Chapter 8.
N/a: this is my first story; I hope you like it. I invite you to leave your reviews all are welcome.
The Hokage was approaching the council meeting room. Near the double doors were two ANBU protecting them. Bowing to their Kage they proceeded to open these doors. Upon entering the hall, I look to his right to find the heads of the Konoha clans that made up the shinobi council and to the left were a few important civilians who made up the civil council.
Near the shinobi council were seated three people. These were Mitokado Homura, Utatane Koharu and Shimura Danzo. They were his old teammates in his Gennin days and were currently his advisors.
Taking a seat at the small table in front of the council. "Good day everyone. Now could you know why the council was convened? " I ask the Hokage with the clear boredom in his voice. I had been dealing with the damn paperwork and didn't feel like a meeting right now.
"yes, Hokage-sama" started a merchant of the civil council as he stood up "we heard something that has us worried, the brats demo... I mean, Uzumaki Naruto and Uzumaki Hinata were allowed to graduate from the academy. We can't allow them to become shinobi, they are too dangerous for the village."
Sarutobi could only sigh, he knew that this day would come "you are right, Naruto and Hinata are dangerous" this comment brought several reactions to the advice, the shinobi were surprised that Hiruzen even said that, it was well known how close he was to the two Jinchurikis. On the other hand, the civil council had smiles on their faces believing that Hokage would finally see the brats for what they really are, demons that must be stopped. But before any of them can say anything, Sarutobi continued to speak. "really dangerous for the enemies of our village, just a few hours ago they proved to be loyal to Konoha, not only that they managed to graduate as the rookies of the year"
"they are clearly demons, they stole the titles of Uchiha-sama and my daughter" shouted a Banshee, making everyone tremble from his high-pitched voice and some of the clan chiefs wonder if it was some kind of new bloodline that had to do with sound.
Releasing a bit of murderous instinct and giving it a hard look the Hokage spoke "you must choose your civil word better, my law is still in force and I can enforce it at this moment"
"but Hokage-sama, they cannot be allowed to be close to the heirs of the clans, they could hurt them" this time a fat merchant said, while the shinobi council only rolled their eyes at the stupidity said by the civilian.
"it's enough" the voice of the Sarutobi burst on the walls of the council with a tone that showed how serious it was "many of you civilians do not know what those demons as they call them did to keep the village safe today" he said winning confused glances from everyone "today the master of the academy, Mizuki, managed to enter the vault of Hokage and steal the parchment of forbidden seals. He was intercepted by Umino Iruka and later clashed in combat. Without the timely intervention of Naruto and Hinata at this time Iruka would be dead and Mizuki would have escaped with the scroll. It was thanks to Hinata curing Iruka and joining Naruto to give the final blow that they stopped Mizuki until the arrival of the ANBU" the Hokage concluded and everyone gasped at the news, after all it was not an everyday thing that two students just out of the academy defeated an experienced Chunin.
"Hokage-sama sees it, they are becoming too dangerous, we must kill them now to prevent them from gaining more power and attacking us" the fat merchant screaming trying to reason with Hokage.
"it seems that they have forgotten that this is a shinobi village and I am the Hokage, I am the one who commands my forces and my word is law, remember it well. This meeting is over," Sarutobi said, holding his siens. "I'm too old for this shit, "I thought as he watched everyone leave the room.
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A week had passed since the graduation of the academy, it passed without many incidents apart from one or another Chunin or civilian who believed that they could enter his apartment and have fun teaching the demons what his place was. Needless to say, the security seals did more than prevent them from entering and some were still being treated in the hospital for burns.
For the past week they had been investigating what the Jounin might be and which of their classmates might be part of their team. In the end they came to the conclusion that they would most likely form a two-member team for lack of graduate students rather than making a larger Genin cell.
With the last week now finished we find Hinata and Naruto finishing their breakfast.
"these lists, Hime? " Naruto asked receiving a nod as an answer. With everything ready the two disappeared into their respective Shunshin in the direction of the academy. Arriving at the front of the academy attracted glances the people who left their children, heading to his classroom they found him full of his classmates and friends, however, Iruka-sensei was not yet there.
As they climbed the stairs of the hall to reach the back row they were greeted by the angry look of an Uchiha sasuke. Hinata had followed the path while Naruto stayed behind sharing a duel of glances with the "member of his clan" so to speak, said contest of looks was quickly broken by sasuke deciding that it was enough and return to his melancholic self.
Going upstairs he encountered another problem in the form of Inuzuka Kiba.
"hey, Hinata-chan how are you? " I ask the Inuzuka trying to sound charming and moving to take a seat next to Hinata.
"I'm fine Kiba-san, I hope you're not thinking about taking that particular seat, it's reserved for Naruto-kun" was her reply.
"Oh come on, Hinata-chan, you know I'm much better than him, damn, I'm the best of everyone here in Konoha, I'm an alpha," Kiba said as he took the seat and approached Hinata in a 'seductive' way. The Inuzuka clan had a high pride and in the case of men a high 'masculinity'.
"I think I have made it clear on multiple occasions that I am not interested in you Kiba-san" was the response of the Uzumaki girl as she stopped and not very gently pushed Kiba's approach away.
Deciding that he had already seen a lot, Naruto made Kiba notice his presence. "you should stop flirting with my girlfriend Kiba" while saying this put a hand on the dog boy's shoulder and squeezed hard gaining a growl from the boy as he proceeded to lift him from the seat and take the place.
Deciding to rub salt on the Wounded Ego of the Inuzuka. Naruto approached Hinata and gave her a kiss on the lips and if the Inuzuka's angry face was a hint, his idea worked.
"Get away from her" Kiba screamed, gathering the attention of everyone who watched as our Uzumaki couple stopped their kiss and cast annoying glances at Kiba for ruining the moment.
"Kiba-san, Naruto-kun and I are dating and I would appreciate you stopping trying to convince me to go out with you," Hinata said as she launched her killer instinct by making Kiba and the other members of the hall sweat, (even sasuke, though she would never admit it to anyone) and a unanimous thought crossed their minds, the shy Uzumaki Hinata was gone.
Kiba deciding to leave things like that for the moment took a different seat while muttering about red-haired idiots standing between him and his girl. It would be several minutes until the door of the living room opened and Iruka entered with a stack of papers.
"Good morning, class," Iruka said, "as of today you are all leaf ninja, but remember that you are only Gennin. The difficult part begins now, they will be divided into teams of three members and assigned a Jounin sensei." I inform Iruka to her unusually silent students.
"Team 1..."
"Team 7: Uchiha sasuke, Haruno sakura, Sai," Iruka said. In the back of the room Naruto and Hinata were listening to see if their assumptions about team building would be correct and so far their predictions had been correct.
"Team 8: Inuzuka Kiba, Aburame Shino, Kurama Yakumo," Iruka said before being interrupted before he could report on the next team.
"Iruka-sensei who is Yakumo? I don't remember anyone from the Kurama clan in our group" Kiba asked after all how could someone who was not in his class, be a member of his team?
"Kurama Yakumo has been under the care of the Jounin who will take care of his team. From what I have been informed the young woman had problems with her bloodline which is very rare even within her clan, this problem affected her health preventing her from attending the academy, the Jounin in charge of her I instruct her to keep her at the level that the academy would ask her if she wanted to graduate and with her bloodline and health problem resolved she was able to take a graduation exam on the day of yesterday to become Gennin. They will be able to meet her when she comes with her sensei to pick them up," Iruka explained to her student who nodded in response to what was said by her instructor at the academy.
"Team 9 is still in circulation. Team 10: Nara Shikamaru, Yamanaka Ino, Akimichi Chouji."
"Finally, team 11 will be made up of two people until Hokage assigns them a new member. Uzumaki Naruto and Uzumaki Hinata you are part of this team, likewise Hokage has asked me to inform you that you must report to your office."
"I will leave now his senseis will be here shortly, again a lot of luck in their careers," Iruka concluded as he left the room.
"We shouldn't make the old man wait," Naruto said before being surrounded by a lightning tornado and subsequently disappearing from the room. Hinata only sighs "and says she doesn't like to attract attention" said before she was also surrounded by a tornado, but instead of lightning, it was water that surrounded her figure.
The silence that accompanied the departure of the young couple was broken by the voice of a man in traditional Jounin clothes. He was a man with pointed hair, brown eyes and a beard. It has a ribbon of the twelve ninja guardians with the kanji 'fire'. This person was Sarutobi assume.
"It is rare to see Gennin who know the Shunshin and much more when they are recent graduates" it was the comment made by said Jounin that drew everyone from his thoughts.
"But they were elemental Shunshin, something that is much rarer even among the Jounin" this time was the voice of a beautiful woman. She has black hair at shoulder height and beautiful red eyes. Her outfit consisted of a red mesh blouse with only the right sleeve visible on a bandage-like material with a pattern similar to rose thorns, her hands and upper legs were also wrapped by such bandages. This person was Yuhi Kunerai.
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Sarutobi was signing his endless paperwork when he felt two large chakra signatures approach his office, recognizing these signatures he made a gentleman for his Abu to leave the office, a couple of seconds later his most recent students and grandchildren in everything but blood made an appearance in their respective Shunshin.
"Hokage-Jiji" greeted the newcomers in unison.
Sarutobi greeted them with a nod and a smile that adorned his face, "Naruto-kun, Hinata-chan is good to see you, I must assume that Iruka has informed every one of their respective teams"
"Yes, although I wonder if we will do D-rank missions, will we be assigned a Jounin sensei or will we work together as independent 'Gennin'?" Naruto asked.
"With respect to the d-rank missions, they will be accompanying the teams that pass the tests of their respective Jounin sensei to carry out these missions. When they finish performing the minimum d-rank (15 missions) required for them to be assigned a higher-level mission, they will return to their normal mission pace" was Sarutobi's response, gaining two nods of understanding. If two recently graduated 'Gennin' are sent on their first mission to a C rank or higher, no matter if these are the rookies and Kunoichi of the year, it would be frowned upon.
"The Jounin should finish testing the Gennin within two days, by then they will be informed to start performing the missions. Without further ate, they can go to rest and wait for the call in the coming days," Hiruzen said.
"We understand, see you Hokage-Jiji," Hinata said goodbye as she left.
"Has the paperwork doubled while we were talking?" Naruto asked as he looked suspiciously at the pile of papers that threatened us to fall apart "it doesn't matter, enjoy the old paperwork, see you" was his quick farewell as he prepared to go after Hinata.
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It had been 1 month in which our young Uzumaki couple had entered a routine, in the mornings they would train with one of the Gennin teams and in the afternoons they would perform missions, if the team they were assigned to that day did not perform missions, they would simply spend time together, after all if the war broke out they would have less time for them.
During this month Naruto's patience was reaching its limit (even Hinata was starting to get upset). As much as he loved spending free time with his Hime, he couldn't deny that the d-rank missions are bothering him, even more so when Hiruzen handed them the missions with a mocking smile and said they should enjoy the wonders that D-ranks bring.
This whole situation brings us to this moment, in front of the Hokage desk computers 7, 8. 10, 11 were waiting for their mission.
"Kakashi" began to say Hiruzen "Naruto and Hinata will accompany your team on your next D-rank mission. You and your team will be assigned to-"
"Hokage-sensei" interrupted Hinata, confusing those present (say all but Naruto, Hiruzen) about the title of 'sensei' added to their position. "I don't want to disrespect him, but during this past month Naruto-kun and I have completed the required minimum of d ranks by partnering with the other teams to request a higher-ranking mission."
"True, but these missions were supposed to strengthen and teach both of you to work better with the other teams, just as I would teach them to work with you and learn the value of teamwork along with running planning trainings," Sarutobi explained.
A glitter of understanding became visible in the eyes of the Uzumaki when a little guilt appeared on the face of his grandfather figure, Hiruzen always told them to form more bonds with people their age, although he himself sent them on missions that kept them out of the village for a while on multiple occasions. it was at the same insistence of them in wanting to defend the village with the power they wielded in their young bodies.
"Hokage-sensei" spoke Naruto, again gaining faces confused by the title given to their leader and why he did not correct it "it is true that the values of teamwork and formation of plans to carry out the objectives in environments where the life of the Gennin is not in danger are important. I personally speak for both of us," Naruto said, making a slight gentleman for Hinata that did not go unnoticed by anyone, when he said that, with the village at the gates of a new war against three nations, our skills are not well harnessed."
Sighing at having no way to deny naruto's saying, Sarutobi leaned into his seat to seek a mission that was to be assigned to a squad (four members) of Jounin that same afternoon.
"Team 11" said Sarutobi while throwing a scroll to Hinata who began to read it before passing it to Naruto "you will go to Tetsu no kumi and deliver a scroll to the leader of Tetsu no kumi Mifune" at the end he saw how Naruto held the scroll that should be delivered to Mifune.
Tetsu no kumi (iron land), is an icy and snow-covered country that lies between the three mountains called the three wolves. Despite the various wars that took place between the five great nations, Tetsu no kumi has never been involved in any of them politically. In fact, shinobi have a long-standing rule that they don't meddle in samurai affairs. That is the unusual aspect of Tetsu no kumi. Samurai have resided and ruled Tetsu no kumi for centuries. Even though the earth has no ninjas, they have a formidable line of defense of skilled and experienced samurai who protect the earth. The land of iron is known for its prowess in making weapons, especially swords, and for producing incredible kenjutsu users. After the third shinobi war ended, Konoha had approached Tetsu no kumi with a deal on arms shipments every three months to his village. Since then, Konoha would send ninjas to Tetsu no kumi to meet with their leader, Mifune.
"Hokage-sama" Kakashi who had been silent like the other Jounin senseis and his Gennin, decided to bring some light on the scare. "While Naruto and Hinata have proven to be strong in their training, I don't think they are ready for this mission, with iwa, Kumo and this Oto village that we don't know much about. This mission could easily be converted from high rank c which clearly is to a rank to easily" he said, gaining a confirmation nod from the other Jounin who clearly agreed with Kakashi's saying.
Hiruzen only gave them a smile as if he knew something that they did not "that's why this mission is suitable for them" this clearly confused everyone and anger sasuke who was throwing hateful looks at the Uzumaki since he began to assign them the mission, said look did not go unnoticed by the Jounin, the Kage, the receivers of this gaze.
"Naruto and Hinata have the necessary skills to perform such a mission. I think all their teams have missions to perform, they are fired," said Hiruzen, more serious implying that she would not give explanations about her actions.
When everything was going out Hiruzen called his young students, once alone in the office Hiruzen spoke again "you must be attentive at all times, Jiraiya has given us disturbing news. Iwa, Kumo and Oto nin have begun to see each other near the borders of the land of birds and Takigakure, the latter has asked for help to reinforce their borders, but we believe it is only a matter of time before they make their move."
"We understand Hokage-Jiji" were the calm words of his students, but if you looked into his eyes, you could see the sharingan and byakugan giving a cold look that would send chills down anyone's back.
Saying goodbye to his students, Hiruzen got up to see the village from the sale of his office. 'no matter the moment the war always finds a way to get there' coming out of his thinking Hiruzen took his seat and continued with his paperwork as he began to murmur curses about his most fearsome opponent.
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It had been more than a day since Naruto and Hinata headed towards the western border of hi no kumi, that border connected with a country if name where Amegakure resided. They had set a relaxed pace to observe everything around them, after all if Konoha's enemies were on the move again, what prevented other nations from entering the game of 'we are enemies of Konoha'?
They were currently outside a ten-mile radius around Amegakure no Sato. The destroyed land, scattered kunai, shuriken, katanas, shinobi diadems, corpses that by their appearance have been in that place for years was the vision that received them as they passed a few miles from the village.
It should be said that the young people were horrified when their eyes scanned the earth around them. Even though they had heard stories of sarutobi's great shinobi wars without telling that they themselves had already claimed the lives of hundreds of shinobi in their previous missions, seeing so much death and destruction was appalling to them. They believed that they understood a little about the meaning of death, after all their births triggered events that led to the death of their parents, in Naruto's case she lost both of her parents on the same day and Hinata would lose her mother and father only a few years later because of events that happened that same day.
All that added to their encounters with the Kumo and iwa nin they faced, but the feeling of sadness, pain and anger that were emerging in their hearts at that time was greater than what they had felt before and as if to demonstrate it their Dojutsus were activated before giving way to the Rinnegan and Tenseigan at their best.
The nine tomes that adorned Naruto's Rinnegan and the bluish flower of Hinata's Tenseigan waved as if a stream of air impacted her, they shone when her eyes had been fixed on the mutilated bodies of children, they did not seem to be more than 10 to 13 years old along with the other bodies that abounded the grounds they were passing through.
At that time similar thoughts were going through the minds of the young Konoha nin, why iwa, Kumo hate Konoha so much? don't they understand that a war would cause more unnecessary deaths than the conflicts they themselves are already causing? can't they understand that Konoha killed his shinobi to protect the innocents of his own village? enough to instigate the fourth shinobi war?
"Kitten, you haven't seen the horrors of war... and when you see them, you wish you were not alive to witness them again. When a war starts, the reasons behind them are never sensible or logical," Matatabi said, in Naruto's mind the words spoken by Kurama were similar to that of his fellow bijuu. It was true that they had not experienced the horrors of war, but they knew that, with the current course of the elemental nations, a fourth shinobi war was inevitable. If you asked them they wouldn't deny being nervous, but they weren't scared. They had already killed hundreds for protecting their home and the people close to them who live there, and they would do it again.
'If we want a world of peace, first we must put an end to those who dared to generate senseless wars' was the thought that passed through their heads and seeing themselves in the eyes with the Rinnegan and Tenseigan still active the two knew that their thoughts were identical. Turning their gaze to the front, they accelerated to reach their destination.
It had been just over two days since they had left the battlefield where the two previous wars clashed, a day after leaving the place they had crossed the border of the land of birds and the barren land that followed with relative ease. As attributed by the report that Jiraiya gave to Hokage the southern borders of Tsuchi no Kuni were heavily guarded by Iwa nin, but Naruto and Hinata were able to easily evade them.
Currently, members of Team 11 were traveling through the snowy lands of Tetsu no Kuni. The weather was extremely windy with over twenty centimeters of snow in its vicinity. They had passed Sanro Mountain (Tress Lobos) a couple of hours ago and could vaguely see the village a mile ahead of them.
"It's colder than I expected" Naruto complained as he rubbed his shoulders and shuddered a little.
"I thought you'd be fine in the cold weather..." Hinata started in a very good mood, and then started laughing when he saw Naruto's shoulders fall when he heard that comment. Within their minds Kurama and Matatabi laughed at naruto's defeated behavior.
"Just hold on a little longer. We should be at the entrance of the village in about five minutes. Handing over the parchment and exchanging weapons and money will not take much time. Once done we can leave Tetsu no Kuni as soon as possible," Hinata said patiently. I could already see in the distance multiple guards standing before the large metal doors.
"Good, Good!" Naruto responded quite impatiently.
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Gisei and Haru were currently on duty outside the village gates along with eight more samurai who were standing on the wall surrounding the village. Unlike the shinobi village system, the samurai village kept a group of its best samurai stationed near the gate as the first line of defense. They all wore armor of segmented, heavy plates that covered the shoulder, chest, stomach, and lower back, upper back, lower side, and thighs. They also wore gauntlets, shin guards and helmets. The mask they wore had built-in radios that also acted as a respirator to combat the poison used by the shinobi.
Gisei and Haru, who were more experienced than the others, stood at the gates to assess any anomalies and take command if necessary. These were not peaceful times and no shinobi village normally entered Tetsu no Kuni unsuscisedly, the samurai took all assigned tasks seriously. Both Gisei and Haru tensed slightly and moved their hands slowly towards their katana stored in their sheath when they saw the silhouette of six people approaching them. The samurai who were high on the walls also became cautious to see the movements of their commander. However, Gisei, the eldest of the samurai on duty, relaxed a little to recognize Konoha nin's headband, they had been informed that Konoha ninjas would arrive, but still kept his guard.
"Calm down a little, Konoha nin was expected to arrive today, however, stay tuned," Gisei said in her usual deep voice. He narrowed his eyes slightly seeing that only two ninjas instead of the squad that was reported would arrive.
A few more minutes passed, as the duo traveling from Konoha approached the village gates. Gisei asked the other samurai to stay in their places while he and Haru came forward to confront them.
"You can stop there is Konoha nin, what is the reason for his arrival?" Gisei declared
"Samurai-san, Hokage-sama asked us to hand over this scroll to Mifune-sama, we are also here to carry out the exchange of weapons and money the corresponding money" Hinata spoke with her most formal voice that she could gather. While saying this I show the parchment to Gisei who inspected it.
"Haru, hand this over to Mifune-sama and tell him that Konoha's ninjas are here, pick up the weapon shipment and bring them here, don't forget to ask him if he can come here." Gisei said, handing the scroll to Haru who immediately took off inside the village to the larger building where Mifune was staying.
"I was wondering..." Naruto began looking at the samurai in front of him, said samurai understood the unassessed question "Gisei, shinobi-san".
"Gisei-san was asking me, aren't we allowed to enter the village? I thought the exchange would take place in Mifune-sama's office" Naruto asked his question curiously.
"It's you..." Gisei began in the same way that Naruto asks the unsathed question.
"Excuse our manners. We are Uzumaki Hinata," said the aforementioned " and my partner is Uzumaki Naruto. A Taste Gisei-san"
Nodding in recognition Gisei set out to answer Naruto's question "Young Uzumaki-san, our village is one made up solely of samurai and since the beginning of our village we have the rule of not allowing the entry of foreigners. We are a very private village and we would like to stay that way. It's not that we don't allow Shinobi into our village at any time. But, if it is not necessary for us to invite you in, we will not allow your access as in this case," said the samurai kindly seeing the contemplative faces of the young people.
"I hope I didn't make them wait too long?" asked Mifune as she walked out of the village gates with a scroll in her hands along with Haru by her side. All the business affairs of the village were personally taken care of by Mifune. Therefore, he always made sure to be present when his people made some kind of contact or some trade with others.
Mifune has long gray hair, which reaches up to her waist. He has bandages wrapped around his head, to cover the wound he received in a past battle. He has black eyes with distinct wrinkles underneath them and a gray goat beard and mustache. She currently wears a simple purple kimono with dark brown sandals.
"Mifune-sama" said respectfully the Konoha nin and the samurai who was with them.
Receiving a slight gesture from Mifune to continue. "Mifune-sama, are the weapons that were ordered ready?" asked Naruto, wanting to finish the task as soon as possible. The weather was already cold enough for him and he could swear that the cold was only increasing.
Mifune, Hinata and the samurai noticed Naruto's shudders and smiled to Naruto's great embarrassment. "Is that all Konoha requires from now on?" asked Mifune as she pulled five scrolls from a bag she was carrying, handed them to the red movie that I quickly put away.
"Hai, that will be it. Konoha thanks him again for doing business with us" Hinata said with a polite bow that Naruto emulated by her side.
"It's no problem," Mifune replied. After saying goodbye, team 11 turned around and left Tetsu no Kuni. The other samurai bowed once again to their leader as he returned to the village with Gisei by his side.
"They were more weapons than usual, are the rumors true?" asked Gisei as they made their way to Mifune's office.
"In fact. The rumors about the tensions of the other villages are very true," Mifune said in a whisper.
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Naruto and Hinata were running in the direction of the Tetsu no Kuni border. While doing this they were running Hinata decided to start a conversation "Naruto-kun Shouldn't you inform Jiji about the mission while we guard the borders on the way home, it may take us longer to return and we must hand over the weapons?"
"It would be the best course of action," Naruto said stopping and creating a Kage Bunshin. You know what you have to do, inform Jiji, and hand them the scrolls with the weapons." With his orders the clone active the Rinnegan and used the Yomotsu Hirasaka to go directly to Hiruzen's office.
When the clone left, Naruto looked at Hinata only to find the latter watching intently. "What's going on Hime?"
"Naruto-kun, if you didn't hand over the scrolls to your clone, how do you expect him to deliver them to Jiji?"
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"Give me the Naruto-kun scrolls"
After handing over the scrolls to Hinata and having Hinata create a shadow clone to carry through the Yomotsu Hirasaka, the young couple resumed their journey to Konoha.
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One day had passed since they left the borders of Tetsu no Kuni, they were currently found through the forests of Tori no Kuni (Land of birds). Despite being a bright day, the dense forests prevented much of the sunlight from falling on the ground and made the road they were traveling comparatively darker.
As they jumped from tree to tree, the eyes of the young men narrowed as they felt twenty chakra signatures surrounding them from both sides. Among the chakra signatures one stood out above the others, their chakra levels were close to those of Kage level, but the rest were Jounin levels or slightly higher than that level. Making gestures to Hinata about ignoring them and moving forward unless they attacked them. However, when they were about to step on the next branch, several kunai rained down on them from different directions. They immediately jumped out of their positions and landed on the ground safely.
The kunai that were thrown collided with each other and the labels attached to them exploded causing a larger explosion than they had anticipated.
"They were not ordinary labels," Hinata thought.
"I was hoping they would let us through without a fight. Well, you don't always get what you want," Naruto said as he looked at the branches of the trees where he could feel the chakra signatures.
A few seconds later, a group of twenty Shinobi surrounded them from the trees. Each with the Iwagakure head protector and a light brown tactical vest.
"Look we have here, two little Konoha nin who think they can prowl our borders," said the shinobi Iwa who has the levels close to a Kage, clearly he was the leader of the group.
On the forest floor Hinata stares at him expressionlessly "Is it the best excuse you have to justify attacking us? " This seemed to bother the Iwa nin if his grimaces of anger were indicative.
"Let's see how long you keep talking like this when you have to face the Iwagakure Explosion Corps," said the same shinobi iwa with a malicious smile as all the shinobi iwa standing high on the trees jumped on them.
Hinata quickly looked at Naruto who nodded his head understanding what she wanted to do. Going through sequence of three hand seals faster than the Iwa nin could expect the same in their life.
"Suiton: Suiryuudan no Jutsu (Water Element: Jutsu Water Dragon Bullet)" Said Hinata, in less than a second a large water dragon with menacing yellowish eyes materialized on the Konoha Gennin and shot out in the direction of the shinobi iwa.
"My turn" Naruto's voice was heard in the clearing before passing through manual seals and clashing the palms of his hands. "Raiton: Rairyuuda no Jutsu (Lightning Element: Lightning Dragon Jutsu)" Followed by this the sound of lightning around his hands was heard and a yellow-eyed dragon similar to its Water counterpart came out of these and pounced on the iwa nin but not before merging with the water dragon creating a sinister being in the opinion of the members of the explosion corps.
All the shinobi Iwa looked with their eyes wide open and horrified as the electrified water dragon charged towards them. In the blink of an eye the dragon broke through their formations and caught the Shinobi who were too slow to escape.
Garu, the leader of the unit along with eleven members, were the lucky ones who escaped with a quick Kawarimi. They could only watch with horror as the other eight members of their squad were hit and thrown into the air like simple rag dolls, to later impact the ground with their bodies in inhuman positions and small shocks were visible as well as the burns made by the Jutsu Raiton that enhanced the already lethal Jutsu Suiton.
The shinobi of Iwagakure who were on the branches of the trees after escaping the combined Jutsu could not understand how two such young people could use such a high-level jutsu effortlessly.
While they were there with caution, their gazes entered the ground, and they couldn't stop fear from entering them, what was once a flat ground, was now full of the bodies of their companions, the remaining water of the jutsu flowed red because of the blood of the corpses that now adorned the ground. However, that fear turned into hatred and rage at the death of his allies at the hands of the damn tree climbers.
'To be able to use the water particles in the atmosphere. It is not heard that anyone can do this from the Nídaime Hokage. Who the hell is that girl?' Garu thought irritably as he gnashed his teeth.
"Damn. We lost almost half of us because of those damn one of the Iwa nin screamed furiously as he slammed his fist into one of the trees. The others agreed, it was hard to believe that they lost so many members so quickly.
"This is not the time to whine. We have orders from Tsuchikage. Focus on the enemy" Garu shouted firmly.
"Hai Taichou" everyone replied. Signaling her team, the remaining members jumped to the ground where Hinata was alone. However, the next second he had to jump to narrowly dodge the Chokuto that tried to impale him.
As he reunited with his men, he squabbled his tongue when sudden pain pierced his right arm where he had a slight cut. Ignoring I look at the female Gennin who was in front of him and his men with the Chokuto in their hands.
"Don't fear for your lives, we serve the great nation of Tsuchi no Kuni. No matter what happens and what obstacle is in front of us we should make the Tsuchikage proud. We will finish with the girl and look for her partner, we will teach her that Iwa is better than Konoha" shout Garu
"Hai Taichou" shouted his men as they pulled kunai out of their bags.
"Big words, shouldn't you just turn around I'm going?" declared Hinata in an impassive voice.
Before Garu could stop his men, two of them jumped to attack Hinata, kunai aiming at his vital sites. Reacting faster than they expected, Hinata charged her Chokuto with Fuuton chakra and disappeared in a burst of speed to reappear behind the now motionless shinobi of iwa who had attacked her with the snow-white blade of her chokuto now dripping the blood of her attackers.
"I ask again will you turn around and leave?" said Hinata her cold voice sent chills down everyone's back. Hinata didn't even flinch when the bodies behind her hit the ground as blood leaked out of multiple wounds that appeared on them.
The remaining Iwa nin prepared to attack, but...
"I'll take that as a no" came a voice behind them followed by the unmistakable sound of bodies implanting the ground made them look back. There in the middle of two decapitated bodies of his companions was the other Konoha Gennin who at this point had forgotten that he was there.
"Raiton: Rensa Raikou no Jutsu"Scream Garu, as electricity began to crackle in both hands and he threw a continuous stream of lightning, the anger clear in his eyes.
When the jutsu imparted, a cloud of smoke filled the place of impact, followed by Garu's manic laughter believing he had killed the boy who dared to confront him and his team.
But he was pulled out of his moment of euphoria as the screams of pain from the remaining members of his group filled the place. When I look for the reason for these screams... fear and horror refilled the features of his face.
In the middle of the remaining eight members of his group were the two young shinobi of Konoha, golden chains coming out of their bodies and impaling the members of their squad. The blood from their bodies was spaced by the chains and bathed the field with the red liquid.
"What... Who are you?" your voice couldn't hide your emotions at the time. But quickly his fear was replaced with a face of complete madness.
"BASTARDS" Garu shouted as he passed through some hand seals and gathered large amounts of chakra in his right hand that began to emit an orange glow.
"Bakuton: Jiraiken" was Garu's scream as he hit the ground. When his fist touched the earth, a gigantic shock wave pierced the ground. Subsequently several trees were uprooted along with the earth and a large amount of debris was sent to fly.
As the dust in the air cleared, I can admire the large crater he had made, he didn't care about the remains of what were once his companions were shattered, all he wanted was to kill those Konoha shinobi who dared to mock them by killing their men.
When the dust completely cleared and there was no trace of his enemies, a manic smile quickly turned into a full-blown laugh filled the field. Deciding to admire his work a little more before leaving I informed the Tsuchikage about the meeting. Jumping from branch to branch away I never notice the kunai with Fuuton chakra that pierced his head from behind ending his life instantly. On a tree branch just a few meters behind where Garu's lifeless body fell, our young Gennin sighed.
"It will be a headache to add this in the report" sighs again Naruto, already thinking about having to write all this.
"You could leave a Naruto-kun clone in charge of writing the report. While we can do something more" his last words came out with a seductive tone.
"oh yes, a clone will definitely take over," Naruto said as he jumped behind Hinata in Konoha's direction.