This is a Naruto Fan Fiction only.

We were told we needed to board a small boat to reach the town. The only good thing about the boat ride was that it allowed us to view the construction of the bridge. I noticed something odd.

"Tazuna is this bridge only temporary or do you plan to expand on it at a later date?" I saw the look of surprise and he nodded his head in agreement.

"Yes, this bridge is just the foundation of the finished bridge. We need this in order to bring more materials which are too heavy for our boats to handle, and the shipping boats that can, can't travel in our waters they are not wide enough for them to maneuver."

I knew he was lying and he knew why I asked. The supposed criminal boss controls shipping so it was not out of the question that he had some sort of listening device on it.

ANBU back in my village had inter squad communications and even long range listening devices. A small microphone and a tape recorded was not that hard to find. Even a security camera was an option.

We both seem to understand that and we hoped that by saying such words our enemy would fall in a false sense of security since he would have longer time to try and end our client's life.

As we made it off the boat and we walked towards his home. I saw the vast poverty there in plain sight and it was something I could very well understand and sympathize with.

Tazuna walked over to the from door to what look to be a modest two floor home. "This is my place, it's not exactly extravagant but it's home to me, my daughter and my grandson. Your team is welcome to stay with us. You might not believe it but my daughter is a magnificent cook. Wait till you taste her food."

As soon as we entered we heard someone welcome him and out of nowhere I got hugged by a woman I never met before. She thanked me for saving her father. I tried very hard to tell her that was a team effort, but it wasn't easy to do with my face planted between her breasts.

As soon as she calmed down she let me go. "As I was trying to say it was a team effort, and we will be guarding your father while he continues his construction." Sakura didn't care at all and Sayomi in her Sasuke disguise kept glaring with such utter look of jealousy that her sharingan was unintentionally turning on and off.

She told us we could use the two spare bedrooms and she was just finished cooking dinner. Tazuna decided to introduce her. "This lovely young Lady is my daughter Tsunami. Which reminds me were is my grandson?"

Tsunami smiled and told us to sit down on the chairs of the table she was pointing at. "I honestly don't know, I guess he is upstairs reading about different fish, and fishing techniques. My late husband was quite the fisherman and I guess my son just took after him."

As she began to place the food on the table, I did as my mother raised me to do and I offered to help her. She was very happy to accept my offer. It seems she had to do all the housework by herself.

I had to admit the rice dish was very tasty, and she managed to make quite tasty without using many ingredients. It must be due to the condition of the village. Prices for basic necessities must be going through the proverbial roof.

As I was grabbing my glass of juice I heard as if someone was running down a hall upstairs, and then down the stairs. I was greeted with a boy with black hair, wearing a T-shirt and some short pants. The T-shirt had the picture of a fish on it.

"You are all idiots! You think you can come to my town and save us, but you will die! Gato is invincible! You can't help us since you all lived cushy and comfortable lives! You don't know anything about real pain! You know nothing about suffering like we do!"

I waited for the kid to finish speaking till I heard Tsunami apologize to us for what her son said. "Inari you can't talk to these people like that. They kept your dad safe and escorted him home."

I stood up and tried very hard to control my temper, but it wasn't easy to do after what the kid named Inari screamed at us.

"You got to say your things now let me ask you somethings and you can tell me your answer after you hear my questions."

He looked at me like he didn't care either way, so I decided to ask him my questions.

"I don't know pain and suffering then let me ask you have you been beaten, staved, poisoned, starved, burned and had your bones broken? Does the people of your town wish every day that you die? Do the people of your village refuse to sell you anything and treat you like you carry an incurable disease or you are a piece of garbage not even human? Well kid answer my questions."

The kid just told me something I was expecting. "No, but so what! Nobody lived like that so what's the point?"

I got up from my seat and took my dishes and utensils to the sink and washed them. I walked back to the table and thanked Tsunami for a very delicious meal. I began walking towards the living room when she asked me something that made me stop on my tracks.

"Naruto why did you ask my son those questions? Nobody could possibly live the way you described. It sounds more like the stuff of nightmares and no town would do that to a little boy or girl."

I turned around and looked at Inari who was still looking at me like I just said nonsense. "Sorry to tell you this Tsunami but there is someone who lives like I said in those questions. In fact I only asked describing how I am treated back in my village. Now don't you worry about me finding a place to sleep. But right now I need to blow off some steam so please excuse me."

I walked out the front door and decided to find a nice big tree. I walked up on it till I reached a tree branch and decided to go to sleep.

Early in the morning I woke up to find Sayomi trying to wake me up. "Naruto why did you have to sleep out here? There was a perfectly comfortable bed inside their house for you to sleep in."

I looked at her and smiled. "I didn't want to make everyone else uncomfortable and I didn't want to hear her son call me a liar and storm off. We are going to be working and living here for something little over a month. The last thing we need is to cause Tazuna any more problems."

"As it is I will send a shadow clone to train with you and Sakura. I will be going undercover as a potential sword for hire. I need to find those financial records so that I can expose Gato for the fraud he is."

I felt a presence standing on the ground looking at me and Sayomi in her Sasuke disguise. I looked at her and began shaking my head at the notion. "Don't tell me the kid is the one standing down there looking at me, cause he asked you to help him find me so he could apologize."

She crossed her arms and said that in fact Inari felt sorry after Kakashi told them how hard my life was and indeed he asked her for her help in finding me. "I really need to remind Kakashi to learn to keep secrets better. I have too many things to do than to waste time hearing an apology offered out of perceived obligation."

She touched my shoulder and smiled. "Don't do it for him then, do it for me. Talk with him before you go and pretend to be a thug. Be the man I fell in love with, and remember one day you will have kids with me."

I couldn't deny her anything when she smiled and was so sweet to me. I was henpecked and I was not even married yet. I could hear my mother as I thought this walking down the tree.

"Sasuke told me you wanted to talk with me Inari. What do you want to talk about?" turns out he lied to Sayomi and he didn't mean a word of his supposed request to find me to apologize.

"That white haired freak made all that up to back up your bullshit lie! There is no way that you or anyone has a harder life than mine. Gato murdered my father and my mother had to raise me by herself. No one has lived the hell I endured!"

I looked at him and saw that he really believed what he was saying. "How about a bet? The winner gets to ask one request, but the loser has to do it or be shamed for life. You man enough to make a bet like that?"

Being the sheltered brat he was he accepted to make such a bet with me. "Here us what you will do, every time your mother goes to get anything from the market you will go with her."

"You look at how the people live, and help your mother. If they all live better than you, you win. If you have a better life than them I win. I will know if you go or don't so if you stay home you forfeit the bet and lose."

He accepted because his blasted ego would never let him back out of it. He was that determined to prove I was a liar.

I walked towards town and with a few hand signs I began to change. In a matter of second I looked twice my age, had scars on my face and black shaggy hair. If you didn't know it was me I looked like a bloodthirsty, greedy bandit.

I walked into the bar and ordered the cheapest booze they had. "Hey friend you new in town? Why order that swill and not the good stuff?" I looked at him and he became quiet in a second.

"My boss got hacked up by those lousy ninja. I don't have a job, and barely made it out of there with my neck. You think I got the coin to pay for the good stuff or that I be drinking this horse piss if I could afford better!"

He laughed and decided to give me a glass from his bottle. "Man, sorry to hear that. The name is Renji and you what do I call you?" I took the glass and gulped the drink like it was water.

"You can call me Shinji. Now you tell me Renji anyone in this dump need to hire a good swordsman or do I need to look for work else where?" He asked me if I was adverse in killing some towns people.

I laughed my most sadistic laugh and told him I would kill my own mother for the right price. He apparently found that funny. "Then you are a man after my own black heart. Sure I got the perfect job for you. Come on I will take you to my boss, just remember don't kill him cause he is the chicken that lays them golden eggs."

As we walked out of the bar we headed to what looked like to be a shipping business. It was supposed to make us feel the owner was doing great, and had many clients but as I walked towards the office I read some of the shipping labels.

They had names of businesses that had gone out of business years ago. It took a real idiot not to notice these companies didn't exist anymore. Some of the printed addresses sounded fake.

As we entered the office I got my first look of the supposedly invincible crime boss. He was a short, balding fat man. I could even say he looked more like a toad than a man. "Renji who is the guy you brought with you?" Renji looked at him and smiled.

"This is Shinji an out of work swordsman who would kill his own mother for the right price. Trust me boss this guy is worth every coin. I brought him over since you said we needed people that weren't afraid to get their hands bloody."

He walked over to me and was smiling a rather creepy smile. "What Renji said is true, finding reliable people to do wet work is tough. The name is Gato but to you and the rest of my thugs I am your master! I pay after the job is finished. It keeps wannabes way from here but I pay well for good work!"

I looked at him with as much killer intent as I could project at him. "When do I get to killing people? I am itching for a blood bath!" Gato laughed as he heard me say that.

"Renji you found yourself a real prize it seems. Don't you worry Shinji, should my hired ninja fail at their jobs you are going to be really happy soon enough. For now I just need you to get some dead beats to pay up their loan payments, but I will give you that list tomorrow. For now get to know the men you will work with."