I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I AM SORRY! Word's cannot describe of how much I feel like a total ass for not updating this story for so long. It's just that I've been stuck in a rut lately and my life is just fucking up left and right. I have been in a very bad depression lately, but I promise you I will never try and update this late ever again. I never want to do that again. So, without any longer wait, here goes…
Oh! By the way, I was asked if I should have a SasuSaku pair or a SasuFemHaku pair and that got me thinking…I should have you guys decided for me, so after you read this, vote on my profile and I'll see what to do.
Last chapter:
"Touch her and die," He spoke darkly and Naruto gulped and raised his hands in defense and Hinata pouted.
"Sasuke-nii-Chan!" Hinata whined and he smirked and poofed away and Hinata blushed angrily and sighed and turned to Naruto and held out her hand.
"How about we get some ramen?" Naruto grinned as he grabbed her hand and they ran towards the ramen stand in glee. There adventures were now beginning and Team 7 was born. The wind blew ominously as leaves circled the memorial stone.
Present chapter:
"Okay, are you all in positions?" Kakashi spoke seriously through the radio mic towards the team. Away from him was Sasuke, who nodded.
"Position A is secured," Kakashi nodded.
"Good, Position B?" Hinata nodded with a serious look.
"All set here," She spoke clearly.
"And Position C?" Naruto nodded and held the mic up.
"All set here and target is in site," Naruto glared at the figure and remained frozen in his spot. Kakashi nodded and remained silent then…
"Go!" Naruto grinned and jumped towards the target, which was an orange cat with a red bow on it, which jumped in fright and ran surprisingly fast, but Naruto grabbed it by the tail and the cat began to claw at him and Naruto was yelling in annoyance and pain. Sasuke and Hinata came out and Hinata giggled softly and walked over to Naruto as the cat leaped into her arms and purred softly. Naruto glared at the evil feline and Sasuke rolled his eyes.
"Is it the target?" Sasuke sighed and spoke into the mic.
"Yeah, the missing cat Tora is here, the bow is obvious," Kakashi smiled as he read his book.
"Good job everyone, mission accomplished,"
"CAN WE GET SOME NEW MISSIONS?! I HATE CATS!" Kakashi was frozen to the side as Naruto yelled loudly into the mic.
The Hokage Tower
"Oh, Tora, Mommy was so worried she was never going to see you again!" The Daimyos' (?) wife wailed as she rubbed the cat to her cheek, who looked desperate to get away. Team 7 sweat dropped as they witnessed this.
No wonder it runs away so much They all thought. The hokage was silently smoking his pipe and Iruka was sitting next to him, deciding to help out with distributing missions today. He smiled as he saw Naruto with the Team. It looked like he was growing up after all.
"Hey Old man! Give us an actual mission, not these stupid chores!" Or not Iruka thought with a tick mark. He stood up and slammed his hands onto the table.
"Don't talk to the hokage like that! Listen, you're all fresh new gennin, so these are appropriate missions given to the new gennins, so just deal with it," Sarutobi sighed as he looked at Naruto. He knew that he was going to the first to complain.
"No way! These missions are so lame! How am I supposed to show off my awesome ninja skills if I'm stuck pulling weeds or baby-sitting?" Kakashi cuffed Naruto on the head and sighed.
"Sorry about that. Don't mind him," Naruto glared at him and looked to Hinata.
"You agree with me, don't you Hinata-Chan?" Hinata bit her lip and exhaled.
"I actually agree with Naruto on this Hokage-sama, forgive my rudeness, but I was expecting to actually use my skills I have learned in missions and this isn't what I expected…." Sasuke nodded along with his sister. Iruka looked shocked and the Hokage sighed but smirked.
"All right then. I guess we can give you all a C-rank mission of escorting an important person," Kakashi looked surprised and Naruto whooped.
"All right! Our first mission! Who are we escorting, a princess? A feudal lord?!" The hokage sighed.
"Bring in our client please," The team looked to the door to see a man in about his 40's with a scruffy looking beard and was carrying a sake bottle and looked drunk. He looked over to the team and glared as he took a swig and his cheeks turned redder.
"So is the team that's supposed to be escorting back home? A emo kid, a blind girl, and a pipsqueak?" Sasuke twitched in annoyance at the emo jab and Hinata glared at the blind jab. Naruto growled and pounced towards him, but Kakashi grabbed him by the collar before he could attack.
"Let me go! I'm gonna kill him for calling me a pipsqueak!" Kakashi sighed in annoyance.
"You can't kill our client Naruto. And please do not insult my team, they are all capable of protecting you," The man grumbled and just took another swig of his sake. The Hokage sighed. This was not gonna end well.
The next morning
Naruto, Hinata, and Sasuke all stood patiently at the front gates along with their client waiting for Kakashi. Naruto was sitting on the ground, cross legged and glaring at nothing.
"He's late again," He muttered with annoyance and Hinata sighed and sat down next to Naruto and layed her head down on his shoulder and he tried not to blush. He saw Sasuke looking darkly at him and gulped nervously and focused on the sky. The client looked amused at their antics.
"Sorry I'm late," Kakashi spoke as he poofed in front of them. Naruto leapt up and Hinata jumped quickly as she realized her post was gone.
"YOU'RE LATE!" He yelled and Kakashi just lazily looked at him while reading his book.
"Sorry, I had to help this old woman cross the street," Naruto glared at him with several tick-marks on him.
"THAT'S BULLSHIT!' He yelled and Kakashi sighed and started to walk ahead.
"Well come on, we have to take Mr.…" Kakashi looked to their client and he blinked.
"Tazuna," He grunted as he took a swig of his drink. Kakashi nodded and smiled.
'Yes, we have to take Mr. Tazuna back to the land of waves," Naruto grumbled as Hinata and Sasuke walked alongside the client while he watched the back. As they continued to walk, Kakashi looked over to see a small puddle of water and raised an eyebrow but ignored the puddle.
Strange. There was no rain for week, but it seems this puddle is here and fresh. Better watch carefully
"Kakashi-sensei," Hinata spoke and Kakashi looked to her to see she was narrowing her eyes at the puddle as they walked away and Kakashi knew she was skeptic about it as well. He smiled at her.
"No worries Hinata," Hinata bit her lip, but trusted her sensei. Just then, metal chains came out of nowhere and wrapped themselves around Kakashi and everyone gaped in horror. Two ninjas appeared from the puddle wearing metal parts around their arms and mouths and chuckled darkly.
"You've walked right into our trap," Kakashi looked in horror at them and Naruto could only look in shock as Kakashi was torn into pieces.
"KAKASHI-SENSEI!" The two ninjas grinned and turned to the team.
"Now, hand over the old man and you kiddies won't have to face the horror of The Demon Twin Ninja's ." Hinata glared at them as she activated her Byakugan and launched herself in front of Tazuna as they rushed towards her. Sasuke ran towards them and roundhouse kicked one of the ninjas, but he launched a metal claw at Naruto, who was frozen in shock and Sasuke 'tch'-ed and grabbed the claw just as it scratched Naruto on his hand. He took the other claw that was going towards him and jumped onto one of the ninja's head and pulled the hands towards opposite sides. He smirked and drop-kicked both of their faces and they were soon out cold. Sasuke jumped to the ground and narrowed his eyes at their out cold forms.
"Nii-Chan, what the hell is going on?" Hinata asked with a worried look on her face. These guys seemed like high-level ninja, so why were they targeting a simple bridge builder? Sasuke shook his head.
"I wanna know the same thing Hinata," A voice spoke and everyone looked to see Kakashi walking out of the forest, smiling. Hinata gasped in shock and relief and Sasuke raised an eyebrow. Naruto gaped at him.
"Kakashi-sensei! You're alive?!" Naruto yelled in surprise and Kakashi smirked.
"Of course, I just wanted to see how you would all handle this, great job Sasuke for taking them out and Hinata for protecting the bridge builder," Naruto felt ashamed that he wasn't able to help as well and Hinata frowned as he saw his crestfallen face. Kakashi looked at Naruto and crouched down to him.
"Naruto, we better hurry and get back, since those claws you were scratched with were poisoned," Hinata gasped and Naruto looked shocked and scared.
"But that means we can't do the mission!" He yelled. He just got this C-rank mission and now he might lose it! Kakashi nodded, but looked at him seriously.
"Naruto, we have to get you to a hospital before the poison spreads," Naruto started shaking from fear of the poison and anger. Sasuke looked at him with a blank look.
"Hey," Naruto and Hinata looked to Sasuke, who smirked at him.
"You're not scared are you? Scaredy-cat," He knew getting Naruto riled up would help with his confidence and Hinata realized that and smiled softly. Naruto looked shocked, then grabbed a kunai and stabbed his hand open. Hinata and the Tazuna gasped and Kakashi looked shocked while Sasuke smirked.
"I'm not giving up on this mission! I swear on my nindo to Never give up!" Naruto finished with a serious look as he let the blood flow from his wounds. Hinata smiled and Sasuke smirked while Kakashi blinked, then smiled.
"That's great Naruto, but I think we should close up that wound or instead of the poison killing you, you'll die of blood loss," Realizing that, Naruto started to panic and Hinata giggled and walked over to calm him down.
"Here Naruto, let me bandage that up for you," Hinata walked over and started to wrap up his hand and noticed that the wound was closing up quickly. She looked down in shock.
How is Naruto-kun's wound closing up so fast? Is it some sort of Jutsu? Or a bloodline?
"Um, Hinata-Chan?" Hinata was taken out of her thoughts when Naruto talked to her and was looking a little worried about her.
"Are you okay, Hinata-Chan?" Hinata blushed as she looked into his eyes. His clear, blue eyes that just held her there…..She blushed badly and pulled away.
"U-Um, yeah, I'm fine Naruto-kun, hehe," Hinata laughed nervously and walked away. Naruto blinked and Sasuke just pinched the bridge of his nose and shook his head. Kakashi smiled and then turned to Tazuna with a serious look, who gulped in nervous.
"So, Mr. Tazuna, can you explain why high-leveled chunnin's attacked me and my team while taking you back to Wave?" Tazuna sighed as he realized that he wasn't gonna be able to worm out of this.
"All right, I am a bridge builder, but the bridge I'm building will change the ways of Wave, you see, our land is becoming poor and our economy is way down because of the man called Gato," Kakashi blinked in surprise.
"Gato? You mean, Gato, head of the land's largest building and shipping company?" Tazuna glared at the ground.
"The very same, and he's been sucking the economy out of Wave for years now. The Lord of Wave can't do anything about it because there is no evidence against him of illegal means to take Wave's economy and the only way to save my country is by building the bridge, which he will have no control over," Kakashi looked serious at this news. If Gato wanted to get rid of that bridge, he was going after Tazuna, which meant that there would be even stronger ninja's coming after them.
"Due to this news, this mission sounds more like a high B-rank or low A-rank, and his means that this is no longer a C-rank, which means we cannot complete this," Naruto, Hinata and Sasuke looked shocked at the thought of this.
"But Kakashi-sensei! We can't just give up now!" Hinata said while looking at him. Kakashi looked at her with a serious look.
"Hinata, I can't put you three in any danger that you are not ready for," Naruto glared at him.
"There's no way I'm giving up this mission!" Kakashi sighed and looked at all three of them.
"You all realized that this mission is too tough for you all, right?" They all looked a little nervous and Naruto shook his head. '
"It doesn't matter! We're gonna see this thing through!" Tazuna looked shocked that these kids were willing to complete this, even if he lied to them about this.
"If you don't help me all the way home, the lead will have to deal with the fact I left behind my daughter and her grandson, you know. My daughter will be all 'I hate the Leaf for abandoning my father' and my grandson will be 'I can't believe my grandpa's not around anymore because of the leaf,'" Tazuna finished with a smirk and Naruto, Hinata, and Sasuke looked at Kakashi with a triumph look. Kakashi sighed and then shrugged.
"Oh well then, let's get this over with," Naruto grinned and Hinata jumped in joy and Sasuke smirked while Tazuna exhaled with relief. They walked on ahead and the two chunnins were slowly waking up just as a figure appeared in front of them.
"H-Haku," One of the demon brothers spoke with a shaky voice. The figure before them was wearing a hunter-nin mask and had a small figure.
"You have both failed, therefore, you are of no use to Zabuza-sama," They both looked shocked and before they could defend themselves, they were struck in the neck with needles. The hunter-nin looked down at their bodies and walked away into the forest.
And, there. I'm done with that chapter. I'm sorry that it's been so long that I've been away for so long but my life has been so busy and I've had so many people wanting me to update all my other stories and I remembered how I had this one and thought to myself 'How come no one is remembering this one?" Probably because of the title. That's why I've decided to change the title from Best friend to Lover to A different path. Now then, with that I leave you now and remember no flames please! Ja ne!