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Chapter 4: A Mission to "Kill" for Naruto
Naruto was running toward the Koto Teahouse with Yota hot on his heels, they were running late due that Kushina and Homika kept telling them to be careful and to make sure he come back. "They don't have to be so worried about me I can take care of myself…But it still feels nice to have someone worry about you, it shows they care." Naruto said quietly
"you say something Gecko" Yota asked "nothing important Yota" said Naruto
As soon as they arrived at the Teahouse, the two genin stormed inside. "were here." they said out of breath. having spent the last twenty minutes running at top speed
"A Naruto Yota your early now all we have to do is wait for Sora" Shinji said as he looked up from his book. the two boys nodded both of them now wearing a long sleeved dark grey shirt black pants with built in kunai holsters and black sandals they're were some differences between the two Naruto had kept his mask and Yota was wearing a black wristband with a blue cloud on his left sleeve
at that moment Sora had walked in the young Shimura was wearing a dark grey tank top under a black jacket that's hem reached a little below her knees she was also black pants and black sandals her head band wrapped around her forehead "hi everyone am I late?"
"not at all Sora your right on time" Sora smiled "Arigato sensei" she said before looking at Naruto and Yota "you both look nice" she said to her male teammates Yota blushed at the compliment while Naruto just 'stared' at Sora
too put it bluntly Naruto didn't trust Sora she had always stayed in the back of the class doing her work never answering questions and doing average on exams at first he had thought she might be a root agent placed in the class but after her explosion yesterday during his and Yota's 'fight' Naruto dismissed the idea immediately as he had seen a root agent named Torune before and he had the personality of a dead cockroach
The door was slammed open and Kakashi entered the Teahouse carrying on his back Sasuke who was followed by Tobio and Sakura
"hi everyone I thought I would take my new team here to celebrate passing" said kakashi
"YOU ACTUALLY PASSED A TEAM?!" shouted Shinji while Naruto and Yota were trying to get rid of the obvious in their mind genjutsu's while Sora just stood there confused
"A group of fan-girls was trying to say goodbye to their object of lust. Sakura and Tobio showed excellent team work in rescuing him" Shinji suddered as he lifted Sasuke from his shoulder. "poor kid"
Shinji dropped Sasuke gently on a seat while the rest of the newly formed team 7 sat down next to team 11" "FAN GIRLS" Sasuke shouted in a panic his eyes searching the room for the enemy he thought could appear at any moment after a minute Sasuke calmed down
"alright now that the Uchiha is calm team 11 can start their breifing. But first things first, what do you know about political missions?" Shinji asked.
"you can't be serious Shinji" said Kakashi looking at the senju clan member while Sora went pale
Sasuke shrugged. "That they are somehow related to politics."
"had you gave that answer to Iruka he would have failed you sorry behind." Shinji snapped. He looked at Sakura. "Sakura can you tell us what political missions are." Sakura nodded.
"Political mission are some of the highest class missions that often involve doing things for the Daimyo or nobility of your country. Mostly they are missions that could are important to the country itself, such as: assassination of other nobles threating your country, delivering of very important letters that often can decided the fate of many people, and the escort of members of nobility." Sakura turned very red when she realized how much she had said and sunk in her chair
"wow three sentences without a stutter a new record" said Naruto
Team 11 had arrived at a small clearing not far from the bandit camp, the three Genin had been quiet since Shinji had the mission, of course Team 11 consisted of quiet people but this was a different sort of quiet that the normal one, this one felt unnaturally. The implications of what the Genin were about to do weighing heavily on their shoulders.
Shinji nodded his head and started to lead them towards the bandit camp. From their spot they could already see and hear the camp. A large fire they was burning in the center of their tents who stood in a large circle. But what got the three Genin's attention was that the closer they got the louder the screams of woman and younger girls could be heard.
It was for this very reason that Shinji had chosen this particular group of bandits for his teams first mission. The bandits had kidnapped woman and girls from all over the fire country, and used them as sex-slaves. the Daimyo himself had given the mission to Konoha. Kill all of the bandits and return the woman and girls safely towards Konoha. Where they could be rehabilitated and return to their homes
Shinji had volunteered to the mission with his team because he wanted to show his team the reality of the Shinobi world and the mission they would do in the future. He wanted his team to understand why the bandits had to be killed and what would happen if they just freed the woman and left the bandits alive.
The closer they got to the camp to paler Sora became, Naruto and Yota were seemingly lost in thoughts, remembering their time with Orochimaru. "It has been a long time since I heard someone scream like that…I haven't heard it since Kakashi freed me and Yota from the lab of that pale snake."
When they arrived at the line of the clearing they could see the entire camp, there were about thirty to forty bandits, each one with a naked women or screaming for them to stop, begging them to leave them alone.
Over to the side of the camp in the shadows set up out of reach from the warmth the large fire created was a cage, filled with around thirty women both young and old. None of them had clothes on and they were all shivering from the cold night air as several men on the outside of the bars stood luring at them, reaching into the cage and grabbing them and pulling them to the side of the cage.
Shinji looked at his Genin. Yota said nothing but Shinji saw the dark expression on his face. Sora had become as white as a sheet, and was clearly trying not to look away in horror. Naruto was so far his face revealed completely expressionless, but Shinji noticed that he had unsealed his Kusarigama and his hands were shaking.
"I want you to take a good look at this, this is the reality of the Shinobi world, now you know why we are going to kill these man. If we just freed the woman and let the bandits leave they would start again in a different country." Shinji made them watch for another few minutes before retreating further back into the trees, the Genin followed him a minute later.
"I won't step in unless it's necessary this is your mission" said Shinji as his genins spit up like lions surrounding their prey before putting it out of it's misery
Sora was terrified, her whole was body shaking as she mentally prepared herself for what she was about to do. It was a shinobi's duty to kill to steal to forever be cast out of the light and plunged into the darkness that had been the creed of the Shimura clan long before her granduncle became known as the Yami no Shinobi
Sora used her jacket to try and keep the rancid smell out of her lungs, right in front of her, with his back to the tree line was a large man with long black hair and no clothes on. She could smell him from her position in the bushes, sweat, blood and sex. It was enough to make her feel sick.
Sora slipped out of the bushes, she made sure to stay in the man's shadow so that he couldn't see her. Sora drew a kunai on instinct a light green aura of wind chakra surrounded the blade Sora sneaked up behind the man careful to stay out of his peripheral vision before the man could move Sora stabbed the kunai into the base of his neck severing the major arteries giving the man a quick death
Sora dropped to her knees as the tears began falling from her face for years she had dreamed of being a shinobi 'congratulations sora your a shinobi' she thought
Yota hated waiting but he knew had too. His task was to kill the leader. and if it was done too loudly Naruto and Sora would be exposed and their escape a hundred times harder
He had slipped in when no one was looking and found the man asleep on a pile of sheets with a naked woman with long, messy brown hair chained to the post by a metal collar around her neck. She was covered in bruises and her eyes had a dead look to them.
Yota's blood began boiling at the sight of her, making him forget about his nervousness, he silently emerged from behind the crates. Yota sent a silent prayer to the shinigami before he took a deep breath. the leader will die quietly but Yota would be damned if he didn't make it as painful as humanly possible
Yota could feel the eyes of the woman looking at him in shock formed hand signs "Tenko hiden lightning palm" Yota whispered the name of his clans deadliest jutsu lightning surged on his palm Yota raised his hand up and slammed it over the leader's heart lightning convulsed through his body frying his nervous system as his eyes shot open his mouth open in a silent scream before he died
Yota then went about freeing the woman "who are you" Yota looked at the former slave "I'm nobody" Yota said before breaking the collar
Naruto stood on the side of the camp, with his Chakra pulses he had found out that both Sora and Yota had killed their targets. "Sora..Yota… they feel so sad….but I can't help them right now…Shinji-Sensei will talk to them after the mission."
Naruto walked towards a group of bandits that stood watch a little out of the camp.
One of them stood up and looked at the blonde boy in front of him, he pointed his sword at Naruto. "Who are you?"
Naruto took a deep breath. "I'm nobody." And with these words the twelve year old began slaughtering the bandits in cold blood.
Shinji looked from the top of a tree down on the bandit camp noting how each of the Genin at least made one kill. "Time to put an end to this."
The Jonin-Sensei threw a lot of very thin Senbon in the air. "Jinton: Sure Senbon kill!" The Senbon moved on Shinji's command and shot towards the bandits, piercing through their foreheads and giving them an instant kill by piercing their brains.
Shinji jumped from the tree into the camp he first went to Sora. At first she didn't seem to see him, eyes fixed on the dead body of the man on the ground at her feet. Shinji pulled her close to him, feeling the girl would need a hug, Sora began sobbing before she cried out loud, tears falling from her eyes.
They stayed like that for a few minutes before Shinji stepped back. "We can talk later; right now these women need you. Remember the scroll in which I sealed many clothes for woman that I gave you?" Sora nodded."There should be enough clothes for all of the woman, make sure they get them."
"hai sensei" sora said in a dead monotone not unlike root agents
Feeling slightly better now that she had something to do, Sora made her way over to the cage door and started to pick the the lock, Shinji walked to the tent he had seen Yota sneak into.
Just as he was about to enter, the young weather changer walked out the tent a somber mood on his face a far cry from the hyperactive knucklehead he had been this morning, blood stained his palm from the man he had killed . Shinji bended down and patting the boy on the back. "Yota search the camp and seal anything that seems of use to you into your empty sealing-scroll." Yota nodded then went about doing what he was ordered
Lastly Shinji went to Naruto who stood completely still with about half of the bandits of the camp laying dead at his feet. "Is everything alright here Naruto?"
"Yes Sensei everything is fine…it sure has been some time since I killed someone." Naruto said.
Shinji nodded. "Alright then go help Yota seal useful things into your sealing scrolls."
After taking anything of value from the camp and moving away all of the woman, Shinji collected the explosive tags his students had bought and used them to blow up the camp.
The woman flinched away as soon as one of the male members of Team 11 came close to them, after what they been through Shinji would have been shocked if they didn't. So Sora had been tasked to take care of them.
Sora had made a fire and was now just staring into it. Naruto wandered around a little, but made sure to stay away from the women. while Yota was looking at the moon
Shinji had sent a messenger hawk to Konoha to ask for transport for the women, going into detail about what they had seen at the camp so that Minato knew to send only Kunoichi for the transport.
After making sure there were enough tents for the women, Team sat down at the fire Sora had made. No one said anything; they just sat there in silence. Now that they finally sat down Sora found herself thinking about the man she had killed while Yota was still on alert as if more enemies would appear. Naruto just looked into the direction of the woman keeping his full attention on them just in case.
Taking a deep breath, Shinji spoke up. "The first time I took a life for a mission I was twelve years old. My team and I were returning from a simple delivering mission, the mission had gone well, very well even. But then on the way back we were suddenly attacked by a band of rouge Shinobi. One of them went towards me thinking since I was the smallest that I would be an easy kill. The man stormed towards me, I don't know what his name was, or even remember what he looked like, all I remember is his blood hitting my face as I slammed my kunai into his chest."
The Genin looked at their Sensei in wonder.
"For the rest of the mission I didn't talk to anyone, nothing my Sensei or teammates said worked. I kept asking myself, why did I kill him? I saw his blood on my hands, but no matter what I did I couldn't wash it off." Shinji paused a for a short while looking up at the sky.
"When I got back to the village I went straight to my parents my mother picked me up and held me in her lap and I cried for hours she told me the truth to be a ninja is to kill"
Shinji looked at his team. "I let you kill this soon to let you face reality, but also to protect you."
"when Gecko and I were four years old this group of inmates tried to kill us they thought if they killed us they would get our abilities they had knocked Naruto's mask off and he had unleashed a cloud of poison in two of their faces they're veins had become visible and a dark shade of purple the other one the leader I fried with an incomplete lightning palm" Yota raised pulled back his sleeve showing on his inner arm a long burn that went from his wrist to his elbow "the lightning recoiled and gave me this as a reminder that some times killing is a necessary evil of this world now matter how much it destroys you on the inside" Yota said before pulling his sleeve back down
Sora looked at Yota in a new light as he sat by the fire she had always assumed that he was an immature knucklehead but now as she looked into his eyes she saw the eyes of a hardened warrior a level of maturity no boy no man of any age should have especially not at twelve
Shinji looked to Sora thinking what her reaction would be tears denial declarations of hatred at him and everything he stood for
What he wasn't expecting was for Sora to come over and hug him with all her might, or the words she whispered as fresh tears started to fall from her eyes.
"T-Thank you Shinji-Sensei. Y-You r-really are v-very k-kind."
"yeah you are" said Naruto "your a good man Shinji Sensei" addressing him as sensei for the first time
Shinji stammered and turning slightly red. "You are not bad for a bunch of brats your selves…and I guess…that I don't mind being your Sensei." Shinji coughed returning to his stern personality. "In any case, it will take about two-three days for the wagons to arrive and about the same time to go back. During that time I am going to plan a training schedule for when we get back. But for now rest and think about what has been said here."
The Genin nodded. "I will take the first watch." Naruto volunteered.
Shinji nodded. "Alright wake me up in two hours."
About two hours latter Shinji opened his eyes, he had not really been asleep more in a light slumber. He got up from his spot on the ground and listened to the sounds around him. "Well it is about time to switch with Naruto, time to get up." Shinji began searching for Naruto who seemingly was wandering around the camp.
Shinji found him sitting on a branch of a tree, as soon as Shinji approached him Naruto looked in his direction. "You are already awake Shinji-Sensei? I was just about to wake you up."
Shinji sat down besides Naruto, and looked at the tents of the woman. "Your team did very well today Naruto most kids your age would have been traumatized right now, or at least cry about what they just did. Sora did very well for her first kill but I noticed during Yota's story you flinched why"
Naruto sighed. "The first time I killed someone I was three, Orochimaru went to the Sorakami clan the clan who sold Yota to him. Some of the other subjects where jealous of me, jealous how much time Orochimaru spent on me instead of them. So they decided to kill me and let it look like I had committed suicide. The came to my cell, five of them, while I was asleep. Suddenly I was lifted from my bed and thrown against the wall of my cell. And they continued doing that, kicking me, hurting me and throwing me across the room, until I breathed out a lot of poison at the same time. At that point I had yet to learn how to control my Chakra pulses and Literal Line, so while they were slowly dying and screaming as a result of the poison. I sat there in complete darkness not knowing what was happening around me, and only hearing the screams."
Naruto stopped taking a second to recollect himself
"that day Yota talked about I had tried using a Katon jutsu I saw Orochimaru use to execute a failed experiment it flew off course and hit Yota on the arm he pulled off the lightning palm just fine I'm the one who hurt him that mark on his arm is my reminder I nearly killed the closet thing I ever had to a brother"
Shinji patted Naruto on his shoulder. "I've seen the relationship you two have if you talked to Yota about it he would forgive you."
"I know he'll forgive me but I don't know if I can forgive my self" Naruto walked over to where his teammates were sleeping
Shinji lit his kiseru and blew out some smoke forming three words. Yota, Sora and Naruto. "This will be a good team…they have much potential. "
Yui ran after her Sensei throughout the barren plains of earth country. "Sensei how long until we reach our destination?" The brown haired girl whined, Han sighed he had been counting how many times she asked that same question the last few hours, by now she had reached two-hundred
"Not long now Yui, see that clearing in the distance?" The girl nodded. "That is where we will meet with the ANBU and receive our mission."
"Yes! What is our mission Sensei?" The girl yelled eagerly doing a 1800 turn in her mood.
Han grumbled. "Why am I stuck with such a loud student?" Yui looked at him with her eyes pleading for an answer. "I don't know for certain Yui, the only thing that I know is that the ANBU division we are meeting up with is hunting a dangerous group of criminals who has shown up in our country.
Yui cheered. "Alright I get to destroy bad guys!" Han shook his head.
As soon as they reached the clearing a ANBU member came to them, the Iwa ANBU all had Yokai shaped masks. The leader of them stepped towards Han. "Han who is the kid? We could hear her while you two where still at least a mile away."
"She is my student, Yui." Han looked down on the ANBU-captain he didn't like the tone of the masked man.
The ANBU-captain looked at Yui, who at the moment was having a one-way conversation with another ANBU member. "Just keep her in check will you and make sure she doesn't botch up the mission."
Han glared at the ANBU-captain. "You worry about your ANBU, I will worry about Yui. It that clear?" The killing-intent Han sent off was enough to let the ANBU-captain drop on his knees. Han took the mission scroll from the captains pocket. "You and the other ANBU will wait here while Yui and I take care of them. Yui! Let's go!" Han took one last glance at the ANBU-captain. "Find us in about an hour at the location of the criminals." The captain nodded meekly. messing with Han no Moerujoki was not good for his or anyones health the only thing worse would be to mess with Yoton no Roshi or Ryotenbin no Onoki
When the ANBU arrived an hour later at the abandoned village the criminals had used as an hideout, their eyes widen underneath their masks. Where first stood an rather large village was now only some rumble left of the buildings. The ANBU found Han stading at the outskirts of the village. The criminals lay spread over the ground as mummified corpses
"What happened here?" The ANBU-captain asked in wonder. Han only pointed at Yui who came walking towards them.
"Han-Sensei how did I do? I destroyed the bad guys like you said." Yui said cheerfully. She looked at the ANBU-Captain. "Hiya ANBU-baka! How do you like my work?"
The Captain looked at the village, it was in complete ruins with many burning holes and mummified corpses laying around, the Captain gulped. "I haven't seen this much damage since he attacked Gisei"
Yui nodded. "Exactly!" This earned her the looks of all the ANBU members.
The captain looked at Han. "Han who is this kid?"
"My student." Was the only thing the tall man said.
on the outskirts of a village in the land of rivers a man in a dark blue cloak enters a rundown brownstone building the interior despite how it looks on the outside is well maintained with mahagony floors marble walls and leather furniture on a silk rug is in bright gold stitching is the kanjis for sea mountan and sky in a circle with a staircase that went to an unforeseen from the outside second floor
appearing behind the cloaked figure is a man about average height with olive skin with charcoal black hair in a ponytail and sea green eyes wearing a dark green coat with the kanji for sea on the back over a black jonin vest grey pants with matching sandals a headband for Kirigakure with a slash through the metal resides on his right forearm the same on that's holding a ninjato to his neck
"who are you and why have you come here" the man said with a voice as hard as steel "I've come looking for the Umiyamasora group" the cloaked man replied
"well you found them" walking from the stairs towards the two men were three people a woman with skin the color of cream with light brown hair wearing a yellow coat with the kanji for sky on the back wearing the same outfit as the man with the ninjato
along with a bald giant of a man with a stich like scar going from one end of his forehead to the other wearing the same outfit as the other two under a brown jacket with the kanji for mountain on the back and a kanabo in his hand
the last person was a little girl about four years old wearing with blonde hair and grey eyes wearing a oversized shirt
"I have a job for you three" the woman turned to the giant "Kano take Eriko to bed" the giant nodded before gingerly picking up the little girl "good night mama night papa" she said sleepily before the giant man took her to bed
"alright now what kind of job" asked the woman the cloaked man said nothing "I'm sure your aware of the impending alliance between Konoha and Iwa such an alliance will not sit well with my leader's plans"
"and who may I ask is this leader of yours" asked the man with the Ninjato having sheathed it when Kano left with Eriko
"you may ask but I will not give an answer but the mission in particular is to in three weeks destroy the diplomacy convoy from Konoha to Iwa"
"and why would we do a mission that would result in the fourth great ninja war" asked the woman "and why us instead of one of the more bloodthirsty assassins like Zabuza Momochi or Akatsuki" asked the man
"well the Akatsuki are too notorious and Zabuza Momochi and his partner well they aren't the most trustworthy as for the Umiyamasora you three have a high success rate and cost less then Akatsuki and as for why
well Kaiba and Marise Masaki I'm sure your former villages would love to know that your both alive and married and that you have a daughter with the Sandaime Mizukage's kekkei genkai" said the man
"you bastard" the man roared moving to behead the cloaked man "we'll do it" the woman said
"Marise what are you saying" the man asked "excellent a third party will be joining you on the mission think of him as your keeper"
"if we do this mission will you stay away from our daughter" the woman asked "of course Mrs. Masaki"
"so what should we address you as other than cloaked blackmailing client" the man asked leaking killer intent
the man unleashed his own killer intent that far surpassed the killer intent from the former kiri nin "if you must address me directly you may call me Senta"
alright how did I do I say uh how did I do I gave Naruto and Shinji a good bonding moment I revealed why Yota hate's his clan I would too if I was sold to Orochimaru
so what do you think of Han's moniker I am not fluent in Japanese but if I got it right it should be translated as Han of the blazing steam wow that sounds like a good story title
my next update will be the iwa escort mission up to the city of stone sayonara