Final fantasy 8 world I agree, to you on that one, but since Naruto has had time to look around the forgotten city under Konoha and he is the only one that knows its down there, he came across something that let him know of all the different types of creatures there was a long time ago. If that doesn't sit with you, he found a monster encyclopedia and saw a lion bird unicorn thing that was called a griever. It does kind of look like a lion head but it looks like the mane is larger and longer than it should be giving note to some type of wings to an extent.
I am actually kind of surprised by the amount of genderbent, and good looking art, that both squall and cloud both have along with several others such as the devil may cry people, but surprised that there are no other writers that have done them, I have seen others of Naruto that have been swapped, but not many if any of other things. I have one that has dante and squall both swapped in it, though some of you may not like it as much, the devil angel summoner, only has two chapters and actually don't know exactly where to go with it at the moment.
As the group traveled on to the destination that Kurenai and her team was at, Sasuke and Sakura kept trying to take the sword from his back only to keep failing no matter what they did.
"So Kakashi…"
"YOU BAKA, SHOW RESPECT AND ADRESS HIM AS SENSEI!" Sakura screamed out.
"What can you tell me about this mission and team 8's sensei?" Naruto asked completely ignoring the screaming girl.
"Well, the mission was supposed to be just another routine mission, spy on the bandits learn what they are up to and report back. Kurenai is what you call a genjutsu mistress, her primary skill is illusions, though she knows other things she focuses on the genjutsu aspect of being a ninja. Unlike you or myself, who focus on the other two, myself as nin and you as ken and tai put together." Kakashi told him casually as they jumped from tree to tree.
"So basically she makes you see things rather than actually attacking you, and when she is caught by a faster stronger opponent, she is screwed since she has no other actual skills that could save her." Naruto summed it up.
"That is one way to put it, but that is how we all are in truth. If someone were able to catch me and they were faster and stronger, I would be in the same bout unless they were less experienced than myself."
"Right. We're here." Naruto said as he spotted a small fire in the distance as they started to slow before he jumped to the clearing that was with the fire.
"Kurenai, we are the back up for your team." Kakashi told her getting her to raise an eyebrow at that.
"I thought Hokage Sama would send more Jounin not gennin." She told him truthfully.
"So did I, but he felt that at least two of us were more than capable of doing this." Kakashi told her.
"So which is the other, one I assume is you."
"True, he says its Naruto, since he beat me when we were testing."
"Sword boy?"
"Naruto not sword boy bandage." Naruto spoke to her getting her attention as well as making a jab at her attire that actually did look like bandages wrapped around her.
"I am not into bondage." She growled out.
"I said bandage, not bondage, but I will file that down for future reference. Now what are we dealing with?" he asked plainly causing her to raise an eyebrow at that.
"The bandits are not only bandits, they have missing Nin in there group, as well as women enslavement, this is basically a sex camp and we were nearly detected."
"So where is it?" he casually asked her with a blank look on his face as he looked at her.
"What do you think you can do against a camp of bandits and several missing Nin dobe, you were the dead last out of all of us." Kiba asked him haughtily.
"I plan to obviously walk right in and ask directions to the women so that I may free them, to which they no doubt would give them to me with no fight, or hesitation. Why? You have a better plan?" Naruto told him sarcastically.
"Kiba, watch yourself, he is the back up, he can very well leave us here to die if you aren't nice to him. He would be under no punishment either since those that do not behave to help are under scrutiny. The camp is almost a mile away from here to the north. We were originally going to follow what plan the reinforcements made when they got here and do it the next day so that they could rest." She told them getting nods.
"Naruto, scout the camp, be careful not to be seen while you're at it." Kakashi told him getting a nod as he disappeared from their sights.
"Why would you give him that job, he will only fail it?" Kiba said getting a raised eyebrow from Kakashi and Kurenai.
"Are you telling me that a gennin, one that has escaped any and all Anbu level shinobi, hidden from Jounin and said Anbu, cant complete a mission that I give him that suits his abilities?" Kakashi asked him with a serious look on his face causing Kiba to immediately become silent and look down at the ground.
"So tell me this skills you're gennin have Kakashi." Kurenai told him.
"Well we have the rookie of the year, a fan girl, and finally Naruto." He spoke as if that explained everything to her.
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As he moved throughout the camp, Naruto looked around for any sights that are dangerous or week. He noticed that the women were all in a single large cage, signifying that the bandits had been there for a while now. The missing nin that Kurenai had spoken of were in a tent in the middle of the camp while talking about the things that they would do to the woman that had escaped them, most likely talking about her.
Seeing enough of what he camp looked like Naruto started to return to the other ninja, while still remaining unseen until he made himself known by them.
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"Kakashi sensei, why do we have to put up with that baka anyway? Sasuke kun is so much better than he is anyway." Sakura said to him getting a glare from Naruto as he heard this.
"Because, Sakura, the Hokage told us to and he is my student." Kakashi told her while reading his book.
"How can you talk like that to a fellow ninja Haruno?" Kurenai asked with a narrow eye at her.
"He is useless. He doesn't know what it is to be a ninja, he always slows us down and gets in Sasuke Kun's way." She told the sensei getting a raised eyebrow from her at the apparent stupidity of the girl.
"And how does he slow you down?"
"He gets in our way, tries to take the spotlight of Sasuke Kun. That is reason enough. He tries to act cool yet he never is."
"You do know that I own the most visited bar/restaurant combo in Konoha and only have two other people that work with me, right? You do know that this bar is frequented by ninja, children the kage, the heads of clans and several different civilians, right?" Naruto's voice called out as he appeared behind Sakura causing her to jump in fright. "As well as the fact that I scared you and caused you to jump right now?"
"You baka, you don't own anything like that." She screamed out at him.
"Actually, Haruno, he does, has ever since he was in the academy, I go there I with some of my friends. He doesn't turn people away simply because they are not liked. His bar is a true haven for others." Kurenai told her with a glare at dissing her favorite bar and its owner. "So Naruto, what did you find out, aside from my initial surveillance?" she asked him as she looked at him.
"There are several mission Nin, the women are all held in a cage near the center of camp, this indicates that they have been here for at least several months and don't plan to move around that much or at all. The cage is large and heavy looking with the steel bars. There are enough bandits to lay siege to the small town near here. Most however, can't even use what they know from the looks of them but I would still advice to be cautious around them just in case they do know." Naruto informed her getting a nod.
"We attack tomorrow when we are all rested up, Naruto you attack the main gate and give us the signal, the rest of us will be spread around the camp waiting." Kakashi told him getting a nod.
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The next morning, Naruto crouched in a tree, while he waited for the others to gather in position for their own jobs.
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"Why did you give the baka that job sensei, he will only screw up." Sakura commented getting a sigh from him.
"He was given that job because he is the most likely aside from Kakashi, to live through it and still be able to fight. If you like we could switch you with Naruto." Kurenai told her causing the girl to immediately become silent.
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"Were ready Naruto, go ahead." He heard Kurenai speak over the radio attached to his turtle neck.
"Roger, get ready." He spoke back as he jumped down to the road.
Walking calmly up to them, a smile on his face.
"What do you want kid?" one of them gruffly spoke to him with a glare.
"Ah, could you direct me to the closest village, I got lost and wandered away from my caravan." Naruto spoke to them looking sheepish as the two men smirked at him.
"Then they won't care if you die…" the man spoke as they suddenly found themselves cut in half by Naruto.
"Oh right, I forgot to mention that they are waiting for me, sorry." Naruto said before he looked on at the growing mob of bandits with a glare on his face as he remembered what they had done.
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"How will we know the signal sensei?" Shino asked Kurenai as they didn't know.
"Oh, if I know Naruto like I think I do, we can't miss it." She said with a light smile on her face.
Suddenly they saw a massive wave of blue energy cut right down the camp evenly.
"Yep, can't miss it." She said before they started to go.
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"Come on boys, can't you take down a simple gennin?" Naruto mocked at them with a grin on his face while swinging the massive sword in his hand as if it were paper.
"Come on laddies, we can't let this boy beat us, we are the bandits of neroshaki. We will not be beaten so easily." One of the elder men said to the rest causing a wave of war cries to erupt from them.
"My, my, you are all coming for me when I only have a single sword and am all alone, I feel honored." Naruto said to them with a smile on his face taunting them even more.
"You will die here boy." The eldest one spoke out as he charged at him.
Grinning Naruto brought the first blade above his head as it started to glow with a blue fire running along the edge, "come then, meet me head on, FLASH WAVE." Naruto spoke before he yelled and brought the blade down releasing a massive wave of the blue fire like energy out at them causing every one of their eyes to widen at the sight of it.
If they looked behind them, they would have noticed that it slashed right down the middle of the camp and slit right through the lock that held the cage shut. The women inside looked slightly shocked that the cage started to slide open after the wave hit it, but not ones to look a gift horse in the mouth, they immediately capitalized on this and bolted out of the cage and across the camp straight into Kurenai and Hinata who had started to go in.
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Shino and Kiba were working in tandem as they moved through, taking care of any bandits that were close to them or going to where their sensei and other teammate were.
Sasuke had left Sakura behind and headed at the missing Nin, who happened to be heading to the most dangerous one that was there, oddly enough, they saw this person as Naruto himself since he didn't move an inch after releasing that wave aside from slicing up the bandits that came at him. Sakura yards behind Sasuke as she ran after him, screaming for him to slow down and wait for her to catch up.
Kakashi was near Naruto while he took care of any stragglers that the bandits had in their group. He saw the missing Nin near and about to use jutsu against the teen before he could reach them to stop them or help Naruto, being held up as he killed the bandits.
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"What's this, a child attacking our camp? The foolishness." One of the two missing Nin spoke as he glared at Naruto.
"Heh, we should just get this over with and kill him brother." The other spoke.
"Hmm, look, small fry." Naruto spoke casually as he grinned at them causing them to grow angered at him and the comment.
"What the hell you fucking little shit?"
"Sorry, I don't speak lunatic. But I have a teammate that can, if you wait a bit you can get him to translate for you." Naruto told them casually, not bothered in the slightest by the waves of anger flying from them.
"You little shit… YOU WILL DIE. EARTH STYLE: EARTH DRAGON JUTSU." The first of the two spoke as he sent a dragon of earth at him.
"Oh, did I make you angry?" Naruto asked calmly to them. Kakashi's eyes widened as he saw Naruto swing up with the blade that he held in front of him, slicing the dragon in half straight down the middle, sending it on either side of him letting it hit the bandits that were trying to attack him Fron behind.
"Oh wait, I think you missed me."
"You little fuck, you hit our followers."
"No it didn't. You did, it was your dragon not mine." Naruto told them with a shrug nearly causing Kakashi to laugh at them.
"You made it hit them you little shit." The second one yelled at him.
"Well, if you hadn't tried to hit me with it then it wouldn't have it them either." Naruto spoke before he saw Kakashi come up behind one of them. "But I think now should be the time to end it." Naruto spoke to them before he sped forward, pushing off the ground with tremendous force as he sailed forward just as Kakashi stabbed the first in the neck.
"Good work Naruto, you lived."
"Yeah, nothing much to it, they were weak." He told the elder ninja.
"Dobe, you took my kill."
"nope." Was all Naruto said to him causing him to face fault as he ran at Naruto.
"You baka stop trying to be cooler than Sasuke Kun, you are nothing compared to him." Sakura screeched as she finally caught up.
Looking slightly behind her, Naruto rose an eyebrow before he threw his sword impaling right next to her ear with deadly precision.
"YOU BAKA, ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME?" Sakura screamed at him.
"Look behind you Sakura." Was all Kakashi had to say before she paled at the sight of a bandit with the large sword sticking him to a post right behind her.
"No thanks required ungrateful brat." Naruto told her as he pulled the sword out and swung it around himself to get the blood off it.
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After they were all done, Naruto sat on a branch above Kurenai as she stood at their camp looking over the females that were saved. Sakura was still shaken by the fact that Naruto threw his sword at her, in her mind trying to kill her, while Sasuke glared at the spot he thought Naruto was in, seeing as the teen jumped into the trees before they got to the camp.
"Are you all aright?" Kurenai asked the women getting light nods from them.
"Yes, we are unharmed to say the least." One spoke to her.
"At least you aren't injured, do you all live in the town near here?"
"Most of us, some were caught before they settled the camp here." the same one spoke.
"If you like we can give you a place in Konoha, unless you want to return to where you are from." Naruto suddenly spoke up causing several to gasp at that.
"Relax ladies, I have someone that I somewhat like already and I don't fierce myself on others, you have nothing to fear from me." He told them as he saw their scared looks. Thinking of his bar and the brown haired woman that helped run it.
"He is right though, if you like to we can take you with us back to Konoha." Kurenai told them agreeing with Naruto.
"Would we be accepted there though?"
"If not, you can work for me at my bar. It's a nice place, don't need to worry about being ordered around or taken advantage of." He told them.
"That part is right as well. From what I know he only has two other girls working for him and one is sort of like the co-owner, the other is a friend of his. He doesn't care who you are as long as you will work and have a good time while doing it." She told them.
"Alright, we will go with you, we appreciate the assistance, sir." The one that spoke bowed to him getting him to laugh.
"no need to bow, we are co-workers, my other two workers will be more experienced than you and you may feel like you are only slowing them down, but don't worry you will get better as time goes." He told them as he dropped down next to Kurenai.
"Let's go back then, shall we?" Kurenai asked them getting nods from the girls and the two teams. All but what seemed to be three or four girls were from the village that was close so they all went back to the village to be with their friends and family while the remained ones followed them.
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"Yo. We have some guests you two." Naruto told the two gate guards that sat there looking at him.
"Go on then Naruto. The Hokage wanted you guys when you came back anyway."
"Kotetsu, could you take them to the bar and tell Seiko that they are prospective workers for me?" Naruto asked the other guard getting a shrug as he had nothing better to do than agree so he gestured for them to follow before he started to head to the Seventh heaven.
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"Hey old man." Naruto spoke as he opened the door, causing Sakura to glare at him but keep her mouth shut.
"Hello Naruto. I see you made it back fine. Anything I should know of?"
"New workers for Seventh heaven." Naruto told him.
"Girls from the bandit camp I take it?"
"Yeah, a few were not from around here and wanted to come with us, so I gave them a job to help them start out here. Besides, Seiko chan likes her time off." Naruto told him getting a nod as he knew that as well, having seen her laying on him before.
"How is she these days anyway? I haven't been able to go see the bar in a while."
"Still loves to read, train and relax, she is pretty much the second owner now anyways since she lives with me there."
"Yeah, I know. Now on to the mission…" the Hokage started before the door opened and walked in three people.
"Since this pertains to Sasuke Sama we felt it was prudent that we be present." Danzo spoke.
"You are not needed civilian." Naruto spoke to him causing the man to glare with his lone eye at Naruto.
"We wish him to be here."
"Fuck off, the council has no say or presence in this mission." Naruto spoke coldly to them.
"We are the elders of the village brat we can…" Koharu started to say.
"Actually, you don't get to be here if you want to, only when I call you. So good day, this is a mission still and you are interrupting." The kage told them causing them to frown and glare at Naruto for pointing out that it was a mission.
"Now why don't you tell me the details." The kage asked after they left the room.
Telling him of what happened and how it went down, Naruto and the rest were released and let go on their way home.
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Entering the bar, Naruto was on the receiving end of an annoyed Ami and a slightly amused looking Seiko.
"Well Naruto, I see you agreed to more workers." She told him.
"Yeah, you like to relax and read, this way you can help when you want and relax otherwise. We would just need to cover for them when they are starting so they can learn how to do everything." Naruto told Seiko getting a nod from her as she understood what he meant.
"True, alright." She spoke as she nodded.