"Hana, get up!"

I woke up and saw Aunt Kushina was hovering over me. I widened my eyes with panic when I forgot that Uncle Minato said he had a mission for us today.

"How late am I?!" I asked, running out of bed to grab my clothes.

"Fifteen minutes," She sighed. "Minato's already at the Hokage's Tower with your team,"

"Oh man, I can't believe I slept in!" I exclaimed as I rushed to the bathroom to get ready.

I quickly got a cup of milk and then heated up some instant ramen as "breakfast" and I chugged the milk down, then rushed out of the house while eating my ramen. I was speed walking and eating at the same time.

I threw the cup away in a nearby garbage and then sprinted when I saw it was closer. I frantically opened the doors and panted when I finally made it inside the office. I was embarrassed that even Obito got here earlier than I did.

"You're late," Kakashi remarked. "How are you even late if you and Minato-Sensei live together?"

"Well, you know what," I started. "I...I got lost on the path of life, okay?!"

I sweat dropped at my own excuse, but I went with it. That wasn't supposed to come out that way.

Obito gave me a questioning look at my excuse and Kakashi shook his head. Minato sighed at me.

"Just try to wake up earlier, Hana," He said.

"I will," I gave him a sheepish look. "This won't happen again, Sensei. I swear,"

He turned to face the Hokage who just looked amused. He started explaining to us how missions work and he started reading through D-ranked missions after his explanation.

"There's a woman who requested help with gardening," Lord Hokage said as he read through the paper he was holding up.

"We'll take that one," Uncle Minato said.

"Gardening?" I muttered. "That seems way too easy,"

Obito just nodded in agreement with me.

"You'll have to tend her to her lawn and all her plants. The entire yard needs work and she's having back problems, which is why she can't do it on her own," Lord Hokage explained.

We left his office and Rin turned to Minato.

"Sensei? Are you going to help us out with this mission?" She asked.

"Nope," He replied. "I know you guys can handle this one. I have to finish paperwork, but I'll be back to check in on you guys later,"

God, this is going to be the lamest mission ever.

As we walked to the house, I couldn't help but wonder how long we were going to have missions like this for.

"I feel like this doesn't even count as a mission," Obito said quietly as we walked there. "This is lame,"

"Yeah, I know," I agreed. "I was hoping we'd get something way cooler. Like protecting a noble or escorting a Feudal Lord and having to protect him from danger,"

We finally reached the house and the entire yard was a nightmare. Everything was overgrown and needed work.

"I'm going to split you guys up into groups of two for today," Uncle Minato said. "Obito and Rin, you guys will work together-"

Obito accidentally cut him off by excitedly saying "yes" out loud.

We all looked at him and he blushed brightly.

"Kakashi and Hana, you two will work together," He continued. "I'll be back to check in on you guys, but if you guys finish this early, just let the woman know and she'll get a hold of me."

He left after that. Obito and Rin went to go work on the front yard, so that left Kakashi and I with the backyard and the side of the house.

Kakashi and I looked around at the yard and I was dreading this. "Where do we even start?"

"Let's start by pulling weeds first," Kakashi replied. "I'll grab the buckets from the shed,"

He came back with two buckets and handed one to me. We actually worked together pretty well. I could tell he'd rather do this on his own, but he wasn't complaining about it.

The buckets we had were overflowing with weeds so we had to go back a couple of times to pour them in the yard waste bin.

We got the weed pulling done fairly quickly.

"Now what do we do?" I ask.

"I saw grass seeds in the shed, so we're going to have to plant them. The yard looks almost empty now that we pulled the weeds out," Kakashi replied.

He went to the shed to grab the seeds and poured them in the buckets we used earlier for the weeds.

This one took longer since we had to carefully plant the seeds. Obito walked to the shed and I didn't look up at him since I was focused on planting the seeds. I thought I saw him glancing at us from my peripheral vision though.

"Are you done yet?" Kakashi asked me.

I nodded.

"Okay, go attach the sprinklers and we'll be done with the lawn. We have to work on the side of the house next," He replied.

I walked over to the hoses and picked them all up.

Unfortunately, they were completely knotted together and I was struggling because they were all different colors. That made it even more complicated than it needs to be.

Just when I thought I was going to unknot the hoses, I couldn't pull it out and my foot slid.

I immediately fell on my butt and my cheeks started turning pink out of embarrassment when I saw Kakashi walking over. I knew he saw the whole thing.

"Here, I'll do it," He said and took the hoses from me.

I stood up and brushed myself off.

"Just for the record, that didn't happen," I said as he unknotted everything with ease.

"Sure," He replied.

I went over to the water well to fill it up with water by using my water ninjutsu and he attached hoses together and then put the sprinkler on.

We had to fix her garden, trim the vines, deadhead plants, water the garden, and clean up the yard waste.

Finally, we were done and I went to go turn on the sprinklers so we could water this part of the house we worked on.

I turned on the knob, but no water came out.

"What the hell?" I asked, trying to examine it.

Kakashi walked over to try and help me and he kneeled down to examine it. He stood up and then started checking on the hose.

"I found the problem," He said.

I turned my head to face him.

"The hose has some tears on it," He replied and walked over to the shed to get some duct tape to patch it up. "You were kind of rough with it, so I think that's where it came from,"

I rolled my eyes at his last comment.

I sighed with relief when we were done with everything.

"We should go check on Obi-" I cut myself off when I tripped over a bucket that I forgot to put away.

My cheeks turned pink and I picked up the bucket and rushed over to the shed to put it away.

"That-"

"Didn't happen, I know," He replied.

My cheeks were still flushing pink out of embarrassment and I cleared my throat. "Anyway, I was trying to say that we should check on Obito and Rin,"

Just as we were about to start walking to the front yard, Rin and Obito were already walking towards us.

"Did you guys finish?" Rin asked. "The front yard was easy. All we had to do was mow the lawn and fix the garden,"

I took her comment as bragging, so my competitiveness kicked in.

"Yeah, we got done a while ago. The backyard was so easy and we didn't have any issues whatsoever,"

Kakashi gave me a look and I just pretended not to notice it.

We checked in with the lady who owned the house and she said she needed more weeds pulled on the other side of the house.

"Sounds easy enough," I said and quickly rushed over to go pull them out.

I just wanted to be done with this already.

"Wow, you're really fast-HEY YOU'RE PULLING MY STRAWBERRY PLANTS!" The woman exclaimed.

I sheepishly fixed everything and I heard Kakashi sigh. Rin decided to assist me with pulling the weeds out.

We stood back up and I saw Uncle Minato was standing next to the woman.

"Did you guys get done?" He asked.

"Yup!" I replied. "It was totally easy and we had no problems whatsoever,"

I was secretly hoping that Kakashi wouldn't mention my little mishaps.

We reported to the Hokage's Tower after that and he gave us our first payment for the mission. It wasn't a lot, but at least it was money.

We had to continue doing D-ranked missions.

Some of them were completely random and I didn't even understand the point of these. There was babysitting, cleaning, walking dogs, or cleaning up the Leaf Village's library that got trashed after some dumb kids pulled pranks.

I hated babysitting the most.

Rin and Kakashi were the only two who were able to get the brats to stop acting out. They would drool everywhere and get it on me to make me mad, trip me to make it look like I was trying to hurt them, or they would cry at everything because they wanted Rin.

Obito didn't like it either. This one little boy, in particular, was very troublesome and would give Obito a hard time.

Freaking brats.

We were dismissed for the day and Uncle Minato turned to me before he left.

"Kushina was wondering if you're going to be home for dinner this time," He said.

"I wanted to get ramen tonight, but I will tomorrow," I replied.

"Okay, see you at home then."

He left and I caught up with Obito before he left.

"Hey, do you want to get ramen with me?" I asked. "I think it's a nice reward after dealing with those brats all day,"

"Not today," He declined. "Rin and I were going to go try out that new barbecue restaurant. Sorry, Hana,"

Rin turned to me. "You can come with us if you'd like, Hana,"

I was not going to be third wheeling tonight. Plus, judging by the look Obito was giving me, he would rather eat with her alone. He probably just wanted to spend time with her so he could make a move on her or something.

I shook my head and started walking off quickly.

I clenched my fists with annoyance as I walked to Ichiraku. I was losing my childhood best friend to Rin and I hated it.

I sat down on the barstool and Ayame came over to take my order.

"What are you having tonight?" She asked.

"Just the miso ramen with extra pork, please," I replied. "Oh, and can I get cola with it too?"

She nodded and went to the back. I propped my hands on the table and rested my head on it, still thinking about how I was annoyed with Obito for leaving me behind again.

Someone took the seat next to me so I had to move.

"Sorry," I apologized and scooted over to give them space.

"You're fine,"

I was surprised when I realized it was Kakashi.

"Kakashi? I didn't know you liked ramen too,"

"Sometimes I do. I just figured I'd come here since I kind of felt bad back there when you asked Obito to come with you," He responded.

Teuchi came over to take his order.

"Hello, Hana. Ayame is working on yours right now," He greeted and turned to Kakashi. "Oh, this is a new face. Who's this?"

"This is my teammate, Kakashi," I answered. "Obito didn't come today since he had other plans,"

Teuchi took his order, which was miso ramen.

"Thanks for coming here," I said to Kakashi with a small smile. "You didn't have to, but I really appreciate it. I didn't like having to eat alone again."

"It's nothing," Kakashi shrugged. "Minato-Sensei is really adamant about this teamwork thing, so I figured this would be a good way to start."

As we waited for our orders, I told him a little bit about myself and he did the same. He was a lot nicer than I've heard. A lot of people didn't like him because they insisted that he was rude or didn't care about anyone.

He didn't seem that way to me so far.