Kakashi was at the head of the group, keeping an eye out for any enemy ninja that would cross their path. Kioko remained behind him, with the three Genin beside her. Sasuke for the first time in a while looked pleased during a mission; since this was the first time he was able to fight along side his sibling. Sakura continued to look over at the female Uchiha with interest, wondering what skills she possessed. She as well as Naruto have witnessed first hand what an Uchiha could do.

Naruto was just as excited as always, every time he was going on a mission, he looked around being slightly reckless with his actions, which earned him a banging over the head from Sakura. As the mission continued on, Kioko suddenly remembered an event from her past, grabbing her head a bit from the sudden shock. Sasuke walked over to her in concern, "Sis what is it?"

Kakashi stopped walking and looked right at her and relied what had happened, she was reliving the events that took place in this particular spot years before. "These surroundings have triggered another memory recall."

Kioko was in these woods, and appeared to be wearing the Jounin outfit, a kunai in her hand. The winds were blowing and leaves flew around the area. As she looked around she could see Kakashi, along with Yondaime, who at this time wasn't a Hokage. A fierce battle took place, but the enemy was unknown. As the battle progressed she awakened her hidden powers and used her Kekkei Genkai to help defeat them.

As she came out of the memory she saw her younger brother staring up at her, with an expression that asked her if she was ok. She gave him a reassuring smile and patted his head. "I'm just fine, I just remembered something. No need for concern, we have a mission to complete." Before they could get much further a growling noise broke the silence that had covered over the group. The four of them turned their heads and it appeared that it was Naruto, he was hungry again.

He had a hungry expression written all over his face and covered his stomach as it growled again. "I'm so hungry!" He complained. Kakashi sighed knowing there wasn't anywhere to eat in the current area but he didn't have to say a word, Kioko walked over and handed him a container. The young spiky haired ninja blinks a few times and then opens the container to reveal ramen. "Yay ramen, ramen, thank you so much Kioko-chan, ramen, ramen."

Naruto took out some chop sticks he was carrying and then simply began eating but he soon realized this wasn't any ramen from the village. It was much different in fact it was better then any ramen he has tasted. "This is amazing, I've never had ramen as good as this. Where did it come from?"

Kioko smiled. "Before we came here I decided to cook up some of my homemade ramen, since I know Sasuke likes it so much." As Kioko commented on it, Sasuke turned away slightly, having a slight redness on his face. "And he mentioned to me your ramen addiction so I thought it would be a good idea to bring some along."

Naruto was slightly confused as he looked over at Sasuke. He never thought that his greatest rival ever thought of him like that. This caused him to smile and whispered a thank you to the Uchiha survivor. Not too long after the aroma of the ramen got everyone hungry and they all looked over at Kioko with begging eyes. She laughed in response and passed out some of her ramen to everyone. The three Genin say together and watched in interest as Kakashi was about to eat his.

Kioko looked over at the three young ninja and then back at Kakashi and laughed to herself. 'It looks like they too wanted to find out what was under Kakashi's mask.' Naruto and the others watched carefully hoping to get a peak of what was behind the mask of their sensei. The intensity of the air increased as Kakashi lifted up his hands to his face in order to pull down his mask to eat. You could hear the hearts racing and each gulped waiting for the surprise.

Kakashi opened up the container and just as he was about to eat it, the event couldn't be witnessed. Just then Kioko steps in front of them, with a smile on her face. "So what do you think?" The eyes of the three bug out as they missed what Kakashi's face looks like. She blinked, pretending not to know what was going on. "Was it that bad?"

Sakura quickly shook her head. "No, Kioko-san, it was well done. You make an amazing cook." As she was telling her how she felt the inner Sakura came out, "Not again! Every time we try to take a look something always stops us… cha!"

Sasuke had a similar look on his face but he broke a smile, "It's just as I remembered it. It looks like some things never change after all, right sis?" Kioko laughed lightly as she nodded in agreement not noticing Naruto's twitching eye.

'why.. why does this always happen? I was sure this would be the time to see it but no…'His thoughts were disturbed by Sasuke pushing him off the bench and glared at him. Naruto rubbed his head and glared back at Sasuke. "Sasuke you jerk!" A fight began between the two of them and the dust began to swirl around them.

Kakashi walked over, shaking his head as she watched his two students fight each other. He smiled at Kioko and handed her the bowl. "That was delicious Kioko, thank you." He began walking along with Sakura and Kioko was soon right behind. The three of them didn't want to bother the two boys with their fight so they continued on ahead.

Moments later Sasuke and Naruto settled down and they looked around. "Ahhh great. They left us, this is all your fault Naruto"

"My fault? Why are you blaming me for this? You're the one who started this!"

Sasuke picked himself off the ground and brushed off all the dirt that was on him. "Never mind you loser, lets just go."

Sakura looked over at Kakashi and began to wonder. "Sensei, was it alright to leave those two back there?"

Kakashi laughed as he looked back at Sakura. "Not like we could lose them anyway. I just didn't feel like breaking them up. The two of them have to get it out of their system and that's what I allowed them to do." He looked behind them and saw Naruto and Sasuke running up to them. "See what I told you, they are back already."

Kioko giggled a bit as she looked at the two of them and how bruised they were from punching the hell out of each other. The boys sighed as they realized they did that on purpose, complaining to themselves as they walked along with Kioko. The trip to the sound village appeared to be rather peaceful and it appeared they wouldn't be running into any enemy ninja which relieved Kakashi.

Kioko stopped in her tracks as she heard some howling coming from a distance. She turned her head and listened to them and then looked toward Kakashi, "Hold on a moment… there seems to be trouble around here." The white haired ninja blinked and looked over where Kioko had mentioned and he too heard the wolf calls, recognizing them to be one of alert.

"You're right. Something must be going on, but I don't understand why there would be any violence in this area." As Kakashi continued talking they saw a cloud of smoke in that direction and they all looked at themselves and decided they were going to check it out. The five ninja rushed through that part of the woods to come upon a village. Kioko's eyes were shocked as she saw that several of the buildings had some serious damage and some were practically burned to the ground.

Naruto couldn't believe his eyes as he witnessed the condition of the village. "Who could have done…" Before he could finish his sentence a few wolves came out from the village and ran him to the ground. Naruto was laying face down into the ground, his body twitching after being run over. Kioko bent down and listened as they began to make noises, not understandable but anyone who raised them. Naruto sat up and gave a dirty look to the wolves that knocked him down.

Kioko looked at Kakashi with a serious expression on her face. "It was the sound village. They were the ones who did this." Everyone was in surprise when they heard the revelation and they decided that they should stay around and help these people, knowing that if the sound village was behind it, then they would end up coming back to do more harm.

They made their way, carefully into the village and looked around, seeing if there were any survivors. At first there was no sign that anyone had survived the attack but Naruto's ears perked up as he heard what sounded to be a crying child. He searched for the sound and found it in a beat up hut and decided to investigate. As he walked in he saw a young girl, holding her legs close to her chest, sobbing. Naruto walked in, "Hey there, its alright, I'm going to help you."

The young girl snapped her head up and looked at Naruto with fearful eyes. "No stay away…" Naruto felt bad for the child and decided to call for his sensei. Kakashi came walking in and carefully approached the girl, trying not to scare her anymore.

"It's alright, we aren't going to hurt you. We are from the village hidden in the leaves." The girl looked up in shock and looked at Kakashi's headband and instantly felt relieved that they weren't from the sound village. Kakashi was able to take her out of the building and brought her outside to get a better look at her. "You don't appear to have any injuries, tell us what happened here."

The young girl wiped her eyes and looked at Kakashi. "The day was like any other here in our village. We were just going on with our normal business, when suddenly we heard some crashing noises around the village. My older brother, who is the only family I have left, to check outside to see what had happened. From where I was a battle seemed to be taking place. I felt worried and looked outside to catch a glimpse of who was attacking us, they were ninja… with this symbol on their headbands." She leaned down and drew the Sound symbol on the ground. "They kidnapped my brother, I don't know what they are going to do to him."

Naruto felt angry as he heard the tale of the young kid and instantly felt sorry for the villagers. Kakashi looked down at the girl and asked if anyone else had survived the battle beside her and she couldn't answer. She had no idea if any else made it. Suddenly a male's voice could be heard from across the village. "Sairen." The girl looked relieved as she ran over to the man giving him a hug. "Uncle.. I was so scared."

He leaned down and played with her hair a bit, showing her some comfort and then glared at Kakashi and the others. "We don't want your kind here. Be gone, we don't want any more trouble."

"We just came to assist." Kakashi explained. However the man wasn't trilled with the idea as he began to pull out his weapon, forcing Kakashi to get defensive. The young girl shook her head and cried. "Please Uncle don't hurt them.. they aren't from the same village those others came from… they are the ones who found me.."

The man looked down and let go of his weapon to make the young girl feel better and extended welcome to the five of them, offering them to rest for the time being. Kakashi accepted the offer and began to wonder why such a peaceful village would be attacked by the sound village. He looked off in the distance and began to think, 'No matter the reason, I will not stand by and let the sound village destroy any more innocent lives.. it looks like I have no choice, here is where the fight will begin, Orochimaru.'

To be continued…..