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I will not be adding anyone else to the trio, my guess is, if you have two you have enough, I have just one and I'm already happy but if you have more than three I'm pretty sure you will run yourself into the ground and you will never be able to please all the woman so I will not be adding any other females to the trio. I might make other trios though nothing is certain as far as that is concerned now onto more important stuff: The DISCLAIMER!
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Chapter 12
It had been two weeks since they had started taking lessons with team 10 as well, however Naruto was getting bored of doing all those stupid D-rank missions, even if they did pay quite well when you did 10 a day. So he was going to ask the old man for a harder C-ranked mission. Hinata while not as enthusiastic about this as Naruto, was also starting to get bored, and it was still 2 weeks before they had to try and prank the entire village again, so they had time for at least 1 C-ranked mission.
Shino however had no problems with doing just D-ranked missions, after all this enabled him to train harder to try and catch up with Naruto and Hinata who still seemed to be much better than him. He had just upgraded his gravity seal to times 5 just like Naruto, however it wasn't because Naruto couldn't go higher. He had been at the times 5 for a week already but it was more cause then it might stunt their growth, Hinata was remaining on times 3.5.
So when they entered and Kurenai was about to request another D-ranked mission like the past two weeks, however Naruto interrupted her. "No! NO! NO! No thank you, I don't want another BORING D-rank anymore. give us a an incredible hard mission old man."
And just like last time, Iruka was there," You idiot! you are just a rookie! Everyone has to start with these kind of simple duties!" now instead of screaming like Iruka expected Naruto to he just asked," then when aren't we rookies anymore?" said a Naruto, having a mischievous glint to his eyes that his entire team noticed directly. Seeing the glint they just decided to let Naruto handle it, after all Shino also had enough but didn't really mind cause of the training. Anko was just plain old bored and had already wanted a C-rank last week especially since their team was already way beyond D-rank level, maybe even low B depending on the kind. And Kurenai, she just sighed, even though she agreed that the missions were boring and seriously below the teams level but on the other hand they had only been doing this for two weeks, never mind the fact that they already had done 100 D-ranked missions, so she too just let Naruto proceed.
"SO then Iruka-sensei," asked Naruto smiling innocently," when aren't you a rookie anymore? When do we have done enough to have worked our way out of these simple duties?" tacked on Naruto, still remembering this conversation from the first timeline.
Iruka was flustered, he expected Naruto to scream at him again, to say he didn't care or something equally childish. He hadn't expected cold logic, so he just responded with the first quite high number he could think of since a normal team did maybe 4 jobs a week tops,
"50!" only to see the devious grin spread over Naruto's face.
"So you're saying that if we did 50 D-ranked missions you'd allow us to go on C-ranked missions without complaints?" asked Naruto now without his smile.
Iruka nodded hoping that Naruto had finally gotten the point. Naruto receiving the nod, turned towards the Hokage," So old man, about that C-rank mission!" grinned Naruto.
"Naruto!" screamed Iruka,
"What now?" screamed Naruto again still grinning, really liking the bickering with Iruka once again. After all Iruka had been the first casualty once Danzo had finally made his bid for the Hokage. So now he was messing with Iruka just for the old times sake.
"Didn't you just listen!"
"Of course I did, " Naruto said turning towards Iruka but then turning back to the Hokage," So old man how about it."
The Hokage just sighed, and interrupted seeing the gigantic vein bulging on Iruka's forehead," Here you go Kurenai, I'm sure you can solve this little thief problem within a few days."
"Thank you Hokage-sama."
"But, but," stammered Iruka, having a look of complete surprise. Seeing the look on Irukas face, Naruto couldn't keep his face straight anymore and he started laughing and as such had to be dragged out by Anko.
Turning back towards the Hokage, Iruka was about to ask, however he was just handed the file of team 8, and what he saw really made his eyes bulge out. It seemed that both Naruto and Hinata had done 123 missions, and Shino 113.
"Ho, How?"
"I have no idea, all I know is that they each day ask for at least 10 D-ranked missions and that by the evening they give in the reports with the signature of the client for a job well done. And don't worry the mission I gave them, is just some thieves they have to catch near a village still in Hi no Kuni though it is the edge. And don't worry so much, the Naruton ow is not the same Naruto you knew and do you really think Anko or Kurenai would let anything happen to their students?" explained the Hokage
"I guess." Iruka just sighed.
Outside again," Okay, get your stuff together for a couple of days. And meet us in a half hour at the east gate."
Half an hour later all five of them were ready," Okay, let's go, if we go now, we should reach the village within the day, I'll explain during the trip. Everybody ready?"
Getting nods from everyone, they quickly left, hoping to arrive within the day. Meanwhile Kurenai explained that the village they were going to, was one near the border that's having trouble with thieves for a few weeks already. They are quite organized only attacking travellers or merchants. Normally no problem for the town itself, however since the town thrives on trade, it is quite problematic. Now when we get there, we should first check into the inn and then hear the rumours in town, our contractor isn't even sure if the villagers know and would like to know whether or not that town is still safe. He expects us to find the camp and catch them all." explained Anko, letting Kurenai make sure they weren't ambushed.
"Anko-sensei, what's the name of this village?" asked Hinata, having a suspicious feeling.
"I thought it was Supotto Town(Spot Town). Why?"
"Oh just wondering where we're headed." answered Hinata but silently signing to Naruto that it was indeed that town, hopefully the ninja with the panther scroll was already there but since they were organized it was quite likely.
Shino and Hinata had already reduced their seals by times 1 for nearly half a day, otherwise they could not keep up the speed. But still they had arrived before the dark so it was worth it, however it seemed that Naruto was still as active as ever, even with all his years of experience, he still got excited when doing missions, that hadn't even stopped when he was Hokage. Even then he did some missions using another name. He had reasoned, after all if you were the strongest ninja of the village, wouldn't it be stupid to just stop doing missions.
Of course when they were nearly within the village, they quickly hengeed into a travelling family of 5. Surprisingly it was Naruto and Hinata who turned into the mom and dad of around 40, just like they always had. This did get some raised eyebrows from Kurenai and Anko, who were gonna have to have a word with them later tonight. But since Naruto and Hinata didn't stop they just hengeed into twin sisters of around 20. Shino hengeed in another boy without changing his age. Normally it took great skill gotten from massive use to be able to pull of a henge of another age, however it seemed that Hinata and Naruto had no such trouble, just another thing to add to his growing list of peculiarities pertaining to Naruto and Hinata.
Safely arriving at the inn they got two rooms, one for the happy couple and one for the three kids, however it was fairly certain that Kurenai and Anko were not going to let Naruto and Hinata just share a room like that, after all what kind of responsible sensei would let two of their adolescent students of opposing sexes and in a relation, share a room. Of course Anko didn't really mind however one look at Kurenai quickly changed her mind and decided it was best to just back her up.
entering the first of the two neighbouring chambers, Hinata and Naruto just sank down on the double bed.
"Ah, this is perfect" sighed Hinata and Naruto together.
"Well only one of you two will enjoy this luxury, there's no way I'm gonna allow the two of you in the same room." said Kurenai with a glare to enforce her point.
"Okay, okay" said Naruto quickly backpedalling, " So who will take which room then?"
"You and Shino take this room, and me, Hinata and Anko will take the next room as that should have three beds." answered Kurenai.
"You don't have any problems sharing one bed do you Naruto-kuuuun." asked Anko.
"No, no problems whatsoever, as long as he here keeps his hands to himself I'm fine." said Naruto edging away from Shino with a unbelievably scared look on his face.
Shino being the responsive person he was, just nodded, making Naruto just look more scared.
"Okay, cut it out Naruto. Now down to business. Like I said, the thieves only attack outgoing transport but it still seems weird that the village itself hasn't sent a request, it was a travelling merchant who used to come to the village quite a lot, filed the request."
"Wait you mean to tell me that the villagers might not even want our help?"
Anko nodded," Yes Naruto, now today let's try to get some information. You, Hinata and Shino go disguised as the couple and the young child on the market and public places. Me and Kurenai will go scout the bars, as you really shouldn't be drinking yet.. Meet back up here around midnight. Dismissed."
"Hey I resent that, I'll even bet that I can drink you under the table, Anko-sensei." smirked Naruto, knowing for a fact that no matter how much he drank he would never feel anything, one of the benefits from being a jinchuuriki, he had found out that titbit when he had turned jounin and all his friends, even Gaara had gone to a bar, where he would be bought drinks the entire night, everyone was there except Kiba, Sakura and of course Sasuke who was still a-wall. Even lee had been there ,however he was smart enough not to drink any alcohol.
"Fine kid, you and me, once we get back to Konoha. I'll show you how it's done and I'm sure Kurenai will referee making sure no one cheats. Right Nai-chan?"
Kurenai just sighed," Even though I know it's not really ethical, but hey old enough to kill old enough to drink. And I'm sure that even if I said no, you'd still do it however without supervision. So FINE, I'll referee. Now let's go, I'd like to at least get some extra information before we go looking for them tomorrow."
At midnight all five of the ninja returned without any new information, it seemed like the villagers hadn't even noticed the fact that their village was housing thieves, so no luck there.
The only good thing, at least for Hinata however it would probably be a pain in the ass for the mission, was the fact that a panther had been sighted by some children in the forest. Of course none of the adults had seen anything and if you don't expect their to be a panther contract with the thieves, you probably would still pay no mind to it.
As such Shino dismissed it too just like the adults as a fairy tale. Turning in they had discussed and agreed that the next day they would scout the forest around the village and locate the thieves camp. And then in the night if found, they would incapacitate the enemy group and bring them in, with Hinata of course also taking the panther contract just like last time.
Getting up early, they stealthily got out of the village, Once inside they once again made a few groups of clones, just like they did when searching for a runaway kid who didn't want to be found, or a pet that couldn't be found after strength is in the numbers especially for covering lots of ground. Also like this they could still complete their morning training even though they were on a longer(half a day) mission usually of the search-and-find kind.
After nearly half a day of searching one clone group finally popped, it seemed that the Bandits were hiding out in a clearing about 30 miles north-northeast of the main road to the village from Konoha.
Deciding to leave the heavier training of the afternoon, they all began preparing for their battle, the plan was made and it seemed that the leader used to be from Kumo, a nuke nin and the two next in charge had some ninja-training but didn't display any outward signs of an old village association. They were first gonna take out as many guys as they could without notice and when they were finally caught. Anko was going to take the subordinates with electric blue hair, Hinata and Kurenai were going to take the bald boss and that left Naruto with the other subordinate with electric purple hair. Shino was going to round up the other thieves they had yet to disable.
Later that night, at 2 AM to be precise, the group once again met at the same clearing they had practiced in that morning.
"Okay, everyone know the plan?"
Getting nods all around they stealthily made their way towards the encampment. When about ten feet from the encampment, just out of sight of the guards, Hinata quickly went through a few seals, and whispered:" Kirigakure no Jutsu". Making thick mist roll in from behind them and completely covering the encampment with the guards none the wiser. They didn't even look around suspicious from the sudden mist that came rolling in. A mistake, though they didn't realise it, that would cost them their life as Naruto, Kurenai and Anko quickly slipped behind them, crushed the windpipe, broke the neck and cut the throat respectively.
Quietly stalking through the encampment, knocking out the ones still asleep, not really killing them as they were still asleep and wouldn't make a sound so they just knocked them out. It was when they were trough around three quarters of the camp, that a thief stumbled across their path. Anko overcame the shock of being found out by a thief who came back from taking a piss and quickly sent a kunai to his throat.
But Hinata was already there and quickly sent a burst of chakra trough his heart turning his hearth into mush. Unfortunately for them he still had time to scream out in alarm, thus waking up the last quarter of the camp.
"Oh shit!" yelled Naruto before quickly starting to combat the onrush of thieves who had woken up pretty pissed. However they weren't really a match for the ninja, that was until the boss and his two stooges showed up.
"Okay you know the plan" yelled Kurenai before engaging the boss.
"Yes" called Hinata, quickly giving a helping hand to Kurenai,
"Got him." Called Naruto before jumping and intercepting the purple haired stooge who was on his way to Hinata.
"You okay with these let over, Shino?" asked Anko, motioning the rest of the thieves all the while eyeing the electric blue haired stooge.
"Yeah, go have your fun sensei, however if you're not quick enough I might just steal him." Called out Shino throwing a wink in for good measure, at which Anko grinned and leapt towards the electric blue stooge who was apparently waiting for her. If possible Anko's grin just got wider and nastier.
(Now going to go and take this one fight at a time, do know that they are happening at the same time)
With Hinata and Kurenai
"Hmm a Hyuuga and even unmarked, interesting, I'm sure Kumo would pay some good money for you after I've had my fun with you of course."
"Over my dead body." Called out Kurenai.
"Well that can be arranged." Called out the Kumo nuke nin before rushing towards Kurenai, kunai in hand. Kurenai also drew a kunai, the one with team 8 carved into it, and engaged him in a kunai fight. Kurenai was having a hard time fighting against the obviously stronger opponent. But the fight didn't last long as Hinata quickly intervened, sending a sharp chakra full blow towards the Kumo nins stomach. Which he deftly dodged, "Oh the Hyuuga princess wants to play as well."
"It seems you know my name, however outdated it is and here I am little old me, not even knowing your name." Said Hinata with a creepy innocent smile.
"Fine I guess you should know the name of your defeater, the name's Sakusha, Sakusha Mishou." replied Sakusha with a smirk.
However his smirk quickly vanished as he heard intoned, "Magen: Ki no Yami" making Sakusha world suddenly seem darker, the shadow the trees cast on the clearing seemed to grow larger and larger, creeping up on him. However he wasn't a nuke Kumo nin for nothing, quickly gathering his chakra, he tried dispelling it firstly by blowing his chakra and so crumbling the genjutsu, it wavered a bit but wasn't dispelled quite as easily. He was however brought out of the genjutsu when he felt a hit straight into his gut. Flowing with the punch he did minimize the damage but still a chakra loaded punch made by Hinata still hurt like hell.
But she wasn't done yet, she followed up with another punch which he dodged barely and then roundhouse kicked him. She flipped through a few seals and called," Suiton: Mizurappa"
Shooting Sakusha right in the face with a large yet of water directly from her mouth which in turn shot him off against a tree.
Shaking his head Sakusha, he wasn't gong down without a fight, and he still had his ace up his sleeve. Quickly going trough Boar → Dog → Bird → Monkey → Ram he called out:" Kuchiyose no jutsu" a plume of smoke enveloped him and then two normal black panthers stood next to him," Keep the lady in bandages busy, that girl is mine."
The two panther before quickly shooting towards Kurenai who was running towards Sakusha,
"You're mine kid, that punch really hurt."
"Oh we we're already playing for keeps, sorry thought we were just warming up." Called out Hinata," I'll be serious now." Seeing the growing irritation on Sakushas face, mainly because of the gigantic tick mark on his right temporal lobe.
He quickly charged forward, drawing two kunai, ready to engage in close combat, however he never really got that far, as he had to jump back to dodge what seemed like a star on a string nearly cut of his head. Looking back he quickly dodged left, once again letting the seemingly spinning star miss him by a hair. And so it continued, Sakusha trying to get in close but never really managing cause he had to keep avoiding those stars on wires.
Deciding he wasn't going to get anywhere near her with whatever the heck those things were, he quickly jumped back and was about to start a series of seals however Hinata wasn't allowing that she had moved just a bit closer but is seemed that the stars were still able to reach him, cutting him lightly and tearing a piece of his shirt of at the upper arm. Just narrowly missing a major artery.
He then just quickly threw a few kunai at her, however they were also quickly deflected by Hinata, Sakusha was really starting to get annoyed now. He couldn't get in close because of that weapon and she seemed to be fast enough to keep him from completing his hand signs and he still hadn't figured out just what her weapon was.
"You know kid you're pretty good, just what kind of weapon are you using?"
"This?" she asked stopping her jojo's, which he now recognised, from spinning and captured them in her hand." These are my and Naruto's own creation, these little babies are quite a lot of fun, with lots and lots of cool extras, you wanna see?" she asked before flinging one of the jojos towards him again, however this time she tucked it back quite fast, however the star that seemed to be stuck before and retracted when stopped, released and kept on going, forcing him to dodge to the left. Which Hinata had expected cause the next he knew his head felt like it had been a 30 pound mallet. "See lots of fun, I can make blades come out, shoot them at you and then if those don't work they're quite handy for just smashing against someone."
"Ugh," replied Sakusha," this isn't the end for me." Quickly checking how his two panthers were faring and he was quite unfortunate to note that one was sound asleep and another was also falling asleep, and that bitch didn't even seem to be breaking a sweat, just like the Hyuuga princess right in front of him. He had thought once he saw the Hyuuga princess, he could make some quick bucks since she was rumoured to be quite weak, however what stood before him was anything but weak. If only he had someone to distract her for a moment, so he could use some of his jutsu. He quickly threw a barrage of kunai, and jumped quite a bit back, he quickly flipped through a few signs and called out:" Doton: Doro Hōshi" quickly turning the already soggy ground into mud and making it flow towards Hinata, who jumped back flashed trough two signs and called:" Suiton: Dassui" taking all the water out of the mud and stopping the river. However this was all her opponent apparently needed as he had taken out a sword that seemed to be made completely out of some meteor stone, but still sharp.
"Now taste defeat, Maddobōru." Swinging the sword down and making a ball of mud come out. Which Hinata deftly dodged by just spinning around it, however she never got much time to try anything herself as another ball was flying her way. And so it went on for about a minute with Hinata tiring, deciding it better not to be hindered by her seals anymore, she quickly formed the half sign of bird and called:" Kai no Jūryoku" releasing her gravity seal. Now with her advanced speed she got closer and closer making Sakusha more nervous, thus making him fire faster and so even with her extra speed, Hinata still could not move in too close. Deciding she wasn't getting anywhere with this except maybe tire her out. Hinata quickly jumped back, gathered chakra in her hands and swung them at an incoming mud ball, "Hake Hayase" effectively halting the ball and sending it back although a lot slower. But seeing his mud ball being deflected back towards him, instead of just firing more mud balls her way and so destroy the ball, he jumped out of the way. Seeing her shot Hinata quickly rushed in, "Ryuken, 32 no Konran" quickly flowing through her form, and disabling 32 of the chakra points and also bruising them, as such he couldn't just force them open, the only one who would still be able to open them nearly immediately would be Naruto, the others would be able to open them again in time...
Sakusha was moaning, still trying to get up, however he stopped when he felt a kunai press against his neck by a very pissed of Kurenai, seeing as some of her clothes were ripped.
"Don't even think about it, thanks to you i need to get a new dress, do you know just how hard it is to find nice, comfortable and sturdy dresses."
Sakusha just stopped trying and dropped back down, completely defeated. Hinata walked over, quickly knocked him out with a chakra blow to the head but not before giving him one blow down where it hurts and sat down. She was tired, after all she did just defeat him nearly single handed.
"You did great Hinata, I did almost interrupt when he got out his sword but you really did handle him quite nicely. I'm proud of you." Said a smiling Kurenai.
"It was nothing Kurenai-sensei, after all you took care of the hardest part." Answered Hinata.
With Naruto
"Got him." Called Naruto before jumping and intercepting the electric purple haired stooge who was on his way to Hinata. Intercepting with quite a simple kick right into the stomach of the purple haired stooge making him fly back towards the tree line.
" You know it's impolite to interrupt a girl especially if you were going to hit her, a gentleman should never hit a girl."
The guy just smirked," So then you could never hit me." smirked the guy who was apparently a girl, stunning Naruto for a moment,
"You're a girl?" said Naruto, really not believing said fact.
The girl nodded, " Fujiiro Dendou, pleased to meet you."
Getting over the shock Naruto being cordial replied," Uzumaki Naruto," bowing like the gentleman he is," and you're quite right, I can't hit you, that doesn't mean I can't kick, use jutsu or my weapons on you." Flipping through a few seals ,again using the fox sign while he was talking, then he shouted," Kitsune-hi: Hiendan no jutsu" spitting out a small fireball which flew with quite an impressive speed towards Fujiiro, who dodged but still had the end of her longer hairs signed. Seeing them falling before her eyes, she freaked out, and just rushed Naruto. Apparently even though she did have some ninja training wich was evident by the way she dodged, the fact that she lost her cool over such a frivolous thing as singed hair clearly made her a novice. Or maybe just maybe it was because she was a girl, and you just don't touch a woman's hair without freaking her out, the Log knew why. He had heard Sasuke's fan club freaking out when their hair was just a little messy, so Naruto really did wonder what would have happened should he light their hairs on fire. Shuddering at the thought Naruto returned his full attention back to the fight. Fujiiro had been madly swiping at him with her claw like nails but thanks to dodging Anko's attacks for the last 2 weeks at any time of the day, dodging such messy attack was second nature to him and he didn't even have to really try. (AN: It's a known fact, for anyone with a little fighting experience, that if you get emotional you're fighting becomes sloppy)
Deciding enough was enough Naruto wanted to quickly make an end to his fight, so that if needed he could go and help the others. Naruto quickly raised his leg, wanting to deliver an axe kick right to the head, however thanks to her not really paying attention to her feet while she was swiping at him, she tripped over a root. Making her fly right into him, head butting him at the same time. Although it wasn't sure who was in more pain, Naruto from the accidental head but or Fujiiro from flying against Naruto's incredibly thick and hard head.
Both rubbing their foreheads, and making Fujiiro come back to her senses. They, Naruto and Fujiiro, both jumped back and began flying trough seals, however Naruto quickly changed his seals once he saw just what she was about to do, so she called out" Raiton: Sentan no jutsu" making purple lightening spring from her arms in the shape of an spearhead and travel towards Naruto. But Naruto was prepared so he called out at the same time "Kitsune-hi: Dansei Kakuheki" making a protective wall of foxfire erupt in front of him in a slight angle, just in time to take on the spearhead. And so the struggle began with the spearhead trying to pierce the wall, at first the wall seemed to start to give but suddenly it sprang back towards its original state making the electric attack fly upward at that slight angle.
Phew was nearly broken by that damned piercing attack, thought Naruto. Fujiiro in the meantime couldn't really believe her eyes, her strongest attack just nullified by that kids protective wall and he didn't even seem winded while she defiantly felt the drain on her chakra.
Naruto, not really wanting to test the effect of another piercing attack on his wall, decided he better finish it quick and apparently not from a distance, though he did see that the attack took quite a bit out of her. So he ran towards her, fist cocked back ready to hit her, she of course tried defending against the fist however unnecessary it was as Naruto was a gentleman and as such would never hit a woman. So when instead of the expected punch, Naruto sent a jump kick in her gut, it felt quite painful. But Naruto wasn't done yet, he quickly brought up his other leg for the follow-up kick, straight to the chin seeing as she was still bent over from the first kick, made her arch her back and fly up and away. Naruto decided to just finish it then and there, went through three simple seals, rat-fox-ox," Kitsune-hi: Surasshutēru" making just one tail appear around his wrist. Grabbing the girl and completely encamping her, he slammed her into the ground, knocking her unconscious, however the tail didn't just disappear. Naruto added a rat seal and called:" Enjin" making the tail disconnect from his wrist and then wrap around her in a tight ring, immobilising her should she wake-up.
"Thank god that's over, now let's see who else is still busy." Said Naruto to no one in particular before turning around to find ...
With Anko and Shino
"You okay with these leftovers, Shino?" asked Anko, motioning the rest of the thieves all the while eyeing the electric blue haired stooge.
"Yeah, go have your fun sensei, however if you're not quick enough I might just steal him." Called out Shino throwing a wink in for good measure, at which Anko grinned and leapt towards the electric blue stooge who was apparently waiting for her. If possible Anko's grin just got wider and nastier.
"Thanks kid, you too." called Anko before quickly jumping towards the blue haired girl/guy,
arriving there the first question she asked before even engaging ," Are you a boy or a girl? I'm sorry but I really can't tell with you or the other stooge."
The blue haired guy face planted, but quickly recomposed however still with a tick mark and screamed:" I'm a guy, and that's my baby sister you're talking about!" calming down again he continued, "My name's Aoi Dendou and I find it impolite to not ask the name of my opponent."
Anko smirk got even bigger, she was going to enjoy this, 'Anko Mitarashi" she said bowing and then when she got back up she had already two kunai travelling towards Aoi. He seemed surprised that she was able to get and throw a kunai without him noticing, however that didn't stop him from dodging the two kunai by rolling out of the way. "You know it's not really polite," however he was interrupted by having to dodge another barrage of kunai.
"Quite your yapping and start your fighting." said Anko, still grinning like a child, sending another barrage of kunai towards Aoi. Who once again dodged only now to run straight into a face full of snakes, luckily for him he could still twist away so the snakes only bit him in the left shoulder instead of right in the neck. Thanks to his fast reflexes and the snakes luckily missing one of his major arteries. Quickly charging and turning his chakra into his element Aoi fried the snakes using his lightening. Thus both killing the snakes and neutralizing most of the venom though the bite did still hurt him.
But Anko quickly continued, getting up in his face and started a fist fight with both getting a couple of hits in, Anko most of them, however the ones Aoi got in did hurt her more thanks to his electric element. So she, feeling the effect of the punches, quickly jumped back, sending another barrage of kunai towards Aoi. This time at least she nicked him a few times. Deciding that neither normal attacks up close nor kunai from a distance would work, so quickly running to a few signs, she called out before Aoi could get in close again," Katon: Ryūka no Jutsu" spitting out multiple small fire balls in a completely random manner, making it very hard for Aoi to dodge, after all if the caster didn't even know where the fire was going how could Aoi predict.
So that's why he got quite a big burn on his other shoulder that if he had not had his reflexes would have hit him straight in the stomach. Seeing the hit, Anko quickly went in for the kill. Quickly going trough the seals she calls out:" Katon: Hibashiri" breathing out a stream of fire that quickly encircled Aoi. Anko smirked no way he was getting out of that one, however Aoi only raised his eyebrow and quickly flipped trough a long seal series," Raiton: Jibashi", slowly pulling apart his hands between which blue electricity sparked and then quickly turning around in a circle while he brought his hands down, calming the flames where the electricity touched them.
Seeing Anko's stunned look, she knew that normally those flames wouldn't just go out simply by using electricity on it, Aoi grinned. Anko not being one to be discouraged simply, flipped trough a seals and called out," Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu" sending a gigantic fireball towards Aoi, who just dodged, confirming Anko's suspicion that even though he could escape the running fire, he still had to dodge the fireballs. So she concluded if she used projectiles of any kind she could hit him, suddenly her grin just got bigger, she was going to enjoy this, she even had some new middle to long range techniques she wanted to try out in battle.
Once again throwing a couple of kunai to buy time, cause with his electrical chakra, he got close she would probably be pretty screwed, even her snakes couldn't touch him.
Once again quickly ran trough a few seals and called out while throwing a shuriken, " Katon: Shuriken ryūsei-gun" multiplying the shuriken while also lighting them on fire. Unfortunatly for Aoi, not really expecting the extra flames, he misjudged them and got quite a lot of burn marks on his hands even making him unable to hold a kunai in his left hand. Seeing her success, and knowing that he really was a close combat fighter, he once again was charging his way towards Anko, who would have been caught again if not for the sudden swarm of insects that came between them, giving Anko the time needed to complete her most difficult jutsu:" Katon: Nenshō hebitorio" quickly sending out three gigantic boa-like snakes, one from each sleeve right trough Shino's bug wall. The last one came from underground, catching Aoi completely unaware because of his focus on the two snakes lounging for him in plain sight. It was the perfect technique for capturing and restraining an enemy ninja plus if you only make small ones pretty useful for torture as well since they could get nearly everywhere.
"Don't even try to unleash your electrical chakra even if it has extra calming effect. Yeah I figured it out, so from the moment you try and force your way out in any way or use chakra against those snakes in any way, they will combust and incinerate you. If you see or perhaps better feel the ground snake you'll find him wrapped around something quite important." said anko grinning right in front of Aois face, "And by the way, thanks kid, I really needed that extra time."
"It was my pleasure Anko-sensei, I was getting bored anyway." replied Shino who had finished his clean-up of the remaining thieves already after .
In the meantime, Aoi face had gone from red to purple for getting himself caught in the attack, mad at Anko and then pale white once she mentioned the underground snake plus he was pretty sure he also felt it constrict briefly. So he just did the only logical thing any man in his position could, he fainted, after all no man could really cope with having a snake that could combust if you made even the tiniest of bad moves wrapped tightly around your junk.
Turning around she looked around, Naruto was already ready with his target, not that Anko expected any less, and was watching Hinata. Kurenai was also watching Hinata from where she sat on top of two sleeping panthers, how they got there she didn't know, but damn they were cute, sleeping so peacefully. So seeing as Hinata had everything under control and Kurenai could jump in instantly should anything go wrong, she relaxed a little and watched the end of the fight. Seeing Hinata completing one of her new Juken derivate techniques was quite something. After that she did see what Hinata did next and couldn't be more proud. Shino and Naruto however cringed at the same time when they saw what Hinata did.
Grabbing her unconscious captive with still one snake wrapped around him, she and Shino quietly walked towards Hinata and Kurenai, as she saw Naruto do the same.
" Okay let's round them all up, check them for any hidden weapons or anything they could use to escape. " said Kurenai. Getting nods from everyone they all spread out. Hinata and Naruto started at the end from where the boss and his two stooges came hoping to score the contract and started tying up the thieves that were lain out there. Shino and Anko started tying up all the thieves that they had knocked unconscious before they were noticed and Kurenai was going to start from the where the battle took place.
Hinata and Naruto quickly found the hq, two slightly larger tents, clearly from the boss and the Dendou siblings. Hinata ducked into the boss' tent and started rummaging trough his stuff, in the end she had found the contract scroll, a few dozen kunai and shuriken, some ninja wire, not the best quality but okay and some other ninja stuff. She quickly took all of it out, deciding that even though she was going to sign the contract she was at least going to show it to her sensei's. Naruto in the meantime was also having going trough the Dendou siblings tent, he also found quite a few kunai and shuriken, but no wire, however what he did find were a pair of cat claws, Kyuubi, having been watching trough Naruto's eyes quickly spoke up," Oooh, please keep them, it's really hard to find a nice pair of cat claws, especially made out of chakra metal."
Naruto not really seeing why not, scanned the room again, picking up a katana and some other ninja stuff, left the tent, only to see Hinata coming out of her tent as well, clearly carrying one scroll.
Dropping everything in the centre they quickly started back towards the tents and started back now tying up and taking all weapons from the thieves. After about half an hour Hinata and Naruto had gotten quite a nice stack of weapons of all kinds, from simple clubs to katana's to even some bolts that Hinata could use for her crossbows.
When they met back up, Anko, Kurenai and Shino raised their eyebrows at the large stack of weapons. Apparently everything they had thrown away not really caring for weapons of others, Hinata and Naruto had picked back up and deposited into one of the six stacks.
"What?" asked Naruto seeing the confused look on the his sensei and teammates face.
"Euhm Naruto, why did you make such a stack?" asked Kurenai, carefully not to hurt his feelings.
"Why waste perfectly good weapons, when you could benefit from them." was Naruto's only reply, still sorting out the usefull from the useless weapons. On one pile where already at least 5 dozen kunai another had around 10 dozen shuriken then there were a few meters of ninja wire. The largest pile housed all kinds completely rusted kunai, useless wooden clubs,… Then there were a few items lying next to them one by one, the cat claws, Naruto was going to claim, the special sword the boss used, the panther contract, a very nice katana that was probably from the youngest Dendou and then an entire pile of senbon with a quite a few launchers and some normal katana.
Still seeing the confused looks on the others faces, Hinata quickly explained:" Anko-sensei, you know how the villagers treat Naruto, thanks to that he has gotten the habit of keeping everything he can. He doesn't really care what they did before that, as long as they still work he will take them. All of my crossbows, his boomerangs and my jojo's were made out of scrap from other weapons, especially our main weapons which come from chakra metal." surprising Anko and Shino, who hadn't seen her use the jojo's. Kurenai eyebrows were raised because of the reason Naruto had gotten that habit, and how right he actually was. Looking over the piles she immediately noticed the contract scroll. Hinata seeing what Kurenai was looking at quickly continued.
"As you can see he usually, put the special items on the side. I think he wants to keep the cat claws, for a friend of ours. And I would like to keep and sign that panther contract. It's up to you but I really do want to try it." Kurenai sighed, a thing she had been doing a lot of lately, especially since she had Naruto and Hinata as her students and to some extent Shino. But Hinata had deserved that contract even if she herself had taken care of the panthers, Hinata had defeated the boss all on her own, a quite remarkable feet seeing as he was a high level chuunin ranked nuke-nin. The other two, as far as she knew, weren't in the bingo book.
However reluctantly she was permitted to keep the contract," Fine," she eventually agreed" however I want to be there the first time you summon, do you know the way to summon?" asked Kurenai.
Hinata just grinned and nodded, Anko was getting a bad feeling about this, Oh boy, just what we need. As if Hinata wasn't strong as it was, no now she had to have a panther for a pet too. Damn that stupid snake contract. After all thanks to the snake contract, Anko wouldn't be able to sign another contract, not that it was really necessary or normal for someone to have more than one summon but still she would have liked the option and she thought that having a panther as summon would be pretty cool. Shino on the other hand was being drawn to the sword that the boss had been using, he didn't know why but he felt some kind of connection with it.
"Euhm Kurenai-sensei, would it be okay for me to take a look at that sword?" asked Shino.
"Sure go right ahead, neither me nor Anko really use a sword, Naruto also doesn't seem to be interested in it and Hinata is already getting the contract." said Kurenai, who was interrupted from saying more when the sword came flying trough the air, right towards Shino, who instead of jumping back like the normal person would do, simply caught it.
Whirling around to glare at Naruto she saw that he wasn't anywhere near the previous location of the sword, but was finally done separating the junk from the good parts.
She turned back around when she heard buzzing, what she saw was quite unexpected, the normal looking sword, while still appeared to be made out of mud and still had the same basic shape, was now full of insects, who where remodelling the sword. Making holes in it and suddenly on the other end of the handly another sword like shape appeared. You couldn't really see much after this point cause the entire surface of the surface save where shino's hand was, was covered in bugs. Hinata, Naruto, Kurenai and Anko were starring wide eyed at it while Shino seemed to be in trance. After about 5 minutes the bugs retreated slowly, and what they saw amazed them. Shino now had a double sword in his hand(think Zidane weapons of FFIX) the top half still seemed like the basic cutlass shape, however it now had three holes in it, seemed stronger than ever, and the point was connected with around the middle by a super thin thread and a spider web, on the other hand was wicked looking saber shape but more pointy, like a nice and thick stinger. However the back were jagged hooks like most insect used to climb on walls, and also three holes in it. All in all it now looked like quite a wicked sword. Instead of the lame original cutlass. Snapping out of it, Kurenai simply said" well it seems that I don't really have a choice now do I, I don't think your bugs would allow me to even use it now.
Naruto and Hinata were completely stunned, this hadn't happened last time, however last time Hinata hadn't really take time to look around all that much, she had just picked up the contract and left all the rest. Now thanks to Naruto, Kyu also had a nice looking pair of cat claws, Shino had a wicked looking sword and who knew what Anko or Kurenai might find, although most of the cool stuff seemed to be gone now.
everyone quickly perused the different stacks. Anko only replacing the kunai she had lost. Kurenai however did find a very nice senbon shooter, so she was just going to take only a few senbon and the shooter, however Naruto insisted that she took all the senbon, after all she did help and neither Naruto, Hinata nor Kyu used senbon, she eventually relented. Shino hadn't really looked anymore, still not quite over the shock of his new sword, Naruto didn't mind too much, he wasn't going to use it anyway and it seemed that Shino was going to use it much better anyway.
Quickly sealing all the other stuff, which he and Hinata would simply look over later. They all made some Kage Bunshin and took all the prisoners to the village.
It was now nearly sunrise again. They had to stay up all night to explain the situation to the village who didn't know of any thieves and wouldn't just accept them. It wasn't until the merchant who was their contractor, finally arrived that things started going more smoothly. However all that paper work did still take quite a lot of time even with the Kage Bunshin. They had to fill in a report on each and everyone of them. The boss and the two Dendou sibling, who were apparently only 14 and 15, were going to go back to Konoha with them. The boss to be extradited to Kumo again and the two siblings , well they weren't quite sure what was going to happen to them. Since they hadn't really done anything terrible yet, they had enjoyed the loot but hadn't actually done a robbery. And they also had a bloodline, it could be that they would be interrogated, seen if there allegiance could be turned to Konaha and then added to the shinobi force after a probation period as villager and starting shinobi of course. During the casual run back home were they stayed overnight in one of the hot springs along the road, Naruto and Aoi had started talking and seemed to get along greatly with eachother. In their hometown they had both been ostracised, being so powerful and being orphans. During the first day the siblings had their bonds released once they promised that they wouldn't run of course shino had still bugged them, just in case. However it was unnecessary, the sibling seemed to get along quite well with the teens, Aoi and Naruto got along great and even Fujiiro had seemed to be opening up to them, however she was still somewhat pissed that Naruto hadn't directly recognised that she was a girl. Then again she did tape down her boobs, to stop them from getting in the way and to hide them.
Anko on the other hand was getting along splendidly with Fujiiro, apparently Fujiiro had a dark side that included quite a lot of pointy weapons and torture. Luckily the cat claws that Naruto had claimed weren't even really hers, she had them but couldn't really use them, preferring to go with her nails instead. So Naruto could still keep them even after they would go into the Konoha ranks, which was a load of his chest seeing as Kyu seemed to really like them.
Arriving in Konoha, Naruto called out towards Izumo and Kotetsu, who quickly snapped awake. Sheesh if an enemy ninja were to just walk in they wouldn't even notice. thought Naruto and Hinata, deciding the next time they were testing the guards of the clan compounds that they would also test the guards around Konoha. Kurenai quickly explained who the two sibling were, after registering them like they should, the seven, eight if you count the only captive, headed of towards the Hokage tower, after dropping the prisoner of at ANBU headquarters. The reward would be given along with their pay check.
Arriving at the Hokage tower, Naruto greeted the secretary like usual with a big smile and a wave, knowing that would piss her off greatly and then walked behind Kurenai into the Hokage's office. Who when he saw that team 8 hadn't just returned without anything new, Shino had a new sword, Hinata seemed to look smugger, Naruto had the same big grin onto his face like always, Kurenai was her impassive self, Anko was grinning madly and then there were two new unknowns. From the moment the two sibling came in, two ANBU appeared out of nowhere and held them at kunaipoint.
"Stand down, Tora, Kuma." called the Hokage," I'm sure the two are harmless if team 8 accompanied them. Relaxing slightly the ANBU returned to the shadows but were still on high alert ready to take action at a moments notice should the two unknowns try something.
"Team 8, report." ordered the Hokage, Why do I have a feeling this is gonna make so much extra paper work. whined the Hokage in his head, still not figuring out the secret to terminating the paperwork, even when he had prayed to the LOG so many times.
Kurenai quickly described how the mission went, the village not knowing, them finding the camp the next day and going in under the cover of night, summarising the fights, and then explaining the situation of the two siblings. The Hokage nodded hearing their explanation, signalling to one of the ANBU" Tora, why not take these two siblings to Yamanaka-san, they have agreed to let him walk into their mind to see if their feelings are true, and also tell him that if he's in there to see whether or not he can find something about their parents, I'm sure these two would love to know something about them." Nodding towards the Hokage, he escorted Fujiiro and Aoi out the office and tower towards the interrogation department.
"Okay, after they are cleared, they will have to be a civilian for a few months to integrate themselves and for me to complete all the paperwork" adding the last part grumbling," After that they can still become Shinobi if they want. Now you said there was still more." Kurenai nodded, then explained about them finding the contract and Hinata signing it, however she still hadn't summoned anyone yet. Then she went on about how smart Naruto was for reusing all that was still useful, making him blush. And finally they arrived at the new sword of Shino that he now had strapped onto his back trough some sort of sling that his spiders had made during the night. They didn't really know much about it only that it had been able to shoot mud balls and that it was now remodelled. Finally arriving at the end the Hokage nodded.
"Okay good job, I knew I could count on you. Here's the pay for your B-rank mission, I know that normally it would be C-rank but thanks to Sakusha Mishou being there it would have automatically turned into a B-rank and then there were those two sibling too.
Turning to Hinata, the Hokage spoke,"And here Hinata, this is your bounty for bringing in Sakusha Mishou." However Hinata shook her head, and replied,
"No thank you Hokage-sama, just split it evenly between all five of us. It was just luck that I finished him, if it weren't for the other I would have never managed."
The Hokage while stunned just nodded before quickly asking for the pay cheques back and adapting the amount accordingly." Though they will receive the bonus, it will still say on your profile that you defeated and caught him, just like it says with Naruto that he has caught Mizuki." At which Naruto snorted,"Okay, once again , good job, you're dismissed" ended the Hokage. Before sighing and returning towards the stack of paperwork which seemed to have grown again during that short talk, praying to the LOG one more time, he started attacking the paperwork once again. Ah, the joys of being Hokage he thought sarcastically.
Once outside Kurenai turned towards her four students( Anko also being her student as she was supposed to be teaching her more but thanks to Naruto and Hinata being on their team, they were learning more from them than they from them. After all it had been Naruto and Hinata that had made it clear to Kurenai that she indeed did need more than just her genjutsu, even pointing to the senbon shooter so that she could stall the enemy to prepare a bigger genjutsu, though she was now also looking into learning elemental manipulation, nothing too major yet but she wanted to be prepared should she come across someone who was unaffected by genjutsu)
"Okay, since we just completed our first C-rank, okay B-rank mission today, I'm buying." said Kurenai, quickly adjusting seeing Naruto's face but then getting a big whoop once finished. However it was at that point that team 7 also reported back in, carrying Tora, who was really scratching Sasuke.
"Hmmph finally done with your first D-rank mission, dobe." said Sasuke with a smirk, excepting Naruto to explode," We just completed our 20th with catching Tora here within three hours, you probably wouldn't even dream about doing it in that time."
However instead of exploding like Sasuke expected, Naruto just ignored him and went past them. Sasuke not liking being ignored wanted to shout something at him, however Sakura with her banshee voice, beat him to the punch." Don't act all cool, you'll never be as cool as Sasuke so don't even try, Dobe!"
Naruto just put a finger in his ear, twisted it like getting something out and then replied calmly:" You know you don't have to yell right? I'm standing right in front of you, and you're right, teme, I would never dream of catching Tora in that time." quickly hurrying up after his sensei and teammates.
Looking over his shoulder, Naruto could see Sasuke smirk, not having heard the sarcasm in his voice and strut into the Tower, probably going to see the board of fastest times where he was pretty sure he would get quite the surprise, seeing as team 8 and Naruto held the top 10 spots of catching Tora the fastest, all under half an hour.
Catching back up to his team he asked," So where we going? Ichiraku's?"
Even though everyone was expecting it, to actually here it was an entirely different matter.
"No Naruto, were going towards a new place I heard serves great western food, that was opened up by a friend of my old guardians."
Anko however asked something else," Say Naruto why don't you just pummel that Uchiha in the ground, I know you could."
"Yeah, but when I do I want it to be nice and public." said Naruto getting a positively evil grin on his face, that was quickly followed by Anko, before continuing," plus when he'll go see towards the board of fastes time in catching Tora he'll probably shit his pants. Pffft catching him in 3 hours big whoop."
However before he could continue his insulting of the Uchiha his stomach gave a gigantic growl, silencing any other noise and making them all walk faster towards the restaurant after all, they were all hungry.
Authors note:
Sorry for the late post, but my school life has been picking up as has been my love life. Also had to make up an entire new mission plus my first bi battle scenes
From now on I'll probably only be able to post once a month and that will probably be stretching it in January and December cause then I have to study for the exams and have said exams.
let me know what you think, I really do mean it when I tell you guys that I would like more reviews. The more reviews I have the better my story will probably get. Any criticism is welcome, however flames are not. If you don't like something tell me why! No I don't like that just cause.
The reason I gave Shino a new weapon was probably to help him catch up a little faster and I wanted him to have a cool weapon , if you don't know what I mean what kind of weapon it's like the one Zidane's ultimate weapon of final fantasy 9 was.
All the jutsu names and name translations can be found below.
Okay next up will probably be Water mission arc, I hope you'll like it but still be surprised .
technique list+ namesgenjutsu's:
Magen: Komori-ka = Demonic illusion: Lullaby
Magen: Kokoni Arazu no Jutsu= Demonic illusion: false surroundings
Magen: Nijū Kokoni Arazu no Jutsu= Demonic Illusion: Double False Surroundings Technique
Magen: Ki no yami= Demonic Illusion: Darkness in the trees
Kistune-Hi jutsu
kitsune-hi: Hiendan no jutsu= Foxfire release: soaring flame bullet technique
kistune-hi: Gōkakyū no Jutsu= Foxfire release: great fireball technique
kitsune-hi: Shinkirō= Foxfire release: Mirage
kistune-hi: Surasshutēru + enjin= Foxfire release: tail slash + ring
Kistune-Hi: Dansei Kakuheki= foxfire release: elastic barrier wall
Suiton jutsu
Suiton: Sokusha Mizu Teppō no jutsu = water release: rapid fire watergun
Suiton: Kirigakure no Jutsu= water release: hidden mist technique
Suiton: Suiben= Water release: Water Whip
Suiton: Mizurappa= Water Release: Water Trumpet
Suiton: Dassui= Water Release: Dehydration
Kage bunshin+ algemeen
Yajirushi Kage Bunshin no Jutsu= Ninja Art: Arrow Shadow Clone technique
Kawarimi no jutsu= Body Replacement Technique
kage bunshin no jutsu= Shadow clone technique
Bakuhatsu no kage bunshin no jutsu= Explosive shadow clone technique
Shunshin no Jutsu= Body flicker technique
Kuchiyose no jutsu= summoning technique
Fuin no jutsu
Fuin no jutu: Itazura shīru; kai=Sealing techniques:Prank seal; Unseal
Fuin no jutsu: Hokage no kao toryō; Kai= Sealing techniques: Hokage face paint; unseal
(fuin no jutsu Kai no Jūryoku=(Sealing techniques:) unseal gravity seal
Raiton
Raiton: Sentan no jutsu= Lightening release: spearhead technique
Raiton: Jibashi = Lightening Release: Electromagnetic Murder
Doton
Doton: Doro Hōshi= Earth Release: Mud Indulgence
Maddobōru= Mud ball
Katon
Katon: Ryūka no Jutsu= Fire release: Phoenix Flower
Katon: Hibashiri= Fire Release: Running Fire
Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu= Fire release Great fireball
Katon: Shuriken ryūsei-gun= Fire release: Shuriken meteor shower
Katon: Nenshō hebitorio= Fire release: Combustion snake trio
Ryuken
Ryuken: comes from ryuuchou =flowing, and from there is shortened it, added ken for fist, making
Ryuken= Flowing Fist
Hakke Hayase= Eight trigrams rapids
Ryuken, 32 no Konran: Flowing fist: 32 disruptions
Names+ bloodlines
Sakusha Mishou= anony mous
Fujiiro Dendou= Purple Lightening( bloodline: mood lightening: gives electricity the extra effect of the color)
Aoi Dendou= Blue lightening( bloodline: mood lightening)