The Path's We Make

Chapter 6

After working with the team for over a month now, Team 13 was finally given a mission. Daiki was pretty disappointed that it was only a D rank mission, until (Y/n)-Sensei told him that it was normal for genin teams to only receive D rank missions at the start. He was still upset, but at least he wasn't verbally complaining anymore.
The four of them were all quietly crouched either in the bushes or in the trees, each wearing ear pieces in order to communicate. "(Y/n)-Sensei, I see the target." Chihiro quietly spoke through the ear piece. "Good, do you hear that Shouta. Are you in place?" (Y/n) asked quietly. "Of course." he scoffed, making (Y/n) roll her eyes.
"Don't worry, I got'em." Daiki whisper yelled, rustling soon heard after his statement. "Daiki, no! You stay put, you have a chance to get him if Shouta doesn't!" (Y/n) said into the ear piece. Shouta clicked his tongue. "Like that would happen. I'm going after the target." he said, more rustling heard after. (Y/n) quietly face palmed then moved from her position, knowing full well what was going to happen.
Daiki had his tongue stuck out in concentration as he slowly moved toward the target, smirking slightly when he saw movement ahead of him. Shouta, coming from the other side, slowly moved toward the target as well. In a small clearing, the target sat, seemingly doing nothing. With a shout, Daiki and Shouta lunged from their places towards the target.
The target jumped from the loud shouts and ran off, causing the boys to run smack into each other. "Watch where you're going!" Daiki yelled at Shouta. Shouta just rubbed his sore cheek as he glared at Daiki. "Says you." "If you weren't in my way, I would have had'em!" Daiki yelled again. Shouta only rolled his eyes.
Both of their attention was taken as Chihiro suddenly stood from the bushes at their side, holding the target in her arms. "You two..." (Y/n)-Sensei growled, suddenly appearing behind them. The two slowly turned towards her in fear. She raised both of her fists and punched them across the heads. Both boys grabbed their heads and whined in pain as (Y/n) slowly made her way to Chihiro, a small smile on her face. "Well done Chihiro, you figured out what these two idiots were up to and quickly changed positions, putting you in the perfect spot to capture the target." (Y/n)-Sensei said as she ruffled the girls hair.
Chihiro smiled shyly, her cheeks going pink as she hugged the target tighter to her chest. "Th-Thank you (Y/n)-Sensei." she said quietly. Daiki watched her with a dazed smile, a small blush on his face. "She's so cute." he mumbled quietly, but was unheard by Shouta, who glared at him again.
Shouta lunged at the brunet and attacked him again. (Y/n) sighed as she pinched the bridge of her nose. "Boys!" she yelled, both boys stopping immediately. She sighed again as she took the target from Chihiro, grabbing it by the scruff. "After all these years though, I can't believe you're still alive." she said as she looked at the cat, who hissed at her in return. (Y/n) rolled her eyes again. "Sorry big fellow, but you don't scare me anymore." she said with a small smirk as she placed him the carrier.
She took in a big breath then started walking, Chihiro right behind her. "Come on boys, we have to take this cat back to the village and return him, then we'll hand in our report and possibly get another mission." she said.
Daiki perked up as he pushed Shouta off of him, running after the two girls. "Will we get a better mission? Like an A rank!" he exclaimed when he caught up to them. Shouta scoffed as he stood up and followed after them. "I already told you Daiki, A ranks are for jonin level ninja only." she said with a sigh.
Daiki pouted as he rested his hands behind his head. He glanced over at Chihiro, who was holding her arm to her chest. "Are you okay Chihiro?" he asked as he took a step closer to her. Chihiro looked up at him then back at her arm. "The cat scratched me a little when I caught him. But its nothing." she said as she looked back at him, giving him a small smile. Daiki blushed slightly then dug into his pants pocket, pulling out a band aid. "Here! Let me make it better!" he exclaimed as he took the wrapper off. Chihiro blushed slightly at his outburst, then held her arm out to him, showing him the three, small red lines on her arm.
Daiki stuck his tongue out in concentration again as he gently placed the band aid on her arm. He smiled wide at her arm then at Chihiro. "There all done!" he exclaimed, causing Chihiro to giggle. His eyes widened as he came up with an idea. "Wait, not yet." he said. Both blonde's looked up at him then, Chihiro tilting her head to the side. "It needs a kiss to get better." Daiki said with a dorky smile, his cheeks flushing red again.
Shouta's eyes widened for a second before he stomped his way towards the two. Daiki took a hold of Chihiro's arm and slowly brought it closer to his face, his lips slightly puckered. Just as he was about to kiss the band aid on her arm, Shouta placed his hand on Daiki's face and shoved him away.
Daiki landed on the ground with a small thud. He rubbed his side as he looked up, watching Shouta kiss Chihiro's arm then glare at him. "Come on Chihiro, we don't want to keep that lady waiting." Shouta said as he took Chihiro's hand and quickly walked after their sensei. Daiki huffed as he stood up, mad that Shouta stole his chance like that.
(Y/n) sighed again, having heard the whole thing. She lightly shook her head so her students wouldn't notice. Young love, she thought as she rolled her eyes for the third time that day.

(Y/n) forced a fake smile as she handed the carrier with the cat inside to the crying lady. The lady took the carrier and held it close to her, crying her eyes out as she thanked the team that rescued her cat before handing (Y/n) the small coin pouch and left. (Y/n) let out the breath she was hold as she slouched.
"That poor cat, no wonder it ran away." Daiki said as he held his hands behind his head. "Again, ran away again. We've been searching and 'rescuing' this damn cat since I was a genin, probably even longer." (Y/n) said as she ran her hand through her hair. "Alright, you three go ahead and get lunch, I'm going to put in the report. I'll tell you later if we have another mission." she said as she headed for the mission desk.
As she left, she could hear the three talk about where they should eat. Daiki wanted to get dango, probably because he knows Chihiro loves dango. While Shouta said they needed a more healthy lunch if they wanted to become great ninja. (Y/n) couldn't see them, but she could tell that Chihiro was looking between the boys, getting prepared to stop them from fighting if it were to start. She let out another sigh then chuckled to herself. "Aw, to be young again." she reminisced as she walked into the mission room.