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Tenma Sosei: Yes, this story will be strictly NarutoxYugao. However, like real life, he's going to have a couple gf's before ultimately getting with Yugao.
Soluke: In a way, Sasuke is not actually beating Naruto as he is holding back ALOT. Even in this chapter you might notice him holding back, however, at the same time, even with Naruto holding back, Sasuke has managed to beat him a few times.

As previously stated, I do not like to write to canon, but some parts will be as per canon. Though that will be up to my discretion.

"Normal conversations"
"Thoughts"
"Kyuubi talking"
"Kyuubi thoughts"
"Jutsu"
(Jutsu name)

Chapter 9: The First Kill

Menma, Sasuke, Tenten, and their sensei Kakashi stood in front of the Third Hokage, as requested by their sensei last night during training. "What is our first mission Hokage-sama?" Kakashi asked, looking at his students, hoping that he wasn't making a bad decision to have them start out at C-rank missions.

Hiruzen handed an envelope to Kakashi, "There are reports of rogue ninja bandits, collectively from all nations gathering in Uzushiogakure. Our scouts say that they are planning to overthrow the our Daimyo and continue on if they succeed. Your mission is to eliminate all of these rogue ninjas. This is a C-rank based off the reports, but could be escalated to B or A-rank depending on if the report is completely accurate or not." Hiruzen opened a drawer of his desk and handed all of them four Bingo Books, each having their own hidden village symbol on them. "Since there are shinobi from other villages, I want you to look through the bingo book and match to bodies. This will not affect the mission pay, but will only be an added bonus to what you can make. Also, the genin are to return the books after the mission is complete."

Kakashi picked up the books and flipped through the pages, seemed there were many more missing nin than he thought there were. "Shouldn't this be a job handled by the ANBU? Is this not their area of expertise?"

"Kid, this is your only chance to get to go to Uzushiogakure, your birth place, and possibly a place where you can learn more about fuinjutsu... If I were you, I wouldn't let this chance escape your grasp." Kurama said, with a low guttural growl.

"Kakashi-sensei, we can do this. Sure it will be our first mission, but we are more than capable of completing it, plus it would be good to see the famed ruins of Uzushiogakure." Naruto said from behind his mask, hoping to convince his teacher to not hand the mission over to the ANBU.

"Come on Kakashi-sensei, have a little faith in us. Besides, isn't that why you requested us to start at C-ranks because we could handle it?" Sasuke said, really wanting to test his sharingan. At the current moments, he was only able to use his sharingan during training with Naruto and that was just to keep up with his speed.

Kakashi sighed and put the books into his pouch. "When do we leave?" he asked the Hokage.

"You leave in two hours. Do any of you know fuinjutsu?" Hiruzen asked, knowing that Kakashi knew but wasn't sure about the students. He looked over and noticed that Naruto had his hand raised. "I'd suggest you bring more sealing scrolls than usual then." He grabbed a couple pieces of paper and wrote on them before handing them over to Kakashi and Naruto. "Take those to the scroll shop and have the owner fill out that request, he can be reimbursed after the mission. You are dismissed." he said, waving his hand. "Damn all this paperwork! Why did you have to die Minato-san?" he sighed after watching Team Seven leave and put his head into his hands. He heard a knock on the door and lifted his head, "Enter."

Naruto stood at the gates, gazing at the clouds. "No wonder you do this Shikamaru-san, its quite relaxing." There was still roughly a half hour to kill before they had to travel to Uzushiogakure, even though that was another two day travel. "So Kurama, what should I expect from the ruins of Uzushiogakre?" he asked his newest friend.

"Honestly, I am not sure. I have not seen it since my first jailor left. That was a long time ago, long before the place was destroyed." The demon fox states, remembering the grandeur buildings and most importantly, the large impenetrable vault that only the Uzumaki clan could get into. "However, I expect it to be quite exciting to see such a place of grandeur in ruins." He laughed evilly after finishing the last statement.

Naruto rolled his eyes, wondering what he should expect. "What is it with you, death, destruction, and violence? You know that can't be healthy for you, right? Besides, what can I learn from Uzushiogakure? I've studied plenty of fuinjutsu scrolls, even ones that are restricted and forbidden, and none of them have said anything about being able to manipulate an Eight Trigram Seal, let alone any seal, into a new form." He asked curiously, even now, his clones were reading books and scrolls on multiple subjects and he had recently found a scroll in his father's room that told him of a vault that only a member of the Namikaze or Uzumaki clan could open, though how it would not explain.

FLASHBACK

Naruto was walking through the house and stopped in front of the one bedroom he had never opened: his parents' bedroom. He took his mask off and attached it to his hip, reaching out to touch the sliding door, wondering what kind of people his parents were like. Sure, he was the son of the Fourth Hokage, so that meant his father was a great and noble man, but what about his mother? He knew nothing about her and he couldn't find anything about her either. He figured the last place that he might find something about her, would be his parents' room. He finally summoned the courage to open the door and on the dresser being held in a pronged scroll holder, lay a scroll. A very dusty, and seemingly, very old scroll. He looked around the room, thinking that it might be a trap, but didn't notice anything out of the ordinary, as he walked up and grabbed the scroll. He broke the seal on the top and bottom of the scroll and opened it:

To whomever gets the pleasure of reading this,

If you are reading this, it means myself and my wife are dead. However, it also means you are a family member, a Namikaze or an Uzumaki and as such, I extend my deepest and fondest greetings to you. I am surprised you have come this far, only to seek out my bedroom, probably hoping to find some rare treasure no doubt. However, you will find no treasure here unless you look in the vault. The vault is two stories below your feet and guarded by multiple layers of defense and other random ways. I will also tell you that the vault itself is defended as well, but I will not tell you how to get into it either. Only those who are worthy of such treasures must prove their knowledge and cunning to me. The entrance to the vault is behind the dresser. I wish you luck to enter my vault, the only person to have ever succeeded is my wife.

Good luck!

Naruto put the scroll down and pushed the dresser aside and noticed there was a lined seal, one he noticed was similar to a blood sealing, the same kind on the front of the house. He bit his thumb and rubbed his blood over the line and watched as the sealing absorbed his blood before shining a bright light and opening a small passage before him. Remembering the words his father used, "Guarded by multiple layers of defense and other random ways." Naruto grinned and put his hands together, "Taju Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" (Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu) He turned to look at his ten clones, "Do your best to get to the vault without getting yourselves killed or deactivating any traps. Should one of you make it, put a Hiraishin seal on the vault door."

"Hai!" were the clones responses before they walked into the passageway of the vault.

END FLASHBACK

His clones still hadn't made it down the full two stories without disabling the traps, which he has learned how to recreate through the failings of his clones.

"Nothing is wrong with me, you condescending brat! I am Kurama, Nine Tailed Demon Fox Spirit! Of course I'm going to relish in destruction, hate, and death! I hate all you humans, with the exception of one, but he was more of a god than a human. However, that's a story for a later time. Now, as for what you can learn, there's a lot you can learn. If my memory serves well, there is a small building that is impervious to damage and time itself that houses every scroll the Uzumaki clan ever made on fuinjutsu and other jutsus. Rumor has it, that the Senju clan also have scrolls in there because of the safety the Uzumaki clan offered. Now hurry up and get there so I can get out of this damned cage!" Kurama growled out before cutting off communication, feeling abit happy that someone besides his father cares about his anger management, only that mood didn't last long. "Stupid child, to think your words will affect me like they do your friends."

Naruto opened his eyes and saw his other two teammates arriving, the dark haired boy speaking up first, "Menma! Did you remember to stop by the scroll shop Hokage-sama told you to go to?"

"Yep!" the masked boy replied, patting the large scroll he was carrying on his back, much like the way the First Hokage was seen carrying in the history books.

"Why do you need that large of a scroll?" Tenten asked curiously. She didn't know much about fuinjutsu, but even she knew that one wouldn't need that large of a scroll for anything unless you had a really large amount of items being sealed away.

"A few reasons really, but you'll see why when we get closer to Uzushiogakure." Naruto said, grinning at his teammates from behind his mask. "Now we are just waiting on..."

"Me? I was reading over the details of this mission. A wise shinobi never leaves before knowing everything about their mission." Kakashi said, lecturing his three genin. "Alright, lets go. It's going to take us two days to get to Uzushiogakure. We'll talk tactics when we set up camp for the night. So lets go." he finished as he began sprinting through the forests, taking lead in case they were ambushed on the way there.

Somewhere in ?

Pein stood up from his chair and walked over to the edge of the large open window in the tower he stood in. Today was the day his best friend was killed by the legendary Hanzo of the Salamander during their invasion. "I think its time we start moving forward with our plans of bringing peace to the world." he said out loud towards his advisor and second in command of the mercenary group Akatsuki.

"Do you really think we are ready for such a feat? We are only ten strong. Akatsuki isn't what it used to be anymore. Not since..." she hesitated and sighed, remembering the same day that Pein was remembering, "Not since that day. I am not sure how ready everyone is to face such opponents."

"Konan, we are strong enough. We may not have the numbers anymore, but we make up for it with skill and experience. Our ranks consist of eight other S-rank shinobi, each with more than 10 years of battle experience and most with their own genius intellect. It will take some time to find the jinchurikiis of the tailed beasts, and even longer to find them in order. We have attained enough money through minor missions and bounties to sustain Akatsuki for a couple of decades. That alone will be more than enough time to achieve our goal." Pein said, rubbing his ring so that he could telepathically communicate with his entire organization. "Everyone, your attention. We are going to move on to phase two of our plans, the collection of the jinchurikii. Since we need to collect them in order from the Ichibi to the Kyuubi, I will be assigning you each a beast to look for. Where you look is up to you and finding them will be hard as the beasts will hide themselves in their hosts. So, Deidara and Sasori, you will search for and obtain the Ichibi (One-Tail) and Gobi (Five Tails). Kakazu and Hidan, you will search for and obtain the Nibi (Two Tails), Rokubi (Six Tails), and Hachibi (Eight Tails). Tobi and Zetsu, you will search for and obtain the Sanbi (Three Tails) and Nanabi (Seven Tails). Finally, Kisame and Danzo, you will search for and obtain the Yonbi (Four Tails) and Kyuubi (Nine Tails). I do not care in what order you find them, just find them and bring them back here, alive. Should you kill them while attempting to bring them in, I will kill you. Should you be unable to bring the jinchurikii in without killing them, you are to let me know immediately. I expect weekly updates on your searches. Do I make myself clear?"

He and Konan heard a resounding, "Yes, Pein-sama." in their minds before Pein removed his chakra from the ring, thus terminating all communication telepathically with his subordinates. "Now we sit and wait until the jinchurikiis are found and defeated."

The team stood before the dock of Uzushiogakure, a mass of whirlpools raging on before them.

"How do we get across Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked curiously, not being able to see any way through, unless they walked between the areas of the whirlpools themselves.

"We walk. There are areas between the whirlpools that are calm that we can easily walk by. Surely you guys aren't going to complain about a mere kilometer walk." he said, looking at his students, knowing that they were heading into their first real battle that was going to result in their first kills.

"Sounds good to me." Sasuke said before jumping out of the boat and heading towards the first calm area between the nearest whirlpools.

Naruto jumped down himself and looked up at his last two comrades before watching them jump down as well, noticing Kakashi taking lead. "Lets go Tenten." he said, smiling at her from behind his mask.

"Sure." She said, following her crush and teammate, "You know, to preserve the mask, you should take it off during the fights when we get to land." she commented, once again baiting him to remove the mask that hid his face. "I'm going to see whats under that mask one way or the other."

"Although you make a good point, it is quite pointless as well. You see, this is no ordinary mask. This mask is covered in chakra and protected by chakra, my chakra. In order for my mask to take any sort of damage, I would have to use a lot of chakra." he said, tapping his mask lightly. "Besides, I like my mask." he grinned, giving Tenten a thumbs up before following in the steps of his sensei and Uchiha counterpart.

Ten minutes later, the team stood on the shore of Uzushiogakure, the treeline hiding the ruins of the village from sight. They all got in formation and took to the trees, jumping from branch to branch until they reached a clearing of what seemed like a bandit scout group. He signaled to Naruto to take the leftmost man, Sasuke the rightmost, and Tenten to come with him with the middle two.

"You know, I don't see why we don't just attack the Daimyo now. We have the manpower and firepower. We could easily overrun his palace before he could get reinforcements from Konohagakure." one bandit said from around the fire pit, checking his ninja tools.

"Calm down Okobo. We'll attack him soon enough, probably tomorrow or something. Rechi is smoothing out some rough points before we go." he said, looking up at his teammate, a missing nin from Sunagakure. He looked up just in time to see a few kunai come from the trees, killing all but him as he blocked the kunai that came for him. "So, we have a little raiding party huh? This should be fun."Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu" (Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu) He shot the fireball towards where the kunai came from and incinerated the area, grinning as he saw two objects fall off from his area of flames. He started walking up to the objects, "Lets see what fancy tools I can take off your.." he growled when he noticed it was just a couple of logs, turning around to see a tall silver haired ninja jump at him and pin him to the ground, hand covering his mouth and nose, forcing him to be unable to breath. He tried pushing the man off him, but his arms and legs were pinned down by a masked child and black haired child. He tried looking for anyone else, but his eyes became blurry before succumbing to death from the lack of oxygen.

"There are about 50 bandits two kilometers north of here." Naruto said casually, his sensory skills having improved so much, that he could get an idea of everything around him with every step he took and have a visual image of it inside his mind. He could even fight with his eyes closed if he chose to.

"Impressive, Menma. How did you know that?" Kakashi asked, looking at his student.

"I have read a lot of sensory skill books and have trained to be a sensory ninja among other things." he said, shrugging off the compliment, but giving a smile from underneath his mask.

"Showoff." Sasuke said, nudging his friend a little. "So the score is 1-1. Whoever wins, buys the other a new set of kunai upon mission completion." he offered his hand out to Naruto and grinned, activating his two tomoe sharingan.

"Try to keep up." Naruto said, grinning as he shook his friends hand. "Just don't cry when you lose."

"I don't intend to."

"Come on you two, must everything be a competition?" Tenten asked, placing her hands on her hips. She was starting to get upset that Sasuke was always pushing Menma into a friendly challenge. "Killing someone shouldn't be a challenge. We should respect those who die." she finished, glaring at the two of her teammates.

"She's right. You should respect those who die. Every life tells a story and when you kill someone, you are killing someone's loved one. So, if you do intend to kill someone, do it when you are calm and level headed. If you kill someone out of hate, you'll regret it later on down the road. Thats not a shinobi rule, thats one of my rules." Kakashi said, noticing the two tomoe sharingan in Sasuke's eyes. "To have a two tomoe at such a young age... this can't be good. I'll have to keep an eye on him to make sure he doesn't do anything stupid."

Sasuke and Naruto looked at each other, suddenly feeling bad about making such a game about killing people. They weren't really sure what to say, so they nodded their heads, "Alright, lets finish the mission and head home. Were any of these part of the bingo book?" Naruto asked, looking at the four bodies.

"Only this one." Tenten said pointing at the man who was suffocated.

"Alright, cross out his name. Menma, seal him in one of your scrolls." Kakashi said as he took out his Bingo Book from Kumogakure and made an X over the shinobi's picture as the sealing was completed.

"Done Kakashi-sensei. Lets finish the rest." Naruto said, suddenly standing still as he heard a ghostly whisper through the trees.

"Uzumaki... come to the temple. There is much we need to show you about your clan. Wipe your blood across the seal on the door and enter."

"Menma? Menma? Hello... Konoha to Menma?" Sasuke said, waving his hands in front of his teammate.

"Huh? What? What'd I miss?" Naruto said, snapping out from the sudden disbelief of hearing voices. "Did anyone else hear that?"

"Hear what?" replied the black haired girl.

"Nothing.. nevermind. Forget about it." Naruto said, "We going?" He put the scroll with the sealed corpse away and followed after his team as they all jumped into the trees and headed north towards the bandit camp. The four continued to travel until they came to a destroyed wall at the exit of the tree line. Behind the wall laid the ruins of Uzushiogakure, pillars of intricate markings lay on the ground, broken and crumbling. Houses and buildings lay destroyed, the same markings on them as the pillars had. Everywhere around was the destruction of the Uzumaki clans home and the masters of fuinjutsu. In the distance however, stood a singular concrete building with the Uzumaki swirl at the top with the name of the building underneath "Uzumaki Temple", intricate markings covered the walls of the building, while surrounding the building was a large group of bandits.

"Come on, lets get going. It seems everyone is trying to get into that building. We need to stop them so we can rescue whoever is inside." Kakashi said, looking at his students, noticing Naruto wasn't moving again.

"This is what is left of our home. Stop them. Show them your power. Enter the temple and learn of your heritage."

"Menma, you sure you're ok? You've been acting strange since we got here." Kakashi said, eyeing the masked child.

"I'm sure. Lets go." Naruto replied following after his silver haired teacher.

As they landed behind the group of people, Tenten jumped into the air and unleashed a shower of senbon, kunai and shuriken, each piece of metal finding seperate targets. Kakashi ran forward and began taijutsu fights with multiple enemies while Naruto and Sasuke were each fighting with a kunai in hand. As Tenten was coming back to the ground, she felt something hot against her leg, looking down to see a flaming whip encircle it and slam her into the ground. She laid on the ground, before sitting up to see the whip go away and the same ninja do a few more handseals,"Doton: Chikyu domu" (Earth Style: Earth Dome)

Suddenly, she was trapped in a dome of earth, unable to escape as she had no real natural affinity to any elements, but only excelled in weapon usage. "Come on, I gotta find out a way out of this or else Menma-kun will think I'm weak."

Naruto looked to his side and watched as Tenten was trapped in an earth dome, before looking back over towards Sasuke and Kakashi, both of them holding their own and killing bandits as they were able to, while dodging and performing jutsus of their own, though Sasuke looking a little worse for wear. In front of Naruto stood ten bandits, each with a grin on their face. "Come on boy, give up, we'll go easy on you then." spoke a dark skinned rogue, his hitaite showing that he was from Kumogakure.

"As you wish." Naruto said as he drew his sword and put his fingers together,"Taju Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" (Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu) He created ten clones, one for each of his opponents, before taking off to the man who trapped Tenten. As he arrived to the dome, he watched Tenten burst the the back of the dome away from the man. He grinned and jumped on top of the dome, looking at the man in front of him, pointing his sword at him. "I'm your opponent now."

"Excellent! I could use a good fight, but first I am Rechi and you are?" Rechi said, looking at the child in front of him.

"I am Menma Shonjiki of Konohagakure and this is where you die. I noticed your picture in the bingo book of Iwagakure, you're worth a hefty bounty." Naruto said grinning as he threw a kunai at him, knowing full well he was going to dodge it with ease.

"So I'm told, but I doubt you of all people will be able to defeat me." Rechi commented moving his body ever so slightly to dodge the thrown kunai as he slammed his hands onto the ground, "Doton: Chikyu domusupaiku" (Earth Style: Earth Dome Spikes) He grinned as spikes suddenly shot out of the earth dome, one of them inadvertently piercing someone behind the dome as he heard a girl scream in pain, though she was not his intended target.

Naruto jumped a few seconds after Rechi's hands hit the ground and he teleported behind him, stabbing him in the stomach. "You know, for being a B-rank shinobi, you fall way too easily."

"Where did you.. How did you get behind me so fast?" Rechi said, coughing up blood. "Noone can move that fast since Konoha's Yellow Flash died."

"Well, I guess I'm someone who can move as fast as him." Naruto said before channeling lightning through his blade to finish off Rechi, before pulling out his sword and kicking Rechi down lightly. "Rest well Rechi." he said as he took off towards Tenten and picking her up, noticing the earth spike stuck in her arm. "We'll get you taken care of soon. Don't worry." Naruto told her, to ease her worries.

"Thanks. I'll be fine, this is nothing." Tenten said, trying to sound strong even though the pain was absolutely overbearing. She'd been through rigorous training as a shinobi, but they didn't really train you to deal with physical pain like this. She leaned her head against the boys shoulder and smiled, "Well, at least Menma-kun is carrying me. I knew he cared about me."

Naruto walked with Tenten to a clear grassy area in front of the temple, Kakashi carrying Sasuke. "Let go of me! I can walk just fine!" Sasuke said, struggling out of Kakashi's arms, before hitting the ground, attempting to push himself up but only managing to roll onto his back.

"You overdid it Sasuke. You used too much chakra and are now suffering the effects of chakra exhaustion. Not a lesson I was hoping you would learn soon, but a lesson you have to learn nonetheless. Try not to move too much so that your body can heal and your chakra can replenish itself." Kakashi said as he took some bandages from his pouch and began patching up Sasuke and helping Naruto patch up Tenten after he had removed the earth spike from her arm. "We'll stay here for a couple days while you two heal up and we collect the bodies for their bounty."

"Come to us. Learn of your heritage. Learn of your clan. Just wipe your blood upon the seal and learn of untold secrets of the Uzumaki clan."

Naruto stood up after he finished patching up Tenten and walked towards the temple doors. "Menma-kun, where are you going?" Tenten asked, looking at her teammate.

"I'm going to check to see if anyone is inside." he replied as he walked up the steps to the door, looking at the seals placed on the door. They weren't the same as what he's seen, but he could tell that it was a multi-layered seal, one he wasn't sure what it was supposed to do.

"Fine, but I'm going with you Menma." Kakashi said as he stood up. "Tenten, you watch over Sasuke." Kakashi walked up to the temple and took a step on the stairs that lead to the doors, but stepped off as he felt an electrical current run through his body. "Hrm.. Thats strange." Kakashi reached out a hand to reach past the area of the stares and received the same electrical charge, only this one was so magnified, that it launched him towards Tenten and Sasuke. "Are you not getting shocked at all Menma?"

"No, why?" he asked curiously.

"Nothing.. just don't be too long." Kakashi said, looking at his student in pure wonder.

"Alright. I'll be back before nightfall." He said, giving a thumbs up to his teacher and teammates. "Just wipe my blood on the seal, huh?" Naruto bit his thumb and wiped the blood onto the seal, watching the seal soak up his blood and open just enough that he could step inside. As he stepped inside, the doors closed behind him, leaving him in a dark, dimly lit building.