10 scuffle on the road

walking down the dry road it's quiet, very quiet, almo-.

"so are there any ninja in the wave?"

...damn it sakura.

"no, small countries like wave don't have a hidden village"

so much for bookmarks.

"hey Haruto, I always wanted to ask" started naruto "where do you train?".

I look at him, a little confused.

" I mean, I don't see you at training ground 7 whenever I go there for training".

everyone was quiet waiting for my answer.

"Jeez, you people know what privacy is?"

"What are we, civilians?" this time it was sasuke.

" I train on the abandoned training ground, next to the forest of death"

"mind if I come by sometimes for a spar?" asked sasuke.

looking over at him, I shrug.

"why not? it's not like I own it"

"then I'll come too, we can train together"

chimed in naruto and sakura was nodding her head.

"now kids, focus we are on a mission"

said kakashi still in his lazy tone.

focusing on escorting our client, who's still drunk by the way, we continue walking.

as an experiment, I send out chakra slowly out of me and tried to form a circle around me...

this is good for chakra control, but can I use this for anything else?

keeping it in place for a few more minutes, suddenly I feel something enter it, flexing my and swinging it in its direction and caught the object...

it was a fly.

[skill: sensory dome, created].

huh?.

oh God, why don't skills have descriptions? one would be useful right about now.

deciding to continue whatever I'm doing I look forward and see a puddle.

a puddle in the middle of a dry road, there wasn't any rain for the whole week.

pulling my hand into my pouch I grip an exploding tag.

as I walk next to the puddle I drop it next to it and keep walking.

"hey Haruto, you dropped an explosive tag" Sakura points out.

"huh?"I pretend, looking back I see that it landed right next to the two idiots.

" oh well" making a single seal "explode".

an explosion... too bad I don't have fire affinity, I want to make those more often.

too bad they managed to escape before it exploded, they saw me making the seal.

" That was close," said one of them, both ware wearing a breathing device that looked stupid, and scratched Kiri's headbands.

"naruto, clones, sakura protect the client, sasuke with me" I order as I dash forward with sasuke following behind me.

during the 4 months, I kinda assumed the role of vice leader, I don't know how it happened, to be honest, I just started saying things on one C-rank mission when kakashi went out of range on the earpiece and they followed it.

taking my blade out of its scabbard I plunge it into the chain running it to the ground.

using the sword to turn in the air and land a kick on the face of the one closest to me, I jump back leaving the store to keep the chain in the ground.

taking out another sword from a storage seal that I drew on the inside of the metal plating on my glove I dash back in.

meanwhile, sasuke is engaging the other missing-nin.

getting close to the disoriented opponent I land a chop to the neck knocking him out.

looking over at sasuke he just got done with the other one.

walking over to the sword I left stuck in the ground I pick it up, sending chakra to the storage seal It disappears with a puff of smoke.

too bad I can't use inventory in front of people, no smoke so they might get suspicious.

"you two done?" asked kakashi still reading his book.

"Yeah, all that's left is to tie them up and question them"

nodding he took out ninja wire and began to tie up the two to a tree.

"good teamwork," I say as I extend my fist to sasuke and he bumps it.

"Yeah, oh I wanted to ask you something"

"oh? what is it?"

"I want to start using a sword, so could you help me pick out one after we get back?".

I nod at the request, not thinking much about it.

but man everything turned out so different from the canon, these three are competent, Naruto doesn't act like an idiot...most of the time, sasuke opened up a little, and sakura got getter even if it's just a few water jutsu.

and to think that it all started when I gave him a tip on how to use [lightning impact].

I look over at kakashi who's questioning Tazuna, and naruto and sakura are listening in.

after a vote, we decide to continue the mission.

and everything went fine as we got to the boat but there was a problem, there was no room for 6 people...

damn.

"I'll walk," I inform them.

"shouldn't I walk, I'm the sensei and you just fought"

"what if something happens and you are you need the chakra, I'll walk"

"but it's just water walking" he mumbled under his breath but shrugged anyway.

after about 15 minutes of walking, sakura started a conversation with me.

"so, is there a girl you like?"

... God why me?

"excuse me?"

"well, I'm just asking, at the academy you were quiet and didn't talk much, some girls even thought that you were gay"

...what?... but I'm not.

"I'm not"I answer with a deadpan.

" then is there a girl you like?"

now everyone's looking at me, shut up Sakura.

"no, I'm not interested in anyone currently"

she fell silent after that.

really? you didn't have the conversation planned at all?

I remain silent as well and continue walking.

"I wonder when will naruto realize it?" I mumble quietly, but kakashi heard me, and by the looks of it he understood what I was talking about.

"well Haruto that might just take a trip to the moon for him to realize"

...you have no idea.

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done, yey, amma sleep, or maybe start writing and finish tomorrow idk.