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Sharingan was a legendary, independent assassin who was known for his ability with his bow and arrow. His eyes showed him more things at farther distances than anyone else's eyes would have. He could load, aim, and shoot arrows much faster than anyone else. He was the perfect long-range shooter, but his flaw lied in his inability to fight multiple people at short ranges. When his arrows ran out, which they rarely did, he could do nothing but run until back up came to assist him.

The council members could not afford any of their fighters to have flaws. If any of them did, they were assigned to a team member who balanced them out. That is why they decided that Sharingan should have a partner who specialized in short-range fighting. However, the only one they could find who balanced Sharingan had been labeled as a threat a long time ago and had been locked away.

"Sharingan," they said to him when he walked into the room to seek his next assignment. "We have decided to assign you to a partner."

"I don't need one," answered Sharingan. "I am doing perfectly fine on my own."

"You almost failed the last mission because you are too weak to face these things on your own," they said. "We will assign you to a partner whether or not you like it and you will keep a close eye on him."

"You mean you want me to be his baby-sitter," Sharingan growled. "I am not going to watch out for some newbie. He will only get in my way."

"His name is Kyuubi." They completely ignored what he had just said. "He will be your partner until further notice."

"I don't want a partner," Sharingan growled again.

"The most important part of having him as a partner, Sharingan, is that you remember your training."

This got Sharingan's attention. "My training?" he asked.

"Shoot anything that poses a threat to your mission." With that they waved their hands in a dismissing manner.

"Yes council," Sharingan bowed grudgingly as he left the room. He already had a bad feeling about this whole thing. Why should he be forced to take a newbie? Didn't they know that this newbie would only hold him back?

Sasuke growled angrily as he stalked down the hall to find his new partner. He did think it was kind of weird that the council had sent him towards the dungeon area where they kept all the people they deemed to be dangerous. Sasuke had never seen anyone leave that dungeon. Maybe his new partner was a guard of this dungeon.

When he arrived at the entrance to the dungeon he saw one of the guards fastening a blonde haired young boy's arms with some sort of metal exoskeleton that created claws at the tip of each finger. His new partner was wearing short light jean shorts that barely covered his butt and a fitted black jacket that covered whatever shirt was underneath. On his feet he was wearing black combat boots. If Sasuke hadn't already been told that this person was a boy, he would have thought that he was a girl. By what Sasuke could see through the clothes, the kid looked a little underweight for the job and his hands looked much too weak to do any hand-to-hand combat. He also had scars on his face that was probably due to some sort of carelessness in the dungeon.

"There," hissed the guard as he pushed the blonde haired boy away. "Now wait here for your partner to come."

"Come on," Sasuke growled before turning around and walking the other way. He could hear Naruto run after him before he saw the boy walking quietly beside him.

"Where are we going?" the boy asked quietly as they left the home base.

"We're going after our next target," Sasuke said as he threw the work-file back at the boy. He opened the file for a second before closing it.

"How are you going to fight them when we find them?"

"Oh my god," Sasuke sighed exasperatedly. "I can't believe I have to work with a newbie."

"I'm not a newbie," the boy said.

"Just because you worked down in the dungeons," growled Sasuke, "that does not mean that you have experience in the field."

"I don't know what you are talking about," said Naruto.

"Oh great," Sasuke sighed. "He's an idiot too."

"I'm not an idiot," growled Naruto.

"Clearly you are if you don't even know how to kill someone."

"Fine then," said Naruto. "I'll just stand by for this one and you can show me how you fight."

"Gladly," Sasuke growled before stalking away. Naruto turned and headed back the way they had just come from.

It didn't take long for Sasuke to find a suitable place on the roof of a tall building to shoot his new targets that were meeting in the building next to the one he was standing on. They were a group of five corrupt businessmen who each had several bodyguards surrounding them. Sasuke didn't care. With his skills with a bow he could just shoot right past the bodyguards and into the corrupt men's skulls.

After putting on his blood red mask, Sasuke slowly pulled out his first arrow and laced it into the bow. Holding his breath, he aimed and fired. The first shot hit with deadly accuracy, but it also gave away Sasuke's position so he would have to take out the other four before the bodyguards would be able to do anything to harm him. He reached back for another arrow only to find that he had no more. He cursed himself. He had been so worked up about having to have a new partner that he had forgotten to replace the arrows that he had used on his last mission. It was his first mistake and it could lead to his death.

When he looked back over at his targets' meeting place he saw that all the bodyguards already had their guns point at him. He had no time to escape. The only thing he could do was throw himself to the ground as the mirage of bullets came flying towards him. He had no cover to shield him from the weapons, but, luckily, he was only grazed by a couple of the bullets.

The mirage of bullets stopped and Sasuke assumed that they were just reloading their weapons, but when he looked up he realized that there was someone else in the room with his targets. With an angry growl he realized that it was his new partner with a mask of a fox's face. "What is that idiot doing?" he growled to himself. He watched helplessly as Naruto remained in the other building with guns pointed towards his head.

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