"What's your positions?" Kakashi whispered into our ears.

The target was in sight, washing her face in the clearing below the trees we were hidden in. Naruto was in the opposite tree to me, eyes fixated on the brown, fluffy ball of fur below us. Sasuke was in the next tree to my left and Sakura to my right.

"Target in sight, Sensei." I growled, if we made too much noise we'd startle her!

"I swear Naruto, if you mess this up..." Sasuke whispered.

"SHUT UP!" Naruto bellowed, the cat looked up, hissed and ran off into the brush.

Why?

Sasuke pushed off of his feet, diving towards Naruto.

"SASUKE!" Sakura bellowed, pushing off of her feet to tackle Sasuke to the ground.

Naruto looked smug, since when did Sakura ever stop Sasuke pumelling him?

"Weird." I stated, jumping into the middle of the grass.

"Uhh guys?" I heard over the headset we were forced to wear for our mini mission, "what have I said about the whole screaming fiasco?"

I chuckled as Naruto howled with laughter, clutching his stomach in pain. Sakura had Sasuke in a head lock, ruffling his hair. He was clearly resentful to Sakura's touch.

"I swear Sakura if you don't get off of me." Sasuke hissed, trying not to make his annoyance heard. Trying to keep his cool. Typical Uchiha.

Kakashi appeared from behind the tree I was situated in at the beginning, he walked over to Sakura, picked her up by her wrist and surprisingly, did the same to Sasuke.

"Look guys, I don't care for your whole boyfriend/girlfriend act," Sakura blushed deep red and giggled, Sasuke's eye twitched, "but we have a mission here, and if we don't get this cat by sundown then the mission is a failure."

He dropped Sasuke and Sakura to the floor with a thud. Naruto and I howled with laughter behind Sasuke as he walked ahead in a huff, rubbing his back from the painful fall. Naruto calmed down but my eyes were still streaming with tears from laughing at Sasuke's face. Sakura was walking the furthest behind with Kakashi, talking about how she couldn't decide whether to wear her usual red dress today or try a new one. Kakashi was bored, reading his pervy book, obviously not really listening, grunting a "yes" or "ohhh" every now and again, when it was relevant. Naruto started to draw back, starting to slow down his pace.

"I'll talk to you later Naruto." I waved, getting the hint.

It was obvious that Naruto had a crush on Sakura, I mean, even Kakashi could tell. In fact it was only Sakura who couldn't tell. She was so love-blind by her little schoolgirl crush on Sasuke it was just plain lame.

It was starting to get dark, the sun was only just visable over Hokage Rock. Vultures circled above, preying on little rodents. I snorted, imagining one swooping down, actually mistaking Sasuke for a duck and getting all tangled in his hair.

"What are you snorting at?"

I snapped out of my hilarious daydream, wiping a mock tear from my face.

"Oh."

I looked to my left to find Sasuke right next to me, looking at me with curiosity seeping from his eyes.

"Hey Sasuke, I was just daydreaming. You okay?" I smiled.

His eyes widened at the sudden question.

"I'm fine thank-you. We need to get this cat."

"I know, I know, you take everything way too seriously, Sasuke." I said, poking him in the arm.

He tensed up.

What is with this guy and physical contact?

After ten or twenty minutes of walking in silence with Sasuke, hands in my pocket, we were hot on our little furry friends trail. We were in our positions, above another clearing, where the cat was curled up in a ball on a log sleeping.

"Leave this to me." I whispered into the headset.

Disgarding my teams objections, I gracefully fell into onto the ground and walked over to the brown, ball of fur.

"Hey kitty." I said softly, holding out my hand.

The cats eye shot open, and quickly sat up. After about five minutes of eyeing me suspiciously, she walked over to my hand, sniffing it wearily.

"It's okay." I smiled at her, pulling a food pill from my pouch. She eventually warmed up to me enough to let me pick her up.

"Mission accomplished." I confirmed, as the others joined me in the clearing.

We later learned that the cats name was Taz, and her owner had accidently left the door open and she escaped. As we stood before the Hokage, the rather large lady smothered the cat with affection, and the cat looked back at us with a look of despair. Kind of like Sasuke's earlier today when Kakashi had said he was Sakura's boyfriend. I snorted again at the thought.

"You know, snorting isn't very attractive." Sasuke smirked, leaning against the doorframe.

"And neither is pouting but you seem to do that a lot too, huh Uchiha?" I retorted.

His lips pursed and he turned away from me.

"HEY OLD MAN!"

Naruto...

Everybody turned to Naruto, Sakura's mouth was wide open, and Kakashi smacked him over the head.

"OW!" Naruto yelped.

He's such an idiot.

Naruto clutched the portruding lump coming from his thick blonde spikes.

"I WANT A REAL MISSION! NONE OF THIS BABYSITTING STUFF!"

Iruka's face was livid. He was literally on the edge.

"Calm down Iruka" The Third said, eyes closed, clutching the bridge of his nose.

"You say you want a real mission Naruto, yet to be a true ninja you must be mature, well respected, powerful," The Fourth started, "you want to be respected, don't you Naruto? That's all you've ever wanted from life. For people to look up to you, and I bet you think "how am I supposed to do that without proper missions? Am I correct?" The Third smiled.

What was the old man getting at?

I brushed the silver strands of hair from my face.

Naruto wasn't even listening to the Hokage, he was off talking to Kakashi and Sakura about some ramen he'd eaten the night before.

"NARUTO! THIS IS YOUR LAST WARNING!" Iruka screamed, veins bulging from his forehead.

Naruto turned, grinning sheepishly.

"I will grant you and your team one C-Rank mission." The Third said, waving a hand of dismissal.

Naruto squealed. I'm not joking, he squealed.

"WHAT IS IT OLD MAN!? WHERE DO WE GO?!"

"Your mission will commence four days from now, you will be escorting a very important person."

Naruto's eyes practically popped out of his head.

I fell backwards into the wall, huffing, exhausted.

"Are you okay, Mitsu?"

Huh?

Sasuke stood there, looking at me.

"Fine thank-you, Sasuke-kun." I sighed tiredly.

He nodded his head and turned back to the Hokage.

"IS IT A PRINCESS?!" Naruto blushed, still squealing, might I add.

"You will escort Tazuna, a bridge building from the Hidden Mist village."

Naruto fell backwards, hard, onto the wooden floor.

I chuckled, he was such a loveable idiot. The door beside Sasuke opened, revealing a drunken, tanned man, around the 50 years old mark, he stumbled in.

"Are these my escorts? Why they're nothing but a bunch of brats!"

I brushed it off, he was drunk and arrogant. I didn't have time for these kind of people.

Sakura, Sasuke and Naruto all clenched their fists. The old man should be warned not to push Naruto, but then again, it'd be funny to watch Naruto restrained from killing him.

"I'M A NINJA OLD MAN!" Naruto yelled, pointing at Tazuna.

Tazuna turned to the Hokage, "you expect me to trust my life with a bunch of brats?! And what's with the little short runt?!" he slurred, disrespectively.

"WHO YOU CALLING SHORT?" Naruto roared, launching himself in the air towards Tazuna.

Kakashi caught him by his jacket.

"No killing the client, Naruto."

Tazuna snorted, walking out of the room. Probably to retrieve more Sake from somewhere.

"Can we leave now?" I questioned, not particularly asking anybody.

"Dismissed." The Hokage ordered.

I looked towards Kakashi, expecting him to be walking back to the house with me.

"Sorry Mitsu-chan, I've got a mission. I'll be home tomorrow morning." He smiled his famous one eye smile at me.

I nodded and retreated towards home.

Village Hidden in the Mist, this should be interesting...