Michiko was in her room under her sheets sobbing. She hadn't meant to say those thing they just kind of came out. She knew she should go apologize for bringing up Naruto, but her pride wouldn't allow it. So she was going to hide in her room until things calmed down. Too bad that wasn't going to happen.

There was a knock on her door and her mom's voice. "Michiko can I come in?" She said softly. Michiko stopped crying and stayed silent hoeing that her mom would just go away. "I know you're in there so I'm coming in." Kushina said and opened the door.

Michiko pretended that she was asleep. Her mom still walked over to her bed and took a seat. She put her hand on Michiko head and started rubbing her hair. They stayed like this for a while until Kushina started speaking. "Oh Michiko looks like you hit your pre-teen years already and here I thought that you would be a ninja and off on missions so I wouldn't have to deal with it. I guess moms just can escape this fate. I know you're mad, but I also know you didn't mean what you said. You want Naruto back just as bad as me and your father do. I also believe that you'll be the one to find him because you're the one who wants to see him the most. Not even Minato or I can compare to the bond twins have even if they never meet." Kushina stayed there for a little longer before getting up a leaving the room.

When she left Michiko let the tears fall. She didn't realize just how much she wanted to see her brother. She had always wanted to find him, but now she was determined to find him. "Naruto I'll find you someday." Michiko whispered.

*Takumi Village*

The mine boss was very interested. Not only did his new genin team come back with Naruto which meant Naruto didn't try to defect, but they also told him something very interesting. They had just given him their report and Konoha's biggest secret. The Hokage and his wife couldn't use chakra. He was very impressed with their work it was only their first mission and they had already gathered more information than his anbu squads. Now this didn't mean that they were super bad ass ninja it just meant they got lucky and the he wasn't going to boost their ego because of a fluke. They did have great potential however. "You guys did well take some time off and I'll call you when I have a mission for you."

Naruto, Riku and Yukiko gave a polite bow and left. When they got out of the building they dropped their formal attitudes. "Man, are first mission." Naruto said already excited for his next one.

"Don't get too excited." Riku warned. "Things are going to get harder for here. I bet the next mission we'll have to kill people."

"I can handle taking a life." Naruto spat back.

"You say that now but in the moment do you really think you'll be able to kill someone who's begging you to spare them." Riku said.

"I bet I can do it easier then you can." Naruto said butting heads with Riku.

"Boys don't fight I'm sure you two will be fine when it comes to killing." Yukiko said with a smile.

"Uh thanks, I guess." Naruto said.

"Hey Yukiko you don't seem that worried about having to kill someone what's the deal?" Riku asked.

"Well you see I've already killed." Yukiko said rubbing the back of her head.

"What!" Riku and Naruto yelled.

"Well you see one day a guy tried to rob the store and I was sharing some kunais at the time, and well I just kind of threw it at his head without really thinking. It wasn't so bad." Yukiko said. Naruto and Riku were a little shocked to hear this since she said it like it was standard procedure to kill someone while sharpening a kunai. Riku suddenly had a new-found respect for Yukiko.

"Well after Yukiko laid that bombshell on us. I think we need to celebration a mission well done, and I know just the place." Riku said.

Riku took them to a club. It wasn't a strip club like Naruto had thought when he first saw it, but the way the place was set up made it seem like the stripers would walk in any moment, and they might of well have. All the fan girls in the village had heard of their return and had jumped them at the club swarming around Naruto and Riku and also giving Yukiko dirty looks. They kept saying that they were such great ninjas. How they didn't even get a single scratch on their first mission. Riku didn't seem to want to tell them that they didn't do any fighting so there wasn't any reason they should have got hurt, but Riku also seemed to enjoy himself a lot more then he should have. He was also getting really drunk.

Now Naruto was also having a good time with the girls and drinking too; just not as much as Riku. Yukiko was also drinking a little, but that was probably just to forget about the glares she was getting. In the end they all left the club drunk and tired. Riku looked like he would pass out on the spot. Some of the ninja they past to get home just couldn't believe that this was Takumi's best genin team. That night Naruto spent over the toilet.

A couple days later they found themselves standing in front of the mine boss's desk waiting for their next mission. "You guys did pretty well on your first mission so I'm giving you something a little harder." He said. "There is a certain person we've been asked to take care of. A kid, low-genin level. Basically Kumogakure captured this kid because he has a bloodline. They wanted him to try and strengthen their military. However he escaped and is trying to get back to his village; they wouldn't tell use which one. The point is Kumogakure's ninja can't be seen chasing this kid so they asked us to help. Your job is to kill him before he gets home. Here's his last known position and his picture." He threw them to Riku. The boy didn't have any distinguishing features and looked pretty average which would make him that much harder to find. "Are there any questions?" The mine boss asked.

"Should we be worried about his bloodline?" Riku asked.

"No it seems he hasn't been able to activate it which is the reason he was caught so easily." The mine boss said.

"How can Kumogakure request help from use if they don't know Takumi has a ninja force?" Naruto asked.

"Well they know their requesting help from someone, but they don't know who. They sent ninjas to the black market to find someone who could take care of it and they found some of our ninjas. Now they probably think their hiring some rouge ninjas and that's just what we want them to think." The mine boss said. With their questions answered the genin team left to find this runaway ninja.

"So does are target have a name?" Naruto asked. They were currently in a remote village in the middle of nowhere, but this is where their target had been last seen. The sighting was already a day old and it took them a day to get here so they were already two days behind, so the odds of their target still being here were practically zero. But you have to start somewhere.

"According to our information no." Riku said. "But if he did he'd have to be a complete idiot to use it. Isn't that right Dwarf?"

Naruto gave him a deadly look. Naruto not only had to be called Dwarf on this mission, but he also had his hood up to hide his hair. Now it was unlikely that Konoha ninja would walk though here, but you could never be too careful. However even Naruto felt good being in his ninja gear it was a lot more comfortable then the merchant outfits they wore on their last mission. "We should just start looking for him." Naruto said.

"Aright let's spilt up." Yukiko said and they all headed off in their own direction.

They hadn't even been separated for five minutes when they meet up aging.

"So you guys had the same idea?" Yukiko said.

"Well it's pretty obvious. I don't even know why we spilt up in the first place." Riku said.

"We don't know he went this way we still haven't found any evidence." Yukiko said.

"Well if he did then he must want us to find him." Naruto said. The truth was that if you started at Kumogakure and then went to this village it's a straight line. Which is odd since there are plenty of other villages he could have gone to. So if he kept following the line then the spot they were at now would be where he left.

"Let's just look and see if he really did go this way." Yukiko suggested. It didn't take them long at all to find trampled bushes and shoe prints in the mud.

"Good lord are all ninjas trained this bad?" Naruto said "I mean didn't he learned you're not supposed to make a bee-line towards your village when you're running away or to cover his tracks. I mean come on he's not even tree hopping. How did he escape in the first place?"

"Come on let's just keep going." Riku said and they started hopping along the trees keeping an eye out for marks that would indicate a change in direction, but they highly doubt they find any.

It only took them half a day before they finally found something. It was a camp that was more than likely their target's. It was petty dark when they arrived so there was little chance of them being spotted although with their targets current lack of any skill what so ever he probably wouldn't have spotted them in the day. He didn't even stray from the line to build his camp. It was like he just got tired and stopped right where he was. Naruto, Riku and Yukiko were hiding in the tress waiting for him to come out of his tent so they could confirm it was their target.

It wasn't long before a kid a little older than Riku came out of the tent. He had black hair standard civilian clothes which would have been a good disguise if it wasn't for the kunai holder on his hip. They watched him for a little bit before he went over to a pile of logs.

"No he isn't." Naruto whispered. Normally Naruto would have never said a word on a stealth mission, but it was oblivious by now that this guy was of no real threat to them. Then the kid did it he lit a fire and the smoke raised through the trees. No cover no anything to stop the smoke from giving away his position to everybody in the entire forest. Then he just sat by it trying to get warm.

They decided that they had watched him enough and just to kill him. Now normally they would have killed him quick and without him knowing, but this guy was so stupid they felt the need to torment him before his death. They jumped down right in front of him.

He was startled so bad that he fell on his back. "Who the hell are you guys?" He said standing back up and getting into a defensive position.

"We're just the people here to kill you." Naruto said darkly.

Now most people would have be afraid to hear this, but their target started chuckling. "You were sent to kill me. You three are younger than me what do you think you can do." He reached into his kunai bag and got three kunais. "I bet you didn't know this, but I graduated top of my class in the academy. So why don't you three go to hell!" He threw his kunais one at each of them. They were all stop effortlessly Yukiko threw her own kunai and they clashed in the air. Naruto took out his tanto and blocked it .Riku put his finger though the ring at the end when it was in mid-air and let it spin around his finger.

"So still think we can't kill you." Riku said. The boy's face went pale and he started backing up before he made a run for it. Before he was out of sight Riku threw the kunai he had around his finger into the boy's back. There was a grunt of pain before he was out of sight.

They started following him. It wasn't hard since there was now a trail of blood leading the way. Apparently they were at the edge of the forest because they soon hit a dirt road. Whatever cover the boy had was gone now and they could see him easily.

He was running to some sort of castle. "Fire Ball Jutsu" Yukiko shouted. She launched a mid-sized fire ball at their target. He saw it coming and tried to doge, but the kunai in his back caused him some pain which caused him to not be able to dodge properly. The fire ball hit his leg and his pants caught on fire. His leg had blood running down it and was red and blistered. Even thought he was in pain he managed to get inside the castle.

"Ok I think we've had enough fun with him." Naruto said and they went inside. The castle was dark and probably would have been scary to most. Especially with the groan that came from the boy who was lying on the floor in his own blood.

Naruto walked over to him and placed his foot under his stomach. He flipped him over which caused the boy some pain, but now he was lying on his back. "Please just let me go I'm begging you." The boy said with tears in his eyes. "I just want to see my family. Don't you want to see yours every time you come home from a mission?"

Naruto squatted down so he was closer to the boy's ear. "Want to know the truth? I don't give a damn about my family." Naruto said with an evil smile. Then he pulled out his tanto and the boy's face was twisted in fear before Naruto brought it down on his neck collecting the head to prove the mission was a successes.

"Damn Naruto that was brutal." Riku said with a smile.

Naruto was confused for a minute until he looked back at the body and realized he was still holding the head and became a little embarrassed "Sorry guess I just got caught up in the moment." He then sealed the head in a scroll.

They were about to leave when a long tough shot out of nowhere and tried to grab Yukiko. Luckily Yukiko jumped out of the way just in time and the tough retreated back into the castle. "Was that a tough?!" Yukiko screamed, but when she looked at Naruto and Riku they seemed to be lost in thought. "Guys are you ok?" She walked up them and was about to wave her hand in their faces when they turned to look at each other so suddenly it scared her and she fell on her butt.

"We must be the luckiest genin team alive." Naruto said.

"Who says the whole team is lucky because I'm going to be the one to get it." Riku said.

"Like hell I'm going to be the one to get it." Naruto said and they both ran off in opposite directions. Yukiko was very confused before she realized they were going to leave her. She got up a decided to follow Naruto. "Hey wait up."

Yukiko and Naruto were running down halls at random and Yukiko was getting tired because Naruto seemed to have unlimited energy and wouldn't slow down. "Naruto can you please tell me what you are doing?" Yukiko said.

"That tough that tried to grab you earlier was some sort of animal." Naruto said. "Since it was huge it can only mean one thing. That is was a summoning creature."

"Ok so why does it matter?" Yukiko asked.

Naruto looked a little annoyed. "If it's a summoning creature then there has to be either the summoner or the summoning contract nearby and I don't think it a summoner. So that means that there is an unsigned contract somewhere in this castle. Riku and I have wanted a summoning contract ever since we knew about them. So I have to be the one to get it."

"But more than one person can sign a contract so why can't you two share." Yukiko said.

Naruto gave her a look like she just said the dumbest thing he'd ever heard. "Are you serious? There is no way I'm sharing with Riku and there is no way he sharing with me!" Naruto yelled which seemed to give him a burst of energy and he ran even faster than before.

They went running all around the mansion. Even when the walls turned to flesh and tried to eat them the only thing Naruto thought of was getting the contract before Riku. They ran everywhere and then they saw it. A scroll with a lizard on it Naruto didn't even hesitated and jumped right for it. When he grabbed it the mansion just disappeared.

Even though they were up in a tower before they were now on the ground now. Naruto had the contract in his hand and looked the happiest Yukiko had ever seen him. Then Riku who was also standing on the ground with them saw it. Riku fell to his knees and stared hitting the ground. "Damn it! Damn it!"

They decided to tree jump back home to hopefully be back by sunrise. It was pretty silent on the way back except when Naruto would talk about his new summoning contract and how he couldn't wait to sign it just to piss Riku off.

They didn't make it back before sunrise, but it was still pretty early. They went to the Mine boss's office to give their report and their targets head. Naruto made sure to go into great detail about how he got the lizard summoning contract. The boss told them to take a few days off and for Naruto to sign the contract and to be ready for even harder mission when they came back.

A day later Naruto and Yukiko were in the mines because Naruto was going to sign the contract for some reason Riku declined to come and witness it. "This is going to be so great." Naruto said rubbing his hand together. He unrolled the contract out on the floor. Naruto was surprised to see that the last signature was probably more than 200 years old. Naruto signed the contract in his blood.

"So do you think the lizards will really accept you as their summoner?" Yukiko asked.

"Hard to say but there's only one way to find out." Naruto made the necessary hand signs and slammed his hand on the ground. A cloud of smoke appeared and when it was gone it left a red lizard with brown eyes about the size of a small bird.

"Hey are you the one that summoned me?" The lizard asked Naruto.

"Yes." Naruto said. "I want to become the lizard summoner."

"Ok." The lizard said. "What's your name? My name is Scale."

"Naruto, but wait don't I have to do some sort of trial to prove that I'm good enough to be your summoner?" He asked.

Scale just sighed like he didn't want to explain it. "Naruto are boss has been stuck in that castle for who knows how long. We've needed a new summoner for a while now and you seem like a good ninja. So you get the contract. If that is all I'll be leaving to tell the rest of the clan about are new master." With that he disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

"Well that was a lot easier than I thought." Yukiko said.

Naruto was smiling like an idiot. "It obvious those lizards could see I was already a great ninja, so they didn't even need to test me."

"Yeah." Yukiko said with a sweat drop.

Naruto and the rest of the team continued to go on missions for months. While they never went on any B-ranked mission, they were pretty close doing high C-ranks. The mission they were currently on was an assassination mission. They had to kill some nobleman leaving Konoha to return to his home village. They were hiding in the tress waiting for his carriage to ride by.

While they were waiting Naruto felt something land on his shoulder, it was one of his lizards who was invisible. "What you got for me?" Naruto asked.

"The nobleman is further up the road and will be here in about five minutes." The lizard said. "He's riding with ten guards they don't seem like ninja, but he just came from Konoha so it's highly likely that there are some ninja guarding him."

"Alright did you hear that guys." Naruto said. Yukiko and Riku gave him a nod. "Ok then let's get ready." The lizard disappeared as Naruto pulled up his hood.

They came five minutes later they came just like the lizard said. They were going along without any problems until the road exploded in front of them. The guards were so shocked they couldn't react to the hundreds of kunais now raining down on them. Seven were killed and three were too injured to move.

Three figures jumped down from the trees and headed for the carriage. They had to confirm it was really their target before they killed him. "Well that was easier than I thought it would be." Naruto said from under his hood. Right after he said that three other figures jumped out of nowhere and blocked their path. Naruto, Riku and Yukiko jumped backwards to get some distance.

The new arrives looked to be a little older than them. Now even if they were ninjas then it shouldn't have been such a big deal, but these ninja seemed a lot better than any genin they faced before after all they did seem to know the attack was coming.

Naruto took a good look at the newcomers. One was a girl with two buns in her brown hair. There was also a boy in a green jumpsuit and had black hair along with the weirdest eye brows Naruto had ever seen. The last one was a boy with his hair in a pony-tail and white eyes with no pupils; Naruto realized he was a hyuga. Now Naruto knew how they had known the attack was coming. If the hyuga was using his eyes to look around the area he would have seen his lizards chakra network regardless if it was invisible.

"How dare you kill these people!" The one in green shouted. "My name is Rock Lee and I vow to take revenge foe these people!" Naruto and the rest of his team sweat dropped. This guy gave his name even before the fight started. Lee's team didn't seem too happy with him either. Maybe they weren't as strong as they thought.

Naruto pulled out his Tanto and everyone else got into a fighting stance. "Don't take it personally it's just are mission." Naruto said. This seemed to make Lee angry and he came rushing at Naruto with speed he wasn't prepared for. Naruto quickly made a cross block with his arms to stop the kick that was coming for his side.

Even though Lee hit Naruto's arm Naruto was pushed back a little and he knew that if he had only block with one arm it would be broken. Naruto wasn't the only having problems when Yukiko came to help him the girl with the buns threw hundreds of kunais at her. There were too many to block so Yukiko had to jump sway from Naruto and fight the girl in a weapons match. Riku was busy fighting the hyuga, so Naruto was on his own.

He shoved Lee's leg away and jumped back it was obvious to keep as much distance as he could with this guy. Naruto went thought a few signs and "Reppushou" (Wind gale). Naruto swung his tanto and a long blade of wind headed for Lee. Lee jumped in the air to avoid it, but when he did Naruto threw a couple kunais at him. Lee unable to move in midair caught all the kunais Naruto threw. "This guy is pretty good." Naruto said to himself. He didn't have too much time to admire his opponent however because Lee had landed and was once aging charging Naruto.

This time Naruto was ready. When Lee tried to kick his head Naruto ducked and cut Lee's chest with his tanto. If Lee was in pain he didn't show it and he actually brought his leg down on Naruto's which he wasn't expecting. He didn't do a lot of damage from the awkward angle Lee was forced to kick from, but it still hurt. They fought like this for a while. Lee was good no doubt about that, but he didn't have as much experience as Naruto. It showed rather heavily when Naruto used wind chakra to increases the range of his tanto and was able to cut Lee more often. Lee was too focused on hitting Naruto to notice that the tanto cut him even though he dogged out of the way. He probably just thought he screwed up the dodge. Now that wasn't to say Naruto was dominating the fight in fact he got hit more than a few times, and the fact this guy was just so strong really brought the damage.

Naruto looked over to see how the other fights were going. Riku looked to be in bad shape. Even though he wasn't bleeding his right arm was hanging rather uselessly by his side. The hyuga he was fighting had several deep cuts on his body and looked like he was struggling to stay on his feet. Naruto knew it was from the poison Riku had on his weapons.

Yukiko was probably the worst out of all of them. She was covered in cuts and she had a partially deep gash on her forehead with blood running down the side of her face. The girl she was fight was also covered in cuts and it seemed that parts of her skin were burned.

Naruto had to stop looking at them since Lee threw a punch at his face which Naruto sidestepped. Lee kept throwing punches, but Naruto dodged them all while moving closer to Lee. When he was within the range of his wind enhanced tanto he knew it was over. All he had to do was slice Lee's neck of course Lee would dodge, but since his tanto had extra range that Lee didn't know about he'd still be hit anyway. With that in mind Naruto swung his tanto, and just like he predicted Lee leaded back to dodge but not far enough.

Just as Naruto was about to cut Lee's throat a blur of green came out of nowhere and kicked Naruto in the stomach so hard that not only did he drop his tanto but the sheath that was secured to his jacket also fell to the ground seemingly following the blade. Naruto chough up blood before flying backwards and hitting a tree: hard.

The sound caused the rest of the fights to stop and look to see what happened. Riku and Yukiko paled while the hyuga and the girl with the buns smiled. Standing there was Konoha's green beast: Maito Gai. The whole team knew enough from the bingo book to know that there was no way they were going to be able to beat him. There only option now was to retreat.

Naruto got up while Riku and Yukiko started backing up. Gai seemed to notice this and with unbelievable speed kick Riku in the ribs and punched Yukiko in the face sending both of them flying backwards next to Naruto.

They knew that this mission was a failure. It was time to cut their losses. Yukiko did some hand signs. "Fusenmei Genzō" (Vision Blur). The genjutsu wouldn't work on the hyuga, but all it needed to do was buy time by stopping Gai. He was supposed to be pretty bad at genjutsu, so when they were sure he was hit by it they got out of there.

By the time Gai broke the genjutsu the ninja were already far away. Lee started to run after then, but Gai grabbed his shoulder. "Wait Lee don't go after them. This mission is already beyond a C-rank. We should have another ninja team take over. Besides we need to get Neji back to the leaf." Gai pointed at Neji who was very pale and looked about ready to pass out.

"I understand Gai-sensei." Lee said feeling bad about almost leaving his injured teammate. Gai picked up Neji so he didn't have to walk. While Tenten picked up the tanto the boy in the hood dropped and checked on the nobleman to tell him what was going on. Lee went to check on the guards who weren't killed in the initial attack only to find out that they had all bleed to death.

"Alright let's get going." Gai said and they headed back to the leaf as fast as they could.

Naruto, Riku and Yukiko walked back into town bloody and defeated. "Sorry I lost the tanto you gave me." Naruto said.

"It's fine." Yukiko replied. It was the first mission they had failed and it showed. The fan girls that always came to greet them stopped dead when they saw them. Of course they started yelling at Yukiko saying 'that she was the reason their Naruto-chan and Riku-chan were so hurt.' Even some of the adults were saying 'it was a mistake to make a girl a ninja. Just look how hurt she was.' Yukiko looked crushed, but Naruto couldn't really blame then. From outward appearances it looked like Yukiko was hurt way worse the either Naruto or Riku. But in reality, Riku was probably the one hurt the most with his arm just hanging there like that, and Naruto was sure that Gai broke a few ribs with his kick.

Naruto just sent a lizard to give his report instead of going himself. Then he and the rest of the team went to the hospital to get their injuries treated.

*Konoha*

Minato was in his office doing paper work when Gai, Lee and Tenten walked in. "Gai what are you doing here I thought you weren't supposed to be back till tomorrow." Minato said.

"About that Hokage we were attacked." Gai told the story about their mysterious attackers, and about Neji getting poisoned.

"I see." Minato said. "You made the right decision. That was beyond a C-rank. Did the ninja have any headbands or other markings to tell us what village they were from?"

"Not that I saw Hokage, but Neji mentioned there was a summoning creature that looked like a lizard." Gai said.

"That could help. Summoning contracts a usually passed down a clan, so if I find the clan that uses lizards I can find what village they came from." The Hokage said to himself.

"Also the one in the hood dropped this." Tenten said place a tanto on the Hokage's desk.

Minato picked it up it. "It says 'Dwarf' on the sheath. Is that someone's name? I have to think about it. Gai you and your team can get some rest."

"Thank you." Gai and his team said before leaving.

Minato walked over towards the window thinking about what he just heard. "I wonder who this Dwarf person is?"