The Beginning For Everything

Disclaimers: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO!

it's in 3rd person point of view…

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Thought shots or sounds

"Dialog…"

If any flashbacks occur, the warning: "FLASHBACK" will show.

- Kakashi's Apartment -

Click

The key to Kakashi's front door clicked and the two shinobis dragged their feet in.

"Ugh… I'm so tired." Zoe whined as she stumbled into Kakashi's apartment.

"Well, considering that you're body never got a chance to come in any contact with a mattress, that would be the appropriate response." Kakashi smirked.

Zoe made her way through Kakashi's kitchen table, the chairs, was an inch away from the couch. Then she tossed her backpack and collapsed on to the couch. God, it felt so good. Kakashi smiled at this, pulled a chair, and sat down. He searched for his clock, which was right in front of him, and read the time.

3:45 PM… Tsunade-sama is going to kill us if we're late… but we JUST got here. Ugh. His body and lazy mind begged him to stay home and rest. And they weren't the only ones begging him. Kakashi stole a glance at Zoe. She's been at that position for a while now, so guessed that she was out. Sighing heavily, Kakashi rose slowly and walked over to, now, a sleeping Zoe. He took his hand and, tried, to grab her shoulder. But what ended up happening was Zoe quickly grabbed his wrist.

What do you know… she has reflexes… even when she's sleeping.

He got loose and grabbed her should this time, and gently shook it.

"Hey… wake up; we need to report to Tsunade-sama. Come on… wake up!"

Kakashi hear some groans from her then Zoe slowly pierced her eyes. The look on her face was screaming; "Do was have to?" Kakashi nodded and Zoe finally decided to get off of her butt and walked slowly towards the door. Kakashi just smiled and walked towards the door and started their way towards the Hokage Mansion.

Click… and the door locked.

-Ichiraku Ramen Shop-

Lee, Sakura, Naruto, Gai, Neji and Tenten (sat at this order from left to right) crowded the Ichiraku Ramen Shop. Teuchi and Ayame's faces grinning with their mind chanting, "Payday!"

"Well since it's on me go ahead and enjoy. You guys deserve a nice meal after a mission that becomes an over-night-er. Lee, you don't need to worry about a thing, no one from my team is going to be left out on a nice team feast! SO ORDER WHAT YOU WANT!" Gai's voice boomed.

"OHHH Thanks a bunch Gai-sensei! Old man, I want miso pork with eggs!" Naruto squealed and jumped up and down in his small stool.

The rest ordered what they wanted threw one heck of a feast. In the end, Gai became just like Asuma after treating his team from barbeque; completely broke. Thanks to Naruto who ate 12 bowls of ramen, which seemed impossible to everyone.

"BURRPP… ohhhhh… that was good… thanks a bunch Bushier-Brow sensei!" The genin simply smiled, waved at the team, and left for his home that waited for him.

Gai, who was in the shocked mode, simply waved back and slumped his shoulders again.

"Well, it was a bet after all. I must be YOUTHFUL that I have fulfilled my promises like I do when I challenge Konoha's Copy Ninja!" Gai, somehow, managed to regain his "youth-ness" and began to shed overly dramatic tears. "Let's go home Lee!!"

"Lead on, Gai-sensei!" the prodigy cheered back.

"Well, I might as well as go too. So, see you guys later~" Sakura called waving at Tenten and Neji. The remaining two silently left without another word.

-Hokage Mansion, Office-

Tsunade (as everyone knows) isn't a patient person nor will she ever. She's been waiting for those two for over an hour now.

BANG! Tsunade banged her fist on her desk in rage.

"GAHHH WHERE ARE THEY!?!??! I DID SAY "SHARP," DIDN'T I?!" Tsunade was ready to cut off their, as in Kakashi and Zoe's, heads when they entered. One thing that Tsunade didn't notice was that Zoe was about to knock on the door, which made her shrink back and began to whimper like a dog who's been scarred for life.

Zoe looked at Kakashi with teary, puppy dog eyes. "I don't wanna go inside Kakashi… wahhh…"

"Suck it up," was the only thing that came out of the "cool" jounin's mouth.

Zoe whimpered and knocked on the door.

Knock Knock…

"ENTER!!!!" Tsunade bellowed.

Zoe recoiled, hesitated for a moment and finally entered. The two siblings entered and tried to avoid eye contact with Tsunade.

"Kakashi, you better have a good reason for being late. And as for you Zoe, Kakashi's a bad influence to you."

"I apologize Tsunade-sama…" Zoe gave her a quick bow and stared at the hole on her desk that seemed to be freshly punched.

"Well you see, I got lost in the path of life so…" Kakashi began, scratching back of his head.

"Ugh… you and your LAME excuses… Zoe you're forgiven… Kakashi… I don't know what to say to you." Tsunade cleared her throat and began, "So… I assume that mission was a success?" Tsunade eyed the two shinobis.

"Yes, Tsunade-sama. According to Tazuna of the Land of Waves, the Iwagakure shinobis attacked out of no where. It seems that the leader, Kyo, took out his anger out on the small town, with a little help from his followers, of course." Kakashi began his report. "The village sent the elderly, women, and children to a safe place and the men stayed and fought. But it seems that we were too late and only found two survivors." Kakashi continued, and then paused for a moment.

Tsunade hung her head, listening that all of those defenseless people were killed, made her stomach turn. Zoe just stood there silently, listening to her big brother's report. There was a moment of silence.

"I see. Well, nice work anyways." Tsunade finally spoke quietly. Then with a flicker of light, she smirks for a bit. Both of the siblings caught it became tense.

"Well Zoe, you must be desperate to know why I sent you on this mission when you just returned… right?" Tsunade smirked at Zoe.

"Yes Tsunade-sama…" Zoe DID have a suspicion on this. "I've been meaning to ask you. How do you know that you can trust a shinobi that has not been in his/her village for such a long time? I know you're known as a gambler as well, but… why risk something as important as an S-ranked mission? I could have been working for other village." Zoe fell into a suspicion. Of course herself, she knew that she would never betray her village. What a hokage! Just trusting a ninja who just arrived like what… two days ago?

"Well the answer was fairly simple. There was two parts actually." Tsunade chuckled and spoke again. "First part, of course, no hokage would have an ability to look through a shinobis' heart. The first part was to test whether or not if I can trust you or not." Tsunade stopped when she saw Zoe frown even deeper.

"That still doesn't prove if that person is betraying or not. I could just have killed off the ninjas that were on my squad, or lead them to a trap." Zoe was even more shocked. What kind of hokage is she? She's willing to gamble and bet on her shinobis just to figure something important as that?! Tsunade looked on her desk and she felt like it was old times again. Someone she knew before had said the same thing to her.

"Well, you do sound like your mother… she said that same thing to me. Well before I became a hokage of course. She thought too much as well. Anyways… for your issue, I just decided to trust at one point. Because both your mother and your father, were too stubborn and persistent about their fellow shinobi's safety." Tsunade smiled warmly at her. "and the second part… was to test your skill and knowledge. I was going to have you promoted into jounin ranked shinobi, but… I think I should put that thought on hold. Right now you'll remain as chunin."

Zoe's eyes widened and her jaw dropped. 'WHAT?! I'm still a CHUNIN?! A CHUNIN?!?!?!?!?! ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!?' Zoe's head hung into a depression. Kakashi, who was watching all of this, just smiled at Zoe.

"ANNNND…. I've gotten an idea to wipe off that smile off of your face Kakashi… She will be on YOUR squad. And for the time being, she'll be sharing your apartment." Tsunade added, smiling.

Kakashi could feel his eyeball pop out of his skull. 'WHAT?! ONE KNUCKLE HEAD WAS ENOUGH! BUT NOW TWO?! THE ONE THAT EVEN HAD GUTS TO TALK BACK AT ME!' now even Kakashi's head hung from depression.

"you've gotta be kidding me…" the two depressed shinobi blurted out.

"YOU TWO WILL TAKE THAT AS AN OFFICAL ORDER SO, SUCK IT UP! YOU'RE BOTH DISMISSED!"

"Hai!" they were both jumped when Tsunade yelled at them. So as soon as they can, they quickly left the office and began to drag their feet back to now, their apartment. When they reached the rail for the stairs, Zoe stopped for a moment and stared at the mighty sunset. She smiled and looked at Kakashi, who was few steps below her.

"What?" Kakashi asked.

"Hey Kakashi, now your life is never going to be the same." She smirked and caught up to him.

"Yeah you're right…" But inside, Kakashi was delighted. He lived alone, now things might become different… in a good way. It was the beginning for everything.

THE END

So in the end Kakashi gets stuck with his little sis...

Thank you for bearing with this story~ and we all will see when will happen in the nxt story~

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