Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto
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'blah blah...', thinking
'blah blah...', Bijuu talking
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'blah blah...', Jutsu
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Hello everyone this is my first try on a Naruto fanfic so I can get some experience for later stories of the series. I just hope you will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Oh and before I forget it. This story won't be updated as frequent as my other running ones because it's only a side project. So please be patient with me.
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Please Review and please don't hold back. Tell me if something bothered you, I can handle the truth.
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"So these two brats are supposed to protect me?", the drunken old fool named Tazuna asked the Hokage in disbelieve.
"You should be careful with your words Tazuna-san. They may be young but they are ninja nonetheless. They have abilities that surpass that of a civilian by far.", the Hokage warned his client.
"Yeah right. Let me guess. Pinkie here is perfect at stalking her duck ass teammate and duck ass is the master of brooding.", Tazuna taunted and everyone frowned at the drunken man.
"You should be careful of your words. We can always deny you our services.", the Hokage threatened as a vein grew on his head.
The bridge builder paled at the older mans thread.
"So what do you think? Will you take the mission?", the old man sighed and asked no one in particular.
Team 7 and his assistant knew who he was talking to while Tazuna looked at the man like he was crazy.
"I will take it. It sounds to fishy to be true. Maybe there will be some fun for me.", a body less eerie calm voice echoed through the room and Tazuna turned white as chalk.
"Well then you should introduce yourself boy.", Sarutobi smiled as he saw the clients distress.
A slight chuckle was carried through the room as it began to collect itself in a shadowy corner of the room. A figure formed in the shadows and stepped out. There before everyone stood a 5"8' tall young teen with back long spiky red hair and cold blue eyes. He wore black leather pants with black steel tipped boots, a open black leather jacket with a red stripe along his arms and a see through mesh shirt. His hitae was sewed into his leather belt around his waist. On his back was a huge sword. It had a long handle with upside down skull at the end and a broad guard and horns at the end towards the handle. Behind the guard was a long teethed skull with the broad blade seemingly coming from it's mouth. The blade was at least 10 inches broad and 1 inch thick while it held the impressive length of 5 feet. So in total it was about 6 feet long and had this evil aura around itself making you shiver by just seeing it.
"My name is Uzumaki Naruto and I'm the last member of your protection team Tazuna-san.", he bowed to the shivering man with a creepy smile, showing his long sharp teeth.
The man could only nod his head not trusting his own voice at the moment.
"Then I would suggest that you prepare yourself and we all meet at the southern gate in one hour.", Kakashi stated and escaped the room in a puff of smoke, hoping to get away from his creepy student as soon as possible.
Naruto could only smile at his senseis behavior and melted into the shadowy corner again. Without another word the genin's left the room to prepare themselves. Just as Tazuna turned to leave the voice of the old village leader stopped him.
"I would advise you to handle Naruto with care and respect. He may be a ninja of Konoha but he has no problem with killing a client if he gets aggravated. He isn't called the Bloody Fang of Konoha for nothing.", the man explained.
Tazuna just gulped and nodded before he left the room. The old Sarutobi just smiled and turned to his paperwork. With a swift motion of his hands forming a crossed hand sign, three more Sarutobi popped into existence. These three pounced at the paperwork with a determinate expression on their faces.
Meanwhile the original walked over to his couch and pulled out a small orange book from his sleeve. With a perverted giggle he opened it only to be interrupted.
"You know old man these books will be your downfall one day.", Naruto smiled as he stepped out of the shadow.
"Kami above!", the old Hokage yelled as he jumped up only to see his surrogate grandson leaning against his desk having a rare smile on his lips.
"Naruto! What are you doing here.", the Hokage scolded but Naruto shrugged as he turned serious.
"Listen old man.", he stated firm and Sarutobi shut up.
"This mission is more dangerous than Tazuna wants to make us believe.", he explained while he pulled a cigarette from inner pocket of his jacket and lit it.
The man looked at the boy disapprovingly but couldn't say anything because he knew of the red head's circumstances.
"What do you mean boy?", he inquired.
"I mean that the Wave country is currently under the reign of Gato Shipment.", that got Sarutobi's attention.
"I think that we will encounter at least one missing nin C-Rank or higher. It's said that he has a thing for silent killings so we could probably meet one of Kiri's missing nin. So you should upgrade the mission.", the teen explained.
Sarutobi analyzed his explanation and nodded. He moved to his desk and took out a scroll to update the mission from C to A and handed it to the boy.
"I'm making you the one in command. Should you encounter a missing nin above B-Rank you will take command and lead for the rest of the mission with Kakashi as your second in command.", the man explained and Naruto nodded.
The teen began to leave but stopped shortly before the shadowy corner and looked over his shoulder.
"Oh and old man?", he asked and Sarutobi looked towards him.
"Tell Jiraiya-sensei not to peek at the hot springs. If I find out that he spied on her I promise you that he has been a man for the longest time of his life.", the boy warned and his eyes flashed white for a second before he vanished into the shadows.
"I hate it when he does that.", Sarutobi mumbled a bit afraid for his old student.
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Near the hot springs a white haired man felt a cold shiver run down his spine.
'I think I should pass on my research for today or I think I will lose something very important to me.', he thought a bit scared and shielded his groin involuntary while he walked away to a bar.
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A group of girls in the hot springs felt a sudden relieve and relaxed into the warm water.
'Guess the pervert got scared off.', they all thought with a big goofy smile as they soaked.
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An hour later Team 7 and their client were at the gate. Well everyone expect Naruto.
"Now then lets go.", Kakashi ordered and they began their journey.
"Hey where it that Naruto boy?", Tazuna asked as he looked around.
"Don't waste your time. He is around.", Kakashi just shrugged and he felt a shudder run down his spine.
'I think I just pissed off the devil. I should learn to keep my mouth shut.', he thought and eyed his surrounding careful.
Just as they passed through the gate a small shadow emerged from the gates shadow into Tazuna's. The man felt a shiver and looked around but didn't see anything. So he just shrugged it off and followed his protection team hoping that they wouldn't find out the truth.
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Hours passed and the little group didn't really make any advance. Because of the old bridge builder they were forced to move at civilian pace which made them quite a target for enemies. It was late afternoon as something caught Kakashi's eye. There further before them was a puddle of water even though it hadn't rained in days. He decided it would be a good test for his team to see how far advanced they really were. Without any sign of interest he switched with a log that he had henged into a copy of himself.
Just as he predicted the puddle was a trap. The team passed it and out of it came two masked ninja with a evil glint in their eyes. They jumped the unprepared team and client and cut his copy into pieces. To his disappointment they behaved like bloody rookies. Sakura and Tazuna froze up like statues and Sasuke charged head on, only to be smacked away like a simple fly. He just wanted to intervene but he knew he was to late. His team was doomed.
'FUCK! WHERE ARE YOU NARUTO?', he thought in panic.
The attackers threw their chains at Sakura and Tazuna only for something unexpected to happen. Out of the bridge builders shadow four black chains shot forward and deflected the incoming ones. They hovered around the two in a protective manner like they had a mind of their own. A eerie cackle echoed through the area that made everyone freeze up. Suddenly a black hand shot out of the mans shadow and began to pull a evenly black figure with white glowing eyes out of it. As it had fully emerged the shadow, the darkness began to retract and revealed tanned skin along with black leather clothes and a giant sword. The figure laughed like a mad man and he looked at the frightened enemies. Only now they seemed to notice that the chains from before were coming from his back like they were extensions of his body.
"So so so... well well well... the Demon Brothers of Kiri. So I was right that Gato would hire someone like you.", he chuckled with his creepy smile showing his fangs.
The brothers looked at him in shear terror. They knew who they were facing. A enemy so strong that they would never stand a chance. Before them stood...
"The Bloody Fang of Konoha.", Gôzu whispered afraid.
"So you know me. Then I don't need to waste time to introduce myself.", Naruto gave them a soft smile.
Then he tilted his head and the smile changed into a predatory smile.
"Now lets have some fun.", he cackled and ran in between them, grabbing their faces in the process and dragging them into the forest.
Team 7 and Tazuna looked in the direction their companion had dragged the two missing nin with such ease showing them once again why he was a special Jonin and they just mere genin. Though they shivered at the thought of the two enemies fate.
Earsplitting screams echoed through the forest and they flinched in fear. The scream sounded of fear and pain but most over all of true terror. Just the thought what he was doing to them made them piss their pants. Minutes of terror filled screams passed till they fell silent. Kakashi had used the time to rejoin his team and client and sooth their worries. Ten minutes later the sound of breaking branches made everyone look into the dark forest. Naruto emerged happily whistling while juggling two scrolls between his hands.
"Naruto what happened?", Kakashi asked a bit fearful.
"Let's just say that they didn't want to cooperate at first but as you know I can be very convincing.", Naruto's smile vanished into a neutral face.
Kakashi took a step back not wanting to anger the young Jonin any further. He once had a talk with the teen and he still had scars to prove it.
"Wha... What's in the scrolls Naruto?", Sakura asked carefully.
"Oh in these? Only the remains of the recently deceased Demon Brothers.", he shrugged and put the scrolls into a seal on the inside of his jacket, not that the others knew about that.
Truth be told only in one of them were the remains of the deceased brothers while the other one held his new acquired food.
"So Tazuna-SAN I believe you have some explaining to do.", Naruto stared at his client and stressed the honorific.
"I don't know what you mean?", the old man began to sweat.
"From my interrogation I got the informations that these two along with Zabuza the Demon of the Hidden Mist were hired by Gato to get rid of you. Now tell me old man why does that fat midget want your death?", he inquired a bit angered.
Tazuna was now pale as death and he looked like a deer in the headlights.
"I...", he began with a shaky voice.
"Don't you dare to lie to me or you will get to meet a side of me that only a few have ever met and even less survived.", the teen snarled, baring his fangs.
"Don't you think it's enough Naruto?", Kakashi tried to sooth the teens anger.
With a heavy sigh and a short snarl he turned around and continued the journey to Wave.
"Come on. We have a mission to finish.", he growled while looking over his shoulder.
The others could have sworn that they saw his eyes flash white for a second but shrugged it off hoping that he would continue the journey in silence not wanting to deal with his anger. They had once seen the boy in action. To be precisely when their sensei... make that former sensei. Mizuki attacked him as he entered the the classroom and Naruto grabbed him by his throat and ripped him apart, making quite a mess. His sensei the Toad Sannin Jiraiya just stood the door and watched the scene not intervening with his students actions. After that no one dared to attack him. Though he and Sasuke had been friends long before Naruto had left the village with 6 years, they were still good friends despite the teens short fused temper.
During the walk he sunk deep into his own thoughts walking only by instinct.
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flashback
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"You should be careful to not let your anger get the better of you boy.", Jiraiya warned as he sat down after one of their little spars.
"Oh shut up sensei. I'm totally in control. Even Nee-san says that I'm fine.", a younger Naruto huffed.
"You shouldn't believe everything the fox tells you. Foxes are born pranksters after all.", the old man stated dry.
"I trust her as much as I trust you Jiraiya. If it hadn't been for the regenerative abilities she provided me I would have never lived through the transition and you know that.", the boy warned.
"I know that and like you I'm thankful for that but she is still a demon.", the Sannin just sighed and leaned against a tree.
"She may be a demon but then again. What am I? I'm not a human anymore that's for sure.", the boy smiled and leaned against a boulder as he lit a cigarette.
The Toad Sannin looked at the boy with a frown.
"You know that I don't like it when you smoke. You are to young for that.", the man frowned.
"And you know that I don't care. Heck I can't even get lung cancer even if I wanted to.", Naruto blew a bluish cloud in the air.
"I know but it's just... you are technically way to young to smoke even with your kekkei genkai.", the Sannin said not thinking about what he said.
Naruto flinched at the mentioning of his kekkei genkai. It's activation was the hardest and most painful experience he ever had. If it hadn't been for the Kurami-chan's healing factor he wouldn't have survived it.
Jiraiya finally realized what he had said and looked guilty at his young student.
"I'm sorry Naruto. I didn't mean to...", he began but Naruto interrupted him.
"Don't worry about it sensei. It happened and you can't take back what was already said. So just forget it.", the short haired red head shrugged.
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flashback end
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Naruto snapped out of his thoughts as Sasuke threw a kunai into the bushes at the side of the road. While Sakura walked over to check if he had hit something, Naruto sharpened his senses to his surroundings. Then he heard it. A whirling sound that came closer a high velocity.
"EVERYBODY DOWN!", he bellowed and pulled Tazuna to the ground as the other did so too.
Just as they ducked a giant sword flew over them and embedded itself in a tree. It's wielder appearing on the long hilt and smirking under the bandages on his face. He jumped of his sword pulling it from the tree in a swift motion and placing it on his shoulder.
"Well well well. Kakashi the copy cat nin. What an honor."
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And... CLIFFHANGER!
Sorry I just had to make this a cliffhanger chapter. Stay tuned for the next chapter