"I'm so hungry... Sakura-chan, can you lend me some money – "

SMACK!

"OUCH! Atatatataaah...!"

The pink-haired girl grabbed the kyuubi container's ears with all her strength.

"NARUTO! You ate 3 WHOLE BOWLS OF RAMEN just a minute ago!"

"Aaaah... Sakura-chan! Y-you can stop now... hehe... besides, I'm so full!"

He stood up awkwardly and rubbed his tummy, as if he was satisfied.

Sai just continued to observe the duo, while Yamato was preoccupied with his own thoughts.

"The Hokage's giving us a mission under this situation? I wonder, is it concerning Madara and Sasuke?"

"Oy, Yamato-taichou!" shouted Naruto.

"Huh? Whaaaa?"

"You look worried. Is something wrong?"

"No. It's nothing."

Yamato stared at the floor while walking towards the Hokage's room. She called them for an important mission said Shizune. They needed to be busy with trying to track down Madara and the others! Yes, most of the Akatsuki is dead,so hunting them down would be easy... but somehow... the dark side is always very strong. Madara's strength is somewhat stronger than all the akatsuki's power combined.

"We're here!" said a very cheerful Naruto.

"Go on. Knock the door politely," instructed Sakura.

But he did the opposite.

The very opposite.

BANG!

"TSUNADE-OBAACHAAN!"

"Naruto! My door!" scolded Tsunade/Shizune. She stared at the once perfect door which now lie on the floor.

"Lady Tsunade! I- we're so sorry for his behavior right now... he's just hungry... hehehe..."

Sakura the punched him on the head, which made Naruto dance around the room while crying in agony.

Yamato slapped his face in disgust, yet Sai just stood there.

"Ugh. Let's just get to the main point. Naruto! Stop wobbling and listen to me!"

"Why, Tsunade-obachan? Is it a new mission concerning Sasuke and the masked Uchiha?" he asked eagerly.

Shizune sighed, and instructed Yamato to control the eagerness of his pupil.

"Naruto..." (Insert eeriee background music here)

He faced Yamato slowly, and it clearly showed that fear invaded his eyes.

He had THAT face on.

"H-hai... Y-yama..to- tai-chou..."

"You need to be controlled with FEAR!" said the wood guy as he walked towards Naruto.

Naruto then ran backwards in an awkward manner.

"OKAY OKAY! I'll listen to you Tsunade-obachan! Hurry up and tell the mission!"

Tsunade stared at them in disbelief.

"Wow. Good thing I put him under Yamato."

"Anyway," said the hokage, "I want you to take care of two people for me. They're still young, so please try to be careful with them."

Tsunade faced a door, where they could see two innocent eyes peeking.

"You may come in now."

The two young genins slowly came in. They looked nervous, but Tsunade can feel their chakra – they were not nervous at all. One of them had tomato red hair. Naruto thought he looked suspicious, for he couldn't even see the eyes of the young lad. The boy was wearing something that looked like a chuunin jacket, only it had no pockets and was way shorter than one. Under that, he wore an orange shirt with long sleeves, but both sleeves were curled up to his elbows. He had ninja pants, just like everyone else.

The next kid was a female. Sakura liked the thought of watching over a young girl – for she could treat her as a sister. The female had two short pigtails on each side of her head, and wore a dress that looked like a green chinese qipao, only that the skirt side on her left revealed her whole left leg, and it went down all to the right side, in which the skirt covers her whole right leg. She wore ordinary ninja pants under the dress.

"So, we're going to take care of them? I thought this was some mission concerning Sasuke!"

"Naruto! Listen. I want you, Team Yamato, to take care of these these two and teach them all about a young ninja's life."

"NAAANIIII? So we have two babysit them?"

Without hesitation, Sakura punched him on the head again.

"Would you just be quiet and listen?... hehehe... go on, Tsunade-sama..."

"Sigh. Anyway, once they learn a new ninja move, or do good stuff for the village, I want you to put these coins..."

She held up around 10 bronze coins on her hand.

"... into the money box the girl is holding. The money box needs to be filled with 500 bronze coins, before you could let go of them."

After Tsunade said that, the redhead seemed to twitch.

"500 coins? Is she crazy?"

"Fine," said Naruto. He then faced the blue-haired girl. "Tell me, what's your name?"

Konan acted all shy like an adorable little girl, and looked up to his Naruto-nii with big, cute eyes.

"I-I am... my name is ... Kohana..."

"Kohana? Little flower? How cute!" squealed Sakura.

"Hmm..."

Sai still stared at the pair, for there was something very familiar about them...

Konan then gave Pein a sharp gaze which meant : "Act weird, like that Naruto guy!"

"Ah, my name is ... NAOKO!"

Pein did the famous 'peace' pose, and smiled with all his might. This caught Naruto's attention.

"Oooooooooooooooh! Let me guess, you're someone who likes fun, right?"

"Yes! I like fun, Naruto-nii!"

"Naruto-nii", thought Naruto, "This is going to be so much fun after all!"

"Okay, Tsuande-baachan! We accept this duty. Come on, Naoko! Climb to my back, and I'll carry you while running downstairs, okay?"

"Hai!" said Nagato with a cute smile.

"How troublesome" he thought.

He then climbed at Naruto's back, and they ran around the building.

"Oi! Careful , Naruto! You might drop the kid!" shouted Kiba.

"Too late to warn him. He's already on the floor below." said Shino.

"Geez. What a hyperactive person, that Naruto," said Kurenai. "Hmm. Do you guys have any idea of what this mission's going to be?"

"N-no idea a-a-at all, Kurenai-sensei..." said Hinata.

They were on their way to see the hokage, for she will be giving them a mission, similar to that of Team Yamato.