Three weeks buried in her mission, she was huddled in front of a fire, staring at the flames as they flickered about. Three weeks of a fucking horrid snowstorm and constant looks of suspicion and lack of proper places to sleep. The only good thing was she'd be returning within the week and her mission would be, in any terms, a success. To her, however, it was boring and tedious and a complete pain in the ass.
There as a sound of crunched snow several yards away and she stiffened, immediately kicking snow over the fire and drawing her stout katana, but it was too late as she was ambushed by five nin.
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There all the other genin were, training and off doing minor missions. Then there was team seven. The only reason they hung out was because Sakura insisted they try to get to know each other more-- namely she wanted to know Sasuke. Naruto tagging along only annoyed her but he was a part of the team as well and to say against it would get her in trouble. So she just silently wished he'd get hit by a rogue kunai.
“Sooo.. Sasuke, What do you say we go get some dango!” she crooned, hugging his arm.
He eased away from her and scoffed. “I'm not hungry. I'm bored. I don't know why they saddled us with an absent teacher.”
“Goddamnit Sasuke, you prick, she's the weirdest ninja in the village! I can't wait!” Naruto shouted this quite loudly, and it earned him a good cuff on the ear from Sakura.
“Watch your language you stupid idiot!”
Sasuke snorted at that and brushed past them to continue walking.
“Where are you going Sasuke, wait up!” Sakura chirped, giving Naruto one last hit before trailing after.
Naruto grumbled and followed, watching Sakura harp over Sasuke, who was obviously not even interested. It annoyed him so much! He obviously didn't care about her, or anyone, one bit yet there she was harping over him! Ugh..
They wandered, and to Saukura's delight, did get dango, the rest of the day spent quite lax. That evening, Sakura dragged Sasuke off, ditching Naruto to walk home alone to his empty little home. Sasuke, near enough to his family compound, ditched Sakura, and she had to walk home alone too. She reasoned it was because he was tired. Of course! No way Sasuke would leave her to walk home alone otherwise.
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The crystal monkey had appeared quite suddenly right in the lap of Kakashi, right when he was.. doing certain activities. It clutched a scroll, which it used to start hitting Kakashi as it hopped up and down. Kakashi had hurried to right himself before trapping the monkey in one of his shirts he had lying around. He immediately brought it to the Hokage, whom it was docile for and handed the scroll over to.
The hokage looked it over, giving a grim face before nodding. “Kakashi, I understand your team of genin need you but I need you and Kurenai to go Snow immediately and give immediate aid to a nin we have undercover.”
Kakashi's eyebrow raised in surprise, there were far more free jonin that could go, why him specifically? Still, he nodded and darted off to alert Kurenai and grab one of the two bags he keeps at the ready. The two departed immediately.
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Momo made it to the docks, and hid amongst beggars seeking rides off from the country, or just work. She curled up in a ball under her torn cloak and closed her eyes, trying to distract from the pain. It was a conflicting feeling now, after all these years- was it enjoyable or was it painful? Was it something she wanted or should she try to fight it off? Regardless of what should happen, she had excellent control over it and didn't let it get the best of her. She couldn't focus properly to heal herself however, and was lacking two important appendages for such healing.. again.
The mission was still considered a success with the scrolls she sent off with several of her crystal creations to her home and to the only other person she could lock onto to reverse summons to. She, however, had unfortunately fallen to the consequences of being alone on a minimum three man mission. But she worked alone, so that would never happen.
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Chapter notes: Alright, I got a burst of inspiration-- this one is short for a reason, I swear to Jashin!, I'll be posting often this week! As you can see I will try to stick to something from my Momo, Kakashi, and the younger minds , at the very least. I like to keep it even :) . It's a slower start than I'd like, what with having to set up a few things-- insert evil writer laughter here, cue flash photo of GRRM-- but I'm sure it will be a great read (I hope). Thanks for reading!