'Chihre?' Sabanthia asked immediately.

D-ranks are basically paid chores. You'll be fine. Unless you have the Catch Tora mission. Then fear for your life. And maybe find some eye protection.

Sabanthia glanced at her friends, and they nodded. "If that's what you're doing, we'll come along too."

Kakashi eye-smiled at them then walked off in the direction of Hokage tower. "Come along then, my cute little genin!"

And they were back in Hokage tower. Again, they were facing a desk with a person behind it.

"Ah, Kakashi. Come in for a D-rank?" The man behind the desk asked.

"Yes, I have some extra children joining me, so why don't we take the Catch Tora mission. If it's still available."

"It's available," he agreed.

Sabanthia paled. 'Chihre, how bad is this mission?'

Catching that stupid cat can take anywhere from 30 minutes, to 9 hours. And that cat is a demon worse than the Kyuubi.

'Yeah, I'm not going to ask," Sabanthia decided. She was startled out of her thinking by a gentle shove on her back. Raven smirked at her, pretty much pushing her out of the door.

"So, what does this mission entail?" Exodus asked, speaking up for the first time in a while.

"Catching Tora the cat," Naruto said, rubbing the back of his head. "Stupid cat scratched me up last time."

"I'll get it in a gravity jutsu this time," Sabanthia told him. "Fewer scratches suffered that way. What happened to the cat to make it so rabid anyway?"

"The Daimyo's wife smothers it," Sakura replied, shuddering. "Any creature would be rabid after that."

Raven frowned, then shrugged. "I'm not going to ask."

Raven can locate the cat with a location spell.

'Thank you Chihre, I am aware of that. Maybe if we split up.' Sabanthia sighed, glancing sideways at Kakashi.

He made some movements with his hands, almost like sign language. Chihre automatically translated for her. 'Should we split up? Can your Le Fay do locator spells?'

'Yes, Raven can do locator spells.' Sabanthia replied in the hand signs.

"Alright, my cute little genin. Why don't we split up? Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, you've done this mission before. Why don't you head off and search the south and east woods. I'll take the others and look in the north and west woods," Kakashi suggested mildly.

"Alright!" Naruto shouted. "We'll find the cat before you do, believe it!"

Raven, apparently having figured what this was about on her own, smirked at him. "If you say so."

Sasuke looked at Raven suspiciously but didn't comment.

"Come on!" Naruto shouted, dragging his teammates off.

Sabanthia snickered, watching the two be dragged off by their over-enthusiastic teammate.

Kakashi decided to bury his nose in his book.

"Locate, Tora the demon cat," Raven muttered. She frowned for a moment, concentrating, then her face cleared. "Tora is going to come across your actual Genin, Kakashi. We might want to nab her before she reaches them. If we want to do that, we're gonna have to hurry."

Sabanthia nodded to Raven, and the three darted off, not really caring whether Kakashi followed them or not.

They were greeted by Naruto getting his face and arms clawed off by the cat. Sabanthia, while attempting to not laugh, did the hand signs from earlier, and caught the cat in a gravity field, lifting it off of Naruto.

"Are you okay?" Raven asked, crouching down next to him.

Hey, Raven, you should be able to perform a healing jutsu easily.

'Thank you Chihre,' Sabanthia thought. 'She definitely didn't know that.'

Hmph.

Raven rolled her eyes at them. "Healing," she murmured. Her hands lit up green, and she passed her hands over Naruto's face and arms, healing them quickly. Not that they really needed the help, but it mostly gave an excuse for his quick healing.

Oh, this might be helpful, but you can't tell anyone you know this, it'll cause to many questions. Naruto is like a human crate for the kyuubi, who's a demon made of chakra. Hm, I wonder if we could convince him to be nice because we work with Emma. He should know her.

'It's a he?' Sabanthia wondered.

Yeah. Don't call Kurama an it, he'd get really mad.

'Kurama?'

His name. That's his name. Kyuubi mean nine-tails. It's like calling us no-tails.

'Makes sense, I suppose.' Sabanthia turned her attention back to the cat, moving it so no one got too close.

"Alright my cute little genin! Let's go turn the cat in," Kakashi said cheerfully.

"Don't you guys have like, a cat crate for when you get this mission?" Exodus wondered. "It seems like a smart idea."

"We didn't think of that," Kakashi admitted.

"Maybe they should just have that as a material that's available to be used on the mission," Sabanthia suggested, sighing. She moved the cat to a position hovering in front of her, and began to walk towards Hokage tower.

Arriving at Hokage tower, Sabanthia walked inside, holding the cat at arm's length. "Team 7 plus Sabanthia, Ravenna, and Exodus reporting back with Tora."

"That was quick," the chunin at the desk noted.

"We had some luck," Sakura admitted.

"And we managed to keep her captured. We caught her once and didn't have to catch her again," Raven said.

"Impressive," the Chunin allowed. "Someone fetch the daimyo's wife." Another chunin ran out of the room, and came back a moment later with a large lady who immediately took Tora from Sabanthia, and began choking the poor cat. Sabanthia winced.

Oh, so that's why that cat keeps running away. Makes sense.

'Poor cat. And poor genin that have to keep catching the cat.' Sabanthia glanced at the cat, then remembered the cat crate thing. "Oh, maybe it would be good to have a crate or something on hand for the Tora mission. There would be a lot fewer injuries, and if the cat remained in the crate, there would be fewer escapes and forced recaptures."

The chunin nodded. "Perhaps. I'll suggest it. Thank you."

Sabanthia nodded. Kakashi decided to speak up. "That's enough for today I think, I believe you have some things to do. You're dismissed."