As Tayuya laid down she started thinking back to how her new life began...
Almost 2 years ago she had been assigned a mission to help her leader destroy this village. After he failed and was escorted home, he seemed to have given up on living.
A few weeks went by before a new mission was given to her and her teammates: Escort my vessel to me. If you fail you die!
During the escort mission two leaf shinobi identified to be Jounin level attempted to ambush them and failed miserably. What followed however was unexpected.
Low level nobodies approached them mid escort demanding thier friend back, an impossible option so one by one they took them on while still trying thier damndest to finish thier mission.
She felt as her first two comrades died shortly apart, she realized time was up. Her last teammate vanished along with another of the attackers, then almost out of nowhere an elder long thought immobile member of her team arived and took over her mission after saying that they were too late before vanishing.
The last two of the attackers started to engage her but one of them went straight past to follow the new target. After almost beating the remaining attacker a new face appeared.
Next thing she knew she had awoken in an interrogation chamber being questioned by a man with a scarred face who was surrounded by masked figures. After many responses close to "fuck you" A deal was made: Refuge in exchange for information.
The Hokage ordered she be kept prisoner after receiving the desired information citing that a certain part of her information was confirmed before a decision could be made on the "refugee's" case.
A few days later she was crutched into the Hokage's office where a familiar blond haired kid wearing the most ridiculous outfit was standing clearly impatient. The Hokage spoke: In light of your testimonies I grant you honorary citizenship, however this young man will be training with you for an upcoming mission.
After a few minutes of bickering the two we're silenced by a loud thump from Tsunade who ordered them to get the hell out of her office before she gave them a reason to complain.
A few weeks of training went by with some missions here and there before a pink haired girl approached them.
Sakura approached them and struck Naruto followed by her screaming: Why did you lie about Sasuke he could never betray us, why... The crimson ninja picked her up by her throat:
You speak of your traitorous boyfriend as if he was worth the effort and from what I've noticed these past weeks you've been treating your present teammate like shit, scum like you...
A hand grabbed her arm she looked over to see it was Naruto Not quite the normal boy she had become used to but a red eyed one radiating with chakra who simply said: Let. GO.
She lost her grip and turned to the pink haired girl, then Naruto almost back to normal looked at Sakura and told her to never mention "that bastards" name in his presence again.
The rest of their time training went by rather fast until the day came... Naruto, Tayuya, Shikamaru, and Kakashi we're gathered in the Hokage's office after much awkward staring the briefing began: This is an A-class mission that may escalate depending on what exactly transpires, with that said this is to remain an assassination mission no other casualties allowed.
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She continued: The targets are Orochimaru, Kabuto, and... Sasuke Uchiha. They are to be executed. Any other casualties may result in Konoha declaring all four of you missing-nin. They nodded and took off.
Once they we're well over half way to thier destination they set up camp, no fire was lit as an attempt to remain hidden in the dark. Kakashi and Naruto took shifts as lookouts.
At the first sign of sunlight Naruto made a clone and prepped his Rasengan, everyone was awoken by his chakra as planned and he used it to stir up enough dirt to remove any sign that anyone had been there the previous night as instructed by Kakashi and Shikamaru. Hours later they arrived just outside sound villages border. Shikamaru and Kakashi looked at Tayuya, this is where she got to prove her worth.
Okay shitheads match my movements and no alarm will go off! They set off matching her with slight delay step for step until they reached the entrance she turned to them and informed them of the expected :
Remember what the old bat said? The moment we enter all hell will break lose so try to remain hidden and if you don't want to fail our mission stay as hidden as best you can.
As if he was ignoring her Naruto charged foward, swiftly halted by Shikamaru's Shadow possesion Jutsu: Idiot are you deaf or trying to die? Before we go running in like morons it'd be wise to
assess the threat and take a stealth formation. After all we aren't even supposed to give them a chance to fight back, Kakashi put his hand over Shikamaru's mouth as Tayuya knocked out a
patrolling ninja that was coming within range, she stripped the sound-nin and tossed the outfit to Shikamaru. You've got your key. If you Keep it quiet and discreat they'll likely not notice..
aside from our targets.
Shikamaru slipped the outfit on over his it was a little big but fit well enough, he nodded to the others and marched in. Kakashi made a few handsigns nodded to them then vanished from sight.
Lastly Tayuya and Naruto got next to eachother and proceeded with operation distraction: Tayuya used her recently altered curse seal and lesson from the Pervy-Senin to channel the chakra of thecurse mark rather then letting it feed on her as she eased herself to level one. Then Naruto grinned as Marks appeared along the sides of his face and his eyes turned red.
Time to bring hell to them, we might not be allowed to kill them but there's nothing against knocking these fuckers around. As she finished speaking sound-nin started dashing out of the opening of Orochimaru's base and running up from behind. Within minutes the duo had nearly one hundred unconsious ninja around them but then the attacks stopped as a white haired man exited clapping.
The bandages lay loose around his head, from the smell of rot and decay Naruto knew in an instant that it was Orochimaru. He screamed as more of kyuubi's power fueled him suddenly Tayuya hit him in the back of the head knocking him out. Orochimaru eyed her then started chuckling, she approached him then Orochimaru felt it. He was caught in Shikamaru's shadow possesion Jutsu.
As he broke free a fist was sent through his head followed by a barrage of attacks destroying his body. The mutilated corpse fell to the ground, suddenly the ground exploded as the Snake Sannin jumped out of the ground holding Shikamaru by the neck. He glared at Tayuya and stated: You do realize thats my cursed chakra flowing through you and I can kill you with a simple thought?
She smiled as she entered level two and growled: lets see you try. Naruto grabbed him from behind as the unconscious Naruto disappeared in a puff of smoke. Then multiple clones appeared holding Rasengan' He smiled and took it, he didn't bother making a move to dodge any of the Rasengan' as they hit him and tore his body apart. Both the blond-nin and crimson-nin were surprised by his actions, Orochimaru's body was destroyed as his head still spoke his final words: I'd rather die here than be taken back by the Akatski... the last syllable dragged out as he seemingly died.
Kakashi appeared next to them carrying what appeared to be Sasuke's remains.
The team returned to Konoha, they all looked up at the entrance feeling like it had been months since they left, Kakashi excused himself while the other three reported to the Hokage's office.
After hearing all of their reports regarding the mission Tsunade let out a heavy sigh.
Almost as if on cue there was a swirl of leaves as the scarecrow appeared in the Hokage's office. Sorry I was delivering remains to the Anbu did I miss anything?
Tsunade narrowed her eyes but to some surprise just let Kakashi know that was all he was free to go. Tsunade stood up and approached the three. By the reports You've all given you broke the one limitation I made damn sure was known regarding the mission! Her voice increasing in anger: However any injuries sustained by the other nin should be minor enough and with their leaders gone...
she paused to sigh again I suppose the sound village might reform from those that remain and if they don't they'll likely disperse either way it's unlikely they'll be apt to start a fights with any village for the time being.
A few days later an Anbu interrupted Tayuya during a stroll, he handed her a paper and disappeared, the redhead quickly read the note and pocketed it.
-What do you want old bat?
Watch your tongue! Shizune urged.
"It's alright I expect no less from our friend here,"
Now then on with our business, It's been considered due to the knowledge and assistance you've given us as well as your skill set that you may become a Chunin of our village, However you shall be spending your first weeks keeping tabs on Kakashi.
His mental state is in question due to his increasingly erratic behavior and his questionable decision of not properly disposing of the nuke-nin;s corpse as he should have done at the scene.
The crimson-nin was caught off guard by this but regaurdless nodded and walked out of the office.
Nearly a year later and the agreement still ached her head almost as bad as her curse mark does every couple of days, It was a stroke of genius to over power Orochimaru's chakra in the curse mark with the Kyuubi's However she's grown to hate the decision more and more as time went by.
A/N This section has remained since the first draft back in late 2015. Unfortunately this means that it's mostly unchanged since then and only kinda helps lay the foundation for the story. As well as give me a reflection point when I need a bit to think about how to continue.
