"Human talking"
'Human thinking/Talking to Tailed Beast/Inner Persona '
"Tailed Beast/Inner talking"
"Tailed Beast/Inner thinking"
Sasuke's Home's Kitchen (Morning)
Kakashi was cooking breakfast while Sasuke ate his cereal with milk. Sakura was taking a plate up to Naruto as he was still asleep. She had just taken 5 steps when suddenly Jiraiya appeared in front of her. She screamed out due to her surprise and dropped the plate.
Thinking he was an intruder Sasuke threw a dozen kunais and shurikens at him and Jiraiya narrowly missed each one of them. "Do you have something against appearing normally?!" asked Sasuke angrily. "Jiraiya-sama, please don't appear out of nowhere or else one of these days it will be the reason of your death" said Kakashi. They all heard footsteps and looked up to see Naruto coming down.
Naruto got confused when he saw Sakura clearing the mess on the floor and the kunais and shurikens, which were still plunged into the wall and the floor. "What happened here?" asked Naruto. Jiraiya just laughed nervously and explained what happened. "I expected better from you Ero-sennin" said Naruto as he shook his head in mock disappointment.
"Heeyyy!" whined Jiraiya. Kakashi chuckled at antics of his student and the Toad Sannin while Sasuke and Sakura just shook their heads with a smile on their faces. 'They will never change' thought the two genin. "What brings you here though, Ero-sennin?" asked Naruto. "Well, Tsunade wanted to see and talk to Kakashi, Sasuke and Sakura" said Jiraiya. "But what about Naruto?" asked Sasuke. "He will remain outside the Hokage Office" said Jiraiya. Everyone nodded and together they went to the Hokage Tower.
Hokage Tower (Hokage's Office)
After seating Naruto outside Tsunade performed a few complicated hand signs to make a sound barrier which would not allow anyone to hear what was hearing inside but would allow them to hear what was happening outside. "Well" said Tsunade "I have called you all here for a S-rank mission."
At this the jounin raised their eyebrows. While the genin gave her a mixture of looks which varied from utter confusion to anger. "No" said Sasuke angrily "I will not leave Naruto unguarded."
"Now now, let's hear what Hokage-sama has to say before we get to each others' throats shall we" said Gai. He was there with Team 8, Team 9 and Team 10 along with their respective leaders. "It will be very unyouthful of you to attack her without a youthful reason Sasuke!" A tick mark appeared on Sasuke's forehead along with Kakashi and Neji's.
"Gai-sensei is right Sasuke" said Lee.
"Lee!" cried out Gai
"Gai-sensei!" cried out Lee
"Lee!"
"Gai-sensei!"
"Lee!"
"Gai-sensei!"
The two look alikes hugged and Tsunade could have sworn she saw the sun setting on an ocean behind them. "Well, getting back to business" said Shikamaru "You want us to find who did this to Naruto right?" Tsunade nodded "Yes" she said and as soon as the word left her mouth all hell broke loose as protests came from all of the shinobi present.
"However" she said loudly and succeeding silenced them all "this mission will be divided in three part and teams. TEAM 1 will consist of Hatake Kakashi, Uchiha Sasuke and Haruno Sakura. You will all be given a mission as Team 7 with Naruto included. You will be guarding Naruto secretly while doing the mission. You will later be joined Gaara and siblings as they have nearly completed all of their work in the village though Gaara decide to stay a few more days.
TEAM 2 is a tracking team it will consist of Hyuuga Hinata, Inuzuka Kiba, Aburame Shino, Nara Shikamaru, Maito Gai, Rock Lee, Hyuuga Neji and Tenten. You will also be joined by a clone of Jiraiya due to his ability to summon toads and as we all know toads have great tracking and fighting skills. Also, it will be a clone as I need the real Jiraiya to help me with some paperwork and formalities related to Naruto's parents and as Jiraiya was close to them I think he will be able to help me.
Anyways, you will also be joined by Uzuki Yugao, a female ANBU with great tracking skills, she is also a sister figure to Naruto and he is like a brother to her. She also used to be one of his ANBU guards who used to protect him against the villagers until he turned 6. That was when the council decided he was old enough to defend himself against the villagers and shinobi. Well it wasn't like the guards were able to help much anyways and don't get me wrong, they did everything in their power to protect him. However, most of the time the council somehow managed to summon them right before Naruto was attacked. Oh well where was I now? Oh yeah! Yugao's codename is Cat.
Now as for TEAM 3 it is an info-gathering team. It will consist of Yamanaka Ino, Akimichi Choji, Yuuhi Kurenai and Sarutobi Asuma. You will be joined by Mitarashi Anko, a jounin from the ANBU's T&I (Torture & Interrogation) department, she is also a sister figure to Naruto and he is like a brother to her. She also used to be one of his ANBU guards who used to protect him against the villagers until he turned 6. She is also the ex-student of Orochimaru and the wielder of the curse mark. She is also known as Snake. You will also be joined by another clone of Jiraiya due to his vast spy network. Any questions?"
Sakura rose her hand. Tsunade nodded at her to continue. "Tsunade-sama, what mission will we be getting?" asked Sakura. "Oh! I nearly forgot. The mission you will be getting should be ranked as a D-rank mission but as this will be a little difficult for Naruto as he will be needing to tell about the Kyuubi I wrote it down as a B-rank mission. Well, it all started a few days ago with Konohamaru, Moegi and Udon continuously pestering Iruka about Naruto's whereabouts and as soon as they got to know what happened to him, which was through a drunken man, they all went into hiding together due to their anger and hatred for the villagers and their sadness for Naruto, the boy they all looked up as their leader and aniki. And now Iruka is having the time of his life having to search for them through the entire Konoha" ended Tsunade sarcastically.
Everybody just chuckled. "Poor Ruka" said Kakashi. Hinata, Kiba, Shino, Ino, Shikamaru, Choji, Lee, Neji and Tenten looked at him confused at the pet name. The jounin just chuckled again while Sasuke and Sakura explained. "You see, Kakashi-sensei and Iruka-sensei are together" said Sakura. Ino's eyes widened "Together, as in a couple?" asked Ino.
Sasuke nodded and said "Yeah, and you might not know this but Genma-san and Raido-san are together as well." "What?!" said Shikamaru "Even I didn't know about this."
"Anyway, your mission is to keep the villagers at bay and find those three brats and explain the situation to them. Understood?" said Tsunade. Once everybody nodded Tsunade said "Good, now then. Cat, Snake."
Two women sushined into the room. The first woman wore a cat mask along with the standard ANBU uniform. She had waist length purple hair with bangs which lay free. The other woman wore a snake mask along with a black T-shirt, knee-length orange skirt, yellow thigh-long trench coat and black battle boots. She had short purple hair which were tied in a high pony.
"Uzuki Yugao & Mitarashi Anko, you two have been chosen for the tracking team and info-gathering team respectively to find the mob that attacked Uzumaki Naruto on 5th October. You may now remove your masks" said Tsunade. Both women did as asked.
"Yugao you are teamed with Hyuuga Hinata, Inuzuka Kiba, Aburame Shino, Nara Shikamaru, Hyuuga Neji, Tenten and a clone Jiraiya" said Tsunade.
"Two Hyuugas, an Inuzuka, and Aburame, a Nara, a weapons mistress and the clone of the Legendary Toad Sannin himself. Not bad for a tracking team" said Anko.
"While you, Anko, will be teamed with Lee Rock, Yamanaka Ino, Akimichi Choji, Yuuhi Kurenai, Maito Gai, Sarutobi Asuma and another clone of Jiraiya" finished Tsunade. "Your team has got talented members as well Anko" said Yugao.
Anko nodded and said "Yeah". "Okay then, go now everyone and good luck" said Tsunade. "Thank you Hokage-sama/Tsunade-sama" said all the shinobi together and left. (Yugao and Anko sushined out while Team 8, 9, 10 and Jiraiya left through the window while Team 7 left through the door [like normal people]).
Thank you all for reading this chapter. I hope you all enjoyed it.