"Kyuubi talking"

'Kyuubi Thinking'

"Regular Talking"

'Regular Thinking'

I Do Not Own Naruto


Naruto the Crimson Chain Wielder

Kakashi had just left the memorial stone and was now walking down the street with his absolute favorite book in his hands ignoring the glares and killing intent on him from the women of the village. He loved seeing their reactions every time he read the book, that was really why he did it, to annoy people.

Jiraiya was also a really good author, but we'll save that for another time.

While he was reading his eyes suddenly widened. Three kunais came flying at him from three different directions. Jumping out of the way while still shamelessly reading his perverted book he starts to look all around him discretely.

'Wow, these guys are pretty good, they are pretty much completely hidden from me.' Kakashi thought.

"Alright team, here's what we're going to do, me and Kiba will attack him for a while. We will try to tire him out and that's where you come in Sai, take his book and get out while we distract him. We will meet you on top of the academy. Everyone get the plan?" Naruto questions quietly but still firmly so Kakashi doesn't hear them.

"Hai taicho."

"Good, then let's do this Kiba!" Naruto says as he jumps out of cover and rushes at Kakashi with low jonin speed. He throws a punch to Kakashi's face which he avoids but what he didn't realize is that Naruto was just the distraction.

"Jujin bunshin." (man beast clone) Kiba calls out as Akamaru transforms into a second Kiba, "gatsuga" (fang passing fang) is his next jutsu called as he and Akamaru both run, jump, and start spinning like drills towards Kakashi.

'Their teamwork is really good, maybe I should get more serious' Kakashi thinks as he finds that he is in a bad stance from avoiding Naruto's punch, so he starts to put his book away to do a kawarimi (replacement), only to have it stolen stolen by a black ink like snake.

"Choju giga (super beast imitating drawing) jutsu is a success" Sai says as he lets out an uncharacteristic smirk at the now enraged Kakashi, who just narrowly got his technique off in time.

"Give me that book back now genin, or I will take it from you. I will warn you though, I won't take it back very nicely." Kakashi says a bit more venomously than he really should have while pulling out a kunai. "Kids really shouldn't be reading that book so just give it back."

"Well we'll be needing your little book to pass our genin test, and I plan on having my team pass." Naruto says defiantly while Kakashi's eyes widen in horror, knowing just who wants his book and what they will do if they have it.

"No, I won't have Anko getting my book." Kakashi yells angrily while getting ready to charge them.

'Time to go now, good luck Kiba, Naruto-taicho.' Sai thinks to himself as he turns, takes out his scroll and quickly draws a bird. "Choju giga jutsu" (super beast imitating drawing) and jumps on the bird that appears.

Kakashi seeing this runs at him as fast as he can, "Kiba! Smoke bombs now." Naruto commands and his order is followed instantly. Naruto then pulls out his katana, and runs to catch up to where Kakashi was last seen before the smoke appeared. Using his slightly enhanced sense of hearing, he easily found him.

A loud clang was heard and after a short time the smoke dissipated showing Naruto with his katana against Kakashi's kunai.

"Kiba, lets regroup with Sai at the meeting spot now." Naruto says as he pushes off from Kakashi's kunai and regroups with Kiba as they both start running away.

Kakashi of course follows them so they don't get away and he quickly grabs both of them, "sorry but I will need the location of the meeting spot where Sai is headed to before I let you both go." Kakashi says shakily as he really tries to control his anger, while releasing a small amount of killing intent on them, not really affecting them due to training together as kids, and they trained really hard.

They only look at each other and start to chuckle, "o Kakashi, if only you could see that you don't have us at all," Naruto says as Kiba, Akamaru, and him all disapear in a puff of smoke.

"What? How did they get away?" Kakashi asks himself as he begins to review the short skirmish that just took place.

Just when Kiba had thrown the smoke bombs, Naruto had made three kage bunshins. One for him, Kiba, and Akamaru. As the Naruto clone and Kiba and Akamaru clones were blocking Kakashi's path to Sai, the originals were already running away.

'Smart, by making clones with them running away he made sure that I followed the wrong path which made the originals all get a clean get away. Anko's team will go far if Naruto will be leading them. But for now I have to get my book back as soon as I can.' Kakashi thought while being both impressed with their skill and angry that they stole his book. He was also torn as he did want them to pass but he also loved his precious book too...


The team is now seen grinning and panting at he same time at their meeting place on top of the academy. "Great job team, that was perfect execution, we couldn't have done better." Naruto confesses happily making Kiba smile and Akamaru bark happily.

"Yea it was, but we couldn't have pulled it off without you leading us Naruto. Your definitely the right choice as our captain." Kiba says confidently.

"That was a good plan, so I am in agreement, you make a good captain Naruto-taicho." Sai replies with an almost barely noticeable twitch in his lips. Not quite a smile but it was a smile for him, which was good enough for the others.

"Come on guys, we all played our part and I'm proud to be leader of you two." Naruto replies while scratching the back of his head sheepishly, "let's just return to Anko-sensei, I can't wait to see the look on her face." He says and they all take of quickly, all thinking the same thing, even Sai.

'This is gonna be good.'


It was around three in he afternoon and Anko was waiting in her favorite place in the village, the dango stand. Well, one of her favorite places in the village at least, her first favorite place being the Forest of Death.

'I wonder how Naruto is doing?" Anko questions with a tint of pink on her cheeks 'I don't know but I bet he is getting sweaty, he's probably glistening in the sunlight.' She thought shamelessly as she had definitely admired his body before and she saw others do it too. That annoyed her though, only her and the other girls she approved of would have him.

Just then she smiled widely seeing the person she had on her mind enter through the entrance of the stand with the other two teammates at his sides all of them smirking.

"Well, you guys are back pretty early. Do you have it?" Anko asked and her grin widens seeing the increasing smirks on their faces. Sai then takes out the orange book out of his backpack and hands it too her.

"Great job team, this is impressive as I meant to make this test really hard on you guys. I won't be having a weak team after all, I'm going to make you all legendary someday, it will make me look good." She says with a triumphant grin.

"You already look amazing Anko-chan..." Naruto whispers in her ear making her blush a pretty heavy red. 'Gotcha Anko-chan' Naruto thought happily to himself that he can affect her that way.

'Wow, I never would have thought that was coming but I definitely like it.' Anko thought to herself as she truly liked their interaction. "We-well let's do our first mission since you guys finished early today." She says as she recovers, and she takes Kakashi's book and throws it in the air and shoots a fire jutsu at it, burning it instantly.

"Ha, I found you, now give me back my book and nobody gets hurt," Kakashi yells appearing out of no where just a second too late.

"Sorry Kakashi, but that book is toast, I suggest you don't read them in public anymore." Anko says with a sadistic grin as she watches him fall to his knees.

"NOOOOOOOO," Kakashi screams and starts to cry, making the others just shake their heads in shame.


It had been roughly two weeks since the team got together and passed their genin test. They have done around 15 D-rank missions, or should they say chores.

There was one mission though, catching Tora the cat, that was the most annoying chore even though they got the record for the fastest time finding it and it seemed to like Naruto for some reason.

"Man, these are chores any normal person can do, so why are we doing them?" Kiba complains speaking the same thought on everyone's mind as right now they are on their way for another one.

"I agree with Kiba on this, these are not genin worthy missions. The only hard thing we do is the torture that sensei calls training." Sai says as even he, shudders at her torture.

"I'm not that bad, am I?" Anko questions playfully to her genin team.

"Well a little maybe, but I love all the jutsus you taught me, they are amazing." Naruto says with a grin. "Plus, we're getting faster and stronger and stealthier at an insane rate with all the weights we're wearing. I couldn't have asked for a better sensei than you Anko." Naruto says honestly.

The snake woman smiles brightly at the praise he gives her. "Thanks Naruto, that means a lot to me. I actually like teaching you guys and I can't wait till you make a name for yourselves."

They then enter the Hokage's office and wait for their tortuous chores for the day. That is, until their sensei decides to help them out feeling really happy that her training is being effective for them.

"Hello Team Naruto, are you ready for your D-rank for today?" The Hokage asks calmly, while he is inwardly cracking up at their despaired looks they send him.

"Hello Hokage-sama, I think my team is ready for their first C-rank mission today." Anko says confidently while the genin smirk along with her, all happy to have a real mission.

Iruka, who is helping the Hokage today decides to protest. "But they are a fresh genin team Anko-san, there is no way they are ready for a C-rank mission yet." He speaks louder than he would have liked and paled a bit when he realized who he just spoke to.

Anko starting to get mad at his comment decides to do the thing she would normally do and let everyone know what was on her mind. "What gives you the right to judge my team for me, I'm their sensei now, not you, and I sure as hell know they are much stronger than any fresh genin team in this village." She speaks back unleashing a small amount of killing intent on him, not much but enough to make him sweat a bit.

"Hmmm, I believe she is right Iruka, besides you have seen Naruto's strength not too long ago, you should know he is strong. Alright, I have a C-rank for you, come in calls out." The Hokage says.

Then some man enters the room with a bottle of sake in his hand. He has a goatee, and dark eyes, with a pointy hat on his head. He has a dark sleeveless v-neck on with a towel over it. He is wearing beige pants, right now he seems to be studying them.

"Well, they look pretty good I guess, especially the blond kid. I'm Tazuna and I am a master bridge builder from wave, that is where you will be taking me." The old man says as he takes another swig of sake.

"Alright, I'm their jonin sensei Anko Mitarashi, the blond is Naruto Uzumaki, the captain of the team, then the one with the dog is Kiba Inuzuka, and the black haired guy is Sai." Anko introduces them. "Meet at the front gate in an hour and pack for a two to three week mission."

"Hai sensei," is all they say as they leave and head home to pack.


Kiba gets home then head to pack, while his sister and mom see him and begin to get curious as to what he is doing.

"Hey runt, got a mission?" Hana asks her little brother.

Grumbling a bit he looks at his mom and sister and replies, "hai, a C-rank to Wave Country."

"Well be careful and make sure to listen to your sensei." His mother tells him knowing he can be a little reckless and she worries about him, even if she is a bit rough.

"Hai kaa-san, I will listen to Anko-sensei and Naruto-taicho." He responds surprising them at calling Naruto a captain.

'Captain Naruto huh, how did Naruto-kun get Kiba to listen to him?' Hana ponders to herself as she found it difficult to control her little brother.

"He's an alpha." Her mother says shaking her out of her thoughts that she had noticed. "That's why Kiba listens to him."

Hana just smiles and nods, having faith that Kiba will be safe under Naruto's leadership. She also had faith that Naruto himself would be alright, as she still had to talk to him about her feelings for him.


Naruto and Sai living by themselves just pack what is needed and head out. Sai goes to the front gate while Naruto heads to Ichiraku's to say goodbye.

"Ayame-chan," Naruto says into he stand and sees her and smiles his famous smile. "I'm going on a C-rank mission today so I will be gone for about three weeks. I just thought I would tell, you."

"Thanks for telling me Naru-kun, and be sure to be careful and protect your friends and then come back and tell us about it. Ok?" She says while hugging him tightly as she worried for his safety, but she knew he would be strong.

"I will, I promise." Naruto says to her to calm her down as she seems really worried for him which makes him very happy.

"Good luck Naruto-kun, and be good while your gone?" Teuchi says with a smile, but is also worried about him.

"Ok, I will, bye." Naruto says with a wave behind him.

He then heads to Hinata's house to say good bye. Shortly after telling a guard to go get her she walks out and when she sees him she smiles brightly.

"Naruto-kun, How are you?" She asks as she hugs him and gives him a quick kiss.

"I'm good today Hinata-chan, I just came to tell you I'm leaving the village today for a two to three week C-rank mission." Naruto says as they release from the hug.

"O, ok Naruto-kun, be careful out there and maybe we could go get ramen together for a celebration for your first C-rank." She says with a small smile on her face. She is happy for him but at the same time scared for him.

"Sure Hinata-chan, and tell Shino and the others that I'm gone too. Bye." He says with one final kiss and waves to her as he heads out to the front gates.


Shortly later he arrives at the gate to see Tazuna, Kiba, Sai, and Anko waiting for him. "I'm ready team, how about you?" He asks making them all smile.

"I'm good, let's do this taicho." Kiba says with a grin.

"I'm fully prepared as well taicho." Sai says with a small, almost unnoticeable smile. The team all worked with him in the two weeks they were together to get some emotions back and it is working well.

They all nodded to each other, ready for the mission and dangers ahead.

On the road out of the village, the team is surrounding their client Tazuna. Kiba is up front so he and Akamaru can sniff out any enemies. Sai is on Tazuna's left side and Naruto is on his right side. Sai is right now using his mice that he drew from his scroll to scout around and give them a better fighting chance if anything is out there. Anko is following behind them all and is on high alert.

All was normal, all was calm, nothing but the sounds of birds chirping, the wind blowing, and... the old drunk sipping his alcohol. 'Why are we letting this guy drink like this again.' Naruto thought with a deadpan look on his face but shook it off when he saw one of Sai's drawn mice return and scurry up his arm to reach his ear.

"It seems there is a suspicious puddle up a head and it hasn't rained for days, probably genjutsu." He told the group calmly.

"Hey Kiba, do you smell anything?" Naruto questioned and Kiba began sniffing carefully.

"Yea, two scents coming from the same direction, they must have hidden under the puddle genjutsu. Not a very smart one either if its a puddle in the middle of a hot, dry day when it hasn't rained in a week." Kiba replies with a small chuckle at the stupidity.

"Shinobi?" Naruto questions quietly, "This is a C-rank mission, there shouldn't be any enemy shinobi."

"I agree Naruto, everyone stay sharp and calm." Anko orders and they all follow. Tazuna seems to be getting frightened and everyone can see it making them narrow their eyes in suspicion.

Walking another mily they all spot the puddle that is supposed to hide the enemy. They remain alert and heighten their senses, trying to feel even the slightest movements. As they pass by the puddle and are a few feet in front of it two shinobi start to strike.

One had shoulder-length, wild dark-brown hair and dark eyes. He wears a re-breather that covers the lower half of his face and a large, clawed,gauntlet, on his left arm which had a chain coming out of it that had the other end attached to his friends own gauntlet. He has a camouflage suit with bandages around his waist, dark-colored, knee-length sandals and several pouches around his waist. He wears a Kirigakure head band with two horns on it.

The other enemy looked a lot like the first except his hair was straighter, he also wore a camouflage suit with bandages around his waist, dark-colored, knee-length sandals and a ragged black cape. His Kirigakure head band had a single horn on it. They both charge at the person who the think is the strongest in the four person team.

They chose Anko, but they didn't know that they made the wrong choice.

Naruto, seeing them go for Anko he issued some orders to the other people on the team. "Sai protect Tazuna, Kiba go for the straight haired one while I help Anko, Sai use your ink jutsu to assist Kiba." He says as he sends chains into the ground to attack the wild hair.

"Gozu, you hear that, the blond gaki thinks this team can stop us." The shinobi that has two horns and wild hair, says to the one the one that has straight hair and one horn.

The one now identified as Gozu just looks at him and says, "Calm down Meizu, don't underestimate them." The straight haired shinobi replies to the wild haired shinobi.

Meizu is rushing towards Anko quickly, but not as fast as her or Naruto's chains. Meizu tries to slash at Anko with his gauntlet on his left hand the key word being 'tries' he looks to the resistance and sees a crimson chain and his eyes follow it down to the ground. He then jumps back as three more chains sprout up from behind him almost piercing him.

He then sees the blond haired kid not moving and smirking a bit in his direction. 'It must be that damn punk that's doing this.' He thought angrily as he then avoids some snakes Anko shot out of her sleeves.

"Damn, this might actually be a bit of a challenge," Anko grinned sadistically while Naruto nodded a bit.

The man starts to chuckle a bit and says, "you are no match for me bitch."

big mistake.

"What did you say you lousy excuse for a ninja?" Naruto says eerily, while lowering his gravity seals but keeping his weights on. "That was a stupid thing to say, now I might just have to hurt you."

"You, hurt me, hahaha don't make me laugh punk." Meizu laughed crazily. Too bad it cost him.

He stopped laughing really quick once he felt the same katana he was staring not too long ago stab into his leg. "Aughhh" he screamed in pain.


After Naruto left Kiba, and Sai alone with Tazuna the action really started to happen for them.

Gozu charges strait at Sai and Tazuna at an extremely fast speed while Sai prepares his defenses.

"Chōjū Giga: Ranjishi" (Super beast imitating drawing wild lion) is the jutsu Sai responds with making five ink lions to stop the attack on their client who is completely terrified.

Kiba seeing that he is ignored for a second decides to jump in to the fight "Jujin bunshin, (man beast clone) gatsuga (fang passing fang)." Kiba then does his signature move straight towards his enemy.

Gozu attempts to jump to the side, but what he doesn't know is that there are two snakes made of ink coming out of the ground and attaching themselves to his feet. 'Shit' is all he can think before Kiba and Akamaru barrel into him.

"Ha, that was easy." Then the person they had just defeated, poofed into a log. 'I just had to assume we had won didn't I' Kiba thought before he was kicked to the side by Gozu.

"Thought you had me huh, I'll admit, that was close but not close enough." Gozu replies as he walks towards Kiba, who is now laying against a tree in pain. Akamaru jumps in front of his master and prepares to attack.

But their battle was halted once they heard a scream, and it wasn't Naruto or Anko.

'Meizu' Gozu thinks worriedly as he looks in that direction.

'Now's my chance, Sai thought.' Drawing on his scroll with his brush he called on some more of his drawn creatures. Three snakes jump out of the scroll at high speeds, faster that Gozu could react and he was brought down.

One snake around his arms, one around his legs, and one around his neck to choke him into unconsciousness.


Back with Naruto, Anko, and Meizu, Naruto pulled out his sword from his victim and then jumped to Anko's side.

"Bastard, I'm gonna gut you for this, then the bridge builder and than Wave will be no more." Meizu snarled, slightly shocking Anko and Naruto, although they were happy that he gave up such information that easily.

'So that's who their after, I'll have to have a chat with Tazuna' Anko thought a bit annoyed at him. "Well then, lets get on with it," she says sounding uninterested while going threw some hand signs. "Sen'eijashu" (Hidden shadow snake hands) The same snakes shoot out of her coat and begin to latch themselves onto the already injured Kiri chuunin.

They then bite into his neck, arms, and legs as he was too hurt to move very far and Naruto appears in front of him and punches him in the stomach sending him the rest of the way into unconsciousness.

"Good work Naruto, and thanks for coming to help me and for sticking up for me." Anko says with a smile and a pink tint to her cheeks.

"No problem Anko-chan I will always help you out." Naruto replies adding emphasis on the chan making her blush deepen. 'Should I mention the CRA, or wait until we get to Wave country? I guess I better wait, we're on a mission after all.' Naruto thinks to himself. "Well, lets hurry back to the others." He says as he starts walking away.

'God, I think I love the blond gaki, he can make me blush so easily and he really cares about me, he's nothing like the other guys who just want me to say they've had me.' Anko thinks with a smile while trying to control her blush but quickly follows Naruto as the mission is more important.

Walking back to the others with a downed Meizu, they see Kiba who is injured and the downed form of Gozu. Running over to Kiba to look for any fatal wounds. "I'm fine, just a bit sore from a pretty powerful kick." He says to them as he gets up and limps over to the others.

"Well Tazuna, I believe you have some explaining to do." Anko says, with a mean look on her face, one that had him sweating. "This one told us that he was after you in our little battle over there, now why would some missing nin of chuunin level be after your head?"

Gulping Tazuna replies "Well, you see there is a good explanation. A man named Gato has hired them to kill me."

"Why?" Is the question Naruto asks a bit confused as he tried to put all the information he had of Wave into a solid theory.

"Wave is a poor nation right now, but it wasn't always like that it used to thrive. One day a corrupt business man started to take over our trading industry, with it he basically controls our land. He hires mercenaries to come and get as much taxes from us as he can. I have been building a bridge over the last year and a half. This bridge will connect us to land and more people can come and visit wave again. More people means less control for him and he doesn't want that, he wants to rule us with an iron fist." Tazuna explains, while clenching his fists in frustration.

"Its that bad huh, then why didn't you call for more experienced ninja?" Kiba asks as he shakes off the pain he was in, not seeing why he only paid for a C-rank mission.

"Yea, I find that to be questionable too." Sai adds in and Naruto and Anko just look at each other both having an idea of why.

"We couldn't afford anything higher than a C-rank mission, I had to go to a good amount people to even scrounge up enough for this one." Tazuna states sadly, "I really need your help, I have a daughter and grandson at home waiting for me, I'm desperate."


Chapter End

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