well here is the next chapter. not really much to say.
i dont own naruto.
Kakashi looked suspiciously at Naruto, just for a moment during that brief engagement he saw his eyes change, into those of a battle hardened shinobi, but it was gone so quickly he thought he imagined it.
After all the bandits grouped back up, at least the two that weren't unconscious, they all charged at once…
Kakashi just sat there and watched, his eyes only leaving his book occasionally glance up an dsee how his team was doing.
Naruto was doing fairly well against the three that chose him as a target, Sasuke was also doing ok, fighting off the three that attacked him, Sakura had started out ok, but do to her lack of stamina was soon receiving multiple blows, she ducked under a punch only to receive a kick to the side from the other bandit, she rolled backwards to avoid another.
She then got up as quickly as she could and drew a kunai, she ducked under a swipe from a knife, and stabbed the guy in the leg, immobilizing him. She then stood up, and a sword was coming straight for her neck, she couldn't block it, it was to late, she closed her eyes and waited for death to come, but it never did. She opened her eyes and saw Sasuke in front of her blocking the sword with a kunai.
Sasuke pushed the guy back, then threw the kunai, and it imbedded itself in his thigh. He then turned around to Sakura "Are you ok?" after receiving a nod, he went back to fighting. Sakura just stood there for a second, before rejoining the fight. After a few minutes they had incapacitated all of the bandits. It was then Kakashi stood up, "Good job team, now lets move." he said casually.
"Kakashi sensei, why didn't you help us?" Sakura asked, Sasuke nodded, he wanted to know to.
"Well you see, I needed to see how you would perform in battle, and I'm proud to say you all did excellent." he said with an eye smile.
Sakura looked down, "You mean Naruto and Sasuke did great, I would be dead if it wasn't for Sasuke." Sakura said with a downcast look.
"Kakashi looked at her, "Sakura, if you cant rely on your comrades to help you when your in trouble, whats the point of being on a team? Sure it would be great if you never needed saving, but is don't know of any ninja that isn't saved by his or her comrades at least a few times, even iv been saved by people on my team several times." Kakashi said reassuringly.
Sakura's face lifted a little, and you could see happiness on it, but you could also see determination, "I'm going to get strong enough that I wont be burden, ill be able to save them when they get in trouble." Sakura thought with conviction.
"Come on, we need to move." Kakashi said. They al nodded and followed after him.
After a couple more hours of travel they were able to take to the trees again, and soon arrived at the border between Ame and Stone. When they reached the village they were to investigate Kakashi stopped them, "Ok, we don't need to attract attention, so henge into a civilian." Kakashi ordered as he transformed into a civilian. Team seven followed suit and they were soon back on there way to the city.
When they reached the gates they saw to guards, not ninja or samurai, but they were probably trained for fighting. One of the guards stepped forward, "Whats your business in the city?" the man asked in an all business tone.
Kakashi stepped forward, "We're just here to look around, and stay for a little while, vacation." he said.
The guard nodded and let them past, they got a lot of tourists to see the natural stone formations that appeared all over Stone country.
After making there way through the city they found a hotel and walked in, the receptionist looked up, "Hello, what can i do for you?" she said nicely. "Well I would like to book two rooms, each with two beds please." Kakashi said. She looked through a few documents, then pulled out two keys, "Here you go, this one is room 105, and this one is room 106, enjoy your stay." she said with a smile as she handed him the keys. Kakashi nodded, and they all left to go to there rooms.
"101, 102, 103, 104, ah here it is, room 105," Kakashi thought as he pulled out his key and opened the door, then walked in. team seven following. Kakashi sat down on the bed, and team seven sat on the other bed facing him.
"Ok, so were here to get information on a group of enemy nin that might be gathered here, they are going to be no more then high C to low B-rank ninja, but we are not to engage them. Now first thing tomorrow morning we are going to scout out the village and see where the most likely places are that a group of nin would hide, understand?" Kakashi said. Receiving nods. "Ok, now we have to decide who is going to stay in this room with me, and who is going to stay in the other room." Kakashi said as he laid his stuff on the bed he was sitting on.
Before anyone could say anything Naruto jumped up and got under the covers. "So I guess that means Naruto is staying in here, and you two are staying in the other room." Kakashi said casually, although on the inside he was laughing, he had meant to stick those two together. Even though Sakura had lost her complete fangirlism, she still had a crush on Sasuke. "Well Sasuke here's your key." Kakashi said as threw a key to Sasuke.
Sasuke sighed, Naruto did that on purpose. While calm on the outside, Sakura was giddy on the inside, "I'm going to stay the night with Sasuke! Well it is on a mission, and were in separate beds, but still!" she thought excitedly.
"Well everybody, time for bed, we need to get up early in the morning." Kakashi said as he laid down and turned out the light by his bed, Naruto doing the same.
Sasuke and Sakura both grabbed there backpacks and left the room, Sasuke walked a door down opened the lock, he walked inside and sat down on the bed closest to the door, "This ones mine." he said plainly, then set his backpack down beside him, and got under the covers.
Sakura nodded and walked over to the next bed, and got in it. "Night Sasuke." she said as she turned out the light.
"Goodnight Sakura." Sasuke said as he turned his light out, he just hoped he didn't wake up with someone else in his bed.
At around 5 AM, Kakashi woke up and started checking all his gear to make sure he was ready, his commotion woke Naruto who started the same thing. "Do you think there up yet?" Naruto asked.
"I don't know, ill go and see." Kakashi said as he walked out the door, he walked down to Sasuke and Sakura's door, then bang bang bang he knocked on the door, "Are you guys awake?" he asked and waited for an answer.
Sasuke groaned, "Well we are now!" Sasuke said, clearly not a morning person.
"Great, hurry and get ready, we're leaving to scout the city in 15 minutes." Kakashi said, seemingly oblivious to Sasuke's anger.
Sasuke sat up and cautiously felt around his bed, there was no one there, he sighed, "I must be getting paranoid." he thought to himself.
Sakura sat up and rubbed her eyes, "Why do we have to get up so early?" she thought sleepily. She then got out of bed and pulled out a mission meal, that all shinobi carry on missions, and ate it. It wasn't very good, but it was food. Sasuke reached into his bag for one as well, then remembered he had packed a couple sandwiches for there trip, but they had cooked every night, so he hadn't needed them. So he reached into his bag and pulled out a sandwich, it wasn't a five start meal, but it was better then those mission meals.
He started eating then looked over at Sakura who was slowly picking at her mission meal. he sighed and reached into his bag and pulled out another sandwich, "Hey Sakura." he said as he tossed her the sandwich.
Sakura caught it and opened the plastic in which it was wrapped, she gave a smile to him, "Thanks Sasuke." she said as she started eating.
"Sure no problem, it probably would of went bad before I ate it anyway." Sasuke said, trying to give a reason he would give it to her.
Kakashi and Naruto both ate some rice that Kakashi had sealed into a scroll before the mission.
After about 15 minutes, they all met outside. "So, how are we going to search the city, are we all going together, or spread out?" Kakashi asked his team, interested to see what they would say.
"I think we should stay together, that way of we get into a fight we can back each other up." Sakura said.
"She does have a good point, nut if we go together it will take days just to search the city, I think we should split up, so we can cover more ground." Sasuke said.
"He has a good point, while going as a team would be ideal, we just don't have the time, so I think we should separate, but we should all take radios." Naruto said.
Sakura and Sasuke thought about it for a second, then Sasuke nodded, "Sounds good to me." he said
"Yea, it seems like it's the best choice." Sakura said.
Kakashi eye smiled, mabey he had underestimated there teamwork.
"Ok, since were splitting up, here are some radios." Kakashi said as he reached into his bag and pulled out four radios, handing one to each of them, and putting one on.
"Now since we're splitting up, who is going to search where?" he asked.
"Ill, take northeast." Naruto said.
"I'll take northwest." Sasuke said.
"And ill take southwest." Sakura said.
Kakashi nodded, "then that means I get southeast. Now meet back here in four hours, and remember to call for help if you need it." Kakashi said, they all nodded then disappeared.
After getting a good distance away from his team Naruto made a clone and had it search the city, then he released the henge. he was wearing solid white ANBU style pants, with several pockets, he had on a white long sleeve shirt, with a solid white jounin style vest. He even had on a white mesh undershirt, belt, and equipment pouches. The only thing not white, was a swirl on the back, with the kanji for 'devil' in solid black, on the back of his shirt, (although you cant see it) and on the back of the vest.
He was now ready to complete the mission that the Hokage had sent him on.
Flashback
Naruto was standing in the Hokage's office in his ANBU uniform, "Ok, your team is being sent to the land of Stone, where they will be searching for, and gathering info on a group of missing nin we believe are hiding there. But you will be finding and eliminating a much more dangerous group of mission nin. All the details are in this scroll." he said as he handed Naruto a scroll, who nodded. "Dismissed." Sarutobi said. Naruto nodded, then left in a swirl of blue fire.
End flash back
The mission scroll had told him that along with the group of C to B-rank nin hiding here, there was a group of A-rank missing nin hiding here, led by someone that bordered on S-rank. So he was sent on a mission to eliminate them. These nin were also supposedly working for Orochimaru, so he was also supposed to retrieve any info on him that he could.
After searching through the city for about an hour he found where they were hiding, it was an old abbandon hotel, a perfect place to hide, as no one would enter a condemned building. So he set about figuring out what would be the best strategy.
deathmvp, im glad you noticed that, i thought that just letting naruto go was something anko wouldnt have done.
dr who- exterminate, the reason a who village of ninja cant detect naruto has a jutsu active is several reasons, one he is one a level far above most of them, two he's just a kid so no is just going to randomly check if he has a justu active, three most of the ninja that would be able to detect it, know about the kyuubi, so they would probably just assume it was a side effect of having the kyuubi inside of him.
rixxell stryfe, yes i know it would help if kakashi knew there was someone to back him up, but it could create problems, but i might make kakashi know, it will also help when naruto has a secret mission, like in this chapter.
also on a unrelated note, the last chapter got more reviews then any before it.
now as for the pairing, this is a difficult story to pair him with someone, for one if he is paired with someone in the age group he is pretending to be in, some would consider him a pedophile, and then again, if he is paired with someone that is the same age as he really is, then they probably wouldnt really go for him, as he is 12, and then they would be considered a pedophile. so the only way i see is to either wait until he reveals himself to the village, or i could pair him with someone his own age.
so for this chapter the pairing pole is closed, and im opening a new one, do you want him to wait until he reveals himself to the village (warning this is a long way off) or do you want me to pair him with someone in his age group of 12?
here are the votes (but its closed for this chapter)
anko: 28 and 2 against her. (i thought it was kinda strange, but ok?)
tenten: 8
fem haku: 19
temari: 7
kurinai: 25
hinata: 15
hana: 8
yugao: 8 ooc
samui: 7 (will be OOC)
ino: 8
tsume: 3 against: 2
konan: 6 ooc
yugito: 6 ooc
mei: 8 ooc
fem kyuubi: 13
fuu: 1 occ
Kurotsuchi: 1 ooc
tayuya: 3
kin: 3
ayame: 2
shizune: 1 against: 2
sakura: 0 against: 3
harem: 14
against it: 6
against a pairing: 1
also, if you have any other suggestions, fell free to tell me and i will ad them to the list.
wait for pairing: 2
use someone his own age group: 4