A/N: Oooooh I've been getting so much inspo for this story lately lol and so many people have started Following and Favoriting, I really appreciate you guys, as well as both of you who reviewed,

Zdraco: Thanks so much ^~^ and yeah I cant wait until they start getting comfy 😈

also to the guest who told me to kill myself, thanks lol.

Now this chap I decided to start out on the actual episodes of Naruto, so this will be episode 6. This is probably gonna be the longest (and worst) chap so far so be ready and enjoy ❣️

"Sasuke here at point B" "Sakura here at point C" "Rin,at point D" there's a silence on the line, then, "Naruto here. I'm at point A!" I contain a small giggle at Kakashi's reaction, "You're slow, Naruto!" I quickly clear my throat as quietly as possible as I slip back on my stone face, "Okay, the seventh squad..." there's a pause and I feel my eyes narrow "Hm?!" Kakashi's lets out causing my eyes to flick around "The target has moved!" I watch the target carefully, "Follow it!" Kakashi orders. As we all appear from behind our tree's, Naruto sitting on top of the one Sakura came out from behind with me sitting in the one Sasuke came out from behind, Naruto speaks up, "Alright! It's over there!" He whisper shouts. All of us move quickly, hiding behind more trees in front of us mine being just behind Sasuke's, ready to capture our target if it were to run again. Kakashi's smooth voice blasts into my ear, "What's your distance from the target?" he asks, Naruto answers quickly, "Five meters! I can go at anytime!" "I'm ready too" comes Sasuke's reply, "Me too.." Sakura says almost immediately after Sasuke, "Mm" I hum into the mic as an agreement. "Okay..." He whispers quietly.

I feel a bead of sweat slide down my back, "Do it!" Sasuke's the first one to jump into action, after him is Sakura, then Naruto and then Me, seeing as I'm the furthest away, "Uryaaaah!" Naruto's battle cry almost makes me want to smile but the almost tense atmosphere pushes it away. Naruto gets to the target first, enclosing him in his arms, "I got him!" He yells out, right into the ear piece causing me to wince, I watch with a slight smirk as the cat starts trying to attack Naruto, hearing Kakashi talking in my earpiece, "Does he have the ribbon on his right ear...?" he asks, the cat just continues to try and attack Naruto, "Are you sure its our target Tora?" I couldn't help the giggle that escaped my lips the mask I'm wearing not helping to muffle it at all, as Tora continues to scratch Naruto up with no mercy, "It's the target, no mistake" comes Sasuke's reply to Kakashi, who I had been ignoring in favor of my amusement, "Yeah, definitely Tora" I call into the mic with a grin. "Alright, mission to capture missing pet 'Tora' is complete." Kakashi concludes, I grin and as I'm about to take off my ear piece Naruto blows up, "Isn't there a mission with a greater sense of urgency?!" he yells into the mic, not only causing the earpieces to malfunction but popping my ear drum and I'm sure everyone else's in the process

"Ooh!" I jump slightly beside Sauske at the noise the lady makes "My cute Tora! I was worried to death!" the pudgy woman whines as she rubs her makeup clad face against the cat, 7 sit that I am now starting to feel bad for. Naruto chuckles and rubs the back of his head, "Serves him right, that stupid cat!" I shake my head but don't say anything, "No wonder he ran away..." Sakura trails off, I silently agree with her. "...Now, then~" The man I've come to realize quickly as the Kage of this village starts, "The next mission for Kakashi's seventh squad is.." I roll my eyes already knowing it was going to be something stupid and completely worthless, The Kage makes a noise of shock and I raise my eyebrow as he starts speaking, as if its some great journey, "An errand for the neighboring town...to baby-sit the chief Counselors boy" I scoff slightly gaining a look from one of the people sitting next to the Kage, "Digging up potatoes, eh.." My eyes narrow but before I can even think to say anything Naruto's loud exclaim cuts me off, "Nooooo!" I glance at him and grin behind my mask as he does an X with his arms saying, "No! No, thank you!" I tilt my head slightly as he continues to speak, "As for me, I want to do like a more exciting mission! Give us something else!" he spouts continuing to do the arm X

I don't even have to glance behind me to know that they are all thinking about what an idiot he is or maybe even agreeing with him, I give him a nod to show my support, "You idiot! You're still bottom rookie!" A man calls out, a scar across the bridge of his nose and a ponytail at the top-middle of his head,, watching the exchange quietly, "At the start, everyone moves up the ladder by gaining experience from simple missions!" He yells out and then gives me a quick glare letting me know he saw me giving my support. Naruto is quick to talk back, "B-But!" he starts off stuttering, "Its been nothing but blah missions so far!" as I'm about to nod my head again, Kakashi punches Naruto in the back of the head, definitely not as hard as Chriri-sensei hit me but definitely enough to knock him down, causing me to re-think my playful actions.

"Knock it off." Kakashi says calmly, as Naruto lay sprawled out on the floor. "Naruto!" The Kage starts off, his voice gruff and angry, I watch quietly as Naruto gets up on his knees then on his butt sitting cross legged as he rubs the back of his head trying to soothe the pain away while the Kage starts speaking again, "It's necessary to explain to you what a mission is..." he starts out causing my eyes to drift from Naruto and to the Kage, "Listen to me!" he says his hat tilted down enough to cover one of his eyes the other seeming to glare at us, my mind wandering to the reason his voice is so gruff, 'Its probably because of the pipe,' I think to myself, tilting my head the slightest bit before trying to listen back in on the conversation. "Requests pour into the village everyday. They range from babysitting to assassinations.." He puts down his pipe, 'I dont doubt it' I think to myself as he mentions the assassinations, "A wide spectrum of requests are recorded on the request list. They are recorded in A, B, C, and D ranks in order of difficulty" he explains, I feel boredom creeping in as he speaks, "In the village, everyone below me is divided up by ability in the order of Jonin, Chunin, and Genin." I sigh and listen to Naruto and the rest of the team speaking to themselves as the Kage continues, "We at the highest level distribute these requests as missions to Ninjas who have abilities that suit said mission."

"And, if the mission is successful, the fee comes in from the client. Nevertheless you guys have just become Genin, D rank is about the best you can do." I feel myself frown at his words, I look down at the floor with furrowed eyebrows before joining back in with Team 7. "Hm?!" I hear faintly as Naruto starts speaking again, "Yesterday's lunch was pork bone broth noodles,so today will be miso broth..." I nod at the choice of food, wandering about what to eat myself when the Kage yells, "Listen!" my head turns sharply at the noise, "I-I'm sorry." Kakashi apologizes while rubbing the back of his neck and closing his eyes, Naruto turns around while in his criss-crossed position, "Maaaaan! You always lecture me, old man!" He calls out, my eyes widen considerably at the disrespect he just used towards his Kage, "But I'm not that little prankster that you think I am!" he calls out again, I am still surprised at his tone of voice and words but whne he turns around, still cross legged with his cheeks puffed out, his arms crossed, and a large "Humph!" I softened towards him greatly.

There's a beat of silence before, "Okay, fine!" breaks it, my head whips to the side so fast I heard a crack, "huh...?" Naruto asks out loud, equally surprised, I can see my team mates out of my peripherals looking shocked as well. "if you insist, then I'll have you do a rank C mission. You'll be body guards for someone." He states with a smirk, the expression on his face making me feel uneasy about the mission. "Really?!" Naruto's loud voice asks as he turns around yet again, "Ah-ha! Who? Who? a feudal lord?! Or, a princess?!" He yells out excitedly, I almost feel the need to cover my ears but I push it away as a fond smile grows on my face, "Don't get so hasty." The Kage says, "I'll introduce you now." He says and again something about the expression on his face makes me feel uneasy about he whole situation. "Could you please come in...?" the Kage calls out, we all turn our heads to the door at the same time, I make a low sounds in question as I cut my eyes to Sasuke for a moment before falling back on the door. The door slides open and almost immediately I could smell the stench of alcohol causing my nose to scrunch up, The man walks in, his hair a grey color, from old age not like Kakashi's which is natural I think, his skin tan, with glasses perched on his nose along with a white piece of thin rope tied around his forehead, the first thing I notice though is the bottle in his hand.

"What's this?! It's just a bunch of damn squirts!" He calls out and then takes a drink of the bottle, some of it spilling from the corner of his mouth and rolling down to his beard. My mind flicks back to the old man who attacked me yesterday as I see the bottle and smell the alcohol, "Oh great another drunkard!" I call throwing my hands up in exasperation, The mans eyes land on me and he glares, Naruto stands up with a, 'Huh?" as he walks in. The man makes some strange noises and leans up against the door jam with his elbow as he eyes us all up, "Particularly you, the smallest one with the idiot face. Are you really a Ninja?" he asks as he points, Naruto lets out a laugh, "Who's the smallest one with an idiot face hes talking about...?" He asks, The three of us step next to Naruto, going me, Sasuke, Naruto, and then Sakura, I'm barely an inch shorter than Sakura which makes me shorter than Sasuke and Sakura, and Naruto the shortest out of us all. Naruto's face drops, "I'll kill him!" he yells while Kakashi holds him back calmly, "What good will it do to kill the old man you're supposed to be guarding, you moron?!" Kakashi asks gruffly as Naruto continues to struggle,

I glance back at the old man to see him gulping down more of the bottles contents, "I'm Tazuna, veteran bridge builder" he states after he pulls himself off of the bottle, "You'll be risking life and limb in guarding me to the max until I return to my land and finish my bridge!" He exclaims I almost feel like calling out 'I refuse' but since the Kage already had to deal with Naruto whining about it I thought it better not to push him past his limits. I couldn't wipe the glare off of my face as I stared at Tazuna, "Ill get packed..." I state and do some hand signs to teleport me to my shared apartment. I sigh as I immediately jump into action, starting to pack a bag walking around my whole room and trying to think about how long we'll be gone. I hear a floorboard creak outside of my room and I quickly spin around a kunai already in my hand, the door slides open and in walks Kai, a kunai in his hand as well, we both let out pent up breaths as we realize its just the two of us, "Kami, Kai what the hell?!" I ask as I continue going around my room shoving things I think Ill need in there, he doesn't answer not that was really expecting an answer.

"What are you doing?" he asks following my figure with his eyes, "Are we leaving?" he asks giving me a devious smirk, I smile and shake my head, "No, I've been sent on a team mission out of the Village." I say before turning to my closet and slipping off my green shirt in favor of my black one, I don't even mind that Kai is behind me and can see me changing, "Wait, you're being sent out of the village? what kind of mission?" he asks I roll my eyes as I continue changing, "Bodyguard for some drunk old man." I say and turn my head, looking back at him, I watch as he glares at the floor, "What if you get hurt? Or something, and I wont be there." He looks back up at me, I finish slipping my katana into its sheath that now sits on my waist and turn around, fully dressed for the mission. "Kai, I can protect myself, besides even if something does happen we have a Jonin with us." I say walking up to him with my bag slung on my back and put one of my hands on the opposite shoulder, "Rei will kill me, and bring me back to life just to kill me again if something happens to you." he says locking eyes with me, I smile and nod, "Trust me." I murmur before patting his shoulder twice and walking out of my room and to the door, as I am about to leave I turn around and give a two finger salute to him before walking out the door and shutting it behind me.

We all walk out of the villages gates along with Tazuna, Naruto being in the front of all of us, while I, out of preference, am behind everyone. Even with me being at the very back of the group, behind Sasuke and Sakura, I can still clearly hear Naruto's, "All right! We're off" as he turns to face us and pumps his arms up in exclamation. "What're you so excited about?" Sakura asks, I give a little sigh and put my hands behind my hand leaning back on them, "You see, I've never left the village before!" he calls before scoping out the place in a funny way, I chuckle a little bit at him and his antics but don't say anything. "Hey! Am I really okay with this squirt?" The bridge builder asks Kakashi, I glare at him, "You could always just travel by yourself." I mumble to myself gaining Sasuke and Sakura's attention causing them both to look back at me, I look between the both of them before shrugging. I heard Kakashi laugh while I looked between them and focused on him waiting to hear what he said, "I'm a Jonin. I'll be watching him. There's no need to worry." He says and I could just hear the amusement in his voice.

I glanced at Naruto and could see him silently stewing, a dark cloud over him, "Hey, old man! Don't be mocking Ninja's so much! I'm awesome oyu see!" he calls in annoyance before a grin surfaces, "I'm a super elite Ninja who will be called Hokage one day!" I grin a little bit as I hear him say this, "I am Naruto Uzumaki. Remember it well!" he finishes, "The Hokage;s the super top-dog Ninja in the village, right?" I give a blank stare to the back of the bridge builders head because if I'm not mistaken hes from a hidden village, which means that they most likely have a Kage, right? "You sure as hell dont seem like you could become the Hokage..." The bridge builder states, I feel myself roll my eyes at his obvious lack for compassion, not that I have much room to talk but still, Naruto lets out a noise of outrage, "Aaah! Shut up!" He yells at the old man, "I'm prepared to do whatever it takes to become the Hokage! You'll have no choice but to acknowledge me then!" I'm starting to become less and less surprised by his outbursts and I barely know the kid.

As Tazuna laughs I shift slightly beside Kakashi starting t feel slightly anxious, "I'll never acknowledge you squirt...Even if you become Hokage!" He says as if purposely trying to provoke Naruto, "What?!" Naruto yells before Kakashi grabs onto his bag, holding him back for the second time that day, "I'll kill you!" Naruto says, It almost makes me wanna laugh if Kakashi hadn't sounded so annoyed when he said, "I told you to stop it, you moron!" and then again I'm stifling a laugh as Naruto says, "No! At least let me have one shot, just one...!"

We all are walking in relative silence before Sakura breaks it, "Say...Mr. Tazuna...?" I glance at her, well as good as I can since I'm walking in between Kakashi and Sasuke, "What is it?" is the bridge builders answer, "Your country is "The Land of the Waves," right?" I almost feel like slapping her upside the head at such a meaningless question but I wait in silence. "What of it?" He asks back, Sakura turns her head back to Kakashi, "Say, Kakashi Sensei..." and this time I actually tilt my head back and sigh, "Are there Ninja's in that land, too?" she asks, I don't really see why it matters if there are or not and also why couldn't she just ask Tazuna, it makes me shake my head but I dont comment, "No there arent Ninja's in the Land of the Waves..but in other nations, while the cultures and customs may be different, hidden villages exist and there are Ninja's there." he states, I give a slight nod to show I heard him and give a very very silent apology in my head to the bridge builder for assuming he was an idiot that came from a hidden village, but I can tell he's about to go into a deep explanation, "To the many nations on the continent, the existence of Shinobi Villages is a measure of the nations military strength." Kakashi says as we continue walking, sweat slides down my back from the warmth of the sun

"In other words, that is how these nations maintain their relationships with neighboring nations. Even so, the Villages are not under control of the nations. They are equal in rank" he explains, I shrug slightly in indifference, "On a small island like the Land of the Waves, where it is difficult to be influenced by other nations, there is no need for a Shinobi Village. Among the respective nations that contain a Shinobi village, the five nations of 'Fire,' 'Water,' 'Lightning,' 'Wind,' and 'Earth,' due to their large territory and immeasurable power, are called the 'Five Great Nations.'" He explains even further, I'm surprised he can even remember all of this, I cant even remember what I had for breakfast, 'Nothing' my mind tells me making my shoulder sag and my stomach growl. "The Village Hidden in the Leaves of the Land of Fire, the Village Hidden in the Mist of the Land of Water, the Village Hidden in the Clouds of the Land of Lightning, the Village Hidden in the Sand of the Land of Wind, the Village Hidden in the Rocks of the Land of Earth." My eyes widen slightly at how many hidden villages there truly are, 'I wonder how many are still undiscovered like mine was' I think to myself.

"Only the leaders of each of these Hidden Villages are allowed to have the name of Kage, the Shadow" I nod at this seeing as I've been calling their 'Hokage,' Kage simply because that's what I was taught in school, "The Hokage, Mizukage, Raikage, Kazekage, Tsuchikage, the so called Five Kage reign supreme over the tens of thousands of Ninjas in each nation of the whole world." I realize that all the beginning of the word before Kage has the meaning of their land, like Hokage meaning Fire Shadow, and Raikage meaning Lightning Shadow, 'If he was given the title Hokage he must have had to do some serious shit' I think to myself with a shake of my head "No kidding...Lord Hokage is that incredible!" Sakura says with a small blush on her cheeks, "Hey!" Kakashi says causing everyone to stop walking while simultaneously putting me on edge, "You guys just doubted Lord Hokage, didn't you...?" he asks, "Well I didn't but I'm sure Sakura did" I say just trying to piss her off, it works, she gives me a glare before shaking her head along with Naruto, Sasuke barely moves, Kakashi takes a step forward and places his hand on Sakura's head, "Well, don't worry, there are no Ninja battles in Rank C missions." as he says this I get a bad feeling, a really really bad feeling but I just try and ignore it, for the sake of the mission, "Then there's no worry of getting into a scrap with foreign ninjas...!" Sakura says, the almost sickly sweet, innocent tone to her voice makes me wanna stick a kunai straight into her voice box.

"Of course not!" Kakashi says with a laugh, again the bad feeling bubbles up and it almost makes me double over, but I just close my eyes and bite my lip trying to regain myself, ahead of me I also see Sasuke turn his head back to us, Naruto seeming to stew silently at that fact. I don't really feel like risking my life for these idiots but if we do happen to get into a 'scrap' with other Ninja's I guess Ill have to, I sigh slightly and hike my bad up on my shoulder again. The bridge creaks as we all walk across it, the water below it looking strangely inviting. We are all walking and I'm walking right beside Sakura and am determined to get a rise out of her, "So have you always been obsessed with Sasuke? Or did it just like, happen one day?" Indirectly I also seem to be annoying Sasuke which is just a plus for me, she glares at me and I laugh, making my eyes close, and causing me to almost fall straight into a puddle of water. I stop walking as I stare down into the puddle, tilting my head to the side as I realize how dusty and dry the rest of the ground is, "Something wrong?" Kakashi asks, I look up and then flick my eyes back tot he puddle, 'If he didn't weird with it then its probably fine' I think to myself and step around it, continuing to walk, "No." I say simply and catch up, walking in front of Kakashi.

We all glance back at the noise and presence of chakra to see Kakashi all wrapped up, My eyes widen seeing as I'm literally inches in front of Kakashi, the closest to him and the attackers. "What?!" The bridge builder asks shocked, "Huh?!" is Sakura, "W-What?!" is Naruto, me and Sasuke make no noise, "The first one!" I hear and then they pull, My eyes widen with horror as he is pulled apart, pieces of his body falling to the ground throwing up a cloud of dust. Sakura lets out a scream of horror and Naruto yells out his name, everything is muffled though by the intense bad feeling over whelming me and my anger bubbling up as well as my fear. Faster than I thought they could move, and their behind Naruto, muttering, "The second one..." I watch with wide eyes and frozen limbs as Sasuke jumps up and into action, pulling out a shuriken and a kunai, throwing them, mid-air, into their spiked chain things and lodging them into the tree. "Hm?!" both of the attackers voice the noise in shock, Sasuke lands on their clawed arms, gripping them with a smug "Hmph..." before kicking them both in the face, they both making pained noises before doing something to release their spiked chains.

Me and Sakura watch side by side as Sasuke lands and the attackers run off from both sides of Naruto, one going for him and the other coming straight at us, it takes literal seconds for Sakura to be infront of Tazuna, and for me to immediately get in front of her, not even realizing I had pulled out my katana, "Sakura screams a "Get back, sir!" ever annoying even as I'm trying to save her, his clawed hand is reaching out to us and I feel my adrenaline and fear pumping through my veins, causing me to tighten my grip on my katana and plant my feet. My eyes widen as Sasuke gets infront of the both of us crouched down and weaponless, I almost feel like pushing him away simply because he doesn't even have a weapon to make this an even remotely fair fight, not that it was all that fair in the first place. The clawed hand keeps coming closer, and closer, and closer, until I feel like it might actually drill through all three of us, that is Until Kakashi put him in a necklock with one arm. "Yo.." Kakashi calls calmly, I feel relief and a new type of anger bubble up in me, 'Oh that bastard he made me think I would actually d...have to protect these loser leafs!' I think to myself, shaking my head as my hands tremble against my katana. "Huh? Then what was that?" Naruto asks and has me following his gaze only to see a bunch of logs, 'Substitution' Is the first word to come to mind.

I HAVE NOT ABANDONED THE STORY! I know this isnt the whole episode bu the continuation will be in the next chapter, sorry for the inconvenience, I took a much needed break because even though I wasnt posting frequently I was still stressing every day to get some writing done and it took such a toll that it was noticeable by the people I am around every day, I am easily susceptible to stress and with school coming up as well my updating schedule will be even more hectic and Im sorry again.