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For the beautifully written review of Uzugaki: No problem mate, but blame my social life and schooling.

To KHARAKI TAKAN: I have no idea where to start with all your reviews... Sure that other Otsutsuki guy will be in the story, just have to find out who he is. And I suck at details, I'm only somewhat decent at dialogue.

Naruto secret jutsu: I did not clarify, food poisoning. 2015 has not been very kind to me.

And to the reviewer that asks what happened to Ashura's chakra: I didn't mean for it to be orange, it was suppose to be white. But I'll find a way to explain it later. For now it will stay white.

The Guest who says Naruto could own Kakashi: Well after the Shiri incident Kakashi stepped up his game, becoming much more powerful then canon. And Naruto may have both Ashura's and Kurama's chakra, but he can't use it to the full extent, and won't for a while.

And finally AKKE: I tried to 'rich' it up a more this chapter, not the beginning segment since that is already written, but after that.

It is the 12th as I write this, let's see when this goes up.

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Chapter 10

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"You ready?"

"You kidding me? I was born ready!"

Kakashi gave his blonde student a dry look, "Really? You look like you were born small and ugly, but who am I to judge?"

Sakura snickered a little at the Jonin's complete shutdown of her teammate.

"Wow Sensei... I don't even know what to say..." Naruto looked offended, "Oh wait. I do know what to say. You stupid bit-"

Sasuke shoved him slightly, "Not in the Hokage's office."

The Jinchuriki rolled his eyes, "The old man doesn't care. His hearing is probably gone anyways." Naruto walked up to the door to the Hokage's office and stepped inside.

And was promptly hit in the face by a flying book.

"AHG!" The teen flew onto the ground clutching his face in pain, "What in the name of the Sage is wrong with you! You old bastard!"

The Hokage met his glare with his own, "My hearing is gone is it? Want to go see your psychologist again?"

Naruto immediately straightened up, there was no way in hell he was going back to the old creeper, "Sorry Hokage-sama." He addressed formally, before quietly muttering, "You stupid old fart." Though nobody could catch it.

Sakura was watching with a slightly agape jaw, she has never seen her Hokage like that before. Actually she has never seen anybody talk to the Hokage like that before. She was taught to be respectful and to kiss ass as much as possible.

Kakashi walked into the room, glancing at the blonde before going infront of the Hokage's desk, "Hokage-sama, we are here to get our first mission."

Hiruzen nodded, "Yes, and do remember that you are to check with me before every team mission, you know why."

The last Uchiha and the Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi. That's why.

"Yes, so what do we have?" Kakashi gestured to his students, "These rascals are dying to get some exciting missions." There was some sort of hidden message between them.

They both shared a laugh, before Hiruzen picked up a piece of paper, "I figure that Team Seven's first mission should be a special one. A search and rescue mission."

Search and rescue? Naruto felt a grin rise on his face. His first mission was to HELP people, not kill them or kidnap them.

'Why would the Hokage assign a rescue mission to a Genin?' Ashura, being as intelligent as always, was obviously fishy about a 12 year old handling a hostage situation.

"Uhh... hey old man? What exactly are we rescuing?" Actually Naruto was getting a little fishy also. The strangeness of a life being put into someone like Sakura's hands was a bit weird.

The fossil grinned, "It is a family member to the Daimyo, very VERY important and high class."

Kakashi sniggered, and tried to cover it with his hand.

"Old man. Who is the person." Naruto pressed on and on, slowly stepping closer to his leaders desk.

The old man cracked a smile, more teasing then anything, "Not person."

Naruto stared confused.

"SHIT!"

Sakura cursed as she flew back into the mud, a small amount of blood falling from her face.

Naruto ran up to her and grabbed her shoulder, "Holy Sage that looked painful! Are you ok?" He inspected the wound on her face closely, not deep, but it hit all the right places and she was probably in agony.

The pink haired girl glared at the running brown form in the distance, "I will..." She twitched, slowly turning red, "I will KILL IT!"

'That would not be a good idea.'

"That would not be a good idea!" Naruto mimicked his mentor, "I mean... the Daimyo would execute you if-" Sakura's glare landed on him, and the blonde wisely decided to take a few steps back. He walked farther back and back, to where the two remaining members of his team where standing.

Stand behind Sasuke. She would never glare or throw an attack at Sasuke.

Kakashi, who was reading his book, shook his head, "That was an absolutely TERRIBLE attempt! It's like your wanting it to escape."

Blue eyes honed onto him, "You are amazingly good at pissing people off you know"

He replied cheekily, "That's the only reason I'm 26. So thank you."

"Wasn't a compliment." The Jinchuriki muttered under his breath.

Sasuke, who didn't really contribute to the previous 'rescue' attempt sighed deeply, "How is this going to help us at all? Catching a CAT of all things is not useful to anyone, we could be saving villages from bandits or killing rogue ninja."

Kakashi closed his book with a loud plop, before addressing his dark student, "Well Sasuke, it's to see if you can follow orders. You have no real idea how a mission is operated, and how can you defeat a rogue ninja if you can't catch a lowly kitten?"

Sasuke pursed his lips, it truly sunk in that he would never be able to even touch his brother if a cat can beat him. The Uchiha looked to his orange teammate, "Fine... Where is it?"

Since Naruto was the only one out of the three with any sensing ability, AKA Ashura, he was constantly tracking the target. The blonde nodded resignedly.

'Hey Ashura... please?'

'Left.'

Naruto pointed to his left, "Is this even a search and rescue mission? I mean the cat definitely does NOT want to be rescued. This is more then a capture mission than anything. We should let it run free, it's the only humane way."

Kakashi shook his head, "We can't do that."

"Why?"

"Because." Kakashi began, "The Daimyo's wife is paying us more than what most make in a year to find her cat. Think of the paycheck." Konoha's main funding was the Daimyo, and his wife did not know any limit to her husbands money, Konoha made a large profit off her missions.

Naruto had a pensive expression, at one end the money he received from the Hyuuga was already less than half. But the other end was that the cat WAS a living breathing creature that obviously hated its home.

A scent caught in his nose, he looked down at his feet only to see...

He twitched.

"That little SHIT is going to be put down..." His voice was a deadly quiet.

The two voices laughing in his mind didn't help either.

"Blossom is in position."

"So is ProEliteNinjaGod."

Three sighs rang throughout the radio channel at the comment.

"Uchiha is here..."

"Sasuke apply yourself! And get a codename, you aren't very incognito." The Jonin chastised.

Sasuke took the large radio hub from his waist and switched the station to Zero, the Konoha public service channel that never broadcasted. The Uchiha smiled at the silence, before he felt a finger on his shoulder.

Kakashi, damn it.

The serious boy turned his channel back to his teams, "Are we ready?"

Naruto's voice rang into his headset, "Yeah, on my mark."

"Affirmative." Sakura said.

Sasuke merely grunted.

"Get into positions in three... two... one..."

The headset rang loudly with Naruto's voice, "GO!"

All three Genin launched from their hidden positions, all going to different positions. Tora, the Daimyo's cat, was currently in an alley, with high walls and only one way out.

Sakura worked with speed, using all her might to pull a giant dumpster in the alley entrance/exit. She then stood ontop of it with a very threatening lead pipe that she must have just picked off the ground. And all knew that she would not hesitate to swing at her target with lethal force.

Naruto and Sasuke went in for the capture, Sasuke had an opened trash can as the holding apparatus, while Naruto was attempting to lure the cat in.

Tora, however, was a fighter. As Naruto went in for the grab the cat extended her claws, going for the eyes. Naruto raised his arm quickly, the thick material of his jumpsuit tearing, but not giving any damage.

Naruto almost grabbed it's tail. But the cat jumped right out of the blonde's grasp and tried to run to the alley entrance, but stopped at the sight of both Sasuke and Sakura.

Tora slowly maneuvered around so it was facing Naruto, it got into a battle like position, arching it's meaty back and hissing at her current opponent.

Naruto cracked his knuckles, old fashion time.

Tora lunged, aiming again for the face, Naruto palmed her little paw away and grabbed her by the stomach. The cat wriggled out onto the floor, jumping and viciously digging her claws into Naruto's leg. Her surprisingly sharp claws got stuck in his leg for a moment before she ripped them out and jumped back.

"Fuck!" Naruto began to advance on the cat.

'Hold on. She cut your Femoral artery.'

Naruto stopped and in a few moments he felt a warm feeling in his leg and the cut close. A small bit of steam rose from the now closed cut, the blonde smirked at the cat's expression.

Naruto picked up a metal lid from a trash can and charged, Tora couldn't get a swipe in with his shield and ducked underneath his leg to run to the alley exit. Naruto growled and threw the lid, Sasuke luckily ducked underneath it, but Sakura didn't notice with her eyes locked onto the pet.

The lid hit her straight in the stomach, she doubled over and slowly rolled off the dumpster onto the ground.

Tora took the advantage and jumped over the dumpster into one of Konoha's main streets.

"Oh hell no! Not today!" Naruto yelled as he vaulted the dumpster and chased after the cat.

A arm of chakra shot out of his back and started speeding after the cat, Tora tried to duck and weave with only little success.

The arm knocked a few crates over, knocked a few people over, and then finally knocked Tora over, before grabbing it in a tight grip.

"Holy Sage Sakura... I really... I am so sorry."

Sakura, so out of breath she couldn't be angry, slowly nodded, "I- I- Oh." She wheezed painfully, "D-did you get the little asshole?"

Naruto squeezed the cat with his third arm, making it squeal for a moment, a small smirk adorned the injured girls face.

After a few minutes Sakura was leaning against the alley wall, "Naruto?" She asked with a still shaky voice.

"Yes?" Naruto asked gently, still feeling bad for hurting her.

"You have that giant chakra arm... why didn't you use it earlier?" He noticed the glances from his other teammates at the question.

Naruto eyed it and rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, "It takes a lot of control to use it, and the chakra to do this is really tough to control. I'm basically shooting an intense amount of chakra out of the tenketsu in my back out of my body, it isn't good for them if I use it a crap ton so I usually only do this for fights."

Sakura nodded and slowly started to walk, "Ok...ok... let's just get out money and get home. I'm done for today."

They all nodded.

The Hokage looked impressed, "An hour and a half? That's one of the best I've seen for a fresh team of Genin." He snorted at the end, giving the adolescents no hint to whether he was serious or not.

Naruto glared at the old man, "Oh screw you old man, you get pleasure from this don't you!? You sick bastard!"

Kakashi shoved him from the back, "The Daimyo's wife is here, pipe down."

'Please... please help me...' Naruto sulked inwardly as he painted an already white fence white.

'It has been a week, this is not that bad.'

'Ashura!? I expected the WORLD when I became a ninja, not painting fences and chasing cats.

'Stop your pathetic whining you midget.'

Naruto took a deep breath, slowly white washing the fence even more, his eyes started to twitch, before he dropped some paint on his sandals.

He stood up angrily, "Oh screw this shit!" He crossed his fingers, "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Ten clones appeared out of nowhere and started to diligently paint the fence, Naruto smirked triumphantly as he walked away.

He eyed his two teammates, who were watching the clones, Sasuke had a satisfied look on his face while Sakura dropped her brush in awe.

"Coming?" Naruto asked. "Cause I am not doing this crap anymore, and I doubt you want to either."

They walked over to Kakashi, who was reading underneath a tree, and sat down.

The cyclops looked up from his book for a moment, "Oh that isn't fair at all...where's the fun in that?"

Naruto smirked at him, "The fun is that we don't have to do shit."

Kakashi eyed the clones, "You do know that when they dispel you are going to get all of their memories? So it'll feel like you painted the fence eleven times."

Naruto shrugged, "The satisfaction of the original Naruto doing nothing is enough to drown out all of those thoughts."

Ashura spoke to him in his mind, 'Good job, I have no idea why you didn't do it before though.'

'I was still feeling the novelty of D-Ranks and I didn't want to break too many rules in my first week as a ninja.'

'But you are Naruto Uzumaki, so screw the rules.'

"Yes." Naruto smirked, "Hell yes."

Sasuke gave him a look ,"What was that?"

Shit, "Nothing. Nothing at all."

"Hokage-sama, no more D-Ranks."

Hiruzen raised his eyebrows at Kakashi's statement, "Oh? why is that?"

Kakashi shook his head in exasperation, "Naruto broke D-Ranks with Shadow Clones."

"Of course he did." The Hokage looked at his favorite blonde, "Well... I guess good job for the innovation. But you did break the system that has been alive since my predecessor... so bad job."

Naruto smirked, "Well that's what you get for chaining this awesomeness up. D-Ranks just can't handle the Uzumaki power." The blonde got into a straighter stance holding his head up high.

Everyone ignored him and the village leader looked to his Jonin, "It's been two weeks since your first mission, are you ready for a C-Rank?" Sending Genin as fresh as them into possible hostile territory is dangerous.

"Well they will never get experience otherwise, and they'll never do another D-Rank again either. Besides, I'll keep them safe." Kakashi was one of- if not the top Jonin in the village, if anybody could keep them safe it was him. But the field was an unpredictable place, and Hiruzen did not like taking chances.

But Naruto's skill was high, it would more be like two Genin a Chunin and a Jonin other than a regular team. The Third thought out possibility over possibility, he eyed the Genin for a moment before shifting through papers on his desk. Finally he took in his hand and looked at it for a while.

"Hmm... C-rank." Hiruzen handed the paper to Kakashi, who started to look over it, before continuing "The town of Shinseimura is re-authenticating their trading, taxes, protection... basically renewing all political things with us, we need someone to take their documents back to Konoha."

Kakashi nodded, "Ok... I guess this seems fine."

Hiruzen looked at the excited teens, "This mission should be simple, the village is north of Konoha, where the borders of Rice, Hot Springs, and Fire meet. All you have to do is follow Kakashi there and back, won't be too exciting, but it is an out of village mission."

Naruto buzzed as he hopped up and down, "YES! Thanks you old fossil! Finally a C-Rank!"

Sasuke had a smirk on his face while Sakura looked triumphant, "Take that piggy!" She whispered quietly.

"Hey Kakashi, what do you know about this village?" Naruto asked as they walked down a road.

Kakashi, who was reading and walking, lowered his book for a moment, "The village, Shinseimura, is actually really old. Actually there is a statue of the Great Sage there, a huge one."

"Really!?" Naruto asked with wide eyes, THE Sage had a statue there.

'Ah yes.' Ashura sounded nostalgic, 'The statue was just being started before I was sent here. Wonderful tribute to my father. I am going to enjoy seeing what time has done to it.'

Kakashi looked at the sky, gauging the time, "Well, other than that there is a lot of clustered building together, it's built on a mountain like many other ancient villages, easier to defend against armies or raiders. And... well you'll see it when we get there."

'Naruto.'

Naruto grunted in his sleep.

'Naruto up.'

The blonde rolled over.

'NARUTO!' 'GET THE HELL UP!'

The boy jolted his eyes open, but managed to stay quiet and still.

'Close your eyes and relax, but stay awake.' His voice was serious, unusually serious.

Naruto complied and gulped nervously, 'Ashura?'

'Concentrate on you ears, listen.'

The Jinchuriki tuned everything out, he could here the crackling of the fire, Sasuke's light breath, a sign of sleeping, Sakura's breath slowly getting lighter even though she was on watch, and...

A small shift of metal.

Oh shit, 'Enemies?'

'Bandits.'

Naruto nonchalantly turned his head towards his Jonin sensei, opening one eye only.

He noticed Kakashi's black eyes staring back, the jonin winked before blinking rapidly, as if in a sequence.

Ah shit, it was familiar. Come on... What was it?

'Konoha code, but instead of tapping it's blinking.'

Naruto probably dozed off during that lesson. And for once in his life the blonde was regretting not paying attention in class, it never really hit him how the academy was preparing him for life or death situations like this.

'Luckily I memorized this, since you always doze off in class.' Naruto felt relief at Ashura's words, 'He is saying... calm down, stay incognito. Wait for the signal and get Sasuke and Sakura out.'

Naruto's rusty brain started to remember some of Iruka's lesson, the blonde started to convey his own message, 'What. Signal. Is.' He wasn't as fluent as Kakashi for obvious reasons.

Kakashi's reply was wait.

Naruto heard Sakura yawn, and after a few moments he heard her slowly start snoring.

Never give SAKURA of all people the 2 to 4 shift, she probably never stayed up past 2 her entire life, let alone sitting and doing nothing for two hours.

Sasuke, who had the last shift from 4 to 6, had been asleep for a long time, and because of that not as alert. Naruto quickly thought of ways to transport his two teammates to safety.

'Ashura.' He thought, 'Chakra arm for Sakura since she is the farthest, then grab Sasuke? No he's heavy... grab Sakura? She's light but that'll take time...'

'Chakra arm and Shadow Clones.' Ashura offered, 'And calm down, they are approaching.'

The blonde felt his throat go dry as he heard a male whisper, he was scared, but his mind did register how amateur the bandits were, speaking with a Jonin in their sights? Any Jonin would be awake in a heart beat, let alone one as high class as Kakashi was apparently.

"Ready Ricki?" A male voice asked.

"Yah Sancho, we ready." Another voice replied.

'That Ricki guy said 'we', so three or more, probably more.'

The voice of Sancho whispered again, "Ok. On my mark."

"Three..." Naruto felt sweat roll down his face.

"Two..." He took a deep breath.

"One..." The blonde felt his muscles tighten...

The fire suddenly exploded into a massive ball of flames, Naruto sprung to life, instantly creating Shadow Clones and activating the Chakra Transfer Technique.

His chakra arm reached out through the flames and grabbed Sakura, who screamed in surprise, three clones grabbed Sasuke, who jolted awake, and ran into the forest. The real Naruto following, the blonde could faintly make out a streak of silver flash past him as he ran.

Naruto created yet another Shadow Clone, it stood on top of the chakra arm and covered Sakura's mouth.

"SHHH! Sakura it's me. Quiet or we'll be in trouble." The hand covering her mouth made her scream and flail even more. The Jinchuriki felt one of his clones with Sasuke dispel and worked his way to it's last location.

"Sasuke!" Naruto dropped his chakra arm and ran to his teammate with Sakura, Sasuke looked confused and angry.

"What happened." The Uchiha demanded answers.

Naruto began, "Bandits. They tried to get a drop on us, but me and Kakashi worked a plan last minute to distract them. The fire." Naruto took a breath, "He's fighting them right now."

Sasuke urgently looked at the direction he came from, "Lets go help him them."

Sakura wanted to argue, but her teammates left before she could speak. She looked around the dark forest in fear before frantically running off after her squad.

"Duck!"

Sasuke ducked his head at his teammates voice, a sword swung over his head into into a tree. While the wielder of the sword, a random bandit, tried to dislodge it, Sasuke kicked him in the side, sending him into the ground.

Naruto capitalized and viciously stomped at his head, sending him unconscious.

Sasuke nodded in thanks and the duo continued forward.

"AHH!" Both boys turned around instantly at the girly shriek, one that they where accustomed to.

Sakura with a bandit aiming his Katana at her.

Naruto shot his chakra arm instantly, and Sasuke fired a small fireball...

But before they hit Sakura grabbed her foe by the arm and forcefully flipped him over her shoulder, slamming him into the ground.

Sakura's eyes widened, as did the bandits as he was grabbed by the chakra arm and dragged into the fireball, before being slammed into a tree and being knocked out.

The trio reunited, "Holy Sage Sakura!" Naruto yelled, "Amazing!"

Sakura stared at her own hands, "Wow... I-I just reacted like in training and... wow." She had a small smile on her face before looking at her teammates, who both looked approvingly.

Another figure jumped into their view, the teens tensed for a battle...

It was Kakashi, dusting his flak jacket off.

The Jonin eyed the two unconscious body's behind his Genin, before whistling quietly, two shadows grabbed the unconscious men and disappeared.

He then smiled with his eye at the teens, "You guys did good! Naruto, good job on the reverse ambush, and Sakura and Sasuke I saw the skills! Fabulous work on your first real battle."

Naruto looked at the Jonin with a raised eyebrow, "Where were you sensei? Two of them got to us." He didn't sound angry, just questioning.

Kakashi rubbed the back of his head, "Well... turns out the reason the bandits were so confident was that their leader was an ex-Jonin. He got in my way and was a slippery one."

Sakura looked around fearfully, "Another Jonin? Where is he?"

Kakashi looked down to his flak jacket, where spots of blood adorned it, "I didn't get cut." His simple reply left no room for imagination and Sakura nodded stiffly, looking at the blood stains intensely.

The group stayed quiet for a while. Absorbing what happened in literally less then ten minutes. Before Kakashi clapped his hands, "Well... I don't know about you, but I do not feel like sleeping anymore, so let's start walking early shall we?" He turned to his left and started to walk back to the path.

Naruto stayed back and eyed the Katana stuck in the tree for a moment, before turning and following his team away.

Naruto felt his jaw drop, his eyes widen, and his heart stop.

Shinseimura was beyond beautiful.

'Wow... my father. Looks better then real life.'

Shinseimura was built on a mountain as Kakashi said, the entire village, or more so city, was massive. The entire mountain was covered in buildings, with a giant road going down the middle straight into the crowned jewel of the entire place.

The statue of the Great Sage. It stood taller than the Hokage monument, it was of the Sage standing tall, his shakujo in his left hand as he looked down seemingly straight into the blonde's eyes.

'Is... Is this what he looked like?'

'Yes.' 'Yes.'

It was in stone, so no color, but it didn't matter as Naruto walked forwards with awe, the three Rinnegan eyes and the horns...

"Wow." He could hear Sakura mutter as she laid her eyes on the city.

All three of the Genin, having never left Konoha before in their lives, looked completely awestruck as they saw their first destination as a ninja. And it wasn't disappointing at all.

Kakashi chuckled lightly, "Quite the sight huh?" He continued to walk, "Well come one, we can sight see after the mission."

The main village hall was at the base of the village. A white, slightly fancy looking building that obviously was made in the distant past, it stood out from the many tourist attractions and modern hotels.

'That building was being planned when I was still around, amazing how it still stands.' Ashura remarked with subtle awe.

Naruto looked past the building to the statue of the Sage, 'It's amazing how THAT is still standing... it is absolutely massive and intricate.'

Kakashi opened the door of the town hall and held it open for his students, making a coughing noise to get Naruto out of his awe so he could walk inside.

As the Genin entered a few older men approached Kakashi, rapidly talking and ushering him into another room.

Naruto raised an eyebrow, looking at his fellow teens, "Uh... I guess we sit?" More a question then a suggestion.

Sasuke, not giving a crap about anything, sat down and made himself comfortable, his teammates following his lead. The adolescents sat and waited... and waited... and waited... and then gave up all hope on waiting.

And much longer after that Kakashi finally appeared, his lone eye filled with... filled with the look of 'what the hell just happened?'.

"Sensei?" Sakura asked, "Are you alright? It's been hours."

Kakashi ran a hand through his hair and sighed deeply, "The elders didn't even start drafting the trade agreement. Apparently some urban myth of theirs is coming to life and they've been busy."

Naruto realized where this was going, "They want us to do something right?"

Kakashi nodded solemnly, "They said that the urban legend is at the top of their priorities even though Konoha is the one who protects them from harm."

"Let's leave them then. If they don't want us then they don't need us." Sasuke's suggestion brought eyes onto him.

Kakashi shook his head slowly, "Unfortunately, this is a rather big tourist attraction and it at a valuable strategic position if we ever get into conflict with Rice or Hot Water so no abandoning them."

"So we have to deal with them huh?" Naruto did not look amused.

The scarecrow smiled, "Nope! We aren't finding them! What we are going to do is sit back and wait for this to blow over, which should be in a couple days, and if trouble comes to us... too bad for them!"