Who am I? (Naruto Fanfic)

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Sasuke glared at the other person, his gaze filled with overprotectiveness as he walked up to you. "I don't trust him." You whispered to you. You scoffed and gently pushed him away. "I'd trust him if I were you. He seems the most mature here anyways." You muttered, eyeing Kakashi. More mature than the most likely only adult in the area. You scoffed as you looked around.

The brown haired boy eyed you, looking appreciative at your words. He silently eyed the browned haired girl bothering Naruto and stared for awhile. "Mai, don't pester him too much, ok?" He murmured. "I'm not pestering him, Takahiro." The girl rolled her eyes, probably not noticing the fact that Naruto was backing so much he nearly fell over but stopped bothering him. You took this as a sign a person like her respected him, so he was probably trustable.
"Glad to be working with you." You smiled towards Takahiro, and you told him calmly, feeling calm when you saw him. "Now, would you please mind telling us more about the mission? It would be very helpful if you did." You awkwardly add, earning a quick nod from him. "Of course, I should've told you first thing. Sorry, sorry." He apologized, slowly pulling out a small scroll.
"Stop apologizing to them, Takahiro, you're ruining our name." The smug one scoffed, arms crossed. He had cool gray colored hair, and he was a bit taller than you. "Sorry, Shuji.." he apologized once more, not even lifting his gaze to look at anybody. He opened the scroll, panicking to hurry up so the mission could be started.

"We're not in a rush." You smiled at him, feeling kind of bad for him. He was awfully socially anxious. You turned around and eyed Sakura who quietly talked to Sasuke, seeming to have a decent conversation.

You walked up to Naruto and smiled at him. "This mission is probably dangerous. So make sure both you and Sasuke don't do anything too crazy, please. I don't want any personal talks with Obito. That'd just be too much for me." You sighed as Takahiro began his talk, his voice surprisingly louder than expected.

"This mission will be to capture a S-rank missing nin, so please don't do anything that you will regret." He stared. "Last he was in the south so that's where we will head. In case you didn't know, Deidara is a man with long blonde hair and blue eyes. Often seen with explosive clay. Our main mission is to capture and bring back Deidara alive." He finished, rolling up the scroll quickly.

"The south is that way" He informed everybody, pointing in the direction. "If we keep on going, there should be a small hotel we can stop by. Once we get there we will rest before moving on." He quickly added, blinking as the group began to lead the way and he stayed in the back.

In the front, Sasuke was whispering to Naruto, and you heard a bit of what they said. "I don't trust him. He's probably trying to trick us." Sasuke whispered, to which Naruto seemed surprised. "I don't think they're bad, but some of them are kind of clingy." Naruto whispered back, looking around to see Mai near.
Takahiro obviously heard this and seemed to be overthinking about it, but when you tried to talk about it to Sasuke, Takahiro quickly stopped you. "I don't mind. We all have our own opinions." He calmly said, eyeing Sasuke. You frowned at him. "But doesn't it hurt you?" You asked, mentally face palming. That was a horrible question to ask, but Takahiro just chuckled openly about it.

"Sure, but it's part of life. Not everybody will like you." He added. "Most people in the rock village have a high ego, so you eventually get used to it anyways. Somebody as.. mentally weak shall I say, is rare in the rock village. Most are like Mai or Shuji." He informed you, not so visibly pointing at them. They were being quite loud. "Some are neutral, like Amy, there." He added, pointing towards a girl who silently walked along with everybody. You haven't really noticed her, but waved back when she took notice that you two were talking about her.
You nodded, interested about what he was talking about. "But it's nice to meet different people sometimes." He added, eyeing you kindly. "People who can be kind and appreciate you is all somebody needs sometimes." He smiled to himself not noticing how he was flustering you.

And little did you know, Sasuke was getting jealous as he heard this conversation.