Warning: mention of kidnapping, minor swearing, and lots of dialogue
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"Have you spotted target?" Obito's hushed whisper came out over the portable radio earpieces in his students' ears.
"I have eyes on the target, ready to go at the signal," Sasuke answered with the same tone as his cousin. When he spotted the shadowy figure of their target leaping through the outskirts of the Konoha forest near the south gate.
"I'm ready, too," Sakura replied with a hint of determination.
"I'm ready, believe it!" Naruto whispered-yelled with enthusiasm a couple of moments later.
"You're slow, Naruto," Obito answered dryly. While standing behind a tree, watching the target from a distance.
"Not yet, wait for it, NOW!" Obito yelled, watching his little genin team charge the passing target.
"GOT YA!" Naruto screeched with excitement as he clung to the struggling brown cat.
"Does the target have a red bow on the left ear?" Obito questioned, focusing on the mission, but could still hear Naruto screaming and the cat's angry meows and hisses.
"Affirmative, we have a match," Sasuke replied, watch the cat's sharp crawls dug into Naruto's face, making the Uzumaki screech again. Which the young Uchiha found amusing and quite comedic, as Sakura let out an exaggerated sigh.
"Can we please get a different mission! I hate cats!" Naruto yelled straight into his portable radio mic, to the point where Obito flinch, and his eardrums felt like it was being to burst.
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Team seven was making good time when they reached the mission room. Naruto laughed at the cat, which was named Tora. That was being smothered by the wife of the Lord of Fire. Minato chuckled at Obito's report and the scratch marks on his son's face. While Hiruzen sat in the chair on Minato's right, and Iruka, sitting in the chair on Hiruzen's right. When the once appointed Third Hokage listed available D rank missions, Naruto refused.
"No more of these baby missions! I want a real mission!" Naruto yelled in irritation.
"Don't speak like that in front of the Hokage!" Iruka shouted back while Minato had an embarrassed grin on his face.
Obito sighed as he vaguely listened to the retired Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, explained the village ranking system. The Uchiha Sensei knew this was bound to happen sooner than later. It reminded him of his old genin team when they were all alive. Obito can't help but wonder if Minato sees the comparisons too.
"Naruto, you have to climb the ranks like any other ninja in this village! Or have you forgotten that you are only a genin!" Iruka shouted in reply when it was clear no one was listening to the Third Hokage's lecture.
"So how am I supposed to get better if I can't take a mission that makes me improve!" Naruto argued in return as Sasuke, and Sakura silently agreed with their blonde teammate.
"It's to get you more experience with working in a team," Minato honestly added, in hopes to defuse the situation.
However, that didn't work, as Naruto retorted even louder, "I have tons of experience! We're not a bunch of little brats anymore! I'm a ninja! And I want to do ninja things!"
"Naruto," Minato spoke in one of his rare warning tones.
"Minato," Hiruzen suddenly interrupted with a knowing smirk. Then added, "maybe we should give them a more challenging mission?"
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The Masked Shinobi
FanfictionKakashi Hatake is dead. He died at the young age of ten to save his team, Obito and Rin from the boulders in the collapsing cave near Kannabi Bridge. There was no body to bring home, or to bury, no corpse to mourn for. Only a thought, a memory, a qu...
