Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
Here is Chapter 1 of my story, enjoy
It's was a sunny day in Konoha, in the streets would you see a young boy no older than 13 walking down the streets, his skin had a slight tan, and his hair had a sliver gray color with two small braids next to his right ear. He is wearing a chunin vest, a black long sleeved shirt, a pair of fingered gloves, black trousers and a black with white borders waist sash with a dragon sigil on it.
He is heading to the hokages office, he had been summoned there earlier, and it sounded important. As he approached the office door could he hear voices from the other side of the door, *knock knock* "hokage-sama may I enter?" the voices went silent then he heard "yes, you may enter".
The two other persons in the office were the copy-ninja Kakashi and Kurenai. "Hello Isamu, how are you doing?" asked Kurenai with a friendly voice "Never been better. Now, Hokage-sama what are your orders?" answered Isamu with a serious tone.
"Straight to the point, well you are to lead team 7 and team 8 on a mission near the border of Kusagakure. The reason being, that Kakashi and Kurenai are going on another mission for the village." Hiruzen had turned his gaze from the table to Isamu, who looked rather shocked being given this task "uhh… I have never led a team before and now you give me two teams to lead. I don't know if I can handle it..." Kurenai interrupted the two of them, with a concerned voice,"Sarutobi are you sure he is ready to lead both teams?" Hiruzen inhaled through his pipe before answering, "I trust his capabilities and if what I hear from Hiashi is true, then he should be more than able for a C rank mission with two teams backing him up."
Kurenai looked shocked from the answer "But what if…" she did not know what to say and looked at Kakashi seeking support without success "I have read his profile and I agreed with Sarutobi he should be able to complete this mission." She kept looking back and forth between Kakashi and Hiruzen "The mission details are in this scroll, good luck Isamu" Isamu grabbed the scroll and as he headed to the door he said: "I'll bring them back alive… hopefully…"
He read the scroll as he walked back to his house, "hmm… should not be too hard, if the info is correct, bandits, raiding traders with hit and run tactics close to Kusagakure." Within the scroll was there personal information on the members of team 7 and 8, the most interesting would be Naruto, he had heard a lot about the kuubi kid on his mission to the Land of Waves "That's the boy Hinata-sama keeps stalking, it seems she is interested in him, so I can't afford to let him get hurt, it would harm her as well if he did." just as he had finished reading the contents of the scroll, did a young blond kid, in an orange jumpsuit bump into him as he was chasing some other kid. "Uzumaki Naruto! I need to speak with you."
The blond boy stopped like he had been hit by lighting, turning around slowly, looking really nervous "it wasn't on purpose, I promise, you see, I'm hurting the kid who did it…" Isamu who had no clue to what Naruto was blabbering about "I have no idea of what you are talking about. Anyway, you and your team have a mission; can you gather them and meet me at the gate at noon?" Naruto went from being nervous, to energetic, he was clearly looking forward to the mission, "Really?! I'll go and find them right away!" He turned around and ran off quickly, before Isamu even got the chance to say anything. "Okay… not what I would have expected, I've better head home and gear up, Hinata should be home as well."
When he arrived at the Hyuga household was he greeted by Hinata "welcome home Isamu." As he removed his shoes he looked up on Hinata, "I'm home, Hinata-sama you and your team have a mission with Naruto's team at noon, and I'm supposed to be your squad leader." Hinata turn red in her face as she mumbled to herself "with Naruto… what will I do…?" Isamu rolled his eyes "here she goes again…"He walked past her while asking her "Hinata-sama can you inform Shino and Kiba that they need to be at the gate at noon?" she nodded in response "Yes, I will meet you at the gate." She had a happy tone in her voice.
He went straight to his room, where he kept his equipment; he kept the gear in his closet, the contents was more like a small armory than a personal storage, including: Swords, kunai, shuriken, smoke bombs, exploding tags and armor.
He equipped his leg and arm guards, and the katana he had inherited from his father, a beautiful blade with a great amount of details including the clan icon. He filled a long coat with the most basic of equipment, better to be over prepared than unprepared, something he always told himself. "That should be it, better look the mission files through until I need to be there…"
Later at the main gate
When Isamu got to the gate was he met by a group of noisy kids, yelling at each other, at that point did he realize "it's going to be a long trip…"he took a deep breath and spoke in a loud voice "Listen up everyone! I'm going to give your mission briefing, so please turn this way!" everyone turned their attention to Isamu, although it took a while for them to quiet down.
"Okay… My name is Isamu I'm to lead you on this mission since Kakashi and Kurenai have other matters to attend to… anyway… we are to stop bandits from attacking some trade caravans near the borders of Kusagakure and that's what we have to work with here… it should not be too dangerous… hopefully…"
He looked at the kids standing before him, not looking like they took him very seriously. "Sigh… anyway we are moving out now, so if you have any questions ask them on the way…"
The trip would have been easy if it were not for Naruto, Sasuke and Kiba, who kept fighting and provoking each other when they got the chance, at times it would get so bad that Isamu would have to stop them from ripping each other's faces off, it were not helping that Sakura kept siding with Sasuke and yelling at Naruto and Kiba, she generally acted like a bitch the entire trip. Hinata and Shino did not really say anything at all, only really talking when spoken to.
Near Kusagakure's borders
It was getting dark and without any more leads to go on did Isamu decide that setting up camp for now would be best, "okay people, Its getting dark, Kiba you will come with me on some scouting, you got the best nose and tracking skills here, the rest will set up camp here and wait for our return."
Kiba looked overjoyed to finally get to do something else than walking "Sweet, Akamaru let's do our best!" Naruto looked green of jealousy "Hey! That's not fair that Kiba get to go scouting with you, while we get to setup camp…" Sasuke stepped forward and spoke his mind as well "I agree with Naruto, we want to see some action!" Isamu just answered with a stern voice "It will be as I said! Besides it's only scouting I doubt there will be any action to talk about…" he turned around and ran off in the treetops with Kiba following him, taunting Naruto and Sasuke as he left "See you later Suckers!"
After an hour or so, did Isamu and Kiba stop since they heard a sound come not so far away "did you hear that? It sounds like battle doesn't it" did Kiba ask Isamu "Yea it do… It could be we hit the jackpot and found our targets." Isamu made a hard turn west, following the sound until he came to a 20 feet cliff, where they could see down into a clearing next to a road leading north, in the clearing were carts and wagons with all kinds of goods, and in the camp was it complete chaos, bandits fighting the hired muscles of the merchants, clearly were the bandits in greater numbers. "5… 10… 15… 21… 21 bandits and what looks like 10 mercenaries… Kiba I need you to go back and warn the others and get them here to support me, I will do what I can until you arrive."
Kiba nodded looking abit shaken as he had never seen anyone getting killed in front of him before "ye… yeah, I'll be as fast as I can!" he ran without looking back, he rushed off so fast he nearly fell. Isamu turned his attention back to the battle, "hmm… this will be a bit tricky… It will be very hard to fight them all at once… I have to take them one by one… Aha!" he jumped down the cliff and closed in, he reached into his coat, grabbing six smoke bombs, with some good throws was he able to cover the entire camp,
"okay here goes! Doton: Shinjū Zanshu no Jutsu (Earth Release: Double Suicide Decapitation Technique)"he was able to immobilize quite a lot of the bandits, as they were disoriented by the well placed smoke bombs, however just as he pulled one under, did he see something he had not expected of bandits, an explosive tag around his angle "SHIT!" *Boom!*
He had managed to get above ground just before the tag went off, the bandit were blow out of the ground landing dead from the shock leaving a mutilated corpse, Isamu were horrified that someone would have done that, then he noticed that 4 stronger presences of chakra surrounding him and that there were no more bandit or any sign of the mercenaries, only corpses,
what worried him the most is that for some time had he felt Kiba and the others coming really close and with the new enemy at hand… it could get dangerous. A voice came from the direction of what felt as the strongest of the 4 presences, "So you managed to evade my little trick. So you were from Konoha, what business do you have at our border!?"
Isamu started to have a bad feeling about the situation "We have no business with the Kusagakure, we have a mission to stop these bandits from attacking our trade routes in this area." There was silence for what felt like a long time, and then what he had feared the most happened "Isamu! Wow you defeated them all, you may be better than I thought!" it was Naruto shouting like nothing was wrong, the same voice that had spoken to Isamu earlier yelled "Reinforcements! He was just stalling us to buy time, get them!"
One of the Shinobis came out from one of the trees and ran towards Naruto with a katana drawn making ready to make a slash, he was of at least chunin rank, as he wore the Kusagakure chunin jacket that gave it away. Isamu started to form seal completely instinctively to protect Naruto, "Doton: Doryūheki! (Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall)" after he had finished forming the seal, he then tapped the ground with his foot, resulting in a thick earth wall shooting up from the ground and forming a U-formed shield in front of Naruto.
It was a last minute action as the Shinobi, slashed his sword into the wall, Isamu sensed that two of the Shinobis moved against Hinata and the others, who had just entered the fray, just as Isamu was about to shout orders, had Isamu his guard down for just a moment, allowing the Shinobi that tried to attack Naruto to close in on him, he reacted just in time to dodge his swing, giving him time to draw his katana, Isamu kept on the defensive, dodging and deflecting blows while yelling orders to Naruto.
Naruto were on his way to team up with the others "NARUTO! There are two incoming! Make sure you don't spilt up and watch each other's backs! They are real Shinobi! THEY ARE DANGEROUES!" Naruto turned around and smiled "You can count on me!" and he then joined up with the others.
As he returned to focus on his opponent, was he met by a rain of kunai, he just barely avoided, getting a few scratches but nothing serious, His first opponent had broken off his attack just before and was now standing next to the last and final shinobi, their leader. "So the last player finally entered the field… This is bad… really bad…" without as much as saying anything or looking at each other, did the two enemy shinobi begin to form hand seals, and yelled at the same time "Fūton: Fūjin no Jutsu! (Wind Release: Dust Cloud Technique)" and "Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu! (Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique) the fire, dust and air mixed into a massive whirlwind, completely engulfing Isamu.
The jutsu was held for a few seconds, it threw small lumps of burning matter all around it, setting fire to the forest and the caravan. When the jutsu ended was there nothing left but the charred ground, "did we get him?" the two shinobi searched around them and before long did a kunai with an explosive tag hit the ground in-between them, "SCATTER!" the tag detonated splitting the two and obscuring their vision of each other.
"I should try not to kill any of them… would save a lot of trouble… Hopefully…" Isamu sneaked up behind the weaker of the two shinobis, in the cover provided by the tag, and grabbed him around the neck to strangle him, with a bit of resistance, in the end did he fall over unconscious, before his ally got a chance to react. "Now it's just you and me…" the shinobi looked a bit panicked, and was out of options, Isamu on the other hand were calm but exhausted, breathing heavily "have chakra to about one jutsu more... I know just the one…"The enemy shinobi went to attack Isamu head on with his katana, seeking to take advantage of Isamu being exhausted.
Being exactly what Isamu had expected he would do, he block the attack with his own sword and locked the two blades, he then let go with his left hand and formed seals with such haste that it was hard following what seals he was forming. "Doton: Doryūheki! (Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall)" A small and extremely fast wall shot up from the ground in-between them hitting the shinobi right in chest with such force the sound of his rips breaking could be heard, spiting blood in Isamu's face and sending him flying a few meters landing on his back. "Maybe I over did it… nah he's alive… hopefully…"Isamu just stood there a few seconds to catch his breath, before he tried to sense where the others were "from the looks of it, it seems that they defeated the enemies, I was worried that something might happen to Hinata-sama… lucky for once…"
Naruto and the rest of the gang, who were all badly bruised but nothing critical, were walking back to Isamu "Isamu are you alright?" Hinata asked while searching for her herbal medicine, in the background did Sasuke puke and looked really bad, "I'm fine Hinata-sama, but what happened with Sasuke?" Naruto could not contain himself, speaking like he could burst out in laugher anytime "Sasuke got poisoned by a dart!" Sasuke tried to save his face, but just puked again, Sakura tried to cheer Sasuke up by patting him on the back but it was not really helping.
"Okay people while this is all a happy event that none was killed, I think it's best if we were to get out of here before the burning trees turn into a forest fire…" Isamu helped Sasuke up, helping him walk, "Isamu what about the people we were here to help?!" Sakura had a firm grip on Isamu's shoulder, He just turned his head to give an answer "I can't sense any other than us here, so either they ran or they are dead…" he then just walked on, he was depressed that he was not able to save any of them, feeling he could have done more…
The next day, they packed and went home. On the way back it was the same all over again however Kiba and Naruto had teamed up on Sasuke, making fun of him being sick and Sakura were even louder when that happened. Shino had not talked much doing the entire mission, either did he on the way home, even though at some point did he add a witty insult to Kiba or Naruto, fueling the fire even more, Hinata got to talk more with Naruto, which made Isamu happy that she at least got the chance to talk with him.
They entered the gate at noon, nothing had changed really since they had left. "Aright you are free to do what you want, the mission is officially over." Isamu had a smile on his face, he had completed the mission with no deaths reason to be happy in his book.
"Isamu, you are kind of cool! Hey wanna come and have some ramen with us? I know a great place called Ramen Ichiraku" Naruto looked Isamu in the eyes with a smile "I know that place they got the best ramen in town, I would love to, but first I have to turn in my mission report, so I will meet you there" Naruto looked like he could make a spin in happiness at any time "Yes! We will be there or at least I will!"
Isamu were heading to the Hokage right away, he stood before the door to the office a few seconds, took a deep breath and knocked on the door *knock knock* "You may enter" was heard from the other side, as he entered he said
"I brought them back alive…"