Chapter 5

Genma ran at his top most speed towards Anko's apartment.

He banged his fist on the door as loud as he could to get the woman up.

"Come on Anko get up!"

He heard a grumbled garble coming from the closed door and a loud, "Better be damn important, to wake me up this early in the morning."

Genma was greeted with a very tired and messy haired Anko he was about to chat her ear off when he went into a small state of shock and a he whimpered a small, "Oh my, god."

Knowing Anko to be a tough woman, Genma could not exactly explain the night apparel that she was wearing.

For some reason a long pink night shirt with cute little kittens on the front playing with a ball of yarn was the last thing he expected to see on the kill happy psycho path.

Genma had to bite down very hard on the bottom of his lip to keep from bursting out laughing in Anko's face.

Anko stared at Genma as he stood there.

"What the hell's your problem?"

Genma was trying so hard to keep the laughter out of his voice. His voice came out highly strained and high pitched, "Nothing."

Anko rolled her eyes, "Your acting weird what do you want." She looked down at her self and sighed wearily.

Genma tried to focus on why he came to Anko's house. He was having much difficulty as the thought of her room popped into his head. The thought of kittens and the color pink splashed all over her room, maybe a few bunnies bouncing through green fields.

Her eyebrow twitched and she gave Genma a fierce scowl, "Do you find something amusing?"

Genma nodded then fiercely shook his head in immediate denial.

"There is only one way to deal with men who disturb me so early in the morning."

Genma looked a little worried as he noticed the dark expression and evil grin coming across her face, "And what exactly would that be?"

"A good fifty mile threatening run."

His eyebrows knit together in confusion, "What does that mean."

Her voice came out steady and even, "You're gonna die!"

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Yamato, Kakashi, Naruto, Sai and Sakura all stood together in the Hokage's office.

Tsunade was sitting behind her desk with a stack of paper work to one side and a stack on the other and a folder neatly placed in the center that she was looking at.

Shizune was standing behind her mentor and friend smiling as she was looking at team Kakashi. Her attention was primarily focused on Kakashi and Sakura as they stood as far away from each other as possible.

Tsunade sighed, "The mission that I am giving you is considered and A-rank mission even though it could also turn into being and S-class. So that is why I decided to have Yamato go along with you on this mission."

Shizune let out a small giggle and stifled it with one hand.

Tsunade opened the file, "The two girls you will be guarding are Kitsuna and Hari. Kitsuna is a current wealthy landowner's daughter to the west of…"

Shizune let out another snort of laughter.

Tsunade turned and looked at her, "What exactly is so amusing."

Shizune cleared her throat and waved her hand to say that it was nothing.

Tsunade shrugged and turned back to her paper that she was reading, "Uh, oh, Kitsuna's cousin Hari thinks that she is being targeted by assassins. Hari has stated that she doesn't feel safe going back to the mansion unless there is some protection given to them."

There was another short burst of giggling behind her.

She chose to ignore it.

Kakashi was the first to speak up, "Why does she think they are being targeted by assassins?"

Tsunade shrugged, "Who knows. It'll bring in a lot of much needed money to the village though."

Naruto rolled his eyes, "So it's pretty much a babysitting gig."

She nodded, "Pretty much."

Naruto crossed his arms in front of his chest, "That's not a mission!"

No one in the room noticed as a small female entered the room, until she opened her mouth, "You'll shut up and you'll take it and you'll damn well like it, you little brat!"

Naruto turned to see a short brown haired girl with her hands on her hips staring at him in the open door.

"Who are you?"

Tsunade breathed in deeply and was relieved that she didn't have to lose her temper this time, "This is Hari. One of the girl's you'll be protecting."

Hari stared right back at the team that was to be protecting her and her cousin.

Naruto decided to take up the defensive, "Who are you are you calling a brat you don't look old enough to be calling me that, you should respect your elders."

Hari looked at Naruto with severe distaste, "Brat."

Sakura pulled Naruto into a fierce head lock as she made polite conversation, "It's nice to meet you. I'm Sakura."

Hari smiled and started as Naruto turned a startling color blue, "I don't think he can breathe."

Sakura looked at Naruto and dropped him from the head lock laughing nervously, "Oh, he's fine. He's like a rubber band he always bounces back."

Sai came over and held his hand out with a polite smile, "Nice to meet you I'm Sai."

Hari stared at him, "You look like a glass of milk."

"And you look," Sai tried to say something nice back to her that he had learned from his books, "nice."

Inner Sakura shrieked with fury "Come on you could have said something better than that Sai!"

Yamato nodded his head respectfully and said his name.

When it came to Kakashi's turn he put up his hand and gave her friendly eye-crease smile and stated his name.

Hari blushed a bit, "Nice to meet you."

Sakura noticed the blush and was slightly disturbed. Even Inner Sakura was asking what the hell that was all about in angry tones. But what should she care anyway.

"I like the color of your hair."

Kakashi put his hand in back of his head and chuckled nervously as he gave her a thank you.

Inner Sakura held up a fist, "I really don't like her!"

Sakura's jaw clenched and her fist was balled into a tight fist. She put a hand to her head and shook it. She shouldn't be acting this way, as she put on a forced smile.

Tsunade told them all that since they met then they should all get the hell out of her office so she could get the next team assigned.

Once they had left Shizune burst out into laughter.

Tsunade frowned.

Shizune fell to her knees and slapped her hand on the desk as she kept laughing.

Tsunade's eye twitched, "What the hell is so damned funny?"

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Genma was panting and gasping when the wind was literally knocked out of him with a furious kick from Anko.

Genma had realized the danger he was in when she had told him he was going to die. In no less then ten minutes she had managed to change into her regular clothes and shoes and tracked him down.

He lay gasping staring up at the blue sky trying to catch his breathe.

Anko stood over him looking quite pleased with herself, "What have you learned?"

Genma gasped as he gave his answer his chest heaving heavily, "No…waking….early….you….up…"

Anko smiled and nodded, "Close enough."

She sat next to him and pulled out a kunai from her pocket. She picked up a blade of grass and ran it against the kunai.

"So what did you have to tell me?"

Genma smiled as he turned his face toward her, "That thing Yamato told us about last night."

Anko picked up another blade of grass and stuck it in her mouth, "What about it?"

"It's true."

She rolled her eyes, "Where exactly did you get your precious source from."

"The horse's mouth a.k.a. Sakura."

Anko's jaw dropped, "You're so lying!"

"I'm not I swear on my pornos!"

"That is interesting news, looks like we'll have to tell Shizune."

Genma shot up, "Oh, crap what time is it?"

Anko shrugged, "I don't know but I'll go with you to the Hokage's to give this juicy bit of news."

She got up and put her kunai away. Genma got up slowly and walked behind her.

"Oh, yeah," Anko said stopping and turning to give Genma a serious look, "If you tell anyone about that shirt you saw this morning, I'll kill you!"

Genma smiled and nodded.

When they reached the Hokage's office, they could hear Shizune laughing.

They could hear the Hokage's voice loud and clear once they entered her office, "What the hell is so damn funny! You've been laughing for almost half an hour and you still haven't told me anything."

"Sorry I'm late."

Tsunade was in a huff, "And what exactly kept you Genma? You were supposed to be here twenty minutes ago!"

Shizune was still gasping for breath as she was still laughing.

Tsunade pointed an accusatory finger at Genma, "I'm going to be having freaking kittens if you don't tell me why you were late! You're on the clock!"

Genma smiled as the only word that came out of his mouth was, "Kittens."

She turned to Shizune, "and you…"

She was interrupted by a loud crashing sound she turned back to see Genma had crashed into her wall and an angry Anko holding out a fist.

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