The Return of the King

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0 Training ground 7 at 10 A.M. 0

Naruko came to see her two 'teammates' sitting there looking hungry and angry.

"Uzumaki-san why are you LATE!" Sakura really needed to vent some anger, be damned if it's the girl that kicks her ass in spars.

"I got lost on the road of life," she said as Kakashi appeared, "Right Hatake-san?"

'She used my own line damn think fast Kakashi.' "Riiiight! And a black cat crossed my path so I had to take the long way around."

The other two just sweat dropped.

Kakashi ignored them as he reached into his pouch, pulling out a clock which he set on the training post in the middle. Reaching back into his pouch he pulled out two bells, which he attached to his pants and then pulled out two bento boxes. "Now then, I am sure you're all wondering about your test." Kakashi paused for a moment as he gave them an eye smile. "The test is simple; you have to get these two bells from me. Those who don't get a bell will be sent back to the academy for remedial training."

This statement was accompanied by three different reactions. Sasuke narrowed his eyes and grit his teeth, determined to get a bell. Sakura paled a bit, her confidence wavering. Naruko however, frowned in thought as she felt something off with that statement.

"But sensei, there are only two bells!" Sakura shouted.

"Thank you miss obvious." Naruko said

Kakashi shrugged. "Then I guess that means at least one of you will fail. Oh. And who ever doesn't get a bell will also be tied to one of these posts and will be forced to watch as the others eat their meals in front of you."

Two stomachs gurgled at that announcement, both Sakura and Sasuke now realizing why he told them not to eat. Naruko looked at the other two with a smile.

"Naruko." Kakashi said with a frown beneath his mask. "I thought I told you not to eat." The other two Genin looked at her and glared.

Naruko just smirked "Unlike the fangirl, I don't diet. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and no one tells me not to eat, that's ridicules to follow advice like that."

'Ok guess she is Kushina-san's daughter alright.' As it was a very Kushina like answer.

"Now then, you can use kunai and shuriken, remember to come at me with the intention to kill or you won't get a bell."

"But sensei, what if you get hurt!" Sakura asked in shock.

Naruko giggled at her stupidity. Meanwhile Kakashi chuckled. "Trust me; I think I'm good enough to avoid getting hurt." He looked at the three of them. "Now then, get ready, set, and go!"

The 3 Genin shot off, disappearing into the grove of trees. 'Well at least they know how to hide.' Kakashi thought to himself, only to sweat drop as a shadow came over him.

"You know, compared to the others you're a little weird." Kakashi said as he looked at the Genin.

"It would be pointless to hide from a Jonin, especially one of your caliber copy cat-san, you know reading your file was very useful and talking to your 'eternal rival' let me learn a lot about you. How did you like your line used before you could use it?" asked a grinning Naruko

'So that was what she was reading on the rooftop. Damn, wonder if she knows the answer to the test now. But she is right since I know where the others are.' "Well you're certainly smarter than your teammates guess your title as a genius holds true, so now what are you going to do?"

Naruko frowned at the genius title "There is no such thing as genius or prodigy to me, I'm just a person who learns faster than others and works harder than other to get where I am."

Kakashi smiled under his mask as it was an answer his sensei would give and he was glad to see that this title wasn't going to her head. "Well that's a very mature outlook on that but, I'll say it again what are you going to do now." As he tensed a bit just in case.

"Can I have a bell?" she asked with her hands out child-like with her head tilted and her face looking adorable with big doe eyes.

That caught him off guard "Um no, sorry."

"Oh well." She said pouting as she puffed into smoke

'Kage Bunshin? When did learn that and she knows the secret to it.' He thought as he went to look for his first victim, Sakura.

0 with Naruko 0

'So how should I do this, the bell thing was a bit off since there are no two cell teams with a Jonin sensei. From his file it says he's very teamwork oriented but, his test does the opposite…unless… could it be that easy and we're too stubborn to see it.' She then heard a scream that could only come from one person. 'So Sakura was first, naturally Uchiha will attack him head-on thinking he could beat a Jonin, well might as well see if I can talk sense to the mentally challenged idiot.'

Naruko shushin'd just as Kakashi left Sasuke buried up to his neck. "Well I wonder if you can bite your brother to death like that?" she grinned at the growl she got. "If you say please I'll help you."

"I'm an Uchiha I don't need help!" he said while wiggling in the ground and he sighed and swallowed his pride (AN: surprisingly he doesn't choke on it XD.) "Please get me out Uzumaki."

"Uzumaki-sama." She was loving this!

Sasuke turned red "Please get me out Uzumaki-sa-sa-sama" he gritted it out as if it was poison

"Was that so hard?" she asked as she made a clone and kawarimi him with it. He was about to run off when she grabbed his shoulder.

"Say thanks at least you brat." She really hated this kid; he gets anything he wants and shows no gratitude. He tried to shrug it off but she just squeezed harder and he fell to his knees from the pain.

"Th-thanks, now let me go!" he demanded and she threw him to the ground disgusted with him. He got up ready to attack her but, she was gone and he stormed off to get a bell.

0 with Kakashi 0

'Where is she? She had about 10 clones running around to distract me I guess, but she still hasn't made a move yet' just as he finished this thought he just dodged a ball of compressed water.

"Well there you are I was wondering if you left but your clones kept good company."

"Sorry I was saving Uchiha and making him say thank you. Honestly he could learn some manners." She huffed

Kakashi shrugged "Well what are you going to do, right? So let's see what you can do." As he charged at her.

Naruko used reinforcement on her body and dodged his first strike and got into the Goken stance and whipped out a strong kick to Kakashi's head which he dodged and caught it but she used invisible air on her foot and it cut his hand a bit. Kakashi felt it and jumped back wondering what did that as he felt no chakra.

"First blood goes to me."Naruko said. He was pondering it as Naruko made two Kage bunshin's and they did suiton: Mizurappa to which Kakashi dodged the two jets of pressurized water and as he did he did a quick replacement to dodge a suiton: Suiben so he didn't get bound from the water whip.

They continued in a fierce taijutsu battle were she made three more Kage bunshin's who charged in with the some of the taijutsu stances she read from the Shodaime and Nidaime's scrolls. Since he was so occupied with the clones he didn't notice that the bells were cut with invisible air.

Naruko saw them and jump back in a crouch at them and discreetly picked them up and shushin'd away and had the clones use Bunshin Daibakuha which Kakashi quickly performed another replacement. A ringing sound filled the air.

'Hmm, I'd say she was at least mid-Chunin in taijutsu but, I guess that's what happens when you hang around Gai for a year. She seems really well versed in suiton and where the HELL did she get Bushin Daibakuha?' Kakashi thought as he didn't notice that the strings on the bells were cut.

As they got to the wooden posts Kakashi had tied Sakura to the post and much to Naruko's enjoyment slapped her awake, sadly it wasn't really a hard hit.

"Huh, ow, that hurt. Wait why am I tied to the post?" asked Sakura

"Are you serious? You did nothing and know it so why ask?" said Naruko

Sakura just glared at her even if she was right. Kakashi coughed to get their attention.

"Well it seems that none of you got a bell so-"he was going to continue when he heard a jingle. He looked to see Naruko holding both of them in her hand.

"Do I pass?" she asked with a smirk. Sakura was shocked, Sasuke was seething, and Kakashi looked to his waist and face palmed remembering their fight. She must have used that weird wind technique to cut them, which was why he didn't notice it.

"Well who do you choose to pass with you Naruko?" Kakashi asked with interest.

"None." This shocked them even more but she then crushed the bells."No bells, no conflict, and so now we're your students."

"Or I could just fail you all, but I guess I'll just get some more bells. Naruko, Sasuke eat lunch and don't feed any to Sakura or I will fail you all, be back soon." And he shushin'd away.

The two ate and Sakura's stomach growled. She tried to put a smile and looked at her crush "Don't worry Sasuke-kun I'm fine." As her stomach growled louder. Then Naruko stuck her food in front of her fed her some.

"Come on we need you in top form if we want to deal with him." They both looked at her questioningly.

"This test is about teamwork but I knew Uchiha wouldn't work with me and through that neither would you Haruno so I didn't try. So eat up so we can work together." Sakura nodded and was about to eat when Kakashi showed up with a menacing look on his face. "DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU JUST DID!" yelled Kakashi.

"I put my team before the rules. Since their lives are more important than the rules." She smirked

"Oh really and do you two agree with that!"

Sasuke and Sakura nodded their heads quickly.

"Well it seems you pass." As Kakashi said it in a pleased tone.

"Bu-but sensei you said."

"You passed because Naruko was willing to break the rules to help you. It's as she said this test was indeed about teamwork and from her reasoning I can see it to be sound as you Sasuke felt you are superior to both Naruko and Sakura but you needed to remember you aren't and you Sakura were too absorbed with Sasuke to do anything to even look for help or even try to defend yourself. Naruko I hope in the future you have some more confidence in your teammates."

Kakashi then turned and look at the Memorial Stone, "You see this stone next to us…this stone is the Memorial Stone, it lists all of the Shinobi's of this village that were killed in action and my team-mates are on this stone along with my Sensei as they all died in combat. I come to this place every day and every time I come here this place it makes me think about the mistakes I've made in the past...and I've made a lot. This is why I'm telling you to help and support one another and your other comrades as you will need them when the time comes and to avoid the mistakes that I have made in the past. Remember those who break the rules are trash, but those who abandon their comrades are worse them trash."

He turned to them "As of today we are squad 7 meet you guys tomorrow at the Hokage tower for our missions, see ya." And he puffed away

Naruko cut Sakura down as she thanked her for helping her pass and walked home with a brilliant smile on her face. She couldn't wait to tell Nimue about it.

0 2 weeks later 0

'I am going to kill the next lazy ass civilian who can't clean their own yard! Weeding! How does this help us become ninja! I need a snack.' Naruko thought as she walked to the dango stand and henge'd into an old lady to avoid being over charged as she normally did. After she bought them she puffed back to normal enjoying the stand owners scowl. She walked to sit down and ate her snack and maybe then go see Tenten and her team and train due to the lack of teaching from her 'sensei'. Seriously she had an A-class Shinobi as a sensei and he does nothing but read porn and show up late, thus the reason she only called him Hatake-san much to his dislike of it.

"Wow gaki, the owner didn't seem to like your little trick." Said a female voice

Naruko turned around to see a woman with light brown eyes, violet hair is done up in a short, somewhat spiky ponytail. She was wearing a tan overcoat, complete with a fitted mesh body suit that stretches from her neck down to her thighs and a dark orange mini-skirt. The thing she saw was the headband on her head.

"Yea, I usually get ripped off every where due to my status kunoichi-san and I get what I need at a fair price and the look of satisfaction from their reaction." Naruko said with a shrug and grin

The kunoichi gave a hearty laugh at naruko's answer "The names Mitarashi Anko, Tokubetsu Jonin gaki. No kunoichi-san kay?" she got a nod and Anko seemed to circle around her like she was prey "So you're her huh? You know I just can't see how these people can't see you're just an itty bitty Genin, I mean you got no big ears or tails or sharp teeth." She stopped in front of Naruko and put her right elbow in her left hand and her right hand to her chin and looked the Genin up and down with looked like a child-like glee. "You know I think you got some potential, gaki. How about we spar a bit at my training ground? I want to see our next big up and coming kunoichi in action and I may throw in a tip or two if you impress me. What do you say?" she asked with a smirk

Naruko shrugged anything to at least get some Jonin level tutelage since her 'sensei' has yet to do that. 'I mean what's the worst that could happen?'

0 four hours later 0

She will never say or think that line ever again. Naruko thought as she collapsed in her bed.

She now knew how scary training ground 44 was along with its resident kunoichi. She will never play tag there again… with explosive tags. Much to her fright Anko had taken a liking to her and now she could only pray that Anko would find a new 'toy' as she had called her to play with.

"Oh Kami-sama, why do I attract the crazies!" and so she passed out.

0 Another 2 weeks later 0

Anko had taken the decency to kidnap Naruko after her 'missions' with her team. Every time Naruko escaped somehow or way Anko would tie her up so they could play as she had put it. Naruko would have to admit that she was warming up to the blood thirsty kunoichi in her own crazy way. She noticed how the villagers showed her distain and she wondered why. Anko spoke the unsaid question and said she was the apprentice to the snake Sannin. Naruko now felt a bit of kinship to Anko now since they both were village pariah to the villagers and wondered if the reason Anko wanted to hang out with her was for that reason.

She had to pay another visit to Sarutobi Asuma for some experienced knowledge when performing wind chakra manipulation and the feel to how to manipulate it as she found out from Nimue when she was learning water manipulation. Of course he didn't say a word until she had gotten him some more foreign tobacco since he loved it. The first exercise was to cut a leaf in half and the visual image she needed to think of was two sharp edges rubbing against each other in order to create a sharp razor blade. He said that until she master that he wouldn't tell her the other exercise and some more free smokes. After being chased out by Ino from training ground 10 much to naruko's amusement of her trying to act tough she went to training in Anko's playground to train with her affinity with some help from her clones.

From her partnership with the fox she had begun from the age of 10, she trained to get accustom with his chakra with Nimue as the over seer during this. Reading Mito's dairies, she had reached going into the initial state of kyuubi's chakra since he said that was a freebee. She had to really meditate to gain control over the youkai and finally from a whole year she gain control of the first tail cloak state. She was mediating with Nimue to try and failing to gain control of the second tail.

Even with kyuubi's cooperation during this the blood-thirsty intent coming from it was horrifying to control. She was able to hold the second tail for 7 minutes before going berserk. Thankfully if it wasn't Nimue she would have continued going berserk. Still she kept trying it because it seemed the Kyuubi respect for her went up an inch higher as he put it for her will to work on his youkai. He would drop a few insult to motivate Naruko, she assumed to push herself and some 'let me out and I can help' or 'stupid monkey, I can show you how to do it' but, she wouldn't give into temptation from him. Most other times he was a lazy fur ball who just slept. So after 2 years she was able to use one full tail and the second tail for a little bit. She sighed to herself as she woke up from going berserk again after 10 minutes, she had a lot more work to do.

0 EPIC D-rank Mission 0

"This is Duckbutt, I'm in position. I really hate you Uzumaki."

"Fangirl, I'm ready and same here."

"This is Goldie; I see the target and they are very accurate."

"This is scarecrow, she is right. Move in and capture the target!"

Naruko, Sasuke and Sakura all jumped out from there hiding spots as they ran towards the target. Said target screeched and hissed as it ran, only to be intercepted by Sakura. It made a mad turn the other way; however Naruko began launching kunai with wire to make a fence at it and turned it around. Directing it towards Sasuke who used ninja wire to trap it.

Naruko leaned down and picked up the now struggling cat and pet it.

"This is duckbutt, we've caught the target." Sasuke said into his head set.

"Confirm pink ribbon on right ear." Came Kakashi's reply.

"Goldie here, pink ribbon on right ear confirmed." Naruko said

Naruko handed the cat to Sakura and watched in a fit of giggles how the cat mulled her face.

0 Hokage Tower 0

After entering the hokage's office with the psycho cat fiend that was purring contently in naruko's arms with a scar faced sakura and an anti-social Sasuke, Kakashi spoke up.

"Mission to capture pet cat Tora complete." Kakashi said. He grinned a bit beneath his mask as he got to watch his own team suffer from the same horror he went through as a genin.

"Oh thank you so much!" Madame Shinji, a rather… large woman in expensive clothing said. She grabbed the cat before it could flee. "My dear Tora-chan how I missed you so! I was so worried about you! I don't know what I would do without you!"

'Wow it's no wonder that cat runs away so much.' Naruko thought as she watched the woman squeeze her cat to death.

'Hn' Thought Sasuke

'Serves that cat right, do it harder!'Sakura thought.

'CHA! Stupid cat! Next time I'll kill ya!' Inner Sakura shouted

"Excellent job team 7." Sarutobi said as the woman and her cat left. "How about another mission? I have babysitting the elders grandson… walking the Inuzuka dogs… or we could-"

"No TORA!" came a scream from outside, signifying that the cat ran away… again.

Sarutobi blinked before continuing. "Of course there is always catching-"

"NO, please Hokage-sama, anything but that hell spawn!" pleaded Sakura

"I agree with the fangirl, we've the needed amount of 28 D-ranks for a C-rank one. It's up to Hatake-san thought." Said Naruko though she was hoping her sensei was merciful to get them one.

Sasuke gave a nod to this to wanting a better mission.

Kakashi just sighed and sent a small glare to Naruko show her lack of respect to him in front of the Hokage.

Sarutobi heard this but just puffed on his pipe for a moment before looking at Kakashi. "Do you believe they are ready Kakashi?" he asked.

Kakashi looked over at his students in thought. 'Well I'm pretty sure that Sasuke and Naruko can handle themselves outside of the village. Sasuke is cool and composed; and Naruko is the same and has shown considerable maturity for her age and is ready for one. Sakura might be a bit of a problem, but then again, a C rank mission has little chance of ninja confrontation.' "What kind of mission is it?" asked Kakashi.

"An escort and protection detail. You are to protect the client heading back of to Nami No Kuni." Sarutobi replied.

Kakashi thought about it a little more before nodding. "Very well, I think we can accomplish a mission like this."

"Really?" Asked Naruko, getting a little excited

Sarutobi chuckled a bit at her enthusiasm. "You can send in the client now."

Naruko and the others turned to the door. Almost as soon as it slid open the stench of alcohol slammed into the blond who nearly gagged and hold her nose. She looked at the man who had walked in. said man was a forty something year old man with a graying hair and beard, rectangular spectacles on his eyes and a pot belly. He was wearing wooden sandals, beige shorts, and a straw hat.

"What the hell! It's just a bunch of snot nosed gaki's!" The man exclaimed in annoyance, taking the bottle he had in his hand and chugging down several gulps.

'Again, why do I get the weird or crazy ones.' Naruko thought to herself.

"I mean look at 'em! The one with the black hair in the shape of a ducks ass looks more Emo then a ninja. And that pink haired girl looks like his little groupie. A cyclops, scarecrow. And some goldilocks girlie!" The man said after lowering the bottle. "You expect me to believe these are ninja! I believe it when I see it!" The man brought the bottle to his lips again. However, before the bottle even got to his mouth, a blade of wind came at him, slicing the bottle off right below the man's hand. The bottle fell to the floor and shattered, spraying the man's feet with Alcohol. "GAH!"

"Naruko you're not supposed to attack the client." Kakashi scolded in a bored tone. Though inwardly he was studying the blonde. 'That was that weird wind technique again. I really need to find out about it.'

"Attacking him? But that was merely the wind; I have no idea what you're talking about." Naruko said with a shrug and an innocent smile.

Sarutobi brought a hand up to pull his hat down over his head. 'It seems even Naruko has a certain level of pride when her skills are questioned.'

Meanwhile, Iruka just shook his head.

"U-u-uh… right…" Tazuna stuttered a bit as he looked at the clean cut of his bottle. He threw the piece he was holding away and looked at the group. "Anyways, my name is Tazuna, and I am a master bridge builder. You will escort me back home to Nami No Kuni, where I am building my next bridge. I expect all of you to protect me; even it costs you your lives."

'Well it's our job but, what he means with that statement?' Naruko questioned.

"Right then." Kakashi said as he tried to get things back in order. "Why don't we all meet at the east gate in an hour?"

Naruko frowned. "Why don't we start fresh tomorrow?" she asked

Everyone turned to look at her. "Why do you ask?" Kakashi asked, curious to see what his blonde student came up with.

"We would be forced to camp out without even being out of sight from the main gate at this time of day, the client is drunk out of his head and a sober client is easier to deal with then a drunk one."

"Good point." Kakashi said at the reasonable suggestion. "So then, we'll meet tomorrow at 7:00 am at the main gate."

Naruko nodded, "Sounds like a plan. Well I think I'm going to prepare for tomorrow. See ya!" Naruko tossed a wave and shushin'd away.

0 next morning at 10:00 0

Naruko walked as she was writing for the next installment for Arthurian Adventures series towards the main gate. She saw the double S duo with what seemed to be a sober version of their client.

"Where the hell is your Jonin-sensei and teammate!" Tazuna spoke in a disgruntled voice as he paced back and forth. "I thought ninja were supposed to be on time!"

"Uzumaki-san why are you always late? And where's your gear?" sakura asked

"I seal all my traveling gear since I'm good with Fuinjutsu and sorry I was walking around to get an idea for the next part of my book." She accidently slipped out

"WHAT! You write your own books, what do you write?" asked an egger sakura to try and get some insight of my mind so we can get along somehow.

Naruko cringed at her question but, since they were on a team she thought she could let them know. "I've been the author for Arthurian Adventure since I was younger."

Three sets of eyes went wide at this. Since the series was a big hit all around the elemental nations.

"Wow, you wrote those, that's like my favorite series. Oh I can't wait to tell Ino and some of old classmate since they love them too."

"Wait Haruno! Please don't, the reason I use a pen name is to not have to face my fans 'and that the civilians don't burn my books.' So shush and I'll give you an autograph signed one of the next volume, ok?"

Sakura nodded to that happy to get an autograph copy from her favorite series. Naruko then looked at Sasuke and he nodded since he knew the pain of a fan club. Then she glared at tazuna who gulped and nodded.

"Well I don't see what you're afraid of Naruko. I'm sure people would love to know you're so talented at story telling. I may read them when we get back." Said an arriving Kakashi.

"YOU'RE LATE!" Sakura screeched, forcing everyone within a fifty foot radius were forced to grab their ears in pain.

"Sorry but, I don't do smut, I go for true romance in my novels, not lust. So what's the excuse this time Hatake-san?" asked Naruko as she prepped her scrolls. "Did a black cat cross your path, forcing you to take the long way around?"

"Nope!" Kakashi eye smiled. "There was actually a missing nin disguised as a waitress in my favorite tea shop trying to kill me."

"LIAR!" Sakura yelled

"Anyway, let's get going," Kakashi said

The others soon followed him, however Kakashi stopped when they got several feet from the gate when he noticed they were missing one.

"Naruko?" Kakashi asked as Naruko had turned around and was looking at the gate. "Something wrong?"

Naruko shook his head. "No. Nothing's wrong. It just feels strange…this is the first time left the village for a mission and I feel safer then when I go exploring alone …" she said in a quiet voice as she looked around and wanted to visit Nimue again to but decided against it.

Kakashi gave a sad look remembering finding her in the wood after searching for 2 months. He didn't let that happen ever again calling in most of his favors in Anbu he trusted to watch her when he couldn't.

After a few hours of walking Naruko saw a puddle 'that's weird it hasn't rained in a week?' then Kyuubi said it was a genjutsu and so she bent down to look like she was fixing her sandal and place two fingers on the ground and sent a large pulse of chakra in the ground and it two waves came back.

This was a technique she read as well from the Nidaime's scrolls as it was a sensor technique that you needed to send your chakra through the water in the ground and trees, and for the each number of people in the area small waves of chakra come back. To use it one need to have good control over water chakra like she had trained to do.

She stood up she continued walking and gave Kakashi a look and he nodded. He walked to the back as she advanced to the front. She tensed up ready to summon her noble phantasm when needed. As they past the puddle she heard a scream and turned around with Excalibur invisible in hand.

"KAKASHI-SENSEI!"

Naruko saw Kakashi with a pair of shuriken-linked chains, which were being held by two figures. The two ninja, who were obviously ninja by the headbands on their heads, yanked the cables resulting in Kakashi getting torn to shreds, sending body parts and blood flying everywhere.

She immediately threw a shuriken from her sleeve and said "Uchiha!" he turn and saw where the ninja star was going and threw a kunai at it and the chain the enemy had was stuck to the tree. They both detached the chain and charged. The one on the left to her and the one on the right to the client and Sakura.

She sent Sasuke a look and he dashed to the other two while she focused on the one coming at her. She reinforced her body and swung her wind sword at him. He threw his claw for a strike and the two weapons clanged and he looked surprised.

She performed some more fierce strikes which her enemy tried to dodge but since he couldn't see what weapon she had it was pointless. She managed to get inside his guard with a boost of chakra along with the reinforcement to her feet and cut the claw hand off.

There was loud howl of pain and Naruko went in for the kill while he was distracted and stabbed him in the heart and continued to push till her sword was lodged in a tree.

As her adrenaline cooled along with the corpse next to her she turn and saw Kakashi appeared and knock out the other and dismissed her sword but, not before cutting the guys head off.

She had a bingo book and recognized who those two were, they were known as the Oni brother and they had a decent Chunin level bounty and she could always use more money.

She sealed the head and set an ignition tag on the body to burn it.

"Yo"

"Kakashi-sensei! You're alive!" Sakura said in relief as she lowered her kunai.

"Of course," Kakashi said, pointing over to where he had 'died'. Naruko and the other Genin saw the remains of a log.

'Like an A-rank Shinobi could lose to 2 low level C-ranks even if ambushed.' she thought but she wondered what the blood and guts were and saw it was some kind of genjutsu to make it look like he had been violently killed. 'But what for?'

"Excellent job in defeating the enemy Sasuke and Naruko…" Kakashi said, turning his head towards Naruko.

She saw the looks she was getting from the sickly looking client and fangirl, and the wide eye Kakashi and Sasuke.

"What?"

"That… was a nice job Naruko. Since you got the head I'm assuming you wanted the bounty?" Kakashi asked as he got out of his stupor. And he got a happy nod and he sweat dropped.

"Hatake-san can I interrogate him? Anko-nee-chan's been giving me some tip and told me some of her more…colorful methods." Naruko asked with big puppy-dog eyes.

She wasn't afraid to use her cuteness as a weapon; it worked on jiji all the time.

When Kakashi heard Anko's name he cringed a bit. 'SWEET Kami-sama! Those two together? I hope Anko didn't turn her into a mini-version of her. It was bad enough with Gai jr. running around but, two Anko's?' he shivered at the very notion. He had nothing against Anko but, her personality and blood-thirsty tendencies were questionable… a lot. He nodded to her in hopes of seeing how much damage he may have to repair of his sensei's daughter.

"Thank you!" she walked over to the now tied to a tree missing nin and bitch slapped him HARD with reinforcement for giggles, till he was awake.

"OWW, damn that hurt! How did you know we were coming?"

"Well… your genjutsu sucked and did you really think attack Konoha's copy cat was a genius move?" sarcasm dripped in her voice and she looked at Kakashi for his reason

"It wasn't that hard, if you know what to look for." Kakashi said with a shrug. "Since it hasn't rained in week, there was no way that a puddle could have lasted very long on a clear day, much less seven."

"Wait a minute!" Tazuna said, looking a bit disgruntled as he glared at Kakashi. "If you knew these ninja were going to attack us, then why did you leave it to the kids?" he asked, feeling a bit irked.

"I could have taken them out before any trouble started. But then I wouldn't have learned anything," Kakashi said as he turned a mild glare onto the man. "I wanted to know who their target was, and what they were after."

"W-What do you mean?" Tazuna asked with a stutter.

"I mean I wanted to know if they after us, ninja attacking ninja. Or if they were after you, the master bridge builder," Kakashi said as his eyes narrowed. "When you made your request to Konoha, you asked for standard protection, from bandits and highway men and the like. You never mentioned that ninja were after you. If we had known this, it would have been designated a B-rank mission or higher."

Tazuna looked down in guilt under Kakashi's withering gaze. "Our mission was to simply get you to your destination and guard you while you built your bridge. If we had known we would have been fending off attacks from ninja, we would have staffed a different squad and charged for the cost of a B-rank mission. Even if you had your reasons for doing it, lying about a mission is unacceptable. As it is, this task falls beyond the boundaries of the mission we were given."

"Well we can always ask our new friend here." She turned to the tied up Chunin with a sweet smile. She took out a kunai and cut off his pinkie and he screamed. The others looked at her and gasped and Kakashi was going to have talk to Anko after this mission now.

"You fucking BITC-" he was cut off by another Rein-bitch slap

"No talking till I ask a question. If you don't want Hatake-san to kill you I suggest you tell us what you know. If not I cut each of your fingers off slowly." She said with an innocent smile.

And the idiot spilled his guts out, with Momochi Zabuza, Gato, and killing the bridge builder. After he finished, Naruko plunged her kunai in his heart. Getting another gasp from her audience and Kakashi face palmed, yeeeeaaah, Anko was going to need a talking to after this.

"Bu-but you said?" as he gurgled his last few breaths

"I said Hatake-san wouldn't, I never said anything about me and you did forget ninja are lairs too." She then cut off his head and sealed it up and the body in a different one. Konoha only needed one body for an autopsy for a kiri-nin so it was another good pay day for her with the Oni bro's set bonus too.

"Uzumaki-san you just murdered him, why!" sakura was screeching in pure fright.

Naruko scowled at the girl.

"Thank you Haruno for telling me my job description. If you can't handle this then go home. What did you expect when you got out of the academy? Sunshine and rainbows?" she asked with deadpanned look. Kakashi nodded but would have to talk to the blonde to lower her brutality level while Sasuke nodded as he was prepared to kill to get stronger but kept his freak out in a bit better than Sakura.

"We should go back," Sakura said, the idea of fighting enemy ninja frightening her and killing. "This is too much for us; we're not ready for missions like this."

Naruko looked over at Sakura with a frown. "You can go if you want, but I'm staying."

Everyone looked over at Naruko in surprise. "It doesn't matter if he lied about the mission; the fact is we've already accepted it. As Konoha ninja we can't go back on our word, not only would that be disgracing ourselves and Konoha, but it could also cause people to lose faith in our village if we run when danger comes at us."

"Hn. You think you could protect him yourself?" Sasuke snorted. "You need someone like me watching your back no matter how good you are Uzumaki." 'I won't let this opportunity slip by; I will prove my strength here.'

"So that mean you're in Uchiha?" asked a grinning Naruko. This was one of the few times she might get along with him.

Sasuke just looked at the blonde with a smirk. "Hn."

Kakashi looked between the two Genin and sighed. 'Why was it that they only seemed to get along when it looked like a strong battle might happen?' "I guess that means we're continuing." 'Still the next enemy we run into won't be low level Chunin. It will be a Jonin like me.'

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In the middle of a large forested area, there was a large fortified structure being held between two trees. Inside that structure two individuals were having an important meeting.

In a room, a tall man with bandages covering half his face lounged in a large thrown like chair. To his left was one of his subordinates, awaiting his instruction. In front of him was a rather short fat man in a business suit, with frazzled gray hair and sunglasses on his face, despite how dark it was inside.

"What!" The short suited man shouted. "You're telling me you failed! I paid a lot of money to hire your group! I thought you were supposed to be some hot shot former ninja assassins! If this is all you're capable of-"

"Quit your whining…" the tall man growled as he hefted a large zanbatou style sword up with one hand, even though it was nearly as tall as he was. Bringing it around he pointed it at the now pale businessman, "Next time I'll be going to finish them myself. And this sword, Kubikiri Houcho (Head Cleaver), will be the last thing they see."

"A-are you sure about that?" asked the now nervous man. "It seems that the target has a high level ninja guarding him, and now that the Oni brothers have failed, they'll be on guard for another attack. It will take some extreme skill to…"

"Just who do you think I am?" The man growled, not lowering his sword as he glared at the small fat man. "I am Momoichi Zabuza, the Kirigakure No Kijin (Demon of the Hidden Mist)."

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Well here you go. Now don't fret TMON will be up later in the week it's just my mind has been circulating over this one for a bit so yeah. Please read and review peace out! Oh and no flames too!