Three days passed and the students were walking home with their instructor when Zorin yelled it out "What the hell kind of mission was that!?"
Tayuya let out a sigh "I'll explain this to you once so listen. There are 5 different mission ranks. You low level shits get 'D' ranked missions 'D Ranks' are assigned to genin and incompetant Chunin, These missions are typically menial labor that could be done by a trained monkey. These missions help show how competent you are and build your public image."..."Then theres 'C' and 'B' rank missions. These are assigned to Chunin and can be done by Jounin as well, These missions vary from escorts to obtaining enemy intel and sometimes even wiping bandit camps."
Seeing they we're still paying attention she continued."Lastly there are "A" and "S" rank missions. These are assigned to Jounin or the Hokage's elite. Most of these missions you will never receive recognition for nor will they be documented. Many good lives are cut short by these. Any questions?"
Asano stoped and asked "so what made you so fucking special that you never had to be a leaf genin?"
She looked down at him with a deep scowl and scoffed. "My instructor decided that my squads test would be to run a suicide mission into Oto. After my teammates we're killed and I was captured... and tortured..." she looked up at the konoha gateway "...after escaping and returning home I was debriefed did D rank missions with no pay for my sensei until the Hokage got wind of the events and did what she could to right them... The crimson jounin sighed and glanced at her charges."
On that note how about some ramen before we report in.
After treating them and reporting the mission details (which got followed with a "You said what!" speech) She returned home in Naruto's old complex she layed down and stared at the ceiling... "I need a good fuck and kami I deserve it." As she stood up, cheap brandy and her exhastion got the best of her and she fell down next to her bed.
The following afternoon Shizune stabbed Tayuya in the arm with a senbon to wake her up "What the fuck wassh that frrooo... for you fuckingh bisth." She grunted with a mix of anger and drowseyness
"Lady Tsunade has requested your presence" The medic ninja said as she jerked the needle out.
"Ahnd you hed to wake me up like that?" The crimson-nin shot back.
"I tried gentler means but when i noticed the empty bottle next to your bed I realized the only way was to stab you" Shizune smirked as her words came to an end.
"You did it because your a sick psychotic bitch who gets off on other peoples pain!" Tayuya growled "Your one to talk Demon bitch" shizune snapped back.
The two continued their almost casual verbal fight as Tayuya got dressed and proceeded until they reached the Hokage's door.
Tayuya approached Tsunade and yelled into her half conscience face "If you sent that bitch to wake me up just to come here and watch you sleep again I will kill both of you and..."
"And what" a familiar voice asked, she turned and hugged the tall blond haired man.
"I missed you so much Naruto, please we've time to catch up this time."
Tsunade finnaly realized what Tayuya had said a minute before "You red haired bitch get your filthy hands off my godson!"
"Relax Tsunade-dono." Naruto chided his surrogate mother.
"We're just going over to our training field so we can discuss a problem that relates to an ongoing mission, and continue our training."
Tsunade winced in pain as his words fell together against her mild hangover. She paused trying to analyze what he meant... then it clicked.
I'm sorry Naruto she's responsible for some young genin now. I can't allow her to be involved with a a rouge hunter-nin.
Naruto shuddered before her as the title fell on him like a ton of bricks. "Well then instead may I train my genjutsu skills with your honorable disciple."
Tayuya's eye's shifted from relative elation to daggers as she struck him. To little surprise he was hardly affected by the blow. For a brief moment his friend reminded him of his ex-teammate.
The pink haired missing-nin, one of a few names left in his old bingo book. Sakura Haruno had defected shortly after learning that Sasuke had joined Orochimaru and died in a failed ambush against Kakashi-sensei. She was rumored to have been responsible for leading several ambushes against teams of Konoha shinobi and had recently been news in every nation for her failed public assassination attempt on the wind Daimyo's family... which he had the misfortune of intervening himself.
Naruto bit his lip as a few tears formed. 'Kakashi-sensei lost all three of his students.. Sasuke died, Sakura defected, and I became a S-class nin allied with each nation yet banished from every village, a walking "paragon of justice" as some aristocrats had dubbed him. A title he had come to despise'
A few days passed, Naruto didn't want to leave yet but his presence had been requested in Kumogakure. He appeared before Tayuya in her room. He paused for a moment as he admired her sleeping face. She felt his presence but didn't want to rush the inevitable so she feigned still being asleep.
"Tayuya you might be able to fool others but I know you too well, please come with me I'd like to talk with you before I leave". She yawned as she pushed her sheets off her and glared at her clock... It's 5'o clock in the morning what gives shithead! His face turned slightly pink at the sight and he excused himself so she could get dressed. A few minutes later they departed together.
He looked apologetically at his crimson friend as he started. "I'm sorry my stay couldn't be longer but... "
She cut him off, "Your needed to keep peace in some far away nation, I understand fucker just promise me that before I die of old age you'll retire and stay.. If you get killed on a mission I will edo-tensei you back just so I can knock sense into you." Naruto chuckled. "If I die it's more likely that kurama would side with you against me for failing...". Their banter continued as the walked to their destination.
As they arrived at their she realized he had brought her to where she's been training her students... where she first trained with Naruto. Just two hours till they show up.
"I figured your new students might appreciate your training a little more after meeting with your first student." With that a stupid grin spread across Naruto's face.
After a brief sparring match both of the ninja were winded. "Nice to see you've been busy while I've been gone." The blond haired man blurted out as he laid down. "Nice to see that you've finally got an answer for your genjutsu issue". Blurted the crimson ninja as she flopped backwards. Both fell asleep... until some kids started poking them.
Tayuya picked her offenders up by the neck as she yawned. "Who the fuck do you think you are." As the grogginess left her eyes the familiar faces became clear. 'Oh shit...' She turned and saw Naruto shooing away the kid that was poking him and stood up at attention as he evaluated them. "So you must be Tayuya-sensei's new student's" Their faces went pale as their look kept shifting between the blonde haired man and their crimson haired teacher.
After some silence. "Is this your boyfriend shouted one of them followed by a bald head bouncing off the ground. So Fucker you really want to earn your name again!?"
Naruto placed his hand on Tayuya's shoulder. "No, she is my sensei. Hello I am the Sage of Six paths Naruto Uzamaki."
The other two genin bowed in recognition. Zorin shouted out "No way was this sadistic twisted bitch your teacher! Your lying!"
Naruto flashed over to the Bald kid and lifted him back to his feet before turning back to Tayuya. "So by the looks of it you either toned down your teaching method or they haven't learned not to piss you off yet." He smirked as he got closer to his crimson friend.
Naruto beamed his infamous grin as he started "As a special guest for today I figured we could show you what (his smirk widened) a fight between Sages looks like, perhaps you might learn something from it", As if this was what she was waiting for all week Tayuya readied herself as she dropped into a guarded Taijutsu stance.
Naruto jumped high into the air as he used the wind as a reactant for his Rasengan. He lunged at her as she went level one with her curse mark and deflected his arms sending his Rasengan into the ground then followed with a barrage of high speed blows. Then there was a poof as she spun around and lept to meet another Naruto in the air with a swift punch that resulted in anouther poof. Naruto rose out of the ground in full sage mode the mere presure of his chakra causing the young genin to move to an assumed safe distance. Seeing the bright yellow glow she understood why he was using diversions, he bought the needed time fully enter sage-mode. As an impulse she went Kyuubi infused "demon" mode (Stage 2 but with fox like traits). Barrages of chakra based weapons flew around as their blows connected the sky was ripped free of clouds.
Several of the original genin 12 as well as a few chunnin appeared to watch with the kid's as it was rare to see such a magnificent battle.
The new guests we're ignored as the combatants kept increasing their speed and switly summoning clones and creating small scale disasters to further their already mighty attacks after a few minutes both had exhausted much of their chakra. They landed and their speed vastly accelerated until a crimson blur jabbed the Yellow blur dead center in the head. He nearly collapsed as his Sage form cancelled out. She caught him and relaxed back to level one.
She carried her blonde friend over to where her students we're and noticed the extra onlookers seemed to have been giving her students the point for point of their fight. Barely holding back her smirk she barked at a green clad bushy browed manman to bring "the blonde shithead" to tsunade so she can heal him before his next mission. The spectators dispersed back to what they we're doing. Most still amazed at how powerful they truly were.
Tayuya glared at her students who we're frozen in a mix of excitement and fear. She scowled at them. "Before I'm done with you shits I intend for all of you to attain the control of chakra, endurance, and skill needed to stand up to and possibly even surpass even us should the day come. Now then what have you shitheads learnt from our display just now..." her curse mark finished receding as she slumped under sheer exhaustion. Catching herself almost instantly.
"We've got a lot to learn" Maitza started "...and even for that matter there's no way of telling where some ninja stand or how strong they are..." Izumi continued
Tayuya finished "good but also note that there is no reason to hold back once you've actually confirmed an enemy and there is always cause to watch your allies as a mistreated or ignored ally can become an even greater enemy." Pleased that at least some of the message was received they walked over to a stream.
"For todays exercise you will fight while walking on water, first will come walking then you will be fighting each other" The genin looked at each other, nodded at her, then proceeded onto the waters surface. To Tayuya's surprise they didn't just fall in, infact though wobbly they actually weren't doing too bad.
A little disapointed she didn't get to see them fall in she commented "I see you three have been training without me." she smiled at them. Now then start sparring after an hour I'll give you guys a break and teach you some advancements on common jutsu.
The sensei leaned against a tree and started playing a soothing tune on her old trusty flute.
That's enough for now, come here. As they sat down next to their teacher she handed each of them a 'food pill' "It's not over yet. Stand up and match my signs, lets see if you guys can get the shadow clone jutsu down by the end of the day and prove them useful before next weeks mission
"Several slowed hand movements later she landed on the chakra channeling sign that she filled with orange chakra. She saw the glow to her hands and realized her own reserves we're spent after the fight all that was really left was Kyuubi's chakra. After releasing she produced two perfect clones... however now she was nearly spent and had to release the jutsu.
They practiced for about an hour and a half with mild success and a few pointers about how to balance the chakra to prevent exhaustion before she dismissed them for the day. The boys we're about to complain when Izumi stopped them and whispered something into their ears. Her students bowed and took off... and with that the redhead fell unconscious.
Tayuya woke up hours later in a hospital bed and noticed the sun starting to rise, she jumped out of bed and ran to the receptionists counter demanding to know how long she had been there. The woman stared blankly at her and replied you really shouldn't be out of bed yet.
She gritted her teeth, "I'll return shortly to wipe that clueless look off your face."
It was still quite early, she flashed into the Hokage's office. Upon seeing Tsunade sleeping she nudged her superior until she was greeted with what would be a bone shattering blow to most. Nice to see your awake Tayuya, figured by your students report of what happend that you'd only be out for a few hours. Tayuya grimaced. I assume he's gone already then. I was hoping to thank him before he left for going all out in our fight."
Tsunade let a small grin show knowing there was more to it.
Thank you for reading, if you like the story or have criticisms on how I could "better tell it"/"better write it" please do I do wish to proceed with other what if scenarios. Since I'm rather sure about the path of leaving Sasuke dead and having Kakashi fall apart mentally... If I proceed this story It'll likely focus more strongly on Tayuya's relationship with her students rather then filling backstory and gaps that I may or may not be responsible for. At this time I have no real further point to build to.
If anyone wants to adopt this feel free to all I ask is that you shoot a pm so i can see what becomes of it :P