Cross: Hey people, this is Cross coming at you with a new chapter in this Naruto adaptation of No More Heroes. And joining me today is the main hero of Santa Destroy coming up in his next up and coming game, No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle. Give it up for Travis Touchdown.

Travis: Hello everybody, great to be here.

Cross: Yes, take a seat. And I know that in your next game is going to be more than epic than your last one.

Travis: Too true. Apparently I get new weapons, from Suda51 coming up a few weeks after New Years, as shown we know of three of the four toys in the killing spree I will enjoy on your consoles. Your standard Beam Katana, the Twin Katana, and the Longsword Beam Katana.

Cross: Awesome, now one more question from me, how do you think of the fic so far.

Travis: Its great, lot's of blood, loved the torture scene, and liked how you incorperated his personality with mine, but the one thing I want to know.

Cross: Yeah, what's that?

Travis (wielding beam katana): Why the fuck does a teenager get a harem, with a fox girl, the busty blind looking girl, various other women from his place, and Shinobu?!?!? I got jipped by that bitch Sylvia from her promise to fuck me after I got to No. 1!!!!

Cross: Uhhhhh, DESTROY SPARK!!!!!!

Travis: AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

(Travis lying on the floor smoking)

Cross: Uhhh, time for commentary responses.

blackcat x: Thanks man, put your mate request in consideration, and Sakura's place in the harem will be put in consideration too.

Tarl Zaralka: The Tayuya/Naruto incest thing, eh, not gonna happen. While I like to read stories with incest cause it seem hot, it's not in my nature to actually write one. But thanks for your appreciation for the referance.

warprince2000: Thanks and harem suggestions are in consideration.

Dragon Man 180: Well, this is fiction and I really cant find a way to incorperate that. Some of Santa Destroy killers will have some affilliation, like No. 1, Bad Girl (japanese title of course), and others when I cross that path. As for who is Shinobu, she's the No. 8 assassin of the UAA who looks like the daughter of Afro Samurai. Not the Love Hina chick you were thinking about. And thanks for your like of the side pairing.

kagedoragon: Harem suggestion in consideration.

The Fifth Rider of Armageddon: Thanks for your appreciation,, your tips have been put into some use, and Amaru is that chick from the second Shippuden movie.

Leaf Ranger: Thanks for letting me use you're ideas for costumes. Just wanted to add some juicy bits on the chapter. And your harem suggestions will be put into some consideration.

Gravity the Wizard: Thanks, and Harem suggestions are in consideration as well as the Sakura ousting.

TUAOA MORRISTOFOX: Ah sushi, one of my favorite foods, FUCK YEA!!!

Luiz4200, vash3055, crazymexican, MindMaster: Thanks for reviewing

Now on to the next chapter


It's been several months since Naruto ascension to No. 10, revelation of his family name, but few were still skeptical of that, along that some time well deserved time with Hinata who was revealed to be his fiancée thanks to an agreement by both of their fathers, let's not forget the final exams he passed with flying colors, assigned to Kakashi's team with Sakura and Sasuke much to his dismay, Kakashi and Sakura he could handle.

It was Sasuke that he had problems with. The emo says he could do it on his own, but he was proven wrong, stubborn as hell, even when he and Sakura offered help during the survival test the Uchiha wouldn't give in and all that shit.

But despite all that, they passed, barely, and gone on plenty of D-rank missions, including catching the Fire Daimyo's wife's cat, Tora, about ten times already since the first two weeks of being a genin. But aside from the normal missions, he also went through some assassination jobs for making No. 10 through Ichiro from Buster Buns a few blocks from Ichiraku's. Naruto was told that more missions like this will pop up as he rises through the ranks.

It wasn't bad as some of these actually pay so and so per kill or just for the entirety of the mission, that and it helps to pay for the Rankings Fights.

Oh and let not forget Sasuke having the gall to actually even try and demand Naruto's katana from him after laying eyes on it for the first time, as well as demanding who trained him. This pretty much happened nearly every day.

Along that time, while the Kyuubi stayed a secret to those that were there to hear it during the Mizuki incident, Naruto's clan name of Namikaze came open to the public, thus putting him into a new light. He received a lot of ass kissing from various villagers with free items and gifts, while several tried to force their daughters upon him, where in response, got their fathers and some mothers a severe ass kicking like he promised to the civilian council, apparently they didn't the message at the meeting.

Naruto wakes up in the master bedroom of the Namikaze mansion going to his closet to grab his clothes on. He wore a modified version of the overcoat from what he wore kicking Mizuki's ass. While the clothes he wore underneath were the same, the coat was merely a black jacket with white wisp marks that formed into a fox. He looks at himself from a full-body mirror putting on his headband on his left arm speaking his thoughts out loud, "Badass." Reaching to the side of the mirror, he grabs his katana twirling it between his fingers a bit before attaching it through a belt loop to his side.

As he walks down to the stairs and to the kitchen, Naruto looking on his counter spies a pile of mail for him and shuffles through it, "Let's see what we have for me today. Shit, shit, more shit, come to me if you want an appointment, ahh the Association." Opening the letter from the Association it read:

Dear Mr. Namikaze,

Your position as the tenth rank assassin allows you for the opportunity to face No. 9. To do so, take the form in the back, sign it, and please place this as well as 150,000 ryou in the nearest bank to advance within the ranks.

UAA Contractor Tetsuyo Uchikami

After taking the form to sign it, Naruto also spies another piece of mail from a year back.

It was the will of his old sensei who taught him just about everything he knows about the way of the sword that the blonde combined with his freestyle swordplay with. While he has yet to complete the request, the mention of his sensei has Naruto to remember the harsh rigorous training he's done for the past.

"It's been too long, Jacobs-sensei."

Flashback (5 years ago)

A 10-year old Naruto could be seen swinging around a wooden sword swinging in sloppy katas. Instinctively, he threw the sword behind him only to be caught by a chocolate skinned man with topped with puff-ball shape of hair on his head wearing a white headband on his head, traditional samurai garbs, and he held a foot and a half long katana in his right hand.

"You trained your instincts very well, but your swordplay, needs proper training," said the man. "Who the fuck are you?" shouted a suspicious Naruto.

"Such language, but I suppose it's my fault coming unannounced, just call me Jacobs," introduced the intruding samurai.

"Naruto Uzumaki," Naruto introduced to the stranger.

"Uzumaki? Then you know Kushina Uzumaki right?" Jacobs asked.

"Yeah, she's my mother," Naruto replied.

"May I speak to her?"

"She's dead."

Jacobs frowned, "Oh, I'm sorry, do you know where your father is?"

"Same as her," Naruto answers once more.

"Then who takes care of you."

"Just me, and the Hokage when he comes by to give me money for supplies and stuff, not like that even matters," Naruto says in a sad tone.

"Why?" Jacobs asked.

"Why would you care, you don't even know me?" Naruto retorts.

"Then in exchange would you like to know me, personal info for another's," Jacobs said as he sat down.

From then on, they sat and shared their own tales and personal lives. Jacobs told Naruto of his history, from the foreign lands from where he came from, to his old friends, family and his only daughter Shinobu. In exchange, Naruto told the samurai about his history, the hatred he suffered, and his only closest, precious people, but whenever Jacobs heard more and more of Naruto's hardships and its reasons why, the more he got angry which didn't go unnoticed by the blonde.

"Please don't go after them for my sake, if you do, then you would be proving them right for me allowing you to kill them. Jacobs calmed down and stared at this blonde enigma, "You speak a lot of wisdom, yet you are so young, as a person, I am once again impressed, but as a parent I should be concerned, no child should ever exist with such control and wisdom in a good child like you."

"That's why I want to train myself, even if they don't accept me, I will prove them wrong to show them as Hokage, that I am not the demon that is sealed within me."

Jacobs stared at him once more for a few seconds then busted out laughing offering a hand to the blond ninja-in-training, "Here, how about I help you with your dream? Let me help you get strong and learn how to use your sword."

Needless to say, Naruto had accepted Jacobs' offer and trained under his tutelage. Even after the dark-skinned samurai left, Naruto still trained in Jacobs' training method every day until his bones cracked, then come back to train even farther.

End Flashback

The will said if he died, Jacobs wanted his only daughter, Shinobu, to be taken care of by his only other student Naruto, should he be alive.

"I hope I can find Shinobu someday, for Jacobs-sensei, that and she sounds like a nice girl that I would like to meet," Naruto said to himself before digging into the instant ramen he cooked up.

Looking on the wall clock in the kitchen, he saw the time, "Aw shit, okay, quick drop by the village bank and then to the Team."

With that he bolted out of there after inhaling the rest of his ramen to meet up at the bridge with his team.

Hokage Tower

"Well Kakashi, we have a couple of D-ranks for your team and…" "Fuck no old man," Naruto interrupted the Hokage. "Naruto," Sakura looked at him sternly. "Sakura, we've already gone on like a crapload of D-rank missions that would be enough to get us like two maybe three C-ranks for us."

"As much as I hate to admit, he's right, we need a tougher mission," Sasuke agreed. But Iruka was less to allow them a mission, "Look, I don't think we can allow you a mission higher than D because we got a system." "Iruka-sensei, I know all about the system, and like I said we have done enough D-ranks for a couple of C-rank missions," Naruto argued.

"I'm beginning to be convinced at Naruto's logic," Kakashi agreed, "So if it's not a problem, I would like to request a C-rank mission for my team." The old Hokage sighed, "Fine, but let me call in Kurenai for a joint mission, no doubt she might be requesting for a C-rank mission as well."

The door opened with Team 8 in tow, "Hokage-sama, my team is ready for a mission," Kurenai announced. "Ah good timing, I was about to call you anyways for a joint C-rank mission with Kakashi's team." Kurenai looked at her team as well as Kakashi, as both teams looked rearing to go.

"We accept," Kurenai answered. "Very well, bring in the client," The door slid open revealing an old man with a straw hat on his head who apparently was drunk if the bottle and red face didn't say anything about him.

"Tazuna, these two teams are here to accept your mission to escort to the Nami no Kuni," Sarutobi announced to the client Tazuna who looked a little skeptical about the 'kids' behind the jounin. "Hmph, besides the jounin, the kids don't look much, and the blonde looks like some wannabe ninja," Tazuna was about take a swig until he found a crimson humming katana though his sake bottle near pointed at his nose seeing the said blonde behind the glowing katana.

"Trust me old man, I'm no wannabe, so watch what you say when you're not at my level," Naruto warned him withdrawing the glowing blade splitting the bottle horizontally catching the bottle turned cup taking a swig at its contents, "Hm, sake from wave, not bad but I prefer Kumo's theirs has that little zing."

"Naruto, threatening the client isn't good," Kakashi scolded Naruto who defended his actions saying, "Hey, I warned the guy, not threaten him." Everybody sighed while Hinata giggled at her boyfriend's actions.

"Well, Naruto's actions aside, pack up your supplies and meet at the West Gate in ten minutes," Kakashi announced with a skeptical look from his team, "Hey, I'll be there on time, I'm not late for everything you know." "Riiiight, Kakashi-sensei, whatever you say," Sakura said still skeptical of Kakshi's claims.

West Gate

Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke were dumbstruck, "Well I'll be damned, Kakashi-sensei is on time," Naruto broke the silence with their teacher in hearing distance. "Hey that hurts," Kakashi deadpans at his students.

"Well they wouldn't be talking to you like that if you actually be there at the time you tell them instead of two hours later," Kurenai tells him as Tazuna arrives with a perfectly good bottle of sake at hand, "So what are we standing around here for, let's get moving."

Kiba gave a slightly unamused frown as everyone followed the bridge-builder, "Okay this guy is really getting on my nerves." Shino nodded agreeing with his canine-like teammate with Akamaru yipping in agreement. "Yes, but we have a job to do so stop complaining," Hinata told them before running off to Naruto's side giving him a little peck on the cheek.

"Is it just me or did Hinata do a 180 in her personality?" Kiba asked Shino. "Kiba, you need more training at reading masks," Shino answered leaving a confused Kiba, "What mask?"

Nami/Hi Border

It's been practically half a day since they left Konoha for Nami no Kuni hitting the border of the two countries. They decided to set up camp when it hit dusk. After dinner provided by Hinata and Naruto from a few of the woodland creatures and herbs found within the forest trail.

After dinner Naruto got up, "Naruto-kun is anything wrong?" Hinata asked. "Oh nothing Hina-chan, just taking care of some personal business," Naruto answered. Hinata smiled, "Okay, just call me if you need anything, and I mean anything." The words caused a few reactions, Kiba choking on his food, Sakura and Kurenai looking at the two funny, Tazuna and Kakashi giggling at the innuendo, and Sasuke looking confused with naivety.

Truth be told, the business was more than just draining the lizard, but he noticed a carrier pigeon with a note attached to its leg.

Dear No. 10,

No. 11 is headed your way with the challenge you accepted.

UAA Contractor Tetsuyo Uchikami

Before they left Naruto saw a carrier pigeon outside his house saying about a fight from the new No. 11. So he wrote the when and where the fight will take place, the perks of being the challenged vs. the challenger.

He came back to the campsite hearing Sakura and Kiba asking about the Land of Waves. That is when they heard footsteps coming from the trail. The ninja's armed themselves as their guest revealed his face, "Peace ninjas I'm just a traveler looking for someone."

He looked like he was in his late twenties, wore a grey sleeveless shirt where the sleeves looked like they were torn off, black denim pants with tribal prints running along them, neat spiky black hair and on his back was a rounded guitar black where the strings showed and white on the back.

"Sorry to scare you, but I was just traveling around looking for somebody and that's when I saw the fire, so I thought that would either be him or a charitable group willing to share their fire with me," the man laughed at them looking at him strangely. "And you are who?" Kakashi asked.

The man smiled, "Just call me Gitaa."

They spent a good while talking as Hinata handed him a plate of leftovers they had when Tazuna asked him a question, "So, who are you looking for anyways?" The man named Gitaa looked up towards the moon and exhaled a breath he seemed to be holding,

"I only hear rumors of him, some who survived against him calls him the lost prince of our queen," Gitaa explained with Naruto looking at him more suspiciously than the others when the man before them stands his hand on his guitar, "So I ask among you, which one of you is No. 10, so I can take your place."

His guitar ejected a blade making it a guitar axe slamming it to the ground for emphasis with enough force the shockwave extinguished the campfire. 'This man, what is he, what is that power he has? Maybe if I say if I'm this No. 10 he talks about, he could make me stronger,' Sasuke thought.

Naruto, being the only 10th ranked UAA assassin there, was about to reveal himself when Sasuke stood forth, "I'm No. 10, fight me, Sasuke Uchiha." Gitaa squinted at the 'Last' Uchiha as said genin drew a kunai while Kakashi was telling him to back down which was ignored.

The 11th assassin walked towards Sasuke looking at the teen straight in the eye with said person quivering in fear, "You are No. 10?" "Yeah, so let's go," Sasuke replied, only to widen his eyes feeling the man plant a foot in his gut knocking Sasuke off his feet into a nearby tree. "Kid, I know you ain't No. 10, for one, you can't take a kick of mine," Sasuke groaned getting up, "Second, you're just a kid, and third, you don't have that bloodlust of a killer like me."

Suddenly he felt such bloodlust that made him shiver in anticipation, he turned to the nearest source and found his eyes stuck upon Naruto's line of sight. Everyone else had turned to where Gitaa was looking and found him looking at Naruto, much to the surprise of the genin and Tazuna, but not so much as the jounins being briefed on Naruto's position as an assassin for another non-affiliated organization.

Naruto pulled out his katana making Gitaa go into a wicked smile, a huge grin filling his face, "Gitaa is it, I, Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze, am the true No. 10, now if you will, I found a place nearby for our fight." Gitaa followed with the others following as well, Kakashi having to carry Sasuke who was still winded from that kick he got.

Following Naruto, the blond led Gitaa to an open meadow where the rest of Team 7 and 8 stood by the woods. "So you are the lost prince of our former Queen," Gitaa said holding his axe like a guitar. Naruto said, "Hey, just be prepared to at the hands of a teen," as the blond held his katana in a defensive position. "Well then let's begin!!!" with that the match started as Gitaa played a power chord shooting a small shockwave that Naruto saw and dodged which impacted to a tree, shattering it to splinters.

'Close, that attack is gonna be trouble,' Naruto thought. HAAAA!!!!" No. 11 cried charging swinging at Naruto with his axe, clashes sounded with Naruto's blade. Gitaa spun for his final combo strike and Naruto swore he saw a flash whilst blocking the attack which proved to be ineffective for as the weapons touched; the shockwave of the guitar axe blew Naruto away.

'Naruto-kun, no!' shouted Sakura's and Hinata's thoughts watching the fight worried for his life.

'Dobe won't be able to beat him, but he's lasting longer than me, what the hell has he been doing?' Sasuke angrily thought gripping his hands.

Naruto got up to his hands and knees, using his sword to prep him up, "I'll admit, you are much better than Mizuki-teme was, in fact I could say you could be a challenge, even for an 11th ranked killer."

"He, I appreciate the compliment, but that man only got his position from shooting himself up with drugs if I remember hearing, he was pathetic," Gitaa replied.

"Well, I'm glad I took him off the ROSTERS!!!" Naruto dashed to the guitarist axe-man with fast combos of slashes which were blocked but were causing the man to flinch at the strikes. Mid-combo, Naruto delivered a roundhouse kick to the head, putting Gitaa into a temporary daze.

Tossing up his katana, Naruto wrapped an arm around the guitarist's head, bringing him over Naruto's shoulders hooking the other around No. 11's legs and spun around him before slamming the guy into the ground head first on his back catching his katana as it fell.

Gitaa got up felling a headache coming looking at the swordsman before him with focus and fury as he smiled like a maniac, "BRING ME MORE OH PRINCE!!!" He jumped bringing his axe for an overhead slam to Naruto's position where Naruto saw that flash again, "I'LL HAVE YOUR HEAD NO.10!!!" and instinctively hopped a ways back now looking at the resulting crater before him knowing that could have been him.

"Let's see you dodge this!!!" Gitaa held is guitar once more in a playing format, bringing his hand over neck strings and sliding it down to the base of the guitar increasing the volume of the screech it made. In Naruto's and everyone else's vision, scratchy copies of Gitaa surrounded the young assassin, and with a battle cry and a power chord the copies collided to Naruto creating a ten-foot crater, but the black clad blonde was nowhere in there.

He looked up and found Naruto falling down to No. 11 with his katana ready to slash him in two. Thinking quickly, Gitaa grabbed the neck of his guitar once more and swung it over him then dug it along the grassy ground and sent a shockwave to Naruto with some of the clotted dirt and stone which was blocked and sliced through and came closer to Gitaa even more. So in a desperate attempt to survive and kill his opponent, the man tried to bat the blonde swordsman with his axe by the blade.

This set a power clash between the two with auras of bloodlust and chakra battling each other for superiority. But Gitaa felt himself being pushed down as a red cloak of chakra surrounded Naruto watching his Chakra Katana begin to cut through the guitarist's weapon/instrument.

The axe was split in two followed by severing his right arm, but Naruto didn't stop there spinning to the left to a thrust to the heart all the way to the hilt. Gitaa spit up blood as the sword was unsheathed from his body forcing him to kneel holding himself up by what was left of his axe.

He looked at his severed arm along with the second part of his axe, then at Naruto watching the red aura fade as he sheaths his katana, but not without any side effects. As it showed, Naruto now stood few inches taller and looked at the red tips of hair that adorned the spiky golden blond mop of hair, Gitaa chuckled before hacking up even more blood, "You definitely are the lost prince. No I have a new name for you."

Gitaa dropped his weapon and looked up to the night sky shouting to the heavens, "HEAR ME NOW, ALL ASSASSINS AND KILLERS OUT THERE. THE RED QUEEN'S LEGACY IS ALIVE!!!" He pulls on the new hole in his shirt, ripping it open to reveal explosive tags on the underside of the makeshift tank-top, "THE CRIMSON PRINCE IS AMONG US!!!"

The tags flickered on fire as Naruto walked away towards his team, not before hearing the dead No. 11's last words, "Reach for the top my prince, and become our Crimson King."

*BOOOOOM*

The explosion incinerated the guitarist to pieces as Naruto walked away to his teammates and client. "Naruto, are you okay?" Hinata asked with Sakura in tow behind her. "Yeah, a few kinks in my joints, but I'll be fine," Naruto replied, "But right now, I need some well deserved rest."

But as he started walking to the camp site, he felt all eyes on him, "Okay, what's why is everyone staring at me?" "Well besides you not being affected by killing the guy, I have to say your new changes," Tazuna answered. "First of all, I killed a guy when some bastards ordered a hit on me nearly a year ago, and secondly, what changes?" Naruto replied.

Sakura answered his question looking away from him blushing giving him her compact from her kunai pouch. He took it and looked at his reflection from the mirror illuminated by the moonlight and saw his changes, the red tipped spikes, pupils became slightly slit like a fox, and his canines looked a little more presentable, he only thought one thing looking at the mirror flashing his teeth with a smile once more, 'Bitchin'.'

"I'll say, Naru-kun,"thought Kyuubi in her human form with her tails wagging around liking what she is seeing licking he lips. 'So that was your doing when I was in your no tail cloak, Kyuu-chan,' Naruto thought to her. "Guilty as charged, but I only upped some of your mother's genes in you, the eyes and teeth are only a bonus," Kyuubi explained. 'Well, I like it, makes me look more feral and badass,' Naruto replied. "I say it makes you look sexy," Kyuubi added her demonic hormones going into overdrive making Naruto practically feel it.

"Well then, I guess we have a bunch of things to ask, but for now let's get some shut eye," Kakashi said encouraging everyone to sleep.

Along the way Tazuna went to Naruto to ask, "Hey kid, he called you the lost prince, what did he mean by that?" "My mother was No. 1 of the assassins in the Elemental Countries of the Assassin Association I'm part of, upon reaching the top, she received the title as the Red Queen, I'm just trying to live up to her legacy," Naruto explained to his client. "I thought you wanted to be the Hokage," Kiba said to Naruto. "There's nothing wrong in doing both. Besides, it adds to the resume," Naruto replied.

The Next Day

The group kept walking to Tazuna's port village; Sakura and Hinata were talking amongst themselves about Naruto, Naruto himself walked next to Tazuna fingering his katana, Sasuke walked behind Tazuna and Naruto glaring holes into the blonde for 'stealing' his thunder last night against the musical assassin with Shino and Kiba behind the Uchiha to keep him in check just in case instructed by Kakashi and Kurenai skeptical of Sasuke's psyche, and said jounins walked in front of them to check for incoming hostiles.

They kept walking until they passed a puddle; the majority of the group noticed it and felt that it was out of place. By now, everyone was on guard except for Kiba, bit unaware of the surroundings relying on Akamaru to help, Sakura, mind on other things, and Sasuke, still smug of himself. Naruto still had his hand on his katana, 'These guys can't be serious,' Naruto thought before he stopped, falling behind the group.

"Naruto-kun, what is it?" Sakura asked causing the group to stop walking and eye Naruto seeing he was looking back. "You guys go ahead, I got to take care of something," Naruto answered before walking off the path and taking to the trees. Kakashi and Kurenai saw he probably knew about the ambush coming up.

"Wonder what that was about?" Kiba asked to no-one in particular. Hinata used her Byakugan to see where Naruto is going, but her attention was ripped away by the puddle they passed earlier. She already noticed, but didn't when they were going to strike, apparently it was now.

Two men came from the puddle, Mist ninjas, the Demon Brothers Gozu and Mizu; the one with the black cloak launched his camo-clad brother via blade-chained gauntlets looping them around Kakashi and Kurenai. They pulled and tore the two jounin into shreds from their chains. "Kakashi/Kurenai-sensei!!!" Sakura and Kiba cried.

"Two down," said Mizu said as he aimed for Tazuna as Sakura got in front of him in front with a kunai with Shino throwing out a wall of his insects. Hinata thought fast and glanced at Kiba who got message and threw the shuriken to hold the bladed chain and Hinata threw her kunai in the hole of the shuriken locking it in place.

The two struggled until they saw it was futile, so both unlocked their chains with Mizu noticing Sasuke and aimed for him who froze in fear. But at the last minute a yellow blur grabbed Sasuke out of the way, but his savior did not come unscathed.

It was Naruto who saved Sasuke, much to his digression, standing there with his sword unsheathed, his right arm bleeding from the scratch from Mizu claw. The mist nin swiped with his claws and Naruto blocked each swipe. Gozu seeing his brother struggling with the blonde rushed toward the combating pair to join Mizu.

Seeing that he was going against the other twin, Naruto decided to make a twin of his own via use of Kage Bunshin. "These guys probably have some useful info, so knock 'em out," Naruto shouted to his clone.

The Demon Brothers slashed from both sides where the Narutos ducked and gave them both a fist in the gut, side stepped behind them and held the two in a Suplex and slammed them on their heads knocking both out due to a painful concussion.

"Very good Naruto, as well as everyone else, but Sasuke, I thought you would have reacted faster, maybe the events from last night still got you shaken up," Kakashi said as he and Kurenai came from the trees.

"But wai-," Sakura was about to say something until she saw not a pile of meat and gore, but a log shredded in splinters. "Kawamari?" Sakura asked her sensei by which he nodded.

Kurenai looked over genin, "Is everyone alright?" Naruto raised his hand, "Just a scratch, nothing too bad." "Do you realize that the Demon Brothers use poison in their weapons?" Kakashi asks as Naruto pales in realization.

"Oh sonofa-," "Relax Naruto, you can bleed it out or search these guys for an anti-venom…" *SQUELCH* Kakashi was interrupted by the sound of blood and flesh being opened by something. That something this time was Naruto's own kunai digging into the wounded arm bleeding out the poison.

"I was going to say stay there so I can frisk them," Kakashi stared. "Ah, would have taken too long, besides, I heal fast," Naruto replied as he bled out to rest of the poison as Kakashi sighed and went to interrogate the Demon Brothers.

And like he said, the wound sizzled closed not even leaving a scar, courtesy of Kyuu-chan herself.

"Well, with Naruto's well being aside," Kurenai spoke up turning to Tazuna, "Mind explaining to me exactly why you lied to us in our mission details?" "I-I-I don't know what you're talking about," Tazuna stammered.

"Tazuna-san, after they tried to take out Kakashi and Kurenai-sensei, they went after you," Shino argued in monotone. And with evidence presented by the bug user, everyone looked at the drunk, "Alright, I'm sorry, but there wasn't anything I could do. Our village is in a state of poverty that we couldn't even afford a B-rank mission, we barely got off with a C-rank." "So whose the tyrant? Sasuke asked. "It's Gato of Gato Industries," Kakashi answered.

"So I'm willing to guess that's the pudgy fuck that's sucking your village dry of money and resources that you could barely afford anything or even sell?" Naruto asked bluntly. Tazuna nodded and taken back from Naruto's smile, "Well then what are we waiting for, let's overthrow a tyrant."

"Naruto, wait minute, you can't be serious?" Sakura argued causing Naruto to turn to her, "This mission is practically A-rank, there's no way we could do this; we've got to turn back." "Sakura, you got me, you and four other genins plus two jounin senseis, I think we may be qualified for this maybe even more," Naruto argued.

"Hold on Naruto, while you do make a good argument, Sakura does as well, so I say we put this in a vote among the genins, in the case of a stalemate, we go back to the village," Kakashi intervenes, "At this moment we have one vote for each so the judgment goes to the others."

Shino was the first to speak, "I agree with Sakura-san at this point, no offense Naruto-san, but I'm only anticipating the worst."

1 – 2

Next was Sasuke, "I say we keep going." 'That way I can find my chance to take the dobe's sword and finally kill my brother.'

2 – 2

Kiba, "I say we go, can't stand to see these people suffer cause we didn't bother to help." Akamaru yipped in agreement.

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And finally Hinata, "I say we go, we're ninja and we were hired to help this country, so that is what we will do." 'That and I will get to spend more time with Naruto-kun.'

"Well that settles it, we'll continue the mission," Kakashi says to Tazuna who could only smile in relief, 'And if that boy's skills are like last night's, then we might just have a chance.'

With that, they head towards the rower's point where they will cross the river bordering the Wave Village, "Hey Tazuna, these the ninja that's gonna help out." "Yeah, so c'mon, let us cross."

"Hey, sorry, but not with this many people around, I can probably get you and the kids or the guy and the broad, but I'll have to come back for a second round," explained the rower.

"That's okay, we'll walk," Kurenai replied ignoring the broad comment. "But how-" the rower's stopped talking watching Kakashi, Kurenai, and Naruto walking on the water.

Kakashi quirked an eyebrow with everyone besides Hinata looked at him surprised, "Naruto-kun, you know water walking?" "Yeah, learned it after tree climbing after finding a scroll on chakra control," Naruto answered.

Sasuke once again scowled, 'How does the dobe know all these things that I an Uchiha the elite don't know?'

The rower could only nod, "Well, that solves that problem, anyone else, no? Then let's get on."

After a slow pace and a nice sight at the in-progress bridge and a speech of how it's going to take care of Gato's reign, they finally reached the shore to the village and granted good luck to them.

Once more they walk on the final stretch to Tazuna's village as the fog rolled in. Kiba this time being more alert since the Demon Brother's ambush heard some rustling in the bushes and threw a kunai there in said bush. Everyone being on high alert had armed themselves or stayed on guard as Kakashi peeked through the bushes and found a frightened snow hare with the kunai barely missing the poor creature.

Sakura pounded on Kiba's head for almost killing the poor think when Kakashi noticed something out of place, 'Hmm, this rabbit still has its winter coat, it's spring so that mean this house kept, someone used this as a Kawamari.' Hatake heard something come their way, "GET DOWN!!!" Kakashi tackled Sasuke and Shino down with Kurenai getting Kiba, Akamaru, and Sakura as Naruto brought Hinata down. Above them that would have taken their heads off was what Naruto recognized as the Kokuburi Hocho.

"If that's here, then…" Naruto trailed off watching a man in grey camo pants, arm and leg warmers, bandages covering his face, and a slashed mist headband. "Zabuza Momochi, the Demon of the Mist," Kakashi said aloud as everyone stood up.

Zabuza smirked under the bandages, "Hmm, Kakashi Hatake, the Sharingan Warrior, it seems my reputation precedes me." 'Sharingan Warrior, Kakashi-sensei has the Sharingan, how? Is he an Uchiha or…' Sasuke's thought's trailed off as the missing Mist nin spoke once more with Kakashi pulling his headband for his famed sharingan, "…and Kurenai Yuhi, the Genjutsu Mistress, two of the famed elites of Konoha, it seems you two picked a few of greenhorns."

Naruto smirked, "Be careful who you call a greenhorn 'No brow'," the nickname slightly irked the Kiri nin, "'Cause out the genin in this group, I'm the killer here," Naruto warned whipping out his Chakra Katana.

Seeing the young genin pull out his weapon, Zabuza eyed it for a few seconds, 'That sword, why does it look familiar?'

Zabuza shook out of his thoughts to speak his demands, "Cocky kid you have there, Kakashi." "You should see him when he gets serious," Kakashi replied. "Enough banter, look give me the old man and no one beside's the old man will get hurt," Zabuza demanded.

""I don't think so," replied Kurenai, "Genin, protect the bridge builder." "Surround him," Naruto rallied as the genin took suit and circled the bridge builder.

"Kid's a born leader, but I don't think that will be enough," Zabuza said pulling out his sword and charged the genin, only to be stopped by aKakashi's kunai as Kurenai shot some of her kunai at Zabuza for support fire.

The mist nin pulled away to charge once more as he was stopped by makibishi spikes, "You think some spikes will stop me, I have other tricks up my sleeve." Kakashi kept an eye on the other masked man while Kurenai looked towards the genin and found that Zabuza got past their defenses and prepared to kill all of them there with his sword.

The one in front of Kakashi melted into water, "Mizu Bunshin?" Zabuza was prepared to strike, only to feel a silent presence behind him and felt a blade peirce his back and through his chest. It was that crimson katana the red-tipped blond pulled out.

But to everyone's surprise, it didn't spurt blood from its wound but water, and revealed it to be another water clone.

"Impressive, I guess you did have the right to boast about not being a greenhorn," spoke Zabuza's voice out of the thickening fog where he could only see himself. "Seven weak points in the body, heart, neck, throat, spleen, larynx, and spine," It spoke once more, and by the last second Naruto blocked an incoming strike from behind. It forced him off his feet feeling the force hit his body.

"You are good kid, so how about a proposition?" Zabuza offered clearing the fog slightly to reveal the man standing on the lake, "Leave Konoha and join me as my tool, I could use a fellow swordsman as a tool."

Naruto could only sneer at him, "Sorry dude, but I'm aiming to be Number 1 and the Hokage, and seriously, I can't do that if I'm nothing but a figurehead. So you can shove that offer right up your ass!!!"

"Your loss," Zabuza said as he started forming a series of hand signs. Seeing this through the thinned mist, the two Konoha jounins there charged at him in the lake, which soon proved to be a mistake. The jutsu Zabuza was about to pull off wasn't an attack, but a imprisonment technique, "Water Prison Jutsu!!!"

Soon the water from the lake shot out and captured Kakashi and Kurenai in a sphere of water.

The genins were worried seeing their senseis captured, and Sasuke was feeling it the worst next to Sakura. Sasuke with his kunai had his weapon brought up to his face, "Sasuke, calm down, this might seem unbearable but deal with it, don't go into the temptation of killing yourself or you won't be able to kill that man you rant on aimlessly about," called out Naruto's voice.

Hearing this calmed the Uchiha a bit but still had him wonder how they are going to get them out, until Kakashi had called out to them, "Go run, Zabuza is too much for you, even you Naruto." "Don't worry about us, just run," Kurenai cried.

"Sorry Kakashi-sensei, but remember what you told us, 'Those who disobey the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends is worse than that,' right?" Naruto said keeping his ground. Hinata who was wavering a bit found newfound strength and regained her stance. Sakura found herself breathing easier, as well as Kiba who almost went unconscious, and then Shino felt revived as he too was faltering under Zabuza's Killer Intent.

"Kids just leave me and save yourselves," Tazuna begged. Naruto could only smirk, "No way old man, we said we were doing this mission, so we're going to complete this.

"You had your chance brats, now die," Zabuza yelled as he summoned more water clones after the genin. Naruto stood in front of them and charged to attack.

He got quite a few as they splashed back into water, eventually Naruto was pushed back into blocking. "Give it up kid, these water clones of mine have 1/8th of my original strength each," Zabuza taunted.

Another clone attacked where Naruto met it with a block, when the block parried the strike, Naruto slid to its side and stampeded with a multitude of strikes. The finishing blow decapitated it, though that kill set something in him again, this was different from the time he beat Mizuki, "Blueberry Cheese Brownie!!!"

Hearing this Zabuza could only say, "What the fu- WHOA!!!" he barely dodged some red ball that sliced through his clones in one hit. Naruto had his katana in an under hold and gestured an upper slash and blew out another ball after ball slicing the clones in multitudes of directions that filled the combat area.

"That kid, what the hell is that kid?" Zabuza asked outwardly. "He is Konoha's unpredictable, and titled Crimson Prince of assassins," Kakashi answered. "The 'Crimson Prince', that kid?" Zabuza questioned.

Naruto finally turned to the missing nin and charged his katana, then released, "FUCK YOU!!!" this was bigger than the others the clones were hit with. To save his own life, he let go of his hostages and water shunshined out of harm's way. Kakashi took stand on the water while Kurenai went to Naruto's side.

"Damn that brat," Zabuza panted from the near miss as he reappeared few ways off Kakashi, "Zabuza, remember, you still have a fight with me."

"Come on then," Zabuza taunted as he began to go through a series of hand signs. And before he knew, the Sharingan wielding Kakashi followed suit. 'That damn monkey, he's copying me hand for hand,' Zabuza thought as they both finished, "Suiton: Suiryu Endan," Then two massive dragons of water twisted around each other and canceled each other out.

'Bastard, he anticipated what jutsu I would use; well let's see him anticipate this,' Zabuza thinks as he once more goes into another set of hand signs and watches Kakashi doing the same exact thing, 'That…' "…damn monkey is doing the same thing," Kakashi finishes Zabuza's thoughts. 'Is he…' "…reading my mind?" Kakashi mocks once more.

Suddenly he finds a hollow image of himself beside Kakashi copying each and every hand sign before the real man even physically had done it, 'He's doing it faster than I can even get to the next sequence,' "Kakashi, can you…" "See the future? Yes," Kakashi answered. "And your future, is death." He finishes his sequence and aims it at Zabuza, "Suiton: Great Whirlpool." As the jutsu is named a giant whirlpool as tall as him blasted at the missing nin and washed him away into several dozen trees drenching him in water.

"And now…" Kakashi's next line was interrupted, as three senbon went through Zabuza's neck. The missing nin's eyes widen and go blank. "Well your prediction came true, his future was death," said a feminine voice above them.

As everybody ran to the site of Zabuza's death as Kakashi checked for a pulse, he found none. "Thank you for weakening him, I've been trying to take him down for weeks," said a Kiri Hunter nin. The ninja wore a decorative mask with a blue kimono on their person whose hair is set in a bun.

"Hey sexy, after you get the head why don't we meet up with each other later," Naruto called out to the ninja. "I'm a guy," said the 'boy'. "That's not what your hips tell me, after all, the hips don't lie girl," Naruto wooed shaking his hips. Everyone looked at Hinata to see how she would react as he tried to woo the 'female' hunter nin, the Hyuuga heiress giggled at her boyfriend's antics.

"How about if I help you take off the head?" Naruto offered. "N-n-no, that's fine," the female hunter nin stuttered as she went to grab the body. "You sure, we're not squeamish," Naruto offered once more. The hunter nin said nothing as she grabbed Zabuza and tried to walk away as fast as she could.

Taking his chakra katana he threw it at Zabuza's head, sensing this she immediately disappears in a splash of water, but not before seeing that it shredded a piece of clothing off the girl. Picking up his weapon and sheathing it, he spies the piece of the ninja's garment. Taking the cloth, he takes a small whiff, "Hm, yup, definitely a chick, lilac perfume."

Suddenly his sight started to multiply until he fell over into unconsciousness. "Naruto-kun," Sakura and Hinata cried.

"He's going through chakra exhaustion, but knowing him he'll be fine with a good night's sleep, now someone carry me please," Kakashi explained before spinning in a bit of a daze. "Why?" Kiba asked. Kakashi fell over as Kurenai answered the Inuzuka's question and picked up the scarecrow, "He's going through the same thing."

"Here," Tazuna offered helping Kurenai pick up Kakashi, "the family cabin isn't too far."

Few Miles into the Forest

The hunter nin had laid Zabuza's body on the forest ground using some ninja tools to pick out the needles from his nick. Then his grabbed her wrist as she got close to his uncovered face.

"Jeez Haku, you you're like a butcher when you try and fix me up," Zabuza commented showing his shark teeth. "But Zabuza-sama, I have to get needles out precisely," Haku replied. Zabuza grunted as he pulled out the last senbon from his neck, "You have to be careful Zabuza-sama, or you really will die," Haku commented.

"Saw you get your ass handed to you by the kid and his katana," said a heavy accented voice from the behind the tree near Haku. Turning their attention to him as he reveals himself, you can see his face and easily tell he's in his mid-late fifties, thick red spiky hair topped his head; he was topless only wearing black jeans with his bare back revealing a red demonic oni tattoo with two skulls on his chest trailed by a blue designed background that connected with the demon on his back, in his hand was some metal contraption which he held by the handle.

"What the hell are you doing here Death Metal?" Zabuza demanded. "Gato was pessimistic, so he sent me to see if you killed the bridge builder," replied the red-head, "and I can see that he was right."

"Hey, that kid is no normal genin," Zabuza defended himself as Haku tried to lift him up. "I know, he's like me, and that's one of the reasons he's here," Death Metal replied as he starts to walk away back to Gato's base.

"The hell do you mean he's like you, a kid like that is a ranked fighter like you?" Zabuza asked. Death Metal stopped as he looked back, "Behind me, he's only tenth in rank, since I'm ninth in rank, you can figure out the rest. If memory serves, his name is Naruto Uzumaki, the previous No. 11 was killed by him, No. 11 had called him the Crimson Prince, son of the Red Queen, that sword he holds was hers."

"The Red Queen, why does that name sound familiar?" Zabuza asked out loud. "To the Assassins Association, she was known as the Red Queen, to ninjas like you, she was known as the Red Death," Death Metal explained striking fear into one of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist, anybody worth their gall on a sword have heard of that woman, rarely anybody who faced her as an enemy, doesn't come out alive."

As Death Metal walked back to Gato's base, Haku and Zabuza stood frozen, "If that boy can do that much to you and is tenth in rank, what can someone in the next rank up do?" "Haku, for once, I can feel myself trembling in fear," Zabuza admits to his tool finding if no one was a hostage in back there, he would be a dead man.


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Travis: So that just leaves with just one thing.

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