The Heart of the Demon

Chapter 5

The Demon's Mission

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of its characters

Naruto was seriously annoyed, what did she have to do for some damn action! She had thought that once she was a ninja she would finally get some but after over a month of horrible boring D-rank missions she was about to explode. Team seven was reporting to the Hokage yet again after successfully catching the perpetually lost Tora yet again. After the stupid cat had been given back to the Daimyo's wife and the mission had been paid for Naruto decided enough was enough. "Alright team seven good job with another successful mission" the Hokage said with a smile "now we have several D-rank missions for you to choose from, you could-" he was interrupted by a loud groan from Naruto

"Come on jiji! These are boring! Give us something interesting already!" Hiruzen while less than happy about the outburst and the lack of formality Naruto showed but did have to admit they were ready for a C-rank.

"Alright Naruto if your team thinks they are ready, I am prepared to offer you a C-rank" Naruto pumped here fist and looked at the rest of the others with puppy dog eyes. Sasuke not one to disappoint Naruto, and also sick of the D-ranks, was eager to agree

"I'm ready if you are" he said with a smirk. Sakura was less sure, she had improved a lot since becoming part of team seven but a C-rank already? She wasn't sure if she was ready but finally gave in and agreed after seeing not only Naruto's puppy dog eyes but the almost pleading look in Sasuke's

"yeah I'm ready."

Kakashi gave a small smile "well who am I to argue with my team? If they say they're ready I'm inclined to agree."

Hiruzen, satisfied with their responses pulled out a scroll "Alright Kakashi here are the mission details" he handed Kakashi the scroll "send Tazuna in" he called out to the secretary. A few seconds later an old man with a big straw hat and a bottle of sake walked into the room

"This is the team? They're just kids, how are they supposed to protect me? Especially the little blond one." Naruto smirked at the statement she couldn't wait to show him how capable she was.

"Naruto here is one of the best genin in Konaha; she is more than capable of protecting you." Kakashi assured Tazuna.

Tazuna grunted "well she better be" before taking a big swig of sake.

"Be ready at the main gate tomorrow at eight" Hiruzen said and after Kakashi nodded he dismissed them.

Sasuke walked into his home and it wasn't long before he was greeted by Itachi "welcome home Sasuke, did you have a good day?" he said it with a small smile.

"It was good, we had to catch that stupid cat again but afterword's we finally got our first C-rank!" Itachi didn't know if Sasuke and his team were ready for a C-rank yet but trusted the Hokage's judgment so let it go.

"Well that is nice. What is the mission?"

"It's just some escort mission to the land of waves but it's out of the village, and you should have seen Naruto when the Hokage agreed to let us do the mission, I don't think I've ever seen her so happy!" he said with a laugh.

Itachi chucked with his little brother "well be careful, it's dangerous outside of the village."

Sasuke smiled at his slightly over protective older brother "Of course we will Itachi but it's just a C-rank so we probably won't see anything more than some bandits."

Naruto was so excited about her mission should could barely sleep she was almost bouncing around her apartment thinking of the possibilities "Naruto, I know you're excited but rest now. Tomorrow will soon come and then we can finally start."

Naruto calmed down with that 'you're right Kurama, I'm just so excited! But I will try to get some sleep.'

Naruto got to the gate early eager to finally start the mission; in hindsight maybe she was little too early arriving at about seven. She didn't even see Sasuke till about seven forty-five, "You sure are here early Naruto" Sasuke commented as he walked up to her

"how could I not be! How did you not get here till now? Aren't you excited? We're finally going to see some action!" Sasuke just shook his head at her with a smirk on his face. It wasn't long after the rest of the team showed up along with Tazuna and they were ready to go."Right! Let's go!" Naruto set off with Sasuke and Sakura following close behind with Tazuna and Kakashi in back

"She's a hyper one isn't she" Tazuna commented to Kakashi as they set off

"yeah she is very, active." Kakashi replied.

After hours of walking with no action Naruto was a little disheartened but was still keeping hope that they would be attacked any minute. To Naruto's delight not long after she sensed as two chakra signatures appeared behind them. Two foreign ninja in gray attire and masks jumped out of a puddle, they had gauntlets connected by a shuriken chain which they used to quickly wrap around and shred Kakashi to bits. Sakura screamed at the sight of her sensei being torn apart and froze up near Tazuna. Naruto looked at the two ninja after they had shown themselves and got a huge grin as her eyes turned red and her canines grew. Sasuke was quick to action using a shuriken to pin the chain to a tree followed by kunai to lock it into place. The ninja were clearly surprised by Sasuke's ability almost so surprised they didn't see Naruto come at them.

Naruto charged with a burst of speed going right for the one on the left, with his hand pinned via the chain it was easy for Naruto to avoid his attack as she got within striking range. She ducked under his swipe before using her own gauntlet enhanced with wind chakra to tear out his left knee. The ninja let out a loud wail from the pain before Naruto jumped onto him knocking him to the ground with her sitting on top of him. As he looked into her eyes he was terrified by them, they were the eyes of a demon and the grin on her face only added to the terror as she viciously started to tear his chest open. Naruto sat on top of the ninja and ripped through his chest cavity like it was butter under a hot knife wearing a large smile the whole time relishing the blood as it spewed out of the now dead man and covered her in its warm embrace. The world seem to melt around her, she was in utter bliss. It ended almost as soon as it began as she was brought back into the real world by Kakashi who grabbed her around her stomach and pulled her off the now mutilated corpse. She flailed under his grasp for a second before she looked up into his one uncovered eye and she composed herself. Kakashi could have sworn her eyes were red for a second but they were back to their regular blue so fast he didn't know if he had imagined it or not.

"Naruto!" Kakashi yelled as he pulled her off the dead ninja and threw her away from him. Naruto landed gracefully and looked at him with and innocent smile, a disturbing site as she was absolutely drenched in blood and gore from head to toe. "What the hell was that?!" Kakashi scolded the bloody blonde

"What? It looked like they had killed you. I was simply doing the mission and protecting Tazuna."

"That was way more than 'doing the mission' you didn't need to kill him! Much less tear him apart!"

Naruto scowled at him "I did what I thought I had to too ensure the mission was a success!"

"No you could have easily incapacitated him without killing him, this mission is over were going back and reporting to the Hokage right now"

Kakashi was surprised when Tazuna interjected "NO! you can't leave now I'll die!"

Kakashi turned to him with an angry look "You don't get a say! You paid for C-rank mission, the fact that there are ninja after you automatically makes this at least a B-rank mission. You lied to the Hokage because you were too cheap to pay for a higher rank mission and look what happened!" he gestured over the bloody scene.

Tazuna hung his head "I didn't lie to be cheap. I come from a poor country and we couldn't afford anything higher than a C-rank! Please don't leave, if you do I will certainly die and the people of my country will continue to suffer! If not for me than please for them, we need your help!"Tazuna pleaded and Naruto quickly voiced her opinion

"How can we leave after that?! You heard him, people are suffering how can we just let them if there is something we can do about it!" the sentiment was less effective than it might have been if she hadn't been covered in blood. Kakashi looked to his other students, Sasuke came out of his shock and nodded agreeing that they should continue. Sakura clearly wasn't sure about this after what just happened but eventually agreed with Sasuke.

Kakashi sighed "fine but this will be reported to the Hokage" it was directed at Naruto. He then turned and grabbed the remaining ninja that Sasuke had knocked out "clean yourself up Naruto I'm going to see if I can get any information out of him." Kakashi dragged the unconscious ninja into the forest off the side of the road.

Naruto looked over to her team mates Sasuke seemed conflicted over what had happened, looking at her like he didn't know her while Sakura looked outright disgusted. Naruto didn't like seeing Sasuke look at her like that, it made her feel bad like there was something eating at her insides, he had never looked at her like that before. "You did good Naruto. I'm proud of you, this was good first step." Her previous thoughts were pushed out of her mind as she was filled with joy from Kurama's praise. She walked over into the woods to wash up as she was told licking the delicious blood off her lips before doing so.