The next few weeks were rather boring for Naruko and Shion. Other than being given both the Toad and Slug summons from her parents, Naruko hadn't learned jutsu. However, she had been working on that jutsu she vowed to make to bring back her family members. Still, the weeks had been pretty boring. They had been doing missions, but only boring D-ranks, and then there was their so called 'training'. All they did was teamwork exercises. Naruko and Shion had never done any teamwork exercises, yet they were a prefect team, and Naruto soon jumped onto the good teamwork wagon with them.
The three had the best teamwork Kakashi had seen in decades, they knew all of each others techniques, since Naruto had gotten to know them a lot better and they hung out all of the time. They were able to plan and coordinate the best possible attacks without even talking to each other, all they had to do was look at each other and the others understood. All in all, their teamwork was flawless.
Sasuke and Sakura were another thing though. Sasuke believed that he was the best, and didn't need the help of the 'inferior' members of the group. While in actuality, from what Kakashi saw, Naruko and Shion were miles, hell, maybe even a nation ahead of him, especially since they knew the value of others and worked well with other people. Naruto himself was quickly approaching Sasuke's level, since Naruko had managed to convince her tou-chan to teach him some stuff, since he was actually pretty bored in the Leaf Village. He used to just peep on women while he was there, but he gave that up a long time ago, once he started going out with Tsunade. She was all he needed, so he never really did 'research' anymore, though he kept writing, just more heroic stories like The Tale of The Utterly Gutsy Ninja rather than porn.
Sakura, was by far the weakest of the group. Naruto was already ahead of her in everything except book smarts and genjutsu when he left the academy. She didn't even take the initiative to learn the stuff Kakashi was teaching them. She just obsessed over Sasuke the whole day, and frankly, it was driving Naruko and Shion.
They had thought many times if this was what all Leaf Village Kunoichi were like. They had visited other nations before, such as Kumo, Kiri, and Sand. The saw how the kunoichi there acted, seriously dedicated to their work, and they never were like Sakura. Naruko and Shion had even joked that the only thing she could do in a battle was shriek the enemies to death.
While Naruto didn't much enjoy Naruko and Shion's hatred for Sakura, he was beginning to see that he was foolish for liking her. She was too blind with Sasuke to ever even be nice, or for that matter, pay attention to him. After the first week, Naruto had completely lost his crush for the girl. That's when he started liking another certain someone. He began to have a crush on Shion, after all, she was very pretty and a great Kunoichi. Naruko was the same of course, but he saw her as more of a sister.
Kakashi was starting to wish that he had just had the blondes to work with, because they were essentially, his dream team. It consisted of powerful and serious kunoichi, one of them even being his sensei's child, and the other, being a boy with great potential who was eager to learn. But he of course, had to have the egotistical cold Uchiha and the loud Fan Girl. He should have just failed them, Sasuke should have had an individual teacher while Sakura should have either quit being a shinobi, or get a serious wake up call.
Right now, they were on the way to pick up their mission from the Hokage. They had just completed their 23rd D-rank the other day.
The team walked into the Missions office at the Hokage tower. The Hokage, Iruka, and even Tsunade and Jiraiya were there, all handing out the missions.
"Hey Kaa-san!Hey Tou-chan!" Naruko said, waving.
"Hey Auntie, Uncle!" Shion said, also waving.
"Hey Tsunade-sama! Hey Jiraiya-sensei!" Naruto said, grinning.
"Well, Naruko, Naruto, Shion, nice to see you here." Jiraiya said. The he nodded his head towards Kakashi. "Kakashi." he said.
"What my husband said." Tsunade said, leaning back in her chair.
"Well, let's see, today for missions, we have catching the Fire Daimyo's wife's cat Tora, we have weeding a garden, babysitting a couple of ki-" The Hokage was saying.
"Come on Ji-ji! We want a real mission! Give us a C-rank!" Naruto complained.
"Naruto! Your team isn't anywhere near ready to handle a C-rank yet! So be quiet and stop complaining." Iruka said.
"Oh Really Iruka?" Tsunade started, straightening. "So you think that me and Jiraiya, two of the three legendary Sannin have not trained our daughter and niece, as well as Jiraiya's new apprentice to, and I quote 'anywhere near ready to handle a C-rank' yet? I believe my daughter and niece have killed... hmm... What would you say the count was around the time we left Jiraiya-kun?" Tsunade said.
"I believe the count when we left was somewhere around 105 Jounin and... I wanna say 60 Chuunin? Of course, then there were all of the assassination attempts on the way here." Jiraiya said as Kakashi's, Sakura's, Sasuke's, Iruka's and the Hokage's jaws hit the floor.
"Yeah, that's about right." Tsunade said. "Now, if the can kill 105 Jounin and 60 Chuunin without getting any permanent damage done, I'd say they're pretty damn well able to do something like protect a caravan." Tsunade said.
"Tsunade, why would they kill so many shinobi?" the Hokage asked.
Naruko was the one who spoke up this time. "Easy, when 2 or more Jounin are coming at you to kill you, you kind of reciprocate, of course, then there was that time when I was ten and killed 5 all at once. Damn I love the Mokuton." She remembered fondly.
"Of course people were trying to kill us." Shion said before anyone had the chance to ask. "I mean come on, who wouldn't want to kill the next priestess of the land of ogres and the daughter of not only two Sannin, but the Legendary Yellow Flash of Konoha? Iwa was more than happy to try to kill Naruko just for revenge of what The Fourth Hokage did to them."
"You know what Iruka, even without those reasons, I believe this team is ready for a C-rank." The Hokage said. He handed Kakashi a scroll. "Your mission will be to escort a bridge builder, Tanzuna, to the the Land of Waves."
"Yes, Hokage-sama." Kakashi said.
"Bring Tanzuna in please." the Hokage said to Iruka. Iruka stood and came back a minute later with a man holding a sake bottle.
"What? I pay for a C-rank and all I get is one adult and a bunch of kids?" He said. Naruko and Shion blew away the strong smell of alcohol coming off the man, no one at their house was allowed to drink. Ever. So this was a first for them.
"Excuse me! But we are completely capable shinobi." Sakura said, putting her hands on her hips.
"Oh yeah? Cause to me, it looks like I got a shorty (Looking at Naruto), A pinkie (Looking at Sakura), An emo (Looking at Sasuke), A decently strong looking girl (Looking at Shion), And a mini version of the woman over there (Looking at Naruko but gesturing towards Tsunade). Plus, a silver haired tall dude who covers up 90 percent of his face." Tanzuna said.
"Don't worry Tanzuna-san, our team has more than enough power to get you to Wave." Naruko started. "Shion and myself (gesturing to Shion) Have killed over a hundred Jounin and sixty Chuunin. Kakashi's probably killed a thousand or more. I don't know about Naruto or Sasuke, they might have killed people. Sakura still hasn't had her first kill, but I'm sure she'll manage."
"Wait! How would you know whether or not I had my first kill?" Sakura questioned.
Naruko turned around. "Easy, you still have that innocent look in your eyes. Once you've killed a person, your eyes harden more and that look is gone. And once you've killed as many shinobi as me and Shion have, you have no problem with killing whatsoever. We kill without hesitation if our life is threatened. I can already tell that you would try to solve it without getting into the fight. Naruto and Sasuke, I'm not sure about. Since they are so eager to get into fights, they could have killed by now. But you, you would rather go through none permanent conflict." Naruko said.
Naruko turned back around to Tanzuna. "Anyways, Shion and I were trained by the two Sannin in this room themselves since the age of 3, Kakashi has been a Jounin for years, and Naruto has been training under the white haired Sannin in the room. Sasuke is the last of the mighty Uchiha of his clan. We can handle this mission without much trouble." Naruko said.
"Fine." The man grudgingly accepted. It wasn't as if he could tell them why he needed stronger ninja.
"Alright kids, meet us at the gates in 20 minutes. Pack for two weeks worth of a trip." Kakashi said.
"Yes Sensei!" Four of them chorused, the other just saying. "Hn." Naruto, Naruko, and Shion then said goodbye to their respective family/senseis in the room, and shunshined off.
20 minutes later, all of team seven + Tanzuna were gathered at the front gates.
"Alright! Let's head off!" Kakashi said. The group walked out of Konoha. Along the way, they kind of slid into three groups. Kakashi and Tanzuna were in the back, a few meters behind the genin. Sasuke was dealing with Sakura chatting on and on about something he was blocking out a few meters to the left of the center of the group. The blondes of the team were a few meters to the right from the center of the group, all chatting animatedly about what they were going to see in Wave.
The group walked past a puddle.
Naruko grew suspicious, but didn't show it, only letting her eyes go to the direction of the puddle.
'Hmm... it has rained in weeks. The only water that could be around here are from me or a genjutsu.' She thought. (Yes! You guessed it! Naruko has discovered she has Tobirama's high water ability!)
She looked at Shion and saw the she had noticed it too.. Naruko grinned and stopped.
"Ne, Kakashi-sensei, I think my earring fell out." She said.
"Well, hurry up and get it." He said.
Naruko walked back until she was a few steps in front of the puddle. "Here it is!" She called out, pretending to pick something up.
She then ran back, making sure to send a big kick, one that she 'accidentally' put some chakra into.
Kakashi eye smiled, realizing what his student had done. Shion smirked, her friend could really be a funny one sometimes, especially when she messed with people like that. None of the others noticed it and thought she just went through the puddle.
The Demon brothers popped up out of the puddle. "You bitch! You'll pay for that!" One of them yelled, stabbing his knuckles into Naruko's body, which then went away with a puff of smoke.
"Huh? Shadow Clone?" The other questioned when they heard something behind them. They turned just in time to see them selves get impaled by a rasengan.
"Rasengan!" Naruko yelled, one rasengan spinning in each hand. The Demon brothers were impaled on them and flew back through a tree and slammed against a boulder behind them. The two were dead, no doubt about it.
Naruko looked at the gaping Tanzuna and grinned. "Didn't I tell you we could protect you?" She said.
"Yes, you did well Naruko, but considering who those two ninja were, I think our client has some explaining to do. Why would you lie about the rank of this mission?" He asked.
Tanzuna explained the whole problem in Wave (Sorry, I don't feel like writing it out). The team felt bad for him and the others in Wave.
"Kakashi-sensei, let's keep going. I can't stand the thought of us being able to help someone and giving it up. For it's the first rule for a medic nin to-" Naruko started.
"Help anyone or anything that may need it. Other than enemies, it is a medic nins duties to heal whoever is in need." Shion finished, smiling at her friend.
Kakashi sighed and looked at his other two students. Naruko agreed right away and Sasuke just nodded his head. He looked to Sakura, she agreed because Sasuke agreed. They continued on to Wave.
When they were almost to Tanzuna's home town, a large sword swung out silently towards them.
"Duck!" Kakashi yelled. Everyone ducked. When they looked back up, they saw a man standing on a sword that was embedded in a tree.
"Zabuzza Momochi, The Demon of the Bloody Mist." Kakashi said.