Okay, I told y'all I was going to be changing the title, so I did. I'm sorry, but I really needed it changed, I hated the first title. :/ So yeah. Don't take my judgement on name switching out on the story. So, please enjoy this chapter.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto nor any of its characters!

'Thinking'

'Kyuubi talking'

"Talking"

/Naruto talking to Kyuubi/

"Jutsu's"

Chapter 10: The Successful Mission That Went Wrong

"In line of sight, waiting for orders." A voice said over the ear piece.

Naruto clicked on his mic and replied, "Good. Wait for my signal."

He was hiding behind a tree, crouching low on the ground where he couldn't be seen from view unless you were on his side of the tree watching him. A few trees away from where he was crouching, Sana was ready to pounce on a party of bandits heading their way with a kunai in her fist. Her back was up against the trunk of the tree as she waited.

Kyuubi looked around, using her host's eyes. She didn't see anything out of the ordinary which was good, but you can never be to careful. She reported to her kit and he nodded.

The two had arrived at the Village Hidden in the Rocks a day and a half ago and barely even a few steps into the village, the people had pleaded them to help get rid of the bandits that started to terrorize them. Naruto had been there once before when they were having trouble with a pack of wild dogs, so they knew he was someone to count on. They paid him in advance and it was a good pay of money; not too much but not too little. With his payment, he swore he would get rid of them and that was what he and Sana were waiting for.

The sun was just starting to climb into the sky and the blond let out a quiet yawn. Man, he hated morning missions, especially when he had to wake up before the sun was even visible. Why bandits loved choosing to attack people in the mornings was beyond him. Why couldn't they just attack during the day?

Naruto could feel his legs start to ache underneath him as he sat on them. He really wanted to stretch them out, especially since yesterday, he had been walking for a long period of time. With all of this walking and running he did, he didn't really like to stay in one place for to long.

In the distance, the sound of horses galloping was heard.

Naruto felt his muscles tense as he clicked his mic on and said, "Get ready."

When the first horse came into sight, the blond counted to six before springing from his hiding spot and flung himself at one of the men that was at the back of the group. Having a lot of applied force behind his fist, he punched the unfortunate guy in the jaw as hard as he could. The man fell from his horse before he even knew what had hit him.

"Agh!" He yelled in agony as his back hit the ground.

Naruto smirked before he disappeared back to his spot behind the tree in less than fifteen seconds.

The guy in the lead pulled on the reigns of his horse to stop, as did everyone else in group. Everyone turned back to see their fallen comrade on the ground, hissing in pain as he cupped his redden jaw.

"Roger, what happened?" He yelled to his soldier.

The man named Roger stood up and still held his jaw as he slowly rubbed it, "Somethin' just came out from the trees and attacked me!" He said, his voice gruffly.

All of the men in the group started to reach for the weapon from where ever they had it; in a pouch on their horses saddle, or on their backs. They glared into the trees, searching for any signs of movements as Roger also reached for his weapon.

"It must be another one of those villagers," Some one yelled among the group. "Probably tryin' to scare us."

"Yeah," another man shouted, "I think we should teach them a lesson." He taunted and readied his sword in one hand hand his other tightened around the reins.

Naruto rolled his blue eyes, trying to keep himself from jumping out and yelling at them, like how he always did when he was a lot younger. He had changed tremendously from then, knowing how to hide himself and be quiet. That has saved his life many, many times. He scanned the group of men and estimated around thirty bandits altogether.

'There's only thirty. Please let me out! I haven't been out in ages.' Kyuubi whined in a very not-Kyuubi like manner. She was restless and started to pace around in her cage.

/Sorry, I only bring you out when it's a important battle./ Naruto replied back to his fox, getting ready to launch another attack. The bandits all started to get off their horses with a crazy look to them.

'Just this once,' Kyuubi tried, 'I promise that I won't eat anyone!'She tried to coax him into letting her out.

/Kyuubi, I can't. If I were allowed, to, I would. Maybe next time./ He hardly paid her any attention, used to this conversation.

In response, he received a growl.

"Come on out, villager," one of the men cooed, raising his sword without attracting any attention. "We won't hurt you... much." The edges of his lips curled into a nasty smile and a round of laughter was heard behind him.

Naruto grabbed a fallen stick that laid beside him and preformed the replacement jutsu on it, transforming it into a squirrel. He released it and let it run out of his shelter and out into the open where it dashed across the path to the other side.

The men watched it go, so focused on the scrawny animal that they were unaware of a certain girl appearing down from her perch in the trees and landed a few feet from the lead bandit.

Naruto watched silently as Sana waited for the group to see her just standing there, emotionless with her arms across her chest.

Finally, one did noticed. "Hey you," he yelled even though she was just a few feet away. His yell caught the attentions of his comrades and they all turned to face her.

A lot of the guys, even though they were probably tripped her age, started to look her up and down. One even called out, "Hey, babe, what're you doing out here all by yourself? Need a man to escort you back to where ever?"

Sana smirked, "An escort to kick your ass? I think I'll take it."

Naruto grinned, thinking, 'That's my girl.'

All of the guys bellowed in laughter. The one who had been in the lead earlier said, "Really? Well, sorry to burst your bubble, sweetheart, but any ass that will be kick will be yours. And maybe a little hurt too," he said with a seductive voice and had a glint of lust in his eyes as he too, looked her up and down. "Be a good girl and give up. Travel with us. We'll treat you really well." A few other guys among the group had a look of lust in their eyes too.

Naruto grinded his teeth together and felt a growl wanting to escape his throat. 'I am going to kill them for saying that!' He swore and clenched and unclenched his fists, trying to keep his anger down for now.

The teenage girl made a look of disgust of her face and she rolled her eyes, "Only in your nightmares, and even then, I'll never go with you." She said loud enough for everyone to hear.

A round of 'oo' were heard from the insult but the same man growled, "Why you," and raised his sword in an attacking position. He started running at her as she simply stood her ground, watching with without doing anything to protect herself.

'Must be frozen in fear,' He thought to himself as he grinned, thinking this was one easy kill.

Before he could even reach a foot within distance with her, something flew from the trees and caught his eye. He had just enough time to stop and feel something sharp pierced his sword hand.

"Agh!" He cried out in pain. He gripped his wounded hand and noticed a black, double bladed knife embedded in his flesh, causing blood to flow out of him.

"Boss!" A few of the others cried out when they noticed their leader in pain.

"You know, it's not very nice to attack a lady," a different voice rang out.

The man, along with his men, started to look around the clearing, trying to pinpoint where the voice was coming from. In a pissed voice, the leader shouted, "Who said that?"

A shadow fell upon the group but before they could even look up, something fell down from the trees that seemed to cover the roads like a shelter. The object fell in the middle of the group. When the guys looked down, confused, they noticed that it was a person, standing straight up. They noticed it was a man with blond hair with his tips red as blood. His eyes were a startling bright blue.

"All you should know," the person said, "is that we're here to kick your ass from terrorizing those villagers."

The bandits could tell from the sound of the person's voice that it was a male they were dealing with. One of the closest bandits laughed and said, "Did those villagers pay you to get 'rid' of us? Well, we'll double, no, triple whatever they paid you if you work for us this once to get rid of them."

"Hm..." The figure thought, "I don't believe I'm the kind of man who turns my backs on people who have done nothing wrong. I swore to them I would help them out, and that I'll do." He suddenly reached out and punched the man who had spoken in the jaw before back flipping to get away from all out of everyone's reach as they started to throw punches.

When he landed safely away, he heard his partner engaging in battle.

"I don't know who you are," a different man said to Naruto, "but you are gonna die! No one messes with me or my boys!" He started to run towards the blond who just chuckled and readied himself for the bandit.

Right as Naruto punched the man in the stomach with a force that sent him flying several feet backwards, he received a cut on his forearm. "I can see why you don't know me since this is our first meeting. But, when you are on your way to hell, always remember that Naruto Uzumaki sent you there." He yelled after him.

The man knocked into a tree and past out from the blow. One of his buddies that was charging Naruto, stopped his attack and gaped at him, "N-Naruto?" He stuttered, fear flashing in his mud color eyes. "You mean the Naruto that goes around helping villages out with whatever trouble they have? The Naruto that could kill a whole slew of bandits without managing a single cut on his arm?" Apparently, he had been listening to rumors or other peoples stories a lot.

"The one and only," he grinned and in one quick motion, he appeared in the man's face and grabbed a kunai from his pouch on his hip and stabbed the man in the stomach, stabbing him in the heart, killing him instantly. Whispering in his face, "Glad you know who I am." And he pushed off the ground to jump in the air in which he grabbed many more kunai from his pouch and sprayed them to the ground. They all hit their targets, killing them all.

'Behind you, at seven o'clock.' Kyuubi informed.

Naruto landed on his feet and ducked down, just as an ax came hurling towards him where his head would have been. Instead of getting his head cut off, the blade of the weapon barely grazed the red tips of his hair. He frowned and, being quick since they were in a battle, he stuck out his leg and swung around, knocking his attacker off of his feet when he was about to attack him again.

When the bandit hit the ground, Naruto took the ax that landed a few feet away and drove it into the man's neck before going onto the next man, not thinking twice about the men he was killing.

Having been going on missions like these, Naruto grew accustomed to killing when there was a need for it. It always depended on what the person did, what kind of crimes they did, and if they killed anyone. There was only a few times Naruto let someone he was supposed to kill go, because he could see it in that person's eyes that they could change. And did they change? Yes, yes they did. He even saw them a couple of times, living among other people, living normal lives. So, most of the time, he never thought anything about when he killed because it was necessary.

A few yards away, Sana was punching one guy in the face as hard as she could until she heard a crunch from his nose. She spun away from the guy with a broken nose and stabbed someone else in the throat with a knife she pulled from her pouch.

Like Naruto, she didn't have a problem with killing, unless she knew they were guilty. She would only kill if they deserved it, in which every bandit, in her case, deserved it. Every time she came in contact with one, she immediately thought of her father and showed no emotions. Naruto once had to stop her from killing someone because he had been a slave of a group of bandits. He had done nothing wrong, and she was about to kill him. She had cried for days after that, each time Naruto comforting her as much as he could by holding her.

They had started out with thirty or so guys. There had been way more guys, especially when there was only two of them so they were practically surrounded. But, between two strong ninja who knew what they were doing against multiple people who barely even had enough fighting experience, the odds were clear on who was going to win. In less than ten minutes, the numbers had lessened by a little over half.

"Hey, girly," a man said to Sana as he swung his foot long sword and managed to cut her leg. "If I were you, I would stop fighting and just surrender."

Sana rolled her eyes as she started to form hand signs, "If I were you, I'd take my own advice or you'll really get hurt." She paused for a second to see if he was going to surrender. When he didn't, she preformed her last sign.

"Fire Style, Fire Paw jutsu."Fire appeared like magic out of nowhere and surrounded her feet. Like wolf tracks, the paws started to make their way towards the enemy, each time they moved, the imprints left the ground sizzling with small flames.

The man started stumbling backwards, cursing, "What the hell is that?" He was an average man so he didn't know anything about chakra. But, no matter how far he distanced himself, the fire kept chasing him. He wasn't able to go any further when he tripped over a large tree root and fell to his butt. Right when he touched down, the fire engulfed him into flames and he let out an ear piercing scream.

The whole technique took no more than twenty seconds and during that time, Sana had turned away, already knowing the man's fate, and returned to the battle.

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Naruto was kicking some serious butt, he didn't even realize he hadn't been using any chakra, all he depended on was his Tai-jutsu. The bandit's would have stood no chance if he had decided to use chakra.

As he was knocking a man aside who came up on his blind spot, the sword of the enemy stabbed into his forearm,. He let out a hiss of pain, but before he could turn around and fully kill the man for laying a blow on him, Sana had already sent him flying, having kicked him hard in the chest.

"You alright, Naruto?" She asked, glaring at the man who was slowly raising back to his feet.

Naruto grunted, feeling the wound on his arm actually sting a little more than it should have. "Fine, just wasn't paying attention."

"Kyuubi's healing you, right?" She always grew concerned when he got hurt so she always had to make sure he was alright. When he didn't answer her, she tore her gaze from her attacker to her brother was was gripping his heavily bleeding arm. Her eyes slightly widened at the sight.

"Something's blocking her healing process," he admitted, having a small conversation with the fox. When he noticed his sister's worried eyes, he shrugged and tried to look unaffected by straightening out his back, "But, don't worry about me, I'll live. It's just a scratch." He had to look away so she didn't see the pain that registered in his eyes and looked around, "Go back to fighting, we're almost done." He said and then kicked off the ground to find someone who was still alive.

Sana bit her bottom lip before going after the man who was now charging her.

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'I don't understand,' Kyuubi growled, impatience clearly showing in her voice. 'Why won't that wound heal?'

/Why is it bothering you so much?/ Naruto asked as he punched one of the few remaining bandits in the face. /It doesn't even hurt anymore./ Which was true. Whatever had happened to cause the sting, had quickly left.

"You're dead meat!" The man yelled, holding his now broken nose in one hand while his other was holding his sword, trying to slice him up.

"Yeah, yeah," the blond rolled his eyes and threw a paper bomb at the man before back flipping away when it went off. Luckily, the bomb he used wasn't a big blast so it didn't hurt anyone else.

Kyuubi hissed, 'Because something's not right. I can't put it, but that sword that sliced you, something was on it... This just doesn't feel right!'

Naruto shrugged, /After this, we'll talk about it./ He had to concentrate or he was going to get hurt again. Once he stopped talking to her, he back flipped over someone's head and managed to stab the man in the neck with a kunai while he was in the air.

"I don't understand," the second to the last bandit standing growled to Naruto as they faced each other in the last stand off.

"Understand what?" The blond asked, pausing to see what the man had to say.

The man smirked and thrust his sword forward, trying to stab Naruto, "Why you won't die!"

Naruto side stepped out of his reached and grabbed the hilt of the sword while using his elbow to jabbed it in the man's neck, causing him to release his hold on his sword so he could grabbed his neck because he couldn't breathe.

When he fell to the ground, the blond just chuckled, "I'm just smarter, unlike you so called 'bandits'. I have years of experience in fighting where as you probably only have a year or two?" He rolled his eyes and pulled a kunai from his pouch and twirled it in his hand. "Any last words?" He asked.

"B-bastard," he growled out, already knowing his fate.

The kunai left Naruto's hand and appeared deep into the man's chest.

"Well, if you had fought better, maybe you wouldn't be dying right now?"He looked away to see who was all left of the bandits. His eyes lingered on the last one in which Sana was fighting him. She had kicked the man hard in the chest, sending him flying until he hit a tree and still tried to get back onto his feet.

A low laughter was heard.

Frowning, he turned around and noticed that man was still clinging to life, laughing like a crazy maniac. He was watching Sana's battle and flickered his eyes at Naruto before looking back.

"If I were you, I would go save that girl of yours."

"Why? She's doing alright." He answered, unconcerned by his apprentice.

That caused the man to laugh harder,ignoring his life force leaving him. "That's not the point. If he brings a dagger out and manages to cut her, it's all over. On that dagger is a poison that has no cure. In two days, if she doesn't get some kind of treatment, she'll die."

Naruto's eyes widened a fraction. He turned his attention back to his student.

Sana's opponent was back on his feet and was trying to slice her up by swinging his sword every which way, though she dodged them on.

When she dodged one of the swings by crouching down and letting the blade swing over her head. She heard the whooshing sound and took that time to punch the man in the shin, causing him to fall again.

From where she was, Naruto could hear her mutter, "It's over," and she grabbed the man's sword and plunged in into his chest, killing him with his own sword.

Naruto released the breath he didn't even realized he was holding. "See? She killed him before he could do anything." He turned back to the man who still hadn't died.

The man stopped laughing but held a smile on his face, "I wouldn't be to s-sure..." he muttered weakly and nodded his head back to the battle.

The blond spun on his heel just as he saw the other man that Sana had just supposedly killed weakly take another sword that had been hiding under his shirt in it's sheath and rose to his knees to stab her with her back turned.

"Sana, watch out!" Naruto screamed and started running towards his sister, a kunai already in his hand.

Her eyes widened and everything seemed to go in slow motion. She had turned around right as the man threw the dagger, and just as Naruto threw his own kunai. Just as Naruto's kunai stabbed the man in the neck, the man's dagger had flew and managed to graze the skin of Sana's stomach.

"Sana!" Naruto shouted and managed to catch her in his arms while she had been collapsing from the force the dagger had.

"N-Naruto?" She gasped out, surprised. Her hand went to her stomach as blood started to ooze out and stain her clothes and hand. Though her brother had caught her and tried to hold on to her, she tried to stand up. "I'm okay," she tried to reassure him.

Naruto nodded, feeling kind of weary about what he had just witnessed, but released her and let her get to her feet. But, as he got to her feet, she didn't last long as a cry escaped from her and she gripped her stomach.

"What's wrong?" He asked, panicked. His mind clicked over to what the man he had been killing had said about the poison. He caught her once again as she started to fall.

"I-I don't k-know," she stuttered. "E-every thing i-is burning!" Her eyes squeezed shut.

The jinjuriki looked up to see if anyone was alive so that they could help, even though he had murdered them, but it was only he and Sana that were left alive. All he could see were dead bodies everywhere, littering the clearing while the horses had left a long time ago. Blood stained the sandy road, turning to red. Well, at least the buzzards were going to have a nice breakfast.

He looked back down and muttered, "Shit," his brain started to rewind to the knife and how it had sliced her. The poison was already in her and if he didn't find some kind of treatment to at least cure her, she was going to die. In two days. He noticed her breathing starting to become labored, causing her to pant. "Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit!"

'We have to find her a doctor.' Kyuubi urged him, also starting to panic. The chakra that was in Sana from the fox was having no effect.

"I know," he tried to keep his voice calm but was having a lot of trouble. His brain could barely think. "But where? I don't know of any doctors that could cure any type of poison on short notice near by. I haven't been on the look out for them since we haven't been in need of them. We..." He trailed off as someone did come to mind.

Kyuubi noticed who he was thinking about and asked a bit warily, 'That's a day's run from here without any breaks.'

"N-Naruto?" Sana stared up at him, confused.

"Shh," he tried to sooth her by brushing a loose strand of hair out of her face. "It's going to be alright, sweetie. We're going to visit a few friends of mine so they can cure you." She nodded her head.

Naruto gently laid her down on the sandy floor before turning his attention to his pouch on his waist where he kept his money and a few other things in it.

"Ouverte, (Open in French)" he muttered to the bag when he opened it up. He then reached into his bag, his arm disappearing as his arm started to go deeper and deeper into the pouch until he was arms length. Feeling his way around, he started to push things aside until his hand brushed across something soft. Finding what he needed, he grasped it and pulled it out before closing the pouch up, returning it back to it's original state.

He re-picked his sister up and positioned her so that she was on his back. "Hold on tight, sweetie," he softly told her, "we're going to be moving at a fast pace." In one quick motion, he fanned the cloth he had pulled out for it to take it's shape instead of being folded up. A long, black traveling cloak was what it became and he swung it around his shoulders so that it covered the person on his back from view. He made sure the cloak was secure on him so that he didn't have to hold onto it.

"Wh-where'd you g-get the bag?" Sana whispered.

Naruto chuckled lightly and pulled the hood up over his head so that his blond/ redden hair was hidden from view. "Before I found you, I had visited the Village Hidden with Magic. They imported a lot of foreign things like this bag and said that you could store a whole room in this pouch without it weight so much. This is where I hid a lot of my belongings now and only I can open it with the password."

"It's in F-French."

He nodded. "Yup. Now, hold on," he moved his hands so that he also held on to her so she wouldn't fall off if she passed out or got to weak. And then he started running in a fast pace, leaving his battle ground behind. He was running in the direction where he hadn't been in for several years. Naruto Uzumaki was returning to the Village Hidden in the Leafs.

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Till next time! ^^ So, how was that? Was the battle scene alright? Not to shabby, right? And so you know, I will be using these three languages in this story, so you won't be surprised: English (duh) French (for some talking and random things,) and Japanese (those are usually used for jutsus and some others.)

See y'all later!