Oh great Kankuro died
"CHILDREN OF THE CORN!" screamed Temari to the pair.
"Stop mAKING MOVIE REFERENCES!" Gaara screamed back.
"WE HAVE A MISSION FROM THE TEACHER WHO'S NAME I DON'T CARE TO REMEMBER!"
Gaara sighed, taking Deku's wrist and dragged him to the stairs.
"UNFORTUNATELY, BECAUSE I SHIP YOU, I WON'T BE GOING AND IZUCCHI WILL!"
"My- MY NAME IS IZUKU!"
"I DON'T GIVE A FUCK!"
"I SWEAR TO GOD TEMARI-"
"SORRY KANKURO!"
Gaara frowned, glancing at Deku. The green child was looking worriedly up the stairs at Kankuro trying to stab Temari.
"Are they-?"
"They'll- be fine," Gaara said, not believing it one bit.
Gaara, Deku, Temari, and Kankuro stood in front of the teacher, whose name was Baki.
"We're going on a mission to Konoha, where the chuunin exams are to take place," Baki said. "Unfortunately, Temari won't be going and this undertrained palm tree will."
"In my defense, sir," Deku stuttered, very interested in the floor and not making eye contact with the strange looking teacher, "I'm well trained in combat."
"Good, so is my dog." Baki narrowed his eyes. "Let's go to Konoha and get this hellish mission over with."
Kankuro didn't correct him.
It was a long and admittedly hellish journey, but they made it.
Temari sacrificed her spot in the mission for a ship, but Izuku was fine since it was him and Gaara.
Kankuro was indignant about the whole thing, for not being able to talk to the friend Izuku was surprised he had was hard for him.
Though, he cheered up once he realized Konoha was famous for it's hot springs, because he was a pervert.
Not as bad as Mineta, though.
Baki had explained the mission thoroughly, and Izuku's job was basically to make sure Gaara didn't die, and to prepare some stuff that Kankuro had said he'd do instead, probably because of trust issues.
The trio strolled through Konoha, quietly observing. Izuku wasn't sure what the mission was for, but decided it would be fine, because it had to be fine, because if it wasn't everyone would probably die slowly and painfully.
Gaara randomly hopped in a tree, sand flying out from the contact point and into Izuku's face.
He rubbed out the sand and hopped into the tree as well, green lightning sparking around his feet.
Gaara raised the spot where eyebrows should have been, so Izuku shrugged wordlessly.
Something did feel off, though, to Izuku at least. It started when Kurogiri sent him there, or whatever entity had, Izuku'd felt a burst of power that hadn't left him.
It was a strange feeling, and not particularly pleasant.
Though, it still felt powerful, so he decided to learn how to use it.
Not while in the tree, though.
Kankuro hadn't noticed their absence, and kept walking and daydreaming, not paying attention.
He bumped into a child.
The kid had brown spiky hair and a yellow shirt and goggles on his head.
"Watch where you're going, stupid!" yelled the kid.
"You ran into me! You apologize!" Kankuro yelled back.
"Nu-uh! You weren't paying attention!" The kid reminded Izuku of Kota, but angrier.
Next thing they knew, Kankuro had the kid by the neckline of his shirt, and they were telling censored cuss words at each other, such as "jerk" and "stupid" and "crapwads."
It was childish.
Izuku, from his perch in the tree, saw three others coming.
Gaara did too, by the look of it.
There was a boy with spiky blonde hair, blue eyes, and birthmarks on his cheeks.
Next to him was a sad boy with black hair that was swept back- it looked kind of like a bird's butt.
Behind them both was a girl with pink hair, green eyes, and a red dress.
"HEY! LET GO OF KONOHAMARU!"
"Shut it, dobe," the sad one said, not caring.
Kankuro basically threw the kid down, looking behind him.
Izuku grinned somewhat sadistically when he saw his eyes widen in slight anger at the absence of Gaara and Izuku.
"You jerks-" Kankuro growled, gritting his teeth.
The blonde started attacking him.
Izuku had made a pocket sized analysis notebook, and had already filled out a page for Temari, Kankuro, and Gaara, and All Might for practice.
He couldn't really tell anyone's main attacks yet, but due to the nature of the mission, most likely would soon.
He pulled out the notebook, flipped to a blank page, and wrote something with a pen, moving his mouth like he was muttering, though silent.
He felt Gaara look over his shoulder, but continued writing.
The sad one was named Sasuke. The only reason Izuku knew that was because the yellow one had called to him to help murder Kankuro.
The yellow one was Naruto, because the pink one yelled it angrily when he'd started the killing process.
The odd amount Sasuke blinked gave Izuku the clue he had vision based power.
Naruto looked like an idiot, but because if how much anime Izuku watched, he knew he was the most powerful.
The only girl in the fun team was either really well trained in hiding information, or just really dull.
Izuku flipped to Kankuro's page and added "hates kids," due to the fact that he just traumatized one.
In the middle of the fight, Naruto screamed "shadow clone jutsu" and then multiplied, his hands in a weird position.
The clones ran at Kankuro, trying to kill him.
Izuku just wrote "shadow clone jutsu" into Naruto's newly added entry.
The freckled child had something like a photographic memory, so after writing, he attempted imitation.
He assumed whatever power was flowing inside of him fueled it, whatever "it" was, for there was the same power radiating off of everyone.
Izuku made the hand sign, glancing at Gaara for confirmation. The redhead nodded.
"Shadow. . . clone jutsu?" he asked quietly, looking back and forth.
Gaara repeatedly smashed his head into his knees, likely trying to rid himself of the absolute idiocy.
"You have to MEAN it, idiot," he said. "Crap, I mean-"
Izuku shook his head, smiling slightly, and then looked intensely at his hand.
"Shadow Clone JUTSU!" he yelled, determination flowing off of him.
"OH GOD SAVE ME AAA-" Izuku yelled.
No, a different Izuku.
He was hanging off the branch that the other Izuku was sitting on by one hand.
He looked the same as the real Izuku which was unnerving.
There were small differences, of course, like more freckles and flatter hair.
They had the same outfit, which was red shoes, black jeans, a sandy orange fluffy sweatshirt, and a baggy white shirt over it.
"HOLY CRAP I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT TO Work!" Gaara screamed, green eyes wide.
"TIME TO DIE!" the clone yelled happily, falling out of the tree and evaporating.
Izuku fell out of the tree as well, but didn't evaporate.
Gaara jumped out of the tree and glared at Izuku, who smiled smugly. Gaara "tch"ed and looked away. Izuku grinned.
"Who are you guys, dattebayo?" asked Naruto, finished beating Kankuro to a pulp.
"I'm Izuku, but everyone calls me Deku. This is Gaara, he's lonely as heck and hates everyone but is really nice-"
"I'll kill you, I really will."
"Right- uh, and the guy you beat the living life out of is Kankuro."
The pink one smiled a bit.
"I'm Sakura, that's Sasuke, he's really cool," Izuku noticed the blushing, "and that's-"
"I'M NARUTO UZUMAKI AND I'M GONNA BE THE NEXT HOKA-"
Sakura clamped her hand over his mouth.
"You don't just scream stuff like that," she hissed in his ear.
"Well, I'M IZUKU MIDORIYA AND I'M GONNA BE THE NUMBER ONE HERO!"
Naruto grinned, shrugging off Sakura.
"I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS, BUT SOUNDS AWESOME!"
"I DON'T KNOW WHAT- (is that like Kazeka- same thing okay)- NEVERMIND THAT SOUNDS AWESOME!"
They both grinned in a fox-like manner, blazing with determination.
Kankuro got up from the floor he was sitting on, leaning against the tree.
"Screw you all," he muttered, and died.
Well, fainted, but whatever.
Kankuro usually healed quite quickly, so the other five just sat around chatting until he woke up.
Gaara was indignant that Deku kept forcing him into conversations, but kind of happy also, because he didn't want him to feel left out.
Or something.
It did feel nice to have someone care about his feelings, but it didn't mean he wanted to answer the record for how much ramen he's eaten at once is.
Speaking of which. . .
"In one meal, or one mouthful?"
"Hmmm. . . both!" decided Naruto.
"Fine, twelve bowls, most likely and. . . one bowl, on a dare."
Deku giggled, and anyone's reaction to seeing something that adorable would be to blush, so that's what Gaara did.
Seriously, who knew cabbage could be so adorable.
"Oh, Gaara-kun!" cabbage asked, once Naruto and Sasuke and Sakura had basically started the next great ninja war. "You know that explosion sand attack thing?"
"Uh, please be more specific."
"Okay," Deku thought for a moment. "The one where you're all like," he made his hands do an explosion motion, "sand coffin, or something?"
"Yep, that's called Sand Coffin." Gaara's eye twitched. "Why?"
"So, ahm- is that your main attack or something else because I think I heard you use it on Temari while I was asleep so can I learn the specifics- it explodes the person, right? How, exactly?"
Gaara blinked.
"I put the person in a ball of sand," he paused when he saw Deku scrawling something into his notebook, "and then just kinda- make the sand go everywhere. Usually the person does not come out alive." Gaara thought a second. "It would be quite cruel if they did."
Deku scrawled something in his notebook.
"About what percentage of people survive?"
"Probably point zero zero one (0.001) percent, why?"
"Just curious." Deku wrote the percentage, most likely, in there, as well. "I'm assuming the sand condenses and releases at such a rate that the person comes with? Or do the sand particles like, cut through them? Or does it physically rip them apart?"
Gaara couldn't tell of he was impressed or scared.
"I'm not sure, I'll tell you next time I use it?"
"'Kay!" Deku yelped happily. "I think jutsu are even more fun to analyze than quirks!"
The thing he was rambling about the first time they met.
"What even are quirks?"
Naruto's high pitched voice produced that surprisingly good question.
Deku brightened up more, how that were possible Gaara wasn't sure.
"They're like s-superpowers, kinda! Where I'm from, everyone has one! They're all unique, kinda like jutsu but a person can only use one and they don't need to be fueled by anything-" he paused. "Some do, actually- almost all of them are unique! There are different types, like emitter, which needs conscious activation, transformation, which can transform themselves temporarily, heteromorphic, which is a sort of mutation that the user was born with, and there are sub-types like-"
Gaara zoned out, not because it was boring, but because Deku's voice was like- really calming. It was riddled with cracks (voice cracks, obviously), and really high pitched, but when he was concentrating, it went lower, kind of whispery, and sounded really nice.
He heard Sasuke compare it to Kekkei Genkai, and Naruto asking what quirk he'd have, which sounded really insensitive but hey.
Deku said something about aerogenesis, which is spawning wind.
Kankuro, being an arrogant little crap hamster, jumped up, loitered against the tree for like four seconds, and said:
"Hey! We have no time to waste, slowpokes! Let's get going!"
"Kankuro," Gaara said dryly, "you've been up for eight seconds."
"WE'VE ALREADY BEEN HERE FOR EIGHT SECONDS WE NEED TO GET GOING!"
"You remind me of a less logical Aizawa-sensei that cares about public decency."
"NOT HELPFUL GREEN BOI."
"OH SHUT UP YOU OFF-BRAND KITTEN!"
"BE QUIET!"
Deku snickered, and Gaara blushed.
"Let's just go. You're too loud."
"Sorry, Gaara-kun!"
"Fine, just hurry."
Deku paused, and ran back to Naruto, and whispered something in his ear. Naruto smirked and nodded.
He ran back and said, "alright let's go."
Gaara and Kankuro sighed and they walked off.
That horrifyingly fun encounter took around three hours.
"That was fun," Deku said.
"I reluctantly agree," Gaara muttered. "You do know you'll probably have to kill them, right?"
"I'll burn that bridge when I come to it," Deku just said.
"You'll regret that."
"Probably."