Curiosity Broke the Scissors

Chapter 10

Last Time-

"Nah, too much fun," Waving off the boy's anger, Kakashi turned around and started walking off with a 'follow me' gesture. "Now come on you four, we gotta go get a mission."

"Yaaaay... more D-ranks." Naruto and Star groaned in sync, slumping over as they followed after the man along with a still panting Sakura and emotionless Sasuke.

Looking back at them, Kakashi gave his patented eye-smile while titling his head in a 'I'm confused' way. "Who said anything about the mission being D-rank?"

-And Now-

'Well... I guess this is better then picking up trash.' Star thought with a quiet sigh as she, Naruto, and the rest of Team seven walked along a plain dirt road in a protective formation around an elderly man currently helping himself to a large bottle of liquor.

The teams very first C-rank mission, something she and Naruto had been super excited about at first since it hopefully meant something exciting and fun, then all that excitement came crashing down upon finding out exactly what that mission was. Escorting this old man, who's name was Tazuna, back to his home in the Land of Wave and watching over him and his men as they built a bridge.

How... exciting...

"What's wrong girl-gaki? Sad you can't get any alone time with boy-gaki?" Oh, did I forget to mention the extra tag along?

'Oh stump, who am I kidding? I'd take trash duty over this any day.' Star thought, her cheeks glowing slightly as none other than Anko popped up behind her, resting her arms and chin atop the princess's noggin with a teasing grin as she twiddled a dango stick between her teeth.

She'd showed up with the client shortly after the team had gotten their mission and had just stuck around since then. Supposedly it was due to an unusual increase in bandit activity, but Star had dealt with enough 'discreet' guard escorts being assigned to her by her parents to figure that the woman was actually there to make sure she didn't try to sneak off or something.

It wouldn't have been that bad since Anko seemed like a fun and friendly person, if it wasn't for the fact the purplette absolutely LOVED to tease people, such as frequently suggesting that she and Naruto were a couple.

'Which is ridiculous, we've only known each-other for like two weeks now, there is now way we could be in a relationship that fast,' The princess thought with a huff. 'I mean sure Naruto is really fun to hang out with and is a really nice guy... and has great taste in food... and he's always willing to help... and has super awesome powers... and is pretty cute looking... where was I going with this again?'

*Whoosh* *Clatter*

Before Star could regain her train of thought, she snapped back to reality upon hearing the sound of rushing wind and metal scraping against metal behind her...

...Just in time to watch in horror along with everyone else as Kakashi was wrapped up in a chain made of shuriken by two unknown men wearing grey clothes, a bladed gauntlet each, and gas masks, that seemingly formed from two puddles before he was torn to bloody pieces.

"One down..."

"...five to go." The two men said in sync before charging towards them.

Frozen in shock, Star, Naruto, Sakura, and Tazuna stood there helplessly as the attackers rapidly approached them.

Before they made it about halfway though, a shuriken flew across the remaining space and pinned the chain running between them to a tree, forcing the pair to stop. The thrower of said shuriken, Sasuke, then proceeded to toss a kunai that stuck next to the throwing star, ensuring that the chain wasn't coming free easily.