Team Anko and Team 8 are currently jumping from tree to tree in an effort to reach the town of Haven in the next day or two.
Naruto looked at Anko and said "Anko-sensei, what does this town have going for it?"
Anko shrugged and said "It's a small farming town; there shouldn't be anything of value in it."
Kurenai said "We'll just have to speak with the mayor when we get thwere."
Naruto glanced at Hinata and said "So Hinata, how strong have you gotten?"
Hinata blushed and said "I'm not all that strong, Naruto-kun; I'm always losing to my little sister and I'm a burden to my team."
Before Kurenai could respond Naruto said "Well who would want to hurt the little sister; you don't hurt your family. You're also not a burden to your team; your eyes let you make sure no one sneaks up on the team, your taijutsu allows you to stop your opponent's ability to use jutsu and knock them unconscious. Those points sounds awesome, wish I could do that. How would you like to start training with me when we have down time?"
Hinata blushed and said "You really want to train with me?"
Naruto smiled and said "Of course, I'm trying to create my own style and having a person whose family excels in taijutsu. It will also get me used to fighting someone other than Anko-sensei."
Hinata smiled and said "I'd love to Naruto-kun."
Naruto gave her a large smile and said "Awesome, pretty soon we'll be totally badass."
Kurenai looked at Anko and said "Naruto seems nice?"
Anko smiled and said "He's also the best student any sensei could ask for. He doesn't complain when we train, he never gives up and he works at a problem until he solves it.
1½ days later town of Haven…
Team Anko and Team 8 are currently standing in front of the Mayor of Haven, Koji Takeda.
Koji said "Thank you for coming on such short notice."
Anko stepped forward and said "You're welcome mayor, but what can you tell us about the bandits?"
Koji said "Up until 2 weeks ago they weren't anything to worry about; the only attacked a few of the outlying farms and the farmers where able to fend them off for the most part. Something happened with their leaders, because they started to attack with greater force and strategies. We were still able to hold them off for the most part, but last week they started to use ninjutsu against us. I was going to send a request for aid at the end of this week, but while I was visiting some of the outlying farms, those bastards kidnaped my wife and my 6 year old twin daughters. So please help me get them back."
Anko scowled and said "Which way is their base?"
Koji said "It's in a large fortress several miles to the east. The fortress is a relic from the 3rd shinobi war."
Kurenai said "Don't worry Mayor; we'll get them back and put a stop to these bandits."
After leaving the Mayors house, it took them 3 hours to find the fortress and in that time it started to rain.
Anko scanned the fortress and said "Hianta, activate your Byakugan and let us know what you see?"
After a few moments Hinata said "There are a total of 60 people in the fortress; 50 of them have almost no chakra and three are huddled together in a small room. Of the remaining seven four of them have genin level chakra, two have chunin level, and one has Jonin level chakra."
Anko thought for a moments and said "Before we can take on the thugs and shinobi we need to get the hostages out."
Kurenai said "Who should we send in? We can't use too much chakra because of the shinobi present."
Anko smirked and said "It looks like you're up whisker-kun and remember use lethal force if you need to."
Kurenai said "Are you sure Anko; I'm sure he doesn't have his first kill."
Naruto stepped forward and said "Hinata are there any guards on the walls?"
Hinata said "There is two guards on each corner of the towers and one each patrolling along the walls, but they don't look like they're paying much attention."
Naruto nodded and said "Let me know when they turn their backs."
Anko handed each of them a wireless radio and said "You can keep in touch with these and Hinata can give you directions."
After several moments Hinata said "They've turned away."
Naruto landed on the ground and charged towards the fortress with high speed; when he was a few feet from the wall, he leapt forward and clung to the wall, before quickly scaling the wall. He stopped just before getting to the top and looked over the wall to see a bandit with his back to him. Naruto quickly climbed over the wall and crept up behind the thug; Naruto quickly snapped the man's neck and tossed him over the wall, which thanks to the high wind and rain caused the sound of him hitting the ground to be muffled. Naruto froze as he realized what he just did; after a few moments the advice Anko gave him after leaving training ground 44 came back to him.
(Flashback)
Naruto and Anko are currently sitting atop the Fourth Hokage's head watching the sunset while eating dinner.
Naruto said "Anko-sensei, how do you cope with taking a life?"
Anko looked surprised and said "What brought this on?"
Naruto sighed and said "I was reading a book on shinobi and one of the things it mentioned that as shinobi there will be a time when I'll have to kill my enemy. I want to know whats it like and how do you cope?"
Anko sighed and said "What I remember is that if I kill my enemy that's a chance that an innocent won't be killed or a friend of mine won't die; there are people in this world that need to be die because of the evil they do. When the time comes for you to kill your enemies remember, by killing your enemy you're saving the lives of the innocents."
After a few moments Naruto smiled and said "Thanks Heibi nee-chan."
(End Flashback)
Naruto stood up with resolve in his eyes and continued on his task.
Naruto spoke into the radio and said "Which way to the hostages Hinata?"
Hinata said "They're located in a small shack 100 yards north west of you."
Naruto said "Roger that."
Using his speed and natural ability for stealth he managed to reach the shack and kill and hide another three bandits, before reaching the shack. He looked in through the window to see two small children huddle in a corner as a large thug stands over a woman in her late thirties and wearing scraps for cloths.
The thug looked at the cowering woman and said "It's my turn to have some fun."
Before the thug could start, Naruto leaped through the open window, grabbed the thug around the neck and gave it a quick twist ending his life.
Naruto knelt in front of the woman and said "Everything's going to be okay; your husband sent us to rescue you."
After a few moments the woman said "Thank you shinobi-san; can you take us home now?"
Naruto radioed Anko and said "I have the hostages and I need a way out."
After a few moments Hinata said "There aren't any bandits near you; it looks like most of them have moved over to the barracks on the west side of the fortress to get out of the rain. If you go back the way you came; you should be able to get out without anyone the wiser."
It took him several minutes to get back to the wall because of the civilians; before he could e get to the wall the alarms sounded through the night air.
Hinata's frantic voice said "They found the dead bandit in the shack and are searching for you and the hostages."
Anko's voice came over the radio and said "Forget stealth, get them out now; we'll try give you a distraction"
Naruto scowled, secured the two children to his back via some webbing, picked the woman up bridal style, charged his legs with chakra and ran towards the wall as the sounds of explosions rang through the night air. He was a few feet away before he used a chakra enhanced jump to clear the wall and land several feet outside and continued on his path to their starting point. When he reached the group he saw Team 8 minus Kurenai and Anko waiting for him.
He placed the hostages down and said "What are their orders?"
Shino stepped forward and said "We were to wait for you; once you got here someone was to stay behind to protect the hostages and the rest of us were to help our sensei's."
Naruto nodded created a web high up in the trees, placed the hostages on it, bit his thumb, went through several hand seals, slammed his right hand on the ground and said "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" When the smoke cleared several brown spiders the size of a medium dog appeared.
One of the spiders with an arrow mark on his head said "What is your command my lord?"
Naruto smirked and said "Argon, you all will disappear and protect those three in my web until I return."
Argon bobbed his head and said "Yes, my lord."
Once the spiders entered the trees Naruto said "I know you all have questions, but I'll explain after the battle. Can all of you use surface walking?"
Hinata said "Yes, that was one of the first things we learned."
Naruto popped his neck and said "I'll get to the wall first to beat any early opponents; you three will stick together and protect each other."
With a nod the four genin ran towards the wall; Naruto charged chakra to his legs to increase his speed and once he reached the wall he didn't break stride and climbed up the wall. As he came over the wall he shoved a kunai into the skull of the first bandit he saw; he pulled the kunai from the bandit's skull and slit the throat of the surprised bandit next to him. He looked over the wall to see Kurenai and Anko fighting off a large group of bandit's and Team 8 landed next to him.
Naruto said "Remember stick together and you'll due fine."
Naruto and Team 8 leaped to the ground and started to attack the bandits from behind. Naruto threw the kunai in his hand into the neck of bandit, drew two more and waded into the mob surrounding Kurenai and Anko. He started killing the surprised bandits before they knew what was happening; it took him a few moments to reach them. Naruto threw his kunai and they lodged into the chests of two bandits that were about to attack them from their blind spots.
Anko said "Who's watching the civilians?"
Naruto said "I left several Kage Bunshin's and summons to protect them, while we helped you two."
Kurenai slashed the throat of bandit and said "Where's my team?"
Naruto used his spiked cestus to back hand a bandit and said "I told them to stick together and to watch each other's back."
Anko said "Naruto rendezvous with them and guide them in the fight, they don't have the experience you do at fighting multiple enemies."
Naruto smirked and said "You just want me out of the way to hog all the glory."
Anko smirked sadistically and said "Of course, now get going."
Naruto leaped onto a building to survey the area and look for team 8; when he found them he scowled when he saw Shino and Hinata fighting back to back and Kiba and Akamaru fighting several yards away from them. Naruto jumped down and ran towards Hinata and Shino; Naruto used a Shunshin to appear above them and slammed a boot into the bandits face that tried to attack them.
Naruto said "I thought I said to stay together?"
Shino said "Kiba saw you taking on the group around Kurenai-sensei and went with Akamaru to fight by themselves."
Naruto snapped a bandit's neck and said "How are you holding up Hinata?"
Hinata slammed a palm into the stomach of a bandit and said "I trying not to think about it."
Naruto killed the last bandit and said "Go help Kiba, then meet up and search for any stragglers."
Hinata said "The shinobi are moving towards Kurenai-sensei and Anko; the one of the chunin level chakra was masking his because there are now two Jonin, one chunin and four genin."
Naruto scowled and said "I'll go help them, you guy's protect each other."
Naruto ran towards the sound of fighting; he turned a corner to see Anko and Kurenai barley defending themselves against the shinobi. Naruto ran towards the genin; the first genin he came to receive a chakra power side kick the sent him flying into a destroyed building and being impaled by steel rebar. Naruto used the momentum to spin in front of another genin, surprise him, and used an upward palm strike to break his nose and lodge part of the bone into his brain which killed him. Another genin threw a straight punch towards Naruto's head; Naruto caught the genin's wrist, landed two punches to the stomach, stepped into his guard, used a hip toss to take him down and slammed a kunai into his chest killing him. Naruto turned his head to see the other genin running away, before he took the kunai out of the genin's chest, and with a chakra powered throw lodged it into his skull. It was only thanks to his spider sense that he managed to avoid getting his head taken off by the tanto wielding chunin.
The chunin said "My names Koji Takeda and you're going to die for killing my friends."
Naruto smirked drew a kunai and said "Naruto Uzumaki and you're welcome to try.