Shattered Dreams

Shattered Dreams

Disclaimer - Naruto (The Manga and Anime) are copy righted to Masashi Kishimoto, not me. However, the following story is copy righted to me

Notes: Revised and Edited.

Chapter 10: First Mission - Cows

Izur was flicking his fingers back and forth watching as the still wet blood flew off his fingers in little droplets. He sighed looking at Hachiro who had almost thrown up when he'd walked by Izur and smelt the bone deep thickness of blood that he was now wearing.

"That guy needs to get a stronger stomach. I mean, I don't smell that bad." Izur jumped when a hand placed itself on his shoulder spinning around to see Masaru-Sempai standing there. He winced as he did so; the sudden movement wasn't exactly meant for someone with the injury he was currently sporting.

"You still need to clean up the mess you made, Izur." Blushing lightly he nodded looking at the large (ok very large) puddle of blood where he had been working. He entered the building looking about for a few seconds but not seeing anything immediately stepped outside walking about the sides of the smoke house.

He ended up at the back staring at a large hose coiled about it. He stared at it for a moment, wondering how the thing was supposed to work. Following it back to the start of the hose he saw a knob that a person could turn.

He attempted to turn it left but it wouldn't budge he tried the other way and after a second a loud buzzing noise reached his ears. His hand immediately stopped, in his other hand he was holding the other end of the hose directed at his face.

A second later he dropped the hose gasping for breath and stumbling backwards. Well his face was clean now, but he also had water up his nose. He continued to cough and splutter about the darned coil of rubber that had shot water at him but stopped.

Glowering at his now chuckling teacher he grabbed the hose and sprayed the ground where he'd made the mess. "I'll bet that Arai kid has one of these thingy majigers at his family home. Why haven't I learned about them?"

As soon as he was done Hachiro took it and cleaned himself and his own area up then Leiko did the same. Only like Izur she didn't bother cleaning herself up. No need to waste time. Izur was about to start towards where they had been told were the cows were when he was stopped by another hand on his shoulder.

He glowered at it for a moment, "What?" His voice was gruff with impatience. Another sigh behind him, this one too drawn out to be really meaningful. "Look, we need a plan this time. Last time you didn't do so badly but we still need a plan to go off of. After all the cows are bound to be heavy as well and we needed to bring sixty of them this time."

Izur looked at Hachiro, his soft voice sounding like an intrusion on the world. He tapped the side of his head lightly as he thought about it. Nothing he could think of would... his thoughts skittered to a halt as he considered what he'd come up with.

"Well we could just carry them on our shoulders, that way we would bring back one for every person..." Leiko beat him to saying it, this time at least. As Izur considered the idea more and more he wondered how his back would hold out.

Not very well, probably. Shrugging it away he nodded to Leiko's idea, more empathetically then need be. This time he didn't wait and just started off jogging again. At least it was only two miles back and forth rather then the previous four.

Izur landed with a thud and created nine clones of him again. Nine clones that looked rather haggard as well. Every trip would bring twelve cows they would only need to make five trips.

Good it would be easy. Izur (and clones) jumped into the mass of cows and started randomly grabbing ones. Much like the same way they had done with the Pigs.

As they draped a cow over their shoulders, Izur realized just how hard this was going to be. The darned things were heavy, and awkward to hold. He tottered back and forth with every step and the fact that it was two miles meant he would have to pick up the pace in order to get all of them back and forth.

It took him thirty minuets to get the first ten cows to the slaughter house and he was drenched in sweat from the exertion. It was ten thirty so if this kept up it would be twelve thirty by the time they even got to kill the cows.

He set off again, that still gave them a lot of time at least. It took a bit longer, thirty minuets longer to be exact. It was one O clock when three genin, an amused sensei, and sixty cows all sat in front of the smoke house.

The cows, were indifference personified munching grass as always, the sensei was half awake not caring, and the Genin? They were mind blowningly exhausted barely moving except to breathe.

It was Leiko's who spoke up this time, taking pauses between words to breath. "We... sh...Should kill... them now." Izur nodded, but Hachiro felt the need to reply. "Y..Yea. B...But we'll ne...Need to be... quick."

Again Izur only nodded as he pulled a Kunai from his bag and advanced on the defenseless cow. He started by simply slitting their throats but only four into the killing he felt an odd thing take him over.

His temperature seemed to rise and his eyes were being covered by a red veil. His breathing quickened far more then normal and before he knew it he was standing crouched outside the small group of twenty cows he had killed.

His body dripping and steaming from the cow's blood. He turned and looked at them to see all dead, and more then half dismembered already. "What was that?!" Shaking his head he stepped back in to continue the job, he was suddenly eager to get this over and done with so that he could go home and sleep. The exhaustion he felt was something far different then the normal physical exhaustion he had.

Masaru's eyebrow had raised a millimeter as he watched Izur become a mad man within the confines of his helpless cows. "Blood Lust? And to think I thought Leiko was a sadistic little person. Then again..."

He shrugged his thoughts away, it looked like Izur didn't know what had happened, but he was obviously drained from it. The boy was shaking his head and muttering to himself as he finished the dismemberment and sorting jobs.

Looking at the sun Masaru grinned; forty minuets and they were finally done here. Thank god it had gotten really hot around noon and now was not the time to be sitting around getting beaten on by that damnable sun.

Izur's eyes clouded as he came to the monotony of his work. He thought briefly on the fact that most D ranked missions were supposed to be quick and that many times a Genin would go through several in one day.

They should have ranked this one C because of its length. But maybe they hadn't because of how relatively easy it was. He shook his head realizing that all he had left to do was clean up the mess, again.

And maybe himself. He looked like a bloody demon, literally. As he sprayed the grass with the hose it was taken from him without cause. He looked up to see Leiko walking off with it and himself standing in a small puddle.

"Eh... My minds wandering a bit too much today... not well." He shook his head and looked at the sky himself. Thank god it was almost time for the old man to return so they could leave.

He looked towards the city eagerly watching for any one to approach. Frowning he rose up on his toes, a low growl emitting from his throat. That old geezer was going to make them wait even longer just so he could stay out on the town.

However just as another growl was rumbling past his lips he felt something cold and metallic on his neck and it was cutting his skin. Without thinking he immediately made another one of his Rai Bunshins that collided with both himself and the man who had him trapped.

It didn't seem to have any effect other then to have a Kunai sticking out of his chest, but a familiar voice came from the man behind him. Izur looked at the faces of his teammates and the look of fear and respect mingled brought the mans name to his mind.

"You are looking for me?" The Raikage's voice was rather distant in itself as he released the boy, who immediately fell to the ground. The effect of the Rai Bunshin on him was far from over and his body twitched involuntarily.

He felt a hand connect with something on his back and then he was free to move again. Scrambling to his feet he immediately bowed to the Raikage. "My apologies Raikage-Sama." The man rose an eyebrow but waved him off, Izur jumped back to stand with his team.

The kunai still sticking out of his chest. "Well I see you guys have finished on time... not a bad job I guess. Masaru." As soon as Masaru's name was spoken he was standing next to the Raikage looking at his students.

"Your team's next mission will be in three days. Have at least one training day between them, you can pick from the pile I gave you." With that the man disappeared and went off to do whatever the Raikage did on a day like this.

Izur looked at Masaru, his eyes glazing as he realized the pain he was in. "All right you three have tomorrow off then for the next two days we'll train as a team in the Swamp, meet at number one at seven am every morning. After that meet me at the gates after the second day of training and I'll explain your Third mission."

All three blinked at this and stared at the man before them with curiosity. "Third Sir?" It was Hachiro who spoke and Masaru nodded. "Yes, third Hachiro. Killing Pigs was one and Killing Cows was another."

There were slight nods before Masaru disappeared. But before his teammates could start moving towards the village Izur spoke up quickly, remembering his mental note from earlier.

"Ahh… Hachiro, Leiko where do you two live so that we can make sure none of use are late." His two teammates looked at him like he was nuts before shrugging to each other after sharing a look. At least he was trying to be a better teammate, even if he did come off as condescending.

"I live in the far north western part of town, street NW12-6-8. I'm the third building on the left." Hachiro spoke first, he seemed slightly unsure about it though. "I'm right across the street from Hachiro; it's why we always arrive at the same time." Leiko responded after a shortly more prolonged period.

Izur froze on the inside momentarily, both of his teammates came from respected families but for some reason it hadn't clicked that they lived that way too. They were in what was probably the second most well defended and richest part of town. The first would be the Raikage's personal home.

"You?" Leiko's word seemed to go in one of Izur's ear and directly out the other. A hand on his shoulder had his eyes refocusing. "Ah sorry, what did you say?" He seemed apologetic at least. "I asked, where you lived, just in case you know."

Izur nodded, almost regretting that he had brought this up. "I live in the building directly to the left of the hospital. The Gray and blue one, really hard to miss." With that he disappeared missing the looks his teammates had on their faces.

They followed suit finally, by walking back towards the village. They were talking about the sudden surprise of their teammates living quarters and what had happened over today. Long day at work, neh?

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