"Right," said Hinata cheerfully. "Kakashi-sensei won't let us down!"
Even Sasuke stood up and had a tiny smile showing.
"uhm," said Kakashi.
"Team 7 is going to kick butt!" said Naruto. "Missions to recover information, lost jutsu, find valuable artifacts, border patrol. We are going to leave everyone in the dust!"
"Unnn," said Hinata, nodding. She was ready! She wouldn't let anyone down no matter how dangerous the mission!
"So what is it?" asked Sasuke, likewise ready to go out and commit serious awesomeness.
Kakashi considered exactly how to put this.
"Maybe we'll have to prove ourselves with something smaller, like defending a village from bandits," said Naruto, putting a hand across Hinata's shoulders and completely missing how cherry-red she went. "Or maybe something like finding kidnap victims. With Sasuke's skills, Hinata's Byakugan, and my 'hijitsu' we're a NATURAL for that kind of thing."
"So what is it, Kakashi-sensei?" asked all three genin. One enthusiastically, one shyly, and one ready for his chance to shine.
"Errr," said Kakashi Hatake, who was quite aware after yesterday that this group might end up with some pranks being done if things didn't go their way. Unfortunately, he knew what today's mission was. "You get to pull weeds from a field."
Three stares met him.
"That was a good joke, Kakashi-sensei," said Naruto after that brief pause. "I mean we didn't go through ninja school, graduate, and pass that test yesterday to be unskilled labor. Right?"
"It's a D-Rank mission," said Kakashi, wincing at two spikes of Killing Intent and one of... oh no that was SO not fair. That hurt/disappointed look from Hinata. The Kill Intent was an occupational hazard but THAT was just going into completely uncalled for. "Actually, it's a fairly typical D-Rank."
Naruto had a bit more experience after going through the time with Vita hurting him and then the time afterwards. He had an idea, and a dark chuckle from somewhere in the depths of his stomach indicated agreement from THAT end of things as well. "So... we should do these basic unskilled tasks, but we should approach them as skilled ninja practicing our trade?"
"Eh?" asked Kakashi, sensing that something BAD was about to happen. "Well, I suppose..."
Hours later, having seen Hinata using her knowledge of herbcraft and Byakugan to direct nearly a hundred Naruto in the clearing of the field, Kakashi glanced at the sun, determined that they were going to clear an all-day mission in about an hour, and looked over at where Sasuke was holding up a sign that said [We're on a lame D-Rank mission. Can you come up with something better? Please tell the Hokage!]
"You're not planning on doing that ALL the time, are you?" asked Kakashi as another group of girls stopped, read the sign, and had a giggle fit before running off.
"Why not?" said Sasuke. "I could do this all day."
"You're not Sasuke," realized Kakashi suddenly. "You're one of Naruto's shadow clones using a henge to look like Sasuke."
The "Sasuke" looked back at him. "Oh? What gave it away?"
"Sasuke has more practice at sounding surly," said Kakashi, who had a return of that BAD feeling. One of the genin missing. Still, it was Sasuke. He probably would just go off to brood. Unless... "Are there any shadow clones that went with him?"
"Well, yeah," admitted the "Sasuke" shadow clone. "A couple."
"Uh oh," said Kakashi. "Should I be concerned?"
"You made me promise not to scan you," said the "Sasuke" clone. "On the other hand, did you know that Sasuke as the Uchiha heir has access to that entire section of Konoha and it's just lying open for anyone to use? Well, he says the ANBU do training and such there, but that's it mostly."
The Sasuke-clone turned towards him and Kakashi KNEW upon seeing that smirk. He just absolutely KNEW that this was going to come back and bite him somewhere sensitive.
"So they even had a printing shop over here?" asked Naruto. "Awesome! The possibilities here!"
"Yeah, this should do for the flyers," said Sasuke, going past the place. "Probably have to get new supplies before we can use them though. What do you need for this jutsu lab?"
"Large open area, nearby water supply," said Naruto. "Hopefully something with a roof but ventilated. If there are any libraries around, near them would be good too. It's just with the supplies in a print shop - we can make our own books and scrolls as well as those handouts."
"Hmm. What kind of rent can I get out of it?" asked Sasuke.
"Don't know. I got to run stuff by the Hokage, who should know what jutsu are someone's hijutsu and something we can't use. Jutsu that someone stored in a wall or hidden spot and everyone forgot about, one of us can use," said Naruto. "Besides, there's something I've been wanting to try that might help us out."
"In picking weeds out of fields?" asked Sasuke.
"Yeah right, no. We're going to get Kakashi's lame D-Ranks done in the morning, then he'll go off to do jonin stuff and we'll do training and research," said Naruto. "No, something I ran across when I was researching near a magic library. Ever hear of elementals?"
"Yeah, spirits of a particular element," said Sasuke. "Myth."
"So are magic books," said Naruto. "If someone never saw it, they'd think your fireball technique was a myth. Thing is, elementals are like summoning creatures according to what I read. So you're good at fire. How much better could you be if you could summon a spirit of fire who could attack independently of you?"
"That... could be cool," admitted Sasuke.
"Of course, there's also the planning of how to get better equipment, but I think I got an idea on that," said Naruto.
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