"Yeah, haha... another mission, finally!" shouted Naruto, "Hope, this time we get to fight a real, and tough opponents!"
Team 7 has started the escort mission, of escorting Shibuki, current leader of Takigakure Village, safely. Once Kakashi accepted the mission, he picked Sakura from the Medical Department, and Naruto and Sasuke from training ground 3. This mission was sudden for Kakashi as well, who himself was looking for C-rank missions for Team 7, but he is also okay with the mission, and accepted it.
"Naruto, why do you even want that a mission includes a strong enemy," said Sakura, "Tazuna lied about the mission difficulty, but this one is really going to be a simple C-rank mission, which didn't include any strong opponents."
"But I want to fight a real ninja, I have been training for some time now, I want to check how far I reached." replied Naruto, clenching his fists, an excited smirk on his face.
"Yeah, I too want to see how strong I have become after graduation." nodded Sasuke, crackling small lightning on his finger tips.
"HEY! WHY DO YOU WANT STRONG ENEMIES TO BE IN OUR TRAVEL?" shouted Shibuki, clearly startled upon hearing the conversation of Team 7, and looked at Kakashi. "Hey, Jōnin Kakashi, why is your team wishes more danger to happen in our mission."
Kakashi, who has already from the start, covered his right eye, and having his left Sharingan eye, with Three-Tomoe spining in them in use, smiles at him, waves his hand and said, "Don't bother by them, they both are little crack."
"HUH! CRACK?" yelled Naruto, looked at Kakashi with wide glaring eyes. "Kakashi-sensei, are you saying I am an idiot?"
Sasuke however didn't take it, did not respond either, and glanced at Naruto, and muttered, "...Idiot..."
Naruto's ears chimed up, Sasuke's words didn't missed his hearing, he glared at Sasuke and said, "Hey, Kakashi-sensei has called both of us idiot. Why are you not affected by it, and you are the idiot, I am not the idiot!"
Sasuke smirked, crossed his arms over his chest and again scoffed, "...Idiot..."
"YOU—" Naruto yelled, both continued to bickering, which Kakashi simply ignored, while Shibuki was getting a little annoyed at them.
Sakura walked to Kakashi's side and asked, "Sensei, how long would it take us to reach Takigakure Village?"
"If we speed it up, then reaching in 2-3 days like Land of Waves wouldn't be difficult." replied Kakashi and added, "But we will just take our time and reach in 5-6 days."
Shibuki hearing this didn't interjected anything, despite his personal wish of reaching Takigakure as early as possible, since Kakashi has already talked it out with Hiruzen and Shibuki before, about pacing.
Sakura nodded, hearing the reply, and all continued there journey to the North-west of the Land of Fire. Meanwhile, Kakashi contemplated about this mission.
'Takigakure, I don't remember any mission Team 7 done in canon there, plus it's team 7, that we are talking about, even a simple looking mission is secretly one of dangerous mission.'
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Not long later, the group were on the forest path, moving at a slow pace, through the large tree's along the way. Naruto continued to fidget, and looked around at the group, only he was the one who felt uncomfortable about moving silently.
"Hey, so, Shibuki, you are a leader of a Village, right?" asked Naruto, trying to strike up the conversation.
Shibuki responded with a small nod.
"So, does that mean you are a Kage of Takigakure? Are you really that strong?" asked Naruto, a hint of genuine curiosity in his tone, Sakura and Sasuke also looked at Shibuki curiously.
"Kage? If he were a Kage level Shinobi, would he even need a Genin team for safely escorting him back to Land of Waterfall?" scoffed Kakashi, who answered this instinctively, even before Shibuki could say anything.
"HEY, WHAT DI—" Shibuki retorted but his words struck in his throat, immediately jumped behind Sakura in fear, Kakashi's Red Sharingan Eye, and even his normal stare alone was enough to intimidate Shibuki.
"Hey, why did you suddenly hide behind Sakura-chan?" asked Naruto, looking at Shibuki with doubting gazes, Sasuke however just snorted.
Sakura also asked, "Shibuki-san, why are hiding, Kakashi-sensei wouldn't do anything to you, unless you are at fault."
"Why have you already using this crimson eye?" Shibuki mumbled, but the team heard him clearly. Shibuki, as a leader of the Village, easily knows quite a lot about many information, and about Kakashi too, so he didn't question of why Kakashi has a dōjutsu.
"See, as I said, he can't be a Kage, he even scared of such a small thing." Kakashi shrugged, though he was also confused of why Shibuki is so easily frightened by small things. 'Seriously, what's the matter with him, from my anime knowledge, I do remember something about Shibuki and he definitely wasn't this frightened like now.'
Kakashi mused, 'Maybe.. it's what they call... the Butterfly effect, this whole mission might be caused by the Butterfly effect.'
His thoughts once again wandered on Takigakure and he thought, 'The things about Takigakure, which I know from anime are, one is that mint hair-colored, tan girl, named Fuu, is the Jinchūriki of Chomei, the lucky number seven, the Seven-Tails.'
'And another is that, the missing-nin in Akatsuki, who threw a Kunai at Hashirama, and ran away, then proclaimed himself to fight toe-to-toe against Hashirama, was also from Takigakure, Kakuzu was his name.'
Even though as a small nation, Land of Waterfall, and a small hidden Village, Takigakure, they actually produced a Kage level ninja, in the form of Kakuza. And if they were to nurture Fuu properly, told about why she has been kept away from others, maybe... just maybe, only and most friendly Tailed Beast, Chomei would become her friend, she might have already become a perfect Jinchūriki in anime.
'They are from what I know about Takigakure from anime, then there are other information, that I know about it, from Kakashi's memories.' thought Kakashi.
'Hisen, who was killed a few years back, the previous leader of Village, and that Takigakure has a thing called Hero Water, which increases anyone's power to a Kage level ninja...' Kakashi scoffed internally and thought, 'Haa, like that can be real, otherwise every great nation would have sent many squads to Takigakure, and Danzō wouldn't be the one to left behind, though it also true that finding the entrance of Takigakure for outsiders is also close to impossible.'
However, aside from these, the most confusing thing for Kakashi is, how this coward Shibuki, even reach Konoha safely without any guards?
This even makes him sure that Holy Water is just a made up thing by Takigakure, maybe they also use this to gain a Tailed Beast for themselves as well, since Konoha refuses to give one to Sunagakure, who secretly has One-Tail's, Shukaku, even before Hashirama has collected the remaining eight.
Otherwise considering that Holy Water is truly a real and powerful thing, Shibuki, who has been without any guards, would have been kidnapped long ago, once he stepped outside the Takigakure.