Now you see me

by Swaggerthanswag

It was cold and I was alone but then again, I'm always alone. I can't take this anymore. Why me, what have I done to all of you? Nothing that's what! But you still hate me for reasons unknown. No more of this, I will take no more of it! I deserve respect and I will have it! No matter how much I smile its obvious that you'll never accept me. So I won't try anymore.

8. Xertisque

HEY GUYS ITS ME SWAGERTHANSWAG HERE TO ANWSER SOME QUESTIONS THAT WERE ASKED BY THOR94. I PLAN ON ALOWING NARUO TO GET HS CHAKRA CHAINS AND HE WILL BE SKILLED IN FUINJUSTU SO YEAH HE WILL BE CARRYING ON THE UZUMAKI LEGACY. AS FOR THE FLYING THUNDERGOD TECHNIQUE I DIDN'T WANT NARUTO TO LEARN THAT.

NARUTO WON'T BE GOD LIKE IN THIS STORY. NARUTO WILL HAVE HIS DARK MOMENTS IN THIS STORY. UNLIKE IN NARUTO WHERE YOU NEVER SAW ANY OF HIS DARK EMOTIONS IN HIS PERSONALITY YOU WILL BE SEEING A BIT OF THAT DARK NARUTO THAT CONNECTED WITH THE NINETAILS SHOWING THROUGHT NARUTO'S ACTIONS. SHOUT OUT TO MY FRIEND LOCKDOWN00 WHO GAVE ME LOTS OF IDEAS FOR THIS STORY.

I WON'T BE DOING THIS AGAIN SINCE EVRYONE KNOWS THIS BUT HERE I GO.

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN NARUTO BECAUSE IF I DID HE WOULDN'T LIKE SAKURA AND SASUKE WOULN'T HAVE HAD HIS FIRST KISS.

It's been one month since I have learned the kage bushin no justu. All I've been doing is dumb D-ranked missions and training. My training has been much better since I learned that kage bushins transfers their memories to the original. I can now learn multiple things at once. I have my clones constantly training everyday in different forms of martial arts. Ancient martial arts, Mixed martial arts, boxing, Chinese kempo, savate , and weapons.

I was planning on mixing these all together to make a deadly an unpredictable fighting style. I haven't started training to use weapons yet because there's so many of them to choose from and I wanted one that fits me perfectly. My ninjustu arsenal has also grown. I had my clones learn lots of earth, fire, and wind style justus since those were my three affinities.

Of course I didn't leave all the training to my clones. I would join then after I wasted my time doing D-rank missions. Apart form the D-rank missions I had a problem with my team. They were all dysfunctional. I had a brooding Uchiha and fan girl who was obsessed with said Uchiha and to make it even worse I had a lazy jonin sensei who never fails to be late.

I didn't know how we'd ever survive on a mission higher than D-rank which is the only reason I haven't asked for a C-ranked one. Me and said team were one a mission to catch the cat tora. A mission that I had done over ten times. The cat apparently liked me so it was super easy for us to finish this mission which is why we are sent to catch this damn cat every single time its escapes.

"Nicely done Team seven", said the old kage as we came to report the return of tora had been done successfully. " I have so more D-rank missions you could do, there's walking the Inuzuka's dogs, Baby sitting, plowing th-".

"NOOOO. Absolutely not. I won't be doing anymore of these chores that stupid civilians are too lazy to freaking do. I never became a ninja so I could clean shit out of a babies diaper. I want a C-rank mission and nothing lower than that", screamed the Uchiha. Kakashi's eyebrow was twitching in anger at Sasuke as he just embarrassed him in front of the hokage.

Ino paled wondering how the hokage would react to the type of language used when talking to him by Sasuke.

"You insolent little brat how dare you use such language when talking to the hokage. And the reason to you haven't gotten a C-ranked mission is because your a lowly genin who isn't ready for what's out there", Said Iruka sensei who was beside the hokage. Kakashi punched Sasuke on his head. I found this very amusing.

"You want a C-rank mission", Hiruzen said as he blew smoke out of his pipe, "Then a C-rank you'll get." Sasuke put on a smirk of triumph on his face seeing as he had gotten what he wanted.

"You will bring your client back the their village called Xertisque Which is located in the rice country. The client's village is being attacked by a bandit group called The sins. Your are to eliminated the sins and any other threat to the village, Understood?"

"Hai Hokage-sama", team seven said in unison.

"I expect nothing less than success and reported to me when you get back. Now Iruka would you be so kind as to go fetch those clients for me please? "

"Yes Hokage-sama", Iruka said as he left the room.

Iruka came back in the room with two people beside him. One was a man and the other was girl. The man was tall, he had dark brown hair that was long and tied into a pony tail. He look young like he was in his mid twenties close to thirty. He was wearing a blue, long sleeved shirt That had a golden dragon head on it. He also had on blue pants that had the body of a dragon going down the side completing the dragon that was on his shirt. He then wore normal blue sandals on his feet.

The girl on the other hand had long blonde hair that went pass her shoulders. She had big beautiful green eyes unlike the man who's eyes were brown. She's the same height as Sasuke who was a little bit taller than me. She was wearing White short sleeved shirt with a green butterfly on it that was the same color as her eyes.

She had White and green jacket on. She also wore a white and green skirt. All of the green on her being the same color as her eyes and white being the more dominant color on her outfit. She was looking stunning to say the least.

"Hi there my name is Kiato Kyuseishu and this is my daughter Hikari Kyuseishu", said the tall man now dubbed kiato.

"Hello My name is Kakashi Hatake. I'm the elite jonin who will be helping your village along with my genin squad that consists of Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and Ino Yamanaka.", said Kakashi with an eye smile as he shook kiato's hand.

"We'll be in your care Kakashi-san."

"Like wise kiato-san."

"We'll leave tomorrow at 9:00am Sharp. Pack your stuff, enough for a month's travel. You never know if things will go as planned. We'll meet up at the village's gates", said Kakashi sensei.

Kakashi shushined away once he was done with his speech as usual. I left the office right after he did. I was going to train after this put decided that I was going to rest instead since I had my first C-rank mission coming up. Dispelling the clones I had training I headed towards Tenten's dad's weapons shop. I need to get some supplies.

Arriving Hiragashi Weapons store I walked inside surprised to see Tenten working inside. I Haven't seen her since that night in the forest we spent together. "Hey Tenten."

"Oh Hey Naruto", Tenten said as she turned around, "Is there anything I can help you with?"

"Yes actually I need 50 shuriken and kunai, 20 explosion tags, 15 smoke bombs, and 10 soldier pills."

"Going on a mission I see."

"Yeah, my first C-ranked one in fact."

"Where's your dad", I asked trying to make conversation as Tenten got all the stuff I asked for.

"Oh he's out traveling and delivering weapons to clients."

"That's cool."

"Here you go. That will be 5000 ryo."

"Thanks Tenten. I guess I'll see you later", I said as I was walking out the store.

"Oh Naruto wait."

"huh?"

"I never got to thank you for helping me that time in the forest", Tenten said while blushing and looking away from me. "So to say thanks a made a weapon for you."

"Really, what kind?"

"It's a chain whip. Hold one a second I'll go get it", said Tenten as she went to the back of the store. Tenten came back with a whip that was made of metal. Its looked like a chain and had a iron handle at the end of it. One the other end was the tip of a blade that looked very sharp. Weapon also had great length.

"Thanks Tenten", I said as she gave me the weapon.

"So what do you think", Tenten asked.

"It's lovely but I don't know how to use it."

"Don't worry about that silly, I can teach you how to use it", Tenten said.

"Thanks but it has to be when I get back though."

"Okay that's fine."

"It's a date then", I said as I walked out the store with a smile knowing Tenten face was probably red right now.

Now having what I needed I headed home so I could start to pack my things. I packed eight of the same outfit I was wearing right now. I put all the weapons I just bought in my bag also. I kept the chain whip at home. I didn't know how to use it so there was no reason to bring it along. I packed lots of cup ramen. A scroll filled with it in fact. I also packed a tent for camping.

After packing my stuff I took a shower a slept right after.

SOMEWHERE IN THE RICE COUNTRY

"Wrath-sama the chief of Xertisque brother has left the village in search for help. We believe he's heading to konoha and he could be coming back with ninjas any day now."

A dark figure with dark black eyes that was sitting on a throne that was shaped like a dragon said, "It doesn't matter, the village of Xertisque doesn't know about us The Seven Sins. The chief's brother kiato probably complained about bandits in which case their sending a team of genins to take us out. I will bring my wrath down on anyone who dares to try and stop me from getting the ancient treasure that lies under Xertisque."

The bandit henchmen felt a chill go down his spine. He didn't like the glint in Wrath's eyes when he said that, but if wrath said not to worry then there was nothing he could do other than trust in him and his friends The Seven Sins. "I just hope there's really nothing to worry about", thought the bandit as he walked away.

THE NEXT DAY 9:00AM AT THE VILLAGES GATES.

I could see Ino, Sasuke and or clients at the villages gates waiting. I decided to come on time today just in case Kakashi sensei did. "Look who's on time for once", said Ino.

"Good morning to you too", I said walking right passed her. Kakashi then appeared in front of us.

"Good morning everyone. Are my little genins excited about going on their first C-rank mission" , Kakashi said trying to lively up the mood. I couldn't say I wasn't excited. I wanted to see if my training pay off, Plus this was going to the first time I ever step foot out of this hell hole. Who knows maybe I'll go rogue and never come back.

I would if it wasn't for the fact that I would be killed quickly since I wasn't strong enough to survive on my own yet. Sasuke and Ino were picking up there stuff from off the floor while Kakashi talked to kiato. I stared at kiato's daughter Hikari. She hadn't said anything since yesterday. Maybe she was shy.

After what I've lived through, I wasn't exactly the social type. If anyone could get her talking it would have to be Ino. Ino and Sasuke walked passed me, heading to where Kakashi and kiato where talking. I followed right behind them. Once we caught up to them we started walking away from the village.

There was complete silence as we walked. It has been this way for ten minutes now. Honestly I was beginning to get annoyed with this awkward situation. I knew Kakashi wanted us to initiate a conversation with the clients. I know that we were to protect the client and it would be easier if they trusted us more and the way we get people to trust other people is to prove our self to them.

And for this to happen we need to socialize. Rolling my eyes seeing that I would have to be the one to talk first. Thankfully before I said anything Kakashi started talking. "So kiato care to elaborate more on the situation."

"Amm okay well one day our village was attacked by a group of bandits called The Sins as you know. The attacks were frequent and the bandits were well equipped with weapons."

"Hmm, was there any clear reason for the attacks", said Kakashi in thought.

"Yes there was in fact. They seemed to be searching for something."

"More than likely there just raiding for goods, they are bandits after all", I said pitching in.

"That would be the first thing to come to mind when thinking about bandits Naruto but there's always a possibility of them searching for something else. They could be working with someone else, after all they were well equipped", said Kakashi.

"Well we can find out if we capture one of them", Hikari said surprisingly.

"Since the attacks were frequent I'm going take a wild guess and say that there base is more or less close to Xertisque.", I added

"Good deduction Naruto. So with them being close we could easily find their base and make quick work of them", said Kakashi.

"It sounds like were in good hands", said kiato with a smile. We kept walking till night time. There was a lot more conversation this time around though. At first it was about the mission but it changed after a while to other topics. I didn't participate in the conversations that had nothing to do with the mission.

After walking for a whole day our clients were obviously very tired so we stopped and set up camp in the forest. After setting up my own tent Kakashi sent me to get some wood for the fire. I just made a shadow clone and told him to go get some wood.

"Naruto you idiot a bushin is just an illusion it can't collect wood", Ino said.

"That's why it isn't a bushin", I said back annoyed with my teammates outburst. The clone quickly left the area.

"Naruto even though it was convenient for you to make a shadow clone to go and do your biding that justu isn't something you should use so recklessly, it's chakra draining", Kakashi lectured.

"For a normal person yes it's chakra draining but for a person like me, it won't even make a dent", I said placing a hand on my stomach. Kakashi immediately understood what I was saying.

"You have a point there. Could you make another one to go hunting for food", Kakashi asked.

"Sure", I replied as I made another clone.

"Kakashi sensei, what's a shadow clone", Ino asked.

"A shadow clone unlike a bushin is a solid clone of ones self. It's a jonin level justu and is dangerous for any ninja below our level to be using", Kakashi said.

"Then how did Naruto learn it. And why did you permit him to use it", Ino asked.

"Naruto's a special case", Kakashi replied with an eye smile.

"Hn, the dobe special, don't make me laugh", Sasuke said. I ignored Sasuke. There would be a day where we get to fight. That would be the day I take out my anger on him. But if I did it now I could get flagged for insubordination and shit like that.

Soon after my clone appeared with wood and a dead deer. Kakashi took the wood and made a fire. He then had the deer over the fire cooking. That was after we brutally skinned the thing of course. After the deer was cooked we all ate quietly just watching the fire burn.

I was the first to finish eating. Once I was done I headed in my tent and said, "I call last shift." I didn't even look behind me for a reply I just went straight to bed.

THE NEXT DAY

I woke every one up 8:30 as instructed by Kakashi sensei. By this time I had already used some of the water I brought to brush my teeth. I was ready to travel. I sat down on a log waiting for everyone to finish packing their stuff back in their bags.

"Naruto since your already done, could you please help the clients take down their tent", asked Kakashi. I nodded my head and headed over to our clients tent.

Kiato was packing their pillows and sheets and Hikari was attempting to take down the tent. "I'll take over from here."

"Amm thanks", Hikari said taking a step back. I quickly took down the tent, folded it and handed it over to Hikari.

"Thanks again amm."

"It's Naruto and your welcome." Everyone was about ready to head out again. I went back to sit back on that log and waited. After five minutes of waiting we were finally ready to leave.

"How much longer till we arrive in the rice country."

"Well Naruto, that depends on how fast we travel. We could be there by tomorrow if we traveled quickly", said Kakashi.

"But how long do you think it would take us to arrive at the pace were moving at right now."

"Maybe two to three more days."

"Don't you think we need to pick up the pace, I mean the bandits could attack the village between two to three days."

"Well yes but our clients can't travel as fast as us."

"Give me thirty minutes and I can get us moving at a faster pace."

"Ammm okay", Kakashi said with a raised eyebrow. I made thirty clones and we all got to work cutting down trees and building a wagon. With the help of all my clones, we got done in less than thirty minutes building the wagon.

"That's nice and all Naruto but we need a horse to pull that along", Said Kakashi.

"I'll make my clones turn into a horse", I replied. I dispelled 28 clones leaving only two of the thirty clones alive. Then I made them turn into horses. "Do you have a rope", I asked Kakashi. Kakashi went through his stuff ad eventually pulled out a rope and handed it to me. I tied the horses to the wagon and then gestured for the clients to get in.

"Good job Naruto. Lets pick up the pace", Kakashi said. After that we headed out. We were moving much faster than before but not as fast as we could have without the clients. After traveling for hours I had to make new clones to replace the two acting as horses. The trip was smooth with no attacks from bandits or enemy ninja. Eventually we stopped to camp again and left out the next day.

Right now we were in the rice country heading to the village of Xertisque.

MEAN WHILE AT THE SINS HIDEOUT

"The Konoha ninjas have arrived in the rice country and are close to Xertisque", said wrath the leader of the Seven Sins.

"I hope their cute other wise it wouldn't be any fun to suck the chakra out of them" said Lust as she licked her lips.

"They better put up a good fight to entertain me" said Greed.

"With your monstrous strength I doubt they will", Said Envy.

"Where are the other sins", asked wrath.

"Their still out on that mission, apparently ninja's from kumo are interfering with the job" said Envy.

"I bet those fool are just playing around. Anyway Lets prepare a welcome party for the Konoha shinobi in the mean while", wrath said with a smirk on his face.

"Sounds like a plan", Greed said with a similar smirk.

BACK WITH NARUTO

"Were here", Kakashi said as we walk up two wooden gates that had two golden dragon heads intertwining on it. It was evening time and the sun just started to set. At the gate were two soldiers. They had armor covering everywhere except for their heads. It wasn't very fancy armor either. Just a simple chest plate and hand and leg guard to cover their upper and lower body. They also had iron swords ready to attack us if we posed a threat.

"State your business", the first guard said as he walked towards. He look to be 6'2. He had short orange hair that fell over his face covering his right eye. He look to be in his twenties unlike the other guard who was an strong old man. There was nothing special about this guard. He had some muscles but that's to be expected in his line of work.

"We come in peace", Kakashi said as he raised both hands. "Were Konoha shinobi tasked with the mission of stopping the bandit attacks. I'm Kakashi an elite jonin and this is my genin squad."

"They sent us children", asked the second guard as he walked towards us. He was shorter than the first guard but not by much I'd guess he was around two inches shorter and he had a deep voice. The second guard was much older than the first guard. He had a full head of grey hair and beard, His hair wasn't long either. Surprisingly for an old man the second guard was well built. He had lots of scares on his face along with a black eye patch covering his left eye. Unlike the other guard there was something special about him. He defiantly wasn't your average old man, and from the scars on his face I could tell he had an interesting past.

"We need good healthy strong men not a bunch of kids", said the second guard who was obviously disappointed.

"It's fine gen-san I'm sure that they can handle it", Kiato said as he and Hikari came out the wagon.

"Hmm" ,Gen-san said as he inspected us. "Are you sure Kiato they don't look like much."

"I assure you my genins can take out some bandits and remember that I'm still here to help", Kakashi said.

"Seeing is believing. I'll accepted them once I see how strong they are", Said the first guard as he gave us a look of disgust. I could tell that I wasn't going to get along well with this guy.

"Listen we didn't come here for your acceptance we came here to save you from bandits. The reason why they sent us children is because to even the lowest level ninja bandits are child's play."

"Now, now Naruto there's no need to get so worked up now", said Kakashi. He didn't want things to become so hostile between us. "How about we just have a friendly spar with the guards ehh?", Kakashi continued.

"No thanks I'm tired after the long trip", I said blankly. Kakashi sweat dropped at my obvious lie. Everyone knew I had monstrous stamina.

"How about you Sasuke." Sasuke just looked away from Kakashi with a 'Hn'. "Oh come on Naruto me and you both know that your not tired, just fight the guy already", Kakashi begged.

"Alright, alright I'll do it. It won't take long anyway", I said. I could see the first guard fuming. "This is going to be too easy", I thought.

"It's settled then. We shall have a duel", The first guard said as he aimed his sword toward me. I could tell he was pretty confident in his skills, but so was I.

"I'm ready when you are." The match was over in a matter of seconds. After my comment the orange haired guard charged at me with a battle cry. He threw a wild swing at me with his sword. I easily sidestepped his attack and tripped him with my foot. The guard went crashing to the ground after losing his balance. Once he was on the ground I pounced on him, quickly placing a kunai at his neck.

"Check and mate", I said as I got off the guard. I could see Gen-san shaking his head from the corner of my eye. Kiato was impressed with the display of strength which he expressed by clapping.

"I demand a rematch", Yelled the orange haired guard as he got up off the floor.

"That's enough Akiro. The young lad has already proven himself which was the whole point on this spar", said Gen-san. The newly dubbed Akiro stopped his complaining and just walked away looking quite upset. "I'm sorry about that, Akiro has been a little out of it since his parents died in a recent attack", said Gen-san.

"It's fine", Kakashi-sensei replied.

"Follow me" Gen-san said as he walked toward the village gates that were opened by Akiro. We follow Gen-san inside the village. It was a beautiful village. There where building everywhere. Some were shops other and other were house. Most of the building were blue with a gold roof that had a dragon statue it but once in a while you'd see one that had a different color. The streets were lively, people going to and fro. They were staring at us as we traveled through the village and whispering. At least that was how it was at first. The deeper we traveled in the village the more we began to see the damage that the bandits had done.

Building and homes were leveled to the ground. No one was back here except for construction worker and more guards. "As you can see this is the destruction those bandits has caused", Gen-san said solemnly. "And this isn't all, on the east side of the village you'll see a similar site."

"There's not much evidence to work with if they just burned the whole place down. how do we know what their looking for?", I said.

"I have an idea of what their searching for", Gen-san replied. "I'm not a hundred percent sure but two years ago we built a new mining site. It was built by the ones who believe in the stories of our ancestors. Apparently someone found an old scroll that was ripped in half. The scrolled talked about or at least that half of it was about gold that was buried under Xertisque. After a long debate we let them do what they wanted to do and to our surprise they found it. Since then we've been mining gold and now the people all want to start embracing their ancestry."

"Now other than the scroll and gold the only other thing we've found was a writings on a wall saying Xertisque is a village of gold and blue. It also had a drawing of our ancestors worshiping a dragon engraved on a wall. Which is why all most of the building are blue and gold. The one that aren't are the villagers houses", Kiato added.

"So you think the bandits are after this gold", Kakashi asked.

"As I said before I'm not a hundred percent sure but it's our best guess", said Gen-san

"Have you found their base", Kakashi-sensei asked.

"No, we haven't even gone searching for it yet. It would be too dangerous to do after all the casualties we've suffered from their attacks", Gen-san answered.

"Kiato-sama, Gen-sama", Yelled a guard who was running towards us.

"What is it Taru-san", asked Kiato.

"The chief has called for you", said Taru. Taru was a short guy around 5'4. He had short dark black hair and a pair of brown eyes. He looked like a wimp, even though he was a guard he had no muscles at all. I could tell he was struggling just to stand up because of the armor he was wearing. If they send tis guy into battle he'd probably be the first to die.

"Hikari would you mind escorting the ninja's to where they'll be staying for the night", asked kiato

"Sure", said Hikari. Kiato gave Hikari a smile before he Taru, and Gen-san went to see the chief.

"Follow me", Hikari said before she stared walking in a random direction. We followed behind her as she lead the way.

"I can't believe they have so much gold here", Ino said excitedly. "It would be so awesome if I could bring some home. I would so rub it in for-head's face."

"I'm sure they wouldn't mind sharing some if you saved the village", Hikari said with a chuckle.

"Hn that'll be easy. Bandits are no match me", Sasuke said cockily. Hikari looked back at Sasuke and blushed. Why am I not surprised that she fell for the Uchiha. Ino was also looking at Sasuke with hearts in her eyes. Rolling my eyes I looked back at Kakashi to see what he was doing. I sweat dropped as I watched him giggle while reading his porn.

"Sasuke-kun is cute, talented and cool", Screamed Ino.

"He's also emo, psychotic, and obsessive", I mumbled.

"What you'd say dobe."

"Nothing, just agreeing with Ino about how lucky we are to have an Uchiha on our team", I said sarcastically. Sasuke scowled at me noticing the sarcasm in my voice. I could see Hikari frown as she watched me and Sasuke.

"At least I have a doujustu that made my clan very powerful and faired. We were the strongest clan in Konoha. What do you have, nothing", Sasuke said smugly.

"You brag about how powerful your clan is all the time and it only took one man to kill them all. That's just pathetic", I shot back. Sasuke was fuming by now. He grabbed my clothes and brought me closer to him.

"Take that back right now", Sasuke said firmly.

"Make me", I said as I started to release some killing intent towards Sasuke.

"Okay, break it up you two", Kakashi said as he came between the two of us. Sasuke was glaring daggers at me. I could tell he was really pissed but I didn't care. I just smirked at him in an attempt to rile him up even more. The rest of the walk was a bit awkward with only Ino and Hikari talking, Sasuke was too busy trying to boor a hole into me by glaring.

Eventually Hikari stopped in front of a huge Japanese style house. It was amazing. We walked inside the gate into the front yard which was big. It had a stone road leading straight to the house. On the sides of the road or walkway, Whatever you want to call it was grass. In the grass was a bamboo stick with stone surrounding it as it caught water and pour it out in a puddle. This could be seen on both side.

The house was brown and wooden but it still looked very nice. It had no windows, at least on the front that I could see but the house did have a great length, the windows were probably on the side. The roof was also triangle shaped. Hikari walked up to the front door and slide it open. She walked inside and took her shoes off. We all follow her example. Hikari started leading us to our rooms after we entered. We walked pass room after room because how big the house was.

The inside of the house was painted peach. We walked passed the living room which had peach colored couches and a TV in front of it. There where pictures of a woman on the wall that looked like Hikari. I could tell she was her mother, she had the same long blond hair, the beautiful green eyes and a cheerful smile. I could also tell she was dead.

Other than the living room we walked pass the kitchen that looked like the kitchen Chefs at a restaurant cook in. lots of stoves, pots being hanged in the middle, and a closet for the aprons. Finally we made it to a hallway That had tons of bed rooms on the left and right.

"You can sleep in any room you want. There all guest rooms", Hikari said. Kakashi entered a room on his right s I was the closest to him.

"Goodnight", was the last thing you heard from Kakashi as his door closed. Sasuke followed next entering a random room. Ino followed Sasuke in his room which made Hikari start blushing until seconds later she was thrown out of the room and landed on her ass.

"Awwww", Ino said as she rubbed her ass. Hikari was laughing at Ino's antics. I walked up to Ino and gave her a hand, Helping her up to her feet.

"Goodnight", I said as I entered a random room. The guest rooms were simple. They had a bed, an empty closet and dresser, with a window on the wall. I put my bag on the floor and jumped in bed and closed my eyes. Sleep fell upon me shortly after.

THE CHIEFS OFFICE KIATO'S POV

I entered the chief's office. The chief's office was blue and gold with two dragon heads above the chief's seat. Around the room were pictures of men both young and old who were the passed chief's of Xertisque. Two windows, one on the chiefs left and the other on his right were letting in moon light.

"It's nice to see you made it back safely brother", came the voice of the chief. I couldn't see his face well in the darkness but I knew how it looked. The chief was just as tall as me 6'2. He wore a gold and blue armor with dragons going up and down his armor. He had His sword by his side at all times. His sword was gold with a blue handle. Unlike me the chief had short spiky brown hair. I could tell he was looking at me with dull brown eyes and a frown that never left his face since his wife died.

"It's all thanks to the ninja's you paid to escort me here Chief-sama", I said respectfully.

"Chief-sama, you called", Asked Gen-san.

"In fact I did as the head of security and my personal adviser it's important that you two hear this", said the chief, who's real name is Kazama Kyuseishu.

"I take it that it's related to the bandit attacks", Gen-san said.

"Correct you are my friend. A guard who was injured in the last attack claims that he heard a bandit say that they needed to find the other half of the scroll."

"That would mean", I said in shock.

"Yes brother. The bandits have the other half of our scroll." I could see Gen-san eyes widen in shock.

"Now as I'm sure you've noticed Gen-san is that the attacks have been awfully close to my office which does in fact have the scroll in it. For safety reasons we'll be relocating it", Kazama said.

"If their searching for the other half of their scroll then having both half's of the scroll leads them to what they want", I deducted.

"That's right. Sadly we don't what they want. We can't tell if what their searching for dangerous or not without getting the other half of the scroll", said Gen-san.

"Not necessarily", my brother said as he pulled out the scroll. "The gold was use to build a temple for a mythical beast", Kazama read out loud. "That's the last readable sentence on this scroll. It tell us that the gold our ancestor's found was used to build a temple for a mythical beast. I'm going on a hunch here but I'm guessing that that beast is a dragon."

It made sense. If our ancestor's worshipped a dragon then that temple they built, would more than likely be for said dragon. "So the bandits are searching for a dragon. Why exactly would a group of bandits want a dragon", I asked.

"They don't want the dragon, they want the gold", Gen-san said.

"I don't follow", I said clearly confused.

"It's so clear reason why the bandits were well equipped, the reason why their attacks were so perfectly planned out was because their working with someone. Help them get in dragon and in return the bandits gets gold."

"I fear the same thing too Gen-san", said Kazama.

"So what do we do", I asked with worry evident in my voice.

"We hope that the ninja's we hired can handle whoever's out there and if not we'll just hire more and make it a higher level mission", replied Kazama.

"Sound like a full proof plan", I said sarcastically.

"Well it's all we can do. More than half of our soldier are either dead or recovering. Our military forces are weak right now and we can do nothing but ask for help against these bandits", Kazama said as he glared at me. "Anyway that's all I had to say. You two can go get a good nights rest."

"Goodnight Kazama-sama, Gen-san", I said as I walked out of the office. The streets of Xertisque were empty. There's was not a soul to be seen as I walked home. The journey wasn't long as at all. I got home in five minutes. I took my shoes off and left them besides Hikari's own. I quickly checked on Hikari to see if she was okay. I found her sound asleep in her room. I smiled at the site.

I went to my room and slowly drifted to sleep on my bed.

NEXT MORNING NORMAL POV AKA NARUTO'S POV

I was woken up this morning by an huge explosion. I shot out of bed and ran outside into the hallway. Apparently the explosion woke up everyone as they were al in the hallway too. "Their attacking", Kakashi-sensei said as another explosion went off. I could hear people screaming.

"Lets get moving", Kakashi said as he franticly ran outside. I followed after him along with Sasuke and Ino. Two other explosions went off once we were outside. You could see black smoke rising in the air from 4 different directions. "Looks like were going to have to spilt up", Kakashi-sensei said. I could see that Ino never liked the idea of separating that much.

"I'll get the closest one to us", I said as I headed west. I channeled chakra to my feet allowing me to move faster. I Hopped from roof to roof until I could see Xertisque's guards fighting a bunch of bandits. "I'll take over from here", I said as I jumped down and join the fight.

I landed on my knees and rolled over on the floor, dodging the axe of a bandit. After sidestepping another one of his attacks I kicked him in the stomach and brought his face down to meet my knee, knocking him out cold. "Stand back or you'll get caught in my justu", I yelled as Xertisque guards started to retreat. "Wind Style: Shredding Tornado", I shouted as a huge tornado came out my mouth. Many of the bandits got caught in my tornado. Their screams could be heard as the tornado ripped them to shreds with their gut and blood flying everywhere.

I smirked at the effectiveness of my justu as more than half of the bandits were dead. I could see the guards and some of the civilians that were around stare at me in horror as my justu brutally shredded those bandits. Seeing the rest of the bandits running for their life I picked up the axe from the unconscious bandits and started killing the retreating enemies one by one.

After five minutes of killing and dodging the attacks of the bandits that had decided to take a stand against me all of them were dead. I walked back to where I saw the bandits and guards fighting and dropped the bloodied axe on the floor. The second my axe hit the floor a loud screamed was heard. "That's sounds like Ino", I thought before I took off in the direction I heard the screaming coming from.

INO'S POV

After Naruto took off to go take care of some bandits I headed north. I was afraid of facing these bandits alone. This would be my first life or death battle. I could hear the chaos that the village was in right now. People were screaming for different reason, civilian were running around trying to survive while the guards attack the bandits. "I have to help defend Hikari's village", I thought with new found determination. I landed on top of a roof trying to get a perfect view of the battle below. Checking my surroundings to see if I was completely safe I put all my fingers together making a circle, aimed it perfectly at one of the bandits and Whispered,"Mind transfer justu."

Everything went black for a second and then when I opened my eyes I was no longer me. I was one of the bandits fighting a guard. My sword was parrying with the sword of a guard. Using my new found strength I shoved the guard to the ground. Looking up at the roof I was on before I saw my body. Good it was perfectly safe. Turning around I began to attack the other bandits.

I struck down two bandits with my sword that were about to kill a guard. I killed three other bandits before other bandits started to attack me see that I was a traitor. Using the mind transfer justu again, I went inside the body of another bandit and did the same thing. I kept this up until the bandits could no longer trust each other and started to fight amongst themselves. The guard were all confused but did nothing to stop the bandits from killing each other.

Seeing as my plan had worked perfectly I returned to my body and watched the battle royal. I smiled at my work feeling even more confident that I could beat these bandits. After all the bandits were dead Two men appeared out of nowhere. The first guy was tall, Around 6'8. He had white hair even thought he was and a pair of red eyes. He had no shirt on showing off his abs. He also wore a long black pants with gold streaks around the waist and black ninja sandals.

The second guys was much shorter than the first being 5'8. He had short spiky black hair with blue eyes that reminded me of Naruto. He had a black mask like Kakashi's covering his mouth. He was wearing a black jump suit and black shinobi sandals and he look to be in his teens

"The one time I'm not here these fools decide to have a battle royal without me. So what do we do now that they all killed each other envy", asked the guy who was 6'8.

"We killed the one who set them against each other", Envy said as he look right at me. I gulp as I stared back at envy. I was so fucking screwed. These guy were obviously not as weak as those bandits.

"Take her out greed", Envy instructed as he pointed towards me.

"With pleasure", Greed said with an evil smirk on his face. "Earth Style: Earth Dragon Justu", Greed Shouted as a dragon head emerged from the ground and was heading straight towards. My legs were shaking. I was screaming for myself to move but my body wouldn't listen. I watched in horror as the dragon was closing in on me fast. I did the only thing I could think as a lone tear fell down my face. I Screamed.

I close my eyes and waited for death to come. Instead I felt the warmth of another person, I could feel my head resting on their chest. The warmth of being in their arms felt good and they smelt nice and a lot like ramen. That's when I opened my eyes and looked up to see Naruto holding me bridal style and blushed as I got a closer look at his face. For the first time in my life I noticed how cute Naruto actually was.

"Ino, are you okay", Naruto asked.

"I-I'm fine", I said while stuttering.

"Good because I need you to do something. Go get Kakashi-sensei. Our mission just became way higher than a simple C-rank.