"LET'S GO!" Naruto was jumping up and down, running all over the place, clearly not able to wait for the requested C-rank mission. Sasuke looked annoyed, Sakura was too busy to admire Sauske to notice Naruto and Kakashi-sensai was looking bored as usual.

"What are you so excited about?" I asked smiling at his hyperactive behaviour.

"This is the first time I've ever left the village before, dattebayo!"

"Hey, am I really gonna be safe with this brat?" Tazuna asked Kakashi-sensai clearly not fond of his bodyguards.

"Well, I am a jounin so you don't have to worry."

"Hey, Old man! Don't mess with ninjas! I'm incredicle. One day, I will become Hokage and then you will be begging for my autograph. You should remember my name - Uzumaki Naurto!"

"Hokage! Yeah right! I would sprout wings and fly before that happens!" Tazuna took a sip of sake. Naruto looked really mad and was running towards the bridge builder.

"I'll demolish you!" But before he could go up and hit him I held him back with this shirt.

"Not now Naruto. We have to protect him, not kill him" Naruto relaxed after that. After that Sakura started talking to Kakashi sensai about the land of waves and the five great shinobi nations.

I suddenly felt a presence behind me. Before I could even react, a ninja wrapped some chains around Kakashi-sensai.

"Kakashi sensai!" Naruto shouted. While he was distracted, the two ninjas came in front of Naruto and coming in with their chains to attack Naruto. "Sasuke!" I shouted. He just nodded and he started running towards the ninjas, while I threw my shuriken at the chain which logged itself into a tree behind them. Before they could move, I used my kunai to trap the two nin in place. Then Sasuke jumped above them and kicked them in their face. But they were able to escape by taking the chain from their claws and ran towards Naruto and Tazuna. I held my kunai in my hand and ran towards one of the nin but Kakashi sensai came in and grabbed him by the neck, rendered him unconscious.

"What!?" I looked where sensai was supposed to be 'dead' and there were just a pile of logs instead of his 'body'. 'sneaky man, used substitution jutsu'.

"Sorry Naruto, I got you hurt. I didn't think that you would freeze up like that." Kakashi sensai said after taking down both ninjas in less than a minute. "Good teamwork Sasuke, Hikari and you too Saukra, good job."

"Hurt, where?" I looked at Naruto in concern. But the only expression on his face was dissapointment.

"Are you hurt, scaredy cat?" Sasuke smirked. "Sasuke!" Naruto shouted.

"Naruto don't move! Those claws have poison on them. If you move too much, the poison will spread. You have to open the wound and take out the poison. And Tazuna, we have to talk." Tazuna looked very nervous and a bit scared.

"These are chunin ninja from the hidden mist. They are known to keep on fighting no matter what."

"How did you read our movements?" One of the chunin ninja asked

"A puddle, when it hasn't rained in days is a little suspicious. If I had wanted to I would have killed these guys instantly but I had to see who they were after- one of us ninjas or Tazuna." Tazuna started sweating like crazy. "We haven't been told that there would be shinobi coming after you. Otherwise this would have been a B-rank mission, this was supposed to be a simple protection mission until you completed the bridge. But now this mission is out of our duties."

"We aren't ready for this mission. We will need medicine for Naruto's wound. We should go back and show him to a doctor." Sakura said clearly not wanting to take on a dangerous mission like this one.

"It is too early for us to take on a mission like this. I guess we should go back to the village to treat Naruto." Kakashi sensai said

Naruto started shaking then he stabbed his kunai in this wound "Naruto! What are you doing!" "I swear in this pain on my left hand, with this kunai, I'll protect the old man. We're continuing the mission!"

"Naruto… it's good that you are releasing the poison but any more and you will die of blood loss." Kakashi said and closed his eye which I am assuming was a smile.

" AAHHHHH! I can't die from something like this!" Naruto started running around.

"Oh shut up!" BONK! I took his hand and started to bandage it. "You're such an idiot" I started shaking my head. He was rubbing his head where I hit him. 'Wait.. His cut is already healing. How is that possible?' I was about to ask Naruto when Kakashi sensai put a hand on my shoulder "I'll finish bandaging him up."

We were in the boat, on the way to the land of waves. Tazuna was able to persuade a boatman to give us a ride despite the fear of Gato throughtout the land. I was hoping that I could enjoy the boat ride but that doesn't seem the case with Naruto and Sakura around. They were fighting for the past half an hour and knowing them they will keep it up all the way to the bridge builders place. I was just laughing watching the two of them bicker, well at least I wasn't being bored.

BONK!

Kakashi sensai hit Naruto on the head "Alright enough you two. Tazuna we have to talk. Why did you lie to us about the mission?"

"All of our commercial business is being controlled by a man named Gato. I am a threat to him because if the bridge is completed, then there will be another way to start business again. So he has been trying to stop me from building the bridge by any means necessary." Tazuna said with a frown on his face.

"So that is why he is sending ninjas after you." Sakura said understanding the issue "but still Mr Tazuna, why did you apply for a C rank mission and not a B rank. You would have gotten betetr protection that way."

"Well the thing is that due to Gato taking over, our country has been in poverty. I was not able to afford to apply for a B ranked mission. But if you don't help me then I will have to leave my daughter and grandson alone. My grandson will keep on crying and my daughter will be blaming the leaf village for the loss of her loving, caring father." 'I cannot believe that he is making us guilty about this'

"ok fine. We will continue on this mission." Kakashi sensai said with a bored look on his face. Tazuna shows a victory sign and stuck his tongue out. "Sneaky man" I whispered. Sasuke looked at me with a smirk on his face.

After a while later we arrived to the land of waves. We started walking towards the bridge so that Tazuna could start working immediately. But Naruto was getting a bit to excited about being a bodyguard and started throwing kunais randomly in the bushes and accidently threw a kunai in the direction of a rabbit.

"Naruto! Look what you did! You were about to hurt the poor rabbit." Saukra was hugging and petting the rabbit. I noticed Kakashi sensai go a bit more alert than before as we continued our walk towards the destination.

"DUCK!" Sasuke pushed Tazuna down and the rest of us ducked right before a giant sword came swooping down and lodged itself in the tree trunk behind us. We all stood up only to see a ninja standing on the sword, having a gleam in his eyes telling that we are his prey.

"Well well well if it isnt the missing nin from the hidden mist, Momochi Zabuza." Kakashi sensai said, suddenly with a completely different aura around him. Before, he had a very welcoming aura but now it was the complete opposite. Honestly, it scared me seeing such a huge difference so rapidly. "Step back guys, this one is on a completely different level. It will be a little tough, unless I do this…" He put his hand on the headband and started to lift it up.

"Hatake Kakashi of the sharingan. This guy is mine." Zabuza chuckled.