Timeskip Four Months (Two before Chunin Exams)

The construction had finally been finished. The locals now had many possibilities for jobs. The local economy was now climbing back up, I had purchased more of the land in the redlight district. I slowly disbanded all the gangs, drug rings, sex trafficking, and all the "territories" of the red light area by providing jobs to the people. I paid for people's debts under the premise that they work for me in one of my many business outlets.

I had tattoo parlors, banks, grocery stores, a market, pools, theaters, hotels, apartment buildings, bathhouses, shops, stores, liquor stores, and casinos as well. The people were happy, and I was one of the wealthiest people in Konoha.

I had met with the council of Shinobi clan heads. I had been introduced, along with Naruto. Surprisingly the clans were both happy that we were on the council. We all had each others back in some way, shape, or form.

Naruto's training was going amazing, perfectly even. He was well above chunin level, in battle intelligence, he was now skilled in Nin, Tai, Genjutsu surprisingly enough, he had taken a liking to Kenjutsu, he is extremely good with a sword. I have him spar with Yugao occasionally. He was next only to me and the Hokage in skill. We often sparred and had competitions so as to better ourselves. Naruto had grown taller than everyone else in our age group but was still half a foot smaller than me. He had lost his baby fat and looked almost chiseled straight out of marble.

I had completely mastered the Hiraishin and made progress with adding in my water element into the Rasengan, and I made progress with putting in lightning to the Rasengan.

Raorin and Yakumo also Improved a lot. They had grown on me over the few months we had been training. They had each become more skilled in general, they didn't hesitate to make the killing blow, or jump in front of a stray kunai aimed at the client. We had grown as a squad.

Every other day we had a mission, most days we went on those missions without Yamato and Yugao due to rising tensions with Suna and the smaller villages.

Over the last four months, we had become known as Team eleven, the extermination squad. We were "famous" for our record of completing the most bandit extermination missions as new genin. We were confident in our abilities and had faced missing-nin more frequently than naught.

Although our luck changed when we went on our last extermination mission. We went into it confident like all the others. Yamato and Yugao were away on another mission. Little did I know that it was our last mission as a squad.

Flashback one week

We stood at the gates. I was checking our equipment before we left to go on our mission. We all had our necessary stuff for the mission. We went off quickly bounding through the trees. We were going at top speed so that we could come back fast.

Two hours later.

We were only halfway there when I stopped suddenly. Roarin and Yakumo stopped behind me confused.

"Somethings wrong. I don't know what but there is." I say.

Immediately we were all on guard. We had never been interrupted on the way to the destination.

I sensed a person coming our way at high speeds.

"Someone's coming," I quietly say.

A small blob down the path became visible. As it came closer I could pick out more and more things about the person. I hurriedly equipped my Naginata. I mentally commanded the earth, fire, water, air, lightning, and Nature to protect me. I was confident in Raorin and Yakumo's skills.

The person split into two people. One was a masked man, the same as before. The second was a man with a triple scythe, he had long silver hair, he wore the same black cloak with red clouds just as the other man did.

The man with the scythe lashed out at Raorin. Raorin, unfortunately, didn't dodge fast enough and got cut slightly.

Raorin threw multiple kunai and shuriken at the man but it didn't do anything. The strange man licked Raorins blood off the blade of his scythe. His face became white and black. A strange symbol appeared on the ground underneath him and Raorin. The man in all strangeness then struck himself with his scythe. I was shocked when all of a sudden Raorin suddenly had three gashes in his chest exactly where the man had struck himself. The man then pulled out multiple stakes and started to plunge them into his body eliciting sharp screams of pain from Raorin.
Eventually, the man stuck a pole through his own heart, killing Raorin.

On the other end of the battlefield, I could only watch as the masked man played around with Yakumo in a rather childish game of tag. But with each tag came a strike of a kunai. Unfortunately, Yakumo never was able to tag the man. She eventually became tired and slowed down entirely. The man took his chance and struck Yakumo through the torso with a fist shrouded in lightning Chakra.

I stood there with wide eyes. Memories of Raorin and Yakumo playing before my eyes. Tears started to build in my eyes. My desperation turned to anger, the anger to hate, the hate to rage. It quickly exploded out causing tremors through the ground. The ground started to shake and break open. I was surrounded by a deathly black aura. My chakra burst from my body in waves of extreme power. I looked up at the two men before me. I put away my Naginata and grabbed Ryuujin Jakka.

I looked at the two men in the eyes. They started to shake in fear from the full weight of my killer intent. I commanded the plants to trap their legs tightly. The plants responded to my call, and tightly wove around the two men's legs. I held the sword in my right hand and thrust my arm forward all five elements moving toward the two men.

I yelled out in rage, "You will pay for what you have done!" I gathered a breath, and bellowed out, "REDUCE ALL CREATION TO ASH! RYUUJIN JAKKA!" With that said a torrential amount of flames were exuded out of the blade. Toward the two men. Unfortunately, after the flames died out, there was no sign that the two men had perished.

I promised myself that I would kill those two men. I would do anything to do it.

I sealed Raorin and Yakumo's dead bodies into a scroll.

I chose to immediately return to Konoha afterward to report the deaths of my comrades.

Flashback end

A single tear fell down my face. I hated that I had to tell Yamato and Yugao the unfortunate news.

Funerals were held for Raorin and Yakumo. I was given their headbands as mementos to remember them by.

During the four months, I had met a suspicious character. Named Kabuto Yakushi. I didn't like the man, he just didn't add up, the rank of genin for multiple years, optionally fails the same phase of the chunin exams, chakra reserves of a Jounin, and smelled of extremely clean snakes. I had told the Hokage about my suspicion, but it was only a suspicion. Naruto's teammate Sakura died from an underlying illness two weeks ago. A small funeral was held by the Haruno family.

Team eleven had been disbanded and I had been put on Team seven as a replacement.

Naruto walked out of his bedroom and noticed me standing in the kitchen. He walked up to me and wrapped me in a hug. I leaned into the hug slightly, as if scared that Naruto would disappear from my life as well.

"Promise me you won't leave," I told Naruto in a shaky voice. "Promise me!"

Naruto looked up at me and spoke, "I promise Shenlo."

With that Naruto had me sit down at the kitchen counter while he cooked the food for breakfast.

We had team training today. Then we would go on a C-rank mission with our sensei Kakashi Hatake.

We ate our food and got dressed in our attires for the day. Mine consisted of my normal outfit, and Naruto's consisted of black tapered pants, with a tank top that stopped midway down his torso showing off his sunkissed ab's. I wore my half mask and hannya mask.

We moved along the streets toward training ground seven.