I don't own Naruto or any of its characters, I'm just a fan I enjoyed the anime but I love the fanfics, even more, they made me fall for the whole franchise. Whether I will have Oc's in the fic or not depends entirely on how the story goes.

Chapter 33

"I'm coming!" Naruto called out as he opened his sleepy eyelids groaning in the process. Someone was banging on his door and that person wasn't gentle.

Turning on the bed to reach the edge Naruto swung his legs and twisted his hip getting himself in a sitting position with his legs on the floor.

"Ughhh" Naruto grounded out in effort, pushing himself to stand up, he then proceeded to spread his legs and arms wide as he stretched his body before wetting his lips and taking a step.

"Yah! Yah I'm coming!" Naruto spoke in a deeper broader voice, his voice was breaking. It had been a week since they returned from wave, he had been jogging with Ino every Morning from 5 am to 7 am they did a lot of talking during those runs Naruto didn't mind them.

"Yes!" Naruto shouted as he clicked his tongue, placing his hand on the door nob he twisted and it opened only for the person behind it to burst inside, shoving the door and Naruto to the adjacent wall.

Naruto was quick to place his bare feet against the offending wall sticking to it as he saved himself and his nice door from a painful meet and greet. From his position Naruto looked right and spotted an Uchiha emblem, the blonde boy sighed.

It was 4:42 am, and Ino would be arriving soon what was the capable fool doing at his home?

"How can I help you Shisui-San?" Naruto questioned pushing his door forward to softly close it as he placed his feet on the wooden floor of his apartment.

"You live here?" Shisui asked with no small amount of surprise, the place looked nice, clean, and organized Shisui's room wasn't even that clean this apartment looked so cozy a stable man could stay there with his stay-at-home girlfriend.

It was A Japanese-style room with a fusuma sliding door to the right leading to the room, shōji-style windows, with another fusuma sliding door to the left leading to the balcony. Tatami flooring, a tokonoma set into the far wall, a nice luxurious-looking sofa, and a bonsai tree on top of a little table in the middle that was well taken care of.

"You own a bonsai tree gaki?" Shisui asked still not facing Naruto but the Jinchuriki could hear his surprise. Naruto had to snap his fingers a few times to get the man's attention.

"Hey. Hey.Eyes over here." Naruto called out pointing at his eyes with two fingers.

"First of all, don't ask me things that are obvious and secondly the bonsai is a friend's." Naruto explained grumpily and Shisui scanned the house again something not adding up there everything looked new yes but anybody could keep their furniture new with care, it was the fact some of that stuff even Shisui had to save up to buy Naruto was a newly minted genin.

"Haha, you might be right gaki." Shisui said with a laugh deciding to concentrate on why he came over, but his curiosity peaked as he realized he knew next to nothing about the blonde gaki except his status and group of friends.

"So why are you here Shisui-San? Ino-Chan will be here soon to jog, I don't have the whole morning." At Naruto's words, Shisui grinned and began wiggling his eyebrows at Naruto.

"Ooouuu Naruto-Kun has a girlfriend." Shisui said childishly, going forward to wrap a hand around Naruto's shoulders but the Uzumaki was quick to slap it away.

"I know it might not seem like it to you but I'm in a hurry, I have a girl in my life with two very distinct traits." Naruto told Shisui seriously before he raised his index finger.

"One. She can be a cute puppy you want to keep in your pocket the whole day." He said then raised a second finger.

"Two. She can be that cat out the bag or that cat that caught your tongue." Naruto deadpanned and Shisui thought he remembered Itachi saying something like that to him once or something close.

"What I am trying to say is, MAKE IT QUICK!" Naruto screamed out in anger.

"Look kid I'm just here to collect on a solid." Shisui responded in a placating tone giving the blond an embarrassed laugh. Rubbing under his nose with a finger.

"I got everything setup up. We found someone who can sell us the location of a sale happening." Shisui explained in a more serious tone that is when Naruto let his eyes widen at the reminder of a past deal he totally forgot about.

"You forgot didn't you?" Shisui asked with a deadpan making Naruto chuckle in a little shame. A lot of things had happened from then to now for him to even think about a joke he decided to take part in.

"No, no I was wondering when you would come around Shisui-San, you said a Jutsu would be handed to me yes yes I remember now-i mean I didn't forget." Naruto sighed at the end of his clear lie that at some point had Shisui Uchiha smirking, and crossing his hands, actually getting interested in it. The only interest was in where Naruto was heading with it.

"You better talk to your girlfriend, and tell her the morning rush is calling because you are going to be busy." Shisui said with a laugh making Naruto groan in disdain.

'Goldie-Kun did you send a clone to jog with me today?' Those words were the beginning of a hell on earth Naruto never knew, The silent treatment he got had him making all kinds of promises he now had to keep. One being she never wanted to see another shadow clone again, it was her darkest secret. Naruto had the memories, he could understand.

"Golden boy! Come let's go!" Naruto cried, she heard his thoughts he just knew it. The knock on the door came a second later 3 knocks and those were his three takes of breath Naruto took and held, quickly moving to open the door for his 'sunshine' who was grumpy about having to jog in the morning but had to.

"We all make sacrifices." Naruto whispered the words he was drilled to understand, he understood that it was on him. If he wasn't around she would have never taken up the exercise.

"I don't even remember asking." Naruto mumbled in honest to the sage confusion, the logic behind that one didn't make sense to his young mind. Placing a hand on the door nob he turned it and it clicked open.

"Morning." Ino smiled her best smile for Naruto while she jogged on the spot in front of his door.

Ino wore Navy blue loose-fitting pants with elastics at their ends to hold them firmly just above the ankle. She had on a black vest that was form-fitting and stopped in the middle of her stomach revealing her naval. She wore a crop top pink yellow hoodie over it.

To finish it off she had on a little blue watch and wore closed-toe shinobi sandals, on her neck was the pendant Naruto had bought for her and she had her hair in a ponytail. All in all, Naruto quite enjoyed the view of his jogging partner.

"Morning, Ino-Chan." Ino raised an eyebrow at the fact Naruto wasn't dressed and ready yet, she was about to ask him as much when another voice spoke.

"Hello, Ino-Chan." Naruto saw Ino blink in confusion before looking over his shoulder and thick mane of hair that had to be groomed to see someone waving at her with a big smile.

"Shisui-San?" Ino wondered in confusion, why Shisui Uchiha was at her boyfriend's house so early in the morning.

"Sorry, Ino-Chan but I can't join you today." Naruto was quick to tell the platinum blonde before Shisui did/said something stupid and made things worse.

"You going to be busy?" Ino asked a bit saddened at the prospect they wouldn't be jogging together. Naruto nodded with a grimace on his face.

"I made a promise to Shisui-San over there, and he has come to collect on it." Ino had stopped running on the spot at that point, all her morning vibrant energy snuffed away and she looked at Naruto with puppy dog eyes ready to use it.

"Miss Yamanaka, you have very nice taste in jewelry quite an expensive-looking piece too." Naruto turned around abruptly, and there standing next to him was Shisui Uchiha studying Ino's pendant with interest.

"Oh, thank you." Ino said awkwardly subconsciously grabbing onto the blue diamond embedded in the gold casing, this was her most prized heirloom, she never took it off unless, nothing.

"You are welcome young lady, maybe you could share where you bought it?" Naruto realized something at that point, Shisui was a curious person and a very observant one.

"Did you come here to start talking about jewelry or did you want my help?" Naruto asked Shisui causing the older man to jump a little at the warning tone and back away.

"Actually, wait for me outside."Naruto said, getting behind Shisui and shoving him out the open door before he looked at Ino.

"You want to come in?" Naruto asked. Ino after thinking about it shook her head in the negative.

"I'll go jogging on my own, I'll see you later?" Ino told him with a smile, getting closer she kissed his cheek before walking to the stairs, running down the steps, and jogging off.

"Your girlfriend has expensive taste." Shisui whistled in appreciation of the pendant, still looking down at Ino's retreating form.

'His getting suspicious.' Naruto thought with a frown on his face, he would have to make a plan to push Shisui into a corner and see how he would react before he did anything drastic.

"She's from one of Konoha's most prominent clans and it's heiress, not all clans like to hoard money like the Uchihas." Naruto told Shisui, answering his question with a truth that had no part in the story while throwing a backhanded comment in there for the Uchiha before he closed the door.

"I'll be out in 15 minutes!" Naruto called out from inside his home and moved around the house to get ready leaving Shisui to chuckle and lean on the wall waiting.

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"Naruto Uzumaki meet Rash Uchiha, Izumi Uchiha, and Dan Uchiha." Shisui introduced. Naruto felt like he was in hostile territory, and the fact he was in hostile territory sent it home that it might have been a bad idea. Naruto is the criminal they are after, with them being the police Naruto tries to avoid.

"It's Rugal Uchiha!" Rash shouted at his superior who didn't bother acknowledging the statement as he continued.

"Izumi is our surveillance specialist, she's the one with the outside connect you can say she's our information specialist as well." Shisui explained his female team member's role while said female waved at Naruto looking like she already knew him which confused the blonde.

Izumi had long brown hair with bangs framing her face and onyx eyes, with a mole under her right eye. She wore a long-sleeved, high-collared purple shirt with the Uchiha clan symbol on the back, baggy blue pants, a shuriken hostler on her right leg, a red armband on her left arm, and a long purple fingerless glove that ran nearly the length of her arm.

"Over there is Rash, he has a rash. Rash is believe it or not our strategist, I know I know Rash's head is smaller than his body but we had Rash tested Rash's brain is just compressed." Naruto's sweat dropped at the explanation while Rash fumed in the background, Shisui said the name Rash 6 times in that single explanation it stuck with Naruto.

"That is Dan Uchiha a decryption specialist, he is second in command and a pragmatic thinker." The explanation was short but Naruto seeing how stern said person looked the quicker you got done with their description the better.

Dan had long, raven hair that reached his back and dark eyes. He wore the standard Konoha shinobi outfit complete with a forehead protector and the pocket-less flak jacket. He had a scar running down his bottom lip to his chin.

"Nice to meet you all." Naruto greeted with a small wave, Rugal gave a robotic nod but quickly grimaced before scratching his biceps.

"Nice to meet you Naruto-Kun." Izumi greeted the blonde verbally with a smile.

"You brought a kid into an investigation?" Dan asked in a dead voice, a voice so dead it sounded like bass on the stereo.

"I told you already we are Uchiha, there isn't a soul who would talk to an Uchiha on sensitive information," Shisui told Dan Uchiha with a sigh of defeat.

"Hn, you will explain this to Fugaku-Sama on your own." Dan retorted voice dry as the desert.

"Yes yes, whatever stickup." Shisui dismissed the man and got no outward reaction from the strict-looking Uchiha.

"Do you know why you are here Naruto-kun?." Izumi asked the blond Uzumaki who shrugged in response. "Let's move to the meeting room then." Izumi offered, placing a hand on Naruto's shoulders and leading the boy to a door on his left with the rest of the investigation team following.

"Today we will fill you up on your role, some things cannot be disclosed to you but the bigger picture will be explained." done stated in a no-argument tone with Naruto not minding they were actually the ones lacking information he knew everything they wanted to know.

They reached the plain brown door Izumi opened the door and walked in first with Naruto following behind. Inside the meeting room was a normal-looking coffee table with scrolls laying on top.

There were 4 chairs two on the left, 1 on the right, and 1 at the head of the table. On the wall behind the head chair were many pictures of people Naruto recognized some of them with arrows running around in random places until they converged on a red question mark.

"What does that symbol stand for?" Naruto asked pointing at the question mark never having seen the 'Kanji' before.

"That is the symbol I have designated to represent the unknown." Dan answered with obvious pride at his invention the symbol earned him recognition as a great philosopher.

"Nice!" Naruto said impressed he always wondered what the unknown would look like and that symbol represented it perfectly.

"Stop licking your own balls Danny boy." Rugal said only to laugh a second later, but he got no outward emotions from the man who didn't even blink at the insult only facing ahead a blank slate.

'Are they trying to get a reaction out of him?' Naruto wondered with a bit of jealousy, he wanted to try as well the guy seemed like a worthy challenge.

"Rugal! How can you say that in front of a kid?" Izumi asked in anger glaring at the muscular Uchiha who was scratching his neck.

"That's enough, I'm sure Naruto-Kun doesn't want to listen to our bickering." Shisui said taking charge of the room and getting his game face on.

"Naruto-Kun this mission won't be a one-day event it will need skills and dedication, which I am aware you have, thanks to the gossip I heard around the village." Shisui winked and Naruto laughed nervously the C-rank turned A-rank was a public secret around Konoha at this point the Hokage even released the unfiltered report to all ranking shinobis, nobody knew who had leaked the news.

"Don't worry Shisui-San I'll do my best and the incentive will only motivate me even more." Naruto replied easily already giddy about the jutsu, he couldn't believe he forgot, but the thing with Hinata was very distracting speaking of Hinata.

Naruto has only been seeing her in team meetings since it was the genin corps 2-week holiday. The clan was now trying to groom her as a Hyuga in one of their meetings Hinata had informed him she was the only Byakugan user who could see the chakra colors of people and nature.

It had the Hyuga's turning on their heads, they were now trying to groom her into the role of an heiress, so immediately after team meetings, she was escorted by a branch member who always seemed to be close by.

"Do you recognize some of these people?" Blinking Naruto returned to the land of the living and looked to Rash who spoke with a stick in his hands pointing at some of the faces on the wall, at least 6 were people Naruto had brokered a deal with starting from Kazuki-San their first lead.

"No, I don't think so, all these people live in the red?" Naruto denied any knowledge of the faces on the wall and asked a question to drive home he was in the lost.

"The red?" Shisui asked confused.

"Short for The red light district, it's what locals call it." Izumi Uchiha explained with a smile pointed at Naruto that had him thinking this lady might know him, she looked at him so fondly.

"These individuals have a history with the man we are trying to catch." Mr muscles explained tapping at a few pictures on the wall to emphasize his on the individuals.

"We were led to believe that the base of operations was located here in the 'red' the deals we have worked tirelessly to find and intercept are far in between leading us to believe that the man works alone." Rash scratched above his ass looking at Naruto to see if he understood.

'Works alone in Konoha.' Naruto's mind told them but since no one, there was a mind reader he guessed it was their loss. "I understand Rash-San please continue." Naruto told the strategist and the man frowned prominently at the name used to address him.

"It's Rugal brat." The buff man stated with a glare getting a nod from Naruto who didn't mean the name calling it had just stuck Shisui snickered from the sides and Rugal whipped his gaze to his leader bending a little to scratch his right thigh.

"Izumi spoke to someone who could arrange a meeting for us for now we will give you training for about 3 hours on some key questions to ask and build your character profile." Rash continued after the itch was gone and Naruto nodded it wasn't a bad approach the only issue was he would never fall for it.

"As an orphan living in the red light district, you fit the profile most of his clients fit, people with money problems, people living in a struggle I'm sure you get the idea." Rugal said a little awkwardly with Naruto brushing it off with a smile.

"So you ready to go undercover gaki!" Shisui asked with a big fat smile plastered on his face.

"You bet, Bring it!" Naruto grinned in excitement for the jutsu he would be getting come end of the 'mission' and giddiness with anticipation for the day he could reveal himself to the world and laugh in Shisui's face.

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"Listen gaki, you're a smart kid the first thing I think when I look at you is common sense, and I like that." Naruto stood in a free room with Shisui. Naruto stood in front of Shisui with his hands behind his back, shoulders straight, and chest out Shisui said something about it being the first step to his technique,

"Hai Shisui-San!" Naruto replied loud and clear straightening up a little more.

"The shuushine is a high-speed technique used to move at great distances, but what it lacks is finesse and a steering wheel so you either accelerate forward or backward." Shisui with his hands behind his back began explaining as he took a step to the left.

"My shuushine is different in the sense I don't need a steering wheel because I have a remote control." Shisui kept explaining after 4 more steps to the left he turned on his heel and began his trek back to the right. Naruto followed him slowly with his eyes.

"What is this controller?" Naruto asked eagerly already thinking of the many ways he could apply the jutsu to his arsenal.

"The control is below you." Shisui replied with a smile and Naruto looked down in confusion wondering if shisui meant his feet.

"My feet?" Naruto asked as much, feeling underwhelmed it was obvious the legs controlled where you went.

"No, Your legs are your accelerators but your shadow is your controller." Shisui revealed to the blonde before turning on his heel and walking to the left once more

"How do I do that?" The blonde wondered out loud it was an interesting concept but not one he ever imagined, he had assumed shadows were a Nara thing.

"Shadow control is a Nara bloodline limit, can you copy it with your Sharingan?" Shisui snickered at the question stopping in his step to turn and face the local Jinchuriki.

"The Shadow possession technique is not a bloodline limit Naruto-Kun it's more of a clan jutsu. The Sharingan can copy any jutsu with the necessary hand signs but anybody can do it." Shisui made a hand seal with both hands, and Naruto saw his shadow lean left, then lean right, and make a 360 turn around Shisui's body before returning to its previous location.

"Woah, cool!" Naruto grinned, he guessed that story about the control of shadows he has wouldn't be so far-fetched anymore.

"As you can see I used my shadow to point in different directions. When using the Shuushine the Shisui way your shadow becomes your compass." Shisui began explaining once more to his blonde spy turning on his heel he began pacing again making Naruto,s eyes widen in realization.

"So instead of having to turn on your heels to maneuver manually, you use your shadow to set a new coordinated point to move in while on the move leaving your legs free to do other things like maneuver." Naruto said in awe he couldn't believe Shisui had come up with this innovative way of using the jutsu, Naruto had to give respect where it was due because Shisui of the body flicker had just earned it.

"Exactly I knew I didn't have to over-explain it to you. Now! first things first you need to learn yin release." Shisui told the blond throwing him a black scroll which he caught easily turning it and placing it on a finger letting it spin on its length.

"The Nara use yin release to manipulate their shadows?" Naruto asked and got a nod from Shisui. "And anybody can learn yin release?" He got another nod, letting the scroll spin a few times Naruto let it fall and caught it in his hand.

"You are dismissed for today Naruto-Kun tomorrow be here sharp and early understood officer?!" Shisui bellowed with a shit-eating grin on his face that told Naruto he wished he got in trouble with his girlfriend when he would have to make excuses.

'I'm just gonna tell Ino, Shisui-San is training me for the week it's not like I'm skipping on her to sleep in.' Naruto thought sagely nodding in approval of his thoughts.

"Tomorrow then Shisui-San." Naruto told the older Uchiha as he walked out of the 'training room' and made it to the door leading to the outside only for his stomach to turn and twist but he held his nonexistent lunch looking up to spot Shisui looking at him nervously.

"I almost forgot gaki we can't have you being seen entering and leaving our base you will be getting escorted in and out by me with the Shuushine it will also help you get used to traveling around with it." Shisui explained quickly before grinning and disappearing like an illusion from Naruto his afterimage lasting a few seconds.

"So badass."

AN

We finally coming closer to the fated Chunin exams, and we are getting an advanced version of a high-speed jutsu, naturally, our blonde is built for strength not many people can stand around tanking his hits so a faster opponent or someone with a Sharingan can get the better of him...The Shuushine will negate that problem and the momentum built would only increase his hitting power.

Next chapter we get on with the mission how Naruto will play it!!??

Find out next time on A different telling..