Naruto: Winds and Changes

(Day After Genin Graduation Exams…)

Naruto pulled out another weed, throwing it onto a growing pile beside him. He looked over at his teammates, who were both doing the same thing, then over to Kakashi, who was reading his porn. Naruto growled in frustration as he went back to pick up another weed. I'm going to kill Anko for not telling me about these D rank missions! The blond promised himself as he continued.

When they had first gone to get a mission Naruto had been excited at the prospect. Hoping that it would have taken them to some far away land where he would protect a princess, or storm a fortress full of evil missing ninja. But no… here he was, pulling weeds.

One of the most humiliating thing he could have imagined, and the new bane of his existence.

"Good job Team." Kakashi said, snapping his book shut as they finished their task. "Let's return to Hokage-Sama and report our success."

"'Our' success?" Naruto asked with a snort. "I hope you're not implying that you had anything to do with the success of this 'mission'." Naruto spoke the word mission with distain. How anyone could call these chores missions was beyond him.

"Of course." Kakashi said with an eye smile. "Someone had to make sure you were all working properly."

Naruto grunted as he, Sasuke, and Sakura followed Kakashi back towards the Hokage Tower.

"Tell me again, what exactly do completing these 'chores' accomplish?" asked Naruto in a sarcastic voice as they entered the Hokage Tower.

"Ma Naruto, I thought you would know about this." Kakashi chided as he flipped a page of his book. "These missions help you with team work."

Naruto's eye twitch. "How does pulling weeds help our team work? We didn't even do anything as a team for this!"

"Shut up Baka! I'm sick of hearing you complain!" Sakura shouted, raising her fist to hit him on the head.

Naruto however was not in the mood to get hit by his abusive teammate. He caught her wrist and glared at her. "Do not hit me again Sakura. I haven't done anything to you to deserve getting hit." He had been slowly realizing that Sakura had never been any good for him, and he was in a foul enough mood that any feelings he may still have for her were pushed away.

Sakura looked shocked as Naruto let go of her wrist. It soon turned into a glare however as they entered the Hokage's office. Thankfully, she did not attempt to hit him again.

"Ah! Team 7!" Sarutobi said, looking up from his paperwork with a smile. He was glad for the distraction he now had from dealing with every kage's worst enemy. "I take it your mission was successful?"

"It would have been if it was actually a mission." Naruto grumbled to himself, but still loud enough for the others to hear.

"Quiet Naruto Baka!" Sakura hissed, though she did not hit him. "Do you want to get us in trouble!"

Sasuke was silent, he actually agreed with the dobe. These missions were not worthy of an Uchiha. The two adults just ignored the blonds comment.

"Yes the mission was a success Hokage-Sama." Kakashi said dutifully as he continued reading his porn. He reached into his pouch and pulled out the mission scroll with the signature from the person who paid for this mission on it. Not taking his eyes off his book, Kakashi handed the scroll over to Sarutobi.

"Excellent, all of you shall receive your pay then." Sarutobi handed Kakashi four envelopes with the mission payment. "Now then you are all dismissed."

The three left the Hokage Tower and made their way back to training ground 7. When they got there Kakashi handed them their payments. "Now that we have completed a mission I'm going to start our training." He told them.

The three genin all perked up at that. Naruto and Sasuke excited at the prospect of actually learning something.

"What are you going to teach us?" asked Naruto, jumping on the balls of his feet, his shinobi calm forgotten. "Is it going to be some new jutsu? Or maybe some super powerful fighting style! Or perhaps it's how to-"

"Calm down Naruto." Kakashi said. Realizing what he was doing Naruto took a deep breath before he stopped bouncing. "Good. Now for this training I want the three of you to stand in a circle. I'm going to blindfold you and give you a ball. Then you're going to have to toss it to your other two teammates." Kakashi explained, chuckling at the reaction he got.

"What the hell kind of training is that!" asked Naruto, his right eye twitching violently. "That has got to be dumbest, most ass backwards training I have ever heard of!"

"Hn." Sasuke said, nodding his head in seeming agreement.

"Now now, this is an important training session that I went through as a genin." Kakashi chided. "Now come on."

The three followed Kakashi, standing in a circle, or a triangle, since a circle was impossible with just three people. Kakashi tied a blind fold around each of them. He unsealed a ball from a scroll and gave it too Sasuke, before moving to stand in the middle.

"Ok I want you three to begin." Kakashi said.

Sasuke grunted as he threw the ball. "Dobe." He said, getting Naruto's attention.

Naruto used his enhanced senses to catch the ball before throwing it to Sakura. "Sakura."

Sakura tried to catch the ball, but it did not managed to catch in it time before it hit her chest. "Ow! Naruto Baka watch how hard you throw!" she yelled, throwing the ball back at him twice as hard.

It was only thanks to his chakra enhanced senses that he managed to catch the ball, it still stung his hands though. "Ow! Damn it Sakura! You don't need to throw the ball so hard as retaliation. Sasuke." Naruto called, lobbing the ball over to him.

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