Team 7, plus one 'Old Smelly Drinker' as Naruto so forcefully labeled him, were walking down the path to the Land of Wave, as was the reason for their mission.

If one was to look closer, they would see their companion shaking, on the other side of the team's jounin sensei. Looking over at the genin, Tazuna could tremble in fear, is this how all ninja in Konoha behaved?

Flashback jutsu!

"Team 7, this is your client from the Land of Waves, Tazuna. You are to escort him and protect him while he builds a bridge from his land. Is that clear?"

The genin nodded, looking serious. Kakashi and the Sandaime sighed, at least they were taking this in properly. Hopefully the client doesn't do anything ins-

"Huhhhh? It's just a bunch of squirts!"

The room went silent.

"Especially the smallest one with that idiot face!"

A cold breeze seemed to pass through the room, giving chills to all those present, except the genin that is.

Kakashi attempted to laugh it off. "Oi oi my precious genin, he didn't mean anything, I'm sure! Heh heh he… tch. There goes the client."

Tazuna stared at the jounin, "are you saying that these bratscan do anything?"

Naruto grinned. "Oh these brats can do a lot, Mr. Old Smelly Drinker."

Tazuna blinked. "What did you call me you insufferable-!"

"Old...Smelly...Drinker." Naruto ground out, still grinning. Everyone stared as the room felt the better part of a freezer, is that snow?

As Tazuna stared at the blonde, he instantly felt fear when he saw red slit-eyes stare back into his own, his very soul.

"Eheh, how about we just get ready to go?"

Tazuna gulped, and looked back forward, the brats won't kill him. No, their apparent sensei seems to have enough common sense to stop them. He'll be fine for now.

And so, our adventurers continued their journey, making their first stop at a puddle. Naruto, excited for a chance, turned to Sasuke.

"Do you have any raw fish on you?"

Sasuke and Sakura blinked.

Tazuna and Kakashi blinked.

The two mysterious shinobi in the puddle blinked.

Naruto blinked.

"Yeah, sure, here you go." Sasuke replied, handing Naruto a fish that seemed to come from the depths of his bag.

Everyone stared.

Shouting in glee, Naruto grabbed the fish, and skipped towards the mysterious puddle. Holding it out, he dropped in the puddle, and waited.

And waited.

And waited some more.

There was a large splash as two unknown shinobi jumped out from the puddle, sputtering and coughing. The first ran to the trees, and proceeded to throw up his lunch in the forest. The second one, just couldn't take it. He collapsed the second he got out of the puddle.

Kakashi hummed. "Well, that was surprisingly efficient. I can't imagine how a raw fish could cause that much of a reaction."

Sakura smiled. "The fish was coated in a substance that we created, amplifying the smell of the fish when it comes into contact with water. To anyone in the water, it would smell like a thousand raw fish, rather than one."

Yadda yadda yadda, Tazuna's sappy story, begging, pleading, deciding to continue. Anyways, we get to a familiar rabbit.

"Everybody get down!"

Everyone ducked as a sword flew above where their heads once were, knowing that their enemy was sure to be harder than their last. Even though their last wasn't much of an enemy in the first place.

"Well well, if it isn't Kakashi the Sharingan user."

"Pfffft. Hahaha!"

"Oh this is rich!"

"He looks so funny!"

Everyone looked at the genin, sprawled on the ground in laughter. Zabuza twitched.

"Oi oi, you little brats, you think this is funny? How 'bout I kill you first!"

"I'd like to see you try!"

Zabuza growled, and prepared a jutsu. Only to dodge a... tomato?

Everyone looked towards Sasuke, who took another tomato out of his pocket. Ignoring the stares, he turned to Naruto. "Mind throwing these tomatoes for me? We can do Plan 42."

"Sure, just tell me when you're ready."

"Hn."

Everybody watched as sasuke dumped an armful of tomatoes into Naruto's arms. Once they nodded at each other, Naruto began throwing them at the missing nin.

Sasuke took a deep breath. "Katon! Goukakyuu No Jutsu!" Hitting the tomatoes with fire, it caused a shower of flaming tomatoes to fly towards the missing nin.

Shouting curses at the genin, the Demon of the Hidden Mist began to dodge the projectiles, every so often putting up walls of water to douse the flames.

"What is wrong with these genin! This is ridiculous! Nobody makes a fool of the Demon of the Hidden Mist!" If this keeps up, I don't think I'd want to fight them any longer

Landing on the ground in front of the genin, Zabuza was surprised to see the blonde's hand in front of his face.

"Give us a sec."

Turning towards his pink haired teammate, Naruto asked "Are you done yet?"

"Almost, almost, just finishing it up."

"Hn."

"Yes Sasuke, there are spots for signatures."

"Hn."

"Really? Never thought of that. We'll do that with the Hokage."

Zabuza stared in confusion. "You understand that?"

Sakura nodded. "He was just wondering if we need an official seal on it. We can do that later."

Kakashi turned to Zabuza. "When you're with these kids all the time, you learn how to speak and understand "Grunt".

"Here!"

Zabuza whirled around. Instead of the blonde's hand in his face, the pinky was holding a...contract? Reading it through, it did indeed sound tempting.

"So what you're saying is, I'll still get paid as much as Gato promised me, help kill him in the process, and escape Mist ANBU by becoming an official nin of Konoha?"

"Pretty much."

"Hn."

"Oh yea, your partner can come too, we sensed him in the trees a while back."

"Hn!"

"Fine fine, Sasuke sensed him."

Zabuza was shocked. This was a perfect opportunity to start anew! Even giving him a better chance to stop the current Mizukage.

"Deal."

SPLAT!

"Haha! Still managed to get you with a tomato though!"

"Come here you little-"

SPLAT!

"Aargh!"

Kakashi and Tazuna watched as the genin ran around with the A-Rank missing nin. Tazuna turned to Kakashi.

"Don't even ask." Kakashi said, before Tazuna got a chance. "I questioned it all myself for a while, but I ended up nowhere. It's best not to get too involved in their antics."

Tazuna nodded, and the two continued walking.

Hey guys, thanks for the support in this new series! Your feedback is appreciated! Next time, we either got some bell test action, or maybe some team 7 and team Gai introductions! You can request which one you would like to see first, but don't worry, both will show up anyways! See you next time!