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Chapter 4

"Congratulations, the three of you past the test!"

Kakashi grinned under his mask as he watched his students' faces.

Naruto tried and unsuccessfully managed to jump-up and cheer. The blond-haired idiot was currently tied up to a tree stump for attempting to steal a bit of lunch, so he settled for a gigantic grin instead.

Sasuke, being the emotional-less boy he was just smirked for a few seconds then went back to his normal non-expressionless face.

Sakura caught this and grinned. Heh, he's probably stilled pissed because of the slap. The pink-haired girl thought, mentally noticing a faint red hand print that was still marked on Sasuke's face.

But then again, I did probably hit him a bit too hard.

She watched as Naruto began questioning Kakashi and watched as Sasuke added a few comments in between Naruto's rants, never sparing a glance back at his pink-haired teammate.

Sakura shrugged. Eh, whatever. He'll get over it.

"Ok, we'll be starting our first mission tomorrow." Kakashi explained, finally silencing the blond-haired loud mouth. "We'll meet on the bridge by 8:00 in the morning. Don't be late."

Kakashi waved at the three genin and then disappeared with a small 'poof'. The three of them sighed, knowing from today's events that the Jonin would probably be about two hours late- again.

"Sakura-chan lets out for Ichiraku to celebrate!" Naruto exclaimed happily as he turned to his teammate with a giant grin on his face.

Sakura smiled. "Ok! Let's go!" Sakura cheerfully agreed. Naruto's grinned widened with delight. "Sasuke-kun, want to come with us? We could celebrate as a team." Sakura asked, turning to him. Naruto's grin immediately flattened.

"But Sakuraaaa-chaannn." The blond-haired boy wined. "I thought we were gonging to go on a date!"

Sakura softy slapped him on the side of his head. "Naruto, you idiot, we should be celebrating because we finally are teammates." She said.

Naruto pouted. "It's not like Teme's going to agree anyway. He's too unsociable."

Upon hearing this comment Sasuke glared at him. "Dobe, I bet you don't even know what 'unsociable', means."

Naruto glowered. "You-."

Sakura took this time to smack her hand on top of Naruto's mouth, preventing the two to start fighting. "OK! So Sasuke-kun, since it's our first official day as teammates, you have no say what-so-ever on this. Your coming out to eat with us, whether you like it or not."

As Sasuke began to say something, Sakura frowned at him. "Do you want me to drag you there?" She asked, threateningly cracking her knuckles.

Sasuke glared and stayed silent as he began walking towards Ichiraku.

Sakura smiled brightly. "That's a good boy." She said as she began following him to Ichiraku."

Naruto began to snicker, but stopped when he realized something: he was still currently tied up to the stump.

"Sakura-chan, Teme, can you guys untie me?" He called out. As he turned to look at them he saw that they were no where in sight. Naruto started to panic. "WAIT! GUYS! I WANT SOME RAMEN TOO!!!!"

It was all in vain though, Sakura and Sasuke were already half-way towards Ichiraku.

Sakura stopped walking and looked back. "Hey Sasuke-kun, did you hear something?"

Sasuke paused and look back at her. He was silent for a moment. "No." He finally replied.

"Oh." Sakura continued walking. "Hmmm, I feel like were forgetting something though…"

Sasuke said nothing and smirked as he continued walking.

The sky was clear and the sun shinned brightly over the village of Konoha. Little rays of sunlight danced on the patches of grass and birds chirped happily on the trees. Cute little furry animals pranced around in the field of flowers. Children laughed and ran around playing "ninja" as adults began their day of work.

It just was one of those days were everyone one was happy citizens of the Leaf Village.

Everyone except for Team 7 who was currently stuck with the task of pulling out weeds growing from an elderly lady's garden.

"Aw man!" Naruto moaned. "Why the hell did we end up with this as out first mission!? It's not even fun!"

"Naruto, stop complaining and finish your work." Kakashi said as he flipped through his pages of his orange book, giggling slightly as he read something in particular.

The blond-haired Genin glared at his sensei as he continued to work on his patch of grass. Sakura sighed as she wiped away beads of sweat from her forehead. For once she agreed with Naruto. This was one thing she defiantly did not miss as her time as a Jonin.

Sakura glanced around as she finished her patch of grass. Kakashi was giggling like a little school girl, Naruto was glaring at the weeds as he aggressively pulled them, and Sasuke was working quietly in his own little corner. The pink-haired girl could swear she heard him mutter something around the likes of, "…stupid Kakashi-sensei." And "I'm a freaking Uchiha; I should be on a high-ranked mission right now. For once I agree with the Dobe."

She grinned. Sure maybe she didn't miss the D-ranked missions she was forced to do, but spending time with her teammates was priceless.

"HAHA!" Sakura turned her head as she heard Naruto scream out with delight. "I'm done!" He briefly glanced at Sasuke's pile of weeds and gave a fox faced grin. "TAKE THAT TEME! MY PILE IS WAYYYY BIGGER THEN YOURS!" He emphasized his point by pointing at his gigantic pile and then continued to gloat. "MUAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA."

He stopped laughing immediately as an elderly lady appeared behind him with a murderously aura. "You- what did you do to my plants?" She menacingly asked.

Naruto questionably looked at the pile of dirt that he had. "What are you talking about, Baa-chan? I removed all of your weeds." He replied confusingly. Naruto's eyes widened as he realized what he did. "Oh wait that's-." He stopped as he glanced at the old lady in front of him. "Err, wait!" I-"

"YOU LITTLE BRAT!" She screamed as she pounced on him.

"Idiot." Sasuke muttered, watching the old lady beat up Naruto.

Finally, after seven continuous hours of D-ranked missions of dog walking, weed plucking, cat chasing, and other useless missions, Team 7 was finally finished for the day.

"Ah, I see the three of you completed your mission…" The 3rd Hokage greeted them as they entered through the door. The Hokage briefly glanced at Naruto. Compared to his other two teammates, the blond-haired boy was a mess. His hair was thrown in all sorts of directions, he had purple and blue bruises placed all over his body, his clothes were torn and dirty, and to mention that Naruto had a giant black-eye which he got from the old lady when she smacked him with her cane. Sarutobi heard him mutter something about the crazy old lady. The Hokage raised up one eyebrow. "Although you did return with a few minor injuries…"

"Minor! These aren't min-." Kakashi hastily placed one gloved hand over Naruto's mouth. "oofed kafshi senfsi." Naruto unsuccessfully managed to say as Kakashi's hand continued to remain on top of his mouth.

"Thank you, Hokage-sama." Kakashi said, finally removing his hand from Naruto's mouth- which too Sasuke and Sakura's point of view was a very bad idea, and their ideas were confirmed because Naruto started talking- again.

"Hey! Old-man! Why can't you sign us to a harder mission?! Like an A-ranked mission or something? I hate doing stupid missions like plucking stupid grass from old ladies or picking up crap from stupid dogs!"

The 3rd Hokage lifted his pipe and placed it in his mouth. He blew lightly and sighed as he removed it from his mouth and sighed. "Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke." He said, addressing the three. "I'm sure you are all aware about how out system in Konoha works. Civilians employ Konoha Shonobi to carry out and perform certain tasks for them. These tasks, also called missions, can be divided into several categories, called ranks, based on their difficulty. From highest to lowest these ranks are-."

"…And then yesterday I ordered some ramen from Ichiraku last week. That's when I found out that they were going to have a half-price day on Friday." Naruto explained as Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi nodded, listening to his story.

Sarutobi glared at them. "Are you listening to me?" The ninja's immediately jumped and turned to the Hokage.

"Umm, Sorry Hokage-sama, we just got a bit sidetracked…" Sakura explained.

Sarutobi sighed. "I will excuse that. Anyway, as I was saying, these ranks are A-rank, B-rank, C-rank, and D-rank- so far, you, Team 7, are currently freshly graduated from the academy, therefore-."

"Blah, blah, blah, no offense Old Man, but we've heard this speech hundreds of times already. Why can't you just give us a mission that doesn't involve getting attacked by cats, old ladies, or picking up dog crap?"

"Naruto! That's not how you speak to your elders!" Iruka, Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura's previous (for Sakura it was more like five years) sensei, scolded him.

The 3rd sighed as he spoke. "Ah, it's fine Iruka. I don't think these three will stop bugging me- especially Naruto- if I don't get them what they want." They looked at the Hokage surprised. Sarutobi ignored the looks he got as he turned his head towards the door. "Tazuna, you may come in, I have found some shonobi to accompany you."

"Oh really?" A drunken old man slurred out as he came in through the door. The man took one look at the three Genin and laughed. "You're going to send these three kids with me? I doubt their going to make it- especially the short one." He said.

Naruto laughed. "Hah, Teme, even the old man is making fun of you." He exclaimed.

Sasuke glared at him. "What are you talking about, Dobe." He asked. "You're the one he's talking about."

Naruto stop laughing as he glanced back at his teammates. "Wha-." He asked, confused. Standing in-between Sasuke and Sakura he measured himself. Sasuke was the tallest, while Sakura was the second tallest. Naruto's eyes twitched as he glowered back at the old man. "Hey, you old man, you can't speak to the future Hokage like that!" Naruto screamed, pointing accusingly at him.

The old man fell over with laughter. "Y-you, as Hokage?" He snickered as he held a hand to his chest and another on top of the table to support him self up.

Naruto glared at him. "What's so funny?" He demanded.

Sakura sighed as she watched Tazuna and Naruto scorn and taunt each other. She felt a massive headache coming to her. Gah, I should have seen this coming. Sakura scolded herself.

Sasuke said nothing and continued to have on his regular impassive face. At least we finally have a decent mission. He thought

Kakashi giggled as he read his Make-Out Paradise book. Ohohoho, finally I'm at the climax of the scene were Sayu and Ken-.

"Kakashi-sensei, stop muttering to your self, Sasuke-kun and I do no want to hear the details of your stupid book, ok." Sakura said as both Sasuke's and her eyes started twitching.

Ok, so how am I going to do this? Sakura thought to herself as the five of them- she, Sasuke, Naruto, Kakashi, and Tazuna- were traveling towards The Land of Waves. Sakura knew exactly what was going to happen, so she decided to use it as an advantage.

She was walking alongside Sasuke and Kakashi as Tazuna and Naruto were arguing a few feet behind them.

Sakura sighed and rubbed her forehead. Those two were still fighting, and it was already about two hours into the mission. Arggg! Can't those two be quiet for at least a second? How the hell am I suppose to think if they are always screaming at each other?

"SHUT-UP YOU STUPID OLD MAN! I SO WILL TO BECOME HOKAGE ONE DAY- DATTEYBAYO!" Naruto screamed.

Sakura ran a hand through her lose ponytail as she stepped over a puddle of water.

"Can you guys just-." She paused as two Shonobis suddenly popped out of thin air, successfully attacking Kakashi. Sasuke and Naruto watched in horror as Kakashi was cut up into several small pieces and blood splattered everywhere. Shit, how could I forget about that? Sakura mentally scolded herself for forgetting about the two enemy ninjas that ambushed them.

As one of them popped up in front Tazuna she ran towards them and got into a fighting position ready to attack.

Authors Note: Looking for beta reader

Sorry for not updating for so long....I just got a bittttt lazy. I'll try and make sure it doesn't happen again.

I might rewright the old chapters. I was rereading them, and I was like this--T_T

Thanks for the reviews!