First Time to see the World

Chapter ONE

Chapter ONE

"Hold it like this." Zabuza shoved his hand into her face. Sakura inspected the way he gripped his kunai and adjusted hers.

Zabuza nodded in approval. "Now, rule number one. Don't throw your kunai like most idiotic brats seem to do. Your opponent might pick it up."

Sakura nodded.

"You have to aim to permanently incapacitated your opponents unless you are aiming for information."

Sakura nodded again.

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"Now let's see, Team Seven's next mission..." Namikaze Minato trailed off, rubbing his chin. "You can walk the Inuzuka dogs, do some grocery shopping in a neighboring village, babysit the-"

"Nope. Nope, nope, nope!" Namikaze Naruto shouted. "No dogs, no grocery shopping, and definitely no babysitting!"

Uchiha Sasuke groaned. Beside him, Watanabe Ami paused in her failed attempt at flirting to glare at the blonde.

Kakashi sighed, "Naruto, please don-"

"I'm serious!" Naruto interrupted, then turned back to the Hokage, who was also his father. "Dad! I'm getting sick of all of these stupid missions, I want something better than chores. We're suppose to be ninja, I want a more exciting mission than those!"

Everyone was quiet, then Iruka narrowed his eyes. "Naruto, we've been over this! You're still just a-" He paused, when Minato chuckled.

"Well, if that's really what you want, alright."

"W-what?!" Iruka sputtered, looking at Minato in bewilderment. "Lord Hokage, you can't actually be serious!"

"I am." He said "If they think they're ready for a higher rank mission, then so be it." He dug through his desk, and pulled out a mission scroll. "I have a C-rank available. It's an escort mission."

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"Throw them fluidly." Haku said. "Individually, senbon are small and weak, but they are very effective once you know how to use them."

Sakura watched as Haku threw a handful of senbon at a target. He hit several of the vital points on the dummy.

"Your turn."

Sakura took the senbon Haku held out to her. She formed a image of Haku throwing the senbon and mimicked it.

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It had only been five minutes since they had left the Leaf village.

"When are we getting there?" Naruto asked.

"Dobe, shut up. It hasn't even been 10 minutes. "Sasuke said, glaring at Naruto.

"What did you just call me, Teme?!"

"Dobe."

"Teme!"

"Shut up, Naruto-baka. Don't insult Sasuke-kun." Ami snarled.

Kakashi sigh. Sasuke didn't look any happy with the girl jumping to his defense either.

Suddenly, a chain appeared, tearing through Kakashi.

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Sakura concentrated. The green healing chakra surrounded her hands and a injured bird. Haku watched as the bird wing slowly healed.

When Sakura was done, she stepped back and the bird quickly flew away.

Haku smiled. "Good job. You picked it up quicker than I thought. Your chakra control is impressive too."

Sakura grinned back.

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Kakashi appeared, quickly finishing off the last ninja.

"Wh-wh-how?" Naruto spluttered.

Kakashi shrug and the genin turned to look at where their teacher was supposed to be. A log lay there.

Kakashi eye-smiled. "Good job Sasuke, you too Naruto." He turned sternly at Ami. "If the enemy had been a little stronger, you would have killed the team." He told her gently, though his tone was serious. Ami, who had clung onto Sasuke and refused to let go for a while the moment the attack had come, hung her head.

"Now, Tazuna-san. I believe we need to talk."

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"As a reward, Zabuza-sama gave us some money to spend in the village." Haku smiled. "Sakura-chan, what do you want to do?"

Sakura frowned and awed at her Kiri hitai-ate, which she had received on the 28th of March. When she had said that she didn't remember her birthday, Zabuza had randomly set the date to when they had first met. Her hitai-ate was previously owned by some Kiri shinobi. Zabuza had killed him on a job and Haku had picked it up, then given it to her.

"I want to get something to eat." She said.

Haku smiled. "Me too. After that, how about we buy some simple clothes?" He eyed her dirty shinobi uniform, which was also stolen. "Girls need to dress up once in a while. Besides, I've always wanted to style your hair." A dreamy look appeared on Haku's face.

Sakura inwardly shuddered but agreed to let Haku do what he wanted.

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"So this Gato doesn't want you to finish the bridge?"

Tazuna nodded. "And he is trying to kill me to stop me."

"More high level ninja will be sure to come after us."

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Sakura twirled around in her new clothes. Of course, they were a new set of shinobi attire. However, they felt much more comfortable and clean.

Haku smiled. "You look great." He then tapped the chair in front of him. "Come here."

Sakura obeyed.

An hour or so later, Zabuza came back. He had been out for the day, making deals with someone.

"We're going out." Zabuza grunted.

Sakura and Haru looked up from the ice mirror they were sitting in front of. Haku was combing through her pink hair.

Zabuza glanced over at them and his eyes softened. Just a tiny, tiny bit, and just for a second, but it was enough for both of them to see. They smiled.

Sakura pouted but stood up anyways. Haku followed and he grabbed a pouch. Sakura just rolled her shoulders and pocketed a few handful of senbon into her hidden clothes compartments.

Zabuza passed Haku, then Sakura a hunter-nin mask. "Just in case." He growled. They nodded. "Also, Sakura?"

The pinkette turned to Zabuza. "Use henge. Your hair stands out like a drop of blood on snow."

Sakura giggled and nodded. After she was done, they met up outside.

"Where are we going?" Sakura asked.

"We're taking out a man by the name of Tazuna."

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"Get down!" Kakashi ordered.

Everyone ducked just in time.

A flash of silver from a thrown blade flew over their heads.

Naruto gasped and Ami let out a yelp.

The sword buried itself onto a tree and a man appeared, standing on it's handle.