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*******1 year later*********

Naruto stood in front of the Elders and Hokage-jiji. Standing next to him, as she always did, was his best friend and partner Sorana-chan.

"Greetings, Naruto, Sorana," said Koharu-ba-chan. "Today is the day you become full-fledged Kawa-nin. You have trained for seven hard years, and today is the culmination of every drip of sweat and every second spent in a hospital bed."

"Today is the day that you receive your masks and codenames. As you know, in Anbu, operators are named after animals while Ne members are simply numbered. In Kawa, however, partners will be named two opposites that come together to make a whole."

"Partnership is a vital role in our division, and your codenames will reflect this. Two opposites that combine to form something better and stronger than the two original parts. To this effect, we have chosen your names."

"Sorana, you are efficiency put into a human form. You are quick, silent, and organized, the perfect model for any burgeoning shinobi. You will be Yin."

"Naruto, you are the very epitome of loud. You make scenes, you wear your emotions on your sleeves, and your mind is cluttered but you make it work for you. You shall be called Yang."

"Together, loud and quiet, brash and reserved, soft and hard, you complement each other perfectly and you have and will be a wonderful team. I can only hope the teams who come after you work just as well together."

Koharu stepped forward to the duo, who had went down on their knees as soon as Koharu has started talking. "Put on your masks," she said, handing the two masks to the now standing partners.

Naruto and Sorana first glanced at the masks, taking in the fine details of the mask. Sorana's mask was almost completely white, except for a black circle where her right eye would've been and the left bottom corner also swirled into black. Naruto's mask was the complete opposite. His mask was mostly black with a white circle that hovered over where the left side of his mouth was. In the upper right corner of his mask, a circle of white was beginning to take shape.

After placing the mask on his face, Naruto felt the seals covering the inside edge of the mask activate. Instantly, the mask stuck to his face without the use of straps, and the mask would not disconnect until he pushed chakra into the forehead of the mask. The mask also turned slightly opaque, as he could know use his peripherals, while he felt his breath go straight through the mask and he could suddenly smell everything around him.

The wonders of fuinjutsu never ceased to amaze Naruto and this was no exception. he had never thought that an Anbu mask would be so comfortable but he felt like silk was caressing his face.

After getting over the slight weight on his face and the unique view it gave him, he turned back to the Elders, his mask hiding the slight smirk on his face. He was sure though that Sorana-chan's face was just as blank as her mask. She was just too good at controlling her emotions. He'd never really gotten the hang of it.

"Now that you have been outfitted, it is time for your first mission. We've giving you a softball, as it's your first mission. You are being sent after 3 chuunin who abandoned the Leaf 8 years ago. They were a genin team together, so their teamwork should be as flawless as your own."

"All three of them are ranked as a middle B-class threat, so you be somewhat careful. You are to kill all of them and dispose of their bodies except for the heads, which you already know. The team is made up of Kurama Jien, very skilled in genjutsu, Nara Shikayaku, the leader and tactician, and Maito Hanako, the team's brawler."

"The most recent intel puts the team in Tea Country, near the middle of the country. You will have to find them for yourselves as we haven't been able to get any more information than that. I am still working on fully establishing Kawa's spy ring, as even 13 years isn't enough to get the kind of info to find where powerful traitors are hiding out."

"Good luck, you two, you have an hour to pack before heading towards Tea Country."

Naruto and Sorana nodded, before slipping into a Shunshin to head to their respective houses. Naruto still lived in the apartment next to the Sarutobi compound, while Sorana lived with her parents in the Aburame district.

Naruto surveyed the equipment in front of him. He had his camping gear, clothing, and food, sealed into one of the scrolls that he wore on his waist, and then a couple hundred extra shruiken, a dozen extra each of kunai and explosion tags. He also added a spool of ninja wire into the pile before sealing it into his last empty scroll on his belt. The other four scrolls were for battles only.

The packing had only taken half an hour, most of his stuff had already been sealed. Naruto had just had to check over everything to make sure it was all still in good shape. Seeing the amount of time left, Naruto did the only thing he could think of: go to Ichiraku's!

After a filling meal, over 20 meals of ramen, Naruto headed to the main gate. Sorana was already there, she was always early, but it didn't look like she was waiting that long. After flashing their badges at Izumo and Kotetsu, the eternal gate guards, they were let out of the village.

Naruto immediately hopped into a tree, with Sorana following quickly after him. The journey to Tea Country would take two full days, so the duo had to get started quickly. They both knew they had to get to the area that the former Konoha-nins had last been seen at or they could quickly lose their targets.

The two Kawa-nin spent the day tree-jumping in relative quiet, wrapped in the companionable silence that only true friendship can bring.

The two stopped their exercise right before the sun set fully. The two unsealed their tents and then went about their duties. Naruto set up both tents while Sorana set up the fire.

A few hours later, with the remains of two small rabbits piled onto the fire, Naruto turned to his partner. "Ne, Sorana-chan?"

"Yes, Naruto-kun?"

"You know how I have the Kyuubi sealed inside me?" Naruto asked, before seeing Sorana nod at the rhetorical question. "Homura-sensei wants me to start learning how to tap into its chakra. And I don't really know how I should feel. This...thing inside of me killed my kaa-san and hundreds of people in Konoha. But on the other hand, my dad sealed it into me for a reason and it seems like such a waste to let all that power go to waste."

"It is a very difficult issue to make sense of, Naruto-kun. But can I first tell you something before I explain to you what I think you should do?"

"As an Aburame, many civilians and even some ninja are scared of the bugs that we as a clan hold inside of us. I've never told you this, but I appreciated it so much when you didn't even flinch when I told you about the kikai crawling under my skin. But that's not the point."

"The hives within me and within all of the Aburame have killed hundreds, maybe thousands, of people in the various wars and battles that the Leaf has participated in. The Kyuubi has also killed thousands of people. Just as I harness the powers of my hive for good, so I believe that you should harness the Kyuubi's power."

"I know that it hurts you that the power inside of you caused your mother to be killed, but I believe that you are looking at all of this the wrong way. Do not think of the people that have met their end at the chakra of the Kyuubi, think instead of all the people you can save by utilizing its power."

"You will be making your parents' sacrifices worthwhile, and making such an enormous force for evil in the world fight for the side of good for the rest of your life. When you look at it like that, how can you do anything but begin to learn to use the Kyuubi's chakra?"

Sorana suddenly found her arms full of a very emotional Naruto. Growing up and training with him over the last 7 years, she had very often had to deal with the diving Naruto hug. she knew the only thing she could do was to give him the physical contact that he seemed to so crave, and that she had so rarely received in her own life.

Naruto's red-rimmed eyes looked up into her own, before he sniffled. "You're awesome, Sorana-chan. I don't know what I'd do without you. I never would have come up with an idea like that. Thank you. Thank you for stopping me from letting my father's hard work go to waste."

"You would've realized it eventually Naru-kun. You're too smart not to have. But I'm glad to have helped you."

With that, she released herself from the hug and went to her tent. Naruto did not get any sleep that night, choosing to instead stare into fire for the rest of the night, reflecting on the advice that he had been given.

The next day found the duo again hopping through the trees at high speeds. Naruto broke the friendly quiet first. "Ne, Sorana-chan, how do you think we're going to find these missing-nin? Tea Country is a pretty big place."

"We will go to the country's Daimyo and ask him about any recent attacks. We will investigate each place where an event took place. We will easily be able to tell if the attacks were caused by a Leaf ninja or something else, especially as some of the attacks used by the Nara and Maito clan leave very obvious signs of who caused the damage."

"Yatta! That's a brilliant plan," said Naruto. "Now do you know where the Daimyo's palace is?"

Sorana nearly tripped over the branch that she had been about to land on before she righted herself. She looked to see if Naruto was serious, before realizing that she couldn't tell with Naruto's mask blocking off his face from view.

Going with the feeling in her gut that told her that he was being completely serious, she answered him. "Yes, Naruto, I know where I'm going. It's in the large city in the middle of Tea Country that states clearly: Daimyo's City."

Naruto scratched at the back of his head. "Heh heh, I totally knew that Sorana-chan. I was just testing you."

Sorana waved of the bald lie before jumping forward in silence. The partners reached the Daimyo's city halfway through the afternoon and were told that they would receive a audience at sundown.

Naruto was splayed impatiently across the comfortable couch that the Tea Daimyo had given the partners for the night. A knock finally rang against the door and Naruto hopped off of the couch, waking Sorana sleeping on the other couch, in the process.

A regal butler sat in front of the opened door and he beckoned the two Kawa-nin to follow him. They did so and soon found themselves in front of the enormous gold-plated doors that led to the Daimyo's throne room.

They walked a hundred feet or so before bowing, still 15 feet from the Daimyo's feet.

"Rise, Konoha shinobi," he commanded. The daimyo was actually a rather impressive looking man with a barely noticeable gut and a silver sheen to his black hair that added to his prestige rather than taking from it. He was dressed in the finest of kimonos and had a very commanding voice. "Now, what exactly are you doing in my country, shinobi?"

"Well, Daimyo-sama, we are part of a new Konoha division, Kawa, that racks its missing-nin," said Sorana. "We are currently tracking a group of ex-chuunin who are said to be in your country. We came to you to first, announce our presence, and second, to ask if you could give us any information on attacks in your area whose instigators have still not been found."

"Ah, a very straightforward shinobi. I enjoy talking to shinobi so much more than politicians for exactly that reason," chuckled the Daimyo. "And of course I will give you all the information that you need. After all, I do owe both of your senseis a favor. At least forty years ago, Homura, Koharu, and Hiruzen saved me after I had been kidnapped."

"Those were the good old days," he reminisced. "But enough of that, you may return to your rooms. In the morning, I will send down all the files to your rooms. Tell those old sensei of yours that I said hello."

With that the two Kawa-nin rose off of their knees and headed back to their rooms. That night, Naruto actually fell asleep.

At seven sharp, the fancy butler was again knocking at the ninjas' quarters. He carried food and information, two very important things in a ninja's arsenal.

The duo spent the next several hours sorting through files and reports. Over 90% of the files were junk, to the Kawa-nin at least. There were only 9 attacks that looked to have damage caused by Leaf techniques. 3 of the battle sites had Nara flash bombs while the other 6 had massive tree damage as well as torn up earth that hinted at the destructive power of the Maito taijutsu style, the Goken.

It seemed as if the missing-nin had only moved to Tea Country within the last 6 months, and all of their attacks had been within a 50 mile radius of each other. While that was certainly a lot of ground to cover for civilians, it could be covered in a matter of hours with ninja, especially with the added benefit of Naruto's Mizu Bunshins.

They left the Daimyo's palace less than an hour after finding the pattern.

Naruto and Sorana landed in a clearing where their information had put the last attack. After investigating, they both concluded that the damage was indeed done by the powerful Goken style. There were fists prints indented into multiple trees while others were knocked over by imprinted feet. There was also no sense of chakra residue or scorch marks from a burn which ruled out exploding tags and ninjutsu.

Either Tsunade had done this or it was the Goken style as nothing else had the sheer damage potential without the use of chakra.

"Oh darn, they're here already," drawled a lazy voice, making the two Kawa-nin to jump. "Our spy in the Daimyo's circle said you wouldn't make it here for at least another half hour. I was really hoping to just set up traps so I wouldn't actually have to fight you."

That lazy drawl could only be produced from a Nara throat, which meant that this was missing-nin was Nara Shikayaku.

Sorana immediately place one hand on Naruto's shoulder and holding her other hand in the Kai handseal. Kurama Jien appeared, a throw kunai already halfway towards Sorana.

She ducked and then Naruto had his own problems to deal with. Maito Hanako's fist had buried itself into his stomach and he suddenly found himself flying. He flipped himself upright in midair and landed with his feet planted onto a tree trunk.

He flipped to avoid Hanako's devastating punch that tore through the tree trunk like butter. He pulled his surujin that had been wrapped around his bicep and sent the weighted end towards her head while she recovered from missing.

Suddenly, Sakura blossoms were falling around him and he looked desperately for Hanako. Remembering who the third member of the trio was, Naruto swung the weighted end towards his leg and the pain broke the genjutsu.

Unfortunately, Jien's attack had caused him to miss Hanako's head and he now had a missed off Maito on his hands. Hanako darted in close but he swung his gloved fist at her and shot off three blades of wind from the seals found on the glove. One connected and went straight through her shoulder.

Her left arm hung limply, but she wasn't a taijutsu master for nothing. She used her crippled arm like a meat whip and beat him up and down with it.

She charged at him again and he started a set of handseals. "Doton: Supi-do no Hashira no Jutsu," he yelled. Immediately, a pillar of earth rose out of the ground and launched him into the air.

He pumped chakra into his glove and fire blasted out of it, wrapping around his hand. Hanako was looking at him in shock and she suddenly found his flaming hand stuck in her chest.

She fell to her knees and Naruto pulled his hand out of her chest with a wet squelch.

He looked to see how Sorana was doing before he fell to his knees. His ears were suddenly ringing harshly, and his eyes were flashing, and his mouth felt like cotton. He knew he was under a genjutsu but there was absolutely nothing he could do.

He grabbed at his surujin again and started swinging it around him in a pattern meant to stop anything getting through to him. He could only hope Sorana got to him or Jien screwed up.

With Sorana

Naras definitely deserved their reputation as geniuses, thought Sorana. She was outmaneuvered and out of position. She let out her Kikai for another attack and they swarmed Shikayaku. He threw another one of those annoying flash bombs that paralyzed her poor little allies for about 30 seconds.

She jumped over a shadow that was charging at her before she felt another genjutsu fall over her. It was broken a second later however. She currently had about a hundred kikai in her skull that had orders to eat any foreign chakra that entered there.

She threw a handful of senbon at Shikayaku before discretely dropping a few makibishi around her. He bent gracefully to avoid the senbon before once again trying to corral her towards the large towering trees that threw even larger shadows.

Once again, a genjutsu was cast on her, but her kikai gratefully chomped down Jien's chakra. She threw a 5 kunai, with matching exploding tags, into the trees surrounding her where she was almost positive Jien was hiding.

The explosion knocked a figure out of the tree but it also lengthened the shadows in the clearing from the large explosion of light. Sorana jumped back immediately before back flipping several times in different directions to avoid the Nara's hungry shadow.

Sorana threw several more senbon but Shikayaku merely dodged before throwing three more flash bombs at her. When the flash died down, she was caught in Shikayaku's shadow...until she dissolved into a mass of bugs.

He heard a sound from above him and looked and the sight caused even his genius brain to grind to a halt. Sorana was hovering 15 feet in the hair, with large wings made of kikai attached to her and flapping.

"Raiton: Ikazuchi no Tsubasa no Jutsu," she cried. Immediately her wings started flapping faster and with each flap of her wings, a huge shockwave of sound, air, and sparks were directed right at her opponent.

Shockwave after shockwave slammed into Shikayaku and he was gasping for air after only 3 seconds. Sorana finished off her opponent with a Raiton-charged senbon through the forehead.

As Sorana touched ground again and her wings dissolved and were reabsorbed into her body, she looked for her partner. Naruto was currently swinging his surujin like mad that formed a shield of chain around him.

Jien, obviously recovered from her exploding tag bombardment, was creeping towards the blonde. Sorana snorted. There was no way he was getting through that defense. She decided to put the annoying genjutsu user out of his misery and sent a swarm of her kikai at him.

Jien was caught immediately and the kikai stung him until he was paralyzed. Then Sorana lopped his head with one easy swing of her sai.

Back with Naruto

Naruto's vision and hearing cleared immediately. He had probably only been under the genjutsu for 5 or 10 seconds but being that helpless had been absolutely terrifying.

He found Sorana quickly, as she was already rushing to his side to make sure that he was okay. Jien and Shikayaku were done for the count. After wrapping his surujin back around his arm, he cut off Hanako's head and sealed it, along with Jien's and Shikayaku's.

Mission accomplished. It was time to go back to Konoha.

Jutsu List

Doton: Supi-do no Hashira no Jutsu[Earth Release: Speed Pillars Technique]
Rank: C
Description: The user leaps as he performs the needed handseals. Instantly pillars of rock pop out of the ground and rise to his feet. One after the other, a pillar pushes the user's feet to move quickly between the previous one fading and the next one in formation. The pillars cannot reach too high (not higher than an average tree for example).

Raiton: Ikazuchi no Tsubasa no Jutsu [Thunder Wings Technique]

Rank: A

Description: Sorana creates wings out of her insects, which allows her to fly. She can only go about 30 feet off the ground however. With each flap of her wings, a loud thunderclap is heard that can burst eardrums and physically injure the person if she aims the sound waves. She can fly for over an hour however.

So Naruto will soon be meeting the Kyuubi and training to use its chakra, although there will be a twist to how Naruto accesses it. The first mission-how'd you like it? Was the fighting believable and enjoyable? I created the Ikazuchi no Tsubasa, but I pulled the Supi-do no Hashira off of VynosNeptune's fic Custom Elemental Ninjutsu. Let me know. I want to be an author, so all the feedback I get is much appreciated. Thanks again.