Today, Uncle Minato woke me up very early to make sure I wouldn't sleep in this time.

He usually leaves before I do since he has to make sure everyone gets to the spot on time, so he was already leaving by the time I started getting ready.

I was huffing with frustration because I was getting irritated with my hair. Brushing and trying to tie up into a ponytail was way more complicated than it should've been because it was tangled up so badly that I used a lot of detangler.

Sometimes I just wanna say screw it and leave it down for a day, but I usually keep it up so it's not annoying me during the day.

Aunt Kushina was already gone. She left a note on the fridge saying that she had to run a lot of errands today, so she left me a bento box in the fridge for my breakfast.

I locked the door behind me after I left and started walking to the tower. I was surprised at how peaceful the village was this morning. No shouting, no crowds, and it was mainly just a lot of elderly people out today.

I made my way to the Hokage's office and was confused when I only saw Kakashi and Uncle Minato.

"Uh...am I late again?"

"No, you're just earlier today," Uncle replied. "Rin usually shows up in like five minutes,"

"Well, I feel accomplished for not being late this time," I said.

"Did you get lost on the 'path of life' again?" Kakashi asked me.

"I don't know what you're talking about," I shrugged. "I never said that,"

Kakashi rolled his eyes and Uncle Minato chuckled, finding this amusing.

Rin showed up with Obito and I couldn't deny that I was annoyed with Obito right now for ditching me two days in a row. I also didn't like Rin because I don't like feeling pushed out of my own friendship.

I didn't look in his or Rin's direction and turned to face Lord Hokage.

"Today, you guys are going to find a cat who went missing," He started. "This isn't just any cat either, it's the Feudal Lord's wife's cat. She's really upset about this,"

I may have stayed quiet, but I couldn't hide my disappointment in my face. I was hoping we'd get something a little more serious than these D-ranked missions.

Why do we keep getting these?

We left the office and we were handed some earpieces.

"These are new devices that they're testing out," Uncle explained. "They'll help you communicate with each other if you're too far away from each other,"

We put them on and I was surprised that he was going to help us with this mission today.

I like cats, so at least this mission will be tolerable.

We started our search and were talking to each other through the earpiece. We were told that this is a black cat with a pink sparkly collar.

"Hey, I found it!" Obito exclaimed, followed by an angry-sounding meow and Obito shouting at the cat.

"Stupid cat!" Obito hissed. "Now I have scratches on my hand,"

"Nice going," Kakashi deadpanned.

"Shut it!" Obito retorted.

Rin almost found the cat, but it turned out to be a different black cat.

"Do you see anything, Hana?" Uncle asked me.

"No, do we even get a hint as to where this cat would be more likely to hide?" I asked.

"I don't think Lord Hokage said anything about that," He replied.

I sighed with frustration and tried to think where I would hide if I was a cat in the Leaf Village.

My first thought was alleyways by different restaurants because of the food, but that one wasn't right.

"Hey, I found it!" Rin said.

"Does it have the pink collar?" Kakashi asked her.

"It does," She replied. "Come near the fruit stands. She's hiding near some barrels,"

We made our way to that area and saw Rin standing against a wall. She pointed to the barrels and we saw the cat.

"Now we need a plan to catch it," I said.

So we came up with a plan and decided that we would need to cover it with a net so it can't run away. Obito left to go find a net and then came back with one.

Then we made our move and caught the cat.

It wasn't very happy with being caught, but I calmed the cat down by petting it gently. I lifted the cat up and she tried struggling, but I was able to keep a hold onto her and we were all relieved that this cat was finally caught.

"I got her!" I exclaimed with excitement.

Everyone cringed and took the earpieces out.

"Your volume was on too high," Kakashi sighed at me.

"Sorry," I replied and took mine out.

"Good job, guys," Minato complimented. "I know you guys aren't happy with the missions we're receiving, but it's helping your teamwork,"

We reported back to Lord Hokage and the woman was already in the office. She jumped up from the chair when she saw her cat in my arms and she took her away, smothering her immediately.

"Oh Kuro," She cooed. "Mommy was so worried about you. Don't run off like that,"

Kuro looked unamused and now I could see why Kuro would run away. She seemed to be very snobby because she left without saying thanks and didn't even look in our direction.

Now it was time for a new mission.

Lord Hokage picked up some papers off his desk and started reading through them.

"There's another woman who needs help with grocery shopping. She was hospitalized a few days ago and requested help with grocery shopping," He said.

"Okay, we'll take that one," Minato said, then turned to us. "I'll leave this one up to you guys. Report back here if you finish early,"

So we were dismissed to start our mission.

Rin and Kakashi walked a little further ahead of me, so Obito started walking at the same speed as I did and he turned to me with a blush on his cheeks.

"I think my plan of getting closer to Rin is working," He smiled.

I maintained my uninterested look.

"We went to that new barbecue place called Yakiniku Q. I even walked her home," He continued. "And she gave me a hug before going inside her house,"

He kept going on and on about how he thought that she was starting to notice him finally and I couldn't help but feel irritated when he kept talking about it. Seems like that's all he wanted to talk about with me too.

I was already pissed off at him and now he's pissing me off even more.

He didn't even seem to notice that my mood was off.

We met up with the woman who requested our help and she handed us our shopping list. It was a huge list too.

We got to the store and Rin looked down at the list as she grabbed two carts. "I think if we split up, we'll get this done faster,"

Obito perked up and agreed with her. "Yeah, I can-"

"Kakashi, I'll partner up with you and Obito can partner up with Hana," She cut Obito off.

Oh great.

Rin smiled at me. "Hey, I bet that'll be fun for you two since you two are close already,"

I gave her a passive-aggressive smile. "Yup,"

She handed the shopping list to me and then started walking off with Kakashi. Obito looked disappointed too.

Ouch.

The entire time, he was trying to make awkward small talk with me and I kept giving him short answers.

"So, when do you think Minato-Sensei will assign us a real mission?" He asked me.

"I don't know. Hopefully soon,"

He rose an eyebrow at the short answer I gave him but didn't say anything. I looked down at the list and focused on grabbing everything and putting it in the cart. I didn't realize that I was walking fast and I turned to ask Obito if he could reach something from the top shelf, but he wasn't behind me.

"Here, I'll grab it for you,"

An older man with golden-blonde hair grabbed the box of pasta that I was struggling to reach and handed it to me with a smile.

Something about him was making me uncomfortable. I couldn't figure out what it was.

"Thank you," I nodded at him and put the pasta inside the cart.

"No problem."

He started talking and I suddenly couldn't hear what he was telling me. My hands started to sweat and I felt as if I couldn't breathe the more and more I looked at him. 

I turned around and walked away as fast as I could without a word. My heart was racing and I jumped when I suddenly heard Obito behind me. 

"Oh, there you are! I lost you for a...hey, are you alright?"

He looked concerned.

I nodded quickly. "Yup, I'm fine. Don't worry about me,"

He opened his mouth to say something, but I cut him off by pushing the cart and walking forward. I was trying to ignore how fast my heart was beating. 

Just who was that guy? Why did he make me react this way?

Obito was still trying to make small talk as we walked through the store.

I needed to get the hell out of here and fast.

"If I'm annoying you that much with my talking, then just tell me to stop," Obito broke me out of my thoughts again.

"It's not you," I snapped. "I...I just don't feel good today,"

He seemed surprised at how I just snapped at him. I don't think I've ever snapped at him in my life. I started to feel guilty, but then I remembered why I was even irritated with him in the first place.

He was about to reply, but another voice cut into our conversation.

"Hana? Is that you?"

I whipped my head around quickly in paranoia, but I caught my breath when I just saw it was Anko.

There was a man standing next to her jet black hair that went down to his waist. He was very pale and his eyes resembled a snake's.

Anko grinned widely at me. "I feel like I haven't seen you in a long time. How's the training going?"

"Uh, it's going fine," I replied. "Just...training really hard,"

She gave me a look of suspicion because she knows how to read people very well.

"Well I thought I'd introduce you to my sensei," She motioned towards the man next to her. "My two other teammates aren't here, but this is Orochimaru-Sensei,"

I gave him a fake smile.

"Nice to meet you," He smiled politely.

"When we have free time, I need to talk to you," She said.

Way to give me more anxiety fuel.

"Um, alright,"

"Anko, we gotta get going now," Her sensei said to her.

"Right! See you guys later!"

She walked off with her sensei and I took a deep breath to calm myself down.

"Are you alright now, Hana?" Obito asked me after they left.

I nodded.

I still wasn't happy with him about how he's been ditching me and only talking to me when he has more details on Rin.

We finished up the shopping and we met up with Rin and Kakashi outside the store. I was going to apologize to Obito about how I snapped at him, but I shut my mouth when I realized he didn't even notice me now that Rin was here.

That stung.

The woman thanked us once we dropped everything off and went to the Hokage's Tower to report back.

"Good job guys," Uncle Minato smiled at us. "Ready for the next mission?"

"Yes! I hope it's something exciting too," Obito perked up.

Lord Hokage read through another mission. "Your mission now is to babysit, but you four are going to have to work together with this one. These kids can be quite a handful."

Rin, Obito, and I all groaned at the same time exaggeratedly and Kakashi sulked a bit.

Uncle Minato sweat dropped at our reaction.

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I now changed Hana being a jinchuriki. I felt like that was kind of cringe lol so I took that one out. I promise there's a twist coming up soon.