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Chapter 3: First mission
Naruto woke up, stretched, and looked to his right to see that the girl was still sleeping. Then he turned to his left to see two corpses laying on the ground. 'Wait a minute, two? I thought there were three of them. I should get rid of them before she wakes up' thought Naruto. He walked to the corpses and started dragging them to a nearby river. 'Ok river, do your job' thought Naruto and threw both corpses in the river. When he got back, he noticed the girl getting up. "Hey, you ok?" asked Naruto. The girl jumped in shock that someone was behind her. "Look, you don't need to fear me. I'm not going to hurt you" said Naruto. The girl just turned around to see a blond boy with a orange jumpsuit. She was still afraid of him because she didn't know what he was going to do with her. He just stared at her and finally said "Why are you so afraid of me? I'm not going to hurt you or anything". She didn't know why, but his words calmed her a little bit. She murmured something under her breath that Naruto couldn't hear. "What did you say? I couldn't hear you". "W-who are y-you?" she asked a little bit louder. "my name's Uzumaki Naruto. And you are?" Asked Naruto. When she was about to answer, they both heard a shout coming from behind the bushes "THERE THEY ARE!". And with that, Five bandits came in to the view. Naruto stood there, looking at those bandits as if they were even more stupid than he thought. 'Now I know where the last bandit went' thought Naruto. He then turned to the girl and said "stay behind me and everything will b alright". The girl just nodded and ran behind him. Then Naruto turned to the five bandits. "This time I'm going to go easy on you". He threw 5 shurikens. 4 of them hit 4 bandits in the head, the fifth bandit dodged and started running toward Naruto with a kunai in hand. Naruto drew his own kunai and dashed forward to end this. When the bandit tried to cut Naruto head off, Naruto ducked and kicked in his gut, then stabbed his kunai right in his neck and sent him flying to a nearby tree. "at least this one was a little bit stronger" said Narruto and then turned to see that girl was shaking in fear. "don't worry," said Naruto "I don't think they will be sending more any time soon". The girl just stared at him. "D-don't you feel guilty for k-killing them?" she asked. "Killing is never easy, but they are thugs. By the way, why were you running from them?" asked Naruto. The girl looked down and said "They wanted to sell me to Gato to be his slave. They were taking me to his hideout when I ran away from them. When they caught me, you showed up". Naruto was very angry… no, he was furious. Who could sell people as slaves? 'Hey, kit, I sense something inside of her. It's not a tailed beast, but it is almost as strong as me'. Said Kyubi. Naruto just stared at her. 'I wonder what it is' he thought. 'I have no idea, but be careful around her' said kyubi. "um, where are your parents?" asked Naruto. The girl just hung her head. "Oh, I'm sorry" said Naruto. The girl looked at him and asked "can you take me back to my villege?". Naruto thought for a moment and said "sure, but I still don't know your name". Said Naruto. "It's Midori" she said. With that they started walking toward the village.
When they got there, Naruto was in shock. It was a dump. Every house was in a very bad shape. Almost every person looked like shit. What shocked him more was two bandits holding a man. They threw him on the ground and said "This will happen to everyone if you mess with Gato". Then he took his sword and was about to cut the mans head off, but Naruto couldn't just watch, he ran and grabbed the sword. He then quickly took his kunai and slashed across the bandit neck. The bandit fell to the ground. Naruto then turned to the other bandit and said "Tell That Gato guy that I'll be waiting for him when he stops being a fucking coward". With that the other bandit left the village shaking from fear. Naruto then turned to the man on the ground and helped him stand up "Hey, you ok mister?" he asked. "Yea, thanks to you," the man said, "um… Who are you exactly, I haven't seen you around here". Naruto looked up at him "I'm Naruto and if we are going to talk about where I came from, can we do it more privately?" Naruto asked. The man looked at Naruto suspiciously "fine, we can talk somewhere out of this village," he said, "I'm Kaiza". Naruto looked behind him to see Midori looking sad. He looked to the villagers nearby and saw them giving angry stares at her. 'She's just like me' he thought. Naruto then looked back at her "Hey, Midori," Naruto said, gaining her attention, "you coming?". This caught her off guard. 'If only he knew' she thought. She looked down again and didn't know what to say. If she agreed, someone could tell him about her. If she refuse, he could think that she only used him to get home. She didn't know what to do. Kaiza looked at her and said "You should come with us". Kaiza was one of a few people that are nice to her. She looked at him "ok" she said. The three of them started walking. Naruto noticed that almost every person was sending angry glares at Midori. When they left the village Kaiza was the first to speak "so where are you from?" he asked. Naruto really didn't want to tell anyone about his dark past, but he hoped he could trust Kaiza and Midori. He told everything about his past and why he ran away. Well, he didn't tell them about being a jinchuriki. Midori and Kaiza had different thoughts about Narutos life. 'He's almost like me' thought Midori. 'What kind of monsters live in that place?' thought Kaiza. None of them noticed that someone was listening from behind the tree. 'Gato will sure love to hear this' the mystery man thought and started silently walking away.
Naruto then looked at Kaiza "Now I have some questions for you" he said. "Who is this Gato?". Kaizas mood suddenly changed to angry "Gato is money thirsty demon. He came here few years back and demanded that we give him massive amounts of money every month. He also hired some bandits so that we would behave. He thinks he can do anything he wants, he even started taking our women as sex slaves to him and his men. I'm one of one of a few people that stand against him and try to fight back, but our we can't do anything". After hearing this, Naruto was extremely angry. He had to do something about Gato. "I'll take care of Gato" he said. Kaiza looked him confused "what can you do? He has hundreds of bandits in his base and you're just one child" he said. Naruto looked at him "I'm not just a kid," he paused for a second and grinned, "I'm a one man army" he finished making cross hand sign and said "Shadow clone jutsu" and when a smoke cleared, there stood hundred Narutos, all of them smirking. Kaizas was shocked while Midori watched with stars in her eyes. "You see, I'm not just one kid" Naruto said then dispelled his clones. Kaiza looked him with open mouth and finally spoke "wh-what a-are you?". Naruto gave him one of his famous foxy grins "I'm Uzumaki Naruto, the runaway from Konoha and your saviour" he said. Kaiza smirked "You will not kill Gato alone," he said, "I'm going with you". Midori looked at Naruto "I'm want to help too," she said, "but after that I want you to teach me that clone thing". Naruto looked at her "Can you access your chakra?" he asked. "Yes, but I don't know how to use it" she said a little disappointed. Naruto smirked again "don't worry, I'll help you" he said.
Gato's hideout, two hours later
Gato was furious. One of his bandits came back earlier and told him that some blond kid stopped their execution. How can a fucking kid stop two bandits. He was about to yell, but he heard knocking from behind the door. "Come in" he said. When the door opened, one man walked in "Lord Gato," he started, "I have information about that blond kid". This got Gato's attention "go on, don't just stand there" he said. The man said everything he heard from that conversation. Gato was pleased. He had a perfect plan. He quickly wrote something and gave it to the man "quickly send this to Konoha". The man took the letter and left the room. This day just got a lot better for Gato.
Konoha, the next morning
The third was looking through his mail like every other morning. One letter caught his eye. It had Gato's sign on it. He quickly read through it and said "get me ANBU team here now". Few minutes later four ANBU walked in. The third told them that Naruto was seen in Wave and their mission was to guard Gato from him. "and don't kill him" he added, "we need him here alive". With that the ANBU left to wave.
And done. Hope you liked it. Btw can you guess what is sealed in Midori? I'll give you a hint. It has a head, two wings and a tail… Ok no more hints :D Wait for next chapter :)