

According to Narutopedia, Kakashi did 42 S-rank missions, while Minato did 39
of them. Itachi only did 1 for some reason. Many of the other jonins probably
did S-rank missions too. Do we get to see or at least know about any of these
missions?

Note: Naruto and Sasuke have done 0 official S-rank missions (although it's
fair to say that they've done harder things in their lives).


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Do we ever get to see any official S-rank missions in action (Naruto series)?


From the Wikia itself

> S-rank - assigned to experienced jōnin and concern state-level confidential
> matters. Examples are assassinating VIPs, and transporting highly classified
> documents. The reward for an S-rank mission is more than a million ryō.
>
> "S-rank" is also a designation given to extremely powerful missing-nin,
> earning them a place in their village of origin's Bingo Book. The
> organisation Akatsuki was stated to be comprised mostly of S-rank criminals.

Keeping this in mind we can list down plenty of missions undertaken which
would've been classed as S-Rank. Thus off the top of my head the following
missions should've been S-Rank even if explicitly not told so.

  * Retrieval of Gaara: Clearly a S-Rank mission with Team Kakashi and Team Guy taking on Akatsuki members Diedera and Sasori

  * The hunt for unnamed Akatsuki - Hidan and Kakuzu. Several squads of capable Jonin and Chunin were chosen for this S-Rank (not mentioned explicitly) 

> This mission led to death of a Senior Jonin Asuma.

  * Hunt of Hidan and Kakuzu: Shikamaru's planned mission to kill Hidan and Kakuzu. Not official, but Tsunade allowed Kakashi to go along.

  * The hunt for Sasuke: Nearly all the original 12 Genin, kakashi, Yamato etc. hunt for Sasuke. Sasuke is a S-Rank missing Nin, even if Leaf doesn't consider it. Again not explicit.

Edit: - Interception of Akatsuki spy may have been S-Rank, but I feel it would
most probably be a A-rank. Even though they fought Orochimaru \- The
unofficial S-Rank mission given by Kakashi to Shikamaru, Naruto and Sakura
(With Pakkun): Follow Sasuke and Stop the Sand Genins. Might've been A-Ranked.
Pardon my memory. Putting in the Edit box for now.

Wiki also adds,

> These missions are exclusively assigned to highly skilled jōnin or large
> squads of ninja This is true for almost all these missions.

Source: [Narutopedia's link on S-Rank](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/S-rank)


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