Naruto first gun fight

Naruto had been working at the monkey bar ranch for sometime now for nearly a month and a half and summer was starting in two weeks. He spent his spring afternoon cleaning his horse Rio Rojo, a red coat mare with a horse brush. He was taken to Rio from the moment he laid eyes on her the first day he was at the ranch but she would cost him six months of work on the ranch and has taken plently of chances to ride her. Asuma had told him not to wander far from the ranch as the hoshigaki were known to follow through on their words and kill people they didn't like much.

"She's a real pretty animal ain't she" sakura said, naruto looked over his shoulder and tipped his hat to her then agreed

"My daddy helped brithed her back six years ago" her face became saddened by the thought of him. Naruto could tell from the silenace who she was thinking about

"You want to ride up to the grave and pay our respects?" He asked Sakura about it and then agreed. Sakura and Naruto had become close friends and although they both knew each other were lookers niether of them had feelings for the other one.

Sakura's father was buried two days after his death under a tall pine tree with a dozen other graves of ranch hands and sarutobis who were killed in past years of the ranch.

The pair dismounted and walked over to the fresh grave that still had fresh dirt ontop of it sakura kneeled down and said a silent prayer for her father. Naruto took out the cigerette from behind his ear and took out a match striking off the sole of his roper boots and lit up.

After he took a drag he exhaled and said some words

"Sorry i wasn't around to help you mister Haruno … but you was a good man who left behind good folks and you will be surely missed" said naruto, sakura smiled and thanked him for it she then stood up and said they should head back to the ranch the day was ending naruto agreed and they saddled up and left the graveyard. As they rode up to the bunck houses kakashi walked up to them to tell naruto that yakumo was looking for him just ten minutes ago the young uzumaki thanked him for the knownladge then rode up to the main house and hitched Rio Rojo up to the hitching post outside of the main house after at he walked up to the main house and knocked on the door. Answering his knock was konohamaru naruto mentioned it was real late to still be up it was just about dark but the young sarutobi said he was allowed by his grandfather.

"Well if that's true and the fact that it really none of my buisness i'll move on to why i came by yakumo wanted to see me no more than twelve minutes ago" the uzumaki said, konohamaru nodded and said "of course whiskers come on in i'll go knock on her door for ya" then the sarutobi boy ran up the stairs and turned down the hall naruto stepped in and took of his only hat then after a minute of a wait yakumo appeared at the top of the stairs smiling at naruto

"Howdy you, where you run off to ayways?" she asked naruto told him what him and sakura did that evening

"A damn shame it happened good thing we caught them rustlers Sheriff Yota is gonna hang them tommorow and i'll like you to come with me… no i won't take no for an anwser" she said still smiling.

"Of course i'll come to the hanging with you miss yakumo" naruto told her then he asked if that was the only reason she wanted to see him miuch to his joy it wasn't

"I finnished your painting and I'll love to show it to you, '' she said, now smiling even wider than before. Naruto joked he could see himself when even he looked at his reflections of the horse troath. The last kurama smiled and giggled

"Well come on" yakumo said as she lead the uzumaki up the stairs and to her room near the window stood a five by five foot canvas the painting of was naruto cleaning out his gun sitting under a tree.

"Well if that ain't good i don't know art… not that i'll say i do" remarked naruto making yakumo feel proud of her work she said thank you to him.

"I mean its small but theirs pently of detail… you ought to be vary proud of your talents miss"

"Didn't i told you naruto call me yakumo"

Naruto looked at her and smiled "yeah well yakumo i like to call you miss but if it offends you i'll stick with your name" he said.

Yakumo blushed "you may call me what ever you like i reckon… i just prefer my name i like it when you say my name"

Naruto nodded and soon after he excused himself from her company much as he liked to spend the night talking with her he needed some sleep.

The next day three or two hours away from noon naruto was told to stop working and go see the sarutobi. In fact til he started walking he forgot what yakumo wanted him to do today but once he saw sakura getting on the wagon with her mother naruto remebered today was the day five rustlers will meet god and the devil.

The whiole town gathered to watch those men die, most weren't dry behind the ears beside one who looked forty cursing the town and its inhabitants but most of asuma sarutobi.

"You ain't heard the last of the Frank coles gang you hear me my brother frank will be mad as hell when he hears about this, sheriff you best let me goe cause my brother will burn every town and farm down in seventy miles maybe more over his elder brother i swear"

Cal said that he told him they'll be freed by their boys but yet here they were about to hang.

Naruto noticed a feller standing with a group of men who looked no good staring at asuma. Sakura claimed god will see them spend all einterity in hell for what they done to which the youngest of the lot who looked to be around her age said "shiow me your tits before i go bitch so i can tell your daddy in hell how…" the sheriff had his deputy pull the lever and his sentenace was cut off by his neck snapping but the boys who looked to be up to no good were laughing like young boys.

Naruto felt uneasy as they all walked back to the wagon then the young man from the hanging made a mistake that cost dearly.

"Asuma Sarutobi… i been looking for you for nigh on thirtteen years since you killed my brother back east during the war… make your play you no good bushwacker"

The young man put his hand on his gun but never cleared leather before asuma put two pieces of hot lead into his gut. Soon the sheriff came running with two deputies asking what had happened the young man was alive long enough to confirm what asuma told him.

Cal said "well kid you lived long enough to make a costly mistake uh" a few seconds later the boys eyes lost all light and he stopped breathing.

Naruto had once seen a daul back in kansas before crossing into wyoming in a small town saloon bewteen some passing gunhawk and a kid looking for a reputation one he never found. The uzumaki known that asuma was vary fast that day faster than him or sasuke could be.

Sheriff Cal cleared asuma of the shooting and they started to load up the wagon. On a chance feeling naruto looked up the main drag of the town and saw ten men sitting horse back with weapons drawn one of the deputies went over to speak with them and naruto realized they're was about to be a whole lot of trouble and drew his gun smoking asuma noticed and did the same causing kurenai to ask what was wrong. Asuma never got to tell her before the deputie was shot dead three bullets to his chest then the oputlaws cried out they were of the frank cole gang and started to shoot every which way and anything that moved.

On the other end of konoha asuma got the women and konohamaru into the general store and asked ben to watch for them then he and naruto went out the back yakumo telling them to be careful.

Cal and his deputies emptied three saddles before asuma and naruto came back onto the main drag moments before asuma gave naruto the advice to focus on nothing more than his target. Then asuma stepped out into the streets and shot a man out of his saddle then naruto opened fire on the outlaw next to him hitting him in the guts. Soon the outlaws were out gunned by the towns people after ten minutes of fighting fourteen laid dead every outlaw was laying in the mud of the drag like dead pigs. One deputy was dead another wounded but he'll live three locals were killed after the gunfight started.

The undertaker stepped out of the saloon where he worked as a barber doing graving digging not himself and as a sideline of work for five years he had to work without uchicha's putting a bullet into some fella passing through the town and took up the vancent job left behind by a uchicha. The barber/undertaker looked up and down the main drag and remarked how he seen battlefleilds with less dead on it.

Sheriff Cal walked over to asuma who was standing beside naruto puking his breakfest along the side of the saloon. Cal thought it was funny the boy who walked out beside the best gunfighter in the monatana territoy and looking like he knew what he was doing puked after the fighting stopped.

"Well shit i guess frank coles boys was to late to save his brother figured it was better they shoot up the town than ride back and tell mister Cole at old terry hung from a rope in konoha."

Asuma remarked they won't tell nothing but their names to peter at the gates of heaven to be sent to the gates of hell.

"What would you know about heaven or hell?" cal asked

"Just what i been told… who got shot kirby? Or kiba?"

Cal shaked his head "no Jack Rocker dead by the time he hit the ground i reckon didn't even clear leather."

A boy naruto age ran up to the sheriff then hostered his gun

"That was crazy is every shoot out like that?" he asked the sheriff, Cal shaked his head again

"No kiba we try to keep shooting out of our town"

Kiba then remarked that not a single hoshigaki or their cowboys shot at the attackers and the sheriff nodded his head "reckon they got a reason not to join in on fighting outlaws looking to kill us all… strange thing is they love fighting like folk love their family" cal said then he turned his attention to naruto " you ought to be a lawman kid" the sheriff said

"No thank you i'll stick to ranch hand work instead of getting shot at, one went by my ear and i damn near pissed my self." naruto said and kiba laughed

"Hell that funny i'm real sorry for my rudeness, i'm kiba inuzuka you are?"

Naruto gave his first name then said he didn't like his last.

"Understood anyways good shooting there reckon frank coles boy will think trice before starting truuble in konoha again" kiba said

Yakumo stepped out of the general store and looked up the drag seeing fourteen bodies laying in the mud and horse shit. She didn't spot naruto and that gave her hope only for more worry to come when was he dying or wounded or something. Then yakumo heard the talking from the side of the saloon and went to see who was there til she heard naruto voice then she ran over there wrapping her arms around the blond not caring much if he had vomit on his mouth she was just happy he was alive.

Up in the mountains north of konoha

Frank Cole waited on seeing if his elder brother was going to get out of the dungpile he gotten into it been four hours since he sent them boys to free him ain't one come back. Frank smoked half a ciger wondering if he should ride into town and kill whom ever he finds. Mostly likely in his mind that brian didn't run off with nine other men, in franks mind they all were killed trying to free terry. Part of franks mind told him he should have left terry to die it was his bed he should have slept in it but terry didn't teach frank to leave family behind terry been the father their father was to drunk to be, back in boston that man drank like a fish in a barrel of whisky proably still drinking like that if he wasn't dead by now. Then some cowboys rode up into his camp every one of his twenty men aimed their guns at the fellas riding up to them frank exited his tent and walked over to meet them.

"Your boys made just as much a show as your brothers hanging frank cole" the head of the party of five cowboys said

"Reckon they did, why you come into this den of theives and murderers? You want to make a name for your self then go ahead kill me but my boys will kill you next"

The cowboy shook his head "i'm Hogaki Hoshigaki brother of the famous kisame hoshigaki and i'll like to imploy your skill set… so how about we put down the guns and pick up a bottle and have our self a talk."

Naruto sat under the shade of a tree his day of work now done and passed a cigerette between his lips his hat on his knee thinking about the days events. He ain't been able to get the face of that outlaw out of his mind the boy was a white fellow who seemed maybe six or seventeen he took a bullet into his guts then the outlaw raised his gun and took aim for naruto chest only naruto was fast in earing back the hammer on his six gun and fire a second shoot into his guts again this time he fell off his horse and the shooked animal took off down the drag, taking along with it the ouwlaw by the foot stuck in the saddle.

"You smoke like asuma, and you ain't fifthteen years old yet" sasuke said he was on a black amaircan standard breed stallion named Dragon.

"So how was it" sasuke asked naruto looked up at him dismounting from dragon and asked what he meant.

"I mean killing i hear you killed a outlaw in town like to know how it feels to kill a man."

Naruto took a drag and took out the cigerette from his mouth dropped it on the grass then stomped it out with his boot then smoke releasing the smoke.

"Its hard i still can't get his face out my mind… reckon you'll think of your brothers face long after he's been killed sasuke"

Nodding his head sasuke patted dragon neck "killing folk is hard my father told me that before he was murdered it stays hard but doing it becomes easy"

Naruto shook his head clear to banish the face of the outlaw and nodded then he mounted Rio Rojo and the boys rode back to the ranch.

"So naruto i know you ain't the type to stay and work someones else ranch your whole where are you gonna go after you pay off that horse to the sarutobis?" sasuke asked

Naruto looked over to the last uchicha in the monatana territory and asked what he meant by that he wasn't the type.

"Well i mean you the wandering type the one who lives in the saddle not living on a monatana ranch" sasuke explained

"Maybe thats true or maybe you want me gone so you can ask out yakumo she's real sweet on me ain't she" naruto said

Sasuke nodded his head "true but that ain't why i'm asking you… i want you to ride with me and kill itachi"

Naruto lost the smile on his face and look down on the maine of Rio Rojo.

"I get it…" sasuke said "itachi had a reputation in the west for being quick with a gun but i asking you to face him… at least not alone naruto i want to kill him myself but itachi rides with some thirty men i need help to get him"

Naruto laughed hard nearly falling out the saddle.

"And you think the two of us will take him and his gangmembers alone?" the blond uzumaki asked in a mocking tone

Sasuke shook his head "no but adding one more gun is a start ain't it naruto" he said

Naruto nodded his head in agreement "fair enough i guess but i liked living a little you know"

Sasuke movered over to his left of the trail "well i reckon thats a no and i understand and don't think less of ya"

Naruto thought about it for five minutes "well i just ain't no real gunfighter even through i killed one man it wasn't much help the lawmen and asuma were the real guns in the fight in town.

I reckon we could learn something from him, asuma ought to teach us how to kill, i surpose you already learning from him right" naruto said

"nope self taught" sasuke said at first naruto thought he was a dobe but then he realized he wasn't bragging about it "so he don't teach how to kill on his ranch" uzumaki asked

"No he said he won't teach a boy to get himself killed" naruto pointed out that itachi was younger than you when he started killing even and a year younger than them when he killed the clan.

Sasuke Angerly asked what naruto meant by the statement "you think i don't know this?" sasuke said.

"No sorry sasuke just talking and i talked to far i'm sorry okay"

"Hmp... water under the bridge now let's get back to the ranch before kakashi sends out those dogs looking for us" Sasuke said as he kicked up his horses speed.