Missions, missions, and more missions.

They kept on coming, one after another. You groaned. "How exhausting..." You said to no one in particular. "Being in the ANBU is tiring." You plopped on your bed. Ugh.

You sighed. You were told that you had another mission today, yay... You felt lazy as ever, right now. Food. Food's gonna help me feel better. You hopped off your bed and went into the kitchen, also known as heaven. There was a bunch of sushi you had, like makizushi, or chirashi. Since there's plenty of this stuff, and this stuff might go bad in like, a week, I guess I could ask Tenzo if he could come over... So, you teleported inside his place. "Hey Tenzo, guess who's here!" You yelled, seeing that Tenzo wasn't in the room you were in.

Tenzo strolled out of his room, sighing along the way. "(Y/n), what're you doing here...? You didn't knock." Tenzo crossed his arms.

"Well, uh, I don't know if you knew this, but cool people don't need to knock." You said. Tenzo shook his head and sighed, once again.

"Whatever, why are you here right now?" He asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I just wanted to ask if you wanted to come over to my place since I've got plenty of sushi, and poor me is very lonely, and I can't eat it all by myself." You dramatically said. Tenzo smiled.

"Yeah, whatever. I'll go."

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"So, Tenzo. What've you been doing lately, hm?" You asked, as you finished preparing plates for the two of you.

"Same as usual, really," he shrugged. "Just finishing what needs to be finished."

"How boring..." You both ate what was on your plates, and exchanged a few words. "Lucky us, Tenzo."

Tenzo cocked his head to the right. "Why're we lucky?"

"We've got a mission together, today."

Sometimes, or actually, most times, you and Tenzo weren't paired together, ever since Kakashi switched to being a Jonin, and Itachi... well, killed his clan.

"We do?" You nodded. Tenzo got up. "I see. Well, thanks for the food... but, um, where do I put this?" He pointed at his plate.

"Oh, just set that in the sink." He nodded, left to put the plate in the sink, and came back.

"Well, um, I have to go."

"Aw, bummer... I guess I'll see you la-" By surprise, Tenzo had kissed you. He kissed you. His lips were so warm and soft, you noticed. The sudden sensation had felt new to you, since you've never kissed anyone before. You wished to savor it, but the sudden warmth you felt had left as fast as it came.

"G-goodbye." Tenzo speed-walked out your door. You were left not only embarrassed, but confused. Did that kiss mean what you thought it meant?

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You were just informed about your mission. Your memory sucks, but here's what you remembered: there was some bandits, and you and Tenzo need to beat their asses out of Konoha.

Easy, excluding the little tension between the two of you, now that... that happened. You would try and set that aside, for now.

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You and Tenzo dashed through the outskirts of Konoha, as you scanned around for the evildoers. Eventually, you found them. There were five of them.

You both stood on a branch of a tree. You took a glance at Tenzo. He nodded, knowing what you were thinking. You jumped off the branch, and attempted to backstab one of the guys with a kunai from behind, but you were blocked by another kunai.

"Hmph. What do you think you're doing here, hm?" One of the men asked, narrowing his eyes at you.

"Well... I'm here to defeat the bad guys."

"Tch, little girl thinks she can fight all five of us, eh?" Another man said, along with a shit-eating grin on his face. One of the other men scoffed.

"Cocky, much?"

Tenzo jumped from the branch he was on, down to the ground.

The silhouettes of the five men surrounding you made you cautious with each of your steps. A false move, and you would end up hurting not just yourself, but Tenzo as well. You bit your lip in frustration as one man- laced in all black ninja outfit, face veiled and headband nowhere in sight- dashed before your eyes, with a kunai. You had to squint, as the sunlight hitting the kunai was straight in your eye. That same second, the ninja closed the distance, until Tenzo intercepted with his own kunai.

"Stay on your toes." He said. You nodded, and hurled out your kunais, twirling them around your fingers, before they were thrown at the shinobi. He smoothly dodged it, as the rest of them jumped down from the branches they stood upon, making the dust on the ground crawl around and lessen your visibility. Not just yours, unless they have a jutsu.

That was when you realized- the dust wasn't normal, Konoha's forest didn't have such thick soil; it had plenty of water supply.

A jutsu!

"Did you realize?" Tenzo asked from behind your back. You dropped a breath in relief, spotting him at last in your vision.

"Obviously." You replied.

He nodded, as the dust engulfed us. The shinobi were upon you both, from behind the puff of dust, as if shooting at thunder-like speed as their swish sounds played by your ears.

One of the men's kunais pierced your arm, causing you to flinch. "(Y/n)...!" Tenzo quickly formed hand-signs. "Water-style: Water wave jutsu!" Suddenly, enormous waves of water surrounded you, taking the dust down with it, and leaving the ground all wet.

Now was my chance.

"Jump!" You both jumped together as you, too, formed hand-signs, as the rest of the shinobis on standby, watching your every move.

You smirked, knowing what they're about to taste. "Lightning style: Thunder rod jutsu!" The rod of lightning was pitched beside the shinobis, leading them to think you missed. As soon as they let their guard down, the lightning branched with a crackle, and carried by the water scattered on the ground caught the shinobis.

They screeched in pain as their bodies trembled, and you and Tenzo mounted the branches, crouching to be ready for your next attacks. "Tenzo!" You signaled.

"Right!" He launched another wave of muddy water before forming hand-signs for his mud prison jutsu, locking the temporarily paralysed shinobis inside. You acted on your jutsu. Ram, ox, snake, tiger, ram, rat, horse, bird, tiger!

"Fire-style: Furnace mantle!" The humongous ball of fire enveloped the mud prison, and you fired another one when it was finished. Your breath felt short with how much chakra you had dissipated, but you maintained my balance.

You did it. You both did it. You glanced towards Tenzo with a smile, which he returned. He then returned to breaking the mud prison, which revealed the captured shinobi, trapped inside hard soil down their knees. "You don't know how clayey Konoha's soil is, do you?" You smirked, crossing your arms before your chest, "Though, you must know that extremely high temperature can harden clay. Pretty smart, I think-"

"This wasn't just a simple thug-attack," Tenzo interrupted, face hoarding its evergreen serious countenance, "from the way you fought, you looked at least B ranked-"

"Don't you dare underestimate us, you cocky Konoha shinobis!"

"What-?!" You turned around to see all those shinobi jumping down, and then looked back to the captured ones, which melted away like wax.

They were just clones.

Shit! The taller one launched onto Tenzo, making both of them tumble down to the ground. You aimed a paper-bomb at the shinobi approaching you and pivoted on to the next tree. You clashed, you with your kunai and him with his sword. A trail of swift motions followed, and you could swear you had never fought a faster opponent. You could barely see his movements, much less predict where he would attack. The only thing you could do amid the clinks of your weapons hitting each other and your quick breaths- except the sound of slight explosions of jutsus which might have been from the fight below- was to close the distance between you both as much as possible. A slip and you'd be cut.You turned your head to Tenzo, who was fighting three of them alone. There were only four. Where's the last one-? Just when you finished thinking that, you were met with a kick on your back, causing you to fly and collide your head with a tree.

You winced in pain as a soundless scream escaped your throat. You placed a hand on your head. It throbbed and pounded.

The last thing you heard was the loud voices bouncing in your head, and before you knew it, you blacked out.

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A big thanks to for writing the fighting scene, credit to them!!