Chapter: The journey starts

We had finally arrived in Konoha, of course Sensei Guy and Lee were already waiting there and pulled over us why we were so slow, and where our youth had gone.
// The strength of youth? .. They don't all have them anymore .. //, I thought and just sighed apologetically.
"But you weren't fair either," Tenten tried to defend,
"As soon as you had said it, you were already gone!", she crossed her arms and made a funny face, actually she had no desire to get into an argument and she really didn't need to justify herself.
"Anyway .." I started, and again they all looked at me in surprise,
// My goodness, do you always forget that I'm there O.o //, I asked myself to myself and then just looked over it.
"The strength of youth always counts!", Guy interjected and gave us his teeth flashing smile again.
"Still, we have to report to Tsunade, as Rin said there is still a lot to do," and he started walking, Lee at his side, he had made a note of everything again, Tenten in tow, and I trotted a little off the beaten track we chase him.
I was lost in thought when I was suddenly riveted by a lively blonde.
"Hey, take care man!" I hissed angrily, while I struggled to get up again and brushed the dirt off my clothes.
"I'm sorry - .." came from above, but he stopped when he saw me,
"Who are you?" He asked curiously, holding his face just a few inches in front of me.
"Me?, Rin Hazuki, but it doesn't matter, what are you just running around here headlessly ?!" I snapped at him, a little more sharply than I had wanted, but it had its effect, he stuttered, turned a little red and looked to the side, scratching the back of his head in embarrassment.
"I'm sorry, but I-" he started again, but this time it wasn't him who interrupted, but a piercing girl's voice,
"Naruto, where are you damned ?! Sensei Kakashi is not there yet, but that's typical for him, but I can't allow you to be late all the time, Sai is already waiting on the training ground!" A pink-haired girl came up to us, gesticulating wildly and with quick steps, she was pretty, admittedly, but a bit too dominant for my taste.
"S-sakura? .. Yes .. Yes, I'm coming on," said the blonde, I just thought I had heard his name, 'Naruto', and raised my hands in defense.
"Anyway," he said, turning back to me for a moment,
"I'm Naruto Uzumaki, I'm happy to meet you, and sorry that I ran over you, but I'm in a hurry," he held out his hand and just as I was about to take it, one should have manners, grabbed it Pink-haired his collar and dragged him along, looked at me briefly and nodded apologetically."We don't have time for that Naruto, stop it, the mission is not waiting for us!" With the said words, they had already disappeared from my field of vision.
// Naruto Uzumaki..that, yes that's the fox boy //, it came back to me and I had to smile a little, but then I looked around.
Sensei Guy and the others had already disappeared and I hurried to follow them.
A short time later I was standing in front of the seat of the Hokage and ran up the steps, in front of the door I took another short breath, and then knocked three times on the smooth, dark wood.
"Come in!" The voice rushed from inside me, and I stepped inside.
Sensei Guy, Lee and Tenten stood in front of the desk and looked over their shoulders expectantly.
"I was stopped," I said curtly, and introduced myself to it. Tsunade paid no attention to me and continued.
"... be that as it may, the description of the corpse fits, I had some documents sent to me in order to compare it, but there actually seems to be a connection between this murder and Kisame Hoshigake, the procedure is correct to a high percentage a, ... but once again we don't know where the Akatsuki are currently, nor whether they have been seen by anyone. Nevertheless ... I will of course send out search parties immediately, including ninja dogs, and I can think of who will be assigned to this mission "After all, there is no one better than him for this job," she folded her hands and briefly tilted her head back.
"You mean Kakashi Hatake," I interjected, and Tsunade looked at me for a long time.
"Yes, and since Guy also reported to me that you gave us this crucial hint, you will be a member of the troop, we can use your talent for combination well, and I can hear that you are making good progress in the Jo-Nin training, me I think I can hire you to do it .. ", she looked thoughtful, and I just nodded.
But then I frowned, "Kakashi has already been assigned to a mission, right? That boy ... Naruto Uzumaki just ran over me and that's when I noticed".
Tsunade looked at me for a long time again,
"You are right, you go with them Rin, you will then just form a team of four, that will not be so difficult ..", she rummaged in her drawer for a scroll.
"Here, please give this to Kakashi, when he reads it he will understand and there will be no more problems."
I picked up the scroll and walked quickly out of the room.
"So and now to you ..", I heard Tsunade say, she was probably distributing a new mission to the Guy team.
I skipped several steps and ran in the direction of the training ground.
"Well, Sai, try to keep Naruto going .. be careful Sakura, don't waste so much chakra for one hit!" I heard a man's voice from afar, as I got closer, I spotted a white-haired guy, in his early 30s.I approached him resolutely.
"Sensei Kakashi? I have been divided into 4 team members by Tsunade, she asked me to give you this scroll, she said everything else would be self-explanatory," I rattled down and held the scroll out to him.
Somewhat puzzled by my sudden appearance, he took the scroll and scanned it briefly, his mouth twisted under his mask, first into a short smile, then his expression turned serious.
"So so, ..", he just said and with a quiet 'puff' the scroll disappeared.
"What's your name?" he asked suddenly and got up.
"Rin Hazuki," I replied curtly. Kakashi nodded, and stopped warm-up, apparently to introduce myself.
He mentioned my name several times, and I learned that the dark-haired boy, Sai he called himself, had only recently been part of this team, Sakura and Naruto, had already formed a team with the renegade Sasuke.
The wind freshened up and tousled my hair, I blew it away from my face several times and finally tamed it with one hand. While I let all three check me out.
"We end the training with this, it is time for our mission anyway .. I hope that you Rin get along well, we will have to get used to each other on our journey," said Kakashi and everyone nodded.
Then we stocked up on the necessary provisions, money, and the usual equipment, had it checked by Kakashi and went to the city gate, which opened with a loud squeak and the creaking of the wood.
"All right, let's go!", Naruto shouted cockily and let his fist fly through the air, then he ran off too.
"Naruto! You are not the head of the team, come back!", Sakura shouted and stormed after him, Kakashi sighed, and Sai smiled briefly.
"Is he always like that?" I asked him as I ran next to him and fixed Naruto's back.
"Always," Sai replied and got faster, jumped, and disappeared into the treetops.
// Great, starts well //, I thought and I accelerated my pace too.
Into the forest of Konoha, wherever my path would lead, because I didn't know our current mission yet.
"Sensei Kakashi? What kind of mission is that we have to complete ?!", I took a run and jumped onto the branches of the tree, as we could move much faster, shortly afterwards I jumped next to Kakashi at regular intervals.
"Well, well ... the village elder from Kiri-gakure claims that there is supposed to be a dangerous monster in his village in a lake ... and we ... we'll take care of it now", he looked at me briefly and lifted it, embarrassed Shoulders.
"Please what? You are not serious Sensei ..?" I asked, but I was drowned out by Naruto's happy roar.
// Well, that can be cheerful //, I thought and kept charging forward.