Disclaimer; Still don't own Naruto or anything else mentioned in this story. There will be absolutely no illegal street racing in this story, no legal street racing either.

A different fox tale

Chapter 6

First missions and bloodline revealed

The next morning team seven approached the Hokage to receive their first mission, he smiled and handed the scroll to Kakashi, he read it and handed it to Sasuke, his eye twitched twice, he handed it to Sakura, she growled in irritation and handed it to Naruto who read the scroll.

"What the hell kinda mission is this?" Naruto asked calmly, he didn't look very happy.

The Hokage sighed, "Genins like you three have to start with D rank missions, which are those kinds of missions" Naruto just glared and muttered "whatever…"

Their first mission was to catch a runaway cat named Tora, "this is a simple search and capture mission, to start we'll spread…" he was interrupted when a Naruto ran from the woods carrying a large sack, a large moving sack, he glanced at the Naruto in front of him who just grinned back. The clone ran up to them and handed the sack to Kakashi, he peeked inside…

"Well, mission complete, good work Naruto" Sasuke and Sakura glared at Naruto "lets go back and report then"

Several minutes later they where standing before the Hokage again, the old man glanced at them and sighed, "is something wrong?" Kakashi just held the struggling sack in front of him "mission completed" The Hokage looked surprised "already? Well then your next mission will be…" he trailed off and began looking through scrolls "there are no more D rank missions for today, you can have the rest of the day off"

Naruto glared at him, "what about C rank missions?" the Hokage stared for a moment "no, your not ready" Naruto glared even more "Hey I'm not the trouble making kid I used to be you know!" the old man thought for a moment then smiled and calmly said "OK"

He handed a scroll with a green C rank seal on it to Kakashi before stating "You may enter now Tazuna-san" a door to the side of the room slid open revealing a middle aged man with a dark tan and a bottle of sake in his hand "hey, who are these brats, are they even really ninjas? And what's with that stupid lookin midget?"

Naruto glanced at Sasuke and Sakura to see which he was talking about, he realized they where both taller then him, he glared at Tazuna 'Oh he's gonna pay for that…' Naruto thought, "Well, lets get started then shall we?" Kakashi interrupted before their client insulted the rest of the team, "you three go home and pack a few days worth of clothes, your weapons, and tell your family's that you'll be leaving the village for a mission, we'll meet at the main gates in one hour"

Sasuke and Sakura both left in a hurry to pack and see their parents, Naruto just glared at everybody then walked out, when he arrived at his apartment he was surprised to find Itachi sitting on the lump he called a couch. "Itachi-kun, what are you doing here?" Itachi looked at him and offered a stick of chocolate pocky which Naruto happily accepted "I heard you had a mission outside the village" Naruto's eyes widened in shock "I am ANBU captain for reason you know" Itachi answered the unasked question with a small smile.

"You should pack lightly, you remember how far away Wave country is" he shoved several weapons and a couple boxes of pocky into Naruto's pack "shouldn't you be meeting your team soon?" Naruto grabbed his backpack and slipped it over his shoulder, Itachi smirked "I bet I can get there faster" Naruto grinned, "what's the bet?" the dark haired teen thought for a moment "the loser has to buy the winner ramen for a week" they glanced at each other, then both dashed toward the small window, Naruto made it out first because he was closer but Itachi caught up to him at the roof of the neighboring building, then they both went leaping from roof to roof toward the main gate…

Meanwhile at the main gate, Kakashi Sasuke and Sakura sat waiting with Tazuna "He's late" Sasuke complained, "actually it's only been fifty-eight minutes" Kakashi stated, a few seconds later a dark haired teen landed next to them, he just stood calmly "big brother? You came to see me before I left?" Sasuke said happily, Itachi just glanced at him "actually I'm racing a friend, he lost" as he said that Naruto landed next to him breathing hard, as if he had just ran across the village, which he had. He glared at Itachi "fine, fine you win"

Sasuke glared at Naruto, "I thought you said you where racing a friend" Itachi glanced at him again "I was, and I won" Naruto glared "Rub it in why don't cha!" Itachi shrugged "Ok, I won" the blonde boy growled in irritation "Aww, screw you!" then to Sasuke's surprise, instead of impaling the blond genin, Itachi laughed. It wasn't the kind where you have to hold your ribs because they hurt from laughing so hard, to anybody else it would be little more then a chuckle, but for Itachi it was laughing, which Sasuke thought was the only thing his brother couldn't do.

"Oh and Naruto-kun" Itachi began, then poked Naruto in the forehead, Sasuke glared at Naruto hatefully "remember, if you get caught in a difficult situation, don't hesitate to use, 'IT'" Naruto just nodded. Itachi turned and began walking away "be seeing you Naruto-kun" then he disappeared in a puff of smoke, Sasuke kept glaring at the blond boy "how the hell do you know my brother? And what the hell is IT?" he shouted, Naruto, and everybody glanced at the Uchiha heir, they had never heard him yell before, "I met him two years ago, been friends ever since, and IT is my bloodline, which is none of your business"

This statement caused several different reactions, Sasuke glared even more hatefully, Sakura glared at him, because Sasuke was, Inner-Sakura was still drooling after seeing Itachi, Kakashi was trying to figure out what Naruto's bloodline was, partly by analyzing the bell test in his mind, and Tazuna was trying his best to ignore them all.

"Well" Kakashi broke the uncomfortable silence "let's get going shall we?" and with that they where off, through the main gates of Konohagakure, Sasuke still glaring at Naruto. "Wow, I'm so excited" Sakura exclaimed, Tazuna glanced at her "what's so exciting about this?" She blushed "well, Iv never been outside of the village before"

Tazuna sighed "great, I'm stuck with midgets and…" he trailed off, after seeing Naruto from a different angle he was sure he had seen the boy before "hey" he tapped Naruto's shoulder, the blond just glanced back at the older man to show he was listening then looked ahead again, everybody else was also interested in hearing what the man had to say "haven't I seen you before, at a ramen bar in wave country I think, about a year ago" Naruto just shrugged "you where with another boy, looked a couple years older then you, had a gray fox mask with red whisker marks"

Naruto looked thoughtful for a few seconds "oh yeah, I remember that, the ramen sucked" he stated calmly, as if his being in wave country was perfectly normal "Naruto" Kakashi started "why where you in wave country?" Naruto sighed "well, it's kinda a long story, first I wake up an start heading toward the academy for the graduation exam, then next thing I know I'm being dragged off by Itachi-kun…" 'Itachi-KUN! Who does he think he is, I'm gonna kill him…' Sasuke thought "…an he's telling me I'm going on a mission in Mist country with him…" 'I will make him suffer…" Sasuke thought viciously.

Kakashi shot him a disbelieving look "what?" Naruto asked defensively "its not like I was fighting or anything, he brought me with him because he wanted me to see what real combat looks like, he said it was so I wouldn't freeze up the first time I got in a real fight" Kakashi nodded "I see, so you took the slightly longer route through Wave country so you could be at the Icha Icha Paradise book signing at that pocky festival" he stated as if there could be no other truth "well, actually, we went for the pocky festival" the Jounin just patted Naruto on the head, winked at him and said "sure you did…"

After that they walked in silence, Naruto glared at Kakashi for a bit, but it got boring so he reached into his hip pouch and pulled out a small book, it was black and blue with silver writing diagonally across the cover, he began reading near the center of the book, after a few seconds he chuckled, then read some more, and chuckled a bit more, Sakura glared at him coldly and muttered "pervert" by then Kakashi had also held a book, an orange book, every few seconds he would giggle perversely and blush, though the blushing couldn't really be seen.

The walked peacefully and enjoyed the nice warm sunny day, the weather had been almost perfect for nearly a week now, sunny and warm with a nice breeze that kept it from getting hot, it all seemed so pleasant, even the small puddles of water they walked past, they seemed like nice puddles, completely harmless…

Nobody seemed to notice the two ninja's rising from the seemingly harmless puddles, they wore all black and each had a metal gauntlet on one arm which was connected to the other with a deadly looking bladed chain, they rushed forward in unison and in the blink of an eye had the chain wrapped around Kakashi "one down" they both muttered and the poor perverted Jounin was torn apart in a bloody display that would leave most Chuunin sick.

A second later they where charging at Naruto then hesitated for a fraction of a second, they couldn't be seeing what they thought they where, all the people that had that bloodline had black hair and black eyes, it was even rumored that the hair and eye color was part of the bloodline, it was obviously an illusion.

The very thought of a blond haired blue eyed member of that clan was laughable, they continued there charge, the hesitation wasn't even noticeable. The chain wrapped around the blond genin and was pulled tight leaving another horrible bloody mess, they felt pleased with themselves, Sakura passed out and Sasuke could only watch in horror as his teammate and Jounin instructor where murdered, he wanted to attack, to help his teammate even though he hated the blond boy, but his body just wouldn't listen.

The demon brothers where satisfied that they had put down the pathetic imposter who was using such a lame illusion to intimidate them, then they charged at Tazuna, they where sure their mission would be successful and without further problems, and they where proven wrong when they suddenly slammed into each other. They where stuck together, tied together actually, in exactly the same way they would have wrapped there chain around somebody, they looked to one side and saw the boy they had just killed holding an end of the rope, they looked the other way, there was the boy they just saw, who they had killed not a minute before, the blond was proving to be very much alive, and the blood-red eyes with the two spinning dots where also proven to be real as he had obviously copied there attack.

A/N

1

The book Naruto was reading was NOT perverted; I was describing a copy of "The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" by Douglas Adams

2

I did not make Sasuke freeze up during the attack because I don't like him. Because Itachi didn't slaughter the clan Sasuke wasn't forced to watch his parents murdered repeatedly and had never been in a real fight so he panicked, Naruto didn't panic because he had seen Itachi fight before.