AN: I hope not to make this chapter as long as the last one, but if it happens, I apologize. I personally enjoy long chapters, and that might rub off in my writing.
Also I changed the attack on Gaara, Deidara and Sasori don't attack Gaara until a few days after Naruto returns.
Here it goes. I don't own Naruto.
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Mitarashi Anko wasn't one to be crossed. She was a deadly kunoichi, she wore fishnet clothing, and she was attractive (according to most men's standards). She also wasn't used to dealing with shinobi she thought were worthless. As she dashed through the trees at high speed, she glanced behind her. There was that same stoic face that she had become accustomed to seeing behind her.
The blond brat had told her that she may set the pace. He may not have meant it, but the purple haired woman took it as a challenge, and Anko wasn't one to back down from challenges. As they sprinted through the tops of trees, Anko couldn't deny the fact that she was beginning to feel fatigued from the continuous sprint for the past 6 hours.
What really bugged her was that the newly appointed jounin didn't look winded at all. His breathing was even, not rushed, or loud gasps, like hers. His shoulders' didn't sag, and his feet weren't dropping. If he was hiding his own fatigue, he was concealing it better than Anko thought he could.
She chewed the kid out at first; she couldn't believe that he was her partner. She remembered him from the chunin exam, he was a midget, and had very little talent. She made a point of reminding him 6 hours ago. She remembered his face as she went on her rant. But what she remembers more was how he responded to her insult.
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Naruto swiftly walked out the door to the Hokage's office, following Anko closely. Eventually they were walking side-by-side; each had their eyes forward, not looking at each other.
Eventually Naruto broke the silence between them when they left the Hokage building. "Are you prepared to leave straight away Anko-sempai?"
Anko looked at the blond out of the corner of her eye, "Yeah, I have everything I need for this mission with me."
Naruto nodded, "Then I suggest that we leave soon, the quicker we complete this mission the better."
That was it, "Listen brat," Anko said turning to look at the blond straight in the eyes, "You may have fooled the Hokage, but I know that you do not deserve to be a jounin so young. I remember you from the chunin exams, a short kid with a big ego, and no talent. On this mission I will be in command, and I don't want you to think that you have what it takes to run a mission like this." The purple haired woman said harshly.
As Anko was saying this she was watching the blonde's eyes. She was expecting to see them recoil, widen, water. She was expecting them to do something, but as she spoke down to the blond haired teen his eyes never once wavered. They just met her gaze, never once leaving her own eyes. This almost unnerved Anko as she was at least expecting the boy to recoil, or at least argue back. But he remained quiet, through the entire speech.
After a couple of seconds of meeting her gaze, Naruto said in a voice that promised danger. "You have no idea what I am capable of." The blond said slowly. As he spoke Anko watched his eyes, face, and body language to see if he was bluffing or lying. But his body didn't move, his facial expression was one of solitude, and she felt like he was boring a hole in her soul as he stared at her with his eyes. They held a cold fierceness that she hadn't seen for nearly 20 years. And that was when she believed that there was more to Naruto than the 13 year old kid taking a chunin exam.
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Naruto landed on the tree branch next to Anko. They were nearing the target village. Inside the mission statement was the location of the place where they were supposed to go. Gadateucha.
Gadateucha was a village just inside the border of rock country. This was essentially enemy territory, so that meant both Naruto and Anko would have to be very careful. Part of the mission statement was to infiltrate, assassinate, and get out of there undetected.
"Anko-sempai, which target would you prefer?" Naruto asked quietly. They were a ways outside of the village and in a relatively secluded area, so Naruto thought it would be a decent place to discuss this part of the mission.
Anko was quiet a moment, before she replied. "I would like to take the spy. That leaves you with Zenatei, that rat has ran out of time." The purple haired woman muttered the last piece.
"Alright sounds like a plan, we have to get into the village now without being detected and find a place to stay for the night." Naruto stated, looking at Anko for confirmation. At her nod he continued. "We should look for any possible escape routes as soon as we enter the village though. Examine the types of shinobi, samurai, or mercenaries they have here, and double check any patrols going through the city. That way if we get caught we can have a rough idea of how long they will take to get to us, and in what direction they will be coming in." Naruto finished.
Anko looked at the blond with a raised eyebrow; obviously the kid knew his stuff sufficiently well. That was a summary that she was running through her own mind as well. She had realized that the blond deserved a bit of respect for coming this far, and obviously being well prepared for anything.
Now it was Anko's turn to speak, "Alright, well from here on out, you have to be invisible, make no noise, and above all do not get caught. After we scale the wall we will have to dash into an alley and make our way into the street slowly, as to not draw attention to ourselves."
Naruto nodded, then added, "We must hurry Anko-sempai, we are running out of daylight, and not many villagers travel through the streets at night." At that comment Anko nodded, before she took off into the foliage, with Naruto moving behind her as her ghost.
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As the two of them approached the wall they moved with stealth that made both of them disappear into the night. There was only one chunin guard standing atop of the wall, and he wasn't paying very close attention. There was about a 50 foot gap between that guard and another guard, just standing there.
Naruto looked at Anko, he realized that she had pushed herself quite hard for them to reach the village in such good time, but that was her choice, and he wasn't one for arguing with an assassin teammate. The blond could see slight signs of fatigue hanging in her posture, but nothing too severe.
He looked back at the two chunin guards standing atop of the wall. How the blond wished the two of them could just henge into civilian and walk through the gate, but a mission like the one they are on does not need such risk. If they had been caught, the mission would have been blown, and Konoha could have been traced to the killing of two people, making diplomatic relationships more strained than they already are.
Watching the guards Naruto realized that the time for both of them to clear the wall would be happening very soon, and by the tensing of Anko's shoulders, Naruto could tell that she was making a good timing.
The guard closest to them turned and looked away from where the two of them were hiding in the foliage. Since the other guard had been busy scratching something on a parchment for the past 4 minutes, it was a safe time to clear the wall and find a shadowed alley.
Without making a noise Anko sprung from her hiding spot, and using as little chakra as humanly possible she jumped. Having used enough chakra to jump over the small wall the purple haired woman was silently soaring through the air. As she was making her descent she made a perfect silenced roll, no noise came from Anko as she then proceeded to walk into an alley, and disappear into the shadows.
Turning around to wait for Naruto to clear the wall, Anko almost killed the blond she had been waiting for. He was standing right across the alley looking at her and obviously waiting for her to lead the way.
Anko looked at the blond, and followed his gaze to the kunai that she stopped herself from throwing at him. Feeling almost guilty, Anko mouthed silently, "Sorry." Naruto nodded his head and smirked, receiving the silent message.
Naruto followed Anko as she made her way out of the alleyway they were both in, and blended into the crowd of people, walking down the street. Now both ninja were surrounded by cover and noise so it was a green light as to talking at regular volumes.
"Alright, let's find a nice hotel, to stay the night." Anko said as she lead the blond through the street of people. It was about 5 o'clock, and the street of the village was full of people.
Cutting her way through the sea of people Anko eventually found a descent looking hotel, and glanced behind her to make sure Naruto was still following her. Said blond made eye contact with her, and she knew that he was right behind her, if not a few feet behind her.
Walking into the hotel, Anko looked around, analyzing everything that came to her sight. She memorized the quickest escape route, noticed that there 14 people on the ground floor, and that 4 of those 14 people were shinobi, and paid little attention to her and Naruto. Slowly Anko made her way to the front desk she knew Naruto was right behind her, and she could feel his presence.
As she reached the front desk Anko talked to the kind looking girl in uniform. "We would like 1 room please, for one night." The purple haired woman said as politely as she could. Nodding the girl behind the desk shuffled through a few papers, and grabbed a key that was attached to a keychain with a number imprinted upon it.
"Alright, your room is on the top floor, which is also the third floor, and your room number is 285. Thank you for choosing Yatata Hotels and have a good night." With a small nod Anko grabbed the key and made for the stairwell. Both Naruto and Anko ascended the stairs in utter silence, preferring to be inside their room before they were to speak.
Reaching the room, Anko used the key to unlock the door, and walked in, while Naruto closed the door. Flopping down on one of the two beds in the room Anko looked at watched as Naruto walked around the room and checked things.
"What did you see while we were on the street?" Anko asked the blond as he made his way over to the window that had the drapes down, blocking any view to the outside world.
Naruto was quiet for a second studying the world outside before he answered, "They have more shinobi than they do samurai, and I found no mercenaries. They had groups traveling around; hidden from the public eye, much like a hidden village's ANBU would operate." Naruto said as he made his way to his own bed.
Anko nodded her head. "Yeah, I was thinking that they might be trying to set up their own little shinobi village here, all they need now is a kage." Silence reigned for a few seconds before Anko broke it, "So do you want to scrounge the village first and figure out half of the route those 'ANBU' take, or do you want me to?" Anko asked, looking at the blond.
"How bout neither of us do that, and get a full night's sleep. I sent out a group of 6 kage-bunshins to watch the groups. They will shadow the ninja around the city, and when they have done their job they will disperse and give me the info, and I'll relay it to you." Naruto said as took off his sandals and laid back onto his bed.
Anko looked at Naruto, and curiously asked, "When did you make the clones?"
"When we first entered the village, and when we were walking the street, I created them very discretely." Naruto said with a slight smile, leaning back on his bed. "Once the clones do their job, we could probably complete our mission tonight, what do you think we should do Anko-sempai?"
Anko looked away from her blond companion and looked up at the ceiling. "We could, it would be in the dead of night when we would move out to complete the mission. Our targets could possibly be asleep, making our job easier." The purple haired woman frowned, "But we already paid for the room." She added as an after thought.
"It's not our money we used to rent out the room, and we could leave the key on the bed when we leave." Naruto said, thinking through the problem.
Anko nodded at the mention of the money not being theirs, she was thoroughly convinced. "Alright, we will complete the mission tonight, what should we do before the mission starts though?"
"We should try to get some sleep, my clones will dismiss themselves, and when I receive the information I will wake you, we can discuss the rest of the details from there." Naruto offered.
Anko nodded, remembering how tired her legs were from the run earlier on in the day. Laying her head on the pillow she allowed herself to attempt to fall into a light sleep, anticipation of the action that was bound to take place later in the night.
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Naruto called out Anko's name in the black of night, knowing that she would probably kill him if he were to shake her awake.
Within a moment Anko was standing up in a battle stance with a kunai in hand. She looked at Naruto through the dark and saw that it was time for the mission to begin.
Naruto then began to brief Anko about the guards, their routes, and the numbers they had with them, and the rank of them. He also relayed the information that her target was across town, while his was relatively near their current location.
"What should the plan be, Anko-sempai?" Naruto asked the purple haired woman.
Said woman was quiet for a moment, thinking about the best course of action. "Is this hotel closest to the route to Konoha?" Anko asked.
"No, Zenatei's building is closer to the route out of the village than this hotel is."
Anko nodded, "After we both complete our mission, we will meet up on your target's roof, and make our get away. You will have to wait a little while for me to meet up with you on the roof, cause I have a ways to travel."
Anko and Naruto looked at each other and nodded, Anko making her way to the window, while Naruto threw the key on the bed closer to the door. As the two of them jumped to the roof of the hotel Anko was about to take off before Naruto stopped her.
"Anko-sempai," Naruto paused as the purple haired woman turned to look at him, "Good luck."
Anko looked at Naruto, quiet for a second before a grin broke across her face, "You too gaki." Then she took off, leaping across the roofs of buildings soundlessly, leaving Naruto there with furrowed brows.
"Why does everyone have to call me gaki, I'm almost an adult now, and they just keep on calling me gaki, it's a useless thing. A gaki isn't even supposed to be used as it is now, it's actually from the word…" Naruto mumbled as then jumped from the roof, mimicking Anko as he moved soundlessly and stealthily.
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Anko stood silent as she watched her target sitting in his room. It was about 2:30 in the morning, and here this black haired man was sitting in a chair with the lights off. At first it appeared to her that he was asleep in the chair, but then she realized that he had too much muscle action and control going on for that to be possible.
The spy was using himself as bait trying to catch anyone of lesser talent, they would silently sneak into the room, assuming he was asleep, and when they were in range for him to attack, he would get the advantage of a surprise attack, and probably a hidden weapon.
Anko smirked; it had been a while since she had come across anyone that was so ready to fight off assassins. Very subtly Anko created a bunshin, and sent it forward, with the real Anko right behind her bunshin.
When Anko reached the closed window, she swiftly opened it wide, and sent her bunshin in, remaining back, out of range for the spy. She watched as her bunshin neared the man feigning sleep, and right before her clone was about to attack, the black haired man shot forward with a kunai in hand, slicing through what would have been Anko's neck. Instead the man hit nothing but air as the bunshin disappeared.
Anko readied herself as the man was now in the middle of his room, wide open for attack. Inhaling her breathe sharply Anko shot forward, seemingly invisible to the human eye. Her target had enough time to turn his head and look at her before she sliced at the man's neck with a kunai of her own. Since she had moved too fast for him to react properly, there was nothing he could do.
Anko's eye's widened as her kunai sailed through the man's throat, dispelling a bunshin. She hadn't even taken that possibility into account. Whoever the target was they were a very competent shinobi.
Sensing a stab aimed at her back, Anko spun around the attack, getting to the target's exposed back. Anko had to duck under a quick reverse slice; after she ducked Anko kicked one of the man's shins, causing said man to be off balance, leaning forward. Acting quickly at the opening, Anko stabbed the man in the leg, and withdrew the kunai quickly. Since she stabbed the man in the leg, his hands went to the injury to protect it, leaving his entire upper torso wide open to attack, which Anko gladly took the open invitation.
Swinging her arm faster than the target's eyes could follow she successfully slit the man's throat; cutting through the jugular vein, carotid artery, and trachea, sending a spray of blood into the air. As a follow up to her brutal act she pushed the man onto the bed before he fell to the ground making more noise than she would have liked.
Anko stood above the dying man and watched with hardened eyes, as he desperately grabbed at his neck trying to breathe, until he looked at Anko and launched the kunai at her face as hard as he could. Unfortunately it wasn't nearly that hard, as his strength was leaving him very rapidly.
Instead of dodging the kunai, Anko reached out and grabbed it by its hilt stopping the assaulting weapon. A suicidal person doesn't throw kunai into walls. Anko continued to watch as defeat spread across the man's face. After a couple of minutes the man stopped moving and had his eyes open with an empty look in them. Anko moved forward and checked the man's vital signs.
"Target eliminated" Anko whispered quietly to herself, before she whipped her kunai off, riding any evidence of it ever being hers, and put it in the man's hand. She looked back at the spray of blood that littered the ground and a small portion of the wall. He was standing at the end of the bed when he cut his own throat and fell backward on it, and accidentally stabbed himself in the leg in the process, then bleed to death.
She ran through the scenario in her mind, it was a legitimate possibility. It wouldn't have been the first time someone had died that way. Turning she escaped silently through the window, and started making her way towards the second target's building.
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Naruto silently ran down a third hallway. The blond had to avoid two groups of two guards. Zenatei was no fool and knew that his life was in danger, but the security surrounding the middle aged man was almost too secure. Naruto frowned at the possibility of the man knowing something out of the ordinary about Konoha. The idea didn't sit well with him.
Finally making it to the door of his target Naruto paused. Inside the room were two guards, around chunin level, and they weren't paying attention according to the feel of their relaxed chakra. Naruto realized that another group of guards were about to make their round down this hall; one guard was standing right by the door, where it swung open, and the other was sitting in a corner with his arms crossed.
Drawing a kunai silently, Naruto opened the door and pushed with all his might capturing the one beside the door between it and the wall behind him. While he was opening the door to the room Naruto threw his kunai straight at the other guard who was still sitting down when the kunai pierced his throat. Pushing off the door as hard as he could, Naruto cleared the room and grabbed the hilt of the kunai still lodged into the neck of the sitting guard and sliced through the other side of his neck.
After retrieving his kunai Naruto threw it at the door; as the kunai was in flight the chunin guard pushed the door off of him, successfully closing the door, before the kunai pieced the second guard's throat. Naruto stood slowly and watched as the guard slid to the ground, trying to gasp for help, or cry out, but Naruto had pierced his wind pipe, and it was futile attempt.
Eventually everything in the room became motionless; looking over to the bed Naruto noted that Zenatei was still asleep. Silent as the night Naruto walked over to the sleeping man, covering his mouth with his free hand Naruto slit the throat of the balding middle aged man. Zenatei's eyes shot open at the sudden pain, only to look straight at Naruto's, whose were cold and solid. The bald man struggled for a couple of minutes before he eventually became motionless; after Naruto checked the target's vitals, he turned and silently left the bloody room
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Naruto stood in the shadows of the roof of his target, waiting for Anko. Escaping the halls was just as easy as it was the first time. The guards probably didn't know that their client was deceased. As Naruto saw Anko in the distance making her way towards the roof he was on, he relaxed; she had made it out of any immediate danger, and probably completed her mission. Though she wasn't exactly nice to the blond, she was at least a fellow Konoha shinobi. He wouldn't wish any harm to befall a fellow ninja.
His relaxed state was short lived however, as Naruto's body suddenly became extremely rigid. A tall figure slowly stepped out of the same shadow that Naruto was concealed in.
Naruto watched the man as he moved with long strides out of the shadows, moving more like a ghost across the roof tiles, making no noise and matching Naruto's stare with every step. The man had short silver hair that spiked over to one side of his head; he was unusually lean, almost like he hadn't eaten in a couple of days. He was dressed in what seemed like very fine black and white battle armor; there was dried blood on the armor, letting Naruto know that the man didn't take the time to wash the armor. The man's face clear and unblemished, his mouth a thin line due to the fact that he had his lips pursed. His brow was furrowed, almost as if he was frustrated with something.
Then Naruto really looked into the man's eyes. They were a green color, a sickly green that made one think of poison when they looked at the man. What shook Naruto to the core though was the look in the man's eyes. A crazed look was what Naruto saw clearly, but behind that crazy glaze in the man's, there seemed to be something else lurking there. Naruto was interrupted from his thoughts on the man, by the man himself.
"What a lovely night for a stroll, isn't it?" He asked, with a voice that had a hint of madness in it.
Naruto remained quiet as he continued to watch the man walk back and forth in front of him. Just by the way the man was walking, looking at Naruto, and how he talked, Naruto realized that this man was truly dangerous. He was screaming ninja, and probably only revealed himself on purpose to Naruto; a shiver went down the blonde's spine.
"You're a quiet one aren't you? Well, alright, I guess I can do most of the talking." The man said in the same edgy voice. "Who are you?"
Naruto remained quiet as he studied the man before him, trying to figure out why he would ask a question like that, but Naruto found no reason and did the only logical thing he could think of.
"Why do you ask who I am?" Naruto said with a level voice.
"Ahh, answering questions with questions. This game could get on my nerves." The man spoke animatedly, using his body and arms to help speak, sending Naruto even more on edge; he could throw an attack from anywhere at anytime.
"I asked you who you were, because I want to get to know you." The man answered.
"…Who are you?" Naruto decided to test the waters.
"There you go again, and if you must know I am Ashi." The man said with a high pitched laugh. Causing the hair on the back of Naruto's neck to rise.
"…I am Naruto." Naruto said curtly.
"Just Naruto?" Ashi inquired.
"Yeah."
"Well alright, all I wanted to know was who you were." Ashi turned, and started walking away before Naruto called out stopping him in his tracks.
"Why did you want to know who I was?" Naruto asked, body still tense.
Ashi turned to look at Naruto out of the corner of his eye. "Because you might be a problem for our organization."
Naruto's eyes narrowed as the conversation continued. Anko would be arriving any second now and this Ashi character seemed to be a powerful shinobi, and if he were to fight him it would definitely get attention.
"Your organization?" Naruto inquired.
"Yeah, a group of people, kind of like me, that have a specific goal in mind." Ashi answered still walking around Naruto.
"What is your organization's goal?" Naruto pushed further trying to get information out of Ashi.
The silver haired man let a wide slow smile spread across before he answered.
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Anko ran across the rooftops as quietly and as fast as she could. She was watching Naruto and a tall unknown man intently. Anko had become furious when she first saw the blond talking to the man on the roof, but then she realized that Naruto was rigid, and was ready for an attack anytime.
That made Anko slightly nervous; who was this man that was talking to Naruto? Was he another assassin assigned to kill the people they had eliminated? The purple haired woman growled, anticipation wasn't her favorite emotion.
Finally arriving on the roof Anko landed in a quiet crotch on a side of the roof close to Naruto. At her arrival, the silver haired man looked at her, while Naruto kept his face stoic and watched the man's every move.
"Ah, so the partner finally made it. That's good news, Naruto-san we can finally end our conversation." The tall man said in voice that made Anko's skin crawl.
"Unfortunately we must be getting on our way, so I guess it's almost convenient timing." Naruto said with a level voice still not taking his eyes off of the silver haired man. Anko and Naruto watched as the man walked slowly approaching them with each step.
"Yes, I have to get on my way too, Naruto-san. But remember this Naruto-san, we will meet again." Ashi said with a smile as he stopped a ways from him and Anko.
Ashi smiled one last time before he removed his chest piece of armor revealing his entire chest and arms covered with exploding notes and within a moment was about to ignite them all. Naruto's eyes widened before he went into action, not having enough time to shout to Anko he turned around and blurred out of existence attempting to get to Anko before the explosion occurred.
Just as the blond reached Anko the explosion rocked the entire building they were standing on, the blast violently tossed Naruto and Anko into the air, and through a building's wall, both landing in the same room.
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Two figures walked across the sandy planes of the desert. Both cloaked in cloaks with red clouds on them, each had straw hats that hide both figures faces from the world. One of the figures seemed to be crawling on all fours, and had a substantially large hump in their back. Both figures walked silently next to each other, approaching what seemed to be a large wall made out of sand or mud that was quite a ways off from them. The two figures hoped that their inside man kept up his bargain and terminated the guards in the front of the village. Because the two figures really didn't want to fight guards along with a jinchuuriki.
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Naruto jerked awake. Despite the pain in the side of his head, Naruto stood up quickly, looking around the ruble that had been the side of an apartment complex. Hearing a groan, Naruto wiped his head around and found a large couch tipped over. Moving quickly Naruto jumped over the couch and landed on the other side. There was Anko, unconscious and in a twisted heap. Her leg was pointed at an odd angle, and it looked like she had a large gash above her right eyebrow.
Sensing many shinobi organizing and making their way to their current location, Naruto picked up Anko gently and set her on his back before jumping out of the recently made hole in the side of the building, landing in the shadows of the alley. Moving extremely stealthily, Naruto weaved in out of alleys, finding cover from the cover of the alleys whenever a group of ninja passed by overhead.
Moving closer and closer to the wall surrounding the village the defenses started tightening up. Nearly getting spotted a handful of times, Naruto had used quite a few acrobatic displays and brilliant stealth tactics to avoid getting seen. Finally making it to the alley that Anko and him had entered the village in, Naruto had to swear under his breathe.
Upon the wall there were guards galore. Chunin, genin, and even a few jounin were standing along the wall, many more than what there had been when Anko and him had entered the village. Sensing a search group coming at them from behind Naruto was forced to swear a second time; the search group would be passing right by their current location within a matter of seconds, and he couldn't make a run for it now.
Focusing enough chakra for the jutsu, Naruto prepared to run and find a place to set Anko down. The ninja in the area would certainly tell what jutsu he had used, and will be hot on his trail. Gathering enough chakra, Naruto focused on a tree branch a good distance away from the wall of the village; releasing the chakra Naruto disappeared using a shun-shin no jutsu, with Anko strewn across his back.
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Pain. That was the only thing that Anko knew in her world as her mind slowly came too. The explosion had sent her and Naruto through a wall, and that obviously had harmed her more than it had Naruto, as she watched the blond from a distance set up hastily made traps. A few of the traps were ingenious, and she almost smirked, had it not been for the fact that what felt like an ANBU team was making their way to their location.
Anko looked down at the source of most of her pain, her leg. More specifically her right shin, it looked like she had fractured both the tibia and fibula, judging by amount of swelling there in the middle of her shin, and the odd angle her ankle was laying at. Bringing her hand to her head, where another sensation of pain was located, she found that her right eyebrow a large gash in it, and there was a streak of blood that flowed from the gash down the right side of her nose, missing her eye. Next was a slight pain in her chest cavity; a throbbing was more of the pain instead of stabbing. That meant she had probably broken a rib, and no internal damage.
Looking back to the blond she watched him create a kibaku-kage bunshin, and had the clone use a technique that hid him underground. Standing directly over the clone Naruto stopped moving and faced the direction of the incoming shinobi. Anko knew that she was well hidden, but she could see the small opening that the fight was going to take place in. She looked at the blond and noticed that he seemed perfectly fine, minus the presence of debris and a small amount of blood on his clothes.
Anko felt a little apprehensive; it was a team of high level ninja traveling towards them, and Naruto was going to fight them all, by himself. She would be hard pressed to get out of a situation like that without any major injuries. Watching Naruto stand in the middle of the clearing unmoving and just standing there made her feel easier though. Now all Anko could do was watch Naruto and see if he could fend for both of their lives.
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Naruto stood in the middle of the small clearing. Keeping his breathing calm and even; they were 40 paces away. The blond realized that if he wanted to get out of this situation alive, with Anko receiving no damage meant he would have to go all out.
25 paces now, The blond kept his eyes glued on the spot where the first enemy would enter the clearing, they would try circling him, cutting off all escape routes. Most of the time that wasn't a good thing, but that was exactly what Naruto wanted these shinobi to do.
5 paces. Here they are. Naruto's body tensed, ready for anything that the enemy ninja might throw at him.
The first shinobi, dressed in black standard ANBU garb, landed on the tree branch that had a trip wire placed in it. Sensing that he had activated the trap the ANBU jumped into the air, only to trip another wire that sent a hail of shuriken and kunai right at him, his only defense was to try and parry as many as he could with the only kunai he had out.
The ANBU still falling to the ground had kunai and shuriken in his body, and cuts and gashes from the brutal trap. As he landed on the ground he tripped another wire, setting off another trap that launched kunai at high speed behind him at his back; he heard a high pitched whistling noise, indicating thrown weapons at high speed. He only heard the weapons, but could not see them as the embedded deep into his back, ending his life.
Naruto hadn't moved but he mentally kept track of the amount of enemies he had to worry about. There were 9 to begin with, now there were only 8 to deal with. Turning to his left Naruto watched as ANBU set off a very concealed exploding note in the tree underneath the ANBU's feet. Now there were only 7.
Naruto sensed a very fast attack coming from behind him, turning his head quickly Naruto caught a glimpse of the ANBU as they charged him with a kunai ready to plunge into his back. Moving faster than the ANBU could keep up with Naruto dodged the stab, grabbed the man's arm and pulled him forward taking the shinobi off guard and helpless for a second.
After pulling him forward, Naruto pulled the man's arm downward while he brought his knee up quickly successfully landing the blow to the man's elbow, breaking it at the joint. After hearing the bone crack, Naruto used another shun-shin to disappear out of the clearing, leaving the man there cradling his arm before the kibaku-kage bunshin exploded underground, creating a small crater where the bunshin had been hiding.
Naruto appeared behind another ANBU, who sensed him, and brought their leg up in a wide arched kick. Naruto ducked under the kick, and kicked the only posted leg, breaking the bones in the leg, causing the ANBU to fall to the ground. Grabbing a kunai out of his holster he threw the blunt side at the writhing ANBU, hitting the ninja in the side of the head, knocking them into unconsciousness. Now there were only 5 left.
Using another shun-shin, Naruto appeared in the small clearing. The blond stood still, Naruto's body tense from anticipation of another attack from the ANBU. He didn't have to wait long as two ANBU jumped out of the brush sprinting at him. Naruto stood in a ready stance, analyzing how the two enemies moved together in practiced synchronization. One of the ANBU had drawn a short wakizashi, while the other held two kunai in a reversed grip. Naruto frowned; this could be a bit difficult.
The ANBU with the wakizashi slashed at Naruto's neck with frightening speed, while the partner ANBU tried slashing at the back of Naruto's knees. Both were closing in before Naruto jumped into the air, pulling his body so that he was parallel to the attacks. After both attacks had passed by him Naruto lashed out, kicking the ANBU with the wakizashi in the chin hard. Using the connection with the chin as leverage Naruto spun in the air and reared his fist back and connected it to the other ANBU's face.
The two ANBU jumped back after Naruto had landed on his feet, coming out of the attack unscathed. Naruto didn't have much time to wait before he felt chakra being summoned; looking into the brush Naruto heard a feminine voice cry out, "Hisan yurasu no jutsu!" Naruto watched as 3 large rocks shot out from the brush and flew at him at high speeds.
Reacting rather than thinking Naruto formed hand seals faster than the eye could follow, concentrating very hard Naruto cried out, "Yurasu tama no jutsu!" Focusing the chakra needed he released it at the last second.
As the rocks were flying at Naruto, small portions of the rock broke off and flew at even faster speeds towards the caster of the original jutsu. Naruto barely had enough time to dodge the large rocks as they crashed into the spot where he had been standing a second earlier.
Naruto heard someone cry out as rapid small pellet sounds were heard throughout the small clearing, before the sound of a body slumping to the ground. Another unconscious KO, 4 left. Naruto counted down in his mind.
Looking around him Naruto noted that the two ANBU with the wakizashi and dual kunai were gunning for him again. Running out of time Naruto decided that he would have to injure one of the two shinobi.
As they sprinted at him side-by-side, the one with the kunai launched himself into the air, preparing to have a two sided assault. Naruto saw the strategy and realized he would be at an extreme disadvantage; reaching into his kunai holster he threw a handful of shuriken, distracting the ANBU in the air with the shuirken. After he threw the kunai Naruto used a burst of speed to meet the ANBU with the wakizashi head on.
The ANBU, though unprepared for the sudden head on attack tried a sloppy and desperate slash at Naruto's chest. Still moving quick Naruto made it within the man's guard before the wakizashi could cut him Naruto. The blond then proceeded to wrap his arm around the arm with the wakizashi in it; sensing a punch rather than seeing it, Naruto clenched his jaw as the ANBU with the wakizashi connected with his head rather brutally.
Hearing the air-borne ANBU land Naruto tightened his arm around the arm of the wakizashi and punched the shoulder of the captured arm twice. The ANBU with the captured arm tried withdrawing his body as the blond punched his exposed shoulder joint, but had no where to go.
Sensing the ANBU with the kunai speeding towards him from behind Naruto pushed off the wakizashi ANBU and ducked onto the ground. The backwards momentum caught the kunai ANBU off guard as Naruto collided with his legs, vaulting the ANBU forward and into the air. Quickly reaching into his same kunai holster Naruto withdrew a kunai and threw it at the ANBU sailing over the blonde's head. Naruto watched as the kunai embedded itself deep into the man's ribs, and watched as the kunai ANBU crashed into the wakizashi ANBU sending them both sprawling onto the ground.
Using pure speed this time, Naruto disappeared from the small clearing as the exploding note connected to the kunai in the ANBU's ribs went off. It was a pre-wrapped kunai, and they were handy in a situation like that one. Now there should only be 2 ANBU left, but where were they?
Naruto looked around, knowing where Anko was located he kept spinning around looking for the final two ANBU. He got an answer as he sensed someone making a break for it, running straight at Anko.
Naruto was about to cut the ANBU off before he heard, "Yuuen hinotama no jutsu!" Naruto watched with wide eyes as several large fireballs made their way towards the blond.
Flying a set of hand seals, Naruto cried out, "Ookawa narabi no jutsu!" releasing a large amount of water from his mouth meeting the fireballs head on, each jutsu canceling one another out, leaving the clearing full of super-heated steam. Quietly Naruto created a single kage-bunshin, before he disappeared running to Anko's aide.
The kage-bunshin was made with an abnormally high amount of chakra put in its system, began flying through another set of seals right after it was created. "Kyousei shippu kaze no jutsu." The clone whispered to itself as it finished the jutsu. A large wind then proceeded to instantly push the super heated steam onto the attacking ANBU, with the steam and possible cuts from the wind, the clone dismissed itself as it heard an anguished cry from the ANBU. Whoever it was wasn't dead, but they were in pain.
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Anko had to try and catch her breathe. Even though she wasn't participating in the fight down in the small clearing, she still couldn't believe what had happened. Naruto, her partner for this mission, had just essentially decimated an entire ANBU team, single handedly. It wasn't a Konoha ANBU team, but he was still able to do defeat them all pretty easily.
And the traps the blond had come up with, they were genius. If he had enough time he could probably turn an ambush into a slaughter of the ambushing team. Anko didn't like how he used exploding notes so flippantly though. The point of the mission was to avoid detection, and here Naruto goes and destroys a portion of the forest with exploding notes, and one kibaku-kage bunshin.
Anko was then disrupted from her thoughts as an ANBU stepped into the clearing, and with one glance at her, he made a lunge for her. Anko, armed with a kunai was not going to go down without a fight.
All of a sudden her world shifted and she was on the back of Naruto who was now sprinting very fast away from the village Gadateucha. Anko wasn't one to be confused, and she didn't like how she was now away from immediate danger.
"What the hell happened? I was about to kill some loser ANBU who was trying to mess with me." Anko said through gritted teeth, trying to hide her pain from the constant jostling of her leg.
Naruto smirked before he explained, "I created another kibaku-kage bunshin, and had the clone do a kawarmi with you, getting you out of immediate danger, and getting rid of that last ANBU." Naruto explained. When he was finished a loud explosion rocked through the forest back at the clearing. Anko smirked, despite the pain, at the thought of the destroyed clearing, and the ninja that were probably just showing up.
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Naruto ran at a dead out sprint for 3 hours running in complete silence with Anko on his back. Leaving her mostly to her own thoughts, she couldn't believe the pace he was running and how he had kept it up. There was no way any tracker was able to even keep up with him.
As if Naruto read her thoughts he slowed his pace down to a slightly fast run. "What are your injuries, Anko-sempai?" Naruto asked as he continued running.
Anko frowned as she thought of them, "Broken lower leg, a large cut on my forehead, and I think I might have a few broken ribs."
Naruto nodded at the information, he didn't want to show the concern he actually felt from another Konoha shinobi being injured, as you didn't want any enemy ninja to see it, and they could get a confidence boost, and fighting another enemy isn't what Naruto wanted to do at this particular moment, he needed to get Anko to the Konoha hospital so she could properly heal.
"We are almost at the gates of Konoha Anko-sempai. You will be in the hands of professional healers in a short amount of time." Naruto said as he began to pick up the pace once more.
Anko frowned at the blond carrying her, "Don't call me Anko-sempai, it makes me feel, old. You can just call me Anko brat." Anko said in light humor despite her pain. "Or you could just call me Anko-sama." Naruto turned to look at her out of the corner of his eye and smiled at the last comment.
Anko nodded and looked at the bright early morning, it was probably 5 or 6 o'clock, and they had completed their mission within one day. She was starting to feel a little tired and fatigued, more than usual. After a few more minutes of running the gates of Konoha came into view Naruto continued to run towards the hidden village.
The two chunin guards standing guard by the front of the gates watched as an orange clad figure was running at them with what looked like a person slung over his shoulder. The guards looked at each other before they both got in a battle ready stance, not knowing what to expect from the figure in the distance running at them.
Naruto saw the two guards, and decided that he didn't have time to deal with the politics of getting in the village right now; he had an injured person with him. Reaching into his hidden pocket he withdrew his passport card, stating he was a Konoha ninja and was allowed back into the village he threw it at the two guards. The card flew steadily and embedded itself between the two guards. The guards followed the card as it flew into the wall, and looked back to watch Naruto jump halfway up the wall and used chakra to run over the rest of the wall. The guard closest to the passport card grabbed it and started following Naruto.
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Naruto turned his head and looked behind him. There was that pesky guard that was following him, despite the guard being quite a ways away from the blond, he still had a pursuer. Looking forward once more Naruto ran a little faster to the hospital, getting Anko to the hospital was priority number one.
"You could have stopped and explained to him the whole situation, you know right?" Anko asked from her perch atop Naruto's back.
"Yes, but it would have taken time. You should be placed in medical care as soon as possible." Naruto said as he pulled off quite an acrobatic maneuver avoiding a clothes line. Unfortunately only Anko saw the display, as the streets below were mostly empty, and the people who were down there couldn't keep up with the speed Naruto was moving at.
Naruto looked at the Konoha hospital; it was now closer than ever, he only had a couple more blocks to get Anko there. Naruto increased his speed again as he made his way to the hospital. Focusing chakra to his legs, the blond launched himself into the air in a straight path to the front doors of the hospital.
Landing adroitly, Naruto then proceeded to rush into the hospital, knocking a man into the hard enough to leave his imprint on the wall before he fell to the ground, unconscious.
"I need medical attention here!" Naruto shouted, indicating the purple haired woman on his back.
"Geez, no need to yell so loud, I have pretty bad headache." Anko said as she cringed at the volume of the blond that was carrying her.
"Here we go sir, we got a wheelchair for her, we can transfer her to a bed later when we get her in the a room so we can examine her." A Nurse said as she wheeled over a wheelchair for Anko. Then as Naruto gently laid Anko in the chair, a group of nurses walked over and began preparing Anko for the exam, splinter her leg, and putting dressing on the gash on her forehead.
As they were helping Anko out one of the nurses holding a dressing to her head asked, "What happened to you ma'am?"
"I was blown through a wall by an explosion." Anko replied wincing in pain as they re-aligned her foot.
"You are shinobi I presume correct?" the nurse asked again.
"Yes, we both are." Anko answered for Naruto.
"What type of mission did you just get back from?" The nurse continued to inquire, as the rest of them seemed to be finishing their jobs.
"A stealth one." Naruto answered without thoroughly thinking through what he had just said. The blond didn't want to say assassination and he just mentioned the first thing that came to mind.
The nurses then proceeded to look at Naruto and Anko like they were a little crazy. "You were blown through a wall because of an explosion?" the nurse asked Anko again.
Aggravated by being asked the same question twice, Anko spoke through gritted teeth. "Yes."
"And there was an explosion, which makes loud noise and destruction, on a stealth mission?" The nurse asked.
Naruto had the decency to blush before he answered. "Yeah, when you put it that way it sounds worse than it is. Something came up, and we had to improvise."
At the end of the questioning, one of the nurses took Anko and began wheeling her away, while the one who had done most of the questioning looked at Naruto strangely before following his team.
Naruto sighed before he turned and walking out of the Konoha hospital; only to run into the chunin guard that he had evaded before by scaling the wall. Naruto looked at the guard and realized he was out of breath.
"Are you alright? I have a perfectly legitimate reason as to why I didn't get che-" Naruto was then interrupted as the guard held up his hand.
"No need to explain. You are a legitimate Konoha ninja, and had to take a fellow shinobi to the hospital after returning from a mission. We see stuff like that all the time." The guard explained.
"Oh, alright. Why did you follow me all the way here then?" Naruto asked.
The guard reached into his belt, "Because you left your ninja passport card." The guard withdrew his hand, and in it was Naruto's ninja passport.
"Well thanks, that saves me a trip." Naruto said as he accepted his ninja card.
"Your welcome, it gives me something to do on guard duty, it sucks." The guard said as he slowly turned and began his trudge back to his post at the front gate. Naruto felt a little sorry for the guy, then turned and started walking down a street with a small smile on his face.
Until Naruto realized that he was going to have to give the mission debriefing to Tsunade alone. And explain that during the assassination mission that required stealth and silence above all, had two buildings nearly destroyed, half a team of ANBU that shouldn't have existed were dead, and a large portion of a forest near the village Gadateucha was destroyed.
Naruto almost cringed at the thought of dealing with the angry Hokage. "This isn't going to be a good day, I can just tell," Naruto muttered to himself as he slowly made his way to the Hokage tower.
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AN: Sorry the very ending of this chapter kind of sucks, I was rushing it I think and it didn't turn out that well. But besides that thank you all for reviewing, it makes me feel special.
Besides that here is the list of jutsu used in this chapter.
-Kibaku-kage bunshin no jutsu- Exploding shadow clone technique
-Hisan yurasu no jutsu-Flying rock technique
-Yurasu tama no jutsu-Rock bullet technique
-Yuuen hinotama no jutsu-Grand fireball technique
-Ookawa narabi no jutsu-River line technique
-Kyousei shippu kaze no jutsu-Great hurricane wind technique