Diana Louis

Diana Louis

This Chapter is dedicated to Sheilanaruto for being such an awesome reviewer! Thanks.

While Naruto was mentally freaking out about receiving a C rank mission an older man stepped into the room.

"This is it? These children are going to protect me? They look like even my six year old grandson could beat them, especially that shrimp in the orange over there," slurred the old man as he dipped his head back to take a sip from his sake bottle.

"Now Tazuna you know better than to assume things by appearance," said the third while watching in amusement as Sakura held back the fuming Naruto.

"Whatever old man, I can take you on any day of the week," Naruto replied while sticking his tongue out.

The Hokage sighed before telling Naruto to behave.

"Team seven, your mission is to protect Tazuna while he finishes building his bridge in the Land of Waves," said the third while looking at all three genin, "You start today at noon, get packing."

"Yosh! C rank mission, we are going to kick ass," yelled Naruto pumping his fists into the air.

The rest of the team shook their heads or in Sakura's case rolled her eyes at his predictability.

"Oh shit, shit, shit, shit. I am in so much trouble," Naruto said pacing from one corner of his room to the other. How would he be able to do both a C rank mission and practice Genjutsu with Kyuubi without collapsing from exhaustion?

Sigh. I have no choice, I'm going to have to make due to the best of my abilities.

Naruto picked up his worn backpack to place his toiletries and some weapons inside. Naruto knew there was one thing he couldn't leave behind. He went to his closet and opened the secret compartment. Beneath the jutsu scroll laid another slimmer scroll with the Uzumaki swirl painted in the middle.

Naruto placed the red scroll at the very bottom of his backpack; it wouldn't be good if his team mates or especially Kakashi-sensei found the scroll.

Naruto also took out his green and black shozoko(1) and placed it at the bottom of his backpack. Naruto looked at his full but relatively light backpack with determination, he was ready for war.

Naruto ran to the village gates as he was running late. Surprisingly his pacing took up quite the small time he had to pack.

"Sorry I'm late guys, I couldn't decide which type of ramen to carry with me," Naruto lied smiling lightly at his team mates. Sasuke briefly looked him in the eyes before grunting his indifference. Sakura was unexpectedly so exited for the mission that she ignored Naruto's unpunctuality and lame excuse.

Poof!

"Sorry I'm late. I had to help Maito Gai tweeze his eyebrows," Naruto and the gang looked at him in befuddlement seeing as how they didn't know a Maito Gai.

Kakashi smiled at his accomplished mission of confusing them into silence.

"Can we leave already?" asked the slightly less drunk Tazuna as he glared at Kakashi.

As the team was walking towards their destination, Naruto noticed something strange up ahead.

A puddle of water, how can that be when it hasn't rained in a few days?

Naruto was sure something was wrong when he saw Kakashi briefly look over his orange book to the puddle and remain tense. Naruto then saw Kakashi slyly tap Sasuke on his hand to warn him about coming danger.

Naruto felt an all too familiar emotion at the pit of his stomach, betrayal.

Get it together Naruto. You already knew he would focus on Sasuke and Sakura before the demon. This feeling shouldn't feel fresh; this wound is an open scab.

Naruto lowered his head, his blond bangs hiding his eyes clouded with pain at having others favored while he was pushed to the side.

Naruto drew his feelings inwards locking them deep inside. At the moment he had a mission to complete and he couldn't afford to have his feelings cloud his judgment. Without anyone noticing Naruto placed his index and middle finger in his kunai pouch getting ready to defend Tazuna from anything but first he wanted to have a little fun.

"Kakashi-sensei, are there any ninja in Wave?" Naruto innocently asked watching sadistically as Kakashi almost tripped when his voice broke the tense ambiance.

"Don't worry Naruto, there aren't any ninja in Wave and above all not in a C rank mission," Kakashi answered his experienced eyes catching Tazuna sweat nervously.

"Thanks Kakashi-sensei, that makes me feel a lot better," Naruto replied happily as he jumped on the puddle of water. Naruto cackled in glee inside at the barely heard moans of pain coming from the puddle.

As the team passed the puddle by a few feet, two ghost like ninja stepped out of the puddle.

The team looked in horror-or at least acted like it- as Kakashi was ripped to pieces in front of their eyes.

As if Kakashi-sensei would actually die from these two lowlifes.

The slow moving moment was broken with Sakura's high pitched scream. The two nins then aimed for Naruto with their chain weapons. Naruto blocked one of the two weapons with his kunai while Sasuke jumped in to help him with the other.

Naruto suddenly decided to play more into his role.

"YOU, how dare you kill my sensei you idiot. I mean everyone is entitled to be stupid, but you abused that privilege by attacking Konoha's best genin team," Naruto took the ninja's head and bashed it repeatedly against a tree until he went limp.

Oh-oh, I think I went too far.

Kakashi suddenly appeared, like Naruto knew he eventually would, and took care of the remaining ninja.

"Kakashi-sensei, you're alive!" yelled Sakura tears of happiness running down her face.

She suddenly turned feral her bipolerness taking over.

"What the hell was the point of leaving us to take care of them by ourselves?!" she yelled far gone in her anger by taking Kakashi's collar and shaking him back and forth.

Naruto happened to agree with her wholeheartedly.

"Yeah, you see Kakashi-sensei I'm sitting here looking at you trying to see things from your point of view but I can't get my head that far up my ass," Naruto told Kakashi pointing at him in anger. (2)

The team looked at Naruto with different looks of confusion and shock on their faces.

Oops, I think I went a bit too out of character.

"I-I meant to say… what were you thinking sensei?" Naruto laughed nervously rubbing the back of his head and everyone abruptly went back to normal when he stuttered those words.

This is going to be one looong mission.

(1) Shozoko- a standard ninja uniform worn in three camouflaged colors: Black, White and Green.

(2) These insults are very old popular insults that I've found on different websites so I see no reason to accredit it to a specific one.

AN- Thank you if you reviewed and even for just reading my story, though I've got to admit, it makes me really happy when I open my account to see I that I have a new review. It makes me feel proud and that much more eager to update. Also a special thanks to X-219 for being my first reviewer. Thank you all.