Diana Louis

Diana Louis

Naruto was up early; earlier than his teammates would think was possible for the blond. Naruto had a motive for waking up at such an unreasonable hour. If he left for the training grounds earlier that would mean there would be less people in the village to deal with. Less people pointing at him and whispering words Naruto cared not to know. Then there were the other kind of people; the ones that wouldn't be afraid to look him straight in the eye with a face full of disgust and call him out for what he held inside, a demon.

Naruto stuck to the sides of the buildings, the shade would provide him more coverage from the untrained eyes of the citizens. However, if anyone were to actually see him, he would be grinning like the idiot he played to be. Hands crossed behind his head and looking upwards at what would seem like the crystal blue sky- there were ninja's that disliked him as well and as such he had to be aware of the roofs.

Luck for once was on Naruto's side as he managed to get to their team's meeting spot without any trouble from the villagers. Naruto had gotten up so early he was there before even Sakura.

Naruto figured this was a golden chance to gather information on his own teammates. It would be at least three more hours before Kakashi-sensei arrived so he had slim to none chances of being caught from the genin's abilities. If Kakashi was there, on the other hand, he wasn't sure he could manage to stay unnoticed.

He jumped to a tree branch a few meters away from the bridge that marked their meeting grounds and drew his chakra inwards. Eliminating outside chakra residue on his body would do a pretty good job at masking his chakra signature.

Naruto waited around fifteen more minutes before he recognized a pink head bobbing up and down towards the bridge.

Sakura leaned over the bridge railing to look at the water; a happy idiotic look was covering her face. There was no doubt she was thinking about Sasuke and her new attempt to ask him out on a date.

Sasuke soon joined Sakura but smartly created a big enough space between her and him so that he could avoid any attacks at glomping-something his fans seemed to be obsessed with.

"Sasuke will you go on a da-," Sakura started but was interrupted with the usual negative from Sasuke. She pouted but brightened up at the thought of trying again after training. She continued to do what she did best, gaze intently at Sasuke's every move and imagine herself reviving the Uchiha clan.

Sasuke had the usual smooth- psychotic- avenger look on his face; after all he did have a reputation to keep up.

After Sakura composed herself and got out of the Uchiha fan trance she finally noticed a teammate was missing.

"Hey where is Naruto? He's usually here by this time," Sakura pointed out.

Sasuke grunted before answering, "The dobe probably got lost in his stupidity."

Sakura managed a worried look before going back to gazing at Sasuke, "Yeah, lost or something."

Up in the tree Naruto sighed at the completely expected actions from his teammates, it seems like they would never change.

He would have to show up now to not seem suspicious and too out of character. Still hiding his chakra signature Naruto cautiously jumped off the tree and made a roundabout towards the path he usually came from. He slowly released his chakra and sped up his breathing.

"Sorry I'm late! I saw a black cat and had to find a different way to get here," Naruto admitted looking embarrassed with the rosy blush on his cheeks. Sasuke snorted at his correct assumption.

"Baka, that's almost as bad as Kakashi-sensei's excuses! Just tell the truth, you got lost didn't you?" before Naruto could even defend himself Sakura cut in saying how Sasuke was always right.

Naruto looked at her with an abashed smile but inside he just wanted to grab her little neck and shake her back and forth until she went limp.

Oops, little psychotic thought, I have to calm down.

"Sorry Sakura-chan, you caught me. I promise not to be late again," Naruto said before doing his usual routine of asking her out to which Sakura responded with a loud and passionate NO and then the usual looking to Sasuke for approval of her actions.

Naruto sighed underneath his breath preparing to wait out his ever late teacher.

Poof!

"Sorry I'm late. I tripped on a rock and fell on a woman, grabbing her breasts by accident and then got kicked in the crotch. By circumstance, it also happened to be by the hot springs so more of her friends decided to join in." Kakashi explained giving his usual lame excuse.

"Just DIE!" screamed Sakura and Naruto not doubting this story except for the whole accidentally falling on her ordeal.

"Well team we seem to have a mission today," Kakashi said, his inner sadist smiling happily at their expectant looks, even Sasuke paid attention.

"We have a little kitty cat to find and return to her master for a D rank mission," Kakashi enlightened inwardly cackling at their diminished faces.

Sakura and Naruto groaned out loud while Sasuke focused his Uchiha glare entirely on Kakashi.

After a courageous and deadly fight with the neighborhood cat, only just won by them, team seven was ready to curse whoever invented D rank missions.

"Old man, I demand we have a higher ranking mission!" Naruto banged on the Hokage's desk playing his role still.

"Naruto you know I can't do that, It wouldn't be fair for the rest of the genin," the third sighed rubbing his forehead with his fingers.

"But we've already done 25 D rank missions, not many other teams can say that," Naruto argued with a small glint of happiness in his eyes at the denied proposition.

The Hokage stopped a moment and closed his eyes in deep thinking.

No, he wouldn't…would he?

"Alright, I'm willing to allow team seven a C rank mission," the Hokage answered while still sighing knowing that he would regret his decision.

Oh shit! Kyuubi's going to destroy me.