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Chapter 6- Skirmish with Iwa ninja
"hehe, you have a crush on sensei" Nawaki laughed as the team was walking to training ground five the day after they were released from the hospital. Naruto had told them to meet their at eight o clock. Some of the paint could still be seen in Kushina's hair but it was slowly going away due to her mauling her hair with shampoo and steaming hot water the night before.
"Do not, why would I have a crush on some crazy guy who almost killed us" Kushina exclaimed. She turned her head away from them acting like she was pouting but in reality she had a big blush sprayed across her face not wanting them to see it but unlucky for her they did see it and they would not let it go.
"Don't lie Kushina you like how strong he is and the teasing because it is written all over your face" Nawaki laughed out. Nawaki missed the angry looked that passed her face but before long he found out as a fist slammed into his face sending him into the window of a store across the street. All they heard was cursing from the shop owner before they booked it out of their before they had to pay anything leaving Nawaki to his fate.
"That was a little harsh don't you think Kushina, he was only messing with you after all" Shisui explained. They were now walking to the training ground again slowing down when they were out of sight from the shop. Kushina turned her head towards Shisui giving him a big old grin.
"I wasn't harsh, I even held back so he should recover in no time" Kushina replied. Right when she finished that statement Nawaki appeared next to the two of them with a new bruise added to his cheek courtesy of Kushina's fist. Kushina just laughed at the look Nawaki gave her adding to the fact the bruise had her fingers outlined made it even funnier.
"It's not funny Kushina, I have to pay for that damn window now" Nawaki shouted. Kushina ignored the shouting and just stared ahead of her getting lost in her thoughts but before long she was broken out of her thoughts by someone shaking her shoulder. She looked to see who it was noticing that it was Shisui.
"We are here Kushina, I thought I should let you know since you looked out of it at the moment" Shisui said. Kushina nodded as she looked around the clearing clearly not seeing their sensei anywhere in it. She saw Nawaki scowling out of the corner of her eye.
"Where the hell is he, he told us never to be late but here he is five minutes late himself" Nawaki shouted. He was looking around at the trees thinking that their sensei must be here already and they were just being tested again. Kushina and Shisui ignored him as Shisui went and sat down in the shade beneath a large tree to relax until their sensei got their. Kushina was about to go relax as well before she felt a hand land on her shoulder.
"You guys got to pay more attention to your surroundings" Naruto whispered in her ear. She jumped forward squealing gaining a crimson blush across her face. Naruto started chuckling when Kushina squealed because it was just to hilarious not to. Shisui had quickly jumped up to his feet when Kushina had squealed while Nawaki was rolling around on the grass laughing his ass off.
"Why the hell did you sneak up on me stupid sensei" Kushina shouted. She was completely embarrassed with what happened she could not make eye contact with any of them. Naruto walked up to her putting his hand on her shoulder once again making Kushina look up at him in the eyes.
"Calm down Kushina it was only a test, I wanted to see if you guys would detect me but I guess you didn't so after we get our first mission today completed I am going to set up a trap detecting test to make sure you guys are ready for anything" Naruto explained. As he said this though his eyes kept looking towards Nawaki because he needed to learn this test the most if he was going to have any chance of survival. He leaned down to Kushina's ear after he explained this making a small blush appear on her face the closer he had gotten.
"The hokage would like to speak with you after we receive our mission to discuss something important with you" Naruto whispered. Kushina's blush disappeared quickly after that was spoken nodding to show that she got the message.
He pulled back away from Kushina once he told her what she needed to do.
"Ok team it's time to get our mission" Naruto said. He lead them out of the training ground to the hokage tower. As they approached the hokage tower Nawaki leaned a little closer to Kushina.
"So what did sensei say to you, was he asking you out on a date" Nawaki whispered looking quite serious. Kushina looked at him with an enormous blush on her face making Nawaki break down in laughter once again. He should have learnt his lesson the first time as he doubled over on to his knees from the pain that shot up from his nuts being kicked in.
"Why did you…. do that" Nawaki whimpered from his place on the ground not being able to feel his nuts at the moment.
"Damn that must of hurt, I kind of feel sorry for him but he might of deserved it" Naruto thought looking back at his team.
"I did it because you were being an idiot" Kushina exclaimed. She did not care what she did to him as long as he stopped messing with her. Shisui stayed a little bit away from her once her foot connected to Nawaki's nuts.
"I also did it because sensei would never ask me out because he probably takes me as being to young for him anyway" Kushina thought. She peered up at Naruto after the thought seeing the look he gave them. She blushed in embarrassment because she was holding up the team up from getting their first mission.
"I'm sorry sensei for holding us up from our first mission but I had to do it" Kushina explained. Naruto understood that Nawaki probably had said something to make her so mad so he for gave her even though he wasn't mad at her to begin with.
"It's ok Kushina-channn but we got to go get the mission now" Naruto said smirking. Kushina gained a tick mark on her forehead but before she could say anything in retaliation Naruto vanished leaving no trace of chakra behind.
"One of these days I am going to get you back sensei" Kushina thought as her anger receded for the most part. Shisui hoisted Nawaki's right arm up on to his left shoulder so he could help him to the hokage tower. Kushina paid no mind to Nawaki though as they continued their trek to the tower. When they finally reached the tower after a long walk because of the hurt Nawaki, they walked up the stairs reaching the office. They knocked getting the ok to enter so they entered closing the door behind them.
'What took you guys so long I have been here for about fifteen minutes already" Naruto said. He stood in front of them with a scroll in hand which they realized must be the mission they were receiving.
"What type of mission did we get sensei" Shisui asked. They all wanted to know but Nawaki a little less then them because all he wanted at the moment was a seat, his legs felt like jelly.
"We got a border patrol mission that could take anywhere between three days to a week depending on the situation of our replacements, so go home pack and meet at the main gate in an hours time for the mission" Naruto commanded. He watched as Shisui helped Nawaki out of the room while Kushina went to follow.
"The hokage would like to speak to you remember" Naruto said stopping Kushina in her tracks. She nodded turning back around walking to the hokages desk taking a seat.
"Thanks for giving her the message Naruto and remember in two weeks their will be a jonin meeting so make sure you are their" the sandaime explained.
"I know I'll be their" Naruto replied as he walked out of the office to give Kushina and the sandaime enough time to talk so she could go pack for the mission as well. He had a pretty good idea of what they were going to talk about. It was probably going to be on what happened to the Whirlpool village, so she was going to be asking him questions which he did not want to answer yet.
"I hope she does not ask me about anything until we return from the mission at least but that might be asking for to much" Naruto thought chuckling to himself knowing it to be true. When he was a good distance from the tower he was abruptly broken out of his thought by a loud yell.
"Naruto sensei wait up I need to talk to you about something for a couple minutes" Kushina shouted closing in on Naruto by the second. Naruto stopped in his tracks slightly looking back at Kushina catching a glance of her.
"No can do Kushina, I have to go pick up a few things I want to teach you guys on the mission ja ne" Naruto replied as he vanished with no trace when Kushina finally reached him. She caught the grin on his face before he had vanished which ticked her off.
"What the hell, get back here" Kushina shouted although she knew he would not hear her so she began to grumble as she continued her path down the road.
"They badly need to learn detection skills and trap detection as well, I mean she could not detect me on the roof right next to her position" Naruto thought sweat dropping. He guessed it was to be expected because they were only genin after all but they should be taught better in the academy to begin with maybe he would talk to the hokage about that when they returned.
"I better go get the supplies needed to make the traps I have in mind. When they get through my traps they will be a master of detection if they can do it" Naruto thought chuckling. He could not wait until that test he wished he could have them run threw it once on the mission but they would get hurt doing this test and that would be bad because an enemy could attack through the borders at any moment. They had to be at the top of their game or risk dieing even if their were ninja stationed all around the perimeter waiting for us to give a signal of attack if the need arises.
Naruto jumped off the building landing in the street making his way to the weapon store. Once he got the things he needed from the store he headed to the gate to await his team. When he got to the gate he noticed Jiraiya and his team coming back from a mission he guessed by the look of it.
"Hey Jiraiya are you the one's we are replacing at the border" Naruto asked. Jiraiya looked at him confused because he did not know who he was but decided to answer anyway.
"Yeah, have fun their isn't really much happening their so don't look forward to any action. By the way who are you since you seem to be a new jonin here" Jiraiya asked.
"Yeah I'm new, the name is Naruto and I am the sensei of team five" Naruto replied. A couple reactions could be seen from Jiraiya's team after he said this. Minato looked shock but the other two on the team looked like they could care less while Jiraiya looked a little pissed but not to much.
"So you're the one that sent them to the hospital, Tsunade would not shut up about how bad you hurt her brother and the other two. You should not have been that hard on them. I understand you have to be tough since the war is starting to pick up but try not to send them to the hospital because then I have to listen to Tsunade rant on forever" Jiraiya said a little mad but it was quickly replaced by a sigh because Tsunade had really drained him that day.
"I'll try not to but no guarantees" Naruto replied. He smirked because of the look Jiraiya sent his way but he quickly diverted his look to Minato who stepped up.
"Are you the sensei for Kushina's team" Minato asked. He looked very shy at the moment so Naruto guessed he already developed a crush on her before she did a couple years from now.
Before he answered however Jiraiya put a hand on Minato's shoulder making him turn his head towards his sensei.
"Yeah he's her sensei but I did not think you would have a crush on a girl already I am so proud of you" Jiraiya said. Minato blushed in response to what his sensei insinuated.
"No I don't Jiraiya-sensei she is just a friend" Minato said. No one on his team looked to believe at all of what he said. Jiraiya just smirked because he acted so innocent. Naruto looked on at the interaction not wanting to stop it because he wanted to learn a little more about his father of this time. He was broken out of his thoughts when Jiraiya called him.
"Make sure you protect your team and don't let nothing happen to them or I will never hear the end of it from Tsunade. If something happens I won't be able to hold Tsunade back from beating you to next week" Jiraiya said as he stood straighter looking Naruto right in the eyes.
"You don't have to tell me that, the only reason I am tough on them in training is to make sure they are completely ready for what is to come. It is better to be tough on them giving them the experience of actual combat without having to die if they failed unlike in the field where one mistake leads to your death" Naruto replied. Team Jiraiya looked at him curiously because he had stood up to their sensei with no amount of fear shown.
"Heh, just make sure you don't kill them yourself then. I think you pose more of a threat to them then other villages do by the amount of damage that they had shown in the hospital" Jiraiya replied chuckling. He began to lead his team passed Naruto stopping right next to him as his team kept moving.
"Do you think you are strong enough to protect them though. One is the holder of the Kyuubi, the other is an Uchiha and Nawaki is the brother of Tsunade meaning lots of strong people might come after your team to get one maybe all of their powers" Jiraiya said. He saw the smirk spread across Naruto's face half way through his warning.
"You don't have to worry Jiraiya, I may not look it but I am strong. I took down an army of around five hundred in the middle of the night protecting Whirlpool from it's destruction so I believe you should worry more about yourself then me" Naruto replied stepping closer to the gate to wait for his team as Jiraiya looked at his form god smacked by what he was just told. The thing is Naruto did not see his team was already their and heard every word that was spoken between the two. Jiraiya had picked up on it after the conversation so he decided to leave not a second later.
The reason he did not pick up on them was because he was deep in thought at the moment about all the things that had happened so far the past month or so that he was here.
"Why did you save my village sensei. I am grateful and all but why did you risk your life to take down an army by yourself without telling anyone from the village" Kushina asked. Naruto quickly snapped out of his thoughts slowly turning towards them like he knew they were already their.
"That's my secret, maybe I will tell you another time but for right now we have a mission that needs to be completed at the moment" Naruto replied with a grin. He saw an angry look appear on Kushina's face from his diversion from her question while Shisui and Nawaki looked like they did not care.
"You can tell us on the way sensei, I mean there is not much else to do" Shisui said. Naruto sighed in exasperation but he quickly came up with a plan pulling out the mission scroll handing it to him. Team five looked at him confused not knowing why they were given the scroll but they did not have to wait long for an answer.
"No, I can't the reason for this is that I want you guys to find the border place were we will be setting up by yourselves. I will be waiting their for you guys so just search for my chakra signature" Naruto said vanishing without a trace.
"I hope he actually leaves a chakra signature or we may have a hard time finding the place" Nawaki said sighing because it would be a long day. Kushina did not hear him however because she was lost in thoughts thinking that she was going to make their sensei talk no matter what.
Nawaki had been right because from when they left the village it took around seven hours before they caught sight of the fortified building coming up on the path they were on.
"Finally my feet are killing me" Kushina groaned. They were traveling pretty fast the whole trip only stopping once for a water break. Once they got to the fortified building they were told to go to the top to stand guard with their sensei who had been waiting their for them a little over six hours now.
"What took you guys so long. Do I need to step up your training once we get back to the village" Naruto asked smiling evilly. Their eyes widened before all three shook their heads not wanting anything worse then what they already had gotten.
"We will make sure we are faster next time" Shisui replied. This got a smile out of Naruto because he finally met an Uchiha who wasn't all stuck up about his own power.
"Your training will still be the same for now just make sure your faster next time because if your even a second late on a battle field the rest of your comrades may already be dead so don't slack off" Naruto said as he began to look out over the small clearing just before a huge forest that captivated most of the land in the area.
Not much happened for two days following the patrol around the area and the outlook from the fortified base. Kushina had been bugging him for some answers but she never got any. This infuriated her but she would have to deal with it for now. He had told her he would answer some of her questions once they were done with the mission and back in the village, it calmed her down to a reasonable level. The next morning when he got up, he looked out over the clearing to the luscious forest but that is not what held his sight, no it was the orange glittering from the Iwa headbands in the forest that caught the suns rays that had his attention. He showed no signs that he knew they were their because he wanted to see if his team would spot them before he made his move. Their looked two be about twenty of them in the area.
"Looks like Jiraiya was wrong, some action did find us after all" Naruto thought. His thoughts were cut off as his team ran up to him with looks that said they knew making him smile because they were already improving from his lessons.
"Sensei there are Iwa ninja in the forest on the other side of the clearing" Nawaki shouted. They waited for an order to come but they saw that he was not going to respond.
"Are we going to attack them now" Kushina asked. All of team five wanted to know because they wanted to test themselves against real opponents for once.
"Not yet because you guys won't want to be caught up in the traps I have set up in the field. Once they go off then we attack taking out the remainder of the Iwa ninja that survive. Go tell the rest of the ninja hear in the fort that" Naruto said. Team five nodded in understanding because they knew how advanced his traps were. They headed off to tell the rest of the ninja but right when they began to announce this to the other ninja, Iwa ninja began to pour out of the woods making most ninja in the area stiffen until the whole clearing lit up in a blaze of glory then the ground shifted as wind blades came out of the tree lines trapping the Iwa ninja in the field cutting them up from all angles with no way of an escape.
After all the elemental traps went off Naruto walked into the field to inspect the bodies, when he got to the center of the field where the bodies lied around ten Iwa ninja came out of the ground forming a circle around him.
"You have no way of escape" one Iwa ninja said chuckling. The Iwa ninja thought they had him trapped, oh how they were wrong about that and now they must find out the hard way. The Iwa ninja were closing in on him trapping him in a small space making him grin with excitement.
"You think you guys got me trapped, you must be genin to not have noticed this was a trap from the very beginning" Naruto said. The Iwa ninja's eyes widened but had no time to react as Naruto glowed white before exploding taking out all ten ninja. No one saw this though as the explosion kicked up dust completely covering the field.
"There are a couple more left but nothing special just a couple weak ones that did not want to join the fray so you guys take it from here. If I see you guys need help I will step in" Naruto said as his genin team shot forward meeting the remaining five Iwa ninja out of the whole attacking force they sent.
His team finished them off quickly, Nawaki took out two ninja as did Shisui making Kushina take out the last one but to be truthful the last one was the hardest because he had chunin level skills. The others only had a genin skill level but none the less Kushina had won in no less then thirty seconds because the Iwa ninja let his guard down getting a kunai threw his neck gushing blood before dropping dead in a heap.
He looked at his team, Nawaki and Kushina did not look to good because this was their first kill but Shisui looked fine. The only reason he looked fine was because the uchiha training method of hiding the emotions was in full swing.
"Cheer up guys you needed to kill them, if you didn't then they would have killed you or perhaps they would have killed everyone back in Konoha. We as ninja have the hard duty of killing for our village but we must to keep it safe, when you became ninja you chose this path of a protector but protectors kill for the home or precious people" Naruto explained. His team looked at him with shocked expressions on their faces but they knew he was right so they quickly got stern faces as they began to clean up the dead bodies.
"Know this my training may be tough and my training methods may seem extreme but they are for your own good because it is better to get everything shoved at you in practice then in an actual battle with no experience" Naruto said. He left his team to clean up the bodies with the other ninja at the fort as he made out a message sending it back to the leaf village by a messenger hawk.
"This is disgusting these bodies are so mangled up, why do we have to do all the cleaning. I may be a women but I don't clean stuff like this up" Kushina shouted as she lifted up an arm that was still bleeding but no body in sight that it matched to because of the burn marks up the arm leaving no chance of finding a match for anything. So they pilled all the bodies together in the center of the clearing.
"Katon Phoenix Flower jutsu" Shisui shouted as he lit the bodies on fire as well as some bodies that were to mangled up to move to the pile without having to make more of a mess.
"Finally we are done, time to relax" Nawaki said. The mental strain put a lot of stress on their shoulders. Naruto appeared in front of them once Nawaki had said that.
"It's done sensei" Shisui said. Naruto looked around at the clearing noticing the bodies were burning.
"Good you guys can go rest for the whole morning because we head back to the leaf at noon" Naruto announced. Team five nodded as Nawaki and Shisui left the area but Kushina stayed behind still standing in front of Naruto.
"Why are you still hear Kushina-channnn, do you want to clean up more bodies" Naruto asked watching a fearful look appear on her face making him laugh out. It was so fun to mess with them because they were so innocent still but it was his job to break them out of that innocent stage in their life's.
"No sensei I wanted to make sure that you are going to tell me a few things about what happened in Whirlpool because none of them saw the battle only you who were in it know anything" Kushina said
"Yeah I will tell you about it but not right now, once we arrive in the leaf village I will explain a couple things" Naruto replied. He walked forward placing a hand on her shoulder missing the blush that appeared on her face from the contact.
"I won't hold any of the information back from you because you deserve to know since it is your home" Naruto said. Kushina leaned forward wrapping her arms around him burying her head in his chest. His eyes widened not expecting anything like this to happen.
"Thank you Naruto-sensei" Kushina replied. She had a crimson blush on her face because of the bold act she was doing but she did not let it get to her. He wrapped his arms around her as well, not really knowing why but he felt the need to comfort her. She pulled back from the hug when her blush vanished from her face.
"You need to clean your hair better there is still some blue paint left" Naruto said smirking. He began to take a couple steps back as Kushina growled at him.
"You're the one who got the paint in my hair and your standing here telling me to clean my hair better. I have been but your stupid paint won't come out that easy" Kushina shouted pulling out a couple of kunai chucking them at him.
"Maybe I should not have said that" Naruto thought as one of the kunai whizzed by his head and another soared by his arm. He vanished a second later without a trace leaving an angry Kushina still standing in the clearing.
"You need to calm down their might be more ninja near by" a random chunin said walking up to her. Kushina turned towards him with a look that said mess with me your dead. The chunin began to sweat heavily. He was having second thoughts about trying to talk to her now.
"Leave, I have to think of a way to get him back" Kushina growled out. The chunin left quickly kicking up dust in his wake.
At noon they left the fortified border base and by night they finally could see the gates of Konoha coming up closer by the second. They had gotten no breaks along the way because Naruto had wanted to make sure they were not attacked again at all on the way back. Kushina had been trying to play pranks on him at the base before they left and along the way back to Konoha but she still did not get him back yet which irritated her to no end.
"You guys are dismissed, I have a meeting with the hokage" Naruto commanded as he vanished with no trace as they entered the village leaving them to sign in at the gate.
"I need to get some sleep, my sister will probably want to have a pretty big party for my birthday tomorrow and sensei will probably run us ragged in that test he spoke of" Nawaki said. Kushina and Shisui agreed that Naruto would not go easy on them because he had stated that himself.
"Don't worry we will kick his ass for sure tomorrow" Nawaki shouted. They were now walking down the main street of Konoha discussing random things. It was getting late so all three decided to head home for the night. As they left, Naruto watched perched on a rooftop close by. Even though Naruto watched them, he did not know Kushina's thoughts were on him. Two thoughts plagued her head but Naruto would not know of them for quite some time.
"They think it will be easy, then they got another thing coming. If I want to save Nawaki then the trap test tomorrow will be no easy feat" Naruto thought as he vanished into the wind without a trace to prepare for the test.
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