Byakuya

Chapter 2

Naruto turned to gaze worried at his sensei. Kakashi was looking intently at the ninja's before them, his Sharingan revealed. Genma was calmly chewing on his senbon, measuring the rock ANBU's.

"Alright, give us the scroll and no one needs to get hurt!" The ninja in the front claimed. Naruto snorted, disappointed.

"A genin? Man that blows!" Kakashi nodded in agreement. Genma threw his senbon at the genin dressed ANBU. The senbon hit the heart on the spot.

Kakashi inactivated his Sharingan and shook his head.

"New beginner optimism." He sighted before attacking the rest of the rock nins. They went down easy and they al ad time to gain their breaths before they were surrounded enemy ninjas again. Naruto snorted and attacked the nearest ninja.

He was surprised as the ninja, dressed as a genin, easily flipped him off and sent him flying towards Kakashi, who snagged him from the air easy.

"What the fuck? What is going on? First there are ANBU's, who are really genins and then genins who sure as hell aren't genins!" Naruto yelled enraged. Kakashi activated his Sharingan. Kakashi frowned slightly, and Naruto grinned mischievously.

So he was able to read his teachers emotions even though they hadn't seen each other for three years. So the lustful look under the mask he had seen in the club had been there. Interesting.

Genma traded a glance with Kakashi. Kakashi nodded. Genma grabbed Naruto while jumping away from the clearing. Some ninjas followed them while they jumped through the trees with Naruto pouting. He was sixteen; after all, there was no need to drag him around like a bloody doll.

Genma brought him closer and Naruto caught the slight smell of chicken. Naruto almost groaned. Being sexually aware was bringing thoughts to his head he would never thought of before leaving to train with the Ero-sennin. Spending time with the pervert and maturing a little made him almost forget that the other man was ten years older than him.

"…Something is on the move here. Hatake and I will deal with the ninjas. Some kind of sham is going on. Protect the scroll with your life and run for the village. I trust you know the way. Talk with the Hokage and tell her to send help." Genma whispered in Naruto's ear before stopping and setting him on one of the branches.

"Go!" Genma ordered while turning to take care of the ninjas following. Naruto turned with agility and jumped on the ground, confusing the sole ninja passing Genma and following him incase he was the one in the possession of the scroll they were after. Normally ninja's ran in the trees to avoid the ground, which was usually the easiest place to walk into a trap.

Naruto jumped to the side to avoid the mass off shurikens the ninja sent at him. He pushed a little chakra into his feet to speed his running. The feat was quite hard actually and had taken him two years to master. Jumping in the trees was easy as you actually wanted to fly a bit up, but in the ground it would only slow you down.

Naruto reached for some kunais from his pouch and wrapped hastily explosive notes around them. When the edge of the riverbank neared, he ran faster. He jumped off one of the big stones by the river and turned backwards to throw the kunais. He summoned a clone to kick himself from the way of a kunai. He rolled as he hit the ground, taking away some of the brute force of the jump. He didn't need to look back as the explosives went off; he could hear the feet of the other ninja as it started to jump over the small river too.

Naruto cursed while avoiding one of the traps surrounding Konoha. The adrenaline beat through his veins and Naruto let out an exhilarated laugh. He hadn't been in a good fight for so long. Naruto smirked before disappearing through a tree at the same time as his fingers fell to form the seals to one of his favorite jutsus.

Let the games begin.

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Naruto looked darkly at the ninja before him. The ninja was lying in a pool of blood, his throat slashed open. Naruto sighted before rubbing his cheek, unaware that he just smeared blood all over his face. Jiraiya's words came back to him.

"A ninja left behind to tell something to his comrades, is a ninja left to kill you later. If you don't know anyone is going to clean up, you must kill the ninja.

Do you understand, Naruto?

If the situation requires, you must kill."

It wasn't the first ninja Naruto had killed, but his heart clenched at the thought anyway. Naruto tucked away the necklace that was hanging outside his black sleeveless top and threw a nasty look at his shredded pants.

Naruto secured that he had the scroll still in his pocket before resuming his running towards Konoha. He caught movement out of the corner of his eye and groaned.

This is not my day.

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The fight was brutal. Naruto had been in many fights before, of course, being a ninja. But this, this was a massacre, and Naruto was fairly surprised that he was still alive. His arms and sides were full of slashes where he had barely ducked shuriken and kunai. His right arm was dislocated, and his knee had been kicked in. He could feel the Kyuubi's chakra doing it's best to heal him, but every wound healed was new one received.

Too pained to move now that the chakra was healing his knee, Naruto created a clone to jump on the way of the senbon thrown at him. The thing that probably kept him alive was probably that the chuunins seemed to prefer Katon jutsus, which they could not use as it had started raining furiously, and as they seemed to be afraid of burning the scroll.

Which they still assumed he had. Naruto cursed his luck. Why were the enemy ninjas forced to believe it was him with the scroll, when he, a mere genin was accompanied by jounin? Every one of them stronger than him.

Naruto brought up his kunai to block the shurikens. He ducked under the windmill shuriken, and moved to the right as it came flying back at him

Great. Windmill shurikens controlled by chakra strings.

Someone tried to kick his feet under him. He jumped, sent a punch forward. It was locked as another ninja kicked him to his side, fracturing several ribs. A Kunai was stabbed into his upper tight as he did several avoiding maneuvers. He did couple of cartwheels to the side, trying to get the ninjas all on the same side, while hoping that the shurikens hurled at him didn't hit. After all, a simple cartwheel wasn't the most genius escape maneuver.

"Halt the brat!" Someone yelled. Naruto shook his head to get the water out of his ears to hear well. As Naruto started to move to avoid the attacks, he was suddenly reminded of the training he had for dirty dancing. He stepped to the side, ducked, rolled, jumped and did everything he could to retaliate. His body settled on a steady rhythm, and the same sort of calmness that settled over him as he danced fell over him.

Following the movement to the end, he slashed the kunai threw someone's throat, the blood spraying over his comrades. One of the other Nins, a female, judging by the scream, fell down on her knees, horrified at the dead of her mate. The others attacked faster, enraged at the death of their comrade. Naruto rolled to the side, and jumped on his feet. One of the clones he had created crabbed his hands and twirled around twice before letting go of him.

As he soared through the air with incredible speed, he registered how the clone behind him poofed out of existence. He crated several clones to halt the ninjas pursuing him. They were deleted in seconds, but those seconds were really all he needed. He used the time to count his opponent. Seven of them, he could see at least. Six chuunins and a jounin.

Having proved usable, Naruto continued using his clone-throw-link. Summoning always a clone to catch him, and another to throw him into the air once again. He had done this several times as he was surprised to see three Konoha Nin before him he clearly recognized. The chuunins were staring at him in shock as he came trailing through the air, and he could guess he looked slightly weird.

Trailing through the air wounded, dirty, wet and covered in blood that was mostly the ninjas whose throat he had cut. Lee's mouth fell open in shock, and even Neji looked surprised. Shikamaru sighted. Naruto soared over Neji, Shikamaru and Lee, and landed swiftly behind them. The ninja's after Naruto ran between the Konoha nins, barely sparing them a glance as they continued to pursue the scroll. Naruto continued running, by foot this time from the nins. A ninja in grey threw a ninja in green in a similar style Naruto had used with his kage bunshins. The ninja landed on Naruto's back with ease. Naruto rolled on the impact, throwing the ninja on his back at the same time as he landed on a ready crouch.

"Yo!" Naruto was more than surprised when suddenly Kakashi appeared before him; he too covered in blood, his silver hair pulled down by the heavy rain. Naruto grinned tiredly at his sensei, breathing heavily.

"You're late!" Naruto yelled his voice almost giddy. Kakashi failed to see the humor and used his jounin voice to command Shikamaru, Neji and Lee.

"Chuunins! A-class mission! Escort Naruto to Konoha and protect him with your lives. Attacks from enemy nin are expected." The three chuunins, after shaking off their surprise nodded curtly, their training being cut off. Naruto turned to leave before throwing a look at his bloody sensei and at the chuunins and a jounin standing behind Kakashi.

"Are you sure Kakashi-sensei?"

"Yes, I'm sure. I can deal with this. Now go!" Naruto nodded before jumping up to the nearby trees to avoid the muddy ground. Neji, Shikamaru and Lee followed him, Shikamaru setting in step with him on his right, Lee on his left and with Neji running behind them, his Byakugan activated.

"What is this troublesome business all about?" Shikamaru asked after a moment of silence in which the only sounds to be heard were their own harsh breaths, Naruto's more loudly than the others'. Naruto opened his hitai-ate before tying it more securely around his head, deep in tough. Then he decided telling what had happened would be easiest, and most helpful, as Shikamaru was good with strategies.

"I got in the possession of a dangerous, forbidden scroll while training with my sensei. Sensei had to go take care of some things, and as traveling by myself would have been to dangerous, I took cover in a small village with only traveling shinobi." Naruto started, trying to find the words to explain everything shortly without missing anything important or revealing too much. The less people knew about some particular things, the better.

"The village was under the tight surveillance of some ANBU and jounins from grass and stone. So Gondaime sent a group of special jounin to fetch me. Kakashi-sensei, Genma-san, Anko-Chan and Gai-san. We were spotted some distance outside the village, and were pursued. We don't know by how many Nin… It is expected we will be attacked. There were earlier genins in ANBU outfits, and genin that sure as hell weren't genin…" Naruto stumbled with the right words, drying sweat off his forehead while the fatigue started catching up with him.

"..Look, this place is swarming up with ninjas of all ranks and lands. They're all convinced I'm carrying the scroll, and so far they've stayed non-lethal with me. You, they'll kill without any hesitation. So let's just hurry, will we?" Naruto said frustrated before pushing more chakra into his jumps, speeding their pace.

Shikamaru's brow was twisted in concentration, as Neji suddenly spoke.

"Waterfall nins right ahead, thunder Nins catching up from left." Naruto resisted the urge to groan and wail, but concentrated on gathering some more chakra.

Bloody Typical!

Naruto yelled in his mind as he ran straight for the waterfall-nins.

Stupid scroll. Stupid mission. Stupid enemy-nin. Stupid Sasuke.

I'm sure I can find a way to blame this all on Sasuke.

He's such a pain in the ass he had to have something to do with this.

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Dedicated to Shain (Shadowed rains)... Well, actually I just wanted an excuse to post the second chapter... Umm...yay for me! I got my first review! party party

Review! Makes me update often.