A Dangerous Mission
Chapter 1
Saya has been on her mission for two years since the third Hokage assigned it to her. She was now in her apartment getting ready for her first day as a genin. Saya was wearing a brown sleeveless tight but a bit loose shirt, a navy blue turtle neck jacket with elbow lengthed sleeves to hide the blue blackish cursed phoenix symbol on her right arm, a black knee length double slit skirt, thigh lengthed bandage leggings, a pair of black fingerless gloves, and a pair of navy blue ninja sandals. She wore her official leaf ninja headband across her forehead to keep her black lengthed hair back but left two half thick strands of her hair hang over the sides of her headband, and her blue weapons pouch was strapped to her right thigh.
'Two year on this mission and what I learned about Sasuke so far is what I already know. This mission is starting to become difficult, and the other anbu officers haven't figured out who's after Sasuke.' Saya thought as her pet fox pup hopped onto her head.
The small fox pup was a bit smaller than Kiba's dog Akamaru, but was more skilled at being a ninja companion than him. It had orange fur with white tipped ears, white paws, and a white tipped fluffy tail; and was wearing a brown leather collar with a tag that had the Konoha leaf symbol engraved on it.
"Today's the day Nyoke. I'm finally a genin for the first time since I was instantly ranked as an anbu officer when I was seven." Saya said as Nyoke mewed. "Even though I wasn't allowed to take you on my missions as an anbu, but since I'm a genin, I guess you're allowed to come along since Akamaru was allowed to come along with Kiba."
Saya left her apartment with Nyoke without stopping to eat breakfast as she decided to report her progress before she heads to school. Saya entered the third Hokage's office in her ninja attire with Nyoke on her shoulder.
"So Saya, I heard that you managed to graduate from the Ninja Academy and became ranked as a genin. Have you received anymore information on young Sasuke, the boy that you're assigned to keep an eye on?" The third Hokage said as Saya shook her head. "Have you ever tried getting information from the young Uchiha himself?"
"Lord Hokage, from what I learned about Sasuke was that he doesn't really talk to anyone unless it has something to do about being a ninja. How am I supposed to talk to a guy like that?" Saya said as the third Hokage just shrugged.
"Saya, I heard of your gift of persuasion as one of your abilities as an anbu officer. Maybe you can try to have a conversation with him by using that gift." The third Hokage said as Saya nodded and left like a ninja and raced to the Ninja Academy with only a few minutes to spare.
Saya entered the classroom and instantly noticed Sasuke sitting by himself as she walked up to him.
"Morning Sasuke." Saya said as Sasuke faced towards her direction as Nyoke hopped off Saya's shoulder and went up towards Sasuke to memorize his scent. "Sorry Sasuke. Please excuse my fox companion Nyoke. I don't know why she would do something like this."
Nyoke went back towards Saya and hopped into her arms as Saya noticed the class clown Naruto coming into the room. Naruto was a close friend to Saya since they first met a year ago.
Flashback…
Saya was on her way home as Nyoke noticing a figure sitting by himself on the swings and ran up to the boy.
"Nyoke, where are you going?" Saya said as she ran after her fox companion until she noticed a blonde haired boy sitting on the swings by himself.
Saya walked up to the lonely boy who looked at her with a confused look on his face as Saya stood in front of him with her hands behind her back.
"Hi there. My name's Saya Ashiteru. What's yours?" Saya said with a smile on her face as the blonde boy looked at her.
"Naruto Uzamaki. But why are you even talking to me? Other people just ignore me for some reason." Naruto said as Saya held out her hand towards him.
"Because I want to be your friend silly." Saya said as Naruto held her hand as Saya helped Naruto off the swing and released his hand. "So Naruto, do you have any dreams for the future?"
"You bet Saya. My dream is to become Hokage so people can actually respect me. Believe it!" Naruto said as Nyoke jumped onto his head, which kind of made Saya giggle.
"Naruto, being Hokage takes a lot of ninja training in order to become one." Saya said as she and Naruto walked together.
"Well I'm going to do what it takes to become Hokage. Believe it!"
End Flashback…
"Good Morning Saya!" Naruto said as he walked towards Saya as Nyoke jumped onto his head. "Good to see you too Nyoke."
"What are you doing here Naruto? I heard that you didn't graduate yesterday." Saya said as Naruto pointed to his leaf ninja headband across his forehead.
"Well I guess you heard wrong, since I'm wearing my official ninja headband right here." Naruto said as Nyoke hopped off his head and into Saya's arms after accidentally pushing Naruto's headband down over his eyes, which made Saya laugh.
"Funny as usual Naruto. I'm glad that you've finally graduated and will be learning together." Saya said as she looked towards Sasuke then back towards Naruto. "Naruto, can you excuse me for a second?"
Saya walked over to Sasuke, which made Naruto upset, as she sat next to him and faced Sasuke.
"So Sasuke, I was wondering if we could talk about ninja training sometime." Saya said as Sasuke glared towards her, thinking that she's another one of his fan girls who is trying to spend time with him. "And don't worry; I'm not like your fan girls. I just want to talk to you about something."
Sakura and Ino raced into the room as Sakura ran towards Naruto and shoved him out of the way so she can talk to Sasuke.
"Morning Sasuke. You mind if I sit next to you?" Sakura said as Ino, along with the rest Sasuke's fan girls came up to the row where Sasuke was sitting and started arguing about who will be sitting next to Sasuke.
"I guess I should sit somewhere else Sasuke. I don't want to deal with your fan girls right now." Saya said as she looked at the arguing girls then back towards Sasuke and saw Naruto sitting in front of him while having a glaring contest against Sasuke. "Uh Naruto, I think you should leave Sasuke alone."
Saya pulled Naruto away from Sasuke by pulling him by the back of his collar while Nyoke was sitting on the desk as Saya looked towards Sasuke.
"Sorry for my friend's behavior Sasuke." Saya said while Naruto stood behind her while glaring towards Sasuke. "He can sometimes be a bit of a troublemaker."
"That idiot's always getting himself in trouble, so don't apologize for a dobe like him." Sasuke said as Naruto tried to come at him as Saya tried to hold him back.
"Naruto, I said knock it off!" Saya said as she tried to hold him back with both of her arms as she looked back again towards Sasuke. "Sasuke I suggest you take back what you said about Naruto, and quick."
'I have to keep Sasuke away from harm's way since it's part of my mission, even if it means acting against Naruto.' Saya thought as Sasuke faced her and Naruto.
"Why should I take back what I said? He really does get himself in trouble a lot." Sasuke said as Naruto was getting angrier than was before.
"That's it! Let me at him!" Naruto said as he managed to get past Saya and came towards Sasuke as Saya appeared in front of him and kicked him back.
'Sorry Naruto, but I have to stick to my assignment, which is to keep Sasuke safe at all costs.' Saya thought as she appeared in front of Naruto and kicked him as Naruto looked at her with a surprised expression.
'I noticed that she didn't use much chakra to try to stop Naruto when it should take up more chakra to do that.' Sasuke thought to himself as Saya helped Naruto up on his feet.
'How strong is she?'
"Sorry for that Naruto. I didn't want you to get hurt. My kick would be nothing compared to what Sasuke's fan girls will do you if you didn't leave him alone." Saya said as Naruto noticed the pack of girls giving them dark stares and realized what Saya meant.
"Thanks Saya, even if you did kick me." Naruto whispered to Saya as Iruka-sensei entered the classroom as all the genin sat in their seats.
Naruto was sitting next to Sakura, who was sitting next to Sasuke. Saya was sitting in front of Sakura while Nyoke was resting upon her shoulder. Iruka-sensei started mentioning that each genin will be split up in squads of three, except one squad that'll consist of four genin, and will each be assigned with a jounin teacher. After calling out the first six squads, Iruka-sensei started to call out the members in squad 7.
"The next squad will be squad 7, which will be the squad that'll consist of four genin instead of three. The members of squad 7 will be Saya Ashiteru, Naruto Uzamaki, Sakura Haruno, and Sasuke Uchiha."
Naruto was glad to be in the same squad as Saya and Sakura, who happens to be the girl Naruto has a crush on, but he didn't appreciate being in the same squad as Sasuke. Sakura on the other hand, loved it that she was in the same squad as heart throb Sasuke, but hated that she and Naruto were in the same squad. She also didn't appreciate being in the same squad as Saya because Saya was better at being a ninja than her and had a feeling that she might get Sasuke's attention because of her ninja skills. Saya was wondering about the set up of squad she was assigned in.
'Why is it that squad 7 was chosen to be the squad with four genin instead of three? I was assigned into the same squad a Sasuke Uchiha, one of the best compared to everyone else. Each squad must be equally balanced, but if me and Sasuke were put in the same squad, then it'll unbalance the strength and ability of the squad. Was this something that Lord Hokage arranged so it won't make my mission anymore difficult than it already is?' Saya was removed from her thoughts as she heard Naruto trying to get her attention.
"Hey Saya, aren't you glad that we'll be training together?" Naruto said as Saya looked back towards him and nodded her head. "Well I'm glad that we're in the same squad too, but it's too bad that Sasuke's in the same squad as us."
"Oh come on Naruto, maybe having Sasuke in our squad won't be that bad, just as long as you two won't try to bite each other's heads off." Saya said as she faced to front of the room while secretly staring at Sasuke. 'Knowing Sasuke, I bet that he's thinking that Naruto and Sakura will get in his way, but if he noticed that I didn't use much chakra when I tried to stop Naruto from fighting him, who knows what he thinks of me.'