The bug has bitten me again. Enjoy.
Konoha Training Ground Seven, Four O'Clock
It was a mild day, and fairly quiet for Training Ground Seven. Though not technically alive, the trees that were the Shodai Hokage's legacy were, shall we say, at least somewhat aware? Being used and abused as they had for the past fifty years, they appreciated the off days. Though they couldn't quite figure out just why it was an off day. For sitting in the clearing were three... Students would be the best word, if trees had words. Genin might even be appropriate, except for the fact they hadn't passed their Jounin-sensei's test. For now, they merely were. And the trees appreciated that they had been quite and kind, if a bit odd.
Curses. If the trees could, the storm would be here. Striding lazily into the clearing was a man they recognized insofar as a tree could tell the difference between a human male and a shrubbery. Known to his pupils as Kakashi the late, he was nevertheless known to the trees as Kakashi the Tree Murderer. Had they been capable of shuddering, they would have. Instead, they waited. And glared, insofar as a tree could, which to tell the truth wasn't actually very much.
Kakashi himself was looking frazzled and tired. That morning he had, in all good intention, intended on only being several hours late and arriving just after lunch. Instead, he had missed nearly the entire day. Were an enterprising young sapling listening, they might here the words "Fucking Iruka," coming from his lips. But alas, there were no saplings here. So Kakashi continued into the clearing. What he found there was enough to turn his hair white, had it not already been light grey in the first place.
Sitting in the center of the clearing was a... a car. Kakashi had once served on a long term mission to the far west of the elemental countries, in a land that had no ninja, but people they called Knights and the like. There, instead of using horses and carts, they rode around in steam powered contraptions called Cars. And these cars often were marked with wild paintschemes, and bars of symbols on their front.
This car, however, was all black, and far smoother and looked a lot less likely to fall apart at any given moment then the car's Kakashi had seen. Instead of the symbol plate on the front, a Konoha Hitaiate adorned that position.
"That's gotta be a henge," he muttered under his breath, and lifted his Hitaiate. As the fine lines of the Sharingan enhanced vision overlayed with his normal sight, he frowned. It was definitely a car. And then he saw it, whatever it was, staring back. A whooshing noise of some sort, rythmic and steady repeated itself as some strange red light folded in on itself and out again. Were this not a car in front of him, Kakashi might have thought the light to be a Sharingan Eye, continually spinning. Instead, he put it out of his mind and kept looking for his students.
To the left of the car sat someone he could only assume was Haruno Sakura. Pink hair? check. Green eyes? check, brown furry animal of some sort sitting on shoulder..... wait.
As Kakashi's cognitive functions caught up with the rest of his senses, he looked the girl over once again. Curled up against a tree, he could hear light snores coming from her. The small furry thing that curled against her neck he could ignore he supposed, however the bright crimson leotard and the strangely modified Hitaiate.... Well Kakashi supposed he could ignore those too. However, it was the lyrical instrument that lay next to her that really set Kakashi's senses off. While strange and not in any familiar design, Kakashi finally picked it out as a Chakra powered Guitar. A variant of chakra blades designed for ex ninja turned performers, it was a rare and valuable artifact. What the girl was doing with it was probably none of Kakashi's business, though he wondered what practical use it could have on a mission.
"Well at least you're here. My other two charges of which there is no sign," Kakashi muttered, failing to see neither hide nor hair of Naruto.
"Naruto is in the tree to your left, sleeping on a hammock," said a voice that Kakashi recognized as Sasuke's. However scanning the clearing, he saw no hint of the thirteen year old genin. And that Whoosh, whooshing from the car was getting on his nerves. Kakashi kept looking. Then his gaze came back to the car.
"Too much sake, that's all it is. I'm just hallucinating," Kakashi said. The red light of the car Whooshed at him. "There's no way that car is Sasuke."
"Oh, it's likelier then you think," said the car. "What I get for trying to copy the Dobe's fucking transformation jutsu. He doesn't know the first thing about transformation, and now I'm stuck like this."
Kakashi massauged his forehead.
"So you're a car then? Hows that working out for you?" Kakashi asked, giving the dream a chance.
"Rather well, actually. The part of me that was a brooding emo bastard is sitting behind several firewalls at the moment," the car said. And then it emitted a noise that sounded like several thousand moose in choir. There was a flurry of movement from above Kakashi before Naruto swung down a harness of some sort out of the canopy of the large tree. Kakashi twitched as the glaring lack of orange made it self known, and the dimminutive trickster started to say something that sounded suspiciously like 'The trees ar-'.
"AAH! Don't talk. We've got an hour left, so all you you just attack me and get it over with. You take the fucking bells and you're genin for good, you don't and you get to go back to the academy for another year, DO YOU HEAR ME?" Kakashi yelled. He never yelled, lazy arse that he was, and indeed he thought he might be coming down with something. Case of terminal pissed offedness.
Of course, Kakashi would regret his words in three... two... on- A harpoon lanced through the space where Kakashi had been, then reeled back to the black sedan, which raced off through the forest at blinding speeds. As Kakashi jumped from tree to tree staying ahead of the manic contraption, he almost missed as a blast of green energy sang forth from Sakura's... guitar. As loud riffs shook the air, she caught his eye and winked, winked damnit!
"LET'S GO tsukinukeyou ze
yume de mita yoake e
mada mada tooi kedo
MAYBE dou ni ka naru no sa
ai ga areba itsu datte,"
Sakura sang, firing bolts of greenish white energy that made Kakashi want to abandon his mission and dance for some reason. Fortunately that thought made him think of Mighto Gai, and if anything, Kakashi had resolved to never be anything like Mighto Gai. Instead, he fired off a high powered Katon at the car, enough to melt even the finest steel. The car raced through unscathed, and fired off some form of yellow beam. Kakashi kawamiried out of the way.
"ore no uta wo kikeba
kantan na koto sa
futatsu no HA-TO wo KUROSU saseru nante"
There was no sign of Naruto, where the hell was Naruto? Kakashi didn't have time to ponder as a dozen green arrows bolted past him. Atop a tree to his left stood Naruto, crazy looking Bow in hand. He smirked and knocked another two arrows.
"yozora wo kakeru LOVE HEART
moeru omoi wo nosete
kanashimi to nikushimi wo uchiotoshite yuke
omae no mune ni mo LOVE HEART
massugu uketomete destiny
nan-oku-kousen no kanata e mo
totsugeki LOVE HEART!"
Sakura continued to fire multi hued beams of energy at him, and then the last Uchiha automobile did something odd and fired itself upwards at him, jumpting like no collection of metal and plastics should. It nearly piled over him if not for the timely intervention of a lightning bolt. Kakashi panted, and shuishinned back to the clearing. The sound of crunching trees as the Last Uchiha Automobile raced towards him was nothing compared to the rock music coming from Sakura.
Someone tapped Kakashi on the shoulder, and he turned. Naruto stood grinning sheepishly astride an entire forest of trees. Trees with faces, arms, and legs. Trees that looked very angry right now.
"I tried to tell you sensei, but the trees really don't like you, dattebeyo!"
This was followed by even more crunching, though it was not trees breaking for once. And Kakashi? Well he would wake up in two days under the tender mercies of one of the Konoha doctors. He would find a letter on his bed addressed to him with no signier.
It said
C rank Mission, escort duty
But this was not the part that scared Kakashi. No, it was the 'Estimated time for mission: Three weeks.
Kakashi shivered in his bed.
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Well this was a little odd one, and not really cracky that much. I'm not so good at combat, so I apoligize if it's lackluster. Dialogue too, bleh.
Anyways, while Sasuke should be obvious, the others less so.
Sasuke: KITT (from Knight Rider)
Sakura: Mylene Jenius (from Macross Seven)
Naruto: Ambush Commander (Magic the Gathering elf, turns trees animate)