Lethal Shinobi

Chapter 2

Before Minato and his wife brought their newborn bundle of joy home, the Hokage decided to send out a search team to discover what the cause of that strange energy wave was.

He received the team's report about three days later.

The search team had discovered a gigantic crater on the very borders of the Land of Fire and near the Village Hidden within the Grass. The entire crater was one massive chakra burn with absolutely no sign of what might have caused it. By the time the search team had arrived at the site, all residual chakra had already faded.

There was no sign of any other humans having been around at the time of whatever caused the crater.

With that report, Minato had a patrol sent out to keep watch over the area. Mostly to see of anything did eventually show up, but partially also to make sure that no possibly enemies of the village took the giant hole as some sort of threat; thinking that it was Konoha's doing for it's existence.

The man just had a baby. He really, really, really, did not want a war to start any time soon.

Minato and Kushina raised their baby as well as any parents could. They fed him well, played with him often, and spent as much time as possible together as a loving family.

Kushina dedicated all of her time to being a mother with not a second spared tending to her new family.

Minato was exactly the same. When not working hard, he was with his wife and child, doing all he could to provide the perfect life for them all.

No one could argue that every member of the Namikaze family loved one another so very deeply. Their home was filled with nothing but laughs and love.

As time went by, Naruto grew; as most humans do. He learned to walk and talk. He learned rights from wrongs. He was praised when he did good and punished when he did wrongs.

He was enrolled into one of the many daycare's the village had when he was the right age and learned how to be social with people as he learned about the word around him.

Overall, Naruto had as normal a childhood as one could have; despite his father being the leader of a powerful village full of highly trained assassins. And, as one would expect, because of who his parents were Naruto was treated a bit differently than his peers.

Of course, his parents were quick to drill into his skull that just because of his heritage, that did not give him the right to be an egotistical asshole. Clearly, they explained why Naruto should behave properly without using such harsh language.

Unfortunately, it was around the time Naruto entered into pre-school did people discover the boy's inability to mold and use chakra. It was not known who spread the information, but within a matter of a few days the entire village had learned that the great heir to the Namikaze and Uzumaki families was unable to become a proper ninja.

Life become a little more unpleasant for little Naruto and his family after that.

Hidden powers within the nation instantly tried all they could to get Minato's position taken away. The many, many things had done during his tenure as Hokage, while beneficial and great for the many people living within the village, there were still plenty with power within the nation that opposed the man's many ideals.

Many simply abuse their power and money to do whatever they please while their laws and wealth protect them. Others openly admit and even broadcast heinous acts that go unpunished because of their power.

Even if Minato did try to act directly against these powerful people, it would very easily backfire and; if not done perfectly, could lead to the complete destruction of his home village. If he tried to just go after one, personally, then all would pay. He could not even risk sending any of his best shinobi to take care of these problem people. Who knew how many of his shinobi actually worked for them?

This also doesn't take into account the many, many people within the village that opposed his methods. All he could do was fight their wicked ways the most legal way possible and with the least amount of bloodshed. Doing everything he could for his wife, son, and home.

Naruto had his own share of problems. He would hear people whisper in the streets whenever he passed by. Their words were not nice.

Parents had begun encouraging their children to bully the poor boy for his disability. Calling him a freak and a loser, among much more harsh words and even some violent actions.

No one was dumb enough to do anything truly outrageous, but the bulling was obvious enough that Naruto was forced to leave daycare until he was old enough to enter into the village's academy.

The academy had a basic educational course that all students had to start out in that would eventually split into two separate educational routes as students would graduate from each grade.

So everyone in the village was at least given a basic education as well as self defense training.

Naruto was well on his way to being a normal civilian of Konohagakure until one terrible day.

"This sucks." Naruto complained as he glanced out of the large classroom window. Rains was pouring down in sheets, making the future walk home a completely miserable mess; plus the upcoming gym class. The boy looked almost like a spiting image of his father; except for his short stature and his appreciation of terrible, terrible orange jumpsuits.

"What's the matter Naruto? Afraid of a little water?" A voice snarked next to him. Said voice belonged to the one and only Inuzuka Kiba, the son of the Inuzuka clan head, Tsume. The clan was famous for it's use of trained canines and was rumored to even be able to understand and talk to them.

Kiba was still just a little too young to be taking his own hound out of the compound just yet.

The boy wore a thick hooded jacket that had fur all along the cuffs and the hood. He always kept the hood up, and with the facial tattoos he had; two triangular streaks going down below each eye, he gave off the impression of a wild dog.

Naruto shot the Inuzuka a dirty look. "I'm afraid I'll have to deal with the stick of wet dog for the rest of the day."

"Why you!" Kiba jumped to his feet and was prepared to teach Naruto a lesson when...

"What are you two idiots doing?" An exasperated voice asked from behind. Said voice belonged to none other than Uchiha Sasuke, son of the Uchiha clan leader, Fugaku. The clan was considered one of the strongest in all of the nations worldwide and the strongest in the village on par with that of another family, the Hyuuga.

The secret behind the Uchiha's strength was in their blood-line; a special eye-based technique that very few understood the power behind.

Sasuke wore an admittedly bland outfit that was mostly just a blue shirt with gray shorts, his family's crest was on the back of the shirt; a red and white fan. The boy always had something on him that symbolized his family. The Uchiha had an almost egotistical amount of pride in their clan's ability.

The two other boys greeted their friend and went about chatting before class started. It was only a few days before the students were to perform in front of the staff and be issued to continue their education down the path of the shinobi, or a normal civilian. Many of the students were already training their hardest to get into the best classes that the academy had to offer.

It was a pretty stressful time, if you had the capability to become a ninja.

"I can't wait to show off!" Kiba yapped excitedly. "I'll finally be able to bring Akamaru with me."

"You better impress." Naruto responded with a smirk. "My dad said that he himself will be one of the people to determine who goes to what side of the school." His voice held a lot of pride. Sure, he was not capable of taking part in the test and was a little bummed out about that, but that did not mean he was going to be jealous of his friends.

Or at least verbally admit to it.

Sasuke stuck out his chest before responding. "I think your father will have no problem finding my performance to be the best this year. Nothing can top an Uchiha."

"I don't know about that Sasuke." Naruto responded before leaning back into his seat. "I topped your mom pretty good last night." Naruto jabbed, causing Kiba to burst out laughing. Childish humor of children.

Sasuke growled before lunging at Naruto and the two began to wrestle about and cause a good amount of ruckus in the classroom.

The teacher came into the room and shouted for everyone to settle down before class began and things went about like normal.

Lighting began to flash across the dark sky as the day progressed. The roar of thunder was almost deafening to the people within the academy. It was is if the heavens themselves were shouting out and attacking some unseen evil present upon the Earth.

It had become so dark and the rain so thick that it was nearly impossible for anyone to make anything out just a few feet away. It was as if the world was ending.

"Alright students!" A female teacher called out. School had just ended and now practically everyone was gathered at the entrance, preparing to go home. The teacher and students all had large yellow umbrellas so that they could be easily seen through the heavy rain.

"I am going to escort each of you to your homes. It is far too dangerous for you kids to go alone." She explained. "The academy has already called your families to let them know that you will be getting home late."

"This sucks." Naruto complained as he got into the large group of students.

"You said that already." Sasuke grumbled. The yellow umbrella always made the boy feel like he was being treated like a preschooler, with their bright yellow hats and needing be chaperoned about.

"I'll keep saying it until it stops sucking." Naruto shot back before finally walking out from the cover of the school building. The group had already begun to leave the academy grounds.

"You both suck." Kiba gave a barking laugh.

Kiba had made the decision to forgo the yellow umbrella and just pull his coat hood up to keep his head dry. And it worked; for about fifteen seconds. The force and amount of rain was enough to easily soak through the boy's clothes and he was completely waterlogged in just a few seconds later.

Now the young boy had to walk next to the teacher under her large umbrella just to keep himself from getting any more wet than he already was, if that was even possible. Needles to say, his two friends were more than happy to rail on him the entire trip home.

The large group of kids got smaller and smaller as they arrived at each house and insured that they all made it inside safely. The group did get intercepted on occasion by the parent of a child or two and would take them home themselves, but the total trip still took a good amount of time.

Finally, it was just Naruto and the teacher. The boy walked behind the woman silently, and she did not make any kind of effort to talk to the boy. And he did nothing to initiate any conversation.

This had become the norm for the boy. The feeling of complete disappointment radiating off of those around him, aimed at him, it was his life. The disappointed glares and jeer filled remarks from the villagers never really got to little Naruto. He had his loving family and his fun friends who stuck around with him and did their best to help him forget about the glaring eyes constantly trying to bore their way into his gentle mind.

It took Naruto only a moment recognize the street he was on. They had finally made it to his parents home!

Naruto reached forward to let the teacher know, only for her to suddenly dash forward out of his reach and vanishing within the wall of rain.

The boy barely had time to question why his teacher suddenly sprinted away before a gloved hand grabbed him by the wrist. Before he could scream, another gloved hand slammed itself against his mouth, keeping the boy quiet.

Faster than the boy could think, he found his hands and feet bound together and his mouth tapped shut. His attacker was careful to make sure that the boy did not see even the smallest amount of skin, or do anything that give away whoever it was.

Lighting flashed as the boy was tossed over the shoulder of his captor. The clearly large adult carried Naruto far and, with the jumping around and building hopping that they were doing, it was perfectly clear to the boy that it was a ninja that had captured him.

Naruto tried his best to thrash about and wiggle his way free from the mysterious figure's grasp. He had no success.

Naruto's thrashing grew more and more desperate as they neared the village's outer walls and eventually outside of the village itself. Naruto had ever been outside of his home village and was now more terrified than ever.

He was completely vulnerable out here. Being the son of the Hokage made him a prime target for even the smallest of bandits. So, even if he somehow got himself loose and away from the kidnapper, he would still have to find his way back while avoiding nearly anyone he might possibly come across.

Every drop of rain that his his exposed skin stung as he was quickly carried through the village. The flashing lighting and booming thunder were little more than a minor distraction to both him and his captor.

After what felt like an hour of travel, Naruto just stopped struggling. He had worn himself out and had finally come to grasps with the futility of trying to wriggle free.

Night had finally fallen and, coupled with the heavy rain, the world had become pitch black. Naruto could not see what they were traveling past or how far away his home was. He would be completely lost if he somehow managed to get away.

Eventually, the kidnapper came to a halt on the ground in the middle of nowhere. Naruto could only see when lighting stuck; and what it revealed scared him.

The kidnapper had taken Naruto far from Konoha and had brought him to a massive fissure located in the middle of the land's dense forest. Another flash of lightning revealed the walls of the deep crack to be lined with massive stone spikes, clearly created recently by a ninja technique. Why was not clear since there was a very, very low probability that the kidnapper was strong enough to use a technique to make the walls close in.

Regardless, the fissure appeared deep enough that not even the flashes of lightening could illuminate the body. If Naruto fell down there, death would be the only outcome.

Naruto was dropped onto the ground unceremoniously before being dragged over to the very edge of the cliff. The kidnapper finally made a noise; a sigh.

"This ain't your fault kid." The voice belonged to a man who could not be any older than forty. Naruto was never good at guessing ages. "Your dumb daddy should have known better than to stick his nose in other people's business. Getting rid of his kid should send that message loud and clear."

He reached down and grabbed Naruto by his tied ankles with both hands. Naruto tried to kick the man's hands away, but his grip was too strong to shake off.

"I still don't get why the boss wanted you to die like this. A simple knife to the back would have worked just fine."

With a mighty toss, Naruto was hurled through the air over the fissure. His eyes were wide as tears streamed down his rain soaked cheeks; mixing in with the water and making his pathetic expression that much more desperate.

Time slowed as Naruto experienced his first ever moment of weightlessness. He could seethe back of his kidnapper as he walked away, without a care in the world as he hovered over the massive land scar.

That feeling of weightlessness soon passed and was quickly replaced with falling. All the boy could do was give a muffled scream through the binding on his mouth as he fell down the impassible crevice. The sky quickly became a shrinking slit surrounded by darkness and sharp shapes.

This was how he was going to die. Naruto was terrified and begged with all he had towards every deity he knew to save his young soul.

One must have listened, or at least heard a mumble. Since, instead of splattering all over the floor of the massive crack, the back of Naruto's head smashed onto the very corner of one of the stone spikes.

The stone tip broke off and Naruto's world instantly went black. He was unaware of his body slamming into several other stone spikes as it continued downward. He did not know of the many broken bones he now had as his young form finally came crashing down on the soaked stone of the massive cave.

He was not awake to see the pillar that his head had broken held a metal container. He did not see the crack that had formed on said container and was now leaking a black gooey substance. His eyes had closed long before the strange goo slowly traveled down the slick spikes before finally landing on the boy's chest.

Nor was he aware of the goo soaking through his clothes and directly into his skin. He did not even notice the black mess slowly spreading all over every inch of his young body before soaking itself into his flesh.

Naruto had no idea what he had just become.

Time passed. The storm eventually did as well.

The night came and went. The sun did the same.

Three whole days passed by as Naruto's tied up body rested in a heap on the floor of a massive fissure.

Three whole days went by were not a single human soul passed near the area. Where only the sounds of the still dripping water from the spiked wall could be heard echoing throughout the tight rock walls.

The blond boy slowly began to regain consciousness as a particularly bright beam of sunlight had somehow found it's way past every single wall spike, just to land perfectly on Naruto's right eye.

The first thing that hit the boy was the amount of dull pain he was in. Every single inch of his body hurt and felt tired and worn. It was like his very first self-defense class at the academy, which left him nearly prone on the school floor out of sheer exhaustion.

The second, was what sounded like rapid and jittery whispering in his ear. Naruto tried to ignore it and just lay on the cave floor so he would not have to use his aching limbs, but it slowly got louder and louder before suddenly going completely silent.

Naruto waited for a moment to see of the strange noise would return, and after several seconds of waiting, it did not.

'WAKE UP!' A voice screamed loudly, startling Naruto enough to not just wake up up completely, but to force him to sit straight up. He shot his head back and forth trying to find whatever had decided to scream at his sleeping body. But nothing but the near total darkness of the cave could be seen.

With a pained groan, Naruto got to his aching feet and stumbled around for a moment on the slick stone floor before finally steadying himself. He looked back up and could tell that he should have died from the fall. But, here he was, alive and kicking.

Maybe the desperate prayers he had uttered right before his fall had been heard and his life spared. Or maybe he had just gotten really lucky.

Either way, Naruto now needed to focus on trying to get out of the strange cave. He could spend all the time he wanted in figuring out why he had been cast into this chasm after he has escaped from it. If that was even possible.

He reached out in the near darkness for the crossest wall and eventually found it.

The wall was slick from water and it was impossible for Naruto to get a good enough of a grip anywhere. He looked up once again and began to doubt that even if he could find a starting point that he would even have the strength to climb all the way to the top.

That doubt soon turned into a fear that settled at the bottom of the boy's gut. He was miles away from home and possibly any traveled roads. Nobody was going to just wander by and find him here. He had to think of some way of getting himself out.

"Hey!" Naruto cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted up at the entrance to the cave. "Can anyone hear me?! I need help!" He recoiled a bit from the sound of his own voice echoing loudly. That was very strange.

He chose to ignore that strange pain and, with a hand on the cave wall, started to walk forward on the slippery floor in search of a way out.

Naruto walked in the darkness for enough time that the sun had already vanished out of sight. Or, at least in regards to the cave, the sky was till bright and blue.

Naruto finally gave up after a little more time walking. Nothing changed around him. The sliver of sky was still in the same place, the spikes still lined the wall, and the floor was still slick and difficult to walk on.

He might as well have just sat still and done nothing, at least then he wouldn't be as worn out from an unnecessary walk.

Too tired to do much else, Naruto leaned his back against the wet cave wall and slid down into a huddled position. It was colder than he thought. He was also very hungry. Much more so than he had ever been before. The fear of not being found must have distracted him from the growling in his gut up until now.

"What am I going to do?" Naruto groaned while tucking his head into his folded legs. Thought of his parents frantically trying to find him filled his mind. His father, angrily shouting at everyone to search harder. His mother going out in her own for hours and hours looking for her lost child; calling his name and getting no reply. Her angry face marred by dirt and tears.

And it was all his fault. It was because of him that his parents were worried about him. To be honest, a lot of their problems before this were because of him.

Maybe him dying down here was for the best of everyone?

'Someone's close.' That strange voice from before suddenly echoed within Naruto's head. Once again, Naruto looked about within the darkness for any sign of another form of life being near him.

There was none.

"Hello?" He called out cautiously. There was no response besides his own echo.

'Back pocket.' The voice instructed. Now that he was no longer in a straight panic, Naruto could clearly focus on the voice. It was not a voice one would associate with a human, more of that of a demon. Deep and monstrous with a nasty underlying growl. It was simply not a voice that would be good at comforting or keeping anyone calm.

Naruto decided to trust the voice and tried to stand, only for a massive spike of hunger pains to suddenly course through his entire body. It was enough that Naruto had to hold his gut and double over in pain. His forehead was firmly planted on the wet stone floor; the cold being a slight distraction from the pain.

He had to take a few calming breaths before finally reach back towards one of his back pockets and feeling something that he had completely forgotten about. A flare tag.

Of course, Naruto being a kid that just barely entered his teens and had just been kidnapped and tossed down a deep hole in the ground; forgetting something important like that is forgivable.

Naruto's father had given the flare tag to his son in the off chance someone did successfully take him away. Normally, a small amount of chakra was all that was needed to activate the tag. Since the boy was unable to use chakra at all, Minato had to make some work around to make it so that his son could actually use it.

Surprisingly, the rain had not smudged the tag at all and the seal was still present and waiting to be finished. Now all Naruto had to do was complete one tiny little part of the written seal. He had no ink or anything to write with. He frantically looked around for anything that could be used to complete the seal.

But, of course, there was nothing but useless water.

A new panic began to set inside Naruto. He did not have much time before whoever had wandered close would be too far away to see the flare, he had to think of something quick to use to complete the seal.

He ran his hand over the wet wall, hoping he could at least get a smudge of something on his hand. But, no, his hand pulled back nothing but water. He tried the floor.

"Ow!" Naruto helped as he suddenly felt a sharp pain on his thumb and yanked the appendage up to see the damage. There was nothing but the smallest droplet of blood forming on the very tip of his thumb. Strange, there was nothing sharp on the ground before.

Naruto quickly focused back on the task at hand and used the single drop of blood to complete the seal. Instantly, the bottom of the paper tag caught fire and the boy was forced to toss it away just before it suddenly launched itself up and out of the cave. The tag flew higher still until the flame at the bottom reached the very end of the painted seal.

The paper tag hovered in the air for a moment before violently exploding in a bright orange light with an ungodly loud explosion. The echo of the explosion through out the cave suddenly struck Naruto's ears.

The boy instantly threw his hands up to cover his ears as the sudden pain completely overwhelmed the poor and forced him down to his knees. A loud scream of pain tore itself from his throat as he felt like every inch of him was being torn apart. Every part of him was wracked with more pain than he thought a human could physically experience.

He could have sworn that there was a second voice screaming in pain just above him; but the viscous ringing in his ears and the pounding against his skull made it impossible for Naruto to focus on anything else.

Eventually the sound died down and Naruto was able to pick himself up off the wet cave floor. He looked up just in time to see something peeking over the lip of the fissure.

"Hey!" Naruto called out while waving a hand. "Down here! I need some help!" For a moment, Naruto hesitated in his waving. There was a chance that the person who had just found him might belong to one of his father's many, many enemies and would possibly take this opportunity to end him here and now.

Two more unknown figures poked their heads over the edge right as the first started leaping down the side of the cliff. The figure leapt from spike to spike, making their way down; showing that if nothing else, they were a trained shinobi instead of some random civilian.

The person landed in front of Naruto and easily towered over the small boy. The person wore a large tan trench coat as well as one of white animal-themed masks associated with the legendary ANBU; the best of the best that any ninja village had to offer.

The shinobi was clearly female, seeing as she had her breasts on full display, with only the tight fishnet and very edge of her coat blocking Naruto's view of the smallest bit of exposed skin. The woman's hair was a dark purple and was held up in a single spiky ponytail. Naruto could not recognize what animal the face-mask was meant to represent; it just looked like one of the generic ones that they often sold during festivals.

She leaned forward and stared Naruto right in the face. "Oh shit." She breathed before turning her attention upward to her cohorts.

"It's the Hokage's kid!" She shouted, not noticing Naruto quickly covering his ears before the painful echo could harm him. It was still strange how something as minor as an echo seemed to hurt Naruto now.

The lad quickly put his arms down just as the ANBU lady looked back down at him. "Kid, it is your lucky day." She stuck out her ample chest, making it's already impressive size that much more so. "You're gonna' be saved by Konoha's best kunoichi." The woman jabbed a finger to her chest. "Me; the strong and beautiful, Mitarashi Anko."

"Uh." Naruto had no idea how to respond. In fact, his pervy little mind was still trying to will the woman's trench coat to move. He was a budding teenager after all; the desire to see a good set of tits was already implanted within him. Soon, it will develop into a healthy appreciation.

Anko, clearly seeing that the young teen was focused on her fantastic rack could not hold in her laugh. "Like 'em?" She rocked her chest back and forth, nearly letting a good enough view of her nipple slipping out. "You and everyone else kid. Unlike everyone else though, today is the day that you can proclaim that you coped a feel of the dangerous Anko as she saved your scrawny ass."

Without giving the boy time to prepare, Anko swung her arms around the boy and pulled him close. Smashing his face right in between her heavenly breasts. She looked down and chuckled. "Take advantage while you can kid, it's gonna' be a good few years before you're old enough to enjoy the real thing."

Naruto tried to pull his face free, but the woman was much stronger than him and she was holding onto the kid tightly.

"Now hold on. We're heading straight home." She leapt up onto one the nearest wall spikes. "No stops and no slowing down!"

With a speed Naruto could never hope to match, the woman easily jumped from spike to spike. Within less than a minute, the two were out of the cave and were on the move towards their home. Jumping from tree to tree; the woman's arms keeping Naruto in position while also protecting him from in whipping branches.

Anko's cohorts quickly followed without saying a word.

As they traveled, Naruto took a moment to mentally thank that strange monster voice that had helped him back in that cave. Though he did not see whatever the voice belonged to, he wished it well and hoped that maybe he would be able to repay it one day in the future.

Knowing that it was going to take a little while for the group to return to the village, Naruto decided it best to settle in and just enjoy the ride. The very, very comfy ride.

He tried to resist, but he could not fight the instinctive urge to close his eyes and nuzzle further into the busty bosom that felt, just so good. A soft sigh escaped the boy's lips.

'Oh...' Naruto's eyes snapped open. 'That's nice.'