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Chapter 11: The eight month mission

'Italic' - Thoughts

"…" – Talking

'Bold Italic' – Kurama talking

General POV

Inside the Hokage Office stood seven unimpressed Ninja.

Sasuke who was decked out in his ANBU uniform was leaning against the wall acting like a true stoic Uchiha. Shikamaru was complaining about how troublesome the whole situation was, whilst Hinata, Kiba and Chouji could only nod their heads in agreement. Shino was standing silently trying to convince his comrades that there had to be a good reason as to why they were here, and why Kakashi was making them wait. Lastly, Ino being Ino was coming close to flipping out and demanding an explanation from her old sensei.

The whole reason they were even in this predicament was because their Hokage had summoned them to the tower immediately and then went on to inform them that they had to wait for another team of shinobi to arrive before he could explain the mission any further.

That had been 2 hours ago.

Just when everyone was about to stand up and leave, there was a sudden poof and the office had a further 5 ninja occupying the space.

"Sorry for the wait Hokage-sama. Although we did complete our mission, it didn't exactly go to plan so we had to improvise. Either way we are here now so do you want to explain why we had a messenger bird informing us that as soon as we arrived back in the village we had to report straight to you for a mission debriefing? I myself am rather curious as to why you choose my team for this mission when we weren't even in the village"

"Come on now Naruto. It's common knowledge that your ANBU team is the best in the business at this current moment in time, hence why I called on you. I need that expertise for the mission I'm sending all of you on"

"And by all of us, you mean everyone in the room. Correct sensei?"

"Yes that would be correct. From what we have gathered there are a group of thieves and bandits that have set up 3 separate bases along the border of fire country and the hidden grass village. I have been in contact with Kusagakure and it has been decided that since the bases have been set up among the tree line that we will deal with the threat. Although, there will be grass shinobi not far from the hideouts hiding along the border should a situation arise where you will need their help. There have also been rumours flying about for quite some time that this group of bandits are comprised of ninja that have gone rogue from many smaller nations and hidden villages over the years since the war and may have some affiliation with 'The Dead Rogue'. Naruto you will be the leader for this mission with Shikamaru as second in command. The first part of the mission is for Shikamaru, Ino, Chouji, Hinata, Shino and Kiba to spy on each of the three hideouts, one at a time and to gather any useful information whilst Naruto and his team keep guard over you. Sasuke your job will be to hold at least one person hostage from each camp and interrogate them for any further information using your Sharingan. Once you have gathered all the information possible I then want Naruto and his team to rush the camps and assassinate every member. Leave no one alive. From previous encounters it would seem that each of the three bases has its own purposes and don't all work together on the same thing at any given time. For this reason it doesn't matter how long you spend at each individual camp, so take as long as you need for this mission, but make sure to send messenger birds updating us on your location and pursuit every few weeks. It wouldn't surprise me if you're gone anywhere from up to 3 months, maybe even longer. Your final report on the mission will determine its rank and just before you leave Naruto, you and your team may want to head home and get changed and have a shower before you depart again. I don't think your colleagues and friends will enjoy looking at your blood coated forms for an extended period of time"

"Way ahead of you on that one. Alright guys meet me at the front gate in an hour, cya!"

General POV

As the steaming hot water hit Naruto's tired body washing away all the blood and gore from his last mission he leant forward until his forehead rested against the shower wall. With slow gentle movements he soon felt a pair of arms slink around his stomach and a head resting in between his shoulder blades.

"I missed you will you were away Naru-chan"

"I missed you too" Naruto replied as he turned around and pulled Sasuke flush against him. With one hand rubbing circles on Sasuke's lower back and the other being brought forward to tease his husband's manhood Naruto soon found his lips being stolen in a needy kiss.

"Babe I want you inside of me one last time before the mission. To be honest there's no way to gauge how long we will be away, and in that time we have to act professional and carry out our duties. We're not going to have time to just be together like we are now, please Sasu…"

Seeing the pleading form of his husband he slowly turned Naruto around and entered him from behind.

"I'd do anything for you dobe, I just wish we could be together like this for longer…"

General POV

Once the hour was up everyone was assembled at the gate listening to their ANBU leader.

"To start off with as soon as we leave here I want Hinata, Shino, Kiba and Akamaru to try and track down the scent of our enemies. Ino I want you to try and sense their chakra signatures aswell. As soon as we reach the first enemy camp I want Shikamaru to begin formulating plans on the best ways to collect information. I want the tracking team at the front of our formation followed by Ino and myself. After us I want Chouji, Shikamaru and then Sasuke at the rear. My team, I want the 4 of you to split into two and be on either side of the formation. Is that understood?"

"Yes Caption" was the response Naruto received before he ordered everyone to move out.

General POV

^Time skip^

Many hours into the trip the enemy's chakra signatures were detected by Hinata's byakugan, Shino's bugs and Kiba and Akamaru's noses. It was over a day's travel before the first base was reached just inside the fire country border. It was quickly established by everyone present that this was not a short term mission and the time frame the Hokage gave them was drastically incorrect. The camp could only be described as a mini underground village and by using her byakugan Hinata was able to detect well over one hundred and fifty chakra signatures coming from both shinobi and civilians alike. It made them all wander that if there were this many people in one location, how many were there going to be at the other two? Infiltrating this base alone to uncover information on this organisation was going to be a very tough procedure and could easily take three months by itself before the ANBU team was let lose. The real question now was how long was this mission really going to last?

General POV

Month 1: April

The first few days of the mission were spent building a shelter laced with genjutsu so no-one except a Konoha shinobi could even sense it, while the ANBU Black Ops team carried out patrols of the surrounding area led by Naruto.

Within the first week it was shortly surmised that entering the underground camp was near to impossible. Shikamaru reasoned that the best way to infiltrate would be to watch the routine's of the enemy and follow those that most commonly left the hideout. After following that foolproof plan for close to two and a half weeks it resulted in the capture of 2 rogue shinobi that left the camp everyday for an extended period of time. Whilst Sasuke would place them under the Tsukuyomi to gain information on the organisation Chouji, Kiba, Hinata, Ino and Shino would take shifts henging into the nin and sneaking into the facility, whilst Nezumi, Neko, Raion, Ookami and Naruto would continue patrolling the area and keeping an eye on the members of their own group that had snuck underground. It was decided that during this time Shikamaru should stay above ground and continue formulating plans for their next step.

Month 2: May

The next 4 weeks resulted in long hours of going through the information that had been gathered by those that had been sneaking into the underground hideout. It was also observed that quite a few new faces were being brought into the camp after search parties were sent out a week prior.

Everyone on the mission found the month of May rather repetitive as the same routine was constantly followed. By the second week although Sasuke was an ANBU member he was added to the roster of people to sneak underground after he had gathered all the information he could from their hostages with the occasional aid from Ino. With 2 people constantly under cover and five ANBU on constant patrol it didn't take long for information on the organisation to start flying in. But as hard as they all tried none of them could figure out what this camp's purpose was in the great scheme of things, and until that riddle was solved nobody could leave.

Month 3: June

It was close to midnight when everyone had been called back to the camp for a meeting to discuss their next move, now everyone was just waiting for Shino and Hinata to arrive back from their turn underground.

Seeing his spouse resting against one of the trees in front of the fire Naruto approached saying "Hey teme" to get his husband's attention. Getting a small smile of acknowledgement he sat down in between Sasuke's open legs and rested the back of his head under his lover's neck. Happy that he could finally spend some alone time with Naruto, Sasuke securely wrapped his arms around Naruto and held him lovingly.

"Hey babe…"

"Yeah Sasu?"

"Happy anniversary my love" Sasuke answered as he turned Naruto around so he was now straddling his hips, and placed a purple wild flower in that sun kissed blonde hair. Neither of them could believe that it had already been a year since they said 'I do' and become a married couple. Smiling at his husband Naruto leaned in and whispered "Happy anniversary to you too" before his lips met with Sasuke's. How they had missed this. Since the start of the mission they hardly managed to find time for each other. To hold one another, to kiss, to hold hands… due to them both longing for their love it didn't take long for the kiss to become heated with roaming hands and wandering tongues but knowing they had an audience they stopped themselves before it could go any further. With one gentle peck on Sasuke's soft lips, Naruto turned back around to face the fire and rested his back against his husband's firm chest, whilst being held around the waist.

"All right now that everyone has arrived let's get started. From the information we have gathered over the last 10 weeks it would seem that this bases sole purpose is to recruit and train knew members of the organisation. For this reason we can't kill everyone in this camp just yet. If we do and the supply of newbie's stop the other two camps will begin to figure out that we are on to them. The best thing to do right now is for Ino to wipe our two hostages memories from the time we captured them and replace them with fake ones so they don't know any of the difference and act like they were never gone. After that we need to move to the next hideout and begin all over again"

The only thought that went through every Konoha shinobi's mind was the fact that they were finally moving on to the next camp. For them it felt like they were one step closer to returning home even though they knew they still had a long way to go yet.

Month 4: July

The forth month of their mission was spent the exact same way as their first. Like the last, the second camp they arrived to was also underground but surprisingly only had half the amount of people which mostly comprised of merchants, workers and civilians. Step one was to assemble their hidden shelter. Step two was to watch the routines of those that called the camp home and the last step was to take hostages.

However it was very quickly discovered that taking a hostage would be a lot harder than they originally thought. The second camp had a lot more people constantly coming and going every single day. The problem with that was that they didn't tend to stay in the camp for a number of days, but stayed elsewhere for quite some time. The mission Kiba, Hinata, Shino, Ino, Chouji and Sasuke had along with the ANBU team was to find at least one individual that left and returned to the establishment every single day without fail. By the fourth week that goal was finally accomplished, when the Ino-Shika-Cho formation managed to capture another enemy ninja.

Although the month was tiring Naruto didn't forget about his Husband's birthday on the twenty third.

When Sasuke went to go take a much deserved break he found himself sitting on a branch high up in a tree overlooking the fire country and hidden grass village. Shortly after he found himself in the familiar presence of a Kitsune masked ANBU.

With a sly smile hiding behind his porcelain mask Naruto slipped a light blue flower behind Sasuke's ear and pinned the latter up against the tree trunk.

"Remove my mask Sasu…" Naruto asked in a husky voice.

Obeying his predator's demands earned Sasuke a rough and demanding kiss that left him blushing and gasping for breath.

With Naruto in a similar state he leaned forward and started to lick, nibble and suck Sasuke's neck while wishing him 'Happy 22nd Birthday'. Naruto's teasing earned him many moans and muffled screams as he began to get rougher before he found himself lying with his back against the tree branch and Sasuke straddling his hips.

"Since it's my birthday don't I get to make a wish?"

"Of course"

Now it was Sasuke's turn to lean in and return the favour to Naruto as he whispered his wish into his husbands ear "I want to fuck you senseless, that's my wish…"

"T-then what's s-stopping you teme?"

"Absolutely nothing…"

Month 5: August

After Sasuke had interrogated the rogue shinobi and shifts had been taken to sneak into the camp it became clear very quickly what was happening in the second hideout. The reason why so many people would come and go, and why there were next to no shinobi was because this camp was designed to deliver goods back and forth to the other two.

Within 6 weeks at the second base, everyone moved out after Ino worked her magic with her families mind jutsu's and the hostage was returned to the village.

To everyone's happiness there was only one camp left to investigate before they could finally return home to their friends and families.

Month 6: September

After two weeks of preparation in August Shikamaru, Chouji, Ino, Kiba, Shino, Hinata, Sasuke, Naruto and his team found themselves in a very difficult situation by the beginning of September. Thanks to Hinata it was discovered that this base was much, much larger than the previous two had been. Not only that, it had less 'citizens' but every single one of them were rogue's that were at least chuunin level and higher.

Compared to the previous two hideouts everyone had to be a lot more careful and were forced to completely conceal their chakra once they were outside the genjutsu shelter they had constructed. For this reason only Naruto and his ANBU team were to patrol and try to capture a hostage as they could conceal their chakra to the point where the other Konoha shinobi couldn't sense them at all even if they were right beside each other.

Despite them being the cream of the crop by the end of the month they had not succeeded in capturing even a single ninja.

"No matter how hard my team and I try we can never get close enough to capture anyone. We are always spread out around the camp due to it having three exits. We need at least one person watching an opening at every single minute and those bastards always travel in groups of three to five leaving us out numbered. We can't rush a group either because that will cause havoc that would be heard underground. We've been at this hideout for 6 weeks now and we have made no progress. The only information we have is from what Hinata has been able to see using her byakugan but it's not enough to allow us to storm the complex. It would just be straight suicide if we tried that method. The only thing we can do is sit and wait for them to fuck up which my team and I can then exploit. The fact of the matter is that we need to find out what this organisation is planning and even after 6 months we have no idea at all. It's crucial that we just bide our time, catch a hostage, and sneak into the village. For now that's all we can do besides go back over our old information that we've gathered so far no matter how frustrating it is. I have no idea how much longer we are going to remain here, but if it keeps going at this rate it could be many months."

With his departing comment Naruto left to regroup with his squad.

"I'm seriously beginning to question if we are going to get home before the start of next year"

"As troublesome as this mission may be, it has to be done Kiba. In the long run we have no idea how many lives we may save, after all we are still in the dark about their true motives. Just remember we're ninja, our parents didn't raise us to be quitters"

Month 7: October

Early in the morning when the Konoha shinobi began to rise was when Sasuke found himself waiting by the fire pit.

Although he couldn't sense their chakra Sasuke knew his husband was returning to their shelter.

Once Naruto had stepped inside the genjutsu he found his arms full as Sasuke lunged at him.

"Happy birthday baby!"

Due to everything that had been going on Naruto had completely forgotten it was his twenty second birthday. Removing his porcelain mask, he buried his head in his husband's neck, grateful that despite the circumstances Sasuke hadn't neglected the fact he had turned a year older.

"Thanks for remembering Sasu, if it weren't for you I would have probably gone on forgetting what day it was"

Following their new tradition Sasuke placed an orange wild flower in his spouses hair and muttered "You're welcome" as he leaned in to give the birthday boy a loving kiss.

Three weeks into the month finally turned the tables for Naruto and his ANBU team when they spotted a single chuunin level ninja emerge from the base after what appeared to be an argument that didn't go in their favour. Taking the opportunity for granted Naruto and Nezumi rushed in and knocked the ninja unconscious before bounding him and dragging him back to their makeshift shelter.

By the end of the month although they had a hostage both Sasuke and Ino hadn't been able to get any information out of him. Despite their best efforts the chuunin was determined to give nothing away to the jonin and ANBU Block Ops member.

As hard as it was to admit, they were all still virtually at square one. Besides now being able to sneak into the camp to gather information under cover, the Konoha nin still had no clue as to what was really happening within the organisation.

Month 8: November

After a further two weeks which yielded absolutely no results a very pissed off Naruto found himself staring down at a puny chuunin who was close to shitting himself after figuring out who was standing in front of him. After all 'Kami's Kitsune' was known worldwide for a reason.

"If you ask my friends they would all say I'm a pretty nice guy, but you… you're not so lucky. Due to your stubbornness I'm in a really bad fucken mood and you know sometimes if I'm like this out on a mission my blade just might slip or Kurama might want to go for a walk, and everyone knows how tailed beasts can get if you piss off their jinchuuriki…" as Naruto brought out a kunai and began twirling it around his finger he asked one very simple question "So… are you going to co-operate willingly or is Kurama going to get a new chew toy? And just a word of advice, once he gets a new toy he NEVER lets it go"

To say all his friends were shocked at Naruto's approach was an understatement but damn was it effective. Before any of them knew it, the try hard chuunin had told them everything.

Happy with all the information that had been gathered Naruto called a meeting to finally bring this mission to a close as the captain.

"All right everyone gather around. It's time for us to end this. From what we have just learned the group of rogue ninja and bandits sole purpose is to build up an army to defeat each of the elemental nations in the long run but are starting with the smaller hidden villages such as Kusagakure. To revise, the first location we went to was designed to send out search parties each week to recruit new members and train them to the point that they can come here. Naturally the hideout is comprised of around one hundred and fifty rogue ninja and bandits. The second location we investigated was nothing more than a store for better words. Goods would be brought in and out of the camp to be delivered to the other two and has around 80 civilians, merchants and workers. Overall it is the smallest of the three hideouts and poses the least amount of threat. Then lastly there is this location where we are now which has approximately 50 shinobi ranging between chuunin and jonin. This base is the largest by far in size and is the most dangerous due to the high level shinobi so will be treated with caution. So this is the plan everyone. My team and I will sneak into this hideout and assassinate everyone. While we are busy doing that I want you to split into three teams and stand guard at each of the entrances. Should anyone escape I want you to kill them on the spot. They same procedure will be carried out at the other two bases. Once we are done down there and we are back on the surface I will destroy the hideout so when you feel movement in the ground come find me and my team. Does everyone understand?"

"Yes Captain"

"Alright Ookami, Nezumi, Neko, Raion lets go"

General POV

^Time skip^

Land of fire

Everyone that wasn't on Naruto's ANBU team all agreed on one thing…

They had seen a side of Naruto they thought would never exist. When it came down to it Naruto was nothing but a cold blooded killer. Within the last few hours Naruto and his team had killed close to three hundred people like it was nothing. Although they were shocked they had to remind themselves that they were all ninja, and part of the job description was to kill the enemy. All Naruto had done was his job as their Hokage had requested. That's what all of them had been doing these last 8 months. In the end it was only a mission, nothing more nothing less.

Despite what they had just seen and the constant reminder due to the five ANBU being covered in blood they were all also extremely grateful and relieved. Finally after two thirds of a year, they were returning home safe and sound.

However, it would seem there were some people in this world that wanted to make sure they would never see their village again.