Naruto: The ANBU Years

Chapter 1-The Assembly

The story begins with a young shinobi of the Leaf village having breakfast at his favorite noodle shop, he was sixteen years of age was just been appointed to ANBU rank in his village the day before. This young shinobi was Naruto Uzumaki of the legendary Uzumaki Clan, descendent of the Senju Clan and son of the late Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki. His bloodlines are as historic as the village itself but he never paid any attention to that. He was well known to ignore his lineage and it didn't sit well with a lot of the villagers who thought being born from the bloodlines he was born came with certain responsibilities to uphold. People just thought he should do and act and think a certain way in comparison to what everyone knew of his family and clans but he was always the by the beat of his own drum type. Even a lot of other shinobi both older and some of his classmates thought of him to be wild and rather unpredictable, somewhat of a rebel…never did things the right way sorta guy, as almost as he would purposely do things that went against protocol. This type of behavior would normally be not allowed as far as the military aspect of the village goes but the thing was that Naruto is very good at what he does. He has had some training from some very strong shinobi…shinobi the likes of Kakashi Hatake, Jiraiya, and for some time his mother when she started teaching him when he was only six although she died when Naruto was eight years old.

Because Naruto never had a chance to know his father and because of those three people that was training him became very close to him and he has lost them all Naruto became the rebel he was known to be, people thought he really didn't care about others when actually people had no idea exactly how much he did care…he was fearful of losing someone else close to him but he had a funny way of showing so people misunderstood him all the time. He lost them all at a time of war first beginning with his mother, then Kakashi, then Jiraiya. It had been three years since Jiraiya's death and not a day goes by that he doesn't think of them all and he often thought he was cursed for some reason and not allowed to have anyone precious to him in life.

There were times when Naruto would be very happy and full of life and laughter as that was how Naruto was for the most part as a kid but then there were times when he would be distant from others. He would only relationships with others to only go so far no matter who that person was…

He sat there eating and in deep thought when he was interrupted by a voice…

"Naruto Uzumaki." Naruto heard.

"Yeah what do you want Torune?" he replied as he recognized who the voice belonged too.

It was Torune Aburame of the Aburame Clan and body guard of the Hokage…

"Sir Hokage requests an audience with you and the other newly appointed ANBU in thirty minutes, something has just come up." Torune answered

"Oh great." Naruto thought too himself in disappointment…"Now I have to cancel my training I had planned for the day"

As his deed was done as appointed to him by the Hokage Torune disappeared to go tend to the other tasks he had been given. Naruto finished up what was left of his food and took his time walking towards the Hokage Mansion for the meeting he was requested to be in attendance of. Walking towards his destination he crossed paths with one of his former ninja academy instructors, "Hi Iruka-sensei…wish I could stay and chat but there is somewhere that I gotta be." Naruto said walking by him in a very dull tone.

"Okay Naruto, but one of these days we have to sit and have some ramen together and catch up." Iruka said.

Naruto just kept his pace walking straight ahead and almost seemingly not acknowledging what was just said too him. He just raised his hand back at Iruka signaling that he heard what he said but he didn't say anything back.

"Oh Naruto it's a shame how cut off you've become, but I guess its to be expected judging by what you have been through…just wish you would let someone help you go through it." Iruka said to himself.

Finally reaching his destination Naruto turned the door knob and walked in. He entered the room to see the other newly appointed ANBU blackops shinobi and the recently chosen Hokage.

Amongst the new ANBU group was Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, Shikamaru Nara, Sakura Haruno, Ino Yamanaka and Neji Hyuuga. And sitting behind the Hokages desk was Danzo, the recent sixth Hokage. He was just recently chosen for the seat of Hokage due to the death of Tsunade. She died fighting for the village when it was invaded by an enemy village…Danzo was the best choice due to his vast knowledge of war tactics and experience and someone of his expertise was needed since that invasion was looked at by the village council as an act of war on the Leaf village. No one but Danzo quite fit the criteria of what was needed at that time for the situation the Leaf village had just came into.

"Thank you all for coming on such short notice, as you all have been made aware I have chosen you four to be in my specialty ANBU blackops group. This group was hand picked by me because of your unique fighting skills and techniques…you all have the high mission completion percentages and you all have strong backgrounds from the Leaf village. Usually the ANBU only runs in four man units but this group is different, usually the units are put together based on what type of assignment is needed. Sometimes the ANBU are needed for more than just assassination missions and that's why this group is special, you have been put together because collectively you six have so much versatility that you fit every mission type ranging from seek and capture, protect and serve, observation and Intel to assassination. So since we have been put into a state of war your overall success in the roles I have put you into will be vital to the village." Danzo explained.

"What do you mean by the roles you have put us in?" Naruto interrupted.

"Please allow me to explain…when you six are deployed on your missions all six of you will go together all the time but there will be a primary unit and the secondary unit. The primary unit is the unit that will take the lead while the secondary unit always stays back a bit but comes in at designed opportunities to give the group the strategic advantage during every mission. This formula will give the group the highest chance of succeeding in every mission. The primary unit will be Naruto, Neji, Sasuke…you three together are very skill in combat both close ranged and long range…Neji and Sasuke because of the eye techniques you both have you both can see and detect chakra giving you the immediate advantage in close and long ranged combat and Naruto because of your chakra sensing techniques you will add to that advantage as well…you three can see the enemy from afar and it will be hard for the enemy to surprise attack you or corner you should they even get the chance to…the second unit of Shikamaru, Sakura and Ino will be able to add support in a number of ways giving the group an even bigger advantage…Ino because of your advanced chakra sensing you can pin point anything with great precision and you can use your clans specialties to establish a mental link between you and the rest of the group and so whatever and whenever you pin point a target the group will always know where to go and the group can relay info back and forth between one another without the use of verbal communication and on top of all that you have medical ninjutsu to aid. Sakura your specialty in genjutsu and medical ninjutsu as well will help out tremendously…and finally Shikamaru you are probably the most important piece of the group. You are highly intelligent and can devise advanced strategies on the fly and your good in combat as well, you will be the one who the group relays all of its found info back to so that you can strategize each move and so the groups success will depend of you the most in terms of carrying out the mission and so and designating you as team leader but of course all six of you have high IQs and you all have inputs to the group and im sure when your out there you six will find even better ways of using your abilities to support each other and complete the mission, but….you all must cooperate with one another and im sure if you do then I have no doubt you will serve this villages without fail…its war time and preparation and precision is the difference between life and death so make the village proud."