It's mission time for Squad Seven - co-ordinating with hands-free headsets and everything to track their target... a particularly savage housecat, owned by a matronly dowager of a nearby land. The next mission on Squad Seven's docket is similarly exciting, this one involving ninja babysitting, and Naruto throws a tantrum. Hokage lays down how what ninja(s) get what missions, and it's interesting to see that apparently all ninjas are mercenaries. Tired of Naruto, the team gets a real job! Bodyguarding! Bodyguarding the Naruto version of [i]Bob Villa[/i].
Attempts to win over Villa-san with Naruto's abundant charm fail spectacularly. Always eager for exposition, Sakura gets Kakashi to give us an infodump on what ninja villages are where. Ninja villages are equal but seperate in matters of government, apparently. Interesting. The biggest nations have a village. They're each ruled by a Kage, with a different name depending on what elemental country they're from. Sakura remarks on our Kage's awesomeness, but Inner Sakura has doubts, as does Naruto. And then Kakashi calls them all out on it. Creepy. Get out of my teeth, Kakashi-sensei!
Kakashi informs us that being a C mission, there shall be no ninja fighting, an is made a liar of immediately by a pair of shinobi with cool chain launching gauntlet things who dice Kakashi! Both Naruto and Sakura panic, though Sakura at least remembers to protect their charge, so good for her. Sasuke holds the Chain Brothers off until Kakashi off-handedly takes them out for good, with a well-timed "Yo." Kakashi's awesome. Naruto immediately stresses on not doing anything, and gets a 'scaredy cat' from Sasuke. Our orange-clad shinobi is so wound up over this. The attack on Tazuna by evil ninja triggers Kakashi's ninja sense, and he smells a rat in Tazuna. Tazuna apparently lied his funny-looking hat off to get a cheap rated mission. Kakashi contemplates cashing in his chips and going home, but it's stopped by [i]Naruto ramming a knife into his own hand.[/i]
[i]Damn.[/i]
Our boy makes a for-real blood oath to see Tazuna home safely. Kakashi points out such things are all well and good, but bleeding to death helps nobody. It's okay, though, since apparently Naruto has a healing factor thanks to the Demon Fox. Elsewhere, a short man with glasses and awful hair berates his ninja mercs for botching the job, though a ninja with an egregiously large sword puts a stop to it: Zabuza Momochi, Demon of the Hidden Mists.
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