Atsuko's POV
Tou-san and I have been working all morning, but I still can't figure it out. The only thing I'm figuring out is how bad your butt hurts after you fall on it repeatedly. Tou-san said we'll try again later.
I sigh and slump down on the couch. I'm tired, I've been up since 3 this morning. I can't go to sleep because Tou-san said he may have a mission for my team.
I get up from the couch and trudge to the kitchen. I look in the pantry for instant coffee. When I found the box, I pulled out a packet. I boiled a cup of water, got a mug, and poured the water in it. Tou-san came into the kitchen. He looked at me and I looked at him with tired eyes.
"What are you doing?" He asked.
"Making coffee," I mumbled.
Tou-san took the hot cup of water away from me and took it for himself.
"Hey!" I yell.
"You're too young to be drinking coffee. Drink some green tea," he tells me before walking out of the kitchen. I sigh but follow him.
"I'm leaving for the office, Atsuko. Are you going to be okay with staying home by yourself?"
My eyes smiled along with my mouth. "Yes!"
"Okay," Tou-san sighed. "I want you and the house to be the same when I get back."
"Okay!" I squeal while pushing him out of the door. I ran around the downstairs like a maniac and ran into the couch a few times for hours!
I lay down on the couch after running around forever and stare up at the ceiling. I had so much time on my hands, that I didn't know what to do with it! Then, my ears twitched. I sat up on the couch and looked towards the stairs. I got up and went to go stand in front of them.
Upstairs.
I've never been up there. Tou-san would always tell me that it's super bad ninjas up there or something, and the only way you can go up there was if you were stronger than Tou-san. Akira has been up there, and I know he's not stronger than Tou-san!
I crouched down in front of the stairs and began to crawl up them. When I reached the top, I slowly stood up and looked around the upper part of the house. Long hallways, a lot of doors. I wanted to go to all the rooms, but a certain door caught my eye.
I walked down the right hallway and walked to stand in front of the door. I grabbed the golden doorknob and pushed it open. I peaked my head in before walking in.
"Whoa! Look at all these scrolls!"
I ran to a shelf and grabbed a scroll. A kunai came flying from the space towards my face. I screamed before ducking down and dodging the kunai.
"Oh man, that was close."
I ran back downstairs to head to my room. I grabbed my blue backpack and trotted back to the room.
"I can learn new jutsus. Oh man, this is going to be so cool!"
I grabbed any scroll my small hands could grab while dodging the surprise attacks. In the end, I had grabbed at least 15 of them.
"Atsuko!"
I gasped when I heard my name from downstairs.
"Oh no! That's Tou-san! What is he doing back so early, it's only been 20 minutes!"
I ran downstairs quickly and he was at the bottom of the stairs looking into the living room. Uh oh...
Tou-san turns to look at me as I appear next to him.
"Where were you, Suko?"
"In the bathroom."
"Oh really, then why do you have your backpack on?"
"I took it with me?"
"Are you asking me, cause I don't know."
"Why are you home so early, Tou-san?"
"What are you talking about, I've been gone all afternoon."
Gawd, it felt like its only been minutes!
"Nevermind," I shake my head.
I must have been in that room forever.
"I know it's late, but I have a mission for you and your team," Tou-San told me.
"What type of mission?" I asked.
"A lady lost her cat, and she desperately wants it back," he answered. "It shouldn't take long."
I nodded. I headed out the house and rounded up my team.
"So, Suko-chan, what's the mission?" Nao asked me.
"Uh, some cat mission," I shrugged.
I made sure that my backpack was snapped shut. I kept my backpack tightly on my back and I clutched it with my hands.
"Atsuko, what's in the pack," Dai asked me.
I squealed thinking he had figured it out.
"N-Nothing," I stuttered.
"Then, why did you just stutter and scream if it was nothing?" Dai asked.
"Shut up!" I slapped his head.
We arrived at The Hokage Tower and received our mission from Tou-san. That cat chasing mission. I sighed and shook my head as we made our way to find a black cat.
"Here, Kitty, Kitty," I coed. I gripped my backpack as we walked the streets of Konoha. Nao cut in front of me making me almost bump into him. "What?"
"Okay, what's in the pack?"
"My stuff."
"Then, why are you clutching it like your life depends on it? Hokage-sama was eyeing it, too."
"Just...things."
He sighed before stepping back to my side. I heard something rustling in a dumpster in an alley to my right. A black small head poked itself from the garbage bags.
"Hey!" I screeched. I ran and jumped into the dumpster trying to grab the cat. The cat jumped out as I landed in the smelly garbage. The cat brushed against Dai's leg and Dai swept the cat up into his arms. Dai snickered at me and shook his head while Nao sighed. I shook the banana off my head and jumped out of the dumpster to join my team.
"Let's go," I mumbled walking past them.
"Ooh, thank you!" The lady gave us a high pitch scream when we returned to The Hokage Tower with her cat.
"Daisuke, what happened to you?" Tou-San turned to Dai.
"The cat didn't like me very much," Dai frowned looking down.
"Daisuke?" Nao and I repeated in unison.
"Yes, that's Dai's real name. Daisuke," Tou-san told us.
I burst into a fit of laughter along with Nao. I never knew that!
"Oh, Dai, that's what I'm going to start calling you," I chuckled. "Oops, I mean, Daisuke. Hahahahaha!"
"You better shut it, Uzumaki!" Dai said through gritted teeth.
"Daisuke, you stop it right now! Hahahahaha!" Nao joined me in mocking and laughing at Dai.
"Shut up!" Dai yelled.
"Calm down, Children," Tou-san told us before turning to me. "Suko, I'm going home for a minute. Can you hold down the fort?"
"Yes sir," I soluted him and puffing out my chest.
He smiled at me before he got up and walked over to me. He gave my hair a quick ruffle and left. Not long after, my team left along with that annoying loud lady, and I was alone in the Hokage's office.
Naruto's POV
I went upstairs to get something from the secret scroll room. I thought there was something off about the village elders today. They said that someone broke in and took something from upstairs.
I opened the door and gasped. Kunais and shurikens were all over the place. Holes were in the bookshelves where scrolls used to be. I gasped again as I put the puzzle pieces together. Me not able to find Atsuko when I got home, or me not being able to find her. She was carrying her backpack like her life depended on it.
That little monster...
"Uzumaki Atsuko!"