Authors note:Sorry for wait I have the story written already when Naruto is a young adult so bridging the gap with his Genin years is taking me a little while hope you enjoy!
1 year time skip
A year had passed and Rin Nohara was still jonin Sensei of team 13 the allure of Tsunade's liquor wasn't enough to pull her from her talented yet eccentric team.
Naruto began working on breaking genjutsu with Yakumo and a reluctant Kurenai without Rin even having to mention it to the boy but it would never be his strong suit instead the pint sized ninja had turned to fuinjutsu to solve his delima. Rin and the hole fillers of Konoha had found out that this was his favorite shinobi art because of all the craters left behind from his frivolous use of ever expanding exploding seals.
The boys Long hours of studying notes in his mother's journals and books left behind to Kushina from what survived the destruction of Uzushiogakure worked wonders for the young Uzumaki, Naruto had begun developing a new seal never before seen to Rin's knowledge and his that would automatically release him from theoretically any genjutsu even S rank ones performed with doujutsu. Unfortunately for him seals of such magnitude were slow work but with Yakumo's help Rin was certain he would accomplish his goal.
Yakumo was secretly Rin's favorite student the girl picked up everything without having to be told twice and her chakra control allowed for her to begin learning medical ninjutsu alongside her potent Kekkai Genkai. Most importantly Yakumo was hassle free no attitude no Napoleon village pariah complex or Surviors guilt to deal with.
Survivors guilt was something Rin had tried to handle months before team 13 was reformed with Kurenai her talented chunin ,but for whatever reason still untold to Rin the red eyed beauty blamed herself for the death of both her teammates in last years chunin exams. Atleast she had warmed up to both her younger squad mates no longer putting Naruto in Genjutsu for the slightest of annoyances that was an improvement indeed.
Team 13 was a unit that had gained attention quickly throughout the shinobi ranks of the leaf already becoming the Hokage's go to for missions of B to C ranks when the normal chunin squads were mostly deployed already due to the fact that Kurenai was already a chunin and Rin was the jinchuriki of the 3 tails and an elite jonin, Minato felt comfortable sending his son and another fresh Genin.
"Ahhhemm have you been listening to me I swear you konoha shinobi...I refuse to sleep outside we must stop at the nearest town!"
Rin was brought out of her thoughts by the nasally voice of team 13's client a short portly man with long greasy feminine hair and a tone of voice that matched. Akira Nozu was a noble from some part of the land of fire the mission was to escort him near the village hidden in the valleys to a vacation home that he preferred to do Business at away from his wife.
Although the reason for the trip had nothing to do with buisness, Akira was currently in trouble for gallivanting around the land of fire making the nobleman look bad, the daiyamo agreed with the petition made by his clan to have him sent away from the limelight for a while. Already The man was a nightmare to deal with in Rin's honest opinion.
Akira was late for departure and arrived with two admittedly gorgeous women of the night that weren't much older than Kurenai who wore clothing so revealing that it left a permanent blush on the face of her pubescent male charge. Even still was the fact that the little bastard refused to stop smoking sticks of smelly greenery easily giving away their position to any enemy ninjas with working noses.
Crinkling up her nose in frustration that quickly faded away from her face, Rin pulled out a map and spoke "fine! The nearest town is 15 miles away at this pace it'll take us a hour or two to arrive if you would allow us to carry you we should be able to arrive in 10 to 15 minutes depending on how comfortable you are with our shinobi speed."
"That is acceptable only on the condition that you'll be my chariot beautiful!" the man moved behind Rin with a leechers grin who begrudgingly allowed the man to hop on her back his hands quickly found themselves groping her two breasts fairly large breast. In the next moment Rin leaned her head back in a violent headbutt causing Akira to fall on the forest floor rubbing his bloody nose.
"Word of advice don't grope a woman that could kill you in a instant now c'mon you perv!" Rin said in a calm tone with her creepy false smile promising pain that she loved showing to Naruto whenever he misbehaved.
Speaking of the blonde and red haired boy
, Naruto was currently having issues of his own. The two women their client brought along had found themselves something to preoccupy their attention as they walked to the missions destination.
That thing was him constantly poking his whiskers and the pulling of his unique hair 'ears' last but not least the nickname of chibi-kun that had sent the usually stoic Kurenai into a snickering storm at his predicament and Yakumo's random refusal to speak with him while those two women were harassing him. Upon hearing that they would have to ride atop the shinobi to faster reach their destination a cat fight ensued.
"I get to ride on chibi-Kun!" The blonde buxom lady of the night yelled as she grabbed his left hand.
"Noo I get to ride on Chibi-kun!" The brunette buxom woman yelled pulling on his right hand and so began the tug of war battle for Naruto.
The tugging brought on the attention from the rest of his team Rin sighed deeply shaking her head, Kurenai's mask of stoicism broke yet again as she laughed hysterically at the Namikaze being pulled by the two civilian women. Yakumo's face turned beet red with a frown as she huffed crossing her arms turning away from Naruto's predicament.
Thankfully his sensei didn't let the cat fight go on for too long saving Naruto from being pulled apart. She instructed Kurenai to pick the blonde girl up as the team quickly took to the trees using chakra to enhance their legs to reach the next town.
"Ahh I forgot how much of a dump that town was truly unbefitting of a nobleman's presence. Not to worry though my estate is just up this hill!" Akira complained again for the hundredth time causing everyone present to groan aloud. The stay in the small town of Udan was anything but peaceful apparently the townsfolk had never heard of Udan before much to the noblemans chagrin. Who made it his mission to tell as many citizens of Udan his status as a noble man of the land of fire in the most un noble ways.
The group made their way up the paved hill a grand mansion awaited them at the top along with three figures.
"That's weird normally the help stays hidden maybe they missed me since my last visit.." Akira spoke aloud about to approach the three individuals until Rin held a arm up stopping the nobleman.
"Well lookie here Zugetso you were right for once this was the vacation home after all!" A man with long spoken black hair down to his mid back said he had a myriad of scars that covered his face and a black robe the man had abnormally large nails filed into needles at the tips.
"And the konoha nin brought our target right to us good work Zugetso!" This man was of a darker complexion than the first with muscles that were barely concealed under his long sleeved battle attire the man had a club that held a certain fiery hue to it.
"Thank you Moshi and fuck you Zarid it's because of you we have to kill the little Genin. I told you intel said this was a drop off mission we could've waited until they left!" Zugetso said in response to both man that were currently standing in team 13's way he wore a green jacket and dark blue pants out of the trio he seemed the least unusual.
"Baaaah that's no fun at all a mission without any bloodshed isn't my style you get outta shape takin' it easy ZuZu!" Zarid teased a fuming Zugetso.
The burly man called Moshi turned his attention towards the ninja and Akira "My apologies young ones for snuffing away the flames of your youth may we enjoy a good battle!"
"Formation 5 Naruto you know what to do!" Rin's voice called out to her squad. Naruto quickly created 5 shadow clones that surrounded Akira and the girls, one clone pulled out a blank scroll scribbling the kanji for shield in impossibly fast strokes a purple shield surrounded the clones and client as Yakumo went through hand seals channeling her special chakra and imagination causing the shield and members inside of it to seemingly disappear from the battle field.
Clapping was heard beside Moshi from Zarid as he eyed the two Genin with a new interest.
"Those are some terribly talented Genin you have there Rin of the Isobu! See Zugetso now we have to kill the kids to kill the taaaarrget!" Zarid said the last part in a sing-songy tone.
Zugetso sighed to himself before flashing through hand seals shooting out ice spikes from his palms all which were easily dodged by the team although it caused themto spread apart so as not to get impaled, Moshi took advantage of this fact by bending down and exploding forward towards Naruto the bottom of the mans soles were now on fire propelling him forward at great speed, Moshi's now flaming club crashed down towards Naruto with incredible speed that would of completely overwhelmed most Genin and even chunin. Unfortunately for Moshi, Naruto wasn't like most.
The red head to his credit remained unfazed by the frontal attack he wasn't the son of the fastest shinobi known to the world for nothing.
'I hate when they underestimate me!' Naruto thought to himself as he raised his right arm up pointing a single finger at the towering airborn form of Moshi about to clobber him. Eight red and gold chains formed from Naruto's back The tips were deadly sharp somehow seeming to whine for blood as all the chains sprung forward hoping to impale the large man in a deadly embrace, Moshi's eyes widened in horror as he moved his feet to the side at the last minute moving his body more to the right avoiding certain death as 4 chains still managed to pierce through the man two in the shoulders one in his right pectoral stabbing into his lungs while the last chain went through his gut.
"Ahhugh!" The man gurgled up blood from his mouth in pain as he quickly used his flaming soles to move himself painfully off those cursed chains. Blood splattered all across the ground where Moshi stood pain was etched into his face, the muscled man would die if he didn't do something quickly. Using the same technique as he used for his feet Moshi ignited his hands bringing one to his chest and the other to his gut searing into the bleeding wounds as the smell of burnt flesh and blood covered the surrounding area as Moshi screamed in pain using the same technique he did the same to his shoulders.
Panting heavily the man Moshi looked up at Naruto's bored expression his arms were crossed as the eight chains circled around him.
'This brat he let me heal I can't beat him I need to switch, those girls looked dainty I'm sure I could outmuscle em!'
"Zugetso switch with me now this brats a long range fighter!!" Moshi yelled already propelling his injured but still capable form away from Naruto towards Kurenai who was struggling a bit to close the distance between herself and the ice spike shooting shinobi.
"Fine I'll save your ass this time!" Zugetso said going through a quick set of seals a ramp or slide of ice formed which Zugetso quickly hopped on sliding quickly across the vacation home compound turned battlefield landing in front of Naruto but a respectable distance away.
"Take this!!!" The deep voice of Moshi yelled as his club missed the tall form of Kurenai who gracefully dodged out of the weapons path with a spin using her momentum to lash out a kick aimed for his cauterized gut. Barely able to meet her leg with his arm Moshi grunted as the woman he thought was dainty brought considerable force with her blow With surprising dexterity the muscled man used one handed seals before kurenai began to move again a jet of flames shot out of his mouth almost point blank he saw the flames engulf her beautiful form and he smelt the horrible smell of her flesh burning Moshi allowed himself to sigh in relief.
'Hopefully they won't need my help I'm almost done' the brute thought to himself when his inner monologue was interrupted by a flash of the feeling that something wasn't right flashing his chakra through his body Moshi moved to the left avoiding certain death as a Kunai was rushing towards his exposed neck but landed in his shoulder instead.
The pain of Kurenai's Kunai stabbed into the cauterized weak point in his shoulder made him scream in pain the illusion was dropped in Kurenai's burnt place laid a grilled log.
With a hand on his bleeding shoulder Moshi adeptly dodged Kurenai's follow up strike aimed again at his neck.
"You know you're quite annoying avoiding death from Naruto and avoiding it from me you're almost like a roach in that way." Kurenai taunted the man who yelled in anger forming a large ball of fire in his hands hoping to just blow himself up along with this cursed woman who was again charging at him with a Kunai she wouldn't make it to him before he dropped the jutsu.
Grinning insanely the muscled man looked towards his opponent for the last time unfortunately for Moshi he looked directly into the completely red eyes with A black pupil like a minus sign of Kurenai as his world faded away replaced with a blood red shaded world with him waist deep in the liquid slowly the blood surrounding him began to form into monsters specifically the ones that he used to be afraid as a child laughing hysterically to himself the man brought up his hands together in a seal to release the obvious Genjutsu he wasn't the best but as a former tobetski jonin of his home village the mercenary rouge nin could dispel most if he recognized he was in one. Yet again misfortune fell upon the man as he channeled his chakra but couldn't awaken from this weird world. The creatures of his old nightmares began to crawl slowly towards him from all sides ones tentacles beginning to grasp at his sides.
Panic began to rise throughout his body
"Why won't this Genjutsu drop why dammit why!!" The abominable creatures claws began to tear into him as he yelled out in pain desperately trying to move his chakra to awaken from the world again.
"It's pointless you know! You'll die here only a matured sharigan could possibly break you away from my control, that's the power of the once feared ketsuryugan of the chinoike clan!" The voice of kurenai explained to Moshi floating in the air above him with her creepy red eyes the creatures of his nightmares had dog piled him hungrily eating away at his flesh as he was slowly dragged under the blood pool beneath him screaming as he still tried to escape.
The world was back to normal as Kurenai looked at the huge man with his hands still in the air minus the large fireball Moshi's face was etched with a frozen look of horror his heart no longer beating. Kurenai smiled at her handy work before releasing her ketsuryugan a wave of exhaustion washed over her but to the outside world she still looked refreshed.
'Damnit being half Yuhi still effects me too much!' Kurenai thought to herself her smile becoming a slight frown. Her father had married her mother who was one of the last surviving members of the chinoike clan somehow she was able to avoid being ushered into the horrible conditions of the valley of hell in the land of hot water like most of her family had been by the hands of the Uchiha.
Her mother had raised Kurenai to see konoha and all their clans as allies even though they had a hand in her clans destruction and truthfully Kurenai mostly did except for the Uchiha. Them and Kumo shinobi were the targets of her anger whenever she had a chance to let loose because of her clans demise at their hands and for having to use the Yuhi last name not to rouse unwanted attention from kumo.
Kurenai clinched her fists together as she looked across the compound at the other fights occurring.
'I will bring the ketsuryugan back to prominence! the shinobi world will remember the chinoike clan's might!'
Akira compound Rin & Yakumo
Yakumo fell backwards on her butt a green beam of chakra rushed towards her at a speed that made it impossible for her to dodge, just in the nick of time Rin moved in front of the downed girl a large coral shield covered them both from the front as the green beam of chakra split in two upon impact.
As the smoke settled Yakumo looked at her sensei with new eyes from the ground. Rin's body was covered in dense red chakra on her back the chakra seemingly formed a shell and a single tail swayed behind her.
"Yakumo stand up and support me Zarid can fight long or short distances stay prepared!"
"Hai Sensei!"
Rin moved along the ground in a blur as Zarid did as well the man went through a short seal sequence holding out his palm a green chakra sword that crackled with energy appeared. Rin was first to make contact using a coral to block Zarid's upward strike it cracking underneath the force of his sword as the blade slowly sawed its way through., Rin flipped backwards kicking her leg out striking Zarid with a glancing blow to the chin which he quickly recovered from using a five seal sequence the man began shooting multiple bullets of green chakra at Rin causing her to jump doing a barrel roll midair to avoid his first round of blasts.
The second round of blasts hit true as Rin was pelted with lasers causing her to roll backward from the blasts her form smoking. Wasting no time Yakumo went through a three sequence set of seals converting her imagination into chakra as Zarid prepared to fire another round of lasers at Rin when his blasts failed to leave his hands as they glowed green instead exploding in front of him sending him flying into the guest house in the compound his form etched into the concrete.
Zarid pulled himself up as he charged at Rin his energy sword was back ablaze slicing out at any opening her sensei gave him which weren't many as the two fought on seemingly equal footing.
Rin's hands blurred as she spit out a few water bullets none hitting except one that clipped his arm.
"I'll cover you unseal you canvas I know it takes a lot of chakra but erase his arms or legs preferably legs so he can't move around!"
With that said Rin took off again towards the scarred Zarid who's face screamed of blood lust as the two battled. Quickly running a hand over her seal mark tattoos drawn onto her by Naruto over a year ago a memory that still made her blush today, a white canvas and paint along with brushes fell in front of Yakumo. Taking a quick look she could see Zarid and Rin 200 yards away she was in the clear using her imagination and special chakra while avoiding the dark cage in her mind that held 'that demon' Yakumo began to draw Zarid fighting Rin but erased both his hands and his legs below the kneecaps in her painting.
Yakumo's vision faltered as black dots filled her eyes forcing herself to stay awake despite her fatigue from the chakra it took to use her technique. 'You haven't told them have you?silly girl keep playing with fire and you'll get burned hehehaaha!" A dark gravely voice spoke in Yakumo's mind.
'SHUT UP!!' Yakumo yelled in her mind.
Yakumo heard the results of her kekkai Genkai before she saw them. Zarid battled with the one tailed Rin able to keep up with her but he sustained much more damage than she had the three tails amazing durability transferred to its jinchuriki apparently.
'It might be time for a tactical retreat' Zarid thought to himself as he dodged a blow aimed for his head beginning to turn to jump away when his jumping leg suddenly began to disappear from reality causing him to scream in horror as he fell to the ground his hands trying to grab at his missing appendage as he noticed his other leg disappearing up to his knees the man let out another scream as his hands disappeared as well like they had never existed.
"Good job Yakumo let's interrogate him to see who hired them! Ahh don't give me that look Don't worry about your crush it seems like there's only one more left and Naruto can handle him I need you to promise to return Zarid's missing Limbs when he wakes up so we can get information on who in the land of fire hired them!" Rin explained to the now blushing Yakumo who now stood beside her both looking down at the passed out crippled form of Zarid.
Naruto
Golden red chains swung crazily in front of Naruto blocking spikes of Ice that assured certain death if he was ever ran through by one. It seemed crazy but his chains seemed to respond to danger without his conscious effort Naruto sighed, he would reluctantly have to ask his mother about this phenomenon when the team arrived back to Konoha.
Zugetso was fuming the man hurled spikes at him with increasing tenacity but the result was always the same Naruto would advance forward slowly without a care in the world taunting the rouge ninja without ever having to say a word those cursed chains intercepted everything he threw.
'Cocky little brat I can't believe I wanted to spare him! I'll show him!' Zugetso thought to himself Going through a 10 seal sequence.
"Hidden snow style jutsu: Blinding Blizzard!"
Snow shot forth blanketing the area in flurries that effected the field of vision of Naruto. The red and blonde haired boy could hardly see more than three feet in front of himself.
'Smart I wonder what his follow up will be?' Naruto thought to himself the flurry of snow clouding his vision still.
Out of the corner of his eye he saw Zugetso charge at him through the blizzard an ice javelin in his hands. The sharp end rushed towards Naruto's face stopping an inch away. The Uzumaki chains had saved him yet again the spikey ends were protruding from the ice wielding man. When suddenly the corpse turned into a pile of snow as a huge Shard of ice rushed towards Naruto bypassing his chains auto defense.
"I've got you now!!!" Zugetso yelled eagerly watching his jutsu hit his target. His eagerness wasn't rewarded as Naruto held up his hand activating his jutsu absorption Fuinjutsu the shard of ice made contact with the boys hand as it slowly disappeared inside of it.
"H-how!? You're only a kid!?" Zugetso asked utterly devastated backing away from Naruto.
Naruto ignores the irate man instead lifting his hands up in the cross position 10 more Naruto's popped into existence the telltale of smoke lingered in the air from the jutsu.
The clones began to attack the overwhelmed Zugetso not allowing him a moment of reprieve. One clone came in with a flurry of quick strikes half were either blocked or dodged but then another clone came from Zugetso's blind spot kicking him in the chin so hard he fell backwards. Quickly four of the clones held Zugetso's arms and legs down as the original Naruto appeared standing over the struggling man.
"Stop please I surrender please stop I was going to spare you Genin my partner's were the ones who wanted to kill you please spare my life!!" Zugetso begged snot and tears mixed with the blood on his face creating a sad sight for the once fearsome shinobi.
The look of fear in the rouge ninjas eyes was pathetic to Naruto how were you such a bold group of mercenaries yet pissed your pants fighting a bunch of teen he should of known the risks of this lifestyle. Naruto shook his head bending down slightly as he spoke his last words to Zugetso.
"I believe this belongs to you."
Naruto raised his hand up pointing it at the head of the downed man the seal lit up as the ice shard from earlier shot out at the same velocity it had entered completely destroying Zugetso's head like a watermelon that dropped from too high.
Naruto rose to his full but not so impressive height admiring his kill it wasn't his first but it was the first of anyone that begged to be spared from his hand. If he was being honest with himself he loved the feeling of power that he'd felt as the man begged a smile was beginning to form on his face.
"Nice kill you little psycho!" Kurenai walked up beside a shocked Naruto ruffling his hair in a teasing manner the blonde boy looked up at the 16 year old with a fearful expression "Don't worry I won't tell Yakumo or Sensei about your penchant for ruthless execution now come on Rin Sensei is interrogating her opponent."