Been busy, now have one fanfic down, now have three more to finish.

I don't own Naruto.

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The Kumo jonin looked at their comrade's rotted arm in horror, and wondered what kind of jutsu could cause flesh to rot. Naruto was not so kind as to let them regroup and was already in motion again this time slicing his opponents legs causing them to not only rot but spread to the rest of his body causing him to literally rot away while living. This was enough for the other two jonin to panic and get themselves taken down by Kakashi and Gai.

In the hour that followed the kumo nins spilled everything they knew about Gato and what he was doing after having seen what Naruto's blade could do and not wanting to find themselves on the receiving end of it. Naruto himself was leaning against a tree emptying his stomach after having seen one of his opponents literally rot to death, the scent of the dead kumo-nin was enough to make anyone gag as it was. Neji and Lee shivered at the memory of what happened and could sympathize with their blond friend. Tenten could only stare at the sword that Naruto carried and could not understand how a sword could literally steal the life from someone to where they instantly rotted.

An hour later the group of leaf nin where back on their way to the country of wave now knowing that their mission was undeniably harder. The remainder of their journey was done in silence, as each genin was lost in thought of their first actual battle. Ten-ten occasionally looked between her teammates and their blond friend wondering not for the first time if she would ever have the level of trust they had with each other. The silence was finally broken when the group had gotten to what appeared to be a giant incomplete bridge standing over their boat.

"That is a damn big bridge," Naruto said with a whistle. Neji and Lee smiled and their friends straightforwardness. Gai and Kakashi looked at each other before docking the boat so they could get ashore and continue on their way. The first thing the Leaf nin noticed about the town as they entered was the impoverished situation. They couldn't help but shiver at the sudden spike of killer intent from Naruto, they all knew the blond hated few things, but those he did he hated with a vengeance. Neji and Lee shared a look, one that knew that Gatou was a dead man.

People huddled in fear of the new ninja's, not knowing what to expect from them. Whispers floated through the air as fearful eyes darted back and forth, as the group made their way around the village they eventually came to the bridge's construction site. The scene was hell; several bride workers lay dead or dying as a large group of swordsmen were grouped around an older man. In the center was a small man in a business suit yelling at whom apparently seemed to be the foreman.

"Excuse me, " Kakashi lazily called out, catching the group's attention, "I'm looking for a man named Gatou." Grunts could be heard and men shuffled about letting the suited man come forward.

"I'm Gatou,' the man responded," What do you want?"

A kunai suddenly found itself embedded in the businessman's leg and fear sudden gripped him as the group of ninja suddenly sprang into a dance of death. Shuriken and kunai sailed through the air while fists hit and crushed what few targets the metal projectiles missed. The remaining workers stared in awe as Gatou's group of twenty was instantly shrunk to one. It was then that the noticed that the blond shinobi had started to move. His sword moving slowly slicing the dead bodies and seemingly drinking their blood.

"Run, run little man lest I take your head for a trophy," stated the blindfolded blond in a voice that made those present shiver.Gatou found that he could not breath, as if his very life was being sucked out of him. Running with leaded legs the business tycoon disappeared from the bridge.

"Guess we gotta get rid of the bodies now," Naruto said making a sweeping motion to the dead bodies on the bridge not noticing the old man walking up to him.

"Please tell me you're the shinobi from Konoha I sent for," the builder said. This caught the group by surprise, as they didn't know they were expected.

"We are from Konoha yes, but we're not here because of a request, you are…" Kakashi responded staring at the man.

"Tanzuna, I'm the bridge builder, why don't you come to my house and I'll explain everything." The man replied before turning to the rest of the still living workers and yelling," Get these men collected and properly buried, throw Gatou's men into the sea where we don't have to see them."

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Small puffs of smoke rose out of the Hokage's pipe as he looked at the women in front of him. He honestly hadn't expected to see either of them again, but here they were. Looking over to his student and resident spymaster the old Sarutobi wondered how Jiraiya had managed to get his teammate Tsunade and her apprentice Sizune back into the village.

"Where is he, where's my godson," the blond sannin asked after a long period of silence. The atmosphere was tense and the blond looked ready to destroy everything in her path.

"He's on a mission, in the land of waves right now," Sarutobi replied pulling a folder from one of many piles. "Right now I'd say they've been there just about a day. They should have a base of operations by now, I'm expecting a messenger hawk to arrive at any moment to tell me where their exact location is."

It was ten minutes later that Tsunade and her apprentice were out the gates of Konoha and heading in the direction of the Land of Waves with Jiraiya close behind them. It was a quick and uneventful trip for the three veteran shinobi as they made pace faster then the team before them. Jiraiya was glad to see a spark back in his old teammate; it had been far too long. It was not long before they came across the group of battered Kumo nin who were now disposing of their dead comrade. Fear seized the group as they saw the Sannin approach and quickly started to plead for mercy, they did not want to fight more Konoha nin. Tsunade grinned and cracked her knuckles; she was going to enjoy getting information from this particulat group of ninja.

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That's it for this chapter. Anybody else read the latest Naruto chapter? If you have you know that's a F'd up twist at the end.