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  It was early m. The Sun had only broken through the horizon a short time ago.

  The sounds of ons g could be heard throughout the forest. Sasuke and Daichi were engaged in a spar at their usual meeting pce. They were battling each other and measuring each other's improvements. The spar had been going on for a couple hours.

  Daichi tilted his body to the side and evaded the fast punch Sasuke sent his way. He then ducked under a high kid sent a leg sweep trying to unbahe Uchiha. Sasuke jumped bad immediately threw several shuriken at Daichi.

  The boy took a kunai and deflected all the ons and then immediately jumped away from where he was standing.

  Several shuriken came from the bad nded on the spot the sed.

  Daichi stood on a thick tree brand smiled at Sasuke. "I see yed the whole pce with traps. Not bad. But it's a shame it won't work on me."

  Sasuke just smirked and made a hand seal. The sed Daichi was engulfed in a small explosion.

  Even as Sasuke stood there vigint, he was uo sehe kunai at the back of his netil it was too te. Sensing his defeat the young Uchiha just grunted.

  "You've gotten a lot better. Your speed, rea time and teiques have certainly improved." Daichi said as he put the on ba his pouch.

  Sasuke turned around to look at his sparring partner. "I could say the same about you. It feels like I'm taking 1 step forward and you're taking 10."

  Daichi went under a tree and sat down. "You'll catch up. The way you're improving, you'll be able to match me soon. You're already head and shoulders above the rest of the css."

  "They don't matter. I don't care about them. If I o reach my goal then I'll have to go at the pace yoing. The only way I'll get stronger and stronger is if I fight stronger oppos. Like you." The young Uchiha said.

  "You know it's not just about physical strength. They could be a great asset if you let them." Daichi wanted Sasuke to form bonds with his peers. He wao see if he could turn the Uchiha away from the future that's written.

  Sasuke smirked and looked at Daichi. "Have you ever asked for their help when you needed something?"

  Daichi just sighed and remained silent. 'This is going to be a lot harder than I initially thought. Time to ge the topic.'

  Daichi asked a question that's been on his mind for a while. "How goes your progress with awakening your Sharingan?"

  Sasuke soured upon hearing that question. "I tried to trol my emotions, meditation, interaining… Nothing. I haven't awakened my eyes yet. It's so frustrating."

  Daichi just nodded.

  "So how's being a Genin?" Sasuke suddenly asked.

  "Not bad. I'm just starting out so the missions assigo me are easy ones."

  "What about your teammates? Are they any good?" Sasuke wao know who Daichi artnered up with.

  "Actually it's just me and Sensei. We're a special two man Genin team."

  "What? Is that even a thing?" Sasuke had never heard of anything like that and he was uandably surprised.

  Daichi just shrugged and replied. "My skills were above them by a rge margin. And it would have caused an imbance. So it was decided that I would be part of a 2 man Genin team. Me and my sensei."

  Sasuke just nodded after hearing that. Daichi then looked at the position of the sun and realized it was time to meet his teacher. Bidding farewell to Sasuke, Daichi left the pce.

  —-

  Kakashi and his student slowly made their way to the Hokage tower. They were on their way to get the mission. As they walked Daichi asked his teacher something that's been b him sihe survival test.

  "Hey Sensei. When I asked why you made me gh the survival exam, you said the reason was Orochimaru. But that still doesn't expin a lot of things…"

  Kakashi took his eyes off his book and looked at Daichi.

  Seeing Kakashi's silence, Daichi's suspi grew. "It's not the whole truth is it? What exactly does it mean when you said I caught Orochimaru's attention. What do you know?"

  Kakashi looked at his student from the er of his eyes. After a few seds of silence he replied. "The intelligence suggests that at the moment Orochimaru is only mildly curious about you. Most probably because of your association with his former teammate Lady Tsunade. So he might send one of his people after you. But the Hokage didn't want to take any ces and it was decided that you o prepare in the eventuality that the man would e for you himself. If I'm going to train you then I need a full uanding of your skills and abilities. I knew you would only show your true strength if I pushed you hard enough. It's why I ducted su exam."

  Daichi thought about it and nodded his head. 'Kakashi tested me on all fronts. Taijutsu, Ninjutsu, Genjutsu, Evasion teiques, tactical intelligend bat capabilities. And he forced me to go all out. And since he now has a solid uanding of my strength I'm pretty sure the Hokage does too.'

  Daichi thought about everything that's happened i few years. 'The attack of the Root. The old man's frequent trips and now this. Kensei has been going out a lot tely and he's more on edge these days. Something's going on. There's a storm brewing and I have a feeling this is just the calm before it hits.'

  "You don't o look so tense. Like I said to you before. I'll be here." Kakashi reassured his student.

  Daiodded with a small smile. They both made the rest of the journey in silend soon reached the mission desk.

  "It's a D rank mission. Your task is to find the missi. You will meet the owner here at this address. The missioails are in the scroll." The in at the desk had a scroll for them.

  Kakashi took the scroll and looked at its tents while Daichi went through the new quest he received.

  [Quest created - Retrieve the missing Dog ]

  [Your t's pet has gone missing. Find arieve the dog and successfully plete the mission. Time limit. 3hrs.]

  [ditions:]

  Find the Pet Dog aurn it to the t before the time runs out.

  [Rewards:]

  3000 Exp.

  Reputation increases with your t.

  [Failure:]

  Reputation decreases with your t, Hokage and Kakashi Hatake.

  No missions for a while.

  [Accept] Y/N

  Daichi accepted the quest and along with his teacher headed out to meet their t. They soon reached a modest home and saw a young woman waiting for them he gate.

  "Are you guys the Genin team I requested?" The woman asked them.

  "Yes ma'am." Kakashi replied with a nod.

  "Hello. My name is Emika. I was going to take my pet dog Bakura to get his vae today but it seems he ran away. He be a bit stubborn sometimes." The young woman said with a smile.

  Kakashi didn't speak and decided to let Daichi hahe mission.

  The fresh Genin began asking about the dog, its identifyiures and its habits.

  "He's half Inuzuka breed. So he's a lot smarter and strohan the average dog. They gave him up for adoption and I took him in when he was just a small pup. Now he's almost 9 yrs old and half your size." The woman gave Daichi several pictures of the dog and told him of the Bakura's favorite pces.

  "Please bring him ba 3 hours. The vet ic closes at that time and I won't be able to get another appoi for a few weeks."

  Daiodded to the woman's request and took the needed information.

  After receiving the necessary information Daichi looked around the house. He saw several footprints of a Dog and memorized their distinctive shape. He also got a piece of Bakura's favorite clothing and took a whiff.

  Daichi took one whiff and grimaced. 'Ugg! I 't believe I'm doing this… But at least I now know what his st is.'

  "So sensei, you gonna help me out or just gonhat book?"

  "It's your show. Let's see what you got."

  Daiodded and looked around the house for a bit. As he observed the pce he saart of the fence broken. Daichi took a closer look. He saw fresh K9 footprints leading outside the fence.

  "Looks like we got tracks. And it's headed into the hills." Daichi said to his sensei.

  "Dogs smell a st from miles away and the senses of an Inuzuka dog are even sharper than that." Kakashi reminded his student.

  "I know." With that Daichi made several seals.

  Kakashi reized the simple jutsu. 'A st masking jutsu. Good.'

  Daichi also suppressed his chakra and both of them began trag the K9 through its footprint. Daichi used his evolved sense skills Absolute Smell and Acute Hearing in tandem. Blog out the unnecessary sensory input Daichi focused on the one he wanted. Several seds ter he had his target's general location.

  'Gotcha.'

  Daichi followed the st he picked up and along with the footprint slowly made his way to their target. Daioticed something along the path.

  'There are several cw marks orees. And they appear to be fresh and they're almost the same size as the Dogs.'

  Daichi and Kakashi quietly made their way through the forest and about 40 mier came upon a clearing near a small stream. They saw a dog with the same features as the one described by Emika sleeping on a pile of leaves.

  'Well that was easy.'

  The sed Daichi had this thought, Bakura opes eyes and looked at the two ninja.

  Daichi, Kakashi and the K9 stayed still with Daichi having a staring test with his mission target. Several seds of sileer he saw the animal slowly get up on all fours.

  "Don't you do it." Daichi said, looking at the dog. Daichi reized intelligen its eyes.

  The jaws of the dog widened as if he was smirking.

  Daichi frowned and slowly raised his hands. "Here boy. I got some tasty treats for you. Just e here."

  The dog tilted its head and looked at the small human. It te's leg muscles as if preparing to run.

  "Don't you dare. I'm in no mood for a chase." Daichi also said, prepared to run and quickly catch the target. He looked at Bakura's and saw the taunting expression on its face.

  her of them moved a muscle until,

  "Achoo!"

  Kakashi let out a loud sneeze which startled Daichi and Bakura took this split sed to run away. Birds hidden in the forest were g and flying all around the pd leaves were falling from the tall trees.

  "What the hell sensei?" The young Genin looked at his teacher with a gobsmacked expression.

  "Ooops. My bad. I sneezed because the suspense was killihe Jonin said with a sheepish chuckle.

  Daichi looked at his teacher with a dumbfounded expression for a few seds before he shook his head a after his prey. 'No way I'm gon a mutt escape me.'

  The Inuzuka dog was fast. It jumped through branches and dove through bushes with great agility. But Daichi was faster. He was catg up to the dog and he hadn't used any skills to increase his speed.

  Just as Daichi was within arms length of reag Bakura, it showed its defiand let out a stream of fresh golden piss directly aimed at Daichi's face.

  The boy's eyes wide the ining stream and he immediately ged dires. He avoided the urine and nded on another branch but due to the force of his momentum it snapped causing the boy to fall.

  Daichi quickly used chakra strings to steady himself and safely nd on the ground. He looked at the K9 fleeing through the forest and had a twit his eyes.

  'Alright no more Mr. Nice guy.' Daichi directed chakra through his limbs and the moment, he disappeared from his spot.

  Bakura let out a bark or joy a moving forward.

  "Pst. It's time you go baika."

  It didn't even sense Daichi above until it heard the words. The sed it was lifted off the ground and held in mid air. The K9 wiggled with all its might but it was useless.

  Daichi held his target with chakra strings and suspended him in mid air.

  "Well doime to return him to the t." Kakashi said, nding behind his student.

  Daiodded and both of them made their way back. They soon reached their t's home and hahe dog back to the woman.

  "Ohh. I'm so happy you're back. Don't go running off like that again. Yonna make mommy so sad." Emika said to her pet with a sad expression.

  The dog whined and licked her face, making the woman giggle.

  "Thank you fing him ba such a short time. Now I'll be able to make my appoi." Emika thahe team and gave them the mission pletion slip.

  [Quest 'Retrieve the missing Dog' pleted.]

  [Rewards:]

  [3000 Exp.]

  [450 Exp.]

  [Reputation increases with your t.]

  With another D Rank mission well done Kakashi and Daichi returo the tower to collect their mission pay.