Chapter 1: A new ally.

Haaa, today is a beautiful day, Naruto thought to himself. Just resting with some ramen, watching the clouds. Nothing could ruin this…

'Hey, Naruto! Get off your lazy bud!' Well, almost nothing.

'What is it?' Naruto asked.

It was Sakura, looking gorgeous as ever.

'You have to go to Tsunade, she has a mission for you.'

'Do I have to?'

'Yes, you have to! She said it is important.'

'Really?! Wait, this isn't another D ranked mission, is it?'

'I already said it was important. Now go, before I punch you there.'

He sighted. 'so much for my day off…'

In less than 5 minutes, he arrived at the office of Tsunade.

'A Naruto, your finally here,' Tsunade said.

'Yup, what's this 'important' mission you have for me?'

'Well, there is this thief who has stolen something from our client, it is a ancient sword that belonged to the Hyugaa family. Your job is to get the sword back and capture or kill the culprit who has stolen this sword. his mission is clacefied as an A-mission. '

'Huh? A-mission? Why is it a A-mission?'

'Because the thief has killed anyone who attempted to take the blade.'

'Then why are you letting me do such a dangerous mission?'

'For two reasons. 1, you will be getting help from an experienced Chuunin

2, because the thief has the Byakugan. You have experience fighting the Byakugan.'

He toughed back of his battle with Neji, but that was quite a while ago.

'That's all I need to now, where's my partner?' answered Naruto with a grin.

'He is at the front gate.'

'Ok, I'm off'

'One more thing Naruto.'

'What?'

'Please be very careful' she said with a serious face.

'Don't worry, you know me, right?'

'That's why I'm saying it.'

'Wauw, thanks a lot.' Naruto went into the direction of the gate. After some walking he finally arrived at the front gate.

'Your late,' a young man said to him.

'Are you my partner?' Naruto asked.

'Yes, that's right. The name is Treb, a pleasure to meet you mister?'

'Naruto' he quickly responded. 'My name is Naruto Uzumaki, and I wanna be Hokage some day. Believe it!'

'Okaay, good for you.'

Naruto took a closer look at his partner. He had silver hair and grey eyes, a pretty muscular build and was wearing a gray training uniform. He also had an extraordinary face. Luckily Sakura or Ino aren't around, or they would definitely have intrest for this guy.

'Hmm? Is there something on my face?' Treb asked.

'Oh no, it's nothing.' Naruto said with a grin. 'So, how do we find this guy?'

'He was last spotted 12 degrees east from here, we will start there.'

Okay Naruto, one shot. Don't let him think you're a joke.

Part 2

This guy is a joke, Treb thought to himself. First of all, he's wearing an orange jump-suit. Wow, that's incredibly stealthy. And second, he's just a genin. I do an A-ranked mission and what kind of partner do I get? A genin! Genin's aren't even supposed to do A-rank missions in the first place! Well, at least he got spirit. And when Tsunade approves him, he can't be that bad. But the question is: will that be enough? I don't want to let another ninja be slaughtered by that, that…

'So, why have you taken this mission?' Naruto suddenly asked.

'Long story,' Treb responded. He stopped in the middle of the road, they where surrounded by threes on the left and right side. 'Ok, let's stop here.'

'Huh, why?'

'We must know each others fighting stile and Jutsus, so that we can cooperate better. Now, wit that said…'

Treb took a fighting position 'show me what you got!'

Naruto grinned widely 'now you're talking! Alright, I'll show you, Shadow clone jutsu!'

As those words where spoken, naruto made 20 clones of himself in an instant.

'Shadow clones. And real ones too. It looks like I shall actually have some trouble.'

All the shadow clones ran at high speed in Treb's direction. Instead of responding to the attack, he raised his hand and let water well up from the ground. When the shadow clones reached him, he quickly kicked some water up and made a icy blade out of it. One the moment that they would collide, , he ran right through the group of clones, with the sound of his blade swooping. 5 feet away from the group, al the shadow clones disappeared, but with no trace of the original one. Where is he? When he realized the location of his foe, he quickly looked up to the sky. There, Naruto was already throwing a few shurikens at him. He easily blocked al of them with his blade. 'Not bad Naruto, but now it's my turn to go offensive.'

Treb raised his hand and let water flow up from the ground. When there was a small pool of water underneath him, he let the water rise up. As the water levitated in front of him, he let the water become razor sharp ice needles. 'Crystal ice needles Jutsu'. The needles where launched at Naruto with dazzling speed. 'Shimata…' he said with a slight fear. He quickly jumpt away. The needles passed him but by a small margin, and went right through the three behind Naruto. And the one after that, and after that,…

'Are you trying to kill me?!' Naruto shouted.

'Hmmm, I haven't really decided yet…' he grinned.

'Great, a guy with humor.'

Naruto made another shadow clone, and let him rotate a small chakra ball in his hand. Eventually the chakra ball was about the size of Naruto's head. So this is the famous Rasengan, Treb thought to himself.

Naruto then ran in the direction of Treb, attempting to hit him with the Rasengan full force. Treb made in respond a giant ice shield in front of him. It was about 30 cm thick. Naruto stormed right at the icy wall, hitting it with the full power of his Rasengan. The ice wall was shattered into a thousand pieces of rock. Treb smiled, as he let the icy rocks fall on Naruto. Naruto dogged all of them, just barely. After he dogged all the ice rocks, he looked back up to Treb, only to find that he had thrown his ice sword at him. Naruto tried to dodge it, but was too late. The sword got stuck in his clothing and pinned him to a three. Treb made his approach to Naruto and pulled the blade out of the three. As Naruto fell to the ground, he said: 'Pretty high speed and strength, nice jutsu's, but a lack of strategies. I give you an 7 out of 10'

'Wow, you really now your stuff. I will enjoy working with you!' Naruto said.

'You will be an excellent help, now let's continue our search.'

'There is no need for that.' A figure said from the shadows of the forest.

'Who is there? Show yourself!' Treb said to the shadow.

'My, my. Have you already forgotten me, my old friend? I am the one you have been searching for. The so called 'thief,'' Said the figure as he emerged from the shadows. Naruto and Treb looked at him, he was tall and had dark long hair. His eyes showed sign of the byakugan. The blade he spoke of was in his hand. It was a beautiful blade, decorated with golden runes.

'Sorry, how rude of me to not tell my name to your friend. My name is Hituri, it's a pleasure.

But I'm afraid that I have to take care off you and your little friend. I grow tired of your pathetic attempts to stop me. It is time for your demise.'

For a moment they just standed there. Looking at their foe, waiting for whom to make the first move. Eventually Naruto made the first move. He made about a dozen of shadow clones. Treb, in response, used his water jutsu to give them all an icy sword. The clones rushed Hituri, trying to beat him with the sheer power of numbers. But Hituri just blocked al the swords and stabbed down all the clones.

'If that's all you got then I'm more than disappointed.'

He's strong, Naruto thought. He hasn't even begun fighting seriously and already I'm having trouble.

He looked at Treb, but he was already busy performing an jutsu. It was his Crystal Ice Needle jutsu, only now there where a lot more. 'Crystal ice needle barrage.'

The Ice needles where launched toward Hituri. There was no way he could dodge all of them. When the needles where about to pierce him, he just rotated, making a chakra barrier around him. 'Palm rotation!' All the ice needles where crushed at the moment they made contact with the barrier.

The barrier soon faded, leaving Hituri untouched. 'Are you finished? Good, then it's my turn.'

He moved at unnatural speed in Treb direction, attacking him with his sword. Treb dodged most of the attacks, but one scratch was inflicted upon him by the blade. Treb jumped back, to notice the small wound that was on his shoulder. Hituri smiled. 'you do now what this means, right?'

Treb looked with a horrid face to the wound, then quickly screamed to Naruto: 'Naruto! Kill me! He can control my blood with the special powers of the blade! Thus my body!'

'But I-I can't… kill you.' Naruto said with a shocked voice.

'Just do it! Before this guy decides that I kill you!'

'An excellent proposal,' Hituri laughed.

Against his will, Treb runs at Naruto and stared punching him. Naruto was hit blow after blow, unable to do anything. 'Please… Naruto, finish me.' Treb hit Naruto with a powerful punch, letting him fly back for several meters. Naruto made a shadow clone when he was down and let the shadow clone make a Rasengan in his hand. Treb was already running towards him with an ice blade in his hand. Naruto was paralyzed, unable to use his Rasengan.

'Just do it!' Treb screamed when he was almost in front of him.

'Rasengan!'

Naruto's Rasengan hits Treb fully in the chest. Treb was sent hurling, was stopped by a three and lay there, not moving.

Hituri grinned widely. 'bravo, not only did you beat him, but you also managed to keep him alive. However, now that your alone, how are you going to stop me? You are way weaker then Treb, and I have swatted him like a fly countless times.' His grin became even wider 'If you beg me, I will end you and his pathetic life painlessly. A decent offer, don't you agree?'

'Shut up…' Naruto responded.

Naruto slowly get back up. 'For all the people you have murder, for all the suffering you have caused. I will beat you!'

For a second, Hituri was surprised, but then his grin came back. 'So, you have chosen dead? Just for those weaklings I have slaughtered and that pathetic emotion you call 'justice.' For crying out loud… how pitiful…'

Naruto exploded into a rage, he recklessly ran into Hituri's direction. Hituri threw his sword away and waited for Naruto to come to him. Naruto wildly threw his strongest punches at him. But Hiruti dodged them all easily. Eventually he grabbed Naruto's fist and hit him fully in the face with his foot. Naruto was sent flying and came down hard on the ground. But he simply came back up, slowly, but he came back up. In a response to this, Hituri ran at him an punched him repeatedly. The punches went over into palms. Not the 64 palm techniek again.

He then kicked him again sending him flying again. He landed down next to Treb, noticing that Treb was counsius again. 'You… Must… Stop… Him…' he said. Naruto looked back up to his foe. And let a shadow clone make another Rasengan in his hand. But when the Rasengan was finished, he fell down the ground out off tiredness.

Hituri was slowly making his approach. He already picked his blade back up on his way towards them. Treb looked up to him, he immediately noticed it. 'What a shame. This boy has what you lack and now you finally understand what it takes to beat me, you will die.' He stopped in front of Treb and raised his blade under his chin. 'Any last words?'

'Yeah.'

It was at that moment that Hituri noticed that Naruto's Rasengan didn't vanish when he fell down, but was now in Treb's hand.

'Screw you.'

Treb jumped up very fast, and hit the Rasengan fully in Hituri's face. Hituri screamed as his face was pulverized, then he was blown away with brutal force.

As Hituri's remains fell too the ground, so did Treb.

'It's finally over,' he whispered.

He slowly lost his consciousness.

Treb waked up from a deep slumber. Still drowsy, he tried to get up. But he had too much pain in his chest to get up. He inspected where he was.

Apparently, he was in a hospital. Naruto was grinning widely, He was sitting on a chair right next to him. 'So, you finally waked up?'

'How long was I out?' Treb asked.

'About 3 days, I think I hit you a little bit too hard with the Rasengan. Luckily Tsunade fixed you up, or else you would be in a coma.'

Another person entered the room, it was Tsunade. 'You are healing very well, but you should avoid any hard work for now. Oh yes, I've put the sword you where looking for in that corner.' Tsunade pointed at the sword in the corner. 'with that said, I'm back to work.'

'Oh yes, that reminds me,' Treb said. 'Naruto, could you please check your mail? Your payment for completing the mission should be in it by now.'

'Huh? What about your payment?' Naruto asked with a frown.

'Well, it's pretty hard to get a reward if you asked for the mission yourself.'

'What? So you where the client all along?'

'Yes, I've asked Tsunade to give me someone strong to aid me in the quest to stop Hituri, the monster that had destroyed my life.'

'Destroyed your life? Care to share?'

'Sure, about 5 years ago, I was part of the hyugaa clan. I was one off the most respected fighters from the main branch. Life was good, until one day, an evil force developed within my soul. Don't ask me how that happened, it just did.

I quickly developed a jutsu to get this evil out of me. That's how Hituri came to be. Too bad I was too weak to stop him. He killed his way trough the hyugaa clan's houses, and stole that sword you know so well. After he escaped, I was banned from the village, until I would find the sword back and kill my evil side. And that's pretty much it.'

'So, you're going to return to your clan?'

Treb laughed loud. 'Hell no! After those bastards send me away? I wouldn't even return if they begged me, although that would be nice. As for the sword, I'll be keeping that.'

The twosome stood there and talked for a while, the Naruto leaved Treb to rest.

As Naruto left the room, Treb thanked Naruto silently. Thank you, for showing me what true power is. I always toughed that being strong revolved around hard training and learning. But you have shown me true power. And that is fighting to protect someone. For that, I am in debt to you, he silently toughed.