"Man, guard duty sure fucking blows." Sighed one Mouse masked ANBU leaning against a wall for support.
"Just don't think about it Mouse." Said another Elephant masked ANBU stationed right next to him.
"NO seriously Elephant! We've been here since yesterday. Our shift was supposed to end 2 hours ago!" He said pointing towards the clock in frustration.
"I can't disagree with that. So remind me why they made you an ANBU if you're this impatient?" Asked Elephant finally sparing his partner a glance.
"I don't know, went through that shitty test, aced it and here we are. Weren't we classmates?" He queried.
Elephant blew a whistle. "Aww yeah. I could have sworn you were a lot quieter back then." He barked sarcastically.
"Haha very funny. what are the egg heads inside doing anyway? Command has their head too far up their ass and didn't share any details before we came here." He asked changing the subject
"Meh, I don't know. Trying to analyze some blood samples or something. it was recovered from the forest of death." Replied Elephant.
"ahh! So they're doing egg head stuff! I see!" Mouse replied.
A few minutes later they were both starting to feel uneasy. They both started to shudder every once in a while, a cold dreadful feeling washed over them, they heard a sudden click which prompted them to look at the source.
They both froze on the spot, they no longer could move or even think, if one of them could signal for the other guards to come or maybe even try to do something themselves they would have done it but right now they were busy staring up at an ominous looking figure on the ceiling.
"Holy Fu-" When mouse finally regained his senses he was jumped by the figure which made elephant snap back to reality.
"FUCK! Mouse!" He shouted for his teammate and gained distance between himself and the attacker.
'Shit not good, what the hell was that white flash? I couldn't move at all! I need to signal the others quick before it's too late.' Thought elephant as he used his sword to deflect a barrage of shuriken and kunai.
His eyes widened behind the mask when he noticed an arm shooting out of the ground so he quickly back flipped and sliced it down before flaring his chakra to alarm the others.
The arm quickly grew into another person as three people now stood in front of him; he clutched his sword tightly and moved in to engage in a speed the regular eye could not keep up with.
His sword phased through the assailants as he fell over limp on the floor, the attackers disappearing in the progress as the door the 2 ANBU had been guarding blew open from a buildup pressure.
Screams echoed throughout the halls until they were silenced by the doors closing back up.
"What in the hell happened here?!" Shouted Minato angrily as he looked around the wrecked front entrance of the leaf's underground laboratory.
"We don't know sir; one second whoever did this was here the next they were not. When we arrived our two operatives were downed. We've also got reports that 3 of our men were found dead outside the hospital too, our agents tried to get access to the lab but something had kept us out, when we did manage to get in… it wasn't a pretty sight, sir you should look for yourself." Reported Boar bowing before the Hokage.
Minato stayed quiet and decided to just listen to the anbu captain, when he entered through the front entrance he was greeted with the sight of limbs scattered everywhere, Organs decorating the floors and blood painting the walls, if it wasn't for his experience and the amount of shit he saw and was put through in the 3rd ninja war he would have puked out his dinner right then and there, they reached a metallic door that had the label 'DNA analysis sector'
"Lord Hokage…the people who were tasked with sampling the bloodied cloth from yesterday's patrol are in there. There were no survivors left." Said boar carefully.
He slowly opened the door and took a peek inside, His eyes narrowed as he scanned the room then shut the door resting his forehead against it, Minato closed his eyes and collected his thoughts.
"What about the evidence we've recovered?" He asked knowing the answer himself.
"Everything related to it was burned, we…we can't even get their bodies to Inoichi to find out what happened because the heads were destroyed some way or another."
"What about the front entrance guards?"
"One's in critical condition while the other is confirmed KIA, its Mouse sir."
"Alright…. Boar notify every unit out there to tighten the security around the village, I want every nook and cranny under constant surveillance especially the hospital and the Hokage tower, I want this place searched for any possible loose end and Tell Shikaku Nara to come to my office immediately we'll be having a council meeting afterwards, Today's concrete failure cannot be repeated do I make myself clear?" Demanded the Hokage in an authoritative tone.
"Yes sir!" And with those words Boar body flickered off to fulfill his tasks.
"Lord Hokage!" A dog masked anbu kneeled next to Minato.
"What is it Kakashi?" He asked facing his student.
"The elders have requested your presence for a council meeting, the clan heads have been requested there too, they're waiting on you to arrive." Informed Kakashi.
"Tell them I'll be there shortly you're dismissed Kakashi."
"Yes sir!"
And with that Minato was left by himself to look at the gory scenery as the medics and personnel rushed around to clean the place up.
He looked at his side to spot Tsunade Senju and her assistant shizune standing by her side, The blonde woman gave him a disapproving look as she shook her head, Shizune looked about ready to cry.
He nodded grimly and body flickered out of the scene, if he bother to looked up he would have spotted a small spider watching patiently.
Six days, that's how much time was left until Shiro officially turned 9 years old and he was running out of options. at first, he thought about giving her a simple teddy bear but then he remembered that she had stopped cuddling up to those about a year ago, He didn't have anything valuable to give her since he wasn't a walking talking bank that could crap out money left and right when the time was convenient.
After finishing the academy for the day, he struggled in finding a solution until everything started going too fast for his taste, He went from scouring the marketplace for toys and such to walking through the red light district dressed up as one of the many prostitutes that littered the place around every corner and bar.
After observing the atmosphere that surrounded him, Ada had F̶o̶r̶c̶e̶d̶ Insisted that he would put on a disguise for training to help him further hone his abilities and just like that he was no longer the 10-year-old blonde called Naruto Namikaze but a 25-year-old woman named Inori Shishido….well at least that's the name given to him by Ada.
It wasn't that hard to create Inori into the perfect picture she was, he had simply collected bits here and there from every woman that would walk into his crosshairs and just like that he was now another person entirely.
Inori was a beautiful young woman, she had silky smooth black hair with faded blue tips that extended to her lower back, a heart shaped face and hazel blue eyes. not one second after leaving the alley where he performed the illusion every pair of eyes were attracted to her hourglass figure and smooth fair skin, it didn't help that she was wearing tight clothing too, she walked confidently through the crowds not giving a single damn about the lustful gazes she was receiving.
Underneath the illusion Naruto was having a lot of problems. He did pranks before at the hot springs to both men and women but this was a bit different, he was not used to the numerous cat calls he was receiving from both men and women.
It didn't take long for him to finally start cracking under pressure, the illusion started to fade in and out, when he took notice of this in the reflection of window shop he quickly hid in one of the alleys and dropped the transformation before he was caught.
"Just why am I here doing this?" he asked with a deadpan expression feeling a tick mark appear on his forehead.
"I thought we had established that already, we're training your disguise ability and I have to say that so far it is a huge success, I am impressed! Just look at those reactions!" said Ada projecting a hologram of people drooling over his female disguise on the wall in front of the young blonde.
"Reactions? what is this a TV show for you?" He puzzled in annoyance.
"Maybe?"
"Okay for real though! Why?"
"I thought you needed money to buy a gift for your sister's 9th birthday?" Asked Ada in confusion.
"why would I turn into a female to get mone-… oohhhh." He said as realization suddenly struck him.
"I've taken time to collect some information while you were walking around disguised, this place is riddled with brothels and bars I suggest heading to one of them and simply making the people donate their money whether we have their consent or not"
"Wait hold on! i'm not doing that kind of stuff! it's wrong! i'm a boy and stuff, and that's kind of.." He blushed madly as he looked left and right making sure nobody was around.
"Who said anything about doing that? we're just going to grab directly from the pockets of the millionaire tax evaders that seem to thrive in these parts of the village." Reasoned Ada.
"Well it's becau-" before he could finish that sentence he heard a loud laugh in the distance deciding to investigate he peeked out of the alleyway and spotted a familiar looking person entering what looks to be a brothel named "Liquid passion"
"That bastard." Muttered Naruto as he spotted Jiraiya enter a brothel with some rather attractive looking females.
Naruto hadn't seen Jiraiya for the last few years. Every birthday he had the old-man would send him a box full of…. well annoying toad related things from pajamas to wallets and he had the audacity to sign a picture of himself every damn time and send it to him. Though he did send him this one book that apparently, he was named after so he's grateful for that. Doesn't mean he'd ignore the other things he did.
"That rotten old frog… Ada I think I know where we should start" Said Naruto putting his disguise back up.
"That's great news; I'll be on hold for when you need me."
Hiding behind a dumpster a filthy homeless man watched the entire exchange between a small kid who's able to turn into a smoking hot broad and some strange looking white and blue ball floating in the air.
"Doctor was damn right, first my liver now this shit." said the man smashing his bottle of liquor onto the wall and returning to sleep.
When Inori got closer to the brothel she was starting to get noticed if the hungry looks were anything to go by. so far, she's shot down the requests of 3 different men who offered her money in exchange for a 'good time' and one of them was a man that used to teach at 'her' academy and it was nothing short of disgusting.
And no it wasn't Iruka.
The place was an eye sore, everything was either purple, pink or both, the lights were dim and the place just reeked of booze and…sex not to mention the sounds of moaning that were barely muffled by the slow jazz music, Walking through the small crowds of people who littered the place. her goal right now was to locate Jiraiya and she did, she could see him on the balcony of the first floor talking to a man covered in expensive cosmetics, it was fair to deduce that Jiraiya was speaking to the owner of the brothel/club, she'd decided to head upstairs to get within hearing range.
"Hey you! Hot stuff, black and blue hair." Spoke someone from behind her, when she turned around she was greeted with the sight of a big burly man wearing a fancy business suit, he wore sunglasses to hide his eyes and had gold chains all over his neck.
She tensed up and readied herself. "Yes?" She turned around and asked nicely.
"Well sugar here's the thing, only staff members and VIP can walk into that area, Now unless you're looking to become a staff member I suggest you turn around." He instructed her making sure to get a good grip on her assets much to heir annoyance.
"Sorry I just need to talk to a friend very quickly then I'll leave!" She tried to reason with the man but he was having none of it.
He took a quick sniff from her neck further creeping her out. "Usually there are two types of folks who come dancing to our block, the needy clients and the lovely angels such as you baby so what you really here for sunshine?" He asked as he managed to corner the woman into the wall.
'oh god no.' Thought Naruto wide eyed.
"Play along Naruto we don't want our cover blown so early" Advised Ada.
She sat there for a few moments pondering on what to say until she heard the same laugh from before; she remembered what she came her for.
"I'm here to visit a friend, now please just let me through." She spoke pushing the man off of her to get some breathing room but he was still not convinced.
"And who would that friend be exactly sugar? It wouldn't happen to be me would it?" He asked leaning in closer a smirk on his face as he tried to claim her lips.
"You're right. it isn't you, It's your boss actually." She answered pushing him off again.
"Oh really? I don't remember the boss man ever speaking about someone of your…. Description." He noted as he narrowed his eyes through the glasses.
'God this guy just doesn't quit, can you shake him off Ada?'
"use your eyes."
'Oh yea.'
"I don't think he would want to indulge my information with the likes of you." She sneered crossing her arms over her chest while glaring coldly at the big man.
"Oh, come you don't have to be mean sweet mama, say how about me and you get a nice and cozy room to ourselves and just forget you tried to waltz in here like you own the place. whatcha say?" He offered putting his arm over her shoulders.
He leaned in closer. "I'll make it worth your time sexy." He whispered, He suddenly stiffened as felt something cold press against his neck.
He made eye contact with the woman and saw her eyes shining a green color.
"You will walk the other way and forget that we ever crossed paths." she told him in a monotone voice.
The man turned very quiet as he stiffly obeyed her orders and walked a way without further incident.
Once Inori got closer to Jiraiya and the owner of the brothel, the two men looked at her general direction but before she could get any closer another bodyguard popped up blocking her way.
"State your business Miss" said the bodyguard.
"I'm here to speak to a friend of mine he's sitting right there" she spoke pointing at the man behind him.
"I'm sorry Lady but boss is currently busy. Come back another time and make sure you have scheduled a meeting beforehand." He told her much to her disappointment.
"What's the matter Genjiro?" Asked the owner taking a peek at the woman, if it wasn't for the pink lights around everybody would have seen the small blush on his face, the same could be said for Jiraiya.
"Daisuke-sama. this lady came here to speak with you. Says she's a friend of yours" He explained.
When the guard moved off to the side both men were able to get a good look at the woman in front of them, unknown to the bodyguard and Jiraiya, Inori's eyes glowed green when Daisuke made eye contact with her.
"Wait that face and those precious eyes it couldn't be Inori Shishido? Is it really you?" He asked not believing his eyes.
"I-In the flesh!" She stuttered momentarily after meeting the gaze of Jiraiya before giving off a nervous smile.
"My goodness it's been far too long since I have last seen you! How are you holding up darling." standing up Daisuke went for a hug to which Inori returned awkwardly.
"I see you've been making new friends Daisuke, that isn't like you" Remarked Jiraiya taking a sip of his sake, eyes glued to the new woman.
"Well what can I say Jiraiya, Inori here holds a special place in my heart, we've known each other for years now…what was it 4 or 5 years? Bah who cares it's good to have you back girl come sit down with us, here let me introduce you to my pal Jiraiya here I'm sure you've heard of him! He's one of the legendary sannin!" he bubbled happily.
"Greetings Jiraiya-sama! Let just say it's a pleasure to finally meet you after having heard so many of your tales and adventures!" She said with a smile taking a spot next to Daisuke.
"The pleasure is mine Milady, so Daisuke mind introducing me to this lovely maiden or should I just ask her myself?"
"Oh right where have my manners gone to! Jiraiya meet Inori Shishido a longtime friend of mine, 5 years ago when you were outta town this fine angel graced this establishment with her presence and saved us from bankruptcy though sadly she doesn't work here…yet." He laughed that last part out.
"Oh, stop it you!" She punched his arm lightly giggling softly into her hand.
'I think I'm going to puke.' Thought the blonde skillfully masking his disgust.
"Hey hey come on! you know we're only joking here so what are you drinking darling? It's on the house!" He offered to the woman.
"Well in that case, I'll take whatever you recommend for me" She accepted letting him choose for her.
"Alright that's more like it! Genjiro get us a liquid passion special!"
"Right away sir!" Responded the guard.
Jiraiya kept eyeing the woman trying to answer a question he didn't know he was asking, just who was she? He didn't recall ever seeing or hearing about her from Daisuke when he gave his yearly reports and didn't remember once when liquid passion was on the verge of bankruptcy it was almost like she jumped into his life out of nowhere.
"Seeing something you like Jiraiya?" Teased Daisuke getting another shot of sake down his throat.
"Well I'm just curious about something Miss Shishido." He said shifting his gaze from the woman's chest to her eyes.
'Oh boy.' Thought Naruto.
"And what would that be Jiraiya-sama?" She asked, it was at this point that Naruto started feeling uneasy.
"What do you exactly do?" He asked
"I beg your pardon?" She said not sure of the question
"I meant what you do for a living? I'm sorry if this might sound rude but I do not recall ever hearing or seeing you, heck even Daisuke never mentioned you once and me and him do tend to talk a lot." Stated Jiraiya sending the woman a calculating stare.
"Well I guess it's normal that way, it's true that me and Daisuke-kun are good friends but I tend not to stick around much since I'm a traveler you see, I've only just recently got back to the leaf."
"And where do you travel to exactly?" He pressed more on the matter much to her annoyance.
"Well I go all around honestly, I have no destination, I just go wherever the wind takes me so let's leave it at that." She told him, Deep down he was still not convinced but he brushed it off for now.
"Well you know what? you came at the right time. I was about to show Jiraiya an amazing find by one of my men but now that you're here you'll get to see it with us too." Said Daisuke completely defusing the situation that was about to escalate.
"Hmmm was it that hidden treasure thing near the iron border? I remember you wrote to me about an excavation but that was a long time ago." Remarked Jiraiya taking another gulp of sake.
"Yes indeed, we've been able to hold out that position for over 2 years now and they've came back with a ton of goodies, let's head on to my office!" And with those words Daisuke stood up and led the two towards his private room.
20 minutes later.
From the sidelines Naruto watched both men grope the air and drool over nothing, while he kept them busy with an illusion he was currently working his way around the stuff Daisuke just uncovered in front of them, in front of him was a box full of different kinds of metals, jewelry and sculptures, He didn't know what to grab exactly and that's why it had taken so long.
"Inori-chan I think we should take this an extra step further don't ya think" proposed Daisuke.
Naruto turned around to look at the guy not sure what he meant exactly, seeing that Ada wasn't around currently he had to act quick so he turned back to the box and snatched a golden heart shaped necklace that had a Green jewel attached to it.
"God this guy is really starting to get on my nerves." He muttered to himself.
"I've barely been able to hold myself together when you are around and now when we're like this I just wanna please you, what do you say heck even Jiraiya can join us if he wants to."
Jiraiya was about to say something but he noticed that the door leading outside the room had opened by itself and closed, finding that suspicious he decided to investigate and leave the two to enjoy themselves.
"That'll be a no from me, you two have fun." He winked at them before leaving the room.
"Well sucks for him…so how about we…" He was about to finish when suddenly Inori faded out of existence.
"Huh…. why the hell am I inside of my office? Where's…. Where's Jiraiya?" He asked himself, looking down at his pants, his cheeks turned pink when he found out that he had wet his under garments and pants with liquid passion.
Jiraiya didn't know exactly what he was following but if it wasn't for the fact that it left behind blurs he would have lost it ages ago, he would have thought he was just hallucinating if it wasn't for the fact that the blur is pushing people off and knocking off things.
When he had cornered it into an alley it had completely stopped and disappeared, he tried to sense its presence and that's when he realized that it was a familiar signature, his belly bloated and suddenly oil started to pour out of his mouth covering the entire area, when he was done there was a figure of what looked like a child.
"What." Was the only thing Jiraiya could say as he stared into the child's amethyst eyes finding them captivating, upon further thought they reminded him of someone but he couldn't remember who.
"Why couldn't you just stay back in that filthy place you stupid old frog?" Hissed the drenched figure.
'It couldn't be…that voice, Naruto?' thought Jiraiya.
"Naruto is that you?" He asked hoping thinking that his senses were deceiving him.
"Yes, you've made a big mistake."
"What are you talking about and more importantly what were you doing in that brothel? That is not a place for a child!" He shouted, suddenly Jiraiya found himself unable to move as an electric shock paralyzed his body, he fell down on his knees as he watched young Naruto move closer towards him.
"Well it's nothing we can't fix, just hold still old man." said Naruto making eye contact with Jiraiya,
To the sage it looked like Naruto had more talent and skill than he led on others to believe, he didn't know that it was in fact Ada that had pinned him down from behind sending constant waves of electricity to keep him pacified, he really needed to tell Minato and Kushina about this since he's pretty sure they wouldn't know anything about it if they didn't mention it to him when he'd spoken with the couple because Naruto just might be a wild card right about now.
It didn't make sense to Jiraiya though, why would an average academy student hide this much potential and power, the stuff he'd seen the kid pull off so far was not something you'd expect for somebody who had an average record such as Naruto's.
"Why are you doing this Naruto just answer me, everything will be okay if we just talk this out." Negotiated Jiraiya but his words fell on deaf ears.
"We have nothing to talk about, just look at my eyes and we'll finish this quickly." Spoke Naruto, Jiraiya didn't wanna do it but he stared at the child's orbs against his will.
His eyes flashed a green color, Jiraiya kept staring at Naruto and then fell off to the side unconscious, moments later Naruto crouched next to him breathing heavily as a bit of blood leaked from his eyes and mixed with the oil causing it to burn painfully.
"oww dammit!"
"Don't worry Naruto, I'll help." Said Ada as it moved in providing him with a healing stream of Nanites, they also served in absorbing the oil drying the child.
"Thank you, looks like I over did like you said I would." Said Naruto rubbing his eyes before opening them up and adjusting to the light.
"We should get out before we attract any unwanted attention."
"No arguments there."
The both of them left the area leaving an incapacitated Jiraiya lying against the oily ground.
"Naurto…" The man muttered in his sleep.
-The Next day-
Satsuki grunted as she continued her assault on a wooden post out in the middle of a field and after a series of hard strikes she backed up and made a few hand signs.
"Fire-Ball technique!" She yelled before lifting her hand over her mouth and blowing out flames effectively incinerating the training post.
"Hey what the hell! We're still using that thing!" Shouted Naruto at the Raven.
"Not anymore, idiot." She replied coolly without sparing him a glance.
"That's it! Me and you, spar right now!" He told her making her turn to face him, she gave him that trademark smug grin of hers. "Thought you'd never ask."
"Alright you know the rules! First one to take more than 5 hits loses and if you get caught off guard same thing applies." Spoke Naruto.
She scoffed taking a battle stance. "Who are you lecturing? Forget who's number one?" She taunted.
"Number one to hit the dirt maybe." He retorted.
"Bring it Blondie!" she urged him.
He quickly closed the gap between them as he jumped above her and aimed a precise kick to her face; she quickly put her arms up and blocked his attack as the momentum and force of the kick pushed them both backwards.
Sliding against the ground she quickly clutched his leg and used his momentum against him as she twisted his foot and threw him against a nearby tree; His legs shattered the wood he pressed against before jumping off narrowly avoiding a set of shuriken that planted themselves where he once was.
Satsuki narrowed her eyes as she waited for him to emerge from the cover of the tree, she squinted then widened her eyes in shock as she saw a barrage of kunai launching at her.
She did her best to deflect all of them before side stepping away from the area and retreated, feeling her patience run thin she did the only logical thing for her at the time and sent a fire ball flaming towards the tree.
"Great fireball Technique!" She shouted and watched the fiery projectile launch towards his position.
"What the hell!" He shouted as he watched the ball of flames rocketing towards him. "Okay, okay! Crap!" He said to himself before his eyes lies lit up with an idea.
"Wind release! Air blades!" He shouted after a series of hand signs before using his hands to produce two slashes of win that served to stop the attack dead in its track.
Satsuki watched her attack blow up in midair in amazement, suddenly Naruto jumped at her through the smoke. Her breath hitched as she hastily readied herself for the engagement.
"Haaa!" He shouted at the top of his lungs delivering a downwards punch which the Uchiha used her forearms to block, she hissed in pain as she felt them go numb from the blow before blocking a sneaky upper cut he tried to deliver.
She used her right foot to hit him dead in the knees which served to down him on the ground; she back flipped away from him delivering a blow to his chin in the process.
Naruto wiped the spit from his mouth before standing up and throwing 2 shuriken at her, she easily dodged them but in the process forgot to pay attention to nearing Naruto who kneed her in the stomach and kicked her a few feet away.
"Dammit." She muttered under her breath as she looked up to find nobody around. "Peek a boo." Naruto said from behind before getting elbowed in the chin and dissipating into smoke.
When the smoke cleared she came face to face with the real Naruto and felt a cold piece of metal pressing against her neck.
"Well looks like I won." Naruto stated smugly.
"Look again." She told him coolly.
He raised a brow and looked down only to find a Kunai poking against his abdomen and frowned. "Yeah…no." he said confusing her.
"Still won." Another Naruto said from behind her with a kunai pressing against her back.
"What? When?" she asked with confusion written all over her face. "Where's the fun in that?" he simply said.
"Hn." She regained her composure as she lowered her Kunai. "You may have won this one but next time you won't be so lucky." She told him.
"what that makes us even now doesn't it?" He asked pocketing his own weapon as the clone dispatched itself.
"Yes." She said shortly.
"Wanna go again?"
"Let's take a little break first, As bitter as it is for me to admit you punch really hard." Said Satsuki as she walked to rest under one of the trees, Naruto followed closely.
"so…"
"shut up."
"Awhh."
