Naruto : Uchiha : Chapter 38
Uchiha Clan compounds.
At four in the morning.
KNOCK…KNOCK…
Naruto pulled up his blanket to muffle away the annoying noise disturbing his sleep.
KNOCK…KNOCK…
"Kami…" the blonde mumbled, getting up with a tired yawn and half lidded eyes. His eyes turned to the window and then to the clock hanging in his room too see it was still an hour from daybreak.
KNOCK…KNOCK…
He put his head in his blanket with a groan, he was still so sleepy. He got up after relenting to whoever it was that must want to see him at this time and walked down his stairs to the main door. He opened it slowly after unlocking it with the key.
"Welcome to the Uchiha…residence…" he spoke in a yawn, covering his mouth and blinked sleepily to see the dazzling smile of Might Duy.
"YOSH…" Naruto winced, clasping his mouth before the boy could boom any further and wake up half the Uchiha clan who would no doubt be quite happy and show him their prowess over the Fire element this morning.
"Duy keep it down, it's…four…" he spoke with another yawn making the boy give him a thumbs up which was ignored by the sleepy boy.
"EXACTLY…" Naruto clasped his mouth again making him look like a duck and sighed.
"Be quiet." he said calmly and the boy nodded with his mouth forming an 'O'. only now did Naruto looked at the half dead looking Sakumo leaning behind him as if he would die any moment.
"Sakumo?" Naruto called out to the boy, who opened his left eye, still leaning on the youthful boy to keep him standing.
"He came to my house first, my father threw me out…literally… saying to take this loud speaker with me and let him sleep…" Sakumo mumbled in annoyance and Naruto would have laughed at his expense had he not been so sleepy himself.
He turned his eyes back to the wide awake boy who was looking at him quite intently.
"What do you want with us at this time Duy?" Naruto finally asked, his patience running thin. He regretted it a moment later though when he saw the fire light up in the boy's eyes and he caught his wrist in his iron grip.
"Duy Wh-AHH" he shouted when he was pulled out along with Sakumo like a rag doll by their fired up teammate.
"This is the perfect time for an early morning jog…" he boomed making their eyes widen in horror.
"BUT IT'S NOT EVEN MORNING YET…" both shouted in unison which the boy didn't hear and started their morning jog, which wasn't a jog as much as a full speed sprint.
"YOSH, THAT MAKES IT MUCH MORE YOUTHFUL. LET THE POWER OF YOUTH EXPLODE…" he boomed loud and the two behind him knew it was out of their hands now.
Kiara let out a yawn seeing her master disappear in a cloud of smoke and went in while closing the door behind her with her tail. She had the time to sleep…
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( Four Hours later )
Naka River
Sasuke Sarutobi strolled onto the porch of their meeting point and rose an eyebrow at the sight before him.
Naruto and Sakumo were on the ground…, sprawled face first and barely breathing while Duy was giving them his classic nice guy pose.
"Duy, what happened to them?" he asked, not expecting to see his two subordinates half dead so early in the morning.
"Yosh sensei, I took them for an early morning jog to stroke their flames of youth…" the boy boomed happily and Sasuke sighed, he had an idea of where this was heading.
"…but I seemed to have stroked them too much, they are barely flickering now sensei.." the boy mumbled in a serious voice with a sagely nod. He chuckled and nodded, well they were prepped for the day then.
"Alright you two, up you go…" he picked them up and dusted the two off who gathered up their minds and energies recovered to smile at their sensei.
"Let's go and get our first mission…" he spoke and bright smiles lit up their faces.
"Damn that's cool, what do you thin we'd get Naruto? I bet we are going to go scout out enemy borders…" Sakumo spoke excitedly as Sasuke led them to the Mission's office.
"Nah I bet we would be protecting some Daimyo or princess from dangerous thugs and stuff…" he spoke his own thoughts, crossing his arms behind his head and Sasuke shook his head in amusement hearing their dreams. Oh, the joys of being a sensei.
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Mission's office
"You are going to go to a nearby village and haul the crates containing our food supplies and record all entries back to the village.
Squad Seven, I expect this to be done by the end of the day…" Tobirama's voice rang through the room and an imaginary breeze blew in the room as his genins stared at him blankly.
"This is a joke right?" Sakumo asked in disbelief, getting a blank stare from Tobirama that made him feel quite stupid.
"But Ji-chan, we are shinobi right?" Naruto asked in confusion and Tobirama nodded curtly without a word, well this was the most interesting time of the year for him each time seeing these baffled faces of genin who came to him expecting assassination missions.
"You are shinobi indeed, but what did you think you'd get? You are untried with no past records, which client in their right mind would want to hire you for a job?" he asked and got sheepish smiles from all three who now saw his point.
"These simple missions are assigned to each new squad to get them used to their teammates out in the field while the jounin sensei fine tunes their teamwork before I move on to give you serious missions.
But these aren't as simple as chores mind you, you must record the crates, put them over to the cart to carry them and then pull it back to the village and rearrange them at our warehouses.
You may very well be attacked by bandits out there, so do not take any mission lightly." he scolded the three who nodded and Sasuke took the scroll with a smirk.
He knew it was ridiculous, after all who would want to steal rice and wheat sacks right now. But it wouldn't be easy to get it done by the end of the day, that much he knew.
"Alright team let's get to it." Sasuke clapped and the three nodded and followed their teacher out.
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On the edges of the assigned village.
"Ahh, there's the warehouse you are to empty and haul the contents back to the village…" Sasuke pointed out a building in the distance and their eyes widened in shock.
"Sensei…" Sakumo gulped nervously and pointed a shaky finger at the warehouse far into the distance. "…how far is that?" he asked nervously, hoping he was wrong and Sasuke shrugged.
"Twenty miles give or take…" he surmised and Naruto looked horrified at his sensei.
"But that looks five stories high already, how are we supposed to haul everything in that back to the village by the end of the day?" Naruto asked incredulously and Sasuke smirked.
"Why do you think the Hokage assigned shinobi to do a civilian's job then? He needs them back, and he needs them now. Well time is ticking, get to it…" he said and Duy smiled brightly.
"Yosh my youthful friends let's not waste any more time. We shall do it by the end of lunch time, if we cannot them we will climb the Hokage monument by tying one arm behind our back." Duy boomed and both his teammates sighed and face palmed.
"Only you Duy, only you…" Naruto whispered tiredly and ran off to follow his eccentric teammate who was leaving a trail of dust behind him with Sakumo behind his blonde friend.
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At the warehouse
"Well…shit…" Sakumo whistled in amazement seeing the huge warehouse. It was filled to the brim with crates the size of their own and a cart that could handle twenty of them.
With the village thirty minutes from here, they would be able to make only about twenty hauls. And that was at speeds when they were jumping through trees…
"Sakumo, there's no way we can do this by sun down. I think sensei and Ji-chan have lost it…" Naruto said bluntly and Sakumo sweat dropped at his answer.
"Yosh, don't say such unyouthful words Naruto. Nothing's impossible until the moment we say it is, it's just a matter of finding a way to do it right…" he said jovially and both his teammates smiled feeling their spirits ignite themselves.
"So you have a plan then Duy?" Naruto asked hopefully and smiled seeing him give him a thumbs up with a nice guy pose.
"Of course not…" he boomed and the blonde fell comically on his face.
"That's what we have Sakumo for." he boomed and this time the silver haired one fell on his face.
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