In a dark cave in an unknown location, stood an old man with long white hair. He appeared to be connected to the giant tree that stood behind him. He had a frown on his face. "Zetsu", he called. From the ground beside him, out came a black plant like creature. He had yellow eyes and looked very unnerving. "Yes Madara" he spoke in a deep tone.

"Have you been keeping tabs on that Nagato brat?"asked the now revealed Uchiha. "Yes Madara. He seems to have adapted to your eyes well"he replied. The man nodded. "The plan is coming together, we just need another Uchiha to continue my plans until I'm revived in the future"he spoke. "Yes, while there are plenty of Uchiha in Konoha to choose from, very few of them have potential. They seem to be content with how they are now" Zetsu said.

At this, the legendary shinobi sighed. "Even after all of these years. My clan still complies with that accursed village. I presume none of them posses the mangekyo, aside from Kagami but he's too old at this point to be put to use."

"Indeed but I'll continue to watch them and let you know if I find anything interesting. But there is also a kid that I think you should take a look at." Noticing that he had the Uchiha's attention, he continued. "The kid is named Naruto Hatake. Jonnin of the leaf and now anbu operative. He's among some of the most powerful ninja in Konoha."

"What makes him so important that he needs to be brought up in my presence", asked Madara. "Well he harbors a lot of hatred. So much to a point that I think had it not been for his family, he would've defected the Leaf to exact his revenge."

"And what could have caused him to possess so much hatred?" "Well the fact that his father killed himself after he was shunned for failing a mission." Madara merely raised an eyebrow. "Tell me everything" he spoke.

Back with Naruto. When he and the female captain met in the middle of the area, their respective weapons clashed, sending sparks into the air. Naruto took note of her fan. 'It appears to be strong enough to hold off my lighting attack' he thought carefully. He had to immediately duck under a kick that was sent his way. He immediately sent out a right hand that the kunoichi easily dodged. He then jumped back and went through hand signs, 'fire style fireball jutsu!'he exclaimed.

Out came a giant fireball that dashed towards the woman. But much to Naruto's amazement, she swung her fan and a giant gust of wind collided with the flames. But it was quickly turned into shock as the fireball seemingly got larger and shot back towards him.

He went through hand signs and slammed his hands in the sand. A massive earth wall shot from the ground and blocked the raging fire that was aimed for him. As the smoke flooded the area, he reached out his senses and felt that she was building up some more chakra for another jutsu. He quickly dashes towards her and swung his lightning covered sword.

He was about to make contact with her figure but he saw her body light up and his eyes widened. An explosion sounded off.

As the smoke cleared, Naruto jumped out from under ground, clothes ripped but relatively unscathed.

He went through hand signs again. "Summoning Jutsu!"he yelled. He expected to see his personal summon appear but instead he got nothing. He was slightly confused but then realized something. He flared a ton of his chakra and the world shattered to reveal a descending female coming down with a giant fan. He raised his sword to block the strike but he realized that was a huge mistake as he sunk in the sand.

He was growing tired of having to be on the defensive. He quickly shrouded his body in lighting as the woman jumped back. "That was a good genjutsu. Scratch that, it was impressive. But I think it's time I stop holding back blondie" he chuckled as he dashed towards her. She noticed that his speed drastically increased as she barely dodged a strike by him. She tried to swing her fan but had to dodge again as a stream lightning shot in her direction.

"What's the matter blondie, can't keep up?"he taunted. She didn't verbally respond, she just simply went through sand signs and much to Naruto's shock, a water dragon formed out of seemingly nothing, shot in his direction. 'You gotta be fucking kidding me' he thought. The attack crashed into him but the sand kunoichi was no fool and was quickly on guard.

She sensed his chakra and immediately looked down. 2 hands shot up from under her and tried to grab her legs. She dodged the attempt but quickly had to block a sword strike with her fan. Her knees buckled upon contact. Quickly noticing that she began losing, she tried to kick him away but he caught her leg and pulled her to his body. "Ma,ma blondie, you may be strong but you lack the experience that I have. How about instead of me seeing your face, you let me take you on a date?" Naruto joked.

She began lighting up and Naruto released her as the clone exploded. He was about to look for her but heard her voice again. "Wind style, Beheading Dance!" His eyes widened as a massive gust of wind descended upon him. An explosion shook the area, as sand flew everywhere and her anbu even had to jump away.

On one knee panting slightly, she tried to get up but found out that she couldn't move. She heard the man coming up from behind her and he chuckled. "It seems you have forgotten about lesson 4, fuinjutsu. That's a paralysis seal. There's no point in struggling. Unless you have more chakra than the user, you will not break the hold. The beauty of seals am I right?" "How?"was her only response.

"It should not be how I was able to do it, only when. It was only a matter of time before you made a mistake"he said cheekily.

Her team then appeared and were on guard. "At ease squirts. I'm not going to harm her anymore than I already have. We had a deal, so don't draw your weapons unless you want a further demonstration as to why I was able to beat your captain."

Said captain growled which only earned an amused chuckle from Naruto. 'A deal is a deal' she thought. As he removed the paralysis seal, she slowly stood up and faced him. Never before has a foreign shinobi seen her face and lived to tell the tale.

Shaky hands raised to her mask and she watched as Naruto gained a curious expression. Clipping sounds could be heard as the mask was removed from her face and whether he admitted it or not, Naruto's breath hitched.

The woman before him had a heart shaped face with rosy pink lips and those eyes. Undoubtedly the most beautiful he's ever seen.

Her eyes narrowed as the masked man didn't say anything. "Satisfied?"she asked. Naruto took a minute to compose himself. "Why yes, yes I am. If I would've known you were this beautiful, I would've made a bet on a date as well"he said.

Her face reminded impassive as she put back on her mask. She signaled to her squad and began to move out but the man called out to her and she stopped. "You know you're really strong. Possibly the one of strongest opponents I've ever faced so far. And you're drop dead gorgeous to boot. But you are too serious. Maybe I'll come back to the land of wind to make sure you have a smile on your face often."

Not even replying to his attempt at flirting, she jumped off. 'Who are you?' she thought. After he sensed that they were gone, he sighed. He still had to travel to Kiri to eliminate the last of Danzo's spies.

At the thought of Kiri, he gained a sour look on his face. 'They were the reason his dad was dead', he thought angrily. He didn't bother hiding or disposing of his dead comrades. What he didn't tell the woman, was that the root anbu's body burned shortly after their deaths to prevent village secrets from being leaked. 'Danzo was a strategic leader' he thought.

He simply jumped into the desert night. Contouring this mission.