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Team 7 was waiting patiently as it was coming up on their turn to receive their mission for the day. It had been another few days and while training was great, at least Naruto and Sasuke both were starting to get antsy.
So when they came forward and Iruka started naming off more d rank missions, Naruto finally had enough and said as much.
"C'mon Jiji! We've been training our butts off and working these chores like no one's business! Let's have a real mission for once."
Missing the nod from an agreeing Sasuke and flatly ignoring a protesting Iruka, Naruto was ready to match wills with the aging Hokage.
"Hmmm…so your team feels like they're ready for a real mission hmm…" Watching the subtle nod from Kakashi, Sarutobi sighed before pulling a scroll from the pile, "Well you're in luck today, we just so happen to have an escort mission available.
C Rank, good to get your feet wet." Handing the scroll over to Kakashi the Hokage cleared his throat, "Tazuna-san, your team is here!" From a door off to the side, an elderly man sporting a grey head of hair and matching beard stumbled into the room, from the smell of alcohol no one had to guess what was in the jug he had with him.
Looking through his glasses at the team, Tazuna scoffed, "What's this, I ask for a team and they give me brats? I'm the great Tazuna the bridge builder, don't I deserve some actual ninja?"
Chuckling and waving them all away the Hokage smiled,
"I'm sure for just an escort mission these genin will be more than enough. You'll find they're full of surprises."
Watching as Kakashi led a grumbling Tazuna away, Sarutobi's eyes hardened only slightly.
Outside it was an eye smiling Kakashi who turned to his team, "Go ahead and head home, pack for an extended mission and meet me at the main gate in 30." And with that, Kakashi wandered away with their client while Naruto and the others quickly split up to pack and prepare.
For Naruto this involved a quick body flicker back to his home, grabbing his pack and sealing scrolls before sealing everything into a medium sized storage scroll.
Idly twirling it in his hand before shoving it into an inner pocket on his new jacket he took some extra time to make a quick sandwich to scarf down.
Having some time to think, he was still lamenting he hadn't had time to fix his old jacket yet, but he figured after this mission he'd finally get a new one. Orange was his favorite color after all.
Taking one last look around his apartment, only pausing here and there to water his plants and say goodbye, Naruto was out the door in a flurry of leaves with only a few moments to spare.
Appearing not far from the gate with a bright grin, Kakashi and the other members of team 7 were waiting for him. A screech dying on her lips, Sakura pointed at Naruto.
"Since when do you know the shunshin?" He hadn't been using it at the training ground, and it wasn't like she paid attention to him after team missions either.
Scrubbing his head with an odd look, again a little bummed that his crush barely paid any attention to him at all, Naruto shrugged, "For a while? It's a d rank and the lady at the library was super cool about helping me find the training scroll for it." Granted it might have been so she could get him in and out of the library faster, he couldn't keep quiet for long after all.
Trying hard not to laugh at the mental image of Naruto in a library and figuring he was bluffing, Sakura scoffed and turned away, "You know, I'm sure Kakashi-sensei would be pretty bummed if you were getting training from another sensei.
You shouldn't lie." There was no way the dead last knew something even her Sasuke-kun didn't after all.
And since he didn't know shunshin yet, she knew their teacher hadn't thought to train them with it yet.
Feelings taking a mental slap and then some, Naruto stuffed his hands in his pockets and formed up behind everyone. Kakashi leading the charge, Naruto was only slightly looking forward to the mission at this point. On the other side of their client Sasuke was looking at him with a calculating look, but didn't say much. But beyond their slow start, team 7 started their journey to Wave, enjoying the bright blue sky and peaceful trees outside of the village proper. Naruto had never been outside of the village before outside of a few times when he was younger and had been run off from the orphanage. The road currently was nice and peaceful so far at least. Sakura wasn't paying all that much attention, mentally planning how she could somehow share a tent with her love interest, while said love interest was trying to pay attention and scan the road as per their mission while being bored out of his mind.
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