Naruto the Neglected

Chapter 7- To the Land of Waves!

A couple weeks passed by from that day. Team 7 would complete various D-rank missions all over the village, while Sasuke and Naruto, well mostly Sasuke, would train with Miley in secret. After finding out his chakra infinity was fire, Miley would ask her father to help in training him when he was free, since he too had a chakra infinity of fire. At first, he was scared of the man, but after a couple the couple of weeks together, they became friends. He was also taught swordsmanship. To say he felt special, was an understatement. He felt honored that they took the time to train him. Sasuke's father still paid little attention to him, so didn't know about his train, but his mother on the other hand knew he was being trained and felt proud of her son's accomplishment.

After having enough of doing D-rank missions, team 7 had enough.

"Tou-san, no more chores! We're ready to take on a higher rank!" yelled Naruko.

"Kakashi, Kushina, do you think their ready?" Minato questioned.

"Yes Hokage-sama, I do believe that their ready" Kakashi replied.

"Alright then, bring in the client" just then a half drunken man came in through the doors.

"Alright. Team 7, your C-rank mission is to escort this bridge builder to the land of waves. His name is Tazuna." the Hokage said.

"What are these? I hired ninja's not a bunch of brats, although the raven and the blond look reliable." this got a chuckle from both of them, and angry looks from the females on the team.

"Now, now, there are two powerful jounin on our team and you guys can't kill the client" he said to the females. They were in a fighting stance wanting to beat the crap out of him, but stayed down. Then Kakashi continued, "let's meet at the front gates in three hours." and then shushinned away.

"He's probably going to read that preverted book." They all sighed. Sakura turned to Sasuke and said,
"Sasuke-kun do you want to hang out while we wait?" she ask. He didn't look at her but instead turned to Naruto and said,

"Wanna go finish that movie at your place? We had about an hour and a half left, leaving plenty of time." he asked.

"Sure, and I think Miley's at home too. She's been dying to finish it." Naruto replied. As they were going to walk out, Naruko spoke up,

"Umm... do you think I could watch with you guys? Please, I don't really have anything to do." she hoped that they would agree, but had a feeling that she was going to be ignored.

"Sure, just don't make a sound during the movie, especially when the actors are talking, or else she'll never let you watch again....Oh and don't get scared, were watching a horror movie." Naruto said as they continued to walk out. She, along with her parents were shocked that he had actually talked to her, let alone let her come along. She walked towards them smiling as they opened the door to leave.

"Can I come too?" Sakura asked.

"No" and then SLAM, the door was slammed in her face. She was fuming as to why Naruko was allowed to go and not her, and then she left.

"Did I just see that, or was a hallucinating? He talked to her, let alone said she could come and then said no to the other girl." Minato spoke up.

"Do you think he's finally warming up to us? I mean in practice whenever I tell him something to improve on, he listens and when I ask a question during training, he responds kindly." Kushina said.

"I don't think so. He might do so because your his sensei, but nothing else. Let's just have hope, OK?" she nodded and then left. Just as she was going to leave, Miley walked in for a mission.