Tasuke, Sayura and Nezuto!
Age: 5
"Tasuke, Sayura and Nezuto!"
Kakashi sighs, he was beginning to get constant migraines. Sakura was only five years old, but already, she's scared off most, if not all, nannys that would be willing to babysit for extended periods of time. It's going to be troublesome but he'll probably have to start hiring shinobi to do the job.
And that is why Sakura is now faced with three sixteen year olds and an extremely old and frail looking jounin-sensei. Sakura tilted her head to the side, as if changing her perspective might make them go away. She knew why they were here; 'Kashi was getting smarter and catching on to her escapades.
The five year old huffed, she was planning on going to the park to go build sand castles with Naruto-kun today too! Now normally this wouldn't require sneaking out, she could just ask her sitters to accompany her but she didn't really want to be caught in the act when the sand castles explode because of the smoke bomb they were planning to put inside it… The smoke bomb's only insurance! If other kids try to destroy their castle, they'll learn their lesson not to because they'll go 'splody! Sakura giggled out loud at the image of children flying out of the park, courtesy of the smoke bomb that's currently burning a hole in her pack.
She surveyed her sitters once again.
The old jounin looked nice enough; he was now sitting down on the couch, drinking tea, after smiling kindly at her. He'll fall asleep soon, the sleeping pill- 'Kashi takes them but sometimes he lets Sakura swallow a half to help with her nightmares-Sakura crushed with the tea would make sure of it. Too bad the other three refused tea.
Next was the short chubby-looking brown haired boy, he had slanted eyes like those of a mouse and buck teeth to complete the comparison. Sakura almost expected him to grow out whiskers. He should also be easy; 'Kashi bought cheese just yesterday.
Then there was the girl with purple mousy hair, she had really mean looking eyes and a very defined jaw. She glared at me, rolling her eyes, before turning away to stare dreamily at the third member of their group. She seemed to be disinterested and mostly pre-occupied with the other boy; she would be easy to escape as well.
Lastly was a raven haired boy, with an arrogant look on his face, standing proudly in the middle of her living room, looking down at her. Sakura decides, she doesn't like this one, and she needed to do something about it. A brilliant idea comes to mind, but first, she had to get them to go with her.
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Tasuke thought that babysitting children is a waste of his great skills as a ninja, he could be out there, killing enemy-nin with his new jutsu by now. He finally learned the Great Fireball Jutsu and yet their old fart of a sensei still wouldn't recommend them for a C-rank. For god's sakes, they were sixteen; they should have made chuunin by now. He sneers as he looks at his two teammates; they were the ones holding him down, them and their incompetency.
Nezuto was hungry. He hoped they had food at the house of the kid they were babysitting. Thankfully the mission was only babysitting this time, he couldn't stand the heat and the physical exertion when they had to pull weeds or when they "walked" – more like ran—the Inuzuka dogs. He looked down at the mission scroll, reading it's content absent mindedly. Hmm, but the name Hatake sure does sound familiar… His stomach grumbles and he forgets the thought in favor of thinking about food.
Sayura was having a bad day, her hair was getting frizzy from the humidity in the air and Tasuke-kun hasn't even commented on the new shirt she bought yesterday! And now they had to babysit a little brat. Sayura wanted to question the Kami for giving such a beautiful girl, herself, a hard life.
The old sensei was just as unresponsive as always and sits down at the couch, accepting tea from the pink haired child they were supposed to babysit. Nezuto didn't want any, he heard tea is good for digestion; he was already hungry as it is, he didn't want more of the food he ate to go away. Sayura did not like the Oolong tea, the pinkette offered, she preferred the sweeter Jasmine tea but the brat ignored her request. What a snotty brat. Tasuke turned her down just because he wanted to torture the little pink haired girl.
This is because upon entering their client's home, Tasuke immediately spots a picture of a silver haired jounin posing with a pink haired little girl in a park, obviously having fun and bonding as father and daughter. He recognized the silver haired man, he was Hatake Kakashi. The guy who failed him back when he was fourteen, a new graduate from the academy. He then decided then and there that he'll make the jounin's little daughter suffer for failing him.
As much as it pained Tasuke, he was gonna have to ask his teammates to help him make her suffer, so she could suffer all the more; three pairs of hands are better than one. Tasuke cackles, he was such a tactical genius.
He tells Nezuto and Sayura to get closer to him and tells them of his plan. He knew Sayura would agree either way, the girl had a huge crush on him, bigger than the size of her jaw. He also knew Nezuto would be willing to follow along if there was food in the end; he'll just buy him ramen or something.
And just like that, his plan for revenge was set.
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The pink haired little girl wanted to go to the park, the plotting trio agreed. Leaving the apartment and their slumbering old sensei behind. The trio dispensed their petty forms of revenge during the walk towards the park by tripping the pinkette regularly, bumping into her small form, and pushing her in the way of others in the busy streets; resulting in Sakura finding herself with her bum on the ground more times than she could count.
Their actions only made Sakura even more determined in executing her idea.
When they arrive, she spots Naruto, pulling him towards the sand box swiftly, cutting off his usual cheerful greeting.
"No time. More work. Less talk." Sakura stated with gritted teeth, furiously taking out all the building materials they needed and, carefully, the smoke bomb, taking extra care to hide it from the evil trio's view.
Naruto's eyes sparkle at the instruments of evil, his smile becoming blinding before enthusiastically saying; "Alright Sakura-chan, I have a feeling this is gonna be fun!"
The three gennin observe the two children work hard on building a sand castle, Tasuke stops them from making any move, telling them that it would be more devastating to the pinkette if all her hard work in perfecting the castle is destroyed just as she finishes it. The other two nod, praising Tasuke for his ingenius plan. Tasuke smirks, crossing his arms in front of his chest, telling them that it's only natural for a prodigy like him. He called dibs on kicking the sand castle to the ground.
At the end of the day, three gennin are rushed to the hospital and Sakura and Naruto get a major scolding from the Yondaime Hokage. And Kakashi gets an even bigger headache after returning from his mission.
Kakashi hears the story from Sakura and learns of the identity of the gennin who had taken up the mission of babysitting Sakura. He dimly remembers failing one of them from a couple years ago. The brat was probably trying to exact petty revenge on him through Sakura. Kakashi didn't know why the kid felt so offended—he failed everybody.
Kakashi will have to hire a chuunin, he didn't trust gennin to take good care of Sakura for him anymore, he wouldn't trust young gennin brats with a grain of salt ever again.
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The next time Kakashi went out on a mission...
"How many senbon do you think you can catch Genma-san? Can you catch more than I can throw? Let's play and find out!"
Genma found out why a certain babysitting mission was C-rank that day.