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Missions

"Look what we have here."

Sasuke rolled his eyes at his former sensei's leering grin from underneath his mask. How Kakashi became the Hokage of Konoha was beyond his comprehension.

'This village is run by idiots.' he thought, his irritation mounting the longer Kakashi stared.

"Not in the mood to talk? I'm hurt. Don't you want to know about my day?"

"Get on with it." Sasuke grumbled and Kakashi shook his head, rifling through a cluster of scrolls on his desk.

"You've always been the demanding type." The older man sighed. "You're in luck though. I have C and D ranks that have piled up over the last few weeks."

Sasuke frowned as Kakashi lazily held out a scroll to him. He hated low-rank missions even more than Naruto did when they were genin. It was beneath him to dig ditches and chase down runaway pets. However, he didn't have any better options at his disposal.

If he was going to leave he needed to get his affairs in order. Sensibly speaking, he needed supplies. To get supplies meant that he needed money. Money was something he was sorely lacking. He could use the Uchiha assets but he didn't have the stomach to touch money begotten through the blood of his clansmen.

No, Konoha could burn that money for all he cared.

Reluctantly he took the scroll Kakashi offered to him. He would leave. There was no doubt in his mind that he would walk through those gates and never look back. To do that he had to be smart, or at least in a better frame of mind than he had been this morning. Turning on his heel, Sasuke gripped his mission tightly and began to leave the office.

He would leave…eventually.

Until then, he could only bide his time and pray he didn't slip further into his own insanity. Hopefully, Naruto would be home when he visited tomorrow. If he couldn't tell the blonde goodbye, he could at least beat the shit out of him.