***Super depressing I need to add this... Adding this to chapter one and twenty one for now but this story is not a romance... Have zero idea where everyone got the notion that this was only a romance... Tags clearly say, Friendship/Adventure... Now will there be any romance? Yes, there will be... Are you going to see a bunch of children who were raised into killing machines fucking like rabbits? No, no you are not... Swear I get a headache every time I get a message or review bitching that, 'Oh the story is so slow paced and stale, where are the lemons, the romance needs to hurry up, how many girls will Naruto end up with?' All of these have nothing to do with what I have written so far... The best part? I don't think I have gotten a single one of them reviews by someone I could reply to... Brilliant... You rage quit my story because Tenten isn't being fucked at age 8? Probably need to check yourself into some kind of mental institute...***
Hey welcome back. A lot less people were worried about the Kyuubi that I had thought. Before we get into it, I need to point out the one thing everyone seemed to forget. And by everyone I even mean myself… Don't know where but I completely ruined my notes at some point.
Anyway, Naruto is currently 14 years old, (I think I swapped his and Tenten's ages in my head somewhere. Tenten being closer to 15 currently.) Still, he is a full year older than he was in canon. That being said, he has had that full extra year to mature, train, and understand more advanced forms of being a shinobi.
Not going to get into how much stronger he is because of that extra year, but it needed to be pointed out because a few people understood the story a bit better when they remembered he was a bit older. Anyway, let's just get into Chapter 21 of Trust By My Side.
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Their day off came and went. Naruto and Tenten had got some shopping done after leaving their hot spring and spent a little while longer just talking with Shikamaru. The seal Tenten put on Lee showed no adverse side effects and Lee was excited by how he felt at the end of each day.
Naruto was happy to hear that and had Tenten put the seals on him as well. She agreed but told him to write the seals on her as well. He also agreed and they quickly grabbed Shikamaru before he slipped away. "You are getting the seal too Shika." Naruto said firmly. "Troublesome." He sighed as he went and sat on the couch inside.
It took about an hour total but they all agreed that the seals felt a lot better than their previous seals. The little bit of ease put on the muscles at all times would certainly add up over the years. They went ahead and sparred for most of the day and while they rested, they could tell that they were most likely not going to be sore come morning.
They made their way into their headquarters and Naruto was quickly stopped by Teacher. "Naruto, you got mail." She said before she tossed him a decent sized box. Naruto quirked his head a bit at this and went into the meeting room and opened it.
Inside was a scroll and an anbu styled flack jacket. 'Naruto Uzumaki. The seals you provided us are indeed interesting. We want you to permanently mark the flack jacket included with the seal in addition to storage for at least three bursts before it would need recharged. Recharging would be recommended in the form of a separate seal to become standard issue for anbu. Please complete this within three days and have the result sent to us as soon as possible. R&D Team.' The scroll read.
"Well that would definitely work. Hey Teacher, do you know what average payment from R&D is?" Naruto asked. Teacher rounded the corner and saw him with an anbu flack jacket and grinned. "Well, if you make the final product, you receive a percentage of the cost to make them. So it could be nothing or maybe a sum for a mission payment depending on the rank it is deemed. Considering it looks like you are dealing directly with anbu, could be A-rank." Teacher explained.
"Sweet, well I got my project for the day." Naruto said as he rushed downstairs to get to work. "Cool, what do you got for us Teacher." Tenten asked. "I got a few things for you to sign Tenten and are you done with your transport seals yet Shikamaru?" Teacher said. Shikamaru just nodded.
"Good, I'll check them and you can deliver them to your dad and get his opinion on how we wants to go about testing them." Teacher commanded. "I already did. He said if they get a go ahead from you or Jiraiya-sama then they can go down to communications for a few test runs." Shikamaru replied.
"Good, show me how they work while I get Tenten started on this paperwork." Teacher said, turning to Tenten. "This is mostly just forms regarding an ongoing research trial. Your enhanced resistance seals to be specific. Fill it out and get it to Hokage-sama as soon as you can. It will get a small payment going as well as get the information trickling down the ranks so any other interested parties can get the seals themselves." Teacher explained.
Shikamaru returned as Tenten turned to go down to her office to get started. "Ok, what makes your seal stand out?" Teacher asked. "It has a buffer set so it will add extra security when sending important information or confidential documents long distance." Shikamaru said as he placed one seal down on the desk and took a few steps back. He placed a kunai down on the seal in his hand and activated it.
Teacher saw the kunai disappear and saw a small symbol in the center of the seal he handed her light up dimly. He waved for her to try and unseal the kunai but nothing happened. Shikamaru then walked over and activated it and the kunai appeared.
"The receiving end is chakra specific for either heads of departments or the hokage himself. Once the item is sent, only the receiving person can get the item from either end. This way, if someone is captured after sending important documents, there is no way for the enemy to retrieve them." Shikamaru explained.
"What about the sending side?" Teacher asked. "Similar, they are set to only accept items from specific people. Would do no good if someone with one of these seals was captured and an enemy send a paper bomb to Hokage-sama." Shikamaru explained.
"What about the symbol that glows?" Teacher asked. "It is a detection seal. Watch." Shikamaru said as he pulled out a small explosive tag. One that would barely break a lock. He activated it and send it with his side of the seal. The symbol was glowing red for a few seconds before it turned blue. He casually went over and unsealed a no longer glowing explosive note.
"So it drains chakra of whatever is inside it?" Teacher asked. "Yup, that was the hardest part to figure out." Shikamaru explained. "That part is also only available on the receiving end so if a fuin-jutsu master got a hold of it they wouldn't be able to bypass it." He further explained.
"Well I have to say, that is quite detailed. They only problem I can see is that you wouldn't be able to send storage seals. They would also be drained." Teacher said. "Yes, but the increased safety of it falling into enemy hands is worth it. Down the line I could probably tweak it to be very chakra sensitive, maybe a pulse password or something but until then, I didn't want to leave it open for unnecessary risks." Shikamaru explained.
"Agreed. I would say it looks perfect otherwise. Since you already got the jonin commanders go ahead, take it to Hokage-sama and give him the same demonstration. Well, maybe use a flash seal not an explosive note, might get yourself knocked out by anbu if you activate an explosive note in Hokage-sama's office." Teacher said.
Shikamaru thought about it for a second and nodded before walking out to do just that. Downstairs with Naruto, he was making quick work of modifying his seal to work on an anbu flack jacket. He had far more room to work with as opposed to a small seal. He managed to work a chakra wrap around the seal that would hold six charges as opposed to three.
He had the wrap end around the stomach and had a small accepting seal tied to it. He quickly made a chakra sending seal that would add three charges worth of lightning and earth chakra. He drained the chakra in the jacket by using the seal six times and placed the charging tag over its stomach on the outside.
He gave it a push of chakra and felt the chakra flow into the jacket. He tested it four more times and nodded when the first three worked and the fourth one didn't. He quickly made a dozen more of the charging tags with the help of clones and rushed upstairs to talk to Teacher.
"Hey Teacher, I got the R&D request done. I need to go give it a full battle test. I will be back in a bit." He said. Teacher just nodded and waved him out.
Arriving back at his home just a few moments later, he quickly made a sturdy clone and handed him the flack jacket. The clone nodded and put it on and jumped back to the edge of the training area. When Naruto got a second nod, the threw a single kunai at the clone.
The clone just activated the seal when it was about a foot away and the kunai instantly shot off at an odd angle. Naruto nodded and the clone turned sideways. Naruto once more threw a kunai and the same thing occurred. The clone turned it's back to Naruto and once more a single kunai was reflected easily.
Naruto nodded and the clone nodded back. Naruto grabbed two full handfuls of kunai and threw them all at the same time. Eight kunai were all reflected just as easily as a single one. Naruto nodded happily once more. He made a few clones and had them surround the test clone. They all threw eight kunai from every direction and they were all knocked off course.
"This is working perfectly." Naruto said to himself. There were still a few tests he had however. He pulled out eight of his own high quality kunai. He threw them and these ones were only slightly knocked off course. Off course enough to be a success but clone enough to warrant another test.
He pulled his mother's sword and threw it perfectly dead center of the clone. The clone activated the seal but the sword still hit him a few inches from dead center and dispelled the clone. Naruto went to check out the damages and saw that there was about an inch of penetration past the inside of the jacket in the shoulder.
"So the higher the quality of the metal, the less effective." Naruto told himself. "Still, it slowed it down quite a bit." He relented. He made a new clone to wear the jacket after he made sure the seal wasn't damaged.
"Go ahead and use the recharging seal." Naruto called out. The clone nodded and pulled a seal from one of the pockets and applied it recharging three charges. Naruto switched out to senbon as well as shuriken, running through the same tests and all passed.
He decided he might as well test everything he had on him and stuck a shrapnel tag on a small earth pillar he made. He detonated it and the clone instantly activated the seal. All the pellets were slowed down and scattered everywhere around him.
"One last test." Naruto said as he made a large earth dome. Around himself and his clone. He stuck over a dozen shrapnel seals on the inside and quickly left. Once outside, he activated the seals. He didn't feel the rush of new memories so he assumed the clone survived.
Dropping the earth dome, he saw the clone standing just fine. He inspected him and saw nothing wrong with him. Looking over the jacket, there were a few scuffs and a tear or two, but none of the pellets managed to pierce it.
Naruto let out small chuckle and dispelled the clone, grabbing the jacket. He quickly made his way back to their headquarters.
"How did the tests go?" Teacher asked. "Well, anything lower than the highest quality steels I had on me were 100% effective. Even then, my sword was the only thing to cause any damage to the person behind the jacket and even that was maybe an inch or two of penetration to the shoulder." Naruto explained.
"Here, let me see it." Teacher said. Naruto just sat the flack jacket on the desk in front of her. She quickly went over it and saw all the minor scrapes and cuts on it. "What are all these little cuts?" She asked.
"That was fifteen shrapnel seals on the inside of an earth dome. The clone was perfectly fine but it looks like a few of the shrapnel bits managed to only get pushed so far. I am guessing it was the sheer volume of it. Thirty two kunai didn't even get that close." Naruto explained.
"Damn, sounds effective. I am going to go ahead and run this to the boys in R&D. Did you have any notes for them so they can test it?" She asked. "Yup, also had a few clones making more recharge tags. Let me go grab it all." Naruto said as he ran downstairs and grabbed everything before running back up and handing it all off to Teacher.
"Well, I would expect to be ready to write a few more of those up soon. They will probably equip a few squads to run through a combat training exercise to see if they help." Teacher said before she walked out the door. Naruto just smiled and went into the other room and grabbed himself a cup of tea. He would be sitting behind the desk until Teacher returned so might as well be comfortable.
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The month ended and another with it as well. Naruto had gotten the order for eight more anbu flack jackets to be made and was still waiting on the response from them. Shikamaru's transportation seals had been installed in the mission offices so people could send mission reports easier as a test run. A few more weeks and they would be moved out to front line scouting parties.
Tenten's seal she had put all of them and Lee had been a huge success. Lee had to bump his weights up three hundred pounds a leg in only six weeks. Gai said that was much faster than they had anticipated. Naruto and Tenten were both starting to up their weight training as well.
They each got up to sixty pounds a limb and even adjusted their resistance and gravity seals about ten percent. With the new seals, the transition to higher weights wasn't that big a jump like it used to be. They were all just getting into the office and to their desks when Teacher came downstairs.
"Hey, you guys got a mission." She called out. Everyone came back out into the center room and she continued. "Looks like your first B-rank outside the village. How exciting." She said as she flicked the scroll to Shikamaru.
"Missing-nin led bandit group near border of Taki and Kusa. They are sat just inside Hi no Kuni making it our problem. We are just the support to a squad of chunin led by a jonin. They want us to fortify a forward base they are going to build as well as litter the surrounding countryside with traps. I guess that would probably cut the enemy numbers down before a real fight broke out huh." Shikamaru read off.
"Do they have a bio on any of the known missing-nin?" Tenten asked. "There were three spotted with up to two more suspected. The three known were from Iwa, low chunin. All seem to be adept earth jutsu users at best. Nothing really stand out about them from the reports." Shikamaru replied.
"How long do they need us out there?" Naruto asked. "Well, I would guess it should take us around three days to get there comfortably. Probably a full day or two for them to fully build a complete forward base, another day to fortify it. Then we are asked to spend a week up there as immediate support as well as littering area with traps around the base as well as surrounding area they are estimated to be." Shikamaru said as he closed the scroll.
"So a little over two weeks. That isn't bad I would say." Naruto replied. "Since this is your first big mission, I would recommend taking a damn good amount of supplies with you. Extra ink, tags, scrolls, as well as a ton of good to go seals ready ahead of time. You will probably have time to write more there, but take enough to complete a good part of the mission with you." Teacher said seriously.
"Teacher, I carry a minimum of three hundred ready to go explosive notes of different types at all times." Naruto said with a chuckle. "Good. Never lose that habit honestly. Scroll said be at west gate in two hours. Get your supplies and head out." Teacher commanded. All three nodded and ran into their offices. Teacher just nodded with a smile.
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Two hours later they were on the road. The mission was lead by Asuma Sarutobi and there were three other chunin with them as well. Rei, Chowei and Iniri were their names. Gen-jutsu, tai-jutsu and nin-jutsu specialists respectively.
"Oi, you kids can go faster than this right?" Asuma called out. "Of course taicho." They all three called back as they started to pick up the pace. Asuma didn't exactly hold a grudge on them using him for the graduation guinea pig. That didn't mean he wouldn't push them for no real reason though.
They made good distance in the first day, nearly half of it, before Asuma called for them to rest. "All right, you three, take first watch. Wake Chowei up in two hours. Chowei, wake up Iniri, Iniri wake me up, I will take the last shift. Rei get's the full night sleep tonight and tomorrow the kids will." He commanded as he threw up his own quick tent.
Naruto Tenten and Shikamaru watched him set it up with a bit of curiosity but said nothing. "Hey Asuma-taicho, can we just throw up an earth tent?" Naruto asked. "We are far enough in Hi no Kuni, sure, go for it. Just take it down smooth enough to be unnoticeable in the morning." He said, not really caring one way or the other.
Naruto nodded and flipped through the hand seals for an earth wall and two walls came in at an angle and met at the top forming a simple tent. He slammed his hand down on the ground after and the interior smoothed out.
He nodded and walked away to start his watch. Tenten and Shikamaru doing the same. Asuma just chuckled, they were going to be eaten alive by bugs in the night.
Naruto had made a few clones to tighten up their watch of the surrounding area a bit. It was all unneeded as nothing happened through the night however. They waited out their two hours and then woke Chowei and walked to their own tent. They unsealed a large futon that fit in the tent perfectly before placing seals on the corners of the tent and one on each wall. An all but invisible barrier appeared and they all laid down for the night.
They were woken up a few hours later by Asuma shouting to get everyone up. They all quickly hopped on top of the futon and Naruto resealed it while Tenten pulled the seals off one side of the tent and Shikamaru got the other side.
Once everything was clear, Naruto pushed the walls back into the ground and sent a random push of chakra into the ground to make it uneven once more. The whole thing took about ten seconds. "What was that barrier on the edge of your tent and why did you bring a futon instead of a sleeping bag?" Asuma asked.
"The barrier kept bugs as well as chakra out. The futon is more comfortable than sleeping bags and is easier to get out of in case of emergency." Naruto explained. Asuma just stared at him like he grew a second head and dropped it.
The broke camp in just over a minute total and continued on at a quick pace. They made it within a few hours of where they were to build their forward base and set up camp once more. This time, Naruto, Tenten and Shikamaru got a full nights sleep and Rei took their first shift.
They made it to the location they would set up their forward base a bit before midday and quickly started throwing together what would end up being a glorified bunker that they would use for the next few weeks until the mission was completed.
It started with Iniri dropping the level of the ground a few feet and evening out the walls. He then rose the walls up a few feet around it. While he was doing that, Asuma was carefully dropping a few trees in the area around the camp. When Naruto saw this, he offered to help.
He drew up a quick gravity seal that would reduce the weight of whatever he placed it on down to only a few hundred pounds. He slapped it on a tree and Asuma quickly cut through it with wind chakra. As it fell, Naruto easily caught it and held it while Asuma cleared off the branches leaving just a single log.
They started piling them around the outer wall in a log cabin fashion. Shikamaru quickly started tagging every log with a fire resistance seal that would keep them from being destroyed by fire jutsu easily.
While all of this was going on, Tenten was writing seals on the inside of the base. One way silencing seals, hardening seals, chakra resisting seals, as well as a gen-jutsu seal that would make the surrounding area push people away from the bunker.
They only needed to knock down a few trees so the surrounding area wasn't devastated by any means. Once the bunker was deemed secure, Asuma unsealed a few ease of life items like a set of beds, portable stove, as well as a large water supply.
"There we go, this thing is about as secure as we can make it. Anyone nearby will be in a subtle gen-jutsu that will make them walk right past it. No earth jutsu below A-rank should be able to damage the walls. No sensor should be able to sense anyone inside. No noise should escape either." Tenten listed off.
"The outside is also fireproof and shouldn't be moving anywhere any time soon." He supplied. "Good, we will let you rest up a bit while we go and scout the surrounding area and map out where we want trapped." Asuma said as he waved the rest of the group out.
Once they cleared out, Naruto, Tenten and Shikamaru started to lay out what they had with them. "Well I have an absolute ton of directional senbon seals. Most have only two or three steel senbon and the rest are wooden that will survive the initial blast. I also have a gravity trap for the ground. It will activate if someone steps on it pumping the gravity to about five times higher while sticking their feet in place. When they fall forward, wooden spikes will shoot into them from the ground up." Naruto explained.
"I got a few directional spike seals, if someone steps on it, will skewer them with three spikes that should hit their foot as well as hopefully their body. Also got a few decoy simple wire kunai traps that have explosive notes hidden around the wire so if they defuse it, they explode." Tenten listed off.
"I got some flash tags that will blind and then quickly wrap a person in razor wire. If they panic and jump, they will be killed instantly. If they stand still, a few kunai will rain down on them and get them anyway. Other than that, just directional explosive notes and a handful of suction seals that will pull a person's head into a tree that will instantly shove a spike into their head." Shikamaru called out.
"When did you make that one?" Naruto asked. "Few days ago. This is it's first real combat test." Shikamaru answered. "Well sweet." Naruto said as they thought about how to spread their traps as well as how many to actually use.
It was about an hour later that Asuma and his team came back in. They instantly felt something when they opened the door and their kunai came out. "The fuck was that?" Asuma asked instantly. "Anti-gen-jutsu tag. If any of you had been under a gen-jutsu like a henge, it would have shattered as soon as that door opened." Tenten explained.
"Why wasn't that up when we left?" Asuma asked. "In case you or someone else was captured and replaced while on the scouting mission. Our own little bit of self security." Shikamaru said evenly.
"At least you are all professional. All right, here is the map of the surrounding area. We found bandits walking here, here and here. They were all going to the same point here." Asuma started saying as he pointed to various points on the map.
"It looks like this group was returning from the town north just past the border. These ones were dragging their feet, probably returning from a job. And these ones seemed way too happy. Probably just finished something successfully." Asuma continued.
"With all of them going the same way, we can assume that their base is somewhere in this area. We will go with an uneven circle around the suspected area and trap it to hell. We will also put short lines from there in between several possible locations they might go. Towns, roads, anything suspicious." Asuma explained.
"All right. When do we begin?" Shikamaru asked, technically being leader of their squad. "As soon as you are able." Asuma replied. "So now. Ok." He replied, standing up getting the rest of them to stand as well.
"Chowei, watch the base. The rest of us are on escort. Double triangle formation, I'm up front, Rei left, Iniri right. You three can organize yourselves how you like inside." Asuma commanded. Shikamaru just nodded and they fell in line. Naruto in front, Shikamaru on the left, Tenten on the right.
Asuma smirked a bit at that and they took off to their first priority, in between the village closest to Taki. It was only a short run overall. They went a little slow to be sure to watch for traps but still wasn't far away.
"Here, we make a thick line, east north east. Rei, watch middle. I have left, Iniri right. All traps need to be lethal, flashy or not doesn't matter. Once the first trap goes off, they will know there are traps so use as many as possible. Rei, and Iniri, document all traps carefully." Asuma ordered. The kids and chunin all nodded and spread out.
With Naruto in the middle he quickly made three clones and spread them out a little bit, not far, just a few dozen feet or so. He had the third follow him as he made his way to the first clearing he saw. He pointed at the clearing and the clone nodded, quickly running to the center and placing his hand down on the ground.
Naruto himself ran through a few hand seals and pulled a very thin earth wall out at a steep angle. He quickly pushed the wall up, breaking it at the bottom and sealed it away. He then used raw earth manipulation to push the leftover bit of earth back underground leaving no trace it was ever there.
A few hand seals later and the thought out, 'Doton: Moguragakure no Jutsu.' and sunk into the ground. A few moments later, he came back out of the ground leaving no trace he was ever there. He left a scroll under the earth where he made the gap with the earth wall. The earth above it was thick enough that it would hold it's own weight and the clone had pulled a few pillar up in between where the seal would be active to add more support before he dispelled himself.
Naruto quickly asked if Rei if she could see any difference, which she could not, and he nodded before jumping over the entire clearing and continuing on. He was slipping seals behind chunks of bark, under branches, and even a few inside holes in trees.
They were all carefully documented and they continued on for nearly two hours. Once the sun started setting, they all carefully met near where they started and made their way back to camp.
Asuma nodded and commended them for their professionalism and skill in trap making and they all gathered around the table to plan out the next day. Tenten and Shikamaru would go from where they were last time and head left around the camp while Naruto went right. They would work it out that way until they got all the way around them.
Once the planning quieted down, Naruto pulled out a very large scroll and unrolled it out on the table. He quickly ran through a few hand seals before calling out, "Uzumaki Fuin-jutsu: Third Eye Jutsu.*" and slamming his hand in the center of the scroll. Tenten and Shikamaru each placed their hands on one end of the seal that appeared and channeled chakra.
Dozens of red, blue and green dots appeared in one general area around the center of the seal. After a moment, they all took their hands away and the dots remained. "What is this doing?" Asuma asked.
"It is showing an estimated location of any tags with our chakra signature within a certain range. With how much chakra I put into it, should be close to three miles." Naruto explained. "I am guess each color is one of you?" Asuma guessed.
"Yup, if one of them gets a black outline, that means the chakra was used. Usually means it was tripped but doesn't mean it got anyone." Naruto explained further. "How accurate is it?" Asuma asked once again.
"Well, it took a hell of a lot of training to get the chakra usage consistent enough. I would say within a twenty feet at least. As for when they get tripped, one hundred percent." Naruto said with pride. Asuma just whistled and nodded.
Everyone else was thoroughly impressed as well. "In that case, one person will be watching this around the clock. If any traps get tripped, we converge on it as fast as possible. Rest until sunup. We move out as soon as possible. Seven days could be too long. If we know when one is tripped, we will be able to move in early." Asuma commanded.
Everyone nodded and instantly the kids went and laid down. Every minute or rest could be huge. It was about ten hours before they would need to head back out. They rested four hours, woke up and remade a good number of the seals they used and then got another four hours of sleep.
They continued their routine for three days before the first trap was sprung. It was a spike trap set by Tenten that got him. Iwa missing-nin estimated at chunin. Got him through the foot and up into his shoulder as well as his hip. He was completely immobilized and bled out within seconds.
Tenten closed her eyes for a few moments and then reopened them at seeing what her trap did to someone. They were on a mission and potentially being watched, now was not the time to worry about her first kill.
Shortly after they made it to the scene a call came out on the radio. "One more sprung, quarter mile west, notes say flash trap." Came the call from Chowei. Shikamaru quickly took point flanked by Asuma as they went to the trap. There stood a heavily bleeding missing nin from Iwa covered in razor wire with his eyes closed.
Shikamaru quickly tossed a kunai at the nin's head but he managed to block it with his eyes shut. "You are all going to die, you hear me?" He shouted before Naruto tossed three of his own kunai at the shinobi.
He tried to block them as well but they were all coated in wind chakra. The kunai sliced right through the one that the Iwa shinobi tried to use to protect himself and quickly cut through his head, neck and heart. Naruto took a deep breath and let it out slowly before nodding to no one.
"Three hundred yards south, two tags, explosive, ground level." Came another call over the radio. They rushed the scene and saw several bodies with missing pieces or filled with senbon. Shikamaru knew they were his tags and looked over them all with his mind racing but made no outward motions.
Asuma was quickly running through what was happening. 'Why is there so much movement all of a sudden. They seem to be returning to base, but why are they so spread out and how did we hit so many shinobi?' He thought. "Tags going off one after the other, they are all coming from directly west towards your position." Came the shout from the radio.
Asuma quickly pulled his trench knives up in time to block the mace that was coming right at him. He took no time to recognize the shinobi that attacked him. "Get out of here." He called but was met with no response. Instead, several kunai, shuriken, senbon, and even a pair of fuma shuriken bombarded the Iwa missing-nin.
He jumped back and dodged all of them but the weapons quickly changed directions and followed him. 'Che' he thought as he swung his mace to shatter the fuma shuriken and knock away several of the kunai.
He kept dodging until he suddenly felt his foot stick to the ground. His eyes widened as he started to go through hand seals. He slammed his hand down and the earth below him instantly cracked and shattered and he managed to jump away. As soon as he landed, he felt his body go stiff. Three kunai quickly landed in a triangle around him and started to glow.
"Barrier Fuin-jutsu: Inner Earth Seal." Came the call from Naruto. The tags wrapped around the kunai glowed briefly and a green tinged, three sided pyramid surrounded the man. He landed beside Asuma who was standing there nearly flabbergasted. "The fuck was that?" He finally asked. "What do you mean Asuma-taicho?" Naruto asked.
"That guy was around jonin level and you tore him apart." Asuma said. "Yeah? And?" Tenten asked, still confused. "Whatever." Asuma finally said. "What are you and your people doing in Hi no Kuni?" Asuma asked.
"Ha, do you really think missing-nin need a reason?" The man shouted. He found his head leaning forward and gently touching the barrier. He started to scream as the started to grind his skin off. "I believe you were asked a question." Shikamaru said.
"Up yours. I have no reason to talk." He said. "Is that right?" Shikamaru asked before Asuma waved him off. "Seal his chakra and bind him. I will come with you back to Konoha and deliver him to T&I myself." Asuma commanded. Naruto just nodded and made a clone inside the barrier. The clone quickly wrote a simple binding seal on the ninja's neck and activating it. He dropped to the ground instantly.
Tenten went over and wrapped a seal around each of his arms and then tied them together behind his back. She activated the seals under the wire when she was done. She also did the same with his legs and his hands.
"There, he can't move, can't mold chakra, and can't even attempt to make hand seals." She said proudly. "Good." Asuma said before he put his hand to his headset. "Chowei, Rei and Iniri, you three will guard the corner where there are no traps. I will send an order for an extra two chunin squads as back up and you will push in and push them through the traps. When they are done, remove any unused traps and evacuate." Asuma ordered.
They all replied their acceptance and Asuma turned to the three genin. "We will take him back to the village now. Return to base, grab your gear. I will meet you there." He said. They all nodded and vanished.
It was only ten minutes before they were all ready to leave. No words were needed as they made top speed back to Konoha. They stopped for the briefest of rest along the way and made it back in two days flat.
"I am going to drop him off at T&I and meet you at the hokage tower. Your mission report will be slightly different than mine. With how this mission looked, a full report is needed." Asuma said getting a nod from all three of them.
Asuma quickly rushed off to T&I while they all made their way to the tower. Asuma caught up to them a few minutes after they arrived and they quickly made their way inside. "Ah, welcome back. How was your first mission outside the walls?" Hiruzen asked.
"The kids did great Pops. They pretty much captured an Iwa missing-nin jonin by themselves." Asuma praised. "Really? My, that is certainly impressive. Is there any other important details that need to be shared in person?" Hiruzen asked.
"Around the fourth day we were there, it felt like there was way more activity than anticipated. We instantly killed two chunin with the traps and probably a dozen bandits. The jonin attacked shortly after. I feel like it is a set up myself." Asuma said.
"You captured him correct? Then Ibiki will found out in no time." Hiruzen said after getting a nod from Asuma. "I would recommend at least two chunin squads as backup until we know what is up. I don't remember that guy being missing-nin for long." Asuma said.
"Hmm, while not common, it is not unheard of to put shinobi in the bingo books as missing-nin to get around treaties. Anyway, good work on your first combat mission you three. Take a day or two to recover before heading back into the fuin-jutsu core headquarters. Expect at least a week until you are called for another mission." Hiruzen said. They all nodded and left their reports on his desk before heading out.
Once they left, Hiruzen turned to Asuma. "Tell me, how well did they do in the mission overall?" He asked. "Pops, if you didn't tell me that it was their first out of the village mission personally, I would have promoted them on the spot. Every order followed perfectly, ingenuity and creativity with trap placement. They even used what I would have to guess is at least jonin level fuin-jutsu from what I would guess." Asuma said evenly.
"Really now? Hmm, well they are still inexperienced enough that it would be too soon to promote them. I will keep that in mind however. C-rank mission may be below them like I had thought." Hiruzen thought out loud.
"Hell, if I ever need a trapper or two on any squad I lead, I am requesting as many of them as I can get. Seals that instantly spike someone to the ground, wrap them in razor wire, fires volleys of senbon. Those were just the simple ones they used." Asuma said, admiration clear in his voice.
"Those kids are up and coming prodigies in the art. You have seen these haven't you?" Hiruzen said as he pulled out a kunai that was quickly shrouded in wind chakra. "Yeah, Naruto used a few of them. Cut right through an Iwa chunin's kunai and killed him instantly. If anyone can use them, they are going to be worth a hell of a lot out there." Asuma said.
"Good, put that in writing and send it to Shikaku. They have been tested extensively for years now but have not been put through a true mission yet. Send him the full fight and how well it worked. Spare no details. I believe this could be a good point to get them used in missions soon." Hiruzen explained.
"Will do Pops. I think that is it. I am going to head out. I could use some real sleep." Asuma said. "Say hello to Kurenai-chan for me." Hiruzen said with a grin. Asuma nearly tripped over himself as he exited. 'I wonder when he will make that info public.' Hiruzen thought.
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That is a wrap. Currently being with limited internet, I am getting a ton of writing done. Don't get used it to, I doubt I could keep this pace with distractions in my life.
I put a * in there after a jutsu name. I have absolutely no idea how to go about translating original jutsu without completely making it feel like crap. Hidden Mole jutsu has a translation so I used that but otherwise, I am not sure how I want to proceed.
If anyone wants to PM me a fair way to go about it, I would appreciate it. I think after this chapter I would go with the english translation I like the most for jutsu aside from things like Henge. I am completely unsure how I want to do that.