+1st Person POV+

I grab the stupid cat and take it back to the Hokage's place, where the Daimyo's wife is waiting. I hand the cat back, and snicker as the woman practically squashed it in a hug. Stupid cat deserves it! The hokage begins to read out other missions. "Baby sit the councill's son, Run errands for Suna, Dig potato-" "NO WAY!" i yell. No WAY i'm doing that stuff! What am i, 4? "Give us something differant! Something important, something AMAZING!" Iruka sensei leaps up and glares at me from the other side of the assignment desk. "Don't be foolish! You are only a beginner! You must start doing grunt work-you get experience, so you can work your way up to bigger things!" I sweatdrop. Experience in digging potatoes?

"We have done lots of small things! I want action!" I yell back, then clutch my head as Kakashi sensei thwumps it. "Naruko, enough, Knock it off!" I whine and sit on the floor, grabbing the sore spot with anime tears streaming down my cheeks. Then stupid ol' Hokage gives us some lecture. "You see, every day, we get requests, for things from babysitting to assasination. We get these missions, and we catagorize them, based on the degree of skill they require. We also divide shinobi into class, based on their skill. Hokage is top, me. Then there are Jonin, like Kakashi, chunin, like Iruka, Genin, like you three, and then everyday civillians. We give diferant skill level of mission to differant skill level of Ninja, and if the Ninja completes the mission sucsessfully, then the grateful person pays them an appropriate amount. Thus far, you have only been able to get lowest level missions, d rank, at your level, and-"

"Aww, Shaddap!" I yell. "I don't wanna hear it. All you ever do is apologize, then lecture me! But it's not fair! There is more to me than the prank making screw-up everyone assumes i am! A lot more!" I 'hmph and turn away. There we go. Got my point, old man?! "Oh, very well!" the old man suddenly smiles, making me jump. "Since you have put it that way.... i guess i'll assign you a C rank mission, usually reserved for more experienced genin, and lower chunin! You will escort and protect a certain man.." I laugh with exitement. "WHO? A lord? A prince? A-" "Calm! I'll invite him in now!" The old man smiles, taking another puff outta that wierd pipe of his.

"Come on in!"

The door slowly opens, to reveal some old, drunk guy. "Whas' going on here? They look like a bunch of brats! Especially blonde midget there, She's got the face of an imbecile!" i glare at him, but Kakashi sensei grabs the back of my neck and stops me from besting the snot outta him, darn it! "I'm gonna kill you, drunken geezer!" i scream. Sensei sighs. "No don't kill the man you are supposed to be keeping alive!" He scolds, making me growl, but stop swinging fists. "I go by the name of Tazuna the bridge builder. You must escort and protect me until i get back to my homeland... even if it costs you your lives!"

+TimeSkip+

"Oh yeah! Road trip!" i yell, pumping my fists. "What are you so exited  about?" Sakura snorts. "This'll be the very first time that i have left the village!" I yell happily. "Am i expected to beleive this runt is gonna protect me?" Tazuna snickers. Kakashi sensei sighs. "She's with me, and 'm jounin level, don't worry!" I frown angrily. 'This guy must be the worst client in history! And i'm not gonna take any more of his junk!' I think. I turn to yell at him. "Listen, drunken arse, don't mess with ninja, especially a awesome one like me! I'm elite! And i'm gonna be a hokage someday, 'dattebayo!" Tazuna snorts.

"Don't think so, wimp!"  He smirks. "Well you are an old, drunken idiot!" yell. "Im doing all the right things and im doing them fast! When i become Hokage, you WILL respect me!" "Respect? No! Not even if you DID become Hokage!" He snorts. "YOU ARE DEAD!" I scream, but Kakashi holds me back again...

+Small TimeSkip+

+3rd Person POV+

"Um, Mr Tazuna, sir?" Sakura asked. Tazuna Turned to her. "What now?" "You come from Nami no tochi, right?" "What of it?" Sakura turned to Kakashi. "Uh, Sensei? Are there ninja there?" Kakashi shook his head. "No. Not in Nami no tochi. Although, of course, othere lands have hidden villages, where ninja clans reside. Prepared for an earful?" Sakura nodded. "Mm hmm."

"For most of the countries on this continent, the ninja villages serve as  military force. They protect their own people and handle the ongoing relations with neighboring countries! Yet, the villages do not answer to the rulers of their native countries. Instead, they are on equal footing with the government. In the case of very small island nations where an invasion would be difficult to mount, a ninja village is is regarded as unnesessary. Among the various ninja villages, in particular, those located in the lands of konoha, kiri, kumo, suna and iwa are large- and their strengths immense. Those are called the five great lands of shinobi. They are also the only places where shinobi leaders call themselves Kage, or Shadow...."

"Those legendary leagers, Hokage, or fire shadow, Mizukage, or water shadow, plus raikage, kazekage and Tsuchikage are known to ninja everywhere as the five shadows. The ultimate commanders of all the tens os thousands of shinobi throughout the world."

"REALLY?! Lord Hokage is AMAZING!" Sakura squealed, but inside she was thinking: 'Don't see anything great about the old fart who's always lecturing us!' Kakashi snorted. "You obviously don't think so!" Which made Sakura flinch. "Look, there is nothing to worry about!" He smiled, patting sakura's head. "So i don't have to worry about encountering any foreign shinobi?" Sakura sighed in releif. Kakashi laughed. "Of course not! Hahaha!" However, Sasuke noticed Tazuna flinch, and frowned. '...?'

+Small TimeSkip+

+1st Person POV+

I smile and continue walking merrily. I had kinda stopped and groaned all through kakashi sensei's stupid lecture. Doo bee dee dooo....

And suddenly Kakashi is wrapped in spikey chains! Two ninja jump out of the trees. "One little piggy!" One sings, and RIPS OUR SENSEI APART. I scream. "K-kakashi sensei!" pinkie screams, frozen to the spot. Then i feel their prescence shift, now they are behind me! "Two little piggies!" One hisses.

 Before they can kill me, i backflip away from them, and throw shuriken. It hits their spikey chains and pins them to a tree. I kick them both in the head and shrow more shuriken at them. They threw several kunai and i dodged almost all of them, but one grazes my palm, and i wince. I see them head for tazuna so i try to throw a kunai, but it misses. Sakura jumps in front of tazuna, and sasuke in front of her. But i know they won't be able to live without proper defence, so i cast: "Raiton: Jibashi!"(Lightning Release: Electromagnetic Murder)And They fall to the ground. They prepare to charge at me again, though their moves are getting sloppy from blood loss. I am about to Cast kage bunshin no jutsu when suddenly Kakashi sensei appears and pressure points them, and they fall to the ground, unconsious.

I breath a sigh of releif that Kakashi is alive. I look to where his dead body was, and realised he used substitution. Tazuna looks releived, and so does sakura. Sasuke, for some reason, is glaring at me, so i return the favour. "Well done, Sakura, sasuke, But especially you Naruko!" Kakashi sensei smiles slightly, but then he frowns. "But, you did get hurt. And those weapons were absaloutly LACED with poison! We have to clean the wound, and cut it so that the blood flow washes the poison away! Keep still, don't let the poison spread!" (kakashi lectures Tazuna a bit...ok, a lot!....)

Then pinkie speaks up. "We aren't good enough to handle something like this.. can we quit?" I stare at her incredulosly. WHAT?! "We'll need an anesthetic for Naruko's wound before we can re-open it and draw the poison. can't we return to the village and have a doctor look at it?" I frown. I don't want us to have to go back to the village just because of me! And kakashi's actually considering it! "This is..complicated. But i guess we should go back. If Naruko is poisened, we will be held back.." I glare at the ground. NO NO NO! PLEASE NO!

+3rd Person POV+

"Failed?! What the heck do you mean, you failed?!" A short man exclaimed. "If you weren't supposed to be the best, i wouldn't have paid top dollar for your skills!" He was cut off as a man with a giant swort swung the sword at him.....

+1st Person POV+

I swung the kunai deep into my hand. 'No! I have to prove i am worth something! I can't abort a mission because i was careless, and got scratched!' "Naruko? What are you--?! No!! Stop that!" Pinkie screams. I barely hear her. 'I know i'm real strong, 'dattebyo! But i might have blown it now.... even though i spend every day training, building up my skills! I won't ever screw up like this again. i won't be outdone! i swear.. by the pain in my left hand.

"With this kunai knife, i promise you, i" I begin. "I.. will protect the old man, and complete the mission, not being the one holding us back! I'm ready.. Let's GO!" I declare.

+3rd Person POV+

"Do stop whining. There's nothing to worry about. I, with this neck cleaving knife.... will take the hit by myself." The man with the huge sword said. The short man was, at this time, only cm away from the swords blade, and understandably shivering a lot. "..Yessir.. but are you sure you really want to? The enemy has hired ninja of tremendous skill! And besides.... Now that the Oni brothers have tried, and failed, they'll be on their guard against further attempts!" The man with the sword snorted. "Remember to whom you are speaking! I am Momochi zabuza, demon of the hidden mist!"

+1st Person POV+

Kakashi smiles and leans down to my level. "Naruko, we needed a free flow of blood to clean the poison from your wound.. but you've exceeded the need. You could bleed to death. I'm serious. <3" I immediattely start running around yelling.  "NO! NU UH! NO WAY! ISN'T GONNA HAPPEN!" I scream. "I'M NOT GONNA DIE LIKE THIS!" Kakashi sensei sighs. "Show me your hand." i reluctantly give him my hand. In the background, sakura whines: "What are you, Naruko? Some kind of masochist?" "Shuddup Pinkie" i growl. "Don't have time for you!" I look back at Kakashi.. who looks REALLY scary!"It's all right, isn't it..?" i stutter weakly. "I-i mean, y'know..." Thankfully, Kakashi says: "It looks like you will be fine!" I breath out in releif. Then suddenly Tazuna wants to talk to kakashi sensei.

+TimeSkip+

After we have gotten of the boat, and learned about some nasty guy called gateau from tazuna, i'm on my gaurd. I heard a rustle in the bushes, so i threw a kunai in that direction. Me and kakashi sensei go check it out, and it turns out i barely missed a snow hare. Hmm. Then i go over my thoughts. A SNOW hare? It should be brown, not white! It's not summer, it's winter. There is only ONE reason why there would be a snow hare hare.. a replacement justu. I feel the prescence of another chakra signature in the trees, and kakashi suddenly yells "DUCK!" and shoves us to the floor, just as a huge sword whizzes over our heads. That was close one! A guy lands on the sword. He looks stronger than the last two... We're in trouble!