, it meant his abilities would be severely cut down since this news meant more would be around to witness anything should he slip a little and expose himself. It was already hard enough keeping his stages of magic under control when said magic grew and expanded every day and he needed inconspicuous moments of time to release the building energy to ease the burden.
"Alright." He sighed, hating the fact that it was not just a pair of guide but two grinning women who've been making his life a living hell with all of their flirting.
"Hell yeah!" Anko cheered, pumping a fist before putting her arm around his and dragging him out of the room. "Combat and bloodshed on our first mission together. I'm calling this one hell of a date, so you better impress me."
"Excuse me?" Sarutobi narrowed his gaze on the only ninja left in the room, sweat dropping off her face as she chuckled at him.
"Pay no attention to her, Lord Third." Tsume advised. "We'll make sure to monitor his every move and get him to Kakashi's location."
"You better!"
With those words, and the flooding intent to kill coming off the old man, Tsume bolted out of the room to go home and pack and grab her canine friend before meeting everyone at the front gate. She could only hope that Anko would make sure to pack as well and not focus her entire time left in the village giving Sin hell.
"Anko and Tsume." Sarutobi sighed, smiling at the imagery now going on in his head. "Oh Sin, you may be immortal, but I don't think that will save you from those two, especially from Anko."
He shivered at the idea of anyone in a relationship with the snake mistress, knowing damn well just how unique of a woman she could be.
Sin's expression sunk as he watched Tsume show up at the gate with Kuromaru beside her and various item scrolls that contained everything she needed for the mission, her expression growing dark when she saw that Anko had yet to remove her arm from his. After a few seconds of silence and looking to the rooftops to find Hinata was soon to arrive, Sin slipped free of the woman's grasp, leaving her disappointed, and bear the actual face of a critical leader.
"I'm here." Hinata said, checking the two scrolls she received from her father.
"Alright, everyone's here." Sin started, glaring at his two students who did the same. "Let's this straight right now. This isn't training anymore, this is a mission that could possibly consist of a life or death situation. Everything you learned from is now going to be put to the test so I expect you give 120% on this mission and stay alive at all time."
"Yes sir!" Naruto and Hinata barked, nodding at him.
"Also, no solo combat unless absolutely essential to the mission." Sin clarified, making sure they remembered just what their training was for. "We fight and live as a team, so we treat eachother like family. I may be the leader but if you have something beneficial to say then speak up. The only dumb question or statement is the one left unspoken."
He turned his attention to Tsume and Anko, who to his surprise saw that Tsume dropped her flirting facade and got serious with him. "Same goes with you two. You may be guiding us to Kakashi's location but I expect the same out of you. Work and fight as a team."
"Yeah, yeah. We get the gist." Anko commented sarcastically with a wave of her hand. "Now let's get going, because seeing you like this is a pretty big turn on for me."
"I'M FUCKING SERIOUS HERE!" Sin bellowed, making her only laugh at him.
Knowing he couldn't get her take this more seriously, Sin just sighed with Tsume and turned his attention to her.
"Tsume, for the love of god, lead us before she gives me a stroke." He beckoned politely, though lying to himself since most physical ailments, including heart problems, were averted thanks to magic always at the ready to cure or help him.
Tsume simply nodded and took off in the trees with Sin and the others in tow, leaving Anko to catch up to her for a brief minute.
"Don't stare at our asses too much!"
"SHUT UP!"
Hinata turned her attention to Naruto, knowing that her statement at the tower made him uneasy.
"Naruto?"
"Don't worry princess." He grabbed her hand and held it tightly out, giving his girlfriend his signature smile. "Nobody is going to take you. We're a team and we're alot stronger now. We're going to kick this mission's butt together."
Somehow, Naruto's words dug deep into the kunoichi's heart and filled her with confidence, causing a gentle smile to form before she nodded with him.
"He's right. We are much stronger now. We can do this."