The next morning, Kakashi's apartment-

"Yo." Kakashi said as he watched Mari walk into the kitchen, he smiled slightly when he saw her yawn. She looks nice like that. He thought as he looked at her unkempt appearance. "Did you have a good sleep then?" he asked her, his eyes returning to the book in his hand. Why did I suddenly think that? I never thought I'd think of her like that when I found her almost dying. He thought as he read the same line of his book again for the third time.

"I'm going to go out for a while; I'll meet you at the bridge in an hour." Kakashi said softly smiling at her when she nodded before vanishing.

Mari sighed slightly and shook her head before heading to his room to get dressed. At the moment she was staying in his room while he stayed on the sofa until he got the spare bedroom furnished.

After five minutes Mari was fully dressed and was plaiting her hair, tying it into an intricate knot at the back of her head. "That should allow me to fight better." She said softly as she ate the breakfast she had prepared for herself.

"Well I better get going at least I can arrive on time even if Kakashi doesn't. "She said softly before vanishing.

Team seven bridge-

"Hello you lot." She said as she appeared beside a pacing sakura. "I really don't see why you all turn up so early you must know what he's like by now." She added laughing slightly at the look on naruto's face.

"Hey Mari- Chan do you know what the mission is for today?" naruto shouted making Mari wince at the volume of his voice.

Mari shook her head "no sorry naruto I'm in the dark to. I'm not bothered what the mission is actually." She said softly before leaning against one of the pillars of the bridge.

"Mari can i ask you something?" sakura said tentatively.

"Ask whatever you want, I'm a member of your squad now." She said softly her eyes on the young girl.

"You managed to evade out attacks without using a ninjutsu. How?" sakura said still slightly scared to ask the question.

"It's an ability I've had since birth. No one knows where it came from or why I have it. I have the ability to move and object with my mind, At the same time I can sense a person's emotions and read peoples thoughts. The last one I can only do if the person is thinking hostile thoughts of me or the other people around me." Mari said, smiling again at the look of awe on sakura's face.

"So it's like a bloodline limit then?" Sasuke asked genuinely curious for once.

"Yes and no. It's something unique to me, there are however some people that can neutralise this power." Mari said she didn't want to hide anything from the people around her.

"Well Kakashi how long are you just going to stand there and stare, what it is have you seen something you like?" she added before spinning around and smiling at the older jonin.

Kakashi shook his head and smiled slightly "yo." He said slightly surprised when he didn't get the typical outburst from sakura and naruto. "Well come on then we better go and get the mission for the day." He said, jumping down he walked up to Mari," thanks for keeping them occupied it seems they didn't notice that I was nearly an hour late." He whispered in her ear making her blush slightly.

Mission room. Hokage's residence.-

"Aww come on old man, all we do is these boring d rank missions. Can't we do a real ninja mission." Naruto whined before being hit on the head by Kakashi and falling to the floor. Mari tried not to laugh as she watched from her position beside Kakashi and she could see that the hokage and iruka where doing the same thing.

"it seems I'll have to explain how the missions work to you." The hokage said before starting to talk about the different categories.

Halfway through he noticed that the only one listening was Mari and shouted.

"Sorry about that we were." Kakashi said rubbing the back of his head.

"Fine if you believe you are ready I'll allow you to have a c rank mission. It's an escort mission to the land of waves. You're to escort him and then stay an protect him until his mission is over." The hokage said chuckling slightly at the look on their faces. " if the client could come in now please." He shouted and waited for tazuna to enter the room.

"What is this; these pipsqueaks are going to be the ones escorting me." Tazuna said when he saw the three genin.

"Let me at him, I'll destroy him." Naruto said, Mari grabbed him and held him back.

"Naruto even i know that you can't kill the client." Mari said as she put her hand over his mouth.

"They may seem young but you'll have two jonin level ninja escorting you as well. So there's nothing to worry about." Kakashi said. "We'll leave in the morning everyone; make sure you bring everything you need."

Mari waited for them to leave before turning to Kakashi " do you know where I can get a katana from?" she asked him, seeing his quizzical look she sighed.

"Where I'm from I've used the katana and other swords since I was ten years old." She said "my foster father was a weapons specialist he taught both me and my brother."

Kakashi nodded before taking her arm. "I know the perfect place." He said before they both vanished.

The hokage and iruka looked at each other before smiling at kakashi's antics.

The next morning, Konoha gates.-

"You're late." Naruto and sakura shouted at Mari and Kakashi as they arrived.

"Sorry guys we had to pick up our newest team members sword." Kakashi said gesturing to the katana Mari carried on her back.

"Come on then guys let's go." Kakashi said after the introductions were made.