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midnight's fade

Chapter 8

Naruto snuck silently through one of the bandit camps near the leaf village moving as slow as he could and avoiding any noise. He had deliberately come early for just this reason. In the two weeks since his probation he had learnt more about being a ninja than in all his time as a student under Kakashi or Iruka.

He now knew the real meaning behind why ninjas are silent and why jutsus don't make a ninja stronger. If he followed his career as a assassin ninja then if he was lucky he would never have to use a jutsu and was equally unlucky if he ever had a title like 'Kakashi of the sharingan' because the point of being an assassin was so no one ever knew your secrets. If he had the sharingan the only people that would have known were dead shortly after.

In, out and gone silently the only difference should be that there is one less breathing person there when you leave than when you went in.

Naruto snuck from tent to tent putting a kunai through every person he found. He had learnt from the last time he had been in a bandit camp and had watched the camp for several days before he had gone in for the kill. Naruto saw it as no ninjas mean no problem and this camp had no ninja.

As he moved tent to tent he silently made shadow clones to pick up all the equipment to take back to Konoha to sell and storing all the scrolls he found at his house. You would be surprised how many bandits want to be ninjas and stole scrolls so they could learn jutsus but without expanding their chakra coils as children they had no hope of using even the easiest of jutsu.

Slowly the number of bandits in the camp diminished until there was no one left alive and Narutos could be seen running weapons and scrolls, jewellery and as luck would have it they even found barrels of distilled alcohol in the camp.

As Naruto watched his clones disappear into the distance he slowly walked around placing explosive tags on all bodies and any evidence that the bandits where even there or so much as existed before he started to make his way back to the town that had hired him. The people that had asked him to wipe out were from a farming town and didn't have the money for a bandit camp that they suspected had ninjas in it. Any ninja activity automatically raised the rank of the mission to 'B' if not 'A' rank but Naruto had just taken it as a regular 'C' he would still get more than seven times as much as he usually did for a 'C' rank mission. One payment for each Sasuke, Sakura and himself double pay for Kakashi and double pay going towards the village. Really a shit load of money when you stop to think about it. And all for just a few days work he was properly making as much as a 'B' rank would get for a mission. The gap between the prices of each mission was almost ridiculous.

Naruto now acted as if anything was training which showed as he leapt from tree to tree on his way back making little to no noise and concentrating on every last jump moving his feet to match the branch perfectly using a keen awareness of his surroundings to match his steps ten trees ahead of him.

Time was passing quickly for Naruto back at Konoha between his meetings with Anko, Ibiki and the rest of the group his training time with that sadist Tenten and his freelance missions around the fire country. And Naruto didn't know if he truly wanted his probation period to end he was making more money now and got to choose what missions that he got. But alas he did look into such a thing only to find that being a ninja is like entering a contract and there was only one way to get out and that was to climb out of the top pushing everyone out of his way as he went.

The only people that could retire were jounin and higher so that was the cause of Narutos dilemma. He had to go back to his team so that he could get out again in a few years maybe starting his own ninja mercenary division. You would be surprised the amazing profit you would get from such an operation.

Over the week Naruto had finally got the explosive hair trick that the Kyubbi had shown him and it worked wonders though Naruto wondered if he would soon regret using it when a bold spot showed up on his head. He had dedicated quite a bit of time getting his jutsus down pat and had been more than pleased with the results he could perform all of the smoke jutsu perfectly in mid-battle and was now on the market for an earth jutsu he could use with his frozen mist jutsu to keep people trapped. He could even use the water prison jutsu that he had seen used on Kakashi if he could find someone to teach him it. He had even written up his plans for his own taijutsu style which he worked on with Ibiki to help him clear up the small details. The plan was to take the yondaime's prized move, the rasengan and base a style around it. Ibiki and Naruto had, after much discussion worked out how to get it to work but it involved perfect precision and chakra control and an unusually large amount of chakra.

The idea was based off the process that you get someone out of a genjutsu. You put some of your chakra into their coils to disrupt the illusion. But Naruto's idea was to put the chakra in then spin it quickly at the same time to rupture there chakra coils and kill them. He also found that he didn't even need to put it in their coils he could simply form it as he hit them with an open hand tearing organs, skin and muscle alike. But he was not nearly ready for that right now it required a form of control and precision that he simply did not possess. In truth he had got the idea from the Huuga juuken and assumed he would need chakra control on a level above their own to make it work.

As he slowly hopped back to Konoha he saw three blurs pass under him quickly paying attention he saw the tell tale sign of team seven running out for a mission in the same direction as the village he was heading in. Naruto considered the possibility that this didn't have anything to do with his mission. The possibility was, unfortunately low, but Naruto still hoped. And he started to quicken his pace maybe if he got there before them he could get his pay and quickly disappear.

Naruto arrived to see the villagers talking to Kakashi. This wouldn't go well at all Naruto silently thought to himself.

"...and after further revision Konoha has decided that they are willing to do your mission as a 'C' rank given the low chance of their being any ninja retaliation" Kakashi all but mumbled his eyes never leaving the book in his hands.

The town leader merely sighed and said "well the mission has already been given to a separate ninja force so your assistance is no longer required".

Naruto laughed loudly catching everyone's attention "must suck running all the way out here and not even getting the mission huh Kakashi-san" he spoke loudly and boldly throwing caution in the wind.

"You are aware that following a ninja squad and interfering in their mission is against the law right Naruto" Kakashi said as he turned to take in the ragged look Naruto slightly startled by his bloody appearance.

"Well i didn't think this would be a big deal since you don't actually have a mission you kinda just went... for a jog" Naruto laughed struggling to keep the big grin of his face "and plus I'm not following you i have business in this village" he let his eyes travel across the remaining two members of team seven.

Sasuke looked more tired than he usually did properly losing sleep trying to figure out how a dead last beat him.

Sakura... looked the exact same as always never getting stronger or weaker just like a piece of furniture she just seemed to burrow in to the team and blend in talking loudly and throwing threats around to make people think she had some use. She couldn't even be classified as a leech since a leech when attached to a strong host got stronger and bigger maybe she was more like a tick burrowing in and poisoning the host from the inside out.

Slowly he walked past them and over to the village leader "I'm here for my payment boss" he said quietly as the leader handed him a folder thick with money.

"it was nice working with you, if you need any more work done i would be happy to assist" he spoke with a bow.

Word of mouth seemed the easiest way to get work so he needed to keep good relations with the people he was working for so they could pass on the message.

Speed, thoroughness, and being polite seemed to be big factors when impressing villages and oddly enough, although they all pleaded violence was bad they seemed to like the thought that the ninjas they hired were brutal beasts which was the reason of him not bathing of the way back to wash the blood of his hands. The more feral he looked the more likely it was for him to get work and the less chance people would try and screw him out of money.

"Naruto you know it is illegal for a ninja to take side missions right?"Kakashi said harshly.

"Well I'm glad as a suspended ninja I only have the rights of a civilian huh Kakashi?" Naruto shouted over his shoulder as he walked away from the small village.

His trip back to Konoha was all but eventful as Naruto decided just a good walk was in order trudging home with a smile on his face. Earlier he had seen the remnants of team seven passing overhead shooting dirty looks his way.

But his quiet time was broken when he heard a whimper in the bushes besides him.

Turning quickly, a kunai in hand he saw the tail of an animal disappear from view. Curiosity getting the better of him he opened the bushes to find a little furry fox hidden in it with blood matted fur and a nasty gash on its side. Deciding to put the poor creature out of its misery he reached to break its neck when he felt a familiar surge of power stream through him and saw red chakra leap from the seal as the snake in his body tore out and sank its fangs into the fox and then lay dead on the ground along with the poisoned fox.

Naruto gave a yell of victory as he found he was finally free of the thought of having a slimy snake slithering around his and turned his back on the scene when he heard a rustle as he turned to see the fox, drowned in red chakra leap from the ground and back into his body kicking its legs as it dug its way into him while Naruto could only look on in shock.

'Least it's better than a snake' Naruto thought gloomily as he continued his walk back home 'one day I'm going to watch bad things happen to other people and laugh'.

END.

Ok I know its short but I was giving up on the story but decided to continue it at about three this morning and wanted to break the 20000 mark.

I would like to point out the simple fact that not only does the sharingan help Kakashi and Sasuke better understand chakra and its movement in a jutsu but Kakashi was the thirds student and properly saw the rasengan countless times so it would only be natural for him to be able to pervert the idea. Plus I'm sure that if he had asked the third he would have told him how it works because he was his student but not the process on how to make it.

Plus yes I will have Naruto using mass destruction jutsus but not the "mega ultra destroy everything bomb technique" because he is still just a genin and I want to show how he uses his smarts to make use of his jutsus to eliminate large numbers of enemies.

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Hope you like it.

Lachlan.