First of all, This is where the story really breaks from cannon, and the plot begins. I'm sorry it took so long, but I've never written before, so I need practice. that being said, I will write the story to be long enough for a 20000 word introduction. Deal? Anyway, I saw that bribing people with lemon's worked for getting reviews in another story, so if I get two reviews asking for it, Naruto will explain. Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoy it.
Chapter 11
After several months with Kakshi, the team of gennin had learned to predict his lateness. He never arrived on time to anything, probably spending a large amount of the time coming up with some corny excuse. They stood at the bridge, their usual meeting place, about an hour after their official meeting time. A cloud of grey smoke announced his arrival.
"Your late." While they had only arrived ten minutes or so before, the twins greeted Kakashi by scolding him jokingly.
"Yeah, I was talking to the Hokage about the missions for today. We can either find that cat for the Daimiyo's wife..."
"NO!" The entire team was still recovering from the last time they chased that particular cat. Well, physically they recovered long ago, the scratches healed after about a week. Mentally, they had developed the same irrational fear of the furry beast that many of the chuunin and other gennin shared.
"... or we could help paint the emblem onto the main gate."
"I guess thats the only option then." Naruto looked around, to see nods of approval from the others.
"Alright, I'll tell the hokage, you three meet me by the gate." Kakashi dissapeared, and the team knew that he woulnd't appear again until they had finished the mission. Not that he wouldn't be there, but that he wouldn't show himself. Last time he did that, they made him help. Having no distractions to blame, they walked to the gate.
When they arrived, they saw another team, also gennin by their looks. The jounin, or at least the elder one, looked odd to say the least. He wore an entire outfit of green spandex, and punctuated it with a haircut that was older than he was. Unfortunately, he seemed to have infected one of his students with his bad taste, although the others looked unscathed. Those two, a girl and a boy, seemed to stand slightly apart from the green pair. Naruto and Kitsumi walked foreward to say hello, heedless of Hinata's efforts to prevent it.
"Hey!" Naruto called out to the team. The two normal ones simply looked over, but the green sensei approached rapidly.
"Look Lee! This young team of gennin is full of youthfull exuberance!" The other green one also came running over.
"You are right Guy-sensei! They are filled with the flames of youth!"
"You there!" Finally addressing them, "You must be about to start on a youthful mission!" the green Guy stood straight randomly and gave them a thumbs up sign.
"Umm... sure?" Naruto couldn't quite understand the use of the word useful to describe their mission. Before he could think of something better to follow it up with, Guy started running into the bushes.
"Kakashi, my eternal rival! How could you hide from me in there? Its your turn to pick the competition. Perhaps a rousing match of taijutsu, or a race around Konoha?" A defeated looking Kakashi stood from the bushes, and paused for a second before replying.
"Alright, how about we see who can stand on air for longer?" Kakashi returned to his normal, carefree expression.
"Alright Kakashi! If you win, I'll take 15 laps around Konoha without touching the ground. Ready?" Guy's announcement made his copy jump fairly high into the air.
"Your amazing Guy-sensei!" The youth jumped over and stood what would have been uncomfortably close to his teacher, but neither seemed to notice. On top of everything, flowers oddly sprouted into bloom around their feet.
"Ready." Kakashi quickly replied to end the moment, and get rid of the flowers.
"Go!" Both jumped into the air, and miraculously to the gennin, did not fall. Meanwhile, Kitsumi walked over to where the spandex youth was watching intently.
"Hey, spandex-san. Want to be like your sensei?" The rest of team seven recognized the malicious look in her eyes, but the youth was blissfully unaware. "Why don't we have our own challenge?"
"Yosh! Guy-sensei! I will prove to you the brightness of my fire of youth." Guy turned his gaze to Kitsumi, and everyone realized Kitsumi's mistake immediately. "I accept your challenge!"
"OK, rock paper scissors." Kitsumi smiled, "and I've even got a penalty to suggest. You should run around Konoha and repaint everything on the walls without stopping. Sound good?"
"But rock paper scissors does not have anything to do with being an excellent ninja. It is unyouthful!" Lee looked extremely disgruntled by the form of the challenge.
"But luck plays an important part in many endeavors, not to say anything of anticipating an opponents movements." Kitsumi's smile had returned.
"Yosh! You are right! I will defeat you at rock paper scissors! Ready?" The two faced eachother, and took their fist and beat it against their other hand.
"Rock. Paper. Scissors. Go!" When all was done, Kitsumi had rock, and Lee had scissors. Smiling at the easiest mission so far, Kitsumi had no idea of the implications of the challenge.
"You have defeated me. I will paint all the walls of Konoha without stopping." As he finished, Kakashi burst out laughing from above, causing Guy to focus on discerning the reason for the chuckle, and to lose his balance.
"You have defeated me Kakashi. But Lee, it seems you have found yourself your own eternal rival. And Kakashi's student no less."
"Guy-sensei! I will defeat my eternal rival with the power of youth!" Lee and Guy rushed off to do their various self imposed tasks. Kakashi turned to Kitsumi and shook his head.
"Well, you just got us out of doing the mission, but we'll both pay for it for the rest of your life. Lets go see if we can get another before they finish."
Several minutes later, the team arrived in front of the Hokage. He looked at them slightly oddly, as the painting should have taken longer.
"Hey, we would like to request another mission. Preferably one that will take us out of Konoha for a while." Kitsumi looked pleadingly at the Hokage as she spoke.
"Well, all of the missions outside the city are C ranked and above." The Hokage took out a stack of papers and placed them on his desk.
"We'll take it!" Kakashi and Kitsumi shouted together. The Hokage looked at them curiously, but pulled out a sheet of paper, and after looking it over for a second, handed it to Kakashi.
"You are to go to sand country, and bring this scroll to the gaurds outside the village. This is only a C ranked mission, so you should be welcomed fairly well. Give the scroll to the Kazekage, or his attendents, when you arrive." Kakashi read slowly, and looked to his team, "You ready?"
"Yes Kakashi-sensei." They said in unison.
"Good, then meet me by the front gate tomorrow morning." Kakashi dissapeared, leaving his students with a single large drop of sweat rolling down their foreheads.
"He didn't even bother to say a time." Naruto whispered to Kitsumi.
"I wonder if he'll be there tomorrow at all." Kitsumi shrugged it off, and led Hinata out of the room. Naruto began to follow, but Kitsumi mentally prodded him to stay for a bit.
"Umm... Kitsumi-chan? What are we doing?" Hinata followed submissively, as Kitsumi pulled her away from the door.
"Well Hinata-chan, I have a gauranteed way to see whether or not Naruto likes you." Kitsumi smiled. Although the smile was not the one she showed to Lee, it also had a certain air of molevolence that scared Hinata more than a little.
"Umm... what is it..." Hinata mumbled.
"Well, its..." Kitsumi whispered in Hinata's ear. Slowly, she began to blush, then suddenly turned bright red and started shaking her head quickly. However, by the time Kitsumi drew her head back, Hinata had apparently been persuaded, and noded her acceptance.
"Well, then follow me to the bathroom."
Later that night, Kitsumi and Naruto were sitting on their bed. They had a bit of time before they needed to sleep, and began to talk about the changes in their lives since they became ninja. The conversation changed suddenly however, as Kitsumi remembered her plan from earlier that day.
"Hey brother?" Kitsumi didn't look at him when they talked like this. They both gazed out of the only window in their apartment. "I have a present for you today. I almost forgot to give it to you."
"Really sis? What is it?" Naruto turned to face his sister.
"Close your eyes, and hold out your hands." As Naruto's eyes, closed, the smile from earlier graced Kitsumi's face. Suddenly, Naruto's eyes bulged, and blood spurted from his nose. He fell backwards onto the bed, the lack of blood inducing unconsciousness. Kitsumi smiled to herself, and put him to bed. After cleaning the blood, she joined him, still snickering softly.