New Perspective || A Sakura Story

A Drunkard and A Demon(or Two)

This last week has gone by really quickly. We've been doing a bunch of D-Ranks, but I managed to save Naruto from pulling out all of the plants in the weed-pulling mission.

That's all I could really save him from, though.

It was quite comical to watch as Naruto fell off the waterfall and all (I had made sure to get all the trash he had dropped afterwards), but the minefield was just sad.

Alas, it was finally time to receive the dreaded wave mission, and every time I thought of it my heart sped. What if something went wrong and I couldn't save everyone? What if someone dies?

What if I die?

Those thoughts sped through my mind constantly as the day went on, I didn't even pay attention when we walked into the Hokages' office. It seemed that at this point, I was just going through the motions. My body knew what to do, but my mind was not acknowledging what was happening around me.

I think that it was safe to say that I was, in fact, terrified.

"Oi, you realize that they've been calling your name for the past three minutes, right?" Inner spoke up and I froze.

'What.'

I blinked owlishly at the group of people around me, offering up a sheepish smile in return to their confused and concerned stares. "Ah, sorry. What was it again?" I asked, my confidence slowly seeping back into my body. Kakashi sighed and face palmed.

"We were wondering your opinion, dattebayo!" Naruto shouted and I raised an eyebrow.

"My opinion on what, exactly, Little Fox?" I asked, taking note of how every adult in the room stiffens at the nickname.

"If we should get better missions!" He exclaimed and I chuckled.

"Hell yeah we should get better missions! I wanna see the world! And all the food it has to show me!" I shout while fistpumping. Everyone sweatdrops except for Naruto, who's nodding his head enthusiastically. "Yeah, yeah, yeah!" He says happily.

The third stares at us before sighing and letting out a faint chuckle. "Fine, I'll assign you a C-Rank mission. You will be escorting someone to the Land of Waves." He told us and Naruto basically glowed with happiness. Huh. So he didn't describe the mission rankings this time around. Or maybe he did, I was zoned out for quite a while. Regardless, we got the wave mission and my fear was returning to me.

"You will be guarding a master bridge builder by the name of Tazuna. It shouldn't take long for you to complete this mission, as it should only take a day or so to arrive. You will then stay there until the bridge is finished and serve as protection for him." The Hokage stated, calling in the man once he was finished.

With apathetic eyes, I took in Tazunas' drunken appearance. His cheeks were red from the sake, and he was leaning heavily on the door. "These brats are going to escort me?" He grumbled and I laughed and gave him a cheeky smile.

"Why, who else would it be Tazuna-San? But, a little tip, I'd keep that sake close this trip. You'll probably need it." I said, stage-whispering the last part to him.

I couldn't tell if he was amused or not. Which was kind of depressing, considering I'd found that pretty funny.

"You'll be leaving tomorrow morning, be at the gates by ten. Dismissed." The Hokage said sternly, ignoring my awesomely awesome joke. I smiled. "Sure thing, gramps!" I said happily before running over and jumping out of the window, laughing at the angry shouts of Iruka echoing behind me. Man, that guy should really talk to someone about his anger problems.