Saiai: Oh my goodness... I'm supposed to be studying for exams xD

Michiko: Then why the hell are you here?

Saiai: Because I hate studying _ Plus I got some comments on Chapter Three being very choppy- Well not anymore! I have fixed it, brought a little more insight into the character that is Michiko Rurou, and unfortunately I also made it too long so I had to break it into two parts _". Sorry about that.

Michiko: Before you even ask- Saiai Angel Alchemist DOES NOT own Naruto- He and the series belong to Masashi Kishimoto-sensei. However I and this story were created by her, despite how creeped out that makes me.

Saiai: You know you love me. That's why I'm gonna put you through hell in the future ^_^

Michiko: ...

WARNING: I can't remember whether it's this part or part two, but Michiko develops a love of swear-words- or at least shows that she already did.

Team 7 was angry. The missions they're being sent to do are so lame, boring, and irritating! How old does the Hokage think they are, anyway? Five? Naruto decided that today was the day he'd get a better mission. He'd yelled at both his former sensei, Iruka, and the Hokage, that he didn't want anymore 'kiddy' missions. Everyone raised an eyebrow at his speech, but agreed with him, nonetheless. Seriously; pulling grass? Finding a lost cat?

The Hokage gave in and gave them a C-Ranked mission, to escort a man named Tazuna to the Land of Waves.

So, that was why, Michiko found herself packing for a week or two's mission. She packed everything she needed, and sealed them in a scroll before heading out to go train or something.

She wandered around aimlessly, before she ended up at the training grounds. She shrugged her shoulders and hopped the fence. As she headed into the forest she put on her headphones and took out her I-pod. She flipped it to Shake It by Metro Station but pressed pause before it started.

She did a few hand seals and shouted, "Ongaku Ikazuchi no Jutsu!" She hit play on her I-pod and began training to the beat. The technique she'd performed made her music increase in volume so that it could be heard all around. She granted the trees around her no mercy at all as she slowly tore them apart with each kick and punch. She sang along with the song as she trained hard. [Music Thunder Technique]

"Oi… Do either of you guys hear that?" Lee asked his teammates as he paused in his training.

"Hear what, Lee-kun?" Tenten asked.

"What are you talking about, Lee?" Neji asked him.

"Listen!" he said and held a hand behind his ear as he turned towards the woods. "It sounds like…music!"

"Oh, you're right Lee-kun! Should we check it out, Neji-san?" she asked the brunet.

Neji grunted and headed into the trees to where the sound was coming from. They stopped and hid behind some bushes when they came to the source of the music. A girl with long blonde hair and red and black clothing was training in a clearing. Neji studied her, trying to figure out where the music was coming from. He noticed she was wearing a headset and figured she'd used a special technique to increase the volume.

"…She's good…" Lee commented quietly, which was unlike him. Tenten nodded and Neji agreed silently.

Michiko jumped up high in the air and pulled out four kunai in each hand, throwing them into holes she'd made earlier in the trees as she flipped through the air. When she landed, she focused chakra in her feet, ran up a tree and grabbed one of the kunai before pushing off of the tree and flipping through the air. She slipped some wire through the hole at almost lightning speed and threw it into the air. She landed on the ground for a split second before jumping into the other trees and adding the kunai to the wire. She tied the last kunai to the end of the wire. She landed in the center of the field and pulled on the wire, then whipped it around so that the kunai all got stuck in the trees again. She threw eight shuriken at each of the kunai and they bounced off of the metal and straight back at her. Jumping up again caused her to successfully dodge them and they landed in the trees opposite from where she threw them, just below the kunai.

She landed on the wire connecting two trees together and did some hand seals.

"Maru Nenshou no Jutsu!" she shouted before taking a deep breath, focusing chakra in her chest, and holding her fingers in an 'O' in front of her mouth. She jumped off of the wire before breathing out fire onto it. The fire immediately ran along the wire, creating a circle of fire around the clearing. [Circular Combustion Technique]

While in the air, she performed more hand seals and shouted out, "Mizu Gufuu no Jutsu!" She raised up her arms, then spun around in the air, making water spin around the clearing like a hurricane or a tornado. She landed in the center of the clearing, turned off her I-pod and took her headset off, before looking towards a few bushes near the edge of the trees. [Water Hurricane Technique]

"Plan on showing yourselves any time soon?" she called to the three genin hiding there.

"How did she know we were here?" Lee asked his teammates as he walked out of the bushes.

"Iie, Lee-kun. The question is, how long did she know?" Tenten said, as she and Neji followed him. [No]

"What is it you want?" Michiko asked them, an eyebrow raised.

"We heard your music and decided to check it out," Neji explained. She nodded, accepting their reason, before scratching her neck sheepishly.

"Eh… Maybe… I went a little too far in my training…" she pondered aloud as she looked around at the charred, drenched and mutilated forest around her. "Anyway… My name's Rurou, Michiko. Yours?"

"Oh! I'm Rock Lee! Konoha's most handsome devil!" Lee shouted, saluting her.

"Um… Don't mind Lee-kun, he's… Well, I'm Tenten. It's nice to meet you, Michiko-chan," Tenten introduced herself.

"…I'm Hyuuga Neji. What rank are you?" Neji asked, glaring at Michiko.

She raised an eyebrow at him but answered, "Only genin. Why?"

"Oh, don't mind him. So, Michiko-chan, those were some good moves there! Where'd you learn them?" Tenten asked curiously.

"…Here and there…" Michiko answered unsurely, not really wanting to explain. She looked up at the sky and decided to get some food into her stomach. "Well, I'm going to head back now. I'll see you all around sometime," she said before heading off into the village to a random restaurant.

The next morning Team 7 was walking through the woods, escorting the bridge builder, Tazuna, to Wave Country. After about an hour of walking and Michiko ignoring Sakura's constant stream of questions, they passed a rather large puddle. No one paid it any mind though, and Michiko glanced warily at Kakashi, but continued walking.

So she noticed it too…but could she see through the genjutsu or does she merely think it's suspicious? Kakashi thought.

Just then, the ninja came out of hiding and attacked. After seemingly slicing the jounin to pieces, they headed towards Naruto. Sasuke quickly saved him, for the blond was frozen in fear, and the two ninja separated from their chains. One went for Naruto again while he other went for Tazuna. Before he could even get close, Michiko was in front of him with a huge smirk on her face. She had already taken care of the one after Naruto, and she stopped this one by dodging the swipe he took at her, grabbing his arm and ramming her knee into his stomach. She then elbowed him in the back of the neck, knocking him out. She threw him on top of the other one before tying them both up to a tree with ninja wire.

Kakashi appeared beside her, perfectly okay because he'd used Kawarimi, visible eye wide but he made no comment. [Body Switch]

"The Demon Brothers… They were after Tazuna-san, Kakashi-sama. This mission is now at least B-ranked," she informed him gravely.

Who is this girl? The jounin found himself thinking again, but he put it to the back of his mind; there would be time for that later. He told Tazuna he needed to talk to him while Michiko looked around and noticed Naruto's bleeding hand with horrified eyes.

"Hey, you alright, scaredy cat?" Sasuke asked him but Michiko pushed passed the raven in favour of getting to Naruto.

"Uzumaki-san- your hand!"

Naruto looked down at it, "Uzumaki-san, the Demon Brothers' claws are soaked in poison, we have to get it out before it spreads." Michiko tried hard to keep calm as she held the blond still. In the background she heard Sakura suggesting they quit and Kakashi agreeing. Naruto grit his teeth and moved away from Michiko, much to her horror.

She watched as he whipped out a kunai and drove it into the back of his hand. The sight of crimson fluid flowing out of her newfound friend's hand was enough to make the blood drain from her face. Michiko slipped a stoic mask onto her face but inside she was reeling.

It had been a while since Michiko had cared for anyone. She was scared, the last people she cared about either went missing, defected or were killed.

"Naruto! What are you doing?" Sakura screamed.

The blond boy was silent and Michiko was saddened by the pain and conflict going on in his blue eyes. Suddenly he grinned and declared, "With this kunai, I'll protect the old man. We're continuing the mission!"

"Uzumaki-san…"

"Naruto… It's good that you're releasing the poison from your hand, but lose anymore blood and you'll die. Seriously," smiled Kakashi.

The effect was instantaneous. Naruto freaked, Sakura screeched at him, Sasuke rolled his eyes and Michiko just shook her head in amusement. Honestly, this just proved Naruto was going to be alright.

Tazuna explained to the team about the situation with Gatou and the bridge while they continued on their way to the Land of Waves. Michiko quietly broke it down into more simpler terms for Naruto when she realised he wasn't understanding.

She found it hilarious when Tazuna successfully guilt-tripped her team into continuing the mission and congratulated him when she thought no one was listening. Of course Kakashi overheard her and spent the next ten minutes wondering at the girl.

Later Naruto began overreacting to every little thing, trying to show up Sasuke. When he nearly hit a rabbit Sakura began scolding him while Michiko and Kakashi realised what the white rabbit was for.

Michiko began searching the surrounding area by sending out her chakra the way a bat uses echolocation to find bugs. When the chakra returned to her she ignored the familiar presences of her team mates, Tazuna and the forest animals. There was someone unfamiliar in the trees to their left- Michiko sent out more chakra in that direction, closing her eyes. In her mind's eye, she "saw" the figure of a large man with a large chakra-supply with a huge weapon over his shoulder through the use of her chakra.

[This technique is called Kagura Shingan or "Mind's Eye of the Kagura"- meaning Michiko is a sensor like Karin. Michiko just doesn't know this!]

"Everyone get down!" shouted both Kakashi and Michiko. Everyone complied.

Just in time, too, as a giant sword spun through the air over their heads at break-neck speed, implanting itself into a tree.

The man Michiko had sensed in the trees landed on it a split second later- no doubt having used Shunshin- and the blonde's eyes widened in familiarity. She had seen this nuke-nin in her father's Bingo book! [Missing ninja] [Bingo book is a hit list]

"Well if it isn't Kirigakure's nuke-nin, Momochi Zabuza-kun," stated Kakashi before holding Naruto back from attacking. "Everyone get back," the jounin instructed, "this one is on a whole other level."

After revealing his Sharingan (shocking everyone except Michiko and Zabuza, whom both have seen the Copy-Cat Ninja in the Bingo book), Zabuza disappeared into his Hidden Mist Jutsu.

In their protective stance around Tazuna, only Michiko ignored the dangerous Ki in the atmosphere with ease, having felt it on her many missions accompanying her father. But she noticed Sasuke was having a tough time, his entire body was trembling. Before she could say anything to calm him down- they can't very well protect the old man if one of their team mates are terrified can they?- Kakashi looked over his shoulder at them with a smile.

"Sasuke. Don't worry. I'll protect you guys even if it kills me. I don't let my comrades die."

What happened next was a blur of motion- at first it appeared Zabuza was about to kill all five of them- then Kakashi had stabbed him- and then Zabuza had used his Kubikiribocho to decapitate the jounin- Kakashi turned into water and reappeared behind Zabuza with a kunai at his neck.

After Kakashi got trapped in Zabuza's Water Prison the nuke-nin kicked Naruto in the face, knocking off his hitai-ate and sending the blond flying. Michiko saw red but held her ground, wondering what Naruto was going to do. Just as she thought he was going to follow Kakashi's orders to run away, Naruto got up and ran at Zabuza, who merely kicked him away. But Michiko smiled, attacking Zabuza hadn't been Naruto's plan. That was obvious as he stood with his retrieved hitai-ate, declaring to the nuke-nin that he was going to become Hokage one day.

"Sasuke, Michiko-chan, lend me your ears will you? I have a plan," stated Naruto with a feral grin. "Let's get wild."

Which of course caused Kakashi to yell at them, but Tazuna gave them permission to fight as much as they want, making Naruto, Sasuke and Michiko smirk in triumph. Sakura knew her place was to keep guarding Tazuna. But Zabuza criticized them, explaining his title as the Devil of the Hidden Mist before giving them all a good thrashing.

Michiko felt bad, but she had been on life-threatening missions before- while she could have helped Sasuke and Naruto- should have helped them- she was conflicted. They needed this experience, she shouldn't interfere. She joined Sakura in guarding Tazuna and watched with a proud smirk as her male team mates forced Zabuza into releasing his Water Prison.

And then Michiko "sat back" and "enjoyed the show" as Kakashi and Zabuza displayed an incredible amount of power. Then Kakashi proceeded to unnerve the nuke-nin by copying everything he did, even finishing his sentences before he could.

Kakashi eventually finished an enormous water jutsu before Zabuza could- freaked out as he was- but before the jounin could finish him off…

…the nuke-nin had been pierced through the neck by two senbon needles! Michiko looked up at the presence of a new chakra and came face-to-face with an expressionless mask.

Kiragakure Hunter-nin. He can't be any older than I am, thought Michiko in wonder. Naruto agreed, though for different reasons. He was insulted! A kid his age had defeated someone that strong! Kakashi explained how there are kids even younger than Naruto that are stronger than himself.

The Hunter-nin used Shunshin to appear over the dead body of Zabuza. "Your battle is now over," he explained as he picked up the body.

Michiko's eyes widened greatly as she sensed the boy's chakra fluctuate oddly with the hint of the lie-

"And now I must dispose of this body, since it seems to be a body of many secrets."

The blonde used Shunshin to appear behind the so-called "Hunter-nin" but was too late, for he had transported somewhere else.

"Kuso!" she cursed, punching the ground. "Kuso, kuso, kuso!" She continued to punch the ground repeatedly, starting to make dents in the dirt. [Shit]

"What's wrong, Michiko-chan?" Sakura asked.

She stood up again and glared at Kakashi. "Kakashi you idiot! Hunter-nin dispose of bodies immediately! That boy was allied with Zabuza! He's still alive!" she shouted before angrily kicking a tree, nearly breaking it in half.

His eyes widened, realizing that she was painfully correct. He repeated her choice of curses before collapsing to the ground. Michiko immediately broke out of her fit and Team 7 rushed over to their sensei in concern.

"What are we going to do?" Sakura asked.

"Hmm? Tree climbing!" Kakashi deadpanned.

"Tree climbing?" Sakura and Naruto shouted. "What kind of training is that?"

"Well, listen until the end." Instructed Kakashi. "This isn't normal tree climbing. You'll climb without using your hands."

"Huh? How's that?" Asked Naruto.

"Well, watch." He said and started walking up the side of a tree. Michiko smirked when the others were shocked.

"Gather chakra in the bottom of your feet and climb up a tree. This is something you can do when you can use chakra well." He explained, standing upside down from a tree branch, smiling at them. He threw down four kunai that landed in front of the four genin. Michiko picked hers up as soon as it hit the ground. "Use those kunai to mark how high you get up the tree. Then use that mark as your goal and try to surpass it. You guys won't be good enough to just walk up the tree at first. So get some momentum and try running up the tree. Got it?"

The genin picked their trees, gathered chakra in their feet and took off. Michiko jumped onto the same tree Kakashi was in, about five feet before she reached it and ran to the same height as Kakashi. She stopped, just standing on the side of the tree.

"Kakashi-sama, this is high enough, ne?" she asked, looking down at him, before walking onto the branch he was standing under and sat down.

"That's some quick learning, Michiko-chan," Kakashi stated blandly, appearing beside her on the branch. He sat down as well and they both watched as Naruto fell on his back, Sakura made it up the tree, and Sasuke marked his spot.

Kakashi complimented Sakura and used it as a way to insult the boys. Michiko could tell they were both pissed at Sakura for already being better than them, but she could also sense they had a hell of a lot more chakra to deal with than the pink-haired kunoichi.

Michiko shook her head calmly in response to the jounin's earlier comment. Ignoring the fact that he could tell she'd already learned this technique she explained, "Actually, I already knew how to do that. My father taught me before he…died."

"When was that?" he asked, looking at the stoic girl. He noticed the hidden sadness in her green eyes.

"About… A month and a half ago. It was on a mission. It was sort of like this one, it had been a B-ranked mission, but the client had lied. It turned out to be at least A or S-ranked, and… Well, you can guess what happened." She shrugged, looking away. She sensed another presence on the forest floor, but the chakra was undeveloped. After a moment she identified it as Tazuna's grandson, Inari and she left him be.

How unfortunate… Kakashi thought, remembering before when she had begged Naruto not to get his name carved on the memorial stone. Wait, didn't Akira-san die a month ago? She couldn't be… he thought, wide-eyed.

Saiai: So, better? Or should I just have left it alone? hahahah, oh well. The next part gets worse. As you should already know.

Chapter Three: First Official Ninja