Sighing Naruto created a Kage Bunshin that began rearranging the stacks of paperwork on her desk, "You've mixed up the stacks for mission scrolls and all the paperwork is in the wrong order. The first one on the left is where all papers on internal issues within Konoha go, the next one is for external issues like alliances and the third one is anything that the council gives you."
Tsunade blinked in a dumb manner as she watched the younger blonde's clone organizing her papers, "How do you know all of that gaki?"
Naruto shrugged, "I would often spend several hours a day here when I was younger, hanging out with Ojisan. When I had started announcing that it was my dream to be Hokage he let me help him file papers and what not. I was even allowed to pick out missions for teams on occasion."
"Right…" Tsunade watched the clone finish its work and go up in a puff of smoke, "So what can I do for you?"
"I was actually hoping to get a mission from you."
"You're very fortunate then," Tsunade smirked. "We have a surplus of missions available due to the state of our village after the invasion. Hold on a sec while I find you a suitable one."
Naruto watched as Tsunade rummaged through a few piles before finding one she seemed to like and tossed it to him, "You are the escort the Kazekage's children back to Suna and give the Sunagakure council the new terms for our alliance. You will be staying there until they sign the terms before returning. Any questions?"
"Nope, I think I'm good. So where do I meet them?" Naruto pocketed the scroll.
"We've actually given them a hotel room until I could find someone to be their escort," Tsunade wrote the directions on a sheet of paper and handed it to the blond. "Make sure you're all packed and ready to go, I want you to head out within the next hour."
Naruto gave Tsunade a two fingered salute, "I'll get right on that…by the way, Kage Bunshins really help take the work load off of paperwork."
Naruto left after that, letting his last sentence sink in. When it did Tsunade grinned, "I think I love that gaki."
She created a Kage Bunshin and had it start working on her paperwork. Meanwhile she grabbed a hidden bottle of sake and went over to the couch.
Temari flipped another page of the magazine she was reading as she sat on the couch. It had been about a week since she and her brothers were let out of jail and given a place to stay until they could be sent back to Suna. And in all honesty, she could not complain about being forced to stay there.
In the time they had been here she had finally managed to get closer to Gaara. After her and Kankurou's little brother had apologized she had been able to talk to him a lot more. Not that he really said anything, but he no longer threatened to kill her when she was near and listened as she talked. She was still a little wary of him, but her joy at finally having her youngest brother coming around overrode any fear she had from his previous psychotic disposition.
A knock at the door interrupted her reading and she looked over at her brothers. Kankurou was sitting on a chair a little ways away, tinkering with Karasu after he had been allowed to have it back. Gaara was sitting on the couch next to her, watching some kind of anime on the TV.
"Who's gonna get that?"
Kankurou grunted as he looked up, "Not me."
"I'll get it," Gaara stood up and made his way over to the door. He opened it up and blinked when he saw who it was, "Can I help you Uzumaki?"
The other snapped their heads over when they heard the name, remembering it from the Chunin exams.
Naruto grinned as he looked at Gaara, "How have you been Gaara?"
Gaara raised an eyebrow, the only sign of being surprised by the blonde's friendly disposition, "I have been fine Uzumaki…" he paused before remembering that it was polite to ask how someone was doing in return. "And how are you?"
"Oh you know same old same old. I can't really complain." Naruto looked over at the other two. "I'm actually here because baa-chan's given me the mission to escort you back to Suna."
"Really?" Temari asked as she walked towards the pair, "I'm surprised it took so long for her to send us back. She's been here for a week."
Naruto shrugged, "I guess she was busy doing other things, though I didn't really ask her. Anyways, how long will it be before you guys can get ready?"
"It should only take a few minutes," Temari said. Naruto nodded as Kankurou and Temari grabbed their scrolls and other equipment before he led them outside.
As he and the now former Kazekage's children made their way to the west gate the two gatekeepers, who Naruto noticed were the two who had henge'd themselves into younger versions of themselves during the Chunin exams, grinned. Walking up to them Naruto revealed his missions scroll to the pair, "Chunin Uzumaki Naruto with a mission to escort the Sabaku siblings back to Sunagakure."
Kamizuki Izumo, a man wearing standard Chunin garb, had brown hair with one bang hanging over his face and a bandana style head band, nodded as he marked the group down on the ledger he had next to him. Meanwhile Hagane Kotetsu, who was also wearing the Chunin get up but had spiky black hair, a goatee and a bandage over his nose grinned, "Well if it isn't the kid who almost cleaned out the entire Chunin Exams! How've yeah been?"
"And you're the pair who had used those poorly disguised Henges at the beginning of the exam to bar entrance to those who couldn't see past a genjutsu." Naruto grinned as the two looked a bit sheepish, "I've been good. Now that I've got my week long break over with from my mission with Ero-sennin I decided to get my groove back on."
"Ero-sennin?" Kotetsu questioned as he handed the missions scroll back.
"Yeah, you know Jiraiya. Big man, white hair, kabuki clothes, carries a large scroll around on his back." Naruto shrugged, "Ero-sennin."
The two gate guards looked at each other before shaking their heads, "Kid you must have balls of steel to be calling one of our most powerful ninja by such a name."
"Oh come on! The guy's a self-proclaimed 'super pervert' so of course he's going to get a name that's appropriate for him. Just like Tsunade's an old woman who hides behind a henge, therefore, her name is baa-chan."
The gate guards plus the Kazekage's children behind Naruto minus Gaara, sweatdropped at hearing the blond call two of the most powerful ninja Konoha had ever produced by such derogatory names. "I take that back kid, your balls must be made out of some kind of titanium to be saying stuff like that," Kotetsu shook his head. "Man if Tsunade-sama heard you call her by that."
"Who's to say she hasn't," Naruto grinned before leaving with the Sabaku siblings.
As the group walked away the two Chunin watched the blond go. Izumo shook his head before chuckling, "Well with his reputation I suppose we shouldn't have expected anything less."
Kotetsu nodded as he grinned, "And now that we've seen what he's made of I have no doubt the kid will go far."
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