"Yeah! When will we be ready?"

"Like I said. But you've got work to do now, so you'd better hop to."

"Ugh. Where're we going anyways? Don't know the name."

"Part of being ready for real missions is learning how to do reconnaissance. I'll see you there." Kakashi disappears in a puff of leaves.

"Argh. Do you guys know where it is? Or how to find it?" he asks his team.

"We could go to the source and ask whoever is handing out the missions. Which is at the Hokage Tower, I think."

"That's smart! And yeah, hopefully they'll accept 'our jounin-sensei's a jerk' for why we don't know..."

"'Our jounin-sensei wants us to do to reconnaissance and figure it out ourselves.' Might even make him look good."

"So he gets to be a jerk and sound good?"

"Best to get on his good side? At least until we've learned as much as we can from him."

"Yeah. Good point."

"Think the Hokage will be happy to see us?"

"Probably! The old man likes me, I think."

"At least he has one thing going for him."

"Aren't you the one always telling me to be polite?"

"Only when people can hear you."

"Never assume no one can hear you in a ninja village."

She looks down at her wolfdog.

"Do you hear anything, Inazuma? Any big, bad, ninja eavesdroppers?"

They walk over to Sasuke lazily and nudge him with their snout softly.

Leery glance. Also he is not an eavesdropper. If they forgot he was here that's their fault.

But he does glance around - and doesn't see anyone. Of course, he grew up assuming his family was tracking his every move, so...

"Sasuke isn't going to tattle on me. That's just not team-ly."

Of course he won't. Does he even look like someone who likes the Hokage.

Externally, he rolls his eyes.

She smiles at him and then looks between him and Naruto.

"To the Hokage Tower then? I promise I'll keep my treasonous thoughts to myself."

"Yeah! Onwards!" he declares, bouncing.

Sasuke hums and follows.