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Chapter 14 – On the boarder

Upon returning home Team 7 and 8 were told that they were given a successful completion of an A rank mission on their records. Also bringing in Zabuza and Haku also got Naruto a reward for the capture of a missing nin. Both were taken to Ibiki and were released about three days later, they were given a small apartment with Zabuza given a temporary position as special jonin. Haku was given a position as a genin but was not assigned an instructor and was sent to work with the instructors at the academy. Also she would spend time with team 8 training to keep her skills sharp.

After a week of light training and some rest team 8 was summoned to the Hokage's tower for a new C rank mission. They are to head to the border for a couple weeks of scouting and help watching the border of Ta no Kuni (Rice Field country) for Kaminari no Kuni (Lighting country) incursions. They met a few Kaminari ninja but they had paperwork for going to the Chunin exams that would occur in a month.

With only a few days left on their patrol they intercepted two children running from a squad of Lighting ninjas, the children had crossed the border and were nearly exhausted when team 8 arrived. The Lightning ninja, four of them demanded to have the children returned no matter what. Kurenai politely informed them that they were several kilometers into the Fire country and should withdraw, and that they could take this up with the Hokage if they liked.

The lightning ninjas not liking the Kurenai's response attacked. Kurenai ran through some hand signs casting a genjutsu, Demonic Illusion: Tree Binding Death. The target was surrounded by a tree and entangled, while Kurenai came out of the tree and slit the man's throat. The apparent jonin of the Lightning ninjas went through some hand signs "Lightning technique: Lightning fan" creating a lightning bolt that spread out from his hand. Shino was hit first and was taken down by a lightning bolt while it only injured Naruto, Hinata and the two children. Both Naruto and Hinata began to leak a massive amount of chakra, Naruto's red, Hinata's lavender. At that point Kurenai was fighting a second ninja with a kunai.

Naruto leapt at the jonin with his kunai cutting him across the stomach and chest, as he was not expecting Naruto to be that fast. The jonin did hit Naruto with a defensive slashing attack cutting Naruto across the right arm. They continued to trade blows, neither gaining an advantage. As they switched to taijutsu Naruto created a shadow clone. The fight showed that Naruto while good did not have the same experience as the jonin, who was able to injure Naruto more than he and his clone were able to hit the jonin. This though was to Naruto's advantage, as he healed injuries quickly but the jonin did not and was tiring. The jonin finally thought he got the real Naruto when his kunai stuck in his stomach and was dropping blood, the body exploded in a cloud of smoke. And Naruto pushed his kunai under the shoulder blade of the jonin hitting his heart. The jonin turned and looked at Naruto, and then his eyes rolled into the back of his head as he fell to the ground.

Hinata was fighting the last of the Lighting shinobi was able to land a couple blows but this was not enough as the enemy decided that fighting close range with her was not in his best interest. He jumped back and started to throw kunai at Hinata, a few hit but they were injuring her. She wished she had learned the Katen (rotation) maneuver it would help protect her from long distance attacks. She was able to avoid most of the kunai and shuriken but the hits were adding up. not quite as good as the other ninja and was slowly losing, even with enhanced healing she could not keep up and was eventually hit and knocked out, just a Naruto struck the jonin ninja with a killing blow.

Seeing the other ninja raise a katana to strike a killing blow on Hinata, Naruto's red chakra flared sending an elongate chakra claw at the offending ninja knocking him down and causing deep wounds on his chest. "Leave her alone!" The downed ninja threw a kunai at Hinata, Naruto caught it but it had hit her in the rib cage and she was bleeding. Naruto looked at the ninja with hate and bloodlust in his now red eyes. He threw the kunai back at the ninja hitting him in the front of the skull, killing him. He then knelt beside Hinata trying to stem the bleeding. It did stop but only after a few minutes, which Kurenai used this distraction to kill the other enemy ninja. She quickly checked Hinata which Naruto appeared to have saved her from dying. She then checked on Shino and the children. Naruto's chakra levels returned to normal. Naruto passed out from exhaustion.

Shino was fine just having received a concussion and slight electrical damage. The children were exhausted. The team bandaged up Hinata, and took care of the kids waiting until the relief team arrived. The children seemed to be fascinated by Naruto which, to him was a little unnerving. While he is twelve the two children were maybe ten and nine. The boy had serpent like eyes which Naruto thought were cool. The girl had bright red hair, ice blue eyes and was always behind the boy. It took a couple of days for them to finally speak. The boy spoke up. "We come to Konoha seeking the jinchuuriki, the container of the Kyubi. I am Shinbo, this is Yugito."

"Ok why are you seeking the container of the Kyubi?" Naruto asked confused.

"We seek him because we have heard that jinchuuriki are treated better in Konoha than other places." Shinbo answered.

"What makes you think that this particular jinchuuriki is treated differently?" Kurenai asked. "All we know now is your names and that you seek the Kyubi container. For all we know you are here to kill him."

Yugito started to cry "we seek him because he is like us and we cannot bear to be treated with hatred anymore."

Naruto smiled and scratched his head, "well, I guess you found me."

Both the children looked at Naruto in awe. He was a ninja of Konoha a respected member of the village. All Kurenai could do was shake her head and think, 'you are too trusting sometimes Naruto.' "What do you mean by saying he is like you?"

"We are both containers of tailed beasts" Shinbo answered. "I contain Hachibi, the eight tailed dragon, Yugito contains Nibi, the two tailed cat. We are humbled and honored to meet you." Both bowed to Naruto.

Naruto looked very confused, "um… Nice to meet you too. My name is Naruto Uzumaki. Kurenai Sensei what are we going to do with them? I mean we can't send them back, they will be hurt, and besides I had to kill to protect them and us." With that revelation Naruto looked very sullen realizing that he had made his first and second kills on the same day. He did not remember his actual first as he was only three years old at the time. According to his instruction it should be easy for him to deal with this but he found he was having a problem with having the blood of others on his hands, even if it was for protecting his friends, and team.

Kurenai noticed that Naruto was more down than usual, heck he was downright depressing, the only thing that lifted him since the battle was finding that there were more people who had been forced to have demons sealed in them. "Hinata will you keep our guest entertained, I need to talk to Naruto."

Kurenai motioned for Naruto to follow her into the woods. When they were out of hearing distance she spoke. "Naruto, are you ok? You have been a little on edge since the fight. I miss your happiness that is infectious." Naruto look up a Kurenai with a sad look on his face.

"No Sensei, I am not ok. I was told that it would be easy for me to kill and that I would revel in it." Kurenai was shocked to hear this but let him continue. "I was told that I would feel no remorse for those that I may kill. Because…" He turned away, "because I am a monster."

Grabbing his shoulders and turning him to face her. "Naruto you are no monster. You are the most caring and gracious person I know besides Hinata that I have ever met. Killing should never come easily. While it is what we do it is not what we are. Only a murderer does not feel remorse for those that have been slain. It does become easier with time but should never become enjoyable. I am sorry. What you were told was wrong. Please go back to the group. We will be pulling out tomorrow as our relief should be here tonight. Also tell your new friends that they should only mention their secret to the Hokage upon our return. Understand?" Naruto just nodded and walked back to the group. 'I must figure who taught him the wrong model for dealing with the stress of killing in battle.'

Hinata looked at Naruto as he returned, he looked very depressed, but quickly put on a fake smile as soon as he realized that she had seen him. 'I hope he is ok.'

"Hey Shinbo and Yugito, please do me a favor and do not mention you are a jinchuuriki to anyone other than the Hokage, it will be easier to deal with things that way." They both nodded. "Well we will be heading back to the village tomorrow morning, so be ready to meet the Hokage." With that he put on a huge grin. He then moved to find a spot close to the fire, and promptly fell asleep sitting up. He started lean as he was sleeping and ended up having his head on Hinata's shoulder. She blushed at this but did not want to move him. As Kurenai returned she smiled at seeing Naruto asleep on Hinata's shoulder. At least he was not leaning on her injured side.

"Shino, how is your picket going?" Kurenai asked.

"There is no one around for at least two hundred meters in any direction." Shino answered.

Kurenai moved Naruto into the tent with Hinata as they both were exhausted and needed rest. Naruto had a restless night murmuring, and tossing and turning in his sleep. Shino and Kurenai took shifts watching over the camp, even though nothing happened. The relief came into camp promptly at dawn, and were received by team 8 ready for combat both teams were relieved to see that they were friendly faces. After a quick report to the leader of the replacement squad team 8 headed back to the village.

It took a couple days to reach the village. They checked in at the gates then headed directly to the Hokage's tower. They were ushered into the Hokage's office for their report. "Hokage, I would like to report one hostile incursion and several non hostile, the non-hostile ones were for the upcoming Chunin exams." Kurenai explained. "We have two guests, they are the reason for the hostile incursion. They are jinchuuriki, the eight tailed and two tailed respectively."

"Interesting" Sarutobi exclaimed as he was looking at the children. "So how and why did you come to Konoha?"

At first they were quiet, "Awe, come on, you can tell him. I trust him after all he is the Hokage." Naruto said with a huge smile.

"I am Shinbo, and this is Yugito, we escaped from prison in the lighting capital. We are hoping to have new lives and find the freedom that Naruto enjoys. We have discussed with him that what we were told is not quite correct in that he is regarded as a hero. We know his life thus far has been rough. We want to be free and learn how to be shinobi." Shinbo recounted.

"Well, Naruto is regarded as a hero, but only by a few. But as he improves more as people show him more respect which is what he desires and deserves. I would love to have you in the village and as students, and later as shinobi. Not because you are the containers of demons but because you are caring people. I know you could do worse than have Naruto as an example of how to become a shinobi. I will arrange for you to have a couple apartments close to Naruto so that you can work visit him. I am sure you will want to also get to know Hinata, his teammate, as I feel they will spend a lot of time together. I will talk to the instructors about enrolling you in the academy. First I would like you to talk to someone, if you want to do the interview together that is fine. I just need to gauge how you will fit in to our village. Ibiki will interview you both. I would prefer an individual interview but will allow one that is done together." Sarutobi said with a warm smile.

"Naruto, please stay a moment. Kurenai please escort our guests to the interview rooms." Kurenai and Shino led them both Shinbo and Yugito away to another room in the tower. "Hinata you can stay if you like as this may affect you too. Naruto I want your opinion on them."

"Well, Shinbo is very smart and he seems to know a lot about seals and sealing. He also knows a lot about chakra and its uses. Yugito is nice but I think she was raised by a noble family that did not like her, Hinata said she had a lot of bruises and minor scaring." Hinata nodded at Naruto comments. "I trust them as they both have shown their demon chakra to us. We were careful not to show the relief team." Naruto blushed and looked down. "Also they did not say it but Shinbo does not have a family name and wanted me to adopt him. They both want the Uzumaki name, as Yugito wants to get rid of her family name. So can I adopt them?" Naruto asked happily.

"As for the Uzumaki name I have no problem with them taking on your family name. But you are not old enough to adopt them. I will talk to Iruka so that I can place them in a class so that they can socialize. We will not let people know they are jinchuuriki. You know how it is to be one and how the other children will treat them if they knew. As for the cover story I am not sure. Some sort of relative will work for now. Now as far as the Hyugas go we need to talk. Hinata does Naruto know about what happened nine years ago?" Hinata nodded. "Good, I am glad you could talk about it. Naruto does Hinata know about your guest?" Naruto nodded.

"Ok now that that is out of the way. You are both jinchuuriki, Naruto being the more powerful one. With these new visitors we are up to four. Demons are not that common so sealing them is difficult at best. You both have a gift and a curse." They both looked at each other worried. "No not that way. You have the burden of having to house a demon in you. While it will give you power it comes at a price. Now you are dismissed I have some work to do. I hope to see you again." With that they left to try to catch up with Kurenai and Shino. "How will this affect the village and will it bring more trouble?" Sarutobi could only shake his head as he had a feeling that there was going to be more trouble to come.

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