Kakashi kept Sakura close not allowing her to stray to far when he notices her tense up it had been a half an hour since they began walking when her two teammates Naruto and Sasuke began bickering without stopping he watches Sakura swing her head around and pin her emerald eyes on the two boys "If you two don't shut up" here she paused contemplating her next words before allowing a smile to spread across her lips it was a smile that could send shivers of fear down anyones spine.
Recognizing the smile Naruto wisely shuts up while Sasuke eyes her warily but also falls silent "You'd think being a ninja they would have better sense than that" Sakura sighs softly to herself not aware that Kakashi had heard her still walking she notices a puddle and she furrows her eyebrows in confusion before feeling it 'Shoot that's genjutsu' Inner says Sakura was about to warn Kakashi but it was to late the two in the genjutsu had attacked and Naruto was already screaming in surprise.
Rolling her eyes Sakura in her best Anko imitation barks out "Sasuke, Naruto protect Tazuna-san Kakashi-senpai will be alright" she orders grasping the kunai she had hidden on her arm under her sleeves and throws it at the two rogues drawing them away from her teammates correctly assuming that they were after Tazuna-san "Sakura-chan be careful" Sakura hears Naruto shout along with a dull thud looking up Sakura notices that Kakashi had reappeared and had stopped one of the two men now it was up to her.
"Naruto remember what we practiced" she grins when he charges forward making the handsign for his shadow clone jutsu as she launches forward and grabs one of the clones and throws him into the other man before tossing a senbon and dispelling the clone before pushing chakra in her feet to increase her speed and before the cloud of white smoke disappears flies through it and punches the man in the face sending him flying into a tree knocking him semi unconscious before wrapping ninja wire around him to make sure he couldn't move.
"Nice work Sakura, Naruto" Kakashi grins at them causing his eye to crinkle in the corner "Of course you did good to Sasuke" he directs his gaze onto the scowling boy "Thank you Senpai but really I wouldn't have noticed if I didn't already have my suspicions about this mission in the first place" Sakura huffs staring at Tazuna and in her no nonsense voice asks "So Tazuna-san want to tell us the true difficulty of this mission" she scowls at him stalking towards him in a move reminiscent of Anko.
"Ah well you see I couldn't pay for anything other than C-ranked and I'm sorry, so sorry" Tazuna cries falling on the ground comically "Don't you have any backbone geez that's just pathetic" Sakura stares down at him tapping her foot in irritation "Ok Sakura that's enough" Kakashi steps in trying vainly not to laugh even though it was rather hilarious to see a little girl make a grown man cry like that and sets down the other rogue next to his brother and ties him up with some wire like Sakura had done to the other.
'Geez Anko is already rubbing off on her students' Kakashi thinks to himself while he question to the demon brothers getting no information out of them he instantly kills them drawing a gasp from 3 of the 4 people standing behind him and he looks curiously up at the pinkette "It's not the first time I've seen someone killed we are ninja death is in the job description" Sakura folds her hands behind her back and looks around cautiously "I'm sure you've heard this before but your not a normal genin" Kakashi stares at her and she shrugs.
"I can't help it that I've been exposed to things normal children or just newly graduated academy students haven't been exposed to yet" Sakura sighs sadly remembering all the training she had been given when she had been taken into the Aburame clan seeing the sadness in her eyes Kakashi wisely drops the subject intending to talk to the Hokage when they got back to the village to see if he could get more information on the strange girl 'She definitely isn't normal' he nods to himself standing and brushing himself off.
"Alright Tazuna-san because we have other things to do on this mission we will still continue but it's best for future reference that you don't lie about the mission difficulty again because sending genin out on an A-ranked mission like this isn't practical" he stares at the man before gesturing for the group to begin walking again the quicker they got this mission over with the sooner they could return to the village and the sooner he could ask the Hokage his questions about Sakura not knowing he had already been beaten to it.
3 hours later it was blissfully silent of course nothing ever goes right when things are that silent thought Sakura as she felt a menacing chakra behind them along with a group of several people ahead of them "Ah Senpai do you" she trails off when he nods and she briefly glances behind her at her teammates and of course the sulking Tazuna "We know your there why don't you come out" Kakashi calls ducking when a giant sword flies overhead and embeds itself into a tree and a tall man with bandages wrapped around his mouth appears laughing.
Startled at the appearance of the man Naruto moves in front of Tazuna holding up a kunai protectively "Zabuza-san must you scare them they are only genin" Kakashi asks eyeing the man warily when all he does is chuckle deeply "Apparently not all of them are scared pinky there seems to be just fine" Zabuza points out jumping down from the tree subduing his killing intent and stands before the group of five curiously "So what brings you here" Zabuza asks narrowing his eyes at them.
"We've been asked to help resolve the conflict within the Hidden Mist Village along with escort Tazuna-san back home and protect him as he finishes building his bridge" Kakashi explains handing the man the mission report Sakura watches him curiously noting that the group of people had disappeared ahead of them at this mans appearance but there was still someone hiding it was faint but she could still tell that someone was watching them from the shadows and she smiles but remains silent knowing to let their Senpai do all the talking.
Unfortunately Naruto didn't get the memo to remain silent and he speaks up "Hey who's the freak with no eyebrows" he points at Zabuza yelling only to fall silent when Sakura whacks him on the head "Be quiet" Sakura hisses slapping her hand over his mouth to prevent any further outbursts from the knucklehead "Don't your brats know how to be silent in the presence of other shinobi" Zabuza asks eyeing the pinkette curiously as she stops the blonde from saying anything else.
"Ah sorry this is their first mission outside the village as far as I know and they aren't mine I'm their Senpai for this mission as their sensei was already on another mission and couldn't come on this one" Kakashi glares at Naruto who eeps in fear causing Sakura to roll her eyes silently promising to whack him over the head again later when she could before straightening and continue paying attention to the other chakra source that had stayed a constant since Zabuza had appeared before them.
"Kakashi I'll need to speak with you in private" Zabuza peers at the genins before moving further away Kakashi following once at a distance that the rest of the group couldn't hear he explains about Gatou and his henchmen and that he and his apprentice were there from orders of the new Mizukage along with one other who had run off the minute they had left the village and they were currently looking for him "I understand Zabuza and to make your mission easier we of the Hidden Leaf will help you look for your runaway teammate" Kakashi offers Zabuza.
Meanwhile Sakura was listening into the conversation using chakra to enhance her hearing she huffs 'Cha we could so be of help' she pouts internally as Inner once again rages 'So that's the other chakra we feel Zabuza-san's apprentice' Sakura nods to herself no longer enhancing her hearing and waits for the two adults to move back towards her and the others a few minutes later they do so knowing that Zabuza had accepted the offer and now they were going to split up in teams one taking Tazuna to the village and the other searching for the runaway.
Reaching the rest of his temporary team Kakashi deals out his orders "Sakura you will be going with Zabuza and his apprentice Haku to find their missing teammate, Sasuke and Naruto you'll be with me to escort Tazuna the rest of the way to the village" groaning at this Naruto pouts "But senpai I want to be with Sakura-chan" he whines but Kakashi remains steadfast in his orders "Naruto ninja aren't supposed to whine" Sakura points out moving to stand before Zabuza unafraid.
Falling silent Naruto follows Sasuke and the other two to Tazuna's village leaving Sakura behind "Haku you can come out now" Zabuza calls out ignoring Sakura for the time being a few moments later a boy her age appears 'Wow he's so pretty' Inner says looking him over "Haku she will be joining us temporarily to find Utakata" he says unsure of what else to say "Zabuza-san, Haku-san I'm Sakura Aburame" Sakura introduces herself to the Mist Shinobi that would be her temporary teammates.
"Sakura-san what can you do" Haku asks curiously staring at her good thing she was good with strangers and wasn't unnerved when Haku stared at her "I'm a bug expert" Sakura says simply before getting down to business "Zabuza-san do you have anything of your teammates that carries his scent" she asks after a few moments "Yes he left his pack fortunately he had touched it previously and we stored it in a scroll" he answers watching her curious as to what she was going to do.
"Will you unseal the scroll please" Sakura asks again doing as she had asked and placing the pack in front of her 'Alright let's summon Tomo-kun' that decision in mind Sakura bites her thumb swipes it across her palm doing the simple handsign "Plume Moth Summoning Jutsu" she calls a few seconds later a palm-sized moth appears in her hand "Hello Tomo-kun I have a job for you will you help me out again" Sakura asks politely "Of course Sakura-sama anything for you" the moth responds politely as well shocking to two males.
'It talks that bug talks' Zabuza stares in amazement while Haku was disturbed at the summoning "Ok Tomo-kun I need you to help me track down their missing teammate his scent is on that backpack" she gestures briefly at Zabuza and Haku before showing Tomo the pack "Alright Sakura-sama I'll get right on it" the little moth flies out of her palm and flies around the backpack after a few minutes he lands back in Sakura's hand and starts speaking rapidly in a language only Sakura seemed to understand.
Listening to Tomo speak Sakura nods "Ok Tomo-kun says he's got the scent and he can lead us to wherever Utakata-san is but I summoned him while he was in the middle of something and he has to go back for a little while to finish" she explains "And how long will he be gone" Zabuza asks feeling uneasy talking about the bug "Just for 15 minutes" Sakura says "Very well we will wait then" he nods and Tomo poofs out of existence going back to his mountain to finish the task he had been given by Rora-sama.
Those 15 minutes pass by quickly and soon enough Sakura is resummoning Tomo "Welcome back Tomo-kun" she says politely before nodding seriously "Alright Tomo-kun lead us" with that Tomo flies up and out of her hand before taking off into the surrounding forest the group of three hot on his wings Sakura in the lead as she had the most experience with following small bugs "She's actually keeping up with that thing" Haku questions not having seen anyone like Sakura before so therefore he was confused.
"It's confusing to me as well Haku so you aren't alone in this" Zabuza whispers back jerking to the right when Sakura jumps in that direction still keeping pace with Tomo-kun several minutes of travel later both girl and bug stop on a branch hiding her chakra Zabuza was deeply impressed with the kid doing the same both Zabuza and Haku hide their chakra as well peering down into a clearing and there their missing teammate sat 'Damn you Utakata' Zabuza curses promising to punish the man for making them search for him.
'That's their teammate' Inner asks practically swooning at the sight of him 'Shut up Inner your ruining my concentration' Sakura snaps shoving her into a box and locking it tight for the time being before speaking to the males behind her "Well I found your teammate what are you going to do now Zabuza-san" she whispers softly drawing Zabuza out of his thoughts "We confront him Utakata said that if we could find him he would help us out seeing as we have found him the only thing left to do is confront him" Zabuza says and Sakura and Haku nod.
Blinking in surprise as the two before her disappear Sakura huffs out a laugh 'Men' she rolls her eyes before jumping down into the clearing to find Zabuza already scolding Utakata "Alright fine I'll join y..." Utakata trails off finally noticing Sakura "Oy who's the brat she definitely isn't from the Hidden Mist Village" he swings around to pin Zabuza with a glare "Sakura-san here gladly agreed to help up find you" Haku speaks up this time drawing Utakata's attention "Is that so" Utakata huffs before slumping in defeat mumbling under his breath.
"It's alright Utakata-san my teammates drive me crazy to but you still shouldn't have run off like that" Sakura scolds causing Zabuza and Haku to clamp their hands over their mouths in an effort to stop their laughter at seeing a little pink-haired girl scold Utakata 'My god that girl has some guts' Zabuza snorts dispelling his laughter as best he could before addressing the 3 standing before him well he was until Sakura swipes blood on her palm again and summons this time a horde of moths.
'Damnit we've been followed' Sakura curses sending her horde of poisonous plume moths after the two people hiding in the bushes watching them a few minutes later screaming emerges and the two stumble out of their hiding spot trying to ward off the moths and their poison gas that they were emitting from their tiny bodies seconds later they were laying on the ground barely alive and moments later they were dead and the others were staring at Sakura in astonishment that she had known someone was there.
The three males stared and stared some more before Zabuza finally speaks up "Your not a normal genin" he sighs out wiping his hand down his face "Ah not the first time I've been told that" Sakura admits sheepishly before dispelling her summons "How did you know they were there" Utakata asks curiously eyes furrowed "I'm good at tracking so my senses are always on the look out" she shrugs "You, your the one who found me" Utakata swings around again but whatever he was going to say dies on his lips.
Zabuza and Haku were looking at Sakura like she was crazy 'Why do we always end up with the weird ones' was thought collectively by the two before Zabuza clears his throat "We should head to the village now" he says simply before jumping into the tree's and taking off at high speed the other three following behind him closely still completely impressed with Sakura's abilities not to mention she was again keeping up with their fast-paced travel unaware that Sakura was splitting her attention between keeping up with them and staying on the alert for other enemies.
Meanwhile Kakashi and his group had arrived in Tazuna's village Tazuna had led them to his home and they had already been introduced to Tsunami and Inari "Where's Sakura-chan" Naruto whines again for the fourth time in the two hours that she had been helping Zabuza track down his missing teammate "Dope shut up" Sasuke pipes up from the other side of the room and that sets Naruto off for the third time and again Kakashi has to separate the two genin "Sasuke, Naruto enough" he threatens glaring at the two boys.
Feet landing on grass outside the home sets the three civilians into a panic and Kakashi soothes them recognizing Sakura's chakra along with Zabuza, Haku and what must be their missing teammate "It's just the other genin along with Mist Shinobi" he explains simply moving to open the door for the group of four "Sakura-chan" Naruto jumps up rushing at her tackling her in a hug "You knucklehead get off me" she struggles pushing him off of her and hitting him over the head with her fist.
"Owww Sakura-chan why are you so mean" he sits on the floor pouting causing everyone to roll their eyes at his antics "Why are you such an idiot" Sakura snipes crossing her arms and grinning at him this time causing everyone to laugh including Naruto who realizing that he was being ridiculous stands up rubbing the back of his head sheepishly "Your right Sakura-chan" he smiles at her before moving to sit down dragging her with him this time everyone blinks in surprise.
"Oh would you like some help ma'am" Sakura jumps up from her seat and rushes over to Tsunami "No dearie that's alright I can handle it" Tsunami says patting Sakura's head and gesturing for her to retake her seat at the table while she finished up making dinner for everyone "If you'd like some extra supplies I packed to much and I'd be willing to part with them" Sakura offers pulling out her extra food supply storage scroll and Tsunami sighs "Alright you may help" she says accepting the offer for help this time.
With that the two females are bustling around the kitchen causing everyone's stomach to growl in hunger at the delicious aroma wafting around the small home and soon enough the beef stew is being set on the table and bowls are being doled around "Itadakimasu" everyone calls digging into one of the most delicious meals any of them had ever had well Naruto had because this wasnt the first time Sakura had cooked for him but it was the first time she had cooked for a lot of other people.
Night time comes soon enough and all the shinobi were being set up in separate rooms the four teens being set up in one room and the three adults in another laying in her sleeping bag Sakura finds it hard to fall asleep as she tosses and turns she must have disturbed Naruto because he scoots over and lays next to her "Sakura-chan is everything alright" he whispers peering at her with his blue eyes in the dark of the room "Ah I'm fine" she admits "Just having a hard time sleeping in a new place" Sakura admits again causing Naruto to laugh softly.
"Hey remember the first time we met" he asks hoping to distract her "Ah yes everyone was picking on you because you had just pulled a prank on the entire class" Sakura smiles fondly clasping Naruto's hand in her own tightly "Yeah you were covered in the powder as well but you were the only one who didn't laugh at me" Naruto says again grinning widely "And then later on I confronted you" Sakura grins this time "And I thought you were going to whack me" he whisper laughs not wanting to wake the others.
"I did but I also told you that you were cool and that I'd love to be your friend" Sakura finishes the memory off reaching over to hug the blonde before settling back down in her sleeping back and dozing off finally still holding Naruto's hand tightly a few moments later both teens are asleep dreaming of the memories they had created together and before they knew it the sun had risen and all four teens were awoken by a loud pouding on the door and being ordered to wake up and they do so rising for the day without complaint.