At nine o'clock the next morning, in front of the Hokage Building.
"Ah, Kakashi-sensei is late again, isn't he?"
Sakura saw that the assembly time had come, but their instructor hadn't arrived yet, so she was speechless.
"He is really terrible. Is he late every time?"
"It's not a good habit to speak ill of people behind their backs."
Kakashi suddenly appeared behind Sakura and hit her on her head with a hand knife.
"Kakashi-sensei..."
Sakura smiled sheepishly.
'He's really scary! ' Sakura was terrified.
"Let's go and get the first mission of our team."
Kakashi took the three and walked towards the Hokage building.
......
Mission hall on the first floor.
At this moment, the inside was already a bit busy. You could see several ninjas accepting missions, or settling rewards. There were also a few civilians who were handing out and posting missions.
"Hokage-sama, Team 7 is here to pick up the mission."
"Oh, Kakashi, let me see..."
The Third Hokage was smoking a pipe while holding a pile of mission scrolls and looked at them.
"Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura, congratulations on becoming a ninja."
Iruka was here too.
"Thank you Iruka-sensei."
"..."
"Iruka-sensei, shouldn't you be at the ninja academy?"
Naruto asked suspiciously.
"The next freshmen haven't enrolled yet, I'm free, so I'm here to help."
"Well, as far as the mission is concerned, this is not bad, Kakashi, I leave it to you."
Hiruzen pulled out a mission scroll and handed it to Kakashi.
"OK."
Kakashi nodded.
"Let's go."
"It feels like Naruto has become a little different."
Iruka rubbed his chin thoughtfully.
"Maybe it's because he is now an official ninja, so he has grown up."
Hiruzen said casually.
He didn't tell Iruka about the content of Kakashi's assessment of the three of them. After all, the Third Hokage thought that if they couldn't pass Kakashi's test, then he would handle it.
As for the growth of Naruto's strength, he didn't see it but felt that Naruto seemed to have become more confident, and not as withdrawn as before.
Hiruzen was happy to see this. Only by deepening the bond between Naruto and his companions, and the bond with the village, could Naruto fight for Konoha better.
And Naruto also adapted to the changes in his body because of a friendly exchange with Kakashi the day before yesterday, and he no longer exuded a strong aura like when Kakashi first saw him.
The Third Hokage naturally had no way of discovering this.
"That's right, Naruto has grown up."
Iruka said happily.
There was nothing more satisfying than seeing your students get stronger.
...
Team 7 got out of the Hokage building.
"Kakashi-sensei, what is the mission?"
Sakura asked expectantly.
This was their first mission as ninjas!
"Let me see..."
Kakashi looked at the mission list while walking forward.
"The mission is D-level [capturing the lost cat], to help the client find a cat named Tora."
"Looking for a cat? This is different from the mission I thought!?"
Sakura's eyes widened.
Sasuke also frowned, 'Were all ninja missions like this? Then how could I become stronger?'
"What kind of ninjas do you think you are? Don't forget that you just graduated from ninja academy, and the missions that Genin can receive are only C-level and D-level missions. As for the higher missions, only Chūnin can accept those."
"Come with me, let's start your first mission."
Kakashi spoke and left first.
"Ah... yes."
Sakura agreed feebly, she really couldn't get excited about this kind of mission.
And for Sasuke who always thought of how to improve his strength faster. This kind of mission was also torture for him.
As for Naruto, he had no opinion, he just followed the plot.
...
Two hours later, team 7, which almost ran all over the streets in Konoha, finally locked on the target of this mission in a forest.
Although they hadn't determined the exact location, Naruto had heard the sound of 'purring'.
The cat named Tora was sleeping soundly at this time.
Listening to everything has helped Naruto find the exact location of the cat.
"Search in that direction, whoever finds it first, don't do anything and call everyone to gather, make sure everything is safe!"
Sasuke calmly spoke, and Naruto and Sakura nodded.
As for Kakashi, he would not participate in the mission, he was only responsible for following them, occasionally giving some advice, helping them point out the direction, and then watching them complete the mission, it was very relaxing.
"It seems that Sasuke has grown up and knows how to work in a team."
Kakashi nodded in satisfaction. These three children, except Sakura, Naruto, and Sasuke were all young with smart brains and good talents. Maybe this was because of their good genes?
"Target found," Naruto said through the headset.
"We'll be right over."
After a while, the three surrounded a sleeping cat under a tuft of grass in a triangle shape.
"Are you ready? On the count of 3"
"Yes!"
"1, 2, 2, 2"
"... Naruto you bastard." Sasuke's face was full of black lines.
"Stay alert, I'll do it," Naruto said.
"Ok."
After Naruto finished speaking, he walked behind the cat in an instant and hugged it before it could react.
"Meow meow meow!! (Which bastard disturbed my sleep!)"
Naruto: "..."
"Meow meow meow!! (Human? Damn it, that old witch sent someone to catch me again!)"
Naruto was helpless, since he awakened the ability to listen to the voice of all things, he could understand the voices of small animals.
Occasionally walking on the street, he could understand several cats chatting, talking about the ownership of the site, or what to eat today.
But he could not understand all the animals. The higher the spirituality, the clearer Naruto understands them.
"Finally we caught you, but it was not easy to find you!" Sakura nodded angrily at the cat's head.
"Meow meow meow!! (Let me go! I don't want to go back! It's too scary!)"
Tora kept struggling in Naruto's arms, and Naruto didn't understand why it was so agitated and scared until he returned to the mission hall.
"Oh, my baby, I was really worried about you!"
"Hee hee hee, you dead cat, this is karma!" (Sakura)
A fat woman with heavy makeup hugged the cat and rubbed it fiercely, making it meow in fright, with a look of helplessness on its face.
She was the mission entruster—the wife of the fire country daimyo.
"No wonder it was running away."
Sasuke said speechlessly.
In this way, for several days in a row, the missions of team 7 were to help people take care of children, go shopping, or help harvest sweet potatoes.
Sakura and Sasuke, who did low-level missions, were really impatient and protested to Kakashi.
Then Kakashi and the Third Hokage talked about it, and it just so happened that the Third Hokage just had a C-level mission in his hand for them.
...