Chapter 7: First Mission

Me: Okay, so sorry for not updating in all this while. I admit that I was reading other fanfics as well and I am also working on other fanfics as well. I already posted one up, it's called: When My Life Turned Upside Down. And I have a request for you guys at the end of this chapter.

Gaara: Well then what do you need us for?

Naruto: Yeah. I'm hungry!

Me: Here's the ramen special *hands ramen bowl to Naruto*

Naruto: Sweet! Thx Peru! *eats away*

Me: Gaara there are many turns in life and every turn has a first.

Gaara: Meaning?

Me: Meaning – that I'm having a first in this talk show business with you characters.

Kankuro: Man. It's starting to get boring around here. *yawns*

Me: *looks at him and then turns to Sai* Hey Sai!

Sai: Hey

Me: Can you draw me something? *smiles sweetly* xP

Sai: Sure. What do you want me to draw?

Me: Anything really. At least its something. :9

Sai: Okay. *takes out brush and paper*

Hidan: YO FUCKIN' MIDGETS!

*everyone looks up and stares at Hidan*

Me: Oh so you're here, Hidan. Glad you could make it.

Naruto: What is one of the Akatsuki doing here? *gets into fighting stance, Gaara follows*

Hidan: Woah! Wait a second! I just saw a sign and followed it up here. Thought I'd see what all the rainbow colors were about.

*everyone turns to look at me*

Me: What? I thought it'd look pretty. *sweatdrops* A-anyways back to the story line. Kankuro?

Kankuro: *snores*

Me: *sweatdrops and sighs* Shikamaru?

Shikamaru: Peru doesn't own any of the original characters or Naruto. Only the OC's that appear in this chapter.

Me: Ya what he said! Enjoy the chapter!~~~

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Do you ever wake up but you're too tired to open your eyes? Well that's how I was today. I heard noises in my room, no my tent. It kept going on and on I just had to open my eyes to see what was going on. I regretted what I saw.

There sleeping beside me was Sasori. I quickly backed away and accidently made the tent shake. I think he felt the tremors because he woke up and stretched.

"What are you doing here?" I hissed at him.

"Oh looks like the little bitch is going to fight!" He mused.

I realized I didn't have my sweatshirt on. I grabbed it and put it on. Then I quickly got out of the tent leaving Sasori inside it.

Outside was much worse, all of the Akatsuki surrounded the clearing. And team seven was still here, which made the situation even more worse!

"What the fuck do you want?" I yelled at them.

"We want you to come with us." Pein replied, his ringed eyes were unwavering.

"Fuck that! If you want to take me or talk to me, you have to do it when I'm alone! Ya? Can't you see I have guests here! Come back when I'm alone!" I fumed all of my hatred into my words. Luckily Pein understood what I meant. So the Akatsuki all left.

Apparently, all the ruckus I caused woke everyone up.

"What are you yelling about so early in the morning, Kuro?" Naruto yawned, coming out of his tent with a pillow in his arms. Sakura stretched outside her tent and sat on one of the logs. Sasuke, typical Sasuke; dressed up and was ready to leave. 'I wonder if he heard the Akatsuki?' I shook my head at the thought.

"I'll go make breakfast for everyone." I huffed and made the pancake batter. In two minutes the pancakes were finished, I topped it off with a square slice of butter and syrup. I also gave milk to everyone.

They all ate it happily. I zoned out and thought about the Akatsuki. 'Why on Earth would they come here? Sure I told them where I lived and it was in general too. But why choose it now? And them leaving without a fight is troublesome as well'. I didn't have much time to think about it. When Sakura put her hand on my shoulder, I jumped.

"Are you okay Kuro-kun?" She asked, obviously worried. The other two were staring at me. 'I hope its not what I think it is.'

"I'm fine, just got lost in my own thoughts. Ya." I smiled. "Anybody else want more pancakes?"

Naruto brightened, "I want them! Believe it! Can I have all of them?"

I laughed at him and his bright words. "Okay, then I'll go pack them up for you. You and Sakura need to change first. So by the time you two are finished I'll be finished as well."

We got up and went our separate ways. I packed the rest of the pancakes in a bento, and wolfed my own plate of pancakes I neglected. I tied the bento up and cleared the dishes and put them away. Lastly I wrote 'NARUTO' on the bento in case he forgot it or something. That's when Sasuke appeared, I looked up surprised.

"What do you want Sasuke?" I asked while finishing up my work in the kitchen.

"Who were you talking to?" 'So blunt.' I stopped my work to look him in the eye.

"What about it?"

"You were talking to someone this morning."

"How do you know." I ask stupidly. Wrong move, Sasuke slammed his hands on the counter and glared at me.

"Don't be stupid, you know what I mean." He seemed to growl, but I didn't move.

"Fine, I'll tell you who I was talking to ya," I sighed my voice grew serious with the next statement. "I was speaking with some orange hair dude."

Sasuke seemed to stare at me, as if I had gone mad or something. "Are you crazy?"

"For what?" I seemed to drift off in thought but stopped abruptly.

Sasuke scoffed, and he demanded "Tell me this orange hair guy's features!"

I shook my head my tone sadder. "You are really going to get yourself killed, Sasuke-kun."

Before he could argue with me, Sakura and Naruto both got out dressed. Sasuke kept on glaring at me his usual way, except this had meaning. Like he was saying: 'this isn't over yet'.

"Did you all get your valuables? Ya?" They all nodded their heads. "Sweet, here Naruto. The pancakes will be fresh up to three to four days. But its best if you eat it in one to two days. Got it?"

Naruto nodded, drooling on the bento. I did a hand sign and the tents went to their original form in the beginning. I made another hand sign and a doppel ganger appeared, near the storage area. I threw the tent sets at it and he put them away in the right place. After the storage was closed it poofed.

"Okay, let's get going. If we keep going at this pace, Kakashi-sensei will be the one being early."

"How about we keep this pace up?" Sakura mentioned, Sasuke grunted his agreement and Naruto fist pumped the air and gave a happy 'Yeah!'.

Ten minutes later we reached to where Kakashi was reading his usual porn. He looked up surprised at how late we came.

"I thought you guys weren't coming today." He said when we met up with him.

"Sorry Kakashi-sensei. They wanted you to feel how it is when you come ." I answered him bluntly.

"Well it sure seems horrible, worrying over you guys." Obviously he didn't feel what he was saying; but I guess it satisfied Sakura and Naruto, Sasuke not so much. Kakashi continued, "Today the Hokage called us in. We better hurry and see what he wants."

We all went inside the Hokage Tower. I haven't been in here since the knife incident, not so long ago. Kakashi knocked on the front door, and we went in after the call.

Sarutobi-sama, was at his usual work, Iruka standing behind him and talking to him at the same time. He stopped and looked up. He seemed to be surprised to see me in the middle of team seven.

"Kuro-kun! What are you doing here?" He asked and shot a look at Iruka. Obviously Iruka didn't inform him of my transfer.

Kakashi was about to answer but I butted in before he could say anything. "Well I thought that I get a part-time job as a ninja, Third-sama. And see how it feels. You know experimenting? Ya?"

It was quiet in the room, and I swore I heard a cricket chirp somewhere in the room.

"Really, Kuro-kun?" Sarutobi-sama questioned, not amused at all.

"I'm joking. All right? Geez calm down, Third-sama." I rubbed the back of my neck before continuing. "Iruka-sensei said it was a waste to keep in his class so he put me on team seven."

Sarutobi-sama looked at Iruka for confirmation. He nodded and Kakashi also put in a word or two about the transfer. He sighed and moved on, "How is your back Kuro-kun?"

Everybody seemed to look at me confused, except for Iruka. I ignored the others. "Better than ever."

I smiled my sweetest smile, and the Hokage let it go. He got back to business, searching and taking out the 'D rank' mission scroll. "I have an assignment for you guys. Today you'll be babysitting – "

Before he could finish, Naruto interrupted him. "I DON'T WANT TO DO BABYSITTING! I WANT TO DO REAL NINJA MISSIONS! ISN'T THAT WHY I BECAME A NINJA?"

"Naruto – " Iruka was about to scold Naruto but was stopped by the Hokage.

"Naruto, you as ninja's have to go through certain levels to do certain missions… … …" Sarutobi-sama droned out on how big the differences were from D to C to B to A and how great S rank missions were. All this was going through script, so I looked at Naruto. Surely he was sitting cross legged and thinking about ramen. I laughed a small laugh, because the Hokage yelled at him as planned. "ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING, NARUTO?"

Naruto got up and apologized, "Huh? Oh sorry. But it's not fair!"

Kakashi punched his head to make him shut up. Sarutobi-sama sighed his defeat, "Fine, I'll let you take this C rank mission. Bring in the man."

An ANBU came and brought a drunkard in with him. In my ratings he seemed to be a sixth degree drunkard. I used to rate my dad, when he came home from drinking with his friends. He brought me to the pub once but that was a different story. Anyway my ratings goes as follows:

1st degree = only had one or two shots, still has full control of his conscious.

2nd degree = had one or two bottles, has his conscious in control.

3rd degree = had three or four bottles, has medium control of his conscious.

4th degree = had five or six bottles, has little under medium control of his conscious.

5th degree = had seven or eight bottles, has little control of his conscious.

6th degree = had nine or ten bottles, has no control of his conscious.

Finally the 7th degree = had more than ten bottles, therefore he passes out or he does something that kids aren't supposed to see. It's better if kids stay away from his range of blurry vision, which is pretty big; so I guess you're only safe behind closed doors.

This guy here was a 6th degree and yet he has a lot of his conscious, he must be a hard core drinker. And I admired that, my dad was hard core too but not as this old bag.

He grunted and spoke. "You expect me to feel protected by these little runts?"

His words weren't even slurred! How many has he drunk so far? The drunkard continued.

"Especially with that little runt." He pointed to Naruto, looks like I was forgotten.

"Who's the little runt?" Naruto asked stupidly. Well I didn't want him to scream in my ear, so I stepped forward.

"Me. I'm the 'little runt' Naruto." I looked at the drunkard. "Now tell me Mister, how many bottles did you have?"

"Why do you want to know?" He asked, irritated.

"For the little runt? Pleasse?" I looked at him with my best puppy dog eyes and it worked!

"I guess I could tell you runt." He snorted, but answered accordingly. "Twelve, maybe thirteen bottles of sake."

I was dumbstruck. I was sure he had more than ten – but thirteen? I regained my composure and acted my age, an amazed eight year old. "Wow! Mister! My dad would drink about two bottles of sake to keep his conscious in control, but you're AMAZING! Ya! You're a pretty hard core drinker Mister! Uh-huh!"

There was an odd silence. Everybody knew I wouldn't act so stupid, everyone except for the ANBU and the drunkard. But you know it's pretty handy to act like a stupid child, besides I learned that the hard way when I got kidnapped by these stupid people.

"I like you kid!" He boomed in his laughter. "How old are you?"

"Eight. And you Mister?"

"63."

We were having a great conversation when a cough interrupted us. The Hokage was trying to hide his laugh but he failed in doing so, Kakashi on the other hand was chuckling. Iruka looked like he was going to scold me but restrained himself. Team seven was just staring at me; Naruto and Sakura gaped and Sasuke's face was the readable WTF face. I found Sasuke's face so funny, I found it hard to contain my laugh. He then glared at me.

"As you can see, this is the person you are supposed to escort to the land of Waves. His name is Tazuna." Sarutobi-sama told Kakashi and his team.

We left on our mission. Just past the entrance of Konoha I spotted a puddle but I ignored it 'cause I knew Kakashi spotted it as well. I grinned, the fun was about to start. But then a second thought passed my mind. 'Nobody stepped in that puddle, for the obvious reasons. So I guess it wouldn't hurt to step on them.' I grinned evilly not minding the consequences that came with it. So I ran towards the puddle when the rest were miles away from it, and jumped on it.

It was pretty fun and the expected ninjas came out; looking hurt. I had to laugh at them.

"You! You're going to pay *&$%#^ brat!" I laughed even harder, whatever they swore sounded so funny that it almost sounded like 'Johnny go eat mud' (except it was really fast); and I'll tell you it didn't make any sense at all. I smiled at them and started to act like an eight year old kid once again.

"Hey Mister's?" I asked as sweetly as possible.

"What the fuck do you want kid? Go back to your Mama!" He insulted me! I got teary eyed and they got frightened (of course they would, they were after Tazuna anyway, so what was the point of having your cover blown? Oh and did I mention that I left a clone to walk with them, I guess they wouldn't know until it gets a scar out of the blue, huh?).

"Kid don't cry! It's gonna be torture for us if we are found out!" The other guy was much nicer and better than the first. I sniffed and thought of a deal with them.

"Fine, if you don't want me to cry then you have to tell me what were you guys doing hiding like a puddle?" I thought of a threat if they didn't answer. But really why would they answer to an eight year old, assuming he was curious?

"I'm afraid we can't tell you top secret mission intel, kid. You'll get to know when your older." The second guy jumped in before the first could swear at me again.

"NO, I WANT TO KNOW WHY NOW!" I purposefully raised my voice, which got them even more freaked out. Heh heh heh, when the devil comes out you got to let it roam around for a while.

"Fine we'll tell you why! Just leave us alone!" The second was pretty much worried now, but the first was still angry with me.

"WHY DA FUCK DO WE HAVE TO TELL THIS KID OUR OBJECTIVES? THAT'S IT! I'VE MADE MY DECISION! I'M GOING TO KILL THIS KID! AND DON'T TRY TO STOP ME, LEO!" The first roared with irritation, I had to plug my ears otherwise my brain would start hurting. The second was really scared but I had my back up plan with me. I started smiling and did my 100% shadow smile, bye bye second guy. He exploded into bits, Leo stood there terrified. I lost my smile and spoke in a serious tone.

"Tell me now and you live. If you run you end up like him." I gestured to the blown up man.

Kakashi's POV

I came back to the spot where the puddle was, to follow the ninjas that were supposed to attack. But strangely nobody came. In the end I just came back and I wasn't prepared for what I saw.

Kuro was with the ninjas talking, like he did to Tazuna. And then out of the blue one of ninjas blew up. The other was as terrified as a dorm mouse that was cornered by a feline. I got a little closer so I could hear what they were saying.

"A-all ri-right, I'll t-tell you why!" He got down to his knees and pleaded to Kuro. It looked amusing but really Kuro didn't find it amusing at all. Now that I think about it, wasn't Kuro with us when we passed the puddle? When did he change positions?

"Okay then, spill it Leo." Kuro's face was grave and sounded serious. It was the first time that I heard him this serious.

"The man t-that y-you're guarding!" He sputtered.

"What about him?" Kuro solemnly questioned.

"W-we were ordered to kill h-him!" He stuttered even more and started to tremble.

"Go on," Kuro's patience was thinning and he looked angry. "Spill it."

"We were ordered to kill the man that you are told to protect, by the h-him." He finally broke down and started ranting and ran away in the opposite direction of Tazuna.

Kuro's POV

'Man he was such a weakling. I haven't seen anybody like that in my whole life. Sure the boys would run away if my devil side came out, but none of them acted this weak.' I turned my attention to the bush that was not so far away. "Well what are you standing there for Kakashi-sensei?"

He stepped out looking surprised that I caught him in the act of eavesdropping. I smiled at him.

"Well don't just stand there we got a group to catch!" I grabbed his arm and ran at amazing speed, and Kakashi was literally flying behind me.

Me: Soooooooo looooooong!

Shikamaru: Just be glad you got it finished. *shakes head*

Me: Do you think it was great? *looks at him*

Naruto: HELL YEAH! IT WAS AWESOME! BELIEVE IT! *fist pumps*

Me: Awwwww. Naruto you are such a great friend. *wipes tear away then turns to Sai* Did you finish my request Sai?

Sai: Yeah how's this? *holds paper up*

Me: What is it?

Sai: *shrugs* thought that if I was going to draw, I'd draw you but then you kept moving around so I ended up drawing a hyper cat.

Me: *stares and tears up*

Sai: Is something wrong?

Me: No it's beautiful! It reminds me of one of my cousins which is totally hyper! I'll take it! *grabs it and puts it in a folder*

Hidan: So what was your request that you were talking about earlier?

Me: *perks up* Oh ya! That's right! I wanted you all to know that I'm accepting new characters! It's pretty boring around here with just Kuro being the main character.

Kuro: Hey I heard that!

Hidan: WHAT THE FUCK! FROM WHERE DID YOU POP OUT FROM?

Kuro: That's none of your business, old man.

Hidan: WHAT DID YOU SAY PUNK? *takes out scythe*

Kankuro: What's all the noise about? *yawns*

Me: Kitty! You're awake! *jumps on him*

Kankuro: WHA! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

Hidan: HEY DON'T IGNORE PEOPLE WHEN THEY'RE TALKING TO YOU!

Kuro: Hey, Gaara. Naruto the pancakes you ordered are here.

Naruto: SWEET! YOU'RE THE BEST! BELIEVE IT! *runs for the pancakes*

Shikamaru: Well before this gets out of hand, I'll say bye. See you guys later. *walks off*