Umm, I know everyone is probably not happy about the incredible wait, especially that one person who I guaranteed the next chapter would be up by the next day...two months ago. Well, err I finally got off my ass and got the next chapter spliced up and ready, I haven't read it since I wrote it back in july so, sorry if there's some mess ups.

I made it about as long as I could without getting to far into the story, I hope it's long enough to make up for my piss-poor slowness with updating, 12,000 words, I hope you all enjoy it.

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It didn't take too long, about 15 minutes later Kurenai returned with a fairly large scroll, an alarm clock, and another Shinobi. "I'm back, didn't take as long as I thought it would" she looked at the state of the three shinobi lying about in the grass "Are you ready?"

Naruto leaned up and looked at Kurenai, and the rather outlandish other Shinobi, she had medium length plum colored hair, pulled back into a spiky ponytail, a tan trench coat that went to her knees, and was left completely open, beneath the trench coat she had on nothing but fishnet, and a tiny tan mini skirt.

Naruto quirked an eyebrow at her state of dress "Nice clothes, they certainly leave everything to the imagination, don't they?"

Said Shinobi smirked evilly at Naruto "You sure are a ballsy one aren't ya? Openly leering at a women, a Jounin no less!"

Naruto narrowed his eyes slightly at the plum haired Shinobi, "I don't leer, ever. I was merely taking in new information in my surroundings, and the fact that your a Kunoichi makes no difference"

Kurenai busted up the argument before it began, she couldn't fathom the arguments those two could probably come up with, hell they'll probably end up being friends "This is Anko, she is helping me with the test today. Your objective is to get this scroll from me in under 3 hours, Anko will be acting as a bodyguard, and I will also be protecting myself"

Naruto quirked an eyebrow "That certainly is an unexpected way to test us, a high level mission simulation, with two jounins as the targets, this should be fun, I hope you two have some great tricks up your sleeves"

Anko smirked "You'd be surprised at what I can hide up my sleeves boy"

Now it was Naruto's turn to smirk "I can't wait to find out, Kurenai could we begin? I'm...anxious"

Kurenai smiled, Naruto sure was eager to get to business "Sure" she set the alarm clock and set it on a rock. "Ok, your three hours begins now" She and Anko both disappeared in puffs of smoke.

Naruto smirked "Too late, I've already got your scents" he sniffed the air and caught their scents "there we are" He disappeared in a blur off towards the two.

Kurenai and Anko both felt him coming, at incredibly high speed, far above genin, probably above their own. He burst through the bush they were behind and smirked at them, "Hello ladies, hiding doesn't work on me, I can smell you"

Naruto stood up to his full height, and suddenly the two women were surrounded by over 50 Naruto's, all grinning evilly at them "Any chance you would hand the scroll over peacefully? Theres no need to hurt either of you"

Anko laughed "You think it would be that easy?"

Naruto shrugged "Had to at least try to be diplomatic before I hurt you. But, since you're being difficult, sorry this is probably going to hurt you, a lot, but I can fix it" Naruto suddenly appeared in front of Anko with a vicious set of claws raking across her stomach, the fish netting was shredded, along with a good amount of her flesh.

Anko screamed his grabbed her stomach with one hand, and flicked a Kunai out of her sleeve into her spare hand, she looked down and her abdomen was soaked in blood "You son of a bitch!" she lunged forward with the Kunai and swiped at his face, Naruto bent back to and inhuman angle and dodged the strike, and flipped up and kicked her in the stomach, further worsening the already bad wound. The kick sent Anko back a few feet and Kurenai grabbed her before she collapsed from blood loss.

Kurenai was slightly scared, Anko was one of the best Jounin in the village, and in open combat she was definitely better then Kurenai herself was, yet Naruto was able to beat her in two hits without so much as getting scratched.

Naruto sighed and he and his clones turned back to Kurenai, "Sorry for doing that to her, but I had to get her out of the way, don't worry she'll be fine, but now you're at a sore disadvantage." Naruto lunged at the weighted down Kunoichi, but she managed to dodge the swipe even with Anko in her arms.

She shifted Anko on to her shoulder and flashed through a set of hand signs "Sorry Naruto, Death of Darkness Jutsu!" suddenly Naruto's world went entirely black, Naruto froze in his tracks for a moment, then smirked which made Kurenai quiver slightly "So, you used a genjutsu that doesn't prey on my fears, unexpected, but poor choice. Did you forget that I was blinded in that attack? I can function without sight, and even better with my improved senses. I can hear your heartbeat, and smell your sweat"

Naruto turned and looked straight at Kurenai, and his eyes were completely black, "Actually this isn't a genjutsu Naruto, it's a ninjutsu, I've completely covered your eyes with a pitch black shield, though I suppose it doesn't matter since you can still fight"

Naruto smirked "You shouldn't have revealed that, now I know that I can still see if I want to" Suddenly Kurenai felt a surge of chakra come from Naruto, a red glow was emitting from his eyes, even through the pitch black shield. Naruto sighed contentedly "Much better" He dropped into his feral fighting stance once again. "You should really give up the scroll Kurenai, I know you're not as good at up close fighting as Anko was, and she didn't get to far"

Kurenai shook her head "Sorry, can't do that, that would be failing the mission if this were real" She flashed through another set of hand signs and called out "Limb loss jutsu!" Naruto frowned "Damn it I hate this jutsu" Suddenly all of his limbs went numb and he collapsed to the ground.

Naruto glared at Kurenai "You've taken care of my limbs, for a short time, but You still have 50 clones to deal with, all of which are above chuunin level chakra levels, and know everything I do" two clones came forward and lifted Naruto up and threw his arms over their shoulders. Naruto nodded to the clones and four jumped forward to Kurenai. One threw a Kunai at her chest, which she was forced to turn awkwardly to avoid, which threw her off balance. The second clones swept her feet our from under her, sending her and Anko into the air. The Third clone swooped forward and caught Anko, while the forth ripped the scroll from her back, and left her to fall. Kurenai went to catch herself but landed badly and her arm snapped with two sickening 'pops' Kurenai yelped in pain and stood up, in a very large amount of pain. Naruto looked glared at her through the black shield "Ok, I've got the scroll now, care to cancel your jutsu's on me and I can help you and Anko"

Kurenai sighed and released the jutsu, and dropped to her knees, exhausted from carrying Anko, and from pain of her snapped arm, Naruto stood back on his own feet and looked around, happy to have his normal sight back, the two clones that were helping him walked over to Kurenai and Anko, and each clones picked one woman up, the rest of the clones dispelled, Naruto and the clones then walked back to where Hinata and Kiba were, with the two women, and Naruto holding the scroll.

The clones placed the two women on the grass and Kurenai glared at Naruto "Is there a reason you let me break my arm? That clone could have easily caught me the same way it caught Anko"

Naruto grinned slightly "I wanted you to get something out of the exercise too, don't worry it'll be fine in a minute" Kurenai felt another surge of chakra come from Naruto and his eyes changed from vertically slit blue eyes, to a cross shaped pupil, and they glowed green. Naruto looked over the two and nodded "It's not to bad, Kurenai your arm is broken in two places, Anko has deep lacerations to her abdomen, her large intestine is damaged badly, she also has severe internal bleeding, it's most definitely fatal"

Kurenai gasped, and Naruto chuckled "Well, it would be if I weren't as good as I am, she'll be fine, better then fine in a few minutes"

Naruto walked over and knelt next to Kurenai and pushed her flat on the ground by her shoulder "Lay still" Naruto flashed through a series of strange hand signs and his hands started to glow a very sinister Redish black. "Oni Gigei: Shikyo Tensou no jutsu!" the Red chakra on his hands suddenly flew into her arm, she could actually feel the chakra flying throughout her system, and she felt her arm snap back into place, painlessly and the bones instantly mended back together. The chakra then receded from her and crawled back onto his hands, then seeped into him, a moment later his arm broke with two distinctive 'snaps' Naruto grunted at the pain and stood up. "There, your arm is all better now"

Kurenai leaned up and flexed her arm, and was surprised to find it was perfectly fine, good as new in fact. "What did you do?"

Naruto sighed and rubbed his, now broken arm as it quickly healed "Oni Gigei: Shikyo Tensou. It's a demonic jutsu Kyuubi taught me, it can transfer any injury to the user, even death itself. So I used it to transfer your broken arm to me since it won't effect me" Naruto flexed his arm and it was already healed, just a tiny bit sore. "Now, for Anko"

Naruto turned around and knelt next to the unconsciousness bleeding form of Anko, he took off his trench coat, vest, and shirt. "No reason to get my clothes all bloody" He flashed through the same series of strange seals and his hands glowed with the same redish black, which then crawled down and into Anko, it swam around through her system picking up everything that didn't belong there, then crawled back up to Naruto and sunk into him. Kurenai and the two genin watched with strange fascination as the deep jagged gash in Anko's stomach disappeared, and then Naruto's stomach ripped apart and started to pour blood, but the wound quickly closed and stopped bledding. Then a strange black mark appeared on Naruto's neck and he gasped in pain. "What the fuck is this!"

Kyuubi was suddenly startled 'It's a curse seal kit! She must have had one on her that you didn't know about'

Naruto was slightly panicked 'What the fuck!? Can you get rid of it?'

'No. The best I can do is destroy everything about it, but it will always be there now'

Naruto sighed 'Shit, well do that much at least. At least it isn't some gay pattern or something'

Kyuubi mentally nodded 'Will do, it might take a little while, it's incredibly well made, and powerful'

Back in the real world Kurenai noticed the curse mark that appeared on Naruto's neck and yelled "Naruto! You transferred her curse mark to yourself!"

Naruto grunted in pain as the seal was worked on by Kyuubi "Yeah, I realize that, lucky her I guess, damn this things a bitch, don't worry about it though, it's already being destroyed"

Kurenai gasped "Destroyed, but how? It's been researched for years, there's no way to destroy or remove them, only suppress them"

Naruto grinned "Well, I guess they never had a nine tailed demon to help them out"

Kurenai gasped "Naruto, the children don't know of it!"

Naruto shook his head "Yes they do, I told them all at the beginning of the year. It was kind of hard coming to class one day looking 5 years older, my scars and casts being gone, and having new eyes, not something easily explained away"

Kurenai nodded, then realization hit her "Speaking of eyes, what was that with your eyes before? They changed, and turned green"

Naruto smirked "Yeah, that was one of my doujutsu. That one was the Bantan Kenzan Manako (All Seeing Eye) It lets me see well everything, I can see through things, I can see through people, I can see your skeletal systems and anatomy, I can even see your chakra system and Chakra points, like the Byakugan"

Kurenai blushed slightly at the mention of being able to see her anatomy, she thought she saw his eyes wander as he looked her and Anko over "I was never aware that you had a Kekei Genkai, and doujutsu's? As in you have more?"

Naruto nodded "Well, it's not a Kekei Genkai, well I suppose it is now since it's part of my genetics, when I let Kyuubi change me, I let him play around with my genetics, and he gave me as many doujutsu's as he could, taking aspects from different ones and combining them into different doujutsu's with different abilities, such as the Bantan Kenzan Manako, which is extremely useful for medical applications, among other things"

Anko suddenly stirred slightly and opened her eyes, and she saw Naruto kneeling next to her, with his stomach covered in blood, in the exact same place she was wounded, then she noticed her own wound was gone, then she noticed the one thing was gone that she never expected to be gone, her curse seal. She suddenly sat up and saw her same curse seal was now on Naruto's neck, and she felt very light headed.

Naruto noticed the sudden action and spun around to her "Whoa there Anko, My jutsu can't fix blood loss, here take this" He pulled out a blood pill from a pouch on his vest, Anko quickly ate it, and instantly felt her strength start to come back to her.

"Wh-What the hell happened? Where's my wound, my curse seal, and why the hell are you all bloody, and have the same curse seal I had?"

Naruto smirked "I used a special jutsu on you, transferred all your wounds to myself, and your curse seal came with it, so congratulations, your free of that seal now, and the big hole I put in your stomach"

Before Naruto even knew what was going on Anko grabbed him in an incredibly powerful hug, and kissed him, right on the lips. Naruto freaked out, he hadn't been given a hug since Yumi died, and he had never been kissed before, especially on the lips!

Anko released him from her grasp and he instantly took a big step back from her "Wh-why did you do that?" he asked. Anko grinned evilly "Because you saved me from that seal, I've been plagued by that damn thing for years. Plus, you're a sexy piece of man"

Naruto face vaulted "You know I'm twelve right?"

Anko smiled at him seductively "You sure don't look, or act twelve, that's what counts"

Naruto laughed "Because the fact that it's illegal means nothing? Then again...I've killed 83 citizens of Konoha, guess I can't talk about breaking laws"

Anko cocked her head to the side "You've killed 83 people from Konoha?"

Naruto smirked "Honestly, does no one look at my vest? 73 villagers, 9 chuunin and a jounin, and If I were fighting you and Kurenai for real, it would have been 3 jounins"

Anko narrowed her eyes at him, she hated losing "Yeah, well how the hell was I supposed to know a genin fresh out of the academy was going to be able to move like that?"

Naruto sighed "Underestimation, every single Shinobi I've fought until this point has underestimated me, and every single one has died without laying a hand on me. I don't even know why they underestimate me, do I really look weak now with Kyuubi's changes? I mean, I'm 5' 11'' and I'm covered in muscle, why would you think I'm weak?"

Anko shrugged "I guess it's the fact that your still young, and a fresh genin, no one expects a novice to actually be a master. I sure as hell wont underestimate you again, next time we fight I'll be ready for you, and you wont have it quite so easy"

Naruto grinned "Careful Anko, it almost sounded like you wanted a rematch or something"

Anko leaned forward and circled her index finger around his chin "All that and more" Naruto couldn't help but blush slightly from her implications, and Hinata was slowly getting more angry at Anko, Naruto was supposed to be her man.

Kurenai stepped between the two and pulled Anko away "Okay love birds, thats enough. We meet here again tomorrow at 8Am, we start our missions then, see you all later"

Kiba was frustrated "She didn't even talk to me or Hinata, how does she even know if we're ready?!"

Naruto chuckled "Don't worry about it Kiba, you were the 4th strongest boy behind Me, Uchiha, and Shino, you're plenty ready. Hinata, even though you're shy and timid, you are still the strongest Kunoichi in the class, so you're ready too, you just have to be more confident. Anyway, see you guys tomorrow, it's going to suck"

Kiba cocked his head and was about to ask why it would suck, but Naruto disappeared in a swirl of fire "Damn, he has to teach me how to do that" Kiba then left to go to his own house. Hinata, left alone alone turned and walked home.

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A little later on all the Jounin's were lounging about, discussing how their teams first meeting went.

Asuma turned to Kakashi "So, Hatake, did you finally pass a team this year?"

Kakashi nodded "Yeah, they're...interesting, Sakura constantly fawns over Sasuke, and Shino has to keep them both in line, I don't know if they'll be able to pass the test tomorrow, how bout you Asuma?"

Asuma nodded "Yep, the Ino-Shika-Cho trio pulls through yet again, Ino keeps Shikamaru and Chouji in line, but they get together pretty well, I wouldn't be surprised if they do fine." Just then the bushed Kurenai walked in a plopped down on the couch, Asuma turned to her and quirked an eyebrow at her state "What's with you? What's your team like Kurenai?"

Kurenai groaned and sat forward "They're interesting... I offered them to take their test today instead, and they accepted, I had Anko act as my bodyguard and they had to try to take a scroll from me, it would probably be a high A-rank mission if it were real"

Asuma and Kakashi both gave them looks that screamed 'Well what happened!?' "And...?" Asuma finally asked

Kurenai sighed "Naruto Uzumaki, he completely decimated Anko and me on his own, he tracked us down in under 15 seconds after the exam started and instantly attacked, he surrounded us with over 50 Kage Bunshin without even using hand signs or saying the name! Each Bunshin had high Chuunin level chakra, then he took out Anko with two hits, and completely shredded her abdomen, then he took me out and broke my arm while I tried to carry Anko out of there. Then after doing all of that he does some kind of Demonic jutsu and transfers all of our injuries to himself, my broken arm, Anko's lacerated stomach and internal bleeding, he even transferred her curse seal!. I swear, the kid is too much"

Kakashi and Asuma were speechless, they had heard rumors that the kid did some kind of unorthodox training, but to take out two jounins at once? "Anything else about the Uzumaki kid?" Asuma asked

Kurenai nodded "Yeah, he's the one responsible for all of the killings over the last year that they've found no evidence on, 73 villagers 1 jounin and 9 chuunins"

Kakashi and Asuma's jaws dropped once again "Why in the hell would a kid kill all those people for no reason?"

Kurenai sighed "Oh, he had good reason, they all tried to attack him before hand, and he described to me one of his attacks, honestly if I had gone through the same thing, I don't think I would have stayed sane"

Asuma gulped "It couldn't be that bad, could it?"

Kurenai sighed again, but deeper "I don't think I could make a genjutsu that would do the same thing that Naruto's been through, he told me about his last birthday, first the mob of villagers caught him and beat and cut him until his arms and legs were badly broken, then they dragged him into an alley and smashed him into a wall, then a Shinobi came forward and slashed his cheek deeply with a knife, and then went to his eyes. Naruto struggled to get free and he Smashed his head into the wall until his skull cracked and he stopped fighting, and then he gouged out his eyes with a Kunai. Then after all of that they took the Kunai and stabbed him in the stomach and broke some of his ribs, then left him to die"

Asuma and Kakashi looked horrified before Kakashi spoke "Bullshit. I've seen him, he's not blind, he's got those freaky glowing blue eyes, with slit pupils"

Kurenai sighed "I said the same thing, he went on to explain to me how the only reason he's still a Shinobi is because the Kyuubi came to him with an offering, Naruto accepted it and Kyuubi changed him, gave him new eyes, removed all his scars, made him faster, stronger, better. He even gave him multiple doujutsu's, I have no idea what Naruto gave in return for it all though"

Asuma and Kakashi were stunned into silence, it was so much to go through, for someone so young, they couldn't imagine how he survived through it all. "That kids either gonna go real far real fast, or he's gonna turn into an Itachi, on a village sized scale" Kakashi said

Kurenai nodded "Yeah, but so far he's on the former route, he's supposedly due to be promoted to Jounin once a tough enough mission comes up for him to prove himself with"

Asuma whistled "Damn, if he makes it soon, he'll beat Itachi's record of youngest Jounin ever, Itachi made Jounin at 14, Anbu at 16, if he keeps on this track, this kids gonna break all the records"

Kurenai sighed "Yeah, I have a feeling the next few weeks are going to suck"

Kakashi cocked his head to the side "Why is that?"

Kurenai sighed again "Because, Naruto detests the fact that he was held back from being a Jounin already, and I have a feeling if we get sent after Tora the cat, it's going to die, along with any other irritating missions"

Asuma chuckled, "Congratulations Kurenai, you've sure got yourself a handful"

Anko smirked "At least she's got a sexy handful" Kurenai slapped her hand over her face, and both Kakashi and Asuma quirked eyebrows at Anko, "You do know he's twelve right? And that your nineteen?"

Anko waved it off as if it were nothing "Pfft, the kid looks like he's at least seventeen, and he acts even older"

Kurenai sighed "Didn't we already have this conversation with Naruto, Anko?"

Anko laughed, "Yeah, we did. But you're still not going to convince me, and I will win"

Kurenai gave one last final sigh and stood up "Well, we start our missions tomorrow, and since it's probably going to kill me, I'm gonna go rest, I'll see you guys later" She turned and walked out the door, leaving Anko with Kakashi and Asuma, which was never good.

"Hey, how big do you think Naruto's thing is?" Anko asked

Kakashi and Asuma paled, "Look at the time! We've gotta go, see ya later Anko!" They both disappeared in puffs of smoke, leaving Anko alone.

Anko looked around the room "Damn it, now I've got nothing to do, guess I'll go harass some chuunins" She too disappeared in a puff of smoke.

The next morning arrived and Naruto arrived first as usual, he waited at the training ground for everyone to show up, they all finally arrived and the group went to the Hokage's office to pick up their D-ranked missions.

They stood before the Hokage, who was sitting at his desk smoking his pipe, Naruto stood stoically beside Kurenai with a look of pure disdain set upon his face. Hinata and Kiba stood on her other side, neither wanted to be near Naruto at this specific time, he was nearly radiating an aura of hatred.

Sarutobi smiled at Kurenai, and noticed Naruto's pleasant disposition and frowned "Kurenai, you're here for your first missions already? How did your teams exam go?"

Kurenai groaned "Don't remind me, Naruto took out Anko and myself before we could even try and fight back, I have a request for todays missions, or more of a filter. For the sake of nature, dont give us anything involving any animals" Kurenai cast a sideways glance towards Naruto and Sarutobi nodded

"Very well, we've got a few easy going missions at the moment, lets see here. Fixing up training ground 76, seems someone has more or less completely destroyed it over the last year, you didn't have anything to do with that, did you Naruto?"

Naruto frowned "As a matter of fact, Training ground 76 is where I've been training. With what I do there, yes it's taken quite a pounding"

Kurenai frantically nodded, maybe if Naruto stays reminiscing of his training the whole day it wont be so bad. "We'll take it!"

Sarutobi nodded "Considering the amount of work that is said to be needed, I will only give you this one mission today, good luck" He handed the mission scroll to Kurenai and she turned to the team "Ok guys, this is our first real mission, I know it may not seem great, but trust me, you'll miss the days of easy missions once they're gone"

Naruto scoffed "I highly doubt that Kurenai, I can't wait to get out and kill some real enemies, maybe somewhere out there is someone who can actually challenge me, or something important for me to find. Either way, I'll meet you guys at the training field" Naruto disappeared in his now usual swirl of fire, he was so happy he learned it from Kyuubi's minion clones during their fights.

Kurenai and the two genin groaned and left the office, it was gonna be a long day.

They arrived at the training ground about 15 minutes later, to see Naruto already there, lying in the grass, he leaned up on his hands when they arrived "Ahh, you're finally here, there's lots to be done, take a look around"

Kurenai and the two genin looked about the field, and it was absolutely ravaged, it looked worse then a battlefield after the third Shinobi war, there were craters and scorch marks everywhere, the spot where Naruto was lying was literally the only green grass in the field, everything else was destroyed. There were trees that were snapped like twigs, or burnt half to ash, it looked like a Nuclear fallout zone. Kiba whistled "Damn, you did all this Naruto?"

Naruto smirked "Heh, well yeah. It kind of happens when you've got over 3500 people training together in dangerous things like jutsu's and other...stuff, anyway, have fun I'm gonna make a bunch of clones to help, I think I'll just relax though" Naruto laid back down on the grass and over 100 Naruto's came into existence around them, they all turned to Naruto and spoke as one "What should we do?"

Naruto shrugged from his spot on the ground "I dunno, do whatever Kurenai tells you to"

Kurenai sighed at Naruto's easy way out, but she couldn't really complain, with all the clones the work would be much easier, so he was helping more then not. "Alright, first we're gonna have to turn and loosen up all of the soil and burnt things, then were gonna have to add nutrients to it all and lay down a whole lot of grass seed and plant some saplings and other small vegetation"

Naruto nodded to his clones "Okay, you guys know what to do, this won't take that long" The clones all nodded and broke apart into 50 two man teams, they then proceeded to go all over the field and do the Headhunter jutsu over and over again, which tilled the soil famously, the entire field was tilled and loose in under 15 minutes, and Kurenai and the genin never even lifted a finger. The clones then continued by taking up all of the nutrients and grass seed and spreading it all over the field, and finally they all went about and planted small plants all over.

Naruto got up from his spot and looked at the field "Hah, not bad at all. Finished the whole days work in 30 minutes, that was easy"

Kurenai sighed "You know, the point of these missions is to train us to work together better, not just to get the job done"

Naruto frowned "Sorry Kurenai, it's not gonna happen, I've already told Hinata and Kiba that I work alone, I'm just not a team player. I've trained my whole time to be self sufficient, my clones are my teammates, they can do anything a genin could do and more, and they work together better then any team ever could"

Kurenai sighed, the worst part was that he had great logic supporting all of his points, except...just maybe. "Yes but Shadow clones have the distinct flaw of they can only take one hit, a light one at that, a real person can take much more, and they can offer there own ideas to situations"

Naruto smirked "My clones do not share that weakness with the Kage Bunshin. My Oni Bunshin are much more resilient and can take numerous hits, assuming they're non fatal. I know this is going to sound very pompous and righteous but, I don't want other peoples advice, I brainstorm for hours on end with dozens of clones to come up with as many ideas and situations as possible, and I've never failed yet"

Kurenai frowned, he wasn't even worth arguing with, she could tell he wasn't going to be cooperative. "Fine then, I guess we're done for the day... already. I'll see you all tomorrow for the next set of missions"

A month flew by in no time, granted it was a month of annoyance and irritation for Naruto. Aside from the horrid missions they were receiving daily, every time their team encountered another team he had fan girls trying to date him, he hated them, he now understood why Sasuke hated them, they only liked him for his looks, his body, and the fact that he had a hard past. Along with the fan girls he now also had Anko trying to hook up with him all the time, and the worst part was, he was starting to like her more and more, she was like him, she had a hard past like he did, and she too was a village outcast for who her sensei was, and she liked, or seemed to like him for more then just his looks, and she didn't seem to give a shit about his past.

Here they stood, before the Hokage yet again, expecting to receive another days worth of crappy D-ranks, but it was not to be, for Naruto's time had finally come.

Sarutobi smiled at the group before him "I was going to give you your first C-rank mission today, but something else came up, and a much more difficult mission has come up, Naruto I have a mission for you to take finally, and I don't want to send your team on a C-rank with a member missing so soon Kurenai, I hope you understand"

Kurenai nodded "It's understandable and perfectly alright, I wouldn't want them undertaking a C-rank so soon, while missing a member too"

Naruto grinned "So, the day has finally come huh? What's the mission"

Sarutobi smiled "A mission has just this morning been received Naruto, the land of waves is requesting a powerful team of Shinobi to come and cleanse their country of an...infestation. A man named Gato, owner of Gato shipping Inc. has set up shop and taken over their economy and driven them into a depression, they scrounged up all of the spare money in the village and paid for an A rank mission. Your mission will be to go to wave, and take out Gato and any and all of his men, this will likely include high ranked Shinobi, of chuunin rank and higher"

Naruto's face was alight with glee "Great, sounds like a lot of fun, when do I leave?"

Sarutobi held up his hand in a 'stop' gesture "Hold your horses Naruto, you leave as soon as possible, but you're not going alone. You will be accompanied by one other Jounin, one Anko Mitarashi" Naruto slapped his hand over his face and dragged it down his face "Damn"

Sarutobi quirked an eyebrow "Is something wrong Naruto? I was under the impression that you had a fairly civil relationship with her"

Naruto sighed "No, she's fine, just she's constantly trying to go out with me and it gets slightly annoying"

Sarutobi's eyebrows shot up "Oh, I was...unaware of that, well try to make the best of it, and good luck on your mission"

Naruto smirked "Yep, and I'm looking forward to it, Well later" He then disappeared in his customary swirl of fire.

Naruto appeared at the front door of Anko's house, she had forced him to walk her home one night, then tried to drag him inside, and failed miserably. Naruto knocked on the door loudly, he heard Anko yell from somewhere within 'One minute!' then heard a series of crashes and curses, finally a disheveled looking Anko came to the door, wearing not but a towel, and her hair was wet and matted down. She noticed that it was Naruto who was standing at her door and instantly switched into a more provocative position, with the towel riding up her thigh a bit "Ahh, so you've finally been swayed eh?"

Naruto, with a slight bit of effort kept his eyes locked on her own "No, actually we've got a mission, so get dressed, and ready we leave ASAP"

Anko's eyes lit up "A mission, me, you, alone? I'll be back in a minute" She slammed her door in his face and Naruto heard another series of crashes and curses, and a few minutes later Anko reemerged, fully clothed, if you could call it that, but her hair was still wet, and her pony tail was more of a soaked mess that sagged at the back of her head.

Naruto quirked and eyebrow at her hair but didn't comment "Ready?"

Anko grinned "Yep, so what's this mission? And why is a genin going alone with another Jounin, not even his sensei?"

Naruto narrowed his eyes slightly "This is my test mission, we succeed, and I become a Jounin. We're to go to wave country, kill Gato of Gato Shipping Inc. and any and all of his henchmen, simple clean sweep, plenty of blood and fun"

Anko grinned "You're so my type of guy, why won't you say yes?"

Naruto grunted "We're on this already? Fine if I say yes to a date, will you leave me alone about it for the duration of the mission?"

Anko smirked "No guarantees, but I'll do my best"

Naruto sighed "Better then nothing, fine I'll go on a date with you at some point, please don't make me regret it"

Anko squealed in a decidedly fan girlish manner and grabbed Naruto in a tight hug "Hah, I knew I would get you eventually Naru-kun. Now we just gotta show you that not everyone is as big an asshole as the villagers, I have one request though"

Naruto groaned "What is it?"

Anko grinned and stared right into his eyes "Call me Anko-chan"

Naruto sighed "Fine, Anko-chan, lets get going, the sooner we get going the sooner I become a Jounin, which is good" Anko released him from her hug and the two bounded out of the village, into the trees of the mid morning day.

The trip to wave took three days, and over those three days Naruto realized that he liked Anko a lot more when they were alone, she calmed down a bunch and wasn't nearly as sadistic and...well crazy when she wasn't around other people, and Naruto decided to finally ask her about it.

"Ne, Anko what's with you? Whenever we were in the village you were so much different, yet out here alone, your a lot more, well normal. What's the deal?"

Anko sighed "Me and you aren't exactly as alike as we seem at first glance, you've had the worst treatment possible from villagers, so you had no choice but to adapt and overcome them, but with me, they just ignored me or hated me, so I started acting different, they didn't even bother to care anymore when I was sadistic and weird, after all who wants to be near the crazy chick? The only person to ever try and get close to me like that was Kurenai, and that's the reason she's my only friend, she didn't care that I was weird, she wanted to be friends with the real me"

Naruto quirked and eyebrow "So, you act weird that way people will just ignore you instead of direct their hatred on you?"

Anko nodded "Yeah, but that wouldn't work for you, because even if you acted differently they would still have done everything to you, so it wouldn't have helped, so it didn't happen. I guess you could say I adapted"

Naruto smiled, a real smile. "Well, I think you should stop the act, I like the real you a lot more, your a lot easier to get along with, and if you're not gonna stop, would you at least stop around me?"

Anko grinned evilly "Did you just admit that you like me Naru-kun?"

Naruto smirked "I might have said it, I have to admit it, you're a lot easier to get along with when we're alone, these past days have at least shown me that much, but before I actually go and say something stupid I have a question, why do you like me? What is it that you like about me so much?"

Anko cocked her head to the side "Shouldn't it just be good enough that I do like you?"

Naruto sighed "I wish, all of the girls my age are my fan club, and they all declare they love me all the time, but I know they don't really, they only like me for my looks and my past, so I was wondering why you like me"

Anko sighed "I like you because we can understand each other, we've both been shunned and hated by the village, and the other is the only one who could understand what we've been through, no one else could even comprehend what we've dealt with, Plus I just like you, your attitude, your take on life. You don't hide behind some shroud of naivety or innocence, you know what's out there and your not scared of it, and despite your age your far more mature then anyone else, even people my age, they just want me for my body, I feel that you would want me for the same reasons I would want you. The fact that your hotter then hell helps a lot too"

Naruto smiled again "Well, you'd be correct, I like you for the same reason's you like me, and yes I did admit I like you" Naruto then sighed "Oh thank Kami, the Town is finally coming up"

Anko smirked, "Hmm, so what do you reckon we do? I think I'll let you take the reigns on this one, see how you do"

Naruto nodded "I would say we enter the village, scout around, meet the people, see what their condition really is, we try and find out who would be in charge, meet with them and find out what we can about Gato, then we move on from there with the removal of Gato and his men"

Anko smirked "Nicely put, that's exactly what we should do Naru-kun, shall we?" Naruto nodded and the two walked came up on the village, they dropped down from the trees onto the road and slowed to a walk, they entered the village and were quite a site to be seen. An almost 6' tall guy dressed in black and red with a long trench coat, beside a very pretty, poorly dressed girl in tan trench coat.

They walked along what seemed to be the main street for a few minutes, looking around. The information sure seemed accurate, everyone looked to be poor and in bad condition, the food shops had little food, and much of what they had was overpriced or rotten, they noticed the people parted for them as they walked, after another moment of walking a man walked out in front of them, stopping them.

"May we be of any help to you two?" He asked while bowing

Naruto nodded "Yeah, we're actually looking for who would be in charge, we were sent on a mission from Konoha to remove Gato and his men for you all"

Everyone in the streets around them turned to the two instantly, and the man looked up at Naruto and Anko with tears in his eyes "Are you really? When Tazuna said he was going to get help, we never expected him to higher Shinobi!"

Anko nodded "Yeah, we're really here, this Tazuna guy, he the one in charge? We want to ask him some things about the town and Gato"

The man nodded "Yes, Tazuna he's a master bridge builder who lives here, he's currently constructing a bridge that will connect us to the main land, then we can finally establish land based trade, and we never have to fear another person like Gato taking over"

Naruto nodded "Thank you, this Tazuna, can you tell us where we can find him? Like my friend said, we would like to have a word with him"

The man nodded furiously "Of course! He lives in a fairly large house about four miles North east of the town, would you like me to guide you there?"

Naruto shook his head "No thanks, I'm sure we can find it once we get out there, thanks for the help though"

The man nodded and bowed deeply again "Not a problem, anything for the saviors of our town"

Naruto and Anko nodded and took off headed north east, the whole town applauded them as they passed overhead, Naruto sighed "It's depressing to see them react so much to the two of us just doing our job, it's going to make killing Gato all the sweeter"

Anko smirked "Careful Naru-kun, you're sounding almost heroic"

Naruto smirked back "Eh so what, bite me Anko-chan"

Anko grinned at him "I'd be happy to"

Naruto laughed in response "I'm sure you would"

They arrived made it out into the woods, and sure enough just over four miles on the edge of a large lake was a large two story house, they walked up to the front door and knocked. A moment later a women who looked to be in her mid to late twenties opened the door and looked at them "May I help you?"

Naruto nodded "Yes actually, we're Shinobi from Konoha, here to remove Gato, we were wondering if we could speak to Tazuna for a bit about Gato and the town, is he here?"

The women smiled "Oh, it's so nice to meet you two, yes he's here, we were just sitting down for dinner, would you like to join us? We have plenty of extra"

Naruto and Anko both nodded "Sure, we haven't eaten yet so dinner sounds great" Naruto replied

The women smiled "Great, well come on in, my names Tsunami, I'm Tazuna's daughter"

Naruto smiled "Pleasure to meet you, I'm Uzumaki Naruto, and the lady here is Mitarashi Anko"

Tsunami looked at Anko and frowned slightly "I hate to sound rude, but would you mind closing your coat? My son is young, and I'm not quite sure that is the best image for him"

Anko smirked and buttoned her trench coat up, and Tsunami nodded "Thank you for understanding, if you'll follow me please" She led the two through the house to the dinning room, where a table was set out, at one end of the table was an older, overweight man with grey hair, the presumed Tazuna, on one side of the table a small boy eating, Tsunami's presumed child, and Tsunami's plate was at the other end of the table.

Tsunami motioned to the two empty chairs on their side of the table "Please, sit. I'll bring out two plates for you in a moment, Dad, these are the Shinobi from Konoha"

Naruto and Anko took their seats, and sure enough a moment later Tsunami came out with a plate of food for each of them. Tazuna turned to both of them and began "So, you're the Shinobi from Konoha eh? I was kinda hoping for more of you with all the money I paid, care to tell me your ranks?"

Naruto groaned "Anko-chan here is a Jounin, and I'm a damned genin until the end of this mission"

Tazuna flushed with anger "We paid all that money and all we got was a Jounin and a genin?"

Anko held up her hand, stopping him from going any further "I assure you sir, we're more then enough. Naru-kun is only a genin by rank, not in power. I hate to admit it but he's stronger then me...by a lot, I imagine he could take on Gato and all of his Shinobi and men at once, alone and come out on top"

Tazuna sighed and sat back in his chair "Well, that's slightly reassuring, tell me. Why did the two of you come here?"

Naruto smirked "We were told you were the man more or less in charge, so we figured you would be the best man to find out about Gato from, after all the more we know about him and his whole, get up, the easier it will be to rip him apart"

The little boy that was, until now eating quietly slammed his chopsticks onto the table "You're both going to die, Gato has an entire army of thugs and mercenaries, the two of you can't do anything against them"

Naruto chuckled "You'd be surprised what a few could do against many"

He stood up and yelled "You don't understand! You don't know the pain we've suffered, the things we've been put through! You don't know what it's like to suffer!"

Naruto narrowed his eyes dangerously at the small boy "Allow me to give you a quick lesson boy, Don't assume you have things the worst, or the best in life, there will always be someone out there who has had it worse then you, and there will be people who have had things better then you"

The boy narrowed his eyes in return "Oh yeah, Who, who has had it worse then me? My father was killed right before my eyes!"

Naruto shook his head sadly "That is sad, but It is not the end of the world, I myself have had it much worse then you"

The boy turned slightly red with frustration "How? How have you had it worse? Prove it!"

Naruto sighed "How have I had it worse then you? How haven't I had it worse then you. Both of my parents died the night I was born, from that point on almost every single person in my village detested my existence, and so they tortured, beat, and abused me on a daily basis, I spent days, sometimes weeks in the hospital after everyone of my birthday's, and that's not even nearly the worst part of my life, that's still the 'sugar coated' version, suffice to say my life has sucked beyond imagining since the day I was born, so don't just assume you've had a worse life then me"

The small boy, beaten at his own pity-party sat back down and started eating his dinner silently, and Anko turned to Naruto with a sad look on her face "Naru-kun, what exactly did they do to you?"

Naruto closed his eyes and single tear escaped, "They did everything to me. Broke all my limbs, cut me everywhere, broken ribs, cracked skulls, they even gouged out my eyes, and stabbed me. But, the worst thing they ever did was, There was this girl, not much older then me, her name was Yumi. She was the only person to ever be nice to me in the village, she treated me like a little brother, then one night they caught me and her and tied me up, and forced me to watch as they tortured and mutilated her, then burned her to death, then left me tied up, and bleeding to death from my own wounds, to look at her body until I blacked out"

Naruto's explanation rocked them all to their cores, Anko even had tears streaming down her face. To incite that from Anko was big, even if she wasn't her sadistic self around Naruto.

Anko wrapped her arms around Naruto in a caring hug, and Naruto found he didn't want to push her away, or try to get her off. "I'm so sorry Naruto" She said

Naruto sighed "Don't be, I don't want people to pity me, you wanted to know so I told you, I don't want you to feel bad for it, I've already made my decision on the matter, and anyone who tries anything on me or my friends die now, no matter who they are" Anko nodded and released him from the huge, and he turned back to Tazuna.

"Right, enough about me, we're here on business, so if you could tell us everything you can about Gato, estimated number of mercenaries, location he could be found, pretty much anything useful"

Tazuna nodded "Right, well the last I knew he had somewhere around two to three hundred mercenaries, and he was also in command of a number of hired Shinobi, at least two Chuunins and a Jounin, his location is actually a large ship, it should be easy enough to find, it's the size of a large barge, except much more lavish looking, almost like a super sized yacht"

Naruto nodded "That will actually be very useful, the fact that he's on a boat will make this very easy, sink the boat and anyone who can't water walk is already taken care of"

Anko nodded in agreement "Seems as if your promotion has been handed to you on a platter Naru-kun"

Naruto chuckled "Yes, it would seem so Anko-chan, now lets eat this food before it gets any colder" Anko nodded and the two dug into the plates given to them by Tsunami.

Shortly afterward they finished eating and brought their plates into the kitchen, "Well, it's getting late We should head into town and see if we can't find a place to sleep" Naruto said

Tsunami placed a hand on his shoulder as he turned to leave "You can stay here tonight you know, we've got a few spare rooms, and you're not going to find anything good in town, at least not until Gato is gone and the bridge is finished"

Naruto shrugged "Alright, I guess we'll stay here tonight, thanks Tsunami" Naruto dragged his and Anko's packs upstairs and the two went to sleep, in separate rooms. (hehe, not yet you don't!)

The next day arrived and Naruto and Anko set off from the house after a nice breakfast, courtesy of Tsunami. The sooner they took out Gato, the sooner they could head back to Konoha.

They headed down to where the bridge was being built, and was surprised to see it was already over eighty percent complete. They scouted out the water in the area and it didn't take long to find Gato's ship anchored in a cove, not to far from wave. It certainly was easy to spot, with the giant 'Gato Shipping Incorporated' Painted across the white hull.

With the location of the ship now know they started to plan. "Alright Anko, how do you want to do this? Go in, Kunai flying and take it by storm? Sink it quick and fast and try and kill everyone who's trapped, or try and sneak through and kill as many as we can without getting caught?"

Anko Shrugged "I think a combination of the three will work the best. Set the ship to sink, in the pandemonium that follows, sneak around and take out the higher priced targets where we can, then we proceed to go in jutsu's blazing and take them by storm"

Naruto grinned "Sounds good to me, how do you want to start the sinking? Anything explosive will instantly alert any Shinobi he might have to an attack, I could use a water jutsu and slice the hull, it will sink it pretty fast, but slow enough for stage two to still happen"

Anko nodded "Alright then, water jutsu it is, lets do this" Naruto nodded and the two sneaked up on the boat, Anko got in position to start assassinating targets, and Naruto got in position for the sabotage, when they were both ready Naruto began. He flashed through a quick set of seals and whispered "Mizu Yaiba no jutsu!"

A blade of water formed beneath the surface and sliced easily through the hull of the ship, causing enough damage to sink the ship in under 15 minutes, his first task finished Naruto instantly jumped up onto the boat, and came upon a group of three mercs, two shadow clones silently came into existence on either side of Naruto and the three drew their Kunai and plunged them into their skulls, killing them instantly, without spilling any blood. There bodies were dropped overboard, gone to the sea's without a soul knowing better.

Anko was progressing similarly on her own task, once she felt the very subtle chakra spike of Naruto's jutsu, which one would only notice if they were actively looking for it, she jumped up onto the boat and began silently dispatching mercs, and placing them in their watery graves.

Naruto and Anko both continued along in similar fashions until the boat finally started to list slightly from the water that was leaking into it's hull, this put the whole boat into pandemonium and Naruto and Anko both henged into mercenaries that they had already dispatched of, they continued their sinister treks, silently killing every merc that was left alone by their companions, none were spared and their numbers were quickly dwindling, the boat started to list further, and was getting dangerously close to capsizing when Gato and two Shinobi ran out of his private cabin, he looked around at the state of the ship, and the extremely diminished crew and yelled "What the hell is going on!?"

Naruto ran up to the three, 'panting' and leaning on his knees "Sir, I think we're under attack!"

Gato looked about in a panic, almost sending his sunglasses flying "By who damn it?! We're on a boat!"

Naruto disappeared and reappeared with his Kunai inserted all the way through the Shinobi on the rights throat, the Shinobi grabbed at their throat feebly, and Naruto ripped the blade from their throat, sending an arterial spray all over Gato and the other Shinobi "By me"

The other Shinobi, along with Gato both turned just in time for the blood to spray across their faces, the Shinobi dropped to the ground dead at Naruto's feet and Gato screamed and ran towards the back of the ship. Naruto shook his head sadly "I don't think so" He threw the Kunai with deadly precision and it sliced through Gato's left Achilles tendon, he dropped to the deck like a sack of potatoes while screaming and grabbing his ankle.

Naruto turned back to the other Shinobi "Tell me, this Shinobi here, could you tell me their name and rank? That way I can honor them properly?"

The Shinobi snarled his name was Haku, you bastard, he was my apprentice, and beyond a Jounin. I'm Zabuza Momochi, and you're going to die!" he ripped a large blade from his back and swung it violently at Naruto, who bent back to an inhuman angle and the blade flew over his head, and embedded into the wall.

Naruto flipped backwards on his hands and landed on his feet and grinned well "Zabuza Momochi, you're at an extreme disadvantage here, these passages are narrow, and your blade is large, You'd be surprised what I can do in narrow spaces, you will die here, but your name will live on, honored on my vest as a worthy adversary" Naruto flicked the blood from the blade that he just killed Haku with and took off towards Zabuza.

Zabuza ripped his blade from the wall with a great feat of strength, sending splinters of stained wood raining across the pathway, and he too charged forward. They grew closer and closer, and once he was in range Zabuza swung his massive blade at Naruto again, Naruto dropped down on all fours and pushed off powerfully and launched towards the wall, the blade swung under him cleanly and Naruto latched onto the wall with his claws and tore off, running sideways along the wall, Zabuza used his momentum from the strike to spin around and throw his blade like a spear straight at Naruto, who was running on the wall like a fox, with his trench coat billowing out behind him.

Naruto saw the sword flying at him out of his periphery and jumped up slightly higher on the wall, and the blade slammed into the wall at high speed, embedding deeply again and sending more chips of wood flying everywhere. Naruto jabbed his claws into the wall and swung off and spun around with his hold on the wall, he dropped down to the deck and tore off at Zabuza, leaving claw marks in the wood as he ran. Zabuza, now weaponless did the only thing he could, he dodged, or did his best, he bent to the right as Naruto lashed out with a clawed hand, Zabuza missed the worst of the blow but was still left with four streaks of bleeding flesh on his arm, blood instantly started to leak from the jagged wounds and trickle down his arm. Zabuza dove forward and grabbed his sword and ripped it from the wall of the ship and spun around and brought the blade up, just in time to stop the strike from Naruto's claws, he shoved off with his back foot and used his and the blades weight to throw Naruto off and down the deck about 10 feet.

Naruto landed on the deck and slide back another foot, leaving claw marks in the wood "You're pretty good Zabuza, you're the best Jounin I've fought yet, granted the other 3 jounins I've fought, besides your friend were all from my village, and I let two of those live"

Zabuza scoffed "You don't become one of the seven swordsman of the mist by sucking, you're quite good yourself kid, who are you"

Naruto smirked "Names Uzumaki Naruto, though you can call me Shinku Sachiriku (Crimson Slaughter)"

Zabuza smirked "Very nice, I'll be sure to remember your name after I kill you"

Naruto gave a stark laugh "I would watch that mouth Zabuza, you're losing at this point and I hate to tell you, but you're going to die" Naruto charged forward once again at Zabuza, still on all fours, Zabuza stood his ground and waited for Naruto to get close, once he was in range Zabuza swung his blade horizontally, where he assumed Naruto would jump to, but he plotted wrong.

Naruto suddenly stopped short, and the blade swung past before him, slicing the air not an inch away from his nose, the second the blade passed him he kicked off with his feet, flipping up forward, he then pushed off with his arms, propelling him up through the air over Zabuza, as he passed him he spun around and raked his claws all the way up his chest and over his left shoulder, his claws dug deep into him and took a large amount of flesh with them.

Zabuza grunted in pain and spun around with Naruto, the deep wounds in his chest allowed a deluge of blood to come running through his flesh and pour down his chest like a waterfall of blood, as Zabuza spun around droplets of blood flew from his chest spattering along the wall. He used his momentum from the spin to bring his sword down straight at Naruto, who was midair, flying backwards over him.

Naruto's eyes widened as the blade came cleaving down straight towards him he focused chakra to his hand and reached out and brushed the wall, his chakra instantly glued his hand in place and he yanked hard, pulling himself out of danger, but not completely the blade continued going down, right between his legs, dangerously close to his good friend, and it split his trench coat right down the center up to mid thigh height.

Naruto mentally sighed, that had definitely been to close for comfort 'I had better make this quick, this boat's gonna go down before long, and I don't think I'll be at an advantage on open water, he's got a Mist hitai-ite, he's probably good with water' "You know Zabuza, you really are the toughest enemy I've fought to this date, only one person has done better, and that's my sensei, the Kyuubi. This boat's going down, and we don't have long, so I'm going to show you my trump card, you will be the first person to see it, and you will also be the first to die by it"

Naruto was suddenly covered in a red glow, literally bathed in red chakra in a fine mist that surrounded him, Zabuza could feel the absolutely terrible, magnificent power of the chakra, it was so powerful that the wind was literally ripping about them, planks of wood were being ripped up and shredded from the deck, sending chips and flecks of wood flying about, all of the chakra compressed around his body and it took on almost a shield look, three tails of chakra formed at the base of Naruto's spine and Naruto looked at Zabuza from his position on the deck on all fours. "You should be proud that you made me use this Zabuza, even fighting two Jounin of Konoha I didn't even have to come close to using this"

Naruto disappeared, even to Zabuza's well trained eyes, and the next thing he felt was Naruto's hand ripping through him from behind, digging through his body. Naruto reached his goal and ripped apart Zabuza's heart with his bare hand.

Zabuza realized where Naruto's hand was quickly headed and felt his heart be manually disassembled, and spoke his last word "Shit" He dropped to his knees and Naruto ripped his hand from his back, his arm was soaked in blood up to half of his forearm. Naruto sighed "You fought well Zabuza, now rest. There is other business to attend to" Naruto turned back to Gato, who during his and Zabuza's fight had managed to crawl down towards the other side of the boat, but he left a blood trail, and he was still in view.

Naruto appeared before him in a flash and lifted him up by his fat little throat. "Gato. You've done many evils to the land of waves, and they wouldn't stand by and take it, they called in for help and won the lottery when I was sent to help, regardless of the lives you've ruined, I will not torture you, for I know what that feels like, and no one not even the evilest of men deserve it. Be gone tyrant!" Naruto lashed out with his hand and ripped through Gato's chest easily, and ripped his heart from his chest in a gory display of power.

Naruto threw Gato's bloody body over his shoulder, he figured the townsfolk would want proof of his death. And he continued across the boat, he came across a few more groups of mercenaries and finished them ruthlessly. The boat made one final lurch and started to capsize "Hope Anko-chan got off already, damn I'm calling her it even when she's not around!" Naruto shifted Gato's body and jumped off the ship and onto the water, not a moment later the ship rolled completely over and descended into the darkness of the waters, which Naruto noticed seemed to have a tinge of red to it. 'guess all those guys started to add up'

Once the boat completely submerged Naruto's eyes settled on Anko, who was standing on the water on the other side of where the boat was, covered in a significant amount of blood, and panting slightly.

Naruto jumped over to her "Hey, Anko-chan, you alright? None of that blood is yours I hope"

Anko nodded "Yeah, I'm fine. Lets get out of here Naru-kun" they both ran over to the shore and started walking back towards the village, no need to rush. On the way over Naruto turned to Anko "So, you get into any interesting fights, or did you just slaughter mercs the whole time?"

Anko grinned "I got a little bit of excitement, I was just at the end of taking out a group of ten mercs who thought they could take advantage of me, when two Chuunins came out of no where, wearing respirators and these shabby black cloaks, they weren't a tough fight, but they were pretty resilient, I felt that chakra spike, you must have had some fun eh?"

Naruto smirked "Heh yeah, two Jounins, I killed the first before they knew who I was through the henge, then the second one put up a nice fight, I showed him my ultimate move, though it wasn't needed, time was of the essence, his name was Zabuza Momochi, said he was one of the seven swordsman of the mist"

Anko's jaw drooped slightly "You got to fight two Jounins, and the Zabuza Momochi, and all I got was two Chuunins? You suck" she threw up her best puppy dog pout at the end.

Naruto threw an arm over her shoulder and pulled her close to him, he didn't know why he did it, but he did. "Oh don't worry about it Anko, he was a lot tougher then I thought he would be, not to be mean but he would have taken you out if you went against him alone"

Anko huffed but didn't comment, but suddenly switched tracks "So, you admitted you like me right?"

Naruto, who was caught off guard by the sudden change nodded "Yeah, I did. What of it?"

Anko grinned "How bout we skip the date and you give me a kiss?"

Naruto's body solved his indecisiveness for him, by leaning down and planting his lips right over Anko's.

Anko hadn't actually been expecting him to do it, hell he hadn't even expected him to do it! But they both found it very enjoyable and moaned into each others mouths, Anko went to deepen the kiss when Naruto broke them apart "What's wrong Naru-kun? Didn't you like it?"

Naruto sighed "You have no idea how much I liked it, but come on. I've got a dead guy on my shoulder and we're both soaked in blood and grime, plus we should deliver Gato's body before we do...anything"

Anko was slightly peeved at the moment being ruined, but at least he said he liked it, and hinted at wanting more later, plus he was right, this was business time, and the adult shoes needed to stay on right now. "Mmph, fine" was her final response.

They both continued on into town, though now Anko was decidedly closer to Naruto's side. They arrived at the road into town and slowed to a walk, mis well make a big scene if your going to make any scene. They walked through the town, drawing a growing crowd of townsfolk, they arrived at the center of the town and Naruto found what looked to be a suiting spot, he lifted Gato's body from his shoulder and slapped it up against the fencepost and tied it in place with some wire.

Naruto turned back to the now very large group of people, who were looking on silently at the displayed body of their problems, Gato "Your days of being repressed are over, Gato is dead, his men are dead and gone, and your bridge is almost completed!" With Naruto's words the crowd broke out into an all out uproar of cheers and whistles, Naruto and Anko looked to each other and Smiled, then disappeared in simultaneous plumes of smoke, leaving Gato's body up for display.

They both reappeared outside of Tazuna's house and walked inside, Tsunami greeted them with a warm smile and a welcome back, though was worried about Anko's blood soaked state, but was relieved when she said it wasn't hers.

They found Tazuna sitting in the living room in a large recliner, reading a news paper, he glanced up, and quirked an eye brow at their state of dress "What happened? I thought you guys were just gonna scout things out today"

Naruto and Anko smirked "Nah, that's not our style, we went in there and killed them all. Gato's body is on display in the center of town, good luck to you and your bridge Tazuna, we'll be heading off back to Konoha now"

Tazuna frowned "Oh come on, your saviors to our town, won't you at least stay for the celebrations?"

Naruto shook his head and smiled "No thanks, it's just our job, you asked for help, we came and helped you, plus me and Anko have some things to do" The way he said 'things' made it clear to Tazuna that something had clearly happened between the two and he left it be "Very well, you'll be regarded as hero's to the land of waves though, good luck, and happy travels"

Naruto smirked "See you around then Tazuna, tell the kid I said welcome to the free world, even small forces can accomplish big things"

Tazuna smiled "Will do, you two take care of yourselves now" Naruto and Anko then picked up their packs and left back on their three day trip back to Konoha.

Later that night Naruto and Anko stopped to make camp for the night, everything was set up and they had already eaten food, a nice big rabbit, courtesy of Naruto. They were relaxing before the campfire and Anko quickly moved and was kneeling over Naruto straddling his waist "What say we pick up from where we left off earlier?"

Naruto tapped his chin for a second "I don't know Anko, sure the dead body is gone, but we're still filthy" He said, with an evil smirk on.

Anko grinned "Mmmm, as if being clean would make what we do any less filthy"

Naruto grinned "Hmmm, well since you've so easily outmatched my logic, I suppose we could...pick up from where we, left off"

Anko leaned down and stared straight into his eyes, with her hands supporting herself on either side of his head "Good boy" She leaned down a tiny bit further and locked her lips with his own.

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Just so you all know, the next chapter is going to start with a lemon, and I think this was the first lemon I ever wrote so...yeah no promises on 'leetness' I'll try and go back and spruce it up a little if I can...lol