Missions
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"Fox in position."
"Emo in position."
"Banshee in position."
"Fox, jump out in three, two one. Now!"
Naruto jumped and grabbed the demon that took the form of a cat. "I caught the cat. I repeat I caught the damn demon." She replied as she lowered her hand from her earpiece. They weren't as advanced as the ones from her time so they made a slight crackling noise as everyone spoke.
Tora the cat was currently struggling in, trying to claw at the blonde who was keeping it at arms distance from her face. "You know Naruto I think we need to work on the part that you repeat." Said Kakashi as the rest of team 7 came down to join her. In return, she gave him the stink eye.
"And you need to think of more creative names scarecrow." She replied as she tried to pass him the cat.
He raised his hands, "I'm a dog person and you know it." He gave her a small glare as she once again tried to pass him the cat.
"You know, I don't think even Matatabi is this annoying." She said as she glared, wishing she could just Amerterasu the thing.
"Baka, What's a Matatabi?" asked Sasuke as he grabbed the cat and instantaneously it calmed down causing Naruto to glare harder.
"Matatabi is the name of the two-tailed cat. I think she would have more manners and she's an actual demon." She said exasperatedly as they all made their way back to the tower.
"Um, Naruto?" asked Sakura, but when she didn't continue the blonde looked at her with an expression that said well-go-on, "How do you know that?"
"Hmm about Matatabi?" when the other female member of the team nodded she placed both of her hands behind her neck, "Well I am the host of the nine tails."
"Oh, I see. That makes sense- WAIT WHAT?!" the last part was yelled by both preteens as they stared at the blonde with wide eyes who told them to keep it down. "How are you its host? What is a host? Wasn't it killed by the yondaime?"
Raising a brow she saw Kakashi look at her despite having his book out.
"Tell them if you want to Naruto. I cannot tell them, but you can. The ban does not apply to you telling others."
Unconsciously she nodded and replied, "Well you can't kill a tailed beast. They're beings of mass chakra and nothing else. You can't destroy or kill chakra. So instead, using a technique developed by the Uzumaki clan but with his own seal, he got me, as I was the only child born that night and sealed it in me. Well half of it, the other half was sealed inside him before dying however I now have access to that part of the nine tails power as well."
They made it to the tower and she stopped talking. Sasuke and Sakura were bursting to ask more questions but decided against it. It was clearly a big secret and the fact she had shared it with them meant a lot. Also, they didn't know who knew, if people knew she was the vessel to the thing that killed the yondaime they would harm her.
Simultaneously, both sets of eyes widened as they recalled parents, shopkeepers, children and much more staying away as the adults called her a demon. Sasuke recalled she had sometimes come back to Shisui's place in the males arms as she had a wound she was bleeding from, he would always have a murderous look in his eyes, but as young as Sasuke had been, he had never put much thought into it.
As they stood outside the door about to enter Tora started to act up so Naruto turned her eyes to red with Kurama's chakra and it calmed down, shivering slightly but at least not trying to escape.
As they opened the door, the fire daimyos wife cried at cooed at her precious Tora who for once did not try to run as Naruto had yet to return her eyes back to their natural blue. Madam Shijimi paid for the mission and took her leave back home.
The majority in the room sighed as they left, as the others stared in shock that Tora was not trying to escape and turned to team 7 to ask why when they saw Naruto's eyes and grabbed their kunai, jumping in front of their kage. "My lord, what should we do?" asked one of the chunin guarding the Hokage.
Kakashi pulled Naruto behind him as he had one hand on a kunai and another on his headband, the part that covered his eye. "Lay one hand on her and I'll personally show you why I am feared across all five nations." He growled and everyone faltered slightly, shocked that the man was defending the person who jailed the demon that killed his sensei.
Naruto placed a hand on Kakashi's arm and tried to move around him till be growled at her, so instead, she peeked around him, ignoring the confused and startled looks on her teammate's faces, "Oh don't get your ninja wire in a twist. I just wanted to scare the damn cat." She closed her eyes and when she reopened them they were back to normal.
Those protecting their leader looked back to ask for further instructions. They blanched when they saw him simply sitting as he smoked his pipe, "Well Naruto you seem to have given my ninja a fright." He chuckled slightly and signaled for everyone to stand down but that wasn't enough for Kakashi to calm down as he placed an arm behind him to keep Naruto pinned to his back.
She rolled her eyes and spoke, "I'm fine Kakashi, really. They can't hurt me so please calm down."
"I won't calm down. They tried to hurt you just because your eyes were red."
Unconsciously he let out another growl which caused Naruto to sigh and roll her eyes before jumping up to hang off his back, legs around his hip, arms around his neck and lips next to his visible ear, "Now, now please calm down Kakashi koi." She whispered as she inhaled his scent and allowed her pheromones to leak, only slightly to calm him down and was rewarded by his shoulders slacking.
The sandaime raised a brow and made a mental note to question one of them about this at a later time, preferably in private. Clearing his throat he spoke, seeing as Naruto had yet to get off Kakashi's back and the male didn't seem to mind as he gripped her legs tightly, "Well done team 7. You may collect your pay whenever you like downstairs. Now, what mission would you like next? We have another D rank here-."
He was interrupted by the sound of a whining blonde jinchuriki, "Oh come one old man! Can't you give us anything with a higher rank?"
The Hokage raised a hand to stop Iruka from speaking, "Kakashi, do you think they can handle it?"
He gave a contemplative look before voicing his opinion, "They have a good team bond and have managed to complete all exercises I have put them through, including surviving against me for a few hours."
"Very well I will give you-." He was once again cut off by the blonde.
"Dibs on any escort missions to Wave." The blonde then took to rubbing her nose up and down Kakashi's covered throat.
"As it so happens we have one such mission, Naruto have you been looking through my things again?" said blonde gave no reply as she was basking in Kakashi's scent, trying to rub as much of it as she could onto herself.
When we're done here I'm stealing one of your shirts. She gave an unconscious mental growl as well, causing the copy ninja to shift slightly as he tried to get rid of the picture of future Naruto in nothing but his shirt.
He was brought back to earth when he called the sandaime call his name, "Um could you repeat that lord third?" he raised one hand to scratch the back of his head as he gave an eye smile.
He pointed behind them all where a man holding a sake bottle entered from, said man spoke up after having a brief look at them, "So I'm going to be protected by some brats, one who still gets piggy back rides?" he snarled.
Said person wasn't paying any attention so Sasuke took to their defense, "I was rookie of the year, Sakura the kunoichi of the year, Naruto has tremendous chakra reserves capable of doing anything she sets her mind on and Kakashi is a jounin. We are more than enough to handle a C rank escort mission. I mean, the worst we are going to expect is some run of the mill bandits." He gave the man who sandaime had called Tazuna the infamous Uchiha glare.
At said glare, he quietened down, however that did not stop him from scoffing, "Team 7. Gather your things and be at the gate in three hours. Make sure you've taken care of anything here. I expect we'll be gone for some weeks." With that, he shunshined to his apartment, Naruto still on his back where she surprising had fallen asleep very quickly.
Gently, he placed her on his bed and got his supplies ready then made his way to Naruto's apartment to gather her things. He knew Naruto didn't get much sleep at night, she spent most of her nights on top of her fathers' head, meditating, training, absorbing nature energy and trying to break the wall that seemed to be between her and the rikudou sennin. All but the last having any fruition.
He came back only a few minutes after, Naruto usually kept her things in scrolls since she left the village often. She never told him where she was going unless he asked which he mostly did, and whenever he did ask, she was leaving to go to Amegakure to speak to a person called Nagato or sometimes she addressed him as Pain.
As he placed her things down on his table he removed his mask and headband, informing Pakkun, Bull, Shiba, and Biscuit that he would be leaving for a C-rank would be back by hopefully the end of the month and they should inform the others he was leaving. Pakkun then asked, "Um Kakashi. If you're going on a mission, is Naru going with you?"
"Yup." There was a glint in his ninkens eyes as he asked and Kakashi was a bit frightened to ask what it was but in the end, he did ask.
He instantly regretted it when Shiba replied, "Well, you're going to be together. In the woods. Out of Konoha. She will have to bathe, in a river most likely and she will need someone to watch her back as she does so." he wiggled his brows suggestively and if Kakashi didn't read porn all day he would have turned red of what they were suggesting.
"She is a preteen. I will not be leering or touching her. End of discussion." With that, he made his way to his bedroom only to see Naruto had grabbed his pillow and was hugging it.
He remembered she wanted one of his shirts and knew if he didn't give her one, she was liable to take all of them. He went into his wardrobe and took two out, placing one in her clothes scroll and another next to the bag, she could decide whether to take it on the mission or leave it in Konoha in her apartment.
He sat on the bed on the floor with some scrolls in front of him as he guarded the girl resting peacefully on his bed.
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Two hours later she woke up with a yawn, causing him to stand upright as she rubbed her eyes, to get rid of the remains of sleep. "Hmm, what time is it?"
He gave a small smile behind which she caught and returned, "There's still one hour left till we need to leave. If you want to sleep you can, I've already bought your things over." She gestured for him to sit on the bed so he did, so she proceeded to point to her lap so he sighed and placed his head there, allowing his eyes to close momentarily as she had started to run her fingers through his hair and across his scalp.
"This mission I chose it because we went on it last time." He paid vague attention to what she was saying, her hands felt amazing on his head, "It is actually an A-rank with Zabuza attacking." This caused Kakashi to stiffen so she continued, "They were being paid to attack us by a man called Gato. He doesn't want the bridge to be built because then the people of Nami will have money, which he doesn't want. Last time, we encountered him on the wave. Well first we met the demon brothers but they were taken care of easily, but one of their weapons was laced with poison and I got hit, but I managed to bleed out the poison. After we met Zabuza you used your Sharingan and another person pretending to be a member of Mists ANBU came and hit him with a senbon and left with him.
"He was working with Zabuza and was called Haku. He had an ice bloodline and I'm not going in order."
She let out an exasperated sigh, so Kakashi turned so he was on his back looking up to the blonde and reached his hand to stroke her hair out of her face, "Did anyone get hurt?"
"Sasuke. The second time we met them, I got hurt but Sasuke was worse off he jumped in front of me as an attack came inside the ice mirror thingy. He was hurt by a lot of senbon and both he and I thought he was dead till you pointed it out. You drained yourself a lot due to using your Sharingan a lot Sakura and Tazuna went unscathed." She melted into his touch as he stroked around each feature of her face and neck.
She suddenly stopped his hand when he reached the center of her right shoulder, "This was where your mark was. It had the katakana for wolf and was surrounded by nine tails and some lightning. It made its way down my shoulder and to my neck."
She let go of his hand so he spoke, "So, we get attacked by the demon of the mist-."
"Yeah about that. Why call him the demon of the mist when that was- is Yagura, the fourth Mizukage?"
"Hmm because he killed over a hundred of his academy classmate?"
Huffing she continued to pet his hair, "Well, the tailed beasts all take offense. And besides, it's not like Yagura wanted to be evil. That was all Ob- Never mind."
He softened his gaze, "You don't have to act as if I'll go mad if you mention him."
She flinched and her hand stilled in his hair, "No, you won't go mad, you might go furious though." He sat up at that with an expression that told her to elaborate, "After the war, Obito was a sore spot of sorts. So once I was talking to Pakkun about him and you just lost it. You started to yell in his defense. We got into an argument and I just left the apartment, Granny sent me out for a mission only an hour after and it went south. We were delayed for over a month and we couldn't send word so when we got back. I avoided you till you broke into my apartment. You hadn't been sleeping properly and well you can imagine what happened next."
Kakashi was internally going through a long list of curses in various different languages towards himself. The look in Naruto's eyes was a pain, the pain he caused. Whenever Naruto spoke of future him it usually pertained them having some form of an argument and splitting up until he manned up and asked her to forgive him. It made him sick just to think about it.
He grabbed her pulled her into his arms, "I'm so, so, so sorry I promise I won't be nearly as much of a jackass as future me seemed to be."
This caused her to laugh, "You weren't a jackass, Kakashi. Sure you had your times when you were a tool but otherwise, you were a complete sweetheart."
He rubbed her back and spoke, "Whenever you talk about future me it's always to do with us fighting, even that vision showed me that we had a fight about you prying into my past."
"I knew what I was getting into when we started our relationship back then so I even when we argued and had a fight I never went to anyone. Although Kiba and Shikamaru often got on your case when I got upset. It was funny to see you after having been smacked some sense into."
They sat in silence for a few minutes, till Pakkun and the other three entered, "Well as much as I would love little Hatake's with blue eyes everywhere, preferably the old compound, you need to get going for your mission in a half hour. I assume you will want to go to the memorial stone as usual Kakashi?"
At the comment, Kakashi turned pink and Naruto laughed, getting off of his and said, "We were talking Pakkun. Not getting hot and sweaty in the sheets."
"Of course not, you don't have to be in the sheets to get all hot and heavy now do you Naru?"
"Touché. The kitchen and shower are wonderful places as well as the Hokage office."
They both turned to see Kakashi the same shade as Gaara's hair. "Oh which reminds me! I'll be heading off to Sunagakure when we get back from this mission to go deal with some business there, you and the others wanna join?"
Instead of replying straight away Kakashi turned and spilled a water bottle on his face, letting it fall down his clothed chest, Naruto watched as his already tight clothing clung to him even more and unconsciously licked her lips.
"One, please don't make such crude comments and two, I don't see why we can't go there. I will have to get permission and do some paperwork-."
"I'll sort out filling them in, you just bring them, sign them when I'm done and hand them to the Hokage. I need to sort out Gaara's seal before he gets to the village. And have a word with him and his siblings."
He nodded as they both got ready and left for the memorial stone before going to meet up with the rest of their team.