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If you asked Naruto the two things he hated about when he was a genin, before the answers would never just focus of 2 things. But the war, the pain, and death that one lives through during and sometimes after made him mature somewhat, and being married and being a father made him more mature, and allowed him to control his temper, Kurama might be screaming bloody murder these days but he was calm. The two things he hated where the D-Rank missions, which in his mind were nothing more that a glorified chore, and the constant bickering of his former team. I think even Sakumo had to agree with him on the last point.
He would have to see his squad's face light up when they heard that they where getting a new mission, and of course he knew that it was a D-Rank, but he simply could not bring himself to crushing the dream to at least take a C-Rank. The bickering came from surprising sources, Itachi wanted to have opportunities to make a name for himself, and grow his skills. Yori wanted to show off to Itachi so that he would start to notice her in a more romantic sense. The only one that did not even complain was Menma, but it was not for his father being Hokage, or that he was simply considerate. It was because he did not have to work so hard and it made his life really easy. He even joked that he would be glad to keep doing these missions till he was an adult. This of course stopped immediately by a rather strong punch in the gut by Yori, and a kunai being placed on his neck by Itachi. He flat out told them that if he did not make a good enough effort and they were indeed stuck with D-Ranks till then he promised that he would not reach adult age. Menma was no coward, but he was no fool. He knew this was not a threat, this was a promise. In Naruto's family promises were sacred, and they always kept them. So after that incident the goofing off by Menma came to a sudden and immediate stop.
Minato when he heard what Itachi and Yori had done was so grateful, that he told the team that he was giving both Itachi and Yori a C-Rank mission reward. They had done a mission that he never got to post, out of cheer embarrassment. The mission was to make his son Menma take his ninja career seriously and made him stop goofing around. When Naruto asked what they planned to do with their money the answers surprised him. Itachi wanted to buy his mother a beautiful pendant, and Yori wanted to buy a better set of kunai, and shuriken. He was happy to hear that from both of them and gave them a scroll on techniques. He gave Yori a copy of healing techniques, and Itachi a scroll that looked like an old poem, little did they know it was a training scroll that only a user of their family doujutsu could actually read. The advanced form of the intercept style. Menma asked if he got anything. His father told him he gets the best price of all, he got to keep living.
So for the next 4 months he was given a lot of time to spend with Kurama, and to improve his sage arts. 4 months of D-Rank missions and the kids even though they worked pretty good, they were ready to kill someone if they were given another of these mission. Paint the fence, take out the garbage, catch that miserable cat that was owned by a very strong merchant's wife, why miserable you ask, well when you hug someone it usually is a pleasant sensation. When the lady hugged her cat the genin could swear that they heard the cat beg the cat deity to release him from his hell. The last but most humiliating was to clean all the bathrooms in the academy. Yori asked her teammates how did a young boy manage to piss in the sink while not having anything to climb. They did not even want to answer, Menma wanted to tell her it was all a matter of finding the right angle. But he loved his life too much to do that.
The day finally came that Naruto asked his team to wait outside. He went in alone to speak with the Hokage. "Minato, have I done anything for you to hate me?" He answered no. "Minato, have I made your life so miserable that you wish revenge?" again the answer was no. "Minato, have I not been a good friend? Did I do something to make Kushina hate me and you are punishing me for it?" Minato simply told him that he was his very best friend, and no Kushina thought the world of him. "So, Why Minato? Why is my team the only one still doing D-Rank missions? Are you trying to make as crazy as Tsunade? because if you tell me that I will have to do 1 more month of the D-Ranks I have to tell you. You will succeed, and I will most definitely will have to take a day off so I can kill a few thousand bandits to calm down." Minato apologized profusely, he did assign more than usual number of D-Ranks but it was to provide him with a sort of paid vacation. He never intended to make him suffer. Kushina once told him that she worried that Naruto was working himself into an early grave, that he might benefit from a vacation. "So Mikoto did not contribute to this decision?" He smiled, "She might have mentioned somethings along those lines." Naruto knew that Minato was the Hokage, and that as a ninja in the village he had to be loyal to the Hokage, this however did not mean that he did not want to punch him on his face, he didn't, but he so very much wanted to.
"Team you will go on a standard bandit camp elimination mission. For those that wonder relax it is a C-Rank mission. Succeed in it and your days of the D-Rank missions will be over. If you fail however you will do an extra month of D-Ranks. The information is in this scroll." He tossed Naruto the scroll which he caught with one hand. Itachi and Yori were giving Menma looks that said quite clearly, fail and we will need a new teammate to attend your funeral. Menma understood the message and would do his very best to make the team succeed.
The mission to Naruto was no better that the D-Rank mission. Go to a place marked on a map, take out the garbage and come home. The genin except for Menma were quite happy. It seemed that the D-Rank missions had increased their teamwork, but also their hatred of the D-Rank missions. When they arrived to the bandit camp, all 3 genin jumped at the chance to release some of their pent up anger and frustration on the camp. 3 young cute children killed a grands total of 42 grown adult bandits in ways that Orochimaru was thankful that he did not have to see. One thing is to kill them quickly and efficiently. They attacked to wound first, the wounded bandit would ask a friend for help. They turned 1 target into 40, and when there were 40 bleeding, crying bandits pleading for their lives, Itachi used a fire jutsu that was nothing better than a massive release of fire. Fire style: Flame Annihilation Jutsu, and Menma did the Wind style: Great breakthrough jutsu. The two combined and the result was that 40 bandits were burned to ash. At that time their leaders showed up angry as all hell. And Yori used her own jutsu that she apparently learned from another team, Lightning style: Field of Death Jutsu. She killed the two leaders as if they had been baked by a lighting storm.
Naruto wanted to have the talk about killing, and not feeling to bad but his son told him. The filth were killing, raping, and making people live in fear. It their job to get rid of the filth, killing them was just the means to achieving that goal. It was no different than burning garbage. Why should they feel bad about it? Not the way he would word it, but it made him understand that the team would not be troubled by it. "Ok, team let's go and report our mission success. But what will we take as proof of the mission completion?" Naruto asked. Yori laughed. "We cam stuff the two leader's in a scroll and use them as proof, that is why I used a lightning jutsu in the first place."
Naruto made a shadow clone and had him write the report as the team went back to their village. There had been other bandits in the area, but after one saw what the kids did. They gave them a wide clear path to their village. No reason they would want to be anywhere near the little psychos.
They arrived to the village and did the proper identification procedure with the Chunin guards. They even saw some anbu stop and give Naruto what looked like a friendly salute. The team arrived to the Hokage's office and Naruto reported everything and handed the Hokage the scroll with the 2 dead bandit leaders. Minato was surprised to see Naruto so calm, about seeing his son do such dangerous techniques. "I always pushed myself when I was a kid, why should I expect anything less from my son?" Naruto told Minato which made him laugh. He told him that the mission was a success and for them to go home.
Mikoto was having a handful with Itachi's little brother. He saw her husband walk with their son from the main gates of their home. She was worried about Itachi's first C-Rank. She was thinking that it would traumatize him. All her worries were not needed. Naruto told her about the things their son had done. It made her feel very proud. "A chip of the old block I see." Mikoto told Naruto as he received a long kiss from his beloved wife. Itachi did the thing every kid did at that age, he said it was gross and left the happy couple holding each other as he marched to his dad's library. That fire jutsu scroll still had a few more jutsus he needed to reread.
Naruto joked with Mikoto, and told her that if she kept holding him like that, maybe she wanted to have another little addition to the family. "Good to see that you can still get the message. Maybe we should discuss this after we make sure our boys are sleep." Naruto kissed her in a way that made it clear that he agreed. "Life is good, specially when you are blessed like I am." Naruto said, to find the laughter of his family.