Authors notes: This story takes place in a radically different universe than the Naruto universe, taking place in modern war era with rifles instead of shurikens. There will be no pairings or romance in this story either.

And so, as night stretched its dark fingers over the sky, Naruto pulled out his axe as he creeped up on an unsuspecting guard. As Naruto slowly, painstakingly slowly, crouched towards this guard, he heard a twig snap under his feet, and quickly came to a hush. This was a mission that couldn't be compromised. The guard remained unaware of his presence, and so Naruto continued advancing, quietly. When Naruto got within reach of the guard, he quickly put his hand on the guards mouth and drove the axe deep into the neck, killing him. Seeing that he had a Dragunov rifle, he signaled for the rest of his squad to come to him.

"Sasuke, pick up the Dragunov. I want your eyes scouting out for enemies and to serve as a bit of sniper support, if needed. Keep in mind this doesn't have a silencer. Intel most likely fucked up again."

"Sir."

"The rest of you, on me, Shikamaru is taking point. Check your ammo."

Shikamaru took point. Kiba quickly followed, with Naruto following Kiba. Sasuke took the Dragunov and found a decent spot with a good sightline.

"Get ready to relocate pretty quick, Sasuke." Said Naruto.

"Right."

They crawled down the slight slope of the mountain, and stacked up on the wall of the nearest beaten up adobe building. They advanced down the street, until Sasuke radioed in.

"Patrol coming your way. 3 men, all armed with AK's. No other notable equipment."

Naruto primed his M4 CQB and took him and his men behind the wall of yet another adobe building. As the patrol passed, Naruto overhead them speaking. He couldn't understand it, as they were speaking a foreign language of which he had no clue.

"Why can't we just shoot them, sir?" inquired Kiba.

"The bodies could be found. We don't wanna compromise ourselves. Keep your trigger finger at rest for now." said Naruto.

"Assuming intelligence didn't fuck up and there's a whole army of men in this damn village..." Kiba muttered.

Naruto sighed. He knew intel probably did. They usually did. But they had to rescue a supposedly important person. Sasuke radioed in yet again.

"Machine gun emplacement further up. I advise you go down the alley your in, take a right from there and then a left and dart behind another building. This will bring you around the gun."

They did as Sasuke instructed. Then searchlights came on. Where they aware of their presence? Impossible.

"How close are we to target building, Sasuke?" asked Naruto.

"You'd have to run across the street and up a few blocks, then there's the big building with a large black roof. Can't miss it."

Across the street with searchlights on. Not a good idea.

"Any alternative routes?"

"That's the only one I'm seeing."

"Right...searchlights. That means there's gotta be a sizable amount of men out here. Contrary to intel."

"Predictable." said Kiba.

"Sasuke, do you have a clear shot on the searchlight operator?"

"I'll have to relocate. 5 minutes."

"Hurry."

Sasuke took his stuff and huffed it to the next best spot for a shot on the searchlight. Instead of shooting with the Dragunov, he opted to pull out his silenced M21 EBR. He took the shot. Headshot. Searchlights shut down.

"Go, Naruto."

Naruto, Kiba, and Shikamaru quickly sprinted across the street, went up a few blocks and reached the target building. Using the snake cam, there was 2 guys with AK's guarding the door.

"Open and clear." instructed Naruto.

They stacked up, Kiba kicked the door down, Naruto and Shikamaru entered, expertly scoring headshots on both guards. Kiba and Shikamaru went to clear out the rest of the room, in case of any enemies planning an ambush. Naruto, remembering the plan, tried to map out the best way to the second floor of the building. The person they needed to extract would be on the second floor, supposedly in the center room. He took Kiba and Shikamaru and went upstairs, and upon the center room. They opened and cleared again. There was a humanoid figure bound in ropes to a chair in the center. As Naruto went up to examine it to make sure it was the target, he noticed something tied to the targets chest. Bomb.

"Shikamaru. Work on it." said Naruto.

Shikamaru went up to see if he could defuse it.

"It's the target, sir."

"Then work on the bomb, and get it done fast.

Naruto then heard sounds. Footsteps. Thinking quick, Naruto rushed to the door and shut it, just as an arm with an AK reached inside and sprayed bullets, getting caught on the door. Naruto pulled out his M9 pistol and reached his hand around the door, shooting about 5 or 6 bullets. The man dropped dead. Kiba and Naruto set up defensive postions inside the room. Shikamaru needed time on the bomb. Another man entered, whom Kiba quickly silenced with his MP7.

"Sasuke, go loud. Shoot anyone entering the target building, we have the target. Guys got a bomb strapped to him. We need to hold while Shikamaru defuses for a few minutes."

Sasuke quickly saw that there was a truck of men approaching the building. Not good. He started taking potshots at the 6 men who left the truck, killing 3. The other 3 got inside.

"I hope you don't mind if a few of them slip by me." said Sasuke.

"No problem. Just kill as many as you can. We need to reserve ammo, so try to make it headshots only." replied Naruto.

"Easy for you to say...I'm all the way perched on this mountain in long range and your defending that little room."

Naruto chuckled.

"You're the marksman for a reason."

They got ready. This might take a while.