Sitting down the blond pulled out two books, the first was the book he had been reading on Fuuinjutsu created by the Yondaime titled Intermediate Sealing Level Three. The second one was a book of his own creation, holding all of the notes he had written down from this book and previous ones he had read, as well as the few notes on seals he had gotten from some of the more advanced books when he could not find something he was looking for in the previous ones. For the next half an hour he began comparing and writing down more notes.
"Yo!"
Naruto looked up to see Kakashi appear in his standard Shunshin.
"YOU'RE LATE!" Sakura yelled at she pointed at him.
"Sorry, I forgot to set my alarm today, so I woke up late," Kakashi replied with a lazy tone.
Sakura's face turned red as she listened to her sensei's lame excuse, "LIAR!"
Naruto put his book away and stood up with a small sigh as he stretched and listened to his back make a satisfying crack. He was so glad he had made more Kage Bunshins to train while he waited for his sensei, otherwise he would never be able to get all of his training done. "So what are we doing today sensei?" he asked.
Kakashi gave Naruto an eye-smile, "I'm glad you asked Naruto. We have an exciting mission today, so let's get going!"
Team Seven left the Hokage's tower after completing the 'mission' the Hokage had given them. It was really nothing more than walking the Inuzuka dogs while another team cleaned the kennels. Not much of a mission in the three genins' opinions but there was not much they could do about it; Kakashi had refused to go on another C-rank since their mission to Nami No Kuni had been what could be considered one huge cluster fuck. And so ever since the mission to protect Tazuna, these kinds of missions had been all they were doing.
At least Kakashi had helped him a little more on his training. It wasn't much since Sasuke had activated his Sharingan, usually the silver-haired Jonin would simply create a Kage Bunshin and have it spar with Naruto. Still it was more than he had gotten before the mission, and since he had yet to even land a hit on the clone it was good enough for the moment.
"Man I can't believe we're stuck doing these boring ass missions again," Naruto groaned, his disposition having gone back to being his normal chipper self after his talk with Anko. For the most part at least, there were of course times when the blond would get quiet and introspective, and sometimes a small flicker of the painful emotions he had felt after Haku's death flashed across his eyes. But he was determined to continue pushing forward as he was sure that Haku would stick his ass with senbon if they met in the afterlife and she found out he had been moping around after her death. That and he wanted to be a person that Haku would be proud of, a person who would give their all to protect the people precious to them.
At least we didn't have to clean the kennel, Naruto thought with a sigh, I don't know if my nose could have handled that again.
"Now Naruto, we can't do a C-rank mission every time, there are protocols we have to follow you know," Kakashi chided as he flipped a page of his book.
"I know the protocols damn it! I've read all the kami forsaken books that talk about the requirements necessary to tackle hired ranked missions, as well as why Genin are normally assigned these pathetic D- ranks in the first place," Naruto glared at his sensei as the man giggled perversely, seemingly ignoring him. "We have twice the prerequisite number for a higher ranked mission. We've been doing these D-ranks for three months! I think you're just too damn lazy to go on a mission that would take us out of the village."
This statement definitely rang true, while Kakashi may be more helpful now then he was before the mission to protect Tazuna the man was still one of the laziest people he had ever met, barring Shikamaru.
"Shut up Naruto-baka!" Sakura yelled, angry that her blond teammate was interrupting her from her Sasuke watching with all his complaining.
"This coming from the girl who likes to screech when she talks," Naruto ignored the pathetic excuse for killing intent coming from Sakura. "I bet even the Teme over there wants a better mission," Naruto pointed to Sasuke.
"Hn."
"You see? He's just dying for some kind of action," Naruto said.
"Hn."
"Teme, you're a riveting conversationalist."
"Whatever," Sakura scoffed before turning to her crush with what she hoped was a cute yet coy expression. "I'm so glad today's mission is over, aren't you Sasuke-kun?"
Sasuke just glanced at her at the corner of his eyes, before turning around and ignoring her, not even deigning to give the girl his standard one syllable grunt.
Sakura put her head down for a second before trying to brighten up, "Say Sasuke-kun, would you like to go out on a date with me?"
Sasuke grunted as he turned to face her, "Why would I want to date a weak little girl like you?" Sakura took a step back as her eyes widened in surprise and hurt. "If you've got time to be asking me out on a date, then you should use that time to become stronger," The raven-haired Genin turned away. "Even Naruto has gotten better than you. You're even more useless than he used to be."
"I…but I…" Sakura tried to say, a depressed look on her face and tears beginning to form in her eyes. However Sasuke had already started ignoring her and was walking away.
Naruto looked up from his book to see what had happened before sighing and going back to his book. While he did not really approve of Sasuke being so harsh, even if he no longer put up with Sakura trying to hit him for every little thing, he knew that she still did not know what it meant to be a ninja and needed some kind of kick in the ass in order to get herself in gear.
Walking behind the group, book in hand was Kakashi who was watching the group with an expression of concern, not that anyone could see it due to nearly three fourths of his face being covered.
It seems their teamwork has gotten even worse than before. It's almost as if the mission to Nami never happened. Sakura yells at Naruto and tries to get a date with Sasuke, completely neglecting training outside of the team. Sasuke ignores everyone unless it's to glare at Naruto, or to pick a fight. I thought awakening his Sharingan would be a good thing but he only seems to have gotten more arrogant. And Naruto…
Kakashi glanced at his blond student; I can't even tell what he's thinking anymore. He's gotten even more sarcastic than before and seems to run off at the mouth every chance he gets. Not only that but he seems to have picked up a sadistic streek. Though, I'm sure I can thank Anko for that since the two seem to be hanging out even more now than they had before. The elite Jonin sighed, not really sure how to fix this problem. Looking up he saw a hawk flying over Konoha.
"Ok, I think that's enough for today," Kakashi said, getting the attention of his three genin. "I have to go submit a mission report. Ja!" With that the duster haired Jonin disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Naruto watched as Kakashidisappeared within a shunshin. Turning around he saw that Sasuke had already left, and Sakura was walking away with a depressed look on her face.
I guess I'll go do some training of my own, Naruto decided. He was just about to start walking when he heard a noise.
Turning around he saw a square box behind him with a rock texture painted on it. It also had two eye holes in the front.
Already knowing who was under that box Naruto just sighed and began to walk away, hearing the box follow after him as he turned a corner. When the box followed it stopped, not seeing the whiskered marked blond anywhere.
"Konohamaru-kun where did the boss go?" asked a female voice from the box.
"I don't know, it's like he disappeared!" Konohamaru exclaimed.
They were just about to lift the box up when Naruto appeared behind them. Grinning he sat down on them, listening to their muffled grunts and shouts of surprise.
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