Chapter 2

Naruto wakes up the next morning to someone knocking on his door, he stares at the clock "five o'clock, who the hell. Naruto gets out of bed

and goes to the door, when he opens it he is greeted by non other then the tall figure of Ryuu. Naruto throws him an irritated look "What do

you want". Ryuu simply smiles and says, "To talk to you of course". Naruto tries to throw the door closed, but it's caught by Ryuu's foot "easy

there my young fox friend, I have info you might like". Naruto is caught by surprise at the fox comment for second, allowing Ryuu to slip in

and close the door, "wow this place is pretty sma…" suddenly naruto has a knife to Ryuu's throat. Ryuu looks down at the boy noticing the

red tint in his eyes. Naruto looks at him angrily "who the fuck are you, are you from the akatsuki". Ryuu the tip of the knife with two fingers

and moves it from his throat "easy there kid I'm an ally, I just happen to be an expert of sorts when it comes to things like Jinchuuriki and

hanyou" naruto growl "I don't believe you". Ryuu sighs, "Alright, alright, maybe you will trust me after our mission, but just be quick about it,

you're further along then I first thought." Naruto watches him open the door and step half out it "O, naruto one last thing, you're not the

only one with a demonic side." As he leaves naruto catches his eyes and swears he can see two red draconic eyes instead of the usual

shade of brown.

Mission Room-debrief

Tsunade stands in front of the group of kids in front of her, sad she has to send them on this type of mission. As soon as all of the people are

settled in she begins the mission briefing. "Welcome everyone, for most of you this will be your first true military mission, so you will need to

take this seriously. Also, all of you will kill an enemy on this mission, it will most likely be unavoidable, and as a general order, unless you can

capture a few any that see you must kill them. Now I'll let the person who retrieved the intel to brief you on the mission Ryuuyami-san."

"thank you Hokage-sama," Ryuu lays a map down on the table, this is a sound village outpost located on the border of fire and sand, it

seems as though it's a lab for one of Orochimaru's experiment, the type is a need to know only. We have three different targets, an

assassination, sabotage, and retrieval. Our assassination target will be Kabuto, I believe you have all met him at one point; he is considered

the second in command and is located at this outpost. The sabotage is for the living generator that produces the power for the facility, be

warned I have no idea what form it has, but it is supposed to be some kind of living creature hooked to machinery, the third target is an

ancient artifact with unusual properties, we will divide into three teams. The assassination team will consist of Kakashi and Shino with

Kakashi as the lead, the second team will be Hinata and Naruto" at this Hinata gasps quietly "with naruto-kun alone" She blushes a light

blush and starts touching her fingers together Ryuu continues, "the last team will be me and Shikamaru, sakura you will stay back and

observe, this is a real mission with real risks, and I need you to report if we die" he looks at the children. "this is no longer some fat lady

asking to catch her cat (they have one in each village, I swear sometimes I think it's a hidden village requirement), this is real, one mistake

and your dead, I need you to use your head and don't hesitate to kill understand, good we leave tomorrow at 12:00 pm, have a nice day,

enjoy it and treasure it like your last day alive" the serious look he had till now turns into a smile "hope I didn't scare you" he then smile and

bows to Tsunade before leaving.

Streets of Konoha

Naruto is walking with sakura and Shikamaru toward Icharaku Ramen when Shikamaru sighs for the third time, "maan, what a drag, who

was that crazy dude, he had Hinata close to feinting". Sakura giggles, "You sure it was cause she was sitting next to Naruto" Naruto gives

her a puzzled look "what do you mean sakura-chan?" "Baka, you're so dense. Anyway I have to go do some chores see you tomorrow." With

that she runs of toward her house mumbling something about ninjas shouldn't have chores. Naruto looks after her with the same puzzled

expression, but just shrugs and enters Icharaku with Shikamaru, they both sit down and order their ramen, they get through their first bowl

and Hinata enters and walks to their table, poking her fingers together and looking at the ground she shyly talk " N-naruto-kun I-I thought

we c-could, um, look at t-the review for our m-mission" she quickly adds "you don't h-have to if you d-don't want to" naruto stands up,

excited at the thought of his mission "Of course Hinata lets go" he grabs her hand, causing her faint blush to deepen and almost causes her

to faint, and run out the door. Shikamaru, who was left with the bill, sighs and says "What a drag" before ordering another bowl of ramen.

Random Training Ground

About 4:00 Naruto and Hinata are sitting on the ground across from each other and looking through the layout of the facility trying to decide

the fastest and easiest route to their target "N-naruto-kun I t-think if w-we take this hall w-we can avoid a lot of t-the e-enemies" Naruto

looks at the route she pointed and suddenly jumps up "that it Hinata, I never knew you were so smart" this causes Hinata to blush a deep

red and start poking her fingers together "t-thank you naruto-kun" inside she was thinking "he thinks I'm smart, I'm so happy" Naruto sits

down right next to her and says "alright let's get to the next thing" they both reach for the same paper and their hands touch, they both pull

back and mutter sorry to one another, naruto thinking "why am I embarrassed, hmm must be nervous about tomorrows mission" he then

looks at the watch and jumps up and yells "crap I'm late I need to go meet ero-sannin" Hinata also notices the time "I h-have to go to, my

f-father wishes for me to t-train with H-hanabi." She stands up and naruto gives her a friendly hug and runs off yelling "see you tomorrow

Hinata" leaving a highly stunned and blushing Hinata behind, it takes about five seconds before she fully processes the hug in her mind and

at that moment she feints.

The shadowy figure of Ryuu stands in the tree watching the Hyuuga girl feint. He chuckles and says "That kid has great potential, but he is

really dense, wouldn't you say Jaraiya." Jaraiya, who is hiding behind a tree about five feet away, sweat drops,"caught already" he comes out

from behind the tree with a sigh "Ya, I have to agree with you, now I guess I should tell you why I was hiding" Ryuu chuckles "No need, I'd

think Tsunade was stupid if she didn't give an independent ninja working for her a shadow, I expected." Jaraiya chuckles "of course, now let

me ask, what you want with Naruto" Ryuu looks at him and sigh "I hate explanations but to sum it up, I'm curious. The nine tails fox demon

Kyuubi is considered a very high ranking demon in hell, I want to see if a human with such a powerful evil inside can still control himself and

maybe even wield its powers or more", Jaraiya rises his eyebrow, "Or more?" Ryuu simply chuckles "no more can't be a spoiler of surprises

can I" with that he jumps down on the ground. "Jaraiya, please believe me I mean the village nor Naruto no harm." He walks over to the

feinted girl and gently shakes her awake; when she wakes up and sees Ryuu she jumps back. "easy there girl, I'm not gonna hurt you, just

thought it was an odd place to be sleeping, why don't you head on home and get some rest your gonna need all the energy you can get for

our mission. And, o, I think naruto will come around soon, don't give up okay." Hinata blushes and says, "Hay Ryuu-san thank you", then

runs off in the direction of the Hyuuga complex. Ryuu chuckles "this is gonna be interesting."

Naruto looks at Sasuke, disgusted and sad toward the form he adopted for power, the red chakra coming from his body burns with evil and

hate, Sasuke hold a black chidori in his hand, Naruto has a red Rasengan in his hand, they charge at each other with full intent on using their

deadly attacks they collide and everything goes black. Naruto looks around until he sees a giant cage, two red eyes glaring out from him, "its

all your fault you know, growls a deep voice from within the cage "yes all your fault, you were to weak, to pitiful to save him, it was you who let him lose his heart. Yes, you who called him friend is the one to blame, you failed him, let him be taken. I can help you know accept my

power and release the seal," dark red chakra spills out from the cave as naruto reaches toward the seal, when the dark energy hit him it

burnes, bringing him back to reality, he looks up at the red eyes as he hears the guttural growl from the Kyuubi, "you little brat take the seal

off now and I promise the villages destruction will be quick, if not then you will live in eternal torment" naruto shakes his head hard breaking

the fatigue washing over him,"Stupid fox what makes you think I'd listen to you" a dark laugh fills the chamber, "fine if that's your answer",

the red chakra flows quickly from within the cage and encompasses Naruto making him feel as though he is in the middle of a raging

inferno….

Naruto wakes up with a scream, looking aroung frantically with a kunai in his hand. His coldsweat cuasing him to shiver in the chilly room,

after not seeing any enemies in his vacinaty he begins feeling tears swelling in his eyes, pushing them down he looks at his alarm clock,

which failed to go off half an hour earlier, leaving him only fifteen minutes to get to the gates of Konoha for his mission. He jumps out of bed

and throws on his clothes then runs out the door to meet his team.