Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, if I did, I wouldn't have to go through college. Every character belongs to Kishimoto unless they are my own OCs.

"Talk"

"Thoughts"

"Bijuu, summons"

Jutsu

AN: When I mention Yin or Yang, they are the Kyuubi's chakra if not said otherwise. I don't feel like explaining all of Naruto's training, it always feels forced and bland to me. Once again this won't be a harem. I think making a good harem is much more difficult than a single relationship.

Time Skip 5 months

If you asked Naruto how his last 5 months were, he would sum it up in one word. Rough. The training was rough. Not only his tenants forced him to practice their specialties and jutsus, but his physical teachers were giving him a tough time as well.

When Yugao learned that he was learning the Hidden Dragon Style she has gotten a malicious glint in her eyes. She was a kenjutsu expert using her Dancing Moonlight style. She wanted to spar one day against a Hidden Dragon Style user one day though when Kushina died the last user died as well.

Now that Naruto was learning it, she has gotten another chance for the spar. True even if he mastered it, he wouldn't be able to make her go all out because of his lack of physical strength as a child. "But in a few years…" she dreamt.

Since then Yugao would always train Naruto in Kenjutsu until a point which Naruto accepted her. She had this half annoying big sister half caring mother side which appealed to Naruto.

Anko was a bit down because she couldn't force him to become like her. He had his mischievous side, but he wasn't as outgoing like her since he dropped his mask. He became more composed and his pranking lessened. Instead of quantity he went for quality. Her primary objective as his teacher was to give him pointers in nin and taijutsu in the real world.

Last but not least Kurenai was the most depressed out of them because she was virtually useless to him. His massive chakra reserves disabled any use of genjutsu by him. Though she supervised his chakra control. Both his and Kurama's.

Speaking of his teachers their relationships changed by a huge factor. At first Naruto couldn't stand in their vicinity for more than 15 minutes making them be his teachers only in name. That was until the three kunoichi couldn't stand it anymore and forced him to at least speak to them. Which wasn't that hard. After all he was strong even very strong for his age, but they were seasoned jonins.

The second one to break the ice was Anko who followed him everywhere until he gave in. They sat in silence for a few hours until Anko told him her life story and why she was so unbelieving when he told her that he could take off her seal. Naruto found the words of the old Hokage true, they really could relate to each other as he recounted his own story which was much worse since he couldn't defend himself.

After that night he focused even more on the control of the Kyuubi's chakra. He wouldn't let someone else's life be dictated by a seal that was forced on them. Even more since her seal didn't have any real purpose and only hurt her.

Speaking of controlling this power the last one that Naruto warmed to was Kurenai. She could only supervise him in case he did something stupid while practicing. She was beginning to feel more thankful to the kid when she saw what training he did to liberate her close friend from clutches of an evil mastermind.

He began to learn how to use seals. He was far from being a seal master or even considered good by Konoha's standards. He did simple seals on paper and then tried to erase them without even touching the paper with the Yin chakra.

The problem was that such a precision aggravated the toll on his own burns. This was even worse because the damage would have dispelled his clones. So, every evening he finished with a hand that lacked skin all over it. To a point where he once went too far, the pain was unbearable, and the yin started seeping through his wounds making them worse.

This time Kurenai has put her craft into a better use. She put Naruto into a genjutsu that soothed him right away making him regain unconsciously reins over his powers.

Flashback

Naruto woke up with a feeling of something wet hitting his face. Groggily opening his eyes, he has seen the face of Kurenai. A crying Kurenai. Did he do something that made her cry?

Seeing his eyes opening Kurenai hugged the boy with a smile. On the contrary Naruto wasn't very fond of the action. He didn't like being touched by strangers. Yes, he did hug Kurama or his parents, but his life taught him that contact with strangers meant pain.

He struggled to get out of the embrace. Kurenai responded by frowning and keeping the boy even stronger in her arms. Unconsciously she knew why he tried to run away but her instincts told her to keep him.

When he finally eased in the embrace Kurenai spoke.

"Why are you trying so hard? You hurt yourself so much to help Anko."

"You really don't know how to say 'thank you' Kurenai-sensei." She blushed at that with a small pout. "It's easy, Ji-chan said that I could relate to Anko and it's true. We both have seals and pasts that force us into being pariahs of this village. That's why I want to help her that much. No need for two people forced into living hell because of a seal."

Kurenai widened her eyes listening to that. She hugged him even more and started to whisper "Thank you. You don't know what that means to us three that you want to help Anko this much."

Flashback End

This training was going well until it hit a wall about one month ago. Naruto has gotten good enough to destroy any kind of seal written on normal paper without suffering any injury. This had some additional perks because his control over Yin and Yang was very good making all of his teachers astounded by the progress.

The problem was that Naruto could only erase a seal on paper. He wasn't sure if it would be good enough to not harm a human with the Yin. He couldn't ask anyone to let them apply seals on them to try and destroy them. With a bit of thinking he got an answer. It was the chakra paper. It was so sensitive to chakra that even a small amount would show someone's nature, even civilian's.

That was the wall, it was so expensive that the amount he needed to train would exhaust a family's monthly budget. He needed money and he knew what to do.

Flashback

"So how are we going to finance this project Naruto-kun?" Anko asked dejectedly.

"I have an idea. We are going to trade information with Ji-chan for a hefty sum. To be exact the information about all of Orochimaru's hideouts in the village." Naruto responded with a naughty smirk

Hokage office

Naruto and his three friends entered the office. The sight pleased Hiruzen as all four of them were smiling and Kurenai was roughing Naruto's hair. Finally, Naruto gained some friends even if they were more than double his age.

"What brings you here at this fine day?" asked Hiruzen taking a puff from his pipe

"I want to trade crucial information Jiji" answered Naruto

"Oh, and what would it be? You've already given me the secret for the paperwork."

"Let's say for a price of one S class mission I give you info about all of Orochimaru's hideouts in the village?" This put Hiruzen straight into his Hokage mode. This wasn't a simple matter anymore. If they could gather data about his older student from there it would greatly benefit the village.

"Naruto how did you come to get this intel? Tell me! Quickly" this scared Naruto a bit. Gulping he answered

"You remember about my plan EE. The place that I chose for my hideout turned out to be one of his cleaner laboratories. Inside there was a map with all of them inside the village. I would be cautious though. I've been to some of them and most of them aren't as pretty as my "own"."

"If it's true that map is worth much more than a simple S-rank, I will give you an equivalent of two S-ranks. Now give me the map."

Naruto unsealed two scrolls and given it to him "There is the map. I erased the location of my hideout so in compensation I've gathered everything in there that belonged to Orochimaru and sealed it in the other scroll."

Sarutobi opened the scroll and gave a nod. He took a piece of paper and scribbled something on it "Here, take this downstairs, the chunin will give you the money"

"Yugao-sensei can you do this and go buy the necessary amount? About four kilos. It would be easier if someone with a higher rank would do this." Naruto gave her the slip, but she refused.

"I can't Naruto-kun. I need to talk to the Hokage about you. The three of us already talked about it. Please Kurenai can you do what he asked?" Hiruzen looked at her quizzically and after Kurenai left he motioned her to speak.

"You see Hokage-sama Naruto here grows fast, too fast. It would be stupid to send him back to the academy. He would destroy his class 10 times over with a single strike if he wanted to. It would be a waste of his talents to do it. I propose to enroll him into ANBU. We all know here that ANBU aren't only jounins. Sometimes we recruit even genins because of their abilities. Naruto-kun fits the bill perfectly. He's already stronger than any genin and his abilities make him even stronger. He's like Tsunade-sama a medic that can destroy keeps. I will let you look into that."

Flashback end

A few days ago, Naruto perfected his use of Yin. Even if by accidents he discovered many times his affinity for wind and slight fire caused by Kurama's chakra flowing through his body since day one, he found a way to disintegrate seals written on the chakra paper.

He did so by using both the Yin and the Yang at the same time. The Yang would create an almost infinitely thin border around the seal making a vessel for the Yin to flow through the chakra infused ink and leaving a perfect and usable chakra paper behind.

Today was the day to free Anko. The preparations were complete. For the last hour Naruto spent time with his interior tenants making sure that everything would work perfectly. He entered a room where Anko was sitting in only her sports bra. A necessity for kunoichis. Kurenai and Yugao were holding her hands to relieve the stress.

Naruto stood in front of them looking Anko straight into the eyes. She didn't trust herself to speak so she just gave him a smile and a nod. He nodded back and began. He touched her shoulder coating it with the Yang until it formed a light around the Cursed Seal. When he felt ready, he poured the yin inside the vessel.

A few seconds later he did something that even the seal master of the village couldn't do. He destroyed Orochimaru's magnum opus. To be on the safe side he flushed her shoulder with the Yang to neutralize any Yin that could infect her.

Looking at his fingers he has seen some burn marks. He preferred to be extra cautious with Anko and made sure that any burns were given to him. It was a small price compared to the smiles his three friends gave him and a huge hug from Anko who now had a perfect unblemished skin.

Time skip 1 month

The time was nearing. The Shinigami would come today to take back the souls of Minato and Kushina. For the last few days Naruto spent all of his time with them unwilling to say goodbye. He knew that day would come but he didn't want it to. It was Kushina that gave him a new perspective on this. She reminded him that outside he had his nee-chans as well as Kura-nee inside of him.

Since the day that Naruto freed Anko the three of his senseis became something else to him, a family. The mischievous Anko-nee, the annoying yet loving Yugao-nee and the always composed nevertheless easily flushed Kurenai-nee.

Mindscape

Naruto was hugging his parents not wanting to let them go. They were all reminiscing the good times together during the six months. The training they put him through, the unconditional love they have given to him.

All of his tenants were sure that they've done all they could to prepare Naruto for the future. They taught him everything they deemed in his grasp. The things he couldn't for the moment were stored in what they called mind gates. They would unlock when the seal algorithm inside would deem the young boy ready.

He could rival now an early chunin in strength, but he had invented a few techniques that could multiply his strength tenfold. One of them was what he called the Bijuu Cannon. He found out about it when he learned how to shoot a small amount of Yin or Yang from his fingers but anything more would throw him back because of Newton's third law.

He counteracted it by shooting the chakra in two opposite directions. This countered the thrust he produced to the front and gave him quite a forest razer. (AN: yes, I based it on Tsuna's X-Burner from KHR). Right now, he was on the process of concentrating the beam to instead of getting a wide spread he would get a long-range laser to kill from afar.

Their rumblings were cut short when they felt the same ominous presence from six months ago. The Shinigami was back to take the souls of Minato and Kushina and specify the rest of the deal.

"Greetings mortals, I hope you all prepared yourselves. Your time has come. Before I take you, I must commend the training you have given to the young Naruto. Don't worry you will be taken to heaven instead of my stomach as a thank you from Kami himself. Now to the last part of the deal I've told you about I need you to take the lives of two men who caused so much chaos in this world. The first one is Orochimaru the snake sannin and the second one is someone who calls himself Uchiha Madara yet he's a simple imposter. You've all met him once already. The hint is a spiral orange mask."

When he said the last line, the room dropped a few degrees, and everyone was furious. That was the man that destroyed their family and lives. At least it was a good incentive for Naruto to train even harder from now on.

"Say your last goodbyes now since you won't be seeing each other in a long time."

Naruto hugged his parents forcing his tears to never come out. He would make them proud and wanted them to remember him as a strong growing and cheerful boy. He wasn't going himself to spoil this memory by his tears.

Hideout

Naruto came back to himself in the real world. He looked around and started crying for the first time since a long time. Soon his sisters came to soothe him until he cried himself to sleep with his head on Kurenai's lap.

"Sometimes you forget he's just a child. He's not even nine and tomorrow he will begin his training in ANBU. Seeing him cry like that makes you question the order of this world where children have to kill each other for their village." Said Kurenai brushing one of Naruto's locks out of his face.

Next day

Naruto was brought to the Hokage's office by his ex-teachers since yesterday their mission has come to an end. Today his life would change drastically, he would be incorporated into the ANBU. He shouldn't even be a genin at his age yet the ANBU was going to welcome him.

"Like you've said I pondered about the ANBU route for Naruto and after you've told me about his exploits it would be dangerous to make him go back to the academy. Kurenai, Anko from this day you regain your duties to the village. Yugao or should I say Neko you take Naruto to the ANBU HQ. They know everything and his compulsory training will start in two days. Dismissed."

Yugao took back her mask and put it over her face. She grabbed Naruto's shoulder and Shunshinned to the ANBU HQ. Kurenai and Anko took the more traditional way out of the building. That is through the door.

"It's going to be much less lively without him" said Anko with a sigh going to her house until the next mission.

Meanwhile at the Academy

Iruka had enough. It was Monday, he had a hangover and his students were always the liveliest on Mondays. This was going to be a long day. He scanned over this class still asking himself if the clan heads had an orgy or something. Most of the clan heirs were in this class. What are the chances for this to happen in a single year? This had to be planned.

Suddenly a hand rose. This wouldn't be strange but the person who raised the hand. It was the shiest and meekest to-be-kunoichi he knew, Hinata Hyuuga. It had to be urgent if the girl dared to ask something in front of class.

"Yes, what is it Hinata?" he asked tentatively

"S-s-sensei do you know what happened to Naruto-kun?"

"The idiot surely dropped out!" someone shouted from the back making all of the class laugh

"Actually no, Akima. He was taken into an apprenticeship by a jonin" this was at least what he was told by the Hokage. The laughter ceased and no one dared to say anything more until a screeching voice shouted

"Ha the idiot had to be taken into apprenticeship or else he would kill himself." The voice appeared to be coming from a pink haired girl Sakura Haruno. She was in this class only because her mother forced it.

The laughs began anew safe from a few people. The first one was Sasuke Uchiha, he was too cool to laugh and had a better things to do, like having a stare off with his archnemesis, the wall. The second one was Hinata. The last was a platinum blonde girl, Yamanka Ino, she never spoke to the other blonde, but she always thought he was funny in some way.

After everybody calmed down Iruka pursued with the normal art class. It was useless but at least the brats shat up.

Time skip 6 months

Naruto just turned nine today, he had a huge birthday gift presented to him by the ANBU commander. His own mask and the ANBU tattoo on his right shoulder meaning he finally completed the ANBU training and would become a true ninja.

Yugao came to the commander office with Naruto in tow for the inauguration as she was the referent for the soon to become ANBU. Dragon was sitting behind his desk with a blank mask on his desk as well as another nameless ANBU with a tattooing equipment. He motioned Naruto to go to the ANBU for the tattoo.

One hour later it was done. He was happy that the ink they used was chakra based so unless you had to show it, it would stay hidden because he has forgone the sleeves on his shirt as he always burned them off while using Bijuu Cannon at full power. The other task of it was to identify real ANBU because the tattoo had the chakra imprint from Dragon himself.

Naruto took the mask presented it to him not understanding why it was blank. Seeing this Dragon explained

"The mask of an ANBU is like his ID, no one has the same photo on it, right? It's the same for us, the mask will give you your new identity when you put it on."

Naruto nodded and tentatively put it on his face. Soon purple markings began forming an animal. He produced an Ox mask. An animal known for its great strength. After seeing what Naruto could do with his Yang, he didn't have any doubts about it.

"Welcome to the family Ushi. Stay in the HQ, tomorrow morning I will have the first mission for you." Said the commander

Next day

Naruto was woken up by Yugao at 5AM to announce that Dragon wanted their presence in his office at 6AM. When he got ready, she gave him a long box.

"I couldn't give you your birthday present yesterday, happy birthday Naruto. Come on open it."

Inside the box was a 50cm long wakizashi. It was perfectly pitch black and fit into a matte black scabbard, suited for a ninja since a reflection from a normal blade could reveal your position. It was beautifully crafted.

"It is coated in chakra metal, that way you keep a normal blade's sturdiness with the capacity to put chakra out. I went for the wakizashi because of your style and the Hien no Jutsu you learned from Asuma." It was at the time when Kurenai traded her favor with Asuma to help Naruto learn the wind chakra.

"Yugao-nee you shouldn't have, thank you so much" he hugged his sister in a bliss.

"It's okay Naruto-kun, now let's go see Dragon before he chews us both for being tardy"

When they entered his office, Dragon was sitting once again behind his desk. What did he do all day other than sitting? Did he sleep there? Was he even human?

"Perfect timing 6AM, I have a mission for both of you since Neko you are still his referent until the end of this mission. It will be simple, the Hokage wanted to see the firepower of Ushi in a real-life situation, don't hold any stops. Neko will carry you back if you exhaust your chakra. Don't worry it's all accounted for." He turned around and given them the files "The mission is simple some nukenin have gathered around 80 bandits around them. You are to infiltrate the camp if there are prisoners escort them out and then raze the camp to the ground. Dismissed"

As fast as they could Naruto and Yugao ran to the place around 100km away. They spotted a good place to oversee the camp and check for prisoners from afar. Thankfully or not there were none in this camp, only bandits and nukenins inside. This was good, they could launch an ambush attack at full power from the start.

A few hours later they had a plan. Yugao was here to only serve as an emergency back-up in case something went wrong. They waited until the bandits would be the most tired from the day and the hour has come.

Naruto made clones to secure a perimeter in case someone escaped. He recited the ANBU teachings "they aren't humans only targets to kill for the good of the village". He signed to Yugao who signed back to him. He gave her his hands and she gripped them with all of her strength. She spun him around and threw him in the air in the direction of the camp. She herself went farther away knowing the plan.

When the bandits have seen a golden light in the sky, and someone scream Yang Meteor it was already too late. Naruto concentrated Yang in his legs and used the principle of the Bijuu Cannon to propulse himself to the ground at an immense speed. A few clones have done the same unleashing a hellish blast of energy evaporating anything in the radius of ten meters around and throwing back everything else. The clones popped at the impact themselves as the blast was too much for them.

The real Naruto stealing his nerves used his new Bijuu Cannon variation. He pumped Yin into his hands and thrust them outwards as to a normal one and screamed Bijuu Tornado. It started with the streams of Yin shooting fifty meters at each side when this was ready, he put his arms at an angle making the thrust spin him around.

Yugao herself was astounded. She hit the stop at her timer when the light from the Yin bubbly and red chakra died down letting her see a perfect circle where nothing, but Naruto existed. 30 seconds was the time he needed to destroy the camp. She wasn't sure if she would even be able to beat his time. It was the right call to put him to ANBU. Maybe he wasn't strong enough to fair against single strong ninja but his role as a castle destroyer was fulfilled even better than she thought.

In her amazement she hasn't seen Naruto falling to the ground because of chakra and mental exhaustion. The ANBU were prepared for anything on the missions because they were ninety percent of the time veterans. Naruto was integrated into ANBU before he even became a genin the normal way. This had to be over 80 kills for his first one, it had to take a toll on him.

She rapidly took him on her back whispering "You did good Naruto". She sprinted straight to the HQ to give her report to Dragon while Naruto was still asleep on her back.

"Neko, you are faster than I predicted. Did something wrong happen on the mission?"

"No sir, everything went perfectly and Ushi did like you told him, he lifted all of the stops that's why he's still asleep."

"Good now give me the report"

"We went to the destined location and positioned ourselves on a hill near the camp. Ushi used his Negative Emotion Sensing to determine that there were no prisoners. We waited for the night to make the ambush. All it took was around 30 seconds for the camp to cease existing. Nothing was left, I took a photo to prove the carnage that was made." She took a photo from her pouch and given it to him. It showed a perfect circle of ground. The grass was annihilated as well as a few meters of the soil.

"That's almost alarming, that would put him on par with our A rank demolishers at least at this occasion. I already have the report from the drill instructors about his strength, but I want your honest opinion about him."

"Ushi is the typical case of the ANBU that we take for their special powers and bloodlines at an early age. His personal skills are at most mid chunin which is above good for a child his age but most of the ANBUs would destroy him. His skills wouldn't save him since most of them require charging for a small amount of time. In the future he should concentrate about his normal ninja skills."

"Understood, good job, your payments will be in your accounts by tomorrow. Take Ushi to the Yamanaka as well he's going to need a third unbiased party to talk to. Dismissed" The accounts that ANBU used were different. They had their own bank that passed their funds through some other ANBU made banks that accepted anyone. This way their identities remained well hidden.

Yugao took Naruto to the nursing dormitories for him to sleep, she took off his boots, mask and armor. Watching him she smiled, since they started training him, he went from a normal child to someone with a body made for combat. Nothing too bulky, just defined muscles started to show on his arms. She was happy for her little brother. She gave him a kiss on the forehead and skipped her way to her boyfriend.

Next day

Naruto was out of the nurse station when the medics discharged him after checking for his chakra exhaustion. The sight of Yugao without her mask greeted him out of the room. She could feel he was a bit gloomier than most of the time.

"Hello Naruto-kun, Dragon has given us some orders, we are going to the T&I department for you to talk to someone."

"Hi Yugao-nee, if I have to then let's go." He took her hand, an action he hasn't done in ages and they strolled together to the building while talking about everything and nothing. When they arrived, they didn't go to the torture section but what was written on the door was "ANBU Psych". It was a place for the ANBU to get their mental health in check.

They were professionals but they still remained humans. Sometimes they needed to see someone to talk to. This was the place, it had only the department's heads such as Yamanaka Inoichi and Ibiki Morino. He may have been a sadist, but this made him particularly knowledgeable in how to help the victims as well.

Naruto was destined to meet the Yamanka, he was the guy that served as the psychiatrist while Ibiki was more of a psychologist. Entering the room, he has seen a platinum blonde man around his late 30's. He had a kind smile looking at his next patient.

"Good morning Naruto-kun, in here you aren't exactly an ANBU, you are my patient. That's why we will be on the name basis. Do you want Yugao to stay with you or do you prefer her to wait for the conclusion?"

"I prefer to be alone for this. No offense Yugao-nee but with you here I won't be as comfortable as with a stranger that won't judge." She understood that very well. Close people tended to either try to help with soothing words or would judge you even if in the slightest. He needed someone that would just listen or give genuine professional advice.

"I will wait outside, don't worry Naruto-kun." Said Yugao quitting the room.

"Do you want to start Naruto-kun? Or would you prefer for me to ask questions?" Inoichi asked

"I want to start before the feelings of yesterday start to fade. You see I was in the class with one of your clan members Ino. While she is learning how to throw shuriken in the academy, I was already killing people. I knew what it entailed thinking I was ready. And I was until I have seen the massacre that I did yesterday. I have killed around eighty men in a time span of thirty seconds. And it was only the first time, I will do these missions often now. I know that I was always supposed to be a weapon for this village, it scares me that I will grow so accustomed to this that I will lose my humanity and become the monster the villagers always wanted me to be."

Inoichi was listening intently noting everything on a piece of paper. He could see the emotional turmoil in Naruto's eyes. It was true that he became one of the youngest demolishers in ANBU and considering his upbringing it wasn't the perfect place for him to be. But he was the ultimate weapon to be for the village, he knew it himself. It was too early for that, but they didn't have any other option. Putting him inside a normal cell would only serve as a balance breaker.

"Listen Naruto-kun, we all think we are ready to kill when we quit the training, every time it backfires on us. Most of the veterans have mental problems that they cope by having strange quirks. You will understand in the future if you meet some of them. You killing these people was the only option we had. You protected the new generation this way. We never grow accustomed to the killing. It becomes a part of us that makes us protect our companions from the fate that we give to others. The ANBU creed is a testament 'We fight to win. We fight from the shadows to protect those that can't protect themselves.'. Remember that you aren't killing people, you are saving those that would end up hurt."

Naruto widened his eyes hearing those words. He never understood what they actually meant, in his juvenile mind the ANBU killed, deceived and stole for the village. The real fact was that they protected everyone by doing it.

"Thank you, Inoichi-san. I think you just gave me a new understanding of what am I doing. Can I come see you or Ibiki-san in case I need to talk to anyone?"

"Of course, Naruto-kun. Now let's call Yugao back inside to give her a debrief." He opened the door and asked Yugao to come in.

"Now I explained to Naruto some things. Please make sure he gets some rest from the missions. I showed him the meaning of your own creed to make sure that he knows why he is sent on those missions. I would advise to bring him to me around once a month, we don't want another Itachi." He spoke with a sad face remembering the night when the boy killed all of his clan.

"Understood Inoichi, I will see to that. I think Dragon will give him at least two weeks of leeway."

With that they quit the office going to the HQ to get their "civilian" clothes. And finally go home for Naruto who hasn't been there in almost six months. That was the rule for new recruits during their training. You stayed at the designed dormitories and slept with the others.

Naruto had a bad feeling about it knowing that probably his apartment would be destroyed like always. He was right, the door was destroyed, the windows broken and the inside empty with a homeless being inside.

Sighing he went away, no need to get there anymore he would sleep at the HQ. Yugao didn't have anything of that. She gathered Kurenai and Anko and the four of them went to Naruto's favorite restaurant Ichiraku ramen. After the small chit-chat with the chef and his daughter his ex-senseis started talking."

"So how is your new life Naruto-kun?" asked Kurenai sipping the broth

"Rough, I had my first mission yesterday. It only showed me how different the world outside was and how much I wasn't prepared for that. Other than that, someone destroyed my apartment. I will need to sleep at the HQ for the moment." He said with a carefree voice as if he was talking about the weather.

"I would take him in but Hayate and I just bought the house, and we're still moving so there isn't much space with all the cartons" said Yugao.

Kurenai couldn't take him in as well, she was living in a small apartment and there wasn't any place for an extra bed. Anko thought about it for a second.

"I could take him in. I don't have enough space for the second bed, but my couch can deploy to make an emergency bed."

"Are you sure Anko-nee? I don't want to be a bother. Especially since I could go on missions in the night."

"Don't worry this happens to all of us. Let's just call it a payback for the seal."

"Thank you, nee-chan. I will pitch to the rent though."

They finished their bowls or four for Naruto and went their ways to their respective houses.

Time skip 2 weeks

Two weeks have passed since that day. Dragon truly gave him this time off duty. Naruto used this time to train himself, he wasn't able to reach anything other chunin right now, his age blocked him for the moment but he polished everything he could in the time until one of the mind gates opened transferring him the knowledge of one jutsu, the Rasengan. His father had much faith in him to give it so soon to him.

It was a great addition for his arsenal, he needed this kind of short-range firepower. While mastering it over the course of two weeks he made progress with a side project of his, the Yang Laser. He found a way to concentrate the Yang into a thin beam that had power to punch 4cm wide holes straight through rocks.

He found out the hard way that he couldn't do the same with the Yin. It didn't have the force to stay coalesced for a long time resulting in a blast of Yin that covered everything in it burning it like napalm. He was thankful that he coated himself in Yang before the Yin hit him.

Today he was called back by Dragon for a new mission. He grabbed his gear and put his mask on. Anko was still sleeping so he left a note on her nightstand that he was gone. He Shunshinned to the office where dragon has thrown a scroll at him.

"You are to go to the border with the Grass country. Some agents are already there. You will transfer these orders to them and help the apprehend or kill the nukenins that will try to cross the borders. Dismissed. Run fast."

Naruto didn't wait for Dragon to take another breath. He was already running through one of the tunnels under the village that would let him go straight to the mission point. Exiting the tunnel, he took out the bingo book reading the files of the nukenins.

"Hmm Mizuki, 27 years old chunin. Nothing special, kill on sight because of his uselessness. Next, Amai Dokumi another chunin who felt he wasn't appreciated enough still nothing special. Some eternal genins, oh they are the three bastards that tried to rape Anko-nee, now is my chance for revenge. Anko will get them straight into her hands."

He ran for the next few hours until he spotted one of the ANBU. "Ushi you are finally here. What are the orders?"

"Ha! Everything is written in this scroll Tora-taichou"

After reading the scroll Tora showed Naruto the way to the camp. There was a map where "x" were the possible traversing points for the nins. He ordered Naruto to make some clones to take watch there.

"Tora-taichou, I have a request. Let me capture the eternal genins. They will be a gift for someone."

"As long as it doesn't compromise the mission you are free to do it"

"Thank you, sir"

Night has fallen and one of the clones just popped signaling Naruto the location of the runners. Signaling to his commandant they all went out. First appeared to be Mizuki. Naruto never liked the bastard in school. Now he knew why.

The other agents wanted to jump in, but Naruto showed the sign to halt. He extended his finger and created a vortex of Yang around it. The principle was easy, the science defined that there was chakra in the air around them and it was considered a fluid. By making the Yang spin it created a fast-moving chakra with lower pressure. The Venturi effect applied to it making the beam concentrated.

He shot his Yang Laser straight at Mizuki's heart. The effect most instantaneous the blunt force of the impact instead of evaporating the flesh punched a hole in it making a huge part of his heart fly out. He was dead.

The agents ran straight to Amai Dokumi killing him in an instant. They frowned under their masks when they heard a sizzling sound under his vest. The bastard would try to injure them even in death. They ran away as fast as they could but Shika (= deer) was hit with a shrapnel of wood that went through his leg.

Naruto wanted to go straight to the other three targets. He was stopped by the explosion and the feeling that Shika was badly hurt. He created a clone to follow the genins who ran back into the forest and rushed to his ally.

"Everybody get away from him, I will heal him. Don't worry in a few seconds you will be in perfect shape. Taichou the other targets are followed by my clone"

He put a lingering flame of Yang on his finger. Shika was scared seeing what it has done before. To his astonishment he didn't feel any pain as the flame urged the wound to close. With a short thank you he stood up. Naruto ran back to the first mission.

"Who would've thought that a kid could be a demolisher and a medic at the same time." Murmured Shika and everybody around nodded. They went back to the corpses of the victims to dispose of them.

Naruto joined his clone and quietly took out his wakizashi. Pumped Yang into his legs and ran straight at the cowering eternal genins. They couldn't react when the same golden flash appeared between them. Naruto used the Hien no jutsu at the last moment of the swing to extend his range cutting all of their Achille's tendons making them fall. He took the prison scrolls given to him by his squad and sealed them inside.

The mission was done, the squad could head back home without any casualties thanks to Naruto. That would earn him some points with the other black ops. The road was silent for the most part only Shika said a louder thank you to Naruto for the quick help. Once again, they were all in the Dragon office. He was too often in this place.

"Good job everyone, I will take the prisoners and heads of the runners to the T&I."

"Dragon-taichou, can I give the prisoners to Anko myself?"

"Yes, give the heads to them as well. Dismissed"

Naruto ended in the T&I building using the tunnels under the village. It was convenient for them, instead of going around the buildings they head straight roads to every important place in the village such as hospitals and administrative buildings.

He has seen Anko lounging on a couch drinking coffee and chatting with Ibiki about a new torture she invented. It was deranging to hear them laugh about it. Maybe these were the quirks that Inoichi told him about. He put his mask on his belt and greeted the both.

"Hello Ibiki-san, Anko-nee. I have brought you some gifts, two heads to scan and three eternal genins that you know pretty well Anko-nee" he said with a mischievous smile throwing them the scrolls. Anko reciprocated the smile with her own and stood up.

"I think I will test what we were talking about earlier than expected." Said Anko

Later that day all they learned was the fact that someone offered them a place in grass country, but they didn't know who. Anko faked the fact that she knew they were telling the truth and played with them for a long time after that. They died the next day.

Time skip 4 years (Naruto's 13yo if you didn't keep track with the ages)

Naruto lounged in his and Anko's house. It wasn't particularly big but had three rooms and two bathrooms which was more than enough for them. After a month of living together they decided to buy a place for them. Naruto having the pay of an ANBU helped greatly in the effort.

Speaking of him he had grown quite a bit. His puberty began around a year ago, Anko still made fun of him remembering his voice change. He has grown to around 1m65 slightly above average than guys his age. The added testosterone in his body defined his muscles making his shoulders and biceps visible thanks to his sleeveless shirt. His wardrobe didn't change much since that time. The biggest change was in his hair. He learned on a mission in Land of Earth that his spiky blonde hair made them remember the Yondaime, his dad. So, he had let it grow to a point he could make a short ponytail out of it. He slicked it all to the back this way it didn't catch too much light on stealth missions. His face matured without any baby fat thanks to constant missions and training.

His puberty did him another favor. It destroyed the roadblock in his training. His body started to adapt to the skills he needed to learn opening new mind gates containing advanced moves of his tai and kenjutsu as well as some jutsus. Making him able to rival early jounins if he pushed it. He should be around the same level or a bit stronger than Itachi at his age.

He could say his life was good at the moment. He didn't have much social life apart from Anko, Kurenai and Yugao. He was quite protective of all of them showing it when he scared Asuma using his Kyuubified eyes if he did something to make Kurenai cry. The same happened to Hayate.

His career in ANBU evolved when he did the toughest demolition mission in all of his time. It was a way to help the now appointed fifth Mizukage, Mei Terumi, to liberate her people. He did it by destroying three keeps that were just before evacuated of prisoners. It was his first mission as the captain.

Flashback

He looked at his men and women. They were Neko, Inu and Tenzo, or Yugao, Kakashi and Yamato who didn't even have a real name. He looked on the plans of the keep, it was the last one that housed a big amount of the anti-bloodline faction as well as many prisoners.

"We are going to wait for the night I will make you a door to evacuate the prisoners when you are ready go as far away as you can, I want to test a new skill I invented."

And wait for the night they did. As soon as hey entered the hold they sensed something was amiss. The prisoners were all asleep and no guard was there. They unlocked the cells and started to take out the people inside. As they wanted to exit, they found themselves blocked. All of the ninja that were supposed to be inside waited just outside the wall. It was an ambush, they had to be informed about the other keeps.

"Fast Neko, Inu take the prisoners outside and run I will hold them here. Tenzo assist me." This wasn't time to question the orders and they did as told.

For the next hour they transported the people inside while Naruto and Yamato fought for their lives with Naruto healing Yamato anytime he was hurt. They seemed to just never end until Kakashi came with good news.

"The prisoners are outside" he screamed

"Good now run, Tenzo close as many as you can in a dome and run as fast as you can. I will make them disappear." Tenzo nodded and gathered the most chakra he could without hampering his escape.

"Mokuton: Mokujoheki!" he screamed proud of himself closing all of the assailants in the dome and ran away as fast as he could. When Naruto sensed them far enough, he launched his new technique.

He made holes in the dome with the yin and put his hands in them. He created two balls, one of Yin and one with Yang inside. The idea behind was that when both of those would mix, they would produce neutral bijuu chakra. In this case he slammed them together making the mixing far too fast resulting in a chained reaction explosion. He screamed "Yin-Yang Nova!" and let the balls slam into each other as far away from him as he could and taking cover himself.

The dome opened on the top and released a beam of light to the sky. He would have to calibrate the power output another day happy with the result. After which he coated the keep in the yin to melt it to the ground.

Flashback end

That was one of many demolition missions that Naruto took. He remained on the sofa until an ANBU came to his house and told him "Ushi the Hokage requests your presence". With a sigh Naruto prepared himself for another mission in his mind and Shunshinned to appear on his knee before the Hokage. Strangely next to him was Inu in the same position.

"Please stand up Naruto-kun, Kakashi. Take off your masks as well you won't be needing them for the next mission" said the Hokage.

End chapter 2

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