Disclaimer-I do not own Naruto... Kishimoto does I also don't own Kishimaru but have

permission from Kyuubi's Naruto and Sakura. Actually the only thing I own is my idea so

umm... go me!

Author-Cgraham00

-Kyuubi Speaking inside Naruto-

-Inner Sakura-

-everyone else-

ANBU Black ops- The second highest ranking Ninja in the village and The Hokage's personal

bodyguards.

It had been a couple of weeks since the bell test, and team 7 had really come together as a team.

Kishimaru's tactics during combat, or in other words the occasional entrapment of a cat, was

unparalleled. In order to get Kakashi to forgive her, Sakura had to clean his apartment.

"I don't care if you can never have kids! I'm not going back in there!" Sakura yelled to Kakashi. "I don't

think I've ever seen a cockroach that big in my life! That thing could have killed me!"

"Aw come on Sakura-Chan it couldn't have been that bad." replied Naruto in defense of his sensei.

Sakura slowly turned her head in his direction. He could see the vein on her forehead pop. "uh oh" he

thought.

"alright, alright, enough you two." Kakashi mumbled obviously board. "we have to go to the Hokage

and debrief.'

A couple minutes later team 7 was standing before the Hokage. The cat they had captured had torn

Kishimaru's jumpsuit up pretty badly. Naruto snickered at his twin "It was your idea to rotate who had

to carry the cat." Kishimaru just glared at him.

"oh I'll get you back alright."

"Hokage-Sama" Kakashi said politely bowing. "The mission for the retrieval of the counselor's wife cat

named 'mowmow' was a success." the Hokage nodded his head.

"Very good let see if I can't get another D rank mission..."

"Oh no! Come on old man give us a harder mission!" Naruto yelled pointing directly at the Hokage

"I've put up with that cat bullshit long enough give me a real mission!". Needless to say everyone in

the room was speechless except the Hokage,who of coarse had been waiting for the outburst.

"I know Naruto all too well" The Hokage thought to himself. He looked at the loudmouth boy and a

smirk appeared on his face.

"OK I have a C rank mission here do you think you can handle it?" the Hokage questioned. Naruto

nodded his head, Sasuke grunted his approval, Kishimaru gave a thumbs up, and Sakura just

squealed. "Well then if you think you can handle it you can have it... unless Kakashi doesn't think you

are ready." the Hokage looked over at the masked Jonin. Kakashi just nodded. "OK then its yours."

Naruto jumped in the air.

"Finally a mission! a mission that is worth my skills!" Naruto chanted more to boost his ego than

anything else. The Hokage looked at the ANBU standing at the door and nodded. The ANBU saluted

and opened the door revealing a drunken old man. "Oh hic you finally find a team good enough to

protect me hic?" The Hokage nodded toward the now calm team 7.

"Those pipsqueaks! That one in orange doesn't even look like he is strong enough to masturbate let

alone protect me!" the man said pointing directly at Naruto. "and that one looks emo!" pointing at

Sasuke. Kishimaru started cracking up at the faces Naruto and Sasuke had on.

"This is going to be an interesting mission indeed." he thought to himself.

"My name is Tazuna and I am a bridge builder. I am currently hic working on a bridge in the mist

country and need a hic escort to the bridge and some protection while we finish the bridge." Tazuna

announced.

"You can't be serious!" Naruto yelled to the Hokage who raised an eyebrow. "our mission is going to

be to escort some drunk home!"

Kakashi quickly covered his mouth and whispered into his ear "Hey you asked for this now shut up

and lets get the mission over with." Naruto just nodded and as soon as Kakashi let him go walked

out of the room mumbling something about masturbating, bringing Sakura to full blush. Wait, why was

she blushing she should be mad at Naruto for being such a pervert. A couple hours later team 7 and

Tazuna were at the main entrance to the village. Kakashi took a moment to describe the order of

travel. "First will be Sasuke with Naruto to his left, Then will be me with Tazuna, and lastly Sakura and

Kishimaru. Any questions?" no one said anything so Kakashi allowed Naruto and Sasuke lead the way.

The walk to the mist village was a three day hike along the route they currently were on. Nothing

eventful happened for the rest of that day, until it became time to set up camp.

"Nani? we only have two tents!" Naruto outburst shook everyone from their thoughts. Kakashi just

nodded not understanding what the problem was. Naruto then went into deep thought when a grin

slowly appeared on his face. "So what are the sleeping arrangements?"

"well Tazuna and I will be in one tent and you four will be in another."

"NO way! I'm not sleeping with three boys!" It was Sakura's turn to make an outburst. Kakashi looked

over at her.

"well its either that or one of the boys come sleep in our tent." none of the boys were ready to agree

with that. Tazuna was sobering up yeah, but he smelled like something that died three weeks ago.

"I will I guess." Everyone looked at Kishimaru who just shrugged. "My allergies are acting up I can't

smell a thing out here." Kishimaru had been rather quiet this whole trip, so it wasn't until he spoke

that everyone realized how nasally his voice had become. Sakura's mind was bouncing with joy.

"yay! me and Naru--Sasuke in the same tent!" she thought to herself.

"was that almost a slip I just heard?" inner Sakura smiled evilly at Sakura. "or was that just my

imagination?"

Sakura instantly tuned inner Sakura out and focused on the matter at hand. Naruto and Sasuke had

almost had the tent completely up when Sakura got back from collecting firewood. The tent was big

enough to fit two comfortably, but three would be a squeeze, and four was just not possible. Once the

tent was finished Sasuke and Naruto placed their sleeping bags inside and Sakura froze at the

arrangement. "Naruto in the middle? No, we will have to change that wont we" she thought to herself.

After switching Naruto and Sasuke's sleeping bags she placed her own on the other side of Sasuke's

"there now its perfect" she left the tent and joined the rest of her team by the fire. Sakura sat on a

log that was in front of the fire. Next to her was Kishimaru, who was just gazing into the fire.

Kishimaru had always been the quiet type, so Sakura decided to try and pull him out of his shell.

"Hey Kishimaru..." Kishimaru was unresponsive. Sakura looked up at Naruto looking for an

explanation. Naruto saw her gaze then looking at Kishimaru he sighed deciding to fill everyone in.

"Sakura-Chan, come here please." Sakura got up and did as told. Sitting next to Naruto, he began to

speak.

"The reason why Kishimaru is so... unresponsive is because of our past." Sakura look confused, OK

sure Naruto and Kishimaru had a bad past but how bad could it have been right?. As though reading

her mind Naruto started his tale.

"My earliest memories as a child was around the age of three." Naruto's face turned to a look of pain.

Even Sasuke had stopped his conversation with Kakashi when Naruto started to speak.

"It was Kishimaru and my birthdays. The Hokage had just stopped by and gave us a cake with

balloons. I had a good time." The deep blue of Naruto's eye hardened as he continued.

"but on that day we were introduced to the hatred that would be our lives. After the Hokage had left

someone had come to our apartment. We were always under watch by the ANBU Their mission was to

make sure that Kishimaru and I were not killed." Naruto face distorted as tho he was going through a

lot of pain. "We had just turned three, we didn't know right from wrong, we didn't know anything." A

single tear rolled down his cheek which he promptly wiped away. "There was a knock on our door,

thinking it was someone else who wanted to give us presents we opened the door to see a bunch of

people. Everyone of them, had a look of pure hatred in their eyes. Happy Birthday Demon! Was all that

was said before the pain began." Naruto unknowingly clenched his fist as he looked at Kishimaru.

"Those bastards beat us with sticks, boards, brass knuckles, pipes, rakes, one even threw a trashcan.

The pain I felt that night trying to protect my brother was horrendous. That was when it happened...

the day Kishimaru and I killed our first man." Sakura gasped and Sasuke just stared. He was clearly in

pain, but no one except Naruto knew it. "A man had grabbed me and threw me into a wall. Then, he

picked up Kishimaru and tied his hands and legs together." Now anger filled Naruto's voice as he

continued "He proceeded to dump some liquid on Kishimaru and then lit a match and tossed it on him."

Naruto's eyes lit up. No one saw when he had moved, but Kishimaru now had a hand on his brothers

shoulder. Naruto calmed at the contact and continued with Kishimaru standing behind him. "Kishimaru

was being burned alive. My brother, the only person who actually was with me all the time was being

burned alive! The only thing I knew was that I had to help him I didn't care what it took I was going to

help him." Newly formed tears rolled down Naruto's cheeks. "It was then, I grabbed a broken knife

from the trashcan that was thrown at me and tried to free Kishimaru. The man who had lit Kishimaru

stood between us. I lunged at the man, he just grabbed my arm and broke it. I went unconscious, but

when I woke up the man was dead and Kishimaru was lying next to me." Naruto quickly finished his

story not ready to fill in the missing blanks.

"No way is that possible!" Sakura was the first to speak. "How do you not have a scar on you and

Kishimaru how are you even alive there is no way that it is true."

"It is" Everyone jumped slightly at the sound of Kakashi's voice. All eyes were on Kakashi as he began

his explanation "It's all true because I was there." Sakura's jaw dropped and Sasuke looked like he

was about to kill the man who sat next to him. "I wasn't apart of the crowd, but I was on apart of the

ANBU team that was assigned to keep them alive that night." Naruto and Kishimaru never flinched as

the Jonin continued his speech " After the Hokage left, I noticed a crowd gathering in front of the

apartment. I was going to jump down and tell them to disperse when my commanding officer stopped

me." Kakashi unknowingly had malice in his voice. "Kakashi our job is to keep him alive. With them

being demons they cannot die by ordinary means. He ordered me to stand down." Kakashi stood up a

lone tear threatening to fall. "I was forced to watch as Kishimaru was set aflame. I was forced to

watch as Naruto's arm was broken. Then I was forced to watch Naruto and Kishimaru kill a man"

everyone had a shocked look to their faces.

"they were three years old how on earth could they kill anyone?" Tazuna asked.

Kakashi closed his visible eye."its not my place to say" Opening his eye he looked at Naruto and

Kishimaru. Both nodded their heads signaling him to finish his story.

"The man had just thrown Naruto into the side of his apartment building. He hit the ground

unconscious and Kishimaru was unconscious from the sheer pain he was experiencing. Then as if on

cue, the flames stopped." Kakashi sat back down. "A new flame had revealed itself, except not just

Kishimaru was on fire, but so was Naruto. This flame was not like any fire I had ever seen it looked to

have a mind of it's own. Both boys stood up and looked at the man who seemed to be the source of

their agony. Their eyes were filled with so much pain." Kakashi started to shudder.

"For the rest of my life I will never forget what was done on that night. Both Naruto and Kishimaru

stood up, and spoke as one being. They laughed manically both pointing at the man before them.

Your death will be an example of what is to come. Their voices were not that of three year old boys,

but that of which has seen more death than even I in it's lifetime. Both boys jumped at the man and I

cannot say what happened after, the flame covered all three. The mob quickly ran away screaming

about a demon. When the man's body was examined his heart was missing and all of the skin on his

body had been melted off. Almost like the man himself was set aflame." Kakashi voice had mellowed

out and it seemed like he was exhausted.

"I quit ANBU the next day, never again was I going to be apart of that organization." Finishing his

story all eyes were on Kishimaru and Naruto. Standing up, both boys headed for their tents. They

knew they had a long night of Nightmares ahead of them and they wanted to get over it as soon as

possible. Sakura managed to rip her gaze from the two tents and looked at Kakashi who was staring

into the fire.

"Why were they attacked?" Kakashi was pulled out of his deep thoughts.

"I cannot answer that question. If you want to know, then it will be them to tell you." Sakura looked

back at the tents her heart was aching. Sasuke was deep in his own thoughts when he decided to

speak.

"They have been alone their whole lives? No family... no one?" He more stated than asked, but

received a simple nod from Kakashi. Sasuke got up and proceeded to walk towards his tent. "Its

getting late we should go to bed." No one argued with the Uchiha. Only after everyone was in bed, did

the figure appear where Naruto and Kishimaru had been. Two solitary tears hit the soil and then the

Figure was gone.

I thought this was a good place to stop for this chapter I've already begun on the next hope you

enjoy this one.