After getting... Sidetracked, an emergency hits!

"Oh... yeah, that sounds nice," Anko said. "Shall I pop into my lamp for you to keep me in your back pocket for whatever mission you go on?" she suggested.

Naruto nodded, and Anko dissolved into mist, and filtered into the scroll Naruto had stored the lamp in. He then walked over to Hinata, and kissed her, before saying, "I better get going."

Hinata nodded, and said, "I love you, Master. Hope you're not gone too long..." He chuckled, before exiting the apartment.

Naruto moved through the streets to meet up with Kakashi and Sakura to get their first mission since he got back, when he noticed a rather familiar sight. That being a white haired man staring through the gaps in a fence of the female bathhouse. Naruto face palmed and groaned. "Damn it, Pervy Sage, can't you control yourself even a little bit?" he grumbled to himself, before he paused, and a slow, evil grin crept across his face.

He crept up behind Jiraiya, making the hand seals for the Transformation Jutsu, and with a puff of smoke, was replaced in terms of appearance.

"Hehehe, such lovely beauties for my research!" Jiraiya was laughing his ass off as he continued to peep at the unsuspecting girls.

"Ahem... Oh, Jiraiiiiyaaaaaa~!" a familiar, female voice stated behind the pervert. He stiffened, sweating heavily as he slowly turned his head to look behind himself, the color draining from his face.

"Oh, erm, hey, Tsunade!" he stammered out, and tried to back away.

Naruto, Transformed into Tsunade, grinned evilly as he grabbed Jiraiya by the vest. He knew that if Jiraiya bothered to check with his sensory jutsus, he could determine that "Tsunade" was actually Naruto, but he was too busy being scared shitless to do so. "Just what... do you think you are doing~?" he asked, putting just enough sickly sweetness into his tone to really sell it.

"Oh, erm, I was just... uh..." Jiraiya sweat bullets as he tried desperately to try to figure out a defense for being caught peeking.

Naruto let Jiraiya sweat for several seconds, before suddenly grinning, and undoing the Jutsu, returning to himself and laughing his ass off while laughing his ass off. "Hahahaha! I got you! You should see your face!"

Jiraiya blinked, processing the fact that he wasn't about to get beaten to within an inch of his life, before he scowled, and crossed his arms. "You little shit! Were you trying to to give this poor old man a heart attack?"

"Please, we both know you wouldn't die that easily. The world's not that kind to the females of it," Naruto snorted.

Jiraiya grumbled as he crossed his arms. "Seriously, impersonating Tsunade to screw with me? That's pure evil, brat... she almost killed me once, you know," he grumbled.

"...let me guess, you peeped on her, and she went after you for it?" Naruto deadpanned.

Jiraiya threw up his hands in frustration. "I didn't know she was in that particular bathhouse until it was too late!" he grumbled.

Naruto sniggered. "Serves you right..." WHAM! Jiraiya smacked Naruto upside the head in irritation. Worth it.

...

"So nice of you to finally show up, Kakashi," Tsunade remarked dryly as Team 7 walked into her office.

"Sorry about that. I encounted an **** villager on my way here, and had to help him find his way home," Kakashi gave his usual routine of lying about why he was late to things that weren't TOO important.

"LIAR!!!" Sakura and Naruto shouted at him at once. He didn't even react. He was just that shameless about his bullshit.

Naruto grumbled as he crossed his arms. "You see what we have to deal with on a daily basis?" he asked Tsunade.

"Well, given Kakashi's general tardiness, most of the missions are already taken. We do have a C Rank available to make a delivery to a nearby town, but that's the best we got for your team," Tsunade told Team 7.

"Hell no! You have GOT to have something better than that!" Naruto protested in a rather petulant manner.

Tsunade looked rather irritated. "Brat, do you have any idea who you are speaking to like that?" she asked with a subtle threat to kick his ass laced in her tone.

Before Naruto could be an idiot and argue with the Hokage, Sakura grabbed him in a chokehold, internally panicking, as, having been Tsunade's student for the past few years, had firsthand experience with just how fucking scary she could be when she wanted to. "So sorry, Milady! Naruto's just overexcited to get back to active duty, and doesn't want to start with a whimper! I'll speak with him later!" she quickly said, giving Naruto a bonk on the head as a "subtle" warning to shut the fuck up before he got himself in trouble.

Tsunade huffed, before pulling out the mission form. "Here are the details, and-" she started to say, before the door was suddenly thrown open.

"Lady Hokage, we have urgent news from Sunagakure!" the shinobi who had burst in shouted.

Tsunade looked up in irritation. "With how rudely you just burst into my office, it better be something along the lines of the Kazekage being kidnapped!" she snapped. There was an awkward pause, and the shinobi grimaced. "...I was kidding..." Tsunade said slowly.

"...Milady, that is the exact situation. It was the Akatsuki," the shinobi confirmed.

Naruto's eyes widened. Gaara had been captured!? With a sigh, Tsunade retracted the mission slip she had been about to give Kakashi. "Team 7, I hereby amend your mission! Go to the Sand Village, and work with them in recovering their leader!"

Naruto gave a confident smile. He'd been preparing for the Akatsuki for the past few years, he wasn't about to fail now!