Crafty Chameleon

Bitter Sweets

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"Yes ... ok, I guess." muttered the hokage who looked a little pale ...

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"Ok, now our mission is to destroy that bandit camp." said Mito as she pointed down to the camp of bandits. "First, we need to ...errr ..." She glanced at Kartin hoping for an answer, but Karin looked stumped.

Naruto sweat dropped, "Check the number of bandits and location of any innocent hostages." He answered as if it was a question, but he knew it wasn't and that Mito and Karin just had no clue what they were doing.

"That's right!" exclaimed Karin as if he got the correct answer to a question ... a question that wasn't asked ...

"After we confirm the numbers we remove the hostages and kill the bandits." said Naruto who was wondering how he got stuck in this mess. The day started out fine. He woke up with Natsu in his bed. The two went to meet their teammates and suddenly Minato said he wanted Naruto to gain some experience on some missions with Mito and Karin. The hokage gave them a stack of missions and basically kicked them out of the village ...

Karin paled, "W-well yes, you have to kill them, but if you aren't ready-"

"I'll be fine." said Naruto and a missile launcher appeared in a puff of smoke. A missile was popped in the chamber and the weapon was aimed at the bandits' camp ... the trigger was pulled ...

*boom*

"What did you just do?!" Mito screamed as she and her sister watched the camp go up in flames.

"I did as ordered." sighed Naruto

"But the hostages-"

"Are right over there." Naruto pointed to a group of people following his clones and getting medical treatment. (As if I'd let you two lead a mission as delicate as this.)

Mito smiled, "You learn so quickly! Time for the next mission!"

The poor ROOT agent sighed and followed the girls, "What is our next mission?"

"Ummm ... a delivery mission!" chirped Karin as she checked this mission off a list.

(Something seems weird about all of this ... hmmm maybe ... oooh I get it! How clever, but I'm not going to let you guys get away with that!) Naruto casually picked Karin's pocket and snatched the list of missions.

"Hey Naruto, we're going to set up camp. Why don't you go catch us some dinner?" asked Mito.

"Yeah, sure." said Naruto and he disappeared into the trees. After going a safe distance away he pulled out the list. "Ok, now let me see ... Minato is trying to keep me out of the way as he explains to the Nadeshiko representatives ... it's a two week trip to Nadeshiko ... now if I'm right the representatives should get to Konoha in about two weeks ... meaning I can cut them off if I'm on the 24th mission by ... in a week." He smirked and put the list away ...

After coming back to camp moments later he slipped the list back into Karin's pocket and was glad that he didn't use pockets for this very reason ... pickpockets ...

Seals are awesome ...

"Oh goody, rabbit- what are you doing?" Karin whimpered as Naruto unsealed a knife and held his kill up ...

The ROOT agent raised an eyebrow, "I'm skinning it." Naruto said with confusion in his voice ...

"Y-you have to skin it?" stuttered a pale Mito.

"You do. Did you think the rabbits would hop up, do a strip tease for you and jump in the pot?" remarked Naruto with a hint of sarcasm.

"No, of course not! That's silly! ... we're going to ... errr ..." Mito glanced at Karin.