Chapter 4
This story is getting more views than I expected. Keep it up guys, I'll try my best to keep updating on a consistent basis. I'm in college and I'm taking 24 credit hours so my schedule is pretty packed. I hope the fight scene last chapter was good enough, review and let me know.
The group had just gotten back to Konoha. After a day of nonstop traveling they were happy to be home although they didn't travel on foot they still just completed their first c-rank mission. Kiba was back up and moving he had just taking a hard hit to the head.
"Naruto your freaking frogs are awesome, I wonder if Akamaru will be able to talk." Kiba thought aloud.
""They're frogs Kiba you better not let them hear you say that, they hate when people call them frogs." Naruto said.
"Settle down kids, you guys can go home Kurenai and I will go debrief with the hokage." Kakashi said before turning to his team. "Team seven meet me at our usual training grounds at 7am." Kakashi said before vanishing in a spark of electricity.
"Same goes for you team eight meet me at our training grounds." Kurenai said vanishing in a cloud of Sakura blossoms.
"Show offs." Kiba mumbled Akamaru barked in agreement.
"I need to go tell my mom about our mission see ya." Naruto said smirking before he his body exploded into water drenching those around him. Sasuke scoffed as if he could do better before disappearing in a torrent of fire.
"Ugh I have to learn that freaking show offs." Kiba angrily said.
"That would be unwise Kiba-san as you would need to become proficient in the shunshin technique first then you would need to find out your elemental affinity then you would need to train it." Shino finished surprising his friends.
"Shino I have never heard you say so much, I-I have to go." Sakura said walking away.
Kiba walked away mumbling something about know it all Aburame and show offs. It left Hinata and Shino standing there.
"I would like to inform my parents of our recent success, goodbye Hinata-san." Shino said before turning around and walking away.
Hinata stood there alone thinking to herself although she didn't get to do much she was a big part in getting information on the bandits. She wanted to get home and tell her family about her first c-rank mission.
X-x-X
(Hokage's Office)
Kakashi and Kurenai stood in front of the Hokage. They were proud of their student's performance on their first c-rank mission although there some bumps in the road the mission was still a success.
"So how did the mission?" Minato asked from behind his desk.
"It was a success we were able to take out a bandit group and retrieve the stone." Kakashi said placing the stone on the desk.
"The bandits were being led by shinobi from an unknown village." Kurenai added.
"Ah you must mean the sound shinobi." Minato said.
"Yes do you know anything about them sensei?" Kakashi asked.
"Just that they started popping up all over the place a few months ago recruiting people into their forces and at first I thought nothing of it until I got reports that entire clans were leaving with them." Minato answered.
"Well I have one of the sound shinobi in a preservation scroll let's hope we can get some information out of him." Kakashi said.
"Good job as always overachieving." Minato said as he smiled at his student.
"I'm just doing my job sensei." Kakashi modestly responded.
"Enough of that tell me how the genin performed." Minato said instantly getting serious. Kakashi and Kurenai shared a look before nodding.
"They performed exceedingly well although they hesitated to kill the bandits they fought with the exception of Naruto and Sasuke." Kurenai said before getting a confused look on her face, "By the way what happened to the bandits that weren't killed?" Kurenai asked looking at Kakashi.
"After you guys left I sent a clone to the camp who destroyed it and made sure it looked like nothing was ever there." He answered.
"Well you can't expect genin fresh out the academy to kill so easily they have to let their minds mature." Minato sagely said.
"What about Naruto and Sasuke it seemed as if they have been doing it their whole life." Kurenai said.
"Those two are exceptions Kushina and I made sure that Naruto would be ready for every aspect of the shinobi life and Sasuke the same but when his clan was massacred with the exception of a few, death became a part of his life even more so than other shinobi." Minato explained.
"I have an idea about the stone but tell me what's so special about it." Kakashi said.
"I'm sure you figured it out but if you didn't, this is the same stone that the shodai's necklace was made from but this piece is different." Minato said electing a gasp from Kurenai and curious look from Kakashi.
"What makes this piece so different?" Kakashi asked.
"This piece can suppress and absorb biju chakra." Minato said. The jonin in front of him as well as the ones hidden in the shadows grew wide eyes.
"Do you think that whoever is in charge of the sound ninja knew about this?" Kurenai asked recovering from her shock.
"I would think so but it could have been taken just for its value but we have to assume they did know." Minato answered.
"Then we're lucky we got it back." Kurenai said.
"Kakashi you take the prisoner to the T&I division and Kurenai you are dismissed I expect a written mission report from both of you." Minato said with his hokage voice.
"Yes hokage-sama." The jonin said in unison before disappearing.
X-x-X
Naruto had gotten home and found his mom in the kitchen cooking dinner. They talked about his mission and how they fought the ninja. He told her he had gotten his first kills although she knew this day would come she was still a worried mother. Her thirteen year old son had killed but she knew he would be fine she and Minato made sure of that. She was taken out of her thoughts by Naruto waving his hand in front of her.
"What is it honey did you want something?" She asked.
"I asked you if you could practice my kenjutsu with me." He said.
"Not today Ruto-kun I have to finish this food." Kushina said walking back to the stove.
"Okay I'm going to see if Sasuke is up for some training, be back later." Naruto said walking out the door.
The Uchiha compound was on the far east side of Konoha. After the massacre there were only ten Uchiha left, seven were on missions, Itachi and Shisui were in a meeting with Minato and Sasuke was spending the night at Naruto's house. No one knows who did it but whoever did was in and out before anyone realized it but they're speculations that it was an inside job as two Uchiha were unaccounted for after the massacre. Naruto was shaken out of his thoughts as he heard something. In front of him stood two dark haired men, presumably Uchiha.
"Is there something I can do for you?" The taller one said.
"I'm here to see Sasuke." Naruto responded folding his arms.
"Sasuke-sama is busy training with Itachi-sama so you can leave." He the other one spoke up.
"Let the kid in and stop being assholes." A man said with short spikey black hair sitting atop the wall.
"As you wish Shisui-sama." The tall said opening the gate.
"It's good to see you again Naruto, it's been awhile how have you been?" Shisui asked walking with Naruto.
"I'm good Shisui, how have you been?" Naruto asked arms still folded.
"You know an assassination here and an assassination there." He said casually.
"Sounds great." Naruto said awkwardly.
"Here to train with Sasuke?" Shisui asked.
"Yeah I need help-." Naruto started before Shisui grabbed him and disappeared. They appeared at an apparent training ground, Sasuke was seen fighting against what could be a twin just taller. The taller one noticed the newcomers and jumped back from Sasuke.
"Naruto-san it's been awhile what brings you here." He said in a monotone voice.
"I came to see if Sasuke wanted to help me train my kenjutsu." Naruto said.
"Normally I would jump at the chance to train with you but Itachi thought that today would be a great day to not hold back." Sasuke said with bruises and cuts all over him.
"Little brother you told me about your mission and said you wanted to get stronger." Itachi shot back.
"I didn't say kick my face in." Sasuke yelled before walking away.
"Pain is the weakness leaving your body." Itachi said following after Sasuke.
Naruto stood there with his mouth open. He had come here to see if Sasuke wanted to train only to be left standing alone. He would just go home and wait for his dad to come home. He turned to leave until a Shisui spoke up he had almost forgotten he was there.
"I can help you train your kenjutsu if you want." Shisui suggested.
"That's fine with me." Naruto said touching a seal on his wrist causing a puff of smoke. The smoke dissipated to reveal two swords on his back one over his right shoulder and one horizontally across the small of his back coming out on the left side.
"Ah the famous Uzumaki daisho, it's an honor." Shisui said bowing.
"So you've heard of the Susanoo no Te?" Naruto said looking at the swords in his hands.
The first one was a katana the right hand, it was made of a rare black metal found in the once Uzushiogakure. You could see intricate markings along the blade the guard was in the design of a whirlpool making it look like the blade was being swallowed by the handle which was wrapped in a dark blue material with the Uzumaki swirl embroidered on it. The second one was a wakizashi it looked exactly the same as the first besides the size difference.
"I don't know much about them but I know they are dangerous." Shisui said pulling his tanto out.
"You have no Idea." Naruto said before disappeared from sight.
He reappeared next to Shisui swinging the katana down, Shisui blocked without looking before disappearing himself. The next second Naruto had cuts all over his body as Shisui appeared in front of him kicking him away.
"I forgot you were so fast but I'm fast too." Naruto said disappearing again.
This time he appeared above Shisui "Uzumaki Ryu: Shinku nami." Naruto said swinging the blade down. Shisui brought his tanto up to block creating a massive shockwave causing dust to fly in the air. The dust settled to reveal Naruto with his sword in the ground and Shisui nowhere to be found. Naruto looked around seeing nothing he turned to look elsewhere when something cold touched his neck.
"Yield." Shisui said sending chills down Naruto's spine.
"I yield." Naruto said as Shisui let him go.
"I see you two are having fun." Itachi said from the entrance with a couple Uchiha behind him including Sasuke with their Sharingan spinning ready to pounce at any moment.
"What was that boom we heard?" Sasuke asked from beside Itachi.
"That was Naruto breaking my tanto." Shisui said holding up his broken tanto.
"Sorry about that, I can get you a new one." Naruto said as Shisui waved him off.
"No need this gives me an excuse to use my father's blade now if you excuse I have to clean myself off." He said walking away covered in dust.
"Impressive Naruto-san not many people live long enough to fight Shisui let alone close enough to break his blade." Itachi said turning to leave, the other Uchiha followed but Sasuke stayed.
"Those are nice blades why didn't you use them on the mission?" Sasuke asked.
"It honestly slipped my mind." Naruto said sealing the weapons.
"I guess I'll see you tomorrow then." Sasuke said walking away.
"You know it." Naruto said before disappearing into thin air.
X-x-X
(Next Day)
The streets of Konoha were full with street merchants, sightseeing tourists and a young blond in a hurry. Naruto had woken up late and was currently twenty minutes late to meet his team. To make it worse his mom lectured him about being more responsible now that he was a shinobi which took longer than he would like. He arrived to find Sasuke practicing his throwing technique on the training post and Sakura sitting cross legged in a meditative state. Sasuke noticed him and walked over to him while Sakura sat still.
"So you finally decided to show up?" Sasuke said smirking.
"What's up with her?" Naruto said pointing a thumb at Sakura.
"She was like that when I got here." Sasuke said shrugging his shoulders.
"She's doing an exercise I showed her." Kakashi said walking up behind them.
Sakura's hand twitched before her eyes started fluttering open. Yesterday on her way home she ran into Kakashi and they had a talk about her getting serious about being a kunoichi and he showed her a meditation exercise to help her get in sync with her chakra.
"So what's the plan for today sensei?" Sakura asked.
Naruto and Sasuke shared a look, he couldn't put his finger on it but Sakura seemed different. He couldn't put his finger on it but whatever it was it was a good change.
"I have something different for all you but I have something to do myself." Kakashi said as he felt a ping of chakra from his shoulder.
"Then who's going to train us?" Sakura asked a bit peeved.
"These handsome gentlemen right here." Kakashi said as three copies of him appeared next to him.
"So are you going to tell us what you're going to be teaching us?" Sasuke asked.
"Nope but they will." Kakashi said pointing at the clones before disappearing.
"I wonder what he is up to." Naruto thought aloud walking away with one of the clones.
"No matter how long I've known him he gets weirder every day." Sasuke said vanishing into the forest with his clone.
Sakura was left alone in the clearing with the last clone that was busy flipping a kunai. She didn't have a normal team by any means but they were her team. She walked over to the clone and tapped him on the shoulder.
"So what are you supposed to be teaching me?" She asked.
"First of all we need to address your fighting skills." The clone answered.
"Why would we do that I'm never going to be on the frontlines like Naruto and Sasuke." Sakura complained.
"Wrong it's the exact opposite, while you won't be the first choice this team will be in all types of situations and you have to be ready for it." He explained. Sakura thought about it and remembered she wanted to change for the better so she wouldn't question her sensei anymore.
"I understand sensei." Sakura said with fire burning in her eyes. "Shānnarō we got this!" Inner Sakura chimed in.
"Good now let's get to work." The clone said getting into a fighting stance.
X-x-X
(With Sasuke)
Sasuke stood in the clearing as the clone hands flipped through hand seals. His hands came to a halt as he raised his hand in the air as hawks made of lightning sprung forward hitting a tree destroying it in the process.
"That was a jutsu a close friend from Sunagakure taught me during the war." The clone said.
Sasuke's eye widen for a second before reverting back to his usual Uchiha scowl. Sasuke still kept his guard up he couldn't show that an Uchiha was impressed by such a jutsu. Although there weren't many Uchiha left he had to show that they were still the strongest.
"You seem unimpressed." The clone said walking towards Sasuke.
"I've seen better." Sasuke replied.
"Then you don't want to learn it, that's fine with me." The clone said turning to walk away.
Sasuke wanted to keep up his Uchiha façade but that was a jutsu that fit him. He fought back the Uchiha pride and called out to his teacher.
"Wait sensei, I never said I didn't want to learn it." He said.
"Ah that's what I thought." The clone said turning back around.
X-x-X
(With Naruto)
"What ya got for me Kakashi-nii?" Naruto asked with his arms folded once again.
"I hear that you been working on some new seals, care to show me?" The clone asked.
"Sure here they are." Naruto says pulling out two pieces of paper, one light blue and the other white.
"What do they do?" Kakashi says eyeing the seals curiously.
"This one when activated shoots a beam of chakra the size of the beam depends on the amount of chakra used when activated." He said pointing at the blue one. "And this one is paralysis seal." He said holding up the white one.
"Sounds like you don't need any help." The clone inquired.
"Well I've got the chakra beam seal down but I need to find a way to add chakra to the paralysis seal without it burning out." Naruto told the clone.
"You happen to be in luck, binding seals are my specialty." The clone said taking the seal from Naruto.
(With Kakashi)
Kakashi stood in front of his sensei's empty desk with two other jonin. A dark grey haired man stood on Kakashi's right side while a man with auburn hair that reach his back stood on his left.
"What do you guys think this is about?" The auburn haired man asked getting the attention of the other two jonin.
"I'm perplexed myself what could be so dire that hokage-sama would need to call on two of his strongest jonin no offence Santa-san." The grey haired man said.
"None taken Hayama-san, it's an honor two work beside men such as yourselves." Santa replied
"I have an idea but-." Kakashi said before being interrupted by a gust of wind. Minato appeared in front of them sitting at his desk.
"I'm sure you gentlemen have questions but you will wait until I'm finished, is that understood." Minato said in his hokage voice.
"Hai hokage-sama." The jonin chorused.
"I've called you three here because I just received word that a village on the northern edge of the land of fire has been destroyed by an unknown force." Minato said with venom in his tone.
"Destroyed as in can be rebuilt?" Santa asked curiously.
"Destroyed as in nothing is left of it but there are two young boys who survived being held at our outpost near there." Minato explained to them.
"I still don't see the need for three jonin." Kakashi said what they all were thinking.
"The ninja stationed at the outpost have felt huge burst of chakra around the area that's where you two come in." Minato said pointing at Kakashi and Hayama. "Santa is going because the boys are in a coma like state" He finished.
"When do we leave hokage-sama?" Hayama asked.
"Immediately, your destination is the northwestern post." Minato commanded.
The jonin nodded, Hayama and Santa disappeared in a seal less shunshin. Kakashi remained there standing in front of his sensei. His shoulders dropped and his body language became relaxed.
"Sensei what about my team?" Kakashi asked.
"I've already taken that into consideration and its being taken care of right now." Minato answered.
"I understand sensei." Kakashi said before disappearing.
Kakashi appeared in front the north gate. Hayama and Santa stood there waiting for him ready for the mission. Kakashi knew this mission had to be serious for his sensei to send him and Hayama together. Kakashi himself was S-rank and Hayama was A-rank whatever or whoever destroyed that village must have set the hokage on edge.
(Back with team 7)
Naruto had just finished improving his paralysis seal when something hit him in the back of the head knocking him out. He felt something tight wrapped around him, he looked down to find himself tied to a training post. He heard some mumbling around him he turned to find his teammates in the same predicament.
"Do you guys know what's going on?" Naruto asked his teammates.
"No one moment I was practicing genjutsu with the clone and the next I'm here." Sakura answered.
"Same here, except it was a new lightning jutsu." Sasuke said.
"That's weird, who-." Naruto was cut off by a cloud of smoke appearing in front of them.
A sudden gust of wind blew the smoke away. The wind revealed two men with black hair and black eyes. They stood side by side on their arms was the symbol for the military police. Sasuke took a look at them making his eyes widen.
"Itachi, Shisui what are you two doing here?" Sasuke basically yelled.