Edited: 8/9/16
Chapter Four:
Standard Issue C-Ranks
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(Mizu no Kuni)
Team 10 and the two Kiri ninja were all in formation heading towards Kiri, the three genin were in front of the two Kiri shinobi and Asuma was behind them. For the past two days nothing has happened. Chojuro informed the Konoha shinobi that most of the potential danger would be inside of Mizu no Kuni, since there were some of the Yondaime Mizukage's followers still around.
Naruto and the Hozuki member- Rengetsu managed to strike up an interesting conversation about the Hozuki's bloodline.
"So you're telling me, that you can turn into water…what would happen if it were to dry up while you're in that form or if you ran out of chakra?" Naruto asked, this is seriously bothering him. Could this guy be whipped up with a towel?
Rengetsu sighed and shook his head, "I can't dry up, I can turn back to my normal form at almost an instant. Not to mention, my water form takes chakra to keep going, so once I run out of chakra I automatically turn back to normal." Explained Rengetsu, he would have been irritated…but he got these questions quite frequently.
Asuma tuned out the conversation and focused on the surroundings for a moment. He let out an irritated grunt, he was careless, they were completely surrounded. By Asuma's count, there were six shinobi. He looked over his team and thought over his options.
Naruto can handle himself against chunin level opponents. Shikamaru could take on one by himself if they weren't too strong, then he has Ino. Asuma sighed, he doesn't think Ino could take a chunin level shinobi on by herself, her skills were more for support not head-on assault. Asuma thought over his options, Naruto would have to do.
Asuma picked up the pace to get within hearing distance of his team. "Listen up." Asuma said loud enough for only his team and the two Kiri shinobi to hear.
"We're surrounded, six in total, unknown skill levels. I will take the two directly behind us, Shikamaru Ino, you two will take the one to our left. Naruto yours is to the right." Asuma addressed his team, then he looked to the Kiri nin.
"Can I count on you two to get the two directly in front of us?" Asked Asuma. Both Chojuro and Rengetsu nodded in an affirmative.
Naruto took in a breath, this was going to be his first real combat experience. His heart rate was starting to climb to an incredible level, it was exhilarating. He hoped that Shikamaru and Ino will be alright, he didn't like to think this way, but he knew that he was much stronger than the both of them. He'll take his opponent out as fast as he possibly could, then back up his teammates. Not the best plan, but it was the best he could come up with at the moment.
Shikamaru sighed, he was going to have to get serious. He didn't have near enough information to make a real plan but his main objective was to keep guard over Ino. Ino herself started to get a little nervous, this was real combat, real shinobi, trying to kill them. It was a lot to take in. She shook her head, she couldn't freeze up she needed to make sure that she had a level head to support Shikamaru.
Asuma smirked at the rampant emotions crossing over his students faces, they were clearly working themselves up. Asuma may not be a sensor in any form of the word, but the shinobi surrounding them aren't even hiding their KI or their chakra presences. And from what Asuma could tell, they weren't higher than mid-chunin.
All of the the thoughts between Team 10 happened in a couple seconds. Asuma suddenly stopped and charged the two shinobi behind them.
The two ninja that Asuma is charging tensed, they thought that they were hidden quite well. Both look at each other then nod. The two Kiri shinobi jump out and charge Asuma, both are armed with katanas.
Asuma took out his chakra blades and body flickered at the two of them. The Kiri shinobi couldn't even follow Asuma's movements, only out of reflex did they manage to bring up their swords to block the chakra blades. Both of them froze and turned around, Asuma was putting away his chakra blades and lighting a cigarette.
"You two must not be familiar with Fūton enhanced chakra blades. Well, they're really sharp." Right as Asuma said that the two shinobi's swords fell apart and they both fell to the ground with huge gashes in their chests. Asuma walked over to the two of them and slits their throats, no use interrogating, they were obviously trying to kill anyone that was for the new Kiri.
Naruto was having a little more trouble with his opponent, Naruto was being pushed on the defense without any openings to exploit. He ducked under a slash and manages to pull out a kunai. The two of them stared at one another trying to find any openings in each others stances.
The Kiri shinobi engaged once again. Naruto however, now has a weapon to block the sword. When the Kiri-nin went in for a stab, Naruto parried the stab and kicked the Kiri-nin in the wrist making him drop the sword. Naruto used this moment to jump back and make the snake seal, wood bursts up from the ground and without thinking, Naruto send the incredibly deadly tentacles of wood at his opponent.
The Kiri shinobi managed to dodge the first tentacle of wood but not the other five. He was pierced all over his body, two managing to hit a vital point. The Kiri shinobi died almost instantly.
Naruto froze, not only was this his first real combat experience, but he just took his first life. Naruto's hand started to shake, he didn't mean for to kill him, only to bind him.
Shikamaru and Ino were both trying to handle their opponent. Ino was peppering the guy with kunai at a distance while shikamaru was using his Kagemane no Jutsu (Shadow Imitation Technique) to move the Kiri nin into position.
The Kiri-nin was doing a good job of avoiding all of Ino's kunai, which was just what Shikamaru planned on. In the middle of a treeless area there weren't many shadows, so Ino was making some. Shikamaru was waiting for the perfect moment, Ino started to group more kunai together.
The Kiri-nin dodged a kunai and rushed in to attack the konoha genin. Shikamaru linked his jutsu with the shadows from the many kunai and used them as anchoring points for different shadow tendrils. The kiri-nin was held by over a dozen shadow streams all originating from a different kunai.
The shadow user smirked, "Kagemane no Jutsu (Shadow Imitation Technique)…complete." Said Shikamaru.
Ino let out a breath, that was nerve wracking, she didn't want to think about having to fight the Kiri nin without Shikamaru. She's going to up her training when she got back, other than the mind jutsu her father taught her and mediocre taijutsu, she had nothing else.
"Lets go meet up with Asuma-sensei and Naruto-kun." Said Ino. Hoping to put the matter to rest.
Right as Ino said that Naruto landed right next to them, he didn't look too good but he was uninjured. Naruto looked at the captured Kiri-nin with a blank face.
"Release your jutsu Shikamaru." Ordered Naruto.
Shikamaru raised his eyebrows, he had an idea of what was going on with Naruto, after all, he didn't have a prisoner.
"No, I can handle it." Shikamaru said, he went through two more seals and activated his Kage–Kubishibari no Jutsu (Shadow Neck-Binding Technique) and snapped the Kiri-nin's neck. Shikamaru looked away from the dead ninja, his father prepared him for the eventuality of killing in the field but actually doing it…it felt strange.
"Shika, is he…did you?" Ino asked nervously.
"Yes he is, and yes he did Ino." Asuma said as he walked up to his team. Chojuro and Rengetsu gave the Konoha team privacy to talk for a minute, they both remember their first kills after all.
"Every shinobi has to go through this at one point in their career, usually on their first or second C-Rank mission. That's why we wait to give them to fresh teams, the Jonin have to approve their teams ability to cope. Once a Jonin, or me in this case, feels that the whole team is ready we ask for a C-Rank, and I must say that you all did better than I hoped. Naruto, Shikamaru if you have anything you want to talk about I will be here. Ino, we aren't out of this yet so keep your guard up, you might have to take your first life yourself before this is over." Asuma said with the best comforting tone he could while at the same time being serious.
Naruto and Shikamaru both nodded absently, they were prepared for this so it didn't hit as hard as it could. Ino on the other hand, was prepared by her father but never really paid attention during his long lectures. Right now she wished she had.
"If you're all fine, we're going to keep moving." Said Asuma.
Right as Asuma said that the two Kiri shinobi walked over, Rengetsu looked like he was about to explode from excitement and Chojuro…literally looked the same as he did from before the fight.
Rengetsu had a monster smirk on his face and walked up to Naruto, "That jutsu, that's the legendary Mokuton! I want to spar with you once we get to Kiri! I—" Rengetsu was about to go off on a long tangent about legendary fights with Naruto but Chojuro cut him off.
"We don't have t-time for this, Mizukage-sama is waiting. Lets go." Ordered Chojuro, but in his head he was re-sizing up the blond Senju. "Mizukage-sama will want to hear about this."
Asuma nodded and he motioned for his team to get back into formation so they could proceed to Kirigakure no Sato.
Naruto started running with his team, 'Man this mission escalated quickly, I wonder what Sasuke's up to. If I remember correctly, he is on a C-rank with Team 8 right now.' Wondered Naruto.
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(Nami no Kuni)
Teams 7 and 8 were currently locked in a vicious struggle against two missing nin. Kakashi and Anko were fighting against the Demon of the Mist- Zabuza Momochi. While Sasuke was fighting against Zabuza's companion. He was hiding from all of them until Hinata pointed out that someone was watching after looking around with her byakugan.
Sasuke was then ordered to engage the hiding shinobi with Shino as back up. Right now he's locked in a taijutsu bout with the masked shinobi.
Sasuke ducked under a kick and used the opportunity to unsheathe his chokuto and try to stab the masked-nin in the heart. The masked ninja jumped back and threw dozens of senbon at Sasuke, who deflected them all easily with the help of his sharingan.
"You're very impressive, but I will say that without those eyes of yours you wouldn't be able to keep up. My name is Haku by the way, if we are to continue this fight I would like to know your name as well, Uchiha." Said the now named Haku.
"Sasuke Uchiha, now we've wasted enough time talking." Said Sasuke, he used a one handed ram seal and his sword started to glow and spark all over. It wasn't the most refined Raiton manipulation, but it will be more than enough to deal with Haku.
Sasuke charged in with a body flicker, Haku avoided the Uchiha's Raiton enhanced sword and tried to turn him into a pincushion. Even with the sharingan, Sasuke was hard pressed to deflect all of the senbon coming at him.
Using the second that Sasuke was distracted, Haku flared most of his chakra and used an unusual hand seal. The area around them dropped in temperature and all around Sasuke, mirrors made of ice formed making a dome.
Haku stepped into one of the mirrors and his body was displayed on each mirror, "This is over, nobody has ever escaped my jutsu, not even Zabuza-sama. I am truly sorry about what I have to do." Said Haku right before he started to unleash a seemingly endless barrage of senbon at insane speeds.
Sasuke only focused on the senbon that were aimed at his vitals, the other ones he was forced to take. Haku stopped the barrage once Sasuke fell to one knee.
Sasuke was panting from the exertion and pulled out the needles in his legs then flashed through seals for a jutsu ending in the tiger seal. Sasuke unleashed his, Katon: Ryūka no Jutsu (Fire Release: Dragon Fire Jutsu) towards the mirror he's facing.
When the steam cleared, the mirror that Sasuke used his Katon Jutsu on was barely melted. "That's just not fair." Thought Sasuke. Right as he thought that he was attacked by hundreds of senbon. Sasuke was able to follow Haku's movements but was unable to counter attack, when haku's thousand needle barrage ended, Sasuke noticed a small bug on his sword.
Looking closer, Sasuke saw several bugs on his sword and with his sharingan he could see bugs crawling on all of the mirrors. Sasuke smirked, "Well Haku, it seems that this is the end." Sasuke said.
"Yes, and I am truly sorry for having to kill you." Said Haku.
Sasuke's sword bursted with Raiton chakra and he flickered toward the mirror holding the real Haku. As the blade approached, Haku shook his head at the tactic, his master always tried that but it never worked for him. What made the Uchiha think that it would work for him.
Right as those thoughts went through the Ice users mind, Sasuke stabbed Haku right in the chest right though the ice mirror. Haku's eyes widened, how on earth did the uchiha manage to do what Zabuza never could?
"If you're wondering how, right over there is someone who's backing me up. He specializes in draining chakra and I suspect that he has been doing it the whole time. But unlike you, I'm not truly sorry for this." Sasuke said as he removed his sword from the now dead Haku's chest.
"I apologize at how long it took to drain enough chakra from the mirrors. Each had a large amount of chakra that the few number of Beatles were hard pressed to drain in a timely fashion." Said Shino in his usual flat voice.
"It's fine, we handled it." Sasuke said while wiping his sword off. Neither commented on the fact that Sasuke just killed someone. The Aburame were taught from a very young age to control their emotions and one of Sasuke's life goals was to kill his big brother…so he's comfortable with killing.
"We should return to Anko-sensei and Kakashi-taicho." Said Shino, Sasuke wordlessly nodded and started to walk back to the clearing where the rest of their group was fighting.
Zabuza wasn't having a good time, he's quite sure that he was poisoned by the snake lady and the copy ninja would have been enough on his own without blurry vision.
Kakashi kicked Zabuza toward the water, right as Zabuza landed Kakashi saw Sasuke and Shino return from where they were fighting Zabuza's partner. Kakashi let out a breath that he didn't know he was holding, he was glad that both of them were okay.
"Haku- Zabuza's companion, is dead Anko-sensei." Droned Shino. He merely pushed up his sunglasses as he observed the surrounding reactions to his report.
The surrounding genin all looked at Shino and Sasuke with wide eyes, Anko turned to them with a smile.
"Good job you two, Kakashi and I are about to wrap this up. Right kakashi?" Asked Anko already knowing the answer.
Kakashi flashed through three seals and chakra condensed around his right hand. Kakashi has been waiting for Anko's poison to take enough of an effect to slow down Zabuza so that Kakashi could kill him without much effort. He could hit a moving target easily but he didn't want to waste too much chakra on a missed shot.
"Kakashi's signature jutsu- Chidori, quite impressive to experience in person rather than the stories that Gai spouts all the time." Thought Anko, she's heard of the jutsu that just lighting but always chalked the claim up to Gai's nonsense. But being in the presence of the jutsu made her a little more convinced of its' ability.
All the genin looked on in awe at the condensed lightning. None of them have felt such a strong jutsu. Sasuke smirked to himself, with his eyes active he copied the jutsu. That jutsu will be more than helpful in his life-long mission of beating that blond haired Senju's face in, uh he meant killing Itachi. Yeah that was his life long mission killing Itachi.
With speed that the genin couldn't follow and that was a blur to even the sharingan eyes of Sasuke, Kakashi charges forward and pierced Zabuza in the chest with his jutsu. Zabuza let out a pained groan as his blood shot out his back onto the ground, Kakashi's nose twitched in disgust, having his arm in someones chest was nasty business.
Kakashi pulled his arm from Zabuza's chest and threw him into the lake they were standing on. Anko walked over and sealed Kibikuriboucho into a scroll, it should be worth quite the fortune to Kiri.
Kakashi flickered over to the genin and Tazuna, "Okay everyone, lets continue on. I doubt that we will have any more missing-nin attacking us. Sasuke, I would like to talk to you for a moment." Kakashi said to everyone before leading Sasuke away from the group.
"I know you most likely copied my Chidori, when we get back to the village I will start training you to use it. Don't try to use it until I give you the training for it." Instructed Kakashi, he isn't mad that Sasuke copied his jutsu, that would be incredibly hypocritical since Kakashi has copied hundreds of jutsu himself.
Sasuke nodded and followed Kakashi back to the others, he wondered what Naruto was doing right now. He remembered hearing that Naruto got a C-Rank mission himself. Maybe they could have a spar when they got back to the village after their missions.
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(Kirigakure no Sato: Mizukage's Office)
The Mizukage was a young women by the name of Mei Terumi, she's the holder of two Kekkei Genkai- the Yōton and Futton. She was the leader of the bloodline rebels during the Kiri civil war and took up the mantle of Mizukage when they managed to kill Yagura. Mei was a very beautiful women, long auburn hair and in a blue dress that showed off a generous amount of cleavage.
"Thank you for escorting my men back, Konoha shinobi. Tell Hokage-dono that I'll be accepting his offer next time and the curtesy is extended to him as well." Said Mei with a smile.
Naruto and Asuma were both pushing back the drool that wants to escape their mouths at the sight of the gorgeous Mizukage. Asuma was in a committed relationship with Kurenai but the Mizukage was easily one of the most beautiful women he's ever met. Naruto just enjoyed looking at the red-headed village leader.
"She's a definite 10." Both Teacher and student thought at the same time.
Asuma cleared his throat, "If that is all Mizukage-sama, my team and I will be returning to Konoha." Said Asuma.
Mei smiled while looking over the team, she didn't see anything special about the dark haired boy or the girl. But the blond boy bares a striking resemblance to Minato Namikaze, she would have to look into this further, especially since he said his name is Naruto Senju. The only Senju around was Tsunade, that would be quite interesting if the legendary Fourth Hokage and Slug Sannin had a child. He would be quite the monster.
"I believe that is everything." Mei said dismissing them.
With one last glance to Mei the Konoha shinobi left the Mizukage's office.
As Team 10 was walking out of the village Ino looked at her team with a frown, "She isn't that great! Stop Daydreaming!" Ino yelled, she's tired of seeing her team drool over the Mizukage, who Ino didn't even think was all that great.
Shikamaru looked at Ino with a sly smirk, "I didn't take you for being the jealous type." He said before Ino clobbered him over the head with a growl. Naruto and Asuma sweat dropped while watching Ino scream Shikamaru's ear off.
With that Team 10 started there three day journey back to Konoha.
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(Nami no Kuni)
Sasuke was currently training his water walking skills under the bridge that the rest of his team was on top of guarding. So far, while they have been in Nami nothing has happened, no attacks, nothing.
Kakashi and Anko have been talking about something quietly since they got to the bridge builder's house but Sasuke wasn't interested in listening to them.
Right now Sasuke was just wondering why they were still there, the mission was to protect Tazuna on the way to Nami not guard him while he finished his bridge. Sasuke wanted to go back to the village, train, practice his new Chidori and spar with Naruto. Kakashi refused to give Sasuke the exercises for mastering the jutsu until they got back to the village, so he was forced to work on water walking.
Sasuke, now more than ever was cursing his luck for the team he was apart of since neither of them were very good sparring partners. Choji didn't train outside of his clan other than chakra control. Sakura…well, he wasn't sure if she had trained since she received her headband. Both of them are seriously mediocre, he couldn't wait until he was a Chunin and he could leave the team.
Sasuke was brought out of his thoughts when he heard a bunch of yelling and commotion from atop the bridge. Using the tree walking exercise to run up the bridge he saw that the business man, who's name he couldn't quite remember, has gathered a small bandit army to kill them. What a foolish fool.
Sasuke walked up and took a position right next to Kakashi. The man didn't look any different than he did when they met for team training, the guy was unflappable.
"If he signals his army to attack, myself and Anko will lead the charge. Sasuke, Kiba and Choji will be right behind, shino will be support while Hinata and Sakura guard the bridge builder." Ordered Kakashi. From what Anko has told him about Hinata, she's much too timid to handle killing this many people, bandits or otherwise. Sakura was neither that weak or timid, he just doubts that she would be any use on the front lines or that she's particularly ready to kill yet.
Gato smirked at the eight ninja guarding the bridge builder, they didn't stand a chance against sixty bandits. Gato took his cigar out of his mouth, "Kill them all boys! Leave the purple haired one alive, she's much to pretty to die here!" Ordered Gato while eyeing the purple haired women lustfully.
Sasuke took a step forward in the direction of Anko, he will not allow her to be taken, she's much to hot for that. Kakashi noticed what Sasuke was doing and smirked, he'll definitely tell Anko about Sasuke's little crush after this mission if she didn't notice herself.
As the bandits charged forward so did the konoha shinobi. Anko and Kakashi made short work of the bandits. Sasuke, Kiba and Choji were slicing, drilling and crushing their opponents without hesitation much to the latter's shock at his own mercilessness. Shino was using his bugs to drain their chakra, they may not be shinobi but everything had chakra.
Choji was starting to feel a little light headed from all the killing, he didn't even like to hurt anyone but here he was, killing bandits. Sasuke didn't particularly care that he was killing them, they stood in his way, they were bandits and they wanted to do unspeakable things to Anko. They will all die. Kiba and Akamaru were using their Gatsūga (Fang Passing Fang) to take apart the enemy.
In the span of ruffly three minutes, Gato watched his entire army get reduced to nothing. Now he was surrounded by six ninja all looking at him like he was some kind of bad person. What did he ever do to these people, he was just a humble businessman that loved children.
"If you l-let me l-live, I can g-give you anything you want! Money you name it! It's yours!" All off the shinobi look on with a lack of empathy, they have heard what this tyrant has done to this country, now when faced with the consequences he was groveling at their feet. Pathetic.
Sasuke walked forward with his sword, "There is one thing you can give us." Said Sasuke with his Sharingan activated.
Gato's eyes widened, he let out a breath and stood up. "I forgot that you ninja all work for a price. Tell me, what's your price?" Asked a now confident Gato. They liked money and he had a little more than a shit ton of it.
Sasuke plunged his sword into Gato's chest without hesitation, "Your life." Sasuke said cooly.
After all the killing they just did, nobody was surprised that Sasuke killed Gato. Anko walked up behind Sasuke and pressed herself into his back. Her curvy body pressed completely into him and she rubbed herself on him a few times for good measure.
"I gotta say, that was quite hot. If you were a little older I would make you deal with the now soaking situation I have going on right now." Anko whispered into Sasuke's ear.
Sasuke's nose bursted with blood before he passed out with a grin on his face. Kakashi giggled next to them, with chakra enhanced hearing he managed to hear everything Anko just said. He made a mental note to write everything down so he could send it to Jiraiya. He could see it now, Icha Icha Hebi-hime.
Kakashi bent down to pick up his student, "Well now that that problem is dealt with, I think that we can rest easy. Unless this country has another tyrant hiding in the wood work." Said Kakashi with a slight chuckle.
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(Konohagakure no Sato: Hokage's Office)
Team 10 just finished giving their report of their C-Rank mission, Hiruzen was nodding over what he was told and let out the smoke in his lungs in the form of a ring.
"Well done Team 10, you're dismissed. Asuma, stay for a moment." Ordered the Sandaime.
After the genin left Hiruzen put down his pipe. "In about one month the chunin exams are going to be held here. I want Naruto to compete." Hiruzen said, not beating around the bush what-so-ever.
Asuma frowned, "It's the jonin's choice whether or not to include his genin in the chunin exam." Said Asuma, peeved that he was being ordered to put his genin into the Chunin exams barely three months out of the academy.
"We both know that Naruto's more than strong enough, I know that he's pushing mid to even high chunin. If it makes you feel any better, I'm going to tell Kakashi the same thing for Sasuke. Both Naruto and Sasuke will show that Konoha's founding clans are still very strong and very much a threat." Explained Hiruzen. It may sound like too much but the village's reputation was said to be the strongest of the five but right now he doubted that they could beat Kumo as they were. So he needed to make sure their image was top notch.
Asuma didn't like it, but when it came down to it his dad was the boss. "Hai Tou-san, I'll start preparing them. If that is all." Hiruzen waved his son off.
Hiruzen looked over the applicants for the upcoming chunin exam, Suna was sending a team which was comprised of the Yondaime Kazekage's children. One of whom was their Jinchuriki. It might be time for Tenzo to teach Naruto that jutsu.
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(Senju Compound)
Naruto burst into his home and ran into the kitchen to get some food. When he entered the kitchen he was greeted by the sight of his Oba-san drinking sake while reading a very peculiar orange book with a blush.
"I, wow Oba-san. I never took you for the hypocritical type." Naruto said. Who was reading certified porn and was a well know pervert hater.
Tsunade scrambled to put away her book with an embarrassed blush across her cheeks, "Never speak a word of this to anyone, ever…especially to Jiraiya. Lord knows he'll never let it go." Said Tsunade while sending a glare at Naruto, which was ineffective with her dazed look.
Naruto nodded his head, "I won't say anything, but can I finally see whats in that book. If you can read it why can't I!" Whined Naruto, he's only ever heard about what was in the book. He wanted to know why its so popular and all the stores in the village refused to sell it to him because of his oba-san.
"NO! You will not read this and become a pervert! I only read this when I'm drunk or almost drunk." Said Tsunade. Naruto deadpanned after hearing that, she was always drunk or almost drunk, it was her base setting.
"Anyway, how was your mission?" Tsunade asked, both wanting to change the subject and interested to hear how Naruto's first C-Rank went.
"I had to kill someone." Naruto muttered lowly with his head down, it really hurt him as a medic to have to take a life when he was supposed to be someone who saved them.
He felt arms wrap around him and was brought into a hug, not one of the normal suffocating hugs but a tender embrace from his Oba-san. Naruto buried his head in the crook of Tsunade's neck.
"I know what it's feels like to be a medic and take a life. But you are also a shinobi and that is what you have to do in this line of work." Tsunade said in the most soothing voice she could while rubbing her Naru-chans blond hair.
Naruto let go of the hug and backed up, "The mission for the most part was fine. The new Mizukage…" Naruto trailed off, his eyes glazing over.
Tsunade looked at him curiously as she waited for him to continue. Getting tired of waiting, Tsunade finger flicked Naruto in the forehead launching him across the room. Leaving a Naruto sized crater in the wall.
"Well." Tsunade said gesturing for him to continue.
"She's a definite 10 out of 10 maybe even higher. I can honestly say that she is very very very—" Naruto is cut off by a slap to the head. "She is very attractive and a strong leader." Finished Naruto professionally.
Tsunade's eyebrow was twitching but just walked away without another word. Obviously Naruto was back to normal. After Naruto noticed that Tsunade left the room he headed out to the training area to get in some jutsu practice before night time.
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(Hokage's Office)
Teams 7 and 8 just finished giving the report for their mission, Hiruzen was nodding over what he was told and let out the smoke in his lungs in the form of a large ring.
"Congratulations on your first C-Rank mission completed. All of you are dismissed except for Kakashi." Said Hiruzen, once all of the genin and Anko leave Hiruzen cleared his throat.
"I want you to enter your team, specifically Sasuke, into the chunin exams." Said Hiruzen, already preparing to give the same speech he gave his son.
"Okay." Kakashi said not even bothering to fight it, he was going to do it anyway.
Hiruzen raised his eyebrows at the response, he expected a little hesitation at the very least.
"The exams will be in a little more than one month, prepare them accordingly." Ordered Hiruzen seriously knowing that Kakashi was lackadaisical when it came to anything other than a mission or reading.
Kakashi nodded and left the Hokage's office in a seal-less body flicker.
Hiruzen looked out his window toward the village that he was sworn to protect and let out a tired sigh. He shouldn't be behind this desk anymore, Minato should still be here overlooking the village and guiding his son.
Hopefully he can weather the approaching storm until Naruto was capable of taking the mantle, or he will be forced to put it on one of his students, who have already informed him that neither want the hat. Where did he go wrong with them? One is a mass-murdering psychopath another was the largest pervert to ever live and Tsunade didn't want to be Hokage.
Hiruzen turned back to his desk and re-lit his pipe. He started back on his paperwork with a disheartened sigh, with the chunin exams approaching there's way more than usual.
Author's Note
Thanks for the reviews for those of you who sent them.
If any of you have any pairing suggestions let me know, this story will focus mostly on Naruto and Sasuke but everyone needs a bae.
Naruto: Taijutsu: 3 | Ninjutsu: 3.5 | Genjutsu: 2 | Intelligence: 3 | Strength: 2.5 |Speed: 2.5 | Stamina: 5 | Hand Seals: 3 | Total: 24.5
Sasuke: Taijutsu: 3 | Ninjutsu: 2.5 | Genjutsu: 2 | Intelligence: 3 | Strength: 2 | Speed: 3 | Stamina: 2.5 | Hand Seals: 3 | Total: 21 (Kenjutsu brought Sasuke's taijutsu up to 3 since their isn't a kenjutsu category)
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